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| 幸福
Doing translating work at research, I've been particularly challenged by words or phrases in Chinese that have no direct translation to English and vice versa. Do you know the phrase "Xin Fu" in Chinese? I love that word in Chinese-- it is overflowing with meaning. Online translators interpret 幸福 as "happiness"...But somehow, it is so much more than that. Flowers can bring someone momentary happiness, as transient as the bloom. Candy might give a child momentary happiness, but 幸福...it is a sort of fulfillment, a deep enduring sense of satisfaction and joy.
虽然这几天很累，眼睛都没有好好休息，眼髋都红了。。。但是我还是觉得我很幸福。
谢谢你， 这么爱我，我会好好珍惜的。
就算你看不懂这些， 心里的话相信你一定听得懂。
♥ 姗姗
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| Bookworm
so over the summer I started wearing these curious little accessories called 'glasses' for the very first time...and at first they were just supposed to be a back-up my contacts. But lately, since my eyes have been feeling awfully uncomfortable in the dry weather and I've never liked wearing my contacts much anyways, I've gotten into the habit of wearing my glasses during class.
Since then, I've realized how differently everything looked with glasses. ok, so that might sound pretty obvious but since my sight is usually fine without glasses or contacts of any kind, i avoid wearing them when I can. Now its like, I notice the bug crawling in the hair of the girl sitting next to me in lecture (T.T it was so disgusting...i know i should have said something but i didn't know how to tell her), I can see every wrinkle on the professor's face and every gray hair on his head, and I realize some people really can sleep anywhere because I've noticed more sleeping classmates in that dirty and uncomfortable Bunche lecture hall than ever before~ I think i rather liked when everything was a peaceful semi-blur and when people's complexions were hazily flawless...it is a bit tiring to see everything so vividly clear and its no help that there's been quite a bit of reading i've been wanting to do lately...
some books I am reading/plan on reading:
His Dark Materials Chronicles (I'm always reading this series at work ^^; I want to re-read all three books before the movie comes out)
Life of Pi (recommended by a friend)
Bells of Lowell (reading books 2 and 3...i didn't have 1 thoe =.=)
my poor eyes T.T
♥ 姗姗
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| Loving Food
I feel like I've been eating so much more than usual lately... Maybe by the time you come back from Japan we will both have gained weight and then we can play the characters in one of my favorite movies, Love on a Diet ^^
Oh and before I never knew you could look up the nutritional information and calorie count of the dorm food menu... I wish I hadn't known...XP
♥ 姗姗
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| Lamppost
I went inside the newly finished Engineering V building for the first time today. The outside looked just as pretty as some of the other new buildings in south campus with nice glass and brick. The elevators "talk" like the ones in PAB and Rieber terrace/vista and the chairs are nice and comfy~ I think a major improvement with the new building is how brightly lit it was inside. I think one problem with other engineering buildings like Boelter was the fact that it was so dark and dim; it made it seem like you could spend days inside and never see sunlight and it just makes the place seem generally dreary and depressing...like a basement where people are locked up to study for hours and hours in poor lighting that made their eyesight worse and worse until they have to wear thick glasses, turn completely pale, and become a stereotypical engineer nerd =.=
yes, so Engineering V is much improved in that aspect, with a great glass windows in classrooms with views of Kirochoff and I'm sure, other parts of the campus. My favorite part of the new construction in south campus is the fact that they've incorporated the traditional english-looking lamppost (like the ones by the IM field) that I love so much. Yes, because they remind me of Narnia. Oh if there were only snow, pine forests, and nice talking animals beyond the lampposts of UCLA...
 ♥ 姗姗
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| I feel weary and disheartened =.= I need your hug
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