情况简介：

 

差不多一年前，在我考完中级口译笔试部分的时候就写了篇考试的感想。那个时候就觉得中口没有什么实际的意义。在很短的时间内要阅读翻译成堆的篇章，基本上只有看一遍做一遍翻一遍的时间，如果字写得快一点或许还有些零星时间检查检查语法，总觉得这种考试不是测试英文翻译水平的。这个想法在最近了解复习口试的过程中愈发得强烈。

 

去年9月笔试通过时因为时间仓促没有参加口试，今年4月由于要准备会计上岗证的考试也没有参加，10月的时候终于报上名，但是对于口试的一切相当陌生，根本就不知道考什么怎么考。我开始四处打听考试的内容。考过并且通过的人大谈考试非常简单而没有考过的人则大叹考试的艰辛，只是谁都没有过多透露考试的具体细节，我开始疑惑到底难还是不难。

 

考前：准备，误入歧途

 

Anyway，10月下旬我参加了上外专门为口试举办的考前讲座，将考试的流程与内容详详细细的作了解说，也解开了我心中的疑惑。考试分两个内容，先口头表达叙述一个指定的Topic再根据录音机的录音进行口译。讲座的老师让大家多听英文多背中文套词，我记住了，于是后面的时间差不多都花在了这两点上。

 

我用了许多天在家闭关背中文套词，听写了许多VOA的材料，就在我觉得自己背了很多并且听力上了一个层次的时候，听一个也报名考试的学弟说口译口试题目改革了，每个句子平均长了三分之一，原来30字左右一句现在成了不超过40字一句。他的决定放弃考试使我想到是时候利用手头的材料先测试一下，结果让我很震惊。材料的语速不快，每个单词发音都很清晰，我能够明白每句话的内容，但是轮到自己翻的时候就手足无措了：由于句子加长了，时常是听到后面忘了前面的内容，如果注意前面后面的内容就听不下去，想做笔记可是苦于没有练习过速记难以操作……

 

考试迫在眉睫，我没有更多的时间找寻并练习速记的方法了，尽管最后几天没有什么复习的心情，事实上周三周四两天都在参与公司的活动完全没有复习，回来以后周身不适，原想尽管准备得不够充分，至少没有准备到点上，但是准备是有的，如果每句话认真听，只翻译出三分之二也能侥幸通过了，但是，事实并非我所预料的。

 

考中：紧张，死啦死啦的哟~

 

去的路上我一直在鼓励自己，不要紧张不要慌，但是我的鼓励到了进入候考室的那一刹那化为乌有~~~ 当老师在讲台上报首轮参加考试的号码时，我就意识到自己很可能会是第一批。一来，今年是XX年么，啥“好”事碰不上呢；二来，当时报名时站在我前面的女孩子拿到上午7：30考试的通知，到我就是下午12：30了，想想都知道自己的号码在下午排的比较前面……

 

一直到进入备考室我才勉强控制了自己紧张的情绪，深呼吸的确有点用~ 当然，这和那时如普通考试般的氛围有关。大家进入教室后，一人一排按照组号坐好，拿到发下来的Topic以后专心准备着。这个时候我的紧张情绪已经消失了，下午的题目要求我们对关于前不久在上海发现的孟母堂私塾发表一些见解。我从正反两个方面各阐述了一下然后还举了一个例子来证明自己的观点，准备的这些东西到了正式考口语的时候居然闹失踪了……

 

五分钟的备考时间过后，我们被带往各自的考试教室，穿过狭长的走廊，我来到自己的教室。里面坐着一男一女两个老师，在我还没有坐下拿出笔之前，女老师已经开始给我录音了。刚开始的时候我说的还算流利，只是说到后来有点小停顿，小停顿带来了n个停顿，我感到自己面部充血，像火烧一般难受。我知道那个时候不应该看造成自己紧张的东西—就是那两个老师，但是平时养成的习惯还是让我在说的时候望着他们的~~眼睛……尽管视力下降戴着原来的眼镜其实也看不清楚，但是我能够感受到自己处于越来越紧张的状态下。在我已经说到没有东西可以说的时候，男老师终于打开了另外一台录音机，开始进行下面的口译考试。

 

尽管料到句子会很长，也反复跟自己说只要拿下三分之二的句子就ok了，但是由于当时的紧张情绪，不是面部充血么，血又直接冲到了脑袋上，整个脑袋晕晕的，这就直接造成了后面的句子……前几天我还闹耳鸣，这次耳朵没有闹，反而是脑袋在闹。尽管我很用力的做着深呼吸，但是到最后反而连四肢都在抖了……我知道，这次没有生还希望了，当神经绷得太紧的时候，也就是失败的时候……

