Film review: Inside Out

The past few months there are a lot of good movies launched, but one my favorite movie is Inside Out. This movie is release on 2015. Inside Out is the latest animated film of Disney and Pixar co-produced, this movie acclaimed in the world. But why it acclaimed, I think Inside Out bring some resonates for the audience, and movie lets the audience think more deeply about themselves. Many people said this movie is not for children, it for adult, I agree that statement. Inside Out really tell us a lot of experience and feelings, it summarizes our childhood, youth, and even adult in life, it makes us more understand that we are growing by the experience of the previous stage. 

This movie is telling a story about an 11-year-old girl Riley. In her mind there are five emotions, they are Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. In the movie the five emotions are personification and they control Riley all kinds of emotions, thoughts, and actions. They accompany Riley grow up. Joy is the most frequent emotions, joy helps Riley produced a lot of happiness memories, these memories also establish Riley's personality. These important moments will be recorded as core memory ball, most of these core memory ball are associated with happiness, like having fun with childhood friend and spending time with family. At this time, just get touched by Sadness, these joyful core memory ball will turn into woeful core memory ball.

Name: Joy

Representative color: Yellow

Representative mood: Happy

Name: Sadness

Representative color: Blue

Representative mood: Sad

Name: Anger

Representative color: Red

Representative mood: Angry

Name: Disgust

Representative color: Green 

Representative mood: Loathe

Name: Fear

Representative color: Purple 

Representative mood: Afraid

The story turning point is Riley family move to San Francisco. However, this is not a pleasant experience for Riley. When Riley first day goes to new school, sadness touches the joyful core memory ball make it become a sad memory and also cause Riley cry in the class. This incident has become a sad core memory ball. In order to avoid the sad core memory ball arrive headquarters, Joy decides to remove the ball. But because of Joy and Sadness dispute, all of the core memory balls are lost. At the same time, Joy and Sadness are also fallen in Riley's long-term memory storage area. While Joy and Sadness trying to return to the headquarters, Riley's emotion are maintained by Disgust, Fear, and Anger.

In the beginning, I do not like blue Sadness, do not understand why she be so negative and uninviting. But Sadness have taken an important part in the movie, she through a humorous way to show us some massage.

When we were young, we do not know how to express our emotions, so that when we are happy we will laugh, we will cry when we are sad. We will also feel fear, disgust and anger, just all kinds of emotions are no intersection. And Riley's emotions it is precisely expressing this age situation. In our growth process, we created a lot of good memories. These memories may be is our hobby, toys, cartoons, friends, and idols. Whether these memories are happy or sad, a long time we will forget them slowly or we forget them deliberately, and then these memories it will become the past. 

In Riley's brain, there are the different part, like Long term memory, Imagination Land, Dreaming Studio, and Subconscious area.

Long-term memory: Just not too long in retrospect, it will gradually fade, the last will seen as useless memory are cleared by cleaning staff. That why some people always can not remember.  

In long term memory, Joy and Sadness meet Bing Bong. He is a pink elephant, always wanted to take Riley fly to the moon. He is the forgotten memories of Riley when Riley was young, Bing Bong always take Riley to adventure. Bing Bong and Joy are hit it off, they shared Riley's memories. Because of Bing Bong kindness, he said the fastest way to go back to the headquarters should take the Train of Thought so that they need to take a shortcut. However Sadness considered that taking the shortcut is very dangerous, but Bing Bong convince Joy and Sadness this is the most convenient way to the train station.

Of course, there are have been some things in the shortcut, they too late to catch the train. So that they need to find another way to take the train, and then they go to the Imagination Land. In here all of the things are from Riley's imagine, like the French Fires Forest, Trophy Town, Cloud Town, Lava and Riley Imaginary Boyfriend. In there, all imagine will become true. In Imagination Land Bing Bong also find his rocket, he always wants to take Riley to the moon, however, the rocket was dropped garbage pit. Bing Bong was sad, no matter how Joy consolation he still sad, but Sadness make he cheer up. It so surprised, I did not think Joy's positive and funny are useless. Think deeply, there not everyone is so strong and think positive. People are not always happy without any negative emotions. Although happy every day is good, but if you have no other negative emotions, then you can not show the real you, and you presented happiness may not be the sincere joy. Someday you will begin to collapse.

