Why is the world like this? When we abolish slavery, we should've abolish racism. But it was ingrained into us as children. Let's blame our parents. But no, we can't cause it's a generational thing. It was carried from generation to generation. We are all humans even though we are all different on the outside. Don't label us for who we are on the outside; we are more than skin tone, more than eye color, more than eye shape, we are one and the same -- living, breathing human beings.
Throughout history, people of color (POC) were/are treated differently by the whites because of their skin color. They were/are treated less than because of white privilege. Although technology and life have advanced, people's mindset haven't. They are still stuck in the past. Still think the minorities must bow down and obey them when the whites were the ones who stole the land from the Natives. They are the low-life thugs. They are the murderers. They are the ones who are bringing violence, mayhem, destruction, death to this madness we called our world. White privilege is just garbage. They think the minorities owe us something? Yeah right. The minorities owe the whites nothing! Except life, liberty and justice!
We demand retribution for years of hate against us. We did nothing wrong except be. Why do you hate us minorities? Because of our different skin color, our customs, our culture? We have a right to live here. We, too, are Americans. The whites think we are low-life's. That is rich coming from you. You murder an innocent black man and you called us thugs. Must have started back when Columbus chopped off the Natives' hands and murdered them when he bought some back to his homeland with no remorse. He prob'ly thought he was justified in killing the Indians. Now a buncha white cops killed an innocent black man. They prob'ly think they, too, are justified and feel no remorse. They prob'ly are gloating about it with their friends. When will this madness stop? We've a stupid president who's blaming the flu epidemic on the Chinese calling it the Chinese virus, starting Chinese racism, but the Floyd event made things even worse by far. Hatred will tear this nation apart in the form of racism.
We minorities should ban/boycott all white brand labels. See how they can live without us. Corrupt their businesses (as if their businesses aren't bad already due to the Coronavirus). Make a stand for ourselves instead of going mad.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Lifetime's My Daughter's Psycho Friend
Here's the synopsis from the Lifetime's website: When Sierra moves to Los Angeles with her family and goes to a new school, she encounters the devious and psychotic Lexi and her posse of friends. Soon afterwards at a party, a teenager dies as a result of a Lexi prank. When Lexi tries to frame Sierra for the kid’s death, Sierra fights back, putting her own life in danger. Taylor Blackwell, Avery Pohl, Cerina Vincent star. (2020).
Lexi's pranks are downright devious and manipulative. They are not your everyday garden variety pranks; they can get you in major trouble. One time she send the police to where Sierra lives now but a boy named Scotty used to lived. It was a swatting, but he and his parents were terrified so they moved. Kaitlyn and Lexi thought it was funny, but it terrified Scotty's family.
When Sierra is with the girls at a party at Lexi's for the first time, she sees them put some kind of drug in their classmate's beer but didn't know what was going on. She is only invited to the party because she and Kaitlyn are new neighbors.Then the drugged classmate walks straight into the swimming pool and drowns. All Lexi could do is think of covering her tracks, not of the boy. /She shows no empathy for the dead kid. But Kaitlyn is saying that they murder a kid. But then Lexi said Kaitlyn could've stopped her. Her mother found out she is having a party. Lexi and her mother--they don't respect each other. Police do the usual questioning and such. Lexi's mother said she doesn't want any responsibility for her actions. Afterwards there is a little fight in the hall at school over the death at the party but Lance ended by rescuing Sierra. Lance is Sierra's potential bf and the dead kid's friend. There is a fire alarm set off (prob'ly by Lexi) to plant the drug that she bought in Sierra's locker. She is the one who tips off the school who then suspends her upon further investigation. Kaitlyn wants to make a pact with Lexi and Sierra but it turns out to be a trap. A trap to lure her out to her death. Lexi wants to kill her to shut up when she finds out that Sierra was recording her confession about drugging the other classmate. She almost did try to kill her by putting her her car and drugs her with the drug and pushes her car into the lake. But Sierra woke up and pushes her way out of the watery grave, rescue by her parents with only a concussion. Lexi goes home and finds her mother getting ready to throw her out of the house so she throws her off the stairs. She tries to throw Kaitlyn off the stairs at school but the football team saves her. She breaks into Sierra's family's house, shoots her dad in the arm, tries to find Sierra herself but falls out the window. She is caught and sent to the slammer Meanwhile, Sierra is free of Lexi
Actress AveryKristen Pohl did a go job as Lexi. I loathe her so much from beginning to end. The ending was super cliff-hanger-ish. It shows the queen bee of the prison ward about to pounce on Lexi. I figure she'll get a taste of her own medicine very soon because the last scene wee saw her in she had her 'neck broken. I can imagine the taunting and the hate amongst her fellow inmates.There should be a squeal or a TV show version of this movie about the underbelly of women's prison. Are there clique in prison? If so, are they the same as outside?
