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人心不古，问了问身边的一些女性朋友，发现她们居然都不
会做饭菜。可怜我还没有表示对她们的不屑，她们就个个质
问我，如果男朋友会做饭菜，自己为什么要学会做饭菜。
唉，极为震撼，当下想到虽然很多男同胞们和我一样，很努
力的朝“新好男人”这个称号而努力，但我始终只是把这当
作一个偶尔为之的事情，不想终日在厨房蹉跎青春之余，身
不由己的向着“家庭妇男”发展。所以在下在这里聒噪几句
，女人必须学会做饭菜的几个理由，权且为了咱们男同胞们
将来的幸福生活!
其一，女人都希望自己的男朋友和老公是君子，那么君子就
应该有君子风范。千百年以前孔老夫子缓缓地说道：君子远
庖厨。于是作为君子，似乎起码要和厨房远一点。当然，远
庖厨还是意味着还是可以下厨房的，毕竟我们对孔老夫子的
话要辩证接受，不能做典型的大男子主义者。可是，这么一
来，在君子偶尔远庖厨的时候，谁来做饭菜呢？显然经常到
馆子去打牙祭是不科学的，因此这个时候迫切需要女人这半
边天站起来。所以，为了拥有如同君子一样的另一半，女人
必须学会做饭菜。
其二，既然现在男女平等的呼声很流行，那么我们也就要顺
应流行干一些流行的事情。不过说来惭愧，女人已经得到了
“半边天”的美誉，可另外半边天的名号却怎么也挂不到男
人的头上。不知不觉，进入新世纪以来，男女平等的呼声也
进入了另一个微妙的阶段，这已经不是有女人在呼唤平等，
而是男同胞们在呼唤平等。现在，很多女人和男人一样在外
面赚钱养家，但是回到家里后，男女地位却不再平等，往往
是一大批迫于河东狮吼下的家庭妇男在厨房操劳，所以为了
真正实现男女平等，女人必须学会做饭菜。
其三，做饭菜是女人让男人感受到自己温柔体贴的最直接的
表现！男人可以容忍女人的很多坏习惯，但是绝对不能容忍
女人不够温柔体贴。男人是很容易满足的，只要能吃到自己
最心爱的女人用心做出的饭菜，他就会觉得自己是这个世界
上最幸福的人。所以，为了让自己心爱的人开心，女人必须
学会做饭菜。
第四，做饭菜是女人作为母亲最神圣的职责！如果一个孩子
从小到大，从来都只有父亲在厨房辛劳，母亲却悠闲得在化
妆台上梳妆，该是多么的可怕呀！更有甚者，如果所有的小
孩都认为只有男人才做饭菜，那又是多么可悲呀……所以，
为了不误导孩子，为了给孩子的健康成长创造一个良好的空
间，女人必须学会做饭菜。
第五，俗话说要得到一个人的心，首先要得到一个人的胃，
做饭菜是女人拴住男人心最简单的办法，也是抵抗第三者的
最有力的武器！在同等条件下，男人都会选择能做的好饭菜
的女人，毕竟家里就能享受五星级宾馆的厨师，这远远比到
外面拿钱受罪强许多。所以为了男女之间稳定的爱情，女人
必须学会做饭菜。
其六，做饭菜能充分显示女人是男人坚强的后盾。女人的一
手好饭菜没准能帮到男人的大忙。别的不说，看看黄蓉是怎
样帮郭靖从洪七公那里学到降龙十八掌的。如果男朋友或老
公带什么重要人士到家来吃饭时，你那高超的厨艺让或许会
比送红包更管用。所以，为了有朝一日能帮助男人，树立贤
内助的光辉形象，女人必须学会做饭菜。
第七，做饭菜是女人美丽工程最基础的工作！毫无疑问女人
离不开美容，不然现在世界上有关美容的企业起码垮掉。大
家都知道，美容的一个起码要求就是健康，大家可以想像，
如果女人不会做饭，不懂得调节自己的营养，她怎能健康？
营养不好是要被饿得皮包骨的，虽说现在流行“骨感美”，
但身体垮掉的话，就因小失大了。所以为了自己的美丽和健
康，女人必须学会做饭菜。

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1. Parthenon (帕特农神庙－Greek)
   More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon - the sanctuary to the goddess Athena - still dominates the skyline of the Acropolis in Athens. The structure, originally painted in brilliant shades of red, green and blue, remained largely intact until 1687, when a force of Venetians laying siege to invading Turkish troops ignited a gunpowder magazine stored there. The explosion reduced the sanctuary to nearly ruins.
   
