A TV Show

About two weeks ago, a friend introduced me a television show called "Lie to me". First before I blah about this show, I saw this commercial on the television and I thought it was another crime or murder show. I hate watching a show with blood, dead people, etc. It's not my type show, so I was not interested until my friend told me about the show. I was suspect and afraid that it would show blood, blah.

I decided to watch the first episode of "Lie to me" to see for myself. That first episode surprised me because it was about how to tell a person was lying. It called "microexpressions". After that episode, I was wondering if those could be true. I decided to research and learned about the man, Dr. Paul Ekman who said, "facial expressions of emotion are universal and not determined by culture".

Dr.  Paul Ekman work with director to make sure microexpressions were correct. He gave them the face pictures of famous people to use on the show. It was so interesting to watch this show. I couldn't remember but the show or Dr. Paul Ekman said people can lie but the body or face cannot. That's how he used microexpressions to find the truth.

You can google Dr. Paul Ekman or the show and learn about microexpressions. It turned out I enjoyed this show because I like to learn about microexpressions. Annie and I discussed about deaf culture because deaf people use lot of facial expressions as part of language. Are those "deaf" facial expression difficult to read or it's just "universal and not determined by culture"? It would be very interesting if they use deaf people in this show. Maybe I should write a letter-mmm..

Anyway if you're curious to watch this show but do not have a television cable like me. You can watch it on Hulu.com. It's free! But Hulu does not have first and second seasons of this show. I think Annie said it has third season on Hulu now. You can get some idea of this show. :D

Ski Days

It was time to say bye Lyon and Oklahoma. A day before I learned that Baltimore might get lot of snow and might cause delay, cancel, etc flights. Uh oh! I was wondering how long the delay might be or will my flight be cancelled? I checked my flight website and said it was good and still leaving on time, eh.

The next day was beautiful weather in Oklahoma. I checked again and still saying it's still leaving on time. THAT made me extremely nervous because it made me imagine the plane landing on the icy road--blah blah. Well, my plane left on time and landed on time. Whew!

Annie told me that the schools were cancelled and decided to pick me up. (Her sister was supposed to pick me up.) She surprised me by going to a little vacation to a mountain for ski. I can't believe she takes a risk to drive in this condition because snow is not over yet. We ended up staying there for two nights.

We arrived a ski resort and decided to go ski. I wish I could film this condition -- umm I really can't see where I'm going! My goggle decided to be foggy. My glasses liked goggle's idea and became foggy as well. Double fogies. Can you imagine me ski with both foggy? I had to remove my goggle to see where I am going. Good thing I didn't hit a tree! But the icy/snowy wind hitting on my face, it was GRRR because I want to put my goggle on! Of course, it caused me to stop frequency to remove my goggle and see where I am. :S

I learned that it was different skiing in powered snow and groomed. Powered was a bit difficult to ski! I had so much fun skiing in this condition because Annie and I continued laughing at ourselves for being idiot skiers. :D

 That picture was blurred but look behind me. The condition was a little better because it was starting clear up. In this picture, you can't see several paths behind me as you supposed to see. 

Thanks Annie, I had fun time. 

Hello Oklahoma, Bye Oklahoma!

I had an opportunity to visit Lyon's family for a week in Oklahoma. I'm grateful that Oklahoma's weather decided to behave for me. I had a great time with kids and my sister! I was amazed how Missy and Dave handle with four wild kids! Wink. 

 We are flying!

 Let's get closer to my face--look below, I did a good job..

Look at Megan!

 Not surprising, Rachel LOVES being in prison. She just sit or climb the bars. 

 This little town was best part of a Cowboy Museum.

 Go! Go!

 Rachel loves to cook for us. Megan wanted to help her, umm, Rachel is a bossy cooker. 

Clever, Dave.

Thank you, Lyon for having me for a whole week!

Zoku

Have you heard Zoku? I haven't until Annie told me about it because one of kids got one. It made Annie wanted one for us. I thought it was a neat toy and didn't realized it was healthy snacks because it has real fruits, interesting sugars, and AWESOME tastes!

Annie and I were exciting to make some and decided to test three different kinds of ice pops to try. We invited Katie to join with us to make ice pops. Making ice pops were a bit complex but fun to do. I think the worse part is to mesh the fruit, for example, blackberries has lot of seeds. :D

We pour some in the Zoku and see how it goes. Cool. That was not the exciting part yet until you pull it out from the Zoku. THAT was so exciting because you can see what we put it in there.

