I have a bad habit that some men have, that is smoking. Smoking had brought me some trouble in the course of finding a room, but it’s hard for me to give up. We finished the cigarettes brought from china in about a month, then have to buy cigarettes in America, but the cigarettes here is too expensive, even more expensive after pulsing taxes.

Something surprised me is the store owners in America always be off duty on time, I mean they never wait for a minute to sell anything for themselves. That is quite different from China because I know that in China the storekeepers are so eager to sell goods to the consumers in order to earn so little money, sure the salesmen in the supermarkets or plazas always be off duty on time because they work for others.

I went to a liquor store this evening, because we know the Marlboro here is comparatively cheaper, but it was 9pm. sharp when we arrived, and the store owner was still there. But she said, “we‘ve closed already.”

About smoking, I have my opining, if I didn’t smoke here, I could use the money to buy something useful. Newchen said in his point of view that we should enjoy what we love to do, money is something couldn’t be brought with us when we were born and couldn’t be taken away when we die, so he hold that we should smoke on.

Newchen gave me an example, many Chinese people wear gold and silver to show that they are rich and luxurious, that made me think about the ancient emperors who wear jade clothes with gold treads, that is a kind of showing-off, but the people today let them show off for ever, for they were put into museums to be exhibited with both the clothes and their bodies. If they hadn’t worn that after death, maybe they could sleep silently under the earth and nobody will disturb them.