Today I went to the Monterrey Bay aquarium at 12 o'clock. It was a great place to be! For those of you who thinks that the aquarium is boring, you are about to be in a shock to see how great this giant structure is as an aquarium.
First of all the souvenir shop has many different kinds of great toys and plush animals and stuff you would have always wanted to get. and what I got over there so far is a octopus ball, which has an octopus inside a clear, large bouncy ball. And also, a plush otter, which is and baby otter holding a star fish. But now they only have sea otters with shells, so I actually got a limited edition. hurray! And now, moving on to the exhibits.
First of all, the deep edge, which is home to two large main attractions: the giant octopuses. From my experience, you have to go there early to see the octopuses move, and I arrived late to see them sleeping.Shame! But beside the octopuses, there is the giant sheep crab, which gives me the feeling that spiders are wearing armor. The sheep crab stands there all day, wanting attention, pride, and faces to stare at it. Then we look at the liner and the eel, which are moving through the tank. Finally! Something that moves!
Now we look at the kelp forest, which is home to many different kinds of sea life, but nothing much to talk about.
We go swimming with the jellies in the jelly displays, which shows many kinds of jellies swimming around. And wait till you hear this: We saw one fallen tentacle of a jelly fish suddenly became another jelly fish! How amazing!
Now we go to the outer bay to see some cool stuff: Tunas as big as adult humans! giant ocean sunfishes that crash open walls! and giant tiger sharks.
The tunas are virtually harmless, and the sunfish cracked a hole in the wall, but the workers took care of that, and the tiger sharks battle barracudas! Guess who wins! And it's : the hammer head shark! WOW!
At the otter stadium, no otters are fighting, but sleeping! But who would want to wake these peacefully sleeping otters up?
At the final part: The touch pool, we got to touch: The devastator crabs! And who would have thought that we didn't get devastated! Ha!
So that was my great visit to the aquarium! Hope you like this review! And now, go out there are see what you can discover at the aquarium! This is yaoyao9 signing off! Bye!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Hiking with me!
Hiking
Today at 11:30, my dad and I set out to hike at mission peak. We did not bring much: A can of cola, a figure, a can of tortilla chips, and a bottle of clear water. I didn't thought that hiking was exciting as it sounds, but it turned out as one of the greatest spectacles of my life.
As I said before, we sat out at 11:30, and we got into the car. The ride from San Jose to Fremont was boring, and I thought that the ride would never end. When we finally got there, we had to hike 20 feet or so to reach the start of the trail, and the muscles on my legs are bounding together tightly.
When we started on the trail, the hike seemed forever and the trail kept on getting curvier and curvier, then we noticed the shortcut. It was steep and skinny, just like any shortcut is like. But we made it through and reached the first bench.
At the first bench, we took pictures of each other and had some water. That is when I started to drink cola. I took a few pictures of my figure, and sat off once again. My dad warned me about drinking too much cola, my legs would hurt badly, and of course I did not listen, but I regretted that later.
After going through a few more shortcuts and dodging several pieces of cow poop on the trail, we finally made it to the second bench. There we took more pictures of my figure, had some water, observed the wild life, and took some pictures of the cows eating grass around us. We decided to get off the mountain now, so we started moving down. That is when the cola effect came. My leg started hurting, and we then had to slowly go down the mountain.
When we got back into the car to go back home, it was 3:00 in the afternoon. And when we finally got home, it was 5:00 already. But me and my dad had a great time, and that is the end of our hiking adventure.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Today's activity
Christmas with me!!
My Christmas was really fun. I woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to find my stocking filled with toys. I was really happy. I got a Kaijyu figure, a box of chocolate, and a pogo stick. When my parents woke up, I asked my dad to take me outside to play with my pogo stick. I had a great time.
Then my parents and me went to Fremont to look for a future house to buy. I fell asleep on the car. When I woke up, I was hungered to death. After what seemed like 2 hours, we finally found a fast food place for me to eat. When we continued. I was too sick to climb on the mountains, so we went home.
After a long day, we went home. My parents were exhausted, so they took a nap. While I played with my figures. By 6 o'clock, we ate dinner. Then at 11 o'clock, me and dad watched a movie together. And that is the end of my great day.
