Monday, August 18, 2008

Beginning and Freshman Composition

Blogging in the Blogosphere
English 52, 60, 100


FORMAT:
When you blog, in the Title, write your first and last name as you would as if you are turning in a paper to me. Then you do not have to write my name because I know you are in my class. Write what English class you are in whether it is English 52, 60, 100 and what College.


For example, one would write:

Yue Hayes
English 52
Cerritos College
Post #1

Homelessness
Font size
In addition, for the title, pick the topic of discussion, grammar/organization, content, current events, pop culture or literature as a TITLE that we have discussed in class. Write the posts like this: write #1 Post or #2 Post or Post #50, so I can easily keep track of them and how many you write.

Of course, you are welcome to write more than several posts, and in doing so is another form of participation and does count in the participation grade. Perhaps, in class, you may not participate all that much but in the realm of the blogosphere, you can from the comfort of your own home,
  • reflect on the day's class discussion or offer up an insight that you found particularly interesting, etc., etc.

  • How does it change the way you think or thought before on the subject?

  • What actions might you take in the future? Anything is open to interpretation.


Of course, I need not go on and on about being respectful towards your peers' opinions and beliefs. If you disagree with another student's views be discreet about it: Do not say so and so is completely wrong because of this and that. Instead, say, I disagree with so and so and here are the reasons why I do. Go after their evidence and support and do not, I repeat do not attack someone else personally. This is supposed to be a forum for everyone to share their ideas and views.

*I will enforce the blogosphere by either deleting your hard work, making an example out of you here in the realm of the blogosphere or in class* . . .

3,761 comments:

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John Hsiao said...

There are so many posts, and I love the diversity, range, and emotion.

Thank you to all that mention me in passing by way onward and backward to their own stories. There is a common thread behind all the posts: If you look close enough you will see:

All those that post in an emotive response to your peers and write long paragraph posts that make the eye balls weary,

I appreciate your heart. You open it up so freely and give it to everyone--woefully sincere and truly dynamically beautiful in all of its heartfelt honesty.

Thank you

You are right. As we ascend higher in numbers, it will be impossible for me to comment on everyone, but if one gives of oneself that energy returns--that is the dynamic of the universe--it may not come back the way one wants/chooses/asks but it comes back nonetheless.

I will stop with the prophetic like talk and end with a quote.

This is a favorite quote of mine because it is the common thread that we are always searching for not only in our lives but others as well:

"The beginning is the end

The way up is the way back

Taken together whole and not whole

Being brought together and brought apart

In tune and out of tune

Out of all things there comes a unity

and out of it

a UNITY all things.

2complex 4 1dimensional minds said...

Amador Damaso
Engl. 52
Cerritos College

"FLOW"

I'VE COME A LONG WAY TO GET TO WHERE I AM TODAY. LIFE HAS AND WILL BE ON OBSTACLE, NO NEED TO SAY. THATS WHEN THE COLD BREEZE OF REALITY STRIKES. LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST CUZ U COULD DIE TONIGHT. SO I WAKE UP IN SOLITARY CONDFINDMENT, IN A LAND OF FADS AND CRASH DIETS. AND WHEN I'M SLEEP I'M CLOSEST TO DEATH, SO THE FRIST ONE I TAKE IN THE MORNING IS CLOSEST TO ME LAST BREATH. AND ITS BEEN SAID THAT SLEEP IS THE KIN TO UR DEMISE, SO ITS NO SURPRISE THAT YOU COULDNT VISUALIZE REALITY THRU A CRIMINALS EYES. EVERYONE IS STUCK IN THERE OWN LIL WORLD AND NO ONE BOTHERS TO REACH REACHES. SO IF WE ARE SELF CENTERED HOW CAN WE TEACH, THE DIFFERENCE OF CULTURE AND BELIFE, YET EVERYONE WANTS TO WEAR A JESUS PEICE, NOT SEEING HOW THAT IS A HYPOCRITCAL STATMENT, CUZ U SPORT GOD FOR FASHION NOT CUZ U TAKE IT
TO HEART WHEN U HEAR THE GOSPLE
SO TO MEND BROKEN FENCES SEEMS IMMPOSSIBLE. AND IF THIS SEEMS LIKE THE RAMBLINGS OF A MAD MAN, UNDERSTAND I HAVE HAD "MAN" TEACH ME THAT LIFE IS WHAT YOUR GONNA MAKE AND THAT IS THE POINT THAT I'M TRYIN TO MAKE KIDS. MY WORDS ARE AS IMPORTANT AS THE MANS WHO WAS BAPTIZED IN THE RIVER JORDAN, SO REALIZE THAT LIFE IS A PRISON AND YOU ARE UR OWN WARDEN....

I Threw It! said...

Brandon
Eng100
Post:8

Dang dude. i liked the last line, damn good conclusion "life is a prison".

Dude ANNA - Nice kobe quote at the end. At first i was for MJ but i think you just changed my mind.

Yue:
I like what you said about commonly accepted truth, and i have a quote from aristotle to go with it: "nothing is true, but that the world makes it so." haha after you recommended the ALCHEMIST i almost drove to Barnes and Noble right then and there no joke.

solopan said...
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solopan said...

Isaias Estrada

Proffesor Hsiao

Eng 52
survival instinct

I believe Humanity is a species with amnisia, we are not born with instinct like insects which know their purpose from day one. And we cant remember what our ansestors actions or thoughts were towards life, we only know what we read from books. We cant do anything with out being trained [taught]. Humans dont have claws or jaws to survive, but we do have our brains. Our brains are the only thing keeping
us going forward in life. Animals in the wild need to eat to survive so they hunt, survival is all about feeding the gut, we live for food. Like animals we need to eat so our survival method has evolved to make money, go to work, get an education to get a job. It is all about work, because work gives us money, money which we can buy food with. In a way work is our hunt and money is the animal which gives us meat [food]. It is sad the way our survival method has become we have made the world how we want it with our culture/religion. We chained up our mother with fences and concrete floors. We humans have set ourselves away from the real world and will continue to do so, slowly killing off the Earth.

to be continued, breaks over....

Yue said...
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Yue said...

Yue Hayes
English 100
Golden West College
Post #12

Isaias:
first of all, nice display picture. haha
secondly, I really like what you said about humanity. The more I thought about it, the true everything was: being born without knowing our purpose, the changes in our survival methods, and all of this contributing to the death of our exact earth we live on. Maybe the reason that we are born without knowing our purpose is because we keep changing the world. We keep adjusting the environment around us that we get the false sense of reality and Earth in: cities, air conditioning, so forth.

I especially like how you put it in the end:
We chained up our mother with fences and concrete floors. We humans have set ourselves away from the real world and will continue to do so, slowly killing off the Earth.

Brandon:
You're a true team player! haha. Thanks!

Amador:
I agree with Brandon
Life is a prison and you are your own Warden.
Absolutely right. I like this because it ties in with Allegory of the Cave.
---------------
I don't know when to correct Mr.Hsiao anymore in class, so I'll just quietly write here that my name is pronounced USA without the S :]

Already at 400! YAY Let's keep this upppp!!

Alex said...

Alex Rubio
eng 52
cerritos college

i got this funny thing going on right now and it is making my life very depressing that has started during the end of my senior year and now my Ex Esmeralda left to Mexico and she wanted a break but didn't see it as a break up and she got with this guy over there and when she came back on sept. 2 she say she doesn't view it as cheating and that she still wants to be friends, but when i texted her yesterday she is trying to make me hate her because she wants what best for me cause she cares for me but she keep putting me down when trying to make me hate her but i can't then she told me that she doens't love me anymore which hurt alot cause we were together for almost 1 year and 1/2

nic9185 said...

holy crap see what happens when i dont hop on here and blog for the weekend? it blows up how the heck do you read all of this? well any who its nice to see it take off like this i finally think people get the right idea so any one know whats going on this week? i hope it has to finally do something with those heroes and pictures.

NIck Dawg Mutha Mutha said...

Nick
ENG 60
cypress

I'm feeling good!

That story was chill.....eh...

kayla said...

Kayla Marley
English 100
GWC
Post 6 or 7

SOOO yesterday we were talking about taxes and the government... in my opinion I think the US as a whole is greedy!! Seriously. Everything that we want (not the necessities) costs extra money, which we may or may not have. No one is ever satisfied with having just enough to get by and a little extra for back-up purposes. Everyone loves the luxury and wants the big things in life. "The American Dream" that's what everyone wants now. And because Americans are greedy we want the bigger things in life... and even if we can't afford them we will still find a way to get to them. Whether it is criminal activity or loans. Banks giving out loans where people couldn't even afford to pay them back when people wanted to buy houses. And it caused our country to go down the toilet bowl. We are so close to going into a depression. Ugh... I’m not saying I'm never greedy because I can be. Everyone wants some form of luxury.

And for paying taxes... if we didn't pay our taxes the country would be chaotic and a mess! There would be criminal actives going on no one stop them and no one to protect us. Our taxes really do help the country as a whole. But for the big guys up in the government taking their luxury vacations during a down time for the US makes me wonder... why they are getting paid what they are getting paid. They do work hard... I know people think they just sit on their butts and talk... but that talk is about the US as a whole and the future of the US. I'm not saying I like taxes being taken out, but it really isn't that bad. You just have to learn to save. By saving and not buying luxury items were you could have something else that works the same (I.E. an iphone instead of a simple nokia flip phone) people wouldn’t be having problems.

I know this blog might push some people’s buttons but this is my opinion and everyone is entitled to one. Give me feed back so I can see your side of the arguments.

I highly recommend buying the Mans Search for Meaning book. I’ve already read it, and it was an amazing book. I read it in like three days, if that.

Alright I’m going to go work on some homework. See you all tomorrow.

P.s. Crude Oil was at $120.92 a barrel yesterday! Now it is back at $108. Can you believe that? Crude oil shot up $16 in one day!

natalie said...

Natalie Scardina
English 060
Cypress college
Post 2

So Last tuesaday I was on my was to school and the guy in front of me decides to brake check me, I swerve to miss him and spin out, fly off the freeway into a ditch. I dont remember all of it because I hit my head and got a cuncossion but the next thing I know the paramedics are asking me questions that I have no idea what the answers are so i felt dumb because they were cute. They said i needed to go to urgent care so I did but first I asked them for a sticker [=

Trying to catch up on homework and quizes that I missed with a cuncossion was nearly impossible

I hope I can still make up those points [=

-Natalie

Sotobrother#2 said...

Andres Soto
Eng 60
Cypress
post # 4

mans search for a meaning....

So i read the story and its really good. The emotion he shows makes me think a lot.

He talks about how one can escape the hell that one lives by staying true to yourself. How you can live a totally different life by not letting "the man" get into your head. Keeping your inner freedom.

Sebastian Soto said...

that was a pretty good story....very deep. i like that quote "Dont aim at success- the more you aim at it and make it a target the more you are going to miss it" its true isnt it? its all about the long run.....thats true..but what happens to the people that dont make it to the end of the "long run" does their life have no meaning? i dont think so. but it could go both ways i guess, if u sacrifice all ur life to get somewhere n for whatever reason u never reach it, was it worth it? n if you live everyday like is ur last day what happens in the "long run". i dont know just a thought. with all the visit to the mot and reading about someone being in concentration camps is amazing to think that people can come out looking at the bright side of things after some much bad stuff happened to them.

Jovana said...

You say you want a revolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright

You say you got a real solution
Well you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright

You say you'll change the constitution
Well you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well you know
You better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know know it's gonna be alright
Alright Alright

this is another song by John Lenon.
this song is so catchy but very meaningful as well.

notice how he doesnt use slang, he doesnt talk about drugs and sex.

but yet, when you hear what he is saying ... you seem to picture how the world is now.

you get an image of just reading in between the lines, and does it open your eyes?

yes. it opens them and you see what he means even though he isnt blunt about it.

John lenon is amazing. i think everyone should hear his songs. if not at least go to a website and read his lyrics.

they all bring a different emotion. and im possitive you will all enjoy his ability to write how he wrote.

man. i love him.

thanks for listening.

Anonymous said...

Jon Croft
English 100
Golden West College
Post #4

That's the great thing about music Jovana, you can convey a message through lyrics alone, through the music itself, or a combination of both. Some people listen for the message, some listen for the song, but everybody listens just the same.

I Threw It! said...

Brandon
Eng100
Golden West

Again i have to disagree with the "greed" of America. There are a lot of Americas out there. To the simple rancher in Welch, Oklahoma. He wants not. He simply wants a sunny day and a good meal. Ive met a lot of people around the country. take my older brother for example. He just wants a drink after work. He drives a shitty SHITTY car but doesnt care. So i strongly disagree with you when you say everyone wants the luxurious life. We all love to daydream but when you ask most people what they really want out of life, its simple things: A house, a spouse, trust, true friends, and a full stomach.

Even if one wants much more than this, who is to say that is wrong? our lives are so short, it would be a shame if we didnt make the most of them. To start with nothing and finish with everything. It takes a driven individual to complete that.

Stephen Reynolds said...

haha i just got attacked in a political argument. im sitting in starbucks trying to do an essay and a regular named Paul starts talking to his friend about politics. an aggressive older lady chimed in and starts inflicting her opinions upon them. "you have to pick the one that will lower taxes" she exclaimed. at that point my mind starts racing through all the conversations and blogs weve had in english. I immediately think of the most neutral comment i can make, so i think. i blurt out "you have to pick the lesser of the two evils." and i know im ignorant and should not have said anything but i am still laughing inside and the idiocracy of this lady. she blows up at me and calls me a COMMUNIST!!! A COMMUNIST!? the lady wouldnt let me give another word and storms out of the store practically screaming about communist and how i dont belong here. it was a joke. everyone in the store looks at each other and you can tell they are laughing inside. "and thats all i have to say about that." have a great day everyone!

ZackAtak said...

