Journal #9

All-purpose Notebook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-reW1eLYE

The website above is a video on Youtube.
In this video, you can see the person use this notebook to do everything. You can draw anything on the notebook and it will become true. The people use it as a computer, play guitar, scan the face, use it as a toaster and take bread and cheese from the book. It just like Dolamon’s magic pocket, you can use it do everything in the world. The video looks like a magic and happy fairy tale, and to own a notebook like this is the dream of every child. However, even though now I am an adult and I know it is impossible that this notebook can exist, I still wish I could have one.

Journal#8

In this 8 weeks’ study, I have improved a lot in composition. I used to have a big problem in writing an essay, and I always did not know what to write. Now, I know more about the structure of the composition. Things are much easier when I follow the outline. It is also very useful to learn all the things about the research paper. Now, I can well organize the composition, use the transition signal correctly, and write an essay much more easily than before.

However, I still have to improve my vocabulary. I should use the difficult words instead of the easy words. I also have to practice more about the time writing. I always could not finish the time writing in the class. As a result, in the next 8 weeks, I will remember more words, and do more practice on the time writing. I will do the time writing on the computer to raise my typing speed for my coming test.

It is not easy to do well in the composition, there are too many skills acquired. But I will try more practice, so that at the end of this semester, I can write a wonderful essay easily.

Werid Themed Restaurants

Some of the reataurants are strange, some of them are scared.

http://weburbanist.com/2008/08/10/15-of-the-strangest-themed-restaurants-from-buns-and-guns-to-cannabalistic-sushi/

Journal #7

My Favorite Movie - The Butterfly Effect

This is a good time travel movie. The film was directed by the team of Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, and this is a dramatic movie.
Evan (Ashton Kutcher) is the male leading role in this movie. He had an ability of going back to the past and change things that had happened by reading diary or seeing videos. At first, he knew nothing about this ability. He always had some periods of memories for blank when he was a child. As a result, his mother took him to the doctor, and the doctor suggested him to keep a journal to help him to remember things. Evan had a difficult childhood, and after a terrible thing happened, his mother decided to move to a new place to live. Evan had to say goodbye to his little girlfriend Kayleigh (Amy Smart), but he promised to come back for her. Then many years later, Evan was already in the university, and he did not keep touch with Kayleigh. One day when he read his journal, he felt like he went back to the past. And then he went to see Kayleigh, but he found that she did not have a good life. On the second day after he saw Kayleigh, her brother Tommy (William Lee Scott) told him Kayleigh died last night. Since then, he began to go back to the past to correct the mistakes, wishing to make a better life for Kayleigh. However, every time he changed one thing, a series of things changed after that, and the trip only made matters worse. Therefore, at the end, he used the video to go back to the party where he met Kayleigh, and he threatened Kayleigh at the party, so they never knew each other.
I like the last scene that he was in the hospital and tried hard to go back to the very beginning with the video best, because he at last decided to go out of Kayleigh’s life to let her happy, and everybody had a happy life in the end. He loved Kayleigh so much, but he knew she would not happy to be with him, so he let her go. It is so hard to make a decision like this, but also it is hard to realize that you do things wrong.
From this movie we can find that you cannot change the past even though you have this ability. We always want to go back to the past to correct the mistakes, but we cannot, so the more important thing is that we live a life without regret, even though we may make mistakes, we have to accept them and never make these mistakes again.

Journal #6

Shadow Wolves
The Shadow Wolves are a group of people in the desert of the American Southwest. They are all Native Americans. Their main task is finding and stopping illegal drug dealers. However, sometimes they are asked to help rescue people who become lost in the desert. They can use the ancient skills, tracking. They always say that, “In brightest day, in darkest day, no evil shall escape my sight, for I am the Shadow Wolf.” Anyway, the Shadow Wolves do not only use their ancient tracking skills. They also use modern devices. The Shadow Wolves also share their skills with other countries. They traveled to foreign countries to teach police, guards and officials the ancient methods of tracking.
The job of the Shadow Wolves is dangerous but important. They are protecting the country from the drugs.