Finishing Harry Potter >v<
I read J.K. Rowling’s <Harry Potter> series books when I was in Primary school. They were the first series of Magic & Fantasy book I read and opened the fantasy door towards the Magic kingdom for me. Since then, I take to love Magic & Fantasy stories and start to read more and more than I used to. The <Harry Potter> series was my first time to read so many words in a short time and noticed the magic of reading and writing. I started my first story after read <Harry Potter> series and dreamed to become a writer as famous as J.K. Rowling.
I planned to watch the all 8 films after the exam and I did it yesterday, I finished all of them last night. It took me a week to watch. If focus on the special effects, they are not so good. Especially the first three films, they were made in 2000 and 2001 which were long time ago. The tech was not as good as nowadays. But all the characters were good, very distinct. This series of films are really a great job, they took ten years to be finished. All the characters in the films grew with the films, this is a very special and unique. This series of films as popular as the prototype books, all the fans all over the world were crazy to it and recently, for some reasons the name “Harry Potter” backs into our sights again.
Both of the films and books are deserve to try. If you have not read or watched them yet, go and try it during the holiday, you won’t be disappointed.
20130701
I planned to watch the all 8 films after the exam and I did it yesterday, I finished all of them last night. It took me a week to watch. If focus on the special effects, they are not so good. Especially the first three films, they were made in 2000 and 2001 which were long time ago. The tech was not as good as nowadays. But all the characters were good, very distinct. This series of films are really a great job, they took ten years to be finished. All the characters in the films grew with the films, this is a very special and unique. This series of films as popular as the prototype books, all the fans all over the world were crazy to it and recently, for some reasons the name “Harry Potter” backs into our sights again.
Both of the films and books are deserve to try. If you have not read or watched them yet, go and try it during the holiday, you won’t be disappointed.
20130701
Good or Bad?
After <Harry Potter>, I start to think about “what is good and what is bad” again. This is question I ask myself many many times and never get a specific answer.
I think something maybe is wrong to you but that dose not mean it is bad. Sometimes people make a decision seems to be wrong, such as, a white lie. People lie to protect another one who they love or they lie to make sure most of the things go on the right track. Just as Severus Snape, he is mean and cruel in many ways.
He seems did not like Harry, he killed Albus Dumbledore, he was a death eater who was a fellow of Lord Voldemort but in fact, he used his life to protect Harry, he loved Harry’s mother Lily so much and for their happiness he sacrificed himself. “The greatest man I have ever seen” Harry said this to his son to describe Severus Snape. He was doing something wrong but for his own good purpose so I would like to say he is not a bad man.
However, according to my opinion, there is not really someone is bad. I believe most of time people to do something for their good purposes. They make some decisions to protect something or someone. Nobody will really do a obvious wrong things for fun only. An old Chinese saying:”people at the beginning of goodness”.
20130703
I think something maybe is wrong to you but that dose not mean it is bad. Sometimes people make a decision seems to be wrong, such as, a white lie. People lie to protect another one who they love or they lie to make sure most of the things go on the right track. Just as Severus Snape, he is mean and cruel in many ways.
He seems did not like Harry, he killed Albus Dumbledore, he was a death eater who was a fellow of Lord Voldemort but in fact, he used his life to protect Harry, he loved Harry’s mother Lily so much and for their happiness he sacrificed himself. “The greatest man I have ever seen” Harry said this to his son to describe Severus Snape. He was doing something wrong but for his own good purpose so I would like to say he is not a bad man.
However, according to my opinion, there is not really someone is bad. I believe most of time people to do something for their good purposes. They make some decisions to protect something or someone. Nobody will really do a obvious wrong things for fun only. An old Chinese saying:”people at the beginning of goodness”.
20130703
I would like to ...
Since I graduated from middle school, I would like to be a teacher in the future. Maybe I won’t earn a lot or become a very famous person if I choose to become a teacher in the future but I think teacher is a very special and nice profession.
To be a teacher means you are going to teach and lead your students, to write and draw on an empty paper to point out the right direction for kids. To be a teacher means you have the rights to tell them what you think is right and correct in order to give them a right direction to go. You have the responsibility to make sure your students have the right and good personality and values. All the things you teach to your students are going to effect them in their whole lives so you can see how important and special a teacher can be. We should always be respect to a teacher who is respect to themselves.
To be a teacher, I must be sure what I am teaching and telling is right, without wrong information. A good teacher can save a kid from a wrong way, he can create a new life for his students, he can build good and useful personality and values for his students which is vert important in a person’s life.
However, if I become a teacher in the future. I am not going to be those teachers who follow the old rules to teach seriously without any new ideas. I am going to teach my students by my own experience so I do not think I am going to become a teacher as soon as I graduate. Teacher is one of my dream, I would love to tell my future students my view to the world, I believe it’s not only a little bit different with others:)
20130705
To be a teacher means you are going to teach and lead your students, to write and draw on an empty paper to point out the right direction for kids. To be a teacher means you have the rights to tell them what you think is right and correct in order to give them a right direction to go. You have the responsibility to make sure your students have the right and good personality and values. All the things you teach to your students are going to effect them in their whole lives so you can see how important and special a teacher can be. We should always be respect to a teacher who is respect to themselves.
To be a teacher, I must be sure what I am teaching and telling is right, without wrong information. A good teacher can save a kid from a wrong way, he can create a new life for his students, he can build good and useful personality and values for his students which is vert important in a person’s life.
However, if I become a teacher in the future. I am not going to be those teachers who follow the old rules to teach seriously without any new ideas. I am going to teach my students by my own experience so I do not think I am going to become a teacher as soon as I graduate. Teacher is one of my dream, I would love to tell my future students my view to the world, I believe it’s not only a little bit different with others:)
20130705
< The catcher in the rye > 1
I started reading this book < The catcher in the rye> on the first of July. I know this book in Chinese but I haven’t read it before, since it is not my type. The words in it are not too hard but there are so many slangs and all in it so it is hard to understand all the sentences.
Up to the part I go though, Holden’s three-day trip does not start yet, he is still in his Pencey Prep school. He was in the day he left it.
The book was wrote in the view of a teen in that age with so much slangs and folk adages. The book used to tell the society the teens mind and their opinion to the society. It is quite a real book although I believe the story is fiction. Maybe there are some fragments bass on true life but a normal boy could not really undergoing so much big deal in short days without any preparation.
The though of Holden is very real so I would like to say the writer spent a lot of time to build this character good and authentic. The way he thought and spoke was typical teens’ style.
There was a report about this book, a teacher was appeal because of using this book as a text to teach students. The book touches many sensitive topics, even some dark and dirty situations. That was the reason I believe this book is based on really time age and Holden is a representative of the teens in that period of history.
20130707
Up to the part I go though, Holden’s three-day trip does not start yet, he is still in his Pencey Prep school. He was in the day he left it.
The book was wrote in the view of a teen in that age with so much slangs and folk adages. The book used to tell the society the teens mind and their opinion to the society. It is quite a real book although I believe the story is fiction. Maybe there are some fragments bass on true life but a normal boy could not really undergoing so much big deal in short days without any preparation.
The though of Holden is very real so I would like to say the writer spent a lot of time to build this character good and authentic. The way he thought and spoke was typical teens’ style.
There was a report about this book, a teacher was appeal because of using this book as a text to teach students. The book touches many sensitive topics, even some dark and dirty situations. That was the reason I believe this book is based on really time age and Holden is a representative of the teens in that period of history.
