An unlucky day that I locked myself out of the door Today is definitely my day. When I went out in the morning, I forgot to take my key and the door was locked from the inside. I noticed the mistake immediately but it was still too late. The window left open but there was a screen. The screen looked fixed for I could not move it. "Maybe I can break the screen." I thought. Then I changed my mind: "What if I break the frame too? What if I cannot find the screen of the same size? The house owner will be mad at me." So I made phone calls to lock services that I searched from website. Some of them said they could not come over because of the distance. One asked for 150 dollars. Another asked for 270 dollars. One man asked some questions that I could barely understand - I was so upset since I had been practicing English for a while! I had no choice, so I ask for the $150 door-open service. An old man of his 70s or 80s came over after about 40 minutes. He took out many small tools from his toolkit and started working on the door. 15 minutes passed, the door was still locked. He walked to window with a sharp tool in his hand. "Wait, please don't cut the screen", I said. But he used the tool to lift the screen slightly. And as he pushed the screen a little. the screen was taken off from the window. He got me a ladder and I got in. So I paid $150 to learn how to remove a screen.

What principle of journalism do you think is most important. In my opinion, honesty is the most important principle for journalism. Recently, I read a piece of news saying that one out of four people in Congo don't believe there is Ebola virus. According to the news, they believe that someone make up the disease in order to earn money or control people. I think it is because people in Congo get used of fake news. When news lose honesty, they gradually lose trust from the public and become meaningless.

Love, Death & Robots Recently, I've watched Netflix's new TV show Love, Death & Robots. I don't want to give spoilers, so I am only going to talk about my feelings about the show. For me, it is very bloody, violent and porny. Each episode is an independent story but the style, to some degree, is consistent. They are hard to understand, dark, imaginary, and kind of cyberpunk style with high tech and low life combined together. I feel American TV shows are more male-oriented than Chinese. Chinese TV shows are mostly palace dramas, or shows about family issues. They are female-oriented because most main characters are women. I am happy to see something different.

Doxing and The Internet ethics (1) Today, I discussed Doxing with Cait in our class. In China, we have a similar term called "human flesh search engine", which refers to the Internet practice of a lot of users searching and collecting someone's private information and posting this information online to attack the person. One example I remember was in the early 2000s, at the time the Internet was just starting popular, a female user wrote a post complaining that her husband was having an affair. Her post was very emotional and infective. Therefore, many readers felt so angry about the other woman that they were cursing her out, and even worse, they figured out her identity in the real life. They posted her name, phone number and address on the Internet. People called to humiliate her and went her home to detest her. Her life was totally ruined. It seems extreme and crazy today. But at that time, the Internet had less regulations and it gave people the power they had never experienced before. Attention can be gained easily and calls(?) can be answered quickly. People felt so powerful that they thought they could judge other one's life. Especially when they were sharing a group mind, they actually didn't know what they were doing and what their behavior could cause. It was acting like a group that made them excited.

I hate to write when I was young When I was young, I found that writing was one of the most difficult and annoying things in the world. I remembered that in one summer holiday, my teacher left a piece of homework, keeping dairy during the holiday. I disliked it so severely that I procrastinated it to the last week - I had to write 60 dairies in one week! One cause to blame, I feel, is because in my early education, all articles on textbook were stories about heroes, or great love to family/nation. There were nothing close to real life, nor other types of articles such as the biography, the science fiction, or the news report. That indeed led to a misunderstanding. I thought I could write only if I had stories about great people or great love. As I grow up and increase reading, I realize this is not the truth. The types and styles of writing varies, so does the content. I don't have to write on any specific topics.