Rod Stewart Have I Told You Lately released June 1993

Kinda addicted to Geography

Tasmania is the "Muse Scene" of Kiki's Delivery Service (《魔女宅急便》) by

Tasmania is an Australian island and state of the same name. It is located 240 kilometres (150 mi) south of the eastern side of the continent, being separated from it by Bass Strait. The state of Tasmania includes the island of Tasmania, which is the 26th largest island in the world, and other surrounding islands. The state has an estimated population of 500,000 (as of December 2008^[update]) with almost half located in the greater Hobart area, and an area of 68,401 square kilometres (26,410 sq mi), of which the main island covers 62,409 square kilometres (24,096 sq mi).

面试

今天去学校的Asian Center面试，老师东拉西扯跟我拉家常，最后还扯到我爸干嘛这种没谱的事情，据说这个Center就是接待一下访问学者的，估计也就是看看我扯淡的能力了。

我觉得我扯淡的能力很一般……

The Mirror of Sky

Salar de Uyuni (or Salar de Tunupa) is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 km² (4,085 square miles). It is located in the Potosí and Oruro departments in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes, 3,650 meters high. The major minerals in the salar are halite and gypsum.

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni

Settle down my SRP topic for next semester

I talked with David Hischmann today. He will be my SRP adviser next semester. I like David. He's really strict but still very relaxing. He's very smart. Thus he's always very inspiring.

My SRP topic will be on evaluating the involvement and efficiency of inequality elimination or poverty alleviation in Microfinance Project in East and Southeast Asia.

When I try to make plan for the future, I always feel like if I can work on poverty alleviation, I will be quite initiative in my life.

It is actually an island on earth

Attention: these are not photo shots from out space. They are all from an island on the earth named Socotra.

Socotra or Soqotra (Arabic سُقُطْرَى ; Suquṭra) is a small archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa some 190 nautical miles (220 mi; 350 km) south of the Arabian peninsula. It is so isolated that a third of its plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as the most alien-looking place on Earth.

Socotra is part of the Republic of Yemen. It has long been a part of the 'Adan Governorate, but in 2004 it became attached to the Hadhramaut Governorate, which is much closer to the island than 'Adan (although the closest governorate would be Al Mahrah).

Resources: Wiki Socotra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socotra

参加不得的婚礼

今天打开邮件，竟然收到有人邀约我去参加他朋友的婚礼。
唉唉…………其实我最喜欢参加婚礼了。
可惜这婚礼是个炸弹，随便参加不得啊…………唉唉，怎么办啊…………



说到婚礼，说说最近看到第二季末Lily和Marshall结婚的地方，真的把我感动了。
Marshall说他爱Lily，因为Lily is his best friend.
Lily说她爱Marshall，因为Marshall makes her happy and safe.
没有在户外结婚的照片，就上这个好了。

关于乙肝

以前有个同学和男朋友分手了，因为男朋友有乙肝，她家里人不同意他俩好。
当时男朋友寻死觅活，最后同学竟然出动我，让我帮忙劝。我很无奈地当了协调人，结果最后那个男朋友竟然跟我绝交了。

以前不知道乙肝有什么危害，为什么会和婚姻联系在一起。
今天看了一个帖子，才知道原来乙肝还会影响婚姻的实质。
不禁想到，刚公布结婚消息的刘天王。

对于得乙肝的人，这可怎么办是好呢？

所以大家要好好保护自己的肝啊！注意饮食，按时休息。

华丽丽的

今天早上出门看见俩老头手牵手散布。
这么大年纪的同性恋我还是第一次见……感情那么好，是不是到了50岁才找到真爱呢…………
啊……
真是华丽丽的。

Ponyo和《海的女儿》

刚刚看了Ponyo，很宫崎骏，一切都那么美好（虽然个中总会有一两个让人毛骨悚然的巨人出现，我觉得这里是Ponyo她妈，在龙猫里面是那只巨大的龙猫，宫崎骏的漫画里面总有一两个特别巨大的人物，然我觉得浑身起鸡皮疙瘩），结局很美Ponyo变成了一个小女孩，跟宗介一起了。

据说Ponyo是根据《海的女儿》改编的。我一向觉得安徒生写的不是童话（可能是寂寞），他写的是成人的故事，好像《看门人的女儿》《小伊尔达》《冰雪皇后》《野天鹅》没有一个是写给小孩子看的，小孩子的故事结局哪有那么惨。安徒生最喜欢几样东西，荆棘，沼泽，鹳鸟，冰雪，小孩子，老头和玫瑰。前几样多少有些死亡的味道，后几样则是他心目中美好的东西。

小时候看《海的女儿》不太有悟性，觉得就是一个故事，人鱼变女孩了，女孩爱上了男孩，男孩不知道女孩是人鱼变心了，她就变成了泡沫。以前只对安徒生描写女孩的一句话形容她的脚非常漂亮的印象特别深，Ponyo里面，宫崎骏也特别强调了Ponyo的脚。Ponyo在海浪上跑步的时候，就看到她的脚特别白皙轻巧。

不管怎么样，我很感激宫崎骏没有把它画成一个悲剧，给她设置了一个考验，只要宗介能接受她是鱼这个事实，Ponyo就可以变成人类。宗介自然通过了考验，他和Ponyo也就开开心心地在一起了。看Ponyo的感觉和Up的感觉特别相似，“爱你就像从未受过伤害一样”。

不知道为什么，我总觉得宫崎骏有些恋母情结，他动画里的男性总处于一种被动的地位。

啊……不知不觉我又变成了《女友》的专栏作家了……