Sunday, November 30, 2008

朋友

要考试了,就在两个星期后。 随谈从七岁开始就一直都会有年中考和年终考,但是第一次在新学校嘛……风格不一样,怕会不适应而拿到很低的分数。小小介绍我一本古灵写的小说,叫:引[狼]入室。真的是很不错,而且古灵的小说好长哦,不过那是好事啦。哈哈。因为这样就可以看久点。今天是新交的朋友的生日,朋友们有办生日趴,也有邀请我去,但我没去。我是不能去啦,不过气是我也不是很想去。新交的朋友之中,他们都来自很多国家,但我最喜欢的是来自韩国的某一个朋友,因为他跟我最像,比较……sensible.美国式的人比较夸张,老实说,我不喜欢,也不像勉强自己去适应他们的生活方式。我就是我,不是说不想改变,但有时候改变未必是件好事。他们的生活方式,我想,我永远都不能把他们当作我知心的朋友、能够信任和依赖的朋友。很抱歉,但事实确实如此。

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Monday, November 24, 2008

让我崩溃的一部电影


前天我去看了High School Musical 3……我并没有像某某人一样,在电影院里面睡着,哈哈。没睡着,不是因为它是一部好电影。有两个原因:它是一部音乐电影,有点像荧幕里的舞台剧,这是我喜欢这部电影的一点。第二点:看到这部电影的尾声的时候,我就在电影院里哭了起来。出来的时候,也还在哭,吓坏了我的家人(对不起)。来到越南这半年来,这次好像是我哭得最惨的一次,感觉上……好像崩溃了。HSM3, 这次是说毕业嘛,看到他们能够快快乐乐的毕业,本是件开心的事,却也让我想到,我不能在中华毕业了。就这样,我就哭了。躲在厕所里哭的我,突然间,很想回中华。来到这里,我才发现,我是多么的爱中华。虽然在中华,也发生了许多不开心的事,也会不喜欢中华的一些东西,但我对它的感情,就像我对马来西亚的感情一样。是永远都会不走的感情。或许有一天,我会忘记我在中华发生的一切事,但我永远都不会忘记我对中华的爱。

三个星期后,学校就要举办concert了,超期待的^^。除了会跟平时的band一起兖州一些圣诞歌曲之外,我也会替华语班伴奏月亮代表我的心。其实,很开心他们会表演这首歌,因为这样,就会让更多人认识华人音乐。除此之外,这个星期开始,我会参加学校的象棋社团。老实说,我对中国象棋,以前都没任何兴趣,对它当然是一窍不通。但是,我参加了象棋社团。嘻嘻。原因是学校的华文老师希望我能够去那里帮帮忙,因为我会中文。为了让更多人认识中国文化,我愿意学中国象棋。如果我在马来西亚,我一定不会做这么多事情。可是在这里,我真得很希望外国人能够多点了解华人的文化,只要是任何能让外国人认识我们文化的事,我都会尽力去做。

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Pieces of my homework 3


A Limerick

There once was a boy named Ray
Whose favorite month was May
In May one day
He caught a stingray
And he never came back to the bay

Pieces of my homework 2


What is jealousy? According to Wikipedia, “jealousy typically refers to the negative or angry thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of insecurity, fear, and anxiety that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival, or when another person is perceived to have some type of advantage. Jealousy often contains a mixture of emotions, such as anger, sadness, disgust, which are focused by passion or anger”. Jealousy is an emotion that I have been experiencing for years. Anger, pain, loneliness, disgust, love and hate are the feelings that exist at the same time when I am jealous.

Jealousy is loving and hating a person at the same time. I love my brother more than I love my sister, which I think is because of the connection between male and female. But my brother, being a boy and the youngest in the family, is also the reason sometimes I find myself hating and loving him at the same time. Born in a Chinese family, my brother is the only grandson, so he is the only one who can continue our family’s last name. For this reason, of course, he gets the love from everyone, especially the adults. I always say to my relatives that my brother acts like an angel in front of them but a devil in front of me and my sister. He likes to beat us and we beat him too. But he is smaller in size so he beats us with all his might, which is very painful. On the other hand, we don’t really hit him because our strength may hurt him. In the end, he always complains first although we get more pain than him. This makes me have the feeling of hate inside me. In spite of this, I love my brother very, very much as he is my brother and we have the same blood flowing through our body.

