Field of Reeds

第一次參加義教，

第一次去桂林，

第一次與一群香港人去桂林，

我還真的習慣于每次都儅稀有品種。

無奈哈。。。

不過我也只好當作一次體驗吧，

今天下午4：30月好在上水集合，

然後一起去到儸湖，再到深圳，最後桂林。

我希望能和即將見到的小朋友好好的交流，

了解他們的生活，歡樂。。。

準備都差不多了，

就差一點人民幣，

我要想辦法去換多一點人民幣，

好在最後一天在桂林市區好好玩一圈。

爸爸說那是個好地方，

我想去看一下。

1, the five names of Ramsses the Great:
the Horus King: Strong Bull, Beloved of Right, Truth
He of the two Ladies: Protector of Egypt who curbs the foreign lands
The Golden Horus: Rich in Years, Great in Victories
King of Upper and Lower Egypt: Usermaatre
Son of Re: Ramsses the Second, Beloved of Amun
Only the latter two names will be written in cartouche

2, the author mentioned that “arrivistes with a strong urge to justify their hold on Egyptian throne, constantly looked to the precedents”, which I am not comfortable with. The Egyptian throne was past to Ramsses the First from Horrenheb legally. Although Ramsses the First was no royal birth, the succession was totally according to the will of Horrenheb. So I think the reason of addressing precedents aimed at erasing the memories of Akenaton. By directly referring deeds done by great Pharaohs before, Ramesside Kings were trying to re-establish the glory and cutting the Akenaton out of records.

3, as a political and religious role, Pharaoh, theoretically, was not considered as an individual, but a continuality of protector and nation leader whose image remained for most of time similar. But Ramsses seemed regarded individuality was important too, as to promote his greatness, he used every chance to achieve this goal. He wanted his people but only to remember him as a great Pharaoh but also as an unsurpassable “He”.

4, in ancient Egypt there was actually no term for “religion”, and the meaning of “ancient Egyptian religion” can not be understood by the modern term “religion”. In ancient times people treated their Gods as an interpretation of the world, so say the term” science” will be more close to the meaning of ancient Egyptian religion. As the chief priest, Pharaoh should supposedly take the role more administratively than religiously. They maintained the order of world by making sure that those ceremonies would be carried out, rather than being a religious prayer all the time. What did Akenaton do wrong was that he took the role wrong; he was practically a real religious priest who discarded all his administrative duties. Or he misunderstood the role of Pharaoh? By being a religious person, he was actually denied his entire kingship. Say, maybe he was really a visionary who understood no other but his religion?

Many times I told myself that those so-called historical novels are just craps. They use the name of history but never show any royalty to history. And this novel just reflects what I have said.
Its setting is in ancient Egypt, during the reign of my dear Ramsses the Great. And one girl jumps into the time tunnel, and goes back into ancient Egypt. What's more, Pharaoh falls in love with her and eventually she loved back.
I knew this novel for a long time, but I didnot read it.
Yesterday, out of some unknown reasons, I started to read. At first I was very critical about depiction of ancient Egypt written by the author, and she even made some serious mistake in ancient Egypt. Gradually I was absorbed by the plot, and even more by my Beloved Ramsses. I knew he can not be the man depicted by the author.
He maybe was brown-haired, but his hair can be long, because not a single Egyptian man would keep long haire in such hot weather.
He maybe very handsome, but we donot know for sure his eye color.
He manybe ....
No matter what I like her description of Ramsses, and I am agree with his royalty towards one woman. Because in history he did love one woman despite his hundreds of wivies.

突然沒有了心情用英文寫blog，少見...

心裏突然感到非常的壓抑，我覺得自己的生活太過humble

可能是受到了一點影響...外部的

我知道自己是一個很有競爭性的人，常常覺得自己還應該更好...

儅看着別人整理行李，準備離開，心裏很不是滋味，

我記得友人跟我說過：你的生活很精彩！是吧？應該是的...

滿世界亂跑...學習外語...追求夢想...明年我也會開始理行李，往歐洲進發...

我應該滿足...但是我心裏卻有一種不甘，

為什麽 別人已經徹底改變生活，而我的生活...

説不定別人可以有更好的發展...

可能是我不像面對即將改變的生活...

複雜...

蔌格拉底說：know yourself!

