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Culture is what people need to be concerned when they have foreign friends. All people are raised in particular areas with social norms of those societies. That’s why people are different. According to different background, people automatically act like they always do with friends in another culture; as a result, it can cause difficulties getting together. It’s nothing wrong about anybody but misunderstanding

Eastern people are always indirect: the way of talking, acting, or even expressing their feeling. In contrast, western people usually behave directly as what they feel. So, how possible for them to understand exactly what the other is thinking.

Last night, six of us (the mixture of eastern and western people) were going to go join the cruise with all classmates. Unfortunately, it was raining, so we missed it. Then, we were going to somewhere else. Three western people dicided to go to a bar. The thing was three eastern people weren’t alcohol drinkers, and didn’t know how to let the others know that they didn’t enjoy any bar that much. Moreover, they didn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings because they all realized that it was kind of misunderstood. Therefore, three eastern people did express their feelings indirectly as the way they’re used to do so by telling the other three to get into the bar while they found something to eat at another place. That sounded fine, but it was not. The three people in the bar were waiting while the other three tried to find something to do outside in order to let them have fun the way they like. Then, when we met again before going back home, it could be assume that the three people in the bar were angry because the other three didn’t join them and they didn’t understand. So, three eastern people gave them the reasons, which was a secondary reason.

We all were wrong in this situation, and no one meant to hurt each other . However, I’m pretty sure that we all hurt since we weren’t aware of the differences of cultures. I have no idea what to do back then really. All I want to say is “sorry.”

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Today is my first day in School of Law. The orientation and reception were nice and enjoyable. In the LL.M. program, there are 17 students who’re from different countries. We have a lot of information to share, so the 8 hours we had weren’t enough.

However, it’s not easy for us, international students, to get involved into American students community, I guess. Even if the professors convince us to do so, I still think that it might be an awkward situation. Culture, sometimes, is a difficulty. While international people don’t know about usual ways to do things in another country or even society, they could be considered as a joker. Anyway, I’ve never confronted this kind of situation in the university so far. And, I hope not to face it.

After living here for a while, I have not only good but bad experiences as well. Thank you very much for people’s kindness and some people’s cruelty. I’ve learned a lot from those experiences.

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I have 2 computers to use right now, but I’m really not sure I should get another one haha. What I have are Fujitsu S2110 on my table all the time and Asus Eee PC 7″ in order to carry out with me when I’ve got something to do. The point is I do have passion for tablet PC (I really do) after I try my BF’s Thinkpad X61T for a while. I had this kind of feeling before when I got my first Palm Pilot, Sony Clie TJ27. It’s like I would have fun whenever I touched it: super cool!! I can’t make a decision so far whether I should get one for myself or not. However, I’m getting an HP TX2500Z for my younger brother soon. I’ll wait and see how I’m going to feel about it though. If I’m still want one, I bet I’ll go for Dell Latitude XT ;P

How much fun you do you get from tablet PC?

I have no idea about other people, but myself. It’s so fun that you get a good tool that can make you feel much better when you’re bored especially if the thing has multi-touch. Passive digitizer is touch screen that you’ve got to press hardly to make it get what you want to do and not so good in writing or drawing. On the other hand, active digitizer is great for writing or drawing. It gives almost the same feeling as using paper and pen. And capacitive touch is what we have on iPhone.

In my position, I’ll choose Dell Latitude XT which has Active digitizer and capacitive touch because Thinkpad X61T has passive digitizer and active digitizer. I’ll be back and talk about the differences if I decide to get one.

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Have you ever planned for anything about your life? It sounds normal, doesn’t it? What I want to say really is there’s no way to plan every steps in life.

What if someone plans to start his job and family in countryside, who knows if his boss will send him to another country next week. It’s, eventually, like something go wrong when we plan things perfectly. "Keep it slow!" & "Do step by step!" are what fortune is telling me to do so. Because we’ve faced sort of accidental situations all the time, we need to be prompt without a long term plan.

I really feel like there’s someone up there messing up humans’ lives; I don’t know if it’s for fun or he’s on duty but it seems to be painful anyhow.

