Vampire Knight.

♠ Monday, March 15, 2010

Kaname Kuran; Yuuki Kuran; Zero Kiryuu

白色情人节（英语：White Day；日语：ホワイトデー；），订于3月14日，为纯粹的商业营销手段产物。　
3月14日是白色情人节。白色情人节流行于日本、中国台湾等地区，是我们所知道的西方情人节的延续，在送礼方面也不同：具体为2月14日男方送女方一份礼物，主要是玫瑰花或者巧克力。（只是中国大陆和英美法）3月14日白色情人节，就该轮到女方送男方礼物了。（日本，中国台湾是刚好相反的，2月14日是女生送巧克力，3月14日是男生回礼~）在日本，通常欲告白的女方会在情人节（2月14日）的时候送礼给心仪的对象，而收到礼物的一方，则会在3月14日回礼并告诉女方自己的心意。亚洲部分地区的年轻人亦会庆祝这个节日。
　　又叫返情人节，指的是在情人节收到礼物，则在一个月后的 3月14日回馈礼物，当然仅仅是回馈你想回的那个人呵呵。

Thirst for blood
1:34 PM

♠ Monday, March 8, 2010

Kaname Kuran; Yuuki Kuran; Zero Kiryuu

There was a journey in being an entrepreneur. It was about going through failure and bouncing back. Are you going to bounce back and take the chance to go to bat again, or let this failure stop you? If you look at all of the ultimate success stories, both personally and professionally, they all had to bounce back at one time or another.

What can you learn from failure that you can’t from success?
A: Nobody wants to be a failure. At the same time, there’s no better education for an entrepreneur than failure. You can go to Harvard or Stanford, but that’s not where you get your education. That’s where you build relationships, but it’s not what teaches you to have whatever it takes to get through whatever you need to go through to build a startup.

Can you have success without failure?
A: No, I don’t think so. I just don’t know anyone, even if their first startup company was successful, that didn’t bang their head plenty of times. Many went through failures in order to find success. Even the Microsofts and the Apples all had intermittent failures along the way.

You can have success day in and out, but I’ve found that to sustain the energy and enthusiasm that’s going to get you farther, you have to deal with more no’s then yes’s. You need both, there’s no question. But plenty of people [experiencing] startup failures understand that failure is a part of the process — they just hope they can skip it. It’s not like you go out and say, “I’ll have two failures and then have success.”

Does it ever become easier to fail?
A: What does become easier is to bounce back. That’s really the most important thing — to get back up at the plate and to start to understand over time it’s just part of the process. And that you have to stay in the game, you don’t have more time. You’ve got right now. The next second is a crap shoot.

Thirst for blood
10:22 PM