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。


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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？

书一本 - The Stone Cage

人说写作和画画可以抒发情感，希望是真的。
一直都有想画的东西，就只是等着，等到对的时间再画。（就是现在啦小姐）
写呢，要写什么呢。我的中文已退化成超浅白的程度了。也许是去看中国四大名著的时候了？呕……可真的喜欢不上那些。勉强也读过三国演义而已，还是小学版的（笑吧笑吧）。

上次想写一本书。
一本不出名的书，只因我在图书馆瞄到了一眼，好奇了一下，从书架上拿了下来，然后看到了封面有只猫，于是就借回家了。（猫啊~~~~~~~~~好想养猫啊~~~~~~~~~~~）

 "The Stone Cage" by Nicholas Stuart Gray.
A retelling of the story of Rapunzel.


今年挖到的一块宝。图书馆真的是满满宝藏的地方。
这是一本猫眼看世界的书（及一小段乌鸦眼看世界）。
从猫的角度出发，我怎么能不喜欢上嘛？
故事很好看，作者非常幽默，真的很幽默。（好浅白的描写，悲哀）

这本书写的是同女巫居住的猫、乌鸦、及被女巫用手段得来的孩子 Rapunzel 的故事。此书重点真的是猫与乌鸦。
此猫自恋至极，就像全世界典型的猫一样；此乌鸦则喜欢用深奥的语文说话。

“Following your instructions, mistress, I stationed myself at the summit of an elongated conifer...Being in a position to scrutinise the environment, I can now report the imminent arrival of additional population..."

超好笑的。

Rapunzel 原来也可以指一种蔬菜，中文叫莴苣 (wōjù)，英文叫 corn salad。
还有还有，从小就知道“格林童话" 这一词，但现在才知道原来格林是作者的名字啊，还以为是地方名…… (不好意思, 没听说过就真的不会知道的嘛）。格林童话既是Grimms' Fairy Tales，德国格林兄弟写的童话，包括 Rapunzel。

作者 Nicholas Stuart Gray 的资料少得可怜，让我有点为他抱不平呢。
这本书已绝版，网上叫价280多澳币。噢， T-T。没钱的人是我，算了。但，那价钱也太夸张了吧喂呀。这本买不到，便买了他的另一本书， Grimbold's Other World，也只有二手的。
Grimbold 是一只猫。
哈哈哈。但这本书不是猫眼看世界。
书中主角问Grimbold：
"Are you really a stray?"
...
"In order to stray, one must first belong. I do not belong."
超~~~~~有型的啦！

怎么会有人看猫像看到鬼般呢？或者觉得它们脏？觉得它们不值得被疼惜？其实，不喜欢动物的人，我不了解。

我想画 The Stone Cage 里的一些场景呢。 嘿嘿嘿。

完结了完结了

医龙完结了，很失落呀~！！
呜……什么结局啊，让我想大叫而已。
啊~~~~~~~

The Architecture of Quotes

Just a joke.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."



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Leonardo da Vinci

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year”

I almost forget that he invented the scissors.
*worship*

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Frank Lloyd Wright

"I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. "

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change." In later years..."I feel coming on a strange disease -- humility."

"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."

 (Don't you think he is an interesting man?)

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Louis Kahn

 
"The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it."

 ......well-put in words about what I thought about da Vinci's scissors. *clapclap*

His famous (infamous) quote:

“To express is to drive.
And when you want to give something presence,
you have to consult nature.
And there is where Design comes in.

And if you think of Brick, for instance,
and you say to Brick,
"What do you want Brick?"
And Brick says to you
"I like an Arch."
And if you say to Brick
"Look, arches are expensive,
and I can use a concrete lentil over you.
What do you think of that?"
"Brick?"

Brick says:
"... I like an Arch”

I like inspirations, the bad side is I get uninspired very quickly and usually forget about the inspirations but luckily I like inspirations (looping).

The Geek

Hahahahaaa the expressions...
Iryu ♥

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After I finally caught up with the latest chapter...
Man whatthehellwhatthehellwhatthehell
Team Medical Dragon is the only manga that makes me shocked, always.
I still have an exam ok............don't upset me.

Show me fangs

I have finished watching 'Interview with the Vampire' the movie! Yaaaay
(I actually feel distressed as class starts tomorrow)

While reading the book, Lestat is the one I think is really interesting.
Lestat de Lioncourt. Even the name kills.

Lestat is sort of nuts.
And Tom Cruise as Lestat, just pleasant.
If he were to act more in this kind of movies, I will like him like I like Johnny Depp ;D

 

Lestattttttttt :D

The author of the book initially objected to the casting of Tom Cruise as Lestat. But later she was impressed by his acting. I say, he was great. Kirsten Dunst is equally great. Like whoa. She was just 12 then.
Now only I know why are people labelling Brad Pitt as a 'pretty boy'. I should say I was born too late for his pretty-boy era.

Louis

Luckily, the second book of this chronicles is ------  
Vampire Lestat.


This film was banned in Malaysia (hahahahaha)
This is not a book for everyone. It has that mysterious ancient smell which is just my cup of tea.

The movie is nice although they changed it a bit. A BIG change to the ending though.

"I assume I need no introduction". My favourite quotation in the whole movie.

SPOILERRR

咖啡猫的哲理

Garfield 这肥猫∶

· 喜欢喝咖啡 （对一只猫来说还真奇怪）
· 喜欢吃意大利面和Pizza
· 喜欢花儿。也喜欢破坏花儿。 （有点 S 的感觉 0_o)
· 超喜欢圣诞节
· 对自己的年龄非常在乎
· 讨厌星期一
· 喜欢它的玩具熊 （只有这点可以称得上可爱）
· 不喜欢抓老鼠
· 是现实主义者

Garfield 式的幽默，棒透了不是？
曾几何时，我对咖啡嗤之以鼻。对咖啡猫也嗤之以鼻。
我好友说喜欢，我记得我对她摆出一脸怪相。
有点莫名其妙。

从来都不是那种死都不愿改变的人。反之，我不介意变。

很多时候，我只是懒得理。

错！

题目有点惊人？
不，只是突然想到为什么 “错” 是 金字旁。
上网查查，它的本义似乎是 “用金涂饰, 镶嵌”。

为啥会演变成一个带贬义的字？


最近尝试教自己日文，在想会日文上网搜查日本音乐也会较方便吧，oho 。 麻烦的只是日文汉字而已。
又不是假期，我竟在做这等事。

对文字有兴趣，上次也尝试学韩文， 现在都要忘光了，但 banana 怎么写却忘不了。
忙死的时候都有买 banana，这水果太方便了。有一天我只啃两条 bananas，唉，现在终于有时间好好煮一餐。

Stumble!

I stumbled into Wikiquote ne.
So I clicked on the big names hoping to see big words.

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"We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world."


"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. "

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;)
Guess who said that.

Miaohahaha

What's with the laugh?
I have been reading a manga about a cat's everyday life, and he laughs that way.
See~ X)














Ahahahaha it makes me laugh. And I have a reason to laugh now.
The mangaka is quite a genius as she is able to draw the human side of cats with cats' demeanour. It's so damn amusing. Cats are good, you know.
(This manga is 《茶茶的日常生活》)

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