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Editing Style Review-kekexili

Kekexili is my favorite movie. I was totally shocked when first seeing it in high school. The desert, snow mountains, quicksand and sand storm brought me into a really natural world. I've never seen such a fabulous scene. Also, the slaughters of Tibeton antelope was another shocking point. I felt angry about the poachers and touched about the moutain patrol members. They contribute their youth, love and even lives to save those lovely creatures.

The fight between patrol members and poachers, between human beings and natures help this movie reach its top. I love this film, love feeling the heartquake.

The next few paras are reviews of its editing style required by Toula. Actually Kekexili is a film with simple editings as i think it doesnt need any stunning effects. Its nature is its beauty.

Kekexili (Mountain Patrol) is a Chinese film depicting the fight between a group of volunteer patrollers and poachers over the protection of Tibetan antelopes in the Chinese largest animal reserve-Kekexili. Large amounts of rare animals are living in this virgin place covered with desert. However, the slaughters of Tibetan antelopes break the peace of this land.

The film starts with one patrol member’s execution by poachers. Before execution, the member witnesses the death of an antelope. Scenes switch from the wide shot of poacher shooting the antelope to close-up of antelope struggling. There is no acrobatic editing here. Everything happens fast but naturally. The antelope’s unawareness of death and the poacher’s cruelty coherently express the severe situation of Kekexili- Tibetan antelopes are slaughtered every year. The moving scene to patrol member adheres to the principles of continuity, maintaining the looking direction to the antelope. Although the scene is close-up of member’s face. It can be figured out that his eyesight is kept on the struggling antelope. Despair and numbness is the messages delivered from his eyesight when he sees antelope being skinned.

The sudden killing of patrol member happens when a poacher is trying to release him. The spattering blood on beside poacher indirectly but obviously indicates his death. However, the scene remains at the wide shot of dead patrol member and beside poacher while other poachers are talking about skinning the antelope.

The simple editing style of Kekexili matches the movie theme. It is a natural place. There are no limitations of people’s behaviors, even killing. Antelopes there have total freedom but also high danger as they will face unexpected death every second.

Project Making Nine-Shooting B (2)

We did it~!

Yes, we did it. We finished our shooting in Wollongong...2 hours train trip from Central..hoho..good on us!!! Thanks for everybody, Arya especially!

Actually it was really surprising for us to hear from the Wollongong Beaten Park that we got the permission to shoot on their running track. We did hesitate at the very beginning cos it was indeed far away from Sydney. With such expensive camera gear, we worried and couldn't decided. But other places refused or ignored our requiring again. We had to go there without any choice.

Alright. Let's make it a trip. A short trip...just with a camera, tripod and accessories. We could have a nice trip, can't we?~:)

We set out from Central station on Sunday (2/12/07) 9:40 am and arrived at North Woll'g around 11:15 am. Sunshine gave us a warm welcome after a 2-hour trip. Everyone was excited about arrival and enjoying the fresh air.

Finding the way through Beaten Park took half hour. Camera and tripod became heavier and heavier during the process. Finally, we saw the running track...right in front of us!!!
Cheers...we found it!!! (It's true that we'v spend almost 2 weeks searching it...and now it's right there!! So real..so..exciting!)

Excitements motivated us to begin shooting...
Overview of running track...pan L to R...Pan R to L...beauty of the playground was recorded in our tape...
Emily running on track...tracking from CR to CL...
During this shot...weather seemed to change..shower seemed to come...we were scared..but prayed..don't shower..thank you!!!
Emily taking the baton...close up...
I personally quite liked this shot..it brought me there..where a person truely passed his life to the other...to fulfil his life goals...i was touched...honestly...
Emily running towards camera...

2 and half an hours later...we packed everything...we were gonna leave for Sydney...
Hunger and tireness brought us back from shooting...
They also sent us on train...sleeping..zzzzzzzz.....

5pm..we arrived at Sydney...hu.........
WE DID IT....

