Obama's secret kill list

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” 
― George Orwell


I wasn't shocked when I read Obama's kill list on NYT. All presidents lie, and it's just a matter of how well they package themselves. Everyday, the government shreds our constitutional rights, taps our mobile, kills innocents abroad, and keeps these different avenues in secrecy when the people demand greater transparency.Once the president claims some sort of power, even if there are objections and their decisions don't seem to be constitutional, it becomes impossible to get the power back.


This article basically says that the executive branch claim to have the right to kill their "enemies" at any time, and Obama spends every Tuesday to review how far counterterrorism operations will go and approves new names on an expanding "kill list." How chilling is it to learn that President Obama– who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture– simultaneously justifies the use of drones to do his killing because they are "surgical" and those killings are consistent with our values? What is he talking about? 


One thing we have to keep in mind is that no matter who we voted for, we must remain vigilant and realize that nobody ever seizes power with the intention of giving it up.


The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Don't let patriotism blind you. Don't let political language make you forget that some other sets of people are human too.

carolina inn

went to tea @ Carolina Inn today, we're both really full since we had a 7" baguette beforehand (and Candice ate all of that D:)

and we took lots of photos, which at one point a random person couldn't stand us and offered to take one for us. 

1Q84

「世上大多數人，並沒有在追求可以證實的真相。 所謂真相大多的情況，是伴隨著強烈的疼痛的–而大部份的人並不追求伴隨疼痛的真相。人們所需要的，是能讓他們盡,量感覺到自己的存在,具有深刻意義的，美麗而舒服的故事。」

習慣了大城市的冷漠，喜歡了美國人的(慣性?)禮貌和幫得就幫的態度。當然，待在這個小鎮是不能跟New York比較。或許你會覺得這不是一個地區性的問題，而是整個社會風氣使然。

只是我有時很困惑。他們的問候顧然是出於好意，但有人要聽真話嗎？不想聽真話就不該說 to be honest吧？一個陌生人聽到你說 I'm not fine 的時候，多數會進一步關心你還是用笑帶過？如果讓你選，你會比較受不了熟悉的人們的冷漠與不聞不問，還是陌生人不懷好意的問候與表面的關心？

Beautiful

一個人欠缺勇氣，總會導致（至少）兩個人受到傷害。

當你躲於房間中不肯面對現實，門外一定有一個人同時在哭。

致:苦戀島主的未來banker

好啦。我終於被banker（＋悶到要死的media law)逼到絕路，就dedicate篇文比你啦。

第一次見到就覺得他好似小夫，尤其他zup陰，真的很神奇（像反地心吸力般挺！) 五官相似度不在話下。


記得有一次打完羽毛球後去康橋間房睡覺。當我卸完妝，穿著睡衣準備睡覺時，banker竟然衝進來，說要hea陣。其實我是超級conscious自己素顏這件事，但也無可奈何，只能盼望在燈光昏暗的環境下（兼用張披）能夠檔一擋。當時有點尷尬，同banker沒有那麼熟，但他甚麼話題都能接–記得談起stalk人我倆特別興奮 D:


我常常覺得banker是裝著一顆女人心的（好聽一點就是心思細密）。除了他緊貼D寸嘴模互插的新聞，極度留意女生的裝扮及照片（“某某的粉也太厚了吧／她ps得好勁wo”），其實他很懂得站在女生的角度思考。失落時他一定會挺你，而且給一些很賤的advice(!)，逗你開心。


我說啊，banker你應該毀掉那些對我不利的照片跟某些記憶（尤其是關於我的感情史），否則你會後悔的！

謹記

Top 5 food cravings

I don't know why, but these days I feel like my hunger is never ending and I always want something to nibble on (despite the fact that I'm full).

Crap.

Anyway, I've been surfing food blogs while studying (hence the lack of productivity and concentration), and here're my top five food cravings at the moment:

1) 翠華無敵奶醬豬

2) Ms. B's Cakery 

3) ROLL

4) La Creperie

5) Holly Brown

天啊。全都是甜點！

擁有比失去更難受.



因為擁有了,

那短暫的快感和希望能使人忘我
心裏滿載慶幸,
往往深思熟悉的人也會把後果拋誅腦後


因為擁有了,
我們害怕把事情捉得不夠緊
變得懦弱

要擁有, 並不難
就是怕下一步走錯了
爬不起來.

失去,
不一定會改過
但至少學懂了犯了什麼錯

挫傷了, 可以從新開始
只是,
我們比從前更成熟
更懂事.

你要做一个不动声色的大人了。不准情绪化，不准偷偷想念，不准回头看。去过自己另外的生活。你要听话，不是所有的鱼都会生活在同一片海里。——村上春树

D:

Roommate 剛剛說他在打機時看到一條蜈蚣


嚇•死•我




然後我們討論如果它爬上我們的身上，或是在我們睡覺時行動的話...應怎麼辦


現在我超不安的，所以上網查了一下：


因種類的不同，腳的數目可以從15對到最多177對。

但大多是15、21或23對居多。
身體扁平軀幹有15至180節不等，第一對附肢為顎足，末端有毒爪，內部有毒腺。
蜈蚣居於溫暖地方，白天躲藏在石塊或枯木下，晚間獵食，行動大分敏捷，先以毒爪殺死獵物，再用大顎嚼碎吞食。"



D:


重點是：一旦發現家裡有蜈蚣就說明你家起碼有一窩，蜈蚣產卵一次是40-60粒
其中一個對付方法是“養只公雞抓之”


WTF!


