Sat.&Sun.          Cloudy

I got one call from VeraChen this morning.  She’s a candidate of this voice competition and cares her pronunciation and accent very much.  She confirmed that she really wanted to have a chat with me by phone though I told her that I’m only interested in English and not a teacher at all.  She gave me the call from Xiamen, as she told me she’s an English major and though she paid much attention to listening to different kinds of accent, her accent is awful… 

I told her that if she really wants to have a change, she must speak out loud everyday, to shadow the texts after the tape or MP3 materials.  If she does not practise how to make the standard accent, how could she have it, only by listening?  It sounded that she agreed with me and really would like to have a try.  I hoped that she would follow the most useful and difficult way to have a standard accent, which is to read aloud everyday after the standard accent voice materials!

Saturday afternoon, when I read the pages of the AD from Carrefour, the idea of buying one MP3/Mp4 came up my mind.  I found one Mp3 in the AD appealed to my taste, so I asked my parents to go with me.  ( :p I’m not independent, though I’m a bachelor girl, I have to get my parents’ permission first then can I buy anything that is more than 200 yuan…)

They suggested that we’d better to go to the electronics appliances shopping mall to have a look at the general price of MP3/4 first and to make sure the MP3 I was going to buy is at favourable price.  So we went to Yongle and Suning…I originally planned to buy an MP3 512M at about 300-400 yuan or MP3 1G at about 400-600 yuan.  As there were too many machines there I just did not know what to buy.  The shop girl strongly recommended one series of MP4, the cost 388 yuan (1G0 and only 288 yuan (512M).  as the type I choose did not have 1G machine, the shop girl recommended me another one, which is the one I bought.

It’s Miniplayer from Meizu and has the capacity of 1G.  I bought it at 750 yuan with a fashion bag and silicon case/skin.  I don’t know if it is practical but when I log on PUT tonight, I found the machine some guys recommended me to buy in a post teaching us how to choose MP3/4, is the very Miniplayer I bought.  It’s a coincidence and of course I’m satisfied with my MP4.  though poor at computer as I am, I don’t know how to transfer WMV format materials into AVI, for most of the valuable materials are WMV format…

I received the T-shirt from putclub this morning and I felt so excited at the moment I unfolded it.  It’s white pure cotton T-shirt with nice blue characters on it.  I like white clothes and words or characters in blue~~~

Stop by now.  I hope the voice competition could be a success!

Sunny        Friday

It was really a nice day.  The sun was shining outside at daytime and I did not know whether there was a clear-cut bright moon at night~~~

Well, I didn’t get up until it was about to have my lunch.  You know, I went to bed very late~~~at about 2 a.m. this very morning.  And I received 2 calls from Elsa minutes after I had my breakfast/lunch.  She had some doubts of the credit condition of the customers I’m responsible for in the Middle Region of China.  I just left M Region to her before I left.  It took me several minutes to finish the call and I felt a bit guilty about having left her so terrible region, but if I did not left her the awful region, it would be Winnie who would have given me phone calls this morning~~~

I would like to find myself a new notebook to write on all the useful sentences from Interpretation book, so that I could review them at anytime and anywhere.  It is convenient to me, you know, because of the heavy book and its shape I could neither bring it to read at bus station nor can I read it at my office~~~  While I was searching, I found several Japanese notebooks in my bookshelf.  I could not help but taking them out of the crowded room and dropped in several pages.  Though it was normal and quite understandable that after such a long time, more over than 4 years that was, if you did not use one foreign language, do you think you still can handle it?  I forgot most of its grammar and I felt sad very much. Then I thought I should study harder and it is good for me to see the Japanese notebooks often, it can stimulate me to go ahead from time to time.

Talked something about the voice competition with luoxin1943 tonight, he suggested that we’d better choose the proper time to hold the 2^nd voice competition.  You know, forever love~ would have a test next month and so would I, what’s more, luoxin himself would have one in December.  And the busiest guy is not 3 of us, it is kitty_hu, her job as an interpreter or translator confines her a busy life~~~ Anyway, luoxin praised and thanked for my good work during the competition.  I could find nothing happier when my effort confirmed by the others.

