05.31.06

朦胧周三早

Posted in Main Page at 3:05 am by Renato

梦里大雨滂跎.

撑着伞在找厕所.

醒来已是九点, 落地窗外阳光稀疏, 棉被一样厚的雾.

地上果然是湿的.

洗澡, 穿衣, 香水,洗衣服,化妆.

吞掉一个面包.喂鱼.

天就阴了.

穿的还是红色西班牙式宽松连身裙.黑色披肩.

上楼, 喝下昨夜剩下的半杯get 27 shot.

浑身发热.

把mp4从电脑边抽出来.

赶中午的车.

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05.29.06

One lazy Sunday

Posted in Main Page at 2:48 am by Renato

Sunday Storm is not always un-welcomed, because it indicates some lifestyle that is actually not bad—Sleeping late with curtains closed while listening to the thunders,cuddling together if you are a couple;Waking up for a home-made breakfast that includes a freshly bioled cup of coffee/hot milk with soft music on;Watching a thriller with a cup of red wine, ect etc.

And we'd done all of those.

What's unusual however, is that we went to Panyu downtown for a small “cruise”.Big shopping mall has just been opened. They have tried so hard to keep it up to date and bring in fashion, but in my opinion they have just failed.

Gordo said I am too spoiled that nothing pleases me, and missed the time when little things made me happy, and after thinking for a second, he realized there was no such time.

I don;t think its true that I am spoiled though. I actually found interesting that one blouse that says”I feel better after shopping”. Considering although with funny words written on, it's just a t-shirt that costs 300rmb, I refused to be convinced by Gordo to buy it.

Early in the evening as gordo complained that his feet hurt, I finally decided to try the foot massage place in clifford.The place we've been talking about for a while but never managed to try.

The soaked the feet in some kind of hot tea and started to massage the body until the water turned cold,then they applied cream on the feet and worked on the feet for  over half an hour.

Gordo said he felt like walking in clouds after that. I am just glad that my dry legs had been oiled.

And my diary is so boring that I even bore myself. I better get going for the afternoon class. IT's raining so bloody hard outside right now. 

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05.20.06

little bit of everything

Posted in Main Page at 2:41 pm by Renato

Read some of Linda's new articles on her personal blog just a while ago.

If there were a color that matches the description of her life in her writing, that'd be grey.

Life offers her lots of problems with apparently very little pleasure.

The greatest hapiness she has is love, however, this sort of spiritual stuff could be heavily shadowed by mundane problems.

Just hope she'll get fine, and life will look up.

My brother broke up with his gf , this time it's for good.

I somehow feel pitied for the relationship. Never really know the girl much.

They are not the couple that is meant to last, one is at the northest of the county, the other is at the southest.However seeing them together for 3 years and it had to be ended, is sad.

What my bro said tonight had somehow struck me—I just feel sad every morning when I wake up.

I vaguely remember my morning sadness in the past. Everybody would experience that heartbroken feeling. But eventually it just fades away however long it may take.

Afternoon I did go to MNG to check out the suit. Pretended that i was interested.

That is way not my style, but I took them to the changing room and had a good look at it.

Things are not easy.Why they charge over 1800rmb,(230usd)? I understand now.

Got to change my paper pattern again. And quite sure it would not come out as good as the real thing.

It'd be a cheap version of a copycat.

not easy…

It starts to rain again. The perfume Gordo brough me from his half-a-day short trip to HK is smelling good. This will be my night perfume.Wear it to sleep.

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05.19.06

回忆一点

Posted in Main Page at 3:05 am by Renato

那日下课跑去阳台.

 ä¸€è¿›é—¨, æ•™BA的杰克就说, 来来, 我问你一个问题.

他问说, 你是不是纯的中国人.

曾经几次被同胞怀疑过, 只当说笑.

然而如今被一个老外怀疑, 就开始很严肃地考虑自己是否严重缺乏东方美.

