[原创] that is life

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:24

A message from an old friend when I was all alone at dorm after mopping the floor three times reminded me that today is Bachelors’ Day, which is by sort of slight impression originally created by some wiz in <place><placename>Qinghua</placename>
<placetype>University</placetype></place>. To reciprocate his good wishes, I hope he will have a girlfriend soon.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:25

I am kind of lazy these days because I have stacked up pairs of socks. If I don’t wash all the socks, I won’t have a clean pair to wear the day after tomorrow.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:25

The lady who days ago went to a blind date called me again just now, sharing one or two pieces of good news she has about her latest him. She has got a sense of being loved by being taken away two of her photos with her portraits on. Seemingly everybody but me is happy.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:25

I sort of hoped to get up very early on Sunday morning but I just could make it for the lazy bones I have. Though I set two alarms before going to bed, both of them were not charming enough to seduce me out of bed. My sister called me three times and I finally got up at <time minute="50" hour="5">5:50</time> since I really didn’t want to miss the <time minute="10" hour="7">7:10</time> bus to <city><place>Hangzhou</place></city>. I slept all the way to the destination and even when I got off the bus and took a taxi I still had drowsy eyes. My friend finished her exam at <time minute="0" hour="10">10:00</time> and she could meet me almost at the minute when I got to her school. Walking in Yuquan Quarter of Zhejiang University and seeing people sitting on the grass immersed in good books and basking in brilliant sunshine right in front of the statue of Chairman Mao, God know how jealous I am of the life people around. I should have had the life like theirs, but I myself am the person to blame: why should I fail the entrance exam? I could live a life as theirs if I like, couldn’t I? If only I can stand up to the hard time of preparing for another entrance exam. I am equal to every guy in this university. So the major problem is that how determined I am to hanker for a meaning life. It is true that comparisons are odious, but by comparison people make progress.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:41

But actually I have every reason to be happy: I am the apple of the eyes of my grandparents and parents; my sister is very good to me, I have a relatively good job in most people’s eyes; I have a very promising guy to care for and I am in good health. What the hell makes me so happy? I might just not be busy enough with my work. <city><place>Clinton</place></city> says he is always too busy to be unhappy.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:44

I meant to say "What the hell makes me so unhappy?" in the last passage but I had it wrong typed. So unconsciously I am a happy and optimistic lady.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:49

I have not been here for about twenty three days, but I did keep writing a little bit if I was not so busy. I was just too lazy to get online J.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:17

I came back to the dorm at about nine. After all washing and cleaning it was the time to go to bed, which meant I once again postponed the translation task. Hopefully, I can manage it on Sunday.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:17

I did finish the translation thing on Sunday night. Not having anything to do with translation for quite a long time, I am kind of rusty when I come across difficult sentence patterns. There are actually few hard nuts to crack in those passages except some names of countries and districts where blacks live so it is not so hard to deal with as what I expected.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:18

I went to my grandparents on my mother’s side on Sunday as well. When I got there, the baby cousin I miss so much was still sleeping. She is growing day by day. I can tell her face is much plumper than what’s-it-like Sunday last week. She seldom cries but always laughs. She has started to bite her own fingers and the index finger and middle finger are her favorites because she always put them in her mouth, like eating kind of most delicious food she ever had. At very beginning my aunt worried a lot for the predilection but she relieved lately when she learnt it is a sign of baby’s being curious about the world. She is becoming heavier surely and when I carried her in the arms she made my arms ache just in a few minutes, and for this once, she did not wet me J

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:18

My grandmother prepared a rich lunch for me because she thinks I suffer a lot when I am at work. I like chestnuts so she cooked some meat from pig’s foot with chestnuts. As to the English name of pig’s foot, some people will translate it as pig’s hand, because hands sound more genteel than feet in most Chinese people’s opinion though they both have the same important function to our body. Personally I prefer the name of pig’s foot which sounds more truthful and reliable. I have not quite got why so many people consider pig’s foot is of rich nourishment. I am not into meat thing but I did eat a lot at lunch for my grandmother’s super skills of cooking. Besides, she also prepared sliced beef, stir-fried green peas, carp in soup and baby greens. Having brought me up, my grandmother knows me better than my mother, so she exactly knows what are my likes and dislikes. I am so lucky having such good grandparents.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:18

