JOBIU

Part of my job is dealing with the data, simple and passionless.  All I have to do is modify them to acceptable standard, feed them into one of our computer systems, keep track and drag reports if necessary. I kind of like this part. Data is always neat, never messy like human beings are.

Today I dealt with those data, putting my mind in neutral gear and simply letting my fingers go through the motions. Time past fast, when I finished ISP uploading it was already 3:00 PM. I still have some time to do IPB update, but every fiber of my nerves screamed in protest. With a sign, I gave it up. It was Friday, I deserved some rest. Besides, since it hadn’t caused any trouble by a whole year’s neglect, I guess another delay won’t hurt much.

Putting off an unpleasant chore wouldn’t make it any less unpleasant. Deep inside, I knew it. Although I am still not quite clear about this whole IPB thing, I believe if I focused, I could clear up this mess within two, three at most days. Yes I can, but doesn’t mean I want to—like someone dares you to eat dirt.

It’s just another assignment delegated by Dear Miss J.  Of all the things, I admire her galls. About a year ago, she was hired to replace KK, who was going to transfer to another department. As a newly graduate, it might be too much for her to take all KK’s responsibilities. Therefore her considerate boss, Mr. Z, asked me to share some loads. “It is just a temporary arrangement, once she got on the track, you could hand them back to her.” said Mr. Z with his very famous Z’s smile. What could I possibly say? I agreed and a year’s later I finally realized that this temporary arrangement has already turned into a permanent decision. I don’t care much about it. I got used to the fact that everyone assumed that I could always take more because I can accomplish much without every seeming to hurry. Not that I was good, it’s just not my habit to make fuss. Dear Miss J, on the contrary, has a way of acting busy all the time without anything to be done.

Sometimes I thought that was the one thing life seemed determined to teach me: that there is no absolutely fairness in this unfair world. Every one has his own survival rule. You can either take responsibilities, make things done, or you can put on a good show in front of the authority, kiss the Big Men’ ass and make them to take you under their protective wings. Neither am I a good actor nor ass kisser. Besides I prefer to take responsibilities. That’s my choice, perhaps I should not complain much about it.

However everything has a line. Dear Miss J is not satisfied with the fact that I already took half part of work which was supposed to be hers. Instead, she is indignant with the fact that she actually still has things to do. Therefore, one by one, one assignment after another, she delegated her job to the others. And here comes this IPB thing. I would not be so angry if she handed it to me in a clear order, but no, with a year’s neglect, a tiny problem has already become a big headache. And just like that, she threw it to me, without the slightest gratitude or apologizes.

Perhaps I should not let it coming at me like this. Despite all these ill feelings, there is also a certain perverse comfort in knowing that I could rely on no one but myself. If I expect nothing of other people, I would not be disappointed by any failure on their part to live up to my expectations.

Accept it or leave it. How simple things are when it come down to a matter of survival.

Many Beijing residents spend up to an hour commuting to work every day, a statistic that reflects a need to improve the capital’s infrastructure, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said in a recent report.

Yang Yufeng, 25, a worker for an investment company in the city’s business hub in Chaoyang district, told the Global Times that it takes him an hour to travel from his home in Haidian district, which is 17 subway stations away.

“Beijing is so big and there is always a traffic jam. The only way to make sure I can get to work on time is to take the subway,” said Yang, who earns 3,000 yuan ($439) a month. “I am not planning to move to a place near my office because the rent in the central business district is unaffordable.”

The 2010 China New Urbanization Report, released Saturday, covered 50 major cities. Among these cities, Beijing topped the list with 52 minutes, followed by 48 minutes in Guangzhou and 47 minutes in Shanghai.

Niu Wenyuan, director of sustainable development strategy research center in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the Chengdu-based West China Metropolis Daily on Saturday that the time suggests there are many problems with the city’s public transportation system.

The average traffic jam in Beijing has reportedly increased from 3.5 hours every day in 2008 to 5 hours today, the Beijing News reported earlier.

Beijing has nine subway lines and hundreds of bus lines, but the growth in population and private cars is always overwhelming. The permanent population of Beijing reached 17 million last year, an increase of 600,000 over 2008, the China Security Daily reported.

