1. [Brief News]
New President and EC members of ONMUAA
By Yongjian Liu and
Liang-feng Tao
Words from President-elect By Fuhu Wang
NMU President will visit USA/Canada By Wei Yang
2. [Among Us]
Tong Ying's situation & EC's Decision By Liang-feng Tao
3. [Suggestion & Discussion]
4. [Oversea's Life]
Chatting about travel By Xupei Huang
5. [Alumni networking]
6. [Job Opportunity]
7. [Humor and Jokes]
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1. [Brief News]
New President-elect of ONMUAA
Dear Nanyi alumni and friends,
It is my great pleasure to announce that, as a result of your
outstanding
effort, we have elected a new president-elect, Fuhu Wang of MD79, who
will be president of ONMUAA in the year 2000. Congratulations, Fuhu!
On behalf of board, I would also like to thank you for your active
participation during the nomination and election. We are looking forward
to
working with the newly forming Executive Committee of ONMUAA led by
the president Liangfeng Tao, PH79.
In addition, Wei Yang, our past-president want me to pass his
message to you on what has been achieved by his Committee over the last
term of service. You can seethat he is definitly too modest to hightligh
their
extraordinary accomplishment for our association under his leadership.
1. Finished and mailed to alumni in the first time the complete Alumni
Directory (340 names included)
2. Fund raising from over 70 alumni's donation to add over $800 to our
bank;
3. President and Past President successfully visited Nanyi, the connection
between ONMAA and mother-campus has been enhanced;
4. Well Maintained and updated the Alumni Directory, e-mail network
center and home page.
5. Published four issues of Newsletter.
With my best wishes to you all.
Yongjian Liu, MD78
Governing Board 98-99
EC members
Dear Alumni,
As our Board Chairman, Yongjian Liu, announced a couple days ago, we
now have a new President-elect, Fuhu Wang. Thus the new EC has formed
and started running the routine work, serving for our alumni. The
members of the EC and their duties are listed as follows:
Wei Yang (President-past for 1998, alumni reachout)
Fuhu Wang(President-elect for 2000, Coordinator for homepage)
Ning Jin (Coordinator for email communications)
Bei Chen (Treasurer)
Liangfeng Tao (President for 1999)
We as a small group will try our best to serve our alumni this year, and
will continously workfor our association under the direction of the
Board. At the moment, I want to give thanks particularly to Bei and
Ning for their confirmed dedication to staying in EC for another
year, although they are
very, very busy now. I also want to thank Wei and all members in last
year's EC for their great contributions in 1998 which were really
helpful for this year's work.
Dear Alumni and friends, we will soon reach you for your suggestions
and comments on our proposed work. Hope we all work together and make
3 year old ONMUAA stronger. Thank you for your trust and support.
Best wishes,
Liang-feng Tao (PH79)
Words from New President-elect
Hi, All Alumni,
My name is Fuhu Wang (MD78-79). Some of you know me, many probably
don't. Anyhow, the Board of ONMUAA gave me the job to be the next
President of the EXECUTIVE committee. Capitalized is the word
executive. So I will be one of the guys to bug people to get
whatever on the menu cooked, so to speak ---- for a year or two. My
main credentials with the association is limited largely to being the
webpage person. Now in addition to dealing with those "Java powered"
moving pictures I have something real to do. So thanks for your trust.
Canadian Spring will probably come ealier this year due to your
kindness. I will try to keep up with your expectations.
Fuhu.
NMU President Dr. Chen Ronghua will visit USA/Canada
According to NMU Foreign Affair Office, NMU President Chen Ronghua
will visit USA/Canada late March, as a member of Jiangsu Education
Delegaion headed by one vice governor of Jiangsu province. The
deligation will visit Harvard, U Texas, U Nevada and UC Davis in US.
Other universities and detailed schedules have not been confirmed
yet. Dr Chen is planning to meet our overseas alumni and may visit
some other medical schools if the schedule allows according to his
preliminary plan. EC will keep alumni informed for his visit and
encourage alumni to meet him at convenient time and places.
