There will always be barbarians running in the country who are still stuck in the stone age.
I could imagine talking to them is like talking to drunkards.
Drunkards: "No no no, you don't understand, so just shut up".
Yeah. Goodluck talking to these people.
I guess this is my strongest vent yet?
These people will never learn, because they never question. Questions are out of the question. If you brace yourself and look at how some people responded, as the internet always puts it, you do lose part of your "trust in humanity".
How to ensure one's loyalty to his country? Fairness. Security. Welfare.
If these are not done enough, the things that keep one's foot still in the country are just the nostalgic feeling, bonds, kinship and responsibility felt within oneself.
However, disappointments chip away these things, bits by bits.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
I am so...lucky?
____________________________________ point 1
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________________________
__________________________ point 2
What is the odds of drawing random lines without measuring the distances between them (like above), then you measure them from point 1 to point 2 straight, you get a round number (in mm) to the accuracy of 2 decimal places?
I got a number 0f 14000.00.
Fourteen thousand, point zero zero.
What the hell.
I was drawing lines using 3D modelling software therefore the result is very accurate.
What is the probability of getting this result? I guess no one in the world will be so very free to calculate the probability in this kind of situation. (Astrid, where are you?)
If only this chance could happen on other occasions.
____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________________________
__________________________ point 2
What is the odds of drawing random lines without measuring the distances between them (like above), then you measure them from point 1 to point 2 straight, you get a round number (in mm) to the accuracy of 2 decimal places?
I got a number 0f 14000.00.
Fourteen thousand, point zero zero.
What the hell.
I was drawing lines using 3D modelling software therefore the result is very accurate.
What is the probability of getting this result? I guess no one in the world will be so very free to calculate the probability in this kind of situation. (Astrid, where are you?)
If only this chance could happen on other occasions.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
飘荡。
似乎，一年里面，大半时间心都处于那正与负空间的微妙中间。
没有特别自信的时候，没有特别颓废的时候。
可是，每次开学的时候，思想心情的指针是偏向负的。 还没真正开始，就颓废了。
一直告诉自己，要珍惜现在，时间不留人。可是这原来不是问题。
问题是自己的时间似乎在某些时候就一直停滞，没有再上前。时间观念也出了差错，浮浮沉沉的。
不像以前那般积极，兴趣也似乎一件一件地遗失了，残存的只是想象中的热忱 ，说服自己有一些东西还是留在原地的，可以回去再捡起来。牛角尖，一直钻啊钻。真的觉得自己在某些方面困住了钻不出去。
还是，其实大家都如此吗？所以大家都喜欢旅行啊之类的吧。旅行会让人产生错觉，觉得自己毫无压力也可过得很充实，所以才往往让人回味无穷。现在觉得这种感觉真的很危险。
还是，见闻不广，身在福中不知福，所以习惯把一点小事放大几千倍来观察？习惯了一个人，真的不太好。由于很多事情都必须自己解决，有什么事情都会觉得说出来有什么用，到最后还不是得自己解决。其实解决事情事小，心里慢慢失去平衡才是大事。
距离上一次有明确目标的时候，已经是八年前的事情。那时候的目标很简单，就是考好重要的试。然后，事情好像也很顺利，应该也没什么好埋怨的。只是，内心从此没有充实过，失望的事情一大堆。
我想，在这里没有归属感才是最大原因吧。希望，有一些东西，还是留在原地的。
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
没有特别自信的时候，没有特别颓废的时候。
可是，每次开学的时候，思想心情的指针是偏向负的。 还没真正开始，就颓废了。
一直告诉自己，要珍惜现在，时间不留人。可是这原来不是问题。
问题是自己的时间似乎在某些时候就一直停滞，没有再上前。时间观念也出了差错，浮浮沉沉的。
不像以前那般积极，兴趣也似乎一件一件地遗失了，残存的只是想象中的热忱 ，说服自己有一些东西还是留在原地的，可以回去再捡起来。牛角尖，一直钻啊钻。真的觉得自己在某些方面困住了钻不出去。
还是，其实大家都如此吗？所以大家都喜欢旅行啊之类的吧。旅行会让人产生错觉，觉得自己毫无压力也可过得很充实，所以才往往让人回味无穷。现在觉得这种感觉真的很危险。
还是，见闻不广，身在福中不知福，所以习惯把一点小事放大几千倍来观察？习惯了一个人，真的不太好。由于很多事情都必须自己解决，有什么事情都会觉得说出来有什么用，到最后还不是得自己解决。其实解决事情事小，心里慢慢失去平衡才是大事。
距离上一次有明确目标的时候，已经是八年前的事情。那时候的目标很简单，就是考好重要的试。然后，事情好像也很顺利，应该也没什么好埋怨的。只是，内心从此没有充实过，失望的事情一大堆。
我想，在这里没有归属感才是最大原因吧。希望，有一些东西，还是留在原地的。
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 |
| 2005 的着迷。 |
 |
 |
| 2007 的心血来潮。现在看回去，有点怪怪的。 |
Monday, February 24, 2014
"Historical Moments in 10 Days"
I am gonna write a descriptive essay today. Hooray!
