It's already mid-Jan!! Sorry to be late here...
Main reason: the Taiwan quake... that we can't get access to WWW...
So I could only post blog entries on my own website hosted locally in HK :D
Now's better... though the connection speed is still not fully recovered; still cannot play smoothly on YouTube... blogger.com is also loading slowly... but at least i can use Gmail now!
Talking abt my own website... 'coz of the quake... i digged out all .txt files from my backup harddisk and started to upload the .html to my server. But... as some of you may know, my website closed for a long time and all the layouts / design is sooooo outdated... so finally... really can't bare it... and i just used the most typical blog layout.. though in fact only quite outdated... but i guess it's "usual" for normal blogs.. :P
i'm now trying to relaunch my site and thus very busy working on it! now thinking of the contents... as before... photos, more of my travel or snapshot; writings, most possibly my assignments :P; music, share my favourite CD or my own works; drawings, try scanning my own drawings....
and my diary? i will still keep my personal blog here but with backups on my web... :P worrying another quake... maybe..
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
My 1st Master's 1st Academic Report
(moved here)
My 1st Master's 1st Academic Report is out!
Term GPA: 3.65 WCP Total: 21.90
I'm not too satisfactory as I targeted for a Term GPA of 4 and a WCP Total of 24, i.e. so-called Full Marks.
Though after finishing the papers, I understood that I might not have straight As. I still hoped for a Term GPA of 3.85 as I though I could have two A-s. At least, I got an A for the Abstract, which was claimed to be 10% of the total grade. It is in fact quite disappointing for not having at least an A- for that.
On the other hand, it is quite surprising to have an A. I spent a lot in reading the story and analysing the translation. I got too much to present and I couldn't finish all. Similarly, I got too much to write and I couldn't finish writing all of them despite the consecutive 40 hours non-stop I spent on it. Personally I think (yes.. I still think so now) that I could have done better if I started earlier on my Paper. But probably 'coz I wrote less, I got less mistakes and my Paper reads more concise and precise. :P
Anyway, though I'm not too satisfactory on that, I would post my Paper here for sharing later. ^^ And remember "Brokeback Mountain"? I'll put it on my website to celebrate the relaunch of my Angel Land - Literature Section! Hopefully I could finish it by Lunar New Year... :P
I don't know the mean or average grade for Master, so I just evaluate my result by my own "ruler".
Have to take greater care in choosing subjects in this semester, both practical and useful. But more importantly is my ability in handling that subject.
My 1st Master's 1st Academic Report is out!
Term GPA: 3.65 WCP Total: 21.90
I'm not too satisfactory as I targeted for a Term GPA of 4 and a WCP Total of 24, i.e. so-called Full Marks.
Though after finishing the papers, I understood that I might not have straight As. I still hoped for a Term GPA of 3.85 as I though I could have two A-s. At least, I got an A for the Abstract, which was claimed to be 10% of the total grade. It is in fact quite disappointing for not having at least an A- for that.
On the other hand, it is quite surprising to have an A. I spent a lot in reading the story and analysing the translation. I got too much to present and I couldn't finish all. Similarly, I got too much to write and I couldn't finish writing all of them despite the consecutive 40 hours non-stop I spent on it. Personally I think (yes.. I still think so now) that I could have done better if I started earlier on my Paper. But probably 'coz I wrote less, I got less mistakes and my Paper reads more concise and precise. :P
Anyway, though I'm not too satisfactory on that, I would post my Paper here for sharing later. ^^ And remember "Brokeback Mountain"? I'll put it on my website to celebrate the relaunch of my Angel Land - Literature Section! Hopefully I could finish it by Lunar New Year... :P
I don't know the mean or average grade for Master, so I just evaluate my result by my own "ruler".
Have to take greater care in choosing subjects in this semester, both practical and useful. But more importantly is my ability in handling that subject.
sick...
(moved from elsewhere)
am sick again... >.he said normally ppl who sufferred a GREAT flu at the beginning of the winter would not get sick again 'coz their immunity system had been "triggered"...
it seems to be logical but yet it is not true... at least on me.
yesterday's a big day... n planned to celebrate on sunday... booked tickets for movie n table for dinner...
early sunday morning... nothing special except for a few more frequent sneez... but i hardly realize it until later the day...
lunch time... started feeling unwell... my shoulders were damn painful... and heavy migraine!!!! dizzling... and even nausea after eating a few dim sum...
though knowing that i was not feeling well... i headed for the movie as we booked it already! NANA2 and $$ were more impt. and i guessed i could overcome it... after the movie, felt better with the popcorn... no migraine any more.. sweeties can really help relieving migraine in my case... but my body seemed not to be mine... so went for a 'simple' dinner and went home...
slept really early at around 1030!!!
though slept for 9 hours, i didn't recover at all!!!!!! my stomach and abdomen fought together as well... really couldn't go to work and went to the doctor after getting up... took the medicine and congee and slept again...
slept for about 5 hours, dad came home and had a shower... watched TV with dad for 3 hours and slept again...
totally i've slept for 24 hours!!! but how come i'm still soooooo tired? and... maybe my medicine's working now... yesterday, i just had a congee, 3 mini buns and 1 normal size chinese cake... already got very full... today.... i had 1 mini bun + 1 normal size chinese cake + 1 congee and now started another chinese cake.. :P i have my "hungry" feeling back!!!! but my stomach still appears quite 'full'.... :P
anyway, can have rice tonight and simple but normal meals tomorrow! ^^
am sick again... >.
it seems to be logical but yet it is not true... at least on me.
yesterday's a big day... n planned to celebrate on sunday... booked tickets for movie n table for dinner...
early sunday morning... nothing special except for a few more frequent sneez... but i hardly realize it until later the day...
lunch time... started feeling unwell... my shoulders were damn painful... and heavy migraine!!!! dizzling... and even nausea after eating a few dim sum...
though knowing that i was not feeling well... i headed for the movie as we booked it already! NANA2 and $$ were more impt. and i guessed i could overcome it... after the movie, felt better with the popcorn... no migraine any more.. sweeties can really help relieving migraine in my case... but my body seemed not to be mine... so went for a 'simple' dinner and went home...
slept really early at around 1030!!!
though slept for 9 hours, i didn't recover at all!!!!!! my stomach and abdomen fought together as well... really couldn't go to work and went to the doctor after getting up... took the medicine and congee and slept again...
slept for about 5 hours, dad came home and had a shower... watched TV with dad for 3 hours and slept again...
