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2008/11/4

Blog moved

I have moved my blog to Blogger.(http://swagmangoing.blogspot.com/)
You can still leave comments there.
Thank you
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2008/10/15

Shanghai Trip

Four posts of the photos from our Shanghai trip in National Days. Check them out.
Shanghai Trip- night scene    
http://swagmangoing.blogspot.com/2008/10/shanghai-trip-night-scene.html
Shanghai Trip- morning at the Bund 
http://swagmangoing.blogspot.com/2008/10/shanghai-trip-morning-at-bund.html
Shanghai Trip- potraits           
http://swagmangoing.blogspot.com/2008/10/shanghai-trip-potrait.html
Shanghai Trip- Alastair         
 http://swagmangoing.blogspot.com/2008/10/shanghai-trip-alastair.html

Thanks!


2008/8/21

Suzhou Trip


Finally I posted the photos of Suzhou trip.
I framed the photos and named the album 苏州八月(Suzhou August).Please check my blogger blog (click the link)to view the journals.I hope you like the photos.:-)




2008/7/26

Another days

Hearing the blah blah blah from the auditing teacher,
My heart felt hurt...
To save my spirit,
...
I'd like to post some old photos here I took weeks ago on a fashion show.Also because I don't think VC would check my blogger blog(http://swagmangoing.blogspot.com/).It's hard to move to another blog coz your friends always click the old link.It would be easier if they use RSS to feed my sites.It seems that not many of my friends have a habit to use RSS.I'm using
Google Reader(And of course you need a google account first)now to read the subscribed websites I'm interested in.It's convenient and makes sure that I can get the update at the first moment.
It's like you can stick anything you like on a newspaper page and the page came to your door every morning.Friends can share pages with each other as well.


2008/7/20

Days

Haibin,Hui,Fu,Shuang and Hao came to my home yesterday.Mother cooked the dinner for us.Al seemed happy to see my clubmates coming,especially get to speak English with someone except me and be able to have beers.They are like sisters and brothers to me.
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I will go to the training program tomorrow,after three weeks' laziness from it.
Haven't studied CPA yet.I nearly forgot I will have that discusting exam in September.I've been viewing nice photography websites,reading those thoughtful words and searching the philosophy in photography.Thinking of that I won't afford the time to photograph after starting work,frustration came to my mind.Maybe that's because I don't have confidence in the future days in pwc.I always think I will feel desprate to offer what can be contributive and what I can give might be useless to the organization.

Maybe the future would be depression.

2008/6/28

Goodbye, My Dears

Thank you all for giving me a complete Four Years

2008/6/23

Farewell

My fourth summer with my clubmates...

Our last photography show...

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4944a24b01009hpz.html       My Club

2008/5/31

Silent Life


I always wonder when the cats go silent there in such an afternoon,what's on their mind.
They must see something we don't see or know.
What can you find from their eyes?
Sadness,frustration,or truth...


2008/5/27

Sorry for the ones I haven't met yet!

It might be the time to update my blog.Since for others in uni,I've been disappearing for a while.It seems so many things happened.China receving international pressure on the Tibet riot; Al going to the gym to lose weights, going back home for the Z visa; Mother finishing a knitted top for me; Unbelievable Wenchuan Earthquake;  Me finishing the thesis writing and getting a new DSLR-40D and a classy 85/f1.8 lens from Al.( *chuckle*); Having a lunch with high school classmates last Saturday...ah,and of course,a hit from the accounting test of pwc~Don't tell anyone I am sure I screwed it up.
    
    There's one month left til graduation( June,27th). I haven't felt too strong sadness so far since I've been living outta campus.It's a shame at some point to not be able to share the last period of college time with my college friends.I haven't met Xiaowei, Yunyun,Li Lu and Wang Shijun yet...But I will return to working with my clubmates next month I think on preparing the Graduation Photography Show.This is also what I've been doing for recently other than thesis. I also bought a thick notebook with a hard cover to doodle on.While CPA...hmmn,I will carry on studying it soon.
     
