A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

LIFE is SHORT, BUT U MAKE ME FEEL it LONG
n this space, i was running with time together. i was a good runner and the sun , the moon and the stars were shining brightly above me. as time goes on, the space seems to be expending, maybe because the time of history is longer too. one more day passed by, i am shreiking in the pompous space. what is the meaning of time? for an individual, time means a lot. in one's life, from the moment we were born into this world, more exactly, we were already nearing to death in the womb of our mothers'. our mother natured us , with full of motherly love, while we grew up with the growing dreams and grew mature with the wakeness from the dreams.
sometimes it was too good to wake up from the dream. sometimes it was too scary to wake up from the nightmare. we were screaming and struggling for life, for dignity, for a little more safety.
we were lost, but we were making good times. while i was always lost and got myself trapped.
it was wet outside but no rain, it was cold but no ice, it was time but overcame by space. someone is in love, so forever becomes only present moment.
my head was split into two pieces. two pieces were swirling, i could not pick them up. like the autum leaves, i was withering silently.

ove Hubble Working Again
(Oct. 30) - After overcoming a glitch that had forced science operations to cease, operators wasted no time in using the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph another stunning cosmic scene.
The new image, released today, shows an odd pair of galaxies called Arp 147.
Transmission problems on the Hubble Space Telescope have been fixed. As proof that it's working, NASA on Thursday released this undated photograph showing the aftermath of two galaxies known as Arp 147 colliding. The reddish-colored galaxy has passed through an O-shaped galaxy that glows blue.
In the image, a galaxy at left looks somewhat like the number "1" and is relatively undisturbed, but for a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight. A galaxy at right, looking like a "zero," exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation.
Mission officials suggested the image is a perfect "10." It shows that the observatory's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is working exactly as it did before going offline.
The blue ring was formed after the galaxy on the left passed through the galaxy on the right. Just as a pebble thrown into a pond creates an outwardly moving circular wave, or ripples, an outwardly propagating ring of higher density was generated at the point of impact of the two galaxies, astronomers explained. As this excess density collided with outer material that was moving inwards due to the gravitational pull of the two galaxies, shocks and dense gas were produced, stimulating star formation.
The dusty reddish knot at the lower left of the blue ring probably marks the location of the original nucleus of the galaxy that was hit.Arp 147 appears in the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp in the 1960s and published in 1966.
Arp 147 lies in the constellation of Cetus, more than 400 million light-years from Earth.The Sept. 27 failure of a vital data relay channel left the 18-year-old Hubble telescope unable to transmit the bulk of its science data and imagery. The channel, the Side A relay of Hubble's Science Instrument Control and Data Handling system, had been working properly since the telescope launched in April 1990.
Efforts to switch to a backup Side B channel last week met with challenges of their own, with two separate glitches thwarting the initial attempt. But a second try appears to have been successful, with Hubble engineers reactivating the telescope's main science instruments over the last week.
The remote control fix required engineers to power up and switch to backup systems that had been hibernating since Hubble launched into space.
Hubble's September data relay channel failure prompted NASA to delay a planned Oct. 14 space shuttle launch to send seven astronauts to the orbital observatory on a fifth and final service call to the telescope. That mission is now slated to fly no earlier than February, with Hubble engineers testing a spare data relay channel to see if it can be added to the shuttle's cargo bay and be installed during the flight.
Hubble officials are expected to give an update today at 5:00 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT) on plans for the servicing mission. The service call is expected to include five spacewalks to add a new camera, upgrade guidance equipment, replace aging batteries and gyroscopes, deliver a docking ring and include repairs for systems never designed to be repaired in space.
The final Hubble overhaul is expected to extend the space telescope's mission lifetime through at least 2013, mission managers have said.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Palin Suggests She's Now GOP Fixture
TOLEDO, Ohio (Oct. 29) - Facing the unhappy prospect of defeat, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin indicated Wednesday that she will not disappear from the national political scene if the GOP ticket loses on Tuesday.
