I couldn't get this world

Yesterday I had an IM conversation with John. He sent me a link to the website The Onion, "It's satiric and funny." "Good." I alway enjoy reading these styles, so I thought I would like it with 100 percent certainty. " But it's kinda difficult, too many cultural things,you may be not ready yet..." John said. "Why not ?", at that moment, I didn't know what he was talking about, and I was still SURE that I could understand any English websites without big problems. And then I was there, the Front Page of The Onion. I looked through it, for the first 30 seconds, I didn't find anything funny, " What it's so funny? Where are they?" I was curious. "You have to be patient, and some are difficult." John said. Keeping stubborn and impatient, I asked John to pick some news that he thought I might understand. I got two VERY FUNNY picks from him soon. One is "Child Abuse: How Much Is Too Much?" ( picture news, in the right of front page). The other is "Hand - Transplant Surgery". Starting with that picture, I kept staring at it for more than 2 minutes, but didn't get anything. Then I tried to read that news, but ended up the same --I was totally lost even though knew every single words there. I began to doubt my intelligence and reading skills , so I asked John for help. After his patient explaination, finally, I got them. I got them ,finally, and I started to realise the meaning of "cultural" and " not ready yet". Yes, John is exactly right, I'm not ready yet, I'll probably never be ready if I'm staying here for the rest of my life. The problem it's not the language itself , but the humours of The Onion lying behind the words that I cannot detect at all. That's because I have little knowledge of American culture and society. All I've known is just a little bit , but I can't really get into that culture and humour.
It reminds me of some other things. Comparing to normal Chinese , I'm a pretty "expert" on music and movies. But I'm not that good , not at all. Though I love them, what I've known is still a fraction, I wasn't grown up with these music and movies, and my degree of understanding them is far from fully appreciation.
Internet enables us to communicate with people all over the entire globe. I chat online sometimes.From Internet, I can hit it off with a stranger living another corner of the world in few minutes. But eventually, the conversations will wind up running out of topics. When people first meet, we are always curious about each other . Later, the chatting will be becoming harder and harder as we've already discussed some common topics. It's not easy to close to someone without fully touching his/her culture or life.I'm a bad talker who is struggling for squeezing the words, and I just feel they don't care about or intersted in who I am at all. They probably get bored by my ignorance of their culture. Chatting with strangers is passing time, chatting with strangers is wasting time.

I couldn't get the world, but at least I can get China, thinking in this way makes me feel better. But no, it's NOT ture -- I couldn't do that either.
Another story happened the same day. I got a book " Dictionary of Mordern chinese Slang" from Ryan last week, what I need to do is to pick the useful Chinese word I know, easy job. When I looked through the book for the first time, I found I only know 30 percent words there, I couldn't help laughting at the one who wrote that book," What a geek, he's listing so many unknown and useless words that Chinese couldn't understand. But soon I reaslised I was wrong, and the real geek is me. I took this book to last morning's class, there were 3 guys sitting in front of me who happened to be from Beijing. I handed the book to them, to my surprise, they knew most slangs on that book, and they all liked that book . " How could such things happen, are you sure you know these words?!" I asked them. " Of course, they're used a lot in northern China. Everyone there knows these words." " Nothern China. " No wonder I don't know. I've never stayed in the north and I don't have any friends from there.I have little knowledge about that part of China, stupid. I am chinese, but I cannot understand Chinese (zhong wen), I feel sort of bad about it. What's worse, the language is not the only problem of mine, I don't have enough knowlege towards many other things as well : classic novels, Chinese pop muisc, TV shows, traditional values...Though I don't regret the time I've been spending on somewhere else, it's no good for living this society.

Then I turned out to be a freak, I don't really know much about China, and I don't know too much about the other cultures outside. I'm mixed with everything a little bit , ending up knownig nothing deeply.
I have hard time finding places I can fit in, and I just feel I don't belong to anywhere.I've met tons of nice people who I can make friends with,but few of them become my friends.I can't stand being with people who like what I dislike.I can't stand keeping the relationship with someone who can't share my feelings and interests.I can't stand hanging out with bunch of people, ending up in a Karaoke house or playing poker all day. (two most popular recreation in this town).
And I guess they can't stand me either, I am weird, impatient, shameless,untalanted,self-righteous,imuture,abrupt...in other words, I'm not a nice person.I don't want to argue with that,it always takes time to get to know the inner self of someone, plus I don't have any self-conscious and don't care what others think of me .But only one thing I want to say is I'm not aloof , exclusive or anthing like that.I need friends, and I believe I can be a pretty good friend of someone I want to be with. However, I haven't met they yet, and they haven't found we either, this world is too big to get true friends.I'm still alone, and pretty content myself with my own world.

