灰港的记忆

6月27日，下午一点三十分左右，北京的天空骤然被大量黑云所覆盖，情形十分罕见，仿佛世界末日就要到来。。。 令人高兴的是随后的一场大雨冲走了炎热，给我们带来了一丝凉意。另外，今天是ZT（jordanc）回国的第一天，真是天空作美啊。。 下面请看照片（640*480的分辨率，不很清楚。。）  拍照地点：教室窗边。

中午12点整，随着最后一门会考政治考试结束铃声的打响，高二的会考任务就顺利完成了。截至今日，高中的课程绝大部分已经结束。可以这样说，高中的生活基本接近尾声，剩下的日子就是全力备战高考了。

记得从我校毕业的著名主持人陈鲁豫说过，要珍惜高中的每一天，因为你总有一天会发现高中的日子是多么美好，多么宝贵。那么，我的高中生活只剩下最后不到一年了，而且这最后的一年全部都要用来备战高考。所以我说我的高中生活已接近尾声。但是，高三的生活即将开始，这一年将完全不同于前两年，它将充满了艰辛，汗水，却有可能换来一生的幸福。

Come on, for future, for dream!

Ms.Hu又给我们带来了一部经典影片。《憨豆特派员》，顾名思义，是由扮演Mr.Bean闻名的英国著名演员Rowan Atkinson扮演。相比Mr.Bean的经典形象，Johnny English这个“笨特工”同样搞笑。

本片故事发生在英国。王室珠宝被盗，一场阴谋正在酝酿，而此时此刻能够力挽狂澜的只有英国情报局的特工Johnny English了。而这位所谓的顶尖特工却屡屡做出许多愚蠢的行为，比如弹夹脱落，放错录像等等，但最终他却奇迹般的拯救了英国，粉碎了敌人的计划，并且还戴上了英格兰的王冠。。这一切听起来都是那么的不可思议，就是所有这些因素的整合，造就了这样一部经典影片，造就了一个有型又愚蠢的特工形象。

Rowan Atkinson在片中脱离了Mr.Bean的经典形象，转而以皇家特工的身份出现。但是和James Bond这个特工的经典形象相比却有着很大的不同，Rowan Atkinson搞笑本色却一点也没改变，影片中有大量的搞笑场面，包括直接的，间接的，使观众们始终保持一种轻松的心态，不失为调整心态，放松心情的最佳选择。

有两个经典镜头，一个是在被测速装置拍照后用导弹将其炸毁，还有一个就是影片的最后在车上我们的这位特工要和女主人公接吻时却误碰了按钮导致女主角从车上被弹上了天空。。这两个镜头已被人们铭记在心，成为了本片中最耀眼的部分。

另外，片中的那辆Aston Martin也十分气派，也是我的梦想。

会考开始了。令我没想到的是比较拿手的物理竟然出现了严重失误，看来能保住优的成绩就很不错了。。

更令我没想到的是下午4点30分考完生物，5点40分才到家。原因就是那突如其来的瓢泼大雨~ 在连续几周的阴沉之后，能有这样一场爽快的雨也是一件挺不错的事情。而且这一场雨也冲走了上午失误给我带来的压抑，使我明天可以重整旗鼓，把最拿手的英语拿下~

另外，在回家后还收到了来自xx的慰问信息~ 幸福，快乐，很美妙的感觉。:）

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后天，也就是6月24日，伴随着中考，我们的高中毕业会考也要开始进行了。

原本应该是轻松面对的考试如今是我们大家都很上心，尤其是政治。。。当然，除政治外，全优应该是最低标准了，如果会考中都无法得到优的成绩，还和谈高考呢？

就这样吧，明天还有一天时间，积极准备吧。

另，希望何老弟能在中考中考出优异成绩！

上个星期终于结束了《美国众神》（American Gods）的阅读。作者尼尔盖曼（Neil Gaiman）是英国著名科幻小说作家，《文学传记辞典》将他列为十大后现代作家之一，该书是他的代表作。

