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chris,能不能把你男朋友的那个画廊的网址给我.想看看.
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November 21

周末

周五很早的起床赶到安特卫普去,到了酒店黄蜀芹导演和助理已经在大厅里等了。前晚,在google上很快的收了收关于黄导演的资料,才知道原来电视剧《围城》便是黄导演的作品,巩俐也曾出演过她导演的电影,大人物啊。只是自己这被西化的一代,已经对老时代中国电影的概念所剩无几了,太惭愧了。黄导已过70高龄,可是气质和精神真是让人赞叹,带着她去参观了鲁本斯的故居还有一小博物馆,然后在安特的小街上踱步到大广场和河畔。黄导说很喜欢欧洲的小广场,天气好的时候,坐在露天阳台上喝杯咖啡,看看周围的古房子和人群,多惬意多享受。黄导对安特的感觉特好,啤酒好喝,咖啡好喝,建筑精致,人文浓厚。到了河畔,路边一排红色的房子,她喜欢极了,一直说,如果有摄像机,就好好的给这些房子等等拍拍。特意找了一间地道的餐馆,让她常常这里的国菜“海虹”,吃的极为尽兴。黄导,老说我可爱文静,哈哈,特别是喝了啤酒之后,脸色红晕的时候。下午5点的时候送导演回了酒店,完成了任务,也十分的开心,很荣幸能够跟导演一起游览安特呢。晚上叫了Kristof一起去Herent听中国琵琶和古筝的演奏会,弹琵琶的赵聪也是俺带着星期一的时候逛布鲁塞尔的,忽忽。好久没有听到中国古典音乐,忽然听到了,好亲切,也算一解思乡之愁。



November 19

作业真TMD多

大概是因为太过疲倦了,昨晚竟然睡的异常的香,没有任何的打扰,一觉睡到快到中午,呵呵,好舒服好畅快的感觉啊。梦里,记得带着一个人回国(记不清楚是谁了,还是在武汉,两个人打车要去假日酒店,哈哈),然后不知道怎么到了姐姐家,给舅舅和舅妈带了一大袋我家里一直在吃的泰国香米,哈哈。 昨天要去看Europalia举办的中国展系列活动中的主展览,“天子”,里面是一些从中国运来的古器珍宝。第一次看到了真的兵马俑,因为只有两个,所以没有太大的感觉,忽忽。到是周代的青铜器十分的精湛,古雅,非常喜欢。不过总体感觉还是一般般,没有什么亮点。因为学校组织的课外活动,必须要参加,很早就要起床去博物馆,2个小时多之后做车去Leuven继续上课,上到晚上8点。虽然晚上Leuven在万家灯火下,扑朔迷离,古色古香,可是没有太多的心情去领略。作业又多了起来,除了硕士论文和读的资料外,各科目的作业也一个个的来了,真郁闷。帮着Europalia在星期一带着来比利时表演的艺术家在布鲁塞尔转了转,明天又让我去安特卫普去带着中国大导演黄淑琴参观安特,7点就要起床出发,哎。PS:前几天的落枕,现在还没有完全好,脖子左边好不舒服。

November 15

stiff neck

It seems that I've had too much fun lately. The result is that I got punished finally. Waking up this morning from a huge pain in neck, I found out that it's barely possible to move my neck to the left without shouting out because of the pain. All the joy suddenly disappeared (Friday midnight's craziness at Chez Maman, Saturday night's laughter at the dinner with friends) and all that was left was a stiff neck. For hours, I struggled, rubbed my neck, used the spray for warming up muscles, ran hot water on it to relief the stiffness and most important of all the pain, but nothing helped. I called Jos who was in the gallery working and tried to explain him that I wanted a tiger balm. He didn't understand. So I called a friend who lives just 5 mins away and has tiger balm, but he said he didn't have time to bring it to me coz he had to go to play tennis and swim in one hour. Yeah, why did I even bother to call him in the first place? So much friendship anyway! Then I felt frustrated, as if the stiff neck alone was not bad enough. Now, everyone seemed to have abandoned me. I was left alone at home, without having breakfast, suffering from the awful awful awful neck pain. As usually, I started to miss home, terribly, miss mom. I remember clearly that last time when she was in Belgium, she had all the necessities with her, including the tiger balm. I tried one on before went to bed, despite her warning that I might not be able to fall asleep due to the powerful heat it'd generate. I thought, I was a big boy, so didn't take her words seriously. Then it turned out to be a nightmare, a sleepless night indeed. Oh, yeah, there was blood and sweat, and almost tears! The next morning when I told her, she laughed and I laughed too. I made myself some rice soup which I secretly learned from mum when she was cooking it here. Suddenly, I miss all these so much. No matter what I have been through, no matter how old I am, when it comes to certain circumstances, I am always mum's boy. And i need to feel at home now. Damn the stiff neck!

