After a tough test we went for our second learning journey to Science Centre today. It was really a great place which was full of interesting and amazing things. One thing that impressed me very much was the IMAX movie.
It was my first time to watch this kind of movie. It was really fantastic. The screen was much bigger than the normal ones and it was in a spherical shape. When the movie started, we all half-lay on our chairs with our back leaning to the back of the chairs. Such kind of screen gave us the feelings of three dimensions. When the lens moved it felt like that we were moving as well following the movement of the lens. All these changed us from audiences to a character in the movie.
After enjoying the IMAX movie we were distributed to visit other parts of Science Centre individually. During the visit we found many interest things as well as learnt a lot of knowledge.
After such a journey I realized how interesting and mysterious the world of science was. I also had the feeling that how close science was to our daily life. Many things which seem mysterious can all be explained by some theories in science. Furthermore with the help of science we can make some amazing things.
In addition I realized that Science Park which I used to think it was only a place for children was also available for adolescents and even for adult for everyone who visits it will achieve some knowledge of science used in daily life which will help raise the level of literacy of the entire society. Furthermore it can also raise one’s interest in science which is very important for some teenagers in school and universities especially those who are studying in science faculty.
May 1, 2009
The last day of April (Yap)
Today has just passed too fast, so fast that I have to write down something to make my mind no longer haphazard and keep my memory fresh.
This morning as planned, we took our second progress test. Unfortunately, I still had a scarcity of time as usual, no matter I was doing the writing or reading comprehension. If truth be told, I nearly finished two hundred words in the last twenty minutes during part 1 and even failed to accomplish part 2, leaving a question undone. I have been wondering why time is so limited to me during such a progress test. Thank goodness! This seems not a very difficult question and I deem that I may have the correct answer. After all, the morning went in such a rapid and unpleasant way.
Lunch time was short, and I hoped so. Last weekend I had gone to the website of Science Centre Singapore and found that there are many intriguing things there. I had been looking forward to enjoying the prehistoric adventure, SEA MONSTER, all the time in the past five days. The movie tells about the sea creatures about 82 million years ago in the eyes of “Dolly”, a dolichorhynchops. And it was the first time for me to watch a 2D movie, very fascinating and magical. Besides, I have watched many interesting phenomena, such as the duet and unpredictable transformed face. But time was not sufficient to visit all the various exhibition galleries to enjoy all the exhibits. To my great surprise, I did not complain about my tiredness even a bit after walking for one and half an hour.
It is really a meaningful and wonderful learning journey, much better than the last one which I only felt boring. At least, I have enjoyed myself and the journey has evoked my strong curiosity about the miraculous scientific world, a world full of unknowns, magic and miracles, a world having attracting lots of people of all times over the whole world. Actually, the curiosity is a feeling that has been hidden in my deep heart for a too long time and may have contributed to my choice of Engineering Science without my awareness.
This morning as planned, we took our second progress test. Unfortunately, I still had a scarcity of time as usual, no matter I was doing the writing or reading comprehension. If truth be told, I nearly finished two hundred words in the last twenty minutes during part 1 and even failed to accomplish part 2, leaving a question undone. I have been wondering why time is so limited to me during such a progress test. Thank goodness! This seems not a very difficult question and I deem that I may have the correct answer. After all, the morning went in such a rapid and unpleasant way.
Lunch time was short, and I hoped so. Last weekend I had gone to the website of Science Centre Singapore and found that there are many intriguing things there. I had been looking forward to enjoying the prehistoric adventure, SEA MONSTER, all the time in the past five days. The movie tells about the sea creatures about 82 million years ago in the eyes of “Dolly”, a dolichorhynchops. And it was the first time for me to watch a 2D movie, very fascinating and magical. Besides, I have watched many interesting phenomena, such as the duet and unpredictable transformed face. But time was not sufficient to visit all the various exhibition galleries to enjoy all the exhibits. To my great surprise, I did not complain about my tiredness even a bit after walking for one and half an hour.
It is really a meaningful and wonderful learning journey, much better than the last one which I only felt boring. At least, I have enjoyed myself and the journey has evoked my strong curiosity about the miraculous scientific world, a world full of unknowns, magic and miracles, a world having attracting lots of people of all times over the whole world. Actually, the curiosity is a feeling that has been hidden in my deep heart for a too long time and may have contributed to my choice of Engineering Science without my awareness.
April 28, 2009
just a blog（2）
Compared with the essay, the blog is like a diary. I think I can write what I want instead of what I am required. I do not need to make a clear topic in every paragraph, I can write something like stream of consciousness, instead of the thread that is inflexible. I do not need to find something to write specially. I cannot say that I like writing blogs very much but it is better than essays, though they are both actually important to English study.
