Poor confused child

As kids we all been there we made a mistake by taking or doing something on accident. Well for this 5 year how lives in New York named Janeya, she made a common mistake we all did once in our life (or many times), going on the wrong bus; though she took it to another level of going to the wrong school.

Yes, you heard me. 

This little girl went to the wrong school all day and no one notice till her mom called and asked where she was. When her mom heard that like any parent demanded they find her and they did. So basically the person driving the bus was a sub and took the wrong route and picked her up. 

The reason the school didn’t notice was for that school and that classroom were expecting a new 1st grader. So when the teacher asked for her name, the official statement said “asked the girl if she was that student. Janeya  said she was and spent the day answering to the no-show first-grader's name.” (By ASSOCIATED PRESS and ALEXANDRA KLAUSNER). So now the question is left who was at fault the 5 year old or the bus driver.

In my thoughts on this was, it’s super cute and adorable. Even for me at 5 I would know if I was in the wrong school. Though the distract saying she was “misleading” when she was pretending to be the other student. I wouldn’t blame her, kids would admit to things; even if they didn’t do it. Push them enough they say they do it. At least in the end she got to go home and they found her. 

Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2580940/Upstate-NY-girl-5-spends-day-wrong-school.html

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE0JR5nRl6g

“I want to save your life”.

 

Warning super sad post and not my usual (funny, witty, and wonderful) commentary

 

This made me cry while reading this and made me feel terrible to how I treat my parents for what he did for his mom.

 A seven year old boy named Chen Xiaotian was already a terminal ill with a brain tumor and wouldn’t live to adulthood. What makes this even more heart breaking was his mother was also ill with contracted chronic kidney disease at same time. Near Chen death he lost his eye sight and was nearly paralyzed. The doctor came to the grandmother and said he going to die but his kidney can be used on his mother and other people. The grandma had to think about this.

Chen heard the conversation and said to his grandma and his mother who refuse to this said

“I want to save your life”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In the end his mother agrees and said that as long she get a piece of him, she be at peace. He died that on April 2. Though with his death saved his mother with his kidney and two other people.

This got to me because he at such a young age knew what sacrifice and rather save his mother. This is deep and I could see from the mother point of view to try to save her son, than to let him die. Though he’s a hero and they should make a statue or something for him because what he did is an example of what type of person we should be. Also have hope in humanity again.

  For me I could relate to try and be good daughter for my parents, at times I wonder why I even try when they don’t seem to appraise what I do for them. When this happens I forget what my parents did for me like rising me and not aborting me. This makes it worse because here I am being mad, when all they did was try to understand on how I “helped”. To Asian parents they do not and I mean DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SHOW THEIR FEELINGS TO THEIR KIDS.  The last time I got a hug from my dad was last father’s day. This article made me hope that one day I could do something so good they; forget all the terrible things I done.  Like

·         Lying about spilling a whole gallon of water on the table in my parents room

·         Hitting my sister then she cried (Okay to clear this up she started it first by calling me fat, and to keep in mind I was 6 or 7 during this time)

·         Refusing to eat my food, now my parents wish they keep that habit of mine

This list can keep on going but- just however reads my blog post, remember to love and appreciate your parent like Chen did.

On the side note a comment made by Joe Jo “If this came from China, I could forgive the China for all the lead and the factories. Now when people see main land china they think “That boy”.”

Hope that comment made you smile and stop getting the tissues

 Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2596160/Tragic-seven-year-old-boy-dying-brain-tumour-tells-seriously-ill-mother-let-die-receive-kidney-save-life.html

 

Video watch the first half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEeYi3FrukA&list=UUfPhyExfcaqJBKc3HO3cNBw

 

Why Nails are awesome c:

I have heard from people, okay mostly boys.

“Why do you girls do your nails, it just polish” 

To those boys who said that. Well, a group of nail techs just helped science find where turtles go after they lay there eggs. Now your asking how this happened. 

NAILPRO Magazine stated how all this went down. To give a short summary science tried everything to put a tracker on turtles but they just won’t stay on. Then “We realized that the turtles’ shells are made of keratin—the same thing as human fingernails” (Katherine Mansfield of University of Central Florida). So with this new information Katherine then got a ‘ “manicurist and she suggested using an acrylic base coat to seal the shell from peeling.” And it worked! The tags stayed on the shells, allowing the team to follow turtles for an impressive 27 to 220 days. Another victory for proper nail care products!’

When I first read this article I though this is so cool and learn a few new things. Like a turtle shell is like a nail, when it looks like a rock. Also another thing boys can be afraid of girls. Knowing that acrylic nails some girls put on and make them sharp to the point where blood could drip if starched. 

