Juin-Yin

I watched a TV show about ‘Body Art’. Two common body arts we are quite familiar with, Tatoo-ing and body piercing. I am going to share something that stunned me today, a new trend in body art. It is called “scarification”. If you think tattoo and body piercing are crazy, then this is the extreme case.

In the show, a girl was wearing a top completely exposed her back, showing off a magnificent bamboo leaves pattern that “carved” on her back. That is the concept of scarification. The skin of her back was peeled off with special metal tools, exposing the flesh underneath. The body modification was performed by a professional body artist, by applying topical anesthetic onto the desired area. The skin tissues will then be cut according to certain pre-designed patterns. When the wounds heal, there leaves a darker red marks, a permanent patterned scar on the body. Stunning… The host of the show interviewed few viewers, most of them think that was a crazy act, a body torturing rather than a piece of art. What d’u you think? To me, frankly, it was a piece of nice art. Nice, indeed a pity, as art becomes permanent damage to skin tissues, no tuning back. The limitation is, the pattern has to be entirely shown, else it would served more like a “scar” than an art if it is partially seen.

In "The Passage of Time", a stage show, one of the lady performers has a metal ball pierced at her tongue. At first I heard she talked, the speech was not as clear as a normal people talking, it was like someone talks with a candy in mouth. When she sang, then I saw, there was a metal ball mounted in her tongue. No wonder she could not speak clearly. When she sang and opened her mouth wide, I could see flash of the metal ball. It was pretty, I thought. Somehow the process of piercing the ball thru the muscle of the tongue, ouch… I can’t imagine that. Apart from that, a ball in mouth would more or less affect the eating and oral behaviors, I believe.

Most modern ladies nowadays have earrings pierced at the earlobes. I appreciate body arts. However, I do not see a necessity to do so on my body. I have never had any piercing. Body art is very much depending on the angle you are looking at the piece of art. Some people see a naked body as a symbol or sex, and some would suggest a naked body is a piece of art. I am an artistic person, I definitely think a human body is a piece of art. The sculptures of the 17th century were all naked men and women. They emphasized on the beauty of bodylines and shapes, no sexual message at all.

How far do you think body arts can go? It’s beyond you and my imagination, believe it.

中国十三亿人口，公认的全世界人口爆炸第一国。前阵子和妈妈去云南旅行，呵呵，原来不止人多，鬼也多。

我们在昆明市下榻的那间可算是市内数一数二的大酒店，设备齐全，服务周到。没的弹，不过房间的确有点诡异。就单单那一层楼，间间几乎都“客满”。第一晚，我有异样的感觉，纯粹感觉。第二晚换了房，妈妈说她整晚都睡不安，被一件软软的物体挤压。之后一晚在九乡，酒店位于郊外，人烟没有昆明市般稠密，较恬静和简单。夜晚很宁静。床还蛮硬的。好不容易进入梦乡，半梦半醒间我突然听见有人讲话。很大声，在妈妈的床位那里。我看了看妈妈，她睡得正甜，不像讲梦话。数秒钟后当我神志清醒，知道灵异事件又发生了。那根本不是妈妈的声音，是个年轻男子，说的是当地少数民族的语言。好彩不是唱歌或跳舞，那可一点都不可爱。不过没有其他恐怖的骚扰。

过后和团友们聊起，才知道当中很多人都经历灵异事件。那个眼睛大大的美眉说夜里起床见到个男孩站在她的床头，她的弟弟说睡梦里有人戳他的腰部。那对姐妹花说，她在收拾行李当儿感觉有人盯着她看，而且站得很近。那个白头发伯伯的太太说半夜有人掐她的喉咙。隔房的那位说半夜起身发现电视机开着，而且正播放着鬼戏，那女鬼的脸大刺刺出现整个荧幕，吓得她魂飞魄散。很多很多。不过大伙儿都是在乘搭回程的班机时才说出来，因为担心吓到团友们，真体贴。

人口和“鬼口”是不是有直接关系，我想多少有的。不过可以肯定，快乐的地方有比较少徘徊在人间的灵魂。

和老爸去吃粿条汤。因为穿得太随便，不敢东张西望怕遇到熟人。低头猛啃当儿，眼角余光扫瞄到不远处一桌认识的。十几年不见一眼就认得的那个，全级人都叫他“小叮当”的人；另一个背着我的，不必转头也知道是谁；至于那位一直望向我这里的，抱歉，真的没印象。今天要讲的和这班人完全扯不上关系，只是啃面和尽量不要看他们的当儿，突然间我解开多年来缠绕着我的一个谜。

你有没有这样的经验，望着镜子里的人，觉得那个镜中人是另外一个人，他正在注视你的一举一动？十岁之前，我一直有这种强烈而真实的感觉。那个男人，高高瘦瘦戴副眼镜，他时常从镜中注视着我，有时好像有话要说，有时纯粹只是在看。怪就怪在，他不是无所不在，他只出现在我衣柜里头那副全身镜。当时学校有个男生，高高瘦瘦戴眼镜，读隔我几班，我不认识他。他很文静，有点怪。我说他怪，是因为我常感觉他在“偷偷”看我。具体来说，他长得很像那衣柜里头的男人，那感觉就像那个镜中人在看着我，令人头皮发麻。当时八九岁的我还以为自己精神有毛病，无端端看到“同学”从镜子里看着我。

二十几年后的今天，我突然间醒悟，我从镜子见到的根本不是我的小学同学，也不是我精神分裂。那出现在镜中的眼睛根本属于住在我房里头，“他”的眼睛。。。我终于明白了。也有点内疚，一直以来错怪了我那个小学同学。