Blog 9 ‘No word to say'

‘Exclusive news! An airline departed from… when it approached the destination, it underwent a sudden strong blow of wind and lost balance...The pilot resolved to abandon the plane, and fortunately all the passengers followed the instructions and took correct actions in time…No one died.’

‘Su-cks! No exciting news at all!’ shouted Mr. Smith, and switched the channel at once.

‘What’s wrong, my dear?’ asked Mrs. Smith.

‘Nothing more than trivial! What a waste of time!’

‘Never mind darling, breakfast is ready. It’s five to eight, you’ve to get faster now.’

‘Thanks. I promise I would never watch this banal news!’ His ranting not only shook the wooden table, which was trying to stick to the ground but failed again, but also caused an invisible vibration in a heart which have longed for disentangling itself from the perennial clamour.

But once again the vibration pacifies. ‘I’ve got to prepare breakfast for Jane. Enjoy.’ She said to him.

‘This is the last breakfast for you.’ She said to herself.

The bustling city is full of vim and vigour—at least apparently, it is. Here and there, it is crowded with ambitious people who aspire for making a change today. Continuously, traffic lights change their colour, flaunting its beauty, though all of them share only three colours and only display one kind for a period. Alongside the street are transplanted trees—still three types, what makes difference is that now they cooperate each other and exhort their effort to make up for each other, in order to beautify themselves. Now Mr. Smith alights from the subway, away from a swarm, and prepares to enter another swarm.

‘Su-cks!’

He kicks away the fallen leaves. Several insects sucking the juice are also kicked away.

In front of him is a grand building. It can dazzle all those who glance at it with the sunshine it reflects. Today, the cloudy weather saves peoples’ eyes including Mr. Smith’s. The receptionist in the hall expected that she would not hear something as usual.

‘Damn it!’ Instead of sunshine, today cloud infuriates Mr. Smith.

‘Goodbye, mom!’

‘See you!’ She responds the angelic look with an angelic smile. Burdened with miscellaneous chores, she still can sometimes conciliate herself with this ordinary but priceless happiness. Every morning, she has to go through an undesirable greeting, followed by a short, potent tranquilizer. The wild fluctuation in life nearly tore her heart: however hard she tried, she could not lull herself into getting accustomed to being insulted. She would rather paralyze all her senses--but she’s a human, and no medicine can work without hurting her. She is determined. When she squirted the poison into the wine bottle, she thought she was determined.

‘Mr. Smith?’ Outside Mr. Smith’s office, a young lady knocked the door softly. It was so soft that even she does not believe she has heard the knock. She raises her hand and wants to knock again. Surprisingly, nothing is knocked by her because the amiable Mr. Smith expeditiously opens the door before she knocks on it.

‘This is the summary for yesterday’s meeting. Please check it, Mr. Smith.’

‘Thank you very much…By the way, how about having dinner together tonight?’

Three seconds last for an hour as if time stagnated.

‘I mean…’ This expression is fabulous to prolong the time for thinking.

‘I mean there’s a new restaurant opening near my daughter’s school. She said many of her classmates think the food is really delicious. My wife and my daughter will go there before us. Then we can have dinner together. I think my naughty daughter really needs to learn something from you. Would you please do me the favour to educate her during the dinner?’

‘I’d like to go, but I’m afraid…’

‘It may not be far from your place. And I can drive you back. So come and join us, will you?’

She replies with a grin.

‘Could you please give me a hand? I don’t feel like being bothered by her so much! It affects my work! Help me is also helping you!’

The slumbering lady suddenly realizes something and nods her head reluctantly.

‘So good! After work, say six o’clock this afternoon, you come to my office and we can go together.’

‘Thank you, I know.’ Lathery overcame her. She replied torpidly, hunching that something terrifying would happen.

The evening arrives rather quickly. In the daytime, the sky is covered by the cloud; night arrives, cloud does not scatter. Darkness dominates the night so cloud’s contribution in darkening the sky seems insignificant. Under the sky, numerous cars congest the street and grumble each other. A variety of lights emanate from thousands of skyscrapers. They light up the city, adding romance and illusion to the modern world. The icy wind blasts thought out the city. When people’s faces are warmed by alcohol, the wind, however strong and cold, embraces people and brings great comfort to their face. It is more like a morning of spring rather than a night of autumn. Autumn and spring share so many similarities with each other, especially the neither too hot nor too cold climate. It is time for revelry.

However, hot, vigorous summer comes after spring; bleak, brutal winter comes after autumn.

They stroll on the avenue where deciduous trees sprawl on the road and no one observes this scenery. Like tears will not stop dropping on the land from one’s eyes unless no tear remains in the eye, when the first leave is carelessly blown down by the wind, one after one, leaves sheath the landscape though they will soon be swept. Once in a while, some people pass by them. She dares not to keep close to him. He keeps making the acquaintance with her. Seen from far, they look like a couple; approaching and having a look, one can find she never smiles and their distance is just acceptable. Still, no one would take a glance at them, because it’s none of a stranger’s business.

