I’m so gonna File a Complaint against the Scumbag from Jiuzhou Driving School
By Vincent from www.englishvincent.com
在设计一个单元的课程，关于生活/工作/出差中碰到的各类问题，麻烦，糟糕的服务，差劲的产品等等。比如打印机坏了，电脑中病毒了，助手老是在做文书的时候犯错误，旅馆空调怀了而且前台态度很差，在餐厅等了很久还没上菜，约好的客户无故迟到2个小时，室友从来不帮忙整理客厅，后面的混蛋强行超你车等等等等。
碰巧最近被丁桥一个叫九洲驾校的无良驾校弄得很不爽，所以写了这篇文章。
人都喜欢谈论自己或者自己擅长和熟悉的事情，学生也是人，所以要让学生谈论他们知道的事情，大部分学生是女人，女人除了有人的这个通性之外，还拥有特别喜欢抱怨的特性，所以要让她们谈论让她们不爽的事情。希望这堂课能利用女人的这个特性，促使女人们多开开玉口，让女人们在课堂上做一次怨妇。
如果你最近碰上了什么倒霉事，做了冤大头，也可以把你的故事用英语写出来。
科学研究证明， 适当抱怨，有益身心。
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I dropped my driving lessons on Monday. The driving school’s name is 九洲驾校，and it’s located in Dingqiao. My ex-colleague introduced me the driving school when we were having seafood last time. I was a bit drunk, and asked him to recommend a driving school to me. He gave mｅ the cellphone number of his friend who was running a driving school.
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The next day, a driving instructor Li from the school came to give me some documents, and a couple of days later we went to xxxxxxx , where I got a physical （health check） and registered. I found out on Monday that the registration fee was just around 1000. That means Li took me 500 RMB as deposit without telling me about it.
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He drove to pick me up in his car the first day I went to their lesson. We finished at around 5PM. “Rednecks are rednecks”. All the instructors there kept yelling at us all day.
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I took it for granted that he would give me a ride home after we hit the road, but he asked me to get off and take a bus home 5 minutes later. I was really unhappy with his arrangement and attitude. He should’ve told me earlier about this.
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Like a week later, I fixed an appointment with him, and managed to get up early in the next morning, but didn’t show up or call me. I tried to call him for a couple of times but nobody answered until 3 hours later. He told me over the phone that he overslept cause he had a terrible hangover.
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Around 3 weeks later, I got up at 7 am for my third appointment with him and waited there in my bed for like 2 hours before I got his phone call:
“I’m sorry, but I can’t make it there to your place before 10. I overslept. ”
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I was really pissed off, but I didn’t say a word. I thought he was still forgivable. But I had a change of mind late in the afternoon, and decided to drop my driving lessons there. So I called him and he accepted my deregistration right away like he couldn’t wait to get rid of me.
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I called to confirm our deregistration appointment this morning when I was at the bus stop, but he told me I needed to get the stamped approval from another driving school before they accepted my deregistration. I called another driving instructor to find out that wouldn’t be necessary at all. Li just wanted to give me some hard time. I called him again and insisted on keeping the appointment as scheduled.
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It was 11 when I got there. That means I spent like 70 minutes on the bus!! He was really rude when we were going through the transfer formalities and said he was doing me a favor by refunding me 250 RMB, and he already had enough students, and I was too blame for it…shit like that… how shameless was that?!
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I’m so gonna file a complaint against him, but the thing is, he still holds my card for the simulation test. He was supposed to give it to me right after my registration or at least return it to me on Monday morning.
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What did I do to deserve that? I don’t know? How many scumbags am I supposed to meet in 2009?
BTW, my boxing instructor also sucks major ass.
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08年雅思作文预测题范文（1）
By Vincent from www.englishvincent.com
1.最近经朋友介绍，收了一个小兄弟做学生，主要负责教他雅思作文。我和他都是双鱼座，非常气味相投。 他充满热情，悟性很好，说很喜欢我的课哈。我当然也很乐于教这么个聪明好学，又会买烟给我抽的好学生。 虽然工作很忙，事情很多，我还是决心和他一起努力，争取作文拿7分以上，这样他才能顺利被英国一所非常好的大学录取。
2.下面发布的是我给他写的第一篇作文预测题的范文，供大家参考。
注：出于教学需要，我特地写了6，7百字，实际的雅思作文300字左右比较合适。还有，万一作文题目一样，千万别照搬我的文章，以免被打零分。由于本人最近很忙，近期不会再收雅思学生，如果大家要学雅思，我乐于介绍一位比我优秀的雅思老师。 时间较仓促，如有错误，欢迎指正。
1：Many languages are dying out today due to the widespread use of English. To what extent do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
Admittedly, we can name a couple of advantages of the widespread use of English, the world’s most dominant Language ever. For instance, the popularity of English enables us to enter a century characterized by globalization, which is entitled to take credit for the peace and prosperity of the post-world-war 2 era, as every country is increasingly relying on each other due to the economic integration. In addition, the study of English is an important way for people from the less-developed areas to get access to and learn the knowledge and state-of-art technologies from the western world; and as far as an individual is concerned, a high level proficiency in English makes it possible for them to open their eyes, see more of the world, or even get accepted by the English-speaking society.
