Education system in Hong Kong

    The educational system in Hong Kong are based on the British style, starts with kindergarten, primary schools, secondary schools and move on to Universities. 

    It is often claimed that the education style in Hong Kong focus too much on memorising, which limited the development of student's creativity and imagination. This recite style of education however do have its advantages compare to other education system in terms of the quality of its production - student.

    Compare to students from other countries, Hong Kong student usually shows their ability in answering questions. Hong Kong student was trained to answer questions in a direct way, to fill in main points only. This is always a great advantage for Hong Kong people to do things effectively.   

    Secondly, student in Hong Kong started to learn both English and Chinese from 3 years-old. A good bilingual ability gives Hong Kong students stronger competitiveness with in the world, especially under the rapid growth of the chinese economy.

    

 

presentation review

First I have to say sorry about not taking any notes,すみません。 cos I am too focus in listening~*

So I just talk about those I can remember.

One thing surprised me is that not only young people in Japan watch anime, but also adult << of course not counting お宅~ I used to think that Japanese people don't really like watching anime though~
I still can really understand the differences between お宅andニートbtw, maybe I will ask Phillip san again for this~* Actually I do agree that the movie 電車男 do affect Hong Kong people's mind a lot, creating negative images to those お宅<< including me...... which might not be true.

Another thing that is quite interesting is none of the people filling in the questions have been to either Ocean park and Disneyland. Some people don't even know there is a Disneyland in hong kong@@ Unbelievable!!!!!

About suggestion though, I think we can try to catch people on the street and talk to them in Japanese~*
It should be interesting to see people's reaction XD 

personal pronoun project

日本語の一人称代名詞

Different to the language of other countries like Chinese and English,  modern Japanese use a lots of words to express the word 'I'. Although all these pronouns give the same meaning, we can see from these words a person's character, personality and as well social states. This is mainly because of these pronouns at the same time being 役割語, which are words that only a particular type of people say, give us the image of the person's character. This is very useful in comics help in state clear each character's personality for example like ぼく(僕) mainly use for young kid and おれ(俺) for strong man. As I believe our classmate can find lots of these examples from books, I would like to view these Japanese pronouns from a different way-- Music.

ロックスター galileo galilei

青い春の 色に染まり 宇宙について考える

えっとそれは 君を夢を大事に出来るかってこと

抱え込んで かき消して これくらいなら耐えられるよ

消し粕は 張子みたいなスカスカの時間に流された

言葉は一人歩いて 弱音に転んでいく

振りまわした白旗が 君の目に映るはずもないや はずもないや

ロックスター 青臭いにおい

ステージの上にいない僕らわ

ロックスター 目に焼きついた

君の姿を信じていたいよ

逆らうかもしれないから 巣立ちの朝の準備して

せめてギターとそれから君の歌を持っていくよ

つま先も見えない日々 泥にまみれた道さえも

愛して歌った君に 僕の声が届くように

落ち着かない足が重なって離れた

走り出したその先を想い描いていた

ロックスター 歪んだ音

ステージの上に上る僕らは

ロックスター 目に焼きついた

風景を見渡して

ロックスター タンバリン持って

ステージの上で祈る僕らは

ロックスター 目に焼きついた

自分の姿信じていたいよ

This song is talking about a group of younger want to be a rock star, and personal pronoun used in this song is ぼく(僕). This pronoun work as a important role in this song building up the image of young people, as well their feeling of not sure about the future. 

What if they use おれ(俺) instead of ぼく(僕)? 

The feeling of the song will be totally different, show no more the unsure and will not deliver the feeling to the listener.

大丈夫 

Hilcrhyme

魔法の言葉を君に贈ろう

どんな問いにもそれで即答

安らぎを与え、不安を消し

満たす 君のその孤独も

It's alright 心配無いぜ

ほんの小さな事さ<br />

気にも留めなくていいから

ほらねいつだって隣は俺がいる

でもどうしてもシコリが取れない

時に不安がまた君を駆り立てる

曇り空隠したように見えぬ明日へ

離すな と 差し出した手

握ったならばいいか?言うぜ?

