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上个星期五和一个“猫地派”的网友见面。我们在“猫地派”时常交流。每次说要见面但各自都没空。

时机终于到了。其实心情不会紧张。只是担心不知道会不会有话题讲。无论如何，虚拟和现实沟通是不一样。

我在网上通常都叫她辣妈。辣妈很有心；洪了个香蕉蛋糕和买了一盒巧克力给我家人。可是我却两袖清风的去赴约。真是有点过意不去。我们到附近的熟食中心吃饭。边吃边聊。幸好感觉上不坏太生疏。我们谈的蛮有默契。所谓好（和开心）的时光过得快（你很难在工作上有这种感觉）。不久就要离去。幸好辣妈驾车送我回到公司。不然我得要走30分钟才能回到公司。

回到家就拿辣妈送的蛋糕吃。味道实在好和很有分量。不是那些料少少的那种。

希望能和她在见面聊天。可是我也希望我们能到槟城一起和蟑兄聚一聚。

其实最近有点烦躁。

家里出了点状况，对工作又有点迷惘。每天都不知道为了什么而活。

一直告诉自己明知道自己的身体不好，要好好的照顾自己，但又被这些烦恼而弄到连觉也睡不好。有时候很想收拾一个包包去曼谷走走。但又放不下家（同时也没钱）。

唉。。。真是自寻烦恼。

真的觉得很累。真希望可以好好的休息一下。

An icon that I have grown up with has passed away yesterday.

I remembered the first song that I heard from MJ is "Beat It". It has entered as a Grammy Award nominee and won it. I was only about 13 then. Then it came Billie Jean, Thriller, Black and White, Heal the World etc. All these songs that I grew up with are still in my mind. However, in addition to the songs that I like when he just make it big in the pop scene, I also like the songs like Ben, Rock with You, Human Nature and One Day in Your Life.

Though he has become weird over the years, but I still must admit that he is a natural born dancer. His dance steps are smooth and flawless. Before all those boy band's synchronize dancing, MJ has already started it (though I must admit Bollywood started even earlier!). You can watch it in the MTV of "Beat It" and "Smooth Criminal" to see for yourself. Compared to the boy band dance moves, MJ is unbeatable.

If he remains as when he is in the 80s without "bleaching" himself and all those plastic jobs, I believe things will not turn out as bad as now. With millions dollars in debt and all the scandals, his career is indeed stained.

Nevertheless like someone said, he is irreplaceable. MJ should be remembered for his songs and talent and not those senseless scandals.

Despite all the tainted episodes in his life and now that he is dead, he has indeed become an invincible legend now.

我们生活在一个富裕的国家，其实真的很幸福。我们当然没有像美国或英国那样富裕。但在东南亚，我们其实算是非常不错了。至少我们不用像菲律宾和印尼出口人民为国家赚取外汇。

我突然有这样的感触，其实是因为最近我家请来了一位新的菲律宾。我的前女佣因为合约满和健康问题回家了。下一个女佣做了四天就说不干。我们就匆匆忙忙就请了另一位。

当我们选定了女佣时，其实她还在她菲律宾的家。女佣介绍所打了个电话给她，叫她在第二天就撘十二个小时的巴士去马尼拉的介绍所。到了马尼拉，她隔天就撘飞机过来新加坡。就在短短的二十四的小时内，为了谋生，她就必须抛下她四岁的女儿，离开家到两千四百公里远的新加坡工作。

其实我很内疚。她的女儿才四岁。现在其实正需要母亲的陪伴。可是为了女儿和家，必须离开他们。

你看，我们有多幸福啊！至少我们小的时候，父母可能需要做几份工作来维持家庭。但至少他们还是在我们的身边陪伴着我们。

记得要好好珍惜父母的陪伴。因为你下辈子（不管你投胎做人或畜生也好）可能就没那么幸福了。

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昨天去了章宜医院开会。到了那里，那几年前的回忆开始浮现在脑海里。

