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The Coming Checkpoint

This Saturday, the whole SM3 19^th batch will face the first checkpoint, which is a test including mathematics and c programming. This is the first most significant examination that we encounter, because if we fail in one examination, we will receive a warning letter. According to the contract that we have signed before, two warning letters means being expelled from bridging course. In regard to the importance of the checkpoint, I myself have considered this a do-or-die issue.

To be more specific, I am really anxious about the coming checkpoint. Why? The reason may be that since I came to Singapore, I have not concentrated my whole attention on my study. Though the two subjects, mathematics and c programming, are not so challenging for me, I still do not have absolute confidence in them. For mathematics, the content that we have covered is more or less similar to what I have been taught in the university. Unfortunately, I did not work hard during my limited time in my university. So I have to start over in mathematics. And another subject, c programming is totally fresh for me. It is hard for me to carry on a new course with a second language, because there are too many technical terms for me. Though I have much interest in c programming, I cannot learn it as fast as I used to.

However, despite all the disadvantages, deep in heart I believe I can at least pass the examination. I recall all the exams that I have gone through successfully, I find that before the exams, I was always anxious. But before those exams in which I did not perform very well, I might not be so worried. Then I think over and find that the reason why I am so bothered is that all some of my friends seem really clever at the two subjects. Their level might be higher than me, which makes me rather troubled. In fact, I have done a good job at the two subjects. I should be at least capable enough to score enough points, though I am not the best myself.

Whatever, I will concentrate on my review and get well-prepared for the checkpoint. I am sure I will not say goodbye to Singapore so quickly.

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Born this way

A few days ago, I watched the film-, in this film the kind George VI couldn’t speak fluently. His doctor told him that whenever got stuck, he just needed to imagine the words like “shit”, “fuck”, and in this way, the king could speak out the words. I got quite interested in this; I want to know why name-calling can help humans speak out their words. Now, I know the reason, we are born in this way. Nowadays, the athletes are most similar to our ancestors; they both need speed and strength to beat their rivals, they must practice hard to get reward. The only difference is that: the athlete get medals and money, but the ancestors get their foods. We should know that athletes like insulting others. The king of basketball-Michael Jordan used to insult and justify his rivals when he was facing them, even the average like us like to call other’s name when we are doing sports, boys keep saying “fuck”, “shit” when they are playing basketball. In the past, our ancestors were moving all the time, they liked to say bad words. And there is another example about shopping. You know why women like to spend a lot of time on shopping but guys spend much less? Well, it is easy, in ancient time; guys must do all they could to feed their family. One day, if he would like to hunt a pig, he knew the place where he could find it. He got over two hills and a river, waited there. Once the pig appeared, he just got it and went back home. Otherwise, the females were different. Staying at home, they got few things to do, but they need to get the fruits in the wild, but there were plenty of them, they easily got hesitated. When they finished their work, much time is cost; and in nowadays, females spend lots of time shopping, while males spend much less. Sometimes when you meet something interesting about ourselves, do not be surprised, because we are born this way.

At the Beginning of a New Term

Yesterday was the first school after the recess. It just slipped away before I noticed that. When I stepped into the classroom, instead of feeling any differently, it was like starting the class again after the weekend. Ms Moh Keng threw these questions to us: “What did you do during the recess? Did anyone do anything interesting?” In contrast to her typical enthusiastic way of raising questions, I could only give a blank stare as response. It really took some efforts to revive things I did during the last week. However, besides the barbeque I failed to come up with anything that could correspond with “interesting”. The memory of the one-week recess has already been blurring, although it just came to an end. Quite strange, wasn’t it?
At first I was a bit disappointed about the initial idea that my recess week was not fascinating. However, when it occurred to me that the break pasted by before I could noticed, I realized that in fact it was not that bad; at least I did not feel that time was lingering. After recollecting for a few seconds, I felt that the last week was quite rich. My classmates and I had a good time on the east coast on Tuesday. In addition, I avoid being thrown into the water successfully, which was indeed a relief. The symphony concert in Esplanade on the Thursday was overwhelming. Besides, the shopping and swimming were also quite enjoyable.
Maybe sometimes we only feel disappointed about a period of time because we have not thought it over. Actually there will always be something worth appreciation. As this is the beginning of a new term, I suppose it is the time to start producing what we can appreciate at the end of the session.

Ordinary and Happy

 Ordinary and Happy

I thank my body, even if it is bloated, I can travel around the world; thank my nose, even if it is the collapsed one, but also I can breathe fresh air; thank my eyes, even if they are small, then squint, I can see sunrise, sunset, flowers and flowers bloom. Thanks that the sun raises again, to light my dreams; thank those days which made me sad, I know that happiness is not far away from me.  

