Qin Ge/ Qin Song : "The Fisherman" Liu Zong Yuan 極樂吟 [漁翁 柳宗元] 773年－819年11月28日

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAscx7j0t0A&t=4s

極樂吟 [極樂吟] [漁翁 柳宗元]

"The Fisherman" Liu Zong Yuan（773年－819年11月28日）

 

 漁翁夜傍西岩宿   曉汲清湘燃楚竹

 煙銷日出不見人   欸乃一聲山水綠

 迴看天際下中 流   岩上無心雲相逐

For full yaji with  presentations by attending  members

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF7cZdC2jwo

NY Qin Society 2022 Mid Autumn Festival Yaji

1 :25 :34  to 1 :37 : 45

7. Shuen-git Natasha Chow 周 旋 捷 – Singing of Jí Lè Yín 極樂吟 (Melody of Great Happiness) Lyrics by Liǔ Zōng Yuán (773-819) 柳宗元 詞 (10 minutes)

"baby factory"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHzNGdxzBGw

Gay couple adopting twins from an Indian "baby factory" | 60 Minutes Australia

Black persimmon seeds

 https://shopee.tw/%E9%BB%91%E6%9F%BF(%E5%B7%A7%E5%85%8B%E5%8A%9B%E5%B8%83%E4%B8%81%E6%9E%9C)%E7%A8%AE%E5%AD%90%E5%8C%85%EF%BC%88%E5%85%A7%E5%90%AB20%E7%B2%92%E5%A4%A7%E6%9E%9C%E6%89%80%E5%8F%96%E5%87%BA%E7%A8%AE%E5%AD%90%EF%BC%89%EF%BC%8C%E6%9D%B1%E6%9D%B1%E7%94%9F%E6%85%8B%E8%BE%B2%E5%A0%B4%E5%87%BA%E5%93%81-i.481221918.8798072387?sp_atk=8f9880e4-133a-4df5-8119-bebaf5b9c5ec&xptdk=8f9880e4-133a-4df5-8119-bebaf5b9c5ec

persimmon w seeds in Paris

AParis, à La Louve qui est une coopérative alimentaire dans laquelle il faut être inscrit pour pouvoir acheter
Mais je pense que chez Naturalia ou biocoop on peut en trouver

https://www.potager.biz/comment-faire-pousser-des-kakis-a-partir-de-graines/#comment-45582

Grow a coconut palm from a store bought coconut 🌴

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h7CdCsCeCE

Huang Qiu Yuan 黄秋园作品

Huang Qiu Yuan 黄秋园作品

http://www.chinashj.com/sh-jxdsh-ss/13938.html

bank adm officer, private great ink painter

Huang Qiu Yuan

Autumn Garden, or Clear Wind Old man

Yuja Wangs Hands - Pianist

 https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%BB%84%E7%A7%8B%E5%9B%AD/3749983

chocolate persimmon::grow Persimmons from seed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpjLdcBwF8

如何用种子种植柿子｜｜How to plant persimmon trees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF783JCqmAY

探訪台灣最甜水果?! 帶你認識奇蜜果與巧克力布丁果

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-kFzH1arA

這「 黑柿(巧克力布丁果)」再不套袋就來不及了！ 2022年7月3日

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgB161PFwjo

[ENG SUB] They Call It Chocolate Pudding Fruit...?!

https://www.potager.biz/comment-faire-pousser-des-kakis-a-partir-de-graines/#comment-45582

“RAINBOW” Dragon Fruit Harvest and Taste Test! A Dragonfruit With a VERY Unique Smell!   五彩肉火龍果    Rainbow Dragon fruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPrQtfTeFOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRRg4vseiXQ

What is a Persimmon?| Four Variety Comparison

https://hsoldbody.pixnet.net/blog/post/227928320-%E5%8F%88%E5%90%8D%E5%B7%A7%E5%85%8B%E5%8A%9B%E5%B8%83%E4%B8%81%E6%9E%9C%E7%9A%84%E9%BB%91%E6%9F%BF

looks pretty interesting, no mention of the taste

https://blog.xuite.net/yunshanfarm/twblog/brick-view/125590174

awful tasting chocolate kaki, hahhah, not sweet.  not a fruit he says... oh well...he did an extensive research w a field of trees;  3 to 5 yrs to get fruit, but not usable, taste not gd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUdzAxSzjY

Growing Persimmon tree from seeds 从种子种柿子

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMekH26R16Q

How to grow Persimmons from seed

https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005004862032423.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.seoads.6.37c5b266ed2n7Q&ad_pvid=20230304153330123922369058040017857701_3&s=p  mini vaccuum + blower 2 in 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGp1wrTiydc

I Visited a DRAGON FRUIT FARM *how they grow*

wild bananas

 There are 12 types of wild bananas of which 9 can be found in New Guinea, one in the Philippines, one in Malaysia and the last one apparently is of an unknown origin. The one found in Malaysia is called, " Pisang Emas " which in literal translation means ," golden Bananas" , and it can be found easily anywhere from markets to supermarkets or street vendors. It can be found in Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore including others parts of South East Asia. It's a common variety. It's extremely sweet and has a bright yellow skin.

