Nobody can change the world. But you can make a difference. - Ara

Monday, February 24, 2020

Coronavirus spread in my hometown--Daegu, Korea.

I think this is what's happening in my home town--Daegu.

"It's unusual for respiratory diseases transmissible even before the first symptoms have occurred," he told Al Jazeera.
"But the consequences is that if it happens then they have no public health means to sort out or to identify people at risk of transmitting, because they don't even know that they're ill yet."
 - quoted from How does coronavirus spread and how can you protect yourself? @ February 20, 2020



Anyway, I'm fine--for now, I guess.

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Is this good thing? Or worst to humanity--not climate change, it's climate crisis.

Yesterday, I wrote like this--twitter and facebook:

Yesterday was July 12, 2019(middle of the July so it should be Summer) so temperature should be like 33+ Celsius during the daytime and 24+ Celsius during the nighttime.
But as you can see below photo,
Strange summer weather in one of hottest city--town, Daegu, in Korea.

It's not even 30 Celsius during the daytime and 20+ Celsius during the nighttime.


And today I found this from facebook memories--I also did tweet about it:

You can see the temperature.


Later it changed again though.



Summer wasn't feel like Summer.

Is this good thing? Or worst to humanity--not climate change, it's climate crisis.



It's not climate change, it's climate crisis.

You can read more from tweets below:


Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Remember, tweets can easily removed by....

I have number of twitter accounts and blogs because each account had quite different topics that I'm writing about.



Are we really living in twenty first century?

My writings and tweets were quite shocking to the others which means it will be removed by force. But we were living in the twenty first century so I'm quite sure that we had freedom of speech.
Meanwhile, I had this feeling that some of my writings can be kicked out by force--someone or some organisation cleverly claim copyright issues or some political issues.

But I didn't much care because I'm not writing many things in my English blog--yet.



And I just found out that tweets that I shared were gone.

I am sharing many things in my twitter account so I didn't know how many of my tweets were gone.
And when I tried to find my previous tweet--that twitter account don't have many tweets because recently I started doing write things there, I can see "This Tweet is unavailable." message.
And I relised that retweet or attached other people's tweets were gone.



Here is the one that unavailable:
Screenshot of unavailable tweets which I tweeted at April 17, 2019

So I clicked that tweet and only see "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" message:
Source link: https://twitter.com/SophieWarnes/status/1114114971561017344
Screenshot of unavailable tweets - page doesn't exist message.

And I'd like to know what happen to the owner of this tweets:
Source link: https://twitter.com/SophieWarnes/
Screenshot of unavailable tweet's owner account - this account doesn't exist

So I googled about Sophie Warnes and she still has other social media accounts like medium, flickr, etc.
She probably just deleted her twitter account--she works as journalist so she didn't have to delete her twitter account...don't you think?
But you should ask yourself "Why journalist wants to delete twitter account?".


So I tweeted about this:







Other re-tweeted tweet that was deleted.

I just re-tweeted tweet and original tweet was gone so I couldn't find that tweet. But luckily I did blog about it and I did find this--embedded tweets can keep the tweet like this:
other tweet that deleted - luckily I wrote in my blog.
Source link: https://twitter.com/DrisssMalek/status/1125527231500095488


So I search the same deleted video and found it - here is the video of above tweet:



Friday, March 22, 2019

Iraq invasion - I strongly suggest to watch 'Why We Fight' documentary.

My friend shared this:

If you can't see the embeded video, you can click here--Shock and awe - by Novara Media at March 20, 2019 - Facebook video
 

 

 "the war on Iraq began." No. You should write "Iraq invasion began".

So I googling about it. And found this interesting article - Why did Bush go to war in Iraq? | Iraq | Al Jazeera @ March 20, 2019 by Ahsan I Butt.
Author quoted interesting writing so I am quoting, too:

In a 2002 column, Jonah Goldberg coined the "Ledeen Doctrine", named after neoconservative historian Michael Ledeen. The "doctrine" states: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."

I was interested because I know USA kept attacking other country.
I wrote this before - USA has banned 7 Muslim countries which USA is currently bombing 5 of them and.... @ January 29, 2017


If you wanted to know the reason--probably just one part though, I strongly suggest to watch 'Why We Fight' documentary.

