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This Christmas, I would like to share this prose fiction with you, my "Champagne, marinated, ice cream, coffee and tea". The story is featured in my collection "Yuan's Place" by Sha Yan. Wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Champagne, marinated, ice cream, coffee and tea

Sha Yan

The racetrack is the hottest spot in the summer. Racers are all engaged to start. Audiences are getting popcorn, ice cream and hot dogs. It is hot and sweaty. T-shirts sales people are going here and there to sell race car T-shirts. Personnel of the F-1 formula race are working with their fullest potential.
Summer is the best season of this place. Sunshine, trees, flowers, campground, and swimming pools are people's most love. Sweet smiles on girls face and steady please and thank you from guys' mouth in every shop you visit make sure you are still in heaven. Grilled chicken, marinated, fries and salad, dish everyone wants to order in all seasons comes into everyone's home, a gas powered BBQ oven in one's back yard is definitely an asset. When time past 5pm, lines of traffic on the high way facing the coming down sun in the slightly reddish and golden shiny sky move slowly and quietly. TVs just finish American soap opera and get ready to let everyone know what happen in the world and the city today. When the sky turns dark, local restaurants, bars, dance clubs and downtown streets are full with people's laughs, jokes and humours. Restless cityThe next morning, an alarm wakes you up. After coffee, toast and a TV newsbreak and a couple of phones calls to the bank and the insurance company and stockbrokers, you are on your way to work with your new Pontiac Grand AM. At the lunch break. Grilled chicken, marinated with fries come across your mind, one more thing, salad and coffee, maybe Pepsi.
Seasonal alternation comes fast, moments of glory on maples and oaks with some aged dark brownish grayish barks slipped away from my mind. Yearly sea brushed natural stones on the shore standing tall and round from coast to coast are all over in this place. The prime time on newscast is always fast paced at clock speed. Slowly, the first crystal shiny snow flick drops to this Northern land. By the time Christmas comes, exhausted year and passionate people in the city and the country are all celebrating in their home beside their fireplace or at dinner parties. Nut Cracker and Tin Soldier are the best Christmas shows here.
On the other side of the earth, in the early morning northern China, traditional hot soymilk with a deep fried historical bread stick takes everyone's dinner table. At about the same time, Tiananmen Square and parks scattered throughout the city fill with people at all ages practicing Qi Kong and Chinese martial arts. After 8am, streets are full of bicycles and motor vehicles. The city gets busy. Beijing has lots of government departments, agencies, and universities and research institutes and companies from local and all over the world, as the capital city of China. Shopping centres, supermarkets and stores in the city open their doors at nine. They are the best places for visitors, housewives and some others. Sports centres and gyms in the morning are not very busy, but personnel are all looking at engaging for the afternoon. One quarter past ten, an old retired factory worker brings his tea cup, joining two others carrying their tea cups and Chinese chess set at the corner, heading to the park two blocks north. When the lunch time comes, Chinese fried chicken competing with Kentucky fried chicken beside McDonalds does not attract a lot of customers' attention, rather in beef noodle restaurant next to them, a line is formed. Well, McDonalds then, impatient young men and well dressed office women are arguing. Their older aged male manager say, let's have Korean BBQ beef. Of course, the check will be billed on corporate credit card. Time past three, busy phone lines still make receptionist headache transferring callers to managers, associates, agents and others. By 5pm, one associate still hasnt figured out how he will finish his own work, the manager requested him to work it out for the remaining of the day. He will get a good pay for his overtime, and if he did a good job, he would be better rated for the once a year yearly bonus. And his good work will be directly reported confidentially to the company headquarter in Hong Kong. That means the next time his manager went to a different department, his record would be shown on company president's name list. Well, 7% GDP growth in modern China every year does not come from nothing, and it does not lead to nothing.
Back to this place, passionate high school students carry their beautiful school bags to and from their educational institutes. They study almost the same as people elsewhere, one more important subject they study is the moral. School districts directors always have these in their mind. After school in the afternoon, people always stop by at the ice cream shop in the corner and buy a delicious ice cream. Math class is the top priority in high school education here. Well, engineers here earn a lot, and life isn't easy. Students here wish to become a doctor, a dentist, an engineer, a scientist or an artist since very young, and they work hard. Back to China, adults always ask young boys and girls, What do you want to be in your future?Answers are the same. I wanted to be a teacher, I said, I remembered. School teachers are considered the most godlycareer there. Beer, please, here I am when the waiter passes by. I was smiling at my choice while I was having my beer; it is a brave one to become king of monkeys.