‘Well, go across the street and we will arrive at the restaurant.’

They stand still, waiting for the traffic light turning green on a crossroad.

Finally, he catches an opportunity to reach into his wallet and take his hand phone.

He makes it. The light turns green.

She intends to go across, but he is contacting someone. She has to wait until he stops.

15of 30 seconds pass, she could clearly hear what he is talking.

‘Hello…Yes…You say you two cannot come? Why?...’

‘Sorry, Mr. Smith, we have to go.’

‘Okay, I see…’ He turns his head to her and blurts out. ‘I’ll go right now.’ It is not easy for him to spare a sentence when he is talking.

On hearing what he said, she starts crossing the road. On hearing what he said, she becomes increasingly frightened. It seems she has to dinner with him alone. She has thought of it but immediately repressed this horrible idea. What she hasn’t anticipated, what she is afraid for all her life—at length, comes. She wanders on the road with an absent mind. Actually, it would be better to say she lost her mind.

Several steps after her, he indulges in his perfect performance. He giggles voicelessly and prepares to walk, without noticing that only 5 seconds is not enough for him to leisurely walk across the street.

In their house, Mrs. Smith is awaiting her husband. The poison would not kill him—she is not such a witch. She just wants to play a trick on him. It would let him sleep for a short time, but cease her trouble for ever. ‘It would suit you well, my husband. You will wake up two days later, during which I would prepare well for my departure and breaking up with you. You will live a good life since then. So do I.’ She is taking the last responsibility for him. Today, she comes back from work much earlier than usual. She prepares a feast for him. She still loves her, at the cost of her own happiness. Cutlery, napkin, dishes, and wine. Everything in need has been placed on the table.

The telephone rings. It’s his husband’s number. ‘Kidding me?!’ For the first time in her life, she shouted like her husband. If it is, all her plans would be aborted, and she would be humiliated again, extremely.

‘Is that Mrs. Smith?’ A woman begins the conversation, rather breathlessly.

‘Yes, I am. What’s up?’ Luckily it’s not him. But why it is a woman?

‘I am sorry, but your husband was crashed by a car just now. He has been sent into X hospital, 10^th ward at level 3. You’d better go and see him! He is dying!’

Exactly it was, the last time she prepared breakfast for him. He even would have no chance to have her well-prepared last dinner. They would separate sooner than she had considered. But it is he who leaves her, rather than vice versa. Life ridicules her all the time, in the past, at present. She used to care everything. Now only his condition concerns her.

Different wards serve for different purposes. Some wards abound with the joy of new births, while others are filled with sadness and silence. The number ‘10’ symbolizes that a person has gone through all and is able to leave the world without pity. In order to contain a mountain of medical equipments, this ward is simply decorated. It looks austere. Nearly everywhere in the room is in white, the holy colour. The colourful thing is fixed on the wall. There is a picture of summer views. It’s an idyllic village. On the right, Iris is in blossom. The white flowers bow in an elegant arc, perhaps caused by a light blow of wind. A pond is on the left, where water can only be seen among pretty pink lotus. It is a sunny day. If the patient in this room survives, the expectation of the hospital as well as the patient would come true, and the patient would view the scenery with his own eyes.

Seldom does the patient have the opportunity. After all, this room is disparate from others: ICU. It often says to the patient, ‘see you.’ It has witnessed lots of people’s entering the pearly gates.

The feeble Mr. Smith can choose to gloss over the truth, but Mrs. Smith already knows what he has done. Mr. Smith doesn't know she knows, and he neither knows what she has done for him.

‘Darling, I’m going to die… But before I die, I have one thing to say…’

Overwhelmed by grievance, Mrs. Smith gives up her turn to talk. She has shouldered all her responsibility. She is a kind and upright female for all her life. She does nothing wrong except in today. She cannot tolerate her unfortunate, but still, she has to. She is determined not to tell him her scheme, even though he is going to die. She would rather bear the indelible guilty for the rest of her life than pass a little anger to her dying husband.

‘Say it, I’m glad to hear.’ Her voice trembles and tears wells up in her eyes.

‘Though I must say that what you do usually su-cks, I can still stand you. Today I want to date with my secretary. I apologize for you, because you are my wife, we have the relationship…I just mean…’

This time, he is so artless. But he closes his eyes before finishes his last words.

She doesn’t want to see his cremation. She hates him. She doesn’t feel she is guilty any more. She is right. She rushes back home, determined to sell the house, leave the city, and launch a pristine new life.

She opens the door, only to find her daughter and her boyfriend lying on the floor.

