书，咖啡，海景，豪宅

又是一个艳阳天，只不过没有了再去沙滩的心情。昨天刚刚去过，身上还可以明显看出晒过太阳的痕迹。在家里呆了一个上午，又如往常一样，下午实在是呆不住了。仍然想来想去，不知道该去什么地方好。爬山？太晒，而且上个星期的运动量已经足够，似乎不用再补充了。香港公园？也晒，而且人来人往，加上还有些小bug，让你无法静下心来读书。图书馆？又过于静了。好吧，还是去IFC吧，坐在Starbucks的沙发里，喝着Latte，窗外就是维多利亚港的海景，旁边还不时有乐队演奏着轻音乐。在这种环境里看着书，好不惬意！另外，港湾对面就是每平方英尺2万多的超级豪宅，我读起书来也有了些许动力。就这样，在IFC的Starbucks里面坐了整整一个下午。

阳光，沙滩，海风

一连几天的好天气，搞得我心里痒痒的，也没了心思工作。只是心里盼望周末也能够有个好天气。一早醒来，天气果然不错！盘算着不能浪费了这么好的天儿，得干点儿什么！起来后，就开始琢磨今天的安排。去深圳呢？还是去沙滩呢？最后终于决定，还是去沙滩吧，今年的第一次下海！刚入五月，人也应该不会太多。打电话约了明哥，多年的断背组合，哈哈！

2点来到浅水湾，果然人不是很多。如果是炎夏，就会见到沙滩上密密麻麻，躺满了红男绿女。来到老地方，铺上沙滩席，抹完防晒油，便戴上iPod躺了下来。5月的阳光不是很烈，加上有徐徐的海风吹过，即使没有太阳伞也不觉得热。感觉还挺舒服，先眯上一小觉吧！3点多的时候，明哥如约来到，还给我带来了Pret Manger的午餐。有一段时间没见了，吃着，喝着，晒着，聊着，躺着，时间就在不知不觉中过去。中间只下了一次海，五月的海水还挺凉，因此海中游泳的人并没有多少。多数都只是站在近岸边的齐腰水中玩着。5点多，晒得差不多了，和明哥收拾东西，坐上巴士到湾仔dianba了点儿东西，各自打道回府！

玉渊潭赏花

这次回北京时间太短，因此没有跟同学、朋友们联络。自己一个人又实在闷得慌，所以一个人走去玉渊潭公园赏花。不想，以赏樱花而闻名的玉渊潭里樱花已经全部凋谢。只剩下一丛红色郁金香格外扎眼。五月的北京，风和日丽，春光明媚。尽管这仅存的一丛郁金香也已现颓象，在午后阳光的照射下，依然让人流连忘返。阳光透过红色花瓣，使得一朵朵郁金香就像小红灯笼一样！

疼痛继续

昨晚上差点儿没法自己洗澡，也就随便冲了冲，烈烈歪歪地就上床了

今儿早上起来，丝毫没有好转，仍处于恶化阶段。走路都费劲，更甭提上楼梯，真够受罪的。本想这两天晚上回家自己做饭，转念一想，得，还是甭折腾自己了。连胳膊都抬不起来，还炒菜？

老婆也不在。一个人的日子，两点一线的生活，其实没有太多选择。

裝俢进度

被文信杜老板告知：

• 铲底完成

• 油底油完成

• 墙身裂缝修复

如果今日去看可看到墙身修复情况。明天进行批灰，过后将不会看到裂缝修复情况。

过去看了一下。墙身裂纹用什么收缩英泥抹了，可以起到防水防漏作用。墙身已经基本铲完，除了极少数地方有遗漏，象主人房两个开关之间的狭小间隙，估计是没 注意到。底油已经油上。主人房的的膨胀螺栓被拔除，洞也已被填平。客厅的膨胀螺栓还有挂日历的地方还没有填。主人房似乎已经开始了部分的批灰工序。

