A fairyland—Clare Quay

A fairyland—Clare Quay

This Sunday afternoon, I went to Clare Quay on my own, although I have been there once the scenery there really attracted me a lot.

Walking out the MRT station, the first place I went into was a shopping centre. I believed that the topic of this week of the shopping centre was balloon, as in the centre of its lobby, there was a separated world made of balloons. It was like a magic trick that balloons could be made into grass, flowers and coconut trees and even the clothes of a model. Out of the shopping mall was the Clare Quay, it was fascinating to see the houses along the river decorated with different and bright colors. Just like walking into a fairyland and maybe each house had a fairy living in. People could drink coffee and enjoy the landscape besides the river, there were also ships on the river, I thought it would be really comfortable to sit on the ships and enjoy the soft breeze. I recalled the first time I came to Clare Quay was on the Christmas even, there were much more people and it was a little crowded. In the middle of the ground, there was a large Christmas tree which was made of several LCD screens. On each screen was the photo taken of the tourists, one of them was taken of my friend and me, it was really exciting to “plant” ourselves on the tree as decorations.

After this trip, the Clare Quay impressed me a lot more, and in my opinion, it was a real fairyland.

Exploring Singapore

      Some time ago, I went to eat steamboat with my friends at Bugis. When the day got late, I watched at the cars passing, people walking by and billboards shining. For a moment, I could not help missing my hometown and felt kind of strange to this city in which I am going to spend years. I even wondered why not I just go to a university in my city so that I can stay in the familiar environment and be around with my parents. Is it worth my leaving my lovely hometown?
      Frankly speaking, this question has huanted me for a while after my arrival at Singapore. As the excitement of coming to abroad gradually phasing out, my home-sick feeling became stronger. However, it is not a good predictor to sink myself in this kind of emotion. I started to try my best to explore, feel and love Singapore. This time, go to a deeper layer, instead of wandering my limited routine at Vivo. I wanna to know its local culture and immerse myself by being one of its member. This weekend I, with Benjing, walked from Bugis to Geylang. Along the tour, we ate durian along the road, tried the amazing and featured rojak, came into an Islam ceremony at KP Glam and finally found the Fujian Noodles at Geylang. My stomach was full, so did my mind. In addition to those local special food, we saw the multi-cultural shops, ceremonies and, most important, people.
      I was impressed by the diversified charactiristics showed by Singapore. What shocked me most was the scene I saw at Geylang: young girls wearing exposed clothes waiting for their customers. Admittedly, it's legal in Singapore for prostitution, so I should not comment on it with too much personal kind of "bias". To some extent, I learnt that I should not judge the world with my own criterion which is shaped by my cultural and family background. World is complicated so there is no right or wrong. Living in a city like Singapore which is like a melting pot combining a wide range of cultures. I should think more as a global citizen now. All in all, to explore Singapore and to try novel things is terrific, which I think will do good for me to merge in this modern and diversified community.
    

My attitude towards cloning

  When it comes to cloning, I am very excited about this topic. I think through cloning we can clone the thing we cherish and never lose it.

Cloning has many advantages. Firstly, we can use this technology to protect endangered animals from distinction. Then we could also try to use this method to relive extinct animals and even to see live dinosaurs. In addition, we could clone many domestic animals to work for farms, which will be beneficial to human beings.

  Additionally, cloning human beings is a sensitive topic. I am in favor of cloning human beings. But in order not to cause a mess to the world, cloning should abide by some rules strictly. In my opinion, human cloning should be agreed by the person who is cloned, because it is his right to choose whether there is another him existing in the world or not. Then it is must be a special situation when person is cloned, such as he gets cancer and so on. Although there are still many problems in cloning, I think it also has many benefits. By cloning, people can get a baby who has high intelligence if he is cloned by an outstanding person. Furthermore, if people get serious illness, doctor can use his cell to clone only some his organs to save him. In short, by trying cloning we can get lots of surprising answers.

  Therefore, I support making good use of cloning to offer benefits to our life.

Differences between Generations

  Every generation of people is different in important ways. I think the principal differences between my generation and my parents’ generation are in how they relate to others. My generation is more tolerant of other people’s choices, less concerned about what others think, and more self-centered.

  My parents’ generation has stricter standards about what kinds of behaviour are acceptable. They sometimes have a hard time accepting the fact that other people may have different ideas about what is right and what is wrong. My generation thinks people should have a lot of choices. For example, they choose whom they want to live with, whether or not to have children, whether or not to practice a particular religion, and what to do for a living.

  My parents’ generation is much more concerned about what other people think of them. Many grew up in tightly knit communities where people knew each other’s families. Filling in meant that you had to react a certain way. Many of my generation grew up in loosely knit communities, where we only knew about our closest neighbours. We did not care what the rest of the community thought of us. Also, we were a very rebellious generation and often did thing just to shock people.

  Wherever we grew up, most of my generation did not have to worry about having enough to eat or a roof over our heads. My parents’ generation did. For this reason, my parents did not have time to analyse their feelings of think about their inner selves. They were too busy trying to get by. Children of my generation were well taken care of by their parents. Because of that, we had time to think about ourselves and our place in the universe.

  When I think about our actions, it seems that my parents’ generation is more outer directed and my generation is more inner directed.

Self-management in university

In recent years, university students’ pressure on finding jobs has aroused extensive concern. Many people think that the reason is the increasing number of university students. However, in my opinion, the poor quality of university students is the leading reason. Many university students do not know how to arrange their daily life in universities. That is why they achieve nothing during the precious four years. Thus, self-management is really important for every university student. Self-management can be concluded in the following three aspects: designing future, enriching personal thought and doing exercise. Setting a goal is of vital importance. Students who have a clear aim know what they want to be and what they need to do. They plan their future according to their dreams. They work hard at classes and spend free time in improving abilities which they need. On the contrary, other students do not know what they like to do; the life of them is vacuous. They waste time in playing online games, skipping classes for more sleep, refusing others’ suggestions. Day by day, they become lazier and more selfish. Finally, they feel lonely in this world and are isolated by the society. So, having a clear goal is really important for every university student. Someone ever said, ‘People are great, because they have thought.’ Four years of university is the key period for everyone to deepen their

thought. A thoughtful man can judge what is right or wrong. There are many new fears and challenges in our life. As a student, we must distinguish clearly by ourselves what we need to cultivate independent thought. Except learning knowledge of our major, we need contact with the outside world by reading newspaper and magazines. Sometimes, we find opportunities to communicate with some thoughtful people like our teachers or dear friends. In this way, our thought will be enriched and our mind will become mature. To be a thoughtful man is what every university student need to do. Keeping good health is crucial for everyone. We university students need to do exercise to build a strong body and strengthen our mind to have a good mental health. Nowadays, university students are too lazy to have outside activities. Someone even skip PE classes, which lead to their fatness and laziness. If they carry on in this way, they’ll have a poor body for their future job. They will be easy to get sick and have no enough energy for work. Mental health is also significant for university students. Society is full of competition. We have to face different challenges in our work. A good mental condition can help us overcome difficulties. It is no doubt that a good health is of great importance for us. In a word, Self-management in university is my top concern. I believe, if we can manage ourselves correctly, many years later, we will be winners in our fields!

