Talked with a friend the other day, he is the kind of person that can easily engage himself to things that other people will not prioritize. He practises English loud reading a few hours a day after work, just because he wants to see how perfect his English reading can be in a Chinese speaking enviornment. He takes pictures of himself daily and compare them with each other just because he wants to see how alike his images are in photo and in mirror. He asks people to talk with him in English and in Chinese, because he wants to find out the personal character difference between when people talk in mother tongue and when people speak a foreign language. I think if someone introduce a religion to him, he can be very religious. One of a kind!

The thing is, I always think people who like taking pictures for themselves are Narcissus, but after I've done it myself, taking snaps for myself is just entertaining. Maybe I am a Narcissus myself without knowing it ?!

I actually think when we say something is "strange" or "unusual" is only because our experience and knowlege is not broad enough. For a few years ago I thought people living abroad were extraordinary, but now I know we are as normal as people can be. People around me talk about other countries' "strange" culture, I would say there is nothing "strange" but something "different".

There is an adage in China, it says there is a frog spending his whole life time in a deep well, all it can see is a round sky with the size of the well's radius, so it thinks the whole world is his well and the round little piece of sky above it. People that can not accept other country's culture difference and try to "upgrade" the others to fit into his own world is judgmental and frog in a well. Unfortunately, it is hard to make frog in well recognize that there are many different wells, lakes, rivers, and oceans existing in the world.