Wherever Wonderland

Ellen DeGeneres:
"I had a big weekend. I got married to Portia de Rossi! Sorry, John Stamos ... this one's taken."
"You may notice something different about the way I'm writing ... it's fancy. This is the font I type in now that I'm MARRIED!"
"I do a lot of things differently now ... I say, 'I do' a lot. For example: Who wants to do pilates? I do. Would you like a Mountain Dew? I do. Do you know why I pulled you over? I do. And that was just this morning."
"Blissfully yours, The just married Mrs. DeGeneres" – with the "Mrs." underscored.

Niels Bohr:
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."

Margaret Mead:
"Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible."

Yuan Fan:
"Because I have no life or wisdom, I am quoting others."

小陈为了奥运要回北京了。
Q姨上个月刚回家溜一圈。
秧师现在应该在香港参加Lisa的婚礼（哦，对了，顺便祝贺一下）。
港澳台的三栖明星比如周华建，林俊杰、罗嘉良、杨思琦、张嘉儿、李子雄、袁和平、葛民辉（这都哪儿跟哪儿啊，我都不认识！）都已经到了北京了！章子怡也带着她甜蜜蜜回家。
我还在这蹦蹬什么劲呐？

趁奥运回家的理由：
1）可以吃晶莹剔透的小笼包子，对了，即使速冻的蒸熟了里面也带汤儿！还得吃西四那家儿的延吉冷面，羊肉手擀面，新川的凉面，利克隆架子上各式各样的方便面！
2）每天吃饺子：羊肉胡萝卜馅儿的，猪肉大葱，韭菜鸡蛋虾米皮的，茄子，西红柿，扁豆，茴香，茴香，茴香！
3）吃腻了饺子（怎么会呢？！）吃馄饨，猪肉和虾仁的，还掺点郫县豆瓣酱，盛到碗里再撒点儿香菜。
4）找小陈扇蒲扇吃西瓜，让她请我吃大董。
5）看看我情家的壁纸真有她爹说的那么糟糕么？
6）一定要牵着吟子逛吧，这个姑娘可真有群儿~~
7）参观鸟巢、鸟蛋、水立方。去和珅老宅转转，还有前门，西单，王府井，故宫，北海，颐和园。被毕毕孙佳说的我心里也痒痒的想看日落紫禁城--那个电视剧还没给我版权税呢！外地人都轰出去了，北京的车又单双号，北京的道路不得宽的容大胖子在路中间打滚儿啊！
8)全中国的宝贝都运到北京去展览。不用去西安就能看见兵马俑，会不会有彩色的呢？我要是逐个访问地方博物馆，得花多少盘缠啊！
9)看中国队比赛转播，省得跟NBC扯皮。
10)那么多好吃的好玩的好看的，又不用担心空气污染、人员繁杂，因为中国人脸皮儿薄，怕外煤手插腰对着街骂。

昭仓不是跳下去了吗？唐塔也跳下去了。所以请我也跳下去吧。我倒是跳啊！

刚入学的时候秦勤淡淡地对我说，学校里人来人往的，我都习惯了，你也必须适应。当我毕业的时候面临和共处几年的朋友同学分别，才又想起秦勤的话，天要下雨，娘要嫁人，除了记忆我能挽留什么？

当我们丢失了一本书，一个发卡，一件首饰，一张光碟，无论贵重与否我们骂骂自己粗心马虎了事。
当我们意外删除了硬盘里3年的图片，遗失了当年的日记本，打碎了好友送的茶杯，这些难以替代的东西令我们懊恼、自悔几天几个月，肯定会被忘掉。
当我们失去一份工作，一段感情，一位亲朋，一条躯干，这才是所谓的“问题”，我们心中充满忧伤、困顿和无限的惆怅与思念，因为我们知道这些是永远无法替代的。让我们无法释怀的其实是自己：自己的点滴努力，日积月累建立的关系，一起分享的时光。当我们失去这些人和事的时候，就像刀子剜了我们的心、身，我们也失去了部分自己。

然而事情是绝不能一概而论的。受儒家、佛教影响的东方哲学比西方思想更奥妙的原因就在于东方哲学崇尚多元素，而且你中有我，我中有你，二者相互平衡作用。失去往往与得到共存。遗失的书或光碟，光顾一次亚马逊就全运到家；我们也很快拍了新的照片，写下新的日记，遇到新的朋友。我们也能在我们也能重新开始一段感情，从事某项事业，甚至安上假肢。

