The house of Babel

October 17, 2008

video conference

Filed under: Business & Economy — admin @ 12:53 pm

When you start working, many people have to deal with business trips. In a lot of the cases, most of your time was spent on the traffic, such as driving, taking the train or getting on the plain. After you arrive at the place, you are already exhausted. If you have to be on a business trip to a foreign country, there are more things coming with it, such as getting visas and cheap plane tickets to the country. Most of the time, you can not focus on the important business talk because of the jet lag. Thinking about all these inconvenient things, WiredRed will become the minion of all the business. You can do video conference with your business partner wherever they are.

curiosity

Filed under: Arts & Humanities, Fashion/Style/Trends, general thoughts — admin @ 12:34 pm

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When people got pregnant, many people let their fetus listen to some music, or they talk to the fetus. Pregnancy is totally new for me. I have many questions or a lot of curiosity about it. First I was thinking how the fetus can breathe in the uterus. The nurse told me that actually the fetus does not breathe in the uterus; they get everything from the umbilical cord. That is a huge thing. They even do not breathe when they are inside of the uterus, but once they come out, they have to do everything. I was thinking about if they can speak something or not when they are in the uterus.

October 14, 2008

Halloween Costumes

Halloween is coming. For every American kid, I think, this is the most exciting time for them. They grew up in such environment. Normally when you are at a foreign country, the best thing to do is that when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Otherwise you will feel you are incompatible and can not enjoy your life there.
So for me, Halloween is a time for me to get to know the country, the people and the culture here.
If you let me choose the best fit from Halloween Costumes, I would choose the Superhero Costumes.
There is some reason about that and I would give some advice on that.
Maybe 5 years ago, I knew nothing about America since I went to Japan after graduation and stayed until last year. Most of the movies I watched were Japanese shows. You know, the Japanese animations are even famous in the world. Also the Japanese electronic stuff is famous in the world too. So I had no reason and no chance to get to know about American culture. I did not change my mind until I watched Mr. Incredible. The pictures in that were so beautiful and I think the characters in the animation would get liked by every kid. You know, the Japanese animation always can grab the children’s hearts so closely and tightly in a peaceful way.
The advice I want to give is that if there are some props coming with the costumes that would be perfect because children like the character not just because of the characters’ costumes but all the things the characters used.

spoke incoherently

Filed under: Chinese, English, Japanese — admin @ 8:51 am

After I got pregnant, sometime I found that I spoke incoherently.
M: Hi, honey, can you get a bull from the chicken for me?
H: We have neither bull nor chicken around here. It is bowl, and from the kitchen?
M: Yeah, get me the bowl from the chicken or kitchen, whatever, you know my meaning.
M: Do you need a pearl for dessert?
H: Perl? Or pear? I only can eat pear.
M: I go party now.
H: Now? In such time?
M: why not, I can go party at any time as I want.
H: it is potty. Not party.
Sometime Chinese, Japanese and English just want to run out from my mouth at the same time.

October 8, 2008

Email marketing

Filed under: Computers & Internet — admin @ 3:25 pm

When you have your own business, you have to have your own system, not just using the free email in the world. Free mail, of course, is good. It is convenient for individual person communicating with the friends and family. But you know, all the free mail have security problem. Sometime they sell you address out for some sneaky business. And suddenly commercial junk email just floods your inbox. Sometime they check your information in your private email. If we start our own business, we need it to be safe. If you still did not decide one, I recommend you to have a look of Email marketing. Not only does it do all the good thing that the free email does, but also you can set up to automatically answer email for you.

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Filed under: English, Japanese — admin @ 3:07 pm

Some day we were watching Japanese soccer team playing games. Their name was shown in English. And the First name was shown with initial. So 英寿中田(Hidetoshi Nakata) becomes H. Nakata. Honey had some wield sense for languages. He just read that as H. Nakatta, in Japanese エッチ なかった。In Wikipedia, “Ecchi (or Etchi, from the Japanese エッチ etchi) is derived from a Japanese word meaning “lewd”, “sexy”, “lascivious”, or “naughty” when used as an adjective, and can refer to sexual intercourse when used as a verb or noun.” So you know what it means.
When 福田康夫(Fukuda Yasuo)became the prime minister in 2007, honey read his name in his own way again. Fukuda became “Fuck you da”
Not even one year, Fukuda Yasuo quit and 麻生太郎(Aso Taro) continued. He said “Fuck you da” is gone, Ass hole is back.

October 1, 2008

online tickets

Sometime we want to do something, but we do not know where to get the relative information. If you are hesitating about something now, Online Tickets StubPass.com ticketswould be your perfect entertainment guider.
In China, after Yao Ming starts playing basketball in NBA, many people pay attention to basketball games. Now in China, you know, Yao Ming becomes the number one popular national star. Whenever or wherever you go, you can see the all kinds of commercials with Yao Ming on it. From drink to clothes, to electric applicants, Yao Ming becomes the image spokesperson:
Also as everybody knows, Yao Ming is playing games in NBA. To go to watch Yao Ming playing games becomes many Chinese’s dream. I am one of the fans. And fortunately I got to know where to get the NBA Tickets .
I visited the site, and then I found that it is really a wonderful site. You can get not only sports tickets, but also concert tickets and theater tickets there. It is like a entertainment tickets encyclopedia.
Normally women and men have different hobbies on sports. Also the people from different countries would have like different sports because of the culture background. In China, Ping-Pong is kind of national sports. In Brazil, soccer is their national sports because it is easy for everybody to play that. In America, if you do not know baseball and Super ball, you would not enjoy the common talks among people. You know they are their national sports.
I am from China; I do not know baseball and Super ball so much because I do not know the rules so much. Sometime when honey was watching it, I always ask him questions. Honey is from Florida, and he played American soccer when he was in college. He likes watching Super ball very much when the season comes. I was thinking, probably I could get some Miami Heat Tickets for him and surprise him.

take care of your mother

Filed under: English, Society & Culture — admin @ 1:34 pm

I was watching the TV “Two and a half men”. The first time when I saw it, I loved it, because Charlie’s words are always so funny and full of humor and perfect irony. On the other hand, because it is so idiomatic, sometime it is difficult for me to get the exact meaning from the surface of the words.
Last night it was the second time for me to watch the scene of “take care of your mother”, which was the scene when Charlie went to do surfing but got drowned and saw his father, and his father told him to “take care of your mother”.
The story continued in a very irony way as it always did. In the end he got to know the really meaning of his father’s meaning was not to assume responsibility for his mother, it was the exact opposite meaning.

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