Terwijl ik aan het grasduinen was in websites uit het verleden, viel op de website van de scouts en die hebben nu ook een sectie waarin de eigenschappen van de totems worden weergegeven. Uit nostalgie eens de eigenschappen van mijn totem opgezocht: mysterieuze kakatoe.
Just a little something that made me laugh from the Jesus Christ Superstar movie (dating back to 1973!).
As some of you know, I already have a tattoo (although less of you know where it is located exactly and even less have seen it ;-). I got it for my 25th birthday, and was supposed to represent a value that I treasured most, one that I felt was the result of my upbringing and youth. This value was "respect", and is represented by is this image, which is based on the word respect in Arabic (pronounced "ithtiraam"). A long time friend of mine who became an artist helped me rework it so it has a lot of symbolic worked into it.Despite the negative connotation of the Chinese tattoo, there has always been tattooing in China. The Chinese word for tattoo is Ci Shen, literally meaning puncture the body.
The first Chinese tattoos were considered a punishment – sort of a mark of disgrace. Criminals were marked with a face tattoo and forced to live in exile. This practice is called Ci Pei in Chinese.
Even in modern China today, tattoos are considered to be connected with the underworld somehow, although this attitude is slowly changing. Despite the dubious attitudes towards tattooing, there is some evidence that tattooing and other body art are making inroads among Chinese youth today.
The Chinese pictographic system of writing was imported to Japan many centuries ago, and is known as ” Kanji ” (In Japanese, kan+ji = Chinese+word). Most kanjis have the same meaning as the original Chinese characters, but some have evolved over time in Japanese usage and the meanings are different from the Chinese characters used nowadays.
Pronunciation: quánhéng
Ancient symbol for balance in the sense of harmony: it is represented by the first symbol that is more like scales, then the aspect of equilibrium is added by the second:
A reworked version of it...
Bruno
(and this should be my name in chinese btw)
Pour une petite semaine, nous nous sommes rendus en Suisse, histoire de profiter de la neige et du soleil pour tester les shortskis que mon frère et moi partageons. C'était à Crans-Montana où il y a 140km de pistes et 26 lifts, juste assez pour occupper des débutants comme moi même. Et puis cela aide d'avoir Thomas avec moi qui connait toutes les pistes comme sa poche ;-).C'est un peu chique (ou devrais-je dire "mondain"), avec le village à une altitude de 1500m, et le glacier le plus haut où on peut skier à 3.000m.
