Day trip
long weekend without going anywhere will kill my daughter - and me. we had an agreement to get up early and enjoy a day trip.
we departed from home by 8:30 am, not very early, but compare of what we did, normally we leave the hosue by 11 :00 am, then rush to retun home in early afternoon. this time, we have enought time to enjoy the Pacific Highway. the traffic today is extremly well, no jam, no car and not bad weather condition. we stop by the Golden Sand around 10:30 am, kids didn't want to shower with the water, so. we move forward and buying the famouse Fu Long railroad lunch box ( to be more specifice, it's trade mark " Country " have nothing to be with the railroad, the connection is the shop is on Fu Long railroad station neighbornring area ), took the hot lunch box, make over at She Cheng ( Stone Castle ) scenice station, we facing the sea and enjoy our bendon; leave She Cheng by 12:30, we visited one little port - Da Shi and a grand port - Wu Sher and enjoy the country style hospitality. we are too early to head back, so we decided to explore during our journey, stop at the Plum Flower Lake in Lo Tong - this is my second time here, I remembered nothing about the lake, but recall the memory of my colleage classmate next door, we inviting me to visit her hometown and took me to the Lake, and very bravely , she hold my hands and show her love to me... Yes, she took the motocycle and have me seeing her father, this is why I remember there's a Plum Flower Lake, that's 20 plus years ago.... a very interesting memory coming back.
Snow Mountian Tunnel is great, with no traffice, we drove on the road for almost one hour and exit at Tu Cheng township , 10 minutes away from Fruit's school.
Beging our trip early leave us great room to enjoy the scence, making mistake for finding wrong route and discover thoes undiscovered.
Freddy did a great PR yesterday and today, being invited to Ozzifest is not a big deal, but to leverage it to a Grand success in breaking the constrain of our foreign relations is too exaggrate, only a few in the field can see through the picture.
A house in my dream
It's six in the morning, on the Dragon Boat Festival day in 2007, my sleep was distrupted by a dream, neither a terrify story, nor a wet one, but a very vivid dream about a house, a house so elegent that I can describe every detail in my dream, this is what I am going to do now....
The house located in Mao Li, northern county of Taiwan, in a mountain, if you have no guide to lead you, you will probabely lost in the deep mountain and getting no where but see the haze and fog, of course, the owner of the house send someone to lead us -- in my dream, there's no specific explanination about who he is.. time is not important, so we didn't push the meter , but with a few curve and drive, we are in a Chinese Garden - a Aman alike ambience but with all the Chinese Gardon elements, the hall way lead to the front door is so specatulor, you have to walk 10 minutes to the frond gate, walking on the hall is the first scene, tall trees set at both side of the hall way, a slope lead you to the door, the open of the door is automationed, push the bottom, the door opens, it must have at least 3 persons heights to measure the height of the door, made of wood -- must be some hundreds years old wood, the stone stage- stairways which pave under you is electronic too, you lean one step forward, it will extend to another stair in front, you simply see the stone stairs escalate to the height of the wooden door, so amazing, how you can witness a traditonal Chinese Gardon door with such an advanced techonology.
Entering the house, everything is made by wood and bamboo, brown and dark red colors the house, the shild and petitions which seperate the space is river / mountains and glass, the wooden pillar is so huge and amazing good, one of the guest who came with us ( I don't see his face as well ), asked how to copy this pillar of wood , the owner response with a smile," If you willing to pay 8 millions NT, each pillar, these craft master may consider to work for you ), the first room is a tea room, the wooden / bamboo table design with 2 layer, the upper layer is wooden cover, you can open it and see the glass layer at bottom, then you may see through the table and look at the river under you --- because all the floor were mix wood with glass. on the right hand side, a river flow between 2 mountain, at the bottom of the river, the architecture set 11 lights ( I don't have a chance to ask why 11 ? ), the yellow and blue lights sparking from the clear water, at night, you hear the sound of the river flow and see the lights just like the lighting bud. walking through the tea room, you are leading to the living room, it's a flat with no petiton, but hugh table and wood, it's connected one side to the far end building - I was told that's kitchen, as the owner don't need to cook himself, so, he can set the kitchen in distance and to avoid the unpleasant smell from the kitchen. we enjoy talking at the living room.
Then the owner show us outside th house and point a wall to us, he told us there once a flood , buried one third of the house, but no damage at all, when the water withdraw, all the craft masters return to fix some minor damager, as the wood and bamboo were hundred years old, no damage at all, I didn't asked how much he spent to build this musume like house and call it home, I only advice him not to use his house as guest house for other people, this is so unique, so impressvie, so impossible to see....and it's so real in my dream.
I didn't why what is the trigger to let me dreaming in a house? maybe this is another shock during the YPO kick out party on Sunday. this time, education chair combine a graduate's dream come true with a charity auction. it generate 2 millions plus NT from the gala dinner, and I see some of the very rich people behavior differently. why some of them so easy to give away in public, but hard to convince for performing good in private? P. bought 3 units of the best location apartment in Tokyo, K. aution for staying 3 nights with the price of 400000 NT. not including air fair. J is too excited to raise his hand for a half millions MC Hotdog party, I don't know why...all I know is in the world of business, there are long way to go.
4 days holiday at home, today may be the day for picnicing, Sound get his first MP3, my iPod neno, thanks to the YPO party, we receive shuffle as sourvier, my neno should to to Sound, he asked about mp3 for so many times.
a chat with Ben, C-Next is good, but raising fund is nowhere easy. I bless him. today, I tried to memories the dream house and detailing it in my blog.
Have my hair cut at the Flat Cutting Barbor shop, good. House Keeping completed, a great sign to me.
