Amos' birthday is coming soon. Knowing that we won't be able to celebrate this special day together as we did last year, I still want to make it romantic, espeacially during this hard time. That's why I've been trying so hard to make chiffon cake during the past few weeks. I want to do something with my own hand to let Amos know that he has a wife loving him thousands of miles away.
However I'm a virgin in baking, which means that I've never baken a cake or even thought about it before. The only manual I have is one receipe I bought from super market. Although I've been trying so hard, I'm far away from success. It's already the fifth time that I failed. Well, it's more difficult than I've been expected. What should I do? What should I do? Maybe I should go to my father to see if he has any idea. Amos' birthday is coming, I don't want to give up by this damn chiffon cake.
God, now I realized that I was not the material for cooking.
8/28/2007
8/24/2007
I've Been Hysteric Recently
Having gone to bed at 3:00am this morning, I got up so late and found it was almost noon. Unlike usual, Amos wasn't at home. I gave him a phone call to make sure that everything was alright and he told me that he would be back in one and half hour.
I feel so bored and depressed during the past few days for knowing that we had to wait more than one month to get the first DM of our application for immigration to Canada. I've been trying to make myself busy, such as running a TaoBao E-commerce online shop, baking cake and contact different venders to get more products' information. But I still feel so bad that I'm always wanting to quarrel with someone.
It's already been 12 days since the immigration authority got our application. However, the online status didn't change at all. I heard from some people who also surf the http://canadameet.com that some of the VOs had gone on summer vacation, which might be the reason why the processing time of all application had slown down recently.
Amos came home late in the evening at 11:30pm, which made me a little bit angry. He said because of our fee of application, he had been a bit short of money this month. He was working all night to get some extra money tonight. I understand that quite well, that's why I didn't ask him to remit me money for my daily life.
Last night, one of my female friends whose husband was also in Canada told me that her husband had written her a very warm-hearted letter, which reminded me that Amos hadn't written me anything since this March or some other, I couldn't remember exactly. But I indeed feel that there hasn't been much passion since we got married. He seems to have become less motivated and romantic, comparing to our courtship. I got super mad when Amos told me that the reason why I accused him of being less romantic was I had been too bored and had nothing to do; all what I needed was a job. After hearing this I was totally out of control. How could he say so? I thought he didn't understand my feeling at all. I hysterically yelled at him and hung up the phone, turned off my cell phone and made my home phone engaged.
And then, I felt that I was a little bit wrong. I shouldn't have gotten mad because my husband was also having a hard time just as me. I accepted his call and cried over the phone. I told him I didn't mean to hurt him, it's just because I miss him so much and I also apologized for getting angry and yelling at him.
Later this evening, I told one of my turkish friends that I had been feeling bad during the past few days. My friend said I needed to have a rest. And he told me a very interesting sentence: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is future, today is gift. That's why it's called present.
I feel so bored and depressed during the past few days for knowing that we had to wait more than one month to get the first DM of our application for immigration to Canada. I've been trying to make myself busy, such as running a TaoBao E-commerce online shop, baking cake and contact different venders to get more products' information. But I still feel so bad that I'm always wanting to quarrel with someone.
It's already been 12 days since the immigration authority got our application. However, the online status didn't change at all. I heard from some people who also surf the http://canadameet.com that some of the VOs had gone on summer vacation, which might be the reason why the processing time of all application had slown down recently.
Amos came home late in the evening at 11:30pm, which made me a little bit angry. He said because of our fee of application, he had been a bit short of money this month. He was working all night to get some extra money tonight. I understand that quite well, that's why I didn't ask him to remit me money for my daily life.
Last night, one of my female friends whose husband was also in Canada told me that her husband had written her a very warm-hearted letter, which reminded me that Amos hadn't written me anything since this March or some other, I couldn't remember exactly. But I indeed feel that there hasn't been much passion since we got married. He seems to have become less motivated and romantic, comparing to our courtship. I got super mad when Amos told me that the reason why I accused him of being less romantic was I had been too bored and had nothing to do; all what I needed was a job. After hearing this I was totally out of control. How could he say so? I thought he didn't understand my feeling at all. I hysterically yelled at him and hung up the phone, turned off my cell phone and made my home phone engaged.
