Friday, December 26, 2003

So, I have started my re-learning plan for about two month. However, I still find myself cannot write and speak in English in great easy.

To-day is a sunny day, with just a few clouds up in the sky. For the moment I have nothing significant on my mind. Well, let me record something I have learned in the most recent week.

Yes, its the "while......" sentence structure.

When we try to express something in contrast, the "while...." is really very handy. In an English tutorial, the teachers explain it quite clearly to me.

For example, if I want to state the difference between dogs and cats, I could say :

While dogs like to play fetch with their ownere, cats amuse themselves with catching fish in the bowl.

Now, I am in a hurry to go to work, I will return very soon.
meme : a unit of cultural infomation, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution. Ideas can evolve in a way analogous to biological evolution. Some ideas survive better than others; ideas can mutate through, for example, misunderstandings; and two ideas can recombine to produce a new idea involving elements of each parent idea.

The term is used especially in the phrase "meme complex" denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organised belief system, such as a religion. However, "meme" is often misused to mean "meme complex".

Thursday, December 25, 2003

網上新事物
metrosexual 這個字原來連以英文為母語外國人也所知不多. 不過我在Blog一族上的一個網頁English - the real deal 中看見這個新出現的字, 網頁作者解釋, metroseual是指非常年青,但富裕的男士. 他經常出入健身房, 俱樂部, 及salon等地方. 相當注重個人的打扮, 髮式,皮膚等外表.

Metrosexual :n. It denotes an urban male with a strong aesthetic sense. He would spend a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.
—metrosexuality n.


metrosexual的最著名代表是足球巨星David Beckham.

據說這個字出現於網上已流傳了一年多, 始創人是Mark Simpson. 這個字是Mark Simpson於1994年始創的.

Wednesday, December 24, 2003

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life:the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity over the suffering of mankind. These passions, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anquish, reach to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness - that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world, into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love, I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this what, at last, I have found.

With equal passion, I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the pythegorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens, but always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. The children in famine, the victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people, a hated burden to their pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil, but I can't, and I too, suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living and would gladly live it again, if the chance offered me.
這是我最近學到的一句英語片語

Cat's meow

Cat's meow, 是貓的叫聲, 但亦可以用以形容很棒的東西或人物.
如果我說, You are the cat's meow, 我就是說 [你真棒]. 如果
我買了一個新的設備, 例如電腦, 我覺得它的操作很好, 內置的程
序也是最新的, 我可以說, My new computer is the cat's meow.
Cat's meow 的同義詞是 cat's pajamas.
今天是星期三, 是聖誕前夕, 也是平安夜.

已經很久沒有到神的面前, 就讓我以這片土地的第篇文章, 向神表明我的心意.
神啊, 求你提醒我, 要記得是父神令我不至滅亡, 反得永生.
終生學習是我現時的生活計劃, 希望我能堅持每天都寫一點文章.

About Me

72 ways is an open signal for me. This means I may develop my future with multiple choices. At the moment I want to rebuild my health and change my lifestyle to enjoying life rather than making money.