这个月真得过的很快
不应该忘记,许多事情第一次做的时候都会害怕
有时候,我会因为一件很小的事就害怕,比如跟老板说话。常常,我想: 为什么不去做些让自己害怕的大事呢?
给自己心爱的梦想盖个很高很高的楼!-做有用的人,做有用的事。
这个月真得过的很快
不应该忘记,许多事情第一次做的时候都会害怕
有时候,我会因为一件很小的事就害怕,比如跟老板说话。常常,我想: 为什么不去做些让自己害怕的大事呢?
A Taxi Driver Told Me about Motor Bike Accident
This Friday morning, I had to take a cab to go to work in order not to be too late. The taxi driver talked to me first in mandarin and later in English. The conversation started as usual, with which part of China were I come from and how long had I been in Singapore. Later the topic changed to transportation methods. He told me he used to ride a bike, which in contrast to Chinese English means motor bike, to go work, until an accident broke his leg. He patted on his left leg and told me that one was broken inside.
The accident took place in an early morning when there weren’t many people on road. He was riding forward through a junction when a car turning left suddenly was in his way. The traffic lights were red for that car, as in the usual case in Singapore. Apparently it was the car driver’s fault to hit him and cost him a leg. However, there was no witness. The taxi driver then told me at that time he worked as a traffic police. His supervisor handled his case but still couldn’t help me. They couldn’t punish that car driver for breaking the law.
It was a sad story. I was told many times by my colleague not to ride a motor bike in Singapore: “It is not you who is not careful but other car driver. Image the driver in front you turn into your way suddenly, then you will be rolled over by the driver behind you.” But many times of this saying still cannot compare to that taxi driver just sit beside me, with a seemly OK left leg told me how he broke.
And, the absence of a witness story may sound old in TV or film, but still rang a bell in my real life. People tend to play down lessons in stories. As a Chinese saying put it “you won’t cry till you see the coffin.” Anyway, remember the story and be careful.
My Mistake Cost My Friend’s Lenovo Recovery Partition
One of my friends asked me to do a system recovery to her Lenovo laptop, and install some essential software as well as partitioning the disk. I’m not really knowledgeable in using Windows Vista so I used a “legacy” 3rd party software to do the disk partition. It caused some serious problem and in the end, the laptop couldn’t boot into Lenovo’s built-in-harddisk system recovery application.
Last year another friend gave me a SONY laptop which someone accidently formatted its hard disk and thus lost the built-in recovery partition. That SONY took me one night to find all drivers and install a Windows XP system. I laughed at that guy who erased the hard disk. However, this time, it was me who not erased but damaged the Lenovo’s built-in recovery partition. Sigh….
Luckily, I found my own Lenovo Vista recovery DVD worked on the laptop and installing Vista proved to be easy: no driver installation required!
My Friend Told Me about Her daughter’s Education
This evening I returned my friend’s laptop to her and she took me to a dinner in a lovely small Hong Kong restaurant in Pasir Ris (White Sands) shopping center.
Over the dinner, she kept talking about her ten years old daughter’s primary school education. Her daughter was in fifth grade in China before she came to Singapore and read Primary 3rd grade. So she is always comparing the education system in China and Singapore and considering whether to let he daughter stay in Singapore for three more years before her PLSE and entering secondary school.
She said her mind was full of this. And I could easily see that from the dinner conversation. She said the Singapore education had a clear emphasis on English but there weren’t many magazines or newspapers catering to students’ needs.
I think all Chinese parents put high expectations on their kids and try always put their utmost efforts in providing best educations. Anyway, before we could talk about that, let’s try our best to avoid 少壮不努力,老大徒伤悲。
今天有什么特殊的?
昨天晚上是七夕,我基本忘记了;但是,想起来,我注意到的每年七夕,天都会下雨!嗯,是因为那个美丽的传说吧。
今天呢?除了我一个好朋友今天在西海岸结婚和奥运会在北京开幕之外,今天还有什么特殊的?我还不是早上不想起床,结果上班迟到?
不想每次跟朋友聊天都扯到人生,可又不能不:朋友说到丽江,说到“避世”,不就是在说生活态度么?同事说到买车,说到“买多多,中多多”,不就是在说人生的规划?
也许只是我太年轻太心急,对这样的话题太过敏感。每天不都是“一样”,今天有什么特殊的?
今天,080808,其实也跟所有的“今天”一样,你可以当它是很普通的一天,也可以当它是很不寻常的一些。区别只有那么一点。我也说不清楚。毕竟,这不是说说就好的事!
