老徐 (Today at 9pm, Wei Qun gave birth to her first kitten! 3 altogether, a natural birth!!! (6 pictures)

Translation of 老徐's 今天晚上9点，围裙生下第一只小猫！一共三只，顺产！！！(图6张) post:

Finally the first kitten's been born!!! Just waiting for the second, in the middle of the third one now!!!!!!!! It's midnight, she gave birth to another one!!!!!! 12:40, the third one was born smoothly. Her owner's very happy!!!!!!!!!!!

The oldest:

(Pictures are in her blog post)

The second oldest:

The third oldest 1:

The third oldest 2:

Their mum is at peace!!! Wei Qun (围裙) is exhausted!!!

Translating 老徐 (Is this fist better than that fist in terms of 'the entertaining spirit'

Translation of 老徐's 此王八拳是否彼王八拳之“娱乐策划人” post:

This year's winter sunlight is unusually good, always stirring up the desire of people to do their new year's shopping. Bo Xue (博学) says some shopping centres have Einstein's most recent air conditioner. Even though I heard this, it doesn't mean I'll follow like a sheep but it still made me consider it. I don't know if it's because mine doesn't heat up any more or because the one I bought is too old now. I haven't thought of the new year as a major thing for many years, just as something when everyone takes holidays. On the other hand, the roads are tranquil like many times before. Beijing really is a city with a large floating population.

I filmed in the mountains with a lot of hard work, for a person like me who doesn't like working, doesn't like being dirty and doesn't like to be tired, it's a kind of life I haven't had for a long time. The best thing about it is that it feels more and more like when I was spending a quite time at home. The sky above and the ground below. My new home's bedroom has been painted greenish black and at first I wanted to paint the ceiling the same. When we saw the thing, everyone unanimously disliked it. I can't bare to even change it. Mostly because I'm too lazy to trouble them again.

People already have enough troubles, old people die in bed, wars don't stop. We all say having one more problem is worse than having one less one but there are some people who just add to the troubles.

Recently, from out of nowhere there're new clumsy rats. For example, the new so-called 'entertaining spirits', in the middle of these kind of people, there's a part that's really interesting, a fly that just wants to spoil a pot of soup. I feel that they're jumping and hopping acting more and more shamefully. I don't know whoever's brain which has water in, to make them donate money to support their publicity. Before, shame was kind of fashionable and it needed to be announced. Our service industry's development really pays attention to everything.

This kind of person, really needs some backbone, acting shy and being parasites to other people who look famous. They will just rely on whoever has the most news recently. People who are full of energy and easily excited wouldn't be annoyed enough, they're a bit impatient. I've heard they've already found a shameless follower's detailed address. Might as well go up and give them a good beating. I'll say the negatives, he'll be happy that you hit him, they'd go up and down the streets with a loudspeaker shouting: Extra! Extra! Who, who hit me? Hitting me so hard that I have a bloody nose and bruised face and making me scared out of my wits!

Isn't this the result they want to achieve, let's not fufill their wishes. They just want us to point fingers and say names, without a chance. I still don't believe it, that you can just go along like this and have your name reach heaven. I just see a lot of people quarreling where they were once happy. Changing a hate story into one of flowers, now, noone lies low and keeps silent anymore. Gentlemen are guaranteed to leave these kind of people far, far away. Non-gentlemen will become rotten with them. The clumsy comedian also isn't a new noun, this world never lacks any. And if we don't see each other how far will we go, there're lots of ways to get food, I need to quickly turn over a new leaf.

People are really tolerant so I must forgive you.

Behind me is the beach.

Other: The bastard fist has only been let out for two days and there're people advising me don't get 'angry and annoyed'. Each of my friends, how does anger come? Not from an untroubled life. I'm happy writing in my blog.

Translating 老徐 (Is this fit as lengthy as those people good at using fists)

Translation of 老徐's 王八拳是否彼王八拳之好人之长篇 post:

Sleep late or get up early, it seems the biological clock adjusts itself really quickly. The beginning of the new year, shouting and clamouring and shaking fists. I don't even know what to write anymore. I'm temporarily toning my body. I'm now considering something that one of my section supervisors said, actors who enjoy themselves a lot normally isn't a good thing. I've been thinking about it, is it better to be a good person or a good actor? What my teacher usually says is: if you want to be a good actor you have to first be a good person. For a long time I took it as it is. My section supervisor asked me to look at my current situation, what he said mainly made sense. So I need to mull over these words.

