Cultivate one’s moral character, educate one’s family, rule the State, and govern the world well.

修身、齐家、治国、平天下

我不上网，是对自身生命的一种把持方式。因为生命是由“时间”和“注意力”组成的，而最有可能夺去我的“时间”和“注意力”的，就是信息的洪水。信息看似重要，其实未必，百分之九十九是消耗性的。它会造成一种假象，似乎你占有了它，其实，恰恰是它占有了你。

——余秋雨

最近事情很多，工作上的，生活上的，以至于许久没有来这块自留地上种菜。也已有很长时间没有静静坐在电脑前面专心做事。

适逢岁末，上来涂写几笔，当做年终盘点吧。
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其实一直不太清楚“碎碎念”这词的真正含义，直觉告诉我是类似于唠唠叨叨纷繁复杂的意思。于是拿来当了题目。

27周岁，在我们老家那边已经是一个3、5岁小孩父亲的代名词了。晚上给家里打电话的时候，老妈又絮絮叨叨的围着我的个人问题纠缠不休，索性以最近工作调动的事情吸引她的注意力。从一直呆着懒散惯了的老东家，到中间疯了般的一天面试4家单位，再到现在基本确定去向。很多改变，似乎只在一两夜之间的事情。

许多年前，高中的时候，事后好几天才回想起来自己的生日已过。那时候，似乎时间是所拥有的最廉价的财富。

许多年后，却如同一个斤斤计较的小女孩般在意这一天。是感觉到时光飞逝，还是岁月蹉跎？自己也说不清楚。

收到了很特别的一份礼物，一位朋友在MSN上把彼此认识的一点一滴发了过来。文字容易让人产生时空的错觉，一起回顾着那些片段，恍惚间我们的过去又站在了跟前。望着里面的自己，轻轻的晃晃脑袋，如同《宰相刘罗锅》里头的皇帝垂暮之年一般轻声叹息。

如果时间可以重来，有一半的人都可以成为伟人。

不知道第二个27年，回首再看今日文字，又是如何感觉？

对自己说，生日快乐。

记忆力随着年龄的增长一直成反比例函数呈现，但有些东西，镌刻在脑海中，随着岁月的冲刷，反而越来越清晰，怎么都抹不去了。

比如说，你的生日。

记得《金婚》中有一段，佟子和出国回来的李天娇再次相遇，还是同样的人，还是同样的音乐，不同的是已从慢慢搅拌着喝咖啡换成了柠檬水，从共同讨论那位交响乐艺术家到早已忘了他的名字。事后佟志对大庄的感慨让我记忆犹新：

这人吧，难得有一些美好的回忆。就不该再去揭开那个梦，才发现其实一切早就已经不是原来的样子。

（原话记不真切了，大致是这个意思）

Anyway，生日快乐，曾经的小海豚。

这是孔子的标准，我恐怕还做不到。但是偶尔加以反思，并及时记录下来，还是有必要的。

今天要谈谈事业，或者说，工作。

大学里面开始，就比大多数同学更早接触实践，以至于在刚毕业那会儿多少有点沾沾自喜。很多知识是花了非常大的代价（成本）学来的，那时候没有意识到。

后来在理光工作了一年多，激情已消磨殆尽。技术上没有任何长进，对那里相对沉闷的气氛也是不太适应，急匆匆的开始了第一次跳槽。

现在想来，跳槽前对新东家的选择还是十分必要的，我觉得至少应该花10来个钟头（有效时间）去认真研究一下该公司的背景和发展前途，以及跟自己职位相关的一些信息。还要考虑和自己的长远规划是否吻合之类的问题。

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朋友国庆去大漠游玩，从乌鲁木齐给我寄了一袋薰衣草干花。

前阵子曾向她提过，晚上睡觉容易失眠。这就惦记上了，让我有些小小的惊喜。

生活正以它特有的幽默作着平衡，有时候觉得这个秋天也不算寒意太浓。

亲戚或余悲，
他人亦已歌。
死去何所道，
托体同山阿。

有些事情，终究不能避免。

一路走好，我最亲爱的外婆。

当全民皆运的时候，总有一些清醒的声音，如醍醐灌顶般，让我们拨开这粉饰太平和喧嚣，见到一些清澈的东西。

免大部分人翻墙之苦，征得作者同意后，全文引用如下：

Apathetic, Ignorant, or Just Stupid?