Project Making Nine-Shooting B

Fun and tireness are always together

Last week's shooting failed to meet our requirements. Then shooting will continue this weekend. Our schedule is filled with shooting in Faye's house and Wollongong Beaten Park.

Cos it's the 2nd time of taking the same shots, shooting went quite well. Although we did spend lots of time on finding the best angle, the whole process ended within 3 hours, from 4 pm to 7 pm. Actually, we found it difficult to shoot the scene of Emily opening the laptop and Amelia entering.

After discussion, Faye and I decided to shoot the Amelia entering in use of Emily's angle who's actually lying or twisting on bed because of sudden painfulness. So the frame will be a bit tilted and distorted. Several rehearsals helped us find out the angle and put it into practice. I think this shot took around 7 takes or more. I was doing the camera work actually in this shot. I found it quite hard to handle the camera as we wanted to suddenly zoom in when Amelia entering. Each time she entered, the position was different. So it was a bit tricky for me to exactly follow her track and do the exact zoom in. Luckily, practice makes going. This shot was finished after trials. I thought it would be good when playing on screen. However the results told me the truth. All other group members said it was over close-up when Amelia entering. The first shot was the best of all...*-*..~~~Anyway..i learned a lot of skills in shooting during this afternoon. And i believed that we did a good job!

(To be continued....)

Project Making Eight-Shooting A

When things got stuck, what should we do?

Sometimes things happen fast, same as our shooting.
Because of the little time, we decided to shoot from last Sunday, Nov. 25th. It was truly hurry for us to make it as we even hadn’t found right place to shoot. Funny, isn’t it?

But we were forced by time to do it. Then we started contacting places with running tracks. From Olympic Park to Eastern Garden, to Kingsgrove, to Hurstville….but we still failed to get a place to shoot before Saturday. Meanwhile we were trying to find places with hospital treatment bedrooms. Results turned out to be the same because university was on holiday. Gosh……
So we had to re-consider, changing hospital to home…was it possible? Yes, it was. Faye’s house was the best choice we had. Why not making it?

Shooting in Faye’s house was suddenly decided on Friday. We re-thought the storyboard, script and so on. Little changes may happen but it would be okay. Alright, we started making it- I am an organ donor, are you?

Sunday morning, Ardi, Arya, Jin and I were setting out to Town Hall bus station at 9 am. The upcoming Sydney XX Parade caused traffic blocking which scared us to lose our bus. Actually buses were running properly…god bless us….
We arrived at Faye’s house around 10 am and started breakfast…camera setting up…blah blah blah…

Then Jin (organizer) started making up for Emily (Played by Arya) who became ‘sicker’ and ‘sicker’ in the following 10 mins…

15 mins later...Emily was 'diagnosed' to be horribly sick...(Sb said she looked like Zombie...did she?)

Rehearsals started at 11 am..bringing lots of fun...Amelia (Emily's older sister, Jin)'s acting needed skills and feelings, she tried almost 10 times (Really thank you!) to actually be in the scene. It was Amelia who made the movie turned over into a hopeful feeling... She may be excited to cry...to be tripped...

Anyway, rehearsing time was fantastic, humorous and helpful...We tried to find out the best angle and the best acting.

Then formal shooting started, times after times... hours after hours...

We finished shooting at 5 pm...Hu....................................

Everybody turned out to be exhausted but happy, we spent a whole day shooting several scenes. But we did learn a lot. We learnt how to co-operate, how to judge the angles and how to keep the atmosphere......

Project Making IIV-Presenting Idea

We make what you want

Yes, week 5 is the week of presenting video idea in class. It is a chance for us to gain feedback from listeners whether our idea is nice or not. The outcome proves our assumption, we indeed get valuable suggestions from our listeners.
We are 'lucky' to be the last group presenting idea. The process was going well as everyone knew what he/she was responsible for. When explaining our ideas by displaying the storyboard, i could feel that our audience understand them but....
After presenting, we began the interaction time. We asked our audience whether they got what our video wanted to say or no. The answer was 'yes' which comforted us. But Blossom also said when Ardi describing the shot size, it was a bit unclear for her to actually shape the image in mind. This problem was able to be solved when our video comes out on screen.
However, the next few questions surprised us a bit.
Several audiences said we gave limited information about how to be an organ donor in our video which they were eager to know after watching the video.