Time goes by fast, arts, science, literature and engineering always take my mind. It has been quite a while since my last employment. Last one was short. Linear fit with a suitable least square value did make computer on my desktop running smoothly wild. By 2004, an advanced 64 bits AMD commercial personal computer enters into the market place, before that, IBM Super Blue and Chinese Galaxy competed with each other in their processing speed for building nuclear bombs. A couple years ago, Romanias Kasterof defeated IBM Deep Blue with a score 3:2 is still record breaking for high speed computing. It has been quite sometime since the invention of this device. Now almost everyone has obtained one at home here, and of course, the country is computerized and everything looks running at the computer speed. Time after 5pm, lines of traffic facing the golden shining sunset is still calm and quiet. Cities in this continent relaxed after NYSE, NASDAQ and TSE closed their last bid.
It only takes a while standing in a line to order a cheeseburger at McDonalds, maybe it takes a little shorter at Harveys. For a couple dollars more, you can get a good grilled marinated chicken meal. Students at campus can get a cheaper price on their meals. Coffee, Pepsi and Coke do not sell expensive too. 6pm news session specially talked about mad-cow disease, anyway, antibiotic bred beef does not make you a better appetite, even with a top bloody-Mary cocktail. People here buy cheap market price chicken at well-regulated supermarket. Life isn't easy.
The time for high school students going to colleges has come. Med-school, dental-school, law school, science, engineering and arts and education and social science are on their lists. They usually get what they want; lost ones go into their second or third choice of their applications. Well, education with specific religious or moral ingredients takes every students' and school districts directors mind. Top priority in this place is not easy too.
At the start of college students' academic life, well-disciplined seniors do not give their young student fellow an easier time. After a couple of lecture classes, student fellows always say, piece of cake. Like tackling problems do not need much time. Physics, chemistry, math, biology with some social science electives filled with one's busy schedule. They now want tutors in their spare time in order to get a good grade in their next quiz despite of only regular lecture hours. After fully completing their exam books, they went home, instead regretting about the mistakes they made, they move forward to the one and the next one exam. When the spring break comes, people skiing in the countryside mountains are most young college students. On Saturday night, downtown pubs and dance clubs filled with strange and familiar faces in the dark remind one to have a beer here sometimes again. Unlike those in China, professors here never rank their students; likewise, they do not announce one's grades in the classes. Still, straight A's never come easy. But Bs or Cs can make one graduate too.
Time has approached the final exam; students are busy at preparing themselves for the exam. The exams are not easy, most students can make it, and some of them, can perform very good and obtain good results. There are some students among student fellows cannot make to the end of the competition. They lost the race in the first round. Winning students went on for their college education, and spent stressful time over and over again until they made to the end of the race. Sometimes, they play PC games with an advanced ATI Rage-Pro video graphic card. Lost ones are not easy, they may want to start again after initiating some action on their own behalf starting a different program or repeating classes they failed. Of course, more caution will take place deliberately this time. They will stop saying things like piece of cakeand continue to be stressful. Some of these young men may decide directly to abandon what they have already made and go on for a different life after consulting with their parents, like joining the work force. Highly competitive environment is not built for everyone.
Graduation does not come easy. Alternation of seasons makes one think and feel matters differently. After the successful moment when the school principle congratulates one with a satisfied smile, he/she moves forward to dive into the pool of crowdedness. Some may want to continue their education towards higher, and then, they engage themselves into a new sound familiar racetrack or brand new ones. Life went on and on, so was the race.
When the street light turned red early evening, my cab stopped right at the front of the traffic, a song ...doctor and dentist, she drives all day...playing on FM radio got into my brain. It seems the best human genome can offer spreads wide here. I think the song was sung by a good singer of its kinds. Right, doctors, dentists, lawyers, scientists and engineers and some others are the best careers in this world. Racers are on the right track in this fast paced world. Modern computers have a glorious history of more than twenty years already, as the most frontier and advanced technology human ever invented.
After having a burger as my lunch, I went into a cafe, and ordered a cup of coffee. After sitting down, I figure what I eat do not relate to what I do, really, I don't know why. Don't know what others may think though. After I finish my coffee, I walked along on the street. Sunshine in the early afternoon in the spring here is warm and comfortable. Strangers with familiar English accent walk while talking to others on the downtown streets. Movie advertising on the main street caught me, the American movie Lost in Translationwould be the one on my must watch list. Life became less stressful after my last employment.
F-1 formula racetrack is still hot. Hot and steamy weather condition makes people sweat a lot. One round after the other, fully engaged racers driving their sponsors' race car are just in their best mood to challenge each other. Excited fans and audiences are weaving their hands and T-shirts and cheering for the excitement. Elsewhere, the swimming pools are full of people, so are the gyms and the weight rooms. After the NHL Hockey season, NBA, NFL and baseball courts are the new hot spots. Selected from students, sports professionals are engaging themselves for whatever competition they face in their career and their life. The best out of the best enters the championship, the world championship, Olympics and the winter Olympics. Champagne does not taste easy, but it surely tastes good.

