autumnit's not until my gf put on her long-sleeve shirt did i realize it's Autumn now. Now I know why we also call this season Fall. You see, it always FALLs upon the earth quietly, at least in our city, like a leaf from the sky.
But my students say you can hardly feel the changes of seasons here, which certainly goes beyond the imagination of many residents in the north. Even on Mid-Autumn Day, the traditional Chinese festival symbolising the half way of Autumn, we still felt like hot and stuffy summer. But a fortnight later, the chill morning drives you to search for the scarf buried in one corner of your garderobe. It in fact finishes its immediate transistion from Summer to Winter, as sharp as a u-turn highway(if we have).
It's acknowledged that human's characters and personalities differ from one region to another. Actually it attributes to climatic changes rather than geographical locations. People tend to have much milder temper when the seasons change slightly,and vice versa. I've met a lot of people without distinct personalities from other provinces. When climate goes like a torrential stream, guys from that part seem to have a clear idea of likes or dislikes. Love or hatred is shown obviously on their faces. Passion will be as strong as Summer, and cold-heatedness as Winter. So you seldom come across goody-goody there.
Let Fall be fallen leaves...
You can click the following link and take a quiz on that page. Find out which season suits you best.
Find out which season suits you best.
| Question 1: What is your favourite natural thing? |
| Bark (on trees) |
| Water |
| Leaf |
| Sun |
| Question 2: What is your favourite colour? |
| Green |
| Yellow |
| White |
| Brown |
More at: http://www.allthetests.com/quiz25/quizpu.php?testid=1219533102&katname=Season-Personality-tests
First I didn't quite catch what people said using these abbreviations like LOL, ROTFL, BBL, etc..The Wikipedia came to my rescue though. The analysis there was amazingly terrific so that I got to learn several other expressions. Listed below:
LOL (also written with some or all letters lowercase, most commonly as lol or LoL) is a common element of Internet slang used historically on Usenet but now widespread in other forms of computer-mediated communication, and even face-to-face communication. It is an abbreviation for "laughing out loud"[1][2] or "laugh out loud".[3] LOL is one of many initialisms for expressing bodily reactions, in particular laughter, as text, including initialisms such as ROTFL ("roll(ing) on the floor laughing"),[4][5] a more emphatic expressions of laughter, and BWL ("bursting with laughter"), above which there is "no greater compliment" according to technology columnist Larry Magid.[6] Other unrelated expansions include the less common "lots of luck" or "lots of love".[7]
Besides, the Chinese cyber searching engines were also not bad. I got the following English abbreviations frequently used on internet and their equivalents in Chinese:
BTW：By the way，顺便说一句。
BRB：Be right back，马上回来。
TTYL：Talk to you later，回头再谈。
BBL：Be back later，过会儿就回。
kick your ass：打你屁屁。
PPL：people，人们。
PLZ：please，请，也有缩写成PLS。
RUOK：Are you OK?
IOWAN2BWU：I only want to be with you。
M$ULKeCraZ：Miss you like crazy。
CUL8R：see you later。
IMHO：In my humble opinion
IMHO, it's nice to learn those above.
Though updated barely, my blog on mindsay would be my all-time favourite especially when I need to make some complaints over the fucking triffles of my work. Extra work should always be paid extrally, which is an universal common sense. But for some fucking big wheels in our college, it sucks! We, acknowledged as the most honorable workers in the sun (in China, teacher's career is the most repectful), devoted ourselves to 16-day extra work last summer vacation and got paid RMB 960 yuan all together. Nowadays you need to think twice even if you pay that for a labouror's manual job.
