Salve Orias

Salve Orias spiritus nobilis, gratias maximas tibi ago. Marchio magne, qui praesides legionibus triginta, nunc ego te spiritum laudo, te colo.

Pax Dei descendat jam super nos et custodiat nos, amen.

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自2006年創立這個部落格以來，這篇是第一百篇文章。

2006年10月到2008年8月之間，發生了多少事﹖縱然不是滄海桑田，也是時過境遷，往日落花變成了淤泥，流水如夢一樣逝去，剩下的也不過是乾枯的夢囈。信仰消失，卻再重尋，如黯黑深夜的東方，太陽的百萬年之舟再次升起﹐被遺忘諸神的名字被記下了，在曾經荒蕪的神殿再次吟唱昨日夢境的歌謠。

將近兩年了，我換了兩份職業，文字工作者變成了教育工作者，然後再度成為文字工作者﹔家裡多了一只小狗﹔去年也終於遊歷過越南北部，慢步於那龍升之城。

然後，在律師公會舉辦改教論壇的那一天，為熱男競賽拍攝了照片。得知自己被挑選為30熱男之一時，意外不已，那種感覺是渺然虛幻，還真的以為那是夢境﹔不過看著手上的參賽協議書﹑攝影當天自己所拍攝的照片，卻知道那不是自己捏造的臆想。

不過，前幾個月大病一場，體重下跌得厲害，在攝影之前，又再一場小病，變成消瘦了，事實上在拍攝的那一天也沒有完全康復，現在有些憂心雜誌上的照片自己會顯得特別瘦弱憔悴。

也罷，既是第一百篇文章，也不多說了，拍攝過程，就留著下次寫好了。

Word of the day - Hunk

The word hunk either means "a thick mass of", "a large piece of", "lump", or "a handsome, sexually appealing, well built man".

The etymology of the word hunk is usually attributed to the Flemish word hunke "a piece of food". Another possible origin of the word is from the back-clipping of the word Hungarian from the 18th century, cf Bohunk (portmanteau of Bohemian + hunk). It should be noted that in this sense hunk or bohunk is actually a derogatory, offensive ethnic slur, originally referred to an unskilled laborer from Austria-Hungary or Bohemia, later any stupid, clumsy muscular immigrant with no brain from Central or eastern Europe. Nowadays the word hunk usually does not refer to the ethnic slur, calling a man as a hunk is almost always complementing his physical appearance.

The word hunk should not be confused with the word hulk. Hulk originally meant "a huge ship", later "a big, clumsy person" or "an excessively muscled person", from Middle English hulke, from Old English hulc, from Greek holkás "trading vessel".

Word of the day- Hot

The adjective hot (comparative hotter, superlative hottest) usually means "being in high temperature", other meanings include "spicy", "newly made", "currently popular" and "physically attractive, sexy". Its association with sexuality dates back to the 16th century.

The English word hot cognates with Old Frisisn het, Old Franconian heit, Old Norse heitr, Danish hed, Dutch heet, German heiß , and Gothic heito.

Etymologically, hot comes from Old English hāt "hot, opposite of cold" and "fervent, fierce", from Proto-Germanic *haitaz, ultimately from PIE *kai "heat". According to Grimm's Law, or the First Consonant Shift, the voicless plosives of PIE [p, t, k] were replaced by [f, θ, x (later h)] in Proto- Germanic, thus PIE extended form *kaid- > Germanic *haitaz > Modern English hot.

Word of the day - Icon

An icon is an image, a picture or a representation. In Eastern Orthodox Church, an icon is a flat panel painting depicting holy beings, especially those of Christ, Mary, saints and angels, or biblical scenes.

Orthodox Church traditions teache that the first iconographer is Saint Luke the Evangelist who painted the Virgin Mary on a panel.

In semiotic sense, an icon a sign which resembles the object which it signifies.

The word icon is derived from Greek εἰκών, eikōn "likeness, image, portrait", ultimately from PIE *weik, "to be like".

Word of the day - New

The word new is usually defined as "having been made or come into being only a short time ago; recent".

Etymologically, the word new comes from Old English nīwe or nēowe, From Proto-Germanic *newjaz, ultimately from PIE *newo or *néwos.

New cognates with other words in Indo-European languages that derived from the same root. Its Germanic cognates include Dutch nieuw, German neu, Norweigian and Swedish ny. Other Indo-European cognates include Greek νέος neos, Latin novus, Welsh newydd, Persianنو nō, Sanskrit नवnava and other similar words.

The Sanskrit word नवis also homonymous with the word for nine. Sometimes it is transliterated as 那婆 ( * na ba in Archaic Chinese) in Chinese Buddhist texts.