Showing posts with label learning chinese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning chinese. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

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.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

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.

Friday, January 12, 2007

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.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

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.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

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.

Monday, December 18, 2006

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.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

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.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

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:

An advertisement: A multimedia library for children to play with will be sold for charity on the second week, it's in progress now, please take a look. http://www.kaila.com.cn/shop/

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.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

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?

Translating 老徐

Translating 老徐's 日记 [2006年12月03日] dairy entry:

The last month in 2006, doesn't have proper snow like the next month. A lot of things seem to have changed, a lot of things really seemed to have settled down like dust. This is going to be of the most worry-free year-ends of the last few years. For several years, I haven't felt that the new year is something to be happy about. I feel like turning back and looking at last year's dairy. I thought about it but decided not to in the end, if I look back in a few years time it'll be even better.

I've slept for two days non-stop, I had a massage in the middle of it, Xiao Zao's (小灶) caught a cold so I took her to see the doctor and went outside to eat grilled beef.

汪 (Wang), stopped two ill schoolfriends from going touring again, Pu Ji Island (普及岛), when we were eating she was trying to persuade me for ages, don't work all the time, you need to rest for a bit, be better to yourself and all that. As if this blog is about someone who doesn't know how to enjoy themselves, this blog isn't like that, this blog combines work and rest …… a couple of days ago she was taking about touring around Li river (丽江), but I need to see when my other friends who want to go are available.

It's because of them that I feel I want to do something, if there's nothing I definitely need to do at work I'm determined to go touring once, simply enjoying myself, why do they always enjoy themselves, one moment it's Dali, the next it's Thailand, it really makes me angry, how could they?

I've suddenly wondered why this winter is so good, I haven't had any more problems with my neck vetebra or gastric ulcer, it seems they have to do with nerves.

Sleeping for two days non-stop, I've dreamt a countless number of dreams, good ones and bad ones, I've gradually recovered from the jetlag and my lack of sleep. Everytime I wake up I look at my kittens, I look at the government-banned book that I bought in Hong Kong, this is obviously better than that other book, I won't give my opinion on it just yet, at least the tone of the writer is quite objective. When I'm reading it, my mind isn't so conflicted any more. The book's really thick, I unknowingly slept several times before I managed to finish reading it.

I have two female friends who, as sudden as lightning, are going to have kids, one at the end of the year, one at the start of the year. Among them, one of those is when I just started writing my blog, she sent me a Mongolian whip, the beautiful girl Ma Lao Qing (马老晴), I don't know if people still remember and she sent me photos to see, another big bellied, thin faced, typical mum, you can't tell she's pregnant if you only saw her face. This superficial girl, even while she's pregnant, still didn't forget to seek advice everywhere on when she'd be able to perm her hair. I really want to teach her a lesson.

On a different topic, there's a friend in my blog comments who's constantly cursing at Chinese Central TV (CCTV), and I don't know how he was offended, every insult is several hundred lines, and also it's not pleasant to hear or at all fresh. I recommend he curses where he's supposed to curse, what's the point in cursing so much here, you can't achieve your goal here. Go and appeal to the higher authorities, if you have an enemy get revenge, if you have a complaint seek justice. And don't be anonymous any more, it doesn't seem strong at all, I thought, this is something bad. And other people can't hear you, your effort gone to waste.

Xiao Zao has already had her heart split apart because I've isolated her, I'm afraid of Wei Qun (围裙) catching it from her too, the pitiful kitten constantly cries out in the bathroom, my heart can't bear it……

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Translating 老徐 (Kitten pictures, 4 pictures)

Here's the translation of 老徐's 猫咪照片4张 post:





Yesterday in Shanghai, after moving around I didn't sleep the whole night, I took the morning flight home. I haven't put on a picture of my kittens for ages …… public demand is pretty high ……





But, …… the kittens grow really fast, I must show them off for a bit:





Since Button (扣子) left, Wei BoEr (围脖儿) finished puberty early, he acts mature every single day……




(3 more pictures on her blog)

Small Wei Qun (围裙) is curious at everything, running and jumping everywhere and constantly stealing other people's food ……

Occasionally he goes into deep thought over something ……

I don't know what these two are really thinking …… do they have interest in each other ……

Actually, there's another small friend …… brought here at only three months old. Coming here looking like a small refugee, an English short-haired one, also female. Compared with Wei Qun, she looks like a small girl, especially when she's eating she's really elegant, nothing like the other two, when she sees something to eat it's as if she's starving, she's called Xiao Zao (小灶), I'll post her pictures some other day.

Going to recover my sleep.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Translating 老徐 (Presenting my boss and friend's book)

Translation of 老徐's 致老大和同志们书 entry:

My direct supervisor, my boss chats so much he's the last one to leave everyday, when he doesn't have anything to say he always says the old saying: I think you should learn something …… I'll think about it …… when I was small, as soon as I heard these words I went nervous, my heart murmurs: …… what am I going to learn this time? …… finally, I've grown up, I'm not guilty, and I'm not afraid to crease my eyebrows and say to him: "Learn what?!" —— this is what happened today. Not only this, but I on an ignorant expression …… it was fun …… I stole a glance at my boss, his reaction was to laugh: Hey, you've gotten better haven't you. Hehe, my boss was a paper tiger …… if I found out earlier, I'd climb a wall, I wouldn't take off my shoes and go to bed, I'd just eat white sugar everyday.

Now I've grown up, the single benefit is my freedom, noone can force you to do anything anymore. The single disadvantage is you've got to be very self-disciplined. It's that kind of spontaneity to ask yourself to do something, if it can't be done, then you condemn yourself, a small guy in my head will say: Oh, you, you, you, how can you be like this, you don't have patience, you're drude and careless, your mind, your big headed-ness, you ignorant person …… rebelling against somone is a way of striving for freedom, my heart always has rises suddenly and I feel like it's right; it's easy to get depressed if you rebel against yourself, it's probably the kind of thing that Freud (弗洛伊德) talks about: going too far in developing myself. I heard the worst ones will get attracted to suicidal behaviour. But then, living away from this is positive and nice, but if you don't want it then there's a problem. And so if there was another small person, the other small person would say, no, no, no, there isn't a fixed pattern. People can live how they want, being afraid of the cold doesn't make them delicate and it isn't called: no, nervous, better, just wearing a bit more is enough: being crude and careless is called being unconcerned, I've heard it said that this is a virtue —— at least a lot of people say this: if you're not patient then don't keep suffering it, if you suppress your feelings and it causes a disaster then who's fault is it. Just turn your eyes and use your protective eyes to stare: Sha Te A Pu (沙特阿普), bye bye, and go to hell. What a nerve, go away ……………… the single problem is whether to turn hostile or stay defensive, throwing away your face is like throwing away water, if you want to bring it back, it's pretty hard …… ok, when you don't want to bring it back then bring it back. I've been talking in a roundabout way …… this is the reasoning if it's lacking in reason, since everything has another side to it. Think of it how you like, it's ok as long as noone blocks anyone else. Who knows.

My boss, is it ok to talk like this? …… the child you've taught, in any case, is her …… she pretty much still: honours her parents, is well-behaved, likes to study, improves everyday, is devoted to the people of her motherland, loves her united friends, is warm to her friends like the spring, has no enemies, has people making her their imaginary enemy …… I can't do anything about that. As long as everyone else is happy, happiness lies in giving help to others. And: cleverness, kindheartedness, honesty …… I can't say anymore, if I continue I'll feel embarassed, anyway it's not far from perfection …… and it isn't too close …… you can't be too perfect …… a lot of people have said, pursuing perfection will put you on the road to ruin, and there's the saying: an elegant tree in a forest …… a strong wind will push it away ……

Among the rotten eggs and tomatoes, before everything's smashed, I avoided it, with my friends from far away, asked for their schoolmates to take them to dinner. If this life is short, you must not stir up trouble, at the same time, be devoted to yourself —— I'm really beautiful, I'm really fantastic, let's all be egotistic ……

Goodnight.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Translating 老徐 (Thessaloniki photos, 6 photos)



The sunset, in the old city area looking down on the whole of Thessaloniki.


(Five more pictures on her blog)
From the judging committee —— Pi Ai Er (皮埃尔) and Ka Di Ya (卡蒂亚) ( City of God's 《上帝之城》 beautiful director)
The sign for this year's film festival, the photos are of things (嘎嘣) I've never been before (if you don't understand read my earlier blog posts).
Three darling members of the judging committee: a married couple, a child (from the left: a playwright from Denmark and the director Morgan (摩根斯) and the Spanish director Cartier, (卡蒂亚)).
The coast after we finished eating.
The hotel opposite the main film festival building, where people stayed. The place where we rested for a while while transferring to the next place.

Translating 老徐 (Returned)

Translation of 老徐's 归来 blog entry:

Lei De Sen's (雷德森) supporters, I'm back!

I'm exhausted from travelling, I'll rest first.