totally i've slept for 24 hours!!! but how come i'm still soooooo tired? and... maybe my medicine's working now... yesterday, i just had a congee, 3 mini buns and 1 normal size chinese cake... already got very full... today.... i had 1 mini bun + 1 normal size chinese cake + 1 congee and now started another chinese cake.. :P i have my "hungry" feeling back!!!! but my stomach still appears quite 'full'.... :P
anyway, can have rice tonight and simple but normal meals tomorrow! ^^
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
續上篇
(moved from elsewhere)
原來只是 msn 同 space 復原的比較快，其他的還沒好。
每年的年頭總是喜歡回看以前的網誌，總結一下。去年的 internet "disaster" 令我至今不能 update 其他 blogs，有點沮喪，而且很懷念，原來我在 blogger 已經兩年多了，不拘泥於 blog 這個字的話，我成為 "blogger" 已經快六年了，時間過得真的很快！
之前說我要把我的 website 從新粉飾，我打算把所有 archive 都放到新的 site 裡，可行的話我都會盡量保持當時的版面，可幸我都有 backup! ^^
雖然我的 Angel Land 會 relaunched，但這裡會保留喔！
之前跟朋友 email，說到沒有 internet 就像沒靈魂一樣，不能集中精神工作，感覺好恐怖，但有點不能自拔；剛剛回看從前的網誌，看到一篇談迷上、迷戀與沉溺，我們不會已經沉溺在網路世界吧？！
這個有「戒癮所」嗎？
原來只是 msn 同 space 復原的比較快，其他的還沒好。
每年的年頭總是喜歡回看以前的網誌，總結一下。去年的 internet "disaster" 令我至今不能 update 其他 blogs，有點沮喪，而且很懷念，原來我在 blogger 已經兩年多了，不拘泥於 blog 這個字的話，我成為 "blogger" 已經快六年了，時間過得真的很快！
之前說我要把我的 website 從新粉飾，我打算把所有 archive 都放到新的 site 裡，可行的話我都會盡量保持當時的版面，可幸我都有 backup! ^^
雖然我的 Angel Land 會 relaunched，但這裡會保留喔！
之前跟朋友 email，說到沒有 internet 就像沒靈魂一樣，不能集中精神工作，感覺好恐怖，但有點不能自拔；剛剛回看從前的網誌，看到一篇談迷上、迷戀與沉溺，我們不會已經沉溺在網路世界吧？！
這個有「戒癮所」嗎？
Happy New Year!!!!!
(moved from elsewhere)
終於可以連線了！！等了很多天，終於可以 login space 了！Yeah!!
這幾天 internet connection 很慢，又不能 login msn 等即時通，在 office 裡工作都像漫無目的的，加上佳節將至，同事們都無心戀戰似的。
假期過了，工作又開始了，internet 也慢慢恢復過來。在沒有 internet connection 這幾天，心好像頓然開竅有所頓悟；雖然我有很多不同「主題」的網誌，雖然我在很多不同的 blog host platform 都有「帳戶」，但 server 同樣不在香港，連線全部不通。雖然最近不太常更新網誌，但一但沒有了 accessibility，就很掛念，我也等不及了，把荒廢到像前世一樣的 website 從新「開啟」，這一次，也 host 在學校的 server 裡，由西貢變成沙田，但 url 依舊在西貢，因為這是 permanent 的，只是由 student 變成 alumni。
也許這是一個契機讓我真的好好去經營一下我的 website 吧！
終於可以連線了！！等了很多天，終於可以 login space 了！Yeah!!
這幾天 internet connection 很慢，又不能 login msn 等即時通，在 office 裡工作都像漫無目的的，加上佳節將至，同事們都無心戀戰似的。
假期過了，工作又開始了，internet 也慢慢恢復過來。在沒有 internet connection 這幾天，心好像頓然開竅有所頓悟；雖然我有很多不同「主題」的網誌，雖然我在很多不同的 blog host platform 都有「帳戶」，但 server 同樣不在香港，連線全部不通。雖然最近不太常更新網誌，但一但沒有了 accessibility，就很掛念，我也等不及了，把荒廢到像前世一樣的 website 從新「開啟」，這一次，也 host 在學校的 server 裡，由西貢變成沙田，但 url 依舊在西貢，因為這是 permanent 的，只是由 student 變成 alumni。
也許這是一個契機讓我真的好好去經營一下我的 website 吧！
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Christmas Holiday
(moved from elsewhere)
It's almost the end of my long awaited Christmas Holiday.... >.<
Did... seems nothing...
Had a Party with gals... Had a Movie and Christmas Dinner with Tim... then shopping with Mum and Steve for two days... and that's all~
But... had finished shopping for my cousin's Wedding in late Jan.... One of the greatest things during my holiday~ :P
Have to resume work tomorrow la.. Not that refreshing... Another hope for the New Year leave... XDDDD
It's almost the end of my long awaited Christmas Holiday.... >.<
Did... seems nothing...
Had a Party with gals... Had a Movie and Christmas Dinner with Tim... then shopping with Mum and Steve for two days... and that's all~
But... had finished shopping for my cousin's Wedding in late Jan.... One of the greatest things during my holiday~ :P
Have to resume work tomorrow la.. Not that refreshing... Another hope for the New Year leave... XDDDD
Sunday, December 17, 2006
又無訓四十幾個鐘～
(moved from elsewhere)
從星期四早上七點多醒來到現在星期日晚上十一點，四天中我只睡了十三個小時。
現在把事都忙完了，終於有點累的感覺。
我承認我不應該在那麼"煩"忙的日子裡還追看電視，但實在太吸引了。星期四白天已經有事要忙，班也不能上。晚上想好好寫論文，卻一邊看開着YOU TUBE看電視，一邊開着 WORD 寫論文，導致寫了一個通宵還沒完成。星期五是死線，又要多請一天的假。
路途遙遙的去學校交功課，回來本打算好好睡一覺，但我實在沒辦法對抗電視的引誘，連續看到凌晨。因為躺在床上看，一不小心就睡着呢。當我真的熬不過去時，我已經四十二個小時沒睡，大腦沒休息了。
昨天陪媽媽看醫生後就去弄頭髮，把頭髮弄好後立即回家，一來要照顧媽媽，二來當然為快點把電視完成。:P 很久沒試過了，感覺很好。
但還是日劇比較好看，日劇的鋪排好像比較好，到結局時不會令人感到突兀。看台劇或韓劇，很多時候都有一種「現在已經十八集了，不是二十就結局嗎? 怎麼現在還是『故事發現階段』呢? 一點都不像尾聲，好像還有很長的故事喔!」的感覺，可能是在為「續集」鋪路吧。
還有，差不多一年沒有追看「同步」電視啦，現在在追看 ELLA 的新劇。:P 可惜我的電腦都不能 PPSTREAM，也只好在 YOU TUBE 看「短片」囉。
從星期四早上七點多醒來到現在星期日晚上十一點，四天中我只睡了十三個小時。
現在把事都忙完了，終於有點累的感覺。
我承認我不應該在那麼"煩"忙的日子裡還追看電視，但實在太吸引了。星期四白天已經有事要忙，班也不能上。晚上想好好寫論文，卻一邊看開着YOU TUBE看電視，一邊開着 WORD 寫論文，導致寫了一個通宵還沒完成。星期五是死線，又要多請一天的假。
路途遙遙的去學校交功課，回來本打算好好睡一覺，但我實在沒辦法對抗電視的引誘，連續看到凌晨。因為躺在床上看，一不小心就睡着呢。當我真的熬不過去時，我已經四十二個小時沒睡，大腦沒休息了。
昨天陪媽媽看醫生後就去弄頭髮，把頭髮弄好後立即回家，一來要照顧媽媽，二來當然為快點把電視完成。:P 很久沒試過了，感覺很好。
但還是日劇比較好看，日劇的鋪排好像比較好，到結局時不會令人感到突兀。看台劇或韓劇，很多時候都有一種「現在已經十八集了，不是二十就結局嗎? 怎麼現在還是『故事發現階段』呢? 一點都不像尾聲，好像還有很長的故事喔!」的感覺，可能是在為「續集」鋪路吧。
還有，差不多一年沒有追看「同步」電視啦，現在在追看 ELLA 的新劇。:P 可惜我的電腦都不能 PPSTREAM，也只好在 YOU TUBE 看「短片」囉。
I'm back again!
