Blog 4： Fashion and Sports

Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see a famous female tennis player wearing a well-designed skirt in the game. Moreover, many famous brands rush to invite the top athletes to make advertisements .All those phenomena indicate that fashion and sports are associated with each other.
Firstly, both fashion and sports give people visual enjoyment. To enhance this effect, many fashion elements are added to sports games. Not only the trendy clothes but also pop music is included. This kind of variation does make games more enjoyable, but it also brings about troubles. For instance, Chinese female table tennis players are bothered that they are required to wear skirts during games. Since they used to play table tennis in shorts, female players find it uncomfortable to dress in skirts. They claim that the skirt is a distraction even for themselves because they will have to worry about whether the skirt is too short while they are moving. Therefore, it remains to discuss what kinds of fashion styles are suitable to be applied to sports.
Besides, sports also have an impact on the fashion field. More frequently, sports stars’ faces appear in the fashion magazine. Some of them, such as Serena Williams ,even have their own fashion brands. Personally, I think it is good that sports style can be a trend. People who pursue fashion used to be crazy about skinny models, but now, sports style has brought a healthier choice.
In general, fashion adds more attraction to sports, and sports makes fashion more positive.

Blog 4: Fashion=Beauty?

Nowadays, more and more people chase after fashion excitedly without second thoughts. Many things that we thought disgusting and horrible before are now popular things in many people’s life, especially the people aged between 20 and 30. They may have all kinds of tattoos on their bodies or body piercing on nostrils, lips and even tongues. You can hardly imagine the pain when they have tattoos and body piercing, but many people are still crazy about them. I acknowledge that is a fashion now. However, I want to ask that “Is that a beauty?”
Most of us who have a calm mind may think it as a boring, disgusting and even stupid thing, but why different fashions still come out every day? I think it is because there are always some people who have fancy and crazy minds thinking it as a beauty and leading the fashion. Many young people nowadays who have extremely open minds and strong personalities want to attract others’ attention and show their differences and find chasing this fashion works. Moreover, their life sometimes is empty, so they need something exciting to stimulate their gloom and lazy minds and they find that no other ways are better than this way to relieve their stress and inanity.
However, the fashion can fade away, but the scars cannot. When they get older and the fashion changes, they will eventually realize how crazy and stupid they were. The blind enthusiasm will cost people a lot of money, time and scars on body and even on heart.
So when we face the fashion, we should be calm and cautious enough to choose one, because not all fashions are that crazy and blind and some fashions can enrich our boring life and create beauty.
In conclusion, it depends on your calm mind and rational choice whether fashion can be beauty. Let us be wise fashion chasers!

Blogger 4:Where are You, My Old Friends?

     Last weekend, when I visited the Renren website, I saw a request sent by a stranger. He asked me to accept it to be my Internet friend. Although I had no idea who he was, I agreed anyway. Then he started a conversation with me by asking: “Do you know who I am?” “Sorry, l am afraid I do not know.” I answered. After a few seconds, he typed in his name, which really shocked me. I was quite familiar with the name but it just escaped my mind. All of a sudden,I recalled this name, and it is the name of one of my best friends in primary school! We had not talked since we graduated and even had not seen each other. Over seven years have passed and now we are university students living in different places. When I looked through his photo albums on the Internet, to my astonishment, he had become so mature and handsome that I could hardly recognize him.I wondered whether I could pick him out if we met on a street. He was also amazed to find that I had gone abroad and furthered my study in Singapore. We talked for nearly two hours but the more we talked, the more I found that I knew little about him. I felt confused and even sad to say that, because we once were so intimate but now, after the separation of so many years, we had turned so unfamiliar with each other. However, as the conversation went deeper, I felt a little relieved because of the happy time we recalled. He asked me whether I had contacted with other classmates in primary school, and the answer was no. It upset me to think about this and I even doubted: whether am I too callous. In fact, I still hope to continue our friendship so I searched online to find more old friends. Luckily, I found another three good friends in my primary school and we had enjoyed ourselves by remembering the happy days we spent together.

       Have you forgotten your old friends? Will you forget the members of group 1 after ten years? I just wish everyone can cherish the friendship we are enjoying now and that our friendship will last forever. 

Blogger 4:When we meet each other in heaven...

I am on the way to the heaven, peacefully.Suddenly, a silhouette which is like a monkey comes up and taps on my Right shoulder standing on my left side.Then, at the deep bottom of my memory, a funny and kind imagine image emerges.It is cheng suxu.
"Oh, monkey, it is you!", I throw those words.
"I have found you about ten minutes", he answers, pretending To be sophisticated.
"Ha haha, what a coincidence, let us go together.", Monkey says.
"You have no choices.", I say."
How, are you those Years?"I ask.
"Just so-so.After graduation, I go to a company named 'very hard', which has substituted the position of the software.And I am the software engineer there, and at the same time.I take charge of the security.But...",
"hi!daquan,chengxu!",luanmin comes from the distance.
"What a coincidence!You two are here!I have missed you so much for years, and it really surprises Me are to meet you two here.".
"Yeah, Peter!I am excited too.It is amazing! What do you do these years, why we cannot get in touch with you."I ask.
"I came back to China after graduation to develop my city, and now I am the founder of the transportation system."
"Great! Maybe your name will be written in the history."chengxu says.
"But when I was dying, they did not want to do that."
"Hahahahahahhaha...""Who is dancing there?"chengxu asks first"
Yeah, what a big body!"Luanmin adds",
Oh!It is yu ming! Let us go faster..."I say
"Do not come here!Just wait a minute, and then I will take another photo."wang rui shouts.
"hahahahha,what on earth it is?We are all here!"We say.
one minute passes.
"My God!It is you!"yuming says.
"Can I say that you are wrong?"I answer with a smile.
"chengsu,you are here!I have not seen you for a long time!"wang rui tells us"I have always want to take a photo of our Group one, maybe I can fulfill my dream today."
"It is a must!"chengsu answers.
"None of you see me.I have been here for about one year waiting for all of you."jun ji comes up suddenly.
"xiao jiji,you are here,hiahiahia.i remember that ten years ago,when we were having lunch together,you say that you wish to Be promoted as a section chief.What about that?"I ask.
"Guess it,haha."jun ji smiles."Oh~~, it is the first girl we meet!"......

