三八節的問候 (zhuan fa) Women's Congratulatory - Not Raving
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Posted:Mar 8, 2007 3:08 am
Last Updated:Mar 16, 2007 7:43 pm 7111 Views
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三八節到了，祝姐妹們三圍魔鬼化，收入白領化、家務甩手化，快樂日常化，愛情持久化，情調小資化，購物瘋狂化，情人規模化，老公奴隸化 . 請大家正確使用男人：有才華的當顧問，長的帥的當情人，掙錢多的當相公，顧家的做老公，有出息的玩偶遇，會浪漫的一夜情，靠的住的做知己，智商高的當孩他爸… 並且在三八節即將來臨之際，代表黨中央、國務院、中央軍委，向長期戰鬥在試衣間、看韓劇、不做飯、逛大街、魅力十足並掌控老公錢包的傑出女同胞致以節日的問候，你們辛苦了！！！
One year a flash, i remember last Mar. 8 Women's Day i posted a similar translation. Now comes again the Chinese (young) women's congratulatory address:
I wish all sis. --
Had a demonized body, an white-collarized income, liberized from houseworks, made your happiness daily available and your love lasting,your taste petty bourgeoisied. May your shopping frenzied, maintain your lovers in a big scale and enslave your hubbies.
I plea your proper use of men:
Gifted ones be your consultants, handsome ones your lovers, of high-income your sweetheart, home-caring your hubbies, promising ones your romantic encounters, romantic ones your one-night stands, reliable ones your bosoms, intelligent ones 's papas.
I would like to bestow my best wishes on this festive occasion, on behalf of the C. P. Central Committee, State Council and CPCC's Military Committee, to all the outstanding female compatriots. These women have fought long term in dressing rooms and watching Korean telenovelas. They dont cook but hang out in high-end shopping malls. Yet they are bubbly women charged with charisma who take fully controll of their husbands' money.
My greatest salute to you, my untiring women that have been worn out with all these efforts!
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FaNcy? or CraZy? - Part I
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Posted:Mar 7, 2007 8:17 pm
Last Updated:Mar 11, 2007 7:50 pm 5778 Views
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About tel communication
I am good at communication by writing or face-to-face talking, but very bad at tel commun.
I hate to elevate the phone to my ear and lean my head to hear; I hate to imagine the cell radiation emitting to my brain, I hate to compose words to react to the dwindling voices.
So, i tend to finish tel conv. rushingly. I am always the one who say several times bye-bye, thinking that all (key points) has been said, while the other side still talking. They did complain me.
Some even called back to say, 'hey, why you bluntly hang me off?'
'oh??? is it all said?' I had to protect.
During Chinese New Year, I was in a getaway on an island with my dear friend. I received several calls, thanks or sorry god, the island, on the outstetch of South China sea, is too far to be reached by mobile network. I shouted 'wei, wei...' but couldnt hear anything. Awesome feel did I have. And i thought, how would be the world again in a mobilephoneless spectrum? Is it a glory or a decay that we human beings can be reached by others anywhere we go by a click on the keypad? What's annoying, my company asked me to test his mobile phone. I had to press his no. but only after 20min he received the call. Awe! Modern technology. When we deem it reliable, it actually trap us in!
It's true that mobiles bring us joy and happiness, disappointment and annoyance simultaneously. Imagine: when you are cold and you receive a warm call; when upset and someone called to console you; when you are lonely and a long distance friend announces his/her visit by phone...Yet imagine again: when you desperately want to speak a word to your beloved, his phone just rings desperately; when you are happying, your mom calls for you back to work; when you want to declare your achievement, the phone is offline...
And then last night I had a bad-feeling phone conv., just becoz that I was an incompetent tel communicator but a fancy maker of ...
-to be con't-
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Dreamer, Talker and Singer
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Posted:Mar 3, 2007 2:36 am
Last Updated:Mar 8, 2007 7:03 pm 7879 Views
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Last night, at a basement jazz venue. I said I wanted to sing a tune. My friend said I was just a dreamer and talker, as usual.
Then some musicians thumbed to me during the jam set. To fend off the 'dreamer' curse, I really stepped to the stage. I made it! Not jazzy, a pop 'Feelings'. Thanks to the keyboard musician who keyed me in. The accompanying music was sonorous. I sang on, i looked at the audience - they were watching encouragingly. I exchanged w/ the smiling musicians. I flew up and down in the song although my voice nearly swallowed by the music.
I heard my name fanfared by some nice supportive guys. 'Am I a star? no, friend of a dreamer.'
Actually, there's the very stylish performer/singer V, who, like me, stepped up for fun. He resembled Bono of U2 and he's really professional and powerful on the stage. He sang rocknroll admirably and electrically. Well, i felt something in his eyes.