To some residents, the long commuting time is a reflection of the lack of affordable housing in the business district.

Beijing Statistical Bureau data showed that the average monthly income of Beijing residents is about 2,500 yuan ($366) in the first quarter of 2010 but the rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the central business district is over 2,000 yuan ($292), the China Security Daily reported.

This hot, sticky, stifling weather is likely to persist for at least two more weeks and doctors warn that the heat and humidity are bad for both your mood and health.

The plum rain season, or huang mei tian, is always unpleasant, arriving in the latter part of June and lasting up to a month. It’s common throughout the Yangtze River Delta region.

Many people feel depressed and physically uncomfortable.

“Dampness, heat and low pressure are common at this time of year and many people have difficulty in breathing, poor appetite and various aches and pains in this weather,” says Dr Zhang Zhenxian, chief of the Internal Medicine Department of Yueyang Hospital attached to Shanghai University of TCM.

“This is primarily caused by the prevalence of pathogenic dampness in the universe,” Zhang says.

As pores stay open in the hot environment, pathogenic energies such as dampness and cold can easily invade the body, he says. The accumulated pathogenic energy can lead to poor blood and energy circulation, resulting in stiff sore muscles and aching joints – among other things.

The temperature in Shanghai usually stays around 30 degrees Celsius, while humidity rises to 80 percent. There’s not much wind or breeze to dispel the heat and moisture, so many people find it stifling.

Airing rooms and using fans and air-conditioners to reduce humidity can help.

Doctors suggest people eat a blander diet and fewer icy foods and drinks.

The digestive system usually works less efficiently in wet, damp weather; some people suffer from loss of appetite. Doctors suggest more fruits and vegetables. Icy foods and drinks should be avoided.

The digestive system works best in a warm and dry environment, says Dr Zhang. “Eating icy things may hurt an already weakened stomach, worsen digestion and cause loss of appetite.”

Traditional Chinese medicine recommends foods that repel pathogenic damp, such as mung beans, pearl barley and white gourd.

Andres Iniesta netted in the extra time to give European champions Spain their first-ever World Cup title here on Sunday, upsetting the Netherlands 1-0 in the final.

In a game when a record number of yellow cards were given and John Heitinga was sent off in extra-time, both sides missed great chances from Arjen Robben and Cesc Fabregas.

The winning goal came in the 116th minute when Fabregas fed Iniesta who volleyed the ball into the corner with aplomb.

“It’s unbelievable, incredible,” said Iniesta. “It cost a lot of energy. To win a World Cup is an indescribable feeling. This was our work that we started a long time ago.”

Both sides had never been crowned in World Cup. The Netherlands entered the finals of 1974 and 1978 editions but lost to West Germany and Argentina respectively. Spain’s best result had been the fourth in 1950.

Today, Spain made history to add its name into the list of World Cup champions and also broke the jinx that reigning European champions could not take World Cup title.

“It was a very difficult match,” said Spain coach Vicente del Bosque. “We have fantastic players. We could have scored another goal or two but I think the result was deserved.”

The Netherlands, who won all the six matches on their road to the final, also made a history to become the first-ever team losing three times in the finals of World Cup.

How to cope with the stress in your job? Face or escape it? In my view, you’d better do something to relax yourself when you suffering difficulties.
First of all, doing some sport is the effective way to relax. Forger everything when you enjoy doing exercise. Moderate exercise will benefit you. Singing songs loudly is another way to relax. You can choose the blue music or light music or others. Talking to your friends or family member and asking them for help. I think they will give you good advises. If you feel serious stressful, going to see the mental doctor and talking to him or her. Don’t keep silent or drink alcohol, take drugs to escape the stress.
Take me for example, I do some reading and sing song loudly. And I share my sorrow with my mother some time. I want to be an optimistic girl! And I hope everyone will live happily every day! And the following is 8 tips for you if you are stressful：