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My computer died on me !
Now I'm at a Internet cafe to finish the left parts. The loudspeaker here is playing TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE music, I'm in hell. My computer couldn't boot; I know nothing about how to fix it. I made phone calls to the computer company, after 1 hours and 13 minutes constant dialing, they picked up my phone call and promised to come some other time, but not sure when . Since I don't expect on their efficiency, I figure I cannot come back in a short time, hope it will be fixed soon.

CET 6 & English Learning in China

CET-6 is the most ridiculous exam I've taken for my whole life. Though it's considered as the most important and advanced national English test for Chinese college students, it doesn't mean anything to me. The test was taken on yesterday morning, when I first got the paper, I couldn't help chuckling, and this pleasant feeling was around me for the rest 2 boring hours. You know why, because the examination paper is printed in green! I've never ever seen any exam paper printed in green, not to mention expecting this color to appear in such a serious exam. If I can pass the exam, the paper designer is the first person I should thank to, my final score would be enhanced at least 20 points by this friendly color.

Back to the test, as any other formal English exams I've been taking for more than 10 years, it consists of listening, reading, vocabulary, and writing parts.
Since I'm writing at the moment, let's see the writing part first. The title of the essay is ''It pays to be honesty''. I have 30 minutes to write an essay on this topic, but it has to based on the outline given below .
1.There are many dishonest people in our society, listing some of them.
2.Conclusion: Dishonesty is bad, we should be honest, to be honesty is good to everyone.
3.That's it.

I was really disappointed to see the topic like this."Oh, not again!" Always the topics like "We should be like this, we should be that" or some big issues like education, economy, the meaning of life... Why not try something new and interesting. They don't give us a chance to think differently at all! Our creativity and imagination are killed by the exams like this. I was mad, I was blank, and I had no motivation to write at all. Taking the risk of getting the extreme low score, I deiced to write something out of outlines. And I did. And I don't worry at all.(remember that 20 points gained by the green print ? that's why I'm not worried ).I hate what our teachers have taught us in school -- How to write perfect essays? Simple, buy a book full of perfect essays, memorize them, and use them. Never write something out of these two typical structures : " First...Second...Third..." ; "Some think this is good...Others thinks think is bad...I think, well, we should look at both good side and bad side..." And don't forget to use some magical words like "as far as I concerned", " in my opinion", " I'm in favour of", "assembly " , " on the one hand... on the other hand"... From this point, writing is just one part of the exam, and the reason for writing is to get a better score rather than express something we care.

Reading
There're four passages in this part. The passages are so boring that I'll never read anything like that outside of the classroom. For preparing this exam, some diligent students have read hundreds of articles like these. I admire them, I can't do it though. So many other interesting things to read are out there, there's no reason for us to limit ourselves to read the articles printed on the exam paper. The purpose for reading is getting the information we want or enjoying the contents we're interested in, not pushing ourselves to reading something we dislike to improve our reading skills.

As for dealing with the exam, actually I don't need to understand the passages , all I need to do is to search for certain information and decide on the best choice for the questions based on the passages. Plus, I still have 25 percent chance to get the answers right even I don't take a look at the passages at all . This "guessing strategy" was fully used this time. I was getting bored by these passages, and I really missed my favourite column Savage Love...

Listening
Again, this part is focsing on choosing the right anwers rather than understand the dialogues played from the radio.
Some questions are unbelievable easy: ( believe me, these examples are from preview tests)
e.g. Woman : Excuse me, how much is this book?
Man : 20 RMB
Q : Where did that dialogue take place ?
a. Bookstore
b. Barbershop
c. Toilet
d. McDonald's

Some questions are so tricky that my IQ is too low to give the right answer.
e.g.
Jack: What would you like to do tonight?
Lucy:Have you seen "Star Wars" ?
Q: What does Lucy imply?
a. She wants to see a film ( the right answer ?)
b.She wants to go somewhere else. ( Lucy : I want to buy a set of costume of the movie. Could you go with me? )
c. She wants to go to a concert. ( Lucy : It sucks, let's go to a concert)
d. She wants to watch TV. ( Lucy : " star wars" will be on Channel 5 tonight, let's stay at home. )
Which one should I choose ?

