這是我給你最大的祝福~

我錯了, 我好笨, 我白痴, 我墮落及腐敗! 我真的被老天考倒了! 我真的不知道這步驟不能走那麼快. 現在狐狸尾巴都露出來了, 我想也是沒戲唱了~ 說不定原本就沒戲唱! 何必在為難自己呢? 不過我居然還有勇氣面對你, 我自己也很驚訝. 也許我沒付出很多, 也許我沒喜歡很深, 也許我能夠自控與自拔, 我不知道. 說不定是那以前的過去所造成的.

這是我給你最大的祝福
雖然我不配陪你一起過
但我求神讓你我都找到
自己美好的另一半好讓
這一生更加美好與幸福
直到永永遠遠天涯海角

我累了, 我渴了, 我不想在付出了~ 到此為止, 我要發憤圖強, 努力向上, 給自己的未來創出更美好的奇蹟與機會!

I'm not going to serve princesses

Yes, that's the motto which I will take to heart. I'm not a playboy, and I have never been one and I'm not intended to be, but I will never, I swear to God, on my lifetime ever, ever serve princesses and treat one like princesses. I'm an intelligent individual with clear conscience of what's happening, and although I've failed, I will raise again, conquer, and persevere. You will not be the cornerstone of my downfall, and I will attain to my eventual goal of getting that intangible title.

Love is not eternal
Love is not forever
Love is not diamond
Love is not food
Love can be erased or destroyed
Love is blind
Love is forbidden
Love is wasteful
Love is playful
Love is childish
Love is hollow
Screw her

I'm a Canadian, and I'm an individual with a heavy endowment on the male superiority complex. Canadians do things differently than Chinese, and we do not rely on emotional and childish up brings through that unsubstantial thing called love.

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One sweet day

One sweet day, a classic pop from Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. Of course, it can be interpreted as a Christian lyric, and that's exactly what my intention here is at this very hour. Oh Lord, although the sun will never shine the same again, I'll always look to a brighter day. Lord I know when you lay me down to sleep, you will always listen as I pray, and my truthful prayer will be answered and fulfilled before the end of time. May you give me the strength to tackle difficulties, face criticism, stifle opponents, and walk the line fully until it finishes.



One Sweet Day

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say
And now it's too late to hold you
'Cause you've flown away
So far away

Never had I imagined
Living without your smile
Feeling and knowing you hear me
It keeps me alive
Alive

[Chorus:]
And I know you're shining down on me from heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

Darling I never showed you
Assumed you'd always be there
I took your presence for granted
But I always cared
And I miss the love we shared

[Chorus]

Although the sun will never shine the same again
I'll always look to a brighter day
Lord I know when I lay me down to sleep
You will always listen as I pray

[Chorus]

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say

Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist

A little laughter amidst a stressful and nerve racking week.

Disease

A contagious disease befits your tranquilizing smile
Ensnares the weaklings and unsuspected passersby
Victims beware as there is no return 'til oblivion
Relentless struggle until death do you apart

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蘭亭序 - 周杰倫

又是一首周懂的老歌蘭亭序，給大家分想一下。



蘭亭序
作詞 : 方文山　作曲 : 周杰倫　監製 : 周杰倫

蘭亭序為書聖王羲之的書法作品，有天下第一行書之美稱。該書帖完成於東晉永和九年，距今一千六百五十五年。現傳世所見之蘭亭序為唐代書法家摹本，真跡據傳在唐高宗與武則天合葬之乾陵內。乾陵位於陝西乾縣北，至今完備，尚未被盜。

蘭亭臨帖 行書如行雲流水
月下門推 心細如妳腳步碎
忙不迭 千年碑易拓卻難拓妳的美
真跡絕 真心能給誰

牧笛橫吹 黃酒小菜又幾碟
夕陽餘暉 如妳的羞怯似醉
摹本易寫 而墨香不退與妳同留餘味
一行硃砂 到底圈了誰

無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解

無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解

無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
獨缺 妳一生了解

彈指歲月 傾城頃刻間湮滅
青石板街 回眸一笑妳婉約
恨了沒 妳搖頭輕嘆誰讓妳蹙著眉
而深閨 徒留胭脂味

人雁南飛 轉身一瞥妳噙淚
掬一把月 手攬回憶怎麼睡
又怎麼會 心事密縫繡花鞋針針怨懟
若花怨蝶 你會怨著誰

無關風月 我題序等妳回
懸筆一絕 那岸邊浪千疊
情字何解 怎落筆都不對
而我獨缺 妳一生的了解

無關風月 我題序等妳回
手書無愧 無懼人間是非
雨打蕉葉 又瀟瀟了幾夜
我等春雷 來提醒妳愛誰

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Blogging on the go~

Checking out mobile blogger. I have been wanting to do this on my iPod.

The best thing is I can type Chinese! 哈哈！太好了~

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克服

天下凡事鬱與愁
人生煩惱必而多
腳步踏石份內走
心想事開天涯广

I'm only human

I'm only human by speed_demon.

I'm only human
I'm only human with dreams and visions
I'm only human with roller coasting emotions
I'm only human with happiness, sadness and in-betweens
I'm only human with passion and compassion
I'm only human with pride and jealousy
I'm only human with prejudice and discrimination
I'm only human with sympathy and tolerance
I'm only human with tenacity and perseverance
I'm only human with capability and motivation
I'm only human with eccentricity and oddities
I'm only human with vanity
I'm only human with wounds and scars
I'm only human with imperfections
I'm only human with genetic inheritances
I'm only human with broken heart
I'm only human with sorrow and despair
I'm only human with forgiveness and forget
I'm only human with guilt
I'm only human with innocence
I'm only human with strengths
I'm only human with weaknesses
I'm only human with desire
I'm only human with lust
I'm only human of fresh and bones
I'm only human because God made me so
I'm only human because that is who I am
And that is what I want to be
And that cannot be changed
Until the end of time

但願天長地久，海闊天空。

如题~

Frugality is becoming the common norm

So, if America becomes a frugal country like China is, who will than be the consumers? Definitely not the bankrupting Europe. Perhaps, African nations and Middle-east will take up the burden. Is that a possibility with ongoing civil war and oil dispute? Or, perhaps another major international conflict to boost up its economy by bloody arms sale?

The worst thing is with America being frugal, it's consumers would have no other choice but to save up - by buying below-cost products from, guess what? China! So, it's actually prescribing a full circle of economic retaliation from China. No wonder Obama is more keen on closing this trade imbalance by demanding a floating Renminbi.

Save up America, otherwise, the twenty-first century would for sure be the century of Chinese!

Time to rebalance
Mar 31st 2010
From The Economist print edition

America’s economy is set to shift away from consumption and debt and towards exports and saving. It will be its biggest transformation in decades, says Greg Ip (interviewed here)


STEVE HILTON remembers months of despair after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Customers rushed to the sales offices of Meritage Homes, the property firm Mr Hilton runs, not to buy houses but to cancel contracts they had already signed. “I thought for a moment the world was coming to an end,” he recalls.

In the following months Mr Hilton stepped up efforts to save his company. He gave up options to buy thousands of lots that the firm had snapped up across Arizona, Florida, Nevada and California during the boom, taking massive losses. He eventually laid off three-quarters of its 2,300 employees. He also had its houses completely redesigned to cut construction cost almost in half: simpler roofs, standardised window sizes, fewer options. Gone were the 12-foot ceilings, sweeping staircases and granite countertops everyone wanted when money was free. Meritage is now catering to the only customers able to get credit: first-time buyers with federally guaranteed loans. It is clawing its way back to health as a leaner, humbler company.

The same could be said for America. Virtually every industry has shed jobs in the past two years, but those that cater mostly to consumers have suffered most. Employment in residential construction and carmaking is down by almost a third, in retailing and banking by 8%. As the economy recovers, some of those jobs will come back, but many of them will not, because this was no ordinary recession. The bubbly asset prices, ever easier credit and cheap oil that fuelled America’s age of consumerism are not about to return.

Instead, America’s economy will undergo one of its biggest transformations in decades. This macroeconomic shift from debt and consumption to saving and exports will bring microeconomic changes too: different lifestyles, and different jobs in different places. This special report will describe that transformation, and explain why it will be tricky.

