徐静蕾 is a smart girl and she is one of my favoriate Chinese actresses. In one interview, she responsed to the question, "what is your ideal type?" and gave the follwoing answer:
娇点:你希望的自己是什么样子的?
徐静蕾:特有耐心的,心特别宽的,可以给别人很多好处的。
She said she wasted many years to understand what she is and what she wanted to be. At age of 31, she felt "我觉得感情是一门科学,每个人有自己的磁场,受生理和心理的双重影响作用,如果两个人合适就会幸福,不然总有人受伤。每个人一生之中都会有伤口的机会,但是不过是当时不合适。不能说是爱错了人,只是当时不适合,这个道理我到现在三十一岁才弄懂并且承认".
I know these sound pretty middle-class orientated and only people who are not worried about living can talk that way. But why not? She is living a kind of luxury life which most of can not afford, and that is the reason why we need the super stars at the first place. The unique characteristics of her is that she knows who she is and she knows the ridiculous of being celebrity.
Besides, she looks like my close friend Xiao Rener a lot. They actually look like twins. So I'd rather believe she has a lot of quality of Xiao Rener, like being idiosyncratic, refused to cooperate with the mundane world, and thinking critically about herself and the world. I have not talked with Xiao Rener for a while. The last time I met her in Beijing in Aug 2005, at Beijing Film Academy. We spent the afternoon together, ate, talked and brought some DVDs in small shops. Our worlds seemed to be apart and our lives were on different trajectories. She worked as an editor for a film journal in Beijing and with her M.A. in screen writting, she spent most of her time writting novels. She liked to write from our middle school years and she was more mature in thinking from started. However, I always feel the loneless of her talented mind, even she was in close relationship with her bf. Now she was alone by herself and stayed marginally with her family as well. We had long conversations about movies we loved and the impossibility to be a writer in a commocial society as ours. She onced studied Russian and wished to study in Russia, but the plan falled. Now writting was her only excuses from the real life, but she knew this peaceful life would end soon once her journal went into "market".
She was the one who introduce Milan Kundera's works to me in high school, and we read many of the Russian authors in the "Silver Period" from 1890 to 1920 together. As a daughter of a Chinese literature professor, she always criticized the life of old-fashioned intellectuals as her parents or new-styled intelletuals who got doctoral degree in U.S. and become U.S. citizen as her brother. The difficulty for her is to find her own way of living, which should be different from both extremes. She struggled and writting was her attempt to find way out. She might know about all these since she was very smart. But it is hard to take action and I don't know where she will have the strength from.
In late 20s we all trap in our own piece of mind and hell. I saw a postcard in gym today about human brain in a bottle. The coach of Yoga class this morning said, our brain is about 12 pounds. He suggested the invertical position in yoga is a way to separat us from the real world and retreat to our mind. In this sense, many positions have both physical and mental effects. I don't think I take what he said literally, but I appreciate his sympothy for the struggles of our ordinary lives. It is hard to put us together every morning and staying normal for most of the day and go to bed without regretting too much for what you have done or not done today.
There is already too much complaints for one day, I need to go back to work.
2006年3月4日星期六
About 徐静蕾
徐静蕾 is a smart girl and she is one of my favoriate Chinese actresses. In one interview, she responsed to the question, "what is your ideal type?" and gave the follwoing answer:
娇点:你希望的自己是什么样子的?
徐静蕾:特有耐心的,心特别宽的,可以给别人很多好处的。
She said she wasted many years to understand what she is and what she wanted to be. At age of 31, she felt "我觉得感情是一门科学,每个人有自己的磁场,受生理和心理的双重影响作用,如果两个人合适就会幸福,不然总有人受伤。每个人一生之中都会有伤口的机会,但是不过是当时不合适。不能说是爱错了人,只是当时不适合,这个道理我到现在三十一岁才弄懂并且承认".