I met Ed online this evening.  He just praised for my voice record I sent him several days ago and I would like to know, to him, if my accent is standard or is it American-like or British-like.  I would like to know some advice from others, you know, sometimes you are good at pointing out others’ disadvantages but least yours. It seemed that he enjoyed my so-called sweet and nice voice too much to give any valuable suggestions. Actually, Slyder told me that my accent was changing while I was reading.  He thought it is Australian accent at first and then it transferred to British and the reason for that change is that I had read too many times of the texts and could not control my accent~~~  He’s an American and I thought a “real foreigner’s” evaluation really gave me big shock~~~

Should I improve my pronunciation or would I get any improvement in future for I’ve already established a rather stable accent?  I should think about such matter…

Cloudy      Sunday

A nice weekend, isn’t’ it? 

Last night I went to attend a course to teach you something you should know before SIA.  Sitting among the hundreds of candidates in such a big meeting room, I felt as if I were a student.

The professor from SISU gave us the lecture and it’s really a wonderful lecture that I’ve ever been to, though some guys slept on their arms -__-…  The lecture began at 18:30, no wonder people would feel sleepy…

The lecture was just like a rain in a drought region, which disclosed the questions into my mind.  What is oral test, how should I do to prepare for it and I got all the answers from the lecture.

He told us practice makes perfect and the SIA mostly depends on your practice!  All the words and sentences are from professional vocabulary almost which you can find on our textbook.  We should practise listening vocabulary in order to prepare for the English-Chinese interpretation part and recite some fixed phrases for Chinese-English interpretation part.  I’m afraid that my reaction to listening would be slow. You know, everyone knows I’m slow~~~

The important thing the professor told us to do everyday is “3 half an hour”

1. Listening: 30 minutes, VOS Standard English, to have an extensive memory, to dictate v&n in the sentences.
2. Speaking: 30 minutes, to Read Aloud, to shadow with script, put one ear to listen to the tape and another to your own voice.
3. Interpretation: 30 minutes, to practise everyday.

He also mentioned that the importance in interpretation is to be understood by the others for his pronunciation is very poor~~~

Stop by now.  I should practice my oral English right now~~

Friday        Cloudy

The weather broadcast and misty air cheated me!  I went out with a thick coat and when I arrived at the bus station, I was almost sweaty all over~~~ Hey, you know, I’m too lazy to put off the coat and what’s more I had to go to the station as quickly as I can so that I could save as much time as I could then to read at the station for more time…

Winnie asked for a day’s annual leave yesterday, so she had a day’s off and leisurely had a good rest at home with her mother.  Jane phoned her this afternoon, it was Winnie’s English name made her mother who received the phone surprised for seconds and when Jane realized that she changed Winnie into her Chinese name… ^0^  We are quite used to using English names at company and you know, I know few colleagues’ Chinese name -__-..

One terrible thing at last be solved before 17:00 o’clock.  As the careless customer forgot to write our company to the detailed column of one money order, the amount of 900 thousands money of goods did not reach our account until they sent one Notice to state that this amount of money should be transferred to our account.  As the Notice was being sent from Guangdong to Shanghai among at least 3 banks, it’s must that this transfer needs many days…

But according to our accounting policy, under the circumstances like this and as it is such a large amount of money, in order not to take any risks, we presented our terminal time—if the money could not reach our account at the end of today, we would not release and lists of the customer which means we would stop doing business with them temporarily. 

These days I was bothered by numerous phone calls, and made bother phone calls to our bank to check the account~~~ For god’s sake, with the help of our customer and the bank assistant, including me of course ^__^

The voice competition would be end the next week.  I’ve evaluated more than 60 competitors’ records.  Though I tried my best and wanted to give some useful suggestions, the problems like accent cannot be solved by only several suggestions…

I read one post on PUT about whether it is important to have the right accent and most guys there supported the view that if you can let the other know what you want to say is really enough and accent isn’t very important in communications.  I agree.

It seems that my affection to Japanese language would turn back and it is surging… I put several Hyde’s songs in my MP3 and this morning and afternoon I listened to them on the road~~~ It’s dangerous to put myself into the environment surrounded with Japanese language and culture.  I almost have the impulse on continuing my Japanese study right now~~~What can I do to hold back the intention?

