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A colorful bird’s fate
The first meeting with the colorful bird was on a Monday morning. I hate Monday morning. Crowds are everywhere. Buses are stuffed, streets are crowded and I could help asking for a leave to keep myself in my empty room. When everyone is going out for a busy Monday, peace comes to houses, what were created to hold people and protect us from the dangerous outside world. But still we are not satisfied and try hard to build bigger and bigger house. Perhaps, one day we will have only one house that is big enough to hold the whole world of people. Sound great eh? But a house breaks the world into two parts, and we can still enjoy something fresh outside the house. A giant house holding the whole world will leave us no new places to have a change, of mood, environment or something like that.
Where I met the colorful bird was the wood behind my room. I saw something shining from my window and it’s jumping nearer and nearer to my direction. I watched, threw beans there to see it would be frightened away or come out to eat the beans. It jumped nearer and I saw clearer. A colorful bird, beautifully colorful and its eyes were stuck to the beans. Like it eh? I threw more to it, and it seemed to be surprised and looked back at me. I smiled and it twittered. Clever creature, it knew. It continued eating those beans and I continued watching. Just enjoy the temporary peace of nature, I said to the colorful bird. A little boy wearing brightly colored sidney rice jersey came around and curiously looked at the colorful bird for a while. He ran away soon to play with other kids. You were lucky, bird. I whispered. It was concentrative on the food, and I was concentrative on it. I did not mind doing nothing on a Monday morning, just like the colorful bird did not mind eating food given by a human being. What a rare scene!
I thought so. When the colorful bird jumped back into the wood, I even waved my hand and said goodbye to it. Goodbye and never see you again, I said to the wood. How many birds get killed every day? I don’t know. I never actually care how many things die away every day, as I just get sick of the fact that so many people are living, in cruel, depredating, expanding ways. They want more than they have but never know how much more they can have, and how much less they leave to others. They believe there are unlimited numbers of chances, benefits and powers to support their ambitions. I am strange sometimes. I need exactly the same things as they do, but I just can’t persuade myself to do what they enjoy doing every day. I sometimes feel scared of the world, which is too crazy and too abnormal to any kind of really civilized creatures. I don’t mean I am more civilized than others. I’m not, and even less than many others. I’m just sometimes like the colorful bird, going naïve and hoping for peace. The colorful bird might be killed someday when it meets an unfriendly human being, but my situation would be much worse. I might kill my own hopes for peace someday as such hopes are not tolerated by the world.
I dreamed of the colorful bird’s dead body that night and I was holding a bleeding knife in the dream. The next day I closed the window and never opened it again. I meant it when I said goodbye.
Where I met the colorful bird was the wood behind my room. I saw something shining from my window and it’s jumping nearer and nearer to my direction. I watched, threw beans there to see it would be frightened away or come out to eat the beans. It jumped nearer and I saw clearer. A colorful bird, beautifully colorful and its eyes were stuck to the beans. Like it eh? I threw more to it, and it seemed to be surprised and looked back at me. I smiled and it twittered. Clever creature, it knew. It continued eating those beans and I continued watching. Just enjoy the temporary peace of nature, I said to the colorful bird. A little boy wearing brightly colored sidney rice jersey came around and curiously looked at the colorful bird for a while. He ran away soon to play with other kids. You were lucky, bird. I whispered. It was concentrative on the food, and I was concentrative on it. I did not mind doing nothing on a Monday morning, just like the colorful bird did not mind eating food given by a human being. What a rare scene!
