End of June

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It’s end of June. I have been working hard in the job and it seems that life stuck into the routine when you have jobs. The jobs are very challenging and you never know what will happen for a day, it might so busy or quite – it always makes your heart jump! Friends were back to their countries but I miss them.

The great news of this year is that John works for WordPress – ( is a free and open source blog publishing application and Content Management System) as a software engineer and working something creative and challenge. Besides, my website is using WordPress anyway, so I treated him a big dinner and celebrated with him.

Last weekend we travelled to Sheffield to visit John’s family and had a good time. Recently my health is invading by virus and I have been suffering a lot. I hope it went away soon so that I can enjoy the summer!

六月末

不知不觉就到了6月末,一直努力的工作着,工作就象打仗,你永远不知道今天的挑战是什么。朋友们回他们国家了,蛮想念和他们一起呼哈的日子。约翰给美国三藩市一家最大的网络公司 WordPress 高薪聘请去当程序工程师,(中国阻止了wordpress 网站,所以大家打不开的)一年3次去三藩市开会的机会,我要去!我为他感到骄傲和高兴,好像和一个名人约会一样。这是他梦想的工作,感觉我们一步步的为生活努力着,一年年总有惊喜发现,有低谷的时候,又有高峰开心的日子,这就是生活。

上周回英国北部谢菲尔看约翰家人,一起度过快乐的周末。希望身体健康和好好享受这个夏天!

A new Job and a different life

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After all the exams finished, I had been trying to find a part-time job during this summer holiday. It was quite hard and I guess there are many competitions in London. Over few days out for hunting jobs, and submitted over 100 copies of resumes, luckily, I had several  interviews, however, employers were keen to have full-time employees rather then part-time.

However, today it was my happiest day. After 3 interviews, one was offering me on the spot, and another one called me back today and said I was hired out of 3 competitors. Moreover, I went to school to pick up my final transcript, and I was nominated by the tutor that I was the best student in the class, and received 25 pounds for buying book. I was so thrilled in a day, and I felt that my hard working finally rewarded it.

I will work hard and meet more new people. At the first time, I felt like I am part of this country rather than being a student or a visitor. Everyone was so happy for me and me too. Life is not easy, but I will find a way to fight for it and enjoy it.

一份新工作,一份不同经历

自从5月底所有考试结束后,2个星期都在不断努力为这个夏天找兼职。一切都不容易啊,虽然伦敦遍地是机会,但因为大家都知道,所以更多的竞争着来自世界各地,加上欧洲国家的人都纷纷来伦敦工作。简历都投递了超过100份,也有了几份面试的机会,但他们大多要求一年4季长期工作,而不止是兼职。

但今天是我的最幸运的一天,昨天有3份面试哦,时间都安排的蛮紧的,第1份说很喜欢我,但他们希望我能全职,第2份工作在面试就说马上请我,周一上班,第3份工作今天打电话说请我,(面试时候见过3个和我竞争的对手,显然我打败她们)我十分开心,当然我选择个最合适我的。惊奇的另一件事是,今天去学校拿最后的成绩单,不但我考得蛮不错的成绩,一打开信封,教授提名我最佳的学生,奖励我25英镑买书卷呢。哦,天啊,又找到兼职,又有奖励,我的心甜过蜜糖呢!整天都超级开心,真的很想大喊几声,谢谢自己一年来这么努力,很辛苦很辛苦的付出才拿到好成绩的!来之不易啊!大家别看我吃吃玩玩的多,辛苦的时候超级辛苦,压力十分大,只是没有和大家说而已。不过我十分满意我这1年来的付出和努力!常言道,生命短暂,辛苦时候还是要努力享受生活的。

我会好好努力工作,同时也认识多点新朋友。第一次感觉到自己不只是这个城市的游客或过客,而是真正的生活在伦敦!谢谢大家的支持和鼓励哦,让我们为生活继续努力吧!

Summer time

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I do enjoy the sunny day and hot temperature in London, and it is hot, but as humid as China. I asked friends to come to my house and made some cakes together before they fly back to HK and Japan. We bought so many ingredients and made the pumpkin pie and chocolate trifle cake.

