wǒ bìng de chuán, huòzhě, xiǎng bèi máizàng zài póluó fútú de pángbiān shì duōshǎo qián

bingtanghulu chinese opera

Tā gěi wǒ fā duǎnxìn: "Tā xiǎng gēn nǐ shuōhuà."

Wǒ zhīdào tā xiǎng shuō shénmeliǎo. Yǒu yīgè bìng de rén yuè lái yuè bìng.

Hǎo xiǎng huídále, "Wǒ mǎshàng péi Dà Míng Huángdì shàng luō."


我病的传,或者,想被埋葬在婆羅浮屠的旁边是多少钱


她给我发短信:「他想跟你说话。」

我知道他想说什么了。有一个病的人越来越病。

好想回答了,「我马上陪大明皇帝上啰。」



story of my sickness, a.k.a. will they bury me next to borobudur if i gave them enough money


She texted me. "He wants to talk to you."

I know what he's gonna talk about. A sick person was getting sicker.

I know what I'd say if I wasn't restrained. "I'm right behind him."

miāo fù chéng



Wǒ dào zhùjiā fùjìn kànjiànle yīgè māo. Tā tóu de huāwén xiāng yījiǔjiǔ líng nián nánhái ér de zhōngjiān fēnjiè. Wǒmen jiù jiàole tā miāo fù chéng.


喵富城


我到住家附近看见了一个猫。它头的花紋相一九九零年男孩儿的中間分界。我们就叫了它喵富城。



aaron meow


There's a new cat on my neighborhood. It's sporting the oh so famous during 90's boy hairstyle: middle or near-middle parting. We call the cat Aaron Meow.

tèbié shì lái yǎ



Wǒ xǐhuān de huàzhuāngpǐn dōu tíngchǎnle, zhēnshi qì sǐ wǒle. Nà wǒ gāi zěnme bàn ne? Tóng kuǎn mǎi shí gè ma? Zhǔnbèi yīgè dà cāngkù lái duī mǎn zhèxiē kùcún pǐn!


特别是萊雅


我喜欢的化妆品都停产了,真是气死我了。那我该怎么办呢?同款买十个吗?准备一个大仓库来堆满这些库存品!



looking at you, l'oreal


I hate that every cosmetics I like get discontinued. What am I gonna do then, buying ten copies of each? Sure need a bigger house to stock them!

zhǎng fā yǔ duǎnfǎ



Wǒ bù xǐhuān Níjītǎ Mǐ'ěrzhānī de xīn fǎxíng. Tā nàyàng de duǎnfǎ zàoxíng kàn qǐlái hěn chǒu. Tā liú zhǎng fā shí, xiàng nǚshén yīyàng, shì Yìndùníxīyà zuì piàoliang de nǚ yǎnyuán.


长发与短发


我不喜欢尼基塔•米尔扎妮的新发型。她那样的短发造型看起来很丑。她留长发时,像女神一样,是印度尼西亚最漂亮的女演员。



long hair vs short hair


I don't like Nikita Mirzani's new look. She looks awful sporting a short hair like that. When her hair was long she looked like a goddess, the prettiest actress in Indonesia.

nánrén yǔ chún mì

pink lips

Yīgè péngyǒu gàosù wǒ, dāng tā mǎile yīgè chún mì, tā lǎogōng bù kāixīnle: "Zěnme yòu mǎi kǒuhóngle?" Tā bù zhīdào chún mì hé kǒuhóng yǒu shé me qūbié. "Jiālǐ bùshì yǐjīng yǒu fěnhóng sè dele ma?"

Tā huídá: "Zhèxiē yánsè de shēnqiǎn bùtóng. Bǐ wǒ de jìfànxī yào shēn liǎng gè sè hào, bǐ nǐ gěi wǒ de ōuruìlián shēn sān gè sè hào."

Tā shuō: "Duì wǒ lái shuō dōu shì yīyàng de."

Tā: "Dāngrán a! Zhèxiē de shì nánrén kěndìng bù qīngchǔ."


男人与唇蜜


一个朋友告诉我,当她买了一个唇蜜,她老公不开心了:“怎么又买口红了?”他不知道唇蜜和口红有什么区别。“家里不是已经有粉红色的了吗?”

