Been busy with schools... readings and papers... bunches of readings waiting for me!!! :P And my German and Japanese homeworks... many 'workbook exercises' and writing exercises for my German, also Presentation to prepared!!! For my Japanese, actually I've suspended my class for about a month and now starting it again! So have to catch up with others in class and thus many Grammar book readings!
So not surprisingly not much time for me to manage my blogs. However as I'll been writing busy writing during my courseworks, I try to post some articles to share with you my research progress.
Here's my another blog entry a few days ago, re-posted here:
School already started on 4th September. Busy working and busy studying.
Many reading materials and two Term Papers to finish.
Originally I was taking Introduction to P/E Interpreting; but after one lecture, I talked to my teacher and she suggested that the course next term might be more relevant for me. After obtaining her 'permission' to sit-in sort of 'officially' -- to practise short memory under pressure and Putonghua according to my teacher, I dropped the course and added my 2nd choice: Readings in Translated Works.
It's very interesting to read the literary pieces in both Chinese and English; and to analyse them from the 'translation' point of view. It's different from what I had experienced before when doing the Humanities courses. We were told a bit about the background but not that much; we were not analysing the pieces according to the cultures or politics at that time, rather we were examining the differences in style or language usage in the translated works. How the translated works miss out important message of the piece by altering the style or use of words? This is what I learnt from last lecture. I understand I have to read through the readings and to find out more 'differences' or 'similarities' among the two, but I do not have time yet. :( Probably, I'll try finishing it by this week. Tomorrow I'm having the class again, and this time even more interesting: Sex and the City.
BUT what's more important: I still haven't decided a book for my Term Paper!!!!! >O< Lucky is that I am not required to hand in any Abstract or Outline beforehand.
For my core course, I've already decided my research topic and discussed with my Professor. It falls into neither one of the 'big topics' suggested by the Prof. so I wondered if it's irrelevant to my course before talking to my Prof.!! However, after talking to my Prof., I wondered if it was a bit easy or too simple for a Master Paper as he said, 'It's simple, you know how to do it'. Luckily, after clarification, I know that no scholars had carried out similar research (ooo... God! Then how can I do the critical review?), or better say no scholars had analysed the pieces from that perpective. I asked if I should change to another Topic, like those Empirical field research, but my Prof. sort of encouraged me to carry on saying that the topic's interesting and meaningful (only if I could manage to do it and really have done it "well"). So... my topic's decided and I've been writing my Abstract! Hope that I could really manage it!
BTW, don't know if I talked to my Prof. in Putonghua or I talked about Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway and 白先勇, he first asked if I was taking Literature before, when he knew that I was from EE, he was sort of shocking, I could tell. When he knew that I was from 'UST', he first asked which 'UST' wondering if it's one of those in China or Taiwan (In fact I couldn't hear the name of places he said, I just guess what he's thinking 'coz when I said HK, he said, "o.. is HK?")? When he knew that it was HKUST, he still asked if I was brought up in HK?
Personally I would be more grateful if it's 'coz my Perspectives than of my Putonghua. :P
