Philosophy

Now, I am thinking something about philosophy. Philosophy is one of my favorite things. I used read some books about philosophy. I felt it is so helpful to me. For example, I used read a book that named . After that, I knew the Oedipus complex and Electra complex clear. Although they are not useful for me, because I do not need them, they can help me to think about other problems I may meet in the future.

Sometimes I think I read a book, the important thing is not what kind of knowledge I gain, and the important thing is what kind of thinking or way I gain. The thinking or way can help me to solve other problem I may meet. It is the value thing we should gain, when we read a book.

Philosophy is a kind of wisdom. It can help people think about something, or can help people to solve some problems they meet. However, some people think philosophy is a kind of power or psychic chains. It is too sad. In my opinion, philosophy should like birds, all people can think about it freely. It should be the thing that people cannot live without. Maybe people do not need it sometimes, but they cannot negate it. It more like the love human has. Also we can it shadow, the shadow of soul. In short, I hope people can gain more benefits from philosophy.

Risk Travel

When I was in senior high school， my friends told me there is a desert near my hometown. It is about 5 kilometers from my school. Also they told me there are some sections of great wall in the desert. I was so curious, so I decide to visit the desert. I made a plan and told this plan to my friends. Just like me, three of my friends were curious too. They also want to visit the desert with me. I was so exciting, because I will not went to the desert alone. To be honest, I was a little bit afraid of the desert.

We decided talked four bags, and two of them that we put water in, two of them we put food in. After that we made the plan, we went to shopping. We bought lots of bottles of water, bread and some food that can keep us full for a long time. We packed them in the four bags. Then we went to bed early, because we had to wake up very early.

Second day, we got up very early. It was about four o'clock in the morning. We ate much food we can and taken all the stuff we prepared. And then we went to the desert. It was difficult to move in the desert. By the noon, we were exhaust and taken a break for one hour. At this time, blast was coming. We almost cannot open our eyes. It is a terrible risk ever I experience. We lost in the desert. We do not know which way we come. It is too bad, so we were nervous actually. The only thing we can do was decide which way we come from. Originally we want to see which way the sun fall down, but it is the noon now. The sun was in the middle of sky, and there are no trees around us. Trees also can help people to know that which side of the tree is south and which side is the north. We were totally careless, so we only wait the sun fall down, and see which way is the west. We have seat there for two hours perhaps. It was about three o'clock. We got where my school from the sun is. It was great news for us. So we followed the way we got carefully, and got out the desert. When we backed, it was already eleven o'clock in the night. The water was already gone. We were completely thirsty. It was dangerous travel so that I afraid of telling this to my parents.

After that, I am starting to love traveling desert. I think someday I should go to visit another desert with perfect preparative certainly.

Vaccines

There are two ways to protect people form illness. One is directly taking some medicine to kill disease. Another one is preventing. Vaccines are the most important things to prevent people form sickness.

However, the people’s attitude has changed.

Fifty years ago, most people thought, vaccines are among the safest tools of modern medicine. Vaccines work very well in preventing specific diseases. If people received a vaccine for a particular disease, the change of an outbreak of that disease is greatly reduced. That is why as many people as possible must be vaccinated fifty years ago.

Actually, just like today, no vaccine worked for 100% of the people who receive it fifty years ago. Maybe because the diseases were too fearful, so people made the decisions above all. For example, the smallpox used kill lots of people. Since the vaccine showed up, the situation was getting better. By now, the smallpox is disappeared completely.

Anyway, the people’s attitude is changed. Now they are more worried about the side effects vaccines have. For example, multiple vaccinations increase the risk of side effects.

Here are some side effects vaccines have normally.

Mild side effects: (common)

1. Fever
2. Redness or swelling where the shot was given
3. Pain where the shot was given
4. Tiredness
5. Throw out
   

Moderate side effects: (uncommon)

1. Non-stop crying, for 3 hours or more
2. High fever, over 105 F
   

Severe side effects: (rare)

1. Permanent brain damage
2. Serous allergic reaction

Generally, signs of a serious allergic reaction include difficulty breathing, hoarseness or wheezing, hives, paleness, weakness, a fast heart beat or dizziness.

To give an example:

Hepatitis B vaccine:

Mild side effects:

1. Pain where the shot given
2. Mild to moderate fever

Severe side effects:

1. Serious allergic reaction

weekly segment

Last week, we mainly learned about some medicines and vaccines. Actually, this knowledge made me very frustrated, because it is new for me. I always need much time to understand it. For example, the differences between Alternative Medicine and Complementary Medicine, I used spend almost three days to know it clearly. Also, I learned much information about vaccines. However, I still feel I am so poor to have these kinds of knowledge. Maybe I need more information to comfort myself. There is some information I learned mainly in the last week.

The differences between alternative medicine and complementary medicine

Alternative medicine and complementary medicine belong to different types. It mainly based on their definitions. Alternative medicine is an absolute system. It can cover western medicine to cure illnesses. However, complementary medicine is an assistant system. It just can help western medicine or alternative medicine to treat illnesses well. Just like Cassileth, B said “complementary therapies are used as adjuncts to mainstream care, not instead of mainstream therapy.” On the other hand, alternative medicines belong to eastern medicine. Any western medicine cannot be a part or whole alternative medicine. Whereas, any medicine can be complementary medicine, include western medicine. In short, alternative medicine and complementary medicine are completely different types of medicine.

Searches of alternative medicine and complementary medicine are dissimilar too. Herbal medicine is a part of alternative medicine. Every body knows people always can find some new herbal medicines somewhere. Normally, these medicines have tested for a short span. There are some substances in the herbal medicine people still do not know. It is impossible that these substances can cause some bad effects. That is why some people think herbal medicine is more dangerous. In a word, alternative medicine is not searched. Complementary medicine is used to help mainstream care or to treat some bad effects the illness cause. It mainly focuses on one kind of sick or one apparatus of people’s body. Normally people use specifically substances to do it, and these substances tested many times. People can use complementary medicine themselves. Complementary medicine is safer than alternative medicine. Complementary medicine is reached, but alternative medicine need more search.

