2009年5月4日星期一

A Blog for TCM

TCM, or Traditional Chinese Medicine, is fairly famous all around the world not only for its efficacious therapies but also for the mysterious side of the word” traditional”. However, most of the TCM physicians actually do not obtain the noticeable attention equally comparing with TCM itself even their relationship is just like the connections between Magic and the magicians. Consequently, many of the physicians aren’t well-known even for some hottest branch fields of TCM, one of them can be Acupuncture. As a result, I took a volunteer job introduced by my aunt who is also a physician, which is to make a blog webpage for one of the reputed finest Acupunctural physicians in Nanjing. Well, this task is sound easy to get, but actually… not!

Give a hand to China's future

Be honest, Chris and I didn’t try to imagine that our group can win the competition of fundraising---- a group which sells sour pasta can beat one sells McDonalds to a “removed-from-habitation” campus in suburb? Kidding! However, we finally won it in our block for a strange reason: honesty. Then the result came, and we were in the way to the Amity Foundation headquarter, trying to figure out who can be the one we can help.
Although the Amity Foundation is relatively well-known among the whole Nanjing city and in many of the students, when Chris and I Got into the taxi, we could not even tell the driver where the exact location of headquarter. Then suddenly, the driver said, “It is on Hankou Road, right? I know that place.” Well, that’s embarrassing that we didn’t know whether it’s because we didn’t understand or paid no attention to our teacher’s description…Anyway, we arrived at there.
All right, the “Taxi incident” was actually not the hardest deal but choosing the kid which is in most needs. The kindhearted officer

GCA Fashion show!

After the athirst waiting for three weeks, the GCA fashion Show finally came off on schedule. Although the fashion show was just last for half and an hour, it still can be a very absorbing topic to talk about. Well, the word “absorbing” contains not only for fascinating proms, casuals and uniforms, but also some totally amusing and then arousing laughter. OK, let’s go on browsing.

As a designer, you must keep awareness on every design which’s going to show on the stage instead of make your own eyes arrested by some of the enchanting models (girls only, no doubt)…Well that’s sounds good, but the actual situation is: I was sitting besides the stereo sound box, paid no attention to 10-B’s weird casuals, but waiting for Chris, our model, and his casual T-shirt. “Oh, my, please don’t let the audience laugh when the T-shirt appears in their eyes, or I’m going to strike my heads to the wall!”

One minute… two… three… four…. He finally came. I took a deep breath to prevent heart attack---Wait, what’s going on? That’s almost nobody laugh, and they were all sitting steady: “Hey, that’s not what I expected!” Come on, guys, make any noise! I admit it was the worst one: Win an award called “the worst ever” is even better than audiences’ no response! Moreover, it seemed like that Chris has got necromancy or some other magic, he suddenly turned around to us, and gave an unfathomable smile. Help…

Well that’s fine. Although we were relatively lack of creativities comparing with 10-D’s design--- They made a boy dressing on a kind of girls’ prom dress and put a pair of something like sponge on the super model’s chest for a better visual effect and impression--- but we put our best talent on the whole project, and got a ending with satisfactory.

2009年3月15日星期日

Bon appetit! Bella Napoli Restaurant

A visit to Nanjing Museum(First article without ironic words,indeed!)

On the day of 3/8 Women's Day, half dozen and two of boring men who suffered from endless single life... OK, just joking. On this day our group of 8 decided to go for a visit to Nanjing Museum which's besides the Zhongshan city gate. The museum is now holding a exhibition around traditional Chinese artwork.

When we arrived at the gate of the museum, entered and tried to go on our visit straightly, we suddenly found that the Museum is such a 'distinguished' museum, for it even devoted its major exhibition building (before) to a notice of 'staff only'... ehh, nothing in irony...Fine, That's a irony. At least they need to notice us at the entrance, eh?


Alright, stop animadverting like a critic. We finally entered the building besides, and found there are so many topics of exhibition rooms and objects in exhibitions that we couldn’t figure out which one to talk about: There’s a room for Chinese lacquerware, one for ancient Chinese bronze works, one for Chinese Jade (also made a lively introduction on carving jade), and one for modern Chinese artwork (tired of these)… We even found Wu Weishan’s sculpture in it! I was wondering he’s an octopus or… something else, I don’t know. Eventually, I think we can bring a brief introduction on one exhibition I thought it’s the best among the long list.


Actually this kind of artwork is also can be considered as a long list—A list of most famous and also strange artists in middle Qing Dynasty: We call them ‘Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou’ (the description eccentric comes from Wikipedia), The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou is the name for a group of eight Chinese painters known in the Qing for rejecting the orthodox ideas about painting in favor of a style deemed expressive and individualist. One of these 8 ‘eccentrics’ who had a greatest influence on the flow of Chinese culture—in my opinion--- is called Zheng Xie, also known as Zheng BanQiao (郑板桥) (1693-1765) I consider that he’s special in these 8 painters is because he actually can represent the main figure of the ‘8 eccentrics’ in his paintings, and also had his individual, unique style. As a good example for proving it, the painting about ‘bamboos growing on hard rocks’ shows Zheng’s excellent technique on dealing with such a object which’s not easy to portray—bamboos—with only several strokes in simplicity. However this kind of painting style exactly matches the main idea of these eccentrics, or all of the artists who’s from impoverished or troubled backgrounds-- Not only for the naturalism thought on their outlook on lives which can almost represent the whole Chinese Culture, but also for this: whatever how severely hard situation they’re in, they all have a strong belief inside their mind that ‘Rainbow will finally appears after severe rainstorm.


Finally, we had to leave there because the problem on sandglass. A visit which’s shorter than one and a half hour? Oh, that’s definitely too short for such a distinguished museum—no irony for this time.