My favorite movies

Although I love  watching horror and suspense movies such as The Hill Have Eyes, Wrong Turn, The Ring, The Perfect Assistant, Step Sister,…but my favorite movies are not any horor or suspense movies. They are Titanic, Forest Gump, and some of my favorite animation are Shrek, Finding Nemo, Wall E, Bolt. To be in my favorite movies list, the movies’ elements that make me have to pay attention to are the artors and actresses are required pretty, good lines, good content, making sense, and good acting. Anyway, my first require is pretty. I still might stick around a movie with a bad content but pretty artors and actresses more than a movie with a good contents, good lines, but ugly actors and actresses. I have seen Titanic for a really long time ago but I still have been liking it because it had a good digital, pretty main actor and actress, good lines and especially it described clearly how fearful people were when the boat started sinking. The same with Forest Gump. Tom Hank played Forest Gump in that movie. I like that movie not only because Tom Hank is handsome but also his talent is so great in that movie. Good acting when he described his character as a naive gentle soldier. Furthermore, it talked about the Vietnam war that is why I am so excited because I was born after that event so do not understand much. In addition, they remain favorites because they indicate obviously how beautiful the relationships are, people to people. For examples, in Titanic it was a beautiful love between a young couple but unfortunatly, they were separated by destiny or a wonderful comradeship in Forest Gump when he had to carry each man away from danger.

Word bank poem

Ice cream melts quickly

He eats nuts scrumptuously

Matthew dances sexily

Zodiac looks peacefully

She shines beneath hot Texas’s sun

He leans over softly

Washing machine washes clothes slowly

Guns, money, flowers seemingly dissolved

Turtle crawls under blue sky

Beautiful planets rotate endlessly.

Blogging

I have been blogging for a semester and to tell the truth, this is the first time I blog. Blog is fun but sometimes I really have troubles with it. Some of the topics are reality so I can write my real thought in this blog without lying. The other topics are kind of imagination so to complete my assignments, I have to tell lied stories. Really, if you stop exercising your brain, it will become blank. Before I had to spend more than a day to write a journal. I do not know why, or maybe I do not write much so when I began writing, my brain was so blank and I could not get any ideas or sentences for the topics. Since taking this class and the instructor required five blogs per week, so I think not only me, people in my class gain the writing skill than before a lot. Last week, I was able to write four blogs just only in three hours. I do not know if it is just normal to american students or not but to me, an Asian immigrant, that was an awesome number. I really have no idea will I keep up with blog after class or not because I think I might be able to take two more classes in summer two and I am not sure if I still have time for it or not. Fortunately, I do write diary everyday so I guess I would change the way I write diary a little bit and I will use English to practice my skill as what I did with blog.

“Sing, sing a song…”

I admit without creativity, life will become very boring. Even when I was a child or the time I am growing up now, I love dancing. That is only the basic way that I can express my creativity. I dance every day. I always spend thirty minutes for dancing before going to sleep. I really enjoy it. First of all, dancing makes me reduce stress in life. Secondly, as I already said, it helps me improving or getting more creativity. Finally, this is what I took from my experience, it brings to me a good sleep. It totally makes sense, because after spending a lot of energy for dancing, I am really tired and just want to go to sleep. I said I love dancing, it absolutely does not mean that I can dance as good as dancers such as Micheal Jackson, Jabbawockeez, or So Real Cru. I just dance as it is my favorite hobby. In fact, I am not that good . Every day, I try and practice a new dance or new style to build up my creativity. Not only with dancing, I have tried some other ways before to bring more creativity into my life so I will not be bored at dancing, but it did not seem to work on me. I sang but I stopped doing those because I realized that I do not have any aptitudes for singing or drawing. Keep doing those things just only bother people around me because I have a terrible voice. Anyway, I will keep continuing this good habit. Believe me, dancing is fun.

