七 步 城 思 Life is beautiful Life is a struggle Life.... is a beautiful struggle (A line by John Coltrane. I learned it from the ’Marxism festival 2006’ in London)

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生日快乐啊！！
为最后一段，hand一下！！

遲來的祝福，生日快樂喔！

看那些照片，讀你的描述，好嚮往呢！

“最好的禮物可以是無形的，最好的地方也可以在心裡。”讚！

Hi Pan,

I don’t know that you like historical sites, in this case your study in the UK will be very rewarding.

I have also picked up the hobby of strolling along ancient city walls, ranging from the Great Wall of China, the medieval town of Rothenburg in Germany and the city wall of Avila in Spain. Their suprisingly similiarity with Macao’s cobbled stone alleys is one of the reasons why I liked to travel to historical sites. There is an unique historical identity that distinguishes them from other cities, I think.

I was in London in March this year, although I didn’t have time to visit Bath. The first picture is Bath Abbey and the second Roman spa, I think? Is the third picture a sundial?

I heard that Jane Austen is a former resident of Bath too...

Regarding your last question on the esthetics of Japanese male, it doesn’t come as a surprise to me at all. It is not the case that all Japanese males have their eyebrows trimmed. It is only that Japanese have got a more systematic way to commercialise the esthetic needs of the population, just like the west. That is why we see Richard Gere’s photo everywhere advertising male esthetics. Some singers like Gackt are also very popular, and I heard that he has got some fans in HK too. Having male actors/singers who possess female qualities indicate the range of acceptability level of the audience, don’t you think so?

Bath looks gorgerous! Too bad that I have never been there.

My husband’s birthday is coming soon and yes, we’ll spend our time in europe :P

karen & 江郎,
其實我是個山羊座,生日已經過了很久.
最後上載的文章太硬,所以才跟大家分享一些心情與照片呀.
anyway,謝謝你們!!

CL,
是呀,我喜歡古城,因為舊的東西總是有生命的呀.
東方古城我獨愛京都--去了京都我會想出家;
西方的我最愛波蘭的KRACOW(克拉科夫)--在那裡時我曾想過不如留下來在某間咖啡店當個侍應好了!
全猜對了,那是巴庫大教堂,古羅馬浴池跟日晷.
其實,巴庫的河邊還有點佛羅倫斯的味道呢!
而巴庫的確是JANE AUSTIN曾經居住的地方,
當時也有JANE AUSTIN的WALKING TOUR呢.

SC,
因為有特別的感情,我很推薦巴庫呢.
由於認識它的人不多,它比牛津劍橋更能帶來驚喜!!
祝旅途愉快!

I am just curious, it seems that your perception of Poland is very different from mine.

Although I have never been to Poland before, from what I can see in Polanski’s ”PIANIST,” Warsaw is utterly destroyed by Nazi’s invasion in WWII, except for one building. I am not sure how much Kracow can perserve the buildings from the bombs in WWII.

The temples in Kyoto bear certain wabi-sabi elements which can be related to the Japanese asthetic philosophy of tea memory and flower arrangement. It has got minimalism in the architecture.

London is a very expensive city to live, even more expensive than Tokyo I would say, as it costs GBP2. for a UK Tube ticket but it costs only JPY130 for a railway ticket in Tokyo. Nevertheless, the Broadway shows, English dramas, UK rock music, chamber/classic music, organ music in the church, free museums, etc. is not what I can find in Canada, for example.

British culture has got certain charms in its humour, although the food tasted really bad, except the haggis and Scotch egg, perhaps.

醉人的情調
窩心的一刻
勝過一切庸俗的生日慶祝節目

展鵬生日快樂!

要沒有順便去泡一下呀? 當然是泡澡囉.

遲來的生日祝福~
祝你每日快樂!!

