I went back to my grandparents' home every holiday.

There’s always full of people,

Grandpa, grandma, and cousins who are growing up with me,

We ran through the house, we ran on the stairs.

When I was small,

Grandma cooked lots of mouth-watering food for us.

When I was small,

These are my best childhood memory,

I even thought it would last long,

But what’s next?

When I started to grow up,

I seldom visit them due to my packed study schedule,

My cousins were busy with their work,

and there weren’t lots of people in the house anymore.

When I started to grow up,

Grandma never cooked anymore.

She turned old, she couldn’t walk, she had shiny white hair.

When I started to grow up,

Is that just a dream?

Tick, tock, tick, tock.

Time passed.

Everything has changed.

I thought, my childhood memory won’t happen in real life anymore.

But, but…

It happened.

Just this year.

When I walked into the house,

All my cousins are there.

The house is full of people, full of noise.

We opened the mahjong box together, having a very precious time together.

It has never happened since I entered high school.

When I walked into the house,

It was full of happiness,

Although Grandpa had passed away,

Grandma is lying in bed,

Everyone has grown up, mature, turning old…

Time never stops.

Time changes everything. 

It is just about how you use it wisely

and how you cherish it.

I went back to my grandparents' home every holiday.

There’s always full of people.

Grandpa, grandma, and cousins who were growing up with me.

We ran through the house, we ran on the stairs.

When I was small,

Grandma cooked lots of mouth-watering food for us.

When I was small,

These were my best childhood memories,

I even thought it would last long.
Tick, tock, tick, tock, 

but what’s next?

When I started to grow up,

I seldom visit them due to my packed study schedule.

My cousins were busy with their work,

and there weren’t lots of people in the house anymore.

When I started to grow up,

Grandma never cooked anymore.

She turned old, she couldn’t walk, she had shiny white hair.

When I started to grow up,
Was that just a dream?

Tick, tock, tick, tock.

Time passed.

Everything has changed.

I thought, my childhood memory won’t happen in real life anymore.

But, but…

It happened.

Just this year.

When I walk into the house,

All my cousins are there.

The house is full of people, full of noise.

We open the mahjong box together, having a very precious time together.

It has never happened since I entered high school.

When I walk into the house,

It is full of happiness.

Although Grandpa had passed away,

Grandma is lying in bed,

Everyone has grown up, mature, turning old…

Time never stops.

Time changes everything. 

It is just about how you use it wisely

and how you cherish it.

After school every single day, we went to the park which was right next to the kindergarten and had a great time. As a university student now, when I think about these moments I am still grinning like a child. Time has passed, and time will never go back. As long as I grow old, these memories have been flipped through my mind much more rapidly. I want to live in the past: no stress, no fear, and no sadness. As long as you grow old, you need to decide your future: which school you enter and which activity you participate in can be related to your success in entering your future career. The days in the past were just simple and happy. I don’t mean my life now is bad, it is just full of challenges and uncountable frustration. This is what a grown-up life is, and I am trying my best to feel and enjoy it. 

I am quiet, like an ant or a spider walking on the road.

Coffee tastes like garbage. It smells so bad.

My eyes are a locked door today. I am having 3 long lessons.

She is a gentle sheep, talking to everyone in a soft and sweet tone.

The moist weather is giving me a big hug.

The dry weather is shaking my hands, saying hello to me. ✨

Heavy rain provides me with a good shower. 

Mum: Wake up! The sun is beating you!

Me: Oh no! I am almost late for school! The lecturer will kill me! 

Mum: Be quick, I am preparing for breakfast.

Me: I am so hungry, I can eat 10 buffaloes now!

Litotes:
John: Look at this photo, is she Jane?

Joanna: Huh? Which girl? The one at the back?

John: Yes! That beautiful girl!

Joanna: Now she is not a blossoming flower. Look at her eyes when she arrives later, there are full of wrinkles!

John: Oh no! What a pity!

John and his brothers followed what their dad said and started to explore the hill inside Lingnan University. Usually, during the daytime, the campus was full of people and the atmosphere was bustling with diverse activities. As it was midnight, the campus was super creepy. Cats were doing gym near the hill. John and the brothers could even hear snakes singing. ‘Hmm……When……When are we going to leave?’ asked Joseph, shivering. The forest on the hill was not that big, just about 30m2. 

Exercise 4:

1. Sun is shining, wind is blowing, and love is coming. Sitting in front of the dressing table and looking at myself, I believe I am the most blessed girl in the world. Today will be a big day for me – not only being a daughter or a girlfriend, but also a bride. Inside the tent, my bridesmaids are busy preparing flowers and balloons. My mum is staying beside me, seeing me putting on makeup. There is also a friend of mine setting up a professional camera for photography. Right after my makeup is ready, my bridesmaids and I sit together on the floor. The wall behind us has ‘Happy Wedding!’ balloons, which makes the photo very aesthetic. I will never forget this touching and memorable experience.  

My mum cooks me fried egg

Which is as thick as brick

She comes out from the kitchen 

Said I’m in malnutrition 

Then gives me more meat and milk

Wednesday 

My mum changes the food 

Which also changes my mood

Bye healthy, but say hi to throaty

Hashbrowns and biscuits make my thirsty

I ask, ‘Aren’t I malnourished?’

Mum said, ‘Yeah, but this is what you wished!’

Friday

The food changes again

And finally not from a hen 

She gives me a bread

Which tastes very bad

I give up and run away

Weekends

It’s time to have a break 

So we go somewhere near the lake

The cafe provides bagel

I add a little truffle

Which makes my day beautiful

My mum cooks me fried egg

Which is as thick as brick

She comes out from the kitchen 

Said I’m in malnutrition 

Then gives me more meat and milk

Wednesdays

My mum changes the food 

Which also changes my mood

Bye healthy, but say hi to throaty

Hashbrowns and biscuits make my thirsty

I ask, ‘Aren’t I malnourished?’

Mum said, ‘Yeah, but this is what you wished!’

Fridays

The food changes again

And finally not from a hen 

She gives me a bread

Which tastes very bad

I give up and run away

Weekends

It’s time to have a break 

So we go somewhere near the lake

The cafe provides bagel

I add a little truffle

Which makes my day beautiful!