2. Angkor Wat (吴哥窟－Cambodia【柬埔寨】)
   Angkor Wat is actually just one of more than a dozen magnificent temples in the vast metropolis of Angkor, the capital of Khmer Empire from the 9th to the 15th centuries. Within Angkor Wat, carved bas-reliefs illustrate scenes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata - epic poems that are also sacred Hindu texts.
   
3. Ephesus (以弗所－Greek)
   Ephesus's greatest claim to fame ws its temple to the goddess Artemis. One of the "seven wonders" of the ancient world, it was almost four times larger than the Parthenon in Athens. According got he New Testament, the Apostle Paul preached in Ephesus, prompting a riot led by silversmiths who crafted shrines to the goddess and feared for both their livelihoods and the future of the temple.
   
4. Venice (威尼斯－Italy)
   A jewel of a city audaciously built on 118 tiny islands and network of waterways, Venice is an imperiled treasure that stubbornly endures. Due to the plodding geological shifts of the continents, the city is sinking at a rate of a half inches per decade. a watery demise for Venice by the end of the century may be inevitable.
   
5. Amazon Rain Forest (亚马逊热带雨林－南美)
   The Amazon rain forest covers more than two million square miles of the earth's surface, spanning eight South American countries. Although the region has no reasons, the Amazon River rises and falls by as much as 30 feet during the year, and the variety of living things one can see changes with it. Every journey reveals new wonders.
   
6. Great Barrier Reef (大堡礁－Australia)
   To say that the Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef may be understating things; the Australian government notes that it is "the only living organic collective visible from Earth's orbit." Certainly, it is vast - a conglomeration of some 3,000 reefs and 600 islands stretching more than 1,250 miles along Australia's northeast coast. Green turtles, dolphins and whales live there, along with 2000 species of birds, 1,500 species of fish, 4,000 species of mollusks and, yes, an abundances of corals.
   
7. Galapagos Islands (加拉帕戈斯群岛－Ecuador【厄瓜多尔】)
   Giant tortoises lumber across the lava rocks, while iguanas defy desert stereotypes and plunge into the sea. The strange, conspicuously adapted wildlife that impressed Charles Darwin then he visited the Galapagos Islands in 1835 - and that would later kindle his discovery of the process of evolution of natural selection - is still there. In fact, the Galapagos, 14 major and many smaller islands spanning the Equator 620 miles off the coast of Ecuador, remains the world's most biologically intact tropical archipelago.
   

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1. Uffizi Gallery (乌飞奇美术馆－Italy)
   Home to a priceless collection of Renaissance art and other masterpieces, including Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Leonardo da Vinci's Annuciation, the uffizi is one of the world's oldest museums. The palazzo that houses the gallery was designed by architect and painter Giorgio Vasari and begun in 1560 for Cosimo I de'Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. Originally built as government offices (uffizi), the building became a venue for the display for art in 1574, when Cosimo's son Francesco I transformed the top floor into a place "to walk in with paintings, sculptures and other precious things".
   
2. Fallingwater (落水山庄－USA)
   If the skyscraper is America's most iconic building, a small personal residence in southwest Pennsylvania might be its most ingenious. Frank Lloyd Wright completed Fallingwater in 1937, and months later Time magazine put the house on its cover, proclaiming it the architect's "most beautiful job." Ayn Rand based much of her 1943 classic, The Fountainhead, on Wright and the house he had wrought.
   
3. Yangtze River (长江－China)
   Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia - and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than climbing the sky." The 20th-century novelist Pearl S. Buck dubbed it "the wildest, wickedest river" for its murderous floods. So much of China's past lies on the Yangtze; now a trop along the river also affords a glimpse of future.
   
