Now What?

Well, there are so many things on this list that I may not get a chance to complete them, but as for now, the closest thing appearing a chance in my life is to keep my two 40S English courses averaging over 75%, because this is the way to go into the university directly without any wasting of time on English intensive training for me (probably one year since some of the faculties only have one entry day each year), as well as all of the international students. To accomplish it, on one hand, as what I am doing now, I’m trying to bring my marks up with the effort I have put in this big final project that honestly I have never done so much on any other assignments or projects ‘cause I do realize how meaningful this project is. On the other hand, I also have English 40SC in the afternoon class with also Ms. Mclauchlan and I am having the provincial exam these days. Hopefully, I will do well. So basically this is the blueprint of how am I attacking one of the item from the list. 

Personal Addition: Watermelon

Summer has arrived, my favorite fruit is getting grown- watermelon. I bought a watermelon and ate it entirely as I'm watching NBA finals, so enjoy it! 

Personal Addition: Annoyance in My Everyday Life

When I look at this title, I ask myself what is the annoyance in my everyday life? Maybe, is there not enough money for me to spend? Are there not enough beautiful clothes for me to wear? Is there not enough free time for me to enjoy myself? Thinking it over again and again, I feel that the biggest annoyance in my daily life is that I don’t know what I want in my life on earth. Perhaps to some extent I do not know myself clearly. In my opinion, there are at least three troubles I care about most at present.

Firstly , what kind of boy I really want to have as my boyfriend? It sounds a bit strange, but it annoys me sometimes. Should he be tall and handsome? Should he be rich and bright to satisfy my vanity or just an ordinary person but who loves me deeply? The one I like or the one who likes me? Should who loves whom more? Should I refuse him in the campus because we are still young, and can not decide the city we will live in yet. If we can’t find jobs in the same city, what will happen then?

Secondly , It is shameful that i still don’t know the purpose of my study and what my study aims at. What’s more, I did not make it. Do I study just for obtaining the diploma in order to find a better job? Or learning much more knowledge of the theory? Maybe I am a bit tired of learning; occasionally I will feel confused and disappointed. I wonder whether I am wasting my time and making no progress. I dislike this feeling at all.


Thirdly, what kind of job I really hope for in future?. I had various colorful dreams when I was a child. With the time passing by, I seem to lose all of my dreams, even I can not remember clearly some of them, or I do not have the passion to make them come true . What is the most awful thing that I am still uncertain about what type of job will fit me according to my character and quality.

Maybe you will say I am a poor guy, because I have been an adult and can not catch the meaning of life yet, even I do not know what I need indeed. However, as the saying goes, “Knowing how to be the owner, but not the salve, of my own life is actually a kind of knowledge”. Therefore,I believe that I will know the key to all of above doubts one day!

Personal Addition: Love and Learning

Towards love and learning, college teachers and students hold controversial views.

The majority of college teachers, especially elder teachers, argue that students should give up love and concentrate on learning. They say that campus love is time-and-energy-consuming and tears students away from their main task. If a student ever falls in love, he/she will undoubtedly neglect his/her studies and gradually lag behind his /her classmates. A few teachers, therefore, suggest that the university authorities restore the traditional regulation against love during students' school years.

On the contrary, students hold that it is natural for young people to fall in love on the campus because they meet every day and their everyday meeting produces romantic passion towards each other. They insist that the campus is not the Gardan of Eden and love is not the Forbidden Tree. They take for example some of their friends who, falling in love, are studying harder and have made greater progress to please their boy/girlfriends.

In my opinion, both views are lop-sided.If a student does not give himself/herself away in love but takes it as a drive, love produces positive effect. But if he/she indulges himself/herself too deeply in love, then he/she will be a devoted lover but a frustrated learner.

Personal Addition: Wonderful Day

Today, when I got home, I noticed there was an envelope on my desk, honestly I never expected it would come so suddenly, that was my acceptance from U of M, Direct Entry to Engineering. I got so excited because being an engineer is always my dream since I was a child, I told myself that's my hobby my dream and future.

But when this day is really coming, I can't even sit tightly as well as my heart. 

Even more, I've been rewarded $1400 as entrance scholarship, omg, I'm so excited!

But still, I have another thing to worry about that my two 40S English courses have to be averaging over 75% or I will have to go to the English language center to take a intensive English training which I never wanted to go. So, from now on, from this last project "The Buried Life", I'm going to put double effort on this than usual. 

100 things I want to do before I die

100 things I want to do before I die

1.   Go camping.
2.   Witness an eclipse
3.   Learn how to skateboard
4.   Dive in the ocean
5.   Meet Kobe Bryant
6.   Go to Staples and watch a Lakers game
7.   Speak English well
8.   Learn to say “Hello” in 50 languages
9.   Learn to play one of instrument.
10.  Make a donation to charity
11.  Save a life
12.  Go to The North Pole
13.  Plant a tree
14.  Get to know my neighbors
15.  Be someone’s mentor
16.  Write a novel
17.  Experience weightlessness
18.  Sleep under stars
19.  Find a job I love
20.  Grow a garden
21.  Go up in a hot-air balloon
22.  Attend a crazy rock concert
23.  Run a Marathon
24.  Travel Europe
25.  Fall in love
26.  Reach 100 items on this list (which is in process)
27.  Collect at least 10 kinds of currency
28.  Donate blood
29.  Visit a castle
30.  Shower in waterfall
31.  Get a university degree
32.  Have a child
33.  Create my own computer game
34.  Create my own web site
35.  Be an extra in a film
36.  Help my parents to get a wonderful life
37.  Ride a camel into the desert
38.  Be a member of the audience in a TV show
39.  Spend a whole day reading a great novel
40.  Spend a whole day eating junk food without guilty
41.  Visit the Holy Wood
42.  Get a driver license
43.  Feed a cute dog
44.  Give my mother a dozen red roses and say “I love you”
45.  Swim with a dolphin
46.  Write a song
47.  Be absolute confident for myself
48.  Meet my classmates in Senior High
49.  Learn how to cook
50.  Visit The White House
51.  Adopt a baby
52.  Become a vegetarian(nearly impossible)
53.  Take a picture with a panda
54.  Send a message in a bottle and float it in ocean
55.  Go to space(Absolute impossible)
56.  Learn a magic trick
57.  Race a racing car
58.  Get two 40S English courses averaging over 75%
59.  Become a millionaire
60.  Climb to the top of a mountain
61.  Have a pen pal
62.  Learn how to dance
63.  Eat one of the best restaurant in the world
64.  Apologize to any one I might have wronged
65.  Fly first class
66.  Shoot a gun
67.  Ride a horse
68.  Give my grandma and grandpa a great surprise that I will be successful
69.  Watch a full moon
70.  Walk on the Great wall
71.  Get really drunk
72.  Experience a destructive storm
73.  Give a speech in public
74.  Be a great father
75.  Have my own business and be a boss

                             To be continued...

Personal Addition: My reflection on a professor’s death.

The news of a doctorate supervisor in Renmin University who committed suicide by jumping off a high-rise shocked me, an event that makes people reflect on China’s educational system and those teaching staff’s life and working situation. It is widely said that teachers and other working staff in China’s universities are in the pinch, they not only working under piles of teaching burdens, but also urged to hone their academic competence by reading voluminously and time and now called on to publish their researches in great academic magazines.  A saying of “publish or perish” that mockingly tells about pressure, under which many foreign universities’ faculty is working, is now quoted by many Chinese teachers.

It seems that all these are the faults with the educational systems, but is it the case only with teachers in China? If we shift our focus to other fields, we may as well be saddened by the plights or even be astounded by the unbearable conditions lived through by many professionals. Stressful work and quickening tempo of life is the feature of modern life and society. Those of easy life and pleasant environment have been estranged from us, already something available only in reminiscences of humans.

Difficulties are there, confronting us; therefore we should face them squarely. There is no escape that can help free us from the dungeon. We need teeth and will to counter everything that is running against us. God will forgive us if we fail in our trying and endeavor, but will not forgive us if we retreat before challenges. God will confer us rewards if we are sparing no efforts, but will not spare us penalties if we back away.

Therefore, we need a good mentality and take the job as the source of our happiness. The work we are doing seems drudgery to many a people, but at least it can serve a moderate purpose: filling our time. At least, people do not have to think about what should be done to dawdle away time. But the function of time-filler of a work is not a full story of the work. It should be the one from which a great pleasure can be derived. But how can we wring the happiness from the drabness of our work. First of all, we should love our work and realize that stress is the driving force that can beef us up to challenges. We need a certain amount of stress and intensity in our work and life to keep us on the run. It is like a chess playing. The tougher the game is, the greater joy the player will get.
 

Any extreme act to shun stress is, in my eyes, an act of coward. Death is the end of one’s life, but will cause unending agony of his family and relatives. It is irresponsible and thus despicable.

Life is invaluable and cannot be recovered if it is lost. Please value our life and do our bits for society. Believe that any life has its due role and is justified in surviving this world.