吉祥三寶

介紹一首可愛的歌，叫吉祥三寶，是來自蒙古大草原的聲音。音量有點大，要先把喇叭調小。

【專輯名稱】：天邊
【歌曲名稱】：吉祥三寶
【歌手】：布 仁巴雅爾

爸爸 哎!
太陽出來月亮回家了嗎? 對拉!
星星出來太陽去哪啦? 在天上!
我怎麼找也找不到它? 它回家啦!
太陽星星月亮就是吉祥的一家!

媽媽 哎!
葉子綠了什麼時候開花? 等夏天來了!
花兒紅了果實能去摘嗎? 等秋天到啦!
果實種在土壤能發芽嗎? 她會長大的!
花兒葉子果實就是吉祥的一家!

寶貝 啊?
爸爸像太陽照著媽媽! 那媽媽呢?
媽媽像綠葉托著紅花! 我呢?
你像種子一樣正在發芽! 我們三個就是吉祥如意的一家!
花兒葉子果實就是吉祥的一家!

生命的轉彎

"生命會在一天天地過活下轉彎" ~ Chien Chien

第一次接觸佛法應該是在高二吧，從在紐約法拉盛的老戴記拿到一本經書開始。之後，和老爸一起嘗試過好多各式各樣的道場：妙法輪佛學社，妙蓮老和尚的佛七，藏傳，廣論，甚至法輪功，後來我們在東初禪寺一起皈依學打坐，之後老爸回台北，我輾轉在慈濟落了腳。總結的說，老爸可以算是在菩堤道上的一個很重要的夥伴。

昨天打電話跟老爸聊天，發現老爸現在是基督徒了？！

每個禮拜去兩次教堂，已經快連續兩個月，聽口氣似乎要繼續。說真的，非常震驚，感覺上好像是被戰友半途拋棄.... 但老爸聽上去充滿著喜悅，其實只要能開心安心，不管是教堂還是禪堂，都很是替他隨喜。算是一個生命的轉彎吧！

一切榮耀歸於主！阿彌陀佛！祝福老爸爸∼

Open House - Leigo

The rice lounge will be open tomorrow from 7:30 PM onwards. Come, and we will order take out together, and follow by a movie later.

石沈大海

作生意真的沒有想像中的容易，上個禮拜送的計畫像石沈大海一樣，撲咚，沒消沒息。幾次打電話想知道對方的回應，對方都沒接，不是離開辦公室，就是電話中，或是假裝電話中....who knows?! 以前在上班的時候也常常不接電話，算是因緣果報吧。今天約了第二個客戶在Bar Masa吃飯，發現談正經事情吃飯，好吃的東西都變得食之無味，浪費了美食和廚師的心意。客戶趕時間先離開，結果付錢時，居然發現沒帶錢包，尷尬死了！好險bar masa的服務生還算態度友善，讓我回家拿錢包。付了錢後，想想生意下一步要怎麼走，太陽晒在身上暖暖的，春天到了，Central Park的花花草草開的放肆極了，跟mr. softie買了一個ice cream cone, 邊舔邊回家，沒想到幸福可以那麼近。

老店新裝潢

After spending hours fixing the new blog look, here it is finally. Boy, do I waste a lot of time today!? The fun part about this new look is that I get to change the header pictures. Earlier this afternoon, I took a few pictures on my way to the post office. Sometime, it's easy to take New York for granted, and forget that it has so much to offer.

Another trivial fact... A few days ago, I went on a scale, and surprisingly found out that I am at my all time LOW in terms of weight. Two digits!!! I have passed the two digits threshhold in collage, and since then, it was a one way ticket. Very very surprised about the dramatic weight loss, especially when I am not as busy as before! Hm... I guess the tap dancing classes do help to burn some serious calorie???!!!

10,000 hits

Looks like in a matter of hours, this blog will reach its 10,000th hit. Thanks everyone for visiting and leaving messages. Your feedbacks have been making this process fun.

Besides from that, Leigo has just signed up for a real estate license class at Hunter Collage. The class is one week long and will begin next week. Working from home can get very isolated, and honestly doesn't keep me busy enough (YET!). Real estate has always been a hobby, if it can also generate some income, wouldn't that be nice?! I usually have bad impression of typical real estate brokers, hopefully I won't become one of them.

Third, and yet another totally irrelevent event: Earlier today, Leigo and Riceman went to the business library on 34th St to play around with a Bloomberg machine. This was the first time for both of us. The machine can be quite intimidating to look at and to use. After playing around for a solid half an hour, we were totally convinced that we had no idea on what we were doing. Ended up running away as far as we can from the machine..... and decided that... stocks are just way too complicated for us to comprehend, not our cup of tea.

Today's finding

For the first time after coming back from China, Leigo spent a good amount of today browsing through the NY Times Real Estate listings. Very surprised to find out the amount of manhattan apartments available under $300K. This was not the case a year ago. Hm... i guess the market did sink a little bit. Good time to buy?

不是忘記......只是想不起來

最近身邊碰到的一個有趣的小紛爭，讓我想起小時候的自己。小時候的自己很像奈良美智筆下的小女生，額頭大大的，看起來好像很可愛，但其實不是手裡拿了一把小鐮刀，就是露出一顆猙獰還帶血的小虎牙。有概念了嗎？小學六年，一直都在當班長，最大的樂趣就是帶頭欺負同學，男女不拘，胖瘦不拘，高矮不拘，只要是不順眼，就修理。有時候找不到人欺負，就叫姊妹掏到講台前半蹲，這個姊妹掏居然不計前嫌，到現在都一直保持連絡，大人大量ㄚ。老師也不管的，讓我胡作非為好幾年，直到有一天下午，同學集體罷免，第二天，老師居然宣佈班長還是繼續讓我當，沒天理啊，不過還有點懷念過去極權統戰的日子！想起來算是一個恐怖的小孩，不知慛殘了多少幼小的心靈，長大後居然有人願意娶，祖上積德，祖上積德！
注：姊妹掏最近新婚，是個很美麗的新娘，祝她美滿幸福。