HEY!!! its me again ZACK! Real name Zachary Roy Duke. well, nothing much different than what i said last exept my uncle went back into the hospital and might not make it out, help me pray for him. his name is Jerry. i still am taking it day by day with her. I am slowly figuring out this thing. I am still looking for a band, all the info of what i like and do is on my page, I love life!!! I qam learning to get out of my shell (meaning to talk to people i dont normaly or just talk more) and i am trying to not be much of the tuff guy anymore, its just hard to get away from it, ive been it sence i got my heart broken the first time. thats a story for a nother day.

cfunk said...

Cortney Funk
English 60
Cypress College
Post #1

I've actually read some of these blogs. I even set up an account a couple weeks ago. I just never saw anything worth responding to. I don't want this to become another "myspace" trend. It should have a deeper meaning than that. Hopefully something will tickle my fancy soon.

NIck Dawg Mutha Mutha said...

Strung Out: An American Paradox
One gaze from its electric eye immortalizes you forever in their hearts and minds.
Messiah of the people savior of the servants on this runaway train without a cause.
Everyday I tell myself I gotta find a way out of this American Paradox.
Paddling like a dog to the bone that's going to splinter me and they know what's best for my life.
Winfing backwards it creates a dischord that calls itself progression on a grander scale.
The supermodel monster turned crackhead at the wheel of this automated virgin sacrifice.
Everybody step in line it's time to get your piece of the American paradox.
Biting at the hand that fed me this illusion now I'm on for the ride of my life.
This perversion gains it's momentum my resistance turns to fear at its changing face.
I sold my soul to forces still unknown and I don't want it back.
Prescription dementia riddle-ated protection from impurities of the heart and mind.
I've cancelled my subscription broken covenant now there is no question whose side you are on.
I don't want to feed myself the appetite of excess.
I don't want to be another voice in the wind,
got it easy in a world that's not supposed to be,
sometimes I wonder if i think too much about me.
In a world full of mirrors, your reflection is all you see and I can't stand what's becoming of me.
So I'll scratch my eyes, rip this face off, and rebuild something new for the world to choke on.

Think about it....

oNe LoVe said...

DarlaAnne Aguilar
Eng 100
Cypress
Post ?

Cortney i agree with you that this should not become a myspace...i hate that thing and i also hate work today too! =[

serenity40 said...

Shannon Flak
Eng 100
GWC

Lot of good readings here...Enjoyed your quote Mr. Hsiao. Thank you for letting me know I was part of your conversation with your friends the other day.That's too funny!
I had a question for you Mr.Hsiao why are Asians raised not to show emotions? Isn't anger or frustration an emotion?

NIck Dawg Mutha Mutha said...

Nick Hernandez
English 60
Cypress

The song posted above really gets to me sometimes. it is true, and brutally honest. i only want to comment, or express my view, on the last section of the song.
"I don't want to feed myself the appetite of excess.
I don't want to be another voice in the wind,
got it easy in a world that's not supposed to be,
sometimes I wonder if i think too much about me.
In a world full of mirrors, your reflection is all you see and I can't stand what's becoming of me.
So I'll scratch my eyes, rip this face off, and rebuild something new for the world to choke on."

to me, its nothing but the bitter truth. all we think of is ourselves believe it, or not. We act like we care for others, but theres always a question..... or "THE" question. "if i do this, whats in it for me?"

that is where the "mirrors" come in. this world is full of "mirrors" or in fact, one side is a mirror, and the other just plain see though glass. Its a mirror to us, and all we see is ourselves, and the "good" we do. but others see us, and what were doing whether it's good or bad. the mirrors are everywhere. I saw a Corvette driving down the street the other day and my first thought was, "i'm going to have one of those in 15 years." I literally just put myself I the drivers seat. I saw My reflection driving that car. whats up with that?

it's materialism folks. not only does it hurt us, but it deprives us of our needs not our wanta. a need is something that is vital, a want can be two things. it can be a way of expressing a need, or can be a way of expressing a desire. you be the judge of which is truly expressed in our daily lives.

as for me, i can go on and on, but i will end it here. i only reflected on two parts, but im almost late for work.

Don't Hate

kayla said...

Kayla Marley
English 100
GWC

Brandon,
I took a step back from what I had said and realized yes, you are right. But at the same time I see some flaws. If someone was okay with having high taxes to make our government a stronger government for us why would they complain? If the government protects us as humans why would they get so angry over the littlest thing like money? It isn't even like they take that much out! For all we know there could be governments out there taking 50% of the workers pay checks. That is when i see it is okay to complain. Everyone does have greed at one point in their life. Not saying it is everyday, but a lot of people do take the simple things for granted in life.

as you had said, "To start with nothing and finish with everything. It takes a driven individual to complete that." To finish with everything.. what does that mean? What is everything? a house, spouse, and food? or does that mean the extra's? Like play station, an iphone, a bmw, or expensive clothes.

Take a look at my point of view for a second. If you go around and ask people if they would rather have a mansion or a house.. which do you think they'd pick? my best bet is leaning more to the mansion. everyone wants something bigger now a days. no one can ever be satisfied with what they have until it is taken away.

but like i said.. i do see where you are coming from.

off to class..

Dollie56 said...

Jovana love the post of you and your boy..
Heres something i wrote about three weeks ago in my laptop..


It’s like… I inhale a cleaner air, I observe a brighter sun, and I taste the beauty of life. Why is it that he makes all these wonders occur? Why is that when I look into his eyes I get astray, but I’m not frightened. I feel secure especially when he holds me in his arms… nothing is better then being in his arms. I always look forward to the days we get to spend together, and fritter away the days between. At times I want to sleep them away, for time passes quicker that way. Sometimes we all take for granted the precious rewards we gain in our existence… why? Why is it that things are never enough for us? We receive a thousand dollars and we are fine, but within time we are striving for more… it wasn’t enough. And now we are more money hungrier than before but no matter how much we get we won’t be satisfied. We are given the most valuable gift of life by your parents, but within time we are asking for the stars from them… it wasn’t enough. And now we are more power hungrier then before, but no matter what car they buy us, what party they throw us, no matter what we get we won’t be satisfied. Day after day you take everything for granted…

Aznwemsan said...

Wesley Lock
Eng 100
Cypress College
Post: 5

Hey Everyone! I just wanted to talk about being able to drive finally, well for me since last August. Im finally glad that i can drive myself where ever i want to, but after driving for sometime i realized that i hate it to. Well laterz X )

DoxieLover said...

Alysa Parra
Eng 60
Cypress College
Post #1

I liked the discussion in class today. I admire Prof. Hsiao about thanking his mother for his deficiencies. I despise my parents for passing on such degenerate genes.

Anonymous said...

HAHA! Ok did anyone go see "My Best Friend's Girl"? I highly recommend it, hilariously funny. Two thumbs up XD

Chris Mansker said...

Chris Mansker
English 175 (Shakespeare)
Orange Coast College
Post 1

Hey everyone, my name is Chris Mansker. I just want to let everyone know that even though english is the main language spoken in this country, it's not exactly the easiest language to learn. The best thing to do is to pick up a book and read it. When I mean read the book, I don't mean just read what's on the pages. Read beyond what's written and open your imagination. "Tare" the book apart and really study it. If you have to, read the book a second or third time. Write annotations, comments, whatever helps you understand the book better. A good idea is to take sections of the a chapter, write them down and write your interpretation or response to the section in a journal. This will help read more deeply and become a stronger writer in the future. Also when the professor pops a question on you, you wont be sitting confused and answer with ummm, because I'm pretty sure ummm is not the answer.

I dont waste time on the bassline said...

Anthony torres
cerritos college
eng 52

Back to the mot, one thing that i forgot to put up.

At the end of the tour, they were talking about the Americans joining WWII, and all they have done. I held back tears, and thought to my self WOW. I never looked at America that way. i know i live in America, but WOW all the things they did to save those Jewish people, it made me proud to be an American. It just gave me a sense of pride knowing Americans risked their lives to save people they did not know. Amazing.

just my input on what i felt, never looked at American that way. I don't see America that way anymore, but i still am proud for what our soldiers did in WWII.

Jess said...

im getting very excited for the field trip on saturday.

Elsa said...

Elsa Sullivan
English 100
cypress college
T-Thur

I am introducing my self.

Elsa said...

Fernando Ibarra
hi

G. Burns said...

Greg Burns
English 100
Golden West College
Post#6

Hi to everyone on the blog. I loved last class meeting, we got talking on a subject and off we went. The class was spent talking about current events. I love classes such as those.

Jovana said...

Dollie:

thanks! i really enjoyed reading what you had wrtoe in your laptop. mainly because you use words thatmake me feel as if its me and my guy. as though you where right there watching us, its funny how that works. but i really appreciate it. i know it wasnt FOR me, but i felt it was hahaha. btw i hope to read more of your posts. they are amazing. you're a great writer! KUDOS!!! =]

Courtney:
i agree, i mean i have a myspace, but i only have it for people who i have been friends with since middle school and have found me. its a nice way to talk to them once again. but you're right. this had better not become a myspace because thats lame. lol.
i hope to hear about what you have to say. maybe we can carry on a convo.

as for today, it was a wonderful day for me, but for some odd reason once i went to class, it wasnt as fun. i mean i love my math teacher but i felt down in the dumps. like if i had just been dumped. ionno its strange...

well i been thinking pregnancys. it angers me to see these girls all pregnant. and then they get all worried about telling their parents, and smorsmorchian comes to their minds.

i see it like this, "Hey lady!! you opened your legs, you knew the consequences and you went ahead and did it anyway. so why you crying now?"

the way i see it [excuse this topic mr.H, you can delete it after you want] is if you arent responsible to go to the clinic and see the options, because there are plenty! what are you doing having intercourse with someone? to have sex with someone, is to be responsible!!!

& why is it the babys fault that you got pregnant.!? why do you get to choose if it stays or goes?

which brings me to my controversal statement.

if you cant provide for the child then dont bring them in this world to suffer with you!

and it angers me with MYSELF because i dont beleive in smorsmorchians but if a 16 year old is going to have a baby, she better have money for the baby, a home without her parents, and a stable boyfriend!

dont bring the baby to go down with you if you cant provide for yourself.

sheesh i get so mad at myself when i point that out, but its true!

i always have this talk with my friends as well. like what the heck dude?! i cant even count how many girls whom i went to school with, cheered with, sang with, and had drama class with have babies!

are you serious?! bring a baby into the world where they wont have to cry because they are cold, where they can have food to last them for days instead of running out of it. babys need love, and alot of it because they are little and helpless.

i hope i didnt offend anyone, but it just gets me so mad when i hear about all this.

=[ im sorry if it was brutal or made some of you guys mad.

i just, ... i cant even explain it.

Its Paul OMG said...

Paul Cutler
Eng 60
Cypress College
Post #2

One of my favorite quotes, from one of my favorite philosophers, Albert Einstein:
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Einstein said this around the time of the Manhattan Project, stating this towards the creation of the Atomic Bomb.

With the War in Iraq going on (I don't want to get started on this) to "maintain peace", a nuclear war could easily break out at any minute. Yes, NUCLEAR WEAPONS will be used!

Let me break down the other part of the quote ["...World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."]
When these weapons of mass destruction are used, everyone will be dead, and we will start all over again at the ice age.
'nuff said.
just something to think about.

Its Paul OMG said...

Paul Cutler
Eng 60
Cypress College
Post #2

One of my favorite quotes, from one of my favorite philosophers, Albert Einstein:
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Einstein said this around the time of the Manhattan Project, before the creation of the Atomic Bomb was finally finished.

With the War in Iraq going on (I don't want to get started on this) to "maintain peace", a nuclear war could easily break out at any minute. Yes, NUCLEAR WEAPONS will be used!

Let me break down the other part of the quote ["...World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."]
When these weapons of mass destruction are used, everyone will be dead, and we will start all over again at the ice age.
Cavemen:sticks:stones
'nuff said.
just something to think about.

I Threw It! said...

Brandon
Eng100
Golden West

Kayla:

i want to touch on your question: "house, or mansion?"

first i want to say taht asking someone that question predisposes them to answering mansion. given the option why wouldnt you? if you CAN have more than you absolutely need what is the advantage in refusing? it is our lives, all of our lives, to do what we will with it. You get one life, and many choose to live it out humbly. But no one wants to be the dim light in the corner, we all want to be the bright north star, to be remembered, to be revered, to be something in the mess and chaos of society. It ties back into meaning for me. to give life meaning. not just to have had a life but to have lived

Dollie56 said...

I’m not so much of an open person when it comes to my personal life. People never knew that I have been through the things I have. Since I am in a dilemma right now and have no idea on what I am going to do I think I might as share a couple of my life experiences.

HERES ONE:

Growing up I was very close to my cousin Julian. Most cousins my age, on my mom’s side, were all boys. So we would always run around, climb trees, and scrape are knees. As we got older many of us got distant but Julian and I always remanded the closes. Julian was a kind hearted person he taught me how to cook and iron my clothes. A lot of the times we would go to the junk yard by his house find radios take them apart and fix them for no reason at all. He always loved to help out others. If we went to the grocery store he would always help people out with their bags. He would help people out who were cutting their yards. He even went to elderly homes to help out on anything needed. He would do all these things at such a young age.

One year we went to the junk yard and found a lot of different pieces to a bike and put it together. I remember how much we loved that bike knowing that it was something we accomplished. It even had pegs on it so he can ride me places. We were always going everywhere on that bike.

One Christmas his mother bought him a brand new bike and he was so excited. Now that he had a new he gave me the old bike we shared. Now we had to bikes and no longer did one of us have to ride the other. One day we decided to ride our bikes to my grandmother’s house just to visit. On are way back home our other cousin decided to ride with us. I started to ride ahead my two cousins; I remember I was pedaling as fast as I could, I could feel the wind blowing through my hair. I crossed a street that had no light just a crosswalk yet it was barely visible. I kept going without stopping finally I turned and can see my cousin cross and Julian on the other side still waiting to stop. I slow down and turn around waiting for them to catch up. Julian is waiting to cross with his front tire out on the street and the back one still on the sidewalk.