I thought so. When the colorful bird jumped back into the wood, I even waved my hand and said goodbye to it. Goodbye and never see you again, I said to the wood. How many birds get killed every day? I don’t know. I never actually care how many things die away every day, as I just get sick of the fact that so many people are living, in cruel, depredating, expanding ways. They want more than they have but never know how much more they can have, and how much less they leave to others. They believe there are unlimited numbers of chances, benefits and powers to support their ambitions. I am strange sometimes. I need exactly the same things as they do, but I just can’t persuade myself to do what they enjoy doing every day. I sometimes feel scared of the world, which is too crazy and too abnormal to any kind of really civilized creatures. I don’t mean I am more civilized than others. I’m not, and even less than many others. I’m just sometimes like the colorful bird, going naïve and hoping for peace. The colorful bird might be killed someday when it meets an unfriendly human being, but my situation would be much worse. I might kill my own hopes for peace someday as such hopes are not tolerated by the world.
I dreamed of the colorful bird’s dead body that night and I was holding a bleeding knife in the dream. The next day I closed the window and never opened it again. I meant it when I said goodbye.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Chargers rookie RB Ryan Mathews plans to hold out training camp
While all other San Diego Chargers rookies reported for training camp on time on Sunday, the only unsigned rookie, first-round pick Ryan Mathews was staying at home in his favorite Brett Favre jersey, claiming that he would hold out the whole training camp and even skip regular-season games if the Chargers do not offer a satisfying long-term contract.
If Mathews really means it, he will join veterans like wide receiver Vincent Jackson, left tackle Marcus McNeil and linebacker Shawne Merriman to hold out the training camp because of contract disputes. However, the rookie is expected to return earlier than Jackson, because the Chargers are likely to offer a rookie contract to him during the training camp, while a veteran like Jackson still has to fulfill the last year of his current contract before it expires. A rookie contract will surely cost much less than a veteran’s contract extension.
Wearing his favorite Michael Irvin jersey hanging around with his friends, Jackson is determined to get something from the team before wear back his team uniform. It’s hard to say which side will win and Jackson might be risking his career by doing so.
If Mathews really means it, he will join veterans like wide receiver Vincent Jackson, left tackle Marcus McNeil and linebacker Shawne Merriman to hold out the training camp because of contract disputes. However, the rookie is expected to return earlier than Jackson, because the Chargers are likely to offer a rookie contract to him during the training camp, while a veteran like Jackson still has to fulfill the last year of his current contract before it expires. A rookie contract will surely cost much less than a veteran’s contract extension.
Wearing his favorite Michael Irvin jersey hanging around with his friends, Jackson is determined to get something from the team before wear back his team uniform. It’s hard to say which side will win and Jackson might be risking his career by doing so.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Ravens rookie LB Kindle will miss training camp with head injury
As a second-round draft pick of the 2010 NFL Draft but being drafted by the Baltimore Ravens as the team’s first pick, rookie linebacker Sergio Kindle was mentioned little during this offseason. And when he was first mentioned in headline, it was unfortunately bad news about his non-football injury.
The Ravens reported on its website Sunday afternoon that Kindle fell down two flights of stairs and sustained a head injury while visiting a friend in Austin, Texas. When he was immediately sent to hospital, Kindle was wearing a Brett Favre jersey and lost his consciousness. He is now in stable condition and being treated, but it’s unlikely for him to attend the Ravens’ training camp on Monday. And it’s still unsure when he will be able to return on field or whether he would have to skip his entire rookie season.
The outside linebacker from Texas had been dreaming of put on Saints jersey before being drafted by the Ravens. So the only good thing with the injury could be that he could be stay as a Saints fan for a longer time before having to play for the Ravens.
The Ravens reported on its website Sunday afternoon that Kindle fell down two flights of stairs and sustained a head injury while visiting a friend in Austin, Texas. When he was immediately sent to hospital, Kindle was wearing a Brett Favre jersey and lost his consciousness. He is now in stable condition and being treated, but it’s unlikely for him to attend the Ravens’ training camp on Monday. And it’s still unsure when he will be able to return on field or whether he would have to skip his entire rookie season.
The outside linebacker from Texas had been dreaming of put on Saints jersey before being drafted by the Ravens. So the only good thing with the injury could be that he could be stay as a Saints fan for a longer time before having to play for the Ravens.
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