- McDull

McDull, a fat, foolish pig, taught me the most beautiful wisdom in the world: a pure heart like a crystal is the secret of happiness.

Everyone usually wants to own a good congenital countenance. A beautiful girl or a handsome boy seems to attract everyone’s attention and become bright and absorbing. However, are these people really happy? Compared some pretty cartoon characters, I like this pig. He is ordinary, a little silly, even a little ugly, but he is positive and always full of hope. No matter you are ordinary or brilliant, everyone own the right of enjoying the life.

This reminds me of the < Jane Eyre >. Jane was also a very ordinary girl, but her mind, her enthusiasm, her kindness, helped her to win a pure heart. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you, — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities，nor even of mortal flesh.” These words are filled with the spirit of independence, freedom and dignity. We cannot choose our appearance, while we can choose the heart, the soul.

To conclude, happiness as nothing to do with appearance, it lies on your heart and your mind.

My Ancestor

After the recess week, comes the new start of the second part of the bridging course. The recess week is really a charm; I can sleep like I used to again, which means I can sleep more than ten hours per day, usually from 2am to 12am or so. Since I haven't talked about the weekly theme for a long time...well...it seems that I have never talked about our topic...anyway, the topic of this week has something to do with ancestors, I want to talk about something interesting related to my ancestor. Do you all really know where do you come from? I mean do you know where your family is 1000 years ago? Some of us may think the hometown of our grandfather is the answer, but I don't think so. I even don't think there is a way in which we can find out the answer to this question, as I have once said, I hate history. However, recently, I found some clues that may show the "source" of me. When I was making a phone call with my teacher of my senior middle school, I asked if there was something amusing, she said she had read an passage, which said people whose toenail has a tiny "branch" at the edge has a Mongolian ancestor. What's more, according to my grandfather, the place where my great-great-grandfather had lived was only 20 kilometers away from Mongolia. As a result, I currently think maybe my ancestor is a Mongolian ape! This may not be true at all, but I think it is really a pleasure to try to find out a thing, isn't it? 1000years ago, where were you?

B6 The old topic-friends!

Indeed, Gossip Girl is totally a crazy drama, I’m too tired to figure out their C_n^2 relationship, but I still felt touch about their friendship. Recently, I keep thinking of this problem for a long time. Well, maybe not very long yet, perhaps I can’t completely understand this matter even at the end of my life.

Go into the topic. There are many good things and bad things among the characters in Gossip Girl. But no matter what it is, when it comes to friends, they are always in union. That is the point which moves me very much. Many people think love is higher than friendship. Maybe not. Boys and girls relationship can break up, and hard to get together again, while friendship seems to can be fine again whatever happened. This principle I learn from Gossip Girl, but I get confused again. If every fault can be forgiven, what is the foundation of friendship?

I feel ashamed that I never totally open my heart to a friend. (Actually, what do you mean “totally”?) Probably, that is the reason why I never feel that kind of friendship that someone can give you help anytime and anywhere. (But of course I have some close friends, don’t misunderstand my words.) So sad, right? Someone said, "If you want to received, you must give first." For the feeling things, it is possible to earn nothing. However, I still want to try, for those people who deserve my love. Sometimes, you don’t pay for earn.

Which to Belive

When I was in China, all the news and books convinced me that Dalai was a savage dictator who ran an enslaved system in Tibet. However, almost all the news here in Singapore speaks highly of Dalai as a brave leader fighting for the freedom of Tibet. Why there are two entirely different reports on the same event? I wonder. But I am sure of one thing that one side must have lain.
As far as I am concerned, events are facts. Facts are fixed things. They cannot be altered by our wishes, our inclinations or the dictates of our passions. Thus, I query what the responsibility of the media is – presenting the truth or their own bias. As is known to all, the media is a link between the society and individuals. It keeps us informed of what is going on in the world and catching up with the world trend. However, can you imagine what we focus on and care about wholeheartedly is not the truth? The feeling of being cheated is really nuisance. What makes matters worse, we may never know the truth and waste our sentiment on nonsense.
Additionally, I also wonder whether the media is a tool for us to make a voice or just the official stage of the men of great power. The wrong news about Dalai is contempt for the readers. The people who post the news ignore the impact on the young generation who still cannot tell the right and wrong.
Thus, even though the media have brought us a lot of convenience, we still should be vigilant of what the news tell us instead of believing blindly.