为了这, 我特地去把自己的头发染得漆黑…

我答说, 不能再纯了.

杰克问, 你确定吗.

我&^%%#$%!(#&%&&%***!!!!!至少还认得自己祖宗.

对方再解释说, 因为听到你的口音有奇怪的某种英国腔.

原来跟我有否东方美没有关系, 听了心里比较舒坦.

但是这话, 要是几年前在校园里的时候听到, 会恨不得一头撞死.

当年可是苦练美音啊…

说起当年, 回想起一点.

大三时候的partner,是个很内秀的腼腆男生.

人很纯静, 名字却很火, 叫烈焜.

想起当年在男生宿舍楼下等着初次见面的情景.

我的后面跟着金和毛毛.

大中午的,吃过饭, 在烈日下等.

 çœ¼å‰è¿‡å°½åƒä¸ªå…‰è†€å­çŒ›ç”·çš†ä¸æ˜¯. 蓦然抬首, 只见两恐龙正在栏竿处朝这边来.

恐龙一号是法学院的才子, 当时出于崇拜, 觉得beauty都只是skin deep, 还可以原谅.

另外一只, 自然就是我要见的partner.

这时候金和毛毛早已消失, literally,无影无踪,连烟也没冒.

我才回过神来.

后来的一年里, 烈焜同学陪着我一周三晚围着操场一圈一圈地绕, 只听我讲.

无尽耐心.

直到我开始怀疑, 此同学该不会是找我来练听力的吧?

然而, 烈焜同学的水平当时绝对在我之上, 口语, 听力, 写作.

却还是非常恬静.

烈焜同学在我看来很有自我牺牲精神,要申明的一点, 他绝对没有暗恋我.

毕业后他就消失了,直到今日讲起,米拉还每每垂延, 无数向往.

哈, 烈焜同学确实是个好同学.

此文做个怀念,没有那一年的bs,也许今天的口语就没有说母语般的流畅.

也许做梦的时候讲的就会是中文.

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05.15.06

a taste of turkey

Posted in Main Page at 2:57 pm by Renato

Something was very wrong on Sunday, cause the weather was fantastic.

Blue cloudless sky, breezes and soft sunshine. For this city,it was too beautiful to be true.

And it was a shame to stay in.

No matter how comfortably we were in home, this calls for an outing.

Gordo suggested that we drive to find me a manequin.

One of the rare days in which we can leave the top window of the car open and feel good.

However we didn't find the manequin, much as I had expected.

First of all because I hate the neighborhood.It is messy, aged,crowded and dirty.

Gordo instead, is fond of the scenery of the old trees grown to intertwine and cover up the sky, which he calls “the green tunnel”,and the old crappy low buildings that he claims part of the mysterious old China impression.

I can find no connection with all of this, call me shallow, but I cann't see this from an aenesthetic piont of view.Therefore, when we failed to find my manequin, I was very glad that we got to leave the place.(Beijing Road).

And with the excuse of fixing my watch, I got to drag gordo to my favorite part of the city.

and consequently ended up with somewhat a big shopping.

I am shopping on my own a lot more lately, however I still enjoy bringing gordo along.

Its because I trust his taste on my shopping.

After that we decided to just walk in tthe turkish restaurant besides the mall for dinner.

(Dinner was supposed to be homemade curry chicken)

If I remember right, its called saltan turkish restaurant.

It is nicely decorated and the gold as a mias color gives a luxurious look.

For a moment I was afraid it was going to be an 100-per-dish kind of restanrant.

As I peeked at the menu before going in, I got to breathe with relief.

The inside is a large place, with a small area with sofa for leisure(waiting), and the hall and quite a few small separations as rooms.

I had no idea in this town there are so many turkish people(or turkish-related ppl), cause apparently the business was good.

The ambience is warm, rich and exotic.

The menu is lovely.It is listed with pictures of almost every dish, which appear to me is full of spice and taste.

