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Movie List

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:41:54 GMT

Venue	Title	Date	Note
PC	Julie & Julia	26 Nov 09	藍媽也叫Julia
PC	Synecdoche, New York	3 Dec 09	貌似跟psy有關
cinema	9	3 Dec 09	Tim Burton，而且原來充滿了腐與愛～！（爆）	R
~~cinema~~ PC	風雲2	10 Dec 09	有愛！有長髮型男x2！有舊愛何家勁！但聽說極其垃圾…
cinema/PC	Don’t Look Back	10 Dec 09	貌似跟psy有關
cinema/PC	Private Lessons	10 Dec 09	貌似有男女有男男……
cinema	New Moon	17 Dec 09	有美型的吸血一家（男主角除外），還有不是怪物外型的狼人！
cinema/PC	刺陵	31 Dec 09	有周杰倫有陳楚河
cinema	[Rec]²	7 Jan 10	第1集算不錯看
cinema/PC	The Lovely Bones	21 Jan 10	劇情簡介貌似不錯

日蝕

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:11:53 GMT

上網稍微搜尋了下
除了今天的日偏蝕
香港要看到日全蝕是九百年後的事情
所以可以無視了
而重點是

可以看到 Sirius 耶～♥

都忘了冬天夜晚可以看到的星星 = 夏天白晝可以看到的星星
有 Sirius 就自然有雙子星 Castor & Pollux、有獵戶座有小犬座……
有整套的冬天大三角耶～（毆）

下面是人家的日蝕位置圖一

再來是人家的日蝕位置圖二（經本藍多手加工 XD）

花痴完畢

好啦，今天早上是被活躍的妹吵醒的
看了下電視
日蝕的過程中有太陽被遮蓋至剩下一彎柳月般的樣子
而舟山看到的「彎月」的角度，一看就覺得
好像 cheshire cat grin ～！

小時候看卡通看到的 cheshire cat

電視上大概看到的樣子（圖片是人家拍月亮照到的）

...it [the Cheshire cat] vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail,
and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice;
"but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!"

- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

有必要嗎

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:02:13 GMT

也超過半年了，很久沒上來，沒空寫些什麼
今天才突然發現這些……
老實說，很不開心

你自己對他人的喜好，不能強加諸於別人身上
你要不喜歡什麼人，那是你自己的事情
請不要這樣重覆地在別人的網誌上留下惡意中傷、人身攻擊的話語
你自己的不滿，請在你自己的地方舒發
這裡，是我的網誌，我的地方，我自己的空間

我只是想有一個地方，讓認識我的朋友偶爾來看一下
看一下我的生活，我的心情，我的想法

希望那個／（群）人，不要再繼續這樣的行為了
這樣會讓我非常困擾

註：另外想說的是，什麼曾經需要服食精神科藥物，好笑
　　你又知道了？
　　那我也不怕告訴你，我自己也曾經需要服食類似藥物
　　又如何？
　　我現在依然能過得很正常很幸福
　　怎樣？要一併鄙視我厭惡我嗎？

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:02:43 GMT

持續對稿中……
今天對的其中一份稿，是 audit 那邊的，超複雜！
每一句都要看十幾次才能勉強理解意思，更別說核對了……
不過，今天一回到公司，
就被一個 senior（上次罵九個月資歷的那個）問我，
以前是不是有做過這行，怎麼好像對工作很熟悉似的（羞）

今天企圖走遠了點去吃飯
結果走到了維德廣場（有 Delifrance 那裡），
在 Suzuki Cafe 吃了溫泉蛋豬肉鍋＋自家製芝士豆腐
後者沒預期中好吃，而且承惠 106 港元
重點是，我成功的發生了第一次迷路事件

開工大吉－－日誌

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:26:12 GMT

今天（九月八日星期一）下午兩點正，是個歷史性的時刻－－
標誌著我正式開始全職上班族生涯、翻開了人生新一章的時刻
所以也重新寫 Xanga 展開新一頁～！

經過了那麼多大大小小、瑣碎的重要的、開心的痛苦的事情，終於也都通通過去了
現在回看，也還是會覺得有點不可思議有點感嘆，『我一路以來到底是怎麼過來的啊？』
其實也不是完全不知道是怎麼過來的啦……
當中實在依靠了太多人的支持＋陪伴＋鼓勵了，也依然覺得沒有你們我肯定熬不過來
不然，我大概終究無法大學畢業，要狼狽拼命地乞求一份小小打字文員的低薪工作找溫飽
現在，我是個香港名牌大學畢業生，月薪一萬，實踐著自己的理想，有著不錯的前途未來
再一次地、很長氣地、很老套地在這裡衷心感謝那一群貴人們（深深一鞠躬）

好啦抒情完了就到記述 XD
中午十二點左右，在上環永樂街（公司所在）附近，與 John 共進午餐慶祝開工
發現公司附近有好多好多吃的可供選擇，以後可以享受慢慢探索慢慢發掘的樂趣～
吃著吃著，忽然手機響了，一看來電顯示竟然是那個一個月前面試時很鄙視我的主管
一邊心想『奇怪他幹嘛現在忽然找我？ = =』一邊還是接了說聲喂
　　男：我是 David 啊！有印象嗎？
　　藍：『（咬牙）哼想沒印象也難，我會一輩子記住你的』
　　　　（開朗）嗯嗯記得啊～
　　男：你之前有上過來我們公司面試的記得嗎？
　　藍：嗯對啊對啊
　　男：嗯那你現在，呃，你現在的，status，是怎樣呢～？
　　藍：『（冷笑）還 status 呢，我的什麼 status 啊，marital status 嗎』
　　　　（無辜）喔，我現在在開始上班了耶～
　　男：啊，是、這樣啊……
　　藍：嗯～！
　　男：呃，那……我們有需要再找你好了
　　藍：『你以為我是什麼，有需要？去死吧你』
　　　　（無害）喔，那好啊～掰掰～
掛了電話之後，心情超～～～～～～級地良好（大心＋七彩小花亂開＋暖色背景）！！！
用膝蓋想就知道，把我數落得一文不值的某主管，經過了一個多月的面試篩選過程，
終於痛心地發現，他心目中的理想人選、不、及格應徵者，是不存在於這個世界上的，
於是灰心地翻找以前面試過的資料，發現有個還算可以的，就紓尊降貴地給她個機會
可是，很抱歉，你不稀罕而丟開的棄履，已經有（正常）適貨伯樂給撿去了
身為一家（你自己認為是）大規模公司的主管，機會稍縱即逝的道理你不懂嗎？
而且，老實說這位先生，就算你真想請我，想到工作環境跟上司性格，我還不一定答應呢
一個月前你要我好好想清楚的問題，我現在有答案了－－
是的，我覺得自己應該不適合在你們那邊工作，請你們另找高明

吃完飯付了帳（嗯是我付的……）就踏進公司門口了～！（大緊張）
結果被幫我開門的同事以為是來第二輪面試的 XD
好人老闆 Steven 給了我 appointment letter 後帶我走一圈，簡單介紹環境＋同事
有 Sanly, 昌, Chris, James, Jean, Franco（如果換了座位我就不認得了…… orz|||）
先給了我一份完稿的讓我研讀，然後另外一份共三頁的讓我試做
一天就這樣摸索學習查找資料研究詞彙……感覺好幸福…… =//////=
老闆還問我少聊天會不會很無聊，才不會呢～！
晚飯去了正正在公司大樓旁邊的大快活（怕迷路，發掘樂趣以後再說）
吃了帆立貝鰻魚鍋，好吃～
他們好像習慣各有各忙、各有各找時間吃，不過沒關係 =w= 大家都對我很好呢～
真的是大家，包括老闆同事，還有地鐵站客服中心人員……
謝謝你啊大叔～！（拇指）

明天，大期待～～

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:31:08 GMT

Note: According to the academic record, you have officially left the university on 26/06/2008.

