6 Flying Daggers

已整整一夏天每有在journal上敲打一个字了。虽然“昔日”与“今日”相隔不过一年，心境却已是大大地不同！话说遥想当年......哈哈哈，还不至于此。

对学生来说夏天就是梦。对夏日的优哉游哉的向往成了期末考试前最大的动力。心里默念着“曙光就在前方”...  幻想着搭上CA992...有多少苦闷也就都忘了。但往往对希望的期盼才是最激动人心的。就像悬念小说，吊胃口的过程是最精彩的，等到结局大白时也就是“不过如此”。有说暑假漫长，有说暑假短暂。众说纷纭，因人而异。我说，四个月的暑假真的是很长，长到一假期过后竟然脑筋迟钝、生锈矣。虽话说“竟然”，但却也是意料之中。毕竟一夏天的“活动”大多为每晚乱涂鸦，练字...舍其无他。假期里最大的目标也许就是把我中文的老底给补回来吧。起初看到自己东倒西歪的字体实在是颜面无光，又发现写东西时很多字已忘了怎么写，俨然直逼文盲水平，更是惭愧不已！紧迫感哪！！经过一番零零散散的东贴西补（古文，武侠齐出动，外加狂看历史剧），总算是挽救回了那么丁点。或许在另一个平行宇宙里，我不曾移民，而在国内接受过n年的苦行僧教育后我会大展我的文学才华。BWAHAHAHA！当真是没边儿的春秋大梦。

现在一晃儿也近开学一个月了，生活重新步入“正”轨 （与暑假里没头苍蝇般的东奔西跑呈鲜明对比），光景却已与往年里的沉闷不可同日而语。反正管它三七二十一，该出手时就出手。潇洒自在如竹林七贤者岂不美哉！

the weirdest...not...actually, most stupid thing in the wolrd happened 5 mins ago.........and it left me...speechless! er....hahaa...hah..ha.....haa....*sweats..*
anyways...I was sitting here, in front of my laptop, writing down equations. Then...I thought I heard music~ I listened more carefully,  and was pretty sure it came from the room above. The song sounded familiar...then ~ I recognized that it's a song that I also have on my ipod/tune, what's more was it's one of those high-pitched-Chinese-soprano songs about "ahhhhhhhh I love you China blah blah blah". Pretty normal otherwise...right? Or maybe not...But here's the thing, the house I live in is occupied by only Taiwanese, Japanses, this girl from mainland who goes by a Japanese name (ewwwww...), and me. so er....who the hell other than me listen to those whacko songs in the house?! Here's the other thing: I was bored. So I thought...hmmm, why not play a little game with my landlords? And here's what I did (omg Confuscious, please forgive me!), I found the song on my itune, unplugged my headphones from the computer, started playing it, and then turned the volume to MAX (only the instrumental parts...I was afraid my roommate might get scared). I thought...hehe...you play one song, I'll answer it. 
Ok..so then the song finished, couldn't hear the next few cuz they were too quiet. 
And then~~ chance came again! *MWAHAHAAAA -- me back then* this time, it's a song from this tv show (雍正王朝-得民心者得天下). I was like "hoy?! WTF?!" . Yeah..that's right, I've that song too! Alright, soo I guess the game's on again! I found that song too, on my itune, played it, at MAX volume, but only for half a minute..not even. Just enough so that people upstairs would know~. I was suspiscious, but at the same time amused by my brainless feat.
Another started right after. I thought...hmm...the landlords are happy  today eh? I've never heard any music in the house. But this time...da! It's STILL a song I have AND even played in the same freakin order! My """"revelation""": HOLY F*&%ING SHIT it's from my ipod!!! I darted for my jacket, grabbed my ipod, and found that I forgot to turn it off..................................................................
And so ends the most exciting event of the past month, to me of course...but on the sidenote, also the most hilariously.... embarrassing event. 
The clinically deaf Director Chen says: okay okay fellas--- cut! That's a wrap!
I was impressed by the realm of human stupidity. Yeah! Blame my deficiency on our gene pool! Distribute your embarrassments among 6,000,000,000 fellow homosapien sapiens....and you won't feel a single blush. 

