Blog3: we should learn from Jeremy Shu-How Lin

These days, many Chinese people are proud of a basketball player named Jeremy Shu-How Lin. I think the reasons for the success of Lin can be concluded into two aspects.

Firstly, Lin has a great talent for playing basketball. There is no denying that the talent plays a pivotal role in individual career, especially in the sporting territory. This point can be accurately illustrated with the example of Michael Jordan, a great or even the best basketball player on this planet; when he was a boy, the height of his bounce was even twice times than his peer’s; in addition, his body could efficiently converted food into muscle while others may almost convert their food into cholesterol. Thus, when fans called Jordan “the god of basketball”, it was not only a compliment for his great effort, but also his unique physical quality. Although in many ways, it seems to be meaningless to make a comparison between Lin and Jordan, they all have an essential gift for playing basketball. This gift, indeed, helps Lin to be successful.

Then, the second factor is his effort. As a typical Chinese American, he has neither a robust body nor amazing bounce ability; however, he has a brave heart, which timely gives him motivation when he fails and never let him give up. Although graduating from Harvard, the best university in the world, he was a failure in the NBA before he joined the New York Knicks; actually, he was ever fired by three teams and even seldom got a chance to play in the pitch; in spite of this, he never gave in to the fate. I think his success is not a coincidence; on the contrary, he deserved this glory, since hard work should pay off.

I think we should learn from Lin. Whatever we do, we should spare no effort to accomplish it, no matter how difficult it is. We also should keep a balance between sports and study. For instance, Lin distributed a great deal of time playing basketball, but he did not jeopardize his study, as he nearly got a full mark in the SAT. Perhaps this is the reason why Harvard decided to admit him. Of course we should not indiscriminately worship Lin, but I think Lin’s experience can give us a lot of enlightenment.

Do you think so?

Blog3: Tips about Love

The theme of this week reminds me of a song called ”Any Man of Mine”, which describes a perfect man who falls in love with someone. I find something interesting from the lyric.

“Any man of mine better be proud of me.
Even when I'm ugly he still better love me”

When people love someone, they are always proud of partners.They often regard their partners as priceless treatures. However, their attitude towards treasures can be quite different. Some may be willing to show how brilliant their partners are while others may cherish them in mind.



"Any man of mine'll say it fits just right
When last year's dress is just a little too tight
And when I cook him dinner and I burn it black
He better say, mmmm, I like it like that yeah"


Love is blind. When people fall in love, they can hardly see their partners’ shortcomings. People think their pateners are pretty even when they look like a mess. Everything they say is right.


"And anything I do or say will be okay
when I have a bad hair day."

Love makes many things forgivable.There are times when we think we will never forgive people who cheat on us. However, things may change after we fall in love with someone. It is true that we have our own principles, but we always want to find excuses for their dishonest behaviors because we hope they are innocent.


"Well any man of mine better disagree
when I say another woman's lookin' better than me"

Love causes envy. I have to admit that love really brings bad effects,such as envy. People can do crazy things when they are jealous of others.That is why trust is important.If we trust our partners and ourselves, love will not cause jealousy anymore.

Blog 3: Can You Afford a Love with A Distance of Thousands of Miles?

In the world of Chinese students, it is always a problem that what we should do when we are separated from our boyfriends or girlfriends because of study or other factors. Many couples keep their relationship successfully. However, more couples break up after a certain time of suffering. So what are the right things to do for students in this awkward situation?

From my perspective, the first thing to do is to question yourself: can the feeling between you and your lover be called love. Or it is just a kind of affection or just a kind of capital to show off. If your answer is no, then there is no need to maintain the relationship. What’s more, you should reflect why you childishly invest your deep emotion into something which is not called love. However, if your answer is yes, that is a completely different thing.

In my opinion, in this situation, you should spare no effort to maintain, to develop your relationship with her or him who is thousands of miles away from you. It could be hard or even suffering to get through the difficulties caused by distance, but love itself is never an easy thing to achieve. You must have the belief in your mind that as long as you try hard to keep in touch with your lover, to maintain the relationship with him or her, the electricity feeling between you two will never disappear. In some cases, one side of the couple quit their love in the so-called reasons of that there will be no end for their love with all the barriers. But what they say is nothing but excuses. They are just cowards who do not have the courage to face the necessary difficulties in love. What they lost is not just a piece of relationship but also can be the happiness for the whole life.

So, if you are far away from your lover, or if you will be like this in a future day, please consider my words. It is not only a kind of theoretic speech; it is the words from a person who was in regret for something he did.

Blog 3: A Sad Love Story

Once in this cold, perplexing world lived an ordinary girl called Selene together with her parents. They lived a poor but happy life.

However, when Selene was 17 years old, she found herself losing memory step by step. This is because she had ever protected a butterfly who is actually a princess who was being cursed. The curse transferred to Selene, making her lose her soul as time went by. Selene had an ominous foreboding and she was very sad because she thought there are so many beautiful things in the world which she didn’t taste. So she begged her parents to let her to travel around the world. As her wish was so strong, her parents had no choice but to agree.

