All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken.
A light from the shadow shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

~J.R.R. Tolkien

Monday, December 31, 2012

4.00am, 31st.

The last day of the year.
Ouuuu. How should I feel?


4.00am in the morning.
I feel...normal 9-9
Come on excitement, come at meeeee.



...left in my heart, into the timeless time.


Thursday, December 20, 2012

标题好烦。

不在家,好闷。
想做的东西都在家里啊。

竟然有了浪费时间的感觉。


Glowing dim as an ember

Saturday, December 01, 2012

✿♫✿♫✿♫


年末
开始了。

一年过一年,
如果还是一如既往,
该庆幸,抑或该反省?

最重要的,是只要身边的人安康,一切便好。


今年让人伤心的事,已经过了好几个月。
一分一秒慢慢地过,还无法弥补心中的惆怅。遗憾是漫长的。
我也想要相信,人比自己以为的还要坚强。

今年让人开心的事,让十二月弥漫着正能量。
即将发生的事,也让人期待。
对我来说嘛让人期待的事只限于玩乐兼无所事事。
(噢,看来我还是一如既往啊……)

谁不喜欢心情放松的时刻呢?
反正明年又是睡眠被剥夺的一年啊,有得当懒人就当到底吧。

Alone again, wonderful world.



原来是伤心的歌。◔◔
吃喝玩乐开始!

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

November, I have been waiting for you.

Oh. I had been through my biggest stress.
Every time I get stressed, the stress is bigger than the other, or I just forgot how stressed I was the last time. People tend to forget stressful events if they were relieved or became happy after that.

My talkative inner self returns tonight after being away for a few weeks.

The last time I got so stressed up was when I had to vomit out a concept video in less than 6 hours, that's the time frame I could barely afford to get all things done (6 hours for me is short) Not to mention that it was a group work by 2 people, so one person's work could greatly affect the other's marks. I could not afford to have my friend holding grudges over me if I should fail, and she seemed to believe that I could get things done in time (where came her confidence? lol). Editing and putting together a video is painful if you have to rush it. After preparing source images and soundtrack (stressful process number one), putting them together so that they synched is just oh-so-very stressful (stressful process number two). But I managed to get it done in time, though at the expense of not getting my other work done. 

The strain level can be described as this: You know you just can't stop doing work, you have to keep going because time ticks away, then you kind of work like a robot but can't speed up the process 'cause there is no way to speed it up except doing it bits by bits. Time ticks away and you can't speed up, ಠ_ಠ 
From that day onwards, I start to believe that human can achieve anything if they are desperate. Though one cannot really race pass time.


So I spent last week preparing presentation. I could barely cope. This was due to the fact that I changed my design 3 - 2 weeks before final presentation. It means that though the semester is 13-week long, I only used less than 3 weeks to develop things. It was not fun at all, but I changed it for good, and it turned out better than before. In the end, when presentation time was fast approaching and I was still at home finalising my works, half of my inner self gave up. Not giving up on presentation but giving up racing against time. Travelling to school would take 20 minutes, stuffing models into a box would take 10 mintes, getting my panels printed out would take more than 30 minutes. I didn't give a damn anymore though I know I sure would be late for my allocated presentation time. So tired, so strained. Working speed slower than ever. It was this moment that one started to curse the world for its existence.

In the end when I was finally at uni with my panels (the largest sum I had ever spent on printing, the sum is like, woah),  I was next to go presenting. I could only use the time when I was on the bus to think of what to talk. So I went and talked.

Then it was over.
I was the happiest human when it was over.
After that I slept for one whole day.

Because I slept for so long, I had a weird dream (What reasoning is this?). It was a battle-royale kind of dream. 4 troops of girls went to the jungle fighting against each other (they chose to go, no one forcing them), only 2 troops would survive. I was in one of the troops. From my memory in the dream, my troop was the winner last time in this battle royale thingy. Somehow we also survived this time, along with the other troop. These 2 troops will then fight each other again in another location to decide a winner. The girls in the other troop were rather normal before going through the jungle, but when they managed to come out of it, they all transformed into the  I-will-kill-whoever-standing-in-my-way  type. Ehemhem.