Lexi's pranks are downright devious and manipulative. They are not your everyday garden variety pranks; they can get you in major trouble. One time she send the police to where Sierra lives now but a boy named Scotty used to lived. It was a swatting, but he and his parents were terrified so they moved. Kaitlyn and Lexi thought it was funny, but it terrified Scotty's family.
When Sierra is with the girls at a party at Lexi's for the first time, she sees them put some kind of drug in their classmate's beer but didn't know what was going on. She is only invited to the party because she and Kaitlyn are new neighbors.Then the drugged classmate walks straight into the swimming pool and drowns. All Lexi could do is think of covering her tracks, not of the boy. /She shows no empathy for the dead kid. But Kaitlyn is saying that they murder a kid. But then Lexi said Kaitlyn could've stopped her. Her mother found out she is having a party. Lexi and her mother--they don't respect each other. Police do the usual questioning and such. Lexi's mother said she doesn't want any responsibility for her actions. Afterwards there is a little fight in the hall at school over the death at the party but Lance ended by rescuing Sierra. Lance is Sierra's potential bf and the dead kid's friend. There is a fire alarm set off (prob'ly by Lexi) to plant the drug that she bought in Sierra's locker. She is the one who tips off the school who then suspends her upon further investigation. Kaitlyn wants to make a pact with Lexi and Sierra but it turns out to be a trap. A trap to lure her out to her death. Lexi wants to kill her to shut up when she finds out that Sierra was recording her confession about drugging the other classmate. She almost did try to kill her by putting her her car and drugs her with the drug and pushes her car into the lake. But Sierra woke up and pushes her way out of the watery grave, rescue by her parents with only a concussion. Lexi goes home and finds her mother getting ready to throw her out of the house so she throws her off the stairs. She tries to throw Kaitlyn off the stairs at school but the football team saves her. She breaks into Sierra's family's house, shoots her dad in the arm, tries to find Sierra herself but falls out the window. She is caught and sent to the slammer Meanwhile, Sierra is free of Lexi
Actress AveryKristen Pohl did a go job as Lexi. I loathe her so much from beginning to end. The ending was super cliff-hanger-ish. It shows the queen bee of the prison ward about to pounce on Lexi. I figure she'll get a taste of her own medicine very soon because the last scene wee saw her in she had her 'neck broken. I can imagine the taunting and the hate amongst her fellow inmates.There should be a squeal or a TV show version of this movie about the underbelly of women's prison. Are there clique in prison? If so, are they the same as outside?
Friday, March 20, 2020
Let’s Us All Perish
Science fiction becomes reality
It’s all so surreal
When you think:
It’s the stuff of movies & books
It can’t ever happen to US—
NO WAY
NO HOW
And when it does—
We are hit!!
Full-force
Not even realizing what effects we have
We are SO unprepared
We never knew art would imitate life
It’s all so surreal
When you think:
It’s the stuff of movies & books
It can’t ever happen to US—
NO WAY
NO HOW
And when it does—
We are hit!!
Full-force
Not even realizing what effects we have
We are SO unprepared
We never knew art would imitate life
SF Chinatown
-1st Day of Shelter-In-Place
Thursday, March 19, 2020
VC Andrews Out of the Attic
The ghostwriter, Andrew Neiderman, for the highly-anticipated Out of the Attic, a prequel to the original Flowers in the Attic series. made the novel into a sham. I'll bet poor. V.C. Andrews is spinning in her grave right now...or not depending on how scandalous you prefer it to be.