    Al reinstalled windows for my laptop.I haven't installed Photoshop yet tho,still concerning it would crash.His laptop is also not working that well for running some server.So buying a Mac Mini is in our recent deposit plan.He got his toe cured yesterday in a "Feet Fix" shop we found yesterday afternoon.It was really a relief for him.

    Some new photography work of mine will be uploaded.
     

2008/3/10

Al's first day of teaching

You'll get more and more experienced.Don't get yourself down.Proud of you.x
2008/3/9

It hurt



It hurt really.

Please promise me you will stop.



2008/3/7

Two weeks in China,then he became a college teacher

  I companied Al to an interview of Dalian Foreign Language University this afternoon.They need a foreign teacher desperately right now.So that was why it came so quickly that Al has got the position.We were happy for that.But he needs to start very soon,from Monday.I think this is a lil scary.This is something he has never done before,and in a new enviroment.I will help him on lesson planing.But it still disappointed me a wee bit that the text book the college uses are so old.
  
The accomendation the uni offers is good enough for us.Two rooms,and well equiped.I mean after I graduate and start working,we don't need to look for other rentals until January.While it'll be very unconvienient to come forth and back between his accomendation and my dorm.:-( 40mins of bus journey.
   
I just hope him wouldnt feel much homesick and would enjoy teaching there.


2008/3/6

Here is the day

I should have written this journal earlier.To remember the date-February 19th when Al's flight arrived in Shenyang and we met each other the first time after we'd been together for 19 months.Finally he came here and finally we felt the real each other in hugs.Both of us still felt hard to believe this was real.We were very excited.We just looked at each other through glass.I was feeling a lil shy at the airport.Just dared not to look at his eyes straight coz they were too deeply loving...and then teared.Al has been very emotional.Just been so happy to be with each other.We spent 10 days with my families in Shenyang.My families seemed like him much.

We are in Dalian now.He's living in a hotel near my college.Just settled down.But we plan to find a new rental again for him after he gets a teaching job here.These days I've been walking between my dorm and the hotel.Morning goes,night back.I think he needs me to be with him in the first weeks when he just came to China.This is not easy for him.I'm very happy he can come and thankful that my mother helped us so much on the living at home.

I'm tired.Gonna go to bed.I dunno when is the next time to publish an entry.I've been lazy to update.But May I say once more:I love you dear.I've been enjoying the time with you.


2007/12/29

Craft Christmas card

This is the card I made for Al."Crazy one" in his words.I think this is just right for that kinda person who posted a sock with holes to her girl as a present.Tongue out



















2007/12/23

These days

Will go home on 31st.The last exam comes on 30th.Happy that Al has booked the flight coming to Shenyang on Feb,18th.He's been very excited recently.The dream to be together is coming true,in his own words.We will have known each other for 2 years till Jan,6th.A long time we have been waiting for to meet.And now I'm feeling very calm.Even nervous.

    Been depressed these days,feeling scared to think of the future and dwelling in asking what I want at all,as a person and a female.Read the book The Dogs of Babel.It's about a widower's memories of his wife after her suicide.Saw a movie called The Hours which is based on a novel of Virginia Woolf-kinda autobiological film,telling three persons' lives in struggling between suicide and live.



2007/12/18

The Hours

To look life in the face,always to look life in the face.And to know it for what it is,at last to know it.To love it for what it is and then to put it away.

Always the years between us,always the years,always the love,always the hours.

--Virginia Woolf




2007/10/25

Time for my return

Thanks for Clear's calling tonight to give me the guidance.

I need to calm down and get peaceful.Seeking jobs is a process of long distance running.A fast start may not keep you forward forever.Those runners who keep steady pace have more possiblity to exceed instead.I have to trust myself I'm as excellent as those gradutes from Peking Uni and Tsinghua.They may not have something I have,and I will gain something they own if I continue the hardwork like in summer- doing well at each step,in each stuff.

There are so many things I need to learn.Maybe more I need is to review the professional knowledge before I'm stucked by some easy quesitons in interviews.


