I think I hate amazon.com. No, i'm pretty sure I hate them. My laptop's charger sputtered and died on me two weeks ago. There are 3 computers in my house- a desktop and two laptops other than my own. I also have three siblings who live with me. AND who won't let me near their computers. I think I hate them too. Anyways, I ordered my charger from amazon, and it was supposed to be delivered last week. But last week the charger was still in New Jersey, (I was tracking its progress- it originated in New Jersey). And this week it says that they delivered it 2 days ago. Well thats just impossible because there are no inconspicuous boxes near or around my house!
So now i'm at the library, and I mean I love my township's library because they just renovated it and everything and there are a bunch of people here and the atmosphere's nice but it's a mile from my house so I walk it because a) I don't have my license :( and b) My family seems to have other priorities...sigh. But I guess it's not sooo bad, at least i'm getting excercise!
The first thing I did was go on facebook. Actually that was the second thing- the first thing I did was see if the series that i'm reading had the next book on the shelves. It did. But I can't find it, so maybe later i'll get a librarian on the case. Thats another thing, a friend of mine got me started on the the Stephanie Plum books and i swear they're soooo entertaining I can't seem to put them down! So I guess that is a recommendation, that if you like to read and you have free time- check it out :). But back to the facebook thing. Has anyone noticed that they changed the layout? I don't really mind- but my friends apparently do. On my homescreen, a friend of mine put up an article from the LA Times that was about a play titled, "Hijabi Monologues". The play was thought up and created by University of Chicago graduate students and are short vignettes about lives of hijabi girls and women. "It's taking something that is seen as very Muslim and going, well, wait, these aren't really Muslim stories," Dan Morrison, one of the founders, said. "They're human stories that everybody has experienced or will experience in their lives." So I encourage all of you to check it out, because they're different and interesting. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-monologues6-2009mar06,0,6832090.story
Lets see what else have I been musing about.. well I watched the movie Milk with a friend of mine on thursday and was thoroughly depressed. Which is funny because a week before thursday we watched Pineapple Express- which was so ridiculously funny that I think I came near to peeing in my pants a few times :D.
Ok I think thats it. Over and Out!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars., originally uploaded by Rabujee.I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Me, The Confucius
Yesterday was an interesting evening.
Yesterday, I was dealing with four different problems/thingys at once (let's make it five, to include my mom yelling at me). It was fun.
Back in freshman/sophomore year of college I used to play the role of mediator for a lot of things. I haven't played that role in while, at least not as often as I used to. So yesterday when the need for that role came up, I was blanking. After a point, sometimes you really don't know what to say, you see both sides, but honestly you just can't think anymore sometimes, especially when you've gone down that road a couple times already.
But I'm not like that. I don't just draw blanks. I become Confucius.
(To basically buy time)
Well, not exactly like the Chinese philosopher, a little more like the version my brother C has: Confucius says... You are CONFUSED!! {Don't ask ME, why he goes around saying that when people are confused, I can hear Confucius banging in his grave wanting to strangle us for slandering him...Sorry dude, it's this random kid at my house, I'll even give him up to you, i don't even know who or what he is}
So this is what I told two of my friends yesterday as advice/ ways to fix a problem (and I think it makes sense, if you want to make sense out of it, you just need to THINK):
So, Life.
Life is like a ball. It's like a ball that is held by a monkey. The monkey doesn't really know what to do with the ball. So, the monkey throws the ball, hits the ball, spins the ball, sits on the ball.
And, sometimes the monkey pees on the ball. What the monkey doesn't know is that when it's throwing the ball, kicking the ball, hitting the ball, he or she (actually since it's a monkey let's stick with he), he doesn't know that what he's doing to the ball, is actually what one does with a ball.
And things of life?
Things of life are like a ping pong ball. A Ping Pong Ball. If you can't hit the ball with a paddle the way you need to or should, then the ball goes everywhere else but the place you need it to be, unless you get lucky. And those that know how to use the paddle really well, and make the ball go where they want it to? Even they hit the ball off the table by accident or miss it completely when the ball is crazy; they screw up too sometimes. So when you don't know how to play the game, you get frustrated. You get frustrated with the stupid ball that won't listen to you. And so you quit the game. And then when you watch someone else play the game, you want to try and play the game again. So you never really quit.
Does the post make no sense to you?
Probably
Are you considering quitting as a follower if you are one?
Potentially
Will you never come back here again?
Perhaps
Will C.A. want to kill me for losing readers and thus making her further from her dream?
maayyybe?
Will you report me to a psych ward?
.....I'll come after you so fast, it'll make Confucius want to stay in his grave forever.
Yesterday, I was dealing with four different problems/thingys at once (let's make it five, to include my mom yelling at me). It was fun.
Back in freshman/sophomore year of college I used to play the role of mediator for a lot of things. I haven't played that role in while, at least not as often as I used to. So yesterday when the need for that role came up, I was blanking. After a point, sometimes you really don't know what to say, you see both sides, but honestly you just can't think anymore sometimes, especially when you've gone down that road a couple times already.
But I'm not like that. I don't just draw blanks. I become Confucius.
(To basically buy time)
Well, not exactly like the Chinese philosopher, a little more like the version my brother C has: Confucius says... You are CONFUSED!! {Don't ask ME, why he goes around saying that when people are confused, I can hear Confucius banging in his grave wanting to strangle us for slandering him...Sorry dude, it's this random kid at my house, I'll even give him up to you, i don't even know who or what he is}
So this is what I told two of my friends yesterday as advice/ ways to fix a problem (and I think it makes sense, if you want to make sense out of it, you just need to THINK):
So, Life.
Life is like a ball. It's like a ball that is held by a monkey. The monkey doesn't really know what to do with the ball. So, the monkey throws the ball, hits the ball, spins the ball, sits on the ball.
And, sometimes the monkey pees on the ball. What the monkey doesn't know is that when it's throwing the ball, kicking the ball, hitting the ball, he or she (actually since it's a monkey let's stick with he), he doesn't know that what he's doing to the ball, is actually what one does with a ball.
And things of life?
Things of life are like a ping pong ball. A Ping Pong Ball. If you can't hit the ball with a paddle the way you need to or should, then the ball goes everywhere else but the place you need it to be, unless you get lucky. And those that know how to use the paddle really well, and make the ball go where they want it to? Even they hit the ball off the table by accident or miss it completely when the ball is crazy; they screw up too sometimes. So when you don't know how to play the game, you get frustrated. You get frustrated with the stupid ball that won't listen to you. And so you quit the game. And then when you watch someone else play the game, you want to try and play the game again. So you never really quit.
Does the post make no sense to you?
Probably
Are you considering quitting as a follower if you are one?
Potentially
Will you never come back here again?
Perhaps
Will C.A. want to kill me for losing readers and thus making her further from her dream?
maayyybe?
Will you report me to a psych ward?
.....I'll come after you so fast, it'll make Confucius want to stay in his grave forever.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Mrs. Cullen: The Tagee
Dear Friends,
I was tagged a little while back by Nickie to play this game and I finally got around to finishing it! The rules are: 1. To each letter of the alphabet, write a word connected to you. 2. Tag 6 people.
BROKE. I am kinda broke. But not as broke as before.
CAT. I love my cat. Sigh.
DENTIST. I wanna be a Dentist when I grow up.
EGGS. Allergic to eggs.
FISH. My cat will eat my fish one of these days.
GANGSTA. I'm a gangsta. A straight up G. The gangsta life is the life fo me.
HEROES. I need to catch up on Heroes.
INTIMIDATED. I am kinda intimidated right now.
JELLO. Its alive. I made some last week. It was yummy.
KASHMIR. I wanna go visit. Sigh.