An umbrella

An umbrella

  Last Thursday, I was the last person who got off the school bus and saw an umbrella on a seat, I knew it belongs to one of my schoolmates. so, i picked it up. However i do not know what i should do at first. It was impossible for me to ask for each possible. suddenly, It occurs to me that i should shout aloud to make all of my schoolmates know. I was ready to speak out. But when seeing so many people walking in front, i retreated. I did not dare to speak very loud and it seemed embarrassed to me. I struggled a few times but gave up at last. As a result, the umbrella is still in my room now.

  I feel very regret about what I have not done now. why don't I just be brave to speak loudly and all the problems can be solved. I think a lot about my behavior. And i draw some conclusions. Actually, i do not dare to speak out is because i am afraid of other people's views about me. I am afraid they will tease me and see me as a monster. However, after thinking twice, i think my former thought is totally wrong. It is an action of helping others if i can say loudly. So no one will tease at me. They will only appreciate it that i am helpful.

  I think my conclusion may help someone who is very shy. They may think a lot about others' opinion on them so that they close themselves in order to avoid being talked about by others. But these redundant thoughts may be ridiculous if they think deeply. So, my suggestion to those who are very shy and dare not to talk out is that they should not think a lot about others' thoughts, instead they should think more about the positive aspects of what they will say . maybe tomorrow, i will take this umbrella and say out to all of my schoolmates to ask whose umbrella it is.  

Pleasure@ Singapore zoo

Pleasure@ Singapore zoo

Last Saturday I went on a trip to the Singapore zoo which is organized by the church of my host family and had much pleasure there. However, I didn’t perceive the journey to be a considerable one merely because of the heavy rain in the morning. I failed to anticipate a pleasant trip and didn’t manage to be informed any message about the cancellation of this travelling plan as well. I and Yaowen, a friend of mine who had also been invited for this outing, left our hostel at eight o’clock in the morning, wearing a hopeless conflict on our faces.

Nevertheless, it was not as miserable as we had expected. A rainy day is indeed troublesome, but things got much better after I bought a plain but cute raincoat. It meant I didn’t need to hold the umbrella tightly all the way trudging in the zoo; I retrieved the capability to take photos of the various animals as well as the beautiful scenery.

What impressed me and Yaomen most is a strange crocodile we saw in the zoo. It lay prone on the shore with its mouth largely open, and just keep the odd posture dramatically still. Since there were some sculptures of creatures situated across the zoo, we inferred that it must be another fake one; a real one could not hold the strange behavior and didn’t move at all. Nevertheless, when we went through the exhibition and came back to the entrance, we saw the crocodile of stillness again, but much to our astonishment, though it remained to keep its mouth open, it was not difficult to spot that the open mouth became smaller. It should be a real living one! I think both of us thought in mind at that moment: “Oh my goodness…”

By the way, the KFC in the Singapore zoo was quite expensive, but it was virtually rather nice, not only the food, but also the environment. It is quite enjoyable to relish eating just several meters from the lively natural world. If you haven’t been there, hope you can have a good time wandering in the zoo, and please go to have a look and inform me of the condition of the considerably strange crocodile!

Please don't forget Jay--our idol

    One thing sad is that, as we grow up, our idols grow old. Do you have an idol in your childhood? Will your hero fade from your memory when he is no longer handsome and popular?

    I believe most of us have admired Jay Zhou more or less or at least are impressed of his one or two songs. Despite the reason that his song is of a unique style, I do think people love his songs because he writes about our stories and he sings out our feelings.

    As for me, I respect Jay a lot. He is definitely talented. I can see logic through his songs. Each song is a story talking about sadness, happiness…He is by no means handsome to me but when he is on stage, he is so confident making me believe that he is the king of music. Also, he always insists on being himself and singing in his own style even at that time when no one appreciates his works. He never stops his pursuing towards music allowing him to enjoy a high reputation. However, after dominating the music scene for more than ten years, he is now sometimes overwhelmed by singers who are younger. Some of us criticize that his inspiration has dried up but I firmly believe that Jay can never be replaced by others. He influenced our whole generation; he subverted people’s understanding about music; he is Jay Zhou.

    When we grow up, we may suddenly realize that the person we admire is not so perfect as we imagined. However, the memory he gave us, the changes he made on us and that period of time he accompanied us were gifts of our childhood. So, never criticize your hero only because you don’t like him anymore.

Be a Transformer in your heart

Two hundred years ago, the Danish thinker Kierkegaard suffered from poverty throughout his whole life and his life was pretty short as well. However, due to his strong heart, his life was full of happiness. Happiness like this may be difficult for common people to understand. But actually, people who have a strong heart are actually a noble in spirit. So try to be a Transformer in your heat, you can harvest more throughout your life.

Modern society, everyone is facing heavy social pressure from business, physical health and family. Many people feel discouraged and hurt when they come across problems like misunderstanding or frustration. But actually no one can hurt you if you are the people with a strong heart. They do not live in other people’s eyes. Even if all the people misunderstand him and isolate him, he can still cope with his life calmly and firmly.

In fact, everyone can be hurt. Life is quite equal. The difference is that some people known how to comfort himself and conquer all the fear. In the life of any time don't be afraid to start again because each a seemingly low point in life is on the path to a higher peak. Pain and happiness has nothing to do with the external material but your state of mind. We may have nothing temporarily. But it does not mean you have nothing in your heart. We can anguish, can be lost, but cannot show inner emptiness.

So no matter what you do, remember to build a strong heart first. Do not always rely on the giving from others. We should always know that happiness and joy are given by ourselves. So be a Transformer in your heart and enjoy your life to the full.

Happy birthday to me

       In the morning, when I went to Gang Eng Seng School for give program, my partner Ji Yi suddenly told me, “happy birthday!”Hearing this, I was stunned at first. A few seconds later, I replied, “thank you!” At that time, this congratulation was really strange to me even though I could still clearly remember the voice of the last birthday greeting for me, but it as if happened in the many years ago. Then I was lost in the thoughts of my past life.

       When I was young, the word “birthday” was not similar to me because there was almost nobody would remember my birthday, including myself. My parents were busy with working and my friends did not care about me too much. The only one on earth who would remember my birthday was my sister. At many times, I lived an “ordinary day” as usual, my sister suddenly said to me, “Happy birthday, my lovely brother!” and then represented me a gift. As we have little pocket money at that time, the gifts were very simple, for example a pen, a notebook or a wallet. Although they might be worthless, they were undoubtedly priceless to me.

