Creep

One of my favorite Chinese bands played this song in their concert. Then I found the original one. It's a great song, very touching.

5 Year Old: Shinchan

Recently there are some hot posts on Chinese version of Facebook, Renren, talking bout " what you do when 5 year-old". The most agreeable one is " Shinchan", the Japanese mango.

Although this show was later not allowed in China for its inappropriate content for young kids, we had it. Not to judge its impact on us, now when I watch it, it still gives us lots of laughter

Girl with One Eye

I know it's a little bit creepy, but I love Florence's powerful voice.

Just a Dream: Yoko Tanji

I grew up with Manga( Japanese comics). I once had a dream to be a Manga artist in future. In my room there still piles of sketches I draw in my elementary school. Sometimes I complain about I have no romantic dream, then I realize I had it before, but I gave it up. 

These pics are all from Japanese artist Yoko Tanji. Her style is very unique to me. She creates her works using templates for computers, then adds various effects to her images, creating a surreal feel. 

It's difficult for me to refuse unique art whose major characters are figures.

Rolling In the Deep

I know it's old, but Rolling In the Deep is my favorite English song, and I love Adele's voice. This one is Linkin Park's version. It's totally a different experience.

Research Paper

For the second research, the subject first came to my mind was Chinese education system. But then I decided to to Wall Street.
National Gaze actually was my first research paper. Although I did do research in my IEI class in Ball State, this one was my first time putting effort in it. I don't know how's it, but I tried my best. And I learned a lot after the whole process, especially I even begin to plan traveling to Vietnam in summer.
I think doing research is really a good way to absorbing information, organizing it, and present it in one' own way. Writer's mind is immersed in his subject during the process, which makes me cannot refuse to accept those information. Although the process is tough, and sometimes painful, I feel fulfilment seeing the papers coming out from printer.
So for the second one, I wanna do something I'm not familiar with, but I want to learn more about it. My major is Econ, and I'm really interested in it. Since I came to U.S. I'm curious about this land for every thing. I hope I can learn as much as possible here, and bring it back to my country, and do my contribution.

Gunshot Experience

Friday there was gunshot happened around University Avenue. How sadly it is I live right there in a small apartment alone. I got really terrified. And then my friend picked me up to her house. We were all getting intensified, cause although before we came to U.S. we knew it was gun free country, this was our first time really witness it.
We were scared, and thought randomly how this could happen to us. Then we went to Youtube to check the campus gunshots videos to even scare ourselves more. We all signed that we should came back to China, cause there we still had the chance to fight back the knife, but we couldn't fight back the bullet here.
However until long time joked about this, we came to the conclusion that if it really happened to us, then that's our destiny (taking great advantage of religion).
I can not stop crazy things happen to me. At least I can reassure myself.............

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh:

I just love work of Impressionism. 
When I traveled to New York and Chicago, I had the chance to see the real paintings hanging in the museums. I was just amazed by their heavy thick use of color, and its great compose of every brush stroke. 
And of course Vincent van Gogh is one of the greatest impressionists.  


          




                                                                 Vincent 

                                                                          Joanna Wang

starry, starry night
paint your palette blue and gray
look out on a summer's day
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul

shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and daffodils
catch the breeze and the winter chills
in colors on the snowy linen land

starry, starry night
flaming flowers that brightly blaze
swirling clouds in violet haze
reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain
weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand