Thursday, November 06, 2008
Online Notebook for November 6-13
Continue making observations for the notebook. This week, try something different: comment on a TV show you watched, a book you are reading, a newspaper article you liked/disliked. Keep it short. Last week's were fun and interesting. Try to make at least one post here this week.
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Why were so many people crying? As Barack Obama came onto the stage in Chicago on Tuesday night, people wept. Oprah did. So did Jesse Jackson. Young people cried, white people cried, black people cried. Everyone, almost! Then, I turned to look as my wife pulled out a kleenex from the box beside the sofa: she was crying, too. It was unprecedented in my experience to see so many people crying. Tears of joy, I've decided.
I was watching Philippine News when they intervied a woman selling cigarettes candies and magazines at the side walk about how diffucult,living in a third world country is.
"Living here, literally means starvation: dying with an empty stomach," she said.
Before the correspondent left, he handed some relief goods such as foods and clothing to the vendor.
She accepted the donations,but,gave them to litte orphaned kid sleeping on a stock of carton boxes at the sidewalk.
"She needs this more," she said." I'm not poor.Because, unlike others I measure wealth not in the amount of properties but in one's own needlessness.Thank you any way," she said.
"Welcome, and thank you as well," he replied.
A Woman's Worth
"Don't you ever hurt nor disrespect her,not in front of me," the furious teenager told the man behind bars.
His eyes were swollen and his lips lacerated.But, he stood there,-wearing his torn out and bloodied shirt-in the middle of the police precinct, and boasted his pride and dignity.
He protected the most important woman in his life even if it could cost him his'.
A woman,(a Mother, a Sister , a Grandmother, a Wife...)really is worth dying for, I thought.
Hello, brad, this is my second online "notebook," i hope u like it...^^*
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Whenever I go to Costco, I overwhelm myself over by the book corner, and tell my family I'd love to stay here, and read until they get back because there are so many books and novels to choose from. As I wonder around, I'm so excited and disappointed later because first I want to read it all and second I have limited time to look at, and pick the one I love. Today, I picked "Free Food for Millionaire" by Min Jin Lee, and I hope to finish it by next month.
The Olympic Game was just over; the event of the toxic milk was revealed. Thousands and thousands babies got sick, most of them were kidney stone. And the media described the toxic milk as “the problematic milk” modestly and prudentially.
In the hubbub, I saw a photo in a newspaper that showed a lot of government officers lined up on the stage and everyone drunk a big jar of milk like a horse before the public.
That is a show. Obviously they want to prove something, but it proves nothing. What we need is the effective measurement and carries it on.
Confucius said: “listen to what a person says and watch what he does.” That is true. And we all know that some people are “much talk, little action”—like the old saying say “loud thunder, but small raindrop”. We hope things would be a little better than that.
so true, hong... so true~~^^*
I read the Ahmadinejad’s message to Obama. My husband and I laughed too much. He suggested that Obama has to understand and rightly use the rare opportunity that God (!) gave to him, in order to leave a good name and memory of himself in the history. It doesn’t seem to you a new joke!
Today, a Taiwanese court has ordered the detention of former President Chen Shui-bian on corruption charges. The case against Chen centers on suspicions he was involved in a money laundering scheme during his just concluded presidency. When Mr.Chen showed up with handcuffs on TV news, I thought that he must regreted to be a president of Taiwan. Eight years ago, when Mr.Chen waved his hands to acknowledge the cheers from his fans for the winning of Presidential-election, he wouldn't never expect what was to become of him today. There is a Chinese old saying "Good fortune lies within Bad；bad fortune lurks within good。" To win
a Presidential-election was a real biggest good fortune; however, it has lain within bad meanwhile. I'd like to give this chinese old saying to Obama. God bless him.
TWILIGHT
TWILIGHT by Stephenie Meyer tells a romantic, mystery, and breath taking story.
Bella, a 17 years girl Bella falls in love with her classmate, Edward—a vampire who has been 17 years old for more than 200 years. His extreme good looking deeply attract Bella; Bella’s straightness and calmness attract Edward too, especially her special good smell.
I have been the place where the story happens—Fork, near La Push, a small town on Olympic Peninsular, Washington, US. I ate dinner and danced with the native people in their tribe, so the place and the people in this book are very familiar and interesting for me.
Also, the words Stephenie Meyer uses are simply, clear, and vivid. It is the #1 New York Times bestseller this year and soon to be a major motion picture.
Miss Winner, Miss Lovely
Walking into the metro town during the weekend was a disaster. This was how Eve and I found since last year. However, last weekend, we still went there; too meet an arrogant, stupid buyer in the Starbuck inside the bookshop in Metro town.
It's crowded as usual. "There is a table, hurry up!" Eve yelled at me pointing a table with their coffee drinker just left. I leaped to the barrier with my high healed shoes and tired to put my purse on the table.
"Opps," a fashion, Asian girl just put her ass into the chair before my purse approached the table. I was shocked, staring at her. "What's the hell she's doing? Why young people are so rude now days?" I screamed to Eve, actually to the young girl who just took out table.
Eve came to me with an understanding look, just sighed and we started talking in Chinese foul language immediately and hoped she could understand us.
But that girl just smiled ，a winner smile actually, like she just won a battle.
"Back to your parents and tell them to educate you more," I was ready with this now.
An old, dirty, tattered man came in and started begging for changes. People automatically left him a space. Suddenly, he fell down and stocked, looked like a heart attack.
People around him panicked, "Call 911, please, someone just call 911!" Miss Winner just shouted and went to the old man and opened his neckline. "Please leave us some fresh air and call 911." To my surprise, she was very claim and ordered the people around her.
The old man looked terribly pale and his body was stiff. Miss Winner tested his pulse and then put her hand under his nose. She punched his heart again and again.
No respond. She sweat, for a moment, I stopped heating her. Then she just put her mouth on his mouth and gave him artificial breathing; one, two, and three....
The emergency people came and took the old man away and Miss Winner reported the entire situation. They praised her did the correct thing.
I suddenly thought Miss Winner became Miss lovely. Okay, I went to Miss Lovely and asked her, "Can I buy you a cup of coffee?"
I Read the London news from yahoo “A 13-year-old British girl who has undergone nearly a dozen surgeries in her young life has refused a heart transplant operation - a decision that may ultimately lead to her death.”
13 year old girl refused to go through all the torture in the hospital and choose to stay at home for the last period of life. The hospital threaten initially to take her back to the hospital or “they would take legal action”. After the court order, the 13 year old and parents eventually win the battle, and decided to let the nature run its course.
I have a friend whose baby was just under normal weight range, and the hospital forced the patents to agree on the operation on the newborn. Instead of eating through mouth, the child has to eat from tube and pump machine. I met the child, he cried all day and all night long, and he didn’t want that tube in his mouth or on his stomach. Eventually, the operation didn’t help anywhere the development for the child, and he stopped growing ever since. But how about those babies, who can’t make decision for themselves, do they still have the right to live with dignity?
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