My opinion about Japanese disasters

Recently, disasters happened to Japan constantly,firstly, the earthquake happened,then, the nuclear plant exploded. What a strike to them!
But there are some voices that come from other countries, like Japanese commited great crime to China during the World War 11 period, They killed a lot of Chinese people, but they refused to admit their behaviour after they surrendered to China. They say it is a return. They deserve all this. In fact, I myself once thought this was a penalty to them. But then I changed my mind, since the crime Japanese commited belonged to the last generation, not this generation now who suffer the desparate pain and loss. I now think that the whole world should be together as one family as a group and help each other whenever whoever has something in trouble. What they did, let it pass. They belonged to history. All people should have the right to enjoy life. We, as Chinese, should help Japanese by donating tents, food, water and help them comfort the victims, as well as rebuild their home with them. We should let them know they are not alone in this world, and give them hope after what they have been through.
As for the rumor of the so-called radiation spreading in Asia and the rush of buying salt of I, I think it is rediculous. People should not make chaos deliberately and gain benefit from it. What a shame for them to do such things to Asians who already had enough panic. Do not believe these rumor and do not buy salt rushly.
Disasters ought to be solved by all the human race as a family. No matter what country suffers, we should all do our best to help.

Introduction of NBA

As I mentioned in my former blog, I am a man who have a passion for basketball. I love everything related to basketball especially NBA.
Referring to NBA, I believe that you will think of Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant immediately. However, here, I prefer to introduce a little basic knowledge of the American National Basketball Association.
1. System
NBA is split into two parts - The eastern conference and western conference containing fifteen teams each. And, these fifteen teams are divided into three divisions, which mean that every division has five teams. The six divisions are Atlantic, Central, Southeast, Northeast, Pacific and Southwest division.

2. Regular season
Regular season is from November to the next year’ early April. Each team plays 82 regular season games, half home and half away from home. Each team plays four games (two home, two away) against every team in its own division and two games (one home, one away) against every team in the other conference. Besides, each team will play four games against six teams from the different divisions but the same conference and play three games against with the last four teams. Totally, each team should play 82 regular season games.

3. Playoff
NBA Playoffs begin in late April, with eight teams in each conference going for the Championship. The best eight teams in each conference can take part in the Playoff. Their rank will depend on their regular season record. Because the first seed begins the playoffs playing against the eighth seed, the second seed plays the seventh seed, the third seed plays the sixth seed, and the fourth seed plays the fifth seed, having a higher seed means a team faces a weaker team in the first round. And the team with better record has a home court advantage. Which team wins four games first will go into the next round, and the other team will be knocked out. The final playoff round, between the victors of both conferences, is known as the NBA Finals, and is held in early June. The winner in NBA Finals wins the Final champion.

My Opinion on One News

These days, I saw a news about Gary Locke, and I have some opinion on it.



Here is the summary:

Us president Obama nominated Gary Locke as ambassador to china. Gary Locke is considered as Obama ‘s “trump card” to achieve his ambitious plan to double the export in 2015. Gary Locke’s combined background and his commercial expertise seem to make him. Because of his history and many other factors, both America and china pay much attention to this nomination.



In my opinion, for America, the combined background and his commercial expertise will contribute to the ambitious plan to double export in 2015. His leadership, experience and history will promote the relationship of china and us. For china, we Chinese are very glad to see a Chinese - American ambassador who makes it easier to get close to Chinese heart. But Gary Locke didn’t behave as close as we supposed. He can’t say Mandarin and he once said “I am proud of my ancestor, and I am proud of my Chinese heritage, but I am a 100% American.” I agree the point that some experts bring up that there is no need to pay much attention to a Chinese-America ambassador, and the major political strategy won’t be changed. So I think we should remember Gary Locke is on behalf of American government. But one thing I can’t deny is that the first Chinese - American china ambassador will make a big difference in the relationship between china and America.

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Some Thoughts about Japan

Few days ago, there was a severe earthquake on the seafloor near Japan. The tsunami caused by it then hit the main territory of Japan island, which brought about extreme damage.

After the disaster, there emerged many heated conversation on the Internet. In China, however, some extreme voice came out. They claimed that the disaster was a punishment to Japan as it once invaded China but never confirmed the fixed truth.

Though I myself did not like Japan too much, I never held the view that this disaster was a punishment for the Japanese people and they deserved it. Actually, I believe, the disasters like this are the reason why Japan once invaded us. As everyone knows, Japan is an island country. It not only lacks natural resources, but also suffers from frequent earthquakes and tsunamis. Scientific research reveals that several years later, Japan is surely to be covered by sea. That why they wanted to explore other safe place to preserve their race and culture. So they had wars against China and many other east or south-east Asian countries. They had even established a permanent settlement in north-east China and some of the Japanese residents truly moved to this place. Luckily for us, the Chinese People's Liberation Army defeated Japanese army and drove them away.