Spring: a Season of Revitalization

Among four seasons in one year, spring would be my favorite time in my hometown Xian. Even though the summer is always full of various exhilarating outdoor activities such as swimming and bike-riding, its high temperature and sudden drenching rains irritate me. However, the springtime is different which stays more mild and comfortable. The spring time in Xian is short, therefore it become more precious for every citizen or tourist to enjoy its vigor and vitality.

By the time March rolls around, you can make an attempt to imagining putting your heavy winter coat away. It feels like you have lived through a long period of winter. In the middle of March, with the weather warming up, little green buds on the ends of the trees and flowers are starting to force their way into view. Afterwards, April hits and all of a sudden, the real spring is coming! The whole city is embraced by lush planets and lovely insects. Every flower seems to bloom at once. However, it still follows a strict sequence, for example, yellow winter jasmines and white plum blossom are the first to show their beauty. Then our campus turns into green, interspersed with pink cherry blossoms. The air teems with pleasant fragrance and bees manage to carve out a living, pollinating the intrepid flowers. Unlike soakers in the summer, the tender shower of spring falls down in a milder way. Usually the continuous rain lasts for several days, wishing out all the dirt. Maybe when one morning you weak up, you may surprise that all the road is covered with pink petals. Close the umbrella and breathe the fresh air, you can gain a euphoric experience from a season full of revitalization.

One important feature diverges Xian’s spring from others’ is the perfect combination of living plants and historic buildings. The imposing City Wall of Xian, which was used for defending the city from exotic nations’ invasion, has stood there for more than six hundred years. What you can feel by touching it is all about the history of a great empire and splendid culture. Surprisingly, it matches well with flourish trees. During the spring time, the trees cast their shadow on the City Wall and the shadow waves with the frequency of wind. It is just like they are telling stories to each other. Every time going through this boulevard after school, beneath the shade of both City Wall and trees, I can sense the exhilarating coolness. Besides, since Xian is the ancient capital of China, numerous poets and writers like Li Bai and Han Yu left their praise about the capital’s engaging spring. Today Xian’s spring still resembles its depiction of in poetries from Tang Dynasty. For instant, willows are still standing beside the lakeside, with their twigs jogging with the breeze. These twigs used to be the gift to somebody who was departing.  

There is a saying that “since a student decided to pursue his university enducation outside his hometown, he can never experience his hometown’s springs or autumns’’. Acutually, in Singapore, I cannot enjoy three other seasons expect summer. It feels like and eternal summer with overwhleming hot weaves and sudden heavy rains at intervals. I really miss a spring full of revitalization, when cold weather terminates and everything seems promising. Maybe the spring does not only signify a period of time, but also indicates a state of mind full of pleasure and hope. Everyday can be in spring so just enjoy it!  

A simple process of deduction (Part 2)(Blog 8)

                                                                  Deducing

The deduction begins at two aspects. As for the technique aspect, I checked from Internet that the ways of stopping data transmission include the control of router, ARP attack, P2P killer.(This is what I can find. Besides it is the most common, effective and acceptable way in education, company and micro-LAN) It is a truth that in normal situation, students in RV cannot get access to Internet unless they use Proxy tool because the RV manager use at least one of the ways that was mentioned before to prevent the data transmission. Though the way of data transmission can be multiple or single, the RV manager must use at least two. P2P killer is included for we cannot use P2P protocol to download anything. I say it has at least two ways because my anti-P2P killer did not work. Then what is the other way? The control of router totally restraint the data so that you cannot get access to the Internet, but the truth that we can use Proxy server negate this way. For this reason, I can only suppose that the RV manager use the ARP attack tool to control our network use moderately in most of the time. But one day, the system broke down and sent the wrong ARP package to some of us randomly so that this thing happened. For the psychological aspect, the action of RV manager is quiet suspicious which indicate that he probably want to conceal the truth by making no mention. The respond of RV manager is quiet interesting and strange if we accept the common sense that this incident was by a hacker. Just suppose, if you were a manager. Your hostel suffers from ARP attack from a selfish hacker, what will you react? Will you employ a engineer to fix your system or find the hacker out?  I do not suggest that you employ a engineer for the cost is too high and if all these things are made by the hacker your system are okay though  the students computer are in trouble for the attacking target is the connection to your system but not your system’s connection to Internet. For if he/she attack your system, he/she will not get access to Internet. Look at this point, can you find the paradox; his/her motivation does not work at all. Besides, I wonder why he criticized that the behavior of writing the announcement. Though this behavior is hot blood, can we suppose that the manager is a partner of the hacker? Ha-ha, just kidding? The truth is obvious that he cannot admit that his system cause this problem so he try not get in touch with such topic and preserve his reputation as much as he can. As for why he complained about the Chinese students’ unhealthy Internet conduct such as watching some unhealthy things and use Proxy tool to surf on Internet at study time, I still can explain it. Maybe it is because that the unhealthy website may bring virus and the use of Proxy tool influence on the delivery of ARP package and lead to the system problem. All these things maybe were told by his consultable computer engineer employ and he just conveys these to us.

