Hi, students! It's another month that just passed and did any life topics ever come across your mind？ Any interpersonal issues can really bug you for the whole night and therefore give you the insomnia in the middle of the sleep？ Sometimes we do find it hard to settle what really befell on us. The only solution to those trifles could be staying calm and keeping your composure when some negative voices challenged you to the certain extent. You might push yourself to some limits for good growth instead of taking all the criticism too person and becoming one of the haters you used to loathe before. Now, please take a pen and write down some topics you feel like knowing and probably send me a letter about what you've been working on and dealing with in life. My email account is: spontaneous930@gmail.com and please make sure you will specify your name and what questions you find it hard to get the fixed or faced with. And you can rest assured that your personal affair or true name won't be revealed on this or any other publications or print works. If you simply want some simple advice from me, please quote" I just need some pointers" while you can send me a letter with some urgent answers and you are fine with the responses from me shown on the newsletter. Please iron your thoughts and get everything well-organized when things got complicated. I can relate to you when you take the pen and write down some thoughts(sometimes really private), your brain might get fried. But no worries for that, I was there and then like you all readers when faced with writer's block. Go read some books, watch some interesting movies, or chat with your dear friends for some inspirations. Writing a letter to someone in English shall be an exciting and fun experience. What's more, you can receive my sincerest reply based on your questions with my utmost efforts figuring out what to do in your position. So don't be shy and please count on me this time. We'll meet on the mailbox and interact with each other, then. Finger crossed for y'all!

Last evening, it's a routine gathering with some of my students from TOEIC course and they kept bombarding me with some confusing wording or testing strategies in reading and listening. I somewhat found it hard to elaborate all in details. Then, there came a light-bulb popping up in my brain. Why didn't you guys jot down what really got your brain fried and some questions that you encountered might be the downfall in your tests？ And it did work out like magic and we quickly switch our discussion to an entirely different direction. Well, I've got to admit that I was reluctant to take in all rumors or some gossips proven by some hard evidence I didn't even notice in the first place. Friends around me never crowned me as the " Big Mouth for Scandals" but they seemed always intrigued by those and kept digging in some news I might have heard from a little bird or the grapevines. Chances are that I might never get to the core of it because I am the individual repulsive of those hypocrites or phony smiles which I would say " No" and turn around right after identifying it all. Yes, nipping it in the bud is the best prevention from deteriorating any relationships. I can totally survive all forms of struggles and pull myself out of all, steering clear of all mud-slinging insults or defamation in reality or the cyber-space. Trust me, I am totally aware of the people I've been hanging out with and it is a big matter to figure out whether things I was told were truths or fabricated scams. Honesty in a relationship meant a whole world to me. Without commitment, I am fine with that idea because the bad economy didn't occur once or even in one region of the world. BUT without honesty, everything you intended to entrust your friends on will crumble like the biscuits in baby's hand, torn into pieces. You never pieced it all together like the way it used to be.
We, humans, have already dwelt in the world full of variables and the sense of uncertainty. There's no way I can be there to waste my time on the shamelessly sophisticated deceiver lying through his teeth right in my face. You might let me down for not achieving things you've promised so hard, but I am totally comfortable with it as long as you've exerted considerable efforts getting there regardless. Stooping so low to the level of your incredible peer is not a sweet deal under all circumstances. Let me remind you that it's a painstaking process cutting the tie with those close friends you used to hang out with. Why？ The defeated feeling will come to you and question you why you didn't pull it through and maintain a healthy friendship like others did. We all tend to blame ourselves for misfortune and become vulnerable to such tough calls whether to stay in the bad relationship without looking so desperate for someone to shower us affection or earning yourself a reputation of Mr./Ms. Difficult in the friend circles. Exchanging rumors is probably not your cup of tea but it's for others.And those rumor mongering at workplace or at school can really drive you nuts and those voices teasing you will never go away no matter how hard you've tried to get away with."Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights." You might as well look on the bright of the future and focus on the people who really cherish you and accept who you really are.
Having felt the urge to interview people with their own one hundred valid opinions, I came to realization that there're some so-called " personal habits" which could possibly drive us crazy while your friend or family might not be aware of that. The followings are some recollections of individual memories or experiences and if you happen to fall into any category, don't sulk in great shame; instead, you shall pull yourself together and determine to turn over a new leave for a better life by looking on the bright side of the life by means of reflecting on yourself and correcting some "insignificant" behaviors that might trigger some misunderstandings in terms of cultural difference and social backgrounds.
1.At workplace, some of your "nice" co-workers forgot to refill the tissue box after using up the last sheet of tissue paper and it will leave the next one in hot water (or total smelly embarrassment). When you take a look at the washroom at home, you could realize your brother took out the last tissue and left the flimsy plastic wrapper on the shelf so vulnerable. Please have a heart and go get some new unopened tissue box, please! You just don't burden any housekeeper or someone taking turns to clean the washroom, right？ You could be the next victim.
2.When stepping into the cafeteria, I was terribly starving after the long morning course demanding students to turn in at least ten-page paper due prior to the next week. My hands were loaded with books and a heavy bag cutting my shoulders, leaving a little room for my plate with one empty bowl and one empty plate on it. There's always a huge cooking hot laid on the dining table of the soup station. It's the " Won Ton" day! Wow, that's totally surprising me for having some hometown dishes available in Canada. Unexpectedly, while fishing for some nice Won Ton from the creamy murky liquid, all I had got was some dumpling wrappers floating in the soup. Yes, all the fillings inside the dumplings were totally emptied and scooped out by someone (some others) during lunchtime. I was too late to some to "their "rescue and enjoyed my once-in-a-blue-moon Chinese food day. Ouch! That really hurts for not having the chance to chew on the tender wrappers outside the dumplings and the juicy meat flavored with some soy sauce, cabbage, and some other spices skillfully mixed and placed inside. Nothing is more appalling than losing your food in the your familiar choices while resenting the foreign greasy food at that day.
3.Most people have difficulty resisting the temptations of grabbing sugary beverages before and after work while very few noticed the dire consequence of tossing those containers with half-torn sealing on the top posing a great threat on the living environments. The cost is way too high and it's really selfish to poison our land without conscience. So please bear in mind that you are obligated to tear the whole sealing around the rim of the cup before tossing it the recycled bin. Do it for our future generations and never burden our planet already overloaded with all forms of pollution.
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