Slowly But Surely.....

i'm falling in love with Boston.

the 1st tree to say 'to hell with greens'

Went to my customer's company today for a visit. Goodness it looks lovely. Places like this make staff morale high. The surroundings are pretty, the cafeteria nice and cosy...

it looks like a nice conducive place. and why not, this is where ideas bloom and inventions created.

i think some sort of crisis is happening at the workplace (of which i'm blissfully unaware of until today since i'm on vacation). One of the engineers based in boston is flying to alabama on almost immediate notice, while i'm based in alabama and currently roaming abt in boston. :)

the company is situated pretty far from the city, so it's kind of quiet like Alabama. Basically then staying in boston gives you the best of both worlds. there is the buzz of the city, and there is the calm of the country less than an hour away.

it is a very nice place and there's something for everyone. Plenty of old buildings and architecture, there're theatres and musicals, there's shopping, there's chinatown, there're pubs and clubs, there're musuems, there're sea activities like kayaking and sailing....

Good deal. i may even open my own shop like this one:

Advertisement Slogan: Hi, I'm Tan. And you are not. So come to Campus Tan and be Tan like me

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went to the art musuem today. it's so huge it took me 3.5 hours to finish walking through the whole thing. I think if i actually read and pondered abt every exhibit, it will take me a month to finish.

so it got kind of boring after a while, and then i stumbled upon the abstract and installation/performance art section, which unfortunately is way too small.

anyways i got a bit more excited, and i started thinking. Hey if something makes you think, then that's art right? the pieces were talking to me!

so i was thinking "i can't believe this is called art", and then i tried to think of titles/captions for them:

1)

Circle.
(a.k.a "Be there. Don't be __.")

2)

qian4 qian2 huan2 qian2
(literal translation: "owe money return money")

3)

Artistic Expression of Jialu's Room

4)

a Man, a Lady, & an Ichi Ban

5)

This Is What I Call Art (Realism by Kahlo Yeah.)

This Is What I Call Art, too (Impressionism by Kahlo Yeah.)

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since i'm creating the captions, i may be creating art too don't you think?!

There was a bunch of students there as well, frantically running around completing their worksheets. it reminded me of the last time i was in the art musuem with the school, a compulsory outing by RJ.

I remember how Darren didn't go because there was hockey competition that day. The next day, our GP tutor started a discussion on our art musuem trip.

GP tutor (forgetting that darren did not go for the trip): So, which piece left a deep impression on you? Darren, would you like to contribute?

Darren: Well, i think the best exhibit was the giant balloon shoe outside the musuem. it is a very powerful image...invoked a lot of feelings.

GP tutor (nodding head in acceptance while wondering why some pple were giggling, and trying to ignore the giggles): ok...so Darren feels that the giant balloon shoe left the deepest impression, who else would like to add on what they think? what abt the paintings by Monet?

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a nice quote from boston:

"it was in my heart to help a little because i was helped much"