Wednesday 21 March 2012

FU is a Chinese word for good fortune, good luck

FU (a Chinese character meaning happiness ) is one of the oldest Chinese characters . It encompasses the concepts of health, wealth, safety, kindness, satisfaction,harmony, etc; all of which are what people expect and strive for .
FU involves five kinds of happiness including a good fortune, a long life, a health body, a smooth journey and a good mood. Above all, a health body is the most important because without health, one cannot enjoy any happiness at all.
FU is made up of four Chinese characters Yi ,Yi , Kou , Tian which respectively means clothing, food and land . It indicates that shelter and land represent wealth. With adequate food and clothing, people can enjoy happiness .
Safety is what people expect for smooth journey in life , without which one cannot enjoy happiness.
Only when one shows kindness to others, can she obtain hope for life. Kindness is like the gold of life, more of which will bring happiness and beauty to life.
It's vital for one to learn to be satisfied because an optimistic and satisfied person can live a happier life and enjoy longer happiness.
Harmony is the ideal state of happiness and represents people's spiritual pursuit for happiness .




Tuesday 6 March 2012

My learning experience at Morley College

I 've been studying at Morley college for nearly two years.I've enjoyed my course with my tutor and my class-mates.

Morley College is an open, friendly college with it's variety of courses that provides. I choose ESOL level 1 English and photography.Today, I would like to sharing my learning experience at Morley College with you.

Firstly, let me talk about my course that very interesting and useful.  The course consists of English writing, reading, listening and speaking .It also contain photography. Last year I passed all exams fortunately.

Secondly, I am pleased to say. I learnt a lot at the College.Not only English but also the photography and the IT. We learnt how to use the IT to improved our photography.It's a great help and very useful for me. Sometimes we go out to learn how to take  good photos. For example, Landscape, Portrait....
Most of time, we use IT to do class work.It really help us to improve our writing and reading skills.Now, I can speak to people confidently. I can use my writing skills to write in my blog, share my photography experience with people.

Morley College provides many courses that suitable everyone to choose.I have an opportunity to choose my right courses in my retirement.Thanks to the college.

Last December, I had a very difficult time.My wife had a very bad and serious stroke and stayed in hospital for four weeks.My class-mates, my teacher that sent me lots of mesages to comfort and encourage me.It really help me to get through with my difficult time.Here, I want to say thanks a million to them.

Moreover, I joint The friends of Southwark park photograph competition last December which support by The Rotherhithe


Lake Scene In Snow
  Communicate Council..Luckily, I won the top prize £100.I think the ESOLphotography course at Morley College is a great help for me to win this competition.

I've received the mesage as below:

Hi All - thank you so much for supporting our project by submitting your photographs. The judges had a lot of very good images to look at, and so we have decided to allocate more prizes than we had originally intended, as follows:
Commended - £20 each to:
Debra Gosling - Rose Garden Thistle
Barney Moss - Dilston Grove
Val Foster - Five Minutes Peace
Emma and Simon Bennett - Central Drive in Snow at Night
Kam Hong Leung  - Cherry Blossoms
Tony Lucas - Blue Flowers
David Potter - Trees in Mist
Jill Merrett - Ada Salter Garden Brick Piers
Rose Ades - Bandstand and trees with pinhole camera 
Alison Clayburn - Branches in Snow
Julian Jackson - Tree Shadow
Karthik Rathinasabapathy - Couple with pram
Winner - £100 to:
Leung Tse - Lake scene in snow
It is our intention to exhibit all of the above photographs, and also a selection of others from all entrants as well as some from pupils of Albion Primary School.
We very much look forward to meeting you and your guests at the exhibition launch from 1pm on Saturday March 17th in the Gallery in the park.
Regards
Pat Kingwell
Secretary
The Friends of Southwark Park