This time, my Nikon decided to stay alive and stick with me throughout (good boy, good boy), though it did literally freeze for a few times in the cold.
08.02: 千里之行，始于足下。
Tokyo experienced the heaviest snowfall in 20 years. Every time we went into a store, we were super reluctant to come back out again. It was cold and hard to walk on the slippery snow. Our feet were freezing in our tropical sport shoes, to the extend that we just had to buy a pair of winter shoes straightaway thinking we would experience frostbite a few days later when we reached Sapporo. How is it that February is colder than January?? It was frigging cold but all fine until an out-of-no-where gust of wind+snow nearly blew us away when we were approaching the train station. It was a freaking, extremely, crazy strong wind, all we could think was what da heck just happened? I conclude, that was the coldest ever personal experience for me. Not even Sapporo could beat that.
09.02: Shinkansen, missed.
Due to the heavy snow, the local subway line stopped its service. Naturally, we didn't think about that possibility and thus missed our train. But since we were the oh-so-mighty invincible where-also-can-go pass holders, we still smiled to the end.
Kyoto Station was so damn hella big that we couldn't find where we were supposed to go for like an hour. （"Fool, go to the tourist information counters, they exist for a reason, yeah." 京都駅如是说。）
I was thinking "Whereeeeizzzzmytempleee" until I saw the Kiyomizu-dera temple hiding behind its scaffolds. Under renovation. Maybe I ran out of luck or something.
After walking non-stop for more than 2 hours and still had no idea when would we exit this red tori-maze, we thought it must be the foxes! The maps throughout the tori-walk were deceiving as they were over-simplified (foxes, why you so sly?), not only that the "You are here!" on the map pointed to the same spot even though it wasn't (foxes, why you so so sly?) But our perseverance paid off when we reached the high point. Never occurred to me we were climbing up a mount (foxes, you....).
After the "woah wow wiuuuu~", it was the "Err getting down...?" So we did a condensed version of the 2-hour walk back to where we started, no time to lose when you had a train to catch. It appears that we only did half the walk.
10.02: Suddenly we were at Sapporo.
Ever sang a birthday song until the guesthouse owner came and asked you to tone down? Yeah. It couldn't get any more embarrassing than that. But it actually could as proved later on on the journey.
11.02: We are yuki-onna.
Titbit: Birthday coincides with Japan's National Foundation Day. That means 1-day Sapporo subway pass is 500yen instead of 800yen. The Snow Festival consisted of 3 different sites, so we went to alll of them. 抵！If I were a Japanese citizen, I bet I will get some nice bonuses and benefits on this day (*dreaming*).
Snow here, snow there. Tokyo stopped snowing when we were at Sapporo. Then Sapporo snowed. Tokyo snowed again when we went back to Tokyo. You kidding? Must be the foxes.
Still, it didn't stop us from wanting to go to the Hokkaido Shrine (allllll the way to Sapporo, how can you leave without meeting the deity there?) Luckily we bought winter shoes as the snow in Sapporo was deep, deep, deep.
...but the deity didn't want to see us. Closed.
At night, we went to a restaurant under the recommendation of the guesthouse owner (he described it as dirty, small, cheap, big meal. Big meal!). The guesthouse owner however left out one big chunk of vital information. The menu was entirely in Japanese. Reading kanas, no problem, albeit a bit slow. Understanding them, another thing altogether. We looked like a bunch of rude kids playing with our smartphone and tablet without ordering anything; in fact we were looking for the meanings of the items on the menu. At last we took the shortcut and asked for the special meal of the day, ordered that with another meal which we understood.
I don't know, maybe we spent 30 minutes just to order.
13.02: We lost one day. Mr. Disney, no snow today.
I am feeling lazy already.
So it goes like this.
And then like this.
Then this.
Then byebye.
Conclusion: Tokyo Disneyland is for kids. Erm, spend your money elsewhere.
Anecdote: When we were in front of all those cute Disney hats in the souvenir shop, 2 high-school students approached and asked, "Which one a girl/woman will like?" (we guessed), then my friend pointed to a Minnie hat, and he was like, "This one? Oh." Without thinking twice he grabbed the hat and went to the counter. Wou, that was a fast decision for a, we guessed, Valentine's Day gift. Did he realise he actually asked foreigners for opinions? Aw, can I go back to high school?
14.02: Initially expected a romantic 14th, hey, it was Valentine's Day at Tokyo. But our yuki power came to play, it was basically raining with snow. Romantic much? I couldn't even remember what we did. I think we were 'wow-ing' at the kawaii-much new-season clothing at Harajuku. Looking back at our local taste in fashion (casual, slippers, easy, hassle-free, make-up-less), we have many miles to go.
15.02: Heavy snow = shinkansen delayed indefinitely = shinkansen canceled =
whatever wherever whichever
Highlight of the day: We saw a "Pratform Information" at one of the stations. It was a sheet mounted in a frame displayed for the public. Man, sorry but I laughed for so long, especially when it was pronounced out loud.