I got to know trotter today, literally meaning the foot of pig or sheep or any other animals used as food.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:19

We did not talk for days. I used to think his voice on the phone is a prop, without which I would feel no point in life. But strangely enough, I survived all these days. Actually he did ring me up everyday, but I was not in the mood of answering it. The chemistry between us is kind of weird now, and sometimes I even do not want to carry it on. That I always have no confidence in his being a good boyfriend makes my mind uneasy. When I told my parents what is going on between us, I was advised to stop carrying it on, for my parents take into consideration of reality things and the fact that he could not even totally make his own ends meet right now. How could he support a family? My sister is always having a poor opinion of him so she is definitely on my parents’ side, saying how he could love me with only words and promises but no actions. It is true that he is not able to offer a little bit help even when I am in great trouble and he is not so plausible as a boyfriend in many ways but I am really obsessed by his saying he loves me. God knows how much I love the feeling that I am loved by someone wholeheartedly. Sarcastically, when I was given an example of choosing from two different types of shoes, of which one is plain but comfortable while the other one is funky but hurting feet I was not puzzled as to choose which pair to wear but I am so pathetically unsure of taking him as a life company. I am totally at a loss what I should do.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:19

All my life I seem to be waiting for everything to happen. Years ago I was waiting for the first him because I thought he would keep his promises. After all these soap bubbles broke I started to wait for the person I keep talking about these days. By all means it is nothing but waiting. I am waiting for his graduation, his starting to work, his earning money to support the future family, his buying me a house, his buying me a car, and the most important, his daily care. Is it really the life I want to live? Time and time again I keep asking myself all these days but I have got no answer.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:19

I don’t think it is a small world but seemingly and temporarily I have to believe so. I just got a call from an old friend minutes ago who I never think would talk to me so deep into the night. Obviously she is quite excited about the blind date she went for tonight. She kind of let out that the guy she just went out with works in the same unit as one of my old acquaintances. She is more than happy, expressing how satisfied she is with that guy and how lucky she is. I can picture how cheerful she is on the phone though I could not see her glowing faces. She should be happy. For a girl of her age, meeting some guy of her type and falling in love with him just at the first sight is a blessing. Lots of my friends go for blind dates many times but seldom would they be as fortunate as her. In general, most girls are very picky at the early beginning of dating people, but strangely enough, with time going by and the life experience they gain, they will lower their standards for their future husband. I can tell this truth from friends and colleagues around. One of my coworkers did date a guy graduating from a famous university and working in one of the best hospitals in Tiantai but she finally gave him a dear-John letter because she could settle for his being not tall enough though in her eyes he is an excellent guy in other aspects. She has been on a stable relationship with another guy who is taller according to her words. She said she decided to go out with her current boyfriend not because he is super but because he just appear in her life at the proper time when she needs someone to care for and she find she could not be fussy any more choosing a Mr. right taking into consideration her comparatively later marriage age in this small city. She said if the hospital guy once again zapped into her life, she would not let him go any more, but unfortunately you know opportunity knocks but once. For the friend I referred to above, she herself is a very charming lady, tall and in a good shape. She used to be a lit choosy choosing her Mr. Right and she has belief that she will meet her price charming. Eventually she has made it. So she has any reason being happy and grateful.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:20