"Absolutely not. I think that, if I were to give up and wave a white flag of surrender against some of the political shots that we've taken, that ... that would ... bring this whole ... I'm not doing this for naught," Palin said in an interview with ABC News, according to excerpts of a transcript released by the television network.
Palin was steadfast in saying Republican presidential nominee John McCain would defeat Democrat Barack Obama.
"I'm just ... thinking that it's gonna to go our way on Tuesday, Nov. 4. I truly believe that the wisdom of ... of the people will be revealed on that day. As they enter that voting booth, they will understand the stark contrast between the two tickets," the Alaska governor said.
In addition to the interview, Palin delivered a policy address in which she called for a "clean break" from the Bush administration's energy policies. She said the White House plans rely too much on importing foreign oil.
In her second such policy speech in a week, the Alaska governor said the recent drop in gas and oil prices shouldn't deter consumers and lawmakers from seeking alternative energy sources. She cast energy independence as a national security issue and said dependence on Middle East oil leaves the U.S. more vulnerable to terrorists.
"We not only provide wealth to the sponsors of terror, we provide high-value targets to the terrorists themselves," Palin said. "Across the world are pipelines, refineries, transit routes and terminals for the oil we rely on. And al-Qaida terrorists know where they are."
Despite Palin's attempt to distance McCain's energy policies from those of the Bush administration, the Arizona senator's energy plan largely mirrors the priorities President Bush has pushed for eight years, especially more domestic production.
Bush called for expanded offshore oil and gas drilling long before McCain reversed course this summer to endorse added offshore drilling.
Bush has gone further than McCain by supporting drilling in Alaska's off-limits Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Palin did not mention the Alaska refuge Wednesday. McCain, like Obama, opposes opening the refuge to oil companies. Palin has supported drilling there.
McCain says nuclear power is key to meeting future energy demand. Bush, too, has argued repeatedly for expansion of nuclear energy and — like McCain — supports federal loan guarantees for new reactors, construction of a nuclear waste dump in Nevada and resumption of reactor fuel reprocessing. Bush and McCain also have been in lockstep on oil industry taxes: Both oppose Democratic efforts to impose a windfall profits tax on the largest U.S. oil companies.
Palin spoke after touring Xunlight Corp., one of a handful of solar technology startup companies in Toledo, a struggling industrial city in this swing state. The city's leaders are hoping the solar companies will create jobs to replace some of those lost by downsizing in the auto industry.
But she made only a passing reference to solar power in her speech and instead renewed her call for more drilling in U.S. coastal waters. She repeated her signature anthem, "Drill, baby, drill," which seemed to fall a bit flat on the audience even as it's become a popular chant at her rallies.
Palin also called for development of clean coal technology and said she and McCain would press for the construction of 45 nuclear power plants by 2030.
Palin said she and McCain believed in an "all of the above" approach toward weaning the U.S. off its dependence on foreign oil and criticized Democrat Barack Obama for being slow to embrace offshore oil drilling and nuclear power.
"As John McCain has observed, for a guy's whose slogan is 'Yes, we can,' Barack Obama's energy plan sure has a whole lot of "No, we can't,'" she said.
Obama has signaled a willingness to explore limited offshore drilling and has said nuclear power is essential to helping meet U.S. energy needs while raising concerns about how to store nuclear waste safely.
I am living with business women!
as the sun was getting low ,we ladies were hanging out aimlessly again, but i knew i wanted to buy supper. it was like winter outside ,very cold.
one of the thing i like Korea is that even though it was getting colder , the skirts and stocking ladies would never shriek. regardless of the leaves turned to yellow and red, there was still something not changing, what would be the passion of the Korean girls here and i like it.

we went into the shop of the smart man. the man who was very popular around this place.he was kind and smart. we visited there very often and now we were quite close with him. as we stepped into the shop , i was a little hesitating and quite blushing for too frequent visits.

he was very nice to us and talking in a humorous way. jihyan was thinking about doing business with him and they were in hot discussion now.
while sehua was too hungry to say anything or search for clothes. i was busy talking and taking pictures and search clothes altogether at the same time. finally, jihyan bought one T shirt,which was cute, while i bought some clothes , which were good looking, high quality and a good money. as we were self appreciating in front of mirror, sehua lost temper and dragged us out of the room, which was very rude! i barely said goodbye to the smart man.

maybe jihyan would do some fashion business cooperated with him.hhh, i wish i could do it too, but i think i will lose a lot money in business, because i wanted to become a politician ,LOL.

