Rest In Peace, Amy Winehouse

The big talent has gone. Amy Winehouse was utterly amazing. The first time I heard her music was when a friend of mine from England introduced me some bands. Among them, Amy Winehouse became my favourite as soon as I listened to 'you know I'm no good'. Since then and thanks to my friend, I could know her and her music. I listened to it 50 times a day because I loved it! To get to know her more, I searched for some information about her. I was a bit shocked at her rehab stories. It's a shame that she passed away due to the addiction. She was a Jew, who I'm very interested in.
I was almost sad when I faced her sad news. On Facebook, there are many people who comment for her, R.I.P. I'm so sorry I haven't been in her concerts, and I will never be, either.

Rest in peace, Amy Winehouse.

Wanna be a Londoner

     Among the cities I've ever visited, London was the best. I still want to go to London every year, but don't have chances. As you know London is one of the most famous, expensive, and busiest cities in the world. I like London's lively, crowded, and various atmosphere. Also, London's cost of living is one of the most expensive ones in the world.

     You see the zones from 1 to 6 in general. The closer to the central the more expensive the rent fee will be, of course. There are several places you can find cheaper and safer ones. In zone 3, the north London, Golders green is almost a Korean town. There is two Korean markets that you can buy some Korean food. Plus, you see many Jewish people because it's also Jewish town. There are some places the Jews gather and give services. It takes 30 minutes to get to the central London by tube and 50 minutes by bus.
     The farther from central the cheaper the rent fee is. However, the time to get to central isn't so long. The tube is fast and there are express trains, but the tube companies sometime go on strike which is very annoying.

     Also, there are many artistic places, loads of to see and enjoy, various people from everywhere, and so on. London is fascinating!

     Along to the Thames, you see Big Ben, Parliament, Tate Modern(Contemporary gallery), London eye, St. Paul cathedral, Millennium Bridge, Tower Bridge, and so on. Strolling along the riverside, you listen to some live music which is very romantic.
     Many diverse festivals are held every year so you can enjoy any. No dull moment ever!

     The reasons I want to live in London are that I can meet people from any countries, and see tons of festivals, museums, exhibitions, and anything related with art&design. To be honest, the main reason I want to go there is I can enjoy more popularity among people. Some boys in Subway told me I was beautiful so the sandwich was the most delicious one I've ever tasted. Anyway, many boys and men was attracted by me! :D
     Plus, I can travel to Europe in weekend. I just love to live as a foreigner. It's easier and more excited. I like to be UNIQUE!

   

Be Familiar with Korean Culture

     When we talk about my mother, it's very natural to call 'my mother' as 'our mother'. It can be used in many ways to call someone or something: our father, our family, our house, our school, our company, and so on. It's because the culture is totally different. As I mentioned before, the connection between us makes these expressions. We are bounded with a strong relationship, but it's getting vanishing as each life goes hectic.
     I would like foreigners to understand why we are curious about ages. We use a honorific so we need to know ages. However, I can see the merit of English. English makes people feel closer and more comfortable. There is a honorific in English, of course, but we don't need to say an-nyeong-ha-se-yo(안녕하세요), five syllables to say hello to the older. So I sometimes think speaking English is much more relaxing than Korean speaking. I obviously speak Korean much much much better, though.
     What else..?

Which Things Would You Buy Online?

     Today we discussed eCommerce. It has cons and pros as we did. Because of its disadvantages, I don't normally go shopping online. I still have time to look around and still have power to walk around. Actually, even though I say I am busy and busy, it's not as busy as those who are really busy.
     There is one thing I like the online shopping. Last semester, I bought a silk scarf online for my assignment. To look for a scarf that I needed, I must have visited Dongdaemoon market where all the stuff related to clothes and beads are. Unfortunately, my school life at that time was hectic, so I couldn't step out of school at all. I decided to buy a scarf online because I can look it up, pay for it, and just wait. It saved my precious time a lot. Also, if I had been to Dongdaemoon market which has 4 buildings with 5 stories, I would have been exhausted as well as wasted my time. I just had to but one scarf, so for just one, it doesn't deserve to walk around to look for it.
     Let me think of which items I wouldn't buy online. I will never purchase pants, jeans, and skirts online. I have a unbalanced body that my upper is slimmer than the lower. I always focus on how my lower half can look slimmer whenever I buy clothes. On the Internet shopping mall we can see the most idealistic models every single sites. There are some different ones, of course, like for pregnant women and so on. But in general good-shaped models are there and showing how clothes look on. I don't have such a good body and I need to cover my shortcomings. I always want to try them on before buying jeans or skirts.

My lovely stuff!

Loads of things I like here!

Good morning, class. I am so happy that I write you about my favourite things. I don't know which I have to wrist first.