I am not saying that we should forgive their fault totally. I just want to make everyone known that what they did is obviously understandable. They were selfish. So are we all. What will you do under that circumstance? I bet no one has another answer than to take space from the neighboring weak countries. Though I can understand their original intention, I am still angry and indignant about their later aim to wipe out the whole Chinese races. Moreover, their attitude about the war enraged all Chinese as they tried to describe the war to their next generation and other countries as revolutions for the local citizens.

To conclude, I would like to say that, I feel sorry for Japan about the existing and coming disasters; I can understand their intention to save themselves; I can even forgive them; but I will never forget the pain that they have brought us, and I will always be alert to Japan.

Some opinions about the Fukushima earthquake

A big earthquake hit Fukushima, Japan on March 11, which caused a tsunami and a nuclear blast To my astonishment, some Chinese even seem happy and laugh at Japanese. As we all know, Japanese invaded some Asian countries and killed a large number of Chinese people without mercy. However, I feel ashamed about these numb laughers. In my opinion, no matter how bad villainies the Japanese army did seventy years ago, contemporary civilians are guiltless. In addition, in the face of disasters, nationality is not important. Every human being from every country has the same right to live.

Another noticeable thing is that some warning SMSs are spreading recently. A well known one is that “If it rains today or the nest few days, DO NOT GO UNDER THE RAIN even if it’s only a drizzle. Radioactive particles, which may cause burns, alopecia or even cancer, may be in the rain.” In the beginning, every one believed it. However, this kind of warnings is NOT TRUE. No official media report such news. On contrast, Singapore is far away from Japan. Nuclear pollution cannot impact our health from so long a distance. We should be calm and not too panic of it. Just pray for those Japanese victims and homeless people. I believe they can get over it soon.

Tell truth or not

When I went to attend the Hong Kong Baptist University journalism faculty’s interview, the professor asked me a question, “should the government tell truth to residents through the press?” It sounded like a quite easy question to answer; but when it came to me, I hesitated for a long time.
I replied him that it depends. Sometimes the government can lie because the situation was incredibly terrible. In other words, they have to lie, or else the society will panic. For example, we all know the food security problem in China last year; China government appeased the affair as soon as possible, although I did not believe the problem had been solved thoroughly. However, if the government publicizes all the statistics about the examining result for food security, people will be afraid to eat almost everything. So I think maybe the press should play a role to “protect” residence.
I did not doubt about my opinion until I heard the news that BBC pointed out the British government may bribed the International Olympic Committee. After that, the British government put the pressure on BBC, but it seemed like clown since BBC had beyond their control. Then, I knew that how necessary reality is for news. The press has no right to judge an affair, while telling truth is their basic responsibility. The “protect” is actually a kind of deceiving and hurt. Some newspapers which served for the government lose their value as a media. They can give advices in some columns, but the premise is that they report the news truly. In this way, they are able to help residents oversee the government to do a better work.
In conclusion, it is the obligation for the press to tell the truth.

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Nowadays many people can complain about their lives in some aspects for there are so many imperfections in their lives. We always considered others’ lives better than ours, so many of us wish to build a world without pains, poverty, starvation and wars. In this perfect world like heaven, everyone would enjoy happiness and harmony, and we all treat each other like brothers and sisters, get through all the challenges which we will face in the future together. How can we achieve this goal?

On one hand, I think everyone should respect each other without considering what religion he believes in, what race he is, what his education back ground is, or whether he has physical or mental sickness, because everyone has his own way to live in the world and he is surly to be painful if unfortunate things happened to him. On the other hand, we should get to know the talents, the troubles of other people. Once someone turned to you for help, please give him a hand, a cheerful smile and your encouraging words. We should never give up anyone when they are in trouble. Finally, I think that human beings can live better with the development of technology, but if everyone refuses to help the ones who are in trouble such as depression, poverty, wars and starvation. We must give everyone opportunities to live at least with roof over head, bread on the table, a friend to talk with.

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A better world

For me, the world will be a better place if there is no waste of things. Nowadays, the thing that we waste most is water. Actually, water is one of the most important things for people. Maybe we waste water because we do not realize the importance of water. For instance, if we live in a place where there is lack of water or where water is polluted, I am sure we will treasure water as we treasure as our life. Besides water, we also waste food very much; That is a terrible thing. Food production is the labour of many people, so wasting food is equal to wasting labour. Lots of people die of hunger every day in the world because of lacking of food. Thinking of them, we have no excuse to waste food. What’s more, we also waste money, wood and so on. I hope that there will no waste one day, if so, the world will be a better place to live.

