A Candle

Lit by the hidden power of serving,
The candle burns its stony qualities,
With its own holy fire
To become resplendent,
.
Melting in His tenderness, it
Perishes its self in its formlessness
To be one again with the source
Of all lightness.

puppy love

Puppy love, romance, dream, illusion, despair, and so forth, you name it. This is a big part of the life journey, the best part of it.

Having left the campus seven years ago, I'm now taking a backward glance at my campus life, the best part of my youth. How unique and quintessential it was! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

My campus life was a mixture of the zest, the generous affection, the illusions and the despair, like the ripe wine, the overflowing fountain, the heavenly palace, etc.

When you are at 18, you are chasing the movie stars, obsessing to a song and listening to it again and again up to thousand times; you are adoring him, worshiping her, envying him/her ... The older generation may say disapprovingly, "that is a typical adolescent love, not real."

What are the real things? When you are dreaming, your dream becomes reality, and you are waking up, the reality becomes your dream.

When you are at 20, you are not afraid to give yourself away, you offer warmth and vitality and sympathy without thinking. Later on, you begin to weigh what you give.

For me, that was the kind of the youthful friendship I cherish most...

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers", We got drunk together, flying high in the sky, diving deep at the bottom of the sea, wandering freely and aimlessly on the streets.

I knew that I had many admirers when I was at a top university in China, playing football, delivering speechs, grasping my fields/subjects effortlessly ... somehow, I let those "love" opportunities slip away under my fingers, perhaps, as a guy, I cared for many other things, perhaps ... ...

Any solution? There is no solution! That is your life journey, a smooth and calm one is a dull one and the comfortable one is a tedious one. Everyone has a unique journey. Here is one of many tips

Before you are falling in love with someone else, you should fall in love with your own life, and it will love you right back!

Here is a reply from love_ray

about job interview #3, your career goals

Your career goal is a long term goal. You must aim high and be grounded as well. Arming with this mindset, you might come up with a paragraph, for example, if your long term career goal is to become a senior manager or executive, you might say something as follows.

I would like to picture myself to become a senior manager in five years. As a manager, I will be in charge of the whole operation, taking up more responsibilities, making the key decisions, adding more value to the company and its shareholders ...

You know, at the same time, I am constantly reminding myself of that, to achieve my goal, I must be grounded, moving forward one step at a time, keeping myself open-minded, respecting my teammates, and learning from them ...

The thing is, I will put the company and our common goals above my own goal. I will be glad and feeling good as long as I am able to help our company to grow.

A note, the last paragraph is a must, because it will give your prospective employer an impression that you are not a selfish person or a self-centered person, and you always put the interest of your employer at the first place.

You may have another career goal, putting your thoughts into words (in both English and Chinese) may help, and rewrite a few times until you are satisfied, just keep trying and trying.

Dont Walk Sad

il admit life's a bit cruel
coz it tears u apart
nd makes ya wound so hard to stitch
but hey lisn up
u got me
so dont go sad
coz itl only make me feel mo nd mo bad
luk at da bright side, da west side
nd let da smile go wide
dont walk sad, juz forget da past nd go wild
evry days a new day
my friend once told me life rox
heez no more
but his words still alive
dont eva walk sad
coz if u do walk
den everything around u goes bad
once it goes bad,
everything goes down wid da hapiness u had
so yeh, juz spread dat smile
sho middle finger to ya sadness once in a while
nd i noe u can travel dat walk happy every single mile

lifetime

As lifetime employment is receding and disappearing, you might be pondering what loyalty means to you and your employer. I could see that you are smart enough to figure it out. Why would some people like to move on? The answers are varied from one person to other, which are beyond the scope of our discussion, and so are other issues you brought up, for the sake of keeping our focus on "the job interview skills". You said, "I was turned down so many times due to the unsuccessful interviews. The point is my answer is not they want." Have you spent enough time to go over your answers and questions again to see what you have done right and what you have gone wrong after each interview? After reviewing and replaying the scenes of previous interviews, have you come up with the better answers for "the imaginary interviews" being given to you next time? "next time" is a positive thinking and lifting you through the rough places, and its counterpart is "if only", you would sigh and groan that I would have got the job if only my answers were correct. This sort of negative thinking will only drag you down. I could imagine how you felt after you received those "turn-down" messages. How soon would you be able to bounce back from the disappointment and frustration, and get back to normal? Rather than having the bad feelings toward your potential employers, you should focus on the bright side and opportunities in those difficulties, and immediately take actions by asking them with your sincere, professional and controlling voices (phone calls, emails and letters) about what they would frankly think of your performance in the interview and what their expectation of the ideal candidates would be, and so on, after saying "many thanks to them for giving you an interview". Besides, your positive attitude and courage would engrave the good impressions in their minds. Perhaps when an opening comes up in the future, they will ring you up. Have you given your serious thoughts about the meaning of "the negotiation process"? Why did I point out that "asking questions" in the interview is as important and impressive as giving the answers? How important do the communication skills in general play a part in job interview?

Flows

I dropp behind the ruts, drawn papercuts seem to peirce the worst of fears that strut, like an artform, to perform this warm storm that transforms into a swarm of movements and beats, so descrete, you mess up theres no delete, now offbeat, so incomplete when on streets smoke using dope sheets, grab my reciept, then to retreat the heat, i go inside, secluded there's no deny, despite the stagefright, i ignite the stage. like a pro i overflow, with styles, go on for miles, spun to stun the rest left to begun, there's none, just weight on my shoulders, it weighs a ton, like boulders life just got harder as it's devoured by flowers of showers placed over a body and state of mind, so intertwined, designed to forever remind mankind of, what's left behind...