suffer or suffer from Is there any difference between suffer and suffer from? In some sentence, "suffer" is used. In other sentence, "suffer from" is used. It seems to me that two words convey almost same meaning. Then is there any difference in usage of these words? It makes me confused.

Can you talk about your cooking experience and who taught you to cook? Actually, My mom never really taught me how to cook. She always said " You are going to cook plenty of times when you get married even though you don't want to. So you don't need to cook yet. Just enjoy the feedom of not having to worry about everyday meal while you can." I have saw her cooking over her shoulder but I wasn't that interested in cooking. Food always seemed to be there on the table whenever I was hungry. I haven't much thought about how much preperation,time,money was put into one meal on the table. But things changed when I got married. When I just got married, my husband and I had a different idea about who would do which housework. My husband had these little crazy idea that I should mainly do all the housework including cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, laundering and so on and he would do subsidiary role in housework. It took a lot of effort and fight to make him understand the unfairness in his notion. Anyway, problem of preparing meal was dropped on me like a bomb. I became realize that I couldn't eat out or order food forever. I had to do something. I started watching cooking show, buying cookbook, and calling my mom to ask about how to cook some dishes. Along the way, I made many mistakes. Some food that I cooked tasted so yucky, that even I couldn't swallow it. But slowly I began to learn the basics of cooking and to feel confidence. If I would give my husband some credit on cooking, he has never complained about the food I cooked even if it tasted so yacky or was burned or undercooked . He just gladly ate it without making me feel embarrassed. I can't say that I am a good cook. But at least, I can say that I can cook some edible food now, sometimes even delicious one.

Jacob have I loved... book review I just finished this book yesterday. This book is the story about a girl named Sara Louise who lives in small island called Rass with her family. She has a twin sister named Caloline, who is talented,beautiful and always the center of attention and much more fonded by not only people in Rass but also by her family. Louise is miserable because she is always treated as the second best and sacrifices for her twin sister. She is desperate to find her place in Rass and family. However every efforts seems to be failed. She seems so deeply blinded and wounded by her jealousy toward her sister that she doesn' t know what she really wants in her life. Later in the story, she finally leaves her hometown to find her place and destiny in the world. Can she find them? To tell the truth, I don't like this story. I am empathetic with what she went through. I can feel and understand her misery and pain like my own. The first several chapters got my attention and interest but as the story went on I started feeling frustration. I wanted to read and know how she grew and was changed through those pains and experiences.But most of the stories were dedicated to her pain and misery. What I most hate in this story is the ending. She finally finds her own place and figure out who she really is, what she really wants in an isolated, mountainous region working as a nurse plus midwife. I don't know what I expected but I don't get the story that she finally made peace with her hurtful past and found her destiny when she met a men who has three children from previous marrige and married him, delivered the twin babies whose birth stories were much like hers. Did she leave her hometown to choose this? Maybe I am so spoiled by too much fancy and trandy dramas or movies in which every girls get what they want after enough suffering that I expect more gramorous future than that for her. Maybe she is really happy with the decision because it's made not by anybody but by her and she became mature mentally and physically through that decision. I don't know. Is there anybody, who read this book and can tell me or teach me what I miss in this book? p.s I'm really sorry for the spoiler to those who haven't read this book yet.

Can you talk about a singer or composer you really like, and why he or she is your favorite? My favorite singer is Freddie Mercury, who was a lead vocalist of British rock band "Queen". When I first heared his song, I was 13 or 14. The first song I heared among many his songs was "Bohemian Rhapsody". At that time, in my country, there were very strict regulations about songs. If songs were thought to contain some themes or lyrics like drug,violence,rebellion or sexual expressions which could be harmful to tradition,cultural norm and custom or social order, they were banned by the goverment. Bohemian Rhapsody was on of those many songs banned at that time. As far as my understanding, it was banned because there was implicit suicide in its lyrics. Then how could I get the chance to hear the song?. One of my firends had a Queen's album, which I guess was probably purchased through black market. She introduced me to the song. When I heared it, I instantly fell in love with the song and the singer, Freddie Mercury. His voice was so powerful and energetic but sill had tenderness and sweetness in his voice. And their intricate harmonies. The four members of Queen, their voices were mixed and harmonized together so perfectly and delicately that it was felt to me that it was sounded from heaven. His songs have been released from the ban, I don't know the exact time when, and now I can openly enjoy them.It's really great for fans like me. One thing really sad, though, I can't see him in live concert anymore. Actually I have never got a chance to go to his concert. I was really sad when I heard about the news of his death. However he will forever be on my list of favorite musicians.

