Strive For Excellence

How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something? 
Submitted by LeendaDLL.  

Tess is my English name, and Li is my Chinese Family name.

My English teacher pickes Tess as my English name in my first English class in middle school. To be honest I didn't like this name at first, but gradually I got used to it. And later I got to know that Tess is the protagonist of the novel

不论多么痛苦的事，只要能循着正确的道路前行，即使赴汤蹈火，也能一步步接近幸福。

--宫泽贤治

Any real success comes with nothing short of the hardest work.

Just when you think you have had enough, and you can't take any more, you have to try even harder.

Happy Chung Yeung Festival!

故人具鸡黍，邀我至田家。

绿树村边合，青山郭外斜。

开轩面场圃，把酒话桑麻。

待到重阳日，还来就菊花。

What's your sign?  What do you think of astrology and horoscopes?

I am a Gemini, which is the third sign of the Zodiac and is associated with youth and versatility.

Individuals born under this sign are thought to have a lively, communicative, witty, inquisitive, clever, courageous, and adaptable character but also prone to superficiality, maliciousness, inconsistency, nervousness, and cunning.

I firmly believes in horoscope, while only in terms of the description of Character. The prediction of one's life in a certain period of time seems doubtful to me.

I also think that horoscope is a way to gain self-knowledge, because human beings always feel hard to understand their own characters. But when I turn to horoscope for help, I also feel hard to distinguish my true character from the character I am supposed to have according to the horoscope. Just like the labeling theory hypothesizes that the labels applied to individuals influence their behavior, particularly the application of negative labels. So when we label the Gemini as malicious, for instance, he/she would probably become malicious gradually. And then is malicious his/her true character or a labeled character? Huh, that's difficult to tell, I suppose.