There has interesting story, too. So I'm quoting about it:
quoted from Why We Fight (2005 film) - Wikipedia
The producer's list included "more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to the United Kingdom's BBC, Estonia's ETV and numerous European broadcasters" but no U.S. names.
....
Writer and director Jarecki said "serious examination of Eisenhower and the aftermath of his speech proved 'too radical' for potential American funders for his film" and except for Sundance, he "could not raise a dollar in the U.S."

I found other interesting idea from Why We Fight official website (sonyclassics.com) - Q&A with Eugene Jarecki - About the film
Quoted from Q&A with Eugene Jarecki:
Why do you think we are fighting in Iraq?
Many reasons. There have been so many reasons given for why we are in Iraq - from WMDs to oil, from a democratic crusade to the desire by influential geostrategists to reassert American global power in the wake of 9/11. None of these answers alone is comprehensive. Rather, I think they're all partially true. The war seems to have been of shared service to a range of interests - a coming together of imperial thinkers, global petroleum concerns, and a culture of militarism that tilts toward/requires war to self-perpetuate. After 9/11 all of these came together to create the almost unexplainable momentum that pushed the country to war.

Sunday, November 11, 2018

Men+guns or Toddlers+guns...Everything is about blame game in USA.

Previously, I wrote this - It's about Men + violence. If so, must be about Toddler + violence? Wrong idea about gender equality issue. @ October 6, 2017

This tweet probably slightly different than previous tweet. But it has same purpose--trying to point out the gender equality issue. So it was same thing.


Here is what I wrote--retweeted about it:



Those embeded tweet won't searchable text so I will write in text form:
RT @MelissaStetten: RT @missmayn: Either guns are the problem or men are, and we're getting rid of one, so, what's it gonna be?

Told you before - http://bit.ly/2AWuFb4 #Fact: #Toddlers Killed More #Americans than #Terrorists in 2015.
So sentence became - "Either guns are the problem or toddlers are, and we're getting rid of one, so, what's it gonna be?"
Everything is about #blamegame in #USA.


Related post:
 - Terrorism facts are there. But nobody believe or can see that. @ February 02, 2017

Thursday, October 18, 2018

This is merica..you don't need to inspire by music video....

I wrote this at my facebook timeline.



I didn't read but here is the link of news:
New York City Had Its First Weekend Without A Shooting In 25 Years : NPR

This is America...not some fantasy world...it's a real life.
You don't need to inspire by music video...think hard about the title. I didn't read because I don't need to.
You have to celebrate--big fuss about...for not killing each other.
Almost all other country--any city, don't need celebrate for that matter. Because everyday, we don't kill each other---for no reason.
quoted from my facebook timeline.


Friday, October 06, 2017

It's about Men + violence. If so, must be about Toddler + violence? Wrong idea about gender equality issue.


I saw this tweet:

And I felt 'it wasn't bad thought' but I don't think it can help gender equality issue or can help reduce gun violence in USA.


So I will simply prove 'why that is':

Fact: Toddlers Killed More Americans than Terrorists in 2015.

That facts are true. So base on the fact, I can say that it's about toddler + violence.

So does make sense to you?


So how it will help gender equality issue? And how it can reduce gun violence in USA?





Friday, March 17, 2017

Illogical idea ruled internet--especially social networking sites.


When I login to tumblr, I saw below post as today's blog:

screenshot of (@tyleroakley) tumblr's post
The Weeknd Hair tweeted - "if you cheat on ya girl once a month thats only 12/365 days..you still 97% faithful. That's an A+"
Thanksgiving Kirkey tweeted - "Actually, if you ever read the syllabus, getting caught cheating results in an automatic 0%"
source: http://tyleroakley.com/post/158464093506


Three hundred twenty six thousands and six hundred nine people are shared--reblogged or liked this post or reacted this post.



