The King's stammering

The Best Picture: "The King's Speech" was awarded Oscar's best picture this year.  Before the ceremony, I did not know about this film (I personally liked the "Winter's Bone").  So for the sake of my curiosity, I went to see this movie this weekend.  Although it was released a while ago, the theater room was a bit filled with people, perhaps because this film gained some attention due to the award.

Stammering: Why do some people stammer (stutter)?  I recollect that one of my classmates in the middle school had this type of speech problem.  He was a smart kid and always in the top three in my class.

The cause: As seen in the movie, stammering might mostly come from the psychological trauma during early childhood.  Family feud, frustration, pressure from siblings, peers or teachers, particularly at the ages at which language skills develop, causes kids to become anxious about disfluency.  Impatience makes things worse, as the king's father did in the movie.

Speech anxiety:

Nearly most of people have an anxiety of public speech.  Why not?  It is natural.  As part of my job duties, I have to stand in front of a bunch of students and deliver the lectures.  The very first class was very scary, particularly because my spoken language skill (broken English) was still awkward.  I stammered on some occasion, because I could not find right words at those moments, although I practiced the lecture several times before I went to the lecture room.  

As part of the class activity, students are asked to make oral presentations.  Some of them have shaky voice and stammer due to the anxiety.  Only experience will relieve them from this type of stress. 

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벌레는 어떻게 날개를 갖게 되었나?

Natural history of the winged insects is still controversial. The link below might give some hint. hm~~.

How Did Insects Get Their Wings? - Origins

AD/BC

기원전 (Before Christ, BC), 기원후 (Anno Domini, AD):
이상은 우리에게 잘 알려진 역법표기인데, 요즈음엔 BC/AD 대신에 BCE/CE 를 종종 글에서 접하게 된다.

해서 찾아보니, B.C.E. 는 (Before the Common Era),  C.E. 는 (the Common Era)의 약자로 쓰여진다고.... 

아마도 국제적으로 편의상 다 같이 쓰는 역법에 특정 종교의 영향이 담뿍 들어가 있는 용어를 배제하고저 함이 아닐까.  옳은 방향이라 사료된다. 

올해가 단기 4344년 인가??

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Oscars

I love watching movies, and finally it (Oscars Award Ceremony) was over.  Out of 10 contenders for the Best film, I watched three (Toy Story 3, Inception, and Winter's Bone) before the ceremony.  Other nominated ones were unfamiliar.  But I will definitely watch the winner film (The King's speech) in the near future.  ^^

Mike Rowe and Audubon

I love bugs, and this is a kind of my dream job of post-retirement era.  In this show, I like Mike's comments at intermission  =°|°=

So long, Farewell, Auf wiedersehen, Good bye, Adue, DJ, SJ, SD, SJ, YN.

Feel like we are all nomad, wandering from one place to another, no matter where you live or no matter how long you stay.  As for myself, I moved perhaps 3-4 times in Korea, and 5 times within the U.S. (SF>WL>TX>TX>Boston>TN).  We met new people, and they left us behind as they moved for their job, school, career or many other reasons.  'Left behind' is not fun at all.  Unfortunately, we can't help it but we did the same when we were heading to a new place.

As we get older, it becomes harder to make new friends, as our mind and brain gets complicated, measures and criticize lots of things, which often cause misunderstandings or jealousy.  허긴 오래 산 부부도 갈라지기가 다반사이네. 

Relationship with other human beings is so volatile that it is not easy to share our emotion, and feelings deep inside of our heart with other people.  This might be one reason why 'cyber (=virtual) friends' are more attractive and social networking is so popular these days.

This morning a family of our GOOD friend (three kids) left for Korea, as he starts a new job in Ulsan.  They will have a hard time in the beginning, as they start anew.  Wish them to lead a comfortable life.  잘 있으오~~잘 가오... 살아있으면 또 만날 날이 있으리오.  =°°=

My name is Khan.

"My name is Khan"
This is the title of the movie that I rented this weekend.  I have not heard of this movie before. According to the script, it seemed to be a romance movie.  But there were much more.

The story is about Mr. Khan, a Muslim who came to the US before 9/11. He has Asperger's disorder, but lived normal life, except for some dysfunctional social life.  He then fell in love with a Hindu woman who divorced with a boy.
He married to this woman and lived happily for a while until 9/11 changed everything.  Since then, his family has suffered from 'you know what I mean'.  The family lost a big thing, but eventually gained even bigger one through this ordeal.

It is emotional and a human drama.  I certainly recommend it.  =°|°=