Life is the biggest school if you look at it as a whole in depth. It might not be as easy as looking at any scenes you see around you all the time. It takes you whole life to learn. Thus, we all will graduate in the last day on earth. I’ll start at the young age which I would call “family period”. This is the most important and the purest period as the saying “children is white.” They really are The length of this period varies on each person. This period is when you learn a lot: learn to live, to love, to laugh, to give, to get, to make friends, to be in the society, and etc. You would learn all basics at the time. This is also the time people attach to their families. Moreover, you don’t have to think much about anything, but yourself. You don’t really have any responsibility. If you feel like you have long family period, I would say that you’re lucky.

When you go through any period, there is no possible way to go back. It will be just standing right there confronting same level tasks all over again or fight to be in the next level. Anyway, the next level is when you don’t attach to your family as much anymore. Wait! Don’t look at it as a good or bad thing! It’s just the way life is. At this period, you’ll be thinking mostly about yourself: how your life will be, how to survive, how to get a job, and more..

Next, you’ll think about family of your own. Being a parent yourself will make you understand how your parents feel about you when you were young – just like a cycle.

What else can we learn at the last period? – How to live peacefully & death!! Don’t worry we all will have to pass it one day. The difference is how we handle it.

The idea exactly about learning in life is that there will be tons of tasks for you to pass to the next level and so on. From my experience, I feel like there is someone up there messing up my life in an organized way. After I’ve been facing that kind of mess many times, I feel like there are some practices I’ve got to work on in order to prepare myself for a test which is, of course, tougher. If I get through it beautifully, there will be the harder one ahead. There is  no way to predict at what time the next test will be in front of you. On the other hand, if I am stuck, there will be the same kind of situation I have to face somehow. This happens again and again until you get through it.

So, appreciate anything coming to your life. It might not be as you want, but it is your teacher. Look carefully in every steps in life, then you’ll see the beauty of life. Just do your best!! Walk slowly and looking for tiny miracle and everyday magic!!

There were 3 types of materials which were nylon: brown and yellow, leather: bone black and red, and pink patent leather. Moreover, there is also a purse attached in the bag, but the material is different in the photos of many websites I checked. That was why I called them. Finally, I decided to buy a small pink patent leather camera bag because I thought it would be easy to clean, and the purse made of leather as well. I fell in love with my girly pink bag just right away – so cute >.<

And, it’s big considering it’s a small size bag. I can store everything I have in my handbag in the small pinky camera bag, and that’s amazing really. Love it!!

One of the most important things for camera bag is padded divider. The divider that comes with the bag is nice and sweet with colorful dots. Additionally, the bag itself is kind of thick and strong. Love it more!!

Then, it was time to prove if the bag is really waterproof as the company claims. I went out to Central Park during the third snow storm of this winter and found out that it worked absolutely perfect. Love it even more!!

Right now, this bag is my everyday bag carrying all stuff and my camera. I don’t regret of buying this bag at all. Good job Jill-e ^^ (www.jill-e.com)

There are so many reasons why people want their lives to be like they are right now: choose by interest, norm, someone’s  suggestion, and etc. I do wonder whether anyone looks back to the day he chose the path and asks himself if what he’s doing right now is what he dreamed of in the way past. Following your dreams is as important as being responsible to others. And, that’s why it’s tough.

Actually, we confront this kind of junctions a lot in everyday life. People always have choices to choose, then it leads you to another junction. This cycle never ends. When it comes to a big one, it’s harsh and takes a lot of effort to get through the moment smoothly. No one wants to regret about what he has done. So, be careful of what you’re choosing. I keep my fingers cross for all who is facing the same situation as me.

Here, in the US., Christmas is the most important holiday. Cold weather, actually the white Christmas, is expected. Moreover, it’s all about gifts!! This period of time is the best time for all stores to earn money. As I’ve seen so far, people start looking for gifts long before Christmas, but "Black Friday" is very very crowded. In my experience, Black Friday deals in store are not that good. It’s always cheaper online which surprises me a lot because it doesn’t make any sense about the differences. Although, it’s true that selling online doesn’t need as much service as in store selling, it shouldn’t be so different since most stores have brick and mortar stores as well. I don’t know if you guys will agree with this. It’s just an opinion though.

