BLOG5-“Ms Ivy”-“zhangchenwei”-"The Profound and Intersting Fengshui."

The Profound and Intersting Fengshui.

 

In fact, I am very interested in Fengshui. I have read lots of books about it. Like “The Secret of Grave Robber(盗墓笔记)”，"Green capsule corpse clothing(青囊尸衣)”，“geomancer（阴阳先生）”, “The Yellow River ghost coffins（黄河鬼棺）” and many other books. Fengshui is the basic knowledge in grave robber or for a geomancer. According to these books, Fengshui of one’s grave is not only responsible for the fate of the dead’s family, but also responsible for whether the dead can get peace to his soul and not become a corpse. Fengshui is determined by two parts: the environment or arrangement, and Chi from the dead. For example, if a place have many impropriate objects or constructions, bad Chi is more likely to gathered here, which will do harm to the place’s owner. And if a guy died with grievance in some place, then this place’ fengshui can also be terrible and bad luck will be with anyone who lives here. About the first point, actually, it can be explained by scientific theory. When a construction is absonant(不协调的)， it will influence people’s mood, which will subtly affect the emission of hormone. But when people stay in this place for a long time, it makes a big difference. People may become negative and will not achieve a good ending. Another point cannot be explained by nowadays’s scientific theory, but it does not means it cannot be explained in the future. In fact, when you go to the Forbidden City, in some place you will obviously feel very cold even though it is in summer. The Forbidden city‘s Fengshui is among the best in china, but because so many people were killed there, the Chi can still make you feel chill. One of the reasons why most people don’t believe in fengshui any longer is that those disgusting jugglers have already ruined its fame by cheating people. Though I am also not sure whether these incredible things exist or not, Fengshui is indeed profound and of long standing. I am interested in them.

Here is a link to a Fengshui blog about Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

http://blog.renren.com/share/340695226/7763258261

Blog 5-Ms Lim-"Zhang Yaowen"-"Feng shui "

     Feng shui, eee… it is quite hard for me to say something, for neither do I know much about it, nor do I believe it.

     It is generally recognized that feng shui(stands for Chinese characters “风水”) stemmed from ancient China. Still, in modern China, there are a pretty large number of people believing it, especially some merchants, who are extremely pay attention to something about how to let more money in and less out.

     To be honest, many of my relatives believe feng shui. In spite of that, they do not talk much about it with me. They do not want to force me to believe or do anything.

     However, what I do believe is science. Science is logical and rigorous; we can feel it and prove it.

     At last, whether an individual believing feng shui or not, it is up to himself, which is his freedom.

Blog 5 - Mr Seto - Chen Chi - Feng shui

Feng shui and people's daily life

    Feng shui（風水） is a Chinese system of geomancy believed to use the laws of both Heaven and Earth to help one improve life by receiving positive chi （氣）. In Chinese theory, the destiny of a person is fixed while the fixed destiny is able to change. Feng shui influences people's daily life in variable ways.


    Feng shui may influence the marriage life. For instance, applying so many cold colors in the decoration of houses will be bad for the conjugal love. The reason may be that the cold colors make people feel negative. Then, the unawareness of feng shui will lead to love affairs if the door of a bathroom faces the main gate. Moreover, there should be only one mattress on a couple's bed. The couples can live a harmonious life if they pay attention to feng shui.


    People's learning can be influenced by feng shui. First, the desks should not face the windows in the study; otherwise, the noisy environment would distracts the learners. Second, the desks should not face the door, either. At last, the decoration of the studies should be thought twice. Everyone can get good grades unless there are negative things on feng shui.


    Feng shui associates with people's daily life closely. In my opinion, feng shui is a good theory which can assist folks to live a better life. It is good for everyone to learn more about feng shui.

Blog5-Ms Lim-Zheng Siyuan-Fengshui

In my opinion, fengshui dose not make a lot of sense. It is just a kind of superstition. Looking backward to its origin, we can see that what we call fengshui is only a series of unscientific explanations about human’s experiences and the surroundings. However, some predictions of fengshui       come true sometimes. But I think it is just a coincident, or people make relationship artificially between them. For people who believe in fengshui, everything around them makes them think of fengshui. Especially when something bad happens to them, them would examine the surroundings and find the inconformity and change it according to fengshui. They think the bad lucky results from the inconformity. But actually, this connection is just created by people themselves. What happens cannot be determined by the surroundings, or fengshui. It is human beings that decide what to happen and what not. So fengshui is just a comfort for people who suffers the bad things.

Not only do I have this attitude toward fengshui, but also many other atheist. Take a British for example. He bought a book on the taboos of fengshui, then did everything written on the book. He looked at himself from the mirror at 12:00 at night; he slept with his head pointed to west; he walked under a ladder; he raised a black cat as a pet. But nothing bad had happened to him. You see? Fengshui has nothing to do with what happens to us.

