Hm, Livejournal or Blogger?
You see, my reluctance to use Blogger is this: I feel that I am simply wasting server space if I note down several pointless details from my days.
But then, Livejournal's purpose would be to let me do that. No, I don't wish to put my entire life into words and online to the public, but it is nice to put things down in words. Especially digitally. Handwriting does cause cramps at times.
Basically, the next time I open a website, it'll be with a purpose. Do you know, this is my fourth blog? Not including one Xanga, and now Livejournal. David, I blame you for the latter XD.
So, I'll post major events on here, but otherwise, adieu.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Ah, life. My friends are fighting, I've dreamed someone tried to murder me through "spider venom" and stabbing, and I've found that seeing group pics make me feel lonely. No matter who's picture it is. I have no clue as to why. Odd.
On another note, I've started Livejournal. Wonder if it lets you enter HTML like Blogger. Ah, I'll try that tomorrow. Now if only Mom'll shut off the lights and let me get some SLEEP! Can't sleep with her in the next room on the compu with the lights on. Ugh.
On another note, I've started Livejournal. Wonder if it lets you enter HTML like Blogger. Ah, I'll try that tomorrow. Now if only Mom'll shut off the lights and let me get some SLEEP! Can't sleep with her in the next room on the compu with the lights on. Ugh.
Monday, September 25, 2006
3 more months until Christmas. 3 more months and one week until my birthday. Just another week of craziness. At least that's what I'm feeling at the moment.
Day to day life: What's it for? You know, I really don't quite care about if somebody likes me or not. I don't really care if I'm going to get married. I don't really care if there's going to be any dances this year. The only reason I care about my grades is that, in a way, they give me a voice.
I abhorred the fact that my parents used to tell me that I wouldn't understand something when I asked them about it. Then I would reply that if I didn't understand it, then teach me. But they always shook their heads.
Sometimes I broke through and got some answers. Sometimes the answers gave me more questions. Sometimes the answers gave me an opinion.
I don't get stuff, ok. But saying that ... forget it.
Day to day life: What's it for? You know, I really don't quite care about if somebody likes me or not. I don't really care if I'm going to get married. I don't really care if there's going to be any dances this year. The only reason I care about my grades is that, in a way, they give me a voice.
I abhorred the fact that my parents used to tell me that I wouldn't understand something when I asked them about it. Then I would reply that if I didn't understand it, then teach me. But they always shook their heads.
Sometimes I broke through and got some answers. Sometimes the answers gave me more questions. Sometimes the answers gave me an opinion.
I don't get stuff, ok. But saying that ... forget it.
Friday, September 22, 2006
Ok, a certain individual has been pestering me continously to post on here, to "let people know what's going on about my life". Fine, I'll be obliging this time. But that's only because I have something to post about.
A Sample From My Life
I had just come home, and eaten a good couple of bowls of kimchee, which one of my math classmates says was "stolen" from the Koreans by the Japanese, and made "un-spicy". Whether or not that is true, I still ravenously consumed somewhere around four bowls of home-made kimchee, along with a few pearl onions, scallions, tomatoes, chocolates, and of course, the cabbage leaves in the kimchee.
Then I log onto the computer, into my Gmail account. There, I discover from one of my friends, that my science teacher has already posted the scores of a science test I took today on Thinkwave.com. I thank my friend for telling me, and hurry of to Thinkwave, in order to see my score. (Note: This is the first science test of the year, and our teacher was and is still rumored to be "evil", "hard", "the King of Tests", etcetera, you get the point.)
My grade was bad, in my terms. I sit staring at the computer for several minutes, then decided I might as well tell my parents now. So, I walk up to my mother, inform her of the recent news, and she says (Chinese translation here), "Then you have a big chance of not getting an A this quarter..." No, she did not yell this. She simply looked up from the pamphlet she was reading on composting. Yes, we have been looking into designing a gardening lately. Not me in particular, but I just want a nice piece of maybe around 3ftx5 ft land, where my California poppies can still grow without being disturbed. Which reminds me, I must clear out the dead leaves and stems soon, before the seeds are dispersed and get entangled in there.
I then walk to my desk, take out a piece of binder paper, and write in a three-inch height font size, "sci test= __". (Did you really think I'd give it out so plainly here, where everybody could see it?) Taking the notepaper captive with me, I march up the stairs, and shov- ahem, hand the paper to my dad, who at the time was on the phone with one of my uncles. The eyebrows his face owns spring up half an inch, then settle down to normalcy again.
After my father finishes up greeting, chatting, then bidding goodbye to my uncle, he walks downstairs, then with a concerned look on his face, ask me how I knew my science score. (He assumed that I wouldn't have that particular piece of knowledge until Monday, as today is Friday, the day I took my test.) I answer concisely, "Thinkwave." My father then takes a seat next to me, after removing one of the science textbooks I had been poring over from the chair, and proceeds to question me if I could've bubbled in the answers in the wrong slot, if I remembered any of the problems on the test, how much I slept last night, so forth.
In the end of this mini-interview, he concludes (again, Chinese translation), "It's ok, it doesn't matter, just figure out what you did wrong when you get the test back." At this I shout, "Doesn't matter? Doesn't matter? Are you kidding me? This is worth 15% of my quarter grade! Also, that's not what I'm most frustrated about. I'm frustrated thatI don't understand the material completely, which is what my grade shows to me. Not matter, indeed!" Yes, that was also Chinese translation. We are Chinese, as you have hopefully deducted already. Chinese people speak the Chinese language. We speak Chinese. Therefore, we are very much likely to be Chinese, as three of my family members have been heard to speak in Chinese by now.
So, you see, it is not my parents that "push" me, but my conscience. Grades are a reflection of my understanding of the material the teacher has provided with me. Final exams are an assessment of how much I have retained, of what I have read through in the year.
