很久没有放相片了。

今天在大围站接到爸妈，俩人见到我的第一句话都是：怎么这么瘦了？！
天啊，如果这句话不是从爹娘嘴里说出来，该是多么地雀跃人心啊！

今天的毕业典礼让我确定了一件事情，就是我真的不该参加的。
坐在台下的时候，并不是没有感触的。而更多的时候我只是在等待这一切的结束。

这个世界上有太多的事情我们都不明白为什么，却一直在做。
正如我们不明白毕业了为什么要穿着这么奇怪的袍子，我们只是穿上，告诉自己这样很好看。
正如我们不明白毕业了为什么要抱着一只熊，我们只是抱着也穿着奇怪袍子的它，告诉自己它很可爱。

或许这样的仪式并没有无懈可击的意义，
或许它最大的意义，就是让每一个身处其中的人都自愿为其赋予一层莫须有的意义。

翘掉了一整天的课跑回来,和Amelie在深圳的街上晃了一天。

从理发店出来，我们找了几圈都找不到一个可以舒舒服服坐下来抽一根烟的地方。最后只好买了喝的蹲在路边。

街上很吵，人很多。有一个乞讨的老太太站在我们面前五分钟后，无奈地离开。

那一瞬间，突然觉得很悲凉。一个活过大半辈子的老人站在两个蹲在路边吐烟的少女前，那是什么样的感觉？

我的话越来越少。

或许在我自认为忍受着旁人的“多话”的时候，别人也正忍受着我的“无话”吧。

每天干的最勤的事就是更新状态。
改完msn改抠抠，改完抠抠改校内，改完校内改twitter，哪儿都改了，还都改得不一样了，却依旧写不出什么像样的成段的有逻辑的文字。

其实我真的很久没有认真地写过什么了。
承认吧，对于装逼这件事，我是越来越有心无力了。尤其是有时候看到别人写的一些比较sentimental的东西，都会觉得…ewww. 不是我说，在诸如校内之地那么认真表达那么内的“内心”，Point是？

这两天整个人又浮躁了起来。只想趴在电脑前煲house，对学业没了念想，对文娱活动的欲望见长。这点看来我还是挺双子的，那么努力的状态我根本坚持不了，不出三个月，原形毕露。

最近上课讲一些我学过的内容的时候，脑子里会很频繁地闪现出一些本科的画面。比如考完accounting的大家一起去lg1边吃下午茶边大骂老师不厚道cash flow又没der平；比如那么多个在4楼泡图书馆的日日夜夜，我尤其记得桌子上两个计算器一瓶红牛一罐咖啡的那张相片，在我被偷掉的手机里，我有时候还是蛮努力的；还有很多个比如，我只是不想再拿出来煽情了。我想这是一种正正好的距离，让我在再想起那四年的时候，会相信它真的是生命里的四年，而不是一个遥远的点。有时候我也怀疑自己对科大的漠视来自何处，是因为它不好，还是那时候的我不好？是它令我变得不好，还是那些变化不管在哪里都会发生？

说了这么多其实只是想说，我还挺想科大的。虽然我们都知道这只是某类装逼人种的对过去不自控的追味而已。

所以，我又有什么理由不对明天充满期盼呢？当那么糟糕的过去都可以变成今天淡淡的，whatever。

“在我们漫长的生命历程里，可能，爱情会以很多不同的姿态在我们不同的年龄阶段出现。可能，你需要相信爱情但不能依赖爱情。
可能，还有很多比爱与不爱，更重要的事情。”

看到这句话，我突然明白那些所有在爱情里死去活来的人犯的共同的一个错误是，依赖爱情，却不相信爱情。

一年前的我，还沉溺在黑暗里，为那个被自己认定是“唯一”的人的离开而深陷绝望。

而事实是，现在的我好好的。

一个相信爱情的人，是充满希望的。她不会因为害怕再没有人可以靠近自己的灵魂而悲伤。也不会因为一段感情的逝去而停止让别人靠近。她对每一个停靠的人心存感激。

相信爱情，却不依赖她。或许，这才是年轻的好吧。

The Minimum Wage Bill:

Better, or Worse Off ?

