Sunday, 6 April 2008

winter weekend in spring


What a dynamic weekend I am experiencing now!

Waked up at 6:30am this morning with blanked snow and still was falling outside. I couldn’t wait to wash my face before I run out. It is so beautiful! I can’t help laugh at what my colleague said in Feb: there will not have any snow before next winter, that was her forecast about my expectation to snow in Feb. The weather is so dynamic, I couldn’t see any sign of snow at noon under the sunshine but it seems now 3:00 pm light snow again, I will have a run later.

Weather forecast said winter is coming back for couple of day. I don’t agree, the birds also don’t agree, they keep on in spring mood and singing. It was a little bit cold on Saturday afternoon as well and I watched local football league match with umbrella in the light rain. When I was ready for a running after got back from the match, it suddenly begun to have hail outside, just hail only no rain, I was very exciting, put on jacket and hood, run into it. I met a young couple, they were surprised happy to meet a guy in the hail, we laughed with each other. It lasted about 8 minutes, and then followed by shinning sunshine and rain which was as thin as hair. So I did have a run in the white falling thing, not snow but hail! Just a walk in the snow this morning.

Friday, 4 April 2008

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction

I know who you are, and I am not impressed.—John Jett

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life___Samuel Johnson

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. Oscar Wilde

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance

Pursuing Success Is Not Enough

W. Somerset Maugham. He wrote, as I recall: "When I was 18, I desperately wanted to be rich, successful and famous. Now I am all three, but I am not sure I am any happier."
I remember what Noel Coward once said to me regarding fame: "It's a very fragile thing, old boy. Rather like carrying a Ming vase in a storm of wind. It can be snatched out of your hand any moment. Then you miss it."
As for success, here's what Lord Beaverbrook, the greatest media magnate of his day, had to say on the subject: "Aw, Mr. Johnson, success is much less important than health. You can be the richest man in the world, and the most successful man alive, but if you lose your good health you will be a very unhappy man."

Guidelines
The question to be asked, then, is this: How can the quest for wealth, fame and success be combined with the pursuit of happiness? I'm not sure there's a foolproof answer. But there are some useful guides. Here are four of the most important.
--Try to combine the pursuit of wealth with creativity. Clever manipulation of bits of paper and values may make you a billionaire, but creating a successful business, expressed in solid objects (factories, offices, docks and facilities, things of bricks and mortar and concrete) or in real estate (in lands and plantations) is more conducive to happiness. To make something--something real, visible, fruitful and productive--where once there was nothing is a fine expression of one of the deepest and healthiest human instincts.
--A successful man is likely to find happiness in producing something useful or delightful or beautiful.
What a triumph to have produced those!
--Create happiness and satisfaction by creating jobs. And not just paid occupations--all governments do that, often by the million--but genuine jobs that justify themselves, have a real purpose and longevity. The great 12th-century Jewish sage Maimonides wrote that charity is a blessing, and we must all exercise it if we can. But the finest form of charity is to enable a poor man to support himself with honor and usefulness.
A businessman who can create useful, well-paid and secure jobs is doubly blessed, by the individual he makes self-supporting and by the society he renders more secure. He helps himself, too, for, as Maimonides says, there is joy in lifting people out of want, not by alms but on a permanent basis.
--Job creation leads me to the fourth source of happiness that the right kind of success brings. It should have a moral basis. If possible, it should be consistent with the needs of our fellow men and women in the broadest sense, not just their material needs but their emotional and spiritual needs.

Wednesday, 2 April 2008

Professional and professional

I must say it to my German colleague.
They find out my first email in 1 Feb and keep on use it. For one topic he first find all the information he need from me, then based on what I say begin to talk with my boss and directors.
All what I wrote finally was shown on the email to my boss and directors
Well, remember that:
What you write down on emails could be exposed like this, so careful!
One topic, many emails, but always keep all the historic emails in it.