It’s been November since I last published an article, hasn’t it? First of all, I’d like to apologize to everyone. I failed to keep my flag, and the blog has basically been left without updates. Actually, there are many reasons for this—after all, I’m already in my second year of high school, and my studies are quite demanding.

Another reason is that I’ve recently been tinkering with other projects, one of which is the iApp community (www.yoknet.cn). That said, none of this can serve as an excuse for shirking my responsibility. I’m also too embarrassed to make any more promises. All I can say is that in 2018, I’ll devote more of my time and energy to this blog. Thank you all for your continued attention and support.

Without further ado, let’s get to the main topic of this article.

2017 Recap

(Leaving this spot blank for now; I’ll write it tomorrow.)

It’s July 2018 now. To be honest, I actually forgot about this unfinished section I left last year and only remembered it after more than half a year had passed. So I’ll reluctantly try to recall what happened last year.

School

Last year, when I was in my first year of high school, I finished the first semester and entered the second half of the year. We were reassigned to different classes, and I ended up in Class 24 of the first year (the last class, not assigned according to grades, qwq). Our homeroom teacher was Ms. Qu (the character “区” is pronounced “ou”), and my desk mate was someone surnamed Chen. We used to have a photo together on our Moments, but it was deleted later, so I can’t attach it here.

Studying in the first year of high school was fairly easy, but the most unbearable time was still the days of June. Our classroom was on the seventh floor, and at noon the sun shone directly down on us, bringing the indoor temperature above 35 degrees Celsius (air conditioning? It didn’t exist). We were drenched in sweat in every class, and I don’t even know how we survived.

In the second half of 2017, I entered my second year of high school and was assigned to Class 23. Our homeroom teacher was Mr. Zeng. I’ve written that name hundreds or even thousands of times, because I was the class study committee member and had to fill out the classroom attendance sheet every day. I was probably the first, and possibly the only, student in the class to memorize all the teachers’ names.

I changed desk mates many times, both boys and girls, but I won’t mention their names. There was also a math teacher who left a particularly deep impression on me. His teaching quality was extremely poor, and he always loved to brag in class and talk about topics unrelated to the lesson (annoyance +1).

The courses in the second year of high school became increasingly difficult, and my grades plummeted. I’m working hard to turn things around.

Website

The domain www.ikxin.com was first used to build a website during the summer vacation of 2016, but the site was later shut down for various reasons. Later, I came across the personal blogs of a group of dalao, and I suppose I was influenced by the herd mentality—I wanted to set one up myself as well. That led to the first version of (Xinye Blog), which used Typecho. I seem to have written around a dozen technical blog posts, but later, for various other reasons, I switched to the WordPress camp, which led to the “first” article on this site.

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And so I renamed it Night’s Serenity. I’ve explained the origin of the name before, so I won’t bring it up again here (feeling sentimental rn).

The summer vacation was the peak period for this blog. According to incomplete statistics, during those two months of summer vacation, I opened this blog so often that the time I spent on it even exceeded the time I spent eating (mainly because sometimes I only had two meals a day, or even one). I also wrote many technical blog posts, feel-good articles, and all sorts of other random things during the summer vacation. After all, I was a newbie back then—who wouldn’t want to write lots of things on their own blog?

New Direction

It seems a little late to talk about the direction for 2018 now—the New Year’s transition into 2019 is almost here. So, let’s just leave it at that.