“I don’t know whether a minimum wage standard will do any good to my life, but I do know that, what I’m earning now is merely enough to feed myself,” said John Lee, a trainee-level waiter of a Chinese restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui, who is packing to go home after a long working day at 9:30 in the evening.

The Calling for Actions

Graduated several months ago from Form 3 in high school, John had interviewed four different jobs before he finally settled down in this restaurant. “I work 11 hours per day, six days per week. In terms of salary, it’s HK$20 an hour or HK$5300 a month,” said John, with an obviously discontented look. Given his calculation, apart from all necessary living costs and 1000 dollars’ domestic money to his parents, all he is left with is just 1200 dollars.

“I want to buy myself an iPhone 3GS, ” he said with a forced smile, “but it takes me five months to afford one.”

John is just one of the 200,000 workers in catering industry struggling for their lives. “Catering industry is the toughest one in Hong Kong, we work the longest and we earn the least,” Kelly Yip, a head waitress of a local canteen near the Tai Wai KCR station complaint to the reporter while she was at a break in the afternoon’s off-peak hour.

According to the <Quarterly Report of Wage and Payroll Statistics> announced in June 2009, averagely, waiters and waitresses earn HK$8140 monthly, work 9 hours a day and 26 days s month.

“In the dining industry, the hourly pay is unbelievably low,” said Yuen Fuk Wo, chairperson of Eating Establishment Employees General Union (EEEGU). “Things are better for those in the kitchen, since they have skills; but really awful for low-skilled workers”, Yuen added.

Considering the labor sector’s endeavor for years, Hong Kong Government finally submitted the <Minimum Wage Bill> to the Legislative Council for deliberation on July 8^th this year. In October, the temporary Minimum Wage Committee, constituted of scholars, representatives of trade unions, chambers of commerce and legal professions, started to hear voices from different groups towards the the bill and its details.

Mr Cheung Kin-chung, Secretary for Labour and Welfare, said that the Hong Kong Government would set and review the legal minimum wage level by adopting the principle of data, besides, it would also assess the impacts of the wage level on different sectors.

Co-existence of Doubts and Concerns

“Generally speaking, we’re supportive towards the bill,” said Yuen, the chairperson of EEEGU, “I believe it would help improving the current predicament they are going through.”

While the bill seems to be welcomed by the trade union, the employee themselves are viewing it in a more pessimistic way.

As to the Minimum Wage Bill, Kelly seemed not keen about it at all. “Nothing is going to change if the employers’ budget stays the same, they can cut down the welfare other than salaries, or simply hire less part-timers,” she stopped suddenly, “You’re not recording this, right?” Relieved after an answer of “no”, she added, “after all, they are the big boss, you have to leave if they ask you to.”

As the head waitress working full time, Kelly still needs to work 10.5 hours a day with an hourly rate less then HK$22, amounting to HK$6000-7000 every month. “In terms of hourly pay, the part-timers here earn pretty much the same, but they don’t have any of the other welfare, such as annual leave or else,” she added, “most importantly, their contract is a temporary and unsecured one.”

On the other hand, the possible rise in hourly pay from around 20 to above 30 is definitely hard to take for employers. Mr Choi, the boss of a Cafe de Coral branch near Sham Shui Po, complaint that it would be difficult for him to bear with such a big jump in hiring cost, especially when employees were usually inactive during work. “We will have no choice but to fire people to cut the cost in that way,” he said.

It’s also worth noting that the noncompliance of the Employments and Labor Law is growing widespread and not neglectable. “They just always know how to evade the rules,” said Kelly. However, when asked of more details about how employers could evade the rules, Kelly wasn’t willing to comment any more.

Yuen provided more detail on that. “It’s the government’s poor supervision that leads to the situation some small restaurants are not complying with the Labor Laws,” Yuen said, “Also, the enforcement and punishment is not effective enough. ”

Asked for the reasons behind these problems, Yuen said: “Simple. Breaking of the Labor Laws is currently defined as civil, instead of criminal actions. Therefore, even if being caught, the consequence is just not severe enough to prevent some unscrupulous employers from exploitation.”

Against this problem, the Legislative Council has recently discussed altering the issue to criminal jurisdiction. This act has been highly supported by several members of council representing the labors’ right.