 

考后： 总结一下~！

 

考完以后总是要总结一下的，没有注定的成功，也没有必然的失败。关键是，我们要从成功中寻找有益的经验，从失败中吸取教训。我觉得这次考试我的失败之处其一在于没有掌握考试的精髓，其二在于没有及时地调整自己的紧张心态。

 

口译考试的精髓就在于口头的做翻译~！我在准备的时候过多的花时间在听力的提高和套词上了。中级口译说白了，单词能难过六级么？听力的速度能快过VOA么？提高听力还不如提高自己的短时记忆能力或者练习速记的能力也比提高听力强；背那么多套词，与其到头来因为时间紧迫一个也用不上还不如多做口头翻译的练习，练习一个快速根据来源语到目标语的反应能力，这样才能有的放矢~！

 

再说一个心态，我现在真后悔前一段时间在家闭关，真是闭错了呀~~~！口译本来就是一个实用技能的考试，与其在家背一点词组不如去努力寻找使用这个技能的机会。在报名之初有想过要去英语角锻炼锻炼的，计划先看完口译教程的书再去，谁知道公司事情多加上书并不像想象中那么容易结束，这一拖就把计划的事情给搁置了，总觉得去英语角不是那么重要了，重要的是挤出时间来背套词。这一封闭自己的做法直接导致了当面说英语时的紧张情绪。算来自己也有大半年没有去英语角了，过去那个在英语角一侃侃半天的我已经荡然无存了~！

 

承前启后，继往开来：口语练习，我要再接再厉~！

 

背了很多没有营养的东东，到头来还没时间用；听了很多相关的材料，可是对于听力提高一点帮助也没有，总觉得自己这一个月来浪费了太多的时间和精力在一个本来就没有什么意义的考试上。

 

首先，我承认自己不太会说话，很多东西根本无法用语言当面的来表达，所以即使让我用中文口头来段作文我都没有把握自己会不会跑题胡言乱语甚至紧张结巴更不要说用英文了；其次，前面已经说了口译考的不是英文的水平，是一种口头翻译的技能，考出证书也只能说你很有口头翻译的技巧，这并不能说明你英文水平很好。

 

写了这么多无非是想表明一下自己今后的立场：我不准备再考口译了，与其浪费时间和精力在一个对于我来说完全不适合的技能上，倒不如把这么多宝贵的资源花在有益的事情上。比如说，我要积极的锻炼自己的口语，要尽可能多去英语角多用英语交流，其实我很喜欢说英语的感觉，只是不喜欢一句一句的口头翻译。这样使用英语，让我觉得英语就是一种工具，毫无生气与情感。如果有外国人，我希望能够直接与他们交流，而不是作为代话的翻译工具。

 

除了练习口语外，自身的英语水平的提高也很重要。前段时间一直在背无聊的套词，套词套词套词~~~我花了太多的时间在背这些词上了，现在想想有这么多时间，我能读多少原版书，看多少原版电影电视剧，写多少英文的东东出来呢~！

 

英语学习是一个漫长的过程，我庆幸自己能够及时弄明白自己想要得是什么，今后我会怀着对英语的无比热爱来学习来了解它的~！热爱才是学习的动力~！

As we are Chinese and were born in China, known for the cradle of civilization and country of etiquette, sometimes we are shamed to express our love to our beloved ones for the silly reason that most Chinese no matter how fashionable he or she looks, as we were brought up with the traditional macro-environment, we are too used to getting ready to accept any kind of compliments from others rather than to show them from our own.

 

It’s common to see many intimate words in western daily life, such as “I love you”, “You are my sweetheart” and “Dear”, etc.  Especially the “Dear”, we can see it be frequently used at the beginning of every English letter no matter it is to a love or a stranger at all.

 

Nowadays, more and more young Chinese would like to use “IOU” instead of “wo ai ni” to express their love to their beloved ones, like to show their love to their parents.  It seems that when you are using one kind of language, you’ll more or less be influenced by the culture from that language of that country.

 

So do you think it’s easier to say “I love you” or such intimate words to your beloved ones in another language, especially in English rather than in our mother language that is Chinese?

