Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Not too much televiewing
Why did the International Channel have to turn into AZN Television?! Not that it’s such a surprise as 75% of it’s programming before was from Asia so it’s not that far a stretch. I guess I shouldn't really complain as it's not meant for my viewing anyhow. But I still don’t agree with the change as I used to like watching the French shows they used to air as I need to hear French to improve my comprehension when it comes to someone speaking in French. That’s one of the hardest things for me because I’m still not very good at it.

But worst of all, they took off HEY! HEY! HEY! Music Champ, and that’s what I really don’t like. I don’t know how many people liked this show, but it made me laugh! Even if it didn’t have the great guests and the silly games and performances, I would at least get a laugh out of the two goofy, abusive hosts.

The one good thing about this is they seem to have more slot time to show Asian movies and dramas! And I care about that now because I really like this Korean drama called Jewel in the Palace so I’m hoping I could maybe enjoy some more from the list that I was recommended.

It’s interesting watching movies/dramas from other countries as you can tell a lot of things from them. You can make cultural observations, as far as acting is concerned. And if they happen to be historical than you pick up even more.

Excluding this soccer channel, a couple shows on Food Network, and three on AS I don’t care to watch much else on TV these days. I try not to get wrapped up in those dumb reality shows which I see as being pathetically ridiculous (no offense to those that love them). I just don’t find nutty people doing “real life” things on TV and looking stupid (and for some reason not noticing) to be very entertaining.

Although, I do find this Nanny 911 to be all too amusing; well enough so to keep me around for an hour of those “nannies” trying to help those families with their “problems”. Maybe it’s because I enjoy pointing out all the parenting mistakes that one wouldn’t even need to be an expert in order to see. To me the most obvious problem with most of the families on the show is that they have too many kids in such a short time and no help to handle them all at that crucial early age. Or is it too many kids and not enough discipline? Either way, I enjoy watching this whenever I happen to have the chance.

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Thursday, July 7, 2005

Attack of the Pancakes
I’ve been eating pancakes w/syrup almost every day for the past three weeks! I sometimes added cut up bananas to them which is very, very good, but I can certainly say that I’ve had my fill for now. When school was in I didn’t have the time to make them except on weekends, but you certainly can’t satisfy a craving that sort of way. So I gave in to excessive pancake eating, the best way to take care of that! ^_^

Now during the last semester of school I read The Kite Runner and really I found it by chance and chose to read it over Ender’s Game. One reason is because I sometimes don’t like books in a series because I will feel I want to read the whole thing, but won’t want to because I want to move on to other books. The other reason was because I thought, hey, I know nil about Afghanistan so maybe I’ll learn a little something even though it’s a fiction book.

I’m happy to say that I did not regret my choice. I absolutely love this book and I want to read it again, but I haven’t got $14 to spend on anything and the durn library near us has got 48 requests on the thing. I’m not going to request they put it on hold for me because I just can’t wait that long. I see now that I was quite fortunate to get it in the school library.

To me The Kite Runner is amazing; the characters, story and everything are just wonderful. I can’t describe how much I love Khaled Hosseini’s style in this book. There’s so much imagery and the characterization I just so fantastically done. I don’t usually analyze things because I appreciate most things for what they are, but I just have to say something about this one.

As I read Kite Runner I was taken into an unfamiliar world and got to know the people with in it as they appeared to me. The one thing I found so interesting was a peek at the culture that is the culture of Afghanistan. And I learned of things I’d probably never know about before reading this book. It reminds me that there are things that exist, that go on in this world that a lot of us never come to know of.

I enjoyed all of the themes in the book; betrayal, redemption, relationship between fathers and sons. Another thing I always find delight in learning of the views that other peoples have toward the U.S. and that’s because I don’t know what others think, to be honest. The media is nothing to trust of course and discovering things through novels is a lot better and much more fun, even if it’s fiction.

Right now I’m re-reading, Night, by Elie Wiesel and then I wish to read Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt which I don’t know anything about, but I love not knowing very much about a story and just jumping right in. I choose much of my reading that way although it can be a tad tedious. However, I do have wondrous discoveries!

Something else I want to do is review some of my French because I’m taking French III next year. I think it was yesterday I noticed I’d forgotten what left and right were in French so now I know I’m really in trouble!

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Saturday, July 2, 2005

Grr!
I never really quite got the reason behind the whole shout back thing. I mean, I love it when someone does it in reply to me at their myO, but personally I think just a simple reply in the comment box is enough or even just a reply by PM. But I guess it is kind of more convenient seeing as how someone may miss a reply I might make in response to their reply. So here you are!

Joey: Sort of a deeper look, but really more of a realization about what we call life and what people call "living".

