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Déjà VuJanuary 26 Almost missed fightIt was the big day yesterday. The family, Ryan (5 months) Danni my wife and me was on a long haul fight from London to Hong Kong then en-route to China to see the family there. To get to the Gatwick airport, we need to take express train from home station.
Once a few years back, I have some bad experience on rail travel to this airport. The distance is so long, it involves at least one connection, maybe two or three if need to going to central London first. In that incident, the delayed railway work had many train services cancelled, and we had been delayed at the start of the trip – then a chain of delays had we missed the fight when were finally at the airport although we leave a plenty of time for the travel.
The Deja Vu was back this time. We almost miss the flight yesterday.
We arrived at train station at 18 minutes before it arrived. Two huge luggage, three pieces hand carried bags, Ryan and his buggy were unloaded from the taxi. Did I say three? Wait, ‘honey, do you see my laptop bag?’
The bag with laptop and other important things was left at home. Without them I have to cut short my hols, and buy another ticket home in two weeks time. Panic, in a very desperate attempt, Danni, Ryan and a suitcase were left at the platform, put one rucksack back, and I was drove home with the taxi to get the bag.
It 9s about 10-15 minute one way drive from home to the station in a clear traffic. This time it was very busy, the lunch hour. A lorry and a wagon joined up in front, every traffic light turned into red when we up to it. Radio reported midday, 12 minutes before the train arrives on half way to my home.
I didn't know how Danni would handle things neither: buggy, a huge suitcase (38KG) and Ryan. Some passed-by help her to move the suitcase into the station concourse. But then and she needs to draw some cash from outside station and collect tickets from fast ticket machine. I thought I am going to miss them.
Taxi pulled stop at a near exit it may make it a minute or two quicker than if drove up. I ran the shortcut uphill to collect the bag, locked the door. The heart was beating so fast, and the hand is so shaky I dropped the key when locking the door. Ran the short cut to meet the taxi, and we back.
When I daring enough to look at the time. The dashboard display was showing an airbag warning so the time is not showing. Maybe that was not a bad news after all.
The train arrived just when the taxi waiting for oncoming traffic so to turn right on the road and got into station. Then I found I have no money to pay the additional taxi fare. I have got only got a fiver, which paid to the driver already - with additional round trip - I have got no money. That is why I need Danni to get some cash.
On Phone asked Danni to get onboard first. With so many things, it was just nightmare to move things on its own. Danni asked a staff member to hold the train for 1 minute. Replied 'Sorry madam, I can’t hold a train'. It was a virgin west coast fast train. i think probably he could if it was a slower local train. They went onboard without waiting
I told the driver the embarrassing truth before she pulled stop and I slam the door open. She let me off although not very happy - I won't blame her. I thanked her very much and promised will pay back once I am back.
Got the laptop bag, and cuddling the other huge rucksack from the boot, desperately run to the platform. Luckily it was at platform 1, so no need to jump down rail track or run through the passenger bridge.
The train was still there, first class door was still open, right in front. Before I dove into the coach, I asked the staff 'Are they on?' he smiled and nodded, ‘Yes, they have’.
The train was 2 minutes late, and probably been hold for 15 or 30 sec.
Danni was very cool in the situation, and Ryan was very helpful, no crying whatsoever. When they were on, Danni found him had already napped away. December 17 home alone 续集这几小时不容易。 有一堆衣服洗衣粉水泡着要洗。 乘宝宝睡觉的时间赶快把晚饭吃了。上了几分钟网。 (我们现在是楼上楼下各一台笔记本，随时抓紧时间)。快 20：00看宝宝睡觉超时了，赶快把他摇醒。要不晚上就别睡了-我是说我们)和宝宝玩。拍了几张照片。宝宝现在喜欢玩变形几何体。你递给他，他就会抓住玩，更喜欢吃 -特别是紫色的。宝宝还喜欢玩小飞侠。俯卧着飞。 和宝宝练习翻身。小脸憋得通红，还要翻。 21：30，该准备睡前的最后一次奶，和洗PP了。
要抽空把泡着的衣服洗出来，腾地方。
试着让他一个人玩。开始 后来觉得受骗了，再也不乐意自己玩。一放下就哭。
抽手热奶。这次我们想试试 抽空洗衣服，他哭我也得洗 - 就5分钟，就5分钟。衣服洗衣粉洗完放洗衣机。 水烧好了，可以换尿片洗 PP了。宝宝还在哭，安抚下来。 换了尿片，奶热过了。狗屁加热器，热过了。要降温。 22：00 宝宝吃了口奶，愣了下。嚎啕大哭-和妈妈牌的味道不一样。
我尝了口。嗯，偏甜，不腥。
宝宝开始困了。又困又饿是最危险地。
顶着高音警报，又喂了 一口气下去 100ml。爸爸犯了个错误 -让宝宝停下来喘口气。这一停，宝宝就彻底睡着了，也不愿意再吃了。放宝宝上楼睡觉。 换睡袋，把宝宝弄醒了 -糟糕！接下来就是几场大哭。 (一定要有强壮的心脏和坚强的神经)有两次本来已经缓下来了，不知道碰到那根神经，他又哭开了。 我开始失去耐性。 22：45，宝宝带着抽涕终于睡着了。
孩子他妈就打电话来问情况。我们决定妈妈再玩会儿再回来，反正世界和平了。
把洗好的衣服拿去烘干。
可以坐下来上网了。 September 06 Close your umbrella'Your Highness, if you close your umbrella people behind you would be able to see it too'. - Luciano Pavarotti talked to Princess Diana on the Hyde Park Concert 1992.
(the Princess swiftly close her umbrella, so as other 150,000 audience)
Nessun Dorma
August 21 Déjà Vu 的科学解释
August 19 Baby requires buy还有一个星期宝宝就要出来了。 ：) 他的床，衣服，车，玩具都买起了(希望是吧)。前段时间为了腾地方，清理了一批估计16年内都用不上的东西去eBay卖了。上周让准妈妈算了小家伙未来一年的平均体重变化和相应尿片用量。 Tesco超市尿片30%折扣。囤积了不少货。 -按投资来算，30%的回报是很高的阿。August 18 Baby forces sell* 经过一番感情斗争和reality check LP的‘车宝宝’终于卖了。 上周末来了三家看车的。头两个是老爸给儿子买来学车用的。大男孩嘛还是比较注重车外观，虽然大家都同意车况不错，但外面的锈比较putting off people. 折腾过后我自己也信心大减。第三家是新settle在这个镇的年轻家庭，儿子才三岁，可爱死了。后来进家里坐，先自作主张，给爸爸妈妈一人发个苹果。 要车的是妈妈，上班用。估计经济有点紧张(否则买这么便宜的车干吗？)但他们两口子都很有礼貌，有教养。他们对车有长路税，长MOT和车况也很满意。妈妈不介意 车外观。(心里便决定，便宜卖给他们好了，找个好婆家也算队我们的‘车宝宝’有番交待。) 谁知他们居然没再讲价就成交了。搞的我反而有点不安。 £699 过了几天他们来取车。我们加满了一箱油送给他们。这家人可高兴了。 * Baby forces sell 引申于'New car forces sell' (英国人卖车的常见原因) June 20 Glastonbury Music Festival中国为什么盛产愤青？为什么会出 Nineteen Eighty Nine Movement?因为中国没有 Glastonbury给大家一个Postively发泄的管道偶感。 May 18 Sikh Golden TempleThis photo has recently been selected as the winner of the theme ‘Tourist attractions from your travels’ ‘This photo from the "tourist attraction" travel thread made a real impression on me. The tranquility, elegance and reverence of this shot is something to behold.’ May 14 The changing face of outsourcingTalking about China's textile industry facing up to building up regulatory and commercial competition.
This is one of a series of articles on how globalisation is reshaping Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta. Subsequent features will look at the car industry, banking and computer hardware. April 28 rapeseed fieldShoot today. Not much cloud, slightly overcast. I use polarize filter to darken the sky which saves later time and effort to fiddle Photoshop to “recreate” sky. Only use Canon Digital Professional to 1) reduce brightness (-0.17) 2) switch to 'Landscape' picture style 3) little tweak on tone curve. This picture reminds me U2's 'Running to Standstill" Camera: Canon EOS 5D Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125) Aperture: f/10 Focal Length: 50 mm ISO Speed: 200 Exposure Bias: 0 EV Flash: Flash did not fire April 22 Macro (Closeup) Photography 0.005sec (1/200); f/13; Focal Length:105 mm; ISO Speed:640;Exposure Bias:0 EV;Flash fired; using 12 and 20mm extension tube Received Kenko extension tube set this week. Today I have a play with it.
My favourite subject is ladybird. Though very small, it is a very beautiful beetle with bright red shell doted. The size–about 5-7mm-presents a serious challenge. Back earlier April, I used Macro function comes with the lenses on Macro photography, which can be manually focus (with moving camera back and forth) at around 0.45m distance. The finished shoots after crop, zoom and interpolation become blur at edges. This is understandable-the finished photo I used as desktop is actually 4 times the life size by digital up scaling.  0.005sec (1/200); f/9; Focal Length:105 mm; ISO Speed:100;Exposure Bias:0 EV;Flash No; Using Macro function It must be optical enlarge to solve the problem properly. There are few solutions around, such like use reverse ring to mount a 50mm lenses reversely. Use a bellow or an extension tube. Each solution has its pros and corns.
Reverse ring is the cheapest solution; you can pick up one from eBay for around 5 pounds including postage from China. It exposed the lenses inside out, could be a hazardous. And of course you lost TTL metering and auto focus. Bellow is the most flexible but quite bulky. It takes a platform with ruler and guiding rails. I feel it is not the best choose for field shooting. I saw one on eBay going for £160 with a compliment 50mm FD lenses. A new one without lenses shipped from China costs about 30 pounds includes p&p. That leaves candidate extension tube. By mounting it ( or combine a few and) to camera body, then mount lenses to it, you have the balance of flexibility, portable and lenses protection.  shown with 12, 20 and 36mm extension tube mounted Anyway I am quite excited to have a new gadget under my belt.
Global warming speeds up this Spring. Back three weeks ago there are a lot of ladybirds around our garden, now they all seemed go away. So it is very lucky I found a fella basking sun in the grass. First I mounted a 25mm tube and set our little friend to tulip leave. Didn’t use flash as the sunlight was still very strong. Auto-focus is usable, but not very useful as the field of depth is very shallow regardless aperture: a little motion from the subject will mean refocusing. And the auto focusing is just not fast enough to cope. The strong wind didn’t help neither. With the enlarge effect from the tube, it renders subject violently movement. After a few attempts, I retreated. I took my little model with the stem he is resting on and set the shooting studio. I use flash mounted with diffuser. First I try 25mm, then 25mm plus 12mm and finally 25mm plus 12mm plus 36mm. At the beginning and didn’t bother to set up tripod, thinking with speed at 1/200 and image stabiliser, it should be alright without – I was wrong, later I checked the photos and found there are some compromised on quality. As all three tubes mounted, the exposure factor increased to 6.1 for a 50mm lenses. I zoomed to around 100mm so the shake from the hands were even apparent. So a tripod is unavoidable. Also found Cannon 5D handles high ISO noise quite well. With noise reduction switch on, it only becomes visibly grainy at 1000 or above.
 0.005sec (1/320); f/9; Focal Length:105 mm; ISO Speed:400; Exposure Bias:-1EV;Flash No; Using 20mm extension tube  0.005sec (1/320); f/9; Focal Length:105 mm; ISO Speed:400; Exposure Bias:-1EV;Flash No; Using 12, 20 and 36mm extension tube April 06 色情郁金香
花园里的郁金香开了一大片。忍不住手又去拍了几张。 母亲带回国几棵球茎。每天精心护理，可在南方亚热带气候下连芽都没发就香飞魂 散了。我这次是圣诞节前种的，没怎么打理却纷纷开了。一方土养一方花阿。 后期加工了一下，成了油画效果。颜色艳得有色情嫌疑。 发自Flickr February 09 说点恶心的， 真的很恶心 (Squat Toilet)长这么大读过的书里对国内农村厕所最生动的描写 现代的城市里长大的PPL 可能不会有这种经验，我小的时候是在西南一个小县城里长大的。那时候还用的是集体蹲厕(squat)。头上是昏黄无力的15瓦灯泡。外面是黑夜，呼呼的风吹过田野。胆子小的要结伙上厕所。解开裤子蹲下往下看，花花黄黄一片(Excrement)。往前看正前方墙上有无数可疑的痕迹：烟头噌下的黑灰，擤鼻子随手甩下的鼻涕，新鲜的陈旧的痰迹，当然少不了意淫诽谤文学... 蹲着无聊了，只好数蠕动的蛆，计算他们的爬行速度。 最近读 Sir Chris Bonington 和 Charles Clarke 的 Tibet's Secret Mountain: The Triumph of Sepu Kangri， 讲述他们96年-98年几次挑战Sepu Kangri的故事。 