Today I see a rainbow outside of my window while I was studying for my philosophy exam. It is a rare scene, so I seize the beautiful moment by snapping a photo. There is a legend that there is a pot of gold at at the end of the rainbow. Now, we all know rainbow is just a physical phenomena when the sunlight is deflected by the water drops in the air, so there is no end in a rainbow. However, in my photo the rainbow seems becoming out from that green apartment. I wonder will there be a pot of gold?
I just come across some interesting statistic on US presidency candidates and their family value.
Republicans: John McCain – divorced once, having an affair with the current wife cause the divorce. Rudy Giuliani – divorced twice, married three times Mitt Romney – married once, but he is a Mormon, which support polygamy. Newt Gingrich – divorced once, having an affair with the current wife cause the divorce. Fred Thompson – divorced once
Democrats: Hillary Clinton – married once, still marry to Bill Clinton Barack Obama – married once, no affair (yet) John Edwards – married once, no affair (yet)
Most people would think the Republican will play the family value card to please their evangelical Christian base of support. However, it seems their candidates are not setting a good examples themselves. On a second thought, maybe those voter who care about family value should vote for the Democrats, at least they are not just paying lip service to family value just to cheat for more votes.
It is time to put away my ski equipment. Summer is coming fast and the weather is already quite warm in mid April. It is also the time to conclude what I have accomplished in this skiing season. I skied 8 times and snowboarded once. I took advantage of the $20 lesson deal offered by Whistler and took lessons to work on moguls. I planned to take the ski instructor level 2 PREP class, but unfortunate the class was canceled. Although I got my ski instructor certification last year, I didn’t do any teaching except give some pointers to my friends for fun. I can now do linking turns on moguls on blue runs, but I still struggle quite a bit on big moguls on black runs. One thing I really need to work on is my endurance. Usually I ski faster than my friends in the morning, able to keep up with them in the afternoon and falling behind in the final run of the day. They have banned me from taking elevator at work, forced to take the stairs to work on my legs. My lag time is improved form 30 minutes 3 months ago to just 5 minutes today. In the summer I got to keep exercising to stay fit, so next year I can keep up with them for the whole day. I didn’t buy any new equipment this year, except a pair of new gloves, since my old one was leaking. I got the CSIA official gloves. My friends joked that it is good to have CSIA logo hiding underneath my jacket sleeves, or I will be a disgrace to association since I fall down so often. I am planning to take the level 2 class next year, so my friends won’t call me the ski instructor who can’t ski.
Since I started writing blog, I have been writing reviews and critics for books I read, movies, TV series and anime I watched. Writing reviews and critics force myself to reflect on the informative I receive. Instead of passively consume the materials, and then forget all about it in a few months, I produce something in return. The books, movies, TV and anime are stimulus to my mind, through the story or ideas in them, they help me to discover the world. Recently, I found I had reached a plateau in writing reviews and critics. My reviews and critics is becoming more and more mechanic and I am repeating myself. It could be the case that most of the stuffs out there are more or less the same old stuff. Just mass entertainment product created from the talent assembly line of Hollywood or the publishing industry. But it is more likely I am the person who run out of creativity. I read reviews and critics on the internet writing about the same stuff I wrote, I found others reviews or critics are more lively and have much more in depth analysis. My writing skill needs improvement, but simply writing more of the same crap won’t help. There isn’t any class to take nor any tutorials on writing good reviews or critics. I can only learn by imitating the master minds. I should start paying more attention to the good reviews and critics I come across, remember their forms, the perspective of the author and the use of vocabularies. I will need to start a note book to jot down those writing techniques for reference and try them out in my new writings. Once I forced myself to use the writing techniques a few times, it will become part of my writing style, so my writing will be more rich and lively.
若果只看宣傳海報和故事簡介﹐少女向唯美主義的角色設計﹐四男一女的典型愛情線佈局﹐醜小鴨變天鵝的老土橋段﹐我一定會以為「完美小姐進化論」只不過是另一套漫畫改篇的少女動畫﹐不值得看。儘管這套動畫的表面證供叫男生敬而遠之﹐內裏其實是男女老幼皆宜的瘋狂爆笑喜劇。這套兩季完二十五集的中篇作品﹐改篇自早川智子的人氣漫畫﹐是套低成本的製作。劇中的配樂來來去去也只是那幾首﹐每集只是很刻板重覆播出﹐是編曲混音去配合劇情也欠奉。最初片頭的只是剪輯併貼劇中鏡頭﹐到了中期才有全新製作的主題曲音樂影像﹐不過也只是拍攝定格圖畫。這套動畫的畫面質素倒很平均﹐沒有外判工序導致人物走樣的問題。製作公司省錢的方法頗有創意﹐很多場面改用簡單線條的Q版人物﹐甚至連樣子也沒有的一舊雲人形也起用﹐節省成本之餘亦建立這作品的獨特風格。這些製作上的缺點絲毫沒有影響欣賞這作品的意慾﹐因為這動畫吸引人的地方﹐是其天馬行空的故事內容﹐幽默抵死極端無厘頭的笑料。我每個星期也下載追看﹐每個星期也有半個小時開懷大笑﹐暫時把生活煩惱忘掉。