A few days before, our navy held a grand parade in Qingdao to celebrate the 60th anniversary. And it invited many countries to join us. The US and many other countries came to the parade on invitation. Our great chairman—Hu Jintao personally went to the celebration and reviewed troops. That is circumstance at that time. So I think it can be said a significant parade in the history after the PRC founded. In the meantime, I think it has some more significance besides celebration. The celebration is just one aspect. We also have more purposes to hold this parade. As we all know, nowadays, the maritime situation to China is not that favorable. Many southeastern Asian countries want to occupy the islands, the China’s dominions which lie on the South China Sea. As they are far away from our mainland, some small countries, such as Philippines, Vietnam, attempt to dominate them illegally. For the general situation of economic development, China did not take so much action to avoid these small countries, just denying its legality. But in the current time, these countries aggravated to apply for the sovereignty in the UN. It is definitely unacceptable to China. We need to deter them to stop their stupid ideas. So this parade is the very moment to show off our navy’s strength, to deter these countries who have the cheeky and illegal idea. That is a signal to tell these countries, “do not be so much blatant, our toleration has limit. We can destroy any of you by our strength.” Now I think these countries should be calm and stop executing their stupid plan.
Even though our navy is not strong very much, only ranking 10 or lower in the world. But we are developing, we are stronger and stronger. So these small countries should not withstand the most important neighbor, the future is unpredictable…..
A few days before, our navy held a grand parade in Qingdao to celebrate the 60th anniversary. And it invited many countries to join us. The US and many other countries came to the parade on invitation. Our great chairman—Hu Jintao personally went to the celebration and reviewed troops. That is circumstance at that time. So I think it can be said a significant parade in the history after the PRC founded. In the meantime, I think it has some more significance besides celebration. The celebration is just one aspect. We also have more purposes to hold this parade. As we all know, nowadays, the maritime situation to China is not that favorable. Many southeastern Asian countries want to occupy the islands, the China’s dominions which lie on the South China Sea. As they are far away from our mainland, some small countries, such as Philippines, Vietnam, attempt to dominate them illegally. For the general situation of economic development, China did not take so much action to avoid these small countries, just denying its legality. But in the current time, these countries aggravated to apply for the sovereignty in the UN. It is definitely unacceptable to China. We need to deter them to stop their stupid ideas. So this parade is the very moment to show off our navy’s strength, to deter these countries who have the cheeky and illegal idea. That is a signal to tell these countries, “do not be so much blatant, our toleration has limit. We can destroy any of you by our strength.” Now I think these countries should be calm and stop executing their stupid plan.
Even though our navy is not strong very much, only ranking 10 or lower in the world. But we are developing, we are stronger and stronger. So these small countries should not withstand the most important neighbor, the future is unpredictable…..
April 27, 2009
Harry Potter(Yap)
It was when I was in Grade 1, junior middle school that I caught my first glimpse of “Harry Potter”, and then I fell in love with the series. In the past six years of my middle school, every time I finished one episode I commence to look forward to the launch of the next one. I have to admit that J.K. Rowling is not only an excellent writer but also an outstanding businesswoman. She chose not to publish her works immediately after she accomplished them so that readers and fans of “Harry Potter”, like me, could not help controlling the impulse to buy one copy of her newly published episode after waiting for a narrowly unbearable long time.
Actually, the first six episodes I read were all Chinese translations. I also tried to read the translation of the seventh one in the last year of my senior middle school, but unfortunately, I did not finish it due to the burden of study. And I did not get any opportunity to resume reading it since the book is not mine and I do not like to read books on a computer screen. Therefore, the day I got my term card of NUS and was notified that I could use this card to borrow books from the libraries, I went to the Central Library excitedly to book the book named “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows”. After almost forty days’ endeavor, now I have finished more than five hundred pages of this six-hundred-pages book. Its fascinating plot, figurative language and vivid characters are the main contributors of my obsession with this book.
The hero of “Harry Potter”, Harry James Potter, is a gallant and responsible teenager, who has been chosen as the only one that can beat and kill the most ever evil wizard-Voldemort. Throughout the seven episodes, he managed to perform better and better in the fights against Voldemort as he grew up and he had never given up in spite of the deaths of his closest friends, such as Sirius, Dumbledore and Fred. Finally, with the help and encouragement of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, and other people who support the justice and peace, he killed Voldemort successfully.
Last but not least, “Harry Potter” are really wonderful books. You cannot miss them!
