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Saturday
May 3,2008

乐观与忧愁:射手座人的内心不是外表看上去那么乐观的,因为喜欢看的远,容易担忧的事情也就多,在他们的字典里,即使现在好,也不一定代表未来好,有时候很多人觉得很好的一个工作或一个伴侣,他们很轻易的就会放弃掉,可能只是因为一个毫不起眼的小原因.所以,这样的外在表现,就让人们觉得他们不喜欢被某件事情或某个人束缚住,追求自由的,没有压力的感觉.

现实:常说射手座是追求梦想的人,但往往忽略了他们现实的一面,算计起来不会比处女座差哦,只是更高明更隐藏罢了.射手座人的梦想是必须建立在现实的基础上的,一般他们很少谈及自己的梦想,而是实际的去做一些向梦想靠拢的事情.如果可以借巧力完成的事情,决不会多花一点工夫.所以有时候射手座也容易给人耍小聪明的感觉.可是,不得不承认他们完成的还满不错.也许终其一生,他们都在考虑怎么巧妙的做一些事情,花最少的精力去达到最好的效果.所以,很多射手座看上去让人们会觉得很懒,但是其实他们的大脑可没有停下过思考现实的事情.

拒绝低俗:几乎所有的射手座内心都是骄傲的,其程度绝不亚于狮子座.只不过他们不会显现在脸上,外在的表现总是随和的,恰当的.可是内在有着极强的自尊心,敏感也情绪化.因为射手座人心中是骄傲的,所以他们拒绝低俗,不喜欢任何俗气的,粗鲁的事或人.如果可以,他们希望一切有关的事物,都是优雅的,高尚的,值得品味的.而真正能让他们觉得值得交朋友或谈恋爱的人是很少的,虽然表面上他们是很随和的.

多情:很多人说射手座多情,尤其是男性.其实在射手座人的心目中,对于爱情确实有理想化的倾向,和他们谈恋爱,是一件高难度的事情.他们非常讨厌俗气的人,所以你不能很物质或喜欢谈钱,但是他们又很现实,所以你不能一文不名,各方面也必须有一定的实力.物质与精神,你必须平衡的刚刚好,才让他们觉得你值得去爱.或者,你有足够的神秘感,可以让他们不知道你的缺点在哪里,而盲目的爱你.一般,当然是没有完美无缺的人的,所以,可能象金牛座这样永远会让射手感觉捉摸不透的闷闷的人,会非常吸引他们;或者象双子那样,足够机智,懂得察言观色,捕捉他们的情绪,才会让他们感觉到爱情的甜蜜.一般射手的感情模式是,第一阶段,你们还不熟悉,他(她)爱上了你,非常热情.第二阶段,你们逐渐熟悉,而他(她)开始龟毛,整天挑剔你的毛病,无论是背地里还是当面.如果你有幸通过他(她)的挑剔过程,基本挑剔出的毛病为零或者你把缺点保密的非常好;那么进入第三阶段,他们就又是忠诚和热情的爱人了.但是基本能通过第二阶段的人非常少,所以有了射手多情一说.其实射手对恋人的挑剔,是源于对爱情的挑剔,对丧失自由感的恐惧.

射手座人的人生,往往是幸运的,因为他们是聪慧的,明朗的,通透的.与众不同,也许是他们终生追求的梦想,希望每一个射手人,可以找到他们的梦想!

人人都说射手座是感情的骗子,对爱情不尊重,只追求片刻的快感,是花心与冲满欲望的象征.朋友们…你们了解射手座最真实的一面吗?

射手座是大孩子,天真与善良,遇到爱情时,可能让人感觉不认真,付出的比谁都少.可是,知道吗?射手座很想爱,却也很怕爱!刚开始他们只是慢慢的付出,谨慎的爱,好怕自己会受伤.可是在一句一句的爱,一天一天的相处下,射手座把带刺的防备丢掉,开始不顾一切的去爱他们所爱的人,在别人眼中,只是射手座为了达到某种目的而作的行动.可射手座不介意,他会在自己幸福的想象中陶醉,希望对方能感受自己的爱,想对方觉得与自己一齐是幸福的.

在射手座爱上了一个人,他会把自己放到最后.有苦自己承担,可能会因为吵了一场小架而不开心,却也是最快认错,无论谁的错,他们都会包容,知道吗?射手座会因为深爱一个人而原谅他的背叛,会因为你的一句话付出很多.他们爱玩,在玩的同时,也希望把那一份好心情带给你,射手座是乐观的.

