Archive for 03月, 2008

Screw you, Mainland China GFW

    I just found out feedburner's feed had been blocked by GFW. I was so silly that I went to google feedburner group and asked for help. I left a post there and I got the response very soon. The community expert was so confused because I kept asking him why my feeedburner was not accessible. Afterwards My friend huaopeng told me feedburner's feed had been blocked but the feedburner website was fine. Yes, that's how GFW is doing with all the websites around the globe. Now I'm wondering if they care where I pee and pooh. Does it really enjoy doing this? Don't even give you a warning? It's like crime of letters. It's history's "dump things".

Ninja!

How to gamble?

  今天,我们来聊聊怎么赌博?在中国,赌博是禁止的,国外的casino是非常受欢迎的娱乐场所。偶尔玩玩slots( ** )或者blackjack,还是无伤大雅的。today our terminology would be all related to gamble. 今天,我们学习的词汇都将和赌博有关。首先,我们说牌。

gamble or not
Cards:

  • Deck of cards 一桌牌
    ex: I will shuffle this deck of cards. 我来洗牌。
  • Full house 葫芦
    三张大小一样的牌,加一个对子。北方好像是这么叫的,南方我们说成俘虏。
  •  ex: I got a full house. I beat you up this time. 我这儿是葫芦,赢定你了。
  • Flush 顺子
    ex: Hey, dude. I got a straight flush. I bet no one is bigger than me. 老兄,我这是同花顺,我肯定没人比我大了。
  • spade, club, heart, diamond 黑桃,梅花,红桃,方块
    ex: I have a pair of spades 10, three of a kind: club 9, heart 9 and diamond 9. It's a full house.

 
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推荐专辑Mika的"Life in Cartoon"

Life in Cartoon

Life in Cartoon Motion

说真的,我对音乐没有太多的研究。最近只是为了给新车的mp3 player加点歌曲,舒缓一下神经听听音乐。就找这个朋友,那个朋友推荐。我喜欢的歌曲种类很多,看我列喜欢的歌手名字,就知道多么不同风格了。我喜欢的男歌手本来只有一个Justin Timberlake,现在多了个Mika,女的歌手比较多,像Kelly Clarkson,Dido,Norah Jones和Sarah Connor. 并且随时在变。

有人说Mika的这张专辑是个masterpiece(杰作),是不是杰作我无法评价,我觉得这张专辑做的非常华丽,Mika的声线也很特别。我喜欢这张专辑的封面,色彩感很丰富,就像他的歌,活泼又欢快,动感力强。这张专辑中我最喜欢三首歌,lollipop(棒棒糖),Grace kelly, big girl. 谢谢huaopeng的推荐。

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爱情大汇编插曲

        昨天朋友Sherill介绍了几个歌手,几首歌,是放在我新车里听的。这首歌"do you remember"有点怀旧的味道,让我想起“同桌的你”。

歌词如下:

歌手:jack johnson 专辑:in between dreams
Do you remember when we first met
I sure do
It was some time
in early September
though you were lazy about it
you made me wait around
I was so crazy about you
I didn't mind
So I was late for class
I looked my bike to yours
It wasn't hard to find
your painted flowers oh
guess that I was afraid
That if you rode away
you might not roll back
my direction real soon
Well I was crazy about you then
and now the craziest thing of all
over 10 years have gone by
and your still mine
locked in time
lets rewind

Do you remember
when we first moved in together
the piano took up the living room
You'd play me boogie woogie
I played you love songs
you'd say we're playing house
now you still say we are
we build our get away
up in a tree we found
we felt so far away
though we were still in town
I remember watching
that old tree burn down
I took a picture that
I don't like to look at

Well all these times
they come and go
Along don't seem so long
over 10 years have gone by
we cant rewind
we're looked in time
but your still mine

Do you remember?
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爱情大汇编(二)

  • Third wheel 电灯泡
    英文里用第三只轮子表示第三者,我个人觉得还是中文的电灯泡比较形象。
    ex: I don't want to be the third wheel between you two.
  • break up 分手
    这个词我不多解释了,出现的频率实在太高。
    ex: Mary is gonna break up with me because I'm cheating on her. Mary要和我分手,因为我背着她跟别的女人好了。
  • cheat on sb & have an affair 1. 欺骗某人的感情,背着男友/女友和别人上护栏上,排着七盆花草。时节还没完全来到,有三盆依旧秃着枝丫,另外三盆冒出嫩芽, 奇怪的是有一盆居然挣扎着开出了床 2. 有婚外情
    cheat on sb,特指的是对爱人,夫妻之间的不忠诚,not loyal to the relationship/marriage, 背着男友/女友和别的人有关系。提到这个,就顺便说说婚外情的事情。婚外情,正式的称呼是extramarital affair。这里,因为不言自明,就简化了。有确切数据指出,外国的婚外情比中国的比率少很多,一来,人家人口少,二来,我想还有一个更大的因素,中国的沉疴旧病(I don't wanna talk politics here, China doesn't welcome voices) 国外是婚前怎么都可以,one night stand(一夜情)多的是,可婚后大多规规矩矩的。
    ex1: see above(见上)
    ex2: The judge: Are you having an affair with Miss Jacob? 法官:你和杰可有染么?
    Defendant: No, I love my wife. I'm royal to my marriage. 被告: 不,我爱我太太,我忠于我的婚姻。

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夏天的呼唤,playland

      最近天气转热了,街上的行人渐渐的把羽绒服,呢大衣脱下了,换上了毛线衫,薄裙子。蚊子也没闲着,开始在我家肆虐了。办公室里新当爸爸的人已经在盘算什么时候给宝宝买蚊帐了。不由感叹现在的小孩真幸福啊。哪像我们以前只晓得拍洋画,跳大红枣。

      苏州有水上乐园,虽然好久没去玩过了,可至今还是印象深刻。加拿大的水上乐园名叫playland, 游乐的天堂,取了个好名字。 我最喜欢玩的是这个
hellevator

  1. Hellevator, literally meaning,字面的意思,是地狱的升降梯。 在你意想不到的时候,垂直上升,把你吊在高空,要上不上,要下不下的当口,再垂直落下,那种紧张和刺激是无法用言语来形容的,有心脏病的人可千万不要轻易尝试哦。
  2. Ferris wheel
    摩天轮,这个可能因为日本浪漫爱情片的关系吧,这种轮盘观光一流,女孩子大概都会在这里憧憬 梦幻般的爱情童话吧。还记得在东京灰姑娘的片段里,幸福摩天轮和一把颜色鲜艳的红伞就是灰姑娘和王子的 爱情里不可缺少的背景和道具。
  3. Scooter
    这个朋友们也不会不熟悉,小时候我们都玩过,碰碰车,小时候我总想,以后等我学会了开车,碰碰车就天下无敌了。却没想到有一天,我真的拥有了一部车子。
  4. Wild mouse
    这个不需要过多解释,疯狂老鼠,小老鼠跳过来,翻过去,很带劲。
  5. Roller coaster
    疯狂老鼠,哪比得上过山车好玩呢,经典的游戏啊
  6. Merry-go-round
    这个呢,也是儿时的经典啊,细数儿时的甜蜜回忆,旋转木马排第一,哪个还敢排第二? (话外音:等等,也许男生会选scooter?) 还记得那首儿歌,“旋转木马,哗啦啦,哗啦啦啦的转呀转呀”。Guys, it's summer time. Let's go nuts. (让我们一起疯啊,闹啊)

 

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