My Christmas was really fun. I woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to find my stocking filled with toys. I was really happy. I got a Kaijyu figure, a box of chocolate, and a pogo stick. When my parents woke up, I asked my dad to take me outside to play with my pogo stick. I had a great time.
Then my parents and me went to Fremont to look for a future house to buy. I fell asleep on the car. When I woke up, I was hungered to death. After what seemed like 2 hours, we finally found a fast food place for me to eat. When we continued. I was too sick to climb on the mountains, so we went home.
After a long day, we went home. My parents were exhausted, so they took a nap. While I played with my figures. By 6 o'clock, we ate dinner. Then at 11 o'clock, me and dad watched a movie together. And that is the end of my great day.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Today's Video
Surrealism with Tim&Moby
Surrealism, in a nutshell, is dealing with the relationship between the real world, the imaginary world, and the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the part of your mind that is active while you are dreaming. That is why a lot of surreal art has a sort of a dream like quality.
In a surreal art, the people, object, or animal is drawn in a realistic way. But these things are put together in a unreal or impossible way. Surreal art wasn;t just one art, it was a whole movement. There are surrealistic books, poems, music, and even movies. It is a pretty long story about how surrealism started.
The first few decades, or ten years, of the twentieth century was a revolutionary period. Electricity, the telephone, the radio, and the automobile, all these inventions took off in the year 1900 to 1920. And with the world war one going around at the same time, the world have just like changed in a short time! There was also a revolution of ideas. Albert Einstein redefined our understanding of time and space. Sigmund Freud, the father of cytology, started studying people's dreams. He had some radical ideas about what is happening in people's minds. Freud had a big impact on the surrealists at that time. During that time, artists were struggling to find ideas to express the world around them. The surrealists were a big part of this revolution. Surrealism, which reached it's peak in the 1920s to 30s, rejected the everyday world and created a reality based on the artists mind. The idea was, if we can reproduce the thoughts and the activity of the subconscious, artists can create art that is even more truthful and interesting than the real world. It is kind of hard to understand, but Moby can make it easy with all you readers.
The famous picture of a man with a tie and a hat with a apple in front of his face, that is a surreal art by a surrealist named Rene Magritte. Another piece , called the persistence of memory, the one that you might know with the melting clocks, is painted in 1931 by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali. Dali is probably the most know surrealist of all time because of his paintings and his surreal attitude. Dali's point is that people in the real world believe that time is rigid, straight, and unflexable. But to him, time is not a rigid thing. It is soft, flexible, and organic. Almost like a piece of soft cheese.
What ever it is, surrealism is fun to study and try. Recopy Dali's painting and put Moby's face on where the watches are supposed to be!Ha!
Surrealism, in a nutshell, is dealing with the relationship between the real world, the imaginary world, and the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is the part of your mind that is active while you are dreaming. That is why a lot of surreal art has a sort of a dream like quality.
In a surreal art, the people, object, or animal is drawn in a realistic way. But these things are put together in a unreal or impossible way. Surreal art wasn;t just one art, it was a whole movement. There are surrealistic books, poems, music, and even movies. It is a pretty long story about how surrealism started.
The first few decades, or ten years, of the twentieth century was a revolutionary period. Electricity, the telephone, the radio, and the automobile, all these inventions took off in the year 1900 to 1920. And with the world war one going around at the same time, the world have just like changed in a short time! There was also a revolution of ideas. Albert Einstein redefined our understanding of time and space. Sigmund Freud, the father of cytology, started studying people's dreams. He had some radical ideas about what is happening in people's minds. Freud had a big impact on the surrealists at that time. During that time, artists were struggling to find ideas to express the world around them. The surrealists were a big part of this revolution. Surrealism, which reached it's peak in the 1920s to 30s, rejected the everyday world and created a reality based on the artists mind. The idea was, if we can reproduce the thoughts and the activity of the subconscious, artists can create art that is even more truthful and interesting than the real world. It is kind of hard to understand, but Moby can make it easy with all you readers.
