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2010-08-15
Written in the stars
Ever since I was very little I knew some day my prince would come. I used to imagine his riding up on a snow-white horse to scoop me up and carry me away to his castle. Of course, as I grew older I gave up this fairy-tale idea, but I knew that somewhere in the world there was a Special Person looking for me just as I was looking for him. It had to happen. I never talked much about my dreams except to Mother.
Oh, I had a few dates with silly boys once in a while, just to kill time until that Special Person arrived.
He arrived when I was seventeen. He was Ted Bennington, a new boy in our neighborhood.
Several things led up to my getting to know Ted.
For my birthday Mother gave me a locket. When I opened the package I was surprised. The locket was not new. It was something she had prized many years. I had often seen it. In fact, every time I opened Mother's jewelry box looking for a pair of earrings or a bracelet to borrow, I saw it in its special place, together with some of the things that Daddy had given her.There was the whole story of a romance in that box—Daddy's track medals, his fraternity pin, some gift pins, and the silver bars he wore when he was in the Navy.
“But, Mother,” I said, “do you really mean for me to have this? It belongs to you.”
“Indeed I do,” Mother said. “It does mean a lot to me, but I've always said my daughter should have it when she became seventeen.” There was a faraway look in her eyes I did not understand.
“But why seventeen?” I asked.“That's hardly a mile- stone in one's life.”
“It was to me,” Mother said. “It was the age of heartbreak.”
I looked at her in disbelief. “Your heart was never broken,” I said.
It was impossible to think of Daddy, with his warm gray eyes and gentle smile, ever breaking anyone's heart, least of all Mother's. Daddy and Mother had had a beautiful marriage. They always seemed to have fun together. But Daddy had died two years ago. “Oh, it was broken, all right,” Mother said lightly. “And yours may be too, dear. It often happens that way.” I laughed to myself. I didn't quite understand what Mother was talking about. But I did love the locket. It was tiny and heart-shaped, held by a thin gold chain, and it was lovely.
The locket wasn't the only gift I received. Besides that Mother gave me an evening dress. And Nance, my best friend, gave me a pair of rose slippers to wear with it. But the gift that caused my heart to beat faster was a simple blue scarf with a gold border. It came from Ted Bennington.
“I hope you like it,” he said. “I don't know much about picking out presents for girls.”
“I love it,” I said. “It's just beautiful!”
I liked the gift, but I liked Ted himself even more. I liked the way his blond, curly hair fell over his forehead, and his honest blue eyes and nice square chin. I liked his being shy and sweet and serious. He was so different from the smooth know-it-alls in our senior class.
I had begun noticing Ted about two months before. He had been in my class one month, and I hadn't paid him any attention. In fact, nobody paid him any attention. He was a quiet boy, and he wasn't on any of the school teams. He worked after school and on weekends in a drugstore. I think that might have made him shy, having to work when other kids goofed around.
I didn't have a date for the Homecoming Dance and I was on the lookout for someone to take me. You don't have too much choice when you're a senior and most of the senior boys are going steady with juniors and sophomore. So I made a list of the boys who were left and crossed off the ones who were too short, and that left only four. Ronny Brice weighs three hundred pounds, and Steven Salerno can't stand me,
and Stanley Pierce spits when he talks. Only Ted was left.
Ted Bennington, I thought, you may not know it yet, but you are going to take me to the Homecoming Dance.And I managed it, I spoke to him and smiled every time I had a chance. As we left class each day, I just happened to be at the door when he came out.
A week or two of that and then the big step. “Nancy's having a party this weekend, Ted, a girl-ask-boy affair. Would you like to go?” It was really pretty easy.
Ted was standing at his locker when I asked him. He turned and looked surprised as though he had not heard me correctly. “Go? You mean with you?” he asked.
“Yes, Ted, I'm talking to you,” I said.
“Why-why, sure. Thanks. I'd like to,” he said.
He looked so pleased I wondered if he had ever taken a girl anywhere in his entire life. Then I began to think I'd made a mistake. Would the Crowd like him? The Crowd were the school leaders, the group I'd known since childhood. And Ted wasn't one of them.
But it was too late then, of course, to back out, so I let it go, trying not to worry too much as the week ended. On Saturday night eight sharp .Ted arrived at my house.
He made a good impression on Mother. He was neat and polite, and I knew by the way Mother acted that she liked him.
Ted didn't have a car, so we walked to Nancy's house, and it was nice walk. Everything went very well at the party. Ted really made an effort to fit in. He danced and took part in the games and talked to people.
Even Nancy was surprised.
