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[原創]Farewell, year 2016
December 13, an ordinary day in this special year, doesn’t mean anything much to me. I went to work at 8:30am as usual, prepared for an important official meeting and called several of my business partners. My mind was filled with all of paper work stuff until I saw the calendar on my desk. Oh, no! It’s going to be the year end!
Too many unforgettable things have happened on me that I don’t even know which I should recall first. I joined the government, went to South Africa, Hawaii, interpreted for the vice mayor of the city, met lots of foreign businessmen, divorced with Maggie and decided to leave for where I was in year 2001.
Life is quite sarcastic, because my career journey looks like a big circle. I joined the Labor Bureau as an intern in 1997; I left for Singapore the next year and came home in 2000. I stayed in FX for 4 years and ended up resigned for Maggie (because a couple is not allowed to work in the same dept in FX). Now I came back to government. When I looked back at the road I had been walking on, I saw a big circle!
2005, the governmental events year! I’ve experienced the Korean Week, Japanese Week, the CIEME (China International Equipment Manufacturing Expo), The CEO Forum of the World Top 500 Companies, Shenyang Utilizes Agents to get investment meeting…etc. Now I know I can make my resume more complicated but attractive!
My marriage is considered a total failure this year! I take it as my fate and start to face my new life. It’s really hard, though! Leaving a girl who’d been with me for 5 years is not an easy-to-make decision! The lesson is costly. The wounds, cuts and whatever injures caused by my marriage will be sewed up soon. Anyway, I said farewell to her, and to the year 2005.
Christmas is coming. The New Year is coming. It seems as if I had seen the dawn already! This winter is freezing cold, but my heart are no more frozen!
[原創]For Your Information Only
For Your Information Only
I can not cook, despite the fact that I've been living abroad for years, believe it or not I don't possess any of the following kitchen essentials, neither pan nor knife nor cooking oil. You name it and I definitely do not have it. Don't get the wrong picture though, it has got nothing to do with laziness, I have tried, believe me!
My cooking days started when I first went abroad, with the intensive one month cooking training I had with my parents just before I left home. I cooked with enthusiasm.
Every so often, the people I lived with would all cook some food individually and we would share them together. The comments such as "Delicious!', "Yummy!" had always been the comments for someone else's cooking, whereas mine would be "Hmm..interesting!", "Ahh....fascinating" or something along those lines, all alternatives for "I didn't know food could be so tasteless." Bless them!
Just in case you asked, I didn't like my own cooking much myself. Since I was not a fussy eater, as long as I was not in starvation mode, no complaints, but somehow I cooked less, a lot less. The reason for that didn't have much to do with the discouragements I had recieved. The truth was I had never really enjoyed cooking, I mean all the preparation berforehand, the actul cooking itself and the clearing up afterwards, I thought it was a waste of time. Plus in my case, after all that effort just to produce something no one appreciated, including even myself, can you see the point in that? Well, I don't blame you.
When I was living with one of my exes, it didn't take him long to find out I was a terrible cook, but it didn't bother him that much, I mean, come on, with a sexy gorgeous girlfriend like me, who gives a damn about my cooking skills? (That was a joke)
Anyway, there was this one time, his friends came over and it just happened that the day before a girl friend of mine metioned to me how she made popcorn on her own and how easy it all was. Just put in some butter, then add corn and finish with sugar. I could do that! So I gave it a go, but somehow as soon as I put the corn in, a huge amount of smoke came out, it went out of control and within seconds, the fire alarm in the house went off. Well, that was pretty impressive, but not in the way I had planned.
"Damn it Woman! Just keep away from the kitch will you!"., of course my then boyfriend didn't really say that, but that's exactly what I did afterwards, I stayed away from the kitch. (Mind you, I was NOT banned from the kitchen)
A year ago, a friend I've known for more than ten years came to visit me from across the Atlantic. I had aways liked him since we were in school, as he had to live in my place for 2 weeks. Before he came, the girls I lived with taught me all their specialities, and when he finally came, Surprise! Surprise! I cooked with perfection. (To this day, my cooking performance there still remains a mystery.)
But then I suppose I had changed so much over the years and somehow I was not the girl he had once remembered. So at the end, my cooking was probably the only thing he liked about me. How ironic!
Since then, I gave up cooking compeletely.
Sometimes when I say to people that I can't cook, they would often say "But you are Chinese!", what's that got to do with anything? You know, sometimes I do think it's a shame that you can't shoot people for their stupidity.