Bought a few books last evening, including my very first book of Rilke, "Letters to a young poet". I have heard of Rilke and occasionally come across some of his quotations online a few times which could always very easily capture my attention and therefore make me contemplate the wisdom behind those words. I am quite picky when it comes to reading. There are not so many plots that really interest me. Reading, for me, is to find the similarity of life, the echo of experiences, the retrospective of emotions, and to dig out memories. That's why I've liked very few books, but once I begin to like one, I know this established intimacy will last years and years. The reason why I bought "Letters to a young poet" was accidental. Claire told us, during our visit to Magda, that the cemetery of Elsene in Brussels was actually quite beautiful. Since there're few places I had visited yet in Brussels, we went there on a windy Friday afternoon. The sun light was dim. Grey clouds were hanging in the sky. Nevertheless, the cemetery was calm and peaceful. A few tombs reminded me of the ones in Pere de la Chaise, the cemetery in Paris where we visited this summer because I wanted to be in front of the tomb of Oscar Wilde and pay my homage. The cemetery of Elesene was small, in a good way, compared with the vast size of Pere de la chaise, so people could take their time and visit one tomb after another which was much more moderately decorated. The white and yellow chrysanthemum contrasted with the deadliness and the grayness of graves. There was hardly anyone else. I was attracted by a sculpture of a young man in white marble on top of one tomb. It's a copy of Flandarin's painting, "a young man by sea" in the museum of Louvre. At that moment, I felt eternity. After getting back at home, I googled the painting and found accidently a photo of a young man, sitting in front of a French writer's grave which lies just in front of the sea. The young man was reading the book of Rilke, yes, "Letters to a young poet". Then I found these words:

"You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now."

November 12

Lonely heart

觉得为了两个小时候的课,坐上两个小时的公交车来回去学校很愚蠢,可又是没有办法的事情。有时候很羡慕那些什么都不在乎的同学们,课可以好几节不去上,嘴巴上跟教授多讨好讨好,也没有见得成绩差怎么去。自己在很多事情上面太循规蹈矩的,有些窝囊呢。学校的事情太多,连课程表都隔上两个星期变化一次,尽管教授对我们很乐观,可是做学问还真不容易,那些学术上的格式、套路也越来越多,反而让人感觉疲乏无趣。连时间都没有来去认真的读一本可以给心灵上带来些安慰的书,或者听一场可以拨动心弦的演唱会。自从西班牙回来,在那里的大好心情在现在回想起来无比的可贵,也越来越有想去海边或者深山,亲近大自然的渴望,换下环境,暂时搁下一切忧虑,洗去身上的世尘。晚上做在沙发上,听肖邦的《夜曲》,然后整理平时拍来的照片,想着和朋友聊天的内容,脑子里想到一些东西,关于寂寞的,可不知道如何写出来。在比利时的咖啡馆,经常可以看到一个人在桌前单独喝咖啡或者啤酒的人,要么做着自己的事情,看书、写笔记、上网,要么就是关注着旁人。在这个城市里,不知道有多少的寂寞人。

November 09

大廣場上的雜技

沒想到天氣竟然這樣的好,蔚藍蔚藍的天空,沒有一朵雲彩。幸好讓一個朋友把我從床上叫了起來,否則真是錯過了如此天氣,才是地地道道的罪過啊。天气好,心情也好,跟朋友约好在大广场见面,一起看那里的杂技表演。这个星期三是假日,没有课,上个周末总算得到缓冲,书啥都没有看,哈哈。就是,这几天很想家,想回国。

November 05

三周年

最近的天气坏透了,又冷,还时不时的下雨,连打球的时候,胳膊还是凉凉的,真讨厌。前天是我们结婚三周年纪念日,白天去附近的小城走了走,出去一起吃了顿晚餐,喝了点酒,聊了会天,然后回家,跟往常似乎没有什么不同。时间过的很快,以前来比利时不久,经常会有意识数着已经来了多少日子,现在已经不怎么去记了,所以以至突然想起,多多少少的感叹下,然后继续忙该忙的。前几日,翻自己的空间,一个月一个月的翻,发现某些细节发生过的事情,现在已经记不太清楚,有些则依然印象深刻。那么多日子过去了,发现,自己念叨中国菜的次数少了,呵呵。自己妈妈过来之后,觉得布鲁塞尔离家跟近了。自己,从根本的,还是没有什么太大的变化,原则依然坚持,性格依然我行我素,脾气依然不容易控制,只不过认识的人多了,见过的事情多了,脑袋里思考的东西多了。有些东西不在重要,有些东西变的重要。跟他的感情如旧。

November 01

Antwerp games

昨天去参加antwerp games的羽毛球比赛,一开始发挥的很好,赢了三场,本来进下轮比赛稳操胜券的,结果不知道怎的,从第四场起,完全就像变了一个人,连发球的时候球都拿不稳。结果连输三场,把机会拱手送了出去。有两场竟然都是24-26输掉的,后面一分分的打的异常激烈,好惊心动魄。说来也出奇,一下子怎么变化那么大的,不爽,害的搭档跟着自己一起输。不过还好了,都是朋友,打完了就出去逛街。然后是晚餐,还有party。好久没有那么尽兴的去party了,有几首不错的歌,还有能和朋友一起,好开心:)没有时间多写东西,要去做作业了。。。