So this troop and my troop tried to eradicate one another. I don't really know how, the dream wasn't that clear about rules. Somehow the opponent troop got the upperhand and could use all facilities provided to them firsthand (by who-knows-who), and they occupied those places. My troop could only sneak into these facilities when the opponents were not around.

I can only remember the dream ended with a gun-firing scene, in a place where my troop thought was safe but in fact was already infiltrated by the enemy. The complexity of the dream goes beyond this and it even includes an organization from the manga "20th Century Boys" (One of my favourites). Man, it's ridiculous. Then I woke up. Then I slept again but the dream didn't continue.

Nawwwww. I want to know what happened! Or what would happen, actually.


Weird, just weird. Of all dreams that I could dream... ʘ_ʘ
I always want to dream about design concepts but they never happen.




Saturday, October 20, 2012

有时候会觉得,世上很多东西都叫人恶心。
 社会之下,尽是些恶心思想。

 什么“思想”会引向一个好的社会? 有些思想人类无法操作,偏偏还是有人自以为是。
人类无法操作,因为人都难以摆脱贪婪、得寸进尺、自以为是的本性,幻想着这种思想可以改变世界,但做出来的东西却是另一回事,美好也只是个人的良好感觉,旁观者可在嘲笑呢。 有些思想,只有没有七情六欲的机器才能胜任。

有些思想,已经是几百几千年前的思想,只适合当时社会当时风气的思想,偏偏有人可以执迷不悟,认为这种思想精神不朽,在现代可以发挥其作用,制止社会的罪恶发生。这些井底之蛙,到死都依然相信,解决问题的方法就只有他相信的才是最正确的。问题是,执迷不悟的其他人依然乐意附和。

哗,想着想着就一股火。教育中少了灌输critical thinking,不鼓励 pluralism, 后果就是一群死守古老思想的人。旁观者可在嘲笑呢。非常庆幸,我不属于某一群人,一群根本没有余地勇气批判的人。

刚刚看到了养燕行业的新闻,火上加火。某当局的某人如是说:“虽然有人投诉噪音及担心卫生问题,但那些问题还不严重,现在只能加强养燕指南。” 噢,原来问题还不严重就是没有问题。这种人,我真的想说去死,但人身攻击还是算了吧。
我对这行业感到非常厌恶。如果“当局”可以更有规划,规定那些恨不得能多赚钱掺一脚养燕的家伙到某特定养燕区进行他们的生意,一切至少安好。现在,这行业不只毁了家乡的市容(简直就是disaster),居民还得忍受他们根本不想要的噪音及卫生问题。燕子屋建在住宅区很明显是错的,可有些贪心人就是没有大脑。因为人的贪婪,无辜的燕子代替了人类让人厌恶着。


噢,难道今天是久违了的extreme mode? 感觉好像回到了中学时期。
那没有灰,只有黑白的时期。

Thursday, October 04, 2012

大半夜的你在干嘛?

我有一个坏习惯。如果隔天有课,半夜都不睡,做功课做到天亮,然后时间一到直接去上课。
听上去好像很勤劳。
才怪,这只是一个坏的习惯。
即日夜颠倒,加上临时抱佛脚。
但如果不这么做,我睡不着啊,感觉好像还有很多东西没做,内心不安得很。
内心不安,上课就会失去信心(是的,我上课可是需要信心的)

结果,大半夜一边紧张一边用脑,一点都不好玩。
我想我需要的是一股压力,可以逼着我把事情完成,但同时又超讨厌这股压力。

有一本书,叫做《Steal like an Artist》 (by Austin Kleon)
教你怎么偷别人的 ideas。
听上去好像很猖狂,其实作者只是把事实摊开来讲而已,即告诉你,nothing is original。我也觉得,世上哪有什么原始的 idea? 全都是源自于某些事物的。如果你这一刻突然灵光一闪,也别忘了世上可是有几十亿的人几十亿的头脑,当中若有几十个头脑和你想着同样的事情可一点也不出奇。所以,谁能先把 idea 实现,他就赢啦。

《Steal like an Artist》 里的十大条例:

1. Steal like an artist.
2. Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.
3. Write the book you want to read.
4. Use your hands.
5. Side projects and hobbies are important. (这个我非常支持噗)
6. The secret: Do good works and share it with people.
7. Geography is no longer our master.
8. Be nice. (The world is a small town) (是的)
9. Be boring. (It's the only way to get works done)
10. Creativity is substraction.


