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    shirleyxu  54, Female, China - 301 entries
14
Jun 2011
12:12 AM CST
   

People in Jazz Bar

I met Bill, a writer and his readers in Jazz Bar Peace Hotel Saturday evening. I am not a bar person, however, a interesting gathering plus an evening view of Bund sounds attractive to me. He got a sharp eye like an eagle; he is tall and quite slim. “I like Shanghaimore comparing to Beijing, “Bill said. People usually can make a quick subjective judgment on a city within 12 hours after landing and it’s usually right as they are experiencing without too much thinking. They smell the city life from the buildings, the food, the colors of the street lights and smiling faces. �

Dim light and the wine definitively made people more talkative. The music was so laud and laud enough to draw my attention to the band of 5 old musicians who were dressed typically in 30’s and I was told by the bar manager that the seriously looking man in the middle is 82 year old and he has been working here for about 20 years. The winkles on their face told the audiences a lot, they did not have much facial expression at all while playing the Jazz music, however you do experience peace at Peace hotel just by looking at the band.

Bill’s son, Jules looks like a taller and thinner Tom Cruise, he is a singer and has been trying hard to be professional, and I told him that if he is good enough, he can turn a supper star over night here in China. An African singer (Haul Ger) did a good job in finding his audience here in China. “Do I have to learn Chinese?” Jules asked. The shinning eyes of this young man shows the desire to know more about this huge and mysterious country, the people, the language, the culture, the music etc.

I chatted with a Hungarian lady, she and her American husband are relocating the family here soon and she is looking forward to the new chapter of her Shanghailife.

Two formally dressed young men, one from Englandand one from Germanyare launching an on-line magazine about investment opportunities in Shanghai. They are more Shanghainess than we do, they even guided us to view the longest bar in the world at the Bond, it seems that Shanghaiis not boring city to them, they are having two gatherings in the Boud in one Saturday evening. I can see the excitement from their faces just like that my excitement 20 years ago when I landed in London. �

I talked to a man in carpet business has spent 15 years in SH and manage his business in Asia. I guess that the business must be good enough to keep him in Shanghaifrom 15 years long.

A Doctor who is next to me was from US, I told him that my boy will go to boarding school in US this summer, he said to me that “My parents spent a lot of money sending me to boarding school many years ago and it was a wrong decision, I did not enjoy my life there.” I give him a look with guilt as if I have made a wrong decision.�

This is a competitive world and we as parents did what we can to provide the boy with what we believe is the best for him, a bad school can’t change a person’s whole life, but a good school can modify a person’s life path for sure.

I read some of Bill’s recent writings; I can feel that he is very sensitive to what he have seen in Beijing and Shanghai and he is generally positive about China’s development and it’s global influence. I guess that if Bill spends more time, meet more people and see more cities in China, he may have more conservative view on this. For a country like China, building hardware is relatively easy, but the transform of the software (mind) will need the efforts of several generations. People can get lost easily if they are only materially satisfied as the height of the building does not positively correlated with the height of moral standard of people inside the building.

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    shirleyxu  54, Female, China - 301 entries
14
Jun 2011
12:11 AM CST
   

邻居的条子

昨天下午回家看到门下面有个信封,里面有张卡写着下面的文字:Dear Neighbor: We humbly and prayerfully ask for your patience. We have recently taken in an abandened baby. I realise how loud the crying must be. Your patience with us during this time will be most valued and appreciated. Warm Regards, Jessica & Keith

晚上6点半有人敲门,一对亮丽的年轻人递上一盒曲奇,我们是楼上的邻居,他们推着的婴儿车里有一个一岁多的中国孩子,一对有神的眼睛好奇地看着我,仔细看,孩子的嘴唇是做过修正手术的。学生样的女人说“对不起这孩子才18个月,在孤儿院一直都有肺炎,晚上很闹,我们现在照顾他,正准备办理领养手续”。两个美国的年轻人说这些话时眼睛放光,没有犹豫和彷徨。我说,“条子看到了,别担心孩子的声音扰到我们,有男孩的家庭都能理解”。

我内心很佩服这对大概只有30出头的年轻人,但我还得‘装’得老成持重些,“你们还是多观察一下这孩子各方面的情况,想好了要承担的责任,再做决定吧”。我虽然忍不住这样讲,但讲完都觉得自己没啥资格这样对人家说。即便此举是这对漂亮的年轻人的所谓冲动行为,也是一个折射他们漂亮灵魂的高尚冲动。