When I found a friend in MSN who left one Japanese sentence as his name I could not hold back but sent a message asking him if he learnt Japanese…And then we had a chat for a short while, he used Japanese and I used English.  It is 4 years that I did not learn or touch any Japanese, his fluency in it made me tasted the great sadness inside myself.  I want to learn Japanese and now~~~  But!  But I could not!  T__T  The oral English exam is drawing near and I must delete all the Japanese songs in my MP3…

I want to cry.  For my tough choice and the passing time.  I’m sure that one day I could take good command of English and the Japanese as well.  Let me do it, let me try.  I’m aging, but my heart are young forever~!  Like the saying goes I will love your till the end of my life, I would like to say, I won’t give up within the next decades of my life till the end~

Sunny        Tuesday

Everything went on according to my plan.  In order to have more time to study at night, I made use of the lunchtime at noon to listen to the competitors’ voice records.

I went to have lunch with my colleagues as usual, but I would finish my meal at once and quickly went back to my desk, put on my earphones to listen.  As I could not install RAR software in my PC at company, I have to bring back the records compressed by RAR.  There is only a week’s time for receiving competitors’ records.  Though I guess who will win at last, you can never ignore the uncertain surprise.  Perhaps there would be a big surprise at the last day of the competition.

Jane is pregnant.  I did not know it until Winnie told us at lunch, though she had been wearing her anti-radiation clothes the whole day…  I remembered several months ago, she said that she would like to give birth her little baby in Chinese pig year, you know, pig year to us Chinese is a year full of luck and fortune.  And she must could have her dream come true.  I can’t wait to see her baby though it’s impossible at the moment. 

Something wrong with my PC, I just had restarted my PC for six times today.  I officially received the workload of making CIT Report from Winnie.  It’s a tough and boring job at all.  You have to check the condition of every overdue CIT online while face the tricky salesmen.  Generally speaking, all the salesmen are customer-oriented, though we are of the same company, being paied from the same boss…

Stop by now.  Got to read~~~

Sunny    Sunday

I did an important thing today accompanied with my mother, and it is her courage that made me have done this decision.  I enrolled in the oral exam of intermediate interpretation…

I took part in the writing part of the exam a year ago and successfully passed it.  It was my first time to take other English exams except CETs and of course I did not attend any English training courses.  To me I’d like to learn by myself though sometimes it isn’t as efficiently as I imagined.  As I did not know what the oral exam was at that time and I was too busy to find job that I could not afford to pay any more attention to the exam, I gave up the chance.  And the second time, I had to get myself a professional accounting qualification certificate, so I had to take part in the certain accounting exams and did not have much time to think about it.  And a year later, there are only 2 chances of taking it.  I hesitated whether to take part in.  For one thing, I’m too busy these days because of the work and the evaluating work of this voice competition on PUT, so I don’t think my preparation for this oral exam can be called enough.  Actually, I don’t know what the exam is up to now. -_-! For another, I’m lacking of confidence for no reason…

This morning, I asked my mother, if I should take the oral exam, she said to me, “You must!  Please re-find your confidence you had when you took college entrance examination.”  I’m my parents’ pride.  I have not been to senior high school but I also graduated from a famous normal university and got a Bachelor’s Degree with my endless effort.  They had ever tried to persuade me to give up the exam, because they thought that I could not pas the difficult exam but I said that I must to go to SHUFE and I did.  To them I’m always confident, but they don’t know my confidence depends on my effort.  The busy work robbed most of my time.  So I could not study as much as I could like before.  My confidence drained away and I just lost my way sometimes.  But the courage mother gave me today helped a lot.  Something lost but originally belonged to me went back. 

I’ll try!  No matter what the result is, it’s a battle inside myself.  A lazy me, a coward me, a silly me and so forth,, I have to face so many backward Mes and conquer them one by one.

Time is rare, but I must manage it well.  I know I can.  I must trust myself, right?  So I can make any things happen if I want!

Sunny        Saturday

Well, everything smoothes except for that I’m hesitating whether I should take part in the interpretation exam, oral part.  I have only 2 chances to take part in the exam, but up to now I still do not prepare for it.  Without the general idea of how and what the oral exam would be, my chances of passing the exam are rather slim.  Though I planned to read something about the exam days ago and perhaps I thought I could take the exam and only regard it as experience no matter what the result it would be.  The condition to me is not a courageous one.

