DATE: 05/18/2005 09:20:21 上午
A piece of technology news bursted out last night informing of the revelation of Playstation 3 console link and Xbox's new plan of more games link , a fierce battle of gaining profit in such entertainment scope is made more obvious.
Video games, computer games, online games, and even the desire of pursueing newly released high technic product have been constructing a large scale of young people's leisure life. Many of my generation, and the generation next, even largely rely on these means to spend our spare time. Despite of the high technic features they have, the cultural phenomena they have made is another feature they have in common. Like film and other media related culture industries, the digital entertainment is initiated by technological development, and is generally been aestheticised and theorised. Moreover, same to other culture industries, traces of repetitive formula and imitative images can be easily detected in digital products. Hierachical comsuption, too, can be found, although mediums like internet (together with cheap online retails such as ebay etc.) are often argued to be liberal. The purchase of devices, in particular, is perfectly merged into the concept of pseudo-individuality, so that the digital product buyers know where their places are, and may set their aims as to pursue a higher rank of digital products. To analyse the digital market (or shall I say cultural phenomena) in this way is certainly shallow, and maybe even too conventional and doctrinairism. The point I try to make here is, digital consumption fits the concept of culture industry well, and worth further/more studies in the frame of cultural studies.
sorry I am still not awake from my cultural studies exam…
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Chelon YauEMAIL: C.A.Yau@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/alanyauDATE: 05/21/2005 11:01:54 上午
The point I try to make here is, digital consumption fits the concept of culture industry well, and worth further/more studies in the frame of cultural studies.
I completely agree… (actually I don't have the faintest idea what you just said – but I want a PS3 after drooling over the specs!)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 05/21/2005 07:54:20 下午X-Box 2's where the actions at. Buy a few of these cheapass babies and make a few modifications and you've got one kickass server/computer on your hands. Yay.
PS - I'm not a geek.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 05/21/2005 07:54:32 下午 Doh – Action's. ----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Chelon YauEMAIL: C.A.Yau@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/alanyau/DATE: 05/21/2005 11:18:52 下午Well of course – since an xbox360 is basically a PC in a small box and lacking all the funky ports.
Then again the new PS3, can almost be classified as a super computer weighing in at… 2TFLOPS which is like woah.
However it remains to be seen if the developers will be able to make good use of this hardware – there is going to be one hell of a software hardware gap to bridge.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 05/22/2005 07:16:18 上午haha, Hamid
you are not a geek…
I quite like ps2 tho, I think there will be a lot of cheap ones now… maybe I should buy one next year ;)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Chelon YauEMAIL: C.A.Yau@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/alanyau/DATE: 05/22/2005 09:38:28 上午 You can buy mine if you like!! Perfect working order…. (ok it is actually broken – hence I want the PS3 asap!!!)----- --------TITLE: 盛况当前
DATE: 05/12/2005 09:20:10 下午
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| 很难想象当初DOG MAN STAR发行的时候，我脚下的这片土地是怎样的一番景象。因为我，已经是COMING UP时代的人了。SUEDE对以前的旋律一再的回收重组再利用，进取精神不再。本来我觉得BUTLER还是好的，但听过几张或单飞或再与别人合作的专集以后，他都是在重复自己，那个不肯妥协却也不知道怎么再前进的自己。这样的景象一直延续到了今天的the tears。1990的流行音乐与艺术探索共进的景象，至少在这重组的怀旧乐队上未能重现。一样的歌词，一样的旋律，一样的他们，一样的我。这样的怀旧，只是一再提醒在听的人所处的泥沼而已。都是一群走进死胡同又不想走回头路的人。 那时候，SUEDE在盛世中横亘而出，冲击到了地球另一端刚开放文化市场的中国大陆，一小群摇滚青年被冲得晕头转向，而英国呢，是真的像我们想象的那样盛况当前吗？ 不给打分了。不忍心。 | |
TITLE: A hunting in the book shop
DATE: 05/07/2005 03:44:04 下午
Iris Chang (1997) the Rape of Nanking: the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Penguin Group : England
Iris Chang is an American born Chinese, she didn't write and read in Chinese, but she had never lost her concern in this piece of land. The Rape in Nanking is a response to the western world's blindness towards one of the most brutal event in human civilisation – the Nanking Massacre the Japanese troops carried out in 1937 Nanking (Nanjing), China. Lamentedly, Chang suffered from serious depression and committed suicide at her 36. Although picked up Nanking Massacre as a particular case to write, Chang's writing can not be read as a Chinese nationalist's thunder to the Japnese. According to an interview after the writing of this book, Chang's concern was always on the human conscience rather any particular nation.
Chang has an interesting point in marriage as well, she said getting married at an early age was helpful for her career that saved her time of building up a relation thus she could devote more to her writing. She described her husband as her best friend, her finance manager, her psychaitrist, and her massagist. She hoped to have three kids with him. Sounded a very happy marriage, pity she made the final decision.
Ali Smith and Toby Litt eds. 2005 New Writing: No. 13 Picador : London
New Writing No. 12 was quite good, so that I bought No. 13, too. Interestingly, I think the bookshop has put wrong tag on it, so it's only 5,99 pound, nearly the same price as Amazon old books.
Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own Penguin Books Great Ideas
She's a feminist, she's the best English female writer in modern history, she wrote about the independence of women in this essay, what else should I add?
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 05/08/2005 10:10:55 上午 I read the Chang book back in my first year when I was studying Chinese history and I loved it. There are a few minor inaccuracies but, aside from that, it's a wonderful read and essential for any western reader. The crimes of the Japanese are almost completely forgetten by the West who focus on the crimes of the Nazis and Soviets. And she highlights "The Living Buddha of Nanjing", Rabe, who was one of the greatest and bravest men I have read aboutI really wish those who wonder why the Chinese get so angry about the Japanese revisionism would first take a gander at this book.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Red ChanEMAIL: Red.Chan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: DATE: 05/08/2005 06:58:21 下午
Sadly Iris Chang killed herself last Novemeber: link
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 05/11/2005 04:14:49 下午 I am so sad to hear that. She really helped bring Japanese war crimes to western attention…
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Junjun ChenEMAIL: elueac@gwmail.warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/junjunchen/DATE: 05/27/2005 05:26:48 下午
The first time I met this book was in BFSU, a pirate one though. An unforgetable impression, especially the illustrations in the middle.
Yeah, you are right, NW12 is good book. I also got a copy. NW13, is that cheap? Still?
TITLE: 又是柳絮纷飞时
DATE: 05/04/2005 03:28:49 下午
这是一则需要情感填充的命题。
春天最美的部分莫过于满世界飘扬如雪花般的柳絮，轻柔、优雅而又不冷漠。大概像是挂在嘴角的微笑，时时在那里，点缀在空气中，也不突兀，只是温暖极了。如同一张薄薄的被子，既抵御得了春寒，又没有加诸负担在身上。
柳絮是我最喜欢的比喻，用在爱人身上，最恰当不过。就是这样，飘忽不定，铺天盖地，却不用刻意伸手去掌握。是细细浓密的爱，也是随意自由的爱。
TITLE: 我人生的特征
DATE: 04/28/2005 12:36:54 上午
就是一个字
乱
所以我应该要去看黑泽明的《乱》
—暑假计划之二
TITLE: Me leg
DATE: 04/27/2005 01:46:29 上午
Just now when I had a long stare at me right leg, I found out that
It's only a leg...
Even after a few streches I made it doing, I still can't feel its sentiment of belonging to me. Why should I call her my right leg then? Is she really mine?
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/27/2005 03:47:56 上午
Often we can't appreciate what we have, we don't even recognise its importance to us… and hten when we lose it we realise its true virtues.
Imagine if your leg was cut off. You would suddenly feel incomplete. You would look at yourself and think that you looked incomplete. You would no longer feel the pain and gentle sensations you used to feel. You would no longer feel anything there. You would not be able to walk or run or sit or bathe like you once did.
So what is only a leg is an essential part of you and one part that you would sorely miss!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: felixEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 04/27/2005 10:52:01 上午 well, why do you feel other things belong to you and your leg doesnt?----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: LuluEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 05/02/2005 12:29:28 上午 Why is it even a SHE?
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 05/02/2005 08:48:22 上午 me leg's sex should be coherent to me… moreover, it's a right leg, so it MUST be SHE?
TITLE: the music talks
DATE: 04/27/2005 12:29:12 上午
Music used to be the big topic when we sought acquaintance on the first few meetings.
Its importance dminishes by the time we get to know each other's taste and not surprised by the coinsidence of same favorites anymore.
Good friends can develop a system of music critiques together.
Tonight I hope your playlist will keep me awake and inspired.
And I realised that I agree to your music more and more.
Should I mourn for my loss of insistence or enjoy the integrity between you and me? ¶ 8:06 pm 0 comments
DATE: 04/26/2005 01:29:33
Generation sex
Respects
The rights
Of girls
Who want to take their clothes off
As long as we can all watch that?s okay
And generation sex
Elects
The type
Of guys
You wouldn?t leave your kids with
And shouts off with their heads if they get laid
Lovers watch their backs
As hacks
In macs
Take snaps
Through telephoto lenses
Chase mercedes benzes through the night
A mourning nation weeps
And wails
But keeps
The sales
Of evil tabloids healthy
The poor protect the wealthy in this world
Generation sex
Injects
The sperm
Of worms
Into the eggs of field mice
So you can look real nice for the boys
And generation sex
Is me
And you
And we
Should really all know better
(Generation Sex by the Divine Comedy)
-----COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/26/2005 02:57:41 上午 Hahahahahaha. How wonderful.TITLE: 说痛的
DATE: 04/25/2005 03:46:38 上午
《媚行者》实在太好看，每看两行就想做个笔记
?幻痛可以在手术以后，即时出现，也可以在手术完成以后多时才出现。另一个调查报告显示，如果将痛楚程度分零至九度，零度微痛，九度极痛，有百分之八十三有幻痛的被访者，痛度位于三至六度之间，微痛与极痛的被访者比率相若，极痛者占百分之九，微痛者占百分之八。痛楚有刺痛（37）、痒痛（28）、抽痛（28）、烧痛（26）、撕痛（25）、抽搐痛（25）、诱痛（25）、极瘘（21）、切痛（18）、闷痛（14）、其他（l0）、热痛（o）、击痛（3）、扯痛（2），括弧内是受访者痛楚出现的次数。打呵欠，大便或咳嗽都可以引起严重的幻痛。
幻肢通常呈现伤者肢体受伤时的形态，譬如潜水时受伤，伤者就会感觉幻肢在水中浮动，如果开车时受伤，伤者会感觉断肢还在踏油门，如果滑雪，断肢就会感觉微曲微侧。痛的位置也会受受伤肢体前病影响，如伤者受伤前曾膝痛，即使膝盖切除后，仍会感到膝痛。
治疗方法包括局部电疗止痛，于?诱发痛楚点?注射止痛药，切除痛楚神经，心理治疗，但没有一种治疗方法可以完全止痛，亦无法治好痛楚。减轻痛楚的方法有按摩断肢，热敷，微波或超声波止痛。?
