Weekend in Zeeland

I was late again this morning, fortunatly my boss is still in Praag, otherwise he would say " It is reasonable you are late, because you live too far away." Well~everyone knows I live 2 minutes walking from the office.

I have had a very, very busy weekend. We went to walk the dog on beach Wassenaar on Saturday. (ps. it is not my dog) A super cute little doggy. The reason we took care of the dog for half day is, remie wants me to get some experiences about keeping a dog, otherwise I want to buy a dog everyday without thinking how difficult it will be. It was a great time to play with the dog on beach, coz this little fellow is quite lively. She shows her interest to all the dogs on the beach, and finally she got problem from an dog couple. That girl became jealouse that our princess is too close to her boyfriend. In Dutch they say, small dog but big world. Nobody agrees me to keep a dog because I am not able to supply it a good living condition yet. I think they are right, I have to wait if I really love dogs.

Our weekend trip just started after the sunset, we got on the train to Zeeland to meet remie's parents. It was the first time he introduced me to his parents. I did not feel nervous because I know most Dutch parents are quite kind and open-minded. Same as I thought, I had a nice weekend togethter with remie's family. I also met the grandmother of remie who is 87 years old already but still a healthy, fashion lady. The first question she asked me was "You are not going back to China, are you?" Because she has two grandsons both have Chinese girlfriends. But another grandson will go to settle in China next year with girlfriend. Grandma is afraid that I will bring remie away to China, too. She started to ask my name after made sure that I will stay in Netherlands.

We had a hard day on Sunday, we visited the beach and the forest in Zeeland with bicycle. Totally we biked about 25 km, I never biked such long distance in my life... I was very tired, but still feel excited to see the beautiful landscape in Zeeland. They have typical Dutch landscape which we always see from the paintings.

There are many big or small "Dam" in Netherlands to protect the land from water.

The old castle--->

In the forest --->

Lunch problem

I meet two difficulties since I start my work. The first one is language of course, I do not speak good Dutch, but I can at least understand what my collegues are talking about during lunch break. So it is not really boring for me, when they laugh, I can laugh as well.

The second problem is LUNCH!Or food...they eat bread everyday...but I do not like bread. I feel it even more difficult to let me eat bread everyday than to learn Dutch. Frankly after 5 years stay in Netherlands, I get used to everything here except food. Dutch people can eat bread morning and noon, then finally they eat something warm in the evening, every day after day... I do not like bread, so I feel terrible to have bread daily. When I look at the ham, cheese, salad on table, I still do not have wish to eat them with bread... Sometimes I eat cucumber or tomato or apple instead of dry bread... I am not keeping slim, but there is nothing else to eat. I ever planned to bring my own lunch to work, but we get free lunch from company and everybody eats together at a big table, I do not want to be apart from other collegues.

My collegues asked me what do Chinese eat for breakfast and lunch, if we eat noodles everyday. tja~how could I describe all kinds of Chinese lunch to them? As they know about noodles, there are many kinds of noodles in China, noodle with soup, fried noodle, noodle salad...haha, I really do not know how to make English name for every of them. Pancake with smoked meat and vegetable, a little bit black bean saus was my favourite lunch, or warm dishes with rice, or different Chinese snacks... I could eat everyday different lunch. But Dutch people think warm dish is only for dinner, not for daytime. I ever asked my boyfriend why cannot eat warm dish for lunch? He could not find out the reason. So it is just a culture I think.

Anyway, I am satisfied with dinner coz I make Chinese dinner myself and sometimes we go to restaurants for a change. I like Dutch restaurant as well, the only problem is bread... I hope I can get used to eat bread daily before I get sick of it.

Chinese hosting and ICP

How to let the website work with a Chinese hosting? This is the task I got for my work yesterday. After almost whole day researching, it became a mission impossible for us.

Since I work for a Dutch company wants to invest to Chinese telecommunications market，we have to obey the laws and rules made by "Telecommunication Management Bureau of Ministry of Information Industry" in China. Since 2001, every Chinese website has to register an ICP（Internet Communication Provider) permission, and upload the permission number at the bottom of the website with linking to TMBMII. If they find any website without ICP, the website will be blocked and the owner will receive bill about 500-1,000 euros.

There are 2 kinds of ICP permission for commercial and non-commercial websites. For commercial websites, 50% stock rights should belong to a Chinese company with an min. amount of company funds, which means if our company wants to get the ICP permission, they have to sell half of their company to Chinese. As a Chinese, I find this is a smart way to get foreign company stocks although it sounds unfair.

What the most unfair is, the ICP permission for non-commercial websites. Nowadays, more and more Chinese start to make their personal websites. It is a place to present themselves and share information with others. ICP actually means over-control for all websites in China. Everyone has to consider careful before putting information on his own website, maybe there is something that Chinese government does not want to see or hear. It is a pity to know Chinese internet becomes intranet which limited the view of Chinese citizen. And it sounds ridiculous as well, because the governement is pushing Chinese internet users to buy foreign hosting, but without efficiency to stop people's mouths.

A new start

I had idea to write blog in both English and Chinese for a long time, finally I gonna make it, although I am not a good writer or professional blogger who can keep a daily updating. Well~just take it easy, for myself, for my friends online.

For all the non-Chinese friends, I will introduce myself again. I am Chinese of course, but living in the Netherlands. I am learning Dutch as well, an interesting language with a lot of "g". Actually it is no problem to live in Netherlands without speaking any Dutch, because everybody speaks good English. But if you really want to join the Dutch culture, the best way is to learn their language. Another reason for me to learn Dutch is, my boyfriend is a Dutch, I hope at least one of us can communicate with native tongue at home in stead of both speak English.

I have been in Netherlands for 5 years, studying and working. I just start working for a short time, still did not get used to get up early. I was late again today, although I live near to the office than anyone else...I work as web developing&marketing which is quite different from my study. As the only Chinese in this small company, I get more pressure to learn Dutch to communicate with my collegues.

Well~it is a new start today, from this blog. I am still learning to use google blog, since it has more function than msn space. But it is a pity that blogspot is blocked in China.My another blog is in Chinese, I will try to keep both blogs updated at same time.

生命真神奇

我的space又犯羊角疯了，不能留言，希望这次是小发作，过几天自己痊愈吧。

周末去看了热乎乎香喷喷新鲜出炉两天的小包子。原来新生儿这么小的，像只小猫一样。小小的手指上还有指甲诶，真是麻雀虽小五脏俱全。不过只是摸了摸小手，不敢抱，怕给碰坏了，呵呵~爸爸妈妈好辛苦的，据说这两天都没有好好睡觉，每隔两个小时就要喂一次奶。所以我们坐了一会儿就赶紧撤了。


周日天气不错，去了计划已久的动物园，至少计划了一年了，一直没有机会去，这次终于如愿以偿了。不多说了，摆照片吧。早上临走前对着镜子涂涂抹抹，被评价为美得足可以找到另一只猴子了。别说，还真有一只猴子对俺一见倾心的，让俺近距离拍了张照片。
看看我们俩谁更美，般配吗？

模拟热带雨林，还真是又潮又热诶。能看见我吗？中间那个点。= =

大明星啊，多少照相机围着拍照呢~在我前面总有个小丫头晃来晃去的，害得我拍了好几张都是虚的。去动物园看到一半是动物，一半是孩子。谁说荷兰人口负增长的？怎么满眼都是小孩子啊~
模拟沙漠，和沙漠里的羚羊。从石头缝里拍的，好玩~

海洋馆，光线太暗了，照片都不清楚。看到很多绸鱼拖着长长的尾巴在头顶游来游去。想起了澳大利亚的那位鳄鱼专家，默哀一分钟...
梦幻的水母~~~~~
模拟非洲草原
餐厅里居然配套卖一种非洲南瓜汤，为了应景俺喝一碗，味道不错诶，下次自己做来试试。
水鸟们~
落单的小鸟，或者小鸡 。一路上有很多奇怪的小鸡，只是他们溜得太快，不肯配合拍照。
最后来一张温馨亲子图收尾。小包子，小猴子，所有的动物，生命真神奇啊！

这个周末

周末本来抱着睡个饱的远大理想，可是一到8点自己就醒了，可能是养成生物钟了，也可能是天气突然变好，阳光灿烂的我就睡不着了，觉得天气这么好赖在床上太浪费难得的阳光了，于是早早起床，逛街。芬米还有一个星期就生了，就是不告诉大家是男是女，于是买礼物的任务就变得十分艰巨，从来没给小孩子买过礼物，实在不知道该送什么。逛了两家妇婴商店，还是一点主意也没有。然后就顺路拐到手机商店里了，这一拐就把我整个上午拐进去了。签了新合同，换了新手机－－－白色的Samsung U600. 终于有新手机了，我可是个勤俭节约的好孩子，旧手机已经用了5年了，是我从国内带过来的，质量超级好，让我虐待了很多次还照样正常工作，害得我没理由换手机。这次终于心血来潮说换就换了，旧手机可以当古董收藏起来，我还是很念旧的。

