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5/20/2006 Air Conditioning"Inspected A/C, Found freon leaking at the compressor. Ordered replacement compressor". A note was given to me this afternoon which eventually solved the puzzle in my head arose thanks to my A/C unwillingness of working properly under certain weather condition (summer to be exact). Replacement part will come in on next Tuesday, the warranty will cover the cost, (as needed to). I certainly don't wanna turn myself into some sort of BBQ Ming, so... hope they will have it fix by next Wednesday. Kitties will have to be taken to hospital for health certificate and rabies shot on Tuseday morning next week... I surely don't my defenseless kitties become agreesive doggies >.<
btw if my car keeps pumping out hot air, I will one day be shouting this: Car Roasted Kitty Steak, 100 bucks a piece...at final, sacrifice price!!!! come!! pls. come!!.. 5/18/2006 Three Awesome MSN Spaces I found on the webI just voted for the msn space of the week on http://whatsyourstory.msn.com/, where I have found out three awesome msn spaces with fantastic material of life stories of special individuals, I do think everyone on this Earth has their own special task to finish before they return to the source of energy. Because of their wondrous writing and editing, and posting of good pictures, I have to share with you their links in order to transfer my feeling to you, and hopefull you will find yourself enjoying reading their posts as much as I do...
Image and Word: http://spaces.msn.com/philholden/
Gruit And Juice: http://spaces.msn.com/gritjuice/
Three Hour Tour: http://spaces.msn.com/3hourtour/
I'm also thinking about changing the name of my msn space? any suggestion? 5/7/2006 spoiler (2) Science FictionThere are probably over a million ways of sorting different kinds of science fictions, with each of them being slightly vaired from another. I would like to present my own way of categorizing science fictions, which is to focus on the catastrophic effect they may have on us or our society. Call me a pessimist if one desires, due to recent abrupt change of my direction of life, well, rather locatoin (to ease the sarcastic atmosphere of this blog). First, when refering to science, I mean not only the natural science, wich innovative implementation (might be still imaginary) of people fantastic thoughts, which might deemed as weird, heretic, or even disastrous; but also the social science, which we might sometiems neglect thanks to their close relation to human factors. Second, my intention of bringing science fictions forward is to alleviate my fear of Steven King. By confronting oneself with fear directly, one may find the relief. Hope that works on me. :) 1. DNA/Mutation/Cloning/Transplant That's why I love watching Residence Evil. A company of crazed scientists figured out a way of preventing aging of organism, which is mainly for us human beings. However, out of their original intention, such chemical substance turns out not only preventing aging, but also mutating organism into a new form a life: zombic creatures that live upon the fresh of living, (the idea of living becomes a bit ambiguous when used here. What is life? what is death? why can't zombic creatures be living?) Why is is so scare? Because scientists were able to identify the cause of aging of organism at the DNA level. In the matter of time, such mean of preventing aging will be developed eventually. Fear arise because of macrobiotics, becuase of unkown life forms and human future. Furthermore, most primitive and religious believes of immortality involve a sense of supernature of divine and evil. Only the supremes can have immortality. We surely aren't Gods themselves, for they were created long before us. So that leaves one and only one option for us to become, the black, the evil ones, the zombic creatures. DNA researches also challenge the role of God(s) in some sense. Some believe men weren't creator(s), nor will they ever be. thus for humans to violate the ultimate rule of creator(s), we will have our punishment. scientifically, in my opinion, such fear is embodied within the fear of foundation of human supreme reign of the Earth.
Related Movies: X-men (I think it has more to do with social issues on discrimination against minority, rather than this DNA, mutation thing); Whatever of the dead series (the last one states that the only living left is only a town of hunder people, and they're surrounded by undeads with intelligent; isn't that a sign of a new species that is rising and will take over the reign of humanity?) Can't go on, too sleepy, have something else to work on, will update later 2. Time Traveling History is unpreventable; once a single event is forcefully changed, everything is changed forever. some theories suggest there are infinitely many other worlds parallel to ours, due to the stochastic result of free choice. the event where wether I will get up at 8am this morning (surely not) or not will create at least 2 possible worlds. changing a historic event will make our world collide with the world resulting from the respective change of the targeted event. it means the end of our current world. Movie Butterfly Effect is a good one visually explaining to you how this chain effect affecting our historic life. 3. Nuclear Development imagine this, Mr. Bush accidently push the button of the nuceal device to fire all the missles to some country. 4. History/Epistemology is the history we set our common ground upon true? is the system of knowledge of the world, the universe valid? this is a question resulting from if we can correctly inherit our past, is our past valid? 5. Psychology >.< Steven King (not Steven Chow) is good at writing psychologic horro novels, you can read some of them if you dare. out of mind, out of sight; don't underestimate what your mind can do for you.... metaphysics has spent a lot of time in studying how human perception create the world around us. Movie: silent hills, shinning 6. Social Crisis/Reform/Revolution during the time for revolution, people can get crazy way out of what you can expect it. Movie: V for Vendetta 7. Globalization through Economic or Military Foreign Invasion /shrug Americanization >.< it's boring to see all people around you dressing up all the same, isn't it? 8. Artificial Intelligent/Virtual Reality/Robots/Online Games (Cybering) Movie: matrix. darn i wish my computer can be that smart >.< and hav ethe ability of healing itself. 9. Religious Purifcation Crusade!!!! >.< people should believe more in Buddhism, at least I seldom heard of any large scale religious purification led by people believing in buddhism... you konw how good our monks from shao lin?... >.< they can fly ...