I'm back again...
Announcement: This site is made open publicly again for my friends.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today I heard a not good news. What means by "not good"? "Bad"? No... I don't want it to be a bad news as it was still "half unknown" but definitely it's not a good news; so I make it a "not good news".
Dunno why... can't help... and can only wait. I hate this feelings but seem that we all have to face it as humans.
Hope for the best and God Bless.
You'll be fine and alright. ^_^
Announcement: This site is made open publicly again for my friends.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today I heard a not good news. What means by "not good"? "Bad"? No... I don't want it to be a bad news as it was still "half unknown" but definitely it's not a good news; so I make it a "not good news".
Dunno why... can't help... and can only wait. I hate this feelings but seem that we all have to face it as humans.
Hope for the best and God Bless.
You'll be fine and alright. ^_^
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
我是香港人~ I'm from HK!
(moved from elsewhere)
《小姐，轉機到台北嗎？》
【一】
北京機場經濟艙地勤人員在櫃台喊：「還有沒有人坐 901 轉機到台北?」
沒回應。
她走下來〈真不明白為什麼櫃台要比地面高一點〉問：「有人要轉機到台北嗎？」
她沒有每個都問，但特地走到某些人旁邊問她們，而大部份都要轉機，只是有些比較趕，有些比較遲。
我排在 vip 的櫃台，那個地勤人員突然走過來問：「小姐，要轉機到台北嗎？」
「不，我到香港，謝謝！」
她還是偰而不捨，「到香港後要去台北嗎？」
「不用，我只去香港。」
沒多久，又有另外的地勤人員在喊：「有人要坐 901 轉機到台北嗎？」
這一次人們沸騰起來，但也沒回應。
再一次有人對我說：「小姐，要轉機到台北嗎
「我去香港的，謝謝！」
【二】
好不容易 check in 了〈因為航班 delayed 了，很麻煩〉就去海關。很多人，很混亂，找到一個看似「龍尾」的東西，碰到兩個本來也坐 901 的台灣跟香港出版商，「你也是坐 901 喔，剛剛在那邊有看到你跟他們說趕時間。」
「對呀！」我回。
「要回台北嗎？在香港轉機。」
「我是香港人喔！」
《小姐，上海人嗎？》
【一】
「你不是北京人喔？」
「不是。」
「上海人嗎？」
「我，香港人。」
【二】
「小姐，你要去第一航廈還是第二？因為南航跟廈航在第一，其他的都在第二。」
「我去香港，該是第二吧！」
「那一定是第二啦，不好意思喔，我一直以為你是南方人，要回上海去。」
"Where did you study?"
- One -
"I heard that people in Hong Kong are bilingual and you are..... But I met a few before, their English is not that good. Still have differences in English and Chinese standards, right?"
"umum.... Yup... 'coz the majority speak Cantonese but have to use English at work and at school..."
"Is it the same for every one? You'll really bilingual, only the accents."
"haha... it's basically the same for the same age 'coz we're brought up in English Medium Schools. We're taught in English in every subjects except Chinese and Chinese History."
"So how about Mandarin?"
"Also a subject but only compulsory up to junior high school."
"You did some German in Uni, right?"
"Yup... and in fact still doing..."
"Oh... I just misunderstand that you don't have lessons now. So did you go abroad for Uni.?"
"Nope... also in HK."
"ok...."
- Two -
"btw... where did you study Uni.?"
"Hong Kong"
"Oh.... still in HK... didn't go abroad?"
"No ^_^"
.......
"So and you? Did any Sports?"
"I used to play Softball at school and quite enjoyed Squash and water sports."
......
"I did some cross-training when I was teaching in Uni. and played Australian football and soccer when younger."
"Oh.. that's nice!.. I accompanied my friend before to do some Orienteering too... that's nice! And I love watching Rugby! I've never missed a HK Sevens!!"
"You've really never go abroad for study?"
"No!!! Till now.... :P"
HEY!!!!! I'm from Hong Kong! I was born and educated in Hong Kong!!!
Though I do speak fluent English and Mandarin and a bit German and Japanese for basic communication, I'm a 100% HK People! ^_^ I learn all these in HK, but the exposure to lanaguage is not necessarily be restricted in HK...
《小姐，轉機到台北嗎？》
【一】
北京機場經濟艙地勤人員在櫃台喊：「還有沒有人坐 901 轉機到台北?」
沒回應。
她走下來〈真不明白為什麼櫃台要比地面高一點〉問：「有人要轉機到台北嗎？」
她沒有每個都問，但特地走到某些人旁邊問她們，而大部份都要轉機，只是有些比較趕，有些比較遲。
我排在 vip 的櫃台，那個地勤人員突然走過來問：「小姐，要轉機到台北嗎？」
「不，我到香港，謝謝！」
她還是偰而不捨，「到香港後要去台北嗎？」
「不用，我只去香港。」
沒多久，又有另外的地勤人員在喊：「有人要坐 901 轉機到台北嗎？」
這一次人們沸騰起來，但也沒回應。
再一次有人對我說：「小姐，要轉機到台北嗎
「我去香港的，謝謝！」
【二】
好不容易 check in 了〈因為航班 delayed 了，很麻煩〉就去海關。很多人，很混亂，找到一個看似「龍尾」的東西，碰到兩個本來也坐 901 的台灣跟香港出版商，「你也是坐 901 喔，剛剛在那邊有看到你跟他們說趕時間。」
「對呀！」我回。
「要回台北嗎？在香港轉機。」
「我是香港人喔！」
《小姐，上海人嗎？》
【一】
「你不是北京人喔？」
「不是。」
「上海人嗎？」
「我，香港人。」
【二】
「小姐，你要去第一航廈還是第二？因為南航跟廈航在第一，其他的都在第二。」
「我去香港，該是第二吧！」
「那一定是第二啦，不好意思喔，我一直以為你是南方人，要回上海去。」
"Where did you study?"
