Jan.1st or Christmas may signify a completely new year for people other than most of us Chinese. In our tradition, the coming of Spring Festival is the authentical signal of beginning a new year.
After an hour or so, we will embrace the true new year of ourselves, and I am, half serene, half excited. Well, it's a complex feeling hard to express. Here and now, above all, I'd like to make some wishes:
I hope my parents will be very healthy through the year, and hope they can do any things quite smoothly.
I hope I myself will get a satisfactory high score in the important examination, and pass a happy, colorful and smooth year.
星期六, 二月 17, 2007
Tori is back
Although I have nearly trawled through the whole internet and found completely nothing new about Tori, it is said that Tori will release a new album in around April. Anyway, that's really a thrill to me!
Tori Amos is my favorite alternative rock singer, or rather, artist, who can be my true spiritual idol for the field of music. I think I am born to be enthralled by her original music. Some would say that she was backward in her last two albums. After all, Tori is Tori, her first album little earthquakes suffices to engrave her name in my brain for all my life. What kind of talent it is! Sometimes the flame of talent may become eclipsed a little, yet the talent is always there, some day in the due course, it would restart to shine magnificant glory.
Tori told the press that the new album would exhibit a more warrior side of her. Some was very glad to predict that the true Tori would be back. In their eyes, "true Tori" means a music style that is more aggressive and less mundane(or rather, less secular). Something like what was revealed in little earthquakes and from the choirgirl hotel, the contrary of which is her last album beekeeper. Admittedly, I prefer the former to the latter, but I have learned not to impose too high an expectation on a singer. Whether music should cater to the need of audience or rather that of artists themselves is a contentious question. I'd rather believe that she merely wanted to try making some different things, ones that can satisfy herself or her heart as belonging to a liberal artist.
For all that which may display my tolerance to the singer and music I am crazy about, I am as disirous as are those longing for a "true Tori" to greet a more particular new album from Tori in this coming new year. A beautiful year. And Tori would be one of the strokes for the colors of the year.
星期二, 二月 13, 2007
Whoever can settle the problem of Chinese can receive the Nobel Prize
The mass of Chinese, from the immemorial past up until the recent modern time, seem almost always to have spared their efforts contemplating the conception of liberty, equality and fraternity, or anything like that. That's a big frustrating fact, isn't it?
While most of us are making our big dreams, gaping at the welfare democracy has brought to and enjoyed by the westerners thereof, seldom dare we become any more bullish about our own future. "We have too complicated a history!" "We have too bulky a population nearly uncurbed!" Boasting a long-standing history, more often, does not deserve taking that much pride in. We have, time and time again, attributed to our 5000-year history those unsettled issues emerging over underdevelopment to unscrupulousness.
As a matter of fact, we might several times in those turbulent cascades of our history all but approach the glory of democracy. Yet due to various reasons, that glory soon fizzled out. Progress of Chinese nation well resembles, the zigzag Great Wall, so to speak. We are not certain whether the Great Wall means grandeur or rather closure, nor are we secure about whether our fabric of society would indeed bring to us what the founders of her pledged to do in the first place, or not. Why can we not like those western nations - or nearer, like our neighbor Japan - building up a truly democratic nation through successful reforms, no matter through a seismic one or piecemeal ones? Why can't belief of liberty ever take strong hold on this massive land? These sphinx riddles, allow me to say, worth each and every Nobel candidate's inexorable thinking.
I have been reading Democracy in America these days. Some sentences delineating germs of America really grabbed my heart：Religion is no less the companion of liberty in all its battles and its triumphs; the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law and the surest pledge of freedom. The law, the mores, and anything related to that could hark back to one thing, that is, religion. It is religion that solace those people's hearts, making them look on the bright side of things. It is religion that preachs to them virtues of love, equality and freedom. It is religion that always constricts and monitors their conscience.
Looking back on ourselves, it is quite natural and reasonable in my eye now to associate our underdevelopment and unscrupulousness with dearth of religion among us. We don't have any creeds - like those derived from Holy Bible - to guide us. We are facing with the blank slate to draw our life, for many of us are confused about the meaning of life. We are like straying lambs. We are easily misled diametrically to a dreadful direction. We are often unconsciously hurled into dark holes of moral degeneration. We are totally unaware of what a vital importance liberty has attached to human beings' life.
