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URGENT! Need Korean's Help!

chamo41 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:25:44 GMT

URGENT! Need Korean's Help!

To all the korean friends and someone who know korean,

Pls help me to translate the sentances and phrases as below into korean language:

1 A place for feet bath.

2 A room for playing chess and card.

3 Hotel or restaurant.

4 Pls go upstairs to the fourth floor.

My friend asked me, but I can't Korean, need all your help, thanks ahead!!

Release Myself

chamo41 — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:07:34 GMT

Release Myself

I am not a merchandiser any more.

Need an English name easy for pronunciation by foreigners, who could give me some ideas? Waiting for your suggestion. Thanks!!

Walden

chamo41 — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:38:11 GMT

Walden

I have read the Chinese edition of Walden written by Thoreau at the urging of a friend of mine (I'm trying to read the original work now, I think I'll learn more by this way.). My friend is a crazy economics fan, he loves this book so much that he needs someone to share the excitement with him. Unfortunately, I have little interest in this field though that was part of my major at one time. However, the beautiful pond named Walden seemed really attractive when he described it to me at the first time.

Thoreau is the real person who knows how to enjoy his life. In this book, he showed us some trivial things about nature, such as plants, animals, worms, blue ice, colorful sand; his funny experiences of planting beans, fishing, discovering whether Walden Pond has its bottom; and his attitude of living. He wrote with his sincerity and humility as he required of other writers:“A simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land.”

In Thoreau's opinion, people demand too much from the world, and work hard under the unnecessary pressures which were created by our own imagination. We announce that we are free without knowing that we already became the slaves of our greed. “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” That's the earnest appeal from the author, and the truth in life. “Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one.”, “If it is neccessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.”, and his wonderful theory of chairs:“one for solitude, two for friendship,three for society.” If we expect more, we must pay more, and the cost is often larger than that we gain. How many people wasted their lives in such a bargain?

The way of living chosen by Thoreau is considering himself as a harmonious part of nature. He thinks he is a leaf or mould to some extent. Squirrels don't care whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, so a person shouldn't care about his harvest too much. He doesn't like the person who “loves not the beauty of his fruits, whose fruits are not ripe for him till they are turned to dollars.”

All in all, it's a great book that helped me unload some unnecessary burdens and let me think about the meaning of life again.

Rely on Myself

chamo41 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:38:42 GMT

Rely on Myself

No matter how carefully when I prepare, some strange problems will happen and I have got to solve them totally by myself. No one can help me. What a big difference between the life in campus and in society!

To my dear friends,

I'm really very tired today, I will reply to your messages tomorrow, forgive me! Best wishes to you all!

Computer Viruses

chamo41 — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 02:56:45 GMT

Computer Viruses

I had had my computer system reinstalled two months before, but the poor computer crashed because of 1612 viruses today morning. One of my friends laughed at me:“You almost can set up a virus museum in your computer.” I had to reinstall the system again, and it wasted me a lot of time. >_<

Love Stuff

chamo41 — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:36:02 GMT

Love Stuff

I will find a boyfriend whom comes from mainland China. Nothing can change my thought of it.~~

Of course I would like to make good friends with whom come from all of the world. Nothing can change my thought of it either.~~

My Eyesight

chamo41 — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:57:42 GMT

My Eyesight

At a bus station, an old man asked me to notice the bus which he wanted to take. He explained: ”my eyesight is bad. ” “No problem.” I replied to him.

Then we started to wait for the bus. Suddenly, the old man said: ”Look, is the bus coming? Oh, yes, my bus is coming! Thank you!” But at that time, I still couldn’t affirm the number of the bus. I recognized the number when the bus was much nearer.

God, my eyesight is so bad now?

A Beautiful Night

chamo41 — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:01:34 GMT

A Beautiful Night

West Lake International Firework Festival was opened last night. 100 thousand fireworks were displayed in the night sky over Qiantang River. It was the beginning of the 7th China Hangzhou West Lake Exposition. During the firework festival, a great many policemen were working hard and keeping the crowd in order.

Wushan Temple Fair

chamo41 — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:03:30 GMT

Wushan Temple Fair

Yesterday afternoon, my friends and I went to Wushan Temple Fair. There were all kinds of snacks in the fair, and we hardly miss chances of having delicious snacks.

I bought a bunch of roasted mutton from a merchant who came from Xinjiang. He kindly welcomed us to visit his hometown, and gave me a big one. All of us ate too much food like fried smelly tofu, wonton, cakes, roasted meat and so forth.

Besides food and drink, there were lots of groceries. We also met some merchants who came from India, Nepal, Italy, Pakistan, and so on. They could speak good Chinese.