Good news at last. I succeed in talking two professionals into being my singing teacher. One is a gifted music elite in Macau who came a long way from Brazil. I wanted to be his jazz student for many years yet only tonight we made agreement. The other one, hehe, you bet--he said we'd train on the only green mountain in the city.
Look, a singer is going to be born. The dreamer and talker remains in her.
(Cheers, today is my real birthday a/c to lunar calendar and yesterday was my celebration.)
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A 1P Dinner and a 1P Beach
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Posted:Mar 2, 2007 3:17 am
Last Updated:May 28, 2007 3:10 am 6407 Views
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Busy, busy. But still want this fast entry.
1. What's time?
I have frequented this restaurant for 12 years. The restaurant and staff remain the same, so am I. But are we not different being flushed by the river of time? Actually, this is my legendary restaurant. Some green peppery love stories did happen here. Time grows and me too. Tonight, I am having the 1P yet very enjoyable dinner. I am nothing but a poised woman surrounded by brisk fado music looking up to the beautiful big trees in the yard, desiring for a camera to shoot this precious moment.
One service lady, who have worked there for 15 years, joke with me pointing to a couple whispering who are obviously in honey love, 'why not come with your lover?'
'So neat to be alone. All passionate moments will be gone but our self stays with us. ' I smile, sipping the cool Super Bock portuguese beer.
2. Can we be really alone?
Then I go out to the beach, being the only one on this faraway-from-city beach. Yet, not really. The half moon is shining above the shimmering sea, the wave sounds pampering me. I can even feel the sand thru my boot. But even in these very tranquil and relaxing moments, my cell phone rings and I receive 4 calls. 2 for money issue and 2 for job.
Can we really be left alone?
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Island I - She Proposes to Him
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Posted:Feb 27, 2007 3:13 am
Last Updated:Feb 28, 2007 10:36 pm 5456 Views
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The boat shakes its body and they are sitting in the epicentre. Dim sunlight shredds on the red national flag, a small pale island squats afar on the open sea, she throws her eyes into the far, gently murmurs, 'Let's get married to give homework to our family, have our (ren). You take them on your journey and I join you sometimes.'
Her voice is so calm as if she was telling something unrelated. 'As you implied, let's have a loose family since you like me and I like you, since we are under the similar circumstances - we share the same life mode and we feel so homely together.'
Some sudden wind flips her vine hat. He taps on it and looks into her for a while, his cigarette smog circulates above their head...
'Love is synonymous to emotional illusion, \bsexo?\b is physical one. What remains there when all is done? The passing on of life's sparkles." He puffs.
They go on without knowing the color of the sky, so does the wave...
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There an't enough time
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Posted:Feb 26, 2007 7:04 pm
Last Updated:Mar 11, 2007 7:55 pm 6847 Views
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There an't enough time
There an't enough time
There an't enough time
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A Valentine Call
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Posted:Feb 13, 2007 11:26 pm
Last Updated:Feb 28, 2007 10:37 pm 6809 Views
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Emotional path winds while hearing your phone call
Every phone ring is a sentimental ordeal or orgasm
Let’s date on the phone and make date via it.
Why you call always unexpectedly when I am in a dilemma
Call or not call See or not see
Why you say words shrinkingly
Why I say I don’t have time to see you tonight
We both are but like disabled in our expression
Sure there's a reason and life dwarfs all captions
I say LNK but delete it before it slips out of lip
I write HV for fun, yet not a bit fondly ending the mail today
Is it yuan when a call reaches our heart that's beholding the verge?
Is it when it relies on yuan to lead our way to tomorrow's surge?
Is it when we helplessly and willingly bestow it the utmost power to decide our fate?
Or let it be time to judge us and witness our every single minute together and apart.
Let it be it…let it be it…
(Hide-and-seek,
so sensual and intellectual game)
Afterwords: V day has not a dime meaning for me. I hate it being so commercial nowadays. In Shanghai, they price a romantic V night dinner with a set of diamond gadget at over RMB300,000. Any day can be a loving memorable day if you fill your heart with love, passion, trust and commitment. Happy CNY and wish you all as plump as the pig in and out, body and purse! If no surprise, this is my last entry for Lunar 2006.
XUSHUCHU Swallow, Feb. 14, 2007
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Wondrous Wonders I - 7 Wonders - Old
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Posted:Feb 11, 2007 8:13 pm
Last Updated:Feb 26, 2007 7:02 pm 6953 Views
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Ackowledgement: knowledgedotcom
7 Wonders of the World
Now there's a campaign of voting for the new 7 wonders on knowledgedotcom
from the 21 finalists. Before we move on that, can you name them all? The origianl old ones, I mean. Honestly, I cant.
