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終於對xanga的功能貧窮忍無可忍了.
首先, 鞠躬對xanga背後辛勤工作的員工致意抱歉.
Welcome to Cleone's New Blog:
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When your life gets to be overwhelming, when you feel like too much of the world is depressing, there are 2 things you can do: One, sit in your house and feel the doom and gloom and continue to watch the news, shaking your head in resignation and saying to yourself, "Oh no my life sucks. The world is ending, there's nothing I can do." This is one way to go. I, personally, wouldn't recommend it.
"Well," you say, "what's the other option?"
Here it is: If you must watch the news, turn the sound off and imagine the news anchor people are telling you all about your day. Make up happy events, adding your name into the report every 3rd or 4th sentence.
There goes mine:
- "Cleone is the world's tallest midget."
- "The Great Spirit smiles on Cleone. On Cleone and only Cleone. The Great Spirit hates everybody else. They are best friends!"
- "Brat Pitt would rather date Cleone than either Angie or Jenn."
- "Cleone sings better than Nelly Furtado. Cleone has as many Grammys as Nelly Furtado. Cleone is Nelly Furtado."
- "Cleone can walk through walls. No, she can't."
- ..............
I have not gotten up this early in the morning in a long long time (I got up at 5am! No I lied, 5:26am.). It felt ultra-mega good to get up early. Headed straight to Timmis to study before my mid-term exam this afternoon. I never cram for tests. I always study far in advance. Fine, I lied again. I went to Timmis to cram for my test.
I love the freshness of morning! (warning: never exercise outdoor in the morning due to its un-filtered bad air) um....I still love its freshness: fresh mind, fresh showered body, and a brand new fresh day! It gets me hyper.  I doubt nobody knows I'm crazy.
Oh and how was the exam...I think I over-crammed it. 
Oh-LaLa, I managed my exam so well and let's celebrate!
Bought her 2nd book, his book, hers...his... Well I love this person.
5 hours after purchasing, I finished reading it. My obsession.
Propz, Ellen! You rock the world.
Oh I have not yet explained why I did so well on this exam.
The godly essay question of the exam was: "How was the music manipulated and controlled during the period of Cultural Revolution(文化大革命) in China?"
WOW, this topic is truly designed for me! I have never dreamt of gaining my freedom of speech to humiliate 毛澤東 on a test of my University course! According to Mao 毛澤東, after the People's Republic of China established, literature and art were "leftovers" from the old society. He said, "We need to have our thoughts and our style of life 'corrected'."  As long as the things praised were relevant to the proletarian class (無產者), Mao and the communist party, our praise was encouraged no matter how weird, how queer, how bizarre, how fantastic, how unbelievable, or how illogical it might be! Mao doesn't evaluated an author or artist by his works but by his attitude toward the revolution and toward Mao himself. 無奈。
大海航行靠舵手
萬物生長靠太陽
雨露滋潤禾苗壯
干革命靠的是毛澤東思想
魚兒離不開水
瓜兒離不開秧
革命群眾離不開共產黨
毛澤東思想是不落的太陽
For 10 years, this was the song people had to sing many times a day. The radio blasted it from morning till night, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week! Why was it so important? Because its text praised Mao to the nth degree, and it was generally believed that the more you sang it the more you loved Mao! Mao had long been looked upon as the symbol of absolute truth, of proletarian revolution, of socialist China... Therefore, to praise him, to eulogize him, was to love China, to love the Party, and to love the people. Moreover Mao liked this song. (自戀)  Whatever he liked, the people must like. It was a sign of loyalty. Loyalty to Mao, at least outwardly, was of paramount importance in being a Chinese citizen!!  Oh this just makes me really proud of being a Canadian citizen.
回首文革革命歌曲, 一個悲慘的思想扭曲！
文革時期這些歌曲, 從它們產生的方式到推廣的方式, 都脫離了藝術的範疇.
這批歌曲是用來製造意識形態的一個產業.
它們的生產過程是變態的, 不是正常社會產生出來的作品.
我在設想, 如果有一天, 毛澤東在人們心目中像Hitler一樣,
那些歌曲是不是還會流傳, 還會唱呢？
文革中還有一個現象: (當時影響最大的media不是電視, 而是電台.)
中央人民廣播電台每天早晨的開播曲是《東方紅》
(......他為人民謀幸福，他是人民大救星......)
晚上收播曲是《國際歌》
(從來就沒有什麼救世主，也不靠神仙皇帝。
要創造人類的幸福，全靠我們自己。)
這種自相矛盾的做法硬是持續了那麼多年...
幸慶自己現在的自由  遠離共產黨...
