[RE] to " about nick wong"

Since I had to think of someone to write a response post to, who better than someone I live with. I decided to read my brother’s interesting column and I found a story I can relate to:

Throughout my life Ive had some adventures...dumb adventures...When I was the age of 7(?) I was walking from my house to Loards Ice Cream in south shore with my cousins who rarely came. I was talking to one of my cousins without looking forward, bad idea ._. . So, as I was walking, suddenly, my cousins yell, "NICK WATCH OUT" as I walk into the pole. HOWEVER..I didnt simply just walk into the pole, I turned my head (as anyone would if your name was yelled right..?), and just at the right moment, as I turned my head, I scraped it on the edge of the pole and walked into it afterwards. My forehead began to bleed and I had to go to the hospital to get skin glue.

I remember this incident as well too, not crystal clear but I remember the important parts. Unfortunately, my aunt ended up having to cover my brothers bloody and wet forehead with her hand. I guess random occurrences do happen, at least it was not a bowling ball falling from the sky. It was possible that I sprinted home and called the cops or maybe not. When nick was 7, cell phones was not as an everyday thing like the current iphones. It became a pretty big event with the flashing lights and people staring. Good thing bumping your head on a pole cannot kill you.

Nick told me that they gave him orange juice. Silly hospital and their plans to take every penny from you, they charged 50 dollars for an ambulance ride from south shore to the hospital and orange juice. Either the orange juice is expensive or the gas was not gas but nitro. Insurance does not really help with even though they have monthly fees.

So, in the end, we did not get ice cream but nick did acquire a scar that will be with him for the rest of his asian life. The scar is nothing special, not even Harry Potter’s thunder bolt shape, but a plain straight line. From time to time, I would look at it and reminisce of childhood that is slowly fading away. . .

[CE] A decade after 9/11

This is my first Current Events post so my experience with this is none. I decided to write about this video about 9/11 because it is coming up soon. 9/11 is one of those events where people say you know where you were back then because it was so important like the assassination of JFK but unfortunately I do not know where I was. Here is the video:

This video says that although it has been an entire decade since this disastrous event, New Yorkers are still worried about another attack. This feeling can be easily related to especially because we are Californians. Although I was not alive during the 1906 or 1989 earthquakes, even minor earthquakes scare me.

Professor John Mueller states,

” Americans only have a one in 80,000 chance of being killed in a 9/11-type attack in an 80 year period.”

This statistic is probably based on the amount of people killed during 9/11 and divided by the total population. I don’t really side with this professor because another 9/11 could be of equal or potentially deadlier damage. It all really depends on where the terrorists are aiming at. Also, if they use a nuclear weapon, thousands of people will not be immediately killed but they will have plenty of aftereffects.

It is said that 75 billion is used for airport security and is that all really needed? Some procedures at the airport make citizens feel uncomfortable, especially when there is full body touching. Maybe the countries of terrorists should pay some reparations for damages done. When we were little kids and we broke something at a store, didn’t our parents have to pay fines?

This 9/11 is in four days. We should be alert about our surroundings but being paranoid would not be good. Don't worry. . . USA is strong

[free]Senior Schedule

Wow, I cannot believe that it is senior year already. I never knew high school would go by so fast. Homework could be an important factor that helps time go by faster because you are more preoccupied. Well since it IS senior year ( woot 2012!!!), I decided to reward myself of what I would call a dream schedule. I currently am taking Ap computer science and Ap Calculus along with a 0-4^th period schedule and I TA one period. Last but not least, I also have pretty chill teachers for almost all my classes. One of the counselors but not my own counselor warned me about this schedule because colleges might not like the fact that I only have 4 real classes while other schools like O’Dowd have 6 or 7. With great power comes great responsibility, right? I will try to bump up my average SAT score about 100 more points and hopefully that will balance out the fact that I only have 4 periods. GPA and SAT are a lot more important in college applications most likely because they seem very biased.

This year will be the last year I get to be with my dear Charlene (she is a Junior) so I should use some of this extra-time to be with her. I need to balance out girlfriend and school at the same time, also mixing some tennis in so I don’t go mentally insane. I hope myself good luck! I will defeat you! Mock Congress, Portfolio, College Applications, SAT, financial aid will just be only minor obstacles, it just depends on how you view it.

