Saturday, February 28, 2009

Genre Portfolio 1--The song"Tears in heaven"


The song—Tears in heaven


The time I first got touched with the song “Tears in Heaven” was when I was learning blues music in a silent night. Eric Clapton’s voice with mild sorrow suddenly covered and shocked every corner of my room and even cells of my body. In the song, it is not that important to talk about the difference between human life and heaven. Instead, the great love and family bonds between two worlds touched me much.
Before I understood the origin of composing, I was really curious about the writer’s specific experiences and thoughts. At the moment I was listening, I seemed to pass through the tunnel of time and deeply hugged with my lovers in heaven. However, when my lip slightly touched with heaven, I realized the helpless of years that rolling like a stream. Some people and some memories have not already been belonged to this world. Even though time comforts all the sad things, nothing can made people in the blues with tears dripping down more than this. Then I knew the reason why Clapton composed this song was because of the death his son and best friends in just a short time. From the song, I can clearly hear the tears dropping in his heart. “Would you know my name, if I saw you in heaven.” Actually, the road to the heaven is never built. No matter what kind of emotion we use to feel, no matter how to make our brain pass through from reality to illusion when thinking, we can not still feel the lovers from another world. We can not pick up the warm and feeling again as it was in the past. Angels often take away our loves in a silent way, at that moment, our heaven becomes not that perfect ever.
However, even though quite a few brutal beats was on Clapton, he sings “I must be strong to carry on. Cause I know I don’t belong to the heaven.” As I am concerned, it is the high tide of this song. If the song is without his turning point, it will probably just be a sad poem. However, those words really showed his brave spirit and strong mind that he had conquered all the hardship and even the fear to life from himself, which also encouraged listeners a lot. In normal life, any bad things could happen, the significance is how to positively face and conquer them. No necessary to be much sentimental because life is going on. It is not just a song but a lesson to teach us how to live.
All in all, the song presented the writer’s whole emotion and thoughts just in some short words. Not only did the song express his missing and sorrow to his lovers, but he also showed his courage to face those things, which made the song touched me every time.

Friday, February 27, 2009

One day in life

Mid-Autumn Festival has been always a special day in the traditional China. Like Christmas, it has a important place in all Chinese’s' hearts.But also,it has another special meaning for me.Mid-Autmn Festival used to be a big and important gathering at my granny's place - when all the adults and children gathered. The elders played many rounds of mahjong and the children roamed the dark streets with their own lighted lanterns. It was the only "official" day of the year when children were allowed to play with matches and fire.The streets where my granny stayed were dark and deserted. Once the sun set, a group of us will gathered and planned our "adventure". We will explored the "unknown" back alleys of the neighbourhood. We will purposely avoid all the main roads where they were brightly lit. The fun and exciting part about Mid-Autumn Festival isn't about the awful unhealthy oily and sticky mooncake - but the "exploration of the dark alley" with our humble candles and paper-lantern. I remember when I led a few neighbourhood kids to explore the dark, smelly and rat-infested drain system. We walked and walked...along the algea-banks of the canals..It is this kind of night when I miss my family, my granny and my childhood. Now, I am spending this special night with my new friends and life here.Hope everything is gonna be all right.

Time goes by


It's a story about a tiny journey.

I came across it along with a couple of others when going through my photo gallery,and it captured my attention at first sight. Sunlight shone onto me,and I turned back to record my shadow.It was a fairyland-like place but I was so confused by the endless difficulties in my life at that time and I just could not flatter my saddness on my forehead.Then I was couraged by a friend to run towards the edge of the wide grassland trying to reach the lake in the distance.My heart started to sing with peace and happiness as there was no any other one in the world,and I felt satisfied and fullfilled.Anything is nothing,I determined not to hesitate to gain myself a better tomorrow.Friedrich Nietzsche once said :"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

Since travelling has always been my love-to-be,I've got quite a large amount of photos during these little times and trips.Among the thousands of pictures,you may not see any of me.But every single emotion growed in those simple stones, gothic buildings and even just an ordinary stranger I met accidentally on the wayside , is unabashedly showing us that life is just like this,or more often , telling us that life is NOT just like this.The camera captures beautiful moments for us and with them,life is everlasting.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Tags about 25 Ramdom things