It was also reinforcecd by Toula that she had the same feeling. She wanted to know more about organ donor register within the video. So she said why we didn't make it a documentary.

Actually we'd ever thought about making a documentary where interviews of organ donors and tertiary students dominant. However, it was figured out that in this case the video would lose its interest towards our target audience. The length of documentary may also bore them.
More important is, based on our survey questionnaire, tertiary students's awareness of organ donation was the main problem. That's why we wanna make a video which mainly aimes to motivate or encourage them to be an organ donors rather than teaching them how to be an organ donor.
And another point is, the process of being organ donor will specifically published/introduced on the website of our campaign.

After explaining to Toula and classmates, they had a clearer idea. But they still wanted to directly see some hints of registration in the video.
Therefore, we may try to improve our video, maybe this kinda information will be added after our video. Anyway, it's still in discussion and consideration.

Project Making IV-Improving Idea

Audiences are always listeners...

Finally, we worked out our video idea. Cheers!
As a writer, i mainly did work on synopsis while others doing storyboard or script.
I first discussed the one sentence synopsis with members, outcome was not satisfied.

When life met the end, Emily received her life gift and decided to pass it on...

It sounded more or less confused..but on the other hand, it had some secrets which were expected to attract our audiences to actually see our video..
wut is the life gift?how did she receive it? etc...
So...in this case it was okay...
but we hoped to get feedback from Toula~~~

In addtion, i wrote down my own synopsis which worked well for me...^-^

Life is a relay match, you can pass it on, like what he did...

YEAH...it is my way of thinking..i dun know whether it is proper or not..anyway..i like it..

Project Making V-Developing Idea

Sometimes, simple is good.

The current task of our group is deciding the video idea which triggered different opinions in last discussion. We agreed to ask Toula for help. Toula's feedback on both ideas were similar, ideas were a bit abstract, especially Faye's idea. As our video is set up as an advertising, we have to make our audience understood our content and intention within several mins. But from Faye's storyboard, Toula worried it was over abstract and passive for audience.
Overall, Toula strongly agreed the idea of Relay Match, but, she suggested us to work out some more detail and clear ideas about video. If we still couldn't decide on one video script before next week's presentation, we were welcomed to display both ideas to our audience and gain feedback from them.

After communication with Toula, our group immediately hold a meeting discussing solutions of video idea. We aimed to try to make only one video idea before next as it would be heavy work for all of us to accomplish two scripts, treatments and storyboards. Then, we started analysing disadvantages and advantages of both Ardi and Faye's ideas while trying to mix them together in one video.

Firstly, we came up with an idea that Ardi's video could be shown first as a documentary for the whole video project, then Faye's video could be used as a subsdiary advertising about organ donation. In this case, both ideas could be included in the video.
However, this idea was given up after discussions as it required relatively high techniques which was beyond our ability.

Secondly, we started combining two ideas together.
Faye's idea-keep the relay match, main character-boy and girl
Ardi's idea-organ recipient survived after organ donor's donation after death
Following this model, several ideas were tested...but outcome was poor...

After several trials and improvements, a rough version which seems to be nice came out-
The whole video is about telling a 'real' experience of organ donation by a successful organ recipient who restared her life 5 years ago because of organ transplantation from an anoymous organ donor.

So the benefits and importance of organ donation can be displayed or conveyed to our audiences through their communication with the story teller even it was not 'true'.

Since the rough idea was approved, details about each scene were discussed by us one by one.

Project Making III-Brainstorming

Ideas can be improved through discussion

The latest group meeting ended 2 hours ago. It was nice, tough and helpful. We went through two different design of our project's video from Ardi and Faye. But when we actually deeply discussed it...problems came out...from the availability to the content...at last..we hadn't reached agreement on one idea...sign...However, it was really valuable to see those ideas and to see every group memeber trying their best. Now i'm gonna explain Ardi and Faye's ideas about video.

