all living things must abide by the laws of the shape they inhabit.

Manchester United flops XI

Inspired by a Stretford Paddock video. Here's mine.

1. Massimo Taibi
2. Matteo Darmian
3. Fabio da Silva
4. Phil Jones
5. Fred
6. Paul Pogba
7. Angel Di Maria
8. Memphis Depay
9. Radamel Falcao
10. Alexis Sanchez
11. Anthony Martial

Flops should be defined as the gulf between expectations and performance. So some worse players were excluded because expectations of them were low.

Darmian is the player in this XI with the least expectations, but he made it on the merit of how bad he ended up.

Pogba is the player in this XI with the most good performances, but for that reputation and that price, he still fell woefully short.

The final spot was a toss-up between Memphis and Marcos Rojo. I did not want to include Memphis because he wasn't very bad and he was asked to do a lot, but all things equal, Rojo definitely didn't have the expectations that came with Memphis.

"Mr Franz, I think careers are a 20th-century invention."

好人做了一辈子的好事，做了一件坏事就叫原形毕露。
坏人做了一辈子坏事，最后做了一件好事却叫浪子回头。

好人成佛需要九九八十一难。

坏人只需要放下屠刀，就能立地成佛。

“他每个月赚两千块的工资，你却要求他带给你两万块的生活质量。他做不到，你就说他没用，无能。那你为什么不找一个赚两万块的人呢？是不是人家也看不上你？”

"I don't invent the picture. I don't need to invent the picture. I find it already in nature. I just have to free it."

色难

子夏问孝，子曰：色难，有事，弟子服其劳，有酒食，先生馔，曾是以为孝乎？

色难，容易

不经一番寒彻骨 怎得梅花扑鼻香

poignant

in my final ICT, I booked out to attend the wedding of the girl who stuck with me through NS 15 years ago. life can be stranger than fiction.

"if we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."

善良是看你站在哪个角度去看

kinda familiar

Remember that guy in army? The guy who chao keng everything and moans to others it's a waste of time. The guy who tells you to be like him, do the minimum, and get away with it. The guy who smooth-talks commanders, then badmouths them, and gives big speeches in bunk. The guy who asks you to go first when there's a demonstration or a grenade to be thrown, but is the first at canteen. The guy who doesn't sing when everyone is singing. The guy who's excused everything and hopes to be excused from more. The guy who claims he has more important things to do outside army. The guy who when exercise or test comes around scrambles for your help. The guy who doesn't grasp that others do it not because we're sheep, but because we respect NS or at least respect structure, because we know we're better as a team, because every little effort potentially keeps us - and that guy - safer. Remember him?

 That guy is today's anti-vaxxer.

"dying is the worst thing that ever happened to me."

你偷了一只鸡蛋，最安全的就是放在一堆鸡蛋里，等没有人注意的时候才去拿。

你拿着一堆不干净的钱，就放在钱最多的地方。

the storm cannot be stopped, but it can be survived.