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洋人鬼妹太小儿科，不适合我玩。或者说玩不起。。。。。。。。。。

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哈哈哈，鬼妹老在电视上唱情歌，我都习惯了。。。。。。。。。

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Johnny, imagine life

Sha Yan

            He turned another page of that Life magazine slowly, and tried to concentrate on the reading material. There on the coffee table in my living room is a cup of coffee he poured a while ago, he sipped and turned himself into the magazine again, still concentrating.

            Johnny is a growing up Asian adult; he is now 35. Johnny has a hard, rigid square face. His nose is straight with rigid curve over the nose bone. When he smiles, his mouth shows a curve line at the bottom, lining downwards at the corner. The bottom of his face shows a capital “U” shape on his cheek with his strong and rigid cheek bone.

            “Faith……” the pastor raise his tone. And Johnny is listening to his preach. Yes, Faith, Johnny thought. Faith is a bridge linked between a believer and God, the only bridge. If you are a believer, you exercise your spirituality lifetime on your faith in God. Johnny thought. And Johnny is not young and naïve. He smiled with his mouth half open when he was listening to the pastor. Thinking about to have a cup of tea after the worship.

            Johnny turned into a coffee shop, bought himself a cup of tea. That’s after the worship when Johnny went to the downtown shopping mall. It was Sunday afternoon, the shopping mall was crowded and many people stopped by at the coffee shop. Johnny had his lunch in the church. His church offered the lunch after the worship service, and for three Canadian dollars, you can get a meal with a chicken leg and some vegetables.

            Johnny walked into that America store, started to look at the clothing. He saw a tie, weaved with light red and blue stripes and dots, the lining is light blue, nearly pale with floating colors. Just like an American flag abstracted into the tie, Johnny like the tie even though it is a little flashy, such as a manager wearing a flashy tie. Johnny bought that tie since he loved it in the beginning. Suit, Johnny saw lots of nice suits. Maybe get a new suit, Johnny thought. After thinking for a while, he though,”na, ……..I have lots of suits.”

            Yes, Johnny is a manager working for a local high technology company.

            The sun was shining for the whole Sunday afternoon. Johnny went outside the shopping mall for a cigarette. He was standing there, lighted his cigarette with his iron made Zippo. The Zippo is an American product with some acid etched flowers and bushes on its surface. Johnny loves his Zippo.

