Laser Tag & New Friends

Thanks to Philipo Izaggi, we've got some new friends! Yesterday was Cristian's birthday and he turned to 28, although it was the first time to meet him. Haha! Laser Tag was so fun and we surprisingly got 3 games all in the win team, after changing all the time. Lucky rabbits.

No OT

I don't know the consequences of no OT, but never really did a lot during the past year. Sometimes I just felt that OT didn't bring out a lot of work. Or maybe with the pressure of no OT, efficiency will be improved. Yup, so no OT for August! Let's see how it evolves.

Eat Honey Like this!

Yes, it's home of bees! Well, part of them, I guess they are building more hexagones while this home is taken away for selling.  Actually it doesn't taste that bad, the only different feeling from tasting normal honey is I act more like a greedy bear, swallowing the whole thing, including the beewax. After all, wax is not that a pleasant texture on the palate, it made me doubt if it was eatable at some point. But Google nodded!

Profit is not profit

I'm currently reading <Smarter Investing - Simpler Decisions for Better results>, which was recommended by a senior in business school. Actually I have already "read" it the same time last year, where I got a free e-book online with a very version of poor translation. It ended of course by not finishing the book, at some point I wished I never had wasted time looking for this poor quality. When I finally found the real book in paper in a shop again, passing through cashier was not a hesitation.

Now I'm in the 4th chapter out of 15, where I have to take some notes, or the reading-value would fade with years pass on, experience says.

Expected surprise - truth are always hidden in simplicity. I was so astonished by myself not realising earlier how an annual profit of positive figures could be a loss, of course,  when market is growing faster than your profit is! So it would not be harder anymore either to understand the one who loses the least wins. So, on the contrary of the concept of self-developing or personality building, investing is holy soaked in comparison, your loss is others' profit and vice versa. That comes also quite often to me to stop reading this book, in which I find many investing philosophies have nothing to do, or sometimes even conflictual to those wisdom sayings of good personal qualities building and those of hedonism. Investing, more generally speaking, including time, energy, spiritual resources, human capital or money... are all limited! If you want to invest more in self-developing, it will to conflictual to money-investing. After all, it comes back to the question of: what's your life goal? Knowing that everyone's resources are really poor compared to what we need ourselves to be...

To be, or not to be!

Verhuizen naar People’s Square

Ik heb uiteindelijk verhuisd! Mijn nieuwe appartment is alleen maar 1 minuut wandelen weg de metro en het is bij People’s Square, het benoemed centraal van het stad. Ik ben heel blij! Het appartment is in een oud gebouw maar heel schoon. Maar heel veel werken voor het verhuizen. Ik moest een matras kopen, ik heb ook de gordijn verhanderd en ik moest nog veel schoon werk daan!

Climbing!

Nothing can be more fun than sports. Sports always bring me the greatest joy, no matter it was skiing with Linzhi, or climbing with our group today.

We found this place quite occidentally, as we were supposed to go to the place at people square, but they didnt have any places left unluckily, so we had to move to Hongkou Stadium, which is quite far from where I live. But they are much more spacious and with more coaches who can actually help us during the climbing. Although the climbing with rope place is outside and a bit too chilly with only around 10 degrees, Maud and Jan were the pioneers to begin with climbing on the 5 meters wall and then we all begin to give it a try, we soon got exhausted with 2 or 3 tries, but the feeling of roping down is really exciting and cool!

捆

这里并不是一让我泄怒的虚拟角落，而是一张少有的任我倾诉的白纸，并不平滑，波折的情绪将它皱褶，人称混乱的思想只会在这里散落一派胡言，尽管我并不苟同，但只是我的语言从来没有掌握到思维敏捷的节奏，在人看来笨拙到有些可笑，所以只能用最慢的文字去揣摩自己的表达。有时会想，只有一瞬间说出的话才是自己所想，经过思考的语句只是虚伪的化装，但是可惜我天生禀缺口才的天赋，一出口也都只是吝啬的只言片语，好不容易出了声，也好似冗长的又平淡的cliche，耐心的听我两句，不耐烦的便不屑与我交流。而我又似懦弱的软心肠，从不与人抗争，但其实心里并不服，只是懒得为自己战斗。

给自己的借口是习惯性的“用知识武装自己”，但26年的经验看来似乎并没有为自己赢得任何战利品，大概能清醒认识到自己的能力也只有自己。反省中，似乎看到一直回避战斗的态度只会将自己捆绑，缩小自己的空间。而且，甚至自己竟毫不羞耻地自称为“懦夫”，挡箭牌只是自己是个女孩，连“夫”都称不上；但同时，却耻笑许多拜金主义中“活得像个英雄不如金钱更实际”的态度。不知道这两者是否有可比性，至少足以警醒自己根本不比拜金主义崇高，而且中国人的谦虚往往可怕到谦卑的程度……可怕，可怕！

捆绑着的，都是思想封上的枷锁。钥匙，在我自己手上，勇敢解开它，至少可以让生命更有意义一些吧，虽然我知道自己只是一个不能再平凡的女孩，但是在平安年代，也是需要战士的勇气，去战斗，变成更好的自己。