California Residents Confront Results of Wildfires

NEWS:
SAN DIEGO, California (AFP) - Firefighters reported progress Friday in controlling wildfires in southern California, but the death toll rose to nine as President Bush toured the scorched US state.
As firefighters continue to battle blazes in Southern California, many San Diego residents returned to neighborhoods once in the fires' path. Mike Sullivan reports from Ramona, outside San Diego, that some people have found their homes destroyed, while others have suffered little or no damage.
This sign now marks the highway entrance to Ramona, California, 26 Oct. 2007

It is such a pity. Why does more and more wildfires come out in the recent years. I think it must be related to ourselves. If there are few people who smoke nearby the original forest and there are few pollution and bad materials which are easily to be fired, the wildfires maybe more hard to exist.

However, I also think at this area our Chinese should learn more from you. You have done it so well in protecting the environment. In China, because of the fast improvement in Economy, more official members ignore the environment and even sacrifice the environment for development. So I hope it will be changed in a few decades.

Traditional Chinese music

Music in China has a long history like our country herself. There are big distinctions between traditional Chinese instruments and the instruments all over the world. We almost sustain the regional characteristics of Chinese old style and also add into some fashion elements. So now we can find that the traditional Chinese instruments are playing an very important a role in the world. Owing to its striking features, more and more people all over the world hope to learn more about it.

I like many kinds of music, but traditional Chinese music give me the strongest impression. For my part, although Chinese musics are not more magnificent than America or west musics; However, When you devote yourself into it, you will find there is a stream passing by your heart. That kind of feeling cannot be described by words, but I hope you try.

To be honest, no matter what you want to learn is not an easy thing. When I was 14, I made up my mind to learn GuZheng which is a traditional Chinese instrument. Every week I just learn 50 minutes in a music school, and I must play 2 hours per day to practise it. At first, it was really hard and boring, because I cannot play a whole song, just some boring musical notes once and once again. And the string of GuZheng made my nails hurt so much. After one and a half years, I would prepare for my high school entrance examination, so the time is less and less. Finally, I had to give up my learning of GuZheng and worked hard for my examination. It was really pity.

At any rate, I love traditional Chinese instrument and music, in fact, now I cannot play a whole and long song in GuZheng because of lacking of practise. However, if I had more time and energy when I have a rest, I will continue to practise it. Hope for it.

GAO KAO of adults in China has just finished

The GaoKao( college entrance examination) of Adults had just finished in China yesterday.

The number of candidate in QingDao has been up to 54902, which is much larger that it last year. "The paper was too easy than I thought before!" A candidate said this for responsible of the examination this year.

In China, GaoKao is a big event every year. During that time. if a family has a candidate, it will be the busiest days in the lifetime and will be never forgot. All the people will treat candidate so well no matter if they know you; the taix is free for candidate and their families on these days; Any candidate who has no car to take part in the exam, a lot of other people are waiting for pick them there; if some candidates are late for exam, they just need to make their emergency lights on and others will make room for them at any time; A lot of companies offer free drink, free food, free umbrellas, free chairs, free bue for rest for candidates and their families outside the gate of examination hall; almost all the society are watching candidates these days, they are main characters.

Look at the pictures above, there is a little piece of island on the masses of logs. That is the true phenomenon in China nowadays. With so few good colleges and so many students each year, everyone hopes to get into these most wonderful colleges. The challenge and pressure cannot be imagined in thought. However, to some extent, it is really a meaningful experience for students. When you stay up into midnight and sleep just few hours everyday, have 14 hours classes each day, even do not see sun for weeks, face up with textbooks and workbooks like a sea, do not move and even sacrifice the time to restroom....... That is GaoKao. If you have this kind of even, what are you afraid?

However, there are lots of disadvantages generated by GaoKao. With the huge pressure, so many students in China have a very bad healthy because of the lack of exercise and sports. A lot of students only study and care about nothing around them, so they become selfish and silent and do not want to speak to anyone.

Since there are always two sides to every coin and we cannot choose fish and meat together. Just be aware of what you have done and what you will do, that will be enough.

WHAT A CYBERSPACE

This is a world with constant dynamics, no one can imagine what will happen next minute. The point is we live in a cyberspace.

Look at the picture on the left; we are now all like that girl. In our brain there are no longer just thinking and making desicion; we begin to input and output what we have got outside, we become live machines with live brains as crystal plate full of information.

We do not sure if what we do now is a revolution or something opposite, but in fact, know this world clearer and deeper than we know in past few decades. This progress, or call it information evolution, has taken human beings so many benefits.

With the development of cyberspace, we could connect with people wherever they are; even we could see them no matter how long distance it is; we can operate masses of machines at a time without any people; we can send massages in a handful of seconds and do not need to worry about anything. When we shorten the distance, we should have shortened the time to do other things. However, we find the time we have is shorter and shorter, why?

There are a large amount of companies, which set up and develop into striking feature in this new kind of area. For example, SONY and SUMSUNG in Japan rely on the cyber products; they lead the development of world. Without out complex processes, time saving and labor saving, they can make such a big fortune.

In China, we have so many genius in this area; however, with so many other problems to be settled down, we really have a long distance to go and many knowledge to learn. We believe that it will not be long for us to catch up top features with so many hardworking people.

Come on, China!