These are nice, well put. (But they don't help T_T)
http://wongfuproductions।com/2011/04/strangers-again-new-short-film/
http://wongfuphil.xanga.com/664405468/strangers-again/
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Nuggets
Once again, google translate gives me an interesting sentence. This is the first part (all I have right now haha) of my Chinese oral. Should take out the part about piaoliang haha.
2011曇り、私は百パーセントの女の子を参照してください。彼女は、簡単に美しい私は女性は私と一緒に行くよう説得しようとすると、自分自身を楽しませると思わせる方法を知ってはいけない。という妄想は、もともと私の人生は長いの瞬間の一つだったと感じ始めていた。
It's interesting, making this amalgam of sorts, of experience, literature, and imagination. Crafting my story, inventing this girl, and in turn being inspired by a statistical translation algorithm...
Phonetic input for Google Translate ftw! There's been something called Google Transliteration, I think? But this is the first time I've heard of it. Gotta test out their translation tool kit a bit more soon. Summer project ftw.
Might be able to take the foreign service officer test in Shanghai. Gotta check that out.
2011曇り、私は百パーセントの女の子を参照してください。彼女は、簡単に美しい私は女性は私と一緒に行くよう説得しようとすると、自分自身を楽しませると思わせる方法を知ってはいけない。という妄想は、もともと私の人生は長いの瞬間の一つだったと感じ始めていた。
It's interesting, making this amalgam of sorts, of experience, literature, and imagination. Crafting my story, inventing this girl, and in turn being inspired by a statistical translation algorithm...
Phonetic input for Google Translate ftw! There's been something called Google Transliteration, I think? But this is the first time I've heard of it. Gotta test out their translation tool kit a bit more soon. Summer project ftw.
Might be able to take the foreign service officer test in Shanghai. Gotta check that out.
Two things:
Yesterday was a good night. Sushi night/Cook-off, I never made it back to initiation (craaaaaap) and totally forgot about the dj battle and buying a shirt (heh and I ran into Ruding later... and totally didn't think about it! She was too busy being beast). Met a lot of people and connected to people from class and elsewhere, laughed, told a girl I thought she was cute (gasp & possibly 初) and generally just remembered why I love this school so much. Finally solved the mystery of why exactly people get BD so late at night on the weekends as well; that is to say, I knew the reason, but I can understand the motivations now?
Then tried to go home, and remembered why I have been having such a hard time. I don't know how I will maintain my sanity (other than investing in a pair of heavy duty earplugs and either obeying the unspoken curfew (does it hurt to check if everyone's in or not?) if I don't find a job and have the money to move out quickly, once I come back...
Also lost my temper, shouted harder and louder than I thought I could, in a moving car. Not so smart, but it almost felt like a release. Again, things I knew were there but suddenly was surprised came to the surface, reinforcing why I keep them down there in the first place. It's just like those urges I get to step in front of moving vehicles, or at the very least stick my hand out and touch the window of a train -- acknowledge and ponder, before casting away. So far I haven't found anything better.
So anyway, I, being probably the only one considerate enough not to ring the doorbell that late... found it really ironic that while the only place I could really go to was the library (Thank God for Whispers! After ruling out staying in the car or going to a restaurant like steak-n-shake, for safety and monetary (so stingy when it comes to myself and myself only) issues respectively) I'm locked out of (=not welcome in) many of the places on campus, the closest thing I have to a "home".
Sucks to be so far away. Should have planned better. Story of my life these days, seems like.
Anyway so I've been in the cafe for a while, and had intended to get some sleep. The sun's already up though, and suddenly I'm thankful for those damned curtains in that unforgiving basement that have wreaked havoc on my sleep schedule (by allowing me to sleep). I don't know what it was but for the last few days or so time seemed to have been moving so so slowly.
Found these two articles on the New York times website. Hopefully the articles will stay up (without having to pay for them... but maybe I should go ahead and make copies...), they're pretty freaky and making me wonder just what the heck I've gotten myself into. Why aren't I studying Korean again? hahaha.
Mulan! In Chinese! Monday and Teusday, if I can wake up in time.
So much reading to dooooooo!
