milkduds

urg the pic­ture got fat­tened (squished), donno why.
going on vaca­tion to Tai­wan tomor­row :)

Maybe this will work on the one chi­nese game which refuses to show the cor­rect text (they usu­ally do but this par­tic­u­lar one doesn’t and it’s very irri­tat­ing):
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/26/workaround-to-install-microsoft-applocale-utility-in-windows-vista/

which i will try when I have time, which is never.

some of the pic­tures I like
com­po­si­tion is nice
light­ing + com­po­si­tion
com­po­si­tion
nat­ural, I like the faded col­ors look too
I like the green­ness and the com­po­si­tion
soft focus? the com­po­si­tion and col­ors are nice
nice blue sky and com­po­si­tion is nice
cute
great com­po­si­tion, light­ing, poses. every­thing works well here doesn’t it?
pretty + kinda unique
pretty + good com­po­si­tion

dra­matic pic­tures like these are kinda nice, but you really only need like 1 – 2 of them total. It gets extremely bor­ing when you have more than 1 – 2.

loca­tions I like
I think every­thing here would look nice
same with every­thing here espe­cially the moun­tain (so green), the bridge (so red), and the tea bushes. I love tea bushes.
I think the mail­boxes here are really cute.
the 眷村 here would look nice too I think. Build­ings with some age + tex­ture as back­ground gen­er­ally look incred­i­ble in pic­tures.

日月潭 pic­tures are really nice, minus wings… See this is where I saw wings on a guy. the qipao shots are pretty nice too. 日月潭 is in 台中 though, so it may be a bit unre­al­is­tic. I think that photo shoot is pretty nice too. I think i’m really picky so if there are more than 1 – 2 pic­tures I think are pretty good in a set that’s what I’d con­sider a pretty good shoot (and that one may have 5 – 6)

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from here

hotel1
hotel2
ok not exactly cheap, but there is a giant 溫泉 in your room. Seri­ously, I’m hav­ing my hon­ey­moon there.

saw this when read­ing ran­dom news, decided to click on the head­line any­way even though I was pretty sure I wouldn’t rec­og­nize this ‘Malaysian singer’. Any­way so sad, but it actu­ally seems like some­thing that might hap­pen to him (get arrested for being in a fight,) so I’m not really sur­prised. He seems like a tem­per­me­n­tal per­son, like some­one who has to do what­ever he feels like at the time. (Does that sound like an excuse? I still like him though, I think he’s a good per­son…) I think also because he talked about get­ting into fights before when he was in school and also he was depressed for a period of time and also he kinda chron­i­cally drinks a lot…but I still think this turn of events is kind of sad. It will greatly hurt his image I think because Man­darin pop singers don’t usu­ally get arrested for assult (or pretty much any­thing in gen­eral.)

my friend got theirs taken here. Ya seri­ously, the place is called ‘seat­tle wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phy…’ That street which is across the street from 國家音樂廳 has a whole bunch of them. But I think you have to reserve a few weeks ahead of time, which is why I’m look­ing now.
There are so many dif­fer­ent places I’ve been tak­ing a long time look­ing at all their pho­tos online. Right now I like CH Wed­ding, but it also seems like it might be one of the more expen­sive places. If you look under the “名人專區” sec­tion you can see that Melody (aka David Tao’s ex) had her engagement/wedding pic­tures taken there…Along with other rich/famous peo­ple…
Sophia Wed­dings got good reviews on this wed­ding forum I was look­ing at, even though their web­site looks kinda unspec­tac­u­lar.
Some other ones I’m look­ing at v-wedding, butterfly-green…, srmt… and a lot more. I think all the pic­tures started look­ing about the same to me. In fact they prob­a­bly are about the same. 

from Asiana
Too bad i’m not going from/to any of these des­ti­na­tions. I’m going SEA <-> TPE.

maybe.…like big­ger…

How would you trans­late 缘分?
It’s such a deeply ingrained idea in Chi­nese cul­ture (from Bud­dhism?) but I just can’t think of the right word/phrase in Eng­lish. It’s not karma/destiny/fate exactly all of which I think of as neu­tral ie. could be either good or bad while I always think of 缘分 as some­thing pos­i­tive and to be val­ued.

I think that notion just doesn’t exist in West­ern thought — it’s a very pas­sive idea…

有人问隐士。隐士想了一会说：缘是命，命是缘。此人听的糊涂，去问高僧。高僧说：缘是前生的修炼。 这人不解自己的前生如何，就问佛祖。 佛不语，用手指天边的云。这人看去，云起云落，随风东西，于是顿悟：缘是不可求的，缘如风，风不定。云聚是缘，云散也是缘。

张爱玲对缘分有极妙的解释：在千百万人中，千百万年间，不早不晚，正好碰上了，然后轻轻地说一句：嗨，你也在这儿！然而这种缘分可能是需要经历几个轮回才能做得到的。

兩個人要是經常相遇，他倆的關係在中國傳統文化中也會被認為比不經常相遇的人的關係更有緣分。舉例說，即使只是旅途中同乘一船，也算是一種緣份。這種相遇並不僅限於有形的面對面相遇，也可引申至學術上的交流、情感的交換甚或作品意識形態上的相似。