Out of nowhere a car speeding, while talking on the phone, loses control and hits the front tire of Julian’s bike. The bike bounces back and Julian’s head hits a pole behind him. All I see is his helpless body on the floor and blood on the pole. I freeze for a minute not knowing what to do. I rub my eyes not sure if what I have just witness was real. I see people rushing to his side (one who claims to be a nurse). I throw my bike on the floor and began to run to my grandmothers. It would have been smart and quicker to have taken the bike but I can not explain why I did that in that moment. I run as fast as I could with tears running down my check. I run up to the house run inside and begin yelling hysterically. I try to tell my grandma but the words do not come out. I start rumbling not making any sense but my grandma knows something is horribly wrong. I take a deep breath and say Julian….

My grandma starts yelling at my cousin to get a car. We drive two major streets down and paramedics still haven’t arrived. I run up and see the nurse working with my cousin I turn and see my other cousin on the floor crying. Bystanders are standing still watching with fear in their eyes. My heart is beating so fast as if it is about to rip out of my chest. I can not breathe as if someone had cut my air supply. The nurse is saying that Julian is hanging on. I watch and pray as she asks him to move certain fingers. He responds well and then she asks him to take a breath. He lies on the floor with his eyes closed and he stalls for a couple of minutes. I can hear the sirens approaching and then Julian takes in a breath and blood begins to come out of his mouth. I will never forget the way he looked. The image left an imprint in my memory in which I do not want to remember. The ambulance got there right after yet it was too late. My knees got weak and I fell to the floor and screamed at the top of my lungs. I was angry at the guy who did this to my cousin, I was angry at the paramedics who did not get there sooner, I was angry at myself, and I was angry with everything around me. I crawled to my cousin and picked up his head held it close to me crying non stop. My grandma pulled kept trying to pull me away and all I wanted was to be with my cousin, hold him close, and say “Why Julian! Don’t go! Don’t leave me! Come back!” They pulled me away I was covered with his blood. I kicked, scream, cried, and began to throw up. They covered him up and took him away. I was thirteen, Julian was thirteen, and I lost my cousin not only just a cousin but my best friend

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nizzle said...

------------- Class
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------- Museum - Blog

Triangular perspecitive
one by its self = meaning
three together = truth

Curtains cover our eyes, boulders block our throats, from what you say? The truth. I have found a purpose. I'm sure this may be tweaked and redefined during my endeavers but I'm here to bring perspective. An enabler if you will of the secrets we all inhabit.

Blinded by so many opinions our tounges are bound from making our own. I am not here to preach, I'm not here to give biased stories. I'm here to give those who want to listen a chance to create a self apparent opinion. Here to stimulate the mind sharing more then what meets the eye.

To educate, not influence is my goal, my purpose. We all have this ability, its not a secret...its your "inner decision" as Viktor Frankl puts it. Its no secret, but its something not common. For you thinkers, look outside the box, what do you see? Some might note: color, texture, size, shape, though most of us do not. Everything isn't what it may appear. DO you judge a box by its size? Not really. Do you judge a person by the way they look? Absolutly! Why? Because we have been misinformed that this is the way...


Success? What is success? I must contradict our discussion today on those valid points. Especially money. Money is stature, money builds happyness? We see money as the easy life. Money is in relation to assets. We carry this idea that without it we can't be happy. Look at a phone for instance. (sorry monster or batman Prof. calls you, your a great example...you can flame me later! :) ) Drawn to it...an adiction has been unveiled. We are all adicted. My addcition is my computer. 2 hours w/o it and I promise you not, I'm freaking out.

What if there wasn't any internet or telecommunications? Would you miss it? You bet, but what if we never had it? Mr. Alexander Bell can be thanked for that. But his goal was to make people lives easier, thus happy, creating the first telephone.

But was his intention to make people happy? I'm gonna leave that open, did he expect his complex device to become a handheld attention hog? Hmmm

I wish we would have gone further into the the Man's Search for Meaning reading. A stong mind leaves a broken body unharmed. A body beatten with sticks and stones proves words only strengthen the determination.

A child. A simple child, takes the time to notice the small details. The details much of us forget in life. Though their brains like sponges they never seem to over analyze. And like a small puppy or dog who looses attention a simple ball regains all consciousness.

The stone who Mr. Frankl was hit by, opened his eyes to what he was. He was nothing. He ceesed to exist during the Holocost. But this man, the prisioner, was able to make an inner decision. Though children are so pure and uncorrupt at young ages they become these prisioners. Trapped by useless information, they are lost.

We as thinkers must free them.

ok..now to read through the 35 comments I missed...

cathrina86 said...

Cathrina Afusia
English 52
Cerritos College

Good Evening Everyone,

I'm am so sleepy from reading all the new posts.

Mr. Hsaio this is my first time ever being apart of a blog, and i see why you press so hard on the issue of wanting us to get involved. It is amazing to be able to see others points of views on other subjects. Sometimes we as humans tend to only think one way, and that is our own personal way. I also know that you have noticed I don't, i mean do not talk much in class, but do not worry I am paying attention and taking notes on my little post its. I am just shy, but I will get over it oneday, and plus I talk so low no one would probably hear me anyways !!!

To everyone else.....
I wanted to know what were your point of views on interracial dating?

Good night everyone !!!

amreen_r said...

Amreen Ramjan
English 60
Cypress College
Mans Search for Meaning is a good story. i Like the way the author says that if u pin-point success it wont come to u. i think that its true.

Anonymous said...

i finally got into this blog! hooray!!!...i have been writing comment to myself but not to professor hsiao. any ways, i am new to this class, so i hope everything would go smoothly as i attend and to accomplishment. I'm the new guy

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A road of memories said...

thanks professor hsiao for the quote. it actually trigger my brain a little bit and make me think through about my life which also related to friends, families, and love ones, and especially to myself. I really love the quote. awesome!

Chris Mansker said...

I read Man's Search for Meaning when John was a student teacher for my English CP 4 class in high school. A lot of people didn't really seem to understand the over all meaning of the story, but then again many people in that class didn't even understand the meaning of their name. I've read Man's Search for meaning a couple of times and I feel this book will stay on the shelf for many years to come because I find new things each time I read it.

CeJay said...

Carl Benons
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post 1

I think I'm going to the trip on Sat.

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Adolfo Leon said...

Adolfo Leon
Eng 52
Cerritos College

Today I just want to say that I like and enjoy the class. Mr. H. has unique special way to keep the class motivated and very open. I can see that students never want to be absent for class.

Dollie56 said...

Jovana,
Love your post!
And love the way you have high respect for Lennon. I Love Lennon and The Beatles. The first songs I learned on piano were beatles songs. I think the very first was "Let it be" Not only can I relate to all those songs but to you as well.

I agree with what you’re saying about young teenagers getting Prego. I personally don not like the use of birth control for myself but I do believe there are some girls that should take them. I knew a girl in High school who liked to do nothing but party. She had a baby in 8th grade and another one in 10th and still went out and partied even weekend leaving the responsibility of watching and raising her children to her mother.
Why? She’s the one who made stupid choices and she should be the one taking responsibility for her actions.
I don’t see how a mother at any age can be so careless of their children or child. A baby bonds with its mother the first 3 minutes! How can a mom turn its back on such an innocent being? Not only teenage mothers but all mothers in general. I don’t think it was too long ago that I heard about a women and her female friend abusing her child by letting him starve in the closet and even burning his private area. This broke my heart into a million pieces! How can a mother do such a thing!
Back to teenage mothers…
If a young teenage mother can not afford or mature to be a mother. They should give up the child to a family who would love and take financial responsibilities for the child.
I do have to give kudos to those young mothers give everything up to take on the challenge of raising a child at such a young age. For example, my oldest sister made a wrong choice and became pregnant at the age of 16. Her boyfriend got a job and supported her and the baby. Our family was disappointed telling her she ruined her life and that now she couldn’t do thing. She wanted to prove to herself that just because she got pregnant at 16 she wasn’t going to let her life end there. She paid for a sitter, worked, and graduated with honors on time.
If you cant mature and do so then don’t in Jovana’s words “don’t open your legs”

nizzle said...
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Dollie56 said...

Lets get to 1,000 post!
Maybe even 10,000....

I got a new picture on my photography blog its not one of my best tho...
Still many more to come!

nizzle said...

Jovana & Dollie,
Finally, some level headed chicks...

...I make one post just to find 10 more. Holy cow...

Keep posting, thoughts, ideas, feelings are all welcome! (make sure you abide by the posting guidlines though.)

Just today we've done around 60ish posts. Come on, lets give the professor some reading material!

♥ Ali-Boo♥ said...

Alicia Valdiva or(Ali)
Cerritos College
English 52

ok ok its pretty late but i had nothing else to do!! hows everyone doing.. ok i have like a quick question that needs to be answered asap..How the heck do i change my wallpaper on my page? its to plain and i cant stand it!! Jovana add me cuz i dont know how lol..oh shizen mr.h you need my dinero by tomorrow huh? oh gosh i better get on that! im super excited about Saturday looking forward to it!! ok i guess i should study i have a test on thrusday and im kind of procrastinating it lol...nighty night!

Dollie56 said...

Heres a song that reminds me of some of the talk that has been going on in this blog...

Jack Johnson- Cookie jar

And I would turn on the TV
But its so embarrassing
To see all the other people
I don't know what they mean
And it was magic at first
To see them speak without sound
And now your soul is gonna hurt
You better turn that thing down

Well it wasnt me says the boy with the gun
Sure i pulled the trigger but it needed to be done
Because lifes been killin me ever since it begun
Cant blame me cause im too young

Well you cant blame me sure the killer was my son
But I didnt teach him to pull the trigger of the gun
Its those video games and his TV screen
You cant blame me its those images he sees

Well you cant blame me says the singer of the song
And the maker of the movie which he based his life on
Its only entertainment and as anyone can see
Its smoke machines and make up and you cant blame me

Well you cant blame me says the media man
Well i wasnt the one who came up with the plan
I just point my camera at what the people wanna see
Its a two way mirror and you cant blame me

Well it was you it was me it was every man
Weve all got blood on our hands
We only receive what we demand
And if we want hell then hells what well have

And I would turn on the TV
But its so embarrassing
To see all the other people
Dont even know what they mean
And it was magic at first
But let everyone down
And now the worlds gonna hurt
You better turn it around
Turn it around

John Hsiao said...

Need I remind you all that what is said in the blogosphere is meant for what we have discussed in class or an issue that you have found essential to discuss off another student's post.

The only time this does not become education is if you make fun another person or attack the character of a person.

Do you understand?

Sure, I do poke fun at students, in class, and more than once (all the time) I offer myself for ridicule at my behest.

What I do not want this blog to become is purely a comment-filled one--one that is just a gossip column where it become a he said/she said kind of atmosphere.

You can go onto My Space of Facebook for that.

This is an educational blogosphere.

You are to post something that you took away from class--educational wise--or from the blogosphere--learningwise.

What relevance is the blog if all we talk are superficial things. I have had to check student(s) before about material inappropriate to class discussion--in class and even here.

Cussing and slandering are not tolerated.

I understand that you get carried away by the moment in class--I often do, but not here, where all students can read. Remember, it is not just me and you: Professor and student. You have some at least 150 students reading what you write. Remember that.

I am sorry if I had to delete what was for you a comment in the making that took more than just a momentary passing of time.

I am the blog administer--This is my blog. I am the heavy in the room. I am the authority even though in class and here sometimes I play it off as not being so. I am still your Professor. I ultimately give you your grade. Remember that distinction.

You may not like it, but you have to respect it.

Talk to me after class if you have a problem with this qualification or instruction.

Again,

this blog is for learning, enlightenment, and understanding.

I repeat that it is not for slander and libelous comments.

I have not attacked anyone in the blog. Not ever

I have always talked about what was said and the policies herein described in the instructions.

The fun and love for the class and for its professor can be expressed by a point-by-point reference that was brought up in class or on the blog, not merely making mention of Prof. Hsiao. That is, it too easy.

Too easy. I am too easy a target. Choose someone else.

I am the target in class. You can laugh at my expense there--not here.

Anonymous said...

Sam T.
English 60
post...#3?? idk...


anyway....todays class was pretty intense for me. The whole topic on being happy and the meaning of life is something i care deeply about.


when it was my turn to read what i had wrote for what the meaning of life meant to me i didnt read straight from what i had written. im not really sure why i did that. but i tried to speak from what i felt from my heart and mind. It was more difficult than i thought. I had it all up in my head. I just couldnt spit it out. I hated how it felt...i felt stupid.
after class i thought about why i wasnt able to really speak in class about it. and i kinda gathered up some stuff up.

whenever mom asked me what i wanted do with my life as in what i want to be and such, i always told her i didnt know. because i really in fact DIDNT KNOW.i just wanna be happy. thats really it.
i know for sure i wont be the same person. i still have a lot of growing up to do. exploring....i need to experience things before i can make a decision.



i still dont know what i want to be when i grow up. who the hell knows what there gonna do 5 years from now?
an answer like that doesnt slide with my mom. esp. since i have to live up to my sisters standards.
basically, i felt like i was being asked by my mom when i was in class. i feel like im traumatized by the arguments ive had with her.
She always found a way to make me feel stupid about what my thoughts were. and being asked that today in class kinda brought back that memory...which was a little nerve racking. i remember my heart was beating so fast before i answered. i thought to myself "why am i so nervous??"

i realized that prof.h isnt my mom[thank god =)]. the class isnt going to hate or laugh on what im going to say. the whole classroom has an open mind and im so thankful that.
today was really great. a good learning experience in more ways than one!

.monster. said...