Also, alternative medicine is more expensive than complementary medicine. The main reason is that alternative medicine is commoner than complementary medicine. There are just few people good at using alternative medicine all over the world. If people want to use alternative medicine treating their illness, they have to find some specifically doctor. They also have to buy some specifically alternative medicine from the doctor. Everyone knows alternative medicine is difficult to find. It is easy to image alternative medicine is more expensive. However, complementary medicine is common medicine. People can find it here and there. Furthermore, complementary medicine is a kind of chemical stuff; it is very easy to find its material and to make it. Therefore, complementary medicine is cheaper than alternative medicine. In concluding, the price of alternative medicine and complementary medicine is different.

Vaccines

Vaccines are harmless virus. They are molecules usually but not necessary proteins. There are many kinds of vaccines all over the world such as smallpox, polio. These vaccines are used to prevent people. After people immunized, the vaccines can stimulate people’s immune system. These vaccines expose themselves to infectious organisms, in order to develop immunity of people or animals. Thus, people’s or animals’ immune systems are able to kill harmful virus. Actually, people already got lots of benefits from vaccines. For instance, smallpox used kills many people in last decades. However, now it is disappeared completely because of vaccine. On the other hand, some people are more worried about the risk of using vaccine. They thought that vaccine can cause sever allergic reaction such as high fever, death. In my opinion, the risks of not using vaccine are more than the risks of using vaccine, so people should continue to use vaccine.

This is the information I learned last week. Sometimes I feel that I have nothing about something after I learned it. Maybe because I want to know more about medicines and vaccines, so the information of medicines and vaccines I have now cannot make me happy. I am eager to understand more knowledge about them.

Canadians

I read an article on line in the morning. It said all Canadians have a characteristic that they do all things with all their heart. When they go to work, they pay full attention to do it; when they have relax during free time, they just focus on relax. They never scant money on their off hours. Every weekend or free time, normally they together go to kinds of recreation ground, and relax to the top of their bent. Maybe they cannot earn much money like you thought, but they like to use all their money for their life. There are some ways they use in their spare time.

Canada is an immigrant country. Most fathers of Canadian were form British, French, and American. They inherited connotation from English people, lucidity from French, and unconstraint from American. They love to make friends with everybody, and also they like people to visit them. They like art, sports, especial the sports on ice or snow in winter. There are lots of maple trees in Canada, so people call that Canada is a maple country. Canadians like maple as national treasure or national proud, just like they said, maple is a kind of symbol of friendships. Also, they like snow. They thought snow can give them happiness. Sometimes they have build snow wall or snowman, in order to have fun. They thought the snow wall and the snowman can protect them.

These are the characteristics Canadians have in the article. I am not sure if all of them are correct. However, I make sure some of them are correct such as art. I used to attend some art shows here. There are many paintings. Although the painters are all part-timer, they did very good job. On the other hand, the paintings’ price is very high, but many people want to buy them. Some people who attend this active said, the art show can extremely give people a rich life, especially the people who entire. I like this art show too. During free time, if I know there is art show somewhere, I must go there.

Hockey

I heard that there are really only four things Canadians are known for: Hockey, beer, friendliness and beavers. At the begin of I heard this, I do not know why. After all, I never met questions like this before. As a Chinese international student, I have to know lots of things here for my four years life in university. Maybe these four factors are a part of these things I have to know. In my opinion, these customs are mainly based on the Canadian environment and the special culture or history. I only consider talking about hockey here, because I have some experience.

Hockey:
Skating is a popular sport here which almost all Canadian people are good at. Whoever kids who do not go to school yet or old people with white hair are, they are all can skate well. You often can a view; some young parents push baby-car with skating somewhere. It means the kids start to feel the sports on the surface of ice before that they can speak or walk. That is why many immigrate wanted to learn skating, although they are not young any more. They cannot refuse this atmosphere, so do I. Originally I did not state before when I was in China. However, at the first three mouth I came here, I already immersion into this sports. If you do not talk about the skate here, it likes a Chinese person does not know Ping-Pong. You will not comfortable to live here.

Why is the Hockey very popular here? I think the main reason is the weather. Winter is long here; also it is hard to spend. It is form October last year to April next year. At this time, the most places are covered by snow. People cannot suffer during this time, so they try their best to have good ideas for their life. For example, they celebrate some activities such as the race in February every year in capital of Canada. I do not know exactly the activity’s name, but I know it is a race of Hockey. On the day, lots of people meet a place at the some time. They can talk each other or play some games. Also, they can do their favorite sports together. It is really fun for them. They can have great time on this day. I expect that I can have change to attend a activity like this.

A Special Day of China

Today is February 2, 2006. You must thought I made a mistake here. Actually I was right. It is February 2, 2006. It is a Chinesecalendar calendar which based on Chinese Zodiac. There is a story about it. Someone found the moon become circle 12 times per year. He thought it is good way to measure time. And people though the number 12 is a gift from god, so some people divided a year into 12 pieces. They are the 12 mouth in a year. Also, this way that is to measure time can help people to decide if they should grow corps. At the old time in China, this way used to give a big help to people planting crops.

There is a custom in China. It is male people should cut hair on February 2 every year. It is mainly about the dragon story. In old period in China, the king always said he is a dragon, and the king had the most power actually. So all people wish they are the dragon or their son can be the dragon in the future. The February 2 is the day to give people lucky to be the dragon. That is way male people like to cut hair on February 2 every year.

On the other hand, some Chinese people thought they cannot cut hair in January. If they cut their hair, they will lose their uncles who are the brothers of people’s mother. On the February 2, people have to cut their hair. It is the first they can cut hair, and their hair is too long so that we feel uncomfortable. It is not searched or we just say it is not right. However, our fathers were following this rule carefully all the time. Maybe it has some points. By now, this rule given to us, but we already do not believe it actually. For us, it is just a custom or sometimes, we cut hair on this day, just because parents’ order.