TITLE: 灵魂的回响DATE: 04/25/2005 02:38:52 上午
'反反复复，想同一件事情，无法从一件事情之中释放，如果是爱，只有不爱，才可以得到自由。
只有不爱，不愿意感觉，不愿意知道，从不发生，拒绝生命的危险、想像、开闯、创伤、希望与失望，说：不应如此，才可以得到稳定。
爱与渴望，最最可怕。'
黄碧云在媚行者里说的，不比任何哲学书里说的要来得道理少
'墓池文化的陶器，多为日常用品：酒壶、水壶，盛食器皿，而且几乎全为，性交男女。
各种性交姿势，坐著拥抱，男子按著女子，侧抱，女子双腿搁在男子肩上，都有。又或者，各种性器，盛食的是女子的裂缝，怀孕女子的肚子是水瓶，巨大的阳具是水壶口。
每日就用这些器皿，饮与食。
热烈的，生之渴求，在生活里面。
那麽热烈，像祷告。'
再来一则
'我希望，可以生活在一个没甚麽大事，随便为一点小事便可以狂欢的国家，国民都随便在街上唱歌跳舞，跟陌生人拥抱祝贺。
琐琐碎碎，很无聊，从不伟大，不肩负历史使命，不忧患从生，从轻省之中，理解自由。'
（引号里都是黄碧云写的，我不过有幸读到而已）
TITLE: 我的灵魂在哪里？DATE: 04/25/2005 01:29:43 上午
西西以前说我是有灵魂的人。
现在我只能写写菜谱而已了
悲伤是开启灵魂的钥匙??
-----COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/25/2005 03:11:42 上午 灵魂是一件礼物从上帝。你不能品尝你的灵魂。你不能看你的灵魂。但你不能品尝想法。你不能看想法。
TITLE: Entry of the day
DATE: 04/20/2005 08:05:02 下午
I'm your man
If you want a lover
I?ll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I?ll wear a mask for you
If you want a partner
Take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
I?m your man
If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
I?ll examine every inch of you
If you want a driver
Climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
I?m your man
Ah, the moon?s too bright
The chain?s too tight
The beast won?t go to sleep
I?ve been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep
Ah but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or I?d crawl to you baby
And I?d fall at your feet
And I?d howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And I?d claw at your heart
And I?d tear at your sheet
I?d say please, please
I?m your man
And if you?ve got to sleep
A moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if you want to work the street alone
I?ll disappear for you
If you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
Across the sand
I?m your man
If you want a lover
I?ll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I?ll wear a mask for you
-- Leonard Cohen
-----COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/21/2005 07:12:08 上午If you want a cliche,
I'll make a rhyme,
I'd like to use your bidet,
If you have the time.
But if you want a poem,
That's good in every way,
I'll make sure I get goin',
And find a decent poet today.
:P
TITLE: Why is eating vegetables not killing?
DATE: 04/15/2005 04:32:10 上午-----BODY:
Here is an answer I found from Master Hin Lun from Hong Kong
佛教主張不殺生，提倡素食。聽說植物也是有生命的，因為他們也會長高長大。吃素不也是殺生嗎？
佛教以有心、色此二種法和合才名一期生命。心指情識，有感情、懂分辨、知苦痛、愛生惡死。色指由四大（地、水、火、風）形成的色身。其中地大構成頭髮、指甲、牙齒、皮、肉、筋骨、骨髓、腦；水大構成血液、津液、痰、淚、精、大小便；火大指身體的暖氣；風大指呼吸和活動。簡言之，具足暖、息、識才是生命。
植物雖然會生長，但它是沒有心識，不辨苦樂，故它是有生氣而沒有生命。猶如人的指甲及頭髮也會生長，但是剪掉時卻不會有苦痛，因為頭髮和指甲都沒有生命。
It's very difficult to translate, I'll make an attempt next time, too late today :D
----COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/15/2005 12:32:13 下午
So he compares a plant to nails and hair in that nails and hair do not suffer pain or have a mind to understand their own existence. Humans, however, are composed of and understand that they are composed of the essential elements (so water, wind and fire) and "Knowledge is life", so humans, as living creatures, composed of the elements and able to understand themselves and feel pain are living whereas plants, which grow, do not live and, therefore, can be safely eaten.
Interesting. I'll still enjoy my lamb and chicken, but I like the point of view :D.
But then what does Buddhism say of Carnivorous animals? Hin Lun seems to be suggesting that eating meat is bad because it used to belong to an animal and an animal grows and feels pain and therefore lives and we should not take a life to eat. But what of an animal that solely eats meat or will eat a combination of meat and flora etc? Are they "evil" for doing so? Do they commit a wrong in the philosophy of Buddhism or is it the case that in not being able to understand Buddhism or such complicated human philosophies, they don't adhere to such rules? And if this is the case, then why does it not apply to animals which humans eat. If a tiger can kill and eat a deer, then why not a human kill and eat a cow, or a sheep? If pain is an issue, then surely if it was slaughtered in a humane manner then it would be getting a better deal out of it than nature would give them?
And what about an animal that is already dead? Can a Buddhist consume a cow that died of natural causes? Or what about meat available in the supermarket. It has been killed by someone else, but the meat will eventually be consumed whether you eat of it or not and will be eaten or thrown out. Surely that should be OK to eat. You have not had the intention to kill the animal, but the animal is dead. Why waste the flesh?
Anyhow, sorry for the rampant questions.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 04/15/2005 02:30:30 下午I can't see any word suggesting eating meat is evil in this text. It's true that Buddhism suggests to adopt a vegetarian/vegan diet. But it only suspends on the level of suggestion, instead of obligation. Most of the people in Thailand are Buddhist, but they all eat meat. It's mainly monks that are vegans. Apart from the teachings that of to be mindful and harmless, not to eat meat is also about to keep a light diet that keeps you away from cravings. I don't think I can explain this very clearly. I become a vegetarian solely because I wanted to see what happens to life when living without meat. So far, my life has run smoothly and happy, so I think it's not bad to live without those choices. And life becomes more focused and more simple.
Moreover I don't think you'll enjoy your meat feast after spectating the event of killing.
You can find more information on this paper
I'm not opposed to other ppl eating meat after all :)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Felix HarrisEMAIL: F.X.O.Harris@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/felixharris/DATE: 04/15/2005 04:12:39 下午 i think the idea is that you only eat what you need to make the world better----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peter WongEMAIL: P.Y.H.Wong@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/peterwong/DATE: 04/16/2005 04:24:52 上午 Umm… is this documented in the Pali Canon I wonder…??----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Matthew FelgateEMAIL: M.Felgate@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/matthewfelgate/DATE: 04/17/2005 07:39:12 下午What I can work out from transaltion:
Buddhism preaches not to take life away, and thus advocates a vegetarian diet. Plants also have life, so they have a high precedence:
Is eating a vegetable not also taking life away?
Buddhism is about mind, and by colouring two kinds of thinking, gathers respect for the talents in life. The heart points to the sentiment of knowledge: it has sentiment, understands the relativity of things, knows pain, and knows that love lives and dies wickedly.
The four colours refer to the body (Wood, Water, Fire, Wind), which is formed. Body consists of (Wood: ) hair, nail, tooth skin, meat, physique, marrow, brain, blood (with large amounts of Water), bodily fluids, phlegm, tears, essence, faeces, & urine: Warm air (Fire), Breath (Wind), and activity. In short, as long as your feet are warm, the rest of knowledge; is life.
Plants can grow, but they do not have knowledge, they cannot distinguish sadness from happiness, therefore since birth, a plant has not had life. Just like a persons nails and hair can grow, but when you trim these they do not cause pain: because hair and nail do not have life.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Antony HarfieldEMAIL: A.J.Harfield@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/aharfield/DATE: 04/18/2005 12:12:34 下午I think that the Buddhist viewpoint on this would be one of non-harming (as it also is for Jains). The Buddha never said that you should not eat meet, and he never said that you should be vegetarian. The principle that the Buddha put forward was that killing causes suffering and so should be avoided. I think most people would agree that we should avoid killing. However, it is not as easy as it sounds. We often kill flies because they annoy us, we kill spiders cause they scare us, and we kill fish and birds in the name of sport. By consuming meat, it often seems that the responsibility is removed because someone else has killed the animal. If you look at it from another angle though it seems that we are contributing an industry that benefits from killing animals.
I wonder what would happen if supermarkets did not stock meat and we had to go out to kill our animal before we could eat it?
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/18/2005 08:29:46 下午 The same thing that would happen if supermarkets did not stock apples and we had to go pick apples for ourselves before we could eat them…----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 04/19/2005 11:23:48 上午 do you think?----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Felix HarrisEMAIL: F.X.O.Harris@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/felixharris/DATE: 04/19/2005 10:40:55 下午 yeah apples dont grow on trees you know :)----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Felix HarrisEMAIL: F.X.O.Harris@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/felixharris/DATE: 04/20/2005 11:09:29 上午 i was thinking about it; the only diffrence between animals and plants is 'blood' really – that animals are "the same" as us: essentially both sets change the world "independently of nature" in the same way that we consider "manmade" things outside of the world. if we assumed 'life' and 'conciousnss' as we know it are really just interpretations of some grand scale, then it could be said that vegetarianism is kinda egotistical, and equally eating meat is stupid because of the high energy input required to make cow etc. but steaks good.TITLE: Vegetarian Swedish Balls
DATE: 04/14/2005 10:47:16 下午
I tried this new dish today, it was a little bit of an experiment. I generally followed the recipe of meat balls cooking I found in some Chinese recipe, but used Quorn Swedish Balls instead and added some chillis, garlic, carrots, tomato and onions to make the taste stronger. It ended up a very delicious dish, a little bit sour and sweet :) It was cleared up very soon after served. So maybe you want to try it too :D
Ingredients
12 Quorn Swedish Balls
Some Poi Choi
mushrooms 4~5
tomatos 2
red onion 1
carrot 1
ginger 4~5 thin slices
garlic 1 clove
sesame oil a tea spoon
soya bean powder a tea spoon (optional)
chilli 1 (optional)
Preparations
cut the mushrooms into half, get a quarter of a sauce pan water, put some sunflower oil in the water, and put the mushrooms in, when the water is boiled, turn down the cooker, and leave it on the heat
get another saucepan, boil some water. put the poi choi in for about 1 or 2 minutes. dont leave it too long on the heat. fish out the poi choi and put it in a plate
cut the tomatos into quarters
slice up the carrot, onion and garlic
cut the chilli into 5 sects
mix the soya bean powders with some water
Start to cook
Heat the oil and fry the balls for a while till the colour turns darker, and fish out the balls
put the ginger and garlic in first, and then pour in the carrot, onion and tomatos. fry them for a little while, pour in the mushroom soup, stir-fry for a little while. Then put in the fried balls, add sault, sugar, dark soya sauce, and turn down the cooker to medium heat, heating until the sauce is thick, and then add the soya bean water, stir fry for anther while, then put them on the poi choi plate and serve :)
(the picture is not my dish, it's a real meal balls dish, but I think it looks quite similar to mine~ just to make it more tempting)
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/15/2005 12:48:32 上午
Mmm looks delicious. -
---- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Casey LeaverEMAIL: C.Leaver@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/caseyleaver/DATE: 04/15/2005 08:25:33 上午
I love Quorn's meat balls. They are incredibly versatile – but they do need lots of flavour to pep them up.
