There are some classical lines haunting us until the curtain has been dropped. We sometimes try to recall them when chatting with our friends. Blot out our memory, we surprisingly find that we have so many precious treasures picking up from movies. For this reason I’d like to share a few famous lines that I prefer here.
“How do you know it’s love if you’ve never been in love before?”
“Cause I feel it.”
“Where?”
“In my stomach. It’s all warm.” (From “Leon”)
Love is an instinct. We cannot describe it well, but we can feel it. Falling in love is so appropriate to be used. One day when you are infatuated with someone, you will know the heat.
“Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.”
“I don’t know if we each have a destiny or if we’re all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I think maybe is both.”
“I just feel like running.” (From Forrest Gump)
When destiny fooled at him, he just ran even though he did not know the particular reason. You could tease him, you could look down on him, but you must have envied of him who acquired much more than others. He is not smart, but he is so persistent in his love and his life.
“Some of you guys are here because you know somebody. Some of you guys are here because you think you’re somebody. There is one guy in here who is going to be somebody.” (From “The pursuit of happiness”)
When facing the fierce competition in society, one needs to be strict with himself at the crucial moment. Success only inclines to people who persevere. Once you have a determination, please pursue it without hesitation.
How do you like them? Which movie ever touched you a lot? What are the words leaving a deep impression on you? Share it with us!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Enjoy walking
Recently I go back to Eton Hall on foot almost every day (except rainy days~). At the beginning, I did this in order to lose weight. However, now I just enjoy the walk and get used to it.
Sometimes several friends walk with me, and I really love to talk with them. Although we walk in different paces, we do not care too much and just go at our favourite speeds. It is a good chance to make friends, especially to know more about the girls who are usually low-key but easy-going indeed. We can tell jokes and laugh out loud together. Besides, if we meet difficulties or sorrowful matters, we confide worries or give advice to each other.
If no one goes together, it is also a good opportunity for me to relax myself. Walking alone may seem a little bit weird and lonely. Actually, I enjoy being tranquil or even isolate myself against the noisy society for a while. With on one nearby knowing me but only beautiful sceneries, I can immerse myself into a totally spirit silence. I have enough time to recall for my old memories and plan for the future. I ponder a lot about my life, my family, my friends and myself. If I am in a good mood, I also take pictures on the tropical rain forests, the seaside, the black birds and flower petals flowing in the air… I hope when I don’t live in Eton Hall, I can still keep the memories about the walk.
Every day after my one-and-half –an-hour “journey”, I feel physical tired but mental relaxed. I hope I can keep this habit till the end of bridging course~
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Chinese poetry
Hundreds of poems have been recited by us from even the day we learned Chinese character, and we are used to quote some famous sentences when we talk, sing and write. It seems that poetry is an inseparable part of the great Chinese language. Whenever we read it, we are fascinated by the amazing structure as well as the abundant meaning. However, Chinese poetry is only open to the one who knows Chinese, thus this cultural achievements are prevalent in limited area.
Although there are many translations of Chinese poetry, we find it difficult to grasp the meaning in the literal, unimaginative edition. “If you want to see more, go upstairs” this sentence is well known by almost all Chinese, and I believe most of them would be stunned when they read this translation. Translating Chinese poetry into other languages is like the action of adapt it into modern Chinese language, namely, it just convey the superficial meaning of the poem and abandon the emotion and hided meaning of it. It does not make any sense at all. For instance, the moon, swallow, river and so on are the materials that deliver the feeling of homesick, but it merely deliver the straight meaning in most languages.
Therefore, I do not think reading the English edition of Chinese poetry is a decent method of knowing traditional Chinese literature. Moreover, it is the same with other kinds of Chinese literature, such as Chinese heroic fiction, Song ci, Yuan qu and so on. No wonder there is no Chinese has won Noble Literature Prize ever. It is because the literal translation cannot convey the original idea. Therefore, I believe we should teach foreigners Chinese before we teach the literature. Fortunately, increasing foreigners are learning Chinese now, and I think Chinese poetry will have more reader in future.
blog 10
What have you learnt
After a five-month bridging course, we are about to graduate from this course. At this exciting moment, when everyone is celebrating and cheering, I keep on asking myself: “how much have you learned?”