3 Keys to What You Want

In the busy day-to-day life, it’s easy for goals and dreams to be swayed by responsibilities and routines that create a divide between life lived and one longed for. Additionally, many single people think that finding a committed relationship will be the ticket to personal happiness, but once they become involved in one are surprised to find that they still feel unfulfilled. The good news is that it doesn't have to be that way. Whether you are single, casually dating, or are in a more committed relationship, you can cultivate your own genuine happiness with who you are by practicing three simple steps to get what you want.
1 Make a list of what you want. It may sound simple, but making a list of what you want in life can be the most difficult step to change. Be as specific as possible; generality is the death of even the most well-intentioned goals. If your goal is to fall in love, know which qualities that person should have. If you want to get into shape, what would success be for you? Is it a 8-minute mile, or to get into your "skinny" jeans? Do you need to widen your social circle? How wide is the circle you imagine? 2. Make a list of ways to get there. Every good dream and goal needs a plan, and many times there are different ways to get to the same place. The best plan is one that has been thought out with multiple options so that you can choose the best path for you. For instance, if your goal is to get back into the same great shape you were in your early college years, what can you do to attain that goal? For some a personal trainer is a must, along with a nutritionist. For others, choosing a diet plan online that suits their individual needs like www.ediets.com is the key. If falling in love is your objective, and you’re on eHarmony, commit to take each of your matches seriously, even if you’re not sure about the photo. Many of successful couples will tell you that they weren’t sure at first just based on profile alone. Also, try investing in your own happiness by taking up a hobby you’ve never had time for or become involved in an activity you’ve always wanted to do. There's nothing more attractive than someone who has their own happy life who can share it with another.

3. Break it down into smaller steps. Bigger goals and dreams rarely happen overnight, even though it can sometimes look that way. In fact, successful achievement of goals is really a culmination of a series of smaller successes that are part of the larger goal. Each small step achieved gets you closer to the big picture you've always wanted to create, like completing a jigsaw puzzle. So break down your big goals and your chosen options on how to achieve them into small mini-goals. Some people need baby-bites and others need bigger steps, so choose which step size works best for you. For those who needs the smaller steps to stay focused, revisit your list often to stay on track. After a while, you’ll reach your larger goal and will be able to look back your choices and will then be armed with the tools to set new goals in all different areas of your life. The goal-setting process will become easier and easier, and your life will become more successful in ways you only reserved for daydreaming throughout your busy day.

The meaning of sign AQUARIUS
Eleventh sign of the zodiac.Your element : AirYour ruling planets: Saturn and UranusThe tarot card corresponding to your sign : the Star.Your Lucky color : Purple Your stone : Black pearlLike all air signs you are remarkably adaptable, as you like change,movement and novelty of all kinds. Your behavior may at times appearcasual and unreliable and you may sometimes be accused of being elusive,but your principal characteristic is that of belonging to both Saturn andUranus.
The first of these planets leads you to look to the past from which youhave difficulty detaching yourself. You tend to dwell on past failuresand, instead of drawing from them useful lessons for the future, you allowyourself to be dominated by regret. Uranus, on the other hand, givesyou a certain originality, a taste for discovery and a capacity for takingchances.Until this issue if resolved your main problem will be your tendency tolook towards the past with consequent indecisiveness. You hesitate to takeaction and when you do it is often untimely. You hesitate between thedesire to overthrow and change everything and that of preserving the statusquo with the result that you may spend years wandering as much in yoursentimental as in your material life.Your relations with other signs:You do not relate well with the earth signs: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.You have more in common with the water signs such as Scorpio and Cancer atthe risk of serious tensions especially with Cancer.You may have some intense relationships with Gemini but these will provevery difficult to maintain on a lasting basis.This brief and simple analysis may help you in leading your everydaylife. To know oneself enables one to maximize one's strong points andminimize one's weaknesses.Successful people are often those who have consciously or unconsciouslymade the best of their gifts, assets and strengths whilst controlling theirweaknesses.