And then, I felt that I was a little bit wrong. I shouldn't have gotten mad because my husband was also having a hard time just as me. I accepted his call and cried over the phone. I told him I didn't mean to hurt him, it's just because I miss him so much and I also apologized for getting angry and yelling at him.
Later this evening, I told one of my turkish friends that I had been feeling bad during the past few days. My friend said I needed to have a rest. And he told me a very interesting sentence: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is future, today is gift. That's why it's called present.
Some Good Sentences to Remember
The day before yesterday my sister drove me to Carrifer to do some shopping because there were many import foods suitable for cooking western dishes. Before that she took me to an English party held by vividclub, where my sister was studying. I was bored at the party by playing those stupid and boring games with some high school students. We left the party after staying there less than an hour. Ha, and I found shopping is far interesting than that club.
As usual, Carrifer was full of people who were just from work, doing their daily purchase. Well, it's hard, but that's the way to survive in this world. Then my sister gave a series of sitcom called "Desperate Housewives". It's already been more than 2 months since my sister joined Wall Street English, which provides her more oppotunities to practice her oral English. Obviously, she has made some progress, comparing to his past. However, she's easy to be proud of herself and sometimes too confident. I hope she know that there are still a lot of things we need to learn. Listen and learn are two important things in our whole lives.
I started to watch "Desperate Housewives" and tried to remember some good sentences. Here are some:
* I spent that day as I spent every other day, polishing the routine of my life until it gleamed with perfection.
* If there was one thing she was known for, it was her ability to look on the bright side.
* She tried to think of a reason for dropping in on me unannouced.
* For a moment, she stood motionless in her kitchen, grief-stricken by this senseless tragedy.
I found that sometimes you could totally understand the meaning of the sentence in English whereas it was difficult to translate them exactly into chinese. That's why we all need to learn.
I'm leaving for Wall Street English in an hour and will make another chiffon cake when I come back.
Ok, that's all for now. Hope I could make great progress in my English.
As usual, Carrifer was full of people who were just from work, doing their daily purchase. Well, it's hard, but that's the way to survive in this world. Then my sister gave a series of sitcom called "Desperate Housewives". It's already been more than 2 months since my sister joined Wall Street English, which provides her more oppotunities to practice her oral English. Obviously, she has made some progress, comparing to his past. However, she's easy to be proud of herself and sometimes too confident. I hope she know that there are still a lot of things we need to learn. Listen and learn are two important things in our whole lives.
I started to watch "Desperate Housewives" and tried to remember some good sentences. Here are some:
* I spent that day as I spent every other day, polishing the routine of my life until it gleamed with perfection.
* If there was one thing she was known for, it was her ability to look on the bright side.
* She tried to think of a reason for dropping in on me unannouced.
* For a moment, she stood motionless in her kitchen, grief-stricken by this senseless tragedy.
I found that sometimes you could totally understand the meaning of the sentence in English whereas it was difficult to translate them exactly into chinese. That's why we all need to learn.
I'm leaving for Wall Street English in an hour and will make another chiffon cake when I come back.
Ok, that's all for now. Hope I could make great progress in my English.
8/22/2007
The Immigration Process Seems to Have Come to a Full Stop
Our immigration application was received on August 12th, 2007. It had been already ten days since we handed in our application. However, we still can't check our status through the online system of immigration authority. Everything seems to have come to a full stop, which makes me feel depressed and anxious.
I've been busy with my Taobao online shop and learning making delicious cake. Although I tried so hard, I failed. All things are difficult before they become easy. So I'm not gonna give up, but keep on trying and trying until I can make delicious cake.
I haven't taken my dog for a walk recently because of my laziness, which makes me feel really guilty for this. What I'm gonna do tonight is to let him take the air. But I can only do that after 11:00pm for he always barks at people while walking in our community.
