Sunday, October 26, 2008

苟延残喘

我从来以为自己是个特能写的人,没有怀疑过有一天我能靠出本畅销书退休。也因为这自信,就一直没动作。直到偶然填表格的时候,发现年龄有了三张,个位数还不是0了,忽然有些猴急。人家大师写个好东西也要N多年,我现在还不开始,啥时候才能结束啊?所以趁这失眠而才思泉涌的夜,开个头吧。

我是南方人,却一贯以自己可以乱真的北京口音自豪。某天跟老婆开玩笑的时候,告诉她我的第一本书应该是《我的上半身》;于是被嘲笑。我的上半身的确没啥内容,没骨没肉的,还小细胳膊。相比只下,我的下半身还有那么一点有用;当然,我那条滑雪致残的右腿和过劳而费的左腿都排除在了有用的范围之外。

闲言少叙。

70年代末我出生在上海;不到一个月大的时候就被带到了离太原45分钟车程的一个部队大院,一直到5岁回上海。也许就这一段经历,就是日后大家谣传我练过武术的起源。当然,在部队里的确也免不了练了几手,比如把其他小朋友脸抓花什么的。不过终究是没师傅指点,成不了气候。

部队里的事情,已经记不太清楚。

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Rendezvous

Crazy passionate French ...

Friday, June 13, 2008

Gay Rights

I'm not gay, and I'm not British.

It's an inspiring age to live in, with gay marriage legalized, and gay pride parades blossoming everywhere. It shouldn't be a big fuzz; the fact that people are cheering or denouncing is more disturbing to me.

Seriously, what's the problem of being gay? People love each other and choose to live with a same sex, why does it make some one angry and pretend to "save them from satan"? It's just like food, I like Chinese food, you might like Mexican. Most sane people will just be cool with that. And even for the sex life part, how different is it from nose-picking? None of these seem relevant to others. The only down side of gay marriage might be the inability to give birth to child, which is not completely true, and not completely false in straight marriages.

Up to now, I've yet to hear a plausible argument against gay marriage. Most people support equal rights for gay couples, but stop short of supporting marriage, arguing with one reason or another. I'd say, a lot of arguments could both be "reason" as well as "consequence", resulted from the inequality of rights. Assume everything is equal, term gay-marriage will be mostly interchangeable in those arguments with straight-marriage, except for some physical constraints. If gay couples cannot bear their own child, they could simply adopt, and that's as contributive towards the continuation of the species as raising our own child. Besides, lesbian couples can bear their own child with no more effort than infertile straight couples. Everything being equal, gay family would not be more of an adverse environment for kid's upbringing; just think about the hardship gay kids usually encounters in straight families.

Anyway, I'm not in the mood of writing long arguments as there're already plenty of them online; random ranting will not help either party, just serves as a time-killer for a VPN-less Friday night.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Depression Kills

Last summer we went to his home for a picnic party; that was our first visit to his house. I can't say we are close friends, just FOF; still it hurts when hearing that he killed himself with potassium cyanide (KCN). It was last Saturday/Sunday, so the hurt is still fresh.

There are few reasons in the world that could convince me that a life should kill itself; being terminally ill is a good one; depression would be too tragic. I mean, physically the body is perfect, yet a crippled mind inflicts the total destruction of it all.

Six crawl once described her hiking through the Long Trail: walking day in and day out, life became so simple. The essentials of life was such a bare minimal that all she yearned for was to have a big hot pot of noodle at the end of day, or to sink in a warm bath tub if it was an inn-night. If only life were so simple always.

I've seen a fair share of depression cases around me, some were cured, some ended up in tragedy. I can only hope tragedy won't happen any more, but I know that's in vain...