I know these sound pretty middle-class orientated and only people who are not worried about living can talk that way. But why not? She is living a kind of luxury life which most of can not afford, and that is the reason why we need the super stars at the first place. The unique characteristics of her is that she knows who she is and she knows the ridiculous of being celebrity.
Besides, she looks like my close friend Xiao Rener a lot. They actually look like twins. So I'd rather believe she has a lot of quality of Xiao Rener, like being idiosyncratic, refused to cooperate with the mundane world, and thinking critically about herself and the world. I have not talked with Xiao Rener for a while. The last time I met her in Beijing in Aug 2005, at Beijing Film Academy. We spent the afternoon together, ate, talked and brought some DVDs in small shops. Our worlds seemed to be apart and our lives were on different trajectories. She worked as an editor for a film journal in Beijing and with her M.A. in screen writting, she spent most of her time writting novels. She liked to write from our middle school years and she was more mature in thinking from started. However, I always feel the loneless of her talented mind, even she was in close relationship with her bf. Now she was alone by herself and stayed marginally with her family as well. We had long conversations about movies we loved and the impossibility to be a writer in a commocial society as ours. She onced studied Russian and wished to study in Russia, but the plan falled. Now writting was her only excuses from the real life, but she knew this peaceful life would end soon once her journal went into "market".
She was the one who introduce Milan Kundera's works to me in high school, and we read many of the Russian authors in the "Silver Period" from 1890 to 1920 together. As a daughter of a Chinese literature professor, she always criticized the life of old-fashioned intellectuals as her parents or new-styled intelletuals who got doctoral degree in U.S. and become U.S. citizen as her brother. The difficulty for her is to find her own way of living, which should be different from both extremes. She struggled and writting was her attempt to find way out. She might know about all these since she was very smart. But it is hard to take action and I don't know where she will have the strength from.
In late 20s we all trap in our own piece of mind and hell. I saw a postcard in gym today about human brain in a bottle. The coach of Yoga class this morning said, our brain is about 12 pounds. He suggested the invertical position in yoga is a way to separat us from the real world and retreat to our mind. In this sense, many positions have both physical and mental effects. I don't think I take what he said literally, but I appreciate his sympothy for the struggles of our ordinary lives. It is hard to put us together every morning and staying normal for most of the day and go to bed without regretting too much for what you have done or not done today.
There is already too much complaints for one day, I need to go back to work.
2006年3月2日星期四
Health Insurance problem solved
Suddenly, my health insurance problem solved. It disappears as quietly as it comes. I get one tuition credit to cover it from TC, which is quite unexpected. The school is poor and it rarely shows any appreciation for the hardship of its students. I don't know where this magic bullet comes from, but as far as it works, I am fine.
Tried to finish my piece on Blue Note Club and the film "A Great Wall" by Peter Wang, but have no time to write in peace. This week I reserved for reading the SAS program by Tim and it is really challenging. I also try to learn more about STATA code before my net course on STATA programming starting next week. The life is on an accelerating pace and I am the only component which seems to be not fit. I submit my application for the Wu Fellowship and Robert gave me this weired smile. I hope it will work all right, and I have dragged David too much about the recommendation letter. To exchange for that favor, I'd better finish his data analysis by today. It means I should not be able to go to Grand Central to see the Squash Tournament of Champions 2006. I am kind of stressful about this idea, but it snows very heavily today. So it may not be a good day to go out anyway.