Last but not least I have two more evidences to share with you. The first is that I have a Dota friend in RV who is now in grade 3. When we play it together, he complains that why we SM3 students are always good at computer for he has suffered it twice. Then I know, it very likely to be an accident system disorder problem. The other is that I cannot get access to webpage just now, but I log in my QQ just now, it proves that it is not relevant to router anymore but points on ARP package.

At last I should state again that it is not a rigorous but a simple deduction, it may not show the underneath of the truth, but I can feel joy after a reasonable deduction.

(Blog 5)A simple process of deduction (Part 1)

                                                                       Origin

I have an idea which may proves that some existing conception is wrong. This idea is about the ARP attack in River Valley High School’s Hostel. The conventional and most acceptable explanation to this issue is that a hacker or more from H3 attack others’ computers to break their network down in order get more net resource so that he/she/they can get access to Internet more quickly. Actually I also hold this point till I enter a conference held by RV hostel manager. At that time, I begin to doubt on this issue on whether it is a malicious computer activity or just caused by accident. Then I gather information from both RV students and Internet which proves that I am probably right. This blog is just a deduction which may not absolutely right; what I focus on is the enjoyment when I deduce this problem. For this reason, if you disagree with my opinion or feel it insulting you IQ you can ignore it. Now that I have got the preparations ready, let the blog begin.

Let us review the ARP attack incident which happened about two months ago. Almost all RV Hostel boarders could not get access to the Internet suddenly which persisted for about two weeks. Many students had no ideas on what had happened because they found that they could not get access to webpage but could log in QQ. So some students who were good at computers and network explained that it was made by hacker on QQ and give the reason that I have mentioned. Then there was an announcement at the gate of the elevator which was made by some hot blood SM2 boarders. The main purpose of this announcement was to threaten the visual hacker that they would track his/her Mac and IP but in contrast made this issue even fierce. Meanwhile, some student masters came out some solutions to this problem such as changing the DNS from Singapore to China or other countries (FROM 165.21.100.88 TO 221.6.4.66), using Proxy server or some software. Consequently, this case gradually blew over and almost did not catch my attention anymore. But, the RV hostel held a conference at the canteen. The manager first enumerated problems and finally talked about the Internet issue. To my surprise, he did not condemn the hacker that was common accepted truth. In the contrast, he criticized that the behavior of writing the announcement is vicious and seemed that the writers is abusing others. Besides, he mentioned a detail the cost of employing a computer engineer is very costly but he had to invite one to build a system. Then he complained a lot on Chinese students’ unhealthy Internet conduct such as watching some unhealthy things and use Proxy tool to surf on Internet at study time. These increased my doubt that why he made no mention on malicious hacker and their behavior but talk about employ a engineer to fix their system. I guess that the truth maybe that the disorder of the system made this issue happened. If you have no interest or passion to deduce the result from the clues that I give, let me do it for you.

Blog8:My views on Human Cloning

With human cloning becoming a near-term prospect, we are brought face-to-face with the most basic ethical questions of life. Opinions differ widely as to whether human cloning should be prohibited.

True, human cloning clearly has much to offer. By using cells from the patient’s own body to grow organs to replace diseased parts, the problem of rejection can be avoided. This might prove useful, to illustrate, in fighting leukemia through bone marrow transplants. But what about making an identical copy of a human being?

Ian Wilmut, who created Dolly the sheep, found the idea offensive. Professor Hank Greely at Stanford also finds the suggestion deeply disturbing. For one thing, the technology is far from perfect. There may be lots of miscarriages. There will also be deformed clones. What should we do with them? Should we simply keep the healthy clones and just kill off the ones with deformed bodies or defective brains? That, I am afraid, would offend the religious beliefs of a great many people. Even if the technology is perfect, who can guarantee no one will misuse it for evil purposes? To clone a Hitler or to produce new class divisions, with some designed to lead and others designed to serve?

Therefore, I am strongly opposed to human cloning for reproductive purposes. The government should enact laws to prohibit it. Non-reproductive cloning, on the other hand, should be encouraged. It may mean hope to those who are waiting desperately for organs for transplantation to save their lives. If used wisely the technology may eventually free humans from many kinds of suffering that today seem unavoidable.

Blog7:How to download applications for free in app store?

Nowadays, Apple’s products are increasingly popular in the vibrant world. One of the problems of using these products is that people may pay before using the software. Therefore, many people jailbreak their devices so that they can download pirated software for free. Actually, besides jailbreak, there are still plenty of methods to get applications for free in app store. Now I will show some methods to you.

1.      Substitute. We all know that the number of applications in app store is about 150 thousands. If we want to use an application but unfortunately it is not free, we can search for other software that has the same functions. However, sometime it may be difficult for us to find a substitute.

