The heated debate these past few days over whether it's 「于是人」 or 「于斯人」 got me thinking about my grandma again. I really want to go back to my hometown and dig through my old books, find my middle-school Chinese textbook, and see what the original text actually was — seeing is believing, after all. My grandma is in Jiangyan, and all my childhood textbooks are there too; she kept them all at home. Sigh, but sadly they're gone now, one after another. The home is gone, my grandma is gone. Those connections have been severed beyond repair.

Dreamed I took a train away from the cemetery 🪦. Along the way, so many people were burying their loved ones. Thinking that I would never have Grandma again, I cried myself awake. The greatness of a generation and its sacrifice for its children and grandchildren—years from now, their children's children should know it and remember it too. In a world of blooming flowers, the stars guard the sea and never leave. One day we too will walk toward you and turn into stars. Where our light cones intersect, we will meet again.

Yesterday afternoon I saw the 16:50 showing of Avatar. Although I’d already watched a ton of official videos and clips, I was still deeply blown away. The beauty of Avatar is that it made an internet-addicted otaku freelancer like me suddenly loathe modern technology and Earth, and long endlessly for Pandora.

This year there are two big movies: one is 2012, the other is Avatar. 2012 has already sounded a warning bell for everyone on Earth, and the film I’m most looking forward to next is Avatar — a movie that will get people thinking, too. Avatar, that super 3D blockbuster, opens worldwide in both 2D and 3D on the 18th of this month, and mainland China has tentatively set its release for January 2nd next year.

Half a year already — Season 2 has finally started airing overseas, which means we can download it. YYeTs is updating Season 2:

The first 6 episodes of SGA5 were really boring to watch — they even felt like they were leaning toward soap opera. Starting from episode 8, Wrath’s team operations show up again: City A forms an a...

Modern Express: Hadron Collider Starts at 15:30 Today, Unraveling the Mystery of the Universe’s Birth:

The first 3 episodes of this season were all pretty boring, but episode 4 showed up with a time-hopping Daedalus that drew them aboard and took them on a tour of a few parallel universes.

SGA Season 5Episode 1 had already aired, and after a long 13-day wait I finally caught a glimpse of Episode 2. Just found the time to watch it

Last night I played Sins of a Solar Empire (hereafter Solar) until midnight. I’ve finally got the hang of it. Three takeaways: