All Things are created twice-first mentally second physically

In every creation, the image and basic backgrounds are always developed first than actually physically creating it. The mind is a powerful tool that takes the host to all sorts of places including ideas that could be the key to the future. The idea of creating something must be thought out first, hence the word “first mentally,” from Stephen R. Covey.
A great example is the idea of flight from the Wright brothers. Creating the first model airplanes, sketching on paper thinking it thoroughly was first required. People believed that this idea was useless and is impossible. It was because of them and their determination that created the first modeled plane which eventually became today’s primary form of travel.
Sketching is a form strategy that transfers ones idea to paper. It may appear to be simple but can be quite challenging, requiring both skills and talent with precise measurements before actually accomplishing something. Again a measurement is another challenge, with correct calculations etc. the ideas could be as simple as pencil, but creating something that can be life threatening such as a plane, requires some serious time to think and adjust.
Even after completing the project physically. Testing the plane or invention/ idea is the finale stage and hardest part of them all. Anything can go wrong from a simple screw not being screwed on tight enough to major parts of the plane actually falling off during flight with passengers onboard.
Nowadays, people view planes as a safe and easy transportation system. Even so, occasionally planes will sometimes have problems during flight with hundreds of passengers, for example engine failures. Planes have crashed due to results of that, killing hundreds of civilians. Which is why, modern day planes are inspected everyday by professionals to prevent tragic accidents. But again that doesn’t guarantee a hundred percent safety
Picturing an incredible piece of artwork of a modeled plane, drawing it will take some time, with details on every little part. Physically placing it together is a thousand times more difficult. But according to Stephen, Mentally coming up with the idea of a easy transportation system such as the plane is the most important. When something is created it can always be changed but the idea of it cannot. Improvements will always be made, nothing is perfect, additional things will always be added throughout a period of time.
The idea of planes has changed dramatically from being a basic use of transportation to military weapons; Helicopters with machine guns, jets with rocket launchers etc. how one basic idea can change so much is mind blowing.
Arguably it was because of the Wright brothers idea of a plane, came to the development of a space shuttle. First idea from transportation to military use, to a tool that is used to unlock the mysteries of the universe. Who knows what will happen in a hundred years, what else will come after the space shuttle? Someday into the future, our people will be traveling through the galaxy with the speed of light, all thanks to the Wright brothers.

My most memorable contribution to SIS

Having been in S.I.S for 12 years, paying more than 450 dollars a month, is by far the biggest and most memorable contribution for me and my family. I have been at S.I.S from first grade, being here longer than Dr. Jenkins. Plus I have a little sister, Emily, who has been here longer than I have. Throughout this twelve years time, I’ve seen many students and staff members come and go, all previously known friends and classmates now gone, new ones replacing them.
I am not a founding member but should be considered in at least taking in some part making the school great today. My sister and I have been paying tuition every month which is around 1 thousand dollars, 12 thousand a year. Putting the years of me and my sister together is over 13 years, she being here since K5, that’s a long time and a lot of money overall.
I witnessed the school change from just a simple elementary and middle school to a fully developed high school. The place where we sit and enjoy our lunch wasn’t always there. I used to hate eating lunch because it was always hot; the “Paula Paula” wasn’t built until sometime in my fifth year of attending S.I.S. The school has progressed at a lot and made a lot of positive changes.
A lot of my favorite teachers from the past left, and I met a lot of other cool teachers now, but things were a lot easier back in the day, I suppose it is all the same for people in elementary school. Although most changes are positive and great in many ways, some however is not. For example, the school never had after school detentions, students simply making a mistake is usually not given a warning depending on the teachers mood will be given a detention.
Overall, the school in my opinion is the way it is today is largely because of my family contribution, hundreds of thousands of dollars given to the school in exchange for my education is worth it. S.I.S who used this money for paying qualified teachers actually in my opinion is doing the right thing, unlike some public schools where the teachers are not qualified and don’t care about the students, the contribution we made and a lot of other students made affects everyone greatly and positively.
Soon I’ll be heading off to college and 2 years after so will my sister; hopefully the school will have change again by the time I graduate from college. I would want to some day visit the one place where I grew up and come to know for so long. The school can be considered my second home. Whenever I’m not at my house or out having fun, I’m at school. I come to develop a special comfort at certain places in school, for example the restroom.