There are many types of good people, one kind is: always good people, are they just posing and putting on a mild nature. Not caring about worldly success, on the inside and on the surface, they aren't intense or cold towards people or things, how are you? I'm very well, how's everyone? type of people. I don't greatly like this kind of people, they don't act like real people, they could be offered to the wax museum. Once it's real and you've associated with them they probably aren't fun. With just remaining, good, ok. It's not fun.

There's another kind of person, people from the North East call them people with medium temperament. The so-called 'medium-temperament' people, don't pose at all, they say it how it is, of course there're a huge number of offended people. I don't meet this kind of person very often, I guess they've been beaten to death with sticks a long time ago among the legal society. On the other hand, I've met very few of these characters. I've hidden myself behind these characters having fun, cursing, doing what I like, being cold. If it isn't pleasing to the eye, then say a few words for protection. Sometimes you think: why is this brother so angry? Why has he got so much to say …… so, I've seen the actual person, a pretty good person. Always lending money to people, people don't return it but he's too embarrassed to ask for it. Embarrassed when meeting a stranger. These kind of people, don't have too many friends —— transparent on the surface, easy to be familiar with, too embarrassed to even open their mouths. Among the people that I know there are two typical characters like that, Lao Wang (老王), Xiao Han (小韩). There're some areas where they're very similar, people have agreed on what I've said. If there're people who don't agree, can come and tell me a reason.

There's another kind of mild temperament person, they pose big (posing is not good for your future, this will protect people and offend people, posing is not popular now, I thought it wasn't fair but before they invent a more suitable word for this I'll temporarily order people to obey to get used to these words in the language.)

I've gone off the track, let's get to the point. There's another kind: fake mild temperament people, it's obvious you can hear them typing away on their small calculators, it's obvious they have interest and go for charm, squeeze whichever persimmon is the most soft. As soon as they see 'the VIP', wine isn't even enough to strengthen their weak guts. They still pretend to be good and moreover have an honest and frank personality. Honest, I'm very honest. —— Acting very sincere but not very realistic, especially for us who've studied how to act, the subject technique is called: play over, mild temperament people's lives aren't enough, too many rips. What a joke, don't make me spit over two miles away. If you have skill, take it, your set of words and the nation's leaders, and go straight with the people who gave you money. When it's over, I can help you out. I can't guarantee you'll eat well. You might see some meat, two or three meals apart.

That…… don't be cold ……

All the people who I understand to be good, as I was getting to know them I came across the type of person who: knows many things and have a clear standpoint, know the proper limits to speech and action, understands about things not people; are introspective and first consider all problems themselves, do as they would be done by, understand forgiveness and how other people have different intentions compared to what they actually do, if they have an obvious weak point they should be able to see it themselves, not necessarily always as a threat to themselves.

That's about it, if I think of more, I'll write it up.

I've said so much about being a good person, are they good at acting, do good people or bad people act better? Is it still important? …… in Dream 《梦想》 there's a line: who doesn't pretend, who doesn't? they would've already knocked his brains out, in society you have to pretend and pretend to make any progress. Pretending, shouldn't be shameful, pretending to be shamed is what is shameful.

I'll rethink that last phrase, I suddenly feel, Mr Wang Ai Nian Hong (王爱脸红) was surprisingly very tolerant of me.

Translating 老徐 (The great leader doesn't want to see)

Translation of 老徐's 大领导不要看 post:

In the first day of 2007, I've been battling with the bitter cold in the mountains. The coal-digging spot is on the mountain and I need to climb up and down many times a day. I've exercised my leg muscles and chatted with classmate Jin (金同事) sighing over how this coal-digging is so different from the other kind. The other kind of coal digging has an air-conditioned suite room, this kind has freezing cold days, frozen roads and rugged paths. Isn't it when the sky comes falling down that all kinds of people will first have hard times, rought times, hungry times, cold times. It's hard to accomplish things when you're comfortable …… I'm not comfortable anymore me, me, me.

