Journal Entry 82: My Last Journal Entry

Wow, this is my last journal entry; LAST JOURNAL ENTRY!!!, isn't that exciting? I mean, no more journal after this eh!!! Journal entry has been driving me crazy since I started to write them; they are really annoying, it just increase your homework when you have a lots of homework already. However, I think writing journals help me a lot; I mean, when you are writing a short paragraph, you might spent many times on thinking how to write, but when you write many journal every week, you might only need little time to finish your short paragraph. This helps me a lot; it might just save me lots of time on writing a whether short paragraph or long essay. OK, now I look over all of my journal entry, and I think it's cool when you see all the stuff you write   through out all the time. Where I think I can improve?? Yea, definitely, I think I can change the font into other kinds, and change the background; I can, but I am just too lazy to do all those thing (actually I don't care about those thing though :P). Actually, I feel awesome because when you copy all the stuff that you have written and  paste it on a blank word, then you take a look, you'll see..................THERE IS A LOT OF WORDS!!!! HAHAHA...  (not funny, I know)

Journal Entry 81: In Defense of My Treasure

In "The Treasure of Lemon Brown", Lemon Brown defend for his own treasure, which others think it's no-so-important and no value thing for others. A person's own treasure must meant something to their own, so as Mr. Brown. He thinks his treasure is very very important to him, like how treasure box meant to the pirates. However, Mr. Brown's treasure was sort of Jesse's remnant for Mr. Brown.

Journal Entry 80: My Treasure

Well, everyone has their own treasure, but I think my treasure is my family. For me, family is like the most important thing in my life. Our own family always take care of us, which makes them my treasure of my life. They raised me when I was still a baby. but the most difficult stuff that they do is that they have to stand our rebellion. They even spend many money on us, like send us to expensive school, buying other clothing stuff, and the entertainment technology stuff. Some other people think the money, jewelry, and gold are their treasure, but I think those kind of things can be lost very easily, then that treasure means nothing to you. We should totally respect our family and cherish them as your most valuable thing. My family (actually is my grandmother who lives in Taipei) take care of me since I was born in Taipei. My grandmother raised me until I was 1, which they said is not that easy because my dad always said that I kept crying if my grandma didn't carrying me around. Then, I was sent to Houlong, where I was raised until I finished kindergarten. My grandpa always took me and my sister to a ride during the weekend, and sometimes I always help my another grandma to wrap the flower in her store. Well, I think that's all. All I want to mention again is that you have to cherish your family, because you only have one family in your whole life.

Journal Entry 79: My Background

I am Renee Chang. I am born in Taipei, Taiwan. I used to live there and raised by my grandma until I was 1. Then I moved to Houlong (in Miaoli) when I went to kindergarten. Lastly, I moved to Hsinchu where I went to elementary school and middle school, maybe even high school. I am a freethinker, which means I don't have any religious belief. I have one sister, 3 uncles, and 4 cousins. I was born on October third. My grandfather was a general in the army; since he is a general, it is easier for my father to "survive" in the army. My father works as an administrator; it is the one of the easiest job in the army. I think my sister is insane, she likes to "bully" (making fun) of me, which is very very annoying. I don't understand why people wants to have a younger or older sibling, I mean, sometimes they will make fun of us, and sometimes there will be having some fights with us. But not me, although there are fights between me and my sister, but that was before; now, we treat each other fair and we talk about everything. Well, I love my family, except when my parents are yelling at me.

Journal Entry 78: Style

I think the style of "Raymond's Run" is probably the speaker of the story likes to criticize other people and make the other people in the story think that they are the best in whole world.  After all, the main idea in this story is that the main character of the story, Squeaky, said she is the fastest thing in the world, no one is faster than her. Squeaky doesn't like those people who like to act like things come to them "naturally", even they said that they didn't practice a thing. In the story, Squeaky knows a girl named Cynthia Procter, who is the opposite to Squeaky; if there is a test tomorrow, Cynthia will just said something fun to everyone just to let all of them know that Cynthia is not thinking or reviewing of the quiz. Another person that Squeaky talks about is her enemy is a clique: included Gretchen and her sidekicks: Mary Louise, and Rosie. Gretchen is always thinking that she can beat Squeaky. In "Raymond's Run", the author uses imagery to describe how Squeaky is doing her breathing exercise. Another elements of style is dialect because Squeaky told the story in her point of view and also express her feelings and thoughts in this story.

Journal Entry 77: Slang

Slang is the use of informal words and impressions that are not considered as standard in the speaker's language or dialect. Well, I think the common slangs we use now is like "LOL", "LMAO", "ROFL", "LMFAO", "IDK", "WTH", "WTF" something like that (I'm not even sure about those acronyms; are they considered as slang? Actually I think it's a slang, because I heard some people use IDK in class or something like that). So those acronym mean like --> LOL stands for laugh out loud; LMAO stands for laugh my ass out; ROFL stands for rolling on floor laughing; LMFAO stands for laugh my fxxxxx ass out; the rest of the "slangs", yea, you guys know what those stands for. Nowadays, I think people use dude, man, bro some stuff like that to call other people. So, examples are like, hey dude wassup??. Or, LOL!! Man! LMAO!! Well, I don't even know why people use dude for men and women; so sometimes my sort of 'friend" (don't get confuse, it's the friend that I really hate that much) always use dude to scream at me when I did something wrong (however that thing I did wrong is my own business, not her's). Oh well, if you guys don't understand, I got some short videos that I found on Youtube can help you understand more about acronyms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5bl2-qU30A&ob=av3e

Journal Entry 76: Analogy

"Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you get". This is from the movie "Forrest Gump"; his mama told him this sentence to remind him how life is special. Me, my analogy is "Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know which one is the expired one". It means that the life is full of surprised, but sometimes you never know when will you meet the problem. It also compare life with chocolate in the first part of the sentence, then in the second part of the sentence, it compare the chocolate that is expired or not. In my opinion, I think it is so true, because sometime you will just get surprise by the surprise (this sounds kinda wrong, but you get what I mean). Trust is like a mirror, if you break it, it can't be fixed. In this sentence, they compare the trust with the mirror. If the mirror broke, then it can't be fixed; although you can fixed it, but in the future, the mirror will still have some crack. I think this analogy is so true. If a person lie to you once, they will lie to you twice, so it's better if you leave them.