Take what you think it’s good for you right now! No one can tell about the future; however, what’s good today will lead you to another good way. Even though, it’s not what you plan to be, take it because it might be what you mean to be.

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Today, My BF and I went to AMC Empire @ Time Square for watching a movie. It was really hard to decide which movie we would watch because we got there around 7pm, so we could choose only one movie (!.!) Finally, we took "Kung Fu Panda." I didn’t have much expectation, just needed time for fun. After half an hour, I found out that the decision we made was great.

The story is about Po, a big fat panda, who is chosen as dragon warrior in order to fight with a powerful tiger. Po is a big fan of Kung Fu but knows nothing about it. He believes and tries so hard to make himself better and follow his dreams. It’s so funny that Po is greedy enough to be trained by using food. He’s so cute though. Moreover, there are some good statements in the movie such as..

"There’s no accident in everything."

"Yesterday is history.

Future is mystery.

Today is a gift; that’s why it’s called ..present.."

Even though, I heard these statements many times by now, it’s still impressive and very emotional. This movie is a terrific movie for kids really. I’m just about to love it!!

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Today, someone told me that "In the cruel world, there were a lot of bias, and it was a good opportunity to study laws because when you faced a tough situation you could say that you had laws behind you."

In this powerful country, there is no way to avoid racial discrimination. I never thought that it happened normally here, the country called itself "freedom country," by the time I faced the discrimination myself. I think I never posted the story on this blog, so…

This is the article >> How ridiculous some NYPD are!!!!!!!!!!

By the way, about bias, many people just can’t accept the differences. For instance, about language, what if you were born in a country which has its own language and live there more than 10 years without any knowledge of English. Isn’t it ordinary? The answer must be "Absolutely yes." Yet, some people think the persons who don’t know English are stupid. Do they have too much expectation? They want everybody around the world to understand what they say, but not even once try to learn how others are. It’s disgusting.

OMG!! I couldn’t stick with my topic again ;P haha

Back to the rules, in my opinion, all rules are built in order that they will be able to control humans’ behaviors and make the peaceful world. All people should respect to the rules and take them in the positive way instead of using them hurt other people or getting benefits from the weak part of laws.

However, it sounds like an ideal thought that people can be in the middle and compromise with two or more parties who have argued. That’s why rules have been created in order to protect mankind and make the societies be in peace. People, basically, have prejudice but morality helps people know what is right and what is wrong. Thus, rules are not only laws but everyday life. Let’s try to find the wills behind the laws!!

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There are so many doors people have got to pass along their lives. Does anyone agree with me that life is challenging? It’s like we have to pass the test before getting to the next level, and sometimes we get lost and go to the way that we have never expected. However, that we have no plan for the way we’re on might be a great opportunity and change.

No one knows what’s going to happen next, and the future is hidden as its nature. I can’t explain how awesome that we’re in this position. In my opinion, every obstacles is the test. If you can’t pass it, the next door is still closed. Many times, people fail and be hopeless, but luckily, we have choices to choose; for example, doing it again and again, avoiding this path and finding a new one, giving up and stay put, living in their dreams doing nothing to improve themselves, or ask for subsidization. After we pick an alternative, things change. So, that means the next doors also switch.

“No pain, no gain”

In order to succeed in something, we’ve got to do something to get it. Compare to fairy tales, leaders must be challenged by another side which is always bad side in the stories, and they will achieve after a grand fighting and being the winners. This kind of stories, by the way, is a really good way for kids to learn how life is. Anyway, I think most people use Defense Mechanism unconsciously in order not to be hurt. We never realize that we do it but learn how to use it automatically. Therefore, people who do well in Defense Mechanism will be fine in hard situations.

For me, the door in front of me is opening after I get lost for a while. I don’t know what’s behind the door yet; nevertheless, I’m sure that hard working is coming so soon. Moreover, I’m living with my family’s expectation, so I’ll do my best, be positive, and try to get rid of stress. OMG!! I’m just about to smile

My door is opening. What about yours? Did you find it?

