My little sister rocks

So christmas was quite a good one this year. Why? Well a. I am in the United States of America (man this place rocks) and b. my little sister totally hooked me up with a fantastic present. I had mentioned that I wanted a Taylor Swift poster and, to my avail, I couldn't find one that i liked. So the last present that was under the christmas tree this year happened to be a poster of some kind. And it was for me. I opened it and discovered this little treasure looking back at me

pretty much, this was the best christmas ever. Now i can have Taylor looking over me every night I sleep now. Thanks Natalie!!!

My new love

You might be thinking "oh how cute! brady hooked up with the girl from his last posting..." well there would be one thing right with that statement and two things wrong: A. i did fall in love with a babe. 2. It isn't the girl from the basketball game. III. I haven't officially "met" the girl of my dreams...yet. D. I need to start liking "country music" in order to hook up with the girl of my dreams. Don't get me wrong, I still am desperately in love with my reese but lets face it, she wouldn't really like a 21 year old guy taking care of her kids while she's out "stage kissing" people like Christian Bale and Mark Ruffalo. So i found someone way more practical and in my league - Taylor Swift. I watched a SNL skit at my sister's house with Bryce and I instantly fell in love with taylor. She's the babe of the century. She will be mine. I've diligently been announcing my love on the popular social networking site "facebook" and only received negative, discouraging responses. I guess i now know who my real friends are...thanks Nan and Bryce for being so encouraging. I know that i will, one day, be with the girl of my dreams. I mean really, who doesn't want to be with her???

(the video starts around 10 seconds. perks of downloading the free version off the internet)

what i would give to be the guy in the video...oh yeah, if i have to like country for someone like THAT, i would in a heartbeat

//Phrazes for the Young//

I like U2, The Killers, and Julian Casablancas.

So back by popular demand is my life - in english. I have been using my blog for a grade in my chinese class. So sorry for all those emails saying that "bradford has a new post". Then, to your dismay, discover that it's all in chinese. That's going to stop for at least a month. Hopefully more.

What should I publish over the internet that the entire world could possibly see? Dang, if you google my name, you can only find this guy -->http://www.facebook.com/people/Brady-Knight/1623950057 -- that's just too bad. In that case, here goes

I put my facebook status to "today is one of those days that needs to be COMPLETELY recorded in your journal...every nick and cranny of the day must be looked at. i'm off to write a novel!" Unfortunately that never happened. Anyone surprised? Expected from a 21 year old boy. Here's why it was a noteworthy Day

I went to Cafe Rio for lunch with my best friend Kirby and his wife Lindsay. While we were there, I was complaining about how the last 3 girls i've taken on dates all kinda gave me the shaft. I was down. Very pessimistic about the females in the world. Just then, as I was drinking all the rest of my glass of soda, Kirby notices that his friend Jasmine (he knew her in H.S. and his brother took her on a couple of dates a while back) was sitting at the other table. He told me that i should go get her number and ask her out. Since I was wallowing in my grief and didn't want to (Kirby tried to set me up with his other friend who was "SUPER awesome and compatible with me) because of past experience, I declined. I declined. I declined. I whisper shouted, "KIRBY, SIT DOWN,". Then after trying to drink the already drained cup of soda (I was desperate to try to disappear from inside that restaurant), I scrounged for things to give me the appearance of being busy. It started with the obvious - cell phone, poke my food, drink the here before mentioned empty drink - and I didn't even once look over. If I did, I already knew my fate - instant death by humiliation. I could see it all playing out in my head - Scott: "Hey Jasmine! I thought that was you!" Jasmine: "Scott! Hey! Aren't you married?" Scott: "Why yes I am but my friend over there isn't and he thinks you're really really cute!" Jasmine: "Your friend, over THERE? So what if he thinks I'm cute. He's over THERE. Not over here," (all the meanwhile I'm poking my food, texting, and drinking an empty glass all with expert precision).

Kirby came back to the table with a look of pure glee on his face holding a torn piece of napkin and said "You owe me Brady." And to my dismay, the torn napkin had one word and 10 numbers. I wanted to die. I didn't even think I was going to make it out of the building without passing out from too much blood in the face.

