功夫之王

Biajee昨晚生了急病，主要症状是发烧，腹泻和呕吐。不过他还是陪我看了“功夫之王”。我们把孩子交给了朱蒂就匆匆赶到电影院去了。电影院里空荡荡的，看来它们主要是靠周末挣钱。我们没有时间吃晚饭，只好买了大好爆米花充饥。Biajee本来就无法进食，所以正中下怀。我也不是很饿，被阿诺一哭，搞得什么都没有心情了。

成龙是功夫和戏剧的结合体，所以我比较喜欢他的电影。李连杰的功夫还不错，就是明显比以前老了。刘亦菲的妆画得太难看了，用Biajee的话说，就是一个烫伤妆，显得人很黑，像个村姑。她还是演清纯小姑娘比较好。 故事情节很好，不过大多数老美都看不动，因为他们对美猴王的故事简直一无所知，所以永远理解不了为什么一根毫毛能变成一个人。有时候我认为这种电影还是讲中文用英文字幕比较好，象“卧虎藏龙”，还是很有卖点的。

朱蒂说这部电影是儿童片，可是我们就是儿童嘛。她给阿诺换了很臭很多的粑粑屎尿片，还弄了自己一手，不过后来总算洗干净了。她说阿诺的睡觉训练很成功，放到床上之后他就把大拇指往嘴里一塞，不到两秒钟就睡着了，很省事。

Biajee整晚都在发烧，呕吐和疼痛，搞得我也没睡好。他今天在家睡了一天，希望能够好转。大概是阿诺周末的并传染给他了吧，有可能下一个就轮到我了。

Birthday

Today is my birthday. I'm getting older and wiser.

My friend Judy offered to give me a birthday gift of free baby-sitting so that Biajee and I can sneak out to celebrate. Originally we planned to go out for dinner, but now we really want to watch Jackie Chan's new movie: The Forbidden Kingdom.

I'll confirm with Judy that she's definitely coming to our house tonight, then Biajee can buy movie tickets on line. Hopefully everything is seamlessly planned and I can watch Jackie Chan in theater today. That'll leave us no time for dinner at all. We'll just have popcorns in the theater and come back home for salad and noodles. I'll still go to the gym after work because I don't want to be older and fatter.

Everything else has been really quiet today. There is more bad news in the housing market and the retail industry. Buffet had said that the recession was worse than everyone thought.

I checked PhD Comics this morning. It's Cecilia's birthday as well. Great minds are born on the same day.

购物

我们公司现在有哭胖，可以用在Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, FootAction, 和Champs Sports。30% off. 不过只能在5月1日到3日用。Biajee觉得我们只能去奥马哈用了。

BestBuy准备在5月18日专门为我们公司开张两个小时，届时有抽奖和各类活动。还会有食物。看来零售业是越来越不景气了。

这个周末阿诺生病了，旷掉了游泳课，发了两天烧。昨天下午终于好转了，我就带他去图书馆借书，在水塘边追鸭子和鹅，还搞清楚了水獭的住处。Biajee去加班了，为了这周末可以开车去内布拉斯加州。

周末加油的时候发现油价已3.50美刀一加仑了，真可怕。如果金银的价格能再跌到去年同期就好了，我们应该把所有的钱换成硬通货。

今天来上班的时候发现我上一个老板为了我的生日装饰了我的办公桌，还送了我一个生日礼物。大概她以前对我太不好了，问心有愧吧。 我们全体星期三去红龙虾吃午饭，庆祝我和劳拉的生日。可是我们俩都是明天生的。

亚洲来的弗兰克建议我换一把小而无扶手的椅子，对我的腰会比较好。 那种又贵又大的椅子只适合胖老美坐。我的正骨医生也很赞成。

Battery Free Optical Wireless Mouse

I got a new battery free optical wireless mouse from our Aurora sample room last week while having a meeting there. It's made by A4Tech, a small company in Taiwan. It is one of the most comfortable mice I've ever used. I even let Biajee touch it for a while, then I told him that it was my mouse.

The mouse comes with a mouse pad, which has to be connected to the computer through a USB port. I think it's a cool technology and it'll sell very well in the US. Biajee biked to Safeway with Arnold to pick up some organic milk and eggs last night while I was having the conference call training of SAP with our Hong Kong office.

We picked up maps to Nebraska, Las Vegas and Grand Canyon during lunch today. There are still a lot of cool places in Colorado that we haven't had a chance to explore. We'll be quite busy this summer dragging Arnold to different areas in the state.

