hey hey those of you who're fluent in chinese, can you help me out? i'm trying to translate an article so i can memorize it in preparation for a mid-semester exam, and there's a little bit of a sentence that i'm stuck on. the original chinese, and my translation:

他们的兴趣是以自己的价值观去改造他国、羞辱其他民族，对于他们来说，为了达到政治目的，完全可以不顾忌自己的行为是在践踏人权、支持恐怖主义 ( Read more... )

AAAAAAAAA my neighbor is so awesome, he keeps giving me free sweets. I basically have a tub of ice-cream from him, and he just popped in to give me leftover birthday cake from his friend's party. SOOOO GOOOOD and it came just after I finished a bit of kaya's translations too, so yay!

Uhhh yeah. kaya asked me to help her translate an article, so... here ( Read more... )

idk if linking from Facebook works (or even if anyone will find this as funny as I do, since I have a weird sense of humor), but this is maybe the most hilarious thing I've seen in a while. dallsin, ich-faultier, cherry2909, you guys have to see it. For the rest of you, I'll translate:

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My alarm failed so I woke up at 11am today. Class started at 11am. Made my way over, was caffeine-deprived for most of it. Ignored the teacher and did some last minute memorization for a dictation. I'm a little proud of myself for that. I memorized 60 words in an hour. :D That's actually quite a feat considering that Chinese isn't really a phonetic ( Read more... )

So I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but because I'm a dumbass, I... am doing one more English unit that I really don't need this sem, and next year I really hafta work my ass off if I want to be able to graduate. As in, I'm doing too many English units and too few ("too few"? Oh whatever, eff grammar) Chinese units this semester. Goddamn ( Read more... )

Dear Monash University,

Have you gone fucking insane? Why do you keep sending me fee statements? I've already paid my fees for this year. I paid more than I was supposed to, in fact, because you lost all the documents I'd handed in at the beginning of the year. Are you trying to scare me to death ( Read more... )

I am so chuffed. :D Today's Chinese class was hard; I couldn't concentrate and we were doing that awful 孔乙己 (Kong Yi Ji) story again, where this guy... long story short, he's a bit of a weird guy but wanting to better himself but people beat him for a whole night and break his legs for stealing a book and his hands are muddy from crawling around ( Read more... )

... I hate it when you're tired but you can't sleep.

What's on my mind: Rogue Traders, and my Chinese assignment.

Rogue Traders has this lovely song called "In Love Again". imeem:


It keeps playing on the radio here. I've been listening to it, and Daft Punk's "Digital Love" ( under the cut )

sakgjbkas why do I keep failing at this. I pulled an almost all-nighter the night before so I could sleep last night, yeah? EXCEPT THAT FOR SOME RETARDED REASON I COULDN'T SLEEP and I woke up today pretty much dead. Went to the exam and missed an entire question (something that I only realized, like, TWO HOURS after doing the exam-- "oh hey hold on ( Read more... )

Mandarin oral went okay, though the teacher said that I should talk and not read. Well dude, if you want me to talk that quickly, then I have to read. I had to speak at double the speed I'd rehearsed at 'cause my speech was 10mins long and she cut us off at 5. Aside from that it was fine ( Read more... )