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.