赵云单骑救主时插曲~~好歌~~
子龙一身都是胆也！！！

虽未谱金兰，前生信有缘，忠勇扶汉室，情义比桃园。
匹马单枪出重围，英风锐气敌胆寒，一袭征袍鲜血染，当阳常志此心丹。
子龙，子龙，世无双，
五虎上将威名传。

I found a new game. I played it for half an hour, and I believe I'm already bored. It's much better to just watch RoTK tv adaption online  you know...8 eps down er...*thinks..84-8=76*...76 to go! I wonder why I've so little homework? Yeah yeah..take the initiative..whatever. Right now it's all about home-->inner Mongolia-->horseback riding-->home-->food & fun   >:D
Ayn Rand intitute sent me a free copy of Atlas Shrugged! LOL *cough cough -- I call for censorship!*.
Gee...I wonder why. Must have been blacklisted. 
Anywayz...really weird dream last night. I was with helix at metro. We saw a bar, and got two shots of vodka. THEN...the bar owner or whomever...conspired to kidnap us as slaves for ...diamond mining??..something along the lines. And of course we started to run for our lives. Bar dude and accomplice chased after us...(why do they want US as slaves anyways?? we are both feeble Asian students...-_-"..at least I am!). Then I ended up in Paris, by myself, standing beside a bus, opposite the Louvre. The bar dudes were STILL CHASING ME! WTF?! Do I make that good of a slave?! I hugged the bus driver, and the two bar dudes finally stopped chasing me and kidnapped the bus driver instead. There's a veeeeeery long reason why I had to hug the driver. And then--- I turned into a guy, and a gay guy at that! Also...out of nowhere...there's this other gay guy who was apparently my partner or something...standing beside me. We hugged..or was it a poke? ahh..whatever..and this other guy dropped half dead on the ground. Then...there's this morbidly obese cardinal at the door of the the Louvre, and announces that the museum is closed for the day, but they will treat all the disappointed tourists with spetacular fireworks. Then I woke up...only to find that it was freakin 8:25!!! Holy crap~I was supposed to be by Dunbar or in Sub indulging on a donut by then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah..okay...guess it made for good LJ material XD

苏轼
大江东去，浪淘尽，千古风流人物。故垒西边，人道是、三国周郎赤壁。乱石穿空，惊涛拍岸，卷起千堆雪。江山如画，一时多少豪杰。
遥想公谨当年，小乔初嫁了，雄姿英发。羽扇纶巾，谈笑间，樯橹灰飞烟灭。故国神游，多情应笑我，早生华发。人生如梦，一樽还酹江月。

I'm on yet another crusade to look for a new den~~ with minimal..wait..change that to NO...results. And... I believe I've substantially overworked myself  this week*thumbs up ^___^*, even my hair doesn't feel right.  Those course planning people are such sadists. geeeeesh...must they pile up all the lab reports...papers...assignments...tests etc etc.. within the span of freakin threeeeee dayss!?!  The firing squad to all of them >3 a little too harsh... but what the hell -- show no mercy. 
Despite my failure to find a new den...I did manage to find something else that's new...--- a new indulgence! More like an addiction now...hahaha~~ my whole RoTK and war strategy obssession is coming rushing back like...like...soldiers charging downhill...overwhelming and engulfing and devouring the enemy! Okay...maybe without the devouring part, cuz that might somehow mis-associate this metaphor with mad cow disease XD, and what a horribly corny metaphor that was!!! Bwahahha. But I like it, because as I said, I'm obssessed. When you are obssessed, you don't make sense, agreeeeeed?? Absoluuutely, that's just common sense. I'm some 70% into the game now...alas, I wish that could be the success rate of my housing hunt...but I don't wanna fight the last battle (in order to advance into the next round...duh..)!!! Damn those Japanese game developers! 
LOL...thinking about it...I almost was gonna write a book on military strategies when I was in gr 6 .....I don't want to know what could have become of it, not even if there's an parallel universe!
ooo..I've to shower now? 

