Okay, for those of you who tends to read this blog without making any comments (the majority of the public). Due to the fact that Ms. Afeline wants to start being more... hum... publicized about her writings, she's decided to move the whole blog (all of her blogs, as a matter of fact) to wordpress.com.
http://eveafeline.wordpress.com
Please be welcomes to continue your interests there. :)
From here on, a new journey begins, and a new style introduced, in hope of making everything more interesting to her and to you. :)
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Today's Bookmarks
Introducing! Today's Bookmarks!
After spending on average of about 6 hours or more a day online, it's quite a collection the amounts of websites you can see per day. You ever wonder about the amazingly scary amount of websites out there?! My GOD! It sounds deathly.
http://www.happyslip.com/
Happy Slip Production!
This is one hell of an amazing phenomanon. A one person show developing into a online craze! One of top 10 on YouTube, and one hell of a funny girl. :)
http://www.ravshmuel.com/
Rav Shmuel!
Prolly his Protocol is the one everybody knows. I loved it, so did most of the people who sent it to me. The brilliance of the Jewish people once again shined in ours eyes... well... just brilliant! (*sob* with touch)
http://www.slyart.com.tw/
Sly Art in Taipei!
Well, I know where I am going this weekend! :) (What a Sunday this is gonna be!) I'm excited already! :)
http://www.youngvoice.com.tw/2007my24hrs/default_E.htm
My 24 Hours!
I love this stuff! Definitely need to go see it! What happens when you put a video camera in a child's hand?! He he he... a wick of a world!
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
Jamendo
The creator of this site is in Taipei this weekend! For Wikimania! (Okay, definitely getting myself hooked with Creative Commons asap)... I can see where the next musical addiction is coming from... :)
http://blog.yam.com/ccgarden/
ccGarden!
All Hail ccTaiwan's Mr. Chuang... :P Although I am way over-due with my email to him, but I'm offering myself as a hand in help for any future events! That, and I'm going up north for sure this weekend to get to know what Creative Commons is about more... :)
http://www.openbusiness.cc/
Open Business!
This is kinda like a really cool website/project aimed at sharing of business plans (I wonder what the participants of GlobalTiC will think of this... @@) Still need to look into it more, but anyways, will get updated on it asap. :)
More to come from today's events! (as we slowly move this blog from private to public~)
After spending on average of about 6 hours or more a day online, it's quite a collection the amounts of websites you can see per day. You ever wonder about the amazingly scary amount of websites out there?! My GOD! It sounds deathly.
http://www.happyslip.com/
Happy Slip Production!
This is one hell of an amazing phenomanon. A one person show developing into a online craze! One of top 10 on YouTube, and one hell of a funny girl. :)
http://www.ravshmuel.com/
Rav Shmuel!
Prolly his Protocol is the one everybody knows. I loved it, so did most of the people who sent it to me. The brilliance of the Jewish people once again shined in ours eyes... well... just brilliant! (*sob* with touch)
http://www.slyart.com.tw/
Sly Art in Taipei!
Well, I know where I am going this weekend! :) (What a Sunday this is gonna be!) I'm excited already! :)
http://www.youngvoice.com.tw/2007my24hrs/default_E.htm
My 24 Hours!
I love this stuff! Definitely need to go see it! What happens when you put a video camera in a child's hand?! He he he... a wick of a world!
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
Jamendo
The creator of this site is in Taipei this weekend! For Wikimania! (Okay, definitely getting myself hooked with Creative Commons asap)... I can see where the next musical addiction is coming from... :)
http://blog.yam.com/ccgarden/
ccGarden!
All Hail ccTaiwan's Mr. Chuang... :P Although I am way over-due with my email to him, but I'm offering myself as a hand in help for any future events! That, and I'm going up north for sure this weekend to get to know what Creative Commons is about more... :)
http://www.openbusiness.cc/
Open Business!
This is kinda like a really cool website/project aimed at sharing of business plans (I wonder what the participants of GlobalTiC will think of this... @@) Still need to look into it more, but anyways, will get updated on it asap. :)
More to come from today's events! (as we slowly move this blog from private to public~)
Adaptation
Crowds. I cannot hear.
This is a progressing problem as years go by. It's pressing, it's painful, and it's on-going.
I remember the time when people cannot really tell if I can hear or not... And now, they can, and they don't understand.
There's a lot of people like me in this world, and each of us must learn to adapt.
I see the similar patterns, the distance from the crowd, the individuality, the quiet self.
There is so much to see, if you look carefully everyday, you will be surprised at how the world is.
Adaptation. That's the que. Every creature in this world must learn to adapt. The only question is what direction is the best?
From here, which direction do we go to adapt?
Why do I bring up people who cannot hear right? Not that I pity myself nor ask for pity, but that this is a strong process of adaptation. You see, for people who cannot hear entirely, people excuse them. For people who cannot hear partially but are old, people can understand them. For people who are partially impaired but young, most do not notice them. So, we must learn to adapt. Not because we are afraid of how people see us, but because we must not look down on ourselves (which, in my case, happens sometimes)...
(I don't know if this makes sense at all... I feel like Beethoven, you know... :P He created magic when he could hear, and miracles when he could not.)
This is a progressing problem as years go by. It's pressing, it's painful, and it's on-going.
I remember the time when people cannot really tell if I can hear or not... And now, they can, and they don't understand.
There's a lot of people like me in this world, and each of us must learn to adapt.
I see the similar patterns, the distance from the crowd, the individuality, the quiet self.
There is so much to see, if you look carefully everyday, you will be surprised at how the world is.
Adaptation. That's the que. Every creature in this world must learn to adapt. The only question is what direction is the best?
From here, which direction do we go to adapt?
Why do I bring up people who cannot hear right? Not that I pity myself nor ask for pity, but that this is a strong process of adaptation. You see, for people who cannot hear entirely, people excuse them. For people who cannot hear partially but are old, people can understand them. For people who are partially impaired but young, most do not notice them. So, we must learn to adapt. Not because we are afraid of how people see us, but because we must not look down on ourselves (which, in my case, happens sometimes)...
(I don't know if this makes sense at all... I feel like Beethoven, you know... :P He created magic when he could hear, and miracles when he could not.)
Monday, July 30, 2007
What is this?!
Reminds me of Jack's song from Nightmare Before Christmas.
But, what is this?!
The whole world went nuts, all of a sudden, and here in front of me is a web of thoughts, a continueous thought...
They say that once you start a ripple, it only gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Here I am, staring at a very very very big ripple. Sort of just folds around itself, the circles, you know.
When ideas strike a building point, somehow they just keep growing. Then you need to fill in with more concrete information and facts, you need to get more into the system, more to pump.
The world is so big it engulfs us too easy. *Sigh*
But, what is this?!
The whole world went nuts, all of a sudden, and here in front of me is a web of thoughts, a continueous thought...
They say that once you start a ripple, it only gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Here I am, staring at a very very very big ripple. Sort of just folds around itself, the circles, you know.
When ideas strike a building point, somehow they just keep growing. Then you need to fill in with more concrete information and facts, you need to get more into the system, more to pump.
The world is so big it engulfs us too easy. *Sigh*
You remind me of him
You remind me of him. The same smile. The same looks. The same shyness in the eyes. The same wanting, but never to take. The same caution. The same fear. The same consideration. The same words. Words that are so cautious, it's hard to tell if they are real.
He said, he wanted me to always live near him, always and always. He wanted me to never marry, but always be his. He wanted a lot of things, but he never gave. Until, it was too late for him to give, then he regreted. And then, he disappeared. And then, he appeared again. However, still, he was the same. The same wishing that I am always his, even though he has others with him.
You remind me of him, the same joke, the same quietness, the same non-sense, and the same care flowing in your eyes. Yet, this time, I am more cautious than before. I don't know what I should believe, perhaps nothing, perhaps everything. However, I still feel connected, to you, somehow. Like quiet water flows, like little streams, too light to make a ripple, but too sure to be not there.
I'll put you in a little box and put it in my heart. Now I am more careful about feelings, more careful than before ever was.
You see, there was a man I had loved, loved with my whole heart. And this man, I just gave up. Because I could not love him anymore. Because I could not feel him anymore. Because the distance was too far, in life and in the heart. More than anything, because we're going separate ways, him and I, so different is our lives, so different our directions, so different our future. I do miss him, and I still miss him, but this, I know, was the right thing to do.
It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. Actually, it hurts quite a lot, but I know now how to control myself. You see, one should definitely be more careful of their feelings and their heart. You are cautious, you know. You are also diplomatic. That's an admirable trait.
He said, he wanted me to always live near him, always and always. He wanted me to never marry, but always be his. He wanted a lot of things, but he never gave. Until, it was too late for him to give, then he regreted. And then, he disappeared. And then, he appeared again. However, still, he was the same. The same wishing that I am always his, even though he has others with him.
You remind me of him, the same joke, the same quietness, the same non-sense, and the same care flowing in your eyes. Yet, this time, I am more cautious than before. I don't know what I should believe, perhaps nothing, perhaps everything. However, I still feel connected, to you, somehow. Like quiet water flows, like little streams, too light to make a ripple, but too sure to be not there.
I'll put you in a little box and put it in my heart. Now I am more careful about feelings, more careful than before ever was.
You see, there was a man I had loved, loved with my whole heart. And this man, I just gave up. Because I could not love him anymore. Because I could not feel him anymore. Because the distance was too far, in life and in the heart. More than anything, because we're going separate ways, him and I, so different is our lives, so different our directions, so different our future. I do miss him, and I still miss him, but this, I know, was the right thing to do.
It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. Actually, it hurts quite a lot, but I know now how to control myself. You see, one should definitely be more careful of their feelings and their heart. You are cautious, you know. You are also diplomatic. That's an admirable trait.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Smoking and Relationships
Once long long ago I made this "vow". I've vowed very few times in my life. Once not to marry before I am 29... the rest I don't recall... except...
This vow... If I smoke, then I will not have good relationships.
So.... if I stop smoking now, will it get better?!
Gosh... there REALLY IS someone out there, isn't there?!
This vow... If I smoke, then I will not have good relationships.
So.... if I stop smoking now, will it get better?!
Gosh... there REALLY IS someone out there, isn't there?!
It was the right thing
Deep inside, I know it is the right thing to do, but then, why do I still feel so bad about it?!
Maybe it should have been done a long time ago. Maybe that's why it feels so bad.
Sometimes I just don't understand myself.
The air is suffocating today, very... I'm tired, very... but tired of what?!
Maybe it should have been done a long time ago. Maybe that's why it feels so bad.
Sometimes I just don't understand myself.
The air is suffocating today, very... I'm tired, very... but tired of what?!
Missing you
I do miss you. This, I admit. I miss you very dearly. If the distance was not a problem, it would have worked. I was very serious about my feeling for you, indeed, that is true. No matter how little time we spent with each other, the feelings were very true. It would have been much better if we had spent more time face to face getting to know each other, more time in each other's arms, more time feeling each other's existance, the reality of it all. More time for me to get to know you and for you to get to know me.
I wish you can understand how I wish we can be friends. Not just regular friends, but very close and very good friends. Good friends are so hard to find these days. This is probably for the best. I do not wish to loose someone as you.
I don't know if you will read this, nor if you will understand or take in anything said here. I don't know how you will feel about any of this. I don't know anything much, to be honest.
It's stupid how it is. I always manage to get a good deal of my work life in order, get my personal accomplishments up. Yet, when it comes to relationships, it's always such a wreck and such a mess. Prolly it's better this way. No one can be perfect.
I wish you can understand how I wish we can be friends. Not just regular friends, but very close and very good friends. Good friends are so hard to find these days. This is probably for the best. I do not wish to loose someone as you.
I don't know if you will read this, nor if you will understand or take in anything said here. I don't know how you will feel about any of this. I don't know anything much, to be honest.
It's stupid how it is. I always manage to get a good deal of my work life in order, get my personal accomplishments up. Yet, when it comes to relationships, it's always such a wreck and such a mess. Prolly it's better this way. No one can be perfect.
Be nice to me, please
Be nice to me, please.
I've been as nice as can be.
Why is it never enough, no matter what I am.
Never enough to be niced to.
--
Hate this feeling. feels like being a coward...
I've been as nice as can be.
Why is it never enough, no matter what I am.
Never enough to be niced to.
--
Hate this feeling. feels like being a coward...
The happening
Sometimes, the happening just happens.
Willing to believe, but knowing the distance of truth from the reality.
Truth from dreams.
Bottle it up, put it all inside. There is no point in exploring this anymore.
A past, far in the past.
Let go, let grow, let expand, let become, let....
The heart be released from the endless pain.
Willing to believe, but knowing the distance of truth from the reality.
Truth from dreams.
Bottle it up, put it all inside. There is no point in exploring this anymore.
A past, far in the past.
Let go, let grow, let expand, let become, let....
The heart be released from the endless pain.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Someone said my blog is interesting
Someone said my blog is interesting, so... I read it again... and questioned myself on the interesting parts of it... and decided that... like I've said before...
It's just crap written with a shitload of blank nothingless from a rather fucked up mind that ponders endlessly in pointless crappy things.
All hail crappy writing! And all hail fucked up mind! And all hail shitloads of blank nothingless.
--
Am I cynical? Tell me I am cynical...
I'm cynical...
It's just crap written with a shitload of blank nothingless from a rather fucked up mind that ponders endlessly in pointless crappy things.
All hail crappy writing! And all hail fucked up mind! And all hail shitloads of blank nothingless.
--
Am I cynical? Tell me I am cynical...
I'm cynical...
People
Spend far too much time wondering about people instead of actually doing something worth-while... It's the work that matters... focus focus focus...
Tempting moments
Tempting moments bring tempting flows
of tempting things yet unknown nor note
Tempting as it is this tempting thought
Tempted to realize but what speaks the at-tempt
Just another fleeting tempting moment in a tempting day
of a tempting future so temptingly played
and the tempting self so tempting displayed
the mind and soul of tempting may
of tempting things yet unknown nor note
Tempting as it is this tempting thought
Tempted to realize but what speaks the at-tempt
Just another fleeting tempting moment in a tempting day
of a tempting future so temptingly played
and the tempting self so tempting displayed
the mind and soul of tempting may
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Long forgotten hours
The long forgotten hours said to me today,
"Long forgotten as I am, here I stand again."
As I wonder at the queer shape of it,
"Oh, how you've grown!"
And yet never quite out of its measurements, not just yet.
The long forgotten hours stood and stared
And opened its mouth, the dripping white water
Steaming as it does, flowing
Surrounded me, and then, quite happily
It ate me up and finished me
Rumbling with me inside its acid sack
The long forgotten hours said to me
"Long forgotten as I am, here I stand again."
And into the abyss of it I fell, somehow willingly
And into the acid I dived, somehow wantingly
And into the long forgotten hours I swam
The overwhelming sensation of me and me and me and me...
And then the memories flew
I wake and stared into
Just another page of scribbling words
And
You
"Long forgotten as I am, here I stand again."
As I wonder at the queer shape of it,
"Oh, how you've grown!"
And yet never quite out of its measurements, not just yet.
The long forgotten hours stood and stared
And opened its mouth, the dripping white water
Steaming as it does, flowing
Surrounded me, and then, quite happily
It ate me up and finished me
Rumbling with me inside its acid sack
The long forgotten hours said to me
"Long forgotten as I am, here I stand again."
And into the abyss of it I fell, somehow willingly
And into the acid I dived, somehow wantingly
And into the long forgotten hours I swam
The overwhelming sensation of me and me and me and me...
And then the memories flew
I wake and stared into
Just another page of scribbling words
And
You
Will miss you
Will miss you when the moment arrives
When the birds must fly
When the sun must set
Will miss you when the moment arrives
Words unsaid
You still not know what's there yet
Will miss you in the quiet wanting
Silence engulfing, eating
And this sentiment, this I hate
For this is what makes me woman, what makes me nothing like I desire yet
Not of the cold robotic child
Not of the career driven self
But that sentimental woman who will cry
In the dead of the night, o night.
But that sentimental woman who will cry
In the moments least want, o want.
When the birds must fly
When the sun must set
Will miss you when the moment arrives
Words unsaid
You still not know what's there yet
Will miss you in the quiet wanting
Silence engulfing, eating
And this sentiment, this I hate
For this is what makes me woman, what makes me nothing like I desire yet
Not of the cold robotic child
Not of the career driven self
But that sentimental woman who will cry
In the dead of the night, o night.
But that sentimental woman who will cry
In the moments least want, o want.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Dreams
Sometimes... it's okay to dream...
You dream, then you find a way to make it happen... these dreams...
If you never even start, then you are stuck right there... and totally lost
It doesn't matter if you fail, because... if you don't even move forward, you are just... lost...
You dream, then you find a way to make it happen... these dreams...
If you never even start, then you are stuck right there... and totally lost
It doesn't matter if you fail, because... if you don't even move forward, you are just... lost...
