The fourth turning point

Steven Jobs’s fourth turning point.
By Augustine

“I was kicked out from the Apple company? Hell no! I quit! Apple was my company, home, and son. I will never forgive them, those unscrupulous, cheap, and despicable chairmans. I will come back one day, you will see.” I cried loudly in front of the bar. I screwed myself up and tried to drink as much as I could. Hopefully I can drink away my problems.

I called Laurene before I went into the bar and said that I had a very important meeting at Apple so I would be late a little. Yes, I lied, who doesn’t? I don’t want her to worry about this. I will handle it.

“Hey, bartender. Give me something strong would you?” I shook my goblet.
“Yes, sir.” She took two glass battle of unknown liquid and poured them into a cup. Then she shook the cup slowly for about 20 seconds. “Here you are, sir. Be careful, this has strong delayed effects.”
“Thank you, it’s perfect for me.” I look at this cup and sipped a little bit, and it tast good.

Time to go home, I thought one night of slacking off is enough. I putted down my cup and paid the bill, walked out the door. The sky was dark but clear to see the moon. Moon light just spray on my face. Suddenly, I felt a release. All the stress was gone. I needed a good deep sleep.

Walking on my own, I heard only my own footsteps and--- an other set of footsteps behind me. At first I didn’t really pay attention to them. I thought he was just another guy. So, I stopped walking, let him pass a way but he also stopped walking and stood behind me. I started to worry that maybe he has a drug addict wanting some money from me. But I was afraid to turn my head back.

“What.. what do you want from me?” I calmed myself down and said, “I have only 100 dollars, please take anything you need and leave.”
“I don’t want your money!” A voice came out from a young kid. Oh, shoot! He doesn’t want money? A robber doesn’t want money... then does he want to take my life?!
“Please don’t hurt me, I will do anything you want.” He didn’t sound like want to hurt me but I needed figure out want it was he wanted.
“I just want to borrow a few seconds Mr. Jobs.” He siad.
“Me? Sure, what is it about? Do you mind if I turn myself back?” I tried to see his face but his face was covered by his hood.
“Sure, my name is Augustine Tsen, you can called me Augustine. I am here because I want to do business with you.”
“Business? What kind of business?”
“This place is not the right place to talk about it, please follow me.” He walked away. No doubt that I would follow him. “Fine.” I said.
He walked into the bar I just left. He picked a small corner and sat down. “Would you like something to drink?” He said. His face was still covered by his hood. I could only see his chin.
“No, I am fine. Thank you.” I sat down in front of him and said, “what is it about?” It was not polite but he was not polite in the first place.
“About your future Mr. Jobs. I am selling your future.” He said it soundlessly.
“Hum? How exactly?” I asked.
“You were working for the Apple company, is that correct ?”
“Yes, and...?”
“You have been kicked out from your own compony?”His sound was a little sarcastic but I am more interested in what is he wanted to sell to me and what does he wanted.
“Yes, indeed, I couldn’t be more sad if I had then lost my own son, my own empire.”
“Here is an offer, would you like to take it?” Augustine took a disk and put it on the table.
“What is this?”
“Oh, Steven. This is your future. Inside of it has a document. Read it and I will see you tomorrow at the same time. Goodbye.” He dropped money for his drink on the bar and walked hurries to the door. When I ran out, I tried to searching for his shadow but I couldn’t see anything but darkness.

Back home, I turned on my computer, and put the disk inside. It’s loading... loading... and loading. I started to doubt, is it a new virus? It took 10 minutes to load. Surprisingly, this disk has 200GB. How amazing is that! That’s like 204800 mb or 209,715,200 kb. That is a tremendous space to use. AMAZING!

I couldn’t wait to read the file. I found out some words that were familiar. Such as “Mac”, “iPod”, “iCon” and some new words “iPhone”, “iPad”. The file didn’t show much about how to do it. Just many pictures and information. But I was astounded! This was way too far from the technology right now. I can’t wait till tomorrow. I have lots things to discuss with him.

The next day, Laurene passed me two papers and an other disk. I admit, he surprised me again. One paper was a contract to sign, one paper was a messenge he left for me.

Dear Steven Jobs:
When you read this I believe you will have a clue as to what is going on. I hope you will keep this secret between you and me. After 15 years, you will be extraordinary. And I 100% believe you will use everything that’s from the disk. I wish you will do just one thing for me. The other paper is a contract. After 20 years you will give Augustine Tsen 10% of your properties. That all I need. Enjoy of your future.

Augustine Tsen

....

After 15 years. I rebuilt my Mac empire. And I will never forget my fourth turning point. This point is hidden in my deepest memories. No one will ever know except Augustine and I.


The end.

Before I die!

It may seem very strange to the reader that one of my tender age should already be thinking about that inevitable end to which even the paths of glory lead. But, think about what am I going to experience would be the most exciting part of my life.

Everybody in the world may not live the same life. Some will live longer, some won’t. But we all will die one day. It’s just a matter of time. You never know when it will come. How will it be? After you die, the only difference between you and other people is how many people will still remember you.

Before I die, I want to make a lot of money, enough for me to buy my own houses, my own cars, my own computers and live happily for rest of my life. I won’t go against people who disagree with my idea of how I am going to live my life. I just want to be happy, enjoy living and not just being alive. I do not think this idea will make me a miser because I I will still spend them on available substances. Not just keep them for the rest of my life.

