Gonna start blogging in 日本語 :(

皆さん　こんにちわ : ) 初めて　日本語で blog を　書くよ : DD

私は　三年　日本語を　勉強きれている、今大学で　日本語のレブル四を　習う。でも、日本語のレブル三は　一年半に　勉強をしたから、もう　沢山忘れた : $　

クラスの友達は　日本語がずっといい、私の日本語は　駄目だから、とても　大変だ。日本語を　話すことが　あまりできじやない。:' (

だから、多分ね、今から　私は　よく　日本語の　練習を　しなければ　ならない！頑張る！！YAY！！

blah blah blah.

just had one japanese test and one korean test today.
and tmrw imma give 5 hours tuition.
full day classes on friday + a super crowded career fair to go to.
just kill me now, please?


p.s. recalled something interesting today.
"if you like me please raise your hand.
if you don't, please raise your standard."

Taiwan 环岛 15-day trip is ON!

I've been wanting to go Taiwan sooooooo baaadly since i was young. and today i finally booked my flight ticket! and it's gonna be a backpacking trip as for my grad trip on my own :DD the highlight of the trip is that i am actually planing to go for couch surfing (沙发客) during the trip, it's something like homestay, you can send requests to all those who offer a couch/bed for travelers from all over the world :) if things go well, then you get to stay over at their houses for free!! if time allows, the hosts might be kind enough to show their guest around :) you can save $$$ and get to know more interesting people at the same time :))  

actually i just got this idea like 24 hours ago, and tadaaa! it's on! at first i was planning to go on the grad trip with a bunch of people, but seems like everybody couldn't really make up their mind on which country to go. meanwhile, i went on to the couch surfing website, connecting with some random members from Taiwan and asking for their advices on the itinerary. one of them sent me a link, a blog which  is about a story of a young girl from Beijing traveled alone to Taiwan, and all the amazingly kind and friendly people that she met there! she looks so tiny in the pictures, yet she has a very big heart to pursuit her dreams. i spent the entire night reading her blogs, at the end, i decided to go for a trip like hers to mark the very end of the16 years of my study life :) although i never been to any trip alone before, her words are so powerful and insightful that give me all the courage that i need. 

quotes from her blog: 

"每个人在不同的年纪，心里都会有一个梦想，这个梦想无关于年纪，却关乎是否足够珍惜，足够努力。曾经认为最大的障碍是签证，也曾在各路签证专家面前放话“不管用什么办法，不管花多少钱，我只要结果！”。可是当我已经知道了签证OK，机票OK，旅行费OK，赞助商OK，家人也OK的时候，我突然发现，一直不OK的是自己的心。

我们把梦想放在心里有多久了？三年？十年？二十年？梦想，一直是梦想，直到梦想快要变成了幻想的时候，才拿出来挂在天边，仰望星空的时候，也叹息着梦想与现实的距离。“我还没有足够的钱”、“我妈妈会很担心”、“一个人出去遇见坏人怎么办？”“勇敢有神马用，失身了怎么办？”于是我们都空着手跑出来，听别人惊险的故事，看别人刺激的照片，奉上我们艳羡的目光，然后回到自己的小房间里默默感伤。梦想，什么时候变成了一个需要下很大决心才可以完成的事情，为什么不能拔地而起，为什么不能决然长空……

年轻的时候，就应该为自己的梦想冲动一次！这样老了之后才能有回忆的东西啊！"

(http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/articlelist_1528394563_9_1.html)

i'm not sure if i am capable of traveling alone, effectively communicating with all the people that i may meet, i'm really not sure of that. but there's one thing that is certain, i dont want to leave a question to myself, wondering if backpacking alone is suitable for me or not, until i never get the chance to find out the answer. sometimes when we know that we are about to make a mistake, we are actually not sure of that. we can only find out that it's really a mistake after we have made the mistake. if i ever want to find out the answer, i believe that this would be the time :)

Valentine's Day ♥ A consumerism conspiracy or a day for romance?

14th of February, a day has been universally celebrated as the Valentine's Day to express our love to our special ones. But to me, it seems to be increasingly over-commercialized with each passing year and has been transformed to an event of exchanging expensive gifts.

Why do we need ONE day to celebrate a love? Shouldn't we do it every day?? Love is too big for us to fit it into a single day :) Expressing to the loved ones that we care is necessary. But it shouldn't be reserved for a single day in the entire year. Feb 14th is just like any other day of the year with no significance to our love story yet we are brainwashed into thinking it is a day of great importance.

Every love story is special, and different! It doesn't need identical greeting cards with clichéd message, identical candlelight dinner, chocolates and roses nor expensive gifts. We certainly don't need frills on that day. Love shouldn't be judged by the monetary value of the pressies that being exchanged. For me, sometimes the most romantic thing to do with the bf is to stay home, cook a dinner together, go for a walk with xiaohei at sunset, and ask the bf to play 15 rounds of Monopoly Deal with me together before bedtime :)   

Anyway please don't get me wrong. I do not hate Valentine's Day. I only hate the hype created by those cards companies, candy companies, flower shops and many other commercial companies to make money on something that come from our hearts. For those who agree with me, still, I suggest you to at least, make some efforts to express your love to your loved ones on that day just in case your partner doesn't think the way we do ;)  No matter you are single, attached or engaged, wishing everybody a Happy Valentine's Day :)