For yesterday's test, listening is the easier part to me. But just because I can get a high scores in that section, doesn't mean my listening ability is good or anything. All the listening practises we've done in our English classes are stupid, here's how they work : The teacher takes a heavy recorder to class, playing the short dialogues from the tapes. The students listen carelly, try to pick the key words (the tip we've learned) from the dialogues,and make a choose from A,B,C,D. Then we check the right answers, when it's done, the class is over. The contents of the tapes are outdated and boring, the classes are useless, and the students are the victims of such classes.

I just looked back to see what I've written and realised that I've already written too much today. So I'll stop here, later on I'll write more on learning English, Chinese education system, Chinese students.

Movie Titles

I love movies.

When English movie titles are translated into Chinese, some are following the pronunciation, some are pretty literal, and others are just ridiculous and don't make any sences at all, here are some titles from the last category:
( " * " link to IMDB, some movies may have alternative titles, the ones listed here are used more )

* The Shawshank Redemption
-- The Exciting 1995 ( ci ji 1995 )
* Jackie brown
-- The Dangerous Relationship ( wei xian guan xi )
* The English Patient
-- Don't Ask Who I Am (bie wen wo shi shei )
* As Good As It Gets
-- Mr. Cats' Shit ( mao shi xian sheng )
* Out Of Sight
-- The Expert Of Strategy (zhan lue gao shou )
* Charlie's Angels
-- Lightning Cutie ( pi li tian shi )
* Me, Myself & Irene
-- One Head That Is As Big As Two ( yi ge tou liang ge da )
* Fargo
-- Moisturizing Lotion Murder ( xue hua gao li qi ming an )
* Gone with the Wind
-- The Beauty in Trouble Times ( luan shi jia ren )
* What Women Want
-- 100 Percent Man ( nan ren bai fen bai )
* Mission: Impossible
-- Spy in Spy ( die zhong die )
* What's Eating Gilbert Grape
-- Different Sky ( bu yi yang de tian kong )
* Thelma & Louise
-- The Crazy Flower At The End Of The Road ( mo lu kuang hua )
* The Mexican
-- The Dangerous Lovers ( wei xian qing ren )
* Erin Brockovich
-- Never Give Up ( yong bu tuo xie )
* Legends of the Fall
-- The Flaming Times ( ran qing sui yue )
* In the Bedroom
-- The Incestuous Love ( luan lun zhi lian )
* Top Gun
-- Lofty Ideal Above The Clouds ( zhuang zhi lin yun )
* Don Juan DeMarco
-- This Guy Is Sexy ( zhe ge nan ren you dian se )
* The Big Lebowski
-- Murdering the Green Toes ( mou sha lv jiao zhi )

Do you want to join Chinese Communist Party? Why or why not?

I did a survey in my university last week. The survey question is "Do you want to join China Communist Party ? Why or why not?" I've got 104 answers (with reasons written down), the result is : 44 percent of students chose "YES", and 56 percent chose "NO". Here are some of their thoughts. ( these thoughts are unorganized, but they're pretty authentic )

NO
I don't believed in communism at all.

I wanna be an outsider of CCP, who can view China with clearer and more insightful eyes.

I have nothing to do with so-called noble and great cause which communists believe , I don’t deserve the words like that

I'm thinking about going aboard, being a communist probably hampers the process of getting the visa.

I'm not interested in politics, I can't fit in the circle like that.

People join the Party only for the sake of themselvs, I don't have any motivation to do so.

I have no interested in politics. We should spend the money on more meaningful projects, rather than controlling the ideology.

The Party is dark, corrupt, boring, and bureaucratic.

Why should I join the Party when there’re no special reasons for me to do so?

If you wanna keep cool, be away from CCP.

I love freedom, don’t want to be tied by what I dislike.

The confident of my life is not based on whether I'm a communist or not.

I hate having meetings all the time or being chained by rules, communist party seems love meetings and rules, I don’t think I can stand them.

YES
Joining the CCP is beneficial for finding a better job in the future.

There is no better way to express my belief rather than joining the Party.

Many people persuade me to join the Party,I figure it’s not too bad to try a new thing.

It's not easy to join , I want to give it a try as a challenge to myself.

Communism is always my belief.

I just love this party.

I want to experience the feelings of being a communist, I'm curious about how other people will see me after I'm in Party.

Since CCP has given China the significant changes all these years, I think the mainstream of them are good, I want to be one of them.

I'll make the decision after I’m getting to know more about CCP.

