The Portfolios

I’ve been looking for a job about 2 and a half weeks, I haven’t got anyone yet, I’m a little worried about it.

This is my first time writing english in my family blog, my husband Rindy always bothers me to write something on our blog, so, here I am!

I don’t understand why people want to write blogs? I’m sure we have enough “friends” to keep our social activities going on in social occasions. So, why is that? Why do we need a blog? Why does everyone have to become a blogger? And must we share our mind with strangers in the whole world?

OH, got you! Because we’re lonely, we’re poor humanity, hypocritical, artificial, arrogant, mammonists…….So, we found a space–”BLOG” to continue our vicious and selfish desire in the fake world. Don’t deny the facts, try to grow up in this real life, move on, if we’re not trying to paralyze ourselves.

Anyway, it’s your right to live wherever. And I choose to look for a job, look for life, live in reality!

Spring arrived today with plenty of glorious sunshine, and we spent it on the lawn at the city’s biggest patch of green, Century Park. Way at the end of subway line 2, out in Pudong, this park is one of the few in Shanghai where people are actually allowed to walk and sit on the grass, and we took full advantage. Michael, Kadzue, Coley, Jeff, Charlie, Yoyo and I all sat on the lawn eating friend chicken and xiaolongbao and throwing the frisbee all afternoon. A perfect Sunday.

This is the cover of the first issue of Rolling Stone China (Guan Shi). The man featured is the legendary Cui Jian, the “Godfather of Chinese Rock.” All media references to Cui Jian inevitably bestow this moniker on him, to the point of ridiculousness. However, it is appropriate because he is basically, for China, a combination of Chuck Berry, Elvis, the Beatles and Dylan: he is “the man who started Rock and Roll.” The magazine itself features an interview with the man, who really hasn’t done much in the last ten years or so, but was definitely a bad ass back in the day, getting banned by the government, etc. He was eventually embraced by the Communists, and I believe he did a concert on the Great Wall. After the big story on the Godfather, the mag is mostly full of American pop culture, mostly translated from the American issue. U2, specifically Bono, feature prominently. A piece about “Renegades” has pages on Hunter S. Thompson, Mick Jagger, and Michael Moore. There are some pieces about Chinese artists, most of which I am wholly unfamiliar. And there is a piece about Rolling Stone itself, which explains the history of the magazine and shows a lot of old covers. All in all, it looks pretty cool, printed on big glossy pages like the American version. Will it sell in China? Who knows? Even though I don’t understand a word, I’ll probably buy it for the pictures. And if something looks good, I’ll ask Yoyo, “Baby, what does it say?”