Talking about touchy topic---bickering between a couple, is nerve racking, but I reckon it is farily ordinary thing in most family. As I was pre-married, my mum told me there are main issues could cause big fighting even go seperation between a couple, such as money and family affair. At that time I just acknowledged what she said on the surface and could't completely understand it until I have lived with someone for several years. Apart from big issues, many small things could break your relation and erode your affection. I believe nearly every couple often has disputes about little thing,  e.g.why do you leave dirty clothes on the floor? why don't you close the door of bathroom? why couldn't you clean up the desk?....... Currently, women jungle working with house chores, they are easy to get sick of cluttered room area, so sometimes can't help frowning and nagging seeing it the house was in mess. But you would find your grouse doesn't work. no change of everything you want. How could you handle it as you get grumpy about those little things?

Firstly, tolerance is needed. Try to keep blind and let something go by ignoring it. Different person has different habits and lifestyle. Compromise is big concern to some degree for a long-term relationship. Secondly, thinking from other point of view is considered. Are you too picky to some certain of minor things? Are you very oversensitive to something not worthy too much attention? Next, empathy is helpful before trying to trigger a tiff. Assume that your partner would be ready to pick up the clothes on the floor, he occasionally forget to shut down the toilet door, he was in the middle of thing so didn't notice the messy desk.......

Don't stress yourself by unworthy things. Those fights over niggling really doesn't deserve your time and energy. If it consecutively goes on, your life would be so pathetic and tedious. Step back a foot and you will have the world.

 

Seems I am speaking to myself......:-)

Tonight, again had a dinner with a group of old friends---IPC colleagues at North Stathfield. As general, we are organised to have a get together every half a year and take the advantage of it conveying regards each other and pouring out recent situation respectively. A lot of dramas spilled out made us crack up. Although some of us had left IPC, everyone still can share the sweetness and bitterness at IPC and hope it goes well. What's more, we care about each other and our rapport and friendship would go everlasting. At the end, we expect to meet next time.

 

Unfortunately, I really didn't like that restaurant IL CUORE with sluggish service and too-salty main course and basically would not like to be returning customer. Why? It had been at least 1 hour when the Secondi were set on the table. Gosh! we should have went sleep first then resumed the dinner. I ordered Pesce Spada(Swordish Steaks served in a caper, olive and tomato) but it made me thirsty over night due to too much salt served. Franking speaking, it is the worst restaurant I have gone. disappointed!

 

My colleague told me it might bring curse to the owner of building as such you could get bad luck if you open the umbrella in the building. So, be carful for your behaviour:-)  For some old saying, you have to take it seriuosly in a certain of circumstance no matter that you believe it or not, could you allow any slim chance of unluck to touch you? Never ever!
 

Sydney has fallen in acutum stealthily and you can see it, hear it and smell it everywhere, which makes me recall Beijing's autumn, maple leaf in Xiang Mountain, crystal blue sky, and harvest fruits......Autumn in Beijing is beautiful and mysterious. Recently I have been attracted by a scene on the way to train station from my home, every morning I wanted to take a picture but was rushing to catch train. Nearly dusk on Sunday, I eventually shot that instant although the tree is going empty.

Furthermore, I didn’t forget to take a picture of the lane where I have been passed through more than 4 years, I love palm trees to death.

Gal pal finally kicked off her dream career---fund investment analysis. Her previous job was good working in ANZ mortgage department, however she never stopped hunting a chance to enter into fund area. But now she feels losing target. J Why? no object to achieve, then as if lost life drive. I do understand her feeling. Do you have the experience that you feel lost once your long-term pursuit comes true through all of your efforts? very complicated to explain, isn’t it? You might take all of costs during the process, you endured ups and downs, all of a sudden you might feel hollow once it has been done, you don't have new aim to struggle, you don't know what you should do next……so life needs to be continuously defined a direction or goal.

经常打开MSN时发现有一些不认识的人申请加入成为我的好友，通常我选择拒绝，偶年纪一把了，可没时间跟不认识的人胡扯。昨天一中学同学问偶MSN，告之，今天打开MSN，接到邀请，以为是中学同学呢，没在意。晚上正网上瞎逛，突然这老兄搭话了，靠！原来是一西非老弟，问我不少问题，偶从没和不认识的人在网上说过话，记得刚用QQ时，一不认识的人问我个人情况，我问他，“我不认识你啊？”，于是被同事嘲笑，说网上聊天就这样，不认识的人胡侃。我又土鳖了！天啊，今天又碰到一自称from native English Western Africa的哥们，他以为我在北京呢，因为我的MSN用户名。他主动介绍自己多大了，做什么的，希望偶介绍自我情况，偶真不知怎么说，没经历过这个。于是跑吧！.....对了跑之前，问他是否会中文，还好，不会！

Long time I did not have a decent meeting with high-level managers in a company. I was temporarily called by Diana to attend DBM meeting in regards to company business review and forecast and etc. It was definitely a good chance to closely know company business development. Actually I had refused to join in several times before because I had reckoned it really had nothing to do with me, a tiny role. This time, under Diana's encouraging eyes, I couldn't refuse to this honour supposed.

In the meeting, all of high-level managers presented, e.g. managing director, sales director, marketing director.......I just acted on a good audience at all. The agenda was just like normal one, presenting, discussing, and big boss making conclusion or decision. I don't want to comment what they said, it was too hard to completely understand by myself.  But I took notice that people in different levels think from different levels, concern different aspects. Big boss always consider platform, integration and effectiveness, relatively lower-level employees usually keep eyes on details related to their jobs, then discussion and coordination would turn out, no doubt determination finally is made by top level manager although subordinates still have disagreement or keep their opinions. To my understanding, smoothing divarication and getting consistency requires big boss's logical mindset, good comprehension, and business process lucidness as well as consideration from subordinates’ point of view, meanwhile, subordinates have to try to truly understand manager's point regardless of how hard to achieve the project……..During the meeting, I found my interest to observe everyone not verily getting involved in from the beginning to the end.:-)))

 

Whatever, meeting is meeting, action is action, me is me.

