Title : Tuesdays with Morrie
Publisher : Bantam Books
Year : 2005. 12. 27
Vocabulary : 1. be intent on ~에 열중하다
2. curb (인도와 차도 사이의) 연석
3. beam in 스며들다
4. squirm 우물쭈물하다
5. grapple with ~을 해결하려고 노력하다
6. age spots 검버섯
7. gear up gor ~에 대해 준비를 갖추다
8. stillborn bith 사산
9. lilting 경쾌한
10. prop 떠받치다
11. rap 톡톡 두드리다
12. within earshot 불러서 들리는 곳에
13. cremate 화장하다
Summary & Reflection : The social psychology professor Morrie, suddenly contacts the Lou Gheric's disease. He spens the rest of his life suffering from the pain, watching himslf gradually being unable to use each parts of the body. Facing death, professor Morrie finds a whole new different point of view towards the world.
After hearing the news that he will not be able to live longer, professor Morrie decides to spend his last minutes with people who cared for him. He even appeared on a television program for his particular way of spending his last days. This served as the momentum for Mitch incidently cathching his old teacher on television, and decides to go see him after 20 years passed.
Mitch, being one of the students of Morrie's lasst lectures, gains very meaningful 15 tuesdays. Each day he learns about different topics, mostly the ones that anyone would wonder about during their life.
Professor Mitch claims that although he was dying, he was happy since he was surrounded by people who cares for him. Not many would be able to proudly announce that they are beloved by people around them.
The two men discuss about the world, feeling sorry for himself, regrets, death, family, emotions, fear of aging, money, love, and many other things for 14 tuesdays. I especially remember the day they dicussed about death. Death is one of the things that most people fear. Usually people are not ready for this. It was the same for me. Until I read this book, I never had though about how my death would be, when it would vcome, and how will I behave.
In the book, professor Morrie tells avout a little bird on his shoulder. Every morning he asks the bird, 'is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?'
From now on, I shall set one of my life-long goals to answer properly to these questions: otherwise, I might waste tiem chasing meaningless things.
2009년 9월 29일 화요일
2009년 6월 6일 토요일
The Mentalist < the one I'm sooooooo into!
i'll never know if others feel about this...
but this one has completely gone over me..
Have you ever heard of'em?
Have you ever heard of'em?
YIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
It' got all the things that i love..
It' got all the things that i love..
-killers
-murders
-police
-guns
-tentions
-and most importantly.. HOT GUYS(Yipee!)
....Anyway..I've always loved such "invetigation shows"
and I just cant believe those shows could be with such amazing people..
So
Now, lets go through the characters in the show ~
Now, lets go through the characters in the show ~
[PATRICK JANE]_Simon Baker
Yep. He's the guy.
i mean.. he's great. awesome.. hot!
(cant believe hes 39 in American age!)
He always wears this suit with vest in it..
He always wears this suit with vest in it..
which makes him even hotter~
Jane(as in the show), is the mentalist
He works in the C.B.I.(California Beuro of Investigation)
as a consultant(자문 or 고문)
Mostly he's a fun guy with that ADORABLE SMILE...
Look at him smile... 꺄아~~~~~!!!
But deep inside.. he has a horrible, tragic..
Before he became the consultant,
Before he became the consultant,
he used to be a fake phycic
and he somehow affended RedZone, the killer;
he draws this kind of spooky smile face with the victims blood.
Since Redzone left a note that said,
"Dear mister Jane, I do not like to be slandered in the media, especially by adirty money-grubbing fraud. ... you wouldn't need to open the doorto see what I've done to your lovely wife and child."
and had killed his family
he has some kind of guilty conscience, that he drove his own family into death.
Oh well.. No wonder he goes crazy with Redzone..
(can check out the seriousness in episodes 11, 23)
[Teresa Lisbon]_Robin Tunney
She's the leader of the C.B.I.
Jane and Lisbon often make conflicts..
(they mostly have light arguments)
No matter how much they fight,
it's true that Jane's good,
and she admits the fact.
But, she once hurt Jane's feelings
by saing "I don't trust you"
Feels like sths gonna happen between them,..
I hope not, cause I want both of them to left as
the "cool singles."
According to Jane, she's conventional and bisual..
which could be translated as "철두철미한, 원리원칙의"
[Kimbell Cho]_Tim Kang
U noticed sth about him?
