Why a Black Friday?

They are many Black Fridays showing up in recent newspaper articles, but have you wondered why it is Black Friday? Why not Green Friday, or Red Friday?

Black Friday received its name because it historically was the day when a surge of shoppers helped stores break into profitability for the full year. However, you may still have no idea how the color black take a seat in this phrase.

To explain this, we need to look at another common phrase - in the black. We say a business is in the black when it is making money, and of course, in the red when a business is operating at a loss.

So are you clear how the black climbs onto the phrase now? =)

Superman Story 1

It is now 2046. In a serene night that sees moon and stars hang still over the pitch-black sky, no one will ever think of an unusal thing is about to befall on earth, and an unusal guy is about to emerge, who will be changing every bit of life on a now-tranquil small town -- Zonis.

Lois & Clark: New Adventure of Superman

It' over, it's gone.
I can't stop from feeling hopeless.T_T
I will miss them, Lois and Clark, for my whole life.

About ten years ago, I saw them first time. Now, I'm 24 years old, I'm still loving them. Watching the entiry seasons in rencent weeks, from they met to they had a baby, it likes a jounery which I grow up again. The Daily Planet was like a window of my chilidhood, I look world through it. A fantasy world had hero, love and truth. It was attractive to me sooooo much that I wanted to be a part of them. But now, I am adult, they are getting old....I know it is impossible, but can't stopping from yearning it.T_T. Oh, I'm sick....
Whatever, I will miss them forever. NO matter what they are, where I am, and how old all of everybody will be.


My superman belt, it makes me feel sweet.

Because of You

It's all because of you,

Why I have been waiting that 26 bitter years for a taste of love,

It's because of you,

Why I have been closing my heart in bygone days till the moment we engaged,

It's because of you,

How I have been acting like a boy till the instant you planted me a kiss and I knew from that very moment that I would start to act like a man.

It's all about you,

Zoe, I live because of you, and my life is all about you.

Magento and Zen Cart

Magento - eCommerce software platform for growth that promises to revolutionize the industry. It offers modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility.

Zen Cart - open source shopping cart software, which offer to put your business online in a simple way.

These two sites/services may be very useful in my later life, blog them down for reference purpose.

Europeana

Europeana, Europe's digital library, museum and archive, which will be bringing you digitised books, films, paintings, newspapers, sounds and archives from Europe's greatest collections.

Europeana.eu was launched on 20 November and huge use - 10 million hits an hour - meant an inevitable crash. Now Europeana is doing its best to reopen in a more robust version.

All in all, Europeana is an online library that merits your expectation.

Ivy is Gone

This is yet another striking news within days, Ivy has quietly moved away in a mantle of secret. First Jerry, then Ivy, you will certainly wonder who will be the next in this storm of resignation.

Anyway, I'm also someone planning to leave. Maybe this is a warning sign that the super UE cruiser will soon sink.

Moved to A New Project Team

Haha, finally, I was moved to a more important project. Familiar to this self-boasting line? Yes, it appeared many times on my resume. XD But this time is not a funny move. I will be starting the insurance project from scratch and the road aheads is both long and tough. Anyway, I will still try my best as I believe I will learn a lot along the way! Head up and move forward!

Two Jerries Quitted at The Same Time

Well, a very coincident event took place at my company and Yahoo headquarter days ago. Two Jerries resigned almost at the same time and I sensed something secretive was happening underground in our corporation which directly resulted in such a rush resignation! And the most amazing about this is that Zoe foretold the misfortune of the UE-Jerry, a nearly humanly impossible feat! This prediction produced a lot of laughter between us. XD

Zoe, can you predict the top prize for the next week's lottery?

A Haphazard Tube Interaction with a Chinese Speaking Indian

My mail to a happen-to-meet Indian. XD

Hello Shivi,

I'm Dennis, the guy who had a healthy and funny dialogue with you in subway today. Nice to meet you in China! Well, I'd like to straighten out the fact that why I speak awkward Chinese here as I hadn't got the time to tell you the backdrop in such a brief interaction today.

I was sent to Canada when I was a lil kid for high school education, but the western country didn't fascinate me much, so later I came back to Hongkong, China and worked in a Flash animation studio. Since I was kinda IT-savvy then, so I was soon scouted for a position in UE, a big IT firm specializing in MMORPG services, MMORPG is short for massively multiplayer online role playing game, headquartered in HK and has branches in United States and Guangzhou. Ok, back to the point, so why my Chinese is broken? You know in HK, people speak Cantonese, not Mandarin or Putonghua. So I had some trouble to catch your Mandarine words today. =)

I've checked your websites, http://www.suryafashions.co.in/ and http://www.checknquote.com/ and I hope you don't count on them for business. I've been working as a webmaster and project manager for around 3 years and my sense told me that you need to hire a more skilled web designer for your websites. =)

Ok, so much tonight and have a good night!

Best wishes,

Dennis

I Am Your Superman

Misfortune strikes us on a regular basis. No one can avoid ill luck for life. I witnessed a sad part in our office a couple of days early and also felt the agony that was thrown on the sad soul.