Examination Results

Student Name:	Wong Hsih Harn
University Number:	2004064858

BA
Major in Linguistics
Minor in Translation

Year 2007 - 2008 (BA)

Sem.	Course	Course Description	Credit/Unit	Grade
1	LING2003	Semantics: meaning and grammar	6	B+
1	LING2004	Phonetics: describing sounds	6	B+
1	LING2023	Discourse analysis	6	C
1	LING2033	Contrastive grammar of English and Chinese	6	B
1	LING2055	Reading development and reading disorders	6	C+
2	CHIN2340	Film translation workshop	6	C
2	CHIN2341	Translating writings on art	3	C+
2	CHIN2342	Interpretation workshop II	6	B
2	LING2027	Phonology: An introduction to the study of sound systems	6	C
2	LING2037	Bilingualism	6	C+
2	YSCN0017	From Sherlock Holmes to modern forensic science (Science)	3	C+
			Total :	60
		Semester 1 GPA :		2.78
		Cumulative GPA :		2.29
		Semester 2 GPA :		2.32
		Cumulative GPA :		2.29

JK's HP Prequel

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:51:03 GMT

The Summary:
Her story is set three years before Harry Potter's birth, and features the youthful wizard's father, James, and series character Sirius Black.

The pair are confronted by two policemen after a high-speed motorcycle chase, and evade the authorities using their broomsticks and magic.

The Manuscript:
http://mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=/storycardpg1.jpg
http://mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=/storycardpg2.jpg

The Full Story:
The speeding motorcycle took the sharp corner so fast in the darkness that both policemen in the pursuing car shouted, "Whoa!" Sergeant Fisher slammed his large foot on the brake, thinking that the boy who was riding pillion was sure to be flung under his wheels; however, the motorbike made the turn without unseating either of its riders, and with a wink of its red tail lights, vanished up the narrow side street.

"We've got 'em now!" cried PC Anderson excitedly. "That's a dead end!"

Leaning hard on the steering wheel and crashing his gears, Fisher scraped half the paint off the flank of the car as he forced it up the alleyway in pursuit.

There in the headlights sat their quarry, stationary at last after a quarter of an hour's chase. The two riders were trapped between a towering brickwall and the police car, which was now crawling towards them like some growling luminous-eyes predator.

There was so little space between the car doors and the walls of the alley that Fisher and Anderson had difficulty extricating themselves from the vehicle. It injured their dignity to have to inch, crab-like, towards the miscreants. Fisher dragged his generous belly along the wall, tearing buttons off his shirt as he went, and finally snapping off the wing mirror with his backside.

"Get off the bike!" he bellowed at the smirking youths, who sat basking in the flashing blue light as though enjoying it.

They did as they were told, finally pulling free from the broken wing mirror, Fisher glared at them. They seemed to be in their late teens. The one who had been driving had long black hair, his insolent good looks reminded Fisher unpleasantly of his daughter's guitar-playing, layabout boyfriend. The second boy also had black hair, though his was short and stuck up in all directions; he wore glasses and a broad grin. Both were dressed in t-shirts emblazoned with a large golden bird; the emblem, no doubt, of some deafening, tuneless rock band.

"No helmet!" Fisher yelled, pointing from one uncovered head to the other. "Exceeding the speed limit by - by a considerable amount!" (In fact, the speed registered had been greater than Fisher was prepared to accept that any motorcycle could travel.) "Failure to stop for the police!"

"We'd have loved to stop for a chat," said the boy in glasses, "only we were trying -"

"Don't get smart - you two are in a heap of trouble!" snarled Anderson. "Names!"

"Names?" repeated the long-haired driver."Er - Well, let's see. There's Wilberforce... Bathsheba... Elvendork..."

"And what's nice about that one is, you can use it for a boy OR a girl," said the boy in glasses.