            Outside of the shopping mall is the parking lot with a iron topped side walk. The bricks are rigid and gray. The downtown shopping center is top class shopping center. Lots of people coming and going, and for daily it hosts hundreds of thousand customers. Johnny flicked his cigarette butt after he finished it, and then he went inside.

            “Desire……” Johnny thought about it. Now Johnny sit in the coffee and ordered himself a cup of Cappuccino. Johnny looked at wish magazine and look at the all the priced items showing inside the magazine and the beautiful house decoration in it. Desire a house, he thought, a beautiful house decorate with Persian rugs and all the oriental antiques Johnny so loved. As long as I can afford it, the house, in turn Johnny thought.
             Johnny had lifetime dreams about being a manager of a high technology company. He was newly promoted after the former manager went into the position of the director of the company. Yes, I could get paid more and doing more important things, to manage, Johnny thought and nodded at himself, satisfying, then he sipped his Cappuccino. He thought, maybe someday he will also make a director too.

            Johnny went home.

            The apartment is empty. The warm light orange color of the living room wall made the living room look very empty. It is fully decorated with brown color coffee table and black leather sofa and it looked very spacious and clean. And on the wall facing the entrance, there is an ancient Chinese painting with two Chinese calligraphy couplets on its side hanging. The theme of the painting is a horse in the wild woods by Lan Shining, the Qing Dynasty famous painter. The couplets reads the scenery of the spring and running stream; also from Qing Dynasty, they are scholar couplets.  There is a lily bouquet in the modern blue and white porcelain vase, and on the side of the wall, there is a cabinet featuring Johnny Chinese antique collections, among those there are a Qing Dynasty blue and white porcelain vase and a large bowl. Beside them, the fine carved jade pieces are scattered in the cabinet nicely.

            Johnny is a single man, married and divorced with no children. And he can not imagine life without money.

            In about a month time, Johnny was unemployed. The economy was in the downturn, lots of people lost their jobs. Likewise, company decided to go downsizing and cutting some management jobs and some other employees; Johnny lost his favorite job.

            Now Johnny was, unemployed, had to make some money on living selling his Qing Dynasty antiques on EBay and also some other auction companies such as Sotheby’s or Christie.

            Life became hard for Johnny. More than often, he could not sell anything on the antique auctions and he had to rely on his welfare check and his little saving from his previous employment. Johnny was depressed, then he suffered from depression. Without the stable six figure income from his previous employment, Johnny became unhappy.

            Life is hard, Johnny’s friends from the church say. And they try to help him for him to prepare for new job searches. But Johnny could launch new job campaigns, and often very few interviews from new employs were conducted. Johnny struggled.

            The manager job Johnny had was his second job, his second company, Johnny had experiences in America as well. At that time, he worked as an engineer. Johnny thought maybe he could go back to America to find a job. Johnny didn’t care to work as an engineer again. He now imagined and prepared for himself that he works again as an engineer after he became a manager. At the same time, he also tried to search for a manager job.

            Life became tough for Johnny.

            Outside the window, the flower was blooming under the sunshine of the summer season. In a sudden, it rained. It was such a heavy rain fall. And after the heavy rain, the rainbow appears in this Northern sky fabulously. It created a decent contrast with the appearing blue sky. The sky looked very much like it being clean washed. Johnny had a deep breath. The air was very fresh after the rain. Then he sighed.

            Johnny heard from the auctioneer that he could sell his horse by Lan Shining for eight thousand dollars. He was very happy for the result, right after the auctioneer told him. “It would make my life easier,…….” Johnny thought. And he was engaging to sell the painting afterwards. Johnny was still looking for his job, manager or engineer again. “Hey, I am capable……” Johnny thought tentatively.

            Bad situation did not steal away Johnny’s faith in God, graciously. Even stronger, his faith, he often read Bible and searching words in Bible that links to his current situation. It would comfort his and ease him. Like, “God close one door, but He will open another.” Johnny had strong believes in that. And as usual, Johnny thought of life is to suffer, as a Christian. Yeah, life is sad, and happiness is important, maybe you are the only happy one  living for your own life. When thinking about this, Johnny tried to be happy.

