公司成立了一个Toastmasters Club，这给了我一个再作冯妇的机会。我把四年前的讲演稿翻出来，略作修订，又重新用了一遍。（原文在这里。）Word of the day is "pwned"，所以我把一些句子换上了这个词。
讲到一半我就意识到自己正在边讲边晃，但是......止不住了。
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Good afternoon. I'm glad to have this chance to share my stories with you.
Who am I? I was born in Hubei province of central China. I spent my teens in a small town of Yichang. As you all know, Yichang is famous for its hydroelectricity generators. Unfortunately most of its electricity was conveyed to Shanghai and other industrial cities of eastern China, and I had to spend many nights in the dim light of candles and oil lamps. Sometimes my hair got pwned. That was a bitter sweet memory to me.
When the time came for me to go to college, I had no idea which major I'd like to pick. A family friend recommended electronics engineering, and that became my first preference. My second preference was materials science. My third preference was hydroelectricity. My eighth, railway transportation. My sixteenth, ocean agriculture.
Fortunately, I was able to pick my first preference, that is, electronics engineering. Unfortunately, less than two years later I got pwned by it. I *hate* circuits. Professor says: theoretic analysis shows that a *moderately small* resistance should be inserted bla-bla-bla. But doesn "moderately small" mean? One, one tenth, or one hundredth? I have no idea at all. If I don't like circuits, what do I like? Computer, that was my answer. I was so excited with this finding that I wrote an essay titled "Marrying a Computer". So many years passed and I'm still a
bachelor. Sometimes I wonder perhaps I made a curse upon myself... Still, I am an honest man, and an honest man has to tell the truth: computer is better than girlfriend. It's cheap, it's
rational, and it never argues with you.
Yeah, I enjoy programming in front of a computer. They say women have good intuition. Engineers have it, too. I can catch a spelling error in a twenty-two inch screen at the first glance. How does a programmer feel like? Just *Imagine*. Imagine you are a wizard, summoning spirits from beneath the earth. Imagine you are a king, whose will is law. Imagine you are an angel, free from gravity. Imagine you are God, and into dust thou breathe life.
After I received my degree I went to a small company of a friend. Six months later I joined
Nortel. Given all its difficulties and disadvantages, that telecom giant was a good employer. For the first time in my life I wanted to settle down. But I can't. Companies are changing. My industry is changing. The world is changing. I've got no choice. I must move on.
Things are changing everyday and I got pwned a lot. However, I can always take one thing for sure: wherever I go, whatever I do, my passion and happiness stay with me. Thank you.
