Infant care About 2 and half months ago, my baby was born. Since that, my hobby became an infant care. In order to write about it, I need to learn some words on it. For example, diaper, vaccination and so on. From birth to 1 month, it was so hard to feed whenever my baby asked. He asked it every 2 hours. Of course, I did it with my wife. :) Even if so, it was not easy. I'm sure if you are a parent, you definitely understand it. From the beginning of 2 month, the feeding term became longer than before from 2 hours to 3 or 3 and half. At night, he slept more than 5 hours without waking up. Finally, I can have time to write here. I heard some western countries' parents try to teach their babies sleep education which means a baby fall a sleep alone, by himself without parent's holding. I think I can teach my baby falling a sleep without my holding. But what if something emergency such as airway obstruction happened after falling a sleep alone, how do you handle it? I think it might not be easy to handle it quickly if parents sleep in a different room.

I think all 4 activities are needed to be fluent. Hello, long time no see. These days, I haven't visited here. All of sudden, I wanted to write anything here. I was considering what to write. When I was in an university, I read a popular Korean book 'Never ever study English' The point was that English was something to learn, not a topic to study like physics and mathematics. So the writer suggested a way to learn English was keeping listening. It was a sensation in Korea at that time because we focused on vocabularies and grammar to learn English at that age. Of course, some people criticized the point saying that listening was not enough to master English. I also thought that way was not enough. but it allowed me to consider English funny thing. So I accepted the way 'keeping listening'. Since that, my main way to learn English was listening and memorizing it. The material was mainly news such PBS and NBC. But it was not that practical 'cause the expression was professional and a little difficult. So I changed the material from the news to 'Dear abby' I think it was a consultative radio program in U.S. The program had more practical expressions I could use than the news. But I always felt thirsty of English. I want to be a fluent English speaker which means understanding over 80% of any English topics and communicating on the topics. To reach that level, I think I have to pratice all 4 activities such as listening, reading, writing and speaking instead of listening-centric way. Until now, it's my resolution to be a fluent English speaker. Thank you for reading.

I need motivation to re-start English learning. Actually, I enjoyed learning English. But all of sudden, I lost all of my energy to learn English. I need any motivations to re-start it. Does anyone know fun English-spoken TV series? or anything else? I think my slump is originated by studying a programming language 'Python'. Studying the programming language was more interested in learning English. By studying it, I can create my own program. Creating is more fun than just learning. But I don't want to lose my interest on learning English. Please, let me know if someone know how I hold my interests on both. Thanks in advance.

It's been a while to post a notebook. Hi, Everybody. It's been a while to post a notebook. These days, I have been a little busy. So It was a little difficult to have time to post this. There was no room in my mind to do it. :) But today while I was checking my private emails, I saw new italk's friend request. So I visited here again. And it also made me to do this. I'm happy to do this again.

A romantic guy Yesterday night, I saw a Korean TV soap opera. I was very surprised when the main man character did a very romantic behavior. Let me explain the behavior. A woman and 3 men live in a house, which is a house sharing. The woman just broke up with her boyfriend in front of the house in a rainy day. The couple argued strongly so she was totally soaked After the , she entered her room with her soaked because of sadness. One of the 3 men who hasn't got along with her, I think they might be a couple later, anyway, put some towels in front of her room's door after knocking the door without a word and returned to his room. But I think an ordinary man can't do that kind of romantic behavior. The behavior can happen only in a soap opera because it was written by a woman writer. I believe this kind of soap opera make men hard. :)

Watching a movie Today, my wife and I were supposed to watch a Korean movie 'Gundo' which means a group of robbers because the progonists are a character actor 'Jungwoo Ha' and hansome actor 'Dongwon Kang'. I don't care if actors are hansome, but my wife does. She really wants to see the performance of 'Dongwon Kang'. Unfortunately, according to a movie review site, the quality of the movie is lower than we expected. So we decided to watch another movie which is 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'. The movie is about apes, so I think my wife can't see any hansome actors. maybe she can see some hansome apes. :) But one of my colleague told me the story of the movie is interesting and the performances of apes are excellent. I hope my decision will not be wrong.

Dowry Last weekend, I went to my parent-in-law's home to help preparation of my sister-in-law's dowry. In Korea, we have some wedding traditions. A dowry is one of them. But a bride gives not also a dowry but also excellent presents to her future parents-in-law. We call the excellent presents Yedan. Of course, a groom also gives some jewelry to his bride. but today I'll only handle Yedan. Usually, Yedan includes excellent bedclothings and Korean traditional dish sets. They are usually very expensive. When I got married, my wife and I decided not to prepare them to be rich quickly so we didn't know them well. While I was looking around a department store, I realized there was a new world of a wedding preparation. There were many luxurious Yedan I have never seen before. I wouldn't buy them but it was a good experience to expand my knowledge.

Watching a baseball game. The day before yesterday, I was supposed to go to the baseball stadium with my colleagues. Unfortunately, it began to rain right before the game started. But we had to go there because we had already bought the ticket for the game and didn't get the any announcement that the game was cancelled because of the weather. So one of my colleagues and I departed to the stadium because we couldn't throw away the tickets. What a twist of fate !! As I arrived at the stadium, we received the announcement that the game was cancelled. I was a little annoyed at this situation. but my team manager suggested we go to a famous restaurant. We agreed to do that. And I went there. The restaurant was bigger and more nice than I expected. The taste of the food was also good. I was a little annoyed at not watching the game but having nice food in the nice restaurant got rid of the annoyance.

A move of God I watched a Korean movie with my wife last weekend. I don't know a English title of the movie. But if I translate it directly, it's 'a move of god'. The movie described people playing Buduk which is similar to Chess in Western. The heroes held an illegal Baduk gambling betting big money or their lives. So the heroes try to find the best Baduk master to win it. Like other gambling movies, there were some cruel scenes such as murders, kidnapping and so on. Overall, it's fun but cruel. If it's more elaborate instead of cruel, it might be more fun.