Blinded by so many opinions our tounges are bound from making our own. -Nick

wow, that quote right there may have just become one of my favorites. It really expresses how the world truly is. ever since we were little we have always been taught many many things, some myths, some truths, all to your discretion, but heres when the line is drawn, we cannot remember when opinions have long left their structure and became "truths"?. When we start believeing these, we stop thinking outside the box. thus, stopping our abilities to start thinking on our own. I really like this quote, very deep, easy to understand.


ps
wow in the time i wrote this and read nick's post 4 more blogs havebeen posted! wow

.monster. said...

sorry i just have to point this show, lol
"So Last tuesaday I was on my was to school and the guy in front of me decides to brake check me, I swerve to miss him and spin out, fly off the freeway into a ditch. I dont remember all of it because I hit my head and got a cuncossion but the next thing I know the paramedics are asking me questions that I have no idea what the answers are so i felt dumb because they were cute. They said i needed to go to urgent care so I did but first I asked them for a sticker [=" -Natalie

haha i love then end

Jamtz said...

Jose Martinez
English 100

Today's lecture was interesting. I am a big MJ fan but I also like Kobe. I mean we all know that MJ will always be the best BUT Kobe must be doing something right to constantly be compared to the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time). I like how he stays humble about it and always answers no when they ask him if he is the next MJ.

Another thing I liked about today was the topic on knowledge. Shakespeare said in his story of Frankenstein, "the pursuit of knowledge can be destructive". He said that because Dr. Frankenstein's pursuit for knowledge to make a human being nearly killed him but it did kill his wife. I believe if you are always on the pursuit of knowledge you also create a monster, a monster within yourself. One must know how to cope with the truth. I know people everywhere that I go that think that they know it all. They know all the government "secrets", and they think know the truth about religion that's why they are always questioning everybody's religion. They think they got everything figured out and they walk around with a chip on their shoulder. They are always mad and saying I hate this and I hate that...people need to grow up and step up to the plate. Stop blaming your problems on other races, government, and ESPECIALLY the media! You can not live your life hating everyone and everything, that is just lame. Instead of blaming your problems on someone else or thing....better yourself and find happiness in your own life.

"People fear what they don't understand, hate what they can't conquer, I guess it's just the theory of man"-Nas

Yue said...

Yue Hayes
English 100
Golden West College
Post #13

Stephen:
You would get yelled at by a psycho lady! haha Like Mr. Hsiao says, you're a leader. You want to share all you know, even if the other person is a psycho. Honestly, some people get too hot-headed with politics.

Alex:
You just need to forget about people like her. It's not worth spending your energy on, or even wasting your feelings on.

Jovana:
I really like songs because it's always available for you to go back to, if you're feeling down or are looking for an answer. Even though John Lennon is gone, his message is still preserved, still touching people's hearts.

Courtney:
Awh, there are so many different and deep topics going around right now, I'm sure you'll be able to find a topic or two to talk about that will be worthwhile! :]

Chris:
Yay! We have someone who is way ahead of us in his classes. Thank you for your advice, I think the chapter/journal idea is a really cool one, because it really tests your understanding of the text. It'll make you realize how much you might not understand!

Anthony:
You know, I think a little bit of that had to do with guilt, too, but I think those soldiers sure made it up by helping those people out. They deserved it after going through hell and the world not helping them out. I agree with you, I'm glad we were the ones to come out and do it.

Dollie (Melissa?):
Wow, your story really paints a vivid picture in my head and
I'm speechless.
To have lost something, someone who meant so much to you at a young age right in front of you, that's really tough. To be able to share that story truly shows character, very very strong. I have loads of respect for you.

Oh, and the topic of the teen pregnancy, I agree with both of you. As a girl, I can't understand why some other girls could be so insensitive to their child. I see someone else's kid and immediately feel attached.
And yes, kudos to the people who actually took responsibility of the situation. You know, when a teenage girl makes that mistake of getting pregnant, she has a responsibility to do one thing: do the right thing for her child. Whether it's abortion (I know, for some of you it's not even an option) or adaption or putting her act together, she has to do something that she can handle.
Honestly, though, I have to give the most credit for the teenage girl who decides to keep the baby and gets her act together in order to support him/her. I think it's the most committing, responsible thing to do, and plenty of girls decide to do this and I have tremendous amount of respect for them, like dollie's sister!

shoot, I was going to comment on more people but I've reached my limit. Phooey! :[

I'm sorry... (I don't really know who I'm apologizing to... ahah)

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ИIGHT Ω SLΛYΣR said...

Juan Carlos Urias
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post 1

I seriously have never understood why people get so addicted to blogging and stuff....i hardly understand this...

Anonymous said...

Mark Greenlee
Eng 100
GWC
Post # 3

So i want to talk about something that i dont think has been covered yet. I would love to see your guys' thoughts on marriage. What does it mean? Is it different for everyone? What are your thoughts on divorce? I'm a product of a divorce and counsel many teens who have lived through one, but am curious as to people's thoughts on whether we should try to adjust the way society views marriage, or if maybe its not that important?

LuvlyT said...

tierra Miller
english 100
GWC
post 7 or 8
soooo blogging is an addiction because everyone has an opionion and its nice to have an open forum in which to discuss such things....but also..i think that history repeats itself and i see right now at this very second....bush is the neo herbert hoover and we are moving twoards a depression....everyone is in denial but its upon us....in the moderndays we should definatley not have people living in shelters that resemble hoovervilles...we are foar too sophisticated for this...one of the wealthiest nations...this a travesty..and we need much more than a new president to fix it.

I Threw It! said...

Brandon
Eng100
Goldenwest
Post: ?

I want to say something about opinions. And to touch on Nick's quote:

"Blinded by so many opinions our tounges are bound from making our own."

I disagree. I think we can all safely say we make our own decisions and form our own opinions. I know i know: "but...WE WERE TAUGHT TO THINK LIKE THAT!" but it doesnt change the fact that we are conciously aware of bias and predisposition, and if we know it exists, we can remove it from the equation. take Politics for example. If my parents are democrats then i am likely to be democratic. But, recognizing this, i can review all parties and form my own opinion, even if it is to go against my currently held opinion.

Mankind's Meaning:

I didn't like how the author said: if you pinpoint success, it wont come to you. To me it is like saying: if you decide to drive to Seattle, and drive straight there, youll end up in Albequerque. And secondly, success doesn't just come to anyone. We must reach for success. The singer practices and shakes hands. The lotto winner AT LEAST buys a lotto ticket. The parents raise a good child, they dont just let him/her roam and say: eh, being a successful parent? we cant pinpoint that or it wont come.

Chris said...

Chris Heidel
Eng 100
GWC
Post 4? 5? 6??

In response to Mark from our class. I think marriage is a great. No one ever plans on getting divorced when they are at the alter however about 50% of our society does.

I'm a product of divorce and I want to get married. It takes a lot of sacrafice, commitment, and honesty. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. It would obviously be nice if it worked more times that not.

Chris said...

Chris Heidel
Eng 100
GWC
Post 4? 5? 6??

In response to Mark from our class. I think marriage is a great. No one ever plans on getting divorced when they are at the alter however about 50% of our society does.

I'm a product of divorce and I want to get married. It takes a lot of sacrafice, commitment, and honesty. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. It would obviously be nice if it worked more times that not.

I Threw It! said...

Brandon
Eng100
GoldenWest

Mark G:

man, where should i start on marriage. I just had a huge discussion about that the other day. I was arguing if divorce was illegal, then couples would be forced to amend their differences, rather than consider divorce as an option. she argued: some problems cant be fixed, say the husband or wife falls in lovee with someone else. I argued: then we all had bebtter make sure we are marrying the one we love. And why did they allow themselves to fall into a situation where tehy would start to love someone else? she argued: What if you were trapped in a loveless marriage? i argued: they would have taken an oath under god and entered into a contract with the government(taxes, benefits etc.) they didnt just 'get married'. Divorce seems to be moving towards another word for 'big breakup'. and thats sad. But alas, it is their life. I should not tell a married couple not to get divorcd. afterall...free country..eh?

Jovana said...

Yue:

You're right. Songs are a way to releive the mind and emotions. and john lenon is a great example of that. maybe you can share with us what songs move you, what songs make you smile and forget about all the wrong doings of the world. that'd be really neat.

Dollie:

its funny how you listen to the same music that i do. i love jack johnson, and that song is so cool.another song by Jack Johnson that i know you have heard is sitting, waiting, wishing. if you havent then you must. =]
and yes i read your post about your cousin julian.
i dont know where to begin. first of all thank you for opening up that way. and the way you wrote your story made me believe i was a witness. i felt what you felt just by your writing. and im terribly sorry for your loss. i never know what to say to someone who has just lost a part of their heart.
all i can tell you is that i feel for you, and im sorry. i wish it wouldnt have happened. i hope my words can make you feel better.
if not then i hope someone else can. just know that everyone feels for you, and we might not understand the heavy gravity of your situation, but i am sorry.
you moved me with your story.

god bless you and i know julian is watching over you and he will never leave your sight. <33

Nizzle:

thanks for your comment on Dollie and me being level headed. i felt great when a GUY posted that. =] i wish to see more of your writting on here as well. you have great thoughts, and it'd be really neat to hear some and agree or dissagree but all in a good way =]

im anticipating going to class, i want to listen to the conversations that are going to be developed. its funny because i have never anticipated going to class, especially not english but for some strange reason this class has moved me. i think its making me a better writer, thinker, and observer.

Thanks Mr. H See you in class

common everyone lets make Mr H proud and go over 10,000 lol atleast to 10,001

Araceli Garcia said...

ARACELI GARCIA
PROFESSOR HSIAO
ENGLISH 52


YOU GUYS ARE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS...WELL IT TURNS OUT PETA WANTS BEN&JERRY'S ICE-CREAM TO USE HUMAN BREAST MILK FOR THEIR PRODUCTS INSTEAD OF THE COWS MILK. LOL WELL PETA IS SUPER SERIOUS ABOUT THIS,AND THEY SAY THAT IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO USE MILK INTENDED FOR HUMAN BABIES, RATHER THAN USING MILK THAT IS INTENDED FOR COW BABIES.... WHICH THEY DO HAVE A POINT IN A WAY.... BUT STILL JUST THE THOUGHT OF IT IS SO WEIRD.

Araceli Garcia said...

ARACELI GARCIA
PROFESSOR HSIAO
ENGLISH 52


YOU GUYS ARE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS...WELL IT TURNS OUT PETA WANTS BEN&JERRY'S ICE-CREAM TO USE HUMAN BREAST MILK FOR THEIR PRODUCTS INSTEAD OF THE COWS MILK. LOL WELL PETA IS SUPER SERIOUS ABOUT THIS,AND THEY SAY THAT IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO USE MILK INTENDED FOR HUMAN BABIES, RATHER THAN USING MILK THAT IS INTENDED FOR COW BABIES.... WHICH THEY DO HAVE A POINT IN A WAY.... BUT STILL JUST THE THOUGHT OF IT IS SO WEIRD.

Jovana said...

Mark:

i was going to bring this subject up last night, but i fell asleep. So about your post on marriage. I'm a girl who doesnt believe in marraige ... i dont believe in it because i know that things change once you become married. my cousin dated his wife for 10 years, and now that they are married he is always complaining about it. they looked so happy before the marriage and now, she thinks she OWNS him.

another reason why i dont believe in it is because i dont need a paper or a pastor to tell me that i love my significant other. if i know that i have my other half with me, why marry them and then maybe even divorce them? why cant i be with my loved one without a paper which will only mess with my feelings.


if someone loves me and i love them why do we have to celebrate it for everyone else? have you noticed that? sure you throw a wedding party but you're the one stressing out making sure your GUESTS are having a good time. all the bride and groom are doing is worrying id the beer is cold, if theres enough food, where to keep the little kids so they dont ruin everything. A wedding is a celebration for the people you love, not you and your loved one.

so thats my reasons as to why i dont believe in marriage. call me iggnorant but thats my outlook on it. and id love to hear other sides. like the reason as to why people belive in marriage.

im open minded and i wont bash on your ideas. so lets talk about this subject and agree to disagree.

=]

Jovana said...
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nizzle said...

Are we really enticed to our own opinion to which we think for ourselves? Granted, some of us do have the ability to sift, but others are still learning the technique. Instead its so much easier to agree with what we're told. Why not take the easy road? Or take the a path we're familiar with?

I'm speaking in terms of humanity...the population: world. My argument can be defended with common daily routines such as religion. Taught by the book, they are allowed to believe what they want...but with guidance. I will not get into what each believes as I'm sure everyone has a general idea, but, what about those religions that look down upon others? They do not have acceptance, leaving a lack of respect for another's ideals. Here an opinion has been not only molded, but practiced.

We're influenced by our life styles, community, and exposure. Terrible example but I'm going to try: I am a geek. My father is a geek, he is a Computer Consultant...I am a network admin. Could I have been a firefighter? Or a police officer? Maybe, but I found what my father did was enjoyable to me...(influence) Maybe for another, who lives in a crime tainted area (here an opinion is formed), they want to clean it up and help society. Law enforcement may be in mind.

How does it all go back into opinions? Well, not everyone is like you and I (we can think for ourselves, bombarded with information...we patiently analyze). To me an opinion is choosing sides after a mile-high view the whole spectrum. Unfortunately many of us form opinions based solely on what small information we've been given. Maybe one can agree with the known variables...but for me, a broader more detailed image is needed before I can conclude an enriched opinion.

Brandon,
I've read your posts, you are strong, tough and supportive of your thoughts. I enjoy hearing your comments and I'm glad someone on the opposing side has stepped it up. Now people who may read, can decide for themselves. Maybe, even put us both out with what they may have to say.

Jamtz said...

Jose Martinez
English 100

Thank you yue for the correction. I had so many thoughts running through my head and I originally was planning to quote Shakespeare but Mary Shelley's Frankenstein came to my mind first. Thank you for the correction.

In the book the secret that your thoughts are frequencies that travel through the universe. The human being is the biggest frequency tower in the universe. If you're always thinking negative thoughts you attract negative energy which become negative events. If your life has always been on the same "channel" with the same negative frequencies....change the "channel".

