Music I Love One of my friends recommended me to listen to some songs of a music project called "sleeping at last" few days ago. Actually I didn't think I would even like it because there is a huge gap between our music tastes. But I fell in love with those songs right after I clicked the play button. The album "Atlas: Space" is totally genius and I just couldn't stop listening. Then, tonight, I retrospected all the artists and music genre I love and used to love. I have to say I am really not a consistant person. My favorite style is folk music when I was in middle school. Then I fell into Chinese pop music like most of the teenagers in our country. But I started to listen to western pop and alternative music at college. Then within temptation, which is still my favorite band, led me into the field of metal music. Now I have listened to many different kinds of music. I know I am not an expert on music genre but I am sure I have listened to lots of them. Now I just follow my emotions and let music be a delightful part in my life.

I miss traveling I have been listening to a podcast about travel recently. I chose to listen to the podcast because I hope I can practice my listening. But today, this podcast suddenly reminds me that I haven't traveled for almost a year, while I am a person who loves traveling. Usually, my mind wouldn't wander this far, but now we are on our National Day holiday. Almost every person is traveling or going back home. But I didn't choose either of the options because I really don't want to go travel during holidays because all I can see is crowed people, and the ticket back to my hometown is too expensive. Back to traveling, I love to travel around. I have gone to several different cities, eaten different kinds of food and experienced different cultures. But now, here I am, sitting in my room and writing this little essay. My plan for this holiday was to have a movie and TV series marathon, but it caused me severe headaches so I just gave up. I have decided to wander around the city I live now, although there aren't too many places to go, I do need to get out of my room and have some fresh air.

I like my job, but I hate meetings It's been a while since I joined this company. In general, I like my job and I think I had fit in pretty well. I cannot say that I really love it, but I don't hate it and like some contents of my jobs. But there are some aspects that I dislike about my job. The most boring one is endless meetings. We have two meetings in a week, the first is for the whole company and the second one is for our group exclusively. Sometimes there might be some special or temporary meetings now and then. In my opinion, these meetings are a waste of time. For most of the time, all I can do is sitting there and minding my own business. Actually, my responsibility in this company is a really heavy task and I had to solve lots of unexpected problems. While these endless meetings are consuming my energy. Luckily, one of the bosses said they would cut some meetings. I do hope he would keep his promise. Besides, there is another thing I don't like is that some people in this company seem to like to interrupt the others when they are speaking. I still remember that the first time I did a presentation about my job, I was interrupted three times within ten sentences. When they finally finished what they tried to say and let me continue, I didn't know where and how to continue. I could only feel a blank in my head. Isn't it unrespectful to interrupt whenever you want? Well as a newcomer in this company, I guess I have to spend more time to fit in and accomplish my task at the same time.

night thoughts It's really late here and I'm still awake. I suffer from insomnia several times these days. I tried to lie down and keep my eyes closed untill I fall asleep as usural. While this method seemed losing the magic tonight. So I just got up, put the curtains up and look outside of the window. And what I saw just remind me some scenes of my past years. I lived in a small city near the northeast borderline of my country. Almost the whole city started to fall asleep after 22 o'clock. Then I went to some big cities for my further study. That is a period when I dislike late night because I sometimes had to work till late. Whenever I got out from the research buidling, there would always be some lights came through windows, indicated someone was working later than me. These lights meant we are cheap labours to accomplish some achievements for our tutors. That's hard for people like us to enjoy this kind of light. Then I moved to a totally strange city after graduation. While this night, I don't know how, I just look out of the window in my room, and I noticed the lights from some of the windows in this district and from distance. Somehow, I feel a scence of comfort, for knowing someone.were awake and maybe were minding their own bussiness. The weird comfort feeling satisfied me and made me stand infront of the window for a long time. Well, I think I've stood here for a long time. So I should.go back to my bed and wait for the coming of sleep. Good night.

