I think this is a crowning glory of January 2008.

happened to me this afternoon after Calendars and Almanacs in East Asia class.


Background: My professor for Calendars and Almanacs in East Asia is a guai lo who speaks Mandarin, Japanese, and some Taiwanese and goes regularly to China, HK and Taiwan on his sabbaticals (he has been climbing Mount Tai several times for his research so far).

Today after class I went to talk to him about how we say dates of the lunar calendar in Cantonese and relate it to what we had just learnt about the dating system in the Chinese calendar, and after we talked about it he said something along the lines of:

Wow, I never thought of that. So you speak Cantonese? I mean obviously you do, would you like to earn some extra money? If you could come to my office about 2 hours each week and practice speaking Cantonese with me and relate it to Mandarin that would be great!

Me: Er, my cantonese is very bad.

My professor: Oh don't worry mine is practically zero. And you speak Mandarin right? What I'd like to do is learn Cantonese and associate it to Mandarin....

Me: Er, okay!!

So, what do you think? hehehehehhehe I was very amused (and happy) to think that my professor wants to let me earn money by speaking cantonese to him (and as you all know my cantonese is atrocious)

~happy xtine

Cest MoiY

Xtine
Loves
Music

'I dreamt that I was composing a symphony....I had gone to my table to begin writing it down when I suddenly reflected: "If I write this part I shall let myself be carried on to write the rest. The natural tendency of my mind to expand the material is sure to make it very long...When the symphony is finished I shall be weak enough to allow my copyist to copy it out, and thus immediately incur a debt of 1,000 or 1,200 francs. Once the parts are copied I shall be harassed by the temptation to have the work performed; I shall give a concert in which, as is sure to be the case in these days, the receipts will barely cover half the expenses; I shall lose what I have not got; I shall want the necessaries of life for my poor invalid, and shall have no money for either myself or for my son's keep on board ship!"...I threw down my pen saying, "Bah! I shall have forgotten the symphony tomorrow." But the following night the obstinate symphony again presented itself...'
- Berlioz writing about a nightmare he had during the 1850s

SHE WANTSY

job >3
grand piano <3
happiness

SCREAM;TALKY

(where to get one)

EXITSY

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