After a series of efforts, Joy and Sadness finally able to take the Train of Thought. In the train, Joy has taken with Sadness. Joy know that Sadness helped a lot, it makes Joy think that Sadness not only can make Riley. Just did not expect that there are one more Riley's Personality Island are collapsed, the train track broke. Joy and Bing Bong fall into the garbage area and Sadness fall into the long-term memory. In here Joy finally understands that human emotions are not always happy, but not sad. Riley cries because of Sadness, but Some things that have Sadness so that other come to help. Sadness always depresses her behavior before, she just touches the emotional control when she are unable to endure. Until this time, Joy has realized that Sadness are very important to Riley. 

In order to save Riley, Joy needs to look for Sadness and send Sadness to the headquarters. But now Joy falls into the garbage area, how Joy can get back to the headquarters? In the garbage area, they will disappear very soon so that they need to be fled immediately. 

In this part, it really touching. In order to let Joy bring Sadness go back to the headquarters, Bing Bong use his rocket and sacrifice himself, successfully helped Joy get away from the garbage area. However, Bing Bong gone forever. I never thought that Bing Bong will sacrifice himself because he most wants to take Riley to the moon and let Riley remember he. These two points are also the reason why Bing Bong are being here. Bing Bong's gone let me recall that when I was young, in my childhood, do I have Bing Bong? 

At the end, Joy and Sadness go back to the headquarters, but now the emotional is out of control. Joy let Sadness to control, she believes that this time is Sadness can help Riley, and she succeeded. 

How to cook Seafood Pesto Pasta?

I love to eat pasta, and I usually order the same food in the restaurant. I not like to try new food, because I fear that I do not like the taste. I like to eat something with a rich aroma, like onion, garlic, green onion, and parsley. I remember that my first time to eat Pesto Pasta, it is so amazing to me. I always thought Pesto Pasta is strange taste, it may not be good to eat. This also because I do not like to try the new taste so that I have always resisted it. However, when I first eat the Seafood Pesto Pasta with my friend in a restaurant, I love it very much. I always want to eat it, so I decide to learn how to cook it.

I have checked some information on how to make it, I think I can do well. 
First of all, I need to prepare the food. This pasta main point is seafood and the Pesto sauce. 

Food ingredients: Six Shrimp (no head, no shells, no intestine and open back), One Squid (cut into a ring), Ten Clams (put in the salt water let it no sand), One Onion, Two tablespoons minced garlic, One tablespoon pine nuts, One tablespoon almond slices, Three tablespoons cheese powder, A pack of Spaghetti, Basil right amount. 

Seasoning: Olive oil, Black pepper, and Salt both right amount, One tablespoon red wine vinegar. After all the ingredients are ready, we can start.

Cooking step:
First, put some salt and olive oil in the boiling water, and put in the spaghetti, make sure the spaghetti are spread out. If you want to know how long the spaghetti are ready, you just need to read the spaghetti package, and follow the cooking time outside of the package, that's okay. Also, there is another method to let you consider the spaghetti is it ready. You just take one spaghetti and throw to the wall, if it can stick, then the spaghetti is getting ready.

Second, cut the Onion, half for granular and half for filamentous. Put some onion into the sauces, it can increase the sweetness of the sauce. 

Third, heat the pan and put in pine nuts and almond slices without oil. It can let their fragrance out. The pine nut and almond slice are the main ingredients of the sauce. When the pine nut and almond slice turn to gold, that mean the heat is enough. In this time, put some minced garlic and onion into the pan and fry with the pine nut and almond slice.

