killer? oh, no...

US university shooting kills 33
The campus has now been closed and students evacuated
Scene of shootings
A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university has left 33 people, including a suspected gunman, dead.
There were two incidents two hours apart, at a student dorm where two were killed and at an engineering building where 30 and the gunman died.
Officers said they were working to link the attacks and had a preliminary ID of the gunman but would not release it.
After the deadliest shooting rampage in US history, President George W Bush said the US was "shocked and saddened".
"Schools should be places of safety and sanctuary and learning. When that sanctuary is violated, the impact is felt in every American classroom and every American community," he said.
The state university in the town of Blacksburg is home to 26,000 students.


Adapted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6560685.stm


I was shocked after reading this news. I thought about it and found that how complicated it was to educate one man.

From the news details I knew that his parents don’t care him much. They seldom concern about their child.
This makes me think if another case happened in my hometown: a student’s parents are always busy with their work and always concern about money. Once, after their child was injured, they asked doctors if the fee was free for charge. They didn’t concern much about their child much and eventually one day, the poor child suicide.

This case can actually reflect some of the reasons lead to the failure of education: parents. Parents are models of children. If parents don’t care about their children, children will possibly become shy. Time after time, they will be apathetic to the world.
Although education in school is important, students spend most of their time with their family, mother and father. So, it’d parents’ duty to take care of children and lead them to the right way.

According to what the news said, Cho Seung-hui hated his wealthy classmates and the rich. This relates to the common problem in every society: the differences between the rich and the poor. The rich is absolutely the prior group among people. In this case, it’s nature for ordinary people to envy them. But, if the level of just envy ascends to the level of hate, it is a kind of serious psychological problem. In my opinion, there are different kinds of people in the society. We don’t need to concern much about other people. We are all human; we have no difference between each other. We live in the same planet. We should be united and face the difficulties together. But not having faction with each other.

Also, I want to make some comments about guns. I know it is legal for a qualified citizen to own guns, but I think the process should be more precise. Cho Seung-hui bought the gun and bullets from a legal shop. The shop assistant didn’t even look at his certificates carefully. Like the news mentioned, they took only one minute to accede him to buy the gun and bullets. I think this is terrible. Guns are not only for defending, but also for attacking. The shop didn’t think of the consequence carefully and allow an unqualified man to buy a gun and some bullets. America is a country of freedom as Americans said, but no limitation or restriction means no freedom. In my opinion, freedom is based on restriction. Freedom is given only if you can control yourself. How to achieve self-control? Through limitation, of course. In this way, people can live a happier life with restriction and freedom.

At last, I wish that this kind of tragedy will not happen again.

movie and thought

On 28th of April, I went to the cinema and watched “wild hogs”.
The movie talked about four middle aged men who were all not satisfied with their life in many ways like career, children, wife. They were suffering but did not know what to do.

Four of them were good friends since high school. They four set up a biker party called”wild hogs”. Sometimes, they got together and went riding.

One day, they had an ideal: get rid of all things, just riding towards the west coast and experience life.

All the way, they encountered many amusing things, and they were able to defeat another evil bikers’ party. The ending is they four were very happy riding at the west coast.

After I saw this film, I found that: only when you are able to give up something, new things will come into your life.
In the movie, when they were ready to set off, they all threw away their hand phones. I was little shocked until I realized this is the way of receiving new and fresh things.
In my study, if I want to get higher marks in exams, I have to giving up leisure time.
In order to learn how to play tennis, I have to give up playing basketball.

Why shall I give up? In my opinion, the new thing which I will learn will be more interesting and worthy. From the film, I learnt why we should give up.

Another feeling of the film is never give up. In the film, wild hogs were in trouble with a bang of local villain bikers. At last, they decided to use the old way of man to solve the problem: fighting, one against one. Of course they lost, but I was moved by the spirit of them: they didn’t concern about themselves at all. All they wanted was to save the town and help each other. They didn’t care about their own safety at all.

At this point, I started to think about a very confusing question: give up or never give up?

Sometimes, when I am really not interested in one thing, I will think about it. For example, if I don’t like drinking milk, I will find another way to solve it.
But, there are two things I will never give up at this time: study and exercise.

