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    June 30

    西安之行

    好久没有更新这里了。写点什么吧,每次想到还要写一遍英文就懒得动手了。唉唉。其实我是个非常懒的人,更懒得写游记了。写了估计也没人看!幸亏室友的照片还是拍的相当的不错。呵呵。这次西安之行是我和两位室友的毕业旅行,将来有谁要去西安咨询我啊!

     

    Haven’t updated this BLOG for a long time! I’m too lazy to move my fingers each time it occurs to me that I have to write in English. Alas~~ I am a very lazy man indeed. Let alone writing BLOG… There are not many readers either. Anyway, the photos taken by my roomie is fairly good! Hah! It is the graduation trip of my two roomies and me. If there is anyone who wanna go to Xian, you can consult me:)

    May 17

    我的生日和地震 My Birthday and the Earthquake

    中文:

    我最近非常非常的忙。我记得那天我上午9点离开宿舍晚上12点回到宿舍。几乎没有时间来更新博客。

    5月6日是我生日。同时也是我用英语写博客一周年。那天我邀请了几个好朋友去海底捞吃饭。我们玩的挺开心。然后突然一群服务员走上来并围住了我。他们其中一个拿着一个插着蜡烛的水果盘子。并且他们都唱着生日快乐歌。真是个惊喜!另外一个服务员还给了我一个丝绸做的心形香袋。真是太意外了!现在想来仍然挺惊奇他们是如何得知我生日的!真是不敢相信我的第一个生日惊喜居然是来自一个饭馆的陌生人。

    地震。有时候我想既然上帝如此强大,为什么不直接让每个人永远幸福快乐就行了?我周围的人在谈论地震的时候看起来挺难过的。我不知道。也许是离北京太远了,我并不是感觉很强烈。我的意思是说,是很糟糕,因为我们的同类正在那里死去。但是我不是太在意。也许下周我也该去捐点钱。但是内心上,我确实不是太在意。

    English:

    I was very very busy these days. I remember one day I just left dormitory at 9am and came back by 12pm. Hardly did I get time to update this BLOG.

    May 6th. was my birthday. And also was an anniversary of my writing BLOG in English. On that day, I invited some of my good friends to have dinner at HaiDiLao. We were happily talking and it was a good time. Then suddenly the waiters and the waitresses were coming forward and gathering around me. And one of them was hold a plate on which there were some fruites and candles. And they were all singing "Happy Birthday". It was really a surprise! Another one of them gave me a heart pendant which are made of silk. It was really a big big surprise! It is still a wonder to me how could they know it was my birthday!? I can't believe my first birthday surprise came from some strangers of a restaurant.

    The earthquake. Sometimes it occurs to me if God is so powerful, why doesn't he just let everybody live happily everafter. People around looked sad when they were talking about the big earthquake. I don't know. Maybe it is just far away from Beijing, I don't feel that strongly. I mean, it's bad, because people who are like us are dying out there. But I don't really that care. Maybe next week I should donate some money too, but deep down I don't really give a shit.

    March 02

    我们活着为了什么?What do we live for?

    中文:

    “时间就像是乳沟。只要越挤总是有的。”这个笑话着实让我大笑了一番,虽然我至今还没有任何机会挤人的乳房。但是我们为什么要挤呢?挤出来的时间用来干什么?我们活着为了什么?

    “我们的人生为了什么?”我问我的室友ACME。他说:“不为什么。人生就像是一次旅行。你只要享受过程就可以了。你所要做的只是让路边的风景更加美丽。”是啊。他说的很有道理。这让我想起了以前室友Vic的话。“我的人生就是为了成为宇宙之王。世界上所有人都会永远记住我的名字。”我把他的话当作一个比喻。他真正想说的估计是“我想成名”之类的。

    我这学期在找做实习,虽然我至今还没有找到。上个礼拜我从VMware得到第一个面试。我遇到了一个很牛的中年女性部门主管。她看起来如此的普通,以至于当她告诉我她毕业于斯坦福并在硅谷工作了十年,我都难以置信。这让我当时感觉十分渺小。我比她差太多了。当我到她那个年纪的时候我会是什么样?比她牛?跟她差不多?还是差太多了?我以前对自己是如此自信,但是当她问我:“你的口语足够好么?”我疑惑了。我本想说:“那当然!试试我!”但我迟疑了。我没有足够的自信在一个在美国待了几十年的人面前说英语。

    我们活着为了什么呢?我想每个人都有自己的答案。我的答案还不确定。但我想大概应该是:“做我自己。自信。我不需要成为任何人。有一天我也能有杰出的成就。”我向上帝发誓,如果再给我一次机会,我会说英语的,虽然我还是觉得在这样一个牛人面前说英语一定会让自己看起来像白痴。

    English:

    "Time is like the hollow between a woman's breasts. You can see their existence as long as you push hard. " This joke makes me laugh really bad though I haven't got any chance to push anyone's breasts. But why do we push? What do we do with the the saved time? What do we live for?

    "What is the destiny of our life?" I asked my roomie ACME. He said:" Nothing. Life is like a journey. You just enjoy the process of it. What you have to do is to make the side view more beautiful." Oh. He did make a lot of sense. This reminded me of what my old roomie Vic said. "The destiny of my life is to be the king of the universe. And everybody in the wide world will stilll remember my name after centuries. " I thought it was a figure of speech. What he really wanted to say is something like: " I want to be famous".

    I was looking for some intern job this semester, though I still haven't got any yet. Last week, I got my first interview from VMware. I met this very tough middle-aged woman who is the manager of the department. She looked so common that when she told me that she graduated from Stanford and had worked in Silicon Valley for decades, I could hardly believe her. It really made me feel small. I am far less tough than her. How would I look when I were in her age? Better than her? As good as her? Or far not as good as her? I used to be very confident of my self, but when she asked me:" Is your oral English good enough?", I wondered. I wanted to say:" Of couse! Try me!" But I hesitated. I didn't have enough confidence to speak English in front of a woman who lived in American for decades.

    So, what do we live for? I think everybody will has his own answer. My answer is not definite. But I think it should be something like: " Be myself. And have faith. I don't have to be anybody else. One day, I can do extraordiary myself. " I swear to God, if I were given a second chance, I would speak in ENGLISH, even though I still think I would make myself like a fool to speek English in front of such a tough woman.

    February 28

    Just say something

    中文:

    很长时间没有更新我的BLOG了甚至都忘了怎么写了:)在《越狱》里面,迈克·斯科菲尔德曾经说过:“欲改变世界,先改变自己。”是啊,这句话在我看来挺有道理的。我相信在多数人的眼中,我是一个性格温和的人,好好先生。提起我,我猜大多数我的朋友会说:“哦,×××,这人很好琢磨。”

    大约一个月前我回家过春节,我想给家里一点小小的惊喜。我新带了一副自以为酷的眼镜。我把头发稍微搞长了一点并带点韩国味。我为我的父母带去了我重来没有准备过的礼物。我甚至比预期提早一天回到了家。我认为自己已经做了挺多改变的了,可是结果我的父母,七大姑八大姨,兄弟姐妹,好像都拿这些挺正常的。天,我还甚至担心他们会不会接受不了呢。

    最后我想通了。对所有人来说,这确实正常!是我自己太落伍了,总是观念陈旧。也许尝试“新我”是个不错的注意。并不需要脱胎换骨,但是每天能够超越自己就好。

    顺便说一句,从今天起,我会更新我的BLOG更勤一些。我会随意讲一些我所见所闻所经历的故事。

    English:

    Haven't updated my BLOG for so long a time that I even start to forget how to write:) In Prison Break, Michael Scofield ever said:" Be the change you want to see in the world." Yeah, it does make a lot of sense to me. I  believe in most people's eyes, I am a nice-tempered guy, always trying to be good to everybody. Mention me, I believe most of my friends would say:" Oh, ***, so predictable. "

    I went back home about a month ago  to take my vocation of spring festival and I tried to give my famlity a little surprise. I wore a new pair of glasses which I thought were cool. I made my hair a little longer and a little korean-styled. I bought some presents with me for my parents, which I'd  never done before. I even reached home one day earlier than the day I was supposed to arrive. I thoght I'd made a lot of changes, but it turned out that my parents, my uncles, my aunts, my brothers, my sisters, everyone took them quite normal. God, I was even worried about if it was too big a surprise for them to accept.

    Finally I figured this out. It WAS normal, to everybody! It was me who was out-fashioned and thought everything in stereotype. Maybe it is a good idea to try to be a new-me. It don't have to be brand-new. But everyday just try to outdo myself a little bit.

    By the way, from today on, I will try to update my BLOG more frequently. I'll casually tell stories that I heard, I saw, or I was through.