First of all, I do LOVE stationary. I love pens, pencils, notes, stickers, and so on. Whenever I go to Kyobo or pretty stationary shops I cannot leave as I am obsessed by them! So I have collected them a lot. I've got a bunch of stickers and I used to decorate my diary with the stickers, colured pencils, markers, and pens all day long at home. My mom always told me off how old I was so I was doing this stuff. Sorry for mom, but I didn't care because I love attaching the stickers with some awesome layout I created. It's a shame that I cannot show you how amazing my last year diary was. I've got some photos bit I'm in the subway so will add the photos after coming back home.
Secondly, I love buying brilliant notes and they are made with rough papers, the yellowish ones. Whenever I go to museums or exhibitions or somewhere notes or pencils are sold as souvenir I always purchase them! Love it! All my souvenirs I've got is pencils and notes. I feel mean when I choose a notebook I need. They are too precious to use up! That's why I buy and buy notebooks when I need one even though I've already got many. Also, I will attach the photos of them later.
Yes, I am so mad at stationary and I think that habit originated from my one-year-old party. In Korea we always celebrate the one-year-old birthday gathering together and preparing many dishes with a gold ring. There is a ceremony of the baby choosing one of things on the dish table randomly. Whatever he/she wants to grab. Of course, I did and all the stuff which are on the table have meaning. I will take some example. The money always means he/she will be rich. The thread means they are going to live longer. The pencils which I grabbed mean try are going to be smart, brilliant, and wise! I don't think much I am wise as the trailer said. However, I think the reason I am obsessed with stationary and I would like to work at travelling magazine company. I am not sure I will do but currently I want to do. It's because I like writing and travelling.
One more thing I like here. I am totally happy whenever I give some present to my lovely friend who I want to do for. Especially the gift I made with my hands. Also, notebooks for presents! I want to send gifts to all my friends abroad who shared the feelings with me but I cannot do for all because of my budget. Someday I get rich and I can afford them all I will do for sure.

Racism..

     I do have a prejudice against racism, obviously. However, I have changed my attitude towards it recently. Before I went to London, I was afraid of facing the coloured-even though I also am- and didn't want them to talk to me on the street. I was wearing coloured glasses but as I made a living with various people all over the world I got more open-minded. I do not avoid black, for example, and I'd rather want to talk to them. I like to share each cultural shocking from each nation. Nonetheless, I am still afraid of the south eastern people, especially of men. When I was in London, I was a welcoming volunteer in Hillsong church-sorry, I am not a Christian, though- there were many Indian companies. They were all cool and I liked them but, you know, it's church. Also, I was in London so I could be brave enough to get closer to them. If I am in Korea and the south eastern someone talks to me I would be afraid a bit. I don't know why I would do but it's immediate perception. Or I don't want to talk the reason why I am afraid of them. I don't want to look down on them.
     The racism always hurts every single person. I know if I discriminate someone for a certain reason I will be treated as the same someday. It's an obvious truth. So we don't think that way to judge someone with appearance only.
     To get rid of racism in Korea, the government should try to give as many chances to have activities with foreigners as possible, especially to students. The fixed thoughts are made in young days through Disney animations and some films. If the government offers opportunities like English camps, multicultural camps, and so on to teenagers they can have more progressive thoughts. I don't know how many multicultural programmes in Korea but I do think it is required.
   

I am on the fence.

     Sorry for being absent again, I had to register the next semester classes but I woke up at 9.15! How dare I did....

     The North Korea and us, the South! When I was a teenager I thought reunification between us was not acceptable for me at all. I hated them because they almost extorted crops and cows even though the previous president told we aimed. They hurt us and they got food and animals from us. How ridiculous! Also, I didn't understand why they talked bigger than us and why we humbled ourselves before them. So I was against the reunification Because of those reasons.
     However, I am now an adult who can think more seriously about the controversial topic. I am still against it a bit because I don't have to have the rest of my family in the North Korea, I don't want to pay much more tax for them, and I don't feel like sightseeing there. So no reason for the reunification.
     On the other hand, if we look at the further future we can get even more benefits in reunification. While the North Korea has loads of mineral resources and labour force, the South has high technique and many of the talent. If each condition gathers we will be far stronger in economy. Yet there are much conflict on the political  and social side. We can take an example of German having done and go upgrade our nation!
     Many policies on reunification have been processing recently. It would be so mean; I would like to reunify after I die because it must cost a lot. I don't want to pay for it, absolutely. I am not a patriot. So I am on the fence of the reunification.
     I am sure there will be a lot more advantages when we get reunified but the process will not so simple.

Are all the Internet gamings violent?

     As I am also addicted to Internet gaming I want to say all the games are not so violent. The game that I am obsessed is to build my own town in Facebook app.

     This is my town that I have run since November 2010. I cannot find any violence in this game. Of course, it hurts my eyes and it ruins my routine in some ways.
     The reason I play the game is to relieve my stress. When I've got loads of things to do and I don't want to do any I play the Cityville. It makes me forget everything, which is a very big problem after all. After doing the game, I feel empty. I did control my city but nothing remains. Time has gone and I should have done in that time. So I try not to spend much time on it. I can handle it!
     Unlike this kind of game, many violent game are too close to children. I was shocked in class listening to the actual  circumstances. Also, they reminded me of ever being told those things.
     To prevent too much exposure of the violent games the government shuts down several online games after midnight or so. Many elementary school students and adults complain against it. I don't think we can stop them paying these games all day long but we should help them. The violence of games are too violent!

