This is why I will never learn chinese

Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食獅史 Shī Shì shí shī shǐ)

by Zhao Yuanren

Chinese

石室詩士施氏, 嗜獅, 誓食十獅。
氏時時適市視獅。
十時, 適十獅適市。
是時, 適施氏適市。
氏視是十獅, 恃矢勢, 使是十獅逝世。
氏拾是十獅屍, 適石室。
石室濕, 氏使侍拭石室。
石室拭, 氏始試食是十獅。
食時, 始識是十獅, 實十石獅屍。
試釋是事。

Hanyu Pinyin

Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.
Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.
Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.
Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì.
Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì.
Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì.
Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì.
Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī.
Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī.
Shì shì shì shì.

Meaning in english

In a stone den was a poet Shi Shi, who loved to eat lions, and decided to eat ten.
He often went to the market to look for lions.
One day at ten o'clock, ten lions just arrived at the market.
At that time, Shi Shi just arrived at the market too.
Seeing those ten lions, he killed them with arrows.
He brought the corpses of the ten lions to the stone den.
The stone den was damp. He asked his servants to wipe it.
After the stone den was wiped, he tried to eat those ten lions.
When he ate, he realized that those ten lions were in fact ten stone lion corpses.
Try to explain this.

More info and an audio file of what it sounds like here.

Silent Hill

So I checked out Silent Hill the other day... It was meh.
I never played any of the games or read anything about the movie so I wasn't sure what to expect. It wasn't really that scary or that disturbing and there were a lot of unanswered questions and things that didn't make much sense. I came up with a theory after the movie that I was happy with though.
Here's something I would have changed to make the movie better.

Instead of this:

Replace it with this:

Or even better, replace it with this:
or

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The japanese are at it again!

During our snowboarding trip, our japanese exchange student friend, Mayu actually showed us this when she was putting on bandaids on her fingers. We had such a hard time cutting the bandaids because the scissors at the chalet were so crappy.

Hello Summer Days

So I failed my japanese final (and I mean fail. Not one of those "Oh I did so bad, I failed for sure" and then end up getting a C), I left sensei a little message on my test.

I decided to snap some pics on campus since I wouldn't be back there for a while. The weather was great: goodbye winter.

Today I Hate Everyone

There’s some days that I want to stay another day,
And there’s some days that I just want to escape.
And everyday just gets a little further from where I want to be.
I just want to sit alone and contemplate my own fate.

For today I hate everyone.
Oooh, oooh, oooh oooh.
Today I hate everyone.
Oooh, oooh, oooh oooh.

There’s a shadow creeping slowly over everything.
And one more shadow won’t help anything, so go away.
And if I hurt you, well I’m sorry that was not my intention.
I’ll be better tomorrow, so come back another day.

For today I hate everyone.

Killjoys - Today I Hate Everyone

Garage Sale

So today we have a garage sale... This is our second (maybe third) garage sale so far. We were supposed to wake up at 5am to start setting up... I ended up staying awake all night.

So we started unloading all our crap out in front of our house in the pitch blackness of night. I decided to take this opportunity to mess around with my camera and snapped some pics (which I later messed around with trying to make HDR images).

5:21am Setting up............ Playing with Camera

Eva: Okay Rich, take all this crap out of the garage and sort it properly out here.
Rich's Brain: Crap I forgot the camera downstairs... I'll go get it as soon as she stops talking.

So here's what you need to make HDR photos.

1. Camera with adjustable exposure settings
2. Tripod... I don't have a tripod so I just put the camera on a desk and a table
3. Photomatix (there's other ways to do this but I did it this way)

So, you set your camera on the tripod (aka table) and then you snap a few photos using different exposure levels. I just used different shutter speeds for all the pics. For a first try I think they turned out "okay"... I'll try to take more interesting pics later.

This is what it looked like outside

15sec exposure. So bright!

HDR version

2sec exposure

15sec exposure

HDR version

After a couple hours of moving crap from inside of the house outside, I have a newfound respect for ANTS.

6:52am Garage Sale Begins!............ I sit on my ass while Eva holds the fort

Through the looking glass

Peekaboo!

I see you!

Sell sell sell!

Here's something you might not know: Ping pong tables are freggin HEAVY!
My brother and I almost died lugging the thing outside. It was agreed that if it didn't sell, the ping pong table would take permanent residence outside.

BUT!
Thank you Cynthia! Have fun taking this heavy bastard home!

10:41am Update Blog............. Sleep?

After eating a hearty breakfast of cup ramen and a few enyo "fermented soft drink"s I update blog and go to sleep...?
The end...?

11:37am Bringing in the crap

Psyke! Thought I went to sleep didn't you!
Turns out that when I was just about finished this post it was time to bring everything that didn't sell back in... that was... fun...
Anyways, the Lee family is $200 richer. Money in the bank bitches!
We're having Garage Sale II: Return of the Garage Sale tomorrow morning... fun...
The end... for real!

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Have a safe and happy Easter everyone!
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