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Subject: 一笑解千愁> 中國空姐 > 飛北京的路途上，空姐給飛機上的老外上餐> … > > 老外問：What is this? > 空姐答：Cake China ( 饅頭 ) > > 老外問：What is this? > 空姐答：Pizza China ( 餡餅 ) > > 老外問：What is this? > 空姐答：Salad China ( 黃瓜 ) > > 這時空姐放了一個屁 > 老外又問：What is this? > 空姐妙答：Air China ( 中國民航 )

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Ego does not = Big personality Seriously, what makes people think having a big ego means having a big personality?  Since when having a negative personality trend means a good thing?  It is great to want to achieve a goal, but not at all cost!Having ambition does not = success   Just because you are ambitious does not make you successful.  It takes hard work, step by step... there is no fast way

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I received this article from a friend's email a while back.  Great article no matter what your political persuasion is.This column was written by a guy named Charley Reese whose stuff appears primarily in Florida newspapers. 545 PeoplePoliticians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the

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This society is all about being politically correct in every aspect.  Unfortunately even in art and music.  People want drama, but not to be challenged by it.   They want perfect intonation, but only if it is in-tune with its own line, not to the others, forget about the polyphonic (Chordal intonation), that just creates too many variables to even grasp. They want colors, but only the pretty,

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It is so wonderful to be able to listen to the Brahms Clarinet Quintet run through while doing some housework.  It is so thoughtful, beautiful and imaginative!  I  swear that I hear a lot of Tchaikovsky, and definitely some Schumann.  I absolutely love the piece.It is also however, very crucial to be able to hear the melodic structure as well as the harmonic progression underneath since so much

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I am so angry!Please tell me there is someone out there who can be nice with no agenda...unless my idea of the human nature is fundamentally wrong... that must be it. Then, what is the point.... I can very well just take care of my stuff and block everything else out. Let them deal with their own issues and problems on their own. Ignore the passive aggressive behaviors from the others. The

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It is 3:20AM and I am wide awake.... ok, let me rephrase that, my brain is wide awake and my eyes are screaming: "let us rest!" This is the second night that I can't sleep... I wonder why? Last night was a concert night, so, that was understandable, but tonight..... What's is wrong with me? Why is it that I can't stop hearing bits and pieces of music in my head? The fights between them are

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After receiving a disturbing email on one's horrible experience with a totally insensitive character, and the aftermath of it, these are my thoughts:CHARACTER ASSASSINATION does not help character building. Te be a teacher, one should not let his/her own insecurity play any part in any teaching process whether the teaching is done with one on one or in a classroom setting. If one cannot control

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*Stock market is currently in a terrible RED....*Getting used to my left eye condition... *Cousin and her friends are coming in later tonight... what are their plans????*Dog & cat are getting way too lazy at home... need to think of something for them to do besides having them eat, run & sleep...*Done with the editing sessions... well, almost, one more to finalize everything... *Grantham is

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I am totally amazed on how one critic can absolutely love, and one can absolutely hate the same concert when they were sitting next to each other. How we all listen so differently! I believe anyone who does not know, hear or understand anything about complex rhythm should not be a music critic since rhythm is an essential part in music making. I can understand how subjective one can be about

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Playing Music Makes You Smart Charles Q. ChoiSpecial to LiveScienceLiveScience.com Mon Mar 19, 9:35 AM ETScientists have uncovered the first concrete evidence that playing music can significantly enhance the brain and sharpen hearing for all kinds of sounds, including speech."Experience with music appears to help with many other things in life, potentially transferring to activities like reading

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Keyboard Companion Winter 2006 Volume 17, Number 4 Ann Schein talks about studying the music of Chopin with Munz and Rubinstein The music of Chopin – my legacy from Mieczyslaw Munz and Arthur Rubinstein By Ann Schein I was truly fortunate in my parents’ wise choice of teachers from the time I started to play the piano at the age of three. At four, my parents took me to play for

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A frind of ours forwarded us this insightful article:One Minute MeditationLearning – FR. T. RONALD HANEYAre you a lifelong learner?Are you a person who habitually takes a long and careful look beneath the skin of the world?Or are you content to live on the surface, dwelling in the innovations of the past rather than trying to be an innovator in your present thinking?Do you understand Mark Twain’s

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It is extremely frustrating when you have helped someone to grow or a project to develop over a long period of time, and then something or someone else disrupts the whole process or destroys the result right before you achieve it while you are not around to monitor. If this outer force turns out to be helpful, then, great, the more the merrier. However, it often turns out to be a negative force