Zoe told me a litany of sad stories around her friends. In fact, I put on blinders to all those larger-than-life tales because I belive in myself and my true love. I believe in my role played in my life. I will be a superman guarding her all along her life. I don't look like a handsome prince, but I am qualified to be a superman because I have the very gut to walk down the street in a red underwear!

Remember, Zoe, I will always be around.

From 打酱油 to 做俯卧撑

Meeting 打酱油 many times a day in forum posts, I decided tonight to figure out what the term really conveys. After a swift search on Google, I found out that the term originated from a piece of news and then soon spread across Internet to become a pop jargon. It's really interesting to see how these jargons sprang up and came to be prevalent in our everyday language. Many controversial topics offline had easily found their ways online due to the widespread use of Internet, which gave virtually no bound and limit to its users.

We will definitely see more Internet jargons coming out in the near future. Just remind you, don't forget to take note of news and topics that draw huge attention from the mass, otherwise, you would risk being called "illiterate and ignorant", or even "out-of-date".

Mint Candy and Its Best-Before Date

This is a funny moment that I planned to jot down on my blog long time ago, but somehow slipped my mind.

Way back, one day I stumbled upon a very embarrassing thing which made my darling laugh for minutes on end.

During working hours, I took out from my drawer a case of mint candy, which serves as a kind of "bad-breath remover". After feeding myself a mint pellet, I accidently found out from the case that the candy had already passed its best-before date! Zoe and Ring watched me when I ungracefully coughted up the pellet from my mouth. Just later Zoe found out that I was misled and pointed to a right best-before date.

Anyway, this post is just for laugh. Darling, does this entry remind you of that funny moment?

Late Night Acne Detected

It's not usual to spot an acne on Zoe's face, but this time, you can feast your eyes on this spectacular view. A big big acne was grown on her forehead like a vicious volcano.

Jazz up My Life

I've spent the whole day reading a book related to persuasive marketing, but throughout the day, I felt my life kinda bland. Without Zoe jazzing up, adding colors and sparkling happiness into my life, my days, to a certain extent, went on with no passion.

I miss you Zoe.

Father and Mother

昨晚，在一次面对面的交谈，我发现岁月的痕迹已经悄然蔓延到我爸爸和妈妈的脸上。我的心突然的一阵痛。多少年来，我一直在爸爸妈妈无私的爱下成长着。他们每日每夜都想我过得开心，每分每秒在为我着想。爸爸妈妈，我一定不会另你们失望的，我一定不会让你们20多年的灌溉付之东流。

爸爸妈妈很希望看到她，我很想满足他们的愿望。

What should I do?

Toilet Anecdote

Today is my lucky day as I again bumped into that embarrassing situation of running out of toilet paper. After shitting heavenly, I found the toilet "paperless" and I was penned as a result of that. I listened out, and attempted to jump from where I was stranded to another toilet chamber. But the bustling people outside soon eliminated such a faulty idea.

All of a sudden, I thought I had figured out a very smart way to escape -- to wait for a person who doesn't know me well, so I will be nameless to him and will also be free from a face losing. Brilliant idea and it worked very well! Skipping a few unbecoming candidates, my savior finally appeared and helped me out after spending 20 meaningless minutes in the closet.

Yeah... This is my lucky day. XD

Easy come, easy go. T_T

Yesterday, we dug out a bag of bargains from a clothes mountain.
Today, these bargains of 5 top, 2 socks, 1 scarf and 1 underpants were totally destroyed because of been dyed by one red vest of them. I was almost mad when I pick them up from the bucket I marinating them. Every pieces of them were colorful, pink, sanguine, and carmine! Then I began to wash them by hand with great care, in the hope of having chance to save one or two piece. But really disappointing, even though the color of water turn to red, the color on these clothes didn't fade a little. T_T
When I could find no way out, an ideal suddenly appeared in my brain. Since the red vest is easy to fad its color, so if I can use it as a pigment to dye all other cloth into pure red? I was really exciting with this idea, I put a most-dyed one into the red water, them mixed round and round. Disappointing again, the clothes didn't become pure red also. T_T



Do you think I had gave up?
No, you are abesouletly wrong!
I still have another desperate remedy!
I will bring some disinfector tommorrow, to kill the bloody red!

Correction of "Birthday, not happy."

Birthday, not happy.

Today is my birthday, I'm not happy, yet not sad.
I think I'm old enough to know the uncertainty of life.
But the uncertainty still kind of upset me in sometimes.
This gloomy emotion made me feel guilty, because I had a suspicion it came form my personality disorders. I knew immersing myself into this messy emotion was wrong, but I still could not escape from it, especial when I was alone.
I don't know where to ask for help, I understand all the things come and go. Yes, I am still young and weak, with a perplexed mind, can't survive.

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I miss Zoe so much tonight so I dug up one of her past pieces and did a removal of all the errors or mistakes found. Please take note of the words in bold.

1.
Original: But the uncertainty still kind of upset me in sometimes.

Upset should be upsets because the subject of this sentence is the uncertainty. Drop the "in" before sometimes.

Revision: But the uncertainty still somewhat upsets me at times.

