Wanted: Nescafe Diamond Jars!
Hey everyone!
This year is Nescafe's 70th Anniversary and because of that we're looking for samples of the historical Nescafe Diamond Glass Jars. I think the most common one is the 50g jar. These jars were most popular I think in the 70's and 80's and are still used as drinking glasses in homes and eateries all over the country. Anyway, if you have one of these glass jars I hope you could lend it to us because we'll be featuring it as part of the campaign for the 70th anniversary. I promise it will be returned to you in one piece. Message me back if you can help me out.
Thanks, thanks!
Love in Chinese
"'Love,' this English word: Like other English words it has tense. 'Loved' or 'will love' or 'have loved.' All these specific tenses mean Love is a time-limited thing. Not infinite. It only exist in particular period of time. In Chinese, Love is '愛' (ài). It has no tense. No past and future. Love in Chinese means a being, a situation, a circumstance. Love is existence, holding past and future.
If our love existed in Chinese tense, then it will last forever, it will be infinite." - Zhuang
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
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This passage really struck me when I read it, so I thought I'd share it with everyone else. :) I think I like the Chinese concept of love better than that what I've become used to. You see, the Chinese don't use the word 'love' lightly, while we seem to be able to throw it around on a regular basis. " I love that shirt." "I love this song." With this kind of attitude, love seems to be fleeting, a passing fancy. So when we end up saying "I love you" to someone, it's a little harder to take seriously. Is it love on the same level as loving the song that's playing on the radio? Or is it LOVE? The kind that just is, without past and future.
Oh well, I don't really know what I'm getting at here. I'm just voicing out my thoughts.
Before I my pointless ramblings, another interesting thing I wanted to share, if you look closely at the character for love
'愛'you'll see that in the middle of it is the character for heart '心' I just thought that was pretty cool.
Not Done With 21
Tomorrow I turn 22. No, this is not some secret plot to get people to send me birthday greetings. I'd actually rather you didn't. You see, I'm not done with being 21 yet. I feel like 21 should be a charmed year for everyone and yet, I feel like I spent the entire year in a haze of uncertainty. I was constantly second-guessing myself, never sure if I was taking the right step. And that took the fun right out of being 21. And today, it suddenly hit me that its my last day of being 21. The last day that I can say, "I'm 21." It's not as if I can rush out and accomplish everything I want to do as a twenty-one year old before midnight. I dunno, maybe I'm being ridiculous. It's not as if I'll be undergoing a sudden transformation the moment I turn 22. But somehow, I feel that there's a major difference between 21 and 22. Twenty-one year olds are allowed to mess up at times, act crazy, say silly things, party hard, make the wrong decisions - and get away with it, with people saying, "Well, she's only 21," while shrugging their shoulders and nodding knowingly (not at the same time, though). For some reason, those things aren't acceptable anymore when you're TWENTY-TWO. At twenty-two, you're supposed to be mature and wise and all pulled-together. Think, crisp white blouse, pencil skirt, black pumps, perfectly-coiffed hair. If you're a girl, you'll get it. If you're a guy, well, you probably don't get this whole post anyway. (kidding...:P) The thing is, I don't know exactly how to get there. I'm definitely NOT gonna do it in a day. That's the thing about time. It never slows down or stops so that you can catch up. So I'm constantly rushing to keep up with it and when I stop and think, I realize that I've missed out on a lot during all the rushing and running, and of course, while I'm taking my thinking break, I'm left even further behind and now have to run even faster. Exhausting. But, exhilirating as well. I guess the best we can do is just keep running, keep growing, keep changing, keep doing all the things we want to do. Isn't that what life is really about, anyway? So, that said, I won't fight aganst being 22 anymore. I still don't know what the next year will bring for me, or who the twenty-year old me will be, but so what? I can't stop my birthday from happening so I might as well dive headfirst into being twenty-two and hope everything else falls into place. :)
50 Things YOU can learn from Korean dramas
* Grabbed this off another fangirl's page. LOL.
1) Hot, rich, younger men love fat, older vulgar women.
