Blog3: What Is My Advantage?

  Everyone is born to be innocent and equal. I am a human and everyone is. What is my difference? As we know, some people live better lives but some are not. I’m not sure what life I will live in the future. Instead of talking about whether I will live a meaningful life or not, I have to think about how to live a better life in such a competitive society. Advantages of me stand out to help me this term. When I was a child, I would like to read an encyclopedia for child and I liked to ask many questions so I know little more than peers. Mathematics was taught to me and I was trained to be outgoing and independent. I followed parents and teachers more so I did well than classmates. I have the abilities in social networking, fixing things or some. Those are advantages in the past. As others grow up and are educated, they learn more knowledge and are trained so that they have more abilities. They catch up with me! Thanks to my parents and my teachers, their trainings contribute to my personality of optimistic, confidence, introspection and so on. I’m not sure whether those are enough for me to win the competition of life. I would like to accumulate advantages to win. What about yours?

Blog 3: Females=Males?-----The change of human being’s view of both genders

In the development of human being, although the natural ability of both genders did not change much, the view for males and females varied in different times.

People have a prejudice against females because of many reasons in the last several thousand years and even now. However, do you know that in the Stone Age, human being was in a society called Matrilineal Society, which means that the females were the leaders and they had a higher status? Thus, they were generally respected by males. I think the reason is that females were the builders of a group because they had the ability to give birth, so they could make the group united. Though they were not as strong as males, they could help develop the group with their gentle minds and special abilities.

However, thousand years ago, this situation changed. Males became leaders because human beings realized that they should have strong individuals to protect their groups and lead them to do tough things. Because of the advantages in bodies, the males became leaders. At that time, there was no prejudice against females because both genders had their own abilities and works to do.

In contrast, when human being stepped into feudal society, rulers set up a hierarchy system which made the females in a lower social position in order to solidify their domination. Consequently, unfair time of females began. Females suffered a lot in the past because of the greed of males. They were the victims of politics and strongly eager for equality in a long period.

Finally, with the struggle from generation to generation and the regain of most males’ conscience, the females obtain the same rights as males in some way in most parts of the world. However, human being still has a long way to go in genders’ equality because of the deep inveteracy of some proud males.

Actually, many females have proved with their great achievements that they can do many things as well as males and they are no longer the weaker ones because both genders have advantages over the other one.

I hope that both genders can act the right roles and cooperate with each other, and then our society will have bigger progress.

Blog 3: Love you more than I can say

What are the most frequent words that you can find out in American movies?

"I LOVE YOU", I suppose.

What are the rarest words that we use in China?

"I LOVE YOU" , as far as I consider.

China used to be a conservative country, which made "love" a sensitive word to express feelings. Take my family for example, we have never said these three words to each other before, but true love is always there.

What is love? The question is a little difficult for me to answer as I experienced so little, but having brought up by my parents for 18 years, I think I have the right to share my opinions about love in a family. It has something common with water: soft, clean, and honest.

Soft: You can hardly be moved deeply by some certain romantic behavior in your family, but every day there are warmth to welcome you home: a simple but delicious dinner; a short but comfortable conversation. You may not find it exciting, but you must admit that it is indispensable.

Clean: True love needs no additive. I enjoyed expensive toys and snacks when I was young and my parents earned quite enough money; I also learned to economize my pocket money afterwards for my father's factory was closed. This did not influence my attitude towards my parents. In my view, money cannot buy love or there will be no conflicts in some big wealthy family. Love is like water and money is like sugar; if you put them together, it may taste good, but you will never quench your thirsty.

Honest: There is one sentence my father once told me and I will never forget: If you slip into the river, I will jump into the water to save you, notwithstanding that I may die. My mother also said something impressive before I left for Singapore: We can do anything and we can give up anything if only you can have a happy life. They meant what they meant, then I know something deeper about love: If you can say these two sentences to someone honestly, he will live in your heart forever.

That is love: soft, clean and honest, just like water.

Have you ever said "I love you" to your parents? I have not, and may not in the future.

The fact is that nothing in the world worth my love as the love to them.

Like water stream through gullies, I will love them quietly and gently.

Love you more than I can say.

爱你在心口难开

Blog3:Gender Roles, Nature or Nurture

People generally hold the viewpoint that there exists clear distinctions between sexes, which are a nature phenomenon as a result of biological factors. However, from my perspective, these allegedly differences are constructed by all kinds of socializing agents and forces in society.