Yeah I would be afraid to.

Though back to the point, this prove all the more that nail rock and anyone who disagrees well. Don’t be surprise to see girls with their shaper nails at your door.

http://www.nailpro.com/how-one-manicurist-saved-science

The puppy, brids and bees

Warning for mature audience only maybe we don’t we see after you this and the comments under this post

When I first saw the title was “Oh it’s about an owner and they love for their puppy, or a funny story about them.” Well after reading the column it was a story I could tell you alright. It was interesting to see how badly they reacted when they found out their little cute Shih Tzu was already in the heat. Though like Shelia I was shocked puppies at 6 months already be you know wanting to do the dirty, dirty winky face. I know you looking away; they need to do this if you want to look at anymore cute puppy videos on YouTube.

            This made me laugh and thinking how if my dad read this he says “This is why boys are like dogs, the first girl they see he attacks.” Now understanding more on why my father said that to me than doing the birds and the bees. For all the future parents or the Asian parents or parents about to talk about it with their daughters. Just make her read this article is scared for life that sure keeps your precious daughter away from boys for a long time and maybe puppies too.

http://www.humorcolumnist.com/puppylove.htm

Poetry

When I first heard about poetry, like many people have said they were nice and sweet, not giving them a second thought. Though I started to get more into after in the 7th grade my English teacher told us to bring in a poem and in front of the class say what our poem message was. While in my mind it was “Oh my god, what am I going to do.” 

So being a smart person I am, well hopefully. Looking through the internet I found this poem called Closer To You. What made me like the poem was it had romance in it and was it was Korean. Me being obsessed with South Korea then and now, hey I see you don’t judge me. Coming back, it made me more interested in it. One of my favorite lines from the poem is

 

“If you’d leave me,

I‘d be left with those pain and loneliness...
I didn’t think I would be able to handle it
So although I wanted to come closer,
I didn’t dare to come closer”

Reason being that now I’m in a somewhat relationship and this is how I feel right now with him.  The poem made me also realized that feeling of wanting to be with someone is the same in South Korea and in the world.

Here the link to the poem and another one for more poems to read!

 http://ingenira.hubpages.com/hub/Beautiful-Korean-Love-Quote

https://jaypsong.wordpress.com/tag/love-poem/

100 Books to Read In A Lifetime

I have already known of this for a while, my Best Sellers teacher showed us and it was interesting. I made a mental note to relook at it to see how many I actually read, though knowing myself I forgot all about it. Then finally after so many months I finally made the effort and look and see how many I did read from the list.

Not to my surprise I knew I’ve wouldn’t read or known at least 90 of the books on the list. I gave myself benefit of the doubt that I would have at least read 10 of the books and to my disappointed. Out of 100 books on the list I read 6 out of 100, now before you all judge me let me explain. On the list there were some books I wanted to read but never had a chance to read yet. So if I read those books and add it to the number of books I already read it probably reach 13 at best, I’m not good at adding in my head without my calculator.

That aside on the list I saw some books I expected that would make it on, likes Fahrenheit 451 and Pride & Prejudice. Though the books I saw on the list like The Fault in Our Stars, The Hunger Games, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1 and The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1). These are considered popular books in this generation while the other book were written a long time ago and are considered classics. I like that Amazon tried to bring a nice mix of the classics and new to try and encourage people to read these.

Deepest Childhood Book: The Velveteen Rabbit

This was a story when at one point in my life I hate to read and only picked this book because of the cute rabbit and pictures in it. Though after reading the book I felt a feeling that my younger self didn’t understand which was now sadness. The book was mainly a boy got a toy rabbit for Christmas and through the story the boy and rabbit were always together. Then one day the boy got sick and the boy’s doctor said that any toys which were with the boy be burned. When the toy rabbit heard this he cried, then a fairy came and granted him with a wish to be real rabbit. After that the rabbit came and saw the boy again, though when the boy saw him he said he looked just like his old toy rabbit which he thought was lost. That’s how the story ends, in turn left me and other children sad and in tears.

There where many lessons and morals in this story. In my own interpreation I though this taught kids on how to handle separation. In the story near the end is where the message was really strong and it applies to all of life tough good bye. Even though the toy rabbit was sad to leave the boy, he was granted to be a real rabbit for this tough good bye. You can say it’s like saying good bye to your lover and even though its tough with all the memoirs you have together. Though with time you heal and find someone or something to make you heal. This is certainly a book I would read to my kids to teach good morals. 