Welcome back Nathan

The last time I had to post in my blog for a grade was back for my English final sophomore year. I said I would try to keep on blogging and I kept my promise, well sorta. I did blog three times in a bit over a year but they were mostly rants. I could say that I even miss blogging because it gives me an excuse to go on the computer at home. Back in sophomore year, I remember having to start our quarter or semester off with a post about goals, so I guess I will do that now. Due to the fact that we need to blog a lot more than before, I need to not use all my topics in one post. Unfortunately, I talked about my previous Hong Kong trip with 15 posts before so that is not an option. I hope Mr.Sutherland does not mind if I talk more about tennis because it is something I cannot seem to stop talking about. This year I hope that I can develop my writing so I am ready for college. I can do this by trying to utilize bigger vocabulary and trying to develop my own style of writing. This will be quite a challenge due to the fact that my English abilities have somewhat retrogressed in high school. =/

On a side note, I am really glad that I am able to participate in this classagain. The teacher I had before sounded really scary from the news I heard O.o One aspect, that I especially like about this class is the freedom to eat, drink, and almost anything. Well... not anything. I will need to cherish this last year of youth before I move on to enter the dragon called college. Time sure does fly by. sighh

hello

long time no see ah blog thingy
i almost forgot ur password but then i realize all my passwords are almost the same
hmm a lot of things have happened junior year
finals just ended . . . at least i probably have a 4.5 gpa
i have to start preparing for SATs soon
oh yeah i should had blogged about my birthday. . . i guess ill do that now

jan 7 . i turned 17 a few weeks ago
unfortunately my stomach bug or thats what the nurse said, so i felt horrible that day
i constantly had to go somewhere and stayed there for like two hours in the morning. even though i didnt feel 100% i still went to school . when i got to school, i asked mr.nakamura for some stomach medicine but then he didnt have any. then i asked to go bathroom and then to the nurses. i mustve annoyed the heck out of him that day but oh wells.
another unfortunate thing, char char had the stomach bug too so we both saw each other at the nurses, she was puking in the morning.
so the nurse saw my pale face and let me go home. good thing char came with me. she made porridge for me even though she wasnt feeling good either. i took a peaceful nap meanwhile. i am quite thankful for having her. after that we both went sushi house and ate ice cream at loards . haha bad idea but it was my birthday . life has how many 10 years. although that day started out bad i feel that this birthday was special and different all my other ones. xD

hmm so thats it for now . ill come visit in another few months again .

summer part 1 lol

so how is summer for every body?

i said that i would blog once in a while after the school year and here i am. Summer for the typical asian is either more summer courses or a trip to china/ hong kong. Well this year i do not get a trip to any where and i am too lazy to do summer courses. I decided to just relax the whole summer. So far i have played tennis, gone to Quicklys almost everyday, helped organize a birthday party kinda ish, played a load of mahjong, sang K and others. New experience can make a person more open to different ideas i guess, so new stuff is healthy. lol, like in tennis today, i found out that using a 90 sq in racket makes the racket feel more controllable than a 100 sq in one.

My view for summer now is to make yourself in a calm state so that you are prepared for what is ahead not take silly summer courses that add on more stress. I do not get why ppl take summer courses if they waited forever for summer. Meeting new people and reconnecting with old friends can be quite fun and unexpected. Sometimes i even think to myself, whoaa why does it feel so much like jan-march of 8th grade year with all these chatrooms and fishy talk. xD I guess each person makes the summer a bit better because they contributed to the one and only summer of 2010.

ENGLISH FINALZ TWO

I like having a blog very much. A blog is like online megapixel that can store writing that you wrote on the computer to share with your friends , family , boyfriend, girlfriend , teacher , and animals. Blogs are quite convenient because they can save paper and healthy and young trees, for those that cannot afford paper. The environment can survive a bit longer if every teacher used blogs to turn in assignments. This tool has somewhat affected my life outside of school when i am extremely bored. I would sit down and think to myself," hmm this is an interesting subject, maybe i should blog my opinions about it!" Well , this is still somewhat school related but i am not doing this thinking in school. Immediately after i think of a topic i write about, i would think to myself about the subtopics, when i should write the next paragraph, the beginning middle end, and so on.

