Suixuan

Author: 胡翌霖

  • Under Construction… Under Construction…

    Life & Notes

    Under Construction… Under Construction…

    These past few months, right under the window of the room I rent, it has been making a noise so unbearable that one can hardly tolerate it—from a little after 6 in the morning until well past 12:30 at night, there has been a continuous, irregular clanging of metal and electric-welding sounds all day long. Recently I learned that it seems this district is going to have its heating pipes or natural-gas pipes or something replaced; they’ve been digging everywhere to lay pipes, and the area right beneath my window seems to be, on the one hand, the place where a boiler room or something of the sort is to…

    everyday lifecity
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  • This Week’s Music: Sunshine On My Shoulders

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    This Week’s Music: Sunshine On My Shoulders

    http://www.hsjch.pudong-edu.sh.cn/冯静音乐风景线/My%20Webs/music-ziyuan/english%20sing-shx/sunshine%20on%20my%20shoulders.mp3 （female voice） http://host12.tyjh.tyc.edu.tw/~english2/english-songs/MP3/Sunshine-On-My-Shoulders.mp3 No matter how I listen to it, a café still seems to be the more suitable place for American country music. What songs used to be played at Plato Café? I’ve forgotten. Still, this one seems to make a slightly deeper impression—unless I’m mixing it up with even earlier memories? In my hazy recollection, folk songs like Blowing In The Wind and Your Cheat in Heart also seem to have been heard often in cafés. Latest comments Yiwu 2007-05-27 21:54:00 Ah… John Denver…… I can sing a rough version of this one. Such a gentle, comfortable tune. I have one of his albums. I always think…

    everyday lifemusic
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  • The Mood for Going to a Café

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    The Mood for Going to a Café

    Today’s effort to make yet another return to the café has once again failed. This time it was not entirely due to subjective reasons; there were also some objective factors: Plato Café has changed. When I came in today, I was first startled by the “Merry Christmas” decoration at the door: at this point in the year, we are in the period farthest from both the previous Christmas and the next one, so why is “Merry Christmas” still posted at the entrance? Still, I gathered my courage and charged in, only to discover after entering that the room layout had been adjusted, and I didn’t recognize a single one of…

    everyday lifeculturePlato
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  • [Repost] Since April, Various Places Have Been Strictly Cracking Down on the Illegal Terror-Related Publication Death Note

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    [Repost] Since April, Various Places Have Been Strictly Cracking Down on the Illegal Terror-Related Publication Death Note

    http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2007-05/25/content_6152545.htm Since April, various places have been strictly cracking down on the illegal horror publication Death Note     Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 25 (Reporter Tian Yu) After the office of the national “Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications” task force issued notices twice in April calling for the seizure of illegal horror publications such as Death Note, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Henan, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangdong, and other places have successively seized the book Death Note and related CDs. At present, various places have seized 2,409 copies of Death Note books, 366 discs, and 1,018 copies of other illegal horror publications, effectively striking at the unlawful conduct of harming the…

    everyday lifeanimepsychology
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  • The Dialectics of Nature Course Taught by the Teachers

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    The Dialectics of Nature Course Taught by the Teachers

    First, let me repost a thread:  Sender: fengziforeve (Expired pineapple can～CME! U.S.-Russia! Little optics 。。), board: Philo From start to finish, I had never seen such an utterly top-notch, depraved “teacher” before. It felt to me like he was basically a psychopath; I have no idea how he became a teacher. Before class, he announced that there would be no homework for this session, and that if anyone didn’t want to listen, they could just leave. Then he went on to say that since you came to class, you should pay attention; if you didn’t want to listen, then leave—it wouldn’t affect your grade. Then, just as class was about…

    everyday lifeeducationPeking Universitypolitics
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  • I Don’t Like Meditation; I Like Spacing Out

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    I Don’t Like Meditation; I Like Spacing Out

    Sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, gathering the spirit, meditating hard or thinking of nothing at all.—That doesn’t really suit me; I can’t sit still for very long. I like daydreaming. What is called daydreaming, unlike sitting in meditation, often involves staring fixedly at something. Staring at things that are at once moving and still. For example, staring at stars (stars are not motionless—they blink!), rain, water in a lake, grass, and trees. In Beijing there are very few stars and rain, so I like to stare at the wind and daydream. The wind is invisible, but the grass and trees that move with it can be seen. Stand under a big…

    philosophyeveryday lifenatureconsciousness
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  • Everything Has Yet to Begin

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    Everything Has Yet to Begin

    I do not wish to erase a single beautiful hue, and still less to throw away the picture in my hands, yet I am about to create an entirely new world. All it takes is to change to another pen, change to another color, and everything has not yet begun. A whole new world opens its arms to me. Latest Comments    unic 2007-05-25 15:42:21 Anonymous 222.82.226.29 [Reply] a whole new world…

    everyday lifedream
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  • This Issue’s Music: Prairie Dawn (Morin Khuur)

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    This Issue’s Music: Prairie Dawn (Morin Khuur)

    http://www.58w.cn/SN_Music/UpLoadFile/2007-4/74340_200741764637506.mp3 All the previous ones were Western music; let’s switch to something Eastern. Choosing music is such a troublesome thing—I'll just click one at random: ——“After the ‘national treasure’ music maestro Zhang Hongguang once again poured his full efforts into the musical creation for dramas such as [Emperor Kangxi] and [Great Emperor Wu of Han], he has joined hands with the grassland music master Siriguleng to jointly release the NEW AGE original-ecology album [Yi·Wolf City]. For the first time, it combines the concept of the wolf with NEW AGE music. The first original-ecology album to describe grassland life and scenery with music rich in ethnic characteristics.” 04. Dawn on the…

    everyday lifeChinamusic
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  • Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science

    History of Science & Scholarship

    Lloyd: A Review of Early Greek Science

    This book review assignment was due today, and the other book I had originally chosen still wasn’t finished reading; it seemed I wouldn’t have time, so I dug out this thinner book I had read before and wrote up a filler submission. If the TA is willing to wait a few more days, I might write another book review and hand that in instead…… G•E•R•Lloyd: Early Greek Science—From Thales to Aristotle, translated by Sun Xiaochun, Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press, December 2004 Ancient Greece is the source and beginning of science. There is no doubt that research on the history of science and technology in ancient Greece is of…

    philosophybook readingAristotlebook review
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  • The Eternal Dragon Ball

    The Eternal Dragon Ball
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    The Eternal Dragon Ball

    A while ago, when A Fei and I went to study at A Zhu’s place, every time we would see a set of Dragon Ball Complete Collection glowing brilliantly on the shelf at the Third Wave bookstore next door…… dazzling…… resplendent…… multicolored…… sure enough, in the end I still couldn’t help buying a set…… When I announced that I was going to buy a set of Dragon Ball, Mist also thought of buying a set of Doraemon (later he transferred it to me; I’ll talk about that next time). As expected, once these two sets of books were placed in the dormitory (mainly Dragon Ball, of course), they immediately attracted…

    everyday lifecultureChinaanime
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