有興趣的話去http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/question?qid=1611072303422 看看


其實那個回答者挺好笑的: “我自己住的房子我一個星期殺了三、四十條大大小小的蜈蚣出來，而且現在正在繼續殺。”


成個expert 咁xD





後記：

我一直都覺得我張被好靚，但roommate 話如果真係有條蜈蚣跌咗落黎或爬咗上黎都唔會覺，因為個pattern太花

不過，Candice 你唔洗驚！我已經即刻吸麈，噴殺蟲水，又移咗張床到更安全嘅位置（遠離窗口）...希望冇事！

who will you call?

exactly where the problem lies...

false image overtook reality.

In One Adjective, Please Tell Me Who You Are

resilient

interesting dress.

On love

One of the most important books that I've read is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, which is a deeply moving story of a Greek family’s encounter with twentieth century America. It traces a rampant gene through three generations of the Greek/American Stephanides family, which causes narrator Calliope Stephanides at the age of forty-one to be re-born as a boy (Cal) when he has previously been raised as a girl (Calliope/Callie). Calliope suffers from 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome, where both male and female genitalia are present in a body, one more visible than the other.


What is significant in this novel is that Eugenides shatters the “American Dream” and reprimands its acclaim of being “liberal”.  Although the states tried to uphold certain democratic values, American culture by large is repelled when they hear words like "hermaphrodites," "gay" and "lesbian." 


Last week, North Carolina passed Amendment One, which defined marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman. It really angers me that people are trying to be involved in personal affairs, like who you can love or marry. It's ridiculous that the society is attaching a criminal aspect when two individuals of the same sex happen to fall in love. Maybe you could alleviate those who already feel displaced in their biological gender instead of confining their ability to gain respect? 


There's an ancient myth of metamorphosis about the Navajo society, which included a category of person called "berdache." It is basically someone who adopts a gender other than their biological one. Sex is biological. Gender is cultural. The Navajo understand this. If a person wants to switch her gender, they let her. And they don’t denigrate that person - they honor her.

Love is love. Approving same-sex marriage is not a moral decline of our country– passing the ban is. 


     

Georgetown Cupcakes

其實身邊有很多關心你的人，只是你一直focus在那些傷害你的人。

ding! lee min ho hor ng hor yi ng hoi gum lang jai?

like sisters

some cute things i found from Sugarland's pin interest:

FYI– Sugarland is a cupcake & gelato shop on Franklin Street, right next to UNC campus! They have a good selection of cupcake flavors and I've always had some trouble picking which one I wanted.

all-time favorite

Under the Carolina Blue Sky...

A guy proposed to his gf during the commencement yesterday, uber sweet!

Notable:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was one of the speakers during commencement yesterday, and has told University of North Carolina graduates that the more we learn, the freer we will be. "Knowledge is the most powerful weapon in the fight against repression," he said. Every generation has brought more freedom to this country, and he expects the latest generation to continue the effort, especially after last Tuesday's vote approving a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in North Carolina.

Quotable: 

"The business world is dog eat dog,  and the government world is the opposite." 

I guess this is one of the most remarkable part of his speech– that occasionally, it is necessary to elbow each other. And Bloomberg successfully delivered these hard facts and advice without losing humor. 

I cried

I love you, I've always did, just that I don't know how to express it

"Reporters travel with the candidates and see the campaign as it is waged on the road. They always interpret the outcome as a matter of skill and strategy. The winning side has it; the losers don’t. This is so automatic, it is as if it were a fixed law of journalism.

Losers are always portrayed as inept, people who don’t know how to campaign effectively, following dumb strategies, always. Even Al Gore who won the 2000 popular vote—and by a margin three times larger than Kennedy’s 1960 victory—was portrayed as an inept campaigner who didn’t know how to run a campaign."– Professor Stimson


If just once winners were portrayed as inept or losers as astute, these stories might have some meaning. But it never happens. 

Warmth

You know you have a great friend when they deliver fresh scones to your door :) Esp when you still have one more exam to kill!

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” 
― Bob Marley

有時認識了某些人，發現了她們的優點後，我會不自覺地想-如果我能擁有那一部分..會有多付合你心目中的我？看到了B數口好，懂得投資；或看到了C，人緣好，夠圓滑、懂得拉攏關係...然而我本身的條件實在相差太遠。

可能你越來越失望，我並不是你想像。但當你以別人的好來量度我的人格，去特顯我的缺點時，可否想想我有在努力呢？

不要只顧著投射你理想的形象在我身上，因為逼我逞現你喜歡的臉孔，只會令我們更辛苦，更虛偽。

15 minutes of..

Rave party outside UL.

Apparently, UNC students have too much stress ...