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Monday, October 11, 2004

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:45:06 GMT

So the circumstance dertermines what one thinks. It's pretty interesting to look into how the environment exerts influence on the people.How different people react to the same event as well as the different event?How do they think about themselvs and the whole world when they see the bitterly toiling suffering and ironic happenings that twist others' lives?Plus ,the education is one of the most keyfactor that infuences the way how people think.What kind of education is determind why which country one resides in.Parents' teachings can't be ignored over their children.What's the destiny?I am sure that different people have different answers to it.What would one do and take when it's out of hand(in negative ways)?For the reasons why he does it the way he does does not lie in he likes acting the way he does but the circumstance has the forceful power on him and which one should be blamed if his way of doing it hurts someone or has a bad effect on others?I think that no one should be blamed.Maybe we should say the society.I'll explain when I have the evidence.

Sunday, October 03, 2004

Sun, 03 Oct 2004 07:57:25 GMT

When you buy a pair of shoes then you have to unvaryingly pay for the upkeep till it's worn out.The cushioned crew socks,the cloth to wash it,consider buying another trousers which can match this shoes,the time to wash the shoe lines once in a month......

Friday, September 24, 2004

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:48:07 GMT

Loafers
	Gucci		$395

Hospital
	VIP, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C., 1 day, concierge, security, gourmet meals		$1,516

Psychiatrist
	Upper East Side, N.Y.C., 45 minutes, standard fee		$250

Lawyer
	Established N.Y.C. firm, Schlesinger, Gannon & Lazetera, average hourly fee for estate planning by partner		$695

Friday, September 24, 2004

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:45:08 GMT

Well do you want to be rich,let's see the costing of being rich,here goes:

Dinner at La Tour d'Argent

Paris, estimated per person (including wine and tip) $331¹

Swimming pool

Olympic size (50 meters), Mission Pools, Escondido, Calif. $1,113,000

Automobile

Rolls-Royce Phantom $328,750

Telephone call

10 minutes, AT&T, N.Y.-London*** $25

Perfume

1 oz. Joy, by Jean Patou $400

Thoroughbred

Yearling, average price, Fasig-Tipton Saratoga summer select sale** $304,700

Motor yacht

Hatteras 80 (with 1550-hp CAT C-30s) $4,500,000

Sailing yacht

Nautor Swan 70 $3,864,654¹

Cigars

Aniversario No. 1, Dominican Republic, 25 cigars, Davidoff, N.Y.C. $663

Automobile

Rolls-Royce Phantom $328,750

Helicopter²

Sikorsky S-76C+, full executive options $9,000,000

Airplane

Learjet 40, standard equipment, certified, 6 passengers $8,240,000

Train set

Blue Christmas G gauge, LGB, at FAO Schwartz, N.Y.C. $500

Spa

The Golden Door, Escondido, Calif., basic weekly unit $6,500

Shirts

1 dozen cotton, bespoke, Turnbull & Asser, London $3,120

School

Preparatory, Groton, 1 year tuition, room, board $35,800

University

Harvard, 1 year tuition, room, board, insurance $39,880

Champagne

Dom Perignon, case, Sherry-Lehmann, N.Y.C. $1,439

Silverware

Lenox, Williamsburg Shell pattern, 4-piece place setting for 12 $4,356

Friday, September 17, 2004

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:39:49 GMT

Today is Friday that some denominational people regard as Black Friday(Oh is it ture?),so the human beings look at the world with their religious eyes.Religion is a reflection of culture.I found that I have mixed-denominational world views after reading the book Communication between Culture.I guess what I've found is pretty interesting,if you ask me whether I believe in God,I would say yes,then you ask what religion do I belong to?At this point,I can't give you a definte respond,my answer that I could only answer is I'm not denominational.I am the one who know a lot about the American culture as well as their religion,society,language,customs and the like.All of those exert enormous influence on me,easily understand the way they talk,the way they does things comparing to those who don't know American culture.The bewilderment for them is a piece of cake for me,I don't think that I am here oversaying how much that I know about their culture,my goal is to show you all the American culture and then it can compare with our own culture to see clearly the advantage and disadvantages respective.So the white male is dominate in the society,you can be very proud of your self if you are european ancestry.But the American society is where people are more easily to communicate with directly and apt to accept what you say with your good intentions.They are more likely to talk than we do,our culture and education taught us that the silence can express more according to the ocassion.Either side is not wrong,that's the cultural shades.To be continued...

Thursday, September 09, 2004

Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:35:40 GMT

Gracing the waters of Long Beach Harbor, the Queen Mary is an international icon and landmark for Southern California.

