As the growth of urbanization and many new buildings are now on our horizon, it is obvious that people have their own preference of building. Some of them like traditional styles, but I am not entirely of the opinion that new buildings should be built in historical styles.
From my point of view, new buildings should firstly match urban planning. If a new city has high-tech facilities, there is no need to design buildings in an older style. It’s like seeing a young boy dressed in youthful clothing, with a moustache on his face. It is very strange that a modern city contains many high-tech facilities and some old fashioned buildings. In Beijing, many people are disappointed about the National Theatre, because the style of this building is different from Tiananmen Square and the Great Hall of the People – it has been built in a modern style. Buildings around Tiananmen Square are traditionally used for political meetings and such, but the theatre there seems out of place.
Secondly, the style of a building should reflect a city’s character accurately. A city with significant features should plan and build buildings in the same style. For example, Suzhou, which is famous for its silk and gardens in Ancient China, has a long history of traditional culture. Nowadays it is still famous for its recently built traditional style buildings, bringing the city the benefits of tourism.
The reason why there are debates between traditionalists and modernists is partially due to the lack of experienced city planners during a period of rapid development, and that people who only like traditional styles may misunderstand the soul of the city. If I were an architect, I would design new buildings based on my understanding of the city character and its development. I would choose modern or a traditional style based on those judgments.

Recently I have been busy writing my thesis, which aims to clarify two issues. The first issue is, what kinds of VANCL products are likely to be returned more frequently, and why? The other one is what kinds of customers like to return or exchange products, and why they enjoy doing so.
In order to find the answers to these questions, I first needed to collect a large amount of data. It is widely known that product reviews are a valuable source of information for customers choosing products online, so I chose online product reviews as my source of data. I am lucky to have a computer programmer for a husband, so I didn’t have to design new software by myself. I told him what was needed in my data collection, for which he then proceeded to write a crawler program using ruby. This program helped me go through over 300,000 reviews, which I then based my research on.
I found some interesting trends in the process of reviewing product reviews. The results were surprising – I discovered that VANCL sells its own brand of clothes and that their canvas shoes (priced $8 - $20) perform well and sell better than other products. The data showed that people who buy these popular canvas shoes are generally aged between 13 and 19.
Secondly, women are more likely to return or exchange products than men. They seem to be more preoccupied than men, and care more about the size, color, style and quality of the products.
Thirdly, I also found problems with the VANCL product line. For example, some lower priced clothes, of which sales performance is far from ideal, have a higher return rate. This means that VANCL has to pay more for its distribution and warehousing. In fact, such products are not suitable to sell.
I believe that everything is interesting if you continue to ask questions, think deeply, and test frequently.

Hi Eddy, the notebook entry was a little depressing but I corrected it. I hope you learn something from it.

Lisa

2013/2/26
Raining
When I came back home this evening I realized what the day is today-----My birthday.
No cake, no card, no gift, not even a delicious dinner. It is so quiet.
Whether or not others give me a gift, I do not care, the only person who I care about is Winner, a beautiful girl who I like. Maybe I have no chance with her in this life. Let’s talk about today’s work. I still do the same work as usual.
Send e-mail and wait for reply. But you know, few people reply. I must keep faith, I say to myself. I must have patience, could not want to be success soon??? 什么意思？ 
I hope it will be sunny tomorrow. Good night.

A few days ago I wrote what? (insert noun). Today I can't read it.LOL!

A few days ago I wrote in my italki notebook.
Today I can't read it.LOL!
"Oh,what is the meaning? I don't know this word." I think.
I always write English with my dictionary or dictionary site through the internet.
I can write, but I can't remember the words the first time.
I don't have a very strong vocabulary in English!

今天是小年

Today is " Xiao Nian", which is the most important festival before the Chinese traditional Spring Festival. This traditional event was in memory of the kitchen god (we called "Zao Wang Ye"), and thank him for bringing us sufficient food for the family.
Although we all know that this "god" doesn't eat anything, old chinese people still prepare dumplings for him.
Now, in many rural area, people kneel in front of the Kitchen God, light fireworks to invite  him   home, and eat dumplings.
It's funny. In the eyes of the Chinese people, the Kitchen God is like a real person, if he eats the meal which has been prepared for him, he should have the responsibility to ensure the family's harvest next year. Can it be bribery?
Any way, if you know about this traditional event, eat some dumplings today. I wish you all well!

Unattended Children's New Year Wish

This morning, I was touched by news about unattended children in rural areas of China. The news was about their New Year wishes. Without wishing for new clothes or gifts, they just want to spent a Chinese New Year with their parents. Although basic, the need is hard to meet. As we know, there are more than 1.3 billion people in China, of which nearly 900 million are farmers. 50% of the farmers have become migrant workers. In order to earn more money to support their families, these people left their hometown to do meagre jobs in big cities, such as building, auto repair, waitstaffing, etc. They have only one chance per year to go back to their hometown because of the distance and the additional barrier of buying a train ticket during the Spring Festival travel season.
On the other hand, some of the unattended children pray for their parents to get a train ticket, because they haven't seen their parents for 3-5 years. They always miss them, and they complained? them, they even think their parents don't love them anymore. Some children hate big cities, because big cities attracted their parents; some like big cities, because "big city" equals "money, good life".
Both of these attitudes are not good for children's growth.
This is not only a social problem, but also a negative value of the whole country. Due to of the unfair treatment between rich people and poor people, people care about money more than their families.
We cannot expect the government to be able to change the current situation, but I believe that education and faith can help us.

I INVITE YOU TO SEE IT
Have a look at this! 

Moscow has a very noisy street.

In Moscow there is a really noisy street.

On the streets is always interesting.

This street is always interesting.

This episode could have occurred in Moscow,
or in Madrid, or in London ... 

This could have happened in Moscow, Madrid, or London...

In this photo you can see an old Lady.

She was suddenly terrified of loud signal

She was got a sudden fright from a loud noise.

I invite you to see it
Have a look at it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuj9tU5tAP4