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Jing's Magazine(February 26, 2003)

I am glad to see two new subscribers. I don't know who you are but I would like to say thank you!

Last time I made a mistake. The song I like is called "How Can I Tell Her" rather than "I'd Love You to Want Me". I might read the wrong name on the album:) Thanks a friend and my colleague, as I don't have to buy many CDs now:) Especially now I have Bread's "If":)
It seems it isn't good after the Chinese New Year in Guangzhou because of the unknown deadly virus. Everybody is frightened, the medicine, the vinegar, then the salt, oil and rice... are out of stocks. I have enough reasons to be worried and scared than most people. It is just so sad to see that the life is so fragile. People seem to calm down at present, but please do me a favor, take good care of yourselves. Some mistakes that we can never make once because it can be deadly.

It is a website for translation: http://translation.langenberg.com/

1. Long time ago I received a gift and it was written as "People who don't like cats must have been nice in a previous life". In fact I was quite frustrated to see that, because I wondered whether it implied I was not nice. Until today when I occasionally glanced at my bookshelf and I realized that I really made a big mistake. The words are: People who don't like cats must have been mice in a previous life. Very amusing. Sorry, I am blind:)

2. A girl has loved a doctor secretly. In order to see this doctor and meanwhile catch his attention, everyday she goes to see this doctor. One day this girl has not shown up for a whole week and this doctor wonders why. Finally she is in the hospital again. This doctor is so curious and asks her why she didn't go to the hospital these days. This girl answers:"Because I was ill."

3. A real estates agent wanted to sell the house. He kept on boasting this house and the neighborhood:"What a lovely place. The sunshine, the fresh air, the flowers and the plants... The residents have never known what the disease and death is." At this moment, a funereal people cried on the way loudly. This agent said:"Look at this poor man. He was the doctor, and he died from starvation."

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.
The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guest room.
Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.
When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren't always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife.
After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest.
When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears.
Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen?
The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused.
The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die.
"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied.
"When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it"
"Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."
Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every out come is always to your advantage. You just might not know it until some time later...
Some people come into our lives and quickly go...
Some people become friends and stay awhile...
leaving beautiful footprints on our hearts...
and we are never quite the same because we have made a good friend!!
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present!

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