20130707
De rouille et d' 2012
The title is the name of the film “ Rust and Bone ”. I watched it in the afternoon and if summarizing it in a word, I would like to say “weird”. This is really a weird film. So much information lumps together, I can not really find the key point of it or maybe it just does not really have one key point.
Generally speaking, I do not like those films do not have exciting plots. Those films used to tell a principle, to express someone’s feeling or to record a period of history are not my type. However, I finished this film and there are some fragments make me touched. Although there are some fragments in the film, I think are quite unscientific but that not so important compare with the thing I feel from it. The first scene makes impressed is the main female character Stephanie who is a killer whale trainer lost her leg because of an accident during a performance, back to the aquarium and trained the killer whale outside the glass. She did not afraid after the hurt, she still remembered all the signs to train the killer whale and she could do it really well. She was something more than brave, she was quite tough. Besides, the killer whale was so cute! |
Another scene is when the main male character, Alain van Versch who is a former boxer, tried to break the thick ice by his fists to save his son Sam from the cold water. I do not think a human, especially a small child can float in the icy water as soon as he dropped into it but that is not the thing I want to say. I just think maybe because that was his son so he just can not stop to find him. This told me a kind of silly idea that you should not give up until you find the body. There won’t be a really ending before you give it up.
Those fragments are hard to describe with my poor writing but you know the film is a happy ending which is good so if you have space time to find it and watch it. I can not say you will like it but just try. Stephanie is really cool! “Water can be tough; Iron will rust” 20130709 |
How to treat your kids ? [one]
Although myself is still kid or you would like to say a teenager but I want to talk about this topic, how should parents treat their kids. Nowadays, more and more family choose not to have kids which I think is very unadvisable but this depends on their own, I can not make decision for them. However to those who decide to have children, I would like to say a few things to show my opinion.
Yesterday, I went out for dinner with my mun and grandparents and some my grandpa’s students and their kids. I noticed some phenomenons which were not good at all.
Firstly is that, one mum there always same some bad words to her daughter. Maybe sometimes those words are a person’s pet phrases and hard to control but always when children grow up more they will start to use those words and parents will get angry about that, thinking those words are rude and should not be said by kids. But do you remember, you are the one told them those words. Parents should use less bad or rude words in front of their kids or the kids will learn those things from them and it will be hard to control if they form a habit to use them.
Secondly is about interrupt. All the adults don’t like their kids interrupting them when they are talking to others face to face or on phone. No matter you are a grown-up or a kid, interrupting others is very rude and uncouth. Sometimes adults may not aware that they sometimes also do so. A person will ask questions when he listen to others very carefully and suddenly be confused about a point the other mentioned. This shows you are listening very carefully but this is still a interrupt which you should not do. Teachers may teach your kid a lot at school but you should know most of time your kids still spend time with you. Parents are the biggest part in a kid’s time so they must remember to be good examples for the kids. Set yourselves as examples for your kids are very important.
[TBC]
20130711
Yesterday, I went out for dinner with my mun and grandparents and some my grandpa’s students and their kids. I noticed some phenomenons which were not good at all.
Firstly is that, one mum there always same some bad words to her daughter. Maybe sometimes those words are a person’s pet phrases and hard to control but always when children grow up more they will start to use those words and parents will get angry about that, thinking those words are rude and should not be said by kids. But do you remember, you are the one told them those words. Parents should use less bad or rude words in front of their kids or the kids will learn those things from them and it will be hard to control if they form a habit to use them.
Secondly is about interrupt. All the adults don’t like their kids interrupting them when they are talking to others face to face or on phone. No matter you are a grown-up or a kid, interrupting others is very rude and uncouth. Sometimes adults may not aware that they sometimes also do so. A person will ask questions when he listen to others very carefully and suddenly be confused about a point the other mentioned. This shows you are listening very carefully but this is still a interrupt which you should not do. Teachers may teach your kid a lot at school but you should know most of time your kids still spend time with you. Parents are the biggest part in a kid’s time so they must remember to be good examples for the kids. Set yourselves as examples for your kids are very important.
[TBC]
20130711
How to treat your kids ? [two]
The last is about those electronic equipments. The high-techs develop very fast and make life more and more convenient. You can get the information you want in seconds. It can save you bunch of time and correct your mistake. Also shut your kids mouth up.
Yes, a lot of parents give their children a phone or an I Pad to play when they are chatting or working busily. Children love games and they will focus on the high-tech things stop bothering their parents. The high-tech products are so good and useful, many parents thinking in this way. This is wrong!! Completely wrong!! Those high-tech products not only harm to kids eyesight but also cut off the way that the kids should get more useful information from listening to others or making new friends not with the computers. Above all if you choose to have a kid you should not pass the buck to others even a game, you need to spend time with your kids, to play, to talk with him. This is very important and necessary both to you and the kid. Then if you are really busy with work which is very possible and normal to happen, at least try to find another one, a living person to stay with the kids or just give the kid a book to read or some color pencils or an interesting toy to play. Let them to get some fun by themselves without those high-tech products.
Besides, raising children are really so tired and expensive!! Almost hard to believe, how many changes have happened in recent 10 years and hardly to imagine what the situation will be 10 years later >A<
20130711
Yes, a lot of parents give their children a phone or an I Pad to play when they are chatting or working busily. Children love games and they will focus on the high-tech things stop bothering their parents. The high-tech products are so good and useful, many parents thinking in this way. This is wrong!! Completely wrong!! Those high-tech products not only harm to kids eyesight but also cut off the way that the kids should get more useful information from listening to others or making new friends not with the computers. Above all if you choose to have a kid you should not pass the buck to others even a game, you need to spend time with your kids, to play, to talk with him. This is very important and necessary both to you and the kid. Then if you are really busy with work which is very possible and normal to happen, at least try to find another one, a living person to stay with the kids or just give the kid a book to read or some color pencils or an interesting toy to play. Let them to get some fun by themselves without those high-tech products.
Besides, raising children are really so tired and expensive!! Almost hard to believe, how many changes have happened in recent 10 years and hardly to imagine what the situation will be 10 years later >A<
20130711
I would like to ...
I would like to say thank you to all the city cleaners. Without them, the city can not work properly. The roads will full with rubbish and garbage, waste water will overflow into river and alleys. People will have no place to put down foot to walk. The street will be too dirty to leave the house. The environment will be so bad that not suitable for living with city cleaners’ hard working.
Last night on my way to home in my mum’s car we were stuck in a narrow alley because of a garbage truck stopped in front of us and filling-in all the space of the small road and after a few minutes two more cars stopped behind us. But good to see that no one honked the horn to urge those cleaner to be quicker. They work very hard to create a good living environment for everyone. |
The job is tired, dirty and the work environment is always bad. Very cold in winter and hot in summer. Especially the smell is always so bad and awful. You may notice those garbage trucks always appear very early in the morning or at lunch time or late in the night. They need to make sure not bother city’s rhythm so they choose those time which there are less traffic to work. Those time most of people do not get up yet or already off duty.
We can not have a clean city without them so I would like to say thank you to them and what’s more I would like to suggest the government provide better garbage collecting equipments for them to make their work more efficient and easier. 20130713 |
< The catcher in the rye > 2
Holden left the school after fighting with his roommate, Stradlater because the boy dated with one of his old friend, Jane and seems to give her a time ( I do not really get these words mean but I know what he tried to say). He spent a few time with a boy next door to his room, Ackley. Both boys appeared in the pages I go through are quite hard to imagine in my life, they are very dramatic to me and I keep get this kind of feeling with Holden when I keep reading the story.