The primary reason to support my opinion is the fact that gender roles vary across culture and time, which sufficiently proves that most differences are nurtured by the social circumstances, rather than genes exclusively. To be more specific, the stereotypes of the male and the female changed over the changes in society, while the nature factors linked to them actually stay the same in such a short time. Therefore, most differences between the male and the female are the result of gender roles in a specific environment, rather than the cause.

Admittedly, according to some researches, physical differences do exist generally between males and females. However, the specific character of an individual is hard to define simply by the general traits of one gender. Thus, it is not necessary to stress too much on the differences for the reason that most character of a person is developed in his postnatal life.

In conclusion, I think the character of a person is mainly nurture rather than nature.

blog 3: superstition and belief

It used to be a peaceful and beautiful town. One day, everything changed. The small town was filled by a thick fog in which there were many kinds of blood-drinking monsters. Some people who were shopping at that time were stranded in a supermarket. As time went by, a kind of fear spread from one person to another. A woman who believed in the God started to impart the others that it was the God that came to punish human beings because people had done a quantity of crime to the nature. The God was going to make human buy what they had owed him. The woman also stressed that no one should be against this and that everyone was asked to be waiting for death. At first, only few people believed in the woman. But subsequently at that night, some monsters attracted by the light bumped into the room and killed several people. Most of the people were freaked out and some of them changed to be apt to accept the woman’s words. A superstition was given birth since then. A person is apt to become dizzy when he faces a huge fear. The superstition seems like a distraction which can bring relief to fresh lives. Nevertheless, we also are trying our best to become a brilliant person and be respected by others. What if we found ourselves stupid at one time? We are surely to feel shameful and spare no effort to sweep out the blots, which we could avoid at the beginning. What can we do when we are in fear? Just go to bed and enjoy your slumber. It is a more efficient way to get rid of the fear and we can also skip the superstition then.

Blogger 3: The Happy Journey to the MacRitchie Reservoir

    Last Friday, I visited the  MacRitchie Reservoir with my group members. It was really a fantastic experience and we all enjoyed it a lot.It was the first time for me to paddle a boat in Singapore and was the first trip organized by our group monitors.
    Just before the Friday, we took a progress test which had kept us nervous and worried for a long time, so we decided to relax and refresh ourselves. We proposed, discussed,voted,and finally chose to go boating in the reservoir. After waiting anxiously for days, we set out for our destination.
    It was really hot that day, but the hot weather could not stop our paces. It took us one and a half hours to take the MRT and then change to a bus to get there. Finally, the bus stopped. Upon we jumped out of the bus, we were greeted by so many tall trees and grassy areas. The environment in Singapore is always so good that we can even see monkeys in the trees around the reservoir. We rented six boats and every two of us shared one. We put on our life jackets and got into the small boats, so the little voyage started.
    Floating on the clean water, I rowed the paddle to keep the boat moving. I quite enjoyed the fresh soft breeze that blew me gently. As the boat gradually moved to the center of the reservoir, I stopped paddling and lay on the boat, just looking at the blue sky quietly. When I was enjoying the peace both in the surroundings and in my heart, some cool water was poured to me and my friends burst into laughter because of their tiny tricks. I fought back as fast as possible, and soon all of us were wet from top to toe. We played together, we sang together, we laughed together and we enjoyed the time with each other.
    After the paddling, we played games under trees just like that we were still children in primary schools. For a long time, I have not felt such naivete trueness.
   Happy moments always seem to be too short. Soon the sunset make the sky redder and darker. The happy journey ended but the happiness it brought us will be always kept in our memory, and so it is with the friendship in our heart.

Blog 3:would you like to use Internet for romance?

For most of us, I think, it is wrong to start a romance with the Internet, however, the word"develop" is not equal to the word"start".
So, I would like to use the Internet to develope the romance with the premise that I have known that person well. First of all, since I have known that girl well(because I am a boy), it is quite safe for me to get along with her. Besides, I think if I could use the internet properly, I could save a lot of time. For example, if I really like that girl, I would think a lot about her in case that I do not chat with her for a comparatively long time. So, at this time I would spend much time to go out with that girl. However, if we can chat with each other online frequently, the waste of time could be avoided, in that every time I have a short chat with her, I will get calm and put my attention on my job. Last but not least, the Internet could help us save torrents of money. Especially for us boys. When we are getting along with girls, it is necessary for us to give them some things to show our sincerity. Of course, it will take us much money, whereas in the Internet, there is a large amount of virtual thing which we do not need to pay for the use of them. So in my opinion, if used properly, the internet can bring us many benefits when we are developing our romances.
With all of those things, I think it is wonderful to use the Internet for romance.