Some words on italki's note input column and losing scripts I mean the column for users to input words. I just wrote hundred words yesterday about a grammar issue but my computer encountered some problems and I restarted it. Then I remembered that I hadn't finished my composition and left it half way, and italki don't have a auto save function, just like many websites would do. So I lost my draft. It's not that easy to write some thing day by day. And I don't want to keep it just like a diary, a diary writes did and ate. This column limits to 2500 letters only, and that's about 500 hundred words in English. But surprisingly 2500 letters' length support up to around 1200 characters' Chinese, which conveys somewhat more information than English. And the title column limits up to 60 letters. It's relatively long and 60 letters may show as three lines. To write words in Word or WPS, ctrl+c+v following, maybe a good choice. But it makes things complicated. I tried to write long words, like story and notes, in Word files. But the step to open that software just kept me out for it's unnecessary and boring. Ya I'm lazy but there must be a reason, and I could shirk off the responsibility upon it. Losing manuscripts seem usual for a writer, what kind of things he writes, but it surely can be avoided. WPS, the Word in Chinese language although not that good functional, has the auto save ability, as well as Qidian's column for writers. Qidian is a website for readers to read long novels online and for writers to write long novels online and free. And I think, I could just think because I don't usually do, the blog providers and communication apps, whatever the name of the kind is, like twitter and facebook surely support auto save. It takes me 20 to 40 minutes to write a this-kind-of essay. For more information and thoughts provided ones it takes more indeed. And I don't usually shut down my computers and don't suffer cut of electricity very often. So maybe it is acceptable when losing scripts happen? I hope better not. It's true interesting to have the experience of losing scripts sometimes. I've read many writers autobiographies and knew that many of them have experienced it. Losing chapters and even whole book in that years before when the computer was popular. Many writers in China talks about this problem and they have some their own solutions, from auto save WPS to chapter-ial manual saves, from priced specialized software to just give up writing.

Prose Translation: 1, Country's Hardship and the Well-Developed People，艰难的国运与雄健的国民，李大钊，写于1923年 The pavement of history is not flat, and sometimes there would be extreme hardships. Which only with well-developed spirits we could go through. 历史的道路，不全是平坦的，有时走到艰难险阻的境界，这是全靠雄健的精神才能够冲过去的。 A great river has chance to encounter with wideness. Where is huge plain and the river will goes on the way to far away. Sometimes with narrowness there would be hills and high cliffs on the sides, and the river's run is curved, bend and dangerous. The process and the experience of a nation's improvement are also like this. 一条浩浩荡荡的长江大河，有时流到很宽阔的境界，平原无际，一泻万里。有时流到很逼狭的境界，两岸丛山叠岭，绝壁断崖，江河流于其间，回环曲折，极其险峻。民族生命的进程，其经历亦复如是。 The life of humankind in the history is like traveling. The people would go through kinds of places, sometimes flat plains, and sometimes rugged hills. For those who want a wonderful travel, would be happy at pleasant places, and be more interested at hard ways. They thought beauty of adventure lies in that hardships. 人类在历史上的生活正如旅行一样。旅途上的征人所经过的地方，有时是坦荡平原，有时是崎岖险路。志于旅途的人，走到平坦的地方，因是高高兴兴地向前走，走到崎岖的境界，愈是奇趣横生，觉得在此奇绝壮绝的境界，愈能感到一种冒险的美趣。 The Chinese nation is in the middle of the time river with hardships. Extreme beauty lies there and the passers-by would find it magnificent. But the magnificence is only for people with well developed spirits. Otherwise one would see it lamentable. 中华民族现在所逢的史路，是一段崎岖险阻的道路。在这一段道路上，实在亦有一种奇绝壮绝的景致，使我们经过这段道路的人，感到一种壮美的趣味。但这种壮美的趣味，没有雄健的精神是不能够感觉到的。 Our Yangtze River and Yellow River represent our nation's spirit that they would go through deserts, hills, cliffs or whatever terrains ahead, because the two rivers contains so many things and so much water which push them unstoppably forward. The conditions now, with hardships, cannot stop our nation's steps. We should show the well developed spirits, sing marches, and walk firmly forward in the songs. It would be a favor to build a country in such hardships... 我们的扬子江、黄河，可以代表我们的民族的精神，扬子江及黄河遇见沙漠、遇见山峡都是浩浩荡荡地往前流过去，以成其浊流滚滚、一泻万里的魄势。目前艰难境界，哪能阻抑我们民族生命的前进?我们应该拿出雄健的精神，高唱着进行的曲调，在这悲壮歌声中，走过这崎岖险阻的道路。要知在艰难的国运中建造国家，亦是人生最有趣味的事……

