a list of things from tonight

Life is not a To-Do List, as it reads on Kat, my Berlin host's, wall. Coincidently, had a meeting with another Kat in "Intestinecity". When things get accumulated, you got to put them down on a list.

So, next book to read: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book acquired the hitchhiker's way - borrow)

Also on the to-read list: Generation X

Film to watch: Dolls,

Film to watch again: Bin Jip (or 3-Iron), Kikujiro No Natsu

Here's a trailer with the cute music by Joe Hisaishi. It seems almost guaranteed that if Hisaishi is doing the music of the film, it can't be bad.

Watching this brought back lots of memories about that summer 5 years ago, before I went to HK. Still the happiest summer ever. Memory is a tricky stuff. I, or we, keep on calling the best summer, but how happy exactly we were, there's no way I can recall.

5 years later, on the other side of the continent, I remembered this movie and that summer. The same thing that summer is on play again here and now. This time, I am the audience, and the people changed.

the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is... 42
Def. the next book to read. ok, maybe not the next, after Crime n Punishment, Kafka on the Shore, Immortality... Heck, who knows.


The whale in 1:54 def. is awesome for his 1min 8 sec existece.

Some quotes from the film
It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the *third* most intelligent. The second most intelligent creatures were of course dolphins who, curiously enough, had long known of the impending destruction of the planet earth. They had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits. So they eventually decided they would leave earth by their own means. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backward somersault through a hoop while whistling the star-spangled banner, but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.

The Encyclopedia Galactica, in its chapter on Love states that it is far too complicated to define. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: Avoid, if at all possible. Unfortunately, Arthur Dent has never read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Presidents don't have power, their purpose is to draw attention away from it.

[about the Point of View Gun] The Point of View gun conveniently does precisely what its name suggests. That is if you point it at someone and pull the trigger, they instantly see things from your point of view. It was designed by Deep Thought, but commissioned by a consortium of intergalactic angry housewives, who after countless arguments with their husbands were sick to the teeth of ending those arguments with the phrase "You just don't get it, do you?"
[Zaphod aims the Point of View gun at Trillian] Trillian: It won't affect me, I'm already a woman.

Fine. Fine, take it. Because my head is filled with questions and I can assure you no answer to any one of them has ever brought me one iota of happiness. Except for one. The one. The only question I've ever wanted an answer to - is she the one? The answer bloody well isn't forty-two, it's yes. Undoubtedly, unequivocally, unabashedly yes. And for one week, one week in my sad little blip of an existence, it made me happy.

luv @ Last Sight

How long is too long? Too long that you are totally fed up

How short is too short? Too short that you still want more

1 year is too long if you are stuck in a place, n can't go to where you want to be

1 year is too short if you set up all your life, found the people to be with, but have to go to a new place because you thought you were fed up

There, right at the cross road in front of the train station, I found love at last sight

today (LP)

been feeling pretty hectic lately and some new and old favourite songs are in order. here are five that i really like today, for your downloading pleasure (right click, save link as...)

1. 气球(Qi Qiu = Balloon)|许哲佩(Xu ZhePei) (ふうせん Kojima Mayumi cover).

2. I'm Confused | Handsome Furs - Face Control

3. God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me | Coco Rosie - God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me

4. Smokey Taboo | Coco Rosie - Grey Oceans

5. Drug | the Czars

Lyrics:

1. Balloon

黑的schwarz白的wheiß红的rot黄的yellow
hei1 de bai2 de hong2 de huang2 de
紫的purple绿的grün蓝的blau灰的grau
zi3 de lü4 de lan2 de hui1 de
你的dein我的mein他的sein她的ihr
ni3 de wo3 de ta1 de ta1 de
大的groß小的klein圆的runde扁的flat
da4 de xiao3 de yuan2 de bian3 de
好的gut坏的schlecht美的schön丑的häßlich
hao3 de huai2 de mei3 de chou3 de
新的neu旧的alt各种款式各种花色任我选择
xin1 de jiu4 de
飞的高高fly high越远越好the further the better
fei1 de gao1 gao1, yue4 yuan3 yue4 hao3
剪断了线它就死掉 cut the line, it will die
寿命短短life is short高兴就好it's good as long as (you are) happy
shou4 min4 duan3 duan3, gao1 xing4 jiu4 hao1
喜欢就好as long as you like it没大不了it's no big deal
xi3 huan1 jiu4 hao3, mei2 da4 bu4 liao3
越变越小越来越小 becomes smaller and smaller, smaller and smaller
快要死掉也很骄傲 it will die soon, but still very proud
你不想说就别再说 don't talk anymore if you don't want to talk
我不想听不想再听 I don't want to listen, don't want to listen anymore
就把一切誓言当作汽球一般随它而去 let all the promises be like the balloon, n go with it
我不在意不会在意放它而去随它而去 I don't care, won't care, let it go, let it go along
气球 Balloon
飘进云里 floating into the clouds
飘进风里 floating into the wind
结束生命 end its life
气球 Balloon
飘进爱里 floating into love
飘进心里 floating into heart
慢慢死去 dying gradually

2.I'm Confused

I saw their lights on the boulevard

My blood ran like water back and forth

But darling, please, say we're not done yet

Somebody's out there

There's nothing to do

My mind was set on you

I'm confused (3x)

I know, my love, I know it's easy to do

I hope this life don't get you down

This dirty old time in this dirty old town

And if you're feeling instructive

There's something to do

Sometimes we get confused

I'm confused (3x)

I know, my love, I know it's easy to do

"I'm confused"

3. God Has a Voice

All my charities made love to you

Watching dolphins in the sea
The Earth is a prettier place to be
All my charities belong to thee

Black bodies float in the sea
We can see
but we can't see me
a starlit shroud like the dark to you
Laughter echoes in my private room

Kissing fireflies on the beach
However sweet as they can be
Everyone has love to give
Hearts will teach us how to live

My body wept
My fear was so free
The water softly
tickles me
my heart is pounding waiting for
the ocean deep enough to lift my veil

Crystal light shines through our eyes

God has a voice, she speaks through me
Every creature longs to be
in his arms please carry me

I'm happy in the light of day
My skin glows bright in the sun rays
My shadowed world seems so far away

My angel told me not to fear
Love is free from everywhere
Listen to that special part
It will save us, its the heart.