今天早上,我告诉还赖在床上睡懒觉的敦,“你一直想收养一个弟弟,现在楼上就有一个需要人们爱护的小弟弟。你可以尽一份心帮助他们照顾弟弟”。敦迷迷糊糊地点了点头。我加了一句,“你要有出息,将来要挣到钱,搞定自己的生活,才能有心又有力地真正帮到弟弟”。敦又睡眼惺忪地点了点头。实际上,这句话分量的轻重,敦也许到很多年后才能明白。
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    shirleyxu  54, Female, China - 301 entries
14
Jun 2011
12:10 AM CST
   

无悔青春


儿子,你今年三月就满十四了。按我的老规矩,写点文字送给你。

14岁是青春期最有意思的阶段,你的体内和体外全方位地发生了一系列的碰撞。从身体和心理都发育成长了,但成长成响当当的人是个不容易的过程,在自己和别人不断的肯定和否定中,你时而自信和时而自卑,目标时而清晰时而模糊,少年维特的烦恼像影子一样跟着你,如果说青春期是人生一个美丽的乐章,这些动荡都是这个乐章的伴奏曲。等你到了老妈这样年龄时你就会觉得,‘无知’也是财富,朦胧和发傻本身就很有美感。

每个人都有青春,青春一去不再来,人上了年纪后都对自己的青春岁月会有很多感慨,妈妈想告诉你我后悔自己在青春期没完成的几件事情,第一件事,我玩过很多乐器,洋琴,中圆,口琴, 吉他,古筝等等但我没能把一样乐器玩的够范儿,我打过篮球,排球,网球,乒乓球,也会游泳和风帆,但都不够精。第二件事,我没刻意锻练好身体,长大后身体素质不够好。第三件事,我没在那时读足够量的好书,文学根基不够好。第四件事,我那时自己率性而为,不太顾及父母的感受。

我要是有机会重回青春期,我第一,要有计划自律,高效管理自己的宝贵时间;第二,不放弃尝试学习新东西的机会,同时学会面对失败;第三,要抓紧时间博览群书,用智慧不断地摆脱彷徨和困惑。第四,学会对自己的各方面能力有要求,包括与家人和朋友相处的能力,敢于不断地超越自己。

老妈相信你能从老妈青春期的遗憾里悟出点东西,人的一生成就是多层次的,在这宝贵的黄金岁月里我坚信你会带着父母的爱,坚定地向着自己的梦想迈进,成就自己的无悔青春。

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    shirleyxu  54, Female, China - 301 entries
14
Jun 2011
12:10 AM CST
   

元宵节博客

传统的元宵节吃汤圆,汤圆是中国的东西,外面包着皮,看不到里面的馅是啥内容。你品尝之前总会有所期待和向往,这从遐想,品尝到最后满足的过程很有道家的韵律。成熟的国人看人往往不只看表面,人们偏爱外表和内涵形成巨大反差的高人。你若留心观察就不难发现,我们这个东方大国正是由一群相当含蓄的人来领导的。

相对应的西方意大利匹萨饼就没那么含蓄了,有点啥名堂都亮出来给人看,把最好的topping在表层最显眼的地方,你最先是被它的色彩和样式吸引,品尝只是验证你的视觉印象。Lady Gaga之所以张扬出格到极致,因为她自认为自己还不够艺术,不这样就会失去被粉丝验证的机会。奥巴马要是个内秀含蓄的孩子也就不可能有机会当上总统了。
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    KittykatMegan  50, Female, United Kingdom - 4 entries
14
Jun 2011
2:36 PM GMT
   

BESTIES

MY BESTIES ARE:
� MEGAN MILTON
�CHARLOTTE BARGEMAN
�SASKIA ROGERS
�NICOL EASTON
�LOIS WILCOX
EMILY NEW
�CHLOEE MARIEE FRY
�ELLIE HANNAH FRY

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    KittykatMegan  50, Female, United Kingdom - 4 entries
14
Jun 2011
2:28 PM GMT
   

Luvee

I��JLS AND OLLY MURS 4 EVA!!!
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    lbirdwell  74, Male, Pennsylvania, USA - 52 entries
13
Jun 2011
7:00 AM
   

