2 years and 10 months

Sometimes, there is blank in my life.

June 26th, almost 3 years since our first sight. And also almost 1 year and a half after the last. Tell me if it's true that there is nothing unforgettable. I wrote about you yesterday, but I almost forgot what I made as present for your 28-year-old birthday. And I wonder what will be my 28-year-old birthday present. Yes, I'm also getting 28 years old, approaching the point you were at when we met and apart. At that time, I was 25, young and stupid.

Coincidentally, I met someone who is also 25, similarly young and stupid. I like him partly because he is so much like the me 3 years ago: wanting others to act in the way as I wish, doubting the sincerity of others, hurting others without realizing my cruelty. Bless me he won't be another me, and I won't be another you.

And I have to learn to live with it, as if it were meant to be this way.

Susan Boyle: I dreamed a dream.

Britain's Got Talent 2009的最新发现。上次他们发现了Paul，但我要说这次的Susan Boyle更为感人。从12岁起梦想成为一名职业歌手，现在47岁，无业，从未恋爱过，初吻一直保存至今还没送出。而且她选了一首非常适合她的歌：《悲惨世界》中的I dreamed a dream。如果不是因为这首歌，我会感动但是不会哭。

向所有人推荐：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PPlkOyaqaQ

附歌词：
I Dreamed A Dream (from Les Miserables)

I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung
No wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.

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左边的是副产品，右边的是原图。

Like a dream (1)

回忆借夜色顺流而至
梦想在水上沉浮

Memories come with the night by river,
Lost dreams drifting on the water.

说说我记得的凡尔赛宫花园(0)

在走路一刻钟就能到凡尔赛正门、5分钟就能到凡尔赛后门的地方住过3个月，而且正好是冬天花园免费开放的时期，然而真正去园子里逛的次数却少得可怜，只有临走前补课性质的数回而已。不过那个美丽的园子还是给我留下了相当深刻的印象，因为它大气的树林和运河，精致的雕刻和喷水池，当然，还有城堡本身。

上周从图书馆借了一本关于凡尔赛花园的书，翻了一下感觉自己对这个漂亮的园子知道得实在太少太少：不仅有很多东西没有看到，看到的东西也有很多没有看明白。于是打算写写我记得的部分，再google一下，把有关的知识不上。

计划如下：
(1) Plan des Jardins de Versailles
(2) Parterre d'Eau
(3) Bassin de Latone (La nouvelle Fontaine de Latone)
(4) Bassin d'Apollon
(5) La Fontaine du Dragon
(6) Petit Trianon

争取三周之内写完，因为之后书就得还了...

Like a dream (0)

宛如梦中

I thought I was in a dream,
And I am.

东京赏花之樱花篇——目黑川

日本的樱花前线从三月中旬开始，由南向北推进。虽然说伊豆的河津樱开得比南方还早一些，那毕竟是个异数。东京最常见的染井吉野还是要等到三月底四月初才开的。今年到三月底的时候还下了几场雨夹雪，于是东京樱花满开的日子就推到了上周末。

在网上看了去年上野公园樱花满开时的周末的“盛况”，决定不去那些名所凑那个热闹了，选个人少一点、更有情调的地方，于是选来选去最后选了目黑川。

其实目黑川也算是都内的一处樱之名所了，连公司里对花花草草最不感兴趣的同事也对它多少有所耳闻。目黑川两岸绵延数公里的樱花树，再加上水中倒影和夜晚的粉红樱灯，气氛绝对不输其他地方。

从JR山手线的目黑站下车出西口，顺着行人坂一路下行到了河边，太鼓桥上下游两个方向都是满眼的淡粉色。下游五反田方向有目黑雅叙园，不过更多的美景还是在上游中目黑的方向。

沿着河畔步道溯流而上，依次会经过太鼓桥、目黑新桥、ふれあい桥、田道桥、中里桥、中目公园桥、田乐桥、皂树桥、宝来桥、日之出桥、别所桥、樱桥、宿山桥、朝日桥、天神桥、千岁桥、柳桥、南部桥、中之桥、目黑桥、东山桥、冰山桥、万代桥、常磐桥，直到大桥，之上改为地下暗河，不复有两岸樱花夹碧水的美景。

中目黑以下最出众的大概要数ふれあい桥了。桥面的图案是大幅的世界地图，周围一圈写着各种语言的你好。两岸的建筑如目黑清扫工场和航空自卫队目黑基地也都很有特色。

不过最美的一段还是从中目黑的日之出桥开始的。海报上常看到的地铁桥下开满樱花的照片应该就是在这里拍的。从这里向上到有名的全红色的中之桥大概是目黑川赏樱的精华段落，可惜上周六有雨，加上走得累了，我只走到樱桥就回去了，有点遗憾，等到明年来补全啦:)

在樱桥这一段，樱花密得简直把河面都遮住了。有风吹过的时候就会飘起漫天花雨，日本人极为赞赏的“花吹雪”，当然还会伴着赏花人不由自主的一阵惊叹声。

其实染井吉野基本是白色的，开得极盛的时候一树一树聚在一起才能看出一点淡淡的粉红色。不过晚上在粉红色樱灯的映照下就会显出很漂亮的深深浅浅的粉红色来。

不知道我几年后会不会赏樱赏到审美疲劳，呵呵，东京的樱花树实在是太多了...