God has a voice he speaks through me
God has a voice she speaks through me

Crystal light in every creature
Crystal light, (in every creature)
Everyone has love to give

4. Smokey Taboo

They call you smokey taboo
I got your name tatooed
High like a helium balloon
Midnight to noon
I'm a desert child
And nuns make me nauseous
I like to look up wild
At an infinite sky
Twinkling with diamonds
It's true
I get depressed in fancy hotel rooms
Undressed
With nothing to flaunt but my lonelyness
Thinking of the night song of your head
Premature as evening falls across to me
Interrupted by the syrinx in the streets

Cristal Heaven

Somedays
You're like an anchor on my heart they say
The stove and water taste sweet
more like rotten milk and rancid meat to me
I prefers when it is free
Like looking at the stars
Don't need no fancy cars
When they first
Our kisses sparked
Yeah i'm afraid of sharks
But not the dyke

5. Drug

You are a drug to me
I never ever thought it otherwise
And I love the lies you've told to me
While looking me directly in my eyes

This is not ecstasy, but it's better than cocaine.
and you know that I will miss you when you're gone
but I'm not equipped to play this game

You know your words
They don't mean anything to me
They only serve to fatten up the prey
And when it's time to take them to the slaughterhouse
you slice their throats, continue on your way

This is not jeopardy
and it's not your high school prom
and you know that I will miss you when you're gone
But I'm not equipped to be your mom

You are a drug to me
I never ever thought it otherwise
And I love the lies you've told to me
while looking me directly in my eyes

YouTube MixTape

Yah, I love mix tapes.

Now, one for YouTube:

1. When she loved me | I used to dub this as a performance for our English film hobby grp at the age of 13.

2. Kill Bill whistle song | Can't get out of my mind recently

3. Ladies of the world | Flight of the Concords always gives a good laugh

4. Twice | old Chinese shadow puppet made alive by the Swedes, really amazingly beautiful

5. Busy Line | Rose Murphy

6. Tale of Mere Exsistence of... | I like guys who can talk funny emotionlessly

a little lesson about Darmstadt

Some facts from Wikipedia:

The name Darmstadt first appears towards the end of the 11th century, then Darmundestat; Literally translated, the current German name Darmstadt means "Intestine City". This is just a coincidence however, and the origins of the name are unknown.^[5] Even locals often believe, incorrectly, that the name derives from the 'Darmbach' (a small stream formerly running through the city). In fact the stream received its current name much later, after the city, not vice versa.

In the beginning of the 20th century Darmstadt was an important centre for the art movement of Jugendstil, the German variant of Art Nouveau. Annual architectural competitions led to the building of many architectural treasures of this period.

Also during the industrial age, in 1912 the chemist Anton Kollisch, working for the pharmaceutical company Merck, first synthesised the chemical MDMA (ecstasy) in Darmstadt.

Darmstadt was the first city in Germany to force Jewish shops to close in early 1933, shortly after the Nazis took power in Germany.

The Russian Chapel was built as a private chapel by the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, whose wife Alexandra was born in Darmstadt.

The 'Jazz-Institut Darmstadt' is Germany's largest publicly accessible Jazz archive.

The 'Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt', harboring one of the world's largest collections of post-war sheet music,^[21] also hosts the biennial Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, a summer school in contemporary classical music founded by Wolfgang Steinecke. A large number of avant-garde composers have attended and given lectures there, including Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio, Milton Babbitt,Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, John Cage, György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Boris Porena, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel.

The European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of the European Space Agency is located in Darmstadt.

Twin towns / Sister cities

Darmstadt is twinned with: (Just because I don't know any of them except Freiberg)

Alkmaar, Netherlands Brescia, Italy Bursa, Turkey[25] Chesterfield, United Kingdom Graz, Austria[26]

Gyönk (Tolna County), Hungary Liepaja, Latvia Logroño, Spain Płock, Poland Szeged, Hungary (since 1990)

Trondheim, Norway (since 1968)[27] Troyes, France Uzhhorod, Ukraine Saanen, Switzerland Freiberg, Germany

Almost great

I think a lot. I think a lot when I'm bored. I think a lot when I'm bored at work. I think a lot when I'm bored at work and found how the world wide Information HIGHWAY is almost great. Here's an internet mix tape of a few of my fav:

1. Angular Momentum | one of the xkcd wicked geeky Comics

2. Ich bin Maru! | a very fat cat

3. Inside Out | a short imagined monologue

4. Sushi Cat | a game where you feed your cat with sushi to be heavy enough to see a girl kitty (pay attention even when the page is loading)

5. What is Chinglish? | a wiki page worth reading

6. Shit Loads of Mixtapes | hugely eclectic music pulled together by Kitsune Nior

7. Nerd Boyfriend | style tips

8. My Mom is a Fob | my mom is painfully nosy, unintentionally hilarious, and endearingly fobby