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In the spring

Posted by Micle Lee on April 3, 2011
It was a song created by a chinese pop. star WangFeng.It was a group of two farmer workers named "Xu Ri Yang Gang" that made it well known.The song really moved me when i was watching a singer contest holded by CCTV in the television.The two farmer brothers,who looked very simple,put all their passion in this song.The lyric of the song is very grace,as a result,i want to translate it into english.In the springWang FengI still remember that spring many many years agowhen i was a boy with long hairI didn't have a credit card and a GFas well as a home with hot water supplybut i was so happythought i only had a worn guitarI sang the noteless songs on the street,under the bridge,in the farmIf i become a helpless old man one dayplease let me live in the ever happy timesIf i pass away silently one dayplease bury me in the springI still remember those lonely springsWhen i was a boy without beardwithout valentine day and gift as well as my dear little princessbut i felt everything was not so badthough i only had a fantasy about loveI sang the noteless songs in the mornings and the eveningsMaybe i will become a helpless old man one dayplease let me live in the ever happy timesIf i pass away silently one dayplease bury me in the springWhen i look at the brilliant sights in the springit is still as worm as it used to beNow i am a man with short hair and beardThe ever pain has gone with the windbut i feel so sadbecause the ages have put me in further confusionI cant help weeping in the sunny spring daysMaybe i will become a helpless old man one dayplease let me live in the ever happy timesIf i pass away silently one dayplease bury me in the springIf i become a helpless old man one dayplease let me live in the ever happy timesIf i pass away silently one dayplease bury me in the spring
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Those disaster profiteers will be punished by the God

Posted by Micle Lee on March 27, 2011
As one nuclear power plant in Japan was damaged in a massive earthquake two weeks ago,radiation is still beening emitted in the atmosphere.There was a panic in China that the radiation will drift through the sea or air from Japan to China.Therefore,some greedy businessmen took advantage of the panic to seek excessive profits.They preached that Iodine in the common salt could protect people from the harms of radiation,and then they raised salt price by reserving huge amount of salt.In order to be immune from threat of the coming radiation,citizens living in the coastal cities started to purchase salt immoderately, which again improved salt price.This event got into vicious cycle.Salt became out of stock in some coastal cities,especially in Hang Zhou.People in these cities plunged into further panic because salt price increased continually and it was harder and harder for them to buy salt.

    Netizens were interested in making fun of the "salt panic".My friend said to me secretly the other day "Hi,man.Guess what?I have two packages of salt,and i want to exchange an apartment in the center of the city.HoHo!"As we all know that house price in cities in China is very expensive for citizens,i answered him "No,that is in vain.You can exchange your salt with an apartment in the suburb at most.But i can afford an apartment in the urban area because i have three packages of salt.Hahaha……”“You profiteer.Now i'm a cop and i will arrest you!" "Have mercy on me,sir.If you condone me,i will give you one package in exchange." "No.Only two packages will be oK" "As you wish,you vicious cop" "Hahaha……"This kind of funny stories happened every now and then among my friends.

   However,the government responsed to the "salt panic" immediately and made several policies to guarantee providing of salt in the  coastal cities.And some greedy merchantmen were soon arrested for rumor mongering.

    Those disaster profiteers will be punished by God because of their disgrace behaviours.

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my dear friend Xiao Mi

Posted by Micle Lee on March 25, 2011
my friend-tutor Xiao Mi
   I knew a vietnamese girl Xi Mi last year,when guys in my dorm was suddenly interested in making friends with foriegn people.I still clearly remember that night when i had an idea of practicing english through chatting with people from other countries and suggested my roommates to carry out the plan.As a result,they started to download all kinds of chat softwares including "Zing chat" that was said to be a popular chat tool in vietnam.However,it was rather hard for us to register a "zing" account because the software was a vietnamese version.Nevertheless,we bothered to get our accounts by translating the strange words into chinese through electric interpreter.Now it was the first time we could make friends with foreign people,so we added friends in "zing" frequently one by one,feeling so excited,and chatted with them.However,few people would believe that the guys using "zing" came from China,so minority of them replied us.Fortunately,there was a girl chatting with us with passion,and that was Xiao Mi.At first,it was my roommate Wei Ke who chatted with her.Then she was introduced to me.