What i'll be doing 10 years from now

Ten years from now I can only think of myself in a business, either working in one or actually owning one. Starting off a small business has always been my goal, like my father, I want to receive the experiences first before actually starting off a business, but 5 years or more should be more than enough. I have not yet decided what kind of business I’ll be in but the concept is still the same, a business is a business not matter what field it’s in. receiving the first hand experience is the key to a and successful business in my opinion.
Knowing basic strategies and understanding them is the only way, starting off fresh is only a mistake. This idea is similar to an internship. Who in the right mind will work and not receive pay? Only those willingly, even then those who are willingly are not actually doing it for nothing, they exchange their payments for knowledge and experience instead of cash. Focusing on a particular field in which one is interested in and taking it off step by step. The exceptional rich folks who are able to afford losing an investment in starting off a small company, with that kind of idea it will only lead to failure in the near future.
My father, before starting off his own business, worked as an employee for “Taro sue,” a furniture shop. There he learned how to treat customers and receive a firsthand experience like I stated in the previous paragraph. Although it was not his shop, he treated customers politely as expected for all employees. Sometimes the customers would ask for discounts, only a few cents at the time, he would agree. His boss liked him very much and was grateful for how well he made the business by doing that, his wife on the other did not and fired my father for doing so. My father then decided to start off his own store, shipping in new products from Taiwan.
There he made some money and began investing in garment industries. The business flourished and he is currently still in the business today. It all starts off small; even babies’ learn to crawl first before walking. It’s all about the choices we make and how we come to make the final decision that makes a great company successful. Nothing comes for free and always comes with a price. Never be cheap with customers, my father says, it’s all about making them happy, and when their happy they’ll come back. In the end the business will still profit.
Becoming a successful businessman requires one to see the big picture and not the little things, those who cannot see the big picture will definitely fail at the business, just giving a customer a few cents in discount will not ruin the business but in fact make it profit because like I said, when customers are happy and pleased with the shop or company they’ll often come back. Keeping those few cents and upsetting the customers, the chance of them returning is highly unlikely. Why chose you when they have so many other options, the point is to put yourself above everyone else. That is survival just like the jungle.

If I can take only one book to an island for one month,

The only book I ever loved would be “Warriors,” therefore I would bring that book to the island. I did know the authors name but since it’s been so long, I forgot it, it was a woman who wrote the book. I received that book when I was in 6th grade from my French and science teacher as a gift, everyone in my class was allowed to select a book from a box and faith brought that book to me. The book is a compilation of mythical stories from the samurai period in Japan to robots in the future.
I developed in this interest in this book when my father brought us to Qing Yuan, China. Before leaving, I thought to myself that sitting on the plane for hours would be boring, thus I brought the book. I turned to the first page and began reading, right at that was the moment where the image of the samurai wielding a sword appeared in my head, the feeling of it was actually like watching television in my mind. I was occupied that it was the one and only time I couldn’t stop reading, after that no other book that I’ve read was that addicting.
Since it’s been so long that I’ve read this book, I wouldn’t mind reading it again. It would be like watching a movie the second, unlocking events that I didn’t previously catch. Personally I dislike reading an entire book based on one story itself, to me that is just boring and time consuming, if it is an interesting story I might say otherwise, but in the mean time, I prefer reading compilations of short, humorous, adventurous stories.
If the island is an unpopulated island similar to that in the movie, “castaway,” I would first do the following, find shelter, find locations of fruits and collect some, and basically preparing everything that I need to in order to survive. After everything is gathered, a fresh supply of water and food, and have nothing else to do. I would take this time reading instead of going insane. Because the book is the only thing that might keep me occupied when everything is done, it would have more value to me than just a book.
Therefore, I will waste time and save the reading until a few days before actually leaving the island. I would learn the terrain first, keep myself occupied with something, then and only then when everything is out of option, I will read. People tend to lose their minds when they run out of options and stranded with nothing to do. When the mind is focused for example on the book, it would remain under control and not wonder off to complete oblivion.
Books are not only for studying they are for entertainment, kids nowadays don’t read as much as they used to. The advancement of computers and technology has brought the book reading era to the middle ages, people argue that kids are reading more because of the internet and computers, but things on the computer than things on the book are completely different things. If I can’t bring computers to the island I would of course select a book, plus brining a computer will do no good if there is no internet connection. Once the month is up, and I’ve survived everything and have not completely lost my mind I would argue that the book saved my life. There is absolutely no point in bringing a book that you are not interested in, therefore my suggestion is to bring something that you will like, and will read for the second time and not get tired of.