2) If you have a best guy friend, he is in love with you. And secretly you are too.
3) You and your boyfriend will always playfully chase each other on an ice rink, at the beach, or in the leaves. And you'll laugh for no reason and your boyfriend will hit you "playfully" but the force of his push will have you flying across the room. But it's okay. Cuz you're still laughing like a crazy person.
4) Brothers/cousin/uncles-newphews will always love the same girl.
5) You're allowed to make uturns wherever you want in Korea. And there is never traffic on the side you want to u turn to.
6) There is a super quick payment device that allows you to pay a bill quickly enough for a guy to run immediately out of a restaurant after his angry girlfriend storms out.
7) Everyone has cancer.
8) If you're sick, all you need is an IV to make you feel lots better.
9) There is vomit and urine all over Seoul at nights.
10) Fighting at a pojangmacha with a random stranger is merely part of a normal night's event.
11) Soju must cost 10 cents. Everyone drinks it everyday all the time, especially the poor people.
12) If you're rich, you're a jerk.
13) If you're poor, you're an angel.
14) Women sleep and wake up with a full set of makeup on.
15) You're not studying hard enough unless you get a nosebleed.
16) If you have a nosebleed, you most definately have cancer. And you have no money to pay for the surgery that will save your life. And your liver is missing. We're not sure where it went, but it's making your cancer progress faster.
17) If you work in a sool jeep, you have massively curly hair and wear flashy colors from the early 90's.
18) You always order orange juice or coffee at a cafe. And you never drink it. EVER.
19) You will always call your boyfriend by his job title. Or simply sunbaenim. Never his name. Never. He doesn't have one.
20) If you TRULY love each other, you must die together in the end. Frozen outside instead of finding shelter like sane people. Just frozen....
21) You go to America you come back miraculously successful. You go to England you come back amazingly fashionable. You stay in Korea the only thing that changes is your hairstyle.
22) And if you come back with no apparent reason then it's because you have cancer.
23) Everyone always goes to the same hospital no matter where they are.
24) If you stand out in the rain for more than five minutes, you'll end up with a fever and vertigo and people will rush you to the hospital to get some magic IV. And instead of taking an ambulance or driving they'll race you on their back.
25) Even if you're poor and can't eat, you never wear the same clothes twice.
26) If you play a poor kid, you always have dirt on your face and your hair is always messy.
27) If you're saving someone from being hit from a car, you'll push them out of the way and wait for the car to hit you instead.
28) Everyone has a long lost sister/brother/twin. Usually one they didn't know about.
29) If you don't want to answer your phone, you can't just turn it off. The battery
needs to be taken out.
30) All korean men can drink hard, smoke long, sing well and play piano. Usually all at the same time. And at the same restaurant that has a piano that they let anyone use.
31) If you're in a relationship, you must at one point leave and have your lover tearfully come RIGHT before you board the plane (vice versa applies as well. You can be the chaser). 60% of the time you see each other, the other 40% you're roaming around in circles and pass each other about six times, but miraculously never see them.
32) If you're getting off a plane, you're ALWAYS wearing sunglasses. ALWAYS.
33) All guys wear hideous tracksuits zipped up to their neck. Even if all they're doing is jumproping.
34) Girls will always storm off because they're mad and the guy will stoically grab them by the arm and swing them back- and by magic, not dislocate their shoulders.
35) Guys always look like they're 6 feet tall, even if they're only 5'10. Thank you camera angles.
36) Guys like to wear foundation, eyeliner and sometimes a smudge of lipliner.
37) You always get stuck in an elevator with someone who makes you feel uncomfortable. Even if there are six different elevators, you'll always be stuck in the same one with that bastard you hate (or just fought with).
38) Unless you're fabulously rich, your in-laws will always hate you ..
39) So will your sister-in-law. ..
40) Your brother-in-law might be pining away for you. .. > ..
41) There are only 2 ways to kiss. You either press your lips against theirs with your mouth completely shut, and just press away for a very long and uncomfortable time. OR you devour the other person and suck out their soul. In both instances, the world spins.
42) A guy will always get the right size ring, even if you're never held hands.
