Time goes by before you realize it It toke me one hour to Shanghai by taking a high speed train. I went alone and I don't know why it touched me when I steped out the train this time. It recalled my memory of my first arrival in Shanghai about nine years ago.

One of my most exciting experiences in China When I first saw the Bird's Nest in 2008, I regarded it as the most wonderful building I have ever saw. It does not seem to be delicate for its huge iron pillars outside the complex stairs is much bigger than you see far away. The pillars are rough perhaps because it was just decorated and built in a hurry at that time. It is, however, spectacular in some way, like some concept buildings full of imaginations. Well, the building would be more perfect if the torch that stick out the nest obviously, was disappear. :P We got there with tickets for some track and field games. When we entered the stadium, I was shake by the crowds and the hundred of thousands of sites. We didn't have seats that can watch the games clearly without telescope, but the view was good anyway. Field games are boring somehow, but the watchers were still exciting, they made sounds and waves when some sportsmen got a good score. After the game, we wandered in the south part of the park, had some snacks, visited the areas where were showing Chinese folk customs, and sweat under the sun shining. After a little rest, we took a subway (subway within the park, so you can image how big it is) to the north of the Bird's Nest, it is named as National Forest Park. Then we had more walk and more sweat plus some grass and trees and a lake and more people :P We spent almost seven hours for the visiting. I throw myself into the sofa as soon as possible when I was home. I think people sometime have fun together with pain therefore the fun become more impressive, that explains in someway why I did not feel the same when I got there again for several times.

The Jinshan (golden hill) Temple I had a trip to the Jinshan Temple last month, and I took some pictures by my phone. Thanks to the new technology, I can carry a camera without addition equipment. Jinshan in Chinese means a golden hill. Jinshan Temple is well-known in China, because of the wide spread of a tale. As for the tale, there are some backgrounds that one shall understand. Firstly, ancient Chinese people did believe everything could become a mankind when it got enough magic. Even rocks, did someone know where the Money King came from? Secondly, Buddhism in China believe that individual's soul is continually existing even after death, and the soul is reborn in a new born baby without memories after a few years of one's death. The tale is talking about a snake was saved by a scholar when it was in its weakest status after its evolution to a mankind for almost one thousand years, so the snake wont to repay the scholar. A hundred years pasted, the snake transformed into a beautiful girl, she found the scholar who was reborn and they fell in love with each other soon. So they got married and a normal boy was born ( Yes, normal. :D ). However a monk came from Jinshan Temple whose name was Fahai, tried to split them, for some reason like "Monsters must not live in a human society, let alone marriage!". Of cause, they could not get to an agreement. So Fahai kidnapped the scholar to Jinshan Temple. So the snake had a terrible fight with Fahai, and many citizens died. Finally, Monk Fahai won, and locked the snake in Leifeng Tower which was beside the Xihu (the famous beautiful West Lake). But the story had a happy ending, the son grew up, he past the exams hold by the government and finally won the Number One Scholar, he freed his mother. Then they lived together happily ever since....... Then something perhaps true is, there was really a monk whose name was Fahai lived in Jinshan Temple. But Jinshan Temple was named by another story related with Fahai. The temple wasn't existed when Fahai arrived a hill to temper himself, so he lived in a cave. But Fahai was a quite devoted one, he cut one of his fingers to show his determination to build a temple on this hill. By luck or god was touched by his determination, he found gold under the hill, and finally build this temple. Another thing about the tower shows in the picture is that it was once burned by accident, and this is a rebuilt one.

Hand drawing I took many meetings sometimes. When the meeting is boring, I can't stop using my pen to scrawl in my notebook. One day, After I sent the picture taken by my phone to one of my friends through MMS, my friend reply : "Aha, the machines you draw are always good". So, I decide to send him only machines next time.

Some one left this company Finally, Ericson leave this company. I recruited him from Nanjing last year, and he is a very good programmer for embedded development. When I told with him in last couple of weeks for the reason why he left, he said that he wont to do some real work, but not just working in concept and losing in many uncertain projects. I am thinking the same. Yes, we are contacting with many people from various backgrounds, all of them asserted they had relationship with some government or some big projects, but we must identify what is sensible and what isn't. I think that wouldn't be complex, just using common sense. If all these people are as strong as they said, then what can we provide for them, or why they try to cooperate with us? In this information explosion world, they can easily find numerous of corporations or just fund a company to do that project. We are not special or unique. There are many market opportunities too,but which one is best suit for our company? We must be able to choose a direction and work on it continually to buildup our superiority. If we just follow projects or market chances, we won't be expert in some particular fields, thus we would not be able to survive in a business world with fierce competition.

