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The Lord of The Rings

It is my favorite movie, to be accurate, they are my favorite movies.

Regarded as the most formidable work to be transmitted into movie, The Lord of the Rings had scared away many renowned moviemakers and authoritative companies. At that moment, Peter Jackson–the genius took it under tremendous doubts and sneers. Five years later, the splendid three epics were born. The whole world was shocked. No matter in music, cast or stage set, it is perfect without any exaggeration.

Actually I hadn’t known any about the masterpiece written by Tolkien. Until one day I was deeply attracted by a poster outside the cinema. Then out of curiosity, I bought one ticket. This is something called fate.

“The world is changed. I feel it in the water~~~” As the woman’s voice rose up, I was thoroughly addicted into the Middle Earth. After seeing the first epic, I bought the original work to home and studied it detailedly. The deeper I learned, the more I loved it. Gandalf, the elf prince, Aragorn, Frodo, and their love, friendship, sacrifice. All this drives me closer to the essence of the story, which became my great treasure later.
Even when I was busying preparing for the college entrance exam in Grade 3, Senior High, I still went to watch the last epic “The Return of the King” immediately after my evening class, in company of my mom. When we finished, it was already 2 o’clock in the morning. This was the only time I do such crazy things till now.

However, for this fantastic trilogy, everything is meaningful. It seems that every time I came across things related to it, I had trillions of words to say. Sometimes I would doubt if there will be movies overcoming this one; however, this won’t be possible in such short period.

Anyway I’m looking forward to seeing that.

Money is Nothing But a Budget

It is an article which I came across when I searched the Internet. The article is about a graduate’s unrestrained lifestyle. You know what! Every time she has enough money and gets bored with the job, she quits and goes out to nature. When she runs out of money, she gets back and gets a job, waiting for her next journey. Money is nothing but a travel budget to her.

There are always many people expressing the longing for this kind of lifestyle, but few of them will really carry it out. They have too much things that they are unwilling to give up, such as their cozy city life and the position they had earned by great efforts. We human have too much bondage, and that’s why only few people can break the barrier at length and be the way they are.

It is a truth that we should learn to give up sometimes, because in many circumstance, you will find you gain more after you give up what you possess. If you merely hold tightly what is already in your hands, you are less likely to make progress for a long time. In this case, the girl gave up her job and salary; however, she got unexpected stories through travelling. The abundant experience made her grow up. What’s more, she began to think twice before spending money and learned that sometimes she had to endure things she disliked. Travelling has turned her into a charming person.

Maybe sometimes impulsion is not a bad thing. If you have some ideas, just make it true. Perhaps you will find the real you in the proces

Be What You Want to Be

It is an article which I came across when I searched the Internet. The article is about a graduate’s unrestrained lifestyle. You know what! Every time she has enough money and gets bored with the job, she quits and goes out to nature. When she runs out of money, she gets back and gets a job, waiting for her next journey. Money is nothing but a travel budget to her.

There are always many people expressing the longing for this kind of lifestyle, but few of them will really carry it out. They have too much things that they are unwilling to give up, such as their cozy city life and the position they had earned by great efforts. We human have too much bondage, and that’s why only few people can break the barrier at length and be the way they are.

It is a truth that we should learn to give up sometimes, because in many circumstance, you will find you gain more after you give up what you possess. If you merely hold tightly what is already in your hands, you are less likely to make progress for a long time.

In this case, the girl gave up her job and salary; however, she got unexpected stories through travelling. The abundant experience made her grow up. What’s more, she began to think twice before spending money and learned that sometimes she had to endure things she disliked. Travelling has turned her into a charming person.

Maybe sometimes impulsion is not a bad thing. If you have some ideas, just make it true. Perhaps you will find the real you in the process.

I’m gonna learn from her and the trip to the west is my first step.

Time

Time is the passing of days, months and years considered as a whole. This definition from the dictionary may sound a little abstract to you. Actually everyone in the world has his or her own understanding of time. It is reckoned the fairest thing in the world. Everyone shares the same ownership without one second less or more. Time is the most efficient medicine. However serious the distress is, time will heal it at length. Time is a great sculptor, who takes us as its works of art, sculpting from young to old, immature to mature. Time is a one-way street, which can never reverse direction. It denies your any chances to regret.

