加拿大的左岸 "How do you remember something that never happened to you?" "Fondly. You see, Flaubert believes that anticipation was the purest form of pleasure. And the most reliable. And that while the things that actually happened to you would invariably disappoint, the things that never happened to you would never dim, never fade. They’d always be engraved on your heart with sort of a sweet sadness to them." 上面的對話 不是什麼大道理 只是一位教授對人生裡得不到東西的一種的看法 "期望是一種最純真的快樂" 不管是你得到還是得不到東西 如果得到 那就恭喜你 如果得不到 還是希望你快樂 (對話摘自於Dawson’s Creek)

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台長的話

請大家注意的用詞
“a country the size of a booger”
“"It was nothing but an effort to embrace China's balls”

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Protests After Taiwan FM Says Singapore Size of Booger

TAIPEI (AFP) - Taiwan Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun has sparked an outcry after he derisively described Singapore as "a country the size of a booger", officials said.

Chen was responding to comments from Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo, who had told the UN General Assembly that an independence drive by certain Taiwan groups would lead to war with mainland China.

An angry Chen, an advocate of the island's independence drive, fired a salvo at Yeo while meeting dozens of independence activists at the foreign ministry Monday.

"Even a country the size of a booger brazenly criticized Taiwan and former president Lee Teng-hui in the United Nations (news - web sites)," Chen said in Taiwanese dialect.

"It was nothing but an effort to embrace China's 'balls', forgive me using such a word," Chen said.

"What he (Yeo) said was to try to please China."


The remarks drew widespread criticism, with critics warning that ties with Singapore could be damaged.

"It is improper to term another country as a 'booger' (US slang for dried nasal mucus)," said Chen Chien-ming, a parliamentarian from the Taiwan Solidarity Union, which is allied to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party..

"If necessary, he should apologize to the Singapore government."

Government spokesman Chen Chi-mai said he could understand Chen's frustration at Taiwan's 12th failed bid to join the UN "but the comparison is not proper".

Beijing replaced Taipei in the UN in 1971 and has blocked attempts by Taipei to join the world body.

Despite diplomatic links with Beijing and its support for a "one China" policy, Singapore has been operating three military training camps in Taiwan.

China was infuriated after Singapore's then-deputy prime minister Lee Hsien Loong visited Taiwan in July.

Beijing sees Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification -- by force if necessary. The two sides split at the end of a civil war in 1949.