Goodbye and good luck, dear friends.

Time goes by so quickly, and my first semester is almost over, and most of you are going back to your own countries by the end of this month. Maybe we didn't even have many chances to talk with each other, which I felt a bit sad. I don't like to say goodbye yet, but I know time is always cruel; we have no choice in front of "time". I know the coming 4 months will also be very quick.

Here, I want to show you the some of the lines of my favourite Chinese song called "goodbye", and I just chose some of them.

 "Looking at the crowded street, listening to my own heart beat...  They say nothing lasts forever; we are only here today...  Standing on a mountain high, looking at the moon through a clear blue sky. I should go and see some friends, but they don't really comprehend. don't need too much talking. without saying anything. all I need is someone who makes me wanna sing."

I have been listening to this song for years, and I think it is a perfect song for goodbye. Every time I listen to it, I have different feelings, and I think this is life-very difficult, and we have very little strength in front of time.
I hope our remembering selfs can be very precious, and I hope we can remember the pleasant time that we spent in ELI, and  later in our life, we can think of it again to see how beautiful our life was when we were young:)

Goodbye and good luck!

London Riots and " The destructors"

I saw a lot of pictures on the Internet, and I am very shocked that how they could do such violent things nowadays in London. I was also very shocked when the riots took place in downtown,Vancouver. However, this time the riots in London seemed much more serious. I looked for some information and I tried to find out the cause of this riot happened in London this time.There are several possible causes such as the social irresponsibility, the economic crisis or the lack of response of the police when confronted by the protest. As most of them are young people, and I think they don't know how to behave when they feel pressure; also, they don't empathize others properly. On the other hand, in " the destructors", it is understandable that those young children destroyed the house because they grew up right after the war, and maybe it was because of the way how they were raised up, and they became violent naturally. As the damage in London is very huge this time, I hope they can rebuilt those damaged things again soon, and I also hope they can live a peaceful life there.

How I feel at this time of this semester.

I think time goes by so quickly! I've been here for more than 3 months already, and it's time to say goodbye to many friends here. I feel a bit sad because I'm afraid that the next four months will go by even more quickly. I don't want to leave yet, and I think by the time when I leave here, I will feel very very very sad.
But goog luck to every one, and I hope to see you again in the future.

"Helen Fisher studies the brain in love"

I think this is a very interesting talk. Yes, everything is brain chemistry-very difficult to explain, and sometimes no need to explain. Helen said "Almost nobody gets out of love alive". I think without love, life can be very miserable. I appreciate my mother's love very much. Although sometimes she still gets very upset about me, and loses her temper too, I know that my mother will never give up on me. Every year I see her, I think she is getting older than before because I always have so much trouble to make her worry. I'm afraid that I will have nothing to pay her back. She said if her death can add some happiness to me, she would like to die. Although it's not romantic love, I think the brain chemistry is similar. Then I start to wonder what makes us do such crazy things for someone that we love. I think I had very few experiences like that as I hadn't been in a good condition to like or love someone. However, in the talk, it says "Romantic love is an obssession." I think when we are in love, it's very difficult to explain why we crave to be with the one we love. We sometimes think that we want the one we love to be happy only because we think we love him or her, but in fact I think it's also because we will feel happy too if he or she is happy. Maybe biology somehow plays an important roll too.

My Interpretation of " a Space Odyssey 2001".

The movie was too difficult to get the deep meaning of it, and I don't think the movie has a clear theme for every one. Each individual would have different point of view after watching the movie, and I found it very difficult as I have seen very few science fictions and also because the movie itself is very deep.

The movie has four parts: the dawn if man, the monolith on the Moon, the Jupiter Mission, and Jupiter Beyond the infinite. When I was watching the movie in class, I didn't think the four parts are related to each other, but now after I thought about it carefully again, I think they are all related even the first part--the apes.

As what we disscussed in class, the femur bones,  the pen and the spaceship have something in common--basically their shapes, and also, they are all tools that used by mankind. I think the movie wants to tell us something about human evolution and technology. In the first part, when the ape started to use the bone, we can see the progress of the intelligence in human evolution, and in the second part, the pen means another progress of human evolution--a progress of the civilization. However, the third part and the forth part, when I saw the spaceship, I think it was an ironic as the shape made us think of the bone and the pen in the previous parts of the movie and because this time "this shape" this time doesn't necessarily mean a progress in human evolution. We are killing ourselves as we don't pay careful attention to the development of technology. The computer HAL was able to read people's mind, and it became very dangerous at last.

In my opinion, the last part of the movie shows the limit of the power in human society. When the glass broke into pieces on the floor, it made me think that "modern technology" is still a dream, and it's impossible to make this dream come true in a very short time; if we try too hard without paying enough attention to the technology itself, we will break ourselves like the broken glass. Also, I think the fetus is another sign which tells us that we still have a lot of things to know and to discover.

I'm not sure whether my interpretation is correct or not, but I believe there is not a certain correct interpretation for this movie, and I think I will have deeper interpretation after I watch it again next time.