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Friday, July 24, 2009,8:12 AM

Started reading again, this time Chinese books

Being a Chinese teacher, many will assume I love to read Chinese books. You are wrong! I grew up reading English story books and till now I read English papers for the news... and only when my dear mom forces me, would I read the Chinese papers. My explantion would be I can never 略读 in Chinese, only 详读，which make reading alot more difficult.

Always know that Kangni owns many many Chinese books... so decided to borrow a few from her to read, in my attempt to brush up my language. The 2 books she lent me were quite interesting. I have finished reading one and the other is still in progress.

The first book is entitled 《爱原来可以如此豁达》. It is written by this Chinese writer 刘墉. He writes about relationships - about love, about marriage, about family and about life. There was one chapter on protecting oneself first before others. To many, someone who protects himself first is considered as selfish... that's what I used to think.　But a sentence in his book make me ponder over my opinion. He wrote:"保自己不是牺牲，是保护自己，到关键时刻，做最有价值的牺牲与奉献" It's soo true! In many cases, courageous people will just dive their heads into the matter and try to save everybody from danger.. but they often forget if they have the ability to do so, if they are able to save them without endangering himself. So frequently, the person who wants to save the drowning person is himself not a strong swimmer, as a result both die... isn't that a fruitless "rescue"?

The second book, I am still in progress. It's entitled "我的青春呐！" by a doctor writer 欧阳林. This book is alot funnier due to his writing style. Though I have slight difficulties in reading the 繁体字, but his style is more relaxed. He has interesting insights on little things that happened to him during his childhood and schooling days... Having been through school, though we are from different cultures, I can still relate to those instances.

There was a chapter where he wrote his obsession over beauty when he was younger. He wanted beautiful clothes, trendy hairstyles, spects desgins etc. But after experiencing life, growing up and seeing many many beautiful things, he realised that to be beautiful is to be confident. He wrote :" 看过了人生，看过了成长，看尽了繁华美丽，却仍然坚持，美丽人生，最先来自因自信而美丽的自己"

He wrote another chapter on friendship (in school). I especially like the last part as I have been wondering lately why I am not able to keep in contact with all my friends from school. I will think of them when I see youngsters hanging out in huge groups and I missed those outings that we have when we are younger. But instead of doing sth about it, I will just lament that busy worklife has seperated us. I know I need to make the extra effort but maybe I am just lazy. Actually his words are a comfort to me. He wrote:" 朋友只能丰富生命中的某一个片段，但只要曾经拥有，在记忆的洪流中，它其实已经天长地久了"

I treasure the friendship that I built with every single ppl in my life. We might be just acquintants but as least we know each other. Our friends might more be with us now... but at least in my memory, they will always be there... during those periods where I needed them and they needed me....

Monday, July 13, 2009,9:59 AM

A Simple 7th Anniversary Celebration

As Miao is going for reservist this week, we celebrated our 7th anniversary early on Sunday. It was very simple, just went Ecp to blade then have dinner. I made Miao a picture collage. Spent quite alot of time to do that cos I am not very good in designing, cutting and all that...

Miao bought me a make-up set from Clinque... which came with a white pouch. It is nice la... but not very practical cos I hardly use it. Anyway I told him we will celebrate again... cos I think we should do more than just having dinner... so we will plan again... hahaha!

Monday, July 6, 2009,2:25 PM

School is well

First week of school flew past very quickly... we were all busy with prevention of H1N1.... lots of temperature taking... timetable also slightly affected due to the scehdule of temparature taking...

Tomorrow when we are back in school, staff will be split up into different rooms for social distancing... so we will no longer be in the same staff room... it's rather troublesome... since alot of things are still on our respectives desks... but i guess its important to do that so that school will still be functioning if someone is down with the flu... we need to do all we can... Bo bianz!