其中Charles 对蹲厕有段生动的描写: The resthouse was welcome, but Mrs Donkar’s lavatories were unusual. On expeditions in Asia we are both used to the lack of privacy and the closeness to reality when dealing with waste matter. There were several loo issues here. The first was the problem of access to the row of stalls at the bottom of the garden past the well…it led past a Tibetan carpenter’s workshop to two rows of cells. We found the Chinese signs for male and female difficult to interpret at the best of times, but here the paint had faded away… We were to discover that both rows, of male and female stalls, were much the same. Excrement was piled high under each concrete hole over which we squatted; each pyramid would collapse and melt into a foetid stream which drifted slowly down to the Salween. The stench was indescribable. I was not acclimatised to this real travel; I gagged and retched. In the gloom what looked like a leaf on the floor flickered, caught in a draught. And then another, and another. It soon became apparent that the entire concrete floor, and the lower wall were moving in a writhing carpet of maggots. Later, when we had become accustomed to these realities, these lavatories seemed entirely normal. It became fun to tease the maggots, too. One shout and they would all freeze in a unision, to resume their sinuous dance a few seconds later. 我那时候咋没想过大叫一声吓唬吓唬蛆呢？ January 17 Ali's QuoteAli's quotes From BBC
Muhammad Ali has entertained the world for more than 40 years with his legendary one-liners, witticisms and diatribes. Here BBC Sport rounds up some of the things he has said during his lifetime in and out of the ring. If we've missed any, make sure you tell us using the 606 link at the bottom of this page (Web users only, WAP phone readers will not see link). ON BEING THE GREATEST I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. Floats like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark. The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. Superman don't need no seatbelt. When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. I'm the best. I just haven't played yet. ON BOXING Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. Champions aren't made in gyms, champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. Only the nose knows where the nose goes when the doors close. I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life. ON RACE, RELIGION AND LIFE I am America. I am the part you won't recognise. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name - it means beloved of God - and I insist people use it when people speak to me and of me. "What's my name, fool? What's my name?" I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free. Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs? I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a 'nigger'. Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people. A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. What's really hurting me - the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. Islam is not a killer religion, Islam means peace. I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem. ALI vs FRAZIER Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife. It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head. I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him. I said a lot of things in the heat of the moment that I shouldn't have said. Called him names I shouldn't have called him. I apologise for that. I'm sorry. It was all meant to promote the fight. The Butterfly and me have been through some ups and downs and there have been lots of emotions, many of them bad. But I have forgiven him. I had to. You cannot hold out for ever. There were bruises in my heart because of the words he used. I spent years dreaming about him and wanting to hurt him. But you have got to throw that stick out of the window. Do not forget that we needed each other, to produce some of the greatest fights of all time. ON OTHER OPPONENTS Hey Floyd - I seen you! Someday I'm gonna whup you! Don't you forget, I am the greatest! Why, Chump, I bet you scare yourself to death just starin' in the mirror. You ugly bear! You ain't never fought nobody but tramps and has beens. You call yourself a world champion? You're too old and slow to be champion! To Sonny Liston before their fight on 25 February 1964 I shook up the world! I shook up the world! That all you got George? January 04 几个摄影光学术语Vignetting （暗角）分下面几种： 1） 机械/物理暗角 （重叠滤镜，不正确使用遮光罩） 2）光学暗角 3) (数码相机特有) 点阵暗角 Lens Flare/Ghost (光环/魅影）正对强光源拍摄导致光线在镜片间弹射造成。 Barrel Distortion（鼓型曲变）- 影相鼓起，向外弯曲（如贴在啤酒桶上一样）发生于镜头广角端 Pincushion Distortion （枕型曲变）- 影相凹下去，向内弯曲（如贴在碗里一样）发生于镜头长焦端 Chromatic Aberration (色散）- 和镜头质量有关。对数码相机来说和CCD的质量也有关。 参考：http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~shene/DigiCam/User-Guide/990/ON-CAMERA-LENS/overview.html
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