If you think that is good excuse or funny, I will ask this:
So you are saying your are soooo handsome and cool guy that you can hook up a girl in a second? And make romantic involvement in a day?
And you are saying you are staying--not going to work or even go work with her?--with your girlfriend for 24 hours a day and 365 days a year? And you are saying you think about her every moment for 365 days a year?
* Are you Korean? Not whole Korean couples do but many, probably young couples do video call(or voice call) for long hours. Some of them even turn on video call during their work.

If that’s the case, you can say one day(not once, exact amount for one day) a month cheating on her for one year should 12/365 days. If not, you have completely wrong idea about real life.

And don’t think about some illogical way to excuse yourself for do some bad things.

And stop reading those gibberish ideas from internet--especially social networking sites. And stop thinking that those gibberish and rubbish ideas are funny.



#illogicalruletheinternet #socialnetworkdestroyinglogicalthinking
#illogical #illogicalidea #badthings #excuseyourself #hookupagirlinasec #romanticinvolvement




P.S. See. Those gibberish and rubbish ideas became extremely famous. But so many good ideas or very important things like society and political issues, people made them to shut up--those are very negative things they said.
I remember a few weeks or a month ago, so many people talked about Trump's wrongdoing. But now they all--even I can call it completely shut up in social media. He was doing same thing but social media, especially people shut up about it because people saying they were sooo upset to see negative things.
People became more and more mindless.. Of course, that's why Zombie movies and Zombie TV shows are soooo popular.


P.S. Slightly different but almost same story - This is the reality---how Apple fanboy dominated this world. - Reality of web storage service. @ March 29, 2017 - my other blog.

Saturday, March 04, 2017

Gangnam subway station, so much space for making money, so little space for the people--toilet



Gangnam subway station, so much space for making money, so little space for the people--toilet #1



This is Sinbundang line's Gangnam subway station.
You have to wait for the using the toilet because very small toilet and this area was one of busiest and crowded area in Seoul.

Compare to the toilet, as you can see the photo that huge public area and those places were filled up with huge advertisement--screen.


Gangnam subway station, so much space for making money, so little space for the people--toilet #2



Korean version 한글 - 비싼 신분당선. 비싼 땅속 강남땅. 그래서 화장실은 줄서서 이용. @ March 3, 2017




P.S. This can be one example about the capitalism. Here they think about 'money comes first' so they don't think about anything else. Only put more place for the making money.
Who spent money there? Who was watching those advertisement? People, right?
So if you want to make people to spend money, you have to make convenient and comfortable place for the people.

Why I wrote this blog post, you think? Because they thought about 'making money only, nothing else'.

Simply I can put this as bad product. Do you think bad product can make good profit?
If you think that, I don't have anything say to you. Stop reading my writings please.

It's not capitalism problem. More and more people are only focusing on the money.

Thursday, February 02, 2017

Terrorism facts are there. But nobody believe or can see that.

This is my initial thought on this:
Figure was there probably 10+ years. But strangely nobody knew about it.


It was very strange. Because whenever some mass shooting(or similar thing) was happening in United States of America, I am hearing it's terrorist attack--probably all the time.
I don't really read any newspaper or news websites but I still get the news from my facebook or twitter timeline.
Also I can see so many blame going on toward to Muslim.


But once in a while, I saw this kind of post:
src: The Huffington Post - The Freakonomics Of Extreme Extreme Vetting by Todd R. Miller @ Sep 02, 2016
Source: The Freakonomics Of Extreme Extreme Vetting by Todd R. Miller @ Sep 02, 2016


This is actually nothing new because it probably has been there after 9/11.
Here is the other one that I've seen it before--at least, a few years ago.
src: BBC News - Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence @ 5 January 2016
Source: Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016

Those stats were all came from government so it was very reliable source.

I can't remember when I've seen similar one before. (I'm not digging up this time.) But every year government release that stats so I can guess--probably exist around 2012 or 2013.


More recent one you can easily find in CNN website:

This is tweet from CNN:


This is the stats:
src: CNN - American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph by Julia Jones and Eve Bower @ December 30, 2015
Source: CNN - American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph by Julia Jones and Eve Bower @ December 30, 2015

That's until 2013. And this one is until 2014.



