貓鎮的小公寓
Where Hui & Little Cat Dwell

I always think that poems are written for special people to read, and I’m not one of them.

Not that I’ve changed my mind, but I read this little poem in the latest *ahem*PIPP, and thought I want to share it.

Some More Light Verse

You have to try. You see a shrink.
You learn a lot. You read. You think.
You struggle to improve your looks.
You meet some men. You write some books.
You eat good food. You give up junk.
You do not smoke. You don’t get drunk.
You take up yoga, walk and swim.
And nothing works. The outlook’s grim.
You don’t know what to do. You cry.
You’re running out of things to try.

You blow your nose. You see the shrink.
You walk. You give up food and drink.
You fall in love. You make a plan.
You struggle to improve your man.
And nothing works. The outlook’s grim.
You go to yoga, cry, and swim.
You eat and drink. You give up looks.
You struggle to improve your books.
You cannot see the point. You sigh.
You do not smoke. You have to try.
~ Wendy Cope

一個人可以有多龜毛呢? 這麼龜毛… ~”~

On the bright side, since Yam Blog’s style sheet is so (unnessarily) complicated, I did get to practice my css skills quite a lot in order to find out how their tags work.

The conclusion: Blogger and WordPress’ style sheets are quite easy to handle, and it’s not too much work to port the style sheets from one to the other if you know css; however, however, however, I think Yam Blog needs to seriously review their templates designs and architectures in order to make things easier for themselves and bloggers. One thing I really don’t like about Yam Blog’s style sheet is that, they use so many images (background images for almost every major tag). No wonder it’s sometimes very slow to load a blog from their server. (Think about how many people are loading the same background image file of a popular theme at the same time!)

至於我拿個養樂多部落格要幹麼… Hm… Hm… 再說吧… :P

OK, first things first: the sound quality of this clip is hideous. So all you recording purists out there, don’t even attempt to listen to it (and if you do, don’t complain to me that the recording quality is horrendous. ;)

“Why did you even bother to put a clip like this up on your blog, then?” You asked.

Well…

I haven’t been recording my singing for quite awhile now, and I thought it’s time for me to do so. My idea is that, once I start doing it, I’ll continue to do so; also, I guess after taking voice lessons for two years, maybe it’s time for me to *ahem* get organized and document what I’ve been doing in my lessons.

I always learn something no matter how I perform in the workshop. Tonight happened to be a good one, the only good one in the last few months, actually. You’ll hear me talk about what I learned in the bad ones in the future, I guarantee you… :P

So, what did I learn tonight? (more…)

Justin 辭掉了一份在台灣人人稱羨的工作去實現他的旅行夢.

他說他早上可以快八點起床, 出去騎騎車, 悠閒的吃個早餐, 順便看看書, 上上網, 過著愜意的生活.

昨兒個晚上跟國中畢業後就沒再見過面的同學和在這兒巧遇好幾次的 chichiko 一塊兒吃晚飯. chichiko 問了一個我常被問到的問題…

“你都幾點上班啊?”

為什麼常被問到呢? 可能是因為 msn messenger 詔告大家我上線的時間都怪怪的. daimiao 以前要是看到我早上十點以前上線都會來關切一下… “你今天怎麼那麼早啊?”

我… 我… 我…
(more…)

剛搬來小公寓的時候臥室落地窗用的是 vertical blinds (直立百葉窗… 真的是這樣說嘛?) 我一向都喜歡窗簾飄飄飄的感覺, 所以…

自從有了窗簾以後, 窗簾跟落地窗之間的空間儼然就變成了小貓的 秘 密 基 地. 是所有小貓攻擊行動的計畫中心. 看到窗簾上的洞了嘛? 是的, 小貓都直接從窗簾後面飛撲到他的目標上…

這時候就只能安慰自己, “沒關係, 當初買 IKEA 的便宜窗簾還不就是為了這一天…” ~”~

… 唱不出歌來是因為心裡很難過…

嘴巴就是不想被張開, 聲音就是不想從喉嚨裡被吐出來.

能逃到哪兒呢?

原來, 還是憔悴的啊…

What do you do on a breezy sunny Saturday afternoon?

Why, create a “favicon” for your blog, of course!

(If you’re using IE6, you can’t really see it unless you bookmark my site… :)

What’s the word for favicon in Chinese?

It’s [fill-in-the-blank]!

Whatever it is, LC’s always interested in what’s going on outside.

小貓溜出門過三次半:

一次半發生在以前租的房子. 那兒的紗窗年久失修, 一推, 整扇窗就掉下來了. 一天晚上忽然發現找不到小貓, 找了半天赫然發現紗窗掉在小院子裡, 小貓站在檸檬樹下… 那半次呢, 是書房的紗窗掉到外面草叢裡了, 小貓一半身子已經在窗架外面, 屁股搖啊搖的準備往下跳…

再一次是剛搬到小公寓沒多久. 這次雖然紗門不會掉下來, 以致於我們放心大膽的開著玻璃門, 但是紗卻不太能固定在窗架上. 而我們之所以發現紗不牢固, 還不是因為…

小貓破窗而逃… ~”~

小公寓周圍地理環境比較驚險, 只要一出去就到外頭了, 也沒有小院子什麼的可以擋一下. 這會兒我們找了快半個小時, 才在鄰居的樓梯上找到 “頭上掛著一根草” 的小貓.

經過這次之後想說, 好吧, 要開窗的時候拿個什麼擋著好了… 這麼一擋也就過了快三年…

但人算不如貓算, 年中出門一個禮拜請鄰居來餵貓, 那陣子天氣熱, 好心的鄰居來家裡都會把玻璃門打開通通風. 一天晚上門關上之後留的縫大了一點, 小貓又蹭啊蹭啊把紗門的紗蹭開溜出去了… 提著行李回家看不到小貓, 真的是快瘋了… 從晚上十點找到兩點, 終於在鄰居的露台下面找到縮在裡面的小貓…

小貓啊小貓, 妳到底想要到外面去做什麼呢?

在搬到小公寓剛滿三年的今天, 終於狠心花了大價錢 — 換了一扇新的紗門也換了另一扇門上的紗… (啊這時候才想到那 “修理紗窗~ 紗門~ 換玻璃” 的好… 大家要珍惜啊… ~”~) 換的可是 pet screen 喔, PET SCREEN 喔! 比一般的紗貴兩倍, 貓爬上去紗不會被抓破的 pet screen 喔!

可總覺得這輩子還會再經歷一次小貓失蹤記… 好害怕啊… ~”~

外邊兒是什麼在嘩啦嘩啦的響啊?

我一直都有一個理論, 什麼樣的人就會養出什麼樣的貓 (or 狗, 豬, etc.)

小貓這一陣子微胖 (比標準體重 9.5 磅多了 1 磅, 怎麼少餵都瘦不下來), 愛亂發脾氣, 而且常常懶洋洋的坐著, 一臉很無聊的樣子.

Oops.