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Nice to come here to exchange views on everything in English. Wish to make friends with you all. Wish you a happy and properous life. This is the other English blog of mine. Welcome to have a visit:http://scoundrel1972.blog.sohu.com/

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• What is wrong with human relations?

  2008-5-06

  What is wrong with human relations?

  I got back home very late last night. It might be 12 o’clock after the party. What was the worst, I didn’t sleep well. I tossed and turned restlessly in bed until the dawn of the morning. So now I am feeling very tired and sleepy.

  What is the reason for us to drink a lot of wine, to impair our health both mentally and physically? People are the most generous and benevolent at a party. They will try to persuade others to drink instead of themselves, though the more we drink, the more they will pay. What an absurd and ridiculous phenomenon it is!

  Nowadays human relations largely rest on money. My classmate, the closest and most intimate friend of mine, asked me to have dinner in compensation for his help I asked for. The dinner cost me eight hundred Yuan. What matters is not money itself actually. I am in doubt that friendship should be built on money. I have helped him. But I didn’t ask him to pay for my dinner. I only thought that we were friends, so I had the duty to try my best to help him. It would profane the term of friendship if I asked him to pay for my dinner. Whenever I think of this, I can’t help feeling sad.

  Is it true that we are living in a market economy and therefore everything should be evaluated by money? I don’t know. I only feel that something is missing when we have to pay money for a help asked or offered. Perhaps I will be seen as naïve and innocent by others. But this is my opinion on friendship. I have to console myself that there are still others who won’t help you at all even you entreat him.

  I have a classmate. He is a red apple in fortune’ eye. He is quite a government official now. We have been very good friends. However, it is only because I was not as obedient and respectful after drinking some wine that he said bad words behind my back, sometimes even to my leaders, which impaired my relation with my leaders. What have become of human relations? I just don’t know and understand.

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• my intention to write a blog.

  2008-5-05

      As a teacher of fifteen years of experience, I feel that there are so many things to say. However all work no play has made me nobody but a dumb, slow, passive fellow. All the energy, vitality, strength seems to have left me. The same monotonous, dull, unchanged and busy weekly cycle repeats itself. Only occasionally there are surging feelings about my work, or more exactly, education within me, set my hand to the pen. As a result, after a certain period of time I browse my webblog that I find there are certain articles all centering on education. I would like to bring them here as a collection for others’ comments.

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• We met a swindler

  2008-5-03

          We met a swindler

  One of my friend, who has just been demobilized from the army and wished to get a decent job from the regional government, asked me to make some necessary credentials to ensure the success in obtaining the job. I agreed. Another friend advised us to ask favor from those who do counterfeiting after a long time consideration. We knew it was wrong. However in order to get the job, we decided to have a try.

  Yesterday we both took to the streets and got some phone numbers from the wall on both sides of the street. We tried several of them. Most of them are not numbers of our region. Finally I got one of our region. We called several times and finally we got through. The boss asked us to wait at a certain place for some time and he would send someone over to fetch the copy which was necessary for the counterfeiting. We waited for a long time and failed to see anyone turned up. So we dropped the plan to meet him.

  We tried another one. The boss asked us to send what was necessary via a preservation counter in Yinzuo Supermarked, the earnest money was also included in it. We did accordingly and sent the code to the boss through our cell phone.

  This morning the boss called us to say that all what was wanted by us was ready. He asked us to get them in the Post Office. We arrived there duly and mailed the rest of the money to him through the post office. After all that had been finished, we called the boss for the credentials. After confirming that they had got all the money, the boss required for another 1000 Yuan with the excuse that the deliverer might be at danger. The money was the insurance money for his safety. This was sheer and arrant pretext. We knew at that time that we had been swindled.

  Without any intention to continue the game, we rebuffed his requirement for money. We told him that we relinquished the 100Yuan which had already been sent to him and we wanted the original draft of the credentials. We were refused. Till then we had realized that we had met an arrant swindler.