Yep! He's Korean-Amrican actor in Hollywood.
He's hot his own charmings
In the show, he's more like.. quiet..
and almost always serious
u can hardly see him smile..
But, He sometimes make jokes..
(without even a smile.. and that makes him look so hot..kk)
Hope Mr.Bruno(the director of the show)
makes more shot of him in season 2... :-)
In the show, he often has trouble
understanding Mr.Jane...
but mostly they get on well.
really... NICE :-D
[Wayne Rigby]_Owain Yeoman
Here's our itty-bitty Rigsby.
He's the biggest in the team, duh..
but looks as he's the youngest..
(hes so cute...not him.. his behaviors)
He sometimes looks like a dool guy..
He actually put his team into trouble..in episodes..
......ugh.. cant remember..
anyway..
he's in love with Grace,
the other team member..
but as i said.. he's somewhat dool..
He hasnt even asked her out yet
[Grace Van Pelt]_Amanda Righetti
Isnt she beautiful?(하아~..)
She's the last one to join the team,
and the actual youngest in real too.
She has much intersts in Jane..
since he's so "strange"
..she suspects him as a phsycic..
but oh well.. he isnt/
In the show, he has sth going on with Rigsby
She knows that he likes her..
but i dont think they'll make out so easily..:-l
You can take better look at the 등장인물 at here
2009년 5월 12일 화요일
Book report(p. 220~224)
Book Report 1
Title : Building Green
Author : Lee Chan Seung & others
Publisher & Year : 능률교육 & 2003
Vocabularies : sustainable 지속가능한 meet demand 요구를 충족시키다 drainage 배수 bamboo 대나무 currently 현재 dirt=soil features=specialties on the rise 증가하는 rooftop=roof
Summary : With the constant development of technologies by humans, our eco-system got into a trouble. To solve it, there are several ways, and some of them are actually practiced: auto light-off system to save electricity, garden roofs, saving water, using bamboo for wood as well as recycling papers. With such efforts we might be able to expect a green future.
Comment : Through reading, I could once again realize how serious the Earth problem could get. At the same time, I was reliefed to see such active efforts to save the world. If there is anything I could do to save the world, I would be happy to help as well.
2009년 5월 5일 화요일
Is Art Art?
From the morning when we open our eyes, until the night when we lie down on the bed, we hemans live ina world full of various sounds. They might be the chirpings of birds or people chattering. John Cage brought such sounds into music, and expressed and shared his emtions one can feel from. His work is indeed form of art in such views, and there are several reasons for it.
Firstly, though it does not have the melodies or harmonies like normal music, 4' 33" can be distinguished as and art that has feelings. According to the definition of art in Wikipedia, if it can only let the audiences have feelings, no matter what they are, it could be defined as an art. In this case, Cage's art might not make the audiences to feel happy or impressed, but can let them feel surprised or curious. These are indeed some forms of human feelings we share. Therefore this should be considered as an art.
Secondly, this music has a point of view that people might miss; it is a friendly art. Being easy, some turns back towards this work. However, their attitudes are definitely wrong. The difficulties are not the standards to decide whether a work is an art or not, and should not be. To add, easy arts should be welcomed, not judged, since every people will be able to enjoy art easily. John Cage is the artist who brought the art closer to us.
There are various types of art in today's society. John Cage's 4' 3" was one of the forms that were a special and fresh was to listen to music and have emotions. I certainly agree that this is art, and would like to even compliment it as a wonderful one.
Firstly, though it does not have the melodies or harmonies like normal music, 4' 33" can be distinguished as and art that has feelings. According to the definition of art in Wikipedia, if it can only let the audiences have feelings, no matter what they are, it could be defined as an art. In this case, Cage's art might not make the audiences to feel happy or impressed, but can let them feel surprised or curious. These are indeed some forms of human feelings we share. Therefore this should be considered as an art.
Secondly, this music has a point of view that people might miss; it is a friendly art. Being easy, some turns back towards this work. However, their attitudes are definitely wrong. The difficulties are not the standards to decide whether a work is an art or not, and should not be. To add, easy arts should be welcomed, not judged, since every people will be able to enjoy art easily. John Cage is the artist who brought the art closer to us.
There are various types of art in today's society. John Cage's 4' 3" was one of the forms that were a special and fresh was to listen to music and have emotions. I certainly agree that this is art, and would like to even compliment it as a wonderful one.
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