An Immigrant's life

What is the new comers life like? Everyone has a different answer. But whoever you are, you have to confront with the reaility, that is you are living in a totally new environment. You have new friends and a new house, and you have to speak English all day long. Everything is new except you and your family.

For me, the biggest problem is isolating, information is isolated. Everyone has their own group,  people always called this group is "ecosystem". They have the same languages and almost the same habits. Everything they talking based on the similar foundation. Once you leave this ecosystem you will never be able to catch up with the process they are doing. Between my settiing up my new ecosystem and giving up my old one, there is a long time period. This period drives a gap between me and my old friends. That is why sometimes I feel I don't have a comman conversition topic with my old friends. We are living in different environments, and we don't have any new topics any more but only the memories. What a shame!

Any new immigrant needs to fit into the new life asap. Don't worry about how people look at you. Just do everything yourself like before. Don't imitate others. You are yourself. Keep your  excellence, stop your bed habits and make new friends.

The argument between landlord and tenant

A woman, Sophia, rented a room from her landlord, Lillie, 14 years ago. Because of the economy, she moved in fast and didn't check it out carefully.

When she first lived there, she was living on the 1st floor. After one year, Lillie's son told her to move to the basement. Her job was making food and selling it to people who want to buy something to take away.

The important thing is that this basement is illegal to rent. Sophia received a letter from the Government in 2008. They told her this basement was illegal to live in, but Sophia didn't know about that, and the landlord didn't tell her either.

One day, some people smelled a gas leak. When Sophia told Lillie the situation, she didn't care to do anything about it. Sophia knew this leak was leaded to this basement being too dangerous to live, so Sophia needed to move out. But she needed money to find a new place to live. This iswhy Sophia sued the landlord.

FAQ for Landlord & Tenants

Q: What temperature must my landlord keep my apartment at?
A: 70C when we're at home, 60C when we're gone, 65C at night.

Q: How much can my landlord raise the rent?
A: The 2010 guideline is 2.1 per cent.

Q: Can my landlord evict me for having a pet?
A: No,they should negotiate this with you before you move in.

How to dial 911?

When you were only 5 years old what could you do? Could you save your father or your friends? Here is a true story about a 5-year-old child who saved her father's life. Her father could be proud of her. At the same time, I could not thinking about that if this happened in my life, what could I do?

Everyone should learn how to deal with emergencies. In a family, everyone should know where the medicine is, what numbers you need in an emergency, and what kind of food or medicine people are allergic to. All those trivial things will help you to save your family's life.

BTW, I am allergic to furs, blankets included.

Up Time America

Today I heard a interesting audio about "UP", so many up with the end of verbs. I think here is a one word for me, that is catch up! My English pronunciation is a big problem for me now, hurry up! It is time to catch up!


If you see injustice, STAND UP
If something needs to be said, SPEAK UP
If you make an appointment, SHOW UP
If you make a mistake, FESS UP
If you’re overstepping, BACK UP
If you get behind, CATCH UP
If they knock you down, GET UP
If you’re out of line, STRAIGHTEN UP
When your boss instructs, KEEP UP
When your elders speak, LISTEN UP
When your teachers teach, SIT UP
When your preachers preach, WAKE UP
When your country calls, MAN UP
Ladies too... WOMAN UP
When the fight is over, MAKE UP
If you’re being hard, EASE UP
If your heart is closed, OPEN UP
If you want to buy something, SAVE UP--
It’s not an entitlement, so SHUT UP!
If you make a mess, CLEAN IT UP
If you drop trash, PICK IT UP
If a car is waiting for you to
walk across the street, SPEED IT UP
If you’re cold busted, GIVE IT UP
If people fall down, HELP THEM UP--
Not the government, YOU STEP UP
If idiots start fighting, BREAK IT UP
If the music is wholesome, TURN IT UP
If the message is poisonous, THROW IT UP
If your words are vulgar, CLAM IT UP
If your words encourage, KEEP IT UP
If your pants are baggy, PULL THEM UP
If the belt’s too loose, CINCH IT UP
If your fly is down, ZIP IT UP
If you’re dressed half naked, COVER IT UP
If you can’t afford stuff, PASS IT UP--
No “bailouts” folks, PONY UP
If you made a promise, you BACK IT UP
And you can take your whining and PACK IT UP
It’s called personal responsibility, so TAKE IT UP
This country was founded on it, you can LOOK IT UP
It’s the American way people, so TURN IT UP
Because when life gets boring, you SHAKE IT UP
When life is good, you SOAK IT UP
When life’s unfair, you SUCK IT UP
When life is funny, you can YUCK IT UP
When life is sad, just LOOK STRAIGHT UP
And life’s too short people, so LIVE IT UP!

