【Politics】journal- political reponsibility

WEB: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8429596.stm


It seems that being a prime minister in developed countries is harder than in low-developing ones, because the leaders in advanced nations are usually requested to be a high-mortal and self-responsible people. This phenomenon also appears in Taiwan and Japan. In the case of Yukio Hatoyama, Japanese prime minister, who is asked to make self-examination and fall out of the job due to funding scandal. Even though has clarified his own position, Yukio Hatoyama is still under condemn because any little confusion or equivocation in his announcement will arise people’s resentment. Besides, he must bear all the responsibility in case leading to ill fame to his political party.


In comparison, many celebrities in Taiwan can shirk away their responsibility with other powerful personage’s support or sensationalizing news. Since the background of mass media keep fabricating unverified news, people nowadays are accustomed to escaping duty of saying any uncertain words and criticisms. This trend affects the political word, many politicians enforce their duty or announcement without considering the following consequence.

According to the former comparison, we can see the difference between Taiwan and Japan. I prefer to the condition in Japan rather than in Taiwan; though the Japanese celebrities are forced to be more responsible on everything, at least the whole political phenomenon is positive and responsible.

【Music】journal- Owl city

WEB: http://owlcitymusic.com/home.aspx

There are many stunning music on the market, and recently I find a wonderful band, called owl city. Owl city is an electronic music band and actually only consists of one person, Adam, who is responsible for all the tasks like overdubbing, composing, and acting as vocalist.
  One part of reasons why I like Owl city is that Adam creates a revolutionary type of electronic music; instead of being noisy, tangling or dizzy, Owl city’s music is full of illusion like splendid diamonds flowing into our ears. Adam has mentioned that his songs are composited at midnight in order to make him fall asleep; therefore, his songs give people a magic feeling as falling into a colorful dream.

In addition to his wonderful songs, I praise for his willpower of creating a band without caring about the fact that there is only one person in it. Due to the increase of public attention on individual ability, more and more singers take part in singing competitions on TV, publishing albums and cause to albums explosion; it’s harder for people to find a truly suitable songs. Under such situation, Adam still chooses to initiate a band in replacement of publishing personal albums; he walks his own way.

I strongly recommend people listen to owl city’s songs, enjoy the jewelry melodies, and fall asleep with colorful dreams.

【Camera】journal- DSLR

Digital Single Lens Reflex Camera, abbreviated as DSLR, is now makes a worldwide trend. I am interested in taking pictures with stunning landscape, and note down the dribs and drabs in lives with pictures and share with relatives. However, normal camera cannot transmit the feelings fully and there still exist a distance between spectators and the scene; this drawback leads to losing vitality of pictures. Therefore, I can’t help but be crazy for DSLR, which can eliminate this shortcoming.


On the one hand, DSLR can adjust many things manually, such as solar halo and camera shutter. Due to this virtue, I can take the suitable picture which can describe the atmosphere on the spot. On the other hand, DSLR can do many special efficacies and presents another kind of feeling, just like taking a picture in restore and ancient way to show antique style.

To combine previous virtues, DSLR indeed catches and exhibits picturesque views perfectly enough for me to enjoy sharing instant feelings with others.

【Date】journal- worldwide celebrations

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There are many celebrations around the world, for instance, Mother’s day and New Year’s Eve in Chinese. However, there are still lots of unknown celebrations in obscure countries, and these are the main points I’m going to say. The first unknown festival is Singles Day on December 11, which is originated among Chinese younger. This celebration is used to manifest people’s pride in being single, and point out that it’s not shameful living without spouses. The way to celebrate is eating four Youtiao (deep-fried dough sticks) representing the four "ones" in "11.11" and one Baozi (steamed stuffed bun) representing the middle dot.


The other festival, called Almabtrieb, is an annual event in the alpine regions in Europe. Almabtrieb can be divided into four main theme based on four seasons. Nonetheless, except for four themes there still exists one similarity—decoration of alpine regions cow. We can see fake cows adorned with many special totems, like planets and tassels on cows. Recently, this activity spread throughout the globe; we can also see this in Australia and world exhibition. By the way, Taiwanese also attend to this activity, using many symbolic food and notional phonetic alphabets.

Interesting festivals can always draw people’s attention, just like the above-mentioned two examples. To see is to believe; maybe we should spare some time to experience them in person, feeling the expressive atmosphere.

【Mental】journal-passing time

Web:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8375876.stm
(BBC in pictures)
Many literary masterpieces are rife with the sigh of passing time, and describe such feeling with changing scenery and street view, just like these pictures in London. We can see some comparisons on altering buildings, different people's clothes and advancing street decoration. As elders' words,"Time can transform many things.".


In Taiwan, we can feel the change between generations, from frugal living style in the past to modern affluent life. On the part of mental world, we can read people’s rising indifference by their faces; people nowadays become putting more attention on individual events instead of group activities. In addition, many of us forget their original living dream, being pushed by trifles and keep daily life as walking corpse.

Time truly chages lots of things, and we can't conclude such kind of change is good or bad. Just like a chain effect, it's hard to stop our fast steps on persuing something. Only when strolling on the street alone will we recall the past memory and then, sigh.