Nothing

put the lonely heart at home,
put the willful thought at home,
put the uncomfortable expectation at home.

out of the house,
only smile.

sometimes,
nothing at all.

You

I know you,
I can see you,
I can hear about you.

but why,

even your smile I want to see,
all make me feel so luxury.

even if you.

The truth

The most beautiful thing in this life,
probably is,
being and harmony with endless world and eternal universe.

Perhaps,
it's difficult to accept existence of endless and eternal,
but,
this is life,
the truth.

Every things will gone,
but also exist around us,
although we could not see.

Staunch

Many scales,
composed of a beautiful armor,
in order to protected fish's flesh and blood.

Looks strong,
in fact,
they has a fragile heart.

Human beings are strong in their little world,
but also complete fragile in their mind.

Peaceful life

The plum rain season will remain more than a month.

I stay in my room,
see the full rain,
peace.

Slight, cool wind,
wet, cold moisture,
nourish the earth,
peace.

I raised my head to see the broad sky,
just for a fantastic dream.

I don't practice too much these two weeks,
there's no reason.

This is my life.

A Comparison of Two Pictures

These two pictures are painted by a Spanish painter, Francisco de Goya and a French painter, Éduoard Manet. The left picture was painted by Goya, named "The Third of May, 1808". This painting depicted that Spanish peasants being massacred by Napoleon's soldiers. The right picture was painted by Manet, named "Death of Maximilian". The painting described that a history about Napoleon III and the Mexico emperor Maximilian in 1867. Besides, their different creative background and times, there are another few different points in these two pictures.

The first different point with two pictures is the overall color tone. Goya's painting uses yellow, red, and entirely brown and black. The scene is dark night and these colors are use to depict bloodiest war. However, Manet's painting uses blue, green, and gray, the incident occurred during the day. These colors that Manet use seem like cooler color then Goya's warmer color.

The second different point is figures in these two pictures. Goya depicted that Spanish peasants being massacred, but Manet described an emperor was executed for treason. People who are killed are in different level at first. In addition, figures in Goya's Painting were innocent and ignorant people, but in Manet's painting, even the emperor was innocent, he already knew that he would die.

Moreover, in Goya's painting, the central Spanish peasant's hands are outstretched in a pose that recalls Christ on the cross, so the peasant wears white shirt because of innocent and contrast in the black canvas. The Maximilian in Manet's painting wears a black robe This point emphasize that his collaborators' white shirt. On the other hand, the proportion of Spanish peasants and soldiers in Goya's painting are equal, but in Manet's is not. In Manet's painting, soldiers obviously more than Maximilian and his collaborators, and one soldier independent from other soldiers to prevent accidents.

To sum up, the work of artists are not only for artistic practice, but they also present a truth, a truth of this world. Artists use an intermediary in their hands to tell something about the world and people. Their works sometimes also can be a microcosm of the times, and impacting people forever, just like the painter Goya and the painter Manet.

Coming soon

My recital is coming soon.
I have less than two weeks to adjust my mentality,
a mentality belong to a soloist.

Artists are always alone,
even they work together,
even they do ensemble,
they still alone,
in mind.

This recital is a truly solo recital,
no pianist,
no other instruments,
just me, my violoncello, and contemporary music.

welcome,
and enjoy.

2010 Kuei-Ju Lin Cello SOLO Recital

2010.6.4 @ 7:00pm
Lecture Hall of National Taiwan University of Arts

Program:
Gaspar Cassado / Suite per Violoncello Solo
Benjamin Britten / Suite for Cello, No. 3, Op.87
Bright Sheng / Seven Tunes Heard in China for Cello Solo

Kuei-Ju Lin is a student of Yu-Wen Chou.

Rainy day

I carried my curious and greatful heart
to see the world

what is wrong or right
this is not the problem

the problem is
what attitude you live
and
how do you look at something other than your

no complain
no excuse

just forgive
and
mercy

I have a Bird in spring

I have a Bird in spring
Emily Dickinson

I have a bird in spring
Which for myself doth sing-
The spring decoys.
And as the summer nears-
And as the Rose appears,
Robin is gone.