Ardi-
Characters: A-died in car accident
B,C,D-waiting for organs to survive
Location: Park

Storyline:
first half: A walks on the road, passes B, who needs a heart to live on; passes C, who needs a lung to live on; passes D, who needs a liver to survive- They all fade out of the screen-representing they all pass away.

Second half: A walks on the road, meeting B, hug B, they smile together, so with C and D. In the end, A happily fades out of the screen with B,C,D watching.

The end: White letters on black screen: Die for nothing or die for something?
You can choose one
Be an organ donor
Be a life saver.

This is the idea of Ardi’s video for organ donation campaign. He wanna say to target audience that you can make decisions between saving lives or let them go. He sets up the character who’s already dead and other three who are waiting for organs to live on and makes two different endings which four ppl die together and three ppl survive because of the dead’s organs. He wanna show the audience how important organ donation is. We can help save several lives through losing one dead life, why not doing it? It makes our lives more worthy, isn’t it?

For me, this is really a meaningful idea. But I think it blurs the differences between living donors and dead donors, and his story makes us feel encourage people to die to save lives…@_@

Faye
Characters: Girl and Boy
Location: Street, Church, Hospital, Running Track, University Campus.
Storyline:
Scene One: Street: girl and boy pass each other

Scene Two: Church: The girl prays and suddenly passes out
Scene Three: Hospital: Parents of the girl in coma are praying beside the sickbed.
Scene Four: Running track- the boy, in prepare for running, sets out when gun shooting. He is sweating while running.
Scene Five: Running track-the girl is waiting at the end of raceway.
Scene Six: University campus-the boy is filling up an organ donor registering form.
Scene Seven: Running track-the boy passes his baton to the girl. She starts running.
End: Boy and girl are happily chatting with each other on the racetrack.

Basically, Faye’s initial idea about RELAY RACE is fantastic! All of us agree with this point which totally express the key of organ donation-pass our lives on to others. However, when her script came out to us, things changed a bit. Several down points were found out of her video:
l Whole video needs four locations which cost time and money.
l The connection between relay race and girl’s story is a bit choppy. As an audience, it might be confused.
l (Personal viewpoint) The involvement of church may be not so match cos it brings some religious feelings.

Actually, our group failed to reach an agreement on idea of video. We decided to ask Toula for help the next day.

Even though we didn’t make the idea, it was really worthy to have this discussion which improved our cooperation and communication.

Project Making II-Butterfly Man

Making a video is making a story, which displays others what your heart wanna say......

Today's class was fantastic, from watching video to learning camera, everything seemed to be pretty fresh and funny to me. The most shocking and touching short film-Butterfly Man brought me overwhelming thinkings about a people's life as well as our own video product.

The synopsis i wrote for this movie was...
The story of a man and butterflies, who find his life blossoming from dancing like a butterfly...

Actually, this sentence is quite simple but meaningful to me. Coz it's my first time to see an aged gentleman so much addicted to butterfly. Also, it's my first time to see an aged gentleman dancing like a butterfly...when he dances, i can feel his passion, his young and his lover over butterflies...Butterfly, is his second life.

In addtion to the unique storyline, the beautiful camera work did impress most of my classmates. Different from many videos we've ever seen, this director used lots of distorted angles, lights and frameworks that bring us mystery and attractions.
When the director shot the university museum, objects in the screen were arranged as a triangle which reinforcing the antique atmosphere of this movie. It was a bit strange, but creative, i think.
When butterfly samples were shot close-up, the special blue light shocked me as it was so beautiful and incredible.

The video is not for the butterfly man, it is also for the butterflies. They are both shining in this film.

