One morning in 1995, wife went
alone for the parents’ meeting. On departure, 4-year-old daughter asked why father
had not come. Wife explained that father was busy, and so was mother, “Mom and
dad will not be able to be with you the coming weekend.” To appease her discontent, wife promised that the absconded father would talk with her over the phone that evening. Hearing this
she took a little bit heart. In the late afternoon before joining in a dinner party
with her former comrades-in-arms, she reminded me again not to forget to give
daughter a call. And this I did at 6:30pm. The line was connected. Supper just
over, she was now absorbed in a TV cartoon. Eyes glued to the screen, she responded casually to me, totally leaving behind what had happened in the morning.

It is not easy to find out what exactly we are doing. We are busy doing for living while rarely squeezing the time to think about what we really want to have. We are occupied to be slaves, losing self awareness and becoming zombies. We are not brave anymore, instead, we are submissive. Does this kind of style suit for us? Is there another way to get through this staganation?A voice in the heart tells you that it must change. “Right, step out, you can,” the voice comes out and activates every cell in the body. Once we realise it is at the corssing, we should go and make a change by choosing a direction. Why do we hesitate going any further? Because we do not know where is the best way to solve problems. Actually, there is no choice for such a way. It does not exist. We only talk about stories of successful guys and do not think it too much about what they really have experienced. What we do is gong to be history which is to be the study for later generations. We are the pioneer of future, paving the way for recording a better tomrrow.What can we do is to go ahead. This way is full of uncertainties and hardship. It still has the magic for trying. We never stopping exploring which is the power to drive us moving further. There is no need to fear and we are supposed to accept the challenge to overcome timidness.

The report of my fitness suggests that I should have more water and do more exercises, meanwhile I need to keep a heathier diet. Anyway, I do follow it. It is a long way that I should follow.The sedentariness is something most of us can not avoid, especially in the office being with a computer. Everything comes at a price. If you want to lose weight, you have to keep diet and do more exercises. Certain sacrifice has to be made. You can neither eat too much nor enjoy yummy food. Something has to be done.When it comes to life, we really have to be serious. The single journey does not come back again, only can we do is to drive the way positively. Believe it or not, we are aging.To be good to yourself, to be good with people. The responsibility means a lot.

Finally, I can have a short break after a whole overloaded working with the team, I have to say it is not an easy job taking the responsibility of the new project. Especially, when I talked with customer face to face, it still is a challenge for me to hear every word from customer so that I felt a little awkward when I can't totally understand what they said. Currently, I think I can express my though with simple words by email, but, I still have a problem with speaking and listening especially it comes to listening. It's my painful at current stage that it needs to improve in the following step and I hope I can do better and better. As the leader of the new project, I encounter another problem that I need to spend more energy for communication with others and coordinate the relationship between them, what's more, some guys are not always easy to get along with even they don't care about the project in a way. I think the communication skill is also my shortcoming than others.    Anyway, at the end of this year, I have no room back on this case, I told myself I have to stick to this way and try to keep on going.

Lantern Festival is the fifteenth day of the first
month of lunar year, and the last day of Spring Festival, the people would like
enjoying the glorious full moon and decorating the colourful light in the
evening, eating sweet dumpling at home, making the day to other high remark.

There are many greetings and different colour pictures
or the flash by friends and other groups from Wechat for celebrating of the day.
This morning Beijing is covered with snow luckily, even it is not too much, but
it is telling us it is good beginning of this year. When I was out to fitness
at the hazy moonlight, I took the picture by cell phone involuntarily to record
the beautiful moment in our nice community.

Surely at the day Tiger must be visiting his father, the
phone call is not good enough to show his loves at this important day. We will
have a lunch with his father at his home. In the morning, after breakfast, I
thought what I can brought some foods for his father, I knew any other foods
buying from supermarket is not so unique, I checked with our Ayi that Pork
Jelly salad which is home made by Ayi is still available, it is not so oily and
very delicious, You know it is much better for old people. His father likes
Sauce Pig’s feet so much and Roast Duck, we went to the restaurant near our
home made dish order for those two.

I carried a few big food bags to his home, Ayi has
waited us with her speciality vegetarian dishes for the long time. How happy of
his father after he saw us, I know any good foods cannot instead to face to
face and touching the feeling, his happiness is hard to tell, especially at
this day we went home to see him was very important, everything is worth to do
for him. We all wish his health forever.

How nice Lantern Festival we had !

