红酒·绿茶 / Red Wine & Green Tea / Vin Rouge et Thé Vert

今天是魁北克国庆，幼儿园理直气壮地放假，当父母的我们就得打起精神陪妞到底！因为商场都关门了，我们只好去看 蒙特利尔的国庆游行 。 上一次看是2011年，还拍了些 照片 。当时有几个小朋友沿途发国旗，我伸手想要，却被一句"pour enfants（给小朋友的）"婉拒。心中暗暗发誓等有了孩子，一定要带来领免费国旗！去年妞还太小没有去，就等今年了。 岂料天不作美，竟下起瓢泼大雨。我们犹豫了好久，也不知道游行有没有被取消，最后还是决定冒雨去看。出乎意料，冒雨去看的人居然还挺多。（是不是都是我们这种被逼无奈的家长呢？）我们去得晚了一点，停车的地方也没算好，所以追着游行队伍的尾巴走了好久才勉强看了的大概。妞坐在搭了透明雨棚的推车里，面无表情地看着。（她每次都这样，回来以后才兴奋起来。）雨下得好大，我的鞋和裤腿都湿透了。 回家以后，“慢热妞”不出所料地这才兴奋起来，挥舞国旗，尽显魁瓜本色：

（八） 妞眼睛大随爸爸，单眼皮随妈妈。笑起来的时候眼睛弯成月牙形，美其名曰“月牙笑”。 （九） 妞在幼儿园学法语和英语，在家学普通话和四川话。到目前为止主要还是说火星语。除了“妈妈”“爸爸”之外，第一个能被爸妈听懂的词分别是： 法语："neuf un un"（难道是幼儿园老师教打911电话？） 英语："no"（her favorite word！） 普通话："洋娃娃" （有一天突然重复了妈妈说的这个词） 四川话："好吃"（去邻居四川人家吃饭，吃完问她：“好不好吃？”她就蹦了一句） （十） 黛玉葬花，晴雯撕扇，斯文撒米！有视频为证：

（六） 妞喜欢的水果排序：樱桃 > 葡萄 >> 其他水果 > 西瓜。不知道西瓜怎么就惹着她了。 （七） 自从妞去了幼儿园，爸妈平时省心多了。可是周末却成了一周中最累的时候，因为要一直陪着妞玩。其实妞挺喜欢户外活动，可恨加拿大冬天太冷太长，只好常去逛mall。 上周末我们又去附近的 Mail Champlain 逛。以前妞只要在商店外面逛就满意了，这次不知道为什么，非要去店里面逛。我开始还想把她的注意力引开，最后还是失败了。妞噔噔地冲进了Forever 21，一把就选中了一条粉色项链，再也不放手。然后接着在小饰品区逛，模仿旁边的大人，把项链一条条拿起来左看右看地选。然后又去服装区装模作样地挑来挑去。最后爸妈等不急了，抱她到付款台，把粉色项链的钱付了以后仓皇离去。整个付款过程中都没有松过手，店员都在暗笑。 爸爸拍了一段视频和几张照片，被Google Auto Awesome编辑成了一段挺不错的短片，特此共享。

It is hard to believe that I bought this Lego Inventor: Wild Wind Ups (4093) in 2003 but kept it unopened for 7 years! Yesterday I finally decided to open it and spent a few hours building it up with my dear wife. It was a lot of fun. Without further ado, I present you: the Stirrer!

Mao Mao is our 7-month-old Chow Chow . He likes eating, sleeping and traveling. Recently he discovered Quatchi , one of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games mascots, and really enjoyed playing with him. Video courtesy of my dear wife. :)

Learning from the lesson last time, I asked for an 8.5 shoes this time and the skis were still 150cm. We got our rental gears from Blue Valley Ski again. At the Base of Arapahoe Basin Originally uploaded by yisu1979 , courtesy of Yinyin We started pretty early considering we had a big group. A-Basin located in a high-altitude area so at the top of the mountain, there were no trees. Because we had half beginners and half intermediates, we split group into two. I was, of course, in the intermediate group and before long, we picked up where we had left last year. By the end of the second day, four of us intermediates almost finished the whole skiable area: A-Basin was too small for us. Two of us even tried a rather difficult diamond trail. So we decided to bite the bullet of a $86/day lift ticket and tried our newly improved skills at the Breckenridge . (Now in case you don't know what the "double diamond" means: Ski trails are labeled with their difficulties so th...

Enjoy two clips I took: 1. "Wolf Tale" （《饿狼传说》） 2. "Loving You A Little More Every Day"（《每天爱你多一些》）

This was the pop/jazz duet performing a catchy French song. Enjoy!

On the same trip, we spotted some street dancers playing basketball tricks near the Central Park.

On another NYC trip three years ago, we bumped into this group of bellydancers who took a whole Saturday afternoon gracing the lower Manhattan. Their sexy outfits and provocative dance moves literrally stoped traffic and attracted eyes and films.

I was browsing my old photos and found this video I took almost five years ago. It was an energetic performance by street musicians in a New York City subway station. We were hooked at once and I turned on my camera's video capturing function immediately. My Sony DSC-F707 isn't great in video at all but I had no other choice. I didn't know the name of that song until recently: "Just My Imagination (Running Away From Me)" by The Temptations. New York City has so much to offer that it never bores me. Every time I go, I find something fresh and new. Hope you like it as well.