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The View from Taiwan: Linda Arrigo on Shih Ming-deh's Letter Urging Chen to Resign

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Please Support Taiwan to join the United Nations

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"Let us maintain that the beauty of a work of art must always remain mysterious; that is to say, it is impossible to explain exactly how it is created. Let us at all costs preserve this magic peculiar to music, for all the arts it is the most susceptible to magic... In the name of all the gods, let us not attempt to destroy or explain it." -Claude Debussy (Gil Blas, 1913) Taken from Debussy

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I found this wonderful web page "A Spoonful of Russian" to learn conversational Russian. You can subscribe the lessons from ITUNE's podcast for free. Happy learning!http://speakrussian.blogspot.com/or feed://feeds.feedburner.com/ASpoonfulOfRussian

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An article emailed to me from my mother: 自由心證 by 王文華 我很喜歡「自由心證」這四個字，因為它代表著對個人無比的尊重和信任。 對於陌生的事物，懷疑和否定是人的天性。 但要能尊重和信任，就需要高度文明。 在法國超市買蔬果，挑完後自己拿到秤上。 秤上有各項蔬果的照片，你按其中一個鈕， 然後把東西放上去。秤會自動印出一張價錢標籤，你貼在塑膠袋上。 結帳時小姐掃瞄價錢標籤，不管裡面是什麼東西。 法國超市自秤重量 聰明如我們，已經想出了多種偷機的方法，但法國人不介意。 他們假設大部分人是誠實的，少數人做怪，是讓大多數人方便的必要代價。 上巴黎的公車，沒人跟你收票，你自己要到車上的「認證機」去刷票。 你若不刷，司機或其他乘客也不會管你。 但我看人來人往，就是很少人這樣厚臉皮。 巴黎公車的認證機 我在史丹佛念書時，考試時沒人監考，考完後沒人收卷

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Great News! Read more by going to http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/06_20_06.html"In a dramatic display of stem cells’ potential for healing, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports that they’ve engineered new, completed, fully-working motor neuron circuits -- neurons stretching from spinal cord to target muscles -- in paralyzed adult animals."

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Thinking Out Loud by William R. Brody - East Meets West - From The JHU Gazette July 10, 2006 Vol.35 No. 39http://www.jhu.edu/gazette/2006/10jul06/10brody.html

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A friend emailed this a while ago. Funny!A new report now suggests that the Mozart effect may be a fraud. For you hip urban professionals: no, playing Mozart for your designer baby may not improve his IQ or help him get into that exclusive pre-school. He'll just have to be admitted to Harvard some other way. Of course, we're all better off for listening to Mozart purely for the pleasure of it.

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Am I an idealist and a reformer at heart? Being an idealist is dangerous thing in today's society. Idealists are often vulnerable.Society is intolerant of idealism and of true reformers. Have I been intolerant and even scornful of those who do not share my views on life? No, I have not. On the contrary, people have been intolerant and even scornful of my simple views on life. Not following

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I have officially started to learn the Shostakovich Concerto for piano, trumpet & orchestra. After finishing my first reading of the first movement, my brain was in a state of shock. Could he seriously hear all the quotes, voices, and multi keys all at the same time at that speed? Goodness. The last movement also... fragments of quotes from various composers' music... no real transitions;

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加拿大的魁北克有一條南北走向的山谷。 山谷沒有什?特別之處，惟一能引人注意的是， 它的西坡長滿松、柏、女貞等樹，而東坡只有雪松。 這一奇異景觀是個謎，許多人不知所以， 一直沒有令人滿意的結論。揭開這個謎的，竟是一對普通的夫婦。 那是1983年的冬天，這對夫婦的婚姻正瀕於破裂的邊沿。 ?了重新找回昔日的愛情，他們打算做一次浪漫之旅，如果能找回就繼續生活，如果不能就友好分手。他們來到這個山谷的時候，下起了大雪。 他們撐起帳篷，望著滿天飛舞的大雪，發現由於特殊的風向，東坡的雪總比西坡的雪來得大，來得密。不一會兒，雪松上就落了厚厚的一層雪。 不過當雪積到一定的程度，雪松那富有彈性的枝丫就會向下彎曲，直到雪從枝上滑落。這樣反覆地積、反覆地彎、反覆地落，雪松完好無損。 可是其他的樹，例如那些柘樹因沒有這個本領，樹枝被壓斷了。 西坡由於雪小，總有些樹挺了過來，所以西坡除了雪松，還有柘、

