Saturday, December 8, 2007
Final Round
I always feel nervous after hearing " Final round" when I play fighting games because it can judge me whether win the game or not. Similarly, final exams just the final round in our program. If I fail in the final, I will lose half of the course. We just finished the writing exam, which is the most difficult one. I mean, for me. However, I think I did not so bad as I thought. The topic I chose was to describe advantages of one kind of energy and I wrote nuclear power because basically I knew how it works. After the exam, I found nuclear energy is not only a kind of useful power nowadays, but also a good friend of many EAP 3 students cuz I noticed that most of students who chose this topic wrote about nuclear energy. In addition, none of them feel bad about writing but they thought they did a pretty good job. Yeah, glad to hear that.
Well, I think because of approaching the final, everybody's skills, which include both physical and mental, have been suddenly improved. Not far before the final, we had a wonderful party. We had food, fruit and all kinds of stuff. We kept talking and eating for hours. At.T first, I thought the food were too much to eat; on contrary, the food almost gone after the party because some people ate really fast and too much. Scott was a good example. When I was extremely full, he was still looking for something good to eat. LOL!
Anyways, exams haven't been finished and we shouldn't be relaxed. More challenge are still waiting for us.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Get Shocked
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Successful Universities
Last couple of weeks, while I was walking in the university, I was thinking about a question. Looking at students from all over the world, I wondered why they come to here and study? Generally speaking, every year millions of students come to study in North America. Like Chinese international students, which take the highest percentage of them, have to pay huge tuition fees but they still choose to leave their own country. Why? I think the reason is not just the job crunch in China, but the problem is educational system.
Educational system sounds really common; however, it contains lots of things. I checked Li kai fu's blog, who used to be the vice-president of Microsoft, and found some edification from it. A successful university just like a private company, everything needs to be judged by itself. Things like tutors, courses have to be adjusted with the situations of the university. Some universities are controlled by governments so for example, they have to wait for funds from the governments. In contrast, a private school get money from foundation so that they have more freedom. Because of this, these universities can improve very fast and it is why private universes, especially in the US achieve a great success. In addition, these universities may try some different ways to improve. Some of them are crazy, like the MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has spent about a hundred million dolloars in order to share 2000 courses on the Internet for free. Although the university has lost huge profit, it is good way for them to try distance education and become the best university of engineering. Compared to them, Chinese universities are far behind so there in no doubt that students come to here and study.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Hitman, between game and movie.
I have been waiting for the movie "Hitman" for a long time, and finally I watched it because I am a super fans of this game. This game is developed by a company called IO in Denmark and it has 4 series so far. I remembered when I first played this game, I couldn't admire more about the great idea of the game: you acted as a hitman who named 47 to assassinate certain people for money. In addition, I have convinced my father to play this game and he really got into it. After several years later, it has become a movie, which was wonderful news for me. However, finishing the movie, I felt a little frustrated.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
This year is much better
Monday, November 12, 2007
My Computer SUX
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Watch SAW IV
Due to it was the first time that SAW IV was showed to audience today, there were large amount of people there and before the movie started, no seat was available in the theatre. Although I have never seen other series that precede SAW IV so that it always made me confused, the scene of the movie was awesome, which was extremely violence and bloody. During the time of watching the movie, it was easy to see people get killed by cruel way. In addition, people easily get shocked by watching splash of blood. I remembered some description of this movie: "Brutal Violence, Gory Scenes, Disturbing Content" Well, it is true. When I left the theatre, I saw some girls was still sitting on their seats with clothes covered on their bodies and felt scared. I highly recommend you to watch this movie if you get bored; however, you had better think twice whether you can stand the scene of the movie!!
Monday, October 22, 2007
My room mates
As I have moved to a new apartment, I have two room mate to live with and both of them are taking the master in U of C. I have mentioned before that they are really nice and we usually chat each other during the free time. what I wanna say is they all have their own habbits, which are quite obvious and funny. One is name Alex, whose major is Computer Science. We had already bcome friends before I moved to here. He is a really tough guy because I can see he is busy with his dissertation almost everyday. He gets up early as well, about 8 o'clock in the morning whatever it's weekday or weekend. He hardly has time to have fun; however, he is crazy about chatting though the Internet. He often open MSN, Skype and QQ and chat with more than 5 people at the same time lol. But his tpying is really fast. Last a couple of weeks, I bought a new Mircosoft keyboard and it's awesome; however, Alex used it most of the time because he thought using my keyboard for chatting was comforable, so I had to lend it to him and I could use nothing.So sad.