4. Antarctica (南极)
   Magical, surreal and otherworldly, Antarctica is a land of ultimate. As the southernmost continent, it is the coldest and windiest place on earth. And with virtually no rain and more than 95 percent of the landmass covered in ice, Antarctica is the world's largest desert.
   
5. Mount Kilimanjaro (乞力马扎罗山－Tanzania)
   Every year some 15,000 hikers suit up and climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the world's tallest freestanding mountain. They hire porters and pay anywhere from $900 for a basic package to $5,000 for luxury accommodations. Hikers are forbidden to climb the 19,340-foot mountain, which is in Tanzania, East Africa, without a guide.
   
6. Grand Canyon (科罗拉多大峡谷－USA)
   The 6,000-foot-deep, 277-mile-long and 18-mile wide chasm looked like and ocean masked by the dark. Come morning, watching the sun rise over the whittled canyon was as mesmerizing as watching waves roll in. But just as you can't grasp the size of the sells without swimming, you can't comprehend the depth of the rust-colored canyon until you venture down into it - and hike rim to rim.
   
7. Pagan (蒲甘城－Myanmar【缅甸】)
   On the banks of the Irrawaddy River, more than 3,000 templates stretch across a 30-square-mile plain in Pagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma). Most were constructed between 1057 and 1287 during a building frenzy initiated by King Anawrahta, who formed the first Burmese kingdom in 1044.
   

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1. The Great Wall (长城－China)
   As simatai, a two-hour drive from Beijing, there's an access point to the Great Wall, in north Miyun Country. The wall's length was estimated to be anywhere from about 1,500 to 31,250 miles. But the structure is actually multiple walls - dating from the 7th century B.C to the 17th century A.D - some of which are only now being surveyed. Current estimates places its length with all the branches and sections, at 4,500 miles.
   
2. Aurora Borealis (极光-USA)
   Never mind the grizzly bears, the glaciers and the tundra. The best reason to go north (to Alaska, the Yunkon or anywhere else above about 60 degrees latitude) is to see the Northern light. The best times to see the aurora are around the fall and spring equinoxes, according to Janet Green, a physicist at the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), when geomagnetic storms - disturbances in the earth's magnetic field - are strongest. It helps if the sun is near a peak of activity in its 11-year sunspot cycle.
   
3. Serengeti (塞伦盖蒂平原－Tanzania)
   The Serengeti ("land of endless space" in Masai) is the only place in Africa where migrations of this magnitude occur. Each year, the primal drama of survival plays out on an epic scale on the plains of the Serengeti. An estimated one-and-half million wildebeests, along with hundreds of thousands of zebras and gazelles, make a 300-mile circuitous journey across the vast grasslands that stretch across northern Tanzanian, then west toward Lake Victoria, east to the Ngorongoro highlands the north into Kenya. Lions, cheetahs and hyenas tenaciously pursue their prey, while hordes of crocodiles hunker down in the Mara River, eager to pick off wildebeests struggling across swift currents.
   
4. Iguazu Falls (依科苏瀑布－Brazil)
   Iguazu is a series of more than 200 separate waterfalls strung along 230-foot-high cliffs on both sides of a narrow gorge. Only Victoria Falls, between Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa, rivals Iguazu in grandeur. But the sheer variety of vistas at Iguazu-located near where Paraguay. Brazil and Argentina meet - give there falls a special edge.
   
5. Machu Picchu (玛曲－Peru)
   Machu Picchu, the royal retreat of the Incan emperor Pachacuti, sits stop the Urubamba Valley in Peru. Meaning "Old Mountain" in the Quechua Indian language, the complex was constructed in the 15th century as a place for the emperor and his retinue to relax, hunt or entertain foreign dignitaries.
   
6. The Louvre (卢浮宫－France)
   The Mona Lisa (蒙娜丽莎). The Venus de Milo (维纳斯). The Winged Victory of Samothrace (胜利女神). The collection in the Louvre Museum is Paris is an a Art History 101 checklist. And yet, you must see the works in person. No photograph or web site has the same impact as standing dwarfed before the myriad intricacies of Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese's 22-foot-tall Wedding Feast at Cana (迦纳的婚宴). But a pick-and-choose tour of Famous masterpieces ignores the full scope of the collection. Begun by King François I in 1546, the 35,000 pieces are a narrative of artistic vision from antiquity through the mid-19th century.
   
