Chinese superstitions

Nowadays, many of us who are in Hong Kong won't believe any superstitions, but for the elderly, they do.

So I want to show some of Chinese superstitions to you all to see wherther you all have those in your country or not.

Just like Westerners believe that the number 13 brings bad luck, the Chinese is believe that the number 4 (as well as 14) has a bad connotation. This is because for Chinese, the number 4 (si) and “si,” which means “death,” are pronounced the same. On the other hand, just as 7 seems to be the designated lucky number for the Western world, the Chinese believe that the numbers 8 and 28 bring good luck. It is the same concept with the number 4!

The other one is about gift. Chinese believe that you should never EVER give a clock as a gift to a friend. The Chinese sound for clock is zhong. For most Chinese, one should never give it as a present because the pronunciation of “giving a clock” (sung zhong) to a person is the same as sung zhong, which means to bid farewell to a dying person on his or her deathbed. If you really want to give a clock as a gift to a friend, you should ask her to give back you a dollar as it just like she buys it herself. But we surely seldom give a clock as a gift.

Although many of us don't believe in these superstitions, we still don't do it in our life. But I think this kind of superstitions are quite interesting and now I want to hear about yours!

You just got 2 hours to feel unhappy every day

I remember that someone told me I just got 2 hours to feel unhappy every day. Why!? Let me tell you the example formula. We got 24 hours per day, about 8 hours for sleep, about 7 hours for work or study or something else, about 2 hours for eat, about 1 hour for bath or go to restroom, about 3 hours for watching TV or using the computer, about 1 hour for waiting something, for example, wait for transportation, so 24-8-7-2-1-3-1=2! Also, we can't borrow the time from tomorrow, that's mean, we just got exactly 2 hours unhappy time per day. But you can use this 2 hours on the other things.

Of cause I knew what he wanted to tell me. He just doesn't want me to feel unhappy anymore, so he limited the time that I could feel unhappy.

So now, I share this formula to all of you. Remember that, you just got 2 hours to feel unhappy every day! After that, be happy again since you can look for the other ways to think of each thing! Cheer :)

Happy birthday to my mom:)

Today is my mother's birthday, actually it already past in Hong Kong. But it doesn't matter, I am in US, so today is my mom's birthday too!
My dad called me yesterday and I already told my mom"Happy birthday"!
This year is different with last year since I can't celebrate with my mom. As I remember, I had made a cake for my mom by myself. Although it didn't look really good, I think my mom also love it!
Anyway, I want to say one more time to my mom.
"Happy Birthday!"

A memorable event in my life

A memorable event in my life should be the first time that I learn how to drive. Actually, I didn't ever think about drive before I came to here. The reason of that I think all of you can guess from the past entry, so I don't want to repeat again. But now, driving is in need. Everyone do anything at the first time must feel nervous, including me. Although I had been learnt for three times from now on. I still feel scare and nervous when I get on the driver seat. And I remember that when I learnt how to backward, I almost hit the pillar! If I can choose, I really want to be a passenger rather than a driver!

A short folktale in China

Today, I want to share a short folktale which is from China to all of you.

According to folktale, Nuwa, the goddess of create mankind, and she is the one who repaire the wall of heaven. Numa is a goddess who has the human head, but snake body. One day, when she passed through the Huanghe River, she thought that there was something missing in this world, but she couldn't think what was missing. However, when she was thinking by lower her head, she saw her inverted reflection in the river, and then she suddenly realize what has happened. It was originally missing the "human" just like her. So, she referred her face to make a clay figure by using the Huanghe soil, then she gave some special power on it. After that, human was created!

Happy Valentine's Day :)

In Hong Kong, today is Valentine's Day. People who are in HK do the things like this afternoon in IEP. We will give each other chocolate even if he/she is not your valentine. This festival became a day that is a exchange chocolate day (xdd). For some close friends, we will spend more ideas in it, which is mean we will buy or make the other special chocolate for them and sometimes with a small card.

By the way, I really have fun in this afternoon :)

Wish you all have a Happy Valentine's Day!

Busy life

My daily life is getting change. As I need to prepare several tests before I get into college. For me, it is a much hard work. This decision came suddenly and I just have a month to prepare one of the big test,SAT. I am not sure this decision whether is right or not. But I know that if I really try my best in it, I can do it! If I always tell myself it is impossible, then it will change to impossible even if I can do it. So from now on, I need to think the possible side and tell myself, I can do it!

Friendsssssss

Friends are important in our life. Everyone has their own friends to support them. Friends can share everything with the others; either the happiness or sadness. They are always here for you. Sometimes we don't need to talk so much, but they will know what's going on, just because they are your friends. Actually just a hug is good enough to comfort you when you don't feel good, especially from the one who is your friend!

STITCH! My lovely son :)

Stitch is a Disney cartoon character. It is the name of the genetic experiment 626. He is a really cute guy. If you ask me to think about one thing that relate to U.S., the answer will be STITCH xddd

The most thing that I want to do when I arrived here is to watch the cartoon of STITCH :) And he is the mainly reason that I want to travel all of the Disneyland. I have a friend moved in U.S. about 2 years ago, she told me I can always watch the STITCH cartoon here. She tried to record it for me one time and show me while we are having the web cam.(ha)

He just like my real son! If I have ability to open a exhibition center or "StitchLand" one day, I must do it and you all must be invited to visit!

PS.All of my friends knew how am I crazy in STITCH, so if you want to be my friend, you better know this important thing!

PS2. Here are some interesting picture that I found from the internet. It is really funny!

Hong Kong ` Part One

Today I would like to tell you some differences between HK and US(Mississippi). I would surround the transportation this time.

First of all, it is not an easy thing to find a parking space. As all of you know that HK is a small place, but there is many people! So you may need to park a little bit far away from the place that you want to go or you may have to drive two more rounds to look for someone who is going to leave. Also, we need to pay the berthage(the bill of parking space). These are the reason that why most of teenager don't know how to drive when they are in the age that can go to learn to drive.

Next, the mainly reason should be there are different kinds of public transport in HK, bus, minibus, taxi, subway, ferry, streetcar etc. It is very convenient. You can go to your goal without driving and it is much cheaper! That's why many of us don't know how to drive!

In the other hands, we have to drive to everywhere in US. So student can have the paper test at high school and most of them will take the test! Then their parents will teach them how to drive, but in HK, we can't be taught by our parents. We need to go to diving school.

Now I have to learn how to drive as I may spend few more years in here, but I surely love to be a passenger more than a driver!