Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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When it's raining in Shanghai ... Xi'an 西安

Since Saturday evening, still raining. Temperatures are unlikely to exceed 10 degrees, the wind is blowing, the air spring feel. On Sunday we slept almost until lunchtime - the sound of rain striking the windows were very tripped anaesthetizing. The estate already bloom in red camellias, shrubs inches in buds.

several days when the air conditioner heard some crunching. Driven by bad intuitions may go along with it does not share with Large M, but today I started to munch unfortunately, like a big M came back from work in the house was quite quiet and Large M heard these sounds. Immediately jumped on the chair, stood on it, she said, she is derived from the flat. Just because it was going to shop, asked them to on the occasion She bought the mouse trap (here are the ones with glue, mouse or rat enters the present and completely glued.) Then I asked Mala M, or wants to have a pet. I responded to view full gratitude. The last rat breathed his last, unfortunately, but I promised that as now I do catch on, this bath with it, buy a frame and we will breed. Large M listen with the acquisition and said that in that case, it certainly brought out in August. I quit, perhaps, a window because a frame with a rat will be a constant for the corridor leading to the front door. So we shared a bear skin, and here again started to munch. I wanted to open the window and watch from outside the creature, but the windows closed the tape, because they are leaking (of living in China are not practical at all, thermally insulated, and oknac are slit, through which the wind blows.) Tape came off, and then waited in silence (M Large whole time stood on a chair.) In the end it started again, munch, quietly opened the window and shined a flashlight. And suddenly the hole through which the flat tube is placed from the unit flew some birds. Stone fell from my heart, because August uspokila Large M - most recently the rat was in the kitchen and I had to driving by on the outside, or something to prepare himself, and for that I have two left hands.

Mala M learns in school just two rows in the memory of yesterday zakuwala Meng Haorana 孟浩然 line - just about spring. The poem is titled "Spring Dawn" 春晓 (some sources say that the title poem is "Spring Dream" 春 眠):

春眠不觉晓
处处 闻 啼鸟
夜来 风雨声
花落 知多少?

as Spring normally slept in. As long mornings
me from sleep will not get singing birds has come
night wind and the rain drummed on the windows,
How many lands have to lose the flowers ...

Above my rather free translation, but the corresponding and the weather (just started to roar, the first spring storm this year ...), and this ptaszysku, which tries each uwic nest in our air conditioner, and of course this spring drowsiness.

the drowsiness that is probably all of us here are suffering, even the Chinese have a saying that illustrate well - "Man is a sleepy spring, summer, without power, cuts a nap in the autumn, winter and three months in general does not raise" ... 春困 夏 乏秋 打盹 睡不醒 的 冬 三月.

On Saturday I started the second part of the course Guqina. Teacher is - as in the first part - Mr. Cai 蔡. This young man, graduated from the Shanghai Academy of Music, but in the classroom 二胡 Erhu (string instrument with two strings and a small soundbox, a lyrical sound.) As he told us, hates Erhu, but fell to his liking Guqin, who studied under the direction of the Gong Yi 龚 一. Cai doing any business, apparently with great success, often it drivin 'in Europe, mainly Spain and France, he bought an apartment in downtown Shanghai in the period when prices were already crazy, drivin' imported car. It teaches only because of his teacher and master of the Yi Gong, who runs the type of club Guqina 琴 馆, and such organizing courses to earn an instrument. Cai is a talented, said to just burn CDs. Interestingly, I recorded in a special environment. So far, these recordings were made most often in churches, or studio. Cai decided to make recordings in natural surroundings mountains. I wonder how will that effect, I never heard that someone got the idea for such an idea.
first lesson was also my chance to take my instrument to fix it in the end. After leaving the lesson I was quite surprised when it turned out that good go Gong Yi. Could not fix it on the spot, Gong Yi suggested that they would come the next day, because only then it will be ready. I asked that after repairing pograł on it a little. There such a rule, with the Guqinie should play all the time, playing on it "fed" him and improves the sound. The better a virtuoso on the game, the better for the instrument. Often students buyer expensive instruments and take it to their teachers for half a year and the longer that those "facelift" of their sound.

Anyway Guqin is already in the house and the girls sound rash or irritation of the ears ...

After class on Saturday, I returned home and after dinner I went to a local music club Yuyintang 育 音 堂, which is located in a small building in the Tianshan Park 天山 公园. This is one of the fastest continuous working club, featuring mainly Chinese rock music, though sometimes on the stage, there are also foreign bands. On Saturday was the performance of the band AZ - Yong Su duo 苏 勇 (those were the bassist Cold Fairyland 冷酷 仙境, who in 2008 left the band and creates his music) and Wu Zhuoling 吴卓玲, the former frontwoman and guitarist of the band, "an atmosphere Excursion" 星期三旅行. Wu is an interesting figure, said to be three years went to Tibet to look for the legendary land of "Shangri-la" - a paradise on earth, a place where there is no policy, no wars, no disease ...

Shangri-la is a place described by James Hilton in his book "Lost Horizon" (Lost Horizon) in 1933. It was supposed be somewhere in the deep valley in the western part of the Kunlun mountains near Tibet 昆仑 山. It is thought that Hilton based his descriptions of the books of Joseph Rock, a famous scholar of Tibet and the eastern foothills of the people of Naxi culture expert 纳西 inhabiting these areas. A few years ago for tourism development in the region was given arbitrarily decided that the Shangri-la Zhongdian is a region in northern 中甸 Yunanie, but this is just one of many possible places where he could be this mystical land.



do not know if Wu had fallen Zhuoling Shangri-le, it was probably a gimmick company executives to add it as a mystery, but it is already in Tibet, Wu Zhuoling has written many songs, There has translated a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, there also she found peace and inspiration. The current disc is special, the concert was also a nice, well was found in the small room of Yuyintangu, sit in the first row at the scene, listen to Wu and Su ...


And through the window just then started to lac ...

PS.Przed time TV reported that the current February has 5 times more rainfall than the typical.

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