Fear

I am fearful of the separation in life or death, however, I have to face the real world...No pne can change it to some extent, however, I can face it with a positive attitude and treasure everyday of my, each friends of my, to do the best of my without any regret.....

New point

The busiest days finished just now, but new thing will be started. Anyway, I like the feeling of developing myself.... However, I still have to know 'Gains will lose'..do not want to get everything one time!~~~

Right time，do the right things

Why I am here? The right time do the right thing~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

Interview again

Tomorrow I will face an informal interview again, also a placement work, which means it's a unpaid work. To be honest, no one like an unpaid work when he/she can have a choice. However, for me there is no choice, as a student whitout more experience and sound knowledge, the most important thing is gainning more experience, at the same time broaden your networking, learn more through these work experience and the people you meet.

Cherish every chance I encounter, and no regret.

Real start

So tide I am today~Not only for the work, but also for the about 4-hours journey!

However, I think it is a worthy chance, which can be regarded as my point of starting. Actually, I know I lacks of sound knowledge about the art market, as well as the art history, so, it's crucial for me to gain more experience, no matter from the practical or knowledge from books.

Through the day's work, I also found some points I have to improve soon, English and the general knowledge about runing a gallery even a museum. For the commercial gallery, most of them are private, they do the thing such as holding an exhibition for the emerging artists, are for the main purpose of making the profits. However, for the public gallery, it usually have the aim of promoting the art education to the public through making use of the public tax and the sponsor from the grovenment. To be honest, I like the runing way of public gallery, which enjoy more significant influence than the small organization, but I also know it's very hard to do something for your dream in public organization, because it realated to more complicated thing then the small private gallery.

Anyway, It is not the time for me to choice, just see more, know more, then I can get hoe can I do is the effective way to make a dream come ture.

New start

Coming back from the Museum of Richmond just now, I have some thought about the conversation betweent the curator and me.

Before starting to curate an exhibition, as a curator, you should have researched the theme of this exhibition, and equipped with the sound knowledge about it, then you can find an appropriate way to show them. That is the basic point for a curator, no matter whether the size of the exhibition is big or small.

However, the specific mission for the corator within the different museums or galleries to some extent is different, which depends on the size of the work place and the level of the organization as well. Take the Museum of Richmond for example. It is a small sized museum indeed, so, the work of curator is not only doing research on the theme of the coming exhibition but also some bits and pieces, such as collecting the information , printing, sticking and so forth. Compared with this, the work of the curator within a big organization should not as so wide as the small one. They must be an expert on some area with the sound konwledge, they needn't take care about so many trivial things but can do the whole plan on the exhibition nearby.

Anyway, for me, lacking the required knowledge and the organizational skills so far. There is just a start for me, as a good cleaner and a painter for a small gallery.

Some finished while some start~

In the afternoon, we say good bye to all the assessment, for which we work hard more then two weeks, of course it's just a small part of our destination, some thing finished means some thing will start.

May be just a short break, because I still have my dream, and it clearer day by day. Some of my friends always said to me do not try to be emulative all the times, or you must be so tired, I have thought of that, but I still can not stop my step, because of my dream, which made me feel full of energy every time I think about it, and it's also a happy thing when you pay sweat for them, especially when you see the result, you could find the sense of achievement will exceed every thing and made you forget how hard you were~

Hopefully, it's a good end, and then I will begin by a nice start!~~~

Review on my report draft

Although it's a moving weekend, I have to face with my report draft, which is full of mistakes. With a varity of mistakes, I find the problems is not only comes from the lack of academic language but also comes from my carelessness.

With the process of assessment, I can see more of my shortage in langusge, the inappropriate preposition, the incorrect collocation, as well as the mistakes due to carelessness, such as the change of tence, the different form within different context. From this, I can also find my weakness when I use the language, which should be combat through some effective practice. Just like the saying, practice makes prefect~~It is a truth indeedly. Just with more practice we can find more weakness, take more effective measures to deal with it, and improve it continuously.

It is a process which must cost a long time even on the whole way you study or work, but I believe no pay no gain~~ ：）

Finished one more~

With the score paper handed out, I indeedly feel one more assessment has finished.

Just now I finish the report draft, which took me almost more than two weeks, afterall it has a result now.