“You know,” she said when we were out in the kitchen together getting some Cokes, “that Ted Bennington—he's really a nice boy. How come we've overlooked him so long?”
I said, “I don't know. I was wondering the same thing myself.”
I wondered even more as we walked home after the party. He asked me what I was going to do after graduation. I told him I was going to secretarial school, and he said he was working for a scholarship to Tulane, where he planned to study medicine. I learned that he had three sisters, that his mother was a widow like mine, and that he enjoyed playing the guitar. The moonlight was beautiful, and suddenly I was quite conscious of my hand, small and empty, swinging along beside me. His hand was swinging, too, and after a while they sort of bumped into each other. We walked the rest of the way without saying much, just holding hands and walking along in the moonlight.
Ted took me to the Homecoming Dance. It just seemed the natural thing to do. And by this time I knew that Ted was that very Special Person I had dreamed about. It grew out of our walks together, long hikes through the autumn woods with the trees blowing wild and red and gold against the blue sky, and picnics with the Crowd. Sometimes Ted brought his guitar to the picnics, and we all sang. “Why didn't you tell us you played the guitar?”
somebody asked him.
Ted grinned and said, “I didn't think anybody would be interested.”
By then we were spending almost all our time together. I had never felt this way about any boy before.
Ted said, “You and I get along together so well. It seems as if it were meant to be that way.”
“You mean,” I said—and I didn't know how to say it—“you mean it's as though it is written in the stars?”
Ted was silent a moment and then he said, “Yes, that's what I mean.”
It was the night of the Senior Prom. I wore my new rose evening dress, my rose slippers, and the locket Mother had given me.
Ted noticed it right away. “Nice,” he commented. “Is it a family treasure?”
“More or less,” I said. “Daddy gave it to Mother, and Mother gave it to me.”
“Does it open?” he asked.
“I don't know,” I said.
“Let's see.” He reached over and took the locket in his hands. In a moment he had pried it open. A tiny lock of hair fell out.
“So,” he said, smiling. “I didn't know your father had red hair.”
“I guess he must have when he was young. Put it back, Ted. It belongs there.”
He did so, closing the locket gently.
I'd tell you about the summer, but you must know already what it's like to be in love. You get up in the morning and eat breakfast just as you always have done before, but every moment you are thinking, “I am going to see him today—in two hours—in one hour—in ten minutes—and now he is here!” Then one day. Ted had the happy news that he had received a scholarship at Tulane. “How do you like the sound of Doctor Bennington?” he asked me.
“Wonderful!” I said. “But I'll miss you.”
“I'll miss you too,” he said. “I wish you were going to Tulane with me.”
“Don't worry,” I said. “I'll be right here waiting. Maybe I can get a job at the college before you finish.”
“That would be great, but I'm afraid,” he said.
“Afraid of what?” I asked.
“Well, everything is so perfect, I'm afraid I'll lose you.”
“You don't need to worry,” I told him. “You don't lose love that is written in the stars.”
But I was wrong.
Ted went away to school, and we wrote letters to each other quite often at first. Then, as the days passed, we wrote less and less. And that was the beginning of the end. He couldn't come home for Thanksgiving; and when he was home for Christmas, I had the measles.
We did not get to see each other until spring vacation. By then we had been apart so long that we spent the whole week getting to know each other again. Ted was as good and sweet and wonderful as ever, but somehow he seemed different. When he went back to school, he said, “Don't forget me.”
“Of course not,” I said, but this time I was not so sure.
As it worked out, it was Ted who met somebody else. She was a student at Tulane. Ted wrote me a letter telling about her. He said he was sorry, and he knew I would understand.
It was raining the day the letter came. I read it in the living room and then gave it to Mother to read and went upstairs to my room.
I lay on the bed and listened to the sound of the rain. I didn't hate Ted, but I couldn't believe what had happened. I didn't even hate the girl. I could not believe that he was now gone and he would never come back again. Never! I was still lying there when Mother came in. Before she spoke, I knew what she was going to say.
“There are other boys,” she said. “You may not believe it now, but there will be.”
“I suppose so,” I said, “but Ted was The One. I can never fall in love again!”
Mother was silent a moment. Then she said, “Do you have the locket I gave you?”
“The locket? Yes, of course, it's in the top drawer of the dresser.”
Mother got the locket. “Put it on,” she said.
I sat up and put the locket around my neck.
“You see,” she said, “the locket was given to me by a Special Person—The One—when we were engaged.”
Then I held the locket lovingly, remembering Daddy. What a happy life he and Mother had had.
