A hard choice(Yap)

Time flies! Only one month is left for me to think which major to choose. My marks of the National College Entrance Examinations are relatively too low compared to that of those who come from other provinces. So I don not have access to certain majors. Thank goddness! The two majors which needs highest marks do not seem attractive to me. However, I still have many choices.
Unlike making the same choice after the NCEE, I feel much concerned this time. Last summer is really a awful memory for me. Choosing a major seemed meaningless to me because I was that depressed by the low marks. Now it's a fabulous opportunity to pursue my real dream and it's time for me to start to make full preparation for my future. I must not miss it!

Now I have already had some ideas. ESP and QF maybe my best choice, but I don't know which is more suitable for me, that is to say, I have no idea now that which one I should put at the first choice. My family ask me to make the choice myself and encourage me that whichever I choose I they will support me. That makes it much more difficult. CE may be put in the third place because I don't want to be distributed to certain boring majors.

The song " It's my life" comes to my mind now. Yes, it's my life no matter how tough or successful it is. I have to and need to make the choice myself. It's a process of learning and choosing to miss it means refusing to become mature.

Hakuna Matata! It's MY LIFE!

Thinking about Love(Yap)

I am not so romantic as our group monitor, Guan Xiaokang, who has shared many good love story with us. However, as a pure "C", I also have some thinking about love.

Love is one of the most valuable things we own and maybe the only thing with us after our death to some extent. Before going to university in China, I did not know how happy I was. It seemed to me that it's natural for my parents to treat me like that. Sometimes I even got angry when they repeated something to me. As soon as I got to the Harbin Institute of Technology and had to live on my own, I came to know how much my parents loved me. Every time I made phone calls with my parents, I was in great joy and never bored with chatting with them. Now in Singapore, the feeling is much stronger.

But what simulate me to write this article is not that but that many times in my bridging course people mentioned love between lovers. As far as I know, many people in Eton Hall have the desire to find a boyfriend/girlfriend. In my opinion, the part of the reason is that they want to have someone to share their feelings. And one of the most significant parts of love is listening. She/He expects your suggestions and look forward to your help when complaining something to you. If you are indifferent to what they say, I think, there's not a long way for you to part with she/he.

Love is a topic that will never be out of date. Every literary master-piece in human history has something to do with love to some degree, not matter which kind of love it is. Most of the pop music and moving movies are love songs. Historians and sociologists have divided human history into different periods, such as the industrial age and information age. But we can genealize it as a whole, no matter how long human history will be, "the Love Age".

About DISC (AW)

It didn’t mean a comfortable time for us in Today’s morning, because we had to get up early to catch the bus to NTU to have our DISC test. What is DISC test? It is a test which can tell yourself, your personality. After you know it, you can dig out your potential and it can help you build relationship with others.
When we entered the LT1 of NTU, it was a little late. Firstly our lecturer told us some background about this text and introduced how to go for the text. Everyone was distributed a booklet which was printed 24 subjects. Every subject had four options, I would choose the most one I will do and the least one I will do in every subject. After I finished my work, I turned to the next page. My answers had appeared on this page because the first page was carbon paper. I counted the results in every frame and filled the form with these results.
By depicting three following diagrams, I got the answer at last. I am “S” that means I am a composed and steady person. I think the answer is very interesting and precise. Though the people around me think I am “I” that means I am an active and influential person, the fact was I know I am really S inside. I like to listen to other’s words and I can understand other very well, I desired to be a member of a team and be loyal to my team.
Our lecturer informed us that we could use the answer to improve ourselves, I couldn’t agree any more. Generally, I refuse to change maybe a little conservative, and I am too sensitive to others’ comments about me sometimes. I have focused on my personality and realized these facts for a long time since I was in my high school. I can see my own style often brings some problems to myself, too worry about something may happen. I can still remember something caused by my personality made me very sad.
Recently I am reading a book, The 7 habits of highly effective people, which was written by Stephen R. Covey. Here I am in Singapore, I have and will have many things which can help me broaden my horizon. I want to challenge myself however the most I think is change myself.

The Psychometric Test We Took Today ( M.L.)

Today we took an psychometric test in on our character traits. The test was given by a psychologist who is doing voluntary work in Nanyang Technology University. Before the test, we were given a lecture on how important it is to discover the character traits of both ourselves and people around us. The lecturer gave examples on how recognizing others' characters led to successful communication and how realizing one's own character led to better chances of fully developing one's potential.
Then we took the test, following the lecturer's instruction that we should not think too much before we gave the answers and just answer by our first instinct. After I finished the single-choice questions, I traced the spots of my answers to the questions on a well-designed graph and joined them with a smooth curve, and here the sketch of my character came. I compared the drawing with dozens of drawings given below and found the most similar one in shape with mine. The illustrations beside the drawing read:"You are a contemplator, a processor , you are the one who ponders." Actually I was not surprised, because I have known all the way that I am a person who likes to be quiet, reading or thinking.
Before my mind could wander, the psychologist continued on the lecture. He gave the features of different character traits one by one. I learnt that compared to others, my strengths were abilities on analyzing and critical thinking, and the features I am proud of my character traits are steadiness and reliance. Personally I think it match my character, because I highly emphasis the quality of responsibility and I have always tried to live up to it. On the other hand, the weakness of my character is setting standards too high for myself and others, which often leads to disapprovement or disappointment. This is true for me and I want to change about it. I also learnt some famous people of this character, such as Alfred B.Nobel and Aristotle, who I admire very much.
I can't say whether I like my character or not, because I have to accept myself just as who I am. What I will do is to maintain my strengths and change my weakness into better features. I also got better understanding of others' characters and ways of behaving, and it will help me communicating with people of different characters more efficiently.

Love Song(YSN)

He lay calmly in the time machine as if it was just a nomal trip,like the countless ones he had taken before.But nobody except him knew that he had waited for hundreds of years.
"Hoo hoo"The machine was running.Everything would come to an end and the efforts would be paid off soon,he thought,and then memory drew back.....
He was in the human world and young at that time,holding hands,laying on thegrassy lawn and listening to a wonderful song together with his beloved girl.The wind blew and kissed his face mildly,the soft sunshine was warm and the fresh air mixed a light fragrance of flowers .This was the most beautiful day in his life.Many times he woke up from the dream that he was back on this day with great pity that he could only remember a few rhythms of the song.He never stopped in search of that fateful love song.
Silently,the time machine was breaking the time fog and flying forwards.He checked all the devices one more time and found no problem.Again,he fell into recalling.
Her leaving,which he was so unwilling to accept,was deeply in his mind however,contributing to the great sorrow through out the rest of his life.What a foolish and stubborn,but anyway,romantic boy!He decided to love the girl forever and,he actually did so.
The song was the symbol of their love!How can he fogive himself if he can't find it.So he listened to thousands of songs and met thousands of musicians in his life of a human being.He couldn't find it and died with great pain but to find that he entered a new world,in which people couldn't get old ,not to say dead ,and there were time machines!They could use these time machines to go to their previous world at any time except the time they live in,because it's impossible to be two same persons in the same world at the same time.So he went to the time before or after his life to continue his searching career,that in fact,became his only career in that world.
He didn't know how many years had passed.He just knew he would hear the song soon.One of his friends brought the good news that the girls computer was found in a dump and according to the pieces of rhythms he sang,the friend was sure that there was that song in the computer.
The time machine was still flying.The speed never seemed to be so slow.
He suddenly thought of an important thing:what should he do after that,he had done nothing but to search the song for many years.Yes,he could listen to the song everyday and be drunk recalling the happiness his beloved once brought to him.After all,he lived his whole life for the love.He tried his best to recall the happiness,but nothing appeared except that day and the song.He concentrated on the song and had forgotten most of the other things,even the girl's face and voice.
The other thing he could remember clearly was the moment the girl said goodbye to him,but before the moment,what did the girl say?He thought hard and eventually came to the cruel conclusion.
The girl said that:"What you really love is the feeling that you're loving,not me."
That's why the girl left him.
That's why the boy never give up his search.
Finally,understanding that,the boy killed himself after the time machine landed.I've said that he couldn't die at that world,but he's then in his previous world.

(YAP) DEAR DAIRY

Dear dairy,
Today is February 24, 2009. It rained heavily in the afternoon like yesterday and the day before yesterday. It’s no longer monsoon anymore; however, it rains in torrents as if it wants to pour down all the rain of the whole year’s storage. Anyway, I like it. Isn’t there a song whose beginning is “Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain”? I like it too.
Sitting an exam is always boring and making me nervous, and the reason is usually that I cannot do it well, especially of late. I try to breathe hard to overcome the nerves every time before a test or an oral report. It occurs to me of the topic PHOBIA I gave weeks ago, and this is definitely one of the occasions. Are all these common? When thinking of the answer YES, I gain a great comfort. For sure, it’s only a consolatory thought.
Kampong Glam is a Malay village.
And that’s all what I can say about it.
I do mean it’s a good place to comprehend some Malay past in Singapore history, yet it exhibits so little when compared with the long long Chinese history. Every museum in China is larger than the one I visited today, which made me very uncomfortable while wandering in it. Furthermore, I could find a large number of the items being sold today in some stores in China, at least I’d seen lots of which. No offence of course. I know it’s a sassy habit to compare everything with the life in China, if I could help it. I am adjusting.
However, I really like the feeling walking in the rain, with my new friend, passing those Malay shopkeepers standing at their doors to solicit trades, whose invariable smiling faces adding the perfect cinematic touch. What I also like is Lin’s voice, a little girlish, which made me speak just like her without noticing. She is the type of girl whom you want to listen to, out of her sincerity, no showing-off or something else, which reminds me of my best friend.
By the way, I watched Amelie, the movie I have a crush on, again tonight. Luckily I am still loving it and find myself want to be an Amelie, leading a pure, delicate and helpful life.

