Hills like White Elephants

I wish Nathan hadn't told us that this whole conversation is about abortion. I wonder if I could have got it by myself!! Usually, I am slow witted, so when I read, I notice facts that we have to read between the lines very slowly. I had no idea that the operation meant abortion until Nathan told me!
I liked the story because it didn't have much of difficult vocabularies or complexed sentence structures that hinder me from understanding the context. I could enjoy the story as much as I wanted! Also, the story was almost described with conversations, so it was more interesting.
I am not sure what choice I would have chosen if I were the girl. I think that the real world we live in isn't that easygoing and it has many dirty, disgusting obstacles that make people discouraged. So, I can understand why the man wanted an abortion. However, I can't really understand the feelings of the girl because I haven't had a chance to carry a baby, and I heard that it feels quite sacred. But, I think the girl's choice of leaving the man (we can read between the lines) is a right decision. She shouldn't stay with the man that tries to manipulate her, using "No pressure pressure", even though the man loves her. That is a wrong way of loving somebody!

A very short story.

I really felt nervous before I got to read the last short paragraph. I expected that Luz would not end up marrying the major of battalion, and she would live the rest of life regretting the decision she made. However, I was right that Luz didn't get to marry the major, but I was totally wrong that the protagonist contracted gonorrhea and became much more miserable than Luz. Maybe I was too used to the stories that good triumphed over the evil.
I wrote Luz as an evil, but she is an evil only when compared to the protagonist. I don't think she was particularly bad woman at all. As I am now in Vancouver for one year, I am kind of out of my routine life in Korea, and therefore, my way of thinking became quite freely. I would had thought Luz is the evil woman if I read it before I came here. However, I believe I grew up to be more mutual, and I can understand some odd situations better now.

Oh I don't know what I am talking about now... I am too tired today T^T Sorry for a mess piece of writing...... See you tomorrow <3

Comparison between General Tien and Hsueh Sung

  Although both are the Generals of the same period, they rarely have similarities between them. First of all, by seeing that Tien gathered a new force to invade Hsueh Sung's land, we can tell that he is very aggressive and progressive. He knows what to do to make himself comfortable. However, even though his own land is invaded, Hsueh Sung doesn't know what to do and just worries about it. Therefore, we can tell that he is a man of passive personality. Also, approaching from the other side the fact that Tien invaded Hsueh Sung's land for his own comfort, we can see that Tien is an inconsiderate man; he cares only about himself. On the other hand, we can tell Hsueh Sung is a considerate man by the facts that he let go the wife-dead-drummer in the beginning and Red Thread Maiden at the end. Next, Tien is a rather independent man because he doesn't have any adviser to help him but himself, whereas Hsueh Sung is rather a dependent man who has Red Thread Maiden to help him all the time. Furthermore, we can assume that Tien cares about material things by the fact that he has the luxurious golden box and sword. Hsueh Sung, however, seems to be an artistic man seeing that he likes to listen to music and poem. Lastly, Tien is dynamic and round since he changes at the end whereas Hsueh Sung is flat and static because he maintains his character till the end.

Fun Weekend!

On Saturday, me and my friends gathered in front of H mart (Korean supermarket!) and shopped for ingredients for cooking! One funny fact - I met Shanida in the market!! It was so good to see her outside the campus.:) One of my friends lived by himself in downtown, so we all went to his house and cook! We made Okonomiyaki, Dduck bock ki, and Ubuchobab. These are Korean and Japanese popular food! 

The food all tasted so great and we spent wonderful time together. We had stomachache because we laughed too much lol :O

Here are some pictures that I PRETEND that I am cooking haha 

The Gold Mountain Coat

In her short story, "The Golden Mountain Coat", Judy Fong-Bates explores the tensions of immigrant life in Canada in the 1950's. There is only one Chinese family in the narrator's town in Ontario other than the narrator's. Sam Sing and his two sons, John and Ken, manages a the Chinese restaurant. Sam is a person of blunt personality, and he is very stingy about money that his two sons only have one wear and tear coat to share. Not like Ken, John is a married man and his family is in China. After few years of hard working, John manages to get a permission from the government that his family can come over to Canada. Sam permits his sons to close the restaurant to pick the family up in the airport. The problem is that they had only one coat in the cold weather. John and Ken concludes that they need one more coat and they plot to ask Sam to purchase one. They figures out that Friday is the best day to tell Sam because the business on Fridays usually went well. And on the decisive day, John asserts that they need a new coat only to find Sam's face becoming stiff. Ken blurts out that that they need one because John's son will need it when going to school after growing up, so three people can share two coats together. Sams face breaks into smile after he listens to Ken.

the relationship between writing and speaking

  Both writing and speaking are a way of delivering your thought.

  For me, speaking makes me feel more comfortable than writing does. I think it's because speaking is our daily lives' task. Especially in my case, my characteristic is rather outgoing, so I have few problems when I speak. However, when it comes to writing, it is more difficult because I don't have as much chance to write as to speak. Furthermore, I can't use either of my facial expressions or body language to convince my readers when I write!(Well for nowadays, people use lots of emoticons to show their facial expression on internet when they write. However, for formal writings, we can't benefit from using them!)

  I don't try to write the way I speak. In fact, I try not to write in the way I speak. If I record me speaking and then dictate it, it would look so bad and there would be too much mistakes to read without difficulty! Fortunately, I can look up for some words that I am not familiar with when I am writing. My sentences tend to become more complicated and sound better than I speak.

  Basically, as I wrote at the top of the page, both speaking and writing are a good way to express your thoughts and feelings. As they are both means to convey your opinions, there can't be a huge or significant difference between them. However, there exists some subtle differences, and I feel more comfortable with speaking than writing for some that subtle differences. Maybe I have some sort of fear in writing unconsciously. :(   

   

My thoughts about writing!

To tell the truth, I don't have much interest in writing things.

Well, I had to keep my diary when I was in elementary school as an everyday homework. 

So I struggled to reflect on my daily life in order to do my homework (I was fairly hardworking  student and I always tried to keep up with my class and homework).

Ever since I graduated my elementary school, no teacher would force me to write everyday diary, so I had no reason to struggle every night thinking what to write, and that made me so comfortable. 

In conclusion, I am a kind of girl who tries to avoid writing whenever possible, so I seldom write. Plus, I didn't have a blog until Nathan made me make one today so I really haven't had a place to write online. Well I do have the Facebook and the Cyworld (a kind of a social network like Facebook that you can keep in touch with others which is famous in Korea) account but I don't use it as a place to write on. I usually use them as means of uploading pictures and writing short notes to my friends. I don't think I can classify that as a writing!

Actually, I don't think I contemplate much everyday. I dislike being serious about the world and I don't consider much about the world's hot issues or problems. I think I am just too busy taking care about my own issues and problems. Maybe this might be  the reason I don't write my diary - I don't have much to write on!