《美国众神》描述的是“众神”之间的故事，主要是围绕新旧神灵之间的战争展开。旧神的代表人物为死亡之神奥丁，他是挪威神话中的主神。而新一代神灵则包括了媒体之神，高科技之神等等，他们代表着新时代人们的物质需求。随着科技社会的不断发展，旧神们逐渐失去了往日的神力并落入社会底层，但他们并不甘心失败，尤其是奥丁本人。于是他使用“星期三”这个名字，亲手导演了一场惊天骗局，目的只是一场屠杀。

说到人物，本书的绝对主人公影子是不得不提的。他的身份从囚犯，保镖，最后是主神奥丁之子。而最后一个身份则是在最后一刻才揭晓的，在这之前影子的身份也是本书的一大悬念。他的妻子劳拉也是一大悬念，她死后一直在守护着影子，并且还有一个冰冷的实体，而这一切则是影子扔进坟墓中的那枚金币。

全书的整个故事情节十分庞杂，其中还穿插了大量的支线故事，如果不认真阅读很容易迷失方向，但正如盖曼本人所说，情节发展是很单纯的。

总之，《美国众神》并不是我喜欢的类型，但是对于喜欢科幻文学的朋友们来说，不容错过~

话说我一直以来很少看国内的影视作品，尤其是电视剧，而这次出于偶然看了这部作品。既然看了，就不妨总结一下。

这次由黄晓明，孙俪，黄海波，李雪健主演的新上海滩是经典系列的翻拍作品，之前的两个版本中发哥主演的那一版比较经典。虽然我没看过老版本的，但从各方的评论来看本作还是很成功的。

新上海滩讲述的是上海黑社会的故事。以冯敬尧（李雪健饰）的青红帮在上海占有举足轻重的“老大”地位。而故事主要围绕着冯敬尧的女儿冯程程（孙俪饰），许文强（黄晓明饰），丁力（黄海波饰）以及冯敬尧之间的恩恩怨怨展开，其中还包括与其他帮派，洋人之间的种种摩擦冲突。给我留下很深印象的是剧中大量的“街头枪战”以及血腥四溅的战斗场面。。整个社会是一种“黑吃黑”的局面。很难想象如果生活在那样一种社会人们的生活会是怎样？恐怕和战争没什么两样。还有一点就是片中的众多“烟鬼”，其中包括主角许文强，丁力。实际上，抽烟的确能使人看起来更加有“派”，但考虑到香烟对人身体带来的危害以及当今在国内青少年中普遍存在抽烟现象，这种方式还是不值得推崇，这只会引起更多年轻人的好奇从而可能使他们走上抽烟之路。美国早就出台了相关规定禁止影视作品中出现诸如此类的抽烟场面，这样能对青少年起到很好的保护作用，所以新上海滩中这一方面有很大的不足。但这一瑕疵并不能埋没它的成功之处，比如，在人物关系的刻画上做的很饱满，下面就谈一谈人物关系。

剧中着重刻画的许文强与冯程程之间的爱情我并不看重，反而觉得略微有些空洞。但是对于许文强和丁力两个男人之间的关系却描绘的十分清晰。丁力从一个卖黎的受人欺负的毛头小伙最终成长为冯敬尧最信赖的人，其过程中充满了大哥许文强对他的关心，引导。当许文强对不识字的丁力说出“阿力，去抄一百个大字，明天给我看”，而单纯朴实的丁力又高兴的点头答应时，让我感受到的是浓浓的兄弟情谊。从某些方面来讲，男人之间的感情是伟大的，丝毫不逊色于最维美的爱情。 但是，悲剧终究还是会降临，由于许文强强烈的爱国正义感和丁力的老实单纯所致，他们还是走上了不同的道路，并在最后时刻出现了死亡，这一点使整个故事的悲剧成分得到了升华。其他人物之间的复杂关系就暂且不提了。

