Special Flower, Special Food

There is a night-blooming cereus in my garden. My mother planted it two years ago. The flowers are in bloom from June to October. The flower of night-blooming cereus is big and white. I think it’s elegant as a fairy. This is a special plant that the difference between it and the other flowers is the flower of night-blooming cereus opens at midnight. Why? I think they want to protect themselves. People like to pick the beautiful flowers, but at night all of the people are at home for rest and they can’t pick the flowers. So these flowers avoid being destroyed. They are so smart!
In my opinion, all flowers are only seen. But my aunt told me the flower of night-blooming cereus can be cooked like the vegetables. I hadn’t heard of it. Then my mother picked the flowers to cook the soup with some meat and bean vermicelli. To my surprise, the soup tasted delicious. Would you like to eat? Just do it!

China Highlights Reporter in the spot of The Terracotta Warriors and Horses

The Terracotta Warriors and Horses has started its 3^rd excavation. We think it is a meaningful thing and one of our Product Group members went to Xi'an to take the first on-the-spot video. Actually we made several VCRs this year. There are Sister's Festival, Fenghuang old town and The Great Wall hiking. According to our working and travelling experience, VCR is a very effective way to introduce a product. This time, there is another improvement on this time shoot. We arranged one our staff to be the report on the spot. I am very glad that we made progress step by step. I believe our hard-work will get our customers' approval.

China Highlights' Setting-up exercise

People who work in the office have more or less problems with their backs and necks. China Highlights regards our body as the basic for our career. Several of our voluntary staffs made a DVD on setting-up exercise. Now every morning and afternoon, another volunteer will play this DVD to reminder us doing this exercise. I did it seriously and found it really let me feel totally relaxed and have more energy to serve for our customers.

 

 

 

Life is a game, let's all win.（by the CEO of Coca-Cola Brian G. Dyson）

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them Work - Family - Health - Friends - Spirit, and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it,it will bounce back. But the other four balls -- family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. How?

1. Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
2. Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.
3. Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.
4. Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live ALL the days of your life.
5. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
6. Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us together.
7. Don't be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.
8. Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
9. Don't run through life so fast that you forget not only where you've been, but also where you are going.
10. Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
11. Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.
12. Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved

These are perfect suggestions for the ones who are struggling for earning their living, without good principles for handling their life and work. We work, because we intend to live a happier life with our families, so it is important to enjoy our life and share times with our families. We need free times.

Secret For a Long Life

A woman walks up to a little old man rocking in a chair on his porch.
"I couldn't help noticing how happy you look," she says. "What's your secret for a long, happy life?"
"I smoke three packs a day, drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foods and never, ever exercise."
"Wow, that's amazing," says the woman. "How old are you?"
"Twenty-six."
Everybody please does care about your health especially gentlemen in our office.

Visitors may watch archaeologists digging warriors

Visitors to Terracotta Warriors Museum are watching archaeologists digging the warriors from 2000 years ago. This excavation is expected to last for half year from now. Read More News from China Highlights

New Terracotta Warriors Dig Begins in Xian China, Tourists can see the Excavation

Knowing that a new Terracotta Warriors excavation is undertaking, David from China Highlights went there to check the museum to find out more for our upcoming clients. The excavation will not affect the normal visit to the museum, it actually will enable visitors to watch the works of the archaeologists from a distance. More News

Balsamine

It is the time for balsamine bloom. Seeing the bright-colored flowers, I recalled childhood when I painted fingernails with balsamine.

After dinner of summer night, my old sister and I begun our work: took some balsamine paste on a nail and wrapped it with hemp leave. After one night sleeping, finger nails turned orange red and a little sweet.

In fact, preparation job had started before dinner. When adults were busy on cooking, children slid out to collect hemp leaves and balsamine; and then mashed up balsamine with a little of salt or white alum. Hemp leaves were soft and pliable, uneasy broken, so could keep the juice off overflow; salt or white alum could help the juice to be painted on nail more easily. After dinner, there was enough juice to be used to paint all fingers.After leaving home for study till now, I saw more and more kinds of nail-polish. They are red, pink, purple, and even black; colorful and gorgeous. But I don’t like them because they are always pungent.

Otaku

Whenever I am back at work from the holidays, people who know me would ask whether I enjoy it. Others would ask where I spend my holiday. Question 1, yes, I did enjoy it. Question 2, I went back home as always.

From my university life to work, when there's a holiday, I went back home and stay with my family. At home, I seldom went out though the beach is only a few minutes' walk away home. If I have a 3 full day holiday, I would spend at least 2.5 days at home, watching TV, reading books, surfing online or doing whatever I want. Then a word came to my mind, Zhai (home in English). And I realize I am a part of Otaku.

What's Otaku? It is actually a Japanese word that means "venerable house" and people, especially women, who prefer to stay at home (home-bird). After searching quite a lot of posts on the internet, I happened to find out that besides home-bird, Otaku refers to many other characteristics of a person, like:
1. Fans of animation, celebrities, model cars, etc.
2. Can not live without computers, stay online even if there is nothing to do.
3. Keep an unstable schedule, usually sleeps during the day.
4. Seldom leave the house and only then after serious thought.
5. Single, no dating.6. Likes writing blogs or diaries, especially online.

Check whether you belong to Otaku.

Yuyu

Finally, Yuyu, my fish passed away. It accompanied me for nearly a year, but without enough care and attention from me. I felt quite sorry for it.

In the very beginning, I started to raise fish for Duouo, my beloved dog. I thought Duouo was quite lonely when I was out and watching the lively fish swimming was a good way to pass the time. The day when I bought the fish home, Duouo started to drank the water in the fishbowl. She thought the glassy bowl was for her, crazy. I laughed at myself to have done such a silly thing.

I must admit, I was not a good feeder. Many fish died soon but only Yuyu left. I actually had tried many times to buy some fish of the same type as Yuyu’s friends. Those fish died one by one after a serious fight with Yuyu. Till now, I did not understand why those fish cannot be accepted by Yuyu.

Did Yuyu hate to share its paradise with those new comers? I say no after a test. I put Yuyu in a new bowl and let the new fish in the bowl Yuyu used to stay in. After a few hours, I put Yuyu back in the bowl. Two days after, the new fish died. Yuyu was hurt but still alive. I was touched. A fish was struggling for a life. It was just till that time, I treated Yuyu seriously with more care.

With sadness, I wrote down this post. Just to remember this tiny but unyielding life.