1. Dwyane Wade is one of my favorite NBA stars.
2. I am constantly hungry everyday.
3. I decided to go to NYC to meet my old friends in spring break.
4. I failed my CSE exam again last week.
5. I am alway playing guitar with my roommate in dorm that really annoy my neighborhoods.
6. I consider myself a perfectionist and romanticist.
7. When people first meet me, they tend to think I am more silent than I am.
8. I do like punk and jazz such as Sum41 and Keith Jernett.
9. I probably will buy a car in a few weeks.
10. I usually fall asleep in my MTH 133 classes.
11. My mom often encourages me to make a new girlfriend.
12. Almost everyday I play jokes with my roommate.
13. I don't smoke.
14. I really like video games especially Biohazard and Ninja Gaiden.
15. The cold weather in Michigan made me crazy.
16. My biology class sucks.
17. I have transfered among more than three universities and maybe I will transfer again.
18. Everyday before classes I do drink a cup of latte.
19. I usually confused about my direction and future.
20. I want to study Japanese or Spanish.
21. My father will mail me some domestic food from hometown that make me pretty happy.
22. Now I feel sleepy again.
23. I like to watch the movie about hero or true love.
24. I have cut so many math classes this semester.
25. I am so tired to finish this kind of tags.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Analysis on Nokia Commercial Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WmpDym1l-8
This is a commercial video by Nokia, which I really like and be touched. The combination of the elements which are presented develop and deep the thesis alot. I will analyse it by several parts.
First of all, the background music is perfect to the story main clue. Shakira's euphony exactly reflact both the actor and actress's emotion and the development of the story. For example, when the actress received the message, the music suddenly changed to high tide,which help us know what the actress is thinking.
Moreover,the creative way of actor's action also develop the thesis. First, it can prove actor's true love for his woman. Furthermore, it makes the story more funny and touched because its kind of special method is everyone's dream, which also present NOKIA 's intellengence.
Third, at the end of this video, the actor sat on the bench who has a really nervous face. The wall behind him was written "No" and this could show his emotion by another way. However, at this time, actress's call was coming. Then the man smiled,meanwhile, the track which behind him left. "No"suddenly changed to "Nokia",which means Nokia makes everything possible. This scence really shocked me and blur my eyes.
Hense,this is a very fantastic video which let me feel and learn a lot...

Don't kill for peace

Nowadays,there is a growing awareness about both the positive and negative influences of wars or killings around the world. The govermeners always hold the opnion that they kill because it will make our world peaceful because the less bad people and even countries, the better is our world.
Actually, it is the obvious excuse of them who want to dominate the world and make their dream that full of appetency and power become true. The perfect world that makes by killing is a kind of falsification and fake, which is denefitly not real. Every problem and sin has its own way to solve except brutal. At this point, killing is selfish and most barbarous inhuman. If people get something wrong or even make sins, they have their rights to rebuilt their human nuture and become new persons.
All in all, don't kill for peace.Don't abandon all the hopes. Peace means mercy.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Emotion Analysis based on the article

http://4english.cn/4english/englishcommunity/blog/suniris/love-is-just-a-thread

Based on the article from website, it is not hard to find quite a few words which contains the author's truely emotion.

The article is a story about the author's questions to his family's love, because in his opnion, he cannot find the vivid love from his family just like the dramma. However, his mother's answer is full of intellent emotion that really touch me.

The mother said that love is like a thread. Seldomly it appears, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread makes the quilt strong and durable. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere or anytime, but it's really there. Love is inside.

Those words are filled with philosophical thought that cause strong repercussions from both the author and me. Then the author's memory has been evoked that he brought all of his family thing to his mind such as father's working hard and mother's cares.

He cried and he understand what the real love is. So did I and I am touched a lot.

As a result, the emotion in article will make people deeply dive in the author's thoughts. And also the reader are easily to be sympathetic .