Your dish sounds great.
TITLE: A Vegetarian DishDATE: 04/05/2005 06:25:11 下午
Hmmm, it doesn't seem very possible to follow strictly the diet of a vegan in this country, so I think I just follow as much as I can, i.e. I don't eat eggs and milk directly but don't resist them when they are in a cake, a cup of tea, quorn etc.
So, the following recipe is the vegetarian version for Kungpao Chicken. I use Quorn to replace chicken in this dish. So let's call it Kungpao Quorn pieces !
Ingredients
Quorn pieces (half a pack)
carrot (1 big one or 2 small ones)
cucumber (1/5 of a whole one)
mushrooms (2)
garlic (1 clove)
chillis (as much as you like)
kungpao powders or sauces
Preparations
slice the garlic
chop the carrot and cucumber into similar sized small squares
chop the mushrooms into small pieces
Start to cook
heat the oil, and put in garlic (can put in the chillis at this time)
cook the mushroom and carots first
when you can smell the flavor of mushrooms, put in the quorns and cucumber
put some soya sauce, salt, and the kungpao powder
and that's it!
So easy isn't it!
o, btw, you'd better put some nuts and spring onions in the dish in the end of your cooking :D
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Antony HarfieldEMAIL: A.J.Harfield@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/aharfield/DATE: 04/06/2005 11:18:41 上午 Looking forward to this one! ;)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/06/2005 12:31:22 下午
You think it's hard in this country….
Where there are hundreds and thousands of products with a little green mark on the back saying "Suitable for vegetarians"? Where you can be sure nearly every restaurant will have vegetarian options cooked in a proper vegetarian way?
Imagine the problems a Muslim has in China (when outside of Xinjiang etc.) trying to look for food without pork. I swear sometimes it seems that staple diet in China does not involve "Rice with", "Noodles with", "Bread with" but "Pork with" if you know what I mean…
Aiya it was some hard times finding anything safe for a Muslim to eat in East China. Especially the first time I was there and my Chinese wasn't very good. Imagine a giant gui lao trying to ask a waiter in broken Chinese if their food is cooked using pork fat… oh dear. Still, my Chinese is better now and China's a great place to be.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 04/06/2005 04:23:56 下午'Hmmm, it doesn't seem very possible to follow strictly the diet of a vegan in this …..........' …..... i meant it's difficult to find food without containing milk and eggs in this country…. so that I can only be a vegetarian rather than vegan ;)
o yeh, China is a pork obsessed country. I used to be a great fan of pork… i think i will be punished to be a pig in my next life :D
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/06/2005 10:22:36 下午I don't really appreciate veganism… OK, I can understand not wanting to eat meat, especially from a religious/philosophical process… but many vegans were breastfed or breastfeed their children…
Now, if you can accept that a mother should breastfeed her child, then why is it not acceptable to drink the milk of cows? Or sheep? Or goats? Or Camels? Etc.
TITLE: The fake feministDATE: 04/02/2005 11:40:45 下午
I shamelessly am…
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Lu YangEMAIL: L.Yang.5@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/yanglu/DATE: 04/03/2005 02:29:00 上午 how?
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/03/2005 08:05:04 上午 My best mate's gf is a rampant feminist in her politics but she loves nothing more than cooking for him and doing whatever he likes…
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 04/03/2005 10:53:11 上午
:S
i don't like such contradiction… it's despairing…
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 04/03/2005 07:38:44 下午 Well we all have contradictions in the way we act with others and the way our private thoughts act with ourselves. ¶ 8:06 pm 0 comments
DATE: 03/26/2005 09:18:19 下午
the Chinese Shane ~
although always identified as Yang Zongbao's wife, being a female general Mu Guiying is SOOOOOOOO COOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLL~
原为穆柯寨木羽之女，武艺超群、机智勇敢，传説有神女传授神箭飞刀之术。因阵前以杨宗保交战，生擒宗保并招之成亲
Mu Guiying is the daughter of Mu Kezaimuyu. She was extrordinary in martial art, smart and brave. In the folks it was widely believed that a godess taught her the unbelievable fighting art of toxophily and flying knives. She confronted Yang Zongbao in one of the battles and captured him alive then get married with him :)
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Lu YangEMAIL: L.Yang.5@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/yanglu/DATE: 03/27/2005 10:52:46 下午 Hahaha! I love the part about capturing her future husband in a battle. Men are so useless and should really be dominated by women. Society would probably be much less discriminative, more loving and compassionate if we had matriarchy instead of patriarchy
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 03/28/2005 03:29:01 上午 i can see your good tendency of moving towards a feminist :D
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: felixEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 03/28/2005 01:10:22 下午
matriarchy instead of patriarchy
feminism :p
Society would probably be much less discriminative, more loving and compassionate
equality
cynic
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 03/30/2005 06:04:47 下午RE Lu: Hehehe… if women were supposed to have been in charge, then the earth would have been dominated by women for the past 5,000 years…
:P
RE Felix – I agree… I think Feminism (where's masculism at?) should be abolished in favour of humanism…
TITLE: the Period of Spring and Autumn
DATE: 03/26/2005 08:47:07 下午
Writing about web page http://www.greatchinese.net/
春秋 (前770-前476)
春秋時期，始於「平王東遷」。他得名於魯史《春秋》。
the Period of Spring and Autumn (770–476 BC)
The Period of Spring and Autumn started from the event of Ping the Zhou Emperor moving the capital eastwards. The period is named after the history document of Lu county of the same name.
Today I came across that the activities of translating and foreign affairs in China can be dated back to that period. Although have encounted this term for thousands of times from history books, this is actually the first time I seriously questioned its naming.
BTW, this is a great internet resource as well :)
and there's something irrelevant I want to mention otherwise I will forget it. That is, when Chinese women tried to climb the social ladders, it was either the process that was very bloody or the result was traumatic. Historically, none of the powerful Chinese women survived in the history books without stigma. The tough struggle they made surely made them hysterious when they finally succeed. Or was it just the way people portrayed them, as mad female politicians? That's all for now.
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 03/30/2005 06:06:55 下午 I don't know… the female Chinese who literally became "Emperor" seems to be very well-respected.
TITLE: 7:30 am
DATE: 03/18/2005 09:54:11 上午
that's when I got up today!
CRAZY!
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 03/24/2005 05:37:11 下午
Yeah it's just not uni-like, is it? I'm loving my 12 hours of sleep, twelve hours of rest days… why? Cause I know that after my MA I'll be working like a little she-dog :'(.
Damn I miss my first year.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: FelixEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 03/26/2005 05:10:05 下午 where have you been ever since?TITLE: hey, the beautiful morning sky
DATE: 03/14/2005 07:43:15 上午
It's beautiful when the morning chill paddles my face whisking my tshirt with the gentle breezes and then Katie Melua starts to sing
Getting off the plane the cold air
_Rushes like bullets through my brain_
And I'm divided between penguins and cats
But it's not about what animal you've got
It's about being able to fly
It's about dying nine times
For the one who didn't see it, who's somewhere else
x
TITLE: Manipulated by the L word
DATE: 03/14/2005 03:04:41 上午
Shane is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sexy!
Just think about how powerful is television. I mean, the whole cultural industry. They choose the breathtaking love scenes, the peak of conflicts, and all the other exciting moment you only encounter maybe twice a year. In a TV soap, you have them every two minutes. And they are so approaching. They choose the familiar music to keep you, who's sitting infront of an apparatus, as a part of the story. Leonard Cohen in every episode, and portishead accompaning love and confusion, how can I not be enchanted? And yeh, with all these exciting moments, there are those beautiful beautiful people. This TV soap is manipulating me. To be honest, the L word is more appealing to me than sex and city. It's just presenting the ideal world! But I mean, how dangerous is this TV set (I have to say DC++, cos I downloaded it there. But it was scrubbed from a TV set for sure)? It can easily turn a hetrosexual into gay. So it can easily turn a non-christian christian, a non-terroist terroist, a non-communist communist, a pure mind stuffed dust… it's only the matter of the intelligence of the producing group… can you see the evilness of it too?
COMMENT:AUTHOR: TarbsEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 03/14/2005 05:28:17 下午 Shane??...that's not…a MAN is it?!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 03/15/2005 09:39:52 上午 no, she a GRRL!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Alex LuEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 03/16/2005 08:43:01 下午 Haha! Yes, I can see the evilness of it! And Shane IS hot!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 03/16/2005 09:38:09 下午 she's got the charisma you know… every time I see her… it's like….......waw!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 03/24/2005 05:35:09 下午
I don't think I've ever been tempted to become an uphill gardener by a TV show…
Having said that, Shane is quite sexy in a subtle, tiny-breasted way… though I think the sexiest has to be the brunette artist-woman.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Alex LuEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 03/25/2005 12:45:14 下午 I love her voice. And the way she waves her hands, in a sort of manly, yet gentle way. As if she was a female genteman! I'd love to hang out with someone like her----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: maomaoEMAIL: qdqyj-2003@163.comIP: URL: hongkangDATE: 04/01/2005 04:59:52 上午 lalalalalala hahahaha i come from china
TITLE: 可爱玩偶背后的残酷乐园
DATE: 03/10/2005 09:21:25 下午
Writing about web page http://www.lukechueh.com/index.html
偶尔闲逛的时候发现这一张，名字叫做 Two for one (the high price for enlightenment)， 觉得道理深刻到不行，背脊猛发了一阵麻??
TITLE: The peak of the night
DATE: 02/24/2005 07:26:40 上午
the night reaches to the climax with the song 'I've Seen It All' featured Bjork and Thomas Yorke! The killing combination!
TITLE: Hey here is a trick!
DATE: 02/21/2005 12:33:53 上午
Writing about an entry you don't have permission to view
Don't have much to write on blog recently, well, having a lot other things to write… but follow the link, there is a very funny quote~~
When the letters don't really make much sense, why do we still care about spelling so much? Is it sort of social obligation/pressure to test whether you are a decent person rather than testing your expressing abilty? We haven't even came across the function of spelling in our Systemic Functional Linguistic approaches…
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 02/21/2005 04:21:04 上午
Well there are a variety of reasons why.
