September is gone, to me, exactly.

September means so much to students in China. I believe it also does in most of countries in the world. Because we register for the new academic year in autumn. And there are two working in educational industry. So September means more to me.

September means another new beginning to me every year. After summer holidays, when September came, I began to tidy up my sportful mind and went to school again. It could be said that September gave me new life since I went to the primary school as a pupil.

Every year, September is like an inflexion point which can take me some differentiation. When September came, it seemed I was one year older in "school age". It meant I grew up, at least in schooling. It gave me re-birth. It wasn't odd that I cherished September very much. Actually, I always cherish September. I'm sure I'll do that like what I did in the past sixteen years.

But September is gone.

Although I'm not willing to see it happen, it really happens. From now on, I must adapt myself to life without September. I must tell myself there is no September anymore in my calendar. Instead, what God leaves to me are just weekdays and weekends.

Originally, I meant to title this September The Last September. But now, when I was ready to write something, I found I was completely wrong. It's September when I was a senior at university that is the last September.

I've been aware that September won't belong to me again, even if only once. So I've started out to pursue my new September.

To me, a man who will start his career, confused days still go on.

To my surprise, I haven't been on duty formally. On the contrary, I'm participating another training program after the orientation training. It means I'm still being trained. I will go on standing everyday living without the Internet and urban liveliness. It's a little bit difficult.

It seems that these confused days will be over in around two weeks. Then I'll go back and begin to work as a real professional man. It will be also difficult to me when that day really comes. I'm sure of its trouble.

Now I just wish the confused days would elapse soon.

After waiting and staying home for nearly a month, now I'm about to be on board.

This afternoon, I had a meeting in the company which I will work in. In the meeting, we subscribed our names to the labour contract. And we were noticed that which subbranch we were allocated to. Thank goodness! I was allocated to a downtown subbranch, which is the largest one within all provincial subbranches. I was too lucky!

I won't need to worry whether I will be allocated to a suburban place. I'm very excited now. So are the family. That's because this allocated result is beyond my expectation. Several hours ago, I just wished I would work in any downtown place. It's a big surprise.

Tomorrow, I'll go to the subbranch which I was allocated to to check in with a letter of introduction. Then I will begin to be on duty.

So tomorrow may be my first formal working day. Hope everything will be fine.

There is such a boy of a kind in every girl's life. He doesn't belong to love. He isn't her boyfriend, either.

However, there must be a place for him within the nearest distance from herself.

She will be bursting to show it to him when she sees some pretty things. She will be bursting to copy it from her MP3 to him when she listens a beautiful song. She will be bursting to buy two and one for him when she finds nice notebooks, though he doesn't like pink strawberries. She will send SMS to him firstly when she is about to cry. She will go to contact him firstly when she is quarrelling with her boyfriend.

Although it's unknown that when he will disappear from her life to be a prince of another girl and that girl will be princess owing to him, every girl exhausts herself to enjoy, consume and empty him and everything he takes greedily during the days when he still stays within the nearest distance from herself.

Every girl all becomes gentle, nice and considerate in the body of such a boy.

Though a perfect girl herself after that has nothing to do with this boy yet.

But such feelings are always something that exceeds love.

                                                                                                                              

Half an hour ago, I found some fascinating words when I searched music. It's someone's signature article in a forum. When I read those words, I mean Chinese characters, I suddenly found something in my eyes. I was moved by them. Those words were about ambiguity, confidant and something like that.

Although it was written about what a boy is for a girl, I think it can be applied commonly. Each boy/girl maybe owns a girl/boy like that. And of course, so do I. So on glimpsing through those sentences, I sympathized with the contents. It seems it's writing my situation.

I have published its original version in my another space which is written in Chinese. Now I translate it to English and put it up above. Those sentences are not the most beautiful, but really meaningful.

And before posting it here, I meant to send it to someone. But unfortunately, she seems not to be in touch tonight.

Sometimes, I hate the world somehow as God plays tricks on us. Two have feelings for each other and even they were ever in a relationship, they can't live together eventually. Even if they still love each other. That's what God does to us, if God really exists. We are fortune's fool, aren't we?

It's difficult to explain how these ones come. They don't belong to friends or lovers. But these special relationships do exist.And many of us were or are trapped in such a relationship. We don't know whether it's sweet or not. We just can't escape from such a trap. Even when we have known its unhappy ending, we are still enjoying it. Funny.

