Avatar

The phone rang. I asked to myself, 'Who called in this early morning?' Although I was sleeping, I listened to what my mom was talking about out of curiosity. Then I heard the word that excited me: Avatar. I knew that I should wake up now to finish my homework before going to watch the movie.
The last hope for humans to discover alternative energy: Planet Pandora!!!
Humans had used almost all energy on earth so they had to find an alternative energy. The only place they could rely on was a planet called Pandora. But of course, Na'vi (Creatures living in Pandora) didn't want them to destroy their planet and guarded Pandora. So humans couldn't find where they could get an alternative energy. Therefore, the humans made a link machine called Avatar.
A lame person called Jake Sully who lived a normal life suddenly became all the humans' fortune!!!
While the humans were creating Avatar, there was a lame person called Jake Sully. His brother was working in 'Avatar Program' but he died because of fighting so he was asked to participate 'Avatar Program' and went to Pandora. Jake, who now could walk freely through his own Avatar, started his mission: Finding a place where the humans could get an alternative energy.
While he was doing his mission, he was chased by a huge monster and a woman warrior of Na'vi called Neytiri saved him. Neytiri took Jake to her tribe. Jake learned how to speak Na'vi's language and how to act. As the time passed by, Jake loved Neytiri and had various adventures together. However, Jake didn't forget what he was supposed to do and finally he found where the humans could get an alternative energy because Neytiri loved Jake and trusted him (But still not noticing he was a human). Immediately, he reported to his boss the place where they could get an alternative energy. But soon, there was a war between humans and Pandora.
There was a huge war between Humans and Pandora that is unstoppable and Jake felt guilty what he had done... Which team he is going to help? Humans or Pandora???
Jake felt very guilty for Na'vi and Neytiri. So Jake told Na'vi the truth. Everyone was surprised and tried to kill him. Jake warned people not to fight with humans because they were too strong for Na'vi. But they didn't listen to him and fought. Of course with no plans, Na'vi lost badly and the whole forest was burnt. Then, Jake felt much more guilty and decided he would going to help Pandora.
Soon again, there was a second war. But this time, Jake made plans and they won. They won completely.

This was a great movie and it was much better than I thought. I liked the backgrounds especially because they were vast and attractive. I read in newpapers that this movie is going to make more than 200million dollars and at first I wondered 'How can the movie so good that it will going to make 200million dollars??' And now I understand it. I think this is the best movie I had ever seen. Not one of the best.

Read, Read and Read!!

From Christmas break until now, I read lots of books such as 'Talmud', 'Oprah Winfrey', 'The Scarlet Letter', 'The Great Gilly Hopkins' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. So I read 5 books in total. This might sound not a lot but one of them is thick and I also bet you don't like reading books in vacation. I am not a great reader but I don't have special events to do even in Christmas so I just read books.

Actually, I didn't finish one book which is the thick one I told. The title of the book is 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. There are 450 pages and I read up to 76 pages. I read this book before that had short descriptions. But this one is so great!!! In this thick book, there are lots of minute details and I enjoyed reading this book much better than the last time I read it. I think I can finish this book in three days. After I finish this book, I will definitely going to write about it. I will not talk about it now because I didn't finish the book yet and I know it would be very long like a summary for 'Bill Gates' or even longer. : ) But I will tell you the preview.

It's about a boy called Huckleberry Finn and who is naughty and doesn't listen to his widow. His mom died when Huck was young and he was very afraid of his dad because he always whipped him with a cow leather whenever he wanted to. Even though he had his dad, he didn't know where he was. One day, Huck met his father and the father took him to a small island. The father locked him in a cottage (He lived with Huck though) leaving nothing so that Huck couldn't escape and he had the key. Huck didn't have any hope to escape. But he was wrong. One day he found a saw. And then he started to plan something to escape...

My Christmas present!!!

Yahooooooooo!!! I thought to myself. Oh really, I was very excited about my Christmas present. I got the present I wanted for Christmas and I want no more. I never thought I would get it but I actually did. But you might wonder, 'Why did your parents buy the Christmas present today, not on December 25th?'. The reason is because my parents will be too busy visiting their neighbors and preparing food so they decided to buy me a Christmas present today. You also might wonder, 'What did you get?'. And the answer is... LEGO CAR!!!

Well, for some of you, it might be boring and childish. But for me, it's very special and actually, Lego is not childish. When I was third grader, I had to construct a big Lego ship and the size of it was humongous and it took me 3 months to finish it. However, this time, it's much easier to construct it but a thing that made me interest and like it was that I can control the Lego car with a controller. I also like the design of my Lego car. (Don't you?) I never bought Lego car with a controller and I bet it would be very interesting. I really thank my parents. I got this special present at night so I will start constructing my Lego car tomorrow. I can't wait!!!

Diet

Today, my mom and I decided to do diet. Actually, I didn't consider doing diet until my sister's friend called my sister. My sister's friend suggested her to jog together. My sister agreed and my mom said to me, "Well, I think I should diet as well. If you also want to, you can." I didn't want to but I agreed because it would be good for me and it would be fun to exercise with my mom. What we decided to do was jump rope. I thought to myself 'Oh man, it's too easy for me.' which was correct. I found a jump rope in my junk box which is a green jump rope.(Can you see the green jump rope at up picture?) It is a little bit expensive but I think it's worth it because it's much, much more comfortable than other jump ropes. I bought this when I was in Korea. It is because I did jump rope every day 200 times a day. I can do 6 tricks and one of them is fascinating. It is one of my prides and my best record is 25 times. You might wonder what fascinating skill I am talking about. Now, I will explain it.

