No Time Like The Present

Surfing around...news, gossips, music, movies, photos...
the world has gone mad!

after years a yak finally got his passport
immediately started his world travel
beach - too hot
mountain - too much
New york - too loud
London - too busy
Tokyo - too crowd
Paris - too crazy
...
shortly landed in Madrid
where his cousin bull lives
hug, kiss, music, dance, wine...
but then
shortly ended his life in a bullring
...
相请不如偶遇，不知道贾宏宇是在什么情境下创作的。前几天，突然想起此作品，感觉很适合红色三月，所以再次拿出来晒晒。

一 头牦牛不知出于什么原因，错误地走进斗牛场。杀红了眼的斗牛士们不由分说，乱剑砍死了这头牦牛。这个简短的故事像是一个多重指涉的寓言：即是所有现代化 进程中的民族国家的寓言，也是旅行者对于前程和命运的焦虑，更是人们对于陌生之物的普遍态度的一种症状。胜利者和受伤害者的形象并不完全等同于强者和弱 者，也许胜利和死亡本身，都是建立在恐惧、误解之上，都是命运的游戏。

3.9.50

3年前，在更顿群培画廊看到过用芭比，做的一件行为艺术作品，可惜当时没拍照。几天前，新闻网上看到消息说藏式“芭比娃娃”出炉了。福喜妹，一个有加米名字的博日普姆。而且巨贵, 3000元一个妹妹。 Indeed, I have no interest in Barbie, but again just read - today is Barbie's 50th Birthday. I didn't know before that Barbie is manufactured by Mattel, Inc. and launched in 1959.3.9. What a coincident! After 50 years, Barbie is on top of the world. Today, maybe 福喜妹, the lucky and happy girl from Tibet is also happily celebrating world barbie girl's 50th....

Another 3.9，Tibetan Human Rights, Tibet Menschenrechte, Les droits de l'hommet du Tibet and 西藏人权网，中国第一个以西藏人权为主题的网站今天开通了。十几个板块，4种语言....very comprehensive information in English, German, French and Chinese, but Tibetan language!

If You're Out There

A song with inspiring messages, from John Legend for Obama presidential campaign but also a call to arms for anyone who has a mind to contribute and the motivation to actually do it. What we're trying to say is that the time is now, we've already waited long enough to start working on the issues that we need to handle as a country and as a globe. We're talking about poverty, ending the war, and we need more people out there who are clamoring for change, it's not just about electing Obama, it's just about the mindset and putting pressure on the politicians to be more responsible.

So now, President Obama made change history and will make more change Americans need...but then the rest of us, and people are out there on top of the world ....

If you hear this message, Wherever you stand
I'm calling every woman, Calling ever man
We're the generation, We can't afford to wait
The future started yesterday, And we're already late

We've been looking for a song to sing

Searched for a melody, Searched for someone to lead
We've been looking for the world to change
If you feel the same, well go on and say

If you're out there, sing along with me

If you're out there, I'm dying to believe

That you're out there, Stand up and say it loud

If you're out there, tomorrow's starting now...now...now

No more broken promises, No more call to war
Unless it's Love and Peace that we're really fighting for
We can destroy Hunger, we can conquer Hate
Put down the arms and raise your voice
We're joining hands today

I was looking for a song to sing
Searched for a leader, but the leader was me
We were looking for the world to change
We can be heroes, Just go on and say

If you're out there, sing along with me

If you're out there, I'm dying to believe that

you're out there, Stand up and say it loud if you're out there
Tomorrow's starting now...now...now
Whoa now...now...now

If you ready we can save the world
Believe again, start to mend
We don't have to wait for destiny
We should be the change that we want to see

If you're out there, If you're out there
And you're ready now
Sing it loud, scream it out

If you're out there
Sing along with me if you're out there
I'm dying to believe that you're out there
Stand up and say it loud if you're out there
Tomorrow's starting now

If you're out there
If you're out there
If you're out there

If you hear this message, wherever you stand
I'm calling every woman, calling ever man
We're the generation, we can't afford to wait
The future started yesterday and we're already late

It Is Written

是宿命  是轮回 

一切都是注定的

一路上的选择

都只是步步逼近 Final Destiny

Jamal, Salim & Latika

与我们所有人都一样

为了活着、为了生活、为了爱、为了权力

不断选择

A. Cheat

B. Luck

C. Genius

D. Destiny

确切的说

命运不是机遇，而是选择

最终，It is Written.

One for all, and all for One.

