I hereby declare the song "If" by Bread my official Wedding song. Of course, I don't who I am going to marry, let alone whether or not I am... But, what-the-hey, who cares, IT'S MY SONG. :) I feel very contented at that thought.
In "The Fountainhead", Howard Roark tells Geil Wynand that he can declare anything as his own, anything at all. Everyone can. How you take something, how you perceive it, how it sits in your heart, the significance it holds in your life--it is precisely that that makes something yours. No one object is subject to the ownership of two, simply because those two are not same.
I feel that about the song "If" by Bread.
So, in conclusion! You all should read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand and download the song "If" by Bread. :)
I'm feeling chipper...lol.
*In pompous airy voice*: You're all invited to the wedding, fabulous, absolutely fabulous, my dahlings.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sneak, sneak, sneak
Hi. I'm in 2nd period right now. It's 10:12 AM. I'm in AP Government and Politics. Great class.
Been really tired lately. Exhaustion has been easy to attain lately. For the past three days I've been getting these piercing migraines that stem from my right temple to the center of my...skull. It's magageable. I take two tylenol capsules and I'm up again. I can't wait for Bo's birthday party! I'm in need of some serious relaxation time.
During the summer of my...junior year (I think), I found the best setting where I was most at ease. I'd go to the library (these days hardly anyone would go) and I'd skim through book after book and find a little corner in the back of the Adult Non-Fiction section. Then, I'd go out and roam the area. It's a great feeling to keep your secrets in some place you give your own significance, too. I can relate to the girl in The Secret garden. I have a tendency to be very concious of my environment in a sense that I make connections to the places I go to.
During JSA, whenever I'd have extra time away from everyone and inbetween classes, I'd roam the Stanford campus. It's funny recounting on how I never got lost while on my own, but only got lost when with someone else. I remember sneaking into an auditorium at Stanford...hehehe...
Can't wait for college!
Been really tired lately. Exhaustion has been easy to attain lately. For the past three days I've been getting these piercing migraines that stem from my right temple to the center of my...skull. It's magageable. I take two tylenol capsules and I'm up again. I can't wait for Bo's birthday party! I'm in need of some serious relaxation time.
During the summer of my...junior year (I think), I found the best setting where I was most at ease. I'd go to the library (these days hardly anyone would go) and I'd skim through book after book and find a little corner in the back of the Adult Non-Fiction section. Then, I'd go out and roam the area. It's a great feeling to keep your secrets in some place you give your own significance, too. I can relate to the girl in The Secret garden. I have a tendency to be very concious of my environment in a sense that I make connections to the places I go to.
During JSA, whenever I'd have extra time away from everyone and inbetween classes, I'd roam the Stanford campus. It's funny recounting on how I never got lost while on my own, but only got lost when with someone else. I remember sneaking into an auditorium at Stanford...hehehe...
Can't wait for college!
Saturday, January 12, 2008
The Great African Scandal (2007)
"In this thought-provoking documentary, made with the help of Christian Aid, academic Robert Beckford undertakes a challenging, emotional journey to Ghana in West Africa. This is where, two centuries ago, Robert Beckford’s ancestors were seized and taken as slaves to Jamaica. Now he is making a journey to the land of his roots to discover the hidden costs of rice, chocolate and gold."
Time: 47:17
URL: http://moviesfoundonline.com/great_african_scandal.php
-I've never liked chocolate so much, and this gives me a greater reason to keep doing so.
-I'm not sure what to think of www.freerice.com, now.
-This guy filmed this documentary in Ghana, but what about the rest of Africa?
-Rice, chocolate, and gold... I have a hunch that nearly every mass-produced item, the base ingredients of them, or items that are collectively bartered involve some kind of scandal of some sort. There's "Supersize Me" on the McDonald's scandal. There are chicken farms in China, gold in Thailand, poachers, hooooh boy the list never ends.
