I am Legend

A kind of lethal virus which is supposed to be the cure of cancer breaks out in 2009 . This mutant virus kills 90% of humans and over 9% people survive but are infected . When a person is infected , he/she will become extremly aggressive , lose rationality , and be afraid of UV radiation ( they will painfully die if be shone by the sun ) . So these infected people - almost look like monster , have to hide in dark buildings everyday until sunset . Less than 1% of humankind is immue to the virus , but were hunted by the infected as food , thus living in great danger .

Robert Neville ( Will Smith ) is the last healthy human staying in New York . He has no idea weather there are other normal people in the world or he is the only healthy survivor . His family died in the chaotic evacuation , leaving only one dog - Sam accompanying him . Everyday , Robert goes out with Sam in daytime for food and daily necessities ; everyday , he waits for a response to his continuous recorded radio broadcasts , expecting any uninfected survivors come to meet him ; everyday , he tries to find the treatment from his his own blood ( cause Robert is immue to the virus ) ; everyday , he hides himself home at night from been found by infected guys ; everyday , he lives in solitude , torturing by loneliness , talking only with mannequins he sets up . Until one day , 2 other healthy people finally show up ...

This is really a great movies that touch me deeply in the heart in many scenes . It presents the reaction and mentality of one person who lives in solitude for more than 3 years without cantact with anyone . Robert is brave , he chooses to live even he has to be alone - maybe for whole life . When his only friend - Sam is infected and becomes aggressive , Robert has no choice but kill her personally , with deep sarrow . But Robert still has fragile side . When seeing him break down , I felt so sad , too . The extrem loneliness is frightened . I'm not sure I can handle it like Robert when facing this kind of situation . It must need great courage and mental toughness .

It's a great movie , also exciting , because you have no idea when those monster like people will jump out with terrible scream in a sudden . After watching it , I feel so lucky and grateful that I can stay here with all my friends and families , other than being alone .

UK species 'must move to survive'

Some UK wildlife species will have to find new habitats as climate change causes temperatures to rise, the Wildlife Trusts have warned.

Animals, birds and plants will have to move north and westwards to find suitable habitats, the trusts say.
Species affected will include the dormouse and some bats and butterflies.
The Wildlife Trusts says that while some species are already moving, development and loss of habitat is preventing movement for others.
The voluntary organisation is trying to link up natural areas of woodland, heathland and pasture so creatures like pipistrelle and barbastelle bats and sand lizards can extend their habitats.
Wildlife made a similar move in search of food and homes following the last Ice Age, the trusts said.
John Everitt, the organisation's head of rebuilding biodiversity said: "This time there are unexpected barriers: cities, motorways and expanses of hostile countryside.
"We need to ensure that we give our wildlife room to move or its future is threatened."

New arrivals

Some animals are already extending their territories and moving to new parts of the country previously beyond their range, Mr Everitt said.
New species are also arriving, attracted by the UK's changing climate.
The hazel dormouse is one of the threatened species. It needs reasonably-sized blocks of hazel wood to survive but such areas are increasingly threatened by fragmentation, the trusts said.
Dormice need linked woodland to allow them to move between habitats, as they refuse to cross open ground.
Upland birds and animals such as the mountain hare which could migrate uphill may become isolated at the mountain tops, the trusts said.
A lack of snow could threaten birds such as the ptarmigan which turns white in winter to hide from predators.

The meaning of Christmas to me

When I was little , Christmas meant I can have a special gift from Santa and a happy holiday .
Christmas meant happiness then .
And now , I have grown up .
There's no gift and holiday on Christmas ...
So ... it means nothing to me ...
Oh , that's not true !
I'm just kidding :P

Everytime when Christmas comes , Taipei will be turned into a very beautiful city .
Christmas tree is everywhere in fornt of stores .
There are Christmas ornaments all over filling up the city .
The colorful and sparkling light from little bulbs prettify the whole street under the night .
Even it is cold December , red color which is high and low warm people up .
I guess I can smell the happiness in the air , and it feels like something good is going to happen .
I love this atmosphere sooooo much !
Friends will send Christmas card or candies to each other , and sometimes we play a game called " little angle " .
The most important is - my brother's birthday is on Christmas Eve .
We families will gather celebrating for him .
That makes Christmas even warmer .



Christmas is full of joy :)
So , as for me , Happiness is the meaning of Christmas .

National Treasure - Book of Secrets

If you have ever seen National Treasure I , you must go and see National Treasure II !
At the begining , we were afraid that II would be terrible - just like many other movies which were no planed for a sequal at first , but this one is great !

The protagonist is still Ben Gates ( Nicolas Cage ) .
This time , his great-great grandfather, Thomas Gates , a Civilian Hero , was accused the mastermind behind the Lincoln assassination .
It's such a huge humiliation to Ben's father , since he believed that the story about Tomas Gates he had heard from his grandfather is definitely true - Tomas can't be the head of conspiracy .
As a result , Ben set out to prove the innocence of his great-great grandfather .

