Weird dreams never end. Several crabs crawled into my duvet and scared the hell out of me. I was awakened in the middle of night just to find myself ok. It was a couple of days ago though.


Another tv programme replay in my brain. Hell, I should watch less and do more sports.


The Da Vinci Code is scheduled to be screened on May 19th. It is my next must-see. Tom Hanks, Audrey Toutuo, Jean Reno and yes, Dan Brown. Who can ignore the very man who created this contraversial piece of work? And I've got to know who the film writer is...


I bought the book about two months ago and now it has become just another addtion to my bookshelf...of unread books. What a shame! I am by no means a voracious reader but an impulsive buyer. So... before the day I go into the theatre I'd better give it a quick read. Otherwise I could be the only man that struggles to avoid looking like a fool.
9.4.06 16:54


Untitled Excerpt on City and Civilization

Each civilization is born, it culminates, and it decays. There is a widespread testimony that this fact is due to inherent biological defect in the crowded life of cities. Now, slowly and at first faintly, an opposite tendency is showing itself. Better roads and better vehicles at first induced the weathier classes to live on the outskirts of cities. Up to the present time, throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this new tendency placed the home in the immediate suburbs, but concentrated manufacturing activity, business relations, government, and pleasure in the centres of the cities. The homes were pushed outwards even at the cost of the discomfort of commuting. But, if we examine the trend of technology during the past generation, the reason for this concentration are largely disappearing. Still more, the reasons for the choice of sites for cities are also altering. Mechanical power can be transmitted for hundreds of miles, men can communicate almost instantaneously by telephone, the chiefs of great organizations can be transported by airplanes, the cinemas can produce plays in every village, music and speeches can be broadcast. Almost every reason for the growth of cities, concurrently with the growth of civilization has been profoundly modified.


Evidently, this piece of statement on city and civilization has long been outdated and supposedly it was a product of the early or mid 20th century.
15.4.06 08:41


New category entry added

Frequent readers of my blog may have noticed long before the existence of a new category named memo, of Planning. Finally I managed to make the first post. It will serve as a notebook for my study of Planning and all related knowledge. Give it a read if you are interested and you can expect more entries under the category.
15.4.06 08:59


My first class as a lecturer (warning: this one is shite)

I'm trying to keep this entry stupid simple and as concise as possible.


I must thank Passby, the pretty girl whose blog(mostly Chinese) is linked on the left(linked as 木耳, for giving me the chance of being a real English teacher for the first time.


She planned to go to a northern city and asked me to do her a favour: babysitting her lovely students. But this part-time college Engish teacher cancelled the trip right after buying the train ticket, what with the dust/sand storm going on recently in the North. Of course she had to get a refund. I suppose she is just as careful and sensitive as every girl to take care of her fragile, southern skin. LOL The dirty, dry even allergic dust would undoubtedly ruin her meticulously preserved facial skin. Ahahaha Ok I'm just kidding.


Anyway, she insisted that I give the two listening classes instead of her, although she would be able to deliver her usual lectures to her students this afternoon. So what she did instead? ... She'd been remiss. LOL again.


The students were quite nice, much better than I'd expected. The first half went for the listening and the second watching a film. I taught them how to memorize vocab more effectively and some tips to listening. ... ... all details concerning the teaching will be ignored this time.


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I think I need to do an entry about how I give tutorials or lectures.


Oh shit, am I writing the right sentences?


This is a piece of shite. Acknowledged.
21.4.06 17:57