- One -
"I heard that people in Hong Kong are bilingual and you are..... But I met a few before, their English is not that good. Still have differences in English and Chinese standards, right?"
"umum.... Yup... 'coz the majority speak Cantonese but have to use English at work and at school..."
"Is it the same for every one? You'll really bilingual, only the accents."
"haha... it's basically the same for the same age 'coz we're brought up in English Medium Schools. We're taught in English in every subjects except Chinese and Chinese History."
"So how about Mandarin?"
"Also a subject but only compulsory up to junior high school."
"You did some German in Uni, right?"
"Yup... and in fact still doing..."
"Oh... I just misunderstand that you don't have lessons now. So did you go abroad for Uni.?"
"Nope... also in HK."
"ok...."
- Two -
"btw... where did you study Uni.?"
"Hong Kong"
"Oh.... still in HK... didn't go abroad?"
"No ^_^"
.......
"So and you? Did any Sports?"
"I used to play Softball at school and quite enjoyed Squash and water sports."
......
"I did some cross-training when I was teaching in Uni. and played Australian football and soccer when younger."
"Oh.. that's nice!.. I accompanied my friend before to do some Orienteering too... that's nice! And I love watching Rugby! I've never missed a HK Sevens!!"
"You've really never go abroad for study?"
"No!!! Till now.... :P"
HEY!!!!! I'm from Hong Kong! I was born and educated in Hong Kong!!!
Though I do speak fluent English and Mandarin and a bit German and Japanese for basic communication, I'm a 100% HK People! ^_^ I learn all these in HK, but the exposure to lanaguage is not necessarily be restricted in HK...
Monday, November 20, 2006
Brokeback Mountain and its Chinese Translation
(moved here)
16/11/2006
As you may remember, I've taken a course about Readings in Translation. No assignments, unless you take the readings as assignment. No test, no midterms but Term Paper. It may sound a bit strange to my 'Engineering' friends 'coz almost all engineering courses involve assignments... i.e. Practical subject that you have to practice!!! For Arts subject, I found it quite popular for master level courses. Anyway, not going to talk about this.
My Paper is now on Cicada by Mr. Lin Huai-min but my first choice was originally Brokeback Mountain. I didn't work on it finally 'coz I really don't like the Chinese version from the first few lines and I don't want to have a Paper with "bias".
My classmate presented her Paper on Brokeback Mountain last night and she showed a clip of the movie too! It was soooooo nice! :D Her points are great too... detailed but personally I won't do it that way. I'm not sure if she deliberately miss out the most important feature of the language used in Brokeback Mountain (and in fact the whole Wyomin stories) but I would definitely work on it if I would have done this! ^_^ It is about the "Wyomin" accents! You could never see the word "of" appears inside the dialouges; you could only see a single letter "a". The single letter "a" appears almost every single sentence inside the dialogue replacing words like "of" "out" "an" and etc. This is an attempt to immitate the Wyoming accents. (though it's quite obvious but it is also from an interview from Annie Proulx) So how this "cowboy" (= lower class) accents be translated to Chinese?
Related to the "colloquial" languages, the "cowboy" and the "homo" imply a very strong "US culture" and it is extraordinary trivial that homo associated with cowboy is a sign of discrimination. So how these can be reflected in Chinese?
These are what I would very much like to hear from my dear classmate but I didn't have the answers last night. Rather, she made a very detailed study on the degress of translation like "over" or "under" in terms of mainly "tone" and "style". She quoted one example that I couldn't agree anymore!!!!
"You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you."
** my note: see? how beautiful the language is! my classmate said she thought it was the most beautiful part / sentence in the whole story! ** my note: Agree! Not only the language but also the tone and the way Annie put it into a sentence. And it is sooooo "visible" to the reader. A simple sentence like that "phrases" Jack's character soooooo much! So it should be a very difficult task to translate this into Chinese and the translator did a very bad job. My classmate said she thought it was the most badly translated part!!!!!!
「你對我太重要了，恩尼司，你這個賤貨婊子養大的雜種。要是我知道怎樣戒掉你就好了。」
天喔！怎麼會是"戒掉"!!! 人家 "quit you" 是很有意境的！人們說「quit smoking」是戒煙，重點不是放在"戒"而是"為甚麼要戒?"，因為"addicted to it" 所以要"戒"所以是"quit"。這裡是對人說"quit you"，引申的意義是"addicted to you (so much) that I could not control myself anymore"，所以 Jack 說"I wish I knew how to quit you"，句式是"I wish + past tense (knew)"，所以我們知道是"不可能"發生的！所以中譯的「要是我知道怎樣戒掉你就好了」是錯(應該說是不完全正確)的演繹。雖然在漢語中這一句也帶有「我現在不知道，希望以前就知道」的意思，但它沒有完全否定以後是否知道，在某一些場景它也可以理解為"對明天抱有一絲希望"。但在英文中"I wish + past tense (knew)"的句式是用來表達「完全不可能 0%」的場景，e.g. 最經典的例子是"I wish I were a bird"！ Jack 的意思不是說"要是我知道就好了"而是"我沒可能把你戒掉"。但「戒掉」一詞還是很"不搭調"。他的意思是「他完全迷溺於對 Ennis 的感情，無法自跋」意境是超級漂亮的！ 中譯本把那個情調、 那個意境通通殺掉！說情調，"You're too much for me" 是非常棒的一句，但中文的「你對我太重要了」完全不對。英文中的"You're too much for me"，"too much" implies "I can't stand it anymore"，有「我不能承受」之意 (在這裡它更有"我再不能承受了"之意)，跟「你對我太重要了」相差甚遠。還有那句"whoreson bitch"也是非常過份的翻譯。雖然 cowboy 是 lower class，用詞比較粗鄙，但你會對着你愛的人說「你這個賤貨婊子養大的雜種」嗎? 恐怕這個在華語系社會中都不太能說通吧！
That's why my classmate said it was "太過份了". True... if you love the original Brokeback Mountain, especially appreciate the language of the story, you would definitely have the same response as we did. (yup... my "comment" is also "太過份了")
Just to share with you guys an example... I may study it in greater details later after I've finished my own Papers... and may be posting some of my ideas.
