2008/02/11

閱讀 不哭 and 轉山

聆聽 Kevin Kern的鋼琴曲 感受超越生命似的輕盈
閱讀 橘子的不哭 虛擬穿越生命似的無奈
閱讀 謝旺霖的轉山 體驗刻劃生命似的質量
窗外 稀稀落落的雨滴 停過
窗內 拉拉雜雜的思緒 未停

不哭 用不同的角度 切入 一群人的故事
愛情 可以沒有道理
但結局 總在錯綜複雜的時空交替間
想起 另一本書名 you get it or learn from it
學習 放手體驗
單純的人 玩不起複雜的遊戲
複雜的人 受不了單純的遊戲
那麼 單純又複雜的人呢
如果 可以輕易地喜歡一個人
如果 可以喜歡喜歡自己的人
愛情 也許不會這麼難

轉山 真實深刻 紀錄西藏的一段生命體驗
林懷民 貼切地用兩個形容詞描述 誠實與質樸
轉山 讓人內省 讓人回味
彷彿 一步一步 走過西藏
迷失 找尋 認知
循環中 掙扎定位 自我
山野中 應付面對 未知
騎乘中 蹣跚追尋 成長
最終 催促自己上路的 還是自己

2008/02/10

Back to Linkou

Coming back to Linkou yesterday, I spent half of the day to unpack, watch the TV, and do nothing. Today in the rain, I walked to the supermarket and the book store... the holidays are almost gone... would I feel better if the sun would show up a bit? I miss the sunshine in the southern Taiwan. Well, in fact it doesn't matter because I stayed at home, cooking, watching the movies, and reading a novel I just bought.

I only finished half of the novel, so maybe I would stay up late to finish it tonight. Therefore tomorrow I could read the other book about a divagate in Tibet. Travelling with the author through his writing, maybe I would find something to inspire me to answer my own questions about travelling.

Then, I will be ready for the working life again! :)

2008/02/08

Happy Chinese New Year! - visiting my sister

According to the Chinese culture, people celebrate the Chinese New Year Eve and the first day of the year with the family. If married, a wife stays with her husband's family on the first day, and then they go back to the wife's family on the second day. Since my second nephew was just born few weeks ago and my sister is still in the one month-long postpartum rest and recuperation, we visited her instead. It's my first time to meet the little guy as well. He is so lovely, sleeping a lot and staring at me when I talked or sang to him. His name hasn't been decided yet, but will be soon.

My first nephew received the red envelopes and gifts from us. He is happy to have a younger brother and started sharing gifts with his brother already. :)


More photos during the visiting:

2008/02/03

Netherlands - Eindhoven - Business trip - 2008/01/07 ~ 2008/02/03

As usual, I arrived Sofitel Dorint Hotel first and then waited for moving to an apartment. I don't like hotels because they are kind of too cold too stay for a long time... and you could hardly do anything there. This time I got a bigger room with a balcony, it's not bad for one night. :)



Next day I moved to an apartment, with a nice garden. well, it's too cold to sit in the garden to enjoy a cup of tea, but still nice to have such pleasant view during breakfasts and weekends.





There is a huge park next to the corner. Taking three minutes by feet, I could reach the park!



In my point of view, this family is extremely lucky to be able to live in the park, with a small lake in the back yard. In the winter they have the breakfast in a indoor dinning room watching the lake~ In the summer they must have the breakfast outside in the back yard to enjoy the sunshine~

2008/02/01

The last working-day evening in NL

Tomorrow is the last working day for this business trip in the Netherlands. Coming here in year 2007... going back in year 2008... I feel like that I have been here for a long time... maybe it's because that I am familiar with the city already, or because I only stayed at the hotel for one night, I enjoy the trip and the stay in the past five weeks.

Away from the stuff which I might be busy in while I am in Taiwan, I had more time to think back and forward, to create the Blog, and to surf on the internet a bit. However, I could never meet people through Internet! If you know Facebook, you would know that it is a good interface for friends to keep in touch. There are lots functions, such as sending/receiving pictures, videos, gifts, beers to/from friends. Two weeks ago a friend invited me to add a function "meet new people". Basically people, strangers, could send message to you to make friends with you, and you of course could do so as well. However receiving the messages few days later, I decided to remove the function. I still can't understand how to judge whether you want to make friends with certain people or not just by photos... to me, it still better to spend time on "real" people around. :)

Respecting others doesn't mean that you couldn't see or feel. Giving others easy way doesn't mean that you have to take everything. If I treat people nice and they treat me nice as well, we would have well and balance interaction. If I smile to people but they don't care, I won't be angry because I can't control them, but I might not smile to them next time. It's all about attitude. People who are willing to give would get even more than what they gave away. The more happiness and care we gave, the more happiness and care we would receive from others. Today one of my colleagues/friends left the company, and I saw such relation between cause and effect again. We will miss you, girl!