I've been sitting in my den since I woke up this morning..changing from one thing to the next (not me! the things I do..that is. hmm...thinking about it, it might be fun to transform into say...Alessandra Ambrosio!). But today my time's mostly occupied with DN...XDD. 
Not having updated for so long makes my hands itch...and plus, it makes me feel like wasting cyber storage space. No matter...my usual paranoia setting in again, got it ever since I ..started..to like math mwahaha. This is not even random; it's intentionally pointless, due to the fact that there is indeed no point to be made, while I'm compelled to make a point out of nothing. You following me?? Yes? Don't laugh...it's not like this is a good thing. 
I think I'm looking incredibly manga-like today...maybe it's got something to do with staring at deathnote for the past oh..3 hrs?? hmm...I'll gel my hair and show it to Kim Jong Il..see how that goes...

New discovery: the deleted accounts on LJ are called "Purged Accounts" !
Ultimate democracy! *toasts*

haha from updating daily to ...this...
le sigh (CC of heron XD) ... too many sites, too little brain power. Equal distribution is hard. 
The monologue is gone (maybe I should capitalize that...c Monologue), replaced by a preoccupation with doodling. It's a foreign feeling not having streams of consciousness interrupting one another. Now I know, the mind is a machine, literally. It needs fuel, lubricant, maintenance, and upgrades. If it always runs on the same old stuff, it'd be reduced to a pile of rust in no time; if it's set aside for too long, it needs effort to be restarted. But the Idle status can not last, unless you believe that "ignorance is strength". 
All in all, there's just not much to talk or even think about these days. That's a dangerous sign. The world is what it was before, except a little more chaotic by the second (but we shall not go into that! ), the events occuring everyday as numerous, how could there be a lack of issues to contemplate?! Conclusion, it must be me. 
I'll update later..to comment on some more pleasant aspect of life...and will try to be better articulated then ;p. 

My mouth is dry. 
Don't irrate. Irratation leads to death.

Z--O--M--G!
The Departed won best picture!! Man..this is probalby THE MOST USELESS entry I've written so far....BECAUSE---everybody will undoubtedly know/heard about this million times + by tomorrow! But still!! THE DEPARTED WON! geee..sh ... I haven't even watch the movie. But hell...it's based on Infernal Affairs..So-- Go Hong Kong films!

《亮剑》看完一半，一个字---爽！一个个人物活灵活现，有幽默，有悲情，有豪情，有友情，有恩情，有爱情。一本史实性的小说能写得像一部武侠外传，挺不易，挺拽。里面没什么娇柔做作，没什么大英雄主义，作者也没试着边讲故事边提高读者的政治觉悟，但却能让你感觉到什么才叫英雄，叫爱国，叫牺牲。总得来说，不肉麻。这在同类小说中好像还是为数不多的。我看的时候，好几次都大笑起来 （尽管这可能和我这几天在家里憋得，和他人沟通过少有关）。最打气的地方当然还是日本鬼子被打得哇啦哇啦叫的时候。但有些类似的作品却只能让我浑身起鸡皮疙瘩，以巴根刺挠。还有后半部分没看呢，听说是全书精彩之处，可惜电视剧改编的时候给删了，闹个皆大欢喜。也许吧..之后主人公在文革时的饮弹自尽可能会使观众看后“有所思”吧。要这结局大家可不就都不痛快了？尤其是广电局。哈。其实眼下的政府挺开放的，就他英美事儿多，一天到晚酸溜溜得实在让傻子看了都知道它们那是居心叵测。回到主题，要是“文革”的话题那么需要回避的话，这书在就不是在新浪上连载的了。就当编导们想得周到，不希望观众们最后个鼻涕一把泪一把地把电视剧看完。

The thing that had troubled me for the past oh...half an hour was, why is the CPC so...big? The last time I checked, it had 70 million members, and that's excluding the various organizations and movements under the CPC's wing. Encouraging prospects. Lenin said that the communisty party is the vanguard of the working class. When your vanguard consists of 1/13 of the population, you know you are in good hands. 

In my impression, ideals, optimism, conviction are the words that have defined the group of people who are dedicated to constructing a future where humanity will triumph over all the darkness in the world. Looking around, I find none.

