A day in my Life

Trace back to my third grade of senior high school year, I have a bunch of close friends. We are not just friends but a family. A girl named Yan is one of my best friends. However, we have similar characteristics which are stubborn and pride. We always got annoyed when our opinions are different, so we fought so often and our pride would not let us to apologize first. I still remember it was a regular school day; we went to school as usual. I do not really remember what small thing we have made us fight again. Because of the different perspectives of our opinions, we did not talk to each other during the entire morning. We sat next to each other during that semester, so it was kind of awkward that we did not talk. In the class before noon, it was a Chinese class, I decided to talk to her. “We have to communicate!” at least that was what I thought about. I passed a piece of note with “we should talk” on it. However, she threw the paper on the floor. “What the heck! I talk to you first and you still give me attitude?!” I yelled in my mind. After that, I showed my anger by put or dropped thing really hard. We were still in class time so I could not really do much. When the class off, we both sat still and remain in silence. I was really upset. Unexpectly, she turned to me and said “let’s communicate.” We stared at each other, but our pride stopped us from apologizing first. All of a sudden, we both cried. Other of our friends were shocked that we were crying, and they wondered what was going on then. Yan and I tried to communicate while we just murmured “why did you do this to me.” Then, we embraced each other so hard with tears. After class all of my best friends went out to dinner together like a happy family. We spent the rest of the day hanging out and chatting. Before I went to bed that day, I realized how important communication was between people.

Photo image analysis - Lunch atop a Skycraper

This photo is taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.
The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. The workers look pretty much enjoying their lunch in the sky without fear. I have been to New York City twice. I went every famous place in NYC; however, I have never seen the city from the sky. These men had such a special and unique experience other than everybody. Even if laboring everyday, they still look satisfied and enjoyed the time. Through these guys faces in ease, they probably look life in an easy way. Honestly, they could die at anytime for just a slip or something. Not like the pilot, they got NO parachute. I guess they might take every single meal as the last meal in their life, just like the story of Jesus. What is more, the weather must really peaceful, nice, and no windy at all. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction, the photo Resting on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the beam. I don't understand why american workers take their life as a bet that easy.

25 Things Writing Assignment

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

(Please post your list to your blog, and if you want to, put it on your Facebook as well.)



1. I love to create my own recipes. I made kiwi porridge, fried banana peel, and chocolate pot for my mom last summer, stuffed Hi-chu and chocolate chicken for girls’ night, strawberry spaghetti for Bryan, and dipped chocolate shrimps for Mr. Long and his friends!
2. I have a twin sister HANNAH LIN who is 10 years old.
3. Stitch is my son! I love stitch so much. I kinda get a bit jealous because Stitch got a new girlfriend on Valentine’s Day.
4. Im a fruit person and I killed 8 bananas within two days.
5. I hadn’t brushed my teeth for 6 days last time I went to LA bc I forgot to bring my toothbrush
6. I seldom get angry (real one), but if I get angry, it’s really SCARY.
7. I wanna go Egypt so bad. I always dream that I can live in the Pyramid with mummies.
8. I hadn’t taken a shower in 3 days when I was dumped by my ex during summer 2006. The weather was really hot and humid. Omg so gross.
9. I am narcissistic! I take picture of myself all the time.
10. I love the friends I met during high school so much. I consider they are my second family. We call ourselves “BOOFAY” (BooBoo Family) and there are 5 girls in BOOFAY.
11. Red is my favorite color. Almost all the things in my room are red, my sheet, my desk, my table, my night table, my clock…etc. and my MINI cooper, she’s so hot.
12. I almost never go to beaches because I hate getting tan and I’m not confident of my shape. As I think, beach is a place for either skinny or good shape ladies.
13. I though love was the most important thing for me in my life when I was young. Now, as I grow up, I realize friends are more important than love because friendship will last forever.
14. I always want to own a pet but my mom never allow me to, “You just want to play and have fun and always leave a mess behind which I have to clean it up,” she said to me.
15. I’m really spoiled by my parents, my grandparents and my boyfriend.
16. I am very stubborn. I do whatever I think it is right. It is hard for me to take my mistake but I learn from it anyways.
17. I wish I could go back to my high school year. It is the happiest period during my whole life.
18. I have been to Italy, Paris, Australia, Japan, Korea, and LA, NY, OR, MI in the United States!
19. I curse a lot when I drink.
20. I try to play this tough girl; I hate it when people see me at my worst.
21. I want to be a vegetarian but I cannot resist seafood. I love seafood so much.
22. Every time I go to LA to visit my best friend in junior high school, she takes me to have so many good foods there and usually we have 3 meals for just one night. The food there is so good so much better and so yummy.
23. Michigan is too cold for me. I had always wanted to see snows because there’s no snow in Taiwan. Now, when I see the snow I will only say “Please, STOP!”
24. I cannot eat anything icy because my body is not in good condition.
25. I let love took over my life and later to find out love is not worth it. Love is one of my biggest mistakes in my life.

Cultural Narrative and Ideology

This commercial is a good example for the use of cultural narrative. Even though there’s very little narration in the commercial but it shows a lot of American culture and ideal of dogs. In the beginning, the owner of the rhino called for her pet to go out for a walk as if a dog owner would but if it was a dog, it wouldn’t have broken the door and it is an American culture to walk their dogs. The second part, the ostrich is chasing the mail man like the way a dog would since in American culture, dogs are known to hate mail men. The third part is the boar riding in a car with a family sticking its head out of the window like how a dog would. This also is an American culture of having a dog, and letting it sit in the back seat of a car with the family with its head out of the window. The fourth part is the man wanting his buffalo to fetch the Frisbee that he threw like how a dog would have. This is also another American culture of owning a dog and playing fetch with it. In the end of the commercial the narration happened and he said “maybe you should get a dog.” This commercial is effective in a way that it shows exaggeration of having a different kind of pet rather than a dog and how less of a fun and more trouble you would have having something other than a dog.

Five Ways of Interpreting a Text” by John Peters

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/01/28/cb.facebook.boss.friend/index.html#cnnSTCText

This text reveals the social concern of using Facebook at work. Since Facebook has become one of the largest online social networking website, it is most likely that people at your work place which would include your boss may request to be your friend on Facebook. Friending your boss on Facebook could have a positive or negative effect depending upon what you have on your Facebook. The article also discuss about the basic use of Facebook so that the reader may obtain some important information to prevent people from work seeing things on the reader’s Facebook that he or she may not want them to see. The article also discusses whether you should friend your boss or not. This text relates to the past in a way that it explains how online social networking was not as widely used as now. Things we do on Facebook today, we used to do them face to face in real life such as meeting new people, leaving messages, or even making appointments. But nowadays, Facebook has become such a big part of people’s lives that we almost do not socialize in real life anymore but rather socialize on Facebook with people that we may not ever meet.