More gun shots in America.... Maybe it's time for the presidential candidates to talk about gun controls???

祝大家春节愉快啊~我也没怎么庆祝，就随便包了包饺子和吃了顿饭。明年要争取春节期间出差去中国那就可以正式过春节了~

Heath Ledger的验尸报告终究出来了，结果是mixture of overdosing of 6 different medicines, 意外。唉，他也够倒霉。不知道the Dark Knight最后会拍成怎么样？有Ledger和Christian Bale演对手戏应该会很精彩，希望producer不要把Ledger的意外过大炒作就好。

说起death和电影，最近又看了一部不错的：


Le Scaphandre et le papillon (the Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

It's real story about Jean Dominique-Bauby, a former editor of Elle magazine who wrote a memoir by blinking one eye-lid after suffering a stroke and fell into locked-in syndrome, unable to move or speak. The diving-bell is his body that he is unable to control, the butterfly is his imagination that frees his mind from his body. Surprisingly, the film is neither melancholy nor gospel-ish uplifting. A major part of the movie is filmed in a objective view, as if we were Jean Do. Hence we could suffer from his fear when the doctor stitched his other eye that he is unable to control to prevent infection, we could laugh with his dry humor and his ultra-active libido, we could feel the sorrow when he was watching his children play at the beach during father's day but unable to speak to them or run his hand through their hair. The two scenes with his father is probably the most touching parts of the film, and the abrupt ending with the publication of the memoir and his death shortly afterwards leave you hanging out there don't know what to make out of the movie, while secretly decide to make the most of your life while you can.

最近FT Chinese上有一篇关于80年后独生子女能生第二胎的评论，对80年代的人归纳得挺好：
“80年后出生的人，因其“独生子女”的特殊的时代烙印，而成为社会学家不得不正视的有着迥异人生轨迹的人群。对于“计划生育”政策是否影响了一代人 的性格与文化传承的争论，在这20多年里从来没有停止过。当他们还是孩子时，我们说他们因为没有兄弟姐妹的陪伴而倍显孤单；他们上了学，受挫能力的薄弱被 人诟病是独享万千宠爱的结果；当他们终于走上了工作岗位，又以“缺乏团队合作精神”、“自负嚣张”而成为80后职场上的弱势。

而这些独生子女的后遗症，都不及更深远的影响来得严峻，那就是——一个缺乏兄弟情谊的人，家庭对他们的控制力也是相对式微的，当他们以独立的个体而非家庭成员融入这个社会的时候，则必然与我们传统的文化体系发生碰撞。”

最近一直有一种奇怪的焦虑感，大概就是因为自己快要“以独立的个体而非家庭成员融入这个社会”。虽然我要融入的社会更麻烦一些，还要加上东西文化的碰撞和我自己的identity crisis。 周末攀岩的时候跟一个英国人聊起我的identity, 最后结论我是有壳的鸡蛋，yellow on the shell, white in the middle and yellow at the core。而农历新年看来我也会跟一帮BBC和ABC包饺子庆祝。唉，感觉每年新年过年的时候都会后悔没跟更多real Chinese打好关系，但其余的时间是更多在庆幸自己有努力融入英国社会。不知道6月毕业在英国工作两三年以后会不会变成香蕉人? hm... I hope not.