Vie searchi Group i Buy m Vie n Vie +
asearchhVIEE
%searchFgood9394.infoA Cfm % Buy 6search9search%search9w Mangosteen tsearchW Mangosteen w Www 3 Juice o Vie esearchi Vie esearch Www hsearchssearchs Www n Juice m Vie ksearchssearchm Mona Mangosteen r Juice . Vie searchi Group i Buy m Vie n Vie +asearchhVIEE%searchFgood9394.infoA Cfm % Buy 6search9search%search9w Mangosteen tsearchW Mangosteen w Www 3
So You Say – Siobhan Donaghy
So you say we should just be friends, Adam
But I know when I get the bends
That I’ll hate you so
So you say we should drift apart, Adam
But I know that’ll break my heart
And I’ll hate you so
‘Cause I loved you so
So you say I can be afraid
But I know I would have strayed
I sit and miss you so
A batch of alcohol ceases to control
Don’t say you’ll think about me
Or say that you can live without me
Didn’t we make it nearly
For everything that I hold dearly
How many ways can I say plainly, we can
Before it wore on us thinly
To each and every degree
You’ve got me in agony
So you say I should call sometime, Adam
But I know that’ll make you cry
I’ll say I hate you so
That you burned me so
So you say we should make it work, Adam
But how long does this feeling hurt
I’m sure you’d like to know
‘Cause I loved you so
Don’t say you’ll think about me
Or say that you can live without me
Didn’t we make it nearly
For everything that I hold dearly
How many ways can I say plainly, we can
Before it wore on us thinly
To each and every degree
You’ve got me in agony
<3
So I’m going to blog again because I have some free time at the moment ^_^
For those that know me (and probably a few that don’t) they know I am utterly obsessed with Final Fantasy; they are my favourite video games ever and contain so many of my favourite things. They’re just so fun; I am a complete Final Fantasy otaku! (and yes I know the negative connotations of that!). Most probably you’ll also know of my squealing fangirldom of phone charms (in the first blog entry you could see my Hello Kitty charm on my DS) so as I was looking at my favourite phone charm site (www.strapya.com) I saw that they had more stock of the Squenix phone charms! I don’t care how much of a poor student I am, I had to get them!!! I got the moogle and the chocobo one because they are my favourites <3 The moogle is now annoying me on my phone with a chibi Santa-Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas whilst the chocobo one has now kicked the Hello Kitty charm to the curb and resides on my Nintendo DS! (yes, quite a few of my friends will be getting phone charms as Christmas presents!). Below you can see pictures! They are so cute!
*peace* <3
Hi hi <3
So I know it’s kind of been a while since I last blogged and this is a little late but Happy Halloween! I hope you all had a fun one! Mine wasn’t so greet but it was fun all the same! I carved a pumpkin which was very tiring and took forever but fun! I also watched a K-Horror movie called Wishing Stairs which wasn’t very scary… basically it was about a gir’s ballet boarding school… or something… and after a lot of weird… unrequited lesbian feelings and back stabbing of said unrequited lesbian feelings, one girl dies who then comes back to haunt various people – as well as there being a very weird psychopathic girl who over eats… It’s very weird and not very scary but was a cute Halloween film (you know, like over dramatic but not very scary but quite enjoyable!). Sung Ji Hyo is really pretty though! I’m not quite sure why… she has a very unique face… like a Studio Ghibli character…
Anyways, below are pictures of the pumpkin I carved! Enjoy~!
*peace* <3
Hi again everyone ^_^ *peace*
So this entry is slightly out of sync because I took these photos last week but I’m slow at uploading things so you’re only getting them now! I would like to quickly point out at what a pretty word ‘fallal’ is! Regardless, I’m sure a lot of you know about Zhang Yimou’s most recent martial arts epic movie, ‘Curse of the Golden Flower’ (满城尽带黄金甲). It’s my favourite of Zhang’s most popular martial arts movies (’Hero’ and ‘House of Flying Daggers’ being the other two); it’s amazingly lush, extravagant, fantastical and psychadelic. It also features my favourite Chinese actress, Gong Li, who I think performs her role of a scandalous and abandoned yet determined empress, hell bent on revenge; yet, she plays this somewhat… anti-hero with a poetic beauty and sombreity you can’t help but empathise with her. Kudos go to Chow Yun Fat too, who is revered as always and, of course, to Jay Chou who is cute =^^=
Anyway! To celebrate the DVD release of ‘Curse of the Golden Flower’, somehow… the flagship store of HMV in London (Oxford Street branch) has some costumes from the film on display! My friend told me so I waddled off to see; they’re amazingly beautiful and intricate. I’m not really sure where they appear in the film or who wears them… *checks*
No, I can’t tell who wore them, if it was anyone important, or if they were ever seen in the film really; but they’re very beautiful so I thought I’d show you all. Also, if you’ve not seen the film yet, you really should! It’s great ^_^
Here’s a small extra bit! If you know anything about Chinese culture then hopefully you will know about the Mid-Autumn Festival! This year it was on September 25th. I don’t really know what you do for it, but I do know that you eat yummy Mooncakes and it’s about erm, a goddess on the Moon (basically!). Sadly I didn’t go to Chinatown for it nor did I have any Mooncakes *sniffles* but here is a picture of Chinatown, a few days after the festival. You can see the pretty lanterns! I hope everyone is safe!
*peace*
So, last week I started my Mandarin class at university. We didn’t learn much but it was fun! We mostly worked on trying to practice the pronunciation of the four tones so that was pretty cool. The teacher seems friendly enough ^_^ Anyway! I was reading the syllabus and in the exam we have to write in Chinese! Scary scary! Anyways, I wanted to really practice my Chinese writing so I bought a couple of books and have been practicing. The pictures show my first try! If you know how to write them then feel free to give feedback on how bad they look!
I should note that they are the simplified characters as the Chinese government, during the Cultural Revolution, found that a large majority of people were illiterate. So they set about simplifying some of the complicated characters in order to help aid literacy. Not every character was simplified and there are still large amounts of people that use the traditional characters (in Hong Kong and Taiwan for example) but, as we are learning Standard Mandarin, we are learning the simplified characters.
This picture shows the rows I wrote when practicing! I bought a notebook that has squared paper to try and help but I still have problems writing sadly Anyway, from top to bottom they read: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, you, you (polite), good, please (then please again, the first line of please is the traditional version; can you see the difference?), ask, honourable, surname. Some of the characters have more than one meaning but I only listed one.
I think the characters are so beautiful. I love how they are combined into new meanings etc. It’s a very… abstract and conceptual way of writing, totally different from using an alphabet. It’s like you are writing in ideas and not words. It’s very beautiful.