事实上，失去让我们懂得放下，学会有机的舍弃。还是老和尚说得对，得到固然令人欣喜，放下又何尝不同样值得庆贺？放下又需要何等的大智慧、大勇敢、大谋略？我们不是在每次得到与放下间学习着如何下一次得到、下一次失去？这是个成长的过程，在整个人生路程中周而复始的发生，不可避免，也不可中断。我们能做的只是望着东去的江水，度量心中的筹码，调协、再调协你我的重心。

"记住，我将给你的只有真相，除了真相没有其他。"－－《黑客帝国》Matrix

简单说：我实*在*烦死自己做的饭了，谁有点子给我留个言哈！
为吃不嫌麻烦。

答yingying同学：我做菜基本遵循一个原则：A炒B，或素炒A。无非做些家常菜，本人不甚喜欢吃肉，也不爱吃胡萝卜。肉类基本就是鸡肉，鱼老想不起来吃。做法无非是炒和清蒸。每天上文学城，置顶的都是照出来的，不是做出来的，另外肉菜多，奇怪中国人得心脑血管疾病的怎么那么少？

答猫熊：不是我做的、烤的，我干吗在自己地盘贴图片！我的照相技术太差了，否则做失败的东西拿出来看着也应该挺好吃！

the word for today is 'desperate.' the first explanation, according to Webster, is losing hope. while it's a totally legitimate definition, what better fits today's scenario is the second explanation, "suffering from extreme need and anxiety."

i received an e-mail that was identified as "possible spam." the e-mail was about a dream job: high salary, full insurance benefits including medical, dental and vision, paid vacations, great locations, Fortune 500 clientele, visa/green card sponsorship, AND no experience required! easy girl...easy...nobody likes you this much, this is the United States, i said to myself. is it attractive only because it is different from typical spam with titles like "Fast Cash!" a few days later, i Google-ed this company and found no more good review than there exists such an establishment.

except for its own website claiming their clients are top Wall Street companies, the rest discuss if it is a hoax. the company asked for $1,500 training fee and the training offered in a residential apartment only covered basics. it always delayed payment to employees. worse, under the contract, employees have to be slaved for a long period of time before leaving without any penalty. however, many people went for it and yet many more are considering joining. why? we are desperate.

how far can we go for what we want? each year, hundreds of thousands of aliens submit applications to legally stay in the Land of Free. the waiting is 5 years long. some demonstrate exceptionally outstanding research work, whereas some showcase their quickness in adaptation: fraud employment, marriage, even religion. family court is not much better than immigration court. divorced parents would kill each other for their rights to visit with the kids. they drive hundreds of miles, pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, and be unreasonably accused hundreds of times, in order to buy the kids some ice cream cones on their birthday. society wide, women would accept appalling emotional and physical abuse to save their love or family. for years, patients keep offering their entire household of savings and lifetime of energy to fight against a disease and maybe to live a few more months.

like an abducted kid living in a dark cellar for months, ain't we all desperate for something? our hope is fainting and we are all suffering from extreme need and anxiety. sometimes i question the difference between dream and desire. maybe we do not need it, but we simply want it. and we think we need something so long that we are convinced we need it. maybe we think we Should have a million dollar job, a 2,500 square feet house, a beautiful/handsome spouse, a straight A son, a natural pianist daughter, a well behaved lab, and a group of coworkers and friends that have the same things as we do. we want them so bad for so long that we feel like we need them. therefore, when things are at odds, we become desperate, and then the world is ridicule and losing its sense. maybe desire and dream are interchangeable. along the process when we pursue something, the two constantly change faces.

well, i am clueless which makes us more desperate. meanwhile, i cannot help but wonder: how far is too far? will there be a time we stand firm on our feet and say 'Enough!'? what's the difference between pursuing our dreams and vanity? it's pretty clear for some people that nothing can stop them. that's another kind of desperate. when s/he exhibits such qualities in the process of pursuing the million dollar job, s/he is described as "motivated," and "hard working." on other occasions, however, s/he will be considered desperate. we call him Bill Gates when he knocked on each possible door for selling something and did it! we also call him Desperado when he knocked on each possible door for selling something and failed it. desperate or motivated, sky is the limit. as long as we need or want something, we will keep going. rather, we will keep compromising our health, our laughter, our family and our lives. we only stop when we are forced to stop, because we are all, by nature, desperadoes.

难得今天心静，来网上转转，竟发现没有一个网站提供好的阅读：非八卦、非男女、有深度又有创意的东西，哪儿也看不到。