谁为谁而纪念

任何事物的产生和发展都有其原因和结果
这世上，没有无缘无故的爱
也没有无缘无故的恨

今天看“两会”新闻，说会议将审议九届人大常委会第７次会议提交的《西藏自治区人民代表大会关于设立西藏百万农奴解放纪念日的决定（草案） 》的议案。而西藏自治区人大常委会副秘书长庞伯解释说：“议案就是要让包括藏族在内的全体中华民族永远牢记５０年前西藏“民主改革”这一历史性事件，从此西藏百万农奴翻身得解放，挣脱了旧的封建农奴制度枷锁成为国家的主人。”

消息一出，网络上就有支持的声音了。说这事早该做了，而且建议大力宣传。是啊，翻身农奴年年在西藏庆祝这个，纪念那个，就是没有所谓的农奴日。早就应该有了!? But, Why, Why Now? Where is this bill coming from?

Last year, someone in the states suggested "...exile Tibetans should observe a Day of Solidarity and Unity. such ceremonial practice would help make emotional connections between younger and older generations as well as between Tibetans in exile and those inside Tibet." 记得去年年底，一位流亡藏人曾经建议为了显示对于境内藏人的支持，只用空洞语言来形容他们的牺牲是不够的。流亡藏人一定要积极地表达他们的尊敬，并且提供人道的援助。流亡藏人必须制定一个支持与团结的纪念日。因为纪念日不仅将会长久地维系这些分开来的家庭，而且也会给不同的世代带来情感上的连结，也会给境内与境外的藏人带来命运与共的感觉。

才几个月，外面民主的社会，似乎根本就没有讨论此事的迹象。但山这边的社会主义专政已在人大商讨类似议案了。不记得谁说的，加米虽然不能什么都是世界领先，但有超强的学习能力。看来真的是这样啊，倾听不同的声音，并付诸行动。

Lemon Tree

Because of Jerusalem I love Israel; because of Edward Said I always wanna go to Middle East. I believe, Israel is a country with unity of opposites. The long-lasting conflict in middle east is about political, ethical and about religious, there is no easy answer on the issue. But if only by reading, listening and watching so called news in a country where information and news were carefully selected by the centre government it makes things extremely easy to understand. However, the real world is more complicated than we learn from Chinese media. Therefore, I enjoy reading novels and watching movies more! The stories, that tell true stories from ground.



Lemon Tree, a great movie directed by Israeli Eran Riklis. It is about real life in Israel and Palestine. It is those little human stories behind the conflict. Indeed, so many such stories are happening in Tibet. In movie, all started with difference but connected by only one thing in common, own way of life.

Palestine vs.Israel
Ordinary Arab woman vs. Israel Minister of Defense (man)
Arabic vs. Hebrew
Lemon tree vs. National security
Protects families lemon tree vs. Cuts neighbors lemon tree
sort power vs. hard power
fence vs. wall
.....
After all, it is a story of asymmetric power relationship in a conflict. Though some people do believe, hard power is stronger and better than soft power to take a better position in a conflict. But not always true. Also like Great Wall or Berlin Wall, cannot never ever just keep things out....
Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet
but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat

War Is Over

at the end of each year, the overwhelming greeting messages with vary forms...
music is always a big part of it and I enjoy most
Happy Xmas by John Lennon, is always, but is not just a song

I wish, in the years to come...
No War
No Killing
No Fear
No Hunger
No... but people live free of ....

So this is Christmas
and what have you done
another year over
a new one just begun

and so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
the near and the dear ones
the old and the young
a very Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
let's hope it's a good one
without any fear

and so this is Christmas (war is over...)
for weak and for strong (...if you want it)
the rich and the poor ones
the road is so long

and so happy Christmas
for black and for white
for the yellow and red ones
let's stop all the fight

a very Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year
lets hope it's a good one
without any fear

so this is Christmas
and what have you done
war is over - if you want it

丰裕中的饥荒

如今生活，确切地说应该是物质生活越来越丰裕了
但为什么我们就越来越像“伊达” - 饿鬼呢？
如今的饥荒感
似乎要比爱尔兰大饥荒
更加真实
如此的不同却又如此惊人的相似
There is more in us than we know about. The famine, which happened 150 years ago. It's three lifetimes at most. Things that happen than were handed on from father to son, from mother to daughter, down to this day. They are within us now, and we don't deal with them. And it seems to me, this is what's interesting about a lot of Irish music now, that it is the carrier for this kind of feeling, and for this kind of emotion, that we have no other expression for it because politically we deny it, intellectually we deny it. Our literature ....... doesn't deal with this, our sentiment doesn't deal with this. But music, it's in the music, it seems to me. The culture can actually carry those things in al kinds of visible ways, in gesture, in movement, in language, in humour and in music.



