Confusion

fire and ice

The dagger pierces my chest, its smooth cold blade enters slowly. Every inch it glides deeper I feel my breath escape my lips. Everything burns around me, a fire of my own doing. I lay in a pool of my own crimson essence. 

Taiwan vs. Mainland Zhongwen!

Best of...

The best of me, I gave to you...

I stayed with you, all through the night

We danced the dance.

A New Day

It's 11am when I pull the covers off myself

been feeling down, lost track of for how long

I stagger to my feet, walking toward the kitchen, trying to find something to eat

It's been a long time since I've felt  alive

It is like a darkness has surrounded me, and crept deep down inside

Something draws me to the window, where the blinds are closed so tight

The soft glowing light behind; entices  me

Something feels different, this must be the moment and I shall not let it go 

I'm going to let the light in, for the first time in forever

I'm going to let the sun warm my heart today

Showering in solar rays, looking at the world before me

My body feels alive, for the first time in so long

I feel the darkness melt away

Today is going to be a new day

为什么不能它是我吗？

為什麼不能它是我嗎？ why can’t it be me?

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The late night dance

click clack, click clack, your feet make music as you twirl,

Beyond the water under the bridge, I see you dancing on the ridge.

Left right, left right

I join you beneath the waxing moon

Tonight, our night, we dance

Hello world

Testing testing, 1,2,3...  This blog will be a special little place where I keep my thoughts and projects that I am working on. Here is a short list of things to expect while viewing this blog: School projects, written reflections, games, silly things and images of art that I find interesting. 

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A red rose standing in a field of snow left to face the frigid winds on its own Cold slowly gnawing it's stem petals withering Defiantly it stands Refusing to bend to its environment Uncompromising resolve, waiting until her love returns to pluck her Warmth

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Youth is taken from us, either all at once or slowly over TIME...

这是有意思。

Super cool Chineasy character illustrations. 

I like them a lot, but am admittedly a bit torn on some of them as teaching tools. Although not all chinese characters are pictographs (symbols that are drawn to look like the things they represent), some are - as easily seen above with kou, the mouth, and ren, the person.

Nu, the woman, is also a pictograph - but it’s meant to represent the entire figure of a woman, head, limbs, and torso, not just the face. If you ignore the drawing around it and just focus on the character strokes, I think you can easily see her.

If characters already have pictographic roots, I don’t think it’s entirely necessary to create new ones. Particularly when other, more complex characters may later incorporate those same pictographic roots to make a new meaning - creating new ones could unnecessarily confuse a learner.