P．S． “Crystal clear” is a new collocation I learnt today, which means very clearly stated or understood. (E.g. I’d like to make it crystal clear that I do not agree with these proposals.)

the scar back on head (ML)(08)-my second essay.may you laugh

share with you all.i think it's interesting and hope you enjoy it!
I have a scar of 4 needls on my head which is now covered by hair,but every time I touch it ,I could not help laughing and would come up with those funny days 10 years ago.
I was a very naughty girl then, very active in sports ,and very good at playing.I would come up with various ways to enjoy myself.One of the very useful tools to entertain myself is the parallel bars,on which I could do whatvever movements I want or I could imagine.
It was one of the sunny days during my 8 years’ life.I rushed out of the classroom immediately after class with my friends,directly to the parallel bars.Throwing our school bag on the yard,we played freely and happily as if we were the athlets on the olimpic games yard.Suddently,I had a brainstorm and came up with a movement which was very high-level,lying on the parallel bars with just your four limbs.As I was doing it ,I showed off to my friends how perfectly I was doing the difficult movement,supposing that I must be the only person who could do this.However,just as I was saying that:"hey,you guys,look,this is the only movement that could match to the athlets.”and because I was so young that my arms and legs were not long enough, comparing to the distance between the two stick of the parallel bars, to reach the parallel bars both sides at the same time and hold my whole body for a longer time.As you could imagine,I fell down perfectly from the parallel bars ,causing my head kissed the steel down the parallel bars firmly.I felt a little light -headedness that moment,not realizing what had happened.It seemed that my head had been filled with sand which kept moving in my head.Even the parallel bars didn't seem so parallel with each other.My friends then came up to surround me ,asking if I was OK.“I AM OK,I AM OK ,I AM PERFECTLY ALL RIGHT.”said I ,touching my head.After which,I discovered that my hands had been covered with my poor blood originally from my poor head.
My friends hurried to take me to the hospital .The doctor cut off part of my hair around the would and sewd 4 needls,but I felt nothing during the surgery.It acturally didn't hurt at all!The kind doctor bandaged my head.I knew how funny I looked that month.My classmates would laugh at me wearing such a beautiful distinctive hat.I would also laugh at myself a lot standing in front of a mirror.I even drew a red sun in the middle of the bandage on my forehead,pretending to be a Japanese soldier.
Recalling the past,I couldn’t understand some of my behaviours in my childhood even myself.Maybe that is innocence,which won't come back forever.

Misfortunes Struck (Lugg. 7)

February 21, 2009, I experienced an unlucky day, which made me rather depressed.
In the morning, I struggled to get up, as usual, and prepared myself for an introduction meeting that offered some help on choosing majors, which was held in Central Library. After listening to several seniors, I felt that nothing is just for me, because I have a phobia about physics, which narrows my range of choice. What’s worse, I am not very good at maths as other Chinese students are, so I am in a disadvantage over the others. So, my only choice seems to be computer. However, some seniors have told me that it is no easy learning well if I choose computer. What a tough assignment it is to make a final decision!
After the meeting, I, with another 3 mates, walked to the bus stop. No sooner had we sat on the bench than a greatly heavy rain began. Without any sign, millions and billions beads of drops, in a high speed, fell down from the sky onto the ground. It was like someone pouring an immense basin of water with anger. It was at that time that the bus reached. Initially, I thought I was quite lucky that I wasn’t caught in the heavy rain and believed the rain would stop in no time as a practice. However, when we got our destination, the rain seemed not fully satisfied to wet insufficient people. Consequently, it rained cats and dogs for nearly half an hour. We really got trapped in the unexpected rainfall. Immediately when the rain was slightly lighter, I rushed back to Eton Hall in full speed. Nevertheless, another pouring presented itself in front of me, which challenged my quickness for I was taking my laptop with me.
Upon arrival at my room, the bag had already been wringing. What was relatively lucky was that the laptop was OK. But as the old saying puts it that misfortunes never come singly, I found another frustrating thing that my thumb drive had gone away. Oh my goodness! My handsome brilliant thumb drive left me forever, without saying goodbye. I searched every corner of my room only to find that it really departed from me! Reluctant to admit the truth, I made a second effort but unfortunately the result was the same. I gave up inside out when I realized the fact that I will never see it again.
Misfortunes struck me heartlessly on a simple Saturday and devitalized my thumb drive forever.I was more than depressed and also with fury. I’ll have to buy a new one when the IT Show begins. If only I hadn’t taken my thumb drive with me that day!

Reflections On the Past Lantern Festival (Lugg. 7)

February 9th, which at the same time was January 15th in Chinese lunar calendar, was our Festival of Lanterns, the last day of the new year.
Actually, I was not aware of the significant date initially until a classmate shared her thought on the festival in class. I felt ashamed at that time because I would not be able to send a short message to wish my parents a happy Lantern Festival if the group mate hadn’t mentioned this. God bless me!
It was from that day on that we started to seat ourselves on whichever chair we like. After the silent reading, maybe silent sleep for some classmates, Miss Wong, in accordance with practice, began the class with a conversation. And a girl talked about her experience on the MRT when the train was passing by the 11th station. I got shocked when I heard that some committed suicide there, ending their precious life regardless of the feeling of their relatives, especially parents. How irresponsible they were to leave inerasable scars on the heart of their parents’! I could sense Miss Wong’s sincere concern when she told us that it was we who were most significant to our parents, rather than how much achievement we would obtain. What would made our parents anxious was that we became anxious when we got a low mark in an exam, rather than the shame we brought to them. Our parents expected us to be a person of integrity, to behave ethically and to live happily and healthily most, rather than…
After the touching conversation, Miss Wong treated us dumplings, which are traditional food eaten on that special day. Then, with a feeling of satisfaction, we went back to the classroom to continue our lesson. I remembered clearly about the topic of gifts. I recalled that I often sent a sandglass to my friend when he was on his birthday because I valued time very much. However, I have been wasting time at times since I came here, which made me rather annoyed. I always delayed my task to the next day and kept reminding myself to stop procrastinating and do something. I scarcely found efficiency in my daily work. I was reconciled to the awful circumstances but I couln’t prevail over it. Oh my!
My mind wandered further and further, and I realized that I cost much time on meaningless things because of my over carefulness. I once believed it’s better to err on the side of caution. Nevertheless, I doubted it at that time for I’ve wasted much time owing to my excessive caution. Maybe it was time to change a bit. Suddenly, I came back to the class as a consequence of the break. I was not on my mind just now. I stunned for a while and wondered, in despiration, whether I could still remember it the next day!
Hope that I could really make better use of time!

Tricks in beauty and slimming advertisements(JEGA)

What I want tosay first is that I originally wrote this as a journal, but I knew later that I wrote on a wrong topic. So I publish it as a blog.
Today, more and more women try to lose weight and to be beautiful, as people, or at least women themselves think slimmer and more beautiful women are more charming and have an advantage in finding jobs. Interestingly, some men think the same and want to be charming too. To satisfy people’s desire of being charming and more importantly to make their own pockets full, businessmen put out millions of products, advertising everyday either on TV or in newspapers everyday to attract their generous customer to buy, buy, buy. But no one is foolish in fact, and they won’t spend money on what they consider useless. Therefore, the first task of businessmen is to let customers believe in their product through their advertisements. How do they make advertisement believable? They usually do it using one of the three methods, so we can generally clarify into three categories just according to the method they use.
The first and most common method advertisements use to enable us to trust is to find a famous star to be the mouthpiece of their products. In this kind of advertisements, the star will appear in very short films and express that the products are good in a proper way. These advertisements last less than a few seconds and usually on popular channels if on TV. And if they are in newspapers, the stars will always show in right poses to let the products stand out, and of course these pictures occupy big space on well-known papers and are always found in noticeable place. The companies put a lot of money into this kind of advertisements, and usually only rich companies can afford the expenses to invite stars to act and then put the advertisements on TV and newspapers, as the more famous the stars are, the more they will charge, and a few seconds on popular channels can sometimes cost millions. Why are businessmen willing to spend money on this? Because they will get back more from the advertisements, which attract more customers. It seems a little silly for us to believe a product can make us as beautiful and slim as the star advertising the products just because the star and the product appear together and apparently the star is using it and it works, but that’s just what we do. Fans who are crazy about their idols will buy whatever the idols recommend, while others would rather buy something advertised by famous people, for at least they can be more reliable than those without advertisement or advertised without famous people. We are watching such kind of advertisements on Channel One, Two…and read in Today and Times everyday and senselessly pushed to buy them. Will we become more beautiful with these products? Sometime, perhaps, whereas, sometimes, the other way around.
The second kind of advertisements uses another method to make them believable most of the time without superstars. In such advertisements, many unfamiliar faces will appear on the screen saying they have used the products. The director will put out their former pictures or videos before using the product, which are different from how they look now. They either have much better skin, better shape, or anything, that is, in all, they are more beautiful and charming. Later, they will explain how the product works and how grateful they are that the product makes them more beautiful. These advertisements can last very long for 10 to 30 minutes or even longer, because so many people act and say something. Since it’s too expensive to advertise on famous channels and the companies that advertise like this can’t be famous or rich, so this kind of advertisements is broadcast on shopping channels or less popular channels like local channels again and again until make you bring up. Anyway, they make sense, and they are really attractive to those who are not rich and also want to be nicer and they also work for credulous people who want to change their situations quickly and easily. However, do the products really have the magical function to change you into a completely new and beautiful person? I myself don’t think so. Considering the high technology recently, I believe computer can change a beauty into a beast or a beast into beauty, after I watched many fiction films. And I should tell the truth that I’ve never heard of these companies. Shall we trust them? If their products are good, why aren’t their companies famous at all and why do these advertisements disappear in a short period of time? When we can’t explain everything, will we use them? I don’t know. But one thing I know is that they have customers, but I don’t think they will work as well on the customers.
If you think the second category is in some way magical, while the third will make you mad. In such category of advertisement, they will experiment on the stage either on real people or some instruments. They will just show you how magic show is. They sometimes let see how the products will protect the surface of an apple, or show you how the medicine clear all the fat in the pipe. The rest of time, they will either ask someone to come on the stage and try the products, or they will go to the street and ask some “strange” people to try products. Then, something unbelievable will happen surely: the effects of the products come out immediately. The scene may be like this: one side of a women’s face which is applied to the product is much whiter than the other side. I would like to say I would rather trust the second kind of advertisement. For this kind make me confused. Can changes come so fast? Why don’t they try to be a magician. The category of advertisements is to some extent absurd.
I classify the popular beauty and slimming advertisements I’ve seen in China into the above three categories. I know as the beauty industry in developed countries is more developed and they have more ways to advertise. I also heard that in American they make TV programs that seem to tell people how to lose weight and how to be beautiful, but in fact they make products like books and food according the concepts they transmit to audiences and let people buy them. It’s the wisest idea I’ve seen. Customers won’t sense it easily, and think the advertisers aren’t persuading them but doing benefits to them. It’s people’s nature to pursue beauty and charm and other people want to make money from this. Therefore, people will always come up with new ways to advertise. Then as there are so many advertises here with so many tricks here, which product should we trust? I don’t know. But I will use some of them anyway, so will must of us.

Tea (YSM)

From the very beginning, tea was used as medicine to relieve poison. Later, towards the end of the western Han Dynasty, tea was regarded as the drink of imperial and noble families. From the Jin to Sui dynasties, tea became popular among the common people. In Tang Dynasty, people tended to have more delicate tea tastes and went through a rather complicated process in tea drinking. If you love Jay Chou, you must know Lu Yu. It was him who wrote the first book about tea in Tang Dynasty named Cha Jing. During Ming and Qing Dynasties, people drank piece-tea instead of solid-tea, and tea makers stirred fried tea in an attempt to strengthen tea in an attempt to strengthen tea-leaves and flavor.
Tea is classified into six kinds according to the color or the making process. They are green tea, which is not fermented at all, like Longjing and Biluochun; yellow tea, like Dayeqing; white tea, like Junshanyinzhen; Oolong tea, which is semi-fermented, like Tieguanyin; black tea, like Lizhihongcha; Hei tea, which is fully-fermented, like Puer.
In ancient China, tea was regarded as one of the seven daily necessities along with firewood, rice, oil salt, soy sauce, and vinegar. It plays an important role in Chinese culture and custom, especially in marriage and receiving guests. It is also a good choice for us to keep healthy. Drinking tea can help protect us from aging and pollution, reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, strengthen our bones, protect our teeth, improve the immune defenses, increase our metabolism and help to lose weight.
Since drinking tea enjoys so many benefits, so next time, when you are wondering which drink to buy, please try a bottle of tea.

Some reflections about my study(5)

Since it is already the end of the seventh week of the intensive English course, I figure out that I need some assessments about my study. Generally, I have treated the course seriously. I found it a good way to improve my English. So, when I am attending the class, I always try my best to concentrate and learn as much as possible. It is very comfortable to listen to the teachers speaking English very proficiently and fluently and I also find my listening proficiency enhanced though listening to them. Furthermore, I also try hard to practice my spoken English. I specially work on the pronunciations to make myself sound natural. I also focus on some orally presenting skills such as how to give an oral presentation in front of many people. Even though I am not very good at it, I think I am improving. There is another important part of the study which is concerned with the vocabulary. Every day I meet so many new words in class when reading the texts or listening to the speakers. I particularly take notes of the new words in my notebook prepared in advance. In addition, I also deal with the assignments in earnest and all by myself. I benefit a lot from the teachers’ feedback of my assignments.
However, there’s something which I am not satisfied with and needs to be improved as far as the spare time is concerned. Since I meet so many so words as I have mentioned, it is very important to memorize them after class. But I don’t make good use of my spare time to do what I ought to. Commonly, when I arrive at the hostel after class, I start to feel very tired and don’t want to undertake memorizing the new words immediately. I usually do some sports or play games before dinner. After dinner, when it is the study time, I don’t feel like reviewing the lessons, either. It seems that I become fed up with the whole studying thing. What is worse, at weekends, I also spend most of time relaxing and having fun instead of looking through what I have learnt that week. It really sucks! I will try my best to improve this aspect.

Cherish and Devote (YSM)

One day, when I was surfing the Internet, I saw these pictures by accident. I never imagined that even today in China, there are still some people suffering poverty to this extent. Seeing the poor children, who though live under such extremely arduous conditions, still continue their study, I feel moved and shameful, compared their insistent and studious spirit with my laziness.
We spend our time sleeping, playing computer games; we go shopping crazily on weekends; we spoil food; we eat KFC, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut; we enjoy ourselves on Roller Coaster, Ferris Wheel; we go after fashion…
While at the same time, they can hardly have a full meal; they have to walk several kilometers’ mountain road to school; they seldom see their parents who work far away from them all the year around; they don’t know what the outside world is like; they have no idea what is skyscraper, laptop, hand phone; they are eager to study but they even can’t afford a pencil; they shyly receive interviews from different people and wait to see something may change afterwards…We feel sorry for them; we show sympathy to them; we cry; we donate… On TVs, we often see people’s considerate care for them, hand in hand, shoulder by shoulder, while when it all comes to the end, the village return to calmness, they still shiver in the cold during winter, they still pull their tiny bodies to chop firewood, they still look up at the faraway sky, missing their parents.
Some of them have never stepped out of the mountain. They bear the harsh weather, barren land. They want to get rid of poverty, and they know that knowledge is power, but few people truly want to step into the mountain to tell them what the Internet is, what multi-media is, what genetic engineering is… Look at their eyes which are longing for study; look at the heavy burden on their small backs; look at poor conditions they are in… why shouldn’t we feel satisfied about our life? It is said that “Man are born equal.” but see, is it really equal?
Please, next time, when you feel bored about study, when you waste your time doing nothing, when you complain the food, think of the poor children in mountains. If you can, please stretch out your hands to hold them, to help these children.

What I am doing is not what I expect myself to do(JEGA)

