Uni, I hate you.

[keire_ke]

*insert many swearwords*

I understand that broadband has its limits. I get that excessive use of YouSendIt and similar pages can cause a big boom. I get that p2p is bad for the system, for various reasons.

But I do not understand filtering Photobucket. *growl* I hate you all. Please die.

Unfortunately, because of the above, I won't be able to comment on any pictures you post, since I suspect the filtering is not limited to photoshop but most of the image hosting sites.

As for me posting - ha, maybe I'll finally put the LJ storage to use. I could get into Photobucket, but I figure there's no point in drawing attention to self.

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On a less homicidal note, I had an amusing evening yesterday. For my Mandarin class I got a paper to complete at home, and the first task is to identify a set of ten common phrases in Chinese characters. Eight were pretty obvious, as we were told to memorise them before, one I deduced from the fact that it was made up of the character for country [king in a box with a fly] and a signpost (apparently meaning centre). The last was 北京 and that gave me so much trouble! I went through zhongwen.com tracing the characters that looked vaguely similar, and yay, a success! It means Beijing. *is proud*

Comments

[lilzazu.livejournal.com]

*clap clap* yay u found it! the chinese word i mean. i loveee how u described them. country 'king in a box with a fly' (you must be learning simplified chinese!) and the signpost. i'll never forget those two words every again. ^__^

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

*grins* It helps a lot, the funny description. The Beijing I'm not going to forget in a hurry either: a man beside himself with fright + box on legs = Rincewind + the Luggage = Interesting Times!

What does it look like in the traditional version?

[lilzazu.livejournal.com]

what is rincewind?? ^__^'' i didn't understand the ending bit hehe...the traditional version for country is 國. i hope u can read that on your comp; if u change the encoding around a bit u should get it. funny description...the face of a guy with a scar on one side, a square eye on the other and a line under the eye indicating he doesn't have enough sleep. does that work???? hehehe. i tried; it's my first time. *smile*

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

Rincewind is a wizard from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. In Interesting Times he saves China. ^_____^

Hm. That works. *grins* Running a kingdom is a lot of work. so is learning Chinese

[lilzazu.livejournal.com]

*nod nod* thanks for the explanation; now it makes sense!! running a kingdom is indeed hard *glares at plot bunnies. then glares at pile of homework.* i agree, it's tough to learn chinese too. i'm currently studying japanese, and the grammar stuff is also just killing me. >___

[etiunis.livejournal.com]

Lets sing! ^__-

Silent Night - Chinese *hihihi*

Ping'an ye, sheng shan ye, wan an zhong, guang hua she,
Zhaozhe sheng mu ye zhaozhe sheng ying,
Duoshao cixiang duoshao tianzhen,
Jing xiang tian ci anmian,
Jing xiang tian ci anmian.

Ping'an ye, sheng shan ye, mu yang ren, zai kuang ye,
Huran kanjian liao tianshang guang hua,
Tingjian tianjun chang ha-li-lu-ya;
Jiuzhu jinye jiangsheng!
Jiuzhu jinye jiangsheng.

Ping'an ye, sheng shan ye, sheng zi ai, guang jiao jie,
Jiu shu hongende liming lai dao,
Sheng rong fachulai rong guang pu zhao:
Yesu wo zhu jiang sheng,
Yesu wo zhu jiang sheng. (Amen)