 

Let’s pool our minds together and discuss the phenomenon~

Team Building前：忙碌而又混乱的一天

 

由于这次财务部Team Building和整个Lighting的Team Building时间连在一块儿,也就是说周四周五这两天大家都要参与活动,以至于周三,Team Building的前一天单单暴多,大家都想赶在周四之前将后两天的单全部审完.碰巧Jane周三休假,偶们遇到了千年难得一遇的洪灾,哎~那个惨呀~~~偶从上午开始就忙到连倒杯水的时间也没有, 偶们从午饭后就没有停过,单单如雪花般涌来,奔流不息延绵不绝~~~

 

发车前: 在车上胡吃海喝的幸福时光

 

因为要等还在开会的Grace,尽管大家下班后都早早的上了包好的车,但是空着肚子空等不到一秒,大家就瞄上了前些天Archie和Winnie去超市采购的包包零食,三下五除二将东西洗劫一空,等到购买者Archie上车时,已经没剩下啥值得期待的东西了,嗨嗨,大家都饿晕了么~~~可以原谅的哦,慌忙中偶才抢到一根鸭中翅而已呀~当然还有很多好吃的其他东东啦~~!用Winnie的话来说,这次采购将她平时去超市时看到的十分想买却又买不起的全买下带来了~!

 

下榻宾馆: 空荡荡的好诡异呢

 

车行一小时左右就到了我们入住的宾馆:绿舟宾馆.尽管它的外貌满富丽堂皇据说也有四星的标准,不过,大虽大,下雨天原本就寂静再加上大堂内空只有一人值班于入住登记台,使得整个宾馆给人以死气沉沉的感觉.要不是大家同进同出,很难不让人往恐怖片的内容去想象~!

 

绿洲饭店: 普通的农家菜+半夜拉肚子

 

晚饭我们选择了附近的绿洲饭店,一来可以趁此机会欣赏一下宾馆周围的”夜景”,二来可以顺便尝尝特色农家菜.菜的口味很一般啦,只不过偶经不起同事们的诱惑,动了几筷子所谓的”银丝鱼”.吃完以后Archie很煞风景的说这条就是我们刚进门时”翻肚皮”的鱼,尽管Carie连说当时鱼的嘴巴在动还没有死~~~结果,偶当晚两点半的时候就闹肚子了,呜呜~~~为了不吵醒同房的Winnie,偶半夜灯也不敢开是摸黑到的卫生间呀~~~不是吃鱼吃坏的就是水土不服吧,我想,尽管青浦也算是上海境内~~~

 

Team Building的半天: 会议会议会议~

 

昏昏欲睡:小阿的讲话~

 

天可怜见~!晚上没有睡好,尽管用完早餐以后整个人还满精神的,可是需要聚精会神听小阿的发言时就撑不住了~小阿是我们对Alexander私下的称呼,一来比较简短亲切,二来饭后说说他的趣事也不会给旁人知道…话说小阿不会讲中文,如果英文讲得棒也无妨,偏偏他的英文还带着地方的口音让人听起来十分费劲儿,他的语调平直讲演也不够慷慨激昂,于是偶的反应也就是哈欠连天+双目无神…么有办法啊~~~

 

啪啪啪啪:会议进行中,桌上工作忙~

 

话说那会议进行中,小阿和Grace分别轮流交替发言的同时,只见得Winnie手下啪啪啪啪的敲着键盘,做着报表审着单子丝毫不做任何停留休息.我们也很无奈啊~!整个会议室只有一根网线,尽管Elsa也带着手提,但是不能上网就不能进行工作,Karen的手提也带了,为了工作更有效率不要老是插拔那一根网线,Karen只能跟Winnie交换使用电脑,Carie在会议期间还抱着自己的电脑过来借用了一下网线,可以说开会的期间我们下面基本上各就各位,其实这也造成了困惑Grace的原因,她很疑惑为什么我们是如此quiet的一个团队,需要ask才会有feedback~~~

 

培训公司: 活动还算有意思啦~

 

经典点评: 你来我不往~

 

培训师给每个人发了份卷子,让大家在首行写上自己的名字,然后他们将卷子打乱发下来,要求大家给卷子上的同事写评语: 最值得敬佩的地方,需要改正的地方,有多少写多少.由于我拿到一个驻外地办事处同事的卷子,平时跟她没任何接触,于是苦思冥想后,才挤出两行值得敬佩的评语来…等大家写完后,培训师将卷子收起来,一份一份阅读.某同事给偶得点评好像是说偶文静优雅待人亲切~~~纯洁 (||| 三条竖线,应该是纯真吧,晕…),希望改正的就是希望偶可以经常请客大家吃饭,多帮助大家做事,夜里做梦也要梦到财务部的同事~~~我倒~~~真的很幽默呢,不知道谁这么写偶~~~汗~!

