Haotian+Fang


 * Week 1:**

Jan 10 2011 Today I want to talk about friends. Well, as we all live in the big society, we can't do everything by ourselves, and relations exist every now and then. So, we make a lot of friends in the daily life. As I concerned, being a friend need to be honest. honesty is the foundation of of the friendship .Only honesty can lead to trust between friends. It is a common goal that we all want to talk something without any mask. And, of course,a friend should be reliable. He is available no matter when I need him, a person who can either share happiness or care about me when I am depressed. As an old saying:"A friend in need is a friend indeed." True friendship is strengthened in difficulties. So that is what I regard as a friend.

Jan 11 2011 Tonight I went to the library to borrow some novels. In my spare time I always like reading books. I got a book named The Daughter Of Time which is written by Josephine Tey--a famous female British writer.The name of this book comes from a old British saying:"The truth is the daughter of time.And no matter how deep it is hided,it is final brought into light.The story is about a detective who hurt his leg and was recovered in hospital reveal a Royal family murder case happened four hundred years ago just from a portray on the wall.This book is like a mirror which reflects what Josephine want to tell us.Many times we think that nothing can confuse our eyes.But when the disguise is uncovered,the truth is astonishing.The saying: Seeing is believing is not always right.We must be aware of the cover and the truth.

Jan 13 2011 Before I arrived here in Athens, I have a 7-days' vacation with my aunt's family. She has been living in Chicago for more than 10 years since she decided to pursue her master degree and studied abroad. Her husband also came here with her. She has two daughters, both are in primary school. So I have two sisters here. They are very lovely. During those days, there is one thing impressed me the most--The Ballet Nutcracker. It is full of fantasy and lead you into a mysterious dreaming world. This feeling is so abstract that I can't explain it well. I just feel entirely relaxed, as if I'm set free from the chains of the physical and drifting in the air. Dancing is a worldwide language. Even the people from different culture have no need to have a translation. When they are in it, the only thing they can and need is to appreciate the beauty of the ballet.

Jan 14 2011 Everybody has different memories. Today I'm going to talk a brave memory. When I graduated from my high school, I was admitted by the best university in my home town. After two years study there, I feel if I continue to study there, I'll be chained in brain and it drive me crazy. I can get a good job after graduated but I don't think it is the life I want, so I make a decision of studying abroad. Many friends of mine came to ask why I make such a wired decision, and they all thought I'm impetuous. But now I'm here and on my way to achieve the goal. Many times actually we already have our decision, but we don't dare to step forward. We are all born free, and just take it.


 * Week 2:** I make a decision. I will talk about one thing per week in these four journals. And this week I want to write something about "Jungle Rule".

Jan 20th 2011 "Jungle Rule" is always related to the words: power competetion and power conversion. It means the weak will be defeated by the strong one. Only the strong survive is the best description of this rule. When it comes to "Jungle Rule", most people will regard it as a fallacy. They don't agree with it because the love and care for the weak exist in the world. Not only the battle is the instinct, but also the mercy. In the idealists' prespective, freedom and fair is the main rhythm of the world. So the arguement about this rule is lasting for several years. But is it realy right or wrong or even we can't judge it by the right and wrong? Actually, I think there is no contradictions on such a problem. The arguement comes along the s uperficial understanding of this rule. Everybody are born in different circumstances, which is the diversity of the world. But we still have the ability to make a choice or step forward and that is a g eneralized equility. That's what I want to say--the "Jungle Rule" is a symptom of power philosophy.

Jan 21st 2011 "Zong Heng" is a accient Chinese word. Just Judged from the surface of this word, it means the length and depth of the understanding of the world. But "Zong Heng" is a group of people who are full of intellegence. One of this kind people is a mixed talent of adviser, tacticion, debater and diplomat. They are long-sighted and clear-minded to solve problems. But their indentity is no more than a adviser. But there still someone has his own goal. Because they don't have the power to make a decision due to their background as they don't own any territory or wealth. And if they want to control the trend of the situation What they can do is try to persuade the lord. What they need is to have an oppotunity to prove themselves and sell their strategies in exchange for the power that one day they can rely on to be a leader. It's a old saying: Build up stairs and then you'll be on the top of the cliff. I think "Zong Heng" is the best practical application of the "Jungle Rule" philosophy.