The famous picture of a man with a tie and a hat with a apple in front of his face, that is a surreal art by a surrealist named Rene Magritte. Another piece , called the persistence of memory, the one that you might know with the melting clocks, is painted in 1931 by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali. Dali is probably the most know surrealist of all time because of his paintings and his surreal attitude. Dali's point is that people in the real world believe that time is rigid, straight, and unflexable. But to him, time is not a rigid thing. It is soft, flexible, and organic. Almost like a piece of soft cheese.
What ever it is, surrealism is fun to study and try. Recopy Dali's painting and put Moby's face on where the watches are supposed to be!Ha!
Friday, December 18, 2009
Today's video
Asthma with Tim&Moby
Asthma is a common condition of the lungs. People who has asthma can experience coughing, shortness of breath, tightness in the chest. But having a cough does not mean you have asthma. When we breath, air is sucked into narrower and narrower into hundreds of little sacs called alveoli. In here, blood if refreshed with oxygen and carbon dioxide is expelled.
But the air that we breath is not always as fresh as it could be. There is bunches of gunk in it like smoke, pollution, mold, pollen, pet dandruff, dust particles, the list goes on for ever with the mutating viruses!(See the swine flu entry for more info)To people with asthma, these gunk trigger an asthma attack. Attacks like this can also be triggered through exercise, food allergies, weather conditions, and even strong emotions. It just depend on the people.
During an asthma attack, the lung air ways gets irritated. When the cells in the air ways detects a trigger, it overreacts and spits out chemicals to make the mucus production increase, causing the airways to swell. The swelling and mucus makes the airways narrower and narrower that is hard to breath. That is why people with asthma keep their inhalers handy at all times. When an asthma attack happens, the medicine in the inhalers go inside the airways and reduce the airway swelling to make breathing easier. Checking your peek flow meter daily is good, too. Doctors are really good at diagnosing, and treating asthma. That is good because then people with asthma can now run around and do all sorts of stuff. There is even Olympic sports champions with asthma too to show you how treatable it is.
Even because the asthma is a common conditions to the lungs, it is still easily treatable. Have a nice day!
Asthma is a common condition of the lungs. People who has asthma can experience coughing, shortness of breath, tightness in the chest. But having a cough does not mean you have asthma. When we breath, air is sucked into narrower and narrower into hundreds of little sacs called alveoli. In here, blood if refreshed with oxygen and carbon dioxide is expelled.
But the air that we breath is not always as fresh as it could be. There is bunches of gunk in it like smoke, pollution, mold, pollen, pet dandruff, dust particles, the list goes on for ever with the mutating viruses!(See the swine flu entry for more info)To people with asthma, these gunk trigger an asthma attack. Attacks like this can also be triggered through exercise, food allergies, weather conditions, and even strong emotions. It just depend on the people.
During an asthma attack, the lung air ways gets irritated. When the cells in the air ways detects a trigger, it overreacts and spits out chemicals to make the mucus production increase, causing the airways to swell. The swelling and mucus makes the airways narrower and narrower that is hard to breath. That is why people with asthma keep their inhalers handy at all times. When an asthma attack happens, the medicine in the inhalers go inside the airways and reduce the airway swelling to make breathing easier. Checking your peek flow meter daily is good, too. Doctors are really good at diagnosing, and treating asthma. That is good because then people with asthma can now run around and do all sorts of stuff. There is even Olympic sports champions with asthma too to show you how treatable it is.
Even because the asthma is a common conditions to the lungs, it is still easily treatable. Have a nice day!
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Today's video
Swine Flu with Tim&Moby
Lately in this term of the century, there has been worries about a Swine Flu outbreak. An outbreak is when a flu spreads quickly across a population. But you know what,you cannot get swine flu from any properly cooked pork or pig product. Which means that it is okay to eat bacon. Now that the scientists are convinced that this is not a swine flu at all!
Like all viruses, the swine flu is created by the influenza virus. There are many strains, or version of the influenza virus. Each one is slightly different than the last. Some of the virus make us sick with a mixture of fever, coiffing, body acks, upset stomach, throwing up, and diarrhea that make us have a flu. Some viruses only affects birds giving them avian flu. Swine flu comes from viruses that only affect pigs. But sometimes, the flu that are usually for animals can mutate into viruses that harm us. Scientists now believe that the swine flu right now is made from combining 4 viruses that contain two swine, one avian, and one human. That is why scientists call the swine flu h1n1. Once a virus mutates, it could spread from infected pigs to farmers that made direct contacts with them. Then the virus start spreading around other people. The original case started in Mexico but it wasn't thought to be where h1n1 was created. What ever happened, it quickly spread across the world.