I believe I will never really experience the thing Holden was going through in my life. The whole thing happened was very dramatic and inauthentic. The reason he fought with Stradlater, the way he talked about himself, the way Ackley treated him if he was that kind of guy Holden said he is, he met his schoolmate’s mother on a late train after he left the school without permission and all. The things Holden was doing and things he would do were impossible to me in the real life.
At least, there is no similarity between his life with mine. Maybe because we live in different time or just because he is a character not a real person. I think the author combined and collected all the cases and situations that the teens in that age may faces together to put them on the poor and try to be cool boy Holden. The book is a collective story.
20130715
I believe I will never really experience the thing Holden was going through in my life. The whole thing happened was very dramatic and inauthentic. The reason he fought with Stradlater, the way he talked about himself, the way Ackley treated him if he was that kind of guy Holden said he is, he met his schoolmate’s mother on a late train after he left the school without permission and all. The things Holden was doing and things he would do were impossible to me in the real life.
At least, there is no similarity between his life with mine. Maybe because we live in different time or just because he is a character not a real person. I think the author combined and collected all the cases and situations that the teens in that age may faces together to put them on the poor and try to be cool boy Holden. The book is a collective story.
20130715
August Rush
The title is the name of the film and it is a quite timely film, do you think so? Since now is July and going to August but the film is happened in winter in New York. The main idea is music leads you to find your love which is normal but sweet.
The story began with a band boy, Louis and a famous violoncellist girl, Lyra met each other in a pub and fell in love. But Lyra’s father did not agree them to meet any more and separated them. The boy left New York and could not play guitar any more. He said:”How could I sing! She can not hear me any more!”. At the while, Lyra had an argue with her father and rushed on to the street and an accident happened. Her child, Louis’ child was premature birth but her father told her, the baby was dead. Her father wanted to protect her his own way but because of the shock she could not play the violoncello any more and she gave up in music. |
Ten years later, there was a boy named Evan Taylor, lived in a orphanage since he was born. He was a pretty boy but kids in the house called him freak because he always said he could hear his parents and a lot other melody others could not hear. He loved to open his mind to the world and he could find music everywhere. He was a music prodigy but no one realized yet until he left the house and went to New York. He met a cynical man who helped him in the first place and a boy who was very contradictory, he met a girl and a priest in a church who really found his talent and sent him to the Music school to study and he even met his father once but they both did not notice that. There was a special connection between the boy and his parents, especially his mum, Lyra. It is a peaceful movie and will be nice for you to spend one hour and a half to enjoy it in the evening. “The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen” 20130717 |
I would like to ...
I am watching an interesting and exciting teleplay these days, <Suits>. It’s a show about the lawyer which used to be my dreamy job. I dreamed about this in Primary school. I liked to watch TVB and lots Hong Kong-made films, and a lot of them are about crime. Also I am good talker in my age so relatives always said I will be a good lawyer. For those reasons, I was interested in being a lawyer that time.
In my view that time, a lawyer is a very just and great job. Being lawyer to help kind people against bad guys and protect weak people’s rights. A lawyer knows a lot and very good at use the things he has to defence his clients. In my childhood memories, lawyers are lofty and nice people. However, after I get older and knew more about the society. I found out that lawyers sometimes will help the bad side to oppress the weak side in order to get money which is very unfair and unhuman in my opinion. I did not want to be a lawyer anymore and many adults also said that lawyers are lairs. They always exploit advantages in the laws to defense for their clients. |
At last, now, I do not think lawyers are bad people anymore. They do what they do to protect their own goods which is reasonable and normal. That’s their jobs and their clients pay them to do their jobs which they have to do their best to win the case. And realize in order to be a lawyer, there are so many thing need to learn. You need to remember all the laws in the book, to learn a lot of different cases, to do plenty of research, to study in law school, to talk with witness or you need to persuade the witness to testify for you. This is really a hard job and I believe you need to pay a lot first then you may be a good enough lawyer to handle big cases.
My mind change a lot but I still can say I would like to be a lawyer in the past. 20130719 |
They bite for what!
Recently many reports and news tell about dogs attack people, especially small kids and there are more people than usual go to hospital to get rabies vaccine after being bitten by animals. I am glad to see that people are not so mad about this and the government realizes the responsibilities are humans’ not dogs’.
First we should know, if a dog really attach somebody with teeth that must not just for fun. One of the biggest reason some large dogs in suburbs bite people is they are hungry. They need food or they will become stave and dysphoric. Then they will be very invasive and attack strangers get close to them. This is masters’ fault, they need to feed their dogs. Since they raise dogs to guard their house or factory or others, they have the responsibility to give their dogs food.
Besides, if the dog is not starving they will not attack others without reasonable reason. Some people, especially old people with small kids and those who are drunk. They like to tease the dog which will make the dog mad and want to attack them. This kind of action is very dangerous and silly. Do not tease others’ dogs no matter they are big or small. Even the dog is tied down in the garden, it will remember you and one day they will revenge, this is hundred percent true.
Since humans agree that dogs are one of our best friends and we choose to raise them at home then we have to treat them fairly. They are not toy, they are life, animated lives. We have to respect them and treat them good for both ours and theirs good!
20130721
First we should know, if a dog really attach somebody with teeth that must not just for fun. One of the biggest reason some large dogs in suburbs bite people is they are hungry. They need food or they will become stave and dysphoric. Then they will be very invasive and attack strangers get close to them. This is masters’ fault, they need to feed their dogs. Since they raise dogs to guard their house or factory or others, they have the responsibility to give their dogs food.
Besides, if the dog is not starving they will not attack others without reasonable reason. Some people, especially old people with small kids and those who are drunk. They like to tease the dog which will make the dog mad and want to attack them. This kind of action is very dangerous and silly. Do not tease others’ dogs no matter they are big or small. Even the dog is tied down in the garden, it will remember you and one day they will revenge, this is hundred percent true.
Since humans agree that dogs are one of our best friends and we choose to raise them at home then we have to treat them fairly. They are not toy, they are life, animated lives. We have to respect them and treat them good for both ours and theirs good!
20130721
< The catcher in the rye > 3
This book becomes quite ridiculous in my view now. Holden is suddenly positive and suddenly depressed. He wanted to dance with the girls and liked them a lot but still kept saying many mean thing to them in the mind. He talked about himself has many experience and thought about have deep relationship with girls but later he admitted he is a virgin. He got a girl in the mid-night by the elevator boy and he thought about had some practice with the prostitute but later he got really nervous and let the girl go away.
He was mean and kind, childish and worldly at the same time. He is very emotional which is impossible in the real world. He must will be killed if he always acted in the way and made decision so recklessly.
I won’t deal with the thing he met by his way at all. No matter how bad the situation is, I won’t leave the school along at the night after have a fight with my roommate (which is also quite impossible to happen, maybe because I am a girl) and was kicked out the school. I will be sad and maybe depressed but I will try to face it, since the situation and result are caused by myself. I won’t try to run away from it. Even if I choose to run away from the place I hate, I will choose some will more safe but not a lousy hotel. Also I will not talk to someone I do not know and buy some drinks for them if I already think they are morons.
Holden is really a weird and contradictory boy.
20130723
He was mean and kind, childish and worldly at the same time. He is very emotional which is impossible in the real world. He must will be killed if he always acted in the way and made decision so recklessly.
