Looks can be deceived!!!

Yakuza tatoo...nooooooo, they kicked my back.....nooooo, they kicked me with glasses ....nooooo
I just received a massage method consisting of putting glasses in my back, heating them to make void and then applying them to my back. It's called the cupping massage therapy. It seems very painful, and it is, in some parts of the body. Three days has passed since they treat me like that and I still can feel the heat in every spot. I planned to go to the beach, since Tainan is very hot these days, but I'll wait till these spots are missing.....

Do you remember a beer TV ad about Heineken? Well, for me it's the same with UOC.

In that advertisement people spoke using only the word "Heineken", well for me these past days and also now, my only word is UOC.

So UOC, UUUUUUUUUOC, UOOOOOOOC?

That's my world now, but I do something more. This past week I've been taking care of children and at the same time I was supposed to be doing my homework at the UOC University, Studies of Oriental Asian.

That situation reminds me about what the big master Hitchcok said once about not making films with kids...
and something that said the magnificent director Alejandro Amenabar to the kids' actor who played a role in "The other", it was like: "What a little movie you are giving to me", in spanish has more sense since it's:"Vaya películita me estáis dando".
Anyway, I had to deal with it and i rather died in my experience, then i've passed two days working from dusk till dawn (6 in the morning) and then I had to make a conference about Spain, Catalonia and Barcelona, very easy, but in chinese....
I've survived and I'll make this blog live again!!!!!
Yet, lots of things not yet explained!!!!!!!
Something about China and a lot about Taiwan!!!!!Maybe, something about Vietnam, but this would be on June......

Beijing part II. Temple of Heaven (天壇)

In the beginnig of the Chinese Dinasties, around the year 2070 B.C. (it began with the Xia Dynasty, and according to Confucius (孔夫子) (551 BC – 479 BC), the Emperor was the Son of Heaven (天子- where 天 means "heaven" and 子 , son), and he was the leader who had to rule on earth as his father did on heaven.
In the ancient China, they thought that the earth was squared whereas heaven was round, and that's why coins in the ancient China where rounded on the outside and they had a squared hole in the middle.
So, logically the Temple of Heaven had to be round. It was built by the Emperor Yongle (永樂) (2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424) during the Ming Dinasty (1368- 1644), between the 1406 and the 1420. This Emperor was also the responsible for the construction of the Forbidden City.

It's a taoist temple and has a room for the Heaven God, and it was visited by the emperors of the Ming and Qing dinasties, the last two dinasties of China.

The funny thing is that our tour didn't include this visit, so we asked our tour guide to take us there to see it. When we arrive there we met a lot of chinese dancing in the park next to the Temple. The ticket has a discount for old people. We also saw a lot of old people near the Temple playing card games.

My chinese experience!!! Beijing!!! I little bit of art!!!

I like history, and chinese history is one of my favorites. I've been to Beijing (北京) twice (counting this last time) and I've been to Shanghai (three times) and I've never been before to Xian (西安). So, by far the place I liked the most this time in the People's Republic of China (中华人民国) of course, was Beijing (北京).
I had a trip with my parents, my father's cousin, his wife, their children, and two more couples (my parents' friends). As soon as they arrive, we went to a hutong, which is an ancient neighborhood, and we lived in a hotel inside this old part of the city...It was amazing. Recently, I had a problem with the format of 400 pics that I had transfered to my PC, but I couldn't open them, sorry i don't have pics of mostly all Beijing.


We had a great time in Beijing, we had a tourist guide guy who is able to speak in spanish, and we went Beijing sightseeing. The forbidden city, the Summer Palace, Teh Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall... 


Is a city where history, culture and art mix together.


We also had time to visit the district 798, contemporary art fill the streets, and cars.

I don't know how but somebody went into an exposition, and they were serving food as well as white wine. The food was from the "Flo restaurant", I was very proud to say this food was from Barcelona, but they quickly told me that Flo is from France, not Catalonia....

