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People Arts http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/34.html Sun, 01 May 2005 03:45:12 GMT my room, bedtime bunny department of philosophy & religion studies of peking u. 北京大学哲学系 紫藤花开的季节 中文系，紫藤架 mudanting, kun opera 昆曲牡丹亭 the west gate of my school sculpting time cafe, wudaokou 雕刻时光，五道口 spaghetti, looks good but not that yummy >_< a corner of the cafe http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=34 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/33.html Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:15:15 GMT i'm back, after a year or more. i wasn't able to access some blog sapces for such a long time. lian zhan, president of kuomintang was here yesterday. living in asia, as a southeastasian, i never wish to have war in my region. for the sake of innocent lives and wellness of human, i pray that peace will prevail on earth. bought books from lush bookstore, wudaokou. 1. 音乐情事 (something about music, from the series of net and books) 2. 一个人 (alone, also from the series of net and books) 3. 国际关系：世纪之交的冲突与合作 (international relations: conflict and cooperation at... (more) http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=33 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/31.html Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:57:37 GMT mom ordered 10 big packs of kuih bahulu from a home bakery at kampung baru, she wanted to give those kuih to our neighbours and relatives as CNY goodies. mom's colleague helped her to pick up those kuih from kg. baru and sent it over to our place. we received that 10 packs in heavy rain. as the kuih bahulu is fresh from the oven, and packed when it's still warm, the steam can be seen from outside of the plastic wrappers, we could feel the heat when handling those kuih. i think mom has been muhibah enough to give malay traditional kuih as chinese festive gift. the aroma of baked egg +... (more) http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=31 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/30.html Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:14:42 GMT 9th Jan: reached KLIA at 11pm. reach home at 1am, 10th Jan. 10th Jan: procrastinate. swimming. ate laksa, wontan mee, ho fun, hokkien mee, fried bee hoon... 11th Jan: hi tea. KL is still KL. not much changes. the worker at the mobil petrol station still remembers me. jusco is on sale. hot sun is burning. new year song is the air, all the time. oh and streamyx is so damn fast!!! now only i know my campus connection in beijing was moving like snail. http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=30 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/29.html Wed, 07 Jan 2004 15:52:24 GMT Annie's Song, John Denver If, Bread Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler You Are So Beautiful, Joe Cocker Only You, The Platters Loving You, Minnie Rippleton My One And Only Love, Sting/Louis Armstrong And I Love You So, Don McLean I Swear, All 4 One More Than Words, Extreme Longer, Dan Fogelberg How Deep Is Your Love, Bee Gees Love Me Tender, Elvis Presley What A Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong Dancing Cheek To Cheek, Frank Sinatra Say A Little Prayer For You, Dionne Warwick Tea For Two, Doris Day The Way You Looked Tonight, Tony Bennete Can’t Take... (more) http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=29 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/28.html Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:21:04 GMT today is visa day. it's truly an eye-opening experience. first thing is about the number of US visa applicants in china and their determination of getting it. second is about the process US visa application itself. me and another 5 delegates of PKUMUN went to US embassy in Beijing to get our visas done. hui ling made an appointment 2 weeks ago, i got no. 425. paid renminbi 830 (US$100, isn't it expensive?) for application. we had our interview appointment fixed at 1pm. boy... we've gone through at least 4 checkpoints before we could really enter the main building of visa interview at... (more) http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=28 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/27.html Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:06:01 GMT another exam. international politics. had been studying whole day. tomorrow's exam will be intro to communication. >_< !! 6pm, cycled to good luck cafe, spoilt myself with seafood spaghetti & german potato soup, spent rm16. 6:40pm, cycled to classroom 3, saw big crowd in front the anniversary hall. oh dear, it's Fou T'song piano concert!!!! Fou T'song (bio) was the 2nd runner-up in 1955 Chopin competition, regarded as the greatest Chinese musician alive today by TIME magazine. i bought a ticket for his concert in May 2002. due to SARS outbreak, the concert was cancelled. and i... (more) http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=27 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/26.html Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:03:01 GMT chinese tell directions in this way: take left turn at the next junction, go 100m towards east, see a bank at north-east, and that's it. it's usual for them to use north east west south (NEWS!) to give directions. it's pricks my ears each time i hear people mentioning "go west 50m...". malaysian never do that. and european don't do that as well. basically we say pusing kiri pusing kanan and that's it. the concept of directions is rooted in chinese. caroline once wondered, "did everyone of them swallowed a compass into their stomach?" a friend taught me to identify directions by looking at... (more) http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=26 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/25.html Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:14:21 GMT 1st day of 2004. wake up at 9am. it's just like any usual day for me. had breakfast while browsing thru some nice m'sian weblogs. i've been very keen looking for more m'sian weblogs since i started doing that communication research. caroline (my ex roomate, german) came to my room. we chatted for a while. she ask me if chinese ppl like the idea of hugging or not. she wasn't sure if she should hug her chinese friend after a long nice chat. i said well, youngsters, yes, elderly ones, no. do you hug your friends? i said yes, i do hug my close friends. but sometimes it's a bit awkward when you... (more) http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=25 http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/archive/24.html Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:24:12 GMT i tend to think that i should leave everything behind. forget about working hard, studying hard. perhaps i should spend more time picking nice clothes, getting my hair done, putting on parfum & make-up... let me just be free from all those head-aching essays, meetings, reports etc.. i'm just gonna sit still and wait till someone take me as his bride. it's not a bad idea to get married at the age of 20, have kids at 22. might not be a perfect mother. but isn't it nice to have your kids growing up together with you? would love to be a young mother, to be able to play hard with... (more) http://glasscity.blogdrive.com/comments?id=24