fire alarm disturbance

Just a few seconds ago the fire alarm came out again!

If being right remembered, it is the sixth or seventh time the fire alarm ringed within five days.

It is quite uncommon, I think, really interesting and strange.

Each time the alarm comes out, my heart is hit by its really loud sound which gives out the sound near your ears. It is not comfortable at all.

In fact, it is better to sound during the day time rather than midnight. At around 2 o'clock a.m. last Saturday and today the fire alarm came out seemingly suddenly which shocked me up immediately.

NOW COMES THE CUE:

fire alarm reasons

Not only the sensitive alarm impresses me a lot, but the reason why it comes out.

Sometimes one forgets to close door of toilet or to open the windows when he/she has a bath.

Or boys smoke in the room. Or someone cooks in the room rather than in the kitchen.

In a word, the causes of fire alarm ringing are all that could be avoided with cautiousness. We all know the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"!

before interview

All I want to say now about the radio assignment one - interview - is I am very very lucky!

Last Thursday morning when I waked up at nine and began to listen to LBC, a conversation programme attracted me. The listeners called the radio station and discussed lively about a consultation launched by government into expansion at Heathrow. An idea came into my mind suddenly that it was a good story to do with my interview assignment. However by then I had no good idea about the interview.

Thanks to Deborah about telling me a rational group called HACAN which is set to be against Heathrow expansion. Maybe it is an organisation the international students including me will never know about unless local people tell us.

After searching internet for HACAN, I was very happy that there was certain press office. By sending emails as well as making phone calls, my interview application was accepted soon and the time was arranged either by the end of Saturday. How lucky I am!

All I wish now is the interview goes well tomorrow morning! I have already get rid of nervous after dinner. Hope lucky goes with me as well tomorrow!

for more information on Heathrow expansion, see BBCNews24, ThisIsLondon, EveningStandard etc.
picture comes from EveningStandard website

package making exercise

Last week we did package exercise in radio class.

It was all about selecting clips and rewriting news, I think. Deborah gave us there pieces of radio which focused on the same issues but with different presenters as well as interviews. Each lasted five minutes or so.

All we needed to to is to understand the story first, and selected two to there clips twenty-five to thirty seconds long and arranged them with our own cue, opening, and links into a new radio package available on air.

The task itself was not hard, acturally, but to make the news clear to myself which seemed not very easy for me within a certain time. In fact, the news was a complex one invovled political issues.

To make clear a foreign country's political officals' interesing relationships was hard. To make clear what was exactly going on was hard. To make clear what interviewees said via listening to the radio was hard.

In a word, my enlish is not as good as I need! There is still way to go!

high-waisted trousers come back

Here's the "stand-up & vox pop" exercise for the radio class. The news itself is somewhat interesting.

Many many years ago, when we were children, we only knew and wore one kind of toursers - high-waisted.

low-waisted poped the last 10 years

As we grown up, a more fashion style came into our view that was low-waisted trousers. It has been part of the fashion mainstream for more than ten years.

Actually, for the last six or seven years, I have almost been wearing low-waisted trousers as most of my girl friends. The reason is simple - it is comfortable to wear.

This Monday when I did the vox pop asking my classmates which kind they prefer. Most of the girls and boys chose low-waisted. The reasons were nearly the same.

high-waisted come back

But the high-waisted has come back now. Someone who truly don't like low-waisted are happy.

What they don't understand is that it's hard to believe low-waisted trousers have been a mainstay of our wardrobe for 10 years.

Is high-waisted trousers a farewell to the muffin top? We don't konw.

However, one principle everyone agrees with is one should wear what fits his/her figure.

more infromation, see BBCNewsMagazine

a terrible fire accident

Yesterday as I went to central London to have Polylang Japanese class, I've got an impressive piece of news from free newspaper handed out in the street , which was a family with 7 people died in a fire.

They were a couple and their five children, one of whom was a baby living in Omagh, Northern Ireland. It was really a disaster, I believe. It was a pity that the fire was too strong for firefighters to save the family.

What impressed me the most is this kind of terrible accident could happened in a developed country which I thought only in poor country before.

See more information, please go to EveningTimesOnline

doctor of law accused Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution, directed by Oscar winner An Li, is quite popular around China and Asia at the moment.

An Li won his first Oscar Award for the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 2000 which one opened a world wide market for Chinese HongFu films significantly, and his first Oscar Award of Best Director because of Brokeback Mountain 2005.

Lust, Caution shown in China

Lust, Caution is the first film after his winning the Best Director award.

As a result it really has been drawing people's attention since selecting actress as a leading lady, until now it has been run for two weeks in mainland China as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan.

There is about seven minutes sex shot that has been deleted when shown in mainland China.

Accuse

After watching this 'incomplete' film a doctor of law of Politics and Law University of China accused the movie theater where he watched it and National Broadcasting and TV Bureau.

He complained that this 'incomplete edition' has encroached upon consumer's right to fair deal and to know, and the Bureau failed to set up system of movie graduation which violates social and public interest.

Accuse makes no sense

However, in my opinion, it is just because he wants to be known by making use of the film.

Because what he did seems to make no sense in China.

This kind of deleting some shot happens very often and normally when films shown in mainland China.

And people has arguing for this for many many years. But what makes him differing from the others is he accused.

picture comes from IMDB website

first online journalism class

With the 7Th week coming, the first online journalism class taught by David comes in this morning.

He is a handsome and funny guy who will teaches us for next six weeks.

We are going to learn some basic knowledge about the internet, as well as how to write online news, how to manage blogs, how to set up a website etc.

Actually as a journalism student, i have not at all journalism experience before.

I'm some what good at technical things cause my major was computer science and technology.

So we hope we can have a good time during the class. see u!

about David

Principles review - week 6

What a shame that I did not take class Oct. 31 either because of shooting stories which was much more unfamiliar for me.

Six weeks, ten days, sixty hours, that for the first time brought me closer to journalism field from my undergraduate science and engineering courses.

Recollecting the opening days of my study, I’ve got moved now.

Flying for ten whole hours from Asia to Europe, I was thinking and expecting learning what I really wanted during the flight.

And finally I could touch them. I could be involved in.

However, I really met some difficulties at the beginning, as I sent you an email telling about my confusion and worry.

At that time I felt myself just like a completely outsider without any confidence in the module, not only for the reason that I learnt computer science and technology before, but my work experience at a newspaper of my university, if it could be called work, was more like kids’ games which were not at all professional.

But fortunately, I adjusted myself to this new environment step by step along with classes.