Blog 5-Ms Ivy Chan-Zhou Shaowen-"Feng Shui Does Not Actually Exist in the World"

Feng Shui Does Not Actually Exist in the World

      Recently, feng shui has become a worldwide fad. Many people who follow the principles of feng shui believe that they can be more successful with the help of feng shui. But in my opinion, feng shui cannot change the probability of people’s success, and it even does not actually exist in the world. The reason for this is its vague foundation.

      The foundation of its principles is not reliable. The concept of feng shui is mainly based on the flow of chi. However, chi, which is similar to energy according to traditional Chinese culture, was imagined by ancient Chinese, and the existence of chi has never been proofed yet. As the foundation of feng shui is ambiguous, the whole system of it cannot convince people.

      Many people may argue that they find well balanced feng shui has brought them good luck. This seems to show that feng shui really exists in the world. However, people have made a mistake when they owe their success to feng shui. Actually, if people practise the principles of feng shui well, they will usually have the faith that they can succeed. The source of the faith is their belief that feng shui will help them. Consequently, when they have made a great success, they will appreciate feng shui but their faith. In fact, it is the faith rather than feng shui that has supported them to overcome all the obstacles in their life. Therefore, feng shui does not affect people’s success but people's attitude, and people’s attitude is the factor that determines whether people will be successful or not. In other words, the existence of feng shui is not true.

      To conclude, feng shui does not actually exist in the world. From my perspective, we rely on ourselves rather than feng shui to make success.

blog 5 -Mrs Pamela - li ixnyan ( effy ) - fengshui

There are infinite amount of rules in the theory of fengshui, from location and direction of buildings to shape, color and size of all kinds of objects. Althought I have always been considering some of the rules in fengshui as virtually nonsense, some of them turn out to be backed up by science. For example, there is a taboo in fengshui which says the main door should not be faced to the kitchen, bathroom, or bedroom. The version of fengshui gives the reason that if so, people would be threatened with fire, dirt, or danger so that it would be hard for them to make money. While there is also a scientific explanation: in that case, dirt and bacteria outside the house would go into inner rooms through the main door. If the place where people cook or sleep get polluted, people will be likely to get disease.

While in some other rules such as plants with thorns or pointed leaves in the bedroom will make one get into trouble with crooks, I don’t see any possible element of science or any rational reason.

In my point of view, fengshui is half science and half superstition. Some theories happen to have scientific explanations, while some are made out of thin air and don’t make any sense in terms of science, except that they might be psychologically affective to some people who indeed believe in fengshui. Up till now, I haven’t heard of anyone making a big fortune or success because of fengshui. So anyway, I won’t take fengshui serious, nor would I count on fengshui to make any difference in my life.

Blog3-Mr Seto-Ping Sibo-a better world

The world would be a better place if everyone is satisfied and not greedy. As human beings, we all have something we want to satisfy our own desires. This is normal because the sense of dissatisfaction is a kind of human nature. Appropriate dissatisfaction towards life can make a person pursue a better life. However, endless greed for political rights or money can lead a person into an abyss of evil. The reason is that when they get what they want before, they will take it for granted and have a further need. Maybe that is the root of ambition. When a person get crazy about that, he or she may find ways to get what they want and what is more, commit a crime. As far as I can see, that is the reason why crime could happen. And if everyone in the world reach this level,which means they do achieve their goals at all costs,the whole world would become no longer broken.

We must know that there is something more valuable in this world . In China there is an old saying which means if a person have no desire, he will no longer be bounded by the secular world and always be strong forever. So a higher spiritual pursuit is more valuable than the money or material gain we called.So in order to make the world better, we should do our best not to be so greedy.Only in that way can the world a better place and we live a better life.

Blog4-Mr Seto-Ping Sibo-The Generation Gap

I was born in the last century, and the people who have nearly the same age with me are all known as "cross-century" generation. Living in such a era of fierce competition, almost all of our generation have to work hard to face the brutal society. Fortunately, we have our parents to help us with the problems. However, we still have something different with out parents, which is called "the generation gap".We all sure that we have interests and ways of thinking toward things different from our parents, which is caused by the different upbringings and social environments. But, we should never leave them alone with the words"generation gap"on our mouth.

Thinking about our past, our parents always cook the most delicious food for us while they only have poor food to eat when we went out. I still remembered when I was young, I attended an English class where the place is far from my home every weekend. My mother always waited for me in the cold night until the class was over and picked me back home.

Although we cannot make the generation gap disappeared, we can still build a "bridge" which represent love on the gap. As long as the bridge is not destroyed, the love can be transferred from generation to generation and the world would be a better place.

