I have been keeping two little golden cyprinoids for a long time. They are just as adorable and cute as Nemo.I used to form a habit of watching them swim in the water leisurely and elegantly in my spare time. I would be amused greatly at that time.

But, just when I came to believe that the little two fishes would live for a long long time with me, I found one of them dead in the glass-bottle in this morning. I was shocked and in great pain. I was deeply down and had no mood for the work in the coming day. I have kept them for a long long time, and they have got used to the tap water in Sansha Village. What's more, it's Yuki and Leo who bought them for me in Guangzhou and brought them to Sansha all the way ...

How I wish they could keep company with me all the time...

Now only one little fish left.. A fish would be too lonely in the glass bottle.

I have been keeping two little golden cyprinoids for a long time. They are just as adorable and cute as Nemo.I used to form a habit of watching them swim in the water leisurely and elegantly in my spare time. I would be amused greatly at that time.

But, just when I came to believe that the little two fishes would live for a long long time with me, I found one of them dead in the glass-bottle in this morning. I was shocked and in great pain. I was deeply down and had no mood for the work in the coming day. I have kept them for a long long time, and they have got used to the tap water in Sansha Village. What's more, it's Yuki and Leo who bought them for me in Guangzhou and brought them to Sansha all the way ...

How I wish they could keep company with me all the time...

Now only one little fish left.. A fish would be too lonely in the glass bottle.

Source: http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/

China on Monday began a three-day national mourning for the tens of thousands of people killed in a powerful earthquake which struck the country's southwest on May 12.

At 4:58 a.m., the national flag at the Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing flew at half-mast after a complete flag-raising ceremony.

China's national flag flies at half-mast after the flag-raising ceremony on Tian'anmen Square in Beijing Monday morning, May 19, 2008. China on Monday begins a three-day national mourning for the tens of thousands of people killed in a powerful earthquake which struck the country's southwest on May 12. [Xinhua]

All public amusements will be suspended for three days from Monday.

The State Council, the Cabinet, on Sunday ordered a nationwide display of respect for the dead.

China's missions abroad were also ordered to observe the order, and condolence books are to be opened in the Foreign Ministry and Chinese embassies and consulates around the world.

The public are asked to stand in silence for three minutes from 2:28 pm on Monday, the time the deadly quake hit, while automobiles, trains, and ships would sound their air sirens.

The confirmed death toll from the disaster has risen to 32,476 by 2:00 pm Sunday, and the toll would possibly rise to more than 50,000 as many, still buried in rubbles, are feared dead.

During the mourning days, the torch relay for the Beijing Olympic Games will be suspended to mourn the quake victims.

Beijing Olympic organizers said in a statement that the suspension starts Monday "to express our deep mourning to the victims of the earthquake."

And on Sunday, China Seismological Bureau Sunday revised the magnitude of the earthquake from 7.8 to 8.0 on the Richter scale.

The number of injured in magnitude 8.0 earthquake reached 220,109, it said.

In Sichuan alone, a total of 31,978 people were killed since Monday's deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake, with 209,905 others injured.

Statistics from the emergency response office show that the death toll in Deyang and Mianyang cities of the province hit 10,341 and 11,874 respectively.

The office also gave a breakdown of the death toll in other areas as 4,156 in Chengdu, 2,586 in Guangyuan, 2,871 in Aba and 23 in Ya'an.

Outside Sichuan, the death toll was 364 in Gansu Province, 113 in Shaanxi Province, 16 in Chongqing Municipality, two in Henan Province, one in Yunnan Province, one in Hubei Province, and one in Hunan Province.

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with a rescuer when he inspects disaster relief work in the quake-hit Xuankou Town of Wenchuan County, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, May 17, 2008. [Xinhua]

Desperate Rescue Continues

Rescue workers have plucked more than 60 more survivors from the rubble following Monday's quake in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, even as hopes fade for the estimated 10,000 people or so still trapped under the rubble.

An aftershock of the massive earthquake, of 6.0 magnitude early on Sunday centered 80 km (50 miles) west of Guangyuan, the latest in a series of aftershocks to hit Sichuan.

There was no immediate word of additional damage or casualties in the area, Xinhua said.

In the provincial capital, Chengdu, some 200 km south of the new tremor's epicenter, buildings swayed and people rushed out into the streets, risking a soaking from a passing storm.

