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”."