Christmas tree is very lovely. I went to Rockefeller Center to watch it every years since I came here, in NY. The funny thing is the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center look a bit cheaper each year!! However, it’s still nice to have a really big one. Moreover, snowflake dance is interesting. There is one at the building opposite to Rockefeller Center, but my favorite is the one at The Shop: Timewarner Building.

The big malls in NY have Christmas Windows, which kids can’t miss. They are luxury, beautiful, cute,exciting, and active. Kids will enjoy it very much. I’m sure. If you have a chance go see them.

Finally, I wish you all good luck and Happy Holiday guys!!

Eastern people are always indirect: the way of talking, acting, or even expressing their feeling. In contrast, western people usually behave directly as what they feel. So, how possible for them to understand exactly what the other is thinking.

Last night, six of us (the mixture of eastern and western people) were going to go join the cruise with all classmates. Unfortunately, it was raining, so we missed it. Then, we were going to somewhere else. Three western people dicided to go to a bar. The thing was three eastern people weren’t alcohol drinkers, and didn’t know how to let the others know that they didn’t enjoy any bar that much. Moreover, they didn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings because they all realized that it was kind of misunderstood. Therefore, three eastern people did express their feelings indirectly as the way they’re used to do so by telling the other three to get into the bar while they found something to eat at another place. That sounded fine, but it was not. The three people in the bar were waiting while the other three tried to find something to do outside in order to let them have fun the way they like. Then, when we met again before going back home, it could be assume that the three people in the bar were angry because the other three didn’t join them and they didn’t understand. So, three eastern people gave them the reasons, which was a secondary reason.

We all were wrong in this situation, and no one meant to hurt each other . However, I’m pretty sure that we all hurt since we weren’t aware of the differences of cultures. I have no idea what to do back then really. All I want to say is “sorry.”

However, it’s not easy for us, international students, to get involved into American students community, I guess. Even if the professors convince us to do so, I still think that it might be an awkward situation. Culture, sometimes, is a difficulty. While international people don’t know about usual ways to do things in another country or even society, they could be considered as a joker. Anyway, I’ve never confronted this kind of situation in the university so far. And, I hope not to face it.

After living here for a while, I have not only good but bad experiences as well. Thank you very much for people’s kindness and some people’s cruelty. I’ve learned a lot from those experiences.

How much fun you do you get from tablet PC?

I have no idea about other people, but myself. It’s so fun that you get a good tool that can make you feel much better when you’re bored especially if the thing has multi-touch. Passive digitizer is touch screen that you’ve got to press hardly to make it get what you want to do and not so good in writing or drawing. On the other hand, active digitizer is great for writing or drawing. It gives almost the same feeling as using paper and pen. And capacitive touch is what we have on iPhone.

In my position, I’ll choose Dell Latitude XT which has Active digitizer and capacitive touch because Thinkpad X61T has passive digitizer and active digitizer. I’ll be back and talk about the differences if I decide to get one.

What if someone plans to start his job and family in countryside, who knows if his boss will send him to another country next week. It’s, eventually, like something go wrong when we plan things perfectly. "Keep it slow!" & "Do step by step!" are what fortune is telling me to do so. Because we’ve faced sort of accidental situations all the time, we need to be prompt without a long term plan.

I really feel like there’s someone up there messing up humans’ lives; I don’t know if it’s for fun or he’s on duty but it seems to be painful anyhow.

Take what you think it’s good for you right now! No one can tell about the future; however, what’s good today will lead you to another good way. Even though, it’s not what you plan to be, take it because it might be what you mean to be.

The story is about Po, a big fat panda, who is chosen as dragon warrior in order to fight with a powerful tiger. Po is a big fan of Kung Fu but knows nothing about it. He believes and tries so hard to make himself better and follow his dreams. It’s so funny that Po is greedy enough to be trained by using food. He’s so cute though. Moreover, there are some good statements in the movie such as..

"There’s no accident in everything."

"Yesterday is history.

Future is mystery.

Today is a gift; that’s why it’s called ..present.."

Even though, I heard these statements many times by now, it’s still impressive and very emotional. This movie is a terrific movie for kids really. I’m just about to love it!!