Watching From now on, showtime! to balance out the heaviness of #JoyOfLife2. I would watch anything with this actor. He's that good! So far, liking it 😁
Apparently 黑线 (black thread) is a colloquial expression that means "a feeling of speechlessness or frustration" and when I looked up Pleco, it says that it has something to do with the Cultural Revolution. Man, I went to deep places with that sentence lol.
Asking Chinese Mastodon - does black thread really mean this in the Chinese context?
But anyway, my sentence started out very basic, but has lots of cultural elements.
Red thread = signifies bonded by fate, black thread = frustration.
So, in a way, I basically said that "I wanted a red thread (someone who is fated to love me) but got black thread (ostrasization) instead. So deep lol
Sometimes I get frustrated. The world is running out of oil, the climate is topsy turvy, and we're doing our best to prevent mass-adoption of green tech because, capitalism (or some shit like that). Meanwhile, let's wage war against one another because there are elections to be won/territories and wealth to grab. URGH.
Can humanity evolve out of our caveman instincts or something?
The cutest boyband ever! If only they weren't trying so hard to kill each other 😆
PS: Found this on Twitter. Couldn't get this out of my mind cos they look so cute in this clip! I am taking my time with #JoyOfLife2. Only at episode 2 and this is because I rewatched the episodes twice haha. JOL has such intricately written plots you really need to pay attention!
I've been a little suspicious that almost everything I wrote in Chinese, ChatGPT said was 👍 .
However, today my faith was reaffirmed when ChatGPT corrected me when I wrote 我出家。
ChatGPT: "出家" usually means to become a monk or nun, which might not be the intended meaning.
Bwahaha. Would've made an interesting diary entry though.
But what's encouraging though is that I seemed to have internalised Chinese grammar ... mostly.
When Iived in Australia, I realised that we Malaysians had access to more advanced tech. Our laptops, smartphones etc were more advanced.
When I was a journalist who would travel overseas to interview people - Asian journalists always had the slickest voice recorders. We were using MP3 recorders while the Western journos were still using tape.
I don't think it's because we r smarter; I think we dare to copy & improve while co's in the West are more protective & possessive of their #tech. 1/2
And I know this post could rile people up due to the way it's worded but there's limited text space so... Lol. What I am trying to say is I noticed that the business culture in the East and the West is different and as a result drives different outcomes. I heard a historian on a podcast say that the concept of intellectual property is an alien on in the East and that the culture there had always been to improve on inventions. (Ie Copy!) This results in quicker innovations. 2/2
@liztai What annoyed me was the disdainful attitude that "You are stupid wasting time creating your own thing. You should just copy someone else." Forgetting that someone has to put the time and effort into creating it in the first place.
Somebody shared the #JoyOfLife novel, translated into English (her pet project) in epub.
I was bracing myself to read it on the web. I tend to compile the reads into an epub for my own personal consumption as I don't really enjoy reading things on the web. Fansubbers don't like people scrapping their stuff and resharing (for obvious reasons) but as this is from the translator herself, I think it's safe to share.
The freedom to be able to walk and shop in places without worrying about a shooting is something Malaysians take for granted. I cannot imagine living with that kind of possibility in my life. You know what else we take for granted? The fact that Malaysia is free of most natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanoes and such.