I won’t deal with the thing he met by his way at all. No matter how bad the situation is, I won’t leave the school along at the night after have a fight with my roommate (which is also quite impossible to happen, maybe because I am a girl) and was kicked out the school. I will be sad and maybe depressed but I will try to face it, since the situation and result are caused by myself. I won’t try to run away from it. Even if I choose to run away from the place I hate, I will choose some will more safe but not a lousy hotel. Also I will not talk to someone I do not know and buy some drinks for them if I already think they are morons.
Holden is really a weird and contradictory boy.
20130723
Go for a long walk
The weather is hot, this summer can be long or short. I don’t know yet but at least it is still gets hotter and hotter in some ways. Also this summer vacation is short, only one month and maybe ten more days. In order to relax more I do not really want to go outside which is not good for my health so I go out for a long walk after dinner with mum, every other day to have some exercise and help digest nice dinner. It can be really dangerous to eat a lot and move little during holiday, you will become fat easily. And become fatter means a lot, you can not wear your old clothes and you need to pay more money to buy new clothes; you will be not satisfied with your build and feel bad on yourself which is bad to your mental health, fat people easily to feel himself inferior. In a word, going for a long walk after dinner in a summer night is very helpful and nice.
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The summer night in Shanghai is not too bad, there is still gentle warm wind blowing to cool you down. We do not walk to fast, just normal speed and one of the most interesting things to do during a long walk is talking with your walking-partner. It is relaxing and natural.
I talk a lot with my mum daily and I enjoy it. Sometimes teens do not like to talk with their parents, and they so not understand each other well and cause many problem later. It is normal that adults may not totally agree with you since you grow in different time and class but you should know that they have more experience and they can give you valuable suggestions according to their life stories. I wave my arms and do some stretches when I am walking, it is quite a big job to my neck and shoulders to sit in front my computer for almost a day. |
We talk about the homework about choosing the college you want to go. This one is really hard. There are too many good college in the world and in fact I do not really want to go to the States very much. It is too far away. I would like to go to Hong Kong for my college years but there are no information for any school outside the States on the website, provide by school. What’s more it is quite hard to use major to choose school, because you can see that almost all the university can teach all the subjects you can think about. I can expect that this homework is going to take me a long time to figure it out.
Besides, mum would like me to get more information about those college focus on study more which I understand in Chinese but do not know how to get those information in English. |
Talking about the major, I like to learn about biology and education. And I would like to be a teacher some day in my life in the future but I need to get a lot of experience before I become a teacher. That must be a real long walk to go though. About the education, there are more and more data show that the education in the future is going to become full-electronic. There will be no more paper in the education process which very environmental and good. But it is not good that people are going to type only, but not writing anymore, maybe it is fine for english or other letter languages but it is extremely awful to Chinese. Many young people can not write correct characters in the proper way any more. They are, we are forgetting our country’s precious legacy, our ancestral wisdom. We need to write more or at least to learn the Five-stroke Chinese Code to remember how to write our characters.
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That’s it, my long walk in the summer night and I know I am going to do a lot in my life:)
20130725
20130725
The physical book
Technology is developing, quickly and we can expect in the near future all the human labors and paper works will be took place by the high-tech products. It should be good, technology grow leads the economy and international class grow. The country is developing and citizens life level is growing higher too.
Last time on career day, the employee from Pearson publishing came to school and give us a lecture. During the class he showed us a video about what the education will be in the future. How the high-tech products took the place of physical books and all. This kind of improve is good to the environment and society. A thin computer instead of a pile of thick books and paper, making both students and teachers life easier.
But the thing I concern about is the pysical books are going to be took place by the computer. I love the books, the physical ones. I love to carry them in hands, put them in bags and read them with their mass. That’s feeling and weight is quite important to me, I do not want it be took away from our life and I believe I am not the only one thinks like that.
Of course, I am not going to stop the technology developing, instead of doing that, I hope the tech can grow faster, so the techniques will be good enough to achieve my idea and conceives. I want to computer can provide the feeling, the outlook and the mass of a real physical book. The computer can become really small and maybe contains in your phone or somewhere else and it can form the 3D imagination of the book you want and you can choose how heavy the book is, the texture of the book page, the size of the letters, characters, the type of characters and so on. It going to make the physical book changeable. That must be amazing and wonderful! I really want some day and someone is going to buy my dream and turn it into real.
20130727
Last time on career day, the employee from Pearson publishing came to school and give us a lecture. During the class he showed us a video about what the education will be in the future. How the high-tech products took the place of physical books and all. This kind of improve is good to the environment and society. A thin computer instead of a pile of thick books and paper, making both students and teachers life easier.
But the thing I concern about is the pysical books are going to be took place by the computer. I love the books, the physical ones. I love to carry them in hands, put them in bags and read them with their mass. That’s feeling and weight is quite important to me, I do not want it be took away from our life and I believe I am not the only one thinks like that.
Of course, I am not going to stop the technology developing, instead of doing that, I hope the tech can grow faster, so the techniques will be good enough to achieve my idea and conceives. I want to computer can provide the feeling, the outlook and the mass of a real physical book. The computer can become really small and maybe contains in your phone or somewhere else and it can form the 3D imagination of the book you want and you can choose how heavy the book is, the texture of the book page, the size of the letters, characters, the type of characters and so on. It going to make the physical book changeable. That must be amazing and wonderful! I really want some day and someone is going to buy my dream and turn it into real.
20130727
Old or New
Summer holiday, we always meet friends and have fun together. At least there are three groups of friends in our lives, primary school, middle school and high school. Some of us may have more than three if they join in some clubs or transfer to another school before. Here comes the trouble, who should we choose to play with during this not too long holiday.
The best way must be go out with all of them one by one but sometimes when the time dose not allow you do so.
Some of us may choose to date with old friends in middle school, since they can not meet a lot during school days but still know each others well. It will be very nice and exciting to hang out with them. They can go to the places they used to go and gather in someone’s home and just chat with each other.
The best way must be go out with all of them one by one but sometimes when the time dose not allow you do so.
Some of us may choose to date with old friends in middle school, since they can not meet a lot during school days but still know each others well. It will be very nice and exciting to hang out with them. They can go to the places they used to go and gather in someone’s home and just chat with each other.
Some may choose to play with high school friends. They have more common languages since they stay with each other 5 days a week. And they can do homework together and make some plans for the next term.
Also, holiday is a good time to make some new friends if you join in a summer camp or some new clubs. Meeting some new people, to find the one has the same interest with you and have some conversation and build a new relationship. This can be nice. We need to touch with old friends and make new friends is also good. It is a hard question to answer. I am thinking about to make my old friends be friends with new friends but I know it is kind of impossible. But if this idea can work then it should be awesome. 20130729 |
<The catcher in the rye> 4
Holden finally finished his first night in New York and he still need to undergo at least two more days in his plan. He is on his way to meet Sally for a date. After the breakfast, he still have two more hours to wait. I think here is the time for me to have a conversation with him. Maybe he will be happy to speak with me, since I am a girl? [smile:] Holden is the main character in the story so I am going to ask him some questions if I can. I also would like to talk with Holden’s sister Phoebe, she is an amazing little girl, according to Holden’s describing. She is really smart and sensitive.
Holden is really a very contradictory boy so would like to know if he has another chance will he still choose to be who he is now or he would like to be another complete different person. Also I would like to know how can he likes and hates women at the same time. How can he still pretend so nice to the girls if he dose not real like them. I also want to know since he is a good reader what is his reason for not study at school. I think can be good enough at least not be ax in the school since he is quite clever and sometimes can be mature. I also would like to know what kind of future he is looking for if he keep being who he is now.