Jan 22nd 2011 There were two famous "Zong Heng" in accient time. Once the whole land was burning in the endless battle. Seven kindoms fought with each other for several years, and numerous young men devoted their lives to the war which should not happen. The idealists' advice couldn't change the lords' mind. Their eyes were enchanted by the territory. There was no compromise and it was a game of life and death. In such a condition, only the "Zong Heng" made the difference. To defeate the most dangerous kindom Qin, a man called Su Qin put forward his strategy, and convinced other six kindoms' lords to ally. And he became the prime minister of these six kindoms, commanded the allience amy winning a lot of wars. At the same time, a tacticion of kindom Qin named Zhang Yi put another strategy. He broke the trust of the allience, and the Qin army defeat other kindom one by one. And this was where the word "Zong Heng" came from.

Jan 23rd 2011 Leadership is the most formidable power in the world. A leader should have the ability of manage. When a team is working together,all the team members should take their own duties and cooperate well in order to make the work do smoothly. So it is important for a leader to make sure all the staff in a good working condition and have work done as soon as possible. Secondly a leader should be long-sighted. The world is full of change. Many decision should be made just in time. A foresight on the decision lead to profit, avoid the risk that entail financial loss. These two are the most important character of a leader or someone who wants to be a leader.


 * Week 3:** This week the topic is home.

Jan 27th 2011 What is the word home mean? We all have a home. Judging from this word's surface, it's a place where we are born, a shelter where we can find protect when depressed. The word home first come with the blood relations. When we are brought to the world, we have the feeling of nothing, we are so pure that from that moment our emotions are tightly related to home. And all the familiar surroundings are carved into our bones, baked on our skin. This familar sense can make one feel entirely relaxed and released. So that's why a lot of people seek the way back home when they exprience a lot and get to the end of their lives.

Jan 28th 2011 There is another theory that the feeling of free is the most important about the home. Because sometimes a home can't even give them a time to feel relax or protect them from the freezing dold outside, and we can always find somethings to devote ourselves and let it be the spiritual destination. What blood relationship make the difference is merely provide a great many oppotunities to understand and adapt the life. We can't live only in the past, and we will find the most brilliant star illuminate on the way. That's the real meaning of the home.

Jan 29th 2011 In my perspective, the essence of the home is the sense of belonging. We are born with a destination, the whole life of a man is to find the end to feel free. But no matter it is the native homeland you spend your chidhood or other things which you love and live on, if it can make you free, we can both identify them as the home. Actually, it is the sense of belonging that sooth the wrinkle and heal the wound. And that's the unique significance of the home sense. The Buddhists have a philosophy of living is feeling free, it have the same purpose with the feeling of the home.

Jan 30th 2011 We devote our love to home, and we also want to be loved. An interaction between home and individual will happen if we want to do something change the surroundings. Patriotism is the best example of the home feeling. Such as, Matin Luther King.JR, the French Revolution in 1700s, and World War II. Both the negotiation and conflict are the methods of changing. At such moment they let their emotion control reason, they are the true lover of the home.


 * Week 4:** This week the topic is communication.

Feb 3rd 2011 Communication is the most basic relation in our society nowadys. Our human are born with the ability and duty of communicating. We see the color of nature, we smell the breezing wind, we taste the cool spring, we hear the ringing of the rain. We are given with the perceptions as a gift, and those are the methods the human learning from the world. It's the exchange between the several individuals and different aspects. Only by understanding can human move forward to the unknown world. The curiocity si the forward motivation of human, and communication is the only way to achieve understanding. That's the status of the communication.

Feb 4th 2011 Language is a special and specific communicatial method and it's the most significant tool for people to get a better understanding from each other. Language is the practical application of cogitation and logic. We can understand the world and time by language which is more like a bridge accessing to the essence. Along the river of time flowing, language have been changing gradually. In one hand a lot of messages had lost in the dirt, but on the other hand others had been putting forward, as a animated lake, inport and export exist at the same time.

Feb 5th 2011 There is a great show of HBO called Six Feet Under I love the most. The Fishers' family runs an independent funeral, and their job are putting makeup on dead people to let them pass away in dignity. The whole show's topic is about the communication and seeking for the reason why people can't understand each other. Just like Clair-- the daughter of Fisher, pursues her artist life, but always be misunderstand. The mutual understanding between people is always the difficulty problem for the sages. We are given a gift of communication, and along with it comes the curse-- obstacles in the way of understanding.

Feb 6th 2011 In my perspective, everyone is like a spot which in different directions and coordinates. That cause the diversity. There are two reasons why the communication is so difficult for people. the first one--- the fear to the unknown darkness. They more adapt to their established lives and fear to know the outside. Just like the saying: their spirits are confided in their body, can't drifting in the sky. Then arrogance is another cause. People like that are too haughty to accept others' logic. They ignore and attack feeling which is different from theirs.


 * Week 5:** This week the topic is education.

