Can I say:I will make myself available for an interview at your convenience with notice in 3-5 days advanced.

Happy Thanksgiving! Its Thanksgiving day! Even though the we don't celebrate it here in China, but I think it is good thing for people to take a day "off" and be thankful. Miracles happen when you start to count the blessings you have. I'm grateful that I'm healthy and able to sit in front of the computer and type. This means my mind is functioning normally, my eyes see clearly, my fingers coordinate perfectly. Live the moment. Be happy! ~(^_^)~

The power of ads. One of the key characteristics of the 21st century is consumerism. From the fascinating billboards to the colorful ads on magazine pages, as well as amusing slogans on televisions programs, all of them are serving for one goal—calling out the needs within a person. I couldn’t be more agreeable to the assertion that the real needs of the society are blurred by the immensely force of ads. My reasons are two-folds. Firstly, along with the economic boomed in the beginning of this century, came the idea of advertisement. Before that, people shopped only for daily necessities; and grocery stores are the only kind of shops appeared on the streets. Later on, as the development of technology and the media, advertisements spread frantically all over the country. It was then, the consumer goods became popular and a must to people. The markets were filled with clothes and accessories similar to what movie stars worn on the screen. Secondly, after years of development, the strategy of advertisements becomes sophisticated yet subtle. In other words, they are not selling goods plainly and directly but instead by creating an atmosphere indicating the idea of consumption, to lure ordinary people of buying something they “think” they need. For examples, Thanksgiving and Christmas sales that begin right after summer all the way to the Eve of the festival. People who have been constantly exposed under such holiday-mood environment are vulnerable to consumer goods. Briefly, I think that people nowadays buy too many goods than they actually need. Indeed, advertising catalyst sales of goods; and the effects are influential via the media.