(From Yang Wei)
2. [Among Us]
Mr. Tong Ying's situation and EC's decision
Dear NMU Alumni,
As many of you already know, Dr. Tong Ying suffered a severe brain
injury in a drowning accident back in last August. Since then he has
been hospitalized mainly from the profound infection. Several months
ago when his health condition was under control, he was sent to a
rehabilitation center at Charlotte, North Carolina. After a period
of time of rehab treatment, there was no noticeable improvement in
his condition. He then was transferred to a nursing home. The
nursing home cost at first three months is covered by the insurance
company and then will be totally on his family.
Mr. Tong Ying is a talented and hard-working person. He was a
graduate student of GS 82 in Nanjing Medical College. He was one of
the
few people who entered graduate study without a college degree (it was
called at that time "a genius by self-study"). After graduation in 1985,
he worked as a instructor and a researcher in the Preclinical Drug
Research
Center in Nanjing Medical College for several years until he became a
Ph.D. student at the UT-Houston in 1990.
Dr. Tong Ying is a warm-hearted person. He helped a lot of his
colleagues, students and neighbors with his skilled hands from repairing
electronic instruments to carrying heavy stuff like a gas container.
He is one of the founders and organizers of the American/Chinese
Toxicologist Association and spends a lot of time to strengthen the
academic communication among the scientists in the field both in
China and in the United States. He was the Secretary-general of the
Chinese Engineer Association in Houston area and dedicated himself to
the Association activities.
Since last August, Dr. Tong has been carrying on a tenacious struggle
against the death. His wife (a former NMU staff in Microbiology lab) and
his family spent a lot of time and money to support him. They always hold
a hope to wait for his recovery. It is a very difficult time for Tong's
family
although they received a lot of support, spiritually and financially,
from friends, relatives and the organizations. Many ONMUAA members
also called Tong Ying's family to express their sympathy and support.
After discussions with many alumni, EC has decided to further call for
support to Dr. Tong and his family from our alumni. Any suggestions and
technical information helpful for his recovery are encouraged and
welcome. At the same time, EC has set up a fund at our bank account
and collect donations for Dr.Tong, one of ONMUAA member, and his
family, to help them fight against the disease. This fund under the
name of ONMUAA/EC will also be a regular channel to support any
possible cases similar to Dr.Tong's in the future.
Dear Alumni, please give your help to one of our alumni who really
needs support from us right now. We, on behalf of Dr. Tong's family,
will greatly appreciate your support, either financially,
spiritrally, or technically. Please send check or money order to
ONMUAA,
Bei Chen,
1 DNA way MS, 19
South SF, CA 94080
mark with "Donation for Dr. Tong Ying". If your have any suggestions
or ideas to help Dr. Tong's recovery, you can also send information
to:
[email protected]
Thank you very much for your generous help.
EC
3. [Suggestion & Discussion]
After having struggled in the foreign countries for several or a dozen
of
years, most of our alumni are reaching their middle age. To deal with
everyday's pressure, to face to everyday's challenge, to maintain a happy
family, and to realize our dream, health is the most important issue. Tong
Ying's accident is a disaster for him and his family. Beside sharing
the pain with his family, we should think about what we could learn
from it. What
we can do to prevent the accident? What we can do after a disaster
(any kind of disaster, such as trafic accident, property damage,
disease, etc)? If you have this kind of experience or if you know
some people who are experts in this field, you are welcome to discuss
it with your alumni and friends. We are waiting for your
contributions to the section "Suggestion & Discussion" in the next
issue of the Newsletter. Thanks.
(The Editorial Board of the Newsletter)
4. [Oversea's Life]
Chatting about travel
I like travel. Travelling for me is sightseeing, amusing,
enjoying, of course, also learning. Moreover it is an opportunity for
me to relax and it is a break from my every day's hard working.
