Children are the Rhythm of the World
-- Yang Liu Design
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
What’s That? – A Cool Dictionary
What’s That is the oxford visual dictionary, in which involves about 28,000 entries. Its advertising slogan is that the oxford visual dictionary of nearly everything!
I bought it from a small book store yesterday. It will be a very intresting experience to learn more things by identifing pictures.
It is very weird that most Chinese can not express one simple item in daily life correctly though we have learned English more than 10 years. Take me as the example, I can make a presentation on a business topic very smoothly but can not explain how to cook the simplest chinese food. The reason is that I don’t know how to say the items in kitchen in English.
Now I got a wonderful tool!Maybe I can post some recipes for Chinese food later after I learnd the English name of all the items in my kitchen.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Look at me!
Gaze - means to direct your eyes towards something for a long time.
Stare - suggests fixing your eyes on somebody or something very deliberately. It can be impolite to stare at somebody.
Peer - means to look very closely and suggests that it is difficult to see well.
Gawk - is often used to show disapproval and means to look at someone or something in a foolish way especially with your mouth open.
Glance - to take a quick look at something.
Peep - means to look at something very quickly, especially secretly or quietly.
Inspect - means to examine something closely.
Feast your eyes - to look at something because you are pleased to see it.
Etiquette
The usual response is to behave in a friendly and natural manner, glancing at the other person, perhaps saying 'hello' and exchanging small talk or remaining silent.
If you try hard to avoid the other's glance or you look out of the window as if nobody sat nearby, you would appear so uneasy and so unnatural that you might lay yourself open to suspicion!
To gaze intently may show your attentiveness, but is not that necessary. The best way is to look at him or her as naturally as he or she looks at you.
Some of them, perhaps because of nervousness, like to bury their nose in their manuscriptīpt to read their speech all the time.
Speaking in public is also a kind of two-way communication, which needs eye contact from both sides. The speaker will certainly feel embarrassed when he sees that his audience does not look at him. But if he doesn't look at his audience now and then, his audience also has the right not to listen to what he is saying.
You may look at the approaching strangers until they are about eight feet away, then your glances must veer away as they pass.
A British lecturer should look at his audience now and then
Stare - suggests fixing your eyes on somebody or something very deliberately. It can be impolite to stare at somebody.
Peer - means to look very closely and suggests that it is difficult to see well.
Gawk - is often used to show disapproval and means to look at someone or something in a foolish way especially with your mouth open.
Glance - to take a quick look at something.
Peep - means to look at something very quickly, especially secretly or quietly.
Inspect - means to examine something closely.
Feast your eyes - to look at something because you are pleased to see it.
Etiquette
The usual response is to behave in a friendly and natural manner, glancing at the other person, perhaps saying 'hello' and exchanging small talk or remaining silent.
If you try hard to avoid the other's glance or you look out of the window as if nobody sat nearby, you would appear so uneasy and so unnatural that you might lay yourself open to suspicion!
To gaze intently may show your attentiveness, but is not that necessary. The best way is to look at him or her as naturally as he or she looks at you.
Some of them, perhaps because of nervousness, like to bury their nose in their manuscriptīpt to read their speech all the time.
Speaking in public is also a kind of two-way communication, which needs eye contact from both sides. The speaker will certainly feel embarrassed when he sees that his audience does not look at him. But if he doesn't look at his audience now and then, his audience also has the right not to listen to what he is saying.
You may look at the approaching strangers until they are about eight feet away, then your glances must veer away as they pass.
A British lecturer should look at his audience now and then
Monday, May 12, 2008
Best Wishes
To the people who are suffering from the earthquake disaster
To the people who are doing the aid work in Sichuan, China
To the people who are worrying about their families and friends
To Mr. Wenjiabao
May you are all safe and well
To the people who are doing the aid work in Sichuan, China
To the people who are worrying about their families and friends
To Mr. Wenjiabao
May you are all safe and well
What did I pay for?
Yesterday I decided to cut my hair, which is too long to keep a good style.
It is a big thing to find a right hair stylist, who will decide your looks in the coming, say 2 to 3 weeks. What about the time is longer than this? Congratulations! It means either you ever met a super wonderful hair stylist or a super hair style-killer. Either is uncommon.