In the mean time, we're watching the pitiful scene of the stock market, currency market and the commodities market. The commodity market is so depressing now that Biajee quoted the comments of some traders the other day, "We sleep like babies. We wake up every 2 hours and cry."

体检

今天去正骨医生那里检查，发现我的右半身现在比左半身重13.3磅，比没有做调整治疗之前还糟糕。医生建议我把电话放在左手边，开车时用毛巾垫住左腰眼，再观察一段时间。很多东东都和心理因素有关。

Biajee今天在Costco测了视力，配了眼镜，大概两个星期以后可以取。他的眼镜架上星期被阿诺掰断了。自从阿诺懂得用手那天开始，Biajee的眼镜就是他最喜欢的玩具，如今玩具终于完蛋了，阿诺非但没有丝毫负罪感，还非常快乐。最危险的一回是有个周末Biajee开车带我们去滑雪，在70号公路上堵车，我曾经一把将他的眼镜拽到地上，当时他真的什么都看不到了，好可怜的。

我们趁机买了黄瓜，今晚可以吃炸酱面了，只可惜没有豆腐干，不过冬菜和肉末做的炸酱也会很好吃。

前几天发现我的黑梅手机原来可以上网，以前怎么不知道。我已经用了四年了，才知道这个功能，多么可悲啊。不过黑梅上网没有iPhone好，因为屏幕太小了，不象真的电脑屏幕。

今晚我还要和亚洲进行漫长的电话会议，真麻烦。有时候美国人太喜欢开会了，好像是为了开会而开会，一点问题都解决不了。我们的电脑技术部门的人也无法解决我提出的问题。此情形已经持续一个星期了，真不明白他们是如何混饭吃的。

Sand

Arnold has developed the habit of playing in our bed before he goes to sleep every night. He would demand a professional full body massage every day from me. I have massage oil for him and everything is just as the luxury treatment one would get in a spa.

I found the bed spread with sand after I undressed him last night. I wondered how he hid all the sand with him all night long. There were no pockets on his clothes. It appeared that Biajee hadn't changed his diaper for over 3 hours since he picked up Arnold from day care.

We were shocked as we took down Arnold's diaper. His butt and genital area were wrapped with sand and there was sand in his diaper as well.

"How did he get into this condition?" I asked Biajee. "You need to ask the teacher. I don't see how that's possible if someone hadn't intentionally thrown him into sand naked."

Of course Biajee will forget. He seldom remembers things lately.

爬山

在打了一个小时篮球之后，Biajee决定去爬山。天气好得不得了，阿诺也蹦蹦跳跳地爬了几段路。之后全家一起去麻辣中国吃午饭。现在麻辣中国也没有以前好了，盘子变小了，菜量也给的少了，很让人失望。Biajee在日本的时候，我曾经一个人带阿诺去爬山，结果是两个人都累得筋疲力尽。小孩子是需要父母双方的，真不敢想象单亲家庭是如何运转的。

我们快该去AAA拿地图了。这次得拿奥马哈和大峡谷的。我和以前研究生院的一个同学取得了联系，这样6月份在多伦多转机的时候就可以和他们全家一起去吃晚饭了。在每个城市都有朋友的日子是很快乐的。

我的上司去香港了，这星期可以不用那么担心有人整天给我打电话了.他最喜欢打电话指示我做事，问我问题或者开会。

我以前的上司很宽就要去阿肯色州的沃尔马总部面试了，真希望他能找到工作，否则四个女儿的大学学费如何支付呢。

5月7日我们公司就会公布第一季度的所有数据，不知道股市会不会有何影响。现在经济已经疲软了，房市也大跌了，订书器公司选在这个时候买我们公司，真是绝佳的时机。

我的笔记本电脑的一个USB口不工作了. 上周五向IT寻求帮助，至今杳无音信。

Fever

I had a fever last night. I've been uncomfortable for a few days. I haven't been to the gym for 3 days. I should stop by today and get some exercise.

Biajee finished installing the tow cart on the bicycle right before I finished cooking dinner last night. He'll take Arnold for a bike ride today. It's going to be 77 degrees this afternoon, perfect weather for bike riding with a toddler.

We have seen too many sub prime involvement by the banks lately that it doesn't even affect the stock market negatively any more. Just as what was commented yesterday, "It's like kicking a dead horse."

The only major bank that wasn't affected so far is Wells Fargo. I've read some comments of their CEO last year. He was saying that they studied really carefully before letting their customers borrow money. If they thought the customer couldn't afford the loan, they wouldn't agree to lend money to them. It's amazing that they're the only bank who does business this way.