16/11/2006
As you may remember, I've taken a course about Readings in Translation. No assignments, unless you take the readings as assignment. No test, no midterms but Term Paper. It may sound a bit strange to my 'Engineering' friends 'coz almost all engineering courses involve assignments... i.e. Practical subject that you have to practice!!! For Arts subject, I found it quite popular for master level courses. Anyway, not going to talk about this.
My Paper is now on Cicada by Mr. Lin Huai-min but my first choice was originally Brokeback Mountain. I didn't work on it finally 'coz I really don't like the Chinese version from the first few lines and I don't want to have a Paper with "bias".
My classmate presented her Paper on Brokeback Mountain last night and she showed a clip of the movie too! It was soooooo nice! :D Her points are great too... detailed but personally I won't do it that way. I'm not sure if she deliberately miss out the most important feature of the language used in Brokeback Mountain (and in fact the whole Wyomin stories) but I would definitely work on it if I would have done this! ^_^ It is about the "Wyomin" accents! You could never see the word "of" appears inside the dialouges; you could only see a single letter "a". The single letter "a" appears almost every single sentence inside the dialogue replacing words like "of" "out" "an" and etc. This is an attempt to immitate the Wyoming accents. (though it's quite obvious but it is also from an interview from Annie Proulx) So how this "cowboy" (= lower class) accents be translated to Chinese?
Related to the "colloquial" languages, the "cowboy" and the "homo" imply a very strong "US culture" and it is extraordinary trivial that homo associated with cowboy is a sign of discrimination. So how these can be reflected in Chinese?
These are what I would very much like to hear from my dear classmate but I didn't have the answers last night. Rather, she made a very detailed study on the degress of translation like "over" or "under" in terms of mainly "tone" and "style". She quoted one example that I couldn't agree anymore!!!!
"You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you."
** my note: see? how beautiful the language is! my classmate said she thought it was the most beautiful part / sentence in the whole story! ** my note: Agree! Not only the language but also the tone and the way Annie put it into a sentence. And it is sooooo "visible" to the reader. A simple sentence like that "phrases" Jack's character soooooo much! So it should be a very difficult task to translate this into Chinese and the translator did a very bad job. My classmate said she thought it was the most badly translated part!!!!!!
「你對我太重要了，恩尼司，你這個賤貨婊子養大的雜種。要是我知道怎樣戒掉你就好了。」
天喔！怎麼會是"戒掉"!!! 人家 "quit you" 是很有意境的！人們說「quit smoking」是戒煙，重點不是放在"戒"而是"為甚麼要戒?"，因為"addicted to it" 所以要"戒"所以是"quit"。這裡是對人說"quit you"，引申的意義是"addicted to you (so much) that I could not control myself anymore"，所以 Jack 說"I wish I knew how to quit you"，句式是"I wish + past tense (knew)"，所以我們知道是"不可能"發生的！所以中譯的「要是我知道怎樣戒掉你就好了」是錯(應該說是不完全正確)的演繹。雖然在漢語中這一句也帶有「我現在不知道，希望以前就知道」的意思，但它沒有完全否定以後是否知道，在某一些場景它也可以理解為"對明天抱有一絲希望"。但在英文中"I wish + past tense (knew)"的句式是用來表達「完全不可能 0%」的場景，e.g. 最經典的例子是"I wish I were a bird"！ Jack 的意思不是說"要是我知道就好了"而是"我沒可能把你戒掉"。但「戒掉」一詞還是很"不搭調"。他的意思是「他完全迷溺於對 Ennis 的感情，無法自跋」意境是超級漂亮的！ 中譯本把那個情調、 那個意境通通殺掉！說情調，"You're too much for me" 是非常棒的一句，但中文的「你對我太重要了」完全不對。英文中的"You're too much for me"，"too much" implies "I can't stand it anymore"，有「我不能承受」之意 (在這裡它更有"我再不能承受了"之意)，跟「你對我太重要了」相差甚遠。還有那句"whoreson bitch"也是非常過份的翻譯。雖然 cowboy 是 lower class，用詞比較粗鄙，但你會對着你愛的人說「你這個賤貨婊子養大的雜種」嗎? 恐怕這個在華語系社會中都不太能說通吧！
That's why my classmate said it was "太過份了". True... if you love the original Brokeback Mountain, especially appreciate the language of the story, you would definitely have the same response as we did. (yup... my "comment" is also "太過份了")
Just to share with you guys an example... I may study it in greater details later after I've finished my own Papers... and may be posting some of my ideas.
Tokyo Juliet
(moved from elsewhere)
Tokyo Juliet - the only one in 2006 drove me crazy! Not yet 24 hours but I've been watching from probably 4 or 5 pm to 9:30 am the next morning!
Great Show! :P
The next one I'm waiting is the one by Ella; another Japanese comic adapted drama! ^_^
Tokyo Juliet - the only one in 2006 drove me crazy! Not yet 24 hours but I've been watching from probably 4 or 5 pm to 9:30 am the next morning!
Great Show! :P
The next one I'm waiting is the one by Ella; another Japanese comic adapted drama! ^_^
Thursday, November 16, 2006
誤打誤撞的 mocha~
(moved from elsewhere)
15/11/06
We have Blue Mountain and Nescafe Gold Instant in office. Every morning, our MD will make the coffee by himself and share with us (meaning leave the whole pot in the pantry). Usually the colleagues will pour in either the whole or skimmed milk in fridge instead of using cream powder or liquid cream.
This morning, I bought a chocolate milk back to the office without any reasons 'coz usu. I would have bought a soya milk (at most it's the malted one). After having a few sips, I went to the pantry for some water. Then suddenly I thought of Mocha.
"umum... usu. we pour 'white' milk and it tastes like Latte ['coz I really pour half-half!!! :P], today I have chocolate milk ar... then it would be mocha!!! Let's try!!!!" I thought.
Then I poured half cup of coffee from the machine and filled my bottle with warm water and left the pantry for my delicious chocolate milk!! I poured the chocolate milk into the coffee to fill up the half cup. ooooooohhhhhh.... it really tastes like Mocha! God! I've made my own! haha~ never thought of it! (hey... it's in fact on of the easiest thing in World woh...) yup... it's simple but i've never done that and sorry...... i've never thought of it... i always think that Mocah has some magic behind! I now understand... both Latte and Mocha... the magic is good coffee (blue mountain in fact quite fit into it but sometimes ppl may think a waste of not hving black blue mountain) and..... very importantly... WHOLE milk!!!!