43) People stare off into space and ponder a lot. They'll just stop in the middle of the road and watch a leaf on a tree for a good three minutes, and just ponder.
44) You'll get pregnant the first time you have sex.
45) You'll get pregnant if he kisses you on the forehead.
46) Hell- you'll get pregnant if you hold hands. ..
47) If you overcome great obstacles to be together, one of you must die. Probably due to cancer.
48) One korean man can kick the butts of 6 gangstas. Especially when they all stand in a circle and attack the guy one by one. Then when each of them get their butts OWNED, they wise up and attack the guy at the same time. Then the guy will get pulverized and bleed out onto the dusty concrete floor of the empty warehouse they've found to fight in. There will be a fire in a trashcan somewhere. And the girl will have watched this the entire time, screaming in horror. Instead of calling 119, she'll just watch and cry. But it's okay. Cuz the next day the guy will be fine with a few random bandages and a few face scars. But never a black eye.
49) It ain't a real fight unless the gangstas fight dirty with a stick or switchblade.
50) If you study in the states (preferably Harvard), you are one of the top students and can speak perfect English (as assumed by the reactions of those around you). Why the rest of the world OUTSIDE of the TV can't understand a single word uttered out of your melodramatic mouth is beyond me.
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Oh No, I've Become a Fangirl
According to the urban dictionary:
Fangirl (n) - A rabid breed of human female who is obesessed with either a fictional character or an actor. Similar to the breed of fanboy. Fangirls congregate at anime conventions and livejournal. Have been known to glomp, grope, and tackle when encountering said obesessions.
Hugh Jackman: 'ello.
Fangirl: SQUEEEEEE! *immediately attaches to Jackman's leg*
Jackman: Security!
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I have to confess *gulp*, I've become one of them. I'm not particularly rabid, but I can't guarantee that I won't tackle Vic Zhou if I see him walking on the street anytime soon.
I've known this for quite sometime. It started with a rather unhealthy
Meteor Garden obsession. On a whim, I bought the dvd and proceeded to spend every spare minute of the next five days glued to the TV set, completely immersed in the colorful and chatic world of Dao Ming Si, Shan Cai and Hua Ze Lei. I barely slept, ate my meals in front of the television, and was practically a zombie at work. And it was that first drama that did me in. Meteor Garden was followed by
Mars, which then sparked my obsession with the utterly adorable, melts-my-insides, turns-me-into-a-giggly-idiot Vic Zhou. And that was it. I was a goner. Since then, I've spent practically every bit of free time watching DVDs of every Taiwanese drama I could get hold of (and a couple of Korean ones too), I've joined forums and spent countless hours watching streaming videos online. I've downloaded tons of drama soundtracks (which I then listen to on the train going to work and back) and ogled pictures not only of Vic Zhou but of Mike He, Kingone, Joe Cheng, Wu Zun, Lee Wei, etc etc. I also named my cat Zai Zai, which is Vic's nickname. And I'm learning Chinese. Seriously.
I know that conventions dictate that I should now cover my head with a paper bag, and crawl under a rock from the utter shame of becoming a fangirl. But I don't know. I can totally live with the fact that people's respect for me will go down a couple of notches when they hear that I actually listen to and like (horror of horrors) F4's music. And that I spend my time on such unworthy actions as those I've described above. Because I really haven't had this much fun in ages. :P And its getting more fun now that I've infected Phoebe with the bug (sorry Phoebs!). Finally, there's someone who won't look at me as if I've suddenly grown an extra head, when I start blabbering about my obsessions. And there's someone to watch dvds with until the wee hours. So, yay for fangirls! And to everyone else who doesn't get it, you're seriously missing out on a lot. But, of course I'd say that.
Oh No, I've Become a Fangirl
According to the urban dictionary:
Fangirl (n) - A rabid breed of human female who is obesessed with either a fictional character or an actor. Similar to the breed of fanboy. Fangirls congregate at anime conventions and livejournal. Have been known to glomp, grope, and tackle when encountering said obesessions.
Hugh Jackman: 'ello.
