Lydia Shum

Fei Jie, you are legendary. You brought entertainment and happiness to all generations of Hong Kong. I will never forget your laughs. Rest in peace, Lydia Fei Jie!

Movie scores

A question suddenly popped up in my mind this early morning as I was preparing for Lab Assignment 2 of CS 202: what movie score do I love most? I thought for a while, but I couldn't give the exact answer. Nevertheless, I do have a list of my TOP 6:

- Chariots of Fire by Vangelis
- Lawrence of Arabia by Maurice Jarre
- Star Wars by John Williams
- The Da Vinci Code by Hans Zimmer
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Ennio Morricone
- The Omen by Jerry Goldsmith

Listen to them in Youtube. You will enjoy them!

Russian

Today a Russian student of mine taught me how to say "Russia", "hello" and "bye" in Russian: [Rossiya] for "Russia", [priviet] for "hello", and [poka] for "bye". Interesting! I wanna talk to this student more to learn more about this country.

Yarlung Tsangpo River

I had never thought of creating my own blog because I thought it was a waste of time. But I have just realized that it may be hard for me to memorize all new knowledge that I acquire each day, so I think it might be a good idea to write it down here as my own personal notebook (and so I don't expect that anyone except me will read it).

I am now reading a Chinese novel and it mentions a river in Tibet called Yarlung Tsangpo (雅鲁藏布江). I've always had some fantasy about Tibet since I was a teenager, so I did some google search to learn more about this river. And I found that Yarlung Tsangpo is actually the same as the Brahmaputra River! What an interesting fact! I also learned that as this river crosses the Chinese-Indian border, it bends around and forms the deepest canyon in the world:

I always want to go to Tibet. Unfortunately I am not healthy enough to go there ...

Today's the 80th Oscars, but this year it would be boring. I'm not going to watch it.