An exhibition entitled 2008.06.21 by Gu Dexin

Shanghai Art Gallery at Three on the Bund

Jeremy

July 13th 2008

An easy and lazy, hazy and rainy Saturday

Plum Rain season is considered gone with the sound of cicada ringing enlessly, piercing through the window but unlike white noise.

Thrilled to hear, thunder boomed from the distant sky, signifying the forecast impending thundershower on weekend. Supposing this was planned for a short trip elsewhere but nature really melted all the prolonged anticipation.

Holed up at home but resting leisurely. Never up until 1p.m., lunch was prepared mixed from leftover: broccoli green, coarsely shredded smoked ham, several cloves of garlic and in a small pot of congee to taste with dashes of salt and drops of sesame oil. Easy.

Today as another Saturday on this hot summer, it is an easy and lazy way to go in life. And it is raining now.

Jeremy
July 12th 2008

Semi-X'mas

Over for now, the Semi-X'mas was on June 25th.

Not much but the Plum Rain is also seeing its tail end with genuine hot summer ensuing sooner. This intensely hot summer in the city shall last for three long months until the cool October sets in.
Plum Rain has started since June 7th and usually it lasts for about 3 weeks with daily showers or thouderstorms abound according to weather report. Things and objects get infectiously moldy during this time of the year and efffective interior ventilation is sorely needed in this case.

Today is July the First and there are 183 days remaining until the end of the year.

Time zips by. Whoa!

Jeremy
July 1st, 2008

June 12th, 2008

It is but exactly one month after the devastating quake that shook up the whole mountaineous region, China and the rest of the world.

According to a report, the wave actually went around the globe twice. Of the later revised to Richter scale 8.0 quake with its epicenter located some 30km below the Wenchuan town in Sichuan, the statisitics of casualites to date shown on some websites are close to 70,000 in number, with many thousands more went missing. It is still very heart wrenching to see daily repeats or on-going live telecast on TV.

So much to ponder about life and so much more to put life into perspective.

We shall remember.

Jeremy
Shanghai
June 12th 2007

Summer is in the city with thunder storm.

Today, as forecast, the impending shower storm this mid-afternoon has brought relief to the several days long muggy and humid discomfort to the city.

Viewed from the apartment window into the Small Stone Bridge Road, or Xiao Siqiao Road, the picture shows the heavy thunder storm came crashing down right before 3 p.m. just now, instantly emptying out the usually busy street for passers-by human and vehcular traffic.

Whereas tomorrow on Sunday, all over China gets their first new installment of nationally observed holiday, the Duanwu Festival or Dragon Boat Festival. This will be replaced on the Monday following, hence a 3-day long weekend holiday.

Jeremy

Shanghai June 7th, 2008

Thonik Power

at Shanghai Art Gallery

May 30th 2008

Simple Power of essential thinkin'...thinkin', thinkin'...abt pure state of design.

Rose amongst the thorns.

What's more from Thonik then? Yeah, big deal.

Rediscovering perspectival presentation of Renaissance.

Fan Hui and her daughter Kaixin a.k.a. Joy

Mommy, mommy, where are the rest of my teeth?

Mommy Dearest & Darling Lovely

These photos above were first taken from Fan Hui's blog but later informed to her that I just had to have, yes, have to had these photos. And my grateful thanks to Fan Hui for her generosity due to this irresistible inclusion to upload into my blog as well.

Personally, the cry baby photo is definitely The Photo of the Year and I am sure a lot of you would have agreed to my POV. The photo brings so much joy to me. I also put it onto the computer wallpaper. Hahaha...!

Thanks, Fan Hui! Thank you for the joy she brings...

Jeremy

Greetings from Shanghai

May 27th 2008

Late Sunday afternoon out at the Lujiazui Park

After the long day kept indoor doing many house chores, I had to relief for a good fresh afternoon air at the Lujiazui Park which is within short strolling distance of where I live. Right behind the building with criss-crossing facade shown at the right end picture below is where I live. I always enjoy taking this panoramic view with the lake as foreground, guess there is some intrinsic attractiveness in this sensaround view even though most of the buildings are some ugly post-modern fakes.

The views on top and bottom are more or less the same but taken at different distance with grass and lake as foreground respectively. For urbanism, it makes a lot of esthetic difference when the context is surrounded by nature, and something ignored in genuine design by many ignoramus so called urban or architectural designers.

Nearly completed Shanghai World Financial Tower is shown on the left and it has already overtaken as the tallest in mainland China several months ago, beating out the Jinmao Tower shown on the right. Both, however, are some qualifying, elegant high modern design.

Flanked by two gray tone urban facades, the Shanghai Pearl TV Tower appears diminished in between.

Such is urbanism, all the competing interest in overwhelming rising scale and in attempting to penetrate the hazy afternoon sky as shown above and below. Below, on the far left is the Dongfang Hospital and I live behind it inside a neighborhood unit. I roam around this area a lot, for e.g. to catch buses to elsewhere.

Jeremy

Shanghai May 26, 2008

At the Bund on hazy Saturday

On a hazy Saturday afternoon after a good nap, I was out with Sunny Liu (photo above) to hang out at the Bund to see some exhibitions besides walking around listlessly. Later, crossing the Huangpu River, we ended up in the Superbrand Mall for Italian dinner at Saizeriya, a family joint with so so food and fair service.

Jeremy

Shanghai May 25, 2008

The exhibition The End is an End at 3 on The Bund is rather a corny presentation, none other than heaving or sighing without sense in the context of an overblown economy that completely heeds my inevitably muted balloon phobia, and not particularly a very sincere and cordial invitation to attend the over-rated installation exhibition.

The entrance to 3 on The Bund is definitely some hospitable spring fragrance ambience.

I am also crossed out by the decoratively tattooed blue and white panda cub.

Mission Impossible...I am real, they are not.

Really need to coke up for my hazy day out.

The Zhongshan Road 1 aka The Bund was closed for renovation and for the Olympic torch to come around.

The Torch

The Olympic torch came close to office and my neighborhood at 2pm today. Many were so hyped up with their spending spree in t-shirts, flags, banners and other memorabilia.

With the torch trailblazing, these young and restless co-workers were all set for the Olympic spirit...

Setting example for the upcoming Olympic besides his entrepreneurial spirit, a vendor was pushing patriotism on the street.

Order, order, please!

So hyped up! Jia-you-Zhong-Guo! Go! Go! Go! Ole! Ole! Ole! China!

Taming the docile crowd.

Mostly curious white collared on-lookers from the offices nearby.

Heeeeere's the motorcade leading the way.

Aw..so far and yet so close...

Passing by the neighborhood unit where I live.

Shit. Real shit. The torch is actually inside this bus.
Darn! Can you imagine that!?!? Jeeeez.

Solemnly.

NOW....back to work!

Jeremy

Shanghai, May 23, 2008

14:00pm