[波士頓]Garden in the Woods

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[電視]諾覺桑寺(Northanger Abbey)

珍‧奧斯汀(Jane Austen)的作品，諾覺桑寺(Northanger Abbey)。
這部作品應該比較少人知道，女主角是一位18歲少女(Catherine Morland)，沉溺於小說而有許多愛情冒險想像，他們家是非常純真質樸的，也處在一個溫和的小鎮，有一天，與他們家交情好的朋友Allen夫妻，帶著Catherine到一個繁華卻又惡名昭彰的城市(Bath?)，那裡有誘拐者和罪犯等，當然也有很多上流社會的紳士和淑女，慎選朋友是一件重要的事情，Catherine在那裡遇到她的愛，26歲大的Henry Tilney，Tilney的家族很富有，家就在諾覺桑寺，有嚴肅愛好富貴的父親、自大風流的大哥和知性溫柔的妹妹，Tilney家族早逝的母親給了Catherine很大的想像，在神祕的諾覺桑寺中，到底有什麼重大的秘密？其中關於Catherine以及哥哥James和Thorpe家族的互動，也堪稱一絕，充滿想像力以及不誠實的哥哥John Thorpe，和愛劈腿但又會說好聽話的妹妹Isabella Thorpe，都增添這部故事的趣味。整部作品算是小品，人物簡單的互動，一股作氣往前鋪陳而不複雜的故事。

PS.我沒讀小說，直接看電視，蠻喜歡英國口音的。

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[歌曲]Out of Reach (Gabrielle)

Gabrielle, Out of Reach, a song in BJ's Diary

Knew the signs wasn’t right. I was stupid, for a while.
Swept away, by you. And now I feel like a fool.

[Chorus]So confused. My heart’s bruised. Was I ever loved by you?
Out of reach, so far. I never had your heart.
Out of reach, couldn’t see. We were never met to be.

Catch myself, from despair. I could drown if I stay here.
Keeping busy, everyday. I know I will be ok.

[Chorus]But I’m So confused. My heart’s bruised. Was I ever loved by you?
Out of reach, so far. I never had your heart.
Out of reach, couldn’t see. We were never met to be.

So much hurt, so much pain. Takes a while to regain. What is lost inside.
And I hope that in time. You’ll be out of my mind. I’ll be over you.

[Chorus]And know I’m. So confused. My heart’s bruised. Was I ever loved by you?
Out of reach, so far I never had your heart.
Out of reach, couldn’t see We were never met to be.
Out of reach, so far. You never gave your heart.
In my reach, I can see. There’s a life out there for me.

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[Word]From Chiao

I have my own ideas of what enlightenment means to a human being living in an age of wonder...The world never ceases to amaze me - there is a powerful dance in progress between the human intellect and the laws of reality, and great progress threatens disaster and promises paradise at so many turns. I love understanding things.

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[心情]iPod shuffle

我一直是沒有抽獎運的，這二十幾年來，每次抽獎的時候，都令人一度懷疑，我的籤是不是瞬間移動或憑空消失在抽獎箱中。
昨天ROCSA畢業晚會中有抽獎活動，最大獎是Wii一台，再來是iPod一台，iPod nano一台，iPod shuffle兩台，還有不知道到底有幾組的電影票(10?)。
去晚會前，我一直跟別人說，我要抽iPod不要Wii。
沒想到，昨天，竟然就抽到我...
iPod shuffle(1GB)！！！
看來下次要把想抽到的東西想得更明確化一點，精確選字，不可以只有關鍵字，我要抽到"iPod"，不是"iPod shuffle"，哈，有點閃的文章吧，看來我的抽獎運開始萌生了，那我也去買張彩卷好囉。

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[節日]母親節禮物

黃金康乃馨，I-Fan推薦，必屬佳品，大賣，沒貨了...囧。

PS.最近真是太慘了，繼嘴角爛掉之後，牙齦也腫了，可見我的身體也是有弱點的，只好開始每天一顆綜合維他命，希望可以趕快好。(身體的優點：喝咖啡和茶還是可以睡得很好，某種程度地不怕冷不怕熱。)

PS2.基於I-Fan的建議，我就上網訂了黃金玫瑰花(含苞)，不知道到底有沒有貨，以及能不能在星期天送達，以上。

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[ROCSA]Retreat at Niagara (5/27-5/29)

*Location: Niagara Falls, NY
*Accommodation: Four Mile Creek State Park, NY (You have to prepare your own
sleeping bags, which can be found in target for affordable price. ROCSA will
prepare tents for you)
*Transportation: JetBlue (Boston-Buffalo, Buffalo-Boston)
Van (Niagara area)
Useful information:
http://www.niagarafallslive.com/Attractions_in_Niagara_Falls.htm
(以上轉錄from未來會長真閒中的信件)

尼加拉瓜大瀑布,第一次聽到這個名詞，是在台中自然科學博物館的太空劇場，劇情只記得，好像是一個女生和一隻狗被裝在木桶裡，然後順著瀑布流下去，結果，一人一狗都毫髮無傷，結束。

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