            Johnny did not become a manager again, or an engineer. It seemed the economical situation forbade him to perform the trade again. He is still searching and searching, and in his part time, he tries to sell Chinese antiques, imminently. Yes, this life, maybe the inadequacy of money, but maybe this antique business will make my life better, Johnny thought, for now.

            In the main time, Johnny tried to write, mainly casual writing such as poetry and fiction, even adding some dramatic scenes. For a casual living like Johnny, it seems adequate, and Johnny enjoyed it. It does not seem very hard for him, for his education level and literacy. He tried to publish, both himself and submitting works to publishers. Occasionally, he has some luck. It may come up to be his lifetime dream again, if not career, by writing. Johnny thought to write for money to support his own living ow.

            Yes, life may seem to be unfair to one. But fair enough, one may find some better alternatives for one’s life itself. Keep dreaming, Johnny, imagine life.
            

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嘿嘿，我本来就干这个的。。。。。。。

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无聊，真正无聊。。。。。。。。

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Hey, kids, let`s ride elephant. Just got this one this morning and felt eager to share it this Christmas. Have fun reading.
Jingle Bells sing
Sha Yan
Jingle Bells sing
spare the link elephant green
links spin, defrain
leach and spin the clingy
Open the bottle the gifts lay
sleash the rain, the clean
the right lane spin
and the flint stones flash
Light up a cigarette
pop the light in your jeans
junks spin and the sleigh the ride green
ride, the Santa Claus ride on the lane
ELephant ride
kids say and glean
merge to the lane and spare the candle
last line, the Jingle Bells and the rain
Copy Right©Sha Yan 2010 Christmas

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My pen name Sha Yan, in Chinese Pinyin, pronounces Sand Goose in English.

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書還是沒賣掉幾本﹐西方人啊﹗有名無實的事我胡某是很看不起的。。。。。。。。。。。胡某人生性重實料和實打實的硬漢子。

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Post by xhu;2738506
This Christmas, I would like to share this prose fiction with you, my "Champagne, marinated, ice cream, coffee and tea". The story is featured in my collection "Yuan's Place" by Sha Yan. Wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Champagne, marinated, ice cream, coffee and tea