I miss
I miss Adam, Eve, Akia, HE, Sindsay, Vincent, Bronx, Monkey, Butterfly, Tamer, Hunter, "Dad", Deli, Connor...
Soulmates...
--
Also miss Tai...
Soulmates...
--
Also miss Tai...
Have you ever been honest to yourself?
No. Maybe. A little.
--
I want to win. And it's so hard when you see failure so near. Yet, I want to win. I always want to win. I want to bath in glory. Who doesn't?!
I can see the same frustration in Alfredo's face.
He wants to win. He wants to always win. Yet, sometimes, things aren't always as we expect.
--
I very rarely loose, actually... When I see that I will fail, I normally just escape. Yet, that isn't right either, cuz then it's just false winning in the end. I'm not afraid of taking risks, but I am afraid of loosing...
--
Am I incompetent?! No, I don't think so. If I am, well, then I probably wouldn't have done what I have accomplished so far. Written a business plan, and a second one forming (in secret) on an industry I haven't a single clue about: Internet Service. Hei, how many literature majors attempt this and at the same year worked as international sales secretary, English secretary for a trademark company, direct salesperson for a cosmetic company, and am now going after a possible law degree (not possible, but definite).
What a very eventful year.
If I record all the things I did this year, it's quite a story, isn't it?
--
修身，齊家，治國，平天下
一個人做一件事情，不可以跳過任何一個步驟。不然，不過是一個空殼子，華而不實。
應該多看點書了，好想好想讀書。
--
I want to win. And it's so hard when you see failure so near. Yet, I want to win. I always want to win. I want to bath in glory. Who doesn't?!
I can see the same frustration in Alfredo's face.
He wants to win. He wants to always win. Yet, sometimes, things aren't always as we expect.
--
I very rarely loose, actually... When I see that I will fail, I normally just escape. Yet, that isn't right either, cuz then it's just false winning in the end. I'm not afraid of taking risks, but I am afraid of loosing...
--
Am I incompetent?! No, I don't think so. If I am, well, then I probably wouldn't have done what I have accomplished so far. Written a business plan, and a second one forming (in secret) on an industry I haven't a single clue about: Internet Service. Hei, how many literature majors attempt this and at the same year worked as international sales secretary, English secretary for a trademark company, direct salesperson for a cosmetic company, and am now going after a possible law degree (not possible, but definite).
What a very eventful year.
If I record all the things I did this year, it's quite a story, isn't it?
--
修身，齊家，治國，平天下
一個人做一件事情，不可以跳過任何一個步驟。不然，不過是一個空殼子，華而不實。
應該多看點書了，好想好想讀書。
Monday, July 16, 2007
Hateful feelings
Decided to use old material and improvise to improve. The new materials still needs a lot more modification (Will finish after the first deadlin)... Although the new material is probably grander and much more interesting and well developed, it simply requires far too much information which I am inable to provide at the moment.
Old material is good after condensation, added with new marketing methods, it should provide a certain degree of competitiveness, although I strongly doubt its ability to actually combat large corporations. Feeling quite aweful at the state of things, and doubtful of myself and my abilities.
Big note... Never, ever, not matter what... attempt to get into a field which you do not specialize in. That... is definitely a grand of a mistake...
Old material is good after condensation, added with new marketing methods, it should provide a certain degree of competitiveness, although I strongly doubt its ability to actually combat large corporations. Feeling quite aweful at the state of things, and doubtful of myself and my abilities.
Big note... Never, ever, not matter what... attempt to get into a field which you do not specialize in. That... is definitely a grand of a mistake...
Sunday, July 15, 2007
There are times you wonder
There are times you wonder, what is this all about?
What is this all worth? Is it worth anything at all?
Then you know, it's worth it, because you wondered...
So you strife on, even if you feel lack of something at this precise moment...
Motivation will come... dream big, act big, make big...
--
Tired of watching the world this way
Tired of hearing complains
Find a way out of this suffocation
Find a place to belong
Find a me, inside the depth of it all... fulfill your own destiny...
What is this all worth? Is it worth anything at all?
Then you know, it's worth it, because you wondered...
So you strife on, even if you feel lack of something at this precise moment...
Motivation will come... dream big, act big, make big...
--
Tired of watching the world this way
Tired of hearing complains
Find a way out of this suffocation
Find a place to belong
Find a me, inside the depth of it all... fulfill your own destiny...
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Last year this time...
Last year this time I was leaving you. This year this time I'm just missing you. Next year this time where will I be?
Life likes to play us games. Too many, too complicating.
思念是一種病
Missing is a kind of Illness
作詞：齊秦/張震嶽 作曲：齊秦/張震嶽 女聲：蔡健雅
當你在穿山越領的另一邊 我在孤獨的路上沒有盡頭
When you are on the other side of the mountains I am on an endless road of loneliness
一輩子有多少的來不及
How many "not in times" do we have in life?
發現 已經 失去 最重要的東西
Discovering that we've already lost the most important thing
恍然大悟 早已遠去
Suddenly realizing that it is gone
為何總是在犯錯之後
Why is always after we've done wrong
才肯相信 錯的是自己
That we'd admit it is us who was wrong?
他們說這就是人生 試著體會
They say this is life, you should try to understand
試著忍住眼淚 還是躲不開應該有的情緒
Try to keep behind the tears, but still cannot escape the emotions
我不會奢求世界停止轉動
I don't wish for the world to stop moving
我知道逃避一點都沒有用
I know running away is no good
只是這段時間裡 尤其在夜裡
Just that these days in the nights
還是會想起 難忘的事情
I still remember what I cannot forget
我想我的思念是一種病
I think my missing is a kind of illness
久久不能痊癒
And it will never heal
--
I want to stop thinking about this, and just live. But I know I'll never stop thinking about it, and I know that even if I am cold and harsh, I know that I'm just trying to hide it all away.
--
Last year this time I was leaving you. This year this time I just miss you. Next year this time... what will happen then?!
Life likes to play us games. Too many, too complicating.
思念是一種病
Missing is a kind of Illness
作詞：齊秦/張震嶽 作曲：齊秦/張震嶽 女聲：蔡健雅
當你在穿山越領的另一邊 我在孤獨的路上沒有盡頭
When you are on the other side of the mountains I am on an endless road of loneliness
一輩子有多少的來不及
How many "not in times" do we have in life?
發現 已經 失去 最重要的東西
Discovering that we've already lost the most important thing
恍然大悟 早已遠去
Suddenly realizing that it is gone
為何總是在犯錯之後
Why is always after we've done wrong
才肯相信 錯的是自己
That we'd admit it is us who was wrong?
他們說這就是人生 試著體會
They say this is life, you should try to understand
試著忍住眼淚 還是躲不開應該有的情緒
Try to keep behind the tears, but still cannot escape the emotions
我不會奢求世界停止轉動
I don't wish for the world to stop moving
我知道逃避一點都沒有用
I know running away is no good
只是這段時間裡 尤其在夜裡
Just that these days in the nights
還是會想起 難忘的事情
I still remember what I cannot forget
我想我的思念是一種病
I think my missing is a kind of illness
久久不能痊癒
And it will never heal
--
I want to stop thinking about this, and just live. But I know I'll never stop thinking about it, and I know that even if I am cold and harsh, I know that I'm just trying to hide it all away.
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Last year this time I was leaving you. This year this time I just miss you. Next year this time... what will happen then?!
I wish to be a robot...
I wish to be a robot, then I wouldn't feel anything.
A msn contact has, "Life is not a struggle, it's a joke" as her nickname.
Indeed, it is.
A msn contact has, "Life is not a struggle, it's a joke" as her nickname.
Indeed, it is.
Friday, July 13, 2007
THE BUTTERFLY WINGS!
Well, so there is actually some evolution going on in this world anyways!
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Butterfly shows evolution at work
Scientists say they have seen one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed in a species of butterfly.
The tropical Blue Moon butterfly has developed a way of fighting back against parasitic bacteria.
Six years ago, males accounted for just 1% of the Blue Moon population on two islands in the South Pacific.
But by last year, the butterflies had developed a gene to keep the bacteria in check and male numbers were up to about 40% of the population.
Scientists believe the comeback is due to "suppressor" genes that control the Wolbachia bacteria that is passed down from the mother and kills the male embryos before they hatch.
"To my knowledge, this is the fastest evolutionary change that has ever been observed," said Sylvain Charlat, of University College London, whose study appears in the journal Science.
Rapid natural selection
Gregory Hurst, a University College researcher who worked with Mr Charlat said: "We usually think of natural selection as acting slowly, over hundreds of thousands of years.
"But the example in this study happened in the blink of the eye, in terms of evolutionary time, and is a remarkable thing to get to observe."
The team first documented the massive imbalance in the sex ratio of the Blue Moon butterfly on the Samoan islands of Savaii and Upolu in 2001.
In 2006 they started a new survey after an increase in reports of male sightings at Upolo.
They found that the numbers of male butterfly had either reached or were approaching those of females.
The researchers are not sure whether the gene that suppressed the parasite emerged from a mutation in the local population or whether it was introduced by migratory Southeast Asian butterflies in which the mutation existed.
But they said that the repopulation of male butterflies illustrates rapid natural selection, a process in which traits that help a species survive become more prominent in a population.
"We're witnessing an evolutionary arms race between the parasite and the host. This strengthens the view that parasites can be major drivers in evolution," Mr Charlat said.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/6896753.stm
Published: 2007/07/12 23:18:22 GMT
© BBC MMVII
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Butterfly shows evolution at work
Scientists say they have seen one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed in a species of butterfly.
The tropical Blue Moon butterfly has developed a way of fighting back against parasitic bacteria.
Six years ago, males accounted for just 1% of the Blue Moon population on two islands in the South Pacific.
But by last year, the butterflies had developed a gene to keep the bacteria in check and male numbers were up to about 40% of the population.
Scientists believe the comeback is due to "suppressor" genes that control the Wolbachia bacteria that is passed down from the mother and kills the male embryos before they hatch.
"To my knowledge, this is the fastest evolutionary change that has ever been observed," said Sylvain Charlat, of University College London, whose study appears in the journal Science.
Rapid natural selection
Gregory Hurst, a University College researcher who worked with Mr Charlat said: "We usually think of natural selection as acting slowly, over hundreds of thousands of years.
"But the example in this study happened in the blink of the eye, in terms of evolutionary time, and is a remarkable thing to get to observe."
The team first documented the massive imbalance in the sex ratio of the Blue Moon butterfly on the Samoan islands of Savaii and Upolu in 2001.
In 2006 they started a new survey after an increase in reports of male sightings at Upolo.
They found that the numbers of male butterfly had either reached or were approaching those of females.
The researchers are not sure whether the gene that suppressed the parasite emerged from a mutation in the local population or whether it was introduced by migratory Southeast Asian butterflies in which the mutation existed.
But they said that the repopulation of male butterflies illustrates rapid natural selection, a process in which traits that help a species survive become more prominent in a population.
"We're witnessing an evolutionary arms race between the parasite and the host. This strengthens the view that parasites can be major drivers in evolution," Mr Charlat said.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/6896753.stm
Published: 2007/07/12 23:18:22 GMT
© BBC MMVII
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Bed and Wifi
Note.... adorable combination...
Bed work seems more productive than I had expected, reason being that it is relaxing, very, instead of the tense sitting up position that we assume almost day to day to night to night...
Okay, the bad is the sometime hard to connected wifi connection, but the good is the flow of inspiration (and then the dreadful feeling that u can never type fast enough to catch your brains...)
Been reading this absolutely gorgeous book (and that evoked me to purchase more books, hence raising the definite need for a paid job)... by Terry Allen, marvelous guy...:P I can really identify with him, and I think I like the way he led his life... Although, it might not have been the most material fulfilling life, nor the most relaxed, but it definitely sounds like the most fun! He started so many businesses, and recked most of them (it's hillarious, really), but got a real kick out of it. What really took me on was the fact that no matter how many times he failed, he just doesn't stop, cuz, it's just fun.
Hence, Q's words... Enjoy life. It's not about speed, nor about what you do... how you do... just Enjoy it! Have fun!
Bed work seems more productive than I had expected, reason being that it is relaxing, very, instead of the tense sitting up position that we assume almost day to day to night to night...
Okay, the bad is the sometime hard to connected wifi connection, but the good is the flow of inspiration (and then the dreadful feeling that u can never type fast enough to catch your brains...)
Been reading this absolutely gorgeous book (and that evoked me to purchase more books, hence raising the definite need for a paid job)... by Terry Allen, marvelous guy...:P I can really identify with him, and I think I like the way he led his life... Although, it might not have been the most material fulfilling life, nor the most relaxed, but it definitely sounds like the most fun! He started so many businesses, and recked most of them (it's hillarious, really), but got a real kick out of it. What really took me on was the fact that no matter how many times he failed, he just doesn't stop, cuz, it's just fun.
Hence, Q's words... Enjoy life. It's not about speed, nor about what you do... how you do... just Enjoy it! Have fun!
I finally understood the rage
Listening to Linkin Park's tribute to the 911 event.
I can still remember the moment when I woke up in the morning and saw the news, printed neatly out in front of me. My father carefully printed it and placed it in front of the table. I remember, I was late for school that morning.
I woke my brother up, we opened the TV, we watched CNN. We sat there, just watching. We were even laughing about it, really. My first reaction, "Is this a new movie? That's some really amazing special effect and advertisement method."
I went to school, late. The principle's special announcement, the half down flag, the news... Don't know how to describe it, but, part of my world was broken. I'm not American, but, still, the world wasn't the same then.
What would it be like, if... I WAS American?
Maybe I am, on the inside, half of me is. That was the place where my most precious memories are. It's a magical wonderland (different kind of magic from Finland). I can still remember sitting by the lake, letting the spring wind blow by me with a book in my lap.
That world, included no violence, included no misery, included nature and beauty.
The world now? U can hear the pain in the voice of Bush's speech. All of a sudden, I can see why he hated Iraq so much, why he was so angry. He really did love America. He might not have been the greatest president ever, but he really loved America. Maybe that's the problem, you should never let people who love their country too much rule, because they will always end up making irrational impulsive emotional decisions.
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Down to the bottom of it, this is what touches me the most, these things in life, these moments... these things that need to be improved...
Social entrepreneurship... hum... sounds like something worth getting into... :)
I can still remember the moment when I woke up in the morning and saw the news, printed neatly out in front of me. My father carefully printed it and placed it in front of the table. I remember, I was late for school that morning.
I woke my brother up, we opened the TV, we watched CNN. We sat there, just watching. We were even laughing about it, really. My first reaction, "Is this a new movie? That's some really amazing special effect and advertisement method."
I went to school, late. The principle's special announcement, the half down flag, the news... Don't know how to describe it, but, part of my world was broken. I'm not American, but, still, the world wasn't the same then.
What would it be like, if... I WAS American?
Maybe I am, on the inside, half of me is. That was the place where my most precious memories are. It's a magical wonderland (different kind of magic from Finland). I can still remember sitting by the lake, letting the spring wind blow by me with a book in my lap.
That world, included no violence, included no misery, included nature and beauty.
The world now? U can hear the pain in the voice of Bush's speech. All of a sudden, I can see why he hated Iraq so much, why he was so angry. He really did love America. He might not have been the greatest president ever, but he really loved America. Maybe that's the problem, you should never let people who love their country too much rule, because they will always end up making irrational impulsive emotional decisions.
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Down to the bottom of it, this is what touches me the most, these things in life, these moments... these things that need to be improved...
Social entrepreneurship... hum... sounds like something worth getting into... :)
Monday, July 09, 2007
Super Sonic Speed
By Die Happy. Sometimes I feel that song can really relate to me, at least the lyric does, the title does.
Today at dancing my teacher told me, "Slow down! Why are you always in a hurry?"
Yesterday at a meeting my friend told me, "Slow down! Why are you always in a hurry?"
Last year at my previous work my boss told me, "Slow down! Why are you always in a hurry?"
"Slow down! Why are you always in a hurry?"
Maybe I can be the Wang in my game, but like Wang, I always forget what the coaches say. (把手提起來！)
Dany Pham said, "I think it's really hard conversating with you cuz you're thinking so fast!"
Melodie said, "Seriously, you do think extremely fast!"
Friends complained, "It's hard to conversate with you cuz you're always moving so fast!"
Mom said, "It's hard to talk to you because you are always talking so fast!"
Dad said, "Slow down! You're just going too fast!"
I ride the scooter at 80 to driving class.
Driving coach said, "Slow down! Don't go so fast!"
I ride the scooter with my sister up the hill.
Athena said, "Slow down! Don't go so fast!"
Fast forwarded a movie because it was too slow.
Fast forwarded a song because it was too slow.
Jumped to the end of a book because it was taking too long.
Took 3 minutes showers.
Enjoyed speeding, a lot... cuz that's the one time when I felt the whole world is moving with me, at the same speed.