And can't forget philosophy. Damn you, philosophy hw!!!
One: Everyone is always talking about South Korea for this, but...
For Many Chinese, New Wealth and a Fresh Face
Apparently 30% of their plastic surgery cases are actually wealthy Chinese traveling internationally for the procedures, due to lack of regulation and disparate quality on the Chinese side. While reconstructive surgery benefits from these types of cases, well... I still don't really like the idea. (Says the guy who is unhappy again with his own body image! In terms of fitness though haha)
Two: This is just freaky. A glimpse of the future? And a cheap way to live illegally in China. Can't believe I will be there in a few months...
The Air-Raid-Shelter Apartments Under Beijing
Then tried to go home, and remembered why I have been having such a hard time. I don't know how I will maintain my sanity (other than investing in a pair of heavy duty earplugs and either obeying the unspoken curfew (does it hurt to check if everyone's in or not?) if I don't find a job and have the money to move out quickly, once I come back...
Also lost my temper, shouted harder and louder than I thought I could, in a moving car. Not so smart, but it almost felt like a release. Again, things I knew were there but suddenly was surprised came to the surface, reinforcing why I keep them down there in the first place. It's just like those urges I get to step in front of moving vehicles, or at the very least stick my hand out and touch the window of a train -- acknowledge and ponder, before casting away. So far I haven't found anything better.
So anyway, I, being probably the only one considerate enough not to ring the doorbell that late... found it really ironic that while the only place I could really go to was the library (Thank God for Whispers! After ruling out staying in the car or going to a restaurant like steak-n-shake, for safety and monetary (so stingy when it comes to myself and myself only) issues respectively) I'm locked out of (=not welcome in) many of the places on campus, the closest thing I have to a "home".
Sucks to be so far away. Should have planned better. Story of my life these days, seems like.
Anyway so I've been in the cafe for a while, and had intended to get some sleep. The sun's already up though, and suddenly I'm thankful for those damned curtains in that unforgiving basement that have wreaked havoc on my sleep schedule (by allowing me to sleep). I don't know what it was but for the last few days or so time seemed to have been moving so so slowly.
Found these two articles on the New York times website. Hopefully the articles will stay up (without having to pay for them... but maybe I should go ahead and make copies...), they're pretty freaky and making me wonder just what the heck I've gotten myself into. Why aren't I studying Korean again? hahaha.
Mulan! In Chinese! Monday and Teusday, if I can wake up in time.
So much reading to dooooooo!
And can't forget philosophy. Damn you, philosophy hw!!!
One: Everyone is always talking about South Korea for this, but...
For Many Chinese, New Wealth and a Fresh Face
Apparently 30% of their plastic surgery cases are actually wealthy Chinese traveling internationally for the procedures, due to lack of regulation and disparate quality on the Chinese side. While reconstructive surgery benefits from these types of cases, well... I still don't really like the idea. (Says the guy who is unhappy again with his own body image! In terms of fitness though haha)
Two: This is just freaky. A glimpse of the future? And a cheap way to live illegally in China. Can't believe I will be there in a few months...
The Air-Raid-Shelter Apartments Under Beijing
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Almost done... not as much time as I thought
~('_'~)
(~'_')~
~('_')~
(~'_'~)
手を出そうとする際なぜか怯える。何だこの臆病？
"I think I'm just too lazy, to actively go after someone..."
Putting off too much work... and applications... gotta motivate myself! その未来は今にでもしちゃえ！
Ugh I hate philosophy... so many papers to write now...
Learned from Marcus-sensei, praise can be more hurtful than criticism (esp. about something you are not confident in... and as a preface to criticism...)
(~'_')~
~('_')~
(~'_'~)
手を出そうとする際なぜか怯える。何だこの臆病？
"I think I'm just too lazy, to actively go after someone..."
Putting off too much work... and applications... gotta motivate myself! その未来は今にでもしちゃえ！
Ugh I hate philosophy... so many papers to write now...
Learned from Marcus-sensei, praise can be more hurtful than criticism (esp. about something you are not confident in... and as a preface to criticism...)
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Reading this (on yahoo questions) was a bit scary...
