Everything started with this post from Shanghai Daily Photo. Jing, a blogger rooted in Shanghai, asked her readers about the meaning of the Starbucks logo, which, I am sure, most of you have seen, probably pretty frequently.

 

Some very knowledgable readers of hers have provided interesting answers and even given a link to a more informative blog article (see the comments left on Jing's blog). Following that, I found some more interesting articles on the subjects of Starbucks logo, mermaids, Ariel of Disney, and even Mary Magdalene (the popularity of which has been largely boosted outside the Christian world by "The Da Vinci Code").

 

And here are some of the links:

 

 

 

 

To be honest, I've seen and been to Starbucks for so many times, but I didn't even think once about what the logo stands for. Isn't it just amazing that a small logo actually can retrospect to Greek mythology and even more?

 

Hi folks, sorry for being absent for so long. (wow, more than a month!) I feel bad that I didn't make it to share all the beautiful X'mas pictures I had collected, as opposed to my original plan.

 

But anyway, it's another brand new year, so why don't we have a brand new start?

 

Boston had been seeing an exceptionally warm winter this year until a few days ago: now the weather regains its usual New England look, which means freezing temperature and strong gusts of wind. Yesterday we had another snow (well, maybe flurry as some people would call it) -- not the first snow we have this winter, but I do think it's the first one that actually gets accumulated on the ground instead of melting and disappearing right away. So it looks white outside: not too much, just a little. Winter finally remembers her white coat!

 

How about your places of the world?

 

Last but not least, to my dear friends and readers, even it's too late:
Happy New Year and may 2007 be a satisfying and rewarding one for you!