Chinese Moon Festival/Women's Friendship Day/Moon Festival (Taiwan)/Full Moon Day
2005-09-18 @ 9:15 p.m.

Re-reading Love, Etc., I find it does contain passages that lend themselves to some sustained analysis, mostly about love and marriage. I am not in a studying mood, which is fine for 'S' Paper, but not very good for my last two Economics papers on Wednesday. I'm mentally preoccupied with the things I want to do after Wednesday. Have I mentioned how much I love my new shoes? They're very light. I was just reading some scrap pieces of paper from 2003 on which I had printed a list of Chinese phrases. Not bad, I remember how to pronounce most of the words. I've sort of forgotten what they all mean though, which is a pity because I like being, to some extent, trilingual. I don't buy the China-is-rising-so-we-must-learn-Chinese thing. That's really pathetic because it basically implies that the language has no intrinsic value, but rather relies on economics to sustain its existence. I think the character system is very impractical though. Pretty for calligraphy, but very detrimental to its general viability.

This week:

Flower Week