Google is Omnipotent

I have to say Google is king of information. (you knew that already?) I say that because recently Google helped me a lot in my attempt to sort out a tricky problem - to download videos on ATV website. ATV sets up some barriers on its website so that video url cannot be seen and accessed directly, as a result, you are not able to download the videos using your ordinary download toolkit that works well in other situations. After some intensive Google searches, finally I found a discussion post on a forum which details the ways to detour those man-make barriers. The magical steps work great and now I have in my harddisk a reservoir of English news, which serve as my weapons to re-command the lost linguistic battlefield. Lucky! XD

Where there's a will there's a way. Isn't it? =)

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Cat Herding

I bumped into a funny adjective today, cat-herding. After some intensive searches, I found its derivation on Wikitionary. The phrase implies an impossible task, because everyone knows what impossibly individual creatures cats are, and getting them to do anything en masse is not something easily done.

Real life example: "That is about as fun as herding cats!"

Clear?

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How to Say 地铁车厢？

In today's daily reading, I came across three words for 地铁车厢, specifically, coach, compartment and accommodation. Also, I learned a new word - alight, which means to get down, as from a vehicle or flight.

Example:

A sparrow alighted on a branch.

The queen alighted from the carriage.

Alight on a happy solution.  (here the word alight means to come by chance)

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Expo Shanghai

How I want to attend the Expo Shanghai! Really, I think this is a once-in-a-blue-moon chance to take part in an international event like this. Thirty billions are not spent on nothing. With all those beautifully-crafted venues and showcases, the event will certainly rock the world by its excellence and superiority. As a Chinese, I want to leave a footprint on this historic event and feel the edge of our age at the same time.

What about a June trip to Expo Shanghai?

人活着是为了感受人生，怎样活比活本身更重要。

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About Satisfaction

Check out this set of words: dissatisfied, unsatisfied, dissatisfactory, unsatisfactory, dissatisfying and unsatisfying.

Can you tell the difference between them?

Now let's clear them up.

un = not quite, not completely;
dis = not at all, lack of;

...tory = about minimum criteria;
...ing = about the whole satisfaction or lack of it;

Notice that you cannot say about a person using the above-mentioned words ending with ing or tory, and instead you should apply the suffix ed to describe a person.

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Sola Aoi's Official Blog

I just can't figure out why a Japanese AV blog has such a big influence on Chinese audience. News about Sola Aoi's Chinese-written blog is everywhere and now she has somehow become an influencer in China. Is it because her words? Or her boobs? No matter what, it must be a well-planned cultural invasion on a once-trampled country.

Here is her blog: http://aoisola.cocolog-nifty.com/si_ch/

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I'm in a Local Area Network

Following our country's absurd internet policies, my company has decided to turn workplace into a big local area network. Starting from today, internet access to non-work-related websites will be efficiently cut off, which certainly translates to a serious productivity reduction for an IT company whose revenue hails mainly from internet.

Without internet access, everyone seems to be in a fuss.

And me? I just kick back for a while to see how things unfold in the newly-enforced LAN era.

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English Lesson - Price

Well, let's review last night's English lesson.

Our topic today is price.

If you see something is very cheap, a bargain, you say it's a steal.

If something is pricey, expensive, costly, dear, you say the price is steep.

If something is priced extremely high, you say it's a rip-off, or daylight robbery, or price out of the market, or outrageous.

You have remembered all the words with bold typeface, haven't you?

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无题

看完那条短信，一道伤感从心底直涌上喉咙，

没有眼泪，有的是一种说不出的伤感，

和想哭的感觉有点像，

可能这就是所谓的心在哭，

头颅嗡嗡作响，仿佛被掏空了，

谢谢你把感受和盘托出，

在某个晚上，你和我说过同样的事，

那次是口头，这次是书面，

平静下来，回放过去一起度过的日子，

来之不易，

时间流逝，

感情流逝，

种种承诺，实现了多少，

我们要好好珍惜这段感情，

让流逝不要变得这么明显，

好久没说一声简单的“我爱你”了，

感情生活其实可以变得更美好，

我真的很想和你过一辈子，

我爱你，占宇。=3

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The Evolution of Dennis' Love in a Google Search Query View

A playback of the evolution of Dennis' love to Zoe in a Google search query view. Enjoy!

Capitalists, You Should All Be Dead

It's nearing midnight, but my darling is still working in her office as busy as a bee.

It's nearing midnight, but I'm still waiting at the other end of an instant messenger for a message from her telling me she can leave.

I hate overtime! When I say I can accept occasional overtime, I LIE!

Even occasional overtime get on my nerve!

I hate overtime myself, and I hate seeing my loved one overtime for zilch.

I hate capitalist.

You exchange our health for dirty money.

I hope one day.

You all capitalists die in anguish.

This is my curse for you.

I'm not a guy from Google who naively sticks to the outdated motto "don't do evil."

I just want to be evil.

FUCK YOU capitalists!

Don't make me start putting explosives into your ass to 爆你菊!

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Chat Up

People asked me days before about how to say "挑逗女孩 or 向女孩说甜言蜜语" in English.

The first expression came to my mind was definitely flirt, a word so familiar to me that my first use of it could date back to school days.

But flirt is not the protagonist today, I'd like to introduce chat up.

No more bullshit and let's get to the example directly: my boyfriend always chats me up.

Clear?

Class over...

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