My Life Is Brilliant

Okay, after taking my friend's advice, I've got to make this short.

I've finally finished taking all of these tiring tests. What I mentioned is not only the one we had at school, but the GEPT for me personally. I applied for the middle grade, just to earn back a certificate as others. But I found it a waste of time spending hours sitting in an unfamiliar classroom, waiting the test to begin.

Anyway, after receiving a grade 117 I got for both reading and listening (at that time it's quite beyond my expectations, 'cause I thought I would have more than three questions answered wrong), I hoped the test would be ended as soon as possible...and now it's over. Thanks God!


Somehow it was fun during the speaking part. Oh, by the way, for writing, it wanted us to write down one of the cartoons we like most in our childhood. I wrote down--"My favorite cartoon tells a story about a little boy who wanted to become the greatest cook in China. " bla bla bla. Yeah, you may guess. It is "小當家". And one of the reasons I listed is that I could imagine myself eating the most delicious food on earth when I was actually having an ordinary meal.

As for speaking, though I hadn't prepared for it any, I wasn't nervous at all before the test. Besides, at present I think I've given some silly answers. I remember one of them was this question--

"Have you ever bought something from the vendor?"
"Yes, indeed I have. I've bought stinky tofu, because...because I like to eat it (this sentence is not quite meaningful..), and it really smells good for me (what if the judges don't like stinky tofu? Who cares!)"


When it was all over, we still had to wait for them to do the final checkup. I've got to listen the recording. It's a bit weird to listen to your voice coming out of the earphones, and that voice sounds as if it came from another person, which means we often did not know what our voices sound like. I used to expect it deeper and more...gentle (no, no, I'm not narcissistic).

Lately I had a date with my old friend. She looks the same as the last time I saw her, energetic, funny and plus silly. As we were fooling around the campus, she said,

"I'm a bit hungry. I hadn't eaten my breakfast you know. (which means I've asked her out too early) Let's go to Yamazaki, shall we?"

"What is 'Yamazaki'?" I asked.
"Geez! You live here, and you don't know what Yamazaki is!"
"= =...yah, I live here, so what is it?"
"Hah-hah....Let me tell you. Here is my backyard!"

And we almost got lost in her "backyard".
Anyway, we made it to Yamazaki, which is a bakery, and we had a chat there.

During the talk she asked me the never-ending question again, why I type my blog in English?
Ok, if there should be a reason, then I would say--"Just for practice." since I knew my poor English was just about average and it had to be improved, while in front of her I even seemed more awkward...ha hah. Just for practice, and every time I type these things it may help me to think more in a different way.


I'm so glad to see her again. Believe it or not, she accidentally got through to me on the night I had just surfed the star signs on the Net. And it happened to tell me that day an old friend would call me. Anyway, I still don't believe in star signs (most of the time it is not that accurate)...

This song is Shantung's favorite song, from her favorite singer (or should I say, "Her husband"?)--James Blunt. After beeing bombarded by her words saying over and over again how much she loved him, I finally got up to check out this old video. And, truely, he is brilliant.
But he couldn't compare with mine, Eric Martin.
Ha-hah! (Shhhh--don't tell her)

~S~



James Blunt - You're Beautiful