We know we can't be able to retain it one day. We also know we will let it go one day. However, we are not willing to break away from it. We all need it, don't we?

Several minutes ago, when I browsed Yahoo! website, I found an interesting article titled Relationship Breakup Signals on the homepage. I'm not in a relationship. Neither I was. However, I regarded it as interesting and useful.

It would be very nice if someone could tell that he and his partner were headed for falling out before it happened. We all wish we could do that. According to the author of this article, we can predict a break up. And furthermore, with just a little bit of tweaking, we can get back on track and rescue our relationship before it hits the rocks.

This must be heart-stirring news. It gives us much hope. Let's see what on earth these signals are.

Signal 1: Tuning out

One of the most common reasons that relationships fail is because one or both partners is tuning out. It might sound mirror, but actually, few things are more hurtful than being ignored by your loved one, whether that's accompanied by emotional neglect or physical distance.

The Cure: Take Down the Wall

Tuning back in is easy. All you have to do is agree to listen to your partner's feedback and dedicate time and emotion to the relationship again.Start taking down the emotional wall, bit by bit. Look at your partner in the eyes when he or she speaks, make physical contact daily and re-commit to the relationship.

Signal 2: Fighting Fire with Fire

Couples who fight fire with fire can expect a relationship that is constantly up in flames. Name-calling, sarcasm, criticism, and violence result in emotional wounds that are hard to heal and relationships that are hard to rescue.

The Cure: Pour Water on the Flames

The next time you feel anger guiding you to say, or do, things you might regret, take time to cool off. If that's not possible, try framing your complaints as requests. For instance instead of, "Why did you forget our date?", you could say, "I feel sad that you forgot our date. How can we make sure this doesn't happen again?" If your partner is the one who is fanning the flames, don't engage in the vicious cycle of insults and tantrums. You can't fight fire with fire if the other person won't engage in the flame-throwing.

Signal 3: Refusing to Own Up

No one is perfect. So why is it that some of us refuse to take responsibility in our most important relationships? Passing the buck and playing the victim are surefire ways to put a relationship in jeopardy.

The Cure: Take Responsibility for Your Actions

The next time you forget an anniversary, or say something hurtful to your spouse, don't try to pass the buck and refuse to take responsibility. Instead, admit where you went wrong and try harder next time. Sounds simple... But it can save your relationship.

I believe most of visitors to my space are in a relationship with someone. Maybe some of you encountered these troubles or will encounter them some day. I don't mean to see you break up with your partner. I'm not cursing you. I just hope these above useful and could help you get out of troubles, if something wrong really happened. If our relationship can keep intact by making simple changes to the way we and our partners communicate, why don't we make it? We can't avoid fighting and arguing. But it is how we fight and argue that determines whether our love can weather the storm.

Briefly, we can enjoy the niceness of our beautiful love. In this case, why not make it better?

After a whole night's train travel, I got home this morning. Everything has changed through a dark night. Just less than 24 hours passed, now what I see is not the same as yesterday. I changed. She changed. Everyone changed, in fact.

Yesterday, I was still walking on the campus as a graduate. I was still living in Beijing. I was still talking with my friends. But today, now, I'm home. I'm not a college student any more. From now on, I have to get used to live in another city. Although I'm not willing to accept everything seen in my eyes, I have no choice. It's clearly that I can't get back. I wish I could do that. But obviously, I could just make that stay in my dream. All those days and things have been memories. I know I can recollect those memories. Whether those memories in my brain are sweet or not, I'm sure I will recall some of them on some days.To my sadness, I can't continue my memories. They are just memories. They won't go on.

So I have to say "Farewell". When I wrote the title "Farewell" here, I was trying my best to keep me from thinking about what farewell is. I chose to say farewell here, not in the place where we were just because I wouldn't control my tears if I had done that yesterday when I left. No one would like to talk about farewell. No one wished farewell to come. We were staring at farewell approaching.

Now it comes eventually. Farewell has been the fact.

"Is this our farewell?", I asked myself at times. Maybe not. But the fact is, there's nothing but silence now. I'm alone in my life. I think I am. You can see the sadness in my eyes. I feel so lost now when you're not by my side. I'm worry too much.

