粽子=糯米+芦苇叶

很快，2个星期的奥运结束了，大家伙又回到了正常的生活中。。。

期间有很多看点，亮点，好多筒子都写了好多部落格。。。

我也有点收获和期盼：
因为是东道主，国奥男足直接入围，不过其结果也是在意料之中di。。。
买了两场球，一场中国对比利时，一场中国对巴西，霍霍！！！ 赢了200来块，成本250块，算下来，一个星期内回报率80％！！！

期盼中国尽早申办下届世界杯。。。现在通货膨胀这么高。。。就指望中国男足这棵摇钱树啦，咔咔。。

都快一个月没有更新了，呵呵。不过日子没什么太大的变化。。。

厨艺倒是增加了一点点，越来越发现做饭是件挺有意思而且富含技术的事情，咔咔。。。
下阶段准备着重提高一下鱼类和素菜的水平。。。

************   Wrote a campaign proposal for HL, and later it has been circulated within the company. Many colleagues response significantly. So i post here too, and let more people read it...  ************

Dear all my friends,
 
As u have already been shocked by the quake happened this Monday afternoon, near 20,000 people have left us so far.
Some are our family members, some are our friends, and thousands of people we don't know but share the same sky before, but not anymore...
 
What we can do here? Seems nothing, but actually there are some:
1. If u come from Si Chuan and those affected areas, we feel sorry about the misfortune. But please don't worry, your friends are all standby to give u a hand if needed. Believe in heart that we can make it.
 
2. If u have friends, or know some people from those quake towns, please give them a hug, a call, a message, by all means u can think of, and provide our help as we can. They need us most at this special and tough time.
 
3. If u are not from China, or not know China very well, it's time to show your kindness to your Chinese friends, listening to their stories: someone lost their lovers, someone get contact with their parents in the quake sites, some children got rescued by firemen, … All of these stories, as I am sure of that, will show u a lovely China, lovely Chinese people. And we will very appreciate if you can join us, hands up, and give help.
 
4. If u want to donate cash for people becoming homeless overnight, u can approach  China Red Cross, or any other official organization.
 
5. Last, but not least, if u can spare a few seconds, please forward this email to your colleagues, friends, classmates, to all your contacts. We need more people to join this campaign, as many people need help.
 
May Peace for those souls left, May bless for those are still struggling in the disaster….

Recently, i am reading a book, named "How Much is Enough", discussing about money, time and happiness. On the way, i'll share some of my views here...


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What does money to u? What is its role in your life? And how much is enough?

These are the first few questions the author put at the beginning of the book. Here i don't want to talk about money at the first place, rather where does happiness come from, and how could we enjoy it. Can money bring it to us by default??

Recalled that few weeks ago, i asked one friend "how much money do u think it is enough for u?" He answered as much as possible, the similar answer as yours? hehe, and i followed with another question: if u win a lottery, say $10Million, will u feel more happier than before. He relied, maybe. I haven't had that kind of luck ever before, and much likely won't in the future. So i don't know what's the real feeling of being hit by tons of bullion right on my forehead.

But i do have some other experience that makes me feel happiness's exist. For example, the first bite of a hot pizza with bacon topping after i am starving for several hours. I feel quite satisfied at that moment. Another, when we buy some fashion  item, like iPod when it first debuts, we may also feel great when we use it among the crowd. However, will the 10th bite of the pizza with the same toppings taste the same as the first bite? Will we still feel outstanding after we use the same iPod for several years? Probably not, right? And then the question is what is the real happiness embedded?

Fundamentally, happiness has little relation with either what we have or what we don't have. Especially, no relation with what other people have. However, most of time, we seems to be happier when we obtain somethings that someone else posses. It is quite similar known as "Herd Effect", which is quite common in stock market. Herd effect is helpful when our ancestors struggle in the jungle. Following the mainstream provides inside and outside security. But the environment has changed dramatically through the following thousands of years, while our mindset seem not, in the same pace. Furthermore, this so called herd effect is evolving to "peer pressure", that we wanna to be similar with others, rather than standing out, which  may make us feel more comfortable.  "Peer pressure is  arguably  one of the  greatest threats to living according to personal  values, and one of the greatest obstacles  to exploring who we really are and how to live a full and meaningful life".

One more example, i have seen many people are so eagerly looking for a partner. Some may feel they are old, cannot wait anymore, some are still young enough. Some may feel back kick from parents, or nudge from friends beside. Some may just feel that we have to bench mark with our peers, classmates, siblings, colleagues, and so on and so forth. But in these cases, we may not realize who we love and who love us. As the result, in the end, we may miss out those who love us and who we love, we may miss out the true happiness, and we may miss out ourselves, which is most important as i imagine.

There is no simple solution for identifying what will make us happy. If any, the only way is not by intelligence, but a deep insight into what makes us happy, not only today, but in the future.


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One small exercise: next time when we wanna do sth., write it down how much it can make us happy, then after 3 days, review it; after 1 week, review it, and after 1 month, review it again. In this manner, i think eating a high calorie pizza will not make u happy if u are planning to lose weight,

冬至，就是冬天来了。。。

吃汤圆咯，嘿嘿。大家多保重