Swedish Music Special - China's InMusic Magazine 音樂時空

Extra from China's InMusic Magazine 音樂時空.
Writer: Lua Zhou (桑切克）
Photographer: Chili

With help of Swedish Export Music. InMusic's journalists traveled all the way to Sweden for the first time, interviewed many bands and published two special numbers in January and February 2008.
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The so-called Danish Diet

This diet lasts for 13 days and is tough but efficient. The aim is to change your metabolism which means that after day 13, you can eat normally again without increase weight the next 2 years. It is not a traditional fasting cure. It works even after you finished the diet. If you painstakingly follow the diet you will lose all excess fat, 7 to 20kg. The diet must be followed exactly, so if you during the diet drink a beer, a glass of wine or eat extra food, chewing gum etc, the cure is lost and so is the result. If you do stop it, you can not start again for the next 6 months. It is recommended not to do this more often than once every 2 years. It required quite a bit of planning and to make sure to avoid dinner invitation during these 2 weeks.


Day 1 & 7
Breakfast: 1 cup of black coffee 1 sugarcube
Lunch: 2 hardboiled eggs, 1 tomato, boiled spinach, (small quantity)
Dinner: 1 big steak (beef), sallad with oil and lemon

Day 2 & 8
Breakfast: 1 cup of black coffee 1 sugarcube
Lunch: 1 big steak (beef), sallad with oil and lemon, 1 fresh fruit
Middag: 1 slice of boiled ham, 1 cup of natural yoghurt

Day 3 & 9
Breakfast: 1 cup of black coffee 1 sugarcube, 1 toast
Lunch: 1 tomato, boiled spinach, 1 fresh fruit
Dinner: 2 hardboiled eggs, 1 slice of ham, Salad w oil & lemon.

Dag 4 & 10
Breakfast: 1 cup of black coffee 1 sugarcube, 1 toast
Lunch: 1 hardboiled egg, 1 Shredded carrot, 1 small can of cottage cheese
Dinner: 1 can of fruitsallad, 1 can of natural yoghurt

Day 5 & 11
Breakfast: Big shredded carrot with lemon
Lunch: Big, not fat, fish with lemon
Dinner: 1 big steak (beef), Salad w oil & lemon, Broccoli

Day 6 & 12
Breakfast: 1 cup of black coffee 1 sugarcube, 1 toast
Lunch: 1 chicken, Salad w oil & lemon
Dinner: 2 hardboiled eggs, 1 shredded carrot

Day 13
Breakfast: 1 cup of tea without sugar
Lunch: 1 piece of grilled meat, Fresh fruit
Dinner: Nothing at all

A list of films I like from Berlinale 2008 - Berlin Film Festival

The Song Of Sparrows

In competition:
Avaze Gonjeshk-ha | The Song Of Sparrows (Iran) Majid Majidi
There Will Be Blood (USA) Paul Thomas Anderson
Tropa de elite | The Elite Squad (Brazil) Jose Padilha
Lake Tahoe (Mexico) Fernando Eimbcke
Ballast (USA) Lance Hammer
Caos calmo | Quiet Chaos (Italy) Antonello Grimaldi

Off competition:
Be Kind Rewind (USA) Michel Gondry
Shine A Light (USA) Martin Scorsese

Restless' up rising talent - Ran Danker

Ran Danker - shavim

Just drop a quick note about this young man shined our Berlinale screening the last day, before I go on and on about the film festival.

The last film in Berlinale 2008's competition screening - "Restless" by Amos Kollek was a fresh link from Israel to NYC. A story about a runaway, selfish poet father living in New York fighting for the meaning of his life, and a long lost son he has never met traveled oversea to find him after lost of the mother and fired by his sniper job what he's good at.

The morning we just viewed a cruel story about an 8 years old girl in war, and all we wished to see next is something more cheerful. And "Restless" is another tough reality to watch. But when we were just put ourself in the mood of another depressive story. Ran Danker, 25 years old, US born Israeli super star appears and brights us all. We can't ignore his resemblance to Wentworth Miller but something about him, maybe is his brief guitar scene at the battle field and his sniper's cruelty character make him a little bit more human than Miller in Prison Break.

Enjoy his music video shows he's not just a good actor, also his talent of music.

to Heath

It has been a while I was planing to make a big come back on my blog after a long holiday laziness. I've thought to post a qout. about the masterpiece of Dunkirk scene from "The Atonement", and I've thought about to post a very touching scene with Zoe Hall's beautiful voice from "Medium". But till now. Heath Ledger's tragic death.

Honestly say. He's not the stereo type of actor will attract me into a movie theater. I watched his movies was simply because he was in many of good movies I enjoyed. Then on one December evening of year 2005. I was fortuned enough to join an actress friend to the premier of the famous Ang Lee's movie Brokeback Mountain at AMC Loews Lincoln Square theater in New York.

That evening. We've met the director first for a half an hour chat then we granted through the red carpet to the theater's lobby, surrounded by many well known faces and a human cyclone's center Heath and Michelle. The premier was separated in two rooms to satisfy all people invited. We were there waiting in the 2nd floor's lounge where girls and gays were lurking their eyes around to see if Jack is present, but I was secretly wishing to get to see Heath.

A moment later. I see a big boy in a soft trendy coat, goofly walks right to me with a big smile. My short sighter vision forced me to eyeing him for quit a while before I can actually recognize he is no one but Heath. I figured he must mistake me with someone else then when he was just few steps from me, I dramatically stepped away to let him pass by. But since he had such goofy way of walk. He was almost hit me with his shoulder.

Movie ended. We were shuttled to "Park", sat at director's table and behind me was Heath with sweet Michelle on his lap. They were totally cute and in love. Michelle seems very shy and Heath was really keen to her. The little sparkling dressed Anne Hathaway was there too and many other famous faces. Director introduces my friend to Heath, and this goofy guy again with a big warm smile mistake me. I had to flicked my eyes and discretely finger pointed to my friend's direction to save the situation.

I realized from that evening, how he was someone simply happy and very different than all his movie's characters. And all that were his perfection of a true talented artist. As he once said: “I feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.” Here he's gone with countless unfinished business that ironically he might just need to repeat many other Groundhog Day lives. And cruelly left us to a nuance world where things are incomprehensible no matter how wise we grow. Things happened unwilling or pointless. No supernatural explanation nor fact reports can cease us wondering the reason.
- to Heath and his love ones with heart.

Medium S401 - My Favorite Things


Atonement - Dunkirk Scene