她回答:“这些颜色的深浅不同。比我的纪梵希要深两个色号,比你给我的欧瑞莲深三个色号。”

他说:“对我来说都是一样的。”

她:“当然啊!这些的事男人肯定不清楚。”



men vs lip gloss


A girlfriend of mine told the story of when her hubby protested her for buying a tube of lip gloss: "Lipstick again?" Note how he wasn’t able to differentiate lip gloss from lipstick. "But you’ve got pink ones at home!"

She answered, "This one’s different shade. Two shades darker than my Givenchy, and three shades darker than the Oriflame one you bought me."

He said, "All looks the same to me."

Her: "That’s because you’re a guy."

yòng zìdiǎn xuéxí zhōngwén

dictionary

Biāozhǔn zuòfǎ shì zěnme yàng? Biāozhǔn zuòfǎ shì wǒ, yòng bào zhù zhā mǎwěi biàn, zǒu xià tōngdào, zài xiǎng wǒ néng fǒu yòu kànjiàn nǐ.
-- wǒ --

Wǒ fāxiànle xuéxí yǔyán de yòu yī fāngfǎ! Dǎkāi yī běn nǐ xiǎng xuéxí de yǔyán de zìdiǎn, suíbiàn fān bìng suíjī xuǎnzé yīgè zì! Ránhòu jiù yòng nàgè zì xiě yī piān jiǎnduǎn de wénzhāng. Nǐ juédé líng bù líng?


用字典学习中文


标准做法是怎么样?标准做法是我,用抱住扎马尾辫,走下通道,在想我能否又看见你。
--我--

我发现了学习语言的又一方法!打开一本你想学习的语言的字典,随便翻并随机选择一个字!然后就用那个字写一篇简短的文章。你觉得灵不灵?



learning chinese through a dictionary


What is normal? Normal is me, lifting my hair into a ponytail, holding it in a grip, walking down the corridor, wondering if I'll ever see you again.
-- me --

So I found another way to learn languages! Open a dictionary of your chosen language to learn, open it at random and point to a random word! After that just write a short article about it. Effective or not?

jièshào wǒ wèilái de lǚxíng huǒbàn

traffic jam

Wǒ de yìnní péngyǒu bù zài cānjiā hànyǔ péixùn bān yīnwèi tā de bàngōngshì bān dàole qítā dìfāng. Tā shuō xīn de bàngōng dìdiǎn lí péixùn bān tài yuǎnle, huì zài lùshàng huāfèi dàliàng de shíjiān.

Wǒ quàn tā jìxù cānjiā péixùn bān. "Wǒmen yīqǐ qù zhōngguó de suǒyǒu dà chéngshì ba," wǒ shuō: "Wǒmen xūyào nǐ hé wǒ liǎng gèrén kěyǐ qīngsōng de qiēhuàn chéng pǔtōnghuà móshì."


介绍我未来的旅行伙伴


我的印尼朋友不再参加汉语培训班因为她的办公室搬到了其他地方。她说新的办公地点离培训班太远太远了,会在路上花费大量的时间。

我劝她继续参加培训班。「我们一起去中国的所有大城市吧,」我说:「我们需要你和我两个人可以轻松的切换成普通话模式。」



my future travel buddy


A friend stopped attending her Chinese classes due to her office moved to another place. She said this new workplace was too far away, costing her more time on the road.

I urged her to continue. "Let's visit all the big cities in China together," I said: "For that, we need two heads that can be switched into Mandarin speaking mode at the snap of fingers."

zài fàndiàn diǎnle zhāngyú bǎoluó

paul the octopus

Zhōngguó yǒu hùliánwǎng shěnchá zhìdù jiàozuò fánghuǒ chángchéng. Wǒ zhè gè yuèchū qù zhōngguó de shíhòu, gǔgē lián bù shàng. Zhè duì bù huì shuō zhōngwén de yóukè tài máfanle: Lián gǔgē fānyì dōu bùnéng yòng.

Xìngkuī wǒ zhīdào bǎidù de wǎngzhǐ. Dàn hěn yíhàn de wǒ bù tài huì yòng nàgè, suǒyǐ méiyǒu fānyì rènhé yīgè zì, zhǐ néng yòng tā de sōusuǒ gōngnéng.

