projects...

bookworm's clientle is getting much better looking than i remembered. some are even freshly sanfran-ish bohamian cute. all changes are good, esp. from uniformity to diversity of people types in bj, very much needed for the wellbeing of, oh well, me, if other's don't care.

i am now in the middle of a life spent exploring an elusive territory, a homeland hidden right in the middle of today's "global village". beijing as epicenter starts alienateing me. in a state of confusion and courage challenging the basic institutions that order our lives, beijing has been a seemingly self-governed monopoly gambling ground. but frankly now i am tired of the number-dropping name-dropping game.

i have wished to stay in most places i have traveled: SF, milan, paris, london, stockholm, kopenhagen, new york, amsterdam, kyoto, kunming... dreaming of opening, together with likeminded, a used reocrd shop, a cozy book cafe, an organic foodstore, an internet-order flower shop, a musicstudio in woods, a magazine about nothing particular,,,In beijing, i talk with like-goaled business comrades about 20million animation film, VIP travel agency that caters to "china's cream of the cream", international tv prgrams that bring the world to chinese household with best CPP. what a feeling of liberation that you dont need to be a big shot to talk about big bucks! deceptive victory granting nothing been promised, thats liberation with chinese charactaristics.

it is always the person, not the place. i own the right to doubt it. in a city where pedestrians have no right, you want to drive a car with an extra turbo engine.

watch out, shanghai, i am coming. break some legs!

酹江月（严子陵钓台)
浮生有几，叹欢娱常少，忧愁相属。富贵功名皆由命，何必区区仆仆。燕蝠尘中，鸡虫影里，见了还追逐。山间林下，几人真个幽独。
谁似当日严君，故人龙衮，独抱羊裘宿。试把渔竿都掉了，百种千般拘束。两岸烟林，半溪山影，此处无荣辱。荒台遗像，至今嗟咏不足。