Blog4-Mr. Seto-Dong Fangzhou-Tastes and preferences

      In terms of tastes and preferences, there are many differences between my generation and my parents’. And we also have a lot in common. Firstly, we love different kind of food. In my hometown, people in my parents’ age love to eat pancake in almost every meal. On the contrary, I never find the pancake delicious, and always complain that it is too hard to chew up. Instead, I am fond of having some unhealthy fast foods which are usually sold in McDonald’s or Berger King. However, we both love having fried potatoes, mutton soup and fish dishes which are usually made by my grandparents! Therefore, it is the most wonderful time when we are having lunch together in my grandparents’ home.
      Secondly, our preferences of music are dramatically different. My parents love to listen to the songs which were very popular one decade ago, but I always listen to the western pop songs, especially hip-hop  and R&B. My favorites are Rihanna , Katy Perry and Eminem.  What is more, there is no surprising that neither of us likes the music groups from Korea or Japan which consist of many young singers and dancers. And we are both interested in traditional Chinese opera, such as Beijing Opera and the traditional opera in Shandong Province, though we do not frequently listen to them. Sometimes, we also enjoy the orchestra concert together.
     In general, although our preferences and tastes are quite different in some areas, we can still share some hobbies and always have an amazing time doing things we both love to do.

Blog 4- Mrs Ivy-Xiao Xiao(Merina)-Differences between generations

 There are many differences between generations, and today I want to talk about the two biggest differences between my parents and I. The first is that our appreciation levels are disparate. To illustrate it, I like some popular singers such as Wang Lihong, Chen Yixun and so on. But my parents like singers who were famous when my parents were very young, such as Deng Lijun, Li Guyi. Sometimes the singers whom I like use a modern way to sing the songs which belong to the singers whom my parents like, and then my parents will feel very bad, because they think that the singers whom I like have violated the classical songs, but I did not think so; I think the singers do well, because they make the songs more fashionable. The second difference is our attitudes towards money. My parents will try their best to save money and put it in the bank, because they feel safe if they have some money in their bank book, and they think they should save as much money as they can in case of some emergencies. But I do not agree with them, I never be determined to save as much money as I can, I just do regular consumption, and I do not waste money, but I never make myself wronged just for saving money, I will buy what I want if I can afford it. I think this is enjoying life while my parents think that this is a reasonless lifestyle. To conclude, different generations really have a lot of differences.    

Blog 4-Mrs Pamela-Hu Yiyao(Scarlett)-Tastes and Preferences

Different generations have different tastes and preferences. In fact, I can find a lot of differences between my generation and my parents' generation in daily life.

Firstly, I think one of the biggest differences is the family size. Resulting from China’s family planning policy which was put forward in 1980s, nearly all the people of my generation do not have sisters and brothers. Meanwhile, people of my parents' generation always have two or more brothers and sisters.

Then, because of that, it is obvious that our characteristics will become quite different in some aspects. Each time when my mother recalls her childhood, she will always talk about the unforgettable memory that she live and play with her brothers and sisters. Of course, they had many quarrels, but they would always find solutions to deal with these situations. In this process, they know what are understanding and tolerance, and learn how to get along with others. Compared to them, the situation of my generation is quite different. Because almost all of us are the only child in each family, our parents always give us whatever we want. As a result, we always only think of ourselves and do not know that we should be considerate of others. This weakness in characteristics of my generation will make us into trouble when we get along with others in the future, especially with a person who is also the only child in his or her family.

To conclude, my parents' generation has a lot differences with my generation. I think we should learn the good qualities from our parents and learn how to get along with others.

Blog 1-Mrs Pamela-Ye Shujian-What I want to protest about-Theme: School and Education

I would like to protest about cuts in education.Because education of a country is relevant to its future.If cuts in education happen,there may be less people having the oppotunities to be well educated.The quality of the education will be affected.As a result,it may have a bad influence in the development of a country,which makes the country not so competitive in the world.
The second thing I would like to protest about is going to war because going to war really does harm to people.Many people who are innocent are killed.Many houses are destroyed.Some of the citizens even become refugee.Just imagine,our beautiful lives  will disappear if the war happen.Peace is one of the most important things in the world.So,I will absolutely protest about going to war.

Blog 3-Mrs Pamela-Ye Shujian(Peter)-A Perfect world

The world will be better place if people trust each other.I think nowadays,the Chinese society is lack of trust.People in China are unwilling to trust each other because there are two many negative things about trust happening.People become cold to strangers and it seems that there is a huge barrier forming among people.In the past,neighbors were usually good friends in China.They helped each other and often talked with each other.But nowadays,neighbors feel like strangers for most people.Another example,in the past,when an old person fell down on a street,people were always willing to help.But nowadays,people become careful about this as some of them don't trust the old person who fell down on the street anymore.Some cases happened before may give people impressions like"These old people are cheating."It is really a shame that the society is losing the trust.

Blog4-Mrs Pamela-Ye Shujian(Peter)-Generation

There are many differences between different generations.When I was in China,nearly every weekend I will have a breakfast with my grandparents in a restaurant.My grandparents were very happy when they saw us getting together,even we didn't have the same interest.Sometimes I thought it was very boring but they still felt very happy.There is a similar situation between my father and I.When I was with him,I didn't know what I should talk to him.He also didn't know what to say.As a result,when he talked to me, the topic was always about study.When I talked to him,the topic was always basketball.Sometimes there was even a terrible silence.The atmosphere was very embarrassing.This is very common in China,I think.Perhaps in the western country,the situation will be better because the parents there are more open-minded.But I think when we become parents,we can be our sons and daughters' good friends.We are also more open-minded than our parents!

