BakaToTestToShokanju

Since my English teacher increased the minimum of words in my blogs, I've decided to write about another new anime appropriately named Baka to Test to Shōkanjū. I couldn't use the accents in the title because blogger wouldn't let me, so that's the real title, pronunciation and everything.
Okay let's start with the title and explaining it. First of all it's called Baka to Test to Shōkanjū, as you have read up there. In Japanese it's written like this バカとテストと召喚獣. If you directly translate that it means "Idiots, Tests, and Summoned Beasts." This anime is based off of a manga written by Kenji Inoue and illustrations by Yui Haga. Three years after the manga was created, the anime was made. On January 7, 2010, this anime shown it's first episode.
The main character of this anime is Akihisa Yoshii, who is also known as the idiot or "Baka." Akihisa attends Fumizuki Academy, where students are divided into different classrooms depending on their rank and also test scores. (But most schools in Asia base students off tests and how smart they are. Oh and also some schools based off looks.)
Let's begin with Class A, if you're placed in this class, you'll be living in the life of luxury in school. Class A has the students ranked on the top of the list. Their classroom is filled with the most prestigious items such as air conditioners, for the hot summer days, fancy seats for comfortable learning, huge spaces for organized students, and so on. If I was in Class A, I would love going to school.
This school may seem like an average school in Asia, but you are wrong. This academy has something special to it, and that is, where all students manage to call forth Summoned Being or in other words, "Shōkanjū." The strength and power of your summoned beings are based off of the summoner's level. Class A would have the powerful beings, while Class F has the weak and puny beings.
Okay so back to the plot. Unfortunately on the day of the placement test, Mizuki Himeji suffered from a fever (and in Japan, if you miss the first test, there's a lower chance that you won't be able to take another test until next year). Because of that fever, Mizuki was unable to complete her test, and ended up failing it and placed into the rat hole of Class F. Some of the students in Class F are Akihisa Yoshii (baka), Mizuki Himeji (also known as the second-ranked student), Yūji Sakamoto (the class representative), Kinoshita Hideyoshi (a bishōnen, or a beautiful boy), Tsuchiya Kouta (a pervert), and Shimada Minami (a tomboy and Akihisa's "claimed" worst enemy).
Currently, this anime has been pretty interesting and a new plot in Romance Comedy and Fantasy category. I will not spoil this anime for you, so if you’re interested in it, watch it yourself!! xP Enjoy this brilliant anime. End. LOL.

HumanNature

To start this off, I'll introduce genocide. What is genocide? The term genocide was created by a Polish-Jewish legal scholar named Raphael Lemkin in 1944. The Latin word for gen or gentis means birth, race, stock, species, and kind. As stated from Wikipedia, "Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. Individuals only, not states, can be charged for genocide according to the UN Genocide Convention." But the real definition of genocide depends among the scholars. But the real definition is stated by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It states genocide as "any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, such as: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." What IS the real genocide?

The following information was taken from http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item
/20080805_rwanda_says_france_participated_in_genocide/.
After two years of investigating, a Rwandan commission has accused France of partaking in genocide. He assumed this because France was training Hutu militias and providing support to the Hutu government. That Rwandan commission also said that French forced murdered and raped Tutsis and Hutus. That French government has consistently denied involvement in the genocide, in which 800,000 people were killed. So do you think that Rwandan commissioner was telling the truth or just making up lies?

Why do people partake in genocide? Well first of all, who partakes in genocide? It began with a simple boycott of Jewish shops and ended in the gas chambers at Auschwitz as Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers ATTEMPTED to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe. Adolf Hitler killed members of a group, caused many serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group, deliberately inflicted damaged to others, imposed measures intended to prevent births within the group, and forcibly transferred children from one group to another group. If you don't call that partaking in genocide, I don't know what is then. In Rwanda in the year 1994, Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia who apparently used clubs and machetes, with as many as 10,000 killed each day!
Now why did/do people partake in genocide? Well the main reason is because of racial features and also religion. When people heard of this genocide, they began to question their own religion and faith. They began to question themselves because fear is growing inside of them. Anything can develop from fear; doubts, decisions, and even their own future.

