16^th Mar Mon

The meeting at the Trends Lounge was about the book release event on 28^th March.  Will be our big day.

We are informed of the Pakistan trip schedule to be start on April 6^th.

Discussed with Bing and Chaoyin about the trip and preparation

Lunch 30.00

Taxila by John Marshall, 3 book: 142.40

17^th Mar

Worked out the content of the poster for the book release.

9^th Mar

The lecture and the exhibition were at the conference room and entrance hall of the Beijing Garment Design Institute, where Huanqing works as professor of art.

37 paintings were in the exhibition, and the lecture and dialogue was c.a. 2 hours. Thanks to Bing’s recommendation of the book Story of Art by Gombrich, otherwise I would have difficulty in translating for René.

10^th Ma

一个是他的父亲海因里希·伯尔 (Heinrich Böll) , 代表着德国的良心的作家。

海因里希·伯尔（1917-1985）德意志联邦共和国作家。生于科隆一木匠家庭。当过书店学徒，1939年入

2^nd Mar

Paid A-Yi for house cleaning Jan – Jun: 1,500.00

Dental care: 22.50

Supermarket: 41.90

Phone bill Dec 08 and Jan 09, Cenral Place apartment: 44.00

Cable TV 2009: 216.00

Meeting with Hongyu and Chaoyin discussing about letter to Prof. Ji for his message for Gandhara book.

3^rd Mar

Meeting Hu Ying for new concept of book cover.

Breakfast at KFC: 30.50

Meeting Director He. Renming Publish House.

Super market: 22.10 + 100.72

Paid for parking Mar – Jun: 1,400.00

600.00 for Dorji’s life expenses in Beijing, March.

4^th Mar

Joined Bing to meet René, a German artist, who would stay at my Central Place apartment for the week of his lecture and exhibition in Beijing.

René & Bing were friends of years, and I have been their carrier

23^rd Feb.

Visited the Chief Editor of a travel magazine in the morning.

The contractor of the tax bureau installed the printer and the tax control device, and I would be able to purchase the tax receipt the net day.

24^th Feb.

Purchased the tax receipt from the tax bureau. Then picked up Hu Ying who brought the first version of book layout.  5 of us gathered together discussing the design concept. The cover needs to be re-considered.

Lunch at the Jiao Zi restaurant.

The book reading at Book Fun downtown.

Meeting Li of Chinese National Geography, discussed about the trip to Pakistan for Gandhara photo shooting.

Picked up the two pulli. 145.00 for the wool material.

25^th Feb.

Did book keeping in the morning.

Went to the bank in the afternoon for cash withdraw.

16^th Feb.

Tax bureau again, the certificate for receipt printer.  I guess China is the only country who forces enterprises to use a designated PC set for tax control.

Food at Friendship supermarket: 72.00, parking 3.00.

17^th Feb.

It snowed, probably starting mid-night. Looked out of the windowed, my little Golf is covered with white blanket.  A man of the neighboring building was cleaning his car, while making snowballs with the snow and teasing the women who were sweeping the snow on the pave way by throwing the snowballs at them.

9^th Feb. Lantern festival.

Meeting Meto’s friend Yangguang Starbucks at SwissApartment. Parking: 7.00.

Meeting another friend of Meto Julia Zhu, the dentist.

Flower market Meto bought roses for Xiong Lei.

We visited Xiong Lei, who did the English version of our first book.  A former chief of special report dept, Xinhua, Xiong Lei has an excellent master of English as well as Chinese writing.  A good chat, and Meto (her name is Peng Lei) found XIogn Lei's youngest aunt was her neighbor in Chengdu and her father’s colleague.

2^nd Feb.

Local tax bureau did not accept my registration, because the bank account approval was still under process.

Photo copy 3.50.  Will come back when get the bank account number next Monday.

Ah-Yi paid for the DVD delivered @ 89.70.  These are for Ugyen Wandi, Samdrup's cousin, the first Bhutanese TV documentary producer.  Ugyen studies movie producing in Pune, India, and came back to Bhutan setting up his communications agent.  He gave me a documentary film made on the journey of a postman from Linzhi, the border village near the Jomohari.

Brought Dorji bedding s

26^th Jan, Chinese New Year

I decided to start with the lunar calendar, due to the fact that I was traveling in Bhutan and India until 9^th Jan. The expenses in Jan would not reflects what is needed living in China.

We decide to have the Chinese New Year in Shanghai at my brother Fan’s house. He was married 8 years ago with Wenhui from Urumuqi and they have a daughter Lisa who is 7 and a half now. My parents came a week ago preparing for the New Year.  I arrived yesterday, Fan picked my up with his luxury looking but not-so convenient to drive or sit Zhonghua.

The first expenses i

Living Simple in 2009

As many other difficult years in history, they will fade away from memory, a self-curing mechanism of human beings. We are the only creatures in this world, who consciously or unconsciously write off memories that are sad, embarrassed and of any other inconvenience.

So what would be the best way of keep a memory?  Some years ago Bing gave me a book to read, the illustrative travel diary of the 16^th century German, or I should say Nuremberg artist Albrecht Duerer, who kept a detail record of his daily expenses of almost everything, such as ho