Song Track of Life


Slumdog Millionaire What if it was made Bollywood?

Das Leben Der Anderen the Lives of Others

Catch Me if You Can 2002 Leonardo DiCaprio

Empire of the Sun Of Spielberg's super-movies, this is the one I like most.

Devil's Advocate Vanity is the best sin of human beings.

Dreams Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, or Yume,是黑泽明对梦的勾画，全片有八个梦境构成，分别是：太阳雨、桃园、风雪、隧道、乌鸦、红色富士山、垂泪的魔鬼和水车之村。这八个梦几乎贯穿了人类生活的所有主题，战争与和平、社会与人生。在不同的梦境里有着不同的场景，配合不同的色彩，把人类所面对的所有主题一一呈现。

Good Luck, and Good Night I couldn't help being attached to it, and bought a copy from Amazon.com after watching the movie, as I did with the Shawshank Redemption,

Shawshank Redemption This is the one I like best, but my affection for it is beyond my words.

Walkabout This movie had intrigued me to do the tour around Uluru up to Kakadu.

Babel To understand the Babel well, you need to know the Babel story in the Bible.

the Winslow Boy I love this movie, not only because of the movie itself, but of the language in English I like best.

Les Choristes http://poster.mov6.com/view/0372824-535295-26031

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刘亚洲刘亚洲的沟通平台

南香红南池子之劫-北京旧城改造系列报道

人民网

新华网两会专题

中国青年报

新京报 08两会

Encyclopedia-Britannica Online

王军城市的眼睛

wikipedia free encyclopedia online

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world wide words Michael Quinion writes on international English from a British viewpoint.

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urban dictionary Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions.

蔡小钢

Dear Li Laoshi

毛毛 - 轻描淡写却重彩

Lifeweek 三联生活周刊网版

Lifeweek 三联生活周刊新浪blog

梁晓声

张贤亮张贤亮和他的西部影城

贾平凹

金凯平给怀有远方崇拜的中国人看的澳洲梦-也可说是西洋镜

http://www.practicallyedible.com/ the web's biggest food encyclopaedia

Picking up words/phrases/concepts


Kuso the term used in East Asia for the internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody;恶搞 in Chinese

ethical cosmetics Cosmestics which are ethical do not test on animals - the rise of ethical comsmetics in the past decades e.g. the Bodyshop http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beautybeat/archives/2007/09/body_shopped.html cf. ethical consumerism, green consumerism

high-maintenance R U high-maintenance or LM?

apples and oranges

Butterfly Effect Also see the movie entitled with it.

Whistleblower also:www.whistleblowers.org.au; Origin:derives from the practice of English bobbies, who would blow their whistles when they noticed the commission of a crime. The whistle would alert both law enforcement officers and the general public of danger.

Mageirocophobia Fear or extreme fear of cooking; been derived from the Greek word "mageirikos", an adjective meaning "culinary" or "cooking-related.""Phobia" at the end means "fear of." 我把妈妈害怕厨房的情节发挥到了极致，而没想到的是百科全书上有它一例，看来我并不特殊，只是各种‘phobia'的携带者之一。

Ipso facto cf. De facto Ipso facto: which is a Latin Term, in a UK legal context meaning "by that very fact; while De facto, also a Latin term, means "in fact", or "in practice". (In German, De facto ist ein lateinischer Ausdruck für „nach Tatsachen“, „in der Praxis“, „tatsächlic

immanent, imminent, eminent

prognosis pl. prognoses 1. tech. a doctor's opinion of how an illness or disease will develop; 2 fml. a judgment about the future based on information or experience [+of] Brooks Adams's Prognosis of imminent dissolution.

entre nous /,ontrә'nu:/ adv. French Spoken: an expression used to tell someone that what you are going to say is secret and they must not tell anyone else (cf between us)你知我知，不得外传

exegesis

organ grinder n [C] a musician who plays a BARREL ORGAN in the street (街头的）手摇凤琴师

QC n [C] Queen's Counsel; a Barrister of high rank in the British Legal System

compose yourself try hard to become calm after feeling very angry, upset or excited

short-change vt (oft passive)1 to treat someone unfairly by not giving them what they deserve: When the band only played for 15 minutes the fans felt they had been short-changed.2 少找钱给（顾客）

gratis adj, adv provided without payment; free: Medical advice was provided gratis.

spitting image n be the spitting image of sb: to look exactly like someone else

neologism - evolution Unstable - Extremely new, being proposed, or being used only by a small subculture (also known as protologisms). Diffused - Having reached a significant audience, Stable - Having gained recognizable and probprobably lasting acceptance. Dated - The point w

neologism A neologism is a word, term, or phrase that has been recently created (or "coined"), often to apply to new concepts, to synthesize pre-existing concepts, or to make older terminology sound more contemporary.

primordial soup or prebiotic soup, supposedly where all life came from, which definitely has nothing to do with "Mengposhang-孟婆汤”

horoscopes horoscope, a description of your character and the things that will happen to you, based on the position of the stars and Planets a the time or your birth, cf Zodiac-Which sign of the zodiac were you born under?

antiquarian disposition the enjoyment of antiques and historical sites, a preference for traditional form and design, an appreciation of the cultural creations of the past and a tendency to collect them.