1) As far as my experience with the problem of the stress in life goes, the effective cure for it rests with the following major steps.
2) One step is to set my priorities.
3) Whenever I feel any undue stress is building up in my life, I tend to write down a list of things to accomplish, with the most pressing at the top; and meanwhile allow more time than I think I’ll need for each job, with enough breathing room to handle emergencies or rearrange priorities as circumstances change.
4) Another step is to know when to say no.
5) My experience has led me to recognize that if we are too busy doing too many chores or too obliging to others to say no to any of their requests, we may never get around to the important activities that give us genuine satisfaction.
6) And the most important step is to learn to ask for help.
7) In the past, I used to seek no aid because I regarded it as a lack of ability to reach out for help; but now I have come to realize that there are always some parts of our life over which we have little or no control and that, by both asking for and offering help, we can strengthen personal relationships and lighten each other’s load.
If you feel overwhelmed with the problem of stress, therefore, you might as well try the above and may be surprised to find the same holds true for you.

Now most of the students have been in their summer vacation, some of them keep on studying in some training school, some of them have a short trip to relax themselves, and some of them are going to have a summer job to stronger their practical ability.

Before the summer holiday, my aunt called me that she hoped me to find a job to my 16 years old sister in my factory, as she don’t want her daughter just playing computer at home for the whole holiday. Frankly speaking, I really don’t think my sister can endure the factory job, as the worker need to overtime work till to 23:00 o’clock. But I can’t refuse the request of my aunt, I deal with this thing quickly.
When my sister have her last test on friday, I bring her to interview the job, just like I told you before, our factory is in the busy season, so it will be much more workers, so my sister finally get the job. She will begin to work on next Monday.
My honey and I make a prediction to her, if she can insist on working over a week, we will take her to see a film, if she can keep on working over a month, we will bring her to eat the Japanese Cooking, as we two both think that she can’t work over 3 days for her character.
However, she really give us a surprise, now she is working about 2 weeks, but we still not get any complaint form her, which make us think that she grow up. Any way, I wish she will hold on straight to the end.

     As we known, the daytime is so long in summer, and our bodies are weary easily. But how can we make well use of our lunch time and have a good rest?
    Japanese like to wash their faces through the heart. You have been busy all morning, take a nap with a handkerchief on your face for 2-3 minutes, make sure the handkerchief is dipped in the cold or freezing water, three times will be fine.

Find a place to take a nap
    Afternoon 1 pm, people’s minds are in a low state, so if it can be quiet for a while, and that’s good for your heart and spirtit. Besides that, find a quiet place then lie down, stretch your arms, your legs, which is so comfortable.
    Maybe that’s not available in your office, at least, you can get a small nap when you are busy, after opening your eyes, stand up and stretch, have a glass of water, which will make you do your work with energy cheerfully.
 
Go for a walk
   Walking is the best activity for you to choose after lunch. Near the street garden, and other air purifiers place, for a walk, let yourself sweat slightly. full of strength and good humor will be around you instantly. The world belongs to the energetic.

Clear your desk
   Tidy up your desk after having lunch,keep you are in a neat and orderly environment. if time permitted, record the important points of your morning work simply ; then sort out what you are going to do in the afternoon,arrange something in advance. these simple work can transist you from rest to work naturally, let the office time more easily in the afternoon.

Chat but stand
   Chat with your colleagues, exchange information on the life or health. You’d better stand for a chat. After 15 or 30 minutes, standing is the best “one” of those healthy foods. not only for the digestion, could prevent you from a small belly.

Warren Buffett was born in 1930 in Alaska .  For someone who is such an extrodinarily succussful investor , Warren Buffett comes off as a pretty ordinary guy . Ever as a young child , Buffett was pretty serious about making money . He used to go door to door and sell sada pop . At eleven years old, he bought his first stock .

He had already made $5,000 by delivering newspapers when he graduated from high school . It was never his intention to go to college.  He was finally persuaded to apply to Harvard Business School, but was turned down in what had to be one of the worst decisions in Harvard history .

      From the beginning , Buffett made his fortune from investing . He started with all the money he had made from selling pop , deliving newspapers , and operating pinball mechines .

 As for charity , Buffett’s strict standards have made it difficult for him to give much  money away . He evaluates charities the same way he looks for stocks : value for money , return on invested capital . He established Buffett Foundation . The foundation has given millions to organizations involved with population control , family planning and birth control .

Buffett’s theory of investment is regarded as  bible . He is a unique person , I admire him .

