This time next month, I will have arrived in a strange place, a place I dreamt of and feel nothing of. I daren't imagine what it will be like at all, it is so horrible.

Take me home country roads
All my memories gather round her
Miners lady stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty painted on the sky
Misty taste of moon shine
Tear drops in my eyes
I hear her voice in the morning Hours she calls me
Radio reminds me of my home far away
Driving down the road I get a feeling that I should
have been home yesterday
Yesterday
Country roads take me home
To the place I belong

SMS came again that there is another gathering tonight. A farewell party to bid farewell of White Hair, the most successful guy among all our classmates in high school up till now. It is said that tomorrow he will leave for Beijing, then take a plane to USA and start a long new journey on study.

    We didn't talk much at all even when in the same class. I always take him as my opponent, and still look forward to the day when I can defeat him in career since I fail on study. Top 5 university in USA, a top researcher. It takes quite a lot of time and effort to surpass him. Luckily we are in different majors. So I can only try to do my best in my field and be more successful than him relatively. Sometimes I even told myself, I am only a female, why compare with the male world? Sorry, honestly, I can't control myself at all. They are all very exccellent in respective field whom I am not sure to meet such group of people again all my life. I really don't feel like attending such a gathering since the hero isn't me. I don't wanna be a supporting role. I even don't wanna meet this proud and glorious guy who wears the nimbus of God, the favorite pet of all teachers wherever he goes. I confess I do envy him, I wanna take back all of these honors one day. I will live to see it.

    Now let's memorize them- the 2004 highschool graduates in Foshan No.1 Middle(High) School. Key class: Class 1, Senior 3.

    I lost this collective picture of us. This is a digital scanned one copied from a classmate's blog. A bit blurry, what a pity.

Such is Cantonese, a group of stingy people. We thought out excuses and reasons to ask the guys who got a plum job to pay for the dinner. However, we had to go Dutch treat in the end. Everyone wanted to put off the burden to another with the reasons that you earn more. And all refused to pay saying that I haven't got the money yet. That's completely different from when I was in Nanjing, where every guy rushed to pay. Anyways, I still prefer our way. In a month, we will disperse in different parts of the world, it is hard to gather together any more. Though we had only 9 out of 52 classmates in total assembled at the dinner, it is still worth cherishing, we heard news from each other and about others who didn't attend. This group of people are as good as before. Less than 10 people will work, all the others will keep studying.

    Lai Haiming, nicknamed as Laden, is same glorious, with experiences as president of student union either in highschool or university, and the good work at study, he has found a job to predict the weathering condition for flights of China Southern Airlines. With sophisticated social intercourse talent like him, it is better to get a job as soon as possible rather than study. He already wears like a middle class or even rich man, even with a briefcase at hand which I find funny though. We wanted to squeeze him to pay at first, however at last he ran out of the trap successfully.

    Pan Zhiquan and Chen Qiwen, both studied software engineering, having good skills for programming. The former will go to work in a company which is in control of all cable tv in Guangdong. The latter will keep further the same major. So when I have programming problem in future, I can ask any of them for help. There is also a girl to study computer major in Singapore, it is said she is quite adept at programming too.

     Xie Junyu, nicknamed Goldfish, will go to Fudan University in Shanghai to further her knowledge in an quite interesting field which even herself can't speak clearly and make us laugh for thousands of times. Liang Zhuobin, who was the God in maths, will go to Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing which enjoys the best priviledge and benifit as a postgraduate in China, free tuition, free lodging, allowance for food, even with more than ￥1000 paid each month. What a fairy life! This girl and this guy will have to study for another 5 years in China until they finish a doctor's degree.

    3 guys will go to USA to study the 5 years Master-Doctor's Degree. He Jingcong (nicknamed white hair) will go Uni Standford. Ye Shuzhen(zhen grandpa), will study in a university in Texas which I dunno the name yet. Zhang Boqian(little brother to everyone since he was born in 1987) will study in Atlanta. They all get at least US$22000 each year as scholarship (high tuition fee in USA though). Lin Tianyu will go Uni Tokyo in Japan next year and Chen Jiajian (Mickey) will go Uni HK. All these guys mentioned, only Zhen grandpa attended the dinner at the last minite when we all finished lunch. He ordered for a cold drink since he was only back from car learning class. He said he would go back home cooking after the meeting dismissed. Some men were even shocked that he cooked.

    Su Qiyao, we all call him Sue, whose dad and my dad are friends too. He got a car licence 2 months ago in Harbin. He spent ￥2900 for learning and getting the licence at the same time. However, he told us that the original price should be ￥2300. The secret is that he hadnt a lesson for car driving yet, more like buying a license with money. We all were greatly shocked that such dark things still happened in the northeast China which is definitely impossible in the south at all. These days he has been using the time before he went back to Harbin to study car driving skills from his mom's friend-a car driving teacher.

    ...Most of the other classmates will further study in original school.

    And me, I will go to Germany, waiting for Goldfish to come, since we made a promise in high school time that we will go to Germany together in future. She said she wanted to cohabit with me. Then 2 guys stared each other, one told the other that I won't cohabit with u...they must have thought of something bad. Chen Qiwen asked me if I know anyone who will go to Italy. I asked for the reason. He said that he wanted to visit Florence. I asked why again. His answer surprised me:" because it is the birthplace of Dante." Jesus, I even didnt know Dante was born there. Compared with the students I knew in Nanjing, my highschool friends are not only good at science but also in history too. I am really proud of us.

    May we meet again at some time, on some day, some month, some year!

    Best wishes to all.

   

    

I have just heard that EU has allowed Porsche to purchase Volkswagen, afterwards it becomes the biggest autnomobile manufacturer in Europe. As you know, the headquater of Porsche is in Stuttgart. So from now on, Stuttgart lives up to its name as an automobile city, which holds Benz and Porsche-VW at hand. Congratulations!

It is still a month to go to reach my 23. Hi, everyone, I am an old virgin, jobless, ugly, that's why I am still single, neither rich nor pretty. Life might be boring but we still have to live it. Why? Because we were born. Next month this time, I will have no mood to write my blog at all since I am prepared to leave my hometown anytime. To a place where I ever dreamt of, and where is destined to hold a basin of tears of mine. My new life has to start there. Not waiting for what life will give me, I asked for such a life myself - to be far away from family where the only love engine exists. I am happy to be alone so far, free and stylish. Even though sometimes I will weep for my loneliness at some silly times. However, life has to be cheerful, I can't keep myself in dark and dusk. I don't like to think about future any more, because I already know it is a teary one. Forget it and live day by day. The dark days will pass, life will pass on. By the way, I like raw salmon, I like Japanese food.