16.3.07

女孩

我刚看到了一个特别漂亮女孩。文薪,佳乐和我去了串餐馆吃午餐。那个女孩跟朋友坐在那边我们的桌子。不是所谓”美女“,不过不难看。有圆的眼睛,身体细长,声音不太高不太低,语气健美。她挺情感的。糟糕,我没勇敢,不能了跟她谈谈。

我感觉我女的看法奇怪一点。例如,我课程有一个南朝鲜人。她的样子比较还可以,不过她的语气方法尤其可爱。哈哈,不是胆怯,可爱的腔调。样子只是一部分。

28.2.07

day of the ghost

today I am a ghost. I left my phone and key over Kalle's place. As my director says, "In China, if you don't have a mobile phone, you don't exists." Went to pick up my grades today, and was informed that my transcripts have disappeared, so no grade. I'm curious what else this means. Dr. Wu was joking with me, "Since you don't really exist, don't pay rent anymore." On the other hand, I saw many friends and classmates again for the first time since break, so it feels more like back to normal. I somehow got inside my appartment with my computer so my transparency is hardening a little.

23.2.07

on my mind 我希望成为这样的人

Like A Knife Cutting Through Water

By Dr. Ben Kim on January 09, 2006 Personal Observations

Every now and again, my mom likes to teach me a Korean proverb. I think she does this because she knows how much I like learning new Korean phrases and tidbits of Korean culture that I missed having grown up in Canada.

One of the best proverbs that she has ever shared with me translates to:

Like a knife cutting through water.

Now before you start thinking that this proverb is similar to an English metaphor that involves butter, let me set you straight.

We all know that arguments and even full blown verbal fights are virtually guaranteed to exist in even the tightest of families.

"Like a knife cutting through water" is the Korean ideal of relationships within a family.

The idea is that love among family members should be like water. You can cut through it with the sharpest of knives, but you can't keep it apart.

Like a knife cutting through water.

I hope that this thought helps you the next time that you go through a rough spell in one of your relationships. It has definitely been a source of strength for me on a number of occasions.
这是我自己的志愿的部分。我从不要有魔鬼,不管什么发生。
This is a part of my personal ideal. I never want to harbor enmity, regardless of what happens.

16.2.07

excited

Tomorrow I will go to deidei's home in Beijing. She invited me to celebrate Spring Festival with her family!! Getting excited to spend time with her and her family! We're going to meet with Weiyao too. I'll finally be able to watch the master play Go! Then also, I will meet up with Crete sometime this holiday too, go to check out the hutongs and Temple of Heaven. This will be interesting because he's an architect...

After meeting him I realize that architecture is not as 1 dimensional as I had thought, truthfully, I had never really thought about it at all. It simultaneously combines ideal and reality, art and philosophy, creativity and responsibility; all into one. You're creating something functional, but also beautiful. You to take the perfect design, the Eutopian ideal and combine it with the demands of reality--strike a balance somewhere in between. You have to be responsible for what you design. It's not the kind of thing that just goes away after a day or two. A building lasts for generations, whether its good or bad, ugly or beautiful. There's so much there, it has to be the most well rounded subject I've ever come across, and Crete is like a deep well holding all its secrets. The philosophy, the aesthetics are all so deep. but it's applied. the whole thing is very real. The philosophy has a real meaning. It's hard to explain.. but its like I've never felt that kind of depth or appreciation for a profession like that. Art is art, engineering is engineering.. but I now I realize there is sometimes a hidden profoundness that you don't see, can't appreciate, unless you really try to understand it.

Anyway, I'm becoming really excited, but I need to get some sleep now!

I need to do a few things to prepare for the new year:
  1. get some new red clothes
  2. have my hair cut (again.. last cut turned out to be not so good, hehe)

15.2.07

early morning dream (早晨梦)

First, a little back-information. My roommate claims to have never eaten McDonald's food in the States. Yet, since coming to China, she has eaten their food numerous times. She claims it has something to do with missing home, "I don't understand it" she tells me. So, the last time she ate MD food she got sick was was filling the appartment with smell and sound pollution. This went on for a couple of days. She proclaimed sternly, "I'm never eating there again!" That was last week.

Yesterday, she was egging me to go get some MD food with her. Yep.

So this morning ('cause I didn't sleep 'till around 4 AM) I had a dream where I went to McDonalds and bought a meal for her, the kind with the burger with a little soda and fries. Only, instead of a burger, they were offering this 'more healthy' thing, it was like an advocado or something. So I got that, because 1. I didn't want Ba to get sick again, and 2. I wanted to see her reaction when she is hyped about eating a burger :V. Next, I'm in the appartment, and I meet Ba in the small hallway, as soon as she touches the wrapped up burger/advocado she's almost running for her room, but I stop her at the corner just in front of her door. I ask her something like, "What the heck are you doing?" and she has already eaten the entire thing, just in those two or three seconds.

hard to believe

man, this is almost funny. so I just finished editing a paper, lots of changes, had it laid clearly with colors and notes, saved that file, saved another copy, removed my edits and saved that. Go to send both, and it turns out the 'edit' document is corrupted or something. it won't open. it's like the classic "my computer erased my paper just before it was due." but it really happened. ALL my major edits were on that page. Now they are GONE. Luckily, only the edits doc got messed up.. the final is okay. still that was important for being able to improve English, but hopefully the project is not sacrificed!! I was really careful to save separately, but still of all times, this is when something like this happens! WUT?

8.2.07

How fun! (好玩!)

霹雳舞看起来好玩。它很酷并挺可笑的。哈哈,我要玩。

6.2.07

菊田弘樹 Hiroki Kikuta

Kikuta is like a weed. Despite failing over and over, he keeps going. He has his own ideas, often against the popular concepts. He is an innovator with a strong vision, philosophy and emotion.

Listened to SD3 and Soukaigi today. Before, I didn't like SD3 soundtrack. I had a completely different experience today. Soukaigi is one of the most amazing VG soundtracks I've ever listened to. 菊田先生的乐曲真厉害,我很入迷!
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