Anyway, this is for your information only. After all, they say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, so while I'm still on the market, it's only wise to keep it hidden. I knew you would understand, Thank you!
[原創]Fog on the Second Day
It still remains,
this frosty blur
in late autumn.
Teeming with
dimmed vagueness
sombre yet alight
before turning
milky at night
pale in moonlight,
it doesn't leave
this frosty dream
of a foggy autumn.
[原創]First Day on Job
It was supposed to be my first day on job today, cause I was told by one of the leaders from the Foreign Trade & Economy Bureau to get to work at 8:30am this morning. And I did as she told me so.
It was 8:05am when I reached the mansion, which is an old building, built around 1990s’. Seeing nobody in the office, I could only stand at the end of the corridor and take a smoke. It was pretty embarrassing for me cause I only did that when I was a salesman in Singapore. I never like the feeling of waiting for somebody alone! I still remember the old times when I hided myself on the fire-corridors and did nothing but taking cigarettes. That is absolutely the worst way to kill time!
Back to the point, Mr. Liyang, one of the vice directors of the bureau finally approached me and we had a conversation about 10 minutes, regarding on the bureau’s background, duties, privileges, and whatever I concern about. Then I knew I was going to join a really busy bureau, cause I would have lots of work to do everyday. Fortunately, I will still have weekends. And I was told seldom we would work over time.
However, there is one thing that I still worry about. What if the director of the bureau does not allow me to get on board, or he just prolongs the probation period? Even though I have strong confidence on myself these years, I feel a bit nervous, cause I really want to be a member of the bureau. Who knows what the hell I was thinking of. Anyway, I said yes to him and that was a confirmation which proves my joining in the bureau. Then I know I would have a monthly payment no more than RMB2000. And I will get that amount until I retire! Is that terrible?
Mr.Zhang, my ex-boss, told me that I am too young to be a government officer. He said I would have to clean the office, take care of the flowers and get hot water for the leaders everyday. He was afraid that I could not bear it for long in the government. Anyway, I am optimistic on my career life and I know I'm gonna make a great difference up there!
[原創]Dear,do you remember？
Dear, it is raining now, can you hear it
Dear, I am missing you now, can you feel it
Dear, do you remember those wonderful days we spent together, I just can’t bear smiling when thinking of you
Dear, do you remember we walked along the street that afternoon and now I can still feel the gentle wind
Dear, do you remember? do you understand ?
Dear, I can never request you to love me, even in hope of it
Dear, I know I can never compare with her, I don’t have beautiful appearance and a figure of gold
Dear, I just want you to know, what I want is very small and simple. I will be more than happy to see you and talk with you
Dear, I just want to be your friends as usual, and we can talk about current affairs easily and even comment President Bush’s policy freely
Dear, I still don’t know, why do you cheat me! She is my friend, my best friend, certainly I know I will give you my best wishes......
Dear, I still remember your words, your only words: I wish you to study hard and make more progress so that you can enter Beijing normal university and your dream will come true. There will be plenty of excellent boys in that university and each one will be much better than I, I just don't deserve you
Dear, I said nothing at that moment, but, but, only I know when I turned around, tears can’t help falling
Dear, I haven’t seen you for two years, and now maybe my dream has come true, and I already learnt to protect myself.. but why are you keeping on cheating me?
I don’t want the world to see me, because I don’t think that they can understand
When everything is made to be broken, I just want you to know who I am
[原創]CoD 2
Any FPS fans here? I am playing Call of Duty 2 a lot these days. It is such an awesome piece with realistic sound and visual effects. The somke part is breath-taking, it is like you are watching a WW2 blockbuster rather than playing a PC game. You have a range of mean weapons to grab and fight with, as MP 40, MG 42, Kar98k, Lee Enfield, Scoped Springfield...you name it. Just these names are enough to arouse me;)
MP 44 is my favorite gadget, and since you can only play the Allied side, I often discard Thompson or M1 Grand for it. They say MP 44 is actually the forebear of all modern assault rifles like Kalashnikov and M16, they can't be much wrong.
Another drawing factor is you are fighting with a squad, with soldiers throwing himself between you and the whizzing bullets, knocking off machine gunners so you can venture out your cover, and disabling armored vehicles when you think death is hovering around you. Instead of taking from the gaming experience, it is a more truthful design showing respect to the fact you seldom act alone in a major operation.
Lock and load, boys, give the enemey hell!
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