Feb 10th 2011 Education comes from the Latina word "educare", which means to conduct the inner power out of the body, set the spirit free from the chains of the physicals. When it comes to education, it is related to the words "development" and "transformation", and education is always and will forever be the most important part in human's daily life. Only by the education activities, can the new generation master the essence of the world, that is just like the saying:"Darkness would not be depersed without the light of the education". As a Chinese, I spent my past 12 years in the Chinese education systom. I have ever experienced several tests and exams, and now I choose to study abroad. I'm here for three months scarcely and I dare not to say how much I understand the education systom here, but I still want to say something. So let us talk about the two types of the education I ever exerprienced in my life.

Feb 11th 2011 Before I came here, I had a probable awareness of the education in the USA. It is that students in American always have more spare time to enjoy their lives, such as sports, music and games. They don't have to be worried about the competition, so they are more likely to establish the interest and deveote to it. When I first step on the USA, the fact impress me more deeply. I think there is more opportunities for students to really benefit from the education itself. Not many temptation and confusion in the university, no one here is compelled by the pressure of surviving. They know what they want, and still cognize themselves from the circumstance. Actually it provides the best cradle for the individual thought germinating.

Feb 12th 2011 On the contrary,education in my homeland is familiar to me and I think it's really a terrible experience. Repetitive homeworks and tests fill the whole life in the school. Many critics regard this systom as a running horse without purpose. Because they are more likely to do a job, not to study. It turn out to be that too much concentration on the exams make them slave inadvertently instead. Because they can't learn something which can make them aware of what they really want from the study itself or get some interest in the world. It a tragedy caused by the competitive presures. You know the GAOKAO in China, which hold the same status the SAT in the USA. Too many competitors lead to the higher score of the exams required. So they have to work harder to be admitted by a better university which means to live a better life. Mostly what they do is not the life they really want, is just having a superior position over others. Every one is too humble to be faced with the wheel of the society, and that's why the education system is gradually over the control.

Feb 13th 2011 In my perspective, just to make a living is the pointless gain for a student's school life, and it's more like a waste of time. The most significant thing we should grasp is the cognition of yourself and that is why education exist in the tide of time. It is your own pursuit and your characters that can help you find the essence of the life. And what education do is just provide you the opportunities to think and acquire. Just like the old saying:"Don't be enchanted by public opinions or you'll be finally lost." Happiness and desire is the power keep us forward to live. The time you know what you want, is the time you deserve it. Back to our topic. To be honest, American education is better than Chinese. But American education is merely a station, not the end. The education systom still need to be change and it is changing for the years.


 * Week 6:** This week the topic is about the relation between human and nature.

Feb 17th 2011 Modern civilizing is the most irreversible trend of the world nowadays. Due to two industrial revolution, a great deal of inventions appeared in this blue planet. It brought a lot of convenience and development for the whole world, but it also came with a great many problems and threatens to the citizens of the world village. For instance, the land-- this precious source can't grow along the time, and there are more land are exploited as human greedy not human need. I mean, it is the vital time to make a difference. There is more need for land to be left in its natural condition in my country, even in the whole world.

Feb 18th 2011 Land is one of the most precious resources in the world. Its status is the most significant to human than the others do. Just because land is our foundation of lives as even the birds living in the sky have to roost and find a perch. If we exploit too much land to be used for industry or housing, a permanent harm will be made to the layer structure of the land. And also there are a lot of industrial chemical abandoned or leaked till the end of the programme. As we all know, such kinds of chemicals are hardly to be broken down along the time. They exist in the deeper layers by eroding the soil, and may pollute the underwater system, which menace our next generations under the surface.

Feb 19th 2011 Raw forest is also an important resource. But the percentage of the forest coverage has descent gradually nowadays which means our planet will be almost bare befor long. Forest can hold the soil and water under the surface, and also help protect from the sandstorm. What forest to land is like what skin to the whole body. It can’t be too important than the saying. Water system also act an important character. As the old oriental saying:”Water on the earth is the circulatory system and a mysterious power which can heal the world.” What the saying want to warn us is just the problems threaten the world. In the past, we utility too much freshwater, and that harm the earth layer structure by destroy the stability of the soil and stone which can lead to the layer collapse in the coming future.

Feb 20th 2011 Sometimes our humans' behavior can cause the environment problem of resources laking or environmental pollution both. That means if we don't respect the planet, we will be faced with so many risks and entail an depraved environment condition which may not be suitable for our human lives, and our homeland will abandon us finally. Why is that happened? The audicity and ingnorant make it. It is said that our human is so powerfull that we can change the world. That such arrogant saying will eventually devastate ourselves. Because we still are part of the world, human and nature is inseparable. We have only one planet called earth. We are the part of this planet.