Actually, the first six episodes I read were all Chinese translations. I also tried to read the translation of the seventh one in the last year of my senior middle school, but unfortunately, I did not finish it due to the burden of study. And I did not get any opportunity to resume reading it since the book is not mine and I do not like to read books on a computer screen. Therefore, the day I got my term card of NUS and was notified that I could use this card to borrow books from the libraries, I went to the Central Library excitedly to book the book named “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows”. After almost forty days’ endeavor, now I have finished more than five hundred pages of this six-hundred-pages book. Its fascinating plot, figurative language and vivid characters are the main contributors of my obsession with this book.
The hero of “Harry Potter”, Harry James Potter, is a gallant and responsible teenager, who has been chosen as the only one that can beat and kill the most ever evil wizard-Voldemort. Throughout the seven episodes, he managed to perform better and better in the fights against Voldemort as he grew up and he had never given up in spite of the deaths of his closest friends, such as Sirius, Dumbledore and Fred. Finally, with the help and encouragement of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, and other people who support the justice and peace, he killed Voldemort successfully.
Last but not least, “Harry Potter” are really wonderful books. You cannot miss them!
April 26, 2009
I gain interest in C programming~~(YAP)
Throughout the phase one of my bridging course, I seldom studied C programming. Each time I have to take the C programming class, I would fall asleep until the end of that class. I just could not understand a word of C programming. "Maybe I would not use this kind of thing later in my campus life", I always tell myself this. However, I finally got to know that the ability to use C++ is one of the basic skills in NUS. Even then, I didn't start to take C programming seriously. I just don't like it, and I don't want to learn a piece of knowledge of it.
One reason would always lead to one result. In my C programming test,which was my first check point, I got completely failure. The full marks of the C programming test is 100, but I only got 52. I was so sad because I didn't pass my first check point and if I don't pass my next check point, I would be sent back to China. I simply can't stand that. I then decided to study hard to catch up with my classmates.
In the following week, I almost study C programming every night for 2 hours. At first, I felt it very boring. However, as time went on, I finally found out that C programming is actually very interesting. I start to enjoy myself when I study C programming. I start to feel that if I had chosen SOC, I would enjoy myself more. Anyway, I finally gain interest in C programming and I believe that I would pass my second check point because I do like what I am learning now.
One reason would always lead to one result. In my C programming test,which was my first check point, I got completely failure. The full marks of the C programming test is 100, but I only got 52. I was so sad because I didn't pass my first check point and if I don't pass my next check point, I would be sent back to China. I simply can't stand that. I then decided to study hard to catch up with my classmates.
In the following week, I almost study C programming every night for 2 hours. At first, I felt it very boring. However, as time went on, I finally found out that C programming is actually very interesting. I start to enjoy myself when I study C programming. I start to feel that if I had chosen SOC, I would enjoy myself more. Anyway, I finally gain interest in C programming and I believe that I would pass my second check point because I do like what I am learning now.
Two of My Favorite OSTs (YAP)(18)
(OST is short for original soundtrack, which always means the incidental music in movies.)
Have you ever watched a touching movie that when the touching scenes appeared and the slow and sad music played, you were moved to tears? Have you ever watched an interesting movie that when the funny scenes appeared and the light and lively music played, you laughed into tears? For a movie, not only the story, the performance of the actors or the scenes makes difference, the incidental music is also very important. Some is so important and wonderful that long time after watching the movie, people may forget the content of the movie but would still remember the music played in it. Kar-wai Wong’s Ashes of Time (东邪西毒) and Hocheung Pang’s Isabella are just two of this kind of movies to me.
The music in Ashes of Time was created by Frankie Chen. At the beginning of this movie which is about heroes’ loves, sounds of drum appear, from fast to slow, followed by the blend of some other percussion instruments, which creates a majestic and sad atmosphere. When the heroes and heroines lose themselves in love, the music goes and stands still for a while, and then goes again, giving the feelings of wanting to give up but just cannot, which is just the feeling in painful loves. I don’t know how to describe the music exactly in English; I just want to say that, the music really makes me get into the movie, as if I am one part of it, feeling what the characters feel, doing what they do.
The music in Isabella is the kind of Fado, which is one kind of traditional music of Portugal. Produced by Peter Kam and won the first price of incidental music in Berlin International Film Festival, it really has its magic. In many scenes, the editor just let the music play, no words, no other sounds, but as if we can get thousands of word from the music and the movements of characters. The movie was shot in Macao. Once ruled by Portugal, scenes of streets and houses in Macao meet the Fado very much.
The music of Fado is mainly played in the piano, violent and guitar, but it comes out unusual and fantastic. It really makes me crazy.