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members

i did not spare time to preview the text for today's class, which made me upset and the worst thing would be that i would be sitting in the classroom silently the whole afternoon.
without much strength i was making up and preparing to go to class, this season seemed to be sunny and shinny but chilly and my skin was thirsty. i was a born dry skin without much oil so it would be tough for me to overcome the dry season of the year. it was costing too much energy to go up the school without breakfast. faintly i climbed up two hills and reached bukbuilding.
in today's drama class we continued to finish "the raisin in the sun" by August Wilson. i loved to have class, and it was the only chance for me to have some effective communication with native Korean people . i rarely went out for social communication like parties or invitations , i just like my way it is , i feel so cozy being myself.

sehua was skipping class again today and we came back room together , she skipped class yesterday for dating and today she was suffering from severe headache. i was planning to take her out for some fresh air ,which would probably relieve her pain.

i stepped forward to the market happily, taking sehua on right arm.
we had chicken together , my treat and it was the second time i treated her since we knew each other but she never treated me. but i was feeling good for cheering my friend up whenever she was desperate or unhappy, by using a little money for her, what was worthwhile.

do not worry , be happy! the chicken was so good that sehua almost forgot her headache. on our way back i bought 8 apples of 5000yuan while sehua bought some cucumber.
i do not like cucumber at all , but i like to smell it. of course we could not forget to drop by the man's shop. fortunately he was there. we chatted and chatted and it was 8pm when we left for our room . during the time , i was accidentally found a set of clothes and i took it back without paying for it. maybe i would like to decide whether to buy it or not after i tried on when i was back to my dormitory. it was a little expensive but girls just like to have funds.

Good times are ahead ! Or behind. Because they sure aren't here.

DATING IN THE CAR

Another sunny Sunday it was, i woke up late in the morning , with a longing heart for the south river of Seoul, a place with very good landscape(my boyfriend told me ) what a jolly Sunday it would be !i thought to myself and called my roommate sehua, who was also looking forward to going together with us.
it was ten am and we drove for the place. it was 1 and a half hour's way from Seoul and i would have enjoyed my journey if i had some food to eat and if we were not that starving , maybe we could have a better idea of this precious Sunday moment.
on our way, sehua was taking a nap and i was starving and complaining about the long distance, while my driver who was such a patient and kind hearted man as driving us all the way without even complaining one word about the long distance , long driving , starving or boring. i was feeling a little sorry for it but that feeling was gone very soon, as i was busy in talking and entertaining myself until i was too starving to even breathe. before i saved my last breath for eating, it was already 4 pm and we were sitting at table and having evening breakfast with a chicken soup.

i liked the chicken soup and the chicken porridge after the soup. the stomach was fulfilled and the sun was set also.
i was thinking about riding horse after meal but the chicken soup made me so forgettable and i forgot to ride horse which would make up this journey worthwhile somehow. but we drove back directly which let us down and i felt so sorry for sehua who had high expectation on this trip. we went to the e mart for a lot of yogurt which were our daily list and i was fully enjoying the life in Korea. yes , there were kinds of fruits in Korea too.

i was lost , but we were making good times. when i thought back of my weekends, i was still feeling satisfied and fulfilled as i was spending time with my heart and soul and dating in the car was also a wonderful memory. good times are ahead or behind. because they sure are not here.
i had a dream in the night , that i was driving to a heavenly place with my boyfriend sitting beside me who was complaining about the long distance ,starving ....LOL

mammamia

The Movie with Two Huge Bucks of Popcorn
MAMMAMIA, in the movie Mr ZEN fell into asleep and Mr KIM was impatient to sit any longer , i was just sitting and enjoying the movie with popcorn, since i was there then i should enjoy fully. what a jolly musical it was and finally it was over in a happy song. Mr KIM , MR ZEN ,se hua and i searched for the way to the park lot, although we had been this place for almost 10 times ,yet still we had difficulty to find the right place. COex---covention and exhibition is a big entertaiment place for shopping and playing which also cantains MAGbox cinema. i have been here for so many times for movies and even once i visited the aquirium where a lot of beautiful and strange looking fishes and plants are shown. through thick and thin, we stopped searching and started finding the car which could take us to a dinning place as the end our dating plan. everything went as i planned. before long we found a chinese resturant , and we had a awesome dinner together. this was the first time i took my friend out to play together and it felt comfortable. i hope she would have enjoyed herself too