人们总觉得射手座的世界很快乐,可是呢?射手座难过时没有人知道,他不想让别人可怜自己,射手座不坚强,可是很善良.在你难过时哄你开心,让你有依靠,分手后,他会哭者去想属于你们俩幸福的回忆,也不想爱的人因为同情而勉强和他一齐.他比谁都希望自己爱的人快乐幸福,却常常忽略了自己,全身都是伤也笑着告诉你,我很好不用担心.

在所有人看到他的笑容以为他没事,却不知道失恋对射手座有多大伤害,华丽的外表下有一颗脆弱的需要别人了解和安慰的心.知道嘛?你的一点关心,心思细腻的射手座会记得你对他的好,把自己的爱毫无保留的送给你,射手座是不被了解的,可他们不会怨谁.他们会傻傻的认为,让我承担吧,别让别人也受到伤害.所以,不要让快乐的射手座痛苦,别让他们最有魅力的笑容成为掩饰痛苦的伪装,认真爱射手座.你会知道射手座的爱,是充满泪水的…

美国买二手车一月谈

Tuesday
Feb 26,2008

整理自toughguy的各帖.挺细致全面的.看起来多少有点枯燥,没办法,车接触的不多,描述全指望想象…囧rz

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music of Gossip Girl

Saturday
Feb 23,2008

昨下午不该全删G.G.的… XOXO

Episode 1 - “The Pilot” - September 19, 2007

  • “Young Folks” by Peter Bjorn and John
  • “If It’s Lovin That You Want” by Rihanna
  • “What Goes Around Comes Around” by Justin Timberlake
  • “Diamond Hipster Boy” by Washington Social Club Diamond
  • “Back To Black” by Amy Winehouse
  • “Hang Me Up To Dry” By Cold War Kids
  • “Photograph” by Air
  • “Hard To Live In The City” by Albert Hammond Jr.
  • “The Way I Are” by Timbaland
  • “Go” By Hanson
  • “Don’t Matter” by Akon
  • “The Gift” by Angels and Airwaves
  • Episode 2 - “The Wild Brunch” - September 26, 2007

  • “Hit Me Up” by Gia Farell
  • “Shut Up And Drive 1″ by Rihanna
  • “When Did Your Heart Go Missing” by Rooney
  • “Ballad of Gus and Sam” by Ferraby Lionheart
  • “Tell Me About It” by Joss Stone
  • “The Queen And I” by Gym Class Heros
  • “Shut Up And Drive 2″ by Rihanna
  • “Believe” by The Bravery
  • Episode 3 - “Poison Ivy” - October 3, 2007

  • “Glamorous” by Constance Billard Choir
  • “I Got It From My Momma” by will.I.am
  • “Can’t Be Happening” by The Marlows
  • “Raise Your Hand” by The Lights
  • “I feel It All” by Feist
  • “Dusk Till Dawn” by Ladyhawke
  • Episode 4 - “Bad News Blair” - October 10, 2007

  • “Moon River” by Henry Mancini
  • “Make It Bounce” by Invisible Men
  • “The Focus” by X5
  • “Tambourine” by Eve
  • “Candy Store” by Miss Eighty6
  • “Till The Sun Comes Up” by Miss Eighty6
  • “Until You Can’t” by Alana D
  • “Bounce Back” by Miss Eighty 6
  • “Beautiful Girls” by Sean Kingston
  • Episode 5 - “Dare Devil” - October 17, 2007

  • “There’s A Pot Brewin” by Little Ones
  • “Rockstar LP” by Prima J
  • “Came To Dance” by Cadence Blaze
  • “Ringing In My Eyes” by Two Hours Traffic
  • “Whine Up” by Kat Deluna
  • “I’m Doing It Again” by All Wrong & The Plans Change
  • “Mama I’m Coming Home” by Ozzy Osbourne
  • “Get Ur Party On” by Zooland
  • Episode 6 - “The Handmaiden’s Tale” - October 24, 2007

  • “Kiss Kiss” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • “Guess Who” by Nekta
  • “Take It To The Top” by 5 Alarm
  • “The La La Song” by Sofi J
  • “Nasty Funky Crazy” by Becca Styles
  • “Ring a Ling” by Miss Eighty 6
  • “Timebomb” by Beck
  • Happy Ending” by Mika
  • Episode 7 - “Victor, Victrola” - November 7, 2007