Last night all the admin of PUT Talk Show had a discussion on QQ.  We talked about what should everybody do next of the voice competition.  As forever love~ would have an important exam in next month and luoxin1943 would have another one in December, I accepted the tough tasks of not only evaluating all the voice materials but also making an excel table to summarize the score from the other three and then to get everyone’s average score.  And then it is more difficult for me to make up my mind, if I should take this chance to take the oral exam?

I still could not have my MP fixed.  You know, I’m too lazy to go out, at least, I cannot trust any fixing station anymore.  Because last time when I sent my MP to the fixing places, part of its materials was stolen.  And I should have more time to study at home…Though I cannot make phone calls these days, I can send SMS instead. ^__^

Ok, stop by now.  I think I should get to prepare for the exam right now.

C ya       ~

Friday          Sunny

I had several busy days!  More and more workload with higher expectations with efficiency, I’m not sure if I would be under pressure or I have already be under it.

I printed and EMSed hundreds of AR Statement lists to certain offices of the whole China yesterday.  You know, when you lacked of sleep and almost too busy to be alive, the most things you want to do at home is to sleep.  But I couldn’t, because I have to listen to the voice materials our PUT friends sent to our public mailbox.  When Luoxin sent me the last SMS this very morning, it was already 0:23, he said that it’s hard to be an admin of website, we are working with obligation and passion, of course without any pay.  Actually we sent SMS to decide a time that all the admin of talk show can be online together to discuss the following activity of this voice competition.  It’s my pleasure to be one of the admin of PUT, and I’d like to share my experience of learning English with every body there.

I’m very sleep and hope that I could have a nice sleep right now, but our date time is coming…

Yesterday I went to my karate train at school, but as the coach was busy showing actions to the new comers, we old ones just had nothing to do at all.  So I went to the bus station earlier and suddenly my MP rang.  When I accepted the call, I just could not hear anything from it and my MP didn’t work!  My mum made the cal land she had rang me numerous times until I accepted her phone call with my MP setting as hand free and what she scolded me that I should not haven’t been home that late had already been heard by the others~~~

A new day is coming, any way, I had at least two nice days!

Sunny        Tuesday

What a busy day it is!  I went to my office at the same time like usual, but there were piles of CIT lists waited for me.  I could not do anything else until I key them into SAP.

I did not remember to reply the letter from Anita until I received another one from her.  When I logged on MSN, several guys added me to MSN!!!  I don’t know how many people can in one MSN list…  When I am free, I’d like to find someone to chat in English.  But the condition now is that I always can’t find time to have a chat with anybody.  So I set my condition “busy” the whole afternoon and there was not a friend asked me anything.  They are thoughtful and I’m touched.  T__T

Downloaded 4 voice records from public mailbox, I guess there would be more and more mails come to us.  It’s difficult to evaluate now, because many participants have the same advantages or disadvantages.  It is impossible to say something special to everyone.  Got an idea: perhaps I can put several participants whose work are similar together and give my words on the whole type.

Tomorrow would be another very busy day.  You know, after Joan finishing her part of job, it would be my turn to print monthly AR statement.  I don’t know when I can enjoy my yearly leave.  Elsa won’t be back on Oct. 19^th, and after that Jane would have her wedding leave, which is 10 days’ holidays and Winnie has another 6 days~~~  My mind messed every time when I thought about this @_@

Stop by now in order to have a good sleep early~

Sunny Monday

It’s very late so I have to cut the long story short.

It’s my pleasure to know Anita on MSN.  She chose a special way to make friends with me that is writing e-mails.  She told me from her introduction later that she would like to find a partner to practise English with her.  God!  We have so much in common.  Graduated last year (so we are of the same age), working in foreign companies, find ways to go further study, Japanese the language that I like best is what she’s learning now every week.  I did not reply her last letter of today, that her hometown, Hubei, is also my grandfather’s hometown.  Though grandfather emigrated from Hubei to shanghai before liberation, and my father was born in Shanghai, my local nationality is Hubei Wuhan.  Hubei should be a nice place, I think.  I have never been there and I can’t speak Hubei dialect but can understand it.  Amazing?  Hi, Anita, if you are reading my diary, can you tell me something about Hubei?

