8. Compare and Contrast: Two Products or Two Restaurants

I like listening to music, so I used to bring my MP3 player when I hang out. But I don’t need it anymore. Because I have smartphones. Smartphone could be MP3 player, PMP, and game machine. I have two smartphones; Xpressmusic 5800 and Galaxy U. I like both of them, because they are so unbelievable.

They are smartphone, so they basically have the phone function. They are good MP3 player. Actually there MP3 player function is the best merit of using them. Also they have camera on front side, so it can be used for video calls. They have 3g and Wifi function for using the internet.

However, they made by different company; Nokia and Samsung. My Xpressmusic 5800 is black and silver. My Galaxy U is white. Galaxy U is thin and wide. Xpressmusic 5800 is thick and narrow. The Xpressmusic 5800 has better speaker than Galaxy U. The Galaxy U’s AP is faster than Xpressmusic 5800’s. Finally, the Xpressmusic 5800’s OS is Simbian and the Galaxy U’s OS is Android.

The Xpressmusic 5800 is good at MP3 player and the Galaxy U is good at PMP. Also the Galaxy U has faster AP than Xpressmusic 5800. In these days, I use the Galaxy U more than Xpressmusic 5800. Because the Galaxy U is more useful. To Xpressmusic 5800, Simbian OS is fatal. 

7. Compare and Contrast: Two Places

  Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil are kind of familiar to Korean. But some countries are unfamiliar to us. I’m going to introduce one of them which is in Central America. Do you know which country is bottom of Mexico? The answer is Guatemala. I have good memories of this country and I want shear them with you.

First, Guatemala has delicious food. Tortilla is common food. Tortilla is made of corn and it looks like little pancake. They eat the Tortilla with cheese, frijol, and meat. It is different with us that we eat rice and kimchi. But also it has similarity that they and we eat fermented food; cheese and kimchi.

Second, climate is so different with my country. Guatemala’s climate is divided by dry and rainy season. But as you know we have 4 seasons; spring, summer, fall, and winter. Guatemala’s climate is constant. Therefore car’s break down is less than Korea. One of the interesting is both country has cold weather in December. Even Korea’s December is colder than Guatemala’s.

Third, security is too different. South Korea is in truce with North Korea. But we have very good security. But Guatemala is terrible. Bus is dangerous to foreigners and even taxi sometimes could be dangerous.

It is interesting that we have so long distance. But I think where people live is not much different. Guatemala has very interesting like food, culture, etc. Hence, I recommend this country for travel. And also we have lots of interesting, domestic travel is highly recommended, too.

6. For the Sake of Argument Part II

These days we are taking many transportation and most of us take subway. Subway is so fast and comfortable. When we are taking subway, also we usually take escalators. But there are some problems with escalators. Could you guess what is it? There are many things, but the biggest thing is etiquette. Believe or not, even it could make us dangerous.

Escalator is for convenience and speed. But if we take the escalator by standing in 2-lines, it makes less efficient. It’s kind of blocking another people. Many other good countries people standing in 1-line and left another line for busy people. By this way all of people could be happy.

Someone says rate of accident is increasing, because of standing one line. That could be true, but we should concern about increasing the number of escalators and subway station. Also the users of escalators are increased. If standing in 1-line is dangerous, people wouldn’t stand like that. Accidents are from our carelessness.

Standing in 1-line is efficient. Therefore people like to take escalator by standing in 1-line. If we do care about our danger, it’s not dangerous. SMRT should find way of design which makes less break down. Instead of people to change sensible etiquette.