Did we have no time say goodbye. Of course we did. But we didn't say goodbye seriously. We didn't give each other a farewell in arms. I didn't kiss you goodbye, either. Instead, we were just saying"I'm about to leave". We didn't cry or express being sad. To us, it seemed nothing happened.

So, this is our farewell. But within our diction, there's no farewell.

Yes, we have graduated!

Today, minutes ago, we had our commencement in Room 502, Teaching Building 9. After taking photos with tutors and listening to speeches of delegates of teachers and graduates, the commencement was over. We left the meeting room. It means we graduate.

Yes, we are graduates now. We have graduated from our university.

Congratulations to everyone! Best wishes for all of you!

Goodbye, my friends! Take care, everyone!

It's not goodbye, but SEE YOU!

We'll see each other again in future. I'm sure of that. Let's look forward to that day when we meet again.

I miss you，my dear friends!

Baby, you don't understand.

That's what I always want to tell you. I always put it in my mind. I always try not to reveal my feelings from my deep heart. I try my best to let you see an "always" me. I behave what you want me to behave. I dare not change suddenly. I dare not go further within our relationship, which you said it would be dangerous if I did it. But this time, I must tell you what I think in my mind immediately. Because I'm afraid I won't have the opportunity to tell you in future.

Baby, you don't understand who you are in my mind.

Baby, you don't understand who I am in your mind.

Baby, you don't understand why I am always concerned about you.

Baby, you don't understand how much I miss you every day.

Baby, you don't understand in my deep heart, there is an irreplaceable place for you.

Baby, you don't understand you have meant something to me since we met the first time.

Baby, you don't understand I'm worried about one day I will be what kind of person if without you.

There are a lot of "you don't understand" that you don't understand. Absolutely. And I must haven't understood you a lot. Or I would be able to help you understand me.

I don't know your status recently. I don't know whether you are in a relationship with the same one or another, or even you are single for the time being. I don't care. I just want to spend more seconds with you as possible as we can during the rest days before graduation. I'm sure this is not the last time we meet. We will be able to meet during our whole lifetime. We can contact each other. And I believe that we will keep in touch, just like what we did when holidays at university. However, contacting someone is different from meeting someone. I mean meeting you face to face and hand in hand. Do you understand? The fact is, I'm sure from now on, the times that we meet in real life will be fewer and fewer.

To my sadness, for this point above, you don't understand, either. Sigh.

Last year, you asked me whether I had feelings for you in an unusual night when we chatted via IM. That night, we talked about some "deep" problems, including friendship, relationship and love. All of these were due to a few days before you told me you broke up with someone firmly and just a few hours before we chatted someone told me he saw you and someone embracing. I remembered that you asked me that question in English. I wasn't very sure of your question. So I asked you to said it again in Chinese. But you just kept silent and never gave me a chance to speak it out. Why did you look forward to my answer? Had you know the answer in your mind? If you thought you had got the answer, what it was in your mind? I didn't know what to answer you at that time. And I still don't get the answer myself.

Now, when we nearly graduate, I won't mean to talk about that troublesome problem. I won't talk anything about relationship with you. You may not ask me about those things. We both don't want to make us get into an embarrassing situation. We have already agreed on that point. We both know breaking the ice unilaterally is dangerous. We both try our best to keep everything between us unchanged. So, during the days before we graduate, I will treat you as a friend, a best friend. In fact, I do it all the times. Please trust me.

So why don't you reply to me? I sent you many short messages. But you didn't reply. I need your response, baby. I don't know what you are doing these days. I don't know whether you are busy.

It seems you are the second person who didn't reply to my SMS. For any other who doesn't reply, I don't care. It means little to me. But for you, it means a lot. It seems you get used to keeping silent sometimes when I contact you.

Since you didn't reply to my message, I thought you got something wrong. And I began to worry about you, even your safety. But now, it seems not. You are safe. After seeing you online, I knew you were fine. But I don't understand why you don't talk to me. Now that you have free time to play online games, you should be fine and could be able to talk to me. Why?

You don't know how much I care about you. You don't know how much I cherish you. You don't know how much I want to see you. You don't know how much I want to talk to you. You don't know how much I wish to give you a hug before graduation. You just do nothing. I would rather believe it's because your slipshod character and personality. I can't imagine what I will do if you really mean to do it. Maybe you don't understand you mean a lot to me.

Otherwise, you wouldn't give me such a farewell. Baby, you don't understand, do you?