Since I came to Singapore I kill my time talking and watching movies, and to tell the truth, I enjoy it very much. However sometimes when I am extremely happy, I raise myself a question if I am living how I want and if I am leading a kind of life I like. I can't answer my own question, but I can't. I myself don't want to choose. On one hand, I am happy to act as a talktive girl and chat with my roommates about all the things we want to share as girls, and I like to watch all the good movies which absorb me into the plots and just make me feel I am one of the characters. I have never been happier. I enjoy what I feel, and I like to have nothing to do but live as a household lady who even doesn't have to do housework. I like to be with my friends, laughing and crying with them. Perhaps I also like to live in an isolated world where I can just enjoy, enjoy and enjoy but not need to work. However, on the other hand, I found I am not leading a kind of life I am looking forward to. Beside fictions, I also want to see the real world experiencing things not only through the eyes of the characters in the films. I like watching in front of the computer, but I do want to go outside to expose myself in the sunshine. I enjoy chatting with my friends in the room, but I feel lost about the fact that we may waste a lot time talking about what is unnecessary and wrong. I like killing time doing nothing, but I can't help wondering about what I will be like if I have more knowledge. I want to lock myself in a room without anything new, but I can't block my imaginations about what new is happening outside and what different life can be. I have much passion in knowing about new things and new experiences, which I can't drop off. I always have confusion like that, but this time it lasts too long from the day I finished the college entrance exam. I stay where I was for too long. During the few months or more than half a year I have been a completely a bad person. I developed a bad eating habit, gained weight, lost interests in studying, give up running, thought less about my responsibilities, minded less about spending money, didn’t care much about bad scores, but there are something good also I know more things about computer and type faster, learn more about what other girls think, have less burdens, do more shopping, become more optimistic. I can’t say I am regret anyway. I am not regret because I know why I did all these things. In all of the eight months I tried to recover from the scar of the exam. It took me 3 years to recover from the failure of the high school entrance exam. Until today I still feel pain. I heard someone said that failure is something that is not easy to deal with because it will leave you painful for a long time. I still can’t treat my failure correctly now. I think of it and feel just like when I thought of the failure in the high school entrance exam in high school. I feel ashamed of that. I hardly get rid of the shadow. I really care about that. I escape from those feeling by never working hard as before, to make forget the failure. Year, now I am here in Singapore and no one will care about what I got in the exam, but in my heart there is always something I can’t forget, that’s what blocks my way. I’m in fact a bit afraid I will fail again if I work hard again. I have a feeling that if I do nothing and fail, I will not be that sad; if I am not regarded as someone like in middle school and high school, I will not feel hopeless when people regard me as a pity. Before I always gave people hope that I could be good, but I failed. I was depressed anyway. Once I was not the kind of people I am now, I want to be excellent, but now I am afraid to fail again. I enjoy the life in some way, but I know I am not living the way I expect and I know I am daydreaming and not willing to wake up. Dreaming is good, but I know I can’t dream everyday without an end. From the day, I graduated from high school, I chose to escape and do nothing that can make me uncomfortable. I dream for so long without considering anything serious. I know I can’t live a life like that all the time, because it’s not as interesting as I thought and not as comfortable as it seemed to be. In fact, I’d like to say I have been fed up with the life the last 8 month. I am bored by dreaming and having nothing to do. I remember I dropped my tensed life in high school, because I thought that was enough for me and I was bored. While today I can’t bear such comfortable life now, I would rather go back. Though I still feel pain about the past and I am not brave enough to look back, there must be a day I should face it and truly I will change the way I live. I will try to make myself satisfied and I think anyway I’m here not where I was hurt. I still love the world , I want to put myself into wonderful adventures , I hope to know more about new thing, I have things to fulfill. That’s why I want to change, to go back to the normal path. I always know I will go back to my path wherever else I choose to go in a short moment, but I never regret to go somewhere else and then come back. I don’t think it should be a mistake. I treasure it, as it’s a part of life and growing up. It gives me time to rest and have a look at all the beautiful things I didn’t pay attention to. I like my leisure life recently, but anyway I will be back, because I want to know what will happen in front. I am not an emotional person, but I will always think of what happens to me, because I am a normal person and every normal person does this.

my some oponions about the obama

As everyone knows, the new president of the America came into being few days ago. Obama became the first black president in the American history by beating McCann. He became fashionable for a time. But now I don’t want to praise him or tell how he became the president and his experience. I just have some opinions about the phenomenon happened to him
Obviously, Obama’s dream has come true now. And he is a real star president for us who drew the world’s attention to him. He is a star more than a president now for us. He beat mccann in the election by higher support rate. But I think that’s the inevitable result in the history of America. First, America is suffering from a economic crisis. The economy is in depression so everyone becomes in despair. They want to change to break the tradition, to create a new world. They need a hero coming out to save the America. In this particular situation, Obama appeared with these conditions. He has a black skin which makes him very special. It could meet the needs of people who want to change. This different color draws a lot of attention to him and he became the focus. What’s more, he has a great charisma. He acts as a hero who will save the USA. As a excellent speechmaker, he could make the supporter hot-blooded. Everyone worships him.
But I think we should calm down, we couldn’t worship him blindly. All right, when he works as a president, he is just a president. At that time, there is nothing to do with his colour, his charisma. Only the result states things. We will focus on what he will do instead of how handsome he is. Furthermore, we must be clear that no matter how perfect he is, he is a politician. That’s the essence of him. He has all of the elements of being a politician. The fact is that politicians always tell lies, work for big companies and themselves, which nobody could avoid. Obama has made a lot of promise, but how many of them could come true, nobody knows, Of course, Obama is also sponsored by big companies to be the president. He must work for them before long. It is a common phenomenon especially in America, such a capitalist nation. As for this matter, no exception could be made.
So, we must know, to be a president doesn’t mean success. To be a good president is really successful. Stop worshiping him. Just watch what achievements he will get in his term. We will notice those achievements instead of himself. Maybe, the next time he runs in an election for the president, it will all depend on the achievement.

We Can Run!(AW)

We Can Run!
The wind blows my hair and beads of sweat stand on my face. When I am jogging, I enjoy the rhythm and relaxation of it. And when joining a group of running lovers, I am mesmerized by jogging more. The firm belief in our minds which encourages us to carry on all along is that we can run!
It was dark outside in the early morning, when most of roommates were still dreaming on the bed. I grabbed my T-shirt by my side in the dark. After a quick wash, I rushed my breakfast just in time for our warm-up before setting off. Standing in a circle on an open field, we running-lovers from different universities do warm-ups following our senior, Gary. After stretches and push-ups, everyone seemed to be dragged out of their dreams and be refreshed.
As Gary blurted out an order ’Run!’ , our running journey began. There were 12 runners in our group totally and we ran in pairs. Starting from Eton Hall, we jogged along the main roads. Without many vehicles, the streets seemed quiet and fascinating in the early morning. During our jogging, we talked and laughed happily. Our topics ranged from hometowns in our motherland to our school lives in Singapore. Everyone took an active part in the conversation and soon we knew well each other. The sweat burst through the skins of our foreheads and trickles of sweat formed and rolled down our backs. As time went, we were all tired. So we clapped and shouted ’Come on! Come on!’ to encourage each other.
At last, when we finished our running journey, greatly to our surprise, we managed to cover 12 kilometers in one hour or so. So each of us cheered on our victory crazily at the destination. And there was a broad smile on everyone’s face.
We enjoy our running in the group and we are very proud that we can run!

The Alumni Association Meeting in the Chinese Embassy ( M.L.)

This Saturday I was invited to attend the Shandong University Singapore Alumni Association Foundation Meeting that was held in the Chinese Embassy.
Before I went, I was sure that we would be strictly questioned and searched at the entrance I was a bit worried because my visa was not in my hand at the moment. But the real thing was that when I got to the entrance of the embassy and told the receptionist what I was up to, he just let me in with a word of welcome, no questioning or searching that I had expected.
After we had settled down in a meeting room, I looked around to see that the attendees were of all ages from young people in their early 20s to people in their 60s. After they introduced themselves, I learnt that their occupations differ from lab researchers to business chairmen, but most them work in the academic fields such as in A Star and in Ministry of Education. Most of those who haven't worked yet are doing their Master Degree or Doctor Degree, and there were only a few undergraduates, and I'm the only one that is still doing bridging course.
Despite the age differences, the conversations I had with many of them were very enjoyable, they told me that the abilities that the society lays most significance on are a cross-subject view and the ablility to ride the waves. They also emphasized that preparing early is of vital importance for seizing opportunities in the future by providing their own cases as examples.
Then the meeting began. Since this was the first time that the association was in function after it was registered, the most important thing to do was to elect the committee of the association. We recommend several candidates who we thought was qualified. Then we voted to elect the chairman of the community, the honorary chairman, the chief secretary, the organization secretary, the treasurer and other members of the association community.
Then time for refreshment came, we went down to the ground hall to have some nice desserts and fruits. While eating, we moved around, joined a group of people, had a lovely conversation, and then walked to join another group to talk. I met many people who gave some directions for choosing my major or imformation of the situation of employment of certain careers. Such chances are not what I can take for granted and I tried to get answers to all my doubts about my future academic and career issues.
After the refreshment we went back to the meeting room to listen to the report on the development and current situation of our former university Shandong University. I got to know something that I didn't know, such as the history of the several branch schools of Shandong University and the interesting anecdotes about our former headmaster Zhan Tao.
Some of the attendees got so excited that that they began to talk regardless of the report. And before long the report turned into an exciting discussion about the old days each of us spent in our alma mater. Everyone got very emotional and an old professor who had been in Shandong University for 20 years before coming to Singapore even got so sentimental that he couldn’t keep his tears when he talked about the view from the window of his dormitory, his roommates, the library that he usually stayed in until midnight, the path that he paved on every dusk…Though the days I spent at Shandong was decades after his, I just felt that the emotion was the same. There was a moment that I reached desperately into the past.
When everyone calmed down a little, we started to discuss about how we could help each other and what we could do for the association. Then we went to the Chinese national flag and had a group photo taken with a banner which read:Shandong University Singapore Alumni Association held in our hands. After that, we were dismissed and I went back to Eton Hall.
It was a wonderful day, and I plan to participate in the activities to be held on the Mid-autumn Festival by the association. But that's a bit too far, first I'll finish my bridging course.

the sagittarius ( ML )(08)

I was born in November the 30th,1990(368)
And I am sagittarius.now I would like to talk something about my constellation
Sagittarius is located in the brightest part in the sky,near the center of the galaxy.there are 20 stars which are brighter than the fourth level stars.it’s protected by the jupiter and it is indeed protected by Jupiter.the symbol of it is an arrow.
It is said that in the distant old greek,there lives a people,in which people are all half man and half horse,which is also a very violent race
This kind of people presents for both irratation and ration,human and brute.however,there is a very distinct man who was so kind and candid that he was respected by all the other people in the race.one day ,the strongest hero Hercules,heard that the wire in the race is attravtive and unforgetable ,so he asked the people in the race to bring him wire as much as possible .He was finally drunk .People in the race all speak ill of Harcules.At the same time ,Hercules was provoke by their words.He was so angry and drunk that he tried to kill these people.Unfortunately,qilun was the first to be killed by haigelkisi by accident.The arrow went through the bright red heart of qilun and he died for his people.Jupiter heard the noise coming from the race and he through the qilun’s body straightly into the sky to become a group of stars which is today’s sagittarius.
It is also said that the sagittarius is presenting the combination of human beings and animals.he is an outstanding docter ,learner and prophet. He bringed the three great heroes jason,achilles and aeneas.He is the son of cronus and philyra,the father of Jupiter.As a result of scared ,he change himself to harf human and harf horse.His mother ,who was very sad and sorry for his son ,transformed herself in to a Bodhisattva.
That is the legend.
I indeed believe in constellation,because the discription of the character of people who are sagittarius is just describing me .I don't know how could it fit so well.It sometime indeed has the power to move you and I had no choice but to believe.How about you?Do you believe it?

