tiger-moth In reply to Kyle-Lovers-Club [2008-06-07 08:39:00 +0000 UTC]

i'd love to! XD

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Kyle-Lovers-Club In reply to tiger-moth [2008-06-16 14:41:06 +0000 UTC]

Awesome ! XD
Welcome to the club then. ^^
And thanks a bunch for joining.

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tiger-moth In reply to Richi89 [2008-02-15 15:04:10 +0000 UTC]

; ) gong xi fa cai to you as well!

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Richi89 In reply to tiger-moth [2008-02-19 07:29:47 +0000 UTC]

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tiger-moth In reply to Cmac13 [2007-12-08 09:35:13 +0000 UTC]

what's it like living in China?
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just fine~

if you'r intereasted in China, and have questions, you can just ask me~

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Cmac13 In reply to tiger-moth [2007-12-08 11:42:40 +0000 UTC]

do you live in a city? are you by the coast ?
i'd love to visit your country someday

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tiger-moth In reply to Cmac13 [2007-12-09 13:45:19 +0000 UTC]

yeah,i live in a city, Chongqing, you may check it out with wikipedia. it's in the west of china, and it's a big port city along the Yangtse river.

add my msn, we can talk further, and i can show u some pics of it~

tiger33tlk@msn.com

and u r welcome to our country, and i hope u can come to Congqing, i'd like to show u around~

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Cmac13 In reply to tiger-moth [2007-12-09 16:41:11 +0000 UTC]

many thanks for your gracious offer if i ever make it to China i'll be sure to let you know

i will take a look at Chongqing in Wikipedia - great and as you can tell from my home page, my email is anca13@msn.com if you would like to communicate that way will you post images of your neighborhood on so everyone can see ? gosh, i've heard lots about the Yanqtse river isn't there a brand new dam on it? anywhere near you?

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tiger-moth In reply to Cmac13 [2007-12-10 13:34:37 +0000 UTC]

i have pics, but they r just taken by my phone, so quality is not so good. actually i really want to post them on DA, so that my friends can see them.

the brand new dam, yeah, the 3 Gorges Dam, it's on the edge of Chongqing.

Chongqing has a compelex land scape, it is based on mountains and have rivers around, it's quite special in China.
i like the mountain very much, my chinese name, Shanshan(山山, just means mountains~
and i also like our rivers, it's gentle green and with white fog covering it, and at night it's really colorful and lively.

what about your city?

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Cmac13 In reply to tiger-moth [2007-12-10 14:37:28 +0000 UTC]

i did go to wikipedia and read up on your beautiful city and found sister cities are Seattle,WA Washington,DC and Detroit, MN as well as Toronto and many others are you in university ? if yes, what are you studying ?

i live in the same sort of area as you but MUCH smaller. out river is the Rio Grande and our mountains are the Sandias - Sandia means watermelon in Spanish because of the colors we see on them at sunrise and sunset i'm not a native of New Mexico as i was born in Brooklyn, New York but i moved here over twenty years ago and fell in love with our mountains.

i have a few images of where i live in my in the folder landscapes and will look forward to seeing the images of your home town when you get a chance to post some

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tiger-moth In reply to Cmac13 [2007-12-12 15:18:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanx~
i tried to find some photos of my city for you but i think it's changing really fast, and those pics look old, so maybe my own photos can show things better. i'll submit it in the weekends.

i watched your photos about landscape, really gorgeous, i like the lovely natural scenery. i also like nature and wild animals very much.

i am in universty now, and majored in mass media.
what about you? what do you do for living?

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Cmac13 In reply to tiger-moth [2007-12-12 16:04:20 +0000 UTC]

the changes in your city sound interesting change can be hard sometimes, but usually for the best i sometimes miss living in a big busy city i grew up in New York and can relate to the hussle/bussle of lots of people and new things to see and hear and eat every day just saw a special on National Geo on the Three Gorges dam - just incredible what humans can accomplish when they put their minds to it

i'm a semi-retired accountant, now living in the small, quiet city of Albuquerque, New Mexico ( i'll be sixty-five soon and hope to live to be 100 ) i work part-time over the web as the accountant for a small specialty roofing construction company here it's really wonderful, no commuting, no tangling with co-workers or supervisors and since i can connect to my office computer electronically, the freedom to go anywhere i want, yet still accomplish the needed work, is really excellent.