Have you ever watched a touching movie that when the touching scenes appeared and the slow and sad music played, you were moved to tears? Have you ever watched an interesting movie that when the funny scenes appeared and the light and lively music played, you laughed into tears? For a movie, not only the story, the performance of the actors or the scenes makes difference, the incidental music is also very important. Some is so important and wonderful that long time after watching the movie, people may forget the content of the movie but would still remember the music played in it. Kar-wai Wong’s Ashes of Time (东邪西毒) and Hocheung Pang’s Isabella are just two of this kind of movies to me.
The music in Ashes of Time was created by Frankie Chen. At the beginning of this movie which is about heroes’ loves, sounds of drum appear, from fast to slow, followed by the blend of some other percussion instruments, which creates a majestic and sad atmosphere. When the heroes and heroines lose themselves in love, the music goes and stands still for a while, and then goes again, giving the feelings of wanting to give up but just cannot, which is just the feeling in painful loves. I don’t know how to describe the music exactly in English; I just want to say that, the music really makes me get into the movie, as if I am one part of it, feeling what the characters feel, doing what they do.
The music in Isabella is the kind of Fado, which is one kind of traditional music of Portugal. Produced by Peter Kam and won the first price of incidental music in Berlin International Film Festival, it really has its magic. In many scenes, the editor just let the music play, no words, no other sounds, but as if we can get thousands of word from the music and the movements of characters. The movie was shot in Macao. Once ruled by Portugal, scenes of streets and houses in Macao meet the Fado very much.
The music of Fado is mainly played in the piano, violent and guitar, but it comes out unusual and fantastic. It really makes me crazy.
Lucky Money, Because It’s Fake (YAP 20)
I met this old man many years ago, in one of my midnight dreams. I do not know why he did not come to reality to make the truth I am going to state below truer. He was not prepared to do that, maybe, or, he just want to turn me into a prophet.
Let me describe his characters first. He was a lovely old man, a very lovely old man. I can say his loveliness was beyond compare without any exaggeration. He was childish in many things; his childishness was often the biggest laughter for a three-year-old child. But he was a distinctive man who would grab any chances flew by him as the last straw.
Then here comes some basic information about him. He was suffering somewhat from pulmonary disease. He was not a rich man. Actually, he got subsidies from the government. But he was a distinctive man who loved cigarettes deeply under those conditions.
One day, he got a ten-Yuan forged note by accident. He imagined buying two packages of three-Yuan cigarettes and one package of four-Yuan cigarettes in his great mind, using his wonderful computing skills. “It means I earn ten Yuan!” He thought happily. But a foolish shopkeeper saw through him at once. Then he gave back the packages in his hand, reluctantly and firmly, to the shopkeeper, saying: I won’t buy it! Then he went away, happily. Why was he happy? It is because he was heading to another shop hopefully.
After many attempts in many different shops, he turned out to be the most foolish person ever existed on the earth. He felt very sorry for this truth, but he was still happy and kept trying to buy those three imaginable packages. I have said, he was distinctive, he would not let any chance pass by, and he loved cigarettes deeply.
At last, he got rid of the unhealthy habit of smoking. Then he found he was the luckiest person in the world. Let me help him give his thanks to the maker of that ten-Yuan forged note.
Let me describe his characters first. He was a lovely old man, a very lovely old man. I can say his loveliness was beyond compare without any exaggeration. He was childish in many things; his childishness was often the biggest laughter for a three-year-old child. But he was a distinctive man who would grab any chances flew by him as the last straw.
Then here comes some basic information about him. He was suffering somewhat from pulmonary disease. He was not a rich man. Actually, he got subsidies from the government. But he was a distinctive man who loved cigarettes deeply under those conditions.
One day, he got a ten-Yuan forged note by accident. He imagined buying two packages of three-Yuan cigarettes and one package of four-Yuan cigarettes in his great mind, using his wonderful computing skills. “It means I earn ten Yuan!” He thought happily. But a foolish shopkeeper saw through him at once. Then he gave back the packages in his hand, reluctantly and firmly, to the shopkeeper, saying: I won’t buy it! Then he went away, happily. Why was he happy? It is because he was heading to another shop hopefully.
After many attempts in many different shops, he turned out to be the most foolish person ever existed on the earth. He felt very sorry for this truth, but he was still happy and kept trying to buy those three imaginable packages. I have said, he was distinctive, he would not let any chance pass by, and he loved cigarettes deeply.
At last, he got rid of the unhealthy habit of smoking. Then he found he was the luckiest person in the world. Let me help him give his thanks to the maker of that ten-Yuan forged note.
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