Confessions of a researchaholic

July 21, 2010

Inception

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My one word movie review: tensor.

Explanation: Inception is a layered version of The Matrix.

Overall, Dark City, The Matrix, and Inception are my 3 most favorite movies in this category.

July 20, 2010

Eucalyptus, a novel

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By Murray Bail

This is an unorthodox love story weaved from sub-stories around individual gum trees. The writing can be as rough and patchy as the (author’s) Australian landscapes, but the book is short, sweet, and unique enough to worth reading.

July 19, 2010

Birthday

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To me, Chinese is more of an art than a language, and most Chinese literature, especially these classical ones, cannot be translated to another language without losing their original beauty and meaning.

Below is a modern short poem (fragment?) that I have found to be more or less translatable without being sacrilegious.
(Let me know if you have a better translation; I cannot even make it rhyme.)

母難日
The day Mother suffered

余光中的一段詩
A poem by Guan-Chun Yu

今生今世
In this life
我最忘情的哭聲有兩次
Twice I cried my heart out

一次在我生命的開始
Once at the beginning of my life
一次在妳生命的告終
The other at the end of yours

第一次我不會記得是聽妳說的
The first one I cannot remember but you told me so
第二次妳不會曉得我說也沒用
The second one you cannot know even if I tell you

但兩次哭聲的中間啊
But between these two cries
有無窮無盡的笑聲
Are endless laughs

一遍一遍又一遍
That has been going on and on
迴盪了整整三十年
For 30 years

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