I bought a yoga magazine and read something about that, then I decided to change my sina blog into a blog which introduced ABC of yoga. I know it takes time, but I have to do this if it can help to increase my sales of yoga mats on my Taobao online shop.
I thought I'd already gotten out of E-commerce, but what I'm doing now is to be involved in that more and more. Anyway, I'll keep working hard until my reputation reaches 1 diamond.
I've been busy with my Taobao online shop and learning making delicious cake. Although I tried so hard, I failed. All things are difficult before they become easy. So I'm not gonna give up, but keep on trying and trying until I can make delicious cake.
I haven't taken my dog for a walk recently because of my laziness, which makes me feel really guilty for this. What I'm gonna do tonight is to let him take the air. But I can only do that after 11:00pm for he always barks at people while walking in our community.
I bought a yoga magazine and read something about that, then I decided to change my sina blog into a blog which introduced ABC of yoga. I know it takes time, but I have to do this if it can help to increase my sales of yoga mats on my Taobao online shop.
I thought I'd already gotten out of E-commerce, but what I'm doing now is to be involved in that more and more. Anyway, I'll keep working hard until my reputation reaches 1 diamond.
8/17/2007
Some Watsons Products for Women I Bought a Few Days Ago
Red Apple Whitening Eye MaskFor the sweetest day!
Enchanted by the fresh air of red apple, you feel like joy in the Eden! The red apple essence can make the eye area skin white and reduce dark circles; and the additional milk essence can reduce fine lines and enhance skin elasiticity, allowing your eyes to shine. Lingered with its fresh apple fragrance, you will feel a sense of enjoyment.
Directions:
After cleaning, attach the eye mask close to your eye frame and removed after 15-20 minutes. If you feel uncomfortable after using the product, please stop using or consult your doctor.
Suitable skin types: Fit to all skins
Collagen Brightening Peeling Cleanser
Exfoliating Foot Scrub(With raspberry & invigorates)
A combination of Raspberry & Cinnamon extract; to gently exfoliate dead skin cells. It also soothes and invigorates your feet.
Directions:
Apply generously to the feet and massage gently. Leave on for a few minutes and rinse off with warm water. Repeat applicaiton. Use after soaking with Watsons' Raspberry & Cinnamon Foot Soak.
Caution: Keep out of reach of children.
Ingredients: Water, Mineral Oil, Ceteary! Alcohol, Glycerine, Isopropyl, Myristate, Apricot (Walnut) Shell Powder, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearech-20. Stearic Acid, Carbomer, DMDM Hydantoin, Triethanolamine, Fragrance, Tetrasodium EDTA, lodopropnyl Butylcarbamate.
Cleansing Jel for Nose 
Nivea Sun Spray8/14/2007
Vivian's Immigration Process
Last night, I log in http://www.canadapost.com/ and use the track number Amos had given me to check whether our application for immigration to Canada was delivered or not. I was told that the application had been successfully delivered to the receiver on August 13th, which means the review of our profile was going to start. I was a little bit worried for forgetting to sign my name on the last page of my passport. However, Amos told me not to worry to much of that. Thinking about what I have done during the past two months and the boring stuff I have got through, I think I have been indeed a little bit hysteric recently, I need to relax. If everything goes well, I can probably get my visa in three or four months.http://www.canadameet.com/ is a very interesting website which helps me a lot with all the preparation of my application. I got to know some interesting people there, such as roseknight, Lynn, Big mouth Lee etc. We have been communicating a lot on this immigration issue and encouraging each other for knowing that all of us have to go through a hard time before we meet our loved once.
I wasn't in mood during the past few days for my menstruation was going to come, which made me crazy about food, espcially, Ice-cream, hot-pot, and all junk food I loved. I've started to want to eat hot-pot since last week. Having no one to have dinner with me, my hot-pot dream hasn't come true yet. No matter wheter I will eat hot-pot with friends or alone, I'm going to have it, I've made up my mind. This is the consolation prize for what I've suffered during the past two months and my coming period.8/12/2007
A Complaining Letter I Wrote for One of My Former Colleagues
Dear Robert,
Sorry to trouble you with this Email. But knowing that your attitude is very important in order that we could make the right decision, I think it’s necessary to tell you what has happened between me and Ms. Xu during the past few days.