Universe

When I was young, in my elementary school, my father sent me a book named “A Birth History of Time”; this book is written by Stephen Hawking. From that time, I started interesting in the universe. I have written so many articles about this theme in my blog in Chinese. Unfortunately, blog sever crushed in 2009, I lost all my productions. Today I’d love to share my collected information to you all.

We are leaving in the earth. Out of the earth, there is an infinite space around us. In all ages, no one knows how old and how big the universe is. Most of people buy in the standpoint that is Big Bang. Big Bang means a blast.

Many years ago, universe just is a singularity; in other word is only a point. After the Big Bang, universe begins to swell up and gradually coming into sampler today. Universe including many galaxies, galaxy including black hole, quasars, define, planets, secondary planets, dusts and particles.

We know, solar system is a part of Milky Way galaxy. There are night planets in solar system, according to the distance from the solar they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. But in 2006, scientists proclaim the Pluto is not planet anymore, because people found the mass is not enough. Actually, it’s a piled of ice.

So far, our technology only can explore partial Milky Way galaxy, and they found three black holes there. What is back hole? Black hole is a region of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape, reflecting nothing.

Why black hole can absorb everything event the light? We know matter is constituted by molecules; molecule is composed by atoms; atom is structured by atomic nucleus and electrons. Electrons are scatted outside of atom, electrons has the major bulk of atom, think about it, if outside electrons all coming into the inside, the atom will change to very some. If we compact the earth, the earth’s bulk will change to small like pingpang ball. But the quality is still. So the gravity also still. Now we are absorbed on the earth, after compaction we are also absorbed on the earth, we, the people are all over the world, will stand on the pingpang ball. Black hole’s quality is not like a earth, they are very big. Purportedly, the smallest one‘s quality is 40 times the Sun. the largest is imponderable.

Very interesting, I hope someday people can finger out all problem of universe that we didn’t know yet.

DREAMS

What is the dream?

How often do you dream during sleep?

Why we always dream?

Most of scientists figure that the brain of human being only has been developed less than 10%, its means the most of part of the brain is sleeping. Sometimes you feel your mind is running slowly in a day, even we cannot account 3 plus 9 equals how many. But during the dream, our brain is very activity. When we fall in the sleep, you never know when do you start the dream, when do you finish the dream. You can feel the pain; you can feel the hurt, you can feel everything is likes true. However, what’s the meaning of the dreams? There are two major points on the dream. One is psychology sight and other is forecast sight.

Dr. Sigmund Freud is a famous psychologist. He wrote a book “The Interpretation of Dream”. He interpreted that dreams are reflections, your real hopes reflections. In another word is something you want to get in your true-life, but you haven’t done yet, it’s probably appearing in your dream during sleep. For example: you want to washroom, you will dream you are looking for the washroom. That is interesting.

According to second opinion, people think the dream is the forecast of the future. If you dream some flowers, its means you will be pregnant soon, if you dream flood or water, then, congratulations! You will be rich! Centrally, some people think this is superstition. But I think you can choose, to choose the best way that is makes yourself comfortable.

Anyway, enjoy your dreams.