When I ran into listening to an old song that he ever recommended to me, I couldn’t help crying. It brought sweet and sad memories back to me.

As per the lyric, people always wish a happy ending of their relationships, yet most of which just happen in fairy tales. The reason might be a real marriage, for a lot of people, is often accompanied by many factors, such as, social status, educational backgrounds, income, career, GUAN XI and others’ opinions.

Older generations tend to depreciate “puppy love” and assume it is a kind of immature “teen game”. But for those who still believe in true love, puppy love is regarded as the most pure and determining one, compared to other loves that would happen in people’s later lives. Don’t judge puppy love, as it is the sweetest memory that will be engraved on your mind, and more importantly it never links with these damn factors.

One of friends insisted that people would change their opinions on partners when they grow up, but I believe they hardly would.  Personalities, characteristics and values are the mainly underlying elements that limit them to do so. To be more precise, you are attractive to a particular kind of people instead of someone at random. Put it in another way, you are destined to choose one of a particular group…

It seems to be negative by saying “destined”, but it just happens sometime. It not only happens in relationships, but also in many other situations. So seeing things in a different way might best distinguish one from others.

Sum up, can we just say “seeing a happy ending in a different way can make a compromise”?

生日快到了，根据澳洲财政年^_^，新的一年开始之际，总结过去一年的成绩（08/07/01～09/06/30）:

1， TR拿到了

2， 雅思通过了（听力7.5，阅读9，写作8，口语7.5，总分8）

3， PR申请递交了，审理中

4， Medicare card拿到了，免费打子宫癌疫苗三针

5， 工作了(进口地毯）

接下来的计划是： 回国陪爸爸妈妈过国庆＋中秋！！！

I watched a TV programme last night, which was about an Indonesian man with warts on the skin of his hands and feet. It was badly unpleasant and shocking experience.  Yuck! As a matter of fact, his warts reminded me of the immortal undersea monsters in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean. I had have a strong stimulus to peel them off!

Additionally, there were two big lumps on his back, like huge folding wings, yuck again! I tried to understand what they actually were, but I couldn’t, due to either certain medical terms or my poor English listening ability, I suppose.

On the other hand, I was quite interested in it as I knew this story some time ago by reading Chinese news online and wanted to know more about it. That’s why I kept watching it even though it made me sick.

There was a doctor panel for his medical treatments, one of who was from America. They had a couple of meetings and talks, discussing how to treat him in a proper way. Finally, it ended up with a seven-hour surgery. The surgery was another disgusting experience, yuck the third time! The doctors peeled 90% of the warts off from him hands and removed the two lumps from his back. Lots of bloody scenes and particularly peeling skin close-ups…(not a GP programme, -_-)

After surgery, he was much better, some warts still left on his hands yet . He said he didn’t have as heavy hands as before and meanwhile he could use his mobile phone in a limited way. He went back to his village after nine-month being hospitalized without any complications out of the surgery. He was given a warmly welcome by his family and villagers. He said he would do his crops to feed his family in the future. But I am quite doubtful that he  can manage the farming job as the bones inside his fingers were extremely fragile coz of  severe osteoporosis. I could still see his hands being covered by some sort of ointment after hospital. Anyway, it was a good news that he could survive such a serious and unusual sickness. He was a lucky dog and got helped from many people.

However, I am just wondering whether those warts would come back some time later as he is not totally cured (10% of warts left). I hope a follow-up report about him would be available on TV.

I passed the test!

I thought God treated me bad and apparently I had a tough luck since last year. However, it seems that things are going well bit by bit now. Never mind, I lost some time, but I can not lose optimism. It is a milestone, so huge! When I got the result yesterday , I called most of all people I know and told them about the result, yelling and crying, all tears of joy down! Nora wrote a blog for me about that, haha. Lee will go to yum cha with me. And I got a lot of “congratulations” from others. Thank you all, guys! Thank you for your understanding and support! You all really know how important it is to me. It is the critical determinant! Again, a huge thing! I am much happier than getting my master degree…

Some of my friends read my MSN space and knew a bit what’s happening around me. They understand my circumstances and are of great support, even some of them made some comments about that on their spaces. Thank you all! I am so appreciated what you guys did for me and behind me!

I think probably some of 80ish have ever experienced as similar situations as mine. It is such a COMMON thing in our lives. However, what I want to mention here, say, LIFE IS TOUGH, BUT WE SHOULD BE TOUGH! I am supposed to think in an enthusiastic way and handle that by myself. Frustrating, stressed, depressed and gloomy feelings just get away from me, please! (even tough I damn admit that that is still quite hard for me) I will still insist my plan (or say, my DREAM) and do whatever I can do in pursuit of that. And I firmly believe I will gain that by myself in one day of not far future.

I recently read some spaces of my friends and knew that most of them have got their PR already. Congratulations, guys! You got your rewards and credits from your hard study in past two years and you are so GREAT! However, they still met some problems, such as career and marriage.

One of my best friends felt lost and confused, coz she doesn’t know where she should stay, China or Aus? Her family definitely hopes that she can go back to china and get a high-salary job. At the mean time, emotional pressure and rumor from her relatives about her age and marriage is presently getting on her nerves. What a poor girl! Just cut her some slacks! As we know, it is quite tough to handle this type of stuffs but, ironically, they are so common in Asian culture. However, to be honest, just like some of overseas Chinese students, she HERSELF is in a shaky status. She can not clearly locate what she wants and the pressure drove her into a worse condition.

One of my translation professors ever sneered at our stupid ideas--- get PR and then go back to China! He made a comment by saying “you guys are psychotics!” It is both right and wrong, actually. The Chinese 80ish (most of them are the only child in their family) have a hard time escaping from their parents and living freely due to economic-social reality and Confucian theory. There are no sound welfare policies in China at the moment, so what they have to do is to economically support their ageing parents. How to handle and balance the both? We still have a long way to go. At least, i have to be financially independent.