do i accept dresden?

Most of time, I am missing Australia, but not China.

I was born in China and was 24 when I finished my university study I went to Australia for my PhD. I stayed there for 4 years, a period of time not very long, not very short too. I can not be considered as Australian but I really love that country. But in 2009, because of my character nature, which is always changing, I came to Dresden for working. I still can not speak German too much. I feel one's resistance to learning the language reflects the extent of how accepts a city as a home or even as a place you live. So in my heart, it is hard to view Dresden or evern Germany as my adopted city as I ultimately lack that sense of belonging. Or maybe VC, because I can't speak its language so I can't make myself feel I belong to this city.

But after nearly 2 years living here, my feeling toward the city are complicated: resistant yet embracing at the same time. I know many new places which I know I never ever could find in OZ ,or at least in Geelong. The jazzbar, the travel leacture bar, the sports film, the local european or international independent film playing cinema, a bunch of ppl who play the music... after all, I've lived here for 2 years and I tried to know this city better, even if I've no sense of belonging here and I still can't speak too much German, but I can't avoid the inevitable and profound impact the city has on me.






so here is Dresden, a little bit culture, a little bit history, a little bit everything

i am not a cooking fans

i love food, but i am not a cooking fans.

seldom i cook at home. first, i live along. it does not make sense, that i spend 1 or 2hours to prepare food but finish it in 10mins, no no no, no fun. secondly, i have no patient to cook. cutting the beans? cutting the potatoes? cutting even the chicken? no no no , too much for me. yes, then the normal excuse, i have no time. at this moment, i work in the morning from 7am until afternoon at 16pm, then i go for german course from 17pm to 19:30pm, someday, after that i even need to meet language partner or do some sports, where is the time come from?

but sometimes, when i am really in the mood i cook too. such as


but this chicken was not from me....

a cute girl who i learn german with

I met my first german-english language partner yesterday. she is a cute girl. we met in a cafe, but both of use order a cocktail, that is the first common we have. great.

before we met she send me her photos and told me that she is a freelancer. i am curious about her. because i am person has a job and not free at all. all the freelancer for me sound interesting and mysterious. in fact, she is making bag at home, she designs, makes and sells. and the reason why she wants to be a freelancer is that she could not find a job relate to her study in Dresden, but she does not want to move away. it is a kind of freelancer out of my imagination. i thought all the freelancer are photographer, translator, artists and so on. i thought ppl turn to be freelancer because they do not like being closed into the office and who desire freedom. but i am wrong. again, the real life teach me how narrow sight i own... open mind, it is not means thinking more, but thinking as a real person, and thinking all the possibility even from the most nature of real life...

there is nothing too much to record for our first conversation. the content is quite normal as a first meet. will see what gonna happen.

had a no ending happiness talk with jasmine this morning. the topic is serious--open relationship. i am afraid i am not ready to write about our conversation, but it was great, honest, open and enjoyable.


learning a new concept from internet, street photography, but i prefer call it street shoot. yes, i am a huge fan of street shoot. the moment of a story or a look of someone's face captured by the photographer always make me excited. life is unpredictable. we have no idea what gonna to happen next single second, is not that fascinating we use our camera to shoot that particular moment? and we are living in this world, your country, your city, even the street maybe you step on many times everyday. what happened there? that is what i care about. so i love street shoot. and i will try to do sth for it, because i live where and when i am living....



i c this buidling everyday on my way to work, a typical eastern germany building. nothing fancy but with the mark of history ...

a new ppl i met in dresden- guitar player

was jogging with Christian yesterday again. each time, we run nearly 14km together, but for myself, I have to run another 1km go home. 14km costs 1.5 hours, so we talked a lot...

i met Christian last Friday. Because he put an ad on the internet looking for someone running with him together. i replied, then we met, now we run together. he is a professional guitar player, that means he has a different life style from me. For example, he teaches at home every afternoon, he teaches in a music school once a week, he plays guitar for bands, music companies, also for different functions, such as wedding .... well, he finds all the possibility to work to support himself, we call these kind of ppl freelance. he enjoys go to fitness in the morning, go jogging at night, practice music at any time. he is free, but he needs to take care about money carefully. he wants to do sth to combine guitar and running together as his career in the future, well, i agree.

so, this is christian, a new ppl i met in dresden. it is always interesting to meet different kind of ppl, as "treat people as ends, not means", we met by running