I suppose a large factor of this view on grades came from the feeling that I could have always done better than what I did, whenever I received a grade. Unless it was full points. The more points taken off on my grade, the more deeply I feel this emotion. I don't often get an OK (yeah, all correct) on tests, but then, I rarely get anything below a B+. Unless I spent my afternoon reading a novel. Or chatting through Gtalk. Or taking a nap. Or not packing my backpack properly.
Either way, that's a sample of my life. I think I mixed up past and present tenses again. And overdid the typing part. There has to be at least eight paragraphs here. I'll count after I publish this. Miss, I hope you're satisfied now. You do know who you are, I hope?
A Sample From My Life
I had just come home, and eaten a good couple of bowls of kimchee, which one of my math classmates says was "stolen" from the Koreans by the Japanese, and made "un-spicy". Whether or not that is true, I still ravenously consumed somewhere around four bowls of home-made kimchee, along with a few pearl onions, scallions, tomatoes, chocolates, and of course, the cabbage leaves in the kimchee.
Then I log onto the computer, into my Gmail account. There, I discover from one of my friends, that my science teacher has already posted the scores of a science test I took today on Thinkwave.com. I thank my friend for telling me, and hurry of to Thinkwave, in order to see my score. (Note: This is the first science test of the year, and our teacher was and is still rumored to be "evil", "hard", "the King of Tests", etcetera, you get the point.)
My grade was bad, in my terms. I sit staring at the computer for several minutes, then decided I might as well tell my parents now. So, I walk up to my mother, inform her of the recent news, and she says (Chinese translation here), "Then you have a big chance of not getting an A this quarter..." No, she did not yell this. She simply looked up from the pamphlet she was reading on composting. Yes, we have been looking into designing a gardening lately. Not me in particular, but I just want a nice piece of maybe around 3ftx5 ft land, where my California poppies can still grow without being disturbed. Which reminds me, I must clear out the dead leaves and stems soon, before the seeds are dispersed and get entangled in there.
I then walk to my desk, take out a piece of binder paper, and write in a three-inch height font size, "sci test= __". (Did you really think I'd give it out so plainly here, where everybody could see it?) Taking the notepaper captive with me, I march up the stairs, and shov- ahem, hand the paper to my dad, who at the time was on the phone with one of my uncles. The eyebrows his face owns spring up half an inch, then settle down to normalcy again.
After my father finishes up greeting, chatting, then bidding goodbye to my uncle, he walks downstairs, then with a concerned look on his face, ask me how I knew my science score. (He assumed that I wouldn't have that particular piece of knowledge until Monday, as today is Friday, the day I took my test.) I answer concisely, "Thinkwave." My father then takes a seat next to me, after removing one of the science textbooks I had been poring over from the chair, and proceeds to question me if I could've bubbled in the answers in the wrong slot, if I remembered any of the problems on the test, how much I slept last night, so forth.
In the end of this mini-interview, he concludes (again, Chinese translation), "It's ok, it doesn't matter, just figure out what you did wrong when you get the test back." At this I shout, "Doesn't matter? Doesn't matter? Are you kidding me? This is worth 15% of my quarter grade! Also, that's not what I'm most frustrated about. I'm frustrated thatI don't understand the material completely, which is what my grade shows to me. Not matter, indeed!" Yes, that was also Chinese translation. We are Chinese, as you have hopefully deducted already. Chinese people speak the Chinese language. We speak Chinese. Therefore, we are very much likely to be Chinese, as three of my family members have been heard to speak in Chinese by now.
So, you see, it is not my parents that "push" me, but my conscience. Grades are a reflection of my understanding of the material the teacher has provided with me. Final exams are an assessment of how much I have retained, of what I have read through in the year.
I suppose a large factor of this view on grades came from the feeling that I could have always done better than what I did, whenever I received a grade. Unless it was full points. The more points taken off on my grade, the more deeply I feel this emotion. I don't often get an OK (yeah, all correct) on tests, but then, I rarely get anything below a B+. Unless I spent my afternoon reading a novel. Or chatting through Gtalk. Or taking a nap. Or not packing my backpack properly.
Either way, that's a sample of my life. I think I mixed up past and present tenses again. And overdid the typing part. There has to be at least eight paragraphs here. I'll count after I publish this. Miss, I hope you're satisfied now. You do know who you are, I hope?
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Ok, let me get this straight with some of my complainers. Most blogs are foolish, in essence, including this one. Most blogs are outlets for little whiny teenagers who rave on and on about how idiotic their teachers, schools, and friends are, or outlets for those who wish to post something of their own, like their own slice of the Internet. My little portion of publicity.
Fine, I'll even give you the point that I shouldn't have put the word "Foolish" into your (you'll know who if you look at a certain comment in my last post) blog description on the link, seeing as most of the blogs are for barely any reason at all but to "try it out" or "rant" or "follow the crowd", or maybe the awfully commonly heard "because my friend's doing it". But missy, (at least I called you a girl, it's rather hard to discern your gender from a computer here) it seems that your blog has nothing but little personal updates that few but around 0.00000000000000000056442% of the population would care about.
In conclusion, FINE, I'll remove that word. For a synonym. I can barely believe I didn't burst out laughing this whole time I've been typing these paragraphs. But then, I'm grinning like a madman now.
They should make "blog" the new word to stand for what a "superficial blonde" depicts. Well... maybe not. That'd insult a whole lot of people on here. Including me.
Fine, I'll even give you the point that I shouldn't have put the word "Foolish" into your (you'll know who if you look at a certain comment in my last post) blog description on the link, seeing as most of the blogs are for barely any reason at all but to "try it out" or "rant" or "follow the crowd", or maybe the awfully commonly heard "because my friend's doing it". But missy, (at least I called you a girl, it's rather hard to discern your gender from a computer here) it seems that your blog has nothing but little personal updates that few but around 0.00000000000000000056442% of the population would care about.
In conclusion, FINE, I'll remove that word. For a synonym. I can barely believe I didn't burst out laughing this whole time I've been typing these paragraphs. But then, I'm grinning like a madman now.
