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Old house
Here, I would like to introduce one traditional style of courtyard in China, the Five-doors-in-a-line courtyard.
The yard is constituted with three sub-yards and corresponding four house-groups.
All houses are arranged around an axis and all doors are faced to south, according to the same principle of the imperial Palace.
Since the first house-group, the gate houses, has two doors located in the axis, there are totally five doors in the center line of axis.
Thus, the yard is named as the Five-doors-in-a-line courtyard.
Normally, the last house is one two-floor building and is much higher than other ones.
This kind of yard is very common in ancient China.
Rich merchants and high officials tended to show their power in their home village by building this style of courtyard.
My great-great-grandfather also built the Five-doors-in-a-line courtyard in Tsing dynasty，in 1748 actually.
This yard boosted its area and house height in my hometown and gave our family many glories.
However, time changed so lot.
Now, only one single house survived and it is just my birthplace.
It looks so frazzled and old-fashioned.
Even so, I love it and feel proud for its time-tolerant.
Wish it stand even longer!
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Will Google glass win
Google glass has attracted so much attention even that it is still not on sale.It is reported that the glass will boast for many special functions, such as video-recording, internet-surfing, and TV-watching. I am not sure whether these functions can run as smoothly as in a normal computer. But even all of them can be fulfilled successfully, I still wonder it will be as popular as iPhone, based on the bellow three reasons.
Firstly, it may cause uncomfortable to its users since the display screen looks so close to eyes. As experienced, while I look close to the screen of either computer or iphone for a long time, I will feel tired and tear. I guess such problem will also exist on the screen of google glass. Also, its extra weight than normal glass and noise generated from machine or CPU will also depress its users, as it is so near brain and ears.If customer experience failed to be great, it is difficult to populated around the world.
Next,as for partners of glass users, they may feel disturbed while chatting or meeting with the users. As some research reported, person tend to performance differently with normal state while before camera or recorder. So, if we meet with glass users, we will notice the existence of camera and communicated unnaturally. As a result, it may become a hard work to have a real p2p communication while using glass.
Finally, the people around may be offended after realized they are pictured or searched by the glass user. For example, it is not a happy thing for me to find my photos of eating or shopping with girls who is not my wife have been uploaded to youtube by unknown person. So, if persons notice the glass users appear around them, they may want to defend their privicy and avoid meeting the glass users. If many people feel the same way, society may legalized to restrict the usage of the glass.
As conclusion, I don't think the future of Google glass will as bright as iPhone, even it looks so cool. It may be used in a tour or in a cinema, but can not spread into every corner of our life.
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Laundry
Today, it is also sunny.
I get up at 8 and decided to do laundry.
It cost me about one hour.
But still, looking at the washed clothes, I feel happy.D
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For beginning
Today is very hot.
I cannot endure the high temperature at all.
Should I take a walkout?
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