I wanted to kill Kirby. I couldn't believe what he'd done! Both he and his wife had different plans and on the way back up to campus, they attempted to persuade my undeviating mind that the whole situation was being looked on in an entirely different light from Jasmine's perspective. I refused to believe it and retired to a couch in the student center only to experience pleadings and tauntings from the content enemy. Kirby and Lindsay forced me to text Jasmine and ask her to the basketball game. While my heavy fingers slowly pounded 4-4-3-3-9-9-9-space-5-2-7-7-7-7-6-4-4-4-6-6-3-3 to start off my text, they hurriedly looked up what pictures of Jasmine on their facebook accounts. After I "asked" her if she was busy the following night (Wednesday) and hit send, the enforcers discovered, to my dismay, that Jasmine's birthday was, you named it, on the following night (Wednesday). However, with the text already sent, my fate had already been etched into the bleak stone of my life.

Shortly following the panicky swoosh of a clean sleeve wiping sweat from my brow after a familiar "bzzz-bzzz-bzzz" was heard, the offer was accepted. Not with a simple "no, I'm not busy" or rejected with a humiliating "oh yeah, tomorrow I've got a study group for my pre-intro to conceptual theory math class" but rather, excitedly accepted with a "I would love to do something." It was better than just that, the message was even garnished with a stomach-turning-over "" at the end.

My day proceeded to get better. Chinese class was a roaring success, the sun came out, the FREEZING Logan weather seemed cheerful, not spine shivering. The more I thought about it, the more excited I got for the following day. She even offered to bring hot chocolate to the date (why you may ask? Because we went to the USU - BYU game and the line to get into the Spectrum has been formed 2 days before the game)! This girl seemed to be too good to be true!!! Well she was way good and not too good and it was true! That was a good day.

Now, how did the date go? I'm all blogged out for the day. You'll have to exercise patience like I did and just wait for the day to come. Man, I waited for a long time out in the COLD Logan December 2nd weather to get into that blasted arena. My left foot nearly got "bite"-en alive by mr frost, my scarf was begging me for another soldire to be at the front of the line against the battle with the infamous Old Main Hill Wind, and my nose is lucky to have made it out alive considering how much of his vital fluids he carelessly let "run" out of him. But once Jasmine made it to my now wearily defended spot in line, everything looked up. WAY up. We hit it right off and enjoyed ourselves the entire time USU proceeded to cook up their well deserved cougars on a silver platter. We had a blast. Nothing could have gone better (unless a sorely needed pair of winter worthy socks that were carelessly forgotten in the front seat of the car weren't forgotten). After a long day with a pretty girl and a fantastic time had by all, how could a freezing college boy not rush home and hurriedly look up the songs Even Better Than the Real Thing, Joy Ride, and Left and Right In the Dark and dance his way home in his carseat the whole time?

Discussion 5 成語 (四)

1.邯郸学步 Question:我们用【邯郸学步】来形容一个人一直效仿别人，但是都没发现或善加利用自己的优点。请写一个故事来形容邯郸学步。

有兩個兒子和一個爸爸。 他們的關係還ok的但是這個爸爸比較喜歡他的大兒子因為這個大兒年輕比較大。突然有一個大戰。 這個大兒子自願去打。 爸爸非常尊敬他的兒子。這個時候小兒很難過因為他也很好。他唯一的目標就是讓他的爸爸很快樂。他每天工作就是為了這個目標。當小兒和爸爸收到一件信說大兒子死掉了的時候，爸爸非常難過。小兒很想幫他的爸爸可是因為小兒不是大兒，爸爸不要小兒的幫忙。小兒決定他會應募大戰。小兒去的時候，爸爸還很難過。不太管小兒可能會死掉。過幾天小兒死了。他過世以前，他記得他的爸爸。他也記得他的哥哥。他唯一的希望是讓他的爸爸快樂可是他永遠不會知道。

2.重做冯妇

Question：在什么情况下你会形容一个人重做冯妇？请举一个例子。

如果 一個人的家人或非常好的朋友或一個國家需要他的幫忙的話，我覺得他能重做馮婦。比如說有一個爸爸。當他年輕時一個人教他怎麼偷車子。所以他長大都在偷車子。可是有一次警察殺死他的一個朋友。從那個經驗他選擇他不要再偷車。過好幾年後，他有他自己的家庭後，一個人告訴這個爸爸他必須偷一輛車。如果他沒有偷一輛車的話，他的一個小孩會不見。在這個時候爸爸能“重做馮婦 ”。

