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Iza the little photographer.
Our shot and her shot.


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Iza's photography ( iphone-symmetrizr )

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Colors

Vibrant colors

Jordan MTR station, HK

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Iza's breakfast painting, Town house 31, Milan.

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TREASURE

Iza loves to collect.



These few things were picked up by Iza during the Milan & London Trip 09.
... pebbles from the Hempel Hotel, London
... pine cones from Kew Garden, London
... chestnut from the studio museum "Achille Castiglioni", Milan

Putting side by side the other 2 sets of "treasures" from Japan and Vietnam ...
having a glimpse of iza's library...

The Hempel, London ... picking pebbles

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Kew Garden, London ... searching for pine cones

The studio museum "Achille Castiglioni", Milan ... for chestnuts

( images from daily icon magazine and the studio museum "Achille Castiglioni" )

It was a place where the master Achille Castigliono worked and creative ideas were born.

I love this place more than any other exhibitions in Milan Design week 09.

I'm touched by these classic designs.

They could still move one's soul after decades!!!

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On a comment book of the studio museum,

Iza drew these.

A chain of light bulbs,

and a chair which can be unfolded into a bench.

They are remarkable!

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We have bumped into the Corraini's Gallery in Milan, by accident.

We met Steven Guarnaccia.

He was signing iza's new book - the three little pigs.

It is another place I would HIGHLY recommend.

Though small, but contented.

Corraini has a sophisticated collection of children books.

They even conduct workshops for children and teachers.

I hope one day they will come to HK!

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In this new story, the 3 pigs are architects.

The first little pig decided to build his house of scrapes ... representing Frank Gehry.

The second little pig built a glass house ... representing Philip Johnson.

The third little pig built the Falling Water ... yes, he was Frank Lloyd Wright.

I then showed iza pictures of this great building.

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Ingo Maurer at Milan design week 09

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Animal-shaped furniture by French designers iBride.
Below is Martin the Mule - a writing desk in the form of a life-sized mule.



Owen the sheep table and Scotty the lamb stool.



Joe the bear shelf

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Like this indoor garden.

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Just have time to do a little post.
Then we will head to the HK Polytechnic, iza will have rehearsal there.
She's having a violin performance (group) tonight.
Hope everything is fine!
She is nasty these few days. She refused to rehearse in the last violin lesson ... Yesterday, she used scissors to cut her classmate's artwork and tools, and intended to cut the other's trousers ... and, kicked her teacher ... she loved her teacher but just couldn't help doing so ...
Headache ... monster iza ...

MINUS INFINITY

" Is your love (to me) minus infinite, mama? " iza asked.

" Can you tell me what means by ... minus ... infinite ... love ... ?" I wondered.

" It is a PRIME love. It is FIRST.

SMALL number comes first, just like ONE. It always comes before TWO ...

And, negative numbers are smaller than ONE.

Among ALL negative numbers, minus infinity is the SMALLEST.

Therefore, minus infinite love is of the HIGHEST LOVE!"

iza indulged into her world of funny logics.

Wish we can all have this capacity of " minus infinite " love!

Happy Mother's Day!

SWIM

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Iza is not good at gross motor and fine motor coordination. Therefore, we have her attending swimming class since 4Y3M.
Quite unexpected, iza is being selected to a special training program (last for 6 months) in this February. The coach only picked 4 children in age 5-6 with shown potential. I'm uncertain that iza is the one. The coach might mix up names of children!? When she swims, she cannot coordinate her arms, legs and breathes ...
After 2 months training, iza can swim in all 4 styles though in her own funny way!
The coach once told me that iza has feeling in Backstroke. I never think that swimming is about feeling...

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I don't have much time to organize the pictures ( there're still 2 sets of pictures taken in Shanghai and Beijing just before the Europe trip ), and I hope to maintain a daily post (if possible) on weekdays. Therefore, I select a few or just one each time and avoid those should be grouped together... If the situation continues, I may come up as Milan 100 / London 100 :)

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Tokoyo Fibre Senseware in Milan o9

I love the BREATHAIR by Kashiwa Sato.

It is a set of large 3D blocks that can be combined like puzzle pieces.

More here.

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