Blogging has changed my way about writing quite a lot over time. In our former English classes, we would loath having to write for long periods of time until our fingers hurt. For some people, calluses would even form on their fingers depending on their style on holding the pencil. Fortunately with blogging we don't have to use a pencil to write at all. We youngsters of this generation are used to using the computer and typing for long periods of time, so blogging seems easy like pie. The way i think about writing has changed because English class this year was quite leisurely. Everyone had one whole week to complete one assignment at first, then it because two or sometimes three. I no longer thought of English as a lame thing, but as a fun assignment because it was different. Even as i am typing this, i am thinking that YES, one final almost done and five more to go.

After my sophomore school year, it is likely that i will publish more posts on my blog. Every now and i then i will log on my blogger or google docs account and see how i used to write like. It is likely that i will write shorter writing than during the school year because there will be no minimum about when i do it on my free time. Since Mr.Sutherland will still be able to read it, i should make it friendly. Thinking about the future, i could have a bunch of friends come together and write about the subject one day, like how we started writing about deuces and mahjong. With my blog i would probably write down thinks that i do not want to forget, especially days that could be the best in my life. Writing down these little notes in my blog can be more useful than on paper because it will always be there unless blogger dies. I wonder if the rest of my classmates would keep blogging even thought it is not mandatory, and would youuu comment on the blog posts?


The second question i chose to write about is to pick one of my blog post and to analyze it. The post that i would like to analyze is the post called hong kong part 15. here is a link: http://wongyingjie.blogspot.com/2010/02/hong-kong-part-15.html . This post can be called my favorite because it sums up my trip of hong kong during summer of '09 but it can also be a least favorite. When i decided that , that this post would be the last of the hong kong saga, i thought about if i could write a tiny bit more. I am sure that i could write more about the wonderful place, including the first and second time i went there but that would be dragging the saga a bit too long. ( Like i said on the first question, i could write about the first and second time after the school year xD) The 15 parts of this trip slowly add up experience i had in hongkong.

This will be the last episode in my 15 blogs of going to this far far far away place. It was the day to go back to United States. Looking at my luggage, i saw my new orange transformers giordano tshirt, while my brother wore his blue batman tshirt. When we left we said farewell to everyone .. . including Love, Jessica , uncle , aunt, grandma's sister. My little two cousins kept hugging my leg and really did not want us to leave. They had no body to play with and probably wanted us to stay forever in their room full of toys.

The taxi guy picked us up and we left the place that we lived at for 15. I miss that place and would want to visit again and again. When we arrived at the airport, it turned out that my neighbor and us had the same flight back. So after we ate popeyes, my brother and i went to the terminal first, my mother went somewhere. The maze to get to the terminal was long, even needing to go on a train. When we saw them we were excited and visited, sharing our new gadgets. My mom got right on time when the people announced boarding.

On the plane, the trip seemed shorter than before, maybe because i am getting used to the 13 hrs. In front in my seat there was an Indian woman that kept dropping her pillow and i helped give it back to her. It turns out that she was having a 105 degree fever. The first thing that i thought was that YIKES will i get swine flu? i thought the pillow. But it turns out that i was safe from this flu when i got home. The rest of the trip was quite positive, i even got instant ramen to eat !
THE END

Time to analyze this post! The first thing i surprise i myself with is the detail that remember what happened, down to the color of the shirt i was wearing. Even though Mr. Sutherland has commented on this skill before, i finally notice it now my ability to memorize stuff i dont need to. Although this is similar to question 1 about improving writing, i believe that i could had added a lot more detail to this piece of writing. I should had exaggerated my sadness for leaving this place instead of simply saying that Donovan and Melissa was holding on to us. That simply meant that they will miss us but that did not really say that we did. I should had wrote about the aspects of life that i would miss that i cannot experience here in the States. Saying that i would miss it isnt enough in my opinion. The word nobody should be linked together not far apart. Rereading this summary of the trip, i think that adding detail would have been done if the 500 word minimum was implied earlier. I think that i have a lot that i dont like about my writing, especially imagery. When i said the trip to our terminal was long i should had added that we had to go up and down escalators, walk passages, and more. When Mr. Sutherland told us that we should revise our papers after we write them for grammatical issues if i had time, i should had listened. I can tell that sometimes you might not know what i am talking about on that blog post because i was thinking about writing a word but forgot to, for example " we lived at ___ for 15 ___" forgetting to right lived at happy view terrace for 15 days.

Well to sum up this school year, it was fun year, better than my English class last year. Hopefully i get this class again next year so that my junior year will be more laid back. Hmm, one thing the class might needa work on is words, like to help us on the SAT. we cant fail that !!! well thx for the school year !