Friday, March 31, 2006
Yan can cook, you can TOO
是too，不是吐
Thursday, March 23, 2006
美国终于也有“禽流感”了
晚间新闻，男主持人抑扬顿挫地报着新闻标题：马英九今天十点到达旧金山机场；禽流感最早今年六月进入美国…… 啊，听得我张口结舌，怎么听起来像是文艺表演，或是什么紧俏商品进京的感觉？接下来的话似乎应当是：如果有对禽流感感兴趣的观众，请打以下电话和刘小姐联络，最初的一个月，厂家有让利销售……
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
如何治疗过敏
XY长年来为各种各样的过敏而烦恼，几年前曾经因为过敏，24小时内被送三次急诊。后来做了过敏测试，在背上打了一百多种各种各样的可能的过敏源，查出的过敏成分多达十几种：人工色素，人工香料，尘螨，蘑菇，螃蟹，松树。多年来从来不吃罐头食品，每次买各种成品，第一反应就是仔细地看食品标签，只要有“Red#40”，“FD&C Blue #1”一类的，就连碰都不碰。
前几天忽然听到完全不同的一种治过敏的“疗法”，有个朋友听说我们要回北京，聊起北京的污染情况，他笑着说：像XY这样过敏的，回北京一个星期，管保治一年！
不由得让我想起几年前当SARS刚刚在广州爆发的时候，我们的访客的先生从广州来，我和XY都不由得有些担心，没想到朋友到了以后，一直道歉，说要是知道SARS在美国被宣传得这么可怕，就不来打搅了。我们都觉得很吃惊，难道他不怕吗？他从兜里掏出香烟，说：在广州，是有些人死了，也有很多人害怕，可是据统计，抽烟的人没有一个患SARS的！
前几天忽然听到完全不同的一种治过敏的“疗法”，有个朋友听说我们要回北京，聊起北京的污染情况，他笑着说：像XY这样过敏的，回北京一个星期，管保治一年！
不由得让我想起几年前当SARS刚刚在广州爆发的时候，我们的访客的先生从广州来，我和XY都不由得有些担心，没想到朋友到了以后，一直道歉，说要是知道SARS在美国被宣传得这么可怕，就不来打搅了。我们都觉得很吃惊，难道他不怕吗？他从兜里掏出香烟，说：在广州，是有些人死了，也有很多人害怕，可是据统计，抽烟的人没有一个患SARS的！
Friday, March 17, 2006
The SHIT Manager Opportunity
I am planning to go back to Beijing in April, and spend a month in China, a few friends got to know about it, and started to introduce some HR agents to me.
I recently got an email from one of those agents, with a nice subject: "The SHIT Manager Opportunity", which immediately grabbed my intention. What? SHIT manager Opportunity? hmm, I don't know who wants to grab that opportunity.
Of course it's not, it's "The SH IT Manager Opportunity" - i.e. Shanghai IT Manager. I will give it a try and see what happens, maybe I will be a perfect SH IT manager.
I recently got an email from one of those agents, with a nice subject: "The SHIT Manager Opportunity", which immediately grabbed my intention. What? SHIT manager Opportunity? hmm, I don't know who wants to grab that opportunity.
Of course it's not, it's "The SH IT Manager Opportunity" - i.e. Shanghai IT Manager. I will give it a try and see what happens, maybe I will be a perfect SH IT manager.
Monday, March 13, 2006
思所以危则安，思所以乱则治，思所以亡则存
引用温家宝在中国十届全国人大四次会议，闭幕后的中外记者会上说的话.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
A型血人吃葡萄
XY常常抱怨我的A型血。是啊，血型有什么罪过呢？
难道不知道这世界上还有15亿人和我一个血型吗？
难道不知道日本和德国各有40%的A型人吗？
Google了一下，找到这么一篇儿说咱A型血的，看了看，大致还是说咱好话的多嘛，可是XY就是拍了这张照片来证明‘完美主义者’的过分。
咋办呢？还是反映一下A型人的其他特点吧：‘他们有一种和平的欲望，希望与人和睦相处。为了不引发冲突和麻烦，他们说话办事总是小心谨慎，很有分寸’。
难道不知道这世界上还有15亿人和我一个血型吗？
难道不知道日本和德国各有40%的A型人吗？
Google了一下，找到这么一篇儿说咱A型血的，看了看，大致还是说咱好话的多嘛，可是XY就是拍了这张照片来证明‘完美主义者’的过分。
咋办呢？还是反映一下A型人的其他特点吧：‘他们有一种和平的欲望，希望与人和睦相处。为了不引发冲突和麻烦，他们说话办事总是小心谨慎，很有分寸’。
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Minister's lesson
Last night, it's the 2nd night that I watched NBC's "Deal or No Deal" show, Minister/wife/mother-of-two Cheryl Jackson of Plano, Tx., returned.
Jackson, who eliminated 11 cases the previous night, at one point saw $172,000 offer from the smart and mean banker, while she had 4 boxes, $1, $5, $300,000 and $750,000. She was brave enough to say 'No Deal', but when the next box opened showed $750,000, and banker's offer dropped (obviously) to $80,000, all her friends and family cheering her up, and she prayed, and gutted it out to say 'No Deal', I don't know what's in her mind when she had 2/3 of the chance to go almost empty-handed.
You can guess the results, the next box she opened was $300,000. Facing the total disaster and humiliation of a choice of $1 or $5, she finally made the right choice, and kept her spirit high and made the right guess, winning $5 over banker's $2 offer.
I don't know how Jackson, as a minister, would teach her people this week, but I think I learned a lesson about 'greedy' vs. 'faith'. In our lives, we often pray for good life, fortune, and we didn't think God answered us. Maybe that's what Jackson is thinking now, maybe her faith in God in this matter is shaken a little, but when you meet with God, and God asks "what happened that night when I gave you $170,000 for an hour of your work?", what would you say?
God is faithful, he even gave her the last rescue of $80K, at THAT moment, if you think you have God on your side, he will always bail you out, with $300K, I call that Satan.
