[Free] TiMe

In physics, time is defined as the fourth dimension but we as humans cannot really understand it. To understand time would be like a drawing or something 2D trying to comprehend what is 3D. Then why do we try to understand something that is nearly impossible for us to understand. There are technological advances with the goal of time travel. Going to the past or future, what will that do to the space time continuum?

One thing is learned about time is that it is not constant. This might not be true in a physics point of view but for our way of time, it does change. In your childhood, time seems to go by slowly. As children, we would ask for example: Are we there yet?, Why are you on the phone so long daddy/mommy, or Why is dinner taking so long to make. But as we age, this resource called time seems to speed up. Years spent in high school seems like a blink of an eye. It might be because we are much more occupied.

So if I were able to live in the 4th dimension, I would try to buy some time, like how we buy 3D things. I am not sure how this would work because we would be time itself. It would be pretty funny though, it would be like buying 1 hr extra to do something for $100. When I forgot to do my homework, i would open this bag of time and then that 1 hr everything else freezes. If only we could do that ….
haha i start talking about random stuff when i am tired.

[BC] Be a man, do the right thing.

lol the title is not related to the post
Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?


In the few yet enduring years that I have played tennis, I have learned that tennis can change a person. It helped me build character as simple as hitting a green ball with a metal racket. I learned that as long as we have a goal that is somewhat realistic, we try our best to accomplish it. We do not stay ignorant but we improve as long as we want to. My ambitious goal was to win in a match against the very person that passed down his skills to me, Wu. This was not an easy task because he started a year before me. I had to defeat time itself. Due to my want to defeat him, I became stronger, faster, and taller than ever before.

As a beginner, I struggled to make contact with the ball. By looking at the ball and advancing my hand-eye coordination, hitting the ball did not seem that hard. Strokes such as the backhand and the serve seemed quite unnatural to me at first but through practice it wasn’t that bad. Soon, I learned how to stroke the ball without much effort. As I play more and more, I become more familiar with this game. Footwork seemed like a foreign language to me. The idea of running with small steps and not large leaps frustrated me. The problems that I encounter are different each time but I tend to always overcome them.

One day the previous summer, I finally beat Terrence 7-5 in a practice match that we had. I began with winning my service game, and then he kept his service game. This lasted for five consecutive times until the score was 5-5. At times, rallies lasted 10 or more strokes in this game where the momentum seemed to go from side to side. I held my serve with an epic 9 point deuce. After my hold, surprisingly Wu was down 30-40, this was the perfect opportunity for me. I ripped a massive forehand against his slow yet safe spinny kick serve. Game, set, and match. This experience was like finishing first in an Olympic race. After finally winning, my sights have changed to another more skilled player. I will have to constantly work hard until I reach that goal.

From these struggles that I have had in the game of tennis, I have changed to a different person. If you want to master something, then you have to practice, practice, and practice. Just doing nothing about something you want will lead to no change. It is important that you yourself work toward your particular goal. It might have not been the win that has made me so proud but the experience toward the win. This journey was something that was physical and yet mainly mental. I had to keep telling myself to believe that i can do it. Even if i acquired losses in the journey, i was able to reflect what i did wrong and improve myself from that. Tennis is a sport that i am proud about because i can see my accomplishments.


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i feel like i am talking about the same thing over and over again ….

[CE] A picture is worth 500billion words

I learned about this new interesting tool from the following video:

We can access this tool here.

So this TED video explains to us this new google application that allows you to search up a word. This isn’t just any normal search though, it searches through 5 million of the booked that google has scanned and analyzed. Google has scanned a total of 15 million books, woah maybe I can be a professional book scanner for my career. Google sure is helping the world and it's history become more modernized. By searching this word it will tell you how often it is seen in a particular time period and how popular it is or was. Unfortunately, I searched my name and I'm not very known.

The two demonstrators poke fun of this device by saying people didn’t start talking about a particular year until it was the year. They said that people didn’t know that would actually come. I think these people are very using weird examples. I don’t know what this device would be used for except for the curiosity of a bored factual person. It would be interesting when certain trends were started but they have no actual use to my life currently.

When I looked up tennis, I saw a peak in the year 1940. Then I thought to myself, is this actually really accurate to measure trends. If tennis is 1% of the words in 1940 and tennis becomes 1% in 2020, then it is not the same. The population of the world has increased maybe by double. So the times this word was used would be a lot more in 2020 than 1940. Maybe I am wrong about something but that is my thought about this tool.

[Free] EatReal

haha, well you mightve been tricked by the title. I am not telling you to eat real food and not junk food but something else. i love junk food xD

To add some community service hours to my resume and to help out people, i decided to participate in the EatReal fest in Jack London. It is always likes these little activities that leads to fun memorable times. Today i woke up at 9 on a saturday morning, boy is that early. When i got to oakland i was pretty lost at where to go. Luckily there are other people on this planet, so i asked a randomly person who looked like staff for directions.

