We are intrepid. We carry on...

So, forget the unhappiness and enjoy, even in the adversity.

 

~~The Bible~~

I happened to find a fantastic saying in the Bible. Let me share it with my friends.

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all thing, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

Many people begin their belief because of these touching sentences.

 

~~About Exercise~~

I valued exercise extrinsically 5 years ago and tried to take jogging as a daily habit. When it really is my habit, I value it intrinsically, for the wonderful feeling after 30 minutes' jogging.

This habit is a most loyal friend of mine, helping me to relax spiritually.

 

 

Since I bought a bottle of red wine home and decided to drink a little glass of it everyday, I feel myself a little different from what I was. I am not used to wine, even beer. They alway bring me headache and desire to sleep, and really bring me courage to say something that I won't say when I am awake.

So, from my behaviors these days, am I keep drunk all day long?

The funniest is that I have coffee every morning, and wine every evening. The former picks me up and latter drives me semiconscious. I'm busy between the opposite state, but I enjoy both of them.

 

I saw 10,000 BC today, in the cinema. Actually, I like watching movies alone at home, like movies such as Elizabeth Town better than that kind of films. The result was: I didn't enjoy this experience at all. Anyway, thanks for that credit card, which enables me to watch a movie at great discount.

Everybody should take a road trip at least once in their life, just he and music.

 

This is what Clair said in the movie Elizabeth Town. This makes me dream of my road trip, with Dally and music.

I didn't plan to learn to drive, but has been persuaded by Clair's words. Now I can't wait to learn it.

 

Let me be patient~~~

 

Since I cancelled my test in NJ, I was planning to travel there again. The last time I went there was due to the company's outing in 8 March and it really enchanted me. Thanks to the impending holiday, I can have a trip there, with my lovely friend.

It had been a long time before I met another friend who could really waken my reflection on my soul.

It was such a pleasant experience when we talked about books and our own sentiments in life, in the company of coffee and music.

She told me that a true love makes you love yourself more. This is just what I feel in my love with Dally (I'm Dilly~~~~Dillydally).

Maybe, a true friendship is the experience in which every conversation or communication kindles our hope, aspiration and deep ponder of ourselves.

 

This adds to my affection of SH. Thanks, my dear friend.

I'm quite excited on the news that there will be a new assurance company settled in XM.

In my opinion, few assurance companies would choose there as the center of their business in the mainland.

So, I'm kind of surprised when I heard that the one who was my colleage now works in that company which is now in preparation.

 

What I now care more is whether the actuarial department of the new company is also in XM. Although it is impossible for me to seek a job in XM in the following many years, I still imagine many revelant things. How wonderful it is to work in my own city. The only defect is that XM is too small and the people there are not so open-minded as those in Shanghai...

 

Well, the differences between these two cities usually come into my mind. My feeling about them are so complicated,my affections, my choices in life......

However, I'm here in SH and will be here for a period of time. What I should do is to cherish and enjoy my life here. My friends, colleages and my lovely room, are really my wealth.

Actually, besides the prince, the other roles in the book The Little Prince also have a large number of impressive words.

 

When asked about people, the solitary flower in the desert says,

The wind blows them away...They have no roots, and that made their life very difficult...

 

The lovely fox has more wonderful words:

One must observe the proper rites.

One only understands the thing that he tames.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important...

 

Well, after pondering on these words for many nights, I get the courage to try my utmost to be patient in my work, and to be patient in the rest several months.

 

Although my work isn't complicated and I can always be off early, I feel more pressure than before. What consoles me these days is the E-mails between us four guys, who are now in absolutely different cities. X, S, B, and L!! What a wonderful stuff it is.

 

Twelve years ago, when we were young girls, we enjoyed sitting on the stairs in front of the old hall after school, eating ice-creams  and talking about all kinds of news, including the boys and politics! We witnessed one another's growing up, but didn't predict what would happen after so many years. Now, to get together for another time, we have to arrange our vacations carefully. Maybe several years later, even if we had the energy to travel between cities, it would be quite difficult to coordinate our schedules.

 

I'm looking forward to our meeting in Xiamen on Ru's wedding, my dear friends.

I was attracted by the spring here two years ago. Confortable temperature with soft breeze, light blue sky without too much sunshine...I love the spring here, better than that in my hometown.

