International Law

Happy Holidays from Asiabizblog!

Asiabizblog wishes all of our readers the merriest of holidays and best wishes for the New Year.

Hope springs eternal and Spring is just around the corner. In that spirit, I thought I'd share with you a poem a friend in Beijing sent me this morning. [Thank you, dear Audrey!]

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My (hastily considered) translation:

A Sheet of Paper

At birth, a sheet of paper, a lifetime begins;
At graduation, a sheet of paper, a lifetime of strife;
Upon marriage, a sheet of paper, torment for life;
Become a bureaucrat, a sheet of paper, a lifetime of political struggle;
Money, a sheet of paper, a lifetime of hardship;
Win an award, a sheet of paper, a vanity for life;
A doctor's diagnosis, a sheet of paper, a sorrow for life;
An obituary, a sheet of paper, the sum of one's life
When these papers recede in importance, we truly understand
These papers forgotten, a lifetime of happiness!

Full post as published by Asia Business Intelligence on December 24, 2008 (boomark / email).