1) Standardisation and ease of understanding: In "A Trick of Language", the sentences would only make full sense to people who are very fluent in English. If you tried to approach this being a native Arabic speaker you might not be able to comprehend the entire paragraph.
So knowing that s,w,o,r,d is forever sword and not sorde, sord, sworde, saurd, saurde etc is helpful. Standardisation of written language immediately eliminates hundreds of different combinations, especially in such a phonetically-mongrel language as English. Unlike a language such as Arabic, letters are not necessarily complete phonetics. So there are different was to construct written phonetics in English and come up with a suitable representation. So the standardisation of spelling is generally important for written communication in alphabetised languages.
2) History of the language – What's the point of silent letters? They only serve to confuse people! Why is it Knight and not Night (or even Nite)? Why is it Answer and not Anser or Awnsar? Why philosophy and not Filosophy?
The history of the cosntruction of the language is imbued in the writing systems. So the k in knight is brought forward despite the change in pronunciation. At the end of the day, although it seems arbitrary, it is now part of the linguistic construction.
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As a Chinese you can probably appreciate the importance of distinct "spelling", or order in language. If you know around 4,000–5,000 characters in Chinese, you'll be more or less completely fluent. But learning 4,000–5,000 individual characters (albeit many being made up of radicals) is a very difficult task. But each character is imbued with the history of the construction of the word, phonetic representations, pictorial representations etc and even though there might be "easier" ways of written communication, the written language lives on.
Just like English, Mandarin has now been standardised (in terms of order/spelling) and change is now resisted.
In short, it's important to have a standardised language.
TITLE: Delusion
DATE: 02/17/2005 05:07:22 上午
My mind flattered for a moment just now, when I came back from that flattering, I thought I had written 2000 words already… now it seems it was a real delusion :(
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 02/18/2005 04:18:43 上午
Ah essays… fun fun fun.
pukes
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: stefanieEMAIL: hattie@tom.comIP: URL: DATE: 02/19/2005 11:14:34 上午 essays?? hard working! work harder!! HOHO…..TITLE: No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DATE: 02/14/2005 04:28:53 上午
Let's get serious and do some work!!!!!!!!!
WORK!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: felixEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 02/14/2005 10:48:52 下午 work's bad m'kay
TITLE: Nocturne in E Flat Major
DATE: 02/11/2005 11:01:08 上午
The tune is obviously composed for a rainy morning, why is it called Nocturne! I can even set it as my morning alarm— there's no reason not to get up when hearing such beautiful music, well, especially when it is always followed by Love will tear us apart ….. strangely….
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Antony HarfieldEMAIL: A.J.Harfield@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/aharfield/DATE: 02/11/2005 11:21:24 上午
Wo bu dong! Can you play it?
I like the love and kindness though. ;)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 02/11/2005 11:52:31 上午 me neither! i just wanted to decorate my blog a bit, it looks pretty sophisticated with the notes!----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peter WongEMAIL: P.Y.H.Wong@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/peterwong/DATE: 03/02/2005 05:21:58 下午 Have not played this for a long time. It reminds me that I should start practicing again!!
TITLE: Love and kindness
DATE: 02/11/2005 03:03:19 上午
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Lu YangEMAIL: L.Yang.5@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/yanglu/DATE: 02/11/2005 03:08:06 上午 and 'send love to all' ;)-
TITLE: the Foucault fan club
DATE: 02/10/2005 04:29:57 上午
Feb 10th 2005, 4:16 amI formally stepped into the Michel Foucault fan club. He's absolutely an intellectual superman! I'm currently reviewing his interview in Chinese ,(the one interviewed by Stephen Riggins) I'll get some of the quotations here when I get the English versions in library. It is just as convincing as the Sutras, absolutely amazing, I can't find any other philosophical readings in which my ego would echo as strongly as this one. Through the current revision, I actually found out a lot of my understanding in Buddhism appear in Foucault's sayings. On one hand it might indicate that I m mis-interpreting Buddhism, on the other hand it is just telling how big a fan I am to Foucault!
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Hamid SirhanEMAIL: H.Sirhan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hsirhan/DATE: 02/18/2005 04:33:05 上午
I had to read some Foucalt recently… interesting ideas.
I think the best philosophy is essentially that of Bruce Lee
Hears all the groans
No really… Bruce Lee was a great philosopher (he even taught Chinese philosophy at a Uni in the US).
Bruce Lee essentially thought that one should take the good parts of all ideas and apply them to one's own philosophy. So he applied the good parts of different fighting styles (such as Western boxing and the different Chinese gong fu styles) to his own martial arts and he, of course, came up with Jeet Kun Do.
I think that this applies to intellectual thought. So take some of the good out of Marx, Foucalt, Weber – which ever philosopher or economist or politician etc you like and mix and match it.
I really dislike the idea of rigidly following one philosopher and adhering to his thought even when it feels uneasy. So I like the fact that you have taken some of your interpretations of Foucalt and applied them to your own Buddhist philosophy.
So it would be interesting to hear more about how you feel your reading of Foucalt applies to Buddhism and, having read Foucault, your thoughts on the irony of reading Foucault in a different language (ie how his message might have been reinterpretted through translation).
:D
TITLE: Where does the sentimentalism hide?DATE: 02/06/2005 04:43:38 上午
Lulu says: it's in Radiohead, therefore in YOURhead.
I say: Let's kill the Thomas in the head.
TITLE: Rescind the marriage system
DATE: 02/02/2005 12:38:12 下午
Writing about web page
This is a very new idea for me, says to rescind the marriage system may help to solve the population problem. It's written in a bit ideal way, but maybe people should consider it. I think marriage is a big obstacle to achieve real individual independence.COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Minxi ZhouEMAIL: eluear@gwmail.warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mzhou/DATE: 02/02/2005 03:48:18 下午 AGREE AGREE AGREE!!!
TITLE: In Memory of 1989
DATE: 02/01/2005 09:24:34 下午
I feel very sad, thinking of if I were 10 years older, I might already died 16 years ago. :(
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Simon YoungEMAIL: S.P.J.Young@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/spjyoung/DATE: 02/02/2005 01:11:44 下午 Very poignant.----- -
TITLE: Where has the cowgirl gone?
DATE: 01/31/2005 10:37:38 下午
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| Once upon a time, there was this magazine called Music Heaven , where the cowgirl used to write for, when all the people were still Nirvana fans. As time goes by, Music Heaven disappeared.Kurt Cobain suicided. And the cowgirl, escaped. | |
DATE: 01/31/2005 01:53:36 上午
Just came across this line describing Chinese way of thinking that 'family disgrace shoudn't be spoken of outsiders' (Joseph S. M. Lau. "More Than Putting Things Together" in Eugene Eoyang and Lin Yao-fu Eds. Translating Chinese Literature. 1995.). Hmm, I think that's exactly how the Chinese were outraged by Janan's now-famous opinion.
And in the same article, I have found out the reason I had been looking for for a long time of why I don't like the novel /1559213035/103-2002421-7264608?v=glance" title="">Shui-hu Chuan . It is 'a novel of excess, celebrating vengeance, sadism, and misogyny in the name of justice. Within the Liangshan secret society, manhood is defined by personal lyalty, capacity for wine and indifference to women.' (ibid) Exactly, how could I ever like it? Among the four Chinese literature classics that have been promoted all the way through my Chinese education (Shui-hu Chuan, Monkey , /0804834679/ref=pd_sim_b_6/103-2002421-7264608?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance" title="">Romance of the Three Kingdoms and A Dream of the Red Mansions) only A Dream of the Red Mansions is the real classic. Monkey is a good story with good intention, but lacks in dimensions of philosophic thoughts, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is an easy venue to read history and military tricks but I hate the idea about war even though it has illustrated the complexity of humanity in that peculiar age; and Shui-hu Chuan -- A PIECE OF CRAP, I can't even bother to read it. It's the very beginning of Chinese gangsters. :( If you see the Hongkongese gangsters films these days, they are still acting under the ideology of Shui-hu Chuan, you see how evil a tradition it has left to its wide audience. Sigh! I m not conservative enough to say 'Let's ban the evil book', but can we not promoting the Bible of gangster to the secondary school students anymore, epecially when all the school teachers are headaching with the widening population of teenage male gangsters in China.
TITLE: the Prague inspiration
DATE: 01/29/2005 06:07:21 下午
I found a little piece I wrote in my trip to Prague. It is surprising how much my inward sight has been changed since then. The feelings illustrated in that piece of writing was so common those days before winter, but very weak these days. I'm very happy to see my progress. The practice of giving up seems working. The delusions are eliminating.
Here is the piece of writing.
正点钟敲响过后,我就来到了尘土飞扬的湖北小镇. 那里街的四角,便利商店里,都学着西洋的随意,贴着黄的绿的招租信息.信息上印着很多熟悉而亲密的脸.但我昂首挺胸的走出了那片铺天盖地.天空下只剩了那一条古董买卖的街.我于是学着他的样,夹着胯撇着腿,大摇大摆的,瞬间挪移. 再回到布拉格的太空钟下时,已经四点过.天是灰蓝灰蓝地阴沉下来.大象,猫,狗,还有长颈鹿,占领着熙攘人口的百分之八十.青石的地坚强的凹凸着,似乎是在牵拌,也像是在阻挠,这些温驯的步伐.但一切却都改变不了我夹在那中间没法再跟着自己的节奏摇晃,只能四肢着地,又再长出犄角,成了那四不象的怪物.
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Jordan GrayEMAIL: J.B.Gray@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/jordangray/DATE: 01/29/2005 11:53:41 下午 I'm guessing that those are chinese characters, because I can't read them! What do they say?
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/30/2005 01:14:39 下午 :) it's a quite random piece. Maybe I'll think about a translation later :)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Jordan GrayEMAIL: J.B.Gray@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/jordangray/DATE: 02/01/2005 08:16:34 下午 Well, your translation of Li Bingham is quite sublime, so you're obviously quite adept at working between the two languages. ;)
TITLE: Penguins' sex trade? Or the smartest feminists in seek for more orgasms?
DATE: 01/29/2005 01:55:11 上午
Writing about web page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/60302.stm
First of all, thanks lulu for telling me the links.
Maybe penguins are the most sexual-scadalised animal in the world. I just heard a piece of news saying that penguins are becoming gays not long ago, and now I got this piece —Pick up a penguin about female penguins becoming prostitutes
Anyways, I've long believed that female penguins are feminists. This research reinforces my suggestion again. Don't be shocked by the title, let me tell you the story: in Antarctica nowadays, there are a small bunch of female penguins, wanting a reason to have sex with male penguins out of their partnership. And so they did, they charged the males nests stones in reward of having sex.
She said she does not think the female penguins are doing it just for the stones.
"The female only takes one or two stones," she said. "It takes hundreds to build the nest to get their eggs off the ground.
