This is for my own personal record.

This is not homework, this is not english, this is my memory, and this is my life. This beautiful girl named Sue had been my sister for two years… I will miss her… very, very, very much… I love you !!! Hope you succeed in every areas - and you will, because I believe in you

Thursday afternoon,

                                               I check my blogs.

Now. blogs aren’t furn, unless you are the writer - a true, writing-lover, writer. You notice, the “kiswrites.org” next to my name; number “10″ is very school-y. So no one, really expects the cluster map to lighten up with red dots somewhere in the world except Korea. I started to comment people, Phillip, for example, he really motivated me to comment. His blogs were amazing. But any who, I never expected any comments from anyone else but from KIS. So I look at my blog rubrics from English class, and froze for a few seconds. I think I had some awaiting comments left behind… and I look, and I see so many other people commenting to my blog - my goodness. Why am I so not tech-savvy,

Oh Hannah!

Hannah is from Pennsylvania. I’ll go through every one of her posts to comments some arguments just like she did, and entertain myself. Getting to know a blogger is much better than gaining red dots on the cluster map.

http://www.taylortheteacher.com/

Taylor teacher, I guess, is just like Mr Burell but on the other side of the world. Instead, she uses an anonymous name “Taylor “and speak of her life. Every day, she mentions other teachers like “Mr Andrew” or some sort and talk about them. She curses, unlikely to those teachers all over the world, and she talks behind everyone’s backs, without getting caught. She is in common with Mr Burell, since she has her own perspective of school and she sort of has a lot of complaints about the school. Interesting thing I found was,

this sort of talk. She writes literature in black words, and scream out her thoughts in pink words. I love her voice, and it’s somehow extremely engaging when reading her blog - I found her a long time ago, but never got a chance to read her blogs. And now, there she is in my first row of the bookmarks.

Just a reminder, my blog is a student blog, motivated by English teachers from a school. I was assigned with a certain amount of blogs, and I have accomplished the amount…now I am going to use this blog to convey my own ideas, shrivel out of the “school”iness and certain limitations of my creativity when writing blogs, and convey the readers with my own opinions, as a 16 year old.

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The day has come.
May 22nd 2008. I faced failure.

I expected so much after all the efforts I have committed to that one test… but the failure I faced seems to be deeper than I thought. I somehow overcame the failure, yet it seems like my parents can’t swim out of the disappointment. Today’s blog will be short and precise, because writing is not only about just writing things; it is about expressing your thoughts, and expressions sometimes include memories and feelings of a particular day…

“Memories change and shape people. Sad memories can result in a sad person and happy memories can result in a happy person. Thinking back to memories is the closest humans can get to time traveling. Thinking back to memories can trigger emotions.” William Shin says

There are retakes, retaken examinations but life doesn’t always have retake exams - once you take it, once you fail it, you’ve failed it. period. *sigh. I gained so much self-esteem after the exam, because I felt good about the accomplishment. But now, I became prudent and less confident again.

Shhh…

English teachers requested their students that if they blog about PGC and show them ticket, they will receive the extra credits. As a host, and as one of the band members I am not going to talk much, because it is a marketting skill.

Although, I have some few complaints to make. People who just sat in class during club, careless about this unprepared concert just one week away. The group was composed of 20 people, but only few were active. Through the first annual of the concert, as a student leader I learned lots of things about running the event. The interaction between bands, the deals made with the workers of the club and so on… Everything was crucially important. Also, more than three hours of the concert bored the people out utterly. Even I could see the bored faces on the teachers.

Those people who took their responsibility and excelled in their own areas (video, poster, banner…etc) accomplished amazing jobs. Hope to see them in the next year crew. I must confess that, people who joined the club just to jot it down in their college transcripts and somehow write about it in order to show good impression as student leaders; please have some consciousness, have respect and be faithful - those who were actually active for this club did not devote themselves because of college, it was because they wanted to get to know the real world and learn some basic skills of business.