Jealousy is being angry at the person who is being biased towards me and another person. Since I started to have the feelings of jealousy towards my brother, I have a habit of observing how my mum treats me and my brother. I compare the way my mother will solve the problem that I made when I was nine and now when my brother does something wrong. When I was nine, if I didn’t drink my water, I would be scolded very badly. My mum would also lock me outside the house with my bottle and order me to finish my water. There was once I was locked out during lunch time and that day, my lunch was a bottle of water. So now, I will always look and wait to see how my mother will treat him if he doesn’t drink his water. I always expect some fair and just actions, but matters don’t always occur as I expected them to. I found out that my mum normally just keeps quiet and turns a blind eye towards my brother’s actions. If my brother doesn’t drink his water, my mum will just ASK him to drink his water. I know it’s because after scolding children for years she gets tired and doesn’t want to bother us and she thinks that I can handle the issue myself but she doesn’t understand that my brother doesn’t listen to what I say because he isn’t afraid of me. I can’t help being angry remembering how I was being punished when I was small and she chose not to scold my brother but scold me if I did something wrong. My mum always tells me not to compare myself with my brother but the main point that I am angry about is she lets him behave badly when he wants to.

Jealousy is pain and loneliness. After I have been hurt, I can feel that my heart is so painful, as if it has been crumpled together. It is so painful, that I have to put my hand over my chest to rub it, hoping the pain will go. I was shocked at the pain at the first time. I thought that I was having a heart attack. There was sadness in my heart. I couldn’t stop the tears dripping down from my eyes. Due to my pride, I couldn’t bear to cry in front of anyone, especially my mother. However, I find myself being contradictory. Although I couldn’t bear to cry in front of anyone, I wanted to be found crying and being comforted but that never happen. I feel that I am always alone; there was always only myself to tidy up my emotions and then continue my life again.

I try to be a good person, because I believe that being good maintains the peace among people. I do not want to be a person who is jealous. In my consciousness, jealousy is a negative emotion, so a person who is experiencing jealousy is not a good person. Sometimes, I feel disgusted at my self, wondering how could I be such a bad person although I know about the morality of humans. It was like wanting to have a white, clean paper but there is always dirt on the paper that I could never rub off. I don’t want to have jealousy in me, but sometimes I just couldn’t control myself being jealous at another person. I want to stop myself, to rub away the badness in me. Today, I still have not succeeded in doing so. Determination and a high emotion quotient are what I need to stop being jealous so that I won’t be disgusted at myself anymore.

I believe that jealousy exists in every person, it is only just the matter of seriousness and how one can control it. Sometimes jealousy is brought by one’s self and sometimes jealousy is brought to one by other’s attitudes. I hope that I will never be the one who brings jealousy to another person because it is suffering to experience jealousy.Observe the people around you and see if you are having any biased actions towards someone out of your consciousness. May people be thoroughly peaceful one day.

Pieces of my homework


今天,我会post一些我写的东西……其实都是功课啦,不过想给你们看看 ^^

The moon was high up in the sky. Inside the dancing studio, there was Jolin Tsai, alone. Everyone has gone home since 5pm. From 9am to 11pm, from 20 people practicing to only Jolin left alone practicing, for her concert that is three days later. She will dance hip hop and break-dance in her concert, the two types of dance that she usually dances. But this time she is also going to perform 3 things that she has never tried before, which are the pommel horse, hand ring, and pole dancing. She was sitting on the floor with her legs open and her hands stretched straight behind her back. There was silence, except the sound of her breathing heavily. She felt tired but satisfied. Sacrificing her time with her family and friends, just hoping that she will have a perfect performance on her concert that will make everyone go “Wow!”, and also make those who once do not favor her become definite of her achievement. She tilted up her head and looked at the reflection in the mirror. The long, black silky hair was wet and the usually fair, smooth skin was a little red, wet and sticky now. The ELLE white shirt was also wet thoroughly. The big, black eyes were full of determination. Then, she stood up. The 28 year old lady was comely, slim but also had little muscles on her arms, legs, and back. She picked up her LV bag, put on her sunglasses and cap. She pushed her cap down until more than half her face was covered by the cap and sunglasses. She turned off the lights and walked briskly out of the studio. She looked around Taipei city. Although it was late night, there were still a lot of people on the streets. She pushed her cap lower. Then, she saw a couple holding hands walking past her, not even realizing who she was, as their eyes could only see their love. Jolin stopped walking and gazed at the couple with a sign of longing. She smiled and quickly get on a cab and went home.

