家里闹老鼠不是一天两天了。先是从卫生间的下水管道上来，后来拿硅胶封住了出口。然后它们就咬破纱窗从客厅和厨房的窗口钻进来，我们连窗都不敢开了，倒也太平了一段日子。不久，它们又通过厨房油烟机的排气口突围进来了。阿姨拿老鼠药药死了一只，但是感觉这个太暴力，而且厨房里放老鼠药让我时刻担心自己的食品安全，所以就此做罢，希望老鼠社区可以知道他们的伙伴去了我家就再也没有回来，心存敬畏，不要上我们家来了。但无论哪里，人也好，老鼠也好，总有不怕死的。一天半夜我开客厅的灯，亲眼看到一只老鼠从客厅的沙发那里噌得溜回厨房。奇怪的是我们无论如何都找不到那只老鼠，只能惊叹老鼠居然还能上墙，从油烟机的出风口逃走了。

我们收养了一只小猫，前面已经介绍过了——小强。小强在我们家生活了3个星期，整天吃喝玩乐，日子过的逍遥。原来瘦骨伶仃可怜兮兮，现在个也长了，胆也大了，处处和Julie争着玩。因为太调皮，我们晚上都把它连同它的家当关到厨房里去。主要是不让它出来捣乱，同时给老鼠一点威慑作用 ———它无论如何都是一只猫么。谁知全无用处，阿姨时不时地报告什么东西又被老鼠咬了，晚上又听到老鼠的动静了。就这么一来二去我对老鼠彻底投降了：你爱来不来，只要我们能和平相处。

这个时候，我们的打鼠英雄却出现了。XX注意到小强总盯着冰箱下面，还想要钻进去的样子，留意了一下，居然看到一只老鼠藏在冰箱后面！应该就是那天我看到的那只，它逃不出去，居然在冰箱后面安了家！士可忍孰不可忍，XX马上穿上运动鞋，带上小强进了厨房。xx把冰箱往外挪，那只老鼠居然也跟着往外挪，小强一步不离的蹲在冰箱后面以防它从后面逃走。xx往冰箱下面塞了很多纸，可总不见老鼠出来。我建议把冰箱斜过来，看看到底是不是在下面。让人匪夷所思的是老鼠不在下面。xx把冰箱再往外挪，那只老鼠终于露出了自己的尾巴：原来是藏在冰箱后面的挡板里面。

  为完待续

 

 

 

Beijing Olympics is coming very soon, yes, the Olympics of every Chinese. And, really truly, I sense the Olympics is coming.

1 year ago: Olympics commercial ads started flooding in all medias. Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, and other Olympic champions show up in different ads everywhere.

6 months ago: we heard a rumor from a student that the government was asking foreigners go back to their country, because of Olympic. Dunno why though.

a few months ago: The rumor became true when we tried to help a student renew his visa to China. It’s very difficult to renew a visa in China, usually they are asked to go back to their country, the closest place they can go might be HK. A Turkey student studying Chinese in Fudan university told us they were asked to leave China. He volunteered to help Chinese government host the Turkish team as a way around to stay in China.

now: I understand why. It seems like our country is threatened by terrorists， just check out what's on shanghaidaily:

- City's airports beef up security, on the double
- Bomb scare shuts Beijing subway station
- Bullets found on Xinjiang passenger
- Police grab passenger with 100 detonators

And to “ensure a safe Olympics”, I have to get used to police dogs in subway station (they really scared me), 4 policemen standing in a row on the street on my way home. I used to believe Shanghai/China was the safest place in the world. We had no terrorists, no bombs, no private owned guns, … however, with the coming Olympics, not any more...

My colleague sent me a movie on youtube, it's a series called "Sexy Beijing" made by foreigners, I guess, have been living in Beijing for a quite long time.

 

 

My first impression was it's hilarious 'coz it looks just like a parody of "sex and city". Then it turns out to be something more sophisticated than just funny. I would like to say the makers have very sharp sense of culture, also, what's in the movie is quite real. Maybe it doesn't present opinions of all the classes in China, but definitely a big part of people living in a big city. A good thing is it doesn't exaggerate / focus on those "bad things" in China, as other foreigners try to do, it's a objectively mirror of a modern China from an interesting perspective. Love it.

 

It's Dec 24th, 2007, I didn't realize it's x'mas eve until one of my staffs said merry x'mas when leaving. Though it's not an official holiday in China, x'mas is becoming a big deal. On my way home, I saw a few couples dating, also several guys holding flowers waiting for their girl friends. A fleet of excited young people passed by, going to some party I guess. Still "young" as I am, what I really want in this gloomy and cold night is to watch some movie in warm house and eating junk food. Actually that's exactly how my husband and I spent the night --- went to super market for daily grocers then movie after dinner. We were thinking to have a romatic x'mas night before our daughter is born 'coz probably it's the last chance (not forever, but in the coming a few years at least), however both of us felt lazy after work and it ended up with Will Smiths and junk snacks. Eventually we went to bed at 1am, full, feeling fat and satisfied.