   Soon after i knew her,we became good friends because i found she was an interesting chat partner.She was a funny girl with a humorus sense.We made fun of her friends and my friends.In addition, she called Wei Kei my wife.Our chatting was so interesting that i was extremely addicted to it,and she seemed interested in it too.As a result,we chatted for about 3 hours almost every day till it was very late in the night.However,we were all students who had to study,so we reduced the time of talking after the initial passion faded.Though we did not keep chatting everyday,we still chatted with each other whenever we were at leisure.Sometimes,i would feel depressed because of the boring things in my life,but the unhappy emotions would disappear after enjoying the funny dialogue.

   Once,Xiao Mi said all at a sudden that i would lose my passion in the talking and give up contacting with her one day.But i did not agree with her because,in my opinion,a friend is someone who deserves my forever care,help as well as kindness,not to mention the contact between us."i will keep in touch with you all my life" i said.As i consider Xi Mi as one of my best friends,i really care for her health.It is good for health to go to bed early and have enough sleep,but Xiao Mi always sleeps late in the night.Take care of yourself girl,please go to bed early if you can,OK?

   Xiao Mi is not only my good friend but also my tutor in learning enlish.As english is her major,her english is really very good.Therefore, i regarded her as my tutor.Every time,i enjoyed the interesting talk between us,and in the meantime i improved my english.Recently,i started to write diary in english in order to further improve my english.But my writting was really poor.If i dont have anyone to correct my mistakes in the essays,i wont learn anyting from my writting.Therefore,i invited Xiao Mi to be my checker which was an absolutely suitable occupation for her,as she was a rather practiced checher.I asked Xiao Mi to point out my mistakes in the artitle when i finished my first diary Several days ago.I was definitely touched when i saw the corrected version of my essay which was carefully revised by Xiao Mi with so many comments and advice in it.Hence,i read the precious version for several times,and got a lot out of it.I must say thank you again,my dear friend,because you did me a favour when i need it so much.

   Ok,just stop here,though i have so many to say.May our friendship last forever.

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morning

Posted by Micle Lee on March 22, 2011
"Study is a process of input and output" said an educational specialist "in the one hand,if you only input ignoring output you cant study effectively.In the other hand,what can you output if you havent got enough input?" The fact that i always forgot the words which i have just learnt denotes that my output is not enough.Writting can improve my learning efficiency as it is a good way to output.Moreover, i'm lucky to have my friend also tutor xiao mi to check my essays for me.That will bring me many advantages as xiao mi is really a practised checker.

At last i could struggle to get up at 8:00 am this morning.Morning is precious for study and health.Firstly,it is the most effective time for reciting words and articles as we have good memories in the morning.Secondly,in order to keep fit is very important to have breakfast in the morning (as is said in xiao mi's article).But these days i just let sleeping steal my precious time away.What a shame.We learnt many quotations about cherishing time when we were elementary school students,for example "An inch of time deserves an inch of gold,but you cant buy an inch of time with an inch of gold" and "An idle youth a needy age ".Therefore,i became an industrious student in the middle school when i was old enough to understand the quotations.

I still remember those days especially the summer holiday of my second year in junior school.Everyday i got up at dawn and then went to the roof of our house to study as it seldom rained in the summer morning in my hometown. The sight was so broad because i stood at a high stage ,and the air was so fresh.The light was dim as the sun hadnt yet risen and the surrounding was silent except when a car passed away on the road beside my house.I read out loudly while the voice echoed in the valleys and farms ahead.The light was geting brighter and brighter when i was indulged in reading.Slowly the edge of the sun came out and the colour cloud surrouding it looked so brilliant that i wanted to yelled out because of the beauty of the nature.At last the shy sun with red face reluctantly showed herself before me.Look at the surrounding,what a bright world!Every morning i enjoyed the beautiful landscape and enjoyable situation while i was advancing my study.Those days i was so fullfilling and so happy.