When my family was in Europe several years ago, we traveled around
Europe. Travelling in Europe is little bit different from that in
America. For most Chinese students and scholars, we traveled in the
following ways:
1) Travel by group. 30 to 50 or more participants are organized
as a group. We rented one or two tourist buses and spent a weekend (2
days) or a long weekend (3-4 days) in some pre-selected places. By
the way, European people have more holidays and vacation than
Americans do. Once a one-day holiday is by chance on Tuesday or
Thursday, the Monday (one-day before) and the Friday (one-day after)
naturally become another one-day holiday. So plus the connected
weekend, we have 4-day holiday. It is called "bridged long weekend".
There are several long-weekend holidays every year. We took the
opportunity of the long-weekend to travel around the picturesque
scenery in Europe: Geneva, Bern, Rome, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and
Paris; Thames, Rhine, Loire and La SeineŠ.
Among Chinese students, there are a lot of talented people at
different fields. In the bus, those who are majoring in Western
history or Western art and architecture would voluntarily tell us
some interesting history and story about the city and some must-see
places in the city to which our bus was running toward. As a medical
researcher, I have to admit that there is a big difference when I
visited the Museum of Louvre by myself or guided by an artist or a
painter.
The limitation for the group travel is that it is suitable for a
short-term travel. For a ten-day or longer vacation, it is very
difficult to organize. We tried to organize a trip to Egypt, but
never realized.
2) Travel by train. Unlike in the United States, trains are
important and practical transportation tools in Europe. Most Chinese
students like to travel around Europe by train. It is an economic
way (except the Oriental Express). In particularly, there are a lot
of special train tickets, such as Europass and Eurail Flexipass. We
can travel with these special tickets in limited countries (such as
France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland) and in a limited time
(such as 5 days in 2 months or 10 days in 2 months, etc). Another
kind of special train tickets is called "kilometer ticket". We can
buy a 3,000 km or a 5,000 km ticket. Every time when we use the
ticket from a place to another, the km of that distance will be
subtracted from the total kilometers in the ticket. If a couple take
the same train, two times of the distance in km will be subtracted.
Most Chinese students like to purchase a 2nd class ticket. It is
cheaper, of course. In general, it is never full in the train,
especially when we take the train during the night. In each cabinet,
there are 6 seats, 3 at each side and face to face. For a family of 3
or 4, they can occupy the whole cabinet and fall asleep and nobody
will bother them.
Railway stations are always located in the downtown area or the
center of the city. In big cities, the public transportation is very
convenient. We can take subway or autobus to every corner of the
city. In Paris, a tourist can find a subway station in less than 500
m distance at any direction. In Venice, a tourist will easily find a
"boat taxi" which will take him to everywhere in the city. In small
cities such as Brugg, Andorra, Vatican, Nice, and Monaco, it is very
comfortable to walk around. The advantage of travel by train is that
tourists can stay longer in a place if they want. Remember: Rome can
not be seen in a day as it can not be built in a day!
The inconvenience of travelling by train is visa (maybe no more
problem now). Several years ago, for a Chinese passport holder, it
was a real headache to apply a tourist visa from one European country
to another. In some Western Europe country's embassy, there was a
notice on the entrance: "It will take a longer time to process the
application of a tourist visa for the applicants who hold a passport
issued from the following countries: Cuba, North Korea, People's
Republic of China, Syria Š". When we asked how long it would take,
the answer was always one month, or two months, maybe three months.
Among those countries, Italian embassy was the toughest. However,
Chinese students are smart. When we knew that a transit visa in Italy
was much easier and quicker to get, (about 3 days). We designed an
indirect route. First, we obtained a tourist visa to Greece (Greece
is a relative poorer country in Europe. It is much nicer toward the
tourists from the Third World countries). Because travelling by train
from France, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium to Greece has to go
through Italy, so when we showed our visa to Greece and a train
ticket to Greece then asked a transit visa from Italian Embassy, they
could say nothing but issuing us a transit visa. The 7-day validation
enabled us to spend one week in Florence and Rome.
3) Travel by car. By this way, we don't have headache for visa,
even several years ago. You leave from Paris in the morning and pass
through the frontier. In 4 hours, you will find yourself sitting in a
restaurant and tasting the most delicious fried potato in Belgium.