This is the stats:
src: CNN - American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph by Eve Bower @ October 3, 2016
Source: CNN - American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph by Eve Bower @ October 3, 2016



Gun violence was almost 1,000+ times more but they don't seem to bother....

1,000+ times more were exclude year 2001 stats. Include year 2001--it became 100+ times more.

BBC news said like this:
According to figures from the US Department of Justice and the Council on Foreign Affairs, 11,385 people died on average annually in firearm incidents in the US between 2001 and 2011.
In the same period, an average of 517 people were killed annually in terror-related incidents. Removing 2001, when 9/11 occurred, from the calculation produces an annual average of just 31.
quote from Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016


And you can read BBC's article--Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016, which you can find about the statistics behind violence--such as mass shootings, school shootings, homicide rate, etc.

So above figure prove this statement was right:
Gun violence and terrorism: The US spends more than a trillion dollars per year defending itself against terrorism, which kills a tiny fraction of the number of people killed by ordinary gun crime.
quote from Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016



Gun violence stats

If you do google search about gun violence, you can get this kind of result:
screenshot of Google search with gun violence @ January 31, 2017

How many people are killed each year by guns?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.23 per 100,000 U.S. citizens); 11,208 homicides (3.5 per 100,000); 21,175 suicides; 505 deaths due to accidental/negligent discharge of a firearm; and 2818 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined ... (src: Gun violence in the United States - Wikipedia) quote from Google search result

If I talked about this, it will be long. So I will just quote my tweet and


you can go Gun Violence Archive website and see it yourself.

And you can see year summary from Past Summary Ledgers in Gun Violence Archive website.

Now is year 2017 and one month was passed. As you can see their homepage--incidents were more than five thousands already.
screenshot of Gun Violence Archive website.



So you think those people were all killed by terrorist--Muslim?



I will keep this screenshot of past year's stats--for just in case.
Screenshot of Gun Violence Archive website's Past Summary Ledgers web page.



These thoughts are all connected my previous writings:



Tuesday, January 31, 2017

...just sit there and let some rich men ruled whole country?


I've seen this tweet from @MelissaStetten:
It's Sunday. RT @aubrey_huff: I mean seriously what the hell is going on? If you have time 2 march, protest and riot. Maybe it's time for something called a job!
https://twitter.com/MelissaStetten/status/825928110130421760

So I re-tweeted with this:
If government won't listen people, what they do?
Just sit there! Let some rich men ruled whole country? That's what you call democratic.

RT @MelissaStetten: It's Sunday. RT @aubrey_huff: I mean seriously what the hell is going on? If you have time 2 march, protest and riot. Maybe it's time for something called a job!
https://twitter.com/thinklogically/status/825958064046043137

I wrote those yesterday afternoon. And I'd like to write about it so I was checking the source--tweet. But twitter said unavailable.


And I found that @aubrey_huff deleted tweet: Exclusive: Ex-Giants slugger Aubrey Huff apologizes for Twitter rant that began with pro-Trump tweet @ January 30, 2017.


I think it was lucky that I copied whole thing.


Anyway, march, protest and riot were part of democratic act, you know.
You probably don't believe riot wasn't democratic act but it is. Think about this: If president do things like dictator or king, people will go crazy, right? So if that happens, what angry(crazy) people will do, you think?

Sunday, January 29, 2017

USA has banned 7 Muslim countries which USA is currently bombing 5 of them and....


One of my friend share this post from Muslims Are Not Terrorists facebook page:

screenshot from Muslims Are Not Terrorists facebook page
USA has banned 7 Muslim countries which includes Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Somalia.
USA is currently bombing 5 of them and killed more than 1 million of them.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/MANTofficial/photos/a.210236958572.162395.206186953572/10155008927833573/

I was surprised. I probably can see those countries but I'm not sure about the figure. So I did some digging--not much though.

It looked like hard to find exact figure--I did very simple googling so I couldn't find, maybe.
Even if it was there nobody can tell exact figure because bombing--invasion is still going on.

But one thing I can say is those figure could be probably right because America dropped 26,171 bombs in 7 countries--it's not recent 4 to 5 years figure. Just last year alone--2016.




