Weekly Knowledge Gains

1. 腰间赘肉 = love handles, muffin top, spare tire, midriff bulge, potbelly, paunch.

2. 良莠不齐(liáng yǒu bù qí) = 莠：狗尾草，很象谷子，常混在禾苗中。同义词：鱼龙混杂，反义词：泾渭分明（jīng wèi fēn míng）。

3. 不可企及 = 企：希望；及：达到。没有希望达到。形容远远赶不上。

4. 子虚乌有(zǐ xū wū yǒu)= 子虚：并非真实；乌有：哪有。指假设的、不存在的、不真实的事情。

5. 荒诞不经(huāng dàn bù jīng) = 荒诞：荒唐离奇；不经：不合常理。形容言论荒谬，不合情理。

6. Sheeple is a term of disparagement, in which people are likened to sheep.

It is often used to denote persons who voluntarily acquiesce to a perceived authority, or suggestion without sufficient research to understand fully the scope of the ramifications involved in that decision, and thus undermine their own human individuality or in other cases give up certain rights. The implication of sheeple is that as a collective, people believe whatever they are told, especially if told so by a perceived authority figure believed to be trustworthy, without processing it or doing adequate research to be sure that it is an accurate representation of the real world around them.

7. Working poor is a term used to describe individuals and families who maintain regular employment but remain in relative poverty due to low levels of pay and dependent expenses.

8. At long last = After a lengthy or troublesome wait or delay: At long last the winter was over.

9. 天堑(tiān qiàn) = natural moat = 天然形成的隔断交通的大壕沟

10. 皈依我佛(guī yī) = 身心归向它、依靠它。

Old Word, New Meaning

Literally speaking, when you say 合体, you should be referring to one of these words "unite, combine, amalgamate or incorporate." I did. But my darling Zoe had something extraterritorial in mind. She used the word sexily (凹 + 凸 = 口), maybe she should employ another word to fit the situation, which is 合欢. XD

The First Amateur Movie by Dennis

My Love Will Go On is Dennis' first attempt to make inroads into movie industry. It is a movie dedicated to his love one Zoe. The flick is released on the day of Zoe's trying menstrual flow in efforts to give her a bit of relief, both physically and mentally.

Zoe, hope you like my work. =3

A Trip to IKEA, A Sense of Home

Last Sat. me and Zoe were on a dazzling trip to IKEA. Neither me nor she wanted anything there, the primary goal of the trip was to escort one of her housemates to have a blind date. (sounds exciting? yeah! peeking into other people's romantic life has always been a great thing to do!)

Well, maybe I'd somehow over-expected the experience, the escorting didn't offer me pleasure as I expected. The two newly-met were just hanging around, with the male shooting out professional blah along the way.

At one time, I was shocked by his abundant social and life experiences. And doubt why the gap between us was so tremendous as he was only 2 years older than me. Sense of inferiority welled up at the time of full realization that I was in such a huge lack of life experience.

But all these stuff was not the point.

The biggest gain for me was a feeling of home. Upon entering IKEA, the environment soon raised my longing for a home. (it's home, not house)

The feeling was so real that I was swept off my feet. And I knew that my daring was harboring the same idea. After all, we were designated by destiny to stay together for the rest of our lives. =3

One of The Most Successful Begging Cases in Digital World

How to accumulate fortune in a short span of time except for using some illegal ways? Now I have a new brand-new answer to this question. Ask for money from netizens!

First, it was his 100 yuan per week scheme, and now another stunt by 郁闷昊(Gloomy Hao) was totally beyond my wildest imagination. He simply asked Chinese netizens to donate money to his bank account in an effort to boost domestic consumption. He harvested from his plan a total of 18,198.02 RMB at last.

I'm speechless over the result, and I think it should be recorded in digital history as one of the most successful begging cases in decades.

Happy Birthday to My Blog

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Say Goodbye to Kaixin001

What's wrong with me tonight? It seems I'm on a writing spree. Anyway, I decide to follow my nose and write down this piece before hitting the sack.

Here are some of my recent development. A piece of bad news is that a storm of pressure is coming from my job. The good news? The storm has somehow helped me quit Kaixin001 cold turkey.

I've been thinking about deleting my Kaixin001 accounts several times in the past, because I thought Kaixin001 should not have occupied more than 10 minutes of my leisure time on any given day, not to mention to be addictive to it.

I have to admit that I had underestimated the addictive features of social networking site. Being enchanted during my naive interactions with a few simulating web-based games was nothing fun. It was no exaggeration to say that I was totally bogged down by those for-the-birds games. My life, as well as my darling's life, were interrupted rudely. The culprit was the magical stickiness of social networking site. Once in, hardly out.

But man with a strong will can conquer everything. I haven't logged in my account for a long time, and I think this trend will continue indefinitely.

Though I tried the new fishing game on Kaixin001 recently in an effort to keep myself up-to-date, I didn't indulge myself into it again. After checking out the mechanism of the game, which was very similar to Happy Farm in terms of game mechanism, I dumped it with no mercy.

In a nutshell, I'm very happy to the fact that I'd got rid of this social networking site by my strengthened will and won back some otherwise lost hours. And my conclusion after a succession of fierce mental battles with the SNS is - human will is king. Do you agree?

Offline Downloading

I was caught by an ad today when surfing internet. It was from Xunlei which said "畅爽迅雷 离线下载". Curiosity pushed me hard to find out what was behind the so-called offline download mode, and from this page(the landing page of the ad) I found the answer.

After some reading I realized that the offline download mode was as simply as that Xunlei first download what you want on the internet and store the targeted file(s) on its own servers, so later you can retrieve it/them from its storage servers instead of downloading those files from internet sources.

This is really a clear way to bill customers as the potential need for this service is huge. Nice move, and let's see if Xunlei would get some bucks by this creativity.

It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done

Words can soothe people, especially when someone is down. I was saddened today by the irritating news that house price was going to keep high for an uncertain period. As usual, the first question entered my mind then was when I could marry the one I really love. Apparently, no answer stored in my mind at this stage. It was not because that I thought I was incapable. In fact, my worry has been driven mainly by a sense of urgency. I didn't quite know from where it came, but I thought many factors contributed to that feeling.

I was in a sour mood when a string of words enter my eyelids "It always seems impossible until it is done." It placated my pain instantly like a panacea for my illness.

I'm not a superman, but I know I will not be the one without a shelter. I'll make it.

Weekly Knowledge Gains

1. 忖度他人之心 = cǔn duó = conjecture, ponder, speculate, infer, surmise, contemplate;

2. Three expensive delicacies: 鲍鱼 = abalone, 鱼翅 = shark's fin, 海参 = sea cucumber

3. Higher-level efforts to put a stop to the ingrained drinking habits have met with mixed results.

ingrained = entrenched = deep-seated = firmly established = 根深蒂固的.

4. The company was hemorrhaging capital when it was bought by another firm.

hemorrhage = to lose (something valuable) rapidly and in quantity.

5. 不虚此行(bù xū cǐ xíng) = 没有空跑这一趟，表示某种行动还是有所收获的。= It's been a worthwhile trip.

6. Sexting (a portmanteau of sex and texting) is the act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between cell phones.