Now a one-line cruel joke for people in my neck of the woods: “Don’t provoke your husband or your friend.”
It’s been an excruciatingly horrible time for people in Daxing, Beijing for the past several weeks, where my wife and I moved into an apartment we bought last summer as our first home. One (November 23, 2009), two (December 28, 2009), and three (December 31, 2009) gruesome murders had happened in less than 40 days. These murders are alarmingly common in two aspects: the suspects are extremely closely associated with the victims and whole families were eliminated.
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After graduation, he joined a Sino-Japanese joint venture in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang. This company carves gravestones and sells them to Japan. He started from the very junior level and worked all the way up to be the chief financial officer. When he no longer found his job there challenging, he decided to go to Beijing for greater career prospects. His boss wouldn’t let him go. But, he’d made up his mind. About two months had since passed before he could eventually leave the company. After that, four people were needed to take over his job.
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We all attended a secondary accounting school in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, which had later changed its name and then been upgraded to be part of the University of Jiamusi. In other words, the school has long ceased to exist and only our shared memory makes the school still alive.
12 years has passed since graduation. I hadn’t since seen any of the boys and girls until the end of last year, when I met again our youngest boy in Beijing.
In Chaoyang Park (June 20, 2009)
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It’s really frustrating when I find myself struggling to speak good English, especially when I think about this: I started to learn English as a junior high school student in 1990. It’s 19 years now! Anything can happen in 19 years! But today, I still stammer or talk in a confusing way and nobody can understand me when I speak to native speakers on the phone.
I’ve had enough of this!
I want to speak really good English, like a really good native speaker.
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My English; seeking a language exchange partner
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I wonder what French President Sarkozy is now thinking about repairing his ties with China. His envoy Raffarin, former French Prime Minister, who said he is a good friend of Wen Jiabao and is going to set up a blog with Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV’s website to answer questions from Chinese netizens, is in China trying to mend the ties.
But, the Chinese leadership reportedly only gives a lukewarm response and is still waiting to see what the capricious Sarkozy will do to fix the ties, not what he or his rep says.
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Sarkozy and his country are the “Rooster Killed”
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