They should make "blog" the new word to stand for what a "superficial blonde" depicts. Well... maybe not. That'd insult a whole lot of people on here. Including me.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
FDA, SCHOOL, and SCIENCE
Tum de dum. I'm bored, and in three days, I'll be sitting in school again. I'm confused about religions. And the microwave. We haven't used the microwave in several years. Ever since I read an article on the dangers of the microwave. Think it was either the electro-magnetic field or radiation. Can't remember which. Although I'd take a guess and say electro-magnetic field, because the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) wouldn't really let us keep something radioactive in our kitchens, right?
But then, according ot my mother, the FDA hasn't really been that great lately. Who knows? All I know is that if I want to know for sure, I have quite a huge reading list before me. Not something I'd start on when in three days I'll be sitting at school, during first period, facing a science teacher rumored to be incredibly hard to get an A+ on. Last reported A+: around three years ago. Yippee. I've also bet against one of my friends who took his class last year that I'd get straight As in his class. Let's see how well I do, eh?
Tum de dum. I'm bored, and in three days, I'll be sitting in school again. I'm confused about religions. And the microwave. We haven't used the microwave in several years. Ever since I read an article on the dangers of the microwave. Think it was either the electro-magnetic field or radiation. Can't remember which. Although I'd take a guess and say electro-magnetic field, because the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) wouldn't really let us keep something radioactive in our kitchens, right?
But then, according ot my mother, the FDA hasn't really been that great lately. Who knows? All I know is that if I want to know for sure, I have quite a huge reading list before me. Not something I'd start on when in three days I'll be sitting at school, during first period, facing a science teacher rumored to be incredibly hard to get an A+ on. Last reported A+: around three years ago. Yippee. I've also bet against one of my friends who took his class last year that I'd get straight As in his class. Let's see how well I do, eh?
The meow thing. I have no idea. It started in third grade. I was (obviously) trying to imitate a cat. Then, three months ago, I succeeded in fooling a fellow Math Enrichment club member. "Where's the cat?" I have no idea what came over me. Just _meow_, as we'd type into Gtalk.
I found this as one of my drafts. I'm now publishing this at 9/26/06, 10:33 PM
I found this as one of my drafts. I'm now publishing this at 9/26/06, 10:33 PM
Sunday, August 20, 2006
STYLE CHANGE
I've started using Blogger Beta. Quite nice. Also changed my template, for those of you who bother to notice.
Also, I'll be gradually diminishing the time I'll spend on email. The messages I've been recieving have started to seem inane to me. Or I'm just simply turning satirical. I have started to see three sides of me. Now I'm starting to think all three are ridiculous. Oh, dear.
I'll take a try at posting regularly now, so I'll most likely reappear on here soon. In the fantasy-like "fantastic" world of World Wide Wimps.
I've started using Blogger Beta. Quite nice. Also changed my template, for those of you who bother to notice.
Also, I'll be gradually diminishing the time I'll spend on email. The messages I've been recieving have started to seem inane to me. Or I'm just simply turning satirical. I have started to see three sides of me. Now I'm starting to think all three are ridiculous. Oh, dear.
I'll take a try at posting regularly now, so I'll most likely reappear on here soon. In the fantasy-like "fantastic" world of World Wide Wimps.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
DANCING
Ok, I never really thought I could. Or even did. But then I was browsing radio stations with my mom on the radio. Here's my favorite: 89.1 FM. Station KCEA.
It's like the old-style jazz. Or try thinking Broadway. It might not be Broadway, but that's what popped into my mind. Think 1930s or 1940s. Never knew I liked that type of music. Here's their link: http://www.kcea.org/ Station is located in... whoa! "on the campus of Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, Ca. " No, wait that's their studios. The transmitter is in San Carlos, CA.
So, one minute into listening, I start bobbing up and down and shaking my hips. In other words (IOW, as I use in chatspeak), dancing. Yes, bobbing up and down counts as dancing. Really. http://www.answers.com/topic/dance Third definition down.
3. To bob up and down.
Well, now I'm (trying) to type in front of my family's laptop while dancing in my chair. Depends on what you call dancing, though. Right now I'd say I'm doing a mix between boogie and toe-finger-snapping. And "Bob n' Roll". But, I'm not really a dance expert. Get back to you lot when I learn a bit more. Wish I could sing like those instruments. But then, I'm not a saxophone.
Adieu, lecteurs. French. Goodbye, readers. English. Addio, lettori. Italian. I've been reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle too much.
Ok, I never really thought I could. Or even did. But then I was browsing radio stations with my mom on the radio. Here's my favorite: 89.1 FM. Station KCEA.
It's like the old-style jazz. Or try thinking Broadway. It might not be Broadway, but that's what popped into my mind. Think 1930s or 1940s. Never knew I liked that type of music. Here's their link: http://www.kcea.org/ Station is located in... whoa! "on the campus of Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton, Ca. " No, wait that's their studios. The transmitter is in San Carlos, CA.
So, one minute into listening, I start bobbing up and down and shaking my hips. In other words (IOW, as I use in chatspeak), dancing. Yes, bobbing up and down counts as dancing. Really. http://www.answers.com/topic/dance Third definition down.
3. To bob up and down.
Well, now I'm (trying) to type in front of my family's laptop while dancing in my chair. Depends on what you call dancing, though. Right now I'd say I'm doing a mix between boogie and toe-finger-snapping. And "Bob n' Roll". But, I'm not really a dance expert. Get back to you lot when I learn a bit more. Wish I could sing like those instruments. But then, I'm not a saxophone.
Adieu, lecteurs. French. Goodbye, readers. English. Addio, lettori. Italian. I've been reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle too much.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Monday, July 24, 2006
Here's the first altered stanza of Green Day's "American Idiot".
I don't wanna be an American chicken!
I think this world just turned into an oven.
At least my house still has some AC.
But what about people other than me?
I was singing it this afternoon. Think I still prefer the original, though, despite the cussing.
I don't wanna be an American chicken!
I think this world just turned into an oven.