Today, I cut hair in the afternoon. It is not because I believe those things. Originally I did not often cut my hair on February 2 when I was in China. What I cut my hair today may is I missed home again. I have already left my family for one year and half. Sometime I really feel I lost something or some feelings such as some Chinese traditional day. In order to find the something or some feeling back, I decided that I cut hair today. The question is it worked. I do find something or some feeling back. It made me happy in the whole afternoon.

Taro

Today, I woke up so early about 3 o’clock in the morning. It is because I went to bed too early perhaps. Anyway, I could not get back to sleep. So I got up and was looking for something I want to do. Finally, I thought I should read some articles about the alternative medicine in my textbook again. Maybe because the alternative medicine is new to me or it is essentially hard, I still confused something about it in the articles such as the differences between alternative medicine and complementary medicine. Unfortunately, I did not get the differences during hours in the morning. I was sad. However, I got something new fortunately. It is the first time I eat taro.

Taro is a kind of food. It is a widely grow tropical Asian plant having broad, peltate leaves and a large, starchy, edible tuber. In a word, it is very similar to potato. I knew it before in TV show. The characters said that the taro is very good stuff, it is very delicious. After that, I had always thought about it. And I often looked for it in farm supermarket or elsewhere. However, I did not find it in my hometown sadly. I thought the reason is that my hometown is not a right place to grow it, because I never see it planted in my hometown. It is true, the taro is growing in tropical Asian area, but my hometown is lies in variable zone in the Asia. So I got one more expectation. I used swear I will go to somewhere in the south of China, because the most areas in the south of China are tropical or subtropical areas, and I will eat much food that make from taro. Whereas, it did not came true when I was in China. The surprise is that it is come true here, and I made it at home myself.

By the way, it is not very delicious like I expected. It is just a little bit sweet. If it is not sweet, it just likes potato. I love potato with tomato sauce, but I do not like potato with a little bit sugar. It does not mean I despond about it. I just want to say everything is not perfect, so I cannot expect anything to be perfect. I think this point is all value thing I got today in the morning.

Acupuncture

Last week, I learned a lot of knowledge about medicinal stuff such as herbal medicine, chiropractic medicine acupuncture and hypnstis. I said that due to some reasons, I especially love herbal medicine so much. Actually, acupuncture is also my favorite one. I already wrote an essay about herbal medicine. Here I want to say something about acupuncture.

Just like herbal medicine, acupuncture is able to treat lots of illness. Consider to the records, the illnesses are totally about 307 kinds, especially 100 of them are very notable. These numbers is not steady, because it will increase day by day. Also, acupuncture can relieve chronic pain, especially the artistic. On the other hand, acupuncture can make people’s life longer. I knew it days ago from internet. I almost cannot wait to make sure it.

Acupuncture is a Chinese traditional method to treat illness. It is so helpful for people’s health during past thousands years. By now, it is still important to people, and the most
people believe it. Acupuncture recorded in lots of books such as , , . It is a treatment method and originated more than 5 thousand years ago in China. Then it has been Japan, Korea. Many years later, it is famous in western world. Since 1970s, it has gained popularity in the United States. By now, there are 130 countries and areas using acupuncture to help people, and lots of countries have set up organizations, or open acupuncture course in university, like the University of Pairs.

Acupuncture is very abstract or general. It is difficult to understand. However, it seems simple; some people who are good at acupuncture just put some needles in the particular points of people’s body, and then the patients feel better. There are about 354 points on the surface of people’s body. For example, there are 13 points in eyes area. These points mainly care lung, kidney, large intestine, liver, gallbladder, heart, stomach, small intestine, spleen. The pictures are showing all the points on people's body.

By the way, acupuncture can help people to lose weight. It normally works for people who rang 20—50 years old. I guess the reason is these people are strong, so they can suffer the bad effects from acupuncture.



In short, people can get many benefits from both of acupuncture and herbal medicine. They already act big roles in our life.

Anyway, I expect that I will learn more about this medicinal stuff and acupuncture next week.

Herbal Medicine

In this week, I learned lots of knowledge about health, especially herbal medicine. Due to some reasons, I love the herbal medicine so much, so I wrote an essay about it. This is the essay as follow:

Herbal Medicine

All the plants have good side to people, especially the plants that people can eat. Herbal medicine is a kind of plants. It is perfect stuff to people’s health, so it is becoming more popular all over the world. It is affecting people’s life secretly. Lots of facts show the herbal medicine is so helpful to people such as making people’s health stronger, treating illness and helping people comfortable.

Every body knows that sort of herbal medicine can help people building immune system inside. It does not directly kill viruses, but they can let people’s immune systems kill the viruses. To give an example, in prior years, some experts found a kind of herbal medicine that based on Chinese medicine. It is good for some people who have AIDS. It is mainly can help patient’s immune system to be stronger so that the patient’s immune is able to kill HIV. Some doctors used to try this kind of herbal medicine on 10 bodies who have AIDS. These people ranged 35—63 years old and they have been sick for a long time. The result is this kind of herbal medicine has no bad effect on the patients, and their immune system was become well. Beside this, herbal medicine also can help people’s immune system to prevent other illness or ailments. In short, herbal medicine can help people’s body to be strong.

Also, herbal medicine is able to treat lots of illness. For example, when people get cold, they just need to put some ginger roots in boiling water for a while, and then drink the water. The cold is gone possibly. Actually, herbal medicine is traditional medicine in some countries that have long history. People in these countries are always using herbal medicine, because they believe the herbal medicine is able to treat their illness. As well as herbal medicine can help chronic pain. For instance, arthritis is terrible chronic pain. Once the weather is going to rain or getting cold, the joints of people who have arthritis are start pain. It is so uncomfortable. At these time, if the people put some herbal medicine in the pain area. They would be going to good. By the way, some experts said that herbal medicine is a potential way to treat arthritic. In a word, herbal medicines can help people having a quality life without illness.