Even though, doubts exist. Mr Anthony Lock, the president of Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades, said that once accused for delaying payments of salary, the actual responsible person often concealed themselves and made their scapegoats step forward. He doubts whether this act can really punish the right person.

Hearts of Controversy: How and How Much?

Although the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions has proposed a standard of HK$33 an hour, Cheung said that talking about a specific level was a bit “premature”.

As the <Minimum Wage Bill> has been officially brought into agenda, several critical details are drawing extensive attention from various interest groups, such as “price” of the minimum wage and how should the standard be enforced.

The result of a public opinion survey conducted by Liberty Party shows that, 45 per cent of management echelon in small and medium-size enterprises (SME) favor the minimum wage legislation, 10 percent points higher than the opponents. Meanwhile, the survey also reveals that managements will have to fire 66 employees in average if the standard of minimage wage hits HK$24 hourly.

Based on this result, Liberty Party projects that 36,000 SME employees will become jobless, accounting for one percent of the total employed population; the unemployment will reach 171,000 given the standard of minimum wage is HK$32 per hour.

The result of this survey is remarked as “exaggerated and misleading” by Wong Kwok-hing, a member of both Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions and Legislative Council. “If the minimum level is set to be too low, it will just force people at the bottom who can’t maintain a basic standard of living to apply for more unemployment benefit, which will finally burden the whole society,” Wong added.

However, seeing from the recent debate among industries and citizens, the “price” of minimum wage is yet to be focused on. Barely on the definition of exact working hours, there have been complex disputes.

Mr. Wong Kam-Pui, president of the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management, said that in the proposed regulations, there’re a lot of blurring areas on the definiton of working hours. For example, it’s not explicitly stipulated that how should the lunch hours, off-peak hours, business trip and stand-by hours be dealt with when measuring working hours.

According to reactions across all industries, the ambiguous calculation of working hours is the main concern of catering, building and travel industries.

“It will be a total ‘disaster’ for human resource management if the lack of unambiguous guidelines persists,” Wong worried.

“Of course I will feel happy if it really works and my wage is really going to increase. But who knows,” said John, the trainee in Tsim Sha Tsui’s Chinese restaurant. “I still need to work exhaustedly for 11 hours a day, six days a week. I still need to live my reckoning life. I’m not hoping for a drastic change.”

In his view, the minimum wage standard is never more important than how much domestic money he should turn in to his mom.

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感谢我的南京日报同学cindy以及南方都市报同学eason给予的关于新闻写作上的技术性指导。
谈不上呕心沥血，但的确，对于现在的菜鸟级的我来说，真是太、不、容、易、了。

我想要很多很多的咖啡，如果没有很多很多的咖啡，很多很多的烟也可以。

香港的气温终于有要降低的预兆。总有很多同学问我，到底这里什么时候才会冷起来？我说我也不知道。待了四年多，对这里却并没有比别人更多的熟悉感。只是凌晨打开窗，空气里凉凉的，挺舒服。

这样的凉意，让人忍不住想堕落。

也只能总是告诉自己，已经没有时间再像以前那样把什么都弄糟了。
都说时间越久，本钱越多。我却觉得很多东西都在一点一点的没了。
未来已经那么近，我必须准备好，等它。

在标题栏发了5分钟的呆也没想出敲什么。罢也。敲不出标题的情况通常有两种：我也不知道自己要写什么；或是难过到极致。现在显然是前者。

只是在忙着编造一篇篇的英文博客的时候，在忙着罗列生词并贴上解释和例句的时候，在忙着做这种year0的时候才需要做的portfolio的时候，突然想来敲点什么。

忙起来的时候，会忘记很多事情。比如忘记日子已经这样没有意识地过了多久，忘记去关心很久没有联系过的旧友，忘记吃饭，忘记打电话回家，忘记看新闻，忘记目标，忘记曾经熟悉且迷恋的歌曲，忘记为了什么而忙，忘记自己为什么会选择现在的生活。

米兰昆德拉说，一个人越是对外界无感，越是只关注自己的一切。我想过去几年的我，便是活在那样一种状态里。活在一种巨大而强烈的内部矛盾里，甚至看不到自己的全图。关注自己是一件很累人并痛苦的差事。忙碌很累，但它让我学着把“自己”放下，这是多么的好。

生活就是这么回事儿，苛求无益。

http://thisismisschildren.blogspot.com/




Dont panic yet, it's just the product thanks to one of my f@cking stupid assignments. As I have to offer some evidence proving that I'm actually doing SOMETHING to improve my English, I spent a whole day to build up this English blog from ground. I just exhausted myself by blogging meaninglessly on a Sunday. 