 

点数赛跑:偶的膝盖给摔了~

 

下午游戏时间,培训师将一共19人分为2组,每组轮流比赛,其中一个比赛要求大家跑道一个指定地点每个人都要参与点分散在地上的顺序打乱的号码牌,按照顺序点完后再跑回,看哪个队伍用时最少.由于第一次跑还不熟练,跑的时候,被挡于前边一个人又被推于后一个人,偶就这么单膝重重地摔在地上,顿时觉得整根骨头so痛无比.结果膝盖上摔出了紫红色的大青块~哎~真的太unlucky了~~~不过,这个比赛偶们group以一秒的微弱优势获胜,哈哈哈~

 

拥抱一下

 

最后一个活动搞得气氛热烈,培训师要求大家面对面站好,在他叫完口令以后大家同时出1-3的手势,1代表和对方握手,2代表握手+拍肩,3代表拥抱.如果两个人出的手势一样,则作那个手势的动作,如果不一样,则作手势小的一方的动作.比如说一个人出1另一个人出3,那么两个人只能够握手.当进行了一半的时候,培训师跑道Henry身旁,若有所思的问他,作为财务部唯一一个男同胞,今天有没有拥抱过其他同事,想不想真诚的拥抱一下对面的女同事,鼓励他不要怕出3的手势.之后,情势逆转,大家全部都出.3,最后不用培训师叫口令,大家见面直接就拥抱上去了~

 

手机打暴: 可以想象明天的疯狂场面

 

活动结束后,Elsa说自己的手机刚充电可是却显示电量不足,Winnie惊呼整个下午都没有看过手机,以至于在办公室留守的Jane打了n久的电话都没有打通.估计是各地仍有部分客户需要走货,被”逼”无奈的销售们找到了后勤,后勤们开始骚扰Jane，Jane只好无奈的找上了Elsa和Winnie，可怜呐～有的时候，没有手提，的确是一种幸福，就像偶，Jane没有来电话找偶，她知道的，即使找到偶，也解决不了她的实际问题，不过，偶一下午看了好多次手机呢，为了掌握好回家的时间，如果她打了偶的电话，至少偶可以负责转告Elsa她们～可以想到明天的盛况空前啦，目前偶只能默默为她们祈祷：平安渡过那个对偶们来说是黑色的周五吧～！

 

回家回家：搭车不用花钱，哈哈～

 

周五偶请假，为了做最后的准备迎接周日的考试，所以周四无论如何偶都要赶回家．活动一结束，Archie给偶使了个眼色，她的意思也就是说，偶回家其实可以打车回来报销，但是这个消息要越少人知道越好，否则大家都打，岂不是要让那个已经缩减了的Budget更加沉重了么．偶跟着她，没有料想她跑到培训师那里，希望他们可以带偶回市区．所以，偶就乘着现成的车，经过大雨天一个多小时的颠簸辗转到了火车站，再坐地铁回到了家里．

 

此次Team Building介绍到此结束．大家可以去本人相册看这次活动的相关照片．

 

Tuesday        Rainy

 

I had another day at home and without any good mood.  It was rainy the whole day, though I like rainy days, I could not find any fun to enjoy the sound of rain outside…

 

The oral test is drawing near, the more effort I made, the more worried I got.  It’s an exam that focuses on shorthand and not on your English level.  I listened to the materials before the reform of the test, they were composed of short and simple sentences, which are too short to need to make any notes.  But after the reform, I have to say, I can hear clearly every word and understand each sentence, but I can not retell the whole content in such long sentences and then interpret them…

 

Anyway, though Lasalo tried to persuade me to give up the exam, at least I could enjoy my annual leaves at home happily without any burden, you know, I still read and listened many materials so as to do more preparation.  Yes, I know the chance for me to pass the exam is slim but I should be responsible for the effort I paid already.  I don’t think I would try it another time, but I should do my best this time.  It’s a kind of exam that is not suitable for me.  I’m too easy to get nervous in front of strangers and I’m not sure if I could keep calm and quite when I get into the test room and to see the teachers in front of me.

 

Tomorrow the whole F&A Dept. would go to Oriental Oasis in Qingpu Shanghai at night to have our team building.  We would live in the hotel there so we could have our morning meeting started right in the early morning there.  It’s my first time to sleep at other place with my colleagues.  God~!  I know it’s coward but I’m missing my mum and my room especially my bed at the condition that I’m still at home now…  When can I become independent?  It’s impossible at least now…

Friday        Rainy

 

I lost another chance for getting my long-cherished black belt.