But military facilities close to the affected zone, including nuclear research facilities, are "all in a safe and controllable state," a Ministry of Defense official told a press conference in Beijing Sunday afternoon.

Ma Jian, deputy director of the Combat Department of the General Staff Headquarters of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), told the press conference hosted by the Information Office under the State Council that the nuclear facilities have been put under strict protection by forces of the armed police and PLA immediately after the strike of earthquake on May 12.

"I could say in a responsible manner that all these facilities are safe and secure," Ma said. "There is no problem at all."

In Yingxiu, close to the epicenter of Monday's quake, at least 56 people were rescued, the Xinhua news agency said.

Soldiers engaged in relief work "have their hands stained with blood and earth after days of searches in the debris," Xinhua added.

Thousands of people have fled in the Beichuan area amid fears a lake could burst its banks, hampering rescue efforts after the deadliest earthquake in more than three decades.

At least one barrier lake, formed after rocks blocked a river, has burst its banks but caused no casualties, Xinhua said.

Japanese rescue team members (top) search for survivors as Chinese rescue team members carry a body at a badly damaged junior high school in earthquake-hit Beichuan, Sichuan province May 18, 2008. [Agencies]

Rescue work has been complicated by bad weather, treacherous terrain and hundreds of aftershocks.
President Hu Jintao urged emergency workers not to give up efforts to find survivors. "We should put people first and saving people's lives is still the top priority of the relief work," he said.

Offers of help have flooded in and rescue teams from Japan, Russia, South Korea and Singapore and China's Taiwan region have arrived.

Donations from home and abroad have topped 8.945 billion yuan (about $1.3 billion), according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Fujiya Koji, head of the Japanese rescue team in Sichuan, said that chances of finding more survivors were low.

"We haven't been able to find any survivors yet. Generally by this stage the likelihood of survival is low. They say they have been finding some in Beichuan and we'll certainly keep trying," he added.

China has said it expects the final death toll from the earthquake to exceed 50,000. About 4.8 million people have lost their homes and the days are numbered in which survivors can be found.

Premier Wen said the quake was "the biggest and most destructive" in decades and the quick response had helped reduce casualties.

I had two interviews today in Guangzhou. It was a really tough day!

As soon I reached home, I jumped up onto my bed at once, turned on Prince's laptop (PS. one of my best colleagues in EBL) and began to surf on the internet. I usually take surfing on the internet as a kind of relax in Sansha Village.

My own computer was broken down recently unfortunately,poor me! At this time, I would begin to miss the days when Yuk was at Sansha village! (PS. Yuk is a programmer ) He is good at repairing computers, as far as I could recalled, he once helped me solve many problems. What's more, he would never refuse when he is asked for help, as long as it is concerning meaningful matters. But, if he does refuse, then ask him for help twice at a time or he would be regretful for refusing very soon. So, maybe my computer would work very well if he is still in Sansha.

Sorry, I have talked too far away. Okay now, talk about my job interviews today. Oh, really annoying  and torturous  experience! I did not want to mention it any more. I would rather talk about what happened when I turned on the laptop in my room after the job interview. Yes, I remembered at that time that I really wanted to share my experience and needed someone to be my listener. But when I logged in my QQ and MSN account, the result was quite disappointed. I found that I could not find anyone. Maybe there would be someone who is willing to listen to my complaints, but, who ,I thought, would not be responsible for it. Poor me again..I sank into deep thoughts and an idea flashed into my mind suddently. I should find a loyal listener who would always be my side...

God bless me! Help me find the one I am looking for.And the last but not the least, bless me finding a new job! ^-^

Kept thinking of someone right at this moment at tonight. Tried to diverted my concentration on something else, like watching the TV, and doing some reading.I should learn to control myself, I said to myself, but failed in result.

I've grown up, not a little girl any more. That is what I always say to myself in the hope that I would learn to deal with matters smartly alone.

I am not a little girl any more. Again, I told myself tonight and tried to talk myself into giving up the idea of making a call or talking with others.

It is time to learn how to face it. Just keep trying and I will make it one day.

"Most people know very quickly if someone is right for them, but many try to carry on with a relationship even when they know it"s wrong. So don"t just listen to your intuition - trust it."

I would do the opposite and listen to my intuition as I am a person who always do things following the intuition.

I don’t know how deep you know this disaster.But I know you will be deeply shocked.

