Month: September 2019

Pennywise - Who is He? 到底，谁是 Pennywise 呢？

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You may not have heard of him but by the end of this month, September 2019, you will be talking about him. The reason? Just because he will be on the big screen in a cinema house near you wherever you are, throughout New Zealand. The movie is entitled “IT (pronounced as ‘it’ as in “It is a creature,” and not ‘Eye Tee’ as in the computer world) - Chapter 2. Take a look at how Pennywise looks like in the images of him below. 您可能还没有听说过他的名，但到本月底（2019年9月），您将谈论他。原因是怎么呢？仅仅因为他会出现在您附近的电影院的大银幕上，无论您身在何处，整个新西兰的电影远都会放出它的标题 “ IT（在“它是一个生物中”被冠以“ it”的称呼”，而不是在计算机世界中被冠以“ Eye Tee”的称呼）-第2章。P The movie film is adapted from Stephen King’s classic […]

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Chinese Instrumental Orchestra 中国乐器乐团

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I have all the time in the world these days. And so, I am going to introduce to my learned friends the appreciation of Chinese Instrumental orchestra music. If you are already a lover of Chinese instrumental music, please bear with me for a little while and then after reading this piece of writing please share with me your thoughts and feedbacks on this topic. Much appreciated and Thanks. Now, please sit back, relax and listen to the following music video. Music from themes of Chinese TV dramas: https://youtu.be/b39fC1VhbJ4 The video was a presentation by Lamigo National Orchestra conductor by […]

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The Elderly, Again. 再一次，让我们把焦点放在老人家的身上

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NOTE: If you are competent in the Chinese Language, and not the English Language, please scroll to the end part of this posting. Thanks. 注意：如果您有能力使用中文, 请滚动到该帖子的末尾部分。谢谢。 In this world there are only two types of elderly persons - mad, near to insane, or wise and knowledgable. It is funny when we think about this fact. Take President Trump as an example.  Most people would classify him as an elderly who is mad, and showing signs of insanity.  But, at the same time, he would be considered wise and knowledgeable to the many who found new jobs under his management of […]

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Dry - The Chinese version​ 小说 “干”

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Neal 和 Jarrod Shusterman 透露新小说“干”的封面和摘录 Dry: Excerpt in the Chinese Language https://cn.modjournal.com/61875-dry-neal-jarrod-shusterman-dystopia-excerpt-55 尼尔舒斯特曼回来了！ Neal Shusterman has returned! 他的新小说发行几个月后 积雨云 在他的 Scythe的弧e系列，国家图书奖获奖作家舒斯特曼有一部新小说， 干，探讨如果美国失去水将会发生什么。 After the success of Scythe, Neal teamed up with his son Jarrod to have another interesting novel “Dry” - a stunner. 与他的儿子Jarrod Shusterman共同编写的反乌托邦气候故事讲述了Alyssa，一个生活在加利福尼亚州的极端干旱的十几岁女孩，每个人都称之为“流动危机”，然后是“挖掘”。 The dystopian climate story co-authored with his son Jarrod Shusterman tells about Alyssa, an extremely dry teenage girl living in California, everyone called her a “living danger ” and then also called her a “miner”. “这就是媒体所说的干旱，因为人们厌倦了听到’干旱’这个词，”Alyssa在小说中解释道。 “有点像’全球变暖’成为’气候变化’，”战争’成为’冲突’。但现在他们已经有了一个新的口号。我们的水困境中的一个新阶段。他们称之为’挖掘’。“ “This is what the media said about drought, because people are tired of hearing the word ‘drought’,” Alyssa explained in the novel. […]

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月饼 Mooncakes

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这篇文章不是前发布“中秋节”的中文版，虽然是同一话题。如果你正在学习英文的话，你会发现这篇文章特别有用用处。 This article is not a Chinese version of the previous Mid-Autumn Festival article, although it is based on the same theme. If you are learning English (or learning Chinese), you will find this article particularly useful. In Hanyu Pinyin: Zhè piān wénzhāng bùshì zhōngqiū jié de zhōngwén bǎn, suīrán shì tóng yīgè huàtí. Rúguǒ nǐ zhèngzài xuéxí yīngyǔ, nǐ huì fāxiàn zhè piān wénzhāng tèbié yǒuyòng. 我们使用从奥克兰图书馆借来的这本书作为学习英语的来源。而且，如果你正在学习汉语，这本书也是有用的，因为它有罗马化的汉语拼音来指导你的发音。 We use this book borrowed from Auckland Library as a source of learning the English Language. And, if you are learning Chinese Language, this book is also of use as it has […]

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Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节

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Today, the 13th September 2019 is the actual Mid-Autumn Festival day - the fifteenth day of the eight moon in the lunar calendar. All Chinese around the world is celebrating this day by exchanging moon cakes with one another, some home-baked, but mostly commercially done - exported from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. There is no necessity here for us to delve into the meaning and the significance of this festive because these have been well documented on the internet. Suffice it to say here that such a festival highlights just one of the many bonding […]

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Dry, by N. & J. Shusterman

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How difficult are we to live WITHOUT fresh WATER? This story is recommended for young adults. It was introduced to me by my teenage grandchildren. As is usual for me, the first thing I do after receiving an invitation to look at a book, I read all the book reviews from google. The two authors of this climate-fictional book are the father and son team of Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. The story is about a very likely situation in our modern society when water, fresh drinkable water, dries out in the State of California. Check out what Neal Shusterman […]

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Andrew’s Life 安德鲁的生命

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ANDREW’S LIFE ： 安德鲁的生命 ： Āndélǔ de shēngmìng This article is primarily meant for those of my online tutees who are learning Mandarin. The way to go about this is to follow the following steps: (1) Read the English, paragraph 1 to start; (2) Look at the Hanyu Pinyin in the next paragraph and try to pronounce the Mandarin translation - noting the intonations; (3) Go into ‘translategoogle’ and copy the paragraph into the English half of the screen and see the Mandarin words and more importantly the Hanyu Pinyin on the other half of the screen; (4) Listen to […]

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To: Hong Kong’s Youths 与香港青年交谈

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Every time I take up my pen to write on this topic for the last two months, the situation in Hong Kong changes. In fact, the situation changes so fast in the last 24 hours that I need to stop at this moment. Stop so that I can write for fear that this very moment can be recorded in history as the turning point in the current crisis. The latest report from Reuter is the article that triggers my action to talk to you, the youths of Hong Kong, now. This article is worth highlighting here. Take a read of […]

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iPhone Camera Features 相机功能

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We can learn a lot from our internet, just by googling the topic you are interested in. 我们可以从我们的互联网上学到很多东西，只需搜索您感兴趣的主题。 For today, we are going to learn about the use of our iPhone camera to produce good and possibly award-winning photographs using those features that we are still not aware of until you turn on the google search or the youtube videos. 今天，我们将了解如何使用我们的iPhone相机，使用我们仍然不知道的功能，直到您打开谷歌搜索或YouTube视频，制作好的和可能获奖的照片。 View one of these videos now, on the topic “7 Hidden iPhone Camera Features” https://youtu.be/swgXhzE0HF4 Feature # 1: Turning on Camera App Turn on camera app quickly by swiping a finger horizontally across the screen of the iPhone from […]

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