No matter what changed or will change, we will always love our FATHERS forever.

I love this above picture very much. And this is the second time I have ever used it in entries of this space. It's full of love, joy and understanding. I always think so.

Today is Fathers' Day. For China, it's an exotic festival. Meanwhile, it's not popular enough or generally accepted by Chinese people. It's just popular on the Internet and among the youth. And even if we know it's Fathers' Day today, we wouldn't say "Happy Fathers' Day" or "I love you, Dad" to our fathers. We don't express love or feelings directly and intensively in public. It seems not accordant with our tradition. Maybe this is cultural difference.

Today, in a place which is more than one thousand kilometers far away from home, I expressed nothing to Dad. I didn't say "I love you" to Dad. I didn't mail a present to Dad. I did nothing. Because of my business, what I talked about with Dad recently were all about employment and graduation. We just talked about business, not love. Although we didn't say nothing about love between a father and a son, I could still feel deeply love from Dad with his each word and expression. I could read his loving me.

Dad never said "Sweetheart, I love you". Dad never kissed me. Those styles are beyond Chinese styles. Dad just told me he loves me by doing whatever he can to love me. I know Dad's loving me. Dad is concerned about my job and further education. He is worried about my future. But he never tells me his worry. He just encourages me and gives me much important advice at all times. Each time when I fail, Dad always tells me there is a promising future waiting for me, which drives me to work hard to move forward. "Keep moving and you will succeed one day," Dad says to me.

Without Dad, I can't imagine what I were today. For me, Dad is not only Dad, I'm aware of that. Besides, I'm aware of Dad's increasing number of nearly white hairs.

The world is changing. Time can make something changed with days passing by. While economy develops, many have faded. However, definitely, "No matter what changed or will change, we will always love our FATHERS forever." That's what I wrote as a comment below someone's blog entry. I believe I really do.

We will graduate in about twenty days. But I haven't receive the certain offer. I'm very worried about my being employed. Now sitting in the waiting room of the airport, I couldn't help thinking about the direction of my flight, of my life.

Where to fly? I don't mean the flight, I mean my job and my career.

The direction of the flight is certain. But the one of the life is not, especially mine. I can't see where my offer is. I don't know which city I will live in, which company or organization I will work in, whom I will work with. There are a lot of "don't know" in my world. Even I don't know which country I will work in during the following years. Because a state-owned company asked me whether I would be willing to work in abroad. Really very, very uncertain.

The plane is to take off soon. I have to board my plane quickly. I have to fly to an unknown place which is not very remote. I'm flying with many "not belonging to fly" factors.

What else can I do? Except waiting in front of the boarding gate. It seems the flight will be delayed because of the thunder and rain in the afternoon.

I don't know when to fly, either.

Offer, where is my offer?

This is a question I want to know urgently these days. And I also want to know who can give me an offer. It's clearly that an offer is the most valuable thing I want now. I urge it.

These days, I have been working hard to look for someone or an employee that can give me an offer. I really tried. And believe me I will continue to try. I hope more companies could give me more opportunities. And I also work hard to grasp opportunities. But now, for the time being, the problem is it seems there are not many companies who are willing to help me. They even don't give me a chance.

Why? I have been thinking about it. And I also asked many people so as to find the answer. I need to know the reasons. I don't know what employees think in their mind. Every time when I want to get the answer, I always stare at my resume. I try to find something in it.

Is there something wrong or not very proper in my resume? Or do I make mistakes in the resume? Unfortunately, I found no direct mistakes. But how did those HR managers exclude me? It must contain some obvious factors.

"Yes," I said to myself. After many times' checking and thinking, I think I do find something.

Firstly, it's on account of my name. You mustn't believe that most Chinese people don't know my given name. Even many teachers who teach Chinese don't know my name. They don't know the pronunciation and meaning of the characters within my name. Then they don't know how to type it in the computer. So, even if the HR staff think I'm qualified and want to give me a chance, I still receive no interview or aptitude test notice. Because they can't speak it out on the phone or type it out in the computer.