I am happy these days, house has been decided, two and a half assessment has been finished, the letter from the department of EMCA has been sent to me, beside that, today I grow a little order again, the first time don't enjoy with my family and the friends in my hometown, the most amazing thing is today also is the chinese Valentine's Day......so funny~

Anyway, I am not upset like some days ago, maybe due to the everything I've done, I try my best to deal with all of them in good order, actually I get the fruit to some extent, it's sweet! But I know it's not the gain of myself, because some of you by my side, family, teacher, friends, classmate, all of you who give me a hand~~~~~~Thank you!~I am a lucky dog because of you~~

Homesick

Just like the stage of culture shock, which we are concertrate on these days, when you encounter numerous constant difficults you tend to feel depression and confusion, unconsciously, I find I have been this stage.

The pressure of coming assessment alternate with my worry about house-hunting, which made me so tide and homesick terribly last week. As a young adult who never leave from home before, it is hard for me to deal with everything indeed. Sometimes I want to ask my parents and friends for help, however, beside worry about me they can do little to help me, just because of that I say everything goes well to them... Moreover, I know I have to learn to how to adress problems by my self, from making a decision to deal with it, from making a plan to get something down, all of them I should learn to face independedly in a strange country.

But I also can enjoy the furit after making effort, such as the improvement on language study. It is so fast that time flies, more then two monthes have gone, and it seems the language will finish soon...I cherish the days in pre-sessional course, and will try my best to produce a nice result in the rest days, I believe I can deal with the assessment as well as the moving, acually, it is no longer that I am a child spoiled by family, so, be independed, be courageous.

Learn to choose, concentrate on one thing~

Every coin has two sides, you can't ask for every thing get prefect totally, but you can choose the the better one for you according to your 'value' , the word we talked about in the class today.

Indeed, everyone have different value, which guide our lives, just like that, when most of classmates were busy finding a house, the thing I do was just waiting for the allocation from university with a positive state of mind, enjoying the books I like, doing the preparation for presentation with a quite feeling, unexpectly, I got a bad house two days ago, which made me start to worry about the place I will live. Actually, it's a disturbing problem, and I have admiration for the friends who can spent so much time on finding a house, which seems so hard for me, I can't say it's an action of wasting time, because it's not a fault to require a good standards on living, and it's also a precious experience on the way of studying abroad, to some extent, I am agree that the process of finding a house is not only another way to know more about the city you living, but also a chance to enhance your ability. However, it's vary from person to person.

I said to Marie that I am an outsider to the group who all finding a house day by day without any complaint, she refute it by 'no one is a specialist', I admit it but I insist the value of everyone is also different. Just like me, only taking half day to find a house, I feel boring and complexity about it, because for me, there are more important things to do I think. I don't like spending my time on that, (actually one of my friend could give me her accommodation to me, the only problem is the rent is higher than usual to a relative large extent), so, in the final analysis, there are just two choice whitin the process of finding a house, a good place with a high, an unsatisfied place with a cheap price. At this time, it's totally depend on yourself, so it's hard to say whether it's worthy or not~

I will accept the house of that accommodation, without a good condition indoor but a safety surroundings. So I could embark on my report and other tasks soon, for which I have considerable enthusiasm on the way of achieving my dream~~

Why no time to relax~~

Today, I just finished my presentation, about which I feel ok to some extent, however, I still can feel some problem with me, there must be some grammar mistake, and inaccurate expression, I know it's need more time to combat it, and I think I will insist the language study even when I start the main course, it's a necessary and perpetual task provided that I keep on studing in english, I like english, which made me feel not only difficulties, but also the sense of achivement after I make my efforts on it.

But I suppose I could feel a little easy after the presentation before, actually, it's totally different in present, not for the report but for the house I will live 10 days later? Where can I live? where are the reasonable house for me?......

I can't wait for more time, I should work on finding a house, and at the same time, making a satisfactory report, so I think I can balance them and, put off my relax, then I can get a ture big relaxabout probably three weeks later~~~Come on, how time flies!~~~

A saturday with ALESSI

From decisiding the top-design housewares company as our topic to deviding the work, from working out the layout to adding the specific information I want to convey, from working on the PPT to making a practice, I find, actually, it is a process not only ask for the ability of making a research, but also requires the patience involved. Indeed，it's not the first time to do a presentation for us, but the most important one, which also is the assessment on the two months study.

Half weekend has gone, and the thing I will continue is preparing the presentation, not only for the assessment on the day after tomorrow, but also for a good start for the further research and presentation, I believe just insisting with a right way, than you can get the positive result after all.