I have totally no idea about how long it's gonna last as I'm basically a blog killer, but since it's already born, im just announcing it so that it wont end up with being browsed by only one human being (which will be my instructor hopefully) in its entire life. lol


friendly reminder: it's silly......it's not me......it's someone who need to blog as fast as she cud.....

but luckily, its not viewable for those in mainland, i guess? @@

新华网专访韩寒。

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/23/content_12100456.htm


不喜欢看英文的就看下面叭！（当然不是我翻的==

今年6月份，在收到中国赛车巡回赛的罚单之后，赛车手韩寒在裁判面前竖起了中指。很多人疑问他这个抗议行为是否太过。但他随即更新博客，痛批汽车联合会在执行规则时违反职业道德，并批评其在处罚违规路段方面的失败。在问及他是否考虑过色情手势对社会的不利影响时，韩寒用他典型的讥讽回应到：“唯一可能受影响的是儿童，但是我相信在绿坝（互联网暴力及色情内容过滤软件）的保护下，他们不会受到伤害。”

这就是来自27岁中国最受欢迎博主的那种重量级批评，并受到他们这一代人的欢呼。韩寒的博客以攻击当局而出名。每当他的评论通过审查时，就往往成为头条新闻。他对二月份那场摧毁CCTV大厦的大火的看法迅速贴遍网络。但那些帖子不久便从国内互联网上消失了。但是在此之前，帖子早已经被复制传播数千遍了。在帖子中，他表达了他们一代人的失望：“政府需要思考一个严重的问题：在现行的体制下，喉舌已经为主人丢了脸。一个事实在他们报道中会变成假的。新的一代人已经成熟。他们将嘲笑这些国有媒体越来越多的做法，难怪这些媒体正在被时代所淘汰。” 他同样指出了自己知名度高的原因：“这是一个除非你有美德否则说服不了别人的时代。”

2008年5月下旬，当美国演员莎朗·斯通因谈论四川大地震“有趣”和“报应”而引发愤怒的时候，韩寒争辩说斯通的观点受到了媒体的扭曲。他在博客上引用并翻译了大量资料，说明斯通只是在讲她思维的过程，但是媒体断章取义了。三天后，他刊登了一篇3000字的文章《不要动不动就举国暴怒》，呼吁公众缓和民族热情。

“一个被媒体断章取义的过季明星的一句话，反映了我们野蛮的一面，”他写道，暗指那些呼吁将她“封杀”或者在其他方面伤害的帖子。

“如果我们想想在其他国家发生自然灾害后我们说过的话，我们将发现我们离真正的人道主义还很远。如果你仍然不反思过去，你还不如斯通。她至少知道反思自己，”他在贴子中写道。

他还说中国人应当把焦点对准更重要的事情，比如在地震中倒塌的“豆腐渣”学校。

因为这个，他在中国互联网上被标记为“白痴”，“冷血”和“不爱国”。

事实上，在地震之后他立刻就和朋友们前往四川分发救灾物资，但是他小心的避开摄像机以避免再被贴上“作秀”的标签。

然而，路金波（韩寒的出版商）和梁文道（总部设在香港的凤凰卫视的评论员）赞同韩寒将成为下一个鲁迅。（鲁迅可以算是中国近代最著名的作家，他以强有力的批判文章而被读者喜爱。）

韩寒2000年出版的处女作《三重门》是关于高中学生的校园生活。在这部书里，他通过比较家教老师和妓女来抨击教育系统：“教师不受欢迎，但是家庭很流行。从这里，我们可以看到教育就像约会。一对多很便宜，但一对一就贵了--每小时的价格几乎和妓女的价格一样。然而，一名教师比妓女更有本事。妓女通过给别人快乐赚钱，老师却通过给别人痛苦赚钱。”这种挑衅式的批评将他至少5本书送进了畅销榜。

