大家都知道我好酒，就连今天开会老板都指定我去找一些关于酒的知识，无意发现若干名言如下：

“好的葡萄酒证明了上帝希望我们幸福。”（这句我很喜欢，在想如果把葡萄酒三个字换成酒就完全没有味道了）

“幸福的家庭是回家等着温暖的太太和冰凉的香槟，不幸的家庭是等着冷淡的太太和温热的香槟。”

“男人对旧情的记忆与红酒类似，乃是以收成论。所谓收成，并不是他当时得到一个怎样的女人，而是男人自己有什么收成，收成就是男人的机遇。女人对旧情的回忆也跟红酒一样，但不是以年份论，而是以品质论。”（觉得还是有一定道理的）

　　

周末打算去深圳玩百公里徒步...的体验组， 所以没有百公里，不过还是很兴奋

有事留言，无事退朝

Got an email a few days back from Dr.Shaw, for whom I worked at the first 4 months in India. A 79-year-old PhD of Public Health, thousands of miles away from sweet home and family in California,  working in a slum of over 10,000 people without any pay, Dr. Shaw is the most admirable man for me in the world. I can say this without any hesitation.

His persistence in giving people a better life, the consistance in the pursuit of serious working attitude impacted me a great deal in my life. I can never forget the time when he taught me how to complete a simple survey, when he taught me how to taste the bitterness from draft beer, and when he told me that life in USA is not just about BBQ at the backyard.

Dr.Shaw is getting old while DIR is growing bigger. Hope one day I can be back and play pool with him once more

上网看了一下朝鲜旅游的一些信息，打算有时间去看一看，却无意中发现这条信息： 朝鲜旅游必会的三句朝鲜语：“你好，谢谢，再见”怎么说？

“你好”的朝语发音是：安宁+哈密瓜+西瓜=安宁哈西密嘎（瓜）？

“谢谢”的朝语发音是：高马四米大！

“再见”的朝语发音为：安宁喜！

Have been back from this "filthily annoying yet ridiculously incredible" country for almost 3 months, but I am just like many of the people who suffered from intensive nostalgia, this time it's India-wise. Randomly viewing FB and found an interesting note from Maria, so I have decided to posted it here. It's still unknown why people can be so annoyed in India yet they still love it, but it is sure that whoever survive in that country can easily survive in 90% of other countries, yay!!

Here comes the note:

When I came to India, I never thought I would:

1. Lose two debit cards in less than six months and have to make friends with Western Union
2. Realise that ‘What’s up?’ is one of the most nonsensical ways of greeting anyone ever
3. Develop an intense dislike for the word ‘random’
4. Not iron any of my clothes even once
5. Wee in the desert or in fact…
6. Go for a one or a two anywhere that didn’t classify as a ‘Western style’ toilet and definitely that didn’t involve toilet paper
7. Become even more addicted to tea than I was in England
8. Up my sugar intake per cup from 1.5 to 3.5 teaspoons (uh oh...)
9. Not learn to cook anything Indian (unless ginger tea counts)
10. Suffer for non-too-extensive but testing periods without running water, light, gas and a working fridge (luckily not all at once)
11. Only blow-dry and straighten my hair once in five months
12. Break my camera and be able to blame it on a camel
13. Have to melt buckets and risk mild electrocution just to heat water for a bath
14. Have to shower in the company of cockroaches (hardly 'Joe's Apartment')
15. Miss plastic bags so much (they are banned in Chandigarh) – the thrill I get when I see one now may cause problems when I get back home…
16. Actually feel happy when it starts to rain
17. Have to live in a house where things ‘go bump in the night’
18. Come to know a club with a cheesy name like ‘Score’ – makes for lots of one-liners (Are you going to score tonight etc…)
19. Be preached at to convert to Christianity by an Indian whilst traveling in a rickshaw (or indeed at all!)
20. Find out that it’s possible to have fantastic arguments with rickshaw drivers, even when they don’t speak English and my Hindi is pitiful – largely with the help of mime and dramatic tones of voice – and WIN
21. Live in a house that had a genuine cat burglar

But I’m so glad that I did:


