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　　 Last evening, when I talked about the nest on the little laurel in my yard, my wife seemed very surprised. She had no idea that there was a little nest on the smalll tree. But I noticed the nest as soon as the bird began to build it. I have long a special feeling for birds.
　　
　　 My wife must also not know that our human beings’ houses had ever been on trees like those of birds. In the ancient time, human was threatened from not only the lackness of foods but also the attack from fierce animals. In order to avoiding the attacks from animals, human once lived in caves, because of the moisture of cave, which was found improper. The needs of safe and healthy dwelling made the greatest architect, YouChaoShi(有巢氏).
　　
　　 YouChaoShi invented the way of building house on trees, thus, human being in the anticent time could sleep safely at night. YouChaoShi became famous for his invention, and he was elected as the king.
　　
　　 My daughter told me that she saw a mouse climbed into the nest on the laurel and stole eggs. I wondered what the Nests of ancient humman beings were like. Did other animals can climb onto it and steal their babies?
　　
　　 YouChaoShi’s invention made it possible that the population of human grew quickly. Human made another big progress in their struggling of lives.
　　
　　 Now modern buildings are more and more grand and strong, while the birds are still nesting on the trees. Once both human beings and birds nested in the woods, and human admired the flying ability of bird. Now human beings’ planes are also flying in the sky, though they are not as agile as the birds.
　　
　　 As time passes, human grows more and more civilized and powerful, but the other animals seem stay motionless in the process of evolution. And the woods, on which the birds are nesting and other animals are living, are destroying by human beings. Fortunately, human begins to realize that it’s important to live peacefully with animals. I wonder whether our awakening from self-conceit and greediness is late or not. But, it’s better than not.
　　
　　 Although the houses on trees in the ancient time were rough and crude, but there is no modern architect who can claim to be more greater than YouCahoShi whose invention kept human beings of ancient time from being attacked by animals at night. The modern buildings are more and more pompous, and tending to satisfy human beings’ endless desire instead of only providing safe and healthy dwellings.

　　 One of my cousins is attending some classes for getting a diploma. In my view of point, such a diploma is useless. Most students buy it not study to get it. Whatever the quality of such a diploma is, students have to attend exams. My cousin has been worried for the exam of English.
　　
　　 Last year, she said that she would really have to get a start for her English. At the end of last year, when I asked her of her English-learning, she said that she didn’t start it yet, and she would began after her wedding. She told me that she was going to learn English a week after her wedding this year. However, when I met her a month later, I was told that she didn’t put any effort in learning English.
　　
　　 Last month, my cousin asked me to lend her some English books. I thought she must be serious with her English-learning this time. Just I was wondering what let her make her mind to began to learn English. She told me the exam of English was set at September this year. She looked very worried because she knew it’s really hard to make some substantial improvement in her English in three months.
　　
　　 Many people’s attitude of doing things is just like the old story of a sparrow building her nest. The sparrow always postponed her plan of building nest, but she didn’t build her nest when the cold winter came. She died from the coldness in the winter because she didn’t have a warm nest.
　　
　　 My cousin must heard the story like most people. But the consequence is not bad as to the death of the sparrow who failed to nest. So a lot of people always put off their plans, actually, they haven’t done them when they get very old, in the wind of their lives. They would then regret what it would like of their lives if they had done their good plans.
　　
　　 It’s the most important to do it now if we have a plan that we think it good for us. Even if we can’t reach the goal of our plans, we can also attain something precious during the course of our trying. We then make new plans with the light of our acquired experience from the fulfilment of the old plans.
　　
　　 The sparrow died from the coldness in the winter never knows the next beautiful spring.

　　 There was once a little dog lived by a forest. His name was Puppy. Puppy was a happy guy. He was very kind to everybody, and he was very handsome. Puppy had many friends, they often took adventures in the deep forest together. Leo was also one of his friends, and he liked to play with Leo most.
　　
　　 Leo was a strong huge lion, he looked very masculine and formidable. Puppy admired Leo’s air very much, he was one of Leo’s fans. Puppy admired Leo more once after he watched Leo stand on the top of the mountain at the first ray breaking through the sky, roaring profoundly. Puppy was fascinated with Leo’s majesty. Especially, he was impressed greatly with the thick long brown whiskers of Leo, which rippled in the fresh air, furthering the dignity of the forest king. “How noble and majesty he looks like!” Puppy said to himself, “What would I look like if I had whiskers like that?”
　　
　　 Thereafter, the idea haunted Puppy all the time. He even dreamt it every night. His friends laughed at him because of his absence of mind. They thought he must have been fallen in love with some girl. One day, Puddy decided that he must do something. He bought some brown hairs, then he began to glue them into a wreath of hairs. Looking in the mirror, he set the wreath on his head. Scanning himself in the mirror, Puppy felt very happy. Now he was a little lion.
　　
　　 Puppy called Leo and told that he would go to the top of the mountain with him next morning. Leo was very surprised to see Puppy’s strange looking. He almost couldn’t believe he was Puppy if he didn’t hear his voice. “Wow, you look very odd, but your false whisker-wreath is really live.” Leo said. Puppy felt a flow of warmth got through his body, he didn’t feel cold any more. He smiled happily yet a little embarrassedly.
　　
　　 Having reached the top, Leo began to roar. Puppy followed him, but his voice turned out to be bark. Leo turned around, looking at his friend in a funny air for a minute. Leo said:”Although your voice betrays your likeness of a lion, but it’s deep and rich. Let’s roar in one voice.”
　　
　　 They played their roaring-game joyfully until they were sweating. Then they decided it’s time to go down the moutain. In the halfway, they met Ginger, a pretty fox. At the sight of Puppy ridiculous false whiskers, Pupply himself didn’t know, which was dropping off, Ginger smirkered. “Are you old ? Puppy, your whiskers seem to be peeling.” Ginger mocked at Puppy. Pubby lips trembled in anger. “Do you really think of youself a lion with the false hairs ? You are really a poor self-deceiving boy. How vain you are !” Ginger continued.
　　
　　 “Oh, it’s Mr.Smart. Puppy is playing with me. His false whiskers are only for fun. Pubby never think he was a lion, and he never speaks and does against what he says. But you always think you are the cleverest guy in this forest, and you always do in secret completely different from what you speak. Now Let me prove that how self-conceited you are!” Leo ate the fox as soon as his voice dropped.
　　
　　 Leo turned to his friend, smiling, and said:” I never judge a guy from his looking, I judge everthing from its inside and contents.”

