Everything has pros and cons, so does online communication. As far as I'm concerned, the pros lies in the convenience provided to family members, friends and lovers who are apart but have great eager to see and talk to each other. It alleviate our homesickness and thirst for expressing and accepting love. Also it offers us a method to make acquaintance with more new friends from different places. You will never feel enough in having new friends, because it can help you get connected with more things and people in the world. As for its cons, I think most of us have found that we today put excessive time on it which leads to less time on face to face communication and outdoor activities. We tend to rely on it to satisfy our needs for linking ourselves with others, but we are unaware of the limitation of it: although we can see others through some communication tools, but the time is limited and a lot of details can not be seen. So we won't know if our parents and friends are really going well when they say they do. And as you know, relationships requires physical interactions to get closer, but we can not hug and touch others through online communications. Besides, it give us a illusion that we can solve all the things with a smart phone and so we have no need to go out if there are nothing necessary outside. Then we will no longer go out for exercise and enjoy the beautiful natural world. That will make us weak both physically and mentally. But we can not say it's the fault of online communication, it's only a technological limitation. If there is really someone to blame, I think it is you, she, he and me that make this happen. We should overcome the habit of staying at home alone during free time and walk out of the house to meet the one we love and get ourselves exposed to the natural world under sunlight.

China is a country boasting a long history, which has nutured profound and diversified cultures. Today, what I want to talk about are the core philosophies rooted in Chinese traditional culture which are principles of benevolence, integrity, courtesy, wisdom, and trustworthiness. 1. Benevolence principle calls for kindness and love to all the people around us regardless their genders, age, status or wealth. 2. Integrity principle requires us to do things which benefit ourselves and others. 3. Courtesy principle ask people to behave politely and properly to anyone whenever and wherever they are with sincere respect. 4. Wisdom principle strengthens the importance of knowledge which can help us develop wholesome values and attitudes to the world so that we know what or who is correct and make fewer mistakes. 5. Trustworthiness principle highlights the significance of being reliable. People who can trust always keep loyal friends. These philosophies are precious gifts we inherit from our ancestors, I hope I can stick to these principle through my whole life.

Dairy-Aug 29, 2020 I had pins and needles in my thyraid for almost a week. So I went to hospital early this morning to have a body examination, which involved a color-flow imaging examination and a blood examination and cost me nearly the whole morning to finish it. Fortunately, there was no big problem found. Then in the noon, I joined a feast held for celerating the sucess of the daughter of an uncle in the application for her ideal university. In fact, I don't really like Chinese feast some time, because people in China often have to propose toasts at feast to show their respect to others, and they believe the more they drink, the more respect they are showing. So as is often the case, people are forced themselves drink a lot. It's in essence an activity of harming their health. Why can't they find other ways to show respect? In the evening, I had a voice call with Rihan, who is a kind and positive man from India. I truly appreciate his comfort, encouragement and generosity of helping me with my English speaking without any request for returns. I'm so grateful for having him as my friend.

Where Is My Partner I joined italki last Tuesday, but things isn't going well these days. First, the practice time is really a headache. We are always chanllenged by a distance of more than 10 time zones. Second, I don't know if I did something wrong or rude. My partners just disappeared after a small talk. I was always trying to make a practice plan, was I wrong showing my strong eager to practice spoken English? But I'm truly willing to help them with their Chinese. I think I'm isolated here, which really makes me frustrated. Can anybody help me out?

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