Koalas in Australia dying from AIDS, habitat loss

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/13/australia.koalas/index.html

Koalas, important animals for the Australian economy, have been infected disease and in some area, extinction is inevitable.

Drug lord's son seeks forgiveness

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/12/11/colombia.escobar.son/index.html

Sebastian Marroquin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's son, write a letter to the families of two of his father's most prominent victims, asking forgiveness. He said he learned so much from his father that he have to be opposite of his father.

movie: Hana and Alice

Another Japanese movie called Hana and Alice.
This movie is about girls named Hana and Alice, the best friends. Hana told a lie to the boy and became his girl friend. Alice also was a part of her lie, but later she fell in love with the boy and told him a truth. This is a main story, but this movie does not treat only that story. It contains Alice and Hana's friendship and their searching for self-identity.
What I most like about this movie was that photographs Hana and Alice's friend captured while they were in Ballet institution. That was impressive.

Countdown to 2010 beings in earnest

http://worldsport.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/04/countdown-to-2010-beings-in-earnest/

Korea is in group B with Argentina, Nigeria, and Greece. Too bad

movie: Honey and Clover

Honey and Clover, the Japanese movie, is one of my favorite movies. When I was in high school, I read comic books of this one and it was so interesting because it was about Japanese art college students and picture five students private stories about art and how they relates each other. Comic books are much longer than the movie because they have ten series, while movie is only 115 minutes.
The main character is a girl called Hagu from a country that she even had not seen sea before. She was a genius painter and she only drew what she likes. However, she started to struggle because of love and school pressure. In the comic books, at the end, she even got injured her hands and she got serious surgery that she even lost touch feelings. However, in the end, she got over all things and made great art piece.
This movie was much boring than the comic books but I think it is an attraction of that movie. It is very calm and sometimes boring, but somehow move viewer's mind.
The best one about this movie is its settings. The school studio and home studio decorated very pretty and camera pictures the beautiful scenes very well.

A vision of computing from Microsoft's future thinker

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/01/craig.mundie.microsoft/index.html?iref=allsearch

In the next decade, computer and people interact very different from now. In the future, computer will capture hand gestures and eye moving, recognize what people search and react.
It will be really comfortable in the future.

Iraq's civilian death toll in November is lowest since war began

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/01/iraq.casualties/index.html?iref=allsearch
From Jamana Karadsheh, CNN
December 1, 2009 2:22 p.m. EST

'New Moon' banks at box office

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/22/boxoffice.newmoon.ew/index.html?iref=allsearch

I've never seen a movie better than an original book.

Oprah ending talk show in 2011

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/19/oprah.ends.show/index.html

Oprah Winfrey announced that she is going to end her talk show.

performance piece

Water on Moon

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/index.html
updated Nov, 13, 2009

performance brainstorming

Performance artist

Johan Lorbeer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxgGRzai_j8

Monologue_Hopeless

Artist: Roy Lichtenstein
Title: Hopeless
Date: 1963
Medium: Oil on Canvas

jaw pain

I have had jaw pain like over a month, so I finally went to dental hospital today to check my jaw. In Korea, I often went to private dental hospital, small but new and very cozy. Michigan dental hospital(school) was much bigger than that hospital. It was like an common office that there were a lot of small spaces for medical treatments. It was new experience to me. I took a panoramic picture and the dentist checked my jaw and tooth. The problem is wisdom tooth that they are in wrong position. I must have a surgery because they touch nerves of other tooth. However, in here, America, all things related to dental is much more expensive than Korea. I should go back to Korea on winter vacation for surgery. It is too bad.

performance today

Today, Tmp class had two performances at the diag and near michigan book and supply in central campus. We had freezing performance at diag, and it was awkward, but fun. I pretended to make a pose for camera with Luna. It was really hard. I tried not to close my eyes, but I found there was tears on my eyes at the end. I thought it would be better if there were more people doing freezing performance. Since diag is so big and we had few people performancing, it seemed that some people even did not notice that we were doing performance. Anyway, it was fun. Some of my friends passed diag and noticed I was doing freezing and it was really awkward to me. I guess I cannot be a performance artist.

