Yilin’s Little Retreat

I had often wanted to find a blog other than Yeku as a secondary base—both for backups and to hide some things as well as add some things. In short, changing the style a bit might well be interesting. But after checking out various blogs, I all felt that I wasn’t used to them (I’m the sort of person who gets used to something and then can’t be bothered to change), and in the end I gave them all up. Recently I saw that Yeku allows one user to register two blogs, so I casually registered one, and then just as casually went over to Bokee and registered one there too. Let’s see whether, after a while, I’ll still be in the mood to build a secondary base.

If I were to make a secondary base, it would absolutely not affect the style of Suixuan. On Suixuan, whatever should be posted will still be posted, and whatever should be public will still be public. But I imagine the secondary base could be made more private, with some articles that I don’t really want to make public on a large scale, and that ordinary passersby wouldn’t be interested in anyway, posted there. Perhaps I could make it more like an ordinary blog, with more fragments of writing, stray lines, diary entries, and so on, instead of being as intimidating as Suixuan.

Since it’s a different style, of course the name shouldn’t be too similar. The secondary blog I once registered before was called “Youlin Xiaozhu” (“Secluded Forest Cottage”) (where did I register it? I’ve forgotten myself—who else would remember?), a name taken from Xu Ziling’s destination in *The Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty* (Shi Qingxuan’s little retreat). I like both Xu Ziling and “Youlin Xiaozhu.” But after thinking it over and over, I still feel an original name is better. Unfortunately I don’t have much creative ability, so I merely changed it a little and called it “Yilin Xiaozhu” (“Yilin Cottage”). Compared with the depths of a secluded forest, Yilin has a somewhat more outward-opening mood: that is, this house is not deep in the secluded woods, but nestled beside the forest, at the boundary between woods and fields or grassland—quiet, yet open.

At the same time, it is obviously a name quite simply taken from the homophony of my own name (YILIN), even with the surname (HU) added in—just one more T. As for the letter T, well, for example, it can symbolize a fork in the road (a T-junction): a place of bewilderment and lingering, the starting point of new choices; or, looking at it the other way around, it can also be understood as a place where different paths converge into one. HUT means a humble cottage or shed; put together, it becomes YILINhut. At last I’ve found a domain name that is both original and rarely snatched up.

http://yilinhut.yculblog.com

http://yilinhut.bokee.com

——For the moment neither has been started up properly; I’ll add new posts within a month, otherwise that means I’ve given up……

(In the future, I’ll call my study “Suixuan,” and the bedroom “Yilin Xiaozhu.” I’m looking forward to some calligraphy expert writing me a pair of couplets to hang up～ I’ll think a bit more about what to call the living room; perhaps because the house is too small, I’ll just use the living room as a study…… By the way, Beijing housing prices have already gone crazy recently, even more brutal than Shanghai, with increases comparable to the stock market. Second-hand housing in Haidian District is over 15,000, new housing is around 20,000 and basically impossible to buy. Even with a million in hand, don’t think you can buy anything like a decent house……)

June 4, 2007, 11:39 p.m.

Latest comments
  
mist

2007-06-05 00:16:09 Anonymous 210.56.216.2 http://logicalcalculus.blogspot.com [reply]

I used Bokee before, but later abandoned it, because the administrators there deleted posts arbitrarily. I wonder whether that has changed now。。。

  
Gu Zhi

2007-06-05 01:05:46 http://epr.ycool.com/ [reply]

Earlier, both Bokee and Blogcn imposed character limits; now it looks like Bokee’s limit has been raised to 100,000 characters, so it seems they’ve made some improvements. As for deleting posts, I’m not worried—I wasn’t planning to move academic issues onto the secondary base in the first place, so it doesn’t matter.

  
Yiwu

2007-06-05 20:07:04 [reply]

Congratulations!&
Looks like Gu MS wants to become a scientific and cultural person? Even the name is so elegant…… this, is rare. (YILIN), why do I feel like there’s an A chopped out of my name? A bit annoying. Haha. 
(just kidding) 
This~ looks like I’ll have to run between two places from now on…… 
I’ve registered so many that I can’t even count them, more than 10. On Yeku I actually have two as well; the other one is only registered, but it’s empty. I’ve forgotten what the domain name is now—if I remember it another day, I’ll come back and say so.

  
Gu Zhi

2007-06-05 22:16:09 http://epr.ycool.com/ [reply]

I originally wanted to become a scientific and cultural person, only I’m no good at science and no good at culture either…… When I choose names for myself, they’re either a homophonic pun on my name (510), or half my name cut away, or still a homophonic pun on my name; even the name of my parents’ shop uses the homophony of my name (Yiling). One name used everywhere…… Thinking about it myself, I feel it’s so lacking in creativity……

  
Yiwu

2007-06-05 22:37:32 [reply]

This (510)—to be able to transform one sound in a thousand ways—isn’t simple either…

  
Yiwu

2007-06-08 15:38:13 [reply]

http://philosophy.mblogger.cn/mwi/groups.aspx

  
Gu Zhi

2007-06-08 16:23:00 http://epr.ycool.com/ [reply]

Heh, that’s one of my secondary bases—I’d already forgotten~~ That blog seems not very easy to use; posts containing certain keywords just can’t be submitted.

  
Yiwu

2007-06-08 16:37:46 [reply]

Mine is even less worth mentioning, like dandelions in the wind…. 
With the KGB’s ability, finding this little bit of stuff is of course no problem, hehe…. 
Yeku is still better, relatively quiet.

  
Yiwu

2007-06-08 19:52:48 [reply]

In Yeku I actually have two as well; the other one is only registered, but it’s empty. I’ve forgotten what the domain name is now—if I remember it another day, I’ll come back and say so. 
http://mooncloud.yculblog.com

Translated from the Chinese original with AI assistance. The original text is authoritative.