2006年3月1日星期三
更衣记/张爱玲
孝經
孝經
開宗明義章·第一 仲尼居,曾子侍。子曰:「先王有至德要道,以順天下,民用和睦,上下無怨,汝知之乎?」曾子避席,曰:「參不敏,何足以知之!」子曰:「夫孝,德之本也,教之所由生也。復坐,吾語汝。身體發膚,受之父母,不敢毀傷,孝之始也;立身行道,揚名於后世,以顯父母,孝之終也。夫孝,始於事親,忠於事君,終於立身。大雅云:『無念爾祖,聿修厥德。』」
天子章·第二 子曰:「愛親者,不敢惡於人;敬親者,不敢慢於人;愛敬盡於事親,而德教加於百姓,刑於四海,蓋天子之孝也。《甫刑》云:『一人有慶,兆民賴之。』」
諸侯章·第三 在上不驕,高而不危,制節謹度,滿而不溢。高而不危,所以長守貴也;滿而不溢,所以長守富也。富貴不離其身,然后能保其社稷,而和其民人,蓋諸侯之孝也。《詩》云:『戰戰兢兢,如臨深淵,如履薄冰。』」
卿大夫章·第四 非先王之法服不敢服,非先王之法言不敢道,非先王之德行不敢行。是故非法不言,非道不行。口無擇言,身無擇行,言滿天下無口過,行滿天下無怨惡,三者備矣,然后能守其宗廟,蓋卿、大夫之孝也。《詩》云:「夙夜匪懈,以事一人。」
士章·第五 資於事父以事母而愛同,資於事父以事君而敬同。故母取其愛,而君取其敬,兼之者父也。故以孝事君則忠,以敬事長則順;忠順不失,以事其上,然后能保其祿位,而守其祭祀,蓋士之孝也。《詩》云:「夙興夜寐,無忝爾所生。」
庶人章·第六 用天之道,分地之利,謹身節用,以養父母,此庶人之孝也。故自天子至於庶人,孝無終始而患不及者,未之有也。
三才章·第七 曾子曰:「甚哉,孝之大也!」子曰:「夫孝,天之經也,地之義也,民之行也。天地之經而民是則之,則天之明,因地之利,以順天下,是以其教不肅而成,其政不嚴而治。先王見教之,可以化民也。是故先之以博愛,而民莫遺其親;陳之以德義而民興行;先之以敬讓而民不爭;導之以禮樂而民和睦;示之以好惡而民知禁。《詩》云:『赫赫師尹,民具爾瞻。』」
孝治章·第八 子曰:「昔者明王之以孝治天下也,不敢遺小國之臣,而況於公、侯、伯、子、男乎?故得萬國之讙心,以事其先王。治國者不敢侮於鰥寡,而況於士民乎?故得百姓之讙心,以事其先君。治家者不敢失於臣妾,而況於妻子乎?故得人之讙心,以事其親。夫然,故生則親安之,祭則鬼享之,是以天下和平,災害不生,禍亂不作。故明王之以孝治天下也如此。《詩》云:『有覺德行,四國順之。』」
聖治章·第九 曾子曰:「敢問聖人之德,無以加於孝乎?」子曰:「天地之性,人為貴。人之行,莫大於孝,孝莫大於嚴父,嚴父莫大於配天,則周公其人也。昔者周公郊祀后稷以配天,宗祀文王於明堂以配上帝,是以四海之內各以其職來助祭。夫聖人之德,又何以加於孝乎?故親生之膝下,以養其父母日嚴。聖人因嚴以教敬,因親以教愛。聖人之教,不肅而成,其政不嚴而治,其所因者本也。父子之道,天性也,君臣之義也。父母生之,續莫大焉;君親臨之,厚莫重焉。故不愛其親,而愛他人者,謂之悖德;不敬其親,而敬他人者,謂之悖禮。以順則逆,民無則焉,不在於善,而皆在於兇德;雖得之,君子不貴也。君子則不然,言思可道,行思可樂,德義可尊,作事可法,容止可觀,進退可度,以臨其民,是以其民畏而愛之,則而象之。故能成其德教,而行其政令。《詩》云:『淑人君子,其儀不忒。』」
