A Journal-3S

It’s been more than a month since I last wrote in English.  Without much reading recently, I feel my brain gets rusty. If a brain is like a wheel that needs grease, then reading is the oil.  After coming back from the trip, I tried to resume reading WSJ every day. However slow and limited it is, it is ongoing.  I am forcing myself to write something in English today. If reading is the required oil, then writing is the reinforcement that keeps the oil to retain longer . ：))

3S

My husband coined the 3S many years ago when he was educating his daughter.  He hoped that the daughter could always remember to be sweet, strong and smart, in whatever the situations are.  A couple of years ago, when he taught her to drive, he came up with another 3S, i.e., safe, smooth and swift. He has been proud of his two 3S’s and would like to repeat them whenever there is any chance.

Two or three days ago, I was reading WSJ, and one paragraph caught my attention.  I don’t remember the exact wording, but it goes something like this.  If ever asked what the secret to a long-term marriage is, happy couples would probably tell you that it is communication, space and sex. I read the sentence out aloud to my husband, without paying much attention to the daughter who sat in the corner.

Out of blue, I heard a voice from that direction. “ Too bad. They could not come up with three Ss.”

She is just such a humorous girl that she is the sunshine in the family. She looks quiet and nonchalant, but you never know what she absorbs in her mind. She observed everything her grandmother said in China, and mimicked the way Grandma talked and acted after she came back to the states. The acting was so vivid, lively and entertaining that we burst out in laughter. Where does that talent come from? 

It is not in my genes, and it is definitely not from me.:))