其实她不是真正的小猪，她是一只螳螂，我胡乱给她起了个名字。褐色的，像一根树枝。现在住在我的金帝巧克力蛋塑料盒子里。
雌螳螂可“残忍”地为子弑夫，雄螳螂可为后代献身。真是爱的伟大力量，自然生命中最原始的体现。
我觉得她很可爱，三角脑袋很是秀气。看起来她很喜欢拍照，时不时地转转脑袋换一个姿势。她静止时，收起两把大刀在胸前，仿佛是在祈祷。然而，安静的背后却在积聚力量，随时爆发冲向它的猎物。小心，她的大刀。曾经被她的武器割破过手指。^_^
一连好些天都忘记给她留影了，今天晚上陪她玩一会。
Well, it’s time to change my icon. Nobody will use one icon forever, so do I. I am growing and changing. Hope better not worse.
I will be happy. Nobody wants to lead a miserable life. That why, you always smile when you facing a camera. We all glad to present ours enjoyable life. You can’t say we have hidden something, cause happy is an easy one from your true heart.
长胖了。惨剧终于发生。
去年的牛仔小短裤已经穿不了了。一切都在不知不觉中发生。从来没有想过这样事情居然会发生到我身上。以前去买衣服都是直接试小号，上个星期，服务员直接就给我拿个中号的。完了。我猜是不是前段时间火锅吃多了缘故呢。
去年夏天的留念，My Blue Jeans，还算看得出来有腰吧。今年只能丢进衣橱了。
要多运动，运动……。
暂时 Byebye 了。我还会把你翻出来的。
谁有什么好方法，介绍一下吧。
一种好男人的品质，主要出现在中年阶段。
少年老成是不值得追求的，相当于性生理早熟，其中无奈的成份多，成熟的成份寡，偏颇往往大于均衡。如韩国李昌镐之类“少年姜太公”，只能归诸罕见的例外，何况其中也未必没有偏颇之处。历史上的神童除了在音乐和棋类领域较可刮目外，多属“大未必佳”之类。青年人也没必要过早变得沉着，他因此丧失掉的激情体验，会使他的所谓“沉着”缺乏弹性，一不小心就滑向冷漠。沉着是一种对生存竞争极为有用的品质，老年人理当退出人生的名利场，要退就退得彻底些，因而也犯不着涂上“沉着”的保护色。让中年男人独享“沉着”的品质，实在也应视为上天的安排，就像上天也曾让少女独享娇嫩之美，让少妇独享美艳之质。
沉着看来是好男人的性格底色，即一个好男人不管以何种性格示人，“沉着”总不该空缺。沉着相当于扑克牌中的“百搭”，有了它，左右逢源，缺了它，处处不顺手。有一则著名的服装广告，提到男人必须具备四种品质，分别是“男人要爽”，“男人要忍”，“男人要懂得爱”，“男人要有才”。我们不妨试着考察一下，这四种品质在缺少“沉着”作铺垫的情况下，会向何处发展。哦，拍拍脑门子就觉得不妙。不见沉着的“爽”，怎么看都有点像黑旋风李逵大爷的两把板斧，只知噼哩啪啦地“向前向前向前”。没有“沉着”在后面保障的“忍”，其前景也不会比“盲人骑瞎马，夜半临深池”更值得展望些，与怯懦不仅咫尺之遥，简直就是一回事。男人在懂得爱之前，难道不是更应该先懂得如何节制“爱”吗？如果不是，只知让“爱”哗哗地流，洒满人间，这样的爱与小盲童丘比特胡乱射出的箭，又有什么区别？而感觉不到“沉着”气质的“才”，充其量只是“为赋新词强说愁”级别的少年才气，永远无望上升为真正有用的才华。杜甫或莎士比亚的才华，可不是靠薄如蚕翼的“才”就能办到的。
眼镜腿突然断掉了。小时候很喜欢做手工，打算亲自把腿粘上。现在的镜框贵的要命，能省点就省点吧。非常的小心，小心，但还是被502粘住了手指。够牢的，拇指和食指，中间还夹着一根眼镜腿。自己看着都想笑。要分开已经为时已晚就是那么一瞬间的事情。定了型。动一动疼得钻心。这叫我如何出门。
打电话向亏亏求助，研究了半天，他也说不个所以然，说再等几天可能自己就掉了，我哪里还能等上几天。在Google里用左手在键盘上一个键一个键的敲出求救问题：手被502粘住了怎么办？还好有那么多不幸的朋友分享了我的痛苦。放进热水，涂上肥皂，慢慢地活动指头。水变凉了，再加热水，再涂肥皂，再活动手指……来回有40多分钟，心里一直想着如果明天去看医生的话，一定够尴尬的，尤其是还带着这根眼镜腿。还好，这方法还真管用的。
Joya 的禁烟令让生活有些乱了套。她是时不时地就要来扫荡一次，配给极为可怜，为了仅有的这点财产不被没收，我不得不私藏了粮食，东躲西藏已经搞得我疲惫不堪。烟灰，烟头，烟味，都不能留下蛛丝马迹。提心吊胆加上藏得过于隐蔽，下午我找了半天，连我自己藏在哪里的都记不得了。
这个周末天气不错，下午带着我的 Harry Potter 等一行人到小区的花园里散散步吧。
弯腰弓背在地上蹲着，爬着，累我一身大汗。小区里的小朋友们对这场面很感兴趣，很兴奋地围着我看。
This set of Harry Potter was sent by Roger as a gift 6 years ago. Very Cute. ^_^
最终在 Flickr 和 Photobucket 之间作出了选择。我在 Flickr 上认识了一些朋友，都是些很有天赋和创造性的家伙。当然他们的相机都比我的好，这一点虽然很重要，但却不是必须的。我喜欢这种积极交流和讨论的氛围，并且大家都不断地相互带来惊喜。
