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2004. 03. 30
Two o'clock this morning, a loud sound of crying woke me up. It was a boy estimate 5-6 years old. At first I thought the sound came from upstairs, though I did not notice it would be weird for my neighbor punish her grandson like that. The crying soon turned into wailing. The boy was begging his mom to let him in. It was then I noticed the sound came from another building 50 meters away. The boy seems like being locked on the balcony. The apartment was dark, without a single light on. My neighbors were wakening by the wailing, too. Then, the manager of the neighborhood appeared at the boy's door. He ran the bell, no one answers. The boy stopped wailing for a moment, till the manager left. Hard to tell what happened, but as soon as the manager left, the boy began again. He cried and cried, yelling for the manager to come back. I could hear my neighbor murmured "Didn't the manager just check on him? What's going on?" I was puzzled, too. This whole scene continued for nearly 20 minutes, until one guy opened the door and held the boy into the house. It was like as if the boy was abused. If not, why would any parents let their child crying on the balcony at two o'clock in the morning? Very strange. The crying boy has call forth my memories. Child abusing was quite common among my peers when I was in elementary school. My classmates often came to school with bruises on their back, their hands, their arms, their legs, everywhere. Even a gentle touch could hurt. Hard to understand how could someone do such things on another living person. Hitting will not teach them good, reasoning and love will. They must realize. 2004. 03. 16 Caltech announced the discovery of the most distant object in Solar System, named Sedna. It might be a member of the hypothetical Oort cloud. Further information please visit Caltech news release, NASA, or Dr. Michael Brown's website about Sedna, who first discovered Sedna. 2004. 03. 08 Took some time made a list of books my family owned. The job is way harder than exepcted. Probably will take months to complete the list. :D 2004. 03. 08 IBO results out, I didn't make it to the finals. Oh well! :p Missed it with 4.6 points. Should have study Ecology twice, shouldn't I? Whatever. It is just a competition, at least now I can see a clear structure of this science and truly love Biology. That is what makes science competitions attractive. You can put all your efforts on one subject, examine it carefully, challenge your intelligence, eventually see the beauty of it. And perhaps by it, you can meet new friends, learn to see the world differently. The whole journey might be stressful, but worthwhile. To tell the truth, I had a bad day today. For unknown reason, possibly due to the sudden release of stress, or was it simply because of March, I kind of break up today. Everything came quite unexpected. Overwhelmed by emotion, I just could not control myself. Part of me felt funny, part of me felt dejected and depressed. The worst of all, I was in the middle of Dean's office. Those who saw me thought it was because of something I were asking about. Detail? Forget about it. I really should leave school as soon as I can. Betty "the bread" (hehe), and I had a chat this afternoon. Gaps between the capital city - Taipei, and the second biggest city in Taiwan - Kaohsiung is getting larger and larger. Us here down in the south have 40 hours of classes a week, extra classes during winter and summer vacation - forced to participate, four semester exams, while Taipei students have true vacations, normal club activity, one less semester exams, and yet still manage to win in every aspects. Duration of study time does not guarantee better performance. Sadly no teacher seems to recognize this. I did not want to bring this "school crap" up again, however the problem is getting worsen as ever. Teachers keep accusing of being not working hard enough, not remembering every fraction of footnotes, not paying attention on the class, thus giving us more homework - it is said to be a good measure to make us stuck our nose into textbooks. No time break, otherwise they would not have enough time to teach. Quizzed during breaks - if there are any - can save them time for teaching, so they said. As if we are machines that can work 24 hours a day. How was the outcome? We got completely burnt out with those subjects, wake up with a black eye, unconsciously fell asleep, never able to get homework down, fail more and more exams. Like a snowball, expanding as it rolls. Yet we do not have the strength to fight back. Corroded from inside, smashed our creativity, our passion. Sad, but true. They are turning us into living lifeless creatures. 2004. 03. 06
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