I joined the Party in my high school. My high school teacher encouraged me a lot, he’s a real communist.At that time I just felt pretty honored. Later, I realized I also need to take more responsibilities and be stricter to myself.Because In other people’s eyes, Communist should be better in any ways, so in order to not let anyone down, I should work harder.

They just put my name on the list without my permission.

I've been influenced by my parents since I was a kid, both of them are communists.

Music and Internet

China is an evil place for music, that's for sure. You know what I'm talking about if you're living here.If not, please believe me, I'm suffering from it for more than 20 years. The fresh information and resources of music are too little.But eventually,and luckily, Internet's saved me from the hell. I'm eager for good music.Here are some of my experiences of how to get good music from Internet. (You've probably known them well, allow me to repeat them again. I wish more people here can share these information, and if you know more, please please please tell us!)

<1>Downloading
1.KaZaA Media Desktop ----the most powerful and popular MP3 Search Tool
2.Other MP3 Search Tools ----It links to Download.com, these P2P applications are ranked by downloads total. I'm using iMesh and BearShare besides KaZaA

(A Question : What do you think of the future of KaZaA and MP3 downloading? -- please let me know what you think)

<2>Websites ----If you need to download some Chinese music which are not easy to find in KaZaA, I suggest going to some music sites directly, here are some sites I often go to(in Chinese) :
Sogua.com---providing several links to each song
Music.269.net----the downloading speed is pretty good,
China MP3----lots of music, but too many dead links
Music.tyfo.com---- too busy sometimes

<2> Internet Radio ( I know there are tons of radio stations on Internet, just list some here, please tell me more good ones you're listening to)
1.Radio Stations from some major music websites (many stations there, commercial free, no DJs)
MSN Music Radio Stations
Winamp Radio Stations
Netscape Radio Stations
LAUNCHcast Radio
...

2.Streaming Audio Tools ( playing music from applications)
Spinner ---more than 175 stations
Others----from download.com
...
3.Windows Media Player, RealOne Player, Winamp...are huge sources for music stations, taking some time to find good ones though
...

4.Other good music stations broadcasting online
KEXP----It's great! I stop listenning any other stations since I got to know this station from Ryan.And the best show is "Variety Mix - John in the Morning" (Hey, if you're from Morning Faithful, please leave a comment here to tell us how great this show is)
...

<3>MTV and other videos (interviews, live performances...)
Getmusic Video Achieves
Rollingstone.com
Launch Video
Netscape Music videos
...

<4>Recommendations
I'm desperate for good music. Internet helps me to find these music, but first I need to know which ones are good. So please tell me more information you know, thanks a lot !

<5>Pirate CDs in China
Priate CDs take control of most of the market here, but it's not our fault----We have no other choices at all. There're just few good authentic CDs can be found here. I'm interested in searching for pirate CDs, DVDs...Welcome everyone in Hangzhou exchange these information with me.(for instance, where to buy)

Top 10 most well-known western singers/bands in China

Backstreet Boys
Hi boys, it seems you're having a hard time there, after all ,when over 30, jumping around and keeping cool are not as easy as 10 years ago.But let me tell you some good news-- you're still the top "boys" in China, surprised ,aren't you? Anyway, Nick Carter, I know you're not that old, and just released your solo album. Here is the question for you, what the hell you're doing in your newest two MTV--holding the guitar all the time (even in the lonely desert), but not play it at all!----Wait, sorry I'm wrong---- I do see you pretending to strum a little bit, let me tell you something, there's a better guitar player here in China, and her name is Leylop.

Mariah Carey
Hello Mrs. Mariah Carey, please do not go nuts before considering my suggestion: China is a potential market for you to take back what you've lost in past few years in America because you're still popular here .How about moving to China and singing in Chinese ? You could be our pop queen! But you have to learn Chinese well first. Difficult to learn? Don't worry, I'm thinking about opening a Chinese learning school (check out my survey), you could be my first student, for free,but there is one rule you have to follow: get rid of your terrible dresses.

The Beatles
You're the great band deserved to be respected all over the world . John Lennon and George Harrison, can you hear me from somewhere?

Michael Jackson
MJ, you know what I miss most of you? I'll never forget that big smile when you're a kid, who could ever predict that lovely boy in Jackson 5 would turn himself into a monster when growing up?

N'SYNC
Mr. N'SYNC, has anyone tell you guys your Chinese name yet? No? OK, let me tell you something you should really be proud of : your Chinese name are "chao ji nan hai " which means SUPER BOYS. Awesome, huh?