Not only these, but also herbal medicine is able to comfort people with a good life. When people are tired, they can take some herbal medicine. For example, people can put some herbal medicine on the surface of their body, and then massage their body. In this case, the herbal medicine mainly relaxes people’s muscle. Similar, herbal medicine can help people to throw insomnia away, and it is very economical. The funniest one is that some Chinese cigarette’s companies put herbal medicine into cigarettes. Some experts said that it can help smokers have good emotion and the herbal medicine have no bad effect on people. However, the most popular one is that herbal medicine is able to help people to lose their extra weight. By now, one third people in west Europe ten point five billion people in America are overweight, and lots of them are fat. Likewise, a lot of Chinese people are getting overweight, especially children. By 2000, about eight percent Chinese children were overweight in different levels. The overweight is already a big problem in the world. It makes people are so uncomfortable. At this time, the herbal medicine would be a helpful way to solve this problem. In concluding, herbal medicine can make a nice life for people.

Above all, herbal medicine is important stuff to people. It already acts a big role in our life. More and more people are getting benefits from herbal medicine. However, lots of plants are dieing out include some herbal medicine, and the main reason is human activity. In order to keep ours good life, we should do the best we can to protect plants, especially rain forest, because lots of plants that are material of herbal medicine are growing there.

Small Party Again

This afternoon, I was so busy for a small party. We are 4 people in this party. Actually, we often have party periodically. Today, we want to eat hot pot, so after class, I directly went to a Chinese supermarket. I do know the exactly English name, but the Chinese name is lian da centre. I bought lots of stuff such as seafood, beef, and kinds of meat ball, beverage and vegetable and so on. These things are worth about 200 dollars. It is expensive, but I do not care, because we always have a lot of fun in the party like this. Also, we can learn something new from each other.

During that we were eating the perfect stuff; I referred to how my families eat hot pot when I was in China. There is a restaurant of hot pot near ours place. We just walk for 5 minutes, and then can have the fantastic food. Normally if we want to eat hot pot, we can call the restaurant for the hot pot. Some people will prepare some stuff we need. After about 20 minute, we can go there, and directly eat the food happily. How good this life is. I really miss this life I used to have. Fortunately, I will go back my hometown soon. It means I can review my past life that I have thought for a long time.

After the party, my friend gave me a form. He said that Alberta got much tax last year that is over the government expected, so the government will back 400 hundred per person who lives in Alberta. Some people already got the money days before. If I fill the form, I also can get the money. I do know it exactly; anyway, I filled it today. I will send it someday later, and now, I got one more expectation. It is getting the money.

It is a nice day.

Weird Hen

Today, we brainstormed some medical things such as herbal medicine, chiropractic medicine, acupuncture and hypnotism. Some body has spoken to that a kind of hen. Actually, I know what the kind of hen is, but I did not know its English name. Considered to ours describing, the teacher said that the hen is named Cornish hen. However, he also said “he does not sure”. After the class, when I had backed home, I have searched it for 2 hours probably, because I am curious about it. Anyway, I got 3 names about the hen. They are black hen, crow chicken and Cornish hen. I got the crow chicken on some Chinese network. They are mainly talk about some good medicine that is good for women. The material of the medicine is the crow chicken. I am sure the crow chicken is the kind of hen I want, but as if it does not make sense in English, because cannot find it on English network. Just like the crow chicken, I got black hen and Cornish hen on some Chinese network. The difference is that I can find them on English network, and the describing of both black hen and Cornish hen is so similar. I guess these three names are all the name of the kind of hen.

By the way, I also got some fowl’s names, like Plymouth Rock chicken and Red Rock chicken. Actually, I still do not know them exactly. They are all like birds, lying eggs. The important thing they are all fowl and the describing of them is almost the same, so I am not able to identify them exactly. On the other hand, their location and color are different. Maybe their names are based on their location and color. I am not sure, maybe I need search them again.

Memorable Words

“The best prophet of the future is the past.” I got these words days ago when I was eating buffet dinner. At the begin of I got this words, it really gave me a big warning. Also, it made me think back what I did on that day.

In the morning on the day, I had got up so late, and then I took a shower. After that, I watched some movies, and then I went to for dinner. That is all I did on the day. I did nothing, so gained nothing. It is the words told me. When I had finished the dinner, I hurried to back home. During the whole afternoon, I did not go to anywhere; I was just finishing the all thing in my plan for today.

Actually, the words are easy. Every one can make it. The most important thing is the meaning. However, it depends on people’s personality. Some people just read it. They feel nothing from the words. Whereas, some people are not only read it, but also think about it. They probably think what they should learn from the words.

Yes, my future is based on that I did yesterday and that I do today. Just like, my English is so poor now; it is because I did not learn it before. I have to work hard for everything, anything I need. Thus, I can make good conditions for my future, and my dream can be achieved. By the way, my dream is that all the people who love me and who I love have good life, quality life.

bad luck

As in prior days, bad lucky has follow me every minute. It gave me so much pain. I really want to lose it, but I do not know how. I used to ask some of my friends, they were all laugh and shake their heads. Oh, dear, what a pity! What I can do?

Before some days, I do not remember the exactly time. It is about four weeks ago. I got sick. My body was very hot, and I felt head rush and dizzy so that I did not go to school on the day. Not only these, but also I drunk much hotter water, and then hided under quilt, in order to perspire quickly. It is a Chinese traditional method to treat illness when people get cold or people’s body is hot. It is such a terrible day. I was so much pain on this day.