At least my house still has some AC.
But what about people other than me?
I was singing it this afternoon. Think I still prefer the original, though, despite the cussing.
Friday, July 21, 2006
American Idiot
My music video for the song "American Idiot" by Green Day. It contains video footage from other Green Day songs: Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Holiday (live), Welcome to Paradise (live) and Jesus of Suburbia (live). Lyrics: Don't wanna be an American idiot.Don't want a nation under the new media.And can you hear the sound of hysteria?The subliminal mindfuck America.Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isn't meant to be okay.Television dreams of tomorrow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.Well that's enough to argue.Well maybe I'm the faggot America.I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.Now everybody do the propaganda.And sing along in the age of paranoia.Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isn't meant to be okay.Television dreams of tomorrow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow.Well that's enough to argue.Don't wanna be an American idiot.One nation controlled by the media.Information nation of hysteria.It's going out to lost in America.Welcome to a new kind of tension.All across the alien nation.Everything isn't meant to be okay.Television dreams of tomorrow.We're not the ones who're meant to follow. | |
Monday, July 17, 2006
Meringue Notes:
- After you have put the eggs in the bowl, start beating at high speed. Don't start off slow then slowly increase the speed. The mixture will not turn out with "stiff, glossy peaks".
- Do not overbeat the eggs. Then the mixture will turn to liquid, and you'll have a hard time getting it onto a pan.
- Do not add sugar too late. That will cause you to overbeat the eggs.
- Do not add too much sugar. It will also cause the meringue mixture to "deflate" into liquid.
If you haven't figured it out yet, I've been trying to make meringues this past week. All not as successful as I would have liked, but they still ended up as tasty. Dad's trying to make cookies with the last batch of failures. No, they are not in the oven yet, and definately no, you may not come over to my house to snitch some.
But you can use this web, if you're still confused. http://www.answers.com/topic/meringue
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s nationalist musings. “A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.”
something I came across here: N'bad, not bad.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13721928/site/newsweek/?rf=nwnewsletter
something I came across here: N'bad, not bad.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13721928/site/newsweek/?rf=nwnewsletter
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Saturday, June 24, 2006
School's over, ZA's got me onto Runescape, I'm by now bored of the Rubik's cube, and Bony, what do you think of being signed up for WBS? Ask DXC about it.
And if I hear anything about yoga or posture one more time, I'm not too sure I'll be able to stand it...
Some good news, though, is me parents now go on walks. Finally getting some exercise. Now all I have to do is convince them to play soccer or basketball with me. Or at least bring the ball along.
Yeah, it's late. G'night. I think I'll rant a bit more tomorrer. And check out everybody's webs. And
And if I hear anything about yoga or posture one more time, I'm not too sure I'll be able to stand it...
Some good news, though, is me parents now go on walks. Finally getting some exercise. Now all I have to do is convince them to play soccer or basketball with me. Or at least bring the ball along.
Yeah, it's late. G'night. I think I'll rant a bit more tomorrer. And check out everybody's webs. And
School's over, ZA's got me onto Runescape, I'm by now bored of the Rubik's cube, and Bony, what do you think of being signed up for WBS? Ask DXC about it.
And if I hear anything about yoga or posture one more time, I'm not too sure I'll be able to stand it...
Some good news, though, is me parents now go on walks. Finally getting some exercise. Now all I have to do is convince them to play soccer or basketball with me. Or at least bring the ball along.
Yeah, it's late. G'night. I think I'll rant a bit more tomorrer. And check out everybody's webs.
Yes, the clock is destroyed partially when you move the mouse. Yes, it is a clock. Yes, you don't have to worry over the "cute 'lil thing" getting dizzy.
And if I hear anything about yoga or posture one more time, I'm not too sure I'll be able to stand it...
Some good news, though, is me parents now go on walks. Finally getting some exercise. Now all I have to do is convince them to play soccer or basketball with me. Or at least bring the ball along.
Yeah, it's late. G'night. I think I'll rant a bit more tomorrer. And check out everybody's webs.
Yes, the clock is destroyed partially when you move the mouse. Yes, it is a clock. Yes, you don't have to worry over the "cute 'lil thing" getting dizzy.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Long time no post. For those looking for a real subject and not "inane chatter", scroll down and skip the next coupla para.
Funnies of the day
Somebody mixes up the Reformation and Scientific Revolution, and end up writing a whole essay on the wrong subject in twelve minutes for good ole funny Ms. Knight. I mean it. To quote her, we're "learning about the Renaissance to the foot stomp". That's when the sixth graders came, and since M-1 was right next to our classroom, we ended up with foot-stomping.
Queen Richard/David Lin, to use her style of talkin'/typin', was accused of flirting today by a guy in P.E. As in Physical Education, not that nonsensical PE she keeps emailing me about and refusing to define what those letters stand for. Well, she "walks" over, and asks who said that. These two guys end up pointing at each other and counter-accusing each other. They should be named the Accusers, like the ole Screamers, remem, bon +DC? well, Queenie continues the dialogue and says "OK, rock-paper-scissors you two." XD Now, those two buffoons keep pointing and staring and yelling, so she comes over, kicks the WRONG person, and goes back to her seat.
Done with the funnies. At least those funniest.
Leaving to LA again tomorrer. I am not emailing certain people about it, as since the last email I emailed to notify people is STILL being passed around. Of all wonders.
What's the purpose of life? There's peaks, there's valley's and that's life. What one of the poems in WriteSource2000 forgot to mention, is that there are also plateaus of boredom. Or dullness. Or monotonous piles of worksheets. But, well, that's part of life, so let's get on with it. Here's another interesting quote I came across in a book the other day.
"Morality, like art, has to have a line drawn somewhere."
