A friend texted me yesterday and asked me out to see the church on Wang Fu Jing street. It was such a nice trip to remember.

My friend in front of the church. 

She is such a lovable girl with the sweetest temperament, my good friend.

the inside of the church.

Neither of us is religious but it was so good to sit in it, with the soft music on and the heart 'off' from everything but peace...

Unfortunately i was a bit under the weather yesterday but we did have a very good day.

07/25/08。晴。

Good, good. Two other companies called me up today!

07/21/08。晴。

突然很想写写中文。今天去面试了一家公司,感觉还行。只是去面试的路上一个骑车的男人迎面骑过来时朝我说:'给我一杆枪,我就毙了你。'然后飞奔离去。这个在电影中看到的镜头被我真真切切地感受到了。我笑笑，路上总会碰到一些有意思的人。我长的又不违章，为何要毙我？莫非嫉妒我所剩的一小把青春？

七月一日来北京的火车上，也遇到了有意思的人，令我难以忘记。一个很自来熟的漂亮小伙子一路对我狂说。说的还一点不讨厌。漫长的旅途变的有意思起来。他给我讲为猪接生，给狗做安乐死，因女尸“年轻貌美”舍不得解剖，女友半夜鬼上身。。。

后中途转车厢，他被无情地分到了别的车厢。可是，他不畏艰难险阻，辗转多次找到我继续狂说。在人山人海的车厢，他不屈不挠的精神深深地感动了我困倦的心灵，令我无怨无悔地做了他一路听众。下车时由于相距较远，他特地“委托”一个小伙帮我拿行李。这个帅气的青海小伙毅然决然地拒绝了我请他吃肯德基，浪漫地消失在北京火车站，引起了我无限的遐思。。。

一篇文章说，走过的地方太多，就知道路过的人就像路过的风。

风吹过了，那或暖或凉的讯息，还是留在心里了。

Just came back from a job interview. I did okay in it and passed the first round. It is a translator position and i would not have even had a try one year back...It seems all of a sudden, i will leap at any job opportunity if given the chance! My anxiety of finding a job increased day by day. When you are jobless in a city far away from your home, you depend on others, you pussyfoot around, you do tons of housework to get some comfort and balance, you smile at whatever they say to you, you can't get a shower or surf on line or have a nap any time you like because you have a lot to consider.

It made me think of a conversation in a movie. 'What are you after?' a man asks a woman. 'Money.' she says calmly.

Money means independence.

An insurence company called me and asked me to come over there and do an interview any time i am convinent. I went there and finally decided to give up the opportunity because i can't do that job. I am not capable.

I was en route from RinMin University to the company this morning to do the interview. I walked there because it is very near. A strange thing happened. A man who pedalled a bicycle murmured to me 'Given a gun, I will shoot you to death' and passed me like an arrow before i could react. It was in broad daylight and it was just outside Rinmin University.

It is a beautiful day today. I love the summer heat and i love walking in the sun, but it sometimes makes me want to cry.

07/19/08。 晴。

转眼来北京已经半个月了。工作没有找到。依旧寄人篱下。偶尔穿梭于地铁公交的人流中，觉得熙熙攘攘都与自己无关。躲在太阳镜后面看别人。喜欢看冷静有力的脚步。那必定是走在家和工作之间。

多数时间是躲在屋子里看书做家务。害怕走出去，看到别人冷静有力的脚步。喜欢和害怕并不矛盾。即便是和朋友出去吃饭游玩看电影，回来后心还是惶惶然。

真是怀念光脚穿球鞋的日子。球鞋还在，可是那份心境，那份自由和无忧无虑，真是不在了。

07/13/08.晴

I went out to have dinner with two friends last night and on our way back, we took some photos.

鸟巢

水立方

I took them on the running car so the pictures are a little blurry, but really, the scenes are stunning in the night.

Then came today, i went out with a friend to visit the Palace museum. It was a big sizzler today but the visitors were so really many!

A foreigner who did me a small favor was a little shy when i was allowed to take a picture of him

So cute a baby! She kept giggling at us

A young man kneeled on the ground very long... he was funny

My friend posed in front of a palace

晴

It's been more than a week since i came to BeiJing. These past few days was not exactly a happy dream but i am grateful i came.

Things slowly get into perspective and i sometimes laugh at my old silly self. I receieved Judith's email yesterday telling me her little sorry story and what she learned from it. 'It is the price of growing up' she wrote.

Don't know when i like to turn things until the funny side come up and then have a laugh...i ceased to blieve in sharing my sorry stories. It seems whenever i put them into words, the sorry feelings doubled. So what's the good to do so...

I woke up early this morning, took a snap in front of the mirror and then stood in the balcony overlooking the Morning BeiJing. It's is another day, and so it is!

I bought a book days ago 'Rewi Alley An Autobiography'. I never read Rewi Alley before but the book turns out to be such an inspiring and unputdownable one ever.

This historical book is one of the PFS (China Society for People's Friendship Studies)series Light on China. It is the very first historical book i've read, which sure helps me gain an overview of what went on before in China, through the eyes of a foreign journalist.

I've been just read some seventy pages and it already made me tear... How so little i knew about our history! It is pathetic. Hopefully i'll buy some other ones of PFS series after i finish this one.

07/09/08. 晴.

Hi everyone. Greetings from BeiJing. I arrived in here on July 1, a rainy and chilly day. I'd come here several times before but none of the times did i consider about living in here. It often came to me that i was not the big-city girl type. Hustle and bustle makes me out of place. I am still not sure i like it now. Well, life is not about doing everything one likes anyhow, isn't it?

I met up a once-bosom friend yesterday. We had not met in 6 years! Well, 6 years can be a short time sometimes, like when i saw her, i felt nothing had changed between us, well, nothing but our age and weight, ha! She grew a slender and elegant young lady! I forgot to bring my camera. Silly me! Not that she was not elegant before, of course. I mean, a different kind of elegance. I LOVE that about her.

It is a sizzler today. Except that i go out in a while and transact a library card, i'll stay inside and be good.

A BIG hello to BeiJing.

07/03/08. 晴.