Does Your Mother Know You Sing Abba Tunes?
Even those of us who habitually favor serious, austere, aesthetically correct drinks — single-malt Scotch, green tea, pomegranate juice, whatever — may occasionally indulge in a frivolous cocktail bedecked with fruit and umbrellas and served in a bulbous, sugar-rimmed glass. The next morning’s headache seems a small price to pay for the rush of cheap liquor and uninhibited conviviality. As long as you don’t operate heavy machinery or wake up in the wrong bed, or operate heavy machinery in the wrong bed, what’s the harm?
All of which is to say: Don’t be afraid of “Mamma Mia!” (That exclamation point, by the way, is part of the title, and it’s by far the most understated thing about the movie.) You can have a perfectly nice time watching this spirited adaptation of the popular stage musical and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is.
Actually you don’t have much choice on either front. If you insist on folding your arms, looking at your watch and defending yourself against this mindless, hedonistic assault on coherence, you are unlikely to survive until the end credits (which may, by themselves, kill you all over again). Surrender, on the other hand, is easy and painless. It’s Greece! It’s bellybuttons! It’s Meryl Streep! It’s Abba!
See that girl! Watch that scene! If you change your mind, I’m the first in line. Mamma Mia, here I go again. Like me, you may have spent the last 30 years struggling to get lines like those out of your head — and wondering what they were doing there in the first place — but you might as well have been trying to compost Styrofoam. Those shimmery, layered arrangements, those lyrics in a language uncannily like English, those symmetrical Nordic voices — they all add up to something alarmingly permanent, a marshmallow monument on the cultural landscape. When our species dies out, leaving the planet to roaches and robots, the insects will beat their little wings to the tune of “Waterloo” as Wall-E and Eve warble along.
And the darn thing still won’t make any sense. Nor does “Mamma Mia!,” but that’s hardly a criticism. The story (by Catherine Johnson) is more or less an early Shakespeare comedy reimagined as an episode of “Hannah Montana.” The ingénue, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), is about to be married on the sun-drenched Greek island where she lives with her mother, Donna (Ms. Streep). Sophie is the just-ripe fruit of a summer fling, with the complicating factor that Donna had three flings during the summer in question, and Sophie doesn’t know whether her dad is Sam (Pierce Brosnan), Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) or Harry (Colin Firth). But even though she knows them only as names in an old diary, she manages to track them down and invite all three to her wedding. Lo and behold, they all show up, as do Tanya (Christine Baranski) and Rosie (Julie Walters), old pals of Donna’s from the crazy days of her rock ’n’ roll youth.
Just when, exactly, those crazy days were is a bit vague. A song lyric refers to the “time of the Flower Power.” (Surely you remember the Flower Power!) But Sophie sure doesn’t look 40. At one point, Harry recalls the Johnny Rotten T-shirt he had back when he knew Donna, which is 10 years closer to the mark but still about 10 years off. Never mind. Abba is timeless: “The history book up on my shelf/ is always repeating itself.”
The real problem is that the director of “Mamma Mia!,” Phyllida Lloyd, seems have taken the unapologetic silliness of the project (which she directed onstage) as permission to be sloppy. Abba made some of the most highly polished, tightly engineered pop junk ever. There is a kind of perfection in some of those hits that is undeniable even if — or maybe especially if — you can’t stand to hear them. But in matters of craft and technique “Mamma Mia!” proves to be remarkably shoddy, a tangle of clumsy cuts, mismatched shots, bad lighting, egregious overdubbing and scenes in which characters appear to have been haphazardly Photoshopped into the scenery.
It is safe to say that Ms. Streep gives the worst performance of her career — safe to say because it is so clearly what she intends, and she is not an actress capable of failure. There is a degree of fascination in watching an Oscar-winning Yale School of Drama graduate mug and squirm, shimmy and shriek and generally fill every moment with antic, purposeless energy, as if she were hogging the spotlight in an eighth-grade musical.
She is saved, and also upstaged, by Ms. Walters and, especially, by Ms. Baranski, whose cougar-on-the-prowl rendition of “Does Your Mother Know” is the one genuinely, show-stoppingly sexy sequence in a film that more often flails between forced cheekiness and unearned sentiment.
I know: I promised you a good time, and I’m describing a train wreck. But it’s hard not to share the evident delight of most of the performers. Ms. Streep overdoes it, yes, but you can’t accuse her of condescending to the material any more than you can fault her for taking it too seriously.
The impression left by the old pros who make up most of the cast is that they have nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to prove, and that worrying about dignity is for newbies and amateurs. So Mr. Brosnan bellows his way through a couple of duets, Mr. Skarsgard displays his tattooed buttocks, and Mr. Firth consents to appear in a spiked dog collar.
Ms. Seyfried has a harder time, though not for any lack of effort or talent. She has to work while the old timers are having fun, and to carry the picture’s unconvincing, flat-footed attempts at melodrama. Ms. Seyfried’s eyes are as blue as the Aegean and almost as wide, and her natural vivacity makes her performance seem almost authentic, but she’s not in a position to let go of her vanity and clown around.
It’s one thing to ham it up in a zany, messy musical if you’re the actual Meryl Streep. If you have the desire (or the potential) to be the next Meryl Streep, the stakes are higher and the risks more pronounced.
But Ms. Seyfried, who has proven her skill on “Big Love” and elsewhere, is likely to emerge from “Mamma Mia!” unscathed. Really, this movie is incapable of harming anyone, except moviegoers with the good taste and bad manners to resist its relentless, ridiculous charm.
“Mamma Mia!” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has some sexual references and sexy behavior.
MAMMA MIA!
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd; written by Catherine Johnson, based on the original musical book by Ms. Johnson, originally conceived by Judy Craymer based on the songs of Abba; director of photography, Haris Zambarloukos; edited by Lesley Walker; music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, some songs with Stig Anderson; choreographer, Anthony Van Laast; production designer, Maria Djurkovic; produced by Ms. Craymer and Gary Goetzman; released by Universal Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes.
WITH: Meryl Streep (Donna), Pierce Brosnan (Sam), Colin Firth (Harry), Stellan Skarsgard (Bill), Julie Walters (Rosie), Dominic Cooper (Sky), Amanda Seyfried (Sophie) and Christine Baranski (Tanya).