Anonymous
Leader of Christian Club now, along w/ two other people. Content: Find out yourself. And don't bug me about it by emailing me or asking continuously. Ok, off-topic. Now, back to life. Some people find solace in religion for guidelines of life. That's all well and good, since yes, it does teach us morality. What's not well and good: there are also people, who, to draw attention or just for something to do, blasphem to the point where 50 years ago, folks woulda been shocked beyond ... I'll let you readers finish that. Exempli gratia, one of my more pious friends, damns someone, and yet laughs while doing it. Then, thirty minutes later, saves the Bible from being marked by a marker, and makes a great show of dusting it off. OK, I'm not being fair. He didn't make a great show of it. But still. Today's one of the days when I've been cursed and damned in one day. Again. A nice and cheery greeting, huh? I don't even think people know the meaning of to damn someone anymore.
How about: what is hell? Typical answer: A bad place. Why is it bad? I hope you know the answer before the next sentence. Answer: It is eternal hell. There's a part in the Bible that outlines exactly what it is, but I'm not going to search through all somewhere-close-to 1500 pages of the Bible and tiny text, then painstakingly type it out and check my grammer and that it's exactly as how it says in the Bible at the moment. Now, to damn someone. You're basically telling them: Go to hell, and be destroyed beyond death. So, if people are arrested for making death threats and pointing guns at people, and hell is worse then death, as it's eternal, and it's suffering, and in a nutshell, eternal suffering, where went your morality?
And no, hell is not torture as in four horses dragging you apart from your hair, head, limbs, etcetera, as it says in Buddhism. (That's only part of the hell described in Buddhism. Yes, I've been to a temple service before. For several years.)
Note to myself: This time, it has taken me three paragraphs to finish that rant. Change HTML when I get back, on Sunday afternoon...
Note to ZA: Yes, as of now, I will immediately go and publish your last comment, changli. Oh, and the infatuation part, it isn't really an effective way to point at every random person and say I "like" them. Of course I like them. I'm not a world-hating hermit.
Also, apathetic does not mean the same as pathetic. Gotta sleep, so toodle-oo!
Funnies of the day
Somebody mixes up the Reformation and Scientific Revolution, and end up writing a whole essay on the wrong subject in twelve minutes for good ole funny Ms. Knight. I mean it. To quote her, we're "learning about the Renaissance to the foot stomp". That's when the sixth graders came, and since M-1 was right next to our classroom, we ended up with foot-stomping.
Queen Richard/David Lin, to use her style of talkin'/typin', was accused of flirting today by a guy in P.E. As in Physical Education, not that nonsensical PE she keeps emailing me about and refusing to define what those letters stand for. Well, she "walks" over, and asks who said that. These two guys end up pointing at each other and counter-accusing each other. They should be named the Accusers, like the ole Screamers, remem, bon +DC? well, Queenie continues the dialogue and says "OK, rock-paper-scissors you two." XD Now, those two buffoons keep pointing and staring and yelling, so she comes over, kicks the WRONG person, and goes back to her seat.
Done with the funnies. At least those funniest.
Leaving to LA again tomorrer. I am not emailing certain people about it, as since the last email I emailed to notify people is STILL being passed around. Of all wonders.
What's the purpose of life? There's peaks, there's valley's and that's life. What one of the poems in WriteSource2000 forgot to mention, is that there are also plateaus of boredom. Or dullness. Or monotonous piles of worksheets. But, well, that's part of life, so let's get on with it. Here's another interesting quote I came across in a book the other day.
"Morality, like art, has to have a line drawn somewhere."
Anonymous
Leader of Christian Club now, along w/ two other people. Content: Find out yourself. And don't bug me about it by emailing me or asking continuously. Ok, off-topic. Now, back to life. Some people find solace in religion for guidelines of life. That's all well and good, since yes, it does teach us morality. What's not well and good: there are also people, who, to draw attention or just for something to do, blasphem to the point where 50 years ago, folks woulda been shocked beyond ... I'll let you readers finish that. Exempli gratia, one of my more pious friends, damns someone, and yet laughs while doing it. Then, thirty minutes later, saves the Bible from being marked by a marker, and makes a great show of dusting it off. OK, I'm not being fair. He didn't make a great show of it. But still. Today's one of the days when I've been cursed and damned in one day. Again. A nice and cheery greeting, huh? I don't even think people know the meaning of to damn someone anymore.
How about: what is hell? Typical answer: A bad place. Why is it bad? I hope you know the answer before the next sentence. Answer: It is eternal hell. There's a part in the Bible that outlines exactly what it is, but I'm not going to search through all somewhere-close-to 1500 pages of the Bible and tiny text, then painstakingly type it out and check my grammer and that it's exactly as how it says in the Bible at the moment. Now, to damn someone. You're basically telling them: Go to hell, and be destroyed beyond death. So, if people are arrested for making death threats and pointing guns at people, and hell is worse then death, as it's eternal, and it's suffering, and in a nutshell, eternal suffering, where went your morality?
And no, hell is not torture as in four horses dragging you apart from your hair, head, limbs, etcetera, as it says in Buddhism. (That's only part of the hell described in Buddhism. Yes, I've been to a temple service before. For several years.)
Note to myself: This time, it has taken me three paragraphs to finish that rant. Change HTML when I get back, on Sunday afternoon...
Note to ZA: Yes, as of now, I will immediately go and publish your last comment, changli. Oh, and the infatuation part, it isn't really an effective way to point at every random person and say I "like" them. Of course I like them. I'm not a world-hating hermit.
Also, apathetic does not mean the same as pathetic. Gotta sleep, so toodle-oo!
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Friday, April 28, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Lessons of the Month:
Witty sayings don't solve everything.
I'm immature and serious at the same time.
The formula to find out how serious people judge you is (tilt of eyebrows+thickness of eyebrows+how often you smile)=seriousness rating of population. Yes, the "smile" part can also be a smirk.
CC is undecisive, and is liable to become the punching bag or puncher at all times.
Yahoo has terrible email storage organization. They can't even handle a hundred emails in a day. And in the same conversation! But yes, blame it all on the people who send the emails...
Never, ever, ruin your reputation. I don't know who I am now... ok, not that, but who I want to be. But there wasn't much of a rep in the first place...
