告诉你们，我真的是倒霉到可以。。。无端端出了水痘！天啊，这把年纪出水痘，很麻烦的！

不过这样看来，我这两个星期，就能好好补一下blog 了！哈哈。。。

没时间，我没时间。。。

不好意思啦。。。最近很忙，忙着transition。。。所以没时间写故事。。。

再过一个月就会过去另一个team，做别的工作了。。。有一点紧张。。。

等我一切安定下来，一定会弥补一下。。。

祝我好运吧！

世说心语（序）

民间谣传前世的债，今世来还。人的际遇，往往冥冥中已经有了安排。曾经听说过一位妇女常常在下午四点钟的时候，偏头痛就会把她折磨得不成人形，经过催眠发现前几世的她是个囚犯，而且是在下午四点钟被斩首。信不信由你，前世今生。。。或许真有此事。。。

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（人物介绍）
魏嫣兰，上海名花旦，外刚内柔，拥有一双清澈的眼睛，姣好面容，倾倒众生。虽非出生名门，却也极洁身自爱，可说是出污泥而不染。用情专一，对董俊彦一心一意，最后却因受不了谣言以及得不到认同，自杀身亡。

董俊彦，上海首富的长子。对魏嫣兰用情至深，为了心爱的人，可以牺牲所有的一切。嫣兰死后，因相思成疾，一病不起。

章学庭 Helen，原籍台湾，十岁便到新加坡念书，在一家跨国公司任职。为人开朗，有魄力，果断，一双清澈的眼睛让许多男士拜倒在她的石榴裙下，却完全不动心。自从一次偶遇，让她认识程启轩，两个人的命运开始纠缠在一块儿。

程启轩 Michael，新加坡人，聪明绝顶，眉宇间总流露着一股很特别的气质，霸道中带点忧郁。一向我行我素，走遍世界各地，唯独对上海有着深深的眷恋。一次美丽的邂逅，让他不能自拔地被学庭吸引着。

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二十年代旧上海：华丽，眩目。一个歌舞升华的年代。

1923年，9月2日。
[人言可畏？门第之见？
一代戏子，香消玉郧。
一代戏子魏嫣兰，日前于上海京士街居所，仰药自尽，享年二十三岁。外界盛传魏嫣兰和上海首富长子董俊彦早已私定终生，因不得男方家长认同以及近日来所流传的谣言，深受打击，自寻短尽。。。]

《嫣兰，为什么就这样离开我？不是说好一起面对问题吗，你为什么这样就丢下我？既然今生和你无缘，来世我一定要找到你！嫣兰，一定要等我。。。》

“来人啊！少爷晕倒了！来人啊！少爷，少爷。。。”

1923年，9月10日。
[上海首富长子董俊彦，因得怪病一病不起，于昨天上午与世长辞，享年二十五岁。]

Life!

It used to be this way.

Doors wide open, children running in and out of the house, chasing after cackling hens, laughing merrily.

Women chatting in the open air kitchen, with the aroma of freshly cooked dinner filling the air, occasionally yelling at the one or 2 children who messed up the place.

Men sat by the table drinking ice cold beer, talking about the work day that just passed. That sheer warmth and joy of feeling free… that sense of community.

Nobody worried about anything...

That was simplicity. That was innocence. That, was life. But somewhere down the line, life changed.

People sealed up their homes and replaced the warm home with a cold house. People stopped smiling at others and when they talk, they talk behind others’ backs. The world suddenly became more dangerous.

Unkind thoughts sneaked into our minds. The sense of community eroded and things became complicated.

Slowly, people started to feel the difference and tried to make up for the difference by filling their lives with more activity. Planning, organizing, goal-setting… and then, stress crept in. People became so stressed out, that life would whiz past them, without them even knowing. Emptiness became like a black hole. It just kept sucking life out of them, never returning a single cent.

Title chase became a norm, and soon people were “killing” each other, over the search for power, and money. After that title chasing, tiredness overcame people, and some shrewd businessmen came up with the idea of stress management.

The businessmen built beautiful resorts and came up with fancy stress management tactics like reflexology and spas.

They painted pictures of flowing water, soothing sounds and beautiful sunsets to people.

They created that vision which many looked forward to.