“You see,” she said, “he was kind, sweet, and wonderful. I was sure he was written for me in the stars.” Then she added slowly, “He was killed in a train wreck three weeks after we became engaged.”
“He what!” I exclaimed. “But I thought—you mean you loved somebody before Daddy—somebody you thought was The Special One?”
“Yes, that is it. If I'd married him, I'm sure that I would have been very happy. As it worked out, three years later I married your father. We loved each other, and I was happy with him.”
“I don't understand,” I said.
Then Mother replied, “What I'm trying to tell you, honey, is that there is no one special person who alone can make us happy. There are many fine people in the world. Ted is one of them, but he came along too soon.” I almost cried because I thought I was losing the dream of my childhood.
Then Mother said gently, “One of these days a good man will come along at the right time—he will be the One written for you in the stars.”
She went out and closed the door softly and left me alone, listening to the rain.
I looked at the door Mother had just closed behind her, and I thought about the other door, the door of Hope that she had just opened. -
2010-05-11
mirotic in Harry Potter
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
我在此郑重宣誓我不怀好意!
咒语名 咒语 用途
飞来咒 Accio 把东西招来
清水如泉咒 Aguamenti 从魔杖顶端冒出水来
阿拉霍洞开 Alobomora 打开某东西
安咳消 Anapneo 使人停止咳嗽
化兽法 Animagi 巫师将自己变成动物的魔法
急急现形 Aparecium 让隐形墨水显现
幻影移形 Apparate 让自己在瞬间移动到别的地方
蝙蝠精魔咒 Bat-Bogey Hexes 倒地
塔朗泰拉舞 Colloportus 使对手疯狂地跳起踢踏舞
眼急咒 Conjunctivtus Curse 损害视力
消隐无踪 Deletrius 使东西消失
门牙赛大棒 Densaugeo 使门牙失去控制地疯长
四分五裂 Diffindo 使东西撕裂或分开
移形幻影 Disapparation 使物体移动
左右分离 Dissendium 使东西打开
快快苏醒 Enervate 使东西变得有生气
速速变大 Engorgio 使东西变大
暴食咒 Engorgement Charm 海格用来使番瓜加速长大的咒语
愈合如初 Episkey 使伤口愈合
消隐无踪 Evanesco 使某物体立刻不见踪影
呼神护卫 Expecto Patronum 变出一个守护神
除神武器 Expelliarmus 使对手解除武装
赤胆忠心魔咒 Fidelius Charm 将一桩秘密告诉另一个可信赖的人
咒立停 Finite Incantatem 结束其他咒语
火烤热辣辣 Furnunculus 使人感到极度的热
复制咒(复制成双)Geminio 将某物复制成两份
障碍重重 Impedimenta 阻止某人或某物
防雨防湿 Impervius 使某物不受水的影响
火焰熊熊 Incendio 用飞路粉从壁炉到壁炉的旅行时使用
摄魂取念 Legilimens 进入别人大脑
牛人斯内普的发明:
倒挂金钟 Levicorpus 让人倒挂在空中
金钟落地 Liberacorpus 倒挂金钟的反咒
神锋无影 Sectumsempra如无形的利剑,可致人重伤
腿立僵停死 锁腿咒 Locomotor Mortis 使双腿僵直
荧光闪烁 Lumos 使魔杖发出亮光
记忆咒 Memory Charm 修改他们记忆的魔法
恶作剧完毕 Mischief managed 停止活动地图的使用
尸骨再现 Morsmordre 召出黑魔标志