Witty sayings don't solve everything.
I'm immature and serious at the same time.
The formula to find out how serious people judge you is (tilt of eyebrows+thickness of eyebrows+how often you smile)=seriousness rating of population. Yes, the "smile" part can also be a smirk.
CC is undecisive, and is liable to become the punching bag or puncher at all times.
Yahoo has terrible email storage organization. They can't even handle a hundred emails in a day. And in the same conversation! But yes, blame it all on the people who send the emails...
Never, ever, ruin your reputation. I don't know who I am now... ok, not that, but who I want to be. But there wasn't much of a rep in the first place...
All of my quotes saved in my "Draft" section of Gmail. It's a long list.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. - Aldous Huxley
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
God help those who do not help themselves. - Wilson Mizner
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?Search=&startsearch=Search&Author=The+Hitchhiker%27s+Guide+to+the+Galaxy+&C=mgm&C=motivate&C=classic&C=coles&C=poorc&C=lindsly&C=net
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - HL Mencken
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. - Bertrand Russell
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. - Ogden Nash
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - HP Lovecraft
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.) - Ambrose Bierce
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - WH Auden
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." - Samuel Butler
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." - Laurence J. Peter
"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for." - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." - Dan Quayle
"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content." - Louis L'Amour
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Actions lie louder than words." - Carolyn Wells
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Voltaire
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Voltaire
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
Voltaire
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'
Steven Wright (1955 - )
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant." - Voltaire
"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?/ ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." - Oscar Wilde
"Never eat more than you can lift." - Miss Piggy
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, dont put it off." - Ellen DeGeneres
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." - Daniel Webster
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann
"All phone calls are obscene." - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water." - WC Fields
"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." - Oscar Levant
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein
"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy." - Charles Peters
"History is the short trudge from Adam to atom." - Leonard Louis Levinson
"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth." - Marie Curie
Mother Teresa - "Peace begins with a smile."
"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." - Oscar Wilde
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. Voltaire
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Anonymous
"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street." - Virginia Woolf
"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century." - Dame Edna Everage
The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H. L. Mencken
"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more." - Ed Parker
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." - Samuel Johnson
"I hate music, especially when it's played." - Jimmy Durante
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" - Woody Allen
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." - Pablo Picasso
"I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'" - Jay Leno
"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing." - Randy K. Milholland
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Luis Bunuel
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. - Ambrose Bierce
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. - HL Mencken
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. - Aldous Huxley
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
God help those who do not help themselves. - Wilson Mizner
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?Search=&startsearch=Search&Author=The+Hitchhiker%27s+Guide+to+the+Galaxy+&C=mgm&C=motivate&C=classic&C=coles&C=poorc&C=lindsly&C=net
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - HL Mencken
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. - Bertrand Russell
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. - Ogden Nash
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - HP Lovecraft
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.) - Ambrose Bierce
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - WH Auden
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." - Samuel Butler
"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it." - Laurence J. Peter
"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for." - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." - Dan Quayle
"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content." - Louis L'Amour
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Actions lie louder than words." - Carolyn Wells
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Voltaire
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Voltaire
The secret of being boring is to say everything.
Voltaire
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Voltaire
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Voltaire
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
Voltaire
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'
Steven Wright (1955 - )
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant." - Voltaire
"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?/ ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all." - Oscar Wilde
"Never eat more than you can lift." - Miss Piggy
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard
"Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, dont put it off." - Ellen DeGeneres
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time." - Edith Wharton
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." - Daniel Webster
"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann
"All phone calls are obscene." - Karen Elizabeth Gordon
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole
"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water." - WC Fields
"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on." - Beryl Pfizer
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." - Oscar Levant
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein
"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy." - Charles Peters
"History is the short trudge from Adam to atom." - Leonard Louis Levinson
"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth." - Marie Curie
Mother Teresa - "Peace begins with a smile."
"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." - Oscar Wilde
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. Voltaire
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Anonymous
"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street." - Virginia Woolf
"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century." - Dame Edna Everage
The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H. L. Mencken
"The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more." - Ed Parker
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." - Samuel Johnson
"I hate music, especially when it's played." - Jimmy Durante
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" - Woody Allen
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." - Pablo Picasso
"I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'" - Jay Leno
"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing." - Randy K. Milholland
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Luis Bunuel
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. - Ambrose Bierce
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. - HL Mencken
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Sunday, April 23, 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6176491654107670145&pl=true
wackywarnings.com
Will put more up soon. Do not ask how soon "soon" is. In a nutshell, these are purely for your entertainment and time wasting. This is not my career.
wackywarnings.com
Will put more up soon. Do not ask how soon "soon" is. In a nutshell, these are purely for your entertainment and time wasting. This is not my career.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
Yes, I still think the title is idiotic. At least it makes sense, though. Have a mystery person here. Take a look at Bonehead's other blog that he helps contribute to. Yeah, I'm talking about you Sol... the rest of that guy's user. Forgot it. I just realized that "BONEHEAD" and "MEREDITH" have the same amount of letters. o.0 Yeah, might try HTML again. But gonna be out all day tomorrow, until around six. >.<
Can't get HTML to work. This is stupid.
SW: Trying to stay on my "good" side.
RC: The story-teller who is bored
CL: The person who's afraid of losing friends... but that goes for the two up there too
CC: Thinks I'm annoying. Just goes through life, but what does he think of ... forget it.
ML: Thinks I'm annoying and just recently discovered I had an immature side. And is bored.
DC: Homework frenzy and annoyed with me.
M?: Sassy and not sweet. Not sweet of the late. Sometimes, tongues cut too far. As CL often finds. And DC.
SL: In Drafting. He's the annoying one.
SL: Great friend. In three of my classes. Why did I just have to go through that sci-eng class switch?!?
SW: Well, somebody's bored. Gerron w/ your game!
GK: Get on with your homework.
Everybody else: Dude, that's the lot for now. It's like a status/message/note thing. Don't even take notice.
