星期三, 四月 25, 2007
We went to Bardonecchia (again) this time with the school. Never knew the sun can be so glaring. :( The weather is super hot! And we walked alot taking photos for our assignment. We are suppose to select sites around the entrances and design some urban things for the sites. We also met the mayor! And had homemade sandwiches at a very pretty field facing the mountains and a soccer court.
nothing else matters on4/25/2007 12:55:00 上午
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星期二, 四月 24, 2007
Feeling really down these days. Have been having lots of restless moments by myself. Suddenly i felt an urge to totally space out, and evacuate to somewhere where no one knows me...I suspect it's because i haven't really got my usual private life for tooo long, and my patience to keep everything under control is running low.
I really tried, I did. To keep cool, to be compromising, not to insisting my own way. In fact i thought my temper these few months has been the best regulated
ever. But somehow it's still not enough. These few days when Cindy was sick I got worse, and a few times i almost flared up. I don't know why i'm such a difficult person to get along with. I really get mad easily. And this feeling of supppressing the anger inside makes me just makes me want to cry, but i can't. And i have no one to talk to, i can't talk to anyone.
I often thought of myself as a hypocrite...thinking how bad something is, yet only to realise that i precisely fit into that catogary of things. I'm such a fool. Really egoistic inside, yet unable to project the amount of confidence required to carry the ego. Really hate to do something, yet still keep doing it... My thoughts and my actions conflict each other. I'm so bad to myself, just keep lying, keep compromising inside. But is it really a good thing? No one would ever appreciate it, cox they never will know what i'm going through.
I know why my dad became a man of few words...because he was concerned that whatever he says is not exactly what he thinks...yet he can't control his delivery and he was irritated. He was worried of being misunderstood. Just a sensitive freak, all towards the wrong areas. At least he knows if he keeps his silence, people would not realise how
surprisingly sensitive he is. I just know.
nothing else matters on4/24/2007 04:57:00 上午
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星期日, 四月 22, 2007
Milan Fair 2007.
nothing else matters on4/22/2007 11:56:00 下午
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星期三, 四月 18, 2007
Life in Turin has been
unexpectedly lazy. I mean in terms of doing serious work. Throughout the 2+ months I've been here I feel like maccarone's prophesy is coming true. Really, I've been minding the most unimportant, taken for granted, matters since I'm here, such as trying to figure out what tutors are saying, what i should eat later for lunch, whether there's enough toilet paper in the house....I feel so ...domesticated.
Of course then I try to make myself feel more accomplished by thinking about the non-academic stuff that I'll done here such as paying the rents, pleading for my learning agreement and even little things like stepping into a shop and saying "ciao" to the shopkeeper, all these in an inglese italiano or more frankly, an
italiano inglese accent.
Many times I feel ignored, like not been treated seriously, especially when I'm asking for some information from people I don't know. I'd always wonder if there's something wrong physically with me? Or that I simply look like an idiot such that it's not worth answering my question. Anyways....it's always difficult to communicate with people who look so different from me.
nothing else matters on4/18/2007 05:33:00 下午
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星期五, 四月 13, 2007
EASTER HOLIDAYS!
Day 1: Pompeii...is a city that is buried in ashes. A really difficult place to walk on because of the many large boulders on the ground. Really sunny. A place of great civilisation since BC. A place full of arches, mountains and rocks.
I love the large amphitheature. We climbed all the way to the top it was so windy and so high. Could see the whole amphitheatre from here.
Day 2: we took a cruise to Capri, a small island off the shores of Naples. The journey is about 1 hour there. Luckily the weather was good. Capri is an island surrounded by mountains in the background and the sea in the foreground. It's really a self-contained town where the high-class shops are...like D&G and ferregamo. We ascended through the narrow little streets beside the houses to the market centre where we ate traditional italian food like a pizza but it's wrapped and the fillings are sandwiched between, and also a riso ball. Delicious!
Took a small boat to tour around the island and arrived at the grotto: where I took yet another even smaller boat with meihua, gan and yanling and we went into a tunnel inside the island. Inside we saw glowing blue reflections from the surface of the waters. It's actually the reflection of the sunlight hitting the water from underneath the rocks! Really nice....but the tiny boat is not exactly comfortable and the journey very short. Paid like 19euros in total for the 2 boats.
Day 3, 4, 5 and 6: ROME!
Took lots of photos with yanling my new bf...lols
Me and meihua were busy picking stones that look like hearts on the ruins of the roman forum...
We stumbled upon a heart shaped boulder on the way to the colosseum!
We went to the Vatican City, the place where the pope lives. The scale of the buildings are amazing. It's like a place for giants...
The cupola is the highest point of the St Peter's cathedral. After waiting for like 1 hour for the queue we went up 500+ steps to the top. There were 2 stops, the first we went to the top inside the cathedral. It was about 176m from the bottom and we could see the interior of St Peter's from a bird's eye view. Of course we were surrounded by fences. The second exit was to the exterior of the cupola. From the top, we could see the entire city of Rome.
Also the Sistine Chapel...despite the crazy crowd we manage to catch the famous ceiling done my Michaelangelo. The entire Vatican musuem is totally filled with loads of artworks...not just on canvases but also on walls and ceilings. At first we thought the ceiling was real but then we realise that it was actually ALL painted. They also paint the pillars and literally everything inside the building. We took thousands of photos.
nothing else matters on4/13/2007 11:34:00 下午
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