Saturday, February 18, 2006

2006 Mardi Gras in St. Louis




Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday" in French) is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called "Shrove Tuesday" or "Pancake Day". It is the final day of Carnival. It is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Lent. The feast should not be confused with the Polish Fat Thursday.

However, Mardi Gras totally lost its tradition, and turned out to be a good excuse for Americans to have parties and get drunk. As an international student, I went to the parade to experience "American Culture" but I totally oppose their crazy actions.

BTW, it seemed that anybody can join the parade only if you put whatever stuff on yourself and make yourself "unusual". Check the 2nd pic, I had NO idea what that character was. hahaha~~~

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

My favorite childhood pic


一直很喜歡這張照片
有種說不出來的氣勢
已經不記得當時小腦袋裡在想啥
但是當時眼神的堅定
現在依然時時提醒著我
我的夢想 我的未來
必須堅持 努力
在台灣時 我把這張照片放在桌墊下
當自己信心動搖時
看到當時的眼神
好像已經預知未來的我會有軟弱的時候
好像就在跟未來的我說不要輕言放棄
小時的我用這張照片跟現在的我說話
也跟未來的我說話...