This question bothered me so badly that I can hardly sleep well at night. When I counted the skills or new knowledge, I found it tragic that it seemed that I had learnt nothing. I asked my mother that if I was wasting my time all these days. Then she asked me: “can you understand the special spoken English in Singapore now; can you order in McDonalds like locals now; can you speak English in front of others without shyness…”
Slightly surprised, I answered: “yes, but these things seem not to be knowledge.”
She said that that knowledge is a thing that you can never count and name, and the knowledge that I have learnt in my bridging course is just like what she mentioned.
Then I asked her how I could know that I learned well. She said: “when you go to bed at night, what you feel are fulfillment and pride but not guilt; when you get up in the morning, what you feel are excitement and energy; when you listen to lecture, your mind is filled with questions put forward by lecturer… then you can know that you must learn well.”
I think I should stop thinking how much I have learnt, but consider how much I have done to learn.
After a five-month bridging course, we are about to graduate from this course. At this exciting moment, when everyone is celebrating and cheering, I keep on asking myself: “how much have you learned?”
This question bothered me so badly that I can hardly sleep well at night. When I counted the skills or new knowledge, I found it tragic that it seemed that I had learnt nothing. I asked my mother that if I was wasting my time all these days. Then she asked me: “can you understand the special spoken English in Singapore now; can you order in McDonalds like locals now; can you speak English in front of others without shyness…”
Slightly surprised, I answered: “yes, but these things seem not to be knowledge.”
She said that that knowledge is a thing that you can never count and name, and the knowledge that I have learnt in my bridging course is just like what she mentioned.
Then I asked her how I could know that I learned well. She said: “when you go to bed at night, what you feel are fulfillment and pride but not guilt; when you get up in the morning, what you feel are excitement and energy; when you listen to lecture, your mind is filled with questions put forward by lecturer… then you can know that you must learn well.”
I think I should stop thinking how much I have learnt, but consider how much I have done to learn.
blog 9
Never enough
Nearly all people are professionals in some field: some are good at basketball; some master badminton; also some people do well in science. I used to be very confident about my ability of sports, and in some sports I can rarely find rivals from my friends, and swimming is one of them. Yesterday I went to NUS to swim. After a simple preparation, I jumped into the swimming pool. Soon I found that a middle-aged American male was just next to me. So I said to myself: “let me race with him and beat him.” In the first round, we marched together, I felt so exhausted because he swam so fast, and I just narrowly followed him. Soon I was far behind him, but I did not want to give up. Perhaps in the sixth round, I just cannot move my hands and legs in the middle of the pool. I changed my posture to an easier way, and the man was still swimming in a high speed. As long as I reached the edge of the pool, I got out of the water and dragged to the wash room. I took a 30-minute bath there, during which I even cannot breathe, stars wrinkle in my eyes. I had never felt so tired before. After a ten-minute rest, I got out of the wash room. Weird, shocked, I found that the man was still in the pool and swimming in the same speed. I can only say that he defeated me thoroughly.
I used to believe that I can hardly find equals among surroundings, and I always believe that I do not need to practice hard to become better. I think this experience told me that we should be aware that you can never be good enough to have no rivals, no matter in what field. Sometimes when we think that we have already learnt something well, maybe we are not good enough.
Nearly all people are professionals in some field: some are good at basketball; some master badminton; also some people do well in science. I used to be very confident about my ability of sports, and in some sports I can rarely find rivals from my friends, and swimming is one of them. Yesterday I went to NUS to swim. After a simple preparation, I jumped into the swimming pool. Soon I found that a middle-aged American male was just next to me. So I said to myself: “let me race with him and beat him.” In the first round, we marched together, I felt so exhausted because he swam so fast, and I just narrowly followed him. Soon I was far behind him, but I did not want to give up. Perhaps in the sixth round, I just cannot move my hands and legs in the middle of the pool. I changed my posture to an easier way, and the man was still swimming in a high speed. As long as I reached the edge of the pool, I got out of the water and dragged to the wash room. I took a 30-minute bath there, during which I even cannot breathe, stars wrinkle in my eyes. I had never felt so tired before. After a ten-minute rest, I got out of the wash room. Weird, shocked, I found that the man was still in the pool and swimming in the same speed. I can only say that he defeated me thoroughly.
I used to believe that I can hardly find equals among surroundings, and I always believe that I do not need to practice hard to become better. I think this experience told me that we should be aware that you can never be good enough to have no rivals, no matter in what field. Sometimes when we think that we have already learnt something well, maybe we are not good enough.