We had ordered yogurt, plain pancake,some kind of minced beef jam,sala,cheese meat pie and lamb kabab.

It was very flavoured good. The little rice that came with the lamb kabab reminded me of the unforgetable napol rice we had in HK lan kui fong.

It was certainly gordo's cup of tea, with all the pancakes and juicy meat. The only thing he was not used to, was the yogurt, which I enjoyed very much.

After the meal, gordo said he felt like a model—that want to go to toilet, vomit and eat again.

I would certainly consider it as a very high compliment of the food.

Good thing about it, the price was good. After all this, we paid 174rmb, somewhere around 22usd.

And we walked out with 2 full stomach.

At least it was a different sunday. We both enjoyed it. Although I might enjoy it a bit more with all my shoppings

But I certainly appreciate all the effort the fat one is putting to make me happy.

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纪念日

Posted in Main Page at 2:07 pm by Renato

周一的下午下了课, 赶正了五点的快线班车回家.

在车上接到了gordo的电话, 就说已经上车, 要到家了.

回到家, 马上跑去煮头天早上就应该煮的西米露. 西米多泡了足有一天半的时间,不能再耽误了.

果然水一开西米就熟了. 头天晚上记得gordo临睡前的最后一句话, 是说, 如果煮久一点, 就粘在锅底变成一片, 拿不出来. 想想那样子, 觉得好笑. 笑了一下, 就昏睡过去.

加了六勺白糖, 糖化了就倒进半瓶红酒.就算煮好了.

在西米冷却的过程里, 酒精就挥发了许多, 剩下淡的酒味和不知那里来的梅子的味道.

放入冰箱.

gordo回来了, 一进门就看见手里握着一束红玫瑰.

今天确实是奇怪了, 周末才买的花, 周一又玩一次, 吗上没了新鲜感.

好奇还是有的, 这回的发问是真的真诚—什么日子, 又买花了?

回答是, 五月十五.

一边还说, 本来应该出去吃饭, 不料我早早跳上村巴.

五月十五, 是我们定下的纪念日. 那是我和gordo第一次见面的日子. 四年前.

那一次的见面, 就注定了一场奇怪的缘分.奇怪得连外人都能预测出来.

尽管身在其中,两人自己倒是没有预测到.

五月十五日, 成了相识纪念日. 在我打算将它忘记, 用结婚纪念日来取而代之的时候,gordo却还是很认真地重视它.

居然心里有点惭愧.

今天的红玫瑰是用绿色的带子扎成一束的, 扎成了一个蝴蝶. 据说要等很久.

我说何必,买到家后, 照样要拆开插起来.

gordo答, 没有包装,那就很不一样了.这话马上把周末的一束自贬得没了价值.

我把花拆开, 和周末的花插在一起. 花瓶变得饱满.

旧的有三两朵已经低了头, 玫瑰究竟是玫瑰, 自己从来就没有喜欢过玫瑰.

下次要买百合.

还是一个原因,百合开得久.

尽管这样, 还是应该赞美gordo的浪漫精神. 每每一定要送红的玫瑰.

晚饭于是就变成咖哩鸡饭, 喝了剩下的半瓶双洋白葡萄酒.

发现开了几天的双洋, 竟然比刚开的时候更好喝.

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周六晚上

Posted in Main Page at 2:31 am by Renato

周六的下午,gordo提回来两大袋菜.

那是晚饭和周日午饭的材料.

另外一袋, 是一束血红的玫瑰.

买花啊, 什么日子呢?

我这边一边接过花, 一边废话.

回答当然是很浪漫的—用来闭你的嘴的.

自己常常会抱怨说,gordo再也没有买花, 再也没有陪着逛街.

这些抱怨,常常是顺口就说了出来. 与其是抱怨, 不如说是想念.

心里清楚, 没有收到花, 是因为自己时常去买花.

gordo没有陪着逛街, 是因为自己在有空的时候把要去的地方都走遍了.

然而, 抱怨对gordo还是很受用.

