没有主题，随意一记。

住在江边的酒店里，傍晚总听到咚…咚…咚…的声响。在房子里调查了好久，也没找到声音的来源。
第二天，在阳台上看下去，才发现……这里的本地人还在江边洗衣，那声音原是木槌敲打衣服的声音。

每逢有船划过，江中的女子总会唱起当地的民歌，偶尔还会有游客来了兴致和其对歌。

当地的小吃，这里的粉实在不错，6元一碗，有各种口味，加上酸豆角……想想还在流口水。

若非这一队结伴而行的苗族妇女，城中满街的小贩已让凤凰的“古”字大打折扣。
不过出来旅行，自然要给亲友带些纪念品，于是货比三家，了解行情，跟老板砍价自然成了必修的功课。

古镇的夜生活也都商业化了，离不开酒吧夜店。
第一晚在江边走着，在嘈杂庸俗的迪厅音乐与口水翻唱中，被一个特别的声音吸引。
于是隔天便在这个名为私奔吧的民谣酒吧里听歌。
两位男歌手唱了不少自己的作品。中间偶尔有女顾客上去合唱。
结尾，两位歌手翻唱了梅艳芳的那首《亲密爱人》，倒是十分映衬当时的气氛。

今夜还吹着风
想起你好温柔
有你的日子分外的轻松 

2009年的6月，我们

就那么心安理得的在古城里宅着。

悠闲，懒散，脸上洋溢着微笑，傻傻的笑。

江边静静的夜，本来有好多话要说，却就那么安心的静静的睡着了……

于是，到了今天，还有些缓不过神来。

我很喜欢这个标题，当然这么有文学造诣的人的不是我。所以我还是继续发遭人鄙视的图片日志吧，别毁了这标题。

小区里的游泳池，其实我还蛮想在里面游一下的。

闲在路边的椰树和仙人掌。竟然没有吃到椰子…… 

 沙堡，还有月亮井和生命之树。

一起看海。未完待续……

 Maybe this article helps, not sure.

Baccalaureate address to Class of 2008 (excerpt)
President Faust, Harvard, (full text on...)

I think you are worried because you want your lives not just to be conventionally successful, but to be meaningful, and you are not sure how those two goals fit together. You are not sure if a generous starting salary at a prestigious brand name organization together with the promise of future wealth will feed your soul.

....I think there is a second reason you are worried — related to but not entirely distinct from the first. You want to be happy. You have flocked to courses like “Positive Psychology” — Psych 1504 — and “The Science of Happiness” in search of tips. But how do we find happiness? I can offer one encouraging answer: get older. Turns out that survey data show older people — that is, my age — report themselves happier than do younger ones. But perhaps you don’t want to wait.

....you won’t know till you try. But if you don’t try to do what you love — whether it is painting or biology or finance; if you don’t pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don’t begin with it.

....But what is ultimately most important here is that you are asking the question — not just of me but of yourselves. You are choosing roads and at the same time challenging your own choices. You have a notion of what you want your life to be and you are not sure the road you are taking is going to get you there. This is the best news. And it is also, I hope, to some degree, our fault. Noticing your life, reflecting upon it, considering how you can live it well, wondering how you can do good....

昨天去参观了GE位于Olympic Green里的GE Imagination Center，和其他一些sponsor的展厅，以及最令人激动的鸟巢和水立方！相机里的照片还没有整理好，就先发两张手机里的图片吧。

鸟巢 Bird's Nest

水立方 Water Cubic

时光

Zi house
The most ancient family name of Wang was originated from the surname Zi. The Chinese legend mentions that near the end of Shang Dynasty, King Zhou of Shang's uncle Bi Gan, Qi Zi and Wei Zi were called "The Three Kindhearted of Shang". King Zhou was violent in his rule, and Bi Gan repeatedly remonstrated to the king regarding his behavior. The king refused his comments, and killed Bi Gan instead. Bi's descendants used "Wang" as their surname as they are descendants of a prince, and was known as the "The Bi clan of Wang family". The Zi clan existed around 3100 years through Qin Dynasty to Tang Dynasty, and until today. The Zi clan of Wang lived predominantly in Henan during these times, and developed into the famous Wang Family of Ji prefecture.

Ji house
More families of Wang were originated from the royal family of Zhou Dynasty. The original surname of the royal family of Zhou Dynasty was Ji. However, many of them have separated out of the family due to the loss of power amd land. Because of they once belonged to the royal family, they used "Wang" as their surname. This family of Wang traced its ancestry to Wang Ziqiao.

According to the classical records, after King Wu of Zhou defeated the Shang Dynasty, he chose the capital at the city of Gao. This was known in history as the Western Zhou Dynasty. During the reign of the 21th king, King Ling of Zhou (571 - 545 BCE), the capital was in Chen Zhou, which is the present day Luoyang, Henan. The son of King Ling, crown prince Jin (also known as Prince Jin or Prince Qiao), was reduced to civilian status due to his remonstration to the king. His son Zong Jin remains to be a Situ in the palace, and because of the people at the time recognized him as the descendant of the royal family, they called his family the "Wang family". From this moment on, this clan used "Wang" as their surname. When the 8th generation of the Ji clan of Wang Wang Cuo became a general in the State of Wei, the clan finally regained its status. In the early period of Qin Dynasty, this clan was active in areas of Luoyang, Henan. Between the end of Qin Dynasty and the beginning of Han Dynasty, Wang Yuan and Wang Wei, sons of the Marquis of Wuchen Wang Li, moved to Langye, Shandong and Taiyuan, Shanxi. Since then, they have developed into the most famous Wang family of Langye and Taiyuan, the biggest group in the surname of Wang. The Ji clan of Wang existed around 2600 years. In China, 90% of the Wang family that have their family tree originated from the Ji clan of Wang.

王

Business isn't complicated. The complications arise when people are cut off from information they need.   — Jack Welch

很想听陈奕迅唱Shall We Talk，这是哪儿跟哪儿啊……

2008年5月18日西安交通大学四大发明广场[转载自BMYBBS]

FOUR-leaf clover is an uncommon variation of the common three-leaf clover. According to superstition, such leaves bring good luck to their finders... Yesterday, I didnot only find four-leaf clovers (Yes, I mean clovers.), but also a FIVE-leaf clover（The one on the left）. Amazing, isn't it?

According to legend, each leaflet represents something: the first is for hope, the second is for faith, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck. So what is the fifth for?

感谢你们陪我度过这四分之一个世纪。

Watched the BBC World News this morning, something about the Beijing Olympics torch in London. News has never been fair-minded. Protest exists, but surely, it will not be the principal part of the travel. If western media go on broadcasting news in this way, I will be wondering what attitude we should have towards the 2012 London Olympics. [Anti-BBC on the net]

... this superior financial performance has to be sustainable, meaning that not only should it be supported by a solid leadership position, but that position should be long-lasting, unassailable, and endure the inevitable changes that environment will generate. This calls for flexible adaptation to new circumstances, and a will and ability to transform the organization continuously. We should look forward, not backward. We should never be complacent. We should experiment and engage in a continuous learning process that embraces rather than reject change.

A Hax and D Wilde II, The Delta Model, European Management Journal, Vol.9, No.4, 2001

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