The polt is compact and has no awkward moment .
In order to find the clues from Book of Secrets - a book which contains documents collected by Presidents for Presidents' eyes only , Ben even kidnapped the President !
This movie combines exciting adventure and a large amount of humor .
Riley - Ben's friend , is really a funny person , who is smart but always say something stupid making people have belly laugh !
With this kind of character like Riley , the whole movie becomes more interesting .

Of course , the process they were finding clues is also splendid .
I enjoy watching them solve those tough riddles .
When the answer was found in a smart way , I always marveled " how amazing ! " .

National Treasure II is a good movie worth watching , recommending it to everyone :)

p.s. Nicolas Cage is going to have no hair , my god !

Celebration Dinner

We went for celebration dinner tonight , since we got the second place in drama competition .
How can this dinner be so high and exciting ?

When eating our spaghetti in the restaurant , someone suggested that we can have a game called " king hour ".
We used 11 poker - from No.1 to No 10 and a king , sending out to everyone .
The one who got king can command two persons to do everything .
For example , the king may order No.1 kisses No.2 ( but king doesn't know who is No.1 and No.2 at first ) .
It was so exiting , especially when a boy and a girl was told to do something such as kissing , nose touching nose , two persons eating one noodle !!

We also saperated ourselves into 2 groups and have a competition .
The charade was so fun , but it ended in a tie .
In order to find out which team was the winner , we had a PK game .
Each team sent 4 persons out , and another team had to guess that these 4 who drunk the super spicy water .
It's a kind of like acting trials !!
Everyone was good at acting !! It's hard to figure out that he/her did drink it or not !!
( No wonder we got the runner-up , ha ha :P )
All people were extremely high and crazy !



So happy tonight :)
We had a great time .
It felt so good to get together with drama guys .
God knows how much I like these people !!

Rising seas 'to beat predictions'

BBC News
Monday, 17 December 2007


The world's sea levels could rise twice as high this century as UN climate scientists have previously predicted, according to a study.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change proposes a maximum sea level rise of 81cm (32in) this century. But in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers say the true maximum could be about twice that: 163cm (64in). They looked at what happened more than 100,000 years ago - the last time Earth was this warm. The results join other studies showing that current sea level projections may be very conservative. Sea level rise is a key effect of global climate change. There are two major contributory effects: expansion of sea water as the oceans warm, and the melting of ice over land. In the latest study, researchers came up with their estimates by looking at the so-called interglacial period, some 124,000 to 119,000 years ago, when Earth's climate was warmer than it is now due to a different configuration of the planet's orbit around the Sun. That was the last time sea levels reached up to 6m (20ft) above where they are now, fuelled by the melting of ice sheets that covered Greenland and Antarctica.

'Robust' work
The researchers say their study is the first robust documentation of how quickly sea levels rose to that level. "Until now, there have been no data that sufficiently constrain the full rate of past sea level rises above the present level," lead author Eelco Rohling, of Britain's National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, said in a statement. Rohling and his colleagues found an average sea level rise of 1.6m (64in) each century during the interglacial period. Back then, Greenland was 3C to 5C (5.4F to 9F) warmer than now - which is similar to the warming period expected in the next 50 to 100 years, Dr Rohling said. Current models of ice sheet activity do not predict rates of change this large. However, they also do not include many of the dynamic processes already being observed by glaciologists, the researchers said. "The average rise of 1.6m per century that we find is roughly twice as high as the maximum estimates in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and so offers the first potential constraint on the dynamic ice sheet component that was not included in the headline IPCC values," explained Dr Rohling. Last year, a separate study found sea level rise projections could be under-estimating the impact of human-induced climate change on the world's oceans. Stefan Rahmstorf, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and colleagues plotted global mean surface temperatures against sea level rise, and found that levels could rise by 59% more than current forecasts.


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Drama contest

The drama contest is came on on Sunday .
We arrived Taipei school area early in the morning in order to have enough time preparing .
That was a wonderful day - great weather , good mood , everything's so fine .
One of the most interesting part is when the actors making up for their characters .
Upper classmates applied so much cosmetics to actors face , making them ... haha .. looked a kind of funny .
But this is necessary , or the audiences can't see their face clearly .
We also repaired our stage properties , using a great deal of adhesive tapes to firm them .

At 3:45 , we stepped on the stage .
Light on , and light off .
When I backed to myself , we were already bathing in a brust of clap and cheer .
Suddenly , all the painstaking seemed gone , leaving only happinss .
We had done our best playing a perfect drama , so wheather be awarded the prize or not , we were always the best in our mind .

When waiting for other departments' performances over , we went to ECO office eating something . Rounding a turn , suddenly everyone started to say his/her feeling during this drama contest . It's so warm that everybody laught happily and we looked like a big family .

Due to this competition , I met lots of people , and we had become very good friends . In addition , we drama guys were so united that really moved me . I'm so glad I did join this activity , hence can have such a fantastic experience .



Oh ... I forget to say something important ...
That is ...
We ... Eco ... got the second place in this competition ultimately !!