Always on the edge, always moving through the world with super sonic speed, and then wondering...
why is the world so slow?
but the truth is...
You're too fast. Slow Down! Enjoy life, enjoy the moment, enjoy each breathe... slow down and see what you really feel, what you really want, what you are really moving towards... just... slow... down...
Today at dancing my teacher told me, "Slow down! Why are you always in a hurry?"
Yesterday at a meeting my friend told me, "Slow down! Why are you always in a hurry?"
Last year at my previous work my boss told me, "Slow down! Why are you always in a hurry?"
"Slow down! Why are you always in a hurry?"
Maybe I can be the Wang in my game, but like Wang, I always forget what the coaches say. (把手提起來！)
Dany Pham said, "I think it's really hard conversating with you cuz you're thinking so fast!"
Melodie said, "Seriously, you do think extremely fast!"
Friends complained, "It's hard to conversate with you cuz you're always moving so fast!"
Mom said, "It's hard to talk to you because you are always talking so fast!"
Dad said, "Slow down! You're just going too fast!"
I ride the scooter at 80 to driving class.
Driving coach said, "Slow down! Don't go so fast!"
I ride the scooter with my sister up the hill.
Athena said, "Slow down! Don't go so fast!"
Fast forwarded a movie because it was too slow.
Fast forwarded a song because it was too slow.
Jumped to the end of a book because it was taking too long.
Took 3 minutes showers.
Enjoyed speeding, a lot... cuz that's the one time when I felt the whole world is moving with me, at the same speed.
Always on the edge, always moving through the world with super sonic speed, and then wondering...
why is the world so slow?
but the truth is...
You're too fast. Slow Down! Enjoy life, enjoy the moment, enjoy each breathe... slow down and see what you really feel, what you really want, what you are really moving towards... just... slow... down...
The Facebook.com
It's an amazing thing. (Just promised myself to stop being so negative about things)...
Spent a lot of time on it today, to be honest, but, not a bad thing. I discovered old friends, new friends, old love, new love, old fun, new fun...
Tali, Mindy, Ben, Pyumm ( ? )... Dreamed of Ohio again after forgetting it.
I guess I am the truely Nostalgic type. Living in the past. Good that recently I've been really living in the present (amazing, really).
Each of these friends are people I really admired, even as a small child. Each of them fascinates me. It's funny, I'm as rude as a bull, but I am constantly fascinated by people, some times a bit intimidated by their accomplishments... Yet, I never really look at the full picture, the right picture, the real picture... We were once the same, and they never gave up on their dreams... But I did. I let someone else start to decide for me, and I lost control of my life to him. Maybe he loves me, but he can't be me, and I can't be him.
So, it's not about rebellion anymore. It's merely about being me. I always talk about wanting to be me, always screaming for being me, but I am the last person who really did that. And then I grieve, I blue down, I melt into misery for not having the freedom to be myself. No one can tell me what to do except for myself.
So here goes. I am me. :) I want to be more of me, and I can feel it... more and more and more...
Spent a lot of time on it today, to be honest, but, not a bad thing. I discovered old friends, new friends, old love, new love, old fun, new fun...
Tali, Mindy, Ben, Pyumm ( ? )... Dreamed of Ohio again after forgetting it.
I guess I am the truely Nostalgic type. Living in the past. Good that recently I've been really living in the present (amazing, really).
Each of these friends are people I really admired, even as a small child. Each of them fascinates me. It's funny, I'm as rude as a bull, but I am constantly fascinated by people, some times a bit intimidated by their accomplishments... Yet, I never really look at the full picture, the right picture, the real picture... We were once the same, and they never gave up on their dreams... But I did. I let someone else start to decide for me, and I lost control of my life to him. Maybe he loves me, but he can't be me, and I can't be him.
So, it's not about rebellion anymore. It's merely about being me. I always talk about wanting to be me, always screaming for being me, but I am the last person who really did that. And then I grieve, I blue down, I melt into misery for not having the freedom to be myself. No one can tell me what to do except for myself.
So here goes. I am me. :) I want to be more of me, and I can feel it... more and more and more...
Dancing
New hobbie... Ballroom dancing. Decided that I will go also on wednesday (since the teacher said it's okay) just to watch. Will get a practice shoe first, but I'm aiming for this really lovely Latin Ballroom Dancing shoes. :P
Learned Tengo today. Got commented by the teacher as "fast learner" and got questioned more than once with, "Are you sure you never learned this before?" And then someone commented on possible future competition for amatures... Got interested...
When I am dancing, I can't stop smiling. It doesn't matter what people say to me, or that I'm almost always dancing with very very old guys with fishy hands (:P) I'm having so much fun that I really don't care. I probably smile more than the whole class added together and are so hyper that the teacher actually said, "you mind as well as buy two pair of shoes..."
Next course: Latin Dance.
I think I like the "stop+curve" feeling for tengo already... There's something very, hum, subtle about it. Although the music we danced to wasn't what I thought to be best (Taiwanese old tengo pretend to be music), yet, you can feel this bitter passion even with just the basic steps. Makes me think of the song Roxxane from Moulin Rouge, or the tengo scene with "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"... Make me also interested in Argentina...
Mexicans in coming... :P There's free Salsa lessons Friday night at Salsa Cubana in Taichung, will head there this Friday to check it out. :P
Learned Tengo today. Got commented by the teacher as "fast learner" and got questioned more than once with, "Are you sure you never learned this before?" And then someone commented on possible future competition for amatures... Got interested...
When I am dancing, I can't stop smiling. It doesn't matter what people say to me, or that I'm almost always dancing with very very old guys with fishy hands (:P) I'm having so much fun that I really don't care. I probably smile more than the whole class added together and are so hyper that the teacher actually said, "you mind as well as buy two pair of shoes..."
Next course: Latin Dance.
I think I like the "stop+curve" feeling for tengo already... There's something very, hum, subtle about it. Although the music we danced to wasn't what I thought to be best (Taiwanese old tengo pretend to be music), yet, you can feel this bitter passion even with just the basic steps. Makes me think of the song Roxxane from Moulin Rouge, or the tengo scene with "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"... Make me also interested in Argentina...
Mexicans in coming... :P There's free Salsa lessons Friday night at Salsa Cubana in Taichung, will head there this Friday to check it out. :P
Sunday, July 08, 2007
What I've Done
And if this song can yet strike your heart, then listen. Though only a repetition of what others have for ages and ages mentioned, listen to your heart then to the world.
Have we walked ourselves into a world that... has no future? (What is the future? where is the future? why is it that I see nothing and none of anything?)
Just listen. What should you be doing? What should you be thinking? Where should we be going?
Sunday, July 01, 2007
GOOOOOD....
I finally discovered the hidden question that was lodged in my heart. Or, not so much a question, but a doubt. Now, it's re-directing and re-modeling.
The problem is, the original business plans were far too, hum... school oriented. To the degree that they seem like school reports. This isn't due so much to the fact that I am incapable of writing else-wise (as my other project plans are not so school-oriented), but simply the original direction was far too limited under certain strong external influences (aka board). If we continue on this path, we'll not succeed, in fact, we'll have more and more trouble on the way, finding obstacles in every developmental direction. The whole process is wrong, and should be altered and changed.
First.... Products are important, but they are not everything, nor do they need to be the first thing that you are definite about. There's no need to design into the detail, especially if you are the CEO. You give a general direction, then you worry about other things. For example, with our website, it changes day by day, the point isn't building a website, nor the website itself, the point is what service is provided, what's the focus point, what's the killer application? What's the killer idea?! YouTube and Flickr and Wretch, etc all sells "privacy" and "sharing"... it's not their website nor what they use that matters, it is these concepts that really counts.
Second... Any process should start with finding questions, and then you can answer them. You don't ask for answers without letting others know what the questions is, and you don't do that to yourself either. Spend the time to find the questions, and then spend the time to answer them carefully, spend the time talking to people and hearing different opinions, spend the time testing and re-testing your ideas.
Third... Know your market. Market survey doesn't need to wait for your service/product to be complete before it is carried out. In fact, there should be one survey done before you start doing anything. You need to know what's the present status quo of the market you are going into. For example, does everyone love YouTube? Why? What do they want more from it? What do people need? And so on, this way, you won't spend all your time in futile making a product that the market does not want.
Fourth... Know your opponents. Same ideas as above, only deeper. What's the history? What's it about? What's their strategies? Their statistics? These are very important. It's always important to know what you are going against, if just to safe yourself from another futile work period only to find that, damn... my competitor have already been doing that for decades...
Fifth... If the employee doesn't work, change. Maybe in a school club there's the problem of, "but he's my friend." or "but he's her son", etc. Yet, for the well-being of a company, sometimes the actual results are more important. Chose your team carefully and strictly.
Sixth... Depend on no one. This isn't to say no collaboration, it's to say that you don't want to depend everything on someone else. People are not reliable when they don't see the profits, and have not the same passion as yourself for any business. People are not reliable, period. If you want to do something, make sure that you are the one who knows what goes on in it. If you are the boss, you are the only person that cannot be missing from the team, anyone else can be replaced, but not you. If you are over-reliant on your tech-team, allowing them to make most of the decisions, you might end up being the one that's excused from the game instead of them, or you might have problems when they are excused. Power-structure, grrrr.
Seventh... Board is to be respected, but since CEO is the one working onsite... let the CEO decide.
Eighth... this isn't a game, it's a business... it's not school clubs... it's business... no one cares what educational values you have, and no one will take that as the reason to support you. Unless, of course, they are education based organizations.
The problem is, the original business plans were far too, hum... school oriented. To the degree that they seem like school reports. This isn't due so much to the fact that I am incapable of writing else-wise (as my other project plans are not so school-oriented), but simply the original direction was far too limited under certain strong external influences (aka board). If we continue on this path, we'll not succeed, in fact, we'll have more and more trouble on the way, finding obstacles in every developmental direction. The whole process is wrong, and should be altered and changed.
First.... Products are important, but they are not everything, nor do they need to be the first thing that you are definite about. There's no need to design into the detail, especially if you are the CEO. You give a general direction, then you worry about other things. For example, with our website, it changes day by day, the point isn't building a website, nor the website itself, the point is what service is provided, what's the focus point, what's the killer application? What's the killer idea?! YouTube and Flickr and Wretch, etc all sells "privacy" and "sharing"... it's not their website nor what they use that matters, it is these concepts that really counts.
Second... Any process should start with finding questions, and then you can answer them. You don't ask for answers without letting others know what the questions is, and you don't do that to yourself either. Spend the time to find the questions, and then spend the time to answer them carefully, spend the time talking to people and hearing different opinions, spend the time testing and re-testing your ideas.
Third... Know your market. Market survey doesn't need to wait for your service/product to be complete before it is carried out. In fact, there should be one survey done before you start doing anything. You need to know what's the present status quo of the market you are going into. For example, does everyone love YouTube? Why? What do they want more from it? What do people need? And so on, this way, you won't spend all your time in futile making a product that the market does not want.
Fourth... Know your opponents. Same ideas as above, only deeper. What's the history? What's it about? What's their strategies? Their statistics? These are very important. It's always important to know what you are going against, if just to safe yourself from another futile work period only to find that, damn... my competitor have already been doing that for decades...
Fifth... If the employee doesn't work, change. Maybe in a school club there's the problem of, "but he's my friend." or "but he's her son", etc. Yet, for the well-being of a company, sometimes the actual results are more important. Chose your team carefully and strictly.
Sixth... Depend on no one. This isn't to say no collaboration, it's to say that you don't want to depend everything on someone else. People are not reliable when they don't see the profits, and have not the same passion as yourself for any business. People are not reliable, period. If you want to do something, make sure that you are the one who knows what goes on in it. If you are the boss, you are the only person that cannot be missing from the team, anyone else can be replaced, but not you. If you are over-reliant on your tech-team, allowing them to make most of the decisions, you might end up being the one that's excused from the game instead of them, or you might have problems when they are excused. Power-structure, grrrr.
Seventh... Board is to be respected, but since CEO is the one working onsite... let the CEO decide.
Eighth... this isn't a game, it's a business... it's not school clubs... it's business... no one cares what educational values you have, and no one will take that as the reason to support you. Unless, of course, they are education based organizations.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Old friends are gold
Even after years and months and weeks and days and longer than imaginable durations...
you speak to each other, and still find that mutual language.
Old friends are gold, and friends do last forever.
you speak to each other, and still find that mutual language.
Old friends are gold, and friends do last forever.
很認真的思考了人生
現在這個階段要一定的努力一定的往前一定的衝一定的猛一定的不放棄一定的不要被打敗
現在的我，要更加油！
不夠，一切都不夠！要成功，要夢想，就要往前筆直的衝～
不要害怕！壓力是一定會有，克服它，就有一個更美麗的天空！
現在的我，要更加油！
不夠，一切都不夠！要成功，要夢想，就要往前筆直的衝～
不要害怕！壓力是一定會有，克服它，就有一個更美麗的天空！
Friday, June 29, 2007
Personality test
Did a personality test the other day, was quite accurate. Well, I liked it probably because it was a very positive one. Seems like I'm just another passionate, insane person who desparately want to have a better life and get more out of life as a whole. Not that bad of an idea, actually, to be honest. :P
June 29, 2007
Almost past my month. Today was a lovely day filled with mindless thoughts. Why do I spend so much time doing nothing when I should be doing something? This, I often wonder at myself. Me and my dreadfully lazy self, the self that sits for hours playing games online and browsing websites. Not been in the website browsing mood lately, however, I should pick it up again. It's a frightening world, indeed, but information is information. The more the better, the deeper the greater.
Part of this original brain has come to a dead-stop, not the first time, and not the last time. It's like as if it demands some rest, although this time, time simply will not allow it. The physical body demands action, too much action, so much that the brain, if not able to fulfill it, will be conquered by this rising desire.
A lot of thoughts are running in my mind and I am constantly wondering if it will clear up. Perhaps a few books more will help it clear itself. There was a line from a msn contact: Great mind discuss ideas, average mind discuss events and weak mind discuss people. My mentor(s) say: Spend the time doing something, instead of worrying about the people who doesn't matter at all.
A friend of mine mentioned something about self-refusal, and acceptance of the past self, thoughts of the future self. I always liked to think of my future as being more successful than now, yet, I always feel, when looking back, that I only become less and less successful. Maybe that's too much unnecessary thinking, indeed. Think about ideas, girl! You want to be a great mind, no?
The rains fell side-ways today. Had an umbrella with me, but still, it showered into my body. Wasn't a very successful shower, however, only partially got me. One of those days when your determination to do something can be truly defined. If you are determined, you'd accomplish anything. If not, well, there's never the consideration of if not. Do or do not, there is no try.
Mother asked... maybe it's your ears that makes you so insecure and so unconfident. Wouldn't want to think of it, but maybe. Maybe it's the ears that makes me so ambitious and wanting, maybe. Ambition, a very wicked thing. It's the one thing that might make one great, but it is also the thing that will keep Gates lonely. The competitive genes are in our body, given by mother nature, and will never go away, not one step of the day.
All my friends are so amazing, everyone I meet are amazing... what to do with this ambition?
We can but endure it.
Work. I love it. I seriously do. I love the feeling of not being allowed to rest because there are too much either work or fun or whatever to do. Time is so scarce. We only live so long. Maybe I shouldn't say it's work that I love, but that I love to be doing something productive, something nice, something lasting, something... that ends up in something. It's far too fascinating, that exciting sensation, the feeling of speed, of everything.
Part of this original brain has come to a dead-stop, not the first time, and not the last time. It's like as if it demands some rest, although this time, time simply will not allow it. The physical body demands action, too much action, so much that the brain, if not able to fulfill it, will be conquered by this rising desire.
A lot of thoughts are running in my mind and I am constantly wondering if it will clear up. Perhaps a few books more will help it clear itself. There was a line from a msn contact: Great mind discuss ideas, average mind discuss events and weak mind discuss people. My mentor(s) say: Spend the time doing something, instead of worrying about the people who doesn't matter at all.
A friend of mine mentioned something about self-refusal, and acceptance of the past self, thoughts of the future self. I always liked to think of my future as being more successful than now, yet, I always feel, when looking back, that I only become less and less successful. Maybe that's too much unnecessary thinking, indeed. Think about ideas, girl! You want to be a great mind, no?
The rains fell side-ways today. Had an umbrella with me, but still, it showered into my body. Wasn't a very successful shower, however, only partially got me. One of those days when your determination to do something can be truly defined. If you are determined, you'd accomplish anything. If not, well, there's never the consideration of if not. Do or do not, there is no try.
Mother asked... maybe it's your ears that makes you so insecure and so unconfident. Wouldn't want to think of it, but maybe. Maybe it's the ears that makes me so ambitious and wanting, maybe. Ambition, a very wicked thing. It's the one thing that might make one great, but it is also the thing that will keep Gates lonely. The competitive genes are in our body, given by mother nature, and will never go away, not one step of the day.
