Addiction in Computer Games

I never play computer games, so i have no idea how easily people will addict to them. I saw other people playing sometimes, but it has no appealing to me. First, those games are so violent and continuous killing others or monsters. It's too boring to do these things repeatedly (maybe there are very interesting parts but i don't know). Then, when people playing games, the game takes up the full screen which make me feel dizzy. I can't tolerate staring at it for a long time. Also, i bet if i do play online games, i would be a terrible one. HA...HA...
However, i heard from TV that there are quite a few teenagers who addict to online games and cannot get themselves out. There was a piece of news about this that i heard many years ago. A boy whose family was poor addicted in computer games. He was the only boy in his family, so his mom (his father dead) loved him too much and spent a large amount of money buying a computer for him. In his room, there was nothing except a bed and the computer. Everyday he did nothing but playing games. He droped from school, ate and slept very little and never talk to families. His mom realized how serious the problem was but she was helpless. He never listend to others' advices and had a rather bad mood. She felt into despair and smashed the computer. But he stole money and went to the internet bar. Sometimes he beat his mother for not giving him money. At last, the mom need to find assisstance from a speical organizion. The boy totally lost in the virtual world and it would take a while to "rescue" him.
Unfortunately, my memory about this news stopped here, and i forgot what happened next.

In my opinion, designers of online games have part of responsibilities. They design those endless games which "force" players to invest their money and energy constantly. Players always have something to do and the upgrade never stops. The more they play, the harder they can stop. Last year, the anti-addiction system put into practice but it had little help. If those games have limits and will finish at a resonable level, the number of people who addict to online games would decrease dramatically.
More importantly, players are the first ones to blame. They allow themselves to give up leisure and study time just for those games which are useless to them. How stupid!

It's Done!!!

Suddenly I felt rather relieved at the moment I finished the presentation!

BUT...I only gave myself 60% on my performance.

First, my computer didn't cooperate with the projector and it wasted 10 minutes...

Then, i was so nervous that i felt my voice sounded shaky all the time.

Because of the nervousness, i spoke too fast. When i practised at home, at first it took nearly 50 minutes. Then it reduced to 40 minutes. So i cut some information because it's too long. Last night, the final practice took about half an hour. BUT...today it's only has 18minutes 43 seconds. How come!!! I hate nervousness!!!

Next, because it's too fast, i even didn't have time to see my notes which i spent a lot of time working on them. Also, when i went through my paper while preparing the presentation, i found lots of mistakes in the paper which i didn't know before......

Anyway, i finished! After several weeks "suffering", it's all done!

More importantly, I cherish the experience and the process!

I wish it would be an valuable experience that are useful for future!

Discrimination

In China, the third year of junor school is very important for entering high school. I remember in the last few months before the final examination, our teacher rearranged the seats. He put students who were likely to be accepted by the first-class high school in the front rows while leaving the others in the back. Most of my friends were in the front rows except one. So at that time, she was really upset and disappointed. She thought she was given up by teachers and was separated between us. Now I can still recall how upset she was. The good news was our friends all encouraged her by writing letters to her. It's what friends for, isn't it? (Although it sounds a little stupid now. HA..HA..)

What the teacher did is on purpose and kind of discrimination. He may ruin a studnet's determination to make progress. But it was common at that time...

Reflection on Research Paper

Finally, finally, I finished the research paper. How excited!

I began to dream of this moment at the beginning of the paper! Now it becomes true! When recalling the last few weeks, it was full of challenges.

The most challenging part is collecting information. Although i knew what i was going to write about and i thought i had collected much information, it was still far from enough when i started to write. Some of the information even wasn't useful at all, so i had to keep on finding something new. At the same time, kept track of places where i found them. Another challenge is paraphase. Actually, after reading authors' perfect expressions, it's really hard to express them in our own simple sentences.

I remebered at the fourth year of university, we had to do a graduation project which was design a complete computer program and then write a 50-60 pages paper. The most difficult part was the programming part, not the paper. After the programming process, we were very familiar with what we had done, so the function of the paper was just express them out in words. More importantly, we didn't have to worry about grammer mistakes. HA..HA...

Anyway, i do have learnt useful knowledge that i want to know. That's the most satisfying thing!

The next arduous task is the presentation. We have done it in Intermediate Two--the panel presentation, but it was a group work. Now it totally depend on myself. I wish i won't be nervous standing in front of the class for 20 miuntes and keeping on talking......
What i should do now is translate the meaning of the paper to sentences that are easy to understand. Not too complicated, not too boring.

When the final version were printed out, i felt a sence of achievement like i have done something super. In order to memorize it and the experience, I even took pictures of them after i made the spiral binding.

Hope the grades will be satisfied. HAHAHA!

It's not difficult to say "Thank You!"

This happened on the first few weeks when I arrived here.

One day, X (i'll use 'X' to represent that people) and me went to school by bus. After that , we had to the take the metro to school. When we almost got on the metro, X suddenly remembered she left her bag on the bus which contained a large sum of money and some documents. So X worried about it seriouly. When we went back, the bus had already left. However, X didn't try to find someone in charge of this. Instead, she began to telephone her friends. I was wondering how her friends could help in this circumstance!!! So I turned to an officer-like man in the metro sataion for help. I told him X left her bag on the 132 bus about 3 minutes ago. He asked me the shape and color of the bag, then he called somewhere. After that, he told me to wait 5 minutes. After I had done this, i couldn't find X...maybe X was still on the phone with her friends. What in hell was X thinking about!!!
About 3 minutes later, the officer came with X's bag in hand. X checked it, everything was there. We thanked him a lot because he really did X such a big favor.
Unfortunately, X didn't thank me at all and she had no intention to do this.
I didn't mean to show off myself, but at least I also helped her to some extent.

I always believe that what one person does reflect one's family background and what her parents have nurtured her. So I can see X's family through what she did.
No matter how wealthy the person is, I won't respect her if she isn't well-nurtured and considers other's help as obligation.

International Lunch

How beautiful the scenery is~~~

How enjoyable it is~~~

How diverse our food are~~~
How lovely the squirrel is~~~What a lovely day!!!

Loving Kindness

In the lecture project, i chose "Love".

I think 'The Kindness of Strangers' coincides with one kind of love--the one we show to strangers.

Fortunately for me, I experienced this kindness this noon.

At lunch time, i went to the library building to take the coursebook. After I took the book, it began to rain heavily outside, and I didn't bring the umbrella . So I went back to the lady and asked her for a plastic bag to prevent the book from rain.

At first I just asked her for a plastic bag, she told me Concordia didn't use plastic bags for years, and if I want, I can buy a recycle bag for $2.

Then i told her it's raining outside, i just wanted to keep the book from wet. She responded friendly: oh, really? it's raining! We don't have plastic bags, but i think i have one to pack my lunch. When she was trying to find it at the information desk, another lady also began trying to find one for me. Then they chose one big enough for the book.

The result was I was wringing, but the book was well preserved...

Though it's just a little help, it still makes me feel comfortable and i really appreciate their help.