       Maybe I had dressed in school uniform for too long, I was weak in how the decide which shirt should go with the trousers. And my sister always complained about my weird dressing. In most time, I would reply an excuse, “In fact, I know what I should dress in but I just have no time in it.” Another interesting thing is about buying clothes. Certainly, I was a great fool in this part. Once a time, in order to buying some clothes for me, I accompanied with her to the shopping mall. She drew me from shop after shop. And each time I tried on some clothes, she would deliver a speech on what I should dress in and how others dress. Before long, I cannot stand her endless words any more. “Enough! I choose clothes on my own,” I shouted out. She was angry and kept in silence right away. Then I looked at the bewildering clothes. After about five minutes, I said to my sister, “E…it would be better if you could give some advice.”

       In addition, when I received the greeting, I felt that she just like my sister. Hahahaha……

Be brave to try

Nowadays, you may think that our life is boring and tough. We are living in the routine. Every day, we get up , eat breakfast, study, eat lunch, study, eat dinner, study and then, go to bed. Everything repeat again and again. So many people are always looking forward to  the future. When in the class, they may think about the break time. When in the vacation, they may want to go to school and stay with friends. Why?  They are trapped in the routine and have no courage to try something new and find the fun of life. Actually, I think the joy of life is to break the rules and find something that we have not tried before. A famous writer Jack London had a fulfilled life and he had tried a lot of things that many people dare not. I think he should be very content and without pity when he passed away although he lived for only 40 years. During the Chinese New Year, I installed an operating system called "Ubuntu"on my computer(though failed) because I thought that I should try something new instead of being the exactly same as  others to use Win7 only. Although I failed and also lost lots of my important pictures, documents and software, I am still happy because I can try something new while many people are still accustomed to using Win7. By the way, I also enjoyed the process of installing it.
We should be brave to try something new and try to break the routine. Be brave enough to have a special day--it is not only a kind of experience but also a kind of attitude.

Few days ago, I reread the novel <Le Petit Prince>. Although I have read it once before, I felt I was shocked for the first time. In the story, everything was exaggerated--there was a so small planet on which there could be only one resident, an emperor who only ruled himself, an accountant who counted stars for day and night, however, we should, or we must learn something from it.
In the story, the little boy travelled to different planets in the space. He saw all kinds of grown-ups who were busy, crazy about money, eagle to possess, artificial and arrogant. The little prince hated them.Actually, we all hate these kinds of people so-called "grown-ups" and those terrible characteristics. However, I have to say that, we are indeed changing in this way. When I was a very small child, I dreamt about growing up. But now I don't want to. Just like what little prince said:"The grown-ups are lack of imagination."
We are growing up, but we should still have a pure and simple heart. Our life is used to enjoy the scenery instead of chasing the wealth and fame which will finally come out to be useless. At the first of the life journey, many people are simple just like the little prince, but during the journey, they start to pretend, to be blind and vain.
I hope, one day, before I am too old, I can sit in a small seat and watch the sunset 43 times for all day long. I hope I can also have a friend like the small rose, though she hurts me, she will be my friend forever.

English Speaking

    Recently I teased myself saying that my English level have fallen down. I would like not to believe it, but I found I  had a problem in English speaking, which may exist long time ago but wasn't taken seriously. When I wanted to say something, I usually plan for the structures I will use or even in more details. But sometimes when I was suddenly asked and haven't prepared, I will be struggling to think of how to express it. I  doubt I have had the ability to express things as I like. And I even feel that I didn't make much progress in speaking in the last 3 months. Since there are only 44 days left for English course, I think we have more pressure to reach a certain level, especially in speaking.
    First I think the consideration of structure is not wrong, but I am little in lack of proficiency. I need to be more familiar with more structures and reduce the time to think of one. That will need accumulation of some common structures and good sentences. Even though this kinds of recitation is not flexible, I think it is a good way to help us be fluent in daily communication as a beginning. Second, sometimes I don't know how to translate the words in Chinese into English when speaking. The translation is also habit that people won't accept it as a good language learning method. But I think if a person can translate as he like and avoid some common errors, he has been very efficient in communication. The problem is we don't have enough words or collocations to use. So it requires us to memorize more words and phrases. We can take notes when we are watching the English-speaking movies or series and review them afterwards. The meanings and usages of the new words are also very important, so we could look them up and take them down on our vocabulary notebook. The third one is that I should practice more in class. I should not be silent because it will do nothing good to myself. In addition, I used to feel good about my tones and pronunciation of speaking but I recently found I'm not very good at it, especially compared to some English-speakers. So maybe I can record my voice regularly and find the defects and change them, but it is not very easy. These ways sound good, but if we don't follow them, actually they are of no use.
    Days are passing by. If we don't make progress every day, then when will we make a change. I think I will pay more attention on English learning and try to practice more on speaking.

My thoughts about human cloning

My thoughts about human cloning

         Since the birth of Dolly, nowadays, there have been many cases of animal cloning. Then how about human cloning? If cases of animal cloning can succeed, human cloning will not be a big problem. However, there has been none case of human cloning nowadays, because it may result in a series of ethical problems. So although I am really interested in human cloning, I can hardly get to know about human cloning in reality. But for me to think about human cloning is still an interesting thing.

         I can clearly remember the feeling of excitement when I first heard about cloning and knew that it might help to create another me. At that time I thought if I could create a new me through cloning then when I went home, there would be no need for me to do my homework since there was another me. I would ask him to do my homework and sometimes when my mum asked me to do some housework I could still ask him to do for me. Then all the things that I hated to do would go to him and I would only do the things that I was interested in. At that time I really considered that having a cloned me was really a good thing.

         However, gradually I found that the good thing I considered when I was young was not as simple as what I thought. I began to consider more. If the cloned me was exactly the same as me, then how about his thoughts. Whether would we have the same thoughts in our minds or whether what emerged in my mind would instantly be known by him? Would there be two me in the world? I began to fear. And from some movies I became even afraid that one day the cloned me might kill the real me and take the place of me.

         Today in class we have talked something about human cloning. And when asked about whether or not we were in favor of human cloning, I chose to be in favor of it. There are many people who are against it thinking that it may cause many ethical problems in our society. But I think since the future is unpredictable and human cloning may bring great contributions to our society, why don’t we have a try. It may sound absurd. However, it’s just what I think. And I believe human cloning will bring some unexpected results to the world.

Love Her, Love Her Child

These days, I have been read the series of Harry Potter for a second time. Something in the books made me think deep.

I think my favorite character in this series may be Professor Severus Snape. He was being alive just for Lily. Snape served for Voldemort just because he didn’t want Lily to marry James Potter. Therefore, when he knew that Voldemort would kill Lily because of the prediction he told Voldemort, he was regretful and even kneed down to beg Voldemort not to kill Lily. After Lily’s death, Snape made a decision that he would protect Lily’s son, Harry Potter. His love had gone beyond death. Although Lily would never love him, he still tried his best to protect Lily and the thing she valued most.

