管理员请帮忙，头像换不了呀？ 管理员好，今天换了个头像，换了好几次，刷新一瞧，还是原来的老头像，请问是哪里出错了呢？多谢啦！

un exercice de traduction ce matin j'étais assise devant mon bureau et lisais ma grammaire, j'en ai lu ce passage à la préposition depuis quelque jours, il me fait toujours endormie... alors je jetais les yeux au-delà les fenêtres, un oiseau avec la longue blanche queue parcourait très vite, un oiseau noir sautillait de brindille en brindille au sommet de l'arbre, un oiseaux hurlait au fond des arbres, comme le singe, de temps en temps finissait des marmonnement du type de 'kou kou', tandis que les autres oiseaux pépiaient. puis je me disais, avec tel l'espace tu possédes, pourquoi pas avoir un animal de compagnie... puis je me rapplais tous les bizarres animals mes amis avaient gardé à un moment ou à un autre... puis je me rappelais ce lapin gris que monsieur le concierge dans l'université avait eu, monsieur a un potager en les emballages de polystyrène et un lapin gris dans une cage bleue, le lapin aimait bien à manger, chaque fois on se l'approche il commençait à ronger de grillage de son cage, c'etait son signal de lui donner à manger, mais si on n'avait pas rien pour lui, il n'avait pas l'air mécontent, ensuite il continuait à renifler partout comme toujours. quelquefois j'en lui mettais de côté des épluchures de carotte... je ne l'ai vu depuis plus d'un mois maintenant... puis je réfléchais aux oies et aux poissons qui vivaient dans le lac à l'université, je me demandais où est-ce qu'ils iraient... puis je me disais, avec tout le sauvage, ce sera chouette si tu auras un cheval, pensons, montant un cheval d'aller chercher ton courrier... puis je me disais ce ne sera pas bon d'avoir un cheval parce que il est très montagneux chez toi, alors peut-être un âne... puis je me rappelais l'ânesse dans ce livre de Stevenson, l'auteur avait acheté une ânesse quand il voyageait dans des montagnes en France, elle etait très rusée, elle savait bien à simuler l'épuisement et à feindre de se boiter, alors pauvre Stevenson et elle, ils étaient en train de se traîner ainsi très lentement quand ils rencontraient un femier français qui les regardait tout étonné... à cette vue je éclatait de rire et je me tournait la tête des fenêtre et je me apercevais dans le miroir avec toutes les dents moches révélées, donc je me fermais la bouche et retournais à ma grammaire... merci d'avoir lu, ça m’aidera beaucoup si vous pourriez corriger mes fautes dont je crois que il'en est bien trop, merci.

un exercice de traduction (intro) j'ai étudié le français par moi-même depuis quelque temps, essentiellement par la lecutre et quelquefois par l'écoute, mais jamais j'en ai essayé d'écrire et de parler, donc, je me dis que je vais commencer par traduire quelque chose en français, pour me préparer. voilà mon premier exercice, c'est une partie d'une lettre j'ai écrit il y a quelque temps. il s'est révélé une lourde tâche d'écrire en français, car j'ai très peu de sens syntaxique et de vocabulaire, il serait plus pratique que j'en essaie après en avoir lu plus.

food poisoning from bitter silk squash last night for dinner I made of a dish of silk squash (cantonese: sing gua, 'gua' is used to call all the melons, 'silk' in cantonese is homophonic to 'dead' and 'losing' so we call it 'sing' which means 'triumphant', haha, how cute is us cantonese?). one hour later I had a small yogurt, another half hour later I started to feel dizzy and sleepy, accompanying by a mild nausea and feebleness all over the body, I thought, maybe I had been staying up too late these couple of day and now it's coming to get me, so I quickly climbed up to me bed. it took me more than one and a half hour to sleep because my stomach was feeling rather unsettling and I was sweating slightly, eventually I was able to fall asleep, a couple of hours later I woke up and the unsettling was still there, I dozed off and again woke at around 5:30, the uneasiness of the stomach prevented me from falling asleep again so I got up and started to prepare my lemon tea and breakfast, then the first vomit hit me, 15 minutes later a 2nd one, much more violent, another 15 minutes came the 3rd one, 20 minutes after, the 4th, another 25 minutes the 5th, during these last two bouts my stomach was practically empty but the vomit still seized upon me. I went online to check food poisoning related to silk squash, there are cases of poisoning after eating silk squash, bottle gourd, and bitter gourd, reported from china, india, and canada. the thing with these vegetables belonging to the cucurbitaceae family is, when they for some reason turn bitter, indicating the presence of a natural toxin called tetracyclic triterpinpoid, they become highly toxic.the toxin is mainly concentrated in the seeds, and in silk squash's case, also in the skin, for last supper I had eaten both. apparently when these vegetables are not abnormally bitter, they are very good food stuff, how they become bitter is still a mystery. there're cases reported from india that after drinking fresh squeezed juice of these vegetables patients suffer from blood vomiting, there's even one death toll. luckily in my case, after drinking a cup of red tea and a hot ginger tea, my stomach became much more agreeable, and except feeling a little weak (mind you, haven't eaten any breakfast yet), I am again as good as new! now let's see if I can upload a picture of the culprit... picture is from the link: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4913738945_e589e6a5d4.jpg

how to say 'foam box' in french? hi, I was trying to say 'foam box' in french, box made of foam, sort of like the ones used to store ice cream, only much bigger that you can use it to grow vegetables, I googled it and got 'boîte de mousse', then I searched for pictures of 'boîte de mousse' and all of them is just a plastic box with a thin foamy layer, and that's not what I wanted. can someone please point me to the right translation? thanks a lot!

mumbling no.1: english accents and my sluring problem ok, this is my first scribbling. years ago I registered on an online journal called 'open diary' but didn't write any thing, as far as I can remember... well, I think I didn't. but the idea is cute. writing journals here is even better, because with luck, I might get a response, which would be so much fun. back to today, I called up a couple of numbers in malaysia to inquire about something, I've never been to malaysia and have only met a handful people from there before, but through email contacts and browsing their websites recently, I got an impression that, at least generally, malaysians speak far better english than, say, people from thailand, india, or sri lanka. one of the numbers I've called today was answered by a lady speak perfect british english. I can't really distinguish between different british accents, I used to listen to BBC world service, and there the accents are quite varied, ranging from the very posh, which in my understand is the sort spoken by the royal family members or an elderly oxford don depicted on tv shows, to quite neutral, the international sort with much rounded pronunciation, quite close to some american accent actually, and further to the very british flavoured sort, sounding either provincial or cockney. well this malaysian lady, she spoke with a sort of very deliberate british accent, might be somewhere between the very posh and the neutral, absolutely no asian accent. I've known a lot of people from hongkong, most of them speak english with a horrible hongkong accent. I wonder what is it like in malaysia... I also called a hongkong number today, there's another one speaks a perfect british english, this time more to the neutral side. I haven't spoken the language for so long that I stumbled a lot during these phone calls, besides I've always had a sluring problem when I speak, sometimes even in my native tongue, so while talking to the hongkong fellow, when I said next year he took it for last year and when I explained it's 2013 I was talking about, he pronounced next and last twice in strong emphasis that was felt more like reprimand than a kind reminder or advice. I wasn't upset or anything because it was my fault to slur, but my gosh, how unpleasantly haughty can these elites sometimes be. anyhow this is how I came to realise I have to get rid of the sluring and stumbling, for the first I'll need to try to enunciate more clearly and emphatically while for the second I'll simply have to speak more.