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喜欢读你的文章--淡淡的笔调把难以描述的心态刻画得很生动,将日常琐事写得挺有味儿. 你去的那家店该不会是"宝谦昌"吧. 那是三藩市唐人街有名的参行.我在那儿买过几次,带回国孝敬老人,反应不错.

Haha, so funny :) Thanks for the info, everybody--I learned a lot, and had some good laughs... Ah, so THAT's what LM means...LOL! The only question unanswered is 东东. I knew what it meant, guessing from the contest, but I was asking where it came from. Like maybe someone who first said it on T.V. or in a film or something? Anyone?

说来惭愧，水浒和三国，我读不下去．试过几次－－毕竟是名著啊，都属必读书．可每次都是第一回没读完就没兴趣了．而且无药可救，唉．所以也不能参加这次国际ＬＭ大会． 相反，我对红楼梦和金瓶梅却是百读不厌，没次都读得津津有味．

Ok, 81 is right about the job part, considering what the real world is like... so I stand corrected. But I don't agree with the idea of intelligence as the only criteria. I mean, what if someone is intelligent but mean? After thinking more about it, I decided to scratch the sense of humor part, as this trait may be trainable, I hope. Also scratch the mature part--I keep forgetting that men are all big babies anyway, regardless of age, and that can be charming, too, sometimes. But I disagree with WOA abou

This is so ridiculous that it is actually quite funny...especially the paradox in this quote: 'It's me, but it couldn't be me.' :) It's a sad human fact that not everyone perceives fiction as fiction. Problems arise when people start taking fiction as fact (like taking the Bible too literally; or, 看戏时, 比如看"白毛女"--看到黄世仁行凶时便拔出手枪,枪毙这坏蛋;或在读小说/看电影时将人物对号入座之类). Those who equate a fictional character to a real life person, and those who take metaphors literally shou

光看果实，好像荔枝和杨梅 (I know they are not :)) I love the last one most--can smell the fresh damp spicy redwoods and ferns...

我觉得暴露性别的那张更可爱, 呵呵.

不是"由观点而推及人品"（please read my earlier comment again and you'll see） 而是由我对一个人的行为和思想的了解决定我对此人的看法或意见。 请勿曲解我的意思并将其扩大为"普遍性."

Great pictures! Just like the ones I should have taken :) I was in Tibet from August to September, and didn't even take any camera with me. I figured there are tons of good photos out there already anyway, taken by professionals who can do it much better than me, so why bother--and therefore have stopped taking pictures, for many years (Except for my mental albums) :) Your photos are further evidence of my above theory, heh heh, so, thanks for posting them.

You wrote: "西门庆有个男仆叫画童儿，也被西门庆玩了一通。" 应该是书童吧. 不记得西门庆跟画童有私...

Very interesting story. All the pumas and tigers made me laugh. Too bad I never got a chance to meet this tiger (fictionally speaking), as I lived not very far from Baylor U--about one-hour drive, and I have been there a few times. BTW, I also enjoyed your subway piece. It brought back nice memories... 当年在北京时很爱地铁: 明亮,干净,畅通无阻. 那时常把自行车锁在入口处,有时几天后从外地回来,车还好好地锁在那里, 从没丢过. 你的笔名很有趣. 屋里真有方型的壶? :)

Why for men only? Women also want to live healthy long lives :) WOA's joke, funny as it is, implies that smoking/drinking, chasing women, and interneting are the only meaning(s) of life, for men. So, is this true for you, men? :)

Wow, it's nice to see my prospective new neighbor has good taste in poetry, heh heh. You seem to have a very condensed, compact translation style. I enjoyed reading it. One question about the 4th "couplet:" "In you the wars and the flights accumulated. From you the wings of the song birds rose." I wonder what the Spanish original uses for the word "flights," but judging from the context of the English version, it seems "flights" here refers to fleeing, running away (out of fear or terror) inst

Your humorous account of prayers made me laugh, heh heh. Oh, and the text about a puma at large from "New Concept English" brings back memories of college days from eons ago. I still remember how it begins: "Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came to London Zoo that a ..." Anyone else still remember that story? :)

Beautiful! BTW, no need to be afraid of snakes. They are very shy animals and usually never initiate an attack unless threatened. So if you don't step on them, they won't bite.

It's really sad to observe caged wild animals... How cruel it is to cage wildness??? I recently watched "Planet Earth" (narrated by David Attenborough), of which one episode shows snow leopard 雪豹 from the Himalayas, chasing their prey on steep mountain slopes. The beauty, agility, speed, strength, mysteriousness of this mythical animal is simply breath-taking! Wild in the wild...in harmony with nature, at their best in their natural habitat...THAT is what those caged animals in the poem dream of but ca

乡村更好. :) Really, how can anyone stand all the noise and pollution and crowds of big cities is beyond me. I got tired of all that years ago. My ideal place is 芙蓉囯，桃花园，最好连鸡犬声都不闻． Anyone share my ideal? :)