Some words on Rueda de Casino and bad mood Rueda as a PE class, a subclass of salsa, I'm taking this semester. It might be the first time for a shy boy to see and dance with so many girls, we 19 people in total, including 14 females. It's the ninth week, 3 hours per week, and we've learned some very basic steps like guapea, dame, dile que no, con una, con dos, con clave, enchufa, ni pa ti ni pa mi & yogurt three. These are Spanish names, or maybe least Spanglish, and the pronunciation confused me at the very beginning. But Spanish pronunciations are a little bit easier understanding than English so it was not a problem. I'm tall, not strong but somewhat heavy, and body not flexible so it is uncomfortable for me to do this kind of body exercises. Two years I was forced to take a cheerleading dance and that left me a bad score. For eighth and seventh week's classes, I was absent for some bad mood or some mental things, and I thought teachers would be mad at me or something. It's just fine to show up every time and yet school still permits 25%'s hours off from the whole class period. Each time I had something wrong on my study, for example I forgot to submit a homework or assignment's paper work, or just slept over 2 hour's classes I would be in serious bad mood, which makes me want to be away from the whole thing, away from the teacher the whole class, even the whole school work and the whole world. And of course it did not come to that serious and I'm still in the school. I tried psychologists, talking with friends（I don't have quite many friends though）, teachers, teaching assistants and tutors, and they don't work well, they don't touch the point. I got some words from a Chinese net novel named “Turn Towards”, 归向, that this problem surely happens on some teens, and it's just like a primary school student who didn't finished the homework for summer holiday, so he is too afraid to go to school. Gosh, it's a wonderful metaphor. I never do my summer or winter homework for 9 years and I still get high scores. What the heck makes me now terrified like a pussy and not able to go to class and even to exams? This left me many F letters on my score sheet and I'm facing the 5th year. Terrible problem it is and it must be solved. Back to the topic, exercises do good to the mood as well as the body. And I picked up my time table followed in the whole 6 years in high school. Getting up at 6:00, going to sleep at 22:20, keeping body and teeth clean everyday. I just typed in some nonsense.

Some words on nonsense I've read this story somewhere but can't remember now, what a pity. It has been years after his success. His is a leader of the Red country, but who knows he was sent by Red's biggest enemy, Blue? Blue had been a weak country for that long time and had little chance to win the war. But Blue did it, nearly unnecessarily. Laser guns, missiles, combat robots, all the hi-tec weapons were disabled at the first meet and became a punch of junks. But stuffs are not the determinants, never. Blue had him in Red's army long before the war, and he really won the convince from all the priorities. His job was hard. To win the first wars and push Blue into nearly dead, and must leave a way back for them, undiscovered. It should be his mistake to leave Blue a chance, and he had convince the people in Red that he had did his best and here would be nobody who could replace him. The head of the army. After congress's hard debate, there was a decision. Basements were attacked and Blue had change the battlefield into a pool, in blood. There wasn't a really decisive battle for two main armies from Red and Blue, because Blue simply took over their supplies as well as the people's believes. Red's people gave up their country in mind, even the high class in Red's head. The war lasted for dozens of years but got over just in a flash. He was welcomed back as a hero to Blue, when Red's people didn't care about that anymore. .... I'm not talking about Soviet or any country in the earth. It's just a story, or a conclusion of a novel which I've read and forget now. The story happens in another world, with all kinds of hi-tec weapons which I didn't mention in this essay. .... Reading history and many literary books surely expand the horizon, and I hardly recognize it before, and not quite well even now. Teachers have given me many names of books of different aspects, in English mostly and some in Chinese. I just read novels, novels for selling, named Chinese-net long novels（I may talk about this kind of novels later, for which there is no equivalent in English world or Japan） and just take the knowledge in them. Which is not good, for that the writers are not famous, not specially educated, not even earning a life through writing and may not have read good books themselves. I'm in my 22nd years now, and I'm still childish, facing a repeat of the 4th year in the undergraduate school. But I think it would not be awful or too late. Still young and growing am I. Just nonsense.