Chīle yīdào yòng xūn niúròu zuò de cài hòu, wǒ xiǎng zhīdào nàgè cài rúguǒ yòng xiā, wūzéi, hái yǒu zhāngyú, méi yòng xūn niúròu, shì bùshì yě zhème hào chī. Suǒyǐ wǒ yòng bǎidù sōusuǒle nà zhǒng hǎiyáng shēngwù de zhàopiàn, ránhòu bǎocún zài shǒujī shàng. Xià cì qù nàgè fàndiàn, wǒ kěyǐ gěi fúwùyuán kàn kàn.

Nà càisè dé fēicháng měiwèi, dàn dāng wǒ wǎnshàng tōngcháng kàn shǒujī shí, wǒ fāxiàn zìjǐ shǐyòngle zhāngyú bǎoluó de zhàopiàn, zhège zuì shòu quán shìjiè xǐ'ài de zhāngyú.


在饭店点了章鱼保罗


中国有互联网审查制度叫做防火长城。我这個月初去中国的時候,谷歌連不上。这对不會说中文的游客太麻烦了:連谷歌翻译都不能用。

幸亏我知道百度的网址。但很遗憾的我不太會用那個,所以沒有翻译任何一個字,只能用它的搜索功能。

吃了一道用熏牛肉做的菜后,我想知道那个菜如果用虾,乌贼,还有章鱼,没用熏牛肉,是不是也这么好吃。所以我用百度搜索了那种海洋生物的照片,然后保存在手机上。下次去那个饭店,我可以给服务员看看。

那菜色得非常美味,但当我晚上通常看手机时,我发现自己使用了章鱼保罗的照片,这个最受全世界喜爱的章鱼。



ordering paul the octopus at the restaurant


So in China there's a strict censorship called The Greal Firewall. During my visit earlier this month Google isn't accessible there. Which is a huge problem for non-Chinese-speaking visitors: no Google translate whatsoever.

Luckily, I knew Baidu's URL. Unluckily, I could only operate the very basics, so I've never get it to translate a word. I can only search things up.

After tasting a certain dish with smoked beef, I was wondering if the dish would turn out fine should the ingredients be changed to shrimp, squid, and octopus. So I baidu-ed images of those sea creatures and save them to my phone to be shown to the waiter the next ocassion.

The dish turned out to be superb, but as I browsed my phone that night as I usually do every single day, I realized I have used the picture of Paul the Octopus, the world's most loved octopus.

qǐngwèn chōu rèn kǎ

egg tarts

Dāng nǐ lǚxíng dào yǔyán bùtōng de guójiā shí, nǐ kěyǐ yòng 'qǐngwèn chōu rèn kǎ'. Qǐngwèn chōu rèn kǎ bāohán nǐ xiǎng qù dì dìfāng de zhàopiàn, nǐ xiǎng chī de shíwù de zhàopiàn yǐjí nǐ xiǎng mǎi de dōngxī de zhàopiàn, děng děng. Wǒ jiào tāmen qǐngwèn chōu rèn kǎ shì yóuyú liǎng gè yuányīn. Dì yī gè, tāmen de chǐcùn hé chōu rèn kǎ shì yīyàng de. Dì èr gè, yòng nàgè kǎ wèn běndì rén: "Qǐngwèn, nǐ zhīdào zài nǎlǐ kěyǐ mǎi dào zhège?" Wǒ méiyǒu bǎocún nàxiē zhàopiàn zài shǒujī shàng shì yīnwèi wǒ xiǎng wéihù shǒujī diànchí, hái yǒu xiǎng bìmiǎn qiǎngjié de kěnéng.


请问抽认卡


当你旅行到语言不通的国家时,你可以用《请问抽认卡》。请问抽认卡包含你想去的地方的照片,你想吃的食物的照片以及你想买的东西的照片,等等。我叫它们请问抽认卡是由于两个原因。第一个,它们的尺寸和抽认卡是一样的。第二个,用那个卡问本地人:「请问,你知道在哪里可以买到这个?」我没有保存那些照片在手机上是因为我想维护手机电池,还有想避免抢劫的可能。



qingwen flashcards


... Are helpful when you're travelling to a country of which language you're not familiar with. Those are pictures of places you'd like to visit, food you want to eat, to-buy-list, etc. I call these qingwen flashcards because of two reasons. First, mine are the size of flashcards. Second, using the cards to ask locals for directions I start my sentence with "Qing wen, do you know where I can ...?" I don't use the phone to store those to preserve battery and to avoid phone snatchers.