  • With Me” By Sum 41
  • “Stripper” By Soho Dolls
  • “So The Say” By Classic
  • “Ballad Of An Easy” By David McConnel
  • “Release” By Miss Eighty 6
  • “Second Hand Lovers” John Ralston
  • “Just Love” By Warren
  • “Photograph” By Air
  • “Girl I Told Ya” By Valeria Ft. Aria
  • “Whatever” By Elliot Smith
  • Episode 8 - “Seventeen Candles” - November 14, 2007

  • “One Week Of Danger” By The Virgins
  • “Your Birthday” By The Shapes
  • “Love Is Colder Than..” By The Virgins
  • “Rich Girls” By The Virgins
  • “Feathers” By Two Hours Traffic
  • “Nice Buddy” By Puffy Ami Yumi
  • “How We Breathe” By Pinback
  • “Fernando Pando” By The Virgins
  • “Freebird” By CAST
  • “Inside Out” By Miss Eighty 6
  • “How Does It Feel” By Eskimo Joe
  • “Kissing Song” By Dawn Landes
  • “Radio Christine” By The Virgins
  • Episode 9 - “Blair Waldorf Must Pie” - November 28, 2007

  • “Promiscuos” By Nelly Furtado
  • “Recurring” By Bonobo
  • “Here It Goes Again” By OK GO
  • “Grand Opening” By Will Dailey
  • “La Ritounelle (Dan Mix) By Sebastian Tellier
  • “Today” By Stick Boy
  • “Nolita Fairytale” By Vanessa Carlton
  • Episode 10 - “High Society” - December 5, 2007

  • “Comin’ Home Baby” By Mel Torme
  • Secret (Piano Version)” By The Pierces
  • “You’re a Wolf” By High Society
  • “Pretty Please” By Lissa
  • “What For” By Rooney
  • “Secret” By The Pierces
  • “3 wishes” By The Pierces
  • Apologize” By Timbaland ft.
  • Episode 11 - “Roman Holiday” - December 18, 2007

  • “Santa Baby” By CAST
  • “O Christmas” By The Plush Interiors
  • “Making Good Time” By Two Hours Traffic
  • “Christmas Alphabet” By McGuire Sisters
  • “Christmaskwanakah” By The Dan Band
  • “Deck The Halls” By The Republic Tigers
  • “The General Specific” By Band of Horses
  • “All That I Want” By The Weepies
  • Episode 12 - “School Lies” - January 3, 2008

  • “Oh Yeah” By Moby
  • “Someone Great” By LCD Soundsystem
  • “Come Flash All…” By The Filthy Youth
  • “Orange” By The Filthy Youth
  • “Breakfast in NYC” By Oppenheimer
  • “Come Home” By One Republic
  • “Cross The River” By La Rocca
  • Episode 13 - “A Thin Line Between Chuck and Nate” - January 10, 2008

  • “Got Ur Number” By Nadia Oh. (Serena is seen buying a pregnancy test.)
  • “The Dark Side Of Indoor Track Meets” By Falling Up. (Dan tells Serena he will support her; repeats as Dan & Serena picnic and the rumor about Blair spreads.)
  • “You’ll Change” By Machine Translations. (Nate asks Blair for a favor. (unknown). Jenny interrupts Dan & Serena’s dinner.)
  • “Where There’s Gold” By Dashboard Confessional. (Bex visits Rufus’ gallery.)
  • “The Air We Breathe” By Figurines. (Dan dislikes Serena’s response to his declaration; Blair remembers her interludes with Nate & Chuck.)
  • “Goodbye” By Dan Cray Trio. (Blair congratulates Chuck on his revenge.)
  • Happily Never After” By Nicole Scherzinger. (Serena asks Blair to stay.)
  • Monday
    Sep 17,2007

    It was interesting to be in the quiet old town once more, and it was not disagreeable to be here and there suddenly recognized and stared after. One or two of the tradespeople even darted out of their shops and went a little way down the street before me, that they might turn, as if they had forgotten something, and pass me face to face - on which occasions I don’t know whether they or I made the worse pretence; they of not doing it, or I of not seeing it. Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb’s boy.

    Casting my eyes along the street at a certain point of my progress, I beheld Trabb’s boy approaching, lashing himself with an empty blue bag. Deeming that a serene and unconscious contemplation of him would best beseem me, and would be most likely to quell his evil mind, I advanced with that expression of countenance, and was rather congratulating myself on my success, when suddenly the knees of Trabb’s boy smote together, his hair uprose, his cap fell off, he trembled violently in every limb, staggered out into the road, and crying to the populace, `Hold me!I’m so frightened!’ feigned to be in a paroxysm of terror and contrition, occasioned by the dignity of my appearance. As I passed him, his teeth loudly chattered in his head, and with every mark of extreme humiliation, he prostrated himself in the dust.

