Lies to sell the water

Sometimes I get so angry about the people who lie to sell water to us that I have to yell on my blog.
Does it have something to do with art? oh yes, if they put to much fluoride in my drinking water, I'll get poisoned by heavy metal and become stupid. Then I won't complain about them feeding my fluoride, will I?

This is a letter I wrote to Glendale Water and Power, who buys water from Metropolitan Water District of Southern Cal., who takes my tax money to put poison in my water and charge me monthly to lie to me. Nice, the capitalism at it's best!

Dear Glendale Water and Power:
Thank you for sending the WQR.08 2008 Water Quality Report. We find the information very useful. Regarding to the answers provided by GWP to Glendale residents' questions about drinking water quality, I have some comments.
In the "Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water" section, GWP did not clearly instruct people "how" to dispose unused medication should they choose to dispose it in regular household trash. Pharmaceuticals are considered Household Hazardous Waste in the county of Los Angeles, people should do their best to Not dispose them in the trash. Even if they do, it should be "Put in a sturdy, securely sealed container, then in a trash can," according to County of LA's website. http://ladpw.org/epd/hhw/nodrugs/index.cfm

EPA is now proposing to add hazardous pharmaceutical wastes to the Universal Waste Rule. It is time GWP start addressing this issue in a clear manner. The fact that medication goes into the trash will lead to their impact in the landfill, further settles into the ground water. Best solution should be considering it as hazardous waste at all time.

Regard the "Fluoridation" section, GWP only offer One source for people to read about the fluoride's impact to human health. Unsurprisingly, the link goes directly to the MWD website, who caused a huge controversial debate back in 2007 by increasing fluoridation in water. I personally consider this report irresponsible as it failed to address the controversial issue from both sides. Fluoridated drinking water is especially dangerous to infants and nursing mothers. It is GWP's duty to educate people on that. Here is what some scientists, dentists and experts have to say about Fluoridation in drinking water: http://www.fluoridealert.org/ that Glendale residents have the rights to know about.

ps. Do you know that fluoride is byproduct from aluminum industry. Back in the 30's, some genius thought of tossing it in our drinking water to defer their waste management cost while raking in some of your tax money. It makes your teeth stronger, but is also cloud your brain and poison your blood. Teeth for intelligence, way to go!

long entangled twine

It has been that long since I leave you alone.

To ignore the web altogether, life is clean and burden-free.

Now I come back from vacation, which was from avoiding the moving hassle, studio is still a mess, computers needs wires and wireless, furniture to be located and more more boxes to be unpacked....

I'm sitting here waiting for the firmware to be downloaded... 9 minutes to go... it does not even guarantee I'll set up the network successfully. much like the digital tv crap...

but the bull dog determination always tames motherboard and smooths out information traffic.

Would it be easier to entertain one's life when there is no web?

when all an sculptor has to plug in is the carving tool, the dremel or the saw? glue, then, glue is a much safer tool.

Eugenio Merino, I admire you!

I admire this piece: "4 the love of Go(l)d" by Eugenio Merino, simply because Merino has the guts that i'll never have to make works like these.
Do I hate Hirst? No. but I did have to abandon a project because he's butterfly piece overlapped my idea.
Te read the piece in Chinese: http://artouch.com/artco/story.aspx?aid=2009031309484

Realization #01

went to see Louise Bourgeois' show at Moca today. Everybody knows she's awesome, but in what degree, one has to see her works in person.
I followed her media and concepts one by one, suddenly realized that throughout my short art career, there is one perfect word to describe my journey.
"Stumble" or "flounder," that is what I've been doing all these years. I was afraid of speaking my mind. I followed my works instead of myself. I was pushed around by the society and the vanity of the art world. Therefore I have a hard time sticking to one media or concept, or worse, to my true desires. Can't blame on the system, I'm the one who chose to be a ass-kissing pleaser.
What a shame! But how does one ungrow what was taught to us since we were born? Aren't we supposed to be sweet little girls? Even if we are not sweet anymore, we still have to dress up for gallery openings, don't we?

The first realization of this year, I have been a stumbler.

白色的回憶

聖誕節快到了,雖然不愛過節的我們忙到快翻掉了,還要盯著新家的休建進度,我手邊還欠著一本書,5件作品加上二月中的個展,過年又回不了家了,連新家八成都搬不成了...這都不算討厭,討厭的是翻譯翻一翻,竟翻出想念三姊的記憶...
想到那年我回到美國後,聖誕節時卻病到不行,還以為自己有氣喘哩!無原無故地怎麼也不會好,二姊也出國了,只剩下大姊和爸媽在台灣,寂寞的三姊偷接了一大堆大夜班,大概也覺得過節過得沒意思吧!連活著都沒意思了說...
聖誕節快到了,總是不知不覺地就想到妳,也沒有過節的打算呀,怎麼老姊妳會悄然地爬上心頭呢?是時間又讓你繞了一圈回到我身邊了吧?
好想妳呀!不想還好,想著心裡就痛得不得了,就算放聲大哭也不恰當,只是痛,乾乾硬硬的痛...
勸別人都容易,但要自己過這關還真難,想念的痛不容易釋懷,畢竟我是平凡人,我對妳的愛是平凡人的愛,是自私的,所以我想著不可能讓妳快樂但是還要妳為了討厭的人賴活著...
唉,走了也好,賞可惡的人一耳光,讓他們痛苦得不得翻身...
好吧!用我小人悲賤的想法就不會這麼傷心了,畢竟幫妳報了仇,但是我想要與妳分享的喜悅呢?妳走了之後生活變了好多,真希望妳還在,過節過得不爽也好,畢竟我還摸得到妳...