What does the commonality of genocide lead you to believe about humanity? Genocide is among us, we just haven’t noticed it in the future day, because there are less now. And yes, I just said that there was less. Genocide is still happening in this modern day. From my research it shows that genocide first showed signs during the beginning of the 1900’s, around 1914 and 1918. And the most recent in the genocide report is in the late 1900’s, approximately 1990 and 1995. The research that I found might not be entirely true, since humanity now a days lie. So even though my research says that it probably ended, but humanity is never completely sure. We shouldn’t leave our guards down; we have to stay aware of all actions from all around the world. Genocide’s definition is – a horrible way to kill someone.

LunarNewYear

10 Most Ask Questions About Lunar New Year

What ethnicity celebrate Lunar New Year? Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean (there's also Korean New Year), Taiwanese...etc.

When is Lunar New Year? The first full moon of the year. It could be any date from the mid of January to mid February.

Why do married adults hand out red envelope with money to kids? For good luck and blessing them for a better future.

Why it is required to shower, clean the house and throw away all trash on the day before Lunar New Year? To wash away all bad luck, clean away all bad luck, and throw away all bad luck. In more simpler words, get rid of the bad luck.

Why there's no cleaning and throwing anything away on the 1st day of Lunar New Year? To keep all good luck in the house.

Why do people work ship, wear red, and post red paper with good wording? To chase away bad luck.

Why people purchase flowers for Lunar New Year? For good luck and prosperity. (Plum blossom, lucky bamboo...etc.)

What are some good Lunar New Year phrases? xīn nián kuài lè which means "Happy New Year(新年快樂), gōng xǐ fā cái meaning "Congratulations and be prosperous" (恭喜發財).

What year is this Lunar New Year? This Lunar Year is Tiger year. Rawr.

Why are dragon dances performed? The dances are used for chasing away bad luck and bringing in bless.

Hmm... since I need a three hundred word blog post and I don't have anything else to say, I'll just continue to talk nonsense. Blah blah. Hmm... what else should I say?

Happy Lunar New Year Everybody!!! Hope everyone has a great year with good health and good luck. And also my sister's wish for the year is to grow two inches and gain ten pounds. LOL.
恭喜發財!

StreetFairs

On Saturday, February 06th, there was a street fest in San Francisco Chinatown. My sister, her boyfriend, and I thought that when we got there we would just visit a friend who was volunteering at a flower booth and walk around. The friend was named Rithy. Since he didn't eat anything, we went to get him some food. But we didn't think that business would be so busy that he couldn't eat it at all. So from fast thinking, my sister jumped into the scene and volunteered to take his spot until he was finished when eating. But my sister had so much fun that she didn't want to leave, so we stayed there till the booth closed which was at about 6 pm. She got comfortable after a couple hours and used the microphone to attract customers. She said "Kim Lan $10", "Lucky Bamboo $9", "Cherry Blossom $8", but there was no Cherry Blossom, it was Plum Flower. Lol. Then she started saying, "buy some flowers for your girlfriend, your wife, your friends, the person you love, the person who love you", "make your dream girl your wife". Rithy saw some girls taking pictures of the flowers and say "buy the flowers, it'll last longer than a picture". And when I felt bored, I would join my sister and help out. I helped with the wrapping and selling. It was our first time going to the SweetHeart in SF and unlike the one in Oakland, they sold crepes. We had lots of fun. At the end of the day, the owners gave us some flowers for helping out.
On Sunday, February 07th, we went to a street fest in Oakland Chinatown. It wasn't as big as the one in SF, but it was nice and interesting. We also saw a simple, yet cool illusion trick. My sister saw one of her people and spent a few minute talking to her. I had lots of fun over the weekend.
And that was the end to my amazing wonderful weekend.