Just now I experienced another log on problem, so I decided to move.
The new space address is 1tian.blog.com.cn

This might not be the last blog in this place, and I might come back from time to time, just as I will visit my other spaces from time to time.

Before I vanish, I am going to say the following:

1. there was an earthquake in the UK, when I was in bed. I was very these days, so I didn't feel anything.

2. I've been to stonehenge last week. I cannot remember whether I have mentioned anything yet. Anyways, it was cold and windy, so if any of you would like to go recently, please wear more clothes. In addition, please wear a pair of gloves.

3. I've got problems to log onto hotmail and msn recently. I do hate microsoft! Poeple should use qq or other online chatting software.

4. tomorrow is the Leap Day, when traditionally women propose to their partners. I wonder how many friends of mine will be engaged tomorrow.

5. the astrology sign reading in the london paper is so irrelevant (or completely opposite) to my life. They should make up more appealing stories.

6. why is it so easy to climb up the parliment? I'd like to do that as well. However, I will not risk being arrested.

7. I realized that I was not able to spend all my salary on my food, which means that I can do more things. anyone fancy go kading?

我已经了解了
女人不可靠，兄弟不可靠，组织不可靠，外星人也不可靠。
还有哪些呀？男人？那部是地球人都不可靠？

有些事，似乎人是别无选择的。

It's cold.
There are a dozen of big blocks of stones and several wild birds.
Stonehenge is really in the middle of nowhere.
It was really windy and I could not feel my hands at one point.
Last Saturday.

Sometimes I think the quality of the DLR service is not too bad. However, as there are ongoing engineering work over the weekends for DLR these weeks, my life has been affected greatly.

1.Obviously, there aren't as many buses as trains. Hence, I have to wait much longer.
2.The bus drivers are not local (probably). I only took buses three time, but on two occasions the drivers didn't know the way. For the first time, I wasn't sure where to get off, so I asked the bus driver three times. Each time he told me my destination was still ahead, and apparently this wasted me about 20 minutes, as I should have got off at the first time I asked him.
Today the bus driver drove us to a dead end and she had to turn around and drove back again. This cost me about 10 minutes.
3.I could not enjoy seeing the beautiful scenes through the bus windows, as I experienced car sick, or probably I should say bus sick. In general, I think drivers should not follow the cars in front so closely, as this could be dangerous and potentially lethal.

As the big boss has left for settling in Zurich, the London office has been a little bit chaotic at the moment. The CTO, equity group MD and fixed income group MD had their rotations here as the head(s) of the London office.

My small boss has become more and more relaxed recently, as he began to wear jeans everyday. On the other hand, some of my other team members start to wear ties everyday (probably because they want to impress the bosses.) Now, the CTO has become my big boss and one of the senior associates has become my middle boss.

The new big boss asked me to stop my second project as he asked me to think about the big blueprint, whereas the middle boss gave me a couple of small projects to do, which requires no brain power but time consuming database checks.

The problem about the our current database is huge. Most securities have different identifiers, but some securities may have the same identifiers with different countries of registration. This potentially can cause troubles.
In addition, the data provided by the our data vendor could be wrong at the first place. What's worse? The data written through from the equity of fixed income database to our total fund database can be wrong due to some updates in either of the database.

As there are so many potential errors, one-rule-fit-for-all policy will never work in reality. This caused great difficulty for me to check models using the data from our database. Today I just found a bug that was never been found by any of our clients or any member of our quality control team or any member of our client servicing team. I hope by the time I get back to office tomorrow morning, the bug will be fixed, and hence I can really start to do what I am supposed to do.

As I have downloaded the extension version of heroes of might and magic, I should play it.
But where is my spare time? Em...... Is half an hour everyday feasable?
Maybe I should go to bed now.

刚刚看到自己msn的个人消息，忽然想到古人心态不好。
书山无路勤为径，这句没有什么问题。
但是学海无涯苦作舟，说明古人觉得读书很苦。既然苦，就会无法享受。没有办法享受，就要逼着自己读。什么头悬梁啊，锥刺股啊的都出来了。其实，说到底，就是他们不喜欢读书。
当然，我也是一个不喜欢读书的人。从小到大，看过的书屈指可数。但是，自从读硕士以来，我发现一本好书往往比任何人阐述的都要清楚。这样一来，看书可以知道更多的来龙去脉。而看书的乐趣之一，就是学到知识的充实感。而拥有丰富学问会给人带来成就感。从这个角度考虑，读书充满乐趣，一点都不苦。

一切关键在心态。

Yesterday when I was on a bus, I was thinking about the war memorial in London. There are plenty of war memorial status in the UK. Some of these wars were probably morally good, but what about the others where imperial royal army crushed all the armadas in other countries and took the colonies from other countries. Are those wars justifiable? Obiously the people in commonwealth countries may support those wars, as they have forgotten how British people brutally treated their ancesters. This is the adaptive rule of the nature.

