浪花集_丹妮庐：写下即是永恒

     Fast food becomes more and more popular along with the rhythm of live is increasingly faster and faster. People go to fast food restaurants instead of traditional ones because of timesaving. Nowadays, fast food restaurants are all over the country. They are separate into 2 kinds, Chinese food and Western food.
     As the representative of typical Western fast food, McDonald’s earned windfall profit from Chinese consumers. But the situation is changed now. Western fast food is threatened by Chinese fast food. Chinese Fast food occupies part of the market share. Kungfu is a representative of brand new Chinese fast food chains.
     I’d like to list similarities and differences between McDonald’s and Kungfu.
     Admittedly, Kungfu is quite similar to McDonald’s whatever in furnishing, decorating and color designing. The environment of Kungfu is almost as same as the McDonald’s. That is why I have the same feeling when I walk in whether Kungfu or McDonald’s. Both of them really have a lot in common, even price, service, promotions methods, etc.
     Although they are both fast food and share a lot of similarities, there are differ in many ways. Firstly, they come from different countries. McDonald’s is from USA. Kungfu is our Chinese native brand. Secondly, they provide different food. McDonald’s provides western food like hamburger, French fries, chicken nugget, and ice-cream. Kungfu provides traditional Chinese food like rice, noodle, soup and vegetable. Thirdly, the cocking method is totally different. McDonald’s fries / roasts food but Kungfu steams / boils food.
     McDonald’s and Kungfu attract different kind of consumers. The young ages like to stay in McDonald’s but adults like to stay in Kungfu. I like Kungfu more than McDonald’s. For my own thinking, the food of Kungfu is healthier than McDonald’s.

昨天生日，前一晚收了大一束蓝绣球+玫瑰；

然后美美地睡了个难得的大懒觉；

起床后收到短信无数，电话若干；

和老爸老妈吃了一顿农家菜午餐；

面对着玫瑰堂吃了一袋鸡蛋仔算是晚餐；

想买iphone 3Gs犒劳自己，到电器店看到价格仍然很贵，打消了念头，买了个shuffle玩玩看；

 

今天回到公司，打开电脑，少不了一堆电子祝福；

登入开心网一看，快要笑晕了：鲜花、蛋糕、香槟、数码相机，送了一大堆，

竟然还有同学送房子，哈哈！只可惜开心网龄不到三个月，没法接收。

尽管是虚拟的，但还是有点感动，毕竟还有好多人记着我生日。呵呵！

 

     Life is valuable for everyone. But it is really short and brittle. That is why sport becomes more and more important. Sport can prevent disease and dissipate fatigue. Sport is a very important way to go for good health and long life.
     Actually I don’t like sport except climbing hills. But I’d like to share what I think about the reasons of sport. The reasons can be sort out into two kinds for the body and mind.
     For a health body: Nowadays, more and more people are aware of the importance of health. People play sports such as walking, jogging, running, cycling and swimming, etc. It is very popular to ladies of playing YOGA and fitness dance in recent years. Boys always keep playing badminton, basketball and football.
     For a health mind: There are also many activities make strengthen brains such as playing chess or cards, reading, writing and thinking. Brain-strengthen is as important as physical exercise. Cerebrating makes good mood from your heart. You may also become more sensible.
It leads to a enjoyable life if you keep health. I always think that a people with pleasure mood should always be with passion of life and active in thinking. This kind of people can easily find the meaning of life.
     Voltaire had a golden saying, “The life lies in the movement.” Whether for body or for mind, we should try to choose the sports which is scientific and suitable. Besides it should be preserved for a whole life.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

　　昨天3:40看香港好莱坞电影台播放的《英烈情缘》（又译《爱在战火蔓延时》），这是第三次看这部片子了，每次看都觉得感动。

 

　　Michael Douglas在这部戏里的角色扮演得相当成功，尤其是片尾穿越生死线的那一段，惊险、揪心，却浪漫到了骨子里。

　　也正是因为看过这部片子，以至于尽管Michael在其他片子里扮演了许多阴险冷酷的反面角色，虽然感觉令人憎恨，我却无法不喜欢他。呵呵！

　　昨天晚上看了一部Hugh Grant在1995年拍摄的电影——The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain (登小丘而从大山下来的英格兰人)，片名的中文翻译叫做《情比山高》，还有个糟糕的中文翻译叫做《山丘上的情人》。
　　其实这个故事和爱情基本上没太大的关系，只是沾了一点边，在片末安排了一个葬礼和一个婚礼做结尾。我倒是认为这是一部具有浓郁民族情结的、讲述自我超越的电影，故事让我相当地感动。
　　在1917年一次世界大战期，英国Welsh南方一个小镇来了两位地图测量师，他们的任务是测量这个镇子的Ffynnon Garw山的高度，以便标注在地图上。而在当时英国把一千呎以下的“隆起的土地”称为丘(hill)，一千呎以上的才是山(mountain)。而测量结果显示该小镇视为精神象征的富农加鲁山（Ffynnon Garw）经重新测量为984呎，差了16呎，所以将不能被称之为“山”标注在地图上。
　　于是故事就这样展开了，整个村子的民众自发地组织了一场人工造山运动。村民创造了山，这样小镇才会标明在地图上。每个人把自家花园里的土挖出来，然后运到“丘”顶，垫出一个土墩。当然地，结局是英格兰地图测量师被深深地感动，走上“山丘”，见证了Welsh人的这一壮举，然后从“山”上下来，宣布新的测量结果：这是一座山。
　　把山垫高象征一种“自我超越”，电影试图表达“这是我们的山”背后的意义（关于Welsh和England的纷争），它叙述一个小区应有的真正的“自已”感觉。其实不管实际到底是不是一座山，小镇的Welsh人非常肯定它就是“山”。

