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What is the Devil Hold Us? A Reflection on The Moon and Sixpence

johnsonwu — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:44:27 +0000

I have been absorbed by a masterpiece in recent days: Moon and Sixpence, a book was neglected in my shelf for many months. As a saying goes, masterpiece is something that everyone desired to have read but never actually. An episode sitcom arouses my interest in the book when the heroine uses th ...

The Insane "Gears"

johnsonwu — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:00:44 +0000

On a Sunday afternoon, the sunlight lazily spilled onto the road leading into the city. My wife and I had just finished some errands and were driving back to Beijing. We had hoped that the weekend traffic would be lighter, but to our dismay, the checkpoint ahead was already backed up with a l ...

What's Difference in Guangdong?

johnsonwu — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:14:25 +0000

"Guangdong Spring Festival Trip: Unexpected Experiences in Coastal Cities" Hey everyone, during the Spring Festival break, I visited Guangdong and checked out several coastal cities like Guangzhou, Shunde, Zhongshan, and Zhuhai. Before the trip, I had high expectations, imagining these places ...

A Spring Festival Encounter with Anti-Fraud “Adventures”

johnsonwu — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:31:01 +0000

During this Spring Festival, I had the most unbelievable experience—more outrageous than a TV drama! On the second to third day of the New Year, while my family and I were vacationing at an Airbnb, my son's phone kept ringing. It turned out to be a call from the Foshan police, informing us that h ...

Finding Calm Amid Chaos- an Unexpected Encounter at Guangzhou Station

johnsonwu — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:22:41 +0000

I recently read an intriguing book— The Socrates Express by American writer Eric Weiner. The book seamlessly blends philosophy with travel, as the author embarks on train journeys to places where great philosophers once lived, connecting their ideas to modern society. He explores how we can find ...

Justice and Aggression: Lessons from a Neighborhood Dispute

johnsonwu — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:04:20 +0000

Imagine a small neighborhood where two families, historically at odds over property boundaries, find themselves embroiled in a bitter dispute. One family, let's call them the aggressor family, suddenly decides to forcefully occupy part of the other family's backyard, claiming it rightfully belongs ...

Invisible Chain-Hukou System

johnsonwu — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:34:46 +0000

The hukou system in China, with its origins dating back to the 1950s, has long been criticized for its profound social and economic consequences. Initially introduced to control population movement and allocate resources effectively, the hukou system has evolved into a deeply ingrained mechanism th ...

Change or not-The Beijing License Plate Lottery System?

johnsonwu — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:51:58 +0000

The Beijing license plate lottery system has been implemented with the intention of managing the city's severe traffic congestion and air pollution issues. However, upon closer examination, it becomes evident that this system has significant flaws and limitations that undermine its effectivene ...

Daydream

johnsonwu — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 04:02:20 +0000

In the pandemic, there was a stronger, wider idea that kept raising in my head, though I tried vainly to suppress it. This was to escape the damned job that already devoured all my energy. Again and again, I weighed, considered and measured the idea, but dare not to materialize it in ...

How difficult to be a writer?

johnsonwu — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:51:10 +0000

"It is not impressive!" my colleague yelled at me. A strong impulse surging in my chest: I felt like to kick him out of office. I left my cubicle to the corridor for taking a long breath, but found no place to do it. How many times did I have an illusion about the window in the Lady's ...

Firewall or Fool Wall?

johnsonwu — Fri, 14 May 2021 12:56:28 +0000

God will open another window for you when He closed one, and I did believe the maxim. However, what will happen to you if God clings to force you to look out of an exclusive window that He designated and closed the rest windows that you’d like to enjoy yourselves as will. The only reas ...

Distant Relatives Means Distant

johnsonwu — Thu, 06 May 2021 15:47:33 +0000

How wonderful to see you again! What an incredible thing to hear your voice! The conceived ecstasy of long-awaited separation flooded through me and spurred me to imagine an endless exciting scenario. Again and again, I checked my cousin's phone number and assured it with my younger sister. For mo ...

Difference

johnsonwu — Wed, 05 May 2021 14:01:34 +0000

For a long time, I have been harassed by ambivalence: study a PhD degree or not as an old man, especially at the payment of more than 100.000 yuan. I want to make up mind by consulting the three important persons in my life. They are my son, my wife and my mom. My son chuckled:" It will ...

Those Immune to Coronavirus

johnsonwu — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 14:31:42 +0000

It is one day away from the notification of resuming work, but no update news issued up to now. A lot of complaints are raging in secretive talk among colleagues, some are trapped in local village and some failed to buy the ticket to back Beijing, and all of us are waiting for the ...

Trouble Girl

johnsonwu — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:31:40 +0000

Julie slipped away again as usual before I rushed to her partition and reminded her of finishing the assignments. Standing in front of her computer, I suddenly felt a deep grief and helplessness. Over past four weeks, "Keep an eye on Julie" is almost becoming a slogan in ...

Faded Away on the Way to New Life

johnsonwu — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:32:35 +0000

As soon as I opened the door, I caught an unusual look on my wife's face, who was lying on the couch as usual. The only difference was that she hasn't hold phone in her hands. She did nothing except lying there with a helpless expression. It was something like puzzlement ...

Jingding Bridge of Shichahai in the Chilling Winter

johnsonwu — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 02:07:36 +0000

As early as more than ten years ago, I stepped on the land of the most promising city, Beijing, in the northern China. Shichahai has been the most approachable and comfortable scenic spot. It is very near to the central axis of from Drum Tower to Qianmen, and also free to tourists. However, al ...

Which is More Important-Process or Result?

johnsonwu — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 02:47:29 +0000

Over past six months, I was reminded again and again that result should be attached more attention than process. In other words, you only need to care what you get rather than how you go through. Maybe it is a cost-effective way in the management, with an overwhelming and domin ...

A Strange Woman in Metro Station

johnsonwu — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 10:11:29 +0000

I peeped at the darkness outside, and noticed it was only 19:00. Most of my colleagues were concentrating on work, and none of them showed any sign to leave. Somehow, an inexpressible restlessness instantly seized me and drove off my enthusiasm to finish the last touch on ...

Winter Day

johnsonwu — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 02:44:09 +0000

When wiring already became a part of life and a sort of bread-winner, I also felt it could be used as a valve to release the overwhelming pressure in life. Those agony, worries and grief unconsciously seemed to varnish into thin air as I typing something. At present, I am turning the valv ...