Just Me as a Kid

I was such a spoiled bratty kid, you wouldn't'v'e believe it! Thinkin' back, I always would throw temper tantrums for a toy or whatever till I got what I wanted. My grams spoiled me rotten buying me stuff in Chinatown. When my gramps picked me up from daycare, he brought me my (old) fave treat. Both my grandparents and parents spoiled me even if I don't get any good grades.

I was never good at school. I was slow at learning some things. So slow, they thought I had some kind of learning disability. I may have loved reading, but when I had to do reading comprehension, I had to reread the story to find out the answers. It took me awhile to catch up to my classmates. I was always behind. During elementary school in one grade, they had a color-coded system for reading. If you go up one level you get a new color. Well,  I was always stuck at aqua (not that I don't like that color), but other students were going by past me, going to tan, pink, etc.  Well, I showed them, huh?! I overcame all else fail. I am now a self-published author.

But math...that's a whole 'nother story. I am good at math now... and at San Francisco State, I passed statistics with a B average. But all the way from elementary school through high school, I sucked at math. Maybe I was under too much pressure, pressure to succeed. Even my mom who was a math/science teacher can't help me b/c she got frustrated since I couldn't understand the material My smarty-pants older brother tried to help, but he, too, grew frustrated. Dad was no help. He wasn't good at math either. Maybe I've inherited his horrible math skills. In 7th or 8th grade, Sr. Daniel, a traditional nun, who wore a habit and all, she's prob'ly deceased now, but she was so demeaning to me and others who weren't good at math that she prob'ly turned them off from math forever. Even if I didn't do so well on her exams, she didn't need to put me down. But she made me feel bad by saying, 'Awful' on the tests I failed on. Instead of showing me how to do better, she made me stand up in front of the class and do the problems , further humiliating me. She didn't do it to only me, but to others in the same position as me.

Maybe it was her fault that I wasn't able to take any more math courses without feeling like I was going to fail. She was so mean...I thought all nuns were supposed to be kind and understanding. Not this one! No way! No hell! Sr. Margaret Anne was a much nicer and less traditional nun than her.

Creations @ my Hands

I look forward to another day of needlework. Can't wait to finish up new project. The 1st one is always the best one; the others can't top the 1st. I've been taking weaving @ John Adams City College Campus this fall, but I'm not too crazy about it. I like needlework much better than weaving. With weaving, you don't make anything while with needlework you make a certain design and voila! You got yourself a design. Right now, I'm working on something else. 

Presently, my 1st piece is on display @ the school, but  I'm working on the 2nd one. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish it by Christmas so that I can gift it to my parents for their Christmas gift sort of a gift of appreciation for all these years of helping me out all these years. Even if I don't show it at times, I love them so! Why not?   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I also love my brother and his family as well.

Erasure of Hatred & Bigotry

Our history shows how much hatred and bigotry we had in the past. If I were to go back in time, I'd erase all that hatred and bigotry and replace it with love and acceptance. We had so many dictators like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. They had so much hatred and bigotry because of how they were raised and maybe they had learned it from their peers. They must have thought the way they treated the other group was right, but it wasn't. It was wrong to be treated with so much hatred and bigotry. Any form of hatred and bigotry should not be tolerated at all. 

Let's not change the past; let's learn from our past so that we don't have to repeat our past mistakes.

Global Warming

This is highly unseasonal for San Francisco weather to be this hot! I feel like I have just entered hell or how they described hell in books, especially in Dante's Inferno. Summer never was this hotttt. It used to be more foggy than hotttt. People telling me to drink H20 or else you'll get dehydrated. So true. We San Franciscan natives aren't used to weather like this! Craaaaaaaaaaaaazy climate change what with the hurricanes going nutso! The unstoppable hurricanes (here's lookin' at ya, Harvey, Irma, Maria!) laying destruction in their paths! The poor people! The wonky, unpredictable earthquakes and its aftershocks still going on around the world....

How can San Francisco be more hotter than Los Angeles?! It was always L.A. that was more hotter than San Francisco. Crazy climate change. Science must be in wonky mood lately. Maybe it's the solar eclipse's fault.

Maybe it's the calm before the storm. We actually did have a lightning storm a few weeks ago. First time to my knowledge. Maybe this is earthquake weather? Even if it's earthquake weather, I think we're more prepared this time than last time during the Loma Prieta earthquake in '89. We've retrofitted our buildings, so we're good to go. The only thing we need to do is keep on replenishing our emergency kits if it starts to expire or get one if you guys don't have one. You guys already have practiced what to do in case the real deal happens? I'm sure you do.