Snape’s behavior made me think of another character, Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights. He was faced to the same problem as Snape. His favorite girl, Catharine, married to another man. However, when Catharine died after she gave birth to her daughter, young Catharine, Heathcliff started to revenge the girl because she was her father’s daughter. I wonder why Heathcliff didn’t treat young Catharine as her mother’s daughter and protect her just like what Snape did.

The reason may be that Catharine chose her husband just because he was richer than Heathcliff. She wanted a comfortable and luxurious life which Heathcliff cannot give her at that moment. And Heathcliff, as an adopted boy, was looked down on him when he was young. He actually wanted to revenge the whole society whose principle was that money is everything. However, Snape separated from Lily because of his own fault. He shouted at Lily “Mudblood!” Maybe it was because of Snape’s strange personality, but his personality was also related to his childhood experience. The difference is that Snape didn’t try to hurt others to get comfort. Therefore, After his death, Happy appreciated him from heart and name one of his children who got the same green eyes from Lily after him. Heathcliff did, but when he was old, he was trapped in the yearning to Catharine, and finally died due to the guilty. It was the punishment to him.

I think these were two opposite different love. I will do as Snape. The reason is simple. If the one I loved died, I would like him to leave this world without worry.

Travelling on foot

One of the choices that I like to spend their holidays is travelling on foot. I can get a lot of things from this kind of journeys, which could be learning the local cultural, and relaxing myself from the high pressure caused by the fast-paced life. Travelling In a place includes enjoying the local food, communicating with the local people and visiting the unique environment and buildings. All the three things I have mentioned above are the main things that can show the local cultural. Walking is the best way to feel the cultural. Although I’m a real local of Shanghai, I have never realized the great beauty of this city until I travelled in this city for a whole day just on foot. I walked through the downtown from its south to its north, which was about 23km in all. The route chose includes Town God’s Temple, the Bund, several beautiful parks and some fabulous avenues with lots of tall and lush phoenix trees on the both sides. I could feel the traditional beauty of the city by visiting the ancient buildings and feeding my stomach with local snacks in the Town God’s Temple. I could also feel the modern city atmosphere during the visiting of the Bund. Another thing that left me a deep impression was a local aunt. When I was sitting on a bench on the side of a street to have a rest and check my location in my map, a local aunt came to me to offer me help because she misunderstood me as a lost visitor. So small an episode it was but it showed the very kindness of Shanghainess. Only through this walking travel did I feel the cultural and the beauty of this city. I had a walking journey in Singapore as well. I did not prepare for that journey. It was just because I happened to have a map with me and I unfortunately missed the bus so I decided to walk to my hostel to have fun. The whole trip was about 14km. It was not a very long distance and it took only 3 hours. There were not many people on the street in the afternoon, especially in the sun. All the ways along with my trip were full of the green. The number of the trees was far bigger than the number of pedestrians, which was almost impossible in China. To tell the truth, there were not many things to say about this trip but I still could feel the satisfaction of finishing the trip and enjoyed the amazing green views. You can never feel the charm of walking until you have tried it yourself. Next time you want to plan a trip, try to walk instead of taking MRTs or cars, you will find a totally new world filled with beauty.

About future

Once I have
chatted with our Mengnan about the major. She told me that she wanted to major
in Maths and learn economy, therefore she will be more likely to find a job in
banks, which is exactly what my father wants me to do. I start wandering what I
really want to do. I keep choosing Maths just because I don’t like any
recitation at all, and I do enjoy the process of calculation although I don’t
like geometry. Some people enjoy the aggressive competition in Wall Street,
however I don’t like this kind of working atmosphere, because it is hard for me
to adapt to the cold relationship with colleagues, which is the same reason why
I don’t want to be involved in politics. Even though my father said the
combination of economy and politics is the best cooperation. As far as what I
have imagined, I hope I can do some work with friendly co-workers, because I
fiercely believe that as long as we have good moods, we can manage the work no
matter how hard and intensive it is. The most important thing is that I want to
travel all around the world in order to see what the whole world looks like. I
don’t want to keep staying at one place without trying anything until I go to
the heaven. I hope I will never forget it and not delay the planning for the
job, because many people tend to forget their dreams due to the work. In my
opinion, work is existence rather than life, while the dreams are our own
lives. I hope all of us can grasp our dreams and never lose them.

Some good thoughts

       Listening to others can always bring us many brilliant thoughts through which we can observe our world from different angles. Below I will introduce two stories that have left me thinking a lot.

       The first motto is “If you fail to plan, then you are planning to fail.” I got this from the chief trainer of our service program. To prove its validity, he taught us a game. It’s like checkers and Tower of Hanoi that we have to move three boys and three girls to their opposite side. The first person who tried this game didn’t think too much before making his move, and undoubtedly he failed. The next person had gained experience from the first one and planned before he went to the stage, so solve the problem easily. Some people may hold the opinion that if we plan everything well, we may lack the ability to deal with things emergency. I think when people think like this, they might have some misunderstandings. When people face some problems that are out of anticipation, confidence is the crucial factor whether he will fail or succeed. But the confidence couldn’t be built without foundation. People have confidence because they have enough successful experiences in the situation within anticipation. And planning is of significance in these normal situations.

       The second one was from my classmate. When I first talk to him, I think he is a very pessimistic person because he always finds that life is so boring. And I often wondered why he hadn’t killed himself? But after deeper understanding, I gradually realized that in contrast to my old opinion, he is a fairly optimistic person. Once when we had lunch together, we were discussing about the worm in our meal for my roommates had once told me that he had found a dead worm in our meal. And when I asked for his suggestion, he told me a story. When he was young, he can eat food that provided by his own family because they owned some land. So he often encountered some worms in the meal because some worms were not easy to be washed off. At that time, his father would tell him “Think it in a nice way. This dish used to be only vegetables. But now, with worms, it contains some meat and more protein.” So consider your experience in a positive way, our world will be splendid and brave that you have never imagined.

       Talk to more people and mark their sayings. Through which you can view our life in different eyes. It’s like being hit by an apple from the tree; you can discover the new idea which you think never exists.

How to forget a person?