费用都差不多，每年 Flickr 24.95 美元，Photobucket 25.00美元。差别在于，Photobucket 更倾向于自己的家庭或是个人相册，比较传统。Flickr 的功能更多的在于互动和展示自己。所以最终选择的Flickr。
24.95美元一年并不贵，关键就是要找到适合自己的。图片网站我更愿意使用付费的。然而国内的图片相册网站没有什么特色，而且有很多不方便的地方。我第一次使用的Yupoo，用了三天就失去了兴趣，很多上传的图片无法显示，并且管理上也很麻烦。
对于专业的图片相册网站和大家常用的免费的163相册，雅虎相册，QQ相册这些是有本质上的不同的。方便与否大家在使用的过程中想必也已经发现了。
喜欢吃糖，巧克力。更喜欢糖果的包装盒。很多人都一样，总是舍不得丢掉。大大小小五颜六色的盒子一大堆，已经空空了，也实在是找不出什么东西可以放在里面。别人眼中的垃圾，自己却当成宝贝。
sugus 软糖，不是特别热衷软糖，不过一开始是冲着这个漂亮的罐子。 后来发现味道还是蛮不错的嘛。 ^_^ 现在，已经成了我装硬币的钱罐了，只丢一角的进去，但必须是崭新的才行。现在1/10都还没有铺满。
今年2月14日收到的礼物。凭你的性格，很有可能是过年时大宗购物一并随手放在购物车里的。尽管如此，我还是很高兴。和往常一样，2/3是被你偷吃光了的。
金帝巧克力，最喜欢的口味。怎么还没怎么动口就没有了呢？
雪梅从巴黎带来的小礼物。Maxim’s de Paris 制作的巧克力。这家高档老字号餐馆的巧克力味道也不过如此啊。嘿嘿。
我没有太强的领悟能力，这些图片仅仅很直接地地触动了我最为直观的神经。
美丽如此的脆弱，生命也是如此。时间的流逝和突如其来的灾祸一样，在吞噬着我们和我们周围的一切，永远的消失。
我一直在想，自己的博客叫个什么英文名好。如果按照中文名字作成译文，想必有些干巴巴的。
昨天突然想到了一个。觉得还不错，就叫：Life in Detail。反正我这里是杂七杂八记录着自己的生活，没有过于严肃的哲学思考，只有琐碎的生活杂事。俺们是个小市民，就是自己的小小生活。而且，我拿着我的相机，放大着身边这些不起眼的人，物，事。我喜欢微距。
比如，我五颜六色口香糖。（Colorful chewing gum)
今天是立秋之后最热的一天，久违了的太阳。我还没有意识到已经立秋，前些天和朋友聊天的时候才知道原来7号“蛋挞也疯狂”的时候就进入秋天了。这近两个星期的阴雨天气，已经忘记了夏天。秋天反倒提醒我还要热一下。一早一晚开始变凉，要小心感冒。
我把相机的拍照的比例调到16:9，发现感觉很好，以后就一直这样吧。
中午的时候发现来了一位大姐在我家的茶几上生Baby。
就是这位虫太太：( This bug lady visited this noon. What’s her name? Who knows? )
据我猜测应该没有哪位研究动物的高人会一天没事逛到我的博客上，所以这位虫太太叫个什么名字，来自何处也暂时不得而知了。
Beach volleyball fans are getting more bikini bliss for their buck in Beijing, thanks to cheerleading Chinese “beach babes” who are baring nearly all to help their country stage a colorful Olympics.
Part cheerleader, part go-go dancer, the beach babes — “shatan baobei”（沙滩宝贝） in Chinese — writhe and jiggle to blaring rock and disco music in bathing suits.
“All of us in China have paid a lot to stage these Olympics and tanning my skin brown is part of that effort,” said Wang Hui, one of five Chinese women chosen to dance with veteran Spanish cheerleaders at Beijing’s 12,200-seat Chaoyang Park stadium.
Chinese people have a traditional aversion to tanning which is associated with poor laborers who have to toil under a hot sun. Skin whitening beauty products are big business in Asia.
“I feel extremely proud to be a Chinese cheerleader and it is a special honor to perform with the Spaniards in the international troupe,” said the 24-year-old physical trainer from eastern Shandong province, still sweating in a tiny turquoise-colored bikini after Friday’s routine.