Here they come:
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Bible readers know Nebuchadnezzar II as the king who, in 587 BC, destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem and forced the Jews into exile in Babylonia. But ancient tourists knew him as the man behind Babylon's Hanging Gardens. Built around 600 BC, the gardens grew on the roof of a terraced structure within his palace walls, irrigated by pumps that drew water up from the Euphrates. Today, Babylon is a ruin near Baghdad, and no definitive trace of the gardens has ever been found.
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Ephesians erected their great temple for Apollo's twin sister Artemis around 550 BC. They rebuilt it after 356 BC, when a terrorist bent on fame set it ablaze. Located in today's Turkey, across the Aegean Sea from Athens, the temple drew many Greeks bearing gifts. They marveled at its size--imagine a football field surrounded by marble--and at the art inside. Little remains of the temple today, just fragments at the site and in museums.
When Olympia, home of the Olympic Games in western Greece, beheld the Temple of Artemis, its citizens said, "We'll see your Artemis and raise you a statue of Zeus." By 435 BC, the famed Greek sculptor Phidias was pounding the last plates of gold and ivory into place on a 40-foot (12-meter) statue of Zeus, seated on a cedarwood throne. No one knows what became of the thunder god's likeness, but we have found the workshop Phidias used to make it.
South of Ephesus, at Halicarnassus, ruled Mausolus, a Persian satrap who admired the Greek way of life. So, when Mausolus died in 353 BC, his sister-widow-queen, Artemisia, built him the most opulent Greek tomb around. It was 135 feet (40 meters) tall, adorned on every side with sculpture, and capped with a pyramidal roof. An earthquake brought the tomb down in medieval times, and Mausolus's memory now survives mainly in the word mausoleum.
On the Greek island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean Sea, workers made wonder out of war. An army had besieged the island's capital. But Rhodes resisted for a year, and the army left. So the Rhodians reforged the army's abandoned bronze and iron weapons and sold its siege equipment to make a colossus: a 110-foot (34-meter) statue of the sun god Helios. By 280 BC, it stood tall on a marble pedestal near the harbor--until an earthquake toppled it just 56 years later.
Lighthouse of Alexandria
In the Egyptian port of Alexandria, few would have been overawed by Rhodes's colossus. For in Alexandria's harbor, on a small island named Pharos, stood the original lighthouse. It was made around the same time as Rhodes's statue, but dwarfed it. It stood 384 feet (117 meters) high--some say higher. Fires burned at the top at night, and bronze mirrors reflected sunlight during the day. It stood until the 14th century, when earthquakes ruined it, too.
Pyramids of Giza
Egypt's three Pyramids of Giza, the only ancient wonder still standing today. The largest and oldest of the three, the Great Pyramid, was built for the pharaoh Khufu (called Cheops by the Greeks) in the 26th century BC. That makes it 2,000 years older than any other wonder on the list.
The Great Pyramid climbs more than 450 feet (138 meters) into the sky--high enough to make it the tallest structure on Earth for almost 4,000 years, until European cathedrals started reaching for heaven. It's made up of about 2.3 million massive blocks of stone, weighing perhaps 6 million tons all told. Some have described it as "the most colossal single building ever erected on the planet." Now that's a wonder for any list, old or new.
(Let's see the 21 finalists for the new7wonders campaign later, do you have any candidates?)
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A Hastened Speech, a Slow Chain of Changes
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Posted:Feb 9, 2007 8:29 pm
Last Updated:Feb 21, 2007 6:21 am 7329 Views
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Preface: I wrote this bad-prepared speech 30 minutes before my speech-making time at Toastmasters Club. Yet to my relaxation, I heard ppl laughing and saw them nodding during my performance. These days my focus is on my life changes, so I dont have much inspiration and time for decent blogging. Just give you this shxit speech if you dont mind. My purpose is to arouse you to changes in 2007. Come, join me....
Do you know what zodiac year is 2007 in lunar calendar? Yes, almost everybody knows it? Any pigs here?
And do you know what’s most important to do in this year a/c to the bestseller fortune-telling book by HK fengshui master Lee Koi Ming? Change! The master says, 2007 is a year of change. If you don’t make changes this year, you are almost doomed! This is not a threat, believe it or not. But this is my advice. I will be practicing the theory of change in 2007. My first step is to change my hairdo. (see? Comments are welcome in breaktime. Haha..) I’ve made it, although I received some unfavorable comments, a friend said I looked like a Gongbei hairwashing girl. Really? I said, it doesn’t matter, it matters that I made change.
I have plans to make more change in 2007, following strictly Mr. Lee Koi Ming’s mantra. Let me leak some to you. For example, to change my habit of being lazy, to change my habit of talking too much but acting too little, to change my job, to change my living environment, and many others.
“To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy. “ as said by Alexander Chase, a famous contemporary Journalist. Not Alexander Mcqueen, the famous fashion designer. But by the way, if Alexander Mcqueen doesn’t change his design but keep it unchanged for ages, would his brand sell well? Would he be a successful fashion designer? Definitely no. We all know, in fashion business, changes are very critical to boost sales. That’s why every year we have different fashion trend.
