shirleyxu's Journal
14
Jun 2011
12:12 AM CST
People in Jazz Bar
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I met Bill, a writer and his readers in Jazz Bar Peace Hotel Saturday evening. I am not a bar person, however, a interesting gathering plus an evening view of Bund sounds attractive to me. He got a sharp eye like an eagle; he is tall and quite slim. “I like Shanghaimore comparing to Beijing, “Bill said. People usually can make a quick subjective judgment on a city within 12 hours after landing and it’s usually right as they are experiencing without too much thinking. They smell the city life from the buildings, the food, the colors of the street lights and smiling faces. �
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Dim light and the wine definitively made people more talkative. The music was so laud and laud enough to draw my attention to the band of 5 old musicians who were dressed typically in 30’s and I was told by the bar manager that the seriously looking man in the middle is 82 year old and he has been working here for about 20 years. The winkles on their face told the audiences a lot, they did not have much facial expression at all while playing the Jazz music, however you do experience peace at Peace hotel just by looking at the band.
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Bill’s son, Jules looks like a taller and thinner Tom Cruise, he is a singer and has been trying hard to be professional, and I told him that if he is good enough, he can turn a supper star over night here in China. An African singer (Haul Ger) did a good job in finding his audience here in China. “Do I have to learn Chinese?” Jules asked. The shinning eyes of this young man shows the desire to know more about this huge and mysterious country, the people, the language, the culture, the music etc.
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I chatted with a Hungarian lady, she and her American husband are relocating the family here soon and she is looking forward to the new chapter of her Shanghailife.
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Two formally dressed young men, one from Englandand one from Germanyare launching an on-line magazine about investment opportunities in Shanghai. They are more Shanghainess than we do, they even guided us to view the longest bar in the world at the Bond, it seems that Shanghaiis not boring city to them, they are having two gatherings in the Boud in one Saturday evening. I can see the excitement from their faces just like that my excitement 20 years ago when I landed in London. �
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I talked to a man in carpet business has spent 15 years in SH and manage his business in Asia. I guess that the business must be good enough to keep him in Shanghaifrom 15 years long.
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A Doctor who is next to me was from US, I told him that my boy will go to boarding school in US this summer, he said to me that “My parents spent a lot of money sending me to boarding school many years ago and it was a wrong decision, I did not enjoy my life there.” I give him a look with guilt as if I have made a wrong decision.�
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This is a competitive world and we as parents did what we can to provide the boy with what we believe is the best for him, a bad school can’t change a person’s whole life, but a good school can modify a person’s life path for sure.
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I read some of Bill’s recent writings; I can feel that he is very sensitive to what he have seen in Beijing and Shanghai and he is generally positive about China’s development and it’s global influence. I guess that if Bill spends more time, meet more people and see more cities in China, he may have more conservative view on this. For a country like China, building hardware is relatively easy, but the transform of the software (mind) will need the efforts of several generations. People can get lost easily if they are only materially satisfied as the height of the building does not positively correlated with the height of moral standard of people inside the building.
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teaching in medical schools in the past 20 years
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1)brainstorming with my 9 year old son; 2)sharpenning my husband mind by arguing with him when necessary; 3) loyal funs of Liu Xiang
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I want to spend my life time loving you
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Gone with the wind
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第一财经,
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