YouTube – 0083 MAGIC

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YouTube – 0083 MAGIC
     

GUNDAM 0083 STARDUST MEMORY
MAGIC

演唱 JACOB WHEELER
作词 JACOB WHEELER
作曲 JACOB WHEELER
编曲 志熊研三
类型 ED1
Don’t come to me, just cause you’re lonely tonight
Lonely’s only part of your game
Long as you live, you must remember one thing
Give and take are one in the same

So tell me are you ready, really, really ready
I don’t want your love for one night

Cause I’m not lookin’ for a love affair
I need the magic when I hold your near
It’s more important than a one night stand
I need the magic when I touch your hand

Don’t waste my time, with empty stories of love
I’ve wasted too much time on my own
If I don’t find the right solution for me
I’d rather stay at home all alone

(‘Cause)I’m the one who wants you, ooh how much I want you
But baby it’s just got to be right

Cause I’m not lookin’ for a love affair
I need the magic when I hold your near
It’s more important than a one night stand
I need the magic when I touch your hand

I need you oh so close to my heart
Come into my world we can, "share everything there"
I need the magic light from the start (magic)
Then you’ll be my lover, magic undercover,
-No one will be stopping us now

Cause I’m not lookin’ for a love affair
I need the magic when I hold your near
It’s more important than a one night stand
I need the magic when I touch your hand

 

名片拿掉，你還剩下什麼？

From From the E-mail of Patricia (~~)

 

給你五分鐘自我介紹，你可以講滿五分鐘嗎？人生除了事業與工作，你有其他值得驕傲的回憶嗎？

 

一位朋友被總公司調回美國去受訓，回來後像換了一個人似的，臉上有笑容、生活有朝氣，跟他過去總是唉聲嘆氣、皺著眉頭的模樣真是判若兩人。他的改變引起了大家的好奇，於是羅漢請觀音，把他找出來吃飯，拷問他改變的原因。

他說到美國後，公司用巴士把他們載到一個山明水秀的深山旅館中，使他們除了吃喝拉撒睡，什麼地方也去不了，只能乖乖去上課。第一天，老師叫他們做五分鐘的自我介紹，他原以為很容易，想不到不到兩分鐘就把學經歷、名片上的頭銜，連家庭成員都講完了，剩下三分鐘無話可講。

老師厲聲問他，「你人生的經歷難道連五分鐘都填不滿？」他悚然而驚，對呀！活了快五十個年頭，怎麼連五分鐘都填不滿？但是卻真的想不起自己做了什麼值得拿出來講的大事。

他生活的重心一直是工作，但是這些人都是同一公司的高階主管，做的工作跟他都很相似，有什麼好講？除了工作，其他乏善可陳。所以他跟老師告饒說「真的沒有了」。老師反問他，「你小時候的志願是什麼？」，他想了一下說「籃球國手」，因為他父親有一本珍貴的剪貼本，上面全是民國四十幾年，四國五強籃球賽的剪報。看他父親對籃球神往的樣子，他曾立志做國手，為國爭光。當然，運動員是千中取一，他沒有做成，但是籃球一直是他的最愛，只是工作忙，很久不曾碰球了，兒子履次哀求他去打，都沒空。

老師叫他想他兒子從一出生，一路成長到現在的影像。他記得兒子剛出生時的樣子、剛入學一年級的樣子，但是很快就變成高中生的樣子了，中間的十年他怎麼也想不起來，好像一晃就過了。

最後老師說，「你難道願意死後墓碑上除了年月日什麼都沒有留下？」他再度震驚，因為他已經明瞭他人生是白走的了。

他開始?F解他人生的優先順序放的不對，時間不能逆轉，他們這些穿西裝、打領帶、坐冷氣房的有錢人，表面上很有成就，但是名片一拿掉就什麼都不是了。人生的意義在心靈的富足，心靈的富足在對別人的關懷、照顧與奉獻，他在這方面太貧乏了，連自己的家人都沒有照顧好，遑論對社會、對他人。