2.      Limited time for free. In fact, in app store, some applications will be free for a period of time which is called limited time for free. If we are lucky enough to encounter those applications, we can download them for free. Next if those applications are updated, we can also update them for free.

3.      FMA and FAD.

FMA (free my app) and FAD (free app daily) are two websites that can help us download applications for free. We can download some free applications which are called promotion. Then we can get “credits” that are used for exchanging some charge software.

4.      Redeem code.

If we search in bbs, many people will publish some redeem codes in order to promote their products. By using these codes, we can also download applications for free and it is just like we purchase them.

What I want to say is that there is always one way out. Every problem has its own solution just like how to get software for free in app store. We should do what we can do to find the solution. And I think you can also purchase some good software for free after reading my blog.

Blog 8(2) Way of life

It was not until recently I read a book on philosophy that I got preliminary understanding of what I would go through and what I should do in future. Though the target of life never seems obscure to me, and I have an outline for coming life and a schedule for daily life, I agree that my understanding of life is not deep enough to reach a higher level, therefore it is ‘preliminary’—I still have a long way to go.

Now let me introduce what the book says. There are three stages of one’s life. The first stage is in which one can not distinguish between himself/herself and the object or the environment he/she encounters. The person, often a small child, lives in a natural way that every action from him/her is not purposely. Follows the second stage in which one can clearly tell himself/herself apart from others and the environment, and does something for an aim. We should remark that each stage, including the following third stage does not happen in one’s life separately. They may concur in one’s life. For instance, a man can work for earning bread for his family. In that way he does something purposely, being in the second stage. He can also simply walk home leisurely without an apparent intention(though he is to return home, he would forget the distance and the aim, simply enjoy walking), in which he is in the first stage. Now it’s really complicated. The more complicated one—the third stage ensues. For common people, seldom does an individual reach the third stage in his/her life. Even if one touches the threshold of this enigmatic stage, it is usually momentary and vanishes without trace.

The third stage of one’s life comes when after one realizes the difference between self and others or the environment, he/she transcends this notion which restricts his/her behavior but finally is overcame by him/her in some way. That is to say, one returns being natural, but different from being natural because he/she has gone through being unnatural and gradually extricates himself/herself from the constraint.

To illustrate these enigmatic conceptions, consider the steps of learning English. Firstly we learn English because we are taught to learn English. And we learn when we were not aware of the importance of English. Then grades in exam demonstrate the importance of English. After we came here, exams burden us no severely as before, but we still endeavor to learn English because it concerns whether we can communicate with others. We try as possible to memorize words and apply them into essays and daily conversations. Then, it will become a portion of ourselves. Like Chinese, English comes out of our mouth without the slightest efforts. Gradually and finally, we reach the third stage.

Life goes the same way. One can say Tao Yuanming, the famous idyllist, was murmuring in his poems, complaining his unfortunate and pretending to be out of the secular world. The other one can also say that he let his mind flow freely with the pace of nature. The first one is mundane and his/her mind has been covered with dust, therefore, he/she cannot understand the mindset of Tao. Perhaps throughout this miserable person’s life, he/she could never enter in the world where his/her mind could swing with all the living things. In contrast, the second one is a little more sapient, though this person may still linger in the second stage and may not be a person like Tao.

I recalled a blog written by cute boy, Mr. Triton. He talked about happiness and I wondered that when we intentionally pursue for happiness, whether we could obtain the real happiness. I thought now that we have unavoidably transformed from a child into a young adult, we could be glad as before, but not be as happy as a child. And I argued that the more we desired a childlike mind, the further we were away from it because I thought a truly child mind could never be intentionally achieved.

However, the book points out the possibility. The way is unknown, maybe it depends on different people. Since I don’t know a lot, I have to make an end for this part hastily.

The most amazing thing I recognized was the perpetual law: deny of deny. In syntax, there is no difference between the outcome of deny of deny and the original word. Nonetheless, in the journey of life, the life after deny of deny(the third stage) is totally different from the original one(the first stage). It is a brand new stage where one stands on the vertex of life and could overlook all the other things.

And may one day I am able to reach the condition that Laozi once depicted: Aim to do things without aim.

