mavis's profileMavis -- targeting trave...PhotosBlogListsMore ![]() | Help |
|
January 01 MovedSeptember 16 Hard TimeThere is so much hard time in the year 2008
My hard time, my family's hard time, and the country's hard time, and the world's hard time
I am sure we can go through all the hard time
As long as we are together
And I believe we ARE together
ALWAYS..
All the best for you.. March 04 Two HeartsA phone call, a small word, or something you just sense From which you feel solicitude of someone you miss It is so touched that you are in tears Though it is thousands of miles away It feels like they are in one city… or It is just out there… December 03 Party in the Villa When I was hanging around with Ziyu today, Leoniou called and invited us to join their party, cause their company has just moved their office. So after we had dinner in Zhong Xin Ming Cai, we went to the villa. It was three-stroey villa which was European like and graceful. The party was held in the basement and every body was having fun enjoying their buffey, singing and chatting when we arrived there. Haha... although i was a bit full after a small Japanese meal, I think was still able to kill some of the food there.
There was a small red wine cellar with constant temperture beside the dinner hall. Leoniou said all wine was imported from France and explained to us what was the best way keeping a bottle of red wine fresh and mellow (wow... seems quite an expert). Haha... we guys really had a great chat with Leoniou's mother, who is the director of the company. She is such a intelligent woman and is alway willing to share her experience and ideas with us. Through what she talked, I really feel that she wishes our generation a good future within this developed and competetive amosphere.
At the end, Leoniou showed us around the villa. WOWW!! That was really like an luxious place of European style, since everything was classically elegant. Imagine you holding a glass of red wine, sitting arount a small table decorated with classical European design with two or three friend who you have not met for long time and with whom you are having casual chat, if that's a dream, I would never let myself wake from it.
September 18 Presious Moment Together~When I opened the folder “University” in my PC, it seems like going back three months ago… or even three years. That’s totally different kind of life. All guys were still together, familiar places and familiar people. You never believe that it has become the past. Even we return to the same place with the same surroundings, we can never give the same smile with the same mind… Forever memories I always treasure My student age... August 23 NEW!Everything is new!
I am gonna be a new new Mavis!
A new space to live
A new way doing things
A new way knowing people
A new way learning
And new challenges!
Welcome come, CHANGES!
Still targeting the same dream… July 20 Maman MaryamMaman Maryam’s gone back to Iran. She’s such a kind lady that even the first time I met her I felt warmness and kindness in the heart.
This morning she came to the office wearing tradition Iranian clothes cause she’s going back today. Suddenly she sang in the office in Persian, her voice is so beautiful that even without music you feel the typical Arabic style. Her voice was so touched that I don’t know why I had feeling that I wanted to cry. She sang, and even dances with soft and grace posture. Everybody’s eye was just captured by Maryam, smiling and eye moving as her. She told us her stories when she was a kid, she likes singing and dancing and had been a talented small girl when she was 9 or 10. You never imagine how gorgeous she was. I never forget the delicious Iranian food she cooked for us, and where she goes, happiness is there. June 03 One Moment In TimeSong of FIFA World Cup 2006 Germany
I keep listening, listening and listening... over and over again...
One Moment In Time Whitney Houston
Each day I live I want to be a day to give the best of me I’m only one, but not alone My finest day is yet unknown I broke my heart for every gain To taste the sweet I faced the pain I rise and fall, yet through it all This much remains
I want one moment in the time When I’m more than I thought I could be When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away And the answers are all up to me Give me one moment in time When I’m racing with destiny Then in that one moment of time I will feel I will feel eternity ......
So exited feeling I had hearing this song and tears were likely to come out. That’s what I have been wanting to be, to experience more, and to prove how much I can do and how far I can go. I have been performing a one-take action which I want to be rich in happiness, sorrow, sadness and anger, all kinds of tastes. "I want one moment in the time. When I’m more than I thought I could be." And the point is: "And the answers are all up to me" May 02 Hard TimeThis is really a hard time, not physically, but I just feel it so hard, family, the future… many many things are not sure. Who knows where is my direction?
