Home is always your harbor

This is my fifth times to respond to the Ugly Museum. The title “Ice cube” attracted me in a very profound way. The small synthetic ice cube herald the iceberg keep melting these couple years and the temperature keep rising. People have had to find a way to save the iceberg of the south pole not watch them disappear on earth.

The article at first mentioned that in the year 2120, there would be no more ice that’s created by nature. The ices on Mount Everest had all melted twenty years ago and the frosts at both of the south and north pole vanished utterly. The article also talked about that centuries ago, the global organizations had started to raise the severity of protecting the environment on Earth and they also want governments to publish policies against the issue of global warmings in different countries but it doesn’t work out. Now at the beginning of 2020, South pole temperature reached around 68 Fahrenheit. The situation is really bad now and people try to use machine to stop what happen right now.

I have the same idea that we can not point on the machine to save us and our nature. We have to protect the nature and start on ourselves. Use less energy and try to release less carbon dioxide to keep temperature not rise so fast. If everyone can do that, the world will be better and we have always remind ourselves that we are not the only one live on earth and we have to leave a better home for future generations to live in.

This time I will travel into a body of Paraglider who gets stuck in power lines. I’m pretty sure that this time will have an unprecedented experience.

The process of the travel is as usual. When I open my eyes, I’m frightened by what I saw. I’m trapped in the wires for more than three hours, I can feel the fairness of the body. Tired, thirsty and scared all come over my mind. The sun already go down and I can see the whole view is getting dark. Now I just have one wish is to get back to the ground not hanging at six hundred meters in the air.

When I’m start to think If I will die here because I think nobody will notice me, I see the Fire Battalion coming. People who live here are all coming to see me, I’m so lucky that even fly into the wires which with high voltage and can kill me easily didn’t kill me. The pacific Gas and Electric Company turned off all the power in the area to prevent me being electrocuted. The Olivehurst Fire Battalion Chief Randy York tells his team to focus on let me know to stay in contact with the aircraft and not to try to reach out, touch them or move around as much so that the aircraft stayed still and wouldn’t potentially fall. The rescuers begin work to get me down and soon, I’m rescued safely and people who come to see what happened all cheer for me to make it.

I’m very moved and grateful that people love to help each other who are in dangerous or need to help, everyone has a sweet heart and this time felling is quite different, not only I fell dead for first time but also the company and government’s decisions and actions fast. Never give up if you still fell you can go on when you face the problems and never let yourself down.

This is my fourth time respond to the ugly museum. The museum show a really impressive collection, a “Teddy Bear”. It’s not just a toy, but with the real heart break sound from a man who donated his heart And there is a touching story behind this Teddy Bear.

The main character of the story is Mr. Reid. One day at home, he received a package that he and her wife didn’t buy anything online. When he opened the package and he saw a Teddy Bear with a letter. Suddenly he noticed that this Teddy Bear was sent from a rescued patient who need a heart.

Mr. Reid donated his son’s heart because his son was dead in a car accident in 2019 and he selflessly choose to donate his son’s heart to help those patients who need new organs. When he saw a button on the Teddy Bear’s arm, he pushed it. His tears couldn’t stop running on his face, it’s his son’s heart beats.

This Teddy Bear is such a nice gift and it’s really touching. Now days more and more people want to help and donate their organs to help those patients who need new organs to live.

I got the same feeling with “People always say I couldn’t take anything away if I die, but I can left something. For those donors, they choose another way to continue their lives.” If I was Mr. Reid, I will make the same choice, I want to help others if they really need my help. I also really like the last one sentences: “It presents the lights of life has never gone out, and it also offers the transmission of the spirit of great love.” Really touching and make me thought a lot, yes love have many ways to show but the Love of gift is absolutely such a different felling.

This time I travel into a body of photographer.

When I open my eyes, I’m in a bright room and recording videos of a man. I check around to make sure I can get more information of this body and what’s going on here. I see a brand of ” BBC News” on the table which near by the man and then he starts talking.