the next forty years will be devoted to as little work, but mostly travel so, i may just get to China someday after all probably take five years of saving (the dollar isn't worth much these days ) - but i would to see your beautiful country imagine being an explorer for a living now that would be fun

thankfully technology gives us the ability to at least see foreign places good enough till i can touch ground there myself

gosh, mass media - how cool is that T.V. ? will you use your artistic abilities in your future work? hope so, sounds cool

well, gotta go, it's fun chatting - till next time

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tiger-moth In reply to Cmac13 [2007-12-13 15:32:12 +0000 UTC]

wow, your are really cool at your age
i think what interenet gives us is really magical!

actually, when my friends from other parts of china come to chongqing, asking me where to visit, i always tell them there is nothing interesting for visit. because chongqing is nothing but a city, all modern cities looks similar nowadays. but i think the worth of visititing is for communication, learning what ppl from other places are thinking, learning ideas, concepts which are totally different from mine. but i think language maybe a problem..

if you come to china, i suggest you to go to some more featured places, with special scenery or troditional architecture. 3 gorges maybe worth visiting, it was highly prased by our ancient poets. there were so many poems about it, and some are really beautiful.

3 gorges is special because (oh, how i wish i have a map in hand now) it narrows yangtse suddenly, and make the moutains beside it looks high and sharp, our poems consider it cool and beautiful. as the river broadens when it went through the gorges, it broads and looks gorgeous.

poets like it because it's unique, and it has something to do with their personaly philosophies about life. actually 3 gorges is the mouth of piles of moutains(where chongqing stands on), and yangtse struggles through this tough place.
anyway, it's a tough place, no ppl, even animals are few arround this area. so it's a place of loneliness. and poets feel depressed and sorrowful seeing 3 gorges, and they think that feeling is beautiful.

but as 3 Gorges Dam was built, 3 gorges was greatly changed, the water level was raised, so yangtse no longer narrows. so 3 gorges lost it's spirit.and it caused some enviornmental problems.

before 3 gorges dam was built, many ppl visited it to say good bye to it.
now ppl visit it to see it's broad, and tend to forget it's beautiful because it's narrow and lonely.

it maybe disappointing to tell you this. but i think in Tebet, Xinjiang and Sichuan province there are still some interesting places with it's unique oringinal beauty, it's wild~~ i can tell you about it further when you making the plan to china.

and well, "mass media", maybe it shouldn't be translated that way, i cannot describe my major clearly, actually as freshman in university, we are just learning something more comprehensive.

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Cmac13 In reply to tiger-moth [2007-12-13 17:43:42 +0000 UTC]

i understand completely your language is much better than my ability to respond in Chinese i feel a little badly that i do not comprehend languages other than English but, then i'm good at math, and it's universal, so i don't feel too badly especially when i meet up with someone like you - with excellent skills in English

i remember starting college it's thrilling to realize there is so much out there - ahead of you as you begin your journey as an educated adult i look forward to sharing some of your experiences as we chat on this site

many thanks for your details about your area and Three Gorges i will definitely ask for more as my planned trip to China comes more to the present you'll probably be out of college by the time i can afford the trip, we'll still be chatting by then

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tiger-moth In reply to Cmac13 [2007-12-16 06:12:23 +0000 UTC]

i'm sorry that i respond late~i was busy these days in some school activities~

you do not need to feel badly~ you see i can only speak chinese and english, one as mother tongue, another is almost my major, i had to learn them. i was often surprised by some young artists on DA, they can speak 6 or 8 languages, including Ancient Greek. so cool!

yeah, mathes is universal, but i'm not good at maths. but i still enjoy the fun in solving some maths problems, it's like playing some exciting games.
actually many chinese students are really good at maths, and at the same time many girls hate maths. you know, we are asked to sovle very hard maths problems at young age.
it's a stupid tradition i think.

i think ppl good at maths are more like to become a musician, but you are so good at painting, it's cool~

i resently read a book about american's literature in 1920's, really awesome. i don't know if you interested in these matters?

