I use the Chinese sector of the Internet, I finally do! For real! Never had a reason to before. But holy crap, how obviously different our mentality is. When I see all those pop-ups, adverts, blinking flash buttons, all I want to do is run. Close my browser, disconnect my modem, shut the machine down and reboot in safe mode. And I definitely screen ( Read more... )

喀秋莎

正当梨花开遍了天涯河上飘着柔曼的轻纱喀秋莎站在峻峭的岸上歌声好像明媚的春光姑娘唱着美妙的歌曲她在歌唱草原的雄鹰她在歌唱心爱的人儿她还藏着爱人的书信啊，这歌声姑娘的歌声跟着光明的太阳去飞吧去向远方边疆的战士把喀秋莎的问候传达驻守边疆年轻的战士心中怀念遥远的姑娘勇敢战斗保卫祖国喀秋莎爱情永远属于他正当梨花开遍了天涯河上飘着柔曼的轻纱喀秋莎站在峻峭的岸上歌声好像明媚的春光

I also found Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Mandarin, but I'll have mercy and won't post it here.

是从旭日上采下的虹没有人不爱你的色彩
一张天下最美的脸没有人不留恋你的颜容
你明亮的眼睛牵引着我让我守在梦乡眺望未来
当我离开家的时候你满怀深情吹响号角

五星红旗,你是我的骄傲
五星红旗,我为你自豪
为你欢呼,我为你祝福
你的名字,比我生命更重要

红旗飘呀飘红旗飘呀飘腾空的志愿像白云越飞越高
红旗飘呀飘红旗飘呀飘年轻的心不会衰老
你明亮的眼睛牵引着我让我守在梦乡眺望未来
当我离开家的时候你满怀深情吹响号角

五星红旗,你是我的骄傲
五星红旗,我为你自豪
为你欢呼,我为你祝福
你的名字,比我生命更重要

This week we had a series of long and tedious lectures about safety at workplace, safe handling of various reagents, samples and chemicals, glove safety etc ( Read more... )

There was a bus to Jablonec at 8:10AM on a Sunday. I should know, we used it to loose the money-bags. Where is it midweek?

Nowhere. And does the info-person tell you about that? Of course not, his only entertainment at this crappy job is to see flustered tourists flail around helplessly.

Anyway, the next bus was caught halfway across town, and a ( Read more... )

It's great that no matter where you are, or what you do, there is always one constant in your life. There will always be a hole-in-the-wall Chinese eatery, where there will be people who'd understand you. Provided you speak standard Mandarin, of course.

Seriously, I understand Czech well enough to get married in Mnichovice, which means, not at all, ( Read more... )

It's spring, and I get Sundays off. So I felt compelled to wear a longish skirt while runing errands - very atypical, since I'm a die-hard pants wearer. Of course, upon exiting the sanctuary of my appt I was promptly reminded exactly why it is so ( Read more... )

1.Degree of success in entry level laboratory tech position lies in direct proportion to ones' ability to stay focused like a Ritalin abuser, whilst spending hours sitting on your butt, watching paint dry.
1a. Inability to react in appropriate and timely manner gives you fancy-shmancy cancers.
1b. Your coworkers' inability  to do so does too.
1c. ( Read more... )

I always hated the idea of having an aquarium, because I was sure it's like being violently forced to watch a lame TV show, with fish inbreeding and passing on in cycles. Not so, apparently. It's rather interactive, there is a lot of fiddling and tinkering with it, and if you choose hardy fish that don't breed unless all of their minuscule demands ( Read more... )

If I was still in school,  I would so use this. There is at least a term paper, right here.

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By popular opinion, this guy's voice is the reason Tamil cinema was so fervently religious for so long, and his unjust incarceration brought about an end of an era. After him it was all soppy love between lowly humans, basically. Personally, I like the ( Read more... )