這是何等的難啊！

I was just reviewing one of my courses. 4-5chapters took me only half an hour to finish, not because I am good at, but because this course is too easy. I am not being arrogant, I am saying the truth.
At the beginning of this semester, I chose this subject, for it had an interesting name, Culture, People and Landscapes, and I thought that maybe I can learn a lot from this. But I was wrong, disregarding the poor English this lecturer has and many grammar mistakes he made during classes and on the slides, more terrible was that he was uncapable of making lecture attractive. This topic:Culture, People and Landscapes can be very..very interesting, indeed, but he...oh my Amun-Re...how can I say, I think he did not show any degree of knowledge to convince the students. As a Doctor and a middle-aged teacher he should have a kind of.....en...I should say a kind of personal charm which would make students automaticlly show their respect, but I can not feel...nothing...not even during some personal conversations with him. I think he is too royal to textbooks, I can easily get a good mark by my memories.He wrote "Wonderful" on my mid-term exam paper because I got a full mark, actually EVERONE can if he or she can memorise all his lectures. Once he asked me: is my teaching too difficult for you and students? Immediately I became speechless, I wanted to say: your class is too easy for university students! But I didnot.
Finally his class was over, should I be glad or ne regret?

5 minutes ago, I got myself my first iPod nano 3rd. I aways wanna one, not because of the fashion( yeah....maybe partly), but I really hated my old one which can only contain no more than 15 songs.

This is my Apple.
As my Christmas gift....
Thank the support from my Mom and Dad,
and Thank Amun-Re for spoiling me this much!

Recently, I found my musical new love-Vitas! Oh My Amun-Re, I can not stop picturing him with the legendary singer Falliyeli. His voice is so.......Beautiful and incredible. .....I can not express....Oh my!!

Vitas (born February 19, 1981), is a Latvian-born Russian pop singer, composer, actor and fashion designer. He is most commonly known by his first name Vitas, or Витас in Russian. Much of his music is straightforward pop influenced by techno, and occasionally classical opera.

He has received much of his fame through Russian television and is planning to sign to entertainment labels in countries such as China, Korea, and Japan in order to expand to those markets. Vitas' 2005 video "Opera#2" has been forwarded frequently via the Internet, which accounts for much of his worldwide recognition.

"The first time Vitas appeared on the Russian stage was in December, 2000 with the hit song “Opera # 2”. His achievements over the period of his creative activity up to the present moment are as follows:

1. he released five CDs (The Philosophy of Wonder, Smile!, Mother, Songs of My Mother and A Kiss As Long As Eternity) which were entered into the Top Three bestselling albums on the basis of official sales reports successively in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
he released two singles (Opera # 2 and Goodbye). According to the official sales results, the Opera # 2 single was awarded a RECORD Prize (established by the producers of phonograms) as the bestselling single of 2001, 2002 and 2003.

2. Vitas became a Musical Discovery of the Year according to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda and FORUM’2001 Internet Survey.

3. three times he became a laureate of the musical festivals Song of the Year-2000, Song of the Year-2001 and Song of the Year-2002.

4. twice he was awarded the Golden Gramophone People’s Prize – for the song Opera # 2 in 2001 and for the song Smile! in 2002.

5. three times he was awarded the PODIUM musical prize for the most stylish achievements in pop music in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

6. he became a winner of the People’s Hit Prize in 2001, 2002 and 2003, his songs Opera # 2, Smile! and The Star being the most frequently rotated ones.

7. he was awarded the 100 Per Cent Hit Prize (established by the Hit FM Radio Station) in 2001 and 2003.

8. he was acknowledged the Soloist of the Year according to the OVATION National Musical Prize’2002.

9. he held 527 solo performances (as of October 2003) including Russia, Australia, USA, Canada, Israel, Germany, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Tadzhikistan, Ukraine, Belorussia, New Zealand, France.

10. he set up an indisputable record with his sold-out premiere solo performance which took place in the State Kremlin Palace on March 29, 2002. He was the youngest artist who has ever performed on this stage.
　

11. Vitas shot eight MVs (Opera # 2, Opera # 1, The Blissful Guru, Smile!, The Star, Mother, The Bird of Happiness, A Kiss As Long As Eternity).

In 2002 at the personal request of the Council of the Worldwide League “Intelligence Without Drugs” Vitas and his producer Sergey Poudovkin joined the League’s Board of Guardians and became its honorary members along with All Russia’s Patriarch, Koffey Annan, Tina Turner and the presidents of over 20 countries. At the purifying ceremony at the foot of the sacred mountain Tashtar-Ata Vitas was presented “the World’s Stone” which is 350 million years old. According to the legend, this stone has been absorbing all the good deeds of the world over the whole history of mankind.