Blog 2-Mrs Pamela-Ye Shujian(Peter)-Love

When I was in primary school,when I once said I loved one of my classmates(of course she was a girl),my parents laughed at me and even when I grew up,sometimes they still talked about such things that they thought it was interesting.When I was in senior high school(a boarding school),nearly every time I went back home,my parents always asked me the question"Do you have a girl friend at school?"No matter how I answered or how I explained,they usually had a talk with me after that,saying something like "it was not a right time to have a girl friend",etc.They said at least I should wait until I go to collage.At that time,I thought that when I went to collage,my parents would not be against me if I had a girl friend.So,I waited.However,after I went to Singapore,I was very surprised that once,my father called me that I am not allowed to have a girl friend during my collage time because I should focus on my study.Oh my god!What are my parents thinking?Now,I totally have no ideas about when I should have a girl friend.

Blog 4) "Mr Seto"-"Zhu Zikun"-"post-60s has more sense of urgency than post-90s"-"Theme: Comparison of different generations"

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Son: Dad, you seem a little unhappy. What's wrong?
Father: Oh, dear! My company doesn't go smoothly now, and some of my colleagues who had been working with me for years has been fired，so I am really worried that I may be the next job loser.
Son: Umm… I don't understand why you are worried about this. There is no need to worry until the matter comes, so now, just enjoy your life lah~

    The above conversation is a typical one between people of my generation, known as the post-90s, and people of my parents' generation, called the post-60s. It reflects that the post-60s has more sense of urgency, while we post-90s usually do not bother to be worried.
    Our parents were born during the period when most people in China were suffering from poverty. Their tough experiences in their childhood have formed their hardship consciousness. On the contrary, we grew up in a well-off environment, so we are generally carefree.
    This difference of consciousness leads to different attitudes and preferences in daily life. For instance, most of our parents have been saving money just in case. However, for us, running out of money is even not a problem, and we are accustomed to using credit cards. Another case I remember is that before I went to the university in China, my parents asked me to bring lots of things along, such as the quilt, the pillow, toothbrushes, etc. Although I argued that I could manage to get them after arriving at the university, they still insisted that I should prepare those things in case.
    Generally speaking, we post-90s enjoy the present life without worrying too much about the future. By contrast, our parents are usually prepared for crisis. It is hard to say which one is right, but they are merely different ways of living. In other words, all the diverse generations make up a colorful world.

Blog4)-"Ms Ivy Chan"-"Wang Kexin"-"Generation"

Generational Differences in my family

“You are much more fortunate than me when I was at your age”, which is the sentence that my mother often mentions when she talks about her childhood. Indeed, our generation is superior to my parents’ generation to some extent, for we are brought up in a much more peaceful and safer environment without historical or politic turbulences and economic oscillations. In terms of my family, my parents’ generation (1960s) and my generation (1990s) are different in many ways.

It is obvious that the family size in my generation is far smaller than my parents’. My mother has three older brothers and three older sisters, in other words, my grandmother gave birth to seven children, which made my grandmother known as “hero mother” in that age. And in my father’s family, he also has three brothers. Compared to them, I seemed alone, because I am the only child in my family. But this is the typical home-style in my generation. Almost all the families have one child because of China’s one-child policy that was put forward in 1980s.

Moreover, my parents and I were brought up in extremely different environments. My parents were brought up in the countryside while I was brought up in the city. In their childhood, as they said, they did not have any toys and the only thing that they can play with was the goat bone. Ridiculous as it may sound, but it was true. They threw a bone in the air and they tried to grab more bones before the bone dropping on the ground. Though it seems boring for me, they were really keen on this kind of game when they were young. Besides, they loved to play games on the field after school and they created a great number of games to play with. Almost thirty years passed, my generation came. When I was a child, I had much more choices of toys. Bikes, yo-yo, Babie dolls and many other kinds of entertainments enriched my childhood, let alone TV and computer games. In contrast, kids in my generation were more likely to spend time watching cartoons or son programs after school. But this does not mean that we did not have outdoor activities, sometimes we played on the playground or public gardens because there were no more fields in my city when I was young.

And what makes me jealous is that they had autumn holidays in school, for they had to help their parents harvest crops in autumn. Although I do not want to harvest crops, I still want to have an autumn holiday especially a holiday without additional tutorial studies. And when it comes to study, their generation is not as hardworking as my generation in general.

Though my parents’ generation and my generation have a lot of differences, it is still possible for us to communicate with each other. And I think we do not have a better generation or a worse generation, because every generation is unique and has its own features.

Blog4-"Ms Ivy"-"zhangchenwei"-"differences between generations"

Our generation, certainly, has quite a different taste from the last generation. Our parents love talking with people most. They will go outside to talk with friends first instead of washing dishes after dinner. They will even talk in neighbors‘ house for a whole day rather than watch TV at home. They lived in an age when emotional connection is valued and enjoyed so that they get strength and support from each other.

