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There’s a draft i wrote few months ago which i had no intention to publish was published. Why? coz when i look back to those words, i have a profound feeling about lives of those days and call up my memories about everything at work. So if i don’t publish it, maybe i’ll feeling sorry about that years later.

Alright, let me summarize both life and work for the past few months. First is life, as arranged, i took part in the PETS4 a month ago, and according to the previous experience(that’s the benefit of keeping diaries), result will come out in early Nov., or maybe late Oct., hope i get pass this time:) Talking about English, i started the morning read few weeks ago, the book is called How to Stoping Worrying And Start Living by Dale Carnegie, a book i brought from Dangdang few months ago, along with another book also written by Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends And Influence People, and it will be my next target to take it down. The way i’m doing morning read is first download the audio book from the Internet, copy into my mp3 player, following the speaker and read my book in hand. Benefits i learned from this way of praticing, which i’ve never found out before, is that it can pratice only the listening, reading, but also oral skills. Besides, people like me can learn some worry solving techniques from this book too, i think that’s what others say: kill two birds with one stone.

Next think i wanna talk is work, obviously time can change anything, and now i can handle some jobs directly by myself, tough though, but as i said, time can change anything, so let’s see. And i wanna thanks my colleagues, their tolerance and willingness to help makes me feel a lot better. Our team, total 22 of us had a lunch last week, most of us had a great time and had a great fun, including me… There’re photos, but there’re too large to send out by mail to my inbox, maybe i’d show you some other time.

(yWeekend)  Was iPhoneGirl A Planned Beauty?  By Ma Jun.  September 4, 2008.

Was this a “marketing show” that was staged by people behind the scene? Or was this a spontaneous incident that occurred by chance alone?

This newest “Internet fairy tale” occurred as follows:  The photos of a Shenzhen female worker with a radiant smile appeared in the brand new iPhone purchased by a young English man.  He posted these photos onto the Internet, and it drew the attention of an uncountable number of netizens.  From overseas to China, from the Internet to the print media, “the prettiest iPhone Chinese girl” became red-hot in a mere six days!

Is this a real event?  Could it be planned by some company behind the scene?  Some netizens still refuse to believe it.  The yWeekend reporter pursued the case down many lines of inquiry.  One Internet promoter claimed that he knows the details of the case!  Since it is not possible to assess the reliability of this assertion, the yWeekend reporter will try to present the various angles of this case.  Yes, that includes all the questions and doubts too.

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A netizen with ID ‘markm49uk’ claimed that he is an Englishman and he bought a brand new 3G edition iPhone.  He found that there were several photos of a smiling “pretty girl.”  He posted those photos to the website macrumors.com for Apple fans.  This post aroused the interest of overseas netizens.  Some people believe that the workers on the production line of the factory took the photos for fun and forgot to delete them.

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A month again, and i’m here to continue my “journal”, this time i didn’t write it at office but at dorm, the reason is simple: I’m busy while at office. You might curious how’s that possible, me? busy? A month ago, it is not possible, as i have told you guys all my diary activities at office, and most of the time i was just sitting and doing nothing, that’s why i can wrote my words during working hours. Ever since i was transferred to another team, everything has changed: colleague, job responsibility, daily work routing. For me, this is just another month of training. Though that’s not easy, but i feel a little bit excited coz i don’t have to pretend  doing something (actually nothing) and feeling awful.

—————————————-above wrote a month ago

22th Aug, two months after transferred, life has not been easy…

IT SEEMS THAT I SHOULD GO TO SLEEP BEFORE 10PM, BECAUSE I JUST FEEL SO TIRED SITTING HERE. PASSIONLESSNESS PROBABLY IS THE MAIN REASON WHY I FEEL TIRED, “LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD”, I CHOOSE LIVE FREE IF I CAN. “I CAN” MEANS I DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PLACE TO LIVE, FOODS TO EAT AND CLOTHES TO WEAR, THAT’S THE MOST BASIC ELEMENTS OF A “LIFE”, I WOULD APPRECIATE SOME ADDITIONAL “BONUSES” OF COUSE, BOOKS, CUBES, NO WOMEN, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHERE TO LIVE, EVEN IN A FORREST, I WILL BE AS GOOD AS THE RICHEST PERSON ON THE PLANET, OR EVEN BETTER.