If you dropped a bomb, do you think it was perfectly possible with zero civilian casualty? Of course, it was always possible in Hollywood movie.
If you think that, I don't have anything to say to you. Don't read my writings please.

Not just 10 or 20.
Or 100 or 1,000 bombs.
It's 26,171 bombs in 2016.

In 2015, 23,144 bombs.



And this:
misconception about other country – story continue from The Image Hollywood Created of Africa @ December 5, 2015

Don't complain they are in dictatorship or inequality issue. You have your own inequality issue and dictatorship–through media brainwashed people and control them. You can't solve your country’s problem but you can solve other country's problem???
That's why you are brainwashed by media.

So 'invasion', we called 'war'.


If you are serious thinker, you should read this:
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 "Victim Nations" Since World War II by James A. Lucas @ March 07, 2016

This article has some figure:
Almost 2,500 now killed by covert US drone strikes since Obama inauguration six years ago: The Bureau's report for January 2015 by Jack Serle @ February 2, 2015



And others:


misconception about other country – story continue from The Image Hollywood Created of Africa

Originally I wrote this in my wordpress blog at December 5, 2015.
I moved to that wordpress blog because strange Koreans who read my Korean blogs(about learn English properly and other things) came to this blog for complain about my English--because Korea's English education systems are completely corrupted.

Now I am thinking about getting back here to continue. So I will write here.




article from The Image Hollywood Created of Africa | Films For Action


Part of reason is this: Majority people never even been to other country or they never meet people from other country. So they have no idea what it's like living in another world–another country. But media and some stupid propaganda making this huge misconception–that some country's people are inhuman or even call them as 'evil'.

Cultural differences became some kind of demonized act. These things, some political leader and media take advantage of it–no, unfortunately these people also brainwashed by media. So they think other country or other culture are evil so they have to destroy–correct them.

Don't complain they are in dictatorship or inequality issue. You have your own inequality issue and dictatorship–through media brainwashed people and control them. You can't solve your country's problem but you can solve other country's problem???
That’s why you are brainwashed by media.

So 'invasion', we called 'war'.





P.S. A few other factors:
– Travelling to other country doesn't mean understand other country's culture–some people know very little about other culture but they said they knew everything.
– Simple fact, media (and government agency) keep reporting that it's dangerous to travel some country. Think about the other side, if that country is so dangerous, how people live there? Have you ever even thought about this? We are all human being, after all. They are not evil, you know.
– Think about this. Do you think people will even read this? Just unknown guy's talk, why do people even bother, right?
And do you think people believe what I said? Or people will believe what newspaper, TV and magazine said.
Whatever it is, in the end, people will listen and believe (even follow them) what famous newspaper, magazine, TV said.
Unfortunately, that is the fact.

And this misunderstanding, misconception will continue.




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If your society isn't so barbaric, how come your country always attacking other country?

Originally I wrote this in my wordpress blog at December 24, 2013.
I moved to that wordpress blog because strange Koreans who read my Korean blogs(about learn English properly and other things) came to this blog for complain about my English--because Korea's English education systems are completely corrupted.

Now I am thinking about getting back here to continue. So I will write here.


Don't get me wrong. I am not big fan of some of Muslim's practice like women must wear hijab and other dress code and etc. (I actually don't like it but at least I am respecting their choices.)
And you can argue or discuss about it also fine. But if you talking like that kind of practice is pure barbaric thing to do, that's seriously wrong with your society. (Should I talk about how barbaric western's Catholic is? Try to research what Pope or priest done things. You can't solve the your problem but you are so right to attacking other religion?)

(Of course, that's how media brainwashed to the people with tagline 'Muslim is Evil'. And start invasion.)

So if your society isn't so barbaric, how come your country always attacking other country?
This world became more more pathetic.

I wrote this because I heard when someone describe about the practice with so much hatred in it and surprisingly talk show's host completely agree on that–It means their producer and people and their channel agree that it is right to hate the Muslim, isn't it?



I wrote this at 8:42pm 12 December 2013 in my facebook account here.



P.S. Many of western media attacking Muslim. And then so deceivingly put slogan like 'world peace'. Are you kidding me?

Of course, most problem is people fell for it.