LIFEHOUSE. My favorite band ever.
MERVY. My best friend's nick name.
NEW YORK CITY. I hate cities. But um. Yeah.
ORANGE. My favorite color. And ex color of my room.
PHYSICS. Stupidest subject in the history of subjects.
QUEST. Um. I am on a mission right now.
ROMEO. Waiting for mine to come.. Still waiting..
SCION TC. My car. Thanks to God. I love it.
TELEVISION. Life.
UMBRELLA. Its been raining the last few days. I want rain boots.
VIOLENT. I used to be. Towards my siblings.
WORKING OUT. Started two months ago. Quit a month ago.
X-MAS. Don't celebrate but I like it.
YOUR MOMMA. So fat.
ZOO. I have been wanting to go forever. Take me.
I tag you:
Yours for the sake of Peace and Sisterhood,
Mrs. Cullen
Women
I was on facebook today, my homescreen popped up and a friend of mine had posted an article about International Women's Day, which is today. I of course did not know that, so I read the article http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iNevZJjf-a2QZEuYlAQBEN0xp8fQ, and it's basically about the plight of the modern woman today. One statistic that really popped out at me was what the UN Secretary General had said, one in five women around the world has been a victim of rape or attempted rape. That number is so incredibly staggering. That, and the 10,000 women who turned up on the streets of Kinshasa, Africa to protest the "massive and savage violence against women and children using them as a weapon of war", has gotten me thinking about the lives of women around the world. There needs to be more done to educate, protect and uplift not just women, but women and men. So I ask you to take a moment and reflect upon the ever changing lives of women around the world and maybe think of a way you could educate the people in your lives so that more awareness is generated over this issue.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Why do people kill ants?
Seriously, I don't get it :(. What did ants ever do to you?
..Apparently they can cause itching? lol humans are arrogant..
In other news...
OMG, I read the Qur'an the other day and found reference to aliens!!!! YES, aliens exist. BOOYA to the ethnocentrists. It's indeed an exciting time to be alive.
*note: in Qur'an translation, "the heavens" is synonomous to "the universe"
..Could it be?!?!?!
(The following has nothing to do with anything, except lols and FAIL that does not involve school: )
Also, anti-theft improvising for the broke (like me):
..Apparently they can cause itching? lol humans are arrogant..
In other news...
OMG, I read the Qur'an the other day and found reference to aliens!!!! YES, aliens exist. BOOYA to the ethnocentrists. It's indeed an exciting time to be alive.
"Among His (God's) signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the living creatures that He has scattered throughout the universe : and He has power to gather them together when He wills." (Holy Qur'an 42:29)
*note: in Qur'an translation, "the heavens" is synonomous to "the universe"
..Could it be?!?!?!
(The following has nothing to do with anything, except lols and FAIL that does not involve school: )
Also, anti-theft improvising for the broke (like me):
hehehe.
-this post is dedicated to AL
-this post is dedicated to AL
Saturday, March 7, 2009
I do not eat green eggs and ham.I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
This week is Dr. Seuss' birthday.
I never really understood why certain people got their birthday celebrated for a week and got all sorts of recognition. While others just have to settle for one measly schmeasly day.
Actually now that I think about it, sometimes it seems like my friends and I are celebrating each others birthdays for like months since we don't actually do anything for that particular individual until five months later. Never the day of. But in all actuality, we are just really, really busy people and don't get the time to celebrate the day of. Either that, or we're too lazy. Or broke. Or both.
But that's neither important nor relevant to Dr. Seuss.
So moving along to the point: this week I was reading one of his books: Fox on Socks to one of my precious students. While reading the book, I was getting irritated because 1. The kid wasn't listening to me and 2. While reading it, I kept thinking that it made no sense.