紀孝行章·第十 子曰:「孝子之事親也,居則致其敬,養則致其樂,病則致其憂,喪則致其哀,祭則致其嚴,五者備矣,然后能事親。事親者,居上不驕,為下不亂,在丑不爭;居上而驕則亡,為下而亂則刑,在丑而爭則兵,三者不除,雖日用三牲之養,猶為不孝也。」
五刑章·第十一 子曰:「五刑之屬三千,而罪莫大於不孝。要君者,無上;非聖人者,無法;非孝者,無親,此大亂之道也。」
廣要道章·第十二 子曰:「教民親愛,莫善於孝;教民禮順,莫善於悌;移風易俗,莫善於樂;安上治民,莫善於禮。禮者,敬而已矣。故敬其父則子悅,敬其兄則弟悅,敬其君則臣悅,敬一人而千萬人悅。所敬者寡,而悅者眾,此之謂要道也。」
廣至德章·第十三 子曰:「君子之教以孝也,非家至而日見之也。教以孝,所以敬天下之為人父者也;教以悌,所以敬天下之為人兄者也;教以臣,所以敬天下之為人君者也。《詩》云:『愷悌君子,民之父母。』非至德,其孰能順民如此,其大者乎?」
廣揚名章·第十四 子曰:「君子之事親孝,故忠可移於君;事兄悌,故順可移於長;居家理,故治可移於官。是以行成於內,而名立於后世矣。」
諫諍章·第十五 曾子曰:「若夫慈愛、恭敬、安親、揚名,則聞命矣!敢問:子從父之令,可謂孝乎?」子曰:「是何言與!是何言與!昔者天子有爭臣七人,雖無道,不失天下;諸侯有爭臣五人,雖無道,不失其國;大夫有爭臣三人,雖無道,不失其家;士有爭友,則身不離於令名;父有爭子,則身不陷於不義。故當不義,則子不可以不爭於父,臣不可以不爭於君。故當不義則爭之,從父之令,又焉得為孝乎?」
感應章·第十六 子曰:「昔者明王事父孝,故事天明;事母孝,故事地察;長幼順,故上下治;天地明察,神明彰矣!故雖天子,必有尊也,言有父也;必有先也,言有兄也。宗廟致敬,不忘親也;修身慎行,恐辱先也;宗廟致敬,鬼神著矣。孝悌之至,通於神明,光于四海,無所不通。《詩》云:『自西自東,自南自北,無思不服。』」
事君章·第十七 子曰:「君子之事上也,進思盡忠,退思補過,將順其美,匡救其惡,故上下能相親也。《詩》云:『心乎愛矣!遐不謂矣!中心藏之,何日忘之。』」
喪親章·第十八 子曰:「孝子之喪親也,哭不偯、禮無容、言不文,服美不安、聞樂不樂、食旨不甘,此哀戚之情也。三日而食,教民無以死傷生,毀不滅性,此聖人之政也;喪不過三年,示民有終也。為之棺槨、衣衾而舉之;陳其簠簋而哀戚之;擗踴哭泣,哀以送之;卜其宅兆而安措之;為之宗廟,以鬼享之;春秋祭祀,以時思之。生事愛敬,死事哀戚,生民之本盡矣!死生之義備矣!孝子之事親終矣!」
詩經
黍離 彼黍離離,彼稷之苗。行邁靡靡,中心搖搖。 知我者,謂我心憂;不知我者,謂我何求。悠悠蒼天,此何人哉! 彼黍離離,彼稷之穗。行邁靡靡,中心如醉。 知我者,謂我心憂;不知我者,謂我何求。悠悠蒼天,此何人哉! 彼黍離離,彼稷之實。行邁靡靡,中心如噎。 知我者,謂我心憂;不知我者,謂我何求。悠悠蒼天,此何人哉!
漢廣 南有喬木,不可休息。漢有游女,不可求思。 漢之廣矣,不可泳思。江之永矣,不可方思。 翹翹錯薪,言刈其楚。之子于歸,言秣其馬。 漢之廣矣,不可泳思。江之永矣,不可方思。 翹翹錯薪,言刈其蔞。之子于歸,言秣其駒。 漢之廣矣,不可泳思。江之永矣,不可方思。
式微 式微式微,胡不歸?微君之故,胡為乎中露? 式微式微,胡不歸?微君之躬,胡為乎泥中?