Struggling minds

Last Saturday, we roommates went to NUS on open house for some consultations of our oncoming choosing faculty, which is quite a serious thing. Few weeks ago, I made up my mind to choose Science of Computing as a discipline, but now I am confused to make a decision as more and more choices come along. After the College Entrance Examination, there was a period of similar time for me to choose one major in Nanjing University. Compared to that experience, I have grown up a lot since I went abroad to study and that is the privilege. On the other hand, the situation becomes more complicated, for example, all the introductions are in English even the names of faculties and some of them we have not heard a little before. From my heart, I know that I am infatuated with updated objects like computer science. However, I am aware that I am not good at it, i.e. I am lack of a kind of systematic computer thinking. Only preference makes no sense. In the end, who creates the problem has to solve by himself no matter how tough it is. All above, I share some struggling minds in the form of blogger, wish you had a better situation than me. Here is an inspiring motto: “Be the change you want to see in the world”.

B5：the media

My attitude towards the media

I must admit that the media played a crucial role in our daily life. Every day, we know the world through the newspaper, the TV, the radio and the internet. In fact, we hardly live for one day without the media. Someone hate the media because of some bothersome people----such as newshound; other people pay attention to the media a lot for the media provide some important and necessary in formation to them. To me, the media is just a tool to begin a new day.

Since I came here, I seldom watch TV program. Every morning, I will surf the internet to search some news about my hometown, my motherland or some events happened in Asia. If I am enough lucky, I will get some newspaper about Singapore. Only we use an impartial eye to see the media, and it does bring us a lot of benefits.

Let’s talk about the tsunami happened in Japan. When the disaster attack the poor country, the whole world knew the sad and horrible earthquake immediately and soon took a series of measures to assist Japan. Now most people are focusing on the media so that they can more about the situation in Japan now. Someone is worrying about the friends and relatives there; someone is anxious of the nucleus radiation. In a word, the whole world is looking at Japan with the help of the media.

    In conclusion, I just want to tell you that one coin has two sides. If we do not do something wrong, please do not e afraid of the media.

Human rights in my country

Every time we talk about human rights in C, it always keeps discussible. Due to most of us are from the urban city of C, so we may not know some tiredness and weakness of our country.
In C, every time we refer to human rights, we will think about Liu Xiaobo, who has won the Noble Peace Prize. Whereas, most C's citizens still do not know who he is. He has won the Noble Peace Prize for he has fight for human rights in C with a non-injury way for a long time. However, he stands in the opposite side of C's Central Government, so he was caught by the police, and he was forbidden to get the prize in Norway. All of his family members were supervised by the government. All of news about him was absolutely forbidden in C continent. Still, lots of people and associations in C support Liu Xiaobo. They know what Liu have done is right, but it will limit the conduct of our central government, and our government would not like to have this consequence, so he was sent into jail.
Another aspect, which I suppose is very apparent, is our comment freedom. For instance, we must not talk about our president, Communist Party, or something that is very sensitive in C. If i done that, my comment will be deleted buy the administrator of the website with an excuse of keeping the social harmonious, and I may be caught by the police for having disseminate some gossip which will do harm to the social well-being. Through the internet, we can read each kinds of news except news about our main government, and we cannot comment it. That is why most netizens said that they do not have comment freedom.
More things like Falun gong, occupying arable by force, and so, these topics always keep hot in C. Most C's citizens know that Falun gong is something that do harm to our thought, we may commit suicide after practice it. It is because that Falun gong was defined heresy and illegal association in C, and it is absolutely forbidden in C only. To stand in a neutral side, I cannot say it is good or not good, but regard it more subjectively. About arable, it produces the main income of farmers, they cannot live without their arable, but because our country need to develop, so more construction will take place, which means more arable will be occupied. However, farmers do not want it, so the local government would take some measures to take up the arable by force. That is why lots of fighting take place in C for land.
Even though these matters can be something we do not want know, but we need to envisage it, and attempt to change it, to enhance the well-being of our life in C.

Restriction leads to freedom

We always ask for freedom, for complicated regulations seem like having limited everything we would like to do. We should go to work on time, hand in papers on time, and we even should have lunch on time for it is just available at special time of day. We are tired of being at other’s mercy, thus we look forward to a type of life that we have the “real freedom”---we are not restricted by anyone, and can control our own life one hundred percent. It is an ideal situation that was dreamed by normal people indeed.

Personally, I always dream about the life that I own a big house near the Great Sea. There is no work for me to do, no mission for me to complete, no complaining from others. All I have is the peaceful life, and the time to enjoy the sunset. However, it is just an illusion which only exists in my day-dream. Nothing is free in this world, so we should fight for everything we want. Working to us is hunting to animals. In order to achieve our dream, we should be at other’s mercy to some degree. For everyone is just a loop in the big society chain.