On the way there i saw two friends of mine, Richard and Alex. It turns out that they followed us to the place where Charlene and i volunteered and we collaborated on doing business. Our job at this event was to help sell these EatReal tshirts that had labels “ made it, eat it, grow it.” They were sold for a hefty 15 dollars and with tax it became 16.5 dollars. I bet i had to get change for a 20 dollar bill at least 100 times. At times not having 50 cents led to the customer profiting or the owner of the booth pocketing the change. This Nicole and her husband (the owners of this booth) were quite grateful for our work. I wonder what they will do with all that money.

Us four worked a greuling 7 hours with minimal break but it was a fun experience. In addition to having a nice time, the staff gave us a schwag bag with random coupons and miscellaneous things, drinks, and chipotle burritos. I guess this is one of example of good intention leads to good things.

[CE]Obama proposes $1.5tn tax hike to cut deficit

This week for my ce post, I decided to write a few of my thoughts about our debt crisis from this article.

Barack Obama, the US president, has proposed $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue as part of his long-term deficit- reduction plan.

"Middle class families should not have to pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires," he said.

Yes, it is right to tax the rich proportionally as the middle or lower classes but will that really help the problem? In America, people spend money they don’t have, or won’t ever have. For example, the debt is 14.3 x 000,000,000,000; it must take forever for us to make that much debt. A problem the government has is the way they spend money. This 1.5 trillion that Obama wants to get from taxes could have been prevented easily. The stimulus plans a few years back were around this number. So it is simple math if you think about it, don’t spend 1.5 so you don’t have to save 1.5trillion from elsewhere. This stimulus plan didn’t actually help the economy because not everyone reused the money given and they might had saved it. I remember reading somewhere as a comment on yahoo about the government’s debt crisis, “If the government doesn’t have to pay their taxes, why should we?” Currently the government is providing a very bad example to us citizens.

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner rejected President Obama's $3 trillion plan to cut the deficits, saying it would fail to tackle long-term problems and would raise taxes.

Raising taxes in an economic depression or at any time period is not exactly a good thing. People will decide to spend less money on consumer goods if they are taxed more on income or housing. Businesses and retailer stores will be affected by this and they will lose business, workers will lose jobs. Although Boehner might be helping the long run, he isn’t exactly compromising. He just rejected the bill and that did not leave any room for Obama and him to find the best solution.

With more proposed taxes means a bigger burden for the next generation. College prices will rise, with fewer grants. i hope social security will still be here to help us when we are 67, but that will be in 2061. sighh. . . there goes Obama again, talk talk talk . Good luck to us, who will remain poor forever!

[RE]System.out.println("Angela's Wrong Decision");

I am currently in the class AP Comp Science, too, and I might’ve made a wrong decision, also. This class is quite hard because Computer Science does not come naturally to me. On my first test in this class I already got a depressing B-. Joo told us that this test would be the easiest of the year and it will progressively get harder and harder. A sentiment that I immediately get is fear. I am scared that my grade will only get lower and lower.

so here is angela's blog

Although this class is extremely difficult, it is interesting. We learned how to loop programs, destroy C-drives, print lines and do math using programming. The title of this blog already proves that i learned some stuff. System.out.println(" ") basically prints whatever is inside the parenthesis. The more we learn, the more we have to memorize in our little computer brains. That means that the longer we are in the course, the longer i will struggle. I will try to battle this monster and master the ways of defeating it.

One day, one of my friends had trouble on the project. I am pretty sure that she did not understand what the project wanted her to show.

Mr.Joo warned us about cheating in the beginning of the year and that made me weary. Would i be considered cheating if i have the same work as someone else but we didnt work together? That would be quite an unfortunate coincidence. Hopefully that doesnt happen to me in the foreseeable future. I guess thats one of the things about tutoring or helping a friend on homework, its hard to do. If someone asks me to help them on math, i tend to just give them the answer or tell them how to do it and why it is like that. I should ask them questions so they can sorta figure it out themselves. Only experience will help you with helping other people.

[free] The plague of school . dun dun dun.

I actually thought about this disease when school started but I did not have time to write about it. School has many affects on you mentally and physically except for those that make you a less ignorant person. First I will talk about the physical illnesses that we as students acquire. After 3 days of school, i realized that my weight started decreasing at a unexpected rate. This can be because of the lack of food or lack of sleep. We no longer have the freedom to eat whenever we want in any class, we might not even have time to eat breakfast. Lack of sleep ends up giving us panda eyes, which makes us look like sleep walking zombies.

The mental illnesses are not ones that are like ADD or OCD but something else, something that could be worse in my opinion. Our ability of pursuit of happiness is somewhat taken away because of homework. We no longer have the time to do stuff we enjoyed during the summer. Since the summer gave us a surge of happiness and now we have very little happiness, this is a fast transition. I believe that the first week of school should start on a Wednesday or something so we can get used to school life. Well, we should try to slowly change the way we view of homework and one day math homework will be a source of happiness. haha just kidding

I made this post for fun and it is also expressing how much I miss the summer of 2011. Time sure flies.