Project Making I

'The end of one life maybe a start for another life'
This is the opening question we came over in our first discussion
Can our life be continued after death???
Yeah! Sure.
Organ Donation-keeps our life going on

Organ Donation is a non-profit campaign assigned by our group (Ardi, Faye, Jin and me) made for Australians Donates (http://www.organdonation.org.au/).
We figure out organ donation is a popluar and controversial issue in Australia. Most people hold resistance for donation under encouragement of the government. Y-generation pretends to be less concerned about social issue because of easy life.
Therefore the campaign aims to change people's rejected or careless attitudes towards organ donation, especially targeting Y-generation aged 18 to 28.
An essential element within our project is a TV commercial -wut we are supposed to do in Toulas' class.

The very first thing we need go thru is knowing our target audience in detail.
We open our questionnaire this week as a basic step of understanding the organ donation's situation in Sydney, Australia.
Specifically, this questionnaire is set up to see who care least and most about organ donation in society among 4 age groups:18 to 28; 29 to 45; 46 to 60; 61 or above by asking 5 questions about organ donation.

Our group spent two days in conducting the first questionnaire aimed at the four different aged groups. Jin and I were allocated to do survey on 46 to 60 and 61 or above 2 groups. We started at market city then transferred to George street.
During the survey procedure, we were really impressed by several respondents' unique answers. Luckily, information about where to register as a organ donor was also gained from them.

Among them, there was a lady from Perth who had already registered as an organ donor. According to her, most of Australians know about organ donation and are willing to register as donors. However, few of them finally agree to donate their organs when needed. Why? She said maybe they were scared or worried about losing a part of body, and they wanted to have a complete body after died. Whatever, she highly suggested organ donation as it was a social benefit for others as well as the whole country. Everybody should do it!

In addition, we met a 83 years old lady at Town Hall whose whole family had signed the organ donation paper from grandma to grand daughter. We felt surprised but more touched by her saying that organ donation was significantly important to every society. It was more than helping yourselves, it saved lives.

On the contrary, a young lady who as well took our memory not because of her agreement but for her carelessness about organ donation. She directly answered ‘no’ when we were doing survey about her mother whether she would like to donate organs if she could. It was shocked us that she didn’t even think about there were thousands of patients waiting organs to survive. What a pity.

To Lulubear

Dear Lulubear
Say goodbye to your mom and dad is not easy
I know
You love them so much
I know
You're experiencing the pain, grief and despair.

But please be strong
Please try to smile
I know it's hard

Look at your mom and dad
They are smiling at you in the heaven
They are happy
They don't want you to cry, to be sad, to droop.
They want you to be strong, be optimistic, to live on well.

If you were unhappy
How do you think they would feel?
Can they live well in another world?
No they cannot

So please
my dear lulubear
Trust yourself
You can get through this time

the leaving of your parents may be their extrication
You don't want them to be trapped here and worry about you, don't you?

Let them go peacefully
Send your love to them
See them off happily

That's the best present for you to give them

And
We will always be with you

Blog Critique

Blog or weblog is a regularly updated personal website created in form of diary (Pointblog, 2005:6). It varies from traditional dairies for the hybrid of texts, videos, pictures and music. The special style of blogger-to-user interaction brings blog into a worldwide popular stage where anybody can connect to. This critique is gonna look at the blog, Post Secret to see how a popular blog works and influences our life.

Post Secret is a following blog of its ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. The anonymous-based format does attract large numbers of participants in this project while the secret content make this blog more welcomed. 95,966,418 people have ever visited this blog.

Different from other popular blogs, Post Secret mainly deals with pictures, post cards exactly than texts and sound effects. So viewers’ attention will naturally pay onto the postcards telling mysterious stuff of others. Black color sets off the white characters and the colorful pictures but making the ‘secret’ theme pop out. What’s more, language used in Post Secret is definitely easily understood as most of them are originals words from anonymous contributors who wanna freely express themselves out.

What makes a popular blog?