记得那天，世界没有什么改变，就是少了一个人。

这个人，改变了我的世界。是她在我的世界里关怀我，爱护我。也给了我她无限的爱心。但我却没在她的世界里做了些什么。

现在她的世界已经不再存在了。留下来的只是回忆。我心里也只有悔意和自责。

昨晚读到这篇《路透色》的文章。我蛮喜欢的。无论他有没有任何政治动机也好，他还是帮工人出头，挑战富豪的贪念。今天在海峡时报读到说公司很快的就把1500万美元的工资转账到工人的户口，造成人龙在提款机前出现。

我最喜欢的就是红色那段。

Russia's Putin raps tycoons in crisis-hit town

Thu Jun 4, 2009 2:32pm EDT

* Putin humiliates once-mighty oligarch in public

* Premier hands out tongue-lashing to Deripaska, businessmen

* Move comes as business leaders gather in St Petersburg

(Pvs MOSCOW, Adds details, spokesman's quote, background)

By Oleg Zagoruyko

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You have made thousands of people hostage to your ambitions, your lack of professionalism - or maybe simply your trivial greed,' Mr Putin (left) told Mr Deripaska (right). -- PHOTO: AFP

PIKALYOVO, Russia, June 4 (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated a top oligarch on Thursday, accusing him and other factory owners in a crisis-hit town of greed and likening them to "cockroaches".

Putin, playing on the anger of protesting workers in the town of Pikalyovo, forced Oleg Deripaska, a top metals tycoon and once Russia's richest man, to sign a contract for supplies to help idle factories restart operations.

"You have made thousands of people hostage to your ambitions, your lack of professionalism -- or maybe simply your trivial greed," Putin told Deripaska and two other businessmen who own cement and alumina factories in the town.

"Where is the social responsibility of business ?", he said in the confrontation broadcast on national television.

Putin travelled to Pikalyovo, where hungry workers blocked a motorway this week to protest over unpaid salaries, as world business leaders gathered for Russia's premier annual economic summit in St Petersburg, 270 km (170 miles) away.

He rounded on Deripaska and the two other businessmen, making a veiled threat to expropriate their property unless they sorted out the situation quickly.

"Why was everyone running around like cockroaches before my arrival? Why was no one capable of taking decisions?" Putin said as Deripaska stared blankly.

"Has Oleg Vladimirovich (Deripaska) signed? I do not see your signature. Come here and sign it," Putin said, throwing a pen dismissively onto the table.

His head hanging low, the once-mighty oligarch walked up to the premier's table, read the document covering raw material supplies to the factories and added his signature.

After the meeting, workers cheered Putin and shouted "Hurrah" as he told them the problems at the plants had been resolved. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the premier had been "quite strict".

"The signal here is simple. The crisis and other difficulties cannot serve as an indulgence from social responsibility and you cannot solve your problems without taking care of people, you cannot try to put all responsibilities on the shoulders of the state," Peskov said.

"They (businessmen) were not thinking about people at all. There was no hot water, heating, people were not working and were not getting their salaries..."

RESIDENTS IN POVERTY

Residents in Pikalyovo called on the authorities to intervene after all three factories in the town halted work and stopped paying full wages. Trade unions say about half the 23,000 inhabitants of Pikalyovo are living in poverty.

Russia is facing its worst recession in a decade and has 7.7 million unemployed, raising fears of unrest and threatening Putin's main legacy in his previous role as president, eight years of steadily rising prosperity.

Putin also told the businessmen to clear debts of 41 million roubles ($1.33 million) by the end of the day and threatened nationalisation unless the factories' owners solved the problems.

"If the owners cannot agree among themselves, then the ... complexes will be restarted anyway," Putin said. "If you cannot agree among yourselves it will be done without you."

Lawmakers from Russia's ruling party on Wednesday had introduced a bill to nationalise the three factories. It was not clear whether that legislation would go forward.

Deripaska, last year estimated by Forbes to be worth $28 billion, has lost most of his fortune in the crisis and is trying to restructure billions of dollars of loans owed by his flagship company UC Rusal to Western creditors.

UC Rusal, in which Deripaska is the largest shareholder, is the world's biggest aluminium producer. (Writing by Michael Stott and Conor Humphries; editing by Richard Balmforth)

原文 ～ http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSL445098320090604?sp=true

图片 ～ http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_386372.html?vgnmr=1