After that, I got another unpleasure thing. There were many whelks on my face. Maybe you though I afraid that the whelks made me do not having good look. It does make sense, but I do not care it actually. The only thing I cared is that it made so uncomfortable. At the begin of the whelks showed on my face, I thought I knew the reason, I ate too much chili. However, I was wrong, because I did not eat the chili for a long time, the whelks are still on my face, and the new whelks have appeared on my face all the time. It is such a bad thing.

Days later, I found the whelks was going to less, although they have still showed on my face, but not too many. However, another thing really made sad. My flower is died totally. I bought the flower several weeks before. It was so beautiful, especially when it was flowering. Unfortunately, I did not take a picture for it. I used thought it is the most beautiful flower I have, but the most beautiful thing is not long thing. Finally it was died, and I was so sad. In order to comfort myself, I bought another plant after days. It is cactus. I had it before, so I know it is easy to be alive. And I like it so much, although it not has a good look, maybe because of the most beautiful flower. Anyway, I am out from the dead flower.

The day before yesterday, I bought a glass in Market mall. It is so beautiful. Originally, I want to use it drinking tea. It was a good point, right? However, when I was making the tea, the glass was broke. Maybe because the glass was cold, and the water was so hot, the glass cannot suffer it. Anyway, I put much hot water on my leg, and my leg was burned seriously. A big red area was showed on the surface of my left leg. Then I was watching the broke glass painfully and said inside, “oh, god, I just want to drink some tea!”

Today, I waked up so early; it was about 4 o’ clock in the morning. It is not because I like to get up early. It is because I felt so much pain from my leg. So I got up, and put some ice on my left leg, in order to make the hurt lightly. Also, because I cannot sleep again, so I hold a book to read some articles. When it was at 8 o’clock, it is the time to go to school regularly, I found I cannot dress my pants because of the burned area. So I got an extra day off. It is the waste thing in these days.

Also, my left eye is starting to be pain. And I still do not know why, maybe because the weather here is not right for me. Everyone knows the weather in Calgary is so dry. It causes many people’s face dryly, and somewhere on the surface of their body is going to break. I was met it on my face and fingers. What I should do just in these cases? If someone knows that, please let me know.

whatever, I almost cannot bear the bad lucky any more. My life in these days is such a bad store. I really expect the good lucky coming to me. Maybe it is already coming. I hope the good lucky can give me some good life, and the bad things are never happened again to me.

useful things last week

Last week is a busy week. We had to read lots of stuff; also the presentation preparation was a big work. I was almost exhaust because of these work. However, I learned a lot from these work such as presentation skills and paraphrase skills.

Presentation:

I mainly learned two things from the presentation that is about acupuncture. One is making a good plan. Our teacher told us that before we do something, we always should have plan B, preparing some extra material in case. I am pretty sure it is a good point. Unfortunately, I did not do it before the presentation so that I feel I did not get a good job. The situation is not all people in my group showed up on the day before we did the presentation, so we did not have a good plan. When other people in my group said something that is the same as I searched, it really gave me a big surprise. Unfortunately, I knew a little bit acupuncture, so I was able to present some general information about acupuncture. I was lucky this time, but I won’t lucky all the time. I should prepare more information in order to avoid these things happen. After this time, I will always have plan B when I do presentation preparation, just like my teacher said. Teachers are teachers, their experience is always more than mine. Another one is that I should add more particular information in my presentation. During this presentation, I just said some numbers, for example, there are 354 points in people’s body; acupuncture can treat 307 kinds of illness, especially 100 of them are very notable, and there are 13 points in eye area, but I did not said some exactly points’ name. It made that I felt nothing in my presentation. It also let know that particular information in presentation is important. These two things are I learned from the presentation, I hope they can give me some help for my presentation later.

Paraphrase:

Last week, our teacher told us paraphrase is important when we learn languages. It can directly show if we understand the contact. In order to improve our English well, she let us do paraphrase in class. It was so helpful for me. Before, when I paraphrased a paragraph or article, I always did them one sentence by one sentence, even one word by one word sometimes. It made me so frustrated, because I can understand them, but I cannot use my words to paraphrase them well. The reason is I learned last week. It is because I only focused on the words or sentence, so cannot pay attention to the whole thing in the paragraph or article. The teacher told me that I should read and understand whole paragraph or article before I paraphrase them, and I should consider to the whole meaning of the paragraph or article when I paraphrase them. This is the word that given me so much help. Now, I can easier to paraphrase a paragraph or article than before.

I did lots of work last week; also I learned a lot last week. Just like my father said to me “you must gain something from you did”. I hope I will busy again this week, because I can obtain I want.

The Student's Life in University

As an international student, I always have some points about international student's life. I do not know how good they are, but they are the points. Here is a writing I did before days. It based on a survey I did in class. Also, It is some my thinking. I just wish it can help someone to know something he or she needs or wants to know.


The Student’s Life in University

Education is becoming an important issue all over the world. Many students are learning subjects which is they want to in other countries. Therefore, there are a lot of students studying as international students. In the University of Calgary, for example, there are two kinds of learners: The first is native language speaker and the second is international student. A survey done at University of Calgary showed that many differences between native language speaker and international student.

Lot of students, who study in University, get part time job, whether they are native students or international students as myself. However, both of them who work part time job have several different reasons. First of all, some of Canadians use their leisure time to get a job in order to pay their tuition for every semester. As far as I know, a majority of Canadians would like to earn money by themselves, and use them to pay all kinds of fees. In this way, they do not need any support from their parents. Therefore, they become independent. For international students, they have different reasons. For instance, a student, who I interviewed, works part time job for two reasons. Initially, she wants to earn money in order to reduce the economic stress from her parents. Everyone knows that the tuition for an international student is even 3 times more than a Canadian. Also, she has to rent a house or an apartment to live. Thus, she does not want to take too much money from my parents. Secondly, she thought it is a good condition to enter a society earlier as well. In China, it is not easy to get a job, so it is even harder to apply a part time job. In my point of view, I think it is a really good thing to work as a part time, and study as a full time. It is because you will learn a lot, which is not only from the textbook, but it is also from the practice. That is why they works 20 to 25 hours per week normally.