"Oh, OUR names, did you mean?" asked the first, as Anderson spluttered with rage."You should've said! This here is James Potter, and I'm Sirius Black!"

"Things'll be seriously black for you in a minute, you cheeky little -"

But neither James nor Sirius was paying attention. They were suddenly as alert as gundogs, staring past Fisher and Anderson, over the roof of the police car, at the dark mouth of the alley. Then, with identical, fluid movements, they reached into their back pockets.

For the space of a heartbeat both policemen imagined guns gleaming at them, but a second later they saw that the motorcyclists had drawn nothing more than -

"Drumsticks?" jeered Anderson. "Right pair of jokers, aren't you? Right, we're arresting you on a charge of -"

But Anderson never got to name the charge. James and Sirius had shouted something incomprehensible, and the beams from the headlights had moved.

The policemen wheeled around, then staggered backwards. Three men were flying - actually FLYING - up the alley on broomsticks - and at the same moment, the police car was rearing up on its back wheels.

Fisher's knee bucked; as he sat down hard; Anderson tripped over Fisher's legs and fell on top of him, as FLUMP - BANG - CRUNCH - they heard the men on brooms slam into the upended car and fall, apparently insensible, to the ground, while broken bits of broomstick clattered down around them.

The motorbike had roared into life again. His mouth hanging open, Fisher mustered the strength to look back at the two teenagers.

"Thanks very much!" called Sirius over the throb of the engine."We owe you one!"

"Yeah, nice meeting you!" said James. "And don't forget: Elvendork! It's unisex!"

There was an earth-shaking crash, and Fisher and Anderson threw their arms around each other in fright; their car had just fallen back to the ground. Now it was the motorcycle's turn to rear. Before the policemen's disbelieving eyes, it took off into thin air: James and Sirius zoomed away into the night sky, their tail light twinkling behind them like a vanishing ruby.

From the prequel I am NOT working on - but that was fun! [(signed) JK Rowling 2008]

Saturday, May 03, 2008

Sat, 03 May 2008 16:06:23 GMT

An A-level in Harry Potter:
Experts fear ‘dumbing down’ as book becomes set text

By DANIEL BOFFEY
Last updated at 21:55pm on 26th April 2008

Harry Potter has taken his place alongside such greats of English literature as Shakespeare's Hamlet and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and is required reading for A-level English students.

J.K. Rowling's boy-wizard has been added to the syllabus in a move that has prompted fresh claims of "dumbing down" in education standards.

Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone is being offered as a 'set text' by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA), the UK's largest exam board, which is responsible for nearly half of the country's exams.

Harry Potter has taken his place alongside such greats of English literature as Shakespeare's Hamlet and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and is required reading for A-level English students

But horrified education experts fear Harry will rob the A-level of credibility.

Professor Alan Smithers, a special adviser to the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee, said:

"The point of English literature is to provide works that have stood the test of time and that allow people to understand their place in the world as others have understood it.

"I don't think Harry Potter is appropriate as a set text; I don't see how it fits in with that. It may be an enjoyable read but I don't think we are just trying to keep people occupied."

Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, added: "This is all done in the name of relevance and popular culture, but it is not why children go to school.

"They should be encouraged to read and understand the great works of English literature. Harry Potter may be what children want to read, but that doesn't mean it should be part of an A-level."

Pupils taking the English language and literature A-level next year will study Rowling's first Potter volume – the 12th best-selling book of all time and the basis for a Hollywood film – along with one other book for the module Themes in Language and Literature.

They will have to write a 1,200 to 1,500-word piece of coursework comparing the "approaches" of J.K. Rowling and the other writer.

Examiners will mark students on how they relate story lines and the activities of Harry Potter and his friends to the context of the times.

And students will have to show an understanding of J.K. Rowling's use of language, described recently as gibberish by a High Court judge. They will also have to write their own 500 to 800-word story inspired by the book.

The AQA claims it will develop "reading and writing skills through the in-depth study of writers' crafting". It adds that students will have to "describe and discuss features of genre, language and style".