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Another article from a family member.生活中總是有些的煩惱，有些執意的，有些放不下的…… 希望下面的文章能帶給你一正面的想法。 溫柔法則20步 溫柔法則１ 在進一步交往之前，心先問自己： 我喜歡這個人是否附帶條件？ 我是否在逃避什麼？ 我是否企圖想改變這個人？ 如果你對其中任何一個問題答案是〔對〕 那麼你還是離開這個人。 他（她）沒有你，會過得更快樂。 溫柔法則２ 如果〔擁有〕那麼難，那就學習放下吧！ 溫柔法則3 每天，至少告訴一個人，你喜歡。仰慕或欣賞他的地方。 溫柔法則4 當你買了一樣對方一直想要卻一直沒去買的東西時， 那份禮物就是最浪漫。最有價值的東西。 溫柔法則5 失戀就是與一個不愛你或你不愛他的人脫離關係， 那又有什麼不好呢？ 溫柔法則6 合理就好，不須要太完美。 請相信，人有缺點才可愛。 溫柔法則7 等待別人來疼惜你，是條漫漫小徑；

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I received this article from a family member, hopefully you find it helpful.飯後來一瓶冷飲會得腸癌不要不相信！很多人習慣吃飽飯後就來一瓶冷飲，尤其是一些罐裝茶飲料；號稱可以「去油解膩」。喝下去是很爽沒有錯，但你有沒有想過接下來你的肚子裡會發生什麼事？！快動動大腦想想吧！！你肚子裡的牛排(或是鹹酥雞、滷味…)都是油膩膩的食物腸胃要消化本來就比較吃力了。現在再倒入一瓶冰水…有沒有看過冰箱裡面的豬油牛油啊？！你能想像把上面那層白白的凝固油吞進肚子裡嗎？！噁！當你的腸胃裡有一塊塊蠟燭般的凝固油，還去什麼油、解什麼膩咧如果只是噁心的話就算了，重點是—會得腸癌！！這些凝固油碰到胃酸會再度溶解成半液狀，然後會比固態食物早一步流進腸道裡。於是那稠稠黏黏、油不油水不水的物質就會率先被腸道吸收。但是！

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1. Our summer chamber music camp is a definite go with 22 students participating this year. (Not too bad for first year)!2. My sister is engaged, and has accepted a job offer close to home. 3. A friend has finished his dissertation in Harvard, and also has accepted a job in Washington DC. 4. Studio is slowly growing not just in numbers, but also in quality of students.5. Looking forward to

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Being a hostess is a really hard thing for me. I find myself being lost of being extremely nice to the guest even though sometimes the person really does not deserve to be. How much of the pointless chatter can one normally endure? Maybe I am abnormal, or I have low tolerance, but I am at the rock bottom with my patience!!! What does one write to an old friend whom you have not been in touch

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I cannot believe in our life time, after the horrific WWII lessons, the history repeats itself in a worse way. Secret concentration camp in ShenYang province was uncovered by a journalist where Chinese government is harvesting organs from Falun Gong members. Please go to the link and sign the petition to help stop these atrocities.

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For Schumann, one should " sacrifice surface beauty for the sake of dramatic truth and vivid representation" not to "shock a sensation-hungry public" which is shallowness.Schumann thinks "True" melodic style will unite "profundity and facility, significance and grace." Schumann looked to musical profundity and eloquence, and not singabilitiy, as the critical features of a truly melodic style.

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Insecurity, what a powerful thing. It changes one's character, judgments. It turns a nice person into a monstrous one. Why does one feel insecure? Many started developing their insecurities from their childhood. Children yearn for parents' approval, if they did not receive enough from their parents, the insecurity would start to form at an early age.Most common form to express one's insecurity is

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A friend sent me this link, absolutely hilarious!

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This is the first time I have chance to play the Celeste part in the ballet. I had a wonderful time. Celeste is a hard instrument to play. The unevenness of the sound created a great challenge for me to deliver the sugarplum dance. However, I love the piece, love the various colors created by all the other instruments in the orchestra. Playing in the middle of an orchestra is definitely

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This whole stupid WB thing really makes me mad! Do they actually want to help the artists/dancers or they are only B. S.-ing to see whether they can fool the musicians or not. So, we must look so stupid to them that they think we would actually buy their story. Did he (artistic director) even want to be there? I am so MAD!!! These abusive situations make me want to cry. Management really