3.倒吃甘蔗 Question:你学习或做事时有倒吃甘蔗的经验吗？说说你的经验。

當我做事時我平常不會倒吃甘蔗因為我比較喜歡做難然後簡單。不會太辛苦。比如說我有兩個課程的功課，一個會很簡單，一個會很難，我會先做難的然後做簡單的。我是這樣做因為以開始我很會注意到寫功課。我能做全部。如果我先做簡單的的話，我應該不會寫完難的。

4.舍命全交 Question:你会为你最好的朋友冒险或牺牲生命吗？你觉得一般美国人对于舍命全交这句话会有什么想法？

如果我捨命全交會讓不好的事來影響我的朋友的話我應該不會做。大不分的美國人應該也事這樣的。

5.望梅止渴 Question:如果你非常需要一个东西或做一件事，但是现在你没有办法达成，你会用什么方法来望梅止渴？

我應該會盡量做我能做的部份。但是如果我沒辦法做得到的話，我應該會做別的事。比如說我很想吃巧克力可是我沒有巧克力，我會去運動或工作來改變我的渴望。

Discussion 4 成語 (三)

1. 宋人獻玉 Question: 如果有人想送你很貴重的禮物，你會接受嗎？爲什麽？

我有一個很重要的規定。如果一個人要送我一個禮物的話，我以開始會拒絕說“喔真的嗎？我非常感謝你的禮物可是我不能接受”。如果他真要給我這個禮物的話，他應該會再問我我要不要。如果他再問我的話，我會接受。我是這樣作因為當我拒絕他的時候要給我禮物的人有機會再想到他能不能夠給我這個禮物。如果他要再問我我要不要，他已經想到後果會怎麼樣。

2. 杞人憂天 Question: 你會不會常常杞人憂天？你會為什麽樣的事杞人憂天？

我比較不會杞人憂天。 可是我有一些比較特別的情況會讓我擔心多一點。。。我在別的國家的時候，我在約會中，我能夠傷害別人的時候，等等。

3. 肝腸寸斷 Question: 什麼樣的事會讓人有肝腸寸斷的感覺？請擧一個例子。

我覺得父母親會肝腸寸斷最多的。會肝腸寸斷最多的時間包括第一次去約會時，上大學時, 或他們被車禍。那就會讓父母親擔心超多。我記得我姊姊和他的老公被車禍。我父母親和我姐夫的父母親馬上到車禍的那塊馬路。他們一直在問每一個人甚麼發生了和幫他們的小孩所有的一切。

4. 見賢思齊 Question: 你見到賢能的人，會主動向他學習嗎？請擧一個例子。

如果我不喜歡那個人的話我不會向他學習。但是如果那個人時我喜歡的人或是我不認識的，我就會向他學習。我記得我上國中的時候看到我爸爸一直會幫我媽媽或姊姊們開每一個門。不管是車門或我們家的門，他一直會開他們所要進來的門。那就讓我學習甚麼尊敬女生們。

5. 東床快婿 Question: 如果有一天你要幫你女兒挑選東床快婿，你會有什麽要求？

我會告訴她那個男生必須讓她最快樂。不能有其他人。她要選她最好的朋友來當她的未來的老公。我就是要讓她了解這是她的在生活中的時間最重要的選擇。我會希望他是一個很有遷離的人，他知道怎麼學習和適應不同的情況。如果我的孩子要跟一個人結婚的話，我應該會信賴她。

Concerts i've seen

i was thinking while driving back from the bravery concert last night that i've been to quite a few shows. i'm going to try to put them all down on [paper]. i'm curious who i've seen. here goes: (chronologically) (if it's on the same line, it was the same concert. the first was the opening act)

U2 - NYC

Kanye West, U2

Collective Soul

Tegan & Sara, The Killers

The Bravery, Depeche Mode

Collective Soul

The Envy Corps, The Killers

The Strokes

Howling Bells, The Killers - Tampa

Jonezetta, Meg & Dia

Anya Marina, Lissy Trullie, The Virgins

Switchfoot, Blue October (unfortunately)

Collective Soul - Las Vegas

The Like, Yacht, Yeah Yeah Yeah's

Airborne Toxic Event, Arctic Monkeys

The Killers

Muse, U2 - Tampa

The Crash Kings, The Bravery

The Sounds - Best of the lot by far.

there's more but i can't think of them right. i'll add them as i think of them. it's a respectable list....no?