7. Zen Garden of Kyoto (京都禅院－Japan)
   Zen rock gardens, or karesansui (translated as "dry-mountain-water") originated in medieval Japan and are renowned for their simplicity and serenity. The most famous of these can be found in Kyoto at the 15th-century Ryoan-ji, the Temple of the Peaceful Dragon. Measuring 98 by 32 feet, the Ryoan-ji garden is about the size of a tennis court and is composed solely of 15 large and small rocks, some encircled by moss, grouped in five clusters on a bed of carefully raked while sand, the sand a tranquil sea.
   

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1. Mesa Verde (佛得角高地－USA)
   Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings are a little crumbly in places and looters took away most of the pottery and baskets a century ago. But as you explore the southwestern Colorado national park, it is easy to imaging the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo Indians who built these cliff houses 800 years ago.
   
2. Pompeii(庞贝古城－Greek)
   Pompeii's history reads like a Greek tragedy. Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil - the produce of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius. Yet that very same volcano would erupt and doom the city of 10,000 to 20,000 inhabitants in A.D. 79.
   
3. Tikal (玛雅遗址－Guatemala【危地马拉】)
   Founded in 200 B.C., it emerged as a regional superpower that dominated other city-states stretching from the Yucatan Peninsula to western Honduras. Tikal's reign abruptly ended when, or unknown reasons, the Mayans abandoned the city in A.D. 900. Enveloped by jungle, it would not be rediscovered until 1848. Since then, only 15 percent of the site has been excavated.
   
4. Petra (红玫瑰古城佩特拉－Jordan)
   Located in western Jordan, Petra was built in the first century B.C. by an Arab tribe, the Nabateans, who made it the capitcal of a prosperous mercantile empire. High walls and surrounding mountains served as intimidating defenses against raiders tempted to plunder the city's wealth The main entrance the Siq, is a twisting gorge so narrow in some places that only two camels can pass at a time.
   
5. Pyramids of Giza (祖玛金字塔－Egypt)
   The Pyramids of Giza rise from the west bank of the Nile River almost as an act of defiance, perfectly symmetrical behemoths imposed upon a flat, barren landscape. The Great Pyramid - the oldest, largest and most famous of the monuments - si the last of the ancient world's "seven wonders" still standing. Built 4,500 years ago as a tomb fro the fourth dynasty pharaoh Khufu, it once stood 481 feet high. Because thieves (who robbed the burial chambers) stripped the pyramids of their outer castings of polished while limestone, they no longer reach their original heights. Today the Great Pyramid stands at 450 feet.
   
6. Taj Mahal (泰姬陵－India)
   Every year for the past decade or so, more than three million travelers have visited India's Taj Mahal. The while marble monument - completed over some 15 years by the emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, whoe died in childbirth in 1631 - rises on a three-acre site on the Yamuna River in the northern city of Agra.
   
7. Easter Island (复活岛－Chile)
   About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island. Just 14 miles along and 7 miles wide, it was named by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who discovered it on Easter Sunday in 1722. Archaeologist and historian have debated the island's history, but it is believes that Polynesians landed on the island around A.D. 800 and depleted its resources until it was practically barren.
   

记得我通过保送生考试，进入廊坊一中的第一天，巢柏林校长让我们回去之后好好总结一下初中三年的经历，你学到了什么，得到了什么，失去了什么，你觉得自己做得最成功的一件事是什么，最失败的一件事是什么，最遗憾的一件事是什么，有哪些话能写进自己的座右铭。

我觉得要让我对2007年一一回答这些问题，恐怕需要想一段时间，因为一年的事情太多了。而且并不是所有的事情我都愿意公之于众。但是有几件大的事情还是值得一说的。

我觉得2007年最大的事情莫过于我找到了我的另一半。但同时令我遗憾的事情也出于此－－她还没有来。然而这至少意味着新生活的开始。这4年来，我们彼此都付出了很多。她想要的东西，我还没有能力给她－－并不是我不能－－是因为我想用自己的能力去实现－－房子。这个始终是我心中的一块石头，不知道什么时候才能落下来。现在唯一能做的就是努力多学点东西，多发文章，以后能找到份好点的工作。我第一次感觉到，说实在的，房子对于女人的重要性甚于戒指。