所以我要说的是,be boring, it's the only way to get works done. (哭) 
还以为你要长篇大论地开始谈创意?!
所以纵使压力大,唉还是得乖乖做下去,那是唯一的方法。中小学时,我可是个不懂什么叫压力的人,放学后可以慢慢地折 origami,然后玩玩 Minesweeper, 然后就去睡觉……呵。现在,头发都变少了啊啊啊。

大半夜紧张兮兮时,听听以前中学时常听的音乐能有镇静心灵的作用。这是为什么呢?是那怀念的感觉吧。


这是网上留传的一则鼓舞人心的话语:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. 

But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Ira Glass


必须去一趟图书馆啦。



Sunday, September 09, 2012

Mañjusaka

彼岸 · 花



寓言》中,最爱的一首。
十二年后,依然不朽。


彼岸花,到底是 Flower of Paradise,还是 Flower of Hell 呢?
花的背后,是一些美丽悲伤的传说。


Such a beautiful live (*-*)


Withering. Blooming.

故事
从一双玻璃鞋开始。


Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Woof woof! Roof roof!

Wanna be at home where everything is within reach.
Want to play the piano when listening to music.
Thinking of Poppy, did he realise I am gone? 9_9.
I always think though he is a dog, he has the attitude of a cat.
He always pretend to not hear you when you call him. In fact, he never responded when my dad or I called him, except when it was time to eat. In fact, even cats would respond. If he is at the backyard and you call him, he will not turn up with wiggling tail. He is probably lying on the stone table and attentively looking out the backgate. Your call is secondary to his business.

I stood on the balcony one night and called his name like a ghost to see whether he can actually hear. Nah we all know he can, since he likes to bark whenever he hears strangers' vehicles (damn scary when he barks seriously). He has the ability to differentiate the noise of family's vehicles from strangers'. Mr. Postman is terrified to pass by our house if our gate is not shut.

Maybe he knows that Poppy is such a "marketplace" name he chooses to ignore. Actually we rarely give special names to our dogs. He might already be Poppy Junior the Third. Oppps. We had Blacky, Jacky, Bobby, Pop, Poppy, Bob before (maybe 'Puppy' too?). Dido and Nini were the two with more special names. Eheh. There was one whose name was Andy Lala (lolol), but I am not sure whether it was our dog or our relatives'. This really is childhood memory.



Popppppppppppy





Wednesday, August 08, 2012

搬家 move move

搬家最麻烦了,庆幸这次有朋友帮忙。有车真的好方便。
感谢屋主帮我把东西搬上楼(用旋转楼梯吔。我对旋转楼梯刮目相看了。说实在的,我的东西还蛮少的。重要的东西的话,两个行李箱应该够了,其他都是些带不回去的东西。若有任意门多好啊~(又来?)

Furnished. Blankets and pillow are provided, yeay~
Though I have my own.
Table lamp is provided, hooyeay~
外。
赠上一幅画。(啧又不是送你的)

竟然感冒了,不舒服到需要依靠这喉糖(效果蛮好
睡了好久才醒。觉得抵抗力越来越不好了,老了吗我?
今天八月八日吔。


Friday, July 20, 2012

Puzzle拼 ~ Studio Ghibli 之一

之前网购了两幅拼图。从日本网站购买(Imaginatorium.org ),售价加邮费比在大马拼图店买还便宜。那时心血来潮去看看,很巧的店在做十周年纪念促销,拼图通通折扣20%,眼睛马上发亮。促销结束了,但由于日元居高不下,店主特意给予所有拼图15%折 扣。外国拼图都不便宜,但是拼图商品是一分钱一分货的。从日本寄至大马差不多两个星期 (最便宜的SAL shipping)
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Title   :   洗濯完了/ Washing Day (1000片)
Brand :   Ensky / Artbox (Japan)
动画   :   ハウルの動く城 / Howl's Moving Castle (Studio Ghibli) 
价钱   :   2560


