SEWU Jun 25

 

• chronically : Chronic diseases are usually bad in the way they require longer time to fix. You need to live with them for the rest of your life. Therefore, You need to be careful if your family has genetic chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes and cancer.

• unfold : It was a kind of mixed felling when i decided to move Canada. I was afraid since i didn't know anything about the life there. at the same time I was excited about new life will be unfolded.

• sweep: my wife can make a sweeping judgement on how much alcohol i drink at today's meeting. How that is possible ??

• inference : When i visited the Home depot today, I noticed that lots of fan are already sold out. not many left. Therefore, I could infer that weather was going to be hotter this weekend.

SEWU Jun 15

 that's it : I just want to comment one more thing. I think your design looks good and it'll work as expected. But it is kind of bold approach, we need to change a lot of existing logic, which is little bit risky. that's it.

that's not it : Do you remember the place we met last summer? Was her name Rachel? that's not it. It's Pibi.

It's not that : Are you saying that i should be cancel the appointment then? No it's not that.

It's not like that: My son taught me how to solve Rubiks cube. there are 5 rules to memorize. but it's hard to remember. whenever i'm confused, i ask help to my son. is this direction correct? then my son said. it's not like that.

SEWU Jun 8

Make an example sentences with the words

-go about one’s day. : After my mother passed away, I took a while to go about my day.

-receive a look (receive looks): oneday when i get outside to meet my friend, I received a lot of looks from people. usually it's the quite opposite. It turns out that There is a bird pooh on my head.

-say to one’s face: People usually don't want to say something bad to one's face.

-heckle :

-go out of one’s way : when i play tennis, i always try to go out my way to make my son feel fun about it.

Answer the questions.

1..If you can move to another country, which would it be? and why?

2.What do you like about Korean culture?

3.If you could change one thing about your culture, what would it be?

There is a proverb " if one of a cousin buy a land, you"

4.Have you ever been in a situation where you felt you had to "do as the Romans do"?

SEWU May 18

 

• relinquish : There are so many things to do in your life or work. You have to prioritize tasks based on the impact or importance. Otherwise you end up completing less important tasks. you have to relinquish less important tasks. 

• make someone do sth: If you want to up your career ladder quickly. you must know how to delegate work to someone else in your team. you should know how to motivate them and make them work for you and themselves. 

• let someone do sth: one of the issue to assign a task to employee is tricky. we needed someone to distribute tasks. it required a lot of interaction between people. it didn't work well. Instead we just create a lot of potential tasks into issue tracking system. just let them choose their next task. it's been working pretty well since then.

• get someone to do sth: if someone ask to me what's the hardest to thing to do? then i would answer. it's get my son to do something that i want him to do.

1. Do you think it's good to make friends online?
   I think it’s good to have. Why not? but it definitely has a different purpose compared to conventional friends. They usually get to know each other for a specific purpose. For example, if you want to join a specific study club online. All these friends have the same purpose. They don’t usually talk about private things much like real friends. I think that is a big difference. but it makes you expand your life boundary much larger. but the depth is less.

2. What are the disadvantages of social networking apps? it literally gets rid of my spare time pretty easily. Once I start using SNS app, time flies. If i review my SNS activities objectively, There are nothing useful scenarios.

3. Why do you use social networking apps? just want to consume latest news/article or something. or find information from the internet. that's it.

4. How often do you use social networking applications? My phone has an ability to track how i use the phone. it shows time spent for each app and each category. for me, it's around 1 hour per day. I must get rid of this time.

SEWU - May 11

sit out

Every mother has instincts to protect their child. my wife is same. Whenever my son try to do some modestly risky action,  my wife interrupts and tried to stop it. just because it's little dangerous not much. I think it prevents my son from learning lessons from them. So I always talks to my wife. please give him an opportunity to fail. My wife should learn how to sit things out.

sit well(right) with

At previous get-together, They gave us a present. since it's kind of regular get-together between us. I can't sit well with me. I had to prepare something.

I don't mind + ing/I feel uncomfortable + ing/It doesn't bother me

Whenever I take the elevator in my apartment, if it's already occupied by someone. then i would say do you mind if i join here. 

1. Describe a natural talent(sports, music, etc) you want to improve.

You should say:

 -What it is

 -When you discovered it

 -How you want to improve it

 -And how you feel about it

I realized i'm good at controlling circular object to the desired position. something like 구슬치기, billiard. It ususally requires the right amount of speed and angle.