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Sunday, July 11, 2010

My english got worse and worse.

I came back to Korea around end of November 2007 so I haven't been speaking or writing English almost 3 years now. Yes, sometimes, I spoke English but not for long.
And my writing English skill wasn't good at all. Truthfully, it was really bad.

Now I really need something to write in English and my horrible written English makes me crazy. :-(
I did thought about recording it or make video but my English was horrible so I couldn't afford to do that, either.

Oh, maybe you don't understand what rubbish I am talking about. so here is one of good example. I couldn't even spell out "suffering" so I have to find out from dictionary. :-(

Darn. I'm seriously hoping that there has real English town in Korea so I could go there and practice my English again.

I am really missing the Cameron Highland in Malaysia. Because that is my favourite place for writing. You can look at some photo from here


From
^_~ Ara

Friday, October 30, 2009

I don't even close to bookworm but...

I have taken the note from Emma. She has been read 41 books from the list. I should just say 'Wow'.


I have read a lot of technical book such as computer programming book when I growing up. A lot of people can't count how many books they read but in my case, I can count on them in Korean novel and English novel, too. Because I haven't read a lot of books.

If you want to check my list of read book in English, you can check out here.

My reading novel in Korean also quite same as that one. I mean it wasn't that much.

I was very surprised that I read that list far better than most people so I am trying to do that, too.

--------------
y - I haven't read original story but I read it as rewritten for young age novel.
k - I have been read Korean translated version of book.
b - I bought a book for reading someday in future. :-)

Xn - I have been read part of serise.

r - I have been reading it.
--------------


The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
Copy this into your NOTES. Put an 'X' next to those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

[b] 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[X, k] 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I couldn't bring myself to finish this one)
[] 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
[Xn] 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[X] 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[] 6 The Bible - God (the whole thing) Got to the bit about not being worthy of His love if you're not willing to take up a spear for Him and got pissed off.
[y] 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[] 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[] 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[] 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 3 (1 Xn, 1 k)

[] 11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
[] 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
[] 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[] 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read and perfomed, but not the complete set)
[] 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
[] 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
[] 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
[X] 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
[] 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[] 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total: 1

[] 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[k] 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
[] 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
[] 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
[] 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[] 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[] 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[r] 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[] 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total: 1 (k)

[] 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
[] 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
[Xn] 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
[] 34 Emma - Jane Austen
[] 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
[X] 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
[] 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[] 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[] 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[] 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Total: 2 (1 Xn)

[] 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
[X] 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
[b] 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[] 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
[] 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[] 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[] 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[] 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
[X] 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[] 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total: 2

[X] 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[] 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
[] 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[] 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[] 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[] 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[] 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
[r] 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
[X] 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
[] 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total: 2

[] 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
[] 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
[] 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
[] 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
[] 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
[] 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
[] 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
[] 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
[] 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
[] 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Total: 0

[y] 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
[] 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
[] 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
[] 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
[] 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
[] 76 The Inferno - Dante
[] 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[] 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
[] 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[] 80 Possession - AS Byatt

Total: 0

[] 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[] 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[] 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[] 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
[] 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[] 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mxistry
[] 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[X] 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
[] 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[] 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total: 1

[] 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
[] 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
[] 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
[] 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
[] 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
[] 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
[] 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
[] 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[] 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[] 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 0

Grand Total: 12/100 include two part of serise and one of Korean translated one
b: 2
y: 2
r: 2

Isn't it strange?
Or my reading habit was what most people would interesting to read.


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^_~ Ara

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

wild duck family made home at Sinchundunchi, Daegu

They were staying between Suseong-gyo and Dongsin-gyo. Korean word 'Gyo' is bridge and Korean word for step-stone bridge is 'Jinggeumdari'.

When Daegu city government were building the jinggeumdari, I did notice that wild duck family staying same place most of time.

So I took the photo of them with my Nokia 6210s phone camera.

#1 I think they were staying there quite sometime now. I have no idea how long they were there because they looked same to me.
대구 신천둔치에서 둥지를 튼 청둥오리 가족 wild duck family made home at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #1
26th August 2009

night shot of wild duck family at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #2
야간촬영 - 대구 신천둔치 청둥오리 가족 night shot of wild duck family at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #2
8th September 2009
They were staying same place at night.