On September 29, 2002 Vitas presented his collection of garments “Autumn Dreams” on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace. The show included 42 styles of ladies’ outfits some of which had already been displayed in Alma-Ata, Vilnius, Berlin, Tashkent, Tel Aviv, Ashkelon. At present Mr. Poudovkin is holding negotiations with western companies with a view to creating and promoting the VITAS brand, arranging production of his own line of clothing.

In December, 2002 Vitas took part in the TV series which was a screen version of Mrs. Dontsova’s novel “Scoundrel Beloved”. He played the part of an artist coming to the capital from the provinces and causing a sensation on the pop stage with his unique voice and songs. Vitas created two compositions as soundtrack for the movie. During the filming the producers of the series offered Sergey Poudovkin to prolong the contract for the next serial cycle.

In the spring of 2003 the premiere drama performance “Victor, or Children in Power” based on the play by Rogeur Vitraque took place in the Mayakovsky Theatre. The leading part of a nine-year-old boy was played by Vitas. Tatyana Drubich, Renata Litvinova and Mr. Romanov were invited to participate in the project by Dmitry Tchernyakov (stage director, a three times winner of the Golden Mask Award) and Pavel Kaplevich (theatre producer).

In January, 2003 Vitas took part in the Festival of Indian Films which was held in Delhi on 6-11 January. Within the framework of the festival’s program Vitas gave a solo performance and also took part in the opening ceremony.

At the invitation of Lucio Dalla, the composer who created “In Memory of Caruso”, Vitas sang this famous song together with him at the concerts “San Remo in Moscow” held in the State Kremlin Palace. Vitas’ voice enchanted not only the audience but Mr. Dalla himself as well. So he invited Vitas to come to Rome to take part in the rehearsals of “Tosca”, the modern version of the legendary opera.

In November, 2003 Vitas presented his new solo program “Songs of My Mother” in the Concert Hall “ROSSIYA”, Moscow. It consisted of more than 30 compositions, 19 being created by Vitas specially for the premiere. Two new albums of the artist were prepared and released. One included those songs which are considered “the gold reserves” of Russian pop-music, such as “Kings Can Do Everything”, “Winter”, “Chrysanthemums”, “The Gipsy Is On His Way”, “The Bird of Happiness” and much more. The other album comprised only new songs composed by Vitas: “An Autumn Leaf”, “The Star”, “My God, How Much I Love!”, “Even Stars Will Look Like Letters”, “Mother”.

In 2004-2005 the Production Center “Poudovkin” arranged an unprecedented tour with the program “Songs of My Mother” showing it in Russia, the USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Israel, the Baltic States. In 2004 Vitas gave more than 250 concerts with this program, his touring schedule is filled out right up to the dates of the subsequent premiere show, that is October 27-29, 2006.
In 2004-2005 Vitas became the most welcomed touring artist in Russia, his premiere performance was acknowledged “the best musical event of the year”. His album “A Kiss As Long As Eternity” released on October 8, 2004 had unprecedented record sales in Russia and CIS: more than 2 million copies were sold within a less than 6 months’ period. The total number of CDs sold during the period of the singer’s creative activity exceeded 10 million copies.

A new show named “Seven Successful Years” will take place in October, 2006. It will comprise the songs from the album “Kiss”, the most famous and favorite numbers, as well as numerous premieres among which, according to Vitas, there will be a genuine hymn to love. Specially for this anniversary a new album of Vitas is to be released and it will include not only “the best of Vitas” but also such new creations as “The Crane’s Crying”, “My Swan”, “I Repeat Your Name”, “Tenderness”."

Last Thursday afternoon,
I had suddenly no mood of going to Japanses class, so I decided to read my Deutsch instead.
And I read and read...
for tow hours.
I was reading a short Beschreibung eines Hauses,
but I found so many new words,
and I have to look each of them up in my giant dictionary,
then came this pic.
I took it when I was looking for words,
I found those books formed a nice layout,
and it would be great to record this moment.
I should put this pic in my blog earlier,
but I had a small accident about my Internet...
anyway,
here is my lovely pic,
and I have, of couse, done something to make it more beautiful,ha.......
nice!

I found some meanful posts.