“Hi welcome to my channel of BBC Click, I’m Chris Fox. I will show you guys some videos which have clocked up billions of views of ‘Kitchen hacks’ and baking ideas.”

I can see what we are doing right now, Chris Fox are going to query those videos which want to gain more viewers are cheating. At first, he show a video of milk carton flan from the lifestyle channel Blossom which have 17 million views.

“You put the ingredients in the carton, microwave it, cool it and out pops a perfect carton flan” Then he keeps saying that “I followed this video step by step, I’ve used the exact same quantities. Put the eggs marshmallows in with the milk and shook it up to see if I’d get a flan.” He takes a breath and begin to get serious. “The first problem came when I tried to put this in the microwave because the milk carton was too tall, it would not fit. That make me thinking…. How did they fit their milk carton full of ingredients in the microwave?” I’m fascinated by what he said. ” And it look like they didn’t because if you rewatch the video, you’ll see they just cut the bottom of the milk cartoon off. Not to be deterred I poured the mixture into a gym shaker and followed the rest of the video, putting it in the microwave to boil for 10 minutes. The result is I didn’t get the milk carton flan.” Now it make sense that this video is “Bullshit”. He continues gives many examples of different videos which all have serious problems and flaws. one of the video is melting gummy bears turns them into jelly to create desert with 3.2 million views but after melting, it’s very difficult to even pour the mixture into a glass.

Now, the internet celebrity become more and more popular. They always focus on their popularity but forget their heart. Not only these kitchen video, but some famous celebrities sale the fake products to their fans to earn the money. Some people record other’s video without agreement to post online and become famous overnight. We have too many these kind of news and we have to notice that popularity are influence ourselves now. The more we want to be famous the more we have to be careful. Be smart and have discernment instead of following suit.

This is my third time choose to respond to the Ugly Museum. I like every single story from the museum and the collections in the museum are really interesting. This time, the museum chose the same topic as I did and I would love to make some respond to the new story “A Basketball”.

The story talked about a fat boy who related to the curator didn’t have a good life because of the appearance and the body shape. He started to play the basketball in the middle school and that’s his first time to play. He couldn’t run fast and jump high so that his deficiency made him lose his confidence. With the help of the coach, he got the confidence back again and begun to watch the games of Kobe Bryant. He was shocked by the movements and skills of Kobe and wanted to be a real basketball player like him. After that, he become taller, stronger and faster. He went aboard alone but never felt sad because basketball was his best friend and he always kept his dream on mind. After he heard the news of the accident of Kobe Bryant, I could see how said he is and how much he love of the Kobe Bryant and basketball.

The story is really touching and vivid. I love Kobe too and I can see the story is from The Ugly Museum himself. As a international student too, I have so many same feeling and thoughts like you. This is really a good and perfect story which show your true feeling and ideas about basketball and Kobe. Your story are rising me up and can’t wait for the next new story.

For my lost memories, I have to continue for my third time travel. I pick a broken memory and start my new journey.

This time when I open my eyes, I notice that I’m in the crowd. The body I travel into looks like a young teenager. I wear the Kobe’s jersey with his sneakers on my feet and a basketball which has his signature on my hand. Now I know that everyone come here to gather around the Staples Center in Los Angeles to mourn the death of Kobe Bryant and the date is Jan.26. Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players of all time and an internationally recognizable NBA superstar, died in a helicopter crash. He was only 41 years old. All nine people which include his 13 years old daughter were killed and when this news coming out, everyone was shocked.

I walk inside the center, lots of people cry. I can see someone write messages on the concrete across the street, a man comforts his son who is weeping into his hand at a memorial for Bryant. All his fans notes at a Bryant mural and basketball are left all on the ground. I can see the makeshift everywhere with” 24 YOU WILL BE MISSED”. I left my basketball on the ground, my body suddenly can’t stop crying, I can see how much important of Kobe for me and for everyone who love Kobe. Kobe is not just a superstar, he is the symbol of a time period, a legend and most people’s youth. He influences us and establish the correct value, Kobe’s fans from different countries, different regions and different genders. With the shouts and cries of the people, I finish my travel and go back into my body.