But i started to lose the mornings when i entered the university.Every morning i just indulged myself in sleeping ignoring the beautiful landscape and fresh air.I was wasting my life.I got the habit to sleep late from then on.But i must change the habit from now on.I cant yield to my lazyness anymore.

The college english test band 6 is coming and i must do my best to pass the exam this time.It is said that you are confident the first time you do one thing,and you will feel frustrated the second time you do the same thing,moreover,you will give up at the third time.Therefore,try you best to succeed at the first time.
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Tactics to increase life expectancy

Posted by Micle Lee on March 21, 2011
When looking at the title, please do not think that I am a girl of science. It was just because the teacher required me to read some articles from the book "Topic for Today" and make a critical response to hand in next week. Anyway, a essay named "Who lives longer" somewhat interested me, so I decided to write a summary in order to have a short review on the article before going to bed and share with you some "tactics to increase life expectancy".　　　According to what I have learnt in Biology and petty knowledge from "nearly a decade" of reading health magazines for my grandfather , I assure that women were born to live seven or eight years longer than men because of the difference in gene structure. (of course, everyone is well-aware of it without my mention). Apart from gender, race and heredity are also decisive factors to life expectancy. He called those factors "fixed factors" - you cannot change it.　　　　What you can only do to increase your life span is change the "changeable factors" - your longevity is within your ability to control. : Women can add up to 7 years to their lives and men 11 - 12 years. This part includes new knowledge to me, and obviously interested me most.- Health practices:1. Don't smoke2. If you drink, do so moderately (don't be like this　)3. Eat breakfast regularly (I know this before, hoho)4. Don't eat between meals (it's difficult) 　5. Maintain normal weight (impossible) 　　　6. Sleep about eight hours at night (if you sleep more or less than eight hours, your life expectancy will be minus - My's addition, hehe)7. Exercise moderately (don't overdose anything even when you like it)Cutting calories (eating less) has an incredible effect on the aging process. It is the best change you can make to lengthen your life span. It was unbelievable to me.- Social integration (social relationship): If you are a part of a family network, are married, participate in structured group, you live longer. However, to women, larger networks of relationship tend to be not advantageous to them all the time. For some women, increase in relationship means increase in demands.- Job satisfaction: if you have a good, desirable job, you are likely to live longer- Environment: don't live in polluted environment (is there any place unpolluted in the world to live?)　　　Though everything is just theory, hope that people who read it will somehow find it interesting and most importantly, lengthen their lives.
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Storms and My Future

Posted by Micle Lee on March 18, 2011
　　　Yesterday was a day of storms. A mild spring storm suddenly came when we were in class, brought along heavy rain and numb wind. It was such a long time since we last witnessed a storm. It was so cold and wet that my classmate and I could not help shivering under my umbrella. Luckily, the storm soon grew mild and the rain stopped, making way for another storm to come. It was a storm created by amateur singers and dancers as well as many energetic audiences' yell and applause. Contrary to the first storm, this one definitely warmed everyone up in the numb weather. Then came a storm of emotion when my mother called and reminded me to wear warm clothes and go to bed early. At midnight, the last storm - my classmates' writings - struck me and stole my sleep away. I must call it "storm" because it did panic me when seeing a lot of unread emails with the same content, "Give me some comments".　 　　Today, the storms have all gone away. Walking on the watery street to school, I could clearly feel what the storms left inside and outside me: rain, cold, grey clouds - the first storm's outcomes, eagerness, happiness- the second storm's, emotion - the third storm's, dizziness, sleepiness - the last storm's. It was “last but not least” outcomes because what it left were so awful. I thought I would not learn anything, but the teacher of English Teaching Methodology was definitely powerful when making a sleepy girl focusing on the lecture. It was absolutely a wonderful class which helped me realize how much I liked the pedagogical atmosphere and made up my mind to pursue my career.　　　The first wonderful thing was that students are very creative and funny. When the teacher was illustrating his dry theory with an interesting story like this, "I met a girl with long, black hair and long legs...", my friend, after being distracted by a phone message, asked me, "what is long, black?". I replied, "He met a girl with long, black legs", unnoticed that I spoke too loud. The whole class, even the lecturer, laughed loudly and woke all sleepy classmates up. Then, by deliberately misspelling a Vietnamese word, another classmate translated it from "a bit tough" into "boys' smell". Once again, the lecturer could not help grinning. There were many other funny stories. So, students are surely a big source of fun to the teacher, and the teacher was surely an achiever when being able to involve the sleepy students in his lesson. I wish I would possess this source and become an achiever in the future.　　　The second wonderful thing was his series of stories when he first started his career. Who could imagine that a male teacher cried when his students were uninterested in the lessons? He did. Anyone of us knew clearly that teaching life was not only a collection of fun and achievement but also a bad record of tear and disappointment. I did cry sometimes during three years as a tutor. However, after all, none of us could deny the great sense of self-fulfillment when students show their improvement or just a little affection for their teacher, and also the new, fresh viewpoint students form in their teacher. I said "I did cry sometimes", but not only because of my students' laziness or stubbornness but also because I was touched by their lovely achievement at the end of the summer courses and the cute childish affection they showed me whenever they met me though I was not their official teacher.　　　Some friends of mine said, "High school students are terrible, they are not as simple as the children you've taught. Change your job” and their advice did shake me. However, now I am determined enough to tell my friends, "I will be a teacher. Remember to send your children to me in the future, and flatter me from now on, or else your children will get low marks". Hoho.　　　There were many beautiful things after the storms!
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A Hollow Tree