The scar on my ankle (ML)(08)

The scar on my ankle
I indeed have a scar on the back of my head,but I have a scar of 4 needles on my ankle as well.
It was my second year in senior high,and we planed to get together with my former classmeats in my junior high in a resteraunt .
It was a very sunny day in the summer holiday.The sun was shining brightly as if he was in such a good mood just like me that day.I was wearing my new white shoes and my new skirt order to a give a new look to my friends.We talked happily as we hadn’t seen each other for almost 2 years.We drinked beers to toast together to celebrate our first reunion.
Suddenly ,there was a sudden explosion beside my foot –there happened to be a bottle of beer which hadn't been open ,and the boy sitting next to me kicked it down by accident,so it explored-the waiter came immidiately it happened,asking my friends if he was all right.Thank god that he was wearing a long trousers that day and he was not hurt at all.It was just a small case that had cut the intense atmosphere down.Then ,we continued our joke and laugh.However,fewer minites later,I felt my ankle itched.At first, I though it might be a naughty mosquito kissing me on my ankle ,so I scratched myself.Unfortunately,then,I discovered my hand was covered with blood.I looked down to see what had happened.There was a long slit on my ankle.My foot had been covered with my poor blood completely and the white shoe turned to a different red shoe.I used ice to stanch bleeding but it worked little.I hurried to the hospital with my friends.After the surgery lasting for about a hour ,I though it had ended .However,in contrary ,the doctor told me that he had just picked the glass scraps out from the would.The surgery lasted another one hour ,during which,the doctor sewed 4 needls for my ankle and gave me an injection of the ant-tetanus vaccine.Then, bandaged my ankle.
The reunion was ended just with my hurt like that.I was so sorry and ashamed to have broken the meet supposed to be a happy ending.
Anyway,the scar would stay forever with me to be a good reminding of my colourful junior high life,though seems a little ugly.

Larger than life(Yap)

I fell in love with this song the first time I listened to it. It begins with a loud,sharp scream which seems to express our feelings having been kept in our deep heart for a long time. Subsequently, the song keeps its fast rhythm and strong sense of rhythm. The sound throughout the song seems to come from the bottom of ngers' heart, which is makes me very stimulated.

I prefer to listening to it in the late, silent night. At that time, when the song is over, one soon falls into extreme silience which forms a big contrast. On that occasion,thinking about is a natural thing. Larger than life is such a great song that it makes me thinking about our lives. No matter who you are, we have to encounter difficulties and sacrifice certain things for fame or success. We may be down, perplexed or desperate. Whereas, we still have the capital of keeping our right direction because of our soul and the love from our family and even strangers. Therefore, in my opinion, the "you" in the song doesn't refer to certain person. Instead, it includes many things. From them, we can gain endless strength. "The different way to thank them", refered in the song, is never to give up and spare no efforts to achieve your goals. Only by doing that can we not feel ashamed.

Now although the band has disbanded, I feel only regret but not sad. They have their own choice. Maybe it's time for them to persue what they want respectively. I will love them all the time! Backstreet boys, the best!

Music(Yap)

Music is a very fantastic thing,which is a truth I got to know only a few months ago. Through a good song, you can build correlation with the singer.His or her emotion will flow into your blood.To do this,that song must be much relevant to your own life or thoughts.So there's no doubt that everyone has his own criterion to judge which song is good.So do I.Now I have found several my favourite songs.Every time I listen to them,I can't help singing to the rhythm and some thoughts will appear in my mind.

Furthermore, life is like a song, which has many repetitions. It's not a boring thing. However, thanks to the repetitions, we can be more familiar with ourselves and enjoy ourselves more when something simulating happens.

Wait and be patient(Yap)

No sooner than I started studying here, did I fall into regret. I do not own any piece of the so called “big three”, e-dictionary, camera and laptop. Initially, I thought it’s very convenient to buy here. Instead, it gradually dawns on me that buying those things is not a easy job.
As we all know, memory is one of the most valuable treasure we have, and photos are an efficient way to keep them fresh. However, without a camera, I can not capture lots of meaningful and fabulous scenes happening in this new country.
Now we are majoring in English, whoever has learned the studying materials know how inconvenient it is to look up the new words without an e-dictionary. So many times I have to ask others’ to borrow one that sometimes I feel rather shameful! One schoolmate of mine has been given the nickname “Shareman” by my roommates, and I don’t want to be the next.
As to computer, everyone can understand its importance. Whereas, because of my hesitance, I have missed a opportunity to own an excellent one. So there is still a long way to go to possess one.
But however anxious I am, reality can not change. There is a good saying, “We can not change the environment and our circumstances, but we can change change the way we react to them.” It is just a matter of time. The e-dictionary is on the way, and computer will be booked soon. Furthermore, I do not want to buy a camera now. I only need to be patient and enjoy my bridging course!

NBA is really a enjoyment(AW)

Fridays are usually some easy time.There may seldom be some MoE activitities in the morning,but more often it is leisure time . We are always surf the Internet .The enjoyment I like best is watch an NBA game .Basketball is a game asking for strength ,spped and teamwork.I am on the Houston Rockets.I also like the Celtics .Ray Allen and Paul Pierce are two of my favorite players.The Celtics is one of the strongest teams in the league,not only for the Big Three ,but also for their effort .Three famous super-star players who are eager for a champion ring went together the summer before the last.They are all super-star players without a ring .What's more they are no lnger young guys.They are fighting for a dream that every basketball player shares--to win a ring in his career.
Yao Ming is another factor making me love the NBA .Everyone knows that Yao Ming is the first foreign player to win the first place in the draft.He is also the first Chinese player in NBA.He is about 2.26 metres height which is one of the tallest centre in the league.Though Yao is not the best one ,he makes his best effort to become the best one .
NBA games are really fanscinating,for the highest level of competing .NBA is where amzing happens and I love this game.

The Buffet and the Harmonica Concert (M.L.)

Last Sunday we went to the Concert Hall to listen to a harmonica Concert performed by some amateur players from the Hainan Harmonica Community. Before the concert, we went to a buffet in the Suntec City. The food was fine, I had roasted duck, crab sticks, stewed fish, and several different kinds of porridge. Infact, what I enjoyed most was the porridge made of rich milk and has sweets inside.
After we had a really big meal, we went around the Suntec City to have have a look at the shops, the cafeterias in it, and I had a cup of black coffee in one cafeteria with a friend in case of falling asleep during the concert in the afternoon.
At about a quarter past two we went into the famous concert hall, whose nickname is “Big Durian”, for that it has the shape and colour of a durian when seen from the outside. We got some brochures of introduction of the concert hall at the entrance, then went in to seat ourselves. While waiting for the concert to begin, I looked around to marvel at the fancy design of the magnificient building. I would like to take some photos, but the stuff told the audience that taking photos was forbidden, so I didn’t take photos. I wished I could bear everything in mind about the great hall.
When I was still looking around, the lights went off except the ones over the stage. Then the hostess walked out and introduced the Hainan Harmonica Community and the melodies that were about to play. She said good English and good Chinese, and I wondered when could I speak both languages so fluently.
The performance was quite good, the conductor was experienced and the players worked as a team well. In fact, I was a bit surprised to learn that they were mostly non-professional players. At the end of the concert they played Road to Heaven, a well-known Chinese song that glorifies the significant meaning of the road connecting the Tibet Plateau and the outside world which cost lots of time and manpower to build.
It was nice on the whole, and I hope for another exciting day for this Sunday.