    Today, we had a discussion about whether you, as a girl, would marry a blue-collar worker. Most of our girls gave the answer "no". But my answer is if I love him deeply, I won't care this kind of things about him. I want to say, if I love a person, nothing will disturb my love. So you can see, if I love a person, it is hard for me to not love him.
    I want to say these things 4 years ago. These are just what I have thought in my mind. So please don't tease about what I am thinking, I am really serious. Since this is my tenderest part of feeling, I hope the person that read this blog can give me some suggestions about how to forget a person.
    I am sure that all our classmates know a person that I have a special feeling towards. Just as the oral report and presentation I have given which topic is love. I do think that love is an amazing and attractive thing which make you feel both happy and sad. Yes, this person, I have been loved for 4 years. I know it is not rational to love someone in our age. But everyone in this age will have some kind of feelings more or less. So I want to know, can you feel my feeling? Is there a person in your heart the same to me? I just know that when I am not with him, I want to see him. Every time I passed my former classroom, the first person I want to find is he. And I will be happy every time I saw him. But similarly, during these 4 years, not only happiness was accompanied with me, but also the sorrow. I still remembered at the end of 2010, the tears have been shed for a whole night because of him. And later when I recalled that experience, I just felt  it is not worth doing that for he is not the right person for me. So I decided to forget him. I have sent some messages about this decision many times but always face the fail. And my friends all know that every time I said that kind of things was just a way to show the moment of excited. And later when I came here, many friends told me that love in different areas is not stable. But I just ignore it because I just know I like him. Maybe I cannot say love, but still the feeling never passed away. And I really suffered a lot. So this time I really make my mind in forgetting him. I made a choice that I have never made before. I removed him from my special list in my QQ contact and put his number in the normal list for the first time. And after doing that, I am quite sure that this time I will delete him from my brain. However, it is so astonished that every time I took some steps, he seemed to know and would talk to me not like what he did normally. So that's why I cannot forget him successfully. Every time, he is the person who can destroy my confidence which I made a lot of effort to establish easily.
        I just want to forget him and begin a new life.  So who can tell me how can I do that?

My reflection about Murphy's Law

      Recently, I lost my second newly-bought water bottle. How sad and desperate I am! I question myself how can I be that careless. Actually, the loss itself is not a big deal but the carelessness and slips I often make that truly matters. Although I think I have taken good care with the bottle, the loss seemed to be inevitable. The event reminded me of Murphey's Law which goes like: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". In other words, no matter how careful I was, if there's 0.000000001% possibility for the loss, then my care seems worthless.
      Actually, the event triggers me to reflect deeply on the Law. To begin with,  according to Murphey, if an event has some negative effect or tendency, there is always a tendency for the item to develop towards the worst result and end in biggest loss. Though the law sounds pessimistic, as for a student to learn engineering or computing, there is no bad for me to keep in mind all the time about the possible failure. Only in this way, can I stimulate myself to always pursue the best and never to be satisfied with what I have already achieved. And remember to pay attention to every subtle detail.
      In addition, the Law also reminds me that nothing is as simple as how it shows on the superficial layer. When the event seems like process smoothly  into one direction, we'd better keep an eye on the opposite negative aspect. Gradually, it will be of great benefits to develop the habit of opposite thinking method, which will help use to consider a broader spectrum. As a result, we can finish the work efficiently and perfectly.
      Generalized, from my experience of losing my water bottle, I reflect a lot and harvest a lot. The loss of the water bottle seems worthwhile. So, next time when we do something, to be optimistic is right but it is also beneficial to consider the worst result.

My reflections on Titanic

       Yesterday, 14 April 2012, I watched the movie Titanic in IMAX 3D edition in Jcube Shaw movie theatre. It was a memorable day for both me and the ship. It was special for me because the original Titanic which was shown in 1997 was the first movie I saw in the theatre. And it was significant for the ship because just one hundred years ago on 14 April 1912, the Titanic, the largest and most luxurious liner that had ever been built, encountered an immense iceberg in its maiden voyage and thus ended its short but splendid journey. The movie vividly described the most disastrous tragedy that happened in peaceful era and there are two parts that impressed me most.

       Love is the forever classic topic for all movies. In this film, it happened between a girl from rich family and a poor boy who was a painter. It was all begun in the Rose’s suicide that they met. Jack had already fallen in love with Rose in the first sight. Rose was also deeply absorbed by the quality of free and optimistic of Jack. Once, Jack even taught Rose how to spit to the sea which had become one of the most classic scenes of the movie. But the time for happiness is always short. After four days of the sailing, the tragedy happened. When they all fell into the cold ocean, Jack knew that he was going to die. When he said to Rose “Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you.”, I believe not only me but all the audience was moved. How deep the love was that could give people courage to face death. And how deep the love was that could enable a man to sacrifice himself to save her that they only met for less than four days. They met because of the Titanic, they loved because of the Titanic, and they separate because of the Titanic.

       In addition to love, the movie put much endeavour in depicting people’s behaviours when the ship was sinking. Living or dying is a choice that matter everyone no matter young or old, rich or poor. And at this time, the realest and deepest part of people’s minds was exposed to everybody. Fortunately, most people follow the order to let women and the young escape first. At the final moment, the captain locked himself in the master room, the chief architect walked in to the first class smoking section desperately, but the president of white star line, Joseph Ismay, abandoned his ship and crew and escaped before all women got saved.   According to statistics, there were 1503 out of 2208 died in this shipwreck and only 6 out of 1509 who were not able to get in the lifeboats were saved. Life is priceless. It doesn’t mean that women’s lives are more valuable than men’s. If all people were fighting for the lifeboats, most of the women might not be saved. But man choose to give the chance of living to women because that is how human and animals be distinguished. The most notable difference is not in intelligence but the morality.

       Titanic is one of the few impressive movies that can be watched for many times. And in my opinion, it was also the best movie I have ever seen.

Why do I want to choose Physics as my major

There is an astrophysicist. Every time he is
asked “what do you do?” by the person sitting next to him in a plane, he
responds “I’m an astronomer” if he feels like talking. If he doesn’t want to be
disturbed, he will answer: “I’m a physicist.”
During the recess week, a lot of my friends
asked me “what are you planning on majoring in”. I answered them “Physics”.
Most of them couldn’t hold the surprise on their faces and said “Are you
crazy?” “Why would you do that?” “What will you do with a physics degree?” Many
people may think physics is boring and abstract. This makes them have a
negative attitude toward Physics. However, I have some special reasons to
choose physics.
First, I love Physics definitely. It teaches me
to understand how things work, the reasons that things happen the way they do,
which requires the ability to analyse problems. It’s not the matter of
knowledge, but the matter of how to think. In NUS, engineering students study
parts of Physics only in a week, but Physics students have to spend two months.
As a result, engineering students only know how to use the formulae but don’t
know where they are from. A physicist got a banking job in the United State
with his physics PHD. He asked his employer why he was chosen. His employer
simply said: “we need people who can really think and solve frontiers problems,
not people who can only use application of some formulae.” Believe it or not, an undergraduate degree in
physics tells prospective employers this person has what it takes to succeed.
The Times also suggested that Physics was in fact the most employable of
degrees.
I always want to try something in different
fields during different period of my life. The skill in Physics is highly marketable
and it is applicable to a wide range of careers. Physicists go on to fields
like medicine, finance, marketing, music&TV, engineering, often quite
successfully. The connections between Physics and these fields are explained
below.
Medicine: Surgery is now carried out
using lasers. Our body are imaged using X-rays, ultrasound, NMR(nuclear
magnetic resonance). And, there are some new techniques, such as using nanobots
to target individual cancer cell or using infrared light to monitor our blood.
Finance: in finance, it is a
physicist’s ability to model complex systems which is particularly important.
Billions of pounds rest on predicting the future behaviour of global markets.
Marketing: you can watch the speech
“What physics taught me about marketing” on TED given by Dan Cobley who is the
marketing director at Google.
Music&TV: Whether you want to be
in front of the camera or work behind the scenes, understanding physics is
useful for many careers in television and music. From the sound engineer who
controls the mix at a music concert to the special effects technician working
on the latest action movie, many of the people that work in the media industry
need physics know-how.
To tell the truth, what I said before will be
accepted by most western countries especially America
but maybe not by Singapore
or China.
However, there are many Singaporean students having education in western
countries every year. Nobody knows what will happen in the next four years. I
still want to have a try. Learn Physics to open my eyes, open my mind, open
doors to my future, and really make some differences.