After many months spent on the journey, Selene got to a small town one day. That day happened to be a bazaar day. At that time, the poor girl had already forgotten all the things apart from love and sympathy. While Selene was wandering in the street, her attention was attracted by a puppet left in the corner with its eyes full of sadness. His ugly face and strange body might explain its situation that no one wanted to get close to it. Teardrops fell from the girl’s eyes. At this moment, a fairy appeared, and she told the girl that the puppet is actually a prince trapped by a witch’s curse. The fairy also said she could help the prince become human again, but all magic came with a price, it needed the thing that Selene cherished most. Without hesitation, the girl gave out her love.

The puppet soon changed into a handsome prince. The prince lost his heart to Selene at the first sight. If it’s a pure fairy tale, the story may go like this: the prince married Selene and they lived a happy life ever after. However, don’t forget one important thing-Selene had no love left, so when the prince proposed to her, she ran away. Nothing could help the situation because it was the price of magic. From then on, no one saw the poor girl again.

Thank you for reading my blog!

Blog 3：Shmily

I think many of you must have known this word—Shmily. There are a few stories about it. Now I would like to share two of them.

The first story is about a couple who loved each other very much. A boy found that his grandparents played a special game every day: they wrote the word “Shmily” on every place and let the other to find. “Shmily” popped out every where in the house. The boy was confused by the meaning of this word, but he could see the love his grandparents shared, as they expressed their emotions in all parts of their daily life—the grandmother always say that how charming and handsome her husband was and the grandfather loved to share a hug or kiss with her frequently. Although all these actions showed how deep they loved each other, the boy still did not get the meaning of the word until his grandmother’s death. On the funeral, the grandfather sang a song sadly, and from it the boy finally understood the word—S-H-M-I-L-Y: “See How Much I Love You”.

The other one was about two young lovers. An outgoing girl had a boyfriend who was too shy to show her his love. With the hope that the boy might change, the girl wrote “Shmily” on all his books to hint at him. However, the boy did not understand the word, so he did nothing. Angrily and sadly, the girl left the boy. Even so, they still kept the love for each other in their hearts for a long time. Many years later, the boy became an old man. One day he walked along a street and saw a flower shop whose name was “Shmily”. Then, he went into the shop with thoughts and feelings filling his heart. In the shop, he saw a young girl with warm smile just like his girl. In a shaking voice, he asked what the meaning of “Shmily” was. The girl told him that she saw the word in her one of her grandmother’s books, and “Shmily” meant “Say How Much I Love You”.

These two stories explained “Shmily” in two different ways. And I think both of them are heartwarming. The first story shows us the deep love between an old couple and the first explanation is so heartwarming. Nevertheless, the second story is a sad one and from it people may learn something important; that is, instead of making a puzzle, the lovers should try to show their love in a direct way, otherwise it might cause a lifelong regret.

Blog 2: Why I like Staying Up Late

I’ve always been having the habit of staying up late. I still remember when I was about 4 or 5 years old, I could still be singing karaoke at home energetically nearly midnight. Because my personality was really stubborn at that time, nobody succeeded in persuading me staying at the kindergarten. In this case, I could sleep till noon the next day. Till now, I still like sleeping very late the day before any holiday even the weekends. For instance, last night I didn’t go to bed until 2:30 in the morning. And today I want to give some of my reasons for why I like staying up late a lot~~~~

Maybe the first reason is that I like silence during late nights. The total peace around makes me feel that the whole world was asleep, which gets me feel really safe and calm. Whatever confusing me during the day will always come to a solution after a deep consideration at night. It’s really amazing. What’s more, the quiet atmosphere could greatly improve my studying efficiency.

Though I don’t know why, many of my classmates have admitted that midnights are best time for coming up with new ideas about creating art works. What we thought out at that time sometimes even will surprise ourselves. Thus usually I will paint some drafts at that time.

Last one I want to say is  that during late nights when you are trying some pieces of music which you thought you will never fall in love before, you may probably change your ideas and begin to feel their beauty hidden for a long time. Late nights give me great patience.

Unfortunately, staying up too late is not a good habit, which may cause great damage to our health, and now I’m on the way of getting rid of this habit~~~

Blog 2 : the passion in my heart

The passion in my heart

We will always live a life as normally as others do, unless we add passion to it. With great passion, we can do things without hesitation and regret. Passion is a kind of energy，which can generate our inner desire to try and finish something. For me, I have a passion for photography.

As a photography lover, I enjoy to invest my time and strength for it, because I believe this type of investment will contribute to my mental health. That is to say, my mind can be well fulfilled by taking pictures. My passion indeed provides me with many chances to take a good shot. For example, I happened to come outside from my hostel and saw the beautiful sun set. Without hesitation and great passion, I instantly decided to come back my room and take my camera with me. Then I gave a great shot of the splendid scenery. If I hesitated to do so, I would have never captured that appealing moment. However, sometimes my passion does not offer me a good feedback, but I do not regret. The other day an idea occurred to me that I wanted to capture the sunrise. Subsequently I got myself well prepared and packed all the related equipment together, and then I fell asleep early only to assure I could get up early enough before the sunrise. The unfortunate was that when I went downstairs, I only found myself locked in a non-electricity door! I waited there for ten minutes expecting some security guard could come by and help me out, however, no single person came! Although the situation was that terrible, I still not regret. My passion inside told me I could make a wonderful shot the next time. It makes me think positively rather than complain about the misfortune.

To think further, if I have my passion for my life, I reckon I will be more self-motivated to liven up my every moment, no matter whether it is with ease or trouble. I hope I could have everyday accompanied by passion!