Here's a link with more info :
http://slicesofbluesky.com/2009/08/eating-on-wild-side-pisang-mas-bananas/

Freya Casey : OVERTONE-FOCUSED VOCAL WARM-UP

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOE4mfqTpbU

OVERTONE-FOCUSED VOCAL WARM-UP

Day 1: Ambiance of the Everyday Day 0, Kleptomaniacs

  When I see people say there is a shortage of eggs on the shelves in supermarkets in Taiwan, or they show a photo of a cozy little window scene of a room w many organised cd, vintage vinyle records and home made indigo curtains, with some sun light coming through from the outside suggesting that there is a ground level garden, all this reminds me of a certain Secondlife sim. These settings and conditions have to do with a nostalgic 80s ambiance. Are the photos or words v well written, graphically aesthetically "right" ? No. Just the whole thing put together, it has the right sense of smell and time. My home never looked like this, nor have I lived through a lack of eggs on the shelf days, but just to be in the space for awhile, even in Secondlife, transports you to a slowness, a stability, a warmth that has nothing to do with vaste arrays of choices for the everyday for the anything, that is very rare today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0TybEjkH-s

Most interesting part is the Bonus, 25:36, when people get older they become cleptomaniacs (!) this doesnt mean they have suddenly converted themselves to thieving, it means they have a lost of impulse control... etc, cant control themselves, they go on automatic, they cannot evaluate when not to do certain things. They skinny flint you its because that is the way their habitual way to do "business", you are the target of their business, you are not working towards a goal together. They skinny flint you, its a power game that they have played all their lives. I understand this might be one of the reasons why they do what they do, what makes them tick, so to speak.

How to Root Dragon Fruit Stem From Store Bought Fruit Part 1 , pineapple

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtT2EA3HPk

How to Root Dragon Fruit Stem From Store Bought Fruit Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYMCdJmwds

How to Clone Graft a Dragon Fruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrUAtaEX5s

How to multiply a pineapple crown/top | Detailed method

Hong Kong film lists by memehongkong, Mr.Xiao YeYuan (Stephan Siu?)

 Hong Kong film lists by memehongkong, Mr.Xiao YeYuan (Stephan Siu?)

Issuu magazine, e publishing online, growing persimmons from seeds; germinate a mango from a seed, peanut, banana, okinawa purple sweet potato, oranges

how to grow mango; experimental garden no2; mango

https://youtube.com/shorts/Yv9chfkxbro?feature=share

 https://fliphtml5.com/learning-center/the-a-z-of-online-magazine-publishing/

https://online.fliphtml5.com/nnzkx/taqs/

https://www.homestead.org/gardening/growing-persimmons-from-seed/

https://www.mykitchengarden.info/2022/05/how-to-grow-persimmon-tree-from-cutting.html

How To Grow Persimmon from Seeds: Fuyu Persimmon Seed Germination and Growing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQuVXWShHrM

Professional Grower Exposes Fake Rose Propagation Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCMknp5XsbY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdHwoNzWp2I

Tubers will be large and abundant - If you grow sweet potatoes in a 

plastic basket with this medium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0igp5IzO21g

Turn ONE Sweet Potato Into 100 LBS Of Sweet Potatoes By Growing SWEET POTATO SLIPS! [Complete Guide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQB9bsb32VE

Growing orange tree from orange with water, propagate orange tree step by step

interesting w aloe vera gel sealed top and bottom hole, put into a jar of water, put another bottle over to seal as hot house.  leaves from top and roots from bottom, v amazing.  You sacrifice one orange and you get a tree in 15 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUUaxcRScjo

How To Grow a Mango Tree From Seed | SEED TO HARVEST

When Potted Mango Trees Flower...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smzv_5CjitE

trim flowers to save energy, or trim when little mangos are pea size

https://youtu.be/Smzv_5CjitE

Joyland ***half

 Joyland ***half

Very delicate sensitive film on local Pakistanese family, the struggles, the difficulties and everyday lives.

Womens positions in society what does it mean as a transexual person trying to do things for themselves, not to please an opposite sex.  Complicated, delicate and well defined in every turn of the story.

Only one point, as a woman who has a job outside the home when the husband have never found a job, she really doesnt mind, she doesnt want to stay home.  The young woman works at a salon for makeup, she wants her liberty, strong woman; shes able to kill a lamb when her soft sensitive husband is unable to.

Finally pregnant with a boy, but she drinks poison to liberate herself of this unending undesirable life ahead of her.  This part is a flaw in the script, as a strong women shown all along, understanding at the same time, she is a friend of her husband, but here we are, i am not convinced she would have taken her own life.  A woman pregnant w a new life and who has no unforseeable hell coming, she would not have been so discouraged to kill herself.  I do not believe this strong woman suddenly just drinks poison! Why?  She has a v friendly sister in law, she could give birth and leave the family shes not in prison.  Pregnant woman are invincible and full of fight and life, unless they are mentally weak to begin with, but this character was not shown as a weak person.  

