New Year First Post

新年第一帖，新年新气象！

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.

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

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!

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。

Origami Yoda and Origami Prison Break Crane

这是我和我妈合力完成的折纸Yoda——我必须提到我妈因为这个看起来很简单的Yoda折起来并不简单，有60步，而且基本上都是图示，有的步骤跳跃性很大，解说又少，也不是英文的，看不懂——如果没有聪明的我妈的帮助有的地方还真弄不太明白。它几个星期前就完成了，但今天才想起来拿出来放在这里。这个Yoda的教程用Google搜索很容易就能找到。Yoda的脸感觉有点flat，但我不准备再折个更好的——因为太复杂啦！照片是用PC摄像头拍摄的，所以分辨率有点低。


这个Yoda是做在我折的越狱的纸鹤之后，越狱的纸鹤的教程是来自越狱中文网，我没有用Fox的官方教程是因为用Fox的官方教程做出来的纸鹤一点也不像电视剧里的那个！



更新：修改了图片的连接以便其在Pkblogs.com下也能正确显示。

Fun Stuff to Come

今天去Livejournal逛了逛，突然发现虽然Blogger在博客发布上有很多优于LJ的地方，但Blogger还是缺少一些“LJ气氛”，什么是“LJ气氛”呢？可能是LJ的社团部分真得值得Blogger学习一下；还有我发现Blogger少了两个LJ很有趣的东西，一个是多于一个的user icons，一个是花样多多的mood sets，user icons的问题在Blogger里要解决不太容易；不过mood sets我还是可以想到一个实现它的笨方法。

改天来试试看。至于mood sets我选什么主题，也还要想想，像Due South，或者Prison Break这样我很喜欢的剧集可能是优先考虑的主题。

New Blog Layout!

其实不想换版式的 ，只是原来的版式有个很大的问题，就是左边可用写日志的空间太狭小了，写起东西来感觉很挤，然后贴图也很不方便。本来代码倒是好改，但在这个模板下不仅要改代码，还要把改该代码里连接到的图片来跟改后的栏宽度匹配，就不好弄了。

换了个新的版式，然后把代码小改了一下，OK！

Live Strong

本来想给这个post一个比Live Strong更复杂的名字，但始终想不起来，可能是因为这个名字本身就把一切都说明白了的原因吧。前天收到了我订的Live Strong手带，Youth版本，比想象中的小，但还是很喜欢。Lance Armstrong的传奇故事不必我多说，当我第一次知道的时候真是给我很大的震撼。我想：不论是身在逆境还是顺境，我们都需要这种Live Strong的精神，这虽然只是一句俗话，但我们却常常遗忘。