In the end, we walked into Huichuntang, a famous traditional Chinese herbal medicine store which was set up in 1649. We sat down and had cups of fragrant herbal tea for free. In this store, they provide free tea everyday.

pics: http://chamo41.blogspot.com/2006/10/wushan-temple-fair_11.html

My Hometown (1)

chamo41 — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:15:16 GMT

My Hometown (1)

Now, I’d like to tell you something about my hometown, Hangzhou.

Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang province, and has an area of 16847 square kilometers. It lies at the mouth of the Qiantang River and has a population of 6 million. The city has existed for more than 4700 years. It is one of the seven ancient capitals in China.The city flower is sweet osmanthus, and the city tree is camphor tree.

Hangzhou is known for the West Lake, pure silk, Dragon Well Tea and charming girls. It is reputed as “Southern Watery Region” and “Heaven on Earth”. Marco Polo,the Italian traveler in the 13th century said "Hangzhou is the most splendid and luxurious city in the world. "Also there is a famous ancient proverb in China reads like this: “In heaven there is paradise, on earth there are Suzhou and Hangzhou.”

Besides the scenery, as a main historical culture city,there are quite some places of historical interests in Hangzhou.

You could see some pics and essays about this city in my another blog if you like: http://chamo41.blogspot.com/

1. Hangzhou Culture
http://chamo41.blogspot.com/2006/09/hangzhou-culture.html

2. Dragon Well Tea
http://chamo41.blogspot.com/2006/09/dragon-well-tea.html

3. National Water Lily Exhibition http://chamo41.blogspot.com/2006/09/national-water-lily-exhibition.html

4. City Flower: Sweet Osmanthus
http://chamo41.blogspot.com/2006/09/city-flower-sweet-osmanthus.html

5. Xixi National Wetland Park
http://chamo41.blogspot.com/2006/09/xixi-national-wetland-park.html

6. Qiantang River Bridge
http://chamo41.blogspot.com/2006/10/qiantang-river-bridge.html

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

chamo41 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:30:06 GMT

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, it’s the day for family reunion. Early in the morning, my parents started cooking, and I was busily playing with my cousins. We hadn’t seen each other for a long time.

After the big dinner in the evening, the whole family went out for a walk. A full moon was hanging in the sky, bright and big. It let me think about the famous ancient verse which was written by Su Shi: “We wish each other a long life so as to share the beauty of this graceful moonlight, even though miles apart.” (The English edition of this verse was searched out by Google. )

Later, we came back home and ate mooncakes. In recent years, we have had varies choices of mooncakes. Traditional ones make you fill full, and ice-cream ones make you fill cool. Both of them are delicious!

According to the Chinese proverb, Tomorrow’s moon will rounder than today’s. I’m waiting for it.

Old Letters

chamo41 — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:42:17 GMT

Old Letters

My bookshelf was too full, so I wanted to clean it up. I found a pack of my old letters. After dealing with my bookshelf, I sat down and began to read these letters.

I’m a person who is easy to slide into memories, though I know it is not very good.

These letters were written by my old friends, and started with my nicknames, like ”little grass” and ”lamb”, it made me can’t help laughing. The letter pads were all picked out elaborately, and full of familiar handwritings and drawings.

One of the letters said: Please take care of the cactus which I sent to you. I absolutely remembered the cactus. Six years before, I had wanted to see if the cactus could live without thorns, therefore I had cut its thorns away with my scissors. Unfortunately, the experiment had been unsuccessful.

Maybe I can consider reading old letters as my favorite pastime. The activity makes me happy, and I think that’s enough.

National Holiday

chamo41 — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:16:13 GMT

National Holiday

Yesterday was National Day, and we have 7 days’ national holiday.

The city is full of tourists, so you can imagine how heavy the traffic is. I just have a good rest at home, and contact with two of my friends. We haven’t seen each other since we left the university in June. One of them will go to France in several days. We have no idea when we can meet each other again.

Anyhow, I love holidays!

My Junior High School

chamo41 — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 01:11:49 GMT

My Junior High School

Yesterday afternoon, I passed by the junior high school which I had studied in for 3 years.

I saw a chalkboard placed in front of the school gate, and some students’ names were sketched on it. I surely knew they were the students who had been late for school in the morning. I really feared this chalkboard 8 years ago.

It also reminded me of my life in this school. I always argued with my deskmate about insignificant things, and sometimes we even fought with each other. Today, I don’t know where he is.

When I was a student in it, I had some friends. Unfortunately, one of them died from a traffic accident 3 years ago. My comfort is the knowledge that others are living their lives in happiness.

