My Valentine's Day

This is the photo take by me. So you can know how close I am to my favorite band Mayday.


I have an awesome Valentine's Day on Feb 25th. I assure that I will remember that night for my life time. What on earth happen on that evening? The answer is the concert of Mayday(五月天).
I was my first time to enjoy their concert on live. The concert strengthen my love for them.
I will talk about this concert from several parts.

Firstly,the order of the concert was so good comparing to another concert held the Saturday before that one. I heard this comment from the stuff in Singapore Indoor Stadium. The concert sell Free-standing tickets, that is, you did not have a seat and stand in front of the stage. Consequently, this area is the best area to enjoy the concert. Because of no fixed place for a person, we need to queue outside. Singapore is a highly civilization country, so my friends queue from the entrance from 7:00 am. Besides, I think the stuffs were so considerable. I was upset because I had to attend a major introduction talk and I could leave for the stadium until 2:00 p.m, however, I received a message from my friends that they could help me queue because this is a concert where friends can share with each other and friends should stay together.I was almost in the first row of free standing area, however, comparing with other LIVE experience of mine, it was so amazing that fans never push me, every one was satisfied with their own area. Even Mayday sung rock songs, we jumped again and again, and nobody got hurt during the concert. I still remembered a scene that Mayday threw some balloon to free standing area. We jumped with a highly spirit and tried to touch the balloon.The order was maintained quite well.
Secondly, I was touched by this concert. Mayday is really a excellent band to me. They are well-know in Chinese music field, however, they did not show their pride. They still insisted on the preparation of the whole concert. They designed and planned every part. They make the fans moved as well as a part of performance. People who sat in a fixed seat would get a paper whose color is pure. I thought it was the list of their performance. To my surprise, if every one put out the paper, the man-made rainbow appeared. With their songs, I could not help wetting my eyes. When they sung Zhi Zu(知足), they asked us to open the torchlight function of our hand phones, the singer Ashin said that even the stadium was not in the open air, we could still see the sky and stars. I seemed to be surrounded by thousands of twinkle stars. My eyes were full of tears again. The members of Mayday are straightforward . They said that the reason that they seldom went to Singapore is because they wanted to bring their songs to more people in other areas rather than they were too proud of their achievements.
After twice encore, the concert was ended at midnight. Their songs still appeared on my ears while their figures were on my eyes. I knew it would be a long time before next time I saw them. However, what the concert gave to me will keep in my mind for a long time and I will work hard to realize my dream as their songs sung" I have my own way, I have my own dream".


This is my Valentine's Day, because I met my favorite band Mayday.
I will remember it for ever.
:)

Reflect on “Beijing Love Story”

Beijing Love Story is one of China's largest modern drama productions. The idea for Beijing Love Story was first formed during the filming of Soldier Sortie, and is written and directed by one of its actors, Chen Sicheng.

I usually don't enjoy watching modern-day dramas that much, but this one has definitely caught my interest. This is not an idol drama; it is more depicting real life and society. Just like the theme song "Goodbye my youth", this drama described the trials and tribulations of the lives of youth and their growth in modern-day Beijing. The most important conflict in this drama I think is the choice between pure love and bread (money and other material basis). It shows the cruelty of the world to our youth and arouses an echo in our hearts. I used to believe in pure love in the world, but this drama made me hesitate. After watched the drama, what confused me most is which one I will choose if I am facing the choice.

The most impressive spot for me in this drama is a choice of one character. He comes from a very poor family and wants to find his place in Beijing. He is diligent and talented, but he is still a petty clerk in a small company after 3 years he came to Beijing. One day he was facing a choice: lost his job and all his savings which invested in a house or left his girlfriend, but got a high position in a big company and save his house. He chose the latter, because he had to believe in the reality which the cruel world told him that love without bread is not called love.

However, the key point is not which one you chose but your growth. Despite the pain of growth is engraved, you cannot refuse. The only thing you can do is to keep sober. Goodbye my past. Goodbye my youth.

One unbelievable experience

   Last summer, I accepted my mother's advice to take a part-time job in order to make my summer vocation more meaningful and exercise my social communication abilities. I worked in a big restaurant and the work lasted for one month.
   I had heard something about some potential rules in the tourism industry before, but I had no experience about it. However, on my first day of work, I knew something about it by chance.
   On that day, when I was talking to the manager about some work in his office, a phone call from the executive chef interrupt our talk. Then, the manager spent a long time answering that call. According to their words, I knew something that was really astonishing. A group of tourists came for lunch in our restaurant. They ordered two tables and the cost of each table was 2500 yuan. However, the manager asked the executive chef to prepare the food at the standard of 2000 yuan of each table. What was more, the manager told the guide that they all knew the ' rule ', and the guide could get 400 yuan and the restaurant could get 600 yuan. Upon hearing these words, I felt very shocked. How could they do this and even called it as a ' rule '! Even now, I still feel angry about these problems. As I know this ' rule ', I will not trust any Chinese travel agents any more.
   In my opinion, our government should take effective action to handle these problems to guarantee our profits.

God is not always fair

The day before yesterday, in a courtroom in Beijing, a twenty-year-old porter sitting in the dock kept showing his impatience. His name is Ma Jinku and he is the defendant. On the other side of the courtroom, the plaintiff was crying with deep sorrow.

On the morning of May 22th, 2011, it was a Sunday and Ma Jinku felt very sleepy. He wanted to sleep late but he was awakened by his boss to work. He was angry and then he went the kitchen, put more than twenty sleeping pills into the soup. He thought in this way his colleagues would feel uncomfortable and his boss must give them a day-off. An hour later, his colleagues felt sick and all of them went to the hospital. In the evening, when Ma wanted to go to bed, Mrs.Yin, the daughter in law of his boss, asked him to repair the broken light and take care of her baby. Ma did not want to do this so he said he would not follow her while Yin said he was only a worker and he had to do what his boss wanted him to do. Ma became angry and then they quarreled with each other. Finally the quarrel turned to a fight and Ma killed both yin and her child.

