if you can... well ^^

If you can start the day without caffeine,

If you can get going without pep pills,

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment

If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him,

If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,

If you can conquer tension without medical help,

If you can relax without liquor,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,

...Then You Are Probably The Family Dog!

The first time I read about this was the Chinese version in DUZHE. It was said that this “IF YOU CAN” was from Ronald Reagan (the 40^th president of the United States). Well, the last sentence wasn’t something I had actually expected, however, the moment I reached it, the sense of humor as well as the neglected fact it conferred really touched the bottom of my heart. All dogs in the world own those merits, which seem to be impossible for human being to access. If one of us can access most of such virtue, he’s already been the perfect man in the world, under no shadow of double. Well, as for a little trick to assess my true merit, here comes my self-evaluation. ^^

If you can start the day without caffeine, (Some times, but not much~ at least in a healthy way ^^ )

If you can get going without pep pills, (The only things concerned my friends is that no matter how badly I were ill, I just refuse to take pills~ I hate that! ^^ )

If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, (I am! But other always consider my cheer as sign of immature >_<)

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, (That’s why I’d like faking myself. Once again, point taking ^^)

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, (> <>

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time, (Well, it seems I have to work on it > <)

If you can take criticism and blame without resentment (Hah, it depends on how the criticism and blame come~)

If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him, (No, I just can’t help doing it > <)

If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend, (I treat them only in respond to the way how they treat me)

If you can conquer tension without medical help, (Sure! I have to, you know, the medical help cost too much in China… )

If you can relax without liquor, (I don’t like liquor, though I’m good at it ^^)

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, (Drugs are expensive too. If I depended on it, I was already bankrupt. > <)

2007.4.22, Sunday

JUST GOT MY HAIR DONE~
NEW LOOK,
HEY HEY

Siempre pienso escribir un diario en español, para mi GMAT...

Estamos a 19 de abril de 2007, y voy a pasar un examen a 22 de abril, ESTE DOMIGO >_<... TEM 4 no es defícil para mí, pero no me gusta. Ya no tengo mucho tiempo ahora, por que voy a pasar otro examen GMAT en agosto, ¡y no preparo bien! El vocabularios de GRE es muy difíciles. Le recuedo despacio y olvidose totalmente rapido. ¡Díos mío!

Yo siempre estoy muy ocupado, pero no tengo tan mucho quehaceres. ¿Entonces qué hago y dónde esta mi tiempo? No lo sé todavía que cuándo comienso mi clase de GMAT ahora, ¿luego de todo está listo? ¡Claro que no, cierto! Debo le preparo ahora mismo. Por que el es incluso más importante que otros para mí.

I will survive…

The worst thing of being a liar is that even though you’re heartbroken, you just cannot tell anyone about it, not even your best friends…

I have to swallow it, and manage smile in front of others. Yes, I’m the girl hates to put feelings on my faces. What can I do? All my best friends are not around me. They’re everywhere, like Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdo, Xiamen etc, just not even close around when I’m falling apart.

I used to wonder, why I’m such addicted to SEX AND THE CITY. At this point, it’s more than clear. When I watch it, I can sense the 4 women are just so supporting each other. No matter how it goes, they sticked to each other, sharing the happiness, and more important, be around and supportive whenever anyone of them was trapped. I admired them. It reminds me of the good old days when I’m still in middle school, when I’m a straightforward person that can face even the hardest situation with pig. In comparison, now I have to deal with it all with no one but myself. Don’t blame me for lying; I never want to be a liar. I’m just not tough enough for it alone… yup, I’m faking, and I’m not ashamed of it.

Now I finally get what I deserve. I struggled, firmly believing that was what I really need, and which turns out a devastating disaster. And now I have to face it on my own, AGAIN. But this time, it’s really alone…not like anything before, when I still had my rock. `Cause this time, I’m facing my world collapse…

I WILL SURVIVE!

Days in Guangzhou

For interpreting in the 2007 China Refrigeration Exposition, I asked for some-day leave from Zhuhai campus and went back to Guangzhou, where the exposition was on. In fact, the exhibition was meant to be on Tuesday (which actually turned out to be Wednesday), but I had returned home last Friday for the reason that Zhuhai campus was power off on Saturday and Sunday. Thus my “leave” suddenly became a long one, skipping all those significant classes from Monday to Wednesday… that was really a great loss! Especially when the español class was moving to lesson 15~ now that I’m back to campus, I got to work harder to make it up >_<

The South Campus of Sun Yat-sen University

The School of Translation and Interpretation (where I was studying in) is in the predicament of not regressing to the South Campus, which means the students here are losing immeasurable opportunities in Guangzhou. However, it’s not my case. I’m living right on the South campus, and it only takes me 3 minutes to get inside. Then all the resources here are totally available to me (well, I don’t deny it’s easier for me to reach the young male students, hah~).