关于全剧的结尾，我个人认为很没有新意，缺乏深度，给观众留下思考的空间是很好的方式，但如果过于泛泛就会给人带来匮乏的感觉。所以我觉得整个故事的结尾并不能令人满意。

总结一下，整部作品还是一部成功的影视剧作，在演员剧情等方面还是能使观众满意，并却其中所表现出的“黑吃黑”的社会状况是我以前没有见到过的。可想而知，对于这一点不好深究，否则很可能会造成一些不愉快地后果。不管怎样，因上海滩还是一部很好看的电视剧。

p.s.片尾曲《就算没有明天》有黄晓明孙俪演唱，还算不错~

五月七日和Peter Ford先生谈话的内容果然出现在了The Christian Science Monitor（基督教科学箴言报）上，而我则是昨天在《意林》13期上看到的译文版，要知道这可是我第一次和外国记者面对面交谈，也是姓名第一次出现在公众杂志和报纸上（还是国外的~），所以我自然非常高兴，下面就把整篇文章的原文贴过来，原地址为http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0514/p01s04-woap.html?page=1

Web opens world for young Chinese, but erodes respect

Beijing - Excited and emboldened by the wealth of information they find on the Internet, Chinese teens are breaking centuries of tradition to challenge their teachers and express their own opinions in class.

Wearing jerseys emblazoned with the names of European soccer stars, downloading weekly episodes of "Prison Break," listening to 50 Cent, and reading Japanese comic books, China's current high school generation is plugging itself directly into international culture.

And it's giving the kids ideas. Ideas that could one day transform the way this country is governed.

"The Internet has given Chinese children wings," says Sun Yun Xiao, vice president of the China Youth and Children Research Center.

Many are using those wings to fly in the face of received wisdom about how and what they should learn, and about how much respect they owe to authority. "Today students ask you, 'Why?' And if you don't have a good answer, they won't necessarily accept what you say," says Zhao Hongxia, a young teacher at a private school in Beijing. "In my day, if the teacher said something he was always right."

The "post-90" generation of Chinese youngsters, named for the year the eldest of them was born, is "very different" from its predecessors, says Tony Hu, a Beijing high school student who has just turned 18. "We have far more ways to get information," he explains. "The generation before us knew nothing about anything except studying."

That judgment may be a little harsh, but Mr. Sun, whose research institute is linked to China's Communist Youth League, agrees with its essence.

"The post-90 kids are more confident and have more experience, and they are definitely braver and readier to challenge" their elders, he says. "The reason is that they have the Internet as a way to learn things, and because a lot more of them travel. They have more ways of acquiring knowledge."

137 million online in China

Internet use in China has exploded in recent years, and at the forefront of that revolution have been young people, hungry for a taste of life outside their country's borders. In 1999 there were just four million Internet connections in China; by the end of last year there were 137 million.

More than 70 percent of Chinese children between ages 7 and 15 had used the Internet at least once, according to a survey Sun's center carried out last year. That was nearly half as many again as the 2005 figure, and the total rose to 87 percent when only urban youngsters were polled. More than half of town-dwelling children today live in homes with an Internet connection.

That gives them opportunities to broaden their minds that teachers often cannot match. "I learned from books," says Jenny Li, who now trains teachers at a Beijing college. "These kids learn from the whole world."

That makes them more difficult to teach, says Ms. Zhao. "It's harder for me to keep their attention in class," she complains, "because they already know a lot. Teachers have to keep broadening their own horizons."

If Zhao, who has been teaching for six years, finds it hard to keep up with her students, older teachers are often baffled. "A lot of teachers over 40 feel uneasy and uncomfortable with the new knowledge their students have, and their lack of control," says Yan Ming, a young teacher at the elite No. 1 Middle School in the port city of Tianjin.

Teachers are also having to cope with an evolving curriculum. A series of reforms since 1997 have edged the Chinese education system away from rote learning and towards a more Western emphasis on independent thought.