I love airplants I am in love with airplants. Now I have more than twenty different airplants and it makes me satisfied. Airplant is also called Tillandsia for the scientific name, which is a kind of plants that don't need any soil. They can grow just in the air. All you have to do is spray some water now and then, so it is easy to keep and a good choice if you are a little bit lazy. While you still have to put some energy into it to make sure they get ventilated well because they would be dead if the water was stuck at the center of leaves. There is another interesting thing about them is the names. They sure have scientific names, but we gave them their own Chinese names based on the characteristics of the leaves and flowers and some original English and Latin names. Some of the names are really nice. We call Tillandsia xerographica as "the overlord", T. exserta as "fountain", T. balbisiana as "willow leaf" and T. bulbosa as "octopus". These name are really nice and graphic. I love them so much because they are so beautiful and they are magical plants. While they are not very popular in China, lots of people don't know anything about them. I hope I can make friends who also love airplant and we could share something about them.

An interesting phenomenon of learning a foreign language I wrote a short essay to complain about some bad things about my work last night. I was a little bit upset then. After that, I noticed an interesting thing about learning foreign languages. when I was writing, I was a little bit upset and mad. And I didn't spend too much time thinking. I just wrote what I thought. The whole process was so fluent that it seemed I was writing in my mother tongue. If I were writing a regular one, I would spend a lot of time to think and check. I wonder is it true that people could speak another language more fluent when they have negative feelings. Some of my friends noticed that, too. They can do better when they are angry and have a quarrel with someone else, and although we are bad at remembering words, but not those swear words. This is really funny to me, and I'd like to know if you have this kind of "symptom", too.

Just some prattle Well nobody knows me here so I'd like to say some of my recent thoughts. I graduated a month ago and started to get to work immediately. I knew work would be so much different from studying, but I didn't expect it could as harsh as this. I spend so much energy on relationships with leaders and coworkers and that made me exhausted. I rather work alone while I know it's impossible. And the most disappointing part is I made plans to trip to some places in my country and then go back home to be with my parents for a while. I just graduated and I think that's fair. While the company made me go to work right after I finish the thesis defense so I had to cancel all my plans. I know these words sound negative and this is totally not my type or my personality. I am a positive person and an optimist. But letting these words out do make me feel better. I will continue to put my heart on my job with full energy when the sun rises again. : )

The Neapolitan Novels I just finished reading all of the four books of the Neapolitan Novels, and I am totally astonished by the novel. These books tell a story of Elena and Lila, who are dearest friends, and people around them. As they grow up, their relationship contains love, friendship, jealousy, doubt, and other complex feelings. I don't want to repeat too many plots in the books and I just want to share some thoughts of my own after reading. No doubt that Lila is a strong woman, who is never afraid of controlling her life and even the town with her strong mind and decisions. But I think Elena is a strong woman, too. Maybe as she said, she will never become a writer without the influence of Lila, while she may be overwhelmed by the power of Lila if she is a weak one. Lila never hides her passion and strong mind, but Elena is always holding herself, which is also a precious feature. They are changing as time goes, and so is the world. But something is not changed intrinsically, just change the form of expression. Actually, I got different and complex feelings for almost every part of the books. There is no weak part or boring part at all. I cannot fully express myself but I do recommend everyone to read the book and you will never regret.

A recommendation of a British TV series Recently, I have been watching a British comedy TV series called GHOSTS, and I love it so much. The main storyline is the female lead Alison got an extreme big mansion as the heritage from her relative. But the house was haunted and the ghosts were stuck in there. To maintain their peaceful "dead life", they tried to evict Alison and her boyfriend out. But Alison could see them because of an accident. While Alison herself was basically broke so they kind of both stuck there so they have to stay together. All the following dramas were expanded base on it. I really like it because it was funny. All the characters are distinguishable and carry the typical features of the corresponding historical period. I have finished watching all episodes of season one and I can't wait for the release of season two. There are so many stories that haven't been told. I am really curious about the story of Captain, Thomas, and Mary. At last, for anyone who hasn't watched it, I sincerely recommend you to watch it.