~忽然居~

    I went to Shenzhen the day before the test. It was a rainy day, pouring rain basically. I arrived at the Grand Theatre Station later than I expected. I met Ye in the station. He was not so much changed, except that his dyed hair had come back to its natural dark black, if I recall clearly. I stood in front of him and waited for him to raise his head. Then I simply said "hi". I caught a bit of confusion in his eyes but soon it turned to a smile. From that moment on he became my companion and comrade during this brief but important trip, or can I say, battle.
    Afterwards we went to the Luohu Custom and easily passed it, of course with filling that stupid health proof card or sth like that. The train went smoothly from the custom to HK. There were plenty of people wearing gauze masks on the train and everywhere in HK, reminding me of the damn swine flu. He left for a shift before I arrived at my destination. After I got off the train I went out straight to the hotel in which I booked a room, the Stanford Hillview Hotel, though nothing to do with the prestigious paradise-like school. I find it a comfortable place to stay. Surrounded it are bars and restaurants. It seemed that people could live a happy night life there. And the room was beyond my expectation. Yes, I could actually have a hillview outside my window! The temperature perfect, the air fresh and environment quiet, what more could I expect? I was satisfied with my room this time, and it totally worth it!
    I unpacked some of my luggage and prepared for the dinner with Ye. Then I went to the Test center and contacted him. There I lost my way to find the McDonald's where he said to be waiting for me. Finally after a long way I found it but it turned out that he went to somewhere else to find me. What a mess....
    The M was as usual, not that bad and definitely not satisfying, perhaps because I have developed some gourmet taste after all these years. And I noticed that the beef tasted differently than in Mainland China, nor the same as those I tried in Japan. A new discovery.
    After dinner I was invited to visit Ye's room. That was a decent hotel and absolutely decent room. I loved it. And how I regreted not bringing my stuff and just stayed there. After all it was a double room. But one thing, there was a big round mirror hanging on the ceiling of the room, which made me feel a liitle uncomfortable and scary while I laid back on the bed.
    When I got back to Tsim Sha Tsui it was like 9:30 and I hurried to buy those things I ought to buy and went back to my room. I had a nice shower and drank a bottle of fresh milk since I learned that doing these things could induce a very sound sleep. Howevwe my insomnia caught me that night. Maybe it was the pretest nerve or maybe it was just something else that distracted me from concentrating on a good sleep. The longer I stayed awake, the stronger I wanted to get asleep. And that was exactly why I slept only 5-6 hours that night.
    I woke up feeling a slight headache, looked in the mirror to check if my eyes were red. Curiously, I looked as fine as anyone who could be hosting news programs on TV. Then I packed my things and checked out. My breakfast was M again, a very plain egg plus burger one. I followed the old path I went to the test center the day before and arrived just in time. After 2 minutes, Ye arrived. We went straghtly upstairs and waited in queue. That was a liitle long and the test began.
    There was nothing unexpected and nothing surprising. It went like one of my preptest, every section finished with at least 2 minutes left. At least, the worst situation I speculated didn't occur. That was a big relief.
    The test had been finally officially over. I would never look at it again, ever, not even a glimpse. Then we just went back to Shenzhen. On our way back, I noticed that Ye has become chattier than the day before, which made me feel good. It is always good to find someone to talk during a boring runaway. Back at Shenzhen, he went directly back to home and I went to a Starbucks. With a cup of Grande Green Tea Frappuccino and one Smoked Chicken Salad, I made my afternoon. It reminded me of some old time.

    I went  back to school yesterday and did some discussion on some boards. Then I am about to do a review and estimate my score.

    For the 3 LR sections, most say the 1st one was the hardest ever, the 2nd one the easiest ever and the 3rd just normal. There were some hard questions on the 1st section: the strawberry one, the loan one, the X disease parallel one and the museum one. But I seemed to have answered them all correctly. I guess I just had a right set of mind for LR that morning. I'll expect 1-2 wrong answers for each section, that would add up to 2-4 in total.

    For the Games section, it was like the usual ones for me, though I may have made some silly mistakes....The first two games was fairly easy, I finished both in 10 minutes. The 3rd one is tricky in diagramming, but after I figured it out it was nothing so special. Only the last one, there was not much to make inferences and diagram, lots of hypotheticals, thus it was very time-consuming. I think I may have picked 1 or 2 wrong anwers on this one. So the estimated wrong answers would be 1-3.

    For the RC section, some say it was harder than usual. There were comparative passages discussing electoral systems, that almost have killed me. And the Native American one was perplexing and I hurried through this one since it was the last passage. I was afraid of not finishing this one. I don't know how much I have erred on this section. I would guess a usual number which is 7.

    To sum them up, unless I boosted on RC, my BEST estimate will be 10-14 wrong answers, which probably would be converted to 166-170. Anyway, that was just my BEST estimate, the real score can go above or below this, even largely. I'll keep on praying and wait to receive my score report on 17th July.

      23-33（5）岁，努力工作努力赚钱个十年左右。期间也要搞搞投资什么的，反正就是资本积累。

      33（5）岁-45岁，要一个自己的孩子，和别人结婚生的也好，代孕的也好，领养的也好，但要一个孩子。在欧洲或者日本或者回国找个喜欢的城市买套房子，装修好一点，一套就够了，然后开个什么小店，书吧，轻酒吧，咖啡厅之类的，总之就是让人可以休息很久的地方，这样当个小老板，赚点小钱，投点小资，时间会很多。然后空闲时间去旅游，或者去做自己想做的事情，环游世界什么的。

      45岁以后，就找个喜欢的地方养老吧。然后实在受不了了就终此余生。

      如果能有一个愿意陪我走完这一辈子的人那么就会大家商量着计划个人生2.0，把两个人的愿望和需求都照顾到，不能光听我的吧，然后一起享受世界欣赏世界，一起慢慢变老。如果没有，我一个人过完这辈子倒也清静。没人陪我过完一生也会有人爱我就是了，我想我会让我自己开心的。