Celebrating lunar New Year

Lunar New Year is just around the corner here in South Korea. In fact, the rest of the week is a public holiday starting tomorrow and it goes to the weekend.(Yay) As every year, I feel somewhat awkward because we already started the New year on January first, having counted down the last moments into the New Year's and doing some kind of ritual like ringing out the historic big bell in the urban area of Seoul. Then one and a half months later, we again celebrate another New Year's and exchange greetings and so on. I know it is because of the calendars, which one you follow, yet I do feel awkward around this time of the year.

Anyhow my mom and I went grocery shopping for this big holiday. We chose a nearby public market to go to instead of a big chain mart. Chain markets are convenient and show off more modernized displays of products and organization. But we chose to venture the traditional public market this year for a change. It was raining this afternoon, yet also windy and chilly a little bit. It looked like it was going to snow at any moment. I thought that our shopping excursion could not meet the expectations but my mom didn't seem to be dwelling too much on that. She just looked excited to go, talking a lot about my past grandmother and her cooking, busy sceneries of the market in the olden days and so on.

 

 

 

- letters in red where i added, highlighted where i changed something

 

Good entry! Very good writing. I hope you had a good meal & a nice time with your mother!

It means the same thing. Burned is most often used in the USA & burnt is most often used in England.

I couldn't find the lyrics online anywhere so this is my best guess: why , why oh why why oh why yeeeah why oh why everyday, everyway X2 sitting down and doing nothing but planning my friends planning to go an wreck people life when i said to you, to change your ways you turned to me and asked me who who are you talking who are you talking who are you talking can't talk to a good man soul i never know, i never know, i never know can't talk to a good man soul you better talk to a ??? soul then talk to a good man soul i'm gonna tell you what you really doing sitting don't mean nothing, but planning my ??? planning to an wreck people life when i said to you, to change your ways you turned and asked me who why, why oh why why oh why yeeeah why oh why everyday be doing this why why oh why the song seems to be him saying to this guy with bad thoughts and bad plans, why are you doing this?

Skilled or skillful ?

Help me!
I cannot tell the difference between "skilled" and "skillful" .
Thanks

 

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/qa/the-difference-between-skilled-and-skillful

 

I suggest reading this answer. It is a good one.

 

Basically

Skilled implys skill or talent that has been developed with experience. The person does something well because of previous experience.

 

skillful implys skill or talent that something is done expertly or very well. However the person may not be skillful because of experience.

while both words have "practica...." they are actually different and not related. practicable means you can practice something. (pronounced prac-tis-uh-ble) "able to be done or put into practice successfully." ex. No one is born knowing how to play soccer. Soccer is a practicable skill. (meaning it can be learned with practice) practical --to be concerned with the actual way something could be done or produced rather then just an idea -- likely to succeed or work in real life ex. If you are cooking it is practical to only buy the ingredients you need. (meaning, you would be impractical or not practical if you bought chicken when you are going to make a hamburger. It is probably a waste of money) the "-able" suffix requires a transitive verb. You can not do practical to something. You practice soccer but you can not practical soccer. You can be practical about soccer. If you want an adjective for "practical" you can use pragmatic. ex. He is very pragmatic about his money. (meaning he is very practical when he uses his money or makes decisions about his money) hope that is not too confusing. Good luck with your studies!

In this case "overall harm caused" means when you add up all the ways that society can be harmed by different crime 1. health 2. crime against people 3. violence drug-trafficking does the most damage. To say it another way Compared to other types of crime drug-trafficking does the most damage in all categories. Does that make sense?