Do native speakers use "trousers/pants" in daily life? If not, what words shoud be used? If I look up in the dictionary, the two words are the only result. But someone told me that native speakers don't use them often. Is that true? What do you usually say?

A game experience I like games. Playing is human nature. But unlike boys who can play with their buddies, I have little game player friends around me. Among all the games out there, I don't know which ones I would like. It often takes much time and energy to find out. That's the tricky part of life. You know there are many things and people you would like, but you just don't know them or have contact with them. In 2016, a friend I made in a game recommended overwatch to me. It is a MOBA-style FPS game launched by Blizzard, which has a good reputation. I had never played FPS games before, but I still replaced my 7-year old notebook for it. During the first months I played overwatch, I was crazy about it and played several hours every day. I also made some playmates in the game. In overwatch, teamwork plays the key role, and the ability of one player to carry the game is limited. The good part is playing with friends is way more happier than playing alone. But at the other hand, if you can't make a team, the game experience may be ruined by conflicts, blame or even rude words among strange teammates, especially when you are losing. I'm not a skillful player and have only reached gold level at most. Normally I just hover at silver level. That's a little frustrating and embarrassing. You go up and down, and struggle to make even a little breakthrough. Life is sometimes the same. But at the end of the day, the process is the most important thing. As the ardour faded, I became a so-called "cloud player". I only get online for seasonal special events which launch new skins, postures, paints and so on. Considering the time I've enjoyed, the money I spent on it is quite worthy.

My English learning journey (2) In my university, we have 4 courses of English for all the students: reading, listening, speaking and writing. Speaking class was enjoyable, as the teachers have studied abroad and were also open-minded and humorous. We got to learn about fresh things and talked about funny stuff on the class. But except that, all the classes did little good to my English. As I felt hard for reading, I bought a famous word book, which listed high-frequency words from a to z with colored instructions and example sentences. I have to say it's a pretty good book in many ways, but I just couldn't stick to it. Whenever I opened an English book, even after a sound sleep, I turned sleepy immediately. People often say "Interest is the best teacher". I started to watch American dramas. On various recommendation lists, "Friends" was quite a classic. It proved that a classic is a classic for a reason. Until now, "Friends" is still one of my favorite series. It described the life we desire: Your best friends are just cross the door. You share happiness and sadness and all the things in life. In reality, we are often separated by work, development, family and so on. We get older and older and have less and less friends. It's saying that: Your life is like a train. People get on and get off. No one will be by your side from beginning to end.

My English learning journey(1) Unlike kids nowadays who may approach English in the kindergarten or even eariler, I started my English class in the 5th grade, just like my other peers. Countless students have learned "How are you?""I'm fine, thank you, and you?" at the beginning of English learning. It took me many years to realise native speakers don't speak that way. However, when I'm asked "how are you" some day by chance, I tried hard to think of a different answer but only I did was stand there. That was quite frustrating and I felt like a fool. I was an earnest student at school. But English seemed to be a whole different subject. I still remember back in high school, the days of which students work day and night for the colleage entrance exam, I often struggled to keep my eyes open at class. English classes bacame a safe time to take a nap, because you don't even feel it if you miss the instruction of test papers. It's like "Based on grammar xxx, C is obviously wrong" or "According to the article, B is the choice". There were many words I didn't know in the articles. It's either you know or you don't know, nothing to teach there. One day, I came across my English teacher at school, who then glanced at the recent midterm exam result and said:"Your grades of all the other subjects are good. What is wrong with your English?" My grade hovered at 65% of total score. Fortunately and surprisingly, I got more than 80% in the most important final exam (but at the same time the exact opposite thing happened to my math grade). How interesting is that!

I'm struggling with time management People always say time is money and money can't buy time. I totally understand how important time is - time is life essentially. However, I just can't manage it properly, especially in work. When things don't go smooth, I tend to do something else for a while and then come back to push forward. A break is usually quite useful. The problem is, my break is too long. And when the work is hard, I really struggle to go back to it. I've tried tomato method, eg work 25 mins and rest 5 mins and so forth. My problem remains - I rest way more than I'm supposed to. I also heard that "If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugly one first", meaning you should do the hard thing first. But I guess the frog is too ugly to eat. Easy said than done. I procrastinated my work today, hopefully I can make more progress tomorrow.