I don’t know how many towns were destroyed.
But I know many people lost their home.

I don’t know how does the house looks like before.
But I know the old is not able to rebuild by himself.

I don’t know how does the house looks like before.
But I know the old is not able to rebuild by himself.

I don’t know how many schools collapsed.
But I know at that time many classrooms were full of students.

I don’t know why here is a schoolbage. 
But I know it must belong to one child.

I don’t know whether this mother saw her child still alive finally.
But I know the child is the treasure of every family.

I don’t know when was this child found already dead.
But I know this mother has already been crying here for a long time.

I don’t know how many people are still under the ruins. 
But I know most of them will not survive. 

I don’t know under the ruin the hands belong to a girl or boy.
But I know the hands are eager to touch her or his parents again.

I don’t know how many people are still under the ruins. 
But I know most of them will not survive. 

I don’t know what is time now.
But I know it is a horrible time

I don’t know the exact reason why they embraced tightly.
But I know there must be some reason.

I don’t know what is the man looking for.
But I know the possibility is quite low.

I don’t know why they are crying
But I know the tear is from their heart.

I don’t know this child can survive or not.
But I know in her little heart there’s already a deep slot.

I don’t know how long did this man already speed under the ruin.
But I know he is already very lucky in the earth quake.

I don’t know what did the finger language means by this nurse.
But I know it doesn’t mean “victory”.

I don’t know the drive already escaped or not.
But I know the road was already completely blocked.

I don’t know where they are marching to.
But I know where they are coming from—home. 

I don’t know whether they can have a good sleep here or not.
But I know they don’t have other choices right now.

I don’t know how many people are here.
But I know big trouble will happen if no water and food supply.

I don’t know how did this man escaped from the collapse.
But I know it is not an easy way now and future.

I don’t know what’s the destination for them.
But I know at this time only they can help themselves.

I don’t know where here is.
But I know it is not their home.

I don’t know whether these babies can realize the tough situation.
But I know when they grow up their parents will tell them the story.

I don’t know what are they thinking about.
But I know in their mind there is still hopes.

Give your help hand,
warm the heart of the people who are in the big trouble,
support them to gain the courage of life,
and rebuild the bright future……  

The power of support is beyond measurement.

Life is boring now...

Get up late and go for work every morning, then get busy with the daily work day after day. No more enthusiasm, no more fresh idea.

Think of quiting the job and make a change, in the hope of living a different life, but frustrated to find that no goal in front and do not know how to set off.

Looking at the people around, I admire that they struggle to achive their life goals, work hard, and make progresss day and day.

What can I do to make a difference?

Oh,my god! Help me! I lost my temper again today! I really did not want this happen.

What it indicated is that I am still not mature enough to deal with matters in a better way. 

I could easily lose my temper in my daily life. When I see someone do foolish thing, and I could not talk him into stopping it, I would get annoyed by that and could not think of a better way to try to solve that problem, but just pull a long face, cursing that fool. After that, complaint about it to my friends again and again. I know this would make them feel tired and bored. But most of time, I complaint to them just in order to get help and get a way from them to solve my problem. What I need is their support which would make me calm down. However, I do not know that things would turn out to be worse. My friends would feel tired of my endless complaints one day and could not offer help and comfort any more.. I feel deeply sad at the thought of it.

After the self-examination each time, I can gain my own consciousness and learn that losing temper and endless complaints would do harm to my personal development. But the most important thing is how I can control myself when I am about to fly into rage each time. Being mature is the only way, I think. Being mature, I would not care much about the trivia any more and getting angry easily is less and less.Being mature, I would think about matters in a different way and deal with them better. So, I have the disire to become mature soon...

It is late in the deep night, most people are in their sweet dreams. But now I am too excited to fall asleep.

These few days I have thought a lot and after the self-examination, I learnt to know I have to make plans for my each day if I want to make progress day by day, not only in English but also in other aspects. As a result, I got to form a habit of learning English every day and have a good plan for it. That was really a good progress for myself.

And tonight, when I was bloging some sites on the internet, I found some useful English resources. From them ,I find there are quite a lot simple and easy way for me to remember new words and phrases. Hah, it would be easier to learn English and practice English from now on.A good finding again! Thanks for my computer and most important, thanks to my clever brain!

I am still not sleepy and tomorrow I have to go to work...Poor me!