First time, when we drove from Paris to Luxembourg, when we already
arrived at the downtown of Luxembourg we were still looking for the
frontier line between France and Luxembourg!
When we drove one day in a highway in between Holland and
Germany, we never made sure which side we were. In the United States,
there is a cross point at which 4 different states meet together. If
you lie down, your hands and your feet will touch at each state. In
Europe, there is a place where you stand on connecting three
different countries. >From Paris to London, you can drive through a
tunnel underlying the English Channel. Or you can drive to the shore
at French side. Then a ferry will carry you and your car to the
other side in England. However, driving in London is an adventure,
especially for people who are used to driving at the left side. In
United Kingdom, driving seat is at the right side (I have never
figured out why).
Travel by car is much more expensive in Europe than in the United
States. One litter of gasoline in Europe is the same price as one
gallon of gasoline in the States (1 gallon = 3.8 litters).
Since we moved from Europe to the United States 5 years ago, we
have traveled around in this vast and beautiful country and visited
more than 20 states. The travel in the States can be classified as
follows:
1) Business travel. To go to a conference or attend a seminar
is a kind of business travel, sometime even it is a family travel. A
four-star hotel is a luxury enjoy.
2) Travel for sightseeing. To drive 4,000 or 5,000 miles and to
visit more than a dozen of cities and towns in 10 days is really a
challenge. Highway-side motels are the frequent lodging places.
3) Travel for visiting friends. To design a specific round trip
to meet old friends and NanYi alumni at different locations. Beside
delicious dinner prepared by the host friends, chatting, singing,
karaoke, playing cards and playing ping-pang always give us the best
and unforgettable moment.
4) Travel accompanying visiting parents. When our parents came
from China, we asked them where they wanted the most to visit. The
answer was New York, Washington D.C. and White House. When they were
asked whether they wanted to go to Yellow Stone Park. The answer was
No, never heard that. OK., even we already made that round trip
twice, we had to drive the same way the third time: Cleveland,
Sea-World, Niagara Falls, New York city, Washington D.C., White
House, Baltimore, Atlantic CityŠ.
Travelling is exciting, even just talking about it.
(By Xupei Huang)
5. [Alumni Networking]
New arrivals
Lin Yafang and Zhang Hong, both MD77, both with Dept. of
Anesthesiology at the 1st Affiliated arrived in the US or Canada end
of last year. Their email addresses:
LYF [email protected]
ZH [email protected]
(Fuhu Wang)
A web site for the Chinese Community in Greater Boston!
A brand-new web site focusing onthe Chinese Community in Greater
Alumni on move
We have 5 new members
QIAN Yanning MD 78 .
ZHANG Suliang, MD78
QIAN Wei , MD 78,
WANG Keya MD 82,
ZHAO Wen-ning, Faculty(Microbiology)
Email: [email protected]
We have following members who have had address change:
QIU Qing, Faculty(Public Health)
WEN Yuejin, MD78
ZHANG Yamei, MD77
YU Yongjia, PH77
XUE Jianping
YU Xianhong
HUANG Xupei
DONG Hangying
6. [Job Opportunity]
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN MA (Fwd by LF Tao)
The University of Massachusetts Lowell is accepting applications
TWO POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN SC (Fwd by Youcheng Liu)
The USC Prevention Research Center has two post-doctoral positions we
7. [Humor and Jokes]
Why God Never Received Tenure at any University:
1. He had only one major publication.
(From Jing Nin)
I've Two Choices
Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always
Hope you will choose No. 2!
THIS MIGHT LOOK LONG BUT IT'S WORTH THE READ.
TIME
To realize the VALUE OF ONE YEAR... ask a student who has
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(From Liang-feng Tao)
from recent doctoral degree candidates for a post-doctoral fellowship
to study the effects of various environmental components (pollutants
and micro-nutrients) on cellular and molecular events in both normal
and abnormal cells and various mouse models. This position is
supported by the Centers for Chronic Disease Control, Cellular
Neurobiology and Neurodegeneration Research and the Massachusetts
Bioprocess Development Center in conjunction with the Office of
Collaborative of Research.