    January 25

    怀旧经典《金剑雕翎》

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    前些日子我室友搜出来的片子。我当时看了一眼,觉得画面很老,就说:“这什么破片啊?”他说:“这你都没看过?你听主题曲一定能想起来。”“是吗?”我一听,真的非常熟悉,虽然现在只记得“英雄出少年”这一句歌词了,但是确实是小时候最喜爱的武侠之一。歌词太经典了,剧情也经典,忍不住去优酷看了一遍,又忍不住写成BLOG和大家分享。这次就不用英语了,用英语来写这些中华的经典武侠实在是太煞风景了,就当“本座”食言一次好了。哈哈。有兴趣的话大家也可以去看看,先在百度搜“优酷”,再在“优酷”搜“金剑雕翎”就行了。

    和我差不多年龄的人应该还能对画面中的这些人物有点印象吧。

    萧翎,从不懂事的小孩到一代大侠,几乎是我那个时代的所有小孩曾经幻象成为的英雄。萧翎的人品超好,为我所敬佩。别人以诚待己,自己也以诚相待,还不算什么;难能可贵的是沈木风屡次三番加害萧翎,萧翎每次依然待他以诚,给他改过自新的机会。其中有一段萧翎和他两个“结义兄弟”间的对话——

    周兆龙:“萧翎,你别让人笑掉了大牙了。武林中人人是利字当先,利之所在,‘义’字退位。更何况你我三人那种结义,根本就是沈木风要想杀你,而希望你因此毫无戒心的一种手段而已。”

    萧翎:“真是这样么,大哥?”

    沈木风:“你何必这样还问我。相信是还是不是你心中也早已有数了。”

    萧翎:“我知道,其实我心里一直都知道。但是我萧翎宁信圣贤书中‘兄长如父’之训示。心想,既然与两位大哥结义,致死就应该守誓如初。”

    好一个“我萧翎宁信圣贤书中‘兄长如父’之训示”。只是在当今这个人人力求自身利益最大化的世界上这种重情重义的“傻子”实在少的可怜。唉。

    岳小钗,漂亮、聪明、善良,还温柔体贴、善解人意。大多数男人心目中的完美女人。最难得的是居然事事必为他人着想,甚至对敌人亦是如此。最大的缺点是没有缺点,世上真的存在这种女人?有一段她和之前一直试图擒她的蓝玉堂之间的对话——

    蓝玉堂:“为什么?为什么你还要救我?”

    岳小钗:“人与人之间的相处,不完全是厉害相结的。不是吗?”递给蓝玉堂一枚丹药,“服下它。相信你不会怀疑它不是伤药吧。”

    蓝玉堂叹了一口气,服下:“记住,蓝玉堂欠你一次救命之情。”

    岳小钗:“我不会记得的。就算你我下次再度为敌,你仍然可以对我尽施手段。至于我呢……”

    蓝玉堂:“如何?”

    岳小钗:“说不定为了自保,只好跟你全力一搏了。”

    蓝玉堂一笑:“那又何必呢。为什么不现在就杀了我,以免后患?”

    岳小钗:“那倒不然。说不定将来你我不再成为仇人呢?”

    蓝玉堂又笑:“很难。”

    岳小钗一笑:“我知道。虽然只有那么一丝小小的希望,何妨一赌。”

    岳小钗真是和萧翎一对活宝。“何妨一赌”,纵然知道赌的可能是自己的身家性命,为了一个敌人的性命,还是愿意一赌。

    百里冰,古怪、精灵、可爱,爱耍小脾气,对萧翎却是一片痴情。我还是比较喜欢这种类型,跟这种女人在一起永远不会闷。有一段挺好玩的——

    看到百里冰,萧翎:“百里冰!”

    百里冰转身欲走:“冤家。哼!”

    看到唐娟,萧翎:“唐姑娘!”

    百里冰停步回头看唐娟:“你也认识他?”

    唐娟:“岂止认识?他可害得我姐姐唐佳差点为他殉情。”

    对着萧翎,眼光鄙夷,百里冰:“哼!大情圣,西莫狂沙、长江的怒涛也难抵挡的住你盖世的风流吧!”

    萧翎一脸无奈:“好!我认了!”意欲离去。

    唐娟拿剑挡住:“站住!”

    萧翎推剑离去:“莫名奇妙!”

    百里冰看着萧翎的背影:“萧翎!哼!该死的萧翎!”

    唐娟:“可恶的萧翎!我不杀你誓不甘休!”

    百里冰转头对唐娟:“你敢!”

    唐娟疑惑:“你不也说他该死么?”

    百里冰:“我……”

    唐娟:“请问姑娘跟萧翎的关系是……”

    百里冰:“不知道!”快步离去。

    唐娟疑惑自言自语:“这个姑娘的脾气好奇怪啊……”

    好个外刚内柔的姑娘,赌气要杀萧翎,却不允许别人杀。这扭头一句“你敢!”真情流露,真是可爱至极。

    蓝玉堂,冷酷、机智、孤僻,内心深处却也埋着侠义与爱,是我心目中真正的男人的样子。其中有一段蓝玉堂与武功高绝的三笑神君间的对话——

    蓝玉堂:“师祖爷,他是本座的属下。”

    三笑神君:“本座?你对谁自称本座!?”

    蓝玉堂:“本座乃七海连环岛的少君主。碍于我舅舅的面子上,尊称你一声师祖爷。但望你也能知宽容,否则……”

    三笑神君:“否则?否则怎么样!?”

    蓝玉堂:“我也未必怕你。”

    面对连自己的舅舅沈木风都得叫师祖、杀人成性的三笑神君,当真是不卑不亢。要是换了沈木风、宇文寒涛这种小人,怎肯为区区两个卑微的属下就去招惹比自己厉害好几倍的人。遇到受伤或不会武功的人不愿欺之,面对强手又毫不卑躬屈膝,可称得上大侠!

    大块的吃肉,大口的喝酒,笑傲江湖,快意恩仇。我虽不再是当年那个整天幻象能够高来高去、仗剑行侠的小P孩了,可“豪气干云天,哪怕世道人心险”的那种侠客精神,至今深入我心。我小的时候因为淘气,经常受长辈的训教,被骂“不懂事”,所以经常想,大人们真好,懂事,互相之间从不打架。现在我自己也是“大人”了,真是好笑,想来大人们大多都是在装B罢了。很多人自命成熟,在我看来,年纪大了,失去了那份“侠义”,反远不如小孩!嘿嘿。我知道像萧翎那样的人在现实中不会像在小说里那样左右逢源,最后功成名就、赢得美人归。但是总归还是有傻子会去效仿这种侠义精神。

    December 27

    提前说几句 Say something before New Year

    中文:

    今天是12月27号。看起来还有四天的时间到新年,但是因为我不确定在除夕夜会不会再有心情更新我的博客,所以我想我事先还是写点东西下来。

    我不得不说去年很糟。几乎一事无成。就是不明白为什么。为什么在我的本命年rp一直这么差呢?有一天我看到我宿舍的走廊里挂着一条红内裤。我觉得那是个玩笑。所以我对我的室友说:“嘿!走廊里挂着一条红内裤!”我室友纹丝不动。他们说:“哦。这很平常啊。这是**的本命年。他穿红的来辟晦气。”我很惊讶,我说:“那么本命年是被认为是有晦气的?”然后我得到了肯定的答案。到那时我才终于发现我rp差的根源所在:)

    好了。只是开了个小玩笑。去年确实对我不是特别顺利,但是也不是那样的糟糕。有些事情值得记忆,有些事情忘记就好。我在学分上取得了不错的成绩,并且通过参加那些编程比赛学到了很多东西,虽然因为种种原因我没能在任何一项里面获奖。我在计算机研究所实验室的前景还是不明朗,我不得不说我又浪费了整整一年。但是就在圣诞的前一天,我导师终于松口同意让我参与一些真正意义上的工程。我想那会是一个完全的新开始,并对我可能是一个大突破。去年我一直在练习自己的英语,坚持用英语写博客。并且在我的朋友中间建立了英语沙龙,每个工作日的晚上11点到12点,期间我们听英语的原声电影,然后以电影的角色互相对话。

    我不得不说我对于魔术的热情一直在减退。去年很少花时间练习魔术。但我还是痴迷于当表演完魔术看到观众脸上惊奇的表情那个时刻。说到魔术,明天所里的新年晚会上我将去表演一个魔术节目。祝我好运?去年还是有很多值得记忆的瞬间。像有一天我真的非常沮丧,Vic从MSN上发了一个笑话给我。很感动,当时我想,也就最好的朋友才能隔着屏幕互相了解心情。有一次我和以前的三个室友一起语音聊天,我对BeidaPig开玩笑说:“我现在变帅了。”他一秒钟也没耽搁对我说:“你一直都挺帅的呀!同学!”当时我志得意满。有一次我病了,并且吐的很厉害,非常肮脏。我的新室友仁爷、洛帅悉心照顾了我。多谢他们!并且我怀疑是否学校还存在第二个宿舍里面的三个人都如此热爱网球!

    回想去年的这些事,我只是想说:“谢谢你们我的朋友们!没有你们,生活不会如此美好!”当然了,话说回来,我也是世界上最好的人。所以你们才会喜欢我、支持我。我会继续和你们一起,在这个世界上微笑、奋斗!

    English:

    Today is December the 27th. It seems like there are still four days away from New Year, but since I'm not pretty sure I would be in the mood for updating my BLOG at New Year's Eve, I think I should write something down in advance.

