That's Why I Like Basketball

Since I stepped into high school, I had friends who forced me to play. I didn't like sport before because of my legs which had some problems. Somehow, I played ball with them after school(Everyday). When I started to play it, I didn't even know how to control the ball. In fact, every thing that is cricle is complusive. It took time to practice as playing every sport, so I could't feel any fun at the beginning. After a while, we started to get used to it. We played a game with old unlces, fortunately the standard of us with the old uncles which were quite close, so we got some advantages from them.

Many sports can train our teamwork. We can become properly dependent on our teammates. Basketball is a sport that every player can keep in touch the ball more than other kinds of sport, like soccer, which I like too. For basketball, the occupancy of the field is less than soccer. If you play soccer, you need to chase the ball and run back and forth on each side. For example, If your teammate gets the ball and run to assist him, but during running to other side, your teammate might lose the ball, so you need to run back to your field and help to defend. I don't like to consume my energy for not touching the ball one time but running back to defend. For basketball, because the field is smaller, players need to use all their teammates to make a chance to socre. They need to pass a lot. And bcause the field is smaller, players don't need to spend too much energy for chasing the ball.

Time Flies Too Fast

Since I stepped this level, I have thought the time pasted very fastly because my anut and unlce almost go back to HK and this semster is already on the half of the wasy. When a person is very busy and he doesn't have time to do what he wants to do, he will have a feeling that the time will be consumed faster than others. For the busy people, they don't have time to rest or break. Most of the poeple are workers. I'm so scared of my future becoming as busy as I can't take a break. Time is very important. If we don't chrish our lives more, we will have many regrets when we are old. I always remember an expression " We can't go back to re-start our beginnings, but we can start a new beginning." My principle of my life is chrishing everything in my life, whether the thing is good or not.

My Day in the Mall and Supermakert

Today I met my conversation partner as always, and we went to Roosevelt field mall to have a lanch. I had a great time with him, and we talked a lot what we liked. I tied to pick up the tab, but he refused. One of the reasons that I went to mall was to meet the unlce and aunt who almost had to go back to Hong Kong. They wanted to buy some keepsakes before they went back. I met them at 2 in front of H&M after wandering for a moment with my parter. My unlce ,anut and I both bought something that we liked. It was so good that I could shop things that I liked. It gave me a feeling of triumph. HAHA~~ (Even I said I wouldn't shop in my previous blog.) Around 7, I went to BJ's with my another anut. I started to like being in supermarket. There were plent of things that I needed, like snacks, beverages, so on. However, numerous people were waiting in lines. The situation was crowded, so we waited about 10-15mins and drove back to house ,through roads with dim lights and rain which easily tiggered accidents happened.

For class, I hope this time my writing will be better and I think I need to focus more on my listening because during the movie I couldn't exactly understand all part of the movie.

Sleeping

While I was a child, I deprive of my sleep in order to playing games. I was accustomed to them. As the increasing of day, I became mature and played games less than before, but I demand more sleep than before. Newly,my homework is about napping. It shows napping can boost our memory. I think that is true. First of all, I only take a nap, if I have nothing to do, like talking a bus. After taking a nap, I feel vgiorous and conscious. It is also true that napping can help us, if we lack sleeping. Any other reason I become to like sleeping is I become busier than before. When a person grow up, the things that he/she need to figure out will be more. Therefore, the more things I need to do, the less rest time I can get. Sleeping is a time for people's bodies to be organized. For example, sleeping can help our wounds to be recovered quickly. If a person lack sleeping, it can tigger many follow-up problems to the person.

Is Money Important?

People always say money is not important because it can't buy something valuable, like love or time. Truely, I was a very parsimonious and selfish person. I didn't like to spend money on other people, if they didn't benefit me. Since I knew what is money, I was always sensitive to it. For example, I looked at people when they dropped something, and then I would think whether it is money or not. I grew up in a family which was between affluence and poverty. Sometimes my mom would be worried about how to pay a bill, if my dad spent too much money. Perhaps that was why I was sensitive to it. Now, I have changed my view of money because one of my friends is very willing to pick up tabs, even if he doesn't know a person. After I knew him, I noticed human is very delighted to receive a gift. A gift can make a relation closer, but the gift doesn't need to be costly.I think the gift is shown you are likely to be a friend with the receiver. Can money buy time? Of course, money can't trade for the time that is already past. Nevertheless, money can really save our time. Money can decide what transportation we take or use by. Therefore, money is very important for me, but the point is how I spend my money on. If someone tells you that the person doesn't care of money, we should be care of the person.

Recently~!