From my point of view, as director’s secretary and translator, one is supposed to be effective, quick thinking as well as have the information carrying and harmoniously working capabilities, which, I think, directly affect the efficiency of solving problems and also the communication between you and us. However, what has happened made me feel doubt whether this Ms. Xu was serious and eligible for her current position.August 10, 2007, I received a phone call from Ms. Xu, who told me that there was a document waiting for me to give advice and she also asked me whether I would work on Saturday or not. Meanwhile, I also learnt from your Email that the problem was kind of urgent and should be done on Monday. According to the emergency mentioned in the Email, I sent both a reply through my working Email and a short message to Ms. Xu’s cell phone on Saturday morning to inform her that the reply had been sent already. Then Ms. Xu sent back a short message to confirm that she had already known and would deal with it.
I gave Ms. Xu a phone call at 10:00pm on Saturday to confirm if she had received the Email and sent it to you in time. The answer she had given me made me think that she was neither serious about her work nor respectful to her clients or colleagues. She told me that she hadn’t read the email due to the poor wireless condition during the daytime and she also said you didn’t have time to read the Email. I had no choice, but to wait until next Monday. Having been not able to bear the behavior and attitude of Ms. Xu, I sent a short message to her and said that I didn’t think she was doing her duty. The way Ms. Xu acted after receiving my message was quite unexpected.
She called my sister who was still suffering from poor health condition to complain about my so-called unfair judgement on her and she sent me a huge amount of messages to complain. She also said she had already told you about what had happened and you would give her a fair judgment.
August 12, 2007, Ms. Xu called me and was trying to argue with me over the phone. According to her hysterics and rudeness, I didn’t think it was necessary to talk with her and I hung up the phone. Besides, I thought how to finish the work at hand more efficiently and accurately was obviously more important than those meaningless arguments.
Although I couldn’t communicate with you in person, I think it is still necessary to tell you through the Email about what has happened. In our current system, all trainees who are still on their probation period need to be estimated at the end of the month to see whether they are eligible for their position or not. Apart from their professional qualifications, the standards also include their team spirit, service awareness, working responsibility as well as the ability of learning.
According to the observation to Ms. Xu during the past month, 30 points need to be deducted from her overall merit (60-points is the underline). We’re considering of arranging a new assistant for you because we don’t think Ms. Xu is appropriate for her work. However, before we make any decision, it is extremely important to get your approval. If you don’t approve of our decision and think Ms. Xu still can be in her current position, she is going to be given one more month as the probation period to see whether she will be eligible enough for her job.
Please feel free to tell us your opinion so that we can help you more efficiently.
Best Regards,
Qiqige, Wuyun
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The above is a complaining letter I wrote for my former colleague, who is working now in a foreign company. Everyone seem to have started a new life since they left Eguo.com. Some of them bought new apartments, some got married, some found or lost their loved one. Anyway, everyone is looking forward to good oppertunities.
Thinking about what had happend to me, it's just like a dream. One year before, two years before, I was just expecting to find a nice person to spend the rest of my life with him. Fortunately, I found that guy, well, at least from my point of view, although my father didn't approve of our marriage. Yesterday, my husband sent my immigration appliction through canada post to the immigration authority. Now we have to wait about 3-6 months to get the final decision.
Maybe I should find a job to kill time. But I'm not that kind of person. Once I take a job offer, I take it very seriously and can't let it go easy. So how can I find a job just to kill my time. Time is not for kill, it's for us to plan our future, to do something wonderful, to be spent with someone you really care. Don't take time for granted. So I work hard to improve my English. I want to go to universtity when I arrive in Vancouver. Amos also thinks so.