If I had one million dollars and no one knew about it, I would.

If no one knew I had a million dollars, first I would buy a house somewhere beautiful. A place where there wouldn’t be much pollution, peaceful, and most importantly safe, probably Malibu, California. But because I haven’t been to Malibu, I can’t say for certain that it will be a hundred percent satisfying. If there were any left over’s of the million then comes a sport car of my dream, a Lamborghini.
Although I prefer a sports car over a house any day, I chose to buy the house first because, once it is mine, it will forever be mine, and I will be set for life. Instead of having a really nice cars picking up women, living the life of a rock star, sooner or later the money will run out. Therefore the house is the priority.
I have a certain type of house that I am particularly interested in but the cost of it exceeds over one million dollars. The second option is to invest the money into a company, once the company does extremely well over a period of time, I will have not one million but millions of dollars. Once that happens then I’ll probably again go for the house that I want. A description of that house would be, glass window for walls, a view of water, a large yard, and just basically something that is similar to the house of Tony Stark, a fictional characters house in the movie Iron Man.
But before I do anything with the money, I must be cautious, and tell no one of the million dollars I have, not even my family. Or we can only think for the worst, people nowadays will kill for half a million, imagine what they would go through for the whole million. No matter how much the money is involved, it shouldn’t worth more than a life. To prevent that, the news of possessing one million dollars, under no circumstance can be shared or spoken of; secrecy will be the key for a person to keep his million and his life.
Also the behavior of one is most crucial as well. Someone will definitely notice when an individual is acting out, suddenly driving sports cars, showing off by throwing out lots of money, bad things will happen. I have no problem keeping secrets and especially not showing off money. But I can’t say the same for my family members, one mistake and the whole family could be in danger. So again to prevent that from happening I must not tell them about the cash.
Most people that gets a million dollar will probably tell their family right away. But right after that, every member in the family who knows about the great news will come to a conclusion on keeping that a secret. Whenever large groups of people is trying to keep a secret, most of the times there will be one individual whom will accidently make a mistake by saying it without realizing it. When the news gets out, bad things, really bad things will start to happen.
Many years ago, a similar event regarding large amounts of money resulted in the death of a young girl, age 16. Her mother “Bai Bingh Bing,” a Taiwanese television/movie star had tons of money, but because she was bragging too much on how cheap expensive things was, her 16 year old daughter was kidnapped. The kidnappers ask for ransom that exceeds over the amount Bai Bing Bing had. They did the unthinkable; first they mailed a finger to her mother. When she went to the cops, they brutally slaughtered her. Until this day she regrets what she did and cries on television every time this topic comes up. She lost her only daughter and now lives alone, appearing every once in a while in a cooking show.