Blog 8(1) My expectations for university

I have a wonderful dream

that all have, all strive

But only some achieve:

To realize many more dreams

That’s a fairly greedy dream,

a fantasy

intending to light prairie

by striking a match

The vast prairie has no border

whereas the match is a only part of an isle

Future is the prairie

And university is the match

flaring for four years

illuminating the future forever

Rivers flow blithely only with the breadth of the land

Birds fly freely only with the vastness of the sky

And only with the freedom of a university

students kicking and alive

Away from formalism

Rid of zombies’ minds

That’s what a university should be

It lacks something:

monotonousness and inanimation

It is full with others:

a variety of thoughts, a diversity of alternatives

and most significantly of all

the qualified teachers and students

Teaching is to lead the way of studying

Studying is to find the way of discovering

And the object of discovering

is what I can be

The colour of the prairie, the shape of the future

is by no means known

unless the match can create no more than one kind of blaze

and unless a university is no better than a machine

aimed at executing a pre-designed program

The prairie is awaiting

the moment it makes the change

while the match is in the offing

I am waiting

and NUS is approaching

8.Two Things Happened This Week

This week, there happened a lot of things. The first thing I want to say was that I decided to learn harmonica. The second thing was that my logitech mouse was out of order today.
About the first thing, I decided to learn harmonica. It is because that I find a lot of my friends are good at a certain kind of instrument or even some kinds of instruments. Besides, I have watched Ziyan played his violin and Zhaoyue played his erhu for a few days and I also want to make some sounds to amuse myself. I had learned violin for a few months in China in my childhood but I had already forgotten almost all of what my teacher have taught me. So I decided to have a try of harmonica. I found a website selling harmonica. And finally I bought one harmonica named Bluemaster produced by Suzuki in Japan. I like it very much. Now, I can make some simple noises by that harmonica. What a great improvement! During my learning of it, I find that masterring harmonica is really a difficult job. I should work hard on it. And I believe I will make it in the end.
About the second thing, my logitech mouse was out of order in 29th April 2012. It seems that the year 2012 really means '2012' to my mouse. It happened after Ziyan's leaving me a great deal of project work. And I thought maybe the mouse was frightened to death by Ziyan's great deal of work. I love that mouse which was bought in China. I wander what should I do to the mouse. Should  I just throw it away? Or keep it in my drawer? After all, the mouse had been following my orders for almost a year. Wish my baby mouse a good seat in the paradise!
Besides these things, there still be a lot of things I want to say such as my money may not be enough for the following two months. But let us end at this paragraph. Do not forget that there still have a great deal of project work waiting for me

(Blog 7) After motivation

Now that the motivation of what we do is not as perfect as we need to elevate into an art form. I consider more about human’s life. Does our human’s life meaningful? What does our human’s inner world rely on? What is right and what is wrong? It seems that religion can solve all the answer I have. Even though, what about there is not a god? That is, human-beings are still frightened to the power of the nature that they still want to find an excuse for their innocence. Besides, I find that easier a game is, more addicted to human it will be. Such as QQ farms, I wonder why so many people are addicted to this game that they would rather get up at night just to obtain the product in others’ farms. Furthermore, have you been addicted to hungry snakes due to you want to get a high marks. We feel loneliness, do not we? We need to make some balance between our spirit and reality by some white lies on our inner world because we are panic when we face the meaning of our life. What about the meaning of our life or should I say the world is a big lie? We are inculcated that we should serve the society and world; we are the members of the human family; everybody is an essential part of the world. Stop talking about that. Why there is still discrimination among race, jobs and sexual orientation? Do the workers who are an essential part of the world deserve the discrimination? Do those who have a decent jobs and high status have the priority to discriminate others? Just as Thucydides said, “The strong did what they could, and the weak suffered what they must”. Gradually I feel the strength that Coldplay’s song “Viva La Vida” has. Every life is awesome, unique and irreplaceable. Individual’s live may seems meaningless, the life’s meaning rely on the relationship and itself. Nothing can deny one’s life he/she born lives and passes away albeit nothing he/she leaves behind. That is our life does not only belong to ourselves but also those who care us. We are responsible both us and our social network. That is how love rooted in our life and makes the life awesome..  

7. I want to eat Shanxi noodles

After came to Singapore, four months have passed away. And recently, I became to miss my favorite food, nothern Chinese noodles.
Nothern Chinese noodles have a long history. According to archaeology discovery, noodles originated from China and have a more than 4000 years history. Noodles are made of flour. Besides, there are some other things needed by making noodles. For example, garlics, vinegar, and so on. In Shanxi there is a very famous noodle called "Daoxiao" noodle which is very delicious. Besides, "Men" noodle, "Qishansaozi" noodle, "Youpo"noodle are also my favorite noodles.
Though there are some noodles in Singapore, most of them are of great differences with Shanxi noodles. The features of Singapore noodles are not focus on the materials which are used to make noodles. It seems that Singapore noodles only focus on the seasonings.
Besides, I also want to mention that there is a noodle shop in Clementi. That noodle shop is a Shannxi noodle shop. It provides many delicious noodles and some other snacks in Shannxi. I like the "Liangpi" and "Qishansaozi" there. But I must say that the "Qishansaozi" is not perfectly producted. There are some flaw with the noodles.
I like the noodles in Shanxi.