わたしはとんでもない嘘つきで見栄っぱりで本当のことが誰にも言えません。
色々嘘をついていたら
生きるのがしんどくなってきました。
友達もいないに等しいです。自分がしてきたことの積み重ねたが招いた結果です 。私が死んでも誰も悲しまない。
最近夜になると毎晩死んでしまいたくなります。
But then it turns out to be about being a prostitute, and I felt relieved...
色々嘘をついていたら
生きるのがしんどくなってきました。
友達もいないに等しいです。自分がしてきたことの積み重ねたが招いた結果です 。私が死んでも誰も悲しまない。
最近夜になると毎晩死んでしまいたくなります。
But then it turns out to be about being a prostitute, and I felt relieved...
Friday, April 8, 2011
MAASU
At MAASU, not getting much work done.
So much was going on this weekend, that I wanted to make this trip worth it. So far it's amusing, but not like I had imagined...
Most of the people, even from my own college I don't really know, and I've been again more watching from the sidelines than actively participating and meeting new people, or even simply asserting my presence in conversation circles, especially when I don't intend to say anything (that I'm really bad at, and most people aren't as attentive to these things as I am, or at least they don't act on anything when they realize it...)
Read through most of the English stuff for Norinaga -- he really blows my mind!! But really complicates my project, and I have really lost the focus I thought that I had for it. The same thing goes for reading the beginnings (~25 pages) of The Shiga Hero; he went through and beasted on both Haha no shi stories and even two more related ones that I didn't even think could have existed... so again, rather than really contributing anything, my work will be more of a 補注 than anything if left in its current state, and I still need to find more stories to work with...!
Even saying that though, having made time to read these (instead of last minute or not at all) really brings out how fascinating this stuff is!! Still not sure if I could or want to make a career out of it, but... (and that offer of help from the Google guy is looking especially tempting, but it will make the rest of my goals difficult, as far as travel and language acquisition, etc in the short term).
Norinaga single-handedly (OK, with the help of the translators/summarizers/criticizers from all three works) destroyed my upholding of Confuscianism as the perfect answer to our social disorder... In other words it's no longer supreme, just a way to try and fix a broken society, and as long as we think there is something to fix there's no way to fix it... It's also kind of amazing how some of the same arguments/problems that I saw in Christianity were brought up by this guy in the 18th century talking about the perils/wrongness of Japanese Confucianism and his belief in the supremeness of ancient Japan. Interesting that the major weak point of his argument, as seen from a modern perspective, is his trust that the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki were real/true-to-life depictions of how things came about (another similarity to the Christianity debate et al.)
Afterwards I will have to translate one of the Murakami stories -- they were pretty amusing, and the one about sort of cheating with a widow was pretty titillating (wonder if I'll ever forget that word...). Haven't attempted a written translation in a while, hope that it won't prove too difficult and entering the translation contest will be easier than I have imagined...
Speaking of which there was a guy here from Whitewater college or something like that, who is studying Japanese and going to Kwansai Gakuin next spring -- he was only in Japanese 2 and when I asked him どうして日本語を勉強していますかと聞いたら、来週日本に行きましたって答えられた。It was kind of funny but only drove home how few speaking partners I've made for myself at school, and the definite tendency that I have to seek out and converse with people who are understand less than me or are at about the same level...
Because of that I feel myself getting worse and worse, especially on those days when I go in to talk to the teachers... I'm kind of amazed that I can do the TA job still, but maybe that's just because it's in English... really need to brush up, instead of limiting my Japanese exposure to songs all day find time to watch dramas and classes, read more books for fun (Kinokuniya!! I have like 6 books I'll hope to finish before going to Tokyo again, and buy more to last me for a while in China this summer, although I really hope we have access to the library there!), and practice speaking more, both informal and stupid everyday life stuff and in terms of elevated speech. Right now I wouldn't do too well on an OPI, I feel. Also need to try that swap translating service thing, I forget the name but I have it somewhere on my to-do list.
There are so many things on that, I don't even remember what most of them are. One is a Japanese politician's speech on the dumping of the nuclear waste water though, so I think I will listen to that before going to bed with episodes of Hawaii podcast playing through my ipod. I'll have to roll the freshman over before I can take a spot in the bed though...