Journal Entry 75: Fighting Wrods

In your life, there must be some people or person who is worth for you to fight for them (for me, I'm willing to defend for them). In "Raymond's Run", Squeaky defends for her brother, Raymond; I think it is fair that Squeaky defend for her brother because her brother has some kind of problem with his body. I have gotten into a fight and an argument before only because some boys in our class is making fun of me and my best friend. I was so mad at them so I stand up and shout, "shut up!! You guys don't even know a thing about me and my best friend!!". After I shout this out, my teacher talked to those boys who make fun of us after class. I was happy because those boys finally got their punishment for making fun of the others. Sometimes it's necessary to use violence to solve the problem (depends on how harsh they treat you). If some people make fun of your family or your close friend, it is definitely to fight for them. In this case, I suggest you can use violence because insulting your family equals to insulting you; but violence won't help, the problem only gets worst. So here's a way for you to do this: I recommend you to use words to fight back, don't use violence.

Journal Entry 74: Below the Surface

Some of us judge people by judging the first impression of others. First, we look at the people, see whether they look handsome, cute, pretty or other kind of stuff. Then, we start to talk to them; from their voice and the content, we can know what kind of people they have been taught. After that, maybe we shall think whether you are a good friend or a bad friend. But, we discover the unknown side of the people; sometime, they shown us the new side of their personality. I kind of hate that, because it just shows other people that you are just being fake before. For example, I have a friend that I think she is really nice to others, but actually she always tell people the help her to do other stuff or go get her stuff (but those stuff is just beside her). It is kind of wrong to judge other people like these, it doesn't feel so good to been judge by others; one day, you might be judge by others like these. I think I have been judge by others before only because I'm too crazy about someone, and they just start making jokes about me and that person. I'm kind of mad about that because they only see one of my crazy side, not other good side of me.

Journal Entry 73: OOPS!

In this journal, I am going to write an incident in life which about an incident that is a first impression turned out to be wrong. First impression is the feeling or a comment that you have when you see a person, but sometimes, our first impression is mostly wrong. At first, we might think that person is very very nice, but actually they are bad to other people. Or, the person seems to be bad to other people, but actually they are nice to them. There's another kind of impression which is a person looks like having very big eyes and looks alone, but actually they are very annoying and keep following people (yes, I am describing the BOMB). Sometime, people can make a conclusion about the first impression of what they think of them. One time, I met a girl, the first impression that I have to her is that she seems very quite, but actually she is being annoying and distracting. Another experience that I have to another girl is she looks like skinny, speak English very well, very fashion and she brush her teeth, but actually, she can't even read English text very well, not fashion at all, and she didn't brush her teeth for 5 days.

Journal Entry 72: My Tell-Tale Ending

"... Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder!". I scream and yell like a little girl is haunted by a ghost, I said, "I'm the killer! I kill the old man and hide him under the planks!! It's right over there!! Go and take a look for yourself!!". The police ripe off the planks and see a corpse without head, legs, and arms. "Take him back to the department!!", the chief said. They handcuff me and push me into the car and send me to the police department. They put me into a little room which is called a jail. I feel so mad at myself, I'm so mad that why did I kill the old man,maybe I'm really mad and insane? Maybe I really hate his eyes. Next day, I am sending to a court, after a serious debating, I am guilty and I will be hang. From now on, I am going to spent the rest of my life wisely in the jail. I think the life in jail is better than the life when I'm not in jail. There are free foods and I have times to do things I want to do with using the toilet and sleeping on the bed. The best thing is that I don't have to pay the rent of the house!!! In here, I have free room and free time. But tomorrow, I will say goodbye to the world, how sad is it. Ok, I guess that's it, my story will end here, I wish you guys (yes, you who is reading this right now) enjoy my story.

Journal Entry 71: Hints and Foreshadowing

 In ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', the narrator insist to said that he is not insane, but actually he is. At the beginning of the story, he prove that he is not insane by telling us he can hear the sound from heaven and hell, he is not destroyed something like that, then, he said, "how am I mad??". However, I still think this person is a total crazy person. The narrator LOVE and LIKE the character, which is the old man, but the old man's eye is like a eagle (vulture). The narrator feels creepy (this is the word for weird, but creepy sounds more formal in this journal) when he see the old man's eye, so he made up his mind to kill the old man. In the opening paragraph the narrator describe that he is not insane, but at the first few words, shows that he is definitely insane. If he is insane, then it is foreshadowing that he will kill somebody. BUT!! The narrator said that he is very very calm,also he is smart; however, the calm person won't be a crazy person. For example, the joker in "The Dark Knight", he is very very smart (he is like the Einstein, but it's villain version's Einstein). This story makes me feel creepy and nervous, because Poe uses the punctuation to create the feeling of nervous.