Feel like I was run over by a train. fingers won't type right, legs, arms, back, neck, etc. are all very stiff and sore. Tremor in right arm/hand and left, though not as intense. Stuff going on with my eyes too. Had the Optom Dr. look. Something came loose in the gel inside the eye. Floating things everywhere and veils of floating gel. Bummer. Can't wait till they get done with my VA claim. Can't go on like this much longer.
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    MyNameIsSteve  32, Male, Illinois, USA - 6 entries
10
Jun 2011
10:13 PM CST
   

Ass Itch

I give up on everyone. It's too much for me to deal with the same mind-numbingly dull personalities every day. They're all the same. Im not even sure anymore�if im any different. Id be happy if i could meet one person with a mind like mine so i could stop feeling insane and alone. I can't relate to anyone around here. I fucking hate feeling this way, i feel like other people would look at this as typical teenage high-school-drama bullshit... but im not in high school anymore, im not 12 years old anymore, i should stop being this way, i just cant seem to do it by myself.
i have my goals and plans on how to reach them. I just need to get far far away from here. I don't even know if anyone would understand what im trying to say. Ill be 18 on the 29th of this month. I plan on getting black out drunk and high as fuck. It'd be cool if i got laid too, but on account of how distant ive become with everyone, i doubt anything like that is gonna go down.


On an unrelated note, i have a deviantart account that i update far more often than this. i doubt ill even be back on here any time soon. If you're interested, here, http://unfunnyjester.deviantart.com/
i like writing. I hate sharing it with people i know because... well... i think its weird for a guy to write shit like i do. but it helps to clear my mind so.... whatever...
and before you assume your ass off, no its not over dramatic poetry about how my life sucks. Im not THAT typical pfft.....
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    lyubomirb  36, Male, Florida, USA - 44 entries
08
Jun 2011
11:12 PM CST
   

I tried to go the whole day without any pills, and then comes the night and�I am wide awake. I am having a withdraw and paniking, resisting to take another. I want to stop and have a normal life. I want to fall asleep without any drugs. Occasions became daily consumpsion. My blood pressure is high and I am trying everything to keep it low. but I cannot stop taking all these pills. Such an unbalanced life cycle I can no longer control. I don't know whats gona happen to me, I just know I have a lot of things to do tomorrow.

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    SimplyMe  28, Female, Georgia, USA - 5 entries
08
Jun 2011
3:20 PM CST
   

Trissy The Philosopher

I feel like a philosopher today. I'm always thinking about life, that is one thing about me that will always remain, but today life has pushed itself into my mind a bit further. I'm thinking about how lucky I am to be alive, and how glad I am to be around. It's a marvelous thing, life is. As human beings, we are placed face to face with death everyday, but we somehow manage to get by, and on that day that we falter at the face of death, we will finally be free from all of this monotonous struggle. We will be free of having to feel the pain of love, death, and emotion. We will be free from our hardship.
� Some people try to make this day come too quickly. Suicide engulfs the thought process of innocent human beings until they can't take the thoughts anymore and finally hurt themselves or even kill themselves to put the thoughts at bay. My mother is one of these people. She is still alive and hopefully well, but she has tried to commit suicide... Numerous times. But she is getting help. She will get better. I have high hopes.
�My mother is not the only one, though. My stepfather, my sister, my uncle, all of these people I love and care about so much, have hurt themselves purposely. I live in a house full of negativity, and yet I am above it all. I will not let them get to me, instead, I will help them as much as I can, like I have been doing for the last 11 years.
�I knew at a very young age that if I fell down, the whole family falls with me. Like dominos. So ever since I was around 3 years old, I took on the responsibility of keeping my family together, that is my purpose as of right now. Saving souls that have gotten lost along the way, while trying to keep myself in tact.
�And still I am misunderstood. If everyone I knew read this, they would understand just at a minimum. They still wouldn't fully understand what I believe in and what I think about. Nobody will ever fully understand how certain I am of myself, yet how little I really know. They won't understand how strongly I feel that it is my obligation�to keep a positive and open mind, in order to keep my life from falling apart. Nobody will ever understand how much I know my family depends on me.
�It pains me inside to say this, but all of which is true. No matter how great of a mind was placed upon my shoulders, I will always and forever be underestimated.

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