• Exclusive sources
• Sexy-celebrity
• Honest-petite Anglais
• Original voice

Yes, Post Secret is popular thanks to its exclusive sources which cannot be accessed to in normal life. Everyone has his private life where secrets can fine their home. However, here, at the Post Secret the people are willing to publicize their secrets and make their deep voices heard. The uniqueness of blog content gives priority to be popular. Actually, I was a bit shocked when firstly seeing this blog because i wondered how daring these people were to speak their secrets out. Although they are done anonymously, it was highly possible for postcard makers’ friends or relatives to recognize. On the other hand, the way Post Secret operates does play an important role in our life or society.

This blog, working as a public space for people to display their secrets helps us discover some ‘dark’ or ‘hidden’ information in people’s mind. Like the postcards I read on Father’s Day, most of them were written by children to thank their dads or tell dads how much they love them. To see these posters is touching? Or thoughtful? I was thinking how fathers would react when they saw these postcards. Were they surprised or regretful about their blames or complaints on children? Maybe or maybe not. At least, children release themselves out of the ‘unspoken’ love. They say their real feelings out.

Post Secret, a blog basically necessary to everybody’s life. We are living under various kinds of pressure: love, study, friendship, career and etc. We need place to set our mind free. Secrets cannot survive only being kept inside; they need fresh air as well. Don’t push yourselves so hard; find some pathways to announce your ideas. It might be worthy or interesting to be re-read after several years of posting. You can get who you were and what you thought from what you had written.

BLOG is a magic tool enabling people to see who they are and how they are living.

My lover

When i first saw you
i fell in love with you
Your passion
Your charm
Your arrogance
deeply attracted me

When i left my hometown
holding your hands and saying goodbye
sad took up my mind

When i missed you in South Hemi.
I decided to bring you back to my life
Calling....

When i got through the line
You told me the ways to send u through the Sydney Custom
I did

When i was picking you up
You lost some friends
but saying 'no worries'
It'll be fine.

When i was dating with your friends
The familiar smell pushed me back to the past
The time we spent together

When i finished arrangments
I looked at you
My lover...
Glad to see you again~!!!

When i started feeling you
Everything was back
Happiness....

HOT POT....
MY LOVER...............
LOVE YOU FOREVER~!

[p.s i really love hotpot
everytime i see it
i feel i'm back to my hometown
i'm laughing with my family and friends
i could throw all my troubleness into the pot
Boiling then forgeting it...
Having hotpot....
Enjoying life....]

Miss

Miss
I miss you, my dear family
I miss you, my dear friends
I miss you, my dear hometown
I miss you, my yummy food.

Yes
I miss every single piece
I miss my life over the ocean
I miss the life i had before

Yes
I miss my family
I miss their appearances
I miss their laughters

Yes
I miss my friends
I miss the happiness we shared together
I miss the fooliness we had together
I miss the secrets we told each other

Now
I am missing myself
missing my childhood
missing my lovely toys
missing my tears

Because
I cannot go back anymore
I am not a child anymore

I am learning to be strong
I am learning to control my sentiments
I am learning to be independent

But
I'm learning to miss someone

[P.S
To the moon
Could you hear my blessings?
Could you bring them across the ocean?
Could you?]

Black

Black
The color of week 11
Everybody is busy with his own buisness
Essay,presentation,interview transcript......
We keep breathing in the 'boiled water'
We are almost 'ripe'
Yet we cannot stop
Because we have our future to fight for
Our dreams are waiting for us

Black
The color i like
Mysterious, serious,unpredicted...
Everybody has their 'black closet' where others cannot access to
It is true that we need somewhere to hide our 'secrets'
Then we have the little 'black box'
We put our sadness,grievance, anger in it
May you wanna share it with someone, may not
It does not matter
Just keep in mind
Control your 'black mood'
Dun let it stand in your way
Your life should be with sunshine however difficulty it is

Black
The name of my poster
Boring?
Hehe....

Tired

Tired
Really tired
everybody has to handle sth everyday
Essay,video shooting, presentation...

Every single piece seems to meet at once now
Wut are we doing?
Fighting...definitely
or how can we survive?

We still have a long way to go
We still have to do many assignments
We still have to face any emergency

Sad...Exhausted
Fulfilling my week 9
How about u? My dear fellows?