 

I don’t know what to say to do to express my complicated while depressing feelings after my karate friend Chongchong told me there would be an black belt exam tomorrow…

 

To Chongchong, she took it for granted that I had already got one in this summer, but the fact is that as I was hesitated on whether to take part in the exam, I did not take anyway, because at that time my body condition was rather bad.  So I lost the chance in summer and my coach told me there would not be any exams this year~~  In order to make good preparation for my coming oral exam, it is almost a month that I did not practise karate and my physical capacity dropped greatly.  It is impossible to take part in the black belt exam tomorrow…

 

You can always find numerous excuses for something you are reluctant to do, exactly.  I don’t know if it is my losing passion of karate that stands in my way every time when it comes to if I should take part in the black belt exam or something else I would choose rather negative attitude and take passive action…

 

I remember the first time I practiced karate.  It was a cold Sunday night, 2 or 3 weeks after the commencement of a new semester in 2002.  I went to the gym with my friend and found many exciting uncertainties there.  I did not know at that time that we should go into the playground with bare feet, I did not know the basic fighting skills, I did not know the spirit of karate, etc.  After a term’s practice, I knew a lot from my coach my friends practicing karate and karate thereafter became part of my life.  I could not sleep without practicing it at night, I would feel sick if I did not practise it for long—about a week’s time and at that time I think I was fightable…I was good at kicking on others heads until my left leg got fracture by my male partner’s elbow…

 

I love karate still, but I’m losing the passion of practicing it and why?  Only because that I’m aging or I can live without it?  My mother always scolds me when I practise it at home like kicking the wind-bell being hung the droplights. “Big girls do not practise that!  It’s not decent!”, she always says…

 

Chongchong got her black belt about 3 years ago. You know, we learned karate at the same time and before she got the black belt, we were of the same level, which means if I wanted, I could take part in the exam and got my black belt that time.  But why I did not take part in?  It’s the question I asked myself time and time again.  It’s hard to explain…

 

Anyway, I plan to take part in the exam and get my black belt within next year.  If I cannot conquer this I won’t conquer any difficulty in future.  So from now on, I would arrange more time on practicing karate~! ( ^0^ well, sometimes you’ll find it’s worthwhile to spend sometime on sports, for it’s not only good for your health it can also relax yourself, reduce your pressure and what’s more, it’s one of the best ways to keep figure~~~)

 

Wednesday to Thursday  (2 holidays at home)

 

Time goes so quickly, especially the time at home.  It was just like yesterday was Monday, the day when I was worried about what to do in the coming holidays, but now I’m worried that I have to go to work tomorrow.

 

I planned to go over and to prepare for the oral exam in the 2 days, but actually I did not know what to prepare.  So I tried my best to read the textbook again and then recite the phrases from another book.  As I know the vocabulary of intermediate level should not be as difficult as or more difficult than those in CET6, I focused my reviewing points on listening and how to interpret and establish short memory.

 

I tried the method of talking continuously to myself without certain topics in order to establish the fluency in speaking in English.  It worked for a while until I got tired and bored.  You know, it’s too hard for me to speak for quite a long time, especially talking to myself.  Actually I don’t like talking at all…

 

In order to get rid of the boring books and materials temporarily, sometimes I would watch the news on CCTV9.  I have to say except some unfamiliar words stand in the way of understanding, the speed of the news from CCTV9 is rather slow, at least slower than the news from VOA and I don’t like the accent from CCTV9.

 

Still got bored, I would turn on my computer, put on my earphones and do some VOA dictation.  I found there are less and less time I need to finish one material, what’s more, with less and less mistakes too.  Of course, you should put aside the unfamiliar words, which I always would encounter.  My next step in English studying after the exam would focus on the enlargement of my vocabulary.  I plan to know more than 10 thousand words in future to read more original books, novels of course, I rally don’t like newspapers; to go to English Corner once a week, to try to do some dictation 3 or 4 times a week… I don’t know if the plan is reasonable or just a daydream.  I’ll try.

 

Got a phone call from another place in China this afternoon at about 16 o’clock.  As I just received Winnie’s call telling me that the salesman in zhengzhou threatened that he would lodge a complaint to our boss for she just refused to release his customer’s goods.  As zhengzhou belongs to the region I am responsible for, I took it for granted that the call should have been from the salesman and you know, I’m on holiday today, so…  I did not receive the call.  Later I realized that the code from zhengzhou should be 0731 and not the 0552…I made a mistake but who at earth phoned me from the place that the code is 0552?