Rest In Peace Kobe and Love you forever!!

The Ugly Museum has a really nice and good example of story this time. We both use the same news which is the recent virus ” 2019-NCOV “. 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China. Early on, many of the patients in the outbreak in Wuhan, China reportedly had some link to a large seafood and animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. However, a growing number of patients reportedly have not had exposure to animal markets, indicating person-to-person spread is occurring. The Ugly Museum will use the mask to look at the world at this difficult time.

The story happened in Wuhan during the Spring Festival, the main character Lilly , Wuhan student, want to buy a mask. Wuhan city is locked and she can’t go back to her family to enjoy the Spring Festival. Lilly go back to her apartment and drop her stuffs, she notice that she have to buy a mask to avoid the virus. So Lilly go to the store but all the masks are already sold out. She left the store and notice that a seller is selling the masks which he bought from the store. The seller rise the price again and again. The price of each N95 mask is 2.5 US but the seller rise the price from 5 us for each one to the 50 for each one. With such a high price, finally people can not tolerate his behavior no more and take away all his masks. Lilly also take some of the mask and the seller lose everything because of his selfish and greed.

It’s seems like a small story and pretty common in our daily life. Buy out the inventory and start the price is not the first time I see. The Ugly Museum indicate the topic and show us the story and opinion logically. People now always think about themselves, they can’t notice what they did brought a serious affect and they just want to make a quick money, that’s not good. It’s a really hard time and situation is serious. Everyone should help each other at this time not make money during the nation crisis. We should refuse these things happen and help more people who need help. Nation is in difficulty, as a member of the nation, we should be more than willing to help. I saw lots of people sending materials & money to the Wuhan and donation platform. Hope everyone can make it through the Spring Festival and wish those patients can get well soon.

Hi it’s me, the old time traveler Ekko. After my first time jumping, I get back a fraction of my lost memory that a girl with long hair looks very young, but I can’t remember who she is and seems like she is talking to me. I have to know what did she tell me, so this time will be my second time to travel.

I’m not so nervous this time, I got some experiences last time. I choose one of the broken memory which rushed into my head in the car accident randomly and then, I start to have the same felling like the last time. Everything are in darkness but a tiny spark light come to me again then, the light is going bigger and bigger. When I open my eyes, what I see are the crowded people with the mask on their face, cough, cry, grumble all around me. “Lin!! Why you always standing there like a dumb, go to help the other nurse, we will have a big problem to solve tonight.” The head nurse shout to me. “I’m sorry, I’m going to help right now.” I answered. Looks like I travel into a girl’s body this time and I’m in the hospital. I reach into my pocket and find a train ticket. It’s a one way train ticket and my name is on it. “This ticket must from this body” I whispered. I never has a experience like this and I’m kind of helpless.

I go through the people and try to find other nurse to ask what I can help and what’s going on. During my hesitation, a nurse take my hand and talk to me “Lin!! Oh my god where are you going? We are short of hands.” The nurse seems like work with me, so I ask her “What’s the situation like now?” “Thing is going to be bad, more and more patients come to our hospital and we are almost full now, but they don’t stop. Our new PCR testing kit is limited, but we have hundreds people here, most of them are still in the lines to wait for the test. God damn this 2019-nCoV, It’s still the Spring Festival looks like I can’t go home this year…” After she finished we all lost in thought. It’s quite clear that I’m in a harsh times now, The 2019-nCoV which is a new coronavirus first detect in Wuhan, China. The virus crush with the Spring Festival, which is hard to control because everyone want to come back home and enjoy the festival with their family. With the big passenger flow volume, the virus spread faster and easier. ” We should help, as a nurse we have to help every patient and help them recover themselves, they need us.” My body start to talking again without my control, it must be the thought from this body. “OK Lin let’s go to help the doctor to test and handle the crowds.” She said.