The Carpenters
"Yesterday Once More" , this song is being played as the greatest Western hit over and over again everywhere, horrible, horrible, listening to it just like watching paint drying, wait, even worse, has anybody ever seen the movie "A Clockwork Orange", known how Beethoven"s symphony driving that poor guy crazy? If you want to torture me like that, just play "Yesterday Once More" for me.

Britney Spears
Hi sweetie, you know how we call you in China? You're not Britney Spears, but xiao tian tian (It means little sweetie). Your adorable face makes up for your music talents, which works out perfectly in China too----but don't be too excited about it, there's another way to call the girl like you in Chinese, that's "hua ping" (vase) which means shallow and superficial girl--and you're definitely the most famous hua pin on this planet.

Celine Dion
Lady, your fame in China has been growing fast since that cliched movie "Titanic". Karaoke house is one of the most popular hangout for young people here, and your "My heart will go on" is the biggest hit among all English songs. Hey, you really should come here sometimes, I bet you'll feel even better to your "angel" voice and totally forget the fact that you can't write your own music at all when hearing how terrible other peoples voices are when singing your song. Oh,one more thing:do not forget keeping holding your arm widely over your head and closing your eyes when singing .That's a real awe.

Westlife
You guys are doing just fine here. But since teen Teen Pop are kind of out of date, just by dancing and vocal are hard to keep your popularity here. Why not picking up some instruments ? Even if you can't , pretend you do. Check out Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton...these chicks all can play instruments who are leading the newest pop music.

Spice Girls
I'm afraid to tell you that you're almost out now, but considering your efforts to teen pop--the most popular music in China, you're still staying in this Top list. Bony Victoria, I think you'll be much safer if you didn't married such a famous guy.

Chinese Paintings

I went to Shanghai yesterday, there is a special exhibition "National Treasures of Paintings and calligraphy from the Jin,Tang,Sons and Yuan Dynasties" in Shanghai Museum.( sorry, only in Chinese).In their words, it's the biggest Chinese painting and calligraphy exhibition in past 50 years.

The huge crowds attracted by this exhibition. Then you have to wait, wait, wait: getting the ticket-- 1 to 2 hours, taking a close look at this painting---3 or 4 hours. The show is awesome, but the long time waiting is frustrating.

Free leaflets are handed out there which are about Ancient Chinese jade, calligraphy, ceramics, bronzes, furniture, sculpture, paintings(11 pages in all)...I grabbed 10 copies for each. If you are interested, leave message here, I can sent them to you. Also, let me know if you want to know more information about this exhibition. (*the exhibition will be ended on 6th January).

The differences between Chinese painting and Western paintings:
1.Chinese paintings are mostly indirect in its message, impressionistic in perception and relatively simple with details. Color was not important; there wasn't light and shadow, no three-dimensional perspective, and no strong, personal brushwork. Western paintings are usually more direct in its message, realistic in perception and intense with details .

2. Western painters depend on nature. But for Chinese painters, it is just a reference. Not many people sketch. They go back to the studio and paint from their imagination. They rearrange it by themselves. There is always a title to tell you where this view comes from, but it's actually not important. The place is not important: what's important is the painting. When you're making the image of a mountain,it's a kind of freedom you don't have to make exactly a mountain.

Here are some websites about Chinese art:
National Palace Museum(English)--great site, except the music, I just can't stand adding terrible music to the website
Classic Chinese Painting (English)--it's a simple site, but you can take a look at some pictures very easily.
China gallery(Chinese)
GG-Art (Chinese)

And these are little introduction about Chinese painting styles (source from Shanghai museum)
Figure paintingIt includes portraits, story painting and genre painting with figures as the main subject. Lines are the key point in the portrayal.
Landscape paintingChinese landscape paintings can be divided into blue-and-green landscape ,gold-and-green landscape, light-purple-red landscape and water ink landscape according to the colors that used in painting. The one without outlines is called boneless landscape.
Flower and bird paintingFlowers,rocks birds are usually the main subject of this kind of paintings. Technically, there are elaborate style with colors and free style with ink.
Court painting It refers to the works done by those professional painters employed by the royal court, or imitations of their words by other painters. This kind of painting is usually very elaborate and meticulous, sumptuous and decorative.
Literati paintingIt generally refers to the paintings done by intellectuals and officials, who usually took painting as a kind of their spiritual sustenance, emphasizing more the scholarly execution of brush strokes and ink colors in expression than painting's likeness to real images.
Dan Qing (traditional Chinese painting) The Chinese water ink painting actually developed from early contour?lines with fill-in colors?painting. ?i>Dan Qing?literally means the mineral colors of cinnabar and azurite that used in those early paintings. So, people today use this term for the traditional Chinese paining.
Free style paintingIn comparison with the elaborate and meticulous painting, the execution of free style painting is done with more free and bold brush strokes.