Another friend I knew from MSN is Vivian Yang, an HR manager.  I don’t know what kind of company she works for and where does she come from because our topics did not touch that point.  I think she’s independent and has something value in ways of conducting the society.  But maybe the ways suitrable for her are not also suitable for me.  I just cannot do what she told me to block anybody from my MSN just because he/she makes trouble to me sometimes…I cares everybody on my MSN much, no matter I know them or not, they added me and that means they wanted to be friends with me and how could I turn them down?

Luoxin told me to download some voice materials from the public mailbox and have an ear to them.  You know, he wants the admin of Talk Show to be the referees of this voice competition.  I did download all materials and gave my suggestions/evaluations below every material.  And the only evaluation to myself is that, I don’t know if it is lucky or not, after so many years’ American accent practise, I still cannot give up my standard British accent~~~  If you want to know how my British accent is, aske for my voice record about that competition then.  T__T

Continue to my last article about Forrest Gump.  I’ve finished reading the whole book and all my feelings now are in a great mess.  The book made me laugh and sad or ready to cry sometimes.  It’s hard to say what happened to me after reading, but I’ll try.

From the beginning, I’d like to share the unimaginable content of the book with you.

When Gump retired from the Army, he found Jenny, who’s his first love from their first grade of primary school.  Many romantic and touching things happened between Forrest and Jenny, which I would mention later.  Gump was arrested to jail for he threw the medal he awarded through the War onto a Senate’s head according to Jenny’s requirement.  Jenny, it seemed that she’s a anti-war radical.

Gump was sent to loony asylum to be tested for his IQ, as on doctor found his brain is better than computer, so he was right sent to NASA and became an astronaut.  Amazing?  You’d find more exciting things happened if you read on.

As something wrong with the spacecraft, they had to but landed on a jungle island.  He and a female Major and a rape called Sue.  Though the leader of one cannibal tribe whose name is Big Sam promised they were safe, four years later that was, after Big Sam taught Gump how to play chess and was always beaten by the idiot he retreated his words.  At the very moment, their enemies invaded the cannibal tribe and the Big Sam was put down into the big cauldron with boiling water, which originally was ready to be used to cook Gumps.

After Gump was rescued from the Island, he met Dan in a rainy night, it seemed that the difficulty in life tortured Dan that much, he just changed his view of life.  Gump found Jenny in a tyre factory and Gump, Jenny and Dan lived together from then on.  Gump became a professional wrestler and played the competition on TV.  They decided to earn some money to own a shrimp boat, that’s the very dream Bubba and Gump ever had.  Jenny left Gump because he could not settle her down and give her normal life as she desired.  Gump was caught up with the fame and money that wrestling gave him at that time…

Gump gave up his career of wrestling then and a smart ex-chess player found his talent and persuaded him to take part in chess competition.  “It took me about seven minutes to whup the first guy, who was a regional master and also a professor in some college, which made me secretly feel kind of good.  I had beat a professor after all.” Gump said…

After that competition, Gump went back home to meet his mama and then at the help of Bubba’s daddy, he began his little shrimp business.  His shrimp business developed better and better, at last he became a millionaire.  Though everyday all he had to do was attend different kinds of meetings, he found he’s not himself and lost the energy inside.

He began his travel from this city to that one and encountered Dan again.  The two fellers and Sue decided to travel together.  Gump just established a one-man band, he played harmonica, drum and keyboard himself to all the audience around.  When he was performing, Sue would asked the audience for money and Dan just polished shoes in the crowd.

One day, after Gump played several songs by his harmonica, he found Jenny, or Jenny found him through the harmonica.  The little boy beside Jenny, as she said, was Gump’s son and named after Gump which is Forrest.  Though she loved Gump, she cared for the stable life she had at the moment.  Her husband was a sales manager of the city and he would drive them to have picnics every Saturday.  What’s more, he really saved up monthly to send little Forrest to go college.  Gump was a lovely idiot, I think, and he grew up after so many unusual years.  He’s happy about his son not an idiot like him and thought that it would be better to let the little Forrest has a normal family a normal father not an idiot and so that he can receive good education then.  He then gave 10 percent of his share in shrimp business to his mama and another 10 percent to bubba’s daddy, and then rest all sent to Jenny for little Forrest.

There are many unforgettable spots or content of the book, so I could only extract some below: (Do have a look!)