Trust me, WHOLE milk will make the whole thing FULL and taste right! Let's sacrifice other fatty food for this if u love Latte / Mocha! ^_^
15/11/06
We have Blue Mountain and Nescafe Gold Instant in office. Every morning, our MD will make the coffee by himself and share with us (meaning leave the whole pot in the pantry). Usually the colleagues will pour in either the whole or skimmed milk in fridge instead of using cream powder or liquid cream.
This morning, I bought a chocolate milk back to the office without any reasons 'coz usu. I would have bought a soya milk (at most it's the malted one). After having a few sips, I went to the pantry for some water. Then suddenly I thought of Mocha.
"umum... usu. we pour 'white' milk and it tastes like Latte ['coz I really pour half-half!!! :P], today I have chocolate milk ar... then it would be mocha!!! Let's try!!!!" I thought.
Then I poured half cup of coffee from the machine and filled my bottle with warm water and left the pantry for my delicious chocolate milk!! I poured the chocolate milk into the coffee to fill up the half cup. ooooooohhhhhh.... it really tastes like Mocha! God! I've made my own! haha~ never thought of it! (hey... it's in fact on of the easiest thing in World woh...) yup... it's simple but i've never done that and sorry...... i've never thought of it... i always think that Mocah has some magic behind! I now understand... both Latte and Mocha... the magic is good coffee (blue mountain in fact quite fit into it but sometimes ppl may think a waste of not hving black blue mountain) and..... very importantly... WHOLE milk!!!!
Trust me, WHOLE milk will make the whole thing FULL and taste right! Let's sacrifice other fatty food for this if u love Latte / Mocha! ^_^
Backup and Recovery
(moved from elsewhere)
14/11/2006
Finally I decided to format my computer and done most of the backup on Monday night. It was quite surprised to realize how many Photos we have (both Steve and I... 'coz we shared the computer for a while since his broken and he hadn't bought a new one before Uni.)
Unfortunately I dun have a card reader and my DC is out of battery... my 2GB memory card did no contribution to my backup. I've used up all kinds of memory devices I could have in hand (and on the net)... Memory Stick, school FTP sites, my website's FTP site... and grateful to the Webshots... ^_^ but still... as the uploading speed is not too fast, i couldn't got to bed at 2 am!!!
Very happy to receive my "early" Christmas Gift from Tim, a 160 GB external harddisk! I could use it for backup la!!!
umum... but this Christmas Gift seems to be a bit "technical"... haha~ let's still go for a fine dinner!
14/11/2006
Finally I decided to format my computer and done most of the backup on Monday night. It was quite surprised to realize how many Photos we have (both Steve and I... 'coz we shared the computer for a while since his broken and he hadn't bought a new one before Uni.)
Unfortunately I dun have a card reader and my DC is out of battery... my 2GB memory card did no contribution to my backup. I've used up all kinds of memory devices I could have in hand (and on the net)... Memory Stick, school FTP sites, my website's FTP site... and grateful to the Webshots... ^_^ but still... as the uploading speed is not too fast, i couldn't got to bed at 2 am!!!
Very happy to receive my "early" Christmas Gift from Tim, a 160 GB external harddisk! I could use it for backup la!!!
umum... but this Christmas Gift seems to be a bit "technical"... haha~ let's still go for a fine dinner!
Monday, November 13, 2006
my IE is being kidnapped......
(move from elsewhere)
Damn......
i just shut down the firewall for 30 minutes to transfer some files then i was attacked by those mainlanders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goddamn it!!!!!! I still got my anti-virus running!!!!!
And... i didn't visit any chinese websites these days at home, not even saying those mainland chinese one... the only "chinese" websites i've visited are the "webmail" and "webct". Strange......
It just installed automatically and u can't uninstall it!!! And nothing can be done onto it! I've modified the Register, Service and even used the DOS environment to delete it....
It's time for a formatting... that's good...
Damn......
i just shut down the firewall for 30 minutes to transfer some files then i was attacked by those mainlanders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goddamn it!!!!!! I still got my anti-virus running!!!!!
And... i didn't visit any chinese websites these days at home, not even saying those mainland chinese one... the only "chinese" websites i've visited are the "webmail" and "webct". Strange......
It just installed automatically and u can't uninstall it!!! And nothing can be done onto it! I've modified the Register, Service and even used the DOS environment to delete it....
It's time for a formatting... that's good...
Saturday, October 21, 2006
My 1st Birthday Party this year...
Thanks for "organizing" the "party" for me...
今年第一個慶生的party是一個 surprise~
我想其實那只是湊巧，不過也非常謝謝你！
我很喜歡這裡，但這裡沒有跟 IM 連上，比較"不好 promote" :p
也因為這樣，會來的都是老朋友，我會繼續在這裡記錄，為他們，也為我自己，因為這是我的成長印記。
但我不會再 "promote" 這裡了，如此一來這裡的讀者跟我有更深的感情，更多的默契，許多事都不需要過多的解說。
讀者們: 默契是培養出來的，我相信我們之間有的，所以你會懂我在說甚麼，也該知道我當下的心情吧！
今年第一個慶生的party是一個 surprise~
我想其實那只是湊巧，不過也非常謝謝你！
我很喜歡這裡，但這裡沒有跟 IM 連上，比較"不好 promote" :p
也因為這樣，會來的都是老朋友，我會繼續在這裡記錄，為他們，也為我自己，因為這是我的成長印記。
但我不會再 "promote" 這裡了，如此一來這裡的讀者跟我有更深的感情，更多的默契，許多事都不需要過多的解說。
讀者們: 默契是培養出來的，我相信我們之間有的，所以你會懂我在說甚麼，也該知道我當下的心情吧！
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Busy weeks...
(moved from elsewhere)
Busy Busy and Busy... been busy for a while, both work and study... even didn't do the German assignment!!! am still thinking of quitting it but I really don't want to waste what I've learnt... for learning languages, if you don't keep on, you just lose it... I know it too well after the 3 years' so-called English training... for Japanese lucky that we hv many TV dramas and movies to watch!
For the translation courses, I've finished the Paper Abstract for my Core Course and already got the grade back. Satisfactory result but I'm now worrying if I could do what my Prof. expected. I'm not worried about the analysis provided that I hv enough time. My biggest problem and concern encountered to date towards my study is the Super Lack of Time! And for the elective course, I'm even having my Paper Presentation next week! I guess it would cover 2 to 3 out of 5 aspects that I would like to focus in the Paper and for each aspects, 1/3 of examples will be presented. My Paper has not a single letter yet... but all ideas are in my mind! I think it should be okay. Unless the Xerox works!!!!