I feel upset now.
It seems that we all have a big big dream but few of us can really realize it. Sometimes I find it not easy to make it into practice. This is not because of myself. I am not just me,myself, on the earth. There are lots of burden,or we can say, the responsibilities around us as we are growing old.

I do know what you called you are not yourself. I am despiting myself as well. I want to be an elegant woman who has her own carreer, her own lover, her own family. However, it seems that I just have a small vote to make a decision. Living in such a highly development society, we are becoming more and more impulsive by the influence of the technologyical world. Everybody is lured by the magnificence. To be honest, we are loving the new and loathing the old. Fresh things have a big temptation to us.
We like to experience the new.

Grandparents told me that there was no need to move to another city to live a hard life. Instead we can have comfortable life with our families in such a small city. As for the marriage, the blind date is quite a good way.

Oh~~~~~Is this the new situation we are confronting now? We have to be so realistic to face all the problems? And we just live a life for a life. Nothing special. No! That ‘s not I want. I want to experience the new. I find myself being restrained when I put myself in the traditional way.

Yeah~~~~But how to make a balance? I need to work and study hard,to know more about the world,to know what is the right and suitable thing for me! But I also have seen the cruelty, that a dream is just a dream. The pursuit of happiness is not simple. Mark Twain had experienced a harship. He gained a keen perception of the human personalities and know what is the complex of the subtleties of our psychology. So that is a way to experience.

Thanks for your reading.I wrote the above text several days ago. I put it here because I think we should keep having our dreams. But now after I have seen it one more time. I feel great pressure.

I wonder what is the definition of a good job?
And I have a question that if you are a English major, what kind of job do you really want?

1. TRUE LOVE: True love, free and self willing and unconditional life long marriage.

2. MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE. (That means there is NO real deep love. It could also be as follows; Your marriage partner is only suitable but not exactly the one you want but still want to marry. Your friends are married so you want to marry too. Show off to friends when you marry and make them jealous of you. Your age is adding up and it is time to marry so you can’t choose anymore, just marry one who is nearest. You parents are giving you unbearable pressure so you just marry to quiet down your parents. You are lonely and want to have a married life even without true love. You don’t believe that love is ever lasting and everything can be lost later. You life is so simple and boring and you want to use marriage to change that.

3. MARRIAGE FOR MONEY: You believe that money is everything, without it love has no future. You think money can overcome everything and you will have a safe and secure future for yourself, your family and your future kids. Right of wrong? judge it yourself.

4. MARRIAGE OF MUTUAL BENEFIT: The girl has something the man wants or the man has something the girls wants, that could handsome, good looks, good life experience, good job, intelligent, popular, good social skills, humorous, etc.

5. MARRIAGE FOR MATERIAL: Parents often require the guy to have a house or good government job before agreeing to the marriage. Whether there is true love or reliable is secondary or unimportant.

6. COHABIT (Live together without marriage):
There is love or there is not much love. The is some reason you can’t marry each other. You do not want to lose your partner. Live together without commitment. Some cohabitation have lasted for many years of whole lifetime. Some even have children. Some have separated after a certain time, just like divorce in marriage. Whether this is acceptable depends on the person himself or herself.

7. MARRIAGE FOR RELOCATION: You do not like the place where you are living. You want to marry to a bigger or more advanced city, province or country. You use marriage to reach that place.

8. FORCED MARRIAGES: Parents force their daughters to marry someone the parents choose because of customs, social benefit, or some other favorable returns. Sometimes it is also for getting dowry (marriage gifts).

We all have to ask ourselves, how many people are marrying for real love? Are there many? I don’t think so. May be less than half the people marry is for real love.

FREEDOM AFTER MARRIAGE:
You mentioned about freedom after marriage. In reality, marriage is  often the end of personal freedom and freedom is transferred to family life. People are now trying to change that and some people wish to have complete freedom to do the things they like after marriage. Whether this is right or wrong is questionable and debatable.

Sometimes we don’t have much choice when it comes to marriage. We are just like a fallen tree in a fast flowing river, let the water bring us to wherever it takes us. Some people choose to leave it to fate “yuan fen”. Just hope that two people together can be everlasting and happy.