booked an apt on Huai Hai Rd! fully furnished and even with iptv (actually i dont really dig this thing - i hardly watch tv anyway, but it sounds cool, non? imagine the location! wow, i can't believe my luck. considering the location and nice furnishing, it's really a bargain! and i'm going to share with a gal this time - yeah, by now i'm so fed up with le fr boy, j'en ai marre! he never washes his dishes, i.e. i either hv to clean up after him or i can't cook anything till Ayi comes clean it, which is once a week. it's digusting with the dirty dishes in summer! besides he's nagging too much about China shouldn't do this China shouldn't do that, i can't stand it. i mean u r not helping us, u r in my country using our cheap resources, and u r bitching about my country? it's very insulting and cheap.

i can't help becoming a bit xenophobic. it's not like that i can't stand critizing, it's the attitude. i can't stand the arrogance. besides, how many of the China-critisizers really know anything about China? they just pick up whatever on cnn or bbc and believe their reporters always report the truth. i mean, c'mon, every country, every media, every people have an agenda of their own.  u hv to know some history (the real one, not the one told by media), use some logic...

anyway so far, things are going quite well for me. and i just bought a very pretty very sxy dress. 

finished reading Survivor - what can i say, great story, as always. now i'm almost done with Invisible Monster, great and shocking story again, but seems a bit too ... i dont know how to say this...

firelight

daughter: pourqoi tu m'as abandonne? 

sophie marceau:  non je ne t'ai pas abandonne. je t'ai vendu.

daughter: a combien tu m'as vendu?

sophie marceau: 500 livres.

daughter: c'est cher?

sophie marceau: oui c'est une fortune.

daughter: je suis contente que tu m'as vendu cher.

ca c'est un de mes dialogues preferes.

i found a new one!

i joined a mass online community where ppl exchange and talk about books/dvds/music etc. and one person i befriended there emailed me copies of Chuck P's novels, for free! wow, i'm rich.

web 2.0, or rather, internet, is greatly narrowing the rich/poor gap.

very much touched by le Silence de la Mer.  the 2004 verison. this  lonely, hopeless, tragical love...besides, the nazi officer was heart-breakingly handsome.

then i asked myself whether i was captivated by this movie only becoz it got beautiful actors, so i watched its 1949 version, which had ugly actors (excuse me) as well as wooden acting...

the answer is probably yes. - i was bored to death by 1949 version.

so now, not only i want to become a nzi that kills off all human beings, i also want to marry one. or can we at least revive their uniform? i doubt that german men r naturally better looking, it must be the uniform.

the other things i'm reading or 'after' these days:

Hard Drive - the microsoft story. a very informative recount of MS and Bill Gates story. for one thing, i'm surprised that Gates was actually a womanizer, well, to some extent. i had thought he's just a nerd and shrewd bizman devoting all his time studying computer and making money. not 100% sure, but seems MS and Gates don't look that 'evil' as alleged. seems they r just some successful biz model! besides, MS workers and their working environment feel kinda like google! in the sense they r all extremely talented and creative and ...umm, fun?

the Google Story - just begun reading.

Hablas Espanol? / BBC Mundo - es un blog espanol de dos corresponsales de BBC Miami que viajan a traves de EEUU hablando espanol y de camino hacen preguntas a y conversan con cualquier persona hispanohablante. muy interesante.

y otras cosas en espanol :D

hooray, my first blog en espanol! and i wrote a very long sentence using attributive clauses too, heehee