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A friend forwarded this in an email. HA HA HA! 國中生的火星文看一下現在的國中生的用語,真是特別............很好笑喔原來"史努比"也可以醬用啊本文明天要開56班親會，想必會來一堆歐氏宗親會的人。」「morning call的成績出來了，爐主、顧爐、扛爐的還是那幾個宮本美代子的同學，要是我考這種成績，我媽一定AKS，罵我乾脆史努比算了。」翻譯明天要開無聊的班親會，想必會來一堆歐吉桑和歐巴桑。」「模擬考的成績出來了，倒數一二三名還是那幾個根本沒事做（台語：根本沒代誌）的同學，要是我考這種成績，我媽一定會氣死（台語），罵我乾脆死路邊(台語諧音)算了。」

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Sacrificing yourself to accommodate others is not necessary a good thing for oneself or for the others. I believe that sacrificing yourself for the other one is the death sentence for the relationship between two people. In most cases, between husband and wife, the wife somehow justifies the act of pleasing the husband by sacrificing her own personality, her own likes, her own dreams and many

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My eyes are quitting on me. Lately, I have really hard time to see well with them. My contact lens don't seem to want to stay at the same place when I am tired. Eyes get really red and irritated with the contact lens that they tear constantly. I hope they get better by the time I need to drive home.Students are improving at an unbelievable rate. They might not be ready to deliver great

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This year, we had a great Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. We had good companies, my siblings, Hao Chin, Ya-Chen, and Sean (her boyfriend) and my aunt, Ming, all joined us for the big feast. The turkey and various other dishes turned out great, the wine Peter purchased was good even though he did not think so, chocolate Souffle turned out better than last year.On Friday, Peter was occupied with

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I left my dog & cat again this Saturday under my brother's care this Saturday. I hate it when they give me the looks, which say "You are abandoning us again" Anyway, left around 1 pm to pickup our cellist. Left her place around 2pm heading toward CT. What was supposed to be a 5 hours drive from her place turned up to be a 6 hours one because of the mysterious construction. I never understand why

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They are good kids. Yes, they might be lazy sometimes, but truly, they all want to do well. Each one has his/her individual character that is so vivid which is hard to overlook. My challenge is really how to not force my own character onto them while still teach them styles, sounds, colors ... Etc. Everything about music is so personal if one loves music. I can only hope that I have not stepped

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My asthma has been acting up lately. It makes me feel low on energy most of the time. Sometimes I get headache just from not having enough oxygen. My muscles get so tense from coughing. It was really tough especially today during the concert at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Spencerville, MD. Today's program had Tchaikovsky Piano Trio & Richard Strauss Piano Quartet. I love both pieces, but

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Finally, convinced Peter to have one and half free day. I mean totally free. Starting from Saturday afternoon. We did absolutely nothing. Ok, prior to doing nothingness, we did take our dog, totoro, to the vet for long overdue shots and check ups. She is in good condition, only with two slight problems. Her back leg's joint seems a bit loose. Also, she is almost 6 lb. overweight.... Well, she is

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Dogs - Goodness....Chinese Dance Troup - yes, these people cannot hear! The Films of Mitchell Rose

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Here are some questions that we often get from people prior and after the concerts:Why is your trio name Mendelssohn Piano Trio?Oh, I thought piano trio means three pianists playing on three pianos, why does your group has a violinist and a cellist instead?Why is there no Mendelssohn Piano Trio on your program when you are Mendelssohn Piano Trio?Are you (me) and the violinist (Peter Sirotin, my

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The tour to Taiwan with the trio has ended successfully. Thanks to my mother's managerial abilities we were able to fly business class round-trip (including a seat for the cello). That really made a huge difference. The press conference was not as horrifying as the first time we did it about 3 years ago. Although I don't think I will ever get used to having people taking pictures or filming about

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Lewenthals's own (circa 1955) liner notes:" Scriabin's 24 Preludes,Op.11, were, no doubt,inspired by Chopin's, but they have their own charm and poetry.Salon music some of them, but would that we heard such music in salons these days! ""Some are slightly naughty;there is a certain indolent grace;the delightful occupation of doing nothing.Some, looking innocuous enough on paper, are very demons

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A purist sounds offBy Vivien SchweitzerFinancial TimesSeptember 6 2005No one who meets Louis Lortie can be in any doubt that he prefers to go his own route. Venting his frustration with record companies and concert programmers, the 46-year-old French-Canadian pianist says artists should think for themselves, "but most organisations don't allow that. Soloists end up collaborating with conductors

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I had a sleepless night. Thoughts, music, sounds, and visual images just kept crossing my mind. Or I should say clouds of them? Because I cannot seem to crystalize them. Thoughts on students' progress, their future career hardships, attitudes of freshman class, Tchaikovsky Trio melodic lines, Peter, his students, our schedule, Totoro, Tiger, ...I tried to stop the train of thoughts, but it was at

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How come people don't listen to the government? When you are asked to be evacuated, you are to be evacuated. I can understand if you are sick, old, or disable, and unable to do so yourself, but other than that, why take the chance?On the other hand, what does one do if there are no means to get out? No car/rental car, no bus/plane ticket, no gas, ...Could this be the reason for such a disaster?"