I was going to go shopping which was stopped by an unexpected rain. I saw the lightning and heared the thunder and gave up my former plan. Now, I'm sitting here and writing my dialogue. Let's just wait and see how things go...
Sorry to trouble you with this Email. But knowing that your attitude is very important in order that we could make the right decision, I think it’s necessary to tell you what has happened between me and Ms. Xu during the past few days.
From my point of view, as director’s secretary and translator, one is supposed to be effective, quick thinking as well as have the information carrying and harmoniously working capabilities, which, I think, directly affect the efficiency of solving problems and also the communication between you and us. However, what has happened made me feel doubt whether this Ms. Xu was serious and eligible for her current position.August 10, 2007, I received a phone call from Ms. Xu, who told me that there was a document waiting for me to give advice and she also asked me whether I would work on Saturday or not. Meanwhile, I also learnt from your Email that the problem was kind of urgent and should be done on Monday. According to the emergency mentioned in the Email, I sent both a reply through my working Email and a short message to Ms. Xu’s cell phone on Saturday morning to inform her that the reply had been sent already. Then Ms. Xu sent back a short message to confirm that she had already known and would deal with it.
I gave Ms. Xu a phone call at 10:00pm on Saturday to confirm if she had received the Email and sent it to you in time. The answer she had given me made me think that she was neither serious about her work nor respectful to her clients or colleagues. She told me that she hadn’t read the email due to the poor wireless condition during the daytime and she also said you didn’t have time to read the Email. I had no choice, but to wait until next Monday. Having been not able to bear the behavior and attitude of Ms. Xu, I sent a short message to her and said that I didn’t think she was doing her duty. The way Ms. Xu acted after receiving my message was quite unexpected.
She called my sister who was still suffering from poor health condition to complain about my so-called unfair judgement on her and she sent me a huge amount of messages to complain. She also said she had already told you about what had happened and you would give her a fair judgment.
August 12, 2007, Ms. Xu called me and was trying to argue with me over the phone. According to her hysterics and rudeness, I didn’t think it was necessary to talk with her and I hung up the phone. Besides, I thought how to finish the work at hand more efficiently and accurately was obviously more important than those meaningless arguments.
Although I couldn’t communicate with you in person, I think it is still necessary to tell you through the Email about what has happened. In our current system, all trainees who are still on their probation period need to be estimated at the end of the month to see whether they are eligible for their position or not. Apart from their professional qualifications, the standards also include their team spirit, service awareness, working responsibility as well as the ability of learning.
According to the observation to Ms. Xu during the past month, 30 points need to be deducted from her overall merit (60-points is the underline). We’re considering of arranging a new assistant for you because we don’t think Ms. Xu is appropriate for her work. However, before we make any decision, it is extremely important to get your approval. If you don’t approve of our decision and think Ms. Xu still can be in her current position, she is going to be given one more month as the probation period to see whether she will be eligible enough for her job.
Please feel free to tell us your opinion so that we can help you more efficiently.
Best Regards,
Qiqige, Wuyun
---------------------------------
The above is a complaining letter I wrote for my former colleague, who is working now in a foreign company. Everyone seem to have started a new life since they left Eguo.com. Some of them bought new apartments, some got married, some found or lost their loved one. Anyway, everyone is looking forward to good oppertunities.
Thinking about what had happend to me, it's just like a dream. One year before, two years before, I was just expecting to find a nice person to spend the rest of my life with him. Fortunately, I found that guy, well, at least from my point of view, although my father didn't approve of our marriage. Yesterday, my husband sent my immigration appliction through canada post to the immigration authority. Now we have to wait about 3-6 months to get the final decision.
Maybe I should find a job to kill time. But I'm not that kind of person. Once I take a job offer, I take it very seriously and can't let it go easy. So how can I find a job just to kill my time. Time is not for kill, it's for us to plan our future, to do something wonderful, to be spent with someone you really care. Don't take time for granted. So I work hard to improve my English. I want to go to universtity when I arrive in Vancouver. Amos also thinks so.