"I think what they are doing is having copulation for another reason and just taking the stones as well. We don't know exactly why, but they are using the males." ——Pick up a penguin BBC News
There you go, female penguins are liberated feminists, they have their own opions on sex ;)
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Minxi ZhouEMAIL: eluear@gwmail.warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mzhou/DATE: 01/29/2005 02:25:02 上午 ouch…penguins r so cute. now that innocent image gone lol
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/29/2005 09:35:13 上午
:D
I like them even more :D
TITLE: what a weekDATE: 01/28/2005 08:51:23 下午
very tired
Wednesday, make-up seminar at 11
Friday, teaching accessment interview at 9.30
tomorrow, have to get up at 9 again….............................................
It's nice to have an organised schedule and be busy, but I don't even have time to write a film review :/
Old Boy was really good, even better than Kill Bill.
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Lu YangEMAIL: L.Yang.5@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/yanglu/DATE: 01/31/2005 12:42:31 上午 that's good enough for a review :D
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/31/2005 12:55:10 上午 :D
TITLE: Takara, nightmare terminator~
DATE: 01/26/2005 03:57:01 下午
Although I will never buy it, the Takara dream workshop sounds wicked. It says the toy can direct your dream with the person you want to see and the story you expect to happen. Well, although I respect the technology and idea of the producer, it sounds a 'dream formula' to me, with assimilation to the film formula in Adorno's cultural industry theories. It will be very boring if our last little creativities saved in the subcounsciousness would be deprived as well.
Yi Shu the Hongkongese romantic fictionist lamentated 'Tight, hold me tighter' as for the untouchable phenomena created in a dream as the title for the story she wrote in 1999. It was a story about a dream factory where all its customers are addicted going constantly. The protagonist finally chose to refuse the service and went back to normal human life. I believe if all the dreams are too good, we would tend to live in the dream rather than reality, that's anti-social and psycho!!
Although I got upset by nightmares sometimes, dream workshop sounds more scary to me. I believe the nightmares originated from my worries and fears and I can keep myself away from them by own inward power.
AUTHOR: Red ChanEMAIL: Red.Chan@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: DATE: 01/29/2005 12:08:03 上午 Have you seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? It's scarier than a designer dream!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/29/2005 12:33:18 上午
haha, yeah, I've seen it twice. Fortunately I am still a romanticist that the enduring love can easily get me away from the fearing of future evil inventions. :D I love the part when they were fighting against the memory eraser, was deeply touched for the power of love.
That's why I couldn't agree when someone said Truemen Show was better than Eternal Sunshine on Spotless Mind. At least I would say the latter would win with its excellent narration. But anyway, none of them is my favorite :)
TITLE: Australianised
DATE: 01/25/2005 11:42:27 下午
I can't wait to go to Australia.
Because then I can travel to New Zealand easily
and meet up with my
PENGUIN relatives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DATE: 01/25/2005 05:47:27 下午
Indeed, on the process of being Indianised.
Sounds exciting!
TITLE: 24/01/2005 4:12 in the morning
DATE: 01/24/2005 04:14:46 上午
I shouldn't have stayed up so late. I start to listen to radiohead, and got a bit carried away with Thomas Yorke's hysteric voice.
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yes, that's what I wanna say
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Antony HarfieldEMAIL: A.J.Harfield@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/aharfield/DATE: 01/24/2005 09:05:36 上午
Radiohead at 4am… Exit Music might [not] help:
Wake… from your sleep
The drying of your tears
Today.. we escape
We escape.
;)
-------COMMENT:AUTHOR: Christopher CarterEMAIL: fspaad@gwmail.warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/ccarter/DATE: 01/24/2005 12:25:08 下午Or indeed 'Life In a Glasshouse', on which Mr Yorke's vocal performance is so piss-poor that the line "She is putting on a smile" comes out as "She is pooing on a smurf".
God bless that man. The big freak.
TITLE: Kekexili
DATE: 01/22/2005 05:27:13 上午
Writing about web page http://english.enorth.com.cn/kekexili/kekexili.htm
The film Kekexili: Mountain Patrol has been a hot topic and various awards winner in Chinese speaking area. The landscape pictured in the film was very beautiful, and the conflicts very drastic. For me, it's another propaganda film. But propaganda for good reasons. The Chinese need such propaganda to arouse their awareness to protect the evironment. However, as I always believe a narrative film is always limited in dimensions. My worry about it is that it might cause a great wave of tourism to Kekexili. And I believe that is disastrous. Anyway, check out the link. It's the official website of Kekexili. See what we can help.TITLE: This is so damn fun
DATE: 01/21/2005 01:53:36 下午
Writing about web page
http://www.kontraband.com/wordsview.asp?ID=166
check the link out
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Lu YangEMAIL: L.Yang.5@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/yanglu/DATE: 01/21/2005 02:47:01 下午 check this out as well
link
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/21/2005 05:56:10 下午
that's nonesense
most women don't talk like that
and such article should be responsible because it casuses men to mis-understand women and may indirectly cause some sexual harrassment :/
ha
I m feminist
hey-hey: i sent these links to lulu ! ! !
and lulu does often use the words in that link ;)
:D
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/22/2005 05:04:35 上午 I only used FINE before, and only with Lulu, cos that's what she often say….haha
but do you remember what the professor in the gender talk we went to said? Sometimes, when women say no, they do mean no. I don;t like this linked text… ¶ 8:06 pm 0 comments
DATE: 01/19/2005 11:48:11 下午
Good cooking makes you eat more and that helps you to balance your intake of nutritions.
Let's start with the Cauldron tofu you can easily find in Coscutters and Tescos
Sensational Tofu Dish (serves 1)
Ingredients
Cauldron Tofu 250g
Garlic (1 or 2 cloves, depends on how much you like the garliky flavor)
Spring Onion (Optional. I don't normally use it for some reasons, but it would definitely makes your dish sensational)
Red chilli peper (1. Optional. Depends on how much you like hot food)
Some vegetable salad (optional)
Some Lee Kum Kee Chilli Sauce (Preferably the Chilli Bean Sauce, others are also valid for this dish. You can buy it in the Chinese section in costcutter or in the Chinese mobile shop in market place.Other chilli sauces can be used too.)
Soya sauce (dark)
Vegetable oil (some. Sunflower oil is ok too)
Salt (some)
Preparation
Unpack the Tofu (NB. Save the water in the pack, it will be useful later)
Dice the tofu into small squares
Peel the garlic (tip: press it hard with the side of the blade.)
Slice the garlic
Wash the chilli pepper, cut off the head, and slice it
Start to Cook
Heat the oil in the wok.(Put more than too little but less than burying the buttom of the wok) Wait a few seconds. Put the garlic in, stir it for several times. Put the Tofu in when you can smell the garlic. (Dont burn the Garlic). Stir fry the tofu for a while, put some salt before you can see some of them turn golden. (Don't wait till they all turn golden.) Put the chilli pepper in, and stir. Add the soya sauce. (just a little to make it look brown), stir to balance the colour. Put in the water saved in the pack. Turn down a bit the heat (to the middle power). Stir the tofu. When the water is boiled, put in the chilli sauce. (about three tea spoons). Stir stir stir, till the water nearly dry out. Put on the spring onion. Stir, stir. And SERVE!
NB. Always serve with RICE.
It will be good-looking if you put the vegetable salad on side and top of the dish.
I'll show you some pictures next time I make the dish. But trust me, it tastes damn good.
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Matthew FelgateEMAIL: M.Felgate@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/matthewfelgate/DATE: 01/22/2005 01:46:44 下午 teach me to cook, teach me to cook ! ! !
TITLE: A Dream
DATE: 01/19/2005 08:09:29 下午
Someone I know won a Nobel literature Prize in last night's dream.
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Matthew FelgateEMAIL: M.Felgate@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/matthewfelgate/DATE: 01/22/2005 01:47:12 下午 Please, tell me it wasn't Lulu :p
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/22/2005 03:23:00 下午 no
fortunately~
TITLE: BOREDBOREDBOREDBOREDBOREDBOREDBOREDBORED
DATE: 01/18/2005 03:11:38 上午
I think I will never post any comments again
I hate arguement but I couldn't help to get temporally grumpy…....
THE WORLD IS STINKY
PEOPLE STOP TO THINK ABOUT DEVELOPMENT
PEOPLE SINK
PEOPLE STINK
I HATE LIVE A LIFE
BECAUSE
CAPITALISM — EVIL
CHINA — EVIL
DEMOCRACY —EVIL
IMPERIALISM — EVIL
COMMUNIST — EVIL
NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE
THE EVIL WORLD IS STILL AROUND YOU
IM THE HELPLESS CASE
LEAVE ME ALONE, WORLD
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in destroying every mean of democracy (maybe I mean liberty) media plays a very important, I can even say, crucial role. It is media who is playing the role of establishing a new psuedo-utopia taking the place of religion nowadays. Some religions would provok people to think, but media only help people to draw a more and more simplified picture of the increasingly complicated world. Marx is right, media is the best tool for ruling the world. It horrified me when I saw those comments posted by both the Chinese and Britons about how firmly them believed in the facts their media presents them and opposing each other. If the world is a helpless case, media must be the biggest demon!
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Matthew FelgateEMAIL: M.Felgate@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/matthewfelgate/DATE: 01/22/2005 01:49:29 下午
hey, calm down Miss Penguin!!!
Life is good~
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/22/2005 03:23:54 下午 calm down matt….my blog is stuffed with your comments now
haha~
TITLE: The Funniest Translation EVER
DATE: 01/15/2005 03:05:52 上午
Just saw a Chinese translation for the film Leon, calling it 流氓医生(literally mean the Horny Doctor). Ridiculous…
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: Guohui ZhangEMAIL: Guohui.Zhang@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/guohuizhang/DATE: 01/15/2005 08:13:18 下午 I am wondering why it is translated that way… and also ….em….your word 'cheesest'. why….
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/15/2005 09:51:22 下午 hmmm
cheesy seems to be quite different in British English and American English. It's a bit black humourous to use this word.
and I didn't translate the title. I think they translated it that way for the pirated DVD market.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Minxi ZhouEMAIL: eluear@gwmail.warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mzhou/DATE: 01/17/2005 06:35:20 下午 Yea, the 'translators' in pirate DVDs trade are incredibly HYPER creative…
TITLE: Boar, did you show us the WHOLE fact?
DATE: 01/14/2005 05:21:41 上午
About the recent Janan Ganesh article titled 'Great leap forward?' China, many people have read and responded. However, when I went to the Boar website tried to comment. The editor cut my comment by waist, and changed my screen name 'interpreter' to 'Anonymous'. Well, that is quite strange way of editing website message board. So by hoping all I have written are legal in this country, I'd like to try out putting my comments up here, and see what will happen to it.
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May I take this opportunity to show my interpretion to Janan's words：
1. 'Why are we so relaxed about China's ongoing rise to superpower?'