Really damn it! I've to choose 10 papges from the original and find out corresponding translation. I would be an easier task if I'm doing Novels. I just extract half of a chapter will do... but mine is a Short / "Medium" Story which is about 200 pages as a whole without any chapters! How could I extract 10 "representative" pages from it? It's a hard task. Anyway, finally I've extracted 15 pages from the original and 13 from the translation. Hope that's acceptable! :P
Also very busy with the Trip planning! At last finished all bookings! the Eurostar and the Accomodations! Details about metro / travel card is done too! what's left behind is a detailed planned routes for the 4 days in Paris!! With a wish to enjoy more a Parisien life, we sacrifice Barcelona. Lovely Barcelona, let's see next time! ^_^
Will head for a Seminar / Training in Beijing in end Nov for 2 days... nice trip... hope so.. :P
Originally got online to share my study experience esp. the progress of my Papers and a few current affair issues but now...... :P got distracted by...... probably myself!
After the Europe Trip, next stop will be Japan of 80% sure unless $$.... Taiwan, Singapore, Shanghai, Thailand etc. are not counted as these are like the Resort! For refreshing and relaxing oneself! But Europe, Japan, South America, Middle Asia etc. are for excursion AND shopping! haha~
It's already 2 now... got to sleep or I'll be late again!
P.S. Just found (not really just... already half a month ago) a few interesting Blogs to share with you..... still not asked the 'blogger' for his / her permission so can't disclose yet... Check out later... really intersesting TO ME.... Note that it's TO ME! (If you know me well, you'll know if these blogs are of your interest without seeing them!)
Busy Busy and Busy... been busy for a while, both work and study... even didn't do the German assignment!!! am still thinking of quitting it but I really don't want to waste what I've learnt... for learning languages, if you don't keep on, you just lose it... I know it too well after the 3 years' so-called English training... for Japanese lucky that we hv many TV dramas and movies to watch!
For the translation courses, I've finished the Paper Abstract for my Core Course and already got the grade back. Satisfactory result but I'm now worrying if I could do what my Prof. expected. I'm not worried about the analysis provided that I hv enough time. My biggest problem and concern encountered to date towards my study is the Super Lack of Time! And for the elective course, I'm even having my Paper Presentation next week! I guess it would cover 2 to 3 out of 5 aspects that I would like to focus in the Paper and for each aspects, 1/3 of examples will be presented. My Paper has not a single letter yet... but all ideas are in my mind! I think it should be okay. Unless the Xerox works!!!!
Really damn it! I've to choose 10 papges from the original and find out corresponding translation. I would be an easier task if I'm doing Novels. I just extract half of a chapter will do... but mine is a Short / "Medium" Story which is about 200 pages as a whole without any chapters! How could I extract 10 "representative" pages from it? It's a hard task. Anyway, finally I've extracted 15 pages from the original and 13 from the translation. Hope that's acceptable! :P
Also very busy with the Trip planning! At last finished all bookings! the Eurostar and the Accomodations! Details about metro / travel card is done too! what's left behind is a detailed planned routes for the 4 days in Paris!! With a wish to enjoy more a Parisien life, we sacrifice Barcelona. Lovely Barcelona, let's see next time! ^_^
Will head for a Seminar / Training in Beijing in end Nov for 2 days... nice trip... hope so.. :P
Originally got online to share my study experience esp. the progress of my Papers and a few current affair issues but now...... :P got distracted by...... probably myself!
After the Europe Trip, next stop will be Japan of 80% sure unless $$.... Taiwan, Singapore, Shanghai, Thailand etc. are not counted as these are like the Resort! For refreshing and relaxing oneself! But Europe, Japan, South America, Middle Asia etc. are for excursion AND shopping! haha~
It's already 2 now... got to sleep or I'll be late again!
P.S. Just found (not really just... already half a month ago) a few interesting Blogs to share with you..... still not asked the 'blogger' for his / her permission so can't disclose yet... Check out later... really intersesting TO ME.... Note that it's TO ME! (If you know me well, you'll know if these blogs are of your interest without seeing them!)
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Recent Life
Been busy with schools... readings and papers... bunches of readings waiting for me!!! :P And my German and Japanese homeworks... many 'workbook exercises' and writing exercises for my German, also Presentation to prepared!!! For my Japanese, actually I've suspended my class for about a month and now starting it again! So have to catch up with others in class and thus many Grammar book readings!
So not surprisingly not much time for me to manage my blogs. However as I'll been writing busy writing during my courseworks, I try to post some articles to share with you my research progress.
Here's my another blog entry a few days ago, re-posted here:
School already started on 4th September. Busy working and busy studying.
Many reading materials and two Term Papers to finish.
Originally I was taking Introduction to P/E Interpreting; but after one lecture, I talked to my teacher and she suggested that the course next term might be more relevant for me. After obtaining her 'permission' to sit-in sort of 'officially' -- to practise short memory under pressure and Putonghua according to my teacher, I dropped the course and added my 2nd choice: Readings in Translated Works.
It's very interesting to read the literary pieces in both Chinese and English; and to analyse them from the 'translation' point of view. It's different from what I had experienced before when doing the Humanities courses. We were told a bit about the background but not that much; we were not analysing the pieces according to the cultures or politics at that time, rather we were examining the differences in style or language usage in the translated works. How the translated works miss out important message of the piece by altering the style or use of words? This is what I learnt from last lecture. I understand I have to read through the readings and to find out more 'differences' or 'similarities' among the two, but I do not have time yet. :( Probably, I'll try finishing it by this week. Tomorrow I'm having the class again, and this time even more interesting: Sex and the City.
BUT what's more important: I still haven't decided a book for my Term Paper!!!!! >O< Lucky is that I am not required to hand in any Abstract or Outline beforehand.
For my core course, I've already decided my research topic and discussed with my Professor. It falls into neither one of the 'big topics' suggested by the Prof. so I wondered if it's irrelevant to my course before talking to my Prof.!! However, after talking to my Prof., I wondered if it was a bit easy or too simple for a Master Paper as he said, 'It's simple, you know how to do it'. Luckily, after clarification, I know that no scholars had carried out similar research (ooo... God! Then how can I do the critical review?), or better say no scholars had analysed the pieces from that perpective. I asked if I should change to another Topic, like those Empirical field research, but my Prof. sort of encouraged me to carry on saying that the topic's interesting and meaningful (only if I could manage to do it and really have done it "well"). So... my topic's decided and I've been writing my Abstract! Hope that I could really manage it!
BTW, don't know if I talked to my Prof. in Putonghua or I talked about Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway and 白先勇, he first asked if I was taking Literature before, when he knew that I was from EE, he was sort of shocking, I could tell. When he knew that I was from 'UST', he first asked which 'UST' wondering if it's one of those in China or Taiwan (In fact I couldn't hear the name of places he said, I just guess what he's thinking 'coz when I said HK, he said, "o.. is HK?")? When he knew that it was HKUST, he still asked if I was brought up in HK?