juédé zìjǐ xiàng gè huāhuā gōngzǐ

massage

Nǐ kàn shàngqù shì yǒuhǎo qiě cōngmíng de rén. Biérén kěyǐ bǎ shíqíng gàosù zhèyàng de rén, ér bù xūyào yòng shànyì de huǎngyán.
-- Měi jí·jiékè --

Zhè cōngmíng de rén xūyào biérén shànyì de huǎngyán.
-- wǒ --

Wǒ xǐhuān shàngle yīgè ànmó shī de jìqiǎo. "Wǒ xià cì lái zhèlǐ, zěnme cáinéng ràng nǐ gěi wǒ ànmó, ér bùshì biérén?" wǒ nàyàng wèn tā, shì xiǎng zhīdào tā de míngzì.

"Zhèlǐ de zuì pàng shì wǒ," tā huídá: "Nǐ yīdìng bù huì rèncuò rén."

"Nǐ shì xīwàng wǒ qù qiántái zhǎo zhèlǐ zuì pàng de nǚhái ma?"

Tā wéixiàozhe gàosùle wǒ tā de míngzì.


觉得自己像个花花公子


你看上去是友好且聪明的人。别人可以把实情告诉这样的人,而不需要用善意的谎言。
--美極·捷克--

这聪明的人需要别人善意的谎言。
--我--

我喜欢上了一个按摩师的技巧。「我下次来这里,怎么才能让你给我按摩,而不是别人?」我那样问她,是想知道她的名字。

「这里的最胖是我,」她回答:「你一定不会认错人。」

「你是希望我去前台找这里最胖的女孩吗?」

她微笑着告诉了我她的名字。



already feel like a playa!


You seem like a nice, intelligent person who can handle the blunt truth in all its glory instead of needing someone to sugar coat everything and feed it to you with a silver spoon.
-- Maggi Checco --

I am an intelligent person and I need everything fed to me sugar coated. On a silver spoon, please!
-- me --

I fell in love with a particular masseuse's skill. "How do I make sure that the next time I go here, it's you that will be massaging me, not the others?" I asked her, determined to know her name.

"I've the biggest body here," said the voluptuous lady: "There's no way you'll have me mixed up with the others."

"You don't really expect me going up to the receptionist area and ask for the biggest girl around, do you?"

She giggled and gave me her name.

qīnghuācí liányīqún

china blue dress

"Nà, nǚhái zěnmeliǎo?"
-- Huí Dào Dìqiú --

Yìnní yǒu yīgè shíshàng cháoliú: Sà lā táocí liányīqún. Wǒ bù gǎn kěndìng zhè zhēn de shì nà cháo pái zhìzào de, yīnwèi zài zhèlǐ yǒu hěnduō jiǎ huò. Bùguò, nà tiáo liányīqún díquè hěn xiàng qīnghuācí.

Zuìchū wǒ bìng bùxiǎng mǎi, yīn wéi hàipà chuān qǐlái xiàng chuān shuìyī. Dàn zuìhòu háishì mǎile nà tiáo liányīqún, xiǎng zàixià zhōumò chuān tā.

Dàole zhōumò qì sǐ wǒle, yīnwèi wǒ kàn jiàn liǎo bù shǎo yú wǔ gè nǚhái chuānzhuó gēn wǒ wánquán yīyàng liányīqún!


青花瓷连衣裙


"那,女孩怎么了?"
-- 回到地球 --

印尼有一个时尚潮流: 飒拉陶瓷连衣裙。我不敢肯定这真的是那潮牌制造的,因为在这里有很多假货。不过,那条连衣裙的确很像青花瓷。

最初我并不想买,因为害怕穿起来像穿睡衣。但最后还是买了那条连衣裙,想在下周末穿它。

到了周末气死我了,因为我看见了不少于五个女孩穿着跟我完全一样连衣裙!



china blue dress


"What about the girls?"
-- Return to the Earth --

There's a recent fashion trend in y country: Zara ceramic dress. I can't say for sure that it's really made by the popular brand, for Indonesians are notorious for brand hijacking, but the dress indeed looks like China blue.

At first I was reluctant to buy it, I was afraid it'd look like sleeping gown when worn.