一位《三重门》的读者写道：“韩寒你太棒了！你说出了我想说的话。” “那么你为什么不说？”他回复到。

广州出版的《新周刊》杂志在2008年末指出，韩寒履行了一个公共知识分子的职务和责任。“他的理性思考使我们对80后充满希望。” 80后指的是独生子女的一代，他们也因以自我为中心和缺乏社会责任感而出名。

然而，韩寒拒绝了这个角色，他说自己只是喜欢把想说的话说出来。

他甚至喜欢许多人不同意他观点的事实。“当我开动赛车的时候，我想开慢车的人是傻子，但之后我改变了我的看法--没有他们，怎么显出我来？”

很多人相信韩寒在写作方面是很有前途的。但他却跟随着自己的激情开始了赛车生涯。人们觉得他只是想炫耀自己的价值，或者像很多雄性激素过量的年轻人一样想得到刺激。

首先，韩寒把自己的钱花在了训练和买车上。并且，他是一个专业车队的签约车手。然后，令公众惊讶的赢得了2007年中国赛车锦标赛。

“我的成功来自于我的判断，这是我的天赋。很多人从来不知道他们真正的能力是什么。他们只是把生命浪费在他们不擅长的事情上，”他说。

 韩寒在上海郊区的一个城镇长大，拥有无忧无虑的童年。他的父母不像很多中国父母那样督促孩子走向成功，而是在功课和学习上对韩寒的要求比较宽松。在学习汉字之后，他发现自己对阅读充满激情，晚上总是躲在被窝里读书。

 他的独立倾向在很小的时候就表现出来了。当父母尝试纠正韩寒的一些“坏习惯”或是“坏行为”的时候，甚至一些很小的问题，例如保持桌子清洁，他总是抵制父母的教育。 “他们经常试着改变我，但是从来没成功过。然后他们开始明白我一直做最大努力去得到我想要的。现在他们支持我做的每一项决定，”韩寒说。

他不会让任何其他因素影响自己生活的决心。

他的学习进程在1999年终结。那时他高中7门课不及格，包括语文。他多花了一年时间尝试赶上课程，但是他最终决定辍学。然而，在这之前，他赢得了第一届“新概念”全国作文大赛，这个大赛鼓励学生创新写作。而且，他在上学期间完成了三重门的草稿。

他告诉老师他将靠版权维生，老师们全嘲笑他太“天真”。但是一个月后，《三重门》成为畅销书，销售量达到了100万，他成了百万富翁。

 他的自信更强了，他相信“成功是成功之母”。现在他还通过驾驶赛车和博客广告收入赚钱。

为了鼓励中国写作者，他希望在自己将要做主编的新杂志中，支付每1000字2000元的超高稿费。他已经在考虑放弃比赛和写作一段时间。“但是我仍然有一些目标没有完成，还有一些'敌人'必须去打倒，”他说。他的理想生活将是“和正确的人呆在正确的地方”

“每天早晨我们醒来的时候，我们没有事做，并且不需要事做，”他说。

他承认从16岁起有过几段感情，但是他现在才刚刚开始考虑婚姻。

“我不想被什么东西限制，”他说，“但是我相信有一种更巨大的力量，当它出现时，它将使我愿意担负责任。”

《中国画报》杂志的一份报告曾经把他的反体制和个人主义称为“西化”的，并且责问：“你怎么会变成这样？”

“我不认为一个东西可以被称作'东化的'或'西化的'，”他回答。“这里只有一个标准--是否适合人类。”

《时尚先生》杂志总监马一木说，“韩寒只是个普通的年轻人。他像正常人一样喜欢美女并且对他不喜欢的东西说'不'，如果中国还有更多韩寒，这个国家将会更正常。”

韩寒在一首自己作词的歌曲中表达了这样一个观点，在他唯一的相册中，他唱到，“快乐就是用不同的方法寻找快乐。

新的分类也是我的alarm clock的名字，虽然每天闹钟响起的时候并没有受到多大鼓舞，按掉依然是举手之劳。以后打算把所以乱七八糟的writing assignments放到这里post出来。一是接受群众的眼光，有声音更好（虽然这里似乎没有群众可言…）；二是，我猜测，自我欣赏是每个journalist必备的职业道德，吧？

Assignment of "Advanced English for Journalism": Please write a 200-word paragraph in imitation of the first paragraph of Magic Mountain. You may choose any place you like, but you should use some of the writing techniques discussed in class.

