Friday, October 5, 2007

Ohhhhhh.... Noooooo.....!!!!

Ohhh.... nO....!!!!
Arggghhhhhh.......
I'm so stress!!!

I will have my first SAT test tomorrow and I haven't studied anything. this SAT test just just a additional disaster to my suffering week.
Today, i got my math common test result and it was not satisfactory. I think i will fail in math, but Ms. Jessica said not to worry because we still have time to improve. Thanks Ms. Jess!!

OK, let's go back to SAT test. I still don't have any idea why the critical reading part is really hard. I think the complicated and unusual words in the critical reading section is unuseful. We won't use those "god" words for our daily life or even in university right?!

But anyway, I need your help to pray for me. And today's english class was really fun with the stories, especially the physics one which is good in physical education and has a good physic. But i really disappointed with the person who ruined my story. I started that story and hoped that the other people will continue it with an imaginative and cool story, but why did it become a disgusting story? hixhix...But, it's OK, it was still fun anyway.

Hmm....
I don't have any more to say because i'm really depressed.
I wish i can finish my SAT test quickly and get a good result.

-Valencia-

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Hi! I'm Elizabeth

HORAY!!! TOMOROW IS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! UNBELIEVABLE! but we still have math.... T_T it's okeyy... hahahhaaaa..

today i'm going to talk about tennis, so for CAS, me and some of my friends are doing tennis for Action. at first, i'm doing it just for fun, but then, i finnaly like it and it's actually FUN!

Tennis is played on a rectangular, flat surface, usually grass, clay, or a hardcourt of concrete and/or asphalt. The court is 78 feet (23.77 m) long, and its width is 27 feet (8.23 m) for singles matches and 35.99 ft (10.97 m) for doubles matches. Additional clear space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. The net is 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) high at the posts and 3 feet (914 mm) high in the center.

There are a lot of things you should know before playing tennis, you have to look at the grip and i think it's the most important thing because you have to hold it right so you can hit it across the net. There are a lot of kinds of grip that use in tennis. When you're doing serve, forehand or backhand, you have to use different grip to make it right. The basic thing after grip is forehand, it's when you hit the ball across to your opponent, and also the same for back hand. But backhand is from your left side and forehand is for your right side.


There are also other shots name, volley is when you hit the ball before it bounce to the ground, then half volley, lob for defensive, overhead smash, drop shot, and spin.


There are also many different kinds of tennis racket that we can use to play. Children also have their own tennis racket. Adult tennis racket also have different kinds of weight. The heavier is for the expert and the lighter is for the beginner.

Wilson W Line W3 Gypsy Rose Racquet



There are also many kinds of tennis shoes and colors. we have to wear tennis shoes not running shoes because tennis have their own court and that's why we have to wear tennis shoes not other shoes.

Lotto Ace Magic Women's Shoes

so i suggest you all to play tennis because it's fun and also makes you healthy!!! =p


Wednesday, October 3, 2007

The Beginning of an End

“The truth is . . . once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”- Morrie Schwartz

The word “end” might sound depressing, but actually when i think about it i realize it is somewhat good to think that our life will end eventually. The bad news is that we do not know when it will happen. This taught came to me while i was reading a book called Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. This book taught me a valuable lesson that i should always value my life now, and that one should always appreciate what they have for one will never know what they have untill its actually gone.

Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson is not a fiction novel, but it is a life story narrated by a stressed out journalist that wants to know his purpose of living. This narrator is Mitch Albom, who used to be Morrie’s top student while Morrie was still teaching sociology in Brandeis university. Mitch’s relationship with his favorite professor Morrie is more than just teacher and student, but Morrie treated Mitch as if he was his own son; just as Mitch treated Morries as his own father. Mitch loves Morries lectures so much that he attended to almost all sociology courses that Morrie had teaches. It came to the part where Mitch graduated from the university and he promised he will keep in touch with Morrie; but he never did. Untill one day Mitch faced dillemmas in his life concerning his job as a journalist, then he came back to Morrie to seek for advice.

Mitch found out that Morrie is now suffering from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) which cause his body to slowly become paralyze. The rest of the book talked about how each Tuesday Mitch drives from Detroit to Boston to visit Morrie. Each Tuesdays they disscussed about different things like about facing death and aging. Mitch recorded every single conversation he had with Morrie as a reference to write this autobiographical documentary that contains many valuable life lessons that Mitch discovered throughout the fourteen Tuesdays where he visited Morrie. Mitch Albom calls this book “their last thesis together”, as Morrie demanded that he wants to share his life stories to many people in the world.

This book has taught me many life lessons, but an important message which i got from reading this story is that evryone needs love in order to live. Morrie’s favorite poet, W.H.Auden once said that “to live without love is to live with nothing”. Morrie really values love and he believes that everyone can reach their highest sense of fullfillment through love. During his last days on earth, it can be clearly seen that Morrie would not have survived that long without the love and care of the people that he loves the most. One more thing that always stays in my mind even after i finished reading the book is when Mitch asked Morrie how he prepares for death. According to Morrie, everyone have to accept the fact that they will die someday in order to for them to really appreciate what they have on earth. That makes me realize that we humans have very limited time on earth, and we should value our time by only doing things that we will not regret later when our time on earth finally comes to an end.


-Angelina-