Yesterday I couldn't go home, I fluttered my eyebrows and put on a happy face to send my colleagues my current news, I asked about what kind of things people are generally doing, people accompanying mum and people eating well. Me, me, me, lifting a frozen red old face sitting cross-legged on a bed playing with the computer. Sitting in a village in the mountain attempting to understand what happens in the world, there're big things going on or is it the first part goverend by Qin, the second by Han and the third by Wei, Shu and Wu, this isn't very new either. Balance, balance …… or does physical labor have the most honor, honor, honor!!!

The sights from here are still the same, I need to sleep early —— I just like to talk about eating about sleeping, what's, wrong, with, that.

Rebel, I want to rebel …… from the start of this year, this son of a gun will start playing around, everyone stay a bit further away from me, don't provoke me unless you want to be an innocent victim.

I'm really scary —— I'm sure you're frightened of me now.

My language only represents a portion of my standpoint, I'm not responsible for every word that I utter. Thanks for tuning in.

Translating 老徐 (Goodbye, 2006.)

Translation of 老徐's 再见，2006。 post:

The snow's stopped, the road's clear, going up the mountain again. Three hours of mountain road with safeguards this time. I slept at ease on the car.

The last day of 2006, I've blazed like a fire through my work. Being here for for several years doesn't mean I see a lot of that. When I filmed A Letter 《来信》, it crossed years, though I've already forgotten how I got through it. What I can be sure of is that they haven't been quiet like the end of this year. The days are getting better, this is really worth rejoicing over.

Sitting on the bed in the mountain hotel, time's passing second by second, the heater's giving out a 'hua hua' sound. I haven't seen the flourescent lamp in a long time, the small yellow light from the wall lamp is still warm. I haven't spent my life like this, the voices of the people outside are noisy and confused, if I stay for a bit everything fades out. I'm really bored, thoughts are flashing across my mind, I'm recalling the past, I'm missing my family, I'm feeling regretful, I'm feeling rejoiceful, these are the themes of my days.

2006 is going to pass soon. My main leader says: you have real good fortune, you still need to try hard. The second leader says: Small girl —— the things you've done aren't too bad.

Actually, there's nothing to really sum up. This year I've written down a yearlong diary, looking back through it, they're all memories. Everyday, there's some big event.

So, Happy New Year! Goodbye, 2006.

Translating 老徐 (To forgive or not to forgive)

Translation of 老徐's原谅 还是不原谅 post:

The Liang Wen Sa (惊闻萨) dam crime, I saw the scene again on TV. Even if it isn't yet New Year's Eve, it was a ghastly sight. My heart can't take it, it's like an old-man, it can't help it and it's tranquil.

But.

The day before yesterday I talked about forgiveness. At this moment, I suddenly feel like forgiving the previous serious words. We all know when the wrong stuff was reported. Responding to violence with violence can only lead to more violence, but if there was once someone who killed my entire family, can I still keep my senses??? Whether or not this is about human rights or if it's a tyrant. It's really a question of your heart in the future compared to your heart now. I thought about it for half a day, this kind of forgiveness really needs too much courage, tolerate everything. Isn't there anything with this much courage and tolerance. In truth …… give me at least another 5 or 10 years time to think about this.

This is the time to ask myself. using it to speak about my own position. Are the reasons of those other people the same as what I really had in mind. Can I really think that I am so-called watching the lives of the world. Am I thinking clearly? For example: forgiveness, can you forgive everything? What can you forgive and what can't you forgive? Or is it: don't forgive a thing.

The way I've said it sounds quick but the problem isn't always like that.

Right now, I can't forgive myself. If I talk generally about some things for which I may not understand the reason behind it, I will now seriously make my position known: I'll temporarily take everything back, please allow me to continue talking once I've thought about it clearly.

