Tag Question - Negative Statements with words such as hardly, seldom, nobody, etc.
Statements with words that carry negative meaning are considered negative statements and are followed by positive tags. A tag question is a statement turned into a question, when asking for confirmation or disconfirmation of that statement.
I have long heard about the year 2012? What is the significance of it? What will happen in year 2012? I do believe in the authenticity of the claim, but what is the probability? How likely will the claim come true? It all depends on the people. I cannot help but think of what Benjamin Franklin said. “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty”, a motto on the title page of “An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania” published by Franklin Benjamin, rings so true. I strongly believe that we control our own destiny and shape our own future. Can you argue with such a wise man when he stated that it was in the religion of ignorance that tyranny began and that the best security for maintaining our liberty was a nation of well-informed men of the rights that could not be enslaved?
Yes, Benjamin. I will echo “Where liberty dwells, there is my country”.
How Much to Reveal?
What to reveal and what not to? It is never easy to draw the boundary. Sharing one’s intimate thoughts or spilling one’s secrets seems all so much easy these days while hiding behind the computer screen.
I like to write about myself and my thought. However, this article is especially difficult for me to write and to share with you. This is an article about my mom and the various emotions I have around her. I have been contemplating whether to share this article with you or not. It isn't easy to share with you my vulnerability and my innermost feeling.
I thought of my mom, when writing the article “What is your priority?”. She is probably the only person in this world who causes me so many mixed feelings, guilt, anger and sadness. I am sad because I can no longer feel the closeness that once existed between us. I am angry because she treats me like an outsider. She has the strong and stubborn concept that a daughter once married is like water splashed outside the door. This daughter of hers is now someone else’s wife and she is bound to never burden, bother or trouble her daughter. The feeling of isolation from her makes me sad. In her mind, she is protecting me by not reporting any bad news. The fact that she would only tell my brother who is also married makes me mad. To her, my brother is not someone else’s husband; he is still considered as her son. I know. She still thinks me as her daughter but it makes me sad when she treats me differently and with courtesy. It hurts to feel like a stranger to her.
What is your priority?
My husband often says that I am an odd person, not easily influenced, with a strange logic and a stubborn mind that is beyond anyone’s comprehension. I can only say that I am a unique person with my own sense of priorities and principles. I am oblivious to many trivial stuff, trivial compared to my sense of priorities. Life is short. There is so little time for so many things, so it is important for me to focus on my priorities.
About Marriage
Before I get to the central point of my argument about why some Asian women prefer marrying a Caucasian, I want to express that I do see successes in some interracial marriages where the Asian woman or the Asian man does not carry a hidden agenda to purposely or exclusively seek out an American husband or wife to marry. These couples met by accident and later fell in love, which eventually led to their marriage. In their marriage, there are no strings attached, no hidden agenda, nor ulterior motive. These couples are not the protagonists of my article.
An analyst assigned to my project came to see me today to discuss testing and installation. She was intrigued by the family pictures that I hanged on the wall. The beauty of the gorge, valley and mountains in Taroko National Park captured her eyes. I told her that they were pictures taken in Hualien, Taiwan. She told me of her first trip outside of her home town when she was seventeen years old traveling alone to Taipei, Taiwan. I was surprised to learn that she does not speak Mandarin but she could read the traditional Chinese characters without problem. My thoughts went astray. How could she have poor command of the English language, yet does not speak Mandarin at all? How could she understand the traditional Chinese characters, yet has no knowledge of the spoken language, Mandarin? I know. I am so bad. I shouldn’t be so presumptuous. Looks can be deceiving. She has a facial feature like a Chinese. You would not think of her as someone from other ethnic groups.
It was interesting to hear her claiming to be the descendant of the royal family of the Song Dynasty that moved to Korea. She further stated that she kept her last name “Song” as her middle name to carry on her heritage. She went on with the story of how the royal family tree only kept a record of the sons but not the daughters, so her name was not recorded. Anyway, she sure pulled a prank on me because I suck at Chinese History. If she was not pulling a prank on me, she must also suck at Chinese History. Don’t laugh at me. I only vaguely remembered that “Kuangyin” was the founder of the Song Dynasty.
A Reality Check
My husband told me the other day about a feature in Wii Sports under Wii Fitness, which tests one’s fitness age. What it does is to calculate the fitness age of a person via assessing one’s performance on agility, dexterity and stamina in three randomly chosen sports. The fitness age ranges from 20 to 80 years old. You could be tested in tennis for “Returning Balls”, “Target Practice” and “Timing Your Swing”, in baseball for “Batting Practice”, “Swing Control” and “Hitting Home Runs”, in golf for “Putting”, “Target Practice” and “Hitting the Green”, in bowling for “Spin Control”, “Power Throws” and “Picking Up Spares”, and in boxing for “Dodging”, “Throwing Punches” and “Working the Bag”.
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