某自恋狂。
某稻草人。
Sophie and Markl
买时还期望拼图不会有白色的边,
结果原来盒子上是怎样,拼图就是怎样。

当时在两幅拼图之间徘徊,下不了决定要买哪一个。结果当天发生了一件好事,心情大好,隔天把两幅都买下了。\\('_')// (所谓的冲动) 这幅也拼好了。 这幅还真不简单,可以训练眼睛辨别颜色 (-_-)。


港版DVD。港版的好处是,有中文也有英文字幕。
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 原来目无表情也可以超好笑的。
一只白熊、一只熊猫、一只企鹅。
好开心的组合。


上次报纸写说,“任意门”的理论是可行的,科学家似乎开始研究地球上某些与宇宙连通的地点。老实说我也不记得到底读了什么,是理论上吧。可是,如果是可行的……

去吧去吧快去研究!!虽然当得到一个结果的时候人不知死了多少次。

Ruff!

Thursday, July 05, 2012

Some people have reasons to believe in something. There must be people who have more reasons not to believe, and to not believe, in whatsoever.

Make an island of yourself,
make yourself your refuge;
there is no other refuge.
Make truth your island,
make truth your refuge;
there is no other refuge.

Digha Nikaya, 16  

Truth varies according to perceptions and is multi-dimensional. We should not blindly follow, blindly perceive what is true and take that as refuge.

Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is.
The future has not yet come.
Looking deeply at life as it is.
In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.
We must be diligent today.
To wait until tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day,
'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

Bhaddekaratta Sutta

How can we bargain with it? One can only remind oneself again and again, be careful, be grateful, be considerate.

Quotes are only quotes, they should be used to trigger thinking, not concluding. Unfortunately, sometimes there exist prerequisites that are often hard to reconciled.

"What are you then?"
"I am awake."


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Due to past experience, I really find misinformation horrible. Horribly horrible. Due to the 'trust' that you put on someone or something, it basically eliminates the thought process that allows you to doubt. Things rather go "unsure...but...o well."  In the end when the 'truth' was found out, was like hoooooow caaaaaan it beeee --------- then felt like a fool.
I have to prevent that. Eeee.


Friday, June 22, 2012

小题大做一下。

在报纸上看到某保养品广告大大地打着 “手可得”。
碍眼啊真碍眼。

本小姐现在的中文程度虽退步了,却也觉得本地中文报纸水准越来越糟,句子不通顺越来越多,偶尔(客气了)出现的错别字,连我都能察觉耶,中国人看到可能只会说:“唉……毕竟是东南亚……” 虽然广告可能得怪做广告的人,但这种错误真的会教坏人哪,而且会一直循环。

汉典: 唾手可得
星洲: 垂手可得---唾,不是“垂”

每个人都有一个“地雷区”吧。我最讨厌买回来的书有错别字,啊!!!当场就想把出版商砸了(好暴力) 。出现一遍,ok还好。两次以上就……gfbgafgafkbnjl。
英文也一样,常常会碰到那些小小的但碍眼死了的错误,如"could of" (could've laaa!!), 错误使用 its 或 it's, 呼。

看到这种错误必须吸一口气,再慢慢吐出来,配上个白眼。

Sunday, June 03, 2012

邪恶的巧合

这是什么?
写了一堆,undo时突然整篇变空白,来不及知道发生什么,结果在这个时间点autosave决定踩上一脚,帮我save了整片空白,怎么undo都只是空白。太邪恶了。幸好这里是写废话的地方,幸好不是写论文不然会翻桌疯掉。(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Autosave太危险了。

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茫茫Youtube中的歌一首。
日本乐队、好短的歌、易懂的词、难得好的英文发音(这句真的非常抱歉……)
结果是好听啊。歌词挺让人感触的,曲终人散后能怎样呢?
以前就知道这支乐队,听过Yubiwa (指輪, 即戒指)。日本的美式摇滚,让我大开眼界。Youtube 旁边的 list 有个乐队One OK Rock, 哗~ 还以为主唱在美国长大哩,那美式摇滚及英文让人惊讶。

