Recent updates Wow, lots of changes made in italki, big surprise! I made a friend through BBM, now I'm teaching him Cantonese and practicing my oral English. It's really fun while I talk to an actual human beings. Anyone want to join me at BBM?

Quick note I'm busy migrating company's IT system, a lots of new techs are introducing in which increase the difficulty.

To Our Youth That Is Fading Away - Review I watched a movie named To Our Youth That Is Fading Away (http://movie.douban.com/subject/6973376/) recently, honestly, I didn't get what it was about. It's a big picture of our generation in mainland, but it's hard for me to get what was the main topic.

Cold front approached After half month cloudy and raining weather, cold front approached yesterday night. Finally, people lives in Guangzhou could get rid of nasty damp spring. All stuffs are dry and smiley sun showed up, beautiful Saturday!

Academic year in US, how many semesters are in colleges and universities. Today, I read the Academic term article from wikipedia, I'm confused about Collegiate calendars in US. For K-12, each academic year has three semesters, that's easy to understand. But Collegiate calendar system are really confusing me. I mean, according to the wikipedia US colleges have three options to proceed an academic year. Different semester calendar would divide a academic year into two or three semesters. In a conclusion, Quarter system has 3 semesters, semester system has 2 semesters and trimester system has 3 semesters. Am I right?

How to translate 毁三观 into English I saw a move called The Sex of the Angels http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1840911. It ruined my concepts totally, in Chinese, we say that's 毁三观， but I don't know how to translate it into English. Could you help me? Thank you very much.

Daily 04-Apr-2013 It's been pretty busy lately, the only thing intended to do was go to bed at the end of each day. There was a day I came home and jumped to the bed immediately without shower or anything else, but the most frustrated thing was insomnia happened to me. Because of these rough days, I didn't know how many important things were forgotten, for instance, I almost forgot to pay my credit card bill yesterday. Today is the first day of Qingming vacation（清明节） in China, I slept until 10:30 AM, yep, I need a nice sleep so badly. Qingming is a day for Chinese to memorialize their passed ancestors, but it's wired for me, since I went to high school, I can't remember which year I came back home and join my family at this traditional day, I guess I'm far apart from this custom. I should be sorry about that, but I really don't have any thoughts about this. Am I doomed?

Classical music From POP, Blue, Rock, Country, New Age and other type of music(should I use genre of music?), I finally choose Classical music. I'm listening Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker while writing this notebook, it's such a powerful and amazing piece of work. For me, classical musics always are wonderlands, there are so many unrevealed things behind the strings and nodes. Meanwhile, other kinds of music compose (especially POP) are kind of nonsense and worthless to pay attention into it. At this time, I recall a firm named 'Totally Unnecessary Production' in Barney's version, this is the exact word I'm looking for describe POP or Rock, it's totally waste of money for producing them. POP and Rock are sort of always releasing some negative power and personal emotion in their lyrics, it sucks! This is the most unbearable part, What makes you think I'm interested in your non-reason felling or other stuffs. Sometimes, I would believe that the vocals from POP music are definite noise but nothing else.

Why America TV show or movie use grant substitute thousand? I'm confused while watch episode or movie, they used to use 10 grant instead of 10 thousand, and I can't find any definition of grant is related to numeric 1000.