所以他回國後，開始把白天做不完的工作帶回家，想辦法跟家人一起進晚餐，飯後還陪他太太散步一小時後再進書房去工作。週末一定陪兒子打籃球，星期天則全家去替他母親買菜、打掃，讓他的弟妹可以休息一下。他說他工作並沒有少做，但生活充實了、家人對他的態度也變好了，他的心情也不一樣了。說完，大家都一臉肅然，心中都在檢討自己的人生。

現在是畢業季節，一批批學生離開學校進入社會，但願他們能及早看到人生的目的，為自己和社會留下一些東西，充實的過一生。

 

(P.S.~~ 有錢和非常有錢的區別在"機運"；窮和有錢的差別在於"努力"。但是自我的存在則是來自於對於自我的"用心")

 

 

 

Data give signs of global recovery

From http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/63ecae5e-666b-11de-a034-00144feabdc0.html

By Chris Giles in London  Published: July 1 2009 19:48 | Last updated: July 1 2009 19:48

The global downturn appeared close to a bottom on Wednesday after manufacturing figures from across the world suggested the worldwide recession was running out of steam in all big economies.

 

The welcome news comes after nine months of the sharpest contraction in global manufacturing output since the second world war and a dramatic plunge in world trade as buyers of capital goods and consumer durables effectively went on strike.

 

Stuart Green, global economist with HSBC, said the signs from around the world indicated that “a spell in the financial wilderness now looks less likely for the major economies . . . with a slowly improving cyclical picture factored in for the rest of 2009 and 2010 across many regions”.

 

But he and policymakers around the world fear that the coming upturn will be neither durable nor strong. (The economy will be weak and vulnerable )

 

The recovery in global manufacturing has come primarily because companies have sold off much of their accumulated stocks and are re-starting mothballed production lines. Once this temporary boost is completed, serious questions remain about the source of longer-term demand to maintain the current momentum.

 

The June data on Wednesday came from a series of surveys of purchasing managers in the manufacturing sector, the area of the global economy hardest hit by the recession. Although the headline figures were positive only in China, the manufacturing output element of the data was positive in the US, the UK and Japan as well.

 

The speed of contraction in continental European economies has also decreased substantially since the start of the year, when pessimism was at its height, registering the most positive signs from industry in the past 10 months.

 

Chris Williamson, the chief economist of Markit economics, said: “The global manufacturing economy is being led out of recession by China, which registered a third consecutive monthly rise in output and the largest increase for a year.”

 

Although companies expect to shed further jobs this year, the surveys of manufacturers also suggest that employers have become less gloomy about the need to lay off staff.

 

Nick Verdi of Barclays Capital said the figures indicated companies were becoming much more comfortable with their order books. “Our global new orders-inventories indicator continues to point to positive manufacturing output,” he said.

 

But for all the better news on global output, caution about the durability of any upturn is likely to persuade policymakers to keep interest rates at historically low levels. (Don’t put ur money into the bank!!)

 

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009

香港回歸12週年 96%中小學生認同身份

From http://www.cnachinese.com/stories/asiapacific/view/70625/1/b5/.html

 

亞洲新聞网] 今天是香港回歸中國12年週年紀念日，特區政府舉行了一系列的盛大慶祝活動。在最新的一項調查顯示，香港人對國民身份的認同與日俱增，96%的中小學生認同自己是中國人。

香港特區政府在金紫荊廣場舉行隆重升旗儀式，慶祝香港回歸祖國12週年。

四萬人走上街頭舉行大遊行，歡慶香港回歸中國12週年的當兒，也不忘提出對國家的願景。

香港行政長官曾蔭權在慶祝酒會上致詞中也呼籲各界，在面對金融危機當兒，不要掉以輕心。在這同時，96%的香港中小學生廣泛認同自己是中國人的身份，首次超越自己是香港人的認同，是香港回歸以來的最高點。