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1 week before San Juan/ 1 semana antes de San Juan

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The Spanish festival San Juan is around the corner. Each year people of this country celebrate the shortest night of year, or the arrival of high summer in different ways. Famous east coast, like Barcelona , opens seaside for bonfires and fireworks, so it’s ideal to spend a short night and wait for a beautiful sunrise. Yesterday in underground I spotted this advertisement of local metro/ railway services: NO PARA, NO PARA, NO PARA, means Nonstop, nonstop, nonstop. Since normally public transport runs overnight only on Saturdays and special events, this reminds people they will have same convenience to travel as they like this year on that magically fire-lighted night. Well, the design of a subway train (Metro) and a long-distance train (Renfe) running on a Moebius Strip can be no simpler: (though a little bit horrible that they might crash), the idea that there is no end of their way comes out quite straight. Yet I could not help thinking directly of the incident on San Juan last
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Peng's metaphor

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It was wonderful working with my dearest movie friends, and after all the bloody hardworking afternoons, we met the hero finally one summer evening. Peng has a typical figure as the well known '山东汉子'(Shandong men, as in China known for generous character, honest, straightforward, tall and strong). What not surprised me at all were his words. Now he had a new partner, he thanked me for helping translating,  and humbly asked me if his image was tidy and polite enough on big screen. I said: dont worry, your sense of humor and your Chinese character are beyond many. Actually his name shall be Pengfei, which means a flying roc and shall appear as above in the passport, yet we don't know why years after years it came into Peng, a single syllable name, most probably just because that the immigration officers separated the two words and never repaired it again. His camera brings us many that we've not seen. He captured spring sunshine, bees buzzing among wild flowers when th
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autumn's coming

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visited Dali museum last Sunday. among all, i especially liked this serial of water color paitings. it's all sweet! the coulorful things, of christmas trees, butterflies and lady's dresses would really make you feel happiness, like a wonderful bedroom full of dolls and toys for a child. it was the first of august, the PLA day, the first time that i went on excursion with my new flatmate , and the last sunday before autumn of 2010! anyway, impressive dali and the castle of figueres.the castle had a pentagon shape, and we even saw deers! amazing landscape at the top of the mountain.
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