Sunday, October 5, 2008

My consumption on Clothes

I am a love shopping girl,I think most girls love shopping.Loving shopping means spend a lot money on shopping.I am a shopping-lover,and i do spend a lot money on shopping.
The stuff which I spend money on mostly are clothes .In my opinion,the reason why i shop so much on clothes has two sides.I can say one side is my internal element,the other is business element.
I am a girl,girls love beautiful stuff.Cute clothes make girls cuter.Girls would like spend a lot time on walking around,looking for those clothes which and fit them best.Even just walking around,not really buy clothes,that is also enjoyable for girls.
Clothes stores try to think every means to attract girls to come visit their store.For example,i bought many shirts in some store.i spent a lot money in that store,so that store gave me a VIP card,so next time i consume here again.i can save 50 dollars .That is a good deal,but because i really spend a lot in that store.This way can attract me to visit their store and consume always for that good deals.Actually I planed to go that store this weekend.So I don't need pay a lot for my stuff.I think I will not go to other stores recently,because this store give me a good deal.I will keep going.
I admit I love buying clothes.Actually I really don't need that much.But how can I control myself if i am the VIP in clothes store,knowing i can buy cute clothes for a lower price.That is girls' nature,also business-man's means.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Facebook’s Influence on Me

I knew the facebook through my oral English teacher who is American when I was in China. He invited me to become his on-line friend on Facebook. The first time I heard its name, I guessed it was another networking social like I had some already. My guess got proved. It is a networking social, like my “on campus” which is famous in China.
I wasn’t addicted on facebook initially.I even didn’t check my account once a week. Because not many Chinese people know facebook, all we are using is “on campus”. I did log in my “on campus” a lot, about three to four times everyday. Facebook couldn’t get my interest at all. Things changed when I got America. I found my new American friends always asked my facebook’s account, so they can keep in touch me on facebook. With I add a lot more friends there, the times I login facebook increased to four to five times everyday. I always want to check if some new friends I just met for real try to add me on facebook. Every time when I sit before my laptop,I wouldn’t check my school mailbox first. Instead I check my facebook first. It obviously becomes my daily habit. Even the last thing right before I turn off my laptop also is to check my facebook.I text message to my old or new friends. They reply my message. It is really simply to contact any people on my friends list on facebook. We all enjoy this way. I do spend a lot time there, looking at pictures, new friends’ profiles, and diaries. Even I have a lot homework to do, I still login facebook to see what’s new today. So facebook waste my time even though I don’t want that happen.
Another side, facebook helped me a lot because its social property. I sold my
seond-handed books to my schoolmate there. They saw my list on marketplace on facebook. And my roommate now contacted me through facebook. I put on my list-looking for roommates. She would like me to be her roommate, so she sent a message to me on facebook. We are going along so well as roommates. Facebook do help me a lot. I am sure I will ask for help from it more in the future.
Any new technology invention must bring good point to human beings, at the same time. There must be bad side .For me,face book bring me many new friends,let me get what I want. But it also waste my time which am supposed to be made use of on study. But nobody can help me only I can help myself.Try to make facebook help me more not giving me bad influence.

Old Introduction and New introduction of Essay one

“Jia, maybe u are a big tree” my buddy told me this, when I was standing straight on the playground, not doing morning physical excises like others student by the music. From that time, I realized I did have something in common with a big tree .Trees is absorbing nutrients, going through four seasons, being clipping branches just like me learning knowledge, experiencing variety of frustration, getting advice from surrounding people.


“Jia, you are a big tree” my buddy told me this when I was standing straight on the playground, not doing morning physical excises like other students. My friend around laughed out once they heard this. I thought it was more funny words than making sense. Trees are plants, they can’t speak, can’t move around. However I am a person, can talk can move, having emotion. The only point we share is I am standing straight like a big tree. With time passing, I gradually realized I do have something in common with a big tree. I am learning knowledge, going through variety of frustration, getting help and advice from the surrounding people as if a tree is absorbing nutrients from the soil, going through coldness in winter, being clipping branches by gardeners.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Feel good about writing center tutor

When I had somehow certain doubt about if it is worth to go to Writing Center once a week. Because I was a little confused what is gonna going on. How much my tutor can help me. This concern disappeared as soon as I walked into that Writing Center office.
My tutor Katie is so nice and kind, She walk toward me, said “I am your tutor, now let me take you go our offices, you can choose any office you like just depends which one you like. Then I chose the left one. I took out my peer letter instruction showed it to my tutor. I told her this was my first time to write a peer letter, I didn’t know how to construct a peer letter. I even didn’t know what point I need refer.
My tutor explained immediately, “it is a letter, so first of all you need address ‘Dear…’,then just tell what information you got from his essay, such as what is the thesis, main ideas in every support paragraphs. Try telling you feeling about his essay. You also can tell him which part you like most. You even can ask some questions that affect your understanding of essay or interest you.”After I heard this, I became much clearer about peer letter. I know what I should do in this peer letter.
Anyway I just wanna say my first meeting with my tutor is successful. I believe my tutor will help me a lot about my writing ability

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Some Thinking about Texting

Some thinking about Text

Texting already became an important part of communicating in daily life. Its good points are fast, in time, easy, cheap than making a call, people having fun to play around their phones. However, in my opinion, I still can tell some bad points about texting, such as reducing the intimacy, too fast to say some words in your heart, misunderstanding .
People can establish a connection with anyone else by shorthand so easily, and anything can be dealt by texting .Otherwise a real talk that needs an appointment, a certain place, a specific time and so on. Sometime real face-to –face communication can bring certain inevitable awkward or intimacy.
It seems like there is no reason to have a real face- to- face talk. People appreciate this simple way to communicate. I think people ignore a real face-to face talk is an emotion communication. Developing people’s emotion need feel each other’s existence through hearing the voice, looking at each other for real. For example, Chinese parents are eager to see their kids during some Chinese Spring Festival .But some daughters or sons choose travel with their wife or husband in festival, because it is a good time to travel around. They just send their parents text messages, says:”Happy Spring Festival”. I think they don’t mind this, but they do miss their kids, they wanna see them, talk to them about life or work. So texting make parents hard to see their kids in festival.
Texting is no doubt fast, but it is too fast to tell real words in people minds. People like simple stuff, they try to make text simpler than it is supposed to be, like “see you” u can type:”cy”. The text receiver can understand it for sure, but do they really feel something that is deeper than its word. It isn’t text receiver’s fault, because the text sender didn’t tell something in his mind emotionally.
Simple texting also causes misunderstanding to a thing. For example, a young couple argued earlier. They are texting each other, debating whose fault or something. Due to the simple texting without voice, either one only can imagine another’s thinking. Misunderstanding is inevitable. That is gonna make the argument worse.
Texting is such a fast way to find anyone you wanna connect. But it has some bad points still. People can go ahead to text if they are in a hurry. However people can’t depend on text all the time. They should sit before their family or friends ,having a real talk.