Fourth, put fried ingredients into a blender and also put some cheese powder, red wine vinegar, basil and a lot of olive oil. This is the sauce, and the sauce adds in the end.

Then, We heat the pan with olive oil first. Put in the filamentous onion, and put some water, the water can use the spaghetti water, but do not with the oil. When water added, put the clam into the pan. After few minutes you can check, if the clam is opened, then you can take it out. After you take out all of the clams, you may put in the spaghetti, and let the spaghetti uptake the water. 

The next, when you see the water is gradually reduced, then you can put in the shrimp and the squid. You must put the shrimp first because shrimp is more difficult to boil. You can use the spaghetti cover the shrimp, it can let shrimps easier to boil. And follow the shrimp, you can put in the squid. You just need to attention to the shrimp, when the shrimp ready, then you can turn off the fire and put the clam into the pan.

Last, pour the right amount of sauce into the pan and mix it well. And the most important thing is, do not add the sauce when you turn on the fire, the sauce color it will become yellow, you must mix it out of the fire.

This Seafood Pesto Pasta is easy to make, I think everyone can do well.

A Youtube Video about  cooking Seafood Pesto Pasta.

Chinese New Year has fun in Hong Kong

Chinese New Year is the most important festival in Hong Kong. Hong Kong citizens will so many prepare to have a great Chinese New Year. Before Chinese New Year, Hong Kong is getting ready and there have different types of activities. We can early experience  the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.  

In 2016, this is the year of Monkey. Everywhere can see that have a lot of decoration about the monkey. In Chinese New Year people will like to say something good word to bless other. They also like to use the "monkey" to give lucky to people, like"猴年行大運", it means good luck in the year of Monkey. In Chinese New Year, during that period Hong Kong have many interesting places organizing different activities.

During Chinese New Year, people like to buy some flower and pun it at home. It besides to decorate the house, also hope the flower can bring some luck to them. Different kind of flower they have the different meaning, like Narcissus it means auspicious, joy and happiness. So that, before Chinese New Year, people will like to go to the flower market to buy some flower, it also called "年花". In Hong Kong, there have many places to sell flower. There are total have 15 parks and playgrounds are holding the Chinese New Year Flower Market, all of them are free admission. All Flower Market are opened before Chinese New Year, so many people will like to go to the Flower Market at the New Year's Eve.

Besides, in New Year Day Hong Kong have an annual event that is International Chinese New Year Night Parade. The parade is one of Hong Kong's most anticipated annual events and has been sponsored by Cathay Pacific Airways for 18 years. Fantastic floats and spectacular performances by groups sourced locally and abroad will be welcoming Chinese New Year with a grandeur unique to Hong Kong. The performances groups will pass through the main road in Tsim Sha Tsu. Overseas performances invited to Hong Kong include giant creations, delightful stilt walkers, extravagant drummers, energetic cheerleaders and cultural dances. In order to the overseas performances groups, the show also invited some local performances groups to performances the traditional dragon and lion dances, percussion bands, ballet and modern dances. Most people love this show and they will like to stand out the road and enjoy the show.

The Chinese New Year period in Hong Kong is packed with a wide array of events.On the second day of Chinese New Year night, in Victoria Harbour, you may enjoy a fantastic fireworks display. This is the one of the main celebration in Hong Kong. Most people will like to go out and come to Wan Chai and Tsim Sha Tsu harbour to find a good place to have a good show. In there you can have a strong festive mood with all Hong Kong people.

Many Hong Kong people do not like to visit relatives on the third day of Chinese New Year because it has a custom that in the third day of Chinese New Year is easier have an altercation so that many people will like to go to the temple to blessing. The most popular temple is Che Kung Temple. Hong Kong people like to go there to buy a little windmill. Also, there has a windmill outside the temple, and it let people turn it. However, turning the windmill are prescribed, male turn to the left side, female turn to the right side. People turning the windmill it mean can throw away the bad luck. If you are interested you may try.