 

Stop by now.  I should have more dictating practice and more practice to build a sound short memory~~~

Tuesday        Cloudy and cold

 

It’s time to update my blog, though I call it a space for my English diaries, as life is boring to most of human beings without anything special to write down and sometimes I’m too busy to write a single word…

 

I enjoyed 3 consistent holidays at home. Though if you exclude Saturday and Sunday, there’s in fact only one extra holiday, I still felt happy very much.  I did something important at home, like doing dictation and reciting fixed phrases, I did all I though is useful for passing the oral exam…

 

I met Tuotuo online today and he told me he decided to give up the oral exam.  He thought it is more difficult to pass the test for as he told me the vocabulary in each sentence of the test is enlarged which increased the difficulty.  I’m afraid of that but as I had paid for the test fee and my energy and time, I should take part in it, I should be responsible for my effort.  Tuotuo also kindly reminded me that it’s enough for me to pass it if I could pay much attention to the materials he gave me this summer.  Well, I have to confess that I did not ever read the materials he gave me this summer yet and right now, after I dropped in them I found that they are really useful but I have not more time to finish them within few days… I am regretful for my ignorance of the materials…Anyway, I’ll try my best to read them as much as I can, though I still have another chance to take the exam, I do not want to lose this time. 

 

Found myself be promoted as the formal mater of PUT Talk Show~!  I’m so excited about it.  You know, I’ve been one member of PUT for only have a year and now I’m one administer of it~~~!  Can’t explain my complicated feelings inside myself.  Though I’d like to write there, it seems that the more and more workload is always in my way sometimes.  I would rearrange my schedule after my oral exam and try to find more time to write there.

 

I still met mujew online, as we have not seen each other for quite a long time I asked something about her recent life condition.  She’s in bad health condition like usual~  I’m worried about that, she’s a very diligent and hardworking girl but with sick body and most important of all, she doesn’t take care of herself.  What can I say?  I had recommended her to do some sports to improve her health, but she would always tell me that the doctors warn that her vulnerable heart can’t bear violent exercises.  Anyway, she would take part in Japanese language examination of level 2 this December.  I wish her good luck to pass the test. 

 

Well, Ma also told me that he would like to start his first Jp class from next month~~~  That’s good!  Knowing that there would be another comrade who likes Japanese language in future made me happy for some time, haha~  Though I don’t learn it now, I would continue my Jp course someday in the near future!  Let’s wait and look forward to the early coming of that day!

Friday       Cloudy

 

I was very happy the whole day for I could enjoy constant 3-day holidays from tomorrow.  I just asked for an annual leave on next Monday and I do think I need more time to relax myself.

 

I felt great pain on the right on my neck and shoulder.  Don’t know why, but all that I’m certain is that it is my work caused the pain.  It didn’t pain at home actually, and I do think sitting in front of the computer for all day long really damaged my health.  I need more time to stay at home not only to relax but also to prepare for the coming exam.  I know there is useless to prepare anything especially for an oral test, because the level of oral English doesn’t depend on your preparation of 1-2 weeks or preparation of short period of time…But, without reciting as many fixed phrases or listening to certain materials, I don’t know what else I can do to call it a preparation before oral test…

 

I’m not used to talking to myself.  Actually I do think it’s silly to say to myself and I’m too lazy to go to the English Corner… With the burden of test, it seems that I just lack the passion of doing anything interesting…

 

At last I found one photo of mine to put onto the post of exchanging English studying experience, because Winnie said it’s a bit strange at the condition that everybody showed their photos only except mine.

 

I felt nervous when I think about the test, it’s good symptom for me, at least I regard it seriously but what if I’m too nervous in the test… I can’t think about that…  More confidence!  I need as much confidence as I could find.  Ok.  I’m getting ready to fight for it… Oh, my!  Only god knows how nervous I am… T__T

Cloudy and warm        Thursday

 

The problem troubled me almost the whole night settled within a single minute!  Achie nudged me that Grace was in her office and alone without much work to handle this afternoon, right after our lunchtime, I knocked at the door and went in bravely… (Winnie suggested me that everybody would be in good mood after lunch, so I’d better have a word with her this afternoon.) 