I bought it anyway with the intention to wear it the next weekend. The day came, and lo', I encountered not less than five other women wearing the exact same dress!

gòu lāměi dì yǎ, shèngdà shān, hǎo xǐhuān nǐmen!

book fair

Zhè yī nián duì dúshū àihào zhě lái shuō tài bàngle. Gòu lāměi dì yǎ jǔbànle hěnduō shūzhǎn, shūjià dī zhì wǔqiān dùn. Shèngdà shān zěnme yàng? Zhèlǐ de shū zài yuánjià jīchǔ shàng dǎle wǔ zhé.

Wǒ dāngrán mǎile hěnduō shū. Duō dào shènzhì zài fángjiān jiànle liǎng pái shūjià. Wǒ dàgài huāle wǔshí wàn lái mǎishū, bùguò qízhōng dà duōshù shì yī wàn dùn de hé yī wàn wǔqiān dùn de shū.

Xiànzài xūyào chōukòng bǎ zhèxiē shū dōu dú wán... >.<


够拉美第雅,盛大山,好喜欢你们!


这一年对读书爱好者来说太棒了。够拉美第雅举办了很多书展,书价低至五千盾。盛大山怎么样?这里的书在原价基础上打了五折。

我当然买了很多书。多到甚至在房间建了两排书架。我大概花了五十万来买书,不过其中大多数是一万盾的和一万五千盾的书。

现在需要抽空把这些书都读完。。。>.<



love you gramedia, love you gunung agung!


This past year have been good for book lovers. Gramedia held many book fairs where book price ranges from IDR 5K. Gunung Agung also had been having a platform where books went for less than half of their original price.

Of course I bought many. I even had two rows of book shelves erected at my room. I think I have spent half a million over several ocassions. Mostly I bought the IDR 10Ks and IDR 15Ks, though.

Now just find the time to read them all... >.<

wénhuà de qūbié -- dì sì bùfèn

confused woman

Wǒ zhōngguó péngyǒu cízhíle. Tā xiànzài zài fùshìkāng gōngzuò, jǐnguǎn zài 2012 dāng wǒ dì yī cì lái zhōngguó, tā gàosùguò wǒ fùshìkāng de hěnduō yuángōng zìshāle.

Tā yě gǎile míngzì. Gǎi de shì tā de yīngwén míngzì, bùshì zhōngwén míng. Wǒ juédé yěxǔ zài cízhí de shíhòu, zhōngguó rén, tèbié shì shìchǎng yíngxiāo de rén, huì bèi yāoqiú bǎ tāmen de yīngwén míngzì liú xià, suǒyǐ jiētì tāmen de rén jiù néng yòng nàgè míngzì.


文化的区别 -- 第四部分


我中国朋友辞职了。她现在在富士康工作,尽管在2012当我第一次来中国,她告诉过我富士康的很多员工自杀了

她也改了名字。改的是她的英文名字,不是中文名。我觉得也许在辞职的时候,中国人,特别是市场营销的人,会被要求把他们的英文名字留下,所以接替他们的人就能用那个名字。



culture shock -- part four


A friend who, upon my first visit to China in 2012 had told me about the Foxconn suicides, quitted her job. Now she works at another place.

Guess where?

Foxconn.

She changed her name, too. Her English name, not the Chinese one. I think maybe upon resigning, Chinese people, especially in sales and marketing, are required to leave their English name behind to be used by people who will take their place.

liángbàn hǎizhē

jellyfish salad

Zhè jìshì fúzhǐ,
yěshì zǔzhòu:
Duì wànshì wànwù
gǎnshòu nàme de shēn
-- Ài yǔ yǔzhòu chén'āi --

Wǒ dì yī cì chī liángbàn hǎizhē shì zài èr líng líng jǐ nián. Wǒ hé yīgè péngyǒu qùle Xiānggǎng Diǎnxīn fàndiàn, tā diǎnle liángbàn hǎizhē. Cóng nà shí qǐ wǒ jiù xǐhuān shàngle liángbàn hǎizhē!

Zài shēnghuó zhōng, méiyǒu shìwù néng yǒngyuǎn bù biàn. Wǒ bù zài chī “xiānggǎng diǎnxīn” de liángbàn hǎizhē, yīnwèi xiànzài tā bèi jiāle yīxiē duò suì de máo cōng. Wǒ xǐhuān máo cōng, dàn máo cōng de wèidào hé liángbàn hǎizhē dāpèi bù shìhé.