It's another spring now, and maybe the last one in Shanghai which I can enjoy in my life.

 

It happened to me this dusk to take a walk along the spacious Century Avenue, which reminded me of my habit of taking a walk in the campus after dinner everyday when I was still in school. But what I miss most is the walk I took with my parents when we lived on the Yundang Lake. What a sweet scene it was and how time flies! How many such dusks are left for me to reproduce that?

When I came back from walk, the odor from some kitchen strenthened my homesickness. I recalled the feeling when I came back from school, tire being swept out by the delicious dishes prepared by Mum.

 

I usually wonder how I could come to such a strange city, leaving all that just in my memory? How did I get the courage to live here alone? If there was once more chance, I would take the opposit choice, without any hesitation.

 

Give my love to you, Mum, and Dad.

~~Coffee~~

I made the hitherto best Moka-Pot-made-Espresso this morning, which improve my confidence in my skill. The key is to use nearly boiled water instead of the cold water, which can prevent the coffee powder from being heated too long and spoiled.

 

~~Albums~~

It took me lots, lots, lots and lots of efforts to bring the printed albums for marriage home. I even yelled at the rude guy, who punched me in the narrow street resulting in the breakdown of the BIG BIG bag which contained the huge albums and pictures.

You know that I seldom yell at a stranger in my life!

However, the beautiful pictures deserve all my efforts. They are so wonderful.

 

~~Surprise~~

I was so astonished when I knew that Charlene is pregnant! Oh, my godness!

I'm also eager for a baby but I have realised that I can't until 30. That is the best estimate, also.

Bless the mothers and babies...

 

~~The Little Prince~~

It 's so kind of LV to give the book to me as a present. There are so many impressive and valuable sayings in it, which can back me and my goals. I have read the Chinese part, and is reading the English part, and will leave the French as a diversion in the second half of the year, when I am free at home!

Many thanks to CLCMG--I can play badminton every Friday.

 

Well, it was a pleasant Friday afternoon, when I retrieved my feeling for badmintion, after a long time's leaving from it.

 

Running, hitting in good time, controlling the body and planning the next move--these are what we do in the game. During the steps, I found that it is a positive advantage to me to move quickly back to the original dot after a hit, of course the base of which being that the original dot is a proper one.

Finding a good position and taking every move around it may offer good preparation for any attack.

 

It is the same as our adjustment of life. We need to seek the person or the place that can offer us relaxion and rest, for preparation for the next move in our work, or for our endeaver for other goals.

 

I am so glad to realise this and would like to share it with my friends. Let's play badmintion together next time~~

I don't have a large number of friends but I'm lucky enough to have really lovely and helpful friends. The number isn't the most important.

Communicating with friends, especially the original and creative ones, inspires my ideas and motivates me.

Meditation on ourselves plays a great parts in our lives, but it is sharing and communicating that effectively bring impetus and encouragement. Thanks to sharing, we jump out of what we are and what we see, to read ourselves and read other affairs from a totally new angle of view.

It takes me two nights to see the whole movie of No Country for Old Man.

The name of the film didn't attract my attention at all, for I mistook it as a calm story talking about lives of the old.

However, it is really a calm movie, but is about a wise huntsman, a terrible killer and an old policeman.

 

The huntsman came across a conflict between drug dealers and fortunately got 2m dollars and a lot of drug.

The cost of this kind of fortune was also high. The killer, without humanity but with enough calm facing every adversity, kept chasing the huntsman, killing one person after another by his special weapon--an air gun. Lives are only symbols for him.

The experienced policeman, endeavered to protect the huntsman and his family, always left behind the killer.

 

The characteristics of these three men are impressive, and deserve discussion. What people now discuss more is what the Coen's want to tell as well as the reason for the film's name.  

It is said that the feeling of helpless stayed with everybody in the movie. People faced with the killer were helpless, the best choice for them being the coin game. The huntsman said at the beginning of his escape that he had no choice at all. The policeman at last saw the guy he tried to protect, but only a corpse for him. Even the killer, who could think and work without much rest, at last heavily injured in a car accident that probably resulted from his distraction.

