Friday, December 26, 2008

I was tagged

It's a game. Game have rules. Here are the rules:(Varies throughout the endless cycle)

1. If you were tagged, write 16 facts, which hopefully no one knows, about yourself.
2. Tag 16 other people, including the one(s) that tagged you.
3. To make things more interesting, make up a rule for the people you tag.

So the additional rule for the people I tag:
-Must include some kind of animal sound in one of your facts.
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1. The screenname monkeyphobia came from my AIM screenname: monkeyphoebia. I created it in 8th grade, when I did not know how to spell. I am not actually afraid of monkeys, I just liked the two words (monkey and phobia). "Phobia" because I just learned it. And "monkey" because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a Segoku Daimyo who unified Japan in the end of the 16th century. He was called "saru" (monkey in Japanese) by his former lord, Oda Nobunaga. Yes, I'm a big fan of the Sengoku period, because of the KOEI strategy game series Nobunaga's Ambition and many of the NHK's Taiga Dramas.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598)

2. I am a (East Asian) history nerd because of my brother. Basically, he knows everything of the past. If you just took a dump 3 minutes ago, your action of taking that dump is now history, so Hans probably knows it. That's right, no exaggeration. When I was 5 years old, he read me The Romance of Three Kingdoms and Water Margin over and over and over and over and over and over again. Although they are fiction novels, they did spark my interest in... Chinese history, does that not make sense? I don't know. And later on in life, KOEI's historical simulation games took my life away, I learned my basics from there.

Amazing to me, boring to you.

3. I am the biggest Final Fantasy fan. My favorites are FF3, FF6, and FF7. Dissidia blew my mind, and I just downloaded the soundtrack, I'm pretty satisfied.
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/dissidia/

4. I do not allow people to sit on my bed. I have to have showered and be in my PJ's to sit on it myself. Exceptions are parents, grandparents, some other older relatives, and girls, becaues boys are dirty.

5. I whistle. I'm pretty pro at it.

6. I draw on MSpaint. I'm pretty pro at that, too.
http://monkeyphobia.deviantart.com/

7. I am cockroach-phobia. I am deadly (REALLY deadly) afraid of cockroaches. If I have a Genie, I'd make my first wish to be "Genie, I wish for you to send all the cockroaches to the moon!"

8. I hate crowded places, movie theaters, and BART, because they are dirty.

9. I don't like small talks with people I don't know well. I would take a different route to escape these small talks.

10. I have awesome eyesight. Most of the time, I can see you and you can't see me. If you think I didn't see you, I was probably just avoiding small talks, sorry. I can see you from the corners of my eyes, probably half a mile away, no joke.

11. My favorite Disney cartoon character is Flounder. Because I find my personality to be similar to his, and also because he's yellow and blue and fat, come on, how can you not love Flounder.

12. I have some sort of super power allowing me to destroy computers, most of the time not on my command. I crashed my brother's new Dell just by merely sitting next to it. I can even slow down your MAC, just ask my friend James. My power even extend to stuff like wireless internet and NDS. Yes, I make my NDS crash, quite often. I'm like a weaker Magneto, you better watch out.
That's me in thirty years, minus the muscles.

13. My favorite Pokemon is Eevee.

14. I like to talk to animals, partly influenced by Angela. I once had a conversation with her cat, Candy. It went something like this "Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow," she answered "Meow, meow, meow, meow." I'm not sure what she meant, but I like her a lot.

15. I love LEGO. I think kids who play LEGO are smarter than kids who play computer games. No offense to the 90's (and after) kids. My dear friends bought me the LEGO Death Star II, it was pretty amazing.

16. I want to be an actor, but I'm too shy around strangers.



That's it. Benson tagged me so I'm obligated to do this. I'll think about tagging people later on!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

明‧楊慎《臨江仙》

明‧楊慎《臨江仙》

滾滾長江東逝水,浪花淘盡英雄。
是非成敗轉頭空。
青山依舊在,幾度夕陽紅。
白髮漁樵江渚上,慣看秋月春風。
一壺濁酒喜相逢。
古今多少事,都付笑談中。

Thursday, December 4, 2008

words of wisdom

The emperor of the South Sea was called Shu (Brief), the emperor of the North Sea was called Hu (Sudden), and the emperor of the central region was called Hundun (Chaos). Shu and Hu from time to time came together for a meeting in the territory of Hundun, and Hundun treated them very generously. Shu and Hu discussed how they could repay his kindness. "All men," they said, "have seven openings so they can see, hear, eat, and breathe. But Hundun alone doesn't have any. Let's trying boring him some!"
Every day they bored another hole, and on the seventh day Hundun died.

-Zhuangzi, translated by Burton Watson

Sunday, November 30, 2008

A picture!

THE BITTER BRUSH


Because I feel quite emotional today.

Hegemon-King of Western Chu

XIANG YU


西楚霸王 項羽

垓下歌
項羽
力拔山兮氣蓋世,時不利兮騅不逝。
騅不逝兮可奈何,虞兮虞兮奈若何?

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