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maggieli

maggieli

China

July 10, 2009

Several days ago, i always liked to be online very late such as 1 am. Sometimes even 1:30 am. I always woke up around 7 am even i got to sleep at 2 am. Actually I didn't need to wake up so early. But I couldn't press myself to fall asleep again. I just lay down on bed and closed eyes and press myself to sleep, however, my mind always kept thinking a lot of things. Last Satuarday, when i talked with a friend, i really wanted to go to sleep early. But when we talked with friends online, the time went so fast. We changed different topics to talk with. I got to sleep around 3 am, and woke up 6:40 am. When i got up, I felt my brain was too heavy. I wanted to sleep but my brain was already awake. The worst thing is that when i want to sleep, my body feel very tired, but our brain was awake. The more we press ourselves to sleep, the more anoying feeling accelerated in our mind. When i washed my face, i just wanted to use a stick to support my head. I felt i couldn't live like that, cos my health would turn bad. Once i am ill, i have to ask for leave, which means i will lose money. And i need to see a doctor which means i need to spend my savings (a little little savings). I felt i even didn't have enough money to see a doctor. That is the reality. In order to not suffer illness without money to see a doctor, i decided to sleep early at least 11:30 pm.

 

I have't written my blogs for very very long time. I think our life needs some changes. I miss the feelings of writing something. 

08:28 PM Jul 11 2009

larrychen

larrychen
China

it'a not a bad feeling to write down something, as you like. Health is the most important wealth for all us, but sometimes we just find it a little difficult to control our time well enough. Just keep doing and be healthy, as still young~

January 16, 2008

  • How many years we can work for our dreams?
  • As better nutritionour human beings can grow older and older. One night I discussed with my roommate about how long our career life can last.
  • When one is born, he will spend his first twenty or thirty years (if he gets Doctor Degree) on studying in different kinds of schools from elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and ending up college or university. That is the common route for many of us maybe about 50% of the whole population.
  • Then he will spend his second forty or fifty years at most on workings if there is no accidents such as diseases, traffic accidents, or suddenly death and etc. Only a few of our human beings can keep on working after his sixty. During his second forty or fifty years, there are lots of chances and opportunities towards him also coexistence of anxiousness, fear, worries, tears and smiles. At the beginning, he may worry a lot such as which kind of job he prefers and which job qualifies him, when to get marry and who to marry with. There is a big difference between the job he prefers and the job which qualifies him. If he is lucky, he will find a job which is the job he prefers and is also the job which fits him. But only some of us can find such job- a united job. When he is 25 years old or more, he will consider marriage. Even he doesn’t want to marry; his parents and relatives will be worried about his marriage. Especially for a girl, if she is thirty years old, it is more difficult to find her Mr. Right. Many girls marry for the sake of marriage and for the sake of too old and the necessity to get married. Maybe my words seem like a little tragic. But in fact there are tragedies in our world about marriage that one girl can’t get married with her lover or a guy can’t marry his lover. There are too many marriage tragedies to see. My mind runs far away from our topic. Let us back to our topic. After marriage, he will concentrate his effort to support his family, wife or husband, parents and parents-in-law. Maybe one or two or three years later, there is one baby or two coming into the world. The baby will be the focus of the whole family. <And the baby will walk following his or her parents’ route (elementary, junior and senior high schools, colleges or university)> when his or her baby comes up, he or she will transfer his or her gravity to the baby from work. He will separate himself (his energy and efforts, mind and thoughts) into two parts: one part is attached to his children; the other part is attached to work. When his children grow up, he begins to worry about his children’s marriage, career etc.
  • When he is after 55 or 60, it is time for him to retire. After retirement, he hopes he can have grandchildren as soon as possible. Once there is a grandchild born, he is eager to take care of his grandchild. Maybe he is very healthy till lifetime ends. Most of us can’t live so healthy when we are old. If he can do almost everything by himself, he is luckier. But most of us can’t eat or walk when he is old. He will be dressed up and taken care of by his children or others just like his children are taken care of by him when his children are young. He begins to worry about how long his life can last. He doesn’t know how many days he will spend on earth. He begins to worry about death. Only death is threatening him. When his eyes close and never open again, his life ends just like a sentence is ending up in a full stop. No one knows how dead people live in another world.
  • Note: “He” represents all human being, not only male but female. This is the life-route of Chinese maybe of all the other nations.

12:28 PM Jan 19 2008

00mephisto11
Slovakia

we work for our dreams for all our life....

January 15, 2008

  • It is a true story happened in a manufacturing company.
  • A man wanted to work for the company. But a company guard didn’t let him in because he was 37 years old. The man wanted to work for the company to earn money to support his family. He gave 800 Yuan to a company guard. The safeguard introduced the man to HR. But the safeguard didn’t tell HR that he accepted 800 Yuan from the worker. Finally, the man became a worker of the company.
  • One night the worker had words with a safeguard. A few minutes later, the safeguard called other guards about 20 more members to support him and gathered in front of the company. Meanwhile the worker was calling his co-workers to come to support him. The conflict nearly jumped into a fight. Luckily the two groups didn’t fight. That was not the end. When the Production Department Manager investigated the conflict, the manager found the worker and his coworkers working in the same team and from same region. The manager thought it was not too good to let so many people from same region work in one team. The manager wanted to let the worker join other teams. But the worker wasn’t happy and wanted to quit from the company. The production manager agreed his resignation. The worker felt unfair because he gave 800 Yuan to company guard when he enterer into the company but the other workers didn’t’. The worker told such thing to the production manager. The production manager together with HR manager investigated the bribery. The first guard who accepted the man’s money said he gave the money to another guard. But the ‘another” guard left the company because his contract was terminated by the end of last December. No one knows where the 800 Yuan is.
  • For some people, 800 Yuan is not too much. But for a labor worker, 800 Yuan is almost equal to his half-month salary. I don’t want to discuss how important the 800 Yuan is for a labor worker.
  • Here, I want to say that as a company guard, he doesn’t have the right to forbid the man who comes to find job from the company. For the man, if he wants to work for the company, he must have the chance to meet interviewers. But the guard forbids him to enter into the company. That is the rub. In order to earn money to support his family, the man gives money to the guard. Maybe such thing is very common for some of us. But it is unusual for me. I think such guard disgraces his company’s image. His action is shameful. If such bribery can’t be eliminated from company’s guards, no one would like to find job from that company in future. And it is very dangerous for a company’s growth.