※俺が「大丈夫」って言えば君はきっと大丈夫で

もし世界中が君の否定をしても

俺が「大丈夫」って言えば君はきっと大丈夫で

俺だけが世界中の否定をしていよう※

君もよく使うその言葉は

間違えて使っているようだな

本当は辛いのに辛くないふりを

して言うの まるで相槌みたいに

心配、迷惑をかけたくないと

無理をしてる君を見るのは辛いよ

積み重なったそれが顔に見えた時

張りつめた糸が切れた

泣き崩れてしまったあの夜も

辛い過去の思い出は窓の向こう

抱き寄せてまた耳元で囁こう

いいか?言うぜ

(※くり返し)

everythings gonna be alright

それはきっと私のせいと

君はまた一人で抱える

声にならない声が聞こえてる

「痛いよ」って

荷物、重たいよね?半分持つよ

I don't care

心配してくれてありがとう

でも俺は「大丈夫」です。

何も無いように気丈に振る舞い

人目を避けて一人うずくまり

聴きだそうとする事も難しい

そんな強さあまりにも辛い

世界を変えてみせる俺の言葉で

届かせる君の奥の奥底まで

何度でも言うぜ 君は決して

間違ってないと

俺が「大丈夫」って言えば君はきっと大丈夫で

もし世界中が君の否定をしても

俺が「大丈夫」って言えば君はきっと大丈夫で

辛いならその度言おう何度でも

そして世界は君に告げる

「あなたはきっと大丈夫」って

心を開いた君に世界中が愛をくれる

もう言わなくてもいいね　コレで最後「大丈夫」と

戻った笑顔　そのままの君で居てよ　ずっと

This is another song on the other hand talking about a man giving confident to his girlfriend.

We can see a lot of おれ(俺) in this song, but why?

This is because 俺 is a very masculine pronoun that shows a man being confident to himself, and this can give a more strong feeling when saying 大丈夫to someone.
One of the interesting point in this song is that in ''それはきっと私のせいと'' He use the pronoun わたし(私). I think this is because at that point he is apologising, which 俺 is not suitable.


In conclusion, personal pronoun not only state the personality of the character, but as well show the feelings. However pronoun might change even on the same person base on different situation like apologise or order. 


For me, I think I will use 僕 as my personal pronoun maybe because I am not a aggressive person.

Japanese Geography Project

This Chinese new year holiday me and my family just went for a trip to Japan Kyushu（九州）.

Our destination included Ibusuki（指宿市）, Miyazaki（宮崎県）and Kagoshima （鹿児島市）.

 Kyushu is the third largest island, which located in the south-west part of Japan. the weather is so much like what we have in Hong Kong,  relatively warm in winter and often rain in summer.  

Ibusuki（指宿市）was the first place we went to during the trip, located in the very south part of Kyushu. Ibusuki is very famous in hot spring（温泉) especially the sand bath(砂蒸し風呂) that can only found there. Ngazakibana( 長崎鼻）was the south end of the whole Japan, which facing the pasific ocean. ikedaco（池田湖）is the largest lake in in kyushu, which was famous that a monster called イッシー living inside it.

Miyazaki（宮崎県）was as well in the south part of Japan, which one of the famous jinja utojinku（鵜戸神宮）was located there. we as well went to the heiwadaicoen（平和台公園）which a huge tower heiwanoto（平和の塔）was built in there. Quite interesting that is when you crap your hand in front of the tower you will hear a bip sound come out from the tower.

Kagoshima （鹿児島市）was the last place we went to during the trip. It is next to a huge vocaino sakurajima（桜島火山）that we even can see smoke coming out from there. We can see the full view of Kagoshima city as well the Sakurajima on the shiroyamacoen(城山公園）, just like the peak we have in Hong Kong that every tourist will go there. 

休みに鹿児島へ遊びましだ〜

午後二時と着〜

天気わとてもいいです〜

僕と母さんの写真です。

初めて浴衣お着ましだ~ 

宮崎神社

鹿児島+桜島

平和台park

この神木わすごい高いです！！
何か八百年くらい生きだらしい。

大い山ですね〜

煙が出だ！！！

この大きい大根わ桜島の特産だで〜

I AM COMING~!!!!!

2-2-2011 6:50am
On the way to airport~
My writing project 2 gonna in real time bases this time
(holpfully I can get Internet connection there~)
BTW anybody know how can I upload photo here vir IPhone??
couldn't do it directly from my phone lol....
OKEY~ I AM ON MY WAY COMING 鹿児島~~~~*

Japanese writing projects

This is the rubber I have in my pen case.
We can see it is written as けしごむ on the cover.
Normally it should be written kanji+Katakana+hiragana style消しゴム.
the reason why muji has put it like this is because of it's brand style of simple and local Japanese culture.