2007年，我写了两篇文章。这是我的处女座，虽然还没有发表，但是相信也为期不远。第一篇文章是跟Jane Charlton的，其实已经做了两年，因为我的课程还有Jane很忙，一直拖到现在，改了很多次了，总算是自己满意了。第二篇是我自己的idea，跟Daniel Vanden Berk和Niel Brandt合写的。正在给Niel审批，如果通过的话，将成为下面一个大的project的前奏。可惜我老板说Niel回话之前不让我做任何的推进，Niel最近又去度假，所以只能等着，做点别的事情。

思想上，我觉得我最大的收获就是我认真的回顾了我4年来在天文学领域的学习并且思考了我的未来。进一步，我决定要把我的精力逐步转移到计算机上面。我开始学习Java，并且申请了computational science的PhD minor。我曾经试过申请计算机的master，虽然因为经费和时间的问题没有实现，但是仍然是一个good try。我觉得其实很多idea并不难实现，关键是自己去尝试，别光听别人说行不行。当时我的师兄预见Don不会同意的，但是我跟Don说了之后，Don并没有反对，只是让我给出一个具体的计划来。这说明Don并不是一个不通情面的老板，虽然他外表很严肃。因为这样，我成为我们系第一个用外系课程替代本系课程来达到PhD要求的人，也是第一个申请computational science PhD minor的人。

其他的收获？我又学会了很多的菜，并且已经可以当小时工给人家做饭了。我觉得做饭是一种休闲，也是一种乐趣，并且让我体会到一些道理。正像《满汉全席》里说的，做饭有如做人。用料考究，反复尝试和琢磨，才能做出正宗的菜来。做人也是如此，就是要做得正。勤劳和思考才能做出令人满意的事情。好好的做，才能有好的未来。当然，我做得很多事情还都不令人满意，这让我老婆很是不满，天天说我傻。说明我的修行还不够，继续努力吧！

以下文字和图片摘自腾讯网，因为觉得文字写得很好，但是张曼玉的确是我一直以来最欣赏的中国女星。

张曼玉——女神之美

　　张曼玉与香港之间，似乎隔着一道透明而柔软的“自动墙”，这道墙时而关闭，时而打开。关闭时，她便疏远了这个民族惯常的审美方式，游弋在欧洲的街角巷尾，吐着淡淡烟圈说着陌生的语言，通身散发着独立自信、深谙世故的西式气质；打开时，她又像从未离开过似的，忠诚而勤奋，绝不飞扬跋扈，像极了一块东方美玉：内敛而气定神闲。

或许根本就没有“墙”，或许张曼玉在内心深处从没真正依附过哪个地方，她只是在东边和西边交替浸润－疏离，在观察中积累着体悟。随着岁月的递增，非但人没有落寞下去，反而更自如。那耀人的明星光彩，既没有被西边强大的商业潮流携卷吞没，也没有随着东边“电影黄金时代”的式微而衰弱，可说是在若即若离之中找到了最宽正、最适合她的出路。

　　正因为能在一条宽正的道路上不受打扰地大步行走下去，张曼玉才得以同这世界上大多数不易被人忘却的美人一样，魅力历久弥醇，愈发经得起时光雕琢。只是世人多看到她的高贵优雅一面，学她穿上一套套绚丽的旗袍，意乱神迷地把她的美同钻石、铂金、葡萄酒等同起来，却忽视了那个由苏丽珍的压抑、金镶玉的泼辣、李翘的叛逆混合起来的，复杂真实的灵魂。幸好还有阿萨亚斯，他独具慧眼，看出了张曼玉身上的女神般的醉人风度，品出了连王家卫都未曾发现的美：“她是真正的电影明星，带着旧式的风尚在今日复生。那时我才意识到，自己竟未曾跟‘影星’合作过；以前的那些，不过都是‘女演员’而已。”