Thanks to Simon, I got into the world of books. While I'm getting pleasure from lots of western books, my Chinese literature has been sliding. I've been worrying about it for some time, but I still haven't got a chance to make for that due to three reasons: large selection and easy access to western books; limited selection and almost zero access to Chinese books (except reading online which I'm not that fond of); friends and family influence.
Today I chatted with a net friend online and was accused of lack of reading Chinese books, which made me ashamed of myself. Oh, well, I can't blame myself too much if I'm making the best of myself since I know the advantage of reading. I will keep reading as many book as I can and at the same time choose from different books.
2009年11月16日星期一
2009年11月1日星期日
As to a vegetarian, I found out my choices are so limited, but I still didn't expect my favourite Thai food turned out to be not only not tasty but also a bit yucky to my taste. The green vegetable was cooked in a milky sauce which was not what under normal circumstances I would ever choose to put into my mouth if I had been informed in the first place. And spring roll was fried in a strongly scented ancient oil. To my disgust, it seemed like they forgot to put any salt into my dish. The noodles were the best among them. For money and my stomach's sake, I ate it. But I will scrutinize very carefully before I pick a vegetarian dish next time.
Kevin and his girlfriend bought some lovely cup cakes to share when we had tea together back in our house. It was my first time to have cup cakes. I chose an orange flavoured one and it turned out to be really nice. We had a really lovely chat and they left around 7.
2009年9月28日星期一
我对“潜伏”的看法
好长时间没更新博客了，工作很忙，再加上闲暇时间读西门小说的初稿还经常看看电视剧，剩下的时间基本上就用于睡觉了。
朋友推介电视剧“潜伏”，打开优酷网一看，没几分钟就被其婉转凄惨的爱情故事和曲折离奇的情节构筑吸引住了。男主角孙红蕾把间谍余则成演的淋漓尽致，剧中他对爱情的忠贞不贰，对信仰的坚定执著，还有对生活的热爱乐观让我感受到他起码是个有血有肉的人，而不是用来歌功颂德的无瑕标本。另一个值得提起的角色是翠平。姚晨扮演的这个“女游击队长+村姑”的角色也给我留下了很深的印象，尤其看到则成第一次接翠平时，翠平破口就骂：“谁睡糊涂了？我他妈等了你两个时辰了”（ 一边诅骂，一边还裹着烟袋，把一个20世纪40年代的村姑形象跃然活灵活现的展现在观众面前），我捧腹大笑。善良，率真，纯朴，土生土长的她显然与深成，老练，有文化，有涵养的余则成格格不入。但是凭着她本身忠贞，勤劳和有耐心的天生佳质，最终获得了她梦寐以求的余之爱。虽然她的爱和甜蜜的家庭没有持续很久，余则成最终也没能和她破镜重圆，但是她找到了心爱的人，并且这个人也深深地爱着她，这不就是她想要的吗？从另一个角度看待的话，如果余则成回到她身边，谁又能保证接下来的政治动荡不会拆散这对鸳鸯呢？
除了这几个角色外，剧中的其他演员也很值得一看。比较起来，我觉得“左蓝”这个角色较不成功，不是演员演技的问题，而是小说本身根本没有把这个角色深度化。她外语好，成绩优秀，业绩突出，思想先进，勇于为党献出一切，而且最终献出了她年轻貌美的生命。她的角色单纯而单调，没有丝毫创新。
我也翻开龙一的原著，结果只看了一章就放开了。按照常理，书一般比电视剧精彩，但是我的感觉却是电视胜于小说。
朋友推介电视剧“潜伏”，打开优酷网一看，没几分钟就被其婉转凄惨的爱情故事和曲折离奇的情节构筑吸引住了。男主角孙红蕾把间谍余则成演的淋漓尽致，剧中他对爱情的忠贞不贰，对信仰的坚定执著，还有对生活的热爱乐观让我感受到他起码是个有血有肉的人，而不是用来歌功颂德的无瑕标本。另一个值得提起的角色是翠平。姚晨扮演的这个“女游击队长+村姑”的角色也给我留下了很深的印象，尤其看到则成第一次接翠平时，翠平破口就骂：“谁睡糊涂了？我他妈等了你两个时辰了”（ 一边诅骂，一边还裹着烟袋，把一个20世纪40年代的村姑形象跃然活灵活现的展现在观众面前），我捧腹大笑。善良，率真，纯朴，土生土长的她显然与深成，老练，有文化，有涵养的余则成格格不入。但是凭着她本身忠贞，勤劳和有耐心的天生佳质，最终获得了她梦寐以求的余之爱。虽然她的爱和甜蜜的家庭没有持续很久，余则成最终也没能和她破镜重圆，但是她找到了心爱的人，并且这个人也深深地爱着她，这不就是她想要的吗？从另一个角度看待的话，如果余则成回到她身边，谁又能保证接下来的政治动荡不会拆散这对鸳鸯呢？
除了这几个角色外，剧中的其他演员也很值得一看。比较起来，我觉得“左蓝”这个角色较不成功，不是演员演技的问题，而是小说本身根本没有把这个角色深度化。她外语好，成绩优秀，业绩突出，思想先进，勇于为党献出一切，而且最终献出了她年轻貌美的生命。她的角色单纯而单调，没有丝毫创新。
我也翻开龙一的原著，结果只看了一章就放开了。按照常理，书一般比电视剧精彩，但是我的感觉却是电视胜于小说。
2009年9月25日星期五
My Knitting Projects
2009年9月11日星期五
Update
I haven't been on blog in the last couple of days because I was busy finishing up both of our scarves. They're now safely resting in our wardrobe, waiting for their use in the coming cold weather. I must say I'm very impressed by myself over my knitting job. My friend is looking forward to seeing their pictures, which (I promise) will be on my blog in the next couple of days.
We went to see District 9 last Tuesday, which is praised as the "best alien movie of the decade" according to Simon. I have to say I really enjoyed it too. I was totally touched when the alien found out what people had done to his friend, which made me seriously consider quitting consuming meat.
I've searched a couple of English magazines published in China today thinking I might write or translate something and mail them. Will do more searches next week and see.
I haven't been sleeping very well in the last couple of days. Maybe it was because I had been washing my hair before bed. Will go to bed without a shower tonight and hopefully I can get a sound sleep.
We went to see District 9 last Tuesday, which is praised as the "best alien movie of the decade" according to Simon. I have to say I really enjoyed it too. I was totally touched when the alien found out what people had done to his friend, which made me seriously consider quitting consuming meat.
I've searched a couple of English magazines published in China today thinking I might write or translate something and mail them. Will do more searches next week and see.
I haven't been sleeping very well in the last couple of days. Maybe it was because I had been washing my hair before bed. Will go to bed without a shower tonight and hopefully I can get a sound sleep.
2009年9月7日星期一
Hot Pot
Guess what I've found out today? Rice cooker can be used to cook Hot Pot!
Today I woke up around 8 and I felt very fresh and evergetic. I was so thrilled partly because we were going to see our friends, partly because I could swim, and mostly because we were going to get a taste of Hot Pot today!
I met Jassamine and Mark in Sears when I was called in for a cash shift. Since we left my homeland, I have been always kept my ears alert to anything relate to China-inluding the familiar Chinese syllables, of course. Jassamine handed me over what she had chosen while she was talking to Mark that she was worried they would shrink after wash. What took me by surprise was Mark's perfect Chinese answer. I swear he could have been mistaken as a Chinese if you didn't see his face at that moment. I looked at them out of curiosity and answered in Chinese, "Wash with cold water." Then we got into a short conversation, from which I knew they met in China which Mark was teaching oversees, Jessamine majored in English and graduated from a teacher universaty, and they got married in China and later moved back to Canada! Hmmm, does this sound familiar? I gave them my phone number and asked them to call so that we could chat more. A month or so, Jessamine found a job in cosmetic department at Sears. That was when our friendship started.
As far as I know, Jessamine is a better cook than I am. She knows how to cook so many Chinese dishes that I could only dream of. Anyways, let's start the story of today for now.
I got up in the morning and read half an hour of "Outlander", and dicided to have my daily run as usual. (I've been working hard to get back to shape again lately.) We left the house after our breakfast and a quick shower.
By the time we arrived at their house, it was around 11:30. After a brief visit, we headed to their swim pool. I love swimming and one of my dreams is to own a pool in the future. Jessamine and I both got our swim wears in Sears. I asked about the colour and style of hers before and she said it was secretive and I had to wait and see. It turned out we got the exact same one. Of course, both Simon and Mark thought we were so hot with our new purchase. And my Simon couldn't even hold a camera straight when two pretty girls in bikinis stood in front of him. Those two pictures are the only two clear ones among the bunch. I think we look a bit like sisters except my hair is too curly. What do you think?
Swimming was fun as always. We went back to their house one hour later. Jessamine and I immidietely got into kicken and started making Green Onion pancakes. She was an expert and I was her student. She also made us an absolutely delicious soup out of meat balls, a tomato, a touch of green onion and tiny bit of corriander.
After lunch we started Mahjang, which is Simon's favorite game in the whole world. We hadn't played since we got back because it requires four people and it's very time-consuming. Obviously it was Mark's first time and I had to say he picked it up very fast. After the game, they had a couple of friends visiting and I made up my mind to the pool again. Simon said he had swam out for today, so I did it alone.