Like everything in China that has changed at a dazzling pace, Chinese women’s style has gone from frumpy to fashionable in less than a generation. The bikini has caught on in the past decade after being denounced as “pornographic” in the 1980s.
Wang and fellow beach babe Chen Jin shrug off the notion that Chinese of today would be offended by their steamy show, beamed across China and around the world.
“I don’t think Chinese audiences are that conservative anymore and their thinking about this kind of thing is already rather liberated,” said Chen, a 24-year-old dance teacher from far western Xinjiang province. “It’s quite normal to go to the beach and see most young women dressed this way.”
While the beach volleyballers tough it out in the sand, Tom Blaumauer and Chris McGee have faced an Olympic challenge of their own: how to encourage the Chinese to throw a Californian beach party.
Rock music, go-go-girls and rowdy singing in the stands have become as integral a part of beach volleyball as bikinis and board shorts but before Beijing, the announcers were worried the conservative Chinese might not catch the bug.
“We didn’t know if they would react to the Western-style music we play. If not, what do you use?” said Blaumauer, who has led the commentary and entertainment at world tour events since the trend started about 12 years ago.
“Chinese music is just not so rocky and poppy. We need people up there stamping their feet. If they’re sitting down and swaying gently, it’s not so great.”
Blaumauer and McGee, the voices of the U.S. tour, worked with Chinese announcers and DJs to put together potential playlists and taught volunteers how to get the crowd up and dancing.
A week into the event and “We will rock you” and “Minnie the Moocher” (Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi) were working as well in the 12,200-seat Chaoyang Park stadium as anywhere in the world.
The Beach Boys and Robbie Williams, however, were struggling unless there was a quorum of international fans.
A lot was lost in translation the other way as well, as tourists were bemused by high-pitched Chinese ballads and the rousing nationalistic chorus “Ode to the Motherland” that has all the Chinese on their feet and singing at the top of their voices.
“We go by who’s here and what’s going to work,” Blaumauer said as a mixed crowd launched in to “Put your hands up in the air”. He reckoned a tenth of the music they played was Chinese.
I was excited that the Young Girls Pairs Xue Chen and Zhang Xi won again. And the forth seeds pairs keep winning. How far they could go, I don’t know. I don’t want to see they end up so early after they meeting USA.
But it doomed to be a tough time. That would be a unmissable match. CHINA VS. USA in the coming day. As Xue Chen and Zhang Xi said before, they don’t afraid. That’s right, just doing preparations well. They are not strangers.
Even though the Chinese pairs have won their competitors ( Norway and Cuba ) separately. Xue Che and Zhang Xi did better and could better when they meet USA next time.
>>> Maybe you’d like to check the International Winner Prize as well. Take Xue Chen for example. ^_^
It’s a gift that Joya sent to me when I was in college in 2002. This 70th Anniversary one has a nice name, called Friends for a lifetime.
Six years, as a Smoker’s friends, this baby has been with me all the time. But now, it has lost it’s shining. This heavy golden anniversary is my favorite one, even though color faded and abraded in some parts.
It’s unavoidable. Memories and passing days have been carved on it’s surface.
Last Sunday, When I was shopping in PACIFIC DEPARTMENT STORE, I checked the price and it really surprised me a lot. It has been placed in a notable shelf behind the glass with it’s big iron box. The price has been over ￥ 1300 RMB（US$166）and I have been told that it’s on the rise. I checked online store and the price was almost between ￥850~￥1200.
Limited to only 70,000 pieces worldwide, this eleventh and final Collectible of the Year is a distinctive brushed brass 1941 replica, with full-faced brass emblem and exclusive bottom stamp. Colorful tin pictures Zippo collectors and fans from National Zippo Day and the Zippo/Case Swap Meet. A special volume of personal stories from Zippo owners is included with this commemorative set only.
For 70 years, Zippo has been forging friendships worldwide. Carried to work, to important milestone events, even into battle, Zippo lighters are part of our lives and our history. Every Zippo lighter has a story - funny, poignant, even heroic - whenever or wherever a Zippo lighter clicks open, a conversation starts.
Recently, Joya began to persuade me to give up smoking, and playing some tricks such as hidden my cigarettes, force me using English to write posts like this one. No more than ten per day. Woww, I’m dying.
Japan VS. Korea
Ai Fukuhara and his team mates lost the games a couple of hours ago. I have many reasons to support this 20 years-old girl with lovely face, but not only for her pretty looks. I like Fukuhara for her personality, the fluent Chinese she spoke, the efforts she made to promote the friendship and understanding between Japanese and Chinese people. Everybody knows that’s not easy to do so, but she is doing. To do what she could to end the everlasting hatred. And she won our support.
Tonight, this lovely girl was in a pink sports shirt but with bad luck and didn’t play well. I noticed that on the back of her left hand, wrote numbers something like a time schedule: 10:00, 19:00. I don’t know what does that mean. Anybody knows?
It doesn’t matter. I hope to see her next performance and do better.
頑張れ
Some Photos
福原 愛-王励勤 and 松下浩二-郭跃
福原愛 高校総体に初出場
