Hi everybody,  I have much free time today, so I want to share some of philosophy with all, Lots of Hugs!!!!

two men with strong skill, and determination to win this game of Chinese Chess. Because they love this game so much it symbolically lasts 1000 years.

And my favourite:

Hi there, welcome to Englishcn news. Here are some latest news about Daniel this week.

April saw a great boost in the visiting rate of the page reaching 2665 so far. With 7 up-to-date articles in this month's issue, it's not likely that more updates are on the way in the near future, and Daniel is placing a high priority on BEC higher upcoming on May 24th, a month or so from now, the spokesman said early this morning.

The first day as an intern in the Academy of Agricultural Science was humble, Daniel told the reporters. When asked how he felt, he said " tired and sleepy... I guess I am in debt of sleep for a thousand years." then he added " that's why I was late for Wang's class the other day"

For more about Dan, check out his other articles and have a closest look at any update on the go.

Hey, guys, I got some very funny quotes for you, just for laughter, hahaha

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

A girl phoned me the other day and said... Come on over, there's nobody home. I went over. Nobody was home.

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'

Am I cool ???

April 4th was the tomb-sweeping day in China, the first time it came as a legal holiday. Plus the following weekend people have 3 days off, enabling those far away from home to pay a visit back to the hometown. I was one of them.

I didn’t expect the situation could be that bad with no ticket to my hometown unsold in any passenger station in GZ on 3rd. But for the ticket my hometown fellow gave to me I couldn’t make it to go home that day, even though it took me 65 Yuan (50% risen) and 4 hours due to the terrible traffic condition.

I don’t know if it’s worthwhile going all the way just to show our respect to the ancestors. The bus arranged to set out at 1:40 PM didn’t show up until 3:30, and I was kept in the jam-packed and stuffy passenger station for quite a long time, with nowhere to stand not even sit.

People‘s keen on Tomb-sweeping day is not secondary to that on spring festival. The legalization of this holiday just encourages a home rush. Being serious with this day has been sth traditionally unchanged, even someone bad enough to abuse his old parents seems to have great loyalty to his ancestors, spending lots of money to commemorate them in an luxurious way in hope that his “good deed” would be rewarded in some way, like making a killing in the stock market or winning the lottery, hah, ridiculous enough, isn’t it?

I noticed nowadays the countryside has been undertaking some profound changes, obviously indicated from the poor’s hate to the rich, and the rich’s scorn to the poor. Now the tomb-sweeping day is like a get-together for those working from different places far from the countryside, giving them a chance to show everybody they have made a lot of money, giving them a good reason to feel proud showing off his ACCORD to people who’s never seen a BENZ. Now it’s coming clear why they are keep on this day.

Interesting !!

What’s the most interesting is that, as is reported on TV, people nowadays not only burn “paper money” for their ancestors, but also some paper “computer”, “sports cars” “villas” and even “valentines”. OMG, they are really modern enough, even their ancestors could keep abreast with the time because of them. Regardless the modern stuff like computers or cars, would their grand grand ma go jealous when their grand grand pa receive a “valentine” from his grand grand son?

wow, those pics really cracked me up !!!  Damn funny !!

In the presentation by our second task force about “how we think about the 11^th ‘two sessions’ (NPC and CPPCC)”, we came to some conclusions after a long time discussion, during which we mainly focused on Zhang Yin, the ever richest woman in China, and her proposals to the CPPCC, as well as the unprecedented 3 migrant worker delegates (MWD) that show up in the NPC, one of whom named Hu Xiaoyan from an enterprise in Guangdong.

As far as I am concerned, Zhang Yin as the delegate standing for the upper income groups in china has her right to defense and strive for their interests. That’s very reasonable and comprehensive when we know what interest group is. However it’s not a very good time for her. As we can see the proposals especially the first involving the labor law that is coming into practice soon, and the second trying to decrease the tax rate for the white collars, are challenging the authority of the legislative system, and testing the tolerance of the grass roots when china is facing the inflation and a very huge gap between the rich and the poor. Her ideas immediately stirred up lots of debates and criticism in the society and on the internet. And due to the great pressure received from the media she gave way to the public voice and apologized, stating that she is all for the new labor law.