Before I die, I want to experience the most exciting things in the world. I want to feel my heart beat and feel that I am still alive. For example, I want to go Bungee jumping, parachuting, get on roller coasters, maybe sometime go to Six Flags, and do some more crazy things. That’s what young adults do. I want to always being a young adult.

Before I die, and before my parents die, I want to tell them how much I love them everyday and hug them. Family members are the most important people in the world. I love them very very much since I know things. My parents bred me, fed me and supported me. The most important thing is they gave me is life. They gave me a chance to discover this world. So, I want to love them, kiss them, and hug them before I or they die.

Before I die, I want to do something that is truly great for others. I want to help people as much as I can, as I want. I feel sorrow when I see people couldn’t live their life because they can’t. Many African children cannot survive because they don’t have enough food and medical supplies. They have poor families and social economic situations. Many kids have desire for love and food. They hope for one day where they can be full with their hunger satisfied. If I have the ability and money, I want to help them, and to be their second father.

I think life itself is like a labyrinth of mystery. Each door have different story. I will never knew what will be next if I pick neither one of them. I am afraid of the future that has no turning back, but I am also exciting to discover what is behind that door. I have some regrets that I cannot ever make it right again. And I have regrets that I couldn’t have done better. But this is life, right?

Submarine SMASH Day Reflection

Submarine SMASH Day Reflection

Today in science class we did a very interesting and fun science experiment. It was Submarine SMASH day reflection. Our mission was... To make a periscope and discover the box on the land inder the water which we needed to be under the table in the science class. Captain Ms. Smith(the nice captain ever!!) gave us the supplies to creat the periscope and then we can ues it to see the treasures in that cardboard treasure box. Each group has 10 papers, a mirror, a cardboard, a scissers, and free tapes. We have to see the treasure in the box as soon as possible, then we can traded it with captain for a chance to not doing work and have a nice break for a day. Behind the succesful there are always have fails. Luckly my partner Terry and I only needed to test it for 5 times and it worked great! But it just needed a little bit modified because it was not stable enough. So we builded the hard cardboard around our periscope and it worked even better. Everything were settle down. But we lost. It was because we were to slow. Sigh... Anyways, it was a great experience. There were two ideas that I never thought of and they work pretty well. If there are someone else is taking this mission, too. And they have a captain as nice as we do. I will suggest them do not use too many mirrors. Because the scense from your periscope will become indistinct.

Augustine finished the mission uncompleted.

Police crack China baby sale gang

BBC News: Police crack China baby sale gang
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7827800.stm
Page last updated at 11:33 GMT, Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Police in southern China have broken up a gang that abducted migrant workers' children to sell in distant provinces, state media reports.

Child trafficking is seen as a growing problem in China, despite government attempts to crack down on it. No matter how China government tried to get ride of the crimes of child trafficking.

"The children, mostly toddlers aged two or three years old, were snatched in Hunan province's Yueyang city while they were playing or sleeping. They were sold for between 860 yuan ($125, £86) and 26,000 yuan ($3,800), the Beijing News said.Five children had been rescued and 13 suspects arrested, Xinhua said. The children were snatched in broad daylight by gang members on motorbikes, it added.Police said they did not know how many children had been abducted altogether. The abductions began in September 2008, Xinhua reported." From the BBC news page, "Police crack China baby sale gang" First paragraph.

This is inhuman and crazy. 10,000 to 20,000 people are trafficked within China every year and that the vast majority are women and children. I cannot imaging how would that happened so easily and frequently. When I finish this article I can feel how grieved those family who lost their kids or women. It's terrible.

Poison milk in China

This article is about there were many poison milk which have melamine in side of the products in China. So on many kids drink the poison milk and dead because melamine cause their body have kidney stone.

China is a dangerous place? Few days ago, we had unknown hazardous gas, yesterday we had poisonous milk powder. Apparently, some milk powder produced by 22 manufacturers, some of which are quite well-known, are discovered having too much melamine, which is some sort of toxic chemical substance.

Taiwan has many of the poison milk powder, too. So many milk powder company lost the money because they have the poison milk powder from China. Is that those Taiwan companies' false? No, those Companies' just got the poison powder from China. They shouldn't have the responsibility for this.

A bias in this report is that are there every milk powder companies making poison milk powder? I am not get to know that but I am sure there are some milk powder don't have poisoned.

Science Debate ┤Are the cars a life?├ We stand by "YES"

Are the cars a life? Very interesting topic. I don't know if anyone thought about the value between living things and the non-living things. In our group we believes the cars are a life. How are we going to prove the cars are a life? We cannot prove it. But, we can look at the “The Six Characteristics” of life to show you why cars are a life. In six characteristics of life, there are Cells, Organization, Energy Use, Homeostasis, Growth, and Reproduction. We argued every characteristics accept Homeostasis and Energy Use. The reason we did not argue about Homeostasis and Energy Use was because both group knew those are the things car and all the living things have. So far we stop on the reproduction.

How do the human bins reproduce? As I know, we have sex with mate and the ovum meet sperm and then it becomes to cell. But how about how do cars reproduce? Actually is we, human reproduce the cars. We have blue plan as their DNA, we have factory as their uterus. How can you sure that cars are not a life?

After this I think we will mansion and discuss more deeper about Growth because I still don’t know how to describe how do cars growth. If the other group read this note, don’t be disappointed. We will figure out!! Trust me!

Auggie ∞ Ｔｓｅｎ