urg the picture got fattened (squished), donno why.
going on vacation to Taiwan tomorrow :)
bored so now looking at photos
October 24th, 2009 · Uncategorized
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playing chinese games on vista
October 14th, 2009 · Uncategorized
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.
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pictures I like
October 8th, 2009 · Uncategorized
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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super cute photos
October 5th, 2009 · Uncategorized
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now looking for hotels in 台中 for some reason
October 4th, 2009 · Uncategorized
hotel1
hotel2
ok not exactly cheap, but there is a giant 溫泉 in your room. Seriously, I’m having my honeymoon there.
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Gary Chaw arrested in HK…
October 4th, 2009 · Uncategorized
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.)
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looking at wedding/engagement pictures places in Taiwan…
October 3rd, 2009 · Uncategorized
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.
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cheap plane tickets
October 2nd, 2009 · Uncategorized
from Asiana
Too bad i’m not going from/to any of these destinations. I’m going SEA <-> TPE.
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this looks even worse than the typical Taiwan legislature brawl
September 27th, 2009 · Uncategorized
maybe.…like bigger…
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translation?
July 28th, 2009 · Uncategorized
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。
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