I discovered that many people are already very intelligent ,albeit with a lot of problem. "Intelligent" was meant they had already known what things they were good at. When I was a child, I always said to famous people " What is so special about you!" I thought I was much powerful than they were. While I knew this world is mych more than I thought of, then I knew how stupid I was,especially, after my classmates's persentation of famous people with obstacles. This is how a person is.



Today, I met my conversation partner. My partner told me many things about himself. He told me "He is going to apply for 15 colleges because this is his last semster." In the orientation, he was late to meet me. He was so nervous of being late, so today I told him you don't need to be so serious even though you were late. He answered "Because it was our first meeting, I didn't want to be late." According to what he said, I knew he was very nice with good attitude. I am very happy he is my partner.





Perhaps it is hard to be resilient if you lack practice of doing something. Now my writing has many mistakes which I should not make. I should already be familiar with those mistakes. Sometimes when I look at my mistakes which I should know, I will ask myself "What happens to you? How come you can write it down?"

Another Earthquake Makes Me Terrified

Is our Earth dying?I have started to feel scared because of another devastating earthquake which occured in Chile. Recently, I re-watched a movie"2012". In the movie, before the disaster which happened on 2012, many places had earthquakes. My point is our situation is so similar to the movie. That's really outrageous. My friend watched the movie too. Once, we made a joke with this movie. I asked him "If 2012 is real, are we wasting our time of studying?" I am not sure of his answer, but we hope it won't happen. This time the magnitude of Chile's earthquake was more serious than Haiti's, but Chile is far less damged than Haiti. I read a new article about it on yahoo news. It says because Chile's buildings and infrastructures are higher standard than Haiti's and Chile has a good preparation. Therefore, one of the article's topic in yahoo is "Chile was ready for earthquake but Haiti wasn't" One of a sentence from yahoo's article that I do not really understand is "Earthquakers don't kill-they don't create damage-if there's nothing to damage." This sentence is refering to Haiti or Chile? No matter what, I hope the victims will be fine!

A good progam

I know I am getting order. My desire is not what I wanted when I was 10 to 17 year olds.I still remember how upbeat I was when a weather reporter said " Today every college, high school and primary will not open because of the horrible weather." "Every student should be better to stay home instead of going out." Now I want my school open, I want to study in my class, and I work more for my future but playing around. Yesterday, I went to P buliding to play basketball with a friend. So on, we did play it happily althought I lost many times. After we played it, we walked around the campus and met a girl who I knew she was from LINCC because I saw her before. She convinced us to join a "Oversea Volunteering". This progam's purpose was peace, faith and health. We could join this progam to explore over 80 countries. We could go to a country and teach and help people. Wanting to explore needed to attended at least three workshops. She also told us she did went to a country which I forgot where it was. She did have an excellent trip and experience. She told us "If you want more information, you can go to our meeting NOW." After she said it, a guy came to us and talked about this progam because he just went to that meeting and he said he would join it. I extremely wanted to join because I liked travel, but I needed more time to think about it for exploring a country was not that simple. Also, my friend said "He doesn't have time at all" , so we said " we can't go". Now I think I should join the progam. It will be a great experience to explore countries, but if I go, I think I will be the country learning stuffs more than teaching or helping people.

My recent class

These days, I don't know what happens to myself. I was late twice in a week and forgot to bring my homework. It is not easy after a week holiday and get back to a school life. During the holiday, I slept at 2a.m. and woke up at 12p.m. My body has already adapted in a holiday style. Also, I just realized my bus's schedule has been changed. That's why I got late. Today, it is my first meeting with my conversation partner. My partner is same age with me and he's glad to meet me. I know my teacher always urges us to go to writing center. In fact, I realize my writing is not as good as before, but this month, I don't have extra time to be there. Later, I will make some breaks to be there. It's really helpful for every student. I had much experience there and I tried many turtors but only one that I like is Professor Hoffman. She always point the advantage of writing a good essay and encourage students to write. I hope students will try to use it.

Movie "Gridiron Gang"

Last night when I felt tired and tried to get a sleep, there was a movie attracted and made me to watch it until 2 o'clock. The movie name is Giridiron Gang. The movie was about teenagers which commited crimes before and they were in juvenile detention center. There was a person, Sean, who was trying to help the teenagers from behaving bad and giving them confident for their lives because after the teenagers came to the detention center, some of their family didn't have a hope for their futures, and their family wanted to gave up their son or daughter. If a teenager doesn't have any support or encouragement when he/she is in the center, I don't think he or she will have a hope for his/her future. Sean was extremely hard to make a football team because he needed permissions from his supervisors. He gave and taught the teenagers trainnings, hope, and morals. So on, he did a great job. I like this movie because it is a true story and it can really tell me the situation when a teenager act wrongly. The main character, Sean, is Dwayne Johnson who attends many movies that I like. For example, Mummy. I will recommend this movie to everyone, although it cosists of volence, but I really like the movie that giving a chance to people who were wrong before. It really encourages people.