For family, I could really find no space for me at home. I had thought this over and over again, the problem is not that they always keep an eye on me, actually, I know they have been trying hard to give me more freedom. It is not their fault. But the point is I really need private space, which is extremely hard to meet. That’s the headache. After I have graduated, no dorm to go, where to go?
For future, sometimes it seems clear, sometimes vague. Will I really go this way? Should I find some other way out? Do I really have to go that way finally? I really can’t tell… and no one can tell... The unknown always makes fearfulness and confusion. That’s what cross-road feels like. Uneasy And hard
TALK TO MYSELF: Keep seeing things with your own eyes, judge by yourself, believe yourself. Be confident that you can handle all these things! Those tiny little words are just reference. You yourself are the decision maker! Sunshine’s waiting for you! April 21 Gloomy Days ~~So many foreigners in the office these days, but what I hear is just “blahblah.. blahhh…” I totally have no idea what they are talking about. French?! Arabic?! What the hell is this language, huh?!
Search. Search. Search!! Why the hell I am always searching!!! Sitting! Typing! Phoning!! What crazy shit!! GOD!! $-$
What I want to so is going to the market! The real one! Not that electronic and abstract market in the internet! Apart from the price, the shape of items, maybe.. those searching skills, what I can know from that “market” huh?! GOD!!
I just find myself an office-sitter, always keep in-door, and stay far away from the ever-changing, colorful and information market!!! Damn hate! Hate!!
Gloomy … April 14 !@#$%^&They always have so many questions!! Too many!!! Sometimes I really don’s know, they always ask. I just could not endure, finally said: “Why do you always have so many questions? Do you want to go to the black list?” “What does the second sentence mean? You think your mother knows much English?” I knew I had gone far, but I really don’t want them to keep an eye on me that way, even I am on the internet! I just feel no freedom. But they are my parents, what can I do? I am not a child! But I am always treated like a child!! I know they want me to have a stable job. But for me, stableness is not so important at this stage. This moment I only want to know more, and not to be ignorant, where I can learn, where I will go. That’s it. March 20 Wishes to the HeavenHow familiar a person One day you are told She has left forever You don’t believe But that’s the reality
Wish her happy in the next world
God bless! March 10 Talk to Myself Again…This's gonna be the most leisure time during my whole university life, maybe using the word decadent would be more appropriate: get up at eight thirty or nine in the morning; sit at the computer, and check out the information needed for the final thesis, enjoying a cup of tea; watch an episode of soap opera during the “short” break, or listen to a track of Jay…
Well… the final thesis seems to be an excuse for taking a long break, since almost anyone of us agree that, if urgent, it only takes one week to compose a 5000-word essay. Some are even planning a fun trip during this “extra holiday”… mmm…then where to go?? Sichuan.. Beijing.. or…Yangshuo? Fenghuang??..
NONONONONOOO!!!!!!..... STOP IT!!!
I should cheer UP!!!! And UP, and UP!! And target a good JOB!! Then my DREAM!!! BE SENSIBLE!!
March 07 Talk to MyselfHow much energy you have put in, and how much reward you will reap. Almost everyone knows it is universal truth, while how many persons will apply this rule to real action? I am such kind of person.
We are always confronted with a bunch of unpleasant choices, and we have to face failure one after another, even without an interval. Bad luck does not come singly, but in pairs, always. Someone says: “How much you have suffered, then how much you are going to benefit.” Do things really go this way? “Life is telling the truth anytime, anywhere.” A passerby commented in my blog. Suffering, painfulness and depression, if all these are the truth ever, isn’t life kind of disappointment? March 06 No TitleThe TEM8 is over. If there’s ever one word to describe it: HARD! I thought I would have so much to say about it, but when I am sitting in front of the screen, speechless. Any words seem to be nonsense. Just let the past be passed.