It was a paradise. And the people were sold to that idea of a paradise. The price, however, was not cheap. Therefore, people went into the vicious cycle of finding more money to find more calm. Greed took over and people became slaves to money.

It became a status symbol, to buy that lifestyle that was once available to them. The lifestyle that was innocent, charming and full of laughter. What an irony!The things that people took for granted, became a luxury. People lost sight of who they really were. People lost track of what life was all about.

One fine day, they came to the end of their lives, and realized with a rude shock that their lives were nothing and have full of regrets.

If any of those things strike home for you, it’s time to take stock, and go back to the basics. Before I end, I just have something for you. In Buddhist monasteries, it was the cook’s duty to make the most sumptuous meal possible out of whatever ingredients that was available, rather than complaining about what he didn’t have.

Life, is what happens to you, when you are busy making other plans.

不久前，报章上有一则关于弃婴的报道，故事里的未婚妈妈才不过十六岁。更可怕的是，这位妈妈曾经怀过另外一胎。。。

真的不知道该怎么想。。。要生的不能生，不想生的偏偏一直有，还把小生命当作是废物丢在垃圾槽。令人匪夷所思的是这位女生的父母竟然没察觉到自己的孩子怀了孕。

现在的社会，越来越发达，越来越开放。网络的普遍，让一切垂手可得。。。加上双亲为了三餐日夜在外奔波，孩子在家没人看管，导致类似事件频频发生。尤其是正值发育期的青少年，血气方刚，加上没有正确的观念，更容易出馗。看到一些数字统计，越来越多青少年一不是完璧之体，而且年龄还越来越小呢。在这方面，女生一定比较吃亏。。。

小孩做错事，父母多多少少得要负责任吧。。。怪不得周围的一些孕妇都一致认为生男的好过生女的，女生的教养，要比男生来的严格，妈妈也会比较担心。

当然，开放的社会所带来的也不完全是坏事。起码如果你现在和子女谈论和灌输性观念，不像以前那样别扭吧？

Gates: Blogging is serious business

Hehehe... was reading tech news and came across this article in www.asiacomputerweekly.com.

Gates said at the annual CEO summit:"What blogging and these notifications are about is that you make it very easy to write something that you can think of, like an email, but it goes up onto a web site... [blogging is about] gettng away fro the drawbacks of email, that it's too imposing, and the drawbacks of a web site, that you don't know if there's something new and interesting there."

In the same article, it has been implied that in future, businesses may be using blogs are a communication tool, somewhat similar to user groups and BBS... Microsoft at the moment, doesn't have any such products/tools... the market is going to be interesting... for bloggers like us... :)

刚读了一篇文章，是关于commitment phobia，直接翻译成中文，应该是承诺恐惧症吧？

为什么有些人会害怕做出承诺？以前，我老是以为只有男人才会有commitment phobia，其实不然。往身边的女性朋友看看，其实有蛮多都很害怕commitment，不为什么，只是因为一旦commit了，就得面对失去某些事物的可能。

现在的女性都很独立，很多也抱着独身主义，深深地觉得没有必要去依靠男人，更何况可以依靠的男人好像非洲狮子一样，快濒临绝种了。

有些则是看到周遭的朋友婚姻的不美满，更是认为commitment到头来只会让自己受到伤害。能怪谁呢？要怪只能怪社会发明了太多速食品，搞到连爱情都变成了速食面的一种。很多人在踏入教堂的那一天，发现自己承受不了commitment的压力而仿效Julia Roberts上演《逃婚记》。。。很可悲，对吗？

你呢？你是否也是逃兵？是否也在逃避“负责任”的机会？

Woh... found out that 2 of my friends are pregnant over the last 2 days... guess this is the "IN" thing now, when we are all about that "getting hitched and child bearing" age...

Incidentally, I saw 2 very different scenarios in the 2 friends' pregnancy. One is constantly taken care of her mum refuse to let her go out at night alone), absolutely under heaps of TLC and very happy... the other, under alot of stress, which was coming from employer (which could be taken up to HR actually) and as well as her doctor... she has to be closely monitored due to health reasons.

Father Almighty, it is in Your Plan, that they are bestowed with child... I pray for them to be healthy, and have an easy time during pregnancy. This prayer also goes out to all the mums-to-be... In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen...