One hundred

How nice, the hundredth post on the hundredth year for Taiwan. This is wicked! I like this idea of online blogs because I get to play with the setting, the songs, and the gadgets. I know you like the cat. Personally, I believe this is more like an essay assignment. The topics are pretty isolated from our life, generally speaking. I cannot connect to my life after the first few months. On some of them, such as dark side, I get to write a lot because I got into a fight with a friend at that time, so I know how it felt. However, I think this is a great habit to have. Blogging is one of the coolest thing people around the world are doing now and it is pretty cool for us to do that as well. However, I think it will be much cooler if we get to write about stuff that we feel for, even if its tangential or even unrelated to school.

Final Exam

I felt pretty under prepared as I missed quite a few classes during the APs and I don't think I can really get those questions involving literary terms correct. I felt really confident about questions on A Rose for Emily. That thrilling story really interests me and I read carefully. Therefore, I believe I am most confident on that part. Like I mentioned earlier, I am really anxious about those questions on literary terms. Many of those, I just can't decide which choices are better, usually stuck with 2 answers. The test was easier than I expected, although it is not entirely easy. The literary terms questions are less difficult than I expected. For most of them, I can get down to 2 choices or the answer. I am really grateful most of the multiple choice questions are on A Rose for Emily. As for the essay, I find it a bit difficult as I don't really know what to write about. However, it doesn't seem that bad after I finish it. Now, I can only hope for the best.

Group work

I cannot help myself by agreeing to the fact that I cannot work with everyone I know. There are always people that I find hard to work with. Before long, I gave up and tend to just accept work and do what others tell me to because working with those jerks just gives me too much work. However, after attending to multiple MUN conferences, I realize the coordination is exactly what we are expected to learn from group work. I used to prefer working alone, but no longer. I like working with people now, not because I can ditch all my work and leave it up to other people, but it will lessen the pressure on one guy. Furthermore, group works are usually more decent than those individual projects. Take a look at our handmaid's tale project, then look at my self project. The exciting quality is entirely different. The combination of different ideas makes the project itself better. Now I think I contribute a lot to my groups and I will assume leadership roles when its necessary. Group work is really important. When we depart for jobs, we don't work together. Cooperation is human's greatest advantage over other animals. As individual, we cannot accomplish anything by ourselves. We can't make a pencil, not a eraser, definitely not a pen, not to mention about laptops and cellphones. Thus, group work is very essential to our future.

Language use

Like how new clothes are designed and new technologies are invented, new words are made. Why? Because people like it. There is this saying : " Science and Technology begins with humanity". Why do we invent stuff? Because we are lazy. Robots serve us good, feed us fat, and do all the jobs for us. Now, back to words. Why do we make new words? We despise old, long, nonsensical and boring words. Sometimes, there are words that just takes for ever to write/type. When chatting, typing out the entire string takes quite some time and is inefficient. Therefore, words like lol (laugh out loud) , rofl  (rollin on the floor laughing), lmao (laughing my ass off) etc, are created. Same with gaming, we shorten words into gg (good game), gj (good job), and mia (missing in action). Not only that, long string of words usually drags and loses its power in communication. Like how Danny put it, bromance. Such word, when you take it apart, its romance with brothers. Now if you think about it, whenever teachers are yelling at you for speaking to the guy next to you, you need to say Its Romance with my Brothers. How lame can that be? But if you shout out its BROMANCE. You might even get teachers shocked. Short words are always more powerful. Its easier to communicate and therefore, its why we make it and like it.  Simply, we are lazy.

Independent Reading Project Reflection

For the very first time, I actually jot down notes when reading through the book. I jot down several details before I take them as unimportant to the flow of the story. I don't feel comfortable saying I put 100% effort into this project as I do, in one way or the other, took the relatively easier track during many decisions of this project. However, I do believe I payed decent amount of effort into this. I searched up how to fold envelope to make it more sincere. Also, to make it look old, I took hours in preparing the paper. I took a cup of coffee residual(dust) and rub it on the paper. The moisture makes the paper wet, so I have to use a hair dryer to dry it up. I then crumble it, leave it alone for a while. I continually repeat this process for like 20 times to make it blurry, old, yet still intact. Although my project looks relatively carelessly done and pretty un-aesthetically pleasing, I payed much effort and I believe it raises the value by a lot. I think I can make it better by making an even bigger map with more details. That might help increasing the validity of the map as back at that time, they don't just use A4 paper. They take bigger papers to jot down those stuff.

Archetype

Archetypes is the fancy word for cliche plots. In the start, it always good guys beating up evil guys. However, this soon get so predictable that audiences lose interest. There, an evil super guy (namely evil 2) appears. The evil 2 will beat up good guy and then leave the good guy to die on his own. But, the good guy manages to survive through ridiculous means. The good guy will train super hard. On the second encounter, good guy still kind of loses to the evil 2. However,  there must be this miracle that happens, such as super emotional boost, some golden armor that falls from the sky, inner power explodes etc. Then good guy evolves into good 2. Good 2 then beats evil 2 easily. And this ability of whatever this new power may be called will continue to make good 2 life easy. Then evil 3 comes along and the cycle goes on. For example, Digimon guys keep evolving the fight stronger and stronger monsters. They start with pathetic baby form, evolves to champion or some kind of form like that, beat up bad guys, meet new bad guys, get beaten up, evolve further. It also happens so that they meet the right level of bad guys at the right time. This is the same for all other anime, stories and cartoons. This is the cliche, like the cliche of the cliche plot. This plot usually involves little variation. Many only involve different characters, different names, and different looks.