The movie ends up with the respectable policeman's description of his dream after his retirement. He made great efforts in his position as a policeman, just as his father and uncle. Having experienced so many unreasonable cases in the morden society, faced with such a cold killer, the old man was tired and recalled his predecessor's stories and father's care and instructions.

 

The background, the wild of the west, which intensifies the helplessness, plays a great part in the movie.

As a guy who have little insight on this kind of profound subject, my greatest opinion after seeing the film is: what a perilous country! How can my dream of travelling over the US become true???

It's true that sometimes I feel like drinking Espresso better than Cappuccino. But it depends.

Cuppiccino is just Espresso with the same amount of milk and a thick layer of milk foam. The milk helps to smooth taste and the foam brings a totally different feeling to the tongue.

You can have multiple tastes when you drink Cuppiccino. But every time after I have the Espresso made, I like to sip some first, for the aroma of Espresso to flow in my body. Then I add milk and foam onto it to finish my cuppiccino. I always feel a little pity at this time, because of my love for espresso, but I should admit that cuppiccino is so lovely that I can't miss it, either!

It is really a difficult choice.

 

Mocha and latte are espresso with more milk, or with chocolate. No matter cappuccino, mocha or latte, espresso is their essential ingredient. The best instrument to make espresso is the Espresso Machine, which can produce as much as 7 atmosphere pressures. Since it is quite a large guy for family use, many European use Moka Pot instead. It only produces 2 to 3 atmosphere pressure, but can also present a good espresso if you can control it well.

 

I'm still studying my Moka Pot. Timing is of the most importance. The aroma of coffee is cultivated  by heating. Once the pot is heated too heavily, the smell of swaling comes up and that can destroy my former preparation.

In addition, the crema made by the pot is little, often because of inadequate pressure, more than of the coffee bean. Some practioners court crema, while others concerntrate on the flavor more. For a amatour fan, aroma and flavor are certainly of more importance.

Do you guys know why I added the word Coffee before my former nickname ?

 

It was Nap Coffee that inspired my interest in coffee.

I went there several months ago with Tiramisu. Actually, it was her who first found the special advertisement of Nap Coffee. 

As a person who always drank instant coffee, I only wanted to see how a small shop can also hold classes on coffee culture.

Anyway, the shop, the couple owners and the coffee class really impressed me that day.

 

Shanghai shows its true charm to me, not by its gigantic buildings, but by such kind of independent shops as Nap. Coffee, as a novel thing in China, shows little power to help the owners of such a small shop to make fortune. But they never give up, they just combine their flair of painting and photographing, with their love of coffee, to court the balance of life and the original feelings as an individual.

 

I wondered why people like such bitter and vinegary drink. I just found the process of making a cup of coffee interesting.

So, I bought a coffee kettle, a lovely grinder and a milk-foam maker on Taobao and it took me some days to study the novelty.

From then on, my kitchen is full of the aroma of coffee every morning. Bitter and vinegary taste becomes indispensability of my life. It's so wonderful that the aroma can stay in your mouth for a while, the crema and bitterness being important during this wonderful tasting. My double-strainer foam maker produces particuler foam that smooths the taste of coffee. Making a beautiful Cuppiccino is my diversion every morning.

 

Although I can't make a coffee with much crema, it doesn't matter now. The joy and calm coffee brings me, both during the producting and the tasting, are enough for me. I'm still working hard in order to present my dear friends and love with exquisite coffee.

 

Coffee and coffee culture, will be here with you.

 

I have put off my IBT test to the end of June.

 

It was within my expectation because I had been seeking for a proper mental state for study, but failed.

I can trace my confusion on study back to late 2006, when I began my social experience in AXA.

Maybe,  it was the fear of the termination of my long-term life in school that first made me feel lost.

From then on, I just followed my unbalanced feeling, never earnest in any test, test of interview, of actuarial, of my life.

I was never prepared to face my own life.

 

I'm really disappointed at my  performance in study and work in the past 2 years.

What does the determination today mean to myself? Another failed one?

I hope not.

I don't want to blame myself, just as what I did in the past.

Although it's difficult to retrieve self-confidence that left me long ago, what I can do is to keep trying and never give up.

Fortunately, I have Longzhi who can always back me. As a return, I need to present my perserverance.

 

Thanks for LV's encouragement. I always cherish your inspiring words.