[原创]Take the road
I have been reading a novel named Range Of Motion written by Elizabeth Berg. I have not finihed yet.
It i a imple but intenely moving tory about the redemptive power of love and the importance of avoring life’ every-day beauty.
Accident happen, alway, whenever and wherever. Mr. Berman wa hit in hi head by a huge chunk of ice falling off the roof of a building. Thi changed hi life and hi wife’ life. Mr. Berman know nothing now, no feeling, no word, no weakne, nothing but breath.
Mr. Berman i taking good care of him and he believe that her huband could wake up again, even if nobody ele believe, but he doe. That i enough I think although I till don’t know the end.
Life i a journey, it could be the main road in the city, it could be a country land, or it could be wherever you want to go. If you don’t know where to go, jut take the road at your feet, it would take you to where you hould get. No matter what, there mut be a road at your feet, o jut take it.
Strong mind i needed I think, for living, for a good life. Sometime we are the fighter. We are fighting, o here we are.
I noted down a poem, but I forgot the name of the writer. Anyway, I’d like to hare it with you, with everybody here. So, here i it:
Life can be good.
Life can be bad.[由wWw.HaozuoWen.com整理]
Life i mot cheerful, but ometime ad.
Life can be dream.
Life can be great thought.
Life can mean a peron itting in a court.
Life can be dirty.
Life can even be painful.
But life i what you make it, o make it beautiful.
Life can be beautiful. We jut need to make it, no matter what…
[原创]Thankgiving
The Thankgiving Story
The Pilgrim who ailed to thi country aboard the Mayflower were originally member of the Englih Separatit Church (a Puritan ect). They had earlier fled their home in England and ailed to Holland (The Netherland) to ecape religiou perecution. There, they enjoyed more religiou tolerance, but they eventually became dienchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatit negotiated with a London tock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Mot of thoe making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatit, but were hired to protect the company' interet. Only about one-third of the original colonit were Separatit.
The Pilgrim et ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their firt winter wa devatating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lot 46 of the original 102 who ailed on the Mayflower. But the harvet of 1621 wa a bountiful one. And the remaining colonit decided to celebrate with a feat -- including 91 Indian who had helped the Pilgrim urvive their firt year. It i believed that the Pilgrim would not have made it through the year without the help of the native. The feat wa more of a traditional Englih harvet fetival than a true "thankgiving" obervance. It lated three day.
Governor William Bradford ent "four men fowling" after wild duck and geee. It i not certain that wild turkey wa part of their feat. However, it i certain that they had venion. The term "turkey" wa ued by the Pilgrim to mean any ort of wild fowl.
Another modern taple at almot every Thankgiving table i pumpkin pie. But it i unlikely that the firt feat included that treat. The upply of flour had been long diminihed, o there wa no bread or patrie of any kind. However, they did eat boiled pumpkin, and they produced a type of fried bread from their corn crop. There wa alo no milk, cider, potatoe, or butter. There wa no dometic cattle for dairy product, and the newly-dicovered potato wa till conidered by many European to be poionou. But the feat did include fih, berrie, watercre, lobter, dried fruit, clam, venion, and plum.
Thi "thankgiving" feat wa not repeated the following year. But in 1623, during a evere drought, the pilgrim gathered in a prayer ervice, praying for rain. When a long, teady rain followed the very next day, Governor Bradford proclaimed another day of Thankgiving, again inviting their Indian friend. It wan't until June of 1676 that another Day of Thankgiving wa proclaimed.
On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charletown, Maachuett, held a meeting to determine how bet to expre thank for the good fortune that had een their community ecurely etablihed. By unanimou vote they intructed Edward Rawon, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 a a day of thankgiving. It i notable that thi thankgiving celebration probably did not include the Indian, a the celebration wa meant partly to be in recognition of the colonit' recent victory over the "heathen native," .
October of 1777 marked the firt time that all 13 colonie joined in a thankgiving celebration. It alo commemorated the patriotic victory over the Britih at Saratoga. But it wa a one-time affair.
George Wahington proclaimed a National Day of Thankgiving in 1789, although ome were oppoed to it. There wa dicord among the colonie, many feeling the hardhip of a few Pilgrim did not warrant a national holiday. And later, Preident Thoma Jefferon coffed at the idea of having a day of thankgiving.
