Blogs
- Shares The Characteristics of My Colds
- I don’t know if it has become a tradition of mine, but the fact is that I always catch a bad cold at the beginning of a winter. The one for this year, thank God, just came to an end not long ago. It just entered my life and overstayed my welcome. I simply lost count of days. It was truly a te ...
- Shares Voting for the Persons I Don't Know
- Yesterday was kind of special, for it was Election Day. We were informed to vote for one or two persons out of the three candidates. The atmosphere seemed very solemn and we all did accordingly to pick out our representatives. The funny thing was that most of us didn’t k ...
- Shares Not the Best, But Still Brilliant
- I’ve just finished reading a novel titled Trace by Patricia Cornwell, one of the best crime fiction writers. It is the first one I’ve ever read of her Scarpetta series. Actually she has been writing Scarpetta novels since the 1990s with Scarpetta as the main character. Compared with other si ...
- Shares Weird as Shit
- Last night I sent a greeting short message to my son for the coming New Year. However, I forgot to return to the main interface, somehow. Later on, my son asked me how come I called him several times without making any sounds. Besides the strange calls, he said, I also sent him three blank sho ...
- Shares Goodbye, 2011
- Today is the last day of the year 2011. We Chinese seem to have a tradition of looking back and summarizing the past. I don’t know if it is a fine tradition to spend time on this. Many other nations like the States prefer to focus on the present and look ahead. I guess it is one of the cultur ...
- Shares A New Roof for the Old House
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I’ve been living in the city where I work for twenty years, but I was not city born and city bred as some people were. I was a country boy, who spent the first eighteen years of life in my home village. Naturally I have a special sense of attachment to the place where I was born and grew up. ...
- Shares I’m Broke Again
- One of the frequently heard phrases nowadays is “I’m broke again.” They’re mostly young people who entered the workforce recently. With the new year of 2012 approaching, money has become a daily topic of conversation. “Hey, is the year-end bonus this much?” one asked. “How can I pass th ...
- Shares Accidents Happen
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Accidents are part of our daily life. No matter how cautious we are, we just cannot avoid them. However, sometimes they do make us feel embarrassed or even humiliated. Just several days ago, I parked my car in the school parking ...
- Shares New Life with a Car
- On the first day I drove to work, a friend of mine sent me a message through QQ: “Congratulations on becoming a member of the automobile club. A word of friendly warning: It is just the beginning of having to spend a lot of money on the car.” Seeing this, I sent him a smiling face as a reply ...
- Shares The Feel of Driving a Manual Car
- It is nearly two months since I bought a Skoda Octavia . After the initial trouble I had driving it, I finally got familiar with the “personality” of the car. It is now rare for the engine to stall. More importantly, now I can drive leisurely and begin to feel the fun of driving. Of cours ...
