this photolog is pretty

same old housing problem in shanghai, how lovely

on new year's day andy and i watched the most amazing win by iowa hawkeyes! beating florida gators 37-17 in the outback bowl. it was just grand. we totally dominated!!

GO HAWKS!! WOOHOO

on dmb :)

http://regretless.org/viewthread.php?tid=20500

Love

I could write romantic poetry
if I could think up rhymes.

Tattoo "I love you" on my butt
about a million times.

I'd swim the deepest ocean
(if I wasn't scared of sharks).

Carve our intials on a tree?
What?! And vandalize our parks?

I'd climb the highest mountain
if you'd drive me to Tibet.

Reenact our love with puppets?
No. That's my dumbest idea yet!

Jeez, this is going badly-
it's like my brain is stuck.

Just believe I love you-
now let's go someplace and...




Cuddle.

See, I told you I had trouble with rhymes.

just got this from my professor

If you have 5-7 minutes during the next day or two I would sincerely appreciate your help. We're doing some research into the Web as a reflection of popular culture and as part of that work looking at word familiarity.

If interested, please go to:
http://imagination.cs.northwestern.edu/study/index.php and complete the survey.

Thanks.

they made it, i didn't

http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/blondes.htm

computer for women




kitty surprise


mule trouble


poor doggie


top notch pilots


they found nemo


anal tv

interesting wactus

oops

hrm why doesn't this suprise me?

http://www.livinginchina.com/archives/000615.html

make sure you block out the dirty stuff about the gov't!

finding nemo screenmate is very fun!

download here

amusing
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/bones/WhyIHateWebLogs.html
some of the stuff really cracks me up. if it were less cussing, i would consider signing the Statement of Audience!!

it's kinda funny.. i'm enlightened LOL.. ever wondered why the F word can be a noun, adj, adverb, verb etc all at the same time?

for people who have limited vocabulary, they have to expand the usage of the word they use the most.

leah: I used to curse when I was younger.
leah: I completely stopped by the 11th grade
leah: I think it was a phase.
dodo: some people don't grow out of it LOL
leah: very true.
leah: I eventually realized that if you can only use a 4 letter word to express yourself, you have a pretty limited vocabulary.
dodo: hehe.. that's why the F word becomes the one of most functional words in english HAHA. did you see this? http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/history.htm

http://members.cox.net/compulsivecreations/blinkie_snags.htm
hey at least that's the most customized dnw top 100 popup!

hrm yummy!

OMG this goes so well with my kitty surprise icon

it's pepsi suprise :)

how cute is that!

if i'm a completely validation nerd.. i would enjoy many of the validation tools mentioned here

this is cute but i don't think that animal rubbing the kitty is a horse. it's too furry. what you think?

wow this thread blows me away

some one said "For public school in US, I only know that they install metal screen detector at the entrance.

Students attending public school in US is only slighty less risky than soldiers stationing in Iraq."

as far as i know.. they don't install metal screen detector at the entrance in my schools. i mean we hear shooting incidents in schools and everything but i never felt my life was in constant danger when i was attending schools in the US. or am i just 100% ignorant?

just being curious, i did a little research
this argues that violence is going down

this is a bit less optimistic

For every 100,000 public school students, 26 attacks or fights with a weapon, 17 robberies, and 10 rapes occurred at school (Table 10). These represented the serious violent crimes for which the survey collected data. More frequently reported were the less serious or nonviolent crimes including 444 attacks or fights without a weapon, 274 incidents of theft or larceny, and 234 incidents of vandalism per 100,000 students in public schools.
still, are these comparable precentages with a war zone?

more stats

no wonder iowa city is rated one of the most safe city in the US, never heard of s*** like those.

oh this is interesting!
Adults in the workplace are at greater risk of violence than students in school. According to a U.S. Department of Justice report, Workplace Violence, 1992-96:

not unheard of.. still extremely interesting
http://www.local6.com/news/2768661/detail.html

and a blogger has met the pastor in person

isn't this lovely?? if i use this as my personal clock, i could at least double the speed of my daily tasks.