In this book, it shows how Corrine takes a stand for herself. In Flowers in the Attic, she is so self-assured and domineering, but in this book, she shows how she becomes the mistress of Foxworth Hall by asserting her authority as both mother to Malcolm Foxworth and wife to Garland Foxworth, which she fails terribly at.
She never seems to trust her own son because she thinks her little boy is a midget version of her husband, conniving and manipulative. She wants to care for him on her own, but her husband ells her she should care about her beauty ( what beauty? more like her ugliness-her personality is ugly) before her son, so he grants her a nanny. Whenever her son wants her attention, she treats him harshly, not with kindness or compassion. No wonder he prefers his nanny more over his own mother.
Not only does she not trust her kid, she doesn't even trust her own husband due to idle gossip around Charlottesville, the town Foxworth Hall makes its home. It has been seen and talked about in town that he has been seen at Caroline House with a widow, Mrs. Catherine Francis. Upon hearing this news, she goes right home to her parents, but her parents are not supportive at all, so Surprise! Surprise! when she gets home she sees Mrs. Catherine Francis loaded with fancy clothes from London, where Garland has also been. Garland comes home that day when Corrine confronts him, he made up some business excuse. Garland knew what Corrine has been up to whilst he has been away, which included attending the Halloween costume party as a nun that Corrine has found in one of the trunks in the Foxworth Hall attic. Later when he found out about her going to the party alone, he was incensed because women during that period (1850s) weren't allowed to go out in public alone unless with a male chaperone. He makes her put on a negligee he has just purchased from France and he has rough sex with her.
Corrine also finds out that the nanny/personal assistant has been in Garland's mother's nightdress in her bed and Garland has been going in there, thinking she's her mother, confessing to her like a little boy. Corrine tells her the next time she sees a nightdress on Garland's mother's bed. come tell her, so she does. She put it on and Garland comes in and was so mad; Corrine thinks she has the upper hand. Another time after Corrine, Malcolm and his nanny goes to Virginia Beach together, Garland was so mad when they arrived that he had rough sex with her again. But it was confusing... Malcolm, Corrine and his nanny took a picture in Virginia Beach and they said it will arrive in Foxworth Hall in 2 days, but they didn't even mention it after it was taken. Not ever again.
A while after that, Corrine wanted her portrait to be drawn by an male artist she first met at the Halloween party, then at Virginia Beach. She asks permission (!) from Garland to have her portrait drawn and he greenlights it before he goes on his business trip and it gets finished on the day he comes home. On the last day the artist finishes, Malcolm barges into his mother's room and sees her kiss the portrait artist. Malcolm keeps the Kiss to himself until they talk about boarding school. Malcolm spills the beans to his father about the Kiss, which ensues in the most roughest sexual intercourse as payback for her cheating on him; there is blood everywhere. She runs away to where the portrait artist is staying without ever looking back.
After a while, she finds out she is pregnant with Garland's son but the portrait artist and Corrine raised it as their own and they also have their own daughter
The book is okay. It is modernized when it should be more classy.It is filled with today's slang like Halloween costume party when it olden times it was called Halloween Masquerade Ball. They mixed up descended with ascended. They have a lot of loose ends. I hate the book from beginning to end.
Where is the assertive and self-assured Corrine Foxworth from Flowers in the Attic? This Corrine Foxworth is so... insecure and self-conscious.She always cares about what others think of her. Corrine Foxworth in originial series is ugly, not beautiful. She is no-nonsense.
This book is filled with sexism. Why does the lady get to ask the guy's permission to do stuff? How come the men don't get permission from the ladies to do stuff? She gets in trouble for being an adulteress, but not the guy. I get that man have more power back then but it shouldn't have to be.
In this book, it shows how Corrine takes a stand for herself. In Flowers in the Attic, she is so self-assured and domineering, but in this book, she shows how she becomes the mistress of Foxworth Hall by asserting her authority as both mother to Malcolm Foxworth and wife to Garland Foxworth, which she fails terribly at.
