葛莉絲 的世界

The two novels The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz and In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez intersect in a few interesting ways.  Both are stories about families from the Dominican Republic and how the experience of the “EI Jefe” regime impacted them and caused a loss of family wealth and status.  The major contrast is the difference in parenting that significantly influenced the outcome of their lives. Beli dropped out of school at a young age, didn’t know how to raise Lola because she never grew up with her parents, and therefore she didn’t know the right way to raise a child. The Mirabels raised their four daughters with family bonding of love and care, and provided them with good education so their lives turn out much more stable. 

The brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is a book about a Dominican boy named Oscar, who weighs more than two hundred pounds, likes to write, cries all the time and cannot get a girl to go out with him. The author uses a number of literary techniques such as framing device, geographical, in medias res, and narrative hook to keep the reader’s attention and tell this unique immigrant story. When I finished reading this book, I realized this story was not about Oscar himself but speaks for people from many different cultures that immigrate to the Unites States to try to successfully fulfill their dreams, which includes both the author and me. Diaz’s use of various narrative techniques enriches the storytelling and invites the reader to confront the immigrant experience from several points of view.

夏天來了，美白時間到了~~

This is a very good viedo.  If you are into meditation, this would help explain how our brain works...  Cool!

In the old time I remember every family only had one phone in the whole house.  Every body had the same phone.  The phone was black with a handle sitting on the top; when you picked it up, it was very heavy and steady.  The front of the phone had a big circle with ten small circles around the edge; each circle was about the size of a penny just big enough to fit a finger tip in it.  Each small circle represented a number, from 0 to 9.  When we made a phone call, we would dial the number by putting our finger in each small hole. For example, if the number was 5, we would put a finger in circle 5 then dial it clock wise until it stopped turning and then release the dial to let it turn back to the normal position, then dial the next number. 

Have you ever experienced walking by a pretty girl with a perfect figure, but somehow her rear end just looks flat and you don’t know why? Well, if you had a profession like mine, then you would know the problem is the back yoke panel. When the back yoke panels of a pair of pants aren’t cut into a contour shape which is reasonable for the three dimensional human body, such a cut of pants will push all your skin to the side and flatten your butt.