Waking up at 7 or so for breakfast, then shower, then off for a full day of MAASU. Not sure I'm up for partying (tonight was pretty amusing though!).
Gotta remember to run, work out, lift weights, watch food intake, enough to look and perform decent at SOK this coming weekend...
Also, something to look into: Japanese poetry. Medical Japanese and Business Japanese by partnering with people in the MBA programs and at the Med school campus... Will probably be around so I can benefit from it too! Also, need to get signed up for the tutor position. Teaching Japanese could be fun, and it will get me some experience if I do decide to go for the language school... TEFL, and talk to Julie about options for the future... book a place to stay in Tokyo too...
http://www.mm-labo.com/culture/WiseSaying/a/amenimomakezu.html
Quote from Norinaga (there's a lot I could quote...):
"A comparison may be made: gifted people do not assert themselves -- only the mediocre argue about minute details and take pride in doing so as though these matters were of importance."
Now that was strictly about Confucianism, but I feel like that's one reason why I find it so hard to relate to the average American... so many of the Asian-americans here (at MAASU) are super American too so it's been interesting trying to contrast my interaction with them and with my friends at school... And of course this is a little of my vanity showing, calling myself gifted. Oh, how I long for those days where I was fit and building a dancer's body, and enjoyed the sight of myself in the mirror.... I want my bike T___T
Have to remember to 出す my phone to 修理 when I 日本に着いたら.....
So much was going on this weekend, that I wanted to make this trip worth it. So far it's amusing, but not like I had imagined...
Most of the people, even from my own college I don't really know, and I've been again more watching from the sidelines than actively participating and meeting new people, or even simply asserting my presence in conversation circles, especially when I don't intend to say anything (that I'm really bad at, and most people aren't as attentive to these things as I am, or at least they don't act on anything when they realize it...)
Read through most of the English stuff for Norinaga -- he really blows my mind!! But really complicates my project, and I have really lost the focus I thought that I had for it. The same thing goes for reading the beginnings (~25 pages) of The Shiga Hero; he went through and beasted on both Haha no shi stories and even two more related ones that I didn't even think could have existed... so again, rather than really contributing anything, my work will be more of a 補注 than anything if left in its current state, and I still need to find more stories to work with...!
Even saying that though, having made time to read these (instead of last minute or not at all) really brings out how fascinating this stuff is!! Still not sure if I could or want to make a career out of it, but... (and that offer of help from the Google guy is looking especially tempting, but it will make the rest of my goals difficult, as far as travel and language acquisition, etc in the short term).
Norinaga single-handedly (OK, with the help of the translators/summarizers/criticizers from all three works) destroyed my upholding of Confuscianism as the perfect answer to our social disorder... In other words it's no longer supreme, just a way to try and fix a broken society, and as long as we think there is something to fix there's no way to fix it... It's also kind of amazing how some of the same arguments/problems that I saw in Christianity were brought up by this guy in the 18th century talking about the perils/wrongness of Japanese Confucianism and his belief in the supremeness of ancient Japan. Interesting that the major weak point of his argument, as seen from a modern perspective, is his trust that the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki were real/true-to-life depictions of how things came about (another similarity to the Christianity debate et al.)
Afterwards I will have to translate one of the Murakami stories -- they were pretty amusing, and the one about sort of cheating with a widow was pretty titillating (wonder if I'll ever forget that word...). Haven't attempted a written translation in a while, hope that it won't prove too difficult and entering the translation contest will be easier than I have imagined...
Speaking of which there was a guy here from Whitewater college or something like that, who is studying Japanese and going to Kwansai Gakuin next spring -- he was only in Japanese 2 and when I asked him どうして日本語を勉強していますかと聞いたら、来週日本に行きましたって答えられた。It was kind of funny but only drove home how few speaking partners I've made for myself at school, and the definite tendency that I have to seek out and converse with people who are understand less than me or are at about the same level...
