Rain

紐約洋洋灑灑夏天傍晚的雨落在玻璃上
看著對街的大樓上的大鐘
好像上海海關大樓的老鐘

天色暗下來
華燈卻才初上

久違了
車水馬龍和永不停歇的喧囂和活力

"You can't always get what you want."

I watched last two episodes of House Season 4 last night and they were absolutely amazing and incredibly touching!! Amber said to House on the pure white bus in the end that he cannot always get what he wants, which is one of the best lines that I've heard this year in all the TV shows I've seen. When Amber says it, it's nothing about sadness or helplessness. It's encouraging. We all need to face what we are afraid to face in life. We may not have that many choices on things happened to us, but we do have choices on how to respond/act/live after things happen; whether to take what life offers and move on or to reject and walk away deceiving ourselves pretending there's nothing happened.

The video is the song played in the ending. It's called Passing Afternoon by Iron & Wine.

T-storm night+Jazz

It's been a while since I write anything here. I pretty much like my work now and enjoy my boss and the people in the office and other coworkers. Yes I think it's impossible to blog every little details everyday here though I thought about it before. Life's going pretty smooth here and I live a very regular life. I take a shower after getting off work and go eat my dinner then. Read papers and a book that I should've read one semester ago recommended by a professor whose class I enjoyed a lot. So..doing some reading and occasionally hang out with old/new friends in town. Oh, I'm going to see Legally Blonde Musical. YAY!!

Oh, and I watched the news that Iowa's facing flood and I looked it up on Daily Iowan and there's a bunches of pictures of lower bank of city park and mayflower and north debuque street and water's everywhere. I felt so sad and hoped that Iowa City won't have big damage in there. Lots of people asked me how the city feels like, oh yeah, the city life is fun and interesting and there's always so much to explore/learn/observe/pick up here but sometimes I miss a small and adorable college town like iowa city where I spent the last four years in there. I can think of the city park and the hancher area where I lived for two years and had great memories with great people. I can think of the ped bridge between old art building and IMU. Iowa city is a small or even tiny town compared to where I grew up or where I'm temporarily living now, but its beauty has been part of my precious college life.

Ok...and we're having a city t-storm now. haha. And I'm here preparing to continue my reading after I'm done with blogging this. I'm listening the spirit of jazz one online radio on iTunes. New York has numerous great jazz bars/clubs/concerts and I think I should take some time to taste what the city offers. :D but I heard that cover charges are pretty high here.

whoa, I'm not really a jazz person or even a music person but after work listening to some relaxing music like jazz seems to be one of the best way for me to relax and enjoy reading. Working is so much different than school, let alone working in big apple.

alright, I gotta go. I will try to update this weekend because I'm taking an extra day off this week. Stay tuned! haha.

ciao ciao.