Also I have a pretty decent concentration ability. once i concentrate, I hardly know if someone talks to me.

2. Is it possible for us to know whether children who are 3 or 4 years old will become musicians and painters when they grow up?

I don't think so.

3. Do you think it is more interesting to watch famous people’s or ordinary people’s shows?

SEWU - Apr 27

 explorer

Explorer:
My son is studying periodic table these days. In Korea 주기율표. 
It would be really fun to explore every element on the periodic table. every element on same column share same characteristics. isn't it beautiful?

initiative:
Recently we had to deal with same problem again and again. it costs 30m min per a week to solve the problem. So I think we need a new initiative to tackle this problem. It would be a great someone have an idea on this. please suggest one in your mind without any hesitation.

resilient:
Life is full of surprises and unexpected joy but sometimes you gonna face unforeseen struggle and challenges too. Whenever that happens, the most important attributes you should have is a resilient mind. Never ever give up! 

1. Do you often get up early in the morning? No. I'm not the kind of type early bird. I usually managed to wake up before my son eats breakfast to spend some time with him.

2.       What do you usually do when you get up early? The first thing i would do is wake up my Phone and checking any notifications might be received during the night.

3.       Which morning do you like best in a week?

4.       Is there anything that makes you feel happy lately?

SEWU Apr 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwlFMatCR-c

make your own sentence using the pattern:

1. Do you enjoy your current stage of life? 

2.       In which stage of your life were you the happiest?

3.   Which stage of your life do you think is the most important?

4. What’s your plan for the your next stage of life?

recent gun shooting at Arizona

There was shocking news about gun-shooting in Atlanta. People say it's kind of hate crime for Asian-Americans. So there is a movement to make the issue more public and open so that other people could know this is wrong and should be stopped. It's just like another version of "Black lives matter". but this time the subject changed from Black to Asian-American.

Why those kind problems happen in USA frequently? I think the main reason would be a gun problem in USA. Buying gun is as easy as buying grocery at the store. There is a back ground check to prevent any potential gun accident. But it's not enough. 

searching houses

I have been searching for a place to live for purchase purposes(for the purpose of purchasing). At first, I searched for a new place to rent. But my wife and I realized that the monthly rent is too high and It's kind of throwaway money. It's literally a waste of money. That's why I'm consider buying a new house. Instead of spending money on rent, make it pay for mortgage and interests. money could be used for mortgage.

Based on online mortgage calculator, the monthly mortgage payment for $550,000 with 20 years armortization period is around $2500, which is my current monthly rent. It means I can buy a $550K house with my rent. If I increase my down payment, then i can buy a more expensive house too. I think it surely justify our home buying plan. 

our criteria are the following:

1. more than 1000 sqft. my wife likes large spaces.
2. commute time to downtown should be within an hour. 
3. a good secondary school for my son.

I've already visited several houses with/without a realtor. The most satisfying home among them is the one in the Burke mountain in Coquitlam. 3bed room town house is around $800K. It's 3 floors and 1500 sqrt. It has side by side(double) garage on the first floor, which I like a lot. It's like my dream home in Canada. but the commute to downtown could be waste of time. It takes around 1.5 hours, which is unacceptable. 

I'm keep looking at online house listing sites and will contact another realtor soon. I hope I can find the right house for our family.

iPhone

 I bought an iPhone for the first time in my life. I'd always wanted it since the first iPhone launched in 2007. Finally one of my wish lists has been marked as done. It's present to myself for 2020. I wanna say to myself: "You did a good job and thank you for your hard work." 

There were several reasons I couldn't buy it when I was working for Samsung. First, I didn't want to get in trouble from company management. There was a rumor that management would make a list who din't use Samsung phone and report it. Second, Samsung is one of the highest security workplaces in Korea. Every gate is secured by metal detectors and x-ray equipment. Every employee's belongings will be scanned and if a detector find something suspicious. Then security guard will scan your belongings once again. Every phone camera should be sealed by a sticker so that it can't take a picture inside the company. but for Samsung phone, if you install MCM software, it will automatically block your camera when you enter the company and  it will be unlocked when you leave. But iPhone couldn't. Samsung phone gave me more convenience at that time. That's why.

I think i will like iPhone a lot. Even though i haven't use it a lot, I think it's pretty decent phone ever in my life. I look forward to seeing a lot of wow factor. There must be a reason a lot of people keep using iPhone. I wanna find why.