Stress relief

For sure, right now I am very under pressure and stressfull a lot. I really want to get successfully by the end of this semester with an A. Since it is also my first A in college level and I am very superstitious, I belive that when I begin with something is good, for example I get an A, it can make me feel good and come to the success easier than if I get a B or C, I just become more stressfull and despondent. Unfortunately, everything is not what it seems. It is more difficult than I thought before. I do not think that I can keep up with my plan, keep up with the good final grade that I thought I would get it easily. The only thing that can make my stress lower is stop thinking about that final grade and try my best for the rest of semester. I also encourage myself that everything might be that bad but they also could be that good and I did a lot of things to have more extra points to save my final result. I am just afraid that the score for those essays that I already turned in to my instructor will not be good because I am not a native American. English is not my mother toungue and the way to write, explain, and describe things in American essay is absolutely different from Vietnamese essay. I think that the good solution to reduce stress is stop thinking about your own problems, try the best to solve them, keep hoping for the best, and finally, no matter what the result will be, will not be upset or despondent because at least you did try your best. Nothing to regret if you already try your best.

Assessing ourselves

I changed a lot since January. I got tired of studying ESOL classes and I just wanted to finish everything so that I could take college level. I started focusing on studying so that I took spring semester for my final required ESOL classes such as writing, grammar, and reading in level four. As normal, things are harder and harder. Of course, they are. Level four is supposed to be more and more difficult than level three. There were more homework assignments and the knowledge began larger and larger. Sometime I thought that I could not keep up with my other classmates and complete these ESOL classes. You will never know how difficult to learn a language that is not your mother tounge. Being a nurse is my dream. I started to say to myself that: “Vy, this is just only the first step of the ladder and it means nothing. If these basic steps you still cannot keep up, so just quit and stop dreaming. If you want to get success, you better study harder and harder”. I tried my best. I looked back the books and reviewed all of the knowledge that I need to improve. Everyday, I practiced writing one journal before I go to sleep. I’m so proud to say that I worked hard to get high scores. As I expected, I finally completed successfully those classes. You do not know how excited I was when I came to Thunder Duck to register in college level, and my first class was English 1301. Now, I can take any required subjects to become a nurse. I know that I still have a long way to go to reach my dream and there will be a lot of obstacles and difficulties on my way, but I can guarantee that I will never regress.

Enlarging your world

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(Entry for December 26, 2008)

Wandering on blogs one evening, I caught my feeling one year ago through the words of an unknown girl showing gratefulness to her friends after her break up. It reminded me about the hardest time that I have ever experienced since I had to accustom to the living in this new country. The same to “Be To”, friendship saved me from myself. The day my boyfriend stepped out of my life, I could not believe that how stunned I was and I lost all my faith in love. Having no family around, it seemed like I was standing on the egde of gulf. I drowned in tears and even not said a word to anyone for weeks. Then one night, I hesitantly picked up a phone call from a friend who i have not met for ages. Incredibly we had a whole night talk. He not only did share my sorrow but also encourage me a lot. The morning after, he appeared in front of my room in my astonishment just to make sure that I was still all right. Spending a day at a park near his house, we saw children playing, elder couples walking hand in hand, students reading books under the sun,… the life on Earth, that I did not aware of before. I realized that life keeps going even when someone left me behind. Now I still remember every touching words of his advice that day. Love is spice of life. It is more complete when we are with the beloveds, but life still beautiful when we are standing alone. Why don’t I enjoy the feeling of being myself which I have never been in. I should standing against all the odds because I still have the love of my friends and family and because I am still healthy enough to chase the dream of my life. I must confess that I treasure a lot about the moment he make my faith revive and I think that his words will stay in my heart till the end of my life. Thanks “Be To”, your entry really warm me up and reminded me that having a good friend in life is one of the best thing in this world. Even we are strange to each other but I found sympathy when reading your blog and I think this will be the only reason which stick me to your blog for my next visit.