She never seems to trust her own son because she thinks her little boy is a midget version of her husband, conniving and manipulative. She wants to care for him on her own, but her husband ells her she should care about her beauty ( what beauty? more like her ugliness-her personality is ugly) before her son, so he grants her a nanny. Whenever her son wants her attention, she treats him harshly, not with kindness or compassion. No wonder he prefers his nanny more over his own mother.
Not only does she not trust her kid, she doesn't even trust her own husband due to idle gossip around Charlottesville, the town Foxworth Hall makes its home. It has been seen and talked about in town that he has been seen at Caroline House with a widow, Mrs. Catherine Francis. Upon hearing this news, she goes right home to her parents, but her parents are not supportive at all, so Surprise! Surprise! when she gets home she sees Mrs. Catherine Francis loaded with fancy clothes from London, where Garland has also been. Garland comes home that day when Corrine confronts him, he made up some business excuse. Garland knew what Corrine has been up to whilst he has been away, which included attending the Halloween costume party as a nun that Corrine has found in one of the trunks in the Foxworth Hall attic. Later when he found out about her going to the party alone, he was incensed because women during that period (1850s) weren't allowed to go out in public alone unless with a male chaperone. He makes her put on a negligee he has just purchased from France and he has rough sex with her.
Corrine also finds out that the nanny/personal assistant has been in Garland's mother's nightdress in her bed and Garland has been going in there, thinking she's her mother, confessing to her like a little boy. Corrine tells her the next time she sees a nightdress on Garland's mother's bed. come tell her, so she does. She put it on and Garland comes in and was so mad; Corrine thinks she has the upper hand. Another time after Corrine, Malcolm and his nanny goes to Virginia Beach together, Garland was so mad when they arrived that he had rough sex with her again. But it was confusing... Malcolm, Corrine and his nanny took a picture in Virginia Beach and they said it will arrive in Foxworth Hall in 2 days, but they didn't even mention it after it was taken. Not ever again.
A while after that, Corrine wanted her portrait to be drawn by an male artist she first met at the Halloween party, then at Virginia Beach. She asks permission (!) from Garland to have her portrait drawn and he greenlights it before he goes on his business trip and it gets finished on the day he comes home. On the last day the artist finishes, Malcolm barges into his mother's room and sees her kiss the portrait artist. Malcolm keeps the Kiss to himself until they talk about boarding school. Malcolm spills the beans to his father about the Kiss, which ensues in the most roughest sexual intercourse as payback for her cheating on him; there is blood everywhere. She runs away to where the portrait artist is staying without ever looking back.
After a while, she finds out she is pregnant with Garland's son but the portrait artist and Corrine raised it as their own and they also have their own daughter
The book is okay. It is modernized when it should be more classy.It is filled with today's slang like Halloween costume party when it olden times it was called Halloween Masquerade Ball. They mixed up descended with ascended. They have a lot of loose ends. I hate the book from beginning to end.
Where is the assertive and self-assured Corrine Foxworth from Flowers in the Attic? This Corrine Foxworth is so... insecure and self-conscious.She always cares about what others think of her. Corrine Foxworth in originial series is ugly, not beautiful. She is no-nonsense.
This book is filled with sexism. Why does the lady get to ask the guy's permission to do stuff? How come the men don't get permission from the ladies to do stuff? She gets in trouble for being an adulteress, but not the guy. I get that man have more power back then but it shouldn't have to be.
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Famous Words
I hope I become famous one day.
So well-known, that people will be quoting words from me just like from my fav female role model Mae West. She didn't let anyone kick her around. One of my all-time fav quotes from her is:
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better. Mae West.
But that is no longer the case w/ this new admin. This admin is causing bedlam, besmirching us of our liberty, freedom and pursuit of happiness. We have gone back to a dictatorship when the monarchy ruled us w/ an iron fist. Let's overthrow this admin by rebelling against the system. A system that is shrouded in lies, corruption & deceit.
I wanna change the world for the better by becoming an guerrilla, fighting against intolerance, ignorance, bigotry, hate, discrimination. I don't like the wall that's being build--isn't United States about acceptance & inclusion no matter who or what you are? I wanna change that. I wanna fight for goodness. I wanna to make changes. I won't accept hate, intolerance, bullying, discrimination. I know what's it like to be shut out because of who you are. I will accept with open arms love, acceptance, understanding, compassion, empathy.
