Did you know Baa Baa Black Sheep and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star share the same tune?
I think it would be absolutely amazing if Jimmy Liao could work with Hayao Miyazaki and Joe Hisaishi to make an anime movie. Hayao Miyazaki can decide and direct the storyline, while Jimmy can express all of that in his drawings. It will have the enchanting magical elements of Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away, a tinge of sweet melancholy amidst wistful innocence from Jimmy's drawings, and it will be backed up by a touching and captivating soundtrack. Maybe it should also have a theme song with lyrics, then Sun Yan Zi can sing. I imagine it will be perfect.
I think it is incredible how much we can learn from fruit flies, worms, zebrafish, mice, frogs - model organisms and the like. They have given us so much to unravel the mysteries that underlie our existence, at the expense of their lives, over which they never did get to have a say. How a single fertilized egg gives rise to a multicellular organism that can spread its wings and fly; it is a miracle, a truly beautiful story. (Though I would have enjoyed it much more if I didn't need to commit this entire story to my memory - down to the very particulate molecular details.)
In one of my half-asleep, half-mugging moments, it occurred to me that I just couldn't imagine how some people can fall asleep with their eyes open. I went to google it, and found someone who asked a funny question: "what if someone tore of ur eyelids or held them so that u could not blink....would u die becuz of no sleep or the horrible pain of not being able to blink?" Hahaha, it's such a good question! I don't even dare to imagine how painful it must feel, if someone tore off my eyelids.. I tried to "sleep" with my eyes open and detach my mind from consciousness, but it's just too hard. I guess it really has something to do with one's eye muscles. But I just wonder if these people suffer from insomnia more frequently?
What is it about facebook games that renders them so addictive? Pet Society, Restaurant City, Country Story.. And I even started playing Social City. The thing is, they are so pointless and every single one of them is so time-consuming. I've stopped playing all of them except Country Story for now, and I still don't know where I am headed with that game. It just gives you this odd sense of accomplishment after you've brushed all your animals, collected all the fruits from the trees, harvested all your vegetables, sown new seeds and watered all plants. It's not even that I'm looking to these games as a distraction from exams. I've been playing them for a long while now, and It's been at least a year. Maybe I just like indulging in the fact that I don't need to do anything for a good reason. There need not be a point to this.
