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artkho
Posted on: Tattoos, TV and the Stock Market
March 28, 2008 at 7:26 AMAnd the story people rarely tell about 岳飞（yuefei) was right after his mother tatooed him, he complained to her about her use of traditional characters instead of simplified characters. The extra strokes made the tattoeing really hurt! :D
Posted on: Embrace your Fears! 怕 (pà)...Adj
March 14, 2008 at 9:34 AMamber, thanks for 怕啰嗦。you jogged my memory and now i remember hearing and saying 很啰嗦 in my dialect when i was a kid!
Posted on: Mobile Repairmen and AZERDocMom
March 14, 2008 at 8:49 AMAzerdoc, To this day, I still add and multiply in Minnan hua! It's easier and faster than English. :D
Posted on: #41
March 14, 2008 at 6:37 AM过敏, very useful word! amber, have you been counting my correct answers recently? :D
Posted on: Embrace your Fears! 怕 (pà)...Adj
March 10, 2008 at 9:40 AMOkay, in that case， 怕多言。
Posted on: Embrace your Fears! 怕 (pà)...Adj
March 10, 2008 at 9:18 AMDoes 怕怕 make sense?
Posted on: Insect Market and Having a Baby
March 7, 2008 at 7:33 AMi think i should hire rebecca as my tour guide the next time i'm in shanghai! :D
Posted on: Stargazing
March 5, 2008 at 10:45 AMJust thought of something, it would have been funny if this lesson ended this way: Girl: 你知道天王星在英文叫什么呢？ Boy: 我不知道。 Girl: Uranus! ;-)
Posted on: Stargazing
March 5, 2008 at 9:43 AMI can't shake the feeling that a woman wrote this lesson. Jenny? :D The story makes me think of the title of a book that was quoted way too often on the airwaves many years ago: 男人来自火星，女人来自金星。 But I think this is an opportunity to create a story-lesson arc based on this lesson to let the idiot of a lad redeem himself. Part I. He becomes geekier by enlisting a friend well-versed in astronomy to teach him about the stars and the constellations. He also learns how to use the telescope. Part II. He enlists the girl's female friends to help him get another chance. He also becomes more cultured at night by reading some poetry. Part III. He invites the girl and her friends to go the countryside, where there are no bright lights so they can have a good view of the stars. He also brings along his geeky astronomy friend and a telescope. He gains the respect of the smart girl by impressing her with his new found knowledge of astronomy. Then he ends the evening reciting William Butler Yeats' "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven": Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams I don't know if there's a Chinese poet who's the equivalent of Yeats. I only know a few Chinese poems and they're either tragic, depressing or longing for home. I doubt if there's a Chinese guy out there who would recite 岳飞's 满江红 to woo a woman. I think it's about time we have a lesson arc that allows the guy win one. :D
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Math class
April 2, 2008 at 8:43 AMHere are three different ways to express 153: a. The sum of the first 17 positive integers: 1+2+3+4...+16+17 b. The sum of the first five factorials: 1!+2!+3!+4!+5! c. The sum of cube of 1, cube of 5 and cube of 3 (1 + 125 + 27). How about a lesson on calculus?