As usual, I have too many items on my plate. I am always trying to finish ten books at a time and end up finishing none. But old habits die hard, so I guess I will just have to live with it.
As I've already mentioned in a previous entry, Sin and Syntax by Constance Hale is a wonderfully resourceful book for aspiring writers/struggling translators. Its not exactly an easy read though especially with my embarrassingly limited vocabulary.
Jane Austin mystery series by Stephanie Barron are a new set of mystery novels I'm trying to pick up. I've only gone through three pages and already, I love her writing!
Gameinformer, yes, I am a big RPG fan. Though I don't play as hecticly as I used to back in college, I still like to spend an hour or two on my DS once in a while. Besides, game language is a genre all by itself.
Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer...haha, you have no idea how fun it is to read their flyers. Its got that antique touch to it, which I absolutely love.
Last but NOT LEAST, one of my favorite mystery series, the Judge Dee Mysteries by Robert Van Gulik. This one is Phantom of the Temple. I recommend them anywhere, anytime on anyday.
You think scary thoughts about the people closest to you
But then again, brain is a very convenient tool at times like this
You can curse the world and damn it to hell in your head
Then face a whole new day like a newborn
Everybody has down times when images of horror flash through
Just make sure to keep them in your head
Vegan soaps, candles, posies, fragrance water in small exquisitely made bottles and flasks
Old, earthly looking jugs/urns/pots/
Fresh flowers
Mixed berry cookies
Verdant clovers sprouting with a bed of rich dark coffee brown soil underneath
My mind keeps flashing back to the moment in "A.I." in which intelligent existence from "the future" traveled back in time to "our time" to rediscover the ruins of our
past glories
These images of comforting trinkets of life brim with vibrant/soft colors, yet are
always somehow dust-covered in my mind
Dust, 'tis the color of gray
昨天在後院打掃，風很大，樹葉刷刷地響
像海浪一樣
聲音讓我想起龍貓裏面姐妹兩人住的老房子周圍的那片森林
後院的幾只貓又來了
黑色的多，有一只小小的
舉爪擡足間還留有幼貓的感覺
眼睛看著小
都是來要吃的的
不過昨天沒有帶罐頭
貓，真的是好靈巧的生物，在花盆中間穿來穿去
不碰觸一片葉子和花瓣
"So their lives enact a romantic but pitiless narrative. Their success rate is
low, even under optimal circumstances. The miracle of salmon is that any
of them manage to complete such an arduous cycle at all."
by David Quammen
當鮭魚不容易啊，尤其是太平洋鮭魚（Pacific Salmon），生下來簡直就是來受罪的。
從淡水的產卵地出生的鮭魚魚苗，要經歷與其他無數的魚苗之間的競爭、逃避無數
其他大魚的獵捕、在到達鹹水海洋之前讓自己的身體能夠成功適應水質變化，然後
才算安然完成短暫生命的第一階段，在海洋裏渡過2到5年的“增肥期”。
等到要產卵的時間到了，它還要長途跋涉地回到孵化地，這之間又不知道要經歷過
多少苦難，包括沿途的捕魚高手大灰熊！！最終，如果它能僥幸回到孵化地，一次
就把要產的卵全部產完，然後就死翹翹了！
根據分析，大自然之所以讓鮭魚產卵完就死掉，是因爲同一條鮭魚能夠安然無恙地
完成兩次從孵化地至大海再返回孵化地的可能性實在太低，所以乾脆讓它死了算了，
讓它的子子孫孫來闖這一道道鬼門關吧。這可真是令人沮喪的魚生啊！即使是這樣，
這些鮭魚還是像上了發條一樣，前赴後繼！
在所有的這些之上，再加上人類毫無克制、被利益驅動的獵捕，簡直不能想象一條
鮭魚的一生。
所以，千萬不要浪費盤子裏的鮭魚啊，那可是歷經九九八十一磨難，最終來到我們的晚餐
盤子裏的啊~~~。