Using the same logic, let's think about the war memorials in Japan. If we agree with or do not object to the idea that people visit the UK memorial places, why should we strongly object to Japanese people's warship to their own war heroes?

The difference is that Japan lost the second world war and the British empire won all those wars.

还是老话，关键在心态。因为日本人伤害了我们，我们持有一颗报仇的心，一颗畏惧他们再来一次的心，一颗从出生就仇视日本人的心。但是对于英国人，我们似乎没有什么特殊的感情。放平心态，很多事都是无所谓的。科索沃就这么独立了。呵呵，不知道台湾将来会不会变成马蜂窝。也许今生是不知道结果了。

It's 23.51 on the fourth day of the new year.

The only sounds I can hear at the moment are noise from fireworks. As I look out of my windows, I can see different colours everywhere, from ground to the high air, from the very far end of my sight to right in front of me, from south to north and from west to east. This is like watching a 3D movie, with the only scenes being different kinds of blusts of bombs. I can imagine the scene will be no more dramatic than this when Americans bombarded Bagladad.

Why? It was said that people could welcome the God of Treasure to their homes if they displayed fireworks on 5th day of the new year. Of course, he should bring you wealth if he visits you.

However, I have become a strong believer of hard working, so at the moment, I wish they stopped soon so that I can go to bed!

heavy snow, huge loss, no water and no food for more than a week, no electricity for weeks, cold

IT IS COLD!

The funny thing about Chinese People's Army is that it seems to me that they are only there only for fighting against nature disaster. As China is far from being well equipped with advanced emergency rescue equipments, we need a huge army to form a human Great Wall to stop floods and protect residents from being washed away; we need them to shoot the ice hung down from the wires in the high air; we need them to clean the inches of snow on the roads so that other emergency team can send food and water to the trapped people; we need them to climb mountains while carrying heavy poles so that new electricity network can be built to restore power supply again. Can you imagine it takes 60 strong young soldiers 10 hours carrying one pole up a hill covered with inches of snow? How long will it take in order to fix the whole power supply network?

Although we have a couple of million army, the nature has a much bigger force with much greater flexibility and we lost almost all the battles while we tried to keep our loss at a minimum. Probably we are able to achieve the goal to minimize the loss, but we cannot achieve the goal to minimize the country-wise economic loss. For example, as soon as the railway network started working again after the snow and ice was cleaned, the donated supplements were sent to the areas where they were affected most seriously by the snow. However, what will happen to the unused supplyments that will not be consumed after everything is restored to its normal condition?

Chinese people like displaying fireworks very much.

They invented gunpowder for banboo cracker. It's a pity they didn't have science. Otherwise, Chinese people would invent fireworks a couple of thousand years ago.

This year, however, the noise and air pollution caused by fireworks dropped substantially, as I was told by my uncles. A taxidriver told me he would not display fireworks any more but instead, he would drive more in order to earn more money.

I thought the purpose of displaying fireworks was to scare the shit out of the demons and hopefully gods would give their blessings. On the other hand, Chinese people like "hot noise", which basically means that lots of people (friends and relatives) visit each other and as a result noise will be produced. Why? I have absolutely no idea, but I love it! Fireworks are hot and noisy, so people love them.

The point the taxidriver made was that people began to understand gods are powerless and unreliable and that the only way to achieve something is to believe ourselves. Although I totally agree with him, I still love fireworks, as they are hot noisy.

For those foreigners, as a precausion, you'd better not come to China at this time of the year, unless you want to have the feeling of being at a battle field. It was reported that in Beijing alone, there were several hundred million text messages sent on new year's eve. I can imagine there were billions of bombs displayed on that eve in China.

My uncle has bought some of those bombs. However, he returned these dynamites back to the shop owner as it is too dangerous to play with them as an amertur and there have been some counted deaths. Of course, I believe it is really easy to do some modifications to change these fireworks to weapons of mass destruction, well, according to Bush's definition.