Why Chinese people are crazy about owning a car

Why Chinese people are crazy about owning a car

In class, our tutor has mentioned that Singaporeans are now very crazy about owning a car even it means they have to pay nearly $78,000 in advance to buy a certificate. Actually, this also happens in China and many reasons contribute to it.

To begin with, in China especially in those bustling cities it may be difficult for people to make use of the public transportation. According to my nine-day experience in Beijing, it was so crowded on the platform and in the train that I was pushed out of the train door when it was not my destination. When this happens to working people who are in formal dress, they may become sloppily dressed in the end. Furthermore, this crowded situation adds much chance to crimes such as stealing some important objects. People will not so alerted because everyone is so close to each other and they have to pay attention to their appearance. Avoiding thong is one of the most important reasons to buy a car.

Then I want to mention that many people have a sense that it has been a noble symbol if you own a car. Though it is unreasonable but it really becomes a “common sense”, what is more, the type of cars you own can and the decorations in your car reflect your style to some extent. Cars have become another way for people to compare themselves with others and get a feeling of satisfaction.

The third one is just like what has been mentioned in a reading comprehension, a car can be our friend along with a safe and cozy shelter. Living at present leaves people a lot of burden and pressure, sometimes, they may feel very insure and be dying for comfort and protect. In this case, the small but suitable volume of a car can provide them such feelings. With its strong ironed hull, it can calm people down and be happy to sit in it in order to withdraw from the high-stressed society for a while.

In my opinion, wanting to have a car is not only a fad but going to be a fashion. What we need to do is to think twice before we make a choice to buy it since the cost will not be easy to afford.

The choice of my major

The choice of my major

When I was in China listening to our seniors talking briefly about the choice of majors, I made up my mind to major in food science & technology. Although I did not know it well, at that moment, all I knew was that it might be a little difficult to be admitted to this major and all I wanted was just to set a goal for myself—fight for the most difficult one.

However, this thought put a lot pressure on me which I could not put up with. Frankly speaking, I did not expect myself to put all my energy into this bridging course and excused myself for needing time to be used to this brand new environment. Fortunately, MOE provided us many chances to learn more about each majors in case that we are not careful enough to make our choice. At one of those lectures, I found that maybe I just too dived into superficial features and did not really consider about my own interests. After realizing this, digging into my innermost interest became the most important task.

The second barrier I have to break down is my bias on engineering. I never thought being an engineer was a proper career for a girl because what it requires is too hard for a girl. Nevertheless, I suddenly learnt that it was difficult for us SM3 students to go overseas to continue our study. And then in this case, how can a graduate be put importance on if you do not get enough education? I had to admit that I was very desperate when finding this out on account that one of my dreams is to go to another country, go to another prestigious university to enjoy the studying ambiance there. But all I could do was to change my mind again and found an alternative path for me and my future.

At present, I have chosen to major in civil engineering. In fact, I am very satisfied with this temporary choice which may be changed again in unpredicted future. I used to be a person who hated changing my mind, but now I found that it was better to change while I am learning new things everyday.

The choice of my major

The choice of my major

When I was in China listening to our seniors talking briefly about the choice of majors, I made up my mind to major in food science & technology. Although I did not know it well, at that moment, all I knew was that it might be a little difficult to be admitted to this major and all I wanted was just to set a goal for myself—fight for the most difficult one.

However, this thought put a lot pressure on me which I could not put up with. Frankly speaking, I did not expect myself to put all my energy into this bridging course and excused myself for needing time to be used to this brand new environment. Fortunately, MOE provided us many chances to learn more about each majors in case that we are not careful enough to make our choice. At one of those lectures, I found that maybe I just too dived into superficial features and did not really consider about my own interests. After realizing this, digging into my innermost interest became the most important task.

The second barrier I have to break down is my bias on engineering. I never thought being an engineer was a proper career for a girl because what it requires is too hard for a girl. Nevertheless, I suddenly learnt that it was difficult for us SM3 students to go overseas to continue our study. And then in this case, how can a graduate be put importance on if you do not get enough education? I had to admit that I was very desperate when finding this out on account that one of my dreams is to go to another country, go to another prestigious university to enjoy the studying ambiance there. But all I could do was to change my mind again and found an alternative path for me and my future.

At present, I have chosen to major in civil engineering. In fact, I am very satisfied with this temporary choice which may be changed again in unpredicted future. I used to be a person who hated changing my mind, but now I found that it was better to change while I am learning new things everyday.

The choice of my major

The choice of my major

When I was in China listening to our seniors talking briefly about the choice of majors, I made up my mind to major in food science & technology. Although I did not know it well, at that moment, all I knew was that it might be a little difficult to be admitted to this major and all I wanted was just to set a goal for myself—fight for the most difficult one.

However, this thought put a lot pressure on me which I could not put up with. Frankly speaking, I did not expect myself to put all my energy into this bridging course and excused myself for needing time to be used to this brand new environment. Fortunately, MOE provided us many chances to learn more about each majors in case that we are not careful enough to make our choice. At one of those lectures, I found that maybe I just too dived into superficial features and did not really consider about my own interests. After realizing this, digging into my innermost interest became the most important task.

The second barrier I have to break down is my bias on engineering. I never thought being an engineer was a proper career for a girl because what it requires is too hard for a girl. Nevertheless, I suddenly learnt that it was difficult for us SM3 students to go overseas to continue our study. And then in this case, how can a graduate be put importance on if you do not get enough education? I had to admit that I was very desperate when finding this out on account that one of my dreams is to go to another country, go to another prestigious university to enjoy the studying ambiance there. But all I could do was to change my mind again and found an alternative path for me and my future.