The crisis and then the recession put an abrupt end to the old economic model. Despite a small rebound recently, house prices have fallen by 29% and share prices by a similar amount since their peak. Households’ wealth has shrunk by $12 trillion, or 18%, since 2007. As a share of disposable income it is back to its level in 1995. And if consumers feel less rich, they are less inclined to spend. Banks are also less willing to lend: they have tightened loan standards, with a push from regulators who now wish they had taken a dimmer view of exotic mortgages and lax lending during the boom.

Consumer debt rose from an average of less than 80% of disposable income 20 years ago to 129% in 2007. If other crises of the past half-century are any guide, America’s consumers will spend the next six or seven years reducing their debt to more manageable levels, reckons the McKinsey Global Institute. This is already changing the composition of economic activity. Consumer spending and housing rose from 70% of GDP in 1991 to 76% in 2005 (see chart 1). By last year it had fallen back to 73%, still high by international standards.

The effect on the economy of deflated assets, tighter credit and costlier energy are already apparent. Fewer people are buying homes, and the ones they buy tend to be smaller and less opulent. In 2008 the median size of a new home shrank for the first time in 13 years. The number of credit cards in circulation has declined by almost a fifth. American Express is pulling back from credit cards and is now telling customers how to use their charge cards (which are paid off in full every month) to control their spending.

Normally, deep recessions are followed by strong recoveries as pent-up demand reasserts itself. In the recent recession GDP shrank by 3.8%, the worst drop since the second world war. In the recovery the economy might therefore be expected to grow by 6-8% and unemployment to fall steadily, as happened after two earlier recessions of comparable depth, in 1973-75 and 1981-82.

No bounce-back

But this particular recession was triggered by a financial crisis that damaged the financial system’s ability to channel savings to productive investment and left consumers and businesses struggling with surplus buildings, equipment and debt accumulated in the boom. Recovery after that kind of crisis is often slow and weak, and indeed some nine months into the upturn GDP has probably grown at an annual rate of less than 4%. Unemployment is well up throughout the country (see map), though it declined slightly in February.

So if America is to avoid the stagnation that afflicted Japan after its bubbles burst, where is the demand going to come from? In the short term the federal government has stepped up its borrowing—to 10% of GDP this year—to counteract the drop in private consumption and investment. Over the next few years this stimulus will be withdrawn. Barack Obama wants the deficit to come down to around 3% of GDP by the middle of this decade, though it is not clear how that will be achieved. Indeed, if the rest of the economy remains moribund, the government may be reluctant to withdraw the stimulus for fear of pushing the economy back into recession.

Tighter credit and lower consumer borrowing are not the only drivers of economic restructuring. A less noticed but significant push comes from higher energy prices. A strengthening dollar and ample supply kept oil cheap for most of the 1990s, feeding America’s addiction to imports. That began to change a few years before the crisis as the dollar fell and emerging markets’ growing appetite put pressure on global production capacity.

A fourfold increase in oil prices since the 1990s has rearranged both consumer and producer incentives. Sport-utility vehicles are losing popularity, policies to boost conservation and renewable energy have become bolder, and producers have found a lot more oil below America’s soil and coastal seabed. Imports of the stuff have dropped by 10% since 2006 and are likely to come down further. When natural-gas prices followed the rise in oil earlier this decade, exploration companies used new methods to get at gas trapped in shale formations from Texas to Pennsylvania. Abundant domestic shale gas should radically reduce America’s gas imports.

America’s economic geography will change too. Cheap petrol and ample credit encouraged millions of Americans to flock to southern states and to distant suburbs (“exurbs”) in search of big houses with lots of land. Now the housing bust has tied them to homes they cannot sell. Population growth in the suburbs has slowed. For the present the rise of knowledge-intensive global industries favours centres rich in infrastructure and specialised skills. Some are traditional urban cores such as New York and some are suburban edge cities that offer jobs along with affordable houses and short commutes.

