This blog is partly devoted to the sharing of my learning of the English language (my well mastered mother tongue is Chinese and I am not an English teacher) and its *cultures*, partly to the current significant trends in Canada and in the world, and partly to my own random thoughts and little life. I am not religious, but I am somewhat interested in Christianity and Buddhism, among other personal interests. Welcome. And, have a good day.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Vintage music video - 一首含有虚拟语气的歌 - Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Lyrics: http://goo.gl/J6nDw .
The introduction copied from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0:
"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards. This song is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the American adult contemporary chart in 1992.
It's an excellent dirge.
As for the '虚拟语气' in the post title, by that, I don't mean falsetto, I mean Subjunctive Mood. :-)
Monday, May 30, 2011
It appears that myriad of young people in China who have drive are in blossom intellectually, due to the proliferation of broadband internet access, smart phones, foreigners' presence in China, and foreign intellectual and cultural material available on Chinese websites. And it appears that they will stay so and benefit from that enormously in the upcoming future.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
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