My Own List of Lists

1. People who have influenced me: My mother has influenced me a lot because she teaches me to take care of my siblings. She said that a woman who is good at studying and working is not good enough, she also needs to know how to take care of others. She teaches me how to cook and clean the house so that I can take care of my siblings. My father has influenced me too because he does not care my marks but he cares that I should have good personalities such as nice, honest, obedient and respect. My siblings also have influenced me because they have good personalities and behaviours so I learn from them to be a good person.
2. Places that makes me happy: The first place makes me happy is China because all my good friends and relatives are there. My grandparents are in China too. When I go back to China, they will make lots of my favourite food for me. They take care of me a lot since they see me once a year. I realize that they are getting old so I need to spend more time with them. I am happy to see them because I love and miss them a lot when I live in Toronto. The second place makes me happy is Korea because I went there with my friends when I was 16. It was the first time my parents did not go with me because they realized that I was old enough to go with myself. My friends and I had lots of fun in Korea because we felt free to travel by ourselves. At that time, I realized that I start to be independent.
3. Places I would like to go: I would like to go Maldives and Venice because these two places will be sink into the sea in 50 years. I want to go before they are disappeared. If I don't go there, I will my life is not perfect enough.
4. Things in people which i like: I like to stay with people who are nice, optimistic and humour because I am funny and honest. I like to be happy everyday so I would like to stay with people who are humour and optimistic. Some people always worry about everything that make their lives suffer for a long term and I am not the person like that. I do not worry anything even though there are bad things happen in my life, I will be optimistic to face them.
5. Things in people which i dislike: I don't like people who are not honest since I am honest to everyone. People who are not honest that means they are crafty. They won't do anything without benefits and if they make friends with me, they will take as much as advantage from me. I don't like to lie to anyone because I know that they won't be happy and being betrayed if I lie to them.    
6. My personal favourites: My favourite movies are Forrest Gump and Singing in the rain. My favourite songs are I wanna be free and San Francisco. My favourite TV shows are Will it snow for Christmas, That winter, The wind blows and Secret Garden. My favourite presents I have received are teddy bears because my best friends gave me a teddy bear and the bear's feet had the date of my birthday and also showed the year I received.

As Time Goes Bye-Bye: Carpe diem

As time goes by, I want to get a Master degree and also be a charter accountant. I want to have a well paid job and have stable and happy life. The stable and happy life I want means that get married with a man who love me and have children and also will not worry about the financial problem in a family. if I am thirty-five, I will travel to Europe with my best friends and celebrate my birthday with them. Since my friends and I will be busy on working and taking care of children, we won't have time to meet each other. At that time, I will ask my best friends to leave their families for two weeks and then go to Europe for relaxing. I am not the person who get married and lose my best friends because I think best friends are more important than my family. In order to keep in touch with my best friends, I want to invite them to travel with me without bringing families. 

I have already said good-bye to China. I came to Toronto since I was fourteen. I left my friends and relatives in China. At that age, I was not mature and did not plan for my future. I did not regret to study in Toronto because I learnt lots of things that I did not learn in China such as how to socialize with others, how to take care of myself and how to be a mature person. In high school, any decision I made had effect on choosing universities. Everyone should be responsible for their decisions that was one thing I learnt in high school. It was the turning point from being a native person to be a mature person. I did not have good strategies to study comparing with the students who study in China but I learnt how to fit into the western society. I did not regret my decision because I chose the way of my life and I needed to be responsible for it.       

10 words belong to me

mirth: gaiety or jollity; especially when accompanied by laughter
contrite: caused by or showing sincere remorse
aversion: a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy
moribund: in a dying state; near death
polymath: a person of great or varied learning
languor: lack of energy or vitality
reticent: inclined to keep silent
affable: easy to speak to
aplomb: confidence; coolness
lackadaisical: lacking spirit or liveliness

My Family Story

When I was small, my father always told me his own story because he wanted me to be thankful and treasured to lived in a good family.

He told me that his family was poor when he was young. He and his siblings needed to help parents to do the housework. Since my father is the oldest child in the family, he needs to lead his siblings to do the housework after school. Even though My father's family was poor at that time, my grandmother and grandfather want them to have education in school. It was hard to afford the tuition fees for his sibling and him because his family was not wealthy enough to let every child go to school. My grandparent did not spend a lot on the food and clothes because they wanted to save money for their children to have education at school. My father always helped grandparent to do the housework because he is the oldest child in the family and he needs to take the responsibility to do. His siblings also helped parents doing the housework such as cooking the dinner, washing the dishes and washing the clothes. In my father generation, people who graduated from the high school was classified to have high education level. He was graduated from the high school but no company needed him because he did not have any work experience. therefore, he tried many types of jobs such as a worker in the construction plant, a dishwasher, a farm worker and a supermarket manager. He got lots of work experience from working in different kinds of industry. My father started to become a business man because he know the  operation in different kinds of industry. He is working so hard to earn money because he does not want me to live in poverty. He wants me to live in a condition which is does not worry about anything and just focusing on education. He wants me to have high education then I can get a good job in the future.
I always think my father's story is encouraging to work hard on studying because he works hard to  become a successful business man and I need to learn from him in order to success in my life. I appreciate the things that  my father gives me.