User:Mandel

S a l u t !

:I ’M Nobody

:Who are you?

:Are you -- Nobody, too? —

:Then there's a pair of us —

:don't tell!

:They'd banish us, you know.

I mainly worked on articles on cinema, music, literature, sports and – more specifically – on Chinese/Asian literature, language, culture, history and etc.

Many of my earliest contributions are to clarify the translations of articles on Chinese literature et al, before I started more serious contributions.

The exact number of postings have been lost. ^^suffer from some (selective) amnesiac ^^. I first came to Wikipedia on the turn of the year 2004/5.

For examples of my first articles, see Kenji Mizoguchi, Emil Gilels.

I enjoy soccer. And yes, I am/was a regular watcher of the animated series The Simpsons. (D'oh.)

I am a RED fan.

Statement

Please don't take some of my comments personally. Some of my views may be pretty strong, and I am trying to be more temperate in my wordings. The intent is just to better Wikipedia, not as a personal attack.

Hap

Thomas Hardy

If but some vengeful god would call to me

From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,

Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,

That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!”

Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die,

Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;

Half-eased, too, that a Powerfuller than I

Had willed and meted me the tears I shed.

But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,

And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?

--Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,

And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan….

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown

Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.