Several thousand years ago, Herodotus asked a priest from an ancient Egyptian temple about the achievements of Egyptian civilization, he was so curious about what made this civilization so powerful and unique. The priest gave an answer which would be taken as an unbreakable rule to understand ancient Egypt. He said: Egypt is a gift of the Nile. Indeed, it is true! No other river on the earth can be compared to the Nile, whose magic power gave rise to a great civilization. The influence of the Nile coveres almost every aspect which is vital for the birth and the growth of a civilization, but in this short article I will only focus on one aspect: the influence of the Nile on the intellectual world of ancient Egyptians and try to give an answer to the question of how and why the Nile gave such an influence.

Nile, the longest river on the earth, flows from the heart of African continent and forces its way towards north. When it reaches Egypt, a piece of land located in desert and controlled by dry weathers, Nile creates a breathtaking view which will capture everyone’s eyes: between two deserts flows a mighty river, which brings life and greenness.

The miracle the Nile created was astonishing. With the flow of Nile there would be trees alone the banks of the river, there would be enough humidity and wind to bring down the heat, there would be plenty of water for cultivation. Following that living animals would settle there, and people would prosper from the blessing of Nile. What is more, since the dawn of history this river has performed another miracle. The annul flood brought numerous fertile black soil, which allowed ancient Egyptians to plant their crops without constant care. What was why the ancient Egyptians called their land Kemet( Black Land). The river impressed the ancient Egyptians so deeply that they treated this river as a God named Hapi, and they even wrote hymns to praise him.

“they tremble,

they who see Hapi when he beats;

but the meadows smile,

the banks blossom,

the offerings of the gods come down;

men do homage,

the hearts of the gods are lifted up…” (A.Moret 1996:30)

But the greatness of Nile was not only the blessing of material life, but also on the mentality of ancient Egyptians. The river shaped the world view of ancient Egyptians and also many other aspects. And those influences were so strong that it would become a marker of Egyptian mentality.

In the concept of ancient Egyptians, the world, which was brought by gods, was perfectly balanced.

Ancient Egyptians relied on the Nile for about 3500 years, but they never solved the problem of the origin of this river. To them this question was involved with supernatural power. They believed that the origin of this river was from underground. The gods who lived there controlled the coming of flood every year. So in the eyes of ancient Egyptians, this river was no ordinary one and it may also participated in the creation of the world. Before the earth came into being, only primordial water, which was called Nun by Egyptians, existed in the universe, there was no land, no living things. Nothing existed but water. Later a piece of land, which the Egyptians believed to be the land of Egypt, rose from the water. And it was on this very land stood the creation God. The mighty one single-handedly brought everything into existence. From this simple and thoughtful myth, we can clearly see how deep the print of Nile on Egyptians’ mentality.

The land of Egypt was the gift from the mighty God and this God also brought perfect balance and order into the land. But these balance and order were constantly threatened by chaos. This was a fundamental concept of ancient Egyptians. And we can easily find clues in Nile and the environment Nile created. The Egyptians lived in a paradise created by Nile. They saw order and balance in this heaven. The season was divided by the rhythm of Nile, the flood was coming every year, the crops grew healthily, the birds were singing, the trees stood straightly on the banks, the people worked hard on their land, the children played around the houses…… It was a picture of peace and prosperity. However, this balance was threatened. If one year the Nile failed in flooding, there would be nothing but famine and death, and the deserts would invade the lands. And the Egyptians had already seen an example during the Old Kingdom (2650BC-2134BC).

Besides the fundamental concept of balance and order, another characteristic in Egyptians’ mentality was introversion. Egyptians treated the environment created by Nile as a shelter, which could help them get rid of unknowable things and uncertainty came from outside. To them the world outside was unexplainable, and the place they own was the best with order and civilization, it was created by God. As a result the Egyptians tended to be inner and conventional. They did not have so many curiosities towards the world outside.

The Nile shaped the world view of the ancients. At the same time, Nile inspired the Egyptians even more.

The places influenced by Nile were marked the prints of life. In contrast to life, the places in Egypt without the influence of Nile were filled with death and harshness. Ancient Egyptians must have been impressed by this scene a lot. And they were the earliest people to concern the problem of life and dearth. But they again got inspirations from their mother river. People in Egypt saw the rising water of Nile in several weeks, transforming the land into a watery world, then life began after the inundation. The miracle performed every summer left a message to the Egyptians that life could come back; life would finally overcome the shadow of dearth. Slowly they developed a sophisticated belief system and religion, which would give inspirations to later religions.

Nile, the mother of ancient Egyptians, did help the Egyptians to understand the world. But here comes another question: why was the influence of Nile so overwhelming?

