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In recognition of United Nations World Teachers Day, let us reflect on the subjects we hated most in school but must now grudgingly admit were useful. What subject will today’s students find most useful when they’re older?


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I hated economics but now I must admit that I should have payed better attention -_-"

Government as well, and history because now I'm lost in many issues. Geography! I am clueless for the most part, so I really wish I could have been a better student in those areas, even if I managed the A's, I apparently didn't learn much.

Aug. 8th, 2008

  • 3:49 AM

I have yet to finish the other entry... but I shall, I shall, I have to.

but first I just wanted to post this... I love it.

a lovely melody I love from Tuck Everlasting... a movie I adore, especially the ending... not because Jessie ends up alone throughout existence, but because Winnie learns not to fear death.

Writer's Block: On Your Tombstone

  • Aug. 4th, 2008 at 2:12 AM

What do you want written on your gravestone and why?

Submitted By [info]sharky123


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 Embrace death, friend to us all, bringer of peace and oblivion. Do not fear it, be ready for it as I was. As you await Death, live your life and be at peace with Life as existence ends with your dying breath.



Well in reality I don't think I actually want a gravestone or a coffin and so forth that are traditional for a deceased person. I've thought about cremation but I'm not sure. I'm more for the idea that I heard about once in a news report. It was about a cemetery that was "environmentally friendly". The deceased is buried in a wooden casket with not much decoration I think. Wood decomposes over time, and not too much time either. Then the body with also decompose and the lining as well. Over time everything will return to the earth and I won't have to feel guilty [in life] about the contribution I would give to damaging our earth since everything would be decomposable. I think they might mark the grave with a stone, so maybe there I would have the little inscription. So I'm either buried there or I will be cremated and my ashes dispersed by the wind.... but then that's also kind of bad because of the CO2... so I'm leaning more to that environmentally friendly burial..... although trees..... gah!  I dislike making precise plans because there's so many things to consider....  I'll make up my mind and I'll leave it in my will.... or somewhere where people can see it quickly.





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I wish to continue this entry but I neither have the time nor the clear mind to finish it. I thought I should at least give that answer until I can finish it; I don't want the question to disappear.

Writer's Block: Immigration

  • Aug. 1st, 2008 at 12:40 AM

If you had to immigrate from your current home, where in the world would you choose to go?

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England, no doubt... for different reasons. Then I'd spend some time visiting all over Europe. I am a Europe fan but I can't go there.. at least not yet. I do hope one day to move to England and spend whatever rests of my life there.

Jul. 31st, 2008

  • 12:16 AM


There's a lot going on a  I guess....... in a way.....  alas more has been told than I would wish were revealed.........   not o well, but it can't be undone............... 





I guess I like making my decisions on my own without others knowing because somehow when someone knows it affects my decisions and I tend to choose the wrong thing.




there's some things to change... but i'm waiting for many things... many many many things...........  one thing is most important but until it comes for me there's other things to look for and find a way to make reality.

I guess my mind isnt so clear right now... I can't keep a coherent thought for too long... so I shall end now.



... )

recount

  • Dec. 5th, 2007 at 10:20 AM

So.... right now I'm supposed to be finishing an essay that was due yesterday... but something about this essay keeps making me want to get distracted.... it's probably the fact that I ran out of ideas of what to write when I reached the third page.  I must finish it though... but ahhhh!

um... let's see... what else is going on....

well, this quarter ends next wednesday for me after my last final.... for like the worst class I've taken this quarter.... the only thing that kept me in this ge cluster was the fact that it would knock out so many GEs... otherwise i think I would have dropped the class already...

