Sunday, June 12, 2011

Mermaids: The Body Found



      Last night, as I was watching some random videos on Youtube, I found a documentary from Animal Planet that is very very interesting. I stronly recommend all of you to watch it. The documentary is about "the blue bloop" which scientists assume that it is the sound of the conversations of mermaids. The documentary has eight parts. If you have time, I strongly recommend you to watch it. It is very cool and mystery.
      I've never wonder about the whether mermaids really exist or not because I believed that they were fairy tales. However, after watching this documentary, it makes me starts to believe that mermaids really do exist. Even though at the beginning of the film, it says that this ducumentary is just a science prediction, not necessairly real, I still think that it is real after watch it. How cool is it that mermaids really do exist?! Please, join me and discover the existence of mermaids!

This is a picture of a mermaid's body that scientists found from a shark's stomach

This is a recreation of what a mermaid may look like. (Look somehow like Avatar, maybe James Cameron had seen mermaids before.)



The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time part IV

      This is the last quarter of the book. And after finishing the book, I am happy (like this J )because I've read a good book.
      When Christopher finally met his mother, I thought her mother would act like what she did before, which was not be able to be patient with Christopher. However, Mother seemed to have changed or whether she was just too glad that Christopher wanted to live with her.
      I almost cried when I read to the part when Christopher refused to talk to Father in Mother's place and the policeman had to take him away. I particularly like these sentences: "I cooked his meals. I cleaned his clothes. I looked after him every weekend. I looked after him when he was ill. I took hom to the doctor. I worried myself sick every time he wandered off somewhere at night. I went to school every time he got into a fight. And you? What? You wrote him some fucking letters." I felt that Father was very right. He did not run away from Christopher. Mother did. He was the one who really took care of Christopher. Not Mother. Every one can write letters. Yet, Christopher refused to talk to him. I felt my eyes were filled with water when Christopher wrote " And there were tears dripping off [Father's] face.
      Nevertheless, I am very happy that this book has a happy ending and Christopher finally willing to try to live with Father again. JJJ

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time part III

      In chapter 163, Christopher described the event of Smarties that his elementary teacher, Julie, performed. After Julie revealed that it was a red pencil that was in the Smarties tube, Christopher felt that everyone knew what he knew in mind. Therefore, when Julie asked him what would his mother guess what was in the tube, Christopher answered a red pencil. I found that interesting. This event showed that Christopher's mind was different than others. He thinks differently from others. He felt that everyone must know what he know as well.
      After Father cleaned up Christopher, he tried to explain to Christopher why he had lied and he was the one who killed Wellington. At first, I felt pity for Father. But then, I counld not understand why he killed Wellington. Even though he explained that he killed Wellington because he thought that Mrs. Shears cared more about Wellington than Christopher and him, but I felt it was not a good enough reason to kill the dog. I mean it was not Mrs. Shears's responsibility to take care of Christopher. Christopher is not her chlid. Mrs. Shears was only helping Father and Christopher out. She did not commit to spend the rest of her life with them.
      Then, Christopher ran away from home and took the train to London to find his mother. I was pretty impressed by Christopher about his "moving in a spiral" method to find the train station. I was also impressed by his capacity to tolerant the things he normally could not tolerant, such as be in a unfamiliar new place, people taliking to him or touching him...etc. When the policeman told Christopher that his father was in the train station and was looking for him, my heart beat raced. I thought that Christopher was going to be brought back to his father and all the efforts that he made by himself was gone. But luckily, Christopher was smart and lucky enough not to be brought back to his father. However, I felt pity for his father because he must be really worried about Christopher.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time part II (add on)

      After I finish reading the second quarter of the book, where Christopher found out that Father had lied to him the whole time that Mother was dead and Father confessed that he had killed Wellington, I felt that the book is getting more and more intense. When Christopher found out that his mother was not dead, I didn't know what to think and I didn't know what to expect from Christopher's reaction towards this. If I were him, I would also be very angry with Father. However, reflected to what Mrs. Alexanders had said, Father probably lied for a good reason. Therefore, I felt like my mind was just as complex as Christopher's. And after reading through the second letter, which Mother had explained why she left Christopher, I would probably be very angry with Mother also if I were Christopher. I could not accept the fact that the main reason why Mother had left was she fell in love with Mr. Shears yet she put it in the way that it seems like Christopher's illness was the main reason why she left. I mean a responsible mother would never leave her child no matter how difficult it is to raise the child. (At least that's what I think) Also, it is very irresponsible to leave the child to your husband to raise. Marriage is a promise. When you get married, you made a promise to stay with your spouse no matter what. Therefore, I could not accept the action of Christopher's mother. I felt that Father was a very strong, brave and responsible man. I would be on his side if I had to choose.