ELLEGARDEN  - Make A Wish
 

Live


本来是在写漫画,被autosave害了后就算啦。
想赶快回家拼图~~~
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

~(`O`)~


I always thought I really enjoy doing nothing (nothing productive or important), if you think about it, it seems very reasonable that everybody will like it. But now I don't think I can do nothing for a very long period.
That should be a good indication.
When you don't start something, it won't start at all. Oh yes. Too commonsensical.

I really like this quote:
"Nothing is more uncommon than common sense."
Attributed to anonymous.

Or a saying which I forgot where does it come from, which roughly says, when we judge others, we like to judge by the results of their doings; but when we judge ourselves, we judge by our intentions.
Damn true, especially when things are messed up.
But then this is quite debatable.

Blalala.

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Some artworks which are in my favourites from deviantArt.
Click on the image and blogspot shows you magic! (Boo)


I remember seeing this made my day, and I couldn't stop laughing. 
The artist has a good sense of humour.

Think twice the next time you eat a gingerbread man.

Now I know your secret, Mr. Owl.
(Artist's blog here)


Kick-ass bunny.

It makes one wonders.

It makes one double wonders.

Such composition.

Such creativity!

Cat-er-pillar!!
(...am seriously amused by myself)

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Friday, May 18, 2012

又到了投诉的季节。

总会有一些琐碎小事,让人心烦气躁。而这些小事,小归小,却格外重要。归为小事,是因为你知道它将得以解决,不是什么无可挽回的大件事,只是一些繁文缛节让人心烦,耐性也被磨光。当你早在大半年前就开始着手解决问题,但有关当局在大半年后才通知你最好的方法是撤销你之前所做的,然后再开始着手,哗,真让人火大。大半年前开始着手,为的不就是希望早点解决问题,结果过程竟然那么复杂,哗,受不了,害人误了事,结果滋生更多需要解决的事,真的是去死啦,烦死了。耗了我大半年,现在我急了,他们能怎样啊?

这个福利好兼办事效率算快的国家办事已如此,怪不得大马更加糟糕了。每次看到报导说向某某当局申诉或询问意见都得不到回应,不了了之,实在是不让人惊讶的,因为你我在这里都曾遇过如此情况。这里的人办事不是得过且过,而是看了当作没看过。所以,我应该庆幸我的事情不需要在这里解决,至少每询问都有人回复再给予帮助吧,只是,整件事竟然要超过半年的时间?其他更重要的事情还在后头等我啊。哼哼哼哼哼!

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 好想去看一场演唱会、文化表演或交响乐啊。

明日的赞歌



我觉得她唱得好好听啊。
我想我对以歌唱为职业的人有偏见 。
看歌手唱live, 如果唱功好,我会像发现新大陆一般非常愿意去听听那个歌手或乐团的歌曲,除非歌手声音真不是我的那杯茶除非歌曲类型我不会听 (你很烦呀)。Music player 里的歌,大部分是这样来的 (YouTube是伟大发明!) 

编曲与背景音乐对我而言更加重要 ,只是能把这些做得有层次,让人觉得“哗哗哗哗”想鼓掌的,很难遇上(Luna Sea 是例外啊啊) 如果听过某歌手或乐团,觉得歌还不错也对胃口,但现场破功……的话嘛,我会翻脸的。

偶尔还是可以妥协的。只是,大大部分背景音乐一定要是真真实实的乐器打出来的,不然我的耳朵拒绝聆听。(噗噗)

所以,bands & 交响乐万岁!