I was going to go shopping which was stopped by an unexpected rain. I saw the lightning and heared the thunder and gave up my former plan. Now, I'm sitting here and writing my dialogue. Let's just wait and see how things go...
8/09/2007
The Damn Signature
As I said in my last blog yesterday, all application forms of our immigration were almost done. Today, however, I've found that there was some problems about the signature. I think it's quite understandable that a person who has a first language other than English feels so confused whether to sign name in his own language or in English or just in Pinyin.
I asked several people this question and got different answers, which made me more puzzled. Now I think this kind of problems is even sort of ridiculous. What's the big deal. I didn't do anything bad; I didn't cheat; I've been working on this process for almost two month already. You didn't say in which version I should sign my signature in your instruction. It won't be my fault if you embassy think I don't fill the forms correctly. The only thing that I want to do is to see my husband, who has been split with me for nearly half a year, as soon as possible. Is it really that difficult?
All these mistakes make me feel depressed. Or maybe it's not that complicated, it's just some people make it look like a difficult thing. I think I'm just too worried to calm down. Anyway, hope everything could go well and I could see my husband in less than three months.
I asked several people this question and got different answers, which made me more puzzled. Now I think this kind of problems is even sort of ridiculous. What's the big deal. I didn't do anything bad; I didn't cheat; I've been working on this process for almost two month already. You didn't say in which version I should sign my signature in your instruction. It won't be my fault if you embassy think I don't fill the forms correctly. The only thing that I want to do is to see my husband, who has been split with me for nearly half a year, as soon as possible. Is it really that difficult?
All these mistakes make me feel depressed. Or maybe it's not that complicated, it's just some people make it look like a difficult thing. I think I'm just too worried to calm down. Anyway, hope everything could go well and I could see my husband in less than three months.
8/07/2007
Immigration Forms are almost done
I haven't written anything since my last article, for Amos has got promoted on 1st July 2007, which meant that we've got to start our immigration process. I read the instructions provided by the Canadian embassy and got to know that we had to provide enough envidence, such as our MSN chat history, our photoes together, the emails we sent to each other during the past year and other receipts or airtickets, to prove that our marrige was genuine and truthful.
I spent almost two months to collect all these envidences and put them together and in order. This process of preparing immigartion materials was too painful and time-consuming and boring for me to finish all of them by myself. However, I had to do so because Amos was busy with his work and didn't have enough time to do this. What's more, I think men are more careless than women. What makes me think of this process is that I almost lost all my desires for everything in the world. I didn't want to eat, I didn't want to go to Wall Street English, I didn't want to work out, I even didn't want to talk to anyone.Fortunately, all this boring stuff came to an end and Amos will send all our profiles to the Embassy by this Friday. Then the only thing we need to do is going to be waiting, endless waiting.
After sending all my materials to Amos through Fedex and DHL, I started to work out as I used to do. Pilates and Yoga really helped me a lot. Only that time, I felt nothing but peace and happiness and I knew that I needed to relax. Besides, they ease the pain in my back and neck.
OK, that's all for what had happend to me during the past month. From now on, I'll still post something here to tell you about my daily life.
I spent almost two months to collect all these envidences and put them together and in order. This process of preparing immigartion materials was too painful and time-consuming and boring for me to finish all of them by myself. However, I had to do so because Amos was busy with his work and didn't have enough time to do this. What's more, I think men are more careless than women. What makes me think of this process is that I almost lost all my desires for everything in the world. I didn't want to eat, I didn't want to go to Wall Street English, I didn't want to work out, I even didn't want to talk to anyone.Fortunately, all this boring stuff came to an end and Amos will send all our profiles to the Embassy by this Friday. Then the only thing we need to do is going to be waiting, endless waiting.
After sending all my materials to Amos through Fedex and DHL, I started to work out as I used to do. Pilates and Yoga really helped me a lot. Only that time, I felt nothing but peace and happiness and I knew that I needed to relax. Besides, they ease the pain in my back and neck.
OK, that's all for what had happend to me during the past month. From now on, I'll still post something here to tell you about my daily life.
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