  Fortunately the loss was not great, only 100 Yuan. My friend was let down a little. On our way back I appeased him. That is the first time in my life that we have been swindled.

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• An outrageous beast

  2008-5-01

        An outrageous beast

  http://news.163.com/08/0501/05/4AR958SD0001121M.html

  If you would like, you may read the news on Wangyi. I think it is the most outrageous beast in human history. He is really a villain, the most unscrupulous, inhuman, incestuous, beast. What he did harm is his daughter. She was held captive in the basement by him for 24 years and sexually abused by him during the years. He even fathered the seven children of hers.

  I am greatly indignant about the news. I don’t know how you may feel. The indignation is beyond any words.

  Like so many others, I have so many doubts. How could he hide the truth from all his closest relations for so long? How could he provide for them during the 24 years? How could he explain the three children that had been brought to the earth? Why didn’t they disclose the truth and have their mother rescued? …… Words just fail me. I am suffocated because of the indignation.

  Anyone with senses can surmise what a life Elizabeth, the daughter had lived during the period of time, and what sufferings she had undergone and borne with her. The vicious, barbarous beast must be a lunatic. He shouldn’t belong to the human race. He is not even an animal. He should only be a beast, an incurable and irremissible beast. He should be hanged instantly and let his smelly bones and flesh be the food to wolves. If I may meet him face to face, I will send him to where he should be, even at the cost of my own life.

  The two sons, when brought to the earth, were only too much amazed at the sight of a rising moon. What a pathetic story it is! I am only too curious about the patience and tolerance of Elizabeth, the daughter. Why should she have been so meekly accepting the inhuman and atrocious treatment? Why didn’t she steal any chance to get recued, even for the sake of her children?

  As is disclosed, the father is exercised tyrannical dictatorship in the family. No one is expected to show the least sign of discontent, let alone rebellion. So that is in a way, the bitter fruit of tyranny.

  I have no idea of what a trial or punishment the father will undergo. What I know is only that the father should reap what he has so bitterly sowed. He should be sentenced to death.

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• I am feeling so tired

  2008-4-28

                      I am feeling so tired

  Today is a fine day. After three continuous classes, I returned to my desk and felt so tired.

  Is it because of the fact that I have been too old to be full of strength? I don’t know. But from time to time I feel so tired after working for a long time or simply overwork, unlike how I was feeling. Should I know better to amuse and relax a little even when a task is oncoming?

  It is so obvious that we are strong only when we are young. I am only in my thirties. There are quite some years in front of me. Why should I feel that I am like an old man, strength spent?

  Watching the grass and trees which are tender green, I can’t feel exhilarated at the new lives that have been sprouting. They send fragrance into the air and we can have a good taste of it.

  Am I like an autumn leaf that is threatened by the oncoming frosty winter?

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• Many thanks to a friend’s advice

  2008-4-24

       Many thanks to a friend’s advice

  Several days ago my friend, Laocao advised me to look to the positive side of all things and try to enjoy life.

  I owe a lot of appreciation for his advice. Sometimes I feel a little down, especially when it is cloudy and therefore gloomy. I know I should not let the weather have much impact on my attitude towards life. At times I simply can’t hold control over myself.

  It is really true that every day we have is a holy, divine gift from god. We should enjoy every day when we are healthy physically and mentally and should not moan. It is foolish of us to moan over the trivial and petty matters.

  I will enjoy every day as much as possible.

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• Where are you?

  2008-4-22

              Where are you?

  Where are you now, Monica?

  You have been away for so long a time that you should return now. I don’t know what has happened to you or what are you busy with?

  It was so boisterous when you are here. We can hear different voices. But now here it becomes a clammy, stagnant place. The monotony and stagnant atmosphere combine to let me down. After writing each article I have been waiting for you to have a comment on.

