House in SC

     

     "Judy, I went to my old friend's house in Charleston, SC last Saturday!" I followed Judy and tried to get attention form her.
     "What? Really?" Judy looked at me with surprise, "that sounds like fun!"
     "Yes, Sure. It was super wired!" I started to refresh my memory of that night, "you know, the house was about two hundred years old! It's even older than my great-grandfather!"
     She caught my hands and started to be excited with her eyes opened up. We found a seat and sat down.
     "I promise you are going to be so amazed by what i am going to tell you!" I clear my throat and speak up." The city was getting dark when we got there. The plants on the roads were getting more and more crowded until we found the house with leaves wrapping around it tightly. My friend and I went into the small door by the side of the house."
     Judy whispered to me, "that does not sounds fun."
     "Wait till I tell you the whole story." I paused and then restarted. " The house looks normal in the inside, well, not with modern decorations though. It actually looked like a old and unused church with colorful windows around  the sides and a huge bell in the middle of the living room. Or I cannot even tell if it is a living room cause the first story was not divided into sections."
     "Tell me about the bell. You know I love bells."
     "Sure. Actually, this is the most weird part of the house. It was strange because the words on the bell were all written in ancient Chinese. What was even worse was people with Qing Dynasty clothes on their bodies gathering around the room."
     "That sounds like a scary movie." Judy held her shoulders.
     "Though it was scary, nothing serious happened. The flashes of people each held a candle and sang 'The Dawn' to us. Then the candles disappeared, and the flashes started to pray for us. At the end of their prayers, all the flashes faded away."
     "So did you guys run away after the flashes disappeared?"
     "There was a dramatic change in the house. Everything turned to be bright with neon colors. Just like Alice in Wonderland!"
     "What? What a bizzare world!"

Man in the Mirror

     "Are you awake?" A clear voice came in front of me. I stood still with my eyes closed and continued brushing my teeth. It was early in the morning.
     "Who care about it?!" I automatically responded to that question without thinking.
     "Cool, but are you awake?" The annoying voice came again.
     "You are so..." I opened up my eyes and saw hundreds of mirrors one within one. At the extreme end was another me.
     I blinked my eyes for several times, and the image appeared in front of me was exactly the same.
     "I guess I'm not awake yet." I had to say this.
     "I'll help you wake up! No worries!" She turned around, "Just follow me!"
     I was turning to the opposite way against hers, but a strong wind pulled me within the mirrors which made me feel even worse. I bet I was awake at that moment!
     After thirty minutes, or maybe even longer, I finally got to the end of it.
     "Welcome to the world of clone!" Thousands of my bodies gathered around me with the same voice which brought me serious headache.
     What is it? Is it a dream? I'd better wake up!!
     "You are the mother of all our sisters and brothers!" One started, "Greeting to your mother!"
     "Good morning, mother!" Again, the same voice with the same mouth.
     "Shut up!" I couldn't bear anymore. I ended up with punching their faces; however, the more I punched, the more disappeared.
     "What is it?! Somebody come here and tell me!" The fact that I was facing was driven me nuts.
     "Thank you for your participation, my roommate!" Audria walked to my side, "I finally finished my new invention!!"
     Are you kidding me? You just ruined my morning!!

FUN Target Trip

It was right before my Halloween Party. I went to Target with a group of friends and we were trying to find the best fitting costumes for the party.

     We were talking and laughing. One of us started telling horror stories. All the stories were so thrilling that everybody was focus on them and nobody realized the time.

     "What a shocking theme!" my friend Judy shouted.

     As soon as she finished her last word, the lights went off and people in Target were all locked in the doors.

     "What has just HAPPENED?!" people shouted and screamed. However, all of us were not prepared for what happened next.

     Skeletons and the costumes started moving and sounds were made when the costumes touched each other, just like the sounds of broken glasses. Then, the floor began to shake. To maintain our balance, we had to sit on the floor. The noise of baby crying started everywhere.

     By the time we sit down, three giant skulls with green eyes appeared on the ceiling.

     "Haha, you are ALL DEAD today, that is what makes the party FUN!!!" The kee-jerk voice came from the skull that sounded approaching to us. Our ears could hardly bear the sound. The echoes were so loud.