Connecting

I have read the entry “when I grow up” in chelsea’s blog. When I was a little girl, just is like Chelsea,  I also had a lot of dress up clothes, not for being a pricess as Chelsea wanted to be when she was a little girl but for my fashion show game because I wanted to be a super model as I mentioned in my other entry. The first time when I came to class, she gave a good impression on me. She looks like barbie doll with her long blonde hair. Even though we do not have the same experience and the same dream when we were young, but I think we have the same dream and the same ambition to reach when we grow up. Is that so cool? It is about being a nurse. Maybe it is easier to her alittle bit because she will not have troubles with something as comprehendsion or vocabulary but it is really a big deal to me. I do not know if I met her before would we become friend or not but I guess the answer is yes because so far, even we do not talk to each other much, and in this term, it is my bad. I do not know why but I do not feel confident when ever I speak English. I repeat English is not my mother tounge. I guess maybe I am afraid of mistakes or speaking wrong or something. Anyway, she is pretty nice, sociable to me and other classmates. I am glad to be her friend and I just hope that both of us will get success on the nursing program.

Great films

As I know that beside the movie version, it still has a novel version written by Mario Puzo. Unfortunately, I do not have chance to read that novel but I have seen “the Godfather”  in movie for maybe three years ago. In the present world, there are some bad groups still living outside the law. They take advantages of the dark influence to devide and manage areas. All of the commercial field such casinos, drug smuggling, or women smuggling have to pay to gangs for protection. These bad groups try to bribe some officers in excutive body, legislative body, and justice. These brands always keep the law of silence to survive, keep secrets and continue to operate. For profit, they can kill each other even members in their own family. This movie dare said the truth in life today. People are protected by law, but ridiculously, they are still afraid of the dark influence of gangs and they have to pay for a fixed amount of money to be undisturbed. Even this is a gang but it still has a close and clear organization. The main characters in this movie act very good. Alpacino plays Michael Corleone and Diane Keaton plays his wife successfully. I really like this plot when the wife of the Godfather finds out that her husband is a gangster, even she loves him so much but she still be herself and makes her finally come to decission that she quits. After watching this movie, I think it really deserves for all of the movie awards that it achived as best picture, best actor, and best adapted screeplay.

Soundtrack of my life

Open credit: Love Story – Taylor Swift: I still remember the day when my cousin showed me love story song, at that time I really did not pay any attention to that song and I completely forgot right after I listened to it. When it became popular, I called her and asked: “Hey Anne, have you heard love story?, it is an amazing sweet song! She just answered me only two words but made me laugh the whole day: “Ya think?”

Waking up: Good girls go bad – Cobra Starship & Leighton: I heard this song on the radio everyday while I was driving to school.

First of school: Fire burning on the dancefloor – Sean Kingston: The first time I heard this song was on “you think you can dance” on TV. I think because of it was live so the way he sang was so different and fast. I almost did not understand any words and I thought he just sang spanish.

Falling in love: Circus – Britney Spears: I like her voice even she has a lot of scandals but she does have talent.

Breaking up: Lips like sugar – Flo Rida & Wynter: This song have a funny melody. I always turn this song on when I get sleepy while driving.

Prom: Second chance – Shine Down: This is a good song that my cousin has just show me and I have just downloaded in my Iphone.

Life: Right round - Flo Rida: I thought that the first time I heard this song was on “American idol”.

Mental breakdown: Low – Flo Rida: Again, I did not know that I have this song in my Itune.

Driving: New classic - Drew Seeley & Selena Gomez: I saw the movie “another Cinderella story”. That was awesome, and this song I took out from that movie.

Flashback: Circle – Marques Houston: This song has many versions but I just only like this version from Vibin Beats.

Wedding: Teardrops on my guitar – Taylor Swift: She is amazing. This song make me cried sometimes because of all the lyrics.

Birth of child: Dead and gone – Justin Timberlake & T.I: Justin Timberlake is my favorite singer and although this song has a lot of raps and I cannot understand the whole song, still love the melody. Actually, I understand the chorus.

Final battle: Stop and stare – One Republic: I heard this song before and started liking One Republic.

Death scene: Birthday Song – Jeremih: I still remember Tyler sang this song when he came late to my classmate and made the whole class laugh a lot when he kneeled down and holded her hand just like he was proposing her.

Funeral song: Just so you know – Jesse Mccartney: I like the video clip on MTV.

End credits: Good bye – Kristinia Debbarge: I love this song the most. When the first time I heard it on the radio but I missed the introduction so I did not know what was the name of this song.