The Butterfly Lovers

Last Sunday,wehad our first practice of the violin concerto, The Butterfly Lovers(粱祝). It was really a beautiful song. As a matter of fact, it was originally a traditional Chinese drama about a love story between Liang(梁山伯) and Dru(祝英台).
Dru was a fabricated character that has her own thoughts. Despite the fact that she is female, that considered to be "inferer" than male at that time, she went to the "private school" (known as 私塾 in Chinese) and studied. In order not to be noticed thatshe was a girl, she wore men's clothings and pretend that she were male. It was in that private school did she meet Liang. They studied together. At the same time, they had a classmate named Ma(馬文才), who is the son of a powerful official. In the play he was a lazy and selfish person. Meanwhile, he didin't pay much attention on his learning. Dru didn't like him. However, her father forced Dru to marry Ma. When actually Dru liked Liang.
I'll let the ending for you readers to find out by your own. haha
To tell the truth, this drama is a constructive product of literature. It challenged the traditional idea of discrimanation on girls. At the same time, it also sang the praise of autonomic love. In short, it is a story worth reading. While the music is worth listening, too.

The Hunchback

The musical play, "The Hunchback" has been famous for long. I watched it once when I was in my second year of junior high. I like not only the story but also the music and the lyrics. There are always historial comments in the lyrics, which is very touching.


Below is the lyrics of one part, "Notre Dame De Paris act 2 song 1 Florence". The original edition was sung in French, the language in France, in which the story is taken place. But I translated it into English. (Actually, I can not read French. I whatched the Chinese translation and then translated it into Engligh.)


The song was sung by the archbishop and the poet.


p.s. I will write another paragragh or two to introduce the story, even the music later when I have time.




Notre Dame De Paris act2 song 1 Florence


archbishop: Tell me about Florence


And the renaissance


Tell me about Bramate


And the Hell of Dante


poet: In Florence they say


The world is round


And there may be other lands


In this world


Ships are sailing the oceans now


In search of the passage to India


archbishop: Luther will write the New Testament


And we're at the dawn of a divided world


poet: A certain Gutemberg


Has changed the face of the Earth


archbishop: With the presses in Nuremberg


That every second print


poet: Poems on paper


Speeches and tracts


together: Revolutionary ideas


That sweep everything else aside


poet: Small things outnumber big things


Thus literature will be the demise of architecture


archbishop: Schoolbooks will extinguish cathedrals


The Bible will destroy the church and men will kill God


This will destroy that


together: Ships are sailing the oceans now


In search of the passage to India


Luther will rewrite the New Testament


And we're at the dawn of a divided world


This will destroy that


This will destroy that

The Nobel Prize

At the beginning of this semester, our biology teacher already told us that we have to present a lecture concerning the Nobel Prize in teamwork. The subject that teacher gave us for our group is The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006. Also known as the RNAi. As a matter of fact, our group is group one and had already gave our presentation last week, as teacher's schedule. However, the biology teacher was not very fond of our presentation and asked us to redo it.
We went to the TA this afternoon for some more advices to our project. TA Tsai is considered to be a serious person and almost never say things that is "useless", let alone smile. We had also taken her as a person not easygoing. However, today we all changed our bias on her. We found out that she is a person who can listen to the students' ideas(athough never accepts them XD). She is very willing to discuss the functions or goals of every experiment scientists made. Truely she seldom reveals a friendly side, but that does not mean she does not pay any attention on our work. In contrast, she does a lot to make all of us to progress and do better jobs than ever before. Until today did we all thanked her from inside of our hearts.
Thank you, Miss Tsai.
Last but not least, may all of us do our best on next week's presentation.