Pong's Aunt and Unlce Coming

Tomorrow, 20 Feb 2010, my aunt and unlce will arrive at USA around10 olock. My family and they applied for immigration together. They can't stabilize here yet. There is a lot of problems around them. I still remember last time when they came about half a year before. Every time when they come here, we must get a great of activities to do. For example, we went to Six Flage, a big water park in Long Island. It was my first time to go to water park. However, every time they need to spend much money. Especially for them, China and USa have a link of the money multiplication about $1 HK dollar=7.8 US dollar. If they come here for a week, they might spend over a month of their salaries.

My Experience in My Elementary school (Part2)

As I said in last post, my legs had a serious problem which could cause me to be disable. After one month of the diagnosis from the doctor, I came back for a follow up visit and he didn't even remember what my condition was. He told me the condition of my legs remained the same and he said he didn't have any way to help me. The only way was taking more rests. He adviced " Don't run!" After that time, I started to wonder whether it was true or not. Then, I told myself " I can't be like this! I love sport, basketball. I need to be in touch to it." I've kept playing sport. Sometimes, I still feel the painful from my legs, but I only stop for a while and keep doing my stuff. My ability of sport is not better than the others, but I am ethusiastic in sport. I need to learn more about overcoming difficulty. I don't want to wait for help if I have a problem. Maybe I can know better in the follow up presentation about overcoming obstacle.

Happy Chinese New Year

Today, it's not only Vanlentine's Day. For Chinese people, today also is Chinese new year. Every year, I don't know when is the Chinese new year day because every year is different days, but when the day is, my parent will tell me. According to my reseach, this festival traditionally begins on the first day of the month in the Chinese calendar and ends on 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Normally, during this day, we say good greetings to everyone. For example, " Kung Hei Fat Choy" or "Happy New Year" is the most common one. Another thing that is always related to Chines New year is red envelopes. Adults and young couples put some money in a envelope, and give it to children. The envelope is always red because chinese people traditionally think red can bring poeple luck. My mother told me "In these days, Don't say any word related to death." I still remember when I was in Mainland in my mother's hometown, in the new year day, we played fireworks, which can mean driving away evil spirits. There still have a lot of rules from different towns or different cities, but basically that all what I know about chinese new year.

Living in a Snowing Weather

In fact, this is my first time of not going school because of the snow. I still remember at the first time when I saw snowing. I like the noise when I step into snow, and I like the sight of a fluffy snowman standing next to a path. However, snow often only last for couple days. Then, it wll be freezed to be ice. It always gives people problems for it makes us harder to walk because of the ice covering on a path. It makes drivers riskier because it tiggers accidents arise. People also have to shovel after snowing. It always hurts my back when I shoveling, even though the snow is not heavy. Wow I didn't know this is our obligation to make the path clear. It is easy to get sick during this kind of weather. I think Snowing can give children good memory. Children can play snowball during these few days, but it seems weird to see a 19-year man to throw a snowball to others. The last thing is I want to go to school because I can't study at home. Every time if I stay at home, I only play stuffs but study.

A Tuesday~!

Today I went to class as always. I think I love doing stuffs in the lab. I like when we do our own work by ourselves. I like when we encounter new words and that we can use an online dictionary instead of the regular dictionary. I like when we do different things but we stay in a same room. I like doing the reading assginment which gives me practice. Instead of writing, reading, and listening, I think I need to put an emphasis on speaking. Someone told me my speaking was not very good. People can understand what I say, but it is not accurate. When I noticed it, I didn't know I should appreciate him or I should be unhappy that I am not doing well. Anyway, I should keep working hard during these 13 weeks before getting into college. I am thinking of what I should bring on Friday for the bake sale and I just hope I can be tanquil and pass this level. I don't want to fail the test again.

Movie night " Edge of Darkness "

Last night, my cousin, my cousin's girlfriend,sister, my sister's boyfriend, and I went to Westbury to watch a movie, Edge of Darkness. This movie is pretty famouse because of the main character,Mel Gibson. I have watched a lot of movies about him, like Lethal Weapon 1-4. No doubt he is a great actor. In the movie, Edge of Darkness, I think the beginning is the best part during Craven's(Mel Gibson) daughter comes back to see him to his daughter gets shoot. The movie is about Craven is a detective for Boston Police department. His daughter comes back Boston to vists him. At night, his daughter feels uncomfortable and try to ahead to hospital. When they step out of his house, someone who is driving a car shoots her. She dies in front of her father, Carven. Then, Carven starts to invest this case and he discovers there has a big secret behind her daughter and the secret is related to government operative. I couldn't understand the whole idea of this movie. Maybe it concern too many things about policy. However, if your listening is much better than me, you will enjoy this movie a lot.