    I have to say last year sucks. I rarely accomplished a thing. I just wondered why. Why the bad luck came along with me in my year of birth? Some other day I saw there was a red underwear hanging in the corridor of my dormitory. I thought it was a joke. So I said to my buddies:" HEY! There is a red underwear hanging in the corridor! " My buddies seemed not interested at all. They said:" Oh. That's quite normal. It is **'s year of birth. He has to ware something red to avoid bad luck. " I was surprised, and I said:" So it is supposed to have bad luck in your year of birth? " Then I got the positive answer. And by that time, I finally found out the souce from which the bad luck came from:)

    OK. Just a little joke. Last year is not very smooth for me, but it is not that bad. There are something to  remember and something just to forget. I did quite a good job in my GPA, and I did learn a lot of things from joining those programming competitions, though for some reasons I didn't win any prizes in any of them. My prospect of my jobs in the ICST lab is still not very clear, and I have to say I've just wasted whole another year. But just on the day before Christmas, I finally got the admittance from my boss to get involved in some real project! And I guess that would be a complete new start, and may be a big break for me. And last year I kept practising my English, writing my BLOG in English. And I established an English salon among my buddies, 11:00pm-12:00pm every workday, duing which we listened to the English movie, and talked to each other as the characters in the movie.

    I have to say my passion of doing magic have been fading. And I spent little time on practising doing magic. But I still fancy the moment when I saw the surprises on the spectators' faces after I did magic. Talking about magic, I'll do some magic show tomorrow on the Near Year Ceremony of ICST. Wish me luck:) And last year, there were still some flash of monent worth remembering. Like when I was really upset someday, and Vic sent me a joke on MSN just in order to cheer me up. I was touched, and I thought only the best friends could know how each other feels behild computer. And when I was on this online meeting with the three of my ex-roomates, and I said to BeidaPig joking: " I become handsome now. " He replied to me without one second's hesitation: "Hey! You are handsome all along, dude! " And I was very self-satisfied. And there was a time I got sick and vomitted severely, which is very gross. And my new roomates Monsignor Ren, and Handsome Luo took care of me very well. Thanks a lot! And I just wonder if there exists another room in PKU, in which the three roomates all like tennis so much!

    Back tracking on those things last year, I just want to say: "thank you all my friends! Without you, life wouldn't have been so nice! " Yeah. Of course. I am the world's nicest guy myself. That's why you all love me and support me. I will keep on laughing and fighting in this world together with you.

    November 17

    无题 No Title

    中文:

    好久没有更新我的BLOG了。不知道。因为没有什么事可讲。对。这个故事就是没有故事。之前参加一个编程比赛。如此得忙连打网球都没有时间。更不用说BLOG了。今天,应我好友的要求,更新一下BLOG以使得大家知道这个BLOG的主人还活着。从早编程到晚,一边听着音乐或者故事,曾经对于我是一种理想的生活。因为我和计算机之间有很长且很不错的故事,有空的时候我大概会讲讲。但是自从成人了之后,我知道还有更重要的事情。一个例子,健康。健康是如此的重要和如此的不可触摸以至于在它离开之前我们意识不到它的重要性。另一个例子,荣誉。真正的英雄可能会对金钱和地位不屑一顾,但是如果是关于荣誉和名声,他们很少有不为所困的。还有美女,男人永恒的话题。所以,如今的人很少过自己想过的生活。工作两天放假五天?做梦!我总是庆幸至少我选择了自己想成为的职业。抱歉,离题远了点。不知道在说什么。MD

    English:

    Haven't updated my BLOG for a long time. I don't know. Because there is no story to tell. Yeah. The story is no story: status quo. I was involved in some programming competition. So busy that don't even have enough time to play tennis. Let alone fucking BLOG. Today, to meet some best friend's request, just update this BLOG a little to let everybody know the owner of this BLOG is still alive:). Programming from morning noon to night, while listening to some music or stories, used to be a dream of life to me. Because the story happened between computer and me is long and amazing, about which maybe I will tell some other time. But since I am an adult, and I know there are more important things. For example, health. Health is so important and so intangible that we can hardly realize its significance before it's gone. Another example, honor. Real heroes may pay no attention to money and status, but if it is about glory and reputation, they can rarely escape being ensnared. And beauties, the eternal topic of all men. So nowadays, seldom of us live the life we really like. Working two days and have a five-day holiday every week? NONSENSE! I am always very thankful that at least I've chose a profession that I want to be. Sorry I strayed from the topic a little far. I don't know what I was talking about. SHIT.

    October 21

    Ana Beijing International Marathon 全日空北京国际马拉松赛

    中文:

    去年,当我完成自己第一个半程马拉松,我说我今年要参加一次全程的。但是当我即将报名参加今年的马拉松的时候,我发现自己最近并没有太多的跑步训练。也许是因为暑假打网球太过频繁,而没有充裕的业余时间来跑步。对我来说,内心深处,网球确实要比跑步有趣得多。于是今年我还是参加了半程的马拉松。

    昨天我大约12:00睡觉,早晨很早5:00就起来去赶学校组织的大巴。所以开始跑的时候还是有点困倦的,但是随着跑步的进行,我渐渐适应,并且感觉好了起来。能够看到这么多海内外的选手在周围一起跑步真是令人非常兴奋。所有人都在向前跑,马路两旁的行人纷纷驻足观看,为我们许多掌声和呐喊。有好几次,特别是在大约18-21公里的路段,想要停下来休息一下的渴望一度进入我的脑海,但是其他选手的热情鼓励了我。幸亏我没有停,因为一旦停下来一次,就很难再继续跑下去并完成比赛。

    最后,我胜利了。出发后2小时07分,我和一个朋友一起跑过了终点线。万岁!这个成绩比我上次完成的快了大约15分钟。未名跑版上有一句话说的非常好,“会很有意义的,特别是以后想到自己曾经跑过马拉松,曾经那么年轻,那么有激情,会被曾经的自己所感动的”。

    English:

    Last year, when I finished my first Half Marathon, I said this year I would try Full Marathon. But when I was about to enter my name for this year's Marathon, I found myself hadn't praticed running much recently. Maybe because I was playing tennis too frequently in the summer vacation, and didn't have enough spare time to run. To me, deep down, tennis is much more interesting than running. So this year, I still entered Half Marathon.

    Last night I slept at about 12:00 and we got up very early this morning at 5:00 to catch the buses which were prepared by our university. So it was a little sleepy when we got started to run, but as the running continued, I got adapted and felt much better. It was really exciting to see so many people, home and abroad, running around us. Everybody were keeping running forward, and the passengers on the both sides of the street all stood still and gave us much applause and whoops. For several times, especially around 18-21 km, the desire of stopping running to have a rest ever came into my mind, but the passion of the other players encouraged me. Lucky I didn't stop, because it is very hard to continue running and finish the match if one ever stoped once.

    Finally, I won. I passed through the finish line with one of my friends after 2 hours and 7 minutes after we started. Cheers! It is about 15 minutes faster than the one I finished last year. There is a saying on the Running section of the BDWM bbs, which I think is very good, " It'll be full of meaning, especially when we got old, we would recall that we used to attend Marathon, we used to be so young, so full of passion, and we would be touched by ourselves who we used to be. "

    September 12

    恐怖大师 Masters of Horror

    中文:

    070408082520761 很长时间没有更新我个人对于恐怖电影的介绍了。人是一种很奇怪的动物,它们可以每个下午打至少两个小时的网球,并且每个晚上看一些垃圾韩剧,但是仍然理直气壮地说:“我太忙了,没时间更新BLOG。”

    言归正传,我发现也许我以前在BLOG中介绍的恐怖电影有点过时了。我是说它们毫无疑问是经典,但是它们确实有点老,不流行了,比方说希区柯克的很多电影。我之前真正希望的并不是将一些已经为大多数人所知的经典老电影介绍给别人。把一些新的杰作介绍给喜爱恐怖电影的人才是我的真正所愿。所以我决定从今天起我会介绍那些最近的恐怖电影。我不能保证它们是最新的,但是我想至少也该是2000年之后的吧。

    今天,我要介绍《恐怖大师》给你。它并不是一部电影,而是一系列电影。截止到我写这篇文章,已经有两季在SHOWTIME频道上播出了。它确实是秀啊!世界顶尖的恐怖电影导演,像大卫·芬奇,托比·琥珀,达里欧·阿吉图等等,汇集一起来各自拍摄恐怖故事,它们都非常杰出,充满想象,灵光闪现。

    “恐怖大师”的每一个故事都持续大约一个小时。虽然本质上它们都是恐怖电影,有些是关于爱情的,有些关于科幻,有些关于战争,有些甚至关于童话。第一季的第二集是我个人钟爱的故事。它是关于一个学物理的学生,住在一个出租房,遇上了隔壁的母亲和婴儿。机缘巧合,他发现他所住的房子的墙的形状特别像是他所研究的理论中的平行宇宙。于是晚上他睡着的时候他发觉自己进入了另一个空间,那里有一个邪恶的女巫和一只长着人脸的耗子想要杀死隔壁的那个婴儿。当他醒来的时候,他糊涂了,他不知道那是否只是一个梦,因为那个梦是如此的真实,并且梦里预示的一些东西开始在现实中发生……

    因为我本人以前是一个物理系的学生,这个故事给我一种身临其境的真实感。其他的故事也都很有创造力并且让人毛骨悚然,然而我却没有许多的时间来进行一一介绍。你可以试着看看。我确信它们是不会令你失望的。

    English:

    Haven't updated my personal introduction to scary movies for a long time. Man are very strange animals, they can play tennis more than two hours every afternoon, and watch some kind of korea soap opras every evening, and still say out loud:" I am too busy to update my blogs. "

    Any way, get back to the point, I've just got some idea that maybe the scary movies I introduced on this BLOG before are little bit out of date. I mean they are classic ones without doubt, but they are kind of old, out fashioned, such as many movie works of Hitchcock's. What I really wanted to do is not just to introduce some old classic ones, which are already very known to people. It is introducing someone who fancies scary movies to new masterpieces that I really want. So, I've decided that from today on I'll talk about scary movies which are filmed recently. I can't promise they are the newest, but at least after 2000, I guess.