Hey, you're right; I would go up and say this to my class! But they'd still have the same blank faces which are either occupied with preparing for their speech or not caring about mine. What I say actually only reaches the minds of just several students and the ones who actually understand a simple concept like this are even fewer. That's what I've observed about my class, anyway. I hope others aren’t like that. ^^

Seriously, the only people who’d actually listen and think about something like this that I might have said in that class would be my teacher and that one particular guy I mentioned to you. It would just go over everyone else’s head

Godel: Well, yeah he was talking about the whole slavery thing in the Americas. Again, it’s not that I don’t care about those sorts of things; I just didn’t wish to hear about them while I’m at a place I really like just wanting to enjoy myself.

I hear ya on that one (about drag queens)! I really have to agree with you. ^_^ They can look pretty dang good. I don't see why people should have to be offended or something by them. Oh, I've got to tell you this story now!

Business is not the thing I wish to pursue, but if I were to get into that then I’d have some sort of low-profit or no-profit organization thing because I’d wish to help others instead of suck their blood for money.

Yeah, they’re kind of long, but I tend to blab sometimes and that’s not too bad a thing, right? ^^; Anyhow, I’m having such a nice day today, really.

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Thursday, June 30, 2005

About that preaching . . .
I'd mentioned before that I don't like it when people preach to me and by that I of course don't mean as in a church sermon, but just kind of preachy tone/manner.

For instance, one summer I was at Barnes & Noble with my mom to get my summer reading books. My mom saw a friend of hers and they started talking and I went off to find my books. When I returned to get some money from my mom she asked which books I got as she always asks about things. I had picked up three, and Night, by Elie Wiesel was one of them; when I said the name Night, my mom’s friend said something about how people (I don’t know which people) like to, well I’m going to paraphrase because I forgot exactly how he worded it. He said something like how people like to go on and on about the Holocaust and how the Jewish people were treated and everything. Then he started up saying, “What about our Holocaust? . . .” and how black people were treated and all that.

After the first sentence that came out of his mouth I was ready to walk off right that second, but I still needed the money for the books. It’s not that I don’t care about either of those two things, it’s just I felt I didn’t need to hear all that at the moment (and I didn’t want to hear it either) and especially since I was on a nice, enjoyable trip to the bookstore. I very much believe in that “there’s a time and place for everything” and to me it really applied to this situation.

However that wasn’t even the preachy part. After he lectured about that he went into something else that further annoyed me. He asked how I was doing in school and then what I wanted to major in and after hearing that he started telling me where I should go and what I should do because I really ought to. That’s when he officially started working on my nerves. I don’t hate someone telling me something that I could consider as in they’re giving me advice

But I can’t stand when someone, especially someone I don’t personally know, says to me (maybe even when if it’s indirect too) that I’m not this or that unless I’ve done what they say or what they think is all that or this or something I absolutely must do in order to be or do whatever. I just don’t like that sort of thing and he was all in my face about it too. I did walk off again just to get away from him before I strongly felt the need to open my mouth and say something very rude.

To me that’s an example of preaching. I like to decide for myself what I should and shouldn’t do and what that may amount to or bring me in my life.

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Monday, June 27, 2005

What can I do with this?
I’ve really come to realize that life is really what you make it. I think that success and failure can only be defined by oneself alone. It’s not about what others say or tell you, but what you believe it is. And to me, it’s not even what success really means, but what one perceives it to be.

Just because you don’t do or accomplish the same things as others or simply one other person doesn’t necessarily make you any less than them.

For those who already have so much, that’s great, I hope they do something really great with it, but for those who have so much less, most people think they can’t be anything and do anything whether it’s big and important because they see they have nothing.

I hope I don’t sound like I’m preaching; I hate when people do that to me. This is just something I’m thinking about and feeling right now.

I see that it’s not about what you don’t have, but what you do with what you’ve got (I know it’s been said already, but seriously…). What you can do, what great things you’re able to do.

And those that think they amount to nothing because they don’t have what others have and may never get it, I think people who are like that shouldn’t feel that way.

I guess it’s when one loses or nearly loses something that they finally realize what they’ve had all along in the first place.

Again, this is something I’ve been thinking about lately.

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Sunday, June 5, 2005

Summer now . . .
So it's been ages since my last post. And yeah, I'm really bad at updating often for some reason. So much has happened it's amazing though.

For instance, I just took the New SAT yesterday and I found it so funny how other students were getting so angry after being put out their comfort zones with this test. You can tell all too easily with some people because they start angrily cursing because they feel insecure about something. Not that one shouldn't express they feel about something, but I think one can do it without looking so stupid.

Also, something I'd really like to do this year is go to an anime convention. Mainly because I've never really been to any kind of convention let alone one anime related. And most ones I hear about from poeple are fun. The other reason is this city has it's own now( Houston, TX) so, yes, I'm thinking why pass up the opportunity?

The only two things that would keep me from going would be the fact that I'm just so broke and have no transportation. I plan on going with one of two groups of friends or both so hopefully if things work out I'll be able to attend, come October.