 

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网络搜寻：
　　据说这是根据真人真事拍成的电影。富农加鲁山（Ffynnon Garw）只是电影中的名字，实际是Garth Mountain，小镇则是Fynnon Taf，在Welsh首府加地夫西北方6英哩处。
　　电影受欢迎的结果，也为Fynnon Taf小镇吸引来如潮水般的旅客，他们攀上Garth Mountain，希望看看那加高的「山顶」。登上Garth Mountain的游客没有失望，他们清楚看到一个隆起的土墩。「这是一部真人真事改编的电影。」大家兴奋地说。
　　导演克里斯托弗（Christopher Monger）是不是这样认为？克里斯托弗也是原著小说的作者，他就在Fynnon Taf小镇出生，从小听祖父和其他老迈村民讲过这个传奇。这故事来自一个真实的地方，是的，是有这座山，但故事却不是事实。
　　史学家说，山上的土墩，实际是青铜器时代中期的古墓，年代约公元前2000年。他们声称，青铜器时代的土墩与山的分类（丘或山）无关。
　　那些被电影吸引来的登山者不理会。1999年，历史学会和地方小区理事会不得不在山顶竖立告示牌，明白揭示，休葛兰电影中的故事不是真实的。他们担心Garth Mountain的真正珍宝将被神话损坏，因此警告旅客：如果破坏山顶的土墩古墓，将面临两年的牢狱之灾。

8.21	机票（16000公里积累里程）	100		往返建设费
	家——机场	196		TAXI
8.22	贵阳——荔波	93		长途汽车
	午餐	15
	晚餐	40		小吃街黄霞烧烤
	杨梅汤	6
	茂兰宾馆	30		标间100加床30
8.23	荔波——大七孔
	大小七孔门票（学生票半价）	55		原价130
	电瓶车票	25
	大七孔——王蒙	2
	午餐
	王蒙——小七孔	3
	小七孔——荔波	0		搭便车
	晚餐	50		小吃街老马烧烤
	茂兰宾馆	30		标间100加床30
8.24	茂兰（学生票半价）	25
	向导	50
	午餐	17		必左农家乐
	晚餐	35		土鸡王
	茂兰宾馆（标间100）	50
8.25	荔波——凯里	70
	午餐	32		仙都园
	凯里——郎德	9
	郎德——西江千户苗寨 摩的	30
	门票（逃票）	0		原价60元
	李老师家（食15+宿20）	35
8.26	凯里——贵阳（学生票八折）	42		原价52元
	午餐	0		北京驴友小李请客
	晚餐	28		娘家米汤
	如家（大营路）	85		标间169元
8.27	贵阳——青岩 包车来回	200		包贵阳青岩往返+送机场
	青岩门票	30		九折，原价34
	午餐	5		牛肉粉
	晚餐	28		豪享来
	如家（中华中路）	208		商务大床间
	上网费用	10
8.28	午餐	0		老凯里酸汤鱼88元
	大觉精舍	0		免费参观
	文昌阁	4		2元/人
	扶风山	6		3元/人
	甲秀楼	0
其他	贵阳市区出租	110
	上网费用	3
	购特产	177
	矿泉水+小吃	50
	总计：	1984

　　如果说去年的我缺少了点运气的话，今年似乎有些好的转变。

　　继入读mba之后，昨天又迎来了第二个好消息，我接到通知，通过了职业资格考试，可以获得国家注册高级企业培训师资格了。

　　呵呵，也就是说可以执业了。这对开公开课的确是个不错的准备条件。

　　于是我又再次盘算明年把注册咨询师的资格也一并拿了。

　　一边学习OB和HRM，一边自己郁闷。对于学的内容越是想去深究，心里就越是不平衡。因此，这也就造就了惰性，给I just never read between the lines找了一点借口。套用组织行为学理论的观点，这就做Cognitive Dissonance——认知失调。如何把这个认知失调降低到最低程度的稳定状态，这可能就成了我需要用终生去考虑的问题。于是，我几乎能想象出继续维持现状的话，我将会越来越郁闷。

　　日前也和几个朋友谈过期望和现实环境的问题，如果环境不允许，我们只能降低自己的期望以“提高”自己的满意度，这样也许就不会认知失调了。

CHAPTER SUMMARY

Interdependence and trade allow everyone to enjoy a greater quantity and variety of goods & services. 

Comparative advantage means being able to produce a good at a lower opportunity cost.  Absolute advantage means being able to produce a good with fewer inputs. 

When people – or countries – specialize in the goods in which they have a comparative advantage, the economic “pie” grows and trade can make everyone better off.

 

Two Measures of the Cost of a Good

Two countries can gain from trade when each specializes in the good it produces at lowest cost.

Absolute advantage measures the cost of a good in terms of the inputs required to produce it.

Comparative advantage:  the ability to produce a good at a lower opportunity cost than another producer 

 

Differences in opportunity cost and comparative advantage create the gains from trade. 

 

When each country specializes in the good(s) in which it has a comparative advantage, total production in all countries is higher, the world’s “economic pie” is bigger, and all countries can gain from trade.