"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.

I Hate Chinese Education System

If you are a Chinese student, you probably know that The University Entrance Examination has just finished. It is a big exam which judges students whether they can go to university and it is one of the important events in students' lives. Yesterday I chatted with my friend in China who had taken this exam for the second time. Probably because he has the same family name and from the same province as me, we get along very well with each other. He told me his result---failed again! He felt so disappointed and I felt so sad as well. I knew he was under great pressure last year because the exam is held annually, which means students have to wait one year more if they need to take it. I tried my best to consoled him but he still cried. A guy, cried, helpless...

Chinese Education System is like this, The University Entrance Examination is the only way that access to universities. They all concentrate your final mark, which takes 100%!!! If candidates feel nervous, sick or anything that not necessarily happened, they will fail it no matter how good they did before, Stupid! What a stupid exam! It makes the exam very significant and scared. I remember when I was a high school student in China, I could only get one and half days off after 2 -week study and 4 days off in summer break. Everyday I have to sit on my chair for over 9 hours in order to prepare the exam. The questions in the exam are very hard so that it can distinguish students into different levels, but some questions are nonsense, I mean students will never use them if they go to university or work. The only function is make the exam harder! All the students who finish high school will become exam's slave, no active and passion. Can you imagine they can get use to the society by having this ability?

I chatted with him till mid night and he felt better at last. One of his words that I can never forget: " I wish I could try again, but the time won't give me any permission."

Lots of people, die! die!

During the time after we finished our exam, my Taiwanese friend Chirs asked me to go to his home, which the time had been booked several days ago. After we had dinner in Chinatown, we
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!!

I failed the first day

Well, everyone knows what happened today during the mid term examination. At beginning, after Joy's question, I did not hear clearly and I misunderstood the writing exam would last till 4:18 or something. Definitely, that's what I heard! However, the real finishing time was 4 o'clock and I found it was hard to finish it on time. Right, I did not finish and I was asked to hand it in. Yes, I have to, I was so sorry that I wrote a little more. If I need to be taken off some mark because of it, go ahead! Then, something confused me: a student was still writing the article and was not stopped. First I thought the student had already handed in and did something else but it became clear when the door was shutted: the student was still in the room...
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!

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.