This is a paragraph I wrote one year ago. When I saw it last night, I found it do make sense. However at that time, you didn’t do as what I wrote down. I feel kind of regretful for my own. As a freshman, I should have grasped variable opportunities to experience and learn more, but I just missed all of this. I spent too much time in the streets, shopping as well as in the dorm, searching Internet, so when others were making remarkable improvements I gained nothing. Now I am regretting, however, as what I wrote, I can’t go back.

Life sometimes seems to be ironic. As I am busying study mathematics recently I believe I am paying the price for what I did before. Anyway, I hope I can finally pass the entrance exam. I do hope all my efforts and sacrifices I made can be paid back.

God bless me!

Cell Phone is Not Our Master

It is an age of high technology and information. If you go to the street, you may find almost everyone between 15 and 60 has a cell phone in hand, talking and texting. Cell phone seems has penetrated into our life. Owing to it, we are able to get in touch with our faraway parents and friends easily; we had more freedom in arranging our schedule.

I had once asked myself what if the cell phone disappears from my life some day. At last, I drew the conclusion that maybe I can’t breathe. Suddenly I realized how vital this tiny device is to us. Dozens of people, including me, even have developed certain kind of illness relating to the cell phone. The illness here doesn’t only refer to the physical one but also the mental one.

For instance, some people just couldn’t help taking out their cell phone to check if they get a message or a phone call. Even though they set their phone a loud tone, they still constantly repeat the movement for fear that they miss hearing it. Other kinds of mental illness also exist. Some cell phone users may feel depressed and lost if they haven’t been contacted through it the whole day. They feel they are neglected and left alone while in the past, nobody would think like that.

We are laying too much dependence on the cell phone so that it distracts our attention to lead a realistic life. Cell phone does occupy an irreplaceable place, however, that doesn’t mean we should become its slaves. It is us that master them.

Little Restlessness

This is the last day of April. I am sitting in the library, typing.

Except several hard working students it is almost empty here. Warm sunshine and mild breeze, no wonder so many people went outside for vacation.

The whole morning, I made great efforts to suppress my restlessness. I convinced myself that I would have a much more marvelous vacation than anyone else as long as I got over the last two weeks; however, my thoughts still start to drift around.

I begin to plan what am I going to have a feast after the entrance exam and how do I set off after the final exam.

I think of my hometown and the heavenly West Lake. It is the golden time to wander around the Lake, or boat in water, but I have missed this for two years since I came to Beijing. How intensely do I miss all the fascinating scenery there, the flourishing willow and pure water and the humid wind.

No one can deny that one’s birthplace would occupy an irreplaceable place in their lives. For me, no matter where I went to in these years, Hangzhou is always my favorite city. I am supposed to work there after the graduation, but as the pressure for finding a job become weightier and weightier, I have totally no idea about my future. To some degree, my application for the due degree is something of a testing. I want to know my limitation, and to test out to what degree can I achieve if I try hard.

Well, it’s time to withdraw my thoughts. You know, if I need to work hard, I have to be back to my mathematics right now.

Am I Gonna Quit?

Platocoffee
Wudaokou
5:30 a.m.

I haven’t sleep for the whole night, but now I am not tired.

I spend the whole night alone here writing articles, searching Internet and looking through mathematic books, accompanied by cups of coffee. The coffee tastes plain, but I understand I shouldn’t have more requirements.

Even though few things can really be done during the whole night, I find myself are fond of staying up, no matter in the dorm or outside. This is probably because of inheritance. Used to be a policeman, my father leaded an irregular life which later on had an influence on me more or less.

Although our parents insist that I should avoid staying up, I just can’t control myself sometimes. The most common situation is that I keep on watching movies, and then totally forget about time. My mother said I had the potential for being an artist. It seems that her prediction may never come true.
Actually I have been trying to regularize my living-clock for one year and it does work. I went out last night is partially because I have dozens of stuff to do and partially because I was in a depression.

I am planning to travel west at the end of the semester. Actually this plan has already come into being for half a year. The reason it didn’t come true last year was because I couldn’t find a travelling companion; however, this year when I posed the plan again, I came across the same problem.
Certainly I can go by myself—being a backpacker. I mean I’m not afraid of being alone; but I want to draw rein, for the money is from my parents, and I don’t want to spoil it. With a companion I can save a large sum of money.