When I fail the test, I feel desperate and don’t know what to do. Usually, I will think of dropping this subject and get rid of it. After I watched this movie and thought for a long time, I realize something. Although there are many choices in life, I cannot give up my study and sport. One is for spirit, the other is for living. I decided I will never give up studying whatever grade and or rank I have.

Now, I have more confident in myself, I am not going to let myself down. Also, I found the right way to face the failure in the test.

feelings of china

i am a chinese scholar. and now, i am in singapore.
although most people speak chinese.
i still miss my hometown and the traditional chinese festival.
maybe i can't express my feelings well because i am not using my mother tongue.

actually, when i came here, i felt everything was new and waited for me to explore. i thought singapore was a very exciting island.
and it is.
i didn't miss my home until the spring festival now.
i went to the chinatown last sunday, and i missed china even more.
i know that, at this time, my family will do the house cleaning. the curtains will be cleaned once a year at this time(my parents are lazy sometimes). and the whole room will be brighter because the dust is cleaned out. and at this time, i can feel the light and the air warmer.
at this time, i know decorations are placed everywhere in the room. sweets and many kinds of festival stuff will fill in our fridge, store, everywhere. i always like the chocolates because my mom will buy the best choclates at this time, no matter how expensive they are.
at this time, i am sure to be given a lot of things i like, such as food, clothes, ect. before the spring festival, my parents will take me out to buy clothes for the new year.and the colour can't be unlucky colours.
at this time, the school is on holiday!!!
i really love the spring festival.
during the spring festival, because my hometown is not so developed, i can play fireworks and firecrackers with my brother. i think it's dangerous, but i still spend a large sum of money on them.
it's a custom to visit relatives and friends during the festival. i don't really like this, but it's neccessary for the chinese and the most important thing is i can get the red packets from them.
my parents allow me to play whatever i want to in the new year's eve and the first three days of the spring festival. that's fantastic! i never have such a good privilege during other holidays.

there are still other events at this period, maybe i will talk about them later.

now is 9:34 in the evening, i am in the com lab, writing this.
i must say that i am so lucky that i don't need to type the CLE home, cos the previous article can be used as the homework.
now, i have to go.
good night!

i am in the military band and i play the flute. there are five people in the flute section, and i am one of them.
recently, we got a very hard piece to play. and i was very happy to be the 1st flute with the captain. because i am a scholar, it's really uneasy to get the 1st place.(i don't mean i play well, actually, not well enough)
i was very excited and i spent a lot of time and affort on that piece. i must admit that that piece is the hardest that i have ever touched before: the notes are very quick and the tune is difficult to catch. and the most importantly, my fingers can't react sometimes when the notes are too fast. and these are the things i have never faced before.
so, i was appreciate that the captain trust me so much that as soon as i come, he gave me the challenge.

this thursday, when we had the training, the captain suddenly said that he wanted me to try the 2nd flute. i think you can imagine what i felt. suddenly, i felt that my skill was poor because i couldn't play the 1st flute. i felt very sad but i accepted the reality. the boy changed with me was quite happy, because he was promoted. and i was disappointed.

at that time, my mind started to struggle: first , the demon told me that the captain cheated me. he just wanted to let me know that i couldn't play this piece or say he was disapointed and so, he put me down to the 2nd flute. at this point, my self-respect was hurt.

but at this time, another mind came into my mind. after a few days' training, he found me OK, so he sent me down to help the 2nd flute. because i have read a lot of book about psychology and different method to manage myself, i quickly changed. OK, i said to myself, this is the way to improve myself. in this case, i became the VIP in 2nd flute, so i should be proud of it! suddenly, i felt everything was bright. it's true, i felt i respect the captain more than ever, he was really thoughtful.

now, i play the 2nd one as hard as ever, because the load is heavier than the 1st flute: i can either play or not because the captain play whatever. but now, i have to practice hard because if i don't play, the 2nd flute will be actually slience. so now, i think the captain trust me so much and i feel much better.

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first time

now i am at the computer lab. i have just signed a minute ago. everything is fresh to me.
i hope i can make the blog meaningful and funny.