New Year First Post

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Orange Juice

Orange Juice

Jennifer LIU
Mid-Autumn Festival, 2007

I would like to have a glass of orange juice with you.
Beer is too complicated,
while orange juice is so much better.
It is so pure,
and so sweet,
just like you.

This poem was dedicated to someone. He would never know, though.

I Did It My Way

和同学去MELODY唱歌了。

各种不同类型的歌都唱了一些，有的类型的歌平时都很喜欢，但唱起来觉得似乎没那么容易——之前高估我自己了。

比如这首Frank Sinatra的My Way.

Eye of the Beholder Extended Ending

As one of my favorite movies, Eye of the Beholder has the kind of saddening effect that has been haunting me ever since I watched it for the first time. Mostly this is because of its heart-breaking ending, with Joanna (the leading actress) dying in the arms of Eye (the leading actor). And I remember as the "cast" rolled, I thought: This CANNOT be the ending!

I guess a lot of fans of Eye of the Beholder would find this extended ending comforting.

The dialog in English:

Eye: "Who are you visiting?"
Girl: "My mum. And you?"
Eye: "My wife. - What's your name?"
Girl: "Lucy!"

Unforgetable Laughters

《我爱我家》主要演员文兴宇因病去世。

永远怀念。

South Park is Funny, Crudely

昨天我看了几集“久仰大名”的《南方公园》，虽然不能说名不虚传，但也可以说至少让人印象深刻了。

我并不是按顺序来看，就是随便找了两集来看。我看的第一集，在前十分钟内就已经让我说不出话来了，那集讲的是Cartman拍照片的故事——当然看过的人都知道那集讲的是什么…可以说惊世骇俗。

我原来还有听闻《南方公园》有些库布里克，这话没说错。事实上我从来没有看过库布里克的作品，例如他最著名的《发条橙》，但我看过《人工智能》，还看到有评论说里面集中“屠杀”机器人的场面是斯皮尔博格在向库布里克致敬，我还看过一些库布里克作品的评论，所以我想我大概知道库布里克在作为一个形容词时的涵义。

“残忍”是一个很重要的元素，我感觉里面还有一种反抗，但这种反抗又是很绝望，是这种绝望比残忍更让人痛心。所以一个人可以很容易得把画面拍得很残忍，给人视觉上的冲击；但一个人却很难把精神拍得很库布里克，冲击到人的心灵。

《南方公园》有些库布里克，但又不那么纯粹；有些叛逆，但还是没有偏离主流，有点擦边球的意思。不知道是不是它的制作人有意如此，还是它的制作人本意是想要拍一部” THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM CONTAINS COARSE LANGUAGE AND DUE TO ITS CONTENT IT SHOULD NOT BE VIEWED BY ANYONE.”的另类动画片，却只是发现他们最终还是没能逃离主流思想的束缚——来自未来的人们告诉我们要保护环境，Cartman的好友Jennifer Lopez最终还是要离开他以使Cartman成为一个“精神正常”的孩子，诸如此类。

不知道为什么，我突然想起Radiohead的一个动画MV Paranoid Android了。

我想我还是比较喜欢《樱桃小丸子》，简单但又不简单。

Have a Little Patience

Take That is history. Yet sometimes history replays.

Their new single "Patience" is typical brit-pop, and therefore, not bad. The theme is sorta like Enrique's Sad Eyes, though.



And how about Erique's Sad Eyes?

Is a Losing Battle Worth Fighting For?

It has been a long time since last time I logged on to Blogger. And the next time I tried jennifersadventure.blogspot.com, there was this good old GFW.

Well let it.

Long time no see. How have you been pals? I missed you.

I have been really busy these days, but I learned a lot of new things, and still I am learning. Although I think that probably the lazy days when I logged on to Blogger everyday and shared my thoughts with you will never come back, I am still here--I am not leaving.

Love

Busy busy

想法很多。没空写。

改天！

What is G * F * W

Simply Fact.