It wa Sarah Joepha Hale, a magazine editor, whoe effort eventually led to what we recognize a Thankgiving. Hale wrote many editorial championing her caue in her Boton Ladie' Magazine, and later, in Godey' Lady' Book. Finally, after a 40-year campaign of writing editorial and letter to governor and preident, Hale' obeion became a reality when, in 1863, Preident Lincoln proclaimed the lat Thurday in November a a national day of Thankgiving.
Thankgiving wa proclaimed by every preident after Lincoln. The date wa changed a couple of time, mot recently by Franklin Rooevelt, who et it up one week to the next-to-lat Thurday in order to create a longer Chritma hopping eaon. Public uproar againt thi deciion caued the preident to move Thankgiving back to it original date two year later. And in 1941, Thankgiving wa finally anctioned by Congre a a legal holiday, a the fourth Thurday in November.
[原创]Thank God. It’ Saturday
It’ 23:09pm now. It’ Saturday today. Having finihed replying ome of the eay in my beloved Englih Salon, I realized I till have one more relaxing day to enjoy. I felt good when I noticed it.
I hate Monday, becaue there will be too many thing for me to do. On Monday, I will re-arrange my chedule on meeting ome of the foreign invetor in my city; check my email boxe to find out if I get new email from my cutomer and friend; remind my bo what hould be done and whom he hould ee in the week.
And I know from Monday on, I will keep working for 8-10 hour a day, and I will work hard for the next four day. I may feel tired, exhauted and frutrated. I may have to drink with ome people I never like, and I may have to end my bo home and help him with hi private thing. Monday i alway full of obligation for me.
On Monday, I will re-join the vehicle tide to go to work. I may/will ee ome traffic accident and many traffic policemen, who alway hide themelve omewhere and won’t how up until you break the law. On Monday, I will till need to make my way out of the heavy group of thoe who ride bicycle and motorcycle, becaue they eldom pay repect to the traffic law. And of coure, I will ee my QQ friend and give my greeting to them on Monday.
Thank God. It’ Saturday today! So I can till make plan with my pal for going omewhere in the city to have fun. My father ha aked me to join a dinner with hi friend the next day, o I would be able to hear more ueful experience from thoe who have been doing buine for many year.
And ince it i Saturday today and I have olved the problem with my wife, I will go hopping with her tomorrow. I’m gonna buy ome really cool tuff to memorize thi uper unforgettable “incident”. My wife aked me to play badminton with her tomorrow. I aid ye. You ee, A Saturday could be wonderful day if you are in a really good mood!
[原创]Thank Giving to Life
Lat Thurday wa Thank Giving Day. How did you pend it, my friend? Although it' a wetern traditional holiday, nowaday, more and more Chinee young people like to live a wetern tyle, thu thi holiday become well-known among Chinee. To mot of them, thi day mean deliciou turkey and a happy party at night, which you can eaily have a picture in your mind.
But when it turn to one of my friend, it mut be the other ide of the coin. That day after that day, I read her dairy in her blog: "How rediculou it wa!", he wrote, "I never thought about it could happen to me. A year' coming to it end, our company ha dicided the new buine plan for the coming year. According to the diciion, mot of the employee have to be fired due to budget cutting down, of which two of my bet friend will have thi fate. And what hocked me wa that I wa the one who had to inform them thi terrible new. At the moment my manager notified me, my mind turned bland for a few minute and I could not move my body. I wa o upet that I even had no right to refue it. On uch a day, Thank Giving Day! In't it too dramatic? What a hell! What on earth hall we give thank for?!"
At the end of thi eay, he wrote down a entence: "C'et la vie..."
To be frank, I wa alo hocked when I read her blog. Undoubtly, a expectation of all of u, the Thank Giving Day hould be happy and there houldn't be any adne. But a what he wrote, c'et la vie, thi i the life, it alway give u what we don't expect more than what we really want.
And let' have a look at my own Thank Giving Day, what did I do on uch a "holiday"? Thee day our team have to pend a lot of working time to upport our Finance dept. to do the year-end audit, which made u work over time everyday during the lat week. We have to prepare plenty of paperwork and we cannot top the current project which mut be finihed before the end of November. On Thank Giving Day, I worked until 10:00pm in the office without eating anything when other were enjoying there feat. I wa o tired both mentally and phyically. That' my Thank Giving Day, jut like a nightmare!