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Mother and Brother of Jennifer Hudson Are Killed in Shooting

(Oct. 24) -- The publicist for Jennifer Hudson has confirmed to PEOPLE that the singer's mother and brother are dead after a fatal shooting in Chicago.
"We can confirm that there is an ongoing investigation concerning the deaths of Jennifer Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, and her brother, Jason Hudson," rep Lisa Kasteler tells PEOPLE. "No further comment will be made and the family has asked that their privacy be respected at this difficult time."

TMZ first reported that law enforcement sources and neighbors said that Hudson's mother and brother were the victims of a double shooting.
Jennifer Hudson's cousin discovered the bodies at 2:44 PM Friday. The home was declared a crime scene when the police arrived to investigate. "We are handling a double-homicide," says police spokesman John Mirabelli says. "Those [two] victims sustained fatal gunshot wounds."
Authorities issued an Amber Alert for 7-year-old Julian King and were seeking a 1994 white Chevrolet Suburban. The child was the grandson of the female victim, Deputy Chief Joseph Patterson Patterson said, and Bond added the boy could also be a relative of Hudson, possibly a nephew.
The alert said the child was possibly abducted, and accompanied by a man — considered armed and dangerous — who was a suspect in the double homicide investigation. The two could also be in a teal or green Chrysler Concord with a temporary license plate, a left front headlight hanging out and scratches on the left side of the vehicle, police said.
Hudson is reportedly en route to Chicago after receiving the news

The tragedy comes as Hudson continues to reach new heights in her career. Her song "Spotlight" is No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop charts and her recently released, self-tiled album debut and has been a top seller. She is also starring in hit movie "The Secret Life of Bees" and won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2007 for her role in "Dreamgirls."
In an interview last year with Vogue, Hudson credited her mother to audition for "American Idol," which launched her career.
The singer, whose father died when she was a teenager, described herself as very close to her family. In a recent AP interview she said her family, which includes older siblings Julia and Jason, helped keep her grounded.
"My faith in God and my family, they're very realistic and very normal, they're not into the whole limelight kind of thing, so when I go home to Chicago that's just another place that's home," she said. "I stand in line with everybody else, or, when I go home to my mom I'm just Jennifer, (so she says), 'You get up and you take care of your own stuff.' And I love that; I don't like when people tell you everything you want to hear, I want to hear the truth, you know what I mean."
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hyanghua's Friday

