09.21.06
Posted in Main Page at 3:37 am by Renato
The last of my adult fish was found dead on Sep20th, 2006, at around 10pm.. There is no way to know when exactly was the death, only thing we know is , this happened between Sep19th 9:30pm when I last fed them and Sep20th, 10pm when I took a peek at them.
What’s left now is 2 teenager fish. Again, there is no way to know if the recent-passed-away happens to be their parent. In fact, there is no clear evidence that the 2 are even brothers(or sisters?). mmmm, what a mess is this little fish bowl.
Anyway, here I am offering my deepest condolence to their owner, who raised them day by day, and who happens to be myself; My second deepest condolence to the deceased’s suspected offsprings, whom I doubt would care.
The story goes like this: One beautiful day I passed by a pet store, after a careful browsing-around, decided the only thing buyable at the moment is 2 pairs of fish.
I put them in a big wine glass(BIG!). Inside the water I also put a plant. Soon one died. However surprisingly in return, I got fish babies.
My memory is vague, but there was about 3 batches of babies in this whole time. The current 2 survivors is from the last batch. There were 9.One time during the process of changing water, 5 babies were gone. To the stomach of the adults. I swear if I caught anyone in the act I’d open their stomach and took them out again. But he (she ) was fast.
Anyway, soon in order to protect the babies I had experimented with one baby—transferred it to another bowl with plant. Soon there was a mysterious missing. There was no body in the bowl. It was gone. (Adubcted by aliens?)
As time goes by the fish died (of natural causes?) one after another. Only the recent-passed-away, and the 2 survivors still remained strong.
Life seemed to have stabilized and going tranquil for a long while. They are growing stronger and more resistant to hardships with their owner feeding them on an irregular bases and constantly too lazy to change water.
On a beautiful Autumn day, the last adult finally gave his(her)the last breath of life. He(She) sacrificed himself(herself) to make a statement to whoever is responsible to changing water. The message is clear: Change our bloody water or I will die!
Today the owner has already done with her grieving time. When I ask the owner, she said, “I am seriously hoping that the 2 remains are of the opposite sex and they are into each other so there is more babies coming.â€
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09.20.06
Posted in Main Page at 2:08 pm by Renato
Today we had a school graduation ceremony in Dongfang Hotel and together with it, was the Graduate’s Fashion Show that was most expected.
Last year around the same time I was a freshman and I was assigned to help sticking the graduates’ sketches up on huge cardboards. And this time I had to be one of the dressers.
(I used to think models dress up themselves, and there is someone around to just “generally supervise‗Wrong! Guess I didn’t watch enough TV fashion shows and also didn’t pay much attention when they showed the backstage working part. My God, every model needs one dresser and the dresser is bloody busy!)
My opinions of today:
- Models are not all pretty babes. They are just one of us with prolonged legs. And they look way better on stage than backstage.(silly comment….
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- In terms of graduate collection, good craftsmanship on the garments is appreciated, but not necessarily needed.(saw too many stitching flaws but ain’t matter on stage)
- Designs better not be too weird as too eagle to show one’s talent; better not be too colorful(the power to impress the audience is not as much as one thinks); Simple, elegance, right to market trend is the key; Chiffon, Silk, Satin ect better avoid( For myself), cause they are a bitch to sew, and you can never finish them as good as those you see in the market. They normallydon’t live up to your expectation.(I failed in 2 cases so far….)
- dressing up somebody can be sooooo tiring and boring. Whole day I was standing in my corner of mess taking out clothes and putting them back, taking out and putting back….The only rest I had apart from lunch was when I went to pee, and I passed by Dali who was holding a camera looking interested and told him that I was “muito cansadaâ€. Can’t wait to have someone do the same for me next year!
- as a conclusion, next time if anybody wants me to be a dresser, better run!
I like Cara’s collection, and she won. That was pretty obvious the winner from the very first.
No picture, because guess what, I didn't have time!
When I left I saw Ignacio, in his already-changed white suit and I went up to tell him he looked good. Saw Dali with his camera again, and he offered to take me a pic. Therefore we have the only pic with me, Mary and Ignacio in it. If I bump into Dali again, I will ask him to send me this pic.
Now I need to sleep.
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09.15.06
Posted in Main Page at 8:27 am by Renato
There was a time we were FOUR! Yes, FOUR! Tammy, me, Tonho and Hugo. Tonho was already a teenager but Hugo was a naughty child. Found a little movie capturing the evenings with both of them.
You can watch it in YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU2zM53lK80
Enjoy those memories…
renato
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Posted in Main Page at 7:51 am by Renato
We used to travel to Hong Kong for Chinese New year. And we went to see the fireworks display in the harbor. With not so great equipment we captured part of it in our camera in a small movie. This memories can be seen at You Tube on the following URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLUvQ1ruEsw
Enjoy
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09.09.06
Posted in Main Page at 12:31 pm by Renato
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