In common, international students have to spend more time on studying in a day. The different cultures and diffident educational methods cause this situation; to give an example, native students learn to get knowledge by thinking; some international students are learning by memorizing. Because of this, international students should spend time to find the correct way of studying in the western Universities. Second, most international students do use time to learn foreign languages. This is a key point. To give an idea, if an international student doesn't spend time on learning foreign language, they can't even understand what other people say in the Universities. It is necessary for international students to use more time on studying than native students.

Generally speaking, the cost of student’s life in university of Calgary is expensive, although the tuition for native people is cheaper. However, the cost of native speakers is different to the second language learners. For the native speakers, the main reason is they have to pay their tuition themselves. So most of them go to college, and just few of them go to university, because the tuition of university is so expensive. Also, the native students have to go to work for their tuition on holidays. Even some of them have two or three jobs in the same time. For the second language learners, because their parents pay the tuition for them, so although the tuition is so expensive, they don’t worry so much. And just few of them have jobs. This is because they need more experience of life. Of course it is not all international students like that above. There are still specific examples. Some of the second language learners pay the tuition themselves, so they have to work at night, and then study in a day. For them, the cost of their life is not cheap.

These are the difference between the native speakers and the second language learners. Now, more and more students go to university, and international students are increase day by day. We wish they have a good life in university.

poems

The way home

My “little golden boy”
Look out for the glass
Shard on the floor
Look out for the weather
Don’t forget your sweater, when you go out the door
Don’t marriage a “goy”
My “little golden boy”

Father be careful, be careful, your heart
I will do everything twice
Everything twice, I will do my part
Leave me alone, leave me alone
Let me live my own life
Leave me alone with wendy’s--my wife

Baseball’s the key to reach you my son
We will play the game in the New York sun
It is about loving
Not wining or losing

My father loved me
As I love you
Wherever we roam,
We all need own father to find our way home

This is a poem about a novel which named the way home. You can see the meaning in the book though this poem. It is like a summery of the novel.

Maybe this poem is too easy so that people thought it is not a poem. In my opinion, poem is a kind of art. We cannot use normal way to judge it. Just like some inventions, if creators use general way to do them, they will not exist in this world, and we cannot get benefits from them.

Simple is a characteristic of poem, in contrast, its meaning so deep. We cannot just think the words’ meaning in poems. Oppositely, we should use anything we know to understand the signification behind the poems. It is the poem’s key points the poets want to show. On the other hand, the poets wrote the poems to all common people; it is not just for the people who have good education. Else some readers of the common people are better than educational people, because they have good experience. The experience can helps them to understand the poems. Nevertheless, some educational people have lots of knowledge, but they do not have experience some poems described, so they are not able to understand the poets want to express in the poems. In order to have more real readers the poets want, they have to use simple and perfect word to write the poems. Of course, this is also a language’s art.

Here is my little experience.

I used to like hearing stories from old people. They do not have good education like my teachers, but their stories are fantastic. I think the reason is they have too much experience. My teachers are using their knowledge to tell or teach us, but these old people using their experience to tell me the stories. Although they use baby words to say the stories, the experience is better material to show the stories meaning deeply. Also I like to read books. One day, I got a story. It says long time ago, there a great poet in China, whose mane is Li Bai. He likes to speak his poem to old people, especially the old people, whatever they have good education or not. His purpose is getting the people’s feedback. If the people say the poem is not good enough, he will edit it using the people’s response; if the people say the poem is great, he think his poem is great. The fact is his poems are always perfect, and thousands years is passed, lots people still talk about his poems.

Above all, experience is also a treasure for the people who own it. It can help people to do some difficult or nonobjective things, even to understand poems.

my bad habits

In the morning, my teacher let us think about bad habits. Actually, we should talk about smoking in the class. I supposed that the purpose of we talked about other habits is what the teacher want to push us know no bad habit is worse than smoking.

Anyway, some my bad habits appeared in my brain. They are reading novels about kung fu in junior high school; reading novels about science fictions, detective stories and fight corruption in senior high school, and watching TV and movies now. In my opinion, they are worse than smoking for me, because I read novels before and watching movies now without measure. It extremely affects my life and study.

When I was in junior high school, lots of my friends love to read novels about Chinese kung fu. I though the novels must be great. Originally, I did know anything about this kind of novel before I went to the junior high school, but I tried to find some the novels and read it carefully. I was not only read them, but also talked them with other people. After a pan, I felt that I love to read them. The plots in the novels are perfect, and the characters in the novels are mazy. I totally was immersion into the novels. I almost cannot alive without them. When I wake up, I read the novels; when I slept, I dreamed I am a character in the novels, even in the weekdays, I absented my classes, in order to read them. It almost destroyed my study. The luck thing is that I used to wake up in the last year, so I still got time to focus on my study.

When I was in senior school, I got another bed habit. It was reading books too. The difference is that I read novels about science fiction, detective stories, and fight corruption. Because I wasted too much time for reading novels about Chinese kung fu in senior high school, I did not have achievement I expected. I felt frustrated so that I always stayed alone. In the weekend, I had nothing to do, so I often went to book store. One thing was for sure. That was I never look for the novels about Chinese kung fu. It is not because I hate them. The reason was I was not interested in any more. Also, because I read too much this kind of novels, I know the whole thing about it, and I cannot find good books about it. Due to I was so boring in the weekend, so I still bought some books to read. These books are about science fiction, detective stories, and fight corruption. It always seemed that the books are a part of my life. I was starting to love these fiction books. I spent whole weekends to read these books for 3 years. The result was I did not have fun during these 3 years. Of cause, my life was destroyed.

