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Principal Wei's Weblog: New Year's Day before the New Year's Day of the Year of the Horse

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. New Year's Day before the New Year's Day of the Year of the Horse. Click to enlarge and see how I have changed over the past few years, from 1st January 2007 to 2014). The growth of new social networking websites have definitely made Principal Wei's Weblog. Again I have to repeat that it has something to do with obsession, just as what I have explained in another entry. As usual, in most Chinese-...

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Principal Wei's Weblog: Fetching a snake money box for the year of the snake

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. Fetching a snake money box for the year of the snake. Six money boxes released by a department store in Taiwan since 2008, from left: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon and Snake). Once you start to collect some things, especially those which can make up certain group, you have to be prepared to feel all the time an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess a complete series, to become irredeemable.

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Principal Wei's Weblog: New Year's Day before the New Year's Day of the Year of the Goat

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. New Year's Day before the New Year's Day of the Year of the Goat. Click to enlarge and see how I have changed over the past few years, from 1st January 2007 to 2015). For the ninth time in a row since the year end 2006, I went to the Taipei 101 fireworks display, again just like last year, with my wife Fanne and my 4-year-old son Ronne. It's fantabulous to see these nine photos altogether. Chih-H...

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Principal Wei's Weblog: March 2013

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. A couplet for Edwin's new studio. I totally agree with it. I ran three miles both in the morning and in the late afternoon everyday when I was under extreme pressure during the final days of thesis writing in Scotland. However, I opt for Chinese calligraphy. Apart from writing new year couplets. A director, producer and historian, has recently started his own studio, light-heartedly named 'Golden...

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Principal Wei's Weblog: January 2013

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. Finally, we moved to the era of stereo. A SONY CD radio cassette recorder in front of an HMV gramophone. A vintage portable hand-cranked gramophone. The third piece is another spring-wound device, an HMV 103. I bought in November 2010. However, my words are no longer justifiable, as my wife bought a Sony CFDS05 CD Radio Cassette Recorder Boombox. We're now in the era of electric powered players.

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Principal Wei's Weblog: Hand snake lantern

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. Ronne and the stretching and curling snake). The Lantern Festival, the 15. Of the first lunar month, falls on Sunday, the 24. Of February this year. Just like last year. We received a DIY set–a hand lantern in the shape of a snake, this year's Chinese zodiac animal. As opposed to its negative impression among the Han Chinese, the snake is believed to be the guardian or embodiment of ancestral pow...

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Principal Wei's Weblog: New year couplet for the year of the Horse

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. New year couplet for the year of the Horse. After ushering in the Gregorian New Year exactly 30 days ago, we are going to ring in the Chinese New Year tonight, the Year of the Horse. Again, I write my own new year couplet. With a Chinese brush, rather than buying a commercially mass-printed one. I compose another pair of lines for the new year, roughly translated as. 千字文) and Trimetric Classic.

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Principal Wei's Weblog: Making my outdated laptop up to date

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. Making my outdated laptop up to date. Last night, I spent some time upgrading my old PowerBook G4. To a laptop with wireless capability. Is my first-ever laptop. It had served me since summer 2002 when I moved to Scotland for doctoral study, and was forced to retire due to an accident in summer 2007. I had some champagne to celebrate my graduation and wedding, and so did the laptop. For TWD 145 (...

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Principal Wei's Weblog: New year couplet for the year of the Snake

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. New year couplet for the year of the Snake. Although sometimes regarded as an eccentric by my relatives, sometimes I am old-fashioned. For example, I insist on writing my own new year couplet. With a Chinese brush every year, rather than buying a commercially mass-printed one. Studying extensively poetry and literature, I dream of prosperity in the ancient capital (遍覽詩書夢華錄);. Cause of havoc and f...

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Principal Wei's Weblog: January 2014

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Through feeling cold I recognise my own existence. With laughter beneath the pale moonlight I discover truth. New year couplet for the year of the Horse. After ushering in the Gregorian New Year exactly 30 days ago, we are going to ring in the Chinese New Year tonight, the Year of the Horse. Again, I write my own new year couplet. With a Chinese brush, rather than buying a commercially mass-printed one. I compose another pair of lines for the new year, roughly translated as. 千字文) and Trimetric Classic.