My grandmother’s funeral My grandmother passed away last two weeks, and yesterday was her funeral. My father and his brothers decided to conduct in burial, so they had to choose a proper time and place, which was thought to bring fortune to her descendants. My grandmother had been kept in the refrigerator in my uncle’s house until the funeral was hold. It was in my childhood the last time I participated in the funeral, so it was my first time to know a lot of inhibitions regarding traditional funeral. Because my grandmother was 92 years old, and she died in her dream without pain, so her funeral was held in a gleeful atmosphere. Before the funeral, we had to incessantly burn the incense and ignite the candles, and recite the lection from time to time, which were aimed at plead her away from suffering. However, owing to sleep deprivation and tedious lection, I sometimes felt asleep. Hope my grandmother could forgive me. On the day of funeral, many government officials, neighbors, friends and kin came to accompany my grandmother before she was laid into ground. We had to knelt in front of my grandmother and repeatedly bowed to visitors in an eccentric dress. After the funeral, we carried her coffin and paraded from village to her cemetery. Since the fung-shui master said the burial time would do harm to me and my mother, we were asked to come away from my grandmother’s coffin. Moreover, elbow attacks from my mother impressed me the most. Because everybody could speak no negative words on that day, my mother often used her elbow to warn me against speaking the wrong words.

My troublesome brother I have a younger brother, who is sentimental and needs a lot of love. We have a five years difference in age. He enrolls in the university this month, and lives in dormitory there. My parents hoped he could learn how to be independent, so they required him to take a short-term job to earn the fare of his scooter in this summer vacation. However, because he failed in a few subjects, he had to spend one month to retake them to reach the threshold of graduation. When he finished his classes, there was only one month left for him to work, so he had no choice but to distribute the flyers from house to house. Although the job needed a great deal of strength and the salary was extremely small, my mom insisted him and encouraged him to work hard. She told me that she was very sympathetic to my brother, but she could not allow him to hide the leaflet he hadn’t finished to pass out. Once he forms a bad habit, it’s by no means easy to get rid of it. We did not care about how much he earn, but wanted him to be responsible to his own life; nevertheless, my brother was in essence a trouble-maker. He has had two car accidents in this month. One was he had not enough time to brake the scooter to bump other’s car; the other was he fell off the scooter with his friend on the back seat. All his income wasn’t enough to compensate the victim and repair my father’s scooter, so my parents had to expend their savings. Therefore, I’m very happy for my brother’s not at home now, as I don’t have to worry about him. However, dream is only a dream. This is pie in the sky. My brother is still in the grip of amnesia, so I still often receive his emergent call. I hope this is his accommodation period, and I could retire from his secretary soon.

I have a funny hairstyle. After the state examination I took last week, I have been dine with a lot of my friends. However, their first words were not like "How are you?" "Long time no see." and so on, but "What's going on with your hair?" or "Did you cut your hair by yourself?" Actually I had my hair cut by hairdresser, but I wonder whether my new hairstyle looks funny or not.