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from 1st january 2007 to 2015 for the ninth time in a row since the year end 2006 i went to the taipei 101 fireworks display again just like last year with my wife fanne and my 4 year old son ronne it s fantabulous to see these nine photos altogether although i don t really create new entries and very few friends visit this site now i will keep practicing the ritual of counting down to new year around taipei 101 taking a photo thereafter and then announcing it here posted by wei at 10 53 no comments 30 january 2014 new year couplet for the year of the horse after ushering in the gregorian new year exactly 30 days ago we are going to ring in the chinese new year tonight the year of the horse again i write my own new year couplet 春聯 chunlian with a chinese brush rather than buying a commercially mass printed one i compose another pair of lines for the new year roughly translated as etiquette music poetry and books we pass down over hundreds of generations 禮樂詩書傳百代 with blades spears swords and halberds we fight across three waters 刀槍劒戟過三江 the couplet also comes with a banner fear neither the literate nor the martial 文武不擋 my son ronne will be 4 years old in march it s about the time to teach him some chinese classical texts for children such as thousand character classic 千字文 and trimetric classic 三字經 as well as some basic kung fu exercise i hope this couplet bringing in a happy and prosperous year in which ronne develops all necessary learning skills and knowledge posted by wei at 13 54 1 comment 01 january 2014 new year s day before the new year s day of the year of the horse click to enlarge and see how i have changed over the past few years from 1st january 2007 to 2014 the growth of new social networking websites have definitely made principal wei s weblog redundant since 2012 the number of entries produced each year here has dropped to only 10 because of the heavy academic workload and life chores i have to deal with however i insist on maintaining the ritual of counting down to new year at the same spot taking a photo thereafter and then announcing it on this weblog again i have to repeat that it has something to do with obsession just as what i have explained in another entry posted several years ago on this weblog i must have been suffering from a mental disorder characterised by a general psychological inflexibility a chronic preoccupation with rules procedures perfectionism and excessive orderliness as usual in most chinese speaking regions we usher in the gregorian new year with other revellers on streets before welcoming the chinese one therefore for the eighth time in a row since the year end 2006 i went to the taipei 101 fireworks show again last night with my wife and my 3 year old son who is going to be 4 in april 2014 whatever happens unless blogger is shut down i will keep being obsessed about taking the new year photo and announcing it here posted by wei at 14 09 no comments 21 march 2013 a couplet for edwin s new studio so many people believe that regular exercise is an important part of a balanced stress management programme and are willing to pay high membership prices to join gyms health clubs or yoga classes in hopes that nervous tension arising from the fast pace of life in the industrial and metropolitan environments could be antidoted by shaking their bodies in a well organised fashion i totally agree with it i ran three miles both in the morning and in the late afternoon everyday when i was under extreme pressure during the final days of thesis writing in scotland however i opt for chinese calligraphy chinese calligraphy requires deliberate mental design and concentration on guiding the soft writing brush both strength and agility are essential for fine artwork therefore i believe composing couplets and practising writing chinese characters is a good way to extricate me from academic abyss apart from writing new year couplets at i compose couplets and write them with a chinese writing brush for friends on various occasions such as weddings birthdays graduations and etc edwin a director producer and historian has recently started his own studio light heartedly named golden haze arts and culture heath center in taipei to celebrate the formal establishment of this health center i produce this roughly translated as with sining voices and dancing images a rainbow appears 歌聲舞影虹彩現 in souther sphere and northern horizon hundreds of flowers bloom 天南地北百花開 the couplet also comes with a banner what an immense cinematic world 銀海無涯 i wish him all the best and look forward to producing more interesting audio visual theatrical or whatever works with him in the near future posted by wei at 10 59 no comments 06 march 2013 ronne s third birthday three year old ronne making birthday wishes yesterday was my son ronne s third birthday time flies he is three now thanks to the development of digital cameras and other mobile devices with the function of shooting photos or videos we can now catch important moments of our life nimbly with confidence therefore look at these three photos taken respectively on ronne s last three birthdays and see how ronne has grown over the last three years two year old ronne clapping hands and singing the birthday song with grandparents and mum one year old ronne patrolling to safeguard his birthday cake thanks to the invention of weblogs and social networking websites many people can now express their views and distribute multimedia works in the cyber world across temporal and spatial boundaries i have been sharing with my readers sounds of the gramophone records for quite some time as well as photos of my son although principal wei s weblog stopped for several months in 2012 it resumed on the new year s day in 2013 as the first entry i created this year is a photo of me and my son i am now fully assured that when you have a baby and happen to have a digital camera the number of the photos you would take for your child within a month will probably far exceed that of the images you have captured for yourself in the first half of your life moreover if you happen to maintain a blog it will become an online album for the photos you would take for your child posted by wei at 17 11 no comments 27 february 2013 making my outdated laptop up to date last night i spent some time upgrading my old powerbook g4 to a laptop with wireless capability powerbook g4 is my first ever laptop it had served me since summer 2002 when i moved to scotland for doctoral study and was forced to retire due to an accident in summer 2007 i had some champagne to celebrate my graduation and wedding and so did the laptop much to my amazement the champagne poured powerbook g4 became alive and kicking after a couple of weeks but it was still superseded by macbook pro core 2 duo my second laptop purchased after the accident powerbook g4 was stored in a bookshelf and has remained there ever since now even though i have macbook pro core i7 the third laptop in my life i still miss