    Today, I'll introduce you to "Masters of Horror".  It is not A movie; it is a serial of movies. By the time I write this article, two seasons have been released by SHOWTIME channel. It is really a showtime! The world's top great directors of horror movies, such as David Fischer, Tobe Hooper, Dario Argento, etc. have been gathered to film scary stories respectivetly which are all thumping good ones, full of imagination and true stroke of inspirations.

    Every story of "Masters of Horror" lasts about an hour. Though basically they are all scary movies, some are about love, some about science fiction, some about war, some even about fairy tales. The second episode of the first season is my personal favourite story. It is about a student of physics, who lived in a rented house and met a woman with a baby who lived in the next door. Somehow he found that the shape of the walls of his room is very similar to parallel universes according to the theory he had been studying in. Then during the night he falling asleep he found himself came into another space, and there was an evil witch and a man-faced mouse who was trying to kill the baby in the next door. By the time he woke up, he was confused, didn't know if it was just a dream or not, because the dream was so real and something that was prefigured in the dream started to happen in reality...

    Since I used to be a student of physices myself, that story gave me some real feelings like I was inside it. Other stories are also very creative and thrilling, while I don't have much time to introduce them one by one. You could try to watch them yourselves. I am sure they won't disappoint you.

    August 23

    鬼子因为这种geek不少所以懒人土人多点还是很发达

    赶紧转篇其他的文章,Dan这篇发给我信箱的,就放这里了,愿我们共勉之。因为不是我写的,所以我也没有义务翻译。

    Quote some other article to meet the emergency. This was E-mailed to me by Dan, I put it below. Wish we walked like Evan talked. These words were not written by me, so I don't have any resposibillity to translate it.

    One day, if we found ourself "having a computer like making love to a supermodel", we'd have suceeded in our career.

    转自某blog:
    I spent most of the past week in Seattle. On Monday, at dinner with a dozen friends from my Microsoft days:
    Evan: "Having an iPhone is like dating a supermodel. It's sexy, beautiful. When you bring it out, your friends are impressed. But it's kind of dumb, can't do anything very well. It has expensive tastes. If you gave it to your friend, they would give it back to you after a week."
    Andy: [chuckling]
    Me: [to Andy] "You're nodding like you've heard Evan use this analogy before."
    Andy: "Well, usually it's the other way. Evan finds that dating supermodels is like having an iPhone."

    August 05

    如何开始学打网球 How to Start Playing Tennis

    中文:
    最近几天在学校里面打球,我发现有些网球场甚至没有满,虽然整个学校总共只有八个免费的场地。所以我感觉到我有义务为推广网球运动做点贡献。因此我下面将要写的是对于还没有接触过网球但是有意向想学网球的人的一些指南。如果你已经是一个有相当经验、正反手稳定的网球手,我建议你不要浪费时间看这篇文章了,虽然我确信看了也没什么坏处。
    首先,我想要澄清一个对于网球的普遍误解,认为网球是有钱人的运动或者说网球是贵族运动。我将要给你展示如何用200块以内就可以开始打网球,你将发现其实它是老百姓的运动。
    你首先要考虑的第一件事是场地。在你的城市里你也许可以找到几百处卖球拍和网球的地方,但是很有可能你连一处免费的网球场地都很难找到。所以你最好住在某个大学附近或者本身就是某个大学的学生,因为你很容易在上规模的大学里面找到免费的网球场。对于收费的场地来说通常是有点贵的,至少20块每小时。所以如果你不是每小时挣50块以上,我建议你还是不要试这些收费场地了,虽然它们确实提供更舒适的场地和更好的相关服务。
    第二件事是拍子。一块100块左右的拍子对于一个初学者来说完全足够了。相信我,在你拥有稳定的正手并开始采用一些战略和战术之前,用100块的拍子和用1000块的拍子没有什么区别。我一直仍在使用三年前我开始学网球时候用的那块120块钱的拍子,而且我感觉它还能用。一般来说,如果你只是个业余爱好者,开始学习网球一年或两年之后再考虑换掉拍子也不算晚。因为贵点的球拍仅仅给你提供了更舒适的手感。而且那还得取决于球拍是否适合你。
    第三件事是网球。你用最便宜的球拍在最便宜的场地上打球。但是别使用过于便宜的网球。你需要天龙628或者更好的。你可以通过学校的学生代理买到最便宜2块5的天龙628,你也可以在专卖店买到5块钱一个价位的。你可以一次性买100个或者50个,因为那样会更省钱。这里给你一个小贴士,别一次带上你全部100个或者50球,因为你带的越多,你越容易丢球。每次至多带10个球是个好主意。
    至于制服,我建议任何运动服装都可以。别想着去买网球鞋,除非你非常有钱,因为它们确实很贵。那种情况下,我建议还不如先买个好一点的球拍。
    好了,恭喜了!现在你已经准备好了所有装备,你可以开始练习网球了。在你真正开始之前,你最需要的是一个好的老师,能够告诉你什么是正确姿势,并且能够随时更正你的姿势。如果你的朋友中间没有好的网球手,别担心,你可以打我手机13812345678,o(∩_∩)o...,开个玩笑。如果你的朋友中间没有好的网球手,你可以看一些网球入门教程录像。看了这些录像,你就可以出去开练了。但是你还是需要有人能够对于你的姿势和步法给一些意见,因为录像是不能根据你个人犯的错误来给你意见的,其中的一些错误可能是很微妙连自己都没有意识到。我相信每个球场总是至少有一两个高手的。记住,他们确实很少会有耐心来帮助一个什么都不懂的菜鸟,但是他们确实乐意给提出一到两个巧妙问题的提问者一些意见。
    还有几个非常重要的贴士我希望大家记住。第一个是,永远记住正确的姿势和步法是最重要的。永远不要为了打到来球而牺牲正确的姿势。第二个是,别机械的理解你老师的指导。记住正确的永远是自然的。要正确自然的打球。第三个是,对自己要有信心。开头总是难的。我花了将近三年的时间才有了相对稳定的正反手。你应该不会比我笨。第四个是,享受乐趣。你因为觉得它很酷所以打网球。你因为想让别人觉得你很酷所以打网球。这些都很好。不过要真正享受乐趣。这使得你的生命有意义!
    最后,我想祝愿各位真正能够享受网球的乐趣。它确实让你很酷!它是这个世界上最高雅、最健康、最优美的运动。当球碰撞球拍时,它发出那种悦耳清脆的旋律:嘚,嘚,嘚!有一天你会亲手演奏那个旋律!
    English:
    I played tennis on my campus these days, and I found that some of the tennis courts were not even occupied, though there are only eight tennis courts which are free of charge in this whole university. So I feel it is my resposibity to do some contribution to helping popularize tennis. Therefore, what I gonna write below is some directions for people who haven't get in any touch with tennis but have a tendency to start playing it. If you are already a pretty experienced tennis player with quite steady forehand and backhand, I suggest you not to waste time reading this article, though I'm sure it is no harm for you to read it.
    First, I want to clear up some common mistake about tennis that it is a game only for rich people or it is an aristocrat's game. I will show you how you can start learning to play tennis within only 200 Yuan and you'll see It is a game for most average people!
    The first thing you need to worry about is court. There may be hundreds of places where you can buy rackets and tennis balls in your city, while it is possible that you can hardly find a single free tennis court. So you'd better live near a college or be a college student, because you can easily find free tennis couts in upscale colleges. It is always a bit expensive for those places where charge money, say 20 Yuan per hour minimum. So if you don't earn more than 50 Yuan per hour, I suggest you not to try those toll ones which, however, do provide more comfortable court fields and better related services.
    The second thing is racket. A 100 Yuan around racket is totally enough for a beginner. Believe me, it makes no difference between using a 100 Yuan racket and using a 1000 Yuan racket before you have a steady forehand and start to use some tactics or strategies. I've been still using my 120 yuan racket since 3 years ago when I started to learn tennis, and it still works good to me. Normally speeking, it is still not too late for you to start considering changing your 100 yuan racket one year or two after you start playing, if you are just an amateur. Because An more expensive racket only gives you more comfortable hand feelings! And that still depends on if it fits you or not.
    The third one is balls. You play in the cheapest court, using the cheapest racket. But don't make your tennis balls too cheap. You need a teloon 628 or better. You can get a teloon 628 at 2.5 Yuan for the cheapest through some college student proxy, while you can also get it at the price of 5 Yuan at some franchised store. You can buy 100 or 50 balls at one time, bacause that can save you more money. And give you a tip here that don't bring out your 100 or 50 tennis balls in one game, because the more you bring the easier you will get them lost. It is a good idea that every time you bring with you at most 10 balls.
    As the uniform, I suggest any sort of sport clothes will do. And don't try to get tennis shoes, unless you have much money, because they are really expensive. In that case, I suggest you buy yourself a good racket first.
    So congratulations! Now you already have your equipments readly, you can start to learn tennis! The most important thing you need before you really get started is a good teacher who can tell you what is the correct posture and can correct your posture in real time. If you don't have a good tennis player among your friends, don't worry, you can call me on cellphone 13812345678, o(∩_∩)o..., just kidding. If you don't have a good tennis player among your friends, you can watch some tennis rudimental course videos. Once you've watched the video, you can go out and start playing. But you still need some other people give some advices about your posture and footworks, because a video can never give you personal advices according to your mistakes you've make, some of which are so subtle that you can hardly realise yourself. I believe there are always at least one or two splendid players in one palaestra. Remember seldom of they will have much patience to help a totally zero-knowledge rookie, but they do like to give some advices to someone who has one or two smart questions.
    There a few further very important tips I want you to keep in mind. The first tip is always remember the correct posture and footwork is the most important thing. Never sacrifice the correct posture to hitting the incoming ball! The second tip is don't take your teachers' directions literally. Remember the correct way is always the nature way. Play tennice correctly and naturally! The third tip is have confidence in yourself. It is hard when you just get start. It takes me nearly 3 years to have relatively steady forehand and backhand. You can't be more awkward than I am. The forth tip is enjoy yourself. You play tennis because you think it's cool. Or you play tennis because you want other people think you are cool. That's all fine. But do enjoy yourself. That makes your life worthwhile!
    Finally, I want to wish you have much fun playing tennis. It really makes you cool! It is the most decent, healthy, elegant game in the world. When the ball hits against the racket, it playes that silvery crisp rhyme: dope, dope, dope! One day you will play that melody yourself!
     