此人会记在心里, 在没有注意的时候, 来些惊喜.

于是, 就有了今天的红玫瑰.

没有问价钱, gordo要送礼物, 就收, 从来不要问价钱, 因为知道了, 心理的感觉就会打点折扣.

平常自己爱买百合, 百合不是便宜的花, 但是花期很久, 花开时满屋芳香,觉得还是值得它的价钱.

玫瑰却只能看.

把十二支红玫瑰插在花瓶里, 放在餐桌上,红的颜色竟然与餐厅的色调非常协调.

晚餐是杂菜鸡汤.

gordo常说, 放我一个人, 我就不知道如何过日子.

这一个周末的整个下午, 在工作室里涂涂画画, 感到无比疲倦, 外加无聊.

gordo回来, 确是带来了点生活气息.

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05.13.06

周六散记

Posted in Main Page at 2:41 am by Renato

我的观众们, 据说都prefer读我的中文bs.

好的, 为了照顾群众…

许久都没有在周末的早上有这样闲的时间了.

不是在画图, 就是在缝纫, 或者,在打版, 或者, 在上课.

这么忙了以后,计划中的为gordo做一个裤子版,不要叫他再穿破破烂烂的内裤和散了边的denim,为米拉做一个上衣版, 不要让她每回高高兴兴地要花钱买衣服却找不到合身的,这些都还没有开始…

为自己特别地做衣服,也是没有. 除了学期末的项目, 做出来的, 却不喜欢了.

延续前面所提的,本以为过去的这一星期会非常地累,最后回顾竟然也是正常地累. 前三天和小winnie竟然把bustle dress做了出来.当然, herina动了怜悯之心, 帮我们做出来丢掉了的bustle,是很大的一个帮助.缝纫方面的工作,小winnie竟然承担了大部分!自己是把上衣裁了出来,加上装饰的边边, 捏了花, cherry就将它们用手缝了在上衣上.

最后又花了一个早上和doreen将小winnie缝的多层裙用手缝出花色. 整个过程手工很有自己以往的风格,破烂不堪. 但是由于用布多, 层层叠叠, 效果看起来就让马克看了又看,眼光中有对设计的欣赏,有对手工的批评.图片会放上来.

生活最近, 似乎全是学业上的事了.

没有想要逛街的欲望, 全城的餐馆, 没有兴趣.

实际上, 连续三天的晚餐, 竟然都是白粥加罗伯干.发现其实是很美味的东西.

日子这样过着,有点忘记自己的梦想.那是什么?

有一所大大房子, 有前后院可以种花种树, 有一只小小chihuahua,一只灰白毛蓝眼睛的西伯利亚猎犬, 一两个孩子? 还有什么?

还是,有一个工作室, 是一个很自由的设计师?

还是什么?

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05.05.06

Friday

Posted in Main Page at 7:33 am by Renato

This is the end of my holiday.

I finally decided to pull myself together and do some work.

Yesterday's trip to the fabric market is fruitless, but since I am not going there again, I have to just use whatever samples I got.

Call me short supple on imagination, lack of creativity, whatever, but inspiration from Miro?

That is DIFFICULT!

Tragedy…. He actually have some interesting paintings…but I can't bring it out to the clothes. Sorry, turned out that,my sketching(Too shame to call design) can scare myself off.

Mark demanded our group  make a bustle dress from the late Victoria”s, turned out we even lost the “bustle” from which the dress has to base on. I guess the first 4 days before deadline will be tough…

I am never so fond of group work.I feel individual is more efficient. but this attitude i know, is a no-no.

The weather has been very gloomy. But at least it's not foggy. From the windows it looks dark but everything is clear.Quite beautiful.There was some scattered rain.

I tried to take some pics of the view with my mobile.Came out not quite how it is …

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05.02.06

bored

Posted in Main Page at 9:30 am by Renato

I posted a new photo to Photos/CellPhotos.

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