the old good times with powerbook g4 it helped me finish my doctoral thesis it helped me complete so many commissioned musical works and make extra money it helped me connect to my beloved and family when i was in scotland powerbook g4 is definitely well past its sell by date but it still works therefore i decided to fetch a wireless card to make this outdated machine up to date being able to communicate wirelessly i found a second hand apple airport card on ebay for usd 18 92 including postage and a set of hexalobular socket screwdriver also known as torx or star screwdriver for twd 145 roughly usd 5 00 at a hardware shop near my home didn t cost much did it it took me only 5 minutes to remove the back cover instal the wireless card and restore the back however it took more two hours to download all sorts of software update files and update the operating system java and so on won t blame it as along as it keeps being in good working order and brining back old good memories posted by wei at 16 16 no comments 23 february 2013 hand snake lantern ronne and the stretching and curling snake the lantern festival the 15 th of the first lunar month falls on sunday the 24 th of february this year just like last year we received a diy set a hand lantern in the shape of a snake this year s chinese zodiac animal it took use more time than it did last year to assemble the cardboard lantern because as you can see in the photos the snake s body is composed six movable segments which require more delicate efforts to fit together ronne is going to celebrate the third lantern festival in his life with another hand lantern what a clever design it can be held in two different fashions stretching or curling officially named haha 哈哈 this colourful shiny snake is painted from its head to tail with 14 graphic decorations inspired by the traditional patterns or symbols from the 14 respective indigenous peoples in taiwan as opposed to its negative impression among the han chinese the snake is believed to be the guardian or embodiment of ancestral power in some indigenous cultures in taiwan a hand snake lantern with indigenous tones and colours is obviously designed to bring more positive energy and blessings to all the people in taiwan the lantern festival is traditionally the last day of the chinese new year and all lunar new year celebrations conclude on this day the spring semester 2013 has already begun last monday in theory it will surely start next monday in practice seriously posted by wei at 22 45 no comments 09 february 2013 new year couplet for the year of the snake although sometimes regarded as an eccentric by my relatives sometimes i am old fashioned for example i insist on writing my own new year couplet 春聯 chunlian with a chinese brush every year rather than buying a commercially mass printed one again i compose another pair of lines which have something to do with music and the academia for the year of the snake roughly translated as studying extensively poetry and literature i dream of prosperity in the ancient capital 遍覽詩書夢華錄 knowing broadly tuning and musicking i listen to sounds of this secular world 博通律呂觀世音 the couplet also comes with a banner scholars and laymen be greeted in spring 雅俗同迎春 i m not sure but my wife fanne comments that i am improving and the handwriting is better than last year better or worse it s the tradition of the chens and will be carried on by my son posted by wei at 13 51 no comments 08 february 2013 third laptop arrived three generations of my laptop from left powerbook g4 2002 macbook pro core 2 duo 2007 macbook pro core i7 2013 i ve just received my new toy an apple laptop i bought my first apple laptop in summer 2002 when i moved to scotland for my doctoral study five years later i acquired the second one in summer 2007 after my wife and i had some champagne to celebrate my graduation and shared this with the first one more than five years later i picked up the third one in early spring 2013 when i felt that i wanted a third one the external package is always elegant rather than visiting a physical apple shop i called 0800 to place an order and customised my macbook pro by replacing the standard 750gb sata hard drive with the 256gb solid state drive and upgrade the standard widescreen display to the hi resolution one i didn t opt for the latest model with a retina display although it s thinner and lighter it comes without a built in dvd drive and has no audio line in port i can t be bothered to use an external dvd drive and a usb audio interface it took me really much time to instal a range of applications and to adjust everything to what i have been used to i actually would like to use the old os x 10 4 however this model has been built with the latest os x 10 8 and can t be downgraded anyway i m still exploring this new laptop and hoping to discover more interesting functions posted by wei at 01 38 1 comment 01 february 2013 fetching a snake money box for the year of the snake six money boxes released by a department store in taiwan since 2008 from left rat ox tiger rabbit dragon and snake once you start to collect some things especially those which can make up certain group you have to be prepared to feel all the time an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess a complete series to become irredeemable just as how i maintain the ritual of counting down to new year at the same spot and then taking a photo thereafter since the year end 2006 i have been chasing after the money box in the shape of a specific chinese zodiac animal for the year of that animal since 2008 shin kong mituskoshi the biggest department store chain in taiwan began to issue ceramic saving banks in shapes of twelve chinese zodiac animals in 2008 twelve different ones will come in the twelve ensuing years it can only be redeemed for or bought when a customer spends more than certain amount of money not to be purchased straightaway this morning i have just fetched the sixth the snake it takes six more years to complete a series of the twelve animals i am so determined to collect a whole series and will visit this department store every year as long as i still reside on earth posted by wei at 13 30 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me wei taipei taiwan i regard myself as a musicologist and probably a musician as well just awarded a doctorate in popular music and currently a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct assistant professor of musicology at national taiwan university i hate hot weather and prefer reasonably cold climate and that s why i once fled from taiwan to scotland unfortunately i m in taiwan tortured by the heat at the moment view my complete profile my portraits hail broccoli cause of havoc and fount of bliss back to the gramophone age designed by davide lin listen to wei s work broccoli s sorrow and read the story behind it offering hope these lamps bring me some inspiration to my life as well as to all of you who are 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