茶香 The Scent of Tea

茶香
The Scent of Tea

一缕茶香 醒山林 
青山鸟语 风也摇曳 
一杯新绿伴知音 
笑谈古今多惬意 
唐时风 今时雨 
茶经流转了光阴 
杯中诗 谁倾听 
荡漾了茶色的涟漪

關雎【詩經 · 周南】

關雎
【詩經·周南】

關關雎鳩，在河之洲。窈窕淑女，君子好逑。
參差荇菜，左右流之。窈窕淑女，寤寐求之。
求之不得，寤寐思服。悠哉悠哉，輾轉反側。
參差荇菜，左右採之。窈窕淑女，琴瑟友之。
參差荇菜，左右芼之。窈窕淑女，鐘鼓樂之。

Table 7

Table 7 - short film from Marko Slavnic on Vimeo.

A simple sorry between two lovers can prevent life-long regrets.

To blame is Human; But to forgive is Divine.

左手与右手

人们常说，没有感觉就如同自己的左手握右手。但倘若你的左手握不到右手，你将会有什么样的感觉？

Tranquil Morning

The Photo Album, Tranquil Morning --- Golden Faces of Centennial Park, has been released at my website EggheadLabs.com.

It was taken while I had a morning walk around Centennial Park, Ellicott City, Maryland.

Besides the above link to a full-size movie, here is the quick preview (Click on PLAY to start the movie).

Due to varying whether in the last week of October, I purposely planned all the sunny days for hiking on Shenandoah National Park, and left this raining day for local activities, such as having a walk in this Park. It turned out a perfect scene for fall foliage unexpectedly. I started wondering whether my original reasoning of such plan had even been required.

For this photography session, I had made tremendous planning, including a serious update of Manfrotto tripod with 488RC2 ball head, as well as a shutter remote.  The morning came unexpectedly rainy and of course quiet just because of the rain. My hands were so busy with shutter button, lens zoom, tripod adjusts, even holding an umbrella (there were still a few rain drops on my lens, which can be seen in some of the photos).

This is a combined trip with quite a lot of hiking activities. Besides photographic equipment, I started paying more serious attention to the pro hiking gears from REI (yes, had got a membership just for that).

Fall Foliage in Beaver’s Bend

The Photo Album, Fall Foliage in Beaver’s Bend, has been released at my website Eggheadlabs.com.

It took me nearly two years to get this album into Flash work since the photos were taken in Beaver’s Bend in 2006.

A Sentimental Lotus (莲的心事)

The photo album, A Sentimental Lotus (莲的心事), has been released at my website EggheadLabs.com.

The Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, has such natural photographic scenes and variety of flowers. It is the lotus, however, amazed me the most and struck my memory of the famous poem by Xi Muring (席慕容 - 莲的心事).

Job Security or Insecurity?

It is bad that job insecurity could cause one’s loss of steady income for living; It is even worse that a secure job could destroy one’s otherwise a creative career in lifetime!

Mist over the West Lake

The Photo Album, Mist over the West Lake, has been just released at my website EggheadLabs.com.

I had enjoyed a couple of trips to Hangzhou, China, during the spring time in 2008. As planned, I did bring my DSLR with me but end up I only took a few shots with average scenes, while competing the shooting opportunities with the crowd tourists who were in front of your camera all the time.

It was in one particular rainy day I’d finally found what I was looking for in QuYuanFengHe (曲院风荷). The reason was simple, the tourist groups were absent due to the rain, which created a great opportunity for me to capture the misty scenes which would have been blocked by the crowd in any normal day. Unfortunately, I suddenly realized that I did not bring my DSLR with me, while only having my Cybershot in my pocket.

Hey, nothing to be complained. I then wasted no time and shot as many as possible. Certain shots did perfectly match the obsessive complex that I have been carried inside of me for decades towards my hometown.

Gone Too Soon

What we are memorizing after Michael is his legacy which will never be gone.

[on my exit row seat right before the flight took off at SAN heading to DFW]

Job vs. Career

If you are looking for a job that you need, you’d rather try to create a career that needs you!

I Envy Their Smiles

Right before the door of an elevator was opening, a wave of loud laugh inside the elevator chamber approached to my ears. Then I saw two hotel janitors were walking out, carrying cleaning cart with room supplies, still with huge smiles on their faces, though they lowered their volume having realized a dressed-up solemn guest awaiting right outside of the elevator.

My first impression was in regard of the discipline of hotel staffs as I chose this inexpensive lodging place. A moment later just as I was stepping in the elevator I noticed their unrestrained smile still on their faces through the half-closed door, my second thought then came cross my mind as what the priceless smiles... ...

Traveling down to San Diego for a customer meeting, as always I prepared presentation late night and was still bearing the pressure of how to advocate my solution in the meeting. Comparing with the simple life of the two janitors, I may have a lot that they have ever dreamed of, however, what I missed is such kind of unrestrained smiles on my own face. I couldn't help envying their simple life and dropping whatever on my shoulder willingly in this plain early morning!

First Golf

I did my first golf, 9-hole at Sherrill Park Golf Course, scored 64 (+28). Should reconsider choosing it to be a future hobby :-)

To Fellow Eggheads … …

To recall what we have talked about during the party gathering last night.

Wish all of us the best, whether

working for your own or for company,
leading or supporting,
investing or gambling,
wanting more PCs or loving MAC,
watching the wealth channel or willing to cover Hawaii group trip,
enjoying or being enjoyed,
making baby or emptying nest, 
Republican or Democrat,
in Dallas or in California… …

Got My iPhone

Things have seemed to change
There is one thing that’s still the same
In my heart you have remained
And we can fly fly fly away
Yes, babe, you’re not lost

The way as Michael Bublé sang.

Plano, the Best Place to Build Your Wealth

Living at this city over 12 years, is this the reason we are still staying in Plano?
Here is the headline at Yahoo today.
http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/080630/063008_personal_wealth.html?.&.pf=banking-budgeting

OK, really feel good about Plano, and be also proud of your state, Texas! The #1 state for doing business, ranked by CNBC.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=789947678

A Wave of the U.S. Educated Entrepreneurs Returning back to China

九九艳阳天


男声：

九九那个艳阳天哟，
四十岁的哥哥呀
告诉你大太太，
这一去呀越洋又过海呀，
这一去呀三年两载呀不回还。
这一去呀钱如水乐如仙呀！
这一去创业胜利呀再相见！！！


女声：

九九那个艳阳天哟，
四十岁的哥哥呀
细听我大太太，
哪怕你一去呀乐如仙呀。
哪怕你十年八载呀不回还，
只要你不把二奶奶娶呀，
等待你腰緾万贯呀回家转！！！