Buddhism has not become our common religion yet, nor has Taoism, needless to say Christianity(although the influence of it has become more and more considerable, which is however a good message for us). Religion stands for belief; though it is not the entire content of belief, it is indeed the most manifest of that. Only with a belief of substance can we Chinese finally solve those irksome social problems, ones which have been deeply ingrained.
But before achieving that goal of belief, who can tell me what kind of religion can be authentically taken up by unqualified majority of Chinese people?
While most of us are making our big dreams, gaping at the welfare democracy has brought to and enjoyed by the westerners thereof, seldom dare we become any more bullish about our own future. "We have too complicated a history!" "We have too bulky a population nearly uncurbed!" Boasting a long-standing history, more often, does not deserve taking that much pride in. We have, time and time again, attributed to our 5000-year history those unsettled issues emerging over underdevelopment to unscrupulousness.
As a matter of fact, we might several times in those turbulent cascades of our history all but approach the glory of democracy. Yet due to various reasons, that glory soon fizzled out. Progress of Chinese nation well resembles, the zigzag Great Wall, so to speak. We are not certain whether the Great Wall means grandeur or rather closure, nor are we secure about whether our fabric of society would indeed bring to us what the founders of her pledged to do in the first place, or not. Why can we not like those western nations - or nearer, like our neighbor Japan - building up a truly democratic nation through successful reforms, no matter through a seismic one or piecemeal ones? Why can't belief of liberty ever take strong hold on this massive land? These sphinx riddles, allow me to say, worth each and every Nobel candidate's inexorable thinking.
I have been reading Democracy in America these days. Some sentences delineating germs of America really grabbed my heart：Religion is no less the companion of liberty in all its battles and its triumphs; the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law and the surest pledge of freedom. The law, the mores, and anything related to that could hark back to one thing, that is, religion. It is religion that solace those people's hearts, making them look on the bright side of things. It is religion that preachs to them virtues of love, equality and freedom. It is religion that always constricts and monitors their conscience.
Looking back on ourselves, it is quite natural and reasonable in my eye now to associate our underdevelopment and unscrupulousness with dearth of religion among us. We don't have any creeds - like those derived from Holy Bible - to guide us. We are facing with the blank slate to draw our life, for many of us are confused about the meaning of life. We are like straying lambs. We are easily misled diametrically to a dreadful direction. We are often unconsciously hurled into dark holes of moral degeneration. We are totally unaware of what a vital importance liberty has attached to human beings' life.
Buddhism has not become our common religion yet, nor has Taoism, needless to say Christianity(although the influence of it has become more and more considerable, which is however a good message for us). Religion stands for belief; though it is not the entire content of belief, it is indeed the most manifest of that. Only with a belief of substance can we Chinese finally solve those irksome social problems, ones which have been deeply ingrained.
But before achieving that goal of belief, who can tell me what kind of religion can be authentically taken up by unqualified majority of Chinese people?
星期四, 二月 08, 2007
That's the kind of boy I like
My best friend Hui said to me last week: "I don't miss him that much now."
"Well, that might mean nothing more than the fact that you two just calm your passion now." I impersonally replied to her.
"Maybe. But I guess we two just don't match, in others'eye, as well as in my eye now."
"I know, but you didn't think like this before..."
"Yeah, he is too playful, you know. I am kind of assiduous, at least I'm fully aware of enterprise."
The rub between Hui and her boyfriend, dormant under their euphoria in the first place, finally presented itself to them.
If I were her, I wouldn't land my self in such a plight. But what then? Love is, in so plenty of time, categorically so magical a power that can deprive of you normal IQ to make a sober decision objectively.
Think before leap. Anyway, mindful of this, those who has fallen in love.
For the part of me, I think I'm not in the age that can afford exuberant romance and capriciousness without outlining a further plan. I mean, I'm no longer a high school girl.
I can hardly not associate romantic relationship with marriage in the future. Call me old-fashioned or conservative or something like that, I'm just not so energetic to have my Mr. Right changed one after one, dissipating a rather considerable part of my time - or rather, my life - in that repeated and perhaps misleading course.
I demand merely one person to be loved by me, the one that can be my true soul mate.