Maybe it sounds ridiculous; it is the case that restriction leads to freedom.

a funny story

A funny story
When I was in the second year of my high school, I had a very strange haircut. It often attracted others’ attention. In fact I like the attention from others, even if they just laughed at me, thinking that I was larruping. One day I was walking in our campus, suddenly I heard some laughter from some girls behind me. I had already been used to this kind of laughter; I smiled, and kept on walking. But things changed when a stern guy in my class passed by: with a beaming smile, he raised his thumb to me. I was quite curious, he had never said anything about my hair, and we did not get on well with each other. The laughter behind me became louder and louder. I knew my strange hair could not set off such a stir. As I turned round, a girl was pointing at me, laughing and saying something to her mate; a boy was yelling to his mates: “come and see, there is an idiot here!” I was confused, I would make others laugh or point at me before, but not as frequently. I knew there must be something wrong, but I just could not find out why. When I returned home at noon, my mother asked me: “your hair is strange enough, why do you ruin your pants and let others see your underwear and tips?” I took off my trousers and found that there was a big hole in the back.

Best wishes for Japanese

Best wishes for Japanese
A few days ago, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck Japan. Besides, the earthquake promote a tsunami at the same time. Now, there are so many victims in Japan now that need help.
I am so sorry to hear the news though Japan had ever invaded China in history. It does not mean that I have forgotten the national humiliation of our country. However, there are still so many Japanese who are immaculate at all. I think no matter what Japan had ever done for China, we still should send our best wishes to the victims and try our best to help them. We have no right to impose the offence of their forefathers on the Japanese now. No matter what kind of disagreement China and Japan have, we are still together when the nature disaster happens.
I still remember that when the earthquake in wenchuan, China happened, Japan helped us too. Now when the disaster happens in Japan, there is no benefit for us at all. On the way round, it is bad for the economic development in the world. Maybe when the disaster really happens, we find that life is really fragile. Thus, now in the name of life, sincerely hope that the victims would be safe and the people in Japan could renew their normal lives quickly.
Best wishes for Japanese.

B5 Brothers or Sisters?

Most of us are single child in our families. So, did you once dream of having a brother or sister? I believe almost every single child thought of this thing. Now, if you have a magic option to have another family member? Do you prefer younger/elder brother or younger/elder sister?

I have asked some of my friends, and the result is very interesting. Great majority girls like elder brother. So do me. Why? Obviously, a stronger brother can protect you better, no matter in physical or moral. Elder brother can give you a sense of security. Moreover, in the contrast of sisters, brothers will not compare girls’ things with you. Naturally, we will not envy with each other. Personally, more equal love will be assign to each of us. Therefore, elder brother is a great idea, isn’t it?

However, what make me a little surprised is that, boys also want to have elder sister. Certain boys said, elder sister just behaves like another mother, who can comfort you when you get hurt, give you warmth when you meet your winter, and give strong spirit power to you. Yes, it is great, too.
Nevertheless, I think boys should be responsible, have manliness, and desire to protect others. But afterwards, I feel my thought is narrow. Who don’t want to be protected? It shouldn’t be scolded more.

Oh Yeah!

As you all can see from the title, I am more than rejoiced, and there are two reasons. The first one is that we don't have to copy that stupid handbook, those who have already copied it have two choices, to hand in the copy or to keep it. I chose to keep it because it might be useful when one day I really commit a foul. For those who are penalized for violating the regulation, I still want to say, you deserve it. Last Friday, one of the MOE officers told us that if we obey the rules and get punished, we should take the punishment, if not, we are not obeying the rules. Totally nonsense. If we will be punished ANYWAY, only lunatics will obey.
The second reason is that this is my tenth post and the 30th post with the label Qizhong, at first I just wanted to make the name Qizhong be the first on the label list because I liked this tutor a lot. Later on, it turned out that I was kind of silly because his name starts with the letter C and what I had done was in vain...Whatever, I'm lovin' it.

A Premarital Agreement with My Future Wife

These days, I saw an interest theme, "Would you sign a premarital agreement with your future husband or wife?" and I want to talk about this in my blog.
I approve of signing the premarital agreement with my future wife. For one thing, premarital agreement contributes to solidify the marriage and promote goodwill as between spouses. Premarital agreement clear and define the right and obligation so that couple will go along with each other well by undertaking their own duty according to the premarital agreement. When couple quarrels, they can also refer to the premarital agreement in that they can shoulder the responsibility of the issue calmly. For another thing, signing a premarital agreement is rather rational. Marriage is an advanced form of love and legally certifying ownership of wealth before getting married represents a high degree of rationality on the part of those getting married. Actually premarital agreements are common in western counties and in economically developed regions. 80% of complaints related to divorce are associated with financial disputes, which have delays divorce and cause people great pain. If couples sign premarital agreements, people will not feel so exhausted when they get divorced.

