Year's fourth strong typhoon crash Taiwan

Typhoon Jangmi hit Taiwan with a lot of rains and powerful winds at Sunday, causing widespread of flooding, also shutting down offices and forcing the international flight to cancel. Jangmi is the fourth typhoon that hit Taiwan, and it made a landfall on a city in northeastern Taiwan- Ilan on Sunday. The typhoon brought powerful winds, and people's car or things blew or flip. In Ilan, there is a bus full of people and overturned on the highway, there are 3 or more people are injured. Some people think that this typhoon brought some benefits, because we got to have one day off, but they didn't realize that there are still a lot people out there that's facing a lot problem, like no house can live(or house got flood), or some people got injured when they are coming back or going to somewhere. Hope the typhoon can go pass quickly, and let all of us be safe, warm and dry.

A fight in Philippines killed 16 people

The fight of Philippines killed at least 16 Muslim rebels in renewed fighting in the marshlands of southern Mindanao this week. It had killed more than 20 government troops over two days, it was really sad. Fighting has happened often in the southern area since the collapse of the latest round of peace talks. International humanitarian groups have expressed concern about the renewed violence, and the high civilian toll. Because of the fight, so the scale of the human suffering is being ignored. I think sometimes it's not fair for some people there, because they don't expect this to happened, and I think war is not a good way to solve a problem.

Is air matter?

( source:http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/air-quality-clouds.jpg)

When I first think of matter, I think matter is the things that have weight and takes space. The reason that I think air is not a matter it's because air is invisible, it seems that air don't takes space and it doesn't have weight either. After reading some articles about air and matter, I finally understand it and I found out the 3 big categories of matter: gas liquid, solid. Air does take up space, even though we can't see it, and air has weight, even if we can't feel it. I am not lying, this had been observed and analyzed by some scientists.

11 tourists got kidnapped in Egypt dessert

There is a group of 11 European tourists and four Egyptians have been kidnapped in the southern Egyptian desert and apparently taken to neighboring Sudan. The tourists included five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian. The Egypt government believes that the kidnappers have no ties to any terror group. The tourists were traveling in four jeeps and taken across the border into Sudan. The government are not really sure about what terror group is that, and they don't know the people that kidnapped those tourists wants. Anyways, we just hope that all the tourists will be alright, because they are innocent.

Culture of HIS

HIS Culture
- 5 Student Outcomes- active learner, community contributor, effective communicator, personal of high character.
- All school gathering: we have all school gathering 2 times a week.
- Community Service: we do community service almost every semester.
- Advisory: teachers and students use this time to know more about each other, teachers and find good and bad things from students, and students can also ask question to teachers.
- Exhibition: 8, 10, 12 graders do presentations to show what they have done this whole year.
- SRC: student representative council, they help students to speak out.
- Musical Play: students do musical play to experience cooperation, and this kind of activity let students to build their confidence.
- Camp Taiwan: we went to Camp Taiwan every year, and students use these times to get to know each other, and to also experience cooperation.

Culture of Taiwan

Taiwan Culture

- Betel nut beauty
- Dragon boat festival
- Moon cake
- Stinky tofu
- Night market
- Crazy driving
- Bubble tea
- Baseball
- KTV
- 7 Eleven
- Language: 台語, 客家話
- Indigenous Peoples: people that have a lot of tribes and they have their own style of clothing, food, and singing
- Taiwanese opera
- Bamboo
- Glove Puppetry
- Food: rice dumplings, beef noodle, sea food mixture with some flour
- Hakka Culture

(source: http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/)

Fourth baby dies from tainted milk formula

In China, there are 4 babies that got kidney stone. I know that you will curious about why? and how? It is because there is a company that sells tainted milk formula in China, and the tainted milk formula has already sickened more than 6200 babies. They arrested 12 suspects early today in China, but they are still not sure whether they are the right people. This is really dangerous for babies, because if they drink those milk formula, then they are easy to get kidney stone. Kidney stone is a disease which can kill people easily, and babies are weak, so we hope that all those babies will be alright. This tainted milk formula shows that China is a country where people don't really care about each other, no defense to them, it's just we hope that these kind of stuff won't happen again, because it's bad for everyone.

Big stong blasts hit New Delhi, the death toll rises to 20

There are large and strong explosions that ripped through busy marketplaces in New Delhi. There are 98 people wounded in the Saturday blasts. This is from CNN, "five minutes before the first blast, CNN-IBN -- CNN's sister network in India -- received an E-mail from the group warning of an impending strike." There are at least five explosions ripped through the Karol Bagh market, Kailash Market and Connaught Place, which is a popular tourist destination. There are also two other bombs found near a movie theater and near central park in the Connaught Place area were defused. It was a scary blast.

Why do students blog? Why do we blog?

I read the article and I also did some research about why do people blog or students blog. I also went search about why do teachers let students blog. I found some interesting answers. Well, basically most of the people think blogging improves students' writing skills and they learn things more from it. I like the one that said that students can build confidence by writing blogs, because people leave comments and encouragements on others blogs. I also like the one that says blogging it's fun, I agree with it because I think writing all those current events stuff it's cool. We learn globally and we might get respond in different country or places.

There are some good descriptions in the video. What I like the most it's the one that tells is the sharing part, because I usually blog for sharing things to friends and teachers. Not just school works, the previous school we put school works and videos that we like on out blog. Well it is a bit not neat, but it's fun and cool. I also like the part that tells group discussions, because group discussions let me learn more things from other classmates and people. We can see things from others differently. Blogging it's a good thing for learning.

The Hurricane Ike weaken...BUT!!!!

The forecasters downgraded Hurricane Ike, weakened by several hours over eastern Cuba, and become to Category 2 storm status Monday. But the forecasters said that it is too fast to know that the Gulf Coast Ike is leaving, but they predict that the environment in the Gulf is going to be re-strength.

The latest hurricane center track map shows that the greatest chances for a U.S. landfall for Ike would be as a Category 3 storm near the Texas-Louisiana border on Saturday. This hurricane cause a lot of flooding in the village in Haiti. And there are around 73 people were killed by the flooding thing. They have to walk in the mud water to there home and I think all the farmers there will be very very sad and disappointed, because the crop(agriculture thing)are inside the water. And this hurricane let at least 900,000 people have been evacuated in Cuba.

Awesome robot bartender

Wow! The coolest news that I saw today, is this the awesome robot bartender. I think I don't really need to explain much, because I think the name already explain what the thing is and does.
Fine...I'll still explain it. Well, basically it is a robot(machine) that works in the pub or place where you drink wine or those drink you mix wine and different things together. And what it is special for it is that this kind of robot can make a bunch of different wine mixture(and it is drinkable). But that's not it, it can also chat with people, and it can make a drink less than two minutes. I think that is super awesome and it's useful. This kind of robot bartender is designed in Japan and now there are many pub manager(conductor) is thinking about getting one of those in their pub, but this smart and useful robot is not cheap. I am not really sure how much it is for one, because from now I still can't really search informations for this. But I will keep finding...:D