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Let me first present a brief introduction about myself and my family. I was born and bred in Shanghai. Both of my parents are of typical Shanghainese characteristics----uttering Shanghai dialect with an authentic inflection, and grown up in Hong Kou district close to Lu Xun Park, which occupies a bustling space in the city center. Compared to their peers, they have a cutting-edge advantages in their education background. Due to the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai in the last 60s, most of the students were ignorant of their study. But my dad was the first generation to enter into the university on the first year after the end of Cultural Revolution. He studied Chinese Literature in East China Normal University, a first-tier university in Shanghai. Later on he took up a job in Shanghai University of Sport (SUS) as a professor meanwhile publishing free-style poems, writing articles and comments for journals, and other book publish issues. Some of his famous students in SUS used to be the luminous sports stars in Shanghai Shenhua, a local topnotch football team, including Xie Hui. My dad was his class tutor and always be there ready to help him go through various kinds of life troubles during that span of time. Unfortunately, my dad passed away many years ago from big C. His elder sister, my auntie kept in close touch with me these years, and filled me with love and care. She retired from Foreign Ministry as a secretary at the second level. Graduated from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) with a specialization in French Literature, Auntie’s excellent performance helped her shine out and was later on assigned a post in Foreign Ministry in Beijing upon the completion of her study. There she encountered her husband-to-be who was a commercial counselor as well as translator at that time. He was a Cantonese, of Vietnam nationality but Chinese origin. They both served at the embassy in French-speaking African countries for quite a long time. Their daughter, who is a decade of years senior to me, also has been studying in SISU with a major in French, and about two years later she was transferred to a university in France and there she got both bachelor in Arts and master in MBA. Back to Shanghai, she tied the knot with an eminent man and has given birth to a daughter. But we still play together from time to time and share many common topics on instant msg. In the previous years, she helped me a lot through job hunting and taught me how to dress up nicely and apply and dab perfume in a proper way. My mom achieved bachelor degree in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE) specializing in Accounting. Deeply influenced by my maternal parents professions in the foreign banks, my mom grew up to be a talented lady with a natural gift for numbers. She takes delight in singing, humming tunes, and commenting upon some hot social affairs. With the help of my maternal grandpa, who was a senior economist in ICBC bank, my mom successfully got a position in Shanghai Tobacco Group Corporation, a household company in Shanghai as an office accountant of relatively higher salary and favorable benefits every year. Thus, before her retirement, we purchased three apartments in Yang Pu district, at the edge of the inner circle of the city center. We now reside and nestle in one of the three apartments, with two bedrooms and two sitting rooms. The rest of the two apartments are for rent. Sounds material-oriented, but Shanghainese are inclined to be pragmatic and realistic in life. My mom’s elder brother was a doctor and chief professor in the department of hepatobiliary surgery, while her younger sister graduated from SISU with a major in English Literature married a HK man (my maternal family is originally of Cantonese descent) and there in HK she decided to go a little further in MBA and having served as a HR manager in Dubai in charge of hundreds of foreign employees, she carved out a brilliant career at the apex of her profession. She is now a HR manager and chairman of the board of a Singapore corporation. These days she comes to Shanghai to pay frequent visits to my maternal grandpa, and dine and wine with us during her free time. Now it’s my turn. I was born into a shy, meek, introverted and pusillanimous kid early in my childhood, especially during the time when i sat in the front pew with a sullen face and a skinny body of the weight of 19kg at the second and third year of school. But my dad’s overwhelming loving care cultivated my confidence and talent in writing essays, handwriting, drawing, and painting and most importantly i inherited my mom’s forte in mathematics. I always came out top in class and was consecutively voted as the Three Merits student among the other 50 ones in class for three years in my middle school. But things might be tough at times. At an important point in my life before the entry of senior high school, i was bursting of ego and a minor mistake in math test let me slip a golden opportunity into a municipal key school, and finally drove me into a top one district-level key senior high school. That’s really beyond my expectation. Time slipped away in a flick of fingertips. I was finally admitted to SISU with great distinction in the university entry examination. Over a short span of four years specializing in English Translation, I have been nurtured a sense of creativity in literary criticism and soaked up knowledge in translation strategies and theories. Reflecting over the past four years, i have committed myself to the jobs like news editor and translator, transcriptionist for simultaneous interpretation, HR and Admin assistant in a German corporation, compiler of personal statements and recommendation letters for both undergraduate and graduate programs abroad. For sure, at times, i stuck with something. But my mind seemed to come alive as i took the role of a TOEFL and EILTS teacher. I contemplated that it was the time that i shared some of my thoughts and beliefs about second language acquisition with my students. Nothing was exactly a cinch. In my class, I enable my students to draw on some reading materials and generate enough literate ideas. Accordingly, all chapters of the materials are structured around subjects that are not only test-oriented, but also current and thought provoking. The perspective offered on each subject challenges students to think beyond its common treatment. Each subject is also presented with a one-step-beyond component, serving as a springboard for addressing related topics at a more sophisticated level. I am favored by a handful of students and they are my most faithful followers. With wide pale cheeks, superficially, i am looked as a girl with indifferent personality and reserved way of speaking. But inside, i contain a trace of passion that can never be found from other Shanghainese women, which might be an exaggeration, but it’s the truth. The time my dad left me, i was involved with tenacious struggle and inconsolable pain. I have to learn to conceal my feelings and respect myself. Nobody can depreciate me unless i do that to myself. That explains why I’m not a brilliant, inquisitive and fervent woman at the first sight. I might be kind of withdrawn due to some small issues like if i am not rocking a glorious evening gown as others at a party; or i would be quite gregarious with others if their cultural identity arouses my interest. I am at the either end of the extreme. That dint spark of passion brew in the most inner part of my heart may start a prairie fire. And that passion could be squeezed out from the fissures of everyday life, in the daily trivialities, like the golden dandelions growing out of the cracks in the wall, sneaking out where you least expect them.