Suǒyǐ wǒ hěn gāoxìng zài yīgè rìběn fàndiàn lǐ fāxiànle yīyàng de cài, dànshì méiyǒu yòng máo cōng. Zài nàlǐ tā de míngzì jiàozuò): Zhōnghuá hǎi yuè.


凉拌海蜇


这既是福祉,
也是诅咒:
对万事万物
感受那么地深
--爱与宇宙尘埃--

我第一次吃凉拌海蜇是在二零零几年。我和一个朋友去了《香港点心》饭店,她点了凉拌海蜇。从那时起我就喜欢上了凉拌海蜇!

在生活中,没有事物能永远不变。我不再吃《香港点心》的凉拌海蜇,因为现在它被加了一些剁碎的毛葱。我喜欢毛葱,但毛葱的味道和凉拌海蜇搭配不适合。

所以我很高兴在一个日本饭店里发现了一样的菜,但是没有用毛葱。在那里它的名字叫做:中華海月。



jellyfish salad


It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.
-- Love and Space Dust --

The first time I ate jellyfish salad was in 2000-something. My friend and I went to Orchid Hongkong Dim Sum and she ordered it. I fell in love since!

But as life would have it, nothing is eternal. I stopped eating jellyfish salads on Orchid Hongkong Dim Sum when they added minced shallots to the dishes. I love shallots, but the taste is not complimentary to jellyfish salads.

Imagine my joy when I found the exact dish, with the old recipe, at a Japanese restaurant. They call it by a different name: chuka kurage.

yánsè de jiànbiàn huì ràng wǒ dì dìpíngxiàn kàn qǐlái gèng dà ma?

sunset

Jīntiān xiàwǔ rìluò de shíhòu, tiānkōng chūqí de shì fěnsè, ér bùshì tōngcháng de chéngzi sè. Yīnwèi qìchē bùduàn de yáohuàng, wǒ dū méiyǒu bànfǎ pāi zhàopiàn.


颜色的渐变会让我的地平线看起来更大吗?


今天下午日落的时候,天空出奇的是粉色,而不是通常的橙子色。因为汽车不断地摇晃,我都没有办法拍照片



does this shade make my horizon look big?


The sunset colored today's sky a rare occurence of pink instead of the usual orange. I couldn't snap a decent picture because the car kept bouncing.

màikè sī·lùkěduó de huāshēngjiàng

peanut butter

Màikè sī·lùkěduó shì wǒ zuì xǐhuān de zuòjiā zhī yī. Tā de zuòpǐn yǒu fānyì chéng yìnní wén, wǒ juédé yóu yún dì ā kè shā lā chūbǎn shè de kāng nī·xī dùn·kēpǔ tí de fānyì zuì hǎo.

Dāng wǒ dú qítā rén fānyì de màikè sī de shū shí, huì shǐ wǒ hěn xiǎngniàn kēpǔ tí. Lìrú, zài "3:19 ― Wàng de shù jì", màikè sī·lùkěduó xiěle guānyú huāshēngjiàng. Jīhū kěyǐ quèdìng bǎ “huāshēngjiàng” fānyì chéng “huāshēng” hé “niú yóu” de rén shì yòngle gǔgē fānyì, hái méi yòng zài dú fānyì jiéguǒ nàme máfanle. Gǔgē fānyì chòumíng zhāozhù. Wǒ yě hǎo xiǎngniàn yún dì ā kè shā lā·chūbǎn shè! Gé luò lì yǎ chūbǎn shè yě kěyǐ bìmiǎn zhème bèn de cuòwù, rúguǒ tāmen gùyòng hégé de biānjí!


麦克斯·陆可铎的花生酱


麦克斯·陆可铎是我最喜欢的作家之一。他的作品有翻译成印尼文,我觉得由云地阿克莎拉出版社的康妮·希顿·科普提的翻译最好。

当我读其他人翻译的麦克斯的书时,会使我很想念科普提。例如,在《3:19―望的數記》,麦克斯·陆可铎写了关于花生酱。几乎可以确定把《花生酱》翻译成《花生》和《牛油》的人是用了谷歌翻译,还没用再读翻译结果那么麻烦了。谷歌翻译臭名昭著。我也好想念云地阿克莎拉·出版社!葛洛莉雅出版社也可以避免这么笨的错误,如果他们雇用合格的编辑!



max lucado's peanut butter


The works of my favorite author, Max Lucado, is best when translated into my language by Connie Item Corputty from Interaksara Publishing.