Another room mate is named Vince. He is a biology student and he has graduated from Beijing University, which is a top university is China; however, he seems do not study very hard because biology courses are not tense, but Alex always tell him that it is hard to find a job for biology students :) Vince has a strong habit, which is singing songs. Every time, I could hear
voice of his songs from his room. One day, his voice was extremely aloud and it was hard to understand what he was singing about. Finally, I figured out he was singing a Japanese song!!
While he doesn't like chatting at all. Although he has MSN, he never open it..
Anyway, I love living with my room mates and they give me lots of happy time so far.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Bad time to join the University
Today after the meeting with Mr. Lee, Mark, Eric, Megan, Theresa and I started to talking about our future. Well actually we got started to worrying about our future studies because all of us have met problem of choosing courses, for the time we would join the University is Winter but not fall. As we know, the new courses begin in Fall, and if we take courses in Winter, that means we must have missed some classes so that we gonna fail because of lack of knowledge. If we choose to give up and take new courses in Fall next year, that means we have to wait about 8 months!!! Therefore, we feel heritage a lot.
Take me as an example, my faculty is Engineering, and because the first year is called general,
so I have to study exact 5 courses each semester and these courses will be chosen by our faculty
staff other than myself, so everything just like a chain that well organized and could not be separated apart. After checking all the first year courses of Engineering, I will miss( have already missed) Design and communication and all the Mathematics courses which inlcudes infinitesimal calculus and Linear Algebra. I have learned a lot about science subjects so that I know the class will be extemely hard if people are short of fundmental knowledge. Although I am very interested in Mathematics and Physics, but make up for the knowledge of 4 months is almost impossible.
Now I deciede to ask my faculty advisors for help in order to make sure whether the winter courses are related to the Fall courses or not. If they do, how much pressure I have to take if I choose study in Winter. I have to think before leap because I would choose to wait rather than fail!!!
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Fight against the MasterCard
Monday, October 1, 2007
I totally have no feeling!!!
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Horrible Memory...
Friday, July 20, 2007
I really miss my language school !!
Monday, July 16, 2007
WCG 2007
WCG, which is short for World Cyber Games, is the world wide game competition match. Since the E-sports became very popular nowadays, lots of matches were held, lots of clubs were established; just as other sports such as soccer and basketball, E-sports can be a member of sports family and have both matches and players, while the WCG is the biggest one and it started in the year of 2001, which is held in Seoul, Korea. At first, it was not accepted by people because they had misconception of games; however, with the time moved on, the E-sports became an essential element for many people's lives.
The WCG is held annually and this year, 2007 it will be held in Seattle, the USA. Now people are voting what games will be placed in the match of this time. Of couse Warcraft, Starcraft and Counterstrike can be chosen for sure, but it is quite fair that every game has an opportunity to get into the match. If it is possible, the FIFA 07 could be replaced by the NBA Live 07. Anyway, I hope China will have a wonderful performance in this time, also I have confidence that either SKY or FLY can be the champion in the Warcraft.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
A busy month....
Let me summarize them: Whole bunch of assignment + Final + Renew the study permit + Finding a new apartment + three days working per week + Deal with complex relationship with my friends + Cooking everyday + No Internet at home!!!
All the things above are needed to be done in only 20 days!!
Suddenly I remembered a classic words: If the God wanna destroy a person, the God must drive him/her crazy first; HOWEVER, I had been crazy for a long time and why the God did not destroy me ????
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Free Breakfast
Jiacheng lee, who is the richest person in Asia, has donated 3 million CA dollars to the University of Calgary, actually the money went to the school of Engineering. So naturally, people who belong to this faculty need to treat everyone because of it. I don't know whether it is necessary; however, it is reasonable and at least in China people usually follow this rule. In any case, I had a free breakfast today, which has lots of fun because many people around there. We had beautiful music, people's laughing and of course, delicious food. Most important, I felt the future is bright due to the donation on the Engineering field. The chances are better than before, so what has been left is study hard.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
I met Déjà Vu today
Saturday, June 30, 2007
"Remember the name"
I love listening to music, especially the type of Hip-hop. I think the main reason is that my voice is horrible when I am singing a song, while if the content of music is only lyrics without music but with strong rhythm, I can do pretty well, so I used to perform some hip-hop songs in my class.
These days, I listened a hip-hop song from Fort Minor named "Remember the name". It is not a new song and probably you guys have already heard that during the NBA game; however, what I wanna say is I feel this song is really significant for different situations. Some words are quite forgetable.
"It's just ten percent luck,Twenty percent skill,Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,Five percent pleasure,Fifty percent pain,And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!"