I'm not doing too good on my chem class... hopefully I pass it with a C at least so i can move on and not have to retake it

math is iffy...   I do great on hw... stupidly on tests... so iono............... I better ace that final though... it's not even that hard!! stupid mistakes and blankouts... grr


hmm... i think i'm getting a little too lazy... cuz I keep skipping class lol
yesterday I skipped my last class (workshop actually) cuz I went to eat with Danny and then I met up with Scott and chose not to go to class.... and then today I skipped my ge cluster discussion....   second time I do that... pretty bad..... and my chem lecture I think I've skipped 3 times... not to mention discussion section lol.......... the only lecture I have not skipped is math.... but i did skip the discussion once or twice.....I really have to stop skipping classes... but they're not interesting!

hopefully next quarter I'll do better


I'm taking Italian next quarter... YAY!
and the 2nd part of the ge cluster, and english comp 3, and the next part of math.... fun.. *sarcasm*



hmm... today I'm hoping to enjoy a choir concert with Scott... though I will get home late... but w/e... I wanna enjoy school sponsored events... and not just be here cuz of classes....


but yeah, I'm still not settled in with having chosen ucla.... but I guess I'm stuck where I'm at cuz i got nothing better


off I go to try to work on my essay now....

Oct. 29th, 2007

  • 12:48 AM


ooo... weee!!!   it's being thought about... it's an option now, to more than me.... oh yayy!!    will life really give me the opportunity to go?  It's what I most wish....    a life in the continent I love... and maybe even the country..... I could have a good life... wow....    if only if only please let it be so.... 










my wish )

update

  • Sep. 20th, 2007 at 6:14 PM

Hello............    I have just paid my tuition for UCLA (2570.41 !_! )  so... I am going to UCLA =P
um... after a month without having my computer, I started to miss it a lot..........  I want my computer back =(
I sent it to be fixed two mondays ago... yet it isn't finished yet... I'm going tomorrow [yet again] to see if it is finished... and I so hope it is... 

I have yet to get too excited about going to school... the excitement lvl has risen a bit... but not much.. like 5%.... why?  I don't know....   but at least this quarter's worries are mostly over........



later:  incorrect, worries still continue....
currently-dumb alcohol edu website............ grr... i'm out of time

an update

  • Jun. 29th, 2007 at 12:36 AM

so......... it's been more than a week since I graduated........... and and ... and....

iono...


i'm bored





i'm looking into going to summer school at rio        <coming Tracy?>

and I'm looking into getting a job....      sorta



man, i gotta make my plans for the future clearer....




so what's new?                                                                                       <bad update: boring>

June 20, 2007 at 7:00 PM

  • Jun. 20th, 2007 at 12:06 PM

I graduate today.


:-)

hi

  • Jun. 10th, 2007 at 4:01 PM

boo


10 days


grr

Coincidences

  • May. 14th, 2007 at 10:41 PM

 
Sunday, May 13, 2007

 

Lucky Seven

This is just a sampler of the coincidences that exist.... it's by far not the strangest

 

The following memoir, sent to Arthur Koestler after the publication of his book The Roots of Coincidence in 1973, may be too good to be true.  The author of the letter, Anthony S. Clancy of Dublin, Ireland, writes:

I was born on the seventh day of the week, seventh day of the month, seventh month of the year, seventh year of the century.  I was the seventh child of a seventh child, and I have seven brothers; that makes seven sevens.  On my 27th birthday, at a race meeting, when I looked at the race-card to pick a winner in the seventh race, the horse numbered seven was called Seventh Heaven, with a handicap of seven stone.  The odds were seven to one.  I put seven shillings on this horse.  It finished seventh.  [Allan Vaughhan, Incredible Coincidence, quoted in Reader's Digest, August 1979, p.120]

[Mysteries of the Unexplained, "Coincidences", ©1985, p. 66]




Monday, May 14, 2007

 

Truth Follows Fiction

Another little coincidence I felt like sharing.  Again, not the strangest.

 

"In 1838 Edgar Allan Poe published a grim tale called 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucker.'  In it, three survivors of a shipwreck, dying of thirst and starvation, kill and eat their companion, Richard Parker, who lost when they drew lots.

In 1884 three survivors of a shipwreck were tried for the murder of a fourth.  Adrift, and facing starvation, they had killed and eaten their companion, a cabin boy named Richard Parker.  (Alan Vaughan, Incredible Coincidence, pp. 22-23)"

- Mysteries of the Unexplained

"Coincidences"

 

want proof?

look up Richard Parker on Wikipedia, it gives you a small excerpt.

also,

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/handout9.html

that is the case of Queen v. Dudley, giving the details of this real story.