1. Name and love a stray dog that now lives on our doorstep (I’d bring her home but Dad told me if I did he’d call me ‘Rabies Girl’)
2. Manage to have a full leg wax for only 120 rupees (less than two pounds!)
3. Find the best cakes and pancakes and tasty stuff in a café run by an Indian who studied European pastry-making methods in Australia and consequently…
4. Discover Nik’s ‘Special Power Breakfast’
5. Ride a camel
6. Start a personal project I’ve been wanting to do for a long time
7. Actually realize I could interact with and actually be loved by small children (small children were previously a phobia – I could often be heard saying, ‘I’d rather have a puppy any day’)
8. Meet more than one person who is similar to and understands me, regardless of age and the British/Indian difference
9. Realize that being British and especially having a British accent may not actually be that bad :D
10. Eat lots of chicken but also realize that vegetables can be quite tasty (and this from the girl who once said a meal could not be complete unless it contained meat!)
11. Manage (thanks Facebook!) to keep in regular enough contact with my best friend, who despite the distance, was still able to make me laugh and feel loved and comfort me on a bad day
12. Find out that I’m a lot tougher than I thought I was
13. Go to the cinema for about one twelfth of the price of the cinema in England
14. Finally throw my Converse away and get new ones! I think everyone I know in England will cheer if they’d seen the state they were in even before I left…
15. Realize what I want and what makes me happy
16. Have a dream and make it come true and…
17. Celebrate the New Year on a rooftop in Jodhpur realizing just this – that I was in my dream… and knowing now that maybe my other dreams are not as out of reach as I think…
 

这两天在office和伟哥有几段对话，如下
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（上班第一天）
我：这个计算机好象开不了，你知道边度有电池卖吗？到时换块。
（伟哥过来拿起崭新的计算机，按了两下，啪的一声扔到我垃圾桶里）
伟哥：D甘的野，丢7左它啦！
（我哭笑不得地把计算机拣起来）
我：—*……%￥#· 第一日上班就丢野唔好的，我都是换电池啦。
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（上班第二天，去了肇庆工厂，回来时顺手搬了几台电脑回来用）
在车上，老板对我说：发个信息比你伟哥，话他知我地翻紧来，叫他落来搬电脑。
消息发出去不久，收到回复：你们自己搬
老板也无奈地笑了。。。
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（上班第三天，中午去楼下吃饭后，准备给钱）
我：等我来啦，你都请左好多次了（注：基本每次吃饭都他给钱）
伟哥：我来比！（然后拿出他的LV钱包给钱）
（跑上前，按低他的手，把我的钱递给老板）我：都话我来咯！！
伟哥没有出声，去找老板娘把钱给了她，我又跑过去把他的钱拿走换成我的钱，锲而不舍地一定要埋单，然后把他的钱塞到他手里（注：老板娘可能都没见过有人会抢着给这40多块钱，所以有点不知道怎么办）。伟哥捏着刚被换下来的100块，一扬手就扔到地上，眼都没抬一下。我又·#￥%……，算你狠，居然把100块就扔地上。于是我只能捡起钱，放到自己钱包，恭恭敬敬把找回来的钱递给伟哥，看着他一脸傲气认输了
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妈的，这小子都40多了脾气比我还火爆，不过很豪爽，放在古代绝对是大虾级别的，我喜欢

再次懒得另外想名字，大家将就看看好了。

今天主要的工作是陪四川的一个合作商去公司的工厂看看，也顺道给员工做个培训。工厂在肇庆大旺，出乎意料之外的非常漂亮也很大，可惜因为一直亏本所以现在处于停工状态。很感谢老板看得起我这样一个黄毛小子，第二天上班就开始陪客户考察，让我可以更感性对工作有更快的认识。按照现在订的计划，下周就要开始跟着去跑客户了，所以会开始很忙，忙着拜访忙着应酬忙着试图让自己在忙碌中思考。下午去金利看了一下一个水厂的工程，那里部长还以为我们是东莞的水厂代表，一个劲要我们下次来喝烧酒，很好的一个人。

之前答应帮DIN看的BACKPACK终于落实下来，也算是KEEP MY OWN PROMISE了，心情不错。流水完毕，从下篇开始我就该写点有深度的东西了

第一天工作，一切顺利，气氛不算活跃不过大家都对我很好，中午还吃了伟哥一餐黄膳世家。
写个流水贴提醒自己，要运用尘封的大脑多思考，运用还算灵活的手脚多办事，运用笨拙的口才多问问，共勉