"We are moving from a teacher-centered to a student-centered approach," says Wang Wu Xing, a professor at the Beijing Institute of Education. "If we want to produce top talent we need millions of inquisitive and critical-minded innovative talents. The new generation will develop the ability to explore things."

At the cutting edge of this drive is Tianjin's No. 1 Middle School, which teaches students up to the university entrance level. The school is experimenting this year with a history curriculum that breaks the old rules. For the first time, says Mr. Yan, students are allowed to write history essays that disagree with the textbook's conclusion about the political significance, for example, of the Boxer Rebellion against colonial powers.

"If they argue well, they get good marks," explains Yan. So far, however, this history test has only been administered at the middle school level in three school districts. "Whether they will allow this [latitude in answering the question] in the national exam [to get into university] we will have to see," he adds.

That exam is so critical for ambitious students desperate to get into China's top universities, says Wang Zhangmin, a veteran history teacher at the school, few of them dare to step out of line for fear of risking their chances of success.

That fear acts as a brake on change. Teachers at the Tianjin school, which prides itself on the high proportion of its graduates who get into the best colleges, say the pressure is so intense on elite students that they are still scared to challenge their teachers or to spend much time exploring topics outside the prescribed curriculum.

At more ordinary schools, too, teachers do not always encourage student-initiated digressions.

"We don't get many debates in my class," says Xi Haixin, a 17-year-old Beijing high school junior. "Sometimes we want to discuss something, but the teacher has too much material to get through and he drops the issue."

It is also difficult, Xi acknowledges, to hold a coherent debate when there are 50 or so students in the class, as is normally the case in China.

"Spider-Man 3": Already seen it

Even if his teachers do not satisfy his Web-fueled curiosity, Xi says, the Internet has still changed him and his generation. "I'm part of international society now," he reckons, listing the Miami Heat as his favorite basketball team, rhythm and blues as his favorite music, and "Spider-Man 3" as the best film he has seen recently. "Kids my age all listen to the same stuff and watch the same films."

"As students learn from foreign cultures they will definitely feel more global and more international," says teacher Wang Zhangmin.

How far this globalized generation will change the face of China is a matter of debate among those following young peoples' attitudes.

Tony Hu is dubious. "I'm not sure that our individualism can change the environment much," he says. "The Chinese mold has been established for many years. And if we can't change the environment, the environment will change us. We have to survive."

Sun Yun Xiao, the researcher, has greater hopes. "The sense of participation among post-90 kids is very strong," he points out. "Their sense of democracy is stronger, and this is a definite trend."

At Tianjin No. 1 Middle School, Yan Ming is waiting and seeing. "If these kids really have the chance to think differently, the impact will be the same as in the West," he predicts. "They will be more creative, they'll be better at solving problems by themselves, and they won't simply do what they are told to do."

原文比较长，红色部分是有关我的，虽然有些内容偏离了我的本意，但总体上还是相差不多，毕竟表达能力有限~~另外，本来很想提一下LOTR，可惜他问的是最近看过的电影，所以只好作罢了~

总之，这是一次让人难忘的经历，这得珍藏~

周一下午的体育课，由于在跳起下落的过程中才到了一位同学的脚上，所以造成了篮球比赛中很常见的脚踝扭伤。这是我印象中第二次在篮球场上受伤，也比前一次严重。貌似也是第一次接触真实的X射线，不过还好，结果只是软组织肿胀，并没有骨折，这才使家长放下心来。

当然，运动受伤是不可避免的，但这是我第一次体验到“行路难”的感觉，还真是不好受啊。。而且还第一次借助拐杖走路，这次倒是有不少个“第一次”啊~~  先到这里吧。（工作日挤出点时间上网还真是不容易。。）

小时候钟爱的小龟拉斐尔的玩偶，虽然与新版电影里的相差甚远，不过还是很有趣的~