 


a thought

  • Mar. 26th, 2007 at 6:59 PM

Posted on xanga, felt like repeating:


Hmm... I wonder.. If I would have applied to SD, would I have been accepted too?   It's all the "rage" at school... "which college did u get into for sd?"....  I obviously couldn't answer that when it was asked to me... simply because I didnt apply... I wonder if I would have gotten in though, and where would I have been sent?   But then again, why add the hassle?  no point so it was best that it wasnt so

 

 

o yes, i know it's march 26 and the last entry I made was on march 4... 22 days isnt that much.........   there's only about 80 days left of high school, and it doesnt seem like that much to me right now either.....................   so little time left for anything these days.

 

I've been thinking somewhat a lot during these last few years...... I've had over 17 years of life already....   and at least 10 reasoning years....  that seems like such a long time.....

sure, some people see it as: "that's such a short time! you've barely been alive!"

But then think.. when I ask you, what will you be doing 10 years from now?  how about 17?  You answer, "that's such a long time from now, I dont know... it's too much time....."

If I could answer you coherently when I was one and you asked me: "what will you be doing 10 or 17 years from now?", I'd probably answer, I dont know... it's too far from now

 

and so, I've lived for 17+ years, I've thought coherently for 10+ years, and I've thought about the philosophies of life and the ideas, the point, for a very long time now... 10+ years...

 

and so i've had a long life... now 30 is seeming very very long for me...

 

"What will you be doing when you're 28?  10 years from now?  What will you be like when you come to your high school's reunion?"

 

I dont know... that's too long from now.... it's too much time

Poems

  • Mar. 26th, 2007 at 6:33 PM

So... I created a few poems... nothing special at all.....    I turned them in... and it's  out of my hand if it gets published......

if any of them are good enough, I might read them at the "Poets' Corner"....... not at all sure though........  

they're probably not good at all so i am not sure.




Childhood )


Star )


A Dream )


and so here ends this little entry

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Mar. 20th, 2007

  • 2:11 AM

So... I'm up at 2:11 am, listening to Paulina Rubio (yes her, not the music to provoke deep thought, yet still listening), trying to think of something to write for the poems due for Mr. Pursley on Friday

I havent done much.....

just a tad, did one, then started another and have one stanza but I dont know what to add... so that shall be finished tomorrow

Inspiration

Nearly three years passed without knowing,

You were laughing

I was waiting

Two seemingly different pathways of life


The third year changed much

It wasn’t known then

You were part of your group

And I was waiting


The competition started

The preparation was arduous

I didn’t believe so I didn’t try

But you, you were enthusiasm at its peak


I found you in my third year

I found hope, I found reason

I tried, I failed, but I tried again the next year

You showed me something new: Spirit


The fourth year came

You were gone

But I wasn’t waiting

I tried, worked, and accomplished

All because I found you

-Mary Cruz

formatting bad........ but ehhhhhhhhhh

might be fixed later, now me (excuse, I) shall go to sleep



me sleeeeeeepie!!!!!!!!!!!!



Mar. 19th, 2007

  • 6:35 PM

So...... it's been some days... months, w/e......... that I have been here.............  as the song I'm listening to says, "Not much is changed".  


though )

though though though though though

repetition............   sticks to one's mind



now, what to say?



.... )

got accepted into UCM
got accepted into UCD
waiting for UCB
waiting for UCLA

waiting for Oxy


wish things were much different....



randomness



lala )



now, I must create some poems for Mr. Pursley's class... and I dont want them to be just a load of....... fakeness...  I want them to represent just a tad, or maybe more....... and then, if I'm really up to it, I'll read them out on Poet's Corner...........  but that'll come later.


now then, what to write?   what to write?




Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
need more be said?
or must I continue with this too?



as can be seen, I was rather bored, and chose not to write too seriously......... ta   ta then................  I shall be back, at some point........... and hopefully I'll write a better entry next time...





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random thing I learned:  While making an entry, don't click random links

new

  • Jan. 5th, 2007 at 4:28 PM

I'm rather new at this... and I believe I'm saying "rather" too much... o well...  I dont know what to type now... I guess I just wanted to see how this works.... maybe when I'm better acquainted with it, I'll have more to say.
um... 'till later then ~~~~

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