Two things bothering me I have noticed two things bothering me, which are not really a big deal but I really want to get rid of. The first one is my sleep has gone bad. I used to fall asleep within ten minutes after getting to bed. Now I have to get to bed before 12 oclock p.m. I may have to stay awake for a extremely long time before I finally fall asleep. Actually, I am writing this essay because I am suffering from insomnia right now. The other problem is I cannot remember things as good as I used to be. Sometimes I read an article one day, and I will totally forget the content the other day. And this phenomenon happens in a little disturbing frequency. Am I getting old? Do my brain start to degrade now? I hope not. But I do know there is a close relationship between sleep and memory. Right now I shold go back to roll around on my bed till I lose my conscious.

Music I Love One of my friends recommended me to listen to some songs of a music project called "sleeping at last" few days ago. Actually I didn't think I would even like it because there is a huge gap between our music tastes. But I fell in love with those songs right after I clicked the play button. The album "Atlas: Space" is totally genius and I just couldn't stop listening. Then, tonight, I retrospected all the artists and music genre I love and used to love. I have to say I am really not a consistant person. My favorite style is folk music when I was in middle school. Then I fell into Chinese pop music like most of the teenagers in our country. But I started to listen to western pop and alternative music at college. Then within temptation, which is still my favorite band, led me into the field of metal music. Now I have listened to many different kinds of music. I know I am not an expert on music genre but I am sure I have listened to lots of them. Now I just follow my emotions and let music be a delightful part in my life.

I miss traveling I have been listening to a podcast about travel recently. I chose to listen to the podcast because I hope I can practice my listening. But today, this podcast suddenly reminds me that I haven't traveled for almost a year, while I am a person who loves traveling. Usually, my mind wouldn't wander this far, but now we are on our National Day holiday. Almost every person is traveling or going back home. But I didn't choose either of the options because I really don't want to go travel during holidays because all I can see is crowed people, and the ticket back to my hometown is too expensive. Back to traveling, I love to travel around. I have gone to several different cities, eaten different kinds of food and experienced different cultures. But now, here I am, sitting in my room and writing this little essay. My plan for this holiday was to have a movie and TV series marathon, but it caused me severe headaches so I just gave up. I have decided to wander around the city I live now, although there aren't too many places to go, I do need to get out of my room and have some fresh air.

I like my job, but I hate meetings It's been a while since I joined this company. In general, I like my job and I think I had fit in pretty well. I cannot say that I really love it, but I don't hate it and like some contents of my jobs. But there are some aspects that I dislike about my job. The most boring one is endless meetings. We have two meetings in a week, the first is for the whole company and the second one is for our group exclusively. Sometimes there might be some special or temporary meetings now and then. In my opinion, these meetings are a waste of time. For most of the time, all I can do is sitting there and minding my own business. Actually, my responsibility in this company is a really heavy task and I had to solve lots of unexpected problems. While these endless meetings are consuming my energy. Luckily, one of the bosses said they would cut some meetings. I do hope he would keep his promise. Besides, there is another thing I don't like is that some people in this company seem to like to interrupt the others when they are speaking. I still remember that the first time I did a presentation about my job, I was interrupted three times within ten sentences. When they finally finished what they tried to say and let me continue, I didn't know where and how to continue. I could only feel a blank in my head. Isn't it unrespectful to interrupt whenever you want? Well as a newcomer in this company, I guess I have to spend more time to fit in and accomplish my task at the same time.

night thoughts It's really late here and I'm still awake. I suffer from insomnia several times these days. I tried to lie down and keep my eyes closed untill I fall asleep as usural. While this method seemed losing the magic tonight. So I just got up, put the curtains up and look outside of the window. And what I saw just remind me some scenes of my past years. I lived in a small city near the northeast borderline of my country. Almost the whole city started to fall asleep after 22 o'clock. Then I went to some big cities for my further study. That is a period when I dislike late night because I sometimes had to work till late. Whenever I got out from the research buidling, there would always be some lights came through windows, indicated someone was working later than me. These lights meant we are cheap labours to accomplish some achievements for our tutors. That's hard for people like us to enjoy this kind of light. Then I moved to a totally strange city after graduation. While this night, I don't know how, I just look out of the window in my room, and I noticed the lights from some of the windows in this district and from distance. Somehow, I feel a scence of comfort, for knowing someone.were awake and maybe were minding their own bussiness. The weird comfort feeling satisfied me and made me stand infront of the window for a long time. Well, I think I've stood here for a long time. So I should.go back to my bed and wait for the coming of sleep. Good night.

I love airplants I am in love with airplants. Now I have more than twenty different airplants and it makes me satisfied. Airplant is also called Tillandsia for the scientific name, which is a kind of plants that don't need any soil. They can grow just in the air. All you have to do is spray some water now and then, so it is easy to keep and a good choice if you are a little bit lazy. While you still have to put some energy into it to make sure they get ventilated well because they would be dead if the water was stuck at the center of leaves. There is another interesting thing about them is the names. They sure have scientific names, but we gave them their own Chinese names based on the characteristics of the leaves and flowers and some original English and Latin names. Some of the names are really nice. We call Tillandsia xerographica as "the overlord", T. exserta as "fountain", T. balbisiana as "willow leaf" and T. bulbosa as "octopus". These name are really nice and graphic. I love them so much because they are so beautiful and they are magical plants. While they are not very popular in China, lots of people don't know anything about them. I hope I can make friends who also love airplant and we could share something about them.