The world have changed, and world views have changed accordingly. But for better or worse, those long forgotten dreams and romanticism must still lie somewhere, even if they are tugged away in an obscure corner of the materialistic minds of our generation, and only to be retrieved again to deride. 

man...I really don't know where this one's going, and yet I've never taken so long to write an entry. There are words, phrases, sentences that just flash across my mind, each one of them an independent thought on their own while also in some way intimately connected, yet none of them can be organized into a coherent whole. I blame it on the lateness, but also on thirst, a sore throat, that roll of toilet paper in front of me, the russian dictionary...etc. etc. etc.

hmm...to corrupted officials, go screw yourself before the party double discplines you. be paranoid, be very paranoid.

     There are always sooo many things that happen simultaneously in a time like Chinese New Year, or maybe I'm just noticing more stuff, that I can never sum up everything so completely. But one definitive conclusion I came to is that it was sooo right of me to have gone volunteering instead of staying in this shit-hole-basement that happens to be my dwelling place! 
     I've been waiting for yesterday for the whole week. Totally pumped up, I got up at 7 in the morning (that's the time I get up for school!), rushed through everything, and jumped on the bus. Got bread and coconut milk from T&T, yesh 'tis the breakfast..ahhh the goodness of asian foooood. Started volunteering at hmm....circa 11. Handing out surveys, walking around, getting rejected (hahaha), and all the while unconsciously praticing the art of.....dating?? All in all, a boring day. Memory loss, traumas from overload of rejections - the day's rewards. 
     Then homeward with Helix (her home obviously...hahaha me the parazity). hot pot hot pot dumplings hot pot fruit and bun. Then the annual show performance that everyone both hates and loves. This year's was so bland that there weren't even anything surprisingly bad about it. Chinese people have an amazing endurance for cheesiness and utterly embarrasingly unfunny jokes that even the performers themselves probably hate. The martial arts performance was good, so were the songs/dances performed by the different ethnicities (Tibetans, Mongolians...to name a few), then....nothing really. 
     Then bedward. Talked till 4 in the morning...life, the universe, and everything....baaahh.
     Time to volunteer again. Parade day! We were  assigned to stand at the VIP reception area. Our task was to shoo the proles. Saw Carol James, had the urge to tackle her, but no gut. Saw the consulate-general of PRC...ahhhhhh boss of the compatriots. Saw familiar faces whose names I don't recall......yah suck it up! Saw....our high school math teacher?! AND his girlfriend... I argue it's his sister. But whatever. 
     Washroom line up 1 km long.  So many people that there were literally 10 heads per square meter. Oily vietnamese fast food...bubble tea that choked me...and is still choking. Sitting, drawing, answering Q's while having a big black chunk of thingy stuck on my front teeth...not nice! Sums up today!
     Helix suggested breaking the backbone of the society...and thereby destroying the social hierchy that now divides the 1% from the 99%....haha, dare to dream, comrade! That happened when we were human-barricading the VIP's who were more impotent than important. But yes, "with enough numbers, blowing up a building can change the world". V is always right. Revolution is nigh...or more like...nehhhh. 
     That's my first Chinese New Year spent away from my parents, here alone in this f'ed up capitalist land.
     The Shallow Game continues, with minor success, including a real model (lists in my file! 1 down er...many to go?!) and a certain“兔”from the army. 
From Basement Den, this S.Chenekov of Department A. Jon?

Everything red..and heartshaped..is half-price today. It has nothing to do with me of course, because I never ever buy anything red and heartshaped. 

what drug was I on?!

The Gays have  taken over UBC!! I was in school today..obviously...and saw Main Mall all lined with pride flags. It's sad that I didn't bring a camera. If I didn't know...I'd thought that the school was now under the Dictatorship of the Pro-er...gays.
My thoughts: Pride flags leads to rallies leads to propaganda (that's right! everything leads to propaganda) leads to Nazis leads to Nazi rallies.
My action: I googled "nazi rallies" --> image
My gasp: *GASP* 
Found this website by neonazies in the states reporting on something about the white unity movement...or some other insanities along the line. And no....I'm not going to post the link here to give them more publicity...even if my audience numbers in "one". Damn! I can't even legitimately use numbers...one being clearly singular.

stop reading or risk your life.


so you decided to read on? STOP, you can still turn back.


*shrugs* your choice...


Fine!! Your curiosity will one day cost your life.