However, we teenagers share totally different habits. We are the generation who loves to stay at home most of the time to be a “zhai nan "or "zhai nv” (means Otaku and Female Otaku); we play computer games, read books or watch movies. We are also the generation who loves showing our differences and to be out of control; we dress up strangely, express ourselves freely, and do things madly as we like. When we move, nobody can predict what our next step is; and when we rest, nobody knows when we will get up.  Compared to our parents, we are more individual and unrestrained. Though maybe sometimes we will feel lonely, and admire our parents’ lives which are simple and closely connected, we also take pride in and enjoy ourselves’ lives which are full of variety and freedom.

Blog3-Mrs Pamela-Hu Yiyao(Scarlett)-A better world

For me, the world would become a better place if people had a higher sense of responsibility. In society, all the people have certain responsibilities. We should responsible for ourselves, other people and the whole society. But nowadays, many people become losing the sense of responsibility gradually.

First of all, I would like to take drunk driving as an example. In recent years, we can often hear of the news that people drive cars after drinking alcohol, which cause traffic accidents. Some are just small cases, but at the same time, some are very serious. They claim lives of innocent persons, ruin their families and even do harm to the drivers. So, drunk driving is irresponsible not only for other people but also for themselves.

Secondly, the phenomenon of tax evasion is becoming more and more frequent. As we all know, tax is one of the most important finance income of a country. Without money, a country cannot invest the social welfare and even maintain normal operation. Because of that, tax evasion is a irresponsible behaviour for the whole society.

To sum up, nowadays, more and more people only focus on their own interest and lose the sense of responsibility, which cause a lot of problems and do harm to not only individuals but also the whole society. If people have a greater sense of responsible, these problems can be avoided and the world will become a better place.

blog 4)-"Mr Seto"-"Wei Wenbo"-"tastes and preferences"

There are some differences about tastes and preferences between me and my parents. My parents are both from small villages and their families were very poor in my parents’ childhoods. When they were in school, the aim of studying is to find a job which can offer them steady salary. They tend to live a simple life. They did not consume nearly anything that they thought are unnecessary, including travelling, fast food, and new appliances. They seldom surf the Internet and they do not believe it. But for me, I grew up in a small town, without worry about whether I can eat my fill and wear warm clothes. As for job, salary is not the only factor that determines whether I choose the job; I will consider whether I am good at and like it. I’d like to buy something I like; even sometimes I do not need it. I enjoy the food in KFC or McDonalds’. I think Internet is necessary for today' life; and shopping online is an important way to satisfy life needs. Thus it can be seen, my parents’ preferences are different from mine, but I think it is acceptable for my parents and me. Having different tastes between two generations is reasonable, and I think what people should do is just to respect others’ choices.

Blog 4 - Mr Seto - Chen Chi - Tastes and Preferences

Differences

In my view, there are many differences between my generation which is also called Generation Y and the generation of my parents, baby boomers. 

Firstly, we grew up in different environment. My mother has two siblings, that is to say a brother and a twin sister. They also lived with their grandparents. It was a big family but very common at that time. For me, I spent most time with my parents and I have no sibling. 

Secondly, we got different education. Although the education system in China has yet to change totally, the materials, which people of two generations learned the knowledge from, were so different. 

Then, political belief is not the same. The majority of baby boomers still believe in communism. On the contrary, perhaps many Generation Y-ers prefer capitalism. The fact which theory is better does not count, but the generation gap. 

At last, the attitudes towards money are also different. For example, my parents like to save their salary or make investments for the future. However, I tend to spend the money now, like a hedonist.

In conclusion, there are oceans of differences between these two generations. If we have enough communication with the other group, everything will be okay.

Blog4-Mrs Pamela-Liu Yanan(Linda)-Differences between our parents and us

Different concept of marriage

between our parents and us

I want to say something different about the concept of marriage between our parents and us.

For our generation, cyber love, one-night stand, speed dating and flash marriage have been common in our mind. Flash marriage becomes a trend in our society. It is a new view to explain marriage. In this way, we can use the time to challenge the love. Besides this, flash marriage also has a great advantage: people can save the cost in dating, including time and money.

     On the contrary, our parents have fairly conservative marriage view in general. “Establish line of business first, start a family then.” is their common sense. Our parents, once married, tend to take their responsibilities seriously. They think that love and marriage has a fundamentally different, which marriage means the duty. So they are cautious about marriage.  

     We could not judge which concept of marriage is correct. When you want to get married, whether it is a quick decision or a careful consideration, you should treat yourself fine; keep the family’s responsibilities; do well to the society. 

Blog4-Mr Seto-Li Bin(Lionel)-Differences between our parents and us

   Born as new teenagers in the modern world, we post-90s are quite different from our parents in many ways. And the major difference between two generations is the attitude toward money.

