People always say the old 40 is the new 30, and soon the old 50 is the new 20.

 

And before you know it, guys will get past their mid-life crisis with lots of wacky backy and giving each other wedgies.

 

That'll be fun to watch.

 

And porsche is gonna lose so much business.

 

Frank: How glad the many millions of annabelles and lilians...

 

Me: Millions... ya right, american.

 

Frank: Would be to capture me...

 

Me: And why're you glad again?

 

I am so disconnected these days. I've been out the whole time.

 

I need to hustle for everything. I always have it, just never use it.

 

I am proud to be a Chinese whether I am here or abroad.

 

I like it when we row the boat away from the city and into the serenity of the mountains.

 

I still haven't met up with most of my friends. Is being busy a sign of growing up?

 

I like that jazz bar.

 

I like listening to jazz on my mp3 in a smoke-free park better.

 

At least I think I will.

 

I am no longer ambivalent about moving out.

 

I like every fallen leaf from every phoenix tree in every little street.

 

I love walking you home, every moment of that.

 

Yes I am home. I am gonna sleep. I might update more tomorrow though I doubt so.

 

离回国就剩这么点时间，还有点东西要做。教授明天下午要见我，所以估计今天晚上是没得闲了。麦迪归来推迟到明天晚上。

 

祝昨天出发的小白一路顺风。有点好奇明年上课会是怎么个情况。好高骛远不要搞，自我调节很重要。

 

这次回家有一种逃难的感觉，因为大家都留守在这里战斗，而我却背个小包回去了。不过兄弟们放心，我会给予你们远程支持的。

 

后天中午跟亲爱的李浩和小西吃饭。然后自己出去走走。

 

 

 

...

 

 

 

 

or

 

 

-- you win, of course.

 

 

 

...

 

 

 

 

or

 

 

or

 

 

-- eggplant wins...

 

 

...

 

 

 

 

 

or

 

 

-- we will see.

 

We all wonder why the T-mac we knew was gone. The guy who end up, NBA scoring champ, twice. The guy who believe it's about us five while you believe it's about him. The guy who fooled us all. Let me tell you something. No matter how good you are, it's not easy to play with a sore back. We will just have to wait.

 

Ever wonder why Bruce Bowen didn't make it to team USA? Maybe his dirty ball was it. Maybe all the other players have had a fair share of his eye poking and foot stepping. I don't think he is popular around the league.

 

I like Shane Battier. Good man. Hardworking, good ethics. Run to the bench during time-out and switch. Speak well during press conference. Married his junior high sweetheart. Excellent.

 

12 games tomorrow. Let me pick the winners: Houston, Orlando, Indiana, Phoenix, Philli, San Antonio, Utah, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, LA Lakers, New Orleans.

 

Since I'm on the topic of sports. I am sorry for trojan's loss to the bruins. I didn't see that coming. When a team has nothing to lose, they are dangerous in football. Even to the mighty USC. Pete Carroll still gets my admiration. A bunch of kids and coach carroll worked them to the best they could be. We want you in Stanford!!

 

Just when you thought it couldn't get better, Phoenix and New Jersey brings an absolute classic. Two teams combined for 318 points, 4th most in history. Two best point guards on the planet, Nash and Kidd, hands down. love it.

 

                 Remember                                     I was talking                                            about planning?                                    Apparently                                       the author of planning                    can't plan his                                          next                                               step,                                                       literally.

                                   Slippery                                    floor                                            right outside the door.                                                   So    close.                                             Yet               I                                   fall      .                                         Land on                                                                          my back                   and            elbow.                      Never      happened.                                                     Just two minutes               after     the   first one.                                                       "Are you ok?"                 the pretty girl.     

                "yes"           "NO"                                               can't       shake it off.                                                          we have to go        H.                                       USD 480            flashback.                                              wheelchair?                              So complicated                                                              is the story that                        the                  nurse     was                                               confused.                          The nurse                 looks like                  yulian.                 ER.                                       nice cafe there.                                 banana milkshake                 full of calcium                              just what I need.                             "HDB is a big commitment".                             

                                                   X-ray.                                                        robe.       no peeking.                                                                               "please turn                      to your left."                                             and hold it!                                                       Cranky          young                      d o c t o r.                                                                         "What else         you want?"                                                 2 hrs vs 2 minutes.                           pain killer              and MC.                                for pain and for what?                                                                 thanks nancy, xx, hb. wouldn't be possible without you.                                                      "Rest. Don't                         fall off                         your bed." I will                  try. thank                      you too.                                                               Kiehl's is magic.                                  same dream                             again.                              why                             did she                                   become                      my                         night                                    terror?                             i loved you                   i loved         you i loved                              you.                                     Let it rain.                                       in singapore                                  in hangzhou                                         in california.                                        I can't care less.

   Has to                                 write this way             s o                                                                    m  o  m                             won't notice.          thanks to                                        xuxiao                          you                     are my source                      of inspiration bro.

 

sucha bitch

 

 

 

 

<Does the title sound familiar? I had it up two months ago, never completed the writing then. Now I have time but the mood is kindda gone and the story is old. anyway, here is a little extension for old time sake.>

 

Is Bonzi out of his mind?