About five thirty, I moved my way up to their apartment and lent a hand in preparing Hot Pot.
We started with cutting a variety of vegetables: Chinese Bok Choy, Endive, mushrooms, lettuce, sweet potatoes and potatoes and Tofu if you call it vegetable. The meat was bought in packages and was already sliced. The broth, used to put into the rice cooker, was made of beef broth with two slices of ginger, one whole green onion, Sichuan pepper, star anise and a cinnamon stick. The dip sauce was out of sesame paste mixed with a bit water. We also prepared some coriander and green onion and a jar of smelly Tofu to add a strong flavor into the dip. Today is the first day in my life to try that thing. My parents have always loved Smelly Tofu and tried every trick to get me into it too. I always refused to even touch it. Simon doesn't like having it alone but he loves the taste of it in his dip sauce for Hot Pot, however I was still not brave enough to try it after he made himself an example. Today, I decided to see if the world would stop turning if I dip my chopstick into it. And the result was the I love it in my sauce too. Our hot pot went great and everyone of us stuffed ourselves silly at the end.
Mark and Jessamine kindly gave us a ride home after the party. And today is just such a perfect day. We're taking them over for Simon's stuffed chicken in October.
Today I woke up around 8 and I felt very fresh and evergetic. I was so thrilled partly because we were going to see our friends, partly because I could swim, and mostly because we were going to get a taste of Hot Pot today!
I met Jassamine and Mark in Sears when I was called in for a cash shift. Since we left my homeland, I have been always kept my ears alert to anything relate to China-inluding the familiar Chinese syllables, of course. Jassamine handed me over what she had chosen while she was talking to Mark that she was worried they would shrink after wash. What took me by surprise was Mark's perfect Chinese answer. I swear he could have been mistaken as a Chinese if you didn't see his face at that moment. I looked at them out of curiosity and answered in Chinese, "Wash with cold water." Then we got into a short conversation, from which I knew they met in China which Mark was teaching oversees, Jessamine majored in English and graduated from a teacher universaty, and they got married in China and later moved back to Canada! Hmmm, does this sound familiar? I gave them my phone number and asked them to call so that we could chat more. A month or so, Jessamine found a job in cosmetic department at Sears. That was when our friendship started.
As far as I know, Jessamine is a better cook than I am. She knows how to cook so many Chinese dishes that I could only dream of. Anyways, let's start the story of today for now.
I got up in the morning and read half an hour of "Outlander", and dicided to have my daily run as usual. (I've been working hard to get back to shape again lately.) We left the house after our breakfast and a quick shower.
By the time we arrived at their house, it was around 11:30. After a brief visit, we headed to their swim pool. I love swimming and one of my dreams is to own a pool in the future. Jessamine and I both got our swim wears in Sears. I asked about the colour and style of hers before and she said it was secretive and I had to wait and see. It turned out we got the exact same one. Of course, both Simon and Mark thought we were so hot with our new purchase. And my Simon couldn't even hold a camera straight when two pretty girls in bikinis stood in front of him. Those two pictures are the only two clear ones among the bunch. I think we look a bit like sisters except my hair is too curly. What do you think?
After lunch we started Mahjang, which is Simon's favorite game in the whole world. We hadn't played since we got back because it requires four people and it's very time-consuming. Obviously it was Mark's first time and I had to say he picked it up very fast. After the game, they had a couple of friends visiting and I made up my mind to the pool again. Simon said he had swam out for today, so I did it alone.
About five thirty, I moved my way up to their apartment and lent a hand in preparing Hot Pot.
We started with cutting a variety of vegetables: Chinese Bok Choy, Endive, mushrooms, lettuce, sweet potatoes and potatoes and Tofu if you call it vegetable. The meat was bought in packages and was already sliced. The broth, used to put into the rice cooker, was made of beef broth with two slices of ginger, one whole green onion, Sichuan pepper, star anise and a cinnamon stick. The dip sauce was out of sesame paste mixed with a bit water. We also prepared some coriander and green onion and a jar of smelly Tofu to add a strong flavor into the dip. Today is the first day in my life to try that thing. My parents have always loved Smelly Tofu and tried every trick to get me into it too. I always refused to even touch it. Simon doesn't like having it alone but he loves the taste of it in his dip sauce for Hot Pot, however I was still not brave enough to try it after he made himself an example. Today, I decided to see if the world would stop turning if I dip my chopstick into it. And the result was the I love it in my sauce too. Our hot pot went great and everyone of us stuffed ourselves silly at the end.
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