All my friends are so amazing, everyone I meet are amazing... what to do with this ambition?
We can but endure it.
Work. I love it. I seriously do. I love the feeling of not being allowed to rest because there are too much either work or fun or whatever to do. Time is so scarce. We only live so long. Maybe I shouldn't say it's work that I love, but that I love to be doing something productive, something nice, something lasting, something... that ends up in something. It's far too fascinating, that exciting sensation, the feeling of speed, of everything.
Today I feel melancholic
Tired from work.
Today, I feel melancholic. Missing...
A sky filled with stars, and a Mars somewhere inside...
Shhhhhhhh......
Today, I feel melancholic. Missing...
A sky filled with stars, and a Mars somewhere inside...
Shhhhhhhh......
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
我看到世界的另一端
那是彩色的你知道嗎？
可惜的是，你似乎不懂我嚮往的那個世界。
而我害怕在此逗留，停滯而不前進。
上帝說過你是我的人選…
你會與我同進退嗎？
在這個女人靠不了男人的年代，沒有必要justify任何得事情。
我也不會在去炫耀我自己（沒羽毛偏說有羽毛）
因為眼前的生活過好比一切都更重要。
比過去更重要，也比未來更重要。
你的夢，你要如何達成它？
可惜的是，你似乎不懂我嚮往的那個世界。
而我害怕在此逗留，停滯而不前進。
上帝說過你是我的人選…
你會與我同進退嗎？
在這個女人靠不了男人的年代，沒有必要justify任何得事情。
我也不會在去炫耀我自己（沒羽毛偏說有羽毛）
因為眼前的生活過好比一切都更重要。
比過去更重要，也比未來更重要。
你的夢，你要如何達成它？
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Definitely going brain-dead
Groar... another one of those very painful painful painful moments
when i feel like my brain just isn't functioning anymore, well, it isn't
and i am not entirely sure what exactly i am doing except the fact that i am actually
surprisingly doing something..........
and GOD said... "MURDER"! and one more brain-cell died.
when i feel like my brain just isn't functioning anymore, well, it isn't
and i am not entirely sure what exactly i am doing except the fact that i am actually
surprisingly doing something..........
and GOD said... "MURDER"! and one more brain-cell died.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Wayne's World
Wicked.
Okay, I know it's wicked late to be seeing this movie, but anyways, I just did (after I don't know how many years)... :P
It's a really wicked movie. :P I liked it a lot, although my mother's opinion is... she had no idea what's going on.
It was fun, and, well... just fun to watch. :)
Somehow.......... still reminds me of... =.= a monkey... ZRO
Okay, I know it's wicked late to be seeing this movie, but anyways, I just did (after I don't know how many years)... :P
It's a really wicked movie. :P I liked it a lot, although my mother's opinion is... she had no idea what's going on.
It was fun, and, well... just fun to watch. :)
Somehow.......... still reminds me of... =.= a monkey... ZRO
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Crush
My over-powering energy, lost at direction, is slowly crushing down into pieces the shallow relationships i have with the few which i treasure. this energy, like that of the sun, never-ending, in a fussion, threatening to takeaway everything with it into a burning hell of nothing and nothing and nothing. so i deprived myself of the joy and love and sweetness of companionship, and in doing so, crushing it even more until nothing is left but a shattering emptiness. it's not that i don't feel, i feel too much. it's not the i am not patient, but time goes by too slowly for me. and what of a future?
what is it that always i am waiting?
what is it that always i am waiting?
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Something for TWN
If you wanna do something for TWN, you have to put your heart here first.
Then, you have to make small actions.
Then, you have to get into business.
This, is an island of business, of business people, the past and present and future.
Then, you have to have faith, absolute faith in this island and this country.
Then, you have to see the world, see the size of the world, see how far we can go.
Then, you have to be famous, make Taiwan famous with you.
Then, you have to come from a common family, a simple background, and work yourself up.
Why? Because that's the power of Taiwan. Not the bureaucracy, not the rich, not the fancy, but the common.
And you know, that's why we need to be equal here, because in Taiwan... true Democracy CAN happen.
With the right leader, the right directions...
We can be a true jewel, carved from a raw diamond stone.
Then, you have to make small actions.
Then, you have to get into business.
This, is an island of business, of business people, the past and present and future.
Then, you have to have faith, absolute faith in this island and this country.
Then, you have to see the world, see the size of the world, see how far we can go.
Then, you have to be famous, make Taiwan famous with you.
Then, you have to come from a common family, a simple background, and work yourself up.
Why? Because that's the power of Taiwan. Not the bureaucracy, not the rich, not the fancy, but the common.
And you know, that's why we need to be equal here, because in Taiwan... true Democracy CAN happen.
With the right leader, the right directions...
We can be a true jewel, carved from a raw diamond stone.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Headaches
The webworld is so big, I wonder how does one survive in this mud-puddle?!
Headaches.... ><
Think, Naomi! Think!
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Gosh! They've been in this all their lives, they've lived their lives out-thinking the big guys...
Just what makes you think you can out-think them?
If you can't compete with them, co-operate with them... stupid... ><
Headaches.... ><
Think, Naomi! Think!
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Gosh! They've been in this all their lives, they've lived their lives out-thinking the big guys...
Just what makes you think you can out-think them?
If you can't compete with them, co-operate with them... stupid... ><
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Stress, Pressure, Depression
I've been working relatively more than before (since Finland), but still not enough for my standard....
I've been working on some relatively interesting projects and getting my head moving, but not enough for my standard...
Or, is it the social standard, and not mine?
Stress, Pressure, Depression... when did that become an everyday thing?
Browse the titles of all the msn nicknames, what do you see? All these struggles, all these people seeking a way out of life, a way to breathe... just a breathe...
Determination! Persistance! All these shouts! Endless shouts and shouts and shouts!
What exactly is the problem? Especially when I always here these things from people whom I respect. Really amazing people who can take the world into their hands with ease worrying themselves to death and then... loosing the world from their worries.
Why aren't life as simple as before? Why have we made everything more complicated, harder to understand, harder to learn, harder to improve, harder to live?
Somehow I think it's not that people are not determined enough, it's that since they have been pushed and pushed and pushed all their lives, they are getting tired. Especially Asians.
Imagine not sleeping enough all your life. No wonder we are short.
Imagine not being allowed to question the authority. No wonder we are quiet.
Imagine so many things.
Maybe just Asians....
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Will the developing countries ever become developed?
I would say, not really.
Who gains the most from China's mass market?
The foreign investers, of course... and them, from those "Developed" nations.
I've been working on some relatively interesting projects and getting my head moving, but not enough for my standard...
Or, is it the social standard, and not mine?
Stress, Pressure, Depression... when did that become an everyday thing?
Browse the titles of all the msn nicknames, what do you see? All these struggles, all these people seeking a way out of life, a way to breathe... just a breathe...
Determination! Persistance! All these shouts! Endless shouts and shouts and shouts!
What exactly is the problem? Especially when I always here these things from people whom I respect. Really amazing people who can take the world into their hands with ease worrying themselves to death and then... loosing the world from their worries.
Why aren't life as simple as before? Why have we made everything more complicated, harder to understand, harder to learn, harder to improve, harder to live?
Somehow I think it's not that people are not determined enough, it's that since they have been pushed and pushed and pushed all their lives, they are getting tired. Especially Asians.
Imagine not sleeping enough all your life. No wonder we are short.
Imagine not being allowed to question the authority. No wonder we are quiet.
Imagine so many things.
Maybe just Asians....
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Will the developing countries ever become developed?
I would say, not really.
Who gains the most from China's mass market?
The foreign investers, of course... and them, from those "Developed" nations.
Distractions
Can't focus.
Just heard from another team of their progress, and now feeling a bit horrible for my lack (but then, they have 9 people working together, each in charge of one or two things... we have... hum... don't wanna talk about it). ><
FOCUS!
Work away, girl! work away!
Just heard from another team of their progress, and now feeling a bit horrible for my lack (but then, they have 9 people working together, each in charge of one or two things... we have... hum... don't wanna talk about it). ><
FOCUS!
Work away, girl! work away!
Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkin
The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
(chorus)
Even though I know - I suppose Ill show
All my cool and cold-like old job
Despite all my rage Im still just a rat in a cage (2x)
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage Im still just a rat in a cage
Now Im naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show?
And what do you want, I want to change
And what have you got when you feel the same
(chorus)
(chorus 2)
Tell me Im the only one
Tell me theres no other one
Jesus was an only son
Tell me Im the chosen one
Jesus was an only son for you
(chorus)
(chorus 2)
Despite all my rage Im still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage Im still just a rat in a cage
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
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The world is still too big, just now it's a big big vampire, that's all...
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
(chorus)
Even though I know - I suppose Ill show
All my cool and cold-like old job
Despite all my rage Im still just a rat in a cage (2x)
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage Im still just a rat in a cage
Now Im naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show?
And what do you want, I want to change
And what have you got when you feel the same
(chorus)
(chorus 2)
Tell me Im the only one
Tell me theres no other one
Jesus was an only son
Tell me Im the chosen one
Jesus was an only son for you
(chorus)
(chorus 2)
Despite all my rage Im still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage Im still just a rat in a cage
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
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The world is still too big, just now it's a big big vampire, that's all...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Very cute video
Doesn't this remind you of highschool times? :) Nostalgia, definitely I am getting the full-batch of it, whatever I had not before.
It makes me really want to cherish everything I have right now. Especially friendship.
Somehow it feels like actually... Taiwanese people are... very... cute... :) We never grow up. :P
Really adorable and funny... :P
This is nice... :)
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If you can understand the lyrics, you can see part of the Taiwanese spirit. We're passionate people, full of life and smile. We are daring, daring to love, to get what we want. :) Or, this is what the video tells.
Chthonic (Taiwan Metal Band)
What i found interesting is the instrument used. Erhu is a very traditional Chinese instrument, however, it doesn't provide strong enough of a feel to the music. It's very violin sounding, perhaps the reason why it "fits" somewhat. However, what about more traditional, even less western sounding instruments?
However... the erhu really gives it a nice touch~ :)
I don't like the way they look though... yet, thanks to them, we've actually tried at this genre... :P
Hum......... hum....... hum.......
I guess the thing is that they don't feel natural enough... @@ I wonder how to make this fit with our language?!
At least... it's not... "j-pop/rock" style... @@
Lapland
Wouldn't it be nice to travel there again.
A guitar in hand. A voice in stand. A book or two...
And snow, and sauna, and cold ice, and Lapin Kulta, and Lordi, and Apocalyptica....
And reindeer, and solitude, and wilderness, and music...
And art, and nights, and two hour day-time, and drunk santas...
And fireplaces, and sausages, and marshmellows, and Finlandia...
And Salmiakki, and heavy metal, and Metallica, and Oomph!, and Tool...
And Finnish nose, and pink sunrise, and skiing, and fucking expensive restraunts, and frozen trees...
And the northern light, and fucking cold, and abolute quietness, and hibernation...
And moikka, and heippa, and Finnish language, and elves on the run...
And nostalgia, and only us with memories, and red-wine too much, and card-playing...
And a Finland we all remember... and a beautiful winter...
And a reunion, with the land of dreams...
How I miss Finland... and how there I wish to be...
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Lapland, the total ideal of what I call "solitude heaven"... :P
Finland, the total ideal of what I call "marvelous place to live"... :P
A guitar in hand. A voice in stand. A book or two...
And snow, and sauna, and cold ice, and Lapin Kulta, and Lordi, and Apocalyptica....
And reindeer, and solitude, and wilderness, and music...
And art, and nights, and two hour day-time, and drunk santas...
And fireplaces, and sausages, and marshmellows, and Finlandia...
And Salmiakki, and heavy metal, and Metallica, and Oomph!, and Tool...
And Finnish nose, and pink sunrise, and skiing, and fucking expensive restraunts, and frozen trees...
And the northern light, and fucking cold, and abolute quietness, and hibernation...
And moikka, and heippa, and Finnish language, and elves on the run...
And nostalgia, and only us with memories, and red-wine too much, and card-playing...
And a Finland we all remember... and a beautiful winter...
And a reunion, with the land of dreams...
How I miss Finland... and how there I wish to be...
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Lapland, the total ideal of what I call "solitude heaven"... :P
Finland, the total ideal of what I call "marvelous place to live"... :P
Monday, June 18, 2007
To my Helsinki darlings
And so, another year has passed. How we miss each other...
All you darlings, Raquel, Mace, Rod, Ana Maria, Raquel, Xin, Som, Miriam, Quintin, Tamas, Pavel, Katerina, Agustin, Armando, Graham, Uye, Maxim, Siem, Lukas, Miguel, Dominik, Fei, Melodie (:P), Jeni, Zuzana, Frederico, Inga, Flavien, JD, Taylor, Jiabin, Jennifer, Lucy, Bin, Martin, Ben, Devon, Johanna, Mikael, Mikko, Timmo, Reima, Kaelle, Bjor, Joonas, Frank, Xin, Fabricio, Pierre, Miguel (architect), Gaonan, Gab, Charlotte, Leo, Ana, Squirrel, Eeva, Eva, Hitomi, Niko, Marta, Rachel,... hopefully I didn't miss anyone on this list... ><
I miss you all... and all the lovely finns I met there, and all the lovely people i met in general.
Wouldn't it be great to have a big reunion in Helsinki at Barfly? :P
Despite the fact I didn't learn much academically in Finland, I did learn a lot about life and about friendship and about treasuring people. Each of these individuals I met there are craved into my memory in the most beautiful manner. All the ups and downs, good and bads.
My father commented the other day that no friend of mine remembers me. I think, and am sure that no matter how time moves and changes, we are still all good friends. :) 10 years, 20 years from now, we will still be good friends. :)
Wherever you are in the world. :)
All you darlings, Raquel, Mace, Rod, Ana Maria, Raquel, Xin, Som, Miriam, Quintin, Tamas, Pavel, Katerina, Agustin, Armando, Graham, Uye, Maxim, Siem, Lukas, Miguel, Dominik, Fei, Melodie (:P), Jeni, Zuzana, Frederico, Inga, Flavien, JD, Taylor, Jiabin, Jennifer, Lucy, Bin, Martin, Ben, Devon, Johanna, Mikael, Mikko, Timmo, Reima, Kaelle, Bjor, Joonas, Frank, Xin, Fabricio, Pierre, Miguel (architect), Gaonan, Gab, Charlotte, Leo, Ana, Squirrel, Eeva, Eva, Hitomi, Niko, Marta, Rachel,... hopefully I didn't miss anyone on this list... ><
I miss you all... and all the lovely finns I met there, and all the lovely people i met in general.
Wouldn't it be great to have a big reunion in Helsinki at Barfly? :P
Despite the fact I didn't learn much academically in Finland, I did learn a lot about life and about friendship and about treasuring people. Each of these individuals I met there are craved into my memory in the most beautiful manner. All the ups and downs, good and bads.
My father commented the other day that no friend of mine remembers me. I think, and am sure that no matter how time moves and changes, we are still all good friends. :) 10 years, 20 years from now, we will still be good friends. :)
Wherever you are in the world. :)
Friday, June 15, 2007
Funny news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6751777.stm
And, i would say, this is the reason why people want FREEDOM!!! (stupid conservatives)
And, i would say, this is the reason why people want FREEDOM!!! (stupid conservatives)
What a day~
What a day, filled with surprises... :)
24... what does it mean to be 24? For me, it means everything... it's the time I set as the turning point of life, either up or either down...
All ups today... :) So, I take it it's uphill from here... :) Or, matters not how, I'll make it uphills from here... :)
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Thx 2 all the lovely people wishing me blessings around the world...
And... I discovered that it might not be such a bad idea to be a bit less, hum, mysterious sometimes~ :P
24... what does it mean to be 24? For me, it means everything... it's the time I set as the turning point of life, either up or either down...
All ups today... :) So, I take it it's uphill from here... :) Or, matters not how, I'll make it uphills from here... :)
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Thx 2 all the lovely people wishing me blessings around the world...
And... I discovered that it might not be such a bad idea to be a bit less, hum, mysterious sometimes~ :P
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Just a thought
Does meeting people online count as meeting people?
My fortune the other day was that I'd meet either a stranger or someone I liked so I should watch my appearance... Didn't meet anyone worth mentioning physically, met a lot of people online though...
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Am I finally turning into a geek?
My fortune the other day was that I'd meet either a stranger or someone I liked so I should watch my appearance... Didn't meet anyone worth mentioning physically, met a lot of people online though...
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Am I finally turning into a geek?
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
More Die Happy
When I watch these videos, I wonder... have I missed out too much in life?
Need..... more.... ><
Need..... more.... ><
Monday, June 11, 2007
Edening Contemporary
Nothing and quiet and fragile moments with pain the soul is held
Waiting, what for the waiting? For something of someone never comes
White paper, black characters, hand leads mind, pend leads hand, who leads pen?
