• My name: 沈渊 (Shěn Yuān).
  • 沈 ▸ In the oracle bone script, it was an ideogrammic compound: 水 (“water”) + 羊 (“sheep”) meaning to submerge a sheep into the water (as a form of sacrifice to the river god). It was later borrowed to signify the surname, and the variant 沉 (chén) was adopted for the original meaning: to sink, submerge, or immerse.
  • 渊 ▸ Simplified form of: 淵. Meaning: Abyss, deep water, deep or profound.
  • Name meaning: Deep Abyss or Sinking Abyss.

Expressões de Saudação e Cortesia

• Cumprimentos
  • 你好 (Nǐ hǎo) ▸ Olá (formal, para uma pessoa).
  • 您好 (Nín hǎo) ▸ Olá (ainda mais formal, para uma pessoa muito importante).
  • 你们好 (Nǐmen hǎo) ▸ Olá (para mais de uma pessoa).

The things that inspire me and live rent-free in my mind...

• But if believing in god is human. If all I can do as a human is to believe... My god. My universe.
• "'Will you speak to us of love?' Almitra asks, like a child. They care nothing of the dying sun, the burnt earth, their inevitable mortality. Tell us a story about love, they say. And give it a happy ending." - Starlingthefool, Fundamental Imperfection.
• I once read that learning to live was simply just making it a habit.
• It is a ruin to love someone like this, so wholly and without reason.
• "Not everything had gone to plan, but we made the best of what we had, you know?" - Bastille, Glory.
• "'Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,' Polo said. 'Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already l... ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities.

✦ Albums ✦

• The Bifrost Incident (2017) The Mechanisms. ↻
• EPIC: The Musical (2022-2024) Jorge Rivera-Herrans.
• Alien Stage (2022-) VIVINOS.
• The Downward Spiral (1994) Nine Inch Nails.
• I Let It in and It Took Everything (2020) Loathe.

✧ Songs ✧

• Same Old Story 'Onaji Hanashi' (2005) Humbert Humbert.
• A Winter Story 'Fuyunohanashi' from Given (2019). ↻
• Two Time (2018) Jack Stauber's Micropop.
• Sailor's Song (2025) Gigi Perez.
• Shuffle '洗牌' (2025) SHarK米尔艾力 & Rapeter.
• You Can Walk Slower '你可以慢点走' (2025) SHarK米尔艾力, Rapeter & Kito.

Bacharelado

• Atual: 8º de 8 períodos (oh god oh fuck).
• Obrigatórias: 123 de 138 créditos necessários.
  • 2 matérias faltando (2 matriculadas).
• Eletivas: 18 de 36 créditos necessários.
  • aprox. 3 matérias faltando (1 matriculada).
• Livres: 18 de 18 créditos necessários.

Licenciatura

• Atual: 1º de 4 períodos.
• Obrigatórias: 0 de 37 créditos necessários.
  • 1 semestre de Educação Especial, Educação de Surdos, Língua Brasileira de Sin...

• Five things 2019-2023

While preparing my next 101 in 1001 list, I may have stumbled upon my old five things lists and decided that I miss them somewhat, so here I am.

January⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀一月

• Spent some quality time with my mom during the New Year. Rewatched Rise of the Guardians after a long time, but I realised that the movie is a lot better in Portuguese. Went to the movie theatre with A., which, now I know, would soon become a mistake. Got my driver's license! Gabs and I visited her sister (Gi) and painted kitchen towels. Ale, Gus and I watched Queer (2024), "I'm not queer, I'm disembodied". I obsessed over Epic: The Musical.

February⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀二月

Essa semana: 30日 - 06日

• 03日 - Prova de COntemporânea.
• 05日 - Prova de Hist. da Asia.
• Até 05日 - Lição de casa de Mandarim.
  • Revisão para a prova.

Esse mês: 12月

• Prova de Mandarim.
• Fazer os trabalhos de Teoria II.
  • Capa de Livro.
  • Trabalho em Grupo.
• Terminar o Circulation of Knowledge (org.)

Mês que vem:

Esse semestre:

Para ler:

• Além do pós-colonialismo e do pós-posi...

Lista roubada descaradamente de its.

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