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.

Actually, this is a draft that i wanted to post a week ago, reason why i didn’t publish is because i have thing to say but i can’t say, now i got myself a topic: Failure of PETS4!

I know i’ve been lazy to blog and that reflect my current lifestyle: lazy to do everything except day dreaming, that sucks especially you’ve got things to do but don’t wanna think about, not to mention the implementation.

I’ve read two books mentioned in this post, a shock to human beings’ inner value, weak and ugly.

A friend came to me said that he failed to pass the oral part of PETS4 agian, and next time, he has no chance but to take both parts of the test if he want to reparticipate to the test. How about me? I logged on to this site and got my score of 53, far away from the passing line. One said i’m a optimist, she doesn’t know this is just a comfort for her. How i feel about this about anything? She never know!

I took part in PETS4 last Saturday, when we two (my friend and i) went to the bus station at about 7, saw those “PETS lovers” like me, were all waiting for the buses, a bus came about 10 minutes later and you can called it “on time”. Actually, we have enough time to reach our destination on time, but the truth was we almost got late because of the traffic jam, finally what we afraid most was not about the test itself, is about the possiblity to took part in the exam, funny right?

It’s a week after now, what i want to say is just another 3 months+ waiting for the result’s coming out. But one of my classmates told me that i have passed the oral part, i was surprised, how she knew that? Then she told me sth., then i knew sth..Don’t ask me what sth. is, because i can NOT tell you anything about this, top secret classfied I have also signed up for BEC Vantage early this week, less confident, but more rational. After all, it might help in my coming job hunting days.

We (my friends and i, all together 6) went to Mysterious Island, which is a part of Ocean Spring Resort, yesterday afternoon. For me, i played all the games that i should have played in my childhood but didn’t fulfill untill yesterday, games like carrousel and bumper cars. And now, i can tell you “I went to amusement part before!”:arrow:

On our way to school, i talked about my anxiety of the graduation to one of my friends, to my surprised, he has the same feeling as me. That is we both don’t know what we can do, what we’re capable for, that is, we don’t have the objectives. He went to a large state-owned enterprise in Shenzhen, of course, on some “relations” basis. Finally, he was told that need a undergraduate degree and he didn’t have it. Even a child in China knows a undergraduate degree is nothing but a standard requirement papers amount those mountain-like documents, besides, certificates or degrees, thses are not so important now. So, you can see the requirement for my friends is very low, also, the importance of “relations”.

I have passed the ICD test(I mentioned before, see 1 | 2 | 3), both the theory part and the document-making part. A little bit excited, of course, after all, it costs me 380 yuan to took part in the test.

But another test is follow on this weekend, it’s PETS4, i’m not sure whether i can take it this time, i didn’t make efforts to memerized the vocabularies, i didn’t do the simulate tests, most importantly, i didn’t speak English for a while, and now i have problems to communicate with others by using English. So, i worry about the spoken part too. Whatever i need to do, it’s been too late…