1. (When Jenny took part in the demonstration to anti-war, she was put into jail and her long hair was shaked off by the others in jail and she was of course bald and did not want Forrest to see her appearance.) Well, I reckon she don’t want me to see her this way, cause she has done got into the back seat of the car and is lying down.  So I crawled up on my hans and knees so I couldn’t see in the winder, an I say, “Jenny—it’s me, Forrest!”…Then I crawled back to the steps where my shit is, an looked in my duffelbag and find a ole watch cap from the Army and crawled back to the car and stuck it on a stick an polked it thru the winder.

2. (When Gump, Dan went to Jenny’s apartment, Dan<without a let and on a wheelchair> rolled himself into the bathroom.  Jenny asked Gump if Dan need help and Gump said no.)  She shake her head and say, “This is what the Vietnam War have got us.”  There ain’t much disputing that either.  It is a said and sorry spectacle when a no-legged man have got to pee in his hat and then dump it over into the toilet.

3. (When Gump knew he would wrestle with a feller called The Turd.)  He calls hissef “The Turd” and dresses in a big ole body stockin that is painted to look like a piece of shit.  Lord knows what he gonna smell like.

Throughout the whole book you may find many dirty and filthy words, but they are the most commonly used words in the USA.  I think if you do not read the book itself you’ll never know these words.  Gump’s typical sentences are: “I got to pee~” “I don’t really give a shit.”  When he was asked some complicated questions he would say so, so funny~ ^0^

To tell you the truth, after I read several pages of Forrest Gump, I almost decided to throw the book. It’s kind of autobiography to an idiot, so to speak, he would like to call himself an idiot instead of a fool.  The writer mistakenly wrote almost all the words and grammar in the book on purpose though his intention was to write this book from Gump’s words.  It’s not a good book for English beginners I have to say, but I’m used to the humorous descriptions in the book and forgot to notice the grammar mistakes…

Write something about the writer first, he’s a great man, because he wrote this funny book that caught me much.  P.S. If I did not write something about him, I would forget there’s a great writer in this world soon…^__^ I’m forgettable, especially to the foreigners’ names…

About the author:  WINSTON GROOM, author of seven books, wrote the acclaimed Vietnam War novel Better Times Than These as well as the prize-winning As Summers Die, and coauthored Conversations with the Enemy, which was nominated for a 1984 Pulitzer Prize.  His latest book is Shrouds of Glory, a history of the last great campaign of the Civil War.  He lives in Point clear, Alabama.

Ok, let’s go back to the book.

Forrest Gump was born in a single parent family. Though his intelligent quotient is about 70, he has his mama who loves him very much.

Though his mama thought public school is good for him, he was sent to the so-called nut school.  Though I don’t know what nut school is, from Gump’s description, I think it’s a place to educate the children who are not normal…

It seems that Gump is always around with good luck.  When he was chasing/beating by the other children on the street, his big & strong body caught one football coach’s attention. He took Gump out of the nut school and let him join his football team.  So Gump had a colorful life and did everything with normal guys.  His excellent action won his football steam several championship prizes and his excellent show made him attended one university.  It was in the university that Gump knew Bubba and Gump did not find his talent of playing harmonica until bubba presented him one.  His talent of harmonica even earned him money as he played it in a band every Friday night.

When he dropped out of school, he was grabbed to the Army and there was a Vietnam War waiting.  So he was sent to Vietnam and to his great surprise, he met Bubba, his best and only friend again in life there.  Many fellers died in front of him and all he could do was just put the wounded ones on his shoulder and run.  The war was miserable and cruel.  When Gump played “Way Down Upon the Swanee River” with his harmonica according to Bubba’s last wish during the bullets shooting here and there spot, my heart sank.  To him Bubba’s death means he could not see him any more though Gump misses bubbas from time to time.  I don’t know why he did not cry or feel sad about Bubba’s death.  Perhaps I will never know what a simple guy thinks about the life…

And in the hospital, he knew another important friend in his life, which changed his philosophy to the life, if he has anyway… Dan is a teacher of history and what he said to Gump I think is really meaningful: He said it ridiculous for us to be waging a way in a place where we can’t hardly use our tanks and account of the land is mostly swamp or mountains; he said all of these natural laws are not specially pleasing to us, but there are laws nonetheless, like when a tiger pounces on a monkey in the jungle—bad for the monkey, but good for the tiger.