Looking forward to the better sunday~~!!

Be an energetic person

With the easy listening, I am coming to here again. It seems to be a habit to reflect something in here instead of notebook, I can't say it's better than notebook to what extent, but, actually, it's a happy thing to share something of my with others, especially, when you got the comment or opinion from your friend, the inderict way is another way to communicate, very cool~

Although I just have done a third of my preparation of presentation, but with a relatively understandable layout, I feel relative relax at this moment. Which just like we learn from the class that having your own stage and making a clear structure before you do the academic assessment, no matter it is writing or presentation. With the clear opinion and the structure in my mind, I could feel better to deal with the things come later...tommorrow, we will do the practice on presentation, which is a nice oppropriote to show the stage you're now, and finding the weakness of you, I think I will cherish the chance to practise, although I have not prepared it perfectly, I just want to find more weakness from it and try to make an improvements.

Today, the lesson about cohesive words made me a little confused, but I know their founction is to bring together our ideas which made people easy to understand our idea, and different cohesive words should be used in different way. Maybe we need to may more attention to distinguish the subtal difference, and make sure the way you use is in the right way..

I like the gain after your efforts, when it comes to the fruit in my mind, I will be energetic again, what's amazing on the way you're exploring now~~

Day by day~

How time flies~It seems about two months since I've been here, which contained the honeymoon stage and shock stage for me, and now I am still being adjustmennt stage.

Under the pressure of block 2, I have to adapt my self not only to the press from the consistent homesick, but also to the different way of academic studying from our country. Everything should be arranged by yourself, and no one will control you and tell you at what time you should do this or that thing, so new and free environment it is. Because of that,almost all the things I do everyday is the process I try my best to adjust. Just like, I attempt to organize the time of my, avoiding disorder because of the personal living habits, for welcoming the class of tomorrow with a good spirtual trip. On the other side, actually, there are lots of things to do for me, so, I have to deal with all of them in a appropriate order, even the ordinary things like eating, washing or making a clearing.

However, it can be seen that, actually, there are some improvement on myself, time-organization as well as the self-discipline. That's the other part of fruit I picked alongside the some development of english, of which I am not sure the extent, hehe~~

Fighting, do make a nice preparation for the last weeks of block 2!~

Learn ALESSI again

Today, I research on ALESSI again, and find more new things about them, which is not only a housewares company, but also a design factory with so many creativity and innovation that from the design of production to the means of collaborating with the designers all over the world, from the ways of marketing to the thought about failure.

Based on that, I find I can't lose sight of the importance of decision maker, just like the Alberto Alessi, the CEO of ALESSI, who made most of the creative decisions for his company, especially something related to the aspect of design, he choose the designer of ALESSI from the different specialties, such as the architects as well as animators, not restrict to the design background on design, beside that, ALESSI enlist all their excellent designers, who can brought a different language, from all over the world...Maybe it related to the background of the CEO, the man who brought his love of architecture and art to the table...

Do not go to a dead end

As I said yesterday that I responsible for the target market of ALESSI, which pose a difficult dilemma for me these days. Actually, it's a successful company among so many houseware companies today, which is largely due to the innovative design of their production rather than the marke strategy.
Just like the CEO Alberto Alessi said, profitability is of secondary importance for them, and most of their concentration on the quality of production. Because of the attitide of the CEO to their company, I find it's difficult to face with the task on target market...

Then, I can't help going to a dead end, fortunately, I got a good idea from Mark, why I don't shift from who is the potential consumers to the primary reason of their success, apparently, it's a process of examining why they can be the leader in the competitive market, the same goal, just from a different aspect to analyse. Yes, I will embark on preparation of presentation whit a more clear way. Thank you, Mark~~haha~~

Alessi

These days I am working on Alessi, a medium-sized Italian family firm, leader in top-design household articles. Actually, the company which founded in 1921 show a successful evolution from one of the many lathe-works factories in local area to a popular houseware design company. With the devolopment of Alessi, their target market also have undergone a subtle change in the same time. This presentation I will responsible for examining the target market of Alessi, I believe, however, having a definitely target market is crucial for survival of any company...