Translating 老徐 (Heavy snow has blocked the mountain road, my coal-digging troops can't do anything)

Translation of 老徐's 大雪封山，我挖煤队伍寸步难行。 post:

I went to the mountain to dig for coal and heavy snow blocked the road. Just as I drove a while up the mountain road, the car couldn't go any further so I turned around. I finally managed to be get horizontal on the mountain road. The friends on my car broke out into a cold sweat. A Xiali (夏利) car drove down from the mountain, when they saw us horizontal on the road they nervously went back up, stopping in an awkward position and rubbed against the protective rail. The driver got out of the car and casually sweared: ***, what's so wrong with the road that you need to turn around???!!! —— I can understand this guy's mood, placing it here will collapse. Mao (毛师傅) quickly explained: we're not trying to turn around, we're trying to go up but the car won't listen …… This blogger quickly sent Xiao Yang (小杨) to apologise, easing the anger for a bit. I got down and carefully examined my own car, in the middle I fell flat on my face or you can say I was squatting, there didn't seem to be anything seriously wrong with the car so I got up back on the car, carefully driving away.

We were surrounded like before, the car's rear wheels had sunk into a pit, there was no way to get out. Xiao Yang and me went down to place towels and tree branches underneath the wheels as well as running to the front of the car to prevent it from rolling down the mountain.

By coincidence, there was a snow dozer driving up the mountain. The kind driver helped to rescue us by sprinkling some spadefuls of chemicals to melt the snow. Finally, we went down the mountain.

Although we didn't take the effort to look closely, the hills around were especially enchanting.

I must promptly make a decision, I can't continue to go up the mountain, there's still more than an hour of mountain road in front of us, when we get out we'll make a quick turn, one foot ready on the brakes. Noone can tell what can happen. In case we get halfway up the mountain and there's a problem, noway to go up or down, my army will be completely boxed up. I'll talk about it after going down the mountain.

We stationed at the door of some random hotel car park, awaiting orders. The computer quickly ran out of power, wireless internet is a great thing.

Translating 老徐 (My newest hairstyle trick)

Translation of 老徐's 最新美容秘诀 post:

Recently the question I've been asked the most is: How did you die? Answer: suicide. I'm downhearted from love, I don't feel like carrying on living.

Confession of Pain's 《伤城》 hot topic, many people don't understand why I died, some people have said: this is badly directed, as if talking in a low tone while on the verge of death is enough. Whether the director is good or not, I really have no way of saying. But the suicide is inevitable, probably there are people who didn't watch it properly or hear it clearly. From here, I'll explain some of it.

Because I'm taking today's theme to be the theme I guessed in Confession of Pain 《伤城》, excuse me. In the New Year, let us learn the limit of our forgiveness, not all of it for other people, it's mainly for ourselves. People who understand forgiveness can better understand happiness: you've offended me before haven't you? Don't worry, I forgive you. Explain a few more times, actually this topic is really interesting. Continuing on, there's too much hate in the heart. Us old people are almost starting to get wrinkles. So we must continue to get our hair done and lose weight.

You've offended me haven't you? It's ok, I've forgiven you.

My heart's dim, finally there have been some bad consequences. I'll understand when the time comes. Let's not teach them or suppress it in our heart so we can raise our defensive spirits.

I'm talking about digging for coal in the mountains again, this time I fell a bit cold. My eyes have almost frozen shut, they weren't big to begin with……

I'll skip dinner and carry on digging for coal in the evening.

Translating 老徐 (Jet-Li's fund part 1)

Translation of 老徐's 李连杰壹基金金计划 1 post:


Still on last time's topic, Mr Jet Li's charitable fund, I've put it here for everyone to use as reference. I hope everyone uses their own strength and energy to participate, thank you!
The next page is what he's sent.

Her blog has the details on how to contribute to Jet Li's charity fund.