Sha Yan

The racetrack is the hottest spot in the summer. Racers are all engaged to start. Audiences are getting popcorn, ice cream and hot dogs. It is hot and sweaty. T-shirts sales people are going here and there to sell race car T-shirts. Personnel of the F-1 formula race are working with their fullest potential.
Summer is the best season of this place. Sunshine, trees, flowers, campground, and swimming pools are people's most love. Sweet smiles on girls face and steady please and thank you from guys' mouth in every shop you visit make sure you are still in heaven. Grilled chicken, marinated, fries and salad, dish everyone wants to order in all seasons comes into everyone's home, a gas powered BBQ oven in one's back yard is definitely an asset. When time past 5pm, lines of traffic on the high way facing the coming down sun in the slightly reddish and golden shiny sky move slowly and quietly. TVs just finish American soap opera and get ready to let everyone know what happen in the world and the city today. When the sky turns dark, local restaurants, bars, dance clubs and downtown streets are full with people's laughs, jokes and humours. Restless cityThe next morning, an alarm wakes you up. After coffee, toast and a TV newsbreak and a couple of phones calls to the bank and the insurance company and stockbrokers, you are on your way to work with your new Pontiac Grand AM. At the lunch break. Grilled chicken, marinated with fries come across your mind, one more thing, salad and coffee, maybe Pepsi.
Seasonal alternation comes fast, moments of glory on maples and oaks with some aged dark brownish grayish barks slipped away from my mind. Yearly sea brushed natural stones on the shore standing tall and round from coast to coast are all over in this place. The prime time on newscast is always fast paced at clock speed. Slowly, the first crystal shiny snow flick drops to this Northern land. By the time Christmas comes, exhausted year and passionate people in the city and the country are all celebrating in their home beside their fireplace or at dinner parties. Nut Cracker and Tin Soldier are the best Christmas shows here.
On the other side of the earth, in the early morning northern China, traditional hot soymilk with a deep fried historical bread stick takes everyone's dinner table. At about the same time, Tiananmen Square and parks scattered throughout the city fill with people at all ages practicing Qi Kong and Chinese martial arts. After 8am, streets are full of bicycles and motor vehicles. The city gets busy. Beijing has lots of government departments, agencies, and universities and research institutes and companies from local and all over the world, as the capital city of China. Shopping centres, supermarkets and stores in the city open their doors at nine. They are the best places for visitors, housewives and some others. Sports centres and gyms in the morning are not very busy, but personnel are all looking at engaging for the afternoon. One quarter past ten, an old retired factory worker brings his tea cup, joining two others carrying their tea cups and Chinese chess set at the corner, heading to the park two blocks north. When the lunch time comes, Chinese fried chicken competing with Kentucky fried chicken beside McDonalds does not attract a lot of customers' attention, rather in beef noodle restaurant next to them, a line is formed. Well, McDonalds then, impatient young men and well dressed office women are arguing. Their older aged male manager say, let's have Korean BBQ beef. Of course, the check will be billed on corporate credit card. Time past three, busy phone lines still make receptionist headache transferring callers to managers, associates, agents and others. By 5pm, one associate still hasnt figured out how he will finish his own work, the manager requested him to work it out for the remaining of the day. He will get a good pay for his overtime, and if he did a good job, he would be better rated for the once a year yearly bonus. And his good work will be directly reported confidentially to the company headquarter in Hong Kong. That means the next time his manager went to a different department, his record would be shown on company president's name list. Well, 7% GDP growth in modern China every year does not come from nothing, and it does not lead to nothing.
Back to this place, passionate high school students carry their beautiful school bags to and from their educational institutes. They study almost the same as people elsewhere, one more important subject they study is the moral. School districts directors always have these in their mind. After school in the afternoon, people always stop by at the ice cream shop in the corner and buy a delicious ice cream. Math class is the top priority in high school education here. Well, engineers here earn a lot, and life isn't easy. Students here wish to become a doctor, a dentist, an engineer, a scientist or an artist since very young, and they work hard. Back to China, adults always ask young boys and girls, What do you want to be in your future?Answers are the same. I wanted to be a teacher, I said, I remembered. School teachers are considered the most godlycareer there. Beer, please, here I am when the waiter passes by. I was smiling at my choice while I was having my beer; it is a brave one to become king of monkeys.
Time goes by fast, arts, science, literature and engineering always take my mind. It has been quite a while since my last employment. Last one was short. Linear fit with a suitable least square value did make computer on my desktop running smoothly wild. By 2004, an advanced 64 bits AMD commercial personal computer enters into the market place, before that, IBM Super Blue and Chinese Galaxy competed with each other in their processing speed for building nuclear bombs. A couple years ago, Romanias Kasterof defeated IBM Deep Blue with a score 3:2 is still record breaking for high speed computing. It has been quite sometime since the invention of this device. Now almost everyone has obtained one at home here, and of course, the country is computerized and everything looks running at the computer speed. Time after 5pm, lines of traffic facing the golden shining sunset is still calm and quiet. Cities in this continent relaxed after NYSE, NASDAQ and TSE closed their last bid.