Sitting in the dorm, facing the monitor, not knowing what to do… damn hate such situation!!! February 27 Birthday Dinner Feb. 26Joy invited me to her birthday dinner the other day, and she would pay the bill. She also asked some friends there, one of whom is a German. He kept silent for most of the time, hehe… because he doesn’t speak Chinese. He seemed a little clumsy using the chopsticks, but, with his left hand…Cool~~!! I think he’s quite nice, and he gave his wishes to the birthday girl in German, that’s really amazing…I met Sandy, who was Joy’s student before, for the first time as well. Well… she has already been quite a capable lady at such a young age, one year older than us. When Joy told us her birthday wishes after blowing out the birthday candles, Sandy said: “These are all that I have fulfilled.” Rachel also came. She and Joy had a quarrel, but I think they have become friends again. I also met Joy’s two brothers, this was the first time, though I have seen so many photos of them before… hehe, the younger one is really an “in” guy, plus~~, I bet he must have put so much jelly on his hair. The elder one seemed a hard-working student. The brothers are like twins. I felt the whole family was really warm and sweet. Well… I think that Rachel, Sandy and Joy are all like business women, well… but they actually are already business women. It made me feel that we are really heading for different destination right now. Hehe… anyway, this was a happy dinner.
PS: The campus network is damn slow!! I should have published this article yesterday, but it was impossible to open any MSN website!! February 25 Dream LifeI had a talk with Joy the other day, and I checked her space. She talked her life. What kind of life we are going to live is the hottest topic among us these days. Most of my former classmates are going to do the post-graduate degree, due to their excellent job in university; some are trying to fight for that degree through the entrance exam; for the rest, they are sure to go into the society. Probably, I am the third type.
Joy’s article makes me to consider this matter again.
After working in the trade fair, I found that the commercial world does not appeal to me, though doing commercial business may be very profitable. I still remember one of the bosses said: “There’s no one showing their true face in the commercial market, everybody only has the single mind of how to make more money.” It would be so tired that you are always facing foxes at any time, physically and mentally.
Having lived in this city for so many years, I find it is becoming more commercial and developed. however, it is now an unsafe place for people to live. Robbery and stealing could strike you any time, so safety is not guaranteed when people are walking in the street. Purple said her cell was stolen; Pearl said her cell was stolen, too. I did not have such thinking until I went to other province of China. When I went to Yunnan and Hainan, I found people there are very kind and are always ready to help others. In Yunnan, the driver who we hired was better than a professional tour guide; in Hainan, the kind man we met in the bus even called the taxi and bargained the price for us and had given us a lot of suggestion of making our traveling plan. People are pure, honest and generous, which makes travelers feel so closed. Guangzhou, at this moment, security is a mass, and is turning bad to worse, which makes me feel so tired.
So what I have been dreaming to do is to go out – traveling. I am sure there are better places outside. I agree with the point that human is like a drop of dust in the vast universe, and our life seems to be even shorter than a second compared with time which is eternal. Since time is limited, why not make use of it and see how big this small world is? One day, when I am standing in the terminal point of my life-journey, I dare say: “I have seen this world.” – This is good life!
I target my life, and target my dream.
But here comes another question,
Where is the money I will use to realize my dream life?
Postscript: Yesterday I got that X man and X girl are together. I was surprised, though I got the answer when someone asked me to guess. But when I sit down and think about this matter, it is reasonably natural. X man has been an extremely excellent student both in high school and university, so has X girl, and they have been very good friends all the way. X girl is quite a kind and nice person. I have appreciated her ever since senior middle school. Both of them are doing the post-graduate degree in the coming years. I sincerely wish X girl had found her Mr. Right, because she is more than capable of being a good girlfriend, even, a good wife ^_^… She really deserves a good man. February 21 An Accosting Guy Some thing funny happened this morning.
When I was having my breakfast in the Taoyuan canteen, a guy who sat at the same table said to me:
“Lady, u r so late, it is already ten o’clock.”
“Yup” I said, with a bit smile.
“r u going to have ur breakfast and lunch together?”
“Yup, I am going to”
“r u graduate student?”
