Rites of Passage Ceremony 2017

Before fading feeling that I felt in the Rites of Passage Ceremony 2017, I should write something about this because this is the exact feature of why and what I like the US. Some of the people that I know maybe could make fun of me by saying that you become a pro-America. But I don't care at all since everything has pros and cons,  every character has two sides of a coin or even more.

When I was invited by my friend and before I attend the ceremony, I felt a bit of excitement, thinking of some drama or some image usually shown that, sunny day, chairman's address, and throwing caps over a head after the ceremony. Sorry for saying that interesting point, at least to me, is this dominant image of which most of the main characters were white.

The day, however, was different. Arrived at the place, I noticed something different atmosphere. The people passed by me was one by one, almost no white. I checked the brochure, and I got to know this is one ceremonies for black and latino student among the many graduation events. Oh my gosh! How the university could do this kind of event! The ceremony was full of hope for the future, that was based on respect for the ethnic tradition, solidarity for social progress and emphasis on service for the community. By that time that I watched this graduation ceremony, I got to love Rutgers and honored to be here.

The thing I will remember is that there is no reason that we don't have to be a solid one, but what we need is solid belief that coexist together as the way we are with respect. Thank Liza and congratulation.
 http://prcc.rutgers.edu/rop2017/

Korean Election Day for the people abroad

The day that All Koreans are waiting is coming now and for the people who are outside Korea came about a week early.
Interesting thing today after I entered the place for voting was that I have one paper for stamping cells for presi. candidates and one envelope for putting the paper in.
I thought voting for abroad was counted each place that was votted, but it wasn't and these ballots are going to be sent to Korea. In the 9th of May, all ballots are gathered in asigned place and will be opened together.




After the vote, I stoped by the liberty park. Sunny day made the pictures of Central Railroad of New Jersey(CNRNJ), Manhattan, Ellise island, Statue of Liberty so good. This time I walked along the Hudson though, next time I'll take a ferry and go to Ellis Island Museum of Immigration!

One side of Ellise island belonged to NYC, the other side to NJ.
https://www.nps.gov/elis/index.htm
http://www.njparksandforests.com/parks/liberty_state_park/liberty_crrnj.html

Why the US have a lot of cherry blossom?

Why the US have a lot of cherry blossom?

Japan’s attack on the base marked the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), which ended with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth in September 1905. The US government engineered that treaty, so Mizuno had a strong sense of gratitude toward the United States.

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He[mayor of Tokyo, Ozaki Yukio (1858–1954, Tokyo mayor 1903–12] promptly secured a budget to prepare and ship 2,000 cherry saplings to Washington DC. The shipment left in January 1910, but insect pests and disease afflicted most of the saplings during the long sea voyage.

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Tokyo’s second cherry-tree shipment, this one comprising 3,020 saplings of 12 varieties, left the port of Yokohama in February 1912. The careful preparations and precautions proved effective, and the shipment arrived safe and sound. Neither insects nor disease had damaged a single sapling. (from http://www.nippon.com/en/features/c02002/)

The cherry flowers in the US is the symbol of alliance between Japan and the US. Then, it brings one question what the symbol of that between Korea and the US is? I wonder the answer of the right side in Korea...

Anyway, below are pics from friends

* Pics from Kyoto

I wonder where the place has this kind of the beautiful cherry blossom. It dosen't look like the railroad near the univeristy of Rithumei(?) or northeastern side of Kyoto, having series of tiny stations. Anyway so good.


















Shijo-dori.






















Kamo-gawa.























* pic from Branch Brook Park


https://www.google.com/maps/place/%EB%B8%8C%EB%9E%9C%EC%B9%98+%EB%B8%8C%EB%A3%A9+%EA%B3%B5%EC%9B%90/@40.7612459,-74.1822747,15.56z/data=!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x89c25491d00b5073:0xcd870898964045ff!2z67iM656c7LmYIOu4jOujqSDqs7Xsm5A!8m2!3d40.7594562!4d-74.181168!3m4!1s0x89c25491d00b5073:0xcd870898964045ff!8m2!3d40.7594562!4d-74.181168

[Pic #1] Negri-Nepote Native Grassland Preserve

[Negri-Nepote Native Grassland Preserve]

 [Mar.30.2017]

[Sep. 2016]



This is the first trial shot by new camera and the latter one is the pic shot last year. The day I took pics was gloomy and the time needs to get accustomed to use the one though, the second shot looks so good that the phone seems superb than the new camera. It, however, is due to the manipulation. Anyway, I'll do photo as much as I have a time, which most of the place that I take a shot would be that I'll be going to miss after leaving the US. This is the one of those, Negri-Nepote Native Grassland Preserve, even I don't have idea why the name is so long, which the first place I went after bought my car because of the closeness to my house, this made me surprised that such peaceful plain is very near me, and one day I could meet the flock of deers. Now I knew the NJ is not simply calm, peaceful, and natural, nevertheless, it is good enough to like the green nature reflecting the place that I'll go back.

I heard the some story that the owner of the farm around the preserve is the descendant of the great landowner who had a lot of lands and farms around here. To imagine the family have had the land of their ancestor over 1~2 century is not easy for me who lived the place of which have changed almost everything one or two decades.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Negri-Nepote+Native+Grassland+Preserve,+Somerset,+NJ+08873/@40.4712145,-74.5192343,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c3c16049bb4d6b:0x2981b8c94a80156a!8m2!3d40.4746096!4d-74.5265535

[Diary #1] bought a camera

Last dawn bought impulsively a camera on Amazon. For a long time, maybe about six months I've been thinking about buying a camera, just camera not a fancy camera but a better than the camera that I bought in mid last summer which was for works of taking a photograph documents of ARI that my advisor gave to me. The problem was that I didn't think it enough and the only thing I cared about was that I would be satisfied with a camera giving me a good pic, disappointedly it wasn't, even though I tried not to do, it has gave blurred, pointless pics.
Looking back to my past 5 years, however, I've lost so many valuable things that is not only expensive, but meaningful enough to be thought favourite, some of the presents myself for my working, thus this made me to give up having something pricey because I didn't want to lose anything anymore. What seems to be interesting is that I haven't lost anything from the one very sad day that I lost so many many things in a day that broke my heart.
It's not a so much expensive one I bought today's daybreak though, it's quite a luxurious product itself reflecting my recent spending. Announce that it'll going to be changing my blogging with pics.

Olympus PEN Mini / E-PM1
https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympusepm1/21

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Synonyms for in the middle of prep concurrently with an activity, event
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/in%20the%20middle%20of           
Synonyms for these days adv presently
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/these%20days
Alternative expression of the adjective of sad
http://m.blog.naver.com/skybell05/10149890603

 

[Expression] not least because

https://www.italki.com/question/112589?hl=ko

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/not-least

important, particular

[Reading Note 1] The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson

[Preface]
P.5 If we stop history at a given point, then there are no classes but simply a multitude of individuals with a multitude of experiences. But if we watch these men over an adequate period of social change, we observe patterns in their relationships, their ideas, and their institutions. Class is defined by men as they live their own history, and, in the end, this is its only definition.

How many things and what kinds of a premise block one to understand the "genuine" meaning of as itself. It could be from the one considered as a small facts, in broader sense, to the modern scientific academic system.