It only takes a while standing in a line to order a cheeseburger at McDonalds, maybe it takes a little shorter at Harveys. For a couple dollars more, you can get a good grilled marinated chicken meal. Students at campus can get a cheaper price on their meals. Coffee, Pepsi and Coke do not sell expensive too. 6pm news session specially talked about mad-cow disease, anyway, antibiotic bred beef does not make you a better appetite, even with a top bloody-Mary cocktail. People here buy cheap market price chicken at well-regulated supermarket. Life isn't easy.
The time for high school students going to colleges has come. Med-school, dental-school, law school, science, engineering and arts and education and social science are on their lists. They usually get what they want; lost ones go into their second or third choice of their applications. Well, education with specific religious or moral ingredients takes every students' and school districts directors mind. Top priority in this place is not easy too.
At the start of college students' academic life, well-disciplined seniors do not give their young student fellow an easier time. After a couple of lecture classes, student fellows always say, piece of cake. Like tackling problems do not need much time. Physics, chemistry, math, biology with some social science electives filled with one's busy schedule. They now want tutors in their spare time in order to get a good grade in their next quiz despite of only regular lecture hours. After fully completing their exam books, they went home, instead regretting about the mistakes they made, they move forward to the one and the next one exam. When the spring break comes, people skiing in the countryside mountains are most young college students. On Saturday night, downtown pubs and dance clubs filled with strange and familiar faces in the dark remind one to have a beer here sometimes again. Unlike those in China, professors here never rank their students; likewise, they do not announce one's grades in the classes. Still, straight A's never come easy. But Bs or Cs can make one graduate too.
Time has approached the final exam; students are busy at preparing themselves for the exam. The exams are not easy, most students can make it, and some of them, can perform very good and obtain good results. There are some students among student fellows cannot make to the end of the competition. They lost the race in the first round. Winning students went on for their college education, and spent stressful time over and over again until they made to the end of the race. Sometimes, they play PC games with an advanced ATI Rage-Pro video graphic card. Lost ones are not easy, they may want to start again after initiating some action on their own behalf starting a different program or repeating classes they failed. Of course, more caution will take place deliberately this time. They will stop saying things like piece of cakeand continue to be stressful. Some of these young men may decide directly to abandon what they have already made and go on for a different life after consulting with their parents, like joining the work force. Highly competitive environment is not built for everyone.
Graduation does not come easy. Alternation of seasons makes one think and feel matters differently. After the successful moment when the school principle congratulates one with a satisfied smile, he/she moves forward to dive into the pool of crowdedness. Some may want to continue their education towards higher, and then, they engage themselves into a new sound familiar racetrack or brand new ones. Life went on and on, so was the race.
When the street light turned red early evening, my cab stopped right at the front of the traffic, a song ...doctor and dentist, she drives all day...playing on FM radio got into my brain. It seems the best human genome can offer spreads wide here. I think the song was sung by a good singer of its kinds. Right, doctors, dentists, lawyers, scientists and engineers and some others are the best careers in this world. Racers are on the right track in this fast paced world. Modern computers have a glorious history of more than twenty years already, as the most frontier and advanced technology human ever invented.
After having a burger as my lunch, I went into a cafe, and ordered a cup of coffee. After sitting down, I figure what I eat do not relate to what I do, really, I don't know why. Don't know what others may think though. After I finish my coffee, I walked along on the street. Sunshine in the early afternoon in the spring here is warm and comfortable. Strangers with familiar English accent walk while talking to others on the downtown streets. Movie advertising on the main street caught me, the American movie Lost in Translationwould be the one on my must watch list. Life became less stressful after my last employment.
F-1 formula racetrack is still hot. Hot and steamy weather condition makes people sweat a lot. One round after the other, fully engaged racers driving their sponsors' race car are just in their best mood to challenge each other. Excited fans and audiences are weaving their hands and T-shirts and cheering for the excitement. Elsewhere, the swimming pools are full of people, so are the gyms and the weight rooms. After the NHL Hockey season, NBA, NFL and baseball courts are the new hot spots. Selected from students, sports professionals are engaging themselves for whatever competition they face in their career and their life. The best out of the best enters the championship, the world championship, Olympics and the winter Olympics. Champagne does not taste easy, but it surely tastes good.

現實吃人﹐真吃﹗國際通行。魯迅那個﹐小兒科啊﹗撒把對舊道德的厭氣﹐誰不會啊﹗聽說共產主義者吃物質﹗