It will be a special interview if I really can do so and I would like to write a report for it.
20130731
Holden is really a very contradictory boy so would like to know if he has another chance will he still choose to be who he is now or he would like to be another complete different person. Also I would like to know how can he likes and hates women at the same time. How can he still pretend so nice to the girls if he dose not real like them. I also want to know since he is a good reader what is his reason for not study at school. I think can be good enough at least not be ax in the school since he is quite clever and sometimes can be mature. I also would like to know what kind of future he is looking for if he keep being who he is now.
It will be a special interview if I really can do so and I would like to write a report for it.
20130731
Waiting
I used to hate waiting a lot. I am an inpatient person and easy to become worry and always in hurry but luckily I get rid of that kind of mode long time ago, as soon as I find the pleasure of waiting.
When you are waiting ,no matter you are in a hurry or not, you have nothing else to do except waiting in the spot. So the best way to make yourself feel better is find something to do when you are waiting.
The best choice for me is reading. When I am reading time pass faster than I think it will. And I will be satisfied if I can keep reading the story I was reading before I left it. Reading can calm myself down and make me a good mood. Also I can get some inspirations from the books or papers or magazines then I will start writing on something. I am not a good artist but I still enjoy to create some new characters by myself.
Another thing interesting to do when I am waiting, is observing. I am not Holmes who can deduce others’ lives by observe them. I can not really get some important information by look at others but observing is still very interesting process. People’s body language and expressions and words are always full with their characters which can show what kind of person he or she is. Sometimes you can guess what or who they are waiting for or something they are going to do by observing them quietly and politely. Do not stare at someone when you are observing, that is rude >.<
Waiting is the only way which must be passed towards the destination you want to go. So be patient and find something to do.
20130802
When you are waiting ,no matter you are in a hurry or not, you have nothing else to do except waiting in the spot. So the best way to make yourself feel better is find something to do when you are waiting.
The best choice for me is reading. When I am reading time pass faster than I think it will. And I will be satisfied if I can keep reading the story I was reading before I left it. Reading can calm myself down and make me a good mood. Also I can get some inspirations from the books or papers or magazines then I will start writing on something. I am not a good artist but I still enjoy to create some new characters by myself.
Another thing interesting to do when I am waiting, is observing. I am not Holmes who can deduce others’ lives by observe them. I can not really get some important information by look at others but observing is still very interesting process. People’s body language and expressions and words are always full with their characters which can show what kind of person he or she is. Sometimes you can guess what or who they are waiting for or something they are going to do by observing them quietly and politely. Do not stare at someone when you are observing, that is rude >.<
Waiting is the only way which must be passed towards the destination you want to go. So be patient and find something to do.
20130802
Try something for the first time
Trying something new can be interesting and uneasy at the same time. People are easy to get bored if the thing repeat everyday and they always expect to something different. Although, they look forward to something new all the time when the time or chance really come, they become very careful or even yellow to the different things. Humans are really contradictory in many aspects.
The first time is always special and unforgettable in one’s life time. The first time you climb towards a toy can be so special and precious in your parents mind. The first time you can call someone’s name, that one must had cried that time. Time first time you go to school, you get a good red star for drawing your mum and dad on a piece of paper by some colorful crayons. The first time you be criticize by teacher or parents. The first time you swim in the sea and so many else. Trying something for the first time is really important and significative to you and the ones who love you and care about you. |
My eyesight is not good and I think it had be not good for quite long time. Especially my left eye, I can not see things clearly with it since I was in primary school, around third grade. Because of reading books in bed, and of cause, slinkingly. I lived with my grandparents when I was in primary school and grandma always asked me to go to bed really early. So I read when I was lying on the bed with the cover from quilt. And you see that must be harmful to my eyesight. My bed was against the wall on my right hand so I would face the wall and read with my left eye, then you know. Nowadays the ratio for kids to wear glasses is really high and seems not changeable. Some kids even wear glasses in kindergarten which is not good. Because only if the myopia is genetic or it maybe just pseudomyopia because of using eyes to much or sleep too late, this kind of myopia can be treat if change the habit of eye using. But so long as you start wearing glasses you can not take it off.
Since my eyesight is not good for so long time, the reason I still do not wear a glasses is not really reasonable. One is because my dad always believe my myopia is pseudomyopia which is not stable yet and it will be better later which is kind of impossible in my age now. Secondly is because I looked weird when I wear the glasses and my grandparents think it is not good-looking. Another reason is my right eye’s eyesight is quite good so there is no trouble in my daily life. |
What’s more I find the way to see things clearly when I need to, the name of the way is basic on physical science, the pin-hole imaging. By using my fingers to from a really small hole to focus more light for my eye, then I can see the thing more clearly.
However, since I enter high school, teachers’ writing on the board gets really small which is hard to read no matter you are myopia or not. And my pine-hole imaging dose not always work good enough for me. So yesterday I went to the glasses shop with mun to get a pair of glasses. Which is my first time to wear a pair of glasses that belong to myself! I am quite exciting about it which is childish. I even felt nervous when I was waiting to get an eyesight check to know my spectacle lens powers. I know I am silly in this way >A< but I can not stop it. I am always exciting with no reason when I am going to try something new. |
Supernatural lives
Today is an end for me to <Twilight> series. I started reading them three years ago and today is the day I finish the last movie, “Dawn Breaking” part two for the series. This is a special day anyway.
I like a lot of those supernatural lives, especially vampires and werewolves which are the two species appear in the <Twilight> series. The writer Stephanie Meyer is really good at describe one’s mind and motion by words. She is a good mind reader, I think. I like vampires a lot. One obvious reason is they are gorgeous, most of them are royal and high class people when they were ‘alive’. And also most of the vampires appear in nowadays books and movies are beautiful. They are pale with red or golden eyes. They dress in full dresses which is real magnificent. Their personality is noble and far from crowds. The ones can live with humans are always gentle and restrained, like the family in twilight. They eat blood as food, some hunt humans and the others choose to be ‘vegetarians’, they only hunt animals. Some people may think they are cruel and evil but I do not think so. Yes, they do hunt humans but that is just the same as we hunt other animals. Animals are food so are we. We are animals which maybe a little more clever than most of others. |
I also like werewolves. Although they are not graceful at all, they are strong and wild. All the real werewolves are warriors, they are brave and valiant.
Some stories say they will become wolves when it’s full moon, some say they can turn into wolves whenever they want and become extraordinary strong when it’s full moon. And different with vampires’ cold sinks, werewolves are much warmer than normal humans and higher healing ability. I love dogs and big big wolves seems so attractive to me. They are so fluffy and cute. No one can really prove those supernatural lives are existing or fake. Our ancestors recorded them down must for some reasons. Just like an Chinese old saying, to those things you do not really know if they existing or not,”Would rather believe it than suspect its not”. 20130806 |
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy
This is one of the most difficult movie I have even seen. I can only understand one-third or maybe even less by myself. And get half understanding after read other audiences’ reflections. Most of them who can describe the story clearly have watched this film at least twice so I will go back to it some day in the holiday if I have any chance.
This film tells a story about spy, the organization of the British spy, the circus. There is a betrayer in the circus and the old control realized it but just before he found out the truth, he was dismissed and was killed a few days after he left the circus. No one know who is the betrayer, the mole in the circus. The one who finally find out the truth is the former control’s best trusted follower smiley. Who is the main character of this film. He started to continue his control’s mission to find out the betrayer in the five senior staffs. Here comes the name of the film, one is tinker, one is tailor, one is soldier, one is poor man and the last one is spy. |
I am not going to tell you who is the spy and I do not think it is the most important part in the film. Although I can not fully understand this film, I still can say it is really a good one. That is because there are many touching scenes in the film. The relationships are quite complicated in the film. The love, the loyalty, and the courage.