Vicky and Miwa enjoyed making cakes and we had so much fun, even though Vicky had some flower everywhere, and Miwa dropped an egg on the floor, it’s part of the fun and experience with friends. After 2 hours hard work, we ordered Papajohn’s pizza and watched some girl’s movie – He is not in too you. Then drinking and chatting until 1 am.

I enjoy the quality time with friends here in Summer day, cool breeze, hot sun, summer clothes, cool beer, good food and good accompany, then what a happy weekend. Here are some of our latest pictures.

I have been working hard to find a part-time job, had 2 interviews yesterday, but we will see the  results and I have work harder hunting on Monday. Tonight we will see Keane and Ladyhawke’s concert in Shepherd  Bush, I am so looking forward to seeing them.

一个休闲的夏天

喜欢伦敦夏天的阳光,大大的太阳,感觉很热但风是凉爽的。虽然热,但不至于流汗,不过市中心因人多,汽车多,所以就超热,但没有广州那么潮湿,干爽天气。下周大家都快回各自的国家了,所以我叫泳棋和美和,来我家齐齐动手做蛋糕和派,我们买和超级多材料,做我们之前做过的南瓜派和巧克力莫丝。

泳棋和美和一起搓面粉啊,切南瓜,虽然他们都是第一次亲自烤蛋糕,泳棋把厨房搞得到处是面粉,美和把蛋掉到地上,这些都是开心的片刻,和他们一起享受生活美食的经历。经过2个小时的辛苦准备,终于完成了我们的派和巧克力蛋糕,然后我们叫了papajohn的pizza,一起看电影,甜点就是我们的派和蛋糕拉。

我十分享受夏天的凉风,热太阳,夏天的短裤,好朋友一起吃喝一起笑,轻松的夏天周末就这样过!这里是我们的最新照片

我在努力找兼职呢,昨天有2份面试,不知道成不成功,英国兼职很难找啊,很多欧洲人来竞争,加上金融风暴,好在伦敦到处都是机会,周一再接再厉。今晚去听Keane 和 Ladyhawke的演唱会,约翰喜欢ladyhawke,等待疯狂的激情的夜晚终于来了。

Farewell Party

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Times flies, it is time to say goodbye. I organised our farewell party last night, and also invited our business teacher to join us.  Acnius from Brazil and Ayuba from Nigeria were our music DJ. I am so happy to meet and also being friends with so many international students over this year, to share culture and  life experience. Everyone had a good time in the party and it is time to move on to the new life.

I will miss all the friends and positive some of them will keep in touch in the future. I do enjoy every single moment in London. The next step is trying my hardest to find a part-time job, wish me luck!

时间过得很快,一眨眼就一年了,是和同学说再见的时候。我和巴西朋友组织了告别聚会,也邀请和经济管理老师一起和我们同欢。巴西Acnius同学做我们的DJ,大家都喝很多酒和放纵跳舞,学生的年代真是无忧无虑啊,可惜我没有他们那么无虑,肩膀很多责任呢!这一年认识很多国际友人,他们都十分聪明和能干,将来是很有前途的,十分高兴和他们一起学习一起分享不同文化,一起成长!

我相信我会十分想念他们的,很多以后也会经常联系。享受着伦敦每一天的生活点滴,认识不同的朋友,为自己想要的生活而奔波,这就是生活。接下来的任务是努力找到一分兼职,请赐给我好运!

Korean Food hosted by Eileen

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One of my best friends in London Eileen (Jiyong) from Seoul has invited us to her place in Wimbledon, and made some Korean food for us and we also explored around Wimbledon area. It was a fun day to eat good food with friends and knew more about Korean culture. Eileen is a very independent and cool girl and I appreciate her personality a lot.

After we stuff with too much food, we had a walk to the Wimbledon Park for almost 2 hours. The park was well-maintained and  many young families were enjoying their afternoon with their babies.  There are many independent fashion shops, food stores, cafes and restaurants. Overall, Wimbledon is a nice place to live and it is only in Zone 3.

