The Last Day of Vacation
By Jian Shuo Wang on 2006-02-04 23:07 · HolidaysFeb 4 is the last day of the 7-day long Spring Festival vacation. Tomorrow, all the business will resume. It is nice to have a pause and a lot of thoughts become clearer than before. As a book put it, the natural is full of working - and rest. The Sun, the moon, the four seasons and the tide of sea - there are almost no single object that keeps running but never pause. So to take a vacation meets the rule of the nature.
Today, I sent my car (Goudaner) for maintainance. Everything went on well, until at last, the careless driver drove the car to the washing room, but failed to brake. My poor car hit the wall and the head was crashed. How painful it will be if the car has a life. (Who told me, cars with a nick name lasts longer than those without a nick name?) I felt the pain. The FIAT service center promised to replace everything for free and lent me another white Palio Weekend until my car was fixed. OK. That is the best they can do and I can imagine. Of cause they also waived the fee for the maintaince. Well. Tomorrow, we will drive a different car. Although it is almost the same model as my Goudaner, I won’t call it with the nickname I have for my lovely car. This March 15th will be its second year birthday. Poor thing.
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I never thought before about how things in nature "take a break" for rest from time to time. Surely we would not appreciate spring flowers, or the moon, so much if they were always there.
Happy to hear you have had a restful vacation!
Basically, they are uninsured, when you let others drive them.
So, in this case, you are very lucky, Jianshuo !
By the way, how many kilometres have you "done" in the past 2 years ?
I'm still driving, as I now has to go to Kunshan for work some times during the week...
(Still renting - a Buick Excelle 1.8AT)
Max, you are right. I need to change to red seat and carpet for him.
Speaking of pets, I don't think you've mentioned anything about the cats in your garden for a while. Are they still there?
...but usually the tolerance increases with the number of the accident, hehe, at least I don't feel so sad anymore when my Polo gets hurt again... :-p
and, yes, eager to hear about your cats...
by the way, have you and Wendy thought to get a dog since you have a garden? I met a Labrador family (1 mother + 6 puppies) and a 4.5 month Husky during the holiday... they were so cute!
haha, carsten, so you didn't manage to quit driving ;-)
The public transportation to Kunshan is messy, and I can drive to Kunshan from Pudong in 1 hour...
And it IS hard to get back to work - in the holiday it went 1 and 2 in the night.
I found so many DVD's I haven't watched yet ;-)
You are not alone!, I am attending my office 2AM this morning since my return on sunday due to jetlag. Hope I can get out of this grave-yard shift before the coming weekend.
hi, my friend,don't work hard.
Take care.
shirley
...although I did work very very hard on DVDs during the holiday, there are still soooo many left (crying for my attention)...sigh... I don't know if that's good or bad