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I'm a positive, fun and caring person that enjoys trying new things and travel. I am relaxed and very easy to get along with and I really value the people who are close to me. I am however an international person who has lived, worked and studied abroad and would like to find someone with similar experience to share my adventures with.

A professional lady with good education is looking for a soul-mate, am I beautiful and elegant, and look much younger than age. I like reading, music, traveling, etc Hope . He is also loving and caring with a responsible mind. Love will bring us together to share the rest of life, not only romance, but also family stuff.

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I am Hi . . 18 - years - a girl.I was born in an ' Xi. well, I love soccer, I love barcelona Fc . it, and will always gonna be my faith.' So if u don t like it just let it go, never deny it or argue with me about this team, and I will support .... UR team too find me ^ .^ I major in law and I am now the second year in university, I am not playing games I wanna find U . .

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Hi , I am a chinese girl . I have a very awsome name on english . Every body called me jillene . So , you could call me that name . And I want to find a responsible man for my boyfriend and even more than that . I believe the fate that can make someo

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I am a perfectionist, but can also yield to reality. I am a very lonely, but you don't think many people have let me find it difficult to accept the noise. I am looking for a help I am aware of their own people. If you want to know more about me a bit more, I find the chat room! I have been looking for you? We have to be honest, I am not very eye catching beauty of the jiamusi University, I am on this section, but I absolutely have to, I can feel you will accompany your boring chat, drink wine, and when you've got the time, and you risk coming and I with you, really, and I have seen home ownership dreams, just like the song to his wife, just like all of you that I, as long as you're touching me, trust me. I can be open to you and let you 想得开 to me the world is not ignorant of the experience, and ridiculous that you feel I am in no way to own the value of. I can, and you can review the situation of abandoned, is not desirable, nor is a two person. One day you want to go, I will be very sad, I do not have the day to day, you drink tea to your cooking, I would not blame you, I do not hate you, after all, would the proverbial hero, burnout, and eventually may lead to the breeding, but I would like to say that over the years, my life is accumulation of the beginning of wisdom, I want you to support my way of life of the well-being of not only have you, and I have to find a lover's heart, and it is my sincere hope that you have to see the message, your footprint. The cold is not better known to his love, dancing, music, a song to picturesque scenery such as the good. You will be able to read my name, we have a leading edge. After 80

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I am a cheerful and lively girl. Going through many of the trials and tribulations in life, I have been settling down. Want to become a such a woman, do not show off, do not quarrel, a learned woman, not the empty, and not impetuous, so as to be a rich woman; even if life has also become depleted, in the elegant old. Know what is the life? What is life? What is family? I hope that simple happy LIFE I and am a pretty smart girl Chinese am I . Open, funny, and the like to bring happyness to I like others to read, travel, sport, music, movies and also enjoy I… .the family can share life with someone had I together rich life, and my working experience in previous years, I used study and work abroad, experieced devoice ... Made understanding me, life is not a game, still seek for drama but very honest, and serious relationship which really understand each other, caring each other and enjoy the time together ... I am also a certified International language teacher Chinese If . In you are interested in me can visit my bolg HTTP: / / blog sina . .com.cn/readamy sorry but it ' s in Chinese

Wishing peaceful and simple life.i am good educated and job .. I have good morals and put family and lover first.i love nature and the outdoors, I would like to spend my life time with a right person who can take care each other. I don't play games.