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It has been a productive and interesting day. I had a great practice of Tchaikovsky Trio, had started to learn the 2nd Schumann Piano Trio, and had most of my private students' schedule sorted out for fall 2006.Tchaikovsky Trio is always going to be physically challenging for me no matter how many times I had performed it. Having hands that can only play octaves, his piano trio part brings quite

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There are so many different kinds of people in this world. Today I encountered a very unkind, nasty, mean, obnoxious woman. This happened at Macy's 2nd. Floor, Bridal section in Tyson's Corner II. I have been looking to purchase a concert dress lately, and today was going to be my last try no matter whether I found one or not. My husband and me wondered into this Bridal section, and saw a

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This is an article forwarded from a friend. Pedants and partisans Author: Terry EagletonPublication: The GuardianDate: February 22, 2003Terry Eagleton argues that fundamentalism is characterised by a dangerous reverence for words http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,899641,00.html There are two things desirable for fighting fundamentalists. The first is not to be one yourself. The

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A friend forwarded these to me.For those who can read Chinese.謹以此文獻給流浪在外的子女們遊蕩了這麼多年，從東到西，又從北到南，一年又一年，我在長大，知識在增加，世界在變小，家鄉的母親在變老。二 十一年前母親把我送上了火車，從那以後，我一刻也沒有停止探索這個世界，二十年裡，從北京到上海，從廣州到香港，從紐約到華盛頓，從南美到南非，從倫敦 到雪梨，我遊蕩過五十多個國家，在十幾個城市生活和工作過。每到一個地方，從裡到外，就得改變自己以適應新的環境，而唯一不變的是心中對母親的思念。IP 電話卡出現後，我才有能力常常從國外給母親打電話，電話中母親興奮不已的聲音總能讓我更加輕鬆地面對生活中的艱難和挑戰。然而也有讓我不安的地 方，那就是我感 覺到母親的聲音一次比一次蒼老。過去兩年裡，母親每次電話中總是反覆叮囑：好好再外面生活，不要擔心我，

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===The Keyboard TradeBy DANIEL J. WAKINThe NY TimesAugust 14, 2005The classical piano talent bubbling out of China is nolonger a secret. Witness Lang Lang and Yundi Li, emergingstars with big careers. So it may be no surprise that thewinner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition onAug. 6 was the Chinese pianist Chu-Fang Huang, 23, or thatMs. Huang was a finalist at this year's Van

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Have you noticed how recently many truck drivers have been driving like maniacs on highways? Many of them are speeding, passing in and out of lanes like they own the road. Just yesterday, there were 2 major truck related accidents we encountered in less than an hour. First one involved an over-turned truck that carried some soil like substance on I-15 in PA. Luckily, there was at least one lane

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A beautiful and peaceful dayAfter dropping Yi-Ann & Rose off at the Dullus Airport, I went straight to meet Rob at the Park & Ride off I-424 Davidsonville Rd around 7:30am.Rob's beautiful boat!The goal was to go crabbing today. There was weather advisory for severely hot weather, but we were really lucky to not have that until around 1 pm. Since this is my first time crabbing, I had been

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Here I am again, sitting in my studio and browsing the web. Last week ended really well with the lighthearted movie "Hitch". It is a movie for you if you want to just relax and have a little laugh at the end of a tired week.Here are some of my collections from today's web-browsing:__________________________________________________________Free Culture by Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law

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The SuDoKu puzzle:The object is to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. What could be simpler?Enjoy!

