Movies afterthoughts

 我看了兩部電影， 一部是 Monkey Man, 另一部是 Civil War。

MonkeyMan, 是一部動作片。  但是電影前半段很慢。  到最後卅分鐘變得非常快，一系列的動作過程， 很熱鬧，利用了很多搖晃鏡頭，讓我想到 Borne 系列。  當然也有很多鏡頭讓很像 JohnWick。  有許多動作鏡頭滿暴力的。  雖說前半段讓我感覺很慢， 而且許多回憶的場景讓我感覺累贅， 但是我還是滿喜歡導演嘗試灌注更深的主題去豐富動作片的感情。  雖說我覺得不是很成功。  其實這部片子有點泛政治， 但現在很多電影都這樣。  其實， 我以前三個白癡， laagan, 也都帶有一些類似的題材。  但是，這次的政治題材卻感覺很貼近眼前的現實。  想是一部新一代印度人的一部份想法。  說到底這部電影的故事是一個復仇劇。  我覺得還可以， 只是可以再縮短一些。  

CivilWar,  是一部描寫如果現在美國內戰的話， 將是啥樣？  這是我還沒看的想法， 但是看完後，電影的收尾讓我稍稍不確定一些。  電影的過程其實都還滿讓我好奇的。  想知道最後會怎樣。  但是電影的收尾讓我感到電影的主題對媒體人的描寫也很血淋淋的。  電影呈現許多恐怖的場景， 這種警示令人怵目驚心。  但是到最後， 記者的冷酷也令我很難吞嚥。  

讀書隨筆 the Songof theCell

 書： the song o the cell by suddharthaMukeherjee

The universalCell:

Schleiden and Schwann established the first 2 rules for the cellular theory:

1. All living organisms are composed of one or more cells.
2. The cell is the basic unit of structure and organization in organism.

Yet, both of them struggled to understand where the cells come from.  Because of vitalism, which is a believe that living organism cannot be arisen from solely physical materials.  Life must contain some outside source, either an energy, or some material that we can not perceive,  to spark life in living organisms.  

Here's a point where I am a little lost from author.  Because it seemed that vitalist believes that life must have a source, either magical, religion or something else.  Yet, later on, when the author refer to  vitalism, he used phrase like, vitalist believes that life come out of no where...    But of course, the author listed a lot of weird and different believes for different vitalists.  Some even thought there's a "tiny human" lived inside of men's sperm...    

Then comes Rudolf Virchow, who established 3 more rules for cellular biology:

1. All cells come from other cells (Omnis cellula e cellula)
2. Normal physiology is the function of cellular physiology
3. Disease, the disruption of the physiology, is the result of the disrupted physiology of the cell.  

The above 5 principles formed the pillars of cell biology and cellular medicine.  

Virhow 君的一生是一個很有意思的故事。  他是普魯士軍醫大學畢業， 之後又參加了當時普魯士內政部治療斑疹傷寒的一個團隊，到當時正為此病肆虐的區域服務。  他目睹了當時落後的情況和政府的無知無能，寫了一系列文章批評當時的時政。  又在 1848 年一場遍及全歐洲的革命後，從首府柏林被驅逐到一個偏遠醫院。  到偏遠醫院讓他倒是可以專心從事醫學研究工作。  以上的三個總結也是在這一時期逐步得出的。  不過他也沒有忘記他對社會的理想， 我在此書裡可以看到他有一個領悟， 其實可以把一整個人或其他多細胞的生物想像成是全體細胞的生活環境。  他看到一個正常的生物就是體內細胞互相合作的結果。   幾乎所有病恙，都可以從細胞的病變找出根由。  他想的也是社會中每個人互相合作的關係。  1856 年，因為他的學術成就，他回到柏林工作。  甚至在後來的德國逐漸有雅利安人的優越這種想法出現後， 他還為了反證這種說法而做了研究證明金髮碧眼並不是雅利安人的專利。  

一些讓我有感的句子：

"It isn't sufficient to locate a disease in an organ; it's necessary to understand which cells of the organ are responsible.  An immune system dysfunction might arise from a B cell problem, a T cell malfunction, or a glitch in any of the dozens of cell types that  comprise the immune system.  For example, patients with AIDS are immunocompromised because the human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) kills a particular subset of cells -- CD4 T cells -- that help coordinate an immune response."

"Or, as Virchow reminds me daily: "Every pathological disturbance, every therapeutic effect, finds its ultimate explanation only when it's possible to designate the specific living cellular elements involved."  