I missed Ms. Corputty dearly when I read another book of Max's translated by the others. For example, in 3:19 - The Numbers of Hope, Max Lucado wrote a thing about peanut butter. Now we Indonesians know that 'butter' in 'peanut butter' exists in the name only, not in the ingredients, thus we call it something like 'peanut jam'. Whoever translated it into 'peanut' and 'butter' in my language is almost certainly used Google Translate (yes Google Translate is notorious that way), and didn't bother to read the translation. I missed Interaksara Publishing too! This stupid mistake could've been avoided if Gloria Publishing hired competent editors!

bǐyǒu -- dì sān bùfèn

chinese handwriting

Wǒ bǐyǒu yòu gěi wǒ jìle yī fēng xìn, zhè shì dì yī cì xìnlǐ zhǐ xiěle hànzì, méiyǒu duìyìng de yīngyǔ fānyì.

Wǒ hěn nǔlì de chángshì dú dǒng nà fēng xìn. Duì wǒ lái shuō zuìdà de bànjiǎoshí shì bùnéng qūfēn tā de zì dàodǐ shì yīgè zì háishì liǎng gè zì.

Lìrú, yóuyú jiānjù wèntí, wǒ céngjīng yǐwéi 'xì' yīgè zì shì 'xiāng' hé 'tián' liǎng gè zì.

Duì, zhè bù róngyì, wǒ xīwàng wǒ de zhōngwén néng jǐnkuài tígāo!


笔友 -- 第三部分


我笔友又给我寄了一封信,这是第一次信里只写了汉字,没有对应的英语翻译。

我很努力地尝试读懂那封信。对我来说最大的绊脚石是不能区分她的字到底是一个字还是两个字。

例如,由于间距问题,我曾经以为《细》一个字是《乡》和《田》两个字。

对,这不容易,我希望我的中文能尽快提高!



pen-friend -- part three


So this time my pen friend sent me another letter, the first one without the English translation.

I burn the candle at both ends trying to read the letter. My biggest stumbling block is that I sometimes cannot know whether my friend intended to write two words or one.

For example, due to spacing, what I thought was two words: '乡' followed by '田', is actually one word: '细'.

Yes, this is hard, I hope my Chinese will improve soon!

gān jú chá

calm chamomile

Wǒ de tóngshì gěile wǒ yī bāo gān jú chá. Páizi shì tài shū de. Huí dàojiā hòu, wǒ ná gǔnshuǐ jìnguò chá bāo, ránhòu hēle yīxià. Hǎo xiāng de chá! Wǒ yě gěile wǒ àirén pǐncháng.

Tā de píngjià ne? "Wén qǐlái xiàng biànzhí de yóu."

=_= Zhè nóngmín...


甘菊茶


我的同事给了我一包甘菊茶。牌子是泰舒的。回到家后,我拿滚水浸过茶包,然后喝了一下。好香的茶!我也给了我爱人品尝。

他的评价呢?「闻起来像变质的油。」

=_=这农民。。。



calm chamomile


So a colleague gave me a packet of chamomile tea. It was Tazo's. Later at home I poured boiling water over the teabag and enjoyed the tea. It was very fragrant!After drinking it myself, I let my lover take a sip.

"Smelled like cooking oil gone bad," he said.

=_= This good-for-nothing man...

xúnzhǎo zhōng wén de xuéshì xuéwèi de jiǎngxuéjīn

shenzhen university town library

Qián jǐ tiān wǒ sōusuǒle guānyú jiǎngxuéjīn de xìnxī. Wǒ xīwàng huòdé zhōngwén de xuéshì xuéwèi de jiǎngxuéjīn.

Zhǎo bù dàole. :( Zài yìnní zhǐ zuìzǎo èr líng yīsì nián zhōngxué bìyè de réncái kěyǐ huòdé jiǎngxuéjīn. Xiànzài shì èr líng yīliù nián. Èr líng yīsì nián zhīqián, wǒ zǎo jiù xiǎoxué bìyèle. Wǒ gūjì, tài lǎo liǎo bùnéng huòdé jiǎngxuéjīnle.

Qíshí wǒ suīrán méiyǒu hěnduō qián, dànshì hái kěyǐ ná chū xuéfèi. Nà wèishéme wǒ yào kǎolǜ jiǎngxuéjīn ne? Yīnwèi wǒ bùyào wéi bùnéng zhíjiē zēngjiā shōurù de shì fù qián, yóuyú wǒ de gōngzuò shì diànnǎo gōngchéngshī. Duì wǒ lái shuō zhè shì yī zhǒng shēchǐ.