旅行

我们订了很多旅行计划。最主要的是我已经把去希腊的机票和酒店搞定了。我以前的同事苏珊和我一起去。她和我不坐一班飞机，但我们会在同一段时间在雅典和希腊。我今天终于敲定了旅馆。希望这次能办事顺利，把妈妈的遗骨带回美国。突然发现从雅典会丹佛时将在多伦多停留一晚，得赶紧找找有没有可以一起撮饭的朋友。

我们全家在6月底还会去拉斯维加斯玩，顺便去大峡谷转转。机票，租车和旅馆都已经确认了。希望Biajee不要输很多钱才好。

丹佛的天气开始转暖了，阿诺的新一轮游泳课也开幕了。只有我们公司和订书器公司的合并还在未知之列。5月7日我们公司发放第一季度全部数据时自会引起股东注意。

我们5月初还要去奥马哈开伯克希尔的股东大会。今年真忙。希望房市再继续下跌，给我们创造更好的投资机会。

中午买了拖斗车，可以把阿诺装在里面骑车出去玩了。Biajee有可能得加班给他的老板写程序，真倒霉。

昨天去了动物园，还吃了很难吃的中餐。幸亏晚饭用牛排填补了一下，否则会觉得人生索然无味的。

Q1

My company has decided to release Q1 sales and earnings results pre-market open on April 8th, 2008. It is very rare, but it appears that they need to persuade the shareholders to ignore the Staples offer.

We found out that we need to maintain our house now. It's five years old and we need to basically check all the seals and caulk everything where there are cracks. Good maintenance can help a house appreciate value.

My friend Susan has decided that she would come to Greece with me in May to help handle my mother's remains. She already ticketed her itinerary while I'm still waiting for United to find me a coming back seat on June 7th. The mileage with United is really not that easy to use. The customer service is horrible. You don't get to speak to a real person after you deal with the machine for 15 minutes. There is ticket in either economy or business class from June 6 to June 12.

I may book the coming back on June 5th first and see whether the cemetery can finish their work on time.

故事

从前有一个8岁的小男孩，他最喜欢打橄榄球。有一次比赛中，他在阻挡对手时，未用标准姿势，而是以头撞击对方，导致当场受伤，被送至医院。医生给他敷了冰袋，开了止痛药，又休息了一段时间，症状便消失了。此后每年，小男孩都会受一两次伤。。。 直到12岁那年，在一场大比赛中，他犯了和4年前同样的错误。此次伤势非常严重，医院的专家会诊并看过X光片之后，确认男孩的脊柱严重走形，需要扎12根钢钉固定度过余生。

孩子的妈妈绝望之际，找到了一个正骨医生，分析证明每块椎骨并无问题，只是整个脊柱经后天不良运动方式造成歪斜，应该可以矫正。经过18个月的治疗，男孩彻底痊愈了。这个男孩就是我现在的正骨医生。这个故事是昨晚上运动练习课时他讲给所有人的关于他的亲身经历。

不用问，我回家之后就拉着Biajee陪我吊脖子。像我们这种整天和电脑打交道的人颈椎都有问题。Biajee今天早上起床后说脖子好像变长了，而且好像扭伤了。我说，那好吧，你就别拉了，我还是得每天拉。

我刚发现西南航空根本不飞奥马哈，所以今年我们去开股东大会还是得开车。希望到时候阿诺不会烦躁。我们会在科尼的红龙虾用午餐，之后直奔会议地点。今年我们会多住一晚，和沃伦及其他股东们共进晚餐。只是我至今都没有受到入场证，希望快些寄来才好。那几天正好我们公司也会空空如也，因为大多数人都会去那什韦尔开全国销售大会。奥马哈肯定比那什韦尔好，我们可以去逛那个有名的动物园。

April Fool

Today is April Fool's Day. I haven't fooled anyone yet, but have a weird feeling that I may be fooled at some point.

Our data warehouse is constantly down throughout the day. I tried to change my password, but obviously you cannot change your password when the data warehouse is down. I don't know what value I could add to this whole thing except to go home early and back up my files.

Staples just got $3 billion in finance to acquire my company. Well, it just tells us that they have the cash required. I'm sure we'll hear more about it by May 13th, the date they choose to file this merger to Dutch Financial Market.

I signed up to see a chiropractor for treatment for 24 times. The X ray shows that my left hip is higher than my right hip and my neck is too straight. Weird that I couldn't tell any of these by looking straight into the mirror. Hopefully I can be corrected in 90 days.