Actually I think Zhang is an honorable richest woman with patriotism. Her corporate is based in the U.S and Hk, however she spares no effort investing in the mainland these years creating many more jobs opportunities. So I reckon that netizons have no business criticizing her, but should be more rational and logical on her proposals themselves.

The second highlight of the two sessions is the 3 migrant worker delegates. Definitely it’s a milestone in the development of democracy, since the migrant workers in china as a lower income group have a more legal way to express what they need, have their voice easily and impressively heard. However here come some questions.

1)      What number of migrant worker delegates is appropriate for the 0.2 billion migrant workers behind them?

2)    As we can see that the MWD Zhu Xueqin from Shanghai, is now a boss of a clothing factory, is he a migrant worker now? How can he speak for migrant workers? So I doubt how he was elected as a delegate.

3)    Are the MWDs well educated and mind independent enough to be good delegates? They don’t seem to be speaking for the migrant workers behind them, but like the spokesman of the government when interviewed.

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Before marriage.....

He: Yes. At last. It was so hard to wait.

She: Do you want me to leave?

He: No! Don't even think about it.

She: Do you love me?

He: Of course! Over and over!

She: Have you ever cheated on me?

He: No! Why are you even asking?

She: Will you kiss me?

He: Every chance I get.

She: Will you hit me?

He: Are you crazy! I'm not that kind of person!

She: Can I trust you?

He: Yes.

She: Darling!

After marriage....

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Many people are seeking a better way to learn English, some seem to have found and are working on a right track, while some are not so fortunate… which side you are on, maybe what I am talking about here could be a little helpful to you.

1, Don’t translate. As I know many Chinese students have made it a practice to translate what he wanna say into Chinese and then English, frequently translating between these two languages, so that we can easily tell that s/he is speaking Chinglish. But we can change it. The best way to speak real English is firstly to learn to think in English, even using the simplest English sentences. The other day I came across a bilingual German who speaks very good English in a blog community. When I asked her how she did it, she told me that she thinks even dreams in English. Wow, that sounds so reasonable and feasible, isn’t it?

2, Try to imagine. When we are memorizing a new word, try not to memorize how it’s written in Chinese, but to imagine the image the word refers to. We should immediately have an image of the corresponding object, when we see a noun, the image of the action when we see a verb. So that we build up a better relation between words and real life from which we can benefit a lot in expressing our ideas.

3, Chat online. Well, as I mentioned in the article “my experience in chatting groups”, chatting online especially with those English native speakers can be very helpful for us to apply what we have learn into this virtual language environment, to organize a sentence to respond immediately… and by typing into the chatting box we are strengthening the memory of how a word is spelled.  Do remember that’s the only benefits we can get in doing so, we can’t improve our pronunciation and accent, and listening skill.

4, listen more. Why an illiterate can speak? Because he can recognize what a certain pronunciation means. Relatively, without a good language environment, we Chinese tend to read much more than listen. So listening should be the weakest part for us. No one likes to talk with those always asking “ pardon” or “ sorry but could you say it again”. As I can see, most of us focus too much on spelling, not its pronunciation. So my advice is to bear in mind the relation between its pronunciation and meaning. That means when you hear a word “bird”, what crosses your mind is not the word “bird” itself, but its meaning, the image of a bird. When it comes to speaking, even you can’t spell it right, you still can say it right in a face-to-face talk.

The points above are just my personal opinions, flaws are inevitable, well, you don’t have to buy them, just take them for reference, OK? Meanwhile, hope you share your ideas with me, and let’s make it together. ^_^

Last night my bro text me that he was home on a long leave, and asked me if I am going home on tomb-sweeping day. Yes, I am. Dunno how things are between he and his wife, getting better? I doubt.