Translating 老徐 (Old-fashioned artsy young wesman)

Translation of 老徐's 老牌文艺女青年 Christmas Day post:

I went to town before supper and accidentally met some old friends so we had a couple of bites to eat at a candlelit restaurant. I had a full Italian meal but after dinner there was the eternal question: now where do we go? After thinking for a while we decided to go to Yu Yi (渔移), a friend of a friend's band was performing there. When we got there we found that the band had signed up for a friend's company instead. The stage had some really manly music and the guys and girls seemed to be pretty lively. I'm way too familiar with this kind of thing, up to the point that I lost my last bit of interest in this. —— We're all old-fashioned artsy young women helplessly sighing like Xin Zi (昕子). I still remember that year, —— 10 years ago that autumn, me and her boyfriend at the time was drifting in sea talking loads. She was on the shore, I didn't know her, she didn't recognise me. Ten years later, our lovely and dear Peach are very close to each other and we've gone through a lot of similar experiences. Jiang Hu men go out into the world while the women stay through boring Christmases.

Peach (水蜜桃) and her dear UK friend were talking about the good times. They hadn't met again for a long time before last year on the 24th, the two of them saying goodbye to each of their own turning-points in life. This time, today, Miss Peach laughed so that the tip of her brow said four characters: Wives repeatedly seek things.

Director Jin Niu Zhang (金牛张) said if we're so happy and close to each other why hasn't an affair sprung up, walking, around Tiananmen square hand in hand.

Time to argue with the landlord, goodbye, goodbye.

I'm taking a holiday.

Translating 老徐 (Extending my random talks because I'm here in the mountains, there's also news about a charitable Jet Li fund, please read)

Translation of 老徐's 加长版东拉西扯之只缘身在此山中（另有李连杰慈善基金的事情，敬请关注） post from just before Christmas:

I didn't imagine the temperature would be as mild as this, walk for a bit and you'll be sweating all over. Like Peach's (水蜜桃) report that it would sometimes be like this. Miss Peach said her ideals finally look like they can be reached, it's lucky she's thinking like this, otherwise we'll start arguing as if we're enemies.

Two girls falling out with each other because of one guy isn't a worth it. Love changes many many times over a short period, friendship lasts for a long time. How can so many people not understand this. After you get caught up deluding yourself that you're being ignored, you can't escape. It's a really immature way of thinking. A small first-grader, if they aren't hit they'll just jump higher.

Of course there are around eighty people rebelling, angry because they're confused, and they don't know who said it, don't make yourself angry, it's not worth it.

But then, the world isn't fair and we can't do anything about it. Why try to dig into this unsolvable problem.

At the foot of the mountain, in my little room, without a view of the sunset, I can only feel that there's some sunlight left, right now this blog will have a brief moment of rest. I can rest my brain for ten minutes, my head isn't so painful any more. This once a year Christmas holiday is coming soon, I've seen people with nothing to do discuss whether the Chinese should celebrate Christmas, it doesn't matter what it's called, isn't it good enough for an excuse to celebrate?

A few days ago I saw the new 007 in Hong Kong, it's really good, the new 007 male actor is fantastic, it completely got rid of my earlier unfounded prejudice against him. He isn't relying on his cheeks to earn a living, he has a good character, strength and has enough power.

A friend has introduced another friend for me to meet, this guy said that after he analysed my blog he thought that three people helped me write it since the styles of writing in my blog are so different. Recently, this is the most accurate compliment I've heard. Before, this blog's strong point was its split personality, towards the positive side I've heard "someone with a rich heart and very articulate person" —— of course I use this when I want to flaunt my blog. In my heart, this flaunting isn't enough, I still need to look for more ways. This is just me.

I don't plan to use this brief period of rest to sleep, when there're a lot of people I always feel sleepy, when it gets quiet I feel like in a daze. Talking nonsense on my blog is also a really good way to rest, the times when it's peaceful are really valuable. I haven't written in a long time although I have a lot of things to talk about, it seems as if my blog is slowly coming back.

Jet Li (李连杰) recently made a charity fund, when he was filming a show he asked me to support him and publicise it on my blog, I gave it a chance and listened to it from start to finish, it's definitely a really good thing. I will very quickly write full instructions on this blog about how to donate to the fund. He's assistant has already sent the information to my mailbox. The easiest way is to simply use a mobile to send 1 or 2 to 999309 and this will succesfully donate one or two RMB to his fund, the amount's small but the more people there are the stronger the fund will be. Isn't there a song lyric that goes: It only takes people to give a little love to change the world to a happy place for mankind.