I was that kid with a chip on my shoulder all my life. My mentallity was alway...you either were with me or against me. Like Nas said "Life changes, a thug changes, and best friends become strangers". My dad has always been a optimistic person and he told me one day "you can not walk around mad at the world because what good does that do? Count your blessings instead of your problems and learn to forgive." Now I try to apply my dad's advice into my everyday life. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong"- Gandhi.

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."-Albert Schweitzer

nizzle said...

Puric Victory,
Sick flow. I like how you touch on how people view religions, or how they even practice them...many for unknown reasons. We really are trapped by ourselves. We can blame others for our inverted pyramid but in retrospect as a whole, we contributed to make it that way.

Solopan,
our intelectual well being is what keeps us dominant compared to those "claws and jaws". I am unsure of your views on religion or evolution but all animals do that. We have to provide for our families, through means of a job for money. And don't we have the instinct of an animal such as a squrriel who prepares for winter, gathering more nuts then whats needed at the time?

- HONESLY I agree 100% with what your saying I'm just trying to be the a counterpart. I really just want you to elaborate because I think your points are great and what this discussion needs. Keep it going, maybe someone who really is on the defensive can take over.

Alex,
I'm no Dr. Phil, but I've been in that case many times before. Its very hard to let go. My suggestion is, if the the situation permits and shes worth staying in contact with...be a friend. By stringing you around, you and her are making it a very unhealthy envoirnment. There is someone out there for you...just wait, don't push it. (but lets keep this subject in a separate blog, not here.)

jovana,
What other artists do you like?
Some of my favorite are; Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Journey. If you haven't heard them I suggest you give 'em a try! And always thank you for sharing your history with us. It takes a very strong person to do that...but I'm sure you already know that. :)

Lily827 said...

Liliana Fierros
Eng 52
Cerritos College
post 1

so I finaly got a chance to make an account and post a comment on what every one in class has been talking about. I really like the idea of having a page for students to post what is on our minds without having it to say in front of class.

-Lily

2complex 4 1dimensional minds said...

"JUST TO VENT"

I JUS BROKE UP WITH MY GIRL AND SHE HAS THE NERVE TO ACCUSE ME OF BEING AN ASSHOLE! I PUT MY BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS INTO THE RELATIONSHIP WHILE SHE JUST SAT BACK AND DID NOTHING. AND I'M THE ASSHOLE!!!!? I'M TIRED OF WOMEN THAT THINK BEING PRETTY IF A FULL TIME JOB AND THAT ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS LOOK PRETTY AND THEY DONE THEY PART.! I JUS REALIZED THAT I WASTED A YEAR AND 2 MONTHS OF MY LIFE WORKING FOR SUMTHING THAT WAS DOOMED FROM THE START!!!! Y IS IT THAT MEN SPEND ALL THE TIME RUNNING AROUND LOOKIN LIKE ASSHOLE TRYING TO MAKE THEY WOMEN HAPPY AND THEY GET NO CREDIT FOR WHAT THEY DO! NOT ALL WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT BUT MOST ARE. NOW I'M NOT SAYING THAT MEN SHOULDNT DO ANYTHING FOR THEY WOMEN JUS WOMEN ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FACT THAT THEY MAKING YOU HAPPY, EVEN IF THEY JUS TRY... TRYING SHOULD AT LEAST GET YOU SUM CREDIT...

2complex 4 1dimensional minds said...

AMADOR DAMASO
ENGL. 52
CERRITOS

"UNKNOWN"

Last class meeting Mr. H asked me who it was that i admired and intimmidated me, n i told him that it was my brother, the closest thing i had to a father. As i spoke these words so true i almost started crying and i realized that my only insperation in life is tryin to make my brother proud now that he isnt here to tell me how proud he is. I kno that its a fucked up situation but i also kno that if my brother was still here i wouldnt be pushing on like i am. As i look back at everything i been thru i wouldnt be here if it wasnt for all of my obstacles. If i wasnt homeless for 3 years i wouldnt wanna provide for my people so much. If my grandma hadnt passed when i was young i wouldnt be trying to get as close to GOD as i am(i do this so i can see her again), if i hadnt lost 2 brothers b4 i was 18 i wouldnt have this sense of family that i have now. If i didnt lose one of my best homies(R.I.P. Raymond Lopez) i wouldnt value my friends as much as i do. i been thru hell and back and i felt the flame of HADES burn my nose hairs. I KNO THAT I BEEN THRU THE SHIT BUT IF I DIDNT GO THRU ALL I HAVE I WOULD BE JUS AVERAGE

nizzle said...

Puric Victory,
It's very easy to drip blame all over others. Inspite of her anger due to the complications...its her fall back to blame. Maybe it wasn't ment to be...and I certainly don't think all women are like that, even the majority. We're matched in pairs. Like a game of tetris, there are many options for the square, but you never try and cover a blank hole. And IMO I don't think your time was wasted, you grew up, made decisions, gained knowedge and now you can better assess a new future situation.

Just a note: I'm no moderator, but we really need to watch our language here on the board, I really don't like seeing posts deleted.

Thanks for sharing, maybe this discssion can help others with similar situations.

ИIGHT Ω SLΛYΣR said...

Juan Carlos Urias
Eng. 52
Cerritos College

I still dont understand how this blogging stuff works so if anyone can help it would be most appreciated

2complex 4 1dimensional minds said...

"THIS TYPE OF LOVE"
BY SHIHAN



" I WANNA LOVE LIKE ME THINKIN OF YOU THINKIN ME THINKIN OF YOU TYPE LOVE
OR ME TELLING MY FRIENDS MORE THAN I EVER ADMITTED TO MYSLEF ABOUT HOW I FEEL ABOUT YOU TYPE LOVE
OR HATING HOW JEALOUS YOU R BUT LOVING HOW MUCH YOU WANT ME ALL TO YOURSELF TYPE LOVE
OR SEEING HOW YOUR FIRST NAME JUST SOUNDS SO GOOD NEXT TO MY LAST NAME
AND SHIT I WANTED TO SEE HOW I FAR I CAN GET WITHOUT CALLING U AND I BEARLY MADE IT OUT OF MY GARAGE
SEE I WANNA LOVE THAT MAKES WAIT UNTIL SHE FALLS ASLEEP THAN WONDER IF SHES DREAMING ABOUT US BEING IN LOVE TYPE LOVE
OR WHO LOVES TO OTHER MORE OR WHAT SHES DOING AT THIS EXACT MOMENT
OR SLOW DANCING IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR APARTMENT TO THE MUSIC OF OUR HEARTS CLOSING MY EYES AND IMAGINING HOW A LOVE SO GOOD CAN HURT SO MUCH WHEN SHES NOT THERE
AND SHIT I LOVE NOT KNOWING WHERE THIS LOVE IS HEADED TYPE LOVE
AND CHECK THIS, I WANNA PLACE THOSE LIL POST-IT NOTES ALL OVER AROUND THE HOUSE SO SHE NEVER FORGETS HOW MUCH I LOVE HER TYPE LOVE
THAN NOT HAVE ENOUGH INK IN MY PEN TO WRITE ALL THERE IS TO LOVE ABOUT HER TYPE LOVE
AND HOPE I MAKE HER FEEL AS GOOD AS SHE MAKES ME FEEL, AND I WANNA DEAL WITH MY FRIENDS MAKING FUN OF MY THE WAY I MADE FUN OF THEM WHEN THEY WHEN THRU THE SAME KIND OF LOVE TYPE LOVE
ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THIS IS ONE OF THOSE REAL LOVE TYPE LOVES
AND JUS LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL I WANNA SPEND HOURS ON THE PHONE NOT SAYING SHIT AND THAN FALL ASLEEP AND THEN WAKE UP WITH HER RIGHT NEXT TO ME, AND SMELL HER ALL UP IN MY COVERS TYPE LOVE
AND I WANNA TRY COUNTING THE WAYS I LOVE HER THEN LOSE COUNT IN THE MIDDLE JUS SO I CAN START ALL OVER AGAIN
AND I WANNA CELEBRATE ON OF THOSE ONE MONTH ANNIVERISY, EVEN THOUGH THEY AINT REALLY ANNIVERISY, BUT DOIN IT JUS CUZ IT MAKES HER HAPPY TYPE LOVE
AND CHECK THIS, I WANNA FALL IN LOVE WITH THE MELODY THE PHONE PLAYS WHEN HER NUMBERS DIALED INTO IT TYPE LOVE
THEN TALK TO YOU UNTIL I LOSE MY BREATH, SHE LEAVES ME BREATHLESS BUT EXPANDING MY LUNGS I INHALE ALL OF HER BACK INTO ME
I WANNA LOVE THAT MAKES ME NEED TO CHANGE MY CELL PHONE CALLING PLAN TO SUMTHING THAT ALLOWS ME TO TALK TO HER LONGER CUZ IN ALL HONESTY I WANNA AVOID ONE OF THEM HIGH CELL PHONE BILL TYPE LOVE
AND I WANNA LOVE THAT MAKES ME REGRET HOW SMALL MY HANDS ARE, I MEAN THE LINES OF MY PALMS DONT GIVE ME ENOUGH TIME TO LOVE AS LONG AS I'D LIKE TO TYPE LOVE
AND I WANNA LOVE THAT MAKES ME
ST-ST-ST-ST-STUTTER JUS THINKG ABOUT HOW STRONG THIS LOVE IS TYPE LOVE
AND I WANNA LOVE THAT MAKES ME WANNA CUT OFF ALL MY HAIR, WELL MAYBE NOT ALL THE HAIR, MAYBE LIKE I'LL CUT THE SPLIT ENDS AND TRIM MY MUSTACHE BUT IT'LL STILL BE A SYMBOL OF HOW STRONG MY LOVE IS FOR HER
AND CHECK THIS, I KINDA FEEL COMFORTABLE NOW SO I EVEN BE FANTASIZING ABOUT WALKIN OUT ON A GREEN LIGHT JUS DYING TO GET HIT AND JUS SO I COULD LOSE MY MEMORY, GET TRANSPORTED TO SUM 3RD WORLD COUNTRY JUS TO GET TREATED AND SUM HOW MEET UP AGAIN WITH YOU SO I CAN FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE JUS TO SEE IF IT FEELS THE SAME TYPE LOVE
I WANT A LOVE THAT AS UNEXPLANIABE AS SHE IS.
BUT I'M MARRIED SO SHES GONNA BE THE ONE I SHARE THIS LOVE WITH"

THE ILLEST POET I'VE HEAR SINCE
2PAC...

ИIGHT Ω SLΛYΣR said...

Juan Carlos Urias
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post #3

I just remembered that we had a story to read and now i'm starting to freak out since class is in 2 hours!!!

vivian said...

Vivian Gao
English 52
Cerritos

This is my first year full time at Cerritos College, it's kinda of hard for me Because I'm trying to deal with work, school and my personel life at same time. Out of all the professor I have, I have to say Professor Hsiao is different and more interesting than any other Professors, like teaching method, and the material he teach with. I like it because it makes you constantly think. I guess it helps with the critical thinking. Ok, I have to get back to work now, since this is the only time I can post.

Jovana said...

Amador:

You know you ma boy! i love you dearly you know that! but dont even waiste your time wondering why you are the asshole that she thinks you are. you dont have to waiste your time on that, because i've only known you for a good 2 weeks, and you are most definitly not an asshole. you are a great person, and i admire you. you are the second person who intimidates me [the first is mr h] but you dont intimidate me because you look hard, or you're bigger than me. no you intimidate me because you are a very intelligent OG.
you have the ability to do with your life as you please, because you dont settle. you conquer. its amazing how you have gone through so much and still have a great head on your shoulders. now i have told you that the first time we spoke on the bus to the MOT and ill never stop saying it. i know its probably the wrong thing to say, but im glad you've gone through all you've gone through. because its people like you who are strong enough to overcome the holes that you have to jump over to succeed. and you have. i love you dude. you're my bestie! =]

and as for the ex, like i said before ... "aint nothing but a b****" you dont need that in your life, you need someone who admires you, wants to make you happy, and doesnt want you to ever stop what you love to do. i cant wait to hug you today boy. i love you once again =]

Nizzle:

I love well the obvious John Lenon, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, Journey is a huge must, Oasis, Bullet for my Valentine, The Smiths, Morrisey, Smashin Pumpkins, Muse, Jack Johnson, Aerosmith, The Bravery, My Chemical Romance, The Cure omg i have too many lol. i can go on forever. lol. but i have to listen to eric clapton. thats my new homework assigment. ha ha ha.

see you in class guys

Joanna said...

Mr. Hsiao you always say that life is like a doughnut ill see you around, but what if the doughnut is straight.
I look forward to going to your class today its always so funny.

solopan said...

Jovana those are all great artists but you have to enter your inner unconsciousness with The Doors, Let Led Zeppelin show you the real rock and great percussion, and last but not least you need to Experience the colors of the sounds with Jimi Hendrix.

Nam Luu said...

Kayla no buttons were pushed here because I totally agree.

Howdy partner do you want to give me some money to run for preisdent?

Sure man no worries for now but I'll need a favor soon.

Hey dude lets elect homeboy to be chairman of citigroup, sure dude then he'll owe all of us a raise for electing him, hes our homie any way.

Hey dude give me my raise and will elect you again and protect you.

Hey Bush remember when we helped you give Gore the finger in 2000, well it's time to pay up old timer. Shit isn't free now give us 700billion so we don't have to spend a time or our personal fortune to fix our own mistakes. Let those disgusting American Citizens pay for our mess up.

There we go even the illiterate should understand how I phrased it.

J.Driscoll said...

James Driscoll
English 52
cerritos

Skidrow

I watched a short video Jounral about Skidrow on youtube.It was profound how poor people are in one of the richest nations on the earth.The odd thing is that skidrow is one of the worse places as far as homelessness goes. I was really touched by these people who carve out a meek living on those streets. I've been through skid row a couple of times and seen it on the highways to downtown. Though if take a short drive down to PCH in Long beach you see some errie similarties.Though not in the extream its still has wondering homeless people, drug slingers and the like. I think the homless problem we have In LA county will on continue to get worse unless we deal with it in a more proactive manner. This problem is not just a LA problem but a problem of all county wide.Perhaps one day we will figure this out.