-In one point in the documentary, Beckford says something like..."we starve one part of the world, to make the other richer" and "these people shouldn't have to live off acts of charity from me or anyone else". When you think of it...most of the aid granted to people who are considered impoverished come in the form of charity. Why is that? Because fixing the internal workings of a system is too difficult? Or because losing a society's dependence on your "charity" throws off control and skews your from of economic and political dominance?
This documentary made me sick. That's a good thing. Partly.
Time: 47:17
URL: http://moviesfoundonline.com/great_african_scandal.php
-I've never liked chocolate so much, and this gives me a greater reason to keep doing so.
-I'm not sure what to think of www.freerice.com, now.
-This guy filmed this documentary in Ghana, but what about the rest of Africa?
-Rice, chocolate, and gold... I have a hunch that nearly every mass-produced item, the base ingredients of them, or items that are collectively bartered involve some kind of scandal of some sort. There's "Supersize Me" on the McDonald's scandal. There are chicken farms in China, gold in Thailand, poachers, hooooh boy the list never ends.
-In one point in the documentary, Beckford says something like..."we starve one part of the world, to make the other richer" and "these people shouldn't have to live off acts of charity from me or anyone else". When you think of it...most of the aid granted to people who are considered impoverished come in the form of charity. Why is that? Because fixing the internal workings of a system is too difficult? Or because losing a society's dependence on your "charity" throws off control and skews your from of economic and political dominance?
This documentary made me sick. That's a good thing. Partly.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
6:01 AM
Today is Friday--the second day of class after winter break.
Today is Friday.
I need to jump in the shower soon.
What will be lightyears after my shower... I must remember... These things:
1. Today, you must call the Gates Millenium people to find out what in the hell went wrong with my SS# on my application.
2. Today, you must call Ladera Heights to inquire of any job opportunities for a hopeful academic-minded student aspiring to raise a few abstemious dollars for college.
3. Today, I must collect the shirt payments from Mr. Ermand and go to Island Aparrel before 5 PM to get our shirts.
4. Today, I must go to the Student Council meeting.
5. Today, I must pick up the forms I dropped off at my counselor's office, and the forms I dropped off at Mr. Eastons, while returning Easton's books.
6. Today, I must re-check-out my library books.
7. Today, I must figure out how in the hell I'm going to dress up like Jean Rousseau on Monday.
8. Today, I must put together my arguments on why a Laissez Fair system is better than Mercantilism and Communism.
9. What else?
I'll remember later. Dang it. I need to get in the shower.
Goodbye. :)
Today is Friday.
I need to jump in the shower soon.
What will be lightyears after my shower... I must remember... These things:
1. Today, you must call the Gates Millenium people to find out what in the hell went wrong with my SS# on my application.
2. Today, you must call Ladera Heights to inquire of any job opportunities for a hopeful academic-minded student aspiring to raise a few abstemious dollars for college.
3. Today, I must collect the shirt payments from Mr. Ermand and go to Island Aparrel before 5 PM to get our shirts.
4. Today, I must go to the Student Council meeting.
5. Today, I must pick up the forms I dropped off at my counselor's office, and the forms I dropped off at Mr. Eastons, while returning Easton's books.
6. Today, I must re-check-out my library books.
7. Today, I must figure out how in the hell I'm going to dress up like Jean Rousseau on Monday.
8. Today, I must put together my arguments on why a Laissez Fair system is better than Mercantilism and Communism.
9. What else?
I'll remember later. Dang it. I need to get in the shower.
Goodbye. :)
Monday, January 7, 2008
AMU
A woman called and asked me to send some credentials so that they could see how much scholarship money I qualify for. She called from all the way there to all the way here. I am astounded.
:P
Ok. Back to work.
:P
Ok. Back to work.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Partition (2007)
This made me cry humiliatingly.
http://moviesfoundonline.com/partition.php
A two-hour watch, but well worth it.
http://moviesfoundonline.com/partition.php
A two-hour watch, but well worth it.
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