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The affinity of communication and communication is my appearance, the insight and discovery is my thinking instinct, the creative artistic talent of the sun and the ascendant pisces scorpio's rational and decisive positive energy with the energy of the small sun to make the daily life very full.

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I'm a simple honest girl.i look better than my pictures. 😝 'm friendly.i love travel and I really like different cultures.i would like to know more about the world.so I want to travel around the world,see it by myself.i have a lot of love movies.i hobbies.i love sports.and I would always want to try new things.i can be noisy and I can be quiet.i enjoy my life even I'm single.i'm positive.i love food.but I like to be athlete.so I do exercise. I'm a teacher in a private college right now.but I'm looking for serious relationship. so if you're looking for a chinese teacher.100rmb per hour please.sometime I can't read your full messages here,but I got wechat and whatsapp,ask me if you wanna Know me better.

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Although the doctor's work makes my life very busy, I like to enrich my spare time. I love reading, listening to music, watching movies, gardening, and taking care of small animals; I also like researching of healthy diet, cooking; further more, I love to go hiking, outdoor fitness and travel to broaden the horizon.

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29Th cheerful, optimistic, positive, laughing, love but also love quiet, travel, love love yoga, åae years of foreign trade work make self have the both eastern and western characteristics, family oriented, responsible, open-minded, competent, caring, warm, mature response

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I'm currently living in China working with children. I enjoy nights in with a glass or two of red wine either watching a movie or reading, but I also love nights when I go out and socialise. I want to travel and explore places I haven't been to yet. I'm told I'm pretty laid back most of the time (beneficial when working with children). I like being able to try new things and meet new people. I can be completely serious one moment and over excited the next, so I'm always able to keep people on their toes. I'm independent so I don't expect you to pay for everything and can be quite determined when I want something.

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Hello. I am Dora, an open-minded, out-going girl in Shenzhen, China. I am passtionate about life and I enjoy it by having a decent job, a happy family. I usually go to gym when I get the time off. And I love yoga and dance so much.(Belly Dance and Latin Dance) Because I want to keep my body in shape, keep my life healthy and energetic.

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Sky pe me, (teacher.iya.ces) I'm a simple girl who can surprise my man. Sky p me teacher.iya.ces I'm looking for someone I can laugh with, converse with, grow old with and basically enjoy life together and go on new adventures. I am fun to be with, caring and nice. I enjoy cooking for my loved ones and I'm a good listener. I believe everyday is the start of something new and would like to share my adventures with a guy who will have eyes only on me as I will have eyes on noone else but him.

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I'm a Chinese woman currently working in Shenzhen, China, a USA buying office. I'm elegant and shapely, and love to dress to kill. I'm a native of Hunan, and so make pretty authentic yummy spicy Hunan food. In my spare time, I enjoy traveling. I love walking on the beach, watching the lighthouse and sunset, meditating and letting my thoughts flow. I love foreign TV play series.

Hey! I am in Shenzhen now! ( Used to live in London) How's everyone? I am busty and curvy, is that a good thing? I like having fun to an extend and I am a foodie. By the way, don't send me msgs if you are a standard member as I can't open the message box. P.S. I don't live in Shanghai, I am in Shenzhen. I have no interest in moving to Shanghai.

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Hi there. I'm Tiantian (Tanya), which is also name used on Вконтакте. I'm an investment banker at UBS(United Bank of Switzerland), while a tender and caring girl in life :) I work and study in Beijing, previously have exchanged to St.Petersburg University in Russia. I love Slavic culture, in which I really fit well. In the future hopefully I'd like to be part of it :) I'm fluent in English, conversational in Russian, and I've traveled to 11 provinces around Russia. Also I'm fond of Serbia, have traveled there for half month and am learning the language now ;) I hold master's degree of finance from Tsinghua university, and as a banker I'm strong-minded and highly professional, but in life I'm much more colorful than finance :)) I like philosophy, classical literature and political theories. I'm also fond of music, am a nice piano player myself. I believe in God and goodness of the world.

I am well-educated, open-minded, caring, kind and independent. I am regarded as a graceful professional woman :) . Besides my career, I would like to find a partner to share and enjoy life together. I have been working many years in foreign companies so I am familiar with western culture and have no difficulty in communicating with foreigners.

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everybody Hi, I Amelia am, a 26-year old girl Chinese living in Suzhou . I like smiling, and my friends all like my sweet smile. I play guitar during my spare time, and I learn it by myself. Besides, I love travels and movies. I work as a market specialist in a fabricating company medical equipment. Glad to meet U here.