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January 17, 2008

Yesterday I had a happy talking with Daniel who came from Spain.We never knew each other before,but It seemed we had been familiar with each other for a while.I believe that everybody has experienced that moment when you find the people who you see for the first time is just like an old friend.In Chinese,we often call this "yuanfen".And what make me more surprised is that Daniel like Chinese traditional culture,He said that he had read some books about confucius and also The Art of War written by Sun Tzu.I really feel glad to find that foreigners have interested in our Chinese traditional culture.(CTC)

Frankly speaking,as a Chinese,I didn't know much about CTC until I got to be a post-graduate student.Then I found what a great wisdom my ancestors owned.I have been really into Tao Te Ching And Confucius since last year.They are the wisdom about life,about human.There are full of dialectic ideas in those great pieces of works.They teach you how to be an excellent man with great personality(kindness,mind------)But also as the era limitation,there are also some ideas too old for modern people ,so we should discard them as we taking in the essences。

It is not easy for foreigners to know about Chinese Traditional culture well.In fact it is not for modern Chinese too.The characters we use now are quite different from what our ancestors do .It is not easy to know about them exactly well though some translation scrips are wonderful.

As I am writing this,I think of a friend whom I also know about from Englishbady.He is more than fifty years old and is from united sates.we had some corresponding by email once a while,we had a good communication then.And He was also interested in CTC.But in the last email he wrote to me,he said he was ill,and it seemed severe.I replied as soon as possible,but didn't hear from him ever since then.I am really afraid some bad thing have happened to him.God bless him~~

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穷者独善其身达者兼计天下

11:27 PM Mar 19 2008

Friendship is really the most scared,which merits not only special worship,but also eternal praise.It is the most virtuous mother of generosity and honor,the sister of gratefulness and benevolence and the deadly enemy of hate and lust.It is ready at every moment to sacrifice itself for others volunterily without having to be requested. I love my old friends and i'll have a new one to love as well.LOVE COMES AND GOES BUT FRIENDSHIP STAYS.It's sweet and poetic full of tears hope and happiness.wherever i go in the future,i'll never feel lonely.Because of you ,dear my friends.

I WANT TO STUDYING SPOKEN ENGLISH FOR YOU.MY ENGLISH IS POOR, SPECIAL SPOKEN ENGLISH.I HOPE YOU'LL MAKE MY FRIEND. MY NAME IS Micheal. THANK YOU .

icingblue813

07:38 PM Jan 18 2008

Thank for the first two commentators.I am so glad that you enjoy my article.Actually my English is not that so good enough.And that is why I come here and so lucky to meet you.

To Sunnylinda:I am still a postgraduate student.My major is ophthalmology(science on eyes).you said you had worked in hospital for a while.So why did you leave later?And how about your job now?was it because that you don't like the the working conditions in hospital?