New contract As an architect in China, it is lucky that you can have a lot of design projects, even in the impact of the pandemic. Since last month, many friends have asked me to design some former or new projects which supposed have to stop in the pandemic. When new infected cases zero, everyone want to do their work immediately. Today I received a contract payment which should be paid in last year, and a new contract have been signed, hope everything can be better in the near future!

Annual vehicle inspection Despite influenced by the cover-19, I have to drive my car to pass the annual vehicle inspection. You have to pay money for all peccancy of your car first, then you will drive your car to an inspection station and pay ¥360. Some staff will check your car, such as appearance, lights, warning triangle and so on, then they will give you a certification which allow you drive your car legally on road.

Bad can come from good Maybe sometimes good can come from bad and bad also can come from good. These days, China-US trade war has made a phase one deal, china has promised to buy $200 BN good from America. It seems that America has won the first step and China made a great concession. But there are still some questions that were pointed out by The Economist. Firstly, China usually purchases huge amounts of farm goods from other countries such as Brazil, Canada, Australia and so on. Now the global balance will be disturbed, it can’t take advantage of free market. The second one is, this deal will enforce the relationship between China and the US, it will make the industries more dependent on China’s purchase. in case of another break, America’s farmers and plants will become more vulnerable, then the US government won’t have more initiative. The last one, the list of the goods is a secret, which is even more ridiculous. A free market country have a secret list and spills the beans slowly to farms and plants telling them to produce enough goods for salling to China? Who will get the information first from who?

All the documents Ok, I will check the list again before delivering it, I promised Mr. Wong. Mr. Wong is a manager in the construction-project-owner which is one of my designing projects, we are working together to try to pass a procedure of local government. Again and again, I can’t remember how many times I have delivered the documents and drawings to the local planning bureau, but every time there would be some bugs such as the format, numbers, text errors and so on, then you have to take all your documents back, correct them and come again. About several years ago, it was very easy to get these permissions. There wouldn’t be any problem if you bribed some officers who have power. Now those situations are rare, but it is harder to handle procedures.

Emitting gases into the space This winter is extremely warm, global warming seems to be becoming more serious year by year. We all know that the key to the problem is the emissions of greenhouse gases into the planet’s atmosphere are increasing. Carbon emission reduction may help solve this problem, but humans can not achieve the zero-emission goal easily. We do need more production to satisfy ourselves. I have a good idea to solve the trouble - building a Babel Chimney. The Babel Chimney will have an enough height to get higher than the margin of atmosphere, it takes a simple principle that emits the greenhouse gases directly into the space. We can connect all the factories, power plants, etc, with pipes, all the pipes will be guided to the Babel chimney, then we can burn anything we want to burn relievedly. Compared with the Space Elevator, the chimney is relatively easy to implement because it doesn’t need to have any unnecessary load, so it can be made by very light material. However it can load something that is not very heavy such as signal equipment, lights and so on. While there are many benefits in doing this, there will also be some drawbacks. One of them that I can think of now is that the oxygen in the atmosphere will be emitted out too. Despite that, I still think that is a good idea to solve the greenhouse emission problem. This essay is just for practicing English, it is a joke.

Building roads There is a strange phenomenon that our governments always built very wide roads instead of lanes. These roads usually have four, six, eight or even more lanes which are planned between very large blocks that has large amount of buildings. It obviously has a problem that many buildings do not have public roads around them, people in the buildings have to through limited gates to get the public wide roads. I had never found any problem whit it, but after I saw some cities in other countries, I realized that it was a silly way to make the urban planning. We shouldn’t build so many wide roads, which are not effective and cost a lot of money. What we should do is to build more lane which can reach every building, make sure each building can be surrounded by public road. If it comes true, our city development will be easier, that is the additional benefit.

My brother’s wedding Today, I come to the hometown to go to a wedding of my youngest brother who is one of my cousins. He is 30 years old, not young any more for getting married, despite this he is a lucky man and his parents are happy now. Tomorrow there will be a wedding ceremony, the majority of my family will attend it and give the best wishes for the new couple.

be a decent girl One day, Amy, my daughter, who is 8 years old was doing her homework, she took a book out of her bag, opened it quietly and drew something. I noticed that she was altering her performance from A- to A+, which was given by her teacher. I was so angry and rebuked what she had done, then I ordered her to change it back. But she denied committing that and refused to correct the performance. I was even more angry, but soon I realized that it wouldn’t be useful for a little girl. So I asked her, do you remember Frozen 2 we saw last weekend? Of course! She answered, it is my favorite film. Do you know why Anna destroyed the dam? I don’t know, Amy said. Then I told her, Because Anna is a brave girl, she committed the mistake that her family had made and she risked her life to correct the mistake. In the end, Anna became the queen of people. Do you know why? Amy said, ”I don’t know.” then I said because people like the person who is honest and can admit its faults. What kind of person do you like to be? Amy burst into a flood of tears and said, “I was wrong, I would never make that mistake.”