Most Memorable Literary Hero

Johnny from the novel outsiders written by S.E. Hinton, the novel deals with two rival gangs, the Greasers and the Socs. As the story takes us further and further within, events involving the actions of Johnny will surprise the audience. Johnny and Pony boy, two important characters in the novel belongs the gang the Greasers, they often fight with the rival gang the Socs. As the two gangs run into conflict in the middle of the story, Pony boy helps his friend by killing one of the members of the socs whom jumped them during an event.
As pony boy wakes from his unconsciousness beating, he see’s Johnny looking at his blade with blood who appeared to have saved him. At that instance, they didn’t know what to do but to find help. They seek help from the roughest man of the Greasers, Dallas, and Dally for short. Dally hands them a hand gun and gave them money. He wants them to buy a week of supply of food and tells them to hide in an old abandoned church. Pony boy, he did not commit the crime but he will accompany Johnny who is the youngest and good friend of pony boys.
Johnny’s father was a drunk and always beat him and his mother wasn’t all that great to him either. Before the killing incident, Johnny was jumped by two Soc members, ever since then he has been paranoid and therefore carrying a switchblade which leads back to him killing one of the Soc members. They find an old abandoned church and hid out for days. Johnny and pony boy kept themselves occupied by reading books; it was then a couple days later when both of them decided it was time to change their appearance. They both cut their hairs, and Johnny bleached his afterwards.
They’ve never felt so alone, but it was great they kept each other company even though it was Johnny who committed the crime. Reaching the end Johnny and pony were running out of supplies, their food was running short and water was limited. It was sometime around then where an elementary school bus arrived where they were hiding out for some kind of fieldtrip. It was about that time where all of sudden the old abandoned church caught fire and began to burn. It was probably because of the cigarettes that pony boy and Johnny were smoking. Both pony and Johnny made it out safely, but then the teacher of the school bus noticed that some of the students were missing. Johnny and pony boy immediately ran back to try and save the helpless students that were trapped inside.
They brought some kids and ran back for the ones who were still inside. Pony boy ran in and a burning log fell on top of his back breaking his spine. He did not die but is paralyzed in the hospital. Johnny was a local hero, his mother came to visit him but he wouldn’t see her. He only wanted to see his pal pony boy, and his Greaser friends. Johnny wanted pony boy to finish reading the story from when they were hiding out. As a couple days past, Johnny sadly died but he died honorably. Therefore Johnny is the most memorable literary hero for me.

3 Things I Want To Do During Summer!

This summer break shouldn't be considered as a break at all since we have already graduated. I would just call it summer, the last summer I have before going off to college. Leaving my family would be the hardest thing I would have to do. So first, I would like to spend some time with my family. I will also be visiting China and Taiwan as well. During my visit with my family, I will of course find my close friends there and take them out to dinner and say good bye in person before actually heading to the States.
I have many things planned for this summer, I will travelling a lot. I will have to also gather my belongings and pack them weeks before hand. I know that this summer would be fun but also depressing as day by day passes. I really do look forward to having a senior trip with my friends on Saipan, but it appears to me that it’s not going to happen. There are so many things that I want to do and will do in my head, writing it out will simply be too long.
I can’t exactly say everything will go as plan, but I hope there wouldn’t be any complications, such as for example, there would be no flight until a certain date because of the airlines being all booked up. Although I graduate in May, I will have to continue to wait until my younger sisters summer begins in order to travel. Most of my travels, I’ve always have family members with me. I have travelled to the states before, approximately ten hours on a plan until reaching California, most likely the place where I will be heading to. The previous trip from Taiwan, the place which I would mostly likely depart from, to San Francisco, I had my sister, and my cousin with me. I’m worried that I’ll feel lonely if I travel alone.
Although I hate my sister sometimes, I still love her and I will want to spend time with her as well. Not being able to see her for 2 years before she graduate may have some impact on me more than I think. I grew up with her, seeing her every day, and now simply not seeing her for 2 years, there will be some sadness.
Like I said before, finding my close friends in Taiwan will also be part of what I want to do. Since the legal age for Taiwanese kids to go drinking and clubbing is 18, I am excited that I can finally do so before leaving. I have heard so many positive things about night clubs in Taipei, I simply can’t wait. The past two years I wanted to make a fake ID in order to get in, I never fully finished it. A family friend who’s passed the legal age works at one of those night clubs and took me there before, but I think I will feel completely different if I know that I’m there legally. I would probably have more fun than I think, or not, who knows. That is the second most important things I want to do besides spending time with my family.
Lastly the finale thing I want to do is, go to the famous water park, south of Taipei. Besides the night clubs in Taipei, the famous water park “Ba Xian Le Yuan,” has always been my dream. I was suppose to go with my friends a few years back, but apparently some of the rides were in maintenance and the only available rides were boring. This year I plan on riding every one of those scary rides, I believe a few years back. The news reported some accident at the park, resulting in one death and several injuries. I believe that this summer will be the best summer ever.