由于是几个师傅进行流水作业，很难保证每一道工序完成后通知业主去察看，否则会妨碍工程的顺利进行。唯有每天如果有时间都过去看一下，有什么问题立刻提。

Nov. 23, 2005

• 卫生间假天花完成一半
• 客房，书房和客厅第一遍批灰
• 房门油两遍底漆，打磨与油漆交叉进行
• 卫生间水管锈蚀暂时不理会

喘口气儿

许多天以来，终于可以有些许时间倒杯水，坐下来，松口气。

最近可真是忙得不亦乐乎！公事，私事全都是在这接近年终的时候一起来了。

这边裝俢的事情联系了差不多2，3个星期，从什么也不知道，不清楚，到现在终于开始动工，也算是一个小小的成绩吧。最初真的是两眼一摸黑，啥也不知道。叫 了朋友的哥哥先上来看了一看，说了说我们的要求，拿了一个报价。以这个报价和熟人说的装饰材料为蓝本，老婆和我便开始漫长的研究调查工作。买了份星期六的 经济日报（只为了附送的置业家居），对着上面的广告，打电话询问裝俢和家具存倉的报价。同时，又上网寻找相关的公司或者网站了解情况。从乳胶漆，水晶地蜡 到木器的清漆，磁漆和手扫漆，一一做了比较。无奈众说纷纭，这个说ICI好，那个说Permoglaze好，另一个又推荐日本Nippon漆，让我们两个 着实头疼，不知该选哪个。既要考虑质量，又要考虑价格。而对于不同的油漆不同裝俢公司也有着不同的定价标准，有的换漆不加钱，另外一些不仅加还加得较多。 要在这众多的产品和公司中做出选择，实属不易。价钱太便宜的不敢选，怕偷工减料；价钱太贵的也不能选，省下的钱还可以用在其他方面；找熟人吧，应该是不会 偷工减料，可是又不好意思侃价儿，而且，岀了什么事也不好出声；找生人吧，又怕不好好给你装，能凑合就凑合。关键是要权衡所有这些有利和不利因素，选一个 相对最优方案。家具存倉也一样，不同的公司报价也不尽相同，有的甚至是天壤之别。最贵的是最便宜的3倍！而且，都不会跟你说清楚。到时候要搬的时候上来才 告诉你这个要加钱，那个也要加钱。比最初的预算又贵出去不少。此时，你不给也不成啊！

这边裝俢的事情忙得热火朝天，那边儿公司也没让我闲着。似乎还觉得我不够忙，又给了我一个项目。不止如此，原来说一个月之内交活儿。结果这边刚开完会，那 边就告诉我改成俩星期了。好，减了一半工时！真TMD信任我！于是，在就要结束这2005年的当口，我又要和厂商下新订单，又要签2006的维护合约，又 要管理着我下面的20多台服务器，又要进行N多数据库的维护工作，还要写程序！忙死了算！

让他们Y折腾去吧！

Pretty busy these days

I almost went crazy these days. Seems like all the things come in, both work and personal. Just started working on a new project with Vendor, many other requests come in either from my own team or from other business departments. Give me a break, man! I also need to think about the apartment re-decoration since I want to finish the decoration work before Christmas. There are also too many things to deal with. Calling for the quote from different decoration companies, comparing with each other, finding some hosting service and so forth. I've never had any experience in this. Pretty awkward, I feel. Maybe everybody got the same feeling after talking about this with me! But I gotta get this done!

Well... just some complaints. Life has to go on!

My beautiful wife

This picture was taken on the last Sunday Oct. 30, 2005. After having the lunch with my parents, my wife and I went to Tung Chung MTR. There is a shopping mall. On weekends, there are always a lot of people walking around. It might be the hottest spot in that area. My wife and I were sitting in a bar while watching a live band not far away from us and looking at some cute children dressed for Hulloween. It's a day before Hulloween. I was drinking beer and my wife was eating ice cream. A beautiful and comfortable afternoon in autumn! I took this picture for my beautiful wife.

Angry at one of my relatives who just lived under our floor

Somebody just lost her mind from time to time! Okay, here is the story.
Last night, only 10 mins. to the midnight, my aunt Ling (actually, i don't wanna call her aunt any more) was keeping calling. It's pretty annoying. we, my wife and I, didn't wanna pick up the calls since we all know what she's gonna talk about. But this lady just seemed so energetic and never got tired of disturbing us by phoning in. My wife couldn't bear any more and took the 3rd call. Here are soem conversations between them (I was in bathroom at the time).
"Somebody died there?!", Ling yelled.
"Be a little big polite, please!", my wife replied while putting the growing anger under control.
"Who do you think you are?! I wanna talk to Wang Yang!", Ling shouted again.
"He's not here", my wife controlled herself again and said.
"Did you kill him? His blood is flowing into my bathroom!", Ling screamed.
Finally, my wife's anger bursted out.
"Did you lose your mind?"
"The pipe is your property. Come down and fix the problem!", Ling cried. Actually, it's a long story and we've been talking about this for a long time. We don't see any problem with the pipe but she just insists it's leaking.
"If the pipe is ours, why did you try to fix the uncertain problem by yourself without letting us know?", my wife fighted back.
Ling just kept shouting and shouting. A lot of offensive words were pouring out! Finally, my wife hung up on her.
After then, this lady phoned my parents. We live seperately in HK. And again, said my offensive words to my mother even my mother is her elder sister. My mother didn't feel comfortable and takes 1 day sick leave today. That's not enough for Ling. The lady called her elder brother in Beijing immediately after disturbing my mom. Seems like she's going to make everybody crazy. My uncle in Beijing, also my mom's elder brother, called my parents afterwards and asked if Ling lost her mind. Definitely she lost her mind totally! To avoid her annoying calls, my parents unplugged the phone last night.
I think this lady just has nothing to do. I really don't understand what she wanna do and what's exactly on her mind. Since she's an elder, my wife and I respected her. But she just doesn't respect herself! What's wrong with her? She really pissed me off!