The world population clock is a statistics-driven calculator of the world's estimated population. Developed at Princeton University, USA, the clock is based on analysis of available data on population, fertility, mortality, and migration. The analysis is performed separately for the 227 countries or areas of the world with a population of 5,000 or more.

quoted from here

Three guys go to a ski lodge, and there aren't enough rooms, so they have to share a bed. In the middle of the night, the guy on the right wakes up and says, "I had this wild, vivid dream of getting a hand job!" The guy on the left wakes up, and unbelievably, he's had the same dream, too. Then the guy in the middle wakes up and says, "That's funny, I dreamed I was skiing!"

never tried the macro function.. inspired by daynah now i'm trying it out :)


by my cannon G5 :) *no flash* *no zoom*

too bad it's all gray and yucky outside right now :( and the lighting in the house is poor.

at least mine did. of course my cats were partly outdoor cats. wonder if those who've been sheltered all their lives would freak out when they see a real mouse - or maybe a big one?

this article talks about how a lot of cats in china are too lazy or too scared to catch mice.

translation
"These days, the cats are too lazy. They know how to eat but they won't work. They can't catch mice anymore." What is going on?

Case #1: Cats are lazy. A Mr. Chen is in the business of supplying wood to interior decorators. Not long ago, there was a rodent problem in his shop. The rodents even came out during the day and pranced around the wood supply. At night, they came out and chewed the wood, leaving bite marks as well as droppings.

Hoping to reduce his loss, Mr. Chen borrowed a cat from a friend and hoped that the cat would discharge its duties. The cat was not good at catching mice. In the beginning, the cat could actually scare the mice away by meowing. After a few days, the cat settled into a routine where it would eat and then nap, leaving the mice to run amok again. These days, cats are well fed with special diets so that they have no need or interest in rodents.

Case #2: Cats are afraid of mice. A Ms. Li likes cats and recently obtained one. One evening, when Ms. Li came home from work, she saw this strange sight. There was a big rat by the garbage can and the cat was facing it. At first, the rat looked afraid as it wondered whether it should stay or leave in the face of its natural enemy; but the cat was actually more afraid, for it trembled, screamed and fled. These days, cats rarely even encounter rodents, much less deal with them.

真棒！如果不是blogsphere，我不知道哪年哪月可以读到一片用中文写的关于美国人在中国学中文的故事。我觉得他写的很真实感人。尤其用词恰当出语不俗，我也读不出什么语法错误。到让我想起了自己刚开始学英文的感受。我想文化的差距和实际的距离是很容易疏远朋友的。但记忆总是美好的。用中文把这个记忆珍藏起来让我觉得很浪漫。

真的很有意思，我妈单位也有外国人教英文。那时喜欢听他们学中文的笑话还有他们
买东西怎么给人家坎。记忆犹新是一次听到老外问“你是什么东西？” 当然他一点没有冒犯的意思。就象我爸问andy: what's up yours 其实想问 what's up with you? LMAO

this does not surprise me

there's no celebration and i'm busy as hell :)

at least these beautiful firework pictures gives me some kind of holidy feeling :)

i like gaile's new splash
http://diary.nu

sasha: gaile, you need to sleep. every time you stay up, God chops off a penis.
gaile: *staying up* I HATE MEN*.
*exceptions: gaile fills in here (i wouldn't mind F4 and no idea what the others are) haha

IE:
three consecutive clicks on a word will highlight the paragraph.
double click highlights the word.

Mozilla
three consecutive clicks on a word will highlight the line.
double click on the word except before the first letter highlights the word. double click on the word before the first letter highlights the word plus the one before it.

1. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin
unprotected.

2. I'm not into working out. My philosophy is no pain, no pain.

3. I'm in shape. Round is a shape.

4. I'm desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots wore
helmets.

5. Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

6. I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been
more specific.

7. Ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you,
but when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window?

8. Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot,
but anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

9. You have to stay in shape. My mother started walking five
miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now and we have no idea
where she is.

10. I have six locks on my door, all in a row. When I go out, I
lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody
stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three of
them.

11. One out of every three Canadians is suffering from some form
of mental illness. Think of two of your best friends. If they
are OK, then it must be you.

12. They show you how detergents take out bloodstains. I think
if you've got a T-shirt with bloodstains all over it, maybe your
laundry isn't your biggest problem.

13. Ask people why they have deer heads on their walls and they
tell you it's because they're such beautiful animals. I think my
wife is beautiful, but I only have photographs of her on the
wall.

14. A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my suede
jacket and said, "Don't you know a cow was murdered for that
jacket?" I said "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now
I'll have to kill you too".

15. Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter
Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and
the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore

wee those are sweet surprises. i got a new year's card from daynah and a bday card from eve :) thank you very much. they are soooo cute!




eve's card is funny :)

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1924

一位读者的留言让我又有写中文的冲动。如今偶尔写一次中文对我来说有吃禁果般的开怀。由其如果用词斟酌，写时像点缀蛋糕似的。这可能是我一生用英文都达不到的境界。以前写中文是因为有忠实的读者。语言是我们心灵沟通的方式。它让我们沉浸在美好里。虽然我的中文和许多人相比还是望尘莫及，但令我快乐的是我没有放弃对它的追求和向往。用英文我常常有束搏的感觉，觉得我无法把自己表达完整。用中文我像插了翅膀的鸟儿在天空翱翔。用它来珍藏记忆使记忆绚丽。我说不出中国文学的大道理，但我可以用心体会中文的美。用英文我只是在描述，用中文我可以塑造我的内心。对中文我充满了罗曼帝克的痴迷。而它的神圣永远与我的初恋纠缠着。嘘，秘密。

submit your pet peeves

http://www.smalltimedork.com/dork.php?content=pet_peeves

pet peeve: people who talk loudly on their cell phones in the library or the computer lab.
people whose cell phones ring during a movie.
people who misspell when making big header banners.
people who turn up the volume of their cell phone ringer while they are testing out which one to use.
people who gossip about other people's personal business.
people think they are so cool to be drunk and puke all over the place.
when you walk around trying to avoid a smoker while waiting outside of a restaurant, s/he follows you and blows the smoke right in front of you.

peeve's origin: the last one really happened. i wanted to smack her so bad. i also think people who don't have common sense and curtesy should be banned from using cell phones.

说爱你 - 蔡依林

我的世界变得奇妙更难以言喻
还以为是从天而降的梦境
直到确定手的温度
来自你心里
这一刻我终于勇敢说爱你

一开始我只顾着看你
装做不经意心却飘过去
还窃喜你没发现我
躲在角落忙着快乐忙着感动
从彼此陌生到熟会是我们从没想过
真爱到现在不敢期待

要证明自己曾被你想起really？
我胡思乱想就从今天起i wish
像一个陷阱却从未犹豫相信
你真的愿意就请给我惊喜

关于爱情
过去没有异想的结局
那天起却颠覆了自己逻辑
我的怀疑所有答案因你而明白
转啊转就真的遇见mr.right

download the song

major dis :)

"
A suspected US fraudster on the run for a year has reportedly been caught after a woman checked his name on the Google website before meeting him for a date.
...

Mr Pettus-Brown was wanted in connection with a failed plan to rehabilitate a 90-year-old theatre in Cincinnati's city centre, the paper said.
...

Mr Pettus-Brown showed up to meet his date only to be greeted by several FBI agents, not the woman of his dreams.
"

drawn flash

must see perverted kitties!! watch the episode and the sequel!

looking for cute wallpapers? check out this site!

this girl's got a very unique layout :) i haven't seen that scrolling script before. tho no matter how clever the scrolling script is, it can never be as user friendly as the default scrolling.

^_^ i do feel lucky

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