Posted by Micle Lee on February 27, 2011
It is a beautiful sunny day! I stood on the narrow balcony to enjoy the warmth of sunlight on my skin. Funnily, what struck my eyes was that the cat in the neighboring house was also lying on the lobby, exposing its white furry belly in the sparkling light, unaware of another “kitty” looking at it. At that moment, the little creature was no longer a hateful intruder rummaging my waste-basket but shared with me the sense of comfort in this rare beautiful day. For a while, I thought my soul was like a hollow tree in the wood; it used to be stunted, silent, isolated and surly with other surrounding creatures. And then, Spring’s warm breath passed by, taking away hate, anger, worry long existing inside the hollow tree, leaving warmth and peace there.That is what I felt two hours ago. I have stepped out from the peaceful hollow tree to come back to reality. It is another world which is full of passions: passion for learning, passion for success, passion for entertainment, etc; all of such passions serve the highest one: passion to win other people’s sympathy, respect and love. Now I am afraid that too many passions will burn me down into nothing one day as my ability to indulge them is limited. Having so many passions really burdens my soul; it usually fills me with hate, worry, disappointment, but luckily no envy. I am sometimes urged to return to my hollow tree right after I step out of it. However, I am not very coward. If I cannot get rid of any passions because all of them are essential, the only way to avoid burning down is making them come true, one by one.What about the hollow tree? It will be forever a peaceful place for me to hide myself, but just for a while. There I will hollow my burdensome soul and make it ready to be filled with brand-new challenges and feelings.
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My grandfather

Posted by Micle Lee on December 4, 2010
My grandfatherMy grandfather went off when I was only five years old, but he always lives in my heart.He was a teacher in elementary school, and also the principal. He used to take me to school with his bicycle so that I was very interested in school life even when I was still too young to study in school. I was afraid of my grandfather because he was very strict in me after I was enrolled in school. Once, my grandfather was very angry and confined me in his room for the whole day, when he was told that I made trouble in my class ignoring the teacher’s warning. I can hardly remember my grandfather’s appearance because he left us when I was very young, but I have been bitterly missing him as I grow up year after year knowing that he loved me very much and wanted me to study hard to become a useful man.My grandfather worked very hard and every one who knows him praises him for his diligence. Every day he got to school very early in the morning and started his work in dim light at dawn. Each of his students considers him to be a good teacher who not only told students how to acquire knowledge but also how to live their lives happily, and they respect him because of his kindness.I love my grandfather and regard him who was diligent in work all his life as my model. I can’t forget his smile and his hope for me, and I have been doing my best to be a useful man like him.
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