5/5/2006 Spoiler (1) Horror MoviesIntroduction: Problems have many categories, and they can be analyzed in different ways. My own way of interpreting problems would be treating them at different levels. When a problem gets to individuals, it's psychological, economic and physical (sometimes); when it gets to families and friends, it's social; when it gets to countries, it's political and patriotic; and when it gets to the whole human race, it's philosophical; when it eventually gets to the universe, it's mathematical. I have had too many problems, some of them being so troublesome that I wouldn't want to discuss them with anyone else. However some of the problems I deem as controversial, such that I can talk about them with all of my friends, and I desire to seek for your opinion on that matter, too. I've been bored lately, and updating my blogs with stories of love, or meaningless jokes, or movies quotes which aren't going to help me get out of my boredom. And because it's impossible to talk about math with you guys (frankly I take math problems too personal that I would just talk about them with my profs.) So may this begin as my first of the sequence of spoilers to bring up some discussion about us, about life, about people around us, about our future (too big, huh?) about our country (for my case, it's China; you can focus on your own, if you aren't Chinese), and anything else (including love and religions, two such things that I have a lot of bias about, hope you can correct me, if you ever can)
Recently I have watched this horror movie called Silent Hills. I have to admit there isn't that .. scary ... after I finished the movie. but I kind of got into endless fear after I've digged out too much about the game and the background about that game series. Frankly, the movies have mixed the first and second games together and endue it with too much religious believes instead. what really frightens is the psychological reflection of what we people can have from the real world. recall from one scene of the game where the doctor (not in the movie) asked her daugther: those people looked like monsters to you? and the daughter said yes, which explicitly implies the daughter has a twisted version about others in her own world. I'm not going to get into too deep about this psycology and metaphysics thing about how we identify ourselves in this existing world, since I will open a new thread discussing it. Let's focus on the difference of horror movies between Japanese, and American ones (sorry, chinese suck at making horror movies >.< to be honest, I'm such a disabled watching horror movies, any kind of horror movies can freak me out, but the chinese ones can make me laugh at the end >.< isn't that funny to some sense) most people say they like the japanese ones more, because they're more scary, more intensive, more cliff-hanging. and american ones suck..well i don't know >,< american people are really superior at making disgusting scenes. and they're also good at making sci-fic horror movies. to me, personally, I feel sci-fic horror ones are more scary, the ones that one day will realize its truth upon human race, more easier coming true than those haunted, grieved ones that japanese are good at making. Here's my reaons of why japanese grieved movies suck: come to think about it, why should you be scared if you're haunted by a ghosts whose human forms were killed by someone else; and if its original form was destroyed by you, don't you think somehow you deserve a lil bit justice? and if ghost are formed that way, you're surely going to be a ghost, rather powerful one (since you're killed by a ghost, not human, you're more grieved), so after you're killed, you will definitely be able to hunt the ghost which kills you. and since being killed by such ghost is inevitable, why don't you let it kill you and avenge yourself later on. (here, death is unpreventable) it'd be more fair when you, as a ghost, chase another ghost, and this whole super-ghost thing (superman related, jumping between buildinds, walking through them, flying all over the place) turns out to be more interesting. or one can say ghost can be harmed religiously, then why dont' you think of a freaking way to stop it in 7 days (from the movie the ring) instead, you stand in front of a freaking TV and the let ghost walk out of the TV and scare the crap out of you? silly >.< one can still argue, when we are scared, we can't act as normal as we do daily, well ok then you won't be able to evade your own destiny of being killed, just keep this in mind before you're killed, you will become a ghost, a more powerful ghost, and this ghost, which's killing you, will suffer from you rages... hehe that ghost might be scared away by your thought >.< since when a ghost is killed, it vanishes from earth for ever >,< should it be feared of that? one still can say, ghosts are unreasonable. for that, if I were you, I'd just pick up something, anything, from the ktchen, from the drawer, from anywhere else in the house, and beat the crap out of it. why can you do that? one might ask. I dont' need to answer why, it's unreasonble, it doesn't need a reason. and one might be curious on how you can achieve such irrationality. well that's easy, just imitate your famle peers.