I think there are two reasons. First of all, due to the isolated position of Egypt, other important elements are blocked. Most of the scholars believe that Egypt is surrounded by natural barriers. To the north is the Mediterranean Sea, to the south are the Nile cataracts. On eastern and western side are two deserts. So, at some level we can say that Egypt is protected by nature, people would focus more on local elements than from outside.

Secondly, I think, people more likely tend to be inspired by element that is beneficial. Nile is the only lifeline in Egypt, so it makes total sense that Egyptians got the most inspirations from the Nile.

The ancient Egyptians created a colorful intellectual world which would astonish later people. While the Nile contributed a lot to this great achievement. It is a river that shaped history, it is a river that gave birth to ancient Egypt, and it is a river that taught the Egyptians to make history. I would like to end this article by quoting a hymn of the Nile.

“Hail to thee, O Nile! Who manifests thyself over this land, and comes to give life to Egypt! Mysterious is thy issuing forth from the darkness, on this day whereon it is celebrated! Watering the orchards created by Re (Sun God), to cause all the cattle to live, you give the earth to drink, inexhaustible one!”¹

Quotations:

1, Hymn to the Nile

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/hymn_to_the_nile.htm

on 10. Nov. 2007

References:

1, A.Moret (1996): the Nile and Egyptian Civilization

2, James Henry Breasted (1986): Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt

Egyptology is only taught in world's most famous and most leading universities!
This is the lesson I learned today! And I have evidence.

1	Harvard Univ	USA	100	100	100	100	100	68.7
2	Stanford Univ	USA	83.5	76.2	88.2	73.8	72.2	80.5
3	California Inst Tech	USA	76.3	72.9	68.0	64.1	52.0	100
4	Univ California - Berkeley	USA	74.0	75.0	70.3	76.1	72.8	51.8
5	Univ Cambridge	UK	73.4	91.1	58.0	56.4	69.3	68.7
6	Massachusetts Inst Tech	USA	70.6	79.4	67.3	66.3	63.9	53.5
7	Princeton Univ	USA	62.5	60.5	60.7	51.9	47.0	72.4
8	Yale Univ	USA	61.1	49.2	57.1	58.1	63.5	58.2
9	Univ Oxford	UK	59.5	53.3	45.9	57.2	66.2	55.6
10	Columbia Univ	USA	59.1	64.5	49.2	50.9	68.5	43.4
11	Univ Chicago	USA	57.0	87.1	43.5	45.3	54.2	36.6
12	Cornell Univ	USA	56.9	57.3	57.1	46.0	66.6	39.2
13	Univ California - San Francisco	USA	55.3	41.6	57.1	60.1	60.9	39.2
14	Univ California - San Diego	USA	54.4	14.2	58.0	59.8	67.5	55.2
15	Univ California - Los Angeles	USA	53.8	37.3	58.0	48.0	78.0	30.3
16	Univ Washington - Seattle	USA	50.3	34.4	57.1	46.6	76.7	20.5
17	Imperial Coll Sci Tech Med	UK	50.1	42.2	41.0	37.4	66.9	46.9
18	Univ Pennsylvania	USA	50.0	39.8	41.0	43.1	71.4	38.5
19	Tokyo Univ	Japan	49.4	18.3	22.9	52.6	91.1	46.2
20	Univ Coll London	UK	48.9	28.5	45.9	42.0	66.8	45.8
21	Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor	USA	48.8	21.4	61.5	45.7	75.9	23.8
22	Washington Univ - St. Louis	USA	47.8	30.5	41.0	43.1	54.7	54.3
23	Univ Toronto	Canada	45.8	21.7	32.4	41.1	76.3	42.9
24	Johns Hopkins Univ	USA	45.7	21.8	50.2	53.3	72.0	16.6
25	Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich	Switzerland	45.6	39.9	34.0	44.8	51.9	42.7
26	Univ California - Santa Barbara	USA	45.3	32.7	47.0	40.3	42.5	49.4
27	Univ Wisconsin - Madison	USA	45.0	24.6	50.2	47.4	68.0	20.4
28	Rockefeller Univ	USA	44.8	64.0	32.4	44.1	27.2	41.9
29	Northwestern Univ	USA	44.4	21.4	48.1	36.7	56.1	45.4
30	Kyoto Univ	Japan	43.6	24.7	27.1	35.8	75.5	40.8
31	Univ Colorado - Boulder	USA	40.9	33.0	42.3	37.0	46.8	32.3
32	Vanderbilt Univ	USA	40.4	33.4	35.5	20.8	48.7	50.9
32	Duke Univ	USA	40.4	0.0	42.3	44.6	60.8	41.6
34	Univ Texas Southwestern Med Center	USA	39.5	41.4	29.0	40.6	40.5	33.5
35	Univ British Columbia	Canada	38.2	21.4	30.8	31.8	59.1	35.8
36	Univ California - Davis	USA	38.1	0.0	52.3	34.6	65.1	26.4
37	Univ Minnesota - Twin Cities	USA	37.8	0.0	54.3	36.4	71.1	15.1
38	Rutgers State Univ - New Brunswick	USA	37.2	22.5	34.0	35.4	47.2	34.8
39	Karolinska Inst Stockholm	Sweden	36.8	30.9	34.0	23.1	49.6	34.4
40	Pennsylvania State Univ - Univ Park	USA	36.5	0.0	54.3	39.0	59.1	18.5
40	Univ Utrecht	Netherland	36.5	23.6	27.1	28.2	57.6	34.2
40	Univ Southern California	USA	36.5	30.2	37.0	23.4	53.0	27.0
43	Univ Edinburgh	UK	36.0	18.9	29.0	37.9	49.1	33.7
44	Univ California - Irvine	USA	35.9	27.6	29.0	27.6	45.0	38.8
45	Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign	USA	35.2	20.1	35.5	34.1	58.5	16.8
45	Univ Zurich	Switzerland	35.2	30.2	20.5	32.4	48.7	33.0
47	Univ Texas - Austin	USA	35.0	18.9	45.9	31.8	51.7	15.7
48	Univ Munich	Germany	34.1	23.2	14.5	33.5	56.7	32.0
49	Brown Univ	USA	33.9	15.3	29.0	28.5	40.8	45.1
49	Australian Natl Univ	Australia	33.9	14.2	44.7	25.6	42.4	31.7

