I am Your Sunshine

just found out that my H1 starts from Sep 20 this year. So that means I don’t have a empty window period. That means I don’t have to wait til the end of the Sep to go to NY(state and city), but I’ll have to take unpaid or PTO. What a drag. Now I have to plan it all over. Perhaps going there in the begining of Sep might be a good idea.

Just talked to Jenny. It’s so nice to finally get in touch with her. And then we set a date on Sep. Now I’m definitely going back to Buffalo and NYC in Sep. See you guys soon! Ciao~

It’s kinda dry here, my brain as well. I’m again in the state of emptiness. Can’t form any relevant thoughts; can’t do anything productive. At the same time, I feel my life wasted away. It’s all futile.

The girl in Sin City (and other movies). She might not be considered pretty, but she sure looks exotic and model-like.

現在完全是坐在電腦前無所事事等著 Tony Awards 開播
一邊覺得很不爽….
Tony Awards早就頒完了, 我卻還不能看
剛剛到 Tony Awards的網站還不小心差點看到得獎名單 ~_~
加州是次等公民啦!!
$@%@^….
我要回東岸!!

今天開了 Desktop, 把 cake 找出來聽.
他們的音樂實在很棒, 聽過他們現場之後又更喜歡他們了

subtract one love and multiply the heartache

一陣子沒去, 忽然發現 Brit pop 板似乎陷入混戰
不過即使混戰, Brit pop 板眾跟到處可見的政治魔人(或是類似的東西)仍有明顯的區別.
我的感想跟 Oasis 或 Coldplay 甚至 Radio Head 都沒有關係
只是一下子有點被 pulp 的文字感動
如何直接, 如何尖銳, 又如何再長篇文字裡流露對音樂對理想的堅持與熱情
我不相信一個寫出那樣文字的人,
會像Pasty說得那樣因為想要批評想要聽起來聰明而冷淡
不過我也能體會為何 Pasty 會尖酸刻薄
要是有人稍拿我熱愛的東西亂開玩笑我大概也會翻臉
尤其這種東西往往是說者無心聽者有意
原本只是無傷大雅的玩笑話, 聽起來卻很酸了
但若從此大家小心翼翼, 講話只表達個兩三分
那又有什麼意思呢

Individualism is so deeplu rooted in me. I guess that’s why I like 鹿鼎記, 袁承志 and 神雕俠侶 better than the others. 行俠仗義 is sometimes necessary; heroism, however, is too much. I’ve finished reading 神鵰, 碧血, 鹿鼎, so now I’m reading 天龍 & 書劍. 以前還蠻喜歡看書劍的, 最近重看卻覺得不耐. 裡面一個個人都顯得婆媽討厭. 天龍八部就更不用說了, 根本是亂七八糟. 真煩, 沒啥東西好看.

I came across Piaf’s blog the other day and saw his artilces on Brukner. It aroused my interest in classical once again. Therefore, I borrowed a bunch of classical (mostly symphonies) CDs last time I went to the library. The funny thing is when I was browsing through, I saw many Brukner CDs; hence except for Brahams and Schumann, all the others I borrowed were Brukner.

So recently I’m enjoying the beauty of classical music. However, I realized that classical is not a suitable commute music, cuz unlike regular rock and pop, classical music is not only about melody but the expression as well. (okay, okay, rock is not only about melody either, but rock is usually storng enough that it wouldn’t be affected even if the car or the outside traffic makes a lot of noise.) I guess it deserves a decent stereo system… which I dont have now -_-