 

First he turned down the 5-year 37-million contract from Sac Town. Next, he signed 2 years with Houston for 5 million with player option on the second year.

 

Two bad moves. Why?

 

First, he should never have wanted 50 million for 5 years. Let's face it. Bonzi is 30, and in Sacramento, he is probably the 4th important player behind Bibby, Artest and Brad Miller. It's not realistic for a team to pay 10 Mil a year to a player of that significance level, not in Sac, not anywhere else. (Knicks excluded) Yes he had a good play-off series against the Spurs. But he didn't help the Kings win the series. And let me mind you, the 23 points and 12 rebounds per game performance Bonzi had was merely a result of the calculated risk Greg Popovich took. While Bonzi thrived offensively, the other Kings players were well under control. Also, he wasn't doing a good job on D, allowing Manu Ginobili a number of big plays down the stretch.

 

Second, he should never have signed with Houston for that kind of money. Every element in the team works against Bonzi's interest. I am not playing monday morning quarterback here. I saw what's coming. Jeff Van Gundy's defense-centric philosophy won't fill up Bonzi's stats columns; Yao Ming's attacking-down-low requires space, not Bonzi's interior presence; T-mac, who does share the ball now, is still expected to take about 20 shots a night and gets pissed off if others try to take that away from him (look what happened to Mike James). And it wasn't as if the Rockets is the only team interested in him back then. There were Miami, Denver and Charlotte. The best would be to go for an about 6 Mil per year contract from Charlotte. Now that he is sticking with 2 Mil a year, he has to make 35 Mil for the next 4 years to "break even". Look at the free agent market for 07 (Chauncey, Vinsanity, Bibby...) and the potential movers (KG, AI, Jermaine O'Neal, Ben Gordon, Steve Francis...) Please, can we get two calculators here? One for Bonzi and one for his new agent. If a team has that kind of money, won't they try to sign one of those big names? And given his notorious locker room reputation and the literally no-show performance in Houston (ok, a little MMQ here), it's unlikely that Bonzi will be a big hit next year.

 

And next year he will be 31.

 

I have ceased being a relationship counsel to people since I realized that no one but the story teller knows a better picture of the relationship which is in general an irreducibly complex issue, although the role of a listener or a character coach is not easier, especially in the case of a latter, to examine areas otherwise absent from the self-discovery process with or without intensions, and to ask the subject the open-ended yet strategically-formulated questions, including the inevitable one - "How did your last relationship end?"

 

What kind of person do we become after the path of our lives takes another direction? After all, we do, like Tim McGraw used to say, "take a little of each other everywhere."

 

Maybe we become less optimistic, and more doubtful, which is not necessarily bad. "Doubters are wise; believers are happy." Could some paranoia also be justified? Shall we start putting checks along the way to make sure it's on the right track, sometimes without even knowing what the right track is?

 

From attitude to knowledge, we collect the memories that didn't run away, tie them down, and let learning take place. How relevant is the expanded personal inventory? Maybe only the timestamp has a significance. If every relationship is remotely comparable, can we love the next person less and better at the same time? It is ironical because it's true.

 

We all plan our lives to a certain degree. (Some take it to the extreme, see here. lol.) Some plan with an end in mind; Some knows no end in reality. End and beginnings do not exist in this world, just the middles. But before crawling late into the middles, Give a preview of your rules, true colors, and contingencies. No one wants to go down the same road twice. Ok, that's an advice. Take it in a retail rather than wholesale fashion. In fact, do the same to every word of my relationshipy rigamarole.

 

 

 

Girlfriend: "I am too busy to keep fit. I don't even exercise anymore."

 

Me: "Yes you do."

 

Girlfriend: "Like what?"

 

Me: "Mood swings."

 

It's weekend again!

 

Here is the excerpt from my resume about my NUS education.

 

 

National University of Singapore, Singapore                                        8/2003 - present

§    Graduating in 2007 with Honor in Industrial Engineering and Minor in Technopreneurship

§    CAP: the last time I check, it's somewhere there

What I've become:

§    Highly effective (eg. Able to study a whole course one day before exam, usually)

§    Highly goal-oriented (eg. Able to memorize professor’s habits to get good grades)

§    Highly adaptive (eg. Able to sleep in any classroom, any condition)

§    Highly calligraphic (eg. Able to distill 300-page notes into one A-4 size sheet)

§    Highly motivated (eg. Able to put up with 7 courses every semester just to get the hell out of here early)

 

 

December is here. The month of holiday, the month of homecoming, the month of Santa...

 

And the month of babies.

 

Boy, so many friends were born in december. Somemore I suck in remembering friends' birthdays.

 

Still, let me see...

 

Dec 1, Dec 4, Dec 8, Dec 11(X2), Dec 13, Dec 21, Dec 29, Dec31

 

Happy birthday to all you hot & gorgeous people. You know who you are.

 

By the way, I need to put on 4 kg by Dec 15 (Xuxiao go gym with me!)

 

And tan my skin a little bit (I am whiter than Michael Jackson these days! Xuxiao go beach with me!)

 

If possible, grow another inch.

 

I am so sleepy.