Why are you so damn adamant about reading this?!


ya..whatever...since I can't stop you..here it is:
P.S.: on the advise of what I presume as a rally-pro, a presumption that's based on the fact that I know only 1 person who's both actively political and politically active, never go to a rally alone. 

satisfied?! My friend, you've just wasted 30 secs of your life when you could have used that time to rehydrate yourself, in which case you'd never have gotten here!

http://www.geocities.com/donaldjhagen/humoroustest.html
it's long. read only the short questions. mine, and i presume your, brain has only limited capacity for stereotypes. unless, of course, you are a Republican.
no, i am not giving the colour red to those creeps.

Changed back from Basic to "Plus" (Plus my *ss!)! Too bad...I need to upload pictures. Oh well, democracy comes at a price ($2/month, apparently). So gonna watch Pan's Labyrinth. HELIX: Pan's Labyrinth on Fri??

RMB is, literally, people's currency. But somehow...the plural has gradually declined to the singular...
I just can't figure out the mentality behind this change, and it seems that chances are pretty slim that I might find an explanation anytime soon.
Anyways...

The First Series:
Featuring agricultural and industrial sites, and famous Chinese landscapes/sceneries, descriptive of the back then China, and fittingly ..... Communist. 
For samples see:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E5%A5%97%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%B8%81&variant=zh-cn

The Second Series:
Distributed during the firsts of the Five-Year Plans.
More agricultural and industrial themes, in addition to some noteworthy technological achievements, portraits of a factory worker and a farmer, and a coming-together of different ethnicities.










The five yuan bill.
Whoa...I've seen..and used...a lot of these second series bills. I think I used to have one that dated back to the 60's. Hmm...heard it's worth a small fortune on the market today~~And yes, I will, of course, auction it for personal profit. Haha, such was the way that my education had indoctrinated me!

The Third Series: 
hmm...it circulated for around 4 decades and yet I've never even seen one! Or my goldfish memory has failed me yet again....>3
Anyways...this one presents the sort of same themes as before, and because I feel no real connection to this series, I'll just post the wiki link here.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%89%E5%A5%97%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%B8%81&variant=zh-cn

and Ah..The Fooourth Series:
These have taken out the agricultural and industrial themes, which were substituted with the portraits of people of different ethnicities. The awesome landscapes remain. 
The one hundred bill has the profiles (counting from the front) of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, and Zhu De, the four mega idols of prc (and from what I read on some Chinese website - the four most handsome men in whole of China. See this?! This is what you Western free marketers did to our young minds!) .
Personal opinion -- the most artistically well-rendered series so far.

10 cents bill.












50 yuan bill. (from left: intellectual, farmer, worker) 











100 yuan bill. (you know who they are, or shame on you)
They all look superbly nice~ for more (hehe...endure it), check here:
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E7%AC%AC%E5%9B%9B%E5%A5%97%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%B8%81&variant=zh-cn
Alternatively, all these samples can most certainly all be found at the People's Bank of China wesite...I just never bothered to go. 

The Fifth Series:
Yep, where things got interesting.
Here's the summary that I found on wikipedia..
The pictures are amazingly uniform looking, except the colour changes. You put them together and you'll probably get a little money-rainbow. So no point posting here.

Banknote
5th Series, Second (2005) Edition
Link (Chinese)	Value	Dimensions	Color	Obverse	Reverse	Printed Date	Issued Date	Watermark
[6]	¥5	135 × 63 mm	Purple	Mao Zedong and Narcissus	Mount Tai	2005	August 31, 2005	Narcissus
[7]	¥10	140 × 70 mm	Blue	Mao Zedong and Rose	Three Gorges of the Yangtze River			Rose
[8]	¥20	145 × 70 mm	Brown	Mao Zedong and Lotus	Scenery of Guilin			Lotus
[9]	¥50	150 × 70 mm	Green	Mao Zedong and Chrysanthemum	Potala Palace			Mao Zedong
[10]	¥100	155 × 77 mm	Red	Mao Zedong and Peony Bauhinia ?	Great Hall of the People

Yep... the population of China has just somehow conveniently reduced to "1".  Maybe soon the currency will be renamed to Mao Bi XD. And yeah...population control is THAT easy. Kudos.

Still, I can't figure why this happened. If PBC ever sees this, could you guys pleeeaase tell me WHY? And I might just promptly delete this all too pointless entry.