Wednesday, March 26, 2008

唇齿留香的紫米粥

上次跟朋友去中国店顺手买了一袋紫米粥,结果回来发现灰常地好。我以前上大学的时候就特别喜欢喝的。紫米粥看上去很有质感,喝起来又不乏味。因为不像别的粥,喝的时候还要嚼一下紫米粒。颜色也那么深,很有营养的感觉。我最喜欢的喝法是,晚上回家在微波炉里热一碗紫米粥,加糖,又暖胃又香口。今天晚上吃饭前就小火炖了一锅,结果睡一觉起来就闻到了香味弥漫了房间,心想这是哪来的香味,这才想起来原来紫米粥好了! 最喜欢在食物的香气中醒来了。


Sunday, March 16, 2008

橙橙的网站

独家披露一下橙子给别人做的Art Gallery的网站。里面的物件都是用Mosaic拼成的,蛮漂亮。



http://www.mosaicart-jordan.net/

Saturday, March 15, 2008

self-deception leads to a more successful, happier person

你讨厌撒谎吗?你是不是很realistic, 很客观, see the world as it is?你觉得通向幸福的路径在于Be honest to yourself 吗? 那么听听NPR是怎么说的。

这段radio lab 提到了几个实验;这些实验表明自我欺骗(或者说in denial)让你更成功更幸福。想知道这些有趣的实验是怎么做的,这里面的道理又是什么,请听:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/02/29
** Listen from 47:00 minute mark.


Badminton Boys

跟indiana大学打羽毛球比赛的时候,有幸偷拍了对方几枚小帅的照片。照片中的红衣男生是对方的第一双打。最帅的穿A&F的第二单打居然没好意思拍,后悔死了。也学这些男孩们平时并不出色,但如果他们穿上漂亮的运动短装,再打一首漂亮的球,就让人刮目相看了。还有另外一个大学的老外,挺阳刚的,但被崽崽认为胡子拉碴地看上去不大干净。也拉出来充数吧。





Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Buffet and The Injury of Coming Out

Come out作为一个自我认同/解放的过程,确实让一个人更轻松地活着,但也可能造成一种伤害。

Come out之后的同志,如果我个人的感受正确的话,希望自己的come out是“值得的”,因此特别要把作为同志的种种新自由充充分分地享受。这就好比吃Buffet,知道自己要已经付了“定金”,所以一定要拣好的吃,而且要猛吃才划算。结果是Buffet对人的行为有很强的改变作用,后果反而会伤及胃。同样,如果不注意的话,come out对我们的行为也有纠枉过正的改变作用。MIT BBS上就有这样的观点认为,“既然做同志了,就要充分地享受某某自由,要不然就不值了。” 这样想的结果就不成比例地把注意力放在Homosexuality上, 造成了oversexualized self。

Dr. Durber在Journal of Homeosexuality上发的一篇题为"Desiring Mates"的文章中阐述了the injury of coming out的道理。尽管他着眼于gay movement, 但我发现对个人亦有启发。

To label oneself as “gay” is an injurious act, therefore, because it reveals the successful normalization of a process of self-discipline.


The gay movement’s obsession with attaining legitimacy for the homosexual subject upholds compulsory homosexualization of all men who have sexualized contact with men, while ignoring the historical and cultural containment of bodies and pleasures evident within this naming. So intense is the demand to speak of the sexualized self as a homosexual that any
refusal to comply can be met with the claim that the silent subject is “not experiencing real human existence” (Mark, 1994, p. 257). The “failed gays ” (Davies, 1992, p. 77), the “psychological cripples” (Reynolds, 2002, p. 94), can live only false and unhappy lives (Seidman, Meeks & Traschen, 1999). Those who do not come out as a homosexual, those who do not articulate self according to the demands of the discourse of gay liberation, are denied humanity.