Traced by the development, nearly 30 years ago, Alessi began shifting away from in-house design and became one of the pioneers of open innovation. What's more secret behind that?? Please looking forward to the presentation on ALESSI~~

Quick decidion on report

Today, from changing the theam of report to reaching agreement on the topic, from think about the new topic to working out the questionnaire involved, it seems so quick, but we find it is effective through the brainstroming of our team members, especially our new member--Tony.

With around one hour discussion, we designed a questionnarie on our topic of report--A Survey of ELUPP Students' sport habits, from which I confirmed again that all the questions should be concerned on the theam, and serve as the argument for report, the more concise and relevant these questions are, the more effective the questionnaire will be, all of which is crucial to a good report.

Beside that, we also learned about Noun-based phrases/nominalisation, which is used more then verbs in formal written. We use the none-based phrase instead of the 'wh' clause, which require us to use the exact words to express the same meaning, of course, that's the difficult point for us to do it. Take some of my mistakes for example, when we want to express 'where food is', we can use the noun-based phrase 'the location of food', which is better then 'the place of food' I used. Moreover, you can use different form of noun-based phrase to take the place of one sentence, the only thing you have to pay more attention is whether the phrase you use can convey the same meaning. Just like 'the durition of imprisonment' and 'the length of imprisonment', different noun are employed in the two phrases, but give us the same meaning.

So, I think the the more we read the more we pile up, the more we pile up the more frequently we can use in our academic written.

Team work~

Within all the stage in pre-sessional courses, we will take by the form team work. There must be different ideas, that's why we need disscussion, after that, some times, we can get agreement, but some times not, that's why we need to continue negotiating, during which we need try our best to express our own idea and exchange the idea with your parter, just through that, we can get the best thought.

Actually, I find it's a good priactice for not only speaking but also the logical thinking. That's why we need to have team work, isn' it? I enjoy the time of discussing, because during that time, I find I can learn more, think more, most importantly, think about some thing from more aspects.

To be honest, I felt pressure at the beginging of block 2, in whicn we will face more serious challenge, but I'm happy that I have a team to work together, and I have the confidence that with the the strength of the collective, and the individual effort we can get our goal, basically, we could gain many valuable thing.

It's get dark earlier~

With the end of block 1, it's seems it gets dark eariler then before. However other thing is going on~

Class trip has finished today, I spent almost half day the our trip venue--Design Museum. There are three main parts of current showing, the DRAWING LIFE of Mariscal, REMEMBERING JAN KAPLICKY - ARCHITECT OF THE FUTURE, Super Contemporary.

The Drawing Life of Marisal is my first place of visit and my favorite part of this exhibition as well.

The first impression of Marisal is a feeling full of living, with so many black and white illustrations hang well, we could see the the things surrounding the Spanish artist. These works are so lovely that making people hard to forget, and they also reflect the attitude of the artist to life along with the many landmarks in Mariscal's career. But, the works you can see behind the curtain seems more attractive for me, when I passed it, it is!

A wall full of random collage~

Editiorial Curtain

Academic Writing (3) summarising and paraphrasing

As two important aspects of academic writing --summarising and paraphrasing, we need to master differenrt skills to make it.

In my opinion, both of the two skills are based on understanding the overall meaning of your reference, as well as using your own words to express the idea you get.

On the other hand, there are some discrepancies between summarising and paraphrasing. For summarising, using as less words as possible to get the main point is the chief aim for us, since we usually refer to so many different books involved in our research area in the MA stage, and it is not necessary to put all detailed information in it. With respect to paraphrasing, writing the idea you refer to in your own word should be draw attention, moreove, keeping the same meaning is also important, which is different from summarising.

A day in oxford

It is a small ancient city indeed, with so much time-honored architecture, oxford show a classical pucture as I've seen in the classical oil painting. I like the quiet town in the morning without so many tourists, it is small wonder that as a famous tourist attraction, there must be a number of people coming here for travel. Any way, it's an attractive scenic spot, and a right place, which have various old buildings and parks, for students to study here.

Amazing day~

A normal friday became so amazing totally because of my carelessness.

After one-day worried about my stuff, and spent almost two hours in finding my lost stuff, it remind me to be calm and think back the two place I've been, tube station and bank. Actually, I lost it in tube station when I top up my oyster card,,,according to the efficient of the staff in station , I have to get my lost file back from barker street which is far from E&C, my college, of course, I have to pay the price for my bad memory, however, the price is beyond my imagination. Beside the fee for transport, I have to pay for geting back the losed thing! I don't know about the regulation before, which make me a little confused, because there is no any charge for recover the property in china. Maybe that's so called cultural difference!