After a long time, I don’t know how many hours we work but people just keep coming. I feel so tired but I can’t stop working, the intention of this body keep me going. “Lin, take some rest, head nurse find some one to change shifts with us. Finally I can drink some water…My waist is hurt.” “OK, I’m tired too.” I answer that. We go back to our rest room and I turn on my phone. There are 10 missed calls from MOM, I call her. “Hi mom what’s going on?” I asked, “Are you still working? How is everything going? I saw the news that the situation in Wuhan is not good honey, don’t forget your tomorrow train.” She can’t stop asking me those questions. “Mom I’m fine I’m OK, I know the situation is not good but I still have to finish my job. I don’t know if I can take the tomorrow train but I will call you later mom.” I answered. “Why Lin? Me and your dad we all worry about you. Let other guy working, they have so many doctors and nurses. Just come back we only have one daughter and we don’t want something bad happen on you.” I can hear that my mom is angary and worry about me. At that moment, my body start to talk but not my thoughts. “I’m sorry mom but this is my job, I can’t let those patient without help and suffering from the virus. I really want to go back to home but I can’t. As a nurse, I have to adhere my duty and never give up I don’t want to leave here like a “hiatus”. By the way, I contact with so many patients maybe I was already infected, I don’t want to put your life on the risk and infect you and my dad.” After I finish my call, I can hear that she is crying. “Mom, are you ok?” I asked, “Yes, Yes….Honey just be safe ok? Promise me that you will take care of yourself.” I can hear how she worry about me ” I promise mom, I have to go, happy Spring Festival and help me to persuade dad to smoke less.” I finish my talk and hang up the call. I take out my ticket and take a deep breath, then I put it back into my pocket. I walk out the lounge with a smile on my face at that time, my second time travel finished. We should follow our professional ethic just like Lin, stick to her post and never running away no matter what happens.

Ugly Museum which collect many stuff full of magic is really a good definition to represent some of the cultural customs between the secular. Every small things in this museum have their own story, these stories show us the point of the view always get overlooked by the audience but crucial. I believe those stuff will always remind people to reflect on their own.

The first story is really interesting and full of imagination. The Alarm Clock is a good symbol to represent value and save on our own time. The main character whose name is Tom has a serious procrastination and his laziness led to his procrastination badly. From the story I can see the big trouble by procrastination bring to his life. Tom face the work which is his boss gives to him without upward mobility. He can finish it on time or earlier but he defer day by day until the last time. His best friend Emily ask him lost of time to help her buy the tickets, he promised her but never did it. Tom betrayed his friend by breaking his promises again and again because of the procrastination make him wants to defer the promises. From the describe of Tom’s house, I can see how dirty and mess in his house. His procrastination even make him doesn’t want to wash a dish!!! So the Alarm Clock come out to help him to get rid of the bad habit. If Tom want to defer something he must do, the Alarm Clock will turn his time back. The only way to keep his life going is to do the right thing and never try to defer the job which he must to do. So Tom start to defeat the procrastination and the Alarm Clock always focus on him. This is really a good story that directly show us what the problem of the main character Tom and how the Alarm Clock help Tom to defeat and conquer his serious procrastination. Tom’s close life make people fell empathy and for me, I start to thinking myself.

The story make me brooded. Sometimes I have the procrastination but at last face the large amount of works I always regret what I done also many of my friends do like me. Everyone has procrastination because we all gonna get lazy sometimes but we have to refuse that. Lazy always get you slower than others and you will notice that you are on the way down. Procrastination become more and more common now, most people know they have the procrastination but they just do nothing. It’s a chronic suicide and we have to get rid off it. So stand up and look forward, your greatest enemy is yourself why not conquer yourself. I think nobody want to be a slaver to procrastination and laziness.

The Ugly Museum is a cool name and the first article is interesting and funny. I become excited in other exhibits in the museum. looking forward to the author’s next new response.