Sunday, May 06, 2012

四月

一。
几个星期 前买了本《此物最相思》,张曼娟著。张曼娟写了几本引用诗词说故事的作品,是很好的读物, 水彩插图也很漂亮。这本书是二十首古诗,二十个故事,还有诗人的历史背景。书中记有一阕诗,作者是宋朝的苏轼。


江       十   千   纵   夜   相   料
城       年   里   使   来   顾   得
子       生   孤   相   幽   无   年
           死   坟   逢   梦   言   年
           两    ,   应   忽    ,   肠
           茫   无   不   还   惟   断
           茫   处   识   乡   有   处
            。   话     ,    ,   泪    :
           不   凄   尘   小   千   明
           思   凉   满   轩   行   月
           量    。   面   窗    。    夜
            ,            、    ,           、
           自          鬓   正          短
           难          如   梳          松
           忘          霜   妆          冈
            。           。     。           。

书中的解释是这样 (“…”是省略了):

       “生死已经将我们隔绝了十年,我们无法得知彼此的行踪。我没有思念过你,因为没有一天忘记过你…你的坟孤孤单单地,与我相隔千里,就算有什么忧愁心事,也无法倾诉…此刻倘若能够重逢,恐怕你也认不出我来了,这些年来…我的脸上满是风尘,两鬓斑白如霜雪。

       “夜里忽然作了一场梦,梦见自己返回故乡,看见你倚在 小窗边,梳妆打扮,依旧是当年的容貌。我们看见了彼此,千言万语却一个字也说不出来,只能泪流如倾。我知道每一年每一天,都会有令我哀伤断肠之处…当明月爬上山冈,照亮你坟旁的短松树。”

曾梦见亲人逝去,梦醒的那一刻,真正地觉得世界真美好,再美好不过了,顿时觉得活在现实中太好了,原来那是一场梦。这首诗深深刻画的,是相反的情况。“相顾无言,惟有泪千行”,尤其让我有所感触。在梦里见到了现实中不可能再见到的人,我想,真的只有相顾无言,泪千行吧。此诗写的是爱情,但生死间的体会,任何情况下都是如此深刻。以前,当一只又一只的宠物逝去,我多么希望能梦见它们。但,人说的夜长梦多都不会发生在我身上。梦见它们时都是出奇不意的。在梦里的感觉就是,“啊!你回来了啊终于!”,好像它们不曾真正离去。接下来若再梦见同样的一只,感觉就是,“哇你究竟又跑去哪里了,那么久没见到。”真的,很奇怪。以前我家最老的猫,一只漂亮的三色母猫,名叫Piaow, 养了将近十年,然后有一天失踪了,再没回来过。在我的梦里,它就是那只久久不见,突然出现的一只。它就在饭桌下休息。它穿过你的脚间撒娇。梦里都是一段一段,没有前因后果的,但它就是有在,似乎只是出去流浪累了,回家休息。有时候是几个月,有时候是一年才回来,在梦里,也能感觉时间的流逝。遗憾的是,这种梦不曾让我感到安慰,反而更加失落。

“夜来幽梦忽还乡”,梦里,忽然回到了某个时间、某个地点,梦里充满了预兆,做梦人一定知道即将发生什么,缓缓期待着。期待的过后,是坦然,亦是感伤?


二。
Ikea 的 Popular 藏书量多, 很喜欢那里,比较旧的书也可以找到。几天前在 The Book Depository 买了 《An Artist of the Floating World》 (Kazuo Ishiguro著),想收藏好久了。这是一本深入角色本身思想层次的书,主角的思想,相当地……当局者迷。主角想得很多,而且可以在回忆中再回忆,简直就是Inception! (本书比电影Inception古老)读的时候,不得不跟着思考。除此之外还买了origami 的书,嘿。 The Book Depository 免邮费,而且还打折,在那买较旧的书很值得。

最近网购越来越多。买了一小堆,有CD, books, puzzles...现在就是伸长颈子等等等。等包裹挺快乐的。每买一次就对自己说,唉就当作是买给自己的生日礼物吧~不知不觉已买下了不知多少年的生日礼物,还有即将要买的生日礼物呢。


三。 (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

以上是在某网站抄来的。有很烦的功课的话,一天可能要翻无数次。


四。
“此物最相思”,指的是什么呢?