Personally I would be more grateful if it's 'coz my Perspectives than of my Putonghua. :P
So not surprisingly not much time for me to manage my blogs. However as I'll been writing busy writing during my courseworks, I try to post some articles to share with you my research progress.
Here's my another blog entry a few days ago, re-posted here:
School already started on 4th September. Busy working and busy studying.
Many reading materials and two Term Papers to finish.
Originally I was taking Introduction to P/E Interpreting; but after one lecture, I talked to my teacher and she suggested that the course next term might be more relevant for me. After obtaining her 'permission' to sit-in sort of 'officially' -- to practise short memory under pressure and Putonghua according to my teacher, I dropped the course and added my 2nd choice: Readings in Translated Works.
It's very interesting to read the literary pieces in both Chinese and English; and to analyse them from the 'translation' point of view. It's different from what I had experienced before when doing the Humanities courses. We were told a bit about the background but not that much; we were not analysing the pieces according to the cultures or politics at that time, rather we were examining the differences in style or language usage in the translated works. How the translated works miss out important message of the piece by altering the style or use of words? This is what I learnt from last lecture. I understand I have to read through the readings and to find out more 'differences' or 'similarities' among the two, but I do not have time yet. :( Probably, I'll try finishing it by this week. Tomorrow I'm having the class again, and this time even more interesting: Sex and the City.
BUT what's more important: I still haven't decided a book for my Term Paper!!!!! >O< Lucky is that I am not required to hand in any Abstract or Outline beforehand.
For my core course, I've already decided my research topic and discussed with my Professor. It falls into neither one of the 'big topics' suggested by the Prof. so I wondered if it's irrelevant to my course before talking to my Prof.!! However, after talking to my Prof., I wondered if it was a bit easy or too simple for a Master Paper as he said, 'It's simple, you know how to do it'. Luckily, after clarification, I know that no scholars had carried out similar research (ooo... God! Then how can I do the critical review?), or better say no scholars had analysed the pieces from that perpective. I asked if I should change to another Topic, like those Empirical field research, but my Prof. sort of encouraged me to carry on saying that the topic's interesting and meaningful (only if I could manage to do it and really have done it "well"). So... my topic's decided and I've been writing my Abstract! Hope that I could really manage it!
BTW, don't know if I talked to my Prof. in Putonghua or I talked about Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway and 白先勇, he first asked if I was taking Literature before, when he knew that I was from EE, he was sort of shocking, I could tell. When he knew that I was from 'UST', he first asked which 'UST' wondering if it's one of those in China or Taiwan (In fact I couldn't hear the name of places he said, I just guess what he's thinking 'coz when I said HK, he said, "o.. is HK?")? When he knew that it was HKUST, he still asked if I was brought up in HK?
Personally I would be more grateful if it's 'coz my Perspectives than of my Putonghua. :P
Monday, August 28, 2006
28 August 2006
Yet another month haven't written something here, got many to say but too little time for me to write.
Am now working in the office, busy but bored. Need some refreshment I know but I still haven't done anything :P
Many tasks waiting me to finish, many reports to write and many to check, but my brain's not working at all! Damn…
Anyway, I'm not going to write anymore on this boring topic. Let's talk about how I try to refresh myself.
I'm setting off for Europe right after my birthday in October! Though I've booked and paid for the return ticket to London, I haven't decided other destinations! I guess I would definitely go to Paris as the Eurostar only takes up around 4 hours (incl. all traveling time and time difference) I would very much like to go to Barcelona too… despite the tight schedule that it may not be ‘workable’. Umum… better faster decided which sightseeing spots and/or museums to visit and what outlets, stores and/or other attractions to go!!!! :D Luckily Vicky had suggested me a lot of attractions in London and Paris and she promised to stay at home the weekend I'm there being my host!!! Sweet Vicky! And so do Maggie and Libbie! Great cousins!
Besides going out of town, I watched 2 Japanese movies recently! Great… to me… 'coz it helps me refresh myself. I read 2 volumes of Death Note in Taiwan before but never finished the whole series. Frankly, I didn't have a ‘high intention’ to watch it at the 1st place; simply 'coz I really wanna watch a movie, then go for it. At least, the movie had Tatsuya Fujiwara! Well… the movie's ok, not exceptionally good but definitely not bad. A bit disappointed is Tatsuya, maybe I have a very high expectation on him. My impression is not sharp enough and didn't appear smart enough. He could be better I do believe. So waiting for the Finale (is it?) in November!
Am now working in the office, busy but bored. Need some refreshment I know but I still haven't done anything :P
Many tasks waiting me to finish, many reports to write and many to check, but my brain's not working at all! Damn…
Anyway, I'm not going to write anymore on this boring topic. Let's talk about how I try to refresh myself.
I'm setting off for Europe right after my birthday in October! Though I've booked and paid for the return ticket to London, I haven't decided other destinations! I guess I would definitely go to Paris as the Eurostar only takes up around 4 hours (incl. all traveling time and time difference) I would very much like to go to Barcelona too… despite the tight schedule that it may not be ‘workable’. Umum… better faster decided which sightseeing spots and/or museums to visit and what outlets, stores and/or other attractions to go!!!! :D Luckily Vicky had suggested me a lot of attractions in London and Paris and she promised to stay at home the weekend I'm there being my host!!! Sweet Vicky! And so do Maggie and Libbie! Great cousins!
Besides going out of town, I watched 2 Japanese movies recently! Great… to me… 'coz it helps me refresh myself. I read 2 volumes of Death Note in Taiwan before but never finished the whole series. Frankly, I didn't have a ‘high intention’ to watch it at the 1st place; simply 'coz I really wanna watch a movie, then go for it. At least, the movie had Tatsuya Fujiwara! Well… the movie's ok, not exceptionally good but definitely not bad. A bit disappointed is Tatsuya, maybe I have a very high expectation on him. My impression is not sharp enough and didn't appear smart enough. He could be better I do believe. So waiting for the Finale (is it?) in November!
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Europe Trip
am planning my 1st Europe Trip! Soooooooooooo Excited yet frightening! :P 'coz u can't speak English in Europe.. n am NOT going to Germany (strange thing in fact.. esp. I planned to go during October.. Oktoberfest...) or German-speaking countries... so the biggest problem is COMMUNICATION!!!! strange...
Anybody has info. for me? my prelim. iternary is: Hong Kong -> London -> Paris -> Barcelona -> Hong Kong! Great!! ^_^
I've... already flown there~ ;P
Anybody has info. for me? my prelim. iternary is: Hong Kong -> London -> Paris -> Barcelona -> Hong Kong! Great!! ^_^
I've... already flown there~ ;P
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