A Letter from One of My Student

My first Teachers' Day. I'm so touched, almost going to burst into tears while reading and typing this... I don't regret anything =)

亲爱的王老师：

我非常敬佩您。虽然您只教我们那短短的几个月，但我们已经习惯您的教书方式，是很有趣和适合我们的。

当您发现上一个老师没有讲《死海不死》的课时，您不但没有埋怨又多一个课教，还做了练习纸，让我们完整地理解课文。您那不厌其详的解释使大家都明白。我非常感谢您的细心教导，当有些同学没作功课时，您没有破口大骂她们，还给他们多一天时间来完成。您能体谅我们，理解我们不是故意不做而是真正忘记。我非常感谢您的耐心。那时候我没有做《万里长城》的作业，您没有教训我，只叫我站在课室的一旁抄答案。那段站着抄答案的时间让我发人深省，让我理解到做功课是为自己好。您可以一点都不管，但如果那么细心，那做学生的应该是更在学习上尽力。我非常感谢您给我的启发。在作业上，您不时会画上一个: ) ，让我的心情: ) 。您正是给我很大的鼓励，叫我下一次不要再犯同样的错，要再接再厉。这让我在做下一个作业时比较轻松，因为我知道老师对我有信心。我非常感谢您的鼓励。在越野赛跑时，您叫了我的名字，频频和我挥手，笑容满面地为我打气，这让我恢复精神，奔向终点，创下我在跑2.7km最快的纪录。那一刻我真的非常珍惜。

除了教书最棒以外，我觉得您还有别的人生价值观，值得我学习，比如：不偏心，坚定，善良，诚实等等，都是优秀的品德。假如要我举出您全部的特点，我看几十张纸还写不完：而这就是我认为您教了我多少，是一位我多敬佩的伟大的华文老师。

请王老师不要介意我可能在表达方面有些不清楚，但我相信您一定知道我想诚恳地对您说声：教师节快乐！

陈琳 启

2007年9月1日

琐碎的签证申请事宜

一件一件办！

1、application form (Form 48R, which can be downloaded from www.immi.gov.au
2、a letter from your employer stating your position, length of employment, monthly salary and dates of leave granted (or company registration details if self-employed) OR
3、confirmed flight itinerary (booking slip) and accommodation booking
4、evidence of funds such as a current bank statement, showing a history of savings, and a balance sufficient for the proposed length of stay
5、evidence of your residency, eg Singapore PR card/employment pass - please provide a copy for our records
6、one passport-sized photo
7、passport and photocopy of your passport biodata page and any endorsements (eg extensions)

you may be asked for additional background information (see Form 1221 at http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1221.pdf)

又见《再说长江》

又在电视上捕捉到《再说长江》的影像，真为我的祖国而感到自豪~~画面变化千万，20年前的重庆、上海，今天的重庆、上海，还有20年前的人、小孩，今天的中国人们……我为这一切而感到自豪。随着音乐和影像的变幻，我的心被无数次激荡着。看到大草原上万马奔腾、田野上层层麦浪翻滚、大雪山上冰川融水滴滴敲打着我的心底，眼泪就要夺眶而出。说不出什么话，脑海中不断默念的语句：我要回国！我一定要回国！！总有一天，我一定会回国！！！

是的，不惜多少代价，不惜多远的距离，我都会奔向你，我的祖国，我的中国！

酝酿

又在计划旅行了。这次功课要认真做，吸取以前的教训。去哪里……？暂时保密，呵呵~

Feel happy now, so post some pictures here =D

香港的记忆 2007年5月

Just a thought...

想想是用中文写呢，还是用英文呢？坦白说，很久没有用英文写东西了，但是~~还是说母语爽。算了，在纵容自己一次吧。

My baby is at tostmasters' meeting now. I kind of get used to working life already. Wake up at 615am, brush my teeth and tiny up everything, leave the house at 640am, trying to catch the 645 bus. I see full moon and stars these days when I go out, so peaceful. After fighting with all sorts of paper work and computer work, I try to go off around 3pm, although sometimes there's exceptions like today. I'm tired today, so I give myself a good rest this evening. Just slack and do whatever I want. I read noval, brouse the e-magazine, and write my blog haha. Life is sweet, this evening is sweet. I enjoy the peace now, and every peaceful weekend with my chou chou lao gong. I treasure this kind of sweet free time very much now.

Sometimes I keep thinking about where will I end up..here? NYGH? or somewhere else? But maybe I was wrong at the beginning. Life never end up anywhere. It's always moving. OK, take it easy!

My colleague brought her primary1 daughter to the office. SO CUTE!!! She's so cute!! I watched her eating ice cream, it melt around her lips, on her uniform and on her face. haha so cute! The mother asked her to read Chinese story book and tell the story by herself, to train her Chinese so it won't get weakend since she's left China. The girls is very guai and she just read read and read, I heard her sweet voice reading the story besides me, Oh I WANT A LITTLE GIRL !!

I keep having these kind of thoughts recently. actually just twice. last time was playing chess with my lao gong, I suddently felt like...we were in our own house and I was playing with my husband, and it was just so sweet! that's life, that's the real meaning of life, peace, simplicity and love. I felt like I was married and I was together with my laogong, I mean, a real one. the other time was today, when I saw the girl, I felt like being a mom and hug my girl, kiss her and take care of her. Oh... this like of feeling starts approaching me... maybe when I'm hit by it more, I will natually be lead to the way of having my own family. I can feel the maturity that grows in me, if it's true.

Maybe it's just dreams, who knows. But for me, everything starts from dream.

oops, I wrote it in English!! haha.. Language is such an interesting thing. It can bring out different feelings when you speak or use different languages. I wanna pick up cantonese, maybe Japanese as well. too many dreams for me, which one should I start first?