Friday, September 24, 2010
RAWR!
So I'm having extreme writers block as to what to write a blog about. So how about for this blog if you want you guys give me some ideas of what to do for next weeks blog. Ready! Set! GO!
LORD OF THE RINGS!!
Sorry for the obnoxious title. I like that movie. So I pick the speech Sam gave Frodo in the second movie.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
(source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/quotes)
This speech was awesome. Hands down. It does what you would want a speech to do. To relate to you. To inspire you and wined you up. Touches you and almost gives you chill on how right it is. As you hear it you feel like its true. Everyday will get brighter and even when things are going terrible it will all pass and a new day will start. Especially if you have something worth fighting for you will push forward and make it through. And we should all have something worth fighting for.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
(source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/quotes)
This speech was awesome. Hands down. It does what you would want a speech to do. To relate to you. To inspire you and wined you up. Touches you and almost gives you chill on how right it is. As you hear it you feel like its true. Everyday will get brighter and even when things are going terrible it will all pass and a new day will start. Especially if you have something worth fighting for you will push forward and make it through. And we should all have something worth fighting for.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Happy Days
June. I constantly find myself staring
at one picture in particular out of many.
Here in the heat of the day
two young people stand next to the bushes,
freshly cut grass, and the smiles of people walking around them.
As the giant castle glimmers behind them,
fireworks go off just as the picture is taken.
Its a magical place. Her smile says it all. As does mine
Its all we ever wanted.
The smiles told the world
we were ready for anything. We would make it through.
We had each other and thats all we ever wanted
What more could we have ever asked for?
The story is that me and my girl friend got our money together and spent 4 days in the happiest place on earth, Disney World. Visited every park and did just about everything. I love that place. ButI couldn't find the exact picture of the scene but here are some others everyone can enjoy.
at one picture in particular out of many.
Here in the heat of the day
two young people stand next to the bushes,
freshly cut grass, and the smiles of people walking around them.
As the giant castle glimmers behind them,
fireworks go off just as the picture is taken.
Its a magical place. Her smile says it all. As does mine
Its all we ever wanted.
The smiles told the world
we were ready for anything. We would make it through.
We had each other and thats all we ever wanted
What more could we have ever asked for?
The story is that me and my girl friend got our money together and spent 4 days in the happiest place on earth, Disney World. Visited every park and did just about everything. I love that place. ButI couldn't find the exact picture of the scene but here are some others everyone can enjoy.
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| DISNEY WOOORLD!! YEAH!! |
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| Cute, I know |
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| The Tree of Life |
Tech World
Well I am typically a technology enthusiast so going a day without technology was pretty hard. Not as hard as I thought it would but still hard. I chose to go a day without my ipod. Although my first generation ipod touch has a cracked screen, no sound, no music, and not even a working head phone jack, I still use it daily. Mostly for the pages and pages of apps, specifically games, I have on it. When I’m bored I usually just whip out my ipod and play one of the various games I have on it. I figured it was a good choice because I use it enough to be addicted but not enough that I’d freak out without it.
I’ve never understood why people give technology a tough time. Well maybe not a tough time but schools try to limit the use of technology in it and people complain that it’s making people lazy. Well I’m not going to argue that it makes people lazy because I know I’m lazy. I can literally sit in my bed and turn on my TV with the remote then take my PS3 controller and turn that on, cycle through different options I want to do, and when I’m done, turn off the system and watch TV, all without leaving my bed. But I don’t see this as a bad thing. I don’t see why they do not teach a class in school that requires you to learn to type or just no the basics of power point or any type of computer program. The times are changing and they are still trying to stress the importance of being able to write out a math problem when you can simply put it into your calculator. Sure it’s good thing to know but odds are your going to use the calculator anyway so why make more work. The times have changed. It is a technology world out there and we should be taking advantage of what we have, not restricting it. We should be teaching children how to use this technology instead of wasting there time on old ways. It really doesn’t make sense to me as to why in a world of increasing technology do we hold on to old traditions instead of making use of what we have giving us a huge advantage to discover greater things than previous generations.
Well that was my little rant about that. Back to the assignment. At the end of the day I felt good. Not because I went without my ipod for a day but because I knew I could now. I don't think people should solely rely on technology to do everything for them but they should use it when they need to or if it is of advantage to them.
Friday, September 10, 2010
My Best Friend Eric
I've had a lot of friends. Many good friends. But I've only had a few best friends. I met my first best friend when he had just move into my neighborhood. I was 6 and he was 4. He was short and kind of chubby, African american, and very talkative. It seemed so long ago that I don't even remember how we met. I think we may have just seen each other across the street and we both knew we wanted to meet one another so it just happened. We stayed best friends until he moved when he was in the fourth grade. We've still managed to keep in touch but he and I are so different now that its very weird.