University Ranking...by Globe and Mail.
The ranking turned out to be VERY surprising.
University of Toronto took us a whack-load of tuition fee and it is now sitting at the top of the students' least favourite University. Which one stays on the top on almost all criteria of rankings? Tada, It's University of Western Ontario! The "party-school" image, woohoo!...I'd admit Western has an awesome student life. However I don't feel crap about being a UofT student just yet. Students don't like it (including me), but the world recognizes it (top 13 in International Universities Ranking including the Ivy League). So there. 
and yes I own 2 flutes now.
One from ebay and the other rented from Cosmo.
Yes I am very rich.
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秋意漸濃，離冬季已不遠，大家注意身體唷！
昨日去了H&M的大賣，排了很久隊，獵物又很是差勁。
今日準備去血拼敢死隊的同胞, advise你們還是留在家裡保暖吧！
最近罕有機會上來寫網誌, 心態上有不少小姐脾氣的起伏。
需要些瑜珈精神, 修身養心, 讓自己心平氣和起來。
呢排寡人屬於敏感時期，關於我的一切，別來問我。謝絕關心
Mid-term時期，同學們俾心機！
貼上某大師網誌中的一章：
雖說尖子升錄，破格跳級升讀大學是好事。如果跟隨當時教育署的九年強迫教育、經過會考和高考進入大學，令一些資優學童的潛能根本不能得以發揮。現在，有十四歲的會考，有九歲的被浸大取錄，再之前有陳亦希和中六升學。
在潛能發揮無疑是一件好事，在心理、生活而言卻得到很大的壓力。
現在的方法基本上就是「拔尖」，只不過不限於中六而已。我們的生活從小就習慣和相近年齡的人相處，就算是降班或跳級，也只不過正負相差一兩歲而已，何來有14歲的已經中五﹖9歲就能進入大學﹖
人
和人本身就是講「夾唔夾」，心理學就是matching
hypothesis。待人接物是否有熱誠和有禮固然重要，但不同年紀的人相處本身就是不同角色的分別。大家是中七學生，歲數相同，小時候經歷的社會背景
差不多，溝通容易，餘下的是待人接物、人的優缺點、興趣等其他因素。
一個9歲的同學進了大學，若這個人有禮有熱誠，一般大學生都可以好好
的和他相處，可是這個好相處，彼此關係是沒有關係、朋友關係還是知己﹖在我們的價值觀裡面，其實不期然會排除年紀相差大的親密關係
(除了父母兄弟姊妹)，學生固然可以和老師相處得好，但成為知己卻很難，因為老師有很多的不能和學生分享，除了本身的職位外，也礙於學生未成熟而難以令學
生明白；我們反對師生戀；我們覺得老師和學生本身應有一段距離；老師至少要適當的威嚴......
和不同年紀的人相處，有前後輩之分，也
因為時代背景不同，難以溝通和成為好朋友。我這裡想提出的，並不是資優學童進入大學就一定沒朋友，但他在大學所扮演的角色是什麼，卻沒有人可以提出的。至
少我們可以見到，如果循正規教育就學，經歷中五七的會考，他至少有機會有中學老同學，留下中小學時的回憶。資優因為提早升學，相對比別人的轉變還多，就算
能認識朋友，不久便要說再見，到了大學，一個面對五十至一百個同系同學，究竟他應該處一個什麼角色呢﹖
我們只顧為了人材，發展經濟，卻從
來沒有想過資優學童的快樂。報章刊登其xanga，又有網絡上的指責，14歲面對有關指責，報章稱其辯才說豬和人也是哺乳類動物應以尊重云云，實際也是提
早感到世事殘酷，迫於「寸」人而已。一見到有IQ高的人就紛紛宣傳，認為這些人很快可以貢獻社會之際，卻沒有想過如何為資優學童得到與眾不同的快樂，留下
較別人獨持的童年 / 青春回憶。我們好像可以讓一個有天才的人發揮潛能，始乎另一方面又過於控制和注視。
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今天的天氣 很濕
霧很厚 總是看不遠 令人思索
一日復一日, 周邊不停在發生著很多很多的事情
我們時不時地議論著。
對它或是同情、或是愛戴、或是諷刺、或是批評...
從雞毛蒜皮的鄰家小事到毫無關連的國家大事，
總是那樣, 議論著
為我們的生存 而證明著
我夢想，當世界上每一個人都是基督徒時，那種完美
我很喜歡我現在的心情狀態, 很和平
和平得...好像隨時可以蒸發掉。走著走著 不見了。
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2008 我要去非洲 is on the go.
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