Today's Small Thought Recently, I borrowed a book written by Mark Twain.One of the short stories called Murder of Connecticut in the book was deep and interesting. It was about a man who had a visitor, who was actually his "Conscience". The man expresses the visitor "ugly", "small", "terrible" and "mess". When the visitor points out how unkind and unfair he is, he gets upset and wanted kill the visitor so he doesn't need to listen those claims. So, the man killed the visitor. He is now happy because nobody questions him. He murdered many more people after he killed the visitor. The story ends with "So, I will always be my own boss. It's the best way, don't you agree?" I believe that we all fight once in a while with a devil and an angel in us. Drawing a line is the key to make a balance and stay healthy, I guess.

Small thought Every Tuesday, movie is cheap in Victoria, BC where I live. As a member of our group's request, we decided to see "TED2". It was better than I thought, funny with not a bad story. However, there were lots of "F" words and many cursing words in the movie. I often think that somebody or movie uses these kinds of words often when they don't have enough vocabularies to express their feelings. In this sense, this was not a good one for English learners... !

Today's Small Thought Today, I wore my hat which I've just bought. It is a black, big, kind of a fancy one, like for a Madam. I knew that it's not really my type of hat, but it looked nice and elegant. So I bought it. When I was at a coffee shop, a lady came up to me and told me that she admires my hat. First, I had to think what she really meant. I looked at her, like I couldn't hear her. She repeated the same. I smiled automatically even though I was still a bit confused. I'm at home now and still thinking if it was an ironic comment or a simple complement. Either way, it proved that my hat got somebody's attention. So I stopped thinking too much.. ^^:

Today's small thought Today, I made a vegetable soup. I put beans, a cabbage, onions, and a kind of chinese leaves. Because I used a red (it's actually purple) cabbage, the soup became purple colour which looked wired somehow as food. Then, I started thinking if they are originally purple, or it is an artificial colour. I mean, why do the colour come off? Why boiled beans don't make water green?? I looked the soup again, thought about it a second. It looked beautiful in a way, though. It was more an art, like wine.

Today's small thought Today, I had a meeting with my tutor. She has been my tutor for a week so far. When we were working on speaking , I noticed that she starts talking before I complete my speech practice. It is not wrong in terms making points before she forgets. She starts talking with examples and sentences. So I had to listen till she finishes which usually takes my chances to practice speaking. I see the same tendency in other tutors, too. Most tutor like to talk, rather than listening. I guess that's human nature. But to improve my English, it doesn't work well. I get a headache, and wish I can say "Be quiet. I'm not done, yet." ^^:

Yesterday's small thought Yesterday, I went to see Cirque du Soleil. It was a part of my job, taking clients out, to the event as I work for people with intellectual challenged. The show was a combination of an art and acrobat which made a special atmosphere on the stage. They used three dimension using a light, also. One of them looked like a firework which brought me a "Disney World" feeling. As it was for my work, I didn't pay for the ticket, $50 which I woudn't have got if it was for my private purpoe. It is my job, but there is not many jobs that you get to go see shows and get paid. And it is expanding my world for sure.

Yesterday's small thought Yesterday was my birthday, A friend of mine and his friends took me to for a dinner. It was a restaurant has a special service for a birthday, sing a song with an ice-cream. They made an announcement and sung a song. It was my first experience, and made me so happy with warm surprised celebration. I've had very busy these a couple weeks, and so tired. But this outing gave me power and smiles. It also made me think of importance of having good friends to get day going.

Today's small thought At this moment, I have no internet connection at my place. So, here I am at Tim Horton to have a connection, having a Cinnamon Bun which I didn't need. ^^: (If you are Canadian, you know this. If you are not, this is like casual Starbucks.) I asked my landlady who is 26 years old, what's the network key is. She only said "I don't know". After four days, she hasn't even asked me if I have a connection. She is not a good landlady for sure. Living in different country when you don't speak the language well enough, it gets frustrating some. (Not just some, at this point.) She is generally aggressive which makes me hard to deal with as well. Difference often makes life interesting, but it is not easy sometime...

Today's small thought I am taking my IELTS test in a month. Because I've been trying to get the point which I need so long, I'm almost feeling that this is my platelet. So it won't go up anymore. Today, I was just reading an article which italki sent me. It was a recommendation of " Get into an argument". That is totally true. No wonder my English was so fluent when I had a big argument with my roommate the othe day. With my anger, words just flew amazingly, like she couldn't say anything. The bad thing is, because that is not my nature to argue or being a conversation starter, it won't stay with me.. ++;