exams and things to complete in July and August 2014

About my exams - I am waiting at 3 last results. The rest is all passed.
Waiting and wainting, kind of nervous waiiting. Unpleasant.

And I'm completing my plan.

to learn Chinese as always

book:  A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

book: A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold
book: A Feast for Crows: Shadows of Death
book: A Feast for Crows: Web of Intrigues
book: A Dance with Dragons Part 1
book: A Dance with Dragons Part 2
book: Anna Karenina (once I started but dropped... this time properly from the beginning till the end)

book: Norvegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (finally)
book: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
book: Doughter of the River by Ying Hong (random chinese book)

movie "Maleficent"
movie "Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier"
movie "X-Men: Days of Future Past"
movie "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"
movie ”Harakiri/Seppuku” (1962)
movie “House of Flying Daggers” (catching up the wuxia classic)

also anime series “Katekyo Hitman Reborn” (currently 52/203 episodes)

筷子 chopsticks... and holiday plans...

Yesterday I have bought a pair of wonderful wooden chopsticks. My very first, haha. With help of youtube videos and Internet I'm learning how to use them.

筷子 kuàizi

Today is saturday, the weather is good, I had a nice dinner.
Everything is cool... Yet I would like to see following movies, novelties I missed:
- "Maleficent"
- "Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier"
- "X-Men: Days of Future Past"
- "The Amazing Spider-Man 2"

And to read following books:
- A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow
- A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold
- A Feast for Crows: Shadows of Death
- A Feast for Crows: Web of Intrigues
- A Dance with Dragons Part 1
- A Dance with Dragons Part 2
- Anna Karenina

But I have to study to my exam from English literature. A lot of materials. I like literature but suddennly, when it's an abligatory thing... haha, i have to take a grip on myself!

And those pleasures above... I have to wait until holidays. Holiday plans! But that's all western things... Not good. I have to decide on something eastern.

so... after some thinking I decided to watch and read:

Films:
- Harakiri/Seppuku (1962)
- House of Flying Daggers

Books:
- Norvegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Doughter of the River by Ying Hong (random chinese book)

final exam and future adventure

29 may I wrote a final chinese test. And day after I already know the result! I passed.
I thought I won't becouse I had a nasty flu (I still have, that day I came only to write this exam). Somehow I managed to pass.

Now a journey to China next semester became a little bit more real. Suddenly we are told to do a lot of formalities "for yesterday". Crazy time.

Right now I just want to stop coughing...

Polish, English, Chinese

It may drive you crazy. Polish, English, Chinese - all three have different counting unit system...

(i'll write about it later, i just don't want to forget the topic to write)

100 = bǎi 百 
1000 = qiān 千 
10,000 = wàn 万 
100,000,000 = yì 亿

HSK A1

• Well, today let's check the requirements of HSK A1.

According to Wiki-God... mostly quick oveview for me...

1. Part od Speech...

a) Adverbs 

✓ negation of yǒu 有 is méiyǒu 没有 

✓ the "all" dōu 都 adverb (subject+都+verb phrase OR subject+都+adjective, also dōu 都 as "both"  e.g. 我们 两 个 都 爱 你)

✓ the "also" yě 也 adverb (also/too meaning... subject +也+verb phrase... then, subject+也+adverb+adjective, 你也很高... remember 我也是)

b) Conjuctions

✓ expressing "and" with hé 和 (nouns only, noun1+和+noun2

✓ offering choices with háishi 还是 (subject+verb+optionA+还是+optionB)

c) Numbers

✓ measure word ge 个 (number+个+noun, can be omitted when only 1, e.g. 你是个好老师。)

✓ structure od dates
✓ structure of days of the week (sunday = 星期日/星期天
上个星期三 last wednesday
这个星期三 this wednesday
下个星期三 next wednesday
我每个星期三  every wednesay)
✓ structure of numbers
一百 = 100
qiān 千 = 1000
wàn 万 = 10,000
yì 亿 = 100,000,000
✓ structure of times
diǎn zhōng 点钟 = o'clock
上午 = a.m.
下午 = p.m
一刻 = 15 minutes
bàn 半 = half hour, e.g. wǔ 下午两点半 14:30

d) Particles

e) Verbs - auxiliary verbs

f) Verbs - verb phrases

• 1 Parts of Speech
  • 1.1 Adverbs
  • 1.2 Conjunctions
  • 1.3 Numbers
  • 1.4 Particles
  • 1.5 Verbs
    • 1.5.1 Auxiliary verbs
    • 1.5.2 Verb phrases
• 2 Grammatical Structures
  • 2.1 Basics
  • 2.2 Question Forms
• 3 Comparisons
  • 3.1 Numbers

Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan

I have always avoided wuxia movies... until now.
Brucee Lee's movies are serious, Jackie Chan's movies are funny.

my short recommended watchlist for those who want to catch up in martial arts movies
1973 龙争虎斗 Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee)
1979 醉拳  Drunken Master (Jackie Chan)
1988 七小福 Qī xiǎo fú Painted Faces (hardcore Beijing opera training)

Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures from 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony on 27 March 2005.

Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures (in fact includes 103 films)
24 films from Mainland China(11 from pre-1949 and 13 from post-1949)
61 from Hong Kong
16 from Taiwan
and 2 co-productions.


http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058422245/