I had been in the library all the days working hard on my own (except for one afternoon shopping). The library varies completely from the one on Zhuhai campus. It’s huge and intricate, and when I was inside, I felt like that I was gulped and dazzling by the sea of books. Besides, HUMAN-BEINGS are everywhere. It’s not the thing you can experience on Zhuhai Campus at all; students here are more like working machines. Anytime anywhere, the rooms are crammed. Girls here are not as pretty as I saw in the street of campus. They have fashionable hairstyles, but their dress and looks are not that pretty. I was always told by Brian that the girls here were very sharp and sexy. However, I could see nothing like that. Those foxes must all be dressed up and had gone somewhere else, leaving those “special ones” in the library. Well, what make things worse is that, I don’t even have fabulous hairstyle and I was in the library, so… >_<

Finally, I was lost by the intricacy of the library the very first day. And it leaded to the lost when I came out of the library. That was 10:00PM plus when I found myself had no idea where was my way back, then I had to make a phone call and Kane came out, picked me up like picking up a kitty and sent me home. Oh, thank him T_T…

Shopping

What does my mum worry most when I am back?! Hah, it sure is her visa. For that exposition, I got to (alright, it’s actually more “I want to”) buy some formal dresses. After mealing with Kane and Jim at noon on the second day, I went down to Beijing Road with May casting about for dresses. Well, when Beijing Road met a goal-directed crazy woman…(Ok, skip it^^) My victory is two gowns and one fabulous frock. They’re not for the university library, but for those fabulous parties~

China Refrigeration 2007

Ok, a lot of foreigners... just go to the website http://www.cr-expo.com/cn/default.asp and learn more ^^

I'm now too lazy to write anything on it~

never get myself twisted, again!

One does not complain about water because it is wet, nor about rocks because they are hard.

– Abraham Maslow

Yes, no one needs to complain about me because I’m myself. No matter how perfect and fantastic the orange is, there’s always be someone that prefers other fruits to it. Just be the perfect orange as it is, never gonna get things twisted, again.

Thanks for Apple Jasmine’s inspiration; I finally back to myself now. I’m gonna shine again!

I'm marked; and I marked others~ hah

“At the halfway mark, you will see the same questions again, but this time I answered the same 10 questions, so look for my answers and compare them to yours. On the first 10 questions, copy and paste them into a new email, answer the questions, and send them back to me with your answers.”

Quite obvious, I’ve been marked by my friend – Mike (an American). Till I got this, I’ve never known that “点名” is marked in English. Well, it doesn’t seem to be a game at all! We “点名” just for fun, but these topics below…way too serious for me. >_<
Anyway, I’m still feeling happy Mike thought about me when marking others… hah, here’s my answer.

How many “pet peeves” do you have? Definition of a Pet Peeve is something that someone does that annoys you.
Actually, no. Usually the only one annoys me is myself >_< especially when I do something wrong, lie to others, am lazy, offend others…I would be upset about myself and sleepless for nights.

If you could “cure” one disease in the world, which one would that be?
Any disease that might happen to my parents and grandparents or the ones I love. Since “it” never stroke them, I don’t know which one I would choose~

Should women and men be paid equally? For example, if a woman is an executive with 6 years of experience and the man has the same experience, should both of them be paid equally?
Definitely! It’s now 2007, what the hell is that discrimination!?

What do you think...should a woman marry young, have her kids young, and then be a homemaker for the rest of her life?
”Should”?! Never!!! Well, maybe the one who raise this question should ask about how the woman feel about it. We all should respect others’ choices. Anyway, back to my answer, this case “should” and will never happen to me.

What do you think....should a woman wait to get married until after she has finished her schooling, established her career, and should she quit all of what she has accomplished to have a baby and stay home?
Why “should” again!? No! How about changing the “Woman” into “man”!?

How many times have you wanted to tell a co-worker, boss, or someone on the street just how stupid they are, for doing what you witnessed them doing which was stupid? For Example: Crossing in front of a train when the guards are already down. Or...When you boss sees that the copier is down for repair but still tries to make a copy on it. Or...when you co-worker tells you something in a memo to all office staff that you had just read less than 5 minutes ago.
Who can remember and answer such a question!? I’m not a machine, and I cannot count it out for it happened too much… Of course, I just “wanted”, and I’ve never dare to speak that devil out~ The bravest thing I’ve ever done is to ask a young and fashionable woman give seat to an old man on the bus^_^ well, I swore to god I witnessed all her face turned red at once~ hehe

If you had one of the following powers, which one would you want to use only once? Being able to fly, see into the future, heal someone of a disease, have the power of death, or live a moment in your past over, or would you just pass on all the above and live life as it comes?
To live a moment in my past over… if I could get such power, I’d make full use of it. Leting it go? Hah, that must be a fool!

When is your birthday, just month and day?
28th July~ am I getting any gift for it? Hah~ ^^

What is your mailing address? Please include zip code if you have one.
Apartment 605, Jia Yu Street 12, Bingjiang Road, Guangzhou, China 510230
Don’t bomb it, my friend ^^

Finally, what question would you have if you had to come up with a question number 10?
Use 3 sentences to describe me~ how do I like in your eyes??

Ok, I’m passing this halfway mark to Kane, Fly, Apple, Antelope and Serge. Wish you guys have a good time~ hah~