Made this collage card for a friend who has never been to China but has lots of curiosity for it.
Cheongsam is a start I guess.

The color of Cheongsam was not drawn. I used vintage paper instead.
Unfortunately the overall impression is not as good as I thought. So not sure whether to give it away yet.

回来后在列2012计划的时候,
反反复复地写了很多,只是觉得不论如何去计划,却知道自己在实现之后不会有种充实感.

脑海里总是有种如Jules Verne 笔下的主人公一样环游世界八十天的冲动
想离开,想遭遇一段段新的人生.


在Revolutionary Road里,主人公计划着去巴黎,是逃避,是抗争,是解脱,是新生?
觉得自己与TA们无所分别.

感觉于很多自己真正与很想在乎的事情与人却无从计划.

Feeling I am at the crossroad right now.

从国内回来以后,便一直不停地梦见旅行,
经常在梦里等待出租车,寻找火车站,去机场,在陌生国度里踟蹰街头,焦虑,不安,不知所措.

很晚的时候会忽然醒来,有种想与世隔离的冲动.

那些饱满对生活与人群的热爱的时候会在这些梦境之后通通消失.

加拿大的朋友写信来对我说:Live each instance of the day, enjoy the people you
meet since it is they who are the mortar between the bricks.

我亦多么希望自己可以如TA所说一样去生活.

Arrived in Xiamen yesterday morning and was driven straight to the factory from the airport. I loved Xiamen a lot based on my first impression. The factory I visited was very 80's style . It somewhat reminded me of some settings used in wang An Yi's novel. 

The weather in Xiamen is much warmer than Shanghai area. The breeze along the water bank was very soothing. I wanted to visit Gulang Island, but the ferry was very busy and it was as if all the people were emigrating to the island.So I went to the local vegetable market instead.

 It was quaint at the beginning but soon the scenes of animal blood such as fish and chicken and the smell of seafood and poultry and people made me feel so dizzy that I had to walk away.But before I left I went into a small shop and bought a traditional bowl. The bowl was small but the color was lovely. I wondered how far it had travelled before being put on the shop shelf.

Xiamen is very different from what I imagined. There is so much contrast among the places I was taken to yesterday and the places I went to today. It is now very hard for me to describe this place because the impressions I have got do not stack up. Some part is extremely modern or even luxurious, some part extremely old, and some part extremely poor and barren.

But overall I feel people here are here for living. I was told there are far less migrant workers here than cities like Dongguan and Guangzhou area. Like in the factory I visited  most workers are locals and they all seem to work to stay, instead of working to leave. 

I was fortunate to have a glimpse of the different residential areas in this city. I think I was glad to be here overall.maybe it is not the most modern city you can find in China, it certainly will be one of the cities that you are glad to have passed by.