Over a year in London, I am very glad that I found some of the close friends to share experiences. Life is not easy to go through without friends. Thanks all the friends in my life to keep my alive and accompanied.

韩国好朋友 Eileen (Jiyong)邀请我们去她家吃韩国菜,她住在温布顿,离市中心1个小时。她从早上9点就起来准备,弄了很多好吃的给我们,还给我些打包呢,真贴心!昨天过得真的开心,大家一起动手帮忙,然后吃吃喝喝聊天,是最开心的事!Eileen是个十分独立有个性的女孩,我很欣赏她的性格。

大家吃了太饱了,决定走去温布顿公园,一走就走2个小时。蛮喜欢温布顿的区域的,很多富有中产阶级的家庭住在那里,很多时尚的个性店,新鲜蔬菜店,餐厅和cafe,是一个住行都蛮方便的地方,公园又不远,离伦敦市区大概1小时的车程,不错的地点。

在伦敦快1年了,快乐的时间过太快了,但很开心认识蛮多好朋友的。大家来自世界各地,从认识到成为好朋友,难得大家性格的都相近而又成熟,可以一起能分享生活的点滴,真蛮难得。 生活假如没有好朋友陪同,真难过!谢谢朋友们和我一起走过的日子。

Time Flies

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Luckily I have past all my exams with my hard-work, and got some satisfied results during this year. However, I was not supposed to write something here because I am still doing my final revision. I think I might take a break from it.

During one year, I improved a lot in English Academic Studies and learnt incredible new things, as well as meeting so many friends in London. I have to admitted that studying in the UK is hard that is why I put so much effort on it . I enjoy living in London which is a fantastic metropolitan city with never ending restaurants, shopping, drinking and night-life. I don’t think I never will feel tired of living here.

Anyway, John, Miwa and I went to eat some Indian food for rewarding our hard studying. Sometimes you just want to eat some big spicy curry dishes and there were so delicious and tasty. Friends and I went to have some Spanish food in Soho on Friday night, it was very tasty and reasonable. Good food, good life, then happy day for me! Some updated pictures here.

幸运的我总算过了这一年的辛苦学习,也得到了非常满意的分数,这些分数来之不易啊,要得到高分十分不容易。本应该还在复习最后考试的,但我想给自己一个喘口气的时候。

这一年中,我在英文学术方面提高了很多,也学了很多经济管理和政治的科目,我真的蛮喜欢的新知识的。同时也认识了很多全球各地的朋友,让我认识他们的文化和性格。拿一个英国文凭不简单啊,我真的花费了很多心思和精力去得到好成绩。伦敦-这个国际大都市,富有历史文化底蕴,又是摩登时尚购物和食物天堂,酒吧文化,是个不夜城,只要有钱,生活在这里会很好过。对于我喜欢新鲜的我,实在太爱伦敦了,总给我无数的新体会。

为了奖励大家的辛苦学习,今晚我们去吃了印度菜,约翰吃不了辣,点了超级大的牛肉汉堡加烟肉,但我和日本朋友点了超辣的咖喱牛肉,美和点了咖喱虾,喝上黑啤,真是享受。有时候你就是特想吃辣辣的咖喱!周五又和好朋友去吃西班牙菜,享受辛苦的奖赏的! Cheers!有更多的照片

A Romantic Spring – Cherry Blossom

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It was a moment
Blue sky was background
Green leaves were subordinate
Your pink blossom stood out

When the wind blew
You fell
I feel pity for all the falling flowers
Because it takes a year to see them
You sacrificed the flowers in Spring
Without you
London is not as pretty as it is

Slowly without notice
Your blossom left no trace in Summer
You are so beautiful, but momentary
It makes that you are so charming
Maybe because you are momentary!