Blog 7 Suggestions on English learning in CELC

Time flies. Our journey in English learning in CELC has covered half of its distance. Apparently all of us have gained a lot from this journey. As this journey is coming to its end, I’d like to make some suggestions on it, which may not be adapted owing to some reasons, but I sincerely hope that some of them can be taken by us and add great luster to our memorable journey.

In the morning, we are accustomed to hanging around in the classroom to kill time that between our alight from bus and the begin of our class. Half an hour, every day. Actually we can do something more meaningful during this period. In China, we usually had morning self-learning lesson before classes, during which we read loudly for reciting essays or memorizing phrases and words or just for pleasure. Now everyone is shy. It is not anyone’s fault because before one takes this action, he/she has to consider others’ reactions. The reason why no one reads is that there is not a “reading atmosphere”. To read fluently and articulate clearly and correctly, there is a long way to go. Are all of us expecting that we would magically shift into a native speaker after we are admitted into NUS? It is, I dare to say, a fantasy. Many of our seniors are still struggling with their oral English, despite their hard work in bridging course for half a year. If we mull over their unfortunate resulting from their laziness or leisure, we should consider over the similarities between our behaviours and theirs, which are bound to cause the similar unfortunate in future. Record our voice and see how poor we are reading, then we must take actions—read more and loudly!

After sitting down, another embarrassing thing begin. That is, the chair is not of enough height to pose us in a comfortable position. Trivial as it is, this incident keeps company with us during the journey and keep us suffering. It can not be adjusted! It afflicts us especially when we are taking reading comprehensions, when we must bend down and keep closed to the desk. May it can be a more comfortable one!

The most important part is that we are lack of oral practice. I realize that time in class is precious so tutors cannot spare so much time for speaking. However, as far as I’m concerned, some portions of the class are unnecessary. For example, repetitive simple grammar exercise and tediously going through textbooks. Perhaps teachers underestimate our ability in solving grammar questions. We have done a lot of grammar before, and what we are in dire need of is to put them into practice. Such grammar exercise can be undertaken by peer-reviewing essays and paragraphs, or choosing some of them and leaving them as homework and then we can do it individually after school. In the next class, tutors can quickly go through the answers and explain our confusions. As a result, we have more time for speaking in class. Speaking anything is OK. I observed that when I communicated with my peers, here and there I grasped some useful expressions from their speech, which were applied to use by me shortly after I memorized. To tell the truth, sitting in such an awful chair to struggle with grammar and textbook was pushing me to swing between sleeping and awaking! Nevertheless, I got extremely excited when I could talk with my friends. Though sometimes it is a great challenge to search in my mind to get across myself in proper expressions, I still enjoyed myself greatly because speaking English rendered me a feeling of honour and achievement.

I never intend to complain or mutter about our study. If we can simply make our journey more interesting and meaningful, why not?

6.I love Qin Lin who has already belonged to Sida

Last Saturday, I had a fantastic birthday party with my group members and my roommate. We together went to Bouna Vista to KTV and then went to clementi to eat our cake. There are tons of thousands of happiness.
First of all, we went to Bouna Vista to KTV, although the devices there are not in good condition, we sang happily and spent a happy time. During that time, I found that Ziyan is not only good at whistling but also good at singing. Besides, I also found that our monitor, Qin Lin, is really a good planer and leader. And Zhaoyue is an enthusiastic singer. In addition, I must say that girls also performed greatly during that time. They sang some advanced sangs for us and did well.
Next, we went to Clementi to eat our cake. Because the cake is so small, we bought some food nearby. After sharing food with others, we finally went into the dividing cake stage. There were many people but only had a small cake. So everyone can only got a small piece of  cake. The following thing is the most interesting thing. After the eating of cake, there still remained two strawberries. Of course, I ate one of the two strawberries. But I am too embarrassed to eat another one. So how to deal with the last strawberry? I finally came out an idea that Qin Lin is the planner of this party. So I want Qin Lin to finish this strawberry. However Qin Lin did not willing to eat that strawberry. Then someone suggested that Qin Lin should eat this strawberry with Sida. That is what they are doing in the picture.
Thanks to Qin Lin, we had a so wonderful birthday party.

Fraternity Between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Blog 7)

A portrait of Sherlock Holmes

  Sherlock Holmes has no doubt to be the most well-known detective since his appearance in 1887. He had revealed plenty of murders, solved numerous mysterious cases, and even managed to protect national secrets. Apart from his tremendous contribution to detection, his methods of deduction benefited forensic science in the following century. He is so glamorous that millions of fans are attracted by him worldwide. However, frankly speaking, too much compliment is not suitable for his personality. Although Holmes is extremely intelligent and observant, he is arrogant, self-centered, and almost entirely lacking in social graces. How could he survive in the society and become so eminent? The answer is that he had a loyal partner ——Dr. John Watson, who played a vital role in Holmes career. Sherlock Holmes cannot live without Watson for many reasons.  