I was imagining a world where every country had developed nuclear weapons and there was no effective defence system. Probably, the world would appear in equilibrium with no wars at all, as every governer is human being and by human nature they should be scared of death, which in turn should result in no offensive military orders. Right? Anyone who is no scared of death at all can never survive a political war or a physical war. This reminded me of the film "Assembly", which should be shown very soon in the UK. I just went to watch this movie in cinema this afternoon. War is crude and nobody wants to die, so if anyone can be killed by anyone else and there is no way to defend themselves to be killed, people are sensible enough not to start any stupid offensive attempts.

Sorry that I talked about shit again. Back to fireworks again. I believe there are other reasons behind the seemingly reduced noice and air pollution in Shanghai. Although I cannot name all, I can at least name one: the fast expansion of Shanghai. As more and more poor people moving  to the sububs, the number of poor people living in central Shanghai has reduced substaintially. Poor people tend to buy cheap fireworks, e.g. firecracker, which can cause more noise, though no optical attraction at all. On the other hand, more and more rich people buy flats and houses in central shanghai. Some of them let the flats out and the tenants have been very likely at home anywhere but shanghai. Others can afford huge fireworks, which can reach as high as hundreds of meters, but will not cause so much noise as firecrackers.

I haven't come home for new year for 5 years. To be honest, I think it was noisy enough.

第一次从头看到尾，连歌都看了，不容易啊。
有点感人。
重点强调一个字“和”。
自古以来，中国以和为贵，现当今国家要求稳定，和是必须的。
中国今年的金融形式相当严峻，国家对外汇的监管没有以前那么强力了，对人民币的掌控也不再是100%了。
－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－
昨天没有写完就去睡觉了。
恩，脑子当中有很多东西拉，但是不知道从何写起，只是借着春晚发挥一下。
还是坚持我的想到哪里写到哪里的风格：

1.商业化。这次春晚已经相当商业化了，看看满世界广本的广告，还有一个什么集团，听都没有听说过，恩。。。有点孤陋寡闻。原以为会有很多关于雪灾捐款的项目，结果只是带过而已。当然这个可以理解，因为春晚要准备将近大半年的，这个雪灾是突然到来的，他们准备不够充分是可以理解的。无论怎么说，我觉得这次过于商业化了，CCTV不应该这么商业化的。CCTV完全可以通过卖新闻给地方电视台，卖纪录片赚钱。不过，政府补贴不可少。估计这样的运作模式，CCTV人力资源不够，不会那么成功吧。

2.烟花。在春晚播放的时候，时不时穿插了一点场外的景观，可以看见北京街头放的烟花。不敢确定那些镜头是录像，有没有经过电脑处理，或者就是直播的镜头。如果是直播的话，那么北京放烟花的时间似乎比上海长。今年可能上海太冷的原因，我家附近大部分人放烟花都集中在午夜。往年，吃完年夜饭就会断断续续地有人放，今年放的人出奇的少。另外，远远看见浦东方向的烟花相当漂亮，不知道是不是因为很多有钱人都搬到了浦东。反正，这样的全民放烟花的举动，英国这个破地方肯定是支付不了的。

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这两天，每天都饱死了，回到家就挺晚了，没有机会写完。
3.节目。现在的相声水平真不是一般得烂，而小品自从一两年前，数量猛增，水平也达到一个高度。至于歌曲嘛，不少港台明星都来春晚献一首，不过我真的对周杰伦不敢恭维，似乎嗓子有点哑，不知道是不是感冒了。章子怡是不是假唱我不知道，但是歌还算ok。杂技表演真是高难度，如果Afrika，Afrika不是那么贵，我可能也可以比较一下中非杂技表演。武术表演放在午夜之后，当时边看烟火边看电视，有点心不在焉，所以不好评论。当然，我对这种体育项目也不懂，只知道那样打太极和老爷爷老奶奶玩得不太一样，估计被打一个组合拳肯定要横过去的。

4.关键词。只记住一个：为什么？

飞机火车汽车个个停开，回不了家，
A股B股H股纷纷跳水。过不好年。
——天灾人祸

冷就一个字，
累也一个字，
饱还是一个字，
正在经历少有的饱寒交迫。

我发现，自己话太多了，还是原来的我比较适合我。

第二个项目，看来要拖到3月份才有希望搞定了。跨国公司，信息交流真的很重要。

美国人竟然比英国人死板，因为美国人独断专行，不会用发散的眼光看世界。我们公司在欧洲看来。。。。。。

I have learned to sleep standing up.

I am the worst date ever.

Coffee is a food group.

My fashion sense is off.

Guess who else is up late at night?

No time to play anymore.

My golf game is suffering.

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Something is definitely true here, but I need to make some of the others true as well.