These words in the song has a very simple meaning, which is let listeners remember Fort Minor, yet, they has been considered in different meanings: The NBA is one example. Also, some people think it is a way that access to success, while some people think it is a way of calculating diligent. I remembered at the end of last year that the PLU WARCRAFT 3 was held in Beijing.
The theme song of the march is "remember the name", which gave a surprise. After watching the MV, I found it was reasonable and the song just fit the match. I really love this song and I appreciate the singing skills of Fort Minor.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
I Hate Chinese Education System
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Lots of people, die! die!
went to his home but this time was kinda special because he let me to watch a scared movie with him.WTF! I hate that. I really hate this kind of movie, which doesn't make any sense except you feel exciting and hard to sleep at night. While he forced me watch it and told me this movie is so
classic that I cannot miss it. I had no method and had to watch it even though it was 12 o'clock.
The name of the movie called "The Dawn of Dead". Although it was an old movie, it was classic.
I was so surprised I was kind of enjoying the movie after half was gone. Furthermore, Chirs just got into the movie, which made me appreciate him. He always regard him as a character in the movie who met trouble. he thought if he met the same problem, what could he do in the situation. WOW, he was crazy. I guessed how many year had he been watching the scared movie!! In any case, we had a good time on that day.
One thing I forgot to say: I love the theme song of this movie. So passion! One lyric said " Lots of people, die! die!" Cool!!
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
I failed the first day
In any case, it has passed. Actually what I should complain is not anyone else, but myself. If everybody had handed their works in on time, my mark would not be changed. So I think I should learn something from it. That is improve my English especially writing. Why most students could finish it and I could not? I do not wanna say something about fair and only know the reality that they finished writing; therefore, I need to get rid of moody and ready for the exam tomorrow, which is the most important thing I have to mention to!
Friday, June 1, 2007
EAPP VS TOEFL
As everyone knows, before studying at U of C, you need to fulfill the English requirement and the two ways you can do is either TOEFL or EAPP. I have taken both of them so I wanna compare to each other.
A. Difficulty: The TOEFL is a pure English test, which includes Reading, Listening, Speaking and Writing. It is very difficult definitely and sometimes even for the English speakers without any training. The new TOEFL ibT has been added speaking part, which is more challenging for us. Some of them are even too academic such as archeology or biology. Reading is not easy as well, approximately 20 min for 13 exercises.
EAPP, I will never say it's easy, somehow I feel harder in some impacts. It depends on which we you regard them. If you only compare English level, TOEFL is more crazy.
B. Time: Easy to compare. Use me as an example---two terms need to be done, so the whole time is about 6 months. TOEFL: 4 hours.
C. Fees: Still easy to compare. Two terms means 8,000 dollars and it does not include textbooks. TOEFL: range from 170 to 250 US dollar.
D.Function: TOEFL, even you can pass it, still not helpful. As I mentioned before, it is a pure English test, which only prove you have a good English skill, but you may still fail at the university. The reason is you haven't had enough training for academic purpose, especially writing. EAPP is the way you can learn English systematically and it helps you get use to studying at university.
Some people may think that I would rather choose TOEFL because it is really convenient. Well,
if your English is perfect, I will 100 percent recommend you take the TOEFL; however, if it does not apply to you, you'd better give it up after trial. I knew a person, which a teacher told me about him when I took the TOEFL test, he has been taking the test for 7 years and still no success. Also sometimes you saw people passed the TOEFL in one or two times and it seems lovely,but do you know how much hard work he/she had behind it?
Definitely, I have no right to compare the two programs because I am also a loser in the test. Indeed, what I want to express is to show everyone that neither of them is simple. They all need efforts and sweat in order to achieve success.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The VOA News
Sunday, May 13, 2007
My first BLOG
time to teach me about it.(I know little about computer as well -_-0).From the very basic info to adding media,from creating a new profile to having links.Any way,I had my own blog at last.But you know what,nothing I wrote on it TILL NOW.I know I'm so lazy,while the main reason is that I don't know on which spot I should start with.One thing may be comfort me :I still remember my user name and password...
Well,now I made up my mind,to write blog in English,which is a wonderful practise,eh?
Both for promoting my writting skill and exchange ideas with friends. Tell the truth,sometimes
I'm worried about how to invite my friends from my own country?Possibly They will refuse to viewing it.h However,I am here Canada,a English speaking country and people use English mostly,so it is not big deal I guess.
This is my first blog which I wrote in the U of C.My home's network doesn't work:6 Damn!
Welcome to my blog though it is quite simple.I will try my best to make it better.Also I really wanna meet some new friends who have the same interest as me.Thx!