2012的那个夏天 (4) - Rietberg Museum

If you ask me which are my favoriate places of Zurich, the first one flashed out is the Rietberg Museum. The park is one of the most idyllic part of the city. A sudden turn, you are enveloped by ocean of peace and green. The main building of the museum and its new entrance is hidden behind of a park. The sound of leaves rustling, birds singing and the pebbles under your feet"cracking" all come back to me whenever I thought of Rietberg museum. It makes me feel so calm and peaceful.

The emerald colored glass pavilion is an extension to the main building Foyer. It opened in 2007, and has two underground levels which holds permanent( Japan China, and Africa) and temporal exhibitions respectively. I was very surprised to see that Rietberg has such a big collection of Chinese arts. When I stepped inside the Emerald, the emphasis on details and designs of swiss were again being demonstrated. The background wall of the giftshop which located at the entrance hall is an art work called concrete reflection. The golden"post-it" is a collective art of people who visited the museum and left their very own reflection here. yes, we did it as well, and hided it in a very special place. When I went back this winter, looking again at our "masterpiece"was a joy. The ceiling lights of the entrance is also golden colored with a marble like texture. If you think that's it, then you will find yourself amazed by the wooden staircase leading to the underground levels. The entrance is connected to the Villa Wesendonck, which is named after its owner, a german composer Richard Wagner. The building hides in the deep of the rietberg park, so graceful.

We had ice creams in the museum cafe, and rainer cited the sentence on the ice-cream box "you scream, I scream, we all scream for icecream" next to our rietberg museum picture in our summer album. It's so silly and sweet.  After the appreciation of the great exhibitions, we would always walk, well at least for the past two times I did, to the far end of the park where you can have a glance of this beautiful lake city. Those two red benches are a symbol of our reflection that day. We sat there, quietly, but not lonely at all.

A link for many nice pictures of the museum: http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/rietbergmuseum/Interesting

2012的那个夏天(3) 苏黎世老城区

苏黎世的老城区在瑞士中立国身份的庇护下得到非常完好的保护。这次寒假去，我在完全凭记忆的情况下希望找到一个英文书书店，虽然失败，但穿梭在各个小巷间，别有一番风味。5月26日，那是我到zurich的第二天，当时看到他是那么开心。第一站我们就去了chinese garden感受了外国风味的中国园林。我就知道你是怕我想家啦。回头看我俩搞怪拍照的大堂，背后竟然挂着的一幅画西湖十景的画。现在回想，还真是巧合。那天，我们爬上了Grossmunster church 的 twin tower，穿梭在每个人都知道的苏黎世的第五大道－bahnhofstrasse.

就在我们你追我赶一阵打闹在城区的小弄穿梭时，一阵悠扬的音乐把我们带到了一个square,一场婚礼的reception正在进行中，我们在音乐中翻阅着书店在门口摆放的减价销售的书和卡片。其中一张特写了情侣亲吻时女生踮脚的一刻，于是就有了下面这组照片。我的记忆也就定格在夕阳下，他蹲在地上调整三脚架的那一个画面。Someone said we all see the world through our own tiny keyhole. This moment here through your lens was full of jasmine flavor.

The Green Billiard

Today again on my way from the water fountain and the desk at second floor Mugar, my eyes got caught by a book about Vicient Van Gogh. It's a very unique and interesting book that introduces paintings of this great colorist with his words. Sentences and paragraphs about the painting were selected from his letters. Maybe it's not that of a mystery to art students, but it's definitely fascinating to know the stories behind the drawings.

Here is one: "the night cafe"

This is the interior of the cafe terrace night, which is more known by the commonwealth. The first time i saw this picture, again the spinning touch of the lemon yellow lamps gave me feeling of unease. The people dining in the cafe seemed drowsy. You can peek through the raised curtain of the door in the far end-where seemed to be source of most light in the cafe. Van Gogh said the night cafe is " a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit crime. " Some people say it's a version of hell.

All I can think of is that my honey wants to buy a billiard for his new apartment. Hope he will not turn his living room hell. Surly, it will be hell of a lot of fun. Today I had a big argument with him. I was so irrationally angry at him. Wave~wave~wave~lets go to the beach...

我的2012

2012年就这么过去了。这一年时光飞逝，如果要想几个关键词的话，我想：爱情，毕业，读博，分离占据了很大的部分。这一年，我在很多地方留下了足迹：波士顿，达拉斯，华盛顿，纽约，迈阿密，苏黎世，波恩，巴黎，罗马，北京，上海，常山，如此奔波的一年，转眼间就过去了。

最近越来越觉得生活艰难，觉得心里有时候有一种特别苦的感觉，觉得亏欠父母，觉得生活漂浮不定，觉得自己这忙忙碌碌到底是为了那般。亲人，爱人，友人都不在身边，为何我一直就生活在别处呢？特别珍惜今年上半年的那段日子，妈妈在身边，rainer在身边，我亲爱的好朋友们都在身边。为什么我的花儿都散落在天涯，然后就越飘越远？在rainer家过圣诞觉得很开心，能在他身边越觉得很幸福，可是看到他一家人团聚，我心中不免有些失落。妈妈每每聊天都问我好不好，一再表达对我在外一人的不安很担心，让我越发感到亏欠父母，远离家人的不孝。R总给我吃定心丸，说明年就好了，明年无论如何你都能独立了，所以要好好学习。而且千万不要这么灰心，你要是出事了我怎么办呀？看着他，我就坚强了。

的确，生活总有难处，家家都有一本难念的经，我总和自己说，要珍惜已有的，感恩所得的，凡事强求不得，可是我有是一个牛脾气，觉得只要有一线希望的，没有试试就放弃就不甘心。然而人生的抉择已然不是苹果还是香蕉，觉得一个决定就可以改变轨迹。

引用一句乔布斯的话

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.