 

I simply told Grace my condition, but she said her reason to me, which made me in dead silence.  “You are working now,” she said, “the most important thing to you should be your work and not your study.”  She’s right, to the boss, no other employees can achieve their requirements than put all their hearts and souls to their work… I know I’m not a good debater and there is no good for me to put the slogan of training course: “Develop yourself, because your future is our future” to her…

 

When I was busy doing something with my pc, I heard someone asked Henry something at my back and before I knew what had happened, the guy came to me, presented a box of chocolates and asked if I would like to have some in English.  It was Alexander, our big boss, a Chinese who can only speak English.  Quickly I spurt out “No, thank you.” And then I went on my work.  Actually, the box of chocolates really attracted me, but you know, I just did not know how to accept it from a boss, especially a foreign one. T__T  At that time I was in a mess for I just ended one chat from QQ >__<  I hope that he did not know what QQ is…

 

So much for today.  Got to read and sleep.  Stop by now…

 

Cloudy      Wednesday

 

It’s colder than yesterday, but as I wore more, it did not make much influence on me.

 

When I arrived at office, Winnie bounded up in front of me, she told me delightly that she bought the same MP4 like mine yesterday in Suning Appliance Shopping Mall.  Though she bargained, she got her MP4 with a case and a recharge at 758 yuan.  It’s reasonable, she said, if I went to the store near where you live, it would cost me more than 8 yuan.  So she bought it joyfully and transformed many interesting materials in it.

 

Jane went to work today.  Though she’s ok to most of us, she maintained that she would not go to work the rest weekdays of this week.  I can understand her, for HR denied her 2 weeks’ wedding leave application, she needs time to compensate for the lost time.  I was rather free the whole day because of Jane’s arrival and after all it is the first week after the close day and there won’t be much workload at all.  I’m afraid of tomorrow, because Elsa would take leave tomorrow afternoon and leave all her work to both Winnie and me… T__T

 

Elsa told me that Grace, our boss suggested that I go to team building this time, at least to take part in the team building of F&A Department being held in Qingpu, which is the outskirt of Shanghai.  As I cannot afford the time energy and money to go there, all that I can do is to have a talk with her.  I hope that she could understand my difficulty. I have been expecting our team building for all my days in PESTCO, it is my bad luck and the god led such result.  I have to give up something first, so that I can get others.  That’s all.

 

Stop by now.  I must have  more time to read and sleep…

 

Tuesday        cloudy

 

It was a freezing cold morning and I went out with the normal clothes I wear like usual.  In order to drive the cold outside and inside my body, I walked quickly to the bus station with some short time running.  The result of my morning exercises was that I was sweaty~~~with little clothes in a cold morning…

 

As Joan informed me that she had finished part of her job yesterday afternoon, which means I should begin with right after her, so I input lots pieces of CIT into my pc and made a collection accounting excel table this morning quickly in order to do the hard word in the afternoon—to print thousands of AR Statement reports, so horrible~~~

 

I was efficient~~~  ^__^ You know, though I should input CIT from time to time to check the lists from Middle South and North regions of China and print AR Statement reports while make AR Statement tables I still squeezed some time to browse PUT.  To my surprise, I saw many PUT friends left messages after the Prize distribution post, they congratulated the prize owners and made up their minds to making more effort the next competition. 

 

I read nc2learn’s comments on me.  He’s the ex-master of Talk Show and now studying in America.  He said that because of my speed, I did not leave enough time to read each word clearly and he picked up some words in my record.  Actually, I knew my mistakes in the record~~~  but I was too lazy to record it for another time.  You know, when you earnestly want to do something well, you’re the least to do it.  At that time I was a bit nervous and irritated about myself because I made lots of mistakes in the record and I almost lost my confidence to take part in the competition…

 

Any way, I’ll try to adjust my emotion so as to perform as perfectly as I can the next time.  No matter who asks or begs me to be the judge of next competition, I won’t give him/her any chance.  No way!  I’d like to take part in the competition, not to be only a stander-by….

 

Luoxin1943 asked every prize owner to write some experience of his/her English studying and send him the photo too.  He also asked me to do so… I don’t know what to write for I’ve written too much in my comments of the voice competition and I don’t think it’s a necessary to show our photos on PUT. 

 

Stop by now.  It’s getting colder and colder.  I think it’s wise to go to bed right now…

Summary of the first week of Nov

 

It was a busy week that I did not have anytime to leave anything in my diary notebook…  Of course, it’s Sunday today, after a good rest, I plan to write as many things that impressed me deeply as I can.

