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Two New Doors
Grandma ordered to build two new doors built in our house. A neighbor warned her,”Building a new door means a person will die in this house.”
Grandma didn’t give a shit still wanted the doors, so she had them built anyway. however, That same year, grandma and grandpa had were diagnosed with fatal diseases at the same year, both cancer.
“Block the two doors,” said grandma, at the final moments of her life.
The story made me This incident scared me. What if I do something that can cause my death. This thought had haunted me for a while, but then I realize that the death of my grandparents was were meant to be happen. The two new doors were just the signals. They are not the reason.the death of my grandparents: you should remove the "of my grandparents" before deciding if the following verb should be was or were. "the death was meant to happen". In this phrase, the subject is not grandparents, but is death which singular. If you write "the deaths of my grandparents", then you can use "were".
0 votedMarch 20, 20151Disgust
After staying home two years raising her kid, Ying has been looking for a new job now. She didn’t want to be a secretary anymore, even though Ying was good at this. Ying said, “Secretaries are young and pretty. They are all twenty-something. I’m already 29 years old. I don’t want to be a secretary until 30 or 40. Others will see me with disgust, even I feel disgusted about myself.”
Her words made us speechless. “Disgusted”--what a pathetic word. Can “disgust” even be used to describe people?
I don’t understand Ying and her thoughts; however, I do know you must feel disgusted about yourself first, then others see you with disgust.
A 30 year old secretary... can be that wrong?(after "A 30 year old secretary, you need some sort of punctuation to indicate a pause. I also removed the s from years)
0 votedMarch 17, 20151Delicious spring bamboo shoots
Bamboo shoot is one of my favorite foods. Spring is the season for germination of bamboo shoots which is called “chun1sun3(春笋)” in China. In early spring, there are not so many “chunsun” sprouting, so the price is pretty high, more than $7 per kg. It’s even higher than pork and beef. As more are harvested, the prices gradually drop. By the mid of spring, “chunsun” is on a large sale; the price would be only about $0.70 per kg.
“chunsun” is the most important part of a famous seasonal dish in east China called “yan1du1xian1(腌笃鲜)”. Actually, it’s a kind of soup which includes marbled cured meat, pork ribs, and of course, “chunsun”. The soup needs to takes more than one hour to stew. When ready, it is a mixure of strong, fragrant cured meat and the delicate smell of “chunsun”. The texture of “chunsun” is like asparagus, but chewier than it. The soup tastes delicatly salty, the meat in it is soft and the “chunsun” is chewy. It really is delicious.
The soup can only be made in spring. Still, there are some restaurants that offer this kind of soup in other seasons; however, it is not so popular then, since they use canned bamboo shoots. Canned shoots belong another variety of bamboo, instead of spring bamboo shoots.
As I told you, I like bamboo shoots very much. In order to eat “chunsun” in other seasons, I learnt a method from my mother-in-law to preserve them. Every mid spring, when the price of “chunsun” is only $0.7 per kg, I would buy more than 10 kg to preserve. After cleaning, I cut short and put them into a pot with a lot of salt, and then stew with gentle heat until they become soft, since the water in them are discharged. I freeze these salty “chunsun” in the refrigerator. Every time when I want to use them, in advance, I take out and soak them in water to desalinate. The salty “chunsun” tastes a little different than the fresh, but are still delicious. I always share salty “chunsun” with my friends and they all like it very much. It is rumoured that Westerns don’t eat bamboo shoots. What a pity.(Sonny, this was a great article. Very well written and interesting. Who says westerners don't eat bamboo shoots. I have several cans of it in my pantry!!! Ha ha..... Actually, I saw them at the Chinese market the last time I was in Salt Lake City. I can also buy them in LA, but that's too far to drive for bamboo shoots.)
0 votedMarch 11, 20152- But don't leave out the word "blasted". This is a soft swear word meaning something close to damned. She used it in a sentence talking about the Lord, so Ma Baxter said, "Hush. You'll be punished." I'm guessing that Ma didn't like her using such "horrible language" when talking about God.0 votedMarch 10, 20150
A Feat
All my stuff was in that locker. I was about to lock it when a woman walked in and told me that the lock was broken. She suggested that I move all my stuff to another locker like she had done one hour before.
I checked the lock and thought I fixed a similar locker before. I believed this lock could be fixed, too. However, the woman kept pushing me to change to another locker. Her persistence shook my faith.
I was a person without an opinion when others made suggestions. However, I was too lazy to move the stuff. It was far more complicated than fixing a lock, so I twisted the lock a few times and it was fixed.
My mind sent me the strongest signal, “You can fix the lock.” This time I did not blow the signal off and I succeeded.
“Trust yourself” was not just a saying to me anymore.("an aunt" sounds a little strange, so I replaced it with "a woman")
0 votedMarch 10, 20150Tears In The Heart
Gui showed her new boyfriend’s photo to her father. Her Father saw the photo and didn't say a word. Gui was angry, because she did not understand why he was so quiet. It seemed that her father did not consent.
Gui's father stood up and started to smoke. “I am a little worried,” her father said.“Your worry is pointless. We just started to date, ” Gui said. Her father became quiet again.
Gui's mother later said to her, “A father's love is very deep. He is the one who gives your hand to another man. He is the one that passes his responsibility to that man and hopes he can treat you like he has. When that moments comes, a mother will cry, but a father’s tears are in his heart. A mother’s emotions can be released; however, a father's can not. A father must be more hurtful than a mother. You tell him not to worry. But that is just impossible, because he is your father.”
After you become a parent, your concern for your children will never stop. This is the truth.(Each time a different person talks, you need to start a new paragraph. The mother's quote is too long before you let the reader know it was a quote from the mother, so I moved "mother said" to the front of the paragraph. Also, you changed from third to first person "Mother said this to me", so I changed it to Gui's mother said to her". Also, it seemed like something that mother would say after the father left the room (am I wrong?), so I added "mother later said to her".)
0 votedMarch 10, 20150The Fear
Each time I remember the pending death of my uncle, I feel fear and my heart aches.
My uncle did not have the courage to ask his doctor what his disease was. He was afraid of the answer, cancer. People around him lied to him by saying that he had a curable disease. They knew that if they told him he had cancer, he would have died sooner.
His pain increased every day and his temper became worse. He cried many times and wished he could live long enough to see his grandson’s wedding; however, he did not.
All his reactions and behavior have haunted me for a ling time. I fear I may suffer from the same pain. These thoughts disabled me. However, I gradually understood that facts are facts. No matter what your wishes are, accepting facts is the first step to gaining courage.0 votedMarch 10, 20151