At present, I have chosen to major in civil engineering. In fact, I am very satisfied with this temporary choice which may be changed again in unpredicted future. I used to be a person who hated changing my mind, but now I found that it was better to change while I am learning new things everyday.

The effect of a new environment

The effect of a new environment

Last Thursday, we had to move to a new classroom because our former classroom should be occupied for some reason. It may not be cared by many people. However, to me, I found a very interesting phenomenon. That is, we all feel more energetic when studying in this new environment.

On last Thursday, I felt very excited and not sleepy at all. I said and thought a lot at class. I had never felt so active in the afternoon like that day before. what's more, the whole students in class are all full of energy. we discussed ardently and proposed a lot of interesting ideas. It is a very strange phenomenon. I thought about the reason and found that the most proper cause is that we changed our studying environment.

As for the reasons, first of all, I think the new classroom was much bigger, which made us feel more comfortable and breath more fresh air. Also, our cells were curious about the new environment so that they were very passionate. As a result, our body did not felt tired at all. Moreover, we can see much more beautiful scenes such as big trees, colorful flowers through the window of the new classroom. The beautiful scene can give us a pleasant feeling.

In brief, this new environment allows us to study efficiently. What I want to emphasize is that we students should learn to choose the environment that is suitable for us. Consequently, we can learn more efficiently.

Difficulty is also a beautiful scene

Life cannot be always smooth. When we come across a setback in our life, regarding it as a beautiful scene and appreciating its beauty will make our life more meaningful and enjoyable.

I think the biggest challenge I have met so far is the preparation for the entrance examination. In that year, I had to study hard to do many exercises every day and be faced with exams every week. In that time, I ever felt it so hard that I did not have spare time to do other things. I looked forward to the end of that period of time and I thought I would have more freedom to enjoy myself when it came to the end. However, nowadays when I look back at that period of that time, I think it a most beautiful scene in my life. I can study hard with my classmates together to get a good result. The life was busy but meaningful, I could fight for my dream with effort I made. I really miss that time when I worked hard with a pure purpose to be admitted by the university I want. By burying myself in the study, I also learned to   concentrate on what I was doing and never give in to any difficulty I met. Through the experience I think that there is not any difficulty stopping my step to the success. Only if I work hard and keep confident, will I overcome any setback and achieve my dream at last.

In conclusion, when we are faced with a difficulty on the road, we should keep a positive attitude towards it and regard it as a beautiful scene. Life is never easy, so enjoying the difficulty will make our life more colorful.

life and dream

Too many things happened this week , all pushing me to think about my life and my dream. I do want to share with you what I have found out during this week. When I was young, my dream was to become a dubber, a DJ, or an editor of a fashion magazine, none of which has anything to do with science or engineering. However, when I had to choose between art and science, I followed my mother’s suggestion and said goodbye to those fantasy. Later, I watched a Korean drama “ Smile Again” and I wanted to be a perfumer as the handsome man did in the drama. But then I realized that this was not practical because there is no such major in china. So when I chose my major, I followed my father’s will and applied for Sense Remoting. Now, I have one more chance to decide my life on my own, but I find myself confused about what kind of life I want and what I am good at. I want to study food but the strict admission requirements give me much pressure. I even sometimes think that if I can live my life all over again, I would rather be a student who has
special talent in music or art but not good at study than be a boring “good student”. All these concerns ruined the first few days of the week. Luckily, I ridded myself of this melancholy mood after a chat with my sister. I got to understand that when you are complaining your life there must be someone else praying that her life could be like yours. Furthermore, when we were young, we chose a road of life for ourselves, now what we should do is to go down this road and try to appreciate the beautiful sceneries beside you. Sometimes we may feel tired and start to feel pity for the beautiful views that we have missed. But don’t forget to refresh yourself and set up again. Looking forward to tomorrow’s happiness is one thousand times better than regretting for yesterday’s sorrow. Let’s cheer for ourselves, tomorrow is another day!

Life and dream

Education in China

Yesterday, a piece of news caught our attention that a all-round student criticized the education system of China in the ritual of lifting the national flag(this is a very important ritual in Chinese schools on every Monday.). He said that the creativity of Chinese students is the worst in the global world. At the first sight of this kind of incident, you may feel it astonishing and unbelievable. However, I think it is true and many Chinese students will think so. Every year, we can see a lot of cases in which a student jump off the teaching building because the stress or the blame, especially during the entrance examination of university. For instance, last year two students jumped because they were late for few minutes for the exam.It is very sad but it is happening.Millions of students are studying and they have to face to millions of opponents. They are asked to do thousands of exercises and never give up. They bear the hope of the whole family. Although Chinese students may have a strong ability to calculate, many of them have lost the ability to think without the text book. It is the failure of the Chinese education.There is no any Nobel Winner who have received education in China.It can also illustrate that Chinese education is not suitable for this age and it urges revolution.

major

At present, we are brought to a cross where we have to choose our majors. And this choice may influence our lives significantly. Thus, it will never be too discreet in making this choice. In my opinion, there is four main points that we should consider, including interest, gift, aspiration and development. The development means whether the major can help with a promising future. But in this blog, I just want to talk about gift. Gift is the worthless treasure to a person. Take math for example, there are many people interesting in it but fewer people really has a gift in it. And the people who achieve great success in math mostly have a gift in it. You may argue that if one isn’t interested in a subject, it would be painful for this people to learn it. And it is impossible for him to achieve success. However, one isn’t interested in it is not equal to one have to learn it painfully. And learning it painfully doesn’t mean one cannot achieve success. For instance, Mozart learnt music painfully as his father strictly demanded him, but he was talent in it so that he succeeded finally. Indeed, a strong interest should not be ignored, but a gift is even more incapable to be neglected. If you have a gift in some subject, please don’t hesitate.

Charity is an attitude

Recently, in the service learning program, we got the homework, which was to collect some money to help some orphans in the children care center. When we first heard that we had to collect 250 dollars in total, we were really bewildered. It is true that 250 dollars was not a small amount for us to make in such a short time. After our discussion, we decided to hold a fundraising in campus. So in the evening that day after 2 hours’ efforts, we managed to make a box, a poster and a board. However in fact, we felt quite upset before we begin the donation because we were really not sure whether we only 5 people, with such simple equipment can be convincing enough to let people donate their money to us. However, beyond our expectation, what we received was far more than we had expected, which really touched me deeply. Nearly everyone passed by donate their money more or less. It is really incredible to think so many people who even do not know much about us and our charity organization just donate their money without any hesitation. They just give their money spontaneously.