Nam Luu said...

There is no way to completely solve the homless problem. Some people choose failure, bad decisions, or they just want to live as a nomad. It is not easy to just give them shelter and food. The only way to effectively comabt any issue is to invest in prevention. Not intervention half way through, or solution after the situation has gone sour, but prevention before anything even occurs.

The homeless are walking scripts of life, value, pain, suffering, struggle, and on going pursuit of the meaning of life.

Arm the homeless to fight for food and shelter, I gurantee they will overcome all.

Now onto my own worries, I'm sitting here in Irvine do jack for work and now I'm starting to wonder how it will be like when the depression hits us at home even harder then it has. I'm starting to plan and strategize how I need to deal with this. I'm trying to predict when its going to happen, if its the next week or the next year but after thinking about I'm going to start getting prepared for it.

GPS Units.
Blueprints of all major citys in california.
Transporation maps(railway, metro, bus, subway blueprints)
I need someone to get into the DWP to pull me off power grid schematics.
Firearms(Rubber and lethal bullets)
Riot control gear(tear gas, mace, tasers)
Armored vehicles and personal armor.
Bomb Shelter
Barricade my parents home
Stock up on canned foods, drinks, toiletry, hygiene, water, heating, cooling, clothing.
Assemble a coalition.
Influence all national guardsmen to drop arms and change sides.

Yeah thats just part of my plan, everyone should be prepared in some sort of way right? Just in case, but I'll admit I'm a looter when the day comes.

♥ Ali-Boo♥ said...

Alicia Valdivia
English 52
Cerritos College

Hey everyone!! Yay class is today and im really looking forward to the conversations, normally i would just go to class to show my face and do my work without carrying any conversations with people. Im the person who is to shy to talk to people unless they talk to me and then i release myself lol but this class is interesting and im glad because this is my first year in collgege and i actually like one of my classes.. THANKS MR.H..one more thing Mr.H we totally didnt finish the conversation about Koby vs. MJ i was looking forward to that ...well i better get ready for class see you peeps when i get there...later later

serenity40 said...

Shannon Flak
Eng 100
GWC

I want to say again Mr.Hsiao, excellent poem. I can relate to alot of what you wrote about in that poem. It really did bring tears to my eyes.
I wanted to touch on something we talked about in class. I heard alot of different views on if people can change.
My view is this...people can change if they want to. It takes work , work and more work. You don't just say I'm going to change this and then that's it. Change happens from the inside. It's like an onion, you keep peeling back layers after layers after layers. It's a continual process throughout life.
I hope this made some sense to whoever is reading this.

Claudia said...

Hey Mr. you are really good expressing your thoughts. I can't wait to learn to write without holding back. I call it chocking because sometimes I may feel like writing something but I cant seem to "say" what I want so I tend to leave it blank and keep going. I see that you just write your thoughts out and really my goal is to write a whole book with poems in it. Also I want to write a story too. So when I have learned well enough I will write a book. Hopefully any ways yeah.

I dont waste time on the bassline said...

Anthony Torres
cerritos college
eng 52

so how is everyone doing here, we got about 500 comment already, dang! Im kinda Psyced for the getty saturday, i hope i can get some money so i can go, who else is exited? HAHA i'm probably more exited than most just to make new friends, justmoved to cali so im pretty new to this state.

2complex 4 1dimensional minds said...

JOVANA:


THANKS A MILLION! THAT REALLY MEANS ALOT TO ME AND I APPRCIATE THE SUPPORT! UR THE GREATEST AND UR REALLY MY BEST FRIEND!! ONCE AGAIN U ARE THE SHIT!!!! THANKS FOR THE LOVE... AND DNT WORRY ITS THE RIGHT THING TO SAY LOL... CANT WAIT TO GET UR HUG(THEY ALWAYS MAKE ME FEEL BETTER)

I dont waste time on the bassline said...

anthony torres
cerritos college
engl 52


check out my blog people, see what you think?

I dont waste time on the bassline said...

anthony torres
cerritos college
engl 52


check out my blog people, see what you think?

Im soo exited for class today
yupee

.monster. said...

Ok so I've had this in my head all day so here it is,
I believe I can say that most of us in mr. H's classes think outside the box and are part of a few percent of individuals that see the world not from the perspective the media influences on us, but we see the world from many different perspectives. This makes us part of the few that can distinguish between an opinion and the truth,just like Nick said earlier. When we give examples we are talking about those, the majority of the population, that cannot distinguish between what's real and what isn't. We are the "underground voice" we speak from experiences of evryday life, from normal people, we all have our experiences, sad, happy, and so on, but those experiences have opened our eyes and transformed us into a new generation of intelligent beings. We may not be politicians, but we know what the people want, why? Because we are the people, we are the american dream, we are the force that moves the country, we are lucky to have our eyes open, thus letting us see what our world has become and will become in the next 20 to 30 years, I believe we, with our voices, won't let injustices happen, we are a small group, yes, but so were the fathers of the revolution, and the people who believed the moon could be reached, or the people who refused to sit in the back of the bus,or all the many others, that with their voices created change. Our opinions and dreams is ultimately what will keep the candle of life lit. This blog has sparked something inside of us that tells us that our voices are heard and appreciated.

:D

Since I saw a couple of people saying their fav. Music I'm going to say mine hahaha a lot of people liking similar genres or bands is cool, great minds think alike! Lol jk
The bravery, interpol,bane, sick of it all, journey[amazing band lol] bob marley, 311, bob dyllan, trent reznor, johnny cash,franz ferdinand, dead keneddys, gorilla biscuits, and that's all I can think of! Lol, wow, we're more or less averaging 30 to 45 posts per day? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's great!

tahLeeah said...

so im having a hard time with relationships. ive noticed ive created a pattern.

and i remembered that a couple lectures ago we talked about it.
especially girls who dont have their father and then search for something likewise to what their mothers had.

im trying so hard not to fall in that pattern.

and at the same time i feel like i dont want a relationship.

im juggling work and school as it is.

then again, it will make me become a person who can take on anything. and maybe my other and i will develop something.

confused but totally thinking in a positive way.

last lecture i realized that we are all "plugged in" like mister H said.
i am plugged in all the time. my phone is always within hands-reach. its just so hard to let go. and its pathetic in a way that one is so into it that we forget the real world.

i am gonna try and stop using it. at least not so much like i do.

i apologize Mr. Hsiao for the disrespectful behavior we had in class. even though i am not all entirely guilty, i am part of the class. and the student body is one.

time for class.
like really.
<3
thalia lopez

so far unarmed/marshall said...

marshall rhodes
english 60
cypress
so ya I have practice today with my garage band at sound arena in garbage grove. its gonna be awesome....
on the other hand I would have been quite intimadated by the class because i really do have lots of things to say about the subjects we discuss but im not sure how to say what I mean without souynding stupid...I feel that if I dont say it as smart as some other students, then my side of the conversation wont really be heard and remembered....I have a big problem with living life and being remembered....It's like a freaking bad drea, I swear.
Soi anyway I just wanted to put that out there for those who feel the same...if you feel like it please comment on....I'l hopefully read because I get so many emails so it gets hard to sit there and go throught 105 comments in one sitting....thank you for readign :)

Look!!! It's a WendyBird!!!! said...

YIKES!!!! I haven't checked the Blogosphere in a few days and I feel so LOST. haha. There are so many blogs that I want to go back and comment on but I'll probably sound like a goober cuz they're DAYS old. But any whoo.... I want to go back and agree with something JOVANA said about not believing in marriage. I dont want to say I dont believe in it, cuz if it happens and its something you and your significant other reeeeeeeeally want then go for it, I just dont see it as something you HAVE to do in order to show you are truly happy or in love with someone. My parents are the perfect example, they were together for THIRTY years then one day out of no where they're like "Hey! lets get married" It was weird, but kinda cool at the same time. With divorce rates higher than ever I admire my parents for not RUSHING into things lol.

Nathalie said...

So, today Mr. Hsiao asked us, what I thought, by far the most difficult question yet: "What is your meaning in life?" Something everyone should know,but of course I didn't know. I wanted to say my meaning in life is finding my meaning in life, but I thought that would be such a dumb answer. Then I wanted to say "to help people to the best of my ability", but what the hell, I need help myself. Then he asked me "where do you see yourself in the future?" I really went blank there because if I don't know what my meaning in life is,then I definitely don't know what my future will be.

Then I came to my cousin's house. She was giving me some psychology lessons. It was like psychology 101 or something. She then asked me a psychological question. She sked: "Out of these 5 wishes, which one would you pick?"
1. half a life and 5 million dollars.
2. half a life and true love
3. half a life and family satisfaction.
4. full life and job satisfaction.
5. live with the fact that there's a 75% chance everything you have can be taken away and 25% chance you can keep everything you have worked for.

I chose the 4th one because in my opinion I think that one's job satisfaction level is a factor of one's way of life and who they truly are. If you are satisfied with your job, then you are satisfied with life because you are doing what you enjoy doing and what you are good at.Therefore, all this positivity from work will follow you everywhere. Whereas,if you hate your job, then you're pretty much screwed.

So what i'm trying to say is that in my future, I wish to have success job-wise, whether I make a lot of money or not. So until I have my dream job, then i will know that I have a meaning in life because I'll be doing what makes me happy to the best of my ability and to the best of my knowledge. That's what will make me or break me in the future.

Erin said...

Erin Wahl
English 52
Cerritos College

So today I missed class, I got to sit in Urgent Care for two and a half hours. After sitting around for two hours the Doctor tells me that there is nothing he can give me to get me better. No he tells me that I "just need to suck it up". I was not very happy and I would have much rather been in class. Well I cant wait for Monday to find out how much I missed today.

Carinna Luvs you... said...

Carinna Martinez
English 60
Cypress College
Post 1

Okay so i finally figuered out how to blog...

One of my least favorite subjects is actually english, but being this class actually keeps me interested!

Claudia said...

Ok i haven't been able to read most blogs the few or the most I read I need to say something please don't use foul language it can be taken wrong by very sensitive people.

I don't want to seem like a butt kisser but it was rude we, yes I include my self, shouldn't have laughed when Mr.Hsiao walked in the class. I mean it wasn't something we decided to do it just happened but we should be more careful. We need to put our selves in that person shoes and see if we would like to hear someone laughing while we come in. Sorry Mr. but we were not laughing at you we did not mean for your feelings to get hurt and feel disrespected.
Also to our professor I have a messed up hand for carrying heavy things in my work that is why I missed the question not because I cant listen but because I write much slower with my left hand which you'll notice is not the best writing. So Mr dont take it to the heart. point made. I know you have my grade in your hand but i trust you will not do an injustice for speaking my oppinion and some truth.

Carinna Luvs you... said...

cCarinna Martinez
English 60
Cypress College
Post 1

Okay so i finally figuered out how to blog...

One of my least favorite subjects is actually english, but being this class actually keeps me interested!

cfunk said...

Cortney Funk
English 60
Cypress College

Marshall:
I totally know where you are coming from. Every time someone brings up a point I have a counterpoint in my mind ready to fire back, yet I never speak up. I don't know what my problem is. I am usually the one who chimes in with my own opinion. I really don't have a big problem about embarrassing myself. I just can't figure it out! I think tomorrow we should both dive into the class discussion! No matter how unintelligent we sound!

.monster. said...

"GPS Units.
Blueprints of all major citys in california.
Transporation maps(railway, metro, bus, subway blueprints)
I need someone to get into the DWP to pull me off power grid schematics.
Firearms(Rubber and lethal bullets)
Riot control gear(tear gas, mace, tasers)
Armored vehicles and personal armor.
Bomb Shelter
Barricade my parents home
Stock up on canned foods, drinks, toiletry, hygiene, water, heating, cooling, clothing.
Assemble a coalition.
Influence all national guardsmen to drop arms and change sides."
-Nam Luu

i really believe this might become true, maybe we wont have to experience it, but our kids? or their kids will. but the world, in my opinion will come to those circumstances. I found this a bit funny, yet deep, because it made me realize that one day we'll start recreating Darwinism step by step, we'll create a world in which only the strongest survive, a world where there are no second chances, were death reaches those who have fallen back in he long race of living. just like in the wilderness, where only the fittest will prevail.

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M.Vera said...

Vera, Michael

Professor Hsiao

Engish 52

24 September 2008


SUCCESS

What success meames to me is doing things I love to do. Like garding, fixing things that are broken if I could,and just being happy with my family, especially playing with my grandchildren.Four boys, ages are fifteen, two six year olds, and one five year old.
Just being happy with my family till the day I die. Living each day to thefullest, I turly belive success will then just follow.

kayla said...

Kayla Marley
English 100
GWC
Post 8.. i think

Nam Luu..

glad you agree. =]

after all everything comes back to money in america.. everything


but today i shared some really important information about myself to the class. normally i would never share my diability with people because i would feel weak. i would feel like people would feel sorry for me. and i don't like that. but i'm glad i was comfertable enough to say that my meaning to life is being able to help kids who have can't use their muscles properly. i just got really choked up because there was a chance of me not walking after the surgery.. if anyone cares.. i had a slip growth plate.. and the doctor put a 6 in screw in my hip.. and i will limp for the rest of my life. i've never felt so comfertable to tell a group of people my disability until now. and i'm glad i did.

anyways i have class at eight tomorrow morning so i need to go to bed.. and i've found myself staying up a lot later now a days.. after i posted the blog about being up so late for the first time in months.. hmm.. night!

I Threw It! said...

brandon
Eng100
GoldenWest

nam:

I agree, the solution to homelessness is to prevent it in the first place. But to touch on your comment about bush and the banks screwing America. i thought i read in your earlier comments that america was greedy, so dont we sort of deserve the shaft? please comment, ive probobly misunderstood.

