Photo---Reduce Expenditure/ 節流

For traveling around the world ~

I cutoff lots of desire and greed for buying cameras, clothing, ....

:)))) hope this could endure for a while......

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本來最近很想來一台120的底片機說....
ha, 不過一回想起旅行的愉快與刺激,
這些 lilicoco 的消費慾望著實減低很多!
(^^" 還是....其實該買的也早就都買得差不多了??!)
書....大概是戒不掉的花費, 不過 ^^ 這次趁書展打折, 折現金, & 花旗卡滿1388打8折買的....
8本書也夠翻一陣子了 XDDDDDDD
加上 amazon 一堆免費的經典文學 電子書 也是可省下很多$$
(大概要看20本免費書就可以算是回收成本了 XDDDD)

喔, 說到電子書, 最近翻了一下愛麗絲夢遊仙境(Alice's Adventure in Wonderland),
不知是我以前看的中文版太精簡了還是怎樣,
這次看原文書時, 我對這小女孩的樂觀感到....訝異,
她藉由自言自語可以很快的轉換心境耶!!!!! (^^" 我哪天也來試試好了)

最後, 再推薦一本有趣的書: 我睡了81個人的沙發

那天只是為了等相片館把我的底片弄好,
到誠品殺殺時間,
走到旅遊書區時, 被這本書的封面 & 書名吸引,
想說: 是有81個小故事描述81張沙發的經驗嗎???? XDDD 這....
anyway, 從 chapter 1開始, 不自覺就把書翻完了 ^^""""""
作者由我們都經歷過 or 正經歷著的事件:
升學,  完美的人生計畫: 小學, 中學, 大學, 工作, 28結婚, 30生子, ......
切入,
我們常常感到徬徨,
心中常常浮現的念頭: 放下擁有的一切, 藉由自我放逐來認識自己....
作者分享了她自我放逐的心歷路程, 有趣(驚險)的經歷...
可能是一樣都是7年級生,
她的用字與一些想法 and OS 讓我在書局裡像癡漢般.... 忽然就一陣笑 XDDDDD
很有趣的書~
啊~~~~  我也要 gap year~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` :P


/*** 20 Feb, 2011 **********************************************************************/

今天第一次注意到這本書的英文 title 是 : The Disappeared Year
:-) 跟中文的名稱很不一樣;

the disappeared year, 實在很有趣 :))))
是她在台灣親友眼裡消失的一年,
是她放逐自己迷失自我的一年,
也是尋獲本來已在自己生命中被快轉過且再也不會出現的一年~

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補上 博客來網頁上 的一段介紹文:
"這本書記錄的，其實是一個很簡單的故事，關於一個二十四歲的女孩，獨自在歐洲流浪十四個月。

「流浪」，這兩個字對台灣人來說，充滿了不切實際的輕狂和浪漫幻想。如果流浪的意義就是在於花很多錢，跑到很遠的地方，跟一個外國人談戀愛，和俊美的荷西談一場刻骨銘心的愛情。如果流浪的意義就是在於花很多錢，跑到很遠的地方，跟一個外國人談戀愛，莫怪許多台灣的家長都無法理解孩子一心嚮往流浪的心態。

台灣長大的小孩，從小到大什麼也不缺，唯一缺乏的，其實是和自已相處的時間。從出生的那一刻開始，家人，兄弟姊妹，鄰居，老師，同學，電視節目，隨時隨地陪在我們身邊，隨時都在教導我們這個社會的價值觀，我們不懂得和自己相處，也不會處理寂寞。一剛開始我們以為，爸媽喜歡的東西就是我喜歡的東西，長大一點以後，同學喜歡的東西就是我喜歡的東西，再過一陣子，男朋友喜歡的東西就是我喜歡的東西，我們一直在尋找一個天，一個目標，一個信仰。

學生時代的目標很簡單，建中北一女就是我們的信仰，全班第一名就是我們的信仰，同學喜歡你就是我們的信仰，打扮得像蔡依林就是我們的信仰。我們忙碌著，像幫女王蜂採蜜的工蜂一樣，每天忙得團團轉，我們以為我們在做自己喜歡做的事情，我們從來不想停下來仔細問問自己，這是否真的就是我真正想要的？

　　我們的社會不容許停頓，我們的父母從小希望我們贏在起跑點上，我們已經習慣放學就去補習班報到，成績單一發下來心裡就計算著自己贏了還是輸了，不管情不情願，對於比別人慢一步這回事，充滿了恐懼。因為根本沒有機會跟自己相處，所以我們很難真的認識自己，直到有一天突然一覺醒來，赫然發現自己大學畢業了，念了二十年的書，卻好像沒有地方可以發揮，覺得自己滿腹的才華，卻好像沒有伯樂懂得賞識，更甚的，好手好腳，卻不知道自己存在的意義是什麼。"

Music-- La Noyée/自溺

Photo--- Chilly & Rainy Day

It's a chilly and  rainy day.......

and I am going to go back to my dorm....

And I am really like to take the new key of the Photo Club's dark room.....