My next best friend, Eric, came around in the 7th grade. We had had some mutual friends and had seen each other in the halls a lot. I remember he liked some of the bracelets I used to wear and used to pay me a quarter a week to wear some. The friendship blossomed from there. Over the next 4 years we became closer and closer. His girlfriend became my almost best friend too. Almost everyday we all hung out and had fun. They were the best friends I ever had and I loved them unconditionally. Then events happened which involved my parents finding out about something and thus resulting in me not being able to see them for a long time. Things kind of fell apart after that. I felt left out of the group. Eric and his girlfriend broke up making things weirder. Though they stayed friends I knew things would be different.
Took about two more years before I was able to see them again and things had indeed changed. Emma, his girlfriend, had moved on from him and I could barely keep up with who she was anymore. And Eric was different too. Not so much in personality or looks but just in how we acted around each other. He kept trying to make things like they used to but they couldn't be. I knew it but he wanted things to be like they used to. It became some awkward for me that I avoided hanging out with him. I avoided it all summer before I came to college. People told me he was sad about that. And I was sad that it happened too. It was only recently that I told him the truth about how I felt. Recently being like two days ago. He said he understood and he appreciated me apologizing for the way I acted. It felt good to be able to patch things up somewhat and I'm glad I did it. So things are looking up for our friendship and that makes me very very happy.
My next best friend, Eric, came around in the 7th grade. We had had some mutual friends and had seen each other in the halls a lot. I remember he liked some of the bracelets I used to wear and used to pay me a quarter a week to wear some. The friendship blossomed from there. Over the next 4 years we became closer and closer. His girlfriend became my almost best friend too. Almost everyday we all hung out and had fun. They were the best friends I ever had and I loved them unconditionally. Then events happened which involved my parents finding out about something and thus resulting in me not being able to see them for a long time. Things kind of fell apart after that. I felt left out of the group. Eric and his girlfriend broke up making things weirder. Though they stayed friends I knew things would be different.
Took about two more years before I was able to see them again and things had indeed changed. Emma, his girlfriend, had moved on from him and I could barely keep up with who she was anymore. And Eric was different too. Not so much in personality or looks but just in how we acted around each other. He kept trying to make things like they used to but they couldn't be. I knew it but he wanted things to be like they used to. It became some awkward for me that I avoided hanging out with him. I avoided it all summer before I came to college. People told me he was sad about that. And I was sad that it happened too. It was only recently that I told him the truth about how I felt. Recently being like two days ago. He said he understood and he appreciated me apologizing for the way I acted. It felt good to be able to patch things up somewhat and I'm glad I did it. So things are looking up for our friendship and that makes me very very happy.
Why Am I Here?
Why am I here? I don't really know. Well I do know why but I don't know why I'm doing it. College was always one of those things I had to do. It wasn't because someone told me I had too. Everyone wanted me to though. Society, parents, teachers, friends and even myself. Through out my life college has always been the norm. It wasn't something that I had a choice, everyone just assumed that I was going to go to college. Which was fine because I did want to go. I wanted to improve my own life and skills. I am here because I wanted to be here.
As far as why I wanted to be here, I guess if you had to classify me into one of Ken Steele's categories than I guess I would say somewhere between careerist and scholar. My goal for college and why I picked the major I did was for the career opportunities. It was so I could get a good job and a high paying one at that. But its not only to make money and have a good job. Its bigger than that. I want my life and my families life to be easy and for them to have good lives. In this world money rules it all so right now I want to make the money for my future life.
Now I've heard many different of how you should pick your career. You can follow your dreams or do whatever makes you the most money or pick a job you could stand doing for a long time something fun. Well I personally right now am doing what makes me the most money. Don't get me wrong, I love technology and computer so computer engineering is not something I'll probably hate. But to me right now this second (because this could all change), I would love to do something with animals. Animals always fascinated me. I love going to the zoo and all the local animal safari things. But most animal career choices are not that high paying. At least the ones I would like to do. Its become one of those situations to me that maybe I'm making the wrong choice as far as career choice is concerned but I don't know yet. I'm still deciding and hopefully college will help me with that. And that is why I am here.
As far as why I wanted to be here, I guess if you had to classify me into one of Ken Steele's categories than I guess I would say somewhere between careerist and scholar. My goal for college and why I picked the major I did was for the career opportunities. It was so I could get a good job and a high paying one at that. But its not only to make money and have a good job. Its bigger than that. I want my life and my families life to be easy and for them to have good lives. In this world money rules it all so right now I want to make the money for my future life.
Now I've heard many different of how you should pick your career. You can follow your dreams or do whatever makes you the most money or pick a job you could stand doing for a long time something fun. Well I personally right now am doing what makes me the most money. Don't get me wrong, I love technology and computer so computer engineering is not something I'll probably hate. But to me right now this second (because this could all change), I would love to do something with animals. Animals always fascinated me. I love going to the zoo and all the local animal safari things. But most animal career choices are not that high paying. At least the ones I would like to do. Its become one of those situations to me that maybe I'm making the wrong choice as far as career choice is concerned but I don't know yet. I'm still deciding and hopefully college will help me with that. And that is why I am here.