And the fated reality still sits on the ghostly steps of a rainful rainful day
Just another rainful rainful day, when the mind stops to think and nothing
Nothing and quiet and fragile moments stretch accross this horizon
The lonely wait, the momentary wait, the passive wait, the never ending wait
For this sky to change, to color and change and the grey to go away
For this moment to pass, to pass on into something else, something less wasting
White paper, black words, who leads who in this game?
Red of red, plucked from the virgin tree, the taste of Eden Lost in Contemporary.
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excuse the poor composition, rusty little thing
Waiting, what for the waiting? For something of someone never comes
White paper, black characters, hand leads mind, pend leads hand, who leads pen?
And the fated reality still sits on the ghostly steps of a rainful rainful day
Just another rainful rainful day, when the mind stops to think and nothing
Nothing and quiet and fragile moments stretch accross this horizon
The lonely wait, the momentary wait, the passive wait, the never ending wait
For this sky to change, to color and change and the grey to go away
For this moment to pass, to pass on into something else, something less wasting
White paper, black words, who leads who in this game?
Red of red, plucked from the virgin tree, the taste of Eden Lost in Contemporary.
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excuse the poor composition, rusty little thing
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Orgasmatic Music
freaky...
Apparently, I've been feeling a bit out of place all day today, but I just turned on Godsmack on my ipod, and... WOW
I get little giggles going on all over my body. Just like when I saw beautiful Berlin.
Wicked, just discovered my Orgasmatic music.
(Yes, it's been officially a month since I've been addicted to them, literally...)
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okay, time to get back into research for these music, how is it made?
Apparently, I've been feeling a bit out of place all day today, but I just turned on Godsmack on my ipod, and... WOW
I get little giggles going on all over my body. Just like when I saw beautiful Berlin.
Wicked, just discovered my Orgasmatic music.
(Yes, it's been officially a month since I've been addicted to them, literally...)
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okay, time to get back into research for these music, how is it made?
Would have been great if true
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6733203.stm
Would have been great if it was true, this green-blooded man.
I've never shed green-blood myself, but I still believe that one day, Martians will be back looking for us.
But then, actually Martians don't shed green blood... :P They shed same with us. Maybe that's why Mars is so red, all the soil is rich in iron from the deceased in the past. Hum, could be an interesting theory. :P
Still, would have been great if true, at least then, I can laugh in the face of scientists and say, "Not everything can be explained by science!"
Would have been great if it was true, this green-blooded man.
I've never shed green-blood myself, but I still believe that one day, Martians will be back looking for us.
But then, actually Martians don't shed green blood... :P They shed same with us. Maybe that's why Mars is so red, all the soil is rich in iron from the deceased in the past. Hum, could be an interesting theory. :P
Still, would have been great if true, at least then, I can laugh in the face of scientists and say, "Not everything can be explained by science!"
Hardcore over-view
When I was at the party at Bamblero in Panama City, I think it was Alfredo or someone else who said that I'm really hardcore. Well, I've always been hardcore. 40 % liqour out the bottle, 6 hours dancing non-stop, all nighters, etc. The only thing I haven't been hardcore with over the past 4 years or so is studies. @@ I mean, I was too busy being a hardcore partier, but I don't actually regret it. :P At least, I had a life, and a life worth envying. :) At least I was happy in general, happy to the degree that it might make friends jealous.
Hardcore, I like that, and I prefer being hardcore all the way. :) (okay, keep your thinking in the cage)... :P
Hardcore, I like that, and I prefer being hardcore all the way. :) (okay, keep your thinking in the cage)... :P
Friday, June 08, 2007
rain rain rain
It's been rainning ever since I got back from Panama (of which, I still haven't finished writing about... :P).
I think it'll keep raining for another decades or so. Something funny about the climate? Definitely. The rainning season for Taiwan is somewhat in April and May, not June. We had serious dry winter, and now serious rainny summer, weird. ><
Have to admit that the weather is starting to scare me. The weather, the world news, the local news, etc. SCARY!
What can we do about it? Revolutionalize the world. :P
I think it'll keep raining for another decades or so. Something funny about the climate? Definitely. The rainning season for Taiwan is somewhat in April and May, not June. We had serious dry winter, and now serious rainny summer, weird. ><
Have to admit that the weather is starting to scare me. The weather, the world news, the local news, etc. SCARY!
What can we do about it? Revolutionalize the world. :P
A finite of infinites
1. A friend just told me that I can talk to him anytime when I am not busy cuz he is online 24/7.
2. I just got out of a jet-lag (or I hope I did).
3. Time is a bit disoriented for me at the moment (as always).
The combination of the above three just got me thinking about the concept of time and the feeling of infinite within the finite.
Life, is finite, yet somehow it always feels endless. They say that technically you won't feel that life is ending until moments before it does. Maybe it is a gift given to us by GOD then, to live in an infinite way. You see, any miracle can be accomplished within this infinity.
"Time, what a tricky little thing." - Larry from 'Closer'.
If you really think about it, what is the meaning of time? We, as humans, are the ones who set the clock, set a finity to our time. There's the minutes passing, the hours ending, the end of "a day", etc. There must be once in the past a time when people simply thought, "Oh, the sun sets and rises and sets and rises, so..... what? it will keep setting and rising and setting and rising..."
Okay, technically when I write, I tend not to know what I am writing or if my writing makes any sense because I tend not to really be me when I am writing which makes the full content of this absolutely stupidly awkward sounding.
Okay... the above is more or less a complain from someone who's totally confused with time and have been doing the wonderful job of chasing time for a long time.
2. I just got out of a jet-lag (or I hope I did).
3. Time is a bit disoriented for me at the moment (as always).
The combination of the above three just got me thinking about the concept of time and the feeling of infinite within the finite.
Life, is finite, yet somehow it always feels endless. They say that technically you won't feel that life is ending until moments before it does. Maybe it is a gift given to us by GOD then, to live in an infinite way. You see, any miracle can be accomplished within this infinity.
"Time, what a tricky little thing." - Larry from 'Closer'.
If you really think about it, what is the meaning of time? We, as humans, are the ones who set the clock, set a finity to our time. There's the minutes passing, the hours ending, the end of "a day", etc. There must be once in the past a time when people simply thought, "Oh, the sun sets and rises and sets and rises, so..... what? it will keep setting and rising and setting and rising..."
Okay, technically when I write, I tend not to know what I am writing or if my writing makes any sense because I tend not to really be me when I am writing which makes the full content of this absolutely stupidly awkward sounding.
Okay... the above is more or less a complain from someone who's totally confused with time and have been doing the wonderful job of chasing time for a long time.
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
When we are old enough to feel it...
When we are old enough to feel the world, we are sad.
Who can we blame except for ourselves for all this pain that is running all around the world? All these sorrow, all these bloodshed. Sometimes we may wonder if God has abandoned us, but the reality is that we have abandoned God. We have set ourselves on a path of destruction.
Every day I sit here waiting for the day when the world ends. It will end. It will end much faster and much sooner than we expect. What little peace we have in our house-hold, even that, may no longer exist.
I wish I was living in the medieval times.
Perhaps the real development of history... the spiral development, isn't going up but going down, like down a toilet.
What does it matter what we do? What does it matter what dreams we have? What does it matter... for anything at all?
All the golden ages are in the past, what is to come of the future? We work our asses off to make lives even harder for our childrens. The world is more polluted, more violent, more of anything but good.
If we are old enough to really feel the world, we will be sad.
What can we do then? Tired of surviving. Is there still anything that can be done?! Make a difference, make a change, make the world a better place.
Who can we blame except for ourselves for all this pain that is running all around the world? All these sorrow, all these bloodshed. Sometimes we may wonder if God has abandoned us, but the reality is that we have abandoned God. We have set ourselves on a path of destruction.
Every day I sit here waiting for the day when the world ends. It will end. It will end much faster and much sooner than we expect. What little peace we have in our house-hold, even that, may no longer exist.
I wish I was living in the medieval times.
Perhaps the real development of history... the spiral development, isn't going up but going down, like down a toilet.
What does it matter what we do? What does it matter what dreams we have? What does it matter... for anything at all?
All the golden ages are in the past, what is to come of the future? We work our asses off to make lives even harder for our childrens. The world is more polluted, more violent, more of anything but good.
If we are old enough to really feel the world, we will be sad.
What can we do then? Tired of surviving. Is there still anything that can be done?! Make a difference, make a change, make the world a better place.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
上司須承擔所有後果 - 聯合報
昨天在聯合報上看到一篇文章，寫的是：上司須承擔所有後果
在所有組織行為裡，最遭的情況莫過於在出差錯時，上司突然忘卻責任，或是歸咎部屬。在公司裡，上司與部屬就是一體，因為你是領導人，不須承擔所有後果，無論好壞。
然而有時候，上司無法看到與接觸所有部屬，尤其是大公司，在這種情況下，他們不需為一、兩名不校園供搞怪行負責，但他們有責任實施嚴密的控管制度，抓出這些不肖員工，在察覺有員工出狀況時，也不應等閒視之。上司不是巡街員警，但他們需確保有人做這項工作。
（威爾許談致勝）
在所有組織行為裡，最遭的情況莫過於在出差錯時，上司突然忘卻責任，或是歸咎部屬。在公司裡，上司與部屬就是一體，因為你是領導人，不須承擔所有後果，無論好壞。
然而有時候，上司無法看到與接觸所有部屬，尤其是大公司，在這種情況下，他們不需為一、兩名不校園供搞怪行負責，但他們有責任實施嚴密的控管制度，抓出這些不肖員工，在察覺有員工出狀況時，也不應等閒視之。上司不是巡街員警，但他們需確保有人做這項工作。
（威爾許談致勝）
Mission Three
Wicked kool. Sounds like a real neat project in the D.C. area. :) Nicely set.
*note: for fruit from other parts of the world, you can do fast friged delivery within three days, which will keep fruit just as fresh. In this manner, you can get any type of farm goods from all around. At least, that's how we do it in Taiwan. We've gotta have this system, cuz we're totally dependent on importing food, and we're wicked about freshness.... lol
*note: if you are interested, i'll see if i can find some places for you guys to see in Taiwan. my parents know some tea planters. :P
*note: for fruit from other parts of the world, you can do fast friged delivery within three days, which will keep fruit just as fresh. In this manner, you can get any type of farm goods from all around. At least, that's how we do it in Taiwan. We've gotta have this system, cuz we're totally dependent on importing food, and we're wicked about freshness.... lol
*note: if you are interested, i'll see if i can find some places for you guys to see in Taiwan. my parents know some tea planters. :P
Monday, June 04, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Panama Rage I
http://www.daflea.com
We are currently stuck at the airport. Me Team and me. Which reminds me that we should have group pictures on the website.
Still an hour to go before taking the flight. Since there's nothing much else to do, I am sitting here relaxing myself quite a bit. It's a very interesting feeling, actually. Having been working like... 24 hours max for the past few weeks, it's... sensational when you find yourself sitting in a place where... no one will bother you, you are completely alone, and... there's nothing in a hurry to do.
Laver already fell asleep. Poor guys. I was a tyrant and ordered that he keep me company while I worked on the business plan the night before. A bit cruel, but... oh well... company helps. Neither one of us slept, but the result is a promotion video and a business plan. Both are not as finely done as I had hoped, but... we will improve when we get back, I guess.
Inja is reading a book. He's a fascinating guy. He is either working, laughing, reading, thinking, creating, joking, lecturing, or... something on that side. He's passionate, that is for sure. :)
Okay... time to catch the plane. :)
We are currently stuck at the airport. Me Team and me. Which reminds me that we should have group pictures on the website.
Still an hour to go before taking the flight. Since there's nothing much else to do, I am sitting here relaxing myself quite a bit. It's a very interesting feeling, actually. Having been working like... 24 hours max for the past few weeks, it's... sensational when you find yourself sitting in a place where... no one will bother you, you are completely alone, and... there's nothing in a hurry to do.
Laver already fell asleep. Poor guys. I was a tyrant and ordered that he keep me company while I worked on the business plan the night before. A bit cruel, but... oh well... company helps. Neither one of us slept, but the result is a promotion video and a business plan. Both are not as finely done as I had hoped, but... we will improve when we get back, I guess.
Inja is reading a book. He's a fascinating guy. He is either working, laughing, reading, thinking, creating, joking, lecturing, or... something on that side. He's passionate, that is for sure. :)
Okay... time to catch the plane. :)
Sunday, May 27, 2007
What's Happening in China?!
http://blog.roodo.com/gamy543/archives/1884599.html
Hilarious... really... ><
Hilarious... really... ><
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"Butterfly" By Performing Monkeys
Funny... really funny looking...
Butterfly on poppy
Accidental discovery... a parrot headbanging to Artic Monkey
Okay... this is supposed to be bad for their brains, right?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... that's more like it~
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The story must go on!
Friday, May 25, 2007
hum
And just nothing nice can come out of you, can it?
no compliments... even at this moment, when i am crushed...
would you like to see me crushed again?
no compliments... even at this moment, when i am crushed...
would you like to see me crushed again?
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Thrilling truth
Discovered a thrilling truth.
The reason that despite the fact I post a lot on blogs I actually don't so frequently talk about what I am doing, or even if I do talk about what I am doing, I always code it, (now, if you every read my bbs board, you will see this following factor quite clearly), or else I'll have the whole msg, post, blog locked/invisible/private/not public, etc., whatever....
What exactly is my infatuation with privacy?!
Despite my envy at seeing how marvelous other people's lives are, how many things they are doing, and WOW...
I forgot... I'm doing quite a bit, only that I don't have the gut/ability/desire/want/need to tell... @@
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What more can I ask for in life?
A bit more sleep, maybe... :P
The reason that despite the fact I post a lot on blogs I actually don't so frequently talk about what I am doing, or even if I do talk about what I am doing, I always code it, (now, if you every read my bbs board, you will see this following factor quite clearly), or else I'll have the whole msg, post, blog locked/invisible/private/not public, etc., whatever....
What exactly is my infatuation with privacy?!
Despite my envy at seeing how marvelous other people's lives are, how many things they are doing, and WOW...
I forgot... I'm doing quite a bit, only that I don't have the gut/ability/desire/want/need to tell... @@
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What more can I ask for in life?
A bit more sleep, maybe... :P
Apocalyptica
Back to addiction... need someone to knock me back into work or else I know I'll be sitting here listening to their music all day and feeling it move me from the depth... way down inside... (need to check their tour time)
hot hot hot hot hot!!!!! (great.... now how am i going to sleep?)
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I think they have a new Album coming up. Will have to order it from abroad, or else... hum... going to LA for a few hours next week... can make a few snip purchases... :P
07.Dez.2007 20:00 Melkweg Amsterdam <-- sounds tempting
http://www.themerchsociety.de/apocalyptica/index.php?agnr=1567&PHPSESSID=931d27efb9bca3e2302dae4ca536e12d
Want this... ><
hot hot hot hot hot!!!!! (great.... now how am i going to sleep?)
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I think they have a new Album coming up. Will have to order it from abroad, or else... hum... going to LA for a few hours next week... can make a few snip purchases... :P
07.Dez.2007 20:00 Melkweg Amsterdam <-- sounds tempting
http://www.themerchsociety.de/apocalyptica/index.php?agnr=1567&PHPSESSID=931d27efb9bca3e2302dae4ca536e12d
Want this... ><
The necessities in the morning
Heavy load of Godsmack at the moment...
I should put together a breakfast CD... :P
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That and the goddamned rash! why the fuck is it still so persistant!
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Another necessity in the morning, blogging, youtubing, flickring, and.... soon... DaFleaing. <-- I sense the addiction
What's the general view on need of privacy online? (well, you're online anways, what do you expect?)
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Oh... and let's get the business running
I should put together a breakfast CD... :P
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That and the goddamned rash! why the fuck is it still so persistant!
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Another necessity in the morning, blogging, youtubing, flickring, and.... soon... DaFleaing. <-- I sense the addiction
What's the general view on need of privacy online? (well, you're online anways, what do you expect?)
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Oh... and let's get the business running
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Know you don't like this... but
please not before 29... nothing superstitious...
just... despite the desire, i think the time isn't right before then...
just... despite the desire, i think the time isn't right before then...
ambitions
I can feel the full of it in the heart
But... afraid to loose too much with this ambition...
Yet, knowing myself... I know that to pursue this ambition will make me a happier self...
So here I am, on the right path... to prove you all wrong...
You non-believers!
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recent meeting w/ family members made me indeed rather furious~
But... afraid to loose too much with this ambition...
Yet, knowing myself... I know that to pursue this ambition will make me a happier self...
So here I am, on the right path... to prove you all wrong...
You non-believers!
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recent meeting w/ family members made me indeed rather furious~
Health
What I don't understand is, even if I live a healthy life, I can never seem to manage to stay constantly healthy.
