The only realistic thing I do in this holiday is to try selling some of my stuffs online. It is not easy to sell them out in good price except for those which are "brand new in box". And if you're selling things on eBay, the fee's high too. The ads fee, the final fee of your sold item and the Paypal fee. How much's left after all the fee deduction?
And if you're selling things on Free Ads Website, like an online classified page, you're unlikely to sell things out quick, like a week or so, if you want a reasonable price. Well, I insist that if you don't get the price you want, don't sell it. (I mean a reasonable price.) You know the market outside and the price of your stuffs so don't give them up quickly to harsh price-cutters because I believe second hand sales should give both sellers and buyers a win-win situation. And if at the end, you can't find a suitable buyer, just keep the stuff!
I also started to revise English grammars and vocabularies (finally!) for the IELTS. I love the English language and also quite obsessed with the western culture. However I just couldn't turn myself into a native English speaker after so many years of English learning. I can't get rid of the Chinese way of speaking (I'm not talking about pronunciation or intonation, I could get rid of most of those) like I couldn't quite understand or remember some of the advanced levels of English sentence structures (eg. I need to think hard just to put the words in the correct order in this sentence. Starting off with "advanced structure of English". Doesn't sound right. Oh put "level" in to become "advanced level" and add "sentence" in to make it clearer and swap the position of the words. Finally sounds okay to me.) and don't know what words can be put together and what not and I don't remember a lot of them after all. I have put hard work in, you know, like taking notes of what this vocab means and read all the English grammar books. Somehow I still couldn't reach what I want.
I guess if I need to clearly describe my current English learning situation I need a lot more paragraphs and time. So I'll just stop here. Oh, just one more fact. You see how I'm frustrated over a sentence but it's still okay when I'm writing. It gets a lot worse when comes to speaking because you're searching for a suitable word (and not too simple sometimes) and worried about the grammar at the same time. Hell, learning a language is not easy!
And speaking of that, I realise I do not speak Chinese very good as well. Well I'm all confident to speak Chinese (more specifically, Cantonese) but the words I use are sloppy. I guess people of a younger generation don't want to use words that're too formal in daily life (to show that they're cool) and maybe it's also the reason why many of us couldn't speak and write the beautiful words and sentences anymore that the older generation used to.