  What I would like to listen is a different voice. As Chinese we were born here in China, brought up here, educated here. What we see, read, or are taught is always the same thing. So I like different voices. They are not only fresh, but also make our mind open up to the outside.

  There should be no final judgment that one’s opinion is right or wrong. No one should make any hasty generalizations. We should put forward our opinions and wait for others to show their own. We write and let others write. I think this is democracy.

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• I am reluctant to do anything

  2008-4-21

  I am reluctant to do anything

  For several days I haven’t felt like doing anything. Lethargy overwhelms me. I don’t know what the reason is.

  I am afraid that depression may take control over me and render me reluctant to do anything. It is so difficult for me to find anything significant to do every day except teaching, which is my duty since I live on it.

  Day in day out, time is running away. I know in this way my life is consuming itself. Sometimes helplessly I would reach my hand to hold it back in my dreams.

  I should find something meaningful to live on, rather than let time go by without anything done.

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• Why am I so pessimistic?

  2008-4-20

      Why am I so pessimistic?

  More often than not, in my dreams and in reality a specter looms large to me. I don’t know if the same thing happens to others. I am always depressed and made pessimistic about life by it.

  Ever since childhood I have the pungent experience of being forlorn. On so many nights I remained alone, deserted and afraid of all unfathomable things around me. Most probably this experience has built something into my character and personality.

  Five of my immediate family members have passed away since I graduated from the university, among them there were my mother and my younger sister. Death has never stopped stalking me. Watching their last minute to come has always been the last thing for me to stand up to. Even now I can still remember before the last minute came, my mother tried every effort to get up a little with the help of her elbow and watched me. She must have something to say. But she was incapacitated to do so since the ghastly disease had encroached upon every tissue of hers and rendered her a dying person.

  All of them, especially my younger sister and my mother, have brought me depressing memories and made me keenly aware of the ever existence of the spectral death. I am excruciatingly conscious of the fact that one day or another, I am doomed to be taken away to the other side of the world, which remains a mystery to me. There has never be a returned passenger from the place.

  Whenever I think of this, I lose heart in doing everything. What can I be supposed to do in contrast to the sure and steady steps of the death spirit itself. We can live but temporarily in the mundane world. So is there any reason to justify our fussing over any insignificant and trivial matters?

  All is nothing before death. It levels all on the earth.   

  That is the very reason that I fear nothing however I am disinterested in any trivial matters.

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• After a quarrel with my wife

  2008-4-19

         After a quarrel with my wife

  When we were at table having breakfast, we chatted randomly. One of my remarks made my wife misunderstand me. She was so easily touched and I became angry with her too. After a swift breakfast I slipped my coat up over my head and opened the door and went out.

  Recently we have been so easily annoyed at each other. It is our son’s protestation that pacified us several times. My son has played the role of the Peace Keeper of the UN does. So often he entreated us to stop quarreling and it was for his sake that we both ceased.

  Still angry with my wife’s grouchy behavīor, I wondered in the street aimlessly. With nowhere to go, I saw the bus coming. I got on the bus and headed towards the commercial center of our city.

  When I got there, I went to the Department Store and loitered it is for some time. Without any intention to buy anything, I convenienced myself in WC and then went out. I went to another Store and spent some time there. Then again I turned around and left for a bookstore. I was like a loafer in the street, easily led astray at the very moment.

  After arrival at the store, I felt a little tired. Sitting down in one corner in the book store, I looked through all of the latest magazines and read whatever tantalizing to me.

  It was near lunchtime. My wife called me several times. Still unrecovered from the conflict, I didn’t give an answer. Imbuing myself with some news and the latest events reported in the magazines, I forgot the time. Unaware of the elapse of time, when I looked up I found it was already four o’clock in the afternoon. It was quite late. I felt a little hungry. My anger eased a little by the time. So I decided to return home.

  I returned at about half past four in the afternoon. Before I reached home I received a call from my wife and I gave the answer.

  Now I am at home and have got reconciled with my wife. What a childish joke it is!

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