C'est la vie.

Made a few calls tonight, to some friends here and back in China. Also had some chats on MSN with a few old friends. One is bravely and strongly battling her early breast cancer. One is busy with Reuters early shifts today. One is feeling kind of post-Olympics emptiness in life. One is pondering over the serious issue of whether she should stay in the US, after her experience back in China this summer. One is leaving for a Seattle trip tonight. One is expecting me to give him a hair cut tomorrow. One is seeing her son turn into a five-year-old big boy by the end of this year. One is saying that he wish he should have studied harder so that he could now stay abroad enjoying a better life since he feels the flowing undercurrents in the Chinese society despite the socio-economic progress in the past decades.

What a panorama of life. C'est la vie.