From Paris to The Netherlands

I wanted to put it as a 6 , however , in reality , the people I still have contact after the trip , I would call a 3 …

Saco – It was really a coincidence that twice I asked this person for the direction in the same day , I believe if people are meant to meet , they would just meet … I think that’s a pretty nice dutch guy , good looking of course , I only make friends with good looking people , that’s the rule J I had a great time even after the trip to berlin, it was amazing that at that moment , I felt so right , what could you say , sometimes , I’m just a moody feeling follower …  

Miki – Meeting Miki was also a coincidence, we stayed in the same hotel and the atmosphere was just so right to start the conversation from Hijema mashita ( nice to meet you in japanese ) , my very weird looking always make people think I’m a japanese . We hang out together the day after , and I told her about  my great german colleague who’s a fans of japanese girls and my new friend Saco , girls are easily to get along sometimes , not to mention that we both are just fantastic J I spent an entire day trip with Miki , 3 museums and one typical german lunch , the only thing missing was we wanted to go to the same concert , but tickets sold out , saying goodbye at night , I know we’ll meet again online .

Roald – was not quite sure how to write his name. It was just amazing to meet someone like him in the train back to Holland , I would say. I saw him passing by , this guy looks too good , at one moment ,I even felt too shy to look at him … As I was too tired on the way back , enjoying my The Corrs , and never think he would just take the seat next to me and started the first question … The surprising point is he said ‘ I would recommand you a book ‘ the kite runner ‘ , damm ,I was just holding this book in my bag and recommanding it to a lot of others , I showed him the book , we laughed out … he said he visits paris sometimes for the weekends, I recommanded Shakespear’ bookstore , told him about the great man George ; he said he’s living no where for the time being , I felt this guy is rather interesting , not only because he looks so good . I told him about the Kite runner movie is under shooting in xinjiang China instead of Kabul , Afghanistan, he told me the same writer has just came out with his 2^nd book about Afghans . There was one moment , I got stuck , being slient , nothing to say , and I know when I have nothing more to say , I have something in mind. He said he’s going to Zurich , I pretended not to know where Zurich is , just to let him explain , sounds rather silly , and what can I say , sometimes , the crush just happened … I was very much feeling bad that I can’t see him anymore , and really didn’t wanna get off in Amersfoort, when getting off the train , I told myself ‘ if we’re meant to meet again , we’ll just meet again in life , we never know … ‘   

Before entering check-point, I standed at this border of Esat Berlin and West Berlin for an half hour, the Starbucks coffee at the coner , nice german guy in the early morning of germany, he told me the story of berlin wall, I ran into the museum at the first moment when it opened, starting my east-west berlin trip… Escape is the mother of invention, I can’t help myself to pic this slogan, escaping from your own country to your own again !!! What an ironic period,The American in, the british in, the French in; The soviet Russian took over half of the city, the Berliners out , mentally. Escaping could be a good venture for decades for Berliners,in car, in suitcase!!! On boards … whatelse was on that we don’t know yet? What would you think when seeing the 60s something grandma climb down the windows from east berlin , staring at the wall guards, beseeching his favor to let go ?

Eastern German life in my thoughts was very much similar to Polish life,I remember in 2005,my attention was driven by a polish guy in school for a couple of months,different mind-set thing, different culture thing attracted me to get to know this person more,nothing really happened btw him and me but the nice conversation,I was listening , smiling and nodding, another nice person passing by in life. DDR is an apartment style museum,as a visitor , we’re allowed to open the drawers and see some streche of the eastern paper work, legal documents,a small documentary movie was on in the museum,house providing in eastern part,what china was experiencing in the early 1990s,maybe all the countries have had the same trace to grow, maybe it’s just a question of when it’s on, maybe all the world history is just repeating and repeating ???