October 27

抓住秋日的尾巴

没有课,早上起的相对的早,趁天气稍微的好些,想要出去散步。跟他开车来到了一从来没有来过的公园,公园中央是一个水池,中间小岛上除了树木,还有一家木屋咖啡馆,就没有什么了。据说这是几十年来布鲁塞尔富有中产阶级来游园,划船后,休息、喝咖啡用的。树林叶子开始变了颜色,在太阳的照射下极为浓艳,池水下映衬着树影,加上午后的蓝天,让人感受到了秋末的魅力。

October 25

周末

好久没有在周末的晚上到布鲁塞尔市中心了,已经忘记了一到周五晚上市中心是何等的热闹。平时周五晚上打球,11点结束后在运动馆的咖啡厅里和球友聊聊天,喝点东西,之后回到家就已经很晚了。前天打球后,没有喝过瘾,就有机会跟一朋友去市中心去。凌晨已过,马路上车辆依然很多,市中心小道上的几个知名咖啡馆、酒吧,人满为患,跟自己印象中布鲁塞尔那种悠闲自得差异极大。昨天,和他一起去看电影,几个短片组成的,很幽默很不错呢。看电影的时候,遇到了朋友,于是又一同去喝东西去聊天,结果到了凌晨2点多才回家。这个周末,过的还真丰富呢。

October 23

想家啦

和平日一样,下午出去喝喝咖啡,看看书,一晃三个小时过去了。周末的下午,一般还比较从容,市中心的人大多数以游客为主,在咖啡馆内休闲自得的看着文献,关于丛英国大使Macartney进谏乾隆皇帝时究竟有没有叩头之事件引发的礼仪之争。本来很安静的地方,吧台和桌子前零散的坐着几个人,大多数一个人要么喝东西要么看报纸,很适合看书研究学问,可是到了4点,不知道怎么的一下子小小的地方拥挤了起来,什么时候来了那么多的人自己也没有留意,音乐的音量一下子大了很多,从90年代的流行乐变成跳舞的舞曲,加上谈话聊天,太聒噪了。于是只好开路走人。

走出去,迎面遇到一人,貌似东欧人,好像要问我什么事情。结果,一开口,就问,能不能给他50欧元。我也没回答,笑了笑,继续走我得。50欧元啊,我身上还没带那么多,这样张手就要,还真不知道这人怎么想的,狮子大张口,太可怕了。布鲁塞尔这段事件乞讨的人很多,大部分都是来自东欧落后的国家,这跟欧盟扩张有直接的联系。前几天看了关于罗马尼亚乞丐的纪录片,很多罗马尼亚人分散到欧洲各个城市,来乞讨,甚至是偷窃,大部分都是小孩子,因为法律没有办法惩罚这些小孩子,所以他们明目张胆的抢钱,比如,有人在取款机上提钱,钱一出来,小孩子就上去直接抢。这些小孩子都是受到由组织支使的,还有他们的家人。西方发达的国家有社会福利帮助,可是他们不需要这些,他们说,一天可以偷到好几百欧,甚至上千欧,要比工作或者领福利好多了。罗马尼亚那些组织乞丐的头目,用脏钱在他们当地建的房子比宫殿都华丽,那些乞讨的人则住在难民营里,小孩子们甚至都聚集在一间破陋的上锁房子里。哎呀,太没有道德了。

昨天还在比利时的电台上听到提醒人们不要从容那些在街上、车站乞讨的人的。还有,上次在市中心,坐在阳台上吃饭,把包包放在背后,竟然有人想要偷偷拿走。Jos就做在我的对面,那人趁着人多,就在我后面下手。不过我靠着包包,感觉到了,扭头发现一个东欧人在后面,没有等我反应过来是有人在偷包,那人一下就走了。在远处,看到那人与另外两三个人接头,都是东欧人,让他们跑了,太可气了。下次一定要制止他们!

还是很忙,总有看不完的资料,加上休息不好,昨天很狼狈,出门了之后,才发现没有带手机,没有带钥匙。可是脑袋根本就转不动了,也没有想到在学校里向同学要手机给他打个电话,好让他在家里等着我。结果等我回家了,才醒悟过来。最后跑来跑去的找公用电话,很郁闷。买菜的时候,本来是要把付款的小票给人家,可自己晕晕乎乎的把自己的银行卡递给人家。还好人家开玩笑的说,这里不收银行卡的。要给也成,那就把密码一起给吧。真不知道,脑袋当时跑那里去了。

哎呀,想家了,如果妈妈能在比利时多好啊。要不,让妈妈在去办签证,这个寒假来比利时过?这里的冬天没有那么冷,夏天来这里避暑,冬天来这里避寒,哈哈,也挺不错的。