Next year it is going to so much better. So much successful. Because we are going to make it better. Notice how I never emphasized on ME as an individual; this is a group work. This needs coordination. This team work. This is real business.

It was amazing

I sang at the PGC concert with Erica. It was an amazing experience.
Or I should call it, ” memories “

Looking for a good video to watch on youtube? Search for Maangchi and you’ll get a whole channel of yummilicious recipes!

I’ve always the biggest weakness of Asians, is the language barrier which include pronunciations and accents… but this woman carried bravery in every word she said. I was extremely amazed, and I wish I lived like her with sophistication when I become a mother !

His comment box was right below his blog post and I thought it was strange that he had no comments and I scrolled down the screen and figured that… he had 154 comments… - it was clear that I wasn’t the only one who was amazed by his detailed observations…and man I hope it’ll help me get that A.

Last night (or this morning) at 2:46am I was working on my English essay (clearly because I didn’t want nothing to be done during the long, rare break) and came up with a curiosity of “fonts”. Yes, fonts. Honestly, the only way to impress the readers in essays, which all have black words on white blank pieces of papers, is to decorate with words… or use appealing fonts. I mean, fonts such as CARTOON fonts or sTylIsh fonts won’t give any effects, instead it will hurt the grade. 

I googled the title “fonts of essays” and unexpectedly found a great blog written by Phil Renaud (click here). He statistically proved that fonts do matter long story short, out of 52 total essays he wrote during his college career, he wrote 23 styled with font “Georgia” and average grade of all the essays was an A. and to support the idea, he wrote 18 essays and averaged B-… 11 Times New Roman; averaged A-.

As a college student, Phillip was extremely logical; everyone knows Theories are not so splendid, when it is just common sense fitted into a sentence.

“…assuming that the professor marking the papers generally sees a few hundred in Times font every semester…”

I could not be any more agreeable to this, since it was made so much sense. Minding that line as one of the trailers for Phillip’s blog, I strongly recommend checking out his blog. It’s amusement can’t be described in words.

My concern right now is if I’d done the right thing, to post a blog about a “shortcut” to get an A when there is a chance for my English teacher to read this post before I even handed in the essay… =) Thankyou, Phillip.

During the five-days break which comes around every 4 years of the school history, I decided to spend it building some knowledge. I found a tab, after 6 months of owning a MacBook, titled “Latest Headlines” on firefox. I clicked on it, and it gave me a scroll list of headlines… starting from “don’t be evil” to “Bangledesh food aid set for Burma”… Burma? My weak geography skills gave me a faint idea of the location of Burma. I found it by searching Google Image.

If farmers get fair prices it gives
them morecapital to improve yield -
this could help improve
the food problems of Africa

This country, located just before Thailand is facing some unfortunate tragedies… and I’ll talk about this tomorrow in the blog… but First, I read this article about “Green Revolution” in Africa… and I realized how active UN is; not to forget to mention Korean Ban Ki Moon as the UN Secretary-General for the unanimous votes during the election.

They used some pretty smart techniques and ideas in order to keep Africa out of hunger and starvation. Who said cell phones are only used for social careers and our parents to track us down? UN had introduced the skills for Africans to text each other via cell phones, informing the best price to sell their products.

They call it the “vicious circle”. Many of the farmers in Africa were in desperate need of money. Because of that emergence, they were forced to sell their hard-work products fast at a low price. And because they got not much profit in return, they were not able to buy higher quality of seeds and so, they kept selling their products at a low price. On top of that, they were clueless of how much they actually deserved when dealing with their products.

The UN provided a program and loaned the farmers money to purchase better machineries and better seeds, with the support of cell phone text messages to earn better money. Then, they did not struggle or be chased by any financial crisis.

One glance of the article gave me a brief information on it - when I read articles before, I thought, ‘Hm, I get the idea’ and flicked through other websites but now I used my personal profile Facebook to save the web address forever so that I can take a look at it whenever I need or want.

Who said Facebook is only for social-networks?
Now it’s time to use it for yourself.