Can't live without music!

Recently, I realized music is in my everyday life. I almost spend all my spare time to listen to music. I turn on my iPod, when I bike. I open my music files before I start to surf the web. Music seems important for me. I still remember the time that I spent on airplane without music. I felt so bad and missed my music. If I could listen to my music on the airplane, I could just sit there and do nothing for all day long. After I found there was a music channel on the airplane, I finally felt released and thought this trip was better than I expect.

Even if I do not know any concept of music, I like music just because it is a spiritual mentor for me. Different songs give me difference feeling. I felt sad, when I listen to some romantic love songs. I felt hyper, when I listen to songs with sprightly rhythm. Even though there are many assignments and quizzes, I will not stress out as long as there is music accompany with me. If I felt down, I would listen to those happy songs and try to make myself happy again. Music is not only a mental medicine for me, but also memory. Different songs are popular at different times. When I listen to some old songs, it recalls my memories. I can remember what I experienced and what I thought, when one song was popular at that time. I remembered that when I was still a freshman, my roommates and I loved the song “I’m yours” so much. Sometimes, we would sing that song together at our room. It was a happy memory and that song also recalled my other memories which were related to my roommates. That is why I like music so much and cannot live without it.

Earthquake!

One of my friends told me that the next big earthquake in California is going to be in next 30 years. She suggested me it is better to not stay in California at that time. I was said to hear that. Earthquake is nature disaster. We do not know how to prevent nature disasters. The only thing we can do is just to predict when they will come and avoid the damage. Sometimes, we cannot even predict when it will come. It just strikes suddenly. The last big earthquake was happened in1989. Many housed was destroyed and many people lost their lives in the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. I have experienced a small earthquake when I was in high school. That earthquake just lasted for a few seconds. Suddenly, I felt my bed was shaking. At that time, I did nothing and just lying on my bed. The earthquake came very soon and also left very soon. After I realized that was an earthquake, it had already passed.

In high school, I learned a lot about how to prepare and what I should do when earthquake comes. However, I was wondering if I can really use that knowledge when earthquake comes. Last earthquake, I did not have any reaction. Sometimes, people may forget what they should do, when they get nervous. I am afraid that if the earthquake came, I would get nervous and couldn’t think. 30 years is a very long time, but time passed by so fast. We should always get prepared and trained. Life is unpredictable and we never what will happen in the next minutes. Therefore, we should appreciate what we have right now.

Breakfast!

I heard someone’s stomach was growling when I was in my math class last week. I was curious about whose stomach was growling, but I didn’t turn around and see because that reminded me my friend’s story. Same thing was happen on my friend, but the difference was one of her classmates laughed at her. My friend felt very embarrassed. At that time, I thought that person might feel embarrassed too and so I would rather not to satisfy my curiosity. It was an early morning. Most people just wake up and then hurry to school. College students don’t eat breakfast is a very common phenomenon in college. In the first quarter of my freshmen year, I would like to save more time to sleep rather than wake up early and go to have breakfast. However, I realized that breakfast is very important and so I started to have breakfast on the next quarter.

Most college students don’t eat breakfast because they want to lose weight. However, I found that didn’t work based on my own experience. People who don’t have breakfast tend to eat more at lunch time because his or her stomach doesn’t have any food for the entire morning and it keeps sending “hungry” signals to the brain. Also, that is not a healthy living style. It is not okay to keep your stomach empty. If you don’t eat breakfast in the morning, you may not have enough energy to work in the morning. That can affect the quality of study and if you have an early class, you will feel difficult to absorb the material in the class. Therefore, having breakfast is only good for you. It is guarantee of your academic study.

Timeless

One of my housemates told me that she planned to stay up all night and studied for her tomorrow’s midterm. I sighed. That’s just not worthy. When the midterm or final approaches, those study lounges and library will full fill with hard working students. Most of them try to finish reading their chapters and do as many practice problems as they can. Even they know that the midterm or final is at tomorrow, they still want to make effort at the last moment. This might be one of the common phenomena in college. I guess most of the students might have the same experiences as my roommates.

Staying up all night is not a good decision. I didn’t feel I’m ready for the math final in last quarter, and so I decided to scarify my sleeping time and went over what I learned in the math class. At that night, I planned to finish all the sample midterm and go over all the rules and formulas. I started to feel sleepy at 2 a.m. in the morning, but I told myself that I cannot give up and so I kept doing sample problems. Eventually, I found that I cannot finish all of my tasks and focus on doing my final. After I experienced this, I realized that the learning efficiency will decrease and it will also make effect on the next day’s mental status. Actually, everyone knows that, but they still cannot avoid doing that. Why? The problem is they don’t know how to manage the time in order to finish their work. They always wait until the last minute. That is also my problem. Instead of staying all night, we should consider how to manage our time.

Show your peace and love

Recently, a video called “Fight on SF Muni Bus in Chinatown” was uploaded on YouTube. Many people were interesting in this video and it has already reached 500,000 hits with a lot of comments and video responses in one week. The fight was basically about a Chinese woman who asked an African American woman for a seats and the Africa American woman refused her in a nasty way. Some viewers watched this as entertainment and cannot stop making fun of the Chinese woman’s accent, and some viewers felt angry after watching the video because the African American woman discriminated against the Asian and violent. Also, there are some admirations about how bravo the Chinese woman is. This is my first time to watch a fight like this. I cannot image that such fight would happen on the SF Muni.

One of the viewers criticized the African American because she is the one who started the fight and the Chinese woman was only want to defend. I totally disagree with that. The African American woman is not the only one who should be criticized. The Chinese woman and other passengers who were on the bus also need to be criticized. Even thought the Chinese woman asked for a seat in polite way at the beginning and she is not the one who started the fight, she hit and said those f**king words to the African American woman. If both of them can claim down and try to be nice at the beginning, the fight won’t happen. If the passengers can stop them from arguing at the beginning, they won’t start to fight on the bus. It really brings a negative effect to the society. Some people will think that violence is one of the ways to solve problem, but that is totally wrong. Violence cannot solve problem, but to make thing become worse. This incident lets me know that we should always use a peaceful way to deal with problem and create a harmonious place for our own. If everyone can show peace and love to others, the tragedy won’t happen. Everything will change because of your one small step.

Diagnostic

I only treated myself as a writer, when I got through the writing assignments in college. I seldom express my feeling or opinions outside academy by writing. I do not get used to write journal or blog because I'd rather use camera to record my feeling. As a writer, I always want to be critically or persuasively. However, it does not always work out in that way. I would say I am still a newbie writer. "How to write?" is always a question for me. In order to upgrade my writing to another level, I know that I still need a lot of practices and readings. There is still a long way to go...

The environment affects me a lot as a thinker. From kindergarten to university, the environment couldn't stop changing. The people around me also changed. Those changes provided me different resources and ideas. Especially, my parents, my friends and teachers are important for me. Their experiences gave shape to my thought. They all have their own ideas about a specific event. That helps me a lot because I can comprehend an event in different ways. However, I do not absorb everything from what they say. Every time I heard one's opinion, I would try to think whether this is right or wrong for me. What people think are always true since they have their own logic and reason, but I can decide what I should believe. In a debate, there are two sides of an argument. Since each side has its own statement and evidences, it is really difficult to say which side is true. I believe one thing people can do is to decide which side is more reasonable for them.