This is week, I want to introduce a movie that I love so much and have watched for many times. It is a French film that released about 8 years ago and the name of the movie is” Le Fabuleux Destin Amelie Poulain”, the Taiwanese translation is 艾蜜莉的異想世界. The director is Jean Pieiie Jeune and the main characters are Andrey Tautou and Mathieu Kassovitz. The movie talks the story about Amelie’s special life, fantasy and the struggle within her heart. When she was a little girl, she had no friend and her parents were squeamish and odd. Her fantasy became the core of her life and made her be more and more autistic. She could not open her mind and embrace a sincere love. Until there was a thing change her and made her understand the meaning of helping people to gain happiness that she had opportunity to meet her Mr. Right, a young man who is as odd as she is.
The movie’s photography technique is surreal but at the same time, the color tone and the atmosphere of the film tends to be old school. I think, besides the plot, the unique style and the exquisite performance are the important factors of the success of this movie. Moreover, in the movie, there are lots of metaphors. That makes the whole film become intriguing. Another reason of why I love the movie so much is because of the main actress, Andrey Tautou. She is not merely a beautiful woman but has a tempting temperament. Her acting is so delicate that whenever I watch the movie, I can have some new discoveries. In the film, she is a little bit tricky, sensitive as well as tender woman. You can hardly resist her charisma.
I think the movie “Le Fabuleux Destin Amelie Poulain” is like a fairy tells. Those lovely characters and the beautiful while fragile humanity made me deeply fall.
2010年3月17日 星期三
journal 3/15~3/21
Last weekend, during March 12 to 14, I went to Kaohsiung for Mega Port Music Festival with my friends. The performance was held in the Pier-2 art center. There were many stages with different types of bands, including rock, folk, metal and so on. People could whichever stages and bands they like. Apart from live bands performance, there were outdoor radio broadcast. You could directly seat in front of our idols and see them being on the air. Moreover, there were films exhibit and campo market (creative designer piazza). Though there were lots of novel activities and concerts, I still thought the place is not suitable for these big scaled activities. Since the performances would interact one another and the vendors in the campo market was inadequate for audience. The space’s factor would limit the audience will to keep enjoying the performances and other activities.
However, I thought the performances were great and the atmosphere there was awesome! The Kaohsiung’s peculiar climate and temperature were quite agreeable at night and they totally fitted to the “sweaty types of music” With cold beer and warm breeze, the music seemed to be more appealing than recording version.
Among all the performances during these three days, the one I enjoyed the best is “silver bus”. The bands like ”1976”, “Bear Babes” and “Staycool” have always been my beloved one and I have been very familiar with their music and performances. As for “Silver Bus”, I roughly knew their music for certain extent but not that acquainted.
This time, I was glad that I went to Mega Port Music Festival and found something precious. Formed by three people (trio), with profound lyric and soft voice, their music was warm and harmonious. Besides, unlike the electrical music which mushroomed in recent years, their music presents original instrumental sound and exquisite emotion. If you love folk or soft rock, I strongly recommend you this band. You can never miss it.
Silver bus live performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rICb-f7PM44&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClJ0QFqfrQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7p2m8m_Gg&feature=related
Mega port music festival’s official website:
http://www.megaport.com.tw/
However, I thought the performances were great and the atmosphere there was awesome! The Kaohsiung’s peculiar climate and temperature were quite agreeable at night and they totally fitted to the “sweaty types of music” With cold beer and warm breeze, the music seemed to be more appealing than recording version.
Among all the performances during these three days, the one I enjoyed the best is “silver bus”. The bands like ”1976”, “Bear Babes” and “Staycool” have always been my beloved one and I have been very familiar with their music and performances. As for “Silver Bus”, I roughly knew their music for certain extent but not that acquainted.
This time, I was glad that I went to Mega Port Music Festival and found something precious. Formed by three people (trio), with profound lyric and soft voice, their music was warm and harmonious. Besides, unlike the electrical music which mushroomed in recent years, their music presents original instrumental sound and exquisite emotion. If you love folk or soft rock, I strongly recommend you this band. You can never miss it.
Silver bus live performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rICb-f7PM44&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClJ0QFqfrQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7p2m8m_Gg&feature=related
Mega port music festival’s official website:
http://www.megaport.com.tw/
2010年3月9日 星期二
journal 3/8~3/14
Previously, Dr. Gina introduced us a website for both entertainment and listening practice but I didn’t feel like using it. Until the winter vacation, I happened to browse the website; as a result, it carved out a whole new vision for me. The name of website is ”Ted”. Literally, the term means spreading out things and drying them under the sun. The interesting thing is that the slogan of the website is “the ideas worth spreading” and the picture of each lecture fan out on the page. It is exactly what “ted” means.
The latest speech I have watched is “Five lives of an artist”, addressed by Raghava KK, a famous Indian artist. When he was about a teenager, he dropped out of school and started his own business. At first he painted for people and then he paint for himself. His painting is original, innovative and pioneering. He raised a holistic idea for his future, which includes discipline, curiosity, learning, hard work and sustenance. His painting style was always changing. He even combined painting with fashion and dancing. Also, he taught children painting, worked with them and raised art schools at the age of 18. From the children, he learned how to be spontaneous, mad and crazy. Through traveling, he met many interesting and talented artists which helped him on his work and his life.
I never heard of him before seeing this speech, but now I think Raghava KK is really an amazing person. He is confident but humble. As the holistic idea he has mentioned, he works very hard and always stays curious. For a celebrity, those are not easy at all. He treasures his family, his friends and every relationship with each person during his journey of life. His painting shows his full emotion thoroughly and makes every endeavor to live up to his criterion. His attitude toward art as well as life is admirable. I think his experiences and the one who he is are both inspiring.
The latest speech I have watched is “Five lives of an artist”, addressed by Raghava KK, a famous Indian artist. When he was about a teenager, he dropped out of school and started his own business. At first he painted for people and then he paint for himself. His painting is original, innovative and pioneering. He raised a holistic idea for his future, which includes discipline, curiosity, learning, hard work and sustenance. His painting style was always changing. He even combined painting with fashion and dancing. Also, he taught children painting, worked with them and raised art schools at the age of 18. From the children, he learned how to be spontaneous, mad and crazy. Through traveling, he met many interesting and talented artists which helped him on his work and his life.
I never heard of him before seeing this speech, but now I think Raghava KK is really an amazing person. He is confident but humble. As the holistic idea he has mentioned, he works very hard and always stays curious. For a celebrity, those are not easy at all. He treasures his family, his friends and every relationship with each person during his journey of life. His painting shows his full emotion thoroughly and makes every endeavor to live up to his criterion. His attitude toward art as well as life is admirable. I think his experiences and the one who he is are both inspiring.
2010年1月4日 星期一
week14
Q1:
I personally think those task are interesting and inspirational. Although sometimes a little bit bothering, they are indeed really enlightened. The weekly tasks force me to make valuable comment on specific issues and try to reflect it to my personal experiences. I especially love the speech watching part. During watching speech, I can broaden my horizon and enrich my imagination.
Q2:
I think group talking is better. At least if one of them cannot give responses on time, I can still expect other group members’ responses. Otherwise, if my key pal always procrastinate he or she’s work, I will be like have no key pal. (In my own case, my key pal often becomes invisible!) Besides, having group talking helps us absorb different perspectives and learn from others’ experiences.
Q3:
Communicating with remote friend through Internet sometimes make me feel helpless because we have a hard time supervising on each other and the quality of the writing are difficult to maintain. Furthermore, I think the scheduling is hard to control. Whenever our counterpart delays their work, we cannot get feedback on time. Though it has no impact on our next schedule, without receiving responses still make me feel upset.
Q4:
I think Blogger system is quite friendly to a fresh user. The functions of it are easy to familiar with. Moreover, there are multiple choices of the background and themes, including both old school type and fancy type. Also, Blogger have cooperated with many other blog website so we can find many link spots on other website.
Q5:
Besides the training of critical thinking, I also learned the skill of how to express myself. In order to avoid some cliché remarks and boring topic, I have to rack my brain to make my talking more attractive. As for me, honestly, it is hard to jump out of the frame and view things with different angle. I think it can be so called an individual breakthrough. Concerning to the word choice part, I think “Mr. Google” do me a great favor. Those tips of googling are really useful on writing and I gradually get use to it.
