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An Introduction To Mr Gao Xiaosong
Gao Xiaosong, who is one of the most famous musicians and talk show hosts around China.
In 2010, a web site intervieweds Gao and posted one of his picture.This picture showed a middle age man in decent suit: a purple shirt and a black waistcoat. He stood at ease, with his thumbs sticking into trousers pockets. His black well-combed long hair fell down to his shoulders. His unsmooth, dark yellow round face wore a sunny smile, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses riding on his flat nose, and some black beard under his jaw. Behind the spectacles, one could feel confident through his half-closed eyes.
Six years later, Gao posted a selfie via his WeiBo. In this picture, Gao seemed still on bed, the quilt concealed the rest under his chest, his bare arms stretched out in the air to handle the camera. His long hair had been cut. He was showing little smile, so one could make out his eyes were not that small. Owing to the smart camera, his face looked even more smooth than six years ago. Gao's beard was still there, but not all black like before. After all, he was almost 50 years old at that time. One would say:"Oh my! what an ugly guy!" seeing either of the pictures without knowing him, while his fans loved him even more because of his wisdom and brilliance.
There is an old saying goes in China:"One with great learning shows gracefulness naturally". If you don't get a gift of good looking, you can creat an attractive inside instead.
March 15, 2017
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The First English Original Novel In My Life-Correction is needed
Over the past two weeks, I had joined in a group, and strarted the English original novel reading following a tutor.The first one is The Little Prince which was writen by a French Writer. Though it is quite simple and not that long it took me almost 2 hours to finish daily reading task at the beginning, because I spent too much time to look up the words I didn't know. In fact, this was an inefficiant reading method. Afterwards, I adjusted my strategy, trying my best not to waste much time on the unknow words. My goal is to read the story, not to translate it.
In this way, I completely read The Little Prince in seven days, the first English original novel in my life. It encourged me a lot, and I have started the second novel: The Magnician's Nephew(Book I of The Chronicles Of NARNIA).
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Learning English makes me feel self-confident
I don't talk much in my daily life, I guess that's because of my personality. Even in work hour communication, I rarely talked about other matters beyond the work. But today, I talked a lot in a conversation of which I really felt self-confident.
This afternoon, I went to meet a colleague who is the user of a machine I had bought. I attempted to persuade her to accept the machine and sign the approval file. She didn't agree with me and pointed out a flaw of the machine. I explained the "flaw" in English in purpose:"It's normal, and it's acceptable, right?"
She looked at me surprisingly:"So you are learning English?" I said Yes, and we started to talk about learning English. She told me that she is trying to teach her 6-year-old daugter English at home. I talked excitely about how to write an entry on italki, how to talk with a native speaker, how to maitain the motivation and so on. Those were what I had done over the last month.
"I really enjoy this conversation,"she said at last,"I will convince my director and sign the approval file ."
So do I, I wanted to say. I worked hard on English for a whole month, and having a wonderful conversation that could contribute to my work. As the saying goes: the harder you work, the happier you will be.
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5th Wedding Anniversary
Yesterday was my 5th wedding anniversary, so I applied for half a day off. After settling the work in the moring, I drove home and pick my wife up, then starting a rare two-person world. Actually, we no longer had such quiet hours since our child was born. This afternoon, we planed to have lunch and seeing a movie together, just two persons, no kids.
We went to a westen restaurant which located at SUNNING Square to have lunch. We ordered a pizza , a beefsteak, a fruit salad, a cup of wine and a pot of tea. It was the 3rd time we came to here, the environment is quite good, and the pizza is really delicious.That was the reason why we chose it again. We enjoyed our lunch and said some old things from time to time.
After lunch, we had about one hour for shopping before the movie. I was too poor to buy any worthy gifts for my wife when I married her 5 years ago. But the situation is getting better now, so I bought her a diamond necklace.
The last item was seeing a movie. It is a Japanese cartoon named "Your name", which is popular recently in China. The movie demonstrats the engergy,brightness and courage in pure youth love.It was a good choice for such anniversary day.
What a nice day !
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The First Time To See A 4D Movie
This sunday was a bright day after several snowy and rainy days .I went to the cinema with my wife and our little boy. We chose a latest Desney cartoon named "Moana". It's a 4D movie.
When we walked in to screening room, we could see the chairs were kind of different from ones in other normal screening rooms. They were higher and every three or four chair were joint together in a row. I didn't understand the purpose untill the movie started.The chairs shaked up and down, left and right as the movement in the movie, and a puff of steam sprayed from the back of the chair in front. Moreover, the light sparked when it was lightning. Frankly speaking, I didn't like it at all.I felt the artificial movement, steam and lightning were stupid.
On the other hand, the cartoon was not bad.It told a story about a brave girl Moana saved her fellows with the help of her grandmother, the sea and Maui after experiencing lots of bitterness and sorrow. There was not much new meaning for the drama, but the scenes were absolutely wonderful, and the music was really impressive.One of the episodes is "How Far I'll Go", the other is "We Know the Way". I love both of them.
In conclusion, it was a joyful sunday.
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Reminiscence of Snowy Days
It's sleet today in our city which is in the midland of China. It is counted as the first snow of this year. Usually people like snowy day while dislike rainy day. I guess the reson would be the falling snow looks romantic.
This afternoon, I sit by the window, wearing earphone. The familiar music and falling snow reminded me my first love. One day 14 years ago, I read a letter from the girl who was the first one I fell in love with, standing by the mail box. Suddenly, a piece of snow fell onto the letter paper in my hand. I looked up——it was snowing! It was so nice just like it is.
Today, I really miss her meanwhile I haven't seen her for more than 10 years. I wanted to call her and just say hello, but quited finally. It's better that yearning than seeing.
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The motivation of learning English
This is the 10th day since I joined in the italki community. I had writen two essays. It's an obvious progress for me though it's few and it took me more than half an hour for each one.
The direct cause to motive me to learn English is a lately interview invitation. A hunter HR called me about 4 weeks ago, at the beginning, we talked in Mandarin, later, the hunter said she want to test my English, but I could not say even one single word. I felt a deep sense of shame for that. From then on, I work hard on learning English, harder then ever before.
I believe that English is not only a tool to obtain a better job, but also a bridge leading to a wider and more wonderful world.
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The more effort, the more lucky
These days, there are two things frequently jump into my mind and impact my thought.
The first one is the complaint of a English learner on the italki community. That guy said he had no partner and nobody help to correct his essais , while the English native speaker got lot of reaction when they wanted to learn their target language.
The second is luckily for me to have an opportunity to talked to an English native speaker on skype. I have looked forward to that for a long time.Previously, I thought I had learned enough vocabulary for basic communication. In fact, when I the line was connected, I even didn't know how to start a coversation.I nearly couldn't say a complete sentence during the later conversation.I was nervous and excit. After hanging up, I found that sweat dripped from my forehead.
What I want to say is : A partner is helpful, but getting ready by oneself is more important. If you have no solid basis, talking to a native speaker will not help you but frustrating you hard!
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Happy Family Curing Tiredness
It was 17:30 when I left my office with co-workers. I felt hungry because it had been 5 hours since the lunch time.
When we just walked through the gate, I took a look at my smartphone and saw a message from the Section Director, said, Come back to update your file. OMG, can you believe that? Whatever, boss is a boss, I texted back "OK,Boss" and turned back to my office.
I had worked 2 more hours and came home. Luckily, my wife had cooked delicious dinner for me. And my 3-year-old son sang a song for me, which was taught in kindergarden. He was so cute and funny .So I laughed out loud and forgot the tiredness.
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