helioeb5’s Blog

Dear Yichi:

  Today is your no 540 day in this family, As an older brother of you, i feel so proud that finally you can call me Brother . I love your voice.

  TIme past quickly, 2 weeks ago when i was still on the plane, i was always dreaming how would you look like? Have you been taller or fatter? But now, 4 days later, Your brother have to leave. Don’t be sad and never cry.

My dear brother, how cute you are when you are playing new toys. Every thing seems so wonderful and fresh to you as the world is new in your eyes. Keep this simplicity, because it brings this family peace and warmth.

Be a good child Yichi, love and respect your mum and dad, They are the most kind person forever And don’t be naughty during the night, mum needs rest as well. Don’t cry when you slip up, this pain will be ok.

 My best wishes to you my little brother, i miss you.

Dear Manager:
    Much to my regret, I write this to place a complalnt against your bad delivery service of your company.
    The Samsung tape recorder model number JB/4703 that I ordered from your company on July. 1, arrived yesterday. The serial number of the machine is 4703 -0641. I am sorry to report that the recorder has been badly damaged. There was no unusual damage to the packing case, but when I opened it, I find that the lid of the recorder had been cracked and that the
front surface of the machine had been scratched.
    Since there was such damage to the goods, I decided to file a complaint against the delivery service. Would you please let me know whether I should return the recorder to you for a replacement or if you have a local representative to where i can replace it? I will hold on to this recorder until I hear from you.
                                                                                                                       Sincerely yours,
                                                                                                                   Helio Chen

 Bicycle is an important means of transport in China. one of the important reasons is the economy of Chinese. The use of bicycle in China is widely because most people in China have not high wages. They may afford a bicycle rather than a motorbike as the benzine is getting more expensive ;another important reason is the large population of China as nowadays more chinese cars are appearred on the road, In this case, bicycle may become more efficient during the rush hours.     
   Cars are obviously luxury goods, everyone is demanding a nice car as a result of hard work for past 10 years. but as the list problems shown in first paragraph, whether cars are absolutely better? Not really, For a  bicycle, it can save the surface of putting it and doesn’t ask to build the garage, which saves resources that This point is very important to China’s shortage of land. From another angle, it has low costs to operate,including both price and ability to ride.
   

It is obviously a happy thing to have hug with my girl friend, 5 months apart has given her a great change. Especially her weight. when i hug her body, the only thing i can feel are bones. Compare to before, Unfortunately the “feeling” is not comfortable.

Losing weight has became a comon “fashion” as my girl friend does. Currently,In order to make themselves pretty-looking, they try many different ways of losing weight.  Some go on a diet, some take exercise,some eat medicine ,others even turn to operation for help.  As a result,a lot of products have come into being,such as special medicines, tea and equipment. They are used in different ways and work differently, but some have side effects. Just like my Girlfriend, she was taking a medicine that can easily help losing weight through burning the fat. In the instruction of the cover, it tells no side effects that will be quite safe and healthy. But in reality, My girlfriend will always feel stomach-ache after taking this medicine.

 Hence, These sorts of “short-cut” of losing weight may have great risk on your body, To have more execise and a healthy diet are the real efficient ways.

Half year later, when i return to China, i get words to say about Chinese News:

The News Report has always been my favorite TV program. Almost everyday I turn on the TV at 6:30 p.m. and wait for the news program. This has become a part of my life during this holiday.
　　 The News Report contains a large amount of information from the international political situation to the latest foot-ball game. And the most important character is its fast pace. Because of this fast pace, news programs can contain much information in a short time.
　　 In my opinion, the News Report is more than a TV program. It is a way of communication. From this program, people can know and understand world affairs. The world thus becomes smaller and smaller. I especially appreciate this benefit of watching the news.

Geeze, it was already 6 months no see my parents and little brother. The flight on thursday morning will bring me back! i feel so exicted that i can’t fall asleep quickly during the night. To tell the truth, the school days before thursday is like a suffer. i can’t wait for it!!

  yesterday, my friends in china had all received their final year 12 exam result back, they did quite well i think. One of my best friends achieved the highest score of school! Cheers! i really feel happy for him that his hard work didn’t waste. In this case, i hope i can do well in next year to achieve my dream as well. hard work! but anyway,before the future hard work in next semester, RELAX first lar~~ i am going to touch you soon buddy—my old schoolmates ~ CYA IN CHINA.

If you guys need some chinese “specials”, just give me a call. especially if you need some BEIJING olympic “lucky toys”.

                                                     Film Philadelphia

Philadelphia is a 1993 drama film revolving around HIV/AIDS and homosexuality. It was writt­­­en by Ron Nyswaner ­­­and directed by Jonathan Demme.

The movie tells the story about Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks), a senior associate at the largest corporate law firm in Philadelphia. Beckett hides his homosexual and his status as an AIDS patient to the other members of the law firm. On the day Beckett is assigned the firm’s newest and most important case, a partner in the firm notices a lesion on Beckett’s forehead. Although Beckett attributes the lesion to a racquetball injury, it is actually due to Kaposi’s Sarcoma, a form of cancer marked by multiple tumors on the lymph nodes and skin.

Shortly thereafter, Beckett stays home from work for several days to try to find a way to hide his lesions. While at home, he finishes the paperwork of the case he has been assigned and then brings it to his office, leaving instructions for his assistants to file the paperwork the following day, which marks the end of the statute of limitations for the case. Later that morning he receives a call asking for the paperwork, as the paper copy cannot be found and there are no copies on the computer’s hard drive. The paperwork is finally discovered in an alternate location and is filed with the court at the last possible moment. The following day Beckett is fired by the firm’s partners.

