Golden Bones

I'm currently sticking my nose and eyes with Golden Bones by Sichan Siv. It's one great inspirational book. After finishing half of the book, i feel so energetic. Life is once again worth living for me. Even though I don't know for how long this motivation of mine will last, but I want to keep it alive for a very long time, probably throughout my entire life. And I do wish I could be more selfish from now on. Right now I have reset my goals and I just can't wait to accomplish them when the day comes. I hate it when people bring me down while I'm trying so hard to cheer myself up every single day. Without intention or not, they do bring me down constantly and I so loathe it. I plan to re-read this book again after I finish reading it this time round. May my motivation last forever. Amen!

p.s. this book is highly recommended! really really awesomely greatly amazingly incredibly interesting!

My Tutor and I

For those of you who don't know, I've been receiving a home-stay Mandarin Chinese course for over a year already. In brackets (2 hours per week only!) Why? Because my tutor is my mom's friend's niece and she's studying and working at the same time. Therefore, she doesn't have that much free time. Therefore, she can spare me for 2 hours per week only. Therefore, my Mandarin is somewhat oh-so-speechless still. ^_^


I so far finished 2 textbooks already. Impressed right? I am kind of impressed with myself as well. And since I've finished 2 books, my tutor asked me to buy some story books to read when I'm free. She promised she'd buy me, too. One week later, we met again on our regular class hour. I bought a few books and she brought me a few books as well. I bought story books where there's no pinyin (it's a system for writing Chinese words with the Roman alphabet) because I'm afraid she'd blame me later. Well, the thing is I always read pinyin in our textbooks when there's one and she always blame me when I do. That's why. =) So I bought books with no pinyin. And guess what? My tutor brought me books with pinyin, not to mention the contents of each book which are so kindergarten-like. I was like oh!!! Haha, maybe she knows my level of understanding better than I do. (^_^) It's good though!

The left one is mine - The right three are hers

Inside my tutor's story book

Inside my story book

Now you see, right? The differences!