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July 3rd, 2008 i got a lot to do

my room is a complete mess, i haven’t done any washing for more than two weeks, i have about four dvds that i’ve borrowed that i haven’t watched yet, and the bathroom is dirty.

i did however, buy a nikon f80 and use it untested when shooting some friends for their promo photos. it is also the first time i’ve developed seven rolls at once (not all photos of those friends, though). i’ve also been designing the cd cover for said friends, and right now i really should be working on the gig poster…

we also are going to japan together in less than a month. argh!

anyway, photographic proof…

June 23rd, 2008 into the fish tank

when i got home, this was awaiting me on the kitchen table, and when i opened it, this is what i found:

the lettering on the metal badge is weird - it looks like a word, and then it doesn’t, and then it looks upside down, but actually isn’t. or i need more sleep.

and this letter now makes me an official fan of them:

yeah. i guess i can do with some corrupting indulgent music sometimes.

June 4th, 2008 6/4

today is june the 4th. i forgot the weight of this date until walking past the lake in the dark, and coming across a small procession bearing an amnesty international banner.

they held bunches of blooming roses and candles, and i stared for a few moments before crossing the busy street. they looked back as well, but with an easy gaze - who knows what i might appear to them, indeterminate asian, chinese maybe, and i was heading in the general direction of the embassy too…

they were walking the route under the bridge, past the chinese embassy’s back gates, around the river inlet, quietly.

this year has been crazy. i’m not at all convinced with the fervour surrounding the beijing olympics, even though the normally protest crazy hong kong has even been taken into it as well, now less suspicious of its once removed mother country. they are now happy to yell, “go china!” and wave red and yellow flags as if they had known her all their life - instead of the last eleven years.

according to an article in the standard, the 6/4 protests may be getting smaller. but nothing changes what happened, even if the toll in sichuan has distracted people from this date, even if there are smaller acts of political freedom occuring. neither does the nationalistic streak on display all around the world by chinese erase history. let’s hope we can use the opportunity so that this will never happen again.