
昨天下班後去GAP買了這件裙子,
真是越看越可愛:P
特價20塊喔,真是超級開心,
不過可能需要買長靴來配,
也不是壞事喔!
最開心的是我在試穿過程中發現,
其實只要努力一點,我還是可以穿2號的喔!
當成目標吧!
my journey to be a better person
這對出生於非洲的小豹(一公一母),之前被一家衣索比亞小鎮餐廳老闆為了招攬生意,用繩子拴住在店門口,並訓練他們兩兄妹互相殘殺,其中一隻豹還瞎了一隻眼。經駐守當地的美軍反恐部隊向衣索比亞政府以及美國獵豹拯救組織反應,引起國際媒體注意,當地獸醫出面向餐廳老闆情商出讓,可是他獅子大開口,開出當地人民平均年收入十倍之多的天價-每隻一千美金。
這位勇敢的獸醫Fekadu先生在上星期六將兩隻小豹救出,並給予牠們抗生素還有健康檢查,然後馬上交由美軍協助護送,他表示如果沒有美軍的幫忙,兩隻小豹是沒有機會逃出的,牠們目前健康狀況良好,上飛機前還躺在女士兵的懷裡撒嬌,美軍部隊還幫他們取了可愛的名字─Scout與Patch。
獸醫Fekadu先生表示衣索比亞的野生動物保護法令漏洞百出,這對小豹若沒有獲救,很可能會被走私到中東去販賣,餐廳老闆事後也表示母豹Patch是由盜獵者將其眼睛踢瞎。
目前小豹們平安抵達衣索比亞國家皇宮,與其他三隻獲救獅子以及幾隻猴子一起居住。管理員表示該動物園經費有限,需要各方協助給予小豹們最好的照顧。
美軍反恐部隊在非洲的任務除了收集情報以協助各國家和平相處,也執行一些人道協助如掘井、造橋、興建學校等,目的在為回教徒之間建立良好美軍形象,不過拯救小豹倒是前所未料。
隨行的士兵表示小豹們在一小時半的飛行旅途中,待在紙箱裡不停發出咕嚕咕嚕的滿足聲音。部隊長官也表示,小豹們讓士兵表現出溫柔的一面,大家都像小朋友看到小貓咪一樣趨之若鶩。
星期六晚上我總是喜歡在電影台找一部浪漫喜劇,滿足一下我潛在的小女人需求,也喜歡找回青少年時曾迷過的舊電影,尋回不同的感動,畢竟歲月的洗禮,總是讓我在十幾年後對同一部片有著不同的感受,這種隨著電影又哭又笑的舉動,大概只有影痴才能明瞭。
昨晚無意間在轉台之際,重新看了這部曾令我深深感動的電影,算算那是十四年前的事了吧,這中間我歷經了七年精神科臨床經驗,也步入了婚姻六年半,再回頭看這部片子,也能加入一些自己的經驗而更感同身受。
然而「潮浪王子」當年造成的風潮,只有我們這群上了年紀的人還津津樂道。從Barbra Streisand成為奧斯卡有史以來,第一部榮獲最佳導演等七項大獎提名的女性導演、男主角Nick Nolte獲選當年時人雜誌最性感男人、到James Newton Howard優美動人的配樂,「潮浪王子」真正成功之處,是塑造了一位外表強悍暴躁、內心柔軟敏感的男性角色,這樣矛盾的特質讓女性觀眾激起保護之情,莫不希望自己生命裡有個陪自己夏天看星星,冬天在火爐前相依偎的潮浪王子。
這兩位反好萊塢典型俊男美女的男女主角,讓觀眾更有歸屬感,也對較少觸及的中年情慾有所著墨,劇中短暫卻美麗的婚外戀曲,莫非是「麥迪遜之橋」之前的同類型代表作,男主角在片尾駛過長橋,低呼的那一句:「Lowenstein,Lowenstein」,無限的感傷卻也無憾,就如同生命裡的抉擇後的醒思。
你遇到過自己的潮浪王子了嗎?但願是在婚前。
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The NY Times review of The Prince of Tides
精采劇照
1. What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
Took a road trip to St. Louis,followed MapQuest and didn't get lost.
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Didn't have any,probably won't make any.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thank goodness no.
5. What countries did you visit?
Will take a trip to Taiwan in Oct.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
A clean house?lol
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory?
Everyday in Auguest.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Got three raises and a promotion.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Not spending enough time with hubby.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Once again thank goodness no.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
A 2004 Kia Rio.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Can't think of any
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
My cat?lol
14. Where did most of your money go?
Ryan's steakhouse,every Wednesday night baby!
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Spring leadership convention in St. Louis.
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2005?
Collide by Howie Day,105.3 played it all the time when I drove to work.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
?happier or sadder? happier mostly
?thinner or fatter? same
?richer or poorer? richer,in a way.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Call my family more often,write more.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Chatting online,not that I don't cherish my friends,just wish there was a more time saving way to chat.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
At my aunt Jo's.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
Carla.22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Yes I am always in love.
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None,happily married.
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Nip/Tuck on FX.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
wow where do I start?lol j/k
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
"Rich dad,Poor dad" by Robert T. Kiyosaki.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone and Team America:World Police Soundtrack.
28. What did you want and get?
A new car.
29. What did you want and not get?
A winning lottery ticket.
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
War of the worlds and Fantastic 4,looking forward to Serenity too!
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I will be hanging with my loved ones,will turn 33 next week.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Hire a maid to do the housework.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
GAP.
34. What kept you sane?
My hubby,my family and my friends.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Julian McMahon,yum!
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Cindy Sheehan a.k.a. the media whore.
37. Who did you miss?
My family and my friends in Taiwan.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Store 246 gang!
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005.
Be honest with your feelings,no matter what they are.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
How about a poem by Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I--I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.