736 The First Monday in May

This is another masterpiece of fashion documentary film. It's not just the backstage story of 2015 NY Met Gala. I was amazed and almost shocked by its beauty of mix of everything --- fashion, art, history, high culture and pop culture, politics, classic China and modern China, challenge, business, visionary, and professionalism. They are all described in the course of this huge project of exhibition, the story is filmed with outstanding beauty of fashion and all the other creation over there. At the same time this documentary is marvelously shedding light to each and every person involved in this, as a professional trying to do their mission as best as they can. It's about creation and it's about project management. Furthermore, you can see breathtaking, really breathtaking costumes and arts in the exhibition. 

Whatever the question this film presents us, I don't want to talk much about if fashion is art or not, (I think I am not quite sure of what the art is, in the first place. Then I also think architecture is art, landscape design is art... and so on.) But I am quite sure, that fashion can truly move people and totally brow their mind. A must-see, if you are looking for something beautiful and worth experiencing.

735 Live Forever

More and more I find myself attracted by trees, especially big trees. It doesn't matter if I know nothing about the tree, about its academic classification, about its age, about its history. The moment I stand on the foot of these great trees I am struck by its living energy. Obviously they have been living much longer than I, and certainly they will live longer than I. Sometimes it seems very strange to look around and think that trees are living so high and so long, to the extent that our imagination cannot possibly follow. People cannot live without trees and greens, while trees are beyond our existence. 

I kind of think that trees might be the one who really owns and rules this planet.  

734 Straight and Far Away

If you are walking in a wide street filled with many busy people coming and going everywhere, where would you be looking at? Most likely the point will be nearest persons around you and you will be busy trying to step aside a bit when someone comes toward you while making sure to secure your own path to move to the direction you are heading. Or you will be busy looking down your smartphone. 

Just for a change, it might be interesting if you dare to look into the far distance, as far as possible, actually the most distant point your eyes can catch. It's interesting because you don't have to worry about the risk of crashing into people in front of you or tripping on the stairs. Even if you try to focus on the far distant point, you may be surprised to know your eyes can sense a really wide range of visual information without actually focusing on them. 

Then the recognition of the visual information will shortly get three dimensional - yes surely the landscape around you is always three-dimensional but if you only look at the nearest smartphone panel or your feet your sight will not be seen as such. It's not two-dimensional but anyway lack of depth. Also if you stay focusing your eyes into the distant point, your sight is fixed and it enables you to sense the movement of the sight, people's coming and going or more clearly.  

733 Cool and Warm

Interestingly, being funny doesn't conflict with being cool, and I actually appreciate and enjoy to be regarded as a mixed personality of cool and warm. People tells me I'm cool sometimes, and others say I'm warm. It's no surprise because I know I have been living with these mixed feelings. I like to stay calm and quiet, but also I like to entertain people with funny stories and make them laugh. I'm not a kind of person who always smiles, but I do not want to miss any good chance to laugh and make my life hilarious. I don't think I am sweet, but always do whatever I can to make my friends and family happy, which gives me back a lot of energy and happiness. I may be a bit indifferent to social issues, but I like to have fun with my friends and I think I never be a lone wolf. 

732 Tall

People see me as simply "tall" or "taller than average", at least. If I get on a crowded train, my sight would be a bit higher than 60-70% of the passengers in the space. So I don't get used to look up someone who is much taller than I. One day it happened in a subway. I came into the train car and found myself standing next to a super tall foreign gentleman, holding something that looked like a big musical instrument in the case. How much was he tall? His jaw was well over my head. Looking at him with amazed, I felt kind of relieved, just like standing under an excellent tree, being protected from wind and rain. Because it's rare for me to stand next to someone of much taller height, it was a fresh experience. I wondered if someone who is smaller than me, would by any chance have the similar sense when they look at me.

731 Funny

I don't remember when it started, but at some point people get to call me or regard me as a funny, hilarious person., which of course is a wonderful thing to me. I used to be different, not in the way as I was, but in the way I would like to be seen by people. When I was really young I used to aspire to be cool. To me the coolest thing was to be cool. Then I didn't find the adjective which can possibly take over "cool." "Nice", "sweet", "friendly", "good", "kind", these words are great and beautiful in their each meanings, but somehow I didn't find myself fit to them. Now I am happy to be called funny and happy to make people laugh. Maybe I have been, all the time, without even knowing it, a funny and hilarious person.  

730 Cooking

I have many warm-hearted and talented wonderful friends. I think my life is blessed thanks to them, as well as my funny family. One of them has long dreamed of making a cafe and actually made it last year. I do like her cafe and have visited several times. She majored in pharmacy and went to Italy for a year to learn to cook and make a fine espresso. The idea of good food and good health might harmonize in her mind. Also she is really fond of and good at organizing gatherings or events to make place for people to come to talk, enjoy and know each other. Making her own cafe was a natural move. I enjoy the nice food and find coffee every time I visit her. Whenever I admire her ability to cook well, she always answers back, with true modesty and a good sense of humor, "Cooking is not talent, for me it's just a handicraft." I like her answer so much, as one of the many people who dare not to boast of one's ability to cook well, because if this is handicraft all you have to do is just to enjoy the process of making something, regardless of it tastes very well, not bad, or a bit strange. 

And from my experience, if you carefully chose sound cooking materials and follow the classic way that human being have been long enjoying to make them delicious, with adding only a bit of your own creative idea from your own taste of food, it will make a good dish (not to say "awesome" or "fantastic", but it's enough).     

729 Take Five

I found a very much interesting and effective way to keep a healthy distance between me and my smartphone. I know we cannot live without it and owe much to it, but honestly I've come to miss the time lost in the temptation to check with iPhone to see if something funny or valuable would come up and most of the case I switch it off feeling awkward. I found a way to keep me away from being controlled by my clever gadget. I don't like my own behavior to look at my phone in elevator, in train, in shops and in streets whenever I have blank 1 minute. 

So it's simple. When I feel like checking my phone, I say to myself "wait for 5 minutes. If I take 5 minutes and later check with it, nothing will be different." And when the 5 minutes passes, I completely forget I was about to check it, because there is plenty of things to do in the 5 minutes in your real world. I watch people, look around, think something new, something different, maybe I can brush my teeth for a change, maybe I can read or just get chill out without doing anything.  

You are connecting with the world with your own feet, touch, sight, hearing and all the senses you have together with your brain and body. It's the real world as we know it. Smartphone is another smart way to have connection with the world and I never deny it, but sometimes I don't think the reality is not in your palm, it's the ground you are on.