After Lautrec...

After Degas...

A new technique

a Prussian blue outline encloses and dissociates the colors. Figures and objects represent a schematic and nonrealistic vision as in stained-glass windows... Discard reality through the use of arbitrary colors; Formulate a very personal interpretation of things perceived.

"A word of advice: Don't copy too much from nature. Art is an abstraction: derive it from nature by dreaming in her presence and think more of the creation rather than the actual results."

--Gauguin

Wandering...

漫步巴黎小巷，身旁几步一换的闻名了数世纪的建筑杰作，惊异这小小一片土地是怎样承载了这许多历史的积淀，这许多的奇迹、传奇…

倒也庆幸自己不曾生长于这座城市。19年后，当处于一个对所见所闻开始有所触所思的年龄，初访这座城市，一点一滴都能使我激动许久…

March 29: I hopped on a Thalys train...

It took me to France.

...

Finally.

March 26-29: The Netherlands

Amsterdam, Alkmaar "the Cheese Town", Keukenhof "The Tulip Garden", Van Gogh Museum until 10p.m., tram, train, leidseplein, Heineken, mushroom-not yet... tall dutch people, miserable dutch food.

Traveling solo is exciting. I wish I could have traveled further, longer and explored places haven't been covered by guide books, and tried more challenging things. Sucks to be a girl. Were I a boy, I would hitchhike around Europe.

March 26, 2008 Departing from Stanford

Thank you Xue, Lisa, Aram, Ronny, Soroush, Alex for helping me out and seeing me off on the last day.

Bye-bye California.

我的博客（旅行日志）101

我从来不写博客。其原因有三： 1、太懒；2、public和private的界限搞不清楚；3、太懒。今天打算开始记一记吧（maybe?）。 上述三个原因仍然存在，但由于近来在法国留学（度假），或短或长的旅行较往日多些，生活丰富多彩些，念叨与被念叨的人多了些，我想，不妨一记呢，哪怕流水账，也能让大家（和我自己）知道我现在在世界的哪个角落，是否身体健康吃嘛嘛香。

P.S.博客语言的选择也困扰了我一小阵子。究竟是用中文呢还是英文呢还是法文呢？决定如下——
中文：内容仅限于时而被限制看不到Wikipedia的群众时
英文：流水账时
法文：中国男足出线时
以上三种文字都看不懂的就睡觉去吧。

For those of you who felt like *&^%&* about the above text:
I'm keeping a travel blog for 3 months while I'm studying slash traveling in Europe.