名字

小妹昨天生了个胖小男孩。前阵子向我讨了几个名字作参考。这学问可大，不简单。要与众不同，简易但不失意义，时尚，好听，还要兼顾英语发音。难！

长辈都喜欢找些神算子批八字算五行，给小娃儿取好名字。欠个甚么金木水火土都不行。有些神棍还效仿武则天创字，乱七八糟的翻破字典也找不着。如果改个名字就能改好运的话，那全世界的人不再受苦了。我不说这是迷信，信则有，但求心安理得。

办公室政治

F上司通过同事试探我是否愿意在这项目完成之后到德国总部与他合作。坦白说，我讨厌人事复杂的环境。一向来对尔虞我诈的办公室政治很反感也很抗拒。尽量避之，也希望做到面面俱圆。有时工作压力传下来，总会间接的伤害他人。

十一年了，已习惯在现场工作。虽不是甚么土皇帝，但却有相对上较多的自由及发挥空间。很多琐碎的事务都有下属代劳，回到总部事事都必须亲力亲为，还必须听从更多领导层的指示。无可否认，这将是一个难得的机会，对未来计划很重要。我想我明了F上司需要我的政治目的。

还早吧！明年这个时候再提也不迟，再说到时的情况现在谁也说不准。

p/s:我喜欢Dilbert这办公室政治漫画。

I’m Not Blind

Heard Paris Hilton’s new song “Stars Are Blind”? Goodness... the song is disgusted flat and her voice is emotionless / dull. The magic sparked simply because she is rich.

The music industry no longer needs professional singers but just some idols who could utter words.

Yesterday Once More

The repetitive bombardment of the latest English pop songs from the radio irritates me much recently. The melody is no longer entrancing but replaced with the tendency of either almost monotonous flat tunes or supersonic speed of rapping coupled with meaningless childish lyrics.

In the 80’s and 90’s, I was laughing to my elders when they were criticizing the pop songs meaningless but a junk piece of noise mixture. Today, the youngsters are teasing me getting old. Ha… position is changing.

Hence I launched a huge project lately. I flipped through all CDs and compiled all nice songs together. I dug out many long forgotten and neglected songs. Strangely I have started appreciating the music of the 70’s which had never been my favourite in the past. Particular song brought back particular memories… “Yesterday Once More” (by The Carpenters) aptly describes present feelings.

意义

收到一位埃塞朋友的电邮，诉说了毕业至今仍未找着工作。衰弱的经济，庞大的失业人口，僧多粥少，一切在加剧的恶性循环，加上与邻国的持续纷争，政府无能挽救。很多国民逃离家园到苏丹，冒死偷渡甘作难民，只为了裹腹，为了寻找‘美好’的将来。苏丹并不富裕，不是他们要的将来，只能期望作为到发达国家的跳板，因为欧美澳等国每年都会收容若干难民。但幸运之神能眷顾几人？在苏丹的那段日子，遇上不少埃塞朋友，有些已经是土长的第三代了！

我时常在思考，他们活着的意义是什么？我们的幸福定义又是否太狭窄？

喝奶

T同事近来心烦，因为他的太太提出了离婚。怨他待她的时间太少。干我们这一行的，经常离家是免不了。离婚这事虽不致於司空见惯，却也见了少例子。事业与家庭，如鱼与熊掌，很多时不能兼备。

S经理说我找对象的要求太高了，但我却认为宁缺勿烂。前任上司说过，要喝奶何必买头牛呢？

体面

在晚宴，同事被安排在同一桌上。
秘书小姐一坐下，斟了一杯色酒。S经理劝她空肚子喝酒容易发醉，她不听。
秘书小姐从舞池回来，说右脚有点儿疼，索性把脚翘在椅子上。我好意提了一句，她不接受。
晚餐是一客烧烤猪扒，上铺火腿。端上时，秘书小姐挑剔的拨开火腿，上下左右研究了一遍之后才放进嘴里，剩下的猪扒都扔下了。S经理责了几句，解释了基本餐桌礼仪，她不理，还说别人管不着。
可能是酒精起了作用，她有点儿醉了。他们的对话少许破坏了原有的气氛。这使我看清楚某些人的真性格。

Wedding Party

Was invited by my colleague Mr.B to his wedding party yesterday night. The folks dance was going round and round, with synchronized dance steps in pace with music, was fun!

Organizing party is a tiring assignment to me. Mom always said, if W is on the list, X has to be invited (should not be offended); Y is very close to us, his whole family should come along; Z is the respectful elder in our family clan etc. So end up, the party would be crammed with half a thousand guests.

If I would have my wedding party someday, I would only invite controllable crowd and those I know well, ensure that all my guests will be taken care of and no one is neglected. A feast is not necessary at all.

己所不欲,勿施於人

TP gave me some comments on my webpage today. Spontaneously I gave many "excuses", not awaring of my explanations would portrait defensive cum irresponsible attitude to the other person. He reminded me aptly and made me discovering my own subconcious.

Ridiculously I used to complain my colleagues for not executing their tasks seriously but feeding me various reasons. In fact, I'm not better than them.

The Chinese proverb says, 己所不欲,勿施於人

Thank you TP.

Dermatologist

Went to see the dermatologist this afternoon. The skin problem has been persisting since years. For my 1st visit last week, I paid Euro 6 as consultation fees; and today I paid only Euro 1. Incredibly cheap!!! It would have cost at least 10 times more in my country.... "What" makes the difference?

My Own Blog

Have finally made the decision to have my own blog. No specific reason for it, maybe I just want to voice out my opinion and emotion, or probably I'm feeling lonely in the country doesn't belong to me...