It's finally dark outside my window, I guess soon I'll have to go to the front lines, this blog retracts the things it just said, it needs to close its eyes for a bit. Take care everybody, there's no need to care about what holiday it is, Happy Holidays.

Translating 老徐 (Sanya, me. And one picture of Wei Qun at home. 7 pictures)

Translation of 老徐's 三亚，我。另小围裙在家中一张。（图7张） post:

I'm back home now, I'm in the middle of readjusting …… I set out at 4AM in the morning to go to the mountains.

(6 more pictures on her blog)

Translating 老徐 (I was wrong)

Translation of 老徐's 错了，我。 post:

I was wrong. I haven't posted in a long time, I've broken my previous record.

I've been busy rushing about for the past few days, I finally had a moment to rest my feet at HaiNan. I'll be returning to Beijing midday tomorrow. If there's no change, in the evening I'll be going to the hills of cold air and frozen ground.

Sanya is really a good place, after you get there you don't want to leave, the scenery outside my window looked like it was painted.

These few days have been hard, one premiere after another, press meetings, too busy to go on the web. When I get back to my room I want to do nothing except sleep. Today, I'm definitely going to have some fun, for now I'll just write a paragraph for my different kinds of promotional work. So I'm not going to write too much, when I get home tomorrow I'll try and upload the pictures I took on my journeys to make up for not posting to my blog.

The air's moist, my skin feels very nice, I'll try for a spa tonight. Good night.

Translating 老徐

Translating 老徐's 日记 [2006年12月15日] strange dairy entry:

The round trip was as long as six hours on the car, frozen cold fluorescent lamps, tasty shredded pork with garlic sauce (鱼香肉丝), traffic jams with a continuous stretch of lorried, I've spent a day in the middle of both being clear-headed and in chaos.

After returning home, there's an unusual quietness, my beautiful children are a bit unwell.

To get membership, the hairstyle had to be in a cute Taurus style.

In future days, this will be both endlessly long and brief posts.

Translating 老徐

Translation of 老徐's 日记 [2006年12月13日] dairy entry:

When I was eating, some guys born in the South started talking about ghosts. These guys were fearfully talking about the idea of ghosts changing colour. The two women which grew up in Beijing treated it with contempt, the conclusion was, the Northern male spirit is strong, I won't say Yin is prosperous and Yang is feeble.

The status of these days have risen, it's been stretched to three times. And the days of our youth 《与青春有关的日子》 A compilation of literary history data 《文史资料选编》 is with someone else. In the past stories, my own days have turned into history.

Certain friends of this blog advised me to talk more about current affairs. But my leader instructed me a long time ago, talk less about government affairs, evaluate other people less. My friend who passed away said, you should spend your days as if treading and as if something's approaching, the full saying: is treading on thin ice, be on your guard for anything. In your 60s and 70s when you've matured and become an elder member of the family, the accent you speak in is all the same. Certain friends on the blog have admitted it. I appeal to everyone to talk more about national affairs, a motive among all the topics available. It's also fulfills the need for rich content.

I've passed the days really carefully, I'm going to do some embroidery.

Translating 老徐

Translation of 老徐's 日记 [2006年12月12日] dairy entry:

Today the patient fled before the battle. I decided at the last minute as I was going through the door that I didn't want to go to the hospital. This proverb describes it well, don't go to the hospital for slight wounds.

The fog outside suddenly got much more serious. In the dim night, the drab colour of the car headlights became a realistic diabolic one-man show.

Idol (偶像) saw a new continent, day after day and restlessly, he strongly recommended a home-grown TV serial. The name is: And the days of our youth (与青春有关的日子). After he handed it to me, he sent me a text message on the very same night pushing me to watch it.

I'm studying it right now, it's pretty good, in it there's a tall actress which I've seen before. she acted lively and cute. Schoolmate Tong Da Wei (佟大为) has grown up, he's a lot more used to acting, he's just growing a little fat …… don't know if it was needed for the acting. This brings me to a serious warning.

Ice cream, lunatics have gone to eat ice cream again. I'm, angry.

