Luggage Trouble I was supposed to traveled around Kotakinabalu with my sister, and we reserved two hotels, The first one was reserved by my sister, and the second was reserved by me. I asked her why we don't stay in the same hotel, and what about our luggages, but she calmly told me every hotel keeps guests' luggages before our travel. My sister didn't thinking about our check-out time in the first hotel when we contacted the travel agency in Kotakinabalu, and just asked me to put in freaking Mantananni island tour in the itinerary the very day when we have to check out. I hate hearing her screaming and crying when she can't get things the way she wants. I was thinking she might've found some locker room where we can put our luggages after our check out, but just one day before the Mantananni Island tour when we were on the van with other tourists going to Marimari cultural village, she told me she didn't find any locker room and yelled at me to call the hotel I reserved and to ask sttaffs if they can keep our luggages. I was like "What? Didn't you already called the hotel?" Then she yelled, "Noooo!!! I can't speak English well!!!! Just tell them to keep our luggages" in Korean. I know she speaks English, but she makes me speak English when that's very annoying and troublesome. She just speaks pleasuring and simple sentences. I hate to speak complex things. In fact, there was a Malaysia, so when I called the hotel and told the reception staff to keep our luggages earlier than our check out she understood at first that we are going to check in way earlier than the arrival time, so I had to explain in details in long words to explain our situation. I'm not very talkative person and my English is not perfect, and I can't speak Malay. (Phone ringing): Me: Hello? Staff: Hello. Me: I'm Ju. I made a reservation under my name, and my estimated check in time through Hotels.com is 2 p.m tomorrow with my sister as my party. Can you just keep our luggages today night earlier than our check-in time? Reception staff : Check-in earlier? No. Me: But we are going to check in later than 2 p.m. tommorrow because of our tour schedule. Can you just keep our luggages today night till tomorrow? Because we are going to check out of our staying hotel tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. and leave to travel around Mantananni Island with a travel agency. We just want you to keep our luggages till we come back to check-in from our tour. Can you keep our luggages? Reception staff: Yes. Can.

A Pond I had a really weird dreams for a few days recently. But the pattern of how the story goes is almost the same in my dream. When I'm dreaming about that, I notice it's dream in the middle of my dream, but that's when I get paralyzed from fear or so it takes a few more minutes to get out of that scary scene. What's weird is that when I realized that in the dream, I remember what the dream is from my consciousness, but I'm awake forget the whole part of it soon after a few seconds most of the time. Fortunately, I managed to remember a piece of the dream. I'm not a believer of some kind of superstition related to dreams, but writing in the hopes of organizing thoughts on my mind. I was running on rooftops in the night, and someone was chasing behind me. When he reached towards me, the scene suddenly shifted to a field of reeds, and there was a pond a few feet off from me. I threaded myself from reeds to the pond. The pond was crystal clear and I could see inside, lit by the moon. There was a man, looked so peaceful with his eyes closed and hands up; he was sleeping. I shouted him to get out of the pond. But he didn't open his eyes. Lit by moonlight, the pond was clear enough to let me fathom how deep it is, deep in the pond was darkness, though the above and outside of the pond was bluish bright. I couldn't just keep shouting so I looked around for long tree branches to get him out. I pulled his chin up to the surface with a long slander branch, then I hooked it to the collar of his clothes and pulled it closer and closer to my side. But his shirts got pulled off, so only his shirts were hanging on the branch. He was at a close distance but it was far to reach my arm, and the main problem was I can't swim. I just helplessly saw him keep drowning down toward the darkness of the pond. The clarity of the pond was just showing me him disappearing from my sight.

What does to occupy the territory of Korea, and occupying forces mean in this paragraph? The MacArthur's issued a declaration on the day he and his forces entered Korea. I'd like to know the meaning of to "occupy the territory of Korea" it's to live or to take control of Korea, as well as the meaning of "occupying forces" in the paragraph whether. "By the terms of the Instrument of Surrender, signed by command and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Government and by command and in behalf of the Japanese Imperial General headquarters, the victorious military forces of my command will today occupy the territory of Korea south of 38 degrees north latitude. . . . Article III All persons will obey promptly all my orders and orders issued under my authority. Acts of resistance to the occupying forces or any acts which may disturb public peace and safety will be punished severely. Seventh day of September 1945 Douglas MacArthur Commander-in-Chief, United States Army Forces, Pacific"

Why I don't want to go to a family gathering. There's bank holiday on next week for three days from Tuesday to Friday, and since the next day is Saturday, in actuality most people get five-days off. My maternal grandmother wants to see me in a family meeting during that period, but I don't feel like to go to the gathering. My aunt on my maternal side spoils my temper by talking straightforward to me as an idiot, but my aunt in law, who married to my uncle, tries to indirectly snub me. They seem to take their sons or daughters achievements' are theirs, or think having a nice spouse means they are also nice, which I disagree. They are different individuals. They obviously are curious of my dad's whereabouts to use it for their gossip, which makes me sick. My mom is a snub, and so they are. I feel uncomfortable in the family gathering if my mom snubs others, then as a revenge I guess, they snubs me. At least, I didn't do any harm to them.

Out of the blue So I was talking to one of my acquaintances; it was very personal stuff that we are involved in, there were other strangers sitting in other tables in the room. We were just focusing on our topic until a woman who seemed to be of my granny's age; she poked her head out of the blue and snatched my words and bombarded me with questions. I was somewhat embarrassed to figure out that she was listening in on our conversation and felt uneasy about that, I tried to keep cool at that moment though. After arriving home, I kept recalling her face and posture, tilting her head forward with full of nosiness. I got stuck in the memory in the scene. I know, it's not healthy to think of an event that gives me stress, but I can't seem to dispel the unpleasant feeling.

What's the difference between "vacation", "holiday" and "bank holiday"?

What does to be picked up by law mean here? "Western governments have been warning of returning fighters from Syria and their capability to launch terror attacks, so it would be plausible to conclude that returning jihadis , assuming they are not picked up by law enforcement at the European point of entry first, would be some of the most prone to engage in violent extremism and attempt to recruit other radicals." http://news.yahoo.com/many-muslim-extremists-just-facts-please-183415518.html I'm not sure about the meaning of the second line of the paragraph, "...they are not picked up by law enforcement "

If I could go back to the past, So this is the common question "What would you do, if you could go back to the past?" A majority of people miss or want to correct their past. They say how happy they were in the past or want to rewind the time to correct something they have done wrong. For me neither applies to my past. It's not that I've gone through hard times in every moment, but since I don't want to meet unhappy experiences, which doesn't cancel out the opposite side. It's not that I didn't make any mistake or don't regret anything either. However if someone insists on answering the question, I'll remember a series of lottery number on a week in the last month and rewind to the very week in the last month and then win the lottery.That's it.