Monday, September 6, 2010
The Beauty Surrounds Us
I don't like the city and I don't like the country. I'm ok with the suburbs but that is not where I picture myself the most. I have always seen myself in the woods. Ideally that is where I am most at home. Something about nature and the wilderness draws to me. The simplicity of it but also the deep complexity. There are no laws in the wild. There are no classes. No hierarchy. No drama. All one has are their basic needs and instincts.
Sure, it's not completely plausible to give up everything you've known and go out and live like a wolf. But simple needs are easily met without having millions of dollars. I mean lets be honest here, what are you going to do with a two million dollar house with 30 rooms? Who really needs that? Call me crazy but I would love to just live in a cabin out in the woods. Nothing fancy just simple. To live among the trees and animals would be my dream. As I stated before, I am not about to start wearing animal skin around and pretend I'm one of them. That would be crazy. And I'm not crazy (I don't think).
No no. I am more aiming for a simpler life style. One where money and celebrities and politics don't rule everything.
This is all some fantasy of mine that I guess would never happen. But I like to think about it. It puts me at ease when things are tough. To me there is nothing more beautiful then just sitting quietly in the forest and watching everything unfold. The leaves fall, the birds chirping, water running, whatever it may be it is all so simple yet part of something so vast; so complex that we may never understand it's meaning.
Now I'm not going to preach to everyone to "save the rainforest", I mean of course we should but I also do understand, especially in this day and age, that development is inevitable and trees will fall. But people should realize that this is our world and we only have one. Once its gone its gone for good. Animals, trees, and nature as a whole all share this planet with us and we must respect that or else we will be all thats left. Though we presume that we are the best of all the species of animals and that they lack a better understanding of certain things, none the less, we are all animals in nature. So I just ask of everyone to take the time to look around when you are camping or hiking or just walking through a park, look around at everything that surrounds you and do not take it for granted.
Sure, it's not completely plausible to give up everything you've known and go out and live like a wolf. But simple needs are easily met without having millions of dollars. I mean lets be honest here, what are you going to do with a two million dollar house with 30 rooms? Who really needs that? Call me crazy but I would love to just live in a cabin out in the woods. Nothing fancy just simple. To live among the trees and animals would be my dream. As I stated before, I am not about to start wearing animal skin around and pretend I'm one of them. That would be crazy. And I'm not crazy (I don't think).
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| Could you imagine? |
No no. I am more aiming for a simpler life style. One where money and celebrities and politics don't rule everything.
This is all some fantasy of mine that I guess would never happen. But I like to think about it. It puts me at ease when things are tough. To me there is nothing more beautiful then just sitting quietly in the forest and watching everything unfold. The leaves fall, the birds chirping, water running, whatever it may be it is all so simple yet part of something so vast; so complex that we may never understand it's meaning.
Now I'm not going to preach to everyone to "save the rainforest", I mean of course we should but I also do understand, especially in this day and age, that development is inevitable and trees will fall. But people should realize that this is our world and we only have one. Once its gone its gone for good. Animals, trees, and nature as a whole all share this planet with us and we must respect that or else we will be all thats left. Though we presume that we are the best of all the species of animals and that they lack a better understanding of certain things, none the less, we are all animals in nature. So I just ask of everyone to take the time to look around when you are camping or hiking or just walking through a park, look around at everything that surrounds you and do not take it for granted.
The Bucket List
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- Make a really awesome tree house.
- Travel to Africa or Australia.
- I'd like to get some form of college degree.
- Eventually have a family. Hopefully with at least one boy.
- Become rich enough that I can support my family and live nicely enough. Also enough money to accomplish all of this on my list.
- Take my family to Disney World because it's the best place on earth and I love going there.
- Own a scorpion. One of my favorite creatures.
- Own a Chameleon who I would name George.
- At some point in my life, young or old, have a really long beard. I think it would be very interesting and odd.
- Build my own computer.
- Not become fat.
- Attend a really nerdy Star Wars convention. (Yes I am a nerd).
- Climb an actual mountain. Nothing extraordinary. Just something somewhat challenging.
- Survive in the forest for a week or so with nothing ( yes just like Survivorman).
- Go on an African safari and experience the wildlife.
- Be able to conquer my fear of airplanes in addition to heights.
- Become an amateur star gazer. With a pretty decent sized telescope.
- Dig up and discover a fossil of some sort.
- Visit the worlds largest and coolest zoo.
- Also worlds largest and coolest aquarium.
- Rescue an animal.
- Practice Buddhism.
- Become good at photography.
- Learn a little more about my Native blood.
- Discover the beauty in the world.
- Be able to tell all the friends I left behind I am sorry.
- To know that I made a difference in at least someones life.
- Forgive and forget
- Die happy
- And of course be able to own or at least hold my favorite animal ever the three toed sloth.
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| So cute right? |
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