    July 22

    闲谈恐怖电影 About Scary Movie

    中文:
    我的前室友曾经告诉我对于一个成功的恐怖电影有几大要素:孤独、黑暗、死亡。我基本上同意这个观点。孤独给你一种你只有你自己一个人可以依靠这种感觉。人类是群居的动物,所以我们需要对方,我们需要接触,我们也需要交流。即使我们有时候无情地伤害对方,但是当真正处于危险关头的时候,我们最需要的还是一个同伴,一只温暖的手。黑暗能够激起人类天生的恐惧,因为黑暗意味着不可触摸到的、不可知的事物。一些致命的事物隐藏在黑暗的阴影中,远远强于人类、同时你又根本不知道那是什么,能使人发疯。死亡,我可以断言世界上大多数人包括我自己都害怕它,特别是年纪大点的人。死亡在本质上讲还是未知事物。我们死后会在哪儿?我们还能够感觉和触摸么?或者说还有所谓的我们么?圣经上说人死后还有灵魂,佛教教义也差不多这么说。但是现代科学说这些都是胡说,人死了就什么都没有了,只有尸体。我们经常愿意标榜自己崇尚科学,可惜讽刺意味的是即便是大科学家们也不明白到底应该相信哪一个。所以我们必须得承认死亡对于我们每个人来说仍旧是一个谜,因为没有一个活着的人能够经历它。
    诚然,孤独、黑暗、死亡,对于一部好的恐怖电影来说非常重要,不过我认为有一个东西更加本质:幻象,也就是人思维中的某种东西。为什么我们几乎在每部恐怖电影中都能够看到镜子?因为镜子就是对这个现实世界的影像,镜子里,我们能够看到我们背后出现的恐怖幻象。为什么鬼魂和一些精神疯子经常是恐怖电影导演喜爱的主题?因为它们是幻象。从科学的眼光来看,鬼魂本身就是人们的想象创造出来的。恐怖电影里面的大多数疯子都有多重的人格,他们中的大多数都会遇到只在他们脑子中存在的人。进一步说,孤独、黑暗、死亡,它们都可以被概括到幻象的领域中,孤独是幻象的前提,因为人越多,制造幻象的机会就越小。你很难想象会有三个以上的人同时精神出问题!至于黑暗,显然黑暗给予了人们更多的空间去想象幻象。最后是死亡,就像我已经提到的,死亡本身是一个未知的事物,就像一个致命的无比强大的幻象,时刻威胁你的生命,同时你永远无法逃避。
    所以你看到恐怖电影的本质元素了么?幻象,这是你在日常生活中看不到的,于是它能够激起你恐怖的感觉。并且有的时候不仅仅是视觉幻象,而且还有听觉幻象,像半夜女人的哭声,隔壁的嘈杂声等等。
    根据这个看法,可以很容易看到欧美恐怖电影和日韩恐怖电影的区别。它们两者都是关于幻象的故事,但是在前者的故事里面一般都会给出一个解释。我不知道这是否和欧美人更崇尚科学有关,但是欧美的电影确实倾向于给整个故事一个合理的解释,而日韩电影则很少给出关于它们所讲故事的解释。邪恶的鬼魂到最后仍然是邪恶的鬼魂,你想不明白。我个人比较喜欢合理的故事一些,因为对于我它们比较符合逻辑。当然有人认为一个合理的故事比起一个纯粹的鬼故事会不太恐怖一些,因为后者你永远不能够把恐怖的根源想明白。欧美恐怖电影和日韩恐怖电影还有另外一个不同点。前者更强调视觉效果,后者更加注重整个电影的气氛营造。
    好了,我想我最好还是快点结束这篇文章吧,因为已经快凌晨三点了,而且看来我好像还有一些翻译工作要做啊。我只是希望那个暗夜精灵不会突然用它尖细的手指从背后捅我。好吧,我刚才只是开玩笑o(∩_∩)o...

    English:
    My ex-roomie used to tell me that there are several essential elements in a successful horror movie: loneliness, darkness, death. Basically I agree with that. Loneliness gives you some feelings that you have no one else but yourself to cout on. Humans are group living animals, so we need each other, we need contacts, we need communications. Even though we sometimes hurt each other without mercy, but when we are in some extreme dangerous situation, the first thing we need is a companion, a warm hand. Darkness can raise human's inborn horrors, because darkness indicates something intangible, something unkown. Some deadly things hidden in the shallow of darkness, much more powerful than human beings, at the samethime you don't even kown what the hell it is, those can drive people crazy. Death, I can assert that most people in this world including me are afraid of that, especially elder ones. Fundamentally death is still something unkown. Where are we after we die? Can we still feel or touch? Or are there still "we"? Bibble says we still have spirits after we die, while Buddha doctrine says almost the same thing. But modern science says those are all craps, people are left nothing but corpses after they die. We are always willing to flaunt our esteem for science, but ironically even great scientists themselves don't know which to believe. So we have to admit that death is still a myth to everybody, because no living people could've been through it.
    Admittedly, loneliness, darkness, death are really very important to a good scary moive, but  in my opinin there is one thing that more fundamental: illusion, namely something that in one's head. Why we see a mirror in nearly every scary movie? Because mirror is a reflection of the real world, inside it, we can see horrible illusions behind our back. Why ghost or some psychiatric lunatics are always the scary movie director's favourit subjects? Because they are illusions again. In science's point of view, ghost itself is a creation from one's imagination. Most lunatics in scary movie always have multiple characters and most of them will meet other figures which only exist in their mind. Further more, loneliness, darkness, death, all can be included in the realm of illusion. Loneliness is a precondition of an illusion, because with more people, the chance of creating a illusion is more minuscule. You can hardly imagine that three or more people have their metal health problem at the same time! And darkness, darkness obviously gives people more room to imagine a illusion. Finally death, as I already said, death itself is something unkown just like some deadly overwhelmingly powerful illusion which can endanger your life any minute and you can never escape.
    So you see what the most basic factor of scary movie is? Illusion, which you cannot see in everyday life, so it can raise your feeling of horror. And sometimes, there are not just illusions of vision but some illusions of hearing, like woman's cry at the midnight or noises from the next door, you name it.
    According to this theory, you can easily tell the difference between American-Europe scary movies and Japanese-Korea scary movies. Both of them are all stories about illusions, but the illusions in the former ones' storys are always given an explanation at the end. I don't know whether this has something to do with Occidentals more admire science or what, but American-Europe scary movies do prefer give an reasonable explanation to the whole story, while Japanese-Korea scary movies rarely have explanations about the story they tell. An evil ghost is still an evil ghost, you can never figure it out. Personally I prefer a reasonable story, because that makes sense to me. While some people consider that a reasonable story is less scary than a pure ghost story, because for the latter you can never figure out the source where the horror comes from. There is anther difference between American-Europe scary movies and Japanese-Korea scary movies. The former ones emphasize the visual effect more, while the latter ones pay more attension to the atmosphere of the whole movie.
    OK, maybe I'd better finish this article as quickly as possible, because it is nearly 3:00 AM now and it seems that I still have some translation jobs to do. I just hope the night elf wouldn't suddenly poke me with his sharp fingers from behind my back. OK, I was just kidding o(∩_∩)o...