I wanna change the world for the better by becoming an guerrilla, fighting against intolerance, ignorance, bigotry, hate, discrimination. I don't like the wall that's being build--isn't United States about acceptance & inclusion no matter who or what you are? I wanna change that. I wanna fight for goodness. I wanna to make changes. I won't accept hate, intolerance, bullying, discrimination. I know what's it like to be shut out because of who you are. I will accept with open arms love, acceptance, understanding, compassion, empathy.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Movie Revue: Columbiana
Best. Movie. Ever.
Best movie I've seen in ages. Movies about female assassins are the best movies ever IMO. This one is about a girl seeking vengeance for killing of her parents. The action scenes were the best, I'll say. The girl came to the States all on her own, escaping from her escort; she is
one resourceful young girl, even escaping from the people who killed
her parents. This young lady fool the whole group of male CIAs. She had the guts and gumption to seek revenge. It is a very admirable quality to fight for what you want and be proud of it.The young lady is now a fugitive from the law, but she sought her vengeance. I like it b/c they didn't expect a woman to be an assassin. They bought the whole group of CIAs to their knees.
Did you know that the creators of this movie also made Le Femme Nikita?
Plus, Zoe Saldana did a great job portraying orphan Catalina who is out for vengeance. Give this gal accolades! Great job, Ms. Saldana, for representing female assassins everywhere! Why don't action movies get the proper respect they deserve?
My love and respect to female assassins everywhere!!! Kill Bill (good job Uma Thurman!), Le Femme Nikita and now Columbiana!!!
I want to be able to stand and fight without any repercussions like any good assassin (but not kill anybody whilst doing it). I wouldn't have the guts and gumption to even speak up if one person was bugging me, let alone fight back with guns blazing (or in a rational sense with words). I'm such a chicken when it comes to speaking up for myself that I admire others who can speak up for themselves. I want to stand up in front of an audience and not freak out, Sometimes I tend to have stage fright when I'm in front of an audience.
I love Catalina b/c she is the type of person, type of lady, who I'd like to be, a go-getter, a no-nonsense type of gal that goes after what she wants and gets it at any cost. She is not a fragile, weak woman who needs to be saved. No sir! She needs no saving! She believes in what she wants, she knows what she's capable of and gets it. I want that in me. She is tough and resilient, knowing she can win any fight that comes her way. She is my kind of girl to be. I love to be like her.
Plus, Zoe Saldana did a great job portraying orphan Catalina who is out for vengeance. Give this gal accolades! Great job, Ms. Saldana, for representing female assassins everywhere! Why don't action movies get the proper respect they deserve?
My love and respect to female assassins everywhere!!! Kill Bill (good job Uma Thurman!), Le Femme Nikita and now Columbiana!!!
I want to be able to stand and fight without any repercussions like any good assassin (but not kill anybody whilst doing it). I wouldn't have the guts and gumption to even speak up if one person was bugging me, let alone fight back with guns blazing (or in a rational sense with words). I'm such a chicken when it comes to speaking up for myself that I admire others who can speak up for themselves. I want to stand up in front of an audience and not freak out, Sometimes I tend to have stage fright when I'm in front of an audience.
I love Catalina b/c she is the type of person, type of lady, who I'd like to be, a go-getter, a no-nonsense type of gal that goes after what she wants and gets it at any cost. She is not a fragile, weak woman who needs to be saved. No sir! She needs no saving! She believes in what she wants, she knows what she's capable of and gets it. I want that in me. She is tough and resilient, knowing she can win any fight that comes her way. She is my kind of girl to be. I love to be like her.
Govt Shutdown
Shut the hell up!
Just because you don't get your way, you lil brat, doesn't mean you should kill our fun...What a killjoy. The rest of the country shouldn't depend on you, but yet we have to. What bout the rest of the US who depends on govt assistance, who works for the govt, do they have to apply for unemployment?
No, cause govt is being shut down. And that includes assistance for the poorest of the poor.