Are church bells a freedom of religion or disturbing the peace?

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/11/freedom-of-religion-or-disturbing-the-peace.html
November 02, 2009 6:16 PM

The local neighbors sued the leader of church for interrupting peace and quiet of the community by playing a recording of church bells every half hour, everyday. The judge took neighbors side and ordered not to play bells except on Sundays and church holidays. The church leader was even given 10 days jail silence. I like the church bell sounds, but it would be very annoying to me also if the bell rings like every half hour everyday. I guess the judge decided well, but 10 days jail silence was too heavy.

bad dream

Today, my friend in Korea suddenly contacted me and asked if I was okay. Yes. I was perfectly okay. I asked her why she asked me that. she replied she had really bad dream about me. I was on the plane, and that plane was crashed because of an air current problem. She said the plane was going NY. I have never told her that I'm going NY for thanks giving. I was afraid. Korean people said that dream about person falling from a higher place means that person grows taller. Well... I hope I rather grow taller. I believed that dream was nothing.

compensated dating

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/24/hongkong.teenage.prostitution/index.html
updated 4:08 a.m. EDT. Tue October 13, 2009

In Hong Kong, many girls are doing compensated dating included selling sex to earn money for shopping. The girl whose nickname is Sze did this kind of date when she was sixteen because her many of her classmates did and it seemed that it was easy way to earn money. However, now she regrets and quits. It is very dangerous because murder sometimes happens. Those girls thinks they are different from prostitutes because they are young and they thinks they have choice to do or quit. I don't know whether it happens a lot in Hong Kong, but it was kind of shock to me because Hong Kong is near Korea and those don't' happen there. Those girls told that they meet their customers on the Internet chatting room. I thought internet really do have problems like this. I thought it was just wrong. They seemed to ruin themselves.

TMP_Sound_kitchen

India flood victims find destruction

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/07/india.aftermath/index.html

updated 5:55 p.m. EDT, Wed October 7, 2009

Teen returns home to find family among quake dead

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/indonesia.quake.story/index.html

updated 11:56 a.m. EDT. Tue October 6, 2009

Sources: Taliban leaders vows revenge for drone attacks

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/archive/

updated 9:25 a.m. EDT, Mon October 5, 2009

Senior rebels disarm in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/04/nigeria.rebels/index.html

updated 7:04 a.m. EDT, Sun October 4, 2009

U.S delaying millions in aid to Somalia, U.N. says

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/02/somalia.aid/index.html

updated 1:44 p.m. EDT, Fri October 2, 2009

Poll: Money worries world's greatest cause of stress

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/30/stress.survey.money/index.html

updated 10:52 a.m. EDT, Thu October 1, 2009

Ambulance offers hope in war-torn Somalia

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/29/somalia.ambulance/index.html

updated 1:07 a.m.EDT, Wed September 30, 2009

Senior U.S official holds talks in Cuba

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/29/us.cuba.talks/index.html

updated 9:47 p.m. EDT, Tue September 29, 2009

Honduras' leaders push back after Brazilian Embassy snub

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/27/honduras.president/index.html

updated 10:20 a.m. EDT, Mon September 28, 2009

Iran tests missiles amid nuclear tension

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/27/iran.missile.test/index.html

updated 10:01 p.m. EDT, Sunday September 27, 2009

Iran tests some missiles and succeeded to fire the target, but the final stage is still remained. This action reminds me of North Korea's nuclear missile testing, which deepened tension between South and North Korea.

