不知在哪里看到，杭州有上海后花园之称。
其实，说杭州是花园，确实没错。微波荡漾的西湖水，垂柳点缀的河堤，嘴角挂着微笑的行人，形成了杭州的花园之貌。但用这“后花园”，却有些看低杭州的意味。窈窕的美人，彬彬有礼的小哥，迈巴赫，保时捷，法拉利，奔驰不时驶过，这无一不显示着杭州的富庶与繁华。与上海比，有过之而无不及。

有家室之后，外出游玩的次数增多，蜜月之马尔代夫，国庆之西安，元旦之阳朔，都为放松心灵之旅。以往的情人节，我们总是很实际的不跟那些热恋中的蜜糖娃娃们争那有限的席位，点一份匹萨，在家慢慢咀嚼。今年，也难得朱同学有这份情趣，邀我一道游杭州。

我们两从来都吃不得苦，自然出去游玩也是如此，从到西安却不愿爬华山，可见一斑。这次到杭州，除了西湖，没去任何一个景点。周五晚抵达，入宿之后便觅食。吃了些点心，买了杯DQ，便在西湖边溜达。宁静的西湖，被我们肆意地欢笑所破坏。尽管晚上睡得晚，可周六一大早就醒了。磨蹭到10点，拖着步子到了酒店后面的知味观总店解决早餐。总的来说，小吃没什么独特的风味，一份小笼，一碗馄饨，一碗田螺，一份风爪，49.5元的价格，不实在。情人节在杭州，不可免俗的游西湖。饭店位置颇佳，出门便是西湖。沿着湖边一直走，穿过白堤，苏堤，经过雷峰塔，又回到起点。三个小时的步行，有些疲惫，却也感受了西湖的美。唯一美中不足的便是人流太多，过于喧闹。

几番在路中停下，想找个地道的饭店裹五脏庙，却因为各种原因没有实现，最后只能自暴自弃的在饭店周围一家火锅店解决了午饭，也安排了剩余的时间。睡觉，吃饭。晚饭依旧是在知味观，不过不是大堂的小吃，而是杭州的传统佳肴。由于知味观名头大，晚饭时间自然人气很旺。伙计们训练有素，倒是没等多长时间就轮到我们了。素烧鹅，东坡肉，叫化鸡，西湖醋鱼，荷兰豆，最有名的是什么，我们就吃什么，懒人从来不想被点菜折磨。可能是我们胃口比较刁，没觉得那东坡肉和叫化鸡有何过人之处，反而觉着油腻。幸好西湖醋鱼那醋味够浓，将那油腻带来的不适压了下去。话说，吃饭的时候也有些花絮。总能听到其他桌的抱怨。烤鸭，没有；叫化鸡，卖完了；这个，没有；那个，卖完了；顾客的责问，伙计们的道歉，此起彼伏。

尝过杭州传统美食，欣赏了西湖美景，周日我们便起得晚了。12点退房，朱同学童趣未泯，拉着我去寻找那海底世界。又是一段长路，在美院附近找到了那个海底世界。原以为很无趣，却发现了很多奇奇怪怪的鱼。尤其是那2.5米的海象，大得惊人。出来之后，按照打算进了星巴克，却因没找到座位而离开。转而在隔壁的一茶一座耗费了一个小时，以及61元人民币。

按照我这个记流水帐的风格，接下来应该就很平缓的过渡到候车，上车，下车，到家。谁知道，在杭州打车那么困难。等了将近20分钟，没看到一辆空车，这可让我们有些着急。最后只能追公交车，踩着点进了车站。有惊无险。

两天的杭州之旅，很舒适，很开心。没有计划，便没有遗憾。虽然说天气并不是阳光明媚，甚至有些烟雨蒙蒙，却依然掩盖不了西湖的风光。那些因为天气原因而放弃到杭州游玩的朋友们，实在是错过了。

Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama : Election Night
Chicago, IL | November 04, 2008

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voices could be that difference.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled - Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of indivialls or a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.

It's the answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

......early this morning, I just received a extraordinary gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he's fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader. I congratulate him, I congratulate Governor Palin for all they have achieved, and I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.

I wanna thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton and rode with on that train home to Delaware, the Vice President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last sixteen years, the rock of our family and the love of my life, our nation's next First Lady, Michelle Obama. Sasha and Malia, I love you both more than you can imagine, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House. And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother is watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight, and know that my debt to them is beyond measure. (thank other family members:) )

To my campaign manager David Plouffe. Beyond some heroes of this campaign who built the best politic campaign I think in the history of the United States of America. To my chief strategist David Axelrod, who's been the partner with me every step on the way. To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics - you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done.

But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to - it belongs to you.

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington - it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston.

It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give five dollars and ten dollars and twenty dollars to this cause. It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy; who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep; from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on the doors of perfect strangers; and from the millions of Americans who volunteered, and organized, and proved that more than two centuries later, a government of the people, by the people and for the people has not perished from this Earth. This is your victory.

I know you didn't do this just to win an election and I know you didn't do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century. Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us. There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for child's college education. There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a people will get there.

There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as President, and we know that government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek - it is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It cannot happen without you, without new spirit of service and  a new spirits of sacrifice.

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other. Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers - in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people.

Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House - a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, "We are not enemies, but friends... though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection." And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.

And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of our world - our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear this world down - we want to defeat you. To those who seek peace and security - we support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope.

For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing - Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons - because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America - the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.

When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.

She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.

A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination. And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change. Yes we can.

America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves - if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see? What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time - to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people:

Yes We Can. Thank you, God bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.

P.S. The script of Obama's inauguration speech was copied from the website and only the italics were from my listening. And even with the script, I was lost lots of the time....So shamed am I!

See the profound man there? Well, the younger one. Alan Shore, A smart, professional and tricky lawyer and also a bedlamite. Maybe the successful lawyer should always be a bedlamite and a bad man.

Like House, Alan Shore is 'son of the bitch' as well which is so attractive:)

Let's get into the show.