Annoyed and on the verge of breaking my piano through playing it obsessively because that's what I do to calm down or get a clear head. That and sleep. But can't always get to sleep, so... Annoyed because really, what were those chains for? And what's UP WITH THIS WORLD!? Ok, better now. Really, capitals are nearly pointless in expressing things, but they do relieve you somewhat.
NTD
house clean.
study.
keep my head.
piano without breaking.
get a piano tuner.
chores.
yay.
SW: Trying to stay on my "good" side.
RC: The story-teller who is bored
CL: The person who's afraid of losing friends... but that goes for the two up there too
CC: Thinks I'm annoying. Just goes through life, but what does he think of ... forget it.
ML: Thinks I'm annoying and just recently discovered I had an immature side. And is bored.
DC: Homework frenzy and annoyed with me.
M?: Sassy and not sweet. Not sweet of the late. Sometimes, tongues cut too far. As CL often finds. And DC.
SL: In Drafting. He's the annoying one.
SL: Great friend. In three of my classes. Why did I just have to go through that sci-eng class switch?!?
SW: Well, somebody's bored. Gerron w/ your game!
GK: Get on with your homework.
Everybody else: Dude, that's the lot for now. It's like a status/message/note thing. Don't even take notice.
Annoyed and on the verge of breaking my piano through playing it obsessively because that's what I do to calm down or get a clear head. That and sleep. But can't always get to sleep, so... Annoyed because really, what were those chains for? And what's UP WITH THIS WORLD!? Ok, better now. Really, capitals are nearly pointless in expressing things, but they do relieve you somewhat.
NTD
house clean.
study.
keep my head.
piano without breaking.
get a piano tuner.
chores.
yay.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Hi. I'm bored. Yesterday, my mind pretty much went *buuuuuuuuuuuuuzzzzz*. Couldn't think straight. 10 hours of sleep can do wonders for your head. I don't know about my poor piano, though >.<'. I banged it pretty hard when i played on it yesterday... it's what I usually do to get me calm and in working order.
Yeah, but who cares? Just posting this for no reason.
Yeah, but who cares? Just posting this for no reason.
ForceEquilibrium Blog of a person I met while browsing Xanga. He's got a good mind, but a bit of a cynic, like ole Bony here.
Yep, I need a new name for this blog. If anyone is even gonna bother to look at this, I need some ideas. Oh well.
Oh, and what Bony said about my last long post. He makes a LOT of sense. More then me. LOL. Check the comments.
Spring breaks are boring. Summers are worse. At least you don't boil yourself out of your skin during the other breaks. But they are just plain boring. So you know the common complaint of too much studying? It gets so boring for me, I hit the books during the summer. Hard. And then school is still boring. Education-wise. Until you get to science and history ^.^. So? What am I doing here? Getting rid of my seemingly interminable boredom. So, let's roll.
I don't wanna be like most of the young, immature teens on the mini-planet called U.S.A. But, I can't help being young, and I can't help it, I'm still immature (Notice: I've noticed a lot of adults are immature sometimes, too...), a little bit on the nerd side, but dude, you don't know how many people I know at our school... friends? Tell me, what exactly is a friend? A person you "hang out" with? (How do you hang with a person? On a clothesrack?!?) A person you talk to? A person you're not enemies with?
Definition of "friend" from Answers.com (my obsessively used research site that is extremely handy),
"1) A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. 2) A person whom one knows; an acquaintance. 3) A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade." Okaaaayyy. For summary, the only requirement for somebody to be considered "friend" is to have somebody you know, and you don't have to like them, but as long as you aren't enemies, good.
Hey, my friend, ZA (she doesn't like her real name, dunno why... stand for Zamorak Apprentice.) just gave me this cool site artpad.art.com need to take a look. Will post more later.
Oh, and what Bony said about my last long post. He makes a LOT of sense. More then me. LOL. Check the comments.
Spring breaks are boring. Summers are worse. At least you don't boil yourself out of your skin during the other breaks. But they are just plain boring. So you know the common complaint of too much studying? It gets so boring for me, I hit the books during the summer. Hard. And then school is still boring. Education-wise. Until you get to science and history ^.^. So? What am I doing here? Getting rid of my seemingly interminable boredom. So, let's roll.
I don't wanna be like most of the young, immature teens on the mini-planet called U.S.A. But, I can't help being young, and I can't help it, I'm still immature (Notice: I've noticed a lot of adults are immature sometimes, too...), a little bit on the nerd side, but dude, you don't know how many people I know at our school... friends? Tell me, what exactly is a friend? A person you "hang out" with? (How do you hang with a person? On a clothesrack?!?) A person you talk to? A person you're not enemies with?
Definition of "friend" from Answers.com (my obsessively used research site that is extremely handy),
"1) A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. 2) A person whom one knows; an acquaintance. 3) A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade." Okaaaayyy. For summary, the only requirement for somebody to be considered "friend" is to have somebody you know, and you don't have to like them, but as long as you aren't enemies, good.
Hey, my friend, ZA (she doesn't like her real name, dunno why... stand for Zamorak Apprentice.) just gave me this cool site artpad.art.com need to take a look. Will post more later.
Monday, April 17, 2006
I've read part of the Time mag today, (April 10th, 2006 issue) and now I'm going to rant about the article "Should They Stay Or Should They Go?". Here's the link to the article on Time's website.
But has this got to do with this Time's article? Well, notice the graph on the top right of the "graph section" on page 33. The one about how 72% of the people polled agree with letting illegal immigrants stay on the conditions that they: a) learn English, b) pay any back taxes, and c) have no criminal record. Also, they need to have work visas so the government can track them, and all of a), b), and c) need to be done in six years. Just FYI.