看到你去走古堡，想起了前兩年去了里斯本工作，順道自己就到處逛。到了Jeronimos Monastery逛，剛好那天人不多，到了它中心的花園自己坐在一角看著天空的感覺，真的好棒。我也是很喜歡去古堡、古墳(其實我對美麗的墳場很有興趣的，因為一定很靜很美，所以常去舊西洋墳場，不過暫未有打算長留...@@)、古廟、等。總之是舊的地方我都喜歡。

說遠了..怎麼又說起自己來了...@@”

雖然不太了解這兩年什麼事讓你會有流淚的衝動，只希望每天都有令你想大笑的幸福。

對了，沒有更多的照片嘛?!

CL,
是呀,KRAKOW正是唯一一個不受二戰破壞的波蘭古城,非常珍貴呀!不過,我是三年前去的,現在不知道會變成怎樣了.因為,同是東歐古城的布拉格在經濟開放後就變得非常的觀光化.
我覺得,京都的古廟有一種令人沉思的美.我好想再去呀.
是的,倫敦的文化的確豐富,不過一想到驚人的物價就叫人怕怕.而且,這高物價又與英國跟美國結盟有關,總之令人心裡不是味兒就是了.

眉間尺:
真不好意思了,一個一月生日的人勞煩大家在十一日恭賀,哈哈.

JERRY,
沒有呀,當時沒有泡,因為真正可以泡的BATH在整修呀.

嵐影,
謝謝呀!!我下一個生日都快到了.
葡國是一直在我的旅行計畫中,只是一直沒把它放在優先位置.當年看過一部溫德斯的《里斯本的故事》,早已被它深深吸引.
其實我是常哭常笑的人,感情是比較豐富吧.有關這一點,我有時並不十分喜歡.

很遺憾地，猜錯了你的生辰。我真笨，早就應該想到你生日的時候不會留在澳門。
聽到你說去旅行，心裏羨慕得很，像你這樣，可以叫做流浪嗎？我也多麼想像你一樣獨自地去旅行，但係我邊度打邊度都唔知，夜晚自己一個又驚鬼，點算啊？

SAO SAN
不用猜了,年紀大的人想要生日安靜一點,哈哈.
這也不能叫流浪吧,像我有朋友辭去工作在亞洲各國走了九個月,這才叫流浪吧.至於自己一個人的旅行,其實是要慢慢培養膽量的.例如,可以從香港開始,再去廣州台北等,再去治安好一點的外國如日本,這樣就可以了呀!沒那麼難的.

不用猜了,年紀大的人想要生日安靜一點,哈哈.
--------->哈哈，絕對同意! 記得以前挺喜歡跟一大堆人用餐唱歌慶祝，現在反而想無拘無束的全然享受這一天。

自己一個旅行感覺會特別full的，不知為何。不過說難不難也真的因個人而已。就像我，就得考慮家人的憂慮了...

下輩子當男人好了~ .\_/.

嵐影,
信我啦!!你自己建立信心之後,慢慢說服家人就好了.我當時也花了一些時間令家人放心呢.
其實,我遊歐美時不時見到一些日韓的女孩打單泡旅行,她們做得到,中國女孩應該沒問題呀!

展鹏：
好久不见，送给您迟来的祝福——生日快乐！
其实生日那天发生的一切或者是自己感受到的一切都是最真的礼物，不是吗？！您是个懂得享受每一刻的人，所以特别的礼物您总能得到，lucy好羡慕您！

DEAR LUCY,
哎呀,我只是想分享一些心情跟照片,想不到惹來有史以來最遲的祝賀,謝謝.
我也不知道我是否懂得享受每一刻,不過,試著笑得更開懷一點就是了!這不用羨慕的,這世上沒什麼東西比笑更容易學,試試找那讓你笑的泉源就好了.

我忘了你生日的時候有沒有同你慶祝？

其實今年生日我刻意不想慶祝的,
想過一個安靜的生日嘛!

明年的生日，會在澳門過嗎？

SAO SAN,
大概不會了,正準備一月初回英國一趟!

看完了文字

看完了照片

我跟你那一段時間

一起哭了~

HIHIHI,很久不見了! 好嗎?
去年的生日真有點戲劇性,大概一輩子都記得.
今年的生日倒是很平靜地愉快.