Anyway, we ate a little bit there. The exposition was about pictures of korean people ( most of them men or men dressed like women) and the photographer was french.


The streets were also fulled with art and other species alike.

 The first Xi'an warrior...................................................................nude I've ever seen!!!

 Animals.....

and more animals!!!

好久不见！！！hao3 jiu3 bu4 jian4!!! We have not meeting each other for a long time!!! Cuánto tiempo sin vernos!!!

This is the good way to tell a friend "hello" again, cause it has passed a long time since you meet him or her for the last time. I'm sorry. I'm very sorry for my followers, a few good ones, cause it's been ages since my last post. Actually, I had the pleasure of having one of my followers attending my wedding in Taiwan, Pere thanks for coming and sorry about the game.

I've been busy (忙 - mang2) since my last post. I have had problems to connect to my facebook and to my blog for 10 days (travelling in China), and then I have had my wedding, another trip but this time around my beloved Taiwan, with my beloved family and some friends of them.

It's been a lot of fun!!! I have thousands of pics, not yet to be published. Lots of posts to be published.
Now, I'm a little bit busy with my Internet University, I'm trying to catch up again.

So far, I only can tell that all the trips were very amazing and I had a lot of fun. As they say:"Postum festum, pestum". So, I'm feeling sad cause my wife went back to Barcelona, as well as my parents who travelled with me around China and Taiwan. But, as they say in Spain: "Que me quiten lo bailado!!!", in other words: "I enjoyed a lot, so although I'm sad now, these lasts days I was terribly happy!!!".

It was like knocking on heavens door, as Bob Dylan says. Bob has been to Taipei in a concert yesterday!!!

I put some appetizer for you to follow my adventures and disadventures of this whole trip. Is the Temple of Heaven in Beijing (北京) , literally: the capital of the north. In the ancient China, they thought that the earth was squared and heaven was circular, that's why they built this circular building for the God of Heaven (and the emperor was the son of this God).

Toilet with a message in a government building in Tainan!!!

In Taiwan even going to a Toilet sometimes can be very very funny. Funnier than you thought in the first place.

In Spain I think we will say that somebody has to get wet or something like that.

Of course, we all will try to do so.

Speaking of which, I must say that the other day I went to a theater in Taiwan to watch "The rite" the last film Anthony Hopkings mastered with his performance, and at some moment of this film he says:" Speaking of the devil"...and he doth appear, and I think in Spain we will say:"Speaking of the king of Rome through the window he appears...". The english expression comes from the middle ages where it was supposed to be a superstitious prohibition against speaking directly of the Devil or of evil in general, which was considered to incite that party to appear, generally with unfortunate consequences. Its first printed usage in modern English can be found in Giovanni Torriano's Piazza Universale (1666), as "The English say, Talk of the Devil, and he's presently at your elbow."

As in Spanish the origin of this proverb comes from an expression that used "ruin"(mean or villanous) instead of "rey" (king),  and it was used to refer to a bad or mean person as this person showed up.

科学忍者隊ガッチャマン, Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman usease Comando G!!!

Allí por el año 1980 y gracias a la inestimable ayuda del grupo juvenil "Parchís" se hizo famosa en España una serie de anime japonesa conocida como "Comando G". Hubo reposiciones y yo fuí espectador de una de tantas...El argumento consistía en que 5 jóvenes defendían el planeta Tierra de amenazas externas.

Pues bien, el otro día tuve la ocasión de ir a un local en el que han acumulado un montón de referencias a las viejas glorias de la tecnología y referencias a épocas pasadas tanto de la cultura de Taiwán como de la nipona, que en algunos casos coinciden con las viejas glorias de otros países, entre ellos España y los Estados Unidos de América.

Entre ellos se cuentan: antiguos aparatos de televisión, bicicletas, asientos de peluquería, teléfonos antiguos, Elvis, viejas películas chinas, y un largo etcetera.

Tuve la suerte de que el día que fuí, pusieron un disco de Elvis Presley!!!

Además la comida también estuvo muy bien.