“Yup, I think u r post-graduate?”
“Yes… how do u know?”
“From your appearance” I said with a bit smile.
(A second later)
“Hey, which department r u in?”
“Me? Er… Foreign Language Studies”
“Oh, really! Then r u going to study abroad?”
Oh, this guy’s so boring!!
“Yup, I am making a plan…” I went on with my breakfast with my head down.
“Hey, we r going into the society, don’t be that constrained, it is good to know more people!”
BORING again!!
“No… nothing... I am OK”
“What’s ur name?”
“Er… first name, Chan”
“My first name is Cai, I am Caijun. Shall we go to hang around after eating?”
Huhhuh! This is the guy hitting on chicks!!
“No, I have sth up to.”
“Oh… i c…”
“May I have ur phone number?”
“I think there’s no need.” And I went on eating.
(A second later)
“What’s ur major?” I asked.
“Er… Economics” He seemed to have thought for a moment.
(A second later)
“Maybe I leave u my number?” He said.
“If u like”
He took out a pen and a notebook and wrote sth, then gave it to me and said:
“I think u’d better leave a number OK? Maybe we will have dinner some time…”
Come on!!! u think I am stupid??
“Well… I am not gonna give my number to others that easy, sorry”
I took his paper and said:
“OK, I am finished, and c u” with a bit smile
“Well… then… u call me later…”
“OK”
I went away.
Haha I think I have behaved in the most polite way… Well, it is no fault of him to know more people, but I think he had chosen the wrong person. I am Scorpio~~, who will be always cold to guys that she is not interested in. And... dont want to know guys this way... Haha… I’m really Scorpio. ^_^
PS: Mickey, r u okay now? I hope u r fine… and take a good rest. Don’t take the pass much to heart any more. I think Seven is quite an unrestrained and elegant girl… ye… just be the same cold to the guy who has betrayed her… so generous… February 19 BIG NEWS!! My Cousin’s Gonna Marry^^!!I got the news that my cousin’s gonna marry~~~~~WOWWW~~ Congratulations!! Indeed, this is not news, but something within everybody’s expectation, and something that finally come true~~
This is really a big thing!! Among all grandchildren of my grandmother, my cousin is going to be the first one who is to start her own family life – to have a husband, and maybe, to raise her child in the near future. Well... it also makes me realize my life has arrived in that period, for we are of the same generation~~ but I clearly know where I am standing, and what I should be doing… I feel extraordinarily happy for her, and I even can not wait for the day when her wedding is held~~ Although I have attended so many wedding ceremonies before, this is gonna be a totally different one because of the different position I will be standing in~~~!! WOWWW……
I bet everything’s gonna be amazing!!! February 18 About the Job FairWhat a day!!! The job fair is totally bullshit!! Cold, wet and crowded, this is the worst ever!!! My trousers, shoes, bag, even the whole person, all suffered!!
There were five of us crowding into a small taxi. The boring rain made all of us so down all the way, and I was sleepy… actually I have not expected too much of job fairs, they are mostly where companies make advertisements themselves, and what’s more, all positions are not attractive. That’s so funny that one of the interviewers said to me after reading my resume and asking a few questions: “the salary we are able to offer is so cheap, you’d better not apply this job.” “But the bonus is attractive”, I said, pointing at the information of the company that she had given to me. “Oh, it is difficult to get, and you will be working so hard, I think you’d better not come.” She seemed to be convincing me of not going there like persuading a person to attend the job~~! Haha…I think that’s really funny…but I finally went away without my resume left there…
After I have sent one resume, I left, disappointed. Maybe this is the last time I attend such occasion…
Mickey sent me a message yesterday, telling me that she had a quarrel with her boyfriend. That’s really a bad guy according to what Mickey had told me, and now he is chasing after another chick behind her. I asked her not to be together with him any more, without hesitation. I think this is the best thing she must do, coz Mickey had been doing excellent in her study before knowing this guy, but has a downgrading now…
She told me her dream’s over, and will go back soon.
I trust her, she will make it… |
|
|