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May 2014



May, the start of the wonderful and warm summer season for countries in the northern hemisphere. But right at the start of the month, it’s always the period where you are dealing with your final exam including me. So, I will try to wrap up things as fast as possible. But still there are many thoughts inside my brain forcing their way out of my mind. It all starts right now……..

The start of the summer movie season! I’m not sure why, but there are really not many movies I’m looking forward too. Not to say there are no good movies out there. Spiderman, Transformers, and X-Men will all hit the screen this summer. If there’s one movie I’m looking forward of all these famous franchise movies, I must say it’s the new Transformers movie - Transformers: Age of Extinction. We will see a new cast, a brand new storyline which pretty much not really related to the first three films, and not to forget the introduction of Dinobots to the current Autobots and Decepticons.

The UEFA Champions League Final! It’s always the perfect stage for the closing of the European football season. What a way to end the final with a Madrid derby in the final. Last year, we had an all-German final. This year, we have an all-Spanish final. It’s hard for me to pick who I’m going to support. But I’m putting my support more towards Atletico Madrid because of the club’s history and the evolution of the team. It’s hard to imagine a few years back the team was a regulation-battle club. It took them just a few years to transform into a title-challenger club. Football fans just loves the energy of their young manager - Diego Simone, the way he transforms the team, and most definitely the positive brand of football the team has been playing. Surprisingly, the club has never win the champions league before. I just love to see a new winner hoisting the trophy high in the air after the match. It should be an exciting final come May 17 in Lisbon as I don’t expect either teams to park their busses.

The truth! A missing plane in March, then a sunken ship in April. Two tragic events that contains a lot of mysteries. We are still nowhere close to finding what happen to MH370. Authorities with all the calculation of where the aircraft might have gone done hasn’t even found a single piece of wreckage till today. We still don’t know what really causes the ship to sink at the coast of South Korea. As I said, it takes some time to investigate and to come up to a conclusion on what really happened. At the end of the day, everybody just want the truth. But the truth does not come easy and sometimes the truth even comes at a heavy price.

Coldplay! One of my favorite bands is releasing their sixth studio album titled “Ghost Stories” on May 19.

I guess I’m done with all the writing for now. Time to go back to the study desk and continue my revision. Until then, see you next time!


By,
Zhe Xu
May 5th 2014

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