Prose sets catalog translation: Selected Modern Chinese Essays 英译中国现代散文选 Selected Modern Chinese Essays 一 One 艰难的国运与雄健的国民 李大钊 p001 Country's hardship and the well-developed people 话说短文 冰心 p116 Some words on short essays 白杨礼赞 茅盾 p150 Praise to poplar 恋爱不是游戏 庐隐 p192 Love is not a game 文学批评无用论 季羡林 p242 Literary-criticism-of-no-use-ology 致蒋经国信 廖承志 p363 Letter to JIANG Jingguo 二 Two 聪明人和傻子和奴才 鲁迅 p013 Wit and fool and lackey 吹牛的妙用 庐隐 p089 Good usage of brag 我爱作文 谢冰莹 p119 I love writing essays 加德满都的狗 季羡林 p207 Dogs in Katmandu 要培养新的杂文作家 廖沫沙 p302 To develop new prose writers 三 Three 说开卷有益 郁达夫 p018 Profits to open books 我差点被狼吃了 冰心 p054 I was almost ate by a wolf 彭德怀速写 丁玲 p096 Sketch on PENG Dehuai 美国编辑的基本常识 董鼎山 p211 General knowledge to American editors 四 Four 我写小说的道路 张恨水 p013 My way to write novels 再寄小读者 冰心 p033 Messages to little readers again 略谈英文文法 梁实秋 p069 Brief discussion on English grammar 寓言三则 施蛰存 p087 Three fables 我和北大图书馆 季羡林 p135 Peking Uni. Library and Me （20 entries in total） I'm also preparing for CATTI exams（China Accreditation Test for Translators and Interpreters） so I'm reading some good proses. It would be great to do some translation work on them for those examinees who wants to get a good score or just want to improve the English skills. I tried some translation on a Chinese novel called Idle Away into English but failed. It's kind of too difficult for me. Those proses are written by kinds of scholars or well known writers in China, but are translated into English all by a man named ZHANG Peiji. Though there would certainly be other versions by different translators. I'd translate them first and then compare to ZHANG's works to see the gap. The proses would not be long, but still longer than the letter limit in italki, so I would simplify the contents and leave the main ideas there. And for myself's sake, I would use simple words rather than some "literarial" words. And the reason is simple: I'm not able to. Hope I will not give up halfway.

Some words on translating a book I've been translating a book named Key Concepts in Creative Writing into Chinese for about a week. It's the first I want to do a book's translation and I thought it would not be too hard. But days past and I'm still on the first chapter. There are an alphabetical menu and 134 entries in total, and I just finished things like preface. I searched related info on the net and found that even a skilled translator couldn't complete over 500 words' work in a hour, given they work 8 hours a day. And I think an hour a day and 500 word's translation would be enough for me. However, I'd like to finish the whole book and send it to a publisher to see if I can print it and get my name on it, because the entrance exam to a graduate school would come and it will surely sparks my profile. A day passed...I should finish this at once. I got tired after 500 or so words' work, and get sleepy soon at 21:00 o'clock, I don't go to sleep at that time unless I stayed up all night the day before. 5 pages should be done each day so I can reach the deadline I set. Whatever. I have little to say now. Going to work. .... By the way, I just wrote a note（or what's this column's name, notebook? homework? essay? I didn't see the English name shown on the website）, a story named Dream Story 3 in Chinese. It's quite strange somebody here who wants to practice his mother language, but I do. I need to polish my writing skills since it looks very rookie now for my creative writing & writer dream.

Some words on fallout 4 and ps4 controller I'm familiarizing with my ps4 controller. The last time I use a controller rather than a keyboard or mouse would be ten years ago, when I was child, playing fc games. It's already the end time for fc gamers, but since I'm in China rural areas, it's not strange that I know these things later than the people in cities, and especially those in Japan. Fallout is a good series pc game, but I didn't play it until follout 3 and newvegas. I don't know much English then, and I said to sellers that I need "Fallout LasVegas". Good news is that he understood me, and bad news is that he gave me a pirated CD and it didn't run. I bought a ps4 pro to play battlefield V because people say that there are no hack bastards in ps4 platform, compared to pc platform's bad environment with so many hackers. But ps4 don't offer keyboard or mouse supplies even if ps4, different from ps3 or other gamers, is constructed on the same basement of pc. It must be simplicissimus for them to support keyboard and mouse. Then I gave it up and just put the ps4 there. But I brought a controller with me to school, thinking that it may helps in some aspects. It true does. Steam supports ps4 controller, whilst win10 doesn't. this time I played fo4 for about a week, rookie difficulty. My skills improved a bit and have known deeper into the fo4. Just now I stopped near a friendly deathclaw, who hides himself in a broken building, doing nothing nor attacking anybody. I've helped the Institute governed the commonwealth. By the way, I thought the name of commonwealth was Junkyard or wasteland, just reading into the Chinese translation and the reason why commonwealth showed for a while but I can't remember. Maybe I'd play it for one more time, in survival mode. I've seldom played console games without hack or control panel, (while I never use hack in online games) so it must be difficult to re-reach this situation that Institute wins the commonwealth. Controllers are good, just good. It would be perfect for rpg games, in first person mode or not, but for fps games, controllers perform awfully, even if many people say with controllers they can still be as powerful as a pc mouse-keyboard user.