—>'The power China bears is terrifying. Great Bush has listed it into the demon list. Let's not neglect its evil potentiality with all those weapons! Get our own weapons!!'.... and yes, eventually….'Invade China like we did to the Iraqi terroists! Kill the Chinese cos they make us feel insecure!'
Shall I point a mistake you made, Mr. Ganesh? 'Superpower' is not the word you want to use here, it's too netrual, I think you'd better use 'huge satan' or something
2. 'Europe will suddenly find itself amounting to little more than a vulnerable peninsula of a vast authoritarian landmass stretching from Moscow to Beijing'
ah, simple case! —> Europe will be invaded by the Chinese and the Russians! Why would the EU allow the two countries to exist?! Grab your weapon! Destroy them, European citizens!
Yeh, I know, Chinese people are so evil. Then prepare a helmet for yourself tomorrow, Mr.Ganesh, the Chinese students in your university might attack you as well as their country would have attacked Europe.
3. '... the fact that China hasn't had a single national election in its 5,000 year history?'
ha, even easier -> 'Chinese people are uncivilised! Grab your weapons cilvilised ppl! Kill the barbarians!'
Yeh, Chinese women have been discriminated as a possession of men for thousands of years too. Like women all over the world. I think you forgot that point as well.
I don't know if you have a clue about what 'cultural imperialism' is. If people have been living in a single system for thousands of years and are still content of it (the majority), why would you think the alternatives are better ways? Even if the people in such culture want to try out other forms, let them do it out of their will! They don't need any other SUPERPOWERS to intervene their own business, especially by FORCE!
TO WARWICK BOAR
I don't know why the editors and directors of your newspaper hate the Chinese students in the university so much so that you would spare such a big space for someone to whip up the idea of KILLING ALL THE CHINESE BABARIANS? Can you please give me some answer? I don't see it as the freedom of media issue. Aren't the media supposed to have concern on ?educate?, 'inform' and ?entertain?? Do you think the university student should recieve such 'education' as the Chinese are from an evil country and they're our enemies? So that all the university students who read the Boar would rise up and have the university boss to kick out the whole 1000 Chinese population here, is that your initial concern to put up this news comment? Or do you think it's hard facts that you should inform the students that China is evil? Oh, I suppose you only thought it's an entertainment. Entertainment for who? The Chinese students would definitely not take it as an entertainment, nether does the Russians I suppose.
So why? Tell me what aspects are your editors looking for? What kind of effect do you want to make on the students? Don't tell me Janan was only pointing his fingers at the Chinese government. I have looked throught the whole article, not a single word indicated it was the Chinese GOVERNMENT. No! He used CHINA, all the time. For the Chinese, China is where they can find their identity geographically. Are the Chinese people here threaten you at all?
the editor replied me for my second half of the comment to the name of 'Anonymous (2nd year Cultural Studies)' and below is my reply back.
Dear Editor,
Thanx for your reply. I have always appreciated your concern on Chinese students, and been grateful. But I think you've seen all those criticisms on the Janan article. And I bet there are hundreds more going to flood here. It's aparently based on an assumption of 'belated $60m' donation from China without checking the fact. As I have already pointed out, the word used there was CHINA, not Chinese government. China includes the government AND the people, so far as I understand. O, well, English is not my mother tongue, I don't have the say. But that's the feeling most of the Chinese readers get. So what do you think if you post a comment said that the British public donated some 'belated …barely' amount would happen? Would you not hurt the British people's feeling? Will they not be angry?
And just now, I saw how you worked exactly the same as the Chinese media editors I worked with. That's nothing much to complain I know. I just had some stereotypes on the democratic medias/internet.
My first bit of SHOUT, was sentimental I admit, but I don't think it is a taboo to a comment board on internet. I did follow exactly what you have informed me 'Tips Informed, constructive debate is what we're looking for here, as well as your views and opinions. Remember to stay on-topic, avoid repeating what others have said and keep it to the point. Enjoy.'
why can't my understanding (although tends to be extreme, but it was my first impression from the article) to be aired?
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Daniel Wilson CrawEMAIL: D.K.Wilson-Craw@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/danielwilsoncraw/DATE: 01/14/2005 12:00:05 下午 You've got to excuse Janan. He is but a simple International Relations realist, which means when he talks about China, he means China as a state actor in world affairs. I can see why you take offence at his reference to 'China', but believe me, neither he nor the Boar, has anything against Chinese people.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/14/2005 10:00:03 下午
I can excuse Janan if he was only careless on the word he used. But I can not excuse Warwick Boar's editors. Because they are responsible to make sure whether the word the author uses is correctly. On this occasion, if everything is just as you suggested, they apparently are not quite responsible to their jobs.
If you look up the word China in Oxford Dictionary, I don't think 'the Chinese government' would be the first definition. Uncommon as this definition is used, I wonder how isolated Mr. Janan was from the real world when he wrote such article?
I'm doing a linguistic module at the moment, so please excuse me to believe that language does reflect people's mind, and it CAN influence the whole society.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: ChrisEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/17/2005 01:14:12 下午Nowhere in Janan's article did he say anything remotely promote the idea that anyone should be "KILLING ALL THE CHINESE BARBARIANS". Nowhere. You have completely misunderstood the piece.
And you have completely misunderstood the use of 'China'. It can easily mean 'Chinese government'. This is common English usage – America can mean the American government or the country, depending on whether you are talking about geography, sociology, or international politics. It seemed obvious to me when reading the article that China referred to China's government. Janan's points were political criticisms of the government.
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/23/2005 07:22:43 下午 Dear editor, please explain this usage in Boar and to all the Chinese, otherwise the word China is so easily mean 'China' to all the Chinese students.P.S Was Janan talking about the Chinese government alone? Did you consider the donation issue as a government-only action? Is the growing of economy a governmental action?
P.P.S Well done the new issue. Mongered even more anxiety between ethnics. I m so glad we had such a peace-loving university press.
TITLE: Being a vegetarian: the Beginner
DATE: 01/14/2005 01:36:19 上午
Don't have much to post though. I have been a vegetarian for two days. If I can forget about some of the occasions that I had took some egg or milk product by mistake, I had pretty much vegan diet for past two days. In case of too much critism against my diet, I decide not to publish my diet in detail from now on. And I'll think of other ways to accomplish this column of the blog ;)
TITLE: Cutting off Chicken Day 7
DATE: 01/11/2005 11:50:49 下午
I have to admit that today is not a very strict day. Let's count what I have eaten from breakfast
well, if there was a breakfast. My cursed alarm on phone didn't work in the morning, so when I opened my eyes, it was already 12. So I decided to add two plums to lunch to compensate my absent breakfast
Lunch: two plums, some noodles with artificial beef powder in the soup
Dinner: vegitarian dumplins (made in EAT), some vegetables… and potato salad… I don't know what kind of potato salad that was, but it tasted like poptato salad with mayonaise….....................................The second time tricked by mayonaise…..................................... how can I not hate it!
Just now: I had two peppers from leon's kebab ;)
TITLE: Cutting off Chicken Day 6DATE: 01/10/2005 09:18:08 下午
As people suggested, it's not a good idea to go too fast on a diet. And, indeed, vegetarian do eat. And it's true, that physically I m not very well adapted to this diet now. I'm only cutting chicken off after all, why did I make all those fuss even further to garlic and onion? I should give my body some more time. So I change the plan. What I have decide is, for next week, I will have two day off from my meatless diet, i.e. apart from these two days, I won't have any meat in my meals, and within these two days, I can have any meat I want except for chicken and chicken products.
Well, today is my meatless free day for this week :D
Breakfast: Jamcake and a cup of tea
Lunch: Vegan sandwich
Dinner: Potato and Leek soup (contains cream and butter), toasts with turkey ham (I threw them away after the second bite… I don't like them), an orange.
Since I will acompany Leon to do Lulu's hair cut, he will treat me a kebab:D I think I'll order a lamb one :D
My diet seems so far return to a healthy track.
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Just had a large lamb kebab, hopefully that would help me catch up with my metabolism ;)
NB. I m neither on a losing weight diet, nor on a keeping health diet. I m doing this because I want to give eating a thought, and to be less greedy. This diet can be considered as my religious diet (see the Buddhist Diet for further information on this sort of diet), though I m a less religious person if consider in the length of time. But I do agree I should really work on to what extend that I should cut down the food I take in so that I can keep on going. Don't take me as any sort of extremist. I just want to take a step back and see the meaning of life.
COMMENT:AUTHOR: Iyobosa AdegheEMAIL: I.N.Adeghe@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/iadeghe/DATE: 01/10/2005 11:06:15 下午 Regardless of whether you eat meat or not, you're taking in next to nothing overall; marginally more than 1000 cals I'd imagine. Not sure whether you're trying to lose weight, or simply eat healthily, but you're slowing your metabolism down for sure.
TITLE: Cutting off Chicken Day 5
DATE: 01/09/2005 07:39:32 下午
I can't believe that I have only been through this diet for 4 days, I thought this was the 6th day….
List of the food taken today:
two oranges
some potato salad
a piece of bread
a piece of biscuit
waw… that's all….
I gonna have some more oranges later :D
AUTHOR: Antony HarfieldEMAIL: A.J.Harfield@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/aharfield/DATE: 01/10/2005 01:13:12 下午 Sounds like a fast to me… Being a vegetarian, you can still eat you know! Have you given up garlic and onion? Cause some Chinese vegetarians don't eat these do they?
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/10/2005 06:24:05 下午 Yeah, I think that's a bit fast too
I've changed my plan now~
TITLE: 妍媸迥殊与东施效颦
DATE: 01/09/2005 04:09:07 上午
为了给马上要展开的正规论文写作创造一个良好的状态,我决定在这里先跟大家分享一下我在《世说新语》上的新发现.
妍媸迥殊 (yánchījiǒngshū)
潘岳妙有姿容，好神情。少时挟弹出洛阳道, 妇人遇者，莫不连手工萦之。左太冲绝丑, 亦复效岳游遨,于是群妪齐共乱唾之,委顿而返.
各位看官应该发现了，以上这段文字正说的是我们熟悉的帅哥潘安的故事。不知道古代人真是那样还是作者故意要夸张搞笑，这故事还真挺好玩的。说的是潘安一出街就广受大众欢迎(当然,主要是师奶级的),所以呢丑人左太冲也学他出街,却被大众唾骂了一番,所以只能灰溜溜的回家了.词里妍是美的意思,而媸是丑的意思,合起来就是说美人和丑人所受的待遇定是大不一样的.