See?!
And more surprisingly I do not want to give up...
And there are something more, the requirements for entering Egyptology are quite high!
1, English, German, French!
2, high mark of TOFEL
3, if necessary, I have to learn Arabic, Greek...
4, research paper
5, GRE test
.....
And I still wanna try!
Tell me I am crazy please!!!
I cried all the afternoon...I really wanna learn... but...
my heart tell me I have to try...
I have still enough time to learn French, and the universities say I need only to master one, and I have one, German.
And I will have to review my Eng now...
Begin with French, work hard on my German, strengthen my Eng
No matter what I'v got to try, because this is my life-long dream.
If those unis shot me down, I will learn my Master in European Study, what I am doing now...

I spent an entire evening seaching in Internet for Master course in Egyptology. So far I have not jet changed my plan to become an Egyptologist, and I think I will never change. That is why I am learning German.
I knew some unis which offer Master couses in this field, and I have searched unis in England: the most famous two Cambrige and Oxford, but I do not think I can reach the requests set by those unis, neither one requries a BA nor I have to achieve a GPA around 3.5 or 3.8. For me it is already inpossible. So I turned to USA, and I knew that Chicago uni is quite famous for Egyptology, and I searched info, although the demands for students are very....high, at least I get a chance to apply, but it will be really......hard:

• official transcripts from all colleges and universities that you have attended;( this is okay....)
  

• a minimum of three letters of recommendation submitted by persons able to describe your achievements and promise;(maybe I can ask my prof for this)
  

• your statement of purpose, which should describe the intellectual issues and historical/linguistic/archaeological subjects which you hope to explore at the University of Chicago;( I can write)
  

• a writing sample of approximately 20 pages: research paper or an MA thesis (usually more than 20 pages, perhaps with a specific section highlighted) that reflects your ability to present the question; to present consistent arguments using clear expository prose; to exhibit critical thinking; and to support a conclusion using correctly formatted footnotes and bibliography; (.......maybe I can write.....)

• your scores from the Graduate Record Examination(GRE): less than five years old, no minimum score required; send the scores to University Code 1832, Department Code 2999;

• for non-native English speakers, your scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL):
  • minimum score of 600 with a minimum of 60 in each section on the paper test;
  • minimum score of 250 with a minimum of 25 in each section on the computerized test if taken prior to September 2005;
  • minimum score of 26 in each section on the computerized test if taken September 2005 or after.( I have to get 104 out of 120...oh my Gods!)

but at least I still have the possibility to apply.........
and I really like this uni, jet I have not seached unis in Germany, maybe later I will have more choices........Oh Amun-Re!!

