"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched." - Henry David Thoreau
I recommend the swordfish
| viernes, 23 de enero, 2004 Xin nián kuà lè, Sun neen fai lok! Wow, year 4702 already... time flies. Maybe it should be the year of the baboon? But if it's gonna be so specific it might as well be year of the lemur, or capuchin, or orangutan. Ahehehehe... uhm ::shrugs:: anyhow, almost $200 this year, mua hahaha. It adds up over the years! I should never get married and get money every year! Bwa hahahaha!!!! Hm, I must be really drunk or something... or incredibly insane. I should hurry up and finish The Battle for New York before the library fines add up to too much. I should probably go to sleep on time instead of at 3 or 4. I'm gonna have to reorient myself anyway... vacation's over. Boohoo...
P.S. The NYPL's acronyms LEO (Library Entrance Online), CATNYP ( Catalog of The New York Public Library), and PAWS (Public Access Web System)? Genius! (The well-known " library lions" are named Patience and Fortitude.)
23:26 Comment! (2) | Recommend! | Categories: lunar new year [t], money [t], chinese [t], books [t], library [t] s�bado, seis de diciembre, 2003 Och. Snow, snow y más snow. It just got worse as I started to type this. New York's probably the prettiest when it snows a lot, because there aren't teems of people and clots of cars in the sidewalks and streets. I'll just sit in the middle of a park (NOT Central Park) and watch the snow. El otoño es mi estación favorita, pero el invierno es segundo. No me gusta la primavera y el verano. I abhor them. It's just so... warm. Yech. I went out yesterday, but I'm staying in today, drink a lot of hot niu wei soup , and watch those DVDs I bought yesterday in the twirling snow.
"We must go forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
Oh, and I am seriously pondering about contemplating leaving... I like nutang, but I have other online things to maintain (e.g., a site, another weblog I write in with much more gusto, trying to keep my e-mails to under 100, but is still at 200+, etc.). I don't really write much here anyway, and am pretty much alone. We (I) shall see...
14:31 Comment! (0) | Recommend! | Categories: new york city [t], snow [t], spanish [t], food [t], dvds [t], quotes [t], the simpsons [t], pondering [t], chinese [t] My Friend is a Drag Queen lunes, 12 de enero, 2004 Okay, I lied, but I wish it were true! I need some more interesting friends. On the topic of drag queens, I met my first today, on the subway, no less. Dunno if it was a transvestite... but definitely a cross-dresser. The big-bonedness and the facial stubble gave it away; also the patellas (kneecaps) were protruding in a rather un-feminine fashion. We got off at the same stop and I was surprised I was (slightly) taller than him! And he was wearing platforms!! He had very nice hair, though. I've seen some pretty hot Thai transvestites from photos my friend had took when she was in Thailand, but this person was like on the opposite side of the spectrum. Sorry, person... danhai nei jun hai ho wut dut (nay jeen hai ho chiew yeang [danshi ni zhen shi hao chou (pero usted es muy feo)])!!!
January 1 is Get a Life Day
January 2 is Happy Mew Year for Cats Day
January 8 is National Joy Germ Day
January 16 is Get to Know Your Customers Day
January 19 is Penguin Awareness Day
January 21 is Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
January 21 is also Squirrel Appreciation Day
January 22 is Answer Your Cats Questions Day
January 27 is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
January 30 is Inane Answering Message Day
23:46 Comment! (2) | Recommend! | Categories: new york city [t], subway [t], chinese [t], spanish [t], days in the month [t] lunes, 21 de marzo, 2005 Wow money's still comin' in. Just got $100 yesterday; this year is probably the record: about $465. (I lost count. Plus I spent a Jackson or something.)
Bought John Mayer for $2.99, and Eminem and Jay-Z for $10.99 each. Also I'm seeing a new serial, but I keep missing the English title!!!!!!!!!! It's fairly interesting. Plus one of the main character's name sounds like pork bone (joo gawt).
Edit: Oh-ho! So it's called Strike At Heart, see, and it's about a clique, hear? Only it's a martial arts clique, see... 22:07 Comment! (0) | Recommend! | Categories: cjk tv serials [t], money [t], cds [t], chinese [t], lunar new year [t] viernes, 2 de abril, 2004 April 3 is Tweed Day and Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day
April 7 is No Housework Day
April 9 is Winston Churchill Day and Name Yourself Day
April 11 is Eight-Track Tape Day
April 15 is Rubber Eraser Day
April 17 is National Cheeseball Day
April 19 is Garlic Day
April 24 is National Pigs In A Blanket Day
April 26 is Richter Scale Day and National Pretzel Day
April 28 is Great Poetry Reading Day and Kiss-Your-Mate Day D12's "My Band" is hot. Haven't written in a long time. "/ Why does whatever I think will happen happens? By the way, I'm a pessimist. Hau wui yow kei.
20:51 Comment! (1) | Recommend! | Categories: days in the month [t], chinese [t], music [t] martes, 13 de julio, 2004 Yeeeeeeeee HO MA FAN AH!!!!! ARRGGGHHGHHGHGH!!!! Say see fut!!!! ~!@#$%^&*() (*&^#$_)(@# $%^&*()_P #$%(^&^&* Hui say le PENDEJOOOOOOOOOOOO.
15:50 Comment! (0) | Recommend! | Categories: pissed [t], chinese [t], spanish [t] domingo, 12 de septiembre, 2004 I've been missing real TV, not reality TV, but since I don't have any money or rather, don't want to spend it, I'm relegated to borrowing (actually my mom borrowed it) stuff I don't exactly want to see... like melodramatic dubbed Korean TV serials about crying and families. Beautiful Days, Mei Hao Ri Zi, May Ho Yut Jee, but what is it in Korean? Hm... ::ponders thoughtfully for no reason::
22:00 Comment! (3) | Recommend! | Categories: cjk tv serials [t], pondering [t], chinese [t] martes, 15 de febrero, 2005 |