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a dream

Richardren — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:52:33 +0000

A Dream I was half asleep, half awake. Then I was back to my hometown, at the old desolate, lonely adobe house. The time was at midnight, I did not go home to sleep but went to my neighbor’s house which was located directly behind our house with one flight of masonry stair connecting on t ...

A discussion

Richardren — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 09:47:59 +0000

Today is a day of bright sunshine, of a sky expansive, cloudless and deep blue, of a cool air with occasional gusts of wind running from uncertain and various directions, quite a normal and universal climate of dry season in Ethiopia. I was in the office of CCD headquarter, an ...

Our Maid Asnagu

Richardren — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:49:27 +0000

Our maid, Asnagu, is in her middle 20s, she has been working for us for almost 5 years, an ordinary looking lady but with African big eyes, of medium height and talks very little. She is so slim that I did not even know until my auntie told me so that her two daughters had been born over last ...

A wonderful trip of Lalibela

Richardren — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:28:07 +0000

Lalibela is such a famous name that no household in Ethiopian don’t know it. And it was only my friend’s visit of Ethiopia that either my trip of this place has been sped up or a mere unfulfilled plan came into practice which otherwise would never have been executed. Lalibela: ...

an incident

Richardren — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:54:56 +0000

It was a normal evening during my vacation, except a spontaneous impulse to clean our apartment. My wife would clean the floor with bloom, I, moping with mop in the following. living room first, dinning room the next, bedrooms the last. The work was started and going on smoothly, while my wife ...

the status of life

Richardren — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:51:12 +0000

It has been long time since I wrote anything last time, don’t remember what has been written and when. I don’t care. I do nothing but immerse myself in the world of my own work and my own project of learning. It’s not unlike a mechanical life of robot except the need for food and the time s ...

I may not a believer in God, but I am a firm believer in Mother Nature

Richardren — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:03:47 +0000

It is described in the Bible that the God created the world in 6 days, with the first day the light, the second separating the heaven from water, the third the land and the plant, the fourth the sun and the moon with seasons, day and night came into being accordingly, the fifth animals, the ...

Be a happy man

Richardren — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:18:07 +0000

I have been contemplating this fundamental question of why and how to be happy for long time. Being a man, with such desirable qualities as being responsible, masculine, protective, generous and high-mindedness, should be happy in the first place so as to exude his happiness ...

a peace of mind

Richardren — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:01:10 +0000

Worries haunted our minds like a ghost. Unforeseeable future, mechanical daily routine, lonely of mind, agitated desire for fortune, overwhelming longing for love and a life of security and abundance, forced respect to people of no merits, the marketing holocaust on the show 24/7, pushed all th ...

There are only two kinds of people in the world

Richardren — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 07:44:03 +0000

“My mom said that there are only two kinds of people in the world, the good people and the bad people”, Said Khan. Simple enough as truth always does, but look into the world, there are so many categories existed based on different nominations. Such as the Asians, the Africans, the E ...

a love poem

Richardren — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:11:21 +0000

Between you and me There is too much emotion. That’s the reason why There is such a commotion! Take a lump of clay, Wet it, pat it, And make an image of me, And an image of you. Then smash them, crash them, And add a little water ...

Treat nicely to those who are close to us!

Richardren — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:52:20 +0000

It is of no logic of any kind that we should treat so harshly to those who are close to us. Yet, we see so many abuses going on in so many families or organization of any kind. Abuses, physically or mentally, to the elders, to the young, between the spouses and among the colleagues, have ...

Divorce is looming, almost unavoidable

Richardren — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:37:01 +0000

Again, we had a quarrel today morning, I tried so hard to express my idea and hope to arouse some sympathy from your side that at least we could try to improve the situation. The only response was that nothing could be done, either accept the reality or divorce. What is ...

The astonishing hypothesis

Richardren — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 05:46:15 +0000

Francis Crick, a nobel prize winner for physiology and medicine, is famous with his astonishing hypothesis: you, your joys and your sorrows, your memories an your ambitions, your sense of identity and free will were in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their a ...

An unexpected way of balancing the life out

Richardren — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:21:00 +0000

It has been two weeks since my leaving of my dear home. My mind has experienced all kinds of feelings, wistfulness by leaving, excitement on arrival, happiness from reunion with colleagues, melancholy of missing, misery from worrying, all combined to driving me crazy at its acme when alone in ...

please kindly help to circulate

Richardren — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:54:11 +0000

allow me to publish one information as follows, and circulate if possible, the family is in despair, small help amounts to mountains if everyone is extending the efforts. thank you so much: 有群的请做一件好事吧。 5月7日下午1时许，家住西安沣惠南路西微小区的刘梦婷小朋友上学出门后至今 ...

Perfectionism Vs Excellence

Richardren — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:39:01 +0000

I have started to write in a relatively serious way since only about two months ago when I encountered Dioenglish, most of writing prior to this were just emails and translation works which are quite substantial in quantity. But I love reading, has been exposing myself to many great writers, s ...

Two roads

Richardren — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:01:06 +0000

Two road diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost ...

seeing off friend

Richardren — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 18:48:45 +0000

My friend was leaving for Beijing, he could not speak English, so I accompanied him to the airport tonight, trying also my luck if I could get to the check-in counter, so I could help with the communication. Unluckily, when we reached the airport, outside of the shiny illuminated terminal, fe ...

my hometown

Richardren — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:02:30 +0000

How sentimental yet peaceful I was whenever the image of my hometown swam into my mind. Our ancient adobe house stood in a valley of the vast exuberant mountains, stood there ever since 1960s, lonely and lost. It is a tranquil and peaceful place where I spent my innocent and thoughtless child ...