無事說書 - 大亨小傳 The Great Gatsby

I was grateful to meet this book. The Great Gatsby 大亨小傳 was reckoned as the badge of the America literature and hailed as one of the greatest english literature ever. I confessed that it was a pie in the sky for a amateur like me in an attempt to grip the wisdom inside the book, it was not a modesty. But almost all the great literature shared a amazing trait - even you merely snatched a little piece from it, it would still be enough to make you abundant.

Apparently it was a tragic story about a tycoon chasing a dream, a unreachable but splendid dream. But we would all know (or presume?) the book was much more than a tragic story. We were witnessing a great soul contending in an ordeal. Seemingly it was a story solely about Jay Gatsby, but in fact it was a story of every american, the deepened virtue engraved on every american's heart. A fragile soul, even being lashed, punched, or smashed, endured to approach the destination, made a dream real, and that's what achieving today's America. Thus the dream was not solely to Jay, it was substantially the America's Dream. Jay Gatsby was completely the projection of the ideal charater stemmed form the America spirit. In the story, Nick had said: "They're the rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." (他們都是混蛋, 那一個都及不上你.)

Here i would like to derail a while, talking another book - "The Seven Habits of Highly effective People", the best-seller have been classified as a business administration and self-help book. But it would be an interesting experience for you when read "Seven Habits" prior to "The Great Gatsby". You would found they were laying on the same priciple. It seemed that Jay was the so-called "Effective people". In fact, i have usually though that "Seven Habits" was not merely a business book, it was in fact talking about the American spirit, the unique elements comprised in the American Culture.

To read a certain country's literature, garnering a preliminary understanding of that country culture was always a great help. We can make it by many ways, for instance, by the history, musical, even movie. For a passive behavior like reading, you were still needed to proactively prepare to do it well, so i always believed that reading was a skillful habit, as sport, it needed you to devote, pratice, endure and then be remunerated.

If possible, i will go for the book fair in this year before tuesday, albeit it would be very unlikely.

Media - Struggled to cope with

A video of the Micheal Jackson Pepsi accident was unveiled a week ago by US weekly. Many trusted that was the crucial turning point to the star to plunge into drug abuse and plastic surgery. I had talked about that in the blog before, and turned out that there was a irrefutable evident. (I lamented that my friend showed dissent when i told the accident to them before, claimed that i was defending MJ. Now i can shut their mouth, HaHa.)
There were more and more news disclosed in the aftermath of the Star's death, strived to overturn the negative image of MJ. In one hand they alleged the accusations made before to the star were forgery, in the other hand they purported the preposterous behavior of MJ was stemmed form his glommy childhood and compelling from his ambient people. Those news seem suing us for the misunderstand to MJ, convicted us that the tragic end of the Star was somehow promoted by us.
I had read a passage from Blog Hoiking, somehow inspired me to think: The media is so overwhelming to us. Pls recalled, who did the most vicious condemn to MJ? Who regularly put MJ in line with outrage and pervert? Yes, ya got it - it was the one now enthusiastically upholding the Star. The media was so influential and we were so susceptible, seemingly we cannot get anything real in the city in the grasp of the newspaper headline. Matrix is no longer a imaginary movie. We were now facing a immenent question: How do you define real?
The answer was apparent: You should have you own independent will and be a critical thinker. But how to procure them was totally an other story. We were weary to see how was our generation "independent" and "critical thinking" in the prior 20th anniversary of 6th June incident. They showed us that thinking contrary with most of the people is independent, speeching decently can make it real. How can us turn away those "talk show" mingled with those assertion from our city? I was sorry to say that obviously we cannot. Despite we cant change it, it didnt mean that we would get use to it. The very key element was that we should always stick to the priciple when coping with those information. You should build up you own unchanged core in you mind to deal with those rapidly changing information. Think proactively sometimes can help you unveil the truth, you should try to set aside your own prejudice and turn to the rational. But how to do it? It depended, I can just give a handful of advise because I was solely a novice. Dousing the drastic emotion and turning into a calmly thinking was something utmost diffcult, worse when you plunged into rage. You just attempted it for once, you would know.
Obviously our government should promptly draw up a law to rein the media and turn around the lenient curb. We need more watchdogs to monitor the information releasing and stop spreading of the public-pleased news. Our news policy apparently needed to reshuffle, but before we made it, we should first shape ourself up to foil those exaggeration.

Friends

How would you think of the term "good friend"? Good friend is someone you are willing to go along with, happy to talk with. He would always be there and prompt you seldom thinking of alone. He would always shore you up, show forbearance to everything you did, unconditionally. For every decisions you make, he stands alongside with you, incites you to archieve your goal. When you get rejected by the others, you would have his consent and make you feel good. He is someone always appericate with you, you would envisage that you are the best when you going with him. You would find it is cushy to make consensus with him because you both think alike and talk alike, he's seemingly someone molded from you, he would do what you like to do, have what you like to have. You just always feel good to stay with him.

Is it correct?

There are nothing correct or not in a relationship. But if it were yes, what you need is not a human being, you simply need a recorder - it says what you say, never shows dissent. It would not hurt you, make you get gloomy. I have heeded many people just only intends to go along with someone embracing them, they dont need dissident.
Friend is a partner in your struggleing life. If you are my friend, it would say that i determine to turst you, rely on you. Maybe we are not alike, we always clash with each other, even sometimes we would rattle our relationship. We see the reality so differently. But we realised that no one can see the whole picture, our preception is limited and you would see things i overlooked. So we are gald to see we are thinking differently and concurrently we are not needed to agree with each other. We both have our own discretion, we are so different, so we can collaborate and make something greater than alone. If you think i'm wrong, you would tell me, never afriad that it would hurt me, because you take it as you obligation, take me as your good friend, you want me to be good, you want me to do it better. Maybe i am reluctant to take on your opinion, rigid to accept you suggestion, because i have my own mind and you just dont understand me. So we plunge in a vicious row, even a scuffle, and cause a standoff. But we have came across for so long time, i know your meaning, even the words from you is fierce, and so do I. When we clam down, we still think of that you are my friend. So I wave my hand to you, go down and have dinner together, preceed to our talk - it is what i think about Friend.

A small plastic bag

The plastic bag levy will be imposed on coming tuesday, for charging each plastic bag from 50 cents to 1 dollar. The selling of recycle bag has thus been surged. But do you sure that you would bring your own bag when you go out? I concede that i do not intend to take a bag with me when i go to supermarket or store, it's pesky.
Albeit i have such envisaging, i really holdup the levy. There are more than 20 million plastic bags used in Hong Kong everyday, it solely are a severe problem for the limited landfills. The levy would effiectivly contract the using of plastic bags and relief the suffocated dumpsite. Also, it helps boost the selling of retail shops and super markets. Everyone just thinks alike, bringing a bag for shopping is inconvenience. You go to supermarket, haven't bring your bag, and you are reluctant to pay the levy. The outcome is you would turn to the delivery service. But you knows you are needed to buy enough to have a delivery, so you do it. It is merely a win-win.
By the way, Owen opted to join the red devil in coming season. Everyone was surprised by the Ferguson decision and despised that "glasses-lag" striker will botch MU. But i believe he can play a good role, just see whether he can return to his heyday.
Pls be reminded that the Michael Jackson ceremony would be on showed in tuesday midnight.