…so I was reading my Ethics Textbook for some clue onto how I should write my Ethics Essay, and I came across this interesting short story on the second chapter:
“A large company was hiring a new CEO. The four leading candidates worked inside the company so the board decided to ask each candidate a very basic question.
The comptroller was brought in.
“How much is 2 plus 2?”
“This must be a trick question, but the answer is 4. It will always be 4.”
They brought in the head of research and development, an engineer by training.
“How much is 2 plus 2?”
“That depends on whether it is a positive 2 or a negative 2. It could be 4, zero or minus 4.”
The brought in the Head of Marketing.
“The way I figure, it, 2 plus 2 is 22.”
Finally, they brought in the legal counsel.
“How much is 2 plus 2?” they asked.
He looked furtively at each board member.
“How much do you want it to be?”
Anyway, I hate the module on Ethics – not because I’m unethical, but every way I think that I can write the article. I feel it’s not right.
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I want to redesign this blog, but I’m just lazy. Too many things on my hands. Haven’t even got time to write a good article or two up here.
所谓，旧的不去，新的不来。。。
I’m going to part with the piano that has been with me for the past nine years in less than 12 hours. The new owner is going to collect it and have it delivered to her house.
It’s the piano that I first started playing with, the piano that I went for my first exam with, the piano that I played my first piece on, the piano that I always complained of having heavy keys that require much effort to hit…and, its been around us for almost an entire decade.
Despite all its flaws, its age and everything about it, I still like it. All the memories that it has created for the past nine years. It was a second hand piano when we bought it, possibly already at least ten years of age by then, so it’d make it at least nineteen now. It’s still doing good and fine, except for a few strings having broke recently.
It was expected to be gone, we already delayed the selling for months, or even years. The piano wasn’t that adequate for a student learning and preparing for piano exams, it was more for the casual player – but I still managed to sit through 9 years with it, going for most of my exams with it. We bought it to see if things would work out, and things did, but the piano stuck to us longer than expected.
Sometimes I wish the piano was sold or given away to someone I knew, instead of some stranger on the market, so that I could go back to it every once in a while, and play on its ever so heavy keys that I’ve gotten used to by now.
I haven’t been the most diligent player at the piano – I’m not at it everyday, nor do I spend even an hour at it most of the time when I do play it. But when it’s gone, I’ll certainly miss walking into the house, and seeing a piano with a soothing wooden touch staring right at me. It’ll be replaced by something else soon. I’ll certainly miss playing on the piano with much effort. I’ll miss playing on the piano and complaining about its heavy keys. I’ll certainly miss its unique tone, richness and voice. I’ll certainly miss it.
Hopefully it’ll have a new lease of life with the new owner…and maybe, for all I know, I’ll might just see it again in future. Nine years isn’t a long time, nor a short time for a piano – however the memories with it were deep enough to etch an image in me.
Goodbye! So long, and thanks for all the fish for the past nine years! Enjoy the new companionship…
。。。但我不舍得旧的去，也不喜欢新的来。