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My Last Blog Post

It’s been a fascinating year with blogging and studying. I’ve never written so many things so regularly under a single big theme, neither in Chinese nor English before. Thanks for all the deadlines.

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How Criminal is a Luxury Lifestyle? The Waste

It is reported that the luxury brand Burberry burned USD37million worth stock in a single year, and the total destroyed amount is £90 million in the past five years, as revealed by The Times. (source) This practice is apparently quite normal in the fashion industry, not only for the luxury brands but also for the […]

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The Powerful Happiest Memory

For those who ever watched the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban should have an impression about the “Dementors”. The Dementors are the terrifying creature, as J.K.Rowling described:

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How to Choose a Laptop

Recently, I have been thinking about buying a new PC to replace my old one, and I did some homework on this. I think it should be a good idea to share my findings.

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Beauty Spending Hierarchy

How young people should allocate their spending on beauty products if the budget is limited? In my perception, skincare products are more important than makeup products, and makeup products should come before clothes.

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The Rear Side of The Moon

‘We choose to go to the moon.’ After seeing the film First Man, my partner keeps saying this sentence, which makes him look brainwashed. As he keeps saying this, I start to become interested in the moon. So, I googled the keyword ‘moon’ and found it has some interesting anecdotes.

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New Year Reading List

Many books I’ve read are based on the recommendation from a friend’s or stranger’s comment of the book. It’s a fun way of choosing books, and yet so effective. The Goodreads website is a “social cataloguing” website that allows individuals to freely search its database of books, annotations, and reviews (Wiki). Every year the Goodreads website […]

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My ‘Real’ Community Experience

When I heard others say ‘baseball club’ or ‘hiking group’ in the workshop, I started to think about a club that suits me. I love reading, but recently I was too lazy to read, especially English books. When I read English books I have to look up words that I am not familiar with. Sometimes […]

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My ‘Fictional’ Community Experience

To be honest, I didn’t understand what the word ‘community’ means at first. I thought I understand it, but indeed I didn’t. I thought it means ‘neighbours’.

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Instructions for Cherry Picking

After waiting a whole year, finally I can pick cherries again. There are tricks to help you enjoy this wonderful season of cherry. The first thing you need to do is to find out which cherry farms you want to go to. When you try to find your destination please make sure it is a […]

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