The flashing streets

     Hello, guys. It's been a long time! First ao all, I would like to apologise to Erika that I was absent today and didn't do homework during the weekend. Can I excuse me, please? Last weekedn was toally hectic. After the seminar which was absolutely useful and inspiring I had to help my sister because she leaves for Spain to travel to Europe. I stayed at my sister's and I tried to write an essay but it wasn't working! It was much worse than before. I was in trouble posting one, the cutted writing. do yu remember? Also, today I was taking a little exam to listen to English writing class for the next semester. The way to listen tothat class has changed. They separate the students into three level classes and I have to wait for the result. That's why I was absent today's class, sorry again. It took 30 minutes but this morning was like a war. My roommate made the next semester's timetable and I was helping her.
     Anyway, from tomorrow I will be a good student AGAIN. Trust me. :)

     I want to talk about the streets full of flashing signboards and walls. I will tell you my opinion based on the seminar that I attended.
     Benetton is an Italian company that has been doing the global campaigns especially against the racism. Nowadays, they are changing the show windows from the normal one to the attractive one. They made several shops' windows flashing with huge screens and it's really attracting people.

It's in Milan, Italy.





     The whole windows are filled with the screens so people can notice easily it'd benetton. It's beautiful, but it can harm the city's view.

     What I want to say is if the flshing sowwindows are good or bad to see. 

     I think Milian is a quite historical city like most of European cities are. However, does it fit to the city's atmosphere,I mean. I know Milan is not oldschool but the building are very gorgeous and gothic. The dazzling showwindows and signboard cannot be matched as we discussed before.

     Too much flashing signboards or showwindows are not good to see because it's too much. In addition, cosidering how it would go with the cities' mood is as important as how they show their tech and creativity.

The earth will be frozen!

Because we are trying to live more conveniently the earth gets sick. People say the global warming is coming and is now in process, actually. I think the global "cooling" is now processing.
Spring and autumn get shorter obviously and the temperature in summer gets higher and higher so we are just about to be boiled! That's why, I think, people are concerned about the earth gets warmer.
However, if we see stepping back from the very moment we will be in an ice age. It was reported once the little ice age would come in the near future. I agree with it overall.
The volcanos has exploded and the earthquake has been several areas. Accordingly, the sky gets covered with dust and something from our habitat. Those little things stop the sunshine coming into the earth and the amount of the sunshine will be decreasing. It will make the temparture on earth lower and we will be an ice age again! It's very natural cycle but many experts say it is too early compared to the normal phenomenon.
We should do something to delay this early coming ice age and we have actually been doing. I don't want to be dead frozen so let's save the earth!

Why men commit suicide more?

     I'd like to talk about the reason men's suicide rate is much higher than women's. We talked about it briefly. The reason is men don't have time to chat with their friends what happened to him, how they felt, why they did in that way, and so on. Let me dig more in this part.
     Obviously, men don't seem to chat a lot. Why? The society makes them quite. If a man is very talkative most of people included some guys probably think he is not so good. This atmosphere get men shut their mouths.
     I can see the very example close to me, it's my boyfriend. When he has some problem he never tells me what he's suffering, what makes him depressed, something sounds weak. BUT he acts as if he is never in trouble, and always smiles at me. He always tries to show his good and gentle side to me. I don't understand him. Why does he think so? Men should always be nice, powerful, all right, not concerned, not sighing, not even crying! (Oh, I didn't mean my boyfriend would commit suicide because he never tells me his concern.)
     As far as I'm concerned, I can see the men's habits. This makes men's suicide rate much more higher, and they feel pressure more than women do. Why? They are men. The society expects men to be stronger and men know that. What a miserable situation it is! I hope everybody is happy and no more suicide because of the pressure.

Advertisement

First of all, the level of the nudity depends on which part you want to advert. To understand you easily, let me take two cases of ad: jeans and loan. To attract the consumers of jeans, the company needs to emphasise the fit of the jeans. So the nudity of that ad can be acceptable. It's true when the other things except to the jeans come down the jeans are stressed.
On the other hand, the loan ad of Solomon which Jessica Gomez danced wetting in front of a fountain shows us the nudity is too much. She is being very sexy and attractive so that nobody can take the eyes away from her. I don't think, and my friends also don't think it is appropriate ad. It would have get more clientele, especially men. Anyway, it was too much.

As you can see, the nudity level can be acceptable or unacceptable in each occasion. These kinds of ads entertain us, but we should keep the line.

Still diligent we are!

     This topic is also difficult and confusing to make the conclusion. I am not so firm in judging this kind of themes, but let me try. I will write down all my thought, which can be mass.

     First of all, it is very clear my parents generation and ours aren't the same completely. That's because we didn't start each life-this phrase is pretty weird, isn't it?-at the different points, that is, as you all think, we were born in the better surrounding. They work hard and we study hard. Now they made some money so they started to enjoy their free time and now it's time for us to work hard to earn enough money for the future. We will work hard, but not in the same way of them. We have to know how we enjoy our spare time. Imagine you are an interviewer in     

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