For whatever reasons, the h1n1 is pretty bad. But it cures pretty easily. Chock on bacon, Moby!
Lately in this term of the century, there has been worries about a Swine Flu outbreak. An outbreak is when a flu spreads quickly across a population. But you know what,you cannot get swine flu from any properly cooked pork or pig product. Which means that it is okay to eat bacon. Now that the scientists are convinced that this is not a swine flu at all!
Like all viruses, the swine flu is created by the influenza virus. There are many strains, or version of the influenza virus. Each one is slightly different than the last. Some of the virus make us sick with a mixture of fever, coiffing, body acks, upset stomach, throwing up, and diarrhea that make us have a flu. Some viruses only affects birds giving them avian flu. Swine flu comes from viruses that only affect pigs. But sometimes, the flu that are usually for animals can mutate into viruses that harm us. Scientists now believe that the swine flu right now is made from combining 4 viruses that contain two swine, one avian, and one human. That is why scientists call the swine flu h1n1. Once a virus mutates, it could spread from infected pigs to farmers that made direct contacts with them. Then the virus start spreading around other people. The original case started in Mexico but it wasn't thought to be where h1n1 was created. What ever happened, it quickly spread across the world.
For whatever reasons, the h1n1 is pretty bad. But it cures pretty easily. Chock on bacon, Moby!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Today's video
Laser with Tim&Moby
How do you make a laser? The word laser stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. In modern days, you can find laser used everywhere.
A laser beam is a powerful beam of coherent light. In that phrase, it means that the light is traveling all in one direction. A laser light is created from a lasing medium, it can be solid, liquid, or even gas like. The atoms in the lasing medium is made into a excited form by two power cords, like electricity. After the atoms absorbed enough energy, the will have to release it in a photon, a single unit of energy. When an photon is released, it will bump into other atoms, causing them to also release another photon of the same pattern. Mirrors at both ends of the laser bounce the photons back and forth, back and forth. And then, you got a huge amount of coherent light inside the laser. One of the mirrors is only half silver, and that allows a hard, solid stream of light to pass through. And that is why a laser light is so special.
A light bulb sends different waves of light in all directions. Those lights, which we see as color, combine together to make a giant mass of white. Laser light is only one color, and always focused. They can be used for a lot, like playing music to communication to measuring distances and even to delicate medical procedures. Some lasers are even hot enough to cut through metal!Lasers are also used for a lot of thing you couldn't imagine! You can use them to make holograms. Doctors use lasers to treat eye problems by dong a thing called LASIK, grocery stores use them to scan bar codes, and you can even get to scare a cat! Because lasers are so cheap these days.
Lasers are sure fun to study. Check out Moby with a light saber!
How do you make a laser? The word laser stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. In modern days, you can find laser used everywhere.
A laser beam is a powerful beam of coherent light. In that phrase, it means that the light is traveling all in one direction. A laser light is created from a lasing medium, it can be solid, liquid, or even gas like. The atoms in the lasing medium is made into a excited form by two power cords, like electricity. After the atoms absorbed enough energy, the will have to release it in a photon, a single unit of energy. When an photon is released, it will bump into other atoms, causing them to also release another photon of the same pattern. Mirrors at both ends of the laser bounce the photons back and forth, back and forth. And then, you got a huge amount of coherent light inside the laser. One of the mirrors is only half silver, and that allows a hard, solid stream of light to pass through. And that is why a laser light is so special.
A light bulb sends different waves of light in all directions. Those lights, which we see as color, combine together to make a giant mass of white. Laser light is only one color, and always focused. They can be used for a lot, like playing music to communication to measuring distances and even to delicate medical procedures. Some lasers are even hot enough to cut through metal!Lasers are also used for a lot of thing you couldn't imagine! You can use them to make holograms. Doctors use lasers to treat eye problems by dong a thing called LASIK, grocery stores use them to scan bar codes, and you can even get to scare a cat! Because lasers are so cheap these days.
Lasers are sure fun to study. Check out Moby with a light saber!
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