Well, after you take a look at that graph, turn to page 36, third paragraph, where they (finally!) give you a description of the polls (after 2 pages!). Now, to give anybody reading this an even more detailed idea of what I'm talking about, go to the third sentence and read. For those without Time magazine, (or for you lazy bumpkins ^.^) here's the sentence. "But only 1 in 4 would support making it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, as the House voted to do when it approved the tough enforcement bill submitted by Wisonsin Republican F. James Sensenbrenner." Wait... did they just say House?!? Ok, assuming that "House" is referring to "House of Representatives", how is it that the representatives in the "House" will vote for exactly opposite of what most of the people in America think?!? They're Representatives. And no, I don't cuss, so don't worry about censoring.
And another thing. If the President is supposed to be a servant of the country, why is it that most of the country disapproves of him? That makes him a bad servant. Now, when you have an office, and you have a worker that does not do satisfactory work, you fire them, right? So, now, there is a class of jobs called "servant" or "maid" or "cook". But since the GOP's BOB (heh, GOP stands for "Grand Old Party, and the "BOB" I just made up stands for "Big Old Bush") is neither maid or cook, let's keep it at civil servant. Now, either way, he has a job. And when somebody does a bad job of a job, the "big cheeses" usually start putting things on fire, ahem, firing people.
But the problem with Presidents is, as far as they go, it's awfully hard to go about changing Presidents as often as you eat dinner. There's gonna be a big hullabaloo about it now if you all of a sudden heard on the news that "Bush is going to the Supreme Court on a certain date for his trial of impeachment", but if it happens too often, that statement would lose it's effect. So, we usually start impeachment only when there's an abuse of power, or so Answers.com says when you look up "impeachment". Now the question is, has Bush gone too far?
need to change last 2 paras.
But has this got to do with this Time's article? Well, notice the graph on the top right of the "graph section" on page 33. The one about how 72% of the people polled agree with letting illegal immigrants stay on the conditions that they: a) learn English, b) pay any back taxes, and c) have no criminal record. Also, they need to have work visas so the government can track them, and all of a), b), and c) need to be done in six years. Just FYI.
Well, after you take a look at that graph, turn to page 36, third paragraph, where they (finally!) give you a description of the polls (after 2 pages!). Now, to give anybody reading this an even more detailed idea of what I'm talking about, go to the third sentence and read. For those without Time magazine, (or for you lazy bumpkins ^.^) here's the sentence. "But only 1 in 4 would support making it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally, as the House voted to do when it approved the tough enforcement bill submitted by Wisonsin Republican F. James Sensenbrenner." Wait... did they just say House?!? Ok, assuming that "House" is referring to "House of Representatives", how is it that the representatives in the "House" will vote for exactly opposite of what most of the people in America think?!? They're Representatives. And no, I don't cuss, so don't worry about censoring.
And another thing. If the President is supposed to be a servant of the country, why is it that most of the country disapproves of him? That makes him a bad servant. Now, when you have an office, and you have a worker that does not do satisfactory work, you fire them, right? So, now, there is a class of jobs called "servant" or "maid" or "cook". But since the GOP's BOB (heh, GOP stands for "Grand Old Party, and the "BOB" I just made up stands for "Big Old Bush") is neither maid or cook, let's keep it at civil servant. Now, either way, he has a job. And when somebody does a bad job of a job, the "big cheeses" usually start putting things on fire, ahem, firing people.
But the problem with Presidents is, as far as they go, it's awfully hard to go about changing Presidents as often as you eat dinner. There's gonna be a big hullabaloo about it now if you all of a sudden heard on the news that "Bush is going to the Supreme Court on a certain date for his trial of impeachment", but if it happens too often, that statement would lose it's effect. So, we usually start impeachment only when there's an abuse of power, or so Answers.com says when you look up "impeachment". Now the question is, has Bush gone too far?
need to change last 2 paras.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Dad has given me some jelly to eat, and I was hyper for the past half hour, with the music from the Vonage advertisement sounding in my head and mouth. Studying math and science has calmed me. What I have noticed:
After I eat sweets, then play the piano, playing "Fur Elise" makes my heart beat rather fast. Also, playing the second part of Fur Elise too many times causes some of the keys on my piano to sound weird.
Not a lot of people know about religion. They may know the most rudimentary parts of most religions, but other then that, none. Or, they are extremely familiar with one religion they grew up with, and vaguely know other religions. Or, they vaguely know most religions, with some of the facts mixed up. Even, they know about religions through the news, and have received a bad impression of them. Exempli gratia, Islam. Reason: Middle East wars.
After I eat sweets, then play the piano, playing "Fur Elise" makes my heart beat rather fast. Also, playing the second part of Fur Elise too many times causes some of the keys on my piano to sound weird.
Not a lot of people know about religion. They may know the most rudimentary parts of most religions, but other then that, none. Or, they are extremely familiar with one religion they grew up with, and vaguely know other religions. Or, they vaguely know most religions, with some of the facts mixed up. Even, they know about religions through the news, and have received a bad impression of them. Exempli gratia, Islam. Reason: Middle East wars.
Gview is to supposedly stand for Google View, or Googleplex View, or whatever other word that starts with G, view. Hey, I couldn't come up with a better name right now, and I wanted to start typing. Well, I'm going to use this blog to write down random parts of my life, for example what I notice. And a few rants. Maybe more than a few. So, here are some sample subjects I'll touch on:
New Tech I find...
Medicinal Info, since Mom's rather interested in it, and I was just recently diagnosed with scoliosis... a minor curve, though.
What the Times mag writes about...
What I've heard lately...
Basically, you could say what I notice <<<(keyword there!)
Also, this is how I will organize my postings. I'll post by subject. So if you want to start reading, you don't end up with a long, long article that doesn't fit onto your screen. That's it, let's rumble.
New Tech I find...
Medicinal Info, since Mom's rather interested in it, and I was just recently diagnosed with scoliosis... a minor curve, though.
What the Times mag writes about...
What I've heard lately...
Basically, you could say what I notice <<<(keyword there!)
Also, this is how I will organize my postings. I'll post by subject. So if you want to start reading, you don't end up with a long, long article that doesn't fit onto your screen. That's it, let's rumble.
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