A burst of productivity could lift incomes and profits. That would enable consumers to repay some of their debt yet continue to spend. The change in the mix of growth should help: productivity in construction remains low, whereas in exports the most productive companies often do best. But the hobbled financial system will make it hard for cash-hungry start-ups to get financing, so innovation will suffer.

The outlook for business investment depends on whether it is for equipment or buildings. Spending on equipment is expected to be fairly strong, having largely avoided excess in the boom period, and indeed in the fourth quarter of 2009 it raced ahead at an annual rate of 19%. In February John Chambers, the boss of Cisco Systems, a maker of networking gear, called it “one of the most robust, positive turnarounds I’ve seen in my career”. Demand for new buildings is far lower: empty shops and offices attest to ample unused capacity. And business investment typically accounts for only 10-12% of GDP, so it will never be a full substitute for consumer spending.

The road to salvation

As consumers rebuild their savings, American firms must increasingly look abroad for sales. They have a lot of ground to make up. Competition from low-wage countries, mostly China, has increasingly taken over the markets of domestic industries such as furniture, clothing or consumer electronics. Yet shifts in the pattern of global growth and the dollar are laying the groundwork for a boom in exports. “There’s a world view that the United States is the consumer of the world and emerging markets are the producer,” says Bruce Kasman, chief economist at JPMorgan Chase. “That has changed.” He reckons that America will account for just 27% of global consumption this year against emerging markets’ 34%, roughly the reverse of their shares eight years ago.

The cheaper dollar will resuscitate some industries in commoditised markets, but the main beneficiaries of the export boom will be companies that are already formidable exporters. These companies reflect America’s strengths in high-end services and highly skilled manufacturing such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, software and engineering, as well as creative services like film, architecture and advertising. Thanks to cheap digital technology, South Korea and India now knock out the sort of low-budget films that compete with standard American fare. But only Hollywood combines the creativity, expertise and market savvy to make something like “Avatar” which has earned $2.6 billion so far, some 70% of which came from abroad. That adds up to several jumbo jets.

Exports are a classic route to recovery after a crisis. Sweden and Finland in the early 1990s and Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea in the late 1990s bounced back from recession by moving from trade deficit to surplus or expanding their surplus. But given its size and the sickly state of most other rich countries’ economies, America will find it much harder. It has been exporting more to emerging markets than to developed ones for several years, but if other countries, particularly China, do not sufficiently boost domestic demand, “the unwinding of the global imbalances could reverse quite quickly in 2010,” says an IMF staff paper.

America’s current-account deficit, the broadest measure of its trade and payments with the rest of the world, shrank from 6% of GDP in 2006 to 3% last year (see chart 2). Could it come down to zero? It nearly did in 1991 after five years of booming exports. This time the deficit started out a lot larger and the rest of the world is weaker. Still, even stabilisation around 3% would be a blessed relief because it would slow the growth in America’s indebtedness to foreigners.

America’s imbalances were years in the making and will not be undone overnight. But the elements of a rebalanced economy are already visible a 40-minute drive to the south of Mr Hilton’s offices in Scottsdale, Arizona. Around the same time that Mr Hilton was watching sales of his homes dry up, Brian Krzanich, head of global manufacturing at Intel, was finalising plans to spend $3 billion retooling his company’s massive semiconductor factories in nearby Chandler. Mr Krzanich knew perfectly well there was a recession going on. Intel’s sales were down and 3% of the staff at the factories had been laid off. But he also knew that once global demand rebounded, Intel would have to be ready to produce a new generation of cheaper, smaller and more efficient chips. “Unless you think your business is going to shrink for an extended period, like seven years, it always pays to make that investment,” he says. In the last quarter of 2009 Intel, helped by resurgent demand for technology, enjoyed record profit margins, and Mr Krzanich was approving overtime.

Mr Hilton, for his part, runs his company on the assumption that the days of easy money and exuberant consumers are gone for ever. In his office he has a yellowed copy of the Wall Street Journal from September 18th 2008, the week when Lehman failed and American International Group was bailed out. “Worst crisis since the 30s with no end in sight”, reads one headline. “I wish I’d had that article in 2005,” says Mr Hilton. He keeps it around as an antidote any time he is “feeling all happy and slappy”.