Then how about changes in our own life? And changes that made by ourselves? Have you ever faced the dilemma of taking up changes or not? One of my close friends has talked abt changes for many years, for nearly ten years. Since I knew her, she has talked abt changing her lifestyle. She lives with her family and she always likes to live alone, which means freeing from all the family mess and enjoy life as she likes. Living w/ family is not bad but sometimes it refrains you fm doing something crazy. She keeps talking abt her will to change. Yet she never moves up for changes. Now these two/three years Macau’s housing price has jumped high. “I am doomed, I will never have my own home in Macau.” She murmured sadly, but she has raised a new question, “shall I arrange a home in China? I can just go running customs everyday, I really want to live independently.” She would still keep murmuring such things to my ear time by time, year by year, until one day she really dared to embrace the changes. If she repeats this to me again, I’d shout, “shut up! I'm fed up for your 10 years non-changed empty talk. Change your conversation and action, change! “
I am not better than my friend. I have had plan for an overhaul changes since I was 25. Now you know how old I am?! Little progress on my change plan has been made. Why ppl like her, like me, are afraid of changes? There are two main reasons:
1. Because changes will yield results. But not all results are good, some are bad. Come back to my hair, I really don’t want to change my hairdresser if I could. But I have lost his contact for several years. He was a creative and detail-attentive hairdresser that could design me all the time brilliant hairstyle that can bring out my personality & cover my shortcomings on the head-shape and face. Since I lost him, I’ve changed many hairdressers, but not one satisfactory, incl. this one. I am still looking for my hairdresser.
2. I think this is the most straight reason that prevent us fm making changes. That is, we have fear! By changing sth, we take the changes and the risks as well. Change gives us hope and also fear. And usually the fear is bigger than hope, human nature. A quote goes like this, ‘cease to hope and you’ll cease to fear.’ But I bet no way we should cease to hope. No one would love to live without hope. Do you like hope? Yes. So, don’t cease to hope and start to fear. Make changes! Chaning is challenging. You’ll never know the result if you never try to change.
"Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour." If we remain the same lifelong, if we don’t change the bad for the good, we will be doomed, and so will our society. Remember, change means chance, means opportunity, means reform. Self reform and social reform.
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.”, a/c to Isaac Asimov, a Contemporary American Biochemistry Scientist and Writer.
Therefore, if you hesitate to change, take opportunity of this pig year, and be blessed by this golden year of change! Up, change! Change it or be changed by it, you don’t have a third option.
Pic. Everybody opens arm for changes alongside the everchanging Skylake water.
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I am a sheep, I am a sheep leader
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Posted:Feb 6, 2007 11:48 pm
Last Updated:Feb 14, 2007 10:37 pm 6471 Views
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People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
-Alexander Chase
Yes, at times I am a sheep that like to be led.
At times I am a leader that like to take lead.
So comfortable to have someone leading us the sheep throng. So challengeous to lead a flock of sheep.
Chinese people, as tamed as sheep and tend to cover up self to be interdependent, usually like to follow a leader. A. Chase means it well, we follow our leaders occasionally in the right direction. Most of the time in the wrong, hence come so much suffering.
Westerners, being more individual and independent, lack of an organizational mind for teamwork. Some of them have many ideas but just cant put into force. They also need a leader to gear up for realization.
Leaders must be enthusiastic and must revive people's enthusiastism. They must be enterprising so as to convince people become their following sheep. Good leaders can benefit the people but bad ones can belie them and lead them to the verge of danger.
These days I feel like to be a leader for some meaningful activities and principal plans, because I see many people are waiting for a leader to lead them forward. They are very potential yet they need an initiator, a prompter to inspire them. Once they are organized and led, you'll feel the great strength of a collective ppl.
Last weekend, I organized 9 ppl for a trekking/hiking trip in China. Tasted, enjoyable and successful. We explored in the pathless mountain bamboo bush. We found a hilltop old temple where villagers come up a long way to worship. Some member environmentalists picked up plastic bags around the hill. Finally, we reached our beautiful skylake as shown on the pic. here. We felt the power of nature/earth. They say it very memorable and ask for more. Bet it, the very delicious sizzling oysters was the most unforgetable for me.
Hopefully, I'll lead our hi-hike sheep for more activities until someone take shift and I'll become a sheep again. Just to follow is so easy and amazing.
I bet if I send out information to all friends/fellows of our future fantastic plans, there surely will be sheep crowding in, so many so that i cant handle. That's why I just let a few of my favorites know.
Are you interested to be sheep or leader? Come to take over if you choose the latter!
Pic. Poetic Skylake from Feb. 4 Hiking Trip, 1st activity under my guide.
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