Dànshì wǒ xiǎng yǒu zhòng wén de xuéshì xuéwèi! .>_<.

(Dāng xiě zhège shí, “qiáng shàng de zìjì” nà shǒu gēqǔ zài ěr biān xuánrào bù jué, bù zhīdào wèishéme.)


寻找中文的学士学位的奖学金


前几天我搜索了关于奖学金的信息。我希望获得中文的学士学位的奖学金。

找不到了。:(在印尼只最早二零一四年中学毕业的人才可以获得奖学金。现在是二零一六年。二零一四年之前,我早就中学毕业了。我估计,太老了不能获得奖学金了。

其实我虽然没有很多钱,但是还可以拿出学费。那为什么我要考虑奖学金呢?因为我不要为不能直接增加收入的事付钱,由于我的工作是电脑工程师。对我来说这是一种奢侈。

但是我想有中文的学士学位!.>_<.

(当写这个时,《墙上的字迹》那首歌曲在耳边旋绕不绝,不知道为什么。)



looking for chinese language scholarship


So I found myself looking for scholarship info the other day. The kind of scholarship I want is for bachelor degree on Chinese language.

I didn't find any. :( In this country scholarship was only given to those who had finished high school in 2014 at most (now is 2016). I was graduated way long before 2014. Guess what they were saying's I was too old for scholarships.

Actually I can afford the tuition though I'm not rich. So why did I look for a scholarship? Because I won't be paying for something that doesn't give direct boost to my income, given the nature of my job (I'm a software engineer). It is kind of a luxury to me.

But I want to have a bachelor degree in Chinese language! .>_<.

(I wrote this whole thing with Writing's on the Wall playing over and over in my head, dunno why.)

sūméndálà chá

too much sugar

Jiā fùjìn xīn de kāile yījiā cāntīng. Wǒ hé wǒ de àirén chángshì qù nà li yǒu wǎncān qián xiǎoshí. Tā xiǎng chī niúwán, ér wǒ xiǎng chī suǒ tuō. Suǒ tuō shì yī zhǒng yóu hěnduō cáiliào áo chéng de jītāng.

Fúwùyuánmen shuō Mǎlái fāngyán. Dāng fúwùyuán tīng bù dào wǒmen liáotiān dehuà shí, wǒ àirén gàosù wǒ zhè shì zài Běigānbālǔ shǐyòng de fāngyán.

Shíwù duì wǒ lái shuō hái suàn kěyǐ, dàn wǒ àirén bù xǐhuān niúwán de ròu tāng. Yǐnliào jiù lìng dāng biélùnle. Wǒmen diǎnle chá, dàn chá hǎoxiàng xīshì de tángjiāng.

Zài huí jiā de lùshàng wǒ àirén shuō, "Wǒ jiù zhīdào huì zhèyàng." Ránhòu yòu shuō: "Sūméndálà rén, yóuqí běifāng de, hē chá de shíhòu xǐhuān fàng hěnduō táng."


苏门答腊茶


家附近新的开了一家餐厅。我和我的爱人尝试去那里有晚餐前小食。他想吃牛丸,而我想吃索托。索托是一种加了不同材料的鸡汤。

当服务员听不到我们聊天的话时,我爱人告诉我这是在北干巴鲁使用的方言。

食物对我来说还算可以,但我爱人不喜欢牛丸的肉汤。饮料就另当别论了。我们点了茶,但茶好像稀释的糖浆。

在回家的路上我爱人说,「我就知道会这样。」然后又说:「苏门答腊人,尤其北方的,喝茶的时候喜欢放很多糖。」



sumatran tea


So there's this new place to eat near my place. My lover and I tried going there for a quick pre-dinner. He had meatballs in broth and I had soto, a kind of chicken soup with different ingredients.

The waitresses spoke in Malay dialect. After they were out of hearing range, my lover said that it was the dialect used in Pekanbaru.

The food turned out OK for me (my lover didn't like his broth). The drink however, is a different story. We ordered tea, but it was more like undiluted syrup.

On the way home my lover said, "I know from the start this would happen." He continued: "Sumatran people, especially those on the north-ish, love having their tea super sweet."