Predictions

Good tidings are  forthcoming....

It has been a pretty pessimistic year to start with, but it looks like things are looking up, m'dearies. Don't wanna jinx it, so I rather not, but I can tell you things are going good. Let the good times roll, babes! 

But the world... that's a whole 'nother story! Wish we live in an utopian society, where everything floats with ease. In this world, females rule! No way is this an alt universe! It is real life. Females discover a new tree called the money tree which helps us not have to work any longer.  In this world, women are the top dog; men must obey women's every single command. Women needn't have to marry. Our mission in life isn't to satisfy men's every single whim and to procreate.  Men worship the ground we walk on. They will grovel at our very feet. They must obey or suffer the consequences. 

Men make life miserable for us women, so we do the same for them! 

Love/Peace/Harmony

Let's make love
No more war within and without ourselves
Let's make peace with each other and self
No more violence
Shame violence leads to death
Loss of senseless death lies in our wake
Let's be harmonic towards each other
No more chaos towards each
Let's learn to accept each other despite our faults, mistakes and transgressions
Let's unite together
Forever and ever

Wishes Upon a Star

Question of the moment: Why can't we learn to get along with one another?

I wish we are able to get along with each other. We can live and let live in an utopian society where everyone is accepted and our world's inclusive, faults and all. No one's excluded from whatever activity, whether it is military, sports, or corporate world despite their race, religion, sexuality, sex or whatever. In this world, there is no such thing as discrimination b/c all lives matter in the long run. This is what empowerment is all about. No one is entitled to anything. There is no such thing as white, elite privilege or minority because everyone is equal. It is just not words written on a page. It is the real deal. Everyone is equal. There is no exception to the rule.
Everyone gets equal pay for equal work because we have equal opportunities now. Slavery of all kinds are abolished. This includes child trafficking, human trafficking, prostitution, forced marriage, domestic servitude, forced labor, bonded labor. People capture these victims by kidnapping and selling them into the aforementioned work, not giving them a penny. These will be abolished in this utopian society. Criminals such as pedophiles, child killers-even if they themselves are children-and murderers will be burned in a kinda of Dante's Inferno only a billion times worse. Even idiots like people who shoot their mouths off will burn in Dante's Inferno. (You know who you are.)
Up here, we live our sweet, lil, innocent lives away. No one have to worry about drugs or alcohol because we're already high on life. Actually, we eat junk food all day long which makes us skinny, not fat. We don't even need to exercise. Everyone is loving towards each other; there is no such thing as hate or war. War has long since been abolished in favor of peace towards humankind.
There will be no such thing as animal cruelty. Animals are our friends. Without them, we won't be able to survive. Animals keep our sanity and our innocence. Instead of eating animals, we eat a purely vegetarian diet, which helps us live a longer life. Life expectancy is much longer in this utopian society.

Instead of 'God We Trust,' our new motto on our money should be: 

'Live and Let Live!'

Life on Other Planets

Question of the day: Is there life on other planets?

I should like to think that there are other life on other planets. We are not the only species (aside from the animals) cause that would be kinda selfish. We are already destroying our lovely planet Earth, We did horrible things to it like using hairspray that cause the ozone layer to enlarge its hole. We threw trash into the ocean. We fished and are still fishing. We spilled oil into the ocean. Lately, we're 

trying to make up for our past misdeeds by separating our trash into compost, recycle and garbage. If Earth gets destroyed due to our past mistakes, let's flee to other planets where it's more free of our misdeeds. We can learn from our past mistakes and not repeat them. Start afresh. Maybe the aliens can teach us a thing or two about how to treat their planets with more respect.

There is life on other planets. We aren't the only living species in this galaxy. How selfish of us to think we are! They may be out-of-this-world, but when we leave planet Earth for their planets, they might think we are out-of-their-world! They'll welcome us (or not?) We'll learn to get to know them 

like any neighbor. As with any neighbor, there'll be issues like a language barrier for they speak alien-speak. They'll think we're strange b/c they've never seen creatures such as us humans and their pets inhabiting their planet. Through sign language, we can communicate with each other. Then we can
 learn to get along even becoming friends, soon maybe more than. Maybe we have alien babies if we get cozy with them....To us, everything on their planet is strange but we learn to like even to love it!