一个浪漫的春天 - 樱花盛开的季节

那是一个瞬间
蓝天白云是你的背景
绿叶是你的配称
粉红的花瓣是万中一红

你牺牲你的漂亮花瓣
换来春天这刹那的点缀
我怜惜你的凋落的花瓣
因为要等一年才盼到你的到来
没你的存在,
伦敦的春天逊色一般

渐渐地,你的所有花瓣随风下落
慢慢地,你静静地消失来迎接夏天
漂亮的东西总是短暂的
或许因你的短暂生命才显得它漂亮

Road Trip – Brighton / Beachy Head

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Second Day

The weather was foggy when we arrived Brighton, however, I can imagine it would full of people when it comes to Summer. Brighton is a lively and young city. At first, we went to the Theme park in Brighton Pier and had some fun. Then we visited the famous Royal Pavilion, then we drove to the Beachy Head.

Beachy Head, from the name you can tell is the pointy cliff of Sussex, as famous as the white cliffs. We stopped there for half and hour and it was really relaxing. You could see a open-space land and the ocean, sheep, cows and farms. Then we drove back and ate in a famous Dimsum restaurant called Drunken Monkey in Liverpool Street. I heard there are many celebrities and cool trendy young people hanging out there, so it must be great to eat and hang out. Food was not bad; price was totally acceptable, but service could be improved. Then we drove back home and had a great fun holiday.

Third day – Lee Valley

Last station was Lee Valley – 40 minutes drive outside London, then we had a picnic in the park, and rent 4 bikes and rode for 4 hours, seeing the canal, forest, swans and enjoyed the sun and Spring in England. It was the most amazing place to have a weekend break for cycling. Bike rental is 2 pounds per hour. Super good deal. Here are some more pictures.

第二天 -布朗顿 / 海滩头

我们开车1个半小时后,到达布朗顿,可惜天气还是有点雾气,海滩上不是很多人,布朗顿是出了名的漂亮和有海滩度假胜地。但可以想象中夏天应该超级多人到这里来晒太阳。给我的感觉它是一个年轻有活力的城市。我们走到海边的‘游乐场’玩了‘鬼屋’ 上下飞船,吓死我了,象海盗船一样,太久没有玩了,功力下降了许多!然后去出名的有印度色彩的-皇宫宫殿,听说以前一个国王旅游到印度,喜欢印度的宫殿建筑就照样子也建了一个,然后我们吃了个简单的炒面就开车去海滩头了。

海滩头,象它的名字一样,是布朗顿最凸出的陡峭的峭壁,也是以白色峭壁出名,我们走了半个小时,海滩头给人很开阔和休闲的感觉,很自然,看着羊啊牛的,吃着草,广阔的草地,看着海,晒着太阳,感觉朴素中带浪漫,十分享受。大家也累了,开车到伦敦商业街利物浦街吃饭,选了一个听说蛮多名人去蒲的餐厅叫 - 醉猴,吃点心和喝酒的地方。我们点了很多点心和些鸡尾酒。食物还可以,价格也蛮能接受的,但服务要改进下。这样就结束了我们第二天旅游。

第三天 - Lee Valley

我们选了伦敦郊外一个公园湖边野餐和骑自行车,放松和运动,户外运动是我们的最爱。单车是两位退休老人家成立的,2磅一个小时,哪里有这么便宜,晚去还没有单车租呢,十分popular啊!值得推荐。这里还有超级多的照片呢!

Road Trip – Canterbury, Dover, Deal and Sandwich

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Day one

As we planned to travel some cities in the UK with friends during Easter Holidays, so we chose Canterbury, Dover, Deal, Sandwich in the first day. These four places are all located in South East England. First day, John drove us to Canterbury as our first stop to see the famous Canterbury Cathedral. Then had some pizza in Strada for a quick lunch. However, we had planned to have a boat trip in Canterbury, but we ran out time. Canterbury was a small pretty town, peaceful, and people were friendly. I like Canterbury a lot.

The next stop was Dover – the famous White cliffs. It was peaceful and open, facing the ocean. It supposes that you can see France through Dover, (the funny thing was Ricky received a message from O2 saying – welcome to France, even we were standing in Dover! That’s why you can see they were very close to each other) Unfortunately the weather was a little bit foggy, so we were unable to see France. I like Dover beach and able to see English Channel.