 * Week 7:** This week the topic is Erhu.

Feb 24th 2011 The Erhu is an ancient Chinese instrument and it was invented by the Normadic in the north of China. Dating back to more than a thousand years ago, Erhu firstly appeared in the Central China and became widely performed in West Jin Dynasty due to the constant wars between the ancient Chinese and northen Normdic. Erhu as the winning booties was played by the soldiers in Han army, and brought back to the Central China after the war. Its midly and melodicious timbre deeply apealed not only the homesick soldiers in the military but also the musicians. It was integradted into Chinese civilization and evolved into its present form gradually.

Feb 25th 2011 The Erhu consist of several parts. The body of the Erhu--a long vertical stick, at the top of which are two tuning pegs, and at the bottom is a sound box which is covered with python skin on the both side. Two strings are attached from the pegs to the base, and a small loop of string placed around the neck and strings acting as a pulls the strings towards the skin, holding a small wooden bridge in place. Then comes the bow--a bending stick with a punch of horse hair attached to its both side. When the horse hair chafed the strings, the vibration of python skin produced the sounds. And of course it is the reason why the timbre is so melodicious and evoke the nostalgia of the soldiers apart from theie hometown.

Feb 26th 2011 Now let's talk about the New Age Music. It has a wide range of instrumental, neo-classic, mix-electronic, ambrient and tribal. But the category is not the determinant of classify. The most characteristic of this kind music is it can give you a enormous imagination when you in it. Nothing can confide you here, just have the best feeling of this kind of music. The timbre is misteristic because of the mix and the rythme is complex and varied as if the audiences are mesmerized jut now. It is full of fantasy and lead you into a mysteristic dreaming world. It's so abstract and I'm afraid that I can't express this feeling well.

Feb 27th 2011 I have been away form home for almost two months, and I'm a little missing my Erhu. She must be in stillness and waiting for my triumph, siliently but ardently. In my spare time I always play it. When I'm in them, I feel entirely relaxed, as if I'm set free from the chains of the physical and drifting in the air. I'll smell the magic breeze through my heart. Just a while I will be full of energy and easily concetrate on what I'm doing. As we all know,music is a worldwide language. It has no need of translation between people from different culture even between the human and the nature.


 * Week 8:** This week the topic is movies.

Mar 3rd 2011 Come with the development of modern electronic revolution, movie has become an essential industry in the world. It is one of the methods of communication, inform and impact people who is accepting the messages sent by the directors. It is also an inevitable trend of diversity for movie developing. The two basic group--- movies which are serious,designed to make the audience thing and others designed primarily to amuse and entertain. In me perspective, movies which can make people think is like a cultural essence than the movies just to make people idle their lives and let time past away. It is said, the power make human step forward is the happiness, that is true. But it doesn’t mean the valueless and frivolous laughter. Of course, sometimes watching some movies can make you relaxed after the whole week’s heavy load. It is just a release, and you can’t rely on it for the whole happiness. Only thinking can feel you alive, which is the gift for the human. Mar 4th 2011 At first, movies can make you have a better understand of the world which is related to, such as the environment, the war and the fraternal. I think why it makes you think is it happens around yourself, it gives a feeling of something insinuated into your brain. From that moment, you attention is attracted by the curiosity-- why I never notice it happened, why I never know what is going on it? Moreover, the complex world is resolved into several combinations in your imagine outlet. If you want to know what is going on, and ultimately you will have a better under standing of it. For example, a movie named “The Lord of The War” which is performed by Nicolas Cage in 2002. It is a real painting of the affliction in the land of the Africa, also the jungle rule-- power control the poor in bottom. Mar 5th 2011 Movies always touch the tenderest place and sway over the chords in your heard. From such kind of movies we regard as the spritual guide we can resonate and release our inner emotion. Just like the movie "Good Will Hunting" want to tell us, please open your heart to the ones you love, and look on the bright side of life. And in "The City of Angel", the loves always have been engraved in our memories because it go out in a snuff. Emotion is most invincible power which is hidden behind the flesh and concealed under the surface of the emotion lake. Thanks to these movies, our emotional lives are rich and colorful. Mar 6th 2011 Although you may afraid of the serious movies, they are not educational and you won’t be bored. Some movies which make you think are also full of fantasy. They won't disgust you on the first sight. It just like a spider, draws your attention on its beautiful appearance and appeals you into its deathful web, then follows the poison injected in you body which I think it is a good analogy of appealing and influncing. It feels like you are drown in the sweat trap. You are changing gradually in an unknow way which even youself are not aware of. Don't be scared, patiently witness the great moment you risen and born from the buring ashes.