The thing is, first of all, I am allergic to... almost everything!!! Then, my skin is sensitive to almost everything... What's more?! My stomach is sensitive to almost anything...
The most problematic is the SKIN problem, actually... When you constantly have rashes... And then you have more rashes, and even more rashes... When your sensitivite to metal is... grrrr... so dense that if you touch metal for, let's say, 5 minutes, it might start a rash (serious)...
And then you get diagnosed with Eczema, and for some weird reason, Sun Allergy, and put that together with Metal allergy...
You ears, when you put earring on, will never... ever... heal...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
okay... enough screaming, just... continue living...
The thing is, first of all, I am allergic to... almost everything!!! Then, my skin is sensitive to almost everything... What's more?! My stomach is sensitive to almost anything...
The most problematic is the SKIN problem, actually... When you constantly have rashes... And then you have more rashes, and even more rashes... When your sensitivite to metal is... grrrr... so dense that if you touch metal for, let's say, 5 minutes, it might start a rash (serious)...
And then you get diagnosed with Eczema, and for some weird reason, Sun Allergy, and put that together with Metal allergy...
You ears, when you put earring on, will never... ever... heal...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
okay... enough screaming, just... continue living...
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Dreams
I think it's the childhood guy back again. This time, it's interesting. We are all (a huge crowd of girls) wearing something white, in this case, I guess it's wedding gown, except for me, I think. We are all taking a group picture. He's wearing the same black that matches his jet black hair. He stands next to me, his desires for me burning as my desires for him burns.
Then, I ran off to get a group of children who started a fire behind the rocks. I stopped it from my dream, but one of the girl have been burnt to death. I see her body right in front of me, so tiny and still burning on the inside. I noticed something wrong about the rocks, it's a trap. I tried to climb out, but cannot. I dropped down to the sand, and started running, but the escape just seems further and further away from me. And I can feel, this was his doing, he was trapping me here.
I've always dreamed of him in the past, sometimes more than a dream. This dream was also very sexual, like him leaning right into my face, him leaning right into me. I would take that as a sign of my sexual desires being unfulfilled recently (duh).
To wear a wedding dress in your dream, indicates that you are evaluating and assessing your personal relationship.
To see someone else wearing a wedding dress, suggests that you are feeling inferior or unworthy.
White represents purity, perfection, peace, innocence, dignity, cleanliness, awareness, and new beginnings. You may be experiencing a reawakening or have a fresh outlook on life. However, in Eastern cultures, white is associated with death and mourning.
To dream that all your clothes in the closet are white, suggests that you need to lighten up. You may have recently been feeling a little on the depressed side. Perhaps you were going through some crisis. It is time� to move on. You need to change your attitude and get a� grip of your inner emotions.
To dream that you jump over a wall, signifies that you will overcome some tough obstacles and succeed.
To dream that you are taking a picture, suggests that you need to get a good understanding and gain more information on some issue. You need to focus more attention to some situation or relationship. Perhaps you feel that you need to recapture some past moments in a relationship.
To see children in your dream, signifies your own childlike qualities or a retreat back to a childlike state. It is an extension of your inner child during a time of innocence, purity, simplicity, and a carefree attitude. You may be longing for the past and the chance to satisfy repressed desires and unfulfilled hopes. Take some time off and cater to the inner child within.
The loss of a child, signifies fallen hopes or a project.
To save a child, signifies your attempts to save a part of yourself from being destroyed.
Depending on the context of your dream, to see fire in your dream can symbolizes destruction, passion, desire, illumination, transformation, enlightenment, or anger. It may suggest that something old is passing and something new is entering your life. Your thoughts and views are changing.
To dream that you put out a fire, signifies that you will overcome your obstacles in your life through much work and effort. See Dream Bank: "Line Of Fire"
To see something burning, indicates that you are experiencing some intense emotions and/or passionate sexual feelings. There is some situation or issue that you can no longer avoid and ignore.� Alternatively, it may suggests that you need to take time off for yourself and relax.
To see rocks in your dream, signifies permanence and stability as expressed in the familiar phrase "as solid as a rock". It may also indicate that you are making a commitment to a relationship. Or you may be contemplating some changes in your life that will lay the groundwork for a more solid foundation. On the other hand rocks may also symbolize stubbornness, disharmony and unhappiness.
To dream that you are climbing a steep rock, signifies struggles, obstacles, and disappointments.
To dream that you are setting a trap, indicates that you are trying desperately to hold onto a relationship, old habits or ways.
To dream that you are trapped or caught in a trap, suggests that you are feeling confined and restricted in your job, career, health, or a personal relationship. You may be in a rut or tired of the same daily monotony.
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Then I woke up, decided to go back to sleep to find the guy. The only problem is, when you want to find him, he is never there. When you don't want him there, he always makes sure he's in the way. Basically, I ran through series of dreams (I think about 3), where I know that I am dreaming, and that I am dreaming so that I can find him. Meaning, restless sleep.
Dreamed of Melodie and some friends of mine that I actually don't know. Dreamed of having tea with Melodie, meeting a friend of Melodie's who was interested, very much, in Melodie. Dreamed of Ivo living in one of the dorms in the building we were at, and we tried to find his room number through the mailbox, but didn't succeed.
Dreamed... many weird things.
Then, I ran off to get a group of children who started a fire behind the rocks. I stopped it from my dream, but one of the girl have been burnt to death. I see her body right in front of me, so tiny and still burning on the inside. I noticed something wrong about the rocks, it's a trap. I tried to climb out, but cannot. I dropped down to the sand, and started running, but the escape just seems further and further away from me. And I can feel, this was his doing, he was trapping me here.
I've always dreamed of him in the past, sometimes more than a dream. This dream was also very sexual, like him leaning right into my face, him leaning right into me. I would take that as a sign of my sexual desires being unfulfilled recently (duh).
To wear a wedding dress in your dream, indicates that you are evaluating and assessing your personal relationship.
To see someone else wearing a wedding dress, suggests that you are feeling inferior or unworthy.
White represents purity, perfection, peace, innocence, dignity, cleanliness, awareness, and new beginnings. You may be experiencing a reawakening or have a fresh outlook on life. However, in Eastern cultures, white is associated with death and mourning.
To dream that all your clothes in the closet are white, suggests that you need to lighten up. You may have recently been feeling a little on the depressed side. Perhaps you were going through some crisis. It is time� to move on. You need to change your attitude and get a� grip of your inner emotions.
To dream that you jump over a wall, signifies that you will overcome some tough obstacles and succeed.
To dream that you are taking a picture, suggests that you need to get a good understanding and gain more information on some issue. You need to focus more attention to some situation or relationship. Perhaps you feel that you need to recapture some past moments in a relationship.
To see children in your dream, signifies your own childlike qualities or a retreat back to a childlike state. It is an extension of your inner child during a time of innocence, purity, simplicity, and a carefree attitude. You may be longing for the past and the chance to satisfy repressed desires and unfulfilled hopes. Take some time off and cater to the inner child within.
The loss of a child, signifies fallen hopes or a project.
To save a child, signifies your attempts to save a part of yourself from being destroyed.
Depending on the context of your dream, to see fire in your dream can symbolizes destruction, passion, desire, illumination, transformation, enlightenment, or anger. It may suggest that something old is passing and something new is entering your life. Your thoughts and views are changing.
To dream that you put out a fire, signifies that you will overcome your obstacles in your life through much work and effort. See Dream Bank: "Line Of Fire"
To see something burning, indicates that you are experiencing some intense emotions and/or passionate sexual feelings. There is some situation or issue that you can no longer avoid and ignore.� Alternatively, it may suggests that you need to take time off for yourself and relax.
To see rocks in your dream, signifies permanence and stability as expressed in the familiar phrase "as solid as a rock". It may also indicate that you are making a commitment to a relationship. Or you may be contemplating some changes in your life that will lay the groundwork for a more solid foundation. On the other hand rocks may also symbolize stubbornness, disharmony and unhappiness.
To dream that you are climbing a steep rock, signifies struggles, obstacles, and disappointments.
To dream that you are setting a trap, indicates that you are trying desperately to hold onto a relationship, old habits or ways.
To dream that you are trapped or caught in a trap, suggests that you are feeling confined and restricted in your job, career, health, or a personal relationship. You may be in a rut or tired of the same daily monotony.
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Then I woke up, decided to go back to sleep to find the guy. The only problem is, when you want to find him, he is never there. When you don't want him there, he always makes sure he's in the way. Basically, I ran through series of dreams (I think about 3), where I know that I am dreaming, and that I am dreaming so that I can find him. Meaning, restless sleep.
Dreamed of Melodie and some friends of mine that I actually don't know. Dreamed of having tea with Melodie, meeting a friend of Melodie's who was interested, very much, in Melodie. Dreamed of Ivo living in one of the dorms in the building we were at, and we tried to find his room number through the mailbox, but didn't succeed.
Dreamed... many weird things.
Godsmack
http://www.godsmack.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godsmack
I like the vocal's voice... and they have quite a few nice songs (couldn't find my fav. HOLLOW on youtube though)
But... I definitely don't like the vocal's look... ><
And, kool... he's a Wiccan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan)... Prolly explains his eccentricness...
Vodoo
I Stand Alone (Just... listen to the music... I guess not all singers are good actors... @@)
Awake (I like the drums in this one)
Whatever
Spiral
Keep Away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godsmack
I like the vocal's voice... and they have quite a few nice songs (couldn't find my fav. HOLLOW on youtube though)
But... I definitely don't like the vocal's look... ><
And, kool... he's a Wiccan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan)... Prolly explains his eccentricness...
Vodoo
I Stand Alone (Just... listen to the music... I guess not all singers are good actors... @@)
Awake (I like the drums in this one)
Whatever
Spiral
Keep Away
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Anticipation
Excited, quiet, gentle anticipation...
Fierce... upcoming... :)
Feeling the blood boil again... enjoy
Fierce... upcoming... :)
Feeling the blood boil again... enjoy
Reading list
Decided to put down my reading list and if anyone feel the desire, please add to it for me... :)
I'm lacking books to read.
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
The Poetics of Science Fiction, Peter Stockwell
The Correction, Jonathan Franzen
Psycholinguistic Models of Production, Dechert and Raupach
Competiting for the Future, Hamel Prahalad
The Idea and Practice of General Education, University of Chicago
舊金山下雨了, 王文華
國音學
實用現代漢語語法
當代語用學
華語文教學規範語理論基礎
華語語音學（上）
Love is the Killer App, Tom Sanders (would like more of his books)
網際網路法
智慧財產管理總論
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (attempting to finish), Susana Clark
Writers Dreaming, Naomi Epel
I, Asimov, Isaac Asimov
The Four Books, James legge
...
Hai had a few books of suggestion, which I would like to include into this list.
It is obvious that it is a rather messy list, unorganized, but anyways, they are all books that I find the need to read, either for sake of fun, or for work, or for business-related issues.
Any more suggestion, especially of philosophy related or history (acient) related will be welcomed.
Culture and law related, or human rights related, also welcomed.
Thanks to all the people who are nice enough to throw one or two entries into this list. :)
I'm lacking books to read.
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
The Poetics of Science Fiction, Peter Stockwell
The Correction, Jonathan Franzen
Psycholinguistic Models of Production, Dechert and Raupach
Competiting for the Future, Hamel Prahalad
The Idea and Practice of General Education, University of Chicago
舊金山下雨了, 王文華
國音學
實用現代漢語語法
當代語用學
華語文教學規範語理論基礎
華語語音學（上）
Love is the Killer App, Tom Sanders (would like more of his books)
網際網路法
智慧財產管理總論
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (attempting to finish), Susana Clark
Writers Dreaming, Naomi Epel
I, Asimov, Isaac Asimov
The Four Books, James legge
...
Hai had a few books of suggestion, which I would like to include into this list.
It is obvious that it is a rather messy list, unorganized, but anyways, they are all books that I find the need to read, either for sake of fun, or for work, or for business-related issues.
Any more suggestion, especially of philosophy related or history (acient) related will be welcomed.
Culture and law related, or human rights related, also welcomed.
Thanks to all the people who are nice enough to throw one or two entries into this list. :)
Friday, May 18, 2007
For all ya boys out there!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/ithinkilovemywife/trailera/
Okay... technically, i think... marriage should never get this scary...
And... well... too early to say anything...
Okay... technically, i think... marriage should never get this scary...
And... well... too early to say anything...
What is sex without love?
http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/goodluckchuck/large.html
Hear out the last line of this trailer.
Definitely on movie list... hahahahahaha
Hear out the last line of this trailer.
Definitely on movie list... hahahahahaha
Germany or the World the same?
" We were well off, otherwise we wouldn't have taken to the streets."
This is an extract from an article Ivo translated for me.
This line. It is rather tremendous, if you think about it. I wish, I can post this to the world.
The author was speaking of the comparison of Germany in 1967 and the present. Somehow I sense a degree of, hum, nostalgia. Originally, I had opposed nostalgia to an extreme, but the more I observed of the society, the more I am nostalgic. It isn't that life in the past was better or anything, since you cannot compare. I, for one, have no interest in returning to the time when women were deprived of their rights. However, I cannot but miss the times when "respect", "discipline", "organization", "authority", etc. were a part of life. When people had sense of morality, when people cared about the world and each other, when people did want too much, just enough. The time before capitalism, the time before materialism, the time before all this insane fantasy about endless worships for money. There are people with money enough to burn, and people dying from starvation. What's wrong with this picture? EVERYTHING.
(Seriously, this world makes me want to attempt to start a cult)... :P
We were well off, otherwise we wouldn't have taken to the streets.
This phrase was put in a part describing the comparison of nowaday and the past. The line before it was "Nowadays, in our times of seeming deprived authority, authority is faceless, she calls herself free market society and intimidates with globalization, she hides behind anonymous "necessities", objective requirements and appears invincible. For nowadays' youngsters it's a lot more difficult than back then." Revolution are so often started by those with the money and the power. They revolutionize without doing too much thinking, and then, changing the world, creates even more people without money and power, without means of survival.
Live it up. This is a phrase more proper for the present society than anything else. We're all trying to survive it, and forgot that we were born to "live a life". Well, we created a society that we called improvement so that we may all become a tiny robot, trying to survive in a sea of "improvements".
This is an extract from an article Ivo translated for me.
This line. It is rather tremendous, if you think about it. I wish, I can post this to the world.
The author was speaking of the comparison of Germany in 1967 and the present. Somehow I sense a degree of, hum, nostalgia. Originally, I had opposed nostalgia to an extreme, but the more I observed of the society, the more I am nostalgic. It isn't that life in the past was better or anything, since you cannot compare. I, for one, have no interest in returning to the time when women were deprived of their rights. However, I cannot but miss the times when "respect", "discipline", "organization", "authority", etc. were a part of life. When people had sense of morality, when people cared about the world and each other, when people did want too much, just enough. The time before capitalism, the time before materialism, the time before all this insane fantasy about endless worships for money. There are people with money enough to burn, and people dying from starvation. What's wrong with this picture? EVERYTHING.
(Seriously, this world makes me want to attempt to start a cult)... :P
We were well off, otherwise we wouldn't have taken to the streets.
This phrase was put in a part describing the comparison of nowaday and the past. The line before it was "Nowadays, in our times of seeming deprived authority, authority is faceless, she calls herself free market society and intimidates with globalization, she hides behind anonymous "necessities", objective requirements and appears invincible. For nowadays' youngsters it's a lot more difficult than back then." Revolution are so often started by those with the money and the power. They revolutionize without doing too much thinking, and then, changing the world, creates even more people without money and power, without means of survival.
Live it up. This is a phrase more proper for the present society than anything else. We're all trying to survive it, and forgot that we were born to "live a life". Well, we created a society that we called improvement so that we may all become a tiny robot, trying to survive in a sea of "improvements".
Thursday, May 17, 2007
The only way to survive this
The only way to survive this is not to go mad...
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Produce, produce, produce...
Just... pour it out, damn it!
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Produce, produce, produce...
Just... pour it out, damn it!
Popular Blog
Been reading a bit too much online these days, but will only increase... ><
Popular blogs. Been wondering about how to make my own blog popular.
Presently, I have 5 blogs.
Two on Blogger,
One on Xanga,
One on Wretch (Taiwan),
One on UDN (Taiwan).
The two on blogger are private English. Wretch is private Chinese. Xanga is experimental. UDN is for publishing purposes.
How do I make a blog truely, thrilling?
Would like the experience of having hundreds of people attached to my blog day and night, reading up heated stories, commenting on them with the same degree of heat and passion.
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*sigh*
It is definitely something worth thinking about.
Prolly... more photo taking will make a difference, in the end.
Popular blogs. Been wondering about how to make my own blog popular.
Presently, I have 5 blogs.
Two on Blogger,
One on Xanga,
One on Wretch (Taiwan),
One on UDN (Taiwan).
The two on blogger are private English. Wretch is private Chinese. Xanga is experimental. UDN is for publishing purposes.