This week is last week of the 2018 and the New Year is

on the way, as usual, we will do summary and sum up all we did in life and work
during the past year. No doubt, there was always something we did that is not
satisfied even by myself, because I do not insist on keeping on going so that
it did not reach what I expected at the beginning of this year, anyway, I still
need to keep forward no matter how far is the target. Now, what I need do is to
set up a feasible and reasonable target that I realize with a little difficulty.
I understand the target setting is easy and the hard thing is to follow up your
target continuously. I think I at least have ten years golden time in my career
if there is no big economic crisis within this period. Of course, this is based
on current assumptions. Nowadays, I still think I have room to improve myself
and get a higher lever in company, but, I have to admit that I am not an
ambitious guy in company even I have the feeling of disgust to these guys who take
every opportunity to show off in front of big boss. Absolutely, it will leave a
positive impression to big boss, but, I also believe the real status depends on
what you contribute to company. Anyway,
everyone has their principles of survival in company. I just follow up my
principle and keep my bottom line to everything which happen around me and always
to keep calm to handle conflicts during daily work.

Today is 31st December, the last day in 2018. The snow stopped this morning and soon it melted out and the air is quite clean and cold. As always we smoothly say goodbye to the past and the new year comes in silence.This year, the domestic stock market is down by 25 precent. Many intvestors have suffered the loss. It does not stop, it may come back or coninute to fall down for a while. Anyway it will defintely go up. Though we do not know when the turning point it is, as ups and downs normally is the curve happens at any time we have to believe things are going to be okay.This year, we have met and experienced something. Something we did not expect, some other things we have already pictured. All those things are the best tutor to guide us to be more sensible. Not a thing could be independently occurring. Everything tiny litte thing goes to be part of life.When we look backward, everything vividly comes out in mind. This kind of treasure we have to store in the memory that one day it would be another story to recall. Everyone appears in life is someone that we can learn from him/her. Meanwhile, the journey just starts out at another beginning.Hello, 2019.

Though it is still a little bit hot in the day, it definitely provides a chance to go around. Particularly before the National Day, there are fewer tourists. The weather is good enough.Being bothered by petty things and pressure from both life and work, sometimes it is a must to squeeze some time to relax. That is the moment which beongs to yourself. Happiness does not only mean a man makes a fortune, in fact, the good feeling comes from content for the current life style. If a guy who is busy day in and day out, in a style of 24/7. Will he feel the sense of quality of life?With nature, its peace calms you down. If we got time, it is needed to visit somewhere. Whether it is a long journey or not, you will relax and feel comfortable during the trip. You may take photoes or have a selfie. You can also have the time to be alone. In a teahouse, having a cup of tea, you are in the tranquility. If possibe, then you even can read a book for a while. Or a talk with good friends would be casually enjoyable.To be honest, I’d rather like being alone on the trip. I do like that moment with myself. Nobody can let me feel bad. In the office, we are with colleagues and bosses, mostly tired up with them in the mingling. That would be the chance to free up. We are already working hard, it is necessary to to be good with ourselves. Life for everyone, is gifted for once. During the life journey, we suffer from the diseases, disasters, meets and parts with important people. It surely requires we are supposed to learn to enjoy what we have. Even a noon nap is splendid right now.

Good evening.Ladies and gentleman.Here is my answers about how to learn English well.To learn English well, first you need to understand why you want to learn English. There are many answers to this question. It doesn’t matter what the answer is. What matters is what you learn for.  You can learn a thing well only if you with purpose. With a clear purpose In mind，a good learning method can make you get twice the result with half the effort. Everyone is a different person. The same method can’t be suitable for everyone. As for how to find a good landing method. This is something you need to explore in your life.What suits others may not suit you. Nothing is better than what suits you. Of course having a good learning method may not be able to truly learn English well.In other words，you may know a lot of words.But you can’t use it fluently. Therefore, we need to create an English atmosphere in our life.For example,we can change the system of phones or computers into English.It help us to use English In our lives.There are,of cause,many more.When we apply what we have learned to our lives,we can truly learn English.This is my stupid opinion.Thank you.

December 17, 2018Dear Dean, I am terribly sorry to tell you that I’m not able to give the lecture on Chinese Culture next Monday afternoon as we have planned. I was informed this morning that my tutor will meet me that day to talk about a very urgent problem in my research project. I feel honored to be invited to give such a lecture talk, and I think it is a good opportunity for me to exchange with my colleagues to help them know more about Chinese Culture. Can we decide on another date for it, say, next Friday afternoon? I hope that I will not bring too much trouble to you, and I apologize for that again. With best wishes. Yours sincerely,Jack Peng