I think doing charity is actually the responsibility of everyone in the society. Everyone should do something useful to help others. Nobody can foresee what tomorrow will be like. If you today refuse to give your hand to others, maybe tomorrow you will get stuck into trouble and others will not help you out. However, vice versa. Thus, if you are able to do something to others or have the chance to contribute your love,please do not hesitate, just go for it, just do it. Maybe you think what you do is tiny to change something. But in fact, you are spreading your love and spirit to the world, which cannot be weighed through anything like money. Charity shortens the distance between people; charity makes people no longer feels cold; charity makes the whole world full of love. Charity is actually very simple. Maybe it is just one dollar, just an encouragement or even a big smile. These are all things that you can do without taking you much efforts. I am sure with the charity from every one of us, the world can be brighter and warmer.

Flying over a child’s heart

Flying over a child’s heart

When tracing into my memory, the only scene about Titanic in my mind was a serene afternoon—which I believe was a Sunday afternoon, simply because the sunlight was so tender and my mother relaxingly sat in the coach—when I went straight to my mother to sit with her, and subsequently found she was watching a film on television. I reckon she told me it was Titanic, a classic film known extensively around the world. It was so many years ago that I even cannot confirm how old I was at that time, but for sure, I didn’t manage to understand the plot at all, and moreover has completely forgotten about it when I am near eighteen years in Singapore. After watching the 3D version of Titanic here recently, the waving and warming Sunday afternoon came to me over and over again, neglecting the tears attracted by Rose and Jack and imaginarily flying over a child’s heart. It unexpectedly reminded me the little girl I had missed so much that I was even unaware of.

When I was young enough, young enough to know everything I thought I should know, I did not like movies or complex TV series; I thought they are extremely tedious and worth nothing, for I knew nothing about its worthy thoughts and ideas. Nevertheless, the little girl living in my body is so proud of herself that she wouldn’t be frightened by anything about all the thorny problems in life. Her life was full of dramatic dreams with no concerning about future, which seemingly wound never been gone.

Primary school was a rather unreasonable period of journey, for the reason that I cannot recall the reasonable part of it. Boys and girls went to school with an odd ballad continuously coming out from their mind. Every student stood in rows for half an hour or so after school before going downstairs, and girls always play silly tricks on the boy standing as the vanguard right at the front of the class. I do not know the motivation of the elaborate series of actions taken by all the girls standing at the very beginning of the line till today, probably because he actually looked nice.

Junior middle school came as a metaphor for rebirth, we were no longer irrational in that way, but in a tremendously different way. Half year after I entered my middle school, I still could not recognize everyone’s face in class though the size of the class is approximately half of the previous one in my primary school, but was suddenly selected as a Class Leader with fifty-five pieces of votes out of fifty-six in total. I didn’t know what happened, but it seemed no one cared it. I appreciated the fifty-five students who trusted me in a complicated manner, which empowered me to serve the class with all my passion in the unforgettable three years.

Having reenacting all the memories of the little girl in the remote past, I surprise myself with the discovery that I don’t want to be her for another time. It’s so sad for me, not because I cannot adore her life, but it has been clarified that, I cannot live the life in her way any more. I cannot dominate that kind of world any longer.

Overcome the fear

General Patton once said:'' Everybody is afraid of something. The cleverer he is, the more fearful he feels. Brave people are those who is regardless of their fear and force themselves to do the things.''

Here is a story about Napoleon.

A normal person needs about a whole year to prepare for a campaign, instead of which, Napoleon only needs two weeks for a campaign because of his unique enthusiasm and superior judgement. Austrians thought the idea to cross the Alps was impossible and funny. They said:'' There are no cars can cross the Alps and it is impossible to have.'' But to their surprise, Napoleon not only managed to do it but also with his army with his cannons which weighed hundreds thousands tons. Austrians who had lost the battle could never believe what had happened and said that:'' Our enemies are not human beings! They are the creatures can fly!''

One Austrians once said with great anger:'' This young commander know absolutely nothing about the wars. He never followed the art of the war. He may do everything beyond our imagination!'' That's the Napoleon we respect who dare to try everything.

The one who never take an adventure in his whole life time should pity to himself because of his waste of his life. In this world, only to face the problems directly and dare to take the risk can we get the victory and profit. Dare to to think and do and then can we have the chance to success. People always try to escape from the fear and thousands of time we miss the opportunities because of fear. To the people who are afraid of danger, they can always find some reasons to escape.

One day, a person asked a farmer:''Have you planted wheat?'' The farmer answered:''Not yet, I'm afraid that it will not rain.'' The person then asked:'' What about cotton? Have you planted them?'' Not yet, I concern that the worms may eat my cotton.'' The person finally asked:'' So what have you planted?'' The farmer answered:'' I have planted nothing to ensure the safety of my property.''

There is no 100% safety in this world. The risk is everywhere every time. When we face the fear, the only thing we should think about is how to overcome it instead of how to escape.

Realize my dream

When we want to achieve something ,we should make our effort and try our best.Of course ,the most important thing is persistance.Many people start with much passions ,but after a while ,they will feel it boring and get depressed for it.Then they suspect themselves and lose heart. All that hinder us to be successful.

So I think I learn a lesson from all kind of instances .I am not sure whether I can hold on my belief,but I try my best.I have set up a goal ,which may be a bit deal,and I won't give up until I finish it ! It's true.

In my opinion,an individual can't complete all the things;an individual can't do well in all the things;an individual can't face all the difficults and solve them pefrectly.A team show its strength in such situations.In a team ,everyone has his advantages and disadvantages,a man could make up for his disadvantages with other people's advantages,so we say "1+1>2",that is to say a team can have much more influences and impacts than a man did.

Third,a idiom says "give makes better than get".Every time I help a person ,I always have a feeling of satisfaction,which comes from the behavior . I can' tell the feeling,but it's charming .I can't get out of it since I taste the wonderful sense.

Here I share my personal point of view.I don't want to cheat any of you .I just have something to talk. I hope I make progress constantly until I achieve my goals.

I have a dream ! I can realize it someday!

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Personalities and Constellation

According to the months in which people was born, they are divided into twelve constellations. It is said that personalities have some relation to the constellation. It may sound ridiculous, but the fact is that people do have some common personalities with their typical constellation characters. There are a lot of such coincidences happening to people around me, even myself.
I’m a Cancer. The most typical personality of Cancer is caring for and protecting family as much as possible. Actually, I’m such a person. I attach importance to my family and always take it into account first. If I must choose from my family and another important thing, I will choose the former.
It looks so amazing that I start to think whether it’s just a coincidence. I think there are must be some reasons for it. One possible reason is the hint. When people first see the typical personalities they may not have these characters. However, they may think I’m this constellation so I must behave as the principle. Time pass by, they may finally find they have become representatives of that constellation.
Another reason may be that people have complex personalities. The typical constellation personalities may just one aspect. If people pay attention to other typical characters, they may also find some similarities. For example, except taking my family seriously, I’m also full of energy and like to adventure, which are the personalities of Sagittarius. However, most people just focus on their own constellation and don’t note others, so they don’t realize it.
I think there must be something causes the coincidence. Otherwise, all people belong to the same constellation will have the same personalities, is it possible?