January 2009


a list of interesting quotes i got from 早报:

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
人不会因为勇敢去爱而输掉什么。只有当你封死爱情,不肯付出的时候,你才会输掉一切。

It’s not the truth that hurts us but letting go of the lies.
真相从不伤人,唯一伤痛的是要去放开自欺欺人的谎言。

Worry is the advance interest you pay on troubles that seldom come.
许多的麻烦、祸害最终鲜少会兑现。而烦恼就是你白白预付给它的贷款利息。

He who never walks except where he sees other men’s tracks will make no discoveries.
那些只敢走别人已走过的路的人,是永不会发现新大陆的。

Respect begets respect, suspicion begets suspicion, hate begets hate, and love begets love.
尊重人;别人就会尊重你;猜疑人,别人就会猜疑你;怨恨人,别人就会怨恨你;爱人,别人就会爱你。

We see things not the way they are but the way we are.
我们对事情的看法来自于我们自身的本质,跟事情的本质无关。

We treat ourselves the way we were treated. Others treat us the way we treat ourselves.
我们常因别人怎么对待我们来对待自己。而别人也常常会先看到我们怎么对待自己,而用同样的方式来对待我们。

Success is a marathon, not a sprint.
成功是场马拉松,不是短跑比赛。

*oh my goodness! this entry should have been published long long ago loh…well, what else, but due to my procrastination! haha.
happened to see its draft copy, 原来是还有最后一小段还没完成…好!就干脆把它给完成了吧!
请注意:这 beijing trip 是我去年三月的时候去的…嘿嘿,不好意思…
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北京烤鸭当然是个不能不谈的话题…

这一趟,我共吃了三次烤鸭

吃的第一餐是 (1) 全聚德…首先我们寻到了前门大街的总店…奇怪,怎么找也找不到,原来一直在我们前方被围起来的就是前门,此时正在进行装修…难怪走来走去,不停在这被围起来的范围绕着,当然瞧不到啦…

后来走到了前门西大街的那间,还走了好远的路呢…却没想到 2.30pm – 4.30pm 是餐馆的休息时间…天啊!怎么吃一餐全聚德的烤鸭是那么地波折重重啊!

隔天,我们来到了王府井的分店,又再次碰钉子,这一间的休息时间更早,2pm 就开始了。还好,附近的东来顺没有这样的rule, 不然真的是饿死人喽…

终于再一个隔天,我们及时在 2pm 之前踏进了王府井全聚德分店…
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嗯,味道还好,因为没得比较,所以觉得还不错…
只是觉得服务生好像急着要收工似的,问有什么其他菜肴好介绍,却随便敷衍我们, 可能是因为已经超过两点了吧…

(2) 北京大董烤鸭
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第一印象…非常超级地有气派…而且还得排长龙呢!
the queue number we got was 51, and to be precise, it was “small table no.51″…yet they were serving only no.31 at that moment!
what to do, we had already come this far, might as well wait loh…there were lots of people waiting, so i guess it must be really good after all, if not, these people wun be so willing to wait for their turns right, even if they were 20 tables away…
i think we waited for nearly 1 1/2 hours, and by the time it was finally our turn, there were still customers coming in to get queue numbers…ooh…it was already 8.30pm leh…that means they had to wait till 9+ or even 10pm loh…
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the first bite of the 烤鸭皮/肉 made me conclude that it’s nicer than 全聚德’s…yes, i personally felt that the texture here was better, and maybe plus the ingredients that went with the skin/meat, the mixture all blended in very well…and of cos, not forgetting the ambience of the restaurant lah…the chinese sure know how to enjoy life now…or…其实简单的来说,也许中国人不过是回到了他们以前曾享有过的”繁荣昌盛”的时代罢了…

(3) 便宜坊烤鸭 – 便利人民,宜室宜家
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怎么说呢?是不是有如它的招牌一样,是便宜的烤鸭呢?应该算是吧。给我的印象是平民化,简单的布置,普通得不能再普通的餐馆环境,但烤鸭的味道还是到位的。怎么办?我还是得说,这里的烤鸭也比全聚德的好吃!hmm…是我不会欣赏真正的烤鸭,还是老字号的招牌太响了呢?hmm…值得思考的一个问题…

听说还有一件非常出名的,位于胡同内的烤鸭店,也不知还在不在,看来应该是没机会吃到了…可惜可惜…

“In a study published last month in the British Medical Journal, researchers from Harvard Medical School and University of California found that an individual’s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends but his friends’ friends, and their friends’ friends. The effect lasts for up to a year.”

“i just want to be happy”…it is always easier said than done, especially given the current financial climate…
but yah, “i just want to be happy”…we all just want to be happy, so just go ahead and compile a happy list!!!
after all, it’s really “i just want to be happy”, isn’t it???

不知不觉…
2008年,虽然没做了什么大事,但也算是有好好地利用了部分的时间…完成了一些事情…最后会不会有所用途,现在还言之过早…

2008年,其实还可以过得更充实一点,但像我那么懒的人,能做到那些事情也算不错了…完成了两项短期课程,三项迷你课程,还有也完成了读了将近两年半的翻译课程(说到这里,突然想起我还没去领回我的毕业证书喔)…如果把那些我花在看online dramas 的时间也好好地利用的话,看来我做到的东西还会更多呢!哈哈!

今晚,和三个小妹妹一起吃了2009年的第一个聚会晚餐…天啊,原来一个两个三个都还没超过25岁!我这三十几的”老姐姐”的心还真被她们”刺痛”了好几回…年轻的感觉还是非常好的loh…

今年,我有些什么期许?
- 好好地读我的nutrition advanced diploma course…there are so many unfamiliar terms in the first module i have started on…oh my goodness, guess it’s gonna really be tough for me…ooh…must really cut down on the time spent on watching dramas online loh… DISCIPLINE!!!

- the 3 knitting projects i have set for myself to complete…hmm…i wonder…

- i am very ambitious, i want to try to pick back my japanese…but that seems tough loh…

- 其实,单单我的nutrition course 和 knitting projects 就应该会用去我不少的时间吧…

- 生肖预测我今年会红鸾心动,也不只是真是假…我始终是个女人,还是会想要有个人,男人,来好好地疼疼我…不要什么,只要是真心爱我的男人…

在X少的blog上,看到这样一段话:
2009年
我想做我喜欢的事
我想见我想见的人
我想爱我想爱的人
我想我爱的人爱我

这也是我心里想说的话…我真的想爱我想爱的人…我也真的想我爱的人爱我…

2009年,环境会更艰难…但我得确保我自个儿的世界是happy and positive!
2009年,一定要加油!