Joe’s lounge

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.

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…

All these days after the holiday started, i’ve been doing a little bit praperation for the coming two English tests, remember words and phrases, also the grammer.

Talking about grammer, i’m really sick of it. You might be surprised that how can a college student majoring English doesn’t know the grammer at all! and i’m gonna tell you that, it is ture for me. I always feel that the way teachers teached us grammer was really misleading, of course i’m talking about senior high school period. While we were having grammer classes, teachers always wrote a whole blackboard the theories, then tell us to copy every single words they have wrote, then several pieces of examples which made us even more confused. No excerices, no discussions which means you have to take those things all by yourself. No wonder i know nothing about grammer after almost 9 years of English studying! So i make up my mind at the beginning of the holiday that i must conquer the grammer this time, no excuse, no compromise, after that, i will remain on this beginner’s stage no more! And after 2 weeks of grammer learning, i feel that what i’ve learned during this period is much more than what i’d learned in the past 9 years! Great, huh?

But i found some grammer points are still hard to master, for example, the prepositions, let me quote something i saw on a grammer learning website.

Even advanced learners of English find prepositions difficult, as a 1:1 translation is usually not possible. One preposition in your native language might have several translations depending on the situation.

There are hardly any rules as to when to use which preposition. The only way to learn prepositions is looking them up in a dictionary, reading a lot in English literatures and learning useful phrases off by heart.

you see? It seems that i still have a long way to go to achieve my grammer-mastering goal.

Pray for me guys…

We, Business English class4, had a final lesson in the multifuntional hall this afternoon. For the first time not only for me, but for most of us, to be on stage making the presentations, to show ourselves, though there was nobody else except the classmates, most of us were still very nervous. Then, comes to the end of the lesson, John, my dear oral English teacher, had a talk to us, he said, for the last two years, he’d seem us making a great progress and we, together had a great time, and he appreciate that.

I thank him coz he provided a great opportunity for me to be on stage, facing everyone with a little nervous, what’s more, he has been with us for two years and i learned a lot from him. Thanks.

After the presentation, we our class had a picture together

Every time, when it comes to the end, no matter what end it is, all things seem come together.The end of this semester, for example. I have to do my presentation next week about the communication of my oral English cource, it should be an easy task, but our foreign teacher John wants to make it what he called “formal” coz after this semester, we will have no oral English any more, so he decided to invite some teachers and students from other majors to come to see us perform in the school hall. That makes me a little bit nervous, first, because i have an exam to participate this Sunday, so i may have no much time to do a good preparation; second is because i have never been on stage before, definetely my legs will shake, and the voice…I can’t imagine how that scene would be, i do think i should stop thinking too much about it…

What i should be aware more is the revision of the other cources, like accounting, international financing, general English etc. I spent so much time on the preparation of International Commercial Documents test, and i seldom spent time on those books..I don’t know what can i do now…

By the way, i’d done my assignment of Basic Business Technique cource about business negotiation, what i’d done was act as a buyer to negotiated with the seller about the notebook purchasing.

That’s all i want to say, next post i write probably after getting home, so untill next time :bye:

If you saw a movie called GHOST RIDER, you might remember the one who sold his soul to the devil called Johnny Blaze loves a song very much, i was familiar with the song too, i don’t know the name of the song, but i do remember it, probably listened several years ago. Then i know the name of the song is called Superstar, sung by The Carpenters. I love The Carpenters, most of the songs she sung is very soft and her voice is very very attracted, and the rhythm too. I like to listen those songs in the mid-night, coz it’s quiet and when i hear those songs, i always have something in mind, something unforgetable, something that changed my life.Though that was a band of 70s, but their songs seems never out of date! At least for me.

There was a test in today’s writing course, the requirement is to write an essay, about 800 words(faint..) and the title is “My Favourite Subject”. Finally it took me 1 hour to wrote an approximately 400 words’ “essay” out. Mainly talked about my first year General English teacher Mr.Lee and his way of teaching etc.

The next thing i want to show you is a funny music video played by a group of student of our neighbourhood college, definitely original:lol:

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