   When we were born, our parents have money, more or less, for the whole family to eat, to buy new clothes and enough to make a living. In other words, we teenagers never thought about what is the life like if we could not afford to buy foods and clothes. But our parents were born in the period when people were very poor. They thought about what they could eat next meal and whether they could have enough clothes to keep warm in winter. So they have worked hard to make money and they usually saved the money in the bank instead of buying some useless things. They are always saving money for us in case we are short of money one day because they know how hard that kind of life is. They do not want us to suffer from it. But we post-90s do not think of it and what we just want to do is to enjoy the life. Most of us have not understood why our parents working so hard to make money. Sometimes we even say our parents only care about the money and they do not know the true meanings of life. And we call it generation gap and think that we are more advanced and open-minded than our parents, without thinking the money we have used to go shopping, buy things and used as daily expense is all come from the effort of our parents. We buy iphone4 and a few days later we change it into iphone4S, but our parents can use an old phone for several years. We go everywhere using the taxi but our parents may squeeze on the buses or even walk for half an hour to save money.

   Our parents’ attitude toward money is to save money for us and ours is to be happy and enjoy the life. I think the difference is just because our parents love us very much. Let us respect the difference, respect the love and do things that we can do to help our parents enjoy their lives, too.

Blog3-Mrs Pamela-Liu Yanan (Linda)-A Perfect World

A perfect world

                For me, the world would be a better place if everyone could have enough to eat and wear. As we all know, people cannot live without food. It would be a nice day when world hanger was solved. In the newspaper last week, it said that that hunger was still a problem in some of the least developed countries, and many children were dying of starvation everyday. Sometimes, con men always take advantage of the poor people who cannot feed themselves to do illegal things. I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. As a result, if everyone could have adequate or ample food and clothing, the world would be a better place.

               For me, the world would be a better place if I could eat a lot of yummy food and wouldn’t be fat. I really can’t resist the temptation of good food. I have heard that --The passion for food is probably one of the most exciting passions that sustain those that live by its philosophy. I really agree with this sentence. The food is also important for me.

                All in all, the world would be a better place if everyone could have enough to eat, and the world would be a much better place if everyone could choose what they want to eat.

Blog4-Ms Lim-Zheng Siyuan-Generation differences

One of the differences between my generation and my parents’ generation is that we have different attitudes towards money. The people of my parents’ generation were born in 1950s and 1960s. This period was quite tough; China was suffering the economic depression then. So they led a poor life in the childhood more or less. Because of this, people of my parents’ generation prefer to save money in the bank to get interests rather than spend it to enjoy life. While people of my generation were born in 1980s and 1990s. Most of do not have brothers or sisters. Parents spend their money on us. So, we have the habit to spend money to buy what we like rather than to put it in to the bank.

Blog4- "Ms Lim"-"Zhang Yaowen (Sophie) "- "Tastes and Preferences"

     Different generations have different preferences and tastes; they are viewed as one of the icons standing for a generation. Easily, I can find out a lot of differences between generations of my parents’ and mine, i.e. the sense of value, the preferences towards the media, the tastes on food.

Everytime I throw leftovers I do not like in the dustbin, my mother will blame me for wasting food, and remind me the time when numerous people, of her generation, starved to death.

Another interesting thing I want to note is that every Friday after supper, when I was in high school, I would surf on the Internet till deep night, while my parents always preferred watching TV, and burst into laughter from time to time.

At most cases, when I go shopping with my friends, we would choose to eat at McDonald's or KFC. However, when in company with my mother, I never dared to do so, for she thought the food of this kind is extremely unhealthy.

Some people call our generation “Strawberry generation”, which means that we are more delicate when in the face of stress or depression. But I beg to differ. It is just the difference between lifestyles. Definitely, we are experiencing the pressure my parents’ generation never faced, and vice versa. So we need a bridge connecting the two different generations, and personally, I believe an appropriate amount of communication can play such an important role.

Blog3-Ms Lim-Zheng Siyuan-A perfect world

For me, the world would be a better place if we could understand each other. If we could understand each other, there would be no wars in the world any more. Because the leaders of the country could consider the situations of the opposite country, then they would try their best to solve the problem in a peaceful way. If we could understand each other, the relationship between people could be better. Because we could understand each other, we could become more tolerated and there would be fewer quarrels. And if we could understand each other, we could see the people who need help, then try our best to help them. At that time, the world would be a better place I think.

Blog4- "Mrs.Ivy"- Wang Xiao- "the difference between our parents and us"

Without a doubt, there are many differences between different generations. Thinking about the sports, we can apparently see some differences between our parents and us. Meanwhile, these differences in sports can reflect the different lifestyles.

The sports our parents do in their spare time are something like Tai Ji, yoga, walking. We can tell that all the sports they do are pretty gentle, and relaxing. Also, these sports can enhance their flexibilities. In other words, our parents tend to pursue the comfortable life that is in a relatively slow speed.