Rainy man (AW)

Today I finished reading a book named Rainy Man. It’s set in 1940s’ America, whose thesis is the love between two brothers. I think the story is moving.
The little brother Chalse is a handsome man with a beloved girlfriend named Sanesse, who is Chalse’s secretary. Their serene life was broken when Chalse received his rich father’s will from which he inherited a car and a house with roses. Ironically, most of the possessions were given to another man, which made Chalse annoyed. The weird man is different from normal people. He lives without any change in every day but has excellent intelligence. He is looked after by his personal doctor Jack.
At first Chalse took the weird man away from Jack to investigate the mystery. It turned out that the man is his elder brother Ray. They were separated when Chalse was only two. His mother died the same year as his father took away a 18 year-old Ray. Chalse grew up with a tense relationship with his father, considering his father abandoned him and made up a new family. The son and father broke up when Chalse was 16. He drove friends around the town in dad’s car. Whereas, his father called police. His friends were taken home by parents but Chalse was in prison for two days. The 16 boy couldn’t stand any more. He left his house and didn’t contact his father any longer. However, there’s a misunderstanding. His father took away Ray only because Ray once innocently prepared boiled water for 2 year-old Chalse bathing, injuring his one arm and leg and his father was afraid Ray would hurt his naive brother.
During Chalse staying with Ray, he found Ray loved him deeply. When he was to bathe, Ray got nervous and prevent him. They called up the songs and happy things in childhood. In turn Chalse gave his love to his brother and forgave his father.
Rainy man is a secret friend in Chalse’s childhood. And it’s Ray. The two brothers promised that they would often play cards and drove the car together. Ray still lived with his doctor, for Chalse thought the doctor could take care of Ray better though he also wanted to live with his brother.
So we should love and be considerate to others and value our family. Everyone has love deep in their heart.

Old days come in mind (TJ)

It’s no doubt that our days in senior 3 is a precious treasure in our lives. Many people think it’s very cruel and meaningless that we Chinese students fight for a whole year learning and reviewing and reviewing again. Actually, we didn’t learn anything new , instead, we just dealt with our learned knowledge and made it leave deep impression in our minds.
The last term before our university attendance examination , we had to wake up before 6 o’clock. But my parents’ work was harder because they should get up earlier and prepared breakfast for me to make sure that when I got my face washed I could have my breakfast . Then my father would drive me to school. Our school time began at about 6:50. Maybe my mind was not clear , I might still immerse my last dream.
It seemed that we were all monitored by our teacher all day long , you couldn’t talk to each other , must fix your attention on the blackboard , no sleepy faces . What was more , the afternoon exams everyday were nightmares for us . The results came out very soon and we took it seriously which made us depressed . The morning classes finished at 12:10 and then came our lunch time . We enjoyed our noon sleep at 1:00 which last 40 minutes. The afternoon part finished at 6:15 and dinner came. Often we had dinner at school because the next 90 minutes evening classes would came at 7:00 pm. Our school day didn’t finish until 8:30 pm. What a huge day it was!
Although many hold different ideas about this, I think our spirit of hardworking and our ability of tolerating great pressure will do good to our lives in the future. No trouble can let us down, we are the best!

The Chongqing Hotpot (AW)

I never refuse to delicious food. Since I came to Singapore, I have tried many different kinds of food, like Indonesian food, vegetarian, muslin food, Japanese express and Singaporean food. For me they are all palatable, I like them even I can’t tell you which one I love best. But every time I call my friends in my hometown Chongqing, the Chongqing Hotpot will come into my mind, at the moment, I begin to dribble. Because I can promise you it is the most delicious food in my whole life.
The main character of the Chongqing Hotpot is spicy. The soup of the Hotpot is taken seriously and it is said the ingredients of the soup is a secret, every restaurant keeps own secret. The cook will put many different spices into a pot of water like chili, Chinese pepper, garlic, ginger, sesame, and add tallow, a pot of soup is created. The pot is sent to the middle of a table, there is a stove below it to keep the soup boil, clients will order their favorite food, then use chopsticks to nip them, after keeping them in the soup for a little while, they can enjoy what they want.
The Chongqing Hotpot derived from folk. In Qing Dynasty, because Yangzi River gets through my hometown, Chongqing became a paramount port city in the southwest of China. Many people came to these ports to make a living. But they were so poor, they couldn’t afford warm houses or sufficient food in cold winter, the only thing they could do was collecting some not very fresh vegetables or meat to cook them in a kind of hot soup, then ate them to defend the cold weather.
However today the Chongqing Hotpot has become a visiting card of my hometown, even someone says if you don’t have the Chongqing Hotpot, you can never experience what real Chongqing is. And this special food cultivates a vibrant culture for its people, like the Chongqing Hotpot is hot, the characters of people in Chongqing are decisive, candid, welcome, being loyal to their friends.
I welcome you to my hometown which is a very beautiful and modern mountain city, and I advise you have a taste on our Chongqing Hotpot, wishing you love it.

The Most Famous Person in My Hometown (Alexis 19)(YAP)

As I have talked in my oral report, the most intelligent person, as well as one of the greatest strategist through out the Chinese history, Zhuge Liang was born in Linyi, my hometown. In fact, the former residence of Zhuge Liang is only about 1 kilometer away from my grandma’s home. Since everyone may know well about the amazing story of adult Zhuge Liang, I will only talk about his childhood, the 14 years he spent in Linyi.
When Zhuge Liang was born, his father was the chief of Taishan County, which was at the foot of Mount Tai. Therefore, Zhuge Liang had an opportunity to get good education. Zhuge Liang's intelligence was easily seen from his very early age. It is said that, Zhuge Liang was able to recognize Chinese characters as early as 1 year old.
Things changed greatly after Zhuge Liang was born. As we all know, the Han dynasty was experiencing disasters in that period of time; many vassals didn’t take orders from the central government and would easily set out wars and political conflicts in order to make themselves stronger. Though Taishan County was rather small and out-of-the-way, the political conflict finally came and Zhuge Liang’s father died due to it. That year, Zhuge Liang was only 14 years old. After that disaster, Zhuge Liang's family couldn't get any income in his hometown,Langya(now known as Linyi) and Zhuge Liang, along with his two brothers and his mother, moved to South China and lived with his uncle.
Though Zhuge Liang didn't make any great achievement when he was in Linyi due to his age, we people in Linyi still take pride in him because such a great person was born in my hometown. Now, in Linyi, there is a theme park about Zhuge Liang named Recumbent Dragon because Zhuge Liang’s nick name was that. Apart from that, we also have a musium in his fomer residence in which there are a lot of monuments to honor Zhuge Liang.
The article above is only a brief introduction about Zhuge Liang, for more information, pls contact me by QQ. My QQ is 494166375

Group Outing (Lugg. 7)

Yesterday, I, with the other mates in our group, went to enjoy food as well as a concert.
Early in the morning, at about 9, I struggled to get up after I was waken up by my noisy clock. I, still sleepy, brushed my teeth, washed my face, and even used the very little time to chat with my former classmate on line. In a hurry, I met my mates just in time. Then, we walked to Queenstown MRT Station. It was funny to find that we, no more than 10 people, stretched for dozens of meters. I, who was at the very front, even couldn’t see the last person far behind. After getting on the train, I found that we had been separated, for they failed to get on the same train as us.
Upon arrival at the City Hall Station, we waited at the exit as told before, and started to talk with one other. At 11:50, we set out to the buffet restaurant to satisfy our hungry stomach. We spent 2 hours or so in the restaurant before we continued our activity. I also took some photos of the group mates when they were eating wildly and cheerfully.
We covered a long way before finally reached the concert hall, the big durian.After I settled down, I felt so tired that I fell asleep in no time. It was not until the hostess began her introduction that I woke up. The core instrument was harmonica during the concert. I watched their brilliant performance and couldn’t help recalling the period that I practiced electone when I was in primary school. I gave up it because I felt it boring to play it. However, I regretted having done that now. Had I kept practicing, I would have achieved my goal of grasping an instrument now. But there is no point regretting for what has passed.
After the concert, I headed to Vivocity to buy something myself. It was a challenge for me, such a person with poor sense of direction, to complete the task on my own. Anyhow, I succeeded in going back to the hostel with what I want to buy.
In a nutshell, the outing yesterday is busy but meaningful.

(Yap) Feelings After Watching A Movie

I’ve watched many movies.
But how do I usually judge them? Not according to Oscar, for sure.

---What’s Oscar for?
---Who cares?
---Those movie makers and cast care.
---But I don’t.

I see Oscar winner movies because I am curious. No doubt some are noticeable, but they are merely few of the crowd, few of millions of movies which should be awarded. There still exist countless good movies winning audience’s hearts. And winning the audience’s hearts is the most important thing. In other words, everybody may find his or her own movie, which touches the softest part of their heart. They just match.
As for me, I only enjoy those simple and real ones that send out pure and focused messages. Yes, I watch Spiderman series; I watch War of the Worlds; I watch The Red Cliff, but mostly for seeing what the majority are seeing, and sometimes for accumulating some fashionable topics. However, to be honest, they are surely feasts for eyes, while definitely not my “style”. Meanwhile, I see Will Smith’s movies, since he’s my favorite actor. But the two categories above are not likely to be what I want to drag to the folder of “I’m lov’in it”.
In actuality, I watch Forest Gump; I watch Amelie and I watch The Legend of 1900. Because they are what I’m really keen on. Movies like them struck my feelings and immediately created ripples that I will never want to forget. After watching this kind of movies, this my kind of movies, I may stop thinking, cannot pull myself out of the scenes, and do not want to speak to anybody for a very long time. There’s something like magnet making me just keep recalling and recalling the idea of the whole film. It may be some obscure true love, or innocent perseverance.
And that’s the way I judge a movie.