16.02: Acting-like-a-billionaire day.
We ate a year worth of pastas that day. We also ate a mountain of broccoli.
17.02: I would not leave without a jigsaw puzzle and a few pens.
Will I go back?
Hell yes.
My, writing a long post is tiring.
This time, my Nikon decided to stay alive and stick with me throughout (good boy, good boy), though it did literally freeze for a few times in the cold.
 |
| 浅草 |
Tokyo experienced the heaviest snowfall in 20 years. Every time we went into a store, we were super reluctant to come back out again. It was cold and hard to walk on the slippery snow. Our feet were freezing in our tropical sport shoes, to the extend that we just had to buy a pair of winter shoes straightaway thinking we would experience frostbite a few days later when we reached Sapporo. How is it that February is colder than January?? It was frigging cold but all fine until an out-of-no-where gust of wind+snow nearly blew us away when we were approaching the train station. It was a freaking, extremely, crazy strong wind, all we could think was what da heck just happened? I conclude, that was the coldest ever personal experience for me. Not even Sapporo could beat that.
09.02: Shinkansen, missed.
Due to the heavy snow, the local subway line stopped its service. Naturally, we didn't think about that possibility and thus missed our train. But since we were the oh-so-mighty invincible where-also-can-go pass holders, we still smiled to the end.
Kyoto Station was so damn hella big that we couldn't find where we were supposed to go for like an hour. （"Fool, go to the tourist information counters, they exist for a reason, yeah." 京都駅如是说。）
Kiyomizu-dera temple (...at the back)
 |
| 清水寺 |
And then we found our new religion at the Fushimi Inari Taisha. *伏地*
 |
| 伏見稲荷大社 |
After walking non-stop for more than 2 hours and still had no idea when would we exit this red tori-maze, we thought it must be the foxes! The maps throughout the tori-walk were deceiving as they were over-simplified (foxes, why you so sly?), not only that the "You are here!" on the map pointed to the same spot even though it wasn't (foxes, why you so so sly?) But our perseverance paid off when we reached the high point. Never occurred to me we were climbing up a mount (foxes, you....).
 |
| It was two minutes past 5.00 p.m. |
After the "woah wow wiuuuu~", it was the "Err getting down...?" So we did a condensed version of the 2-hour walk back to where we started, no time to lose when you had a train to catch. It appears that we only did half the walk.
10.02: Suddenly we were at Sapporo.
Ever sang a birthday song until the guesthouse owner came and asked you to tone down? Yeah. It couldn't get any more embarrassing than that. But it actually could as proved later on on the journey.
11.02: We are yuki-onna.
Titbit: Birthday coincides with Japan's National Foundation Day. That means 1-day Sapporo subway pass is 500yen instead of 800yen. The Snow Festival consisted of 3 different sites, so we went to alll of them. 抵！If I were a Japanese citizen, I bet I will get some nice bonuses and benefits on this day (*dreaming*).
Snow here, snow there. Tokyo stopped snowing when we were at Sapporo. Then Sapporo snowed. Tokyo snowed again when we went back to Tokyo. You kidding? Must be the foxes.
Still, it didn't stop us from wanting to go to the Hokkaido Shrine (allllll the way to Sapporo, how can you leave without meeting the deity there?) Luckily we bought winter shoes as the snow in Sapporo was deep, deep, deep.
 |
| Ta. I ❤ Sapporo. |
I don't know, maybe we spent 30 minutes just to order.
13.02: We lost one day. Mr. Disney, no snow today.
I am feeling lazy already.
So it goes like this.
And then like this.
Then this.
Then byebye.
Conclusion: Tokyo Disneyland is for kids. Erm, spend your money elsewhere.
Anecdote: When we were in front of all those cute Disney hats in the souvenir shop, 2 high-school students approached and asked, "Which one a girl/woman will like?" (we guessed), then my friend pointed to a Minnie hat, and he was like, "This one? Oh." Without thinking twice he grabbed the hat and went to the counter. Wou, that was a fast decision for a, we guessed, Valentine's Day gift. Did he realise he actually asked foreigners for opinions? Aw, can I go back to high school?
14.02: Initially expected a romantic 14th, hey, it was Valentine's Day at Tokyo. But our yuki power came to play, it was basically raining with snow. Romantic much? I couldn't even remember what we did. I think we were 'wow-ing' at the kawaii-much new-season clothing at Harajuku. Looking back at our local taste in fashion (casual, slippers, easy, hassle-free, make-up-less), we have many miles to go.
15.02: Heavy snow = shinkansen delayed indefinitely = shinkansen canceled =
whatever wherever whichever
Highlight of the day: We saw a "Pratform Information" at one of the stations. It was a sheet mounted in a frame displayed for the public. Man, sorry but I laughed for so long, especially when it was pronounced out loud.
16.02: Acting-like-a-billionaire day.
We ate a year worth of pastas that day. We also ate a mountain of broccoli.
17.02: I would not leave without a jigsaw puzzle and a few pens.
Will I go back?
Hell yes.
My, writing a long post is tiring.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)