Their Discussion

 Firstly, Dr. John Watson was the chronicler of Holmes’s adventures. Most of their stories were narrated by Watson, written from his perspective, including his personal admiration and critics towards Holmes. From his depiction, a vivid figure of a shrewd but imperious detective appeared in front of us. Without the description and assessment, we cannot grasp a precise image of Holmes and his personality. Therefore, we should appreciate the excellent work Watson did.
 In addition, Watson played a significant role as an assistant in Holmes’s career. He provided practical assistance in the conduct of their cases, acting variously as lookout, decoy, messenger and accomplice. We can often see that Holmes says, “Watson, would you please collect some books for me from the library?” and “Watson, can you go to Scotland Yard to meet XXX?”. Dr. Watson also inspired Holmes to come up with many constructive ideas; hence, the cases were solved easily. Moreover, he helped Holmes out of financial problems by renting an apartment mutually.

2009 Movie Sherlock Holmes

 Most importantly, Dr. Watson is a sincere and warm-hearted friend to Holmes. Their friendship is beyond money, fame and power. No matter how dangerous the situation is, Watson always kept accompany with Holmes, whose fondness for Watson often hided beneath his cold mask. However, it was revealed once when Watson was shot although the wound was quite superficial. He depicted that it was worth a wound to know the depth of loyalty and love, which lay behind that cold mask, from the clear, hard eyes and the shaking firm lips. Besides, Watson is more like a soul mate of Holmes, who did not get married for whole life and had few friends. In most occasions, people would feel offended by Holmes due to his rudeness and arrogant. Only Watson could tolerate Holmes’s eccentric conduct and even appreciate the glamour of his personality.

  In all, Dr. Watson is indeed a devoted assistant and sincere friend of Sherlock Holmes. It is hard to imagine that a Holmes without John Watson could resolve so many macabre cases and overcome rumors, illness and loneness. It proves a truth that there is always a benevolent friend behind a great person. Hence, we should all thank our friends’ generous support and understanding in our life, and then help them in return. There is always a wonderful world full of remarkable brotherly love.

2010 BBC Channel One Drama Sherlock

Blog6:iPad 2 or the new iPad?

his blog is mainly for those who want to buy an iPad but do not know which kind of iPad to choose.

Firstly, let’s see the hardware configuration. The new iPad will feature a 9.7-inch Retina Display that will have an amazing touchscreen at a resolution of 2,048 x 1,536, which is four times clearer than iPad 2. Next, the CPU of the new iPad is also much faster than iPad 2. What’ more, the camera sensor is bigger in the iPad 3 which suggests that the tablet will feature an 8-megapixel camera on the back with 1080p video recording. The last one is that the RAM of the new iPad is 1 GB meanwhile iPad 2 has only a half.

Secondly, the appearances of these two devices are quite the same, except that the iPad 3 is thicker than the iPad 2 by 0.7mm and is a little heavier than the iPad 2.

Last, the prize. Actually, now iPad 2 only has 16GB (WIFI) version but it is cheaper than the new iPad (16GB and WIFI). For the new iPad, it has all the versions and the prize is cheaper than the original one of iPad 2, but maybe now there is a shortage of the stock.

Suggestions: for those who have already had an iPad, there is no need to update the device; for those who are short of money or just use iPad for study or business, iPad 2 (16GB) is a good choice; for those who are crazy about HD videos, books or games, they can buy the new iPad whichever version it is. (It depends on the economic capabilities). In addition, users can purchase WIFI+4G version in order to surf the Internet without WIFI.

Blog5:Jailbreaking

Jailbreaking

What is jailbreaking? I think many people are familiar with its name but do not know any details about it. So now let me introduce it to you. iOS jailbreaking, or simply jailbreaking, is the process of removing the limitations imposed by Apple on devices running the iOS operating system through the use of custom kernels. Such devices mainly include the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. (wikipedia)

At first, people always think that jailbreaking is illegal. Actually, according to the ‘Digital Millennium Copyright Act’, which was modified by the Library of Congress Home in America on 26^thJuly 2010, iOS jailbreaking is absolutely legal. Therefore, there is no need to concern about the legality of jailbreaking.

   Next, there are many reasons for jailbreaking. One of the main reasons for jailbreaking is to expand the feature set limited by Apple and its App Store. Users can install software outside the App Store and purchase 3^rd party themes for their devices. Using software and themes, the devices can have more functions and be more beautiful. ( the illustrations are my iphone’s screenshot) As a matter of fact, users can also install pirated software for free, which is illegal. However, if users do not install that kind of software when they do jailbreaking, they never obey the laws.

Here is a video that shows 100 reasons for jailbreaking. Do not hesitate, jailbreaking now!

http://www.weiphone.com/iPhone/news/2012-04-03/WWJC_organizers_Videos_100_escape_the_grounds_422255.shtml

If you are interested in jailbreaking but do not know how to do, you can turn to me for help.