Ma is from Heilongjiang province. His parents got divorced when he was very small and he followed his father. At the age of four his father was sentenced to death because his father killed someone and then Ma was brought up by his stepmother. It was not easy. Ma was maltreated by his stepmother. All of these caused the drawback in his character.

No matter how Ma’s character Ma killed people and he is more than 20 years old. He will be sentenced to death like his father. But how can he be so inpatient in the courtroom? He said he had already been contemptuous. In the end of the court, he said: I hope you judge can sentence me to death as soon as possible.

This is the story. I do not want to deliver my comments. I just wonder how his life is. Born in a broken family and died in such a young age (he will be sentenced to death), it seems that his life was full of hatreds and pities. It is said that “people are born equal”, but Ma, born in such a family, was bound to be unequal with others. How can the god be so unfair? Or he was an angel and born to punish someone? I hate Ma, at the same time I feel sorry for him, for his pale life.

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About the unrest in Syrian

     Yesterday, I encounter my classmate in the online chat group. They were discussing the Syrian crisis at that time. I suddenly realized that I haven’t care about the international situation after I come to Singapore.

    To figure out what they are talking about, I searched about the news in both Baidu and Google for further information. It did surprise me a lot when I got what the crisis actually is. This event is very similar with the crisis in Libya in the last year. Both of them are about, financial problem, revolution, and interference from other countries.

    Now, the European Union has really carried out their sanction against Syrian. Besides, another sanction also has already been put forward in the United Nations.  However, China and Russia, which have both vetoed UN resolutions on Syria, voted against the proposal. That make the sanction of UN cannot be carried out in a short time.

    As the saying goes, never rise early without proper profit. Though they use human rights as an excuse to interfere the politic in Syria, what they really want is get more benefit for themselves. As far as I know, after the unrest in Libya, they did earn some extra money in the war and got chances to suppress some newly-emerging country. They just want to achieve their strategic, no matter how many people will suffer from their so-called sanction and the war they made.

   In another hand, what if they do not interfere in those events? It seems things wouldn’t be better because if the autocracy was not overthrown, people will still lead a poor and miserable life.

     This event reminds me of a Chinese verse, it means whether it is prosperous or in recession, the average people still suffers…

Homosexuality

Recently, this word “homosexual” becomes very popular among Chinese students. I always hear this word in class or in some activities. I think it does not mean more and more students are becoming homos. Actually, it means that our generation’ ability to accept new thing becomes stronger and stronger.
As we all know, homosexual is a special group whose sex orientation was different from most people. For instance, in general, boys like girls or girls like boys. However, homos only like persons who have the same gender. The research that scientists did proved that most homos’ sexual orientation depends on their genes, so this kind of homos’ sexual orientation is inherent. Just a small quantity of homos changes their sexual orientation, because they get bad stimuli from opposite sex and that leads to their fright (or other negative emotions) of opposite sex, so they prefer the person who has the same sex.
In China, Some adults and elderly people may think that homos are very abnormal and disgusting. They think gay are sissy and lesbian are tomboy. Actually, it is a kind of prejudice. In my opinion, homo is not abnormal, it is just not common. Not all sissy guys are gay and not all gays are sissy. Sex preference could not account for their characters or personalities. Also, homos are a group that is not admitted in China. There was a traditional concept that boys should bear their children. Otherwise, they would be considered not filial. So, you know how hard they live in the society as homos.
When I studied in the high school, there were several lesbians in our school, and one of them was my friend. She was a kind person, she did not have any bad habits, so I think it does not matter weather she was a lesbian.
In summary, I think we should judge persons through their personalities, not their sexual orientation. It is their right to choose their partners. What we should do is to mingle with them in the way we get along with ordinary people. If they are sure that they can live a happy life, we could become their friends to support them.

No more complaints

The week before last week we bargained with Ms. Clara over the vocabulary and at last we successfully decreased the number of sentences that we should write every day. But I still felt unhappy. I was not unhappy for the result of the sentences, but for my complaining attitude towards this case. I felt disappointed by myself and I was afraid of complaining, if I complained once, I might complain a second time ad even a third time and chicken out if I had challenges. We should try our best to reach the goal rather than finding excuses or complaining about the difficulties that we are facing.

A complaining attitude is bad for us to accomplish the task perfectly. And complaint often leads to procrastination because you do not focus on you task but are thinking about bargaining over the task. When I was in high school, my classmates and I also complained that we had so many texts and homework to do. But our head teacher would just tell us that do not complain too much; it would just make you more blundering. You had to know that it was “you want to learn” but not “I force you to learn”, you were pursuing your dreams rather than suffering. Only in this mood could you learn efficiently. That is true, if we think about how we can do our best to do it well rather than complain when we have any challenge, the result will surely be satisfactory.

In fact, there is no need to complain about most of the difficulties. If we think that we have too much homework to do, then we should think about the fact that most of successful persons are workaholics. The founder of “Crazy English”, Liyang, said that he was always busy in speeches and even delivered speeches in several cities in china in only one day, but he still thought that he did not work hard enough. He admitted that no matter how hard he worked, there would still be some more successful persons who worked harder than him. You are not the one who bears the most burdens, and you are luckier than many other people. So why do you want to complain?

Youth is the age of passion and vigor; we cannot throw in the towel without having a try. It is timorous person who will give up without any try. It is our attitude that matters to rise to the challenges. And I hope that I can be a person who complains less and try his best to pursue his dream.