A letter Dear Flod, It must have been 6 months since we met with each other in last year in Xiamen. I have received your invite to have a visit to your new apartment, however, I think I would not able to be in Xiamen this year for I have changed my job recently, and it's quite a busy one. As I said in last year, I was thinking about changing my job, cos the job I token became increasingly boring although it was well-payed. you know, I had been working there for 6 years, and I thought it was a promising work when I entered the company, but there was few resources invested in it even other companies payed much attentions to this field. So I left and finally I toke part in a group of my friends to build a new company. My new job is to manager a technical team to implement subjects, and I really fancy in the subjects that we are constructing. I think it is definitely useful for people. If you had got sometime free from your work, I could show you our work. By the way, I live in another city now, but you can contact me with the same number I used, for I did not change it. Yours, Arthur

Practice As most people spend a major part of their adult life at work, job satisfaction is an important element of individual wellbeing. What factors contribute to job satisfaction? How realistic is the expectation of job satisfaction for all workers? In present days, companies become the primary units in the commercial activities, and people in companies spent quite a part of their lifetime at work. As a result, work satisfaction becomes more and more important for individuals. In my view, there are material and mental factors that contribute to job satisfaction. Firstly,The development of modern industry force more and more people move into metropolises, and most men and women are now depended on working for organizations, works make money for people, and people buy what they need with money in their city life. So, a better pay can improve job satisfaction, that is why a good pay position is always have more applicants. The second factor can be mental when a basic demand for living is reached or workers can not find a job to earn more money. There are many elements influence job satisfaction,such as environments, work pressures, colleagues,etc., and above all, people tend to choose a promising occupation. Consequently, companies shall communicate with employees constantly to improve working environment, and to make sure that employees regard their jobs as a meaningful job which they are willing to do. However, it is unrealistic to have all worker satisfied their work. One reason is a company's financial conditions. The more money employers spend for employees, the more cost for a company. The other reason is that the workers' productivities must be considered, so promotions can only be provided to a few people, and workers' characters can be various, which means there is not any measures can satisfy all workers. In conclusion, I believe people shall choose their working in their own will may be much satisfy with their job, and a well-form human resources market can help employees find their suitable job.

Modification for an essay http://www.italki.com/notebook/entry/73173.htm I think the biggest problem is "礼物(gift)", It must be "派对"[pai dui] (It comes from the pronunciation of the English word 'party'). Secondly, there are some words "他" should be changed to "她", while "王红" is a girl, However, "他" and "她" pronounce in the same way. Then, "昨天在大学的图书馆，一个男人高费，请他明天晚上一起去吃晚饭。" --- there was something happened , but no results came as a subsequence. Something like "She agreed with..." shall be appended. It could be better "昨天在大学的图书馆，一个男人高费，请她明天晚上一起去吃晚饭，她答应了。", and a much better way to express what has happened is "昨天在大学的图书馆，她已经答应了高费明天一起去吃晚饭。" And the word "同一", which means ‘the same’ in Chinese, shall be changed into “同意”(agree). When it comes to "他没认识的。", I think "他不认识的" is better. "没" is always prefixed for something, such as “没(有)人”(nobody) ,"没(有)问题"(no problems), while "不" is prefixed for verbs,for example,"不去"(don't want to go),"不要"(not willing to take). Either of the two sentences below is OK. 王红的朋友他没一个认识的 / 王红的朋友他都不认识. It's hard to explain what is wrong in "他觉得他自己看得很差", It is more closed to "He thought he had a bad eyesight.". The verb word "看(look)" in "The Passive Voice" shall be "看起来难看(be looked bad)" or "长得难看(have a bad looking)", so the sentence is OK to change to "他觉得自己看起来很差", and a better expression is "他觉得自己长得不好看"。 Finally, the word "除了....以外" in the last sentence means "except". But I can not find something to be compared with "make some new friends". Do you mean "高费 was happy, since he had make some new friends."? then it shall be translated to "生日派对后高费很开心，因为他认识了几个新朋友"。

First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hi. Firstly, I am Chinese, I ever worked in Xiamen in Fujian province, an beautiful island city beside the south China sea. Then I moved to Beijing as a senior software engineer. 7 years later, I decide to follow the tide of IOT (Internet Of Things) which is much hot in Jiangsu province,so Jiangsu is where I live now. I do think I am quite good at dealing with letters that can construct a program, but there are still problems for me to use English in the same 26 letters. :P Here comes to why I study English. To begin with, I wish to meet my IELTS aim on month later. Additionally, I think another language can brings you a brand-new world especially when there are so many books/TV programs/open courses in the wold are all using English.