Speaking of getting drunk, I've this experience when working in China. Once I went out with my staff and colleagues from other departments for dinner, at first, I only knew it's just a dinner and knew nothing about what Chinese culture really was.

During dinner, I found the main dish was drinking. Everyone would figure out whatever ways to let you get drunk. You seemed never to find any excuse to escape drinking. After having several ten glasses of beer, I felt a litle bit faint. I thought I'd reached my bottomline. Then, I began thinking how to get away this situation. I noticed some people would pretend to call someone; others would have an excuse to go to toilet and didn;t come back. I chose the latter.

Getting to my room, I started vomitting at the toilet every second, lying on the floor for a while, then getting up and vomitting over and over again. At last, I was lying on the floor for hours. I couldn't get up to answer the call even my cell phone was ringing. That night, I told myself, I would nevr go out with such fucking guys. But, the following day, my boss ased us out for a drink, I seemed to forget what happened last night. Our life is just like this, which we sometimes can't control it.

Yesterday, I read a blogger's blog. The guy said he had a girlfriend for years. They were going to get married. This year they were busy preparing things for their marriage, such as printing the wedding cards, booking hotel, etc...

However, during this time, the guy got known another girl who was his colleague. They got to know each other when working together in a project. Since then, they got near and near and went out for dinner. He even escorted her home. As I read his article, they might have developed the relationship already. Actually the girl also had her boyfriend. The guy said it was not fair to the girl. He also knew what he was doing was "playing fire".

I gave my advice to him: You were treating unfair to your girlfriend, not the girl. Indeed, it's no wrong or right to pick up which one at this stage. You had to think over the matter before marriage. Once you chose your girlfriend and got married, then you should keep a distance with the girl. If you didn't, then the fault would be on your shoulder. I wouldn't sympathize with you.

His feedback to my advice: Thanks reading my blog. If you had read my other articles, then you would know the problems were on my girlfriend. Whether to get married or not, the right was also on her hand. I really wanted to get married with her. It was because her manner to me was not as enthusiastic as before, so my heart switched to another girl.

Is his feedback the truth or just an excuse?

Online storytelling - Under the sun (2)

Jian, Xu and Yin soon became best friends. Whenever going out with Gao, Yin invited them for company. This was what Gao didn't want. He couldn't whisper to Yin while in the presence of them. On the contrary, Yin loved the hustle and bustle of city life. Holding her birthday party, she also invited Jian and Xu to join it together.

What Gao, Jian and Xu were dressed that night became the focuses of the party, especially the two handsome guys, Gao and Jian, attracting more girls to get to know them. Most guests at the party were Yin's schoolmates and friends. As Yin's father was away on business and couldn't come back to celebrate her daughter's birthday, under the circumstances Yin deeply felt how important friends were. That night, Jian insisted on dancing with Yin. Since then, Gao didn't want to be at odds with Jian over this matter, starting to keep him at a distance and returned to the world of Gao and Yin.

One day, when Yin backed to office, a staff from personnel department introduced a newcomer to everyone. When coming face to face, Yin was shocked. This was no other man but Gao Jun. She was not told by Gao that he would join her company. Yin didn't want others to know they'd known before. Originally, when Gao knew there was a vacancy, then he applied for it at once as he wanted to see his gf every day. Later on, when their relationship got revealed, Gao picked up Yin openly and always kept an eye on his gf's actions. However, Yin was getting annoyed about it. She felt uncomfortable and an invasion of privacy. Sometimes they had disagreement at work. Such bad mood would be kept after work. They even turned their back on each other. This hadn't happened before. Yin began thinking the happy days with Gao got fewer and fewer, had the period of "honeymoon" between them gone?

Such situation had passed for a period of time. One night, Gao drove Yin home. His car broke down in the middle of a road. Luckily, it was not far from Yin's home. While Gao was busy calling a garage to pick up his car for repairing, Yin walked towards her home alone. There came a gentle breeze, blowing Yin's hair. She lifted up her eyes to the dark sky. It was dotted with  a few stars. She was counting the days she got together with Gao. It had been three years. What? It's only three years. Why did she feel it a lifetime? When she knew Gao at the first time, she felt Gao's circle was strange and Gao didn't treat her as a rich girl and tried to please her too. This was why Yin loved him. But now, she thought their relationship was just like a piece of stale bread, not fresh. How did she face this relationship? When she was deeply in thinking, a big dog, all of a sudden, was in the way. Luckily, the dog was led by its master. Who was his master? It was Jian, who Yin hadn't seen for a long time.

Yin happily said to Jian that how coincident it was! Jian told her it was not what she thought. Since the event happened at the party last time, he, as a third party, felt that Yin was less happier than ever before. So he walked the dog here and found a chance to get near her and care about her. Yin hadn't heard from Jian and Xu for a long time and she wanted to know how things were with them. As her father hadn't come back yet, so Yin invited Jian to go to her home and had a chat. Jian's dog, called "Wei Wei", was kept lying in the garden. Maybe they were long time no see, they had talked for a whole night until morning had broken. That day was a holiday. They needed not go to work. Jian asked Yin to go to his farm and paid a visit to his grandmom and cousin Xu. It was a long time for Yin not to be there. She promised to go there, but she didn't let Gao Jun know.

To be continued...

Rose, graduated from the University of Hong Kong, is a typical material girl. She always stresses how poor she is. Whenever going out for lunch with her colleagues, she seemed to slip her memory to pay back the money to her colleagues. When a colleague asked her back the money, she even blamed why she was not reminded earlier.

A few days ago, she bought a new cell phone worth HK$5,000 and showed off in front of the colleagues. She had money for the phone but no money for lunch. Why could she behave like this?

Furthermore, she often asked us to introduce boys to her. She listed a series of conditions to be her boyfriend: with car, his own apartment, cash deposits, etc... A guy, who loves such self-centered girl, is doomed to be miserable.

Another girl, Anne, who I knew when I attended a singing skills training class, is now living in Taiwan. Her value of love is quite strange and is walking ahead of the trend. Once she asked me," Do you know how to keep your love as fresh as possible?" At first, I thought she had the key to a happy love. Then she said," The way is to change your lover every three months. When your love with a girl or a guy goes downwards, you switch to another. Then you can always enjoy the best time of your love." I'll not criticize whether she's right or wrong. Everyone's behavior will be affected by what he/she has experienced. Anne has got married. His husband is her classmate when she studied in University in Australia. I miss her very much when my writing comes to here.

 On Saturday, the government discovered H5N1 virus in a market in Sham Shui Po. This time the government took action very soon. 3000 chickens were culled immediatedly. Stallholders were banned to sell the live chickens again. The cleanup day was put ahead the schedule. The businesses of the stallholders and the chicken traders were seriously affected, around 60% losses as they said. As a result, they demanded compensation for their losses.

Our government didn't learn a lesson from the first time of the bird flu outbreak in Hong Kong. If she had learned it, then this time she would not have to make over$20 million compensation to them. When the government first made the compensation to the stallholders and traders, why didn't she say to them, "This is a one-off compensation. We will not ban you from selling live chickens. But whenever bird flu erupts, we'll still cull them in an attempt to avoid the spread of it. No more money will be paid for those affected. You have to take the balance and bear the risk by yourself." Actually, crisis management is a scope of businessmen. It is impossible for our government to compensate them forever.

In addition, when the early eruption of bird flu, some experts had made a proposal of central slaughtering house. Is our government still looking for a location? Or does she already put it on the shelf?

Please wake up and get the problem done. Don't be a passive government.