So this is an expat blog from today

In fact i found this online community of bloggers and copied and pasted the “luggage icon” here on the left. It comes with the sticker ILove NY instead of ILove HK in my case but you know i have 108 resons to say ILOVE NY too (see about section of this blog) so it is just the same. All places are the same and people too deep down in the end.

I was browsing a lil around the other blogs of expats (this word is not so beautiful, i think it is the first time in two years i am using it in a post! simply because i have no real feelings to be an expat) and found one common characteristics: they look like real girlish diaries, even when written by men! People like to write every single breath they take, how many steps from their home to the work place and how many noodles they’ve been eating at lunch. How amazing they have all the time to muse on all these details OR maybe it is just they THINK too much and their heads are full of stuff and they use the blog as a discharging channel. Interesting blogospheroidal concept, isnt it?

So enjoy the little green luggage logo and if you know others cool logos plz let me know.  ~:-) Luv

[the one in the pic they say is the most ancient Chinese character wowoo]

Blogging: artistical angle of it

I know, I know always talking about art art art here in BI, am i Italian for real!? It is several weeks I wanted to say something about blogging and finally i got pushed with inspirative reasons. I will list few artistical reasons and rememeber you to take care of your blog as you would of a precious and unique piece of art that cannot be found anywhere else.

• Similarly to any piece of art, a blog is made out of certain materials and colors, ceramic, argilla, glass, crystal, precious stones, metals, copper, acrylic, pastels, tempera, watercolor. Any combination does mirror your character and personality, completely hand made, it is not a Made in China product, it’s not fake. You are the artist: chhosing the template, the font, when to post, what subject, it is all arranged by you. By the way sina blog, a Chinese platform has a very beautiful template, Birth of Venere by Botticelli and i played with it wanting to start a pure Chinese blog (totally kidding). 
• The art is in your words, in their meaning, in their strenght, in their originality and creativity. For each post you can use thousands of different words depending on the topic and on the target. Some posts will be directed theorically to any person, some others to a more restricted group of people. You are like talking to the people, so you have to arrange the words in the right dosage and quality, just like an artist completing a very nice artwork.
• A good artwork transmits real feelings: so it is the passion and the meaning flowing thru the blog. Certain blogs are fresh and light, others lost in words, others meaningless, others empty and copied. Each blog gives a specific feeling to the readers. It should be the same feeling communicated if in person.
• The art of selling your artwork:  meaning the way of being intelligent, cool, funny, positive, smart, alert, careful in what you propose and the way of organizing the contents for the blogosphere. See the response afterwards.
• Playing like kids has got art in it: the blogosphere gives you the opportunity to play literally. To appear and disappear, to surf here and there, to post 5 times in one day, to not post for 5 consecutive days and so on. To start a new blog and delete an old one, to have more blogs at the same time. Everything is so clearly playful. i can also see art in all these movements and times.

 

Donneconlavaligia: Italian passion of the travelling woman

If you cannot read Italian you can always see the pictures and browse a typical blog magazine created by a typical original, artistical and versatile woman mind. The mind belongs to Marina Misiti, cool professional journalist from the Bel Paese with tons of stories and experiences to write and tell you inspired by years of travelling almost everywhere (considering the articles she uploads). So you can also understand why we crossed into this life sporadically enjoying the fun of sharing travelling-materials.

Donneconlavaligia (Womenwithetravelbag) is fascinating because:

• it straightly and lightly points out the best of slices of places, countries, cities by using pictures and words in a balanced way
• it summarizes the most important articles written by Marina Misiti in her carrier of journalist and reporter for national well known magazines (many for ladies)
• it gives fun plus useful tips for different topics concerning the places wher eto go, where to eat, what to dress…
• it gives tips about travelling and how to travel
• it is completely open to the internet panorama of other travel/leisure/women topics websites
• it is creating a net of reportages from other travelling women who understand Italian (and Italian culture in the world i ‘d love to say too) and live abroad
• it is a great idea of a blog magazine, extremely modern and complete which explores the feminine world from a wonderful perspective

Enjoy here the reportages in Italian by Radha for Donneconlavaligia: 

Fotoreportage from the train from Hong Kong to Beijing

Where to eat in HK: 5 best restaurants

From India of Gandhi to Italy: a long travel for peace

Hong Kong: not only skyscrapers

Hong Kong daily life

 

Bloggers like peace

There is one common thing i noticed among most of the blogs i browsed in these last few months (meaning the same time i myself started blogging) and it is:

Bloggers are beautiful flowers, all different in colors, petal’s shape, earth environment and smell. they have a very good desire to see this world changed, nicely changed. and they dream of peace a lot too. this is why they make a cool botanical garden all together in the realm of inter comunication.