Q6:
If I can start over, I think I will still do the same. After all, I did out effort on it. However, I still want to have more interaction with my key pal since through it I can get much edification from her. Also, I hope I can use some new vocabularies to enrich my articles.
I personally think those task are interesting and inspirational. Although sometimes a little bit bothering, they are indeed really enlightened. The weekly tasks force me to make valuable comment on specific issues and try to reflect it to my personal experiences. I especially love the speech watching part. During watching speech, I can broaden my horizon and enrich my imagination.
Q2:
I think group talking is better. At least if one of them cannot give responses on time, I can still expect other group members’ responses. Otherwise, if my key pal always procrastinate he or she’s work, I will be like have no key pal. (In my own case, my key pal often becomes invisible!) Besides, having group talking helps us absorb different perspectives and learn from others’ experiences.
Q3:
Communicating with remote friend through Internet sometimes make me feel helpless because we have a hard time supervising on each other and the quality of the writing are difficult to maintain. Furthermore, I think the scheduling is hard to control. Whenever our counterpart delays their work, we cannot get feedback on time. Though it has no impact on our next schedule, without receiving responses still make me feel upset.
Q4:
I think Blogger system is quite friendly to a fresh user. The functions of it are easy to familiar with. Moreover, there are multiple choices of the background and themes, including both old school type and fancy type. Also, Blogger have cooperated with many other blog website so we can find many link spots on other website.
Q5:
Besides the training of critical thinking, I also learned the skill of how to express myself. In order to avoid some cliché remarks and boring topic, I have to rack my brain to make my talking more attractive. As for me, honestly, it is hard to jump out of the frame and view things with different angle. I think it can be so called an individual breakthrough. Concerning to the word choice part, I think “Mr. Google” do me a great favor. Those tips of googling are really useful on writing and I gradually get use to it.
Q6:
If I can start over, I think I will still do the same. After all, I did out effort on it. However, I still want to have more interaction with my key pal since through it I can get much edification from her. Also, I hope I can use some new vocabularies to enrich my articles.
2009年12月29日 星期二
week13
1. I think content really matters. Whenever writing the blog, I try my utmost to deliberate on the questions and offer some interesting or novel ideas. I also learn to use different angles to think on one issue and give diverse responses. Though the words amount of my blogs can usually reaches the words criteria, still, I think the length of the article is not that important. Instead, the most significant is that if we can get the full realization of the issues and give our perspectives through critical thinking and have some enlightenment from introspection and exploration.
2. I think, from 1 to 10, I can at least get 7 score on my blog. As I’ve mentioned in the question 1, I do a lot of effort on the thinking and writing part. Also, I think I do have learned something from each issue. However, on the vocabulary and writing form part, I think there are still lots of disadvantage to be improved. The ability of word choice and sentence arrangement should be enhanced.
3. As for my key pal’s part, I think I’ll give her 5 score. Although her responses are quite interesting and she also gives many personal experiences, she always procrastinates the works and then does the responses at once. As a result, I cannot see the feedback in time. It’s a little bit bothering.
2. I think, from 1 to 10, I can at least get 7 score on my blog. As I’ve mentioned in the question 1, I do a lot of effort on the thinking and writing part. Also, I think I do have learned something from each issue. However, on the vocabulary and writing form part, I think there are still lots of disadvantage to be improved. The ability of word choice and sentence arrangement should be enhanced.
3. As for my key pal’s part, I think I’ll give her 5 score. Although her responses are quite interesting and she also gives many personal experiences, she always procrastinates the works and then does the responses at once. As a result, I cannot see the feedback in time. It’s a little bit bothering.
2009年12月13日 星期日
week11
1. As far as I’m concerned, among these different kinds of activities, my favorite one is hand-on activity. I think I’m the” manual-typed” person. It means I prefer handwork activity to other types of activities such as reading or listening. Whenever I accomplish some works by hand, I will feel a sense of achievement. Put it in another way, I think manual work can easily trigger my imagination and motivation in order to enhance my performance.
In my opinion, the one I like the least is reading. We have already undergone the “reading” education for so many years and it always makes me think of exams. The truth is I don’t hate reading. It is the most pervasive way to gain knowledge and I’m fond of reading novel and other extra-curriculum materials. But I’m fed up with reading text books again and again, it makes me headache.
