Tuesdays with Morrie -Mitch Albom

This is a very touching movie. Even though I have watched the novel 3 years ago, but every time when I read this story I learn something new. "Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it." I was very impressed with this sentence. It sounds simple, but it’s such true. Remember Steven Jobs' story? He faced death, and he saw the life that he has never seen. I think we need something or someone to alarm our self. If we live in easy life, we will be satisfied easily. As we try to avoid pain, we also push away the chance which makes us improve and grow up. I found some sentences I wasn't interested before, but couple years after those sentences have different meaning for me. I suggest my friends should read this book. The movie is so rush that it’s different to explain the life in 90 minutes. The novel has 14 chapters which include The World; Feeling Sorry for Yourself; Regrets; Death; Family，Emotions; The Tear of Aging; Money; How Love Goes On; Marriage; Our Culture; Forgiveness; The Prefect Day; Good-bye. Each chapter has a deep meaning and a short story before the chapter. Those stories are very good. I think I will buy an English version and read it again, because I read this book in Chinese before. I am sure I will find something new. This time I read this story through my own eyes but the translator's.
I found some good sentence on internet:

1. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning .(p.43)
2. The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.(p.52)
3. Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.(p.81)
4. To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.(p.81)
5. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.(p.82)

Summary & My story

Steve Jobs followed his curiosity and intuition, and it turned out to be priceless experiences later on. He dropped out of school; it was pretty scary at the time, but Steve trust in something — guts, destiny, life, karma. When he looked back 10 years later it was one of the best decisions that he ever made. "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards." said Jobs. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. Jobs are convinced that the only thing that kept he going was that he loved what he did. It freed him to enter one of the most creative periods of his life. Work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to do your work is to love what you do. You've got to find what you love. You'll know when you find it. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking until you find it. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. "If today were the last day of your life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days, you need to change something. Remembering that you will be dead soon is the most important tool to help you make the big choices in life. Because almost everything fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right. You need to have the courage to follow your heart which already knows what you truly want to become. In the end, Jobs wish that for all of students: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

My story:
When I was 10 years old, I got a gift from one of my relations who was selling computer. At that time, computer was a magical box for children. I failed the high school entrance examination, because I spent a lot of time using that machine. I was unable to resist fascinating with my new toy. I went to a bad high school. This disappointed my parents’ plans. They disliked seeing me when I was playing computer. They thought that was wasting time, but they were wrong. I won prizes in the programming contest during high school, and applied a good university which I dreamed of my life. My English was so poor, that I didn’t pass the primary English course as I was freshman. I went to Vancouver in 2005, and studied at Uvic’s ESL for 2 months. I was placed in level 1. I graduated from university just as most of students in Taiwan. I found a good job, and worked hard. I realized some thing which I never think about: More than 80 percent of computer knowledge is written in English. Everything I have learned was translated by someone. If I keep doing this, I would never satisfy. I am looking for the piece of puzzle which I lost.

Up in Smoke: Asia and Pacific

Asia has made real advances in reducing poverty but lies on the front-line of impacts from climate change, said Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation and co-author of the study. Simms noted with concern the possibility that global warming could "reverse" decades of social and economic progress across Asia. Asia is home to 87 percent of the world's 400 million small farms, which rely on regular rainfall. In December, many heads of state and policy makers from across the world will gather in Bali, Indonesia to decide the future of the Kyoto treaty, which expires in 2012. "We need to start talking about emissions reduction targets that are in line with the science rather than in line with what negotiators think they can get away with" said Simms. Many of the world's most prominent environment and development groups said they want rich countries to agree on definite and deeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions because those countries are "disproportionately" responsible for the climate-related changes the world has already begun to experience. We need to start talking about emissions reduction targets that are in line with the science rather than in line with what negotiators think they can get away with. Without this, Asia's vulnerable will continue to suffer, as will communities worldwide who are contributing least to climate change. The only feasible alternative is for wealthy countries to dramatically reduce their 'luxury' greenhouse gas emissions, so that the 'survival' emissions of people in poor countries do not cause disaster. If the [temperature of the] Earth rises by just one degree Celsius, 11 percent of Bangladesh could be submerged, putting millions of people's lives at risk. The report urges at least 80 percent cuts in global greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 and calls on richer counties to lead by example and champion the use of renewable energy. A report highlights that: Extreme weather events are likely to become more frequent. Drought in north China has increased, ruining the livelihoods of the region's farmers. All of Asia is set to warm during this century, and that this will be accompanied by less predictable and more extreme patterns of rainfall. Communities living in small island states, like those throughout the South Pacific, are now at risk. Increasingly, the result is expected to be both greater competition for land and higher food prices.

Hola everyone ! This is my blog of YU Level 5b

My name is Yao-Ching, Peng ,or you can just call me Logan.
I come form Taiwan.My major was computer science.
I graduated from Tamkang university in Taiwan in 2006.
I have worked in IT company for 1 year.
I was good in my job, but I don't like routing life.
I have been Vancouver for 2 months and I really enjoyed the life in Canada.
So, Now I am here again.
I'm improving my English at York University in Toronto.
Here is different than BC. Toronto is a big city, and the campus of York is huge.
The weather is getting colder, but Maple leafs are very beatuful now.
I tried to take some photo for me friends in Taiwan.

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