Nizzle:

I agree, the way were raised and the environment were raised has much to do with our opinions and interests. We have to accept that unless we are going to detach ourselves from society, we have to deal with biases, and even our own biases. Even if some information is unbiased, we, as critical thinkers, always have our "crap-detectors" on. So even if we received a morsel of pure info, we'd never really know it. IN this age we question every source, and the sources of the source. after all, no bibliography, no grade haha.

I want to say something about your comment about religion and intolerance. I think youre right that a lot of relitions tolerate, and even promote intolerance. But then, is it not their right? I dont agree with a racist, or ignorance on any subject on that same level, but i respect another's right to live in ignorance. I can try to change their mind, i can try to lift the veil, but to go further would be intolerant of intolerance, which in itself, is intolerance. Its a real catch-22 that ive been struggling with for some time.

A question for all:

Is it hipocritical to be intolerant towards intolerance?

Dr. Devon Adams said...

Im going to blog because i want to pass the class. im jking but i do wanna pass the class. Anwyaiz class has been interesting these past few weeks. i hope it stays that way because there are so many different views and opinions and it makes class deep. whatever im out

Dr. Devon Adams said...

Devon Adams
Eng 60
Cypress

o well i think i did it wrong the 1st time so heres me blogging again.

Nam Luu said...

Brandon:

Dude you bet we deserve the shaft, we all deserve it at one point or another and we all contribute to Americas economic downfall. Middle class culture is pretty much keeping up with the Jones, spending more then you earn or can support. Lower class culture is, well spend as much as possible, who cares about debt we only live once. Majority of it not all but you get my drift.

Its sad but true that we really do have to spend billions of dollars. Maybe not 700 billion but a couple billion to help stimulate the economy. If we don't the global markets will crash and pretty much everyoneeeee in the world is going give us the finger. We are in a situation where the mortgage companies themselves have messed up due to lack of government intervention on wall st. because all those dudes get a chunk of the change anyways for not getting involved and regulating certain trades and buyouts. It pretty much comes down to, ok if we don't bail them out we're f'd anyways, the unemployment rate will rise, foreclosure will be at a higher all time high, and the suicide rate will increase by thousands. If we do bail them out we have to give up our money and sheriffs just drove by my crib I just have to mention that because I have no love for cops. Ok back to the bail out, if we bail them out its our money not theirs and all the lobbyist from banks are already lining up to get a nice sum, even the ones who are not in trouble because legislation has fine print that they do not mention. I forgot the name of the legislation they tried to pass a few months back but it had nothing to do with war it was connected to the freedom of information act but had fine print that said this legislation will make George W. Bush and his whole entire Administration immune from being trialed for war crimes. Of course soon they will trial him internationally not this decade but maybe next decade he will get trialed for sure. Back to us though and the shaft, we've been trained and influenced by the very machine that controls this country to spend and buy. Look at advertising, look at how they tried to stimulate the economy during tax season. Yo everyone get your checks go buy stuff, and some of us didn't get jack.

Nam Luu said...

Hmm, here is some of my favorite artist just to hop on the wagon.

RATM(well you know)

The Roots(Live band hip hop)

Bonobo(Samples IDM Ethnic)

Jack Baker Trio(Live Hip Hop)

The Philadelphia Experiment(Christian Mcbride, ?uest Love need I say more)

Phish(I love jam bands)

Blues Traveler(Yeah Jams bands are awesome)

Dead Presidents(Oh yeah old school hip ho)

Blackstar(More old school hip hop)

De La Soul(and some more)

Tribe Called Quest(ok you get the point)


Dream theater(Jordan Rudess need I say more)

Genisis(Phil Collins is the shit)

U2 (Bono is the shit)

King Crimson (Tony Levin best bass player alive)

SRV(love guitar and his technique)

Jimi(Im a southpaw he's a southpaw)

THE CLASH (!!!!! no words can describe)

Joy Division(the lil bro got me into this sub genre in the UK Ian Curtis is no joke)

James Taylor(Love Boston artist, such a dope writer)

Bruce Springsteen(such another dope writer)

Led Zepplin(Jimmy Page revolutionized ambient micing for recording drums, and Bonham well no need to explain)

Gun's n Rose's (Slash)

RHCP(Flea and Keidis no joke)


Nirvana(no joke)

Bob Marley, King Tubby, Lee Perry, love reggae.

Sublime(socal heros)

Norah Jones(love her voice)

Erykah Badu(love her voice)

Lauryn Hill(love her voice)

those 3 need to make a baby.

That's my short list, I'm a recording engineer if your wondering why I listen to so much different stuff. The earth has gravity, music is my gravity I tend to steer towards it with out notice.

Plus check out the band I've been traveling with and recording for the past 2 years.

http://www.myspace.com/audiblem
http://www.theaudiblemainframe.com
http://www.myspace.com/mcexposition
^Last ones there front man, my homie expo. One of the dopest emcee's I know. I'm talking about he'll make my top 15 of all time list.

Yue said...

Yue Hayes
English 100
Golden West College
Post #14

I say this with my experiences, that the best time to blog is late at night, so that less people are going to blog after you/after you start typing. Yay for not missing posts! :]
Oh boy, I'm tired but I feel like I must reply to everything I want to, because tomorrow, who knows how many more posts there'll be!

Jovana:
You know, I really don't like my memory because everything escapes me. I've heard plenty of good songs and can't believe how great they are when I hear it, but as soon as someone asks me for a title of a good song, I can't seem to remember! I'll pass and come back to you when I remember :] Right now, though, I think I like "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz for a cheer-up song. It really puts me in a good mood!

nizzle (I think David/Nick?):
You know, I find, a lot of times, to be veeery difficult to have my own opinion. There are so much information from different sources, so many people with so many different views that it almost seems very chaotic. And in the middle of this chaos, it is very difficult to even decide for myelf what I think is right or what I think it most right. I don't know.

Maybe it's just because I'm gullible (by the way, did you know that that word isn't in the dictionary? Weird.)and easily convinced, or maybe it's something else. I don't really know.

Sometimes, when I hear the opposing side of the topic, I feel like my opinion is wrong and I need to rethink it. This would be a good thing, but it happens almost every single time. I guess I just don't have enough confindence in my own opinion? Sometimes I don't even know if I have an opinion on anything. Seems impossible, since I talk a lot. And blog a lot.
I'm rambling. :[ sorry
---------------------
I'm so stupid, I read all the posts but I keep forgetting what I wanted to comment on!! I wish my computer screen was as long as all the posts here. hehe.

I need to clear my head and build with the blocks again, how to say what I want to say about marriage, because I just spent like 20 minutes trying and failing. Pretty badly, I might add. (Gosh, I'm so proud of my honesty! haha)

As the governator of our state says (with an awesome accent, I might add),

I'll be back

Josue Franco said...

Josue Franco
ENG 60
Cypress College
post 1

I just got to reading some of the blogs and its really interesting to see what people write especially when its someone in your class and you would never think they would say certain things. I'll have to blog more often but for now i'm gonna try to read more blogs. See how many I get through.

Yue said...

Yue Hayes
English 100
Golden West College
Post #14.5ish

Nam just reminded me of Dream Theater. Oh my gosh let me tell you about them.
I find, especially this one album called Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance, to be very excellent.
I mean the creativity in the lyrics, music, just even the idea of the entire album amazes me everytime.

I'm talking about the second disk of this album in particular. The entire disk is one long song that is broken up into 6 different stories about individuals with different types of disabilities: bipolarism, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, autism, post-partum depression, and dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder).

I mean, incredible. The music, for me, perfectly illustrates the complexity in the minds with these disabilities. Along with very vivid images, painted by the words in the lyric... It almost puts you, the listener, in that person's spot. It gave me the goose-bumps when I heard it all. Amazing. That is all I have to say. :]

By the way, Mr. Hsiao, thank you for correcting the pronunciation of my name. I went through the entire year (several times, I might add) in high school with the teacher pronouncing my name wrong. So it's good that I said/wrote something this time. Thanks!

Okay I'm off, GOOOOOD NIGHT :]

2complex 4 1dimensional minds said...

AYO MR. H JUS WANNA LET IT BE KNOWN THAT WHEN U WALKED IN THE CLASS YESTERSDAY I WASNT LAFFING AT U I WAS LAFFING CUZ SAL SAID SUMTHING EXTREMELY FUNNY, JUS HAPPENED TO WALK AT THE TIME. WELL ANYWAY GOOD TO SEE WE BORKE 5...

nizzle said...

Brandon,
Way to weigh in! As Prof.H. says. Your question:
"Is it hipocritical to be intolerant towards intolerance?"
This not only stimulated a chemical reaction in my brain like no other, I began to make something from nothing.

No.

If one is intolerant, then thy person shall be with others of intolerance. Its a 2 way street, either way one shares the inability to tolerate the others to whom which they judge. He is no better.

Should he be able to do so? It happens, everyday. We critique in disgust of those who are disgusted with critique.

What are your thoughts?

Yue,
Agreed. Posting at night, at least for me works my brain while my muscles relax...the perfect recipe to fall asleep.

Kayla,
We do care. Thank you for contributing, I appreciate your courage to voice it to your class and on the Blogosphere.

Everyone has something say, and for most who bottle it up...this can be extremely therapeutic.

Ho' Fo' Sho' said...

sorry. got out of line bit. some things happened when i got home that got me a lil bit heated.so sorry again.

it was really fun debating in class about how much better MJ is than Kobe. Being a team player will always outlast the stand out ballhog. Remember basketball is a TEAM sport. It was like talking about the Angels compared to the Royals.Not even close. Learned a couple new things.

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Jovana said...

Solopan

its funny you mention those artist. and the funniest thing is, i listen to all the ones you mentioned. i didnt mention them before because there is so much good music out there and i couldnt think of them all at work lol.

but yea i love those artist aswell. they are liget.

today's class, like most was very interesting. Mr. H took my friends away and put them in different places in the room. im not hating, i respect that. mr h i hope you dont think im trying to brown nose you, cause thats not what im about. its just that when i respect someone, i let it be known. you are very inspiring. and the way you teach is great.
you might be a really strict teacher, but thats what student need sometimes. they need a little push and they need to know who is boss. like in your position, you give respect and you want respect. completely normal. and respected by everyone im sure.

now the topic for class that we wrote about was the meaning in life.

that was such a broad question. i thought of so many things, but my only purpose is to serve my parents. sure they might annoy me and make me mad, but i love them irreguardless. they love me with all of my flaws and i want to give them everything they have given me. they've taken care of me for free, nobody had to obligate them they wanted to, the loved me unconditionally, and my onlu wish is to serve them. to make them feel as though they have no more problems because their eldest daughter who is the first to go to college is going to be taking care of them.

Wendy

wow!!! your parents are exactly what i am talking about. theres no need to rush, take life step by step. like going up the stairs, it takes one foot at a time. thanks for sharing that with us. =] super cool.

Anthony

Welcome to Cali!! =] dont you love it? you moved over here from where? and is it ok if i ask how was it over there? alot different than here? how much was gas? how much where cigarettes? how was the weather? what do you do for fun? you're not an alien or anything so i hope i dont make you feel like you're out of this world crazy lol. im just wondering.

There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it ...


this is the quote that i have writen on my mirror and i see this every day that i wake up. i think the first person who said this to me was my cousin, who lives in new york now
=[ but anyway.

this quote reminds me everyday that i can either be ME and unique or i can be reflected through someone else and not stand out.
i can tell people what i think or i can just stand there trying to please them. this quote reflects off my face everyday and it makes me remember that i dont have to be manipulated, i dont have to hide in someone elses shadow. i can talk to someone and they wont say,"oh you remind me of so and so" no because im my own light!! im my own person!! and nobody can take that from me!! nobody!!
sorry i got a little carried away, hence the exclamation points.
but i wanted to share that quote with you guys because it means alot to me, it rocks my world. and i hope it can help others the way it helps me =]

Jovana said...

It’s funny how hello,
is accompanied by goodbye.
it’s funny how good memories,
can start to make you cry.
it’s funny how forever,
never seems to really last.
it’s funny how much you’d lose,
if you forgot about your past.
it’s funny how "friends" can just
leave you when you’re down.
it’s funny how when you need someone,
they’re never around.
it’s funny how people change,
and they think they’re so much better.
it’s funny how many lies,
can be packed in one "love letter".
it’s funny how people forgive,
even though they can’t forget.
it’s funny how one night,
can contain so much regret.
it’s funny how ironic life turns out to be,
but the funniest part of all,
is that none of that’s funny to me...

nizzle said...

Jovana,
Wow! Very creative. I like how you really turned over the figurative language of "It's funny..." We have many poetic thinkers here on the board. Each of you contribute/combine real events to our discussions...

I do not possess those skills, but I love to be inspired by all yours.

I Threw It! said...

Brandon
Eng100
GwC
Post:?

Jovanna:
i liked it.

Nizzle:
It honestly depends on the intolerance. of course we shouldnt tolerate intolerance on the scale of nazism. But what about gay marriage for instance. i have no opinion on this one way or the other. but i respect both sides. I know a lot of people that are intolerant to gay marriage. And if i were to be intolerant to them being inolerant, then i would just be trying to force my own belief on them, which isnt right. I would be saying more or less, that its not okay to hold the belief that gay marriage is wrong. That would be affronting upon someone elses belief. But then, there are obvious problems with intoerance in itself.

That being said, i dont think people should be forced to be tolerant. I think it is their world just as much as mine. I dont know. I cant see an answer.

Nam:
I agree with you, but a lot of americans havent done crap other than to live how they were raised, in some cases the only way they know how to live. it seems a little unfitting to punish them for that. Not sure tho someone has to pay the bill. If you ask me, There should be a blood bill on this one. heheh.

p.s. its nice to see SOMEONE finally recognize dead prez.

Nam Luu said...

Real hip hop head what can I say...