Secondly, the relationship of my university and major gives people an optical illusion. They think my university shouldn't own a department like mine. They tell themselves according to what they see from the name of my university. Maybe they regard my university as a famous and excellent university. But they don't have the same opinion when treating my major. In their eyes, if my department really existed, it would be a little bit bad. Actually, the fact is that my department really exists in my university. And it's good. It's just young if judged by the year when it was founded and will certainly have a promising future. It makes me somewhat angry. I just want to tell them, if you judge something only by its name, you will find you are wrong at last. You don't know what my university is and who I am. But you are unknown about your wrong judgement.

Thirdly, HR staff can't search out many shining points in my resume. I didn't get any scholarship at university. I'm not the Party member. I didn't have a high level in Students' Union. I didn't publish papers. I didn't have an internship in a big company or organization. I didn't take part in many social activities. But this is what I am. I am what I am. I am one of a kind.

I still believe I'm not a man that contributes nothing on the earth. I can do and will something for the employee if employed. And I also have some strong points which others don't have. I'm "useful". I'm not a giant and most of us not. But I can be a talent of what I do.

Now I'm sitting in front of the computer. I'm trying to find some useful employment information. Browsing the webpages about other people's interview experience, I couldn't help thinking about my offer again. I wish I could see my offer soon. It'd better be tomorrow.　

Who will win the series? Lakers and Spurs, which team will get the NBA Western Conference Champion? Many Lakers fans believe their team will win at last. So do Spurs fans. But for me, it's hard to answer this question. Although Lakers led the series 2-0 before today's game.

I'm not a Lakers fan or Spurs fan. If Lakers win, it will be the victory of Kobe. And if Spurs do, it will belong to Duncan, I think.

And today, we must pay attention to a very important point that Spurs picked up crucial home win in Game 3.

The winners of any playoff game always give the impression that they are, indeed, unbeatable. Just as the losers look like they have no chance of ever winning. Honestly, however, virtually every contest in the money season is totally existential. It means there's no real carryover from game to game.  So it was that the Spurs responder to being blown out in last game. They have changed tone of series vs. Lakers.

They did it in time, didn't they?

Today, Ginobili whom Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said such a competitor scored 30 points to lead the Spurs to a 103-84 victory over the Lakers in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals. "He puts so much on his shoulders, he fights through a lot of things. He's got a lot of confidence in what he can do," Popovich said.

Ginobili, the league's top sixth man hit five of the Spurs' 10 3-pointers and got to the rim a few times to prevent the defending champions from falling into an 0-3 hole. No NBA team has ever overcome this difficulty.

Out of question, Ginobili was the key factor which helped the Spurs win today. He showed no trace of his lingering ankle injury, running, cutting, leaping and shooting with the kind of ferocious grace that we have grown used to seeing from him.

Kobe still played like Kobe, but the Lakers couldn't handle the Spurs in this game.

Now the Lakers lead the series 2-1. Game 4 is Wednesday in San Antonio.

I don't care which team will win the conference champion. For the two teams and two super stars, I have too complicated feelings. I love Kobe Bryant. I also love Tim Duncan. So I can't choose which one I love more easily. But I don't agree what Bruce Bowen has been doing on the floor. It's not consistent with the meaning of basketball. But you can't forbid it according to the rules. That's the point.

And what they need most is the NBA World Champion. They have got some champions. They still urge more.

From yesterday, May 19th, when you browse Chinese websites, you'll find something changed -- the font color of webpages has been changed to black and white.

Yes, that's one of what China is doing to mourn for quake victims.

On May 18th, China announced three-day mourning for quake victims, suspension for torch relay. The State Council, the Cabinet, on Sunday ordered a nationwide display of respect for the dead. The Olympic torch relay will also be suspended from Monday to Wednesday, the Olympic organizing committee said. China's diplomatic missions abroad were also ordered to observe the order, and condolence books are to be opened in the Foreign Ministry and Chinese embassies and consulates around the world.

The public are asked to stand in silence for three minutes from 2:28 p.m. on Monday, while automobiles, trains, and ships would sound their air sirens. Financial markets also suspended trading for three minutes.

Flags have been kept at half-mast and all public amusements are suspended for three days from Monday as China began an official mourning period for victims of the May 12 earthquake.

From leaders to down, all Chinese are mourning for quake victims.

Yesterday afternoon, several minutes before 2:28 came, I was being in a bus in Beisihuan Xilu of Beijing. When it was 2:28 sharp, all vehicles stopped and sounded their sirens. Passers-by also stopped and stood in silence. And from the video screen on the bus, I saw thousands of people shouting "Go, Go, China!" "Brave and strong, China!" and "Brave and Strong, Wenchuan!” "Hang on, Sichuan!"