The cast is amazing, all the actors are famous and have brilliant acting skills. They expressed the motions and personalities of the character really well. You can feel it just by watching but not understanding. It is a good film, believe me. 20130808 |
<The catcher in the rye> 5
Holden bought a recorder in the shop opens on Sunday for Phoebe and he was very happy about it. Also I can find that Holden liked kids more than others, adults or teens. They seem do not make him feel depressed. They always knock him and kill him a lot. Then he went for his date with Sally, the phony girl he mentioned a lot and said he did not like her at all. But when he met her on the stair, he felt want to marry her. Holden was such a weird boy.
The things I like in the story to the parts I have gone through:
1. The point of view, writer chooses to use. This make the story seems more close to the teens’ lives so students would not get bored on reading it. Also shows that writer spent a lot time to conjecture teens’ thought and action. This is a good way to show the society how the teens feel in the society.
2. Some of the languages. There are many humor points in it and the ways Holden contradict to himself, his talked in the different way he think. Quite interesting~
The things I do not like to much in the story to the parts I have gone through:
1. The way writer keeps story moving, change too fast. Sometimes do not make sense. The way story changes scenes is a little bit chaos.
2. There are rude words in it. It’s not so good to have that much of them, almost one in each sentence. And also the motion is too extreme, be gentle will be better.
20130810
The things I like in the story to the parts I have gone through:
1. The point of view, writer chooses to use. This make the story seems more close to the teens’ lives so students would not get bored on reading it. Also shows that writer spent a lot time to conjecture teens’ thought and action. This is a good way to show the society how the teens feel in the society.
2. Some of the languages. There are many humor points in it and the ways Holden contradict to himself, his talked in the different way he think. Quite interesting~
The things I do not like to much in the story to the parts I have gone through:
1. The way writer keeps story moving, change too fast. Sometimes do not make sense. The way story changes scenes is a little bit chaos.
2. There are rude words in it. It’s not so good to have that much of them, almost one in each sentence. And also the motion is too extreme, be gentle will be better.
20130810
@ Garreteer_In_Dream
I am a dreamer. I love to create new and unique ideas and share them with my friends. And very luckily, my friends in high school, Garith and Sherry are both awesome maker and designer. My hands are not so agile and I am happy to see my friends can make my idea into true.
My mum encourage us to create our own ‘business’ to sell the things designed and made by ourselves. Mum said, that is the way to prove that the ideas and creativity we have is valuable and precious. We should use them as much as we can in order to wake up our mind and become more and more active. Since I am not so good at making product, I am the clerk in our small shop (Garith , Sherry and I). I give them my opinion on the things we need to make a decision, such as, how many material we should purchase, which color should be a good choice and so on. Also I conceive the name of our products. |
Just as the title I use for this journal, “Garreteer In Dream”, this is the name of our work shop and is also the conception of we three. Garreteer means the one who live in the garret because he is poor and not famous yet. Garreteer also means those poor artists, they maybe painters, writers, singer, actors and so on. They do not have some big success yet, they do not have enough money to create a good living environment but they do not care. They think it is good enough to live in the garret. They believe their dream is possible no matter how much hard works and time they need to pay for it. They have their great and beautiful dream and they strive for it. They do not give up because of the difficulties they are facing, they are tough and talented. |
These are the things I want to tell to anyone who see the name of us. We are students, we do not have big budget, the only thing we have is ours dream. We want to let everyone knows us and admits our efforts. I want you to see my dream and help us to realize our dream. I love to create to make the world full with new life.
20130812 |
Mutation
I always say humans are contradictory and I really mean it. And I think myself in the same way, I am contradictory.
I watch <X-Men: First Class> today and I always think about something when I am watching I film I like. I almost like all the science fiction films and I like the idea about mutation a lot. And in a silly way, I believe there are really those kind of special people in our world. The most thing I want to say is although I am not sure but really hope myself will make a different decision when I meet that kind of situation in life. People always be afraid to the thing they do not know especially when they are stronger than us. Just as the mutations. |
People afraid of them because they are different with us, they are much more powerful than us and also they unite with each other, even though they are on different sides. When people be afraid of something, they always choose to exclude them, break them and destroy them. They do not try to accept them first, even when sometimes they try a little bit and when there comes a problem stop them, they do not fight but run from it and against it. That’s why people are contradictory.
The gov expects strong military power to protect them but it is afraid of them at the same time. We want our friends be strong and then become worry, maybe one day the friends will to against us. I can not say we are think to much because in many aspects we are right. That kind of situation is quite possible. There is no wrong to be careful with them. Because we know,” Survival of the fittest”. 20130814 |
Captain America
Yes, just as the title, I am going to talk about the Captain America. He is a man who used to be quite week and skinny. He was a small guy but he has the ambition to become a soldier and go to the front line to fight with Hitler. He is very brave, he used his own body to cover the grenade in order to protect his teammates. He is very kind, he said he wants to be a soldier but not to kill anyone, he just want to protect his country. Because of his brave and kind, he was chosen by the Doctor to become a superhero.
He saved the world with his team and in order to save the world he sacrificed himself. He lost his best friend and he does not have chance to date with the woman he loves. He obvious is a real hero but I do not really like him. The reason I do not like him is not a really a reason. He is very brave to sacrifice himself to save others. I am not say that is not good but I always believe a person should save himself first when you face the danger. Captain is too pure in many ways and I do not really like that kind of people. |
They seem like outside the world, not suitable for the society. They will be really tired in this complex world. Just as the captain, he lived in 1940 which is better for him and when he wakes up in the modern time, I can not imagine what will happen to him.
It is true there is that kind of people who are very pure and honest. I have a friend who think in the way like a child very simple and emotional. In fact, I think that kind of people are very precious to our society. We should not tease them but be friends with them. To keep them in the way they are. That kind of personality is very special and beautiful. However, I do not like them to much, they are not my style, just as Captain America. 20130816 |
<The catcher in the rye> 6
Holden had a date with Sally and became angry because of a phony guy who knew Sally and they two chatted a lot, then ignored him. He argued with Sally and walked away. He had nothing to do, so he called another guy, named Luce to have a drink at the hotel bar. That was one more phony place in Holden’s mind and he used to go there a lot but in fact he did not like it. He had a short conversation with Luce, because Luce needed to go for a date so he could not stay with him long. They used to be schoolmates in Woothon, and Luce is three years older then Holden and seemed to have many experience with girls and enjoyed talking about it with others. The conversation between they two are really weird, I can not imagine any two people can have a conversation like that if they have no touch with each other for a long time.
This is the thing confused me a lot in the story. Holden always could start a talk with somebody he had not meet for a long time or even had never meet before. That was really weird and can not happen in real world. And he always wanted to give a buzz to somebody he knew but he almost never did so, then to someone he did not know at all, he would call them at mid-night and asked them to have cocktails with them. That was interesting and strange.
Another thing bothers me since I started read it is what did the writer wrote this story for. It contains many rude and silly things. It is kind of too dark for a teenagers or kids. It tells the Impulsivity of the teenagers but not says it’s bad. It even talked about the fun of running away from one’s responsibility. The language is not clean at all, very much dirty words and rude sentences. This is not good for an normal education. And what’s more, sometimes writers like to show the bad side of the things in order to let the people hate it and won’t do so in their lives. But in the this book, the writer kept to find reasons for Holden to those silly things and never got any punishments serious enough.