(If you encounter some problem after clicking the link above, you got the fact.

Find it out in the Mar. 17, 2007 entry at BillConan Studio. )

Paradise Lost 失落桃花源

昨天开电视，恰巧在放温接受访问的现场直播，我正准备换台，恰巧有个记者问了个有意思的问题，就看了一小会儿。问题有意思，回答更有意思。

后来想，要是把我看的这一小段录下来就好了，可以放在博客上面。然后当天晚上又遇到一个台在重播，我准备好了录，但我早晨恰好看到的那一段却被剪掉了。今天上网搜了一下，找到的中文transcript都是被裁减过的，想要搜英文的却得到上图中显示的结果。

就我看的那一段，只找到了新浪的"director's cut"版本，我就不全引了，因为不想把博客文章弄得太长：

[法国世界报记者]:
　　最近您在人民日报发表了一篇文章，我想引述其中的一些话，您提到社会主义制度和社会主义民主并不是相互排斥的，您同时还说社会主义的初级阶段还要建设一百年。请问您是否意味着说中国在未来的一百年都不需要民主？
[温]:
　　我最近这篇文章讲述了一个道理，就是社会主义民主与法制不是悖离的...

问题被砍了一半，回答中最有意思的那一段也被砍了。我也不想说回答中被砍的那一段了，反正是挺可笑的。然后在director's cut版本里还看到有记者问到中国互联网的问题，然后回答就是那些话啦...不看也可以想到。

终于还是没有找到我当时听到的那一段。觉得有点遗憾，又不遗憾。不管怎样，我知道如果下次再错过，我一点也不会觉得遗憾了。" Ladies and gentlemen, it's Show Time!"

On Life as It is in the Universe (For a Friend)

Hi, Bill, this entry is for you.

I have to admit that I come to realize that my “different pictures” theory simply does not make a satisfactory answer. So I give a second thought to your idea of thinking about life as it is in the universe.

Since it was wrong for Aristotle to believe that we were the center of the universe, I guess it is just as wrong for you to think that we are the far end. Aristotle was egotistic, and you, too modest.

It is true that the three worlds of existence, microcosm, macrocosm and cosmocosm, run in different ways, but it does not necessarily make them separate pictures. There are interconnections. A trivial difference in the arrangement of carbon atoms ends up with substances with drastically different properties. And the Moon, which is approximately 385,000 miles away, affects ocean circulation on the Earth. These are the ways microcosm and cosmocosm influence us--how we influence them is yet to be discovered, though. That is to say, we influence the universe in a way that we have not found out yet, which is sort of like Carl Jung’s synchronicity theory, or Edward Lorenz’s butterfly effect.

You mentioned that millions of outer space cultures might be dying the moment you wrote that comment. Well they, if there are any, might. And their absence in the universe does affect us—in a way that you are not aware of. Or, at an intelligible level, you lost some of your most favored stars in the summer night sky. And if we die, they are going to lose one, too--that most beautiful one.

So come on, Bill! We do make sense! And you know what? You are not just pretending to be a fool—you are a fool. In fact, you are so silly that you do not realize that the future of the entire universe might look completely different only because you wear your smile today.

更新（修正表达错误）:

英文到底还是没学到家，最后一句话似乎有歧义。

我要表达的意思是：“可能只是因为今天你的一个微笑，整个宇宙的未来便完全不同。”（如果Carl Jung和Edward Lorenz是对的，那这种情况是完全有可能的。）

但按原文（如上）的表达，很容易被理解成很cliché的含义，即：“如果你微笑着去看待，（在你眼中）整个宇宙的未来便会完全不同。”

所以最后一句话应该改成：...the future of the entire universe might be so different only because you wear your smile today.

继续努力 :p

LiveJournal Blocked

今天上Livejournal.com发现上不上去了。一查，Livejournal官方已经确认其在中国被封的消息。

没什么可说的。

PS:别忘了www.pkblogs.com/jennifersadventure

Where is Your Home?