My February 5 Odd opinion

"There are no coincidence,but fate, that's including everything that we see, meet, and hear!" I always see and hear this familiar sentence from people talking and even a song. I do not certainly trust on it, but sometimes I have some experience that is tragedy and serial. Sometimes I try to be unswerving or stubborn in my opinion, even though I know that is wrong, and the opinion taggers me to be more unswerving and stubborn. Maybe during that time, I am belligerent. However, in some cases, I easily change my mind or my answer, but finally I realize I shouldn't do it because I was right. This idea comes from my current thought. In my another wried idea, people should focus on our acquaintances because the acquaintances might become to be our one of our importances. This is my February 5 opinion. I use February 5 because in the future I may have different idea.

Can't be on time for my class today

Many people or boss demands their friends or employees that they be punctual for any meeting, class, and work. Today, I was late for my class. I totally dislike the feeling of being late. Since last week, Samuel has picked two friends who are studying in LINCC and me up to college. One of our friend could go to college today, so we were supposed that Samuel, one of our friend and me went together. About 7:30 I met Samuel to the place that we should be met, but today he drove his car into a parking lot because he often stops on a side and let us get into the car or wait for us for couple minutes. Therefore, when I got into the car, the first thing that I did was that I asked him why he parked his car here. He said we needed to wait for our friend.(Because sometimes he doesn't go to college with us, I don't feel strange when I don't see him.) At the same time, I realized he would be so late that's why he parked in the park lot. Samuel kept calling to our friend but he only said he was coming by a bus. Then, Samuel made a big decision to drive to the bus routine that was opposite to NCC direction. We have already been familiar to the bus routine because we often take that. After about 10minutes, our friend got off a stop that was near our position when Samuel and I were in the car. Then, we started to go to college at around 7:45. Samuel was trying to drive quickly to reach NCC when I told the time to him. Finally, we arrived to NCC at 8:04 when my classmates were sitting on chairs and focused their attentions on our teacher. I don't like the feeling of disturbing people when they focused on something. I feel bad to my classmates and Bar (my teacher).

My Experience in My Elementary school (Part1)

When I was in elementary school, I often felt plainful during I was running. Once, I went to see chinese traditional doctor. He touched my shin from ankle to knee with his thick and strong fingers after I told him my situation. Then, he said seriously "You get a big problem which athletes usually get." He asked my mum " Does he always run and jump naughtily?" My mum didn't know whether I was naughtily or not because in many parents' points, running or jumping means the kid is energetic which every child should be. My mum just said "Yes". Then, he showed me what was my problem on my leg. I touch my bone on my shin and I felt pain. Then, the doctoc said " You don't need any medicine but rest for a month." "No more exercise lesson, no more running, and no more jumping." It was a good news for me because on the exercise lesson I often could do whatever sport that I wanted. It was the happiest lesson while comparing to others. Therefor, during the month, I only watched my classmate played happily. After one month........

One Week After of My New Class

After one week of my new class, my feeling and body don't really feel comfortable. My body doesn't want me to go to bed at 10:30pm and wake up at 6:30am. During in the holiday, I slept at 2 o'clock and woke up at 12. Also, I didn't spend much time to study. Sometimes, I don't really catch up what people say and no doubt my writing's getting worse. However, during the first week of the class, all the things that we learn are about reviewing, so it can help me to remember English. Tonight is my family day of pre-celebrating my grandfather's birthday. We will go to chinese restaurant as usual. Everytime when we go to chinese restaurant, it's really convenient because totally we have over 15 members of my family and two of them are my little cousin, so we can't go to a restaurant randomly. We need to ask the restaurant about whether the restaurant has enough space for 15 members or not.

About My Winter Holiday

It's nice to let people read my blog! I like to let people know more about me. This is my first time to write a blog, so at this time, I would like to talk about my adventure in New York . I like playing computers and video games. I often play an Xbox360 with my cousin during the winter holiday. I've already obsessed in that. During the holiday, I was a little bored, so I bought some clothes. I was not frivolous to buy clothes or spend money. However, my sister bought a very fancy jacket. That was so attractive, so I became willing to spend money in clothing. The distance of exorbitant clothing companies and I have gotten closer. Now, I always go to the exorbitant clothing companies' websites and check for the price of their clothes. In fact, those companies have a lot of affordable choices for me, I was jobless in holiday. New York is a fantastic place because it gives me plenty of freedom to let me do what I want safely. I hope the victims of Haiti's earthquake will be safe soon, at least having a house before April rainning season.