     "What? Are we dead?" I heard people crying helplessly. My hear was pumping out of my heart. I looked up and found monster eyes all over the ceiling.

     ...

     Perhaps this continued for hours. When I wake up, I found myself lying on the couch with my Asian Doll costumes on and bloods all over myself. Everyone else was enjoying the neon lights and music from the Halloween Party.

     "What a shocking theme!" Judy came one inch in front of me with her bloody eyes in her pale face and giggled away...

A Person Accompany with You

     If I plan to have a visit to the Hell, I would like to choose Buddha to be my ally.
     There are two Noble Truths that make me believe in the Buddha. The first one is that all suffering is caused by selfish craving. Craving in turn is rooted in ignorance, a distorted understanding of ourselves and the world. The second one is that by eliminating ignorance and craving we can overcome suffering and thereby attain true happiness and peace.
     Hell is a place where sinners suffers from their sins. Those sinners described in the Inferno are often impenitent. Though they go to the Hell and have all different sufferings on their bodies, those souls do not realize their actual sins and keep themselves like what they were without improvement. I'm thinking if I ask a Buddha to visit the Hell with me, we may help the sinners understand their sins and make progress in their inner minds so that one day they may have the opportunities to go to the Heaven.
     Another reason that I would like to invite Buddha to be my accompany is that Buddha has no fear in their minds and the peace inside out their body can encourage me to talk with those dead sinners.

There was once a chance I didn't take...

     There was once a chance I did not take.

     I use to be a really talented Chinese brush work student. I started my Chinese calligraphy study when I was six, a beginner of elementary school. My teacher was odd and strict, but I heard from my parents that she liked me a lot because my born-talent on calligraphy.

     However, I hated her until I changed my view when I was fourteen. I came over the US and saw the magic of my brush work. I went back to China and visited my "odd" teacher.

     "If you come back to my class, you have to promise that you are going to put calligraphy as the major in your future. Not just a hobby." She said with a mysterious smile. "I will teach you free classes and help you become my private tutored calligraphy master."

     Sometimes, when I look at my biology books, I would like to imagine: what if I accept her suggestion? Maybe right now I'm in her house standing straight and doing brush work. Maybe I do not have to do any of these English studies. My life would have changed entirely because of that one word response with the teacher.

     She told me that after I refused her, she did not sleep well for weeks. I totally understand her because she is a teacher who cares about nothing but likes the talented students. I like art. In addition, calligraphy is a branch of it. I might change my mind and have another talk with her in the future but who knows?

Prologue: Dr. Sito

There is a teacher, Dr. Sito,

who is too shy to be an idol.

Teaching physics though major in Chemistry.

His tousy beard must has some sort of history.

He is always wearing a tie,

With a happy lead-in of "Hi, guys".

Three essential questions appear on the quiz,

as bonus points to improve our grades.

When hard problems show on the board,

he'd like to teach us word by word.

He is nice, funny with awkward utterance.

Our lives with physics are generally fabulous.

Island Story

     Muscles were cramping, throat was hurting, and sky is shuffling. Am I in a dream? With my eyes barely opened, I realized that I was deadly lying on an island and I could not recall anything happened to me.
     I got up and washed my body with salt water. I saw myself in the water and surprisingly, I found there was a black box behind me near the foot of the hill! I crawled to it and a black suit case appeared on the sand. What a pleasure! Immediately, I felt hope had come.
     However, tragedy came in. As soon as I opened the suitcase, I found out that there was nothing inside. With heart beaten down, I sat down and decided to wait until some strangers come and help me get out of here.
     I waited and waited, but nobody came. The island seemed to be a creature out of the universe and nobody knew it.
     In the middle of the night, I heard something, like a bird's singing. I listened carefully and tried to find the source of it. I followed the echo. The sound was coming under the black suitcase. Because of curiosity, I dug the sand under the suitcase without fear.
     I couldn't believe what I found! At the bottom of the hole, I discovered fresh water! In the middle of the water, there was a book glowing with dim lights. The sounds were actually coming out of it. I took the book out, and something even more fun happened.
     A little person came out of the book with a pair of flying wings. He smiled at me and said "Hello". He pointed to a direction and asked me to follow him. He lead me to a purple tree and I found an ipad. The album in the ipad showed me my pass and my history.
     With the fairy , I lived happily and observed the wonders of the world.