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Windmills of Your Mind

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:19:37 GMT

The Windmills of Your Mind
Music by Michel Legrand
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

Round
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel thats turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream
Or the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple
Whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that you said?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Is the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
And the fragment of a song
Half-remembered names and faces
But to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
You were suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the colour of her hair

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.

All I Want for Christmas is You

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:54:24 GMT

All I Want For Christmas Is You

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is...You

I don't want a lot for Christmas
There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want for Christmas is you

Ooh baby
All the lights are shining
So brightly everywhere
And the sound of children's
Laughter fills the air
And everyone is singing
I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won't you bring me the one I really need
Won't you please bring my baby to me...

Oh I don't want a lot for Christmas
This is all I'm asking for
I just want to see my baby
Standing right outside my door
Oh I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
Baby all I want for Christmas is...You

Life is Wonderful

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:23:09 GMT

当然不是因为要做新娘了，才说这句话的。伊拉克人民每天生活在水深火热之中，美国也是路有冻死骨，只是从每天的无常中找一点小快乐，就算跌了跟头，也对自己说一句，" It takes some bad for satisfaction".

I talked with Jag at lunch time, and he said Caroline took another operation for her aggressively growing tumor. I was their match maker. It's so unfair to Caroline, I believe she loves life more than most of us, dancing, wine tasting, gardening, cooking... She spend so many years to get her phd degree and establish herself in her career, and find a nice guy like Jag, but now... she is struggling to get her health back, fighting with those greedy little cells in her brain. Jag said you would just understand what life is when you are losing it. Life is wonderful, it couldn't be more sadder than you are hearing this from a cancer patient. Life is wonderful, that is a kind of philosophy we have to believe otherwise I don't think I can stand this disaster world any day longer.

Life is Wonderful
by Jason Mraz

It takes a crane to build a crane
It takes two floors to make a story
It takes an egg to make a hen
It takes a hen to make an egg
There is no end to what I'm saying

It takes a thought to make a word
And it takes some words to make an action
And it takes some work to make it work
It takes some good to make it hurt
It takes some bad for satisfaction

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Ah la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la

It takes a night to make it dawn
And it takes a day to make you yawn brother
And it takes some old to make you young
It takes some cold to know the sun
It takes the one to have the other

And it takes no time to fall in love
But it takes you years to know what love is
And it takes some fears to make you trust
It takes those tears to make it rust
It takes the dust to have it polished

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle
Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la

It is so...

It takes some silence to make sound
And it takes a loss before you found it
And it takes a road to go nowhere
It takes a toll to make you care
It takes a hole to make a mountain

Ah la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la life goes full circle
Ah la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la life is meaningful
Ah la la la la la life is wonderful
Ah la la la la la

It is so...wonderful...
It is so meaningful...

June Bride

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:17:53 GMT

Here comes the June Bride

Oh, they say when you marry in June,
You're a bride all your life.

And the bridegroom who marries in June
Gets a sweetheart for a wife.

Winter weddings can be gay
Like a Christmas holiday.

But the June bride hears the song
Of the spring that lasts all summer long.

By the light of the silvery moon
Home you ride, side by side

With the echo of Mendelssohn's tune
In your hearts as you ride

For they say when you marry in June,
You will always be a bride.

很喜欢这句，Winter weddings can be gay，就象South Park里小胖子Cartman的口气。

Thought of the Day @ Forbes

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:27:18 GMT

"The secret of success is the consistency to pursue." -Harry F. Banks

"坚持到底就是胜利"的英文版么？　

这是我妈妈最喜欢那种格言，时不时搬出来讲一下，再加上与时俱进的例子。只是在坚持的道路上，我困惑的是当初所选择道路是否正确。如果一开始就选择了错误的道路，那么所谓的坚持在事后看来是多么愚蠢。可是除了少数高屋建瓴领先时代的，或是愚公那种不惜代价要坚持下去的，大部分人难免是在碰运气，股票市场是如此，工作家庭人生是如此。不过玩得就是心跳，全世界所有的不可预测性加起来，上帝他老人家就象"Matrix"里的"Oracle"一样，要运算巨复杂的一个模型。中国人的老话，人算不如天算，难道真有这么一个"Oracle"么？

Little Miss Sunshine

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:37:52 GMT

The first line of the movie, Richard said, "There are two kinds of people in this world, winners and losers. "

The defination of losers and suffering in life are the most interesting lines in this movie. All suffering moments are part of our life, I'm not sure those would be the best of my life, but I have to admit I've learned more in suffering than in happy time.

Dwayne: I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all this crap-high school and everything-just skip it.
Frank: You know Marcel Proust?
Dwayne: He's the guy you teach.
Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh... he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18... Ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.

Trying to catch a frog

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:12:05 GMT

This story was in an email sent by my friend Joe on July 13, 2006. Joe, a lawyer and former district attorney in life, has a innocent nature and a pair of energetic and curious blue eyes just like kids'. It's a story like those you hear from religious TV program, but it happened in our life.

I just got a new client, a man whose 43 year old wife, Esther, was killed in a crosswalk in San Jose about 2-3 months ago, by a 17 year old girl, driving her father's car. They had been married 17 years.

************

This past 4th of July weekend he went to a wedding about 200 miles from San Francisco.