Those pictures show how fun it was. :D After we made one batch and decided to make second batch of ice pops. Yummy, we were not sure if we wanted to make third batch. We did but ended up didn't eat it. Each ice pops only have 2oz and it didn't have lot of it. I wouldn't be guilty since it's only 2 oz AND LOT of fruits in it. For example, you see three ice pops from above that Katie and Annie were holding.

First left ice pop was strawberries and banana, second was blackberries, blueberries, and banana, and third is orange cream (that included peaches and orange juice). Yup, yup, those fruits are in those ice pops. :D I mean you buy real fruit and chop them then threw them in blender. Done with blender and add some stuff then put in Zoku. That's it! Amazing tastes! Unfortunately ice pops ended up goes to our dinner. :D  (Of course, we had to find something to eat to satisfy our stomaches.)

That was my adventure from last night with exciting new toy in my home. It was fun. Let's see how often we will make this year with Zoku. :S

Love Language

My friend emailed me this video and I liked it. Hope you enjoy it as well. 

Monster Haircut

I know you wanted to see my monster hair before you make a decision if the student was right or not. Here you go!

Who Should I Trust?

Last Thursday, I got my haircut. Funny thing about getting a haircut--I ALWAYS got the same results from four different stylists at different times. I showed several pictures what I would like and gave some ideas. They looked at those pictures and said that one good for you. Okay.. go cut my hair to make me look cute. The picture looked not too short or not too long. I ended up--umm short, maybe if one more inch then it would be very short. And I didn't look same from that picture! I always ended up differently than the picture. And SERIOUSLY, every time stylists finished up with my hair and I always looked like old fart woman with fluffy hair! (Sobbing, I do not want to look OLD FART SINGLE WOMAN!)

I had hard time to fix my hair look cute. Oh boy! Today one person asked me to sub for him. I tried to fix my hair to look good for school. I thought I did and left the apartment for sub. Some people said I looked cute or they liked my hair. In my mind, whew! I guess I did okay job with my hair.. Of course, some kids spotted my CIs instead my new hair style! Haha, they were fascinated my CIs because of colors (Blue/Red). They were so jealous because of colors AND TWO CIs. Funny kids. (A few of kids have two CIs but only tan or dark brown. They do have options of colors, but I guess the parents didn't want that--I wondered why..)

Speak of funny kids-- I went in one of classrooms to help the teacher with deaf kids.

Girl: Your hair! Your hair spunky!

Me: Yeah, same you. (She has wavy hair) Different bangs. (her bangs were long, almost over her eyes)

Girl: (giggling) Me grow bangs. (act cool)

Boy: (surprised) Your hair! You spunky! You spunky, you fix-hair haunted hair? You monster?

Me: (Puzzled, was he kidding?) Monster?

Boy: Your hair, you fix-flip why? Same monster. You monster. (Oh boy, he was serious about this...)

Geez, was he telling the truth about my hair? I started to wondering should I trust somebody who comment about my hair. Was my hair looked so awful? Maybe other people were afraid to say the truth! Maybe it did look awful!

A Book

I was bored and decided to go to a library to get some books to read. I thought it would be good for me to read, so I could improve my English grammar. And I don't have to worry wasting my money on it if I hated it. Right now, I'm on seventh book since I borrowed those

books two and half weeks ago. Well, I didn't finished one book because it was bored. I guess it's technically to say sixth book for me.

Before I hit it off with books, Annie found one library near our apartment. I went there and saw it was a tiny library! I was successful to borrowed four books and bought it home with me. Those books were children literature. I started off one of books. In a few days later, Annie told me about awesome library in Columbia (about 40 minutes away from our apartment). I wanted to check it out myself.

Annie and I went there and saw it was bigger library than other library we went! I was excited because I knew there would be lot of books available for me to borrow. I looked at my listing and found some of books were available! Oh I made a listing the books what I wanted to read. Anyway I was exciting to go back after I finished with two books. I think Annie and I will go back tomorrow to return two books AND get more books to read!

The point of the story was about one book I really like a lot. The book surprised me because it was different than other books I have read. The book called, The Giant-Slayer by Iain Lawrence. From this book, I have learned about polio. I know polio is but never knew how it works, etc. This book touched my heart. I finished this book this morning and still sinking in my head and heart. I'm grateful that we do not have to worry about polio today because they discovered a vaccine to protect from getting polio.

Funny thing, it's children literature book. It's a fantasy story, but also it's about polio. I will not go farther about this book to put you sleep. :D

I hope my mood of reading books will continue for a long time until I run out of my mind! Oh there were two cute books I liked: The Year Money Grew on Tree by Aaron Hawkins and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. Oh yeah, there is one more, Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. Okay, I better shut up and let you go peace.