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At first, I used Windows Media Player playing all music. But after my boyfriend got an iPod mini around 3 years ago, I started using iTunes. I didn’t care or even concerned about the differences really. However, I did prefer iTunes because of its interface. Just so you know, iTunes has a nice, neat, and organized interface. Recently, I change back to Windows Media Player because it’s faster. I’ve got to tell you that I’m still using iTunes for my iPod but if I would like to play songs from my computer, I prefer using Windows Media Player.

It’s like Windows tries to make Windows Media Player look hi-tech by using visualization, but it really doesn’t work for me. I feel like it does interrupt my feeling really, I’m not using it though. For its library, it’s just too much to categorize every little things on this window. One more thing, if I were Windows, I would release something like podcast of iPod because there are a lot of people choose iPod because of this kind of service. Anyway, Windows Media Player is much faster than iTunes.

For iTunes , I’m just about to love its interface, but there are some problems have shown up. I used to open iTunes with iBook, and it worked very well. In contrast, when I opened it with PC, it was too slow and froze so often. This kinds of problems annoyed me a lot. I don’t understand how come Apple lets them happen. I’m not quite sure if it’s because of different OS. If not, why the results are so different. Basically, many people using iPod and PC should get the same priority as people who use all Apple products.

All in all, iPod needs to use with iTunes and I have an iPod, so I have no way to leave iTunes behind. Such a great marketing plan, isn’t it? Even though I love iTunes interface crazily, I use Windows Media Player more frequently because of its comfort.

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Living a life is not easy, but living together with somebody else is much harder. People who’re from different backgrounds, interests, and lifestyle can live together. What about how they live?? Have you ever think about living with someone as roommates for a long while? Will you have any problems? Will you fight? The closer people are, the more problems they have. And it’s real.

I heard a lot of bad experiences about roommates from people surrounding me; for instance, some roommates don’t care about cleaning rooms, some of them invite their boyfriends or girlfriends to Apt. and ask their roommates to get out for a while in the rainy day, or roommates break people’s privacy. I never have a roommate before until now in NYC where the rent is so expensive. I knew my roommate for around 6 months before we moved to this Apt. Although we were not so close, I knew she was a nice person. However, when we started living together, everything was alright and we were very careful about doing things in the 2 bedrooms Apt. The problems have shown up not because she changed or I changed but it was about the differences and lack of care.

I really have no idea about all these but we start do not like what another person do. She doesn’t like mine and I also don’t like hers. We know too much about another one. I think it’s because sometime people think about only themselves and forget to watch out how others behave or feel about what they’re doing. Forgiveness is the most significant thing for this situation. Even though it’s really hard to forgive someone and avoid fighting right after he/she make you be angry, we’ve got to do it. Adjustment is another important thing for people who live together. We have to be careful not to make another person feel too uncomfortable that leads to broken relationship.

Relationship is unpredictable, but I deeply believe that everybody can live with one another. We just have to be careful, care about others’ feelings, find the balance, and be happy to have others in our lives. I don’t know what’s going to happen here. I’ll do my best anyway. *(’v')*

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How cool that people, recently, are able to watch movies at home without going out to a movie rental store!! I’m just about to love it. I don’t want to go find a movie in a store because I just don’t like doing it. But who cares? Now, I’m just home and able to watch movie instantly via or .

Let’s talk about Netflix first because it exists before Apple TV. My friend’s uncle told me about this service because we all loved watching movies. I registered about almost one year later after I moved to a new apartment and found out that it was really fantastic. I’ve paid a little money for 4-5 movies a month. Moreover, I’m able to see some movie instantly without paying any extra. The price is absolutely reasonable. Furthermore, the service is great. The mail movie was lost once and when I let them know, they sent another one immediately. I was so impressed.

About Apple TV, I have to say that I never use or even see how it works in person, but I bet I can imagine after watching their guided tour: http://www.apple.com/appletv/guidedtour/ . I think it’s pretty cool but it’s kind of expensive compared to Netflix. I don’t think it’s worth if I have to pay $229 for an Apple TV (cute) box and $2.99 per a movie or $3.99 for HD.

Eventually, I couldn’t even tell whether Apple TV is better than Netflix or not since I will not buy it at all. And surely, I’m really appreciated what I have right now.

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