2008年12月30日 星期二

Essay 1

Cold Mountain is the most touching movie I have ever seen. First of all, Cold Mountain is an adaptation of a bestseller. The plot is mainly about the American Civil War which separates the couple and how the war changes the world. Inman has to leave Ada immediately because of the Civil War. Afterwards, Ada’s father died which makes Ada helpless. That’s because Ada does not know how to cook and how to do the household chores. In addition, the most familiar people leave Ada while America is in the midst of war. Ada has no body to rely on. How can a young lady handle the difficult situations like this!Then Ruby comes to help Ada in time. It is Ruby that pulls Ada out of depair. Besides, because of Ruby so that Ada learn to be a courageous woman. At last, although Inman died, indeed Inman and Ada do have a great time gathering
together.

My favorite role in the movie is Ruby, the one who helps Ada begin a new life. Ruby is not only Ada’s friend but she is also seems like her sister. Ruby teaches Ada how to do the chores and Ada reads the stories to Ruby. Though they do not have any blood relationship, they treat each other as their own family member. When we are in desperate, it is important to have someone like Ruby to pull us out of the terrible circumstances. Without them, we might give up our hopes and even our own lifes.

The affection between Inman and Ada really touches my inner heart. That is because Inman and Ada just know each other for a while, but they miss each other once they are separated. Above all, they stay faithful to each other and believe that one day they will get together again. All they can do is keep waiting. But they never try to forget each other even though they suffer from missing and uncertainty. It seems impossible for most of the people to keep loving someone once they are apart. I really appreciate their perseverance.

Futhermore, I do love the lines that Ada says after Inman dies for several years. She says ”What we have lost will never be returned to us. All we can do is learn from the past and make peace with it.” Isn’t that what we have to learn? Although the loving ones cannot get together, Ada chose to live and stopped looking back at the sad scenes. No matter what had happened, Ada just kept going forward. That’s what life is! There are always ups and downs in our daily lifes. If we yield to the frustrations, we get nothing out of the lesson. Isn't it?

Cold Mountain is one of my favorite movies. Although the plot is slow at first later I find it is interesting enough to attract me to keep watching. And I love the way that the director films the movie. Though at first I could not understand what is going on in the movie. But just keep watching then I really get some lessons out of the movie. Although the moviedoes not have a happy ending, it is still worth watching.

2008年12月18日 星期四

Merry Christmas

Though Christmas is at next week, there are already Christmas atmosphere all over the place now. I really love Christmas on account of that Christmas is a festival which makes people feel warm. People around you always give you Christmas cards or gifts that really touches my heart all the time. Besides you will see different kinds of christmas tree everywhere. They are always decorated with some creative ornaments. Perhaps you will see lots of Christmas tree in different kind of form. That's one of the most interesting things for you to discover. I went to SHIN KONG MITSUKOSHI tonight and I did saw some special Christmas trees. These are the pictures:This one is made of cardboard. It's pretty special right?



This one is simple but holy and pure!!


This Christmas tree is full of food. Such a cute and delicious tree!!

And Merry Christmas to every body !

2008年12月7日 星期日

Time does fly

It's not far away from the end of this semester now. But it seems that the semester had just started yesterday , wasn't it? And the New Year is coming soon, but when I think of last year I was still worrying about my transfer test. And now I am here in another university and a semester almost passes by. To be honest, I never think of the day about transferr successfully on account of the tough transfer exam. This is one of the unexpected events in my life. Therefore tranfer had totally changed my life, because I met new friends, lived in another city and had to say good-bye to my old friends. Sometimes when you gain something ,you have to give up something. I think that's the rule of our life. Though I cannot meet my old friends very often, I also get along well with new friends here. The most important thing is that the people here are always very friendly.:D