However, the reality is disappointing. Why can’t I find someone who has the same interest with me? Qinghai Lake and Dun Huang have always appeared in my dream. I don’t wanna lose this golden opportunity.

Am I gonna quit my plan?

Complaining is Necessary

It has been nearly three months since I began to study mathematics by my own.

In fact, I wanna achieve a due degree on economics in Peking University; however, as you can dream of, there are hundreds of students applying for these limited quotas, for it is the only teaching program which recruits students outside its own campus. The entrance exam, including English, mathematics and Chinese will be held on May 10th.

Mathematics is the most baffling subject among the whole, because as an English major student, I never got the chance to learn calculation and algebra. As a result, I have to study them by myself. I was once a mathematics fan, however, this time I find myself are far more puzzled than any times before. It is during these three months that I profoundly recognize the significant roles which teachers are playing in our learning process. Without guidance from teachers, I find myself less efficient than those who have teachers.

In order to learn as much as possible, I go to the library every day, whereas there are still so many books to read while fewer and fewer time was left. Besides, final exams are around the corner, arranged quite close to the date of my entrance exam. I am kind of wearied out actually. To squeeze the schedule, I have quitted several trips, sacrificed many sleeping hours, given up watching concerts and maintained a monotonous life.

However, it is worth for me. Not only did I become more logical, but also I gained more patience. If I am lucky to pass the exam, I believe I will obtain more than that. Therefore, no matter how bitter and tired it is, I will persist in what I firmly believe.

Fighting! Fighting!

After Hamlet

Although it has been more than one week since I saw Hamlet in Peking University, some scenes in the play still swirl around my ears.

The play I watch was performed by actors and actresses from TNT, one of the most renowned troupes in the world. Even if this group is clarified as D level in all the TNT casts, I still quiet enjoy the performance. I was deeply moved by the later performance and totally immersed in the story, despite the fact that they didn’t go into their roles quickly in the very beginning. The climax was my favorite. When the queen drunk the poison and died, I almost burst into tears. The leading actress did a perfect job. Actually all the players laid a solid foundation in acting. What’s more, they are versatility. Some of them sang graceful while others play instruments skillfully. It made me green-eyed.

Well, the fact that Shakespeare is believed as the treasure of the whole world ends up with the whole world performing his masterpieces. For my own part, however, no one can win more cheers and clapping than the English, and this thought was strengthened after I watched Hamlet. Hearing the classic lines was read out through those perfect British accents, I found my blood was burning. It was exactly the moment when I found myself could be happier without drama in my life. I couldn’t figure out the exact date which I fell in love with it, but I am sure I will love it in the rest of my life.

Sometimes I was jealous of one of my friends studying In the Central Drama Academy, cause drama is her everyday life. Rehearse and perform, day and night. I wanna be like that, but this will never gonna be my life. I wrote some scripts sometimes but the chance of performing them was really slim. This is reasonable because we are not in drama school. However, I still hope I can do more things related to drama in the future.

IKEA

I went to IKEA yesterday, and it is one of my favorite places in Beijing. I don’t know why every time I went to there I had a strong desire for having a little house of my own, and the same is true of my other friends. Maybe it is the warm decoration of the sample rooms inspired us.

Indeed before the first trip to IKEA I can hardly dream that a house can be such delicate and individualized. Later on I found that the greatest thing in IKEA must be to lie in the soft bed there and have sort of daydreams that you are lying in your own beautiful room. You know, sometimes this kind of daydreams are quiet important for us. At least it builds up our great expectation towards the future.

The reason why IKEA is popular may be partial because of every single piece of furniture there was designed for a particular purpose. It is the great efforts of designers, so when I saw them I would feel like being motivated and full of novel inspiration. Actually this summer I am ganna carry part of my ideas out, because my parents were planning to move into a new house, which means I got a great opportunity. I finally can lay out my own house, and fit up it. I am really looking forward to the arrival of this summer vocation. Maybe after I accomplish the whole program, I can post some photos here. I’m sure you will be taken aback.

Ps: I forget to mention that the ice cream and hot dog in IKEA are so delicious that it will make you mouth water. Trust me as long as you taste them, you will miss them.

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