Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Chinese New Year! Wish everybody all the best in the coming year of rabbit!

Practice for the Ielts test, writing task 2 The topic: Happiness is considered very important in life. Why is it difficult to define? What factors are important in achieving happiness? My answer: The point that happiness is very important in life is widely accepted by people from different cultural background around the world. However, it is difficult to give a clear and plausible definition to this word for everyone and it is even more difficult to demonstrate the crucial factors in achieving happiness. In my opinion, the fact that different people think different while talking about what is happiness is responsible for the hard-to-make definition and I will discuss what factors might lead people to happiness. In this fast changing world, although the world becomes more flat as we call it globalization, people do still take different positions about the understanding of happiness. Some people claim that making a lot of money means happiness, while others may argue that money is only one part of being happy. But other factors, for example, having a harmony family, is more crucial. So how could we simply give a definition of happiness while others may judge it as totally wrong? Even though the term “happiness” is hard to define, we still can do something to achieve happiness. As we can see that different people hold different opinions about happiness, so it is a splendid idea of encouraging people to be more tolerant with others especially when they have different beliefs. The mass media may report more issues about the cultural diversity around the world in order to make people to know more about the others. In addition, the government should also ensure that people have their own right to pursuit their own happiness as long as their behaviors are not illegal. As happiness is important in life, so everybody has his/her right to pursuit his/her own definition of happiness. (Please focus only on the usage of English, thanks!)

"..,and much later in most other parts of the world"- If we take the word "most" off, the meaning will change?

Can we say :" victims often are unaware." I think "victims are often unaware." might be better.

First notebook entry: Introducing myself Hi, everybody! This is Tim, a young man who live in a very beautiful city in China--Qingdao. Now I am 26, I have graduated from college since 2007 and since then I have been working as a seller in the food&beverage industry. I like English very much. I worked very hard not only in the English class, but also at home where I watched a lot of English movies. Talking about watching English movies, I had to use the subtitles in the very begining, but at this moment I could virtually understand the movies without the subtitles. This feeling of understanding English is really great! But I could not satisfy with my English especially at this moment, because I have to take the IELTS and GMAT in the near future in order to study abroad! Hope I could improve my English here! And thank you for your attention! Cheers! P.S. I could also speak some French.