Diaologues between Chinese Characters 26 Dec 2007
忙 (busy) brushed aside his heart, but still felt he was more heartful than 忘 (forget) and told him so, "What happened to you, mate? Haven't you lost your heart completely in hell?" 口 (mouth) said to 回 (once) after a medical checkup, "Congretulations, you're pregnant." One day after Christmas, 力 (force) on street greeted 办 (to do) who carried two shopping bags in hands, "Good on you, have got so many bargains. Look at me, rushed around, still empty handed." 森 (forest) invited 木 (log) to a new year's party, "Don't spend new year's eve at home alone, come join us at Circular Quay to watch the best firewarks in the world." 卓 (excellent) was surprised when he saw his colleague 桌 (table) walking on two crutches, "What have you done to yourself during the holiday?" 日 (day) said to 曰 (say) after Christmas, "Wow, just a fews days, you've put on so much weight!" 驴 (donkey) is a Shanghai native. One day she had a quarrel with 马 (horse), a migrant worker earning 3,000 yuans a month as nanny in the period leading up to Chinese New Year, and scorffed her, "So what, without a residenceship, you are still a loser." 自欺欺人
Me, me me, so lovely...
A survey by a South Korean newspaper asked 340 randomly selected South Kreans to use a Chinese idiom to describe their overall feelings about year 2007 and reflect a collective general psyche in South Korea, and found "自欺欺人" (depeive others and deceive oneself) being on the top the charts.
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