Ich bin sehr traurig, weil mein Computer kaputt sein aussieht. Na ja, nicht wirklich, aber er ist sehr, sehr langsam. Es ist ganz ärgerlich )= 

Warum???

College rankings might be the most amusing example of the observer effect =p

Ich bin wieder krank )= Ich habe Halsschmerzen, Kopfschmerzen und huste viel. Ich will jetzt schlafen aber ich muss dennoch meine Hausaufgaben machen. Ja, sie sind deutsche Hausaufgaben. 

Life suddenly became so much more interesting after I went to Tahoe. It's kind of weird...

Because it was raining when I went to sleep last night and was still raining when I got up this morning...








下雨天
下雨天了 怎麼辦 我好想你
我不敢打給你 我找不到原因
為什麼失眠的聲音 變得好熟悉
沈默的場景 做你的代替 陪我等雨停

期待讓人越來越沉溺（疲憊）
誰和我一樣 等不到他的誰
愛上你我總在學會 寂寞的滋味
一個人撐傘 一個人擦淚 一個人好累

怎樣的雨 怎樣的夜 怎樣的我 能讓你更想念
雨要多大 天要多黑 才能夠有你的體貼
其實沒有我你分不出哪些差別
結局還能多明顯
別說你會難過 別說你想改變
被愛的人不用道歉

This kind of thing draws the Grammar Nazi out of me the most:

"Being my favourite book, I've seen a heck of a lot of adaptations of Jane Eyre."

Okay, I get what you mean. Except there's a 0.000001% that you actually are your favorite book. And then where would we be?

Omg my life is now complete. This is the most amazing thing I've ever read. In retrospect, perhaps it wasn't a good decision to read it at the mrt station while waiting for my friend. I was wracked with a fit of uncontrollable laughter and tears were streaming down my face :O

So there was a time when I thought I would continue watching House until the bitter end. That was until I watched the 19th episode of the latest season. I have endured House's team being transformed into zombies, a diagnosis scene in an obviously CGI-ed monster truck and musical!House but this episode freaking takes the cake. We're forced to watch Thirteen perform surgery on her friend in her own house and then watch House excise a tumor from his own leg. Seriously??? CSI has made me pretty good at eating while watching bloody scenes on television but watching as House cuts into his thigh and cauterizes his blood vessels is a bit much for me. And I so did not need the shot of Thirteen digging her fingers into her friend's abdomen to determine if any of her vital organs were pierced.

...... eh whaddya know! I was actually watching the wrong episode. It's actually the penultimate episode of the season. Which does not give me much confidence for the season finale. Ack.

Okay I'm supposed to be studying but... omg! The first trailer for Deathly Hallows Part 2 has just been released! -faints-

I thought I should post this - I wrote it last week for a school assignment but I was intending to post something about the burqa ban that went into effect in France last Monday anyway. It's super short because our minimum requirement is 250 words and I couldn't be bothered to write more =p So I guess my ideas aren't explained very well. But I figure I need to learn to be concise anyway. Haha. So here goes:

A few days ago, I read two very strongly-worded essays on the burqa ban that went into effect in France on Monday. It was quite intriguing because both essays were written by (from what I could tell) staunch feminists yet one argued strongly in favor of the ban while the other lambasted supporters of the ban.

The gist of their arguments were as follows: the author in favor of the ban argued that the practice of wearing the burqa was based on deeply misogynistic values and thus France did right in enacting this law to register its disapproval of these values. In contrast, the other author pointed out that some women choose to wear the burqa out of their own free will and imposing a ban on these women suggests that they are not smart or sensible enough to make their own choices and have to be protected (by white Frenchmen).

Personally, I guess I fall somewhere in between these two views although my reasons are far more pragmatic than ideological. I feel that France should not have passed this law because, ultimately, the good it can do is extremely limited while it is very probable that the law would negatively impact freedom in France. Firstly, it is highly unlikely that the ban will be able to reverse misogynistic attitudes, even if we accept that these attitudes are the reason that women wear burqas. Indeed, it is far more likely that women with conservative husbands would just stay at home now instead of venturing out without a burqa. In addition, as mentioned above, the ban would infringe upon the freedom of women who choose to wear the burqa as an expression of their culture or religious views. Thus, overall, based on a purely utilitarian point of view, I believe that France should rescind its burqa ban.