Now, I am not crazy the books any more. I can have fun on computer or TV. It is wired, because I do not like to play video games on computer. My friends are always saying I do not like a normal boy. Anyway, I am online for long time everyday. I always try to find some good movies I think, and then download them. When I have free time, I never forget to watch them. If I cannot find good movies online, I will buy it from shops. For watching movies, I remember my best record is that I watched the load of the ring 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the same time. It is over 10 hours, and I did not eat or drink anything during this time. Even today, I just watch terminator 1st, 2nd and 3rd. it spent my 6 hours, and before I finished my homework. It must reduce my sleeping time. It is a very bad thing. I really need to control this bad habit. If not, I do not know what will be happen.

These are my bad habits in the past and now. I already destroyed two of them in the past. I do not when I can destroy another one. I am acting and watching.

Nobody is perfect, but it is not the reason we keep our bad habits. Oppositely, if it is necessary, we should do the best to terminate our bad habits. Also, we should grow some good habit to serve our future, because the success is from a good habit.

thinking from snow

Today, it was snow. I saw it behind widow. It is so beautiful so that I want to be a piece of snow, and fling in the sky freely. I almost did not know where was, because the snow let me thought lots of stuff in my past.

So what is the snow?

Some people said snow is water that showed solid form; snow is water and ice to get together in sky, and then fall down on the ground.

In my opinion, snow is simple, small, tiny, wee, but you can see the world in it.

Snow is so beautiful, so you can see the world is so beautiful; snow is so unsteady, it is easy to be water when it is on the ground, so the world is always changed; snow is duck, so the world is liking a myth, you cannot know anything about it; snow is white, so the world is nothing, life is nothing, everything is nothing.

The funny thing is that I am believed the snow is white. People are bored, and then spent their whole life in this planet. When they bored, they bring nothing into this planet, when they pass away, they take nothing to go. So people bored, and then die. That is it. That is nothing.

Today, it is so different. I can saw lots of things in my past in the snow. Snow let me got my past events and my old friends, especially my relationships.

There was show in the snow. Many kids are playing snow balls. They use the snow balls to hit each other. They are so serious and careful. As if they are playing a true war. They are so happy, although it is pain; they are so crazy, although some teachers are yelling them to stop it. They are all lost their mind so that they do not know who are they, even a kid uses a snow ball to hit a teacher who he likes, then ran away. This is I see in the snow, I was smiled, because the boy who use snow ball to hit a teacher is me.

There was friendship in the snow. Several teenagers are walking on road that is with snow. There are no cars or others on the road, because it is deep night and the weather is so cold. It is so silent. Suddenly, one of the teenagers said loudly, today is the last day in this semester, tomorrow we will at home, so we should be happy to spend tonight. Sure, it is the last day, they want that time is stop there and today is never go away, because of after that, they do not know how to spend vacation along. I do not know either, because I am one of the teenagers.

There was plot in the snow. An old man and a kid are in the plot. The old man is cleaning snow in their backyard and make the snow likes a small hill. The kid jumps into the snow hill and make the snow hill massed up. The old man looks mad and wants to catch the kid, but the kid is run away. Finally, they are all fall down into the snow hill, the old man is lunging and gives the kid a big hug, they are so happy and free. Lastly, they make a snow man on their backyard, the snow man smile too. It is happy for them. I was smiling, because the kid is me, the old man is my grandfather.

I am really missed this time. If I could look my life over again, I am really wanted to spend this time again.

Snow is great today. It changed my mind. After today, I will think the snow is beautiful, so the world is so beautiful. I will not miss anything in my life, even a minute.

Genetically Engineered Crops

In my life, I always support that genetically engineered crops should be grown. Maybe it is my lifestyle or hope. No more huger is my biggest dream. that is why I support genetically engineered crops, and I can explain it. Here are some reasons as follows.

First of all, hunger IS a problem of insufficient food production, which genetically engineered crops can solve. Chinese Gene Chip of Paddy Rice is a good example. It increases production more than normal paddy rice over 20%. It can increase agricultural production for China. In Vietnam, government has directly bought the seeds of Gene Chip Paddy Rice from China, and has grown 40,000 hm2. The production of the rice has increased by 100millions kg. It solves all the problems about hunger in Vietnam. In India, they used this technology to develop a new kind of Paddy rice in 1994. They grew about 200 thousand hm2. It has also solved the hunger problem in India. Beside these, some other countries obtain benefits from the Gene Chip of Paddy Rice such as the Philippine, Burma, and Thailand and so on.

Secondly, genetically engineered crops are valuable to have alimentation. In the developing countries and the third world, because people don’t get enough vitamin A, many children have die or gone blind every year. In some poor countries, over 50 percent of pregnant women lack iron, and 20% of them die. These are serious problem in the world. Maybe GM food can solve them. The scientists insert a gene, which is able to cause more vitamin A or iron produced in crops, into crops that are the staple food for the people who lack vitamin A or iron. If the people eat the food made from these crops, they will not die of malnutrition.

Also, Genetically Modified Foods are a way to quickly improve crop characteristics, we can use it to save using pesticides, and thereby avoid environmental pollution. For example, grain-eating insects need biotin to live, but if the insects ingest avidin, they will be perished. In order to protect grain, we can insert the gene that causes more avidin to be produced in the grain. That means we add extra avidin into grain. Like this, the grain is not damaged by insects.

Beside these, genetically modified foods can save production costs, and reduce the price of food. The genetically modified food is a way to increase the yield of food, so the production cost must decline, and the price of food will decline. Genetically modified foods project might augment the variety of food, and enhance the quality of food. Actually, genetically modified foods means people change the gene of plants, influence the sort of plants, and cross out the weaknesses and keep the strength of the plants. So we can get more kinds of food thought the world.

Some people believe that the genetically modified foods pollute the gene of the plants, however, according to Darwinism, the genes of plants change all the time. People’s activity just pushes this process faster. So we can call this activity “double green evolution”, and we support the scientists to do this huge job.

Basically, genetically modified food is a good thing. It can solve lots problems in the world. We will get many benefits from it.