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Cmac13 In reply to tiger-moth [2007-12-16 14:33:24 +0000 UTC]

don't worry how long it takes to reply, i know how hard it is to be a student study hard first and you'll do well

i think it's stupid to have society decide - girls are bad at math, boys are good at it - that's how it is here in so i agree with your system of providing girls the opportunity of excelling at math at an early age, even though it's hard on some girls who naturally are not good at math. and i agree, math is the master puzzle - everyone follows the same systems but comes to very different and powerful conclusions - not to mention engineers usually get a decent paycheck for their efforts

how nice of you to say that i'm good at painting i think i have an unusual style, but sometimes wonder if that's really good or not

yep, i'm pretty darn old so history is my second favorite subject - both history and world history as well my parents were married in 1928 in Brooklyn NY - they were married for over seventy-five years and just passed away last April - nineteen days apart - so the period you're reading about was a BIG part of my parents life and we heard many stories of what it was like when they were young

oh, and i agree ppl who can speak six or seven languages are held in great awe by me who barely gets English out correctly and failed Spanish in school twice i spent many summers going to extra Spanish classes to get out of High School and on to college - where i bearly got the needed credits in it to graduate oh well, i finally understand one cannot be good at all things

thanks again for sending your warm comments along - i'm having fun chatting - and remember - study hard then if you have time - we'll catch up again

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tiger-moth In reply to Cmac13 [2007-12-23 06:33:30 +0000 UTC]

this week i'm really busy in school.
we got an assessment of university recently all around china, and it was conducted by national education department of government. it is aimed at improving university education quality, so every university is adjusting themselved to the newly released strandard. so did my university. it's terrible to believe we are practicing the "new improving" standard. it is all about restriction, it is trying to shape universities into high schools or primary school...it's very fake, everybody knows that university is about liberal education...
okay, just let it be, i have to educate myself by using the library, internet or talking with ppl who were well educated and know a lot about life all around the world such as you~

humm, yes everybody gets equal opportunity to learn math, but the result is still girls do poorer, and that makes them unhappy in study. but i understand it is important to have this opportunity, because once i get into university, student in my major are not asked to learn maths, actually i feel a little upset..

and about history, i'm really glad to hear that you are interested in it, i think we can have more to discuss on if i learn more about it, you see now i don't have much i dea about it, so i can hardly raise questions.

there's a professor from america teaching american history in my university, but the lecture is not for my major, i got to know it by accident. i just listened the last two lessons, and it has end now. i found it very interesting and inspiring, it showed me new ideas, different aspects, deferent perspective about history. i feel pity i missed the main body of this lecture.
especially when the professor kept saying
"now you are more clever than you first enter this classroom"

and from the summaries given by the professor(he seemed almost cried),i geuss he won't teach the lecture and will go back to u.s next semester.
he is very interested in china, and studied about it for many years when he was in U.S. he came to china with the empathy about chinese ppl, i think.

and i found it really interesting that some art in the early 20th century is much youger, moderner, cooler than today's. such as literature we mentioned. i think ppl at that time understand young spirit better.
comparatively popullar-culture these days are quite fake and boring, massproduced...

well okay,
bye for now~
take care~

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Cmac13 In reply to tiger-moth [2007-12-23 15:58:52 +0000 UTC]

it's good to hear from you -
yes, i agree all societies have restrictions and it seems all individuals need to question those restrictions, i think it's a universal human trait to want more personal freedom - that said - i also think it's important for citizens to work together to make their homeland great.
i was born in 1943, nearly the entire world was at war - horrible weapons were created in hopes of forcing everyone to submit to a central rule - it didn't work and i doubt it will work now not that millions of people don't still dedicate themselves to world domination it just won't work too many people understand life is a series of personal choices as much as a duty to the main structure
so, study hard and grow into the educated adult you are supposed to become. your ideas and feelings will have great impact on those around you as you take on more and more adult responsibilities and as your mind matures you will be able to decide what you can do to make the world a better place for now - study hard and do as well as you can
your comment about early 20th century artists being younger, more hip which artists are you thinking of?

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tiger-moth In reply to Cmac13 [2007-12-29 14:29:24 +0000 UTC]

thanx very much for your instructions!

artists.. i'm not very familiar with hip artists, though i think them cool. chinese know few about them, we hear more about writers like Charles Dickens and O Henry, they are classic and they are older.

i only have a general idea about them.

the book i read is: Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

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