BUT THE FACT IS THAT I WILL NEVER BE A GUY LIKE THAT, NON OF ANYONE WHO LIVES ON THIS PLANET. BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH TO CARE ABOUT, FIRST AND THE MOST IMPORTANT OF COURSE IS YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FATHER, YOUR MOTHER, AND THE SO CALLED “RESONSIBILITY TO GET MARRY, THEN NEED TO HAVE A CHILD AND RAISE HE/SHE UP”, WHAT A TRADITIONAL THOUGHT! ANOTHER IS THE SO CALLED “SOCIATY RESPONSIBILITY”, AND THAT LIMITES EVERY WORDS YOU SAY, EVERY MOVES YOU MAKE, OTHERS LIKE “WORK FOR YOUR COUNTRY”, “FOR THE COUNTRY’S FLOURISHING”, ANYTHING! LIFE SHOULD BE FREE RIGHT?

ANYWAY, I CAN CHANGE NOTHING, IF YOU SAY SOMETHING, THAT SOMETHING MUST BE ME.

SEE, I’M WRITING ALL THESE CRAPS DURING MY WORKING HOURS AGAIN, I DON’T WANNA DO THAT HOWEVER, BUT WHATELSE I CAN DO?

FORGIVE ME FOR THE ALL CAPITAL-LETTERS WRITING STYLE, IF YOU FEEL NOT GOOD OF READING ALL THESE STUFF, JUST SKIP THAT.

I’m almost forget I’ve ever owned this blog and always will, seriously, the day since I started my job career, English seems no longer that important to me, though I need to read mails contracts whatever materials that related to my job funtioning, what i’ve learned is just enough. i have to say, that’s the main reason why i didn’t write my blog for a month and i don’t want to pick up my vocabulary book anymore. Suddenly i realized that this is the begining of the end, the end of my growing, the end of my knowlodge, the end of my life.

People just can’t simply satisfied with the currently condition, for me, I’m the person who don’t willing to change, everything, if I have my girl, I bet I won’t change her easily, and that’s me. After two months of working (actually is training), I experienced what i believe the hardest time to live with people, so what? I’m nobody, so there won’t be some so called “mercy”. My defectiveness, my own problem, no one can solve it unless i’m willing to, and that’s me too.

I don’t know why my supervisor leave me in this team, because I got not so many things to do and the relationships with others also not that satisfied, I can get my job done, only if I have something to do. I thought about requesting, requsting to transfer to another team, another so called “always busy” team, so that i don’t have to care about relations something like that, all i have to do is to get my job done and that is it, when it’s time to off to go, i will leave on time, it’s better if i have to OT, because i can get the extra money. But all these is just what i’m thinking, that doesn’t means i have to implement it. Why not quit after the several days remaining training period if i don’t get what i want or what i need, and that would be a more moral alternative for me. Life is a struggle, just like the lyrics of this song, no matter what happened, no matter how things change, just be myself.

By the way, i wrote all these during my mid-day break at the company, hoping you can find no mistakes during your reading, because i didn’t use English for a long time…

I talked about a plugin called Front Page Excluded Categories which can “remove” some posts from my blog home page, as i’m not running my blog on my own web hosting, so i contacted kingler, the webmaster of 72pines and asked whether he could help to add this plugin, surprisely he agreed and yesterday – 15 days after the request, i actived the plugin named: Advanced Category Excluder, it’s even easier to use than Front Page Excluded Categories, and now i can assure that you will never see some unrelated posts on my home page.