Human rights

Last week, we talked a lot about human rights. However, what satires was our own human rights was infringed totally- All of us had to copy the Eton hall handbook because some "black sheep" broke the rules such as the consumption of alcohol and playing games during the compulsory study time.

It's quite unfair for all of us to copy the handbook because it isn't our faults and there is no need for us well-behaved students to take responsiblity for those who broke the rules. What makes us more disappointed is the reason the chairman of Eton hall gave us.

"The world is unfair." he said casually.

I don't think this answer makes any sense. In my view, it's quite ridiculous to infringed our rights and then give us such a weak explanation. Also, most of my friends and classmate think the same, and they refuse to copy it just like what I do. Some of us even consider Eton hall to be Eton hell, so there is no doubt that the officers of Eton hall should consider it seriously and carefully.

In brief, everyone has his or her responsibility to make up his or her own mistakes, which cannot be taken by others.

My opinion on music

I am crazy about music. I often regret not having chosen art school to study when I was young. If had the chance, I will definitely devote myself to music.

When it comes to music, the scene which students listening to MP3 players wearing earphones comes to my mind. Technology brings music to our daily life. I feel blessed to be born in modern society.

Music developes fast. We have rock and roll which delivers people's passion and desire desperately through the singer's voice as well as the beating of drums. I love rock and roll,especially Avril's songs. They give me enthusiasim and strengh.
Music can read my my mind and soul.
......(the content is not saved, if you want more please watch my oral presentation on Wednesday)
Listen, music is talking to you...

About human rights

As for human rights, I think it is pretty good in today’s world. Almost all the people are respected by each other and our government and we live in a quite peaceful world. I know all this is very different in the past. Our laws and human rights are enacted by kings, so kings have a lot of privileges and ordinary people just have a few rights, slaves even have no rights during that time. Thus, there were lots of wars in ancient time just for getting more rights. I think that I am lucky to live in nowadays.
However, in Eton hall, things are not going well. We were monitored by aunties and uncles. What’s worse, the food in Eton hall is not delicious. Moreover, we will copy the Handbook if we make any mistake. Just keep optimistic!

story telling

If you are a hero, are you brave enough to commit suicide rather than be killed by your enemies? Many years ago, there was a man named Xiang Yu, who was brave, strong and confident, and had a beautiful girlfriend Yu Ji. Xiang Yu was the leader of Chu, and he had an enemy, Liu Bang, who was the leader of Han. Liu Bang was sly but he was also really smart, so he survived many times from Xiang Yu’s attacks. One day, Liu Bang’s army surrounded the army of Xiang Yu, and Liu Bang let his soldiers sing the song from Xiang Yu’s hometown which made Xiang Yu think that he had failed and it was a hopeless situation. Xiang Yu was also afraid that Yu Ji would be arrested by Liu Bang. However, he became very calm and said to Yu Ji: “Honey, I know if you are arrested by Liu Bang, you will be killed in a very cruel way, so I have to kill you first.” Yu Ji agreed, so Xiang Yu killed Yu Ji before leading his soldiers to fight with Liu Bang’s army. Xiang Yu killed many enemies but his soldiers were all killed. He also didn’t want to be killed by Liu Bang, so he laughed loudly near a river and jumped into it. Although Xiang Yu had failed, he is still thought a hero in history.

Give Them a Chance to Survive

This is a true story that I read from the newspaper. A European tourist once took a visit to India. By the said of the street, he saw an Indian mother cut her son’s left hand personally. Around her were her other children who were all disabled. Why did she do so? You might think she was so cruel and inhuman. But the truth was that she did so all for her children. Because she could not raise the children and if they were disabled, they might survive by being given alms from others instead of starving to death with a complete body.
In my opinion, human rights are rights and freedom to which we are all entitled. But to the Indian family, the children had no food, let alone the access to education; the mother were forced to hurt her children no matter how unwilling she was. They lived in the pain and terror of death every day. All the misery was driven by poverty. Their rights to live and freedom to love were deprived of but no choice for them.
Life is a must and basis for human rights. It is also the prerequisite of the realization of human rights. When the children in the slums are in desperate of one dollar to by a bar of bread, the rich yet spend thousands on a small cube of chocolate. I do not mean to condemn their luxury because it is also their rights and freedom that I should respect. Even though everyone is born equal, equality is not applied to everyone, to some extent. That is also one of the reasons why the world is not perfect.
However, I still believe there is sunshine behind the rain since there are a lot of gracious beings in the world. As the human society develops, a perfect world will come someday.