Harboring the similar set of values towards life - this is my most fundamental requirement for my own relationship.
I, like Hui, cannot tolerate the one I love lacking diligence. If a boy tends to idle away much of his time and thinking little of his future as well as his due responsibility, even though he has hit me with a fantastic first impression, the more I'm with him, the more I can't tolerate. I would, very likely, get really weary of him, which, so much so that could relentlessly tear his previously attractive image to shreds.
In my university, I have had enough of those playful, idle, and superficial boys. Sometimes, I even feel apprehensive for them. How can they not consider how to embrace the grave challenges that would confront them in the near future? How can they not be urged by the responsibilities for their family? How can they pour money strokes after strokes when they even can't fend for themselves? Even if he were born in an influential family, I wouldn't count on him if he couldn't be aspiring.
I had a half-year reunion with several pals of my high school the other day. When talking with the boys, I couldn't help saying to myself: wow, that's really what a boy I like should be! There can't be any friends in my college ranking higer than they in my heart. I once again got to know, what undergirds our relationships as solidly as ever before is that we are all aspiring about our life and that we are all longing to be responsible for those who we love who we cherish.
Never engulfed by decadence, always aspiring and animated to be better off. Yeah, that's the kind of boy I like, whether as a lover or merely a good friend. That's the kind of person who I can spend my life with and who can be heartening to enrich my life!
"Well, that might mean nothing more than the fact that you two just calm your passion now." I impersonally replied to her.
"Maybe. But I guess we two just don't match, in others'eye, as well as in my eye now."
"I know, but you didn't think like this before..."
"Yeah, he is too playful, you know. I am kind of assiduous, at least I'm fully aware of enterprise."
The rub between Hui and her boyfriend, dormant under their euphoria in the first place, finally presented itself to them.
If I were her, I wouldn't land my self in such a plight. But what then? Love is, in so plenty of time, categorically so magical a power that can deprive of you normal IQ to make a sober decision objectively.
Think before leap. Anyway, mindful of this, those who has fallen in love.
For the part of me, I think I'm not in the age that can afford exuberant romance and capriciousness without outlining a further plan. I mean, I'm no longer a high school girl.
I can hardly not associate romantic relationship with marriage in the future. Call me old-fashioned or conservative or something like that, I'm just not so energetic to have my Mr. Right changed one after one, dissipating a rather considerable part of my time - or rather, my life - in that repeated and perhaps misleading course.
I demand merely one person to be loved by me, the one that can be my true soul mate.
Harboring the similar set of values towards life - this is my most fundamental requirement for my own relationship.
I, like Hui, cannot tolerate the one I love lacking diligence. If a boy tends to idle away much of his time and thinking little of his future as well as his due responsibility, even though he has hit me with a fantastic first impression, the more I'm with him, the more I can't tolerate. I would, very likely, get really weary of him, which, so much so that could relentlessly tear his previously attractive image to shreds.
In my university, I have had enough of those playful, idle, and superficial boys. Sometimes, I even feel apprehensive for them. How can they not consider how to embrace the grave challenges that would confront them in the near future? How can they not be urged by the responsibilities for their family? How can they pour money strokes after strokes when they even can't fend for themselves? Even if he were born in an influential family, I wouldn't count on him if he couldn't be aspiring.
I had a half-year reunion with several pals of my high school the other day. When talking with the boys, I couldn't help saying to myself: wow, that's really what a boy I like should be! There can't be any friends in my college ranking higer than they in my heart. I once again got to know, what undergirds our relationships as solidly as ever before is that we are all aspiring about our life and that we are all longing to be responsible for those who we love who we cherish.
Never engulfed by decadence, always aspiring and animated to be better off. Yeah, that's the kind of boy I like, whether as a lover or merely a good friend. That's the kind of person who I can spend my life with and who can be heartening to enrich my life!
星期四, 二月 01, 2007
It happened one night
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert are both so pretty!
It has been a long time since I saw a movie like this. A stereotype love story though, the greatest charm lies in the vivid, live, and lovely images the characters had conveyed to me. I love the wits and considerateness of Gable, and Miss Colbert was really adorable, just like a pure young girl.
This is perhaps the most wonderful black-and-white movie I have ever seen, I guess.
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