Yet do I not repine
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown-
Learneth beyond the sea
Melody new for me
And will return.

Fast is a safer hand
Held in a truer Land
Are mine-

And though they now depart,
Tell I my doubting heart
They're thine.

In a serener Bright,
In a more golden light
I see
Each little doubt and fear,
Each little discord here
Removed.

Then will I not repine,
Knowing that Bird of mine
Though flown
Shall in a distant tree
Bright melody for me
Return.

take it easy

To be concentrate, but not serious;
getting better and better, but not impatient.

I'm worry about my recital,
and nervous.
But everything I can do is take it easy,
every things will be fine.

I have to trust myself and keep working hard.

Change

I've spent a lot of time to accept all my shortcoming.

"Where are you, I just could not know about you I remembered."
"You are not yourself anymore."

But what is you remembered?
As you remembered are a person's real life?

Every things will change.
Fruits are riping,
Flowers are blooming,
Biology are growing.

All of me are real me.
I still myself,
I am changing,
and I still here.

My Lovely Cats

Her name is Bo Bo, and she is a very elegant cat.

I have never thought that I could feeding pets till I met Bo Bo.
She has beautiful deep gray hair, this is what I proud of her, so does she, I guess.
When I saw her at first time, she curled up on the cats pend alone, and I observed her for few minutes.
She didn't move from I first time saw her.
I decided to adopt her just less than a minute, for she looks so lonely, just like me.

Now, we love each other very much.
I let her to be herself, and I hope that she can enjoys this life.

(Bo Bo enjoys sunbathing at our past house)

This two lovely cats are one year old now!

The left cat named Bao Bao, and the right one named Ni Ni.
They are twins from there mom who gaves birth to five little cats.
They looks like each other so much when they are three months.
Now, they are more and more different, and more and more cute!
Bao Bao has a light voice.
When she felts hungry or cats pend was too dirty, she uses her light voice to scream immediately.
Even though she just wants me to stay right her side.

Ni Ni was different with Bao Bao.
She is very gentle and carefully. She talks rarely.
But sometimes she talks to me that I can heard her whisper.

They are so special!

These three cats are most important family in my life,
no one can replace them.

The Yellow Power

I'm a baseball fan,
especially The Brother Elephants Baseball club.

Today is the beginning of new baseball season.
The openning game is very important for every club.
Despite any club getting winner,
the first win can promote there's morale and fightting power.

This time,
Elephant engaged with Seven-Eleven Lion.
The score of game was 1:0.
Surely,
the winner was Elephant!

I believe that the first win can take every bad past experiences away from them.

Qualities of a Good Musician

A good musician has three qualities more practicing, learning musical theories and being modest. With the three qualities, musicians can be what they want to be.

First of all, practice makes perfect. No matter how much talent one has, everyone who learns music must pay one – third of a day on musical scales, etudes and compositions. This is the only way to promote skills on instrument, and also make a musicians become a great artist. Otherwise, a little skill can not handle complex compositions just like Concertos.

Second, learning musical theories will support a musician's thinking. For example, to analyze musical compositions and read music histories or artist biographies can make a musician's performance having deep interpretation. Besides, experience sharing of musicians also brings many benefits. Reading or hearing experience sharing of musicians may get a theory of what can do on performance or what should be avoid.

Third, a musician has to be modest. Almost famous musicians are very modest, even though they have excellent skills and outstanding performances. When musicians practice more composition and learns more theories, they may soon detect that working hard is always not enough. So, that is the reason why a musician must be modest.

To sum up, musicians combine excellent skills with outstanding interpretation and modest. Then they are not only great performers, but also sages. In addition, musicians learn more theory and more practice if they have no feelings in there interpretation, musicians are just music artisans.

Busy

Too much work I have to do,
but I really enjoy this life.

Music, pets, works in school,
busy, but rich,
tired, but worth.

I'm thinking,
a busy life including more practice is the key to be a great artist,
so......
there is no reason to defuse being a busy person,
except the reason is LAZY.