Seems that many people are stuck these days, like the weather gloomy and blue all the time. Have been losing sleep for a couple of days, I do look wan and pale, no wonder every time my partner would pull a long face when she saw me spaced out as if I was unwilling to be there.

My hair unkempt, my eyes drowsy, my life is a mess… I always slouch…I hate myself. Why can't I just make myself a little bit useful. emmm, I gotta change a new look before my mom see me, or else I have to face the music. So the most important is to take a good rest and have my hair cut.

Why the power don't go off after midnight as last spring, so that my roomies and I couldn't make it to stay up so late every night. Even sometimes I tried not to stay up, I just can't bear a dim beam of light or a slight noise from under my bed. What can I say when Ray has to pull an all nighter for his second bachelor's degree.

Sorry for crapping up here, maybe that’s the best way to vent my feelings.

Anyway, I do hope he will pass this exam, too.

Never heard anyone said "I don't like music", like no one would doubt his/her good taste for beauty, no one would deny his/her good taste for music. So it's stupid enough to promote his value on Music and so...

I don't buy your words doesn't mean you are wrong, but that we have different value system that we formed through different life experience, and most of the time we stand in a different place, to look at it from a different perspective. And maybe what we're talking about is showing us a different aspect of it.

If you happen to see people that think alike, you should be happy, otherwise, why bother to go upset or irritated?

To love is like to get on a bus. But it’s like playing game with you that your bus just doesn’t seem to be coming while the other buses coming and going.

When it finally comes belatedly, it comes in couples, and then you get lost which to take, for fear of missing the best. Not until you get on the bus will you get the answer.

We have different routes leading to the same place, all up to your choices. Maybe, to take the shortcut way, you gotta wait, if you can’t bear waiting, ok, you can get on those buses after which you gotta switch to another to get there. Some fast, some slow, some never stop…

And there are some people who thrust onto a jam-packed bus struggling all the way, some who mistken his bus and have to get off halfway or switch...and some who miss their destination but have a good time during the journey... and some other...

For their comfortalbe buses, many young people thought they were young enough to wait, then it turned out that many of them were losing patience...and left randomly with a passing bus, leaving behind all they had spent for nothing. It's the persuit of perfection or the unworthiness of quitting that left them wating and waiting ???

For some, the bus is not coming, never ever...Nothing to complain, they should have known it and quit waiting sooner.

However, miracle happens. The bus he has been waiting for so long comes when he is about to leave.

Maybe in years, some lucky dogs may have their own cars and don't have to wait in a bus station any more...but another problem comes--the shortage of parking space. Problems will never end.

It's like a long march to get a driver's license, and that's definitely true in GuangZhou. 8 months was all it took to finish all the tests, one by one, amonge which i gotta wait for almost 2 months for the next... Well, it's not always the case, some lucky dogs just spent 4 to 6 months for all these.

Anyway, I did it!!!!

The driving test was in this morning, thank god, everything went smoothly , and it took no more than 3 miuntes to finish the section. You know what, I really stressed out last night and lost some sleep...but it just turned out much easier than i expected.

And it's just this guy who last went out with us in the long distance training under the symbol C, that failed the drving test.(don't know him? check out "On The Way" in my Jan's issue for more)... Poor him !! He should have studied the rearview mirror and made sure there was no cars coming behind when he started moving the car...that's his weak point,deadly, he always repeated the same mistake!! For god's sake, does he ever know what rearview mirror is used for?? Is it for decoration?? 

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I am going to sign up for BEC higher next Monday, and it will cost me 1160 yuan,(610 for entry fee and 550 for training fee), a big sum of money to me  ... you see, broke Dan as I am !! Well you may ask why it takes so much, to tell you the answer, it changes according to the exchange rate between RMB and Pound...emmm, I just learned that china CPI has hit a new high of 7.1% in Jan.

It's kind of like risking the money! So, i gotta go all out for the best, I swear!!!

Never updated my blog so frequently, but I am going to put up a post about my experience chatting in QQ groups...those we call english learning groups, where we speak english only..

Last summer long, I kept doing one thing--chatting on the ne