今天是我3岁的生日。^_^，祝自己生日快乐一下！

当然，上个月已经过了30大寿。今天是受洗3周年纪念日啦，my Christian birthday。

今天很开心的一件事是什么呢？就是下班的时候看到了老吴！拔腿冲到他面前的那一刻，我知道，自己很想念非洲。

今天不愿意做的一件事是什么呢？就是晚上去华大的培训教室参加英语角活动。因为已经下班了，所以不愿意去。为什么要去呢？因为圣灵要我去。这是一个传福音的机会。今天是学习澳大利亚的文化，同时看Nick弟兄的见证短片。我顺服，通过和大家一起学习英语，探讨Nick的人生，来介绍耶稣基督给到场的同事。

一起来看看神怎样藉着一位没有四肢的弟兄，去激励了一群群陷在绝望中的人：http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/。

By Tim Harford 2009-07-31

My 15-year-old is disinclined to work for her GCSEs, saying her time is better spent preening herself in preparation for assignations with her delightful, diligent, privately educated, moneyed boyfriend. She insists the money spent on nail-painting, hair-colouring and the like is an investment and will be more than repaid when he marries her. Is she deluding herself?

A curious mother

Dear Curious Mother,

Surprising as this may seem in the 21st century, your daughter's strategy is not unusual. Evidence on speed-dating gathered by the economists Michèle Belot and Marco Francesconi shows that women are attracted by rich men, while men focus more on a woman's physical appearance. Lena Edlund, another economist, has found that in the areas of her native Sweden where the wealthiest men live, women of prime marriageable age are over-represented.

However, your daughter is only 15; for Edlund, “prime marriageable age” is 25-44. Your daughter is either going to have to get her hooks into this chap unusually early, or she is going to have to keep him on the boil for another decade – a lot of nail-painting.

Not only is she concentrating her investments into a single asset by abandoning her education, but she may even be making her main goal harder to achieve. Belot and Francesconi discovered that a strong social trend towards “assortative mating” means that although educated, high-achieving men are not interested in marrying a rich woman, they do like educated high-achieving women, rather than shallow girls with shiny nails.

Your daughter should learn to work hard and look good at the same time. Not only will it advance her immediate goals, it will also – sadly – stand her in good stead for the rest of her life.