AMANDA BYNES , My favorite star

i never expected my days here would be so easy, and i was fully enjoying my weekends from the early friday. the forecast was so accurate and the temperature seemed to be very low this morning , but the sky was cleared up, higher and bluer after two days rain . my roommates were beginning their busy weekends after the slow work days and when i opened my eyes the room had been empty but sehua came back early this morning after her earlier weekends date before us. i was so happy that i would not have to stay alone which was not too bad, but if some friends could play with me ,it would be all the better. sehua and i planned to hang out for food and also a little shopping. but we stayed in bed for a long time , talking and sleeping before we finally got up and headed out. girls just like hesistating in one place for a while before set off, which would last even if a girl becomes a mother. as i could always saw my daddy was so impatient for my mum's slow and troubling before go anywhere together. personally , i think i am not that kind of swift girls , i am slow but not steady....and my friends were all slow in action.

zhanghen came back with a big surprise,a new comer! the same face but different hairstye. she used to tie up her hair which was very stuffy but now there was standing a total freshy short hair with few waves. someone likes to change hairstyle when being damped by others , but for zhanghen , maybe she wanted to get someone. anyway i thought it was a successful transform.

the autumnn is fleeing away, but we have new dream in this new season.

kkk

it is raining cows and pigs

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. i have a empty head. my friends gave me a new nickname as popcorn. because my hair style was so bombing that they imagined popcorn head. maybe it was better than potato head. LOL
nothing special happened today but a heavy rain was pouring like the sky was split and a car splashed me wet all over as i went back from dinner with my aunt. my aunt bought me dinner, which was also the first meet with her since i came here. she was the same as several years ago when i last saw her at home. we talked a lot and ate a lot pork, actually i did and even wrapped up the left pork for my roommates, who were hunger for meat like drooping wolves, LOL haha. she said she would come to visit me again before she came back to china in two months.
it was raining heavily and all my pants and shoes were wet a lot.
in the rain i could smell the fresh dirt, which was so natual . i love mother nature , LOL .
my roommates enjoyed the wrapped pork, then after that they were buying pig's feet despite the heavy rain. i could not believe girls were craving for meat like this. what kind of women they are! i am a vagetarian , but i like to eat only meat without fat.hehe.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

it was a gloomy day and our professor switch the afternoon class into 11 am. i was trying to concentrate on my book but the gloomy weather seemed to give me a gloomy mood. when i was not in the mood , all that could help was staying alone. after the class, my professor bought lunch for us and the beef was really good. the professor praised me a lot about my fluent English , Korean, Chinese language. i like being praised just like everyone else does and i also like to praise others.
when i finished lunch and was about to go back to dormitory, sehua called me and as she was waiting for the afternoon class in 2 hours , kindly i took her to take a phychological test given by one of my friends, who was also my classmate. but when it came for sehua to fill out a form , i regretted taking her to take this test, because the form was in Korean , which cost more than 1 hour for me to help sehua to finish. fortunately , it was done and according the form , my classmate gave a rather accurate explanation of sehua's character and the present situation. i had the same one before and i thought it was just a simple game and laughed it away like a wind.

the rain was still raining when i was heading for dorm and wet me gently. someone said it would be dropping to 13 degree soon and i guess the winter was not far.
there is no thing as cozy as hiding in room and playing computer in such a rainy day.
the whole day was so dark that i could not even realize the time was so late, typing keypad as usual. just as i was wondering when sehua would be back , my phone rung and it turned out to be her-------Winne the POOH sehua was calling me and sendin, radio wave through her bursting voice"hyanghua, it is raining and i did not take the umbrella!" oh, she is in need of me now again. i was such a kind girl as to help others out regardless their betray history toward me. forgive does not mean forget anyway.... i hurried off my bed and got dressed before i knew i was already on my way to the school. it was raining lightly and i was wondering why did not she risk her clothes as i did. sehua saw me first and i found out she was waiting for me at the bookshop. i picked her up and trotted in the direction of my dormitory. what surprised me a lot was the night scenery of our school was so charming that i almost forgot about all the bad mood for a while.
and we met a friend of mine who was from neble.