If someone describes me as lazybones before, I think nobody who know me would believe so. But, to tell you the truth, I am a lazybones indeed now after I get my job.

First,I do not cook for myself. I did not learn to cook before my graduation. Although I once had the desire to learn cooking, I just could not stick to it. My colleagues are good at cooking. I prefer delicious food more and they would cook for me.As a result, I did not learn to cook up to now. My colleagues seldom do the cooking now, and even so, I would not cook for myself. I would rather eat out than do the cooking.

Second, I do not eat sometimes just because I would not like to go out. I think going out for eating would be a waste of time. I enjoy myself each time when I go surfing on internet. That would appeal to me more. If I am just surfing on the internet, and my colleagues call me out to have a dinner, I would just refuse him. After I made the decision, He could not do anything about it at all.

That is me, Cathy, a lazybones.

I don' t mean to make any comments or talk about anything on Edison Chen photo scandal . I thought it was their privacy and nobody has the right to interfere in this matter. Also, I do not want to bring more pressure and trouble to those inculpable people who got involved in the scandal.

But it is out of my expection that my job would get affected by this scandal.

Some stupid person put those keywords to one of the websites in Australia.It led to millions of people visiting that site. The worst thing is that the datacenter of one of our sites would be taken up a lot of space by that ! We could not log up our site and no orders were placed, although we have made the advertising..Much advertising fee was wasted..

Those stupid and boring people who gossip a lot about the Edison Chen photo scandal! It is Edison Chen's own affair and have nothing to do with you ! It is none of your business. Would you please care about your own life , okey? If you want to find something to entertain yourselves, please go to have some fun at the amusement park or see some movies at home ? If you have time to gossip on others, please gossip on your own friends who have much matter to do with you. If you have too much curiosity, please try to figure out the many mysterious events happeded in this world..You have many to do !

I would not forgive that kind of behaviour...

The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival ause the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China.

According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate. At this time, people will try to solve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) and get all their families united in the joyful atmosphere.

History

Until the Sui Dynasty in the sixth century, Emperor Yangdi invited envoys from other countries to China to see the colorful lighted lanterns and enjoy the gala（节日的，庆祝的）performances.

By the beginning of the Tang Dynasty in the seventh century, the lantern displays would last three days. The emperor also lifted the curfew（宵禁令）, allowing the people to enjoy the festive lanterns day and night. It is not difficult to find Chinese poems which describe this happy scene.

In the Song Dynasty, the festival was celebrated for five days and the activities began to spread to many of the big cities in China. Colorful glass and even jade were used to make lanterns, with figures from folk tales painted on the lanterns.

However, the largest Lantern Festival celebration took place in the early part of the 15th century. The festivities continued for ten days. Emperor Chengzu had the downtown area set aside as a center for displaying the lanterns. Even today, there is a place in Beijing called Dengshikou. In Chinese, Deng means lantern and Shi is market. The area ame a market where lanterns were sold during the day. In the evening, the local people would go there to see the beautiful lighted lanterns on display.

Today, the displaying of lanterns is still a big event on the 15th day of the first lunar month throughout China. People enjoy the brightly lit night. Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, for example, holds a lantern fair each year in the Cultural Park. During the Lantern Festival, the park is literally an ocean of lanterns! Many new designs attract countless visitors. The most eye-catching lantern is the Dragon Pole. This is a lantern in the shape of a golden dragon, spiraling up a 27-meter -high pole, spewing fireworks from its mouth. It is quite an impressive sight!

Origin

There are many different beliefs about the origin of the Lantern Festival. But one thing for sure is that it had something to do with religious worship.

One legend tells us that it was a time to worship Taiyi, the God of Heaven in ancient times. The belief was that the God of Heaven controlled the destiny of the human world. He had sixteen dragons at his k and call and he decided when to inflict drought, storms, famine or pestilence（瘟疫）upon human beings. Beginning with Qinshihuang, the first emperor to unite the country, all subsequent emperors ordered splendid ceremonies each year. The emperor would ask Taiyi to bring favorable weather and good health to him and his people. Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty directed special attention to this event. In 104 BC, he proclaimed it one of the most important celebrations and the ceremony would last throughout the night.

Another legend associates the Lantern Festival with Taoism. Tianguan is the Taoist god responsible for good fortune. His birthday falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. It is said that Tianguan likes all types of entertainment. So followers prepare various kinds of activities during which they pray for good fortune.