Video of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUEYHrnxYyI

My Favorite Book from Best Sellers

My favorite book is Divergent, or the main character Tris. The main reason why I like the book is that it’s very different from what I usually read. The dystopian genre which is popular now of days is’t my type of read. The reason is that typical it is that in those books it seem to follow the same plot and in the end it’s sad ending and happy. Though I like those ending in other genres but dystopian it doesn’t seem to grab me. 

So when I was placed in my group to read it, me being an open person to everything that includes books. I did and to my surprise it was enjoyable and made me rethink about lead female character. Tris is different from your average lead one which are either too girly or to much acting like a guy. That in the end they seem less realist and more unreliable. Though Tris seem to a good mixture of both types and it seems like a teenage trying to find who she is. A good quote was 

“Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that people do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me.

But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her.”  

“People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.”

I can relate to this quote a lot and she is so reliable and she seems to be the person I want to be. She has courage and confidence to do what she did, leaving her family, going through hazing in her faction. I believe she is a good role model to show what really going in the world in teenagers. 

Here my group video trailer we made in that class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAXPiwjWDzQ&feature=player_embedded

Reading wish list

1. Winter’s Tale Mark Helprin
2. Looking for Alaska John Green
3. Hollow City Ransom Riggs
4. Paper Towns John Green
5. Fangirl Rainbow Rowell
6. The Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort

Book Talk

Book Review: Catherine the Great

In Catherine the Great, we get to see a new side of a tsar of Russia. (http://www.biography.com/people/catherine-ii-9241622)The first thing that comes to mind is the power they have and the typical stereotype of what a monarch is entered I our minds. Though the book we get to see the Catherine as a real person going through the struggles of her people and even now in present day. The author Robert K Massie shows a new way of writing historical fiction. Ignoring the boring school textbook of explaining the events and who was in what. He used Catherine own memoirs to help write this book and explain of what he meant if the situation is hard to understand for us the readers.

Another thing about the book which made it more interesting than most historical book is that the way he portrays each character in the book. He takes the time to explain even the most minor characters so you know what role they played and why they were important. That was really good. For me as reader personally I got confused with all that information at my face for character like her lover named Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov who doesn’t appear again in the book. Though that was the only drawback in the book I enjoyed the pictures that were included to give the readers a visual of what they looked like. I personally thought the guys she had for lovers and possible husband were super ugly and fat. She could have chosen hotter guys or the artist had painted the better looking ones and the placed it in the book. The only good looking guy was her lover that only lasted about a year and was named Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mamonov.jpg). Though I would say that when Catherine was younger she was really pretty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caravaque_catherine.jpg), thought she aged with grace I say that a big change after she died (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Katharina_II.,_die_Gro%C3%9Fe.jpg). Okay enough about my rants of the trend look during the 1700s.

Another reason why the book was good was that Catherine approach to her ruling was almost as good as a king ruling Russia. She was handling all the internal problems of Russia like surfs and the war like the one with Turkey and Prussia. In my opinion the way she handle it proves and show that women during those time were more than capable of childbearing and house wife. Here at page is a great example is at page 392 when the fake Peter the 3rd was trying to be the king Catherine showed her intelligence “brought her to the decision that her primary duty as empress was to enforce the authority of the crown. She did this by summoning soldiers not philosophers.”

The writing style of the book was more of a formal way, but my interesting. Reason being is that after he told us the facts, he adds in his two cent and it different than what most historians would. As I said before he tells the story as if he’s putting commenting on the text with no filter. An example of this is in the first part of the book. “Despite her apprehensions, there was no turning back. She had come to Russia, she had learned Russian, she had resisted her father and converted to Orthodoxy, she had worked hard to please the empress, she was ready to marry Peter despite his flaws. Having made all these concessions and sacrifices, she was not going to throw it all away go home, and settle down with Uncle George.”  The writing style is one I like because the way he comments and talks is what I do when I read historical books and documents. Annotating and commenting at the same time, he kept a good balance of that throughout the book. In end I enjoyed the book and learn a lot more about Russia and I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys to learning.

Post 9

Catherine was a unique character during her rule in Russia. When I first read the book thoughts of oh another book of some queen. I was quite happily surprised that it wasn’t like that what I thought it was going to be and passed my expectation.  I learned more about Catherine and who is really was, Robert K Massie did a wonderful job of trying to explain her life. He made it sound almost like her memoirs she wrote. The way he explains and talked about her was like describing a friend you want to meet. He said that she was witty and was ahead of her time. He helped portray Catherine as a strong and capable woman.

I liked how in one scene when she was with her lover and father of her second son Alexis. Wanted to marry her but she refused him, Robert explain the two sided of the story. Even her lover knew that she was independent and really didn’t him to guide her, as what he original though of her. I liked how that the book should that yes woman could have power and were respected during the late 1700s. And a little off topic but during this time I wished the Americans could see this and treat women as they equal. Okay enough of my rant so another thing I liked about Catherine in the book was that during her rime and the many wars that happened she planned and executed her army perfectly.