对于潘安的?美?作者是颇费了一番笔墨的。他不仅在文章上做了工夫，说这潘郎?妙有姿容?又有?好神情?，脚注中还要标明著名的?掷果盈车?的故事。 ?掷果盈车?的典故说潘安每次出街都有一堆师奶带着礼物去追随他，走不久他那车上就满是礼物果品了。而?掷果盈车?这个词，翻译成英文，比较通俗一点的就说是?incredibly handsome?。其实哪有那么incredible，现在隔三差五就新出道两个的男明星受的礼遇比他还好很多呢。就连台北市的市长马英九也被大纪元网站称赞做有?掷果盈车?的外貌哩。我想依此类推我们中华人民共和国现任的国家主席胡景涛也可以带上?掷果盈车?这样的帽子了吧，什么普京，布莱尔也应该不在这话题外吧。政治谄媚也不要这么明显么。
回到《世说新语》的故事上。就因为潘安总是受到这样那样的礼遇，跟他同时代的人物左太冲就坐不住了。刘义庆够狠的，形容左太冲这个人，就两个字?绝丑?。大概他觉得世界上美人有很多种，而丑人全只有一个样吧。说得也是，貌美的人被人看得比较仔细，自然能分出很多品种来，什么?阳光型?，?忧郁型?，?斯文型?，?冷酷型?等等等等.
商家根据自己现在手头上已签约的帅哥们理出了这几大类，而狂热的少女们就根据这些被展现在她们面前的帅哥形象选择她们男友对象，天生不丽质的少男们就只能追随商家提供的线索对号入座，梳某某帅哥那样的头，穿某某帅哥那样的衣服，消费的帐单全又寄回商家那里去。有什么办法呢，生理需要么。这些少年自然比左某人幸运，他们至少有幌子挡着，偶尔也能成功迷惑几少女。左某人生不逢时，他那个时代的商家还不知道给所有人穿上统一的制服其实就是最大的商机，也没能因此改变左某人的耻辱经历。所以那天当左某人学潘安的样子走上街的时候，所有的师奶都朝他吐了一口口水。虽然我并看不出现代少年学偶像明星做派的行为和左某人有什么不同，但我想是因为现代少女也被经济的大轮转得晕头转向的，早就没有了辨别能力，管他是美是丑，那商家告诉她穿这个的就是美，她偏还就相信了，所以现代少年幸免于貌丑歧视。不过其实即使是左太冲也没什么好惨的：一，骂他的不过是一群老太婆，又不是他择偶的对象，这次出行虽然耻辱却并不影响他的人生。二，他的名字连头条都没上，不过就是被刘义庆隐秘的说了一声绝丑，怕什么，第二天天一亮大家就都忘记了。
同样是妍媸迥殊的故事，发生在女人身上可就不一样了。我想不出这世上还有哪个女人比东施更惨？?东施效颦?，她的大名亮晶晶的就写在头版头条上：若把春秋战国时期所有的作品合在一起出一期报纸，把〈庄子〉放在头版上不为过吧；庄子像小报记者一样在标题上点了东施的名与姓，这不是头条又是什么？所以〈庄子〉流芳百世，东施就遗臭万年。一个成功男人背后总有一个倒霉的女人，放在这一对身上再恰当不过。东施不过皱了皱眉，就因为她丑，所有人都说她在学西施，庄子还说了，东施一皱眉，地球都要抖三抖：一抖，所有富人把门关上震动太大；二抖，所有穷人脚一跺把好奇的妻子扯开去的回声太响；三抖，那是无数长得像东施的少女在号啕大哭呢（这一点庄子当然没想到）。这样一来，东施所有的求偶机会都没有了，独处闺中爆发不了，只好在沉默中变态。就是因为东施的故事太可怕，中国所有的女人都害怕变丑，就连商品社会的到来也没能挽救她们濒临崩溃的神经。所以时机一成熟她们就要去整容：?西施有双眼皮吧，我也要一个！??我要照图片上西施的眉毛纹一个一模一样的！??什么，隆西施那样的鼻子会有后遗症？我认了！?诸如此类.也不知这叫不叫做?东施效颦?呢？还有的女人，没有在一片喧嚣之中去整容，但她们却也没逃脱对东施命运的永久的畏惧，所以她们有的选择去喝那种用胎盘做的饺子汤以求容颜永驻，这是底版比较好的；另有一种则是无限的在生产猜忌与愤恨，直到把所有除了长相以外其他的美好都破坏了为止??比如说，中国式地离婚。庄子的出发点，也许不是说东施的丑后果有多严重，但在全中国、甚至东亚范围内引起的女性对丑的恐惧却是歇斯底里的。本来嘛，这东施只要一笑，说不定也是一纪阳光少女，被庄子这么一说，咸鱼翻身的机会都没了。就跟如花被吴宗宪在千万观众面前现了一现，整都整不去丑女的名声了。
所以，不需要我总结你们也知道，中国女性的地位自古以来就不如男性，女性没好看的脸就跟生活在精神病医院一样??只能靠激素过活，男性就算是?绝丑?也不过是灰溜溜的回家跟老婆睡（当然现在可不能这么说，50年过后中国待婚女性的人数将大大少于同龄男性，到时候男性灰溜溜了也没老婆可以抱了。活该，谁叫你们写东施效颦，这辈子做女人的下辈子都不敢投这个胎了，万一再变东施还不如让我少活五百年。）所以男性朋友们，恭喜你们，照这种情形下去，再过个一百来年你们就会有一个清净的纯男性世界了。届时不管是美是丑，谁效仿谁，都无所谓了。所谓的?妍媸迥殊?将不过是浩瀚历史中的一砾微尘，不值一提。
COMMENT:
AUTHOR: SeanEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/09/2005 07:26:06 下午 Good!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: LeonEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/09/2005 07:26:28 下午 Very Good!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: YeahEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/09/2005 07:26:49 下午 Very very good!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: drumyEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/10/2005 03:38:27 上午 It's great!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: :) (: :) (:EMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/10/2005 11:11:45 上午 ^^
^
^
so is penguina.
:)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: MMEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/22/2005 04:15:15 下午 世间女子为相貌而愁，男子为权利而挣，是为凡人。
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/22/2005 04:58:32 下午 是社会压迫的说
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: MMEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/25/2005 05:26:41 上午 ?????????
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: MMEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/25/2005 05:27:01 上午 ?????????
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: MMEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/25/2005 05:27:28 上午 ?????????
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: MMEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/25/2005 05:28:18 上午 ????
?????
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: MMEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/25/2005 05:28:51 上午 can't not display chinese?
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: MMEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/25/2005 05:29:21 上午 ??
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: MMEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 01/25/2005 05:29:58 上午 surely can't display chinese, c ya
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/25/2005 09:06:47 上午 :/
TITLE: Cutting off Chicken Day 4
DATE: 01/08/2005 11:40:54 下午
digestive biscuit, multivitamins juice, jacket potato with butter and cheese, vegetable salad, tea, potato salad dressed with onion, olive oil, salt and artificial bacon salad dressing. O, well, that's all I had today. Plus I went to tescos, bought some tesco value bread and 6-pack orange, so there is possibility that I will eat these as well.
Apart from the butter thingie, I have been a vegan today :D I m quite proud of my rapid progress on getting into a Buddhism diet. I have even forgotten there was something once on the earth called chicken that we could eat as food. Well, apart from that I nearly used mayo for potato salad. I liked mayo a lot, so I did struggled with myself about the intrigue that maybe I could forget about the fact yolk is a part of the chicken category. But you know, justice would always defeat the devons :D The diet plan went on very well today. Congrats!!
TITLE: Cutting off Chicken Day 3
DATE: 01/07/2005 04:03:09 下午
By cutting off chicken, I seem to have cut off a lot of other food. Say I only had one or two this wheat biscuit and some multivatamin juice so far. It sounds more like a keeping fit diet to me now, though you know it's not where I departed. But well, so what, multi-tasking, hooray~
I had a breakfast panini at work... it contains eggs.... I didnt know that... I thought I should choose a bigger thingie to eat cos it was my work meal... I thought it was only bacon...I ended up eat 3/4 of it... Anyway, it's very bad…. :/
TITLE: Cutting off Chicken Day 2
DATE: 01/06/2005 08:53:36 下午
Breakfast : an apple
Lunch : Chocolate Milk Shake and Some Biscuit
Tea : A Meatfeast Pizza (meaty but without chicken, yey~)
Supper : Not yet, may not have it, or just end the day with another apple would be fine.
----I had the apple .
--- I was too hungry that my stomach started feeling funny...
- So I cooked myself some noodles. The only meaty ingredient I noticed on the packing is 'artificial beef' ;) It's not as tasty as usual, cos I would usually add spring onion and ready-eat chicken portions in it. Spring onion as well is one of the abstain food from the Buddhist diet list. So I deliberately decrease my huge intake of spring onions. The the spice pack comes with the noodles contains some dry spring onions. Well I dont expect myself adapt too quickly to the resistance of great tasty food. But I m on my way resisting the major seduction in life (don't get any other ideas). So as I currently believe, resisting the seductions in life is a way to clarify my mind, and will help me to see the world better.
Conclusion: Pretty well, another day without eating chicken
TITLE: Cutting off Chicken Day 1
DATE: 01/05/2005 10:19:07 下午
Today is a chicken seduction-free day, except from the fact that Leon wanted to put chicken powder in my stew potato. I sternly refused his offer and succeed in my first day of cutting off chicken.
Why I cut off chicken for the first step:
- Chicken is toxic at least I believe so
- I start to believe in Buddhism. I need to fight for my greed. Thus it's efficient to start a diet gradually.
- I m not that keen of eating chicken anyway. I'd like to start from the easiest. And cutting pork will be my final destination.
AUTHOR: Matthew FelgateEMAIL: M.Felgate@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/matthewfelgate/DATE: 01/09/2005 07:54:25 下午
Don't do the diet Pengu: if you get any smaller you may just dissappear altogether!!!!!
I think living on bad food may help to appriciate good food again: "you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye"
:)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 01/09/2005 07:57:21 下午 I'll save my soul… So that literally I won't disappear :D ¶ 8:06 pm 0 comments
DATE: 01/02/2005 11:18:40 上午
成语
chéngyǔ
[idiom;set phrase] 汉语词汇中特有的一种长期相沿习用的固定短语。来自于古代经典或著名著作历史故事和人们的口头,意思精辟,往往隐含于字面意义之中,不是其构成成分意义的简单相加,具有意义的整体性。它结构紧密,一般不能任意变动词序,抽换或增减其中的成分,具有结构的凝固性。其形式以四字格居多,也有少量三字格和多字格的 —金山词霸
当下把金山词霸引用为权威解释,实际上是偷懒的不负责任的. 金山词霸对于电脑写作来说,是很便利的翻译工具,但是若是严谨的学术作文, 对它所提供的词条解释应该要再三斟酌. 有次LULU在和我聊天的时候用了UBER BOUNCY这样的词条, BOUNCY先不说,本来解释就很多,除了做'快活'解释以外,还有'饱满'的意思. 而金山把UBER解释为'乳房', 我顺着这个解释把UBER BOUNCY理解成了乳房涨痛的意思. 结果闹出了不少笑话. UBER是德语词, 常做SUPER解释,这个在URBAN DICTIONARY 上可以找到上百条类似的解释. 而我已经给金山词霸网站去信几个星期,再在他们的网站上查这个词却还是这个解释.效率实在是低. 但相对金山词霸, 网上的那些所谓在线新华字典看上去更不可靠, 金山词霸至少还是有组织有根据地的,实在闹上大笑话一不高兴了还可以告他们公司. 这里也不再咬文嚼字了.