Cries and Hugs at Reunion of Families in North Korea

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/world/asia/27korea.html?_r=1&ref=world

September 26, 2009

It has been almost two years since North Korean and South Korea offered reunion for some families who separated by the war about fifty years ago. I have been in North Korea in my high school junior year for the school trip. At that time, I met a guide who was at the last reunion for guiding, and he described me about the scene of them. He said that he could not stop crying while he watched the scene of reunion. I felt really sad and thanked for the god that all of my family and cousins are in South Korea. Separation of people in North Korea and South Korea has been always the first reason that the North and South should be reunified. However, those people are now seniors, so we had little time to make them get together..

Child tobacco farmers 'exposed to toxic levels of nicotine'

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/25/child.tobacco.picking/index.html

updated 7:42 a.m. EDT, Fri September 25, 2009

In Malawi, about 78,000 children are working in tobacco harvesting. According to Plan International report, most of them have sickness relating to tobacco, working 12 hours a day and being paid only 17 cents. However, the prime minister in Malawi, Yunnus Mussa, has refused what Plan report and Spiller, who investigated Green Tobacco Sickness(GTS), have uncovered. Mussa claims that the government has been trying to stop children laboring. However, it is still serious that children are in poverty and working in poor conditions.

Parkistan arrests top Taliban commander

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/21/pakistan.taliban.commander/index.html

updated 11:09 a.m. EDT, Mon September21, 2009

Pakistan has arrested the key military Taliban commander, Abu Faraj. He was suspected of setting the plan of a suicide car bomb attack which happened September 18th.

The one thing I really liked from this World News blog is that now I know something sequently happen in the world.

General warns of Afghan Loss Without More U.S. Troops.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/world/asia/21afghan.html?_r=1&ref=world

September 20, 2009, 00:50

The top military commander in Afghanistan send an assessment of the war that he needs more troops for war or "will likely loose". Now it is skeptical whether President Obama would send more troops or not because Obama mentioned he was an opposition to the war. Now he said his top priority is to keep US safe and his administration has right strategy. Everything would be decided on Sunday.

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9/18

I was doing 'camouflage' project for CFC class.. Mine was covering head with mirrors, so it could reflect the world and people around you. It is like disguising yourself and reflecting other things.. Tomorrow, I am going to fragment those mirrors and cover my model's head again..

39 killed in Pakistan market car bombing

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/18/pakistan.car.bomb/index.html

updated 2:02 p.m, Fri September 18, 2009

A suicide car exploding killed at least 39 people in northwest Pakistan. Thirty six people included policeman were also wounded. Shia Muslim was target. The residents had been threaten by Taliban. It was horrible.

9/17

I have three classes continuously at 1:30 to 10:00 on Thursday. I was very exhausted.

my life 9/15

My digital camera doesn't work on my computer (Mac pro), so I have to go duderstadt library everyday to upload photos..

Afghanistan blast kills at least 16

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/17/afghan.blast/index.html

updated 8:19 a.m. Thu September 17, 2009

A car bomb was exploded and at least 16 people are killed and 55 people were wounded. Every time I saw news like this, I feel very lucky to be safe in here.

Hatoyama elected as Japan's prime minister

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/16/japan.new.pm/index.html

updated 8:39 p.m. Wed September 16, 2009

Finally, Hatoyama elected as Japan's prime minister. He promised to raise the minimum wage , provide $3,000 per child to each family and $1,000 per unemployed Japanese to look a job.

As I mentioned before, the issue is how he is going to make money for those pledges.

Japan prepares for new prime minister

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/15/japan.politics/index.html

updated 10:57 p.m. EDT, Tue September 15, 2009

As prime minister Taro Aso resigned because voters removed the power of his party, Hatoyama is likely to be nominated for the next prime minister. Hatoyama, unlike Taro Aso, gave the message of change like Obama. Japanese people hope to recover the economic difficulties. The important issue is how the next prime minister get money from because now Japan's national debt is as twice as before.

I thought it is good for Japan to remove the party because Aso's party governs Japan almost over fifty years and now they have worst recession ever. I was wondering how the other party would govern compare with Aso's party.

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