Chronological snobbery a logical fallacy coined between friends C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield describing the erroneous argument that the thinking, art, or science of an earlier time is inherently inferior when compared to that of the present

Presentism (philosophy of time) opp.eternalism In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal. Past and future "entities" are to be construed as logical constructions or fictions.

Presentism and sociological analysis Presentism has a shorter history in sociological analysis, where it has been used to describe technological determinists who interpret a change in behavior as starting with the introduction of a new technology. For example, scholars such as Frances Cairncr

presentism cf. anachronism; Presentism(literary and historical analysis):a mode of historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past,"fallacy of nunc pro tunc"

Winkle's dream Rip Van Winkle's Dream, see Washington Irving 1819; also cf. Haien, Jeannette Michael Rip Van Winkle's Dream

good ridden & good riddance good ridden with sb/sth, meaning something like "thank god it's/ sth/ sb is gone", oft used humourously; good riddance n[u] spoken, a rude way of saying you are glad someone has left (referring to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)

Scientologist, Scientology Scientology "is the study and handling of the spirit in relationship to itself, others and all of life. The religion comprises a body of knowledge extending from certain fundamental truths." Tom Cruise's an avid scientologist?

Political newbies put this here because of a glimpse of a title on the bus to uni "Political newbies survive the first day of orientation" on a newspaper of an old lady nearby, the other printed line was MPs sent to school.The training of Rudd's novice MPs? Yes,cf SMH's rep

Safari By safari you can not only hunt wild animals in South Africa, but experience the Night Safari in Singapore and do food safari touring around the world.

chihuahua Paris Hilton is said to be a kind of Chihuahua, which is a breed of dog named after the state in Mexico: A graceful, alert, swift-moving little dog with saucy expression, compact, and with terrier-like qualities of temperament.吉娃娃

open fly Because of the embarrassing nature of the open fly, a number of euphemistic ways to alert someone to it are used.eg "Your fly is open" or "Your zipper is down" suffices in English-speaking countries...

curves - shapely the beauty of curvy figure, see the SMH report on Scarlett Johansson, the 23-year-old star with super curves, who is widely regarded as one of the world's sexiest women.

bonanza a lucky or successful situation where people can make a lot of money, cf Bill Gate's bonanza years of his computer industry, celebrity baby Bonanza like Zhangbozhi's in China, Jennifer Lopez and the stick-thin socialite Nichole Richie USA, Nicole Kidman Oz

turtledove and turtledove has nothing to do with dove, it is the bird that makes a pleasant soft sound and is sometimes used to represent love, in Chinese “斑鸠”。

squidgy soft and easy to press; cf mushy; cf. soggy

turtleneck turtle neck is not the neck of a turtle, dear, it is a type of sweater with a high and close-fitting band that folds down as a collar -高翻领毛衣。cf. scoop neck

windging Stop windging, please. Gratitude is the thing which should be kept on our mind.

Enrique Iglesias

Parte De La Historia (Part Of A History)-Enrique Iglesias - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76ysJCCKTL8&feature=user


You're My No.1 作者 Enrique Iglesias

Solo En Ti 作者 Enrique Iglesias Only You

Hero 作者 Enrique Iglesias

Timbaland


Apologize - (Republic) 作者 Timbaland came across the song and fell in love with it immediately http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DOasai3_Vo&feature=related

Academic

Journals


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China Academic Journals the most comprehensive, full-text database of Chinese journals in the world. It contains more than 7,200 journals starting from 1915.. Full-text articles from 7,200 journals in mainland

Australian Journals Online the National Library's Database of Australian Electronic Journals

个人资料

Cai Angela

音乐列表索引

存档

Xanadu - Olivia Newton John & ELO

网络

日志

Hollywood的想象力真的衰竭了

日子经不起等

解读“上海铁皮均价四万”- 请参看韩寒博客

关于今年双节

布里斯班的北京四月天

有些东西总是美不胜收

Lost in Translation

Depression & Inflation

戏里戏外

感冒

My Favourite Movies

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Picking up words/phrases/concepts

Enrique Iglesias

Timbaland

Academic

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Interview