However, we must come to realize that we also cannot afford the drawbacks brought by a mass language extinction. Tens of thousands of species are endangered; oil is on the brink of exhaustion, storage of clean fresh water is dropping…All of the aforementioned tangible "inconvenient truths" have already attracting attention on a global scale, especially those tree-huggers, who are growingly concerned about the "well-being’ of our only home, as we can tell from our day-to-day life that the said facts are apparently putting all human beings in great peril, but have you any clue that languages are undergoing a global extinction crisis that is in enormously excess of the pace of species extinction, and compared with the consumption of most natural resources, the disappearance of a language is both irreversible and irreplaceable. When a language vanishes, centuries of thinking of the dead language speaker about animals, plants, geology and medicine, farming will probably be lost with it.
Not’s that we are merely discarding the knowledge, discoveries, inventions inherited for centuries, as a matter of fact, the integrity of the vanished language speakers into the English-speaking society is nothing short of an outrageous genocide of these people as an ethics. Moreover, as most of the languages are dying out, we will end up with living in a deadly dull and uninspiring world dominated by English and a couple of other major languages as the world loses its rich diversity. In this regard, we can hardly imagine the world’s human beings as a whole is able to evolve in the direction in favor of us. A world in the absence of diversity and differences would finally come back to haunt us, and bring us back to the primal chaos.
In summary, we shall not blow the importance of English out of proportion. Our incompetence and indifference to the conservation of the diversity of languages would be finally at all human beings’ expense. It’s high time we took preventative measures against the Language extinction on a global basis.
A Few Photos of Mine
Well. Me and a few friends of mine went to Jiuxi in the morning for BBQ. Afterwards, some of us went mountain climbing. Jake snapped for me at a temple on the mountain top overlooking Qiantang River. I never get this photogenic after I lost like 10 catties when I was a sophomore. Hopefully I don’t look like a nerd. Cheers!
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Peace Warrior–Another Buddhist Movie Following Fight Club
By Vincent
(Note: This article was written like a half year ago when I was totally smashed after finishing a few beers. As you can imagine, back then, I had a sudden flash of inspiration as I watched the movie in my place late at night. I didn’t pay much attention to the wording and grammar, so as not to break the track of my thought. Please try to focus on my thinking and the way I put it, instead of getting a sick thrill out of your marvelous findings of some minor grammartical errors or typos you are most likely to find in this ‘drunk talk’ like an annoying bitch. Plus, to get a better understanding of my ideas, you’d better see the movie ‘Peace Warrior’ and ‘Fight Club’ first. Anyway, enjoy your journey with the zen master wannabe Vincent to the
I was expecting something good as the sliding bar of my of my video player goes rightward, then I just got a feeling that something exceptional was going on there. The first thing that arouses my interest that the guy Scott Mechlowicz, who plays Dan Millman looks a lot like Brad Pitt! Can you fuckin believe that? 80% alike if not a mirror image of Brad. Suppose he was a blond like Brad Pitt, don’t you tell me he won’t get you the feeling that it’s Brad Pitt’s early movie when you first lay your eyes on him. He even talks and act like Brad Pitt. I mean, look at the way he looks at people. That’s something amazing, coz you know Brad is getting old, but we always need some cool guy to get our adrenalin going and inspired.
Enough about his look and demeanor. Let’s get back to the movie.
Socrates, played by one of my favourite actors, Nick Nolte, is an old man works in the gas station. Dan will go to him for inspiration everytime he is obsessed with confusion and depression. One time, when Dan is wolfing down rookies or something, he says:” Slow down! You might taste something!” From that very beginning，I start to get the feeling that is movie is sorta of related to Fight Club, cos there begins to have a really slight suggestion of Zen wisdom in his words. What he later says make this feeling even stronger: If I was training you, No meat… No TV, No alcohol, No drugs, No Sex, which define the life of MONK! That’s really getting interesting. First, a Brad Pitt alike Scott Mechlowics, then a Zen-master Socrates. It real starts to make me link this movie to Fight Club, a finest Buddhist movie in my opinion. If you got that enormous patience and courage, you can take a look at my dissertation on analyzing Fight Club as a Buddhist movie by click following link.
In the same scene, Socrates continues after Dan fails to “stand his Mabu(站马步)” on the table for more than five minutes and falls off the table: ”Everyone tells you want to do, what’s good for you. They don’t want you to find your own answers. They want you to believe theirs…I want you to stop from gathering information from outside y Read more