I can not understand why this book be known as a super good one.
20130818
This is the thing confused me a lot in the story. Holden always could start a talk with somebody he had not meet for a long time or even had never meet before. That was really weird and can not happen in real world. And he always wanted to give a buzz to somebody he knew but he almost never did so, then to someone he did not know at all, he would call them at mid-night and asked them to have cocktails with them. That was interesting and strange.
Another thing bothers me since I started read it is what did the writer wrote this story for. It contains many rude and silly things. It is kind of too dark for a teenagers or kids. It tells the Impulsivity of the teenagers but not says it’s bad. It even talked about the fun of running away from one’s responsibility. The language is not clean at all, very much dirty words and rude sentences. This is not good for an normal education. And what’s more, sometimes writers like to show the bad side of the things in order to let the people hate it and won’t do so in their lives. But in the this book, the writer kept to find reasons for Holden to those silly things and never got any punishments serious enough.
I can not understand why this book be known as a super good one.
20130818
That’s amazing!
You know what, we always be asked to speak English in school and I believe it is very necessary and I want to do so. However we always give up really fast so the school seems is going to make us to speak more English. I think it should be a good idea and I would like to do it.
And today, my first day to live with my grandparents, I meet three of my primary school friends. That’s really nice to meet them and one of them is my best friend in anyway. She is a beautiful and quite girl, very gentle and soft. She kills me in many ways >A< Other two are boys. I was very boyish in primary school so I play a lot with boys and be good friends with them. Anyway, kids in primary school do not really care about genders. I met with them at half past one in the afternoon and I sat in MacDonald’s with Anna and Tom, and we were working on Anna’s holiday homework! That’s really amazing in many ways! And we were having a good time with homework, that was so weird. |
Then, Lemon(one of the boys English name~) came and two boys went to play billiards. They came back to us around four thirty and we chatted for a while and came back to my grandparents house for dinner. My grandma is really a good cook, I love the chicken feet cooked by her so so so much!
The most amazing thing happened after dinner. Tom is a trumpeter so my grandpa decided to play some music for us and suddenly Lemon or maybe Tom , I can not really remember, started to speak English! And we had so much fun during the conversation. I am not arrogant but it is true that their English are not as good as mine but that was not the point. The English conversation among us was so interesting and like it very much. So the thing I want to say is that, there are always some amazing moments in our daily life~~~ 20130820 |
Talk with my grandparents
I talk with my mum a lot, almost everyday and sometimes will talk with father when we are having dinner or on the car to someplace. However, most of time we do not focus on a specific topic and parents always have different ideas on the same thing, it is hard to make a decision. And sometimes the talk will even evolve to an argue... So I do not try to have a conversation with both of them. What I did is, days ago, I went to my grandparents house and lived with them for two and a half days. They miss me a lot, I was raised by them when I always young since my parents were busy with working, did not have time to take care of me. So I lived with my grandparents for almost 8 years, they took care of me, especially my grandma, she loves me so much. She calls me everyday to make sure I am good in the holiday. My grandma is a nice cook and I love her dishes very much. She is much more strict than most of other grandparents. In general, grandparents always pamper their grandchildren but my grandma was very strict to my study. She never allows me to get lower than 95 out of 100 in primary school. I am kind of scare her when I was small. But I thanks her now, she helps me to form many good habits so I can learn effective and well now. My grandpa is wrestling coach, very famous in Jing'an District and sports circle in old time. Just like most of other family, the female takes most of the responsibilities to take care of the child, I spent most of my time with grandma when I lived with them.
I rarely go back to live with them now, maybe only three or four times a year in some long holidays. So I have not talk with them a lot for a long time. This time’s talk is quite normal but it gave me that kind of feeling that hard to explain, to realize I grow up and they get older. It’s not so sad but just a kind of special feeling. |
The things we talk a lot is the things about me when I was small. In fact I almost do not remember anything before primary school. I be told I went to many places for trips with grandparents and grandpa’s wrestling team members a lot. I been to almost all the interesting scenic spots in China, except those on high-altitude places.
Although I do not remember but they do and there is a scientific basis says that, the old people’s long-term memories are much better than short-term ones. They can remember the things happen long time ago when they are young clearly. So they like to tell me the thing happened like 20 years ago or even 40 years ago. The story they took part in, the story when mum is a child, the life in their times. Those are so different with nowadays’ lives, I am quite interesting in them. The other thing they mentioned a lot is about the world, the society. They still think I am so young and only know very little about the dark part of the world. They tell me about those thing with great care, lest of scaring me. They talked about bribery and corruption, talked about giving presents to teachers and doctors. They said something not good and repeating say that the world outside is still very beautiful and interesting, though there are some dark things in it. Grandpa kept telling me that there are always more good people than the bad ones, the society is still good and all. They love me so much and want me to believe the world is beautiful. And I want to tell them that I know a few things about the world and I know it is not perfect but they do not need to be worry about this, I love the world and looking forward to it very much. I am not afraid of those dark parts of it, please relaxed. |
20130822
<The catcher in the rye>7
Holden is really a weird guy. He kept feeling depressed and lonesome from time to time in the story, sometimes without any reason. He felt depressed and lonesome because of nobody on the street in the mid-night when he ran away from Pencey. He felt depressed when he found nothing to do in New York; when the girls he was horsing with did not clever; when he was drunk and walked in Central park at night around the side of the loogan, a lake. He felt lonesome, whenever there was someone with him or not. Anyways, he only felt better when he met a kids. He really dose like kids very much. He thought kids are good when he believed all the other humans are morons and phony. He would like to help children, and he was kind and polite to them. He is quite a nice brother.
He felt the world is full with lies and sham, he did not like it at all. He thought all the people around him, especially those guys in the school and those girls liked those bastards, are phony to death. He did self-mockery a lot, he did not like himself as well as he did not like other guys in his life. Those are all the reasons why he felt depressed and lonesome so much all the time. However, he might still keep alive since he loved kids so much and could be happier when he met them. There is still some hope and light in his life, those kids.
20130824
He felt the world is full with lies and sham, he did not like it at all. He thought all the people around him, especially those guys in the school and those girls liked those bastards, are phony to death. He did self-mockery a lot, he did not like himself as well as he did not like other guys in his life. Those are all the reasons why he felt depressed and lonesome so much all the time. However, he might still keep alive since he loved kids so much and could be happier when he met them. There is still some hope and light in his life, those kids.
20130824
<The catcher in the rye>8
I like to paragraphs in this story, one is Holden’s dream to become a catcher in the rye, that kind of feeling is really beautiful and I can imagine a nice scenery in my mind by reading it. Another is this one, what Mr.Antolini said to Holden and wrote it down on a piece of paper, he wanted Holden to get this quote. This quote was written by a psychoanalyst named Wilhelm Stekel. He said :”The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
Mr.Antolini said this to Holden when he was kind drunk and Holden was had a terrible headache and very sleepy that time. I think both of them did not really know why this quote’s meaning at that moment. I like those quote in the story and I will keep read them until I can quite understand it.
