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17 July days go by and time elapsedI've been back for almost a week, every day remains the same. Ok something cheerful, i can finally get away from the unendurable heat in changsha.I left when it was just dawn , no bus was available then so we took a taxi to the station.That's much tooo crowded on the train and not even standing room!! Shopping strollers kept us standing up from time to time .No matter how crowded the aisle was , the sales lady can always make her and the shopping stroller through,they could even make it when two stoller met with each other on the narrow corridore!!! We finally obtained the beds when the train arrived in Xi'an and lots of passengers got off.Then we fell fast asleep cuz we were really really exausted....
Yesterday i had an appointment with my high school classmates Xiang, he's got much more handsome than the time we met last. Now he's majoring in legislation.According to him, his life in university is quite idle and relaxing, all the studied would be done just two weeks before the exams and only that can make a straight A student of him.Woo.. what a genius. Thinking of myself, i nearly fail in the operations research in spite of all devotions and commitment.oh What an unfair world it is!!Something even shocking, he was dressed in quite expensive clothes.Only his pair of socks are dearer than my shitrts.....
08 July Utterly FreedI'm utterly freed now!!! I finally got through the damn Operational Research test. Needless to say ,it's far from easy for me who is never good at it.But one thing i can be sure of is that i won't flunk the subject in the least.hehe,it's high time we thought about the plans for the coming vacation. Oh before that ,one more task should be handled, we have to move to a new dormitary bulding.I may predict that i'll be exsausted after the movement.....
Furthermore i feel a bit excited ,cuz i'll be home soon.....  01 July Beijing Bicycle Fresh from the Chinese countryside, 17-year-old Guei is determined to make something of himself in the big city and tirelessly puts in grueling hours as a bicycle messenger to earn possession of his handsome mountain bike. Confused by something as routine as a revolving door, it is not surprising when Guei finds himself in a lavish Chinese spa mistakenly receiving a massage. These whimsical moments belie the film's serious message when Guei's very livelihood is threatened with the theft of his precious bicycle. Jian, a teenager whose values are undermined by peer pressure. A student at a private prep school, Jian's homelife seems in jarring contrast to his wealthier classmates. In an effort to impress them and one special girl, he steals money from his stepfather and buys Guei's bicycle at a flea market.
The paths of these very different teenagers cross when Guei-against all odds in this overpopulated city-finds his bicycle in Jian's possession and takes it back. Jian's gang of friends hunt down Guei . Despite brutal beatings, Guei's stubborn determination makes Jian's retrieval of the bicycle more complicated than he realized. Eventually, the unlikely duo reach an uneasy compromise and decide to share the bicycle.
Echoing themes from Vittorio DeSica's 1949 Italian classic The Bicycle Thief, this poignant drama uses the bicycle as a symbol for status in Chinese society. For Guei, it represents a means to survive, to make a decent wage, to rise above his peasant upbringing. Jian's bicycle, however, is akin to an American male's preoccupation with a red convertible-cool bike equals cool friends and the girl. A more superficial need, to be sure, but a desire strong enough to fuel thievery in the rebellious Jian. Indeed the backgrounds of Jian and Guei may seem disparate, but their primal drive to possess the bicycle-for all that it represents to them-binds them like bickering brothers. |
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