天下之大

    郑州会议确实开眼见，下榻酒店电梯里，见到一个金发（不知道是不是碧眼，因为根本就看不到她的脸）高个子，似乎是个女的，几乎得有两米高吧？服务员告知，这是河南排球队的荷兰籍外源，她就下榻这家酒店。

更令人惊奇的是，在四楼电梯停下，门口居然站着一位出家人（衣帽判断，或许【但愿】不是呢）等待上电梯，我感到甚是诧异，4楼可是娱乐场所，是仅有按摩捏脚的楼层啊？！

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 灰太狼为红太狼捏脚

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    使我想起朋友的一个邮件，摘下来，给大家一读。

    下文中的“？？”是我修改了原文中的具体地名，以免产生一些麻烦。

Things are not always what they seem.

So, last week, returning from the southern hemisphere after participating in the Air ？？Wine Awards, I saw a Buddhist monk in bright saffron robes seating in Business Class.

MONK IN BUSINESS
It was as incongruous a thought as much as a surreal sight because, as far as I remember, Prince Siddharta had forsaken a life of luxury and privilege and wandered off in search of enlightenment, essentially as a beggar.

I am not, of course, suggesting the monk go round the plane begging for food (which wasn’t that good in the first place), but it had seemed to me the monk wasn’t much for being with the masses back in economy, whose interest and well-being, I assume, should have been one of his priorities and pieties. Then, of course, he may be a new breed of celebrity Buddhist monks like some of those American evangelists who live in huge mansions complete with swimming pool and jacuzzis, get chauffeured around in stretch limousines, and wear Brioni suits.

Truth be known, Prince Siddharta had even forsook his loyal horse, so determined was he to just walk, rather than be comfortable (and looking down at people from the saddle).

We have, of course, to be realistic and not insist the monk swim or levitate all the way from ？？to ？？. Air-travel is really the way forward and I was disappointed for the holy chap that the flight had only Economy and Business but no First Class.

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