When the wedding was about to get started, the 8 year old flower girl was missing----and they found her playing beside a nearby ditch---"trying to catch a frog", she said.

They cleaned her and the wedding began.

At the end of the wedding, the 8 year old flower girl came up to my client---who is about 45. They had never met before. She asked him to hug her and to promise her that he would never forget her.

And she began crying and sobbing..

He was uncertain what to do, and startled, as he had never met her, but he bent down and hugged her and got her to stop crying by saying---

"I promise I will never forget you honey."

Finally, after the girl quit crying, and after his promise "never to forget her" she left with her mother.

My client thought it very strange that an 8 year old girl that he had never before met, would ask him to hug her and to promise her that he would never forget her.

Then, a few minutes later, she returned with a piece of paper, which she asked him to take to his home and read it there--not before. (The home where he and his deceased wife had lived)

So, he drove back home---and when he got home, he opened the paper the little girl had given him.

It said, "I will always love you."

He thought it very, very odd and strange.

*******************

Then a few days later, he was telling this strange story to his mother-in-law----Esther's mother.

The mother-in-law first remained quiet, and then she began sobbing.

After she stopped crying, she told him a story about his now dead wife---

*****************

"35 years ago, when Esther was 8 years old, she also was a flower girl in a wedding.

When the wedding began, we could not find her.

Finally, we found her beside a small pond next to the church.

When I asked her what she was doing, she said---

"Trying to catch a frog.""

葡萄成熟时

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 05:04:09 GMT

这首"葡萄成熟时"是KK最喜欢的一首歌。黄伟文的词的确让人在字里行间参透人生。

"但当你智慧都蕴酿成红酒仍可一醉自救谁都心酸过那个没有"，那么多看金刚经的夜晚都是值得的，不经一事不长一智。耐得住寂寞，经得起打击，最后品尝到的滋味也是格外甘甜。

"Your laughters drive away my worries. so keep smiling!!" 恋爱中的KK像个诗人，我要把这些可爱的片断记下来。是的，保持微笑，冬天来了，春天还远吗？

差不多冬至一早一晚还是有雨
当初的坚持现已令你很怀疑很怀疑
你最尾等到只有这枯枝
苦恋几多次悉心栽种全力灌注
所得竟不如别个後辈收成时
这一次你真的很介意

但见旁人谈情何引诱
问到何时葡萄先熟透
你要静候再静候
就算失收始终要守

日後尽量别教今天的泪白流
留低击伤你的石头从错误里吸收
也许丰收月份尚未到你也得接受
或者要到你将爱酿成醇酒
时机先至熟透

应该怎么爱可惜书里从没记载
终於摸出来但岁月却不回来不回来
错过了春天可会再花开
一千种恋爱一些需要情泪灌溉
枯毁的温柔在最後会长回来
错的爱乃必经的配菜

想想天的一边亦有个某某在等候
一心只等葡萄熟透尝杯酒
别让寂寞害你伤得一夜白头
仍得不需要的自由和最耀眼伤口
我知日後路上或没有更美的邂逅
但当你智慧都蕴酿成红酒
仍可一醉自救
谁都心酸过那个没有

We are the Champions

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:27:04 GMT

This is my 2007 theme song. A theme song is the song which I can sing to boost myself up whenever I'm down. As the song writer Freddie Mercury said, it's a winners' song.

What will happen in this year? Great potential, and lots unknowns. Once I told my friend Amy, I felt so blessed since I could keep my smile at each New Year. I could see many things will happen in this year. No tear no gain. I will fight for my each bright smile at each New Year.

Cheers, we are the champions!

I've paid my dues -
Time after time -
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime -
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face -
But I've come through

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting - till the end -
We are the champions -
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions - of the world -

I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls -
You brought me fame and fortuen and everything that goes with it
- I thank you all -

But it's been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise -
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race -
And I ain't gonna lose -

We are the champions - my friends
And we'll keep on fighting - till the end -
We are the champions -
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions - of the world

我是漂亮的女生

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:30:00 GMT

换了这个新的工作后，上班比以前忙很多，资本家的钱不好赚，加了工资就要多付出，能量守恒定律。最近公私都忙，上班天天象打仗，周末到处找好玩好吃的，也没空写写自己心灵上的进步，，这是可爱的Jenny在日思夜想的事。

今天是公司这个季度的earning release，市场的反应是在意料之中，总之有行业的问题也有公司策略上的问题。对我个人来讲，在这样规模的全球运营公司里面，还是学了很多东西。

不抱怨，埋头做事。一家公司到了这样的规模，可以请到很好的人才。人才之为人才，不光是专业素质，还有团队合作能力，和抗压能力。
遇事不逃避，正面应对困难。个人素质和处事态度，这时候全都暴露出来了。
眼光。不晓得是职位开拓了每个人的视野，还是有眼光的人被挑选到了合适的职位上，的确，和每个不同层次的经理人接触，他们的视野一般刚好是他们的职位所能接触到的，很少有人可以超越自己的专业和职位。

好了，不管有多么冠冕堂皇，上班还是很无聊的一件事，如果不是要讨生活，我实在是不想上班。所以每天换换漂亮的衣服就变成鼓励自己上班的一个手段，尽管可能一天都呆在小隔间里，也没人看到。可以穿得舒服漂亮还是很开心的。