Sunday, April 08, 2012

保重

无奈、无奈。如果、明明、偏偏、究竟。
那天夜晚,脑中不断重复,不断重复。
到后来,一切好像又恢复正常。
但微笑过后,突然又悲伤起来,然后好像没事,又悲伤起来。
有些人感受不到,有些人感受最深,有些人不知该怎么办。

吃饭时想着、喝水时想着、看电视时想着,如果、如果。这些真的很讽刺,你明明正在做一些不痛不痒的事,你的情绪却没放过你。
真的,日子还是得过。只能哀悼,想念、想象。

没人知道因果会把你带到哪里,所以,时时刻刻警惕自己,一点也不苛刻。

Sunday, April 01, 2012

流浪的 红舞鞋

想写些什么,却没写,就这么过了一阵子。
之前因为晚上太闲,听着王菲的歌,觉得翻译成英文好像很好玩,于是翻了一下(无聊的人就是觉得无聊的事很好玩)
《流浪的红舞鞋》,一直觉得像小学时的完成短文似的,歌词一段一段的。


蓝色黄昏      流浪儿
慵懒的歌      红马车
梧桐遮住了
舞蹈的鞋
马戏团描出声色

不管      你有一分钱或黄金万贯
不管      你是一只蚂蚁还是个上帝

我愿意翘盼
安然地醉酒微酣
红胡子的老人
微笑多恬淡
我的舞鞋旋转
歌唱到疯癫
我愿弃世登仙
旋转的车轮来为我献欢
我怎会疲倦

The Wandering Red Dancing Shoes

Blue twilight.
Strayed children.
Indolent song.
Red carriage.
Chinese Parasol is blocking
the dancing shoes
Circus brings out
colours and voices

Whether or not, you have a cent or countless golds
Whether or not, you are an ant or a god

I am willing to hope eagerly
In peace, intoxicated softly
 That old man with red beard, his smile so serene
 My dance-shoes are spinning

Songs are sung, till madness coming
I am willing to forsake this world, to reach divinity
 Revolving cartwheels, they come to cheer for me
 why would I even feel jaded?



不知为什么,觉得英文的 verb to be 既 am is are 挺破坏气氛(Gasp! "To be or not to be, that is the question")。翻着翻着,似乎越来越理解词的意思,亦似乎越来越不理解。就像以前画人的肖像,画同样的脸久了,再也搞不懂到底是画得像还是不像。若觉得不像,却找不到哪里不像; 觉得像吧,突然又觉得眼睛画歪了,之类。人脑一直都是这样的吧。打了那么多的“像”字,突然觉得我好像很不熟悉这个字了。天啊,真是自找麻烦。这种事情很常发生,譬如说到某个词,说出口后你会觉得那个词似乎怪怪的,一边想,那个词真的一直都是形容某个东西的词吗?

也尝试翻了《流年》,但好难啊,英文和中文有时候很不合拍。字字斟酌挺费时的。

我好想出去吃喝玩乐!

Thursday, February 02, 2012

Wordy affair

I am too free.


A screencap from Chinese Characters. I think they are just very funny (in a benign way). Especially the last word, the radical (部首) is trying so hard to contain everything in it, which includes a heart, a horse and a moon xD. The pronunciation "biáng" is as funny as the word. Wiki says it refers to Biangbiang noodle. I wonder what are the ingredients of such noodle that it needs such complex expression to describe it, hmhm. It is said that the pronunciation comes from the noise the noodles make when cooked and eaten.

The first word, "zhé", comes with four dragons! Very appropriate for the Dragon Year, but its meaning is not very likable ><.
This really reminds me of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (pronounce it out loud and get your tongue twisted). I can't tell which one is more horrible if I were to be punished to write them a hundred times. xD These characters are really bad for the eyes if they ever appear in novels, and I used to think 憂鬱 (melancholy) is bad enough. Hekhek.

I discovered that the Hiragana and Katagana actually come from Chinese characters and kinda follow their respective pronunciations, quite surprised as I thought the kana systems are intentionally developed like the Korean hangul, though some kanas are very obvious derivation. Hemhemhem, no wonder katagana looks so Chinese.

Sources: Wikipedia


Huhuhu, I feel very excited upon this discovery. Very very interesting.