Below photos were taken at 18th September, 2009.

#3 Cubs are playing around but mother duck(I don't know whether it is female or not.) doesn't much moving around.
대구 신천둔치 청둥오리 가족 wild duck family at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #3

#4
대구 신천둔치 청둥오리 가족 wild duck family at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #4

#5 Mostly she staying there for long time.
대구 신천둔치 청둥오리 가족 wild duck family at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #5

#6 Some kids wanted to feed wild duck. That's why they were looking at the same direction.
대구 신천둔치 청둥오리 가족 wild duck family at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #6

#7 Finally, she will trying to follow her baby.
대구 신천둔치 청둥오리 가족 wild duck family at Sinchundunchi, Daegu #7


p.s. My original writing is here in Korean.

p.s. I couldn't see them anymore. They probably were heading to the south for staying at warm weather. They were left there at first October.

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^_~ Ara

Monday, July 27, 2009

I was so happy to buy Nokia 6210s but…

I wrote about the phone at twitter.com.
I can't keep up with too much techie style of Korean mobile phone. So I ordered Nokia 6210s. http://bit.ly/d0X7J

10:55 AM Jul 20th from bit.ly



It can't play the video. And camera only show it in black screen so I have to send back to internet shopping mall for repair. :-(


I took the photo near my home by Nokia 6210s with geo tagging which is tag for map.
So you can see the photo with where I took it.-You have to check out from photo's hyperlink.


near Sincheongyo Daegu, Korea - Share on Ovi



about the Nokia's enter the Korea's cell-phone market

I wrote about that in ovi.com.

near Sincheongyo Daegu, Korea @ 7/26/2009
I took the photo for testing by Nokia 6210s which name is same as Nokia 6210 Navigator.
But my phone's camera doesn't show any image just plain black so I have to request for change the phone from seller.

You see. Nokia said that they want to succeed in Korea but a lots of Nokia 6210s seems to be broken down so who wanted to buy it? Do some work properly, Nokia.
People complain about the small manufacturing problems but real problem is Nokia 6210s' firmware which included Korean version. Because my phone's camera was work a few times after the using the Nokia Software Updater program.
You see the problem?
And video player doesn't showing the video, too. But it can only play the music. So it was problem with full screen control.

Anyway, I hope that Nokia do better on Korea's cell-phone market.


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^_~ Ara

Saturday, June 20, 2009

This is what makes me crazy.

This is what I wrote in my twitter.

26 minutes ago from bit.ly
open letter to Kansas School Board:Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster http://bit.ly/Vv6VS FSM Korea is this http://bit.ly/4C7C0 RAmen!


25 minutes ago from bit.ly
Wikipedia explain that http://bit.ly/Z1bdS FSM is the deity of the parody religion.But certainly that was wrong because that's >>


25 minutes ago from bit.ly
>> against freedom of religion.This is why US's education system was collapsed and people are having more stupidity. It wasn't funny. RAmen!

Actually, I don't know anything about US's education system so it was false statement and other things too. More precisely they need more evidence and I will write it some day. Because I am quite busy for writing in Korean about this.

But why I wrote that statement because I know the Korean's education system very well which is mix of US's and Japan's education system. And especially religion thing was very like US but different way.

Now I found this twitter's message

17 minutes ago from bit.ly
forsafety This is happening in Korea.Priest who was helping the protest people, attacked by police. http://bit.ly/19VBiU

so I have to write about in Korean.


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^_~ Ara

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Korean's famous star Kim Yuna on twitter

Kim Yuna on Twitter http://bit.ly/tHKmk who won a few times world champion in figure skating and became extremely famous in Korea. It probably far more famous than Brad Pitt plus Angelina Jolie. (I'm not kidding.)
Most of Koreans don't know anything about twitter but when she started twittering, 5000+ people follow her. That, We cleverly call them as "dynamic Korea".

[via Ara on twitter]


P.S You can see it yourself how famous she was. http://bit.ly/tHKmk

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