Blog 9
Since this week’s topic is appreciating poetry, I would like to share some opinions of my own on that theme.
First of all, I have to admit that I am lack of a sense of poems, which means if it is my turn to think of and write out a poem, I will definitely not live up to others’ anticipation including mine. For my part, poems are products of poets’ emotion. Whatever moods poets are in, terrible, sorrowful or pleasant, elated, we can look through their poems and find the reflection more or less. Actually, poems are in different types, long or short, in good order or not. In some parts, poems are difficult to compose; in other aspects, it is not. From my perspective, sometimes poems are a complex of controversies.
Another point is that poems in various countries reflect different culture background. You may find it hard to understand foreign poems sometimes by the way how they are translated into your mother tongue. Poets use particular symbolism and arrange it in specific parts of a poem to convey a special feeling when they are doing some composition. Traditional Chinese poems contain a large amount of symbolism, such as sunshine, moonlight, grass, lake and so on. In a word, most of objects we can see around us can be chosen as symbolism, even some imaginary things.
B10 Swimming
Well, today, I want to try something new in my last blog.
After coming to Singapore
I suddenly like swimming
Because
It can help you forget your weight
It can help you be away from the sweat
It can help you get out of the mosquito’s attack
10 round, needs 35 to 40 minutes to finish
However
The emotion in each circle is different
1st round—a good start!
2nd round—a little tired.
3rd round—more tired.
4th round—feeling I can’t continue any more.
5th round—anticipate the midsession rest.
6th round— new start and found I’m not tired as I imagine.
7th round—I left 3 rounds or 4 rounds?
8th round—Wow, I have unlimited power!
9th round—I can swim faster and faster!
10th round—I don’t feel that tired, but don’t want to go on any more.
Completing the whole 10 rounds, landing happily
And found, I already can’t rise my legs
In the process of pursuing the 10 rounds
There are a lot of things will happen
Many other people will swim around you
Some ones you can go after them
who let you forget the loneliness and tiredness
Although you will be exhausted after that
you will have the happiness of success
Some ones you just can’t follow them
Then you will tell yourself
Just keeping on your own way
The 10 rounds like the final goal of life
While each one is a phase to come true the dream
At the beginning of it, you must be ambitious
But, after a while, tiredness is coming
The youth always like that
After the fear, the fight, the thought
Setting out again
You will find that actually
The journey is not as terrible as you thought
In fact, as long as keeping action
You are moving ahead forever
Tired or not
Just a king of feeling
Occasionally, observe the wall in front of you
That is a kind of encourage
At the end
You will get the happiness
Recently, I very like the following sentence,
“Rest is for the longer way.”
After coming to Singapore
I suddenly like swimming
Because
It can help you forget your weight
It can help you be away from the sweat
It can help you get out of the mosquito’s attack
10 round, needs 35 to 40 minutes to finish
However
The emotion in each circle is different
1st round—a good start!
2nd round—a little tired.
3rd round—more tired.
4th round—feeling I can’t continue any more.
5th round—anticipate the midsession rest.
6th round— new start and found I’m not tired as I imagine.
7th round—I left 3 rounds or 4 rounds?
8th round—Wow, I have unlimited power!
9th round—I can swim faster and faster!
10th round—I don’t feel that tired, but don’t want to go on any more.
Completing the whole 10 rounds, landing happily
And found, I already can’t rise my legs
In the process of pursuing the 10 rounds
There are a lot of things will happen
Many other people will swim around you
Some ones you can go after them
who let you forget the loneliness and tiredness
Although you will be exhausted after that
you will have the happiness of success
Some ones you just can’t follow them
Then you will tell yourself
Just keeping on your own way
The 10 rounds like the final goal of life
While each one is a phase to come true the dream
At the beginning of it, you must be ambitious
But, after a while, tiredness is coming
The youth always like that
After the fear, the fight, the thought
Setting out again
You will find that actually
The journey is not as terrible as you thought
In fact, as long as keeping action
You are moving ahead forever
Tired or not
Just a king of feeling
Occasionally, observe the wall in front of you
That is a kind of encourage
At the end
You will get the happiness
Recently, I very like the following sentence,
“Rest is for the longer way.”
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