麻油鸡丝色拉

中西合璧的麻油鸡丝色拉，清清凉凉盛夏消暑餐。^_^

• 鸡胸肉一块，加葱姜入水煮。煮熟后撕成肉丝儿。
• 两瓣蒜切成蒜茸，加生抽，耗油，胡椒粉调成拌汁待用。
• 烧少量葵花油，油热后放入花椒，炸出香味后，捞出花椒粒丢掉。将热油浇入拌汁中
• 将拌汁和鸡丝搅拌均匀，铺在色拉上。

主食自配，我配的是法棍加pesto酱。

疯吧疯吧不是罪

昨天半夜快十二点的时候，杰克还倍儿精神不想睡觉，提议开车出去遛弯儿。遛来遛去哪里都是乌七抹黑的，除了几盏昏黄的路灯，根本看不清路边有什么。刚开始 我还兴致勃勃地往车窗外张望，后来开始昏昏欲睡。可是杰克好像没有回家的意思，开着开着居然开到了海边。半夜里的海滩空无一人，我们下车在沙滩上散步，清 凉的海风把睡意吹走了，天空上繁星点点，我只能识别出北斗七星，不过学到了一个新单词，荷兰语里的银河叫melkweg（milk way），哈哈！知道荷兰人喜欢喝牛奶，没想到堂堂的银河也被起了个这么可爱的名字。沙滩上还是潮潮的，我们干脆脱掉鞋子提在手里，延着海边散步。杰克伸 手试了试水温，说不是很冷。我也跟着试了试，半夜的海水还存留着白天的温度。杰克突然说，我们游泳吧！我伸手摸了摸杰克的额头，体温正常...嗯...那 就是开玩笑呢。杰克说那就把裤筒卷起来淌淌水吧。淌水我倒是很乐意，把裤筒卷到膝盖上面，海浪一波接着一波的绕过小腿，正惬意着，突然一个大浪打过来，大 腿部分的裤子全都湿了。随着我的惨叫声，杰克幸灾乐祸的提议，反正裤子也湿了，干脆咱们游泳吧。看来他是认真的，水温倒是可以游泳，但是半夜三更，天空和 海水都是黑色的，伴着一层一层白色的浪花，和白天的蓝天碧水太不一样了，有点怕怕的说。不过我又觉得很刺激，放眼望去四下无人，我们三下五除二脱掉衣服， 冲到海里去了。最开始有点怕，后来就感觉除去衣物的牵绊，人和水合为一体了，尤其在万籁俱寂的夜晚，只能听到海浪的声音的时候，突然有种返璞归真的感觉， 生命本来就起源于大海。当胎儿还在母亲子宫里的时候，也是被羊水包围着的。这个时候已经没有了最初对黑色大海的恐惧，像回到了胎儿形态，被海水包围着，保 护着。而且我不会孤单，因为身边还有他。

半夜的水温和气温还是不能和白天比，上岸的时候被海风一吹，就感觉到冷了。用杰克的衬衫擦干身体，我的牛仔裤已经完全湿透不能穿了。好在我穿了夹克出门。 把夹克往腰间一围当裙子穿。然后两个人开车回家。在路上发现有警察在查车，应该是检查是否有人酒后驾驶。我们暗自祈祷不要拦住我们的车，虽然我们没有喝 酒，但是也要尴尬的解释为什么会衣衫不整。好在警察没有拦我们，顺利的开过去了。回家后洗澡的时候还在回味在海里的感觉，杰克把湿漉漉的衬衫往衣娄里一 丢，说：下次要记得带条浴巾。
下次？？

