What does he mean? I am watching a documentary about Yo-Yo Ma, a cellist. A musician who plays fiddle said, " There are kind of ground rules as to how people play together. And coming more from classical music, some of those ground rules are not as familiar to Yo-yo." I am not sure about the later sentence. Is he saying that Yo-Yo doesn't know much about the ground rules about how to play with others? If so, it seems doesn't make sense to me. Cause Yo-Yo plays cello with other musicians all the time.

What does it mean, " an overnight sensation"? The whole sentence is: His mother told him what it was like to be an overnight sensation. So what does it mean, " an overnight sensation"? It appears in an documentary video of Audrey Hepburn, her second son came to the fancy hotel where she stayed for shooting the movie Roman Holiday

Rigoletto 弄臣 I watched an opera movie Rigoletto tonight. It’s the second time I watched a complete opera show but it already started fascinating me. The music and the vocal(even I don’t understand Italian) are perfectly matched, it really sounds beautiful and touching. With the subtitle, I understand the story is about the punishment to a clown- a rich and ugly man, who served a powerful handsome young man to get girls for pleasure in spite of the pain caused to other families. He gets cursed by an angry father who wants to protect his daughter but gets killed. Later his own daughter is fooled by his master and kidnapped by his enemies. But she is willing to scarify herself to save her lover’s life when her father decided to revenge his master. It’s a good story but very sad.

Bye bye crazy boss I moved back to Xiamen in July, and started to work as a technical designer for an international team. My boss is from continental Europe . She is nice sometimes but always over-stressed and short tempter. I cant stand the way she yelling to all coworkers when she lost nerve. I just worked with her just 2 months, but already heard she said the F word more than all I've heard in my life, including in movies and shows I've watched. lol. So, I decided to quit today. Emotions can be effected easily, I don't want to be a mad crazy woman years later. lol.. I like work with smart and cool people. Do your boss always say the F word at work in public ?

美文摘录 Extract #1 8/6/2015 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

All the Time VS All of the Time What's the difference between All the Time and All of the Time? Can you give an example? Thank you.

Idea Exchange Group Meeting on 7/27 I went to this idea exchanges group meeting yesterday. I think the event is inspired by the show TED talks. There were 5 speakers shared their experiences and ideas. They are from Australia, New Zealand, United States, China, and England. The topics related to sales strategy, human relationship, life attitude,traveling and creative. The meeting lasted about 3 hours. Around 500 people attended and they are all quite active in the meeting.

oh, family! Mum, Don't make me regret that I answered your phone every time!!! I didn't argue with you but i don't agree with you!! I am living my life, not the life you plan or expect. I really don't care you approved or not, i don't.

Why are you still single?

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Expecting an honest answer from you.