2007/10/4

The lost dream land

Everything becomes so empty.My life is starting to turn barren and inane.I’m feeling life is lacking its spices little by little.Frustration and depression are continuing their despotic control since my returning from Beijing.I feel I’m becoming hardly interested in anything-had not much heart to pick up the charcoals to wreak,lost the patience to watch a movie,couldn’t finish a book I want to read,hardly concentrate on preparing for applying for jobs… I feel fickle to enjoy the life.

      I remember when I was young,how joyful it was to lie on the bed,close my eyes with the radio in a simple afternoon.The sunshine could reach inside of the room which was warm…The peace existed in my reading of a novel quietly along the whole afternoon.The peace existed in some of my doodles,exsisted in my writing those fantastic and unrealistic stories in my diary,existed in my imagination from the clouds outside the window.I could feel satisfied in such an afternoon…The young me pictured a harmonious ideal land as a goal of my life.

      Passion is lost right now.It hides somewhere,whirls away a feeling called enthusiasm in my heart.And I’m living without it these days in some dumb climate of the mind.This is excruciating,for me.

      Is it because I’m closer to the loaves and fishes,farther from my peaceful little dream?Am I more and more attracted to the material world’s Vanity Fair?Life is losing more and more color to me.I begin to reconsider the meaning of life.Someone has been experiencing sufferings all life and living feelinglessly.Why there is torments and misery.I commiserate over my mother’s life.All her life is to take care of her daughter and the family.She worked extremely hard to help father run the restaurant and have been bearing the poverty and unhappy marriage.Until now,she becomes single.When I realised this poor lonely woman is my mother who is living on 500yuan earned per month.It seemed like any beautiful thing in life becomes brutal to me.My eyes became blurry.I can’t see the dream land clearly.My passion is fading away in me.I refused to live like others while some unknown evil is hitting me.I don’t know what’s that.

     It feels like my spirit is closed down.It’s getting empty. While I’m getting heavier,falling down and down…with the powerless body,down and down.

2007/8/14

24th,July

Al doubted this was what I would like to do.I can't give answers just corrently.I just started this.This is a exciting begging.I only know I have been looking fowards to this for so long.And as the newiest newbie,I could only do some basic jobs like typing or something.No matter what I do,what I need to do is just to finish it excellently.Just see over a week ago,how I arrived here with so much nerve.Alone,arrived in Beijng,and had decided to go to seek housing myself,without no one's accompany.I really thought it would be not that hard,or what I had been thinking of was adventure.Yes,I took this summer as an adventure and myself's wander.One girl,with her packings,steps on a strange road,for reaching her goals.This is indeed romantic,but also realistics.When I got on the train,some kind college students shared me their seats.I asked for one of my HS calssmate's mobile number and sent him a message which showed how pathetic I was.I told him "I'm gonna get to Beijing at 1:30pm.I haven't found any places to live in yet.I'm alone with my luggage including a laptop that I need to take care of.Do you have time this afternoon?Would you like to come to pick me up at the station?"My boyfriend said it feels like I was a really girl.I was indeed at that time.Fears were in me at that moment.And very nice Li Lin is,he came to pick me up one hour later after I got off the train and waited in the KFC in a rainy afternoon.I was sorehead in Beijing.
       It was a right decision to ask someone to pick me up and accompany me to look for places.Lin and I had been looking for places to live in since we left the railway station.We went to Peking University,asked for ways to reach the rest houses.But it turned out that all the accomodation were used up.Followed by that,after we returned to Techo University,we found that the hotels around Lin's university were used up too.Grrrr...My feet hurt very much,felt like broken.Lin was also very hungry.He hadn't eaten for a whole day.He treated me for dinner in the refectory.I ate alot--over one bowl of rice.Lin texted Chen Zheng for help.Thanks goodness.Some girls in his class had gone home,so I could stealed in the dorm to live...Li Lin got a break finally with me.I appreciated him very much to accompany me through the way.Chen Zheng was also earnest to help me out and his classmate Dan is a considerate girl...So many thanks in Beijing.
       Beijing is a such a large place that you could get lost so easily.But everyone can finally find their own positions in it.I never wanted to quit no matter what in this interesting trip.
       To be continued.