2. I have taken a course called “the development of the imagination”. Our professor will offer every group different techniques and approaches of the theories which can improve our imagination. Next, every group must follow those approaches and create a series of activities. Through playing games and making some products or performances, students can learn different techniques to strengthen our imagination.
3. Whenever encountering some difficult knowledge that I can not easily figure out, I will carefully read it first and then discuss with my classmates or partners. I think discussion is really a good way to help people overcome some difficulties whether they are academic problems or not. Through the process of discussing, we can learn many experiences and absorb novel opinions. I think that’s also the reason why the studying groups are so popular nowadays. Sharing and exchanging ideas can broaden our vision and help us fix some problems.
4. I think, obviously, I’m “kinesthetic learner”. Namely, I usually do better performance through touching things. Through “hands-on” experiences, such as making manual works or taking notes, I can learn things faster and also easier. Although I have a clear preference for one particular learning type, I still need to combine other learning forms as assistances.
In my opinion, the one I like the least is reading. We have already undergone the “reading” education for so many years and it always makes me think of exams. The truth is I don’t hate reading. It is the most pervasive way to gain knowledge and I’m fond of reading novel and other extra-curriculum materials. But I’m fed up with reading text books again and again, it makes me headache.
2. I have taken a course called “the development of the imagination”. Our professor will offer every group different techniques and approaches of the theories which can improve our imagination. Next, every group must follow those approaches and create a series of activities. Through playing games and making some products or performances, students can learn different techniques to strengthen our imagination.
3. Whenever encountering some difficult knowledge that I can not easily figure out, I will carefully read it first and then discuss with my classmates or partners. I think discussion is really a good way to help people overcome some difficulties whether they are academic problems or not. Through the process of discussing, we can learn many experiences and absorb novel opinions. I think that’s also the reason why the studying groups are so popular nowadays. Sharing and exchanging ideas can broaden our vision and help us fix some problems.
4. I think, obviously, I’m “kinesthetic learner”. Namely, I usually do better performance through touching things. Through “hands-on” experiences, such as making manual works or taking notes, I can learn things faster and also easier. Although I have a clear preference for one particular learning type, I still need to combine other learning forms as assistances.
week10
Compare among various viewpoints, writing styles, communication styles, interaction, and interesting insights between other groups and yours. Discuss with your partner through blog about your pair work quality and answer the following questions.
Question 1: From 1~10 (with 10 as the highest score), how well are you two doing? Please grade yourselves and give a suggestive score.
Question 2: How and why did you two decide the score?
Question 3: What kind of improvement are you two making in the remaining weeks of the semester?
1. As for my own part, I’ll give our blog 7 point.
2. I think both of us have done great effort on these works so far. Through the discussion, we do gained lots of new ideas from each other. Regarding to my own writing, I always try my best to avoid some clichés and meaningless remarks. Also, I do my utmost to use the right grammar and some new vocabularies. I’m used to do the judgment from objective point of view and give my own perspective whenever I have special perception on the topics. However, I think that I offer too few personal experiences and my thoughts are not profound enough.
3. Other than give some individual experiences, I think I should enhance my critical thinking ability and words choosing. By reading and experiencing more, I can gradually improve my righting skills and make judgments more precisely.
Question 1: From 1~10 (with 10 as the highest score), how well are you two doing? Please grade yourselves and give a suggestive score.
Question 2: How and why did you two decide the score?
Question 3: What kind of improvement are you two making in the remaining weeks of the semester?
1. As for my own part, I’ll give our blog 7 point.
2. I think both of us have done great effort on these works so far. Through the discussion, we do gained lots of new ideas from each other. Regarding to my own writing, I always try my best to avoid some clichés and meaningless remarks. Also, I do my utmost to use the right grammar and some new vocabularies. I’m used to do the judgment from objective point of view and give my own perspective whenever I have special perception on the topics. However, I think that I offer too few personal experiences and my thoughts are not profound enough.
3. Other than give some individual experiences, I think I should enhance my critical thinking ability and words choosing. By reading and experiencing more, I can gradually improve my righting skills and make judgments more precisely.
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