The Palais Garnier or Opéra Garnier

The Palais Garnier or Opéra Garnier, is an elegant 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1860 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. The theatre was originally called the Salle des Capucines because of its location on the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, but soon became known as the Palais Garnier in recognition of its opulence and its architect, Charles Garnier. The theatre was also often referred to as the Opéra de Paris or simply the Opéra. It was the primary home of the Paris Opera and its associated Paris Opera Ballet until 1989, when a new 2,700-seat house, the Opéra Bastille, with elaborate facilities for set and production changes, opened at the Place de la Bastille.The Palais Garnier is now primarily used by the company for ballet....

The show was about......

Lifar / Ratmansky

PHÈDRE / PSYCHÉ

Phèdre (originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677.Consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson and believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, Phèdre confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus returns, alive and well, Phèdre, fearing exposure, accuses her stepson of rape. The result is carnage. ..... 28 Sept 2011.

The city gates of Paris

Visited the city gates of Paris ("portes de Paris") are the access points to the city for pedestrians and other road users. As Paris has had successive ring roads through the centuries, city gates are found inside the modern-day Paris.... 27 Sept 2011

The Château de Versailles

Vistied the Château de Versailles, which has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage List for 30 years, is one of the most beautiful achievements of 18th-century French art. The site began as Louis XIII’s hunting lodge before his son Louis XIV transformed and expanded it, moving the court and government of France to Versailles in 1682. Each of the three French kings who lived there until the French Revolution added improvements to make it more beautiful. .... 25 Sept 2010

” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you......”

After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.

He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

Thinking of starting a new blog to help people to learn C# programming

C# (pronounced see sharp) is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines. It was developed by Microsoft within its .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by Ecma (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270). C# is one of the programming languages designed for the Common Language Infrastructure.

C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language. Its development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg. The most recent version is C# 4.0, which was released on April 12, 2010.

Trying to find out an easy way to present it.

Peace of soul

To help reduce tension which seems to dominate us everywhere, you can start by reducing your own pace. To do that you will need to slow down, quite down. Do not fume. Do not fret. Practise being peaceful. To win a race, row slowly or to work slowly and maintain the steady pace.

The way to happiness

Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

As you read these words you may say: "There is nothing new in that." Indeed, there is something new in it if you have never tried it. When you start to practise it you will find it the newest, freshest and most astonishing method of happy and successful living you have ever used.

Developing a peaceful mind

Effective technique in developing a peaceful mind is the daily practise of silence. Go alone into the quietest place available to you and sit or lie down for 15 mins. and  practise the art of silence. Don't talk to anyone.

Create your own happiness

Who decide whether you shall be happy or unhappy? The answer - you do. You don't need to have any great secret to be happy. It's just as plain as the nose on your face. When you get up in the morning, you have two choices- either to be happy or to be unhappy. That may seem an over-simplification. Abraham Lincoln (whom nobody could accuse of being superficial) said that “People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”