The third story about the origin of the festival is like this. Buddhism first entered China during the reign of Emperor Mingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty. That was in the first century. However, it did not exert any at influence among the Chinese people. one day, Emperor Mingdi had a dream about a gold man in his palace. At the very moment when he was about to ask the mysterious figure who he was, the gold man suddenly rose to the sky and disappeared in the west. The next day, Emperor Mingdi sent a scholar to India on a pilgrimage（朝圣）to locate Buddhist scrīptures. After journeying thousands of miles, the scholar finally returned with the scrīptures. Emperor Mingdi ordered that a temple be built to house a statue of Buddha and serve as a repository for the scrīptures. Followers believe that the power of Buddha can dispel darkness. So Emperor Mingdi ordered his subjects to display lighted lanterns during what was to ome the Lantern Festival.

Yuanxiao

Besides entertainment and beautiful lanterns, another important part of the Lantern Festival,or Yuanxiao Festival is eating small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour. We call these balls Yuanxiao or Tangyuan. Obviously, they get the name from the festival itself. It is said that the custom of eating Yuanxiao originated during the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the fourth centuty, then ame popular during the Tang and Song periods.

The fillings inside the dumplings or Yuansiao are either sweet or salty. Sweet fillings are made of sugar, Walnuts（胡桃）, sesame, osmanthus flowers（桂花）, rose petals, sweetened tangerine peel, bean paste, or jujube paste（枣泥）. A single indient or any combination can be used as the filling . The salty variety is filled with minced meat, vegetables or a mixture.

The way to make Yuanxiao also varies between northern and southern China. The usual method followed in southern provinces is to shape the dough of rice flour into balls, make a hole, insert the filling, then close the hole and smooth out the dumpling by rolling it between your hands. In North China, sweet or nonmeat stuffing is the usual indient. The fillings are pressed into hardened cores, dipped lightly in water and rolled in a flat basket containing dry glutinous rice flour. A layer of the flour sticks to the filling, which is then again dipped in water and rolled a second time in the rice flour. And so it goes, like rolling a snowball, until the dumpling is the desired size.

The custom of eating Yuanxiao dumplings remains. This tradition encourages both old and new stores to promote their Yuanxiao products. They all try their best to improve the taste and quality of the dumplings to attract more customers.

Today is Valentine's day, a special day for lovers. I believe that all the lovers in this world would feel happy today. Here I wish all of you happy valentine's day!

When I go out for dinner with Prince and Keven, two of my colleagues, I see many girls walking with their boy friends, smiling sweetly with beautiful flowers in their arms. Happy girls! I say to myself.

I feel happy as well, although I do not have a boy friend.I have my dear friends, which I would always feel satisfied with. 

This morning I get a small adorable chocolate from Prince, a Pisces boy, and I put it beside my computer in the office.He can always make one feel romantic, I think so. And I firmly believe that his girl friend must be the happiest girl.He knows he could not spend this special day with his girl friend today due to the job, then he went to Guangzhou to celeberate it with her before he gets to work after the Spring Festival.So considerated!

Recently I like to blog in some websites when I am free of work during office time and find Monica1981's blog very intereting!I do feel offended by her stinging words,I think different countries have its own culture and of course some of countries develop more quickly in the development trend of the whole world.But I do agree with most of her ideas.From her I learn some western culture as well.

When I was a little girl,I had learnt from many facts that girls should be independent financely and mentally.Then I have tried all my best to make it.I sticked to it when I grow up day by day.However, I find I do not make it clear to myself all through that what independence in finance and mentality exactly means.I refused to be a full-time house-wife in the future that I refused to learn to cook...Very hildish,right?

After reading Monica's article about feminism,I form a clear idea of girls' independence.The link below is for the article.

http://space.englishcn.com/54966/viewspace_17223.html

I am encouraged by some of the ideas.Take the following for example.

What does it really mean?

It doesn't mean that you should become a business woman who can earn as much as a man or even more than a man.

It doesn't mean that you should abandon the idea of being a housewife.

It also doesn't mean that you should NOT mentally love a man deeply.

It means, as an adult, you should be able to support yourself for living no matter you have a boyfriend/husband or not.

It also means women should always keep themselves happy mentaly no matter you are in love, or being dumped or still seeking a boyfriend.