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发帖数: 194 | 1 Chapter 2, Daishan and Xianke's 911
When Daishan wanted to prove to herself whether she and Xianke had ever loved
each other, she would think of September 11, 2001. Xianke's office was in the
north tower and he left earlier than Daishan as usual. Daishan arrived in her
mid-town office, a few mintues after 9am. She began reading scrolling news but
didn't realize the danger was just two miles away in the south. The news said
the south tower was collapsing and then it melted down. North tower repea |
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发帖数: 194 | 2 Chapter 8.1 Ever After
The next morning Daishan was waken up by Xianke around 7am as usual and asked
him, “Why are you getting up this early?” Xianke scratched his head and
grumbled, “Oh, my god, I forgot I’m taking the day off! I just wake up at
7am habitually!” Dasishan muttered “old habits die hard,” turned around and
tried to sleep again. Xianke still got up, went to the bathroom and then came
back, lay down again. He couldn’t sleep, so he began playing a string of
Daishan’s hair in her ear |
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发帖数: 194 | 3 Chapter One Friday Morning in April
Thursday night, right before going to bed at 11:30pm, Xianke said to Daishan,
"Let's get married." Daishan has just tuned to WB11's "Everybody Loves
Raymond" and couldn't make sure how serious he was with such a proposal, at
this time and this place. She didn't move her eyes away from the TV screen,
but saw virtually nothing either, only heard "Put down your remote. We will be
right back!" Xianke did not fall asleep immediately, but tossed and turned a
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发帖数: 194 | 4 Chapter 1, Daishan got laid off
Xianke and Daishan began dating in graduate school. Daishan had just
transferred to the new school to study computer science and Xianke was a Ph.D.
candidate of the same department. They were both Chinese and coincidently had
to do some TA work together besides taking a couple of common courses and
attending the same seminars. Thus they got to know each other rather quickly.
Then they happened to graduate in the same summer and both got offers in New
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发帖数: 194 | 5 Chapte 4.1, Escape Under Proposal
When she was walking down the Broadway to the south that Sunday afternoon,
Daishan couldn't help but wondering if she had been waiting for such a chance,
a chance that Xianke would lose his temper and would mumble out of control,
thus she would have an appropriate excuse to run away from their life, to
escape from his proposal? She wanted to walk away when Xianke yelled out the
first "stupid" as defintion of her, but she waited till the cops came along.
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发帖数: 194 | 6 Chapter 8.2 A Car Lost and Found
Daishan broke the exciting news to Xianke at night. Xianke was also very glad
and said, “Poor Lao Chen! He had to call for car service to go to the
airport!” Daishan had never been to Brooklyn area, so they studied the maps
for a while and figured out what subways Daishan had to take to see their car.
The next day Daishan walked out of the No. 5 train rather nervously. It took
her almost half an hour to make out the directions and finally found their
Toyota Came |
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发帖数: 1806 | 7 Corporation's business vision and planning;
APEX is only a big warehouse in CA, one Chinese american
and one american found it.
They only buy from China, and sell here.They buy Changhong, Kangjia,
and xianke DVD players, and use low price strategy, sold 800
millions units in
last Nov. and Dec., increased the market share of APEX
on US DVD market to 2nd( 1st is still SONY),
and make a lot money. Then they used the money and go back
to 合资with Changhong, and produce big screen TVs, They
are doing a |
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发帖数: 117 | 8 【 以下文字转载自 shopping 讨论区 】
【 原文由 webhero 所发表 】
Corporation's business vision and planning;
APEX is only a big warehouse in CA, one Chinese american
and one american found it.
They only buy from China, and sell here.They buy Changhong, Kangjia,
and xianke DVD players, and use low price strategy, sold 800
millions units in
last Nov. and Dec., increased the market share of APEX
on US DVD market to 2nd( 1st is still SONY),
and make a lot money. Then they used the money and go back
to 合资with Changhong, |
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发帖数: 194 | 9 Chapter 3.2, Farewell Banquet
Daishan and Xianke went out to dinner with a bunch of friends to see off Chen,
who was going back to China soon. Since Chen was going to have Chinese
meals all the time once back in China, they picked a western resturant for
this farewell banquet instead of a Chinese one, which usually suited every one
better. People kept inquiring about when Chen was leaving, what was his plan
in China et cetra a while having appetites. When the main dishes came through,
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发帖数: 194 | 10 Chapter 3.3: The Car Being Stolen
Daishan raised her glass and joined the toast, a bit reluctantly. Putting down
the glass, she tried to concentrate on cutting the butterfly rib in her plate
again. She was still in the state of being totally surprised that Xianke had
planned everything out, and that he had chosen to disclose this info with
friends first before even consulting with her. She secretly casted a glance at
him. She suddenly felt so weird, like she had never known this guy before,
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发帖数: 194 | 11 Chapter 4.3, From the Park to the Theatre to the Bar
Daishan soon hated thinking about Xianke, hated fumbling about what he might
be thinking now. She tried to unfocus and let her mind drift. She went back
suddenly to memeories of Kevin, of his grand wedding ceremony, of his bachelor
night with colleagues in a bar close to their office. Kevin used to like
dragging Manhattanites of them to bars for relaxing on Friday nights. Kevin
had explained to her about all those cocktails and their names, Ma |
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发帖数: 194 | 12 Chapter 7.2 The Wedding Day
The next week Xianke and Daishan were engaged in sending invitations to
friends, booking flowers, making reservations for the restaurant, buying
decorative things, familiarizing with the church people and rehearsing the
ceremony on the previous weekend. On the morning of May 18th, they went to the
beauty shop to do hair first. Daishan got her nails and facials done in the
same place. Li Shu called over when Daishan just had the final touch on her
now painted face. Li |
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发帖数: 194 | 13 Chapter 8.3 Moving Day in June
It rained a lot in May. Daishan stayed at home most of the time, writing up
their insurance materials. She also went out a few times hunting for a new
apartment. By the middle of June, they had decided to take an apartment in
Forest Hills, which was actually a junior four, with spacious bedroom, living
room and a small study, but the rent was just half of what they were paying
now. Xianke was also satisfied with the place, though his commute time would
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