Flame to dust, lovers to friends.
Why do all good things come to an end
……
This song comes with the rhythm I like. It was play once in the CSI (Criminal Scene Investigation, a well-known American TV Series). I am writing this entry maybe because I’ve separated with personal affection, I mean love, for a long time. Not emotional, not sensitive, I become more and more rational, logical, confident about career. I shifted my focus on career.
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墓碑上的R.I.P.是什么意思？
R.I.P.
在西方国家，人们去祭奠死者的时候，会发现所有人的墓碑上都刻着R.I.P.，那R.I.P.究竟是什么意思呢？
昨天跟一个朋友聊天的时候，他刚好说到这个R.I.P.。原来在西方国家一个人去世之后，他们的墓碑上面通常会刻上R.I.P.，也就是“Rest in Peace”，中文意思就是愿(死者)安息吧！
Come across outage of Digg
Minutes ago, when I refreshed digg.com, it came like this:
Digg outage
While we’re getting the site back up and running… check out the latest news before we took the site offline. If there are updates during this outage we’ll keep you informed on the Digg Blog. Thanks for your patience!
David mumbles
These days I got a little bit lonely, especially at night. The other day, passion was still remaining in the air, and it’s gone now.
Coming into Sept. David’s life gets into a mess. I was not previously tidy, LIFE, I mean. Just following the routine, working, eating, surfing on the internet and sleeping. I cannot help to ask, where is the passion & freshness? Are they fighting a battle and forgetting to come back?
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Black Friday & Reno
1. Black Friday.
Black Friday字面意思是黑色星期五，比如上周五是7月13号，那中文里我们称为黑色星期五，对应的英文通常是Friday the 13th，而不是Black Friday。当然通俗一点来讲的话，Black Friday也可以指非常倒霉的星期五或者13号星期五，但这里我要提的是另外一个你可能不知道的意思。
英文wiki里查Black Friday，你会发现非常多的解释，这里我们仅仅来看看这个：
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, marks the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season, although retailers often decorate for the Christmas season weeks before-hand. Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although the day after Thanksgiving has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season for decades, the term “Black Friday” has been traced back only to the 1970s and did not achieve widespread popularity until about 2002.
Black Friday is frequently but erroneously referred to in the media as the busiest retail shopping day of the year. While it has been one of the busiest day in terms of customer traffic, in terms of actual sales volume Black Friday is usually the fifth to tenth busiest day. The busiest retail shopping day of the year in the United States (in terms of both sales and customer traffic) is usually the Saturday before Christmas.
所谓Black Friday( 黑色星期五)，指的是感恩节(美国移民文化特有的节日，11月的第四个星期四)后的第一个星期五，其对于美国的消费旺季具有特殊的意义，因为Black Friday代表了销售旺季的开始，电视机在旺季能否有好的表现，要看Black Friday的销售能否开个好头。
Black Friday称呼的由来是：因为各家电卖场涌入大量想捡便宜货的人群，让各卖场的销售人员陷入极度忙碌之中，一整天没有时间休息，对于家电卖场的工作人员而言，自然是一个极度忙碌的黑色星期五了。
看了上面的解释，应该对美国的Black Friday清楚了不少吧，Black Friday对于美国的消费旺季具有特殊的意义，代表了销售旺季的开始。
2.Reno
知道Go to Reno什么意思吗？意思就是离婚。为什么go to Reno就是离婚呢？
Reno是内华达州西部的一个小城镇，上个世纪20至50年代，它有着“世界上最大的小城”之称，更有着“世界离婚之都”之名。直到现在，人们也不能忘怀那段历史，想方设法要留住那曾经有过的“辛酸的浪漫”。
在RENO有一项免责任的法案，只要在RENO呆上三个月或四个星期，即立可单方申请离婚，所以全美各地的人带着帐棚来到这里，用上几个星期的时间来换取一生的幸福，这样就办理离婚手续一项就成了RENO的支柱产业。同一时期，赌博业在这里合法化，这里也成了继拉斯维加斯后的第二个赌博名城。