It is wired

You are not going to believe this. Today, one question was appeared in my mind suddenly. It is why people killed themselves. At that time, I did not know how to answer it. My brain was massed up, even I did not know what was I am think about. So I closed my eyes and tried to clear my brain. After about 2 minutes, I felt better. I opened my eyes, and attempted to figure out the answer. Actually, I still had no idea about this question. So I was think back what I read in books and news. Finally, I got something like the answer. I guess the people who killed themselves are not happy, and killed themselves is only way to solve the problems they have.

In my opinion, these people are too foolish, because they have courage to kill themselves, why they do not have courage to be alive. I am heartfelt to suggest the people like these take full care of themselves, please. If they really want to kill themselves, I hope they can take a little bit time to think a reason that is able to let them to be alive, even a clue. If they cannot find it finally, I advise them to go to hell.

On the other hand, if they find the reason to save themselves. I want to congratulate them, because they are growing up. Pain past is pleasure. They can do anything they want in the future, because they will not afraid it any more.

The best is the end come. Please take fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuull care. The good life must belong to everyone, you, he, she, they, and me.

see the picture, the world is so silent and beautiful.

Chinese zodiac

The New Year was come. This year is the year of dog.

Maybe some people want to know some questions about Chinese zodiac. How come animals designate years? Why 12, no more, no less? Why these specific animals?
I searched lots information; there are different explanations about their origin.

Before I answer these questions, I would say what is the Chinese zodiac? The reason is the year of dog is a part of it.

Chinese zodiac is defined any of the twelve animals, representing the twelve Earthly Branches, use to symbolize the year in which person is born. The animals are mouse, cattle, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, chook, dog, and pig.

More than 1000 years ago, the zodiac is already existed in China. That means it has more than 1000 years history at least.

At that time, the people of Han, that is one nation in China, use the 10 heavenly stems and the 12 Earthly Branches to designate years. They took one from each series to make a pair for one year and developed a system based on a every 60 years. It is back to square one and the cycle begins again.

10 heavenly stems
About meaning of these 10 marks, there is a easy explanation. It says these 10 marks stand for 10 estate consecutions (logical order or periods of time follow one after the other without any interruptions.). It is a little bit basics on sun.
Ten marks: I will use human being to explain them. Actually, we can use any alive things to explain them.
jia: going to born, yi: born, bing: kid, ding: teenager, wu: adult, shu: going to die, geng: die, xing: pregnancy, ren: foetus, kui: almost born.
I am not sure it is exactly correct, but basically it looks like this.

12 earthly Braches
Someone found the moon become circle 12 times per year. He thinks it is good way to measure time. And people thought the number 12 is from god’s mean. Some people thought the sun is their father; the moon is their mother, so they put 10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly braches together. This was a new way to measure time. After that, people fitted animals to the 12 earthly braches. The 12 earthly braches are zi, chou, yan, mao, chen, si, wu, wei, shen, you, xu, and hai.

Why these specific animals?
There are lots stories to explain it such as these animals are from nation’s totem and so on. I would like to say a formal one I think. Some books state it depends on the animal’s action during whole day. For example, mouse is more active during 11:00 pm to 1:00am, so people picked mouse.
Now maybe some of you are confuse, why the clock is here? Well, in the old time in China, people compared the number 12. they divided a day into 12 period, then use it to pick animals.

Finally, the animals were fixed into the 12 earthly braches. The year of dog was existed in the world.

This is the origin of Chinese Zodiac. It is just a small, tiny, wee part of the culture about this. There are still zodiac and totem, zodiac and art, zodiac and customs, zodiac and idiom, zodiac and culture that do not here.

miss home again

I got homesick again. I dreamed that I ate delicious Chinese food with my family again. I do not know why I cannot solve this problem; even I bought the air ticket long time ago. I remember that I had dream three days ago. I dreamed my father, my mother, and I went to visit my grandfather’s home and I cook food with my grandmother. Then we all eat the food together. We are so happy. After a moment, I was wake up, and I cannot go to sleep again. So I picked up the phone to call my grandmother. It was so coincident, my parents were right there, they went to my grandfather’s home in order to buy something to my grandparents for New Year. I was so exciting, and talked to them one by one. In the morning on the second day, I felt better, then immersion into my study, but I still expect holiday, thus I can go home, and see my family. Haha, please hope me have a nice vocation at home.

Sick

I got sick yesterday and today. I felt head rush and wanted to throw out. My body was so hot. I thought I am so die. But now I am good. Anyway, I didn't go to class. It is my first absent, I feel terrible. I used to try to find the reasons why. I thought it was because I just worse a T-shirt when I went to skate in Olympic Oval, so I got cold. Actually, I still feel it is weird, because I worse a T-shirt all the time in winter when I was in China, but I never got cold or something like this. I don't know why it happened now, and twice during this mouth. Maybe because I don't work out recently. I used to play vollyball, soccer, and ping-pong, which is over one hour per day at least, but now I am so lazy to do outdoor exercise. So, I decide to do it everyday, not less than half hour per day in order to get my strong body back. There is a record that I didn't go to see doctor for 8 years before last sick. And I have never taken one pile to solve my ill problems after I am able to remember something.

get new place

Before this semester, I moved in a new place. It is an apartment. I love this place. One reason is that the apartment is more safer to us. All people have to get across three doors to enter their place. Another reason is that sound insulation of the apartment is so good. That means I can speak loudly in my room, but the next cannot hear my voice. So I can do everyting I want in my room, and I am not disturbed by other people. On the other hand, I do not like other people interrupt me too. The last reason is the apartment is so big. I love to live in a big place so that I can put everything in it I like. So I bought a bookcase, one table, four chairs, two desks, floor lamp and so on, even a ping-pong table in my living room. Now I have a good environment to study, and I am able to play ping-pong in order to have fun. This place is so perfect to me. I like it so much.