You have to swing the jump rope two times and you have to make in one jump. To do this, you should swing your hand very fast and jump as high as you can. This sounds easy but it's really hard. If you have a jump rope, try it! Then you would think I am 100% right.

But I wondered if my great pride would work here as well because I didn't do jump rope for 1 year. I had no problem with the normal skill but as I expected, my great pride didn't work very well at first. However, when I tried it many times, I could do 20 times.

I was quite nervous when I started to do jump rope again. When I did jump rope in Korea, I felt very bored because I had to do this every day in my school. But now, I feel it's very good to do jump rope again. When you are extremely bored, you also must do jump rope because it's both fun and make you healthy.

Bill Gates

I recently read a book called Bill Gates which is a biography. I am not interested in reading biography books but my goal is to read biography and non fiction books so I decided to read this book to start achieve my goal.

This book is about the richest person on earth called Bill Gates. There is a great story about him. Now let's see what is so great about him and how he became the richest person on earth.
William(Bill) Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. His family was affluent and he learned in an exclusive prep school called Lakeside. He was talented in learning but most of all, he was interested in early computers and as well as his friend called Paul Allen. As they grew older, they became very good at using computers and even once, Computer Center Corporation company asked them to help find and fix their software problems. They began earning money for fixing problems. As Bill worked there, he improved his skills and there were things that made him good at using computers. That were: He was unafraid of failure, worked hard, shared his information with Paul, perfected his skills and devoted his time to succeed.
One day, Altair 8800 was invented by one company. Bill and Paul became very interested in that company and lied to the company that they developed Altair 8800 even though they didn't because they wanted to work there. But in 8 weeks, they actually succeeded. Immediately, the company employed Paul and Gates. They worked there for a while and offered a contracted deal with MITS to buy their software.Then, they formed a new company called Microsoft. That is how Microsoft begin.
While Bill and Paul just formed Microsoft, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) was ready to enter the personal computer market but IBM needed a company to work with. IBM chose Microsoft and they worked together. Gates and Paul wanted to get the contract to deliver BASIC for the new IBM PC like they had for Altair and they got it.
One day, a person called Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products wrote Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS) and Paul tried hard to obtain it. Finally, he got it and within months, Microsofy provided IBM with its operationg system renamed PC-DOS. DOS was a great success and so was IBM PC, supported by a massive marketing campaign.
At first, Microsoft followed the right path by focusing on writing operating systems and applications. But gradually, Microsoft focused more on offering new products than on making sure each product worked perfectly and securing systems. Because of this, Microsofy software crashed too often. Later, Apple invented user-friendly graphical user surface-GUI, which is a mouse to click on icons and help complex computing instrucions with a single touch. From then on, it was much easier to use computers and Microsoft copyed the idea of GUI and also created a mouse.
In the late 1990s, Microsoft invented Microsoft 95 software which was a huge success. By selling millions of copies of Microsoft 95, Bill Gates became a millionaire. However, the workers in Microsoft were conceited and became very lazy. As a result, Microsoft was failing but fortunately, Bill Gates had an idea what to do. Microsoft entered the multibillion-dollar computer gaming industry with its personal a success and also entered other game companies such as Sony.
Bill Gates realised that his programs were insecure so he slowly improved Microsoft's products and rewrote the operationg system called Windows XP. It was also a huge success. After he sold millions of copies of Windows XP, Bill Gates became a billionaire.
In 2005, Queen Elizabeth II of England knighted him and he was used to identify as 'Eristalis gatesi'.

In 2006, Bill Gates announced that the would be leaving Microsofy in 2008. Everyone was shocked by Gate's announcement but some helped him. Warren Buffett donated $50 billion of his own money to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a few of his friends helped him as well.

After I read this book, I was pretty surprised by the ending that he would leave Microsoft and help poor children. I should be more patient and more creative like Bill Gates and get a great innovation.

10 vocabularies

1. traumatic

2. malevolent

3. pleadingly

4. revelation

5. embezzlement

6. lagging

7. embankment

8. eclectic

9. dejection

10. adhesive

5 pictures definition

1. jubilation

2.seminary

3.fixated

4.pensive

5.lucrative

2012

On last Sunday, my dad and I watched a movie called 2012 in PIM 1. It was very long movie but it was not boring. This movie is showing the end of the world. It was scary because the ground cracked like tsunami and the volcano erupted. There was one man named Jackson and he tried really hard to rescue his last family which means he divorced with his last wife. They rode a limo and Jackson drove a car as fast as he could. He found a plane and he made his last family to ride and Gordon, a new husband, drove the airplane. Then they headed right to a person called Charlie because he got a map which told them where to go to be safe. In a nick of time, he found a map and it told them to go to China. Eventually, they reached China and rode a huge ship that protected them and only about 1000 people were alive with male and female of each animal.
After I watched this movie, I was pretty scared because there was an article in a newspaper that 2012 is the end of the world and there were some theories which I didn't understand. If that is true, I think it's unfair because I had worked hard to improve my skills and I want to enjoy my life more than 3 years from now on. I just hope 2012 is not the end of the world.
The movie was quite good but I think there is no point about this movie and it's hard to tell the story unless you watch it and I think director copied some ideas from a movie called 'Tomorrow'. So I would like to give 7 stars out of 10 stars. Next time, I would like to watch a movie I read in a book like Christmas Carol.