No doubt, the school is much more beautiful than that in the old days, and I don’t remember some of my teachers’ names, however, I find that I am much familiar with the school camp. It makes me puzzled if I still study in it.

In retrospect, there were happiness and pains. We went through all of them, and then grew into adults.

What Is Success

chamo41 — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:26:09 GMT

What Is Success

A Chinese author said: success is a comb, you will receive it from the life when you have no hair on your head.

Burp

chamo41 — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:41:50 GMT

Burp

Today morning, I learned an English word ”burp”, then I have burped whole day. How magic the word is!

The Explanation of "Beauty Is in Your Heart"

chamo41 — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:03:46 GMT

The Explanation of "Beauty Is in Your Heart"

Dear Ixion,

Thanks a lot for you questions! But I can’t quite understand you because of my poor English. Maybe you will find something helpful in this article.

In that short article named Beauty Is in Your Heart, I want to tell you that sometimes people don’t lack beauty around them, but they can’t feel, maybe they pay too much attention to money, reputation, status and so on. Sometimes people are not lucky enough and live in bad situations, does that mean they must be unhappy? If someone possesses beauty in his heart, no doubt he is an optimistic person, like the blind man and the esthetician I mentioned in that article. God forgot giving them beautiful circumstances, but never deprived their right to feel and pursue, so the blind man visited the high mountain though he couldn’t see anything, and the esthetician wrote his book on esthetics in prison. Beauty will not come into your heart only by imagination.

The extreme hypothesis is that someone possesses nothing but his own heart, ok, we know he can’t change the reality only by his heart, maybe some regret, but a sensible man will live happily and will not let himself live like in hell. We should treat better to what we have, and enjoy our own lives, if there is something we can’t possess, or can’t change, let it go without grief.

Compared with the unfortunate people I mentioned above, we absolutely possess enough, so don’t require too much from the outside, say thanks to the persons who are kindly with you and the luck you have, trust in your friends and even strangers, slow down your pace and relax, think about what kind of life you really want, give more attention to nature, give more help and comprehension to people, and give a smile to yourself everyday. That’s the easy way you can feel beauty in the world, and leave the beauty in your heart.

Attention: what I said above maybe is not a truth, but my own point of view. One day if no one in the world can feel beauty, the world must be full of despair, can humans live in that world? But that is an impossible hypothesis too, I don’t think it will happen in the future. ^_^

Thanks again for your comment. Best wishes!

Chamo

Cyber Love

chamo41 — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:26:04 GMT

Cyber Love

This evening, I read the terrible result of cyber love on newspapers: A young girl was raped by her online friend.

Obviously, in my parents 's eyes, cyber love is a ridiculous thing. I agreed with this advice before, but now I'm not quite sure about it.

I have made a lot of good friends through the line. We have the same hobbies, or major in the same specialty. They are all very friendly and enjoy in helping each other. I really can't imagine if they are bad.

One of my friends is such a guy: strict, mature, reliable, and no doubt he is a learned person. We met each other online three or four years ago. I don't want to admit I’ve fallen for him, but I have got to say there are some magic things of him interest me. Although I don't know his true name, age, appearance and specific job. Tell me, am I mad?

Well, I am a sensible girl, I know there are too many unreal things on the Internet, and won't vanish into cyberspace. But that doesn't mean finding an online boyfriend is impossible to me. Will I? Nobody can tell. Neither do I. ^_^

The Shawshank Redemption

chamo41 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:24:59 GMT

The Shawshank Redemption

Maybe sometimes what we lack is hope, or the courage for hope. Like Red in The Shawshank Redemption, he hadn’t believed that one was able to tunnel through a wall with a rock hammer and crawl through a 500-yard long foul drain until Andy did.

I prefer the words in the letter that Andy wrote to Red: Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

At the end of the movie, what moves me is not the good conclusion but Red’s four more hopes. It means he has been free indeed.

Beauty Is in Your Heart

chamo41 — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:09:25 GMT

Beauty Is in Your Heart

One day, when I was climbing a high mountain, I saw a blind man with a stick in his hand walking toward us slowly. I was puzzled, what he could see on such a high mountain? Splendid clouds or fragrant flowers? Didn’t he is wasting his energy?

My teacher smiled when I told him this story, he said: "Now, let me tell you another story. A respectable teacher of mine finished his book on aesthetics when he was in prison. Apparently, there was no beautiful scenery,even no freedom. So you know,mouth,nose,ears,hands and feet are extremely enough for a sensible blind man to feel the beauty in the world. Even if one day you lose all of them, don't forget you still possess your own heart.When beauty is in your heart, something else is useless."

That was the most beautiful lesson I have ever learned.