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Finally, a day that I can relax at home. Even though I have to drive to PA tomorrow again for another concert, yet a day is plenty to get my lost energy back. I woke up early so I can drop off my cousin, Yi-An, and her friend for their 4 days 3 nights East-America Tour.With all the horrific driving experiences I have gone through for the past week, I thought I would copy paste part of this

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Yesterday was a strange, horrible, yet a indelible and lucky day for me. It all started from the drive to concert in PA. Traffic was of course not good, but bearable for a Monday early afternoon with rain. As I was concentrating on drive since I-95 North was pack with cars, a motorcyclist, or a death chaser, suddenly appeared from nowhere in unbelievably high speed (probably about 100mph) going

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I have finished reading "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. What a great read. I have read many western classics in Chinese when I was younger. I have the luxury to reread them now in English. Very different experience. By the way, Beethoven Emperor with Shippensburg Festival Orchestra (July 23rd) went ok. Unfortunately the first bassoon player and a few other orchestra players were caught in

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Finished the 6th book. It seems like a transitional book. I really like it though, a very emotional read.

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I am officially 31 years of age. Since I had a hard working day yesterday, we are going to enjoy today. Started the day with buying food, getting cake, and dropping our car for maintenance. We also got a stuffed animal without the stuff inside for Totoro. I always wonder how does she know it is a toy for her since it does not have a special smell to attract her nose like the food.Much

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Today is my birthday, well, 3 more minutes left of it at least. Received gorgeous flowers from Peter, combination of yellow roses and blue orchids and other blue flowers that I don't know the name of. Had a not so productive practicing of Beethoven Emperor. Had a horrible drive down to St. Mary's (bad weather, bad traffic and many inconsiderate people!). Great conversations with Peter.

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introspection \in-truh-SPEK-shuhn\, noun: The act or process of self-examination; contemplation of one's own thoughts and feelings; a looking inward. (from dictionary.com)If everyone would spend some time each day on introspection, this world would be filled with much happier and better people. Everyone is quick to point finger to someone else when there is problem or chaos. Really the

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This weekend has been the slowest, the laziest, the most unproductive one yet, it is GREAT! Once in a while, doing nothing and being bored to death is a good thing. Our surrounding is loaded with images, sounds, and personalities, one easily can get lost in the midst of all these. Being able to do nothing (that includes no outing/vacation) insures one to clear everything from the mind. I feel

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What is jealousy? It is a product of Envy.The desire to be better than the others creates envious feeling. Why are people so prone to competitions? Even if one is not in the competition setting, one puts themselves into that setting to compete with everyone around you on just about anything. Who is skinnier, who looks better, who has better car, who has more savings, who owns more properties,

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Inconsideration seems to be the common human trait in the society. People used to call in to cancel an appointment/engagement ahead of a time. Now, people not only cancel last minute, sometimes they just don't show up! They don't even bother to come up with an excuse anymore. Why?!People are so used to have everything revolve around them. They assume they can change scheduling without

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A confused look for luck of getting some food from us! Totoro. 6/4/2005 To see my photo album, go to http://christinaytcphotos.blogspot.com/

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=======A teacher's tormentBy Tim MadiganStar-Telegram Staff WriterPosted on Mon, Jun. 06, 2005http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/11830676.htmFORT WORTH - For most of the past three weeks, Veda Kaplinsky has sat in the same seat on the right side of Bass Hall, listening as one of her students, audience favorite Joyce Yang, played her way to a silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano

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Life is a journey. A journey by definition has a beginning and an end, yet such definition does not apply to the life journey. The beginning of our physical existence is birth and the end is death. The beginning of the spiritual life journey is really unknown yet the end of the spiritual life is unknown either. Some people go through life without seeing the choices or their life routes, therefore

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"An exaggerated veneration for an exceptional individual" will allow worshippers "to abnegate responsibility, looking to the great man for salvation or for fulfilment" that we should work out for ourselves. --Christina Hardyment, "The intoxicating allure of great men," review of [1]Heroes: Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen, by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, [2]Independent,

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Taiwan Protests China on Observer - The New York Times Article Why does the U. S. Government allow this to happen? When can politicians put aside politics and work for the human kind?Chinese government is willing to put their political agenda over the health of Taiwanese people. The world has to put a stop to this nonsense. Taiwan is a democratic country, and is unwilling to be part of

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Who is this piano man? I do not think anyone would try to pretend this type of illness to get publicity.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/16/npiano16.xmlIt is sad that the piano man can only find his peace at the piano. I don’t know what kind of trauma or experiences he had to cause his anxiety. Talking about finding his identity, maybe finding his social identity is

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My first language is Chinese Mandarin. Although I have been in U. S. for more than 15 years, expressing my thoughts or ideas in English is still a hard task for me. There is obviously no problem having normal conversations in everyday life situation, otherwise, I should just give up living here altogether. However, it gets really frustrating in the social setting where the conversations become

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