Later on in the day after reading that book to the annoying kid, I was complaining to a coworker of mine about how Dr. Seuss books are pointless and how I couldn't believe that someone got paid to write stuff like that and then go on becoming as famous as he did. And really rich. While ranting to my co-worker, another co-worker jumps in and says that Dr. Seuss' books do make sense and each book has a hidden message about various issues that go on in the world. Or went on in the world.
I didn’t see how that was possible. So she went on to explain to me that some of his books deal with racism and environmentalism and ethnocentrism and all sorts of isms.
I didn’t believe her.
So I wikipediaed it. (I heart wikipedia. It has like EVERYTHING. And I don't understand why it's not considered a scholarly source to use when writing umm scholarly-ish papers)
And it turns out she’s right.
According to Wikipedia:
Many of Dr. Seuss's books are thought to express his views on a myriad of social and political issues: The Lorax (1971), about environmentalism and anti-consumerism; The Sneetches (1961), about racial equality; The Butter Battle Book (1984), about the arms race; Yertle the Turtle (1958), about anti-fascism and anti-authoritarianism; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957), about anti-materialism; and Horton Hears a Who! (1954), about anti-isolationism and internationalism.[11][9]
And here is an example from one of his books Yertle the Turtle. As stated earlier, this story is thought to have been about anti-authoritarianism:
And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
Alas! What would we do without Wiki.
Seriously who would’ve thought.
So I do apologize to Dr. Seuss and any die hard Dr. Seuss fans out there for doubting his writing style and mocking his work and accusing him of making absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Do forgive my ignorance.
And in honor of him and his birthday I wanted to share some of my favorite Dr. Seuss quotes. (Quotes that aren’t necessarily from his books, but inspirational nonetheless)
- “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.” - Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
- “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than you.”
- Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Friday, March 6, 2009
The other day, while I was walking on campus, I hear this sound,
Rhhrr hhhrrrh hhhrrrrr hrrr hrr
What? What is that? Should I turn around? Why does it sound like someone trying to start a car?
Hrrr Rhhr rhhrrr rhhrrr rhrrrrrr
(Walking slower, and looking at the source of the sound from the corner of my eye, which)
What the heck it's a guy behind me...
Hrrr hrrr Rhr rhrr rhhrrr
SERIOUSLY, IS THIS GUY TRYING TO MESS WITH ME??? What does he think he's doing?!
I stopped walking, to see what the guy who's making weird noises at me will do. He keeps walking right past me while talking on a cellphone,
"Yeah and then we should give her all the pictures, Rhhr hrr hrrr hrrr hrr"
He's laughing.
The dude was laughing! I was completely thrown off. I've heard really weird laughs in my lifetime, but this one would take the cake. (Yes I'm in the mood for random phrases that may not make sense)
I mean it sounded like a car starting up. I mean, it could come in handy. Like, if you needed to trick someone into believing that their car was starting up, or fool someone else that someone else's car was starting (like if the bad guy is doing something and thinks no one is around, but then hears a car starting and runs away), or if you were a stand up comedian who needed to make sounds of a car starting, or... ..I give up.
And for the record, I'm not making fun of his laugh. I have an annoying laugh myself, and he ...he just had a really weird laugh. At least his doesn't sound like someone gasping for breath or sounds like he 's cackling or randomly starts snorting........WOW, I'm changing MY laugh.
He should BE GRATEFUL for his laugh.
I mean it sounded like a car starting up. I mean, it could come in handy. Like, if you needed to trick someone into believing that their car was starting up, or fool someone else that someone else's car was starting (like if the bad guy is doing something and thinks no one is around, but then hears a car starting and runs away), or if you were a stand up comedian who needed to make sounds of a car starting, or... ..I give up.
And for the record, I'm not making fun of his laugh. I have an annoying laugh myself, and he ...he just had a really weird laugh. At least his doesn't sound like someone gasping for breath or sounds like he 's cackling or randomly starts snorting........WOW, I'm changing MY laugh.
He should BE GRATEFUL for his laugh.
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