I am not familiar with any one hair salon in Singapore. What can I do is just to pray for good luck.
In a hair salon locates at Dhoby Ghaut, I received effusive reception by the receptionist. Then, somebody led me to the seat and shown me the beverage list. I ordered Earl Grey tea.
A handsome assistant washed my hair and began to blow dry it. I was confused by this since it is normally the last step in China’s hair salon and asked the assistant whether sure to do this right now. He gave me an affirmative respond that they always do this before cutting hair.
I said ‘see’. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
My hair stylist is a fashionable lady with long curled hair. She looked at my hair and said ‘It is good. I don’t think it needs more cutting’
The ending is that, she finished her job within 20 minutes.
I couldn’t help asking her, 'Done already?' She smiled and nodded towards me.
'But I think my hair is still too long', I looked at myself in the mirror and said doubtfully.
'It is perfect now.' my hair stylist said seriously, 'It can not match your face shape if it is too short.'
Although I don’t think my hair style is perfect now, I still gave up. It is too high to take the risk of 'unmatched situation'. I had to consult her how to keep the hair style. She told me some tips.
I paid S$36 for this, after abating 15% by paying on the licensed credit card.
What did I pay the S$36 for? Reception, Earl Grey tea, hair wash and style keeping tips? OK, the hair-cutting still should be counted in. Anyway, my hair style doesn’t be destroyed here, although it looks like what it looks before I stepped in the hair salon very closely.
It is a big thing to find a right hair stylist, who will decide your looks in the coming, say 2 to 3 weeks. What about the time is longer than this? Congratulations! It means either you ever met a super wonderful hair stylist or a super hair style-killer. Either is uncommon.
I am not familiar with any one hair salon in Singapore. What can I do is just to pray for good luck.
In a hair salon locates at Dhoby Ghaut, I received effusive reception by the receptionist. Then, somebody led me to the seat and shown me the beverage list. I ordered Earl Grey tea.
A handsome assistant washed my hair and began to blow dry it. I was confused by this since it is normally the last step in China’s hair salon and asked the assistant whether sure to do this right now. He gave me an affirmative respond that they always do this before cutting hair.
I said ‘see’. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
My hair stylist is a fashionable lady with long curled hair. She looked at my hair and said ‘It is good. I don’t think it needs more cutting’
The ending is that, she finished her job within 20 minutes.
I couldn’t help asking her, 'Done already?' She smiled and nodded towards me.
'But I think my hair is still too long', I looked at myself in the mirror and said doubtfully.
'It is perfect now.' my hair stylist said seriously, 'It can not match your face shape if it is too short.'
Although I don’t think my hair style is perfect now, I still gave up. It is too high to take the risk of 'unmatched situation'. I had to consult her how to keep the hair style. She told me some tips.
I paid S$36 for this, after abating 15% by paying on the licensed credit card.
What did I pay the S$36 for? Reception, Earl Grey tea, hair wash and style keeping tips? OK, the hair-cutting still should be counted in. Anyway, my hair style doesn’t be destroyed here, although it looks like what it looks before I stepped in the hair salon very closely.
I can say my ABC
Actually, it is my N# blog, but first English one.
I still remember what Robin said to me when i began to write my blog of FUSHIJI. Why not write your blog in English, he said.
Sure, i will write it in English. What's more, in French. I responded to him.
Now it becomes the truth. The new blog name is I Can Say My ABC, which comes from an English song’s name. I think everyone can sing it since we all began to learn English with alphabet of A B C. It would be the first English song to most of Chinese.
But I don’t think the purpose of this blog is just for English learing. Language is only a tool for me. Anyway, as what I do in my Chinese blog, I hope it can also express my thinking and feeling.
By way of Enlgish, of course.
I still remember what Robin said to me when i began to write my blog of FUSHIJI. Why not write your blog in English, he said.
Sure, i will write it in English. What's more, in French. I responded to him.
Now it becomes the truth. The new blog name is I Can Say My ABC, which comes from an English song’s name. I think everyone can sing it since we all began to learn English with alphabet of A B C. It would be the first English song to most of Chinese.
But I don’t think the purpose of this blog is just for English learing. Language is only a tool for me. Anyway, as what I do in my Chinese blog, I hope it can also express my thinking and feeling.
By way of Enlgish, of course.
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