Thursday, September 09, 2004

Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:27:58 GMT

"Keep your face to the sunshine.....and you won't see the shadows"

Monday, August 30, 2004

Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:52:36 GMT

Habit!!!Some people are getting tired for no reasons,they don't know why they get tired.They are very fine in physic and they are not sleepless.They sleep for enough hours through the night and have a nap in the afternoon.The nap doesn't work,because after they wake up they still feel like sleeping...well I think that the sleepy bugs are living very happily in the head.Let's not look at the problem in this way.The desire for more sleep not only relates to your present state but also has something to do with your past,precisely speaking,it is the habit that you've kept on in the previous months or years and the thoughts that you may want to change the habit altogether produce the tiring feeling.Let's see it more clearly:In the past three months,you led a very leisure and free life,you did whatever you wanted to do(there was no restriction to you),your days seem so nice that you become sloth.You had no worries but at the same time you stopped making the progress.You became bored and dull and found nothing to do.Spending the time very uninterestingly and lived every day lazily.All of the above bacame your own habit after the things and thoughts were the part of your daily life.After that long period,you have to return to work and get things started,you find that you are low to do your work.You can't be energetic as you were,you get distracted easily,your doing a very simple work in the office is tiring.Also,you find that you reaction is slowing down etc.Where is the tiring feeling coming from?The answer is the paradox and the clash that makes it.Since you are in the office,your behaviours are restricted in some way,you have to do the things according to the process,you have to wake up early in the morning and do a great amout of work per day,only you are in a stable state can you finish your work on time.Now you are beginning to cultivate a new habit that's greatly different from the previous one(your leisure time's).This is the clash and this is the paradox you see.You want to get up early and retain a good state of mind,but your old habit prevents you from achieving this.The old me and the new me clashes,which can tear you apart,that's why you get tired.So we can be successful little by little,habit can be cultivated no matter they are good or bad.

Sunday, August 29, 2004

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:34:23 GMT

Do you like someone who is really phony and inhonest.Inhonesty is the basic of the friendship,you can't feel good toward someone who's always telling the lies and trying to hide himself with saying some flowery language.How I define it:the generosity in words,the fakeness in actions.We look at someone who has a good quality not by what he tells us,inversely,what he does.Action speaks louder than words.I couldn't imagine a person never tells anyone what he really thinks about the things and always lives in the world of vanity and who's never good to his friends from the bottom of his heart.One person is sometimes really not understandable.I don't know if vanity has something to do with meanness.Today I wanna show many examples on here on what one person is really like in the actual life,which is an outlet for me,it makes me think funny,pissed off,diappointed etc.Jesse is coming back to Beijing and has asked Brian to go the station to pick him up because Jesse has siutcase and bags.So Brian promised that since he thought he had nothing better to do.Unfortunately,Brian lost his wallet on the way to the station,dropped on the bus he thought himself,"many important bank cards and dinner room cards are in it"......He met Jesse in the station and Jesse didn't say a word after told Brian's wallet was lost.Brian kept SILENT...They are supposed to take the bus the their house(they rent it not far from the school).But Jesse had a disgusting idea(Many schools' buses wait at the station to take the new students to the school and they held the card which school they come from)Jesse said that hey Brian let's go take that bus and pretend the students of that school.Brian Agreed.Jesse promised to take the taxi after getting off.So they carried siutcase and bags to get off and waited for the taxi to come to take them home.The split second Brian waved his hand to the taxi,Jesse Cried Hey What Are you Doing............GEtting angry now you??....no words to say any more.I don't think that Brian should keep silent at that moment.HE should asked him quickly didn't you say just now we take the taxi and see how he responses.Well,this is a very simple thing:leaving the station by the bus to their house maybe shift two buses it doesn't matter right.Why does that guy take so many means to get home???No one knows what is going on in his mind.Just one example that's enough to make me feel so disgusting.I write so many about him today,I don't think that I can put in inside any longer.Jesse said:"would please have a bottle of milk I get one here?"No,replied.We are good friends you can give me that directly without asking me you know me.And his tone sounds really ingenuine<I mind this point.When you are thinking terribly,you are living terribly.I put my mobile phone on Jesse's bed and I went to wash myself.I heard my phone rang DO DO~~I got a new message I knew that.After the washing,I went to get my phone and saw there was not any new message(I knew it must be Jesse who read it).So I checked the inbox and read the lastest message.What was Jesse doing?He just kept on doing his things and pretended that nothing had had happened.He didn't tell me Anything.Don't have a hatred to someone who definitely know something but pretends not know?He's alway playing this.I think what he thinks is everyone is fooled just by him.Oh you are fooled by your self and you dun't know it and it will eventually turn out disastrous.Woooo...no neccesary just see clearly what a kind of person he is.

WEll the Olympic Game is going to the end at this midnight.I had an amazing time in watching it.I even went to my friend's home last night to see the women volleyball final.About one week in a new city and life will go normal from tomorrow on...Going to the classroom every day to make sure the lessons reviewed very well,I know I just need to pay attention the process and don't think about too much what it will turn out be,then I control the result.Little by little per day,things become clear in months

Thursday, August 26, 2004

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:53:41 GMT

Finally I moved to Beijing just several days ago and was trying to get used to the life over here.I am sure that the first three days was the hardest time,going to another totally strange place and knowing just several persons there,living in a relatively unconfortable place comparing to the dorm in the oriental university.The same old me in a new place and I have changed a lot just for the first three days,I was not the one I used to be.I did everything that I lacked the confidence and courage to do in the previous years,I tried to talk to everybody and ask them big questions.For the first time in my lifetime I completely depended on myself to do all that kinda things which I dare not do...I got thru it eventually.I got very distracted this morning while in the classroom and couldn't concentrate on doing anything,sitting there just made me painful,I don't know why.In the evening,I bought a sony sports earphone which is yellow and very cool,with that long line,I still couldn't connect it with the computer in the school,it it just not LONG enough,Oh christ I did mean to buy that long one but not long enough,does that mean I would have to buy another one.maybe not,I'll see what to do.I am willing to stay in the room all day long to review the subject that I am going to do this Oct.I hope that it will turn out well and satisfying.