I got to know my new neighbor on Friday night, who is actually one of my schoolmates when we studied in <place><placename>Tiantai</placename>
<placetype>High school</placetype></place>. I am kind of puzzled postgraduate as she is why on earth she came back to work here. She has every opportunity to leave this place for a better one. She told me she chose to come back to her hometown because she is too attached to her home. She likes staying with her parents. Being the youngest daughter in her home she is always being well protected, which makes her think staying with family is always the best choice. For this reason, she never had in mind to be on a relationship with a man from other cities when she was in university. She came to pay a visit to my little cozy room and had a look at how I arranged different items and decorated walls and windows. We talked a lot but I found I was nothing but talkative. I kind of held the whole floor talking lots of nonsense while she was extremely prudent about her words.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:20

My sister came to visit me again. She came here recently every two weeks as she has some personal affairs to care of as well. We went for bubbles again for dinner. But the minute we went out of the restaurant, we unanimously agreed that chafing dish is no longer a good choice.  Our taste buds are just feeling weird after all these meat and vegetables. Choosing a <state><place>Sichuan</place></state> cuisine restaurant or going to a local bistro is much better for our stomach. So we have decided not to dinner at chafing-dish’s recently.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:21

We went shopping after the dinner and bought lots of fruits. Never have I had so many kinds of fruit at one time. I could enjoy my happy night time alone in dorm nibbling away all kinds of delicacies.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:21

He rang me up when I went back to the dorm. I got to know hours ago from the record he telephoned me once but I left phones at dorm. After all these hard work during the daytime and shopping at night, I m tired as well as a bit grumpy, so all I need is a good rest. I had planned to take a shower and go to bed immediately I got back to dorm. I was not really in the mood to answer his phone right at the second. Besides, I hate listening to all his waffle on the phone. Honestly, I was too exhausted to relate to him what I did and what I bought, let alone communicating with him in a friendly way. When I don’t feel like talking to him on the phone, I would think he is much more annoying than ever.

coldfeeter · 发表于 2006-11-13 14:21

I got to know a super girl days ago. By super I don’t mean she is the girl taking part in super-girl competition held in recent years but she is a remarkable girl compared with the other girls of her age.She is a very modest baby, saying she has two totally different characters, of which one is extrovert, easygoing and happy perceived by people around, while the other one is her inner herself, being quite quiet, introvert, even having kind of inferior complex. Do not get her wrong: she doesn’t have split personality nor does she suffer schizophrenia. The reason why she is in such a state is that she experienced a lot when she was in her late tens. She was a bit willful and aimed high when she began her university life. Not having been a freshman for four months, she quarreled with her teacher for an exercise she came across when doing her homework and left the school without anybody noticing. Then she began her nearly three-month wandering life in the street, not known by her teachers or classmates or friends or even her family. She did take about two hundred yuan with her when she left the school but she got stolen all her stuff of value the minute she got off the bus in N city. She recalled that at the very beginning she just got stunned for the missing of her favorite pen and then she realized all her belongs were gone. Being alone in an utterly unfamiliar city without a penny and without any friend or relative she could turn to for help, she sometimes sought for something eatable in the dustbins. Once she wanted to end her life for the hopeless future and despair caused by the hardship she came across but she finally carried it on for she thought of her dear father, who suffered from great pains bringing her up. She lived on by working in a restaurant. Winter in N city is colder and her ears and her faces and her hands and feet were full of frostbites and she was pale and thin when she could afford a ticket getting back home. She thought she would get some comfort or loving care from her parents but instead she got all the possible coldest shoulders for her cutting the school and the supplements she bought home were to her parents nothing but a waste of money. She became a kind of inferior people in her family and was considered insane, being ignored by her family whatever happens since then. It was not until last April that they changed a little bit of their attitudes towards her. Failing to continue the formal education, she began to teach herself and she is to get her certificate in no time. She left home when she realized that she could not get any sympathy from her family and then she moved to another city beginning another hard life. Starting from washing plates in a small restaurant and making sure she could at least have food to eat, she then began to work part time in an internet café, where she gained super skills dealing with all kinds of computer problems and now she has been an elite in the field of computer science.