Friday, November 7, 2008

International Day-Poverty


Yesterday was my first MS/HS international day in SSIS. I would say that yesterday was a very interesting day and a day that I don’t think I would ever forget in my life.

Welcome the Crossroads from Hong Kong! At the beginning of the day, it started with Mr David’s speech. He was an excellent speaker and I was really impressed with the stories that he told us. There was one story about when one side of the world was starving to death, the other side of the world had too much food that they needed. Although it is hard to admit it, but yes, this is our world. When one is complaining about the food was not delicious, at the same time another is dying because of starvation. In this condition, it made me think: should I spend money on delicious food when there are some people in the world are starving? But I do like good food, so what should I do?

Mr David also told us that poverty wasn’t just about money. This is another thing to think about. If I had one million dollars and there was no food to buy, then what is the use of the one million dollars. Poverty is about food, water, clothes and others.

During the first activity, we were told to take of our shoes. Then the workers and teachers gave us shoes(left and right) that do not belong to us. The theme was to show that the people in poverty do not have the chance to choose what they wear. They wear what were given to them. I received two shoes of the same sides. It wasn’t really comfortable wearing shoes that don’t fit. I saw the two people that wore my shoes were males. They couldn’t fit into my shoe. Honestly, it was a bit hilarious looking at people wearing shoes that don’t fit because we were not really in poverty.

In the second activity, we were divided into groups. We were asked to choose basic needs, such as water. We also had to fight with other groups to take the things that we needed because the the resources were limited. In poverty, the basics that you need are water and food because those are the most basic things that you need to survive. When you survive, you have to think for another way to survive. The only thing that you could think of only is survival.

Then, we had rice, about one fifth of a potato, cabbage, to big chunks of carrot and a cup of strong tea. The rice, potato and cabbage was quite delicious, but I really don’t desire the carrots and tea. Mr David mentioned that he had a friend who went to Cambodia for a month and all his friend ate for the whole month was white rice. If I had rice, potato and cabbage for a month, I think I would still be quite happy. But if I had only white rice, I think I will start to throw up on the second meal. Well, I think I’m living a really decent life. I never need to worry about finding food in order to survive. Again I think: In reality, I have food that I don’t like and I have the choice to not eat the food. But if I was in poverty, I would not care whether I liked carrots or not. I would just eat the carrots because I was starving.

In the last workshop, we were divided in families. We were in poverty and we had to make paper bags to sell the them to shopkeepers in order to make money. The money was to buy food, pay rent and schooling. The shopkeepers were quite mean and they tore some of the paper bags we made. But we were in poverty and we must sell the paper bags so we could not show our anger to shopkeepers. We had to make the shopkeepers willing to buy our paper bags. I was really shocked about what people did to sell their paper bags. Some entertained the shopkeepers, some massaged the shopkeepers, one kissed the shopkeepers’ shoes, one married the loan shark’s daughter. One of my family members even sold herself to earn money for our family. A lot of us thought of stealing paper bags from other family and stealing money too. Mr David then explained to us that in this desperate condition, you would do anything to earn money for your family to survive. I totally agree with a comment of Diep. She said that she would be embarrassed if she was in poverty; but during the game, all of us were so busy making paper bags that we did not have time to feel embarrassed. Other than that, it was also because all of us were the same. We were all in poverty.

After all these activities, I feel that I want to do something for the poor and help them. I actually thought of when I grow up, maybe I can go to one of the poor countries to help the people or help a  charity like Crossroads.But at the same time,I am also afraid of living  in a bad environment.I have a concerned too.To us that live a decent  life,should we donate our left over money to the poor and entirely not  use our money on entertainment?

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Election Day


今天是美国的election day,奥巴马赢了!
给你们看一篇我在星洲日报看到的article,我自己觉得非常不错

評論:鄭丁賢‧從奧巴馬到大馬

──它是一個右傾的保守政黨;

──它主要依賴單一族群的支持;

──它的忠誠支持者主要是年長人士;

──它的大本營是廣大的郊區和鄉區;

──它把人民分類兩類:支持它與不支持它;

──支持它就是愛國,不支持它就是不愛國;

──它推行未審訊而定罪的法律;

──它的黨內人物屢屢涉及貪污等醜聞;

──……。

別誤會,我指的是美國的共和黨,剛剛輸掉總統,輸掉參議院,失去政權的共和黨。

我是說真的,有例為證。

共和黨奉行保守主義,堅持傳統價值;它的支持者多數是年齡層偏高的白人。

它的大本營是中西部各州,從維基尼亞州到猶他州;從北達科達州到德克薩斯州;多數是農業區和傳統工業區。

它認為,支持攻打阿富汗和伊拉克就是愛國人士,愛國人士就是共和黨支持者。

它把未經審訊者,關進關塔納摩扣留營;它通過“愛國法”,限制公民的自由。

它的多位參議員和眾議員,以及官職人士,皆因貪污和性醜聞而被控告。

這個政黨,在布什領導的8年期間,操弄意識形態對立,分化美國社會,尤其是借用911事件和伊拉克戰爭,挾持民意,我行我素。

他讓美國陷入戰爭的泥沼,以及遭到金融風暴摧殘。

他只花了很短的時間,就讓美國成為受到世界人民討厭的國家。

專家學者有100個理由,說明奧巴馬何以能夠獲選;我不需要累贅的重覆這些觀點。

很簡單,共和黨的失敗,不是因為麥凱恩,而是輸在自大、冒進的布什,以及過時、保守、腐敗的共和黨思維和政策。

相對的,奧巴馬作為新時代的象徵人物,提出具有說服力的改變方向,更勾畫出美國的願景。

厭倦了布什之治的美國人,包括新生代和中間選民,為了延續自由主義,維護開放社會,以及重現美國的活力,而群起倒向奧巴馬,結束了共和黨政權。

隨我看來,這種思潮的轉變,不只發生在美國,而是存在於世界各地。許多國家的人民,都希望改變,都期待有自己的奧巴馬。

308大馬政治海嘯,在某個程度上,是基於相同的社會能量,以及源自類似的推動力。

各族人民已經厭倦種族政治,年輕選民不同意威權統治;大家期望一個更加公平、開明的政府,也催化一個自由、有活力的社會。

正如奧巴馬的動人演說:“這裡並不是白人的美國,也不是黑人、拉丁人、亞裔人的美國,只有一個美國,就是美利堅合眾國(United States of America)”。

奧巴馬並不是代表黑人或有色人種,而是代表廣大的美國人,包括白人;他不只獲得少數民族的支持,而也獲得眾多白人族群的支持。

他是真正的美國人。

馬來西亞也可能出現奧巴馬,不管他是馬來人、華人或印裔人;只要他具有包容能力、遠見和能力,他就是代表未來。

到我说话了。不错吧?他说得很有道理。我有一个表姐说:奥巴马当了美国总统,那我可以当马来西亚第一个华人首相吗?
哈哈,是我第一个反应。但是想了又想,表姐的意思让另一个种族当首相吗?就像报纸一只报道:奥巴马,美国第一个黑人首相。
黑人,白人,马来人,印度人,华人等,谁当首相或总统是看种族吗?当然,这是某些人的看法。就像鄭丁賢先生所说的:奧巴馬並不是代表黑人或有色人種,而是代表廣大的美國人。馬來西亞也可能出現奧巴馬,不管他是馬來人、華人或印裔人;只要他具有包容能力、遠見和能力,他就是代表未來。
对,不管是什么种族,只要能带给国家美好的未来,他就可以当那个国家的领导者,不是吗?
大部分的人(包括我)都有种族歧视,不管是轻微或则是严重的。我想,我要努力改过来,但这不是一天两天就能改过来的,加油吧~

王力宏和蔡依林一起拍了海伦仙度丝(head and shoulders)的广告。不过,我找不到任何资料,到底是最新的广告吗?也没有新闻或者视频,气死人了!如果有任何人知道关于这些照片,告诉我哦!

爱的练习语也出了, 记得去支持哦~书也好、英文专辑也好,都要去支持。书我还没看(>.<),所以还不知道要说什么。可是个我听了,老实说,还不错,有空去听听吧!