藏猫猫

昨天做晚饭的时候，顺便把后院的门打开通气。临睡前就把门锁上了。今天一大早，邻居来敲门，说他们家的猫昨天没回家，早上他们路过我们家的后院，透过玻璃 看见猫在我们家里。我晕~怎么可能~一只猫在家里待了一整晚，我们两个大活人居然一点也没发觉！赶紧去厨房找猫，果然，那只小黄毛还挺会找地方，躺在椅垫 上。那椅垫就不用说了，肯定沾了很多猫毛儿。邻居一个劲儿的道歉，可是我们也怪不好意思的，是真的没发现猫在我们家里，否则一定会被家里超没爱心的那位丢 出门外去。邻居走后我这个懊悔啊~怎么就没发现家里有猫呢，否则我一定要蹂躏它一晚，最起码在它被丢出去前抱一下。平时总看见黄毛儿在我们院子里晃悠，曾 经用食物引诱过来摸了一下，就是没机会抱过，555~这么好的亲密接触的机会被我错过了。搞得我又开始爱心泛滥，哭着喊着要养狗。答曰不给买。哼，等俺发 了工资俺自己买。又被威胁注射疫苗，遛弯儿，洗澡，收拾屎尿等一概不管。哼，不管就不管，我的狗我自己管。威逼不成改利诱，说你知道养一只狗一年要多少钱 吗？至少一千欧啊，你想想啊，一千欧够你回去一次中国了。这么算帐的话，我还真的犹豫了，回国这个砝码太诱人了。嗯~~~于是，我再一次妥协了。养狗的事 情还是以后再说吧。

Gay Pride

荷兰一年一度的同性恋节，大概在8月初，大小活动会持续一个星期，最热闹的一天要数游船表演。今年是在8月4号，早在表演开始之前，阿姆斯特丹的水道旁就站满了人。从下午2点开始，各种游船会陆续开出，然后顺着水道一直游行到终点。

终于等到2点钟了，桥洞下冒出一支小船，人们一阵哄笑，还有吹口哨的，原来开道的是警察叔叔的警船，哈哈~在这个特殊的日子里，似乎警察才是最搞笑的角色。

第一艘船登场了。
怪不得出场就引来一阵尖叫，原来是艘重量级的。

太不厚道了，又是一艘重量级游船。

天使在人间啊~

号召为艾滋病捐款的爱心小船。让热血沸腾的人群冷却一下。

国营企业就是牛X，看看人家荷兰邮政的广告语。

如果这一船的男人都是gay，我要做变性手术.....
终于来了艘温柔的彩色小船。据说参加游行的肌肉男们大多是友情出演，并不是gay。（我怎么还惦记着上一张照片，不过不用做变性手术了。）

可怜的ING银行的员工，一定是老板放话：不参加韵律操表演的职员，扣发当月工资。

球迷也是gay, gay也是球迷。

我的野蛮新娘。不知什么时候新娘手里的花束变成了一条皮鞭，大家都起哄喊着抽，喊得那个男人站起来抗议。站起来更搞笑，身后吊着两条大尾巴。难道人猿泰山也好这口儿？

重新考虑变性手术...身后一个声音传来“很好看吧”，我忙点头表示赞同，后来发觉这声音有点酸。

标语小船。

又见韵律操...

粉白粉白滴...

某艺校的学生？？不仔细看还真看不出露点。（寒~我脑子里都在想什么~）

男银阿男银

分不出是男是女，葵花宝典的最高境界就是如此吧。

某成人电视台吗？

哪里有天使，哪里就有魔鬼。

这样的化装舞会我也想参加。

这艘船的牛X之处在于，其他船都自带DJ，这艘船自带乐队。只不过当时指挥在给自己涂防晒霜。

爱情无年龄，无国界，无性别！

帅锅们，你们真的都是gay吗？都是gay吗？Gay吗......

我爱海滩

今天的天气太好了，万里无云啊！在荷兰一定要珍惜有太阳的日子，因为一年里也就那么几天艳阳高照的好天气。于是临时改变溜旱冰计划，改去海边。这次去的是海牙附近的Wassenaar海滩，十分美丽。大家都不肯错过这难得的好天气，所以海滩很拥挤。

我喜欢日光浴，晒太阳的感觉好舒服。但是又担心晒伤皮肤，狂涂了半瓶防晒霜，回家后又狂涂了半瓶after sun。

和同行的帅锅们玩沙滩足球，脚上踢得青一块紫一块的，为了帅锅们，我忍！估计他们也在忍我的球技。不踢球的时候我就抱着足球在海里飘来飘去。游泳，日光浴，足球，一个下午很快就过去了。晚饭直接在海边解决，身体严重缺水，大家都决定吃草，希腊色拉。

今天去海滩的人太多了，餐馆超级拥挤。点餐之后被告知要多等一会儿，于是无聊的拍照片。

一直待到日落才离开，据说星期二开始又要开始下雨了。荷兰的夏天好珍贵啊！