Notable songs from the film:
~ All By Myself - performed by Jamie O'Neal (I prefer the version performed by Eric Carmen).
~ Out Of Reach - performed by Gabrielle.
Bridget Jones' New Year Resolutions:
1) Lose 20 pounds.
2) Always put last nights pants in the laundry basket.
3) Find nice sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuck wits and perverts.
Bridget Jones' Flirting Tactics:
~ Look gorgeous.
~ Totally ignore Daniel and suck-up to famous authors.
~ Circulate - oozing intelligence.
~ Introduce people with thoughtful details.
Public speaking
"Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the launch of Kafka's Motorbike - The Greatest Book of Our Time. And here to introduce it, is Mr Fitzherbert" - (what Bridget should have said).
This is what she actually said at the book launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcIaT5D4Iwc
How to deal with smug married couples
"Tell me, is it one in four marriages that end in divorce now, or one in three?".
Other quotes:
"We bunnies only wear our tails on very special occasions".
* All information in this post were derived from Bridget Jones' Diary (2001) Directed by Sharon Maguire, UK:Working Title Films *
Friday, 1 June 2012
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
The Four Seasons as depicted in the Sino-Barbarian Hall
The poem on the spring scene read:
The vital forces of heaven turn creation around;
The world is happy and everything is renewed.
The peach and the plum blossoms vie in splendour;
Swallows fly to the painted rafters, shaking the incense dust.
The poem on the summer scene read:
In warm and sultry air all thoughts are slow
The palace mallow and pomegranate reflect the sun's brilliance.
The jade flute's music disturbs the noonday dream;
The scent of caltrops is wafted through the curtains.
The poem on the autumn scene read:
One leaf on the parasol tree by the well is yellow;
The pearl curtain is not rolled up on the night of frost.
After the autumn sacrifice the the swallows abandon their nest;
When the rush flowers snap, the wild geese leave for another land.
The poem on the winter scene read:
The clouds fly over the rainy sky, all dark and cold;
The north wind blows the snow into thousands of bills.
Deep in the palace the stove glows warm;
They say the plum has blossomed by the jade balustrade.
The matching poem on the spring scene read:
The sun's warmth melts the ice the world around;
Within the palace garden, flowers are renewed.
Gentle winds and rain enrich the people;
Rivers and seas are calm; gone is all wordly dust.
The matching poem on the summer scene read:
The Dipper now points south; the day goes slow;
Locust and pomegranate trees contend in brilliance.
Golden oriole and purple swallow sing in the willows,
Their melodious voices drifting through red curtains.
The matching poem on the autumn scene read:
Fragrant the green mandarin; the orange turns to yellow.
Blue pine and cypress welcome frost's coming.
Half-open chrysanthemums make a tapestry on the trellis;
Pipes and songs waft through the watery, cloud-covered land.
The matching poem on the winter scene read:
As skies clear after welcome snow the air is cold;
Grotesque-shaped crags and boulders mark jade hills.
As charcoal burns in the stove to warm the yoghurt
Singing with hands in their sleeves they lean on jade balustrades.
* Information derived from Journey to the West written by Wu Cheng'En *
The vital forces of heaven turn creation around;
The world is happy and everything is renewed.
The peach and the plum blossoms vie in splendour;
Swallows fly to the painted rafters, shaking the incense dust.
The poem on the summer scene read:
In warm and sultry air all thoughts are slow
The palace mallow and pomegranate reflect the sun's brilliance.
The jade flute's music disturbs the noonday dream;
The scent of caltrops is wafted through the curtains.
The poem on the autumn scene read:
One leaf on the parasol tree by the well is yellow;
The pearl curtain is not rolled up on the night of frost.
After the autumn sacrifice the the swallows abandon their nest;
When the rush flowers snap, the wild geese leave for another land.
The poem on the winter scene read:
The clouds fly over the rainy sky, all dark and cold;
The north wind blows the snow into thousands of bills.
Deep in the palace the stove glows warm;
They say the plum has blossomed by the jade balustrade.
The matching poem on the spring scene read:
The sun's warmth melts the ice the world around;
Within the palace garden, flowers are renewed.
Gentle winds and rain enrich the people;
Rivers and seas are calm; gone is all wordly dust.
The matching poem on the summer scene read:
The Dipper now points south; the day goes slow;
Locust and pomegranate trees contend in brilliance.
Golden oriole and purple swallow sing in the willows,
Their melodious voices drifting through red curtains.
The matching poem on the autumn scene read:
Fragrant the green mandarin; the orange turns to yellow.
Blue pine and cypress welcome frost's coming.
Half-open chrysanthemums make a tapestry on the trellis;
Pipes and songs waft through the watery, cloud-covered land.
The matching poem on the winter scene read:
As skies clear after welcome snow the air is cold;
Grotesque-shaped crags and boulders mark jade hills.
As charcoal burns in the stove to warm the yoghurt
Singing with hands in their sleeves they lean on jade balustrades.
* Information derived from Journey to the West written by Wu Cheng'En *
Obtaining the Scriptures and Achieving Nirvana
Nirvana sutra - 748 rolls
Bodhisattva sutra - 1,021 rolls
Akasagarbha sutra - 400 rolls
Surangama sutra - 110 rolls
Collection of sutras on the meaning of grace - 50 rolls
Determination sutra - 140 rolls
Ratnagarbha sutra - 45 rolls
Avatamsaka sutra - 500 rolls
Sutra on worshipping Bhutatathata - 90 rolls
Mahaprajnaparamita sutra - 916 rolls
Mahaprabhasa sutra - 300 rolls
Adbhuta-dharma sutras - 1,110 rolls
Vimalakirti sutra - 170 rolls
The Three Sastras - 270 rolls
Diamond sutra - 100 rolls
Saddharma sastra - 120 rolls
Buddhacaritakavya sutra - 800 rolls
Pancanaga sutra - 32 rolls
Bodhisattva-vinaya sutra - 116 rolls
Mahasamnipata sutras - 130 rolls
Makara sutra - 350 rolls
Saddharma-pundarika sutra - 100 rolls
Yoga sutra - 100 rolls
Precious Eternity sutra - 220 rolls
Sutra on the Western Heaven - 130 rolls
Samghika sutra - 157 rolls
Samyukta-Buddhadesa sutra - 1,950 rolls
Mahayana-sraddhotpadasa sutra - 1,000 rolls
Great Wisdom sutra - 1,080 rolls
Ratna-prabhava sutra - 1,280 rolls
Original Pavilion sutra - 850 rolls
Principal vinaya sutra - 200 rolls
Mahamayuri-vidyarajni sutra - 200 rolls
Vijnaptimatra-tasiddhi sastra - 100 rolls
Abhidharma-kosa sastra - 200 rolls
"Nature revealed and mind made clear, they visited the Buddha;
Actions complete and all achieved, they flew aloft".
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