Purposive without Foresight

今天从新闻里听到小虎队为春晚进行的排练， 不由自主泪流满面。 我会唱的歌至少有一半是李子恒先生写的， 他的歌有一种直指人心的温暖和天真， 承载我几乎全部的童年和少年记忆。 80后90前的一代人有缘听李老师的歌长大， 真的很有福气！
嫁给外国人最郁闷的事情之一就是， 对牢老公唱李老师写的情歌， 老公却不能领会。 这几天我给儿子唱的歌都是李老师写的歌， 歌声中我童年和少年的人和事一一浮现。 我一定要教儿子中文。 希望将来的儿媳能有福气听我儿子唱李老师的情歌给她听。
这篇文章先在这里开个头， 有时间慢慢写。

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Actually I wanted to write this entry a while ago, because of my laziness and online-shopping impulses it’s postponed till now.
June 15th to June 19th was German students’ “protest week” this year. Many students from all over the Germany, from primary pupils to university students, went to streets and protested against bad hardware conditions [...]

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Sniff:

I’m impressed by Google China’s features that are currently unavailable in Google elsewhere. In Google China’s map service, one can search how to travel from place A to B with public transportation. Yes Google US has that too, but it covers simply too few cities. In Europe, such kind of service is already very sophisticated, [...]

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To my readers who cannot read Chinese: this entry is a prose about my trip in China from Sep. 29 to Oct. 11: what I’ve seen and a lot of nostalgic feelings. I’ll try to post a English version later. Photos made during the trip will be posted soon.
第一章 缘起
每年秋风起时， 去国离乡的悲凉总是挥之不去。 无边落木年复一年萧萧而下， 却总是只能在梦里一掬滚滚而来的长江水。 妈妈总是会寄来新做的冬衣。 想起孟郊的游子吟， [...]

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Ost Trifft West by Yang Liu on amazon.de
It’s a small book with warmth of daily life, humour, and sophistication. It however does not require the concentration that is usually needed for reading a book on a subject that is as heavy as this. The compositions in the pictures are concise and powerful. I admire Liu [...]

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This topic has been boring in my blog, I know. Dear readers, please bear with me, this is my last entry for the mainstream German media this year. After this entry, I’ll focus on interesting stuff such as software programming, investment, and animes.
Yesterday, in the subway station in Hannover, the projectors there kept broadcasting [...]

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Sniff:

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) becomes the newest most profitable bank of the world (source: bloomberg.com) Last year, the champion was Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). Below is a list of the top ten largest banks by market capitalization (rank, bank name, country, market cap in billion dollars):

1. Industrial & Commercial [...]

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Last Friday I went home four hours earlier to watch the 29th Olympic opening ceremony live on ARD ( the main German TV channel. It is publicly funded ).
I cried from the beginning to the end while I was watching the ceremony. The selfless contribution of tens of thousands actors and volunteers touched me [...]

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I heard that Shanghai is going to build yet another Disneyland which would cost around 4 billion euros. And, an artificial lake which costs 50 million euros is already being built in Shanghai, seems the main purpose is to boost the price of real estates around the lake.
I don’t feel happy to hear these [...]

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In the National Geographic German version issue July 2008, there is a story about China. I bought this issue and read the complete story. Very well written. The authors had lived in China for many years, what they described is quite fact-oriented. The critiques are quite to the point. The story was written with [...]

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