In contrast, the young prefer to choose the sports that are full of challenges and excitement. That is, most of us will seize every opportunity to try the sports, like bungee jumping, diving, climbing, which can really make us scream sometimes. We extremely love all these things. And it is just like the same way as we live our life. We are eager to challenge ourselves and create the unforgettable moments for our life. We certainly hate the steady life.  

A peaceful life seems to be a thrill for us, while our parents praise it highly. Admittedly, we can’t say which way is better. For me, I think, in different age, we will have different attitudes toward the life, which can totally change our choice in many areas. So, as long as you are young now, please, try best to pursuit the things you want to do. ：）

blog4-Ms Ivy Chan-Zhou Shaowen-"Tastes and Preferences"

There are several differences between our parents and us, teenagers. Some major differences are on the way of spending money, the preference of music, and the computer skill.

In terms of the way of spending money, parents are more conservative than us. For instance, when they go shopping, they usually only purchase the items they really need and try their best to avoid wasting money. Similarly, if they obtain extra money, they will be more likely to save it rather than use it immediately. On the contrary, we care less about spending money. The reason is that we concern more about whether we enjoy ourselves now rather than if we will have an easy life in the future. As a result, when we go shopping, we will spend a lot more money just to enjoy ourselves.

As for the preference of music, we are more open-minded to pop music. Some pop music stars such as Lady Gaga can be hard for parents to accept. Because of Lady Gaga’s crazy performance, a lot of parents consider her as a crazy girl. However, many of us are in favour of her songs just because they love her enthusiasm.

Another significant difference is that we usually concern more about new improvements on information technology. When a new computer or smart phone has been released, we usually pay more attention about the detail of it and may pursue it. But parents often do not care about it, and sometimes they just ignore it.

To conclude, there is no doubt that our parents have some different preferences with us. So we can just accept the differences and be tolerant with them.

Blog4-Mrs Pamela-Song Zhuokun (Kevin)-Differences between our parents and us

Differences between our parents and us

   We are the generation that is quite different from our parents in many ways. To begin, we are more open to the fast changing world. For instance, we can more easily absorb some modern and advancing thoughts from foreign countries than our parents. However, this kind of free character also lead us to "a open mind" of spending money. That means, we always spend more money than our parents. Born in the peaceful times, we were brought up in good living conditions and with the dotage of our parents. Thus, we seldom make a budget before buying things and usually want to buy anything that is hip or hot at the moment. By contrast, our parents prefer to save money into the bank and just buy things which are necessary for their life. In addition, we have different tastes of clothes from our parents'. We pursue the kind of clothes which is fashionable and comfortable. "First-sight feeling" is extremely important for us. That's to say, we can buy whatever clothes we want without thinking of its cost because we have "fallen in love with it" at the first sight. However, our parents usually prefer to buy some clothes that is on sale. What they most care about is the price (whether it is cheap enough) and the quality of the clothes. Finally, I think a very important thing to remember is that we are the Internet generation. We depend much more on computers than our parents. More frequently, we prefer to use Internet to search some update information as well as chat with our friends. We have been immersed into the media; thus, there are many of us are "smart shoppers". Instead of being loyal to shop in the mall, we prefer to use Internet to buy many things, which we think is a more convenient way. At last, I want to say that we cannot judge which lifestyle is better between our parents' and ours. We should respect both of them, because they are both the symbols of paces of the times.  

blog 4 : Mrs Pamela - li xinyan (Effy) - generation Y

      Born as post-90s, we are a digital generation, who carry electronic gadgets everywhere we go. Notebook, iphone, ipad, etc, many of us couldn't go on a single day without them. On the street, or in the subway train  or on the bus, you can always see teenagers glued to their handphones or other gadgets and never seem to lose interest.
       On the contrary, our parents, the elder generation are not so dependent on digital products. Take my parents as example, my father prefers reading newspapers in his free time and my mother enjoys cooking and shopping. None of these activities has much to do with electronic products.
      Of course they watch TV and listen to radio, which are now considered the elder generation of  electronic product. But TVs and radios seem to have less and less attraction to us, for they are traditional appliances just like fridges but our taste is for the modern ones.
      The elder generation also use computers and cellphones, but mostly for work and daily communication with family and friends, while we use them a great part for entertainment such as watching movies and videos, listening to music; and social network, such as chatting on Facebook and QQ.
      In a word, digital products have occupied a big part of our lives. Living in the digital world is one of the most different experiences in life we have from our parents.