In some episode (I forget which one) of Prison Break, our beloved character "Van Gogh" passed away. Although it almost becomes a "fashion" to write a "prayer" for every character that died in Prison Break, I do not plan to do so. And it seems that Haywire does not worth it, either—he does not seem to belong to this world where we do.

Then we heard this song Home at Haywire's fall. It felt a bit strange, but not out of place. "Home", such a warm word. It is so warm that people often forget why it is.

Dictionaries would not miss out on the word "family" for the entry "home", yet they might forget the word "destination"—although probably the word "home" "shines" because of, not "family", but "destination". There is a line in Trainspotting said by the character Mark Renton: Here I was surrounded by my family and my so-called mates and I've never felt so alone. Probably he felt this way because he felt his destination missing.

Where is your home? Maybe it is not about family, but it must be about where you belong. Is it where you are now, or is it the neverland that you have been looking for for so long, with blue sky, bright sunshine, and windmills rotating with refreshing breeze?

But I guess the lyrics are right anyway, One day you really got to go home.

Happy Chinese New Year!

新年快乐！

Notification of Absence

I'm not going to update for a while because I have some serious matter on hand. Anyway, thank you for dropping by!

See ya!

Go, go, go! Paul!

刚看完Prison Break EP213。

哇噻！

这集的结局真是180度大转弯啊！前一集the company要干掉Paul的时候，我还为他担心得要命呢！我以为他活不久了——好像the company要干掉某人，那么那个人肯定就活不长了（当然我们的男主角Michael除外 :b）。不过还好，Paul在这集的表现太棒了，没有让我失望——他和Michael是我在这个剧里最喜欢的两个角色，要是他死了，我就只有Michael可以看了。还有，Mahone牺牲了有点可惜——就是从这集开始的时候我才刚刚对他有点好感了，没想到死得这么快:(

为有魅力的Paul的精彩表现，特地发帖庆祝一下 ：D



还截个图纪念一下Mahone，截自Prison Break EP213——有时候你能在Mahone蓝色的眼睛里看到一种动人的情素。


Lincoln: If you want me, you got me. Let my brother go!
Mahone: I don't want either of you. I just want my life back!

Review: Just Like the Fambly Cat

It is hard to describe how it was like listening to Grandaddy's last album. Kind of sad, while well aware that sadness will not help. Anyway, drop the mood and let us see how it was like.

Just Like the Fambly Cat is just like Grandaddy, one cannot see this last album as one of those last albums that have a sum-up effect over the artists, though. Compared with earlier peaks like Sumday and The software Slump, Just Like the Fambly Cat is simply "plane" Grandaddy. During the nearly one-hour time, one could even be reminded of Under the Western Freeway for some quite similar tunes. Well, sometimes it is difficult to drop the mood, isn't it; Summer...It's Gone is quite emotional, and so sad that it almost brought me to tears. One could also find some songs with that kind of "bright color" of Grandaddy's and when you are listening, it is like sunshine were on you. The album ends with Jason singing I'll never return. (Shangri-La (Outro))

Grandaddy, thank you for your talent, and whatever, you will always be one of my favorites!

About Mood Sets

本想加上一个表情集的，但想来想去还是准备放弃了，表情集倒是很好找，就算是一些主题表情集也很有很多现成的可以直接用；虽然看起来会很好玩，但感觉有些不太实用。要是我很开心，可能会很有兴致贴上一个笑脸，但如果我不开心，我想我肯定没有兴致贴表情了，要是我很生气，肯定也没有兴致贴了。

As You Wish, GFW.

很吃惊今天blogspot和blogger又可以正常访问了, 不知道是怎么回事。如此反复，是GFW还是Blogger-beta（jennifersadventure.blogspot.com使用的是Blogger-beta)在测试期完工后换了地址，我想在反复了这么多次后，不会有人猜得到了。反正已经对国内的言论封锁彻底失去了信心，要封就封吧，我不会难过；要解就解吧，我也不会乐观。

一句话：GFW，随你的遍！