Beckett believes that someone deliberately hid his paperwork to give the firm an excuse to fire him, and that the firing is actually as a result of his diagnosis with AIDS. He asks several attorneys to take his case, including personal injury lawyer Joe Miller (Denzel Washington). Miller is an admitted homophobe and knows little about Beckett’s disease. After declining to take the case, Miller immediately visits his doctor to find out if he could have contracted the disease. The doctor explains the methods of AIDS infection.

Unable to find a lawyer willing to represent him, Beckett is compelled to act as his own attorney. While researching a case at a law library, Miller sees Beckett at a nearby table. After a librarian announces that he has found a book on AIDS discrimination for Beckett, others in the library begin to first stare and then move away, and the librarian suggests Beckett retire to a private room. Disgusted by the other people’s behavior, Miller approaches Beckett, reviews the material Beckett has gathered, and takes the case.

As the case goes before the court, the partners of the firm take the stand, each claiming that Beckett had incompetent and that he deliberately tried to hide his condition. The defense repeatedly suggests that Beckett had invited his illness through his homosexual acts and was therefore not a victim. In the course of testimony, it is revealed that the partner who had noticed Beckett’s lesion had previously worked with a woman who had contracted AIDS after a blood transfusion and so should have recognized the lesion as relating to AIDS. According to that partner, the woman was an innocent victim, unlike Beckett, and further testified that he did not recognize Beckett’s lesions. To prove that the lesions would have been visible, Miller asks Beckett to unbutton his shirt while on the witness stand, revealing that his lesions were indeed visible and recognizable as such.

Beckett eventually collapses during the trial. During his hospitalization, the jury votes in his favor, awarding him back pay, damages for pain and suffering, and punitive damages. Miller visits the visibly failing Beckett in the hospital after the verdict and overcomes his fear enough to touch Beckett’s face. After Beckett’s family leaves the room, he tells his partner, Miguel (Antonio Banderas) that he is ready to die. The movie ends with a reception at Beckett’s home following the funeral, where many mourners, including Miller, view home movies of Beckett as a healthy child.

        It was already the third time to watch this movie; this movie is one of the few truly most excellent one I have watched. The theme mainly tells us “war is hell”, which is represented by a commander’s experience of saving soldier Ryan.

        As a movie made in 1998, it begins with a chaotic, cruel view of invasion of Omaha beach in Normandy, I have to say it’s bloody but real. Which gives people a sense of guilty under the War. Capt. Miller (tom hanks), a commander who experienced the invasion of Omaha beach was given a mission to save the only survivor of Ryan’s family—Francis Ryan (Matt Damon)(three members of the Ryan family (all enlisted men) were killed in the war). This mission seemed so unpractical that it may take 8 people’s life instead of saving this guy; but in this case, Miller didn’t give in…

        After they found the Ryan, two people of this small team were shot already, Ryan gave them the hope of going home but they didn’t choose it. Instead of decide to help defend the bridge…. Unfortunately, the cruel war grabbed other team member’s lives, as there were only 2 survivors at the end. . At this point, there is one thing to say that it hurts, whenever a character is shot, I can feel it clearly. The bloody and brutal of this movie gives us the sense of war, which can only lead suffers to us.

        Overall, Director  Steven Spielberg doesn’t mean to canonize ”bloody” or “violence” but he tries to use these cruel scenes to recommend people to respect those who died in the war and being aware that “war is hell”.

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The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second World War. The lead ship of her class and named after the 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck displaced more than 50,000 tons fully loaded and was the largest warship then commissioned. Her chief claim to fame came from the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941 _______ which the battlecruiser HMS Hood, flagship of the Home Fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, was sunk within several minutes. In response, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the order to “Sink the Bismarck”,^[2] spurring a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy. Two days later, with safer waters almost in reach, Fleet Air Arm aircraft torpedoed Bismarck and jammed her rudder, allowed heavy British units to catch up with her. In the ensuing battle on the morning of 27 May 1941, Bismarck took heavy punishment for nearly three hours before sinking.

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Design of the ship started in the early 1930s, following on from Germany’s development of the Deutschland class cruisers and the Scharnhorst class“battlecruisers”. Construction of the second French Dunkerque class battleship made redesign necessary, and Bismarck’s displacement was increased to 41,700 tons. Officially, however, her tonnage was 35,000 tons to suggest parity with ships built within the limits of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935) that allowing Germany to build up to five 35,000-ton battleships, the maximum displacement agreed by the major powers in the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922. Fully laden, Bismarck and her sister-ship Tirpitz would each displace more than 50,000 tons. The prototype of the proposed battleships envisaged under Plan Z, Bismarck’s keel was laid down at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg on 1 July 1936. She was launched on 14 February 1939 and commissioned on 24 August 1940with Kapitän zur See Ernst Lindemann in command.

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This formidable ship, the largest warship then commissioned, was intended primarily as a commerce raider, having a broad beam for stability in the rough seas of the North Atlantic and fuel stores as large as those of battleships intended for operations in the Pacific Ocean. Still, with eight 15 inch main guns in four turrets, substantial welded-armour protection and designed for a top speed of no less than 29 knots (she actually achieved 30.1 knots (55.7 km/h) in trials in the calmer waters of the Baltic, a significant advantage over any comparable British battleship), Bismarck had capability of engaging any enemy battleship on reasonably equal terms. Her range of weapon could easily decimate any convoy she encountered. The plan was for Bismarck to break out into the spacious waters of the North Atlantic, where she could refuel from German tankers and remain undetected by British and American aircraft, submarines and ships, while attacking the convoys.

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