People Are Born to Do Different Things

I watched Victoria's Secret show 2013 last night, and I watched 2008-2012 Victoria's Secret show during last month. It sounds too dishonest if I say I am not jealous at all after watching six years' Victoria's Secret show, I'd better honestly admit I feel it's unfair---- angles on the stage are just taking advantage of what they were born with! They are born with long legs, trim waist, sometimes even big boobs and nice bottoms, etc. They are gifted with super-model-DNA! A friend of mine comforted me that they have to take drugs to keep their figure. Also, I know they have to be on diet every minute and even do intensive exercise like professional athletes. I know they work hard behind the stage, but the point is no matter how hard we normal people try behind the stage, we are not going to be on the in front of the stage. Just like what I said they it's unfair, they are just taking advantage of what they are gifted with.
WAIT A MINUTE---they can take advantage of what they are gifted with, why can't we?! They are gifted with perfect figure and flawless face but we are gifted with other things, things that are not so obvious to find out. Go and dig out your own gift. They can be super model, but you play even better roles.

Scattered thoughts about 'Secondhand Lions'

It has been a long time I haven't seen such great movie that touched me, educated me,and struck me both artistically and philosophically.
In general, I really like the overall mood of this movie----the main part of the story happens on a remote farm, which kind of actualize traditional fairy tales usually happen in a totally fictitious place.However, I have to say the whole story is still a fairy tale because it purifies and beautifies a lot of complicated things in real life. In the movie, the remote farm is insulated not only by distance,but also by some signs read "DANGER EXPLOSIVES IN AREA NO TRESPASSING KEEP OUT", "ATTACK DOGS AND A PIG", "NUCLEAR RADIATION",etc.Actually, these are things that insulate us from fairy tales. Of course, I don't mean the literal meaning of those signs and there was no such things on the signs exist in the farm.Those signs are created on purpose to keep people away from the farm, but in reality, people like to create obstacles by themselves to block their own way to "pure land".
There was no terrifying crash scenes to excite you, there was no heartbroken love story to upset you, there even was not hot guys and girls to attract you. It's just a simple story save you from the cruel reality, give you a breath from your rushing life.I know it's all about not-gonna-happen dreams, but I'd rather believe in it just like what Hub taught me in the movie:

"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things needs to believe in the most.That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that goods always triumphs over evil; and I want to you to remember this, that love...true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."

My Adventure in the Supermarket

Every time I go to supermarket, I feel like I am an illiterate, actually, I am worse than an illiterate because at least they have no problem in speaking but I am the one who cannot speak in Finnish at all,not to mention reading the instructions on the package. However, I have several strategies to deal with my awkward situation in the supermarket:
1. If it is agricultural products, I always try to dig out all my common sense hidden in my memory to recognise what it is and this method works quite well relying on my relatively abundant "market experience" back in China. The problem is usually I don't buy it if I don't recognise it, but recently I decide to try something new even though I have no idea what it is and how I am going to do with it. It takes me quite a long time to google it after I bring it home.
2.If it is food with package, I always make a guess what is in it according to the picture and the words on the package.The words on the package are seldom in English but some Finnish or Sweden are quite like English so I can always find some "clue" between it, for example fett is fat, jogurtti is yogurt. However, picture sometimes cannot help especially when you looking for some ingredients, they look all the same no matter you show the picture of them or even themselves. Smelling it can help but normally you cannot do this before you buy it.
3.Recently, I've found another quite useful strategy to solve my problem---google the Finnish for your "targets" before you go to supermarket, and ask people when you are in the supermarket.The problem is you cannot always find a staff to ask in the supermarket.

Strategies are just strategies, which means they cannot always work.However, Finnish people never let you down whenever you need help.
About two month ago, I was trying to find some pork in the supermarket. How can you distinguish pork from beef and other kinds of red meat without reading the instructions on the package???!!!(back then I didn't know we can buy meat in the fresh counter) I wondered in f the refrigeration block for a while but still didn't have any idea in my mind so I decided to ask a lady approaching me.Unfortunately, she couldn't speak English but what surprised me was she didn't give up because of the language barrier--- after I kept repeating "pig pig pig", she seemed to understand my question and she made a sound like "moo moo moo"to show me which is beef and made another sound to show me which is pork. My problem was perfectly solved.I felt more touched than happy because her lovely acts to help a stranger.
Such things are not rare. About two weeks ago, I was trying to find some fish in front of the fresh counter. I was curious about one kind of "white fish" so I ask the girl behind the counter what it was. She felt sorry didn't know the English name of it but she made her effort to explained to me the fish was special for Christmas dishes and wrote down the Finnish name "turska" for me so I could google it after I came home. When I left the counter, she even said "wish you can make good soup" to me.However, the best part of the story hasn't come yet. When I went to the supermarket again this week, she was there wearing her warm smile as usual and suddenly, she asked me "How was you soup with turska?" "I was really good, thank you so much!" "I am really glad to hear that." Again, a strong stream of warmth was flowing in my heart.
I feel so honored to meet such great people in Finland.