===后记
其实,那天还真挺特殊的。北京奥运会华丽的开幕就不说了。反正我是整整看了2个星期。伟大也好,还有一些不和谐也好,奥运会总算是安全的。国人自信不自信且不说,至少是开放多了一些。反正,我是热爱运动的。"The more we get together, the happier we will be." McD 的奥运广告。
还有就是那天我朋友的婚礼也很”成功“。他们最后的那个照片slide show讲述了他们在6年里如何从一年一度的约会,走到了今天承诺的一生厮守。这个slide show感动了所有在场的人。我是他们两个证婚人之一,也的确见证了他们的6年。于是我总想写些什么,想讲述我知道的一些点滴,却又写不出来。反正,我总 是记得那一年,我和她一路坐火车从广州去武汉,她去找在那读书的他那次,列车将近武汉的时候她坐立不安整理容妆的样子;我也总会记得她说过他刚来新加坡的时候感觉像在梦里, 走路会觉得软绵绵的。
再次祝福马超刘楠新婚快乐!
前些天注册了豆瓣网,今天被人"找朋友"找到了,惊喜了一下.
朋友嘛,一定是share过一段生活,最好是share着一些生活:兴趣,目标,梦想。。。。
朋友,你们好吗?
http://www.douban.com/people/b2yao/
忘了说,豆瓣是个读书,看电影,听音乐的地方.
“这个月”和“读的书”
这个月的月初,我在鼓捣iTouch,升级,破解,装软件,忙得不亦乐乎;带发音的字典,google map的离线地图,几个小游戏,看txt电子书的,看rss的,美化的,等等软件,真的让我忙得很开心。不过,最近我似乎没空摆弄它了,也没带在身边,也没升级2.0系统。
ListPro的记载告诉我,我用它加上金山词霸生词本来背单词已经有一个月了,on average, 10 new words per day;不过,最近金山词霸在我公司的电脑上也出问题了,不出声了,加之最近工作忙点,最近几天效率大降。SuperMemo的数据告诉我,我拿它背一本叫MBA词汇2007的“字典”已经有20天了,差不多要背完一遍了:一共是五千多个词,三分之二以上都是熟识的;不过,这两天也“积累”了不少东西,“堆”在了那里让我没空去整理。
这个月也是我刚搬到阿裕尼住的一个月。新租的这个房间不错,虽不特别宽敞,不过很安静,每天开着空调睡觉,早上常常有早饭吃,晚上也常常要到15分钟之外的地铁站走一遭。周末我一个人在家,睡到快中午,看看书,下午出去学车。
这个月末,我那批去德国培训半年的同事回来了,另外一批要去培训半年的又要走了。这两件事都让我很开心。我自己的project在进行着,不过schedule很松。
读的书:
《菜鸟学英语》,旺旺英语论坛上一个网友的学英语心得,从“学英语改变人生”,讲到一些具体的方法和实践经验。她的方法主要是听写和回译。
《千万不要学英语》,一个韩国人写的书,是要突破传统的把英语当作一本学科来研究的方法,采用把英语当作母语来学的方式。作者把学英语分成了5个阶段,每个阶段都有几个简单的步骤,其中第五阶段是接受美国文化。这样一本薄薄的书,却很实在。
论“千万不要学英语”,2003年一个网友的读书笔记加学英语倡议加一些评论。写这些东西的时候作者还是个大学生,许多观点都很偏激,后来他做了一个网站,www.adse.cn, 我刚才去看,有340个访客。
"Get Unstuck", 一本小书,开头就说:“你有没有在生活里某些时候感觉被困住了,既不知道自己是如何走到这步田地,又不知道何去何从呢?”后面的内容都是些励志的话,比较“枯燥”,不过我向来不反对偶尔读下这样的书。
"The Kite Runner", 读了一半了,真的是一个很吸引人的故事。
Google Reader, 不是书,不过是我读的东西,差不多每天都去浏览新的RSS News,给自己感兴趣的加上星号,留着慢慢看。
读者可灵活选择:想通过自学精读教材听说读写全面提高的,不妨依样画葫芦;想提高听力的,可选择听写;想过难句关打牢阅读基本功的,可选翻译学习法;如想提高口语,可参看《口语攻略》与英汉对译;想提高写作能力,可参看回译。以上3种既可单独选用,也可自由组合,视个人根基、目标、教材等而调整。
考研风雨后,又是新起点