Applications are encouraged from individuals with strong interest in
the area of molecular and cellular biology of immune function. or
signal transduction. Experience with transgenic mice and knockout
mice is desirable. The fellowship term is one year with the
expectation that, with
assistance from faculty, RO1 support will follow. Applicants must
qualify under the NIH Guidelines, which include U.S. citizenship or
permanent residency. Interested individuals should send a curriculum
vitae and a list of three references to:
Dr. Robert Nicolosi, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Office of
Collaborative Research, Wannalancit Building, 600 Suffolk Street,
Lowell MA 01854.
would like to fill in 1999. Can you help us to identify some good
candidates? The position descriptions are below.
Position #1 - PA Epidemiologist: We wish to hire a post-doctoral
fellow to analyze children's physical activity data from four cohort
studies in Russia,South Africa, China, and the Philippines. Data
include survey and Caltrac accelerometer measures of physical
activity. The analyses will focus on the descriptive epidemiology of
physical activity patterns
amongchildren in developing countries with emerging obesity
concerns. The ideal candidate will have experience cleaning and
analyzing large data sets (with about 2,000 subjects per site) using
mainframe and PC-SAS, knowledge of epidemiologic data analysis
methods, previous experience in analyzing physical activity data, and
a strong interest in writing manuscripts for publication. The
appointment is for 1-2 years and the pay is between $24,000-28,000
plus benefits, depending on experience. The position will be located
at USC, Columbia, SC and will begin around July 1, 1999. The
post-doctoral supervisor is Dr. Barbara Ainsworth.
Position #2 - Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiologist. Through a
sub-contract with the South Carolina Department of Health and
Environmental Control,the USC Prevention Research Center is hiring a
post-doctoral fellow to work in community CVD prevention activities.
Tasks include (1) research to measure community indicators for CVD
risk
and prevention and developing strategies to evaluate the indicators
in selected South Carolina communities, (2) and analysis of data from
a new CVD surveillance system in South Carolina. The ideal candidate
will have experience analyzing data using mainframe SAS, knowledge of
epidemiologicdata analysis methods, understanding of determinants and
distribution of CVD, interest in the topic, and a strong desire to do
research and write manuscripts for publication. The appointment is
for 2-3 years and the pay is between $24,000-28,000 plus benefits,
depending on experience. The position is part of a joint project
with the USC PRC and SC DHEC in Columbia, SC and will begin
immediately. The post-doctoral supervisors are Dr. Tim Aldrich,
Epidemiologist for DHEC and Dr. Barbara Ainsworth, Director for the
USC Prevention Research Center.
Thanks for forwarding this message to your colleagues who may know
about interested applicants.
Please send inquiries to Barbara Ainsworth at my E-mail address:
[email protected]
Barbara Ainsworth, PhD, MPH
Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Department of Exercise Science
School of Public Health
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone (803) 777-6653 Fax (803) 777-2524
2. It was in Hebrew.
3. It had no references.
4. It wasn't published in a refered journal.
5. Some even doubt he wrote it himself.
6. It may be true he created the world, but what has he done since then?
7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.
8. The scientific community has had a hard time replicating his results.
9. He never applied to the Ethics Board for permission to use human
subjects.
10. When one experiment went awry, he tried to cover it up by drowning
the subjets.
11. When subjets didn't behave as predicted, he deleted them from the
sample.
12. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the Book.
13. Some say he had his son teach the class.
14. He expelled his first two students for learning.
15. Although there were only ten requirements, most students failed his
tests.
16. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountain top.
in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When
someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were
any better, I
would be twins!"
He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who
had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason
the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a
natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there
telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the
situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I
went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a
positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself,
Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good
mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood." I choose to be in a good
mood.
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a
victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept
their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I
choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes it
is," Jerry said, "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the
junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to
situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to
be in a good mood or bad mood.