又是吃喝玩乐的一天。去了South Head---Watsons Bay,在水边的一家restaurant吃了顿午餐，然后进行了3个半小时coastal walking，随后去Double Bay闻名遐迩的Max Brenner Chocolate Bar尝了yum chocolate stuff,最后跑到New Town一家Tranditional Greek Restaurant---Steki Taverna又大吃一顿，同时欣赏了Live music,好听！总之，今天说不出的爽！

 

在此推荐：

 

Are you antitheism? Do you believe soothsayers? I do. You have to take omens in minds whatever especially after seeing those prophecies come true. To some degree, inscrutable thinking or saying is not always crazy but might partly refect nature intrinsic or supernatural sixth sense, I reckon. How come I say those words? It is said that catastrophe in Burma was predicted by foreseer. I am not sure whether there is anyone had any prediction about deadly China earthquake, but I insist there must be kind of that someone is in somewhere.

Frankly, so far I haven’t had courage to further watch images and videos online about SICHUAN quake, just glimpsed the headline and never entered the contents, I would be sobbing looking at pictures that people have been buried in collapsed buildings and the whole town has been in the ruins. For a human being, it is painful to see the miserable scene and hard to control your woe.

I am very concerned about my compatriots in disaster who need a hand to be pulled out of debris, need first aid to staunch their bleeding and fix their broken parts, need water to sop up, need clothes to warm up.......Dear my sisters and brothers, I really want to say, please try to be patient, manage to stand pain of you body, do not drink filthy water, do not touch dirty foods, do not get flustered for surroundings and your bad situation. You are not single and sloughed off by your fellowmen, rescue teams and People Liberal Army are reaching you....other millions of Chinese who cannot close to epicentre are acting well and providing help anyhow as they can. It is presenting an unprecedented unification in China.
 
Not only Chinese in Mainland are giving your help, but Chinese in other countries are impacted to contribute what we can do. We are chipping in overseas, and even appealing local colleagues and friends to make donation……It is so nice to see we response like a big family.

The calamity makes me get back to 1976 even though I was a kid at that time. I still have a little memory that my dad embraced me running out of home in Beijing at midnight when Tang Shan earthquake took place. My family were lucky we lived in the ground floor so could fly out of the building at the shortest time. Also I faintly remember the time we stayed in the earthquake tent. That was a special period of life. Whatever, we were safe and underwent natural disaster and moved on eventually.

My friends, we are very worried about you now wherever we are, we silently pray for you, we extremely hope to give you strength as much as we can. So you must try to be tough and gritty at the stage, we are always on your side and expect tomorrow will be bright. My fellowmen, I believe you will be revitalized and completely walk out of this nightmare in mentally and physically although it would take long time. Bliss with you!

 

Now my eyes are watery....

前段时间，领导说偶写博快赶上我偶像老徐了，呵呵！最近一段停笔，瞎忙和白忙来的。近期公司某些空运换了FREIGHT FORWARDER,由SCHENKER变成 K&N，过度时期必然乱，再加上本人前段时间跟领导说没事干，靠！偶现在忙得已经没时间听RADIO了，昨天在公司气得说F word,让领导关怀了一下；另外，花了几个月时间，想买个东西，结果没成，花钱买教训，这是我在澳洲最大的体会。没办法，人生地不熟的，没人教，自己学吧，好在还有Emily等人给我指点，晕！

 

自己必须对自己说，痛苦中磨练，经历中成长！

I put on the new skirt this morning, bringing me really blithe mood. :-) There was a story for that.

Last Sunday I went shopping with Jing, we couldn't clamp down our excitement and really got sparkling eyes as we unintentionally met on sale at a Review store, then mopped up….. God bless me, I found the skirt I had sought for ages after I saw it in a Korean girl, the style and colour are my favourite, I loved it at the first sight and nearly ran to that girl and asked her what brand of that skirt was and where she bought. From her looking and dress, I got to know she is a Korean girl and I didn't want to lose our Chinese's face just for this kind of silly question. Since then, I couldn’t forget the sleek skirt. Generally speaking, the first one might be the best one, right? So you can imagine how screamingly fizzing I was when I digged it out from stack of gorgeous clothes. Unfortunately there was not my size 6, the female shop assistant asked me whether I was willing to pay express if she organised transfer from Victoria after she searched there got last 2 skirts for size 6. Of course, no hesitation I let her do.

Tuesday I got her call and told me the skirt had already arrived and waited for me pick-up. Coooool! but I didn't have time at that day so postponed to Wednesday.  Lucky me! The shop will be closed down 7:00PM. I should have enough time to take my skirt as far as I leave office at 5:30PM. Bugger! Wednesday, I had to attend bloody encouragement speech by managing director at 5:00PM, and the meeting was finished until closely 6:00PM, so I tried my best to catch 6:19PM train at Olympic Park station and finally arrived at Central station at 6:48PM. (BTW on the train I called Review shop and told them I would pop in the next day if I couldn't get to there before 7:00PM and hope them to hold my lovely skirt until Thursday.) I ran out of Central station and dashed to the store as quickly as I can. Just 2 minutes to go when I entered into the door, wowww!I made it!

Good, the skirt is just fit in, chuckling, it is really worthy to pay for and rush to.