　　 It’s about 10:20 this morning when my daughter called me. “I am very disappointed with you, daddy.” said she. “Why ?” I asked. “Do you know what I am doing ?” asked she. “Let me guess. You are watching TV, or you are cleaning.” I answered. “No, you can never know it. I am gluing the maggots with tape in the sitting-room.”
　　
　　 “What ? Maggots !” I asked in a great surprising tone.
　　 “Yes, maggots. It’s because of your laziness. The wastebin has not been cleared for at least two weeks. There are so many maggots in the garbage bin that they squirmed out of it, scattering on the floor of the sitting-room.” my daughter’s voice raised a octachord.
　　 “Oh, I’m so sorry, my sweetheart. Please forgive me. I am lazybone. I promise I will clear the wastebin every day hereafter.” I said very sincerely.
　　
　　 Yes, I am really too lazy. I often excuse myself with that I am buzy. In fact, I don’t want to do any housework, because I think that my wife is supposed to do more housework. But she spends most of her free time on the Internet, chatting, playing games and watching movies. My wife hates my learning of English, on which my daughter supports me. She thinks that learning English or reading books is more important than chatting or playing games on the Internet. However, my wife doesn’t agree with my daughter, so she doesn’t do housework either.
　　
　　 Therefore, the indolence of us leaves our rooms in a great mess. If someone wants to visit my home, I always refuse him or her, because my home is just like a stall. It’s a shame to say that, but the maggots make me reach to the climax of disgrace.
　　
　　 As a matter of fact, there are too many of such shameful things happened in my home. I am really very uncomfortable at first, but now I am getting used to it. Perhaps, I should struggle for a change of that for the sake of my daughter. She is following a too bad example of us, and she will be the victim of our indolence if I don’t do something.
　　
　　 Before getting married, people should really take seriously with the failing of their lovers. The saying of “love makes people blind” is great. Whenever I blame my wife of her laziness, she will retort me like this:”I am lazy, you are lazy too. besides, I have told you that I am very lazy before we got married.” Her stronghold of defending her laziness is far beyond my ability to defeat it. So I have to bear all the mess of my house if I don’t want to do housework either.
　　
　　 It’s good message that my daughter seems to be getting a little laborious.

　　 I don’t believe in God, Allah or Buddha so far. So I have no idea of that today is the birthday of Kwan-yin until I heard that something bloody happened in the TianMen Ropeway Company this morning.
　　
　　 On the birthday of Kwan-yin, there are many people who believe in Buddha in every temple, worshiping the Bodhisattva of Kwan-yin. In our town, the TianMen Temple will be the busiest one on that day, which is on the top of TianMen Mountain. People can get to TianMen Temple without admission until the TianMen Ropeway Company begins to manage the mountain.
　　
　　 The TianMen Ropeway Comany declared that the admission was only 50RMB on the birthday of Kwan-yin out of consideraton that there would be many people visit the TianMen Temple to worship the Kwan-yin Bodhisattva. So this morning more than ten thousand residents swarm at the waiting-hall in the Ropeway Company. A lot of old men who rarely go outside were also among the crowd. But someone lost patience because of waiting too long while most people were waiting quietly, finally a fight broke out.
　　
　　 The fight proved the poor organization of Ropeway Company. The Company’s guards beat some pilgrims. Such cruelties of the guards caused the light riot. A lot of people were thus in no mood to wordship the Bodhisattva any more, so they went home.
　　
　　 Some people say that they knew something bad would be happened, because most of the Company’s guard are head ruffians. It’s not strange that many private companies hire rascals as guards, because the bosses of those companies believe that the head ruffians can take care of the scoundrels who often make trouble.
　　
　　 I don’t want say anything about the Ropeway Company. I just wonder why the pilgrims must visit the TianMen Temple, not other temples. It’s said that the Kwan-yin Bodhisattva on the top of TianMen Mountain was more powerful and made their wish more efficacious than that of other temples. It’s really absurdy! Does Kwan-yin has any prejudice to her pious worshipers just because of the different temples that they visit ? People like to visit some famous temples, and burning big incenses that are more expensive than the small ones. They think that only doing such things can prove their piety to the Kwan-yin.
　　
　　 Outside the temples, Some people never feel guilty to Kwan-yin because of their corruption. Yes those people burn the biggest incenses to Kwan-yin, wishing the Bodhisattva to forgive their sins.
　　
　　 I heard some sayings like this: The God or Bodhisattva will finally forgive the sinners as long as they pray or repent for their sins before they die no matter how many sins they have committed. Is that true ? I really want to know that.