4/30

today is the day when all the CB people do not SLEEP!!! Because of the gnikcuf essayyyyyyyy craaaap
myb not all, some mite be already asleep!!!
but not me,

why isnt essay due after GW?

yuji said on his blog that he is about to jump off a cliff and die
well,,, ive already fallen from a cliff without noticing it but still alive fortunately since i fell in a deep part of the sea....
now im in a situation where sharks are all around time is running out for me to surviveee

do i make any sense at all?
anyway, todays class, we were asked if we would go demo if theres any unfair laws made by the japanese gov.
most of us wouldnt go probably because we are fairly satisfied at all times.
Chabaz? the president is a very very good leader
but did japan ever had such a good leader? at least none that i know of
so i couldnt compare the good and bad times of japan


bottom line
many japanese wont go demo


but CB can have a demo against rab to change the due date of the essay lol

4/28

Today's class, we did a worksheet on essay writing.
When we did the ordering of a paragraph I got the second one wrong!!!

Because Rab gave us a practice, his expectation of our essay is going to increase!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO

Topic sentences must have a topic and controlling idea
Supporting sentences cannot go off topic and contradict or it would be a crappy paragraph!



The classroom was so hot that I got really sleepy......

I managed to live through the class but it is not good to make the room hot



And i got to know some peoples real characters......lol

4/27

Every Tuesday girls are late for class. lol
So Rab went out to get a coffee!

What we did in class was discuss the questions that will be on PWT.
That is all for today.....
Wasn't it???


I seriously have to write my essay!!!!
I neeeeeeed HELP LOL

4/26

Today was Sayako's Birthday!!! YAY!!!
Did Rab know about this???
We had a cake during lunch did everybody got to eat it?
I thought it would be better to open it at ELP class but was too late. LoL


In class, we just had some discussions. And the magic trick.
I knew how he did it. But unfortunately I missed in the end!!! Daaaaaam




Anyway, Happy Brithday Sakaya!!!

Chap:2 The Social origin of Mind

Chapter 2 is like the continuation of chapter 1. Maybe every chapter is the extension of chapter 1.
Well, I couldn't keep my concentration for more than 5 minutes on this book so it took me such a long time to finish it.
In chapter 2, it seems more obvious to me that Nisbett thinks HE is superior to Eastern.
He talks about the ecology's effect on different ideas of Chinese and Greeks. His main idea of difference between Chinese and Greeks is the curiosity. Greeks have and Chinese doesn't, ike it says on page 40, last paragraph. What I did not like was the last paragraph on page 41.

Anyway, I do not have much to say on this chapter. Its mostly biased I think.
Let's hope to see some opinions that are not biased.

Chap:1 The Syllogism and The Tao

First I did the Three B's that Rab told us to do.
I couldn't get much idea of Richard E. Nisbett or his bias so I just started reading his book.
Starting with the introduction, he said he was influenced by a brilliant student from China.
So I thought Nisbett may support more on Chinese culture of life shared within a harmonious social network than Greeks individuality.
But what I found was different. Although he puts many good examples for each East and West, II felt that the words Nisbett use has a bias.
Do you guys remember the video that Rab showed us the other day? About BBC news using kidnap.
In chapter 1, I found Nisbett is using "lack of" and "failure" for Chinese and never used that kind of word for the Greeks.
Or did I just miss those kinds of words for the Greeks?

I got the point that Chinese (Asians) and Greeks(Westerners) have a different way of thinking because of its culture. They both have good and bad points but what I liked was the ancient Chinese story about an old farmer whose only horse ran away.



The bottom line is, this book makes me very sleepy....zzzZZZ
Gotta read chapter 2!!!

Zotero

Mac is so awesome! And Firefox that can be used with Zotero is also awesome!
The icon of Firefox's fox eating Internet Explore is creative.

What we did today was all about firefox and zotero.
Where did Rab learn all this?
Who else knows about zotero? Hope everybody knows about it since its so helpful.
Why didn't teachers in highschool show how these such useful software.


Thanks to Macintosh lover,Rab, now we know what is so good about mac, firefox and zotero.
There must be more useful software.

Firefox RULES

4/21

Today, Rab told us the main idea of how to write an essay.
It was very very interesting that we could write almost anything on a title for Rab's essay!

I had the basic idea of 5 paragraph essay but had never heard of short and long title.
I said that I will be writing about the world cup taking in South Africa this year and the education in South Africa.

I have to think of a title that will get the attention of readers.
Think of an interesting introduction and thesis statement.
Body paragraphs with topic sentence, rules of three, and if needed conclusion.
I got the basic idea of how to write but I don't think it would be as easy as Rab explained to us.


Let's hope that I could make up a title as interesting as As*ho*e Aso.

4/20

Shantonu (did I spell it right?) almost missed the class again!!!
Worried if he knows all the classes we have.

Anyway, I learned that choosing essay topic is hard.
Assumption and sensitivity were the two key word to think about when choosing research question. I do not really know if my question is fine.
I have not perfectly decided what I am going to write about.

I had no idea writing an essay is this hard!
I got to start working on it, or else.........


Ass U Me

4/19 Essay....

Today, we discussed about college as a "subversive" institution in Meiland.
Rab talked about the demo that took place in 80 or more major cities in 2003.
Most of the classmates did not know about this demo, while most of the people who joined the demo outside Japan were mostly students. I was disappointed in this because I was able to see it clearly that Japanese people does not care much about other countries and war.
What makes such a difference? Maybe the education in Japan has effected us. We do not speak up in class, nor do we ask question. We do not have much opportunities to think during class. All we do is to memorize facts. I was glad that I came to ICU, since most of the ICU teachers challenges us and makes us think.

Rab gave us an assignment. We now have to write a essay in two weeks or so.
He told us to think of the research question first. Do the thesis statement later, since thesis statement is the answer to the research question.
What I heard from Rab were mostly new to me and interesting.
I have to think of the topic for essay now!!!
Any good ideas? LoL

Video posting 4/16

In the ELP yesterday, we posted a video of ourselves.
Posting myself on a blog was seriously embarrassing!!! But it would be such a fun to watch other people's video post.

I have used web-camera when doing Skype, but I have never posted myself on the blog.
I did not know how either.

As Rab said, it may be lot easier just to take a video and post what you wanted to share with everyone on the blog than typing out everything.
IF you are good at speaking. lol

What I learned in the class was the importance of information.
It is not about the amount of information you put into ones essay or paragraph, but it is about choosing information that is really needed.

And we saw a video of a man doing crazy bike tricks. That was super cool. I wish I could do that too!!!

I wish our classes were all in computer room!

Kutiman-Thru-you - 01 - Mother of All Funk Chords
A piece of art made by Kutiman! This is great. I couldn't guess what is so unusual about this.
That is how high quality this movie is.

Thriving Ivory - Fans Cover "Angels on the Moon"
This song is vey very nice. I like it. But not all were good at singing even though it was still cool.

From watching these two videos, I learned that through making one piece of work, it is the quality that is important, not the amount of information you get. This could be also said to when writing a essay or paragraph. Do not just gather a lots of information from the same source, but gather the ones that are truely important from many kinds of sources.

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