闭耳塞听 Muffliato 使其他人听不到自己的谈话
熄灭咒 诺克斯 Nox 使灯熄灭
一忘皆空 Obliviate 使人忘却
万弹齐发 Oppugno 使大量小物体向目标冲击
统统石化 Petrificus Totalus 使人无法动弹
给我指路 Poine me 指路咒
门托斯 Portus 制作门钥匙
盔甲护身 Protegos 可使自己不受侵害
快快禁锢 Protego 立刻锁上门且静音
永久粘贴咒 Permanent Sticking 把某东西永远粘在某个地方
闪回前咒 prior Incantate 再现魔杖施的前一个魔咒
悄声细语 Quietus 使人说话声音变小
咧嘴呼啦啦 Rictusempra 挠人痒痒
滑稽滑稽 Riddikulus 使某种东西变得荒唐可笑
力松劲泄 Relashio 使对手感到无力
速速缩小 Reducio 使东西变小
粉身碎骨 Reducto 使对手粉身碎骨
修复如初 Reparo 把东西修好
清理一新 Scourgify 把某个地方清理干净
神锋无影 Sectumsempra 像刀一样割对象
乌龙出洞 Serpensortia 召唤一条巨蛇
无声无息 Sliencio 使自己做事没有声音
原形立现 Specialis revelio 使对手现出原形
昏昏倒地 Stupefy 使对手立刻昏倒
声音洪亮 Sonorus 使人说话声音极大
塔朗泰拉舞 Tarantallegra 使某人不停跳舞
旋风扫净 Tergeo 把某物弄干净
瓦迪瓦西 发射咒 Waddiwasi 控制小物体射出去
羽加迪姆 勒维奥萨 Wingardium Leviosa 使东西飞起来
对我说话吧 斯莱特林——霍格沃茨四巨头中最伟大的一个
Speak to me Slutherin Greatest of the Hogwarts Four
父亲的骨 无意中捐出 可使你的儿子再生
Bone of the father unknowingly given you will renew your son
仆人的肉 自愿捐出 可使你的主人重生
Flesh of the servan willingly given you will revive your master
仇敌的血 被迫献出 可使你的敌人复活
Blood of the enemy forcibly taken you will resurrect your foe
*钻心咒(钻心剜骨) Crucio 能给人带来极度痛苦
*夺魂咒 (魂魄出窍) Imperio 使受害者完全受巫师控制
*阿瓦达索命咒 (阿瓦达索命) Avada Kedaura 置一个人于死地
严重警告:标*的是“不可饶恕咒”。任何巫师只要在另一个人身上施这些咒语,就会被判在阿兹卡班终身监禁。
恶作剧完毕
Mischief managed -
2010-04-06
J联盟的些东西
现在说这个其实觉得蛮幼稚,好像自己跟一群小弟弟小妹妹玩过家家似的。我完全不敢保证现在对JM还有当初的热情,先头说过现在只是默默支持而已了。但是因为JM这个人,我有了很多奇妙的经历,认识了很多奇妙的人,得到了很多单纯的快乐。进J联盟有两年了,两年里面自己变了很多,周围的人和事变了很多,当然,J联盟也变了很多。
这两年进了很多群,退了更多群,但是为什么J群一直留着,因为舍不得,因为它是我进的第一个群,因为有了感情。还记得麦霸在群公告里说“杰灰说群里米人喜欢她,大家都来喜欢杰灰啊!”,也记得外公确诊的时候麦da说了很多安慰的话,那时真的是一边流眼泪一边看那些字,还有那些最初认识的朋友,西瓜霜,卡带,等等等等,那时候的感觉很清新,真的就感觉J群是一个大家庭一样。但是后来上学了以后,热情慢慢消退了,对群这种东西的新鲜感也差不多消失殆尽,最先的朋友也一个个没了下文,J群变成了一个不痛不痒的存在。等我再回来的时候,J联盟的变化是翻天覆地的。卖霸走了,卡带走了,很多人都走了,列表里都是一个个陌生的名字,我知道我那时清新的感觉再也找不回来了,因为物是人非,我永远也回不去我的十七岁,neither can my heart and my mind。
其实J联盟的没落是必然的,因为时间之轮在不停转动,联盟里的所有人都在一天天长大,不可能有人一辈子都保持十几岁时的热情。听他们讲权利相争的事,其实觉得还蛮好笑的,同时又很羡慕他们的热血,因为我无论在网络上还是现实中都很少跟别人争什么,我又不想当什么管理,其实做一个主群的小成员也挺好。
杰作跟摆摆都是刚熟不久的朋友,很好,很有意思,但是短短几天两人全都离开了联盟,我真的不确定这个联盟我还有几个人认识,我留在里面还有没有意思,但是摆摆把七群交给了我,而且我答应了要帮她照顾好。前天又有一个人退群了,我怕我守不住七群,怕七群会死在我手里。所有这些人都是因为JM走在一起,都是志同道合的朋友,当然,我也会有退出的那一天,因为那时我已经不再年少,联盟会注入一批又一批新鲜的血液,我们也该退场了。希望联盟会迎来新的盛世。
最后祝杰作还有其他一干小朋友高考顺利~ -
2009-12-29
Dec.听的看的和想的
赵六的破电脑终于又显示出来xp的界面了,折腾了我一大天,差点没吐血,我觉得我都可以去搞
电脑维修了......她哥真抠,自己不要的破玩意儿扔给她,玩两天坏三天......不过短时间内应该是没
问题了,再坏硬件就建议她丢了算了,可惜我那些辛辛苦苦下的电影啊!!!
扯到电影,最近看了好多电影,老的新的中国的外国的一大堆,看了听说很久的《发条橙》,也
不知道怎么评价,在很多国家都是禁片.....库布里克的作品,不知不觉我好像看了好多他的片子列,《
闪灵》,《2001太空漫步》,《斯巴达克斯》什么什么的,都是老妈下的,说起来她居然是库布里克的
死忠fan,难道说她是那时的叛逆女青年么?......看《闪灵》和《太空漫步》时总觉得有地方没看懂,
但是居然又说不出来到底是哪一点没看懂......不如说就是没看懂算了,特别《太空漫步》,最后让人
蒙头蒙脑,看了影评才明白讲的是什么,而且那片子还老长,节奏还老慢,但是在库布里克这种大师面
前,我们也只好低眉顺眼地拼命看他那些难懂的片子......《发条橙》还是蛮好懂的,而且我居然看过
男主角演的别的片子,《time after time》,关于时光和开膛手杰克的电影,这让我想起柯南的剧场《
贝克街的亡灵》,而且那个片尾就是《time after time》,神奇。对于71年的中国人来说,这种片子真
是太前卫了一点,够大胆,够新奇,画面够精致,音乐够经典,完全就是属于那时西方叛逆社会的片子
,还是那句话,不知道怎么评价,看过的人在心里慢慢品味。
另外一部《午夜牛郎》,唯一一部获奥斯卡的限制级电影,经典就是经典,现在看来那些所谓的
限制级镜头已经很保守了,joe的演技真是相当到位,Dustin Hoffman一副苦大仇深的小人物形象,老演
员里我最喜欢的一位。这部片子典型的美国新电影,不再表现上流社会的奢华生活,不再讲述王子公主
的老套故事,有的只是现实的残酷,小人物的悲哀,最后一幕看得我差点掉眼泪......
重温了一下《指环王》,还是觉得很经典,虽然故事够虚构,但是那种大英雄主义还是很能感染
人。但是再看《暮光之城》,就已经不想说什么了,听说《新月》更难看......承认,人很漂亮,画面很精
致,特效很出色,音乐很好,但是这难道不是一部俗套偶像电影再披上一件吸血鬼的外衣么......记得呆匡跟
我介绍这部电影的时候说她用人格担保我会喜欢这部电影,结果......呆匡,你人格不保了......这个电影真是
越看越无聊,女主角两眼无神,从头到尾一个表情,男主自从他抢了我们aaron塞德里克的角色我就看他颇
不爽,虽然现在aaron并不是我的最爱了,但是第一映像有点不好改变......剧情也很莫名其妙,不知道男主
为什么喜欢女主,更搞不懂女主怎么会这么快就喜欢上男主了...里面的ALICE我还是比较有爱的,眼睛很
有灵气,特别是棒球那场,扔球的姿势很美~四姐说我看东西怎么老喜欢配角,我就发现我好像还真有这
种习惯,比如《哈利波特》,比如《痞子英雄》,又比如《指环王》...... 总之这个电影还是能看的,就是不
明白从哪里可以看出有大家说的那么那么那么好看......岩井的《情书》确实很美,难得的好电影,虽然没什
么深刻的大道理,但是就是有那种纯纯的美。
昨天在欢总那里看到了一步类似歌舞青春的电影,《rock camp》,jonas brothers演的,蛮青
春,蛮阳光 ,歌很通俗,很好听,原来我对迪斯尼出的东西真是很有爱~
老爸在武汉开修车行,去看了一天,真的很辛苦,赚钱不容易啊,妈妈说她的好日子到头了......什
么时候还能再跟老妈一起早上跑跑步下午看看电影,晚上再讨论讨论呢......


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2009-12-12
the day I die
这两天头又痛了,肺还是老样子,深吸气就会咳不停…我总觉得我都活不过25岁。跟寝室的一起看那些电影,俗套,但是很美丽,总有一些美好但是短命的人,还有一些干净清澈的爱情,让人鼻子发酸… 现实中到底会不会有电影里那样的故事呢? 重温AC和T团的那些老歌,心脏居然又梗塞了…不知道怎么回事,本来都是很美丽的东西,总让我想起很久以前听着它们然后单纯地喜欢他们的日子,还有跟我一起喜欢他们的人,现在想起来,偶像的力量真是强大,可以用无形的东西聚集到庞大的人群。到现在我还是觉得属于我们这一代的偶像是最优秀的而且拥有最强大的后援团,比如T团… 说到梗塞,我看我心脏肯定已经不怎么样了,一有波动就梗,我到底还能活多久呢?如果我死了,有多少人会伤心呢?如果我真的快死了,也许我会说出想说又不能说的话吧…







