Invictus,简单来说是代表着无敌的意思。会如此为这部电影命名的原因,是因为在电影里面Nelson Mandela(Morgan Freeman饰演)为了激励Springboks队的领军队长——François Pienaar(Matt Damon饰演)而相赠诗词的题目。其实这部电影在很多地方已经上映甚久,吊诡的是虽然有大牌在手,电影院却选择只是上映一个星期,同样由Clint Eastwood执导的Changeling相比之下就显得好命很多。
Recently our English for Science unit’s lecturer posted an issue about e-learning at the college’s “e-learning” system (which is actually a blackBoard Learning System that is also used by many other colleges) and we are required to write a response to that issue. She also provided a link to a page that clearly explains about “e-learning”. Until now, I have really no idea on this issue since I am still reading that webpage while I am posting this.
If only looking at my college’s so called “e-learning” system, I really don’t like it much because it is not as useful as I expected. Blackboard Learning System is no doubt a good system handling “e-learning” things but it is not being well used at my college. I myself prefer looking for information at another websites rather than the e-learning system because there are almost nothing provided by our lecturer through the system except for some lecture notes / tutorial questions / assignment questions etc. I have a friend studying at another college and I heard from him that he can get a lot more things through their college BlackBoard System besides notes / assignments etc. And the participation of his lecturer is much better compared to my college. I found that sometimes it is very rare to see any lecturer to join in our discussion in the discussion board and probably this is why Blackboard System is not popular in my college.
But these are only some problems that only occur in my college, and this doesn’t mean that they will happen in other colleges as well. Therefore these cannot be the only points in my response to the issue, *sigh*. Now I would need to start thinking what to write and post them this Friday since I do not have much spare time because the units I took in this semester are quite tough (at least 4 credit hours) and I am definitely don’t wish the same thing happened as the “Introductory to Discrete Mathematics” unit last semester.
我发现自己年纪越大,耐心就被磨得越薄,以前动辄等个三两个小时可以无怨无悔,但是刚才只等了半小时整个人火都上来,比熬夜煲连续剧还要更上火。是说,只是个很casual的茶聚,为什么要把自己弄得如此不开心?后来其实自己想了一下,我是不是做了什么东西纵容了身边的人可以很放心地迟到,或者是我根本没有那种存在感?到了最后,与其因为别人而让自己不高兴,我是不是该做点什么?
如果倪匡倪老對滿天神佛的認知,就是外星人的話,那麼電影裡來自外星的超人大概就是最接近的印象。懷著鋼鐵之軀刀槍不入,一身神力舉重若輕,還能自由翱翔無邊天際,這是多少人夢寐以求的神力?只是套句用到爛掉的台詞——能力越大責任也就越大,有時候這一些超能力是不是一定值得一個人不惜任何代價去追求呢?對於在各方面明顯高人不止「一等」的人,社會大眾又該是要如何去應對、去接納或著去包容?
如果乡音考古的活动从来没有进行过,搞不好10年后你问下一代:“你的乡音是什么啊?”,得到的答案会是:“什么是乡音?能吃的吗?”。其实这篇文章早就在星期五就该写了,只是一直到现在都不知道要怎么写。还是从一个问题开始下手好了,有多少人知道自己祖籍哪里?有多少人知道自己的祖籍方言是什么?其实这不关什么那个模糊的所谓一个马来西亚的东西(那个才要问可以吃的吗?),认识自己的祖先是从何而来,跟到了最后你自己在什么地方落脚不一定是相互抵触的,不是吗?