One example of this was when a guy faked being her dead husband Peter the 3^rd and Catherine handed it to her offices. Though the office thought it was over when they took him Catherine knew it was too early to assume that. And her prediction was correct and the fake Peter the 3^rd came and tried to take the thrown. Catherine knowing this would happen dispatch her lover who was also an office to the army and took them down. This shows that Catherine was more than just a figure of power.

Overall the book helped shaped my mind more in world history and showed that yes there were strong women that historians and people of the time tend to try to leave out.

Post 4: Reflection on Book 1

The Night Circus was a book I enjoyed very much when I was reading. It had an interesting plot and characters. The book contained fantasy, romance, historical genres all of which I read very often on my own.  This book being the first of the author was a great debut, and it was different from the classic love stories I read so often. This had suspense and it keeps making you want to turn the page, the way how the magic worked in that world and the game they took part in was beautifully written. Though I didn’t like how they have so many characters in the book. Some of those people could have been taken off, it would have made it easier for me to read and keep track. The circus in the book, made me want to go to a circus now. It was describe so well and the tricks they do in the book was just woo, overall the book was a good read. 

Post 8: Truth in memoir

The truth in a memoir should be mainly true in my opinion. Little lies are okay and some truth stretching to. That’s normal because well in marketing to sell your book it should be truthful but interesting as well to grab people attention. So that’s accepted, though straight out lying about your life of living in a gang and doing drugs is taking it too far. A memoir should be filled with truth and little bits of I wish this actually happen but it didn’t really. Though we should have labels to tell between fiction and non-fiction the reason being is that if a little kid goes and gets a book. One book is about slaying a dragon and another on how to bake a cake. No labels to saying that no in real life you can’t slay a dragon, but the kid will believe that dragons are real as cake. So labels are important in that sense, though in real life sometimes we play our “fiction” life. The reason for me saying this is that people love the life of a gang, but really the smart kid who doesn’t talk. Or the popular girl who everyone thinks is dumb, is really a genius and going to Harvard. Then they live their “non-fiction” life sometimes the fantasy world and reality do merge. So in reality we are living in a memoir

Post 7: Book Trailer Divergent

Post 6: Readicide

Readicide was not an issue I was aware of when on the topic of school books. For school books I take a positive approach and try to enjoy the book as it is. Though this question does come to me when I get a new school book to read. How does the school pick the books we read and write and be tested over on? The after this discussion of the problem of kids not liking reading and how schools try to fix it. Help me understand how the school tried to fix this. I agree whole heartily that schools can try better on getting kids to read. I can see how that school pick books to help give them what the real world is like and all. Though most of those books were written before we were born and it be hard to relate to for most high schools. They are books that is more modern and help us teach us the world the same as school approve books. Though the school and the people who said we should read this and say it’s better. Though with this type of training don’t we kill the joy of reading. I agree that yes we school read the literary fiction, though there should be a balanced. As said in the discussion, this help keep people reading and enjoy both worlds of popular read and the classics. I believe this help with the problem of kids hating to read. I was an example of kids that hated to read when I was younger. I even sleep at reading time, though as I got older and teachers who let me read more books that I enjoy and with the school books. I enjoyed to read again and if this help me read again than this will work.

Post 5: • Adapting your book

The book Divergent was a good book with an interesting and action filled plot and a strong main female role, which we don’t see often enough. This made it refreshing read and gave me a new perspective on reading.  Some parts of the book were slow and didn’t get to the main and important part till very much later on in the book. Some parts I would cut are Tris in school. I found that though it was nice we get to know who she was in before choosing day. Took more room and could be shorten or cut out, it was only exciting when she got near the choosing day. Another part of the book I would cut out is the Edward; the reason is because he is a minor character and in the end leaves Dauntless.

Some things I would keep in the book is the Choosing Day, it was a vital point in the book because from that point on where we see Tris grow as a character. Some things that do have to change are when they cut their hand and let the blood drop to the faction they chose to live. We could make it less blooded for people who are sensitive to these types of things. We change it to a cut to one finger and not across the whole hand like it was written in the book. Another thing I wouldn’t cut from the book is the entire fight scene. The reason is bring action in the movie and always this is where we see big changings in Tris character and in her training to be a Dauntless. We can use stunt doubles for the fight scene or we train the actors to fight themselves. Lastly I would keep Four scene and where he explain his tattoos. This show the main point of the book of you shouldn’t let society judge you for one thing. This help ties in the movie with the book and give a take away to learn from it.