Then, turn back to the quetion, what really worth of our thank? The whole life eam dark and painful and full of orrow. I aked myelf thi quetion over and over. Finally, I thought whatever life give, it i really a cherih experience, becaue it make me unique and I could learn a lot from many apect when thing happen to me, different experience make me different from other. From thi point of view, life itelf i treaure. No matter adne or happyne, if we could both enjoy the experience, I think that i the meaning why we live in thi world.
I wrote a comment in my friend' blog, aid that" Life i the bet gift we get, everything happen to u mut affect u and make our life brilliant. For example, after your colleague were fired, they will find another brighter future for their career. All thee thing have it internal reaon. So the one who need our thank i life itelf. If we keep our mode in being thankful to everything we meet, the whole life hould be much happier. And in that way, I do believe we will have a better life."
[原创]Super Girl
“Oh my god” when I wa waking up by my dear mum’ crying, I uddenly realized the eriou thing happened on me AGAIN, it’ late…
Can anybody tell me why I can’t get up earlier a oon a I began to work, that’ terrific.
I never got up late than 6:30,before I graduated from univerity, the chedule wa firm and regular, jogging, wahing, eating and going out. The regular exercie brought me a fit hape and excellent port grade. Well, It wa a plendor hitory, which wa lot in the Pacific Ocean. Forget it! My colleague comfort me that it tand for growing up.” U became to be buy and have not enough time to ret, the following reult i u can’t wake up for your lovely jogging.” My god, that’ nonene. I never believe that.
Taking taxi i the only way to ure u arrive office on time. That’ the bet way to olve the late problem, quickly and directly.
I am fortunate to find a taxi available in uch a bad weather today, thick fog and cold.
“Wow, u and the Super Girl He Jie are o much alike” , the driver cried urpried, when I jut told him the arrival point.
Oh my god, AGAIN, I wear, he i not the firt man to peak the ame way and I uffered a lot throughout the whole ummer. Everybody told me, oh, demi, u mut be another He Jie, or well, demi, I would end the meage to upport He Jie a well a I upport u, etc, Even one of my tutor in Zhejiang Univerity phoned me in a evening, “do u really go to the Super Girl competition? But why do u changed your name, demi? U eem like a little fat, never be a lim girl when u were in univerity” That mut be joking! Crazy, that’ o crazy! I am not the uper girl, I am demi!
I don’t want to expre there are how many imilaritie between He Jie and me here, (let alone the girl i tar now and I am unnamed)but want to hare the hot about Super Girl with u guy. I never pay much attention to the how, but my younger couin did and I got a lot of information from her. One of her word touching me i” I jut want to how myelf and let them know me, I want to be a tar”.
Ye, To be a tar. Jut like the ong inging” Sing whatever u want, and ing loudly, no matter there’ anyone applaue to u…” That’ the poitive attitude, it tand for the peritence to your dream and the zealoune for your life. If all of u can undertand the pirit, including the youth, we can learn a lot from the how. If the youth didn’t conider it wa jut a way to be pop tar, but to be a tar in other field, I thought the parent hould not prevent them.
What do u think, and hope all of u will be the uper tar in your own field.
P, Somebody aid” A poitive attitude i not a detination, it i a way of life”.
I believe in it.
[原创]Sometime, Eventually
Sometime, Eventually
Written by: Babydoll
We haven't really enjoyed thoe nowing day,
even it' been fun to get frozen together,
o that we would learn what' the warmth within u.
I haven't held your hand croing the bleak deert,
maybe after all the journey,
we would learn to treaure each other, for ever and ever.
You haven't had any emtional uffering becaue of me,
Otherwie you would undertand the orrow better,
that I had for being apart from you.
We haven't felt much about our morning waking up kie,
to convince the love by each gentle touch.
Maybe the reaon i you have been looking for your own freedom.
However, ometime, eventually,
I believe that there i alway an end for every thing.
If there i a moment to be together,
it mut be a time to be apart.
Nothing lat for ever.
However, ometime, eventually,
I jut couldnt give it up,
I am reluctant the part with the memorie,
hoping when you are tired of all the game,
you might come back to me
and delight the peaceful life.