How far are we from human rights

Last week, we encounter a really unpleasant thing which we must copy the Eton Hall handbook for one time, since we all know about this so called “event”, I do not want to comment on it any more or even to mention it again. However, it actually reminded me that how far we are from human rights. Most of us at this age are already adults in China, but we are now studying in Singapore with the grown age of 21. I do agree what Zhu Yueyue uttered in her oral report last Wednesday afternoon, why we have to take the adult responsibility here without obtaining relevant rights. In fact, I am not a cynical person. From my perspective, we are not aware of our rights and responsibilities until we are hurt or cheated. When I was in high school on grade two, I heard about that senior students were gathered to hold a meeting to make their own promise for being 18 years old. They had rights for political elections. Though it will be a long way to defend our rights, we should make all efforts to achieve them.

What's wrong with them?

I am not a person who can be irritated easily. I won't say that I am a liberal person, but I seldom get angry. Just as I said in another post in this blog, when one is angry, he or she will leave a bad impression on others, which is no good. However, I was badly infuriated these few days. It is because of the way we are treated. Only because of some other people's fault, I, together with all the other students in Eton Hell, am required to copy the Eton handbook. I just cannot figure out any logic from this request. WHY ARE PEOPLE BEHAVING WELL PENALIZED? All we learn, from the time we were born, is that if you make a mistake, you will be punished, but now we are punished for NOTHING? Why? What's wrong with their mind? It is really insane. What's more, we are asked to copy the handbook NEATLY, WITH A PEN INSTEAD OF A PENCIL. What are they doing? What do they think we are doing? At first, I refused to do so, but last night, I copied it .That is because I had nothing to do last night and I was successfully persuaded by someone. Take your time to judge me, because I hate people who do not keep promises. I copied it really fast, using a pencil, so no doubt it was a mess, but I won't copy a second time, whether the management thinks my handwriting is acceptable or not. I won't waste my time entertaining those jackasses again.
Some people may wonder whether I will break my promise again. What I want to say is, I don not know, either. Let us just wait and see.

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I Will Not Copy My Handbook

On March 1^st evening, while I was showering, auntie’s voice came out of the microphone. I did not give any attention. However, when the room leader came back, he brought us an awful piece of news that we all have to transcribe the Eton Hall handbook, the reason for which actually was that many of us had broken the rules, so in order to make us aware of the Eton Hall’s disciplines, all of the SM2 and SM3 scholars have to make a hand copy of Eton Hall handbook.

Once heard of the news, I had made up my mind not to copy the handbook. It was not only because that I had never violated any of the rules, but also that I thought this order was totally unreasonable and inhuman. Why should we pay for what we have not done yet and we may never do—violating the rules? Even the minority of the scholars had disobeyed the rules, why should the majority take the responsibility? Besides, to say the least, there is no such rule in the handbook that if someone breaks the regulation, all the students will have to copy the handbook. The command itself is the violation to handbook.

I was to some extent offended and insulted. I talked to some of my tutors. They also strongly disapproved the order and encouraged me to fight for our rights. So I made a phone call to the chairman of Eton Hall—who had an acquaintance with me. He obviously did not want to talk too much, which means he would not cancel the order. However, he promised to come to my room. At around 8:30, March 2^nd, chairman went into my room and talked to me about the order. I voiced my strong antagonism, yet he just stated the necessity for everyone to memorize the rules. He said that he knew this is nonsensical and unfair, but he cannot withdraw the order. Since every effort seemed futile, I calmly told him that I would not copy the handbook. I had to admit that I did my best to get rid of this chaos, but what I had done was all in vain.

What will you do, my friends?

Copy handbook? Oh no!

Yesterday night, unexpectedly, all the sm3 and sm2 students living in Eton hall were punished to copy the boarder's handbook and submit it next Monday. This ridiculous affair spread out in the whole building like a burning fire. Some students connected with MOE quickly, some discussed it in room with fury. In my opinion, just like what Yueyue said in her oral report, we should have right to refuse to copy it.

For the students who broke the rules lately, it is no doubt that they had already been punished strictly. Though they have known what they did is wrong, they will notice it next time. However, they have not been given chance as well as time to prove their determinations, then, another punishment fell to them. Furthermore, other students may impute this punishment to them who might offend the rules for the first time.

For the students who did not break the rules, they were too innocent to be punished suddenly. Many of their first reactions would be opposing this decision at all costs. Afterwards, the hall's announcement in the future will turn them off; I do not think it is the atmosphere which aunties expect.

The reason why we have to copy the handbook is to be familiar to the rules in the handbook. Actually, we are not going to obey many irrational rules in the handbook all the time; nevertheless we copy and know them now. For instance, borrowing of money among boarders is strictly prohibited. All in all, this traditional and conventional method should be changed into a new flexible way which may be more acceptable.

By the way, the handbook indeed has some good subordinate clauses and some useful vocabularies, so it is not so bad. Ha-ha!