How do I make a blog truely, thrilling?
Would like the experience of having hundreds of people attached to my blog day and night, reading up heated stories, commenting on them with the same degree of heat and passion.
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*sigh*
It is definitely something worth thinking about.
Prolly... more photo taking will make a difference, in the end.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Something that reminded me of something
Just read something that reminded me of something and so I replied it with something, which I hope would have been something relating to the something I read and would have been something helpful to the person who wrote the something I read which I replied something to.
This is the longest something sentence I've written so far, I think.... @@ Indeed fitting the theory of crap and shit and domination of the world.
Suddenly feel like propaganding this blog and the theory/religion of crap and shit... wonder if it will ever reach the same evangelist position as that of the Scientology (someone tried once with a theory that we all came from the toe-nail germs).
Douglas Adams would have agreed with my actions, I am certain. Not sure about Asimov, he might look at me and say, "What's you got to do with this whole crap and shit thing?"
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A friend of mine, someone I once commented to be talented, extremely, of arts and literature, is now locked up (guess where).
A friend of mine, someone I can actually relate to extremely, is now in a state I fear day and night that one day I will be in.
That same friend of mine, stroke a queer but long desired conversation within me and myself and my other friend in relation.
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We never got out of Finland.
Was just reading Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. At the same time wondering the reason why this book, in particular, made me feel quite uncomfortable about several things. Then, I finally understood. It reminded me extremely of my feelings for Finland. The description of Faerie and the people there, are so precisely the way I see Finland that... I am intrigued by it.
Finland. Faerie. Arthur. Elves. Fantasy. Magic.
Are these not the things I craved for all my life, longing to be a part of?
We never got out of Finland.
For many exchange students, it was merely an experience. For me, it was more like a life-time.
Unlike many exchange students, I experienced... too different a thing.
I saw the magic in the woods, the elves dancing.
I saw Merlin in display, I saw the land of the light and the land of the gloom.
I saw pink mists flying, and I saw discipline in the midst of decadence.
I saw myself melt away to become something/someone I was not, and then back again to someone I will never be again.
Like a wash in the pagan river, like a path to Avalon... like leaving the reality behind...
I never came back...
Maybe that is why I am not satisfied with my life as present, no matter what I do... I cannot put my heart here, because I've lost it there... In Finland... in Germany (duh)... in Europe...
Because I never woke up from the pink mist of the morning rising on the frozen lake while I walked with Peter Pan to his island of Neverland. Peter Pan flew away, and I lost myself in the mists, forgetting the key to flying.
How I long for Finland. I just long for Finland. The place I had called home the day I arrived, and a country where I could belong. At least there, I am so foreign, I wasn't foreign anymore.
This is the longest something sentence I've written so far, I think.... @@ Indeed fitting the theory of crap and shit and domination of the world.
Suddenly feel like propaganding this blog and the theory/religion of crap and shit... wonder if it will ever reach the same evangelist position as that of the Scientology (someone tried once with a theory that we all came from the toe-nail germs).
Douglas Adams would have agreed with my actions, I am certain. Not sure about Asimov, he might look at me and say, "What's you got to do with this whole crap and shit thing?"
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A friend of mine, someone I once commented to be talented, extremely, of arts and literature, is now locked up (guess where).
A friend of mine, someone I can actually relate to extremely, is now in a state I fear day and night that one day I will be in.
That same friend of mine, stroke a queer but long desired conversation within me and myself and my other friend in relation.
--
We never got out of Finland.
Was just reading Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. At the same time wondering the reason why this book, in particular, made me feel quite uncomfortable about several things. Then, I finally understood. It reminded me extremely of my feelings for Finland. The description of Faerie and the people there, are so precisely the way I see Finland that... I am intrigued by it.
Finland. Faerie. Arthur. Elves. Fantasy. Magic.
Are these not the things I craved for all my life, longing to be a part of?
We never got out of Finland.
For many exchange students, it was merely an experience. For me, it was more like a life-time.
Unlike many exchange students, I experienced... too different a thing.
I saw the magic in the woods, the elves dancing.
I saw Merlin in display, I saw the land of the light and the land of the gloom.
I saw pink mists flying, and I saw discipline in the midst of decadence.
I saw myself melt away to become something/someone I was not, and then back again to someone I will never be again.
Like a wash in the pagan river, like a path to Avalon... like leaving the reality behind...
I never came back...
Maybe that is why I am not satisfied with my life as present, no matter what I do... I cannot put my heart here, because I've lost it there... In Finland... in Germany (duh)... in Europe...
Because I never woke up from the pink mist of the morning rising on the frozen lake while I walked with Peter Pan to his island of Neverland. Peter Pan flew away, and I lost myself in the mists, forgetting the key to flying.
How I long for Finland. I just long for Finland. The place I had called home the day I arrived, and a country where I could belong. At least there, I am so foreign, I wasn't foreign anymore.
happy thoughts
Someone, because of me... found her dream... :) come true...
so... i CAN do something good for the world after all... even if it was such a small and simple act... :)
contentment, is true happiness... :)
so... i CAN do something good for the world after all... even if it was such a small and simple act... :)
contentment, is true happiness... :)
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Why is it so complicated?
Hum...
Why isn't it just simple? Why is it so complicated? Why can't we just think about what makes users happy? Instead, we have to think all day long about how to gain profit..... the point is letting users be happy about using the service in the first place...
*sigh*
Why isn't it just simple? Why is it so complicated? Why can't we just think about what makes users happy? Instead, we have to think all day long about how to gain profit..... the point is letting users be happy about using the service in the first place...
*sigh*
Entired annoyed
Very tired of stupid assholes who would just spend his days complaining about whether or not a person is capable of doing something or not... when he isn't doing much of anything he's supposed to be doing... so other people have to pick up after his left-over unfinished crap...
grrrr...
This, is the kind of an employee... you'd fire, seriously...
grrrr...
This, is the kind of an employee... you'd fire, seriously...
Monday, May 14, 2007
A different Ben Cox
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6653969.stm
U r much luckier, Ben Cox of The Netherlands. (@@)
U r much luckier, Ben Cox of The Netherlands. (@@)
Introducing!
Teapacks! (Israel)
http://www.myspace.com/teapacks
hahahahahaha
they are sooo funny... (in total good mood from all the funnies tonight)
http://www.myspace.com/teapacks
hahahahahaha
they are sooo funny... (in total good mood from all the funnies tonight)
THIS IS FUNNY AS HELL
He deserved a lot of credits for this, really..... OMG.... lol (I can't stop laughing at the last line from the first clip...)
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Scientology
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6650545.stm
Call it wicked. :P
Wonder if someday someone would do something like this about direct sales organizations.
Brainwash... it seems the easiest way to control and manipulation.
Call it wicked. :P
Wonder if someday someone would do something like this about direct sales organizations.
Brainwash... it seems the easiest way to control and manipulation.
Eurovision 2007
http://www.eurovision.tv/
This is the moment when you think: FUCK! WHY AM I NOT IN HELSINKI THIS YEAR?!
And decide that I really did waste a year in Helsinki (cuz I could have applied for school there and never had to miss Eurovision... grrr...)...
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And just to think, a friend of mine went to the afterparty and the rehearsal... *sigh*
This is the moment when you think: FUCK! WHY AM I NOT IN HELSINKI THIS YEAR?!
And decide that I really did waste a year in Helsinki (cuz I could have applied for school there and never had to miss Eurovision... grrr...)...
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And just to think, a friend of mine went to the afterparty and the rehearsal... *sigh*
今天看到最好的文章～跟大家分享
你什麼都有了嗎？ ◎李家同/文
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我在柏克萊念博士的時候，交到了一位美國好朋友，他叫約翰，我當時是單身漢，他已婚，太太非常和善，常找我到他家吃飯，我有請必到，變成他們家經常的座上客。
約翰夫婦都是學生，當然收入不多，可是家裡卻佈置得舒適極了，他們會買便宜貨，收集了不少的瓷娃娃，有吹喇叭的小男孩，有打傘的小女孩，也有小男孩在摸狗等等的娃娃，滿屋子都是這種擺設，窗臺上更是放了一大排。我每次到他們家，都會把玩這些瓷娃娃。
約翰告訴我他們的瓷娃娃都是從舊貨店和舊貨攤買來的，有一天，我發現一家舊貨店，也去買了一個瓷娃娃，是一個高高瘦瘦的少女，低著頭，一臉憂鬱的表情，等約翰夫婦再請我去的時候，我將他帶去，他們大為高興，告訴我這是西班牙Lladro娃娃，這家名牌公司的娃娃個個又高又瘦，也都帶著憂鬱的表情。他們一直想要有這麼一個娃娃，可是始終沒有看到，沒有想到我買到了。
我們先後拿到博士以後就各奔前程，約翰的研究是有關感測器，畢業後不久就自己開了一家公司，用感測器作一些防盜器材，他很快地大量使用電腦，生意也越來越大，成為美國最大的保全系統公司的老闆。由於中東問題，美國飛機好幾次被恐怖分子所劫持，約翰的公司得了大的合約，替美國大的機場設計安全系統，大概畢業二十年以後，他的身價已是快四億美金。
有一年，我決定去找他，他欣然答應接待我，那時已近耶誕節，我先去他的辦公室，他親自帶我去看他的系統展覽室，我才知道現在的汽車防盜系統幾乎都是他們的產品，體積都極小，孩子帶了，父母永遠可以知道他在那裡，我也發現美國很多監獄都由他們設計安全系統，以防止犯人逃脫。看完展覽以後，約翰開車和我一起到他家去。
那一天天氣變壞了，天空飄雪，約翰的家在紐約州的鄉下，全是有錢人住的地方，當他指給我看他的住家時，我簡直以為我自己在看電影，如此大的莊園，沒有一點圍牆，可是誰都看出這是私人土地，告示牌也寫得一清二楚，有保全系統，閒人莫入，約翰告訴我他的家有三層紅外線的保護，除非開飛機，否則決不可能闖入的，如果硬闖的話，不僅附近的警衛會知道，家裡的挪威納犬也會大舉出動，我這才知道約翰的公司會代人訓練這些長像兇猛的狗。
約翰的太太在門口迎接我，我們一見如故，他們的家當然是優雅之至，一進門，迎面而來的就是一個明朝的青花瓷花瓶，花瓶裡插滿了長莖的鮮花，後來才發現約翰夫婦愛上了明朝的青花瓷，滿屋子都是，他們的壁紙也一概用淡色的小花為主，好像是配這些青花瓷的。
我住的客房，附設了一個浴室，這間浴室的洗澡盆和洗臉盆都是仿製青花瓷，約翰告訴我這是他從日本訂作來的，他還訂作了一個青花瓷器，一按，肥皂水就出來了，浴室的瓷磚來自伊朗，也是青色的，聽說伊朗某一皇宮外牆就用這種瓷磚，我不敢問他們是否這也是訂作的。
這座豪宅當然有極為複雜的安全系統，我發現，入夜以後，最好不要四處走動，恐怕連到廚房裡拿杯水喝都不可能，必須打電話給主人，由他解除了系統，才可以去。
約翰家裡靜得不得了，聽不到任何聲音，可是每隔一小時，他們的落地鐘就會敲出悅耳的聲音，這個鐘聲和倫敦國會大廈的大鵬鐘一模一樣。
約翰唯一的女兒在哈佛念書，那一天要開車回來，到了六點，還沒有回來，他們夫婦都有點不安，原來這個女孩子厭惡有錢人的生活方式，開一部老爺車，也不肯帶行動電話，他們擔心她老爺車會中途拋錨。
我們一直等到八點，才接到女孩子的電話，果真她的車子壞了，可是她現在安然無恙，在人家家裡，要約翰去接她。約翰弄清楚地址以後，就要我一起去接他女兒，雪已經下得很大了，他女兒落腳的地方是一幢小房子，屋主是個年青的男孩，一臉年青人的稚氣表情。
他女兒告訴我們，她車子壞了以後，就去呼救，沒有想到家家戶戶都裝了爸爸公司設計的安全系統，使她完全無法可施。總算有一家門口有一個電話，可是屋主坦白地告訴她，屋主本人是一個弱女子，在等她丈夫回來，不敢放她進去，因為她不知道會不會受騙。
她女兒說當她被拒的時候，她相信家家戶戶都在放聖誕音樂，平安夜，聖善夜，聖誕節應該是充滿了愛與關懷的日子，可是她卻被大家拒於千里之外，虧得她最後找到了這一座又破又舊的小房子，她知道這座小房子是不會用安全系統的，果然也找到了這位和氣而友善的屋主。