其實 Elektra 的故事真的蠻爛的
如果只是光看 Jennifer Garner 跳來跳去, 還有那個帥氣(cc…)的日本人
那倒還不錯

第二季後面幾集真是非常沈重, 一點點讓人 lighten up, 放鬆心情的元素都沒有
還是很好看, 但看得壓力好大 :(
s2e21 18th & Potomac, Mrs. Landingham在這集最後車禍去世
雖然我之前就知道了 (應該是 03年末在 Buffalo News 上不經意看到的)
仍然很震驚, how many bad things had to happen at the same time?
看得好悶好悶, 卻又不是能夠讓你好好流點淚發洩情緒的東西
不斷地問, 怎麼能那麼殘忍, 她才剛買了新車啊…
然而這種事情總是會發生, 除了難過, 除了欲哭無淚我們什麼也不能做

WW season 2, 太猛烈了點吧…

Came across a short article on the Economist which talks about a ranking of gender gap The World Economic Forum published.

and here’s the complete report

All of a sudden, there are so many interesting articles on the Economics that I can’t read them at once.

Pheromones and sexual orientation < - very intriguing :p A vaccine against nicotine
The chemistry of trust
The evolution of intelligence

Not Science & Tech
America and Europe
Women and glass ceilings
Germany’s iron lady

There’s this really interesting article on The Economist : Understanding Empathy

facts that intrigue me:
autisitc is an example of people without empathy.
the lack and the use of empathy is understood long ago, but it’s not until recent years that scientists began to understand its neurological basis.

and the last view paragraphs briefly introduced several studies which is worth taking a look at

Between birth and death lies desire,
desire for life, for love,
for everything good.

And this is the source of all sufferings

As I was watching the West Wing, I can’t help wondering what
exactly a vice president does.
Well, according to my observation of the West Wing, he hardly
shows up in the White House, and he seems to do nothing except
causing some trouble from time to time.
(of course, i know it’s not fair to say so.)

But I’m really curious about what he does being in the position.
I’m wondering if the system works the same as it does in Taiwan
and in the States.

(Oringinally posted here on Jan 2004, but since I’m watching TWW lately i figure it’s ok to post it again as a new one I’m moving my articles here)

his education ideas are widely and long being criticized. people are being near-sighted? I rather believe that he’s not supposed to playing this from the very beginning.

The earlier I leave the office, (indicates that) the more work do on that day.

There’s this interesting article on the Economist: Original sinners? claiming evidence that psychopaths are born that way instead of being shaped into beings without empathy or remourse.

We accept that most behavioural traits are the result of an interaction between the two,still the scientists have brought the evidence that gene plays a crucial part here.

The result was carefully calculated thru statistic method. Therefore, there might be some hidden factors which lead to a wrong conclusion. However, you can’t actually do any experiment but observe. Afterall, we’re human beings.

The last paragraph of the article is quite intriguing though.

Though the genes in question have yet to be identified, this result suggests they are too abundant to be there by chance—in other words they are being kept in the population by natural selection because psychopathic behaviour confers a selective advantage. If it does, such an advantage probably pertains only when psychopaths are in the minority (a state of affairs known to biologists as a balanced polymorphism). But it does mean that far from being an aberrant behaviour, psychopathy may be disturbingly normal.

It seems that there’s gonna be another not-so-good adaptation of
my all time favorite novel – Pride & Prejudice
I’d rather they didn’t make the film
The only adaptation I approved is the one BBC made in 2001
which is a 300 mins mini TV series

Much unlike the Mansfield Park produced in 1999,
sarring Frances O’Connor, an actress I adore,
which is detestful and an insult to Miss Austen,
BBC’s P & P is modest, moderate and faithful.

Anyway, I don’t think a 2 hour movie can bring the essence of P&P
and I hate cheap attempts which might give people wrong ideas about
Jane’s beautiful story
especially those people who choose to watch the movie
to have an understanding of the world classic,
instead of making the time to read the original.

It’s just like (well, it’s only my prejudice.) the Vanity Fair
last year, which was made as if it’s another fancy Braodway Musical
I deeply believe that BBC did a better job (on adapting VF)
though I admit that BBC do fail sometimes
(They failed me on Ivanhoe <- My fav when I was a teen) still, the precetage of the decent ones they produce is way higher