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March 29 Back To THE Station And THE Lesson It HoldsTucked away in our subconscious minds is an idyllic vision in which we see ourselves on a long journey that spans an entire continent. We’re traveling by train, and from the windows we drink in the passing scenes of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at crossings, of cattle grazing in distant pastures, of smoke pouring from power plants, of row upon row of cotton and corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of city skylines and village halls. But uppermost in our minds is our final destination- for at a certain hour and on a given day, our train will finally pull into the station with bells ringing, flags waving, and bands playing. And once that day comes, so many wonderful dreams will come true. So restlessly, we pace the aisles and count the miles, peering ahead, waiting, waiting, waiting for the station, “yes, when we reach the station, that will be it!” we promise ourselves…”When we’re 18…win that promotion…put the last kid through college…buy that 450 SL Mercedes Benz…pay off the mortgage…have a nest egg for retirement.” From that day on, we will live happily ever after. Sooner of later, however, we must realize there is no station in this life, no one earthly place to arrive at once and for all. The journey is the joy. The station is an illusion- it constantly outdistances us. Yesterday’s a memory; tomorrow’s a dream. Yesterday belongs to history; tomorrow belongs to God. Yesterday’s a fading sunset; tomorrow’s a faint sunrise. Only today is there light enough to love and live. So greatly close the door on yesterday and throw the key away. It isn’t the burdens of today that drive men mad, but rather the regret over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, laugh more and cry less. Go barefoot more often. Eat more ice cream. Watch more sunsets. Life must be lived as we go along. March 28 可爱的心情 漆漆总算是吃到我托朋友带给她的巧克力了,
是我自己比较偏爱的Dove,
不要成天想着keep good shape,
虽然这是个全体女性友人的梦想,
可天下美食何其多……衣带渐宽终不悔嘛!!
其实,
我当时随手就挑起这张卡片写给她,
漆MM居然讲就是这张可爱的心情卡,
卡面的封面上惊人地写着一句近几个月
她一直让自己努力靠近的话--
"Life is full of wonder. Live the moment."
嘿嘿~~
真不枉我俩多年的朋友和相知
Life just Like as climbing a mountain~~
希望我和MM,还有所以看到这里的朋友们,
天天像有好吃的巧克力
有好东西愉悦心情一样微笑!
March 23 谈论 大家都来支持慈善事业吧!引用 大家都来支持慈善事业吧! Women's History CelebrationToday, Thursday, March 22,2007
今天学校举行了一个庆祝关于Women's History的会,请来了Honorbale Mildred Crump - Councilwoman at large,Council President, Ms.cynthia, Director - Business trainning Institute, Ms. Valeria, Campus President - Chubb Institute等几位作了些励志性的讲话,赞扬女性对社会做出的卓越贡献和成就。 在这次活动上了解到关于U.S.女性历史的庆祝活动开始于1978年"Women's History Week"在Sonoma County, California. 根据2004年的统计表格显示在美国20项主要工作中女性占工作总人数百分比的43.7%,平均收入为每周573美元,为男性平均收入的80.4%。 其中女性百分比占90%以上的6项职业分别是: 1.Secretaries and administrative assistants(Percent woman:96.7%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:550).
2.Registered nurses (Percent woman:91.7%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:895).
3.Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (Percent woman:91.2%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:542).
4.Receptionists and information clerks(Percent woman:93.9%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:463).
5.Teacher assistans(Percent woman:91.7%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:373).
6.Preschool and kindergarten teachers (Percent woman:97.7%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:515).
其中女性雇员所占百分比占最少的3项职业分别是:
1.First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales worker (Percent woman:43.9%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:505).
2.Retail salespersons (Percent woman:41.1%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:386). 3.Secondary school teachers (Percent woman:54.8%,Woman's median usual weekly earnings:824).
在今天的活动上,读到了资料中一些著名女性的语录,把一些觉得写的很好的记下来:
"My world did not shrink because I was a black female writter.It just got bigger."