Story is too lame here, it would have been much better if she continues w her strong character, we might not know the end of the story, but a pregnant woman properly married to a man she has sympathy for, without any terrible troubles, just does not drink poison and kills herself just like that.

Other than that, camera angles, acting all v v gd.

This makes me think, within a society, what kind of stories are possible?  You can only tell a story based on possibilities of the givens.  We would not believe that he leaves his wife w a new born baby boy, everybody is happy and the wife is now independant - she goes to work at the salon as usual, makes her own decisions, etc.  and he, he stays home to be the house husband drops the dancing job and marries his boss, a pretty transexual erotic dancer, now with a higher earning at clubs and a much better freer person. The husband not only does not work outside, he also earns the sentimental love of his former boss who is also a mistress, a transexual !  This type of combination would not occur in the set up of the film - its a setting in Pakistan not in some urban city with get with it deal with it culture -  ie as in the film Brazil on marginal people living their lives.

The setting allows only a certain type of story to be told.

Nice movie, well done.

fashion show, Louis Vuitton, right before the lockdown at the Louvre

 fashion show, Louis Vuitton, right before the lockdown at the Louvre 2021 ?

The person in the oval is me...

I played empress.  This is a group comprised of actors, and singers from many choir groups.

An original piece of music was created for the show.  The story line goes that all the characters in the paintings were alive and watching fashion show, and they are amazed and jealous at the same time of the beautiful outfits.

It is one of the most professional shoots i have attended.  Beautiful.

King of Kowloon 曾灶財 (Kowloon Emporer)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOwhU3_i_nw

35歲時揭開祖先秘密後 不斷在香港街頭寫上怪字 火災後卻消失蹤影？｜曾灶財｜原子檔案

Experimental Garden 2023 : Kumquat /day1, day 39

Day 39  15mar2023

100% germination

(had accident, the tray fell over when i moved it around, so I re-potted all the stuff, and discovered a lot of hidden seeds w germination starting, which was still not visible.  result: All 13 germinated)

Day 1  6feb2023

The most tasty kumquats i have tasted came from Guilin, paper thin skin, very sweet, and fragrant.  The vendors told me be careful, dont eat too much you will get an upset stomach.  I ate I think one pound, like grapes, skin and all.  I am sure I had kept the seeds to grow, but I dont have any records of it.

Now is the time.  :)

These are not as sweet nor paper thin skin, but still very very good.

Kumquat tea infusion with honey.  Very good for throat, for singing.

I watch a couple of youtubes - lots of diy videos - to see how to do the seeding properly, you must peel the husk from the seeds, so they germ easily, and you should rinse the seeds clean.  Which I did not do, so i removed two seeds and peeled them.  Just to see if they do germ faster.

 

"tar" w Cate Blanchett, 2022****

 "tar" the movie w Cate Blanchett, 2022****

Great actress. As the film progress, we see more and more inner workings of the world, at many levels. All adults must negoticate all these various points of contacts w the self. From family, children, lovers, jealousy, aging being always looking or being attracted by new younger fresher love, how men have been dealing with these same issues but w much less punishments... the whole movie is v succinct, it does not need to waste time on verbalising these issues.

What a challenging role to play, and such a great actress.

The Hidden Man 《邪不压正》2018

 

The Hidden Man 《邪不压正》2018  *** half

《邪不压正》彭于晏、廖凡、周韵、许晴、泽田谦也、安地、姜文主演

Stylish, the actor Peng Yuyan is very handsome and fluid.  He has a v beautiful body and moves very well on the chase, running away scenes on roof tops.  The movie is very aesthetic, some dialogues are humorous and curt, however this type of charm even though dispersed through out the movie, does not make the movie a strong story telling vehicle.

Near the end, it is dragging.  The fight scene in the stone court yard is especially unbelievable, waste of time.  You point the gun and I point gun but no one shoots, but walks around in circles.  This standard face off scene has been used so much, especially in kung fu movies, its not doing much.

The two main women characters are both pretty eye candies, one clean and undercover agent, a fashion stylist.  The other mistress of the big boss, sexy also undercover of a sort.

No true sexy scene nor romance, the story is a running list of actions beautiful shots.  And some cheeky references to the buttock, not sexy nor funny nor anything.  Its used as a gimmick to sexiness, or erotic themes. But insufficient.

Peng Yuyan with the beautiful body is shown nude running in a sheer bathrobe on roof top.  Once again, very nice images.  If you want to sell this, need more closeups and better pretext, let us see w more muscles, sweat, etc.

His facial acting is a mix of american expressions w chinese verbal language, awkward to negotiate.  Not v smooth as one character, he was not convincing as a doctor - doctors are not timid and shy type, they work on the body - nor as a spy.  V strange, a movie w such a gd looking actor, how could it have been more convincing?  Is there something to do w the script? could the story be tweaked more to make it fit the foreign brought up young man who could avenge his shi-fu?  (master/father)  Script has some problems.

Anyway, this movie to me, is about aesthetics and it has achieve this.

Still the movie is very attractive, I had wanted to see a Jiang Wen movie, so this one is like as i described.