Special Week

Week 8, the special week i'm in
mixed with my excitement, upsetness, gloom and hopelessness.
Like i've been experiencing years confronting different kinds of life problems
Make me feel exhausted, anxious of sleep and...$%*@

Nevertheless
Moving to the city could be the most cheerfull thing this week
Acutally
Steph and i were both indeed shocked abt my luggages (10...bags)^^
I was seriously thinking abt how i could own so many stuff in less than one year**

Packing them up took time and energy
Unpacking them also annoyed me
........
Rest was the only thing attracted me then

Happiness and freshness just kept 2 days
My student card and new blue ten aparted from me without informing me
OMG...
What was the problem to me?
How could i get them lost???!!!
Heart broken....55555555555

Damn things came on track right the next day
I was phoned to pick up the 'back home' student card and blue ten just 2 hours after i got a new student card by paying 20 bucks.
Gosh, how 'lucky' i was...

And my 'lucky angel' was not willing to leave me aside
Then it helped me to be the first presenter of the Julia's video project...
Being nervous..being tripped...forgot the vital info.

My lord!!!!
How can you put these stuff on me...
They are too 'heavy' for me to carry....
Could you plz get them away??

2morrow will be the last day...
What's gonna happen to me?

Moving

Yes,tomorrow, i'm gonna move again.
From Wolli Creek to City.
From suburb to city...lol...kidding...

It's the 2nd tim for me to move.
How time flies!

I moved to Wolli Creek half of a year ago.
I had spent wonderful time with my mate, Steph.
We entertained each other to kill the time
We helped each other to finish the homework
We went to school together,took the same train, stepped on the same road...

Time...a really magic.
Bring Steph., send her away as well...

I dun know wut to say.
Living with Steph. makes me warm.
May unhappiness took place btw us
But things soon got fine

Living with someone teaches me a lot

Thank you, Steph.
I faithfully appreciate ur help and care!

Wish u good luck!!!!

Yes,i'm gonna move 2morrow...
move to a new place with new flatmates.
May it be challenging
I'm well-prepared.

C ya
Wolli Creek
Thank you for bringing me such a brilliant period..
I'll get it down in my dairy...

Joyance

Finish the first podcast with Ranran
Excited

The first time for us to feel the pleasure coming from sound recording
A bit weird for us to work on our own voice
But meaningful

Get the podcast accomplished is not easy
We need to overcome difficulties of language and insufficient experience
However
We make it!

May the outcome be not perfect
Yet we put our heart into it
For us
It is the best work we've ever done
Cos we experience both hardness and happiness
That is enough

Thank you for all people involved in our podcast
We are unable to complete it without your support

Thank you Ranran
Being your partner is truely my honor

Thank you all
For bringing me such a joyous time

Gloomy

Gloomy
a word i dun wanna touch
yet it is coming towards me
struggling to get rid of it
NO WAY......

Original work was questioned by teacher
being sad

Mom was sick
being worried

Searching accommodation again
being tired

Unable to move out
falling down from the paradise

Failed to transfer the completed interview sound records to the Garage Band
being hopeless

Lots of assignments waiting
being freaked out

Sign....

Dun know why
keep meeting bad stuff

Dun know when
I can shake the bad luck off

But i know how
Being OPITIMISTIC

Tomorrow is another day.

Winter

Winter
my favorite season
without being disturbed by torridity
just playing with the chilliness

Winter
the most expecting season
snow,sunshine,rain,wind...

Unfortunately
realities betray my minds
coming from a city without snow
arriving at a city without snow

Where has the snow gone?
Where has the symbol of winter gone?

Disappointness is killing my passion...

Although
i am not a stranger to snow
i did have fun with snow before
anticipation to see snow is still kept in my heart

Doesn't matter
winter without snow is also fantastic
dancing with the wind
hugging with the sunshine
holding a cup of hot water
feeling the warm from the heart
happiness is rebuilding my passion

Winter
the season i am experiencing is leaving
the season Sydney in is walking away

[P.S Please do not say you hate winter here, please respect my interest, what i need is enjoying the moment, thanks.]

