tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167206772024-09-02T10:52:55.227+02:00遥言飞语You may say I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one.
I am a professional daydreamer!xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-57565189802195589142014-08-14T18:21:00.002+02:002014-08-14T18:35:28.036+02:00Farewell? Not necessarily..Three years and a month ago, I traveled from Marseille to Antwerp. I still remember how much I cried in the train. Even the ticket inspector tried to console me with his terrible English. How time flies! Now I am moving back to France. But this time, I know I won't cry. Farewell is for the city, but friendship stays.
Being a transient expat, who moves on every two or three years, I often xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-38003642724811013392014-01-12T18:22:00.002+01:002014-01-12T18:25:51.009+01:00To live each day as your last---2013 in reviewIt is going to be a ritual for me to do this kind of annual review, which gives me a chance to retrospect the past and prospect the future, or just simply a summary of a yearly life.
My 2013 was calm, nothing special happened. I still clearly remember the family dinner for the new year in China, but suddenly we are already in 2014. My feeling totally confirmed the adage "the older you are the xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-1419662828098522912013-08-14T15:17:00.002+02:002013-08-14T16:13:27.906+02:00Do myself a favor: travel alone!Being alone is something people can only learn to appreciate with ages.
When you are a baby, there is no doubt that you must be with someone, because you cannot even eat, pee, or anything by yourself. As a child, you need to learn different things and play with the others. Being a teenager, you might want be alone from your parents, but never with your friends. Gradually, you don't want spend xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-71975247225433139412013-05-11T22:45:00.001+02:002013-05-11T22:45:37.496+02:00Life without Facebook
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xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-48047327919145098022013-02-10T22:35:00.002+01:002013-02-10T22:35:31.235+01:00Amour: everybody needs somebodyI waited quite a long time to finally watch the french movie "amour". Disease, aging, death, whatelse could be worse than these three topics for me? Well, this movie includes all of them, and love, which I never believe. No doubt how hard to watch this movie for me.
Originally two-hours movie took me three hours, because some plots were so hard to digest, I must pause to make myself calm to xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-27222148664340535532013-01-14T12:07:00.000+01:002013-01-14T12:07:02.365+01:002012 in review: a flying year against conventional wisdom
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, conventional wisdom is "the generally accepted belief, opinion, judgment, or prediction about a particular matter". But is conventional wisdom always true? should we always follow it?
When I look back my whole 2012, these two questions come out.
After 2011 "a year of changes", I continued staying in the same city and job in 2012. I started to feel xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-26589161545857163972012-11-30T13:12:00.002+01:002012-11-30T13:12:48.421+01:00Dose traveling make me a better person? (Part 2/2)I looked her, and feel suffered for myself. I asked her to give it to me and let me help. As you probably know, we had difficulties to understand each other, what a language barrier. After body language communication, she gave me all her stuff. I almost had no experience about sewing. It was not easy work for me as well. But I manage to put two pieces into one, which was quite enough. Ixiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-38302967376128098312012-11-16T16:03:00.001+01:002012-11-16T16:03:54.395+01:00Dose traveling make me a better person? (Part 1/2)Yesterday on the way back home, a friend who I met on the bus asked me a question "why do you like traveling? does it make you a better person?". I joked back "I am already the best, why do I need to be better". But deep in my heart, I questioned myself "am I a better person because of traveling". It is really hard to answer but I do share some experiences and hope I answer this question by the xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-30198330256803299022012-09-03T11:13:00.001+02:002012-09-03T22:32:19.341+02:00Drug LifeI don't know since when I am so interested in drug-related tv series. At this moment, I am following two drug dealer stories "weeds" and "breaking bad", and occasionally check the updates of drug obsession story "skins" and "entourage". And I used to watch "the wire", "that 70's show" and "six feet under".
In my real life, I don't drink, because I am allergic to alcohol; I xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-10439458628915843462012-06-27T16:27:00.001+02:002012-06-27T16:31:59.982+02:00What is your strength..or talent?I have stayed in academia bubbles for very long time. So when I was starting my job hunting in the late 2010, I realized there were so many interesting companies I have never heard about it. One of them was Gallup. When I focused on my research topic in behaviour economics, the nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman was my "mentor". I was amazed by all his theory and experiments. His "prospect theoryxiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-55425365796219621432012-06-25T13:45:00.003+02:002012-06-25T13:48:53.412+02:00Something for the one year anniversary in BelgiumHow time flies, almost a year. If my friend didn't put a long farewell note on facebook, i didn't even think about it is almost a year. One week later, it is my one year anniversary in Belgium.
I still remember the day when I was leaving Marseille. I cried almost an hour on the train. My friend who went to the train station was calling me after she saw me crying, but I just cannot speak a xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-63340485095622552282012-05-07T23:52:00.002+02:002012-05-08T12:55:48.167+02:00The saddest marriage wish..to my best friendLast Friday, my best friend's wedding, i was not there. Friends were using a smart phone application to broadcast all details to me, photos, audios and videos. But still, I felt sad.