We shouldn't have to depend on a child to govern our free world (USA) but it's a travesty we do.
Wish we can wipe your self-entitlement off. your pug ugly face You think you got a right to push us around like a ping pong ball. Well, you got another thing coming. We won't take this lying down anymore! So go to hell with it! Making the govt workers go to work w/o pay...that must be unconstitutional or something. Seems so wrong. Seems more like volunteer work than a pay job.
Wish we can wipe your self-entitlement off. your pug ugly face You think you got a right to push us around like a ping pong ball. Well, you got another thing coming. We won't take this lying down anymore! So go to hell with it! Making the govt workers go to work w/o pay...that must be unconstitutional or something. Seems so wrong. Seems more like volunteer work than a pay job.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Movie Revue: King Kong (1976)
I hate this stupid movie.
Reasons to hate this movie:
1) The guy, Jack Prescott, who was a stowaway on the ship, treated the woman, Dwan, a sole survivor of a shipwreck like a fragile piece of furniture. 'Help me, Jack!' Just because he rescue her didn't mean she was incapable of doing anything. Helping her like she can't get onto a boat by herself. Even helping her down the stairs. So annoying. WE ARE NOT DAMSELS IN DISTRESS! Gawd, he was so irksome! Also, they (the stupid men) kept thinking Kong will attack Dwan, like she can't handle herself around hin. Hey, boys, Kong was smarter than you any day of the week!2) The military guys kept thinking the 'girl' was in danger, so they offed him. He wasn't scary; he had a gentle soul. Like any other human, he got mad when people annoyed him. And sad when he knew his life was ending. All through the movie I thought he was invincible until they killed him.
I was rooting for Kong through the movie.
What a stupid, male chauvinistic anti-feminist, anti-animal rights movie!
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
War
inspired by Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun
Don't sucker yourself into warWhere you risk your life
For what?
Liberty, justice, freedom, your turf
Your life is more valuable than some dumb values--
Some dumb principles
Don't go risking all for the sake of
liberty, freedom, justice, turf
Value your own life
If you value yourself,
Don't fight--
Don't go to war
Let 'em call you coward
It's better than risking your life
Dying or
Becoming a vegetable for the rest of your natural life
It isn't worth the fight
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Movie Review: Fifty Shades of Grey
As a woman, I found this flick to be the most demeaning movie ever. The female in the relationship also known as the submissive, let herself be under the control of the man, known as the dominant. She had to wear, do, say whatever he wanted after she signed a contract. How demeaning. What's even worse is that she met him thru a journalistic interview. And she herself signed up to be his submissive. How degrading. And it gets worse. She knew what she was getting herself into when he show her his 'playroom' otherwise known as a bdsm room. She signed up for it anyways. Signed up to be bdsm. This isn't a relationship or love. This is sick. What's worse is she said she was falling in love with him that's why she left in the end. How can you love a guy like that is beyond me. Guy can't handle love; he wanted control of the women he was into.
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
stay the same
please never change
i wish things never change
immoblize in one moment in time
take me back to
a time where
joy, laughter, fun
belong
no responsibilities
no fear for the future
Friday, November 17, 2017
The Balance of Life
to every strength,
there is a weakness,
to every effort,
there is an ability laid hidden
to every attempt at naive, innocent love
we are denied
denied our rights to be
accepted as humans with real emotions,
not merely as a plaything to be manipulated
denied our rights to be
treated as equal,
not to be demeaned and put down because of our differences
we are sick & tired
of being knocked down by people who thinks
'they know better'
it's for our own best interest'
what do they know?
they don't have disabilities
one thing i wish:
they would love us,
not be so condescending towards us,
acting like we're dumb and don't know anything
just b/c of our disabilities
Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Struggle's is Real....
True, each day is a brand-new day with tremendous possibilities.
But I know each day is a blessing, so why don't I feel it?
They say: appearances are deceiving.
I was once a happy-go-lucky child, loving anime (Sailor Moon) and books (Sweet Valley High & Fear Street),
but ppl know how to put me down, not build me up.
Traitors all of them are.
I don't trust them. Who needs trust when everyone is Public Enemy #1?
I hate ppl and vice versa.