i was feeling the frisky air from the rain and the night angels around me. the night was brilliant with the streetlamp along the road and my friends were talking and playing all the way.
sehua was very grateful at my picking her up and all others were praising me for my kindness to friends.
in a winkle moment, we were in our snug room again, warm , bright, happy room.

friendship is overrated in front of seduce

Obama Canceling Events for Grandmother

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Oct. 20) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is canceling nearly all his campaign events Thursday and Friday to visit his suddenly gravely ill 85-year-old grandmother in Hawaii, a spokesman said.
Robert Gibbs told reporters aboard Obama's plane that Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped raise Obama, was released from the hospital late last week. But he said her health had deteriorated "to the point where her situation is very serious."


Barack Obama's 85-year-old grandmother is seriously ill. The Democratic presidential nominee canceled campaign events Thursday and Friday so he can fly to Hawaii to be with her. Obama's grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Payne Dunham, helped raise him. Here, he poses with them during the 1980s. Stanley Dunham died in 1992.
Events originally planned for Madison, Wis., and Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday will be replaced by one in Indianapolis before he makes the long flight to Hawaii. On Friday, Obama's wife, Michelle, will sub for Obama at rallies in Akron and Columbus, in Ohio, said campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki. Obama was expected to resume campaigning on Saturday, at an undecided location in the West, she said. "Sen. Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has always been one of the most important people in his life, along with his mother and his grandfather," Gibbs said. "Recently his grandmother has become ill and in the last few weeks her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious. It is for that reason that Sen. Obama has decided to change his schedule on Thursday and Friday so that he can see her and spend some time with her."
Citing the family's desire for privacy, Gibbs would not discuss the nature of Dunham's illness. It seemed likely that she was close to death, as Gibbs said that "everyone understands the decision that Sen. Obama is making." Dunham turns 86 on Sunday.
It could be a momentous one in his bid for the White House against Republican John McCain, with Election Day just two weeks away on Nov. 4.
In a campaign ad this year, Obama described his Dunham as the daughter of a Midwest oil company clerk who "taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland" — things like "accountability and self-reliance. Love of country. Working hard without making excuses. Treating your neighbor as you'd like to be treated."
She's also the "white grandmother" he referred to in a speech on race.
Obama recognized Dunham when he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in Denver.
"She's the one who taught me about hard work. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well," he said.
Obama last visited Hawaii in August for a week's vacation after he had clinched the nomination.



My doll's Tuesday----i thought it was still Monday...






After one night's struggling against the mosquitoes until 4 am, i felt suffocated and puffy when i woke up. jihyan came back with a total victory over her surprising visit to her boyfriend in gunshan , early this morning, because she had to come back for the afternoon class reluctantly. after a brief makeup,i headed for the bukak building for having lunch with sehua as she called me for lunch together.

i felt so lucky to have a friend like sehua until i found out later she was going out with her lover tonight, which broke my heart into pieces.i did not remember when i did the same to her but now i was feeling the friendship betrays so easily.

i have four classmates which meant if two missed class , the rest of us would have a very early back home. today only 3 of us attended the English drama class and i was taking a picture of my professor during the class secretly,
which was much fun than reading . fortunately no one was a ware of my little trick. i still could not remember all of my classmates' name , though we had been classmates for more than 1 month.
i think this woman was a strong minded as she was running a academy in Taegu and having a family to take care while taking the classes with us in Seoul a long way of several hour's train from Taegu which was her home to Seoul. all of my classmates admired me a lot for my living in the dormitory, which confused me a lot. because they thought i could have a lot of spare time to study, but it was not the case for me. i had more time to waste at dorm than they did on their way.

the early back dorm gave me a good mood, but sehua's leaving broke my heart into pieces. how could she treat me like this?
she came to me when she was in bad mood yesterday and now she was so happy to date with boyfriend and forgot all about her true friend in front of her! OK, a friend in need is a friend indeed. i am happy to help my friends in need while let them go when i am no use at all.