When Gump came back his motherland and was asked what did he think about the war by the reporters, he said, “It’s a bunch of shit.” and I think there’s something in it.  He really hates the war though to him he did not know why he had to face the war to face the death of his friend to face the killed bodies and blood on the ground.  The war to him is nothing but nightmares or so to speak just like what he put it a shit.  The author wrote the story in such a ridiculous way, which cannot help me thinking about the meaning inside the simple words.

After the war Gump’s talent in Ping-pong turned out and he was sent to China to play the Ping-pong competition as the representative of USA.  Gump’s funny thinking made me laugh a lot.  He could not use 2 “sticks” to eat effectively so he came to the conclusion that no wonder there are few fat Asians because they cannot eat more at every meal.

Haha, it’s a great relaxation to read Forrest Gump.  I found that I laughed easily when I read it.  Anyway, I have only finished half of the book, and another half is waiting.  Any other thoughts I would get from the book?  Just wait for my next article then.  ^__^

Cloudy 

Time flies.  I was just like yesterday that I ended my OT work and went home with a rather tired body and soul as well.

Three days passed from the beginning of October.  I did not spend my nice holidays efficiently. If everyday I could have at least 12 hours’ sleep can be called my original wish that I could have enough sleep to some extent came true…

As to another wish—I hope that I could find time to read.  Originally I planned to read Forrest Gump.  As I found another series of books more attractive to me than it when I searched them in my fully packed bookshelf.  It’s Pet shop of Horrors, a famous series of comic books. It’s comic books, really.  I remember when I was in my junior high school the books had already been published but I did not have time to read it at that moment.  Thought I bought this series of books last November, from last year till this October I was not able to read a page of it.  Guess what?  I had to read as many English books as I can.  Actually I love comic books and I would rather to learn Japanese than English… But I am not willing to give up English half way.  Anyway, I know I should relax myself once in a while to loose my tightening nerve on English.  To read some comic books or watch some cartoons are good for me… ^__^

Pet Shop of Horrors isn’t horrible storybook at all. It is the story about mainly 2 herons: D Count, the shopkeeper in Chinatown in America and Lion, the cop in USA.  Everybody calls the shopkeeper D Count, but no one knows what D refers to.  The whole series of book is composed of many sections of stories.  All the names of stories begin with “D”.  Those who have simple mind or pure soul can see the real appearance of pets in shop and can understand their words.  They all have man’s figure and of course there’s true love between people and pets.  Though the painter gave us the wrong image of D Count a vampire and I personally think Lion just like a werewolf because he’s a bad tempered but kind person, at last I am still in the dark about what D Count is… He has eternal life and he won’t grow old.  Though he’s human being, he hates people, so to speak he cares animals more than human beings and the most unforgettable words he gave me when he said to a girl is: ”I just don’t know how to love a human being… If you have interest by the pictures below, do feel free to ask me, I’m very glad to share my stories of Pet Shop of Horrors with you~~~  ^__^

So much for these days~

Cloudy        Fri-Sat.

I did not feel good these days but I had to go to work and to do overtime work this Friday and Saturday.  I know many clerks went to work this Saturday so that they could have continuous 7-day holidays.  As our company started its holiday from Sep.30^th, I called this Saturday’s work an OT.

This Friday is our close day.  We had to do OT and of course all the members in F&A Dept. did OT together like usual.  I always think the last Friday’s OT of accounting month very warm.  You know, we share our food together, help with each other, talk with each other and I like such feelings—to be a member of a group.

An accident happened on my way to home this Friday night.  The taxi I took was scratched by another car at the highway fee collection station.  As the driver who caused the accident refused to compensate for the little damage to the taxi, they dialed 110 and waited for the police.  It took me more than 40 minutes to wait on the taxi and could do nothing to kill the time but sending SMS with a terrible headache. (I did not know why I had a headache…)  Several minutes later after I sent SMS to Archie, I got her call.  She regretted for my miserable condition and I, of course, again, complained about my bad luck in 2006~~~

I would enjoy my holidays, at least I wish that, I could.  After long-term hard working days, it’s time to have a good rest.  My coming holidays, I can’t wait…