I took part in the 2009 West Lake Music Festival as a guitar-player in 'Zuo Bin and the band' on Thursday, May 28th. It was fuckin' cool when we performing and the audience were all excited.
We played 5 original songs and covered the brilliant Knockin' On Heaven's Door (G N' R version) in the end. For some reason the voice of my 2nd solo sounds not right, but it's still OK, I think.
Now here are some videoes recorded by Sohu.com:
Last month I went to Phuket Island, Thailand with my wife to spend my holiday. It was a wonderful trip.
I booked a single room in the Lamai Guesthouse for my accommodation through the internet. Although the hotel is not very close to the main beach, it's very cheap and the attendants are very kind. It costed me only 600 Baht (25 dollars) per day, and I could get free internet access there. If you want, you could rent a motorbike which is very familiar in Phuket and I think the price is about 150 Baht per day.
There are about 7 or 8 beaches around the Phuket Island and they are not very far away with each other - you can get one from another in 20 minutes by motorbike. The most famous one is Patong Beach, but our favourite is Karon Beach because it's too crowded and flourishing in Patong. We enjoyed the peaceful and clean beach in Karon.
Many tourists go to Phi-Phi Island for diving and snorkeling. It is an amazing island which has gorgeous scenery. The price is about 1,000 Baht (35 dollars) for one person/one day from Phuket to Phi-Phi, which includes free drinks and a buffet lunch. We spent a night on the island.
Well, of course we ate seafood endlessly! Tong-Yam-Kong is also recommended.
Well, I'm pretty busy these days, keeping practicing for my IELTS.
I spent 5 hours in this icon illustration, and the result makes me happy.
Last Thursday I performed as the lead guitar player in a band named 'Zuo Bin and the band'. The songs Zuo writes are like 80's hair metal, awesome.
Star Live is the biggest livehouse in Beijing and it's the place when Testament performed in China. This concert is a R 'N' R celebration ran by Sohu.com and Redbull. 8 bands and 2 famous Chinese rock stars (Zheng Jun & Zhang Chu) performed and it was really high. The style are various with each other, metal, pop, folk, hard rock, post punk, low fi, even hip-hop.
We played 2 songs of Zuo, 'What can I do' and 'Perfect world'. 'What can I do' is a fair-sounding love song, like Brian Adams' style and 'Perfect world' is a heavy, riffs-and-howling-and-solos rock song. When we performing the audience were jumping and screaming, it's very nice.
Well recently I was a little busy for my work but I still wanna do something to practice my icon-illustration-ability. So here they are - lyre, sandclock and telephone.
I just imagined when I was illustrating that these stuff belong to an outdated mattoid's collections in his dusty attic in the 18th or 19th century. He timed by the sandclock, used his old telephone (maybe it's fashinable in the 18th century?) to call for pizza, and when he was going to write some poems, he brought out his lyre...
I still haven't named this icon set because I think it's not finished, I can work out some other items in concert on this theme. Maybe when I have some spare time I'll go on.
Recently I mail-ordered a card game named Lost Cities (designed by Reiner Knizia in 1999) from Hongkong. It's a simple and dapper two-player game, not like the Axis & Allies and Risk needing several players, or the War of the Ring costing 2-3 hours to play.
The object of Lost Cities is to mount profitable expeditions to one or more of the five different lost cities (the Himalayas, the ever-shifting sands of the desert, the Brazilian rain forest, ancient volcanoes and in Neptune's realm). Card play is quite straightforward, with a few agonizing moments sprinkled through what is mostly a fast-moving game. If you start a given expedition, you'd better make some progress in it, or it'll score you negative points. If you can make a lot of progress, you'll score quite well. After three rounds, the highest total score takes the day.
Here's a introduction from Board Games with Scott:
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