Something meant to be shared 真水无香

A type of creature that sucking our blood for living.

It’s not they can’t live on their own; it’s just easier and quicker by depending on someone else ‘generosity’.. They are being stupid if they don’t.

And whoever is supplying the fresh blood, don’t blame or complain, because you are getting something in return – you feel you are important and needed. You always know that how much a leech can take, which is always less than what you can provide. Comparing who is benefit more, really, you are the winner after all.

But, everyone is happy.

So, do you know any friend who is a ‘leech’ (I’m sorry to say that this is more skewed to female population)? Or addicted to a leech (skewed to male)?

If you know any, don’t hate them, envy them.     

A secret dairy of a call girl - a friend of mine strongly recommended it to me and I loved it.

It is an intimate, quiet but classy story of a real escort. The emotions are delicate, the characters are truthful, the style is sophisticated. It is definitely on my top ‘must watch’ list!

I have seen a few brand communication campaigns that are really appealing to me:

Tiger Beer

          Many Keep To the Straight and Narrow. WE LIVE ON THE EDGE.

          Some Beers Are Confined to History. OTHERS MAKE IT.

          Many Relish The Past. WE LOOK FORWARD.

It is not necessarily that I will start drinking Tiger Beer, but at least, I know very well what its brand stands for by just looking at these powerful statements!

Another my all time favorite - Men’s ego, fun to crash. Rolex.

I was watching the ‘American Idol’ yesterday and there was 8 or 9 commercial breaks at least in between the show.

Then, I am thinking how well we came to the acceptance of these commercial breaks nowadays. It all started on a very minimum bases, probably it will only be showing after one show and before the next show starts. These days, it will be few times not just before or after but during the show, as many times as they can squeezed them in.

And we, as consumers (who should be in control), just accept whatever shit they put it on. Do we realize how much time we have wasted on these irrelevant, annoying, shitty commercials at this point?! And why we are not stopping it!

Too much is too much.

We went to a friend’s house for Archie’s swimming class last Sunday, it was very fun the whole family!

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And this!

Just finished a book a friend of mine brought to me, it is called, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary. I hated it.

But I feel I am obligated to the character somehow, so I still finished reading it.

Here are my reasons why I wasn’t impressed at all,

Firstly, the main character in the book is miserable, her man is miserable, and the love between them is miserable; the whole journey is miserable.

Secondly, I’ve seldom read a book that is written by a ‘foreigner’ in their non native language, an English book that is written by a Chinese in this particular case. The reason is simple, even though you can write a book in a foreign language, but it is not guaranteed that you can think in that language. Speaking, or writing in a different language is not just learning how the structure or verbs work, it is about a way of thinking. You need to understand the culture, the people and its past, you need to live and become part of that language in order to adapt to that way of thinking. You don’t have to buy into this way of thinking, but at least you have to understand it and have the ‘freedom’ to jump into and out of it whenever you like. This has nothing to do that the book was deliberately written in ‘bad’ English or a fresh aspect; my problems is that it is painful to feel how the culture clash existed not just in the storyline but also in the thread of thoughts in someone’s second language.  

It is also too ambitious for my taste. There are lot of times the book tries to touch on certain complex issues such as politics and cultural heritage from a single minded point of view, it is just neither precise nor interesting.  

Another thing that annoyed me is that, obviously, the main character is a ‘collective effort’, but I felt that I’ve been forced to feel it was a true story; that there were real struggles experienced by real people from Main Land China. It wants to give that ‘naked’ feel, but it was forced and almost the opposite of truth. It was unrepresentative. It is like I am reading a book written by a person who has a split personality.      

Bottle line is, I don’t know who this book is for and whose view it is from. Period.