There are about 20 Black-and-White films still lie on my table (crying)~

/**** 20 Feb, 2011 ***********************************/
I got the key yesterday, finally.
And hang out with two (a couple) of the member of Photo-Club :)))
That's a great night, even though I was absolutely the third wheel ^^a

Photo--- Cherry Blossom

It's my fist time to shoot Blossoms~

There are so....o many similar photos/copies about this subject: flower,

And I always sniff at these works.....

ha~ hello, Mr. Sniff-at, I'm here.....

Paint--- Nicoletta Ceccoli

 Nicoletta Ceccoli's Website  & FaceBook
>> Nicoletta Ceccoli is an Artist and Illustrator from the Republic of San Marino, Italy.

Paint--- The Tree of Life/Klimt

ref
"

The Tree of Life

1909

by Gustav Klimt

The Tree of Life is an important symbol in nearly every culture. With its branches reaching into the sky, and roots deep in the earth, it dwells in three worlds- a link between heaven, the earth, and the underworld, uniting above and below. It is both a feminine symbol, bearing sustenance, and a masculine, visibly phallic symbol- another union."

ps.
feminine (女性的): conventionally associated with women
sustenance: Food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment
masculine (男性的): of traditional manly character
phallic (陰莖的, 陰莖崇拜的):  of phallus: relating to or resembling a phallus

I met Klimt last October as traveling in Vienna, 

I love his "gold leaf" works :))))))

ref

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so bought some post cards of his masterpiece to home

(it's the most economical choice ^^a )

hope you would like his paints

Movie-- Pope Joan/聖袍天下：驚世女教皇 (2009)

IMDb
"A 9th century woman of English extraction (英國血統) born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises (偽裝, 裝扮) herself as a man and rises through the Vaticanv (梵諦岡) ranks (an official position)."


Amazon
"One of the most controversial (爭論的) women of history is brought to brilliant life in Donn Woolfolk Cross's (小說作者) tale of Pope Joan, a girl whose origins (出身) should have kept her in squalid (髒的) domesticity ((家庭)生活). Instead, through her intelligence, indomitability (不屈不饒) and courage, she ascended (登上) to the throne of (寶座) Rome as Pope John Anglicus.



The time is 814, the place is Ingelheim, a Frankland village. It is the harshest winter in living memory when Joan is born to an English father and a Saxon mother. Her father is a canon (教士), filled with holy zeal (狂熱, 熱誠) and capable of unconscionable cruelty (指 會做出一些極度(讓人無法理解的)殘忍/酷行為). His piety (虔誠) does not extend to his family members, especially the females. His wife, Gudrun, is a young beauty to whom he was attracted beyond his will--and he hates her for showing him his weakness. Gudrun teaches Joan about her gods, and is repeatedly punished for it by the canon. Joan grows to young womanhood with the combined knowledge of the warlike Saxon gods and the teachings of the Church as her heritage (命運, 天命). Both realities inform her life forever.


When her brother John, not a scholarly type, is sent away to school, Joan, who was supposed to be the one sent to school, runs away and joins him in Dorstadt, at Villaris, the home of Gerold, who is central to Joan's story. She falls in love with Gerold and their lives interesect repeatedly even through her Papacy(當教皇的時期). She is looked upon (被(信徒們)仰望; 想像他剛被宣布為教宗, 登基時, 站在台上受眾人敬拜的場面) by all who (Gerold) know that she is a woman as a "lusus naturae(Latin)," a freak of nature. "She was... male in intellect, female in body, she fit in nowhere; it was as if she belonged to a third amorphous sex." Cross (苦難) makes the case over and over again that the status (身分, 地位) of women in the Dark Ages was little better than cattle(牲口). They were judged inferior in every way, and necessary evils in the bargain.


After John (Joan的二哥) is killed in a Viking (維京人的) attack, Joan sees her opportunity to escape the fate of all her gender (性別). She cuts her hair, dons (put on) her dead brother's clothes and goes into the world as a young boy. Gerold is away from Villaris at the time of the attack and comes home to find his home in ruins, his family killed and Joan among (In the company of) the missing. After the attack, Joan goes to a Benedictine monastery (男修道院// convent 女子修道院), is accepted as a young man of great learning, and eventually makes her way to Rome."


附註:
ha, 有認真的把簡單名詞翻譯加上去~


開眼電影
"一千一百多年前，羅馬天主教會一位女扮男裝、懷孕生子的教皇懸案，浮上檯面…，本片改編自唐娜伍佛柯羅思全球暢銷小說，以驚心動魄的影像，呈現一段融合性別與宗教的波盪。 

西元814年的歐洲中古時代，當時女性飽受社會的歧視與種種限制。約漢娜（喬漢娜沃卡萊克 飾）是一位擁有英格蘭血統的女子，她誕生於一個德國平凡的家庭。從小，她在教士父親重男輕女的觀念下長大，但，憑著過人的才智、膽識，約漢娜女扮男裝，頂替早逝的哥哥進入修道院。 

雖然冒著被揭發的危險，但約漢娜還是以卓越醫術獲得教皇的信任。至此，她深知自己身負重任，更毅然放棄兒女情長和女性身分，決定永遠在眾人面前當一個男性。 

一連串的政治、權力鬥爭，女扮男裝的她，都一一衝破難關，終而登上教廷的最高位階。然而，成為萬眾景仰教皇的她，卻仍難抵擋真愛的呼喚—，未來的教皇之路，又會萌生什麼變數呢…?"