Yaya got a little strange these days. She meowed rather loudly and abnormally. I¡¯ve no single clue about what¡¯s wrong with her. I guess that¡¯s because she misses her babies (4 kittens) very much. She probably lost them all. How poor she is. That day when I heard she meow sadly, I almost cried.

She¡¯s not my cat actually, but because my family treat her very well, she¡¯d like to come up to see us several times every day, just like our friend. Then one day my family found that she¡¯s moved into a place under our balcony and regarded it as her home. From then on, my mom gave her three meals a day, which kept her growing very well. Of course, she¡¯s been free. We didn¡¯t care where she went. What we did was voluntary. Then a few months later she gave birth to four cute kittens there. She loved her babies very much. She always cleaned them by licking them one by one and sometimes she just lay down to have her babies suck her nipples. What a nice mom she was!

But that didn¡¯t last long. One morning I went downstairs to see her and her kittens. To my surprise they were gone. I nearly couldn¡¯t believe my eyes. All my family couldn¡¯t believe she has left. Disappointed. We didn¡¯t know why she left. Anyway she¡¯s free, that¡¯s her choice. Later we heard she went back to her former home. And as usual she came to see us every day. We just couldn¡¯t see her kittens. She made a wrong decision to go back to her former home because as soon as she went back, other neighbors took her babies away. It¡¯s said only one kitten was left, but I guess he¡¯s been taken away too. Yaya lost all her babies. I can feel she misses them very much. She wants to find them back by meowing loudly and abnormally. And it seems that the fish reminds her of her babies. Every time she finished eating she began meowing loudly and abnormally. She might wonder if her babies are hungry. Actually she was treated badly at her former home. She became very thin. I guess her former master didn¡¯t give her enough food to eat.

Now Yaya moved back alone under our balcony. We treat her as well as we did but with more compassion. I wish she would recover from her sadness soon have babies next year.

Shen quit her job at Ladder finally because she didn¡¯t like Rebecca and her management style very much. I full understand what Shen felt. Although I learnt nothing about management and how to be a successful leader, I think the basic quality of being a good leader is to treat his or her employee equally instead of looking down them at a very HIGHHHHHHHHHHHHH position in his or her own mind. It¡¯s certain that there are different positions in a company. What does those different positions mean? In my opinion different positions mean nothing more than different job assignments and responsibilities. To be a leader of a group means he or she will take more responsibilities that are certainly more important than the employees take. How to fulfill those responsibilities? How to get the work done well? If all those can be done well alone, then no employees are needed. The fact is that employees with high-spirit are a part of treasury of a company. Unless the leader and his or her employees make effort together they can achieve nothing. To work well, to achieve, they have to support each other. A successful leader needs his or her employees¡¯ support. But to get support from employees he or she must first learn to support his or her employees instead of just sitting and asking them to do this or that. A good leader must be a good helper of his or her employees. He or she of course can assign the employees to do what they want them to do. But when his or her employees are in need of help, a good leader will be a good helper to support them. For example, when the employees need financial support in a project they¡¯re doing, one of what a leader can do is to ask for help from his or her higher leader. When they need technique or professional support, a leader can take the advantages of his or her own knowledge to tackle the problems with the employees together. To support and motive employees with real action instead of lips. Then a good leader exists in their heart naturally. Is it necessary to worry about no support from employees? Responsibilities are fulfilled and work is done well. All of these comes from a leader who knows how to be a helper of his or her employees.

I was about to recite a poem to Jim tonight during our online conversation, but got no chance. He¡¯s so excited about telling me things of his family. I¡¯m glad he¡¯d like to share those stories of his family and its history with me. So I just listened to him. Anyway I¡¯d like to recite the poem here to share it with anyone who read this update.
This poem is called The Lake Isle Innisfree, written by William Butler Yeats, famous Irish poet. It expresses the desire of Yeats¡¯ for the romantic and peaceful life.
Here it goes:
The Lake Isle Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of a clay and wattles made,
Nine-bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And I will live alone in the bee-loud glad.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings,
There midnight¡¯s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet¡¯s wings.

I will arise and go now, for night and day,
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore,
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart¡¯s core.

It¡¯s a beautiful poem representing us tranquil and picturesque scenery

I planted a pot of strawberries
To make them taste sweeter
I watered them with sugar water.
I watered my strawberries with sugar water
They tasted sweeter
But they got withered
I told this to my friend
His diagnosis was that my strawberries died of DIABETES.