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O tempus, O homines! As many poets wrote, time runs so fast that my childhood seems just one blink, and now I’m a grown man entering the 3rd 10 years in my life. I still remember vaguely when I was 10 years old that I was so happy to append another digit in my age. And then, I still thought “oh, 18 is still so far away”. And now, my age 18 has long been a memory too, now I’m being pushed by the time to my 20s.

I’m feeling a bit sentimental at this moment. I have to confess it feels blue and even painful to realise that you are no longer a child or youth who is protected by parents, and the child who can spend time liberally without worrying about unfinished tasks. Now, I’m looking forward to bringing my dream to truth, and turning myself into a true adult. Looking back on the last 20 years in this world, I had some great experiences that I’ll never forget: my friends from kingtergaton to university, my teachers, the competitions and places I had been to and of course the love from my family especially my grandparents. I feel sorry that my mum’s dad can’t wait to see me turning 18, 20 and 21, I just want to say I love him, I always do, if he can hear this in heaven and if he can use the internet there.

I’m not much of a plan maker, but maybe it’s time to set some targets for myself before 25. Well, my first priority is to grow more muscle. I’m too thin as an adult, and I’m sure a good body can do me good in my career. The second, study hard and go to a good school for further ornithology study. Actually, I already have some choices in mind, but a lot of hard work still needs to be paid before I can achieve it. And then, to be a good person. In fact, when I was asked by one of my mentors at high school of what I wanted to be in the future , I didn’t give “ornithologist” as an answer, but “good person”. Well, she told me that it would be hard to do so. I didn’t understand then, but now I think I’m undersding better why she said that. Anyway, that should be a target for my life. Then, to love and be loved, I hope I can find someone before 25, but if I have no luck, then… I don’t know… Well, for a short term target, I want to learn Italian and finally manage it.

Yesterday, I went to the zoo of Guangzhou with 3 university friends. When I was a kid, I always urged my mum to bring me there. I knew the place and some animals so well that it amazed my friends. The elephants are old, though they’re still doing tricks for getting food as they did when I went to see them as a tiny animal lover, they are now so thin, the bones are almost visible through the draped skin. If they can talk, I really want to talk with them, want to tell them that I’ve been missing them all these years. And if they can talk, they would must say “O tempus!” too? Seeing into its eyes, I really felt the power of time, the power which is unresistable. Today, I had a body check in the hospital in my university. Since my elementary school is attached to this university, I had come to this hospital for body checks every year during elementary. But then I stoped coming for 8 years because I went to high school. Today, again, walking in the familiar aisles, I’m remind of my good old days, when I played with my little companions. Before we graduate, we had promised not to forget each others, and now… I don’t know… O tempus…

Alright, too much sentimental for today, it’s time to take a deep breath and look forward. Ah, why this sentence is so familiar… oh! My maths teacher from elementary told us that.

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Good day! I’ve having classes for 2 weeks. The courses for this semester are not as difficult as the previous term, what’s better, we don’t have many classes that I don’t even need to go back to school before the 7th week. So, can’t just staying at home and just chatting… Don’t get me wrong, I’m still getting on well with Yuki, but the bad thing is that she needs to go to Roma, and she is sleeping during my day time. Em… so I applied for this part time job at the biology museum, where I had already worked in for the last year’s summer.

However, the difference is that it’s my first time being a guide (hierophant? , I’m not used to such a complicated word…) today. Well, about 650 students from the Taoyuan( Peach park ) middle school came by, and we had about 7 guides. Before started, I thought 650 is a big number, though divided into two large groups, each of them still holds more than 300, which will fill every corner of our small museum. But it turned out just fine, thanks to the school, these students were well educated, and cooperate with us, some even helped maintain the order.

The specimens on display are so many that it’s impossible to explain each. In fact, the time was too limited to get to the elephant specimens before they are called to leave by their teacher. Anyway, I’ve done my job.

Oh, yesterday, I told yuki the story about Mulan, a famous Chinese story that has been made into films. But I can’t find the Pinyin version, so here it is, Yuki, you read it!! Download it here: The Song Of Mulan.

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O tempus, O homines! Oh, the happy summer break is coming to an end, tomorrow, yes, tomorrow, I’ll go back to the university for registration.

The blog has been left out here for almost 2 months, there were many times that i wanted to write, but the laziness won at last. But now, no more time for lying in bed or watching Prison Break all afternoon, it’s time to get busy again. Before that, I want to sum-up my summer break.

Well, firstly, I was very happy and lucky to know this italian girl on msn right before the holiday. Aja, non parla bene l’inglese, ma si capiamo benissimo. After chatting every evening and telling each other everything, we become best friends now… and it’s so good to have a great friend like her. Grazie ~~, Lei la luna dentro me~~ , aja. She’s going to study Japanese in Rome soon, so I wish her best luck. Fortuna ottima! prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr~

And then…, in the middle of August, I went to the Jiangxi Province with my teacher and another 3 birders for a bird survey in Sanqing Moutain. I’ve learnt so much from them, and found myself to be very ignorant, ajajajaja. Nevertheless, I’ve seen many new personal bird species during the trip, for example, Passer rutilans, Merops viridis and the very cute White-legged Pigmy-Falcon!!! Happy trip!! Oh, check out the photos on my flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/melop.

And then…, birder Agava brought me and Nick for a birding in Guangzhou on 25 Aug. Though we didn’t have much luck for the day that we just saw about 15 spp., we had a great time together, so…, not bad.

Then what…, then…, oh, I went out with my high school friend Sarah to buy plants. Ohhhh, it was my fault, I coundn’t resist the temptation of those cute fishes and bought 20 of them. When I came home, most of them were dead. Bad memory for that day.

We had a high school class reunion in late August, it was happy to see the old faces. It impressed me so much that a guy, who used to be cynical and bolshy, called his mum to tell that he would come home later! I could hardly believe that he has grown up, maybe all of us have, just we didn’t notice. O tempus, O homines!

And then…, for the goby project, it sucks. Helen Larson examined our misterious “Gobiopsis” and decided that it should be Tridentiger barbatus. My project partner was upset, but she refused to accept it before a further examination by ourselves. So, I’ll see…

So…, oh oh, my cousin is going to university this semester, her major is chinese medicine, wowo, interesting subject. Also wish her the best of luck!!

What else…, can’t come up with any more at the moment, before I go to registration, let me watch another episode of Prison Break. Dunno why I like singing now…

ylala ylala ylala, che bella gente capisce tutto~~~

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