Myung-dong Yesterday, I went to Myung-dong to meet one of my friends, who I haven't met for more than three months. We usually meet at least once in every two months. This time we didn't seem to be able to set the time for our meeting due to our busy lives. We both prefer Myundong as our meeting place because she and I both can get there by public transportation within an hour and there are lots of shops, cafes, restaurants and big department stores in there. Thant's why it is called shopping meca. Myungdong is one of famouse tourists destinations in Seoul. So it is always crowded with tourists from many different countries. Myungdong is also an home of the office buildings of many big name companies. Around lunch time or after six p.m you can see a huge surge of office workers in Myungdong. We met at the Shinsaege department store, where is food court and restaurants that serve a variety of foods we can choose from and also a rooftop garden, where we can have some relaxing time after meal. We caught up with each other having coffee with delicious cake. I was really happy to enjoy sunny afternoon with my close friend sharing lots of talking and laughing over delicious food.

making most out of italki These days, I spent much time on itaiki reading articles, answering or correcting someone's writing written in Korean or writing my own notebook entry. Sometimes I get correction, sometimes I don't. Either way is okay. Along the way, I practice my English. Although I would have known right expression or grammer from wrong one if I had got a correction. So far, the whole experience on italki has been good.

writing practice by making sentences using words I study today. 1) plight : I heard from my mom all the plight she had to suffer during Korean war in1950. 2) odysseys : She told me about the hardship and suffering she faced during her odysseys to Busan, where tens and thousands of refugees headed for to escape from the war in 1950. 3) racist : People who discriminate men based on their races is called racist. 4) give the game away : The criminal thought he got away with a perfect crime but he didn't know he had left some clues on the scene, which could gave the game away. 5) captured people's imaginations : Korean movie "Assissination ,Am-sal in Korean title, captured people's imaginations and made a mega hit gathering more than ten million viewers in this summer.

How to cook a live crab Today, I found live carb on sale while I was doing some grocery shopping in nearby mart. Instantly crab was put on my menu for dinner. I bought the crab, which were sold by 2kg box, and happily brought it home. But the problem was that how I was going to prepare the crab. This would be my second time to handle live crab. My first exprience of handling live crabs wasn't that good. It may sound silly, but I felt guilty to kill them to cook. They were moving frantically to get away from my grip. I felt so bad for them. And at the same time I feared that they might hurt my finger with their claws. For that reason, I usually bought frozen crabs. I don't have to kill them or get my hands dirty because they are already dead. I kept saying to myself that it wasn't a big deal and I could do that. I tare off the tape that sealed the box. When I opened it, I saw live crabs moving languidly in the saw dust. I put on cotton gloves to protect my hand from crab and graped one of crab by it's craw. That was a big mistake. The crab moved her legs and craws frantically and spread saw dust all over the kitchen. And other crabs which laid listlessly in the saw dust suddenly became alive and moved vigorously. Saw dust was flying everywhere. What a stupid mistake I made!!! I should have grab the crab by its belly, not by its claw.

My travel story in Bangkok I tripped to Bangkok this summer with my family for 7 days and 9 nights. Actually, four days were the exact duration time in Bangkok and the last of days, we went to Pattaya. Our first visiting place in Bangkok was the " Grand Palace". We took BTS and got off at the Saphan Taksin station. From there, we had to take water bus such as boat or ferry running on Chaophraya river to go to the palace. According to the tour guide book for Bankok I borrowed from a library, that's one of the ways of going there. Of course, you can take taxi, especially considering the fact that Bangkok's taxi fare is fairly cheap but I don't think that's a good idea because of the heavy traffic in Bangkok. I know this because I exprienced the horrible traffic jam myself while I stayed there. I had to spend over three hours in taxi to go some place where it would take less than 30 or 40 minutes if I had taken bts or water bus instead. Water bus terminal wasn't that far from BTS station. It was only five minutes walking distance. When I got there, I spotted a tourist information desk So I went and asked about which water bus we should take to go to the palace. She only said "100 baht for a person" pointing a boat parked nearby. So we purchased four tickets for 400 baht and aboarded that boat with assissting from a man looking like a crewman. The gap between the boat and the land we stand was wide and the boat was moving a little bit precariously by water. I was instantly worried my daughter's tiny feet might fall into the gab or something. So I was thankful when he held out his hand to assisst us to aboard the boat. But to my dismay, my appreciation stopped here. Later, I found out that there was much cheaper option and it was only 15 baht per person. I could have saved a lot of money here!!!! For the more, the boat didn't depart right away and kept postponing departure whenever new customer came.