Each day my soul is dying.
My heart is breaking.
I am damaged goods all around.
No happy pill can cure me of this death spell.
Madness abounds my heart, broken inside, dancing wretchedness.
Heartbreak Hotel.
Day in and day out --
life is a merry-go-round
never ending, never ceasing
This ceaseless, endless pain
Let's end this pain--
once and for all time sake!
Life's cruel
Let's not be cruel back to it
Thursday, October 5, 2017
Senseless Violence
Question of the Moment:
What is the solution to this senseless violence?
Let's start at homebase: We fight over meaningless, trivial things like parking, road rage, stuff that doesn't even matter in the bigger scheme of things. But let's not even start with most recently when people start fighting with not just words but with any ole weapons they had on them such as knives, guns, even broken bottles. Why can't we solve our problems rationally and with our words, not violence? Violence leads to death. We don't want death on our hands.
Maybe it is the gov't's fault for condoning death: eye for an eye as in the death penalty. Murder will get you put to death. Maybe it is the mass media's fault for condoning death. We have so much violence in our media, whether it is in TV, movies, videos, even on the internet that we are desensitize by violence. It is in the media so often that we prob'ly think it is okay to be violent towards others. We modeled ourselves after our fave action hero celebrities stars or anime/manga stars, which mostly portray violence. Name one manga/anime that doesn't portray violence, and I will be a happy camper. Prob'ly the manga/anime that has the most violence outweighs the ones without violence.
Maybe it is the gov't's fault for condoning death: eye for an eye as in the death penalty. Murder will get you put to death. Maybe it is the mass media's fault for condoning death. We have so much violence in our media, whether it is in TV, movies, videos, even on the internet that we are desensitize by violence. It is in the media so often that we prob'ly think it is okay to be violent towards others. We modeled ourselves after our fave action hero celebrities stars or anime/manga stars, which mostly portray violence. Name one manga/anime that doesn't portray violence, and I will be a happy camper. Prob'ly the manga/anime that has the most violence outweighs the ones without violence.
One of our amendments in the Bill of Rights says we are allowed to bear arms. Yea, maybe for protection. But people need to redefine protection. They could have alarms, panic rooms or a guard dog for protection, not guns because what if their kids get into their guns and endanger themselves and others? Young lives might be shorten; they had so much to live for. The kids that were involved in the school shootings had easy access to guns because their parents had guns readily available to them in their house. They were prob'ly normal kids, but their parents most prob'ly taught them how to use guns to hunt and stuff, which was a big mistake since they didn't know what kind of mental capacity their young ones had. Temptation to use the guns on their classmates and teachers who've wronged them was too great until they couldn't take it anymore.
As for the recent mass shooting, who knows what went on in the gunman's mind? I know one thing: gun control isn't the answer--we should just melt all the guns and ammo to make a huge plague commemorating all the people who had been killed in mass shootings both in schools and other places around the world. The NRA should be abolished as well.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Our Issues of the World
Federal & state doesn't care about the nitty-gritty issues: homelessness, drug trafficking, even prostitution; the only ones who care about these issues are the nonprofits. Why doesn't the state and the federal gov'ts care about these issues? Too busy giving tax cuts to the rich and cutting Medicaid for the low-income citizens? These are real issues that people deal with each and everyday of our lives.
If they really want to make a change, start with the real issues that we, common folks, face each day. You may not like it, but it's a fact. We have problems like homelessness, drug trafficking and prostitution everyday. Federal and state gov'ts should ask 'why' people are facing these issues instead of jailing them. They may be homeless because they have no job to pay rent or resources to hold down a job. They may have issues like health problems or no real address to send their paychecks to. People may go into drug trafficking because that is the only way for them to make income. Women sell themselves on the street because they think it is they only way they'll ever survive on the streets. Jail is not the answer to our problems. Rehabilitation is our answer.
We should listen to those people who are down on their luck, not ostracize them. We should help them, be kind to them. We shouldn't turn away people who need help. We should be understanding of their situation, not lock them up for being poor, misguided homeless and low-income.
Hope is always around every corner.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
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.
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.
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
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.
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.
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.
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