Okay, I want to talk about Ireland
Specifically I want to talk about the "famine"
About the fact that there never really was one
There was no "famine"
See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes
All of the other food, meat, fish, vegetables,
were shipped out of the country under armed guard
To England while the Irish people starved
And then in the middle of all this
They gave us money not to teach our children Irish
And so we lost our history
And this is what I think is still hurting me

You see we're like a child that's been battered
Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's frightened
Still feels all the painful feelings
But they lose contact with the memory
and this leads to massive self-destruction
Alcoholism, drug addiction
All desperate attempts at running
And in it's worst formBecomes actual killing
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be rememberingAnd then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong

An American army regulation
Says you mustn't kill more than ten percent of a nation
'Cos to do so causes permanent "psychological damage"
It's not permanent but they didn't know that
Anyway during the supposed "famine"
We lost a lot more than 10% of our nation
Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration
But what finally broke us is not starvation
No it's use in the controlling of our education
School go on about "Black 47"
On and on about "The terrible famine"
But what they don't say is in truth
there really never was one

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
where do they all belong

So let's take a look can we
The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC
And we say we're a Christian country
But we've lost contact with our history
See we used to worship God as a mother
We're suffering from post traumatic stress disorder
Look at all our old men in the pubs
Look at all our young people on drugs
We used to worship God as a mother
Now look at what we're doing to each other
We've even made killers of ourselves
The most child-like trusting people in the Universe
And this is what's wrong with us
Our history books the parent figures lied to us
I see the Irish
As a race like a child
That got itself smashed in the face
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from
(That I can tell you in one word)
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong

And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding

And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding
We stand on the brink of a great achievement
In this Ireland there is no solution
To be found to our disagreements
By shooting each other

Because of our tradition everyone here knows who he is
and what God expects him to do

Forgiveness, forgiveness
Knowledge
Yes
And understanding

Forgiveness
Equate, be driven
Frogiveness
Knowledge
Yes
And understanding

Shall We Dance

Again! World AIDS Day! Just like a show-time everybody into the streets for leaflets and condom. If people were really care and concern, everyday should be AIDS day not just 1^st of December. HIV and AIDS is not just a health issue but a social issue; we are all part of it.....thus should work together! With one's friends, colleagues, wife, husband, child, community members....

As said, most intimate but probably most dangerous. So shall we dance, inside the condom...every time!

Is Anything Really Possible!

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer." - Chicago, Illinois 4 Nov 2008

Tonight, Obama and Amercian people made the history. No matter how bad and what people say about United States, it is a land of opportunity. I remember a Chinese moive had famous quote, it goes: 如果你爱一个人，送他去纽约，因为那里是天堂；如果你恨一个人，送他去纽约，因为那里是地狱。in translation, " If you love someone, send him to New York, for it's heaven; if you hate someone, send him to New York, for it's hell. " And I guess after today, most of people would love to live in US, as it is now. Anything is possible!

But then, I am wondering, is possible for an ordinaroy Tibetan be somebody in China? I don't know, really. I wish anything is possible all over the world. Be happy, be yourself, and be contributor to the society.

Eyes are the Windows of One's Soul

People of Cambodia

Ashes and Snow

Learn to dream with one eye open. - Gregory Colbert

Flesh to fire, fire to blood, blood to bone, bone to marrow, marrow to ashes, ashes to... snow.羽变火，火变血，血变骨，骨变髓，髓变尘，尘变雪。- Laurence Fishburne

caricature of Myanmar

We will deal with the protests in a correct manner”—Junta official

As always, we are closely watching events.

Monks march Against Myanmar Junta

Just few days ago, we had conversation about the role of monks in a modern society. Prof.Wang, strongly pointed out Tibetan monks in Tibet, especially with a level of power or influence are not doing enough to contribute to the social changes. In deed, to some extent he is absolutely correct. However, Buddhist monks, in places like Tibet, Burma, and Thailand are not just simply staying in monastery learning, praying and chanting but also playing an important role in social movements.

In Tibetan History, monks are always played a significant role, in deed; it is one of most influential group in Tibetan society. And similar, in Burma, monks have been at the forefront of past protests of British colonialism and military dictatorship, but have been kept on a tight leash by the current junta, which took power after violently quashing mass pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988.

Again, recently monks in Burma held an anti-government protest march and seized government officials and burned their vehicles. "We can't sit back and watch the people who sponsor us sink into poverty. Their poverty is our poverty as well," the unidentified monk added.

The marches were the latest in a series of antigovernment protests, which began Aug. 19 after authorities raised fuel prices by as much as 500 percent. The protests have continued despite the detention of more than 100 demonstrators and the rough treatment of others. At least 400 saffron-robed monks, walking in rows of two and three and cheered on by thousands of onlookers offering water, were locked out of Yangon’s famous Shwedagon Pagoda and then both the Sule and Botataung pagodas. After plainclothes police intervened, the monks sat in the street and chanted before returning to their monasteries.

Meanwhile, in the city of Bago about 50 miles away, another 1,000 monks marched peacefully to the Shwemawdaw Pagoda, residents said.

I hope, again hope, the government and the international community could offer a better solution that satisfy Burmese (civilians and monks)'s demands. I strongly feel that Burmese deserve a peaceful, happy and a quality life.