    This was a hard thing to bear, but this was nothing. I had not advanced another two hundred yards, when, to my inexpressible terror, amazement, and indignation, I again beheld Trabb’s boy approaching. He was coming round a narrow corner. His blue bag was slung over his shoulder, honest industry beamed in his eyes, a determination to proceed to Trabb’s with cheerful briskness was indicated in his gait. With a shock he became aware of me, and was severely visited as before; but this time his motion was rotatory, and he staggered round and round me with knees more afflicted, and with uplifted hands as if beseeching for mercy. His sufferings were hailed with the greatest joy by a knot of spectators, and I felt utterly confounded.

    I had not got as much further down the street as the post-office, when I again beheld Trabb’s boy shooting round by a back way. This time, he was entirely changed. He wore the blue bag in the manner of my great-coat, and was strutting along the pavement towards me on the opposite side of the street, attended by a company of delighted young friends to whom he from time to time exclaimed, with a wave of his hand, `Don’t know yah!’ Words cannot state the amount of aggravation and injury wreaked upon me by Trabb’s boy, when, passing abreast of me, he pulled up his shirt-collar, twined his side-hair, stuck an arm akimbo, and smirked extravagantly by, wriggling his elbows and body, and drawling to his attendants, `Don’t know yah, don’t know yah, pon my soul don’t know yah!’ The disgrace attendant on his immediately afterwards taking to crowing and pursuing me across the bridge with crows, as from an exceedingly dejected fowl who had known me when I was a blacksmith, culminated the disgrace with which I left the town, and was, so to speak, ejected by it into the open country.

    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

    天书厄,完全看不懂 555~

    中国与美国: 217年的理解

    Sunday
    Aug 26,2007

    当托马斯•杰斐逊与本杰明•富兰克林密谋摆脱英国人的统治时,欧洲世界仍在马可•波罗创造的“中国神话”中不能自拔。

    没有资料详细记载中国与美国的第一次相遇。1784年,美国商人初次到达广州时,两个国家已运行在两条截然不同的轨迹上。尽管巴黎贵妇的客厅中依旧以中国的瓷器、丝绸品为时髦,但是中华帝国在达到其辉煌顶峰的同时也陷入停滞不前。乾隆爷不是彼得大帝,他对于外部世界缺乏任何兴趣,在1793年接见英国使者马嘎尼时,他要求对方行三叩九拜之礼,对于新式火器不屑一顾。而只拥有13个州的美国正试图建立一个真正意义的“理想国”,创建者们的理想主义使得美国的独立超越了国家独立的范畴,埃德蒙•伯克的阐述令人信服:“一场伟大的革命已经发生——这一革命的发生不是由于任何现存国家中的力量的变化,而是由于在世界的一个新地区出现了一个新的种类的国家。它已在所有的力量关系、力量均势和力量趋势方面引起巨大变化,就像一个新行星的出现会在太阳系中引起一个巨大变化一样。”

    初识

    在19世纪的大部分时间里,美国仍只是世界舞台上一个并不起眼的角色,尽管心有不甘,它仍几乎就是英国的附庸。美国的缔造者们是一群世界主义者,托马斯•杰斐逊热衷于法国的生活,而在整个19世纪上半叶,美国几乎是依靠阅读英国文学为生,他们最杰出的作家华盛顿•欧文因为赢得了欧洲同行的敬意才在国内大放异彩。但是,法国人托克维尔敏锐地发现,这个充满乐观、略显粗俗的国家具有一种罕见的创造性,他们将热情投放在商业活动与发明创新上。对于自己制度的自豪甚至自大感与内心深处的自卑感奇怪地混合在一起,他们乐于将自己的理想与别人分享,并常常一厢情愿地认定对方会接受。

    中国没有区分美国与欧洲列强的差异,他们都是长毛。尽管前者具有强烈的传道热情,上海的美国商人大谈通商对人类的好处,传教士则说如何将异教徒从罪孽中拯救出来,当他们发现只有更直接的帮助才能吸引中国人时,教会开办了医院。费正清在《美国与中国》中说,美国人潜意识中觉得既然英国已经主宰了印度,中国是最后一个庞大而值得拯救的地区。
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