Monday, November 27, 2006

Translating 老徐 (Judging the winners has finished, City of God, the side of a lying-down horse)

Translation of 老徐's 评奖结束 上帝之城 大侧马趴 entry:

The work of judging the winners finished yesterday, there was almost no disputes over the big awards, on the other hand, there were non-stop arguments over the small awards. My colleagues on the judging committee are really likeable, they judged objectively and really showed how they followed the principles of the awards. Even as they got flushed as they argued one film over another, that didn't affect our personal relationships with each other. The final decision of course came down to the minority giving up to the majority. No awards have yet been given out, I'll keep this secret for now.

My work's finished, the shops have all closed too, the European work hours are really short. During a week they only spend about 3 whole days at work and at noon they have a really long afternoon lap. On Sunday, apart from the restaurant, everything's closed. I really don't know how their economy managed to develop.

The prices in Greece are relatively cheap, I've heard it said that this is due to Europe being the fourth kind of quality. On the first day they got here, Yi Bai Xiong (一白兄) and Xiao Wu Xian (小伍贤) walked all the way and only decided to take a taxi after they had both caught a cold. They later found out it only cost 20 RMB. They both left yesterday, it feels lonely all of a sudden.

I really miss my small kittens, my mum says that they're all fine, Wei Qun (围裙) gets naughtier everyday, Wei Bo Er (围脖儿) everyday plays the part of an experienced cat, giving special favour like a bullied little thing. I want to go home, home, home.

You get what you wish for, a few days ago I said I liked City of God (上帝之城), when I got here I met one of the directors of the film, she's also one of the members on the judging committee this time, a beautiful blonde girl. She looks a bit like Jodie Foster (朱迪福斯特), we really enjoyed talking to each other and we agreed to make a film together. Before she filmed City of God, she once filmed a documentary over four years about Brazilian youths dealing in drugs, there were two times when she was almost locked up in a police station, the reason being that she was so close to the drug dealers. When the film was premiered in Brazil, the police and drug dealers had a huge meeting. The second day after the premier finished, she was called to the police station again, for the same reason, it was both a really dangerous and really interesting kind of experience.

Before I wrote on this blog, the day before yesterday when I was on the way to watch a film I fell sprawled over the floor, I strictly said I was sprawled out sidewards, a few people walking by helped me stand up, I acted like it was nothing, quickly thanked the people who helped me and continued to run to the cinema. After I got in the cinema and lifted up the trouser leg, I saw I broke my knee. Up to now, it's still there.

I feel like I've got so many things to do, as I sit in front of the computer talking about this and that, I feel I can't concentrate. Soon, the president of the judging committee, the famous mother of independent film productions, Ms. Christian (克里斯汀) invited everyone for a meal. Bo Xue's (博学) ankle is inflamed so he hasn't got up yet, I heard from the people who ate earlier there there are a lot of things to eat today, I'm too lazy to go as well, I've got to arrange my luggage, the day after next, I set out, to return home.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Translating 老徐

Translating 老徐's 日记 [2006年11月23日] diary entry:

The film festival has only just dispersed, it seems I haven't been in my room for a long time, yesterday I was finally able to have a good sleep, the breakfast here is great.

It's really dry and there isn't even the moisture you get from a seaside city. It's similar to winter in Sydney.

For the time that I'm in Greece, I don't know how many days I've been here or how many days it'll be before I leave. The days are passing by pretty randomly.

Going online is so expensive, going online for one hour costs a huge 120 RMB.

My plans are really squeezed together, as soon as I'm starting to settle in one place, I have to rush somewhere else, it's all for fun, watching films is also fun, strolling down the streets is also fun, I'm really busy.

I really miss my small kittens, my mum says they're all doing great.

The chairs in the cinema aren't very comfortable.

If I write anymore I'll be talking in my sleep.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Translating 老徐 (A sailboat, a long coastline, old people selling lottery tickets, me, three pictures)



I've now watched five of the films that are competing, there's one good Mexico film, a film about young people, the woman inside it is extremely beautiful. After watching it, I feel relaxed all over. There's another Ning Ba (拧吧) film, I'll describe how it looks a bit later, in my respect my worst two experiences of watching films ……


Lazy and I've taken too many photos and am slowly uploading them. Many Chinese directors arrived last night in Greece, Yi Bai Xiong (一白兄), Xiao Wu (小伍), Da Ming Chen (大明陈), today I heard they're still constantly coming, there're too many people that have come for this too, I'm really busy, as if there're only a few people, don't think of it.


Roar


(Two more pictures on her blog)