Translating 老徐 (Cough)

Translation of 老徐's 咳 entry:

Xu's blog has been coughing for half a month now, if she still doesn't go to see the doctor, I fear her illness will grow to big words. Go to the hospital.

Xu's blog is really afraid of going to the hospital, recently she fears doctors and shuns medicine. When little, as soon as she goes through the hospital doors, she examines the front door. It can cure any kind of illness —— it frightens them away.

Xu's blog which fears doctors and shuns medicine is going to the hospital very soon. No matter what medicine she takes, it doesn't help. There's always a bit of a dry cough. After diagnosing myself, it seems like a problem with the lungs.

Before I leave, let me tell everyone Sofia Coppola's (索非亚科波拉) second film, the Chinese name is the unique and sexy queen 《绝代艳后》, it isn't as mediocre as everyone is saying, it's still pretty good to watch. Despite the pace being a bit slow, the viewpoint is pretty interesting. It's a really feminine point of view of a palace drama.

That's it, I'm getting ready to go —— hospital, long white gowns, having X-rays taken, having injections.

Translating 老徐

Translation of 老徐's 日记 [2006年12月09日] dairy entry:

During the afternoon, I took photos for my friend's magazine, she started doing a blue ponytail wig for me but I firmly rejected her. The compromise was to have it in the style of a nest and looking a bit like checkers. The result looked strange though if the photographer liked it, then it'll do. Everything needs a moderate amount of compromise and I'm learning to be less stubborn.

The things that are good looking and the ones that are bad looking are very different among everyone, recently I've been changing my opinions a lot. The things that looked good now look bad and the things that looked bad now look good.

Some people have eaten a huge vat of ice cream recently, how can they, I've got problems with my windpipe so could only watch them, I am, not, happy.

For today's report, I've run out of words again, the main thing is that that female reporter looked familiar, the most important thing is, she's raising four Garfields, there's one I saw in a photo which really looks like my Wei BoEr (围脖儿). However I look at it, it seems like they're related.

I've got a lot of things to do tomorrow, there're a lot of things I need to buy. I haven't seen a film for ages. I just bought Sofia Coppola's (索非亚科波拉) film, Marie Antoinette 《绝代艳后》, I'll study it before I go to bed.

Translating 老徐

Translation of 老徐's 日记 [2006年12月08日] dairy entry:

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I have a toothache. Early in the morning, Wei BoEr (围脖儿) ran onto my bed acting spoiled. He simply wanted to rest his head on my arm and be hugged. He's constantly coughing, since I got back from Greece he still hasn't recovered.

I've finally finished reading that really thick biography. I was touched by its last words.

Just like at a graveyard, everything seems pale. A biography of a character in history has the same kind of stillness. The amazing talent is unequalled, millions of people both respect it and are shocked at it. Luckily, loyalty is buried under the green hills, white steel melted by an innocent person to flatter a minister. It wholly passes by your eyes far away. Unfortunately, parts of history always repeats itself, some people always don't follow their plans and willingly become sacrificial lambs. This is the only thing that's never changed.

I've already had a try with all the antibiotics at home, Xiao Zao (小灶) has taken three days of continuous injections and eaten a lot of medicines, he still has a cyst on his nose. A family of patients. Wei Qun (围裙) is the most well behaved small and beautiful girl. This guy Wei BoEr has profited the most.

Translating 老徐

Translation of 老徐's 日记 [2006年12月07日] dairy entry:

I've gone home again. For several days running I've been lacking sleep. I haven't posted for a few days, it's not like me ……

This is why, in the past few days while I'm at home or in one of Shanghai's hotels, I've gone through several struggles. Fighting against my landowner, fighting to install some DV software on my non-Apple computer, fighting against English websites, fighting to store my documents in the computer's video camera, fighting till late at night and in the daytime fighting to stay awake.

And there's the really thick book which is all about fighting between the classes and because of that I've continued fighting for a few more days. Everytime I look at it, it seems I'm approaching the end.

It's the end of the year, smoke fills the air, as the end of this year approaches faster and faster. Good news, harvest, I'm relying on the collaboration on my composing work and that coming one after another. I've finally reached the end of the long winding road. I've planted fresh flowers where they should be planted, is it still long before they bloom?