Spec or Scifi?

Definitely Speculative fiction. There is no laser shot guns, no plasma railguns, no void dimension projector, no super lightspeed jets. There is no any cool tech. gadgets in the story. THIS IS A FAILING SCIFI (if it is intended so..) This is more like a story of the present that exists in a parallel universe. Honestly, this novel is a bit too pessimistic. How can US fall into some stupid state of destruction and take over by theologists...How can the rest of the world fall...At least not Taiwan...there is me here!!! (I am just trying to be stupid here...) How cliche can it be to put spies in communities? You use satellites! You hack into everyone's webcam! You use everyone's cellphone to project sonar and monitor everyone!! (stole it from Dark Knight) Basically, it is an epic fail Science fiction. However, since we don't really want to fail any books (maybe because we want to encourage more authors), we put it into the speculative fiction category.

The Soul

If I were to write this entry 6 month ago, I am pretty sure I would say logic. However, I confidently say it is the subconscious part of logic, commonly known as emotions, that decides who becomes your friend. It is not entirely imagination when the spark between eye contacts shows in some stupid TV shows. Sometimes, when u see someone, he or she just give you the feeling(sparks??) that you two should be friends. Its not about the appearance, its about the attitude, the feeling that he may be a good companion along the way.  You may see some common interest between you two. The punks would like to hang out with people sharing the same tattoo taste, similar hard rock music taste.  The nerds hang out with people with glasses and speak 1s and 0s. Its always like that. The likes attract likes. The real part about friends and a well maintained relationship, is not one where one is benefiting from another. They just stick together without any logical explanation or in a more direct way, thinking about how to "use" or "manipulate" the other.

Real or Romantic

Walt Whitman, a surely old, odd guy, wrote about US in a really fashionably and unreasonably content tone. He talked about how cool and awesome (not...) the laborers are when they are doing their job (absolutely painful and nothing to be happy about) in his I hear America Singing. He never talk about the real feeling and all the pain. I doubt everytime fisherman goes out fishes a lot of fish upon return. In capitalist country, it is all about money. And all those cool guys he mentioned , the laborers, sucked at earning money. They work super hard and get super less. Like if any one would be happy for that. And then the real happy guys are the rich brain people, like Benjamin Franklin or something. They get fat and do nothing and get hell lot of money in their pockets. People get fired often. They worry, they frown, they don't smile. That is the truth, and Walt Whitman is A LIAR!! And now? still, laborers don't really laugh. They only do that in the commercial Ba-Li-Da B or something like that. It is stupid. And also, the rich people, business people in suits that sits in air conditioning rooms, are the people with money flooding into their pockets. No laborers are THAT happy, walt whitman....

Work Song

The song is more like an anthem of some communist or dictatorial country. In United States, the country and government encourages acts in promoting the unique part of their identity. However, this is more like a description of a glorious world where everyone act in a joyful manner.  All of them are working for the great happiness. It is really similar to the idea of communist where everyone work for the sake of work, not for themselves. If this song were to be written for the modern United States of America, it would have much less passion. It would be computer programmers, Wall Street financial experts, NBA basketball players and careers like that. There is less the feeling of union as time progresses and United States evolved. As for Taiwan, a country that blindly follow the footstep of the USA, has basically the same trend, except instead of NBA, we have people selling gum at the train station and other kind of traditional food. However, this kind of song still holds for modern china, parts of china where there is ship-making industry. The joyful attitude is unrealistic but idealistic in their society, which bases on a better motive than us capitalist, common welfare over selfish prosperity.

Ode

I really don't know what to write now. I chose to write an ode to SAT. well, it is intended to be sarcastic, as SAT is, in real life,  the mutual and mortal enemy of high school students. So far, I get that it is evil, and nasty. It is really difficult, for most of us....genius excluded. It has 10 sections and usually 1 is experimental section. There are 3 categories, math, reading, writing. Each of them have 3 sections. It takes 4 hours to finish the test. It takes several months to prepare for the test. It is a really time consuming test.  It is also super important. It is really like the ticket and gate to college. Without SAT, we can't go to college (good ones i mean...). SAT is the acronym for Scholastic Assessment Tests or Scholastic Aptitude Test.  It is designed by collegeboard, an evil corporation that have a whole gang of teachers thinking about questions that can ruin a student's future.  And there is ETS, Educational Testing Service, another group that distribute this evil product into the market and made every student suffer. Basically, this is an extreme evilness of educational world. I plan to write it in a sarcastic manner. This might change but I think this is the overall idea.

Oppression

In The Handmaid's Tale, females are been oppressed, stripped away of the rights we now take for granted.  They do not have right to do anything but getting pregnant. They are even stripped away of their individuality, having names of their master and constantly changing. Comparing to modern US, the situation is almost the opposite. Men are to woman's disposal in a sense. In business, male directors allow females to get a better job and females help their own gender. Thus, making female the minority of the economy structure yet the elite section of it. For the first time the minority is not the oppressed group but the opposite. However, before "equality" is promoted around the world, African Americans in US, Indians under UK, Taiwan under Japan and many more small minorities are been oppressed by their respective government or majority. None can vote. Many of them suffer prejudice, and given less salary for the same job. Most of them usually fail to live a prosperous life. Under MODERN China and North Korea however, everyone, or the actual majority is been oppressed by just ONE guy. Just about everyone is in the danger of been removed from existence at every minute. Any rebellious acts are usually punished with death, a very awesome tool to control people.

Holiday Reality

If my dream, plan, hope, fantasy, or whatever you like to call it for the holiday is the description of heaven, then my reality would be hell. Basically, absolutely nothing I predicted happened. I went to this Xiemen place instead of Japan. It wasn't very bad but it is like hell compare to Japan. Furthermore, because we traveled the whole break, I didn't get to visit some aunts and uncles for red envelopes. The rest of break is filled of nothing but boredom. Didn't watch movie, didn't play ball, didn't do nothing. All I did is stare in the space thinking and doing nothing at all. BUT, through this, I realized many things that I never thought about, understand many truth that may be once hidden or concealed from me. (OK, that sounds a bit too deep...) I caught this stupid fever right when I return and got really sick. I skipped the practice test because of this ridiculous sickness. Glad that there is no homework for the break. Awesome. I get to sleep like 80% of the day.  So again, like I said, dream is always WAYYYYYYY above reality, and when things happen, people feel the free fall to the ground. Stress is accumulating even when I am thinking or even typing like now. I surely do hope I don't hit hard on the reality for the rest of the year, especially when I hold great expectations.

Holiday Plans

What would I want to do in my holiday break? Hmmm....I would like to go to Japan. I heard the skiing part is awesome there and the stores there are amazing. The railway there claim to be better than our High Speed Railway. Also, I absolutely want to go there because there is  SNOW!! Snow is one of the most memorable part of my life in Canada. I missed it for years. It going to be so awesome if I can go there. I also want to hang out with friends during the break. Movies and UMC sports time sounds fun. I actually prefer UMC more because I am certain that I will gain a few kilograms during the break. For some reason, Chinese people eat A LOT during the Chinese New Year. It is REALLY a LOT.  If I can, I want to skip the SAT practice test planned by the school (STOP STRIPPING OUR BREAK!!)  However, it is not possible. The school planned it on the very last day of our break, which basically mean we have school one day earlier!!! THIS IS MADNESS. Everything else should be fine. I wonder how much of this fantasy will take place in real life.