Because of that I feel myself getting worse and worse, especially on those days when I go in to talk to the teachers... I'm kind of amazed that I can do the TA job still, but maybe that's just because it's in English... really need to brush up, instead of limiting my Japanese exposure to songs all day find time to watch dramas and classes, read more books for fun (Kinokuniya!! I have like 6 books I'll hope to finish before going to Tokyo again, and buy more to last me for a while in China this summer, although I really hope we have access to the library there!), and practice speaking more, both informal and stupid everyday life stuff and in terms of elevated speech. Right now I wouldn't do too well on an OPI, I feel. Also need to try that swap translating service thing, I forget the name but I have it somewhere on my to-do list.
There are so many things on that, I don't even remember what most of them are. One is a Japanese politician's speech on the dumping of the nuclear waste water though, so I think I will listen to that before going to bed with episodes of Hawaii podcast playing through my ipod. I'll have to roll the freshman over before I can take a spot in the bed though...
Waking up at 7 or so for breakfast, then shower, then off for a full day of MAASU. Not sure I'm up for partying (tonight was pretty amusing though!).
Gotta remember to run, work out, lift weights, watch food intake, enough to look and perform decent at SOK this coming weekend...
Also, something to look into: Japanese poetry. Medical Japanese and Business Japanese by partnering with people in the MBA programs and at the Med school campus... Will probably be around so I can benefit from it too! Also, need to get signed up for the tutor position. Teaching Japanese could be fun, and it will get me some experience if I do decide to go for the language school... TEFL, and talk to Julie about options for the future... book a place to stay in Tokyo too...
http://www.mm-labo.com/culture/WiseSaying/a/amenimomakezu.html
Quote from Norinaga (there's a lot I could quote...):
"A comparison may be made: gifted people do not assert themselves -- only the mediocre argue about minute details and take pride in doing so as though these matters were of importance."
Now that was strictly about Confucianism, but I feel like that's one reason why I find it so hard to relate to the average American... so many of the Asian-americans here (at MAASU) are super American too so it's been interesting trying to contrast my interaction with them and with my friends at school... And of course this is a little of my vanity showing, calling myself gifted. Oh, how I long for those days where I was fit and building a dancer's body, and enjoyed the sight of myself in the mirror.... I want my bike T___T
Have to remember to 出す my phone to 修理 when I 日本に着いたら.....
Sunday, April 3, 2011
That was the most important. This was funny
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=647
I always thought I was weird or suicidal, but dochira ni seyo alone, in having these kinds of impulses...
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That was the most important. This was funny
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=651
This is intriguing, and probably true (reputation no sei ka)
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=652
This is poignant!
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=653
Except for ones formed via the internet.
Or people with simple malice in mind...
Damn my pessimism...
I always thought I was weird or suicidal, but dochira ni seyo alone, in having these kinds of impulses...
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That was the most important. This was funny
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=651
This is intriguing, and probably true (reputation no sei ka)
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=652
This is poignant!
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=653
Except for ones formed via the internet.
Or people with simple malice in mind...
Damn my pessimism...
Saturday, April 2, 2011
アジカン
出来れば世界を僕は塗り替えたい
戦争をなくすような大逸れたことじゃない
だけどちょっと それもあるよな
俳優や映画スターには成れない
それどころか 君の前でさえも上手に笑えない
そんな僕に術はないよな
嗚呼…
何を間違った？
それさえもわからないんだ
ローリング ローリング
初めから持ってないのに胸が痛んだ
僕らはきっとこの先も
心絡まって ローリング ローリング
凍てつく地面を転がるように走り出した
理由もないのに何だか悲しい
泣けやしないから 余計に救いがない
そんな夜を温めるように歌うんだ
岩は転がって 僕たちを何処かに連れて行くように
固い地面を分けて命が芽生えた
あの丘を越えたその先は
光り輝いたように
君の孤独も全て暴き出す朝だ
赤い小さな車は君を乗せて
遠く向こうの角を曲がって
此処からは見えなくなった
何をなくした？
それさえもわからないんだ
ローリング ローリング
初めから持ってないのに胸が痛んだ
僕らはきっとこの先も
心絡まって ローリング ローリング
凍てつく世界を転がるように走り出した
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