[my life] Goodbye to la belle France?

Wednesday May 9, 2007(excerpted from The
Guardian)



The French seem to have the perfect lifestyle: long lunches,
short hours, great food and plenty of ooh-la-la. But their new
president is determined to make them work harder, faster, more
efficiently - just like the British and Americans. Merde alors,
says Stuart Jeffries



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It was perhaps the second glass of wine that did it. That, or the
dessert of millefeuille aux poires. Or it could have been the
blanquette, the bourguignon, the pot-au-feu or whatever Le
Firmament in the Rue 4 Septembre in Paris's second arrondissement
was offering as the day's special. Whatever. After lunch, I would
stroll back to my office, shadowing my eyes from the 3.30pm sun,
nod off at my desk over the lunchtime edition of Le Monde, to be
awoken by my own snoring. Only then, with the proper morosité of
a grumpy Frenchman, would I contemplate returning to work. Unless
Nicolas from the economics agency across the courtyard came round
and asked if I wanted to have a quick beer, which I often did. I
had gone native: I didn't live to
work, but worked to live. And live well.










Yes! I did not live to work but work to live 'coz there're whole
lot of things for us to explore.  Today, I felt empty, busy
like a bee but feeling empty.  Reading too many articles of
insects, snakes, whales or global warming alerts me the sense of
beening a member of Earth, even arises my guiltiness?  It's
too difficult to come up with an answer.  Whoo~ I want
to live well.







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