Blog 4: cross talk

I have listened to much Chinese traditional drama. Among them, some gain people’s fun and happiness; some are good for people’s soul; the others are so thoughtful that they bring people to soul-searching. As for me, because I live in the north of China so that I am familiar with the origin of the cross talk, I am into the cross talk best.
Many famous cross talk artists appeared at the beginning of the foundation of People’s Republic of China. The historically greatest artist also came from that period. His name was Ma Sanli. As a junior child, I did not get chance to listen to his kindly voice before the stage. Otherwise, I have listened to the record through the radio. It is enough and I already feel content with it. Many of his works are recognised by audience as masterpieces. They have been repeated again and again as Ma’s expansion of life. When I was a child, I heard one of his stories which was called “Dou Ni Wan” from my mother. Until now I can still remember every word of the story.
Of all the stories, I like the one called “a building with eighty storeys” best. There were three men sharing one apartment on the eighty-first storey in a building. One day, the elevator was out of service. So they decided to climb up the stairs. In order to avoid tiring of monotonous climbing, a man proposed that they each told a sorrowful story in the process and everyone agreed. When the first two men ended their stories, they had already reached the eightieth floor. The last person then told a sentence which was fully woeful: I forgot to bring the only key!
I believe a good work will never fade. I wish the cross talk will be known by more people and bring happiness to them.

Blog4：The Art Of ‘The Starry Night’

Every time I see van Gogh’s paintings, I will be deeply attracted and moved by his masterpiece ‘the starry night’. Though van Gogh is a Post Impressionist, this painting isn’t limited into the field of impression. Van Gogh put more emotion into it. The reason why people are always moved by van Gogh’s painting is not only his consummate painting skill but also the exquisite emotion emerged in his painting.
This famous painting depicts the view outside his sanatorium room window at Saint-Remy-de-Provence at night. Frankly speaking, most of parts of this painting are van Gogh’s imagination, because it is created in daytime. According to the analysis by academic artist, the view of starry night is actually van Gogh’s mental world. There is a peaceful village under a starry night, a red and brown olive tree covers the half of the painting.
The first time you see the painting, you will feel all the objects in the painting are in a mess. What make you feel messy are the rotary lone lines and separated short lines which are a painting method. Van Gogh uses the repeated rotary lines to express his complex emotion and to release the sadness and sorrow that cannot be understand by others. This result makes the scenery alive, build a starry circumstance and give you resonance with his subject, which is a characteristic feature of the painting.
Though many people think that van Gogh has some mental disorder during his last time and this ‘starry night’ only expresses the restless and anxious emotion of him. I think during this time, what van Gogh sees most is hope, he hopes to see light behind the dark sky. So he painted many stars, he hopes the light of them can really set him free and make he escape from the limitation of religion. That’s my opinion about this painting.
The reason why I like it is that it makes me peaceful and senses the hope. I do hope all of you can sense some moving elements from van Gogh’s works because he is a great artist who uses his soul to paint. All above is the inspiration and reflections that ‘the starry night’ brings to me.

Blog4：My Favourite Drink—Milk Tea

Among all the different drinks, my favourite one is milk tea. I love many kinds of milk tea, such as pearl milk tea, coffee milk tea, milk tea with pudding and so on. Compared to the milk tea that has more milk than tea, I prefer the one with more tea than milk, as I think the one with too much milk is always too sweet for me to drink.

I have loved this special kind of drink since I was in primary school. At that time, there was a small milk tea shop just on my way from my home to school. Every time I walked past it with a friend after school, we would both spend 1 yuan on a cup of pearl milk tea and drank it on the way home. If it was in summer, we would buy an iced one and if it was cold, we would buy a warm one. Then, we both held a cup of drink and made a competition to see who drank faster. Sometimes I won and sometimes I lost the game. Although the milk tea I drank in my primary school was actually a mixture of water, milk powders and tea powders, which was not so tasty, the memories of that time are so beautiful and unforgettable.

When I went to high school, I lived in the school and only came back home on weekends. During those years, I could not get milk tea on weekdays as we were not allowed to go out of the school. Therefore, I developed a habit to buy a cup of milk tea on the days that I went home from school. I got the drink from a tea house called 85°C or Dakasi. It tasted much better than that I bought near my primary school, and it was much more expensive than that, too. For those days I spent in high school, milk tea meant going home and having a rest, and you can imagine how much I was looking forward to getting a cup of milk tea at that time.

Now, I am in Singapore, and I am a bit disappointed that I could not get my favourite drink as easily as before: the price of the milk tea here is so expensive that I could not afford buying it. Thus, I have been missing the milk tea in my hometown for a couple of months. Perhaps when I land in Guangzhou Airport at the end of this year, the first thing that I will do is to find a tea house and enjoy a cup of warm tasty milk tea!