But it's definitely not our bill, its just how they policies are laid out and how they deep they gotten themselves into requires us to pick up the tab regardless or the "whole worlds" economic structure is going to crumble. Plus the way we we're raised is by banks and marketing agencies. Spend spend spend, we just don't notice it.

nizzle said...

Brandon,
People shouldn't be forced to be tolerant. Agreed, for those that are comfortable with where they are, then that is where they will stay. Unless they want a new angled perspective, I agree they/we shouldn't force tolerance. My aim was more for those who have a developed opinion sided from all the different choices. These are the intolerant voices who want to pressure an idea.

natalie said...

Natalie Scardina
English 060
Cypress College
Post 3

I love Jovana's poem about figurative language of "It's funny...".

And as for the definition of success, everyone is going to have a different definition because of their life and what matters to them. So it all depends on the person.

solopan said...

Isaias Estrada

Proffesor Hsiao

Eng 52

Umm Ummm can anyone remind my mind on what time are we supposed to meet at the c-10 parking lot for the Ghetti? please someone is it 7am?

Jovana said...

sorry for the confusing everyone.
i did not write that poem it was writen by heather noble.
sorry i failed to mention that. lol. im not that talented.
sorry once again.

LEI said...

This weekend is the poly festival in San Diego. Try to pay attention to the change in my accent.

Thomas Rios said...

Thomas Rios
GDUB
Post #5?

This is my thought on success....

I think success is a matter of perception. Success means different things to different people so saying success is this or success is that may not apply to all people. A rich man with a mansion and pretty wife and kids could seem successful at first glance, but what if on the inside he is hurting? What if he is in a loveless marriage? What if his kids hate him? What if everybody else calls him successful and he calls himself a failure for having a loveless marrige and no relationship with his kids? I think that many people think that success is synonymous with material possessions and I hate that. I think we all forgot about the love for ourselves and each other. In summary, success depends on what you value, not what you think others value..

Aznwemsan said...

Wesley Lock
Eng 100
Cypress College
Post: 6??

Hey everyone. Reading Man's Search for Meaning, and talkin about it in class made me realize that Viktor Frankl is right about success. Playing MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) games has shown me that if one tries to aim for success multiple times, chances are that they will miss it a lot. In any MMO like a game im playing right now, Atlantica Online(sorry WoW fans that i did not mention it, because personally i hate that game) you either want to upgrade weapons or armor to be strong, but to do that one must take a chance at it failing. In my case success is like upgrading a weapon or armor and making it +1, but if i aim to upgrade it even more and telling myself that it is going to work it usually fails after that. Nowadays i just upgrade equipment for fun and usually they work most of the time, because i had forgotten about success and let it follow me. Aiming at success will only hurt my chances at getting a better weapon or armor.

Jovana said...

Issaiahs:

you have to be at school by 8am kk
see ya there. have a great friday bye

oNe LoVe said...

DarlaAnne Aguilar
Eng 100
Cypress
Post?

Did anyone read the Happiness Factor yet for homework??? Oh man was that right up my alley!!! It was a really good one page read. It was like i was reading everything that i do in my life. Most of the time i am a happy person the only other time i am not is when i am on the road, but i am still working on it.=] i believe that if everyone did #3 then i think it will make the people that your kind to be kind to other people...pretty much like a chain reaction.

And i agree with you Jessica i am siked for the field trip too!!!

Jovana said...

There's no one in town I know
You gave us some place to go
I never said thank you for that
'thought I might get one more chance

What would you think of me now?
So lucky, so strong, so proud
I never said thank you for that
Now I'll never have a chance

May angels lead you in
Hear you me my friends
On sleepless roads, the sleepless go
May angels lead you in

So what would you think of me now?
So lucky, so strong, so proud
I never said thank you for that
Now I'll never have a chance


May angels lead you in
Hear you me my friends
On sleepless roads the sleepless go
May angels lead you in

(May angels lead you in)
May angels lead you in
(May angels lead you in)
May angels lead you in

And if you were with me tonight
I'd sing to you just one more time
A song for a heart so big
God couldn't let it live

May angels lead you in
Hear you me my friends
On sleepless roads the sleepless go
May angels lead you in

May angels lead you in
Hear you me my friends
On sleepless roads the sleepless go
May angels lead you in

...

I just wanted to share this song with Dollie, Amador and Danielle. this song fills my heart. the words it uses and once you hear it played by Jimmy Eat World, its even more beautiful.

i just want you guys to know that you are always in my prayers and i pray for you guys to overcome all the wrong that has happend to you. none of you guys deserve it, you guys are great people.

i hope you enjoyed it, just know you're in my mind each and everytime i hear this song.

Anonymous said...

The other day in class we had a discussion about success. i loved hearing everyones opinion on it. when a student had mentioned that the reward means nothing without the process. it reminded me of a song by set your goals they say,"life is about the process and not the result", and i completely agree with that.

yen dao said...

Yen Dao
English 100
Cypress College
Post 2

I was happily going to donate blood. I had missed 2 times before, and I promised to me that this time I had to caught it. Donating blood is my aspiration. I came there, waited for an hour, and they told me that I can't donate blood or even a tissue permanently because I have my name on a fucking list that i dont even know what it is. It's like a slap to my face. I was so schocked and disappointed. I'm not carring any diseases or something!!!What did I do wrong? I left with that unanswered question, but i'm gonna find it it out.

Jenn said...

Jennifer Rowell
Eng 100
Cypress College
Post 1

hello :]
just thought i would FINALLY post while i'm waiting for my next class.

and now im off to do math homework. fun fun

Jenn said...

Jennifer Rowell
Eng 100
Cypress College
Post 1

Hello :)
just thought i would Finally post while i'm waiting for my next class...
now im off to do math homework...fun fun

Bproffitt said...

Brandon Proffitt
English 100
Cypress College
Post 2

To add the discussion on succeeding that we had in class.

I think a goal can be considered succeeding because once you have reached and tried hard enough to reach for that goal you will feel that you have succeeded.

CapinCooter said...

Ashley Amaro
Eng 100
Cypress College

Hey guys
I feel way too crappy today, partly because of this stupid humidity, to even attempt to write anything intresting. . .
I hope I get out of a quiz later. That was really unfair last time to make us all take it anyways. . . peace out.

Metalhead Extraordinaire said...

Chris Machingo
Eng 100
Cypress College
Post 4

Your QHQ this week really interested me. You asked us who our hero is. And yes, there are people in my life I value over others. But who is to say everyone we know isn't our hero. Even negative rolemodels give us something positive. If you have a parent that smokes crack, and you don't like it, you can say that person is your hero because he/she taught you not to smoke crack. I still know what you mean by hero though, someone you aspire to become like. I get that, but if you think about it, everyone teaches you something you didn't know before.

Nam Luu said...

CBS news 2 check it out Katie Couric and Sarah Palin interview. Katie ran laps around Palin and she couldn't do anything. Horrible I tell you, if I was McCain I'd shoot my self for making such a horrible pick for vp. It's like come on, if your going to try to win coming from behind as an underdog at least try harder then Palin. Mitt Romney??? I'm not even speaking from a political standpoint anymore, its just pure common sense and logic.

Crazymommy said...

Jenny Guzman
English 52
Cerritos College
Post #2

Help from Class Mates

Hello my fellow students from the Mon& weds from 5-7pm.

HI guys I need help. I just got sometime while I am cooking. I hate being a grown up. Can anyone tell me what we did on weds? If anyone can tell me if we have homework I will greatly appreciated it.

Anonymous said...

Yliana Velasco
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post 3

Hey well today i went to the park with my sister because she wanted to run. I didnt really feel like running so i just walked. When we got there, there were cross country teams around becuase the were having a race. That reminded me of when i was in cross country and how i miss those days. Whe i started running i really hated it, i would make any excuse to not run that much. I only joined to be with my older sister because she was the only girl and had asked me to join. In time i started to like running and the more i ran the more i wanted to keep running. I loved it, there was a long period of time that me and my sisters would go to the park everyday and run it felt so good. So just going to the park today made remember those days and i miss them :( but it will never be the same. I will just stay with those good memories.

I Threw It! said...

Brandon
Eng100
Golden West
Post:?

Wesley:

i know about MMOs, and upgrading armor. if you keep trying and persisting, ultimately you will get that next +1 add to your armor and weapons. But by choosing not to upgrade, by choosing not to aspire for success, you guarantee you wont get taht +1 add to your armor and weapons. at least when trying you give yourself a chance. So i say aim for the top.

corona said...

hi everyone i finally figure out how to blog!!!

.monster. said...

sorry if this is a pointless blog, but i feel the need to share this with someone, any feed back welcome,

An Unsung Hero
“Don’t cha worry about a thin’, my spirit will always be with you.” My great aunt once said. Those words will always stay deep in my heart; they comfort me and inspire me. Her words are wise; her voice is soft and her spirit young and rebellious. She is my great aunt, yet I consider her my real grandmother. She raised me and taught me valuable lessons, which luckily I still carry on with me to this day. She taught me to stay humble under any circumstances. She has always been my conscience and reason. Her values have always been my values. her faith has been my faith. My grandmother has been through so much, and always has learned something from every experience. I consider her one of the strongest, honest and hard working individuals the world has ever met. At the age of 14 she was working the peach fields in Spain. At age 16 she was working as a nurse in the jungles of South America. At age 34 she was put in charge of 5 extra kids. Due to the deaths of my grandparents, my mother and her 4 siblings were under the care of my great aunt. She took them under her wing and taught them everything she could. She had now become mother of 8 children. As a working mother she believed that work had to stay outside the home. She worked her entire life as a nurse, she saw many morbid, odd things. Yet at home she didn’t mention them, she knew where the boundaries were. She balanced everything, she made sure ervyone was happy, even with the little they had. She is my personal hero because her success as a good mother didn’t come overnight. Her success evolved everyday, when challenges were thrown at her. In the words of Viktor E. Frank: “success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it” (1). These words clearly explained why my grandmother is my hero. She didn’t worry about being called a “good mother” she worried about protecting and caring for her 8 children, thus making her a good mother and a prime example of an unsung hero.

erika_m said...

Erika Martinez
English 60
Cypress College
Post #1

Ok, so i think i finally figured out the whole blogging thing, can u guys believe i was blocked because they thought it was spam!..

just thought id share my meaning in life, When I get older i plan to major in psychology, and help others. I've always thought of myself as a listener. Im the kind of person people can come up to with their problems and i can listen and give my input. I also wish to influence others in a positive way. For example I have a 7 yr old brother. He is at that stage where he questions everything and everyone. I try my best to portray a positive image to him, and show him nothing but the best. Basically, i just want others to remember me in a positive way... with happy memories :)

p.s. the getty is gonna be fun! :)

nizzle said...

::sigh:: almost been up for 24hours....sucks being an IT on call. Gotta do what we gotta do. I felt bad, I was almost falling asleep in class.

So I'll just take a look at the new stuff...I'll probably post tomorrow if I missed something.

monster,
as always, KUDOS. Your story hit me hard today in class. What an amazing woman. I cannot fathom how intense/complex her world was. When you said, "She balanced everything, she made sure ervyone was happy, even with the little they had." I wanted toi ask...was she happy? Or did she do it for the sake of her qualified abilites?

I wanted to share my story aswell, but couldn't find the courage to speak up...lol I'll give it to you next time to read for me. jk.

Built Italy Tough
Who is my hero? My hero is my father, David R. Odierno. Why is he an inspirational statue in my life? He is the one man who I cannot disappoint, if I was to fail, his silence sharper then razor blades, can chop even the largest of men to a tenth their size. By mere physical image he is a short Italian man, who wears glasses, with not much more but a receding hair line, traits I will in acquire in years to come. Though, his lack of size is easily made up by the infinite capacities of his heart and mind. Here, no boundaries hold him back. He is: a handy man, a mechanic, a computer consultant, a full time father, and a full time husband, this is the man I aspire to parallel. Righting my wrongs, he never exceeded the limits to make his point crystal clear. During my youngest years he'd shown me values of family, the dollar, and respect. Saturday mornings as a small boy I'd see other kids playing around the neighborhood, while I would be mowing the lawn or helping with household chores. I felt as if I was “…a small portion of a great mass of human flesh…of a mass behind barbed wire…” (Frankl 5). It is difficult as a child to separate work from punishment, especially if peers of the same age don't bear such tasks. For all this work, was I given an allowance? Or some type of performance pay? No, but, now 21 years old, everything makes sense. A strong family is one who can tend and pick up the pieces of one another, one who can share the workload. The value of the dollar has opened my eyes to a new perspective on our work contribution. Money doesn't grow on trees, but, it is made from that same composition. The cycle of production must start from somewhere. Finally came respect, this took the longest to embrace. Am I mad I had to work, helping the family with miscellaneous chores? Hidden from plain sight, my father implicated a lesson that couldn't have been taught verbally, instead, over time it was something that I had practiced for perfection. Now, to this day "P's & Q's" follow in my shadows. While growing up, I have chosen to walk in his steps, not in his shoes. I am not him, I'm merely just a piece of him.

Any feed back/critique is welcome.

Goin' to bed...eh more like a nap considering I have to be up at 5am. Oh well...

.monster. said...

"While growing up, I have chosen to walk in his steps, not in his shoes. I am not him, I'm merely just a piece of him."-NICK

For those who admire someone older in particular, these words describe the way we live our lifes.

you should have read this in class!

.monster. said...

by the way,

I decided to put some of my writing from years back and recently, short stuff, it's all in the blog called "my written brain"
any feedback is welcome
most of those pieces were designed to fit your own conclusions

:D


thanks

A road of memories said...

i gave up. I don't even know i am even work this blog right. This is too confusing! can any one help me? I want to be part of it, but it seems my post i posted last time is not even on there. snop snop :(

Nam Luu said...

Washington Mutual, good luck Wamu customers. If Freddie Mercury was alive I would pay whatever Queen wants to play in front of Wall St. and another one bitesssss the dusttt.

ChauV101 said...

For those who admire someone older in particular, these words describe the way we live our lifes