Ghostly fog



Fog is not quite often experienced in early Spring where I am, especially in the evening. But last night, when I got on my bed after just another lazy day and looked out of the window, a very dense fog came into my sight.

I opened the slide window a bit. The mist then floated through the narrow opening, reaching the skin of my right hand. It felt a bit cold at first, and then damp after a few seconds. I opened the window completely and sticked out my head. Seeing through fog is like looking at the world under a pair of presbyopic glasses. Your vision becomes blury.(It's another story if you actually need one.)

 Another thing was the smell. It was a damp and suffocating air that you could only breath in an old public bathroom with an old ventilation system. People might get respiratory diseases after long exposure to such air suffused with numerous suspensed particals. So I wouldn't risk my health and recoiled.

I was not sure whether it was only a coincidence that I was reading Chapter 7 of Dracula in which some detailed description of sea-fog is made. I simply couldn't help imaging if there was also an apparition in disguise lurking in the mist, just like Count Dracula steered the schooner to the Whitby harbour through the dank and damp sea-fog.

There was a ghostly smell pervading through the fog.

But hell, it was all in my head. Indeed, the flapping sun-shading clothes outside reminded me of the sail of a ghost ship at sea, I was nowhere near as superstitious as the Irish writer.
18.3.06 17:38


A Cup Of Tea




This is the cup of tea I drank this afternoon. Those flower-like things are white chrysanthemums and the little red fruits are Chinese wolfberries. Both kinds of herbs are good for the circulatory system and are edible.

The Chinese wolfberry is a traditonal herbal medicine for the kidney well-being. As a young man, I know full well the importance of having a healthy pair of kidneys. According to the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine, they are the core to your future fertility, which is an inseperable part of your family happiness. Sterility is still considered by many to be a huge family misforturn here. Such a convention doesn't actually fit into my belief system; but the old... sigh.

We were watching a science programme over dinner. The programme was about how myriads of vitamins take effect on human body and whether extra vitamin intake, especially excessive intake for example vitamin supplements, would do good to our health. Here are what I learned from it:

1) Extra intake of Vitamin C does not help prevent cold;
2) Vitamin E as a fat-soluble substance must be taken with certain amount of fat to be able to take effect.
2) Excessive intake of Vitamin A could result in some diseases as serious as osteoporoses(bone loss) or liver malfunction.

But all VA, VC, VE are antioxidants that limit damages of free radicals which is a cause of many diseases such as cancer.

I believe that both inadequate and excessive intake of these esential substances may cause problems. The ideal health condition is always found in dynamic balance.

I will keep my tea-drinking up.
19.3.06 15:05


Weblog restructuring

I received my Google Page Creator invitation on the 24th. Since then I have spent most of my online hours learning loads of new things that are not strictly necessary but very helpful, for example HTML codes, for me to enjoy such a creative toy Google generously offered. Although you will have to get your Google account on their waiting list and the long period may have already worn thin your patience when the moment finally comes, the creativity it allows any non-techie to have makes the waiting worthwhile.

I have already owned this 20six weblog for two years and managed to update constantly, if not diligently. Still, I kept searching and registering at new websites(most of which blog service providers) with different features; I tried blogging in two languages seperately on two weblogs(which now I am doing). Such an indecisive mind resulted in my having at least 4 weblogs, 2 photoblogs. And now, with my expanding yet out of focus cyberspace, I set out my journey with the GPC.

That said, I find it important to concentrate on the content of my weblog entry rather than myriad of features those providers have to offer. But before this, I need a final shot to do a bit more with the infrastructure, upgrade the URL location of Lurking In My Brain here at 20six.

So for your convenience, please give full attention to the change of the following link:

www.20six.co.uk/mikez ---> mikez.20six.co.uk

which will take effect at the sole discretion of the blog owner.

The link change will be the first step towards the restructuring process.
27.3.06 17:29


Dream

Sometimes I DO have some really strange dreams. I remember very clearly one of those strange scenarios that happened last night.


It was when I was having an English class and we were having a dictation. Hell, my memory still serves accurately at recalling some of the words. There was the word environmentalist and there was high tide. Coincidently I came across them both today! The latter bumped into my mind when seeing Cast Away. It's an old film though.


Some random thoughst: I don't read much about Freud's Interpretation of Dreams but we all could tell our own. Dreams are our dark version of daily activities running on a loop. They are extentions of our mortality, impossibilities, happiness, sadness, etc. They are future scenarios of our lives that constantly pre-appear in our brain. They are our respective prophecies, be they self-fulfilling or not.
29.3.06 13:35