這位年輕的男孩子一面給我熱茶喝，一面發表他一個奇特的看法，他說家家戶戶都裝了安全系統，耶穌會到那裡去降生呢？可憐的聖母瑪利亞，可能連馬槽都找不到。約翰聽了這些話，當然很不是滋味，可是他一再謝謝這位好心的年青人，也邀他一起去吃晚飯，年青人一聽到有人請他吃晚飯，立刻答應了，我想起我年青的時候，也是如此，從未拒絕過任何一頓晚飯的邀約。
晚餐在一張長桌上吃的，夫妻兩人分坐長桌的兩端，一位臉上沒有表情穿制服的僕人來回送菜，每一道菜都是精點，每一種餐具更是講究無比，可是我想起當年我們在約翰家廚房吃晚飯情形，我覺得當年的飯好吃多了。
約翰的女兒顯得有點不自然，那位年青人卻是最快樂的人，有多少吃多少，一副不吃白不吃的表情，吃完飯，已經十點了，約翰的女兒將年青人送走了。我卻有一個疑問，那些可愛的瓷娃娃到那裡去了？我不敢問，因為答案一定是很尷尬的。
第二天約翰送我到機場，他似乎稍微沉默了一點，下了汽車，他碰到另一部汽車，立刻警鈴大作，這又是他的傑作，自作自受地，我假裝沒有聽到，可是我看到他一臉不自然的表情。
他也無法送我去候機室，安全系統規定送客者早就該留步了。
一年以後，我忽然在《華爾街日報》上看到一則消息，約翰將他的公司賣掉了，他一夜間得到了四億多美金，他的豪華住宅賣了五百萬美金，約翰在記者會上宣布，他留下一個零頭，用四億多美金成立一個慈善基金會，基金會的董事們全是社會上有頭有臉的人，他不是董事，他也不會過問這個基金會如何行善，他完全信任這些董事們。幾天以後，約翰夫婦不見了，他的親人替他們保密，他的女兒已和那位年青人結了婚，到非洲去幫助窮人了，這位科技名人就此失蹤了。
可是我有把握約翰會找我的，因為我們的友誼比較特別，果真我收到他的信了，他告訴我他現在住在英國一個偏遠的鄉下，這裡沒有一家人用安全系統，他給我他的電話和地址，可是他故意不給我他的門牌號碼，他叫我去找他們夫婦二人，而且他說我一定會找到他家的。
我找了一個機會去英國開會，也和約翰約好了去看他的時間，下了火車，我找到了那條街，那條街的一邊面對一大片山谷，沒有一幢房子，所以我只要看街的另一邊就可以了。
我在街上閒逛，忽然看到一幢房子的落地大玻璃窗與眾不同，因為這個窗臺上放滿了瓷娃娃，好可愛的瓷娃娃，我想這一定是一家舊貨店，我想起約翰夫婦喜歡瓷娃娃，決定進去買一個送他們，沒有想到當我抬起頭來的時候，我看到約翰在裡面，這不是舊貨店，這是他們的家，只是他們的家完全對外開放，又放滿了瓷娃娃，才使我誤解了。
約翰夫婦熱情地招待我，他們的家比以前的豪宅小太多了，據他們說，這座小房子比他們當年佣人住的房子還小，也比他們當年的花房小，我記起他們家在冬天也有如此多的花，原來是有花房的緣故。
他們的明朝青花瓷器完全不見了，約翰夫婦將那些瓷器捐給了紐約的一家博物館，他們夫婦二人認為人類文明的結晶，應該由人類全體所共享。
他們的園子也小得很，可是約翰夫婦仍然在園子裡種了花草，他們的後園對著一大片森林，約翰說據說當年羅賓漢就出沒在這一片森林裡，而他們所面對的山谷由英國詩人協會所擁有，他們不會開發這片荒原的，英國人喜歡荒原，約翰夫婦也養成了在荒原中散步的習慣。
約翰告訴我為什麼他最後決定放棄一切。他的公司得到了一個大合同，改善整個加州監獄的安全系統，他發現了加州花在監獄上的錢比花在教育上的還多，而他呢？他越來越有錢，卻越來越像住在一座監獄裡面。美國人一向標榜「自由而且開放社會」，其實美國人卻越來越將自己封閉起來，越來越使自己失去自由。約翰決心不再拼命賺錢，只為了找回失去了好久的自由。
約翰夫婦在附近的一家高中教書，這所學校其時有點像專科學校，約翰教線路設計，學生所設計出來的線路經常得獎，他捐了很多錢給這所學校，使這所學校有很好的圖書館和實驗室，他太太在那裡教英文。
約翰告訴我他們兩人的薪水就足足應付他們的生活了，因為他們生活得很簡單，平時騎自行車上班，連汽油都用得很少。
當我們坐下來吃晚飯的時候，我才發現我的那座女孩子瓷娃娃放在桌子中間，他們當時念舊，捨不得丟掉那些瓷娃娃，可是替他們設計內部裝潢的設計師不讓他擺設這些不值錢的東西，現在那些值錢的東西都不見了，不值錢的瓷娃娃又出現了。我總算吃到了我當年常吃到的晚飯，也重新享受到約翰夫婦家中的溫暖。
我離開的時候，約翰送我去火車站，他告訴我他還有一些錢，他的女兒不會要他的這些錢，等他和太太都去世了，他的錢就全部捐出去了。
我說我好佩服他，因為他已經捐出他的全部所有，他忽然一笑，告訴我他仍然有一樣寶物，沒有捐掉。我對此大為好奇，問他是什麼，他說他要賣一個關子，他用一張小紙寫了下來，交給我，但叫我現在不要看，等火車開了以後再看，上面寫的是他不會捐出去的寶物。
火車開了，我和站在月台上的約翰揮手再見，等我看不見他以後，打開了那張紙，紙上寫的是「我的靈魂」。
我坐在火車裡，不禁一直想著，有些人什麼都有，卻失落了自己的靈魂。
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我在柏克萊念博士的時候，交到了一位美國好朋友，他叫約翰，我當時是單身漢，他已婚，太太非常和善，常找我到他家吃飯，我有請必到，變成他們家經常的座上客。
約翰夫婦都是學生，當然收入不多，可是家裡卻佈置得舒適極了，他們會買便宜貨，收集了不少的瓷娃娃，有吹喇叭的小男孩，有打傘的小女孩，也有小男孩在摸狗等等的娃娃，滿屋子都是這種擺設，窗臺上更是放了一大排。我每次到他們家，都會把玩這些瓷娃娃。
約翰告訴我他們的瓷娃娃都是從舊貨店和舊貨攤買來的，有一天，我發現一家舊貨店，也去買了一個瓷娃娃，是一個高高瘦瘦的少女，低著頭，一臉憂鬱的表情，等約翰夫婦再請我去的時候，我將他帶去，他們大為高興，告訴我這是西班牙Lladro娃娃，這家名牌公司的娃娃個個又高又瘦，也都帶著憂鬱的表情。他們一直想要有這麼一個娃娃，可是始終沒有看到，沒有想到我買到了。
我們先後拿到博士以後就各奔前程，約翰的研究是有關感測器，畢業後不久就自己開了一家公司，用感測器作一些防盜器材，他很快地大量使用電腦，生意也越來越大，成為美國最大的保全系統公司的老闆。由於中東問題，美國飛機好幾次被恐怖分子所劫持，約翰的公司得了大的合約，替美國大的機場設計安全系統，大概畢業二十年以後，他的身價已是快四億美金。
有一年，我決定去找他，他欣然答應接待我，那時已近耶誕節，我先去他的辦公室，他親自帶我去看他的系統展覽室，我才知道現在的汽車防盜系統幾乎都是他們的產品，體積都極小，孩子帶了，父母永遠可以知道他在那裡，我也發現美國很多監獄都由他們設計安全系統，以防止犯人逃脫。看完展覽以後，約翰開車和我一起到他家去。
那一天天氣變壞了，天空飄雪，約翰的家在紐約州的鄉下，全是有錢人住的地方，當他指給我看他的住家時，我簡直以為我自己在看電影，如此大的莊園，沒有一點圍牆，可是誰都看出這是私人土地，告示牌也寫得一清二楚，有保全系統，閒人莫入，約翰告訴我他的家有三層紅外線的保護，除非開飛機，否則決不可能闖入的，如果硬闖的話，不僅附近的警衛會知道，家裡的挪威納犬也會大舉出動，我這才知道約翰的公司會代人訓練這些長像兇猛的狗。
約翰的太太在門口迎接我，我們一見如故，他們的家當然是優雅之至，一進門，迎面而來的就是一個明朝的青花瓷花瓶，花瓶裡插滿了長莖的鮮花，後來才發現約翰夫婦愛上了明朝的青花瓷，滿屋子都是，他們的壁紙也一概用淡色的小花為主，好像是配這些青花瓷的。
我住的客房，附設了一個浴室，這間浴室的洗澡盆和洗臉盆都是仿製青花瓷，約翰告訴我這是他從日本訂作來的，他還訂作了一個青花瓷器，一按，肥皂水就出來了，浴室的瓷磚來自伊朗，也是青色的，聽說伊朗某一皇宮外牆就用這種瓷磚，我不敢問他們是否這也是訂作的。
這座豪宅當然有極為複雜的安全系統，我發現，入夜以後，最好不要四處走動，恐怕連到廚房裡拿杯水喝都不可能，必須打電話給主人，由他解除了系統，才可以去。
約翰家裡靜得不得了，聽不到任何聲音，可是每隔一小時，他們的落地鐘就會敲出悅耳的聲音，這個鐘聲和倫敦國會大廈的大鵬鐘一模一樣。
約翰唯一的女兒在哈佛念書，那一天要開車回來，到了六點，還沒有回來，他們夫婦都有點不安，原來這個女孩子厭惡有錢人的生活方式，開一部老爺車，也不肯帶行動電話，他們擔心她老爺車會中途拋錨。
我們一直等到八點，才接到女孩子的電話，果真她的車子壞了，可是她現在安然無恙，在人家家裡，要約翰去接她。約翰弄清楚地址以後，就要我一起去接他女兒，雪已經下得很大了，他女兒落腳的地方是一幢小房子，屋主是個年青的男孩，一臉年青人的稚氣表情。
他女兒告訴我們，她車子壞了以後，就去呼救，沒有想到家家戶戶都裝了爸爸公司設計的安全系統，使她完全無法可施。總算有一家門口有一個電話，可是屋主坦白地告訴她，屋主本人是一個弱女子，在等她丈夫回來，不敢放她進去，因為她不知道會不會受騙。
她女兒說當她被拒的時候，她相信家家戶戶都在放聖誕音樂，平安夜，聖善夜，聖誕節應該是充滿了愛與關懷的日子，可是她卻被大家拒於千里之外，虧得她最後找到了這一座又破又舊的小房子，她知道這座小房子是不會用安全系統的，果然也找到了這位和氣而友善的屋主。
這位年輕的男孩子一面給我熱茶喝，一面發表他一個奇特的看法，他說家家戶戶都裝了安全系統，耶穌會到那裡去降生呢？可憐的聖母瑪利亞，可能連馬槽都找不到。約翰聽了這些話，當然很不是滋味，可是他一再謝謝這位好心的年青人，也邀他一起去吃晚飯，年青人一聽到有人請他吃晚飯，立刻答應了，我想起我年青的時候，也是如此，從未拒絕過任何一頓晚飯的邀約。
晚餐在一張長桌上吃的，夫妻兩人分坐長桌的兩端，一位臉上沒有表情穿制服的僕人來回送菜，每一道菜都是精點，每一種餐具更是講究無比，可是我想起當年我們在約翰家廚房吃晚飯情形，我覺得當年的飯好吃多了。
約翰的女兒顯得有點不自然，那位年青人卻是最快樂的人，有多少吃多少，一副不吃白不吃的表情，吃完飯，已經十點了，約翰的女兒將年青人送走了。我卻有一個疑問，那些可愛的瓷娃娃到那裡去了？我不敢問，因為答案一定是很尷尬的。
第二天約翰送我到機場，他似乎稍微沉默了一點，下了汽車，他碰到另一部汽車，立刻警鈴大作，這又是他的傑作，自作自受地，我假裝沒有聽到，可是我看到他一臉不自然的表情。
他也無法送我去候機室，安全系統規定送客者早就該留步了。
一年以後，我忽然在《華爾街日報》上看到一則消息，約翰將他的公司賣掉了，他一夜間得到了四億多美金，他的豪華住宅賣了五百萬美金，約翰在記者會上宣布，他留下一個零頭，用四億多美金成立一個慈善基金會，基金會的董事們全是社會上有頭有臉的人，他不是董事，他也不會過問這個基金會如何行善，他完全信任這些董事們。幾天以後，約翰夫婦不見了，他的親人替他們保密，他的女兒已和那位年青人結了婚，到非洲去幫助窮人了，這位科技名人就此失蹤了。
可是我有把握約翰會找我的，因為我們的友誼比較特別，果真我收到他的信了，他告訴我他現在住在英國一個偏遠的鄉下，這裡沒有一家人用安全系統，他給我他的電話和地址，可是他故意不給我他的門牌號碼，他叫我去找他們夫婦二人，而且他說我一定會找到他家的。
我找了一個機會去英國開會，也和約翰約好了去看他的時間，下了火車，我找到了那條街，那條街的一邊面對一大片山谷，沒有一幢房子，所以我只要看街的另一邊就可以了。
我在街上閒逛，忽然看到一幢房子的落地大玻璃窗與眾不同，因為這個窗臺上放滿了瓷娃娃，好可愛的瓷娃娃，我想這一定是一家舊貨店，我想起約翰夫婦喜歡瓷娃娃，決定進去買一個送他們，沒有想到當我抬起頭來的時候，我看到約翰在裡面，這不是舊貨店，這是他們的家，只是他們的家完全對外開放，又放滿了瓷娃娃，才使我誤解了。
約翰夫婦熱情地招待我，他們的家比以前的豪宅小太多了，據他們說，這座小房子比他們當年佣人住的房子還小，也比他們當年的花房小，我記起他們家在冬天也有如此多的花，原來是有花房的緣故。
他們的明朝青花瓷器完全不見了，約翰夫婦將那些瓷器捐給了紐約的一家博物館，他們夫婦二人認為人類文明的結晶，應該由人類全體所共享。
他們的園子也小得很，可是約翰夫婦仍然在園子裡種了花草，他們的後園對著一大片森林，約翰說據說當年羅賓漢就出沒在這一片森林裡，而他們所面對的山谷由英國詩人協會所擁有，他們不會開發這片荒原的，英國人喜歡荒原，約翰夫婦也養成了在荒原中散步的習慣。
約翰告訴我為什麼他最後決定放棄一切。他的公司得到了一個大合同，改善整個加州監獄的安全系統，他發現了加州花在監獄上的錢比花在教育上的還多，而他呢？他越來越有錢，卻越來越像住在一座監獄裡面。美國人一向標榜「自由而且開放社會」，其實美國人卻越來越將自己封閉起來，越來越使自己失去自由。約翰決心不再拼命賺錢，只為了找回失去了好久的自由。
約翰夫婦在附近的一家高中教書，這所學校其時有點像專科學校，約翰教線路設計，學生所設計出來的線路經常得獎，他捐了很多錢給這所學校，使這所學校有很好的圖書館和實驗室，他太太在那裡教英文。
約翰告訴我他們兩人的薪水就足足應付他們的生活了，因為他們生活得很簡單，平時騎自行車上班，連汽油都用得很少。
當我們坐下來吃晚飯的時候，我才發現我的那座女孩子瓷娃娃放在桌子中間，他們當時念舊，捨不得丟掉那些瓷娃娃，可是替他們設計內部裝潢的設計師不讓他擺設這些不值錢的東西，現在那些值錢的東西都不見了，不值錢的瓷娃娃又出現了。我總算吃到了我當年常吃到的晚飯，也重新享受到約翰夫婦家中的溫暖。
我離開的時候，約翰送我去火車站，他告訴我他還有一些錢，他的女兒不會要他的這些錢，等他和太太都去世了，他的錢就全部捐出去了。
我說我好佩服他，因為他已經捐出他的全部所有，他忽然一笑，告訴我他仍然有一樣寶物，沒有捐掉。我對此大為好奇，問他是什麼，他說他要賣一個關子，他用一張小紙寫了下來，交給我，但叫我現在不要看，等火車開了以後再看，上面寫的是他不會捐出去的寶物。
火車開了，我和站在月台上的約翰揮手再見，等我看不見他以後，打開了那張紙，紙上寫的是「我的靈魂」。
我坐在火車裡，不禁一直想著，有些人什麼都有，卻失落了自己的靈魂。
Saturday, May 12, 2007
News for the Penguin!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6647485.stm
Don't stray too far from home. :P
Don't stray too far from home. :P
Friday, May 11, 2007
What I liked in EuroVision
(Jews ARE amazingly funny)
(American culture spreads... and so does money worship... this clips is really hilarious to me)
(Grrr... the Finns... and who said they had not passion and humor?... the fans... that just killed me... the whole lordi thing is... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....)
(Finals 2007)
(Hot guy)
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Just for laughs
Laugh away, people!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_6050000/newsid_6053100/6053128.stm
http://www.web4share.com/viewthread.php?tid=141547
http://news.bbc.co.uk/chinese/trad/hi/newsid_6050000/newsid_6053100/6053128.stm
http://www.web4share.com/viewthread.php?tid=141547
JEALOUSY WILL DRIVE YOU MAD!!!
Moulin Rouge, quite a piece too look at if you have the time, and lack the brains, and enjoys some excitement, go for it.
Browsed a friend's board, and saw a good piece of crap about apologies for jealousy. Well, it's one of the most interesting crap I've seen so far, which started me on this piece of shit I'm writing just here.
Jealousy.
Who has never been jealous, raise your hands! I'm guessing no one, and if you do, here's my contact: mrssydney@hotmail.com. I've got a price for you.
Now, what is all this about jealousy. It's something I never quite understand (and quoting from many, I rarely have, and if I do, then... I am not sure if it is jealousy in the first place, and since someone once told me that if you question something, then it is not really what it is, then maybe it isn't jealousy... getting too carried away here) to be a necessity, yet, unwantingly also had the fortune of experiencing it here and there (with a total of probably not more than 10 times my life). Unnecessary in the fact that we have no power over the other person's interest, do we? We cannot control who she/he looks at, who she/he thinks about, who she/he fancies. We can merely control ourselves and expose an extra boob (hence, those with three boobs are for the advantage).
A friend apologizes to his girlfriend who just threw a frenzy at him for being jealous of an unimportant matter (of both cases I have no insights in). A girl slaps her boyfriend in the face with jealousy as she finds him in bed with another woman (of a case when you can't say who the woman is, and what they were doing). A father murders a mother in jealousy just... well, just cause he was jealous (who the hell knows why?).
I suppose none of these would have happened if jealousy was never the cause in the first place. No one kills no one, we all live in peace.
Sometimes I wonder if Bush attacked Iraq because of jealousy. Jealous of Iraq's love affair with oil, which the Bush family had for years been courting. Like all jealous husbands, Bush beheads Iraq.
I wonder what good had jealousy done us so far than bad? What better it had done than worse? What meaning is behind all this? Is it biological?
Being not the jealous type, sincerely, I never quite get it. If someone can put right into my head and straighten this chaos out, perhaps... just perhaps... I'll find this head and tail in the madness of it all!
Browsed a friend's board, and saw a good piece of crap about apologies for jealousy. Well, it's one of the most interesting crap I've seen so far, which started me on this piece of shit I'm writing just here.
Jealousy.
Who has never been jealous, raise your hands! I'm guessing no one, and if you do, here's my contact: mrssydney@hotmail.com. I've got a price for you.
Now, what is all this about jealousy. It's something I never quite understand (and quoting from many, I rarely have, and if I do, then... I am not sure if it is jealousy in the first place, and since someone once told me that if you question something, then it is not really what it is, then maybe it isn't jealousy... getting too carried away here) to be a necessity, yet, unwantingly also had the fortune of experiencing it here and there (with a total of probably not more than 10 times my life). Unnecessary in the fact that we have no power over the other person's interest, do we? We cannot control who she/he looks at, who she/he thinks about, who she/he fancies. We can merely control ourselves and expose an extra boob (hence, those with three boobs are for the advantage).
A friend apologizes to his girlfriend who just threw a frenzy at him for being jealous of an unimportant matter (of both cases I have no insights in). A girl slaps her boyfriend in the face with jealousy as she finds him in bed with another woman (of a case when you can't say who the woman is, and what they were doing). A father murders a mother in jealousy just... well, just cause he was jealous (who the hell knows why?).
I suppose none of these would have happened if jealousy was never the cause in the first place. No one kills no one, we all live in peace.
Sometimes I wonder if Bush attacked Iraq because of jealousy. Jealous of Iraq's love affair with oil, which the Bush family had for years been courting. Like all jealous husbands, Bush beheads Iraq.
I wonder what good had jealousy done us so far than bad? What better it had done than worse? What meaning is behind all this? Is it biological?
Being not the jealous type, sincerely, I never quite get it. If someone can put right into my head and straighten this chaos out, perhaps... just perhaps... I'll find this head and tail in the madness of it all!
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