Blogs
- Shares Nemesis Will Come in the End
- Nemesis is a novel I read recently. It was written by Agatha Christie, the queen of detective novels. I heard of this famous crime author long ago, but somehow I never managed to get my hands on any of her books, except the movie Death on the Nile , which was adapted from her namesake novel. ...
- Shares Are We Created Equal?
- Seeing this title, many peoplewould wonder if you’re crazy to doubt this famous and almost self-evident truth. It is understandable, of course, if such puzzlement occurs. I thought of this saying while I was reading a book about education. The phrase, All men are created equal , was fr ...
- Shares Sowing Some Beans
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In my home village, there are some patches of land around the house, where I was born and grew up. My father used to grow vegetables and fruit trees in his late years of life after retirement. Now that my dad has passed away, how to deal with these pieces of land naturally becomes a problem f ...
- Shares Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Recently I have been visiting 4S stores. As I said in a previous blog, to have a car of my own is one of my dreams. And now this dream doesn’t seem so distant and intangible. With little school work for the time being, I began to select my dream car. It’s so nice to get my dream finally come ...
- Shares Goodbye, My Students
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As a teacher, I don’t know how many times I have said goodbye to my students when they graduate. It seems there’s nothing special. Students come and go every year. However, there’s always something that gives me a deep impression and therefore is worth keeping in my memory. ...
- Shares To Buy a Mosquito Net
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Having written down the title, I felt a little odd somehow. I might have used curtain instead of net . After all we are not fish or animals. Annoyed by mosquitoes, I finally decided to buy a foldable mosquito curtain. A friend of mine suggested I buy one in the Peace Street, where the price ...
- Shares It Is a Sin to Kill a Mockingbird
- Recently I read a novel called To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee . The story was set in the deep south of the United States in the 1930s. Scout Finch, a little girl, lived in asmall town of Maycomb with her brother Jem Finch and her father Atticus Finch. The story was told in the ...
- Shares Mosquitoes, Leave me alone!
- With spring coming to an end, summer is very much in the air. I never like summer toomuch for the simple reason that it can be irritably hot. It's like you are steamed until you're as soft as a bun fresh out of the oven. For another, you just can't escape being surrounded and attacked by ...
- Shares Do you know what Duanwu really means?
- We’re having anther holiday---the Dragon Boat Festival, which is also called the Duanwu Festival in this area. However, as a Chinese, I never knew what Duanwu really meant. It sounds odd but it is true. I only knew we usually eat Zongzi, glutinous rice wrapped in the shape of a pyramid or a pi ...
- Shares Being Gloomy and in Need of Help
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I moved into my new house about one and a half years ago. It was the third time that we had ever moved, from a shared house to a 34 square meters, then to a 79 square meters, and finally to the present one, 135 square meters. It almost cost me all the lifesavings and I still have to pay the ba ...