I’m posting this blog here to share my feelings with you, which cannot wait to come out after seeing a good movie called The Equation of Love and Death. (《李米的猜想》)

The fresh things to me(ML)

I have been in Singapore for more than one month now .I choose to go here for the most important reason that I want to live a different life ,experience the fresh things, maybe even change in to a totally distinctive person.
As a matter of fact,I do really go through something quite new and exciting.One is that I went to the church on Christmas Eve.It was arranged by our auntie in our hostel. At first I didn’t take it very seriously because I thought it was just the compulsory acivity.However I changed this thought completely when I got there. There were 3000 people around to attend the church that day.Except us,the PRC students,all of them are Christians.There were several sections of that service which impressed me most was when the priest said that we would switch off the light and light the candle to give thanks to the Jesus for bringing the light to our life.It was all dark except the candle light from everyone’s hand.Everyone closed their eyes and spoke in a low voice,I guessed they were talking to the God at that moment,some of them even cried.What’s more when the singer sang on the stage all the audience sang together and held out their hands.Everyone looked so sincere.I was shocked and realized the meaning of the religion.I thought religion is something that you will believe in forever ,is something that will influence your way of doing things,is something that will give you the power and strengh.In a period of time I have some misunderstanding of the religion,I thought it was superstitious.But I knew the ture meaning of the religion since then.
There some things fresh to me as well ,like going to a jazz concert ,jumping into the sea,clebrating the New Year with a lot of people.I can’t envision what I will experience next because there are so many new and exciting things around the corner.

A happy day

Today our group enjoyed a wonderful concert and I felt very happy.
Before it we had a buffet in Suntec City. The food was abundant and delicious. At first we stood in a line. I was a bit anxious when I saw so many people in front of me. After a protracted waiting, it came to my turn. I got the alluring food in my plate as soon as I could. After a while, I realized that the plate was too heavy to hold and filled enough to contain any more. The I came to my seat with my precious achievements. I think the fruit is the most tasty, including watermelon, candied melon and muskmelon. But we wondered why there was no Chinese flowering quince. The fruit was so cool and moist that most of us had it one bowl after another. There were also varieties of meat, vegetables and porridge. We shared our food and enjoyed it. We were too full to move any more,
The concert began at 3 p.m. The performance was excellent. They mainly performed with mouth organs besides guitar, tow-stringed bowed instrument and drum. The styles covered Italian, American, Arabian and so on. With the beautiful rhyme on, we all fell into it. I seemed to go outing with my parents and got a view of nice scenery in spring. When the rhyme was slow, I couldn’t help reminding of the beautiful trees, sky and winds. When it turned quick, I imagined my family were playing games and laughing. The most impressive music was called sky way, based on a Chinese current issue. It was made to honor a railway called Qingzang railway, collecting the remote western past to the East of China. The music was bold and generous, and made me proud and excited. Only one hour later, it came to an end. I felt reluctant to leave.
It was an unforgettable day. I want to experience more like this. What a colorful and meaningful day.

After watching Bolt(YSM)

Yesterday I saw the film “Bolt”.it was a really good film and I was moved by the plot.
In the film, there was a lovely dog called Bolt and a girl who was the owner of Bolt. Bolt and his owner made a film in which Bolt played the role of a super dog who beat the thugs and always saved its owner. But Bolt didn’t know it was film. He thought that all the things in the film were true. When Bolt and its owner made the scene that his owner was caught by some thugs Bolt lost touch with his owner and he thought his owner was really in danger. So he became very worried and tried his best to find and save his owner. On his way, he came across a large number of difficulties. He tried to use his super power like the one in the film but he found out that in fact he had no super power. He was very upset. Futhermore he was told that all the things in the films were unreal even including the owner’s love for him. But these words did not chang Bolt love for his owner and in fact his owner really loved him very much. Bolt kept looking for his owner and after a tough journey he found his owner just at the moment that his owner was trapped In a fired house. Without a hesitation, Bolt rushed into the house and tried his best to pull his owner out. When he realized that it was impossible he decided to stated with his owner. He keeped barking and finally with the help of the barking fireman found the owner and Bolt. When Bolt saw his owner was saved, he fell down to the ground as he had used all his efforts to bark.
After watching the film, I was touched by the love between Bolt and his owner. In my opinion, the film shows that love is the thing that never be changed and even though all other thing are untrue it can still be trusted. With love though we have no super power like the super man, we can also make great thing with the power of love. So we should never be mean to give our love to others. We should try to make our life more beautiful by giving out our love.

speech in the election of hostel committee(JEGA)

Good morning everyone. I'm QiQi, an SM3 student from Group 4.Today, it's an honor for me to be here running for a position in the Hostel Committee.
First, let me introduce myself a bit more.You see, I've got an interesting name QIQI, and the spelling of it is Q-I-Q-I, some friend just call me QQ for short. And my hometown is in Heilongjing Province, almost the coldest place in China. Born and growing up there, I heritage the common characters of northeasteners:outgoing ,like chatting and enjoy making friends.I think I'm also the kind of person who is passionate in working but a little afraid of having nothing to do. Fortunately, in school, I was given the chance to undertake jobs like class monitor and Ministry in Student Union to occupy my time. These experiences not only enabled me to make more friends, but also taught me the basic principles in working and communicating, they are being responsible, acting as a good listener, respecting everybody's advice and always seeking for peaceful ways to solve problems. I think these principles will enable to improve the communication between MOE, the Hall and us.
Yes,today I am here lecturing for election, but I've never thought of becoming a leader among you anyway, because I'm not qualified to do so.I do know that I'm as talented as many of you and can't match any of you in at least some aspects, that is, I'm not wise enough to lead you the way and tell you what to do. What I indeed can do is to value every piece of your advice and select the suitable ones to carry out. So I can't promise you to come up with the wisest idea myself, but I can promise you to listen carefully to all your good ideas and take them really seriously. Also, I can't promise you like other speakers to solve all the problems or satisfy all you requests,since obviously some problems can not be solved in a short period of time because of the limited resources, but I do promise I will take all your reasonable proposals immediately to MOE and the Hall then try my best to seek for more improvement through communicating.
That's all I want to say. If you can trust me or if you think I can help to make your hostel life better, please give me your support. I'm QiQi from Group 4. Thank you for listening and thank you for your time.

Observation(YSM)

Lately, I was reading the novel “Sherlock Holmes” which made me think more about what is observation, whether it is important and how to gain a great ability of observation.
What is observation? In my opinion, observation is not only just seeing something carefully but also using our own mind to deduce or associate with something from what you see. For example, we see a pair of dirty shoes. When we see them carefully we may just find some mud, but when we observe them we can deduce that the owner of the shoes may have been to some muddy places or he is a very lazy person. From this we see that is observation.
Then, is observation important? The answer is absolutely yes. With observation, we can discover many new things and some of them many even strike the world. For example, with the observation of a falling apple, Newton found gravity. With the observation of a little rat, Mickey was born. With the observation of environment, Sherlock Holmes solved many inextricable cases. So we see how great the power of observation is and how important it is.
Finally, how to gain a great ability of observation? From my view, what we should do is to try to think more, associate more and keep asking ourselves some questions. For example, when Newton saw the falling apple, he would ask himself why it fell to the ground instead of flying into the sky. When Disney saw the rap he associated it with cartoon character. When Sherlock Holmes saw some derails he would ask himself what these details indicated. All these are good ways of achieving a great ability of observation. If we can form these habits, I believe we can have the ability of observation.
Next time, when seeing something, instead of passing it with a simple glimpse we should use our mind to think more.

Steven Chu

Today, I want to talk something about Steven Chu-----the candidate of the head of the Resource Department of America.
There are several important reasons for my willingness to talk about him. First, he is a Chinese—American. Second, he is a successful person. Third, he is a great physicist.
Zhu’s parents were both born in China----a small country region called Tai Chang in Jiang Shu province. His family was a great family. The elders in the family were very wise. They all paid much attention to their children’s education. Both of Zhu’s parents graduated from Thing hua University, one of the most excellent universities in China.
Zhu was born in1948 in St.Louis of America. When he was young, his performance at school was not very good. As for his two brothers, they performed much better than him, his elder brother once even got the first in the high school. But at that time, zhu had shown great interest in physics.
After graduating from high school, zhu was admitted into the University of Rochester, where he majored in physics and the application of physics. Later he worked in Stanford University. And his achievements had surpassed his two brothers Once a time, his parents agued with him that he should have chosen some courses in construction rather than physics, because there were too many intelligent people struggling in this area, and he may work hard all through his life and reap nothing at last. But he insisted that he could make it, so he just did it.
In15, October, 1997, he was informed that he got the Nobel Prize of physics for his contribution to capturing atoms in a very cold place created by LASER, on which area he had been working for almost 15 years.
In December, 2008, he was proposed by President Obama as a candidate of the head of the Resource Department of America. If the proposal gets through the congress of America smoothly, he will be the second person who is able to undertake an important position in America. And I think he will make greater contributions to the world.
I really admire him very much! He has got the courage to pursue his dreams instead of being frightened by the difficulties ahead.
Good luck to him！

I like listening to music

I like listening to music. For some unknown reasons, music gives me fascinating inspirations, not just entertainment. It seems that whenever I listen to music, an imaginary space would appear in my mind, and then the music float in the space just like feathers ply smoothly and freely through the air, where a strange atmosphere is created so that I could feel the existence of another world, which is crammed with purity, perfection and fulfillment.
So music offers me an attractive utopia, especially when I am in deep depression. Sometimes, there is no fulfillment in my heart at all. Everything seems to be daunting and frustrating. I just can’t find any enjoyment and would even think that life is boring to some extent. No success, no content, just sadness and disappointment.
Then I choose to listen to some music to get rid of the awful feelings, just like some great poets in the old times of China, who would like to create some wonderful poems when they were leading a hard life, had a bad fate or couldn’t achieve their dreams.
I always take it for granted that music can helps me to become a more reasonable and joyful person and make my life more meaningful. Hasn’t the music been existing in the world, I couldn’t imagine how sad and what a failure I would be!
I like listening to music. It is my best friend and since the first time we meet each other, it never let me down. So what do you find about music?