 

讀書隨記

 Cytokines, 中文名稱是 細胞激素，又名細胞因子、細胞活素、細胞介素、細胞素，一組蛋白質和多肽，生物中用做信號蛋白， 在細胞間傳遞訊息。  

Interleukin 中文名稱是 白血球介素，一組細胞因子。  

Cellular therapy, 中文名稱是 細胞治療

Physiology, 中文名稱是 生理學。是生物學的一門領域，研究生物體及其各組成部分，在活體系統中化學和物理的功能活動。  

I am reading a book, theSongOfTheCell.  So I intend to write down some notes here.  Don't ask me why I am reading the book.  I do not know why.  Though I regret that when I was reading this author's the other book, theEmperorOfAllMaladies, I did not thought of jot some notes down. 

So far only prelude, intro, and Part 1, 1.1the original cell, 1.2 the visible cell, 1.3 the univseral cell.  

Those parts are talking about the discovery of the cell fist through the technological innovation.  Then, by using technology, which helped human see far beyond our physical capability.  

Some significant people that appeared, Antonie van Leeuvwenhoek, Rober Hooke, Rudolf Virchow, Matthias Schleiden, Theodor Schwann, Andreas Vesalius, Francois-Vincent Raspail, 

Some thoughts on the work

 工作愈來愈少。  當然因為這是暑假， 但是，這麼少似乎沒有過。  如果在辦公室上班的話， 要挑的貨少， 再加上關鍵的資料輸入和影印標籤的過程被簡化， 而造成工作減少，那就算了。  但是現在連在家工作的日子都沒有啥工作。  我覺得太誇張！  

我覺得我跟的同事完全沒有交集。  我本來在簡化了一些工作過程後， 想秀給他們看，他們也可以給點意見或者說他們也可以這樣做。  但是， 沒有， 他們表現得就是這些和他們無關。  我滿懊惱的， 因為說和他們無關， 就讓我感覺我和他們不是同一組的。  不過我後來想到之前在增加盒子的時候， C 有一本簿子本來是要記錄所有盒子的內容， 但是當時， 他倆一組，我一個在一邊也沒有加入他們的行列。  另外， Nara 總是說我對他們愛理不理的。  這種種的跡象顯示問題真的在我這裡。  

不過我現在對自己的問題不是以上這個， 而是當我在家工作， 卻沒有工作， 我做啥？  這是一個堆積了很久的問題。  

Books afterthough

 I really went after other AllenEskens' books.  And again, in a quick succession, I finished 

The deep dark descending

The heaven may fall

The forsaken Country

It feels amazing.  I think I finished the last one about 2 weeks ago, or maybe a week ago.  

Those dark descending and forsaken country is not a mystery, they are more like a thriller, where, you know who bad guys are.  Heaven may fall has more mystery to it.  But its ending gives me such a thrilling pulsation!    The ending chapters of forsake are wonderful as well.  

The dark descending is probably the weakest one for me.  I guess I am impatient of the inevitable result.  But I do like the detective work in finding out who the killer is.  I feel the relationship between nikki and max was pretty interesting.  I feel I see reacher in max's shadow, albeit a bit tamer.  However, when the forsaken country comes along, I feel Nikki and max relationship became the weak spot in the book.  I don't feel the romance between a man and a woman, but a genuine emotion between colleagues, or even a different brother and sister relationship.  So when the FC came along, it feels awkward to me.  

I always feel that too many explanations is a waste of time.  Though I am at fault so often nowadays.  But I feel I was very wrong after I read the endings of both heaven may fall and FC.  I feel the thrills come from that readers knowing the relationship between each characters so well.  Though the authors keeps telling reader, which is moi, the relationship between each characters again and again, to the point I feel redundant.  But when the ending shows up, the weight of the situation it created is tremendous.  

I wonder if there's a chinese version of the book, or the series.  I wonder how it would come about?  

A poem I saw today

 我總覺得，

星星曾生長在一起，

像一串綠葡萄，

因為天體的轉動，

滾落到四方。�

我總覺得，

人類曾聚集在一起，

像一碟小彩豆，

因為陸地的破裂，

迸濺到各方。�

我總覺得，

心靈曾依戀在一起，

像一窩野蜜蜂，

因為生活的風暴，

飛散在遠方。——顧城《我總覺得》

Thoughts about song and music

 I heard a song couple days ago, I really liked it.  But for some reason, I said to myself, it's not a song though there's singing and lyrics.  This is a piece of music even the singing is it's back ground music, almost the same as guitar, drum or other instrument.  

I keep listening to the song these days, and keep thinking about that thought.  My reasoning is that if you turned off the singing, I'd be happy with just the instrument part.  I think lyrics does helped emphasizing certain point of the music, but not necessary.  That's why I think the singing became secondary.  And plus I thought if you pull the instrument, can they still sing?  Maybe they can, but I think it will create a huge hole.  

Of course, an artist will make it  work though.   This thought does not really define the song.  But shows what I know about music which is not a lot.  lol