Once again, It seems I shouldn't forgive myself, however, what can I do next time? No,do forbid next time!! BE MORE CAREFUL!!

Academic Writing (2) connective 1

A good piece of writing can not go with out cohesion, which based on many appropriate connectives.

Usually, connectives can be divided into three main groups of and, or, but. Today, I want to present my summarization of one type of "and" group, that is the expression of listing.

Generally speaking, as for enumeration, we tend to use "first/firstly/first and foremost/first and most importantly,.... furthermore/secondly,....finally/thirdly,.....above all/last but not the least" also, it can be used by "to begin/start with,....in the second place/next,....moreover/then/afterward,...and to conclude/lastly/finally,...".

In respect to addition, if you want to make reinforcement , it can be used by "also/again/furthermore/moreover/what is more/then/in addition/besides/above all/as well(as)..." On the other side, if you want to express the meaning of equation, probabl, you can use"equally/likewise/similarly/correspondinglly/in the same way..."

My view on advertisement

To my mind, advertisement just a means to promote some products, or making people to pursuit the goods they want to sell. However, it no matter wether we admit or not, the ubiquity of advertisement exert a inevident influence on our daily life.

Almost all our daily life cannot go without advertisement. Billboard, newspaper, magazine, TV screen...With so many ways, we contact it readily, include the complex content in it, which made us feel ambivalent, on one hand, we can't reject it as our pleasure, on the other hand, it beset us to some extent. So, that's why we must have our own opinion on it, and distinguish it by oursleves. Based on that, there will be a different value on advertisement.

Academic Writing (1)

These days, our discussion centred around academic writing, which we will come across and apply in practice in the main course. So, we must have a clear recognition of academic writing.

Academic writing is a particular kind of writing that can be recognised by its style. It is mainly formal, impersonal, and objective, other distinctive features will depend upon the specific types of academic writing. These include essays, research reports and articles, case studies, survey, dissertations, theses,and examination papers. In most of these the writer is expect to include reference to other writing or research.

A two-tier time socity

Usually, we define a two-tier time socity is a society whit the money-rich, time-poor on one level, and the money-poor, time-rich on the other level.

For keeping up with the fast pace of life, people who want to have a good state in society have to work longer and longer today, and struggle to fit more and more into every day. No one can say the way of living is good or bad, just depend on individual. However, it doesn't matter that which way you would like to make a living, one constant is must be drawed attention, cherishing the time you own now~ even if you just want a simple live, you can't waste any minutes, which can be seen as your fortune, because every one who waste it will be pay it back at last.

Some days ago, because of my homesick, I immersed myself in chatting whit my friends and family, for which, I regret soon, why I come here? Just for a new place and keep on chatting?

The first thing I have to get over is not homesick but english~~~~~

My explanations of 'education'

The process by which you can gain knowledge, skills from being tought, at the same time, shaping values gradually in a wild range of forms, for instance, teaching, schooling, training, instruction, tuition, tutelage, edification, tutoring, cultivation, upbringing, indoctrination, drilling, learning, lore, knowledge, information, erudition...

why!!

WHY CAN'T ALL HUMANBEINGS ENJOY PEACE IN THE SAME PLACE??????WHY?

Actually speaking, I'm so sad today, because I've found the bad news from my homeland, violence unleashed in Urumqi last night, although I'm not in china, whit the photograph, video, I also feel miserable about these news.....

I can't help calling my mum and ask why, she told me it's just a part thing of the world, and I can't do anything to change it ....but...when I thinking about some people die, some people can never see their family, some one get into affliction to death....

What can I do ?....Why can't be a peace world ?....Hopefully, every bad news just a nightmare，it haven't happen , never!

fighting

This is the second weekend from I came to here, except accomopanying my friend to fay for the rent fee and walk for a stroll in a market, I almost never leave room, whit some books I want to read, however it seems I still can't understand it clearly, why? language!! It's the big problem, but I know it's a time-consuming mission, so, just try my best step by step, of course, master the rhythm of the step~don't stop!!

Everything will be ok!~

Two weeks～

It has been two weeks from I left my homeland for here, I'm confused which stage of 'culture shock' I'm in now, but I believe I can be used to the new place soon, and I have to, because there 're lots of thing waiting for me to do~