( pics from the official site of pergamon , since I didn't want to take any pics in such an amazing museum :) ) I went there with Miki,a nice Japanese girl I’ve met on the way, at 9h30 we passed by Beliner Dom, finding a nice coffee nearby Pergamon,a boutique aside presents nice art nouveau designate that moment , Miki and I behaved,apprx, as some girls at age 12, WOWing right in front of closed shop window, clapping … Back to the museum, Pergamon is famous for its Ishtar gate from Babylon, for its incredibly Greek sculptures( it’s strange that I do not like portrait, but very much into sculptures).Never take any pic in an arty museum is my rule, they’re too beautiful to be taken in pics,I was always feeling that taking the pic of a nice sculpture is taking their soul out, sounds very silly, I do know, but they’re just too precious to be in my pics… Greek columns was one of the major topic in pergamon,I felt like flying to Turkey right away in the Great Alter,the temple , the traces , the history behind , the legends, my bad habit is always trying to make a story from the mosaic,at one moment , I tried to connect all the lengends by my own , ignoring what the audio was telling, I became the director of their lives and a new story on,I felt satisfied living in it, it’s so obvious in Pergamon, in front of one Roman sculpture,I had an imagination of my life with this’person’, Miki had a pic of ‘ him’ and yes I would need to ask her to send me thoughJ

I think I was rather lucky that when we were in pergamon, there’s an Islamic exhibition on, from Iran-Iraq-Afghanistan-Turkey, in addition a few collection from Northern Africa, the handmade texile is of course a topic forever in Islamic culture, the women portrait is the first time I’ve seen be put on main menu,I tried very hard to find the strech of Silk Road, can’t get any,was pretty much disappointing and on the top of that , figuring out what the hell the Indian art is presenting a portion of this Islamic tour ???

I somehow felt in my last life , I should be a Jew, I’m sorry if any Jewish reader here found it un-respectful for this great nation, I’m just trying to describe how much I’m into this culture. I was always wondering this nation who’s experienced holocaust, who’s been FORCED to move around the world for surviving, who’s lost more than 6mln population in the WWII, who’s climbed up from the point they fell and becoming one of the best business like people nowadays , creating the world fortune for the entire world, how important as a supportive role the Judaism plays in all of this? ---- The star of David : while reading the description of this jew signle in germany,my mind was driven back to the movie The pianist’ life of polish jews during the war’, I remember I saw the movie twice,was in tense – back to the museum,I’m probably not arty enough to understand why Daniel Libeskind designed the blank room which lead the visitors to ‘fallen leaves’ , I actually prefer calling it ‘ screaming masks ‘ on my own, while visitors try to walk on them,I felt bad, the museum guide told me you could walk on them if you want, ‘ No way, I won’t do that,it’s too scary for me, being so brutal’ , I stood there for a quarter, observed the ‘leaves’, hearing the screaming from people walking on, two pics taken , I decided to call this jews trip off …

一直都很不记得自己是从什么时候开始爱上了博物馆， 应该是19岁以后的事情了， 巴黎的生活除了带给我读说法语的能力， 除了我的荣誉学位， 除了一段5年的感情， 除了他们所说的自然流露出来的法兰西的某些气息， 除了对红酒的了解，除了一段终身难忘的经历 ，我想还有我对艺术的学习， 理解， 喜欢， 痴迷的一个过程. 我并没有疯狂到在一个周末飞到另外一个国家只是为了一次展览， 但是确实是疯狂到了飞去Milano只是为了DUOMO CHURCH； 或许没有疯狂到因此要转专业去学建筑或者艺术， 但也确实是疯狂到参观approx 50 博物馆在2年的时间里。 直到有天发现自己在一尊SCULPTURE 面前开始沉思？ 发现在'SOURCE' 前面眼泪流了下来， 才真正确定对博物馆， 对所谓艺术的感情原来不知什么时候已经深种， 然后开始了我的世界博物馆之旅， 然后一家好的博物馆足以让我跋山涉水辗转欧洲， 只是为了那一刻站在materpiece前的心灵上的平静， 和那份自我陶醉的心领神会...