At that time, colors which belonged to China were just black and white. What Chinese people felt was only sadness. People all over the China and overseas Chinese prayed for the quake dead.

China is carrying through its first-ever national mourning for quake victims.

We pray for people who died in the deadly quake. And we hope the survivors could walk out of shadow of the tragedy soon.

2:28 P.M., A MOMENT THAT FREEZES.

CHINA, A NATION IN GRIEF.

The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province rose to 22069 nationwide as of 2:00 p.m. Friday, while 168669 people were injured.

Altogether 21577 people were killed in Sichuan, close to 2000 up from Thursday, and 159006 were injured.

In Sichuan's neighboring regions, 364 were killed in Gansu, 109 in Shaanxi, 15 in Chongqing, 2 in Henan, one in Yunnan, and one in Hubei.

The earthquake destroyed or heavily damaged 436000 properties leading to 4.8 million homeless, according to official figures.

And the TV news said there were estimated to be totally more than 50000 deaths.

The rescue work is still keeping on. The death toll is still rising. We have no idea that how many people could survive.

"Saving lives is still our top priority, as long as hope of survival still exists," Premier Wen Jiabao said. He have tried everything he could to help his country and people. He has done his best.

Rescuers are still trying their best to find and save people. But hope is now running out of many trapped under tons of debris.

The earthquake and some other factors caused these deaths, even if many of them were kids. Let's pray for those who died from this disaster. And hope the injured people would get recovered soon.

A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. Monday. A previous figure of 7.6 was revised by the State Seismological Bureau.

The epicenter of the quake was located 31.0 degrees north latitude and 103.4 degrees east longitude, the bureau said.

With a population of 111800, Wenchuan lies in the southeast part of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, 146 km to the northwest of Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan Province.

The ground shook in Beijing, which is 1528 km from the epicenter. An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale jolted Tongzhou District, Beijing at 2:35 p.m. Monday. Earthquake was felt in Beijing. And according to the reports, it was also felt in many other provinces of China.

In many cities, people rushed out of homes and offices and took to the streets.

Still no advanced news on deaths and injures. Pray for people who live in the epicenter.

A geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey said, "it was a very dangerous earthquake".

Premier Wen Jiabao has been on his way to the area to direct the rescue work.

Hope everything will be fine soon.

He is excellent, absolutely. And, of course, he is also alone. Who can be the one of that kind?

That is Tracy McGrady the one who falls down in the first-round series of NBA playoffs again.

Today, T-Mac did everything he could. I can feel that he was being exhausted on the floor. He tried to save the Rockets. He scored 40 points for the Rockets.He scored eight of Houston's first 10 points. He finished 13-for-26. He got 28 points in the first half while his highest game score in the past 5 games is 29. He tried to carry the Rockets. But few of his teammates climbed aboard.

T-Mac pushed the Rockets through the end of the second quarter, going on a 9-0 run and scoring 13 straight for Houston while cutting a 17-point lead to 58-54 at halftime. But the Rockets could get nothing going in the third quarter, scoring only 11 points while going 4-for-22 from the floor and looking a lot like the Jazz had when Houston staved off elimination Wednesday at home. T-Mac had just one point in this quarter.

On the contrary, Deron Williams scored 13 of his 25 points in this decisive quarter. The Jazz didn't want to put themselves in that situation again and snuffed the Rockets' hopes by opening the third quarter with a 20-5 run, which Williams capped with seven straight points. He made back-to-back 3-pointers and prompted Houston to call a timeout.

T-Mac came out firing in the fourth quarter. But even he, the two-times scoring champion couldn't save the Rockets. Because nobody helped him. He was just fighting alone. He couldn't beat the Jazz by himself. He fell to 0-7 in playoff series. That is what we have seen, a cruel fact.

At the moment, out of question, he is the poorest man in the world. He must be so sad today. He felt what the pain was if helpless. He saw the reality he faced again. What a pity!

Some say T-Mac is weak. Maybe. But today, no one can say that. We could see clearly that he was doing everything he could to save his team and his honour. Didn't you see that he was fighting by himself and nobody could stand up to help him? What a poor man! He exhausted himself to score points as many as possible. He run after the Jazz with his strong scoring. He fired fiercely and continuously. That's what he has done.

