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2006年3月31日 下午5點09分33秒sorry for our tongue
never in my life has there been a conversation that is how i would desire.
a conversation comprising information, understanding, thoughts and
feelings, representing the qualities of its participants, by accurate use of
words, is how it is desired.
whether modernizing of the society, or the fear of offending, or
incompetence of languages, should be blamed for the lack of such
conversation, i do not know.
2006年3月28日 下午4點32分53秒show me a way please
for the sake of the application of WATUSA, i brought the copies of my CE and AL certs with me yesterday. a few people happened to recognize them and took the chance to examine them closely. a common remark was "well in terms of languages, you do know how to understand, but sadly that seems to be the only thing you know.. as you can't speak nor compose.." however, this was told in such a way that this "defect", i call it, is something to be proud of. yes, it definitely is a defect; like you eat a lot but never poop, like a black hole that only absorbs but produces nothing; like you have so many thoughts in your head but you are never able to find words for them. defected, handicapped. i can assure you I DO NOT REJOICE IN THIS DEFECT. frustrated might be appropriate.
i m helping English grammar with a F.4er. they consider that the only way i could be of help. perhaps i m actually quite a nerd... knowing nothing but obsessed with grammar
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NO NEWS yet from the census. and no decision yet whether to try WATUSA.
perhaps.. fat chance i will have none..?
2006年3月27日 下午1點03分27秒what a girl wants
Daphne jets across the Ocean to meet her father whom she's never known. she has lived all her life with no knowledge of one of her parents. she wants to find her father so that the part missing in herself can be filled.
3 months gone:
pros - overcome the fear to be alone - a full-time employment - 100% freedom-guaranteed travel - adventure
cons - 3 mon deprived of comfort of home - 3 mon deprived of seeing my family - possibly no net $ to be earned
IF i had the chance to jet to America for 3 months, what exactly is the thing I wanted?
2006年3月25日 下午3點56分41秒Anya's Bell
Aunt S recommended a movie - Anya's Bell - a story of a dylexic boy and a blind lady. very very good and worth watching. touching. cried my eyes out.
people who have trouble reading prints, that to them words scrambled up on the page, are said to be suffering from dylexia. mathematical symbols and statements are like drawings of worms, or a language from a world which doesn't exist.. exactly! they don't make no sense to me!! am i dylexic? to all those freaking math specially?
2006年3月16日 下午5點45分38秒a night of Jane Austen
Pride & Prejudice (movie version by Keira Knightley) tonight with Yan. quite a good one, don't mind the plot and how 'faithful' it is to the Original. romance principally, cut to the chase, and very frank... it's just exciting! i guess anyone who hasn't read the book would understand everything about the movie (the implication and the depiction of the society by Austen i cannot suppose). and what's more, episode 2 of the BBC's adoptation on tv. for anyone who wishes to indulge with pride and prejudice, tune in on pearl every thursday night at 10:30pm.
i heard of a person saying that one can only appreciate literature by interacting with people, never by reading on one's own. i quite disagree. ignorant as i am, so little have i learned, i should not make an opinion in sth which i hv no understanding. a quotes from Prof Gao about Sir Issac Newton may well explain my thought, "if we cannot be as ingenious as the scientist himself, for him has too great a mind, we could do better just to attempt to follow, and thus appreciate, his thinking, and amaze ourselves."
the work of a great author, may well be considered as an equal to the discovery of a great scientist. Austen is right, "improvement of the mind through extensive reading," is exactly the function of literature. besides, the idea of amazing readers with the thinking of great minds, the clever use of words to impress, inspire and influence, is such an enjoyment itself. above all, connecting with people, real souls, regardless of time and space, through words of genius, isn't that what appreciating literature is about?
i don't really have the talent of coveying by words. there had been loads more about it before. but they vanish the moment my fingers touched the kyboard. what a little miserable mind i have in my skull.