If you're get bored by what I've been talking about, let's move on something interesting.There's another show called "Third Shanghai Biennale" .in Shanghai Art Museum (in Chinese) which I enjoyed much better than the first exhibition.(there is another reason though). The report says, "It was believed to be the biggest contemporary international art event in China so far. The art forms were much more varied, including paintings, multi-media, installation, video art, and conceptual art..." Is that true? Definitely not that special , I just hate the reports using the word like"biggest" to exaggerate things.As for this exhibition,it's fun and full of creative ideas, I'll probably go there twice.
Oh, there's one more important thing : I had crush on a guy who I ran into in that museum ,and we visted the entire show with together .But I turnd out to be a loser when he left me without even saying "bye". (Hey you, yes, I'm talking to you, the guy in green sweater with long hair, remember that crazy girl? That's me--Leylop, e-mail me!!!)

The Music For 2:00AM

Here are some music for 2:00 in the morning,if you like going to bed that early too,check them out. (KaZaA)

Tricky-Hell Is Around the Corner
2 Wicky - Hoover
CSN&Y - Bring You Down
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Cocteau Twins - Alice
Glory Box - Portishead
Eels-Flyswatter
The Velvet Underground - Stephanie Says
Elliott Smith-Say Yes
Sinead O' Connor-This Is A Rebel Song
Nick Drake - Day Is Done
Tricky-Your Name
Craig Armstrong - This Love
Sparklehorse-Gold Day
Luna - sweet child o' mine
Neneh Cherry - Woman
Weezer-Butterfly
looper - These things
Sigur Ros - Njosnavelin

(At first I just wanted to make a list of some night listening songs I like lately. But now I want to change it to another subjuct, how about recommending the music you like here.I love music and appreciate good recommendations, let's share our favourites).

The Chinese word for 'blog'

The chinese word for "blog" is 博客 (bo ke), however, I bet 99 percent Chinese don't know this word yet. Because blog is still pretty new to Chinese , and some people who know the English word"blog" may not know how to say that in Chinese (I'm one of them who just learned this Chinese word 2 days ago). In today's world, learning new words is not just the matter of language, but also the matter of how much we've known about everything around--we may know how to read and write one new word, but have no idea what exactly it is an how it works.

Go back to the word "blog", I don't like that Chinese translation because it has nothing to do with the word"blog". I suggest we should keep the original English word as we've already done to many other words,take music genres for instances, we just say Alternative, R&B,Hip-Hop,Techno,Trip-Hop...,and I have no idea how to put them in Chinese.Why do Chinese keep these English words. Since Chinese characters are totally different from letters of the alphabet, translating the English words like people's name, new invention,music bands' names,brand... are tough. We used to translate every English words into Chinese by choosing Chinese words which have similiar pronunciation with that English, but they usually don't make any sense and hard to remember.As China getting to know more about the world, we're a little bit confused by so many new English words, and couldn't come up with any better idea to deal with them,therefore,the original words are kept.And English is such a popular language in China, some people would rather use English to say the word even there is a Chinese translation for it.

Some say English lanuage is invading Chinese, I don't think so.What is invade? Invade is to come into and attack, so as to take control of sth. Adding some English words into Chinese doesn't take control anything----we don't have these words in Chinese , we don't even have these things in China at all.It's definitely not invasion to me, who do you think?

My First Blog

For more than 20 minutes, I couldn't think of any word, This is my first post for my first blog, something special must be written-- but the more I push myself, the less I could write. It's already 4:00 AM, if I leave it tomorrow, I may end up being stuck in words for hours. This blog was created this morning--wait, it should be yesterday's morning--I haven't got any sleep yet. I was really excited when the creating job was done! Just 3 minutes! Believe it or not, I didn't know that before! I even considered that managing a weblog is as complicated as managing a website! Since I'm an idiot to computer's technical things, I gave up trying--I should have tried earlier, it's not that difficult at all. ( thanks to John for helping me figure out some blogging basics)

Getting to know new things are so great, it's really too exciting to believe that from now on, I have this space to express my views about China and the world, and share them with others.Hoping it can be seen by more people, I decide to write in English for the most parts. My English still sucks, I know that, but what to write probably more important than how to write, and my English will get better as well.