Santa Monica—the name of which is already romantic enough to make you fall in love with it—is a coastal city situated in the western LA Country, California. With its agreeable weather and amazing scenery, Santa Monica has become one of the most famed resort town in the US. In most time of a year, the sun there shines brilliantly enough to make everyone in it guilty for not carrying a good mood. The entrance of Santa Monica Pier announces the starting point of a paradise journey. Stretching from a walkway with expansive seaview on both sides, the most fabulous part of it is actually the people and their richcolorful activities happening inbetween. Peddlers are selling every kind of souvenirs that you can think of, t-shirts, cups, postcards, jewelries, and even tattoo services. Always smiling to every passer-by who even just plays with those stuff insteading of buying them, their expression of satisfaction seem to be telling the fact that, enjoying life in an easiest way, but business, is the only thing they care about. Minstrels, another eye-catching group on the pier, are taking every single cornor, and turning them into their world of music. All of the selfless melody comes out of their vocal cords and instruments talks on behalf of them that, singing is their only way of living.

Assignment of "Writing for Business News": Write up a short story based on the release of Apple's new Nano. Feel free to look at what other news agencies wrote when this release came out a few days ago. Also, you're free to do your own reporting, such as asking Apple customers what they think of the announcement, the product, etc. In other words, use this release as a base, but also apply your creativity and analysis to it

Is it too fast?

By Ellen WANG

I still remember my excitement when I got my first Apple product—Ipod Mini—the most popular MP3 player to all Apple fans back in year 2004. Without any ideas that someday such a small device is even possible to carry a video camera inside it, I truly believed then that could be a life-long player of mine. Obviously, I was wrong, about both myself and the updating speed of music players.

In the so-called technology era, people are getting more and more familiar with numerous new updates coming up nonstopping. Notwithstanding, the release of the newest Ipod nano is still surprising enough, as in most people’s memory, the “old Nano” is not even old yet. Just like my Ipod Mini has been obsolete for years, the announcement of new Nano with its fabulous new features will certainly turn quite a number of existing Nano players, obsolete.

While lots of Apple users are still in the mood of enjoying their most fashionable Nano 4, the previous version, the new Nano with a built-in video camera carrying several special effect filters, a speaker, a built-in FM radio with live pause and iTunes tagging, and even a built-in pedometer, just landed safely a few days ago. To put it simply, the new Nano gets almost everything right. A more critical issue, however, is: How do the consumers accept it?  

The answer perhaps is not as pleasing as the new Nano’s impressive features.

Gill, a girl already has an Ipod Nano G4, an iphone, and a MacBook like any standard Apple fans, told me that she wouldn’t consider buying the new Nano. “I do love Apple products, but I don’t like so many overlapping functions within my electronic stuff.”She also told me that, the video camera feature was not really appealing to her while the built-in FM radio did seem a brilliant one. “But it’s just not strong enough a reason for me to buy it now, I’d rather wait longer for the next generation of it. Propably they will add still-photo camera or even wifi in the near future. It’s gonna be updated really fast anyway.”

“Of course I’d love to have the new Nano,”said another Apple user with an Ipod Nano G1 and an iTouch, Chloe, “only if someone is willing to buy me one!”she added. According to her, an iTouch is already powerful enough in the functional means and the old Nano also fulfills her need of a portable music player very well. “The new features are good, but paying another 150 dollars or so to get one is simply unnecessary.”

It seems that besides those die-hard fans of Apple, most of the users do their rational thinking when making purchasing decisions. Continuous updating is cool, but it can also easily be a waste, or even failure, if the speed of updating goes far out of consumers’ acceptance range. So, maybe slow down a bit, Apple?