Today's German lessen was finally over, every day 3 hours, but I am getting a feeling that I can learn nothing from the class. It is really troubling me very much. Everyday i go to class, not in happy mood nor in a sad mood, because I do not know, what I should expect from my class. I only have little chance to speak, and the topics are not interesting.
I don't know, maybe it is my problem, maybe I am not active. No matter what my German stops right now. What is wrong with me?! What is wrong with my class?!
I am waiting for the next lecture...
This morning I had a little talk with my friend about the future. I wanna go abord for my Master, I wanna go to a uni where I can learn what I want to, where class offer will be interesting that I can make decision, which one I should take. My friend told me that current, my uni is not so....in Hong Kong, I admire other unis, I envy about the people who can go there. Maybe I should now take action to realize my dream now, I do not stay in HK, here people go to uni just for a degree for job searching, the academic atmosphere is bad...

aaaaaaaaaaaaaa........I know nothing!

人类发明的所有乐器中，没有一种比得过大自然的原音，那就是上天赐给我们的礼物-人类的歌声，特别是由圣洁的少年们所唱出来的，更显得分外的美好。而无论 是宏伟庄严的大教堂，或是教区纯朴的小教堂，英国的少年唱诗班素质之整齐一向是举世闻名的。在这些唱诗班中，又以南伦敦圣菲力教区内的男童所组成的「圣菲 力少年合唱团」最为出色，他们多才多艺，充满了热情，以天使般的歌声享誉国际多年，把他们对信仰的歌颂，以及欢乐与希望的讯息传遍了全世界。
「圣菲力少年合唱团」不仅在每周日晚间跟亚伦提区马许一起合作一系列的电视节目，「Blue Peter」节目中演唱，甚至在「Top of the Pops」节目中演出，而拥有两支打进排行榜的畅销单曲。他们的前两张专辑《天使之音I》及《天使之音II》系列，融合了宗教赞美诗和流行名曲，为他们建 立了极高的知名度，还经常应邀参加许多节目的演唱，不论是演唱技巧或录音水准，皆堪称一流之作，在世界各地的唱片市场获得极佳的销售量，被乐迷誉为天碟。 在万千乐迷的期盼下，推出系列的第三集。
本张专辑仍安排了二十首歌曲，有传统的耶诞颂歌，也有历年来最受欢迎的应景歌曲，其中英国作曲家霍华布莱克为著名的卡通短片《雪人》所谱写的主题曲〈漫步 在空中〉，原曲曾在一九八二年夺得英国排行榜冠军。这张专辑的其它歌曲还有〈玛莉的男孩〉、〈当圣婴降生〉、〈救主之日〉和〈槲寄生与酒〉等歌曲也同样曾 夺得排行榜冠军。不过若要谈到知名度，专辑中另外两首堪称不朽歌曲〈圣诞之歌〉及〈银色圣诞〉。前者是由老牌爵士歌手梅尔托梅在一九四五年谱写的，至今听 来温馨依旧。出自电影插曲的〈银色圣诞〉更是有史以来最唱销的歌曲，曾夺得一九四二年奥斯卡金像奖最佳电影配乐殊荣。

Just finished my German-mid-term exam, it wa the worst ever. Maybe I was a little confident before the exam, now i am not, totally!
My lovely Tushar told us that it would be easy test, but his promise turned out be be fake! It was very hard, listening....Okay, but the flollowing was getting worse, grammer, filling the words... Only the grammer part I took 20 minutes to finish, and the filling the words part was my nightmare, I could even hardly undertand half of the words in one big question! Is my German too bad, or was the exam too hard, who can tell!? I had to rush to write my article, and I am sure now that articel is only a trash!
Oh My God!!
If I vcan not get 70% of marks, I will fail in the exam, tomorrow I still have an oral exam of German, wish me luck, God!

無意中發現了一個資助西部兒童的網站，他們主要是發動人們為西部的小學生捐款，幫助他們的日常生活費用。我看了真的好感動，很久以前就一直想着為那些可愛的孩子做點什麽，即使自己“沒有錢”，但是我shopping一次的花費已經就足夠他們一個學期的生活花銷了。“沒有錢”絕對不是理由。只要我少花一點錢就可以，就可以的！看着他們，想到平時自己的自怨自艾是多麽的可笑，我有什麽條件，有什麽資格來抱怨，難道Amun-Re給的我還不多嗎？父母寵愛的還不夠嗎？學習條件還不夠好嗎？旅遊的還不夠多嗎？衣服還不夠穿嗎？說我是個“不知天下之苦”是絕對不過分的！我也覺得應該好好地do something to myself了，要好好反省一下啊！！！















Just Looking at their pure and beautiful smiles, like angels, no, they are angels. I have made up my dicision, I wanna a child from them, I will help one of them to continue his or her study. Yes! I wanna do it, although I am not making any money right now, but I can just shop less, and squeeze some of them out. Because I wanna see their smiles, it is much better than one new clothing!

