Want some classic movies?

2013-2014 Favourite movie in mine
The King's Speech (2010) NR
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: David Seidler
Cast: King George VI(Colin Firth), Lionel Logue(Geoffrey Rush), Queen Elizabeth(Helena Bonham Carter)
Genres: Drama

The King's Speech has a good balance between seriousness and relaxation. It doesn't rush when it has to be slow to show how the story goes; it doesn't drag when it explains the process of main character's recovery. What's more, I admire the elaborate dialogue but it more than just the dialogue itself, the acting is just right with the dialogue. I watched it because it was shared by my friend.

Best scenes: I have a voice
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All-time favourite movie in mine
The intouchables (2011) R
Director: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Writer: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Cast: François Cluzet(Philippe), Omar Sy(Driss)
Genres: Drama, Comedy

The intouchables talks about the friendship between a white rich man Philippe, who is disable because of an accident and a black man Driss, who just served his jail time. Philippe hired Driss to take care of him, Driss did something ridiculous while taking care of Philippe, but that is what Philippe needs. 

Fate can bring us anywhere, bring us to anyone that makes you understand how's other life like. In our whole life, there must be some people that you treat them like everything but they treated you like nothing; and few people that teach us we are unique, we are deserved to be treated like a treasure in the world. I watched it on a steaming website.

Best scenes: "No feet, no sweets"
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Theme song(maybe?): September by Earth, Wind and Fire
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Recommended
Flight (2012) R
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: John Gatins
Starring: Whip Whitaker(Denzel Washington), Katerina Marquez(Nadine Velazquez)
Genres: Drama, Thriller

Flight is a story about courage, facing the faults that we have made. This is a movie that perfectly shows what the five stages of loss and grief. We may not save lives like what Whitaker did but his struggling to do the right thing just like how we struggle all the time. Whitaker did not get away from what he did, he served his sentence and faced what happened. I watched Flight in MLC cinema which located in Hong Kong, I was surprised by the scene when the plane crashed into a house.

Best scene: "Because I'm alcoholic"

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Proposal for a new magazine

Magazine's name: Textbooks in Bay Area

Type of magazine: Biweekly online magazine, application provided

Concept: There are no education magazines focusing on providing textbook-main information by now, and some websites only provide a small piece of information. If its information can get together, it would be a big help when students are finding textbooks.

Demographics
Age	16 or above to late 40s
Gender	All gender
Ethnicity	N/A
Income level	Low to medium

Psychographics
Attitudes	Openness, interested
Self-image	N/A
Self-identification	Young, lower income Middle aged, middle class
Interests	Education, social engagement, school life
Opinion	Positive/negative point of views of textbooks and educational system

How Textbooks in Bay Area better than other competitors:

1) The first to start this area of magazine.

2) Starting the magazine on the Internet enable us to receive readers' reactions and reflections, friendly links are provided that readers could refer back to the previous articles and books.

3) Application provides a easier way to access to the magazine.

Advertisers:

Chegg, CQ Press, De Anza/Foothill College, Quickly, Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations(SCNO)

Cover lines:

1) Who's the best? - E-textbook V.S Paperback Textbook

2) What's new? - College Rating System & TAG

3) Top 10 recommended books for primary, middle, high school and college students

4) New Practice Books Collections

5) New/Used Textbook bookstore location and contacts + School Ranking

*Long-term plan: 5) Introducing school and interviewing their principal/dean/teachers.

Life Teacher -- Books

Books are my friends and my teachers. I couldn't come up of any controversial books that moved the whole world but three influential books in my world are as the following:

Tuesdays with Morrie 

(Chinese: 最後14堂星期二的課)

Author: Mitch Albom

Recommended site: Quotes of Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie is my first life-long educational book. It talks about attitude of life, what is the meaning of life,  how to live life and how to make your life complete.

I cry like a baby every time, especially when I read about Morrie's death, I feel like I lost my best friend just like Mitch (another main character in this book). Morrie taught me how to love and be loved, taught me about what dignity is, even incurable illness torturing him, he didn't bend or break down, just live his life and cherish the time he had left. Live each day as if it is your last, embracing death and you will learn how to live.

It has changed, shaped my personalities. I used to think I wasn't belong anywhere till I read the story about Morrie, I awakened from the grey world. Learn to accept others walk into my heart, learn how to see the bright side of the world, learn to be a better person.

The Secret 

(Chinese: 秘密)

Author: Rhonda Byrne

The Secret constructed my belief, I don't mean belief as a religion aspect, just I started to believe in myself, I can do anything I want, I can be anything that I want to be, I am the only one can make my own wish come true.

'The world will follow your thoughts and make your wish comes true' it said, 'if you feel bad about what is going to happen, you are calling the world to make a bad wish to become reality, but if you hope for something good and the world will be the way you want.'

I was uncertain about myself, I doubted myself and felt shamed about myself. I questioned myself: how could you do this tiny thing wrong? Then, I met The Secret. It told me that I should try to affirm decision I make, even I will find them wrong ten years later , leave my regrets for the one from ten years later.

100 Steps to Failure

(Thai: 100 ขั้นตอนสู่ความล้มเหล/Chinese:100個照著做一定會失敗的方法)

Author/Illustrator: Teepagorn Wuttipitayamongkol

100 Steps to Failure teaches you how to be a loser. Bookstores and libraries full of books teach you to be successful, but you rarely see any book teach you about ways to failure and that's why Teepagorn wrote this book. 

It is comic book, presenting ideas in both illustrations and words like the picture showed on the left-hand side. This is step 41 to failure, it suggested "Before starting anything, first put yourself in a failure mood and thoughts and you shall feel the world is tumbling fall, you have nothing to do with the situation".

To me, this book is a reminder keeps me on track, not to be stray, reminding me to do better and I can do better than who I was.

(Credit goes to: http://www.imagesbuddy.com/)"Books are a uniquely portable magic"

Other photos by me.