Chinese people celebrated every year on November 11th as the “Bachelor Day”, a day for the single people. This is not a traditional festival, but as more and more people noticed the interesting combination of the four same numbers “1”, they gave the day the meaning of being alone and single. Thought it is called “Bachelor Day”, but girls are in too, hey, couldn’t they celebrate too? You might ask: why do you celebrate for being single? Wouldn’t it be nicer if people find their soulmates? Well, they are not actually celebrating, just taking the chance to pause and look forward, or just feel a little released to find so many others haven’t meet their partners, too. Yesterday, the lengendary November 11st,2011, was called “Golden Bachelor Day”. It’s once in a lifetime! It’s quite amusing to find that everybody, including the married ones, is going out to celebrate. What are they doing? No reason. Just for the sake of spending one magical day that will never happen in their lifetime.Shopping malls are on discount, the prices are amazingly down, what a surprise! It’s all because of the NUMBERS!! What happened yesterday in your country?
Moss: “Yes you do, you just used a double negative.
Here’s the headline news I read today: In the city of Foshan, Guangdong Province in China,a two-year-old girl Yueyue was hit and ran over by two cars and left there lying in the street with the lower part of her body severely injured. A few minutes later, she was ran over by a truck and the pain aggravated even more. It is reported that within 7minutes, 18 people passed her by but no one wants to help. She was rescued by a cleaning woman and sent to the hospital. Unfortunately, the doctor had announced her brain death. The news aroused a storm around the country; there are discussions on the internet from morning till now about the lack of compassion. But when the question “would you help her if you were there” were raised, everyone remain silence. It is known that most people in China, especially the well-educated ones, are told to always mind their own business. The compassion issue remains a very serious problem in China. Here’s an insightful article concerning compassion wriiten by Tom Mach. In his new blog, he mentioned a similiar case happened in China, and the ways to deal with it. http://www.tommach.com/2011/10/
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by John Updike
When Sharon first heard the rumor that Frank had left her she had to laugh, for, far from having left her, there he was, right in the lamplit study with her, ripping pages out of ARTnews.
There’s a very popular TV show in China about a young lady working in the big company travels to the past (Qing Dynasty) after she had a car crash and became unconscious. It’s basically a love story, especially when the lady becomes one of the members of the royal family; she falls in love with the crown prince and so does he. I am fascinated with the story—not the love plot—but the idea of time travelling. I am pretty sure if a movie has something to do with time travel, then it would be my favorite. Back to the Future, I love all three of them. I was obsessed the first time I saw it. The idea of going back to 1955, amazing! If there’s chance for me to choose what time do I want to travel to, I’ll choose—let me see—the year 2020! I’d like to see what I would become in 9 years’ time. This idea just came into my mind: perhaps there are several versions of myself, at some point my future self came to me in disguise—and stop me from doing something that could have caused disastrous consequences. Have you ever been in a situation that no matter how you tried, you just cannot do what you meant to do? For example you’d like to go to a bar, but there’s heavy rains lasted for hours, you couldn’t catch a taxi no matter how. After a while, your passion died down and you didn’t want to go anymore. Maybe it’s your future self preventing you from doing it, he or she knows there’s trouble waiting for you. This is also what “Back to the Future” told us about. Not long ago, some European scientist had claimed that they discovered the velocity of neutrino is faster than the velocity of light, which denies the theory of relativity, proving that time travel is possible in the future. If it’s true, what will everything be like in the future? Could the history be rewritten? Once we see our future, can the future still be the future that used to be? The idea of time travel enlightened me in at least one way, and here it is: the future is forever indecisive; we have got every minute in our hand to alter it. If it’s impossible for us to change anything bad in the past, it’s with all the possibilities for us to make things look better in the future.
I did have nightmares once in a while, but I couldn’t seem to remember any of them at the moment. I can still remind of the horrible feelings that I had. But what was in the dream? I would never know. I didn’t remember most of my dreams, even the good ones. I had a lot of dreams at nights if I was busy in the days. It’s been said that too much dreams will affect the sleep quality, but it was fine with me I think. I can still be energetic in daytime even if I had very complicated dreams. Sometimes I wish there’s a “dream-reader” machine beside my bed that can record what I had dreamt about while I was sleeping. How fun! If it’s invented, I must read the recording paper, maybe I can write a science fiction out of this. The best dream I had is probably being together with someone I love. I don’t quite remember the person I was with in my dreams, but I am pretty sure I spent a great time in my dreams, because I woke up with a big smile.
After seeing the movie inception, I began to picture what happens if an idea can really be incepted. That’s a lot to think about! Anyway, I was fascinated by Chris Nolan who came up with such an amazing idea of what happened inside dreams.
What’s your idea about dreams?
Sometime it’s an excuse, sometimes not.
Sounds horrible. Can I get a third chance?
