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Soprano by Hayashi Masako

每个城市，都会下雨。每片天空，都有雨的痕迹。每个角落，都有对雨的思念。

我漫步街头，总会仰望天空，期盼雨的来临。晴空万里，烈日当头，总能让我留恋对雨的记忆。“百花齐放争春色，细雨蒙蒙至万家”漫步细雨之中，感到生活真好，一切烦恼都抛之云霄。我任凭雨丝在我的脸上温柔抚魅；无忌它们在我的身上积攒精华甚至瞬间挥发。淋雨真的是一种享受。

昔日，燥热干涸的大地，经过骤雨来袭，满目琳琅的世界，仿佛已经葬身与一片汪洋。“电闪雷鸣天刹起，风雨肆虐度凡尘”窗外，已是黑色弥漫，骤雨犹如万丈瀑布，气势滂沱，俯首飞下，溅起晶莹无暇的水花，瞬间升华。雨滴清脆响声，伴随着雷乐、风箫，仿佛在演奏那黑色浪漫的交响乐，又像在是谱写生命的绚丽徽章。

“秋雨风凉叶飘舞，燕儿南去落谁家”- 年末的雨季，犹如秋意，总是感觉凄凉与悲伤， ( Read more... )

I am never a person of good stamina. The furthest I can go was about 7km at one go. Usually the body gives way and the run will degenerate into a stagger before a complete embarrassing, breathless halt, panting my life away. Therefore running is never my forte. But of late, I find out that I am capable of doing better, even at an older age and less ( Read more... )

Someone checked out my 'Favourite Quotations' in facebook and then sent me a sarcastic note - "How unoriginal!". Another told me to write something more... intelligent.

As long as memory can bring me back in time, this “食饱饭未啊？” phrase has always lived in me. As a kid, whenever I arrived back at my humble home, my mother will ask me if I had taken my ( Read more... )

I had the pleasure of watching an old movie Julie and Julia last night (starring Meryl Streep) and it was indeed a very pleasant 2 1/2 hours - entertaining, enriching, and most of all enlightening.

Several lessons were extracted from this movie, and to me the most valuable ones I probably had garnered, would be -

1.Too many cooks may spoil the broth ( Read more... )

“It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35 ( Read more... )

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A formidable display of Celestial Gongs in a Concerto for the Pitched Gongs for Chinese Orchestra.

-7 degrees on a bustling street in downtown Beijing wasn't exactly one of the best ways to enjoy a holiday. But on that faithful Thursday afternoon, after getting out of the subway near the Water Cube, I found myself freezing almost to death alongside a badly congested street lined with trumpeting cars. The wind was more than chilly and albeit the ( Read more... )

 中秋二感

（一）

中秋佳节大伙吃饼赏月，在月色下浸入中秋团圆的浓意。

在这欢谈笑语中，大家手提灯笼，口吃月饼，可否还记得与我们共度全年的那壶茶。有时因长日相处，让人们在过节时，对这壶茶有所忘怀，而只在乎长年一度的月饼。这对月饼的关注，也显然对称了物以稀为贵，食以罕为宝。

人之常情，没什么对错。

但希望在我们品尝着一年一兴的各种月饼时，不要忽略了陪伴着我们度年过夜的那壶茶。它虽然在这佳节中只是个配角，但也就是它的低微承托，才能让我们品尝出月饼的独特佳味，在过度的甜腻中，为我们默默调和。当中秋随云而过，月饼离人而去，茶却仍然尽心长伴，再次伴随着我们度过另几个没月饼承托的月圆，使得我们不为寂寥。可能中秋的真谛不在于饼，而在于茶。

希望大家在这佳节里，用心感恩，记得陪伴我们度过岁月的人， ( Read more... )

While at the Graduation Ceremony this morning, a graduant came by  very late and had difficulty putting on his tie as well as his gown. He
asked if I could help him. So, starting with the tie, I knotted it up for him, followed by cowering up his gown, pinning up each hook so that
he would look the smartest ever in his days at the college.

Before he ( Read more... )