     

    July 04

    七宗罪 Se7en

    中文:
    《七宗罪》不能准确地说是一部恐怖电影。或许我应该修改一下类别,“恐怖悬疑电影”更准确一点。暴食、贪婪、懒惰、愤怒、骄傲、淫欲和嫉妒,这是天主教里面的七宗死罪。一个名叫John Doe(普通人)的连环杀手把犯这些罪的人一个一个杀死,他认为自己是在传道。这部电影赢得广泛的赞誉并不仅仅因为它很好的悬疑部分,而且因为它引起了人们的思考。我想引用这部电影中John Doe的台词来说明这部电影讲些什么。
    “无辜?你在开玩笑?一个死胖子,一个连站都站不起来的恶心人。一个如果你在街上看到他,就指给你朋友看,你们就可以一起嘲弄他的人?一个如果你正在吃饭的时候看到会恶心地吃不完的人?他之后我选了一个律师,对此你们应该感谢我。他用他的一生来赚钱,通过连篇的谎话帮助杀人犯和强奸犯逍遥法外。一个女人,内心是如此的丑陋,外在不美就活不下去。一个毒贩,准确地说一个搞鸡奸的毒贩。别忘了还有传播疾病的妓女。只有在这个狗屎世界才会有人无愧地说他们是无辜的。不过这正是要点,我们到处可看到死罪,在街角,在每个家中,我们容忍。我们容忍,因为见怪不怪,没什么大不了的。我们从早容忍到晚。现在不同了,我立下了榜样,世人将把我的作品思索、研究、遵循直到永远。”(这段英语是我自己的听力,因为没找着匹配的英文字幕)
    今天的世界已经不再是圆桌武士时代了。人们在追逐一些无关紧要的东西:金钱、别墅、汽车、美女、名誉……他们这样做的唯一理由是其他人也在做同样的事情,并且通过赢得这些东西,他们可以进入成功人士之流。有些事情我们明明知道不对,但我们还是毫不犹豫地去做,为什么?因为太寻常了。摆你朋友一道。欺骗你的妻子。只在母亲节给你的母亲打电话。谄媚你想踢他屁股的上司。全是TM混蛋!良知已经死了。我同意大部分John Doe说的话,但是不能同意他的所做。因为你不能假借主的名来夺走他人的生命。
    最后我仍想引用电影里面的最后一句台词来总结我想表达的意思:“欧内斯特·海明威曾经说过:‘世界是美好的,值得为之奋斗!’我同意后半句。”
    English:
    "Seven Sins" is not exactly a scary movie. Maybe I should change the tag a little, "scary suspense moive" more accurate. Gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, pride, lust, and envy, these are seven deadly sins in Catholicism. And a serial killer who named himself John Doe, kills those people who had commited these sins one by one, and he thinks of himself as preaching. This film won widely applauses not only because of its great suspense, but because it rises everybody's deep thoughts. I want to quote John Doe's line in the movie to shed a little light on what this movie is about.
    "Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man? A disgusting man who can't barely stand up. A man if you saw him on a street you point out to your friends that they can join you and mocking him? A man if you saw him while you were eating you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. And after him, I picked the lawyer and you both must secretively thank me for that one. This is the man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murders and rapists on the streets! A woman so ugly on the inside that she couldn't barely go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast actually. And let's not forget the desease spreading hore. Only in the world of this shity could you even try to say these were inoscent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point, we see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning noon to night. Well, not any more. I'm setting the example. And what I've done is gonna be puzzled over and studdied and followed forever."
    Today's world is not the time of the Round Table anymore. People are chasing things that don't really matters: money, villa, car, beauty, fame... They do this only beause other people are doing the same thing and by winning those things they can be labeled as success. Something we know it is wrong, but we still do it without hesitation, why? Because it is common. Fuck your buddy. Cheat on your wife. Call your mother on Mother's Day. Kiss your boss' ass which you want to kick. It's all shit! Conscience is dead. I believe in most part of what John Doe said, only couldn't really agree with what he did, because you cann't take away otherbody's life in the Lord's name.
    I still want to quote this movie's last line to conclude all I want to express:" Ernest Hemingway once wrote:' The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."
    June 27

    七夜 Seven Nights

    中文:
    这个学期的期末考试拖着我不能够继续我的对最佳恐怖电影的个人推荐。不过不管怎么样,现在都结束了,所以我想我开始有足够的时间来完成我的东东。哈哈!
    我不得不说七夜确实是我看过得最好的国内恐怖电影。很少能在国内恐怖电影中见到如此出奇的情节和让人窒息的气氛。黑猫、故宅、佛堂、镜子和女鬼,这些元素都被巧妙的组合在一起。而且这不仅仅是一部鬼片。事实上,它是一部恐怖至极的悬疑电影。最后,你会发现它跟鬼一点关系都没有。
    蒋勤勤饰演的女主角和他的丈夫度过了世界上最恐怖的蜜月。在这七个夜里,她必须独自面对这个新家的种种怪事:半夜里女人的哭声、镜子里的长发女鬼、水盆里的红衣娃娃……这些到底是怎么回事?它们都有联系么?或者这些只是女主角自己的想象?去看电影寻找答案吧。
    English:
    Final exams of this semester drag my ass a lot from continuing my personal introduction to best scary movies. But after all, they are all finished now, so I guess I will have plenty of time to do my job. Hah!
    I gotta say Seven Nights is without doubt the best domestic scary movie I've ever seen. Rarely in a domestic scary movie, do I see such a fantanstic story and gripping atmosphere. Black cat, old mansion, family hall for worshipping Buddham, mirror, and female ghost, all these elements are elaborately combined. And it is much more than just a ghost movie. As a matter of fact, it is a suspense movie so scary beyond all reason. In the end, you'll find out it even has nothing to do with ghosts.
    The heroine played by JiangQinqin was on the most thrilling honeymoon in this world with her husband. For seven nights, she has to confront with trange things in her new home alone: female's crying in midnight, long-haired ghost in the mirror, red-dressed doll in the basin...What are all these things about? Are they connected? Or it's just the heroine's hallucination? Go and watch the movie to find out the season.
    May 26

    致命ID Identity

    中文:
    今天我讲讲我认为最好的悬疑恐怖电影之一:致命ID。
    一个雨夜,荒野之地,因为暴雨阻隔了道路,十一个陌生人聚集在一家汽车旅馆。就像其他悬疑恐怖片一样,所有的电话、手机,通讯工具突然都不能用了。这十一个人分别有不同的身份:一个女演员、女演员的司机、旅馆老板、一个鸡、一对年轻夫妻、一个警察以及他押送的犯人、一对夫妻和一个孩子组成的三口之家。正当他们被迫留在汽车旅馆,那个犯人成功逃跑了,其他人开始被一个一个杀死。
    讲到这里,我得说一句,连环杀手的故事在悬疑恐怖电影里根本不算新鲜。但是这部电影不是一般你能想象得到的恐怖杀手故事。致命ID最好的部分在于故事里面的每一个人都有猫腻,这就给了观众和故事里的其他人一些理由去假设他就是杀手。而且繁多的支线也使得整个情节非常复杂。不到最后一刻,你根本不可能猜到谁是那个正真的凶手!
    本片在电影业界是非常成功的。没有电影巨星,没有巨额投资,就凭借出色的故事情节夺得北美票房榜首。
     
    English:
    Today I want to talk aoubt Identity, one of the best suspense scary movies in my view.
    A dark rainy night, in the middle of no where, eleven different strangers gathered in a motel, because the storm made the road flooded. And just like other suspense scary movies, phones, cell phones, all communication tools just didn't work all of a sudden. These eleven diffent people have their own different identies. They are one actress, the actress' driver, the motel's manager, a hooker, a young couple, a police and a convict under his escort, a family, who are a couple and their child. And while they were stuck at the motel, they began to be killed one by one right after the convict's escape.
    At this point, I have to say that serial killer is not a very new concept in the scary movie's field. But this movie is not just a usual serial killing story you can imagine. The best part of Identity is that everybody in this story has a skeleton in his closet, which give the audience and other characters in this movie some good reason to suppose him as the killer. The multiplicity of its incidents make the plot very very complicated. Not untill the last second, believe me, you can never figured out who is the real killer!
    This movie was very sucessful in the movie publishing history. Without famous film star, without big investment, it reached the top of the USA box office just by its fantastic story plot!