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这部纪录片以及新书讲述的故事发生在1980年，当时一群建筑工人在南耶路撒冷附近地区挖地基时，发现一处两千年前的洞穴及坟墓。坟墓中有10个骨头盒， 其中5个盒子上所记下的名字与《新约》中的关键人物有关，其中一副棺木刻有“犹大，耶稣之子”的字样。后来，这些骸骨经过DNA对比检测，被确认它们之间 没有血缘关系，但科学家们却据此推测其中有可能包括耶稣的妻子。他们还推断耶稣结过婚，妻子是抹大拉的玛利亚，两人还诞下了一名儿子，取名犹大，两母子死 后都是同样葬在那个墓穴内。影片中提出两大问题：第一，该遗物（骨头）是否可靠？确实是属于耶稣的尸骨吗？第二，如果这骨头果然是属于耶稣的，它会不会打 破基督教神学的宣称，耶稣是从死里复活的信仰呢？

I just finished this documentary.
Years ago, from a rediscovery of a tomb in Jerusalem revealed something extraordinary. One of 5 sarcophagi covered the name of " Jesus, the son of Joseph". Some scholars assumed that this maybe the discovery of the real Jesus in history. But some scholars remained very suspicious about this assumption. They argued that Jesus was a very common name in ancient times, so they denied the possibility that the bones in that sarcophagus were the remainings from Jesus.
I am not going to argue whether or not those bones were really Jesus' or not, but all I wanna say is that sometimes I think those so called scholars are "dumm", they always think about things within the framework.Personally I feel that history needs sometimes imagination. Those scholars can not even admit the teeny tiny possibility that they did find the Jesus. Anyway I think an important part which scholars should work on is to have more courages.

For you, what is Egypt?













the exotic city view from Cairo, the skirts of the Arabian women, big mustaches from the men,or the mosques?













the unbelievable and unsurpassable beauty of the Nile? or maybe the intensive sunburn....












the wind blow from the hot desert? or maybe an unadorned smile from a local?














the standing of the great Pyramids? or the mysterious smile of the Sphinx?
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for me, what is Egypt is a question to which I have no answer...

Orion Prophecy是什么?

Waldo 和 Jones 两人在埃及期间，有一天逛到沙漠里。回头一望，看到金字塔背衬着紫色的暮霭，猎户星座腰带上的三颗钻石在金字塔正上方闪耀。这一景象使他们决定将专辑取名 ‘Orion Prophecy’。Orion Prophecy 源于相信技术先进的Atlantis（亚特兰蒂斯，传说中位于大西洋的岛屿，后沉于海底）文明能利用进步的天文知识推算世界大事。Atlantis毁灭 后，岛上的人逃到埃及和南美洲。他们的后裔，玛雅人和埃及人写到，金星、猎户星和几个其他星球会在2012年运行到同样的“密码位置”，引起重大灾难性事 件，造成世界上大量人口死亡 (猎户星座的预言), 就像当毁灭 Atlantis的大洪水一样。

曲目

01. Hymn To Isis 伊希斯（古代埃及司生育的女神）赞歌

02. Vision Of Mati 马蒂的预见

03. Eastern Star 东方之星

04. Keeper Of The Gates Of Mars 火星大门的守门人

05. Sky Gods 天空诸神

06. King Of Cups 杯王

07. Waterchild 水孩子

08. Temple Thorns 庙宇荆棘

09. Book Of Stars 星球之书

10. Between Two Rivers 两河之间

11. Orion 猎户星

Most people say that fairy tale is always fairy tale, it can be true. Of course, I do not deny this point. But I also see that people tend to be too realistic that they forget how to imagine, how to hope.
I think people born to have a talent of being pure, however, with the time goes by, this gift slowly disappeared. It is sad.
Sometimes I am glad that I am a little "kindlich", the world outside is too complicated, like 1900 said" I did not see an end, but the piano always has an end, 88 keys." World is a complex, we have to face it, but we ahve to keep our nature, follow the heart, and do it right.
Evil is always defeated by justice. Princess always has a prince. Fairy land is walys a paradise...these are not true, yes, but I can make them right in my heart.