2.
Original: because I had a suspicion it came form my personality disorders.

Revision: because I had a suspicion that came from my personality disorders.

3.
Original: especial when I was alone.

Revision: Especially when I was alone.

4.
Original: I understand all the things come and go.

Revision: I understand all the things that come and go.

Finally, I'd like to give a thumb-up to the word "perplexed"!

Zoe, do you find this correction useful?

Watch Your Hands, Zoe!

Rome was not built in one day. The same goes to English. English was not mastered in one day neither. You have to use what you have learned everyday to strengthen your English skills. My darling said he could not figure out what to write because she was just going through the same routine over and over again. But actually that's not the story.

Here you may find an example of what you can take as your writing material.

My darling has an age-old habit of scratching her face with her dirty hands, hands that have been working on a bacteria-laden keyboard. Even my all-out efforts to remind her of not doing so, she is skill in the habit now. My online report of women having a lot of bacteria living on their hands didn't threaten her to quit the habit. I think the best way to insure her of getting rid of the habit is for me to become her bodyguard and restrain her hands when she has an itch on her face. What do you think Zoe?

Search Others for Their Virtues

Yes, people, I've made a promise early to write as often as I can due to my career orientation has been reset advisedly by myself to be an editor in chief. So here is yet another attempt to hone my writing skills.

I want to write something about how to hate a person less today. In real life, many of us tend to spend a great deal of time on finding faults in people we deal with on a daily basis. If, instead, we try to search other people's characters for what we like about them, we will make our hate slighter. That will, in turn, make your world less daunting because you would free yourself from many hostile relationships in everyday life.

Let's start today! If you have a boss, colleague or neighbor who you disliked to some point, try my recipe today and turn your hatred into love. =)

Bargain Shopping Trip

On a breezy day me and my darling Zoe were on a shopping trip aiming at bargain stuff.

Our first stop was a store selling socks, with everything inside pricing at 1RMB. What a price! Zoe fanatically buried herself into a huge stack of socks while I waited patiently outside. We ended up there with twelve socks and one underpants. Next we came aross a small mountain of clothes on the floor with a poster on the wall saying "Buy Three for 5RMB". Again Zoe dove into it in an insane manner and dug up a total of six! After a whistle-stop at a celebrated restaurant, we restarted out journey by reaping a T-shirt for 20RMB. Then the most memorable moment came in, my darling slashed a 80RMB skirt down to 30RMB! It was a real bargain and my darling was very proud of making such a deal! You know darling, I am proud of you too and I really enjoyed this trip with you! GGGG!

The First Black President In US

Getting a seat for president is way easier than to answer the questions from fretful electorate, or to provide his nation a package of solutions to a great many deeply-rooted problems. As the president-elect Obama noted in his winning speech, there is a long road ahead and the problems US facing are not going to be fixed in one or two years. Good luck US. I will be watching here across the Pacific Ocean to see how you would alter your track from a wrong to a right one under the lead of a black.

Zoe, what do you think of this historic election?

I'm an English-Chinese

I'm learning Chinese now. It seems very absurd for a Chinese to learn Chinese at my age. More absurb is that Chinese is like a second language to me! But frankly speaking, I've just reached the ABC of Chinese, the elementary level of Chinese. I've forgotten strokes of many Chinese characters and also failed to understand most of the Chinese phrases and idioms. My pronunciation is inferior, and my vocabulary is insufficient. Am I a Chinese? Sometimes I question myself like this. It might be a mistake by fate for me to be a Chinese, however, I will never forget the color of my skin, and of course, the language of my motherland.

Zoe, you will not be alone on your way to Chinese lore as I have decided to join you half way. Don't leave me alone and help me catch up with the flow.

Birthday, not happy.

Today is my birthday, I'm not happy, yet not sad.
I think I'm old enough to know the uncertainty of life.
But the uncertainty still kind of upset me in sometimes.
This gloomy emotion made me feel guilty, because I had a suspicion it came form my personality disorders. I knew immersing myself into this messy emotion was wrong, but I still could not escape from it, especial when I was alone.
I don't know where to ask for help, I understand all the things come and go. Yes, I am still young and weak, with a perplexed mind, can't survive.

Stand and Lie

Sometimes we stand or lie in different ways, let's check them out now!

Stand on one's hands

Stand on one's knees

Lie on one's back

Lie on one's side

Lie on one's stomach

Zoe, do you know what these phrases mean?

Road to an Editor in Chief

Since I've made up my mind to pursue a dream of being an editor in chief, I would have to double my reading and writing in the days ahead. To get a job that earns money marinly from a pen or a keyboard is not an easily accomplished task. I cerntainly understand where I am standing now and how far I will need to trek to reach that point of expertise. I am not selling myself short, but I know the gap.

Cheer up! The road will never be smooth, but I am ready on day one!

CEO Ling's Birthday Party

Today we held a birthday party for CEO Ling. The pics say it all!

Zoe contributed a crab on the white board, which looked cute! XD

Let's Pack a Punch

If someone can pack a punch, they can hit very hard when they are fighting.

For example:
He's a big guy - I should imagine he can pack a fair punch.

Zoe, tell me how you would use this word in other ways.