本来正题是'成语的典故'. 那么说说成语. 我的理解是既成的短语. 而很多人认为是, 他们所熟悉的四字习语. 不广为人知的, 比如说'犀柄麈尾', 或者是太广为传用的,不像文学用语的比如'难兄难弟', 再有就是不由四字组成的,比如'千里送鹅毛' 等等,都常被认为不是成语. 若按照金山词霸的解释的话, 成语是种复杂的形式, 用英文来解释要用三个词条'idiom;set phrase' 才行, 除此之外,一般成语都是有出处有典故的. 正好我手头上读的是南朝宋初刘义庆所著的<世说新语>. 全书三百篇左右,全是四字领头的. 很多我们所知的成语都能从中找到典故. 有很多跟我们今天所理解的意思还是有一定出入的.
*难兄难弟*
前面提到过的, 今天大家通常觉得它通俗得配不上当成语. 大概是以它做标题的商业电影电视剧太多的缘故吧. 其中我们这代人最熟悉的一部要属1993年陈可辛监制的<新难兄难弟>了, 演员阵容里大多是今天的天王天后, 比如梁朝伟, 刘嘉玲等. 现在想起来记忆有点模糊? 那你还记不记得那首'tell lola I love her'呢? 还不记得? 刘嘉玲演的LOLA在片中是梁朝伟他妈,被梁家辉搂着跳舞. 记得了么?
现在看看<世说新语>里的这个典故
陈元方子长文有英才, 与季方子孝先, 各论其父功德, 争之不能决, 咨于太丘. 太丘曰: "元方难为兄, 季方难为弟."
这里的"难兄难弟"读音应该是第二声,说的是元方这样的兄长难得,季方这样的幼弟也难得. 而早在82年就有了泰迪罗宾演的难兄难弟了.再之前有没有别的版本我就追究不到了. 就算是泰迪罗宾,在我脑子里连个印象都没有. 不过恐怕从那个时候起这难就已经是做四声读了. 通常被认为是共同患难的兄弟. 想来峥嵘岁月其实是九十年代, 因为那时候人们热爱浪漫, 很多经典爱情电影都是在九十年代拍成的. 那时候什么样的爱情人们都能想出来. 记忆犹心的有JEREMY IRONS和JULIETTE BINOCHE 1992年演绎的<爱情重伤>(Damage ), 说的是不伦之恋. 而Lars von Trier1996年的经典之作<破浪>(breaking the waves) 里所说的才真是爱情的伤. 还有97年被JEREMY IRONS重拍的LOLITA. 还有<触不到的恋人>, 还有<甜蜜蜜>, 还有<情书>, 都是九十年代的. <新难兄难弟>说的也是刻骨铭心的爱情, 起着兄弟的标题,打着父子的名号, 说的却是上一代人的爱情. 经常有人说港片没有想象力的,靠的都是模仿,我倒是觉得有个时候的港片录象厅里引进一部让人记住一部, <追梦人>如此,<新难兄难弟>也是.记得那时候我们班有一个胖胖的女孩也叫做Lola的, 总是有男生绕着她起舞,边对她唱着:"tell Lola I love her." 她总是勃然大怒一走了之.
我这篇说得有些凌乱, 要看难兄难弟的解释, 其实可以到这个网站http://isubculture.ichannel.com.hk/C/C003/C003_155.html跟我说的是一回事.
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开心这件事是自己找的，如果他们（指我爸妈）想不通而不开心，借助外力去帮他们开心，也只不过是一时之快。否则你想，这一回他们不开心，就要我带男朋友回家逗开心；那下一回他们又觉得非要我结婚他们才开心，那我就又要结婚来逗；再下回他们又想要抱孙子，那又要我生小孩逗他们.这一波一波地哄他们，他们倒是开心了，我开不开心呢？表面上好像一切都是为了我的幸福着想，实际上不过是为了逗他们老人开心。人上了年纪就返老还童，像小孩子一样，子女的一生好像成了他们的大玩具。可我希望有自己的生活。子女孝顺是应该的，但开心还是要自己去找。?— TIM网站上的日志
2004年的最后几天,我们三个人一直一起打伙吃饭.聊天都是饭后茶.与喝茶同样的道理,聊天也常常会聊得苦,但往往又能品出点滋味来.
有一天我们就说到了孝顺的问题.他们说要结婚生子,要住在父母附近以有个照应,这般这般.我很彷徨.他们说的,没一样是我想要的,我看不到婚姻中的光明,我也不想留在家附近的地方.古时候的人说最可怕的死法,有一种就是客死他乡.是要做了很多坏事才会得到那样的报应的.我怎么也没觉得太可怕呢? 还有人问我说,你不怕你死的时候只有一个人很孤独么?你说你要养猫,不怕你死了以后只有一只猫爬到你身上把你的脸挖出来吃了么?我不怕.我害怕生病,我不怕猫.我也不怕孤独,孤独好过无尽的纠缠. 我怎么样不是重点,重点是作为独生子女,我们要学会自我解脱.要像一个正常人一样做自己的选择.你觉得婚姻是幸福的归宿,那你就好好结婚,正好也可以满足你父母子孙同堂的心愿. 但父母不是债主, 我们不应该为了报答他们的养育之恩赔上自己的一辈子.
独生子女欠父母的也许真的比其他人多,但很多事情是不能等价交换的.
而所摘抄的名为TIM的站主所说的,算是一种正面的, 有力的辩论了.
TITLE: Find out ways you can help…
DATE: 12/29/2004 11:35:52 下午
Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4129217.stm
Tsunami, it may not only change the lives in south Asia, but also you and me. Every little helps. Let us be helpful, too.TITLE: 布拉格的魔术师 — Prague of the Magicians
DATE: 12/24/2004 12:58:37 上午
Follow-up to 魔术师的布拉格 from Far Away, So Close...
Below is some impression on Prague, and just worked out the translation, quite a crappy one again… but hey… I think I got the gist of my crappy poem anyway. I have another poem of the series, called 'The Magician of Prague', havent made a translation though. Besides the other poem is a bit more rambling… I need to give it another thought to make more sense out of it before I show it to anyone else. Anyway, here it is, my vision to Prague. — ME
*布拉格的魔术师*
长颈鹿, 大象 ,河马
小猫, 小狗, 猫头鹰
他们拥挤
在青石的大街上
他们走
过了桥梁
他们也欣赏
桥梁上的雕象
魔术师
突然出现
在刚刚过了桥的
查尔斯四雕象下
长颈鹿, 大象, 河马
小猫, 小狗, 猫头鹰
统统
原型毕露
披着可爱皮毛的
白骨精
逃不过拥有四个老婆的
火眼金睛
烧红酒, 欧式热狗, 打铁肌肉男
木偶, 玻璃, 黑暗中的哑巴剧
魔术师
一声喝令
瞬间转移
灰飞烟散
只不过
房顶上还要保留
或黄或绿
夜里照明建筑的
美容灯
魔术师才收起包裹里的布拉格
点头谢幕
再三鞠躬
鸣谢
五湖四海
Prague of the Magician's
Giraffes, elephants, hippos
Kittens, doggies, owls
Congested, and walked
On the stone paths and bridge
While they worshipped
The great sculptures all along
But the magician is there
Under Charles IV
Just past the bridge
Giraffes, elephants, and hippos
Kittens, doggies and owls
No exit to escape
All but get back to the shape
The medusas wearing cute clothes
Judged by those eyes
Owning four legal wives
Red wine, euro hotdog, and the beef squad smith
Puppet, glass, and black deaf pantomime
Here comes the magician
With a powerful command
Swiftly they disappeared
Without a slightest hint of dust
All but ?
The light on the roof
Brown or green
Those beautician lightening equipments
Brightened the night
Eventually the magician
Picked Prague back to the pack
Nodded and took the bow
With thanks to
All over the world
AUTHOR: Lu YangEMAIL: L.Yang.5@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/yanglu/DATE: 12/25/2004 05:28:43 下午 I like the last bit of translation and the poem in original :)
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Peng ZouEMAIL: P.Zou@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoupeng/DATE: 12/25/2004 10:19:48 下午 yeh… should reconsider the translation later…
can't be bothered at the moment tho
i m thinking of translating the young poet's work i told you of the other day…
anyway, may need your help later
cheers
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Lu YangEMAIL: L.Yang.5@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/yanglu/DATE: 12/27/2004 10:10:28 下午 if that's the final version of your poem i should take a day out (of my bed) and try and come up with my own translation of it :D don't throw things on me when i post it here!
----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: Lu YangEMAIL: L.Yang.5@warwick.ac.ukIP: URL: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/yanglu/DATE: 12/27/2004 11:39:15 下午
Owls, hippos,
Elelphants and giraffos
Kittens, as well as
Barky pesos
They strod across
the Charle's Bridge
Appreciating the
Astute statues
Out of nowhere
Appeared the magician
Standing beside
Charles the Fourth
And no escape
For the idling company
No choice but to reveal themselves
In the true shapes they were born
Home brewed red-hot wine
Hot dogs á la Europa
Muscly blacksmiths in the corner
Don't forget there is also
Puppets, glass and
Black light theatres
And suddenly the Prague magician
With a wave of his magic wand
Eludes the wonder all at once
Only leaving the beauty lights
Brown or green
To highligh the roofs of
The mighty edifices
And eventually, the magician
Pickes Prague back into his pack
Smiles, and takes the bow
Sending his gratitude
All over the world
but still, i have a few things to point out…
first, i dont like rhymed poems…and I didnt have the intention to rhyme my poem
the second is about the Black light theatre, I called it 黑色哑巴剧 with the intention to bring about some playfulness in the poem… I could translate it to 影子舞台剧 or something else otherwise.
well, about the 白骨精 equivalence… maybe it's better omitte it…
I appreciate your translation… better than mine :)
anyway, it's only a lame poem…but maybe a simple case study for translation :D
haha----- COMMENT:AUTHOR: LuEMAIL: IP: URL: DATE: 12/28/2004 04:14:31 上午 I know you don't care about the rhyming and I wasn't trying to rhyme. But you have to give it to the rhytm. For what I understood, this poem was meant to be playful, rhythmical, a bit magical and not at all sentimental. Correct me if it's not the case. As to the issues of equivalence, I think it's best to try dymanic equivalence and maybe dig up some English equivalent for them. And pardon my unfaithfulness in translating your poem :) You know I rarely stay faithful
TITLE: Ok, I have a stomache
DATE: 12/11/2004 03:38:59 上午
So i can't sleep, so I went to do this survey about me. But am not cured yet.
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