Blog3-Ms Ivy-Xiao Xiao(Merina)-A Perfect World

  For me, the world would be a better place if there is no gender discrimination. Although we are in a modern society, there is still gender discrimination in our life. For instance,it is very hard for a female civil engineer to find a job, because people always think that female cannot endure hardships and are not capable of the hard work in building sites, so they do not want to employ female civil engineers. But I do not agree with the people who think so, many female are very tough, and they have no problems working in hard places or doing difficult work. Moreover, there are many couples who give birth to several children just in order to have a son, and they think only sons can transfer the family's blood, so they pay more attention on boys than girls. But I think this is a traditional thinking, we should not believe it anymore. In the modern world, everyone should be treaded equally. Maybe female are less strong in physical power than male, but it does not mean female belong to the weak group; female are also strong in heart and they are as clever as male. In fact, there are even some female who can do better than male, such as Hilary, Madam Curie, Wu Zetian and so on. Gender discrimination brings unfairness to our society, so I think the world would be better if there is no gender discrimination.

blog3-Ms Ivy Chan-Zhou Shaowen-"A Perfect World"

For me, the world would be a better place if there was less pollution. Nowadays, pollution has become a serious problem in many areas of the world. First of all, take air pollution as an example. Every year, a large amount of toxic gas is released into the air, and it has caused a lot of respiratory diseases. Moreover, the released acid gas has led to acid rain in many regions of the world. In some areas, where there is frequent acid rain, trees and grasses are getting withered, buildings and sculptures are continuously being ruined as well. Secondly, nuclear pollution is increasingly serious. It is well known that a nuclear power station in Japan was broken by the earthquake and it has caused a great amount of nuclear pollution. One of the unique characteristics of nuclear pollution is that nuclear ray cannot be felt.  To make things worse, the ray can cause severe effects. After ten or twenty years, a large number of the people who are in nuclear pollution areas may obtain cancer without any observation. To conclude, if there was less pollution, there would be less strange diseases, and people would enjoy a healthier life. Subsequently, the world would be a better place for us to live.

blog3)-"Seto"-"Wei Wenbo"-"My Ideal World"

 For me, the world would be a better place if there is a transport which can offer us infinite speed and will appear at once whenever people needs them. Sounds like jin dou yu, but I really believed that if we invented this super high-tech tool, how convenience the world would be. We would not get limited by time or distance. Now people are easy to get tired of walking, taking buses, or even planes. Because there is a limit about speed now, which is the speed of light, we cannot explore universe and find another planet or whatever to reside. When there is anything wrong happening, people can move immediately with this machine. In that time, human being may be totally free and society can be developed much quickly. Of course, before we invented, maybe it would break the theory of relativity. Hope we can do it.

Blog 3 -"Ms Lim"-"Zhang Yaowen (Sophie) "-"A World of Love"-"Theme: A Perfect World"

 

For me, the world would be a better place if the concepts of countries or nations do not exist any longer. Actually, all the villagers of the earth belong to a big family.

However, always, countries or nations are fighting for their own interests; rarely thinking about other people’s feelings.

I have a dream that, one day, every person in the world will treat any other one like a family member. I believe no one would hurt the people he love deeply. On that day, wars, drugs, violent crime and so forth would not exist any longer; instead, we would share happiness, share sorrow, share the love which connects every heart, and no one would feel lonely or helpless.

I believe, one day, my dream will no longer only is dream—it will come turn. At that day, the love will light up every corner, and there will be no darkness at all.

Blog 3) "Mr Seto"-"Zhu Zikun"-"Use science and technology properly"-"Theme: A better world"

     For me, the world would be a better place if there were no inappropriate use of science and technology. If atomic physics had been not applied to military, nuclear weapons, which can lead to unimaginable damages, would not have come into being. Had chemistry not been improperly applied to agriculture, the poisonous DDT would not have accumulated in organisms through biomagnification. Without overuse of the penicillin, we human-beings would not have been threatened by superbugs. However, science and technology do not have original sin, because these bad effects were resulted from the improper use of science and technology rather than science and technology themselves. It goes without saying that the original purpose of advancing science and technology is to better people's life. Therefore, everyone should take the responsibility to avoid inappropriate use of science and technology and contribute to a much better world.

Blog3)-"Ms Ivy Chan"-"Wang Kexin"-"A Perfect World"

Open heart to love

For me, the world would be a better place if everyone can open their hearts to love. It is not uncommon to see some people criticizing the coldness, stoniness and numbness of the world or complaining about the lack of love. Moreover, they throw their anger and unhappiness to the world, blame their loneliness to the people around, because they cannot feel love in their lives. But just as Buddha pointed out, “The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart.” They close their hearts to love and cover their hearts with dense mistrust and estrangement. These covers are so thick that little love can penetrate through. If everyone can open their hearts to the miracle of love, the world, in my opinion, would be a better place and a perfect paradise.

    If everyone opens their hearts to love; coldness, stoniness and numbness that they feel would no longer exist in their worlds. They would be able to find the love around, to feel the warmth of love, to see the beauty of the world, and even to spread love instead of criticizing the whole world and feeling misery about their lives. Therefore, the world could become a better place with love all around. Moreover, with open hearts, we could learn from the unfavorable things in lives. These things come in the form of disappointments, hurts, separations and so on. With open hearts, everyone would try to gain experience from painful things, try to learn about love layer by layer and be optimistic about their lives. At that time, we all would be brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, generous enough to rejoice in another’s happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all. And I am sure that the world would become a better place if everyone does so.