Nevertheless, his teammates couldn't fight together with him. They couldn't score. Meanwhile, they couldn't prevent the Jazz scoring. They were just spectators on the floor. Facing the Jazz's offense, they could do nothing. Working with these men, how could you desire T-Mac to get wins?

So what could T-Mac do except saying "I will be back"?

I believe he will be back next season. But I'm not sure whether he will get more when he fights for his dream again. I hope he would get something really meaningful one day. Because I still believe he is excellent. Although he might be alone again.

Good luck, Tracy.

We know you were hurt.

Today is Labor Day, i.e., May Day. I didn't have a plan of travelling. I planned to stay at my apartment.

Last night I asked some of my friends whether they had planned to travel out. They said no. I believe that there are quite a number of people staying at home just like us. But months ago, you couldn't foresee this situation would happen.

I can feel that this year's May Day is not as hot as the past several years'. It's not the focus any more. Why? Many people must associate it to the Olympic Games, Tibetan issue and even the train crash. Yes, of course, these events are what people focus on these days. But there is a more important reason which is also more direct resulting in it. That is, the May Day Golden Week is gone forever.

During the past seven years, China had three Golden Weeks for the Spring Festival, Labor Day and National Day holidays. And then, from this year, one of the three Golden Week holidays is abolished and several traditional Chinese festivals added to the holiday list.

According to this new holiday system, for Labor Day, people can only have a one-day holiday. Even if we use holiday shift here, people will have three days holiday -- Labor Day, this Friday and Saturday. The week-long Labor Day has been "historical". From now on, we will have two Golden Weeks.

As is known to all, the Golden Weeks were introduced in September 1999 to boost domestic consumption. It really contributed a lot to GDP. Markedly, it generated so much in tourism revenues. Now the authorities abolished one of them. What do you think about it?

And are you satisfied with the current holiday system?

By the way, today, I tried but could hardly find any news report about May Day in some China's leading media. It wouldn't happen in the past.

Maybe news for the Olympic Games means everything to them.

Two passenger trains collided in eastern China's Shandong province Monday morning, killing at least 70 and injuring 420, the Xinhua said.

CCTV, China's state television station, said four French citizens were among the injured.

One train on its way from Beijing to Qingdao, a city in eastern China, derailed and crashed into a train which was traveling from the Shandong city of Yantai to Xuzhou in the eastern Jiangsu Province, according to a report by the state-run Xinhua news agency.

The wreck happened in the city of Zibo in Shandong Province at 4:43 a.m., the report said. Xinhua said the collision was the deadliest train accident in the country since 1997.

"It [the train] toppled 90 degrees to one side and then all the way to the other side," a passenger named Zhang was quoted in Xinhua. "When it finally went off the tracks, many people fell on me and hot water poured out of their thermos flasks."

Xinhua said investigators had ruled out terrorism as a cause of the crash. Its English report said it was human error, while its Chinese-language report attributed the crash to negligence. Human error was to blame for China's worst train accident in more than a decade, China's official news agency reported.

Additionally, one of the trains was traveling over its speed limit, Chinese authorities were quoted as saying in the official Xinhua News Agency.

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I didn't mean to put up this news here. After all, it's not good news. It's a piece of totally sad news.

Actually, I read this accident firstly from BBC. This afternoon, I was watching TV programs of BBC World channel. Suddenly, a piece of news titled China Train Crash came into my eyes. I couldn't believe my eyes at that moment. But when I watched the screen seriously, I found it's a fact. It really happened!

"Unbelievable! How could it happen?" I asked myself.

Luckily, and to my surprise, China's official media reported this accident in time. They didn't "conceal" those deaths and injures.

Someone or some one must be responsible for the accident. They may lose their positions. Or some may even be sent into jail. But who could really be responsible to people who were dead from the crash? Who could save their lives?

They lost their lives just because of this crash. Their families lost them just because of this crash.

What exactly resulted in this crash? Are human error and overspeed enough?

P.S. Trains are the most popular way to travel in China. The nation's rail network carried 1.36 billion passengers last year, according to The Associated Press. While accidents are rare, the government is trying to extend and upgrade the state-run rail network and introduce more high-speed trains.

Update -- The railway reopened to traffic at 2:16 a.m. Tuesday morning after more than 20 hours of interruption caused by the crash.