In the wake of persistently higher grades and the decision by Oxford and Cambridge universities to set their own entrance exams, experts have already called for the A-level to be replaced by the International Baccalaureate.

The Government watchdog, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, has pledged to boost A-levels with a major overhaul for the next academic year.

But fears that the curriculum is being dumbed down have been bolstered by plans announced earlier this month for 'flexible' GCSEs which will allow students who fail sections to retake them.

Critics said it would give them a false sense of their abilities and make the exams "almost impossible to fail".

Last night the AQA said: "Harry Potter is a genuine example of literature of our time and therefore entirely deserves its place in this unit. We believe that it will prove a popular and engaging inclusion."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=562287&in_page_id=1770

新聞兩則 - from Standard

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:52:57 GMT

一、現實版《狼羊物語》，而且還跟動畫一樣是山羊跟狼，只差在不是同性別

Prey and predator become pen pals
Thursday, April 10, 2008

A mainland zoo says a wolf and a goat have become best friends.
Keepers at the zoo, in White Tower Park, Nanchong city, say the pair are inseparable.
Prey and predator met by accident a month ago, the West China City News reported.
Early one morning, I opened the goats fence to let her out to eat, and the wolf came out unexpectedly because we hadnt locked his cage securely, keeper Xu said.
The wolf ran straight to the goats fence and started howling making the goat was so scared you could see her legs shaking.
But after a few days, the two started getting to know each other better and even exchanged howls and baas.
You could say they were flirting! says Xu.
He and his colleagues decided to put the odd couple together.
Since sharing a pen, the wolf and the goat have done everything together except share meals.
The wolf sticks to meat while the goat enjoys a vegetarian diet.

二、港大語言學系教授的研究出版（好像已經是同一個人同星期的第二份研究結果上報了）

Discovery on dyslexia gives new hope
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Linguists have discovered a way to test for early dyslexia among Chinese speakers in a breakthrough they hope will lead to a Chinese-specific treatment.

"Although tests for dyslexia among English speakers can be done at an early stage when children are learning to talk, dyslexia among Chinese-speaking children is usually not detected until they begin to learn to read," Hong Kong University assistant professor Siok Wai-ting said.

Her study, done with professor Tan Li-hai, found that Chinese and Western dyslexics showed structural differences in separate brain regions.

Chinese speakers with dyslexia were found to have a smaller than normal volume of gray matter in their middle frontal gyrus region of the brain, which is responsible for working memory.

English speakers with dyslexia had a smaller than normal volume of gray matter in their posterior region, responsible for letter-to-sound mapping.

The research showed that the logographic nature of Chinese script presented a challenge to children with deficiences in their memory capacity while the alphabetic nature of English caused problems for children making the letter-to-sound conversion.

TIMOTHY CHUI

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:19:33 GMT

熱捧男同志小說　廣州腐女族

資料來源：明報新聞網
刊登日期：2008 年 3 月 26 日
網頁連結：http://hk.news.yahoo.com/080326/12/2r8cp.html

【明報專訊】現時「bl」（boy's love）小說（描寫男同性戀感情）在內地網絡上相當風行，目前廣州愈來愈多年輕女孩喜歡上這種小說，她們也自稱「腐女」一族。當地心理專家建議，心智尚未成熟女孩子要慎對「bl」小說，切勿因過度沉溺而影響到正常的性心理。

不喜歡逛街打扮，少與外人接觸，喜歡在家玩遊戲、看動漫，尤其沉迷「boy's love」小說和漫畫，在日本有這種傾向的女孩子自嘲是「腐女」一族。《新快報》記者在廣州動漫星城調查發現，在1間漫畫書店裏，有兩排書架專門放置「bl」小說和漫畫，合共有20至30種。店員介紹，這類小說很好賣，天天都有20歲左右的年輕人到來購買，也有一些30歲顧客光顧，幾乎全是女性。廣州「腐女」年紀大多在15至25歲之間，年紀愈來愈小。