Last Saturday night, I took my daughter -- Fruit to a performance -- " ART " at the National Theater , this is the first time she attend the national theater and watch a performance, I look around the venue, it seems she is the youngest among all the audience; before entering the venue, I am a little bit worry if she can't really understand what's going on stage, but since she is into Chinese Traditional 2 man talk show very much, I think she may accept this kind of performance, I secure best seats by my colleague, this show is a localized performance base on one popular show in the States. " Art " deals with the friendship between 3 mid-age man, story began with a modern art -- a contemporary painting which only had one color -- white, then 2 friend holding different opinion against each other in value the modern art, then the story developed to how these 2 old friend value their friendship for the last 2 decade, the 3rd one is a Mr. nice, both of the 2 " eye to eye " friend try to convince the nice guy join their alliance, after all, all of them broken up, finally, by destroy the trouble maker -- the modern art, three of them back to old days; the story is simply, what I like the most is " white painting " -- white painting can be altered by adding any other color or picture then turn to another picture, but to cover it with heavier white, it became white again, or wash away colors, it remain unchanged; the 3 actors are soul to the show, I think a lot of audience was attracted by these 3 actors instead of the drama itself, 2 of theme have been gone from the stage for a while, Fruit can stand sitting for 2 more hours in the theater, only when people laugh and she didn't understand why, she will asked me why, the rest of time, I see her enjoy the show very much; before and after the show, we walk around the CKS Memorial Hall -- the biggest park in Taipei city, there's an exhibition going at the hall way to the memorial palace called " looking earth from the sky ", an French photographer shooting hundreds of pictures above from the sky around the world, when seeing them above, the thing are really different, a good exhibition and we learn something from it.
Sunday, we send our 2 kids to orphan house with my wife's family, they visit the orphan house once a year, Me and my wife wish to give our kid a new experience, to see what other kid living and how to help people in humble places, I don't know if my purpose been served, but, Fruit was not planning to go, after the show on Sat. she agree to go with his brother -- Sound, the trouble maker who fight with his relative at the orphanage house, we deliver a good lesson to him when he go home, I know physically penalty will not change his mind but only generate hate, but under such a circumstance, beat him is the alternative to leave some memory, my and me wife did punish him and make him understand fighting will never be the method to solve any problem.
On Sunday morning, when seeing our 2 kids off, we went for a German movie " Good-by Lenin " at the art theaters in She-meng-ting, an interesting movie, Europe movie make you think more when seeing and after seeing, American film provide instant entertainment but easy to forget, this is the difference of culture and value, I enjoy both, but EUROPE movie will feed you more -- mentally and spiritually.
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