Two weeks after being a documentation clerk, i feel a little bit tired, the job itself is boring actually: receive bookings from colleague and confirm them on the computer, again and again, but not fast enough and always making mistakes. I think i can get use to that, so don’t worry about me :lol: 

The hope of increase PR has broken again, i don’t know whether or not, i got the penalty from Google, that’s really frustrating…Plz~up to PR4 next time…Amen…

Oh, today is mother’s day, happy mother’s day to mothers all over the world~

pic via link

I found that plugin just now, which is exactly what i’m looking for for months! The name of this plugin is called: Front Page Excluded Categories, and here’s the introduction:

A basic plugin that excludes posts in one or more categories from appearing on the front page. This is especially useful if you use an automated posting system, like the del.icio.us bookmark blog posting feature, that updates your blog regularly. In such a case, you can assign these posts to an excluded category so they don’t appear on the front page, but do appear in a category page.

These all means i can make some posts “disappear” from my home page but can still be visited via exact url, cool right? There’re people like me are writing paid posts for their living, then this plugin is the best choice if they’re using WP. But…it’s a little bit difficult for me if i want to use this plugin, because i’m using 72pines service, and i can’t install this plugin by myself…All i can do is to suggest the 72pines team to install this plugin and that might not work

It seems that i have a job now, almost two months after living here, forgive me for not updating for a while, i just feel that it’s not right to keep posting while i’m still jobless. Thanks for my friends who keep on cheering me up, i can’t say all these are useless, but they do lead me to the positive side of life, so many times i thought i might breakdown, they showed me right direction and drive, i’m talking about everybody around me, again, thanks.

There’s still a lot of time till the very day i go to work, so i’m planning to go back home for a few days. It’s a little bit funny that i’m actually losing my weight, for some that might be good, but for me, that wasn’t very good. So what i’m gonna do, first relax, second increase some weight :razz:

The longer i stay here aimlessly, the more confused i feel! “How’s going about your job seeking?” is a very popular phrase that i receive from my friends. Some ask is because they are really care about that, care about me, but some are just checking around, see whether you’ve had a job or not, if not, they feel happy and if yes, they feel worry and start complaining. What cause this abnormal way of thinking and doing this is that they don’t treat you like a friend, just like some kind of tool, a tool they use only when they needed, in the name of “friend”. The distinction between them is that after i finished reply, some disappear immediately, some keep on sending messages “take it easy, my friend”, and that’s what i realised the true friends.

I start buying cubes since last December after a friend of mine taught me how to play a cube, using $ on my Paypal account. But last week, i withdraw all my $ and transfered into my banking account, though it’s a small sum of money, but it really can support my daily expenses, so that i can stay here longer by my own (accommodation free).

Anyway, i’ll continue my job seeking here in guangzhou, as a true friend told me “cheer up!” Oh, i’m almost forget to tell you that i made a great music player, songs listed in that player are my favorite (i believe they’re great songs too). Check this out Music Player

It’s been days for me here in Guangzhou doing my “seeking-job job“, and i never feel so torturing like this before. Lots of resumes were sent out with only one response, it was a failure try, so i gave myself an excuse of being an interviewee for the first time. Back here after my first interview, i adjusted my self-introduction (never have a way of logical expression before) both in ENG and CHN, and start thinking i can do it better next time. But since then, I’ve got no interview reservation! I don’t get it, why to get an interview reservation is so difficult, or it’s just my problem? or maybe it’s just the time for me to adjust my resume again… Attitude is everything, as long as i keep my attitude towards to the positive side of life, i think soon i’ll be no more a job-less guy :mrgreen: 

I went to school last week, what i have done was just get my clothes packed and a small dorm-mate reunion (one absent because he had his work to do in Huizhou), and i got a cold :!:  Whatever, the atmosphere of staying at school was different, the whole school seem so quiet, but actually students were already having classes, there should be some kind of activities like basketball games, but… A friend said that’s the changing of thoughts, we’re growing old…