Now that I think about it, October isn't too far away!
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Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Twiddle diddle
This school year seems to be going by so fast and still I look and see that it isn't over yet.
I wonder why the beginning of the school year doesn't seem like it was that long ago and at the same time as if it was forever ago. It’s really kind of a strange feeling to me that I think I reluctantly like. I compare it to hugging someone close to me and feeling that I don’t want to let go; I thinking that they might float away and disappear like butterflies’ wings as they fly up and down and away.

I’m sitting here happily listening to this music that I’ve been wishing was mine for a little while now. I don’t know if maybe I’m just the impatient type, but still. I just don’t think I’ll buy anything off the net, at all from now on, unless I simply cannot get it at some store that isn’t too far away. I just think getting stuff off the net is fun, but when you aren’t exactly certain of when you’ll get what you’re wanting . . . . I just like to sometimes.

Now, that I have it, I’m wondering as to how many other wonderful pieces I’m missing?! There could be other stuff that I would absolutely love listen to and have. The only thing is how am I to know of them? I know there’s lots of good stuff out there that maybe not too many people know about. And in certain cases, that’s a very good thing. But I’m just trying to think of how one could more easily discover good, yet almost unheard of music. Aimlessly sifting through the internet doesn’t seem as if it would be very fun or worth it.

The week after this week is spring break for me! This school district is kind of odd (spring break at the beginning of March?!). I hope the weather will be nice and sunny because it's rather cold right now. Yeah, the weather around here is like that. It could be almost summer one day and down right wintry the next.
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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Funny occurences
I always seem to find something to laugh at or something simply funny to me. I had come back from the counselor’s office and was a little late to BCIS 3rd period. When I walked in the room, my assigned computer spot was taken by someone who gave their seat to a new student and just thought I was absent. I told him it was alright and found another place so he could be by two good friends of his. He thanked me with a sequence of repeating hand maneuvers (may have been 'thank you' in sign, but I wouldn't know!), a charming smile, and several nods of gratefulness.

I’ve been doing something different lately when talking to others, whom I don’t really know. At first I was calling it an improvement from what I used to do, but now I’m not so sure. I used to hardly look others (strangers especially) in the eye when talking to them. It used to be a bit nerve racking to me. Then I made it my goal to make sure I had good eye contact when talking to other people, that is actually look at the person. Now I do it without even thinking about it, so it’s become quite natural. But I kind of think I may be over doing it a little. I say this because during the first week back from winter break I had a new class added to my schedule. And with that I was trying to be as friendly as possible because usually I don’t say much or just don’t have anything to say (around people I’m not at all familiar with) and I guess most people take quietness as unfriendliness. I did not want to come off that way. So I made sure that I said something, even if it was just a reply to what another said and looked at whoever was talking to me however , that’s where the trouble came. With all my good eye contact, I think I was scaring the poor thing. Intimidating him even! I felt so bad at the thought of that because I don’t wish to scare others away. But I’m glad I’m doing a little better now.

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Thursday, December 16, 2004

Evening at the theatre
I didn’t think last week would seem so long and it really did seem to drag. But I thought it would be hectic and very busy, as I said before, it being the week before finals. This week was so relaxing with nothing to worry about from school except the exams themselves.

Thursday night was pretty awesome with the Nutcracker performance. The Nutcracker is one of my favorite stories going all the way back to my early childhood when everything was magical and wondrous to me and you know a whole lot of things still are. The music was great and I kept waiting to hear my favorite Nutcracker piece, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. I just really love hearing it so much. To me, it’s the most magical, with the enchanting sound of the celesta.
My favorite character of the Nutcracker story is that seemingly strange old guy with the cape and black patch over one eye. Oh yeah, Drosselmeir, is his name. I’ve always liked watching the part he’s in.

The theatre at which we saw the Nutcracker ballet, I believe I’d never been there before because I was quite surprised at how steep the incline of the balcony was. That was enough and then we had to be a few minutes late coming out of the restaurant we had dinner at so we found some seats, not our seats, in the dark. We had to find somewhere to sit quick so we wouldn’t be disturbing anyone and so we could help the person who was afraid of heights to a seat. She was terrified.

The downtown atmosphere was great and especially at night of course. A friend of mine came and got me by the arm when I had stopped to look up at some other building in the theatre district. I had only stopped for a few seconds, but I guess she thought I was going to get left behind. The food at the restaurant where we ate was ok, not some of the best, but the atmosphere and interior were pretty nice.

After this, I believe I may actually join the Art Club instead of just tagging along on there club outings.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Please hurry . . .
I know I'm not too good at updating very often, but I'll try and work on that. I promise!

I’m really wanting this week to go quickly because I want to relax and not have to worry about it. Last week dragged on forever and even though next week is finals, I’m sure it will be more enjoyable.

Hooray! I get to go see a ballet performance of the Nutcracker! Along with the Art Club at school that I’m not a part of. I’m glad someone had an extra ticket. I could’ve gotten my own, but didn’t, plus the tickets sold out. I love to watch ballet performances and the music that is the Nutcracker is some of my favorite to hear. And I get to see a side of town that I’m familiar with again, quite different from where I live right now.

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