The comments on the NYT article “Before Guests Arrive, Beijing Hides Some Messes” really shock me. Most of them make me kinda sick and sad.

The NYT article is a good one uncovering a corner of the true situation in Beijing before the Olympics opening, though many deemed the story is “China bashing”, and “not newsworthy”, the city beautifying is right or at least understandable, because they thought that kind of things happened a lot, and everyone knew that.

Guys, you were totally misunderstanding the point. Beautification of the city was not the problem. The problem was how the city treat its people.

Yes, beautifying before a big event coming is not news at all, but systematically abusing its citizens by the government is. I believe every case of human abusing and human suffering would make news. It’s a forever theme of journalism.

And people in that city (and yes, in all over China) was suffering from the authorities for the sake of image. That’s the all what the NYT story want to tell you.

Those believed the story “not new” presented some examples, like things happened in Chicago in 1968, Montreal in 1976, Los Angles in 1984, without any concrete and appealing evidences.

All those events held in overseas a few decades ago seam so far away that I can’t have a clue and make comment. I don’t know if there existed any human rights issue in those events. If something bad to their people really happened, I feel sorry and sympathetic to those as I feel the same to my compatriots today. But those were all old days and I believe in western civilized world, as one commenter put it: “In today’s world is quite hard to imagine one day waking up with a wall covering the front of people’s homes, or a veil covering their businesses just because they do not comply with the standards of beauty.”

Others took the happening for granted because they thought they treat their stuffs like laundry the same way when they invited guests to their houses. These statements were totally wrong, because human beings is absolutely not stuffs. Even as unfortunate as those poor Chinese people, they own human rights and civil rights and human dignity as well as westerners. They are not doomed to be victimized, even for the sake of public good! Nobody should be treated in that way. Everybody is not like the “stuffs” you can casually throw, hide or destroy at will.

Should they been sacrificed for the beauty of the city, for the incoming glorious event, for the pleasant sightseeing of foreign athletes, leaders and tourists? No. If someone must pay for the beauty of the city, it must be those who most benefit from the beautification of the city.

China is not just another exotic tourist resort. Chinese people have suffered from ruthless and corrupt despots and bureaucrats for thousands of years. We don’t deserve more suffering because of foreigners. Chinese are open and warmhearted to all kindly friends come from abroad, but those apathetic tourists regarding Chinese pains like the way they treat monkeys in zoos would not deserve it.

If those indifferent comments not came from apathetic heart, it probably came from ignorant mind. Beautification of cities in China are not as the same way most western countries run. There is always an “Chinese characteristic” way done by the authorities to average Chinese. When a governmental campaign comes, citizens are brutally dealt with, houses are arbitrarily teared down, hundreds of thousands of low-income immigrants are mercilessly driven out, dissidents are illegally tracked and harassed, protesters are beaten, tortured and even arrested. It’s out of luck for you when your property or livelihood was in the way. No equitable negotiation. No modest compromising. No fair compensation.

I believe most westerners have no idea what befall average Chinese everyday by the authorities. Most of you seem so friendly to China while critical to your own countries. Unfortunately these kind of friendliness are actually Chinese-government-friendly, not Chinese-people-friendly. These kind of comments sound so familiar to Chinese people just like the tones of the CCP Propaganda Dept hyping everyday. More and more Chinese people know what crap they are today.

“One World, One Dream” is the theme of Beijing Olympics. It’s true that Chinese share the same planet with people in the rest of the world, so as we share the same dream of prosperity, democracy, freedom and happiness with people in the rest of the world. We deserve respect and a better life. Don’t make stupid comments until you really understand what’s happening in China. Help us if you really like China. Keeping concern for the truth and pressure on human rights issues will do the trick.

Thanks to Wozy, via Link