Fangirl: SQUEEEEEE! *immediately attaches to Jackman's leg*
Jackman: Security!
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I have to confess *gulp*, I've become one of them. I'm not particularly rabid, but I can't guarantee that I won't tackle Vic Zhou if I see him walking on the street anytime soon.
I've known this for quite sometime. It started with a rather unhealthy
Meteor Garden obsession. On a whim, I bought the dvd and proceeded to spend every spare minute of the next five days glued to the TV set, completely immersed in the colorful and chatic world of Dao Ming Si, Shan Cai and Hua Ze Lei. I barely slept, ate my meals in front of the television, and was practically a zombie at work. And it was that first drama that did me in. Meteor Garden was followed by
Mars, which then sparked my obsession with the utterly adorable, melts-my-insides, turns-me-into-a-giggly-idiot Vic Zhou. And that was it. I was a goner. Since then, I've spent practically every bit of free time watching DVDs of every Taiwanese drama I could get hold of (and a couple of Korean ones too), I've joined forums and spent countless hours watching streaming videos online. I've downloaded tons of drama soundtracks (which I then listen to on the train going to work and back) and ogled pictures not only of Vic Zhou but of Mike He, Kingone, Joe Cheng, Wu Zun, Lee Wei, etc etc. I also named my cat Zai Zai, which is Vic's nickname. And I'm learning Chinese. Seriously.
I know that conventions dictate that I should now cover my head with a paper bag, and crawl under a rock from the utter shame of becoming a fangirl. But I don't know. I can totally live with the fact that people's respect for me will go down a couple of notches when they hear that I actually listen to and like (horror of horrors) F4's music. And that I spend my time on such unworthy actions as those I've described above. Because I really haven't had this much fun in ages. :P And its getting more fun now that I've infected Phoebe with the bug (sorry Phoebs!). Finally, there's someone who won't look at me as if I've suddenly grown an extra head, when I start blabbering about my obsessions. And there's someone to watch dvds with until the wee hours. So, yay for fangirls! And to everyone else who doesn't get it, you're seriously missing out on a lot. But, of course I'd say that.
"Being Twenty-Something"
*Received this in an email. I just think it clearly expresses what most of us are going through at this age.
They call it the "Quarter-life Crisis." It is when you stop going along with the crowd and start realizing that there are many things about yourself that you didn't know and may not like.
You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now. You start realizing that people are selfish and that, maybe, those friends that you thought you were so close to aren't exactly the greatest people you have ever met, and the people you have lost touch with are some of the most
important ones.
What you don't recognize is that they are realizing that too, and aren't really cold, catty, mean or insincere, but that they are as confused as you. You look at your job... and it is not even close to what you thought you would be doing, or maybe you are looking for a job and realizing that you are going to have to start at the bottom and that scares you.
Your opinions have gotten stronger. You see what others are doing and find yourself judging more than usual because suddenly you realize that you have certain boundaries in your life and are constantly adding things to your list of what is acceptable and what isn't. One minute, you are insecure and then the next, secure. You laugh and cry with the greatest
force of your life. You feel alone and scared and confused.
Suddenly, change is the enemy and you try and cling on to the past with dear life, but soon realize that the past is drifting further and further away, and there is nothing to do but stay where you are or move forward.
You get your heart broken and wonder how someone you loved could do such damage to you. Or you lie in bed and wonder why you can't meet anyone decent enough that you want to get to know better. Or maybe you love someone but love someone else too and cannot figure out why you are doing this because you know that you aren't a bad person.
One night stands and random hook ups start to look cheap. Getting wasted and acting like an idiot starts to look pathetic. You go through the same emotions and questions over and over, and talk with your friends about the same topics because you cannot seem to make
a decision.
You worry about loans, money, the future and making a life for yourself... and while winning the race would be great, right now you'd just like to be a contender!
What you may not realize is that everyone reading this relates to it. We are in our best of times and our worst of times, trying as hard as we can to figure this whole thing out.
Send this to your twenty something friends.... maybe it will help someone feel like they aren't alone in their state of confusion...