     
    May 25

    407旧日重现 407, Yesterday Once More

    中文:
    上个周末,Mahenry,BeidaPig和我三个人一起和Vic的父母去郭林小搓了一顿。真的非常感慨Vic能够实现告诉他父母我们的经典菜目。看看那张照片吧:东坡肘子、北京烤鸭、烤羊腿、(其实还有水煮鱼,查不到E文怎么写),等等。非常有中国特色。^_^
    English:
    Last weekend we, Mahenry, BeidaPig, and I, enjoyed our dinner with Vic's parents, who stopped by PKU to buy and deliver Vic some books. It is really sweet that Vic told his mum and dad in advance about what are our favourite dishes. See that picture? All on the table are our classic ones: DongPo stewed pork joint, Beijing roast duck, roast leg of lamb, etc. Very Chinese!
     
    May 22

    幽灵船 Ghost Ship

    中文:
         这是我引荐给大家的第一部电影:《幽灵船》。并不是因为它是最好的;只是觉得还不错。我的介绍是不分排名先后的。
         我必须得承认要把情节写好真的非常困难。我找遍许多网站和字典,最后我发现了这个,原版海报上的简介(这段我就不逐字翻译了,因为英文也不是我自己写的,抄一段网易的):
      2002年。一架飞机飞过阿拉斯加沿岸的洋面,飞行员看到下面的水上漂浮着一条船。他的注意力被吸引了,想揭开这船的秘密。
      西恩·墨菲是一艘救援船的船长,莫瑞恩·爱普斯是船上救援小组的组长,他们带领的是救援行业里最出色的团队,他们的工作是登上一艘被遗弃的船,使它能够航行,并把船带回海岸,以此获得雇主的酬劳。这一次,雇佣他们的是发现那艘神秘大船的人,加拿大空军飞行员杰克·弗里曼。那艘船,正是四十年前失踪的安东尼亚号。
      根据海洋法,任何在公海发现的船只都归发现者所有,如果他有足够运气和技巧发现并把它拖回岸上。对救援队来说,这条豪华客轮是一笔很大的财产。就看他们有没有办法了。西恩带着他“北冰洋武士号”的船员,他的大副格里尔,技术师道奇,门德尔和桑托斯,和莫瑞恩一起,登上了这艘意大利客轮。
      船不再是当初的样子了。自然。除了岁月造成的痕迹外,怪异的事情也一桩接一桩地发生,比他们以前经历过的都要恐怖和致命。——这艘船并没有被遗弃。船员们的任务不再是获得财富,而是找到出当初这艘船上发生的真相,解开一切秘密,因为船上的神秘力量已经威胁到他们的生命。
         作为比较,我把自己没能完成的描述放在下面:
         电影的一开始,一艘名为安东尼亚号的豪华游轮行驶在大海上。船上的乘客沉浸在一个舞会里,舞台上一个金发美女正在歌唱。突然,恐怖的一幕发生了,一条飞速的缆绳突然把所有的乘客拦腰切断。难以想象地血腥,舞会变成了人间地狱。似乎只有一个穿白裙子的小女孩活了下来,因为她太矮了,缆绳没能切到她。她开始大声尖叫……
         若干年后,一个名为杰克的年轻飞行员无意中发现一条游轮在白令海峡随波逐流。他想去找出这条船的秘密,而这条的船的名字恰恰是安东尼亚。于是他雇用了一个非常优秀的搜救团队:墨菲船长,唯一的女性爱普斯,以及另外三个人。
         因为我突然间找到了一个好的多的描述,所以不再有足够的动力来完成我自己的东西。也许你应该自己找这部电影来看看,得到一个完整的故事。
         这部电影被很多人认为缺少恐怖的元素,也就是说它不够恐怖。但是如果作为一个故事来看,我觉得它仍然是个尤物:很好的开始场面,充满悬念的中间,出人意料的结局。并且可以看出演员们确实很投入到角色之中。网上有人这样评论影片开始的五分钟:
         “开始的五分钟则完全不一样,它是一部好的电影制作的杰出典范,并且应该作为其他导演的灵感源泉。”
         顺便说一句,偶然发现这部影片的完整英文剧本,如果有人有兴趣的话:
    Here is the first scary movie I'd like to introduce you to: "Ghost Ship". It is not because it's the best; it is because I think it's good. Notice that there is no ranking priority in my movie list.
    I have to addmit that it really gave me a hard time to try to describe the plot. I was rooting aroud among web sites, dictionaries, and finally I got this, the origial post's introduction:
    The salvage crew aboard the tugboat Arctic Warrior is the best in the business. Under the leadership of their Captain, Sean Murphy, and with the expertise of salvage team leader Maureen Epps, they can locate any abandoned vessel, patch it up until its seaworthy, and drag it back to shore for a price. Canadian Air Force pilot Jack Ferriman recruits the team to investigate a mysterious vessel he has spotted floating adrift off the coast of Alaska in a remote region of the Bering Sea. The team discovers the remains of the fabled Antonia Graza--thought to be lost at sea for more than 40 years. It's a hell of a find--the salvage rights alone could be worth a fortune. And by the law of the sea, any vessel discovered on international waters can be claimed by whomever is fortunate enough to find it--and skilled enough to haul it back to port. But once onboard the eerie, cavernous ship, the crew of the Arctic Warrior discovers that the decaying vessel is anything but deserted. It's home to something more deadly and horrific than anything they've encountered in all their years at sea. Now the crew must uncover the truth about the ship's past and unlock the mystery that threatens their very survival. 
    And I still put my unfinished work below to make a comparison:
    At the very beginning of the movie, there was a luxury liner named Antonia travelling in the middle of the ocean. And passengers on this line were indulging themselves in a ball with a blond beauty singing on the stage. But at the very next moment, a horrible scenario happened, that all of the people in this ball were suddently cut by the waist by a moving wire. You can hardly imagine how bloody that was. It became a pandemonium. Only a girl in a white skirt survived, because she was too short to be cut by the wire. And she started screaming...
    Several years later, Jack, a young pilot, casually came across a liner randomly floating in the Bering Strait, and he wanted to find out the secret of this ship, whose name is exactly Antonia. So he hired a very excellent salvage team, the crew of which are captain Murphy, the only femal Aps (I don't know if I spell the name the right way, because the lyric of this movie is Chinese), and 3 others.
    Because I suddenly found something far better, so I don't have enough impetus to finish my job anymore. Maybe you should go and watch this movie yourself to complete the story.
    This movie is considered by many people as lack of horror factors, which means it is not frightening enough. But as a story, I still think it is a thing of beauty: terrefic scianrio in the beginning, full of suspenses in the middle, big surprise in the end. And you can tell these actors really identified with the characters when they were playing. Someone on the Internet commented on the first five minutes of this moive this way:
    "The first five minutes, on the other hand, are a brilliant display of fine film making and should be an inspiration for other directors. "
    BTW: found this movie's complete English script by accident, in case someone are interested:
    May 20

    一个申明 an Anouncement

    中文:
    最近我觉得我像没有足够的故事来维持我的BLOG了,即使是把一些我自己编的也加在内。但是我还是想让我的BLOG尽量好看一点,所以我想也许我可以写写关于我的诸多爱好。第一个我想到的爱好就是恐怖电影,我看过的实在很多。从今天起,如果时间允许,我会陆续为在我BLOG里面介绍一些至少我自己认为还不错的恐怖电影。
    我还想声明的是别把在BLOG里面说的太当真了。因为如果有时我觉得一些短语很酷,那我就会无条件使用它们。在这种情况的时候,我写句子就不再是因为它们表达了我的意思,而是因为他们很酷。所以如果发现我的有些BLOG就像放屁,可能事实就是如此。(我讨厌期末;星际2出了)
    顺便说一下,如果有人帮我修改我的E文,我会很感激。我想我的朋友们大概不愿意做这个事情,因为他们都是很好的家伙,他们可能觉得批评会伤害我的感情,虽然我不这样认为。所以如果有好心的英语高手陌生家伙碰巧路过,那么帮个忙吧。如果你想要一些Linux、魔术、书法之类的资讯,也许我能帮点小忙。
    English:
    Recently I find that I don't have enough tories to keep my BLOG up to date, even counting in some I made up myself. But I do want to make my BLOG looks good, so I think maybe I can write something about my versatile hobbies. The first thing came into my head is scary movie, which could make a very very long list. And since today on, if time allows, I'll introduce some scary movies, which at least I think are terrefic, in my BLOG.
    Here, I also want to make a declaration that DO NOT read too much into my BLOG. Because sometimes if I think a phrase is cool, I'll use it for no reason. In this case, I may write some sentences down only because they are cool, rather than they can express what I want to mean. So if you think some of my BLOGs smell like bullshit, you could be right. ( I hate the end of semester; starcraft2 was released)
    BTW, I'll really appreciate it if someone could revise my English article. I figure maybe my friends wouldn't like to do this. Because they are all very nice guys, and they may think a critism may possibly hurt my feelings which I don't think so. So, if some kind strangers happen to pass by, who are good at English, do me a favor. And if you want some info about linux, magic, calligraphy or other things I'm good at, maybe I can do a little help in return.
    Revision (According to advices from Vic):
    Recently I find that I don't have enough tories to keep my BLOG up to date, even including the ones I made up. But I do want to make my BLOG looks good, so I think maybe I can write something about my different hobbies. The first thing came into my mind is scary movies, which I could a list of ten pages. And from now on, if time allows, I'll introduce you some scary movies, which at least I think are terrefic, in my BLOG.
    Here, I also want to make a declaration that DO NOT take my BLOG too seriously. Because sometimes I wrote something down is just because they are cool, even I did know they can't express my real thoughts. So if some of you think my BLOGs are craps, you would be right. ( I hate the end of semester; starcraft2 was released)
    BTW, I'll really appreciate it if someone could revise my English article. I guess maybe my friends wouldn't like to do that( don't like do that for sure? I have my doubts) . Because they are all very nice guys, and they may think that would hurt my feelings while I really don't think so. So, if some kind hearted ( I think we got a ambiguity situation here, Vic. ^_^)strangers happen to pass by, who are good at English, do me a favor. And if you want some info about linux, magic, calligraphy or other things I'm good at, maybe I can give you some tiny helps in return.
    May 11