I'm not a defender of American movies, I'm just sick of Japanese movies of repeatedly employing these ideas of grieving all over the place.....moreover, people might have not noticed that with the technologies we have nowadays a bunch of real horriable things can made by some crazed scientists, and they're the good sources for your scary movies. go read about what they can do and compare them to japanese movies. the ring would not possibly walk out of your TV; however something beyond the measure of horror movies might be under construction somewhere on earth. 5/4/2006 Quotes from TroyBased upon Iliad by Homer, this movie shifted the original focus of war between immortals and mortals, to just us human beings. I enjoyed it so much because the ideas of atheism and heroism get repeated here and there. And so I would like to share some memorable quotes with you in hope of it being useful to recall your memory about the movie or supplementary to understand the movie. The movie changed the relation around a lil bit, Briseis is just a normal Trojan Priest (not cousin of the two princes); Patroclus is a good friend of Achilles; Paris actually broke into Menelaus' palace to rob Helen off him. I hate Paris, to sacrifice his whole country for his selfish love.. darn.. I consider that kind of love wicked. Paris died shortly after Troy was fallen by the Greeks and he killed Achilles (sad). Oh, if you want to know more background story of the names and stuff, I have this link of encyclopedia for Mythica for you: http://www.pantheon.org/
Menelaus: Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, and then steal his wife in the middle of the night?
Paris: The sun was shining when your wife left you.
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Agamemnon: A great victory was won today, but that victory was not yours. Kings do not kneel to Achilles. Kings do not pay homage to Achilles.
Achilles: Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see: the soldiers won the battle. Agamemnon: History remembers KINGS, not soldiers! Tomorrow we'll batter down the gates of Troy. I'll build monuments for victory on every island of Greece. I'll carve Agamemnon in the stones. Achilles: Be careful King of kings. First you need the victory. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hector: Turn us around! Take us back to Sparta! You fool! Do you know what you've done? Do you know how many years our father worked for peace? Paris: Wait! Listen to me. I love her. Hector: Ugh. It's all a game to you isn't it? You roam from town to town, bedding merchants' wives and temple maids and you think you know something about love? What about your father's love? You spat on him when you brought her onto this ship! What about the love for your country? You'd let Troy burn for this woman? I won't let you start a war for her. Paris: May I speak? If what you say is true. I've wronged you. I've wronged our father. If you want to take Helen back to Sparta, so be it! But I go with her. Hector: To Sparta, they'll kill you. Paris: Then I'll die fighting. Hector: Oh, and that's sounds heroic to you doesn't it? To die fighting. Tell me little brother, have you ever killed a man? Paris: No. Hector: Ever seen a man die in combat? Paris: No. Hector: I've killed men and I've heard them dying and I've watched them dying and there's nothing glorious about it, nothing poetic. You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love! Paris: All the same, I go with her. I won't ask you to fight my war. Hector: You already have. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Achilles: Go home, prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife. Tomorrow, we'll have our war.
Hector: You speak of war as if it's a game. But how many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'll never see again? Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he's good at charming other men's wives. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Achilles: Is there no one else? Is there no one else? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Briseis: You lost your cousin, and now you have taken mine. Where does it end? Achilles: It never ends. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Achilles: [to his men] Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Messenger Boy: Are the stories true? They say your mother was an immortal godess. They say you can't be killed. Achilles: I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I? Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man i've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him. Achilles: Thats why no one will remember your name. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Achilles: Prince Hector a good a warrior as they say?
Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. Some would say [side long glance at Achilles] Odysseus: he's better than all the Greeks. [Achilles snorts into his cup] Odysseus: Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us, Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours. Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin. Odysseus: You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Menelaus: I want her back. Agamemnon: Well, of course you do. She's a beautiful woman. Menelaus: I want her back so I can kill her with my own two hands. I won't rest until i've burned Troy to the ground. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Odysseus: [to Achilles] War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.
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Paris: The weather is good, Poseidon has blessed our voyage. Hector: Sometimes the gods will bless you in the morning and curse you in the afternoon. Paris: Do you love me brother? Would you defend me against any enemy? Hector: The last time you spoke to me like this you were ten years old and had just stolen father's horse... what have you done now? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Achilles: I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Achilles: We men are wretched things. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thetis: If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten... If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years! And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Odysseus: If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Odysseus: Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought?
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Achilles: At night I sometimes see them. The faces of the men I killed. They're waiting for me on the far bank of the Styx. They say, Welcome, brother. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Achilles: I told you how to fight but I never told you why to fight. Patroclus: I fight for you. Achilles: Yes, but who will you fight for when I'm gone? Soldiers fight for kings they've never even met. They fight when they're told to fight, they die when they're told to die. Patroclus: Soldiers obey. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Achilles: Things are less simple today. Odysseus: Women have a way of complicating things. |
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