The greatest final in the history of European championship league

The greatest final in the history of European championship league
Turkey is a mysterious country, in which miracles always happen. So in the May 25th 2005,a miracle happened in the Ataturk stadium of Istanbul, which was the greatest final in the history of European championship league. It was the final of 2005 championship league, which two teams entered. They are Liverpool and AC Milan, the two strongest teams in that year. It was an attractive, exciting and dazzling match. I am sure that you wouldn’t forget it for lifelong time if you watch it.
Soccer fans all around the world expected the champion coming into being before May 25th and the winner would be the focus of the world attention. So two teams both had stress. Ok ,let’s look back to the match of miracle to learn why it is the greatest final . Only at the 51 second of the match, “pass, shoot,”.MALDINI scored the first goal for Milan benefited from the mistake of TRAORE. What a wonderful start for Milan ,while terrible for Liverpool! It was a disaster in such a important match, producing shadow in the psychology of Liverpool’s players. Furthermore, crespo scored twice in the 39th and 44th minute.3-0!!!! God, what a overwhelming advantage in a football game with no possibility to catch up! What a first half of disaster for Liverpool! They were as if the goats butchered by the butchers. Every player collapsed, heart sinking, going to the dressing room with hopelessness and disappointment. The grass was dark in their eyes instead of vivid green. Everything seemed to be over as if the god were blessing Milan and the result seemed to be obvious, everyone thinking the champion would belong to the Milan.
No accident happening, Milan would own the 7th championship cup in their team history. Everyone stopped focusing on who would win, EXCEPT THE KOP, the most faithful Liverpool fans. During the period between the two halves, they didn’t complain the bad first half, revile the Liverpool’s terrible performance, instead, they So were the players, who also didn’t give up, still fighting for their honor, for the KOP. They decided to fight back for the faithful fans! In the second half, they weren’t frustrated any more, becoming dynamic and confident. They ran on the court regardless of the spasm of their legs. There was a belief in their mind –never give up. And then the miracle happened, as a rewarding of the impressive spirit. In the 56th minute, Steven Garrard scored one goal, which was the signal of striking back. After scoring, he hung his arms to call up the passion of the fans. Five minutes later, a long shot by Freddie decreased the gap to 2-3. Furthermore, 3 minutes later, xabi Alonso scored the third goal, equalizing the score!!! Ok, everything changed, returning to the winning track! What a miracle!!! They did it, really did it!! They made the most unbelievable miracle of the history, in such a important game!!!! The psychology of Milan’s players had collapsed completely. The grass turned to green again. In the later decisive penalties shoot-out, Liverpool beat the Milan deservedly by perfect performance of DUDEK, the goalkeeper of Liverpool, and the bad condition of Milan. Oh, they are the champion, climbing from the hell to the heaven and becoming the hero of the fans!!! Spirit being relaxed, they could enjoyed themselves, leaving the Milan’s players crying alone.
Finally, Garrard upheld the “big ear cup” stating that the Liverpool had been on the summit of European football!!! The unbelievable final that could be memorized forever, the spirit of never giving up and the faith of the KOP will be written in the history, admired by the coming generations……

the classic -my third oral report (08)

The classic
Yesterday I watched a Korean movie called the classic and I was deeply moved.
It tells a story about love stories of two generations.
Zhuji is the daughter of a reprentative.taixu is the son of a businessman.wu is the best friend of taixu.taixu is arranged to date with zhuji by his father.to get the heart of zhuji,he asked wu to write love letters to zhujiin his voice.however,when wu saw the picture of zhuji,he had fallen in love with the elegant young lady.with love letters keeping on ,the summer holiday came.wu and zhuji met in the countryside by accident and after getting together for one day,they fell in love with each other.zhuji gave a necklace to wu for memoriam .back to school ,they continued to date until one day ,taixu cleared himself of loving her to zhuji.zhuji was in deep sorrow of choosing between wu and taixu.however,one day ,wu told taixu about the love between zhuji and him and as taixu was a very kind person ,he dropped his love for zhuji.might the two get together happily until one day ,taixu ‘s father discovered the secret.he gave taixu a good beat for his generous on the event.as a result of upset ,taixu tried to commit suiside but was saved by wu.wu was very sorry for his best friend from then on.to protect his friend ,he gave up and gave the nechlace back to zhuji. after high school ,the three didn't see each other for few years,zhuji and taixu happened to meet each other in the street.zhuji got the news from taixu that wu was on the train to the war field .to make his beloved not waiting for him in case of his death on the war,wu held back his feelings to see zhuji again,but he got the nacklace back from zhuji at last.on the war firld ,wu risked his life to look for the nacklace and he came back alive. they met each other in a cafe afher the war.zhuji was shocked and broken-hearted to discover that wu had been blinded.further more wu told her that he had been married.unwillingly and hopelessly ,zhuji got married with taixu and they had a daughter called jihui and wu got married befor long after their marriage and had a son called xiangmian.wu and taixu both died later after their children‘s born.zhuji cried sorrowly with heart and soul after knowing the truth that wu married after her and she didn’t get married until today.however,thirty years later,jihui didn't know that her beloved is just the son of her mother’s prince until she saw the necklace on xiangmian ‘s neck .then they know that their destinations had been destined by god long before.
After all,I want to say that don't miss your beloved and believe in the power of love,or you will have to use your whole life.to regret.

My treasure (AW)

Every Saturday evening I will chat with my parents and friends on line.
After my elaborate persuasions that I have all tutorials finished and I need some relaxing, my mother will give out a succession of questions, such as whether I’m accustomed to the new circumstance, what I usually have for three daily meals and how’s my study going. Then my father blink onto the screen. It’s interesting to talk with him for his sense of humor. Days are called back to my childhood: my father used to play jokes with me. He told funny stories and played games with me. One day I even dressed him up while he was sleeping. Now he is curious to tell me that my family members are all very well and I should concentrate on my study. He also tell me that he will go out hiking with mom this Sunday. I still remember we would go to mountains nearby to enjoy nature. I can imagine in my hometown as the spring comes the scenery must be very nice. Flowers must come out and the sun must smile to all the people. What a harmonious pattern. Then I told my parents to extreme extent, I want to taste my grandma’s dishes, who used to be a cooker. She cooks fish very nice. My parents have to comfort me that when I come home, I’ll be treated a family dinner
My message box rings with electric beeps. It turns out to be my classmates. I make queries how’s their holiday gathering going. They offer detailed answers. I get to know their changes and funny stories. Then we also talk about our high school, moving and stilling clear to me. One boy was very fond of singing. We used to hear his songs as soon as the bell rang. Our teachers and creative parties are also our topics.
Indeed our family and friends are our treasures. Because of their love, we feel no longer lonely. But everyone has to grow up and learn new knowledge. Hear I meet new friends and caring teachers. Let’s look forward and face our future with the strengths of treasure.

Pursue My Dream and Never Give Up(AW)

Pursue My Dream and Never Give Up
Having been in Singapore for over one month, we are gradually adapted to the new environment. We get up at the fixed time, go to class with the same fellows and head for canteens for the certain food. As time goes by, my excitements and curiosity fade away and a feeling of tiredness strikes me harder and harder. Realizing that many seniors occupy themselves with heavy study tasks and some others are busy hunting for a job, I cannot help but ask myself, ’What my future will be like?’ Lost in thought, I remind myself that I will never give up since there is a dream for me to pursue.
Kungfu panda has become so popular all around the world, not simply because he has a ridiculous image and great humor but because of his firm belief and determination in pursuit of his dream. He inspires me to keep a dream in mind and to try to realize it with every effort. Since I have done my best, I make a great and colorful life.
In our real lives, nobody can avoid frustrations and disappointments from all aspects of life. Your failure in an important exam, breaking up with your friends, there are disappointing things flooding into our lives every day. But make sure that they cannot destroy our determination and belief in the pursuit of our dreams. Because once you lose your belief and dream, you will lose everything in your life. Just as the saying goes in the film, ’You must believe! Anything is impossible!’, where there is a belief and a dream, there is always a miracle.
Though life seems a long and tough journey to us, we will not feel tired and frustrated at all as long as we have dreams. So, pursue our dreams and never say die!