书和歌

回来了。不想回也得回，不想留会更好，留不留都是身不由己，有短有长。这就是生活。只希望明天会更好。一个星期是短是长，取决于自己。好啦，废话少说。这一个星期发现了两样不错的东西，一个是歌，另一个是书。先说说歌吧。坦白说，我从来没有认真地去听他的歌，但是偶然的情况下（电台播，我弟弟在Neway唱）发现他的歌还挺有意思的。张震岳的最新专辑《OK》不能说是一张高潮迭起的专辑。整张专辑的铺排都是平平淡淡的，没有什么华丽的音乐包装，却让这张专辑非常有意思！里面的其中一首个《思念是一种病》非常的动听。张震岳的低声rap加上蔡健雅的合唱，简直是一首听不腻的歌曲。其他的歌曲如《OK》，《就让这首歌》，《小星星》，《很难》等等都是绝对值得推荐的！首首都很有张震岳的性格。

I am back. Even though reluctant to come back, but still I have to come back. The last week I discovered two good things, one is song, the other one is book. I never really paid much attention to his songs. Zhang Zhen Yue (I am not sure his English name actually)'s latest album "OK". The songs in the album are not those that could make you feel "wow" or "my goodness". They are very relaxing, peaceful, slow and smooth. For me, they are like tasting a good cup of tea looking at the sea with some small tides. There are no magnificent (aka Jay Chow's style) music packaging, but maybe that's the reason it makes the whole album special. 《思念是一种病》is certainly my favorite without any doubt.


另外，忽然间对经济学有一种喜好（也许是一种短暂的冲动），所以狠下心来买了这本书，Steven D. Levitt 和Stephen J. Dubner的《Freakonomics》。刚刚在回来的途中看了十几页，发现，我狠下心来是对的。里面说的并不是一些经济学的东西，反而是在探讨我们生活上的一些细节，解答一些“看起来是这样却其实是那样”的问题。说的都是呈现以下几点：（1）目的是现代生活的里程碑，（2）传统的智慧大都是错的（譬如，每一天8杯水并不会令你健康的），（3）巨变的局势是有一个想象不到，遥远的原因的，(3) 所谓的专家只是很会应用所能得的资讯而已来达成自身的目的，和（4）知道什么是该衡量和该如何评估会使这一个复杂的世界简单起来。我想，这么久没有看书了，这一本肯定是一本值得一看的书！

I suddenly have the urge to learn more about economy (perhaps just an impulsive curiosity). Before I came back here, I bought this book "Freakonomics", written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (I believe both of them are prominent economists). After reading 10+ pages, I realized I have bought the right non-fictional book. It doesn't really talk much about those "boring" economist crap. It instead talks about stuff that really happens in our daily lives, answering questions that seem to have a right answers (i.e., consensus) but actually wrong. The whole book is based on the following ideas: (1) Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life, (2) The conventional wisdom is often wrong, (3) dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle causes, (4) "experts" use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda, and (5) knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so. I must say after a while not reading anything, this is certainly one book that could catch my attention!