This quote is talking about the idea about how should a man treat his dream. He should do everything he can do to realize it or maybe he should think more about the real life first. I am not 100 percent agree with what the quote says. I agree with the part that different people will have complete different attitudes to their dream, some will choose to realize it immediately, no matter how much they need to pay for it and they think sacrifice for it is worthy and glorious. But the others are more realistic, they will choose to live first and dream second. However, I do not think this can be a standard to say a man is mature or not. This is just a normal phenomenon among different people which have different value and in different class.
To myself, I believe dream is important and I would like to turn them into real but I will be the second type of people. I think you can only realize your dream if you respect your own life first. I always believe, everything is possible when you have your own life in your hand.
20130826
Mr.Antolini said this to Holden when he was kind drunk and Holden was had a terrible headache and very sleepy that time. I think both of them did not really know why this quote’s meaning at that moment. I like those quote in the story and I will keep read them until I can quite understand it.
This quote is talking about the idea about how should a man treat his dream. He should do everything he can do to realize it or maybe he should think more about the real life first. I am not 100 percent agree with what the quote says. I agree with the part that different people will have complete different attitudes to their dream, some will choose to realize it immediately, no matter how much they need to pay for it and they think sacrifice for it is worthy and glorious. But the others are more realistic, they will choose to live first and dream second. However, I do not think this can be a standard to say a man is mature or not. This is just a normal phenomenon among different people which have different value and in different class.
To myself, I believe dream is important and I would like to turn them into real but I will be the second type of people. I think you can only realize your dream if you respect your own life first. I always believe, everything is possible when you have your own life in your hand.
20130826
An important place
I travel a lot with my family. I went to almost all the famous scenic spots in China and I love all of them. I also have been to a few other countries, such as, Thailand, Japan, Korea and some more. They are all beautiful places and deserved to go. To me, no matter nature sceneries or man-made landscapes are nice and every place I visited is important to me for different reasons. But no matter how many places I go to, there is a place, I will never ever forget and I have to and I want to love it through all my life. That place is my hometown, the place I born and grow, the most beautiful and amazing city in my heart --- Shanghai.
Shanghai is a modern city now. It is one of the most developing city is China. It is China’s window and harbor to the world. Shanghai is beautiful and hustling since it formed. Full of people and business. Everyone in the city is busy and hardworking. There are not too much connection between one and another. This situation is quite normal in nowadays modern cities, Shanghai is one of them. Maybe it is normal to the world but special in my mind. Shanghai underwent a lot in the past, when I was not born yet. During my grandparents childhood, Shanghai is crowded with people from all over the world and Shanghai was divided into so many parts as other countries’ concessions. Some people say, all those past, the time that concessions appeared, is Shanghai’s shame. And the other say that was a special and memorable experience, that kind of past creates today’s Shanghai. We can see those various building along the Bund. The government keeps them because they are Shanghai’s memory that the people, especially our Shanghainese should not forget. |
I am too young to understand what dose Shanghai’s past real mean but I know without the past, we can not have what we have now. So I love Shanghai’s past. Those cheongsams, the Parliament, alleys, bicycle jams and so on, they are all Shanghai’s memory and they are all important to me.
And today, Shanghai’s development is real fast that you even can not remember it’s yesterday. The buildings become taller and taller, the roads be built wilder and wilder, the traffic becomes busier and busier. You can not imagine how it will look like tomorrow. Shanghai links up with the whole world. More and more foreigners and foreign companies come to China to expand the market and develop the economy. You can find almost anything you want in Shanghai. The top of fashion, art and literature are in Shanghai. The classical and traditional are in Shanghai. Both past and future are perfectly fusing in Shanghai. I was born in Shanghai 16 years ago and I have never left Shanghai more than a month. I can not imagine how my life will become if I leave this place, the most important place in my mind. All the things here are so acquainted and kind. I used to think even if when I stand in the crowd with all strangers around me, I will not be scared because this is the city I live in. However, it changes so fast recently and no matter how long you live in the city, it becomes different after a day. Shanghai is still Shanghai but it becomes new and fresh everyday. You will never get bord with it. You always can know something that can surprising in every new day. It has its own rhythm that can not be broke by anyone. When you come to the city, you join it and blend into it. It’s never change for you, you change yourself to be suitable for it. Shanghai is a city that is proud for itself and so am I. I am proud of my hometown and I will love it forever long. |
I know, one day in the future or I can be sure that two years later, I am going to leave this place. I am going to live in another city and blend into it. I will not be able to go back to my place for a long time and even will forget some small details in it, I suppose. But I am not worry about that. All the children will leave their parents one day in the future and all the leaves will back to the earth one day in the future. The most important place in my life is Shanghai, because it is my root, it is where I was and I will belong to. 20130828 |
Shanghai Museum Of Glass
There are many museums in Shanghai and most of them are free for visitors and full with people in summer holiday. Since the museum has AC and big space inside. I have not been to many museums and this one I am going to talk about is the one I went recently in Shanghai. It is a museum for glass. It’s located on west Changjiang Road, Building 8,685. The collection it has are various. You can find modern arts, ancients jewelry, design conceptions and many the others in it. The museum also has hot glass making show and DIY shop for visitors to watch and join in. This museum is quite popular in Shanghai for both kids and adults. Many summer camps, couples and families will choose to go there to spend a half day to relax and learn something new.
I went there with my friends and my mun. We arrived early, right before the museum open. That day was not so hot and many people were waiting outside the main gate. We went into the museum at 9:45 after put our bags into the locker. |
The first floor of the museum is all about glass, the material of glass. Many different minerals, such as, quartz. There are many display boards and videos to show how the glass formed and how to make the glass into different colors by using many different kinds of chemicals. Also some other videos show the process of making glass tablewares, from making glass to packer them for selling. There is also a display area on the first floor, the artificer sits behind the desk and makes many small and lovely glass models and decorations by flame gun and colorful glass sticks. He melts the glass stick by the flame gun and blows the hot glass with a thin hollow pipe to make the glass into different shapes. That is very interesting and magical.
Then we up to the the second floor. On that floor are all art craft, both modern and ancient. And I prefer the ancient ones more. I was surprised by the wisdom and creativity of ancient Chinese again. You can find many popular elements nowadays on those ancient jewelry. There are so beautiful and delicate. One style appears a lot in those ancient jewelry. They made the glass look like jade. Really likes jade a lot. They have jades’ color, not matter green, white or red, orange; character, not so clear, has some flaws and cracks inside. They were made into most of time, earrings, also some necklaces. |
Talk about earrings, in ancient time, women, especially when they were young, they were not allowed to get their ears pierced. So there was a kind of earring that was not really earring, it was called “ear dang”. They were always in pair and were hold at the end of two same length strings. Sometimes may be at the end of hairpins so the jewelry can be hang down just right behind the ears, and looks just like wearing earrings. This design was really amazing and clever.
After the ancient jewelry, we went to see the modern art pieces. Most of time, art pieces are hard to understand. But they were beautiful and well-designed. They were all made by glass, like shells, clothes, boat, ice house and so on. There was a one I like, it was purple and looks like three eggplants with many squared and rhombic twinkling glass diamonds on the top of the main purple parts. They look weird but I like the color of it. |
The next and also the last exhibition area, is for an artist called Shelly Xue, “Fusion”. Those art pieces all have the idea of ink, the fusion ink. Black and white, some mix and the others separate. One of them is very attractive, that is a pair of wings, all the feathers were made by glass, grayish glass pieces. Very big and special. And there is another one, I do not understand it, but it looks chic. A holloed-out thin black plate on a elliptical white plain. It looks smooth and comfortable.
The glass museum is nice to go and you can spend some time inside without feel boring~ 20130830 |