All about Betty Wu

Hope you get enough food and clothes there!
And looking forward to seeing you in the country!

And blogger, too!
Welcome back to China!


(11.14) Youtube is blocked again... What happened? Was it my delusion or some aliens helped me yesterday?

Turned out the "alien" is named Barack Obama...

"Photographers continue to go out into the world, in order to photograph live today. Their motives and their methods vary--color or B&W, light-weight 35 mm vs. heavy-weight view camera, film vs. digital. But what they have in common is a watchful attentiveness to the world and its ways. They see the things we miss or don't think about, and then report back, so that we have a chance to think again."

"...that seems to me that photographers are angels, not God. Their job is not to creat from nothing, but to better understand what is created and to better see the world, so that the world is coherent as meaning, as consequence, as significance.  But photography is to built this out of the facts that we all know by walking in dirty streets, living in dirty air. You're not permitted like philosophers or theologians to fly off into the abstract, and I think , frankly, that's what has made photography into something of more than usual importance right now. "(Robert Adams)

I heard these words in a 2006 National Geography program. They made me think of my dear little feline friend.

It's been a nice day for me. I had friends, near or far; I had families by my side, I felt better from the illness, I ran in the sun(to chase a bus), I got emails from Linda, and I had dinner for free (roommate's gift).

I wish Betty can still be the brave (hope not reckless) girl who's not afraid of throwing away a nice drawing she's just done.
I wish she continues surprising herself in a constructive way.
I wish she's ready for change, whether it's good or bad.
I wish she never pronounces "pear" like "pier" again.
I wish she reads more books next year.
I wish all these wishes come true.

So if you have American friends who want to learn the third tone in mandarin, tell them it's like the "haw" in "hee-haw" (donkey's language).

I learned this today =)