--Toni Morrison(1931-) the winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature
"I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little...I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggles is a victory."
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
-- Hellen Keller(1880-1968) the world famous author and public speaker, on her studies at Radciffe College
"It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth, and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest; as if it wat the only one we had."
"There are no mistakes, no coincidence. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross(1926-) A psychiatrist and author
"Men weren't really the enemy-they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill."
"A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination."
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying million of American woman alive. "
-- Betty Friedan(1921-)A labor journalist and author
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."-- Althea Gibson(1927-) A sport pioneer in both amateur and professional golf
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
-- Lorraine Hansberry(1930-1965) a playwright and painter
"If you don't like the way the world is, you change it.You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
"You're not obligation to win.You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."
--Marion Wright Edelman(1939-) Attorney and civil rights advocate
"Let us be patient with one another,
And even patient with ourselves.
We have a long,long way to go.
So let us hasten along the road,
The road of human tendmess and generosity.
Groping, we may fine one another's hands in the dark."
--Emily Greene Balch(1867-1961) Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1946
March 12 三叶草,风笛——亲历爱尔兰St.Patrick's Day 不想起床,我就是不想起床! 看到最近一则新闻报道说的非常可笑:“有人喜欢夏令时,因为喜欢户外活动的人可以提早享受阳光,糖果厂也会开心,因为万圣节的时候孩子在外头儿要糖果的时间也拉长了。但是农民可是从来都不喜欢夏令时,因为他们平常起得就够早了,夏令时一实施,意味着他们得起得更早,而且乳牛更会搞不清为什么人们提早来挤奶。”乳牛居然也受夏令时提早影响! 既然起床了,看着外面的世界阳光还算灿烂,出去走走运动一下吧,正好去Town上的杂货店买些原料做么么喳喳,出门走了3分钟,在家门口拐角的大街上眼睛一亮, 等我再出家门赶到的时候还好游行才刚刚开始。站在游行队伍出发口的位置好拍照。2点游行队伍准时陆续出发。先是车队徐徐开出,一辆接一辆每辆都是很有特色的古董车,接着马队出发了,骑马的武士men还真是脸上有种表情叫威武,接着不同的团体代表紧随其后,中学代表团也出现了,在美国生长的孩子个个都很大方,也看起来偏成熟,女孩子大体都比较丰满,呵呵。游行队伍中有一对服装鲜艳的男女们身着和中国刺绣非常相似的颜色鲜艳的服装热情的边走边舞,灿烂的笑脸!一群爱尔兰风笛队伍迈着整齐的步伐,吹着民族音乐…… 有一个一身绿色服装,头戴高高绿色帽子的小姑娘骑在一匹有人牵着的马上也在游行队伍之中,路过我跟前的时候,看着我在拍照,非常配合的冲我灿烂的一笑,牵马人还特别友好的牵着马在我面前转了一小圈,友好的爱尔兰人。游行队伍中还有人妆扮成武士,还有人扮成手持斧头蒙面低头的盗贼类的人物,更奇怪的是有2个人居然是头戴盔甲,中间扶着个里面放了把铲子的大垃圾桶夹在游行队伍里。我也不知道具体是什么典故让他们会扮成这个样子。 游行队伍继续前行,我也不知道他们究竟是要游到哪里,于是在伴随他们走过了几个街口,决定打道回府了。今天是我第一次知道也是第一次亲历爱尔兰Irish St.Patrick's Day,在美国这个移民国家感受到爱尔兰的文化,那是爱尔兰移民们阔别已久的地方,却是留在了心里的故乡。也带给了我对爱尔兰的美好向往。 相关资料: 夏日最后的玫瑰--爱尔兰 爱尔兰仅有三百多万人口,居住在外国的侨民却多达三千多万。 有一首爱尔兰民歌曲调忧伤、凄美,歌名也非常浪漫,叫《夏日最后的玫瑰》,它与当今红极一时的U2乐队的风格相去甚远。十九世纪中叶,爱尔兰人和英国人、德国人一起组成了移居美国的第一批欧洲人的主体,尤其在纽约一带较为集中,以至于爱尔兰的国庆日----圣巴特里克节----极其罕见地成为美国的法定节日。 巴特里克是爱尔兰最主要的圣人和民族使徒,以将基督教传入爱尔兰闻名。他活跃于公元五世纪,出身在受罗马文化熏陶的不列颠家庭,16岁被爱尔兰人掳去,为奴六年,期间虔诚信教,辗转逃回不列颠,行将饿毙时再次被掳,不久终得以与家人团聚。传说巴特里克返回不列颠后,在梦中见到有人交给他一封题为《爱尔兰人的呼声》的信,仿佛听到一群爱尔兰人在请求回到他们中间。到七世纪末,巴特里克已成为传奇人物,他向不信教的人显示三叶苜蓿花,并用这种植物的三叶一柄比拟上帝的三位一体。三叶苜蓿花如今成为爱尔兰的国花,每年3月17日圣巴特里克节,居住在世界各地的爱尔兰人都在襟上佩戴此花。 三叶草传说 传说中,如果谁找到了有四瓣叶片的三叶草,即四叶三叶草,谁就会得到幸福。所以在欧洲一些国家,在路边看到三叶草的人们,几乎都会把它收好,压平,以便来日赠送他人,以此来表达他们对友人的美好祝愿。 在爱尔兰,每年的圣巴特里克节上,每个人都要戴上一个三叶草花球。据说,圣巴特里克曾以一片三叶草向崇尚自由的爱尔兰人讲解三位一体。但是现在的人们已经很难确定,当初圣巴特里克用作比喻的究竟是三叶草还是黄花的天蓝草了。不过,三叶草却是典型的为基督教所继承的一种象征。它很早就是凯尔特人三个祭司等级三级一体的象征。而三叶草那蓬勃的长势也使它成为生命力的象征。德鲁伊特早已赋予了四叶三叶草与今天相同的意义了,那就是——幸福。 March 10 么么喳喳&鸡蛋肉饼汤放上几个食谱,我的胃正等着自己来买通一下!
最爱是马来西亚甜品中“么么喳喳”,以前只有在纽约地道的马来西亚一家名叫“指天椒”餐厅吃到,等有时间自己尝试做一下~因为现在越来越少有时间去纽约了,成天呆在新泽西过这昏昏沉沉的学习生活……
么么喳喳 原料:红豆2安士、水6杯、眉豆2安士、西米(大粒)1安士、番薯2安士(要紫番薯,见图)、芋头2安士、糖6安士、椰汁1小罐
做法:红豆放 6 杯水内煮约 30 分钟,加人眉豆,续煲至透身,煲内烧水 4 杯至滚,将西米放人,翻滚,加盖焗 10 分钟,重复焗至西米熟透,隔水浸冻。番薯及芋头切粒,浸于清水内。将糖,番薯及芋头加人豆水内,煮至透身,最后加人西米,续煲约 5 分钟,可冻或热食。
听外婆说自己每天都要吃鸡蛋肉饼汤,自己来国外3年了竟然还没有喝过这个汤,想想真是伤心~~这个似乎是南昌的风味小吃店特有的,一盅瓦罐煨汤配上一碗南昌炒米粉,好怀念la,家乡的口味就是好!
鸡蛋肉饼汤
原料:猪肉七两至一斤,鸡蛋两个
【做法】买肉时把肉用机子打碎.将肉放入碗里,放盐,生粉(盐不要太多,生粉多一些无大碍)拌均匀.用筷子将肉贴入一大碗内壁,不能紧压,不要太厚,底部和四周都要贴,但不要离碗口太近.此步很重要.碗里不要放水.将碗防入蒸锅里蒸.当肉变了色(熟了七成)将水放入碗里(肉不动).水面高于肉即可.再放入蒸锅里蒸.当碗里水沸后将鸡蛋打入(不是蛋花)当鸡蛋七成熟即可关火.放盐,味精. March 09 老友记
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