 

As Jane asked for a two-week sick leave, I have to do part of her work everyday.  You know, it’s nothing to make an extra accounting excel table everyday and to check other customers’ goods lists from North region of China, it was the last week of each accounting month is always very busy that almost made me mad…

 

More workload and more phone calls from both salesmen and customers, I could handle them with tired body.  My spirit was very low the whole week, not only because of the hard work but here were too many accidents happened on PUT.  Two masters of multi-English column were deleted from the website by putclub.  I knew it was the problem, serious misunderstanding led to such horrible situation.  PUT almost paralysed those days~~~

 

I felt sad and worried about PUT’s future, though it isn’t long that I’ve been there, I do love PUT very much.  So its riot troubled me a lot until Lasalo said the following words.  He said: as PUT is a non-proficient website, then there’s a must or trend for the owner or the masters to have the thought of getting as much power/decision-making power as they could.  There’s no who is right or wrong!  It’s realistic society’s common events that are happening almost everyday.  There’s something in what he said and it relaxed my tight nerve a lot about the matter…

 

Stop by now.  I’ll keep on writing from now on.  Time is valuable and not available though, I’ll try~~~

财务在普通的定义中往往是循规蹈矩恪守原则的典范，尽管现在活泼开朗豪迈奔放形形色色的人做财务的大有人在，但基本的照章办事的原则是不容破坏的，一旦破坏了就有牢狱之灾，至少是为奉公守法的有责任心的好财务所严厉抵制的。

 

财务是公司的backup，打理着公司的内部事务，而销售则是对外的，可以说是公司生计的支柱。如果你没有能把黑说成白、死说成活的功力，或者不知道商场的公关术、不圆滑不会逢场作戏、巧舌如簧，你的销售生涯将是惨淡的……

 

前不久我们几个同事食堂吃饭 ，小聊到去年Team building的种种。组织者将全体参与者分为数小队，每队给相同面值的RMB，要完成数项impossible的任务。说到最后拿第一的队伍时，Soniya揭开了内幕：他们送给店家小礼物，恳求他们开了数张低价发票，这才凭发票金额最少完成了任务，据说那队里有销售；Winnie告诉我们，她所在的财务队，几乎把整个杭州都跑遍了，找到了好几处卖规定物品的地方询价，最后觉得买了以后不合算放弃了该项任务……死板的循规蹈矩的思维，限制了我们的创造性思维，不过，身为财物，我们是绝对不会也不应该想到开假发票的，真的！《会计职业道德》里面就是这么规定的，这是会计上岗证考试必考的科目，每个会计从业人员都应该具备的“职业道德”……

 

财务拿的是每个月的死工资，而地球人都知道销售拿的是基本工资+绩效工资，也就是说销售的工资与销售业绩有关，这一可笑的规定导致了所有的销售都有胳膊肘向外拐的倾向。吃的用的都是自家公司给的，可对于客户的许多无理要求总是有求必应。比如，客户想在拖欠公司货款的情况下继续走货时，客户想在没有钱的时候申请列外信用额度走货时，客户的汇款久未到账时，总有销售拍胸脯替客户作保证；客户利用假的汇票走货给发现时也有销售出来打圆场。在无理要求无法通过时，就会对财务实施胡搅蛮缠软硬兼施长时间的连环轰炸法（使得偶在某段日子每天都要拔电话线……）。

 

销售做任何事情靠的是激情，人一有了激情做什么事都精神百倍满面春风；而财务做任何事靠的是冷静的头脑，我们做事情讲究的是个严谨的态度。销售有销售的做事方针，我们同样有我们控制风险的“手段”。既然客户这么要求，就让他们写保证书过来，万一发生了不该发生的“意外”也可以有一定的法律依据来追讨欠款；客户拒绝写保证书还是坚持他们的要求，销售开始了新的一轮“请求”，我们的做法是让销售们的顶头上司写保证，万一发生什么“不幸”，由他们老板来扛；销售“联系”不到他们的老板，又过来“商讨”，我们只能搬出公司财务规定，慢慢地详细地逐条解释（每个月都要解释，可见销售的记忆力不是一般的差……），再行不通，直接说我们没有权限，请找我们领导。领导和我们的口径是绝对一致的，规定就是规定，没有商量的余地，之所以让销售们找财物的领导，就是为了彻底明白清楚地让他们按照规定来办事：写保证+相关人员的保证签名+逐级领导同意的签名……

 

说到底，财务和销售虽然各司其职，但都是一个公司的同事，大家抬头不见回家的班车上也能打个照面。所以，这场财务VS销售的硝烟其实并不是那么呛人的。何必呢，退一步海阔天空，如果能够多站在对方的角度来考虑整个事情，那么同事之间的关系还是会非常融洽的。（已经不那么讨厌在忙碌的时候接到销售电话了，其实自家人还是好说话的，总比直接接到客户电话动不动给投诉了要强吧，呵呵……）