    魔化你的生活 Magic Your Life

    中文:
    昨天晚上我的一个同学抓住我说:“你记不记得你在英语课上表演过的那个魔术。能不能教教我?”这句话提醒了我,我还是个魔术师。
    我一直对于我的魔术师身份感到自豪。注意我的用词“魔术师”,而不是“魔术爱好者”。因为一个真正的魔术师会有自己的风格,自己的原创以及新的魔术套路,不像是那些垃圾魔术爱好者,只会copy大师的杰作。真的,只有天赋卓越的魔术师才能创造或者改进魔术流程。而我就是那么做的。魔术是一门需要智慧和热情的表演艺术,而不仅仅是手法和技巧。
    我似乎有很长时间没有表演魔术了。(因为我很忙?)最后我找到了原因,因为我的爱好太多了。看看:开源、自由跑步、网球、书法,等等。(“等等”的意思是我想保留一些信息,让大家永远看不透我^_^)说这些是想表明我喜欢自由的东西。而对于“自由”,我是指自由,而不是指免费。(因为英语里的"free"有歧义,MD,还是汉语好)开源,也叫自由软件;自由跑步,名字已经在那儿了;网球,本质上是自由运动;书法,自由随意书写。
    这就是我为什么喜欢物理学的家伙多于计算机学的家伙,因为前者仍在追逐自由,而后者基本已经被这个物质社会腐蚀了。我计算机系的朋友们千万不要对号入座。事实上如果你是我的朋友,那是因为你很被我欣赏。我想说的是, 大多数物理工作者都有这种幻想:更好的认知这个世界。然而我们信息学工作者经常这样想:赚更多的钱。当然了,没有人会对钱说不。但是这个世界对钱过于敏感,很多人没有意识到自己是在用自由、梦想以及更加重要的东西在买钱,因为他们认为钱可以买一切。
    然而,信不信由你,我并不认为追逐金钱是一件很恶劣的事情,因为至少那些人是有奔头的。而有些人已经开始慢慢失去他们的热情和梦想,即使梦想的是钱。我周围的有些人甚至开始认为自己去开创事业太老了,并且开始寄希望于下一代。我靠,我们才30不到啊!如果下一代还没有长大就世界末日了怎么办?!
    我的一些密友知道我的工作环境很不好。(不知道该怎么说,“没希望?”)但是我永不放弃,因为我热爱CS。我会把每个障碍当作是垫脚石。曾经有人告诉我不要让爱好成为职业,因为那是一场灾难。我现在觉得这是放P,那是因为你没有从内心喜欢它。没有人能相信,在我写BLOG或者在我和朋友网上聊天的时候,我经常有一个我自己写的程序在后台或者另一台机子上运行呢!
    好了,我想我已经离题太远。总结一下,自由,热情和梦想是我这篇文章想强调的主题。另外,作为一个完整的故事,还记得那个找我教他魔术的家伙么?对了。我打赌他学这个是为了泡MM,而且我猜对了。我告诉他这个魔术是泡不了女生的,于是我就教他了另一个名为“幽灵卡片”的魔术。上帝保佑他有好运!

    English:
    Yesterday evening, one of my classmate grabed my arm and asked me:" Hey, remember the magic you played on our English class. Could you teach me?" That reminds me I'm still a magician. I'm always proud of the magician identity of me. Notice the exact word I use here "magician", not "magic amateur". Not like a lousy amateur, who only knows copying real magicians' works, a real magician will create his own style and his own original works, and always try to create new routines of magic show. And believe me, only a talented magician can create or improve magic routines. Those are what exactly I've ever done. Magic is an art of acting, which needs wisdom and passion, not just a sleight of heads or tricks.
    It seems a long time since the last time I played magic. (Because I'm busy?) Finally, I figured the reason out, I have too many hobbies! Check this out: open source, free running, tennis, calligraphy, etc. ("etc." means something I want to hold back to myself, then no one can look through me ^_^) So far, I just want to give the point that I love free things. by Free, I mean freedom, not free of charge. Open source, is also known as free software; free running, the name has it; tennis, basically is a free sport; calligraphy, is free handwritting.
    That's why I prefer physics guys than computer science guys, because the former are still persuing their own freedom, but the latter are basically corrupted by this material realistic world. Don't any CS friends of mine take my words personally. Actually if you are a friend of mine, that means you are at least someone I really appreciate. What I want to say is, most of physics research workers have this fantasy in their head: Know this world better. Meanwhile, we CS workers' dreams are always: Earn more money. Admittedly, no one would say no to money. But this world is too allergic to money that most people don't even realise that they are using their freedom, dreams, and something more important to buy money, because they believe they can buy everything with money.
    However, believe or not, I don't think persuing money is one very bad thing, because at least you got some goal to move forward to. There exists someone slowly lacking their passions and dreams, even for money. Someone aroud me even start to think himself too old to start a career, and start to pin his hope on the next generation. We are all below 30 for God's sake! And what if the world ends before the next generation grows up?!
    Some of my intimate friends know that my working environment is not comfortable (I don't know the exact word to put this. "hopeful?") at all. But I never give up, because I love CS. And I take every snag in my way as a stepping-stone. Someone told me that never make your hobby become career, because it is a disaster when that happens. I think it's bullshit, that happens only because deep down you don't truely love it. And you will never gonna believe this, I always got a program written by myself running background or on another machine, when I am writing a BLOG, or I'am chatting with my friends.
    OK, I think I've strayed from the point way too far. In sum, freedom, passion, and dream are the themes of this article I want to emphasize. And, as a complete story, remember the guy who ask me to teach him magic? yeah...I bet he want to learn that magic to nail a girl, and I'm right! I told him the magic is not very suitable to win a girl's heart, so I teach him another one called "Ghost Card". God bless him good luck!

    May 06

    我的生日决心 My birthday decision

    中文:
    大家不会相信我是用英文写这篇文章的。一开始,我决心在我今天生日这天开始用英语来写我的日志;然后我马上为自己找了一些理由。第一,现在英语就像是鸡肋,食之无味弃之可惜(someone helps me translate this back in English),于是我想,干嘛不把它啃下来得了。第二,虽然我看了很多很多英语电影,但是我没有其他任何机会来练习英语,也许这时一个好主意。第三,我真心认为英语更贴近计算机科学。知道为什么吗?46个字母组成了所有的你需要的单词和短语,就像是计算机科学:0和1就是全部。
    然而,我将会把我的每篇BLOG翻译成中文,以防有人不能忍我的英语了。让我感到非常幸运的是,我没有在我写那篇小说之前做那个决定,因为用英语写那样一篇东西简直是恶梦。我非常欣慰我的BLOG将会成为英中双语的了,或许中英双语的风格会更好一些,那样意味着我会把中文放在最前面。好了,最后一件让我感到高兴的事是,我用了不到10分钟就写完了。(证明我E文还不错,还是我打字蛮快的?)
    English:
    OK, you would never believe this, because I write this in English. At the first second, I made up my mind writing my BLOG in English from today on, which is my birthday. And at the next second, I give myself several reasons why I should do this. Reason no.1, now English is really like a chicken rib which is tasteless, but makes my heart hurt when I try to throw it way, so I think why don't I just swallow it. Reason no.2, I don't have any chance to practise my pathetic English except I've seen a lot a lot of movies, so maybe writing my BLOG in English is a good idean. Reason no.3, I really think English is more naturally consistent with the computer science. You konw what I mean? 46 letters compound every word and every phrases you need to express yourself, just like CS: 0 and 1 is everything.
    However, I will always interpret my every article to Chinese, just in case some one cann't stand my poor English. I feel very lucky I didn't make up this decision before I wrote that novel, because write that in English might be considered as a nightmare. And I am very proud that my BLOG will become English-Chinese artcle:), or maybe Chinese-English style is better which means I will put Chinese part in front. OK, last thing I feel happy is, I write this article in less than 10 mins:)