Happiness

Where does happiness come from?
Yummy food? New friends? Sweet smiles and golden sunshine?

No.
They are the outcomes of your happiness.
Because the happiness does come from your heart.

When your heart is happy
Every single piece seems to be shining

When your heart is happy
Bad things can be reversed to good things

When your heart is happy
Any problem is only a piece of cake

So...
Keep your happiness?

No.
Find the origin of your happiness and hold it.
Enjoy it whenever you want.

Get a day off for your tired heart...
Take in fresh air for your tired heart...

Otherwise.
Your happiness will end soon.
Because the origin of it is drying

Are you happy today?
Or are you still searching it?





[P.S Today i'm very happy. Cos i ask a leave for my heart...kick all tricky stuff away...just enjoy life~~]

The sound of silence

At night...

Shut down the window
Turn off the lights
Take a seat...

Close your eyes
Release your mind...

Do you hear that
A kind of sound

Do you hear that
The sound from the bottom of your heart...

I hear that
It's the sound of silence

I hear that
It's the sound of my blood,my breath,my happiness and my sorrow...

We hear that
The Sound of Silence...

Changing

Everything is changing
The world is changing
You are changing
I am changing

Every moment is changing
A moment ago, we are playing with Marxism in the classroom
A moment later, we are trembling in the chilly wind on the way home

Every single life is changing
One year ago, i was living and studying in my country
One year later, i am sitting infront of my laptop ten thousands miles away from my home

Everything is changing
The time is changing
Our life is changing
Our minds are changing

But my heart is not changing
I keep my love
I keep my hate
I keep listening to the sound of words

Is your heart changing,my dear friends?

Simpleness

Key words: simpleness coffee writing living food

Simpleness

is a cup of black coffee

without sweet taste of sugar

without fragrance of milk

but the origin bitterness of coffee

Simpleness

is doing some writings

flying in the world of literacy

enjoying the pure touch of words

Simpleness

is a style of living

without having intense sentiment

without being upside down

but being who you are

Simpleness

is a way of self-releasing

laugh out loud whenever you want

cry out whenever you want

take a rest whenever you want

Simpleness

is having food

judging between tasty and plane

[P.S Today is simple,i just need to stay in the hug of sunshine...]

Ten Years

Ten years ago, a son came back to his mother

Ten years later, the mother celebrates the 1oth anniversary for her son's return.

Ten years ago,the son's stepmother left

Ten years later,they get together as brothers.

Ten years ago,i was a primary school student

Ten years later,i become an oversea student.

Ten years ago,i watched the ceremony of welcoming his return

Ten years later,i write a post to express my joyance.

CELEBRATING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF HONGKONG'S RETURN!

[P.S During the ten years,we experienced happiness and bitterness. But everyone has got a new start like the HONGKONG...]

Morning Call

Waked up at 8:30 a.m this morning when flatmates were still asleep.

Keeping silent to avoid disturbing their sweet dreams while preparing the breakfast...
a cup of water with honey
250g green tea yoghurt...

Started having breakfast 5 mins later with the lovely sunshine...

I said 'hello' to her...to my very new day as well...

[P.S Expecting to see the sunshine everyday,coz it's my best morning call

Expecting to have a cup of water with honey coz it's the best morning call to my stomach.:)]

Prologue

Hey everyone,welcome to this blog.

I'm the author of the blog-Shushu,a 18 years old gal from CHINA mainland,studying in Sydney, Australia. It is my great pleasure to have this blog and see you guys here!Cheers!^-^

Acutally,blog is not a new thing for me any more. This is the 4th time for me to set up a blog. However, it is the 1st time for me to write a blog in English. To some extent, this blog is global allowing people from all over the world to see what's going on in my life. Exciting~!

Well,if you keep reading my blog,you'd get to know me step by step...

Anyway,thank you for visiting my blog!

Wish you'd have a wonderful journey!