Wednesday 11 August 2010

new words for today

I set up a goal for myself. To learn five words per day! Start from today. Let's see how long I could carry on.

col·lab·o·ra·tive
–adjective
characterised or accomplished by collaboration: collaborative methods; a collaborative report.

collaborate (kəˈlæbəˌreɪt)

— vb (often foll by on, with, etc )
1. to work with another or others on a joint project
2. to cooperate as a traitor, esp with an enemy occupying one's own country

Main Entry: collaborative
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cooperative
Synonyms: collective, combining, joint, shared, synergetic /ˌsɪnərˈdʒɛtɪk/, synergic, synergistic


pen·e·tra·tion
   /ˌpɛnɪˈtreɪʃən/
–noun
1.the act or power of penetrating.
2.mental acuteness, discernment, or insight: a scholar of rare penetration.
3.the obtaining of a share of a market for some commodity or service.
4.the extension, usually peaceful, of the influence of one nation or culture into the affairs of another.
5.a military attack that penetrates into enemy territory.
6.Gunnery . the depth to which a projectile goes into the target.
7.the measure of relative depth of field of a telescope or microscope, esp. a binocular microscope.

—Synonyms
2. understanding, perception, discrimination, depth, profundity.

spec·trum

–noun, plural -tra  /-trə/ Show Spelled[-truh] Show IPA, -trums.
1.Physics .
a.an array of entities, as light waves or particles, ordered in accordance with the magnitudes of a common physical property, as wavelength or mass: often the band of colors produced when sunlight is passed through a prism, comprising red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
b.this band or series of colors together with extensions at the ends that are not visible to the eye, but that can be studied by means of photography, heat effects, etc., and that are produced by the dispersion of radiant energy other than ordinary light rays. Compare band spectrum, electromagnetic spectrum, mass spectrum.

2.a broad range of varied but related ideas or objects, the individual features of which tend to overlap so as to form a continuous series or sequence: the spectrum of political beliefs.

Monday 2 August 2010

This week's plan

By the end of this week, finish the video for Susanna and my family.

Tomorrow, edit the video for Susanna wedding.

Wednesday, edit the video for my family.

Thursday, tell toastmaster that you wont have the camera any more because it's time to return it to the uni. Arrange the time to meet Susanna.

Friday, start writing the essay.

Saturday & Sunday- maybe go out?

write for me

Dear Xiaoqing,

I know that you are very upset today. You were later for your important meeting with your tutor. You missed the very useful guide to write your MA essay. Your brief will be marked down 10% only because your tutor changed his words. Your supervisor did not do things in the way you want. He criticised your online work but it was too late to change the content, not to mention that you once had to change your topic.

You have been frustrated with your final project since May. But you did not tell others. In the midnight you looked through the ceiling, quietly, thinking about the structure of your story. You expected someone who told you how to do it better. You don't understand why people are so easy to say that you should rely on self-learning. The cultural differences bring misunderstanding. Communications break down.

You remembered the very beginning day in Shanghai. You stood on the roof of your school's tall building. With the hot wind passed, you felt so lonely on the planet. You did not like the major. You did not have a friend then. People spoke another dialect around you. You could not find the classrooms or the cafeteria. All you remembered was in the hot hot weather, you tried your best not falling on the street.

You thought you had buried these days. The hardest days that you went through.

Actually they did not disappear. They lived in the deep bottom of your memory and would come out when you were low.

But you have to grow up to face the difficulties in your life. There will never be a person always going to help you. Yes you will meet somebody who could help you to certain extent. But you can't rely on that.

Human is a lonely straw. This is the destination.

He born alone and leaves alone.

I hope you write this, read this and become better. There is always a way to save your blue mood.

And you will come out from it on your own.

Love from
your dream