She and I were really close friends, no actually she is my sister. We met each other in junior high school. Since then we have shared every step in our life, joyfulness, sadness, tears, achievement, and growing. I xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-6214186182962471272012-04-18T17:11:00.001+02:002012-04-18T17:13:51.531+02:00Fear of agingOne of my favorite books “Tuesday with Morrie” has one chapter talking about aging. In the book, 70++ years old Morrie told 30++ years old Mitch “…I embrace aging…it’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay…the truth is, part of me is every age”. That’s why Morrie is so special. If you xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-80216105661239006792012-01-09T22:35:00.004+01:002012-01-10T00:47:58.509+01:002011 in review: a year of changes"Most days i wish i was a British pound coin" from the book i am reading . When i read this sentence, i was pondering what i was dreaming about most days. As a professional daydream, i have so many dreams. I wish i don't need to work, i wish i will never get old, i wish i will meet my Mr right, i wish i could travel the world...but mostly i wish i don't need to make choices. However, dreams xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-90870756945082034212011-01-08T20:22:00.012+01:002011-01-10T10:53:48.812+01:00My heart is an elephantLindsay got dumped at the last second day of 2010. She called her sister Lily, who was in Paris at that moment. Lily was waked up by Lindsay's call at 5am at new year eve, and she immediately knew that there were something wrong. In fact, when Lily caught up her phone and opened her eyes, she even didn't know where she was. She was completely drunk the night before, and ended up with a random guyxiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-37081090230338397552010-12-31T09:26:00.007+01:002010-12-31T21:54:45.630+01:00New Year Eve...what's that31st, Dec, 2010, the last day of a shitty year, Lucy is sitting in front of computer and trying to summary what happened in the past 364 days.She fxxxing hates new year eve, what is the purpose to celebrate the date going from the 31st to the 1st, it doesn't make any sense to her. But as a kitsch as she describes herself, she has to do the celebration, and she cannot be cool to stay at home xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-24444772495988460842010-12-20T22:06:00.003+01:002010-12-20T22:50:36.189+01:00My A-Z of ChristmasAbroadBoredCalmDawnEatFamilyGingerbreadHomesickIdealistJourneyKindnessLonelyMomentaryNeckerchiefOr nothing to sayPresentsQuietnessReunionSaintlyTearsUnawarenessVery very homesickWinterXmasYummyZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzxiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-47292206755304085492010-12-08T08:32:00.005+01:002010-12-08T20:29:04.603+01:00Lessons from The Apprentice (4)I am not very assertive, maybe because of my Asian philosophy, or my own personality. I always have a question lingering in my mind "am I ready for that?". So the question is whether you get enough preparation. Preparation is key to success. During the show, it always happened that some people with overconfidence less prepared and failed later. In fact, I am definitely one in that club, although xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-54425118872107056432010-12-07T19:47:00.003+01:002010-12-07T20:18:52.796+01:00Lessons from The Apprentice (3)In fact I never think I could do better than those participants, but definitely there are always some rubbish participants in the show. However who knows that one day probably one of us, who are watching this show on our comfortable chairs, sofas, and beds, will make dumbest decisions in our career. There are often some people with "everyone is against me" syndrome. This is definitely a sign of xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-10043995935859181752010-12-07T11:23:00.002+01:002010-12-07T11:54:29.893+01:00Lessons from The Apprentice (2)Although I have no intention at all to get a sales job, I learned from this show that everybody is a sales when you are doing your job hunting. Everybody need to sale yourself to your future employers. I always think of myself as non-sociable person. But that is not mean I am timid, introvert, and anti-social. Oppositely, I am extrovert, and love to spend time with people, but people I like. Thatxiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-57390840046709357682010-12-06T22:14:00.003+01:002010-12-06T22:45:22.036+01:00Lessons from The Apprentice (1)Yesterday I spend half a day to watch The Apprentice (usa), I watched 7 episodes in a row. The more I watched, the more I was confused. On one side, there were so many excellent people in the show, and they are unemployed, I need to be more patient at my position now. But on the other side, looking so many excellent people are unemployed, why I am bothered to wast time to send hundreds of xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-15333150312624201352010-12-05T02:01:00.003+01:002010-12-05T02:06:37.669+01:00Note: from Audrey HepburnFor attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your foodwith the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone. xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-48389774338509135372010-12-04T16:47:00.001+01:002010-12-04T16:47:58.590+01:00Tempting Heart….translation of lyricsI believe I don’t know where you are because I haven’t heart from you for long time But in fact you are always in my heart, along with my every breath I believe I cannot smell you since there is such a long distance between you and me But I turn around and you are just behind me The past is past It is too late to let me fall in love with you again Clouds haut blue sky, if they xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-40981267714932514582010-10-06T21:44:00.003+02:002010-10-06T22:37:34.479+02:00If everything has a deadlineSarah is a procrastinator, and she called herself "deadline killer". She waits the last minute to do everything, and she never breaks the deadline, which is not in her principles. Sometimes she considers herself not just a procrastinator, but a trifler. If nobody gives her a deadline, she completely losses her incentive, and she could spend whole day doing nothing, being in a daze, surfing on xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16720677.post-73774868494602504482010-07-16T10:07:00.006+02:002010-07-16T13:37:56.477+02:00World cup: overhyped..and only in memoryThe final happened 5 days before. Everything was still clear in my mind. Finally I could sit in front of computer calmly to finish this article.I was in Spain, not in Madrid, but in Barcelona. Even the day before, millions of people were on the street to show their disappointment with the Constitutional Court in Spain because of a sentence that reduces hope of more autonomy for Catalonia. After xiaoyan luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515320849656136112noreply@blogger.com0