‘揾食’艰难

Jailsamer是一个在沙漠里的城市（Thar Desert)。是我们在印度住过的，最靠‘俊Pakistan 的城市 -）照中国人的标准，就是古代囚犯发放‘边疆’的地方。。。

车子驶入Jailsamer， 马上就感觉到这个‘边疆’城市的狂野- 一进城，就被人骑车‘拦截-兜售camel safari. ‘！（这个人还蒙着脸，活像古代的马贼！）于是，我们就在车里，看着这个人和我们的司机，隔空‘倾数’(cantonese).‘ 数’没有‘倾’成。这位仁兄就这样骑着车指手划脚的和我们告司机的状。

‘老兄，我们能怎样呢？看不出我们只是一群身不由己的水鱼吗？被这个或那个砍，对我们来说，分不出太大的差别的。’

印度‘揾食’真的是艰难。。。基本上，这些小贩/生意人真是无孔不入的。而且用尽所有花招， 或哄或骗。。。连我们的司机都当我们是菜头。。。 在Udaipur做了出不怎么好的戏， 想唬我们住贵旅店。。。

当时对很多诸如此类的事情有点生气，不过现在回想，这就是印度的reality。。。如果我们用自己生活里的道德标准去要求，一个生活条件比我们差几十倍的地方，那或许不只是要求， 而是苛求了。

我想，the incredibility of india 很大部分是归功于the incredibility of INDIAN...印度人的‘韧力’真的是令人眼界大开！

tibetan bride- Dawn.. we were imagining it...

Dawn seemed has only 2 emotions - forever in a happy, excited mood or... '火大'.

For I don't believe there is people who has no 'down' mood at all, I choose to believe she is so kind that she always bring us up to sky when she is ' high', and never 'sink' the rest when she is down.

Though we tried hard, but too bad, there was no one Tibetan who was good enough for her ( perhaps there is no tibetan bed that is soft enough for her- soft bed is a VERY BIG issue for her -), but we were kind enough to leave them a 'imaginary' tibetan bride...for them to dream on ..hopefully not a nightmare . Ha .. ha.. ha...

by yy

Revisiting India

从印度回来两个月了。我好像还在时不时的‘revisting India'..。这两个月的‘重游’， 套一句 koh 讲的，我好像在‘Romanticising ' the India experience..

今天在一本书里看到这样的一个句子‘。。。 exploring objects and the world with fresh eyes , and seeing the world in words..' .

这就是我想把印度的经历， 重新用文字‘走‘过一回的原因吧。很贪心的， 不止用走的，看的，尝的， 也要用写的， to visit India more than once..

I know， through the words , the still images and the memories, I will see again the many faces of India, and re-inhabit the India experience again and again...

and already, through all the words I have written, I am seeing a almost 'imaginary' India emerging, coincide with the 'realistic' India that i have visited - a new India which we can claim ours has come into being... Our India, with our very own uniquely experience...This is the Incredible India- and it is ours-我们的印度。

Ka Shou into being...

Ka sou first came into being during the Tibet trip, and his concept of the 'happy family' starts take shape since then...

hetty 和她的如意袋

Hetty 有一个比小叮当还神的‘如意袋‘- 一个取之不尽， ‘货源‘源源不绝的百宝袋。

应有尽有，从美珍香肉干，mash potato, slippers, 药品。。。

Hetty，比她的‘如意袋‘更神。 因为她竟然能把那么多好料塞进这个百宝袋 -）

looking through Ming's eyes

Ming take beautiful photos.

She has delicate eyes, she see different things, or , she see things differently...

Sometimes, I like to see through her lens and see the world in a very 'ming' way- the very upclosed and personal way...

The world of Ming...

Indian window

印度的古建筑里的窗和screen, 是一个非常重要的建筑特色。基本上，我想印度人应该是自古以来就很有‘peeping Tom’的本色- 很喜欢‘装’(cantonese) 人

在印度，看人和被人看，是一种乐趣，也是一种情趣-）
你可以明目张胆，在大街上，瞪大着眼睛看人，也可以在，在那一扇扇特别设计的 窗或screen后，‘鬼祟‘的窥探。

beautifully taken by dawn

Jaipur的Palace of Winds (Hawa Mahal)， 是其中一件为‘装’人而建的结构。它甚至是谈不上是一个宫殿( palace)。它其实更像一面有着许许多多的小窗户的厚墙，作用是让以前的后宫佳丽在这里，透过这些窗口去看皇宫外的生活和人而又不会让人看到她们的芳容。

悲哀啊，只能这样子去认识世界， 又不能让世界认识她们。。。

by dawn, the peeping queen