The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the
restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often
thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to
it.
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you
are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back
door open one morning and was held up at gun point by three armed
robbers.
While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from
nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot
him.
Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to
the local trauma center.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,
Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets
still in his body.
I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I
asked him how he was, he said, "If I were any better, I'd be twins.
Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds but did ask him what had gone
through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that
went through my mind was that I should have locked the back
door," Jerry replied.
"Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two
choices ? I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose
to live."
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I
asked.
Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept
telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the
emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors
and nurses, I got really scared.
In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man. " I knew I needed
to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at
me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I
replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my
reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter,
I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive,
not dead."
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also
because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we
have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
You have 2 choices now:
1. Save or delete this mail from your mailbox,or
2. Forward it to people you care about.
(From Yang Wei, PH79)
One day while walking down the street a highly successful, executive
woman was tragically hit by a bus and she died. Her soul arrived up
in heaven where she was met at the Pearly Gates by St. Peter himself.
"Welcome to Heaven," said St.Peter. "Before you get settled in
though, it seems we have a problem. You see, strangely enough, we've
never once had an executive make it this far and we're not really
sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in" said the woman.
"Well, I'd like to, but I have higher orders. What we're going to do is
let you have a day in Hell and a day in Heaven and then you can
choose whichever one you want to spend an eternity in.
"Actually, I think I've made up my mind...I prefer to stay in Heaven."
"Sorry, we have rules..." and with that, St. Peter put the executive in
an elevator and it went down to hell. The doors opened and she found
herself stepping out onto the putting green of a beautiful golf
course.
In the distance was a country club and standing in front of her were all
her friends -- fellow executives that she had worked with and they
were all dressed in evening gowns and cheering for her.
They ran up and kissed her on both cheeks and they talked about old
times. They played an excellent round of golf and at night went to
the country club where she enjoyed an excellent steak and lobster
dinner. She met the Devil who was actually a really nice guy (kinda
cute) and she had a great time telling jokes and dancing. She was
having a good time and before she knew it, it was time to leave.
Everybody shook her hand and waved good-bye as she got into the
elevator. The elevator went up and opened back up at the Pearly Gates
and found St. Peter waiting for her.
"Now it's time to spend a day in heaven."
So she spent the next 24 hours lounging around on clouds and playing the
harp and singing. She had a great time and before she knew it her 24
hours were up St. Peter came and got her. "So, you've spent a day in
hell, and you've spent a day in heaven, now you must choose your
eternity."
The woman paused for a second and then replied, "Well, I never
thought I'd say this, I mean Heaven has been really great and all,
but I think I had a better time in Hell."
So, St. Peter escorted her to the elevator and again she went down back
to Hell. When the doors of the elevator opened she found herself
standing in a desolate wasteland covered in garbage and filth. She
saw her friends were dressed in rags and were picking up the garbage
and putting it in sacks. The Devil came up to her and put his arm
around her.
"I don't understand," stammered the woman, "yesterday I was here and
there was a golf course and a country club and we ate lobster and we
danced and had a great time, now all there is a wasteland of garbage
and all my friends look miserable."
The Devil looked at her and smiled. "That's because yesterday we were
recruiting you, but today, you're staff."
(From Liang-feng Tao)
failed a final exam.
To realize the VALUE OF ONE MONTH... ask a mother who has
given birth to a premature baby.
To realize the VALUE OF ONE WEEK... ask the editor of a weekly
newspaper.
To realize the VALUE OF ONE HOUR... ask the lovers who are
waiting to meet.
To realize the VALUE OF ONE MINUTE... ask the person who has
missed a plane or a bus.
To realize the VALUE OF ONE SECOND... ask a person who has
survived an accident.
To realize the VALUE OF ONE MILLISECOND...ask the person who
has won the silver medal in the Olympics.
Time waits for no one. Treasure every minute you have. You will
TREASURE it even more when you can share it with someone "SPECIAL".
(From Ning Jin)
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