The last stop was Deal and Sandwich town. They were a small little town, so we just took some pictures and because everyone was tired, so we drove back to rest and ready for the next day. Here some day one pictures.

第一天路游 - 坎特伯雷 / 多弗和三文治郡

和朋友们决定放复活节时一起开车去英国几个城市玩。我们选择了第一天先去东南部的坎特伯雷,多弗和三文治郡。开车一个半小时,到了著名的坎特伯雷教堂,本想去乘小船参观的,但我们闲逛教堂太久了,就只能放弃,下次罗。去Strada意大利餐厅吃了超级大的pizza,然后就去下个站。我蛮喜欢坎特伯雷的郡的,漂亮,静静蛮悠闲的小镇,人们也很和蔼。

多弗最著名就是它的白粉质的峭壁, 好天的时候,你可以站在英国的多弗看到法国。我们到了多弗,面对的广阔的海边,看着英吉利海峡, 感觉很开阔和舒服!可惜优点雾,看不到法国,但好笑的是朋友居然收到电信发来的信息说:欢迎您到法国。多弗很漂亮,好天气的时候,可以周末三五知己对着海,晒着太阳,在海边野餐,蛮休闲惬意的!

最后一站就是Deal和三文治郡,我们吃的三文治,我听说就是古时候一个君主喜欢赌博,但边赌博时候又饿了,叫人搞个面包中间加点肉,但不知道怎么命名,就索性叫他们的郡的名字。我们的三文治就这样来的,约翰超级喜欢三文治,就说我们要去下,郡很小,我们就开车过了,大家也累了,就结束了我们第一天的旅游。这就是我们第一天的照片

Russian Party

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Olesya from Russia invited us to join her house party on Saturday night. Actually I am not really familiar with Russian culture, either with the food. Even though Russia is close by the Northern China, it feels so far away from the Southern China where I grew up. But I am glad that I have met Olesya and she showed me a lot of real Russian food and culture. With all the hard work preparation for the party, she had woken up 6 am and home-made all food with her closest friend Anastasia. The food looked professional as well as tasting delicious.

After few bottles of wine and vodka, everyone started dancing, talking, laughing and enjoying themselves. When we tried to leave, Olesya and Anastasia didn’t want us to leave, then gave us a lot of hugging and kisses – not sure it was the alcohol effect or the Russian culture that they look tough and cold outside, but after being friends with them, they are very warm and passionate inside.

I guess one thing I learn about Russian culture from Olesya is that everything needs to be perfect and she is a very discipline girl. (I am sure there are some exceptional people like her) It was a fantastic party and we enjoyed a lot, also experienced another type of culture in the UK. Here some of the pictures.

俄罗斯派对

俄罗斯来的澳丽莎周六邀请我们参加她在她家开的的派对,说实在话,我不是很熟悉俄罗斯文化和食物,虽说俄罗斯和北部的中国是近邻,历史或政治上也很多‘关系’,但俄罗斯对在南方长大的我,实在太遥远太陌生了。 但我十分高兴认识澳丽莎,她让我认识了很多俄罗斯文化和食物。她说她早上6点和她老友安娜就起来准备食物。派对食物看起来十分专业及好吃。

过了一会,几瓶红酒和伏特加之后,大家纷纷跳舞,开始变得疯狂 - 不知道是酒精的效应还是这就是俄罗斯的文化,虽然他们有时候看起来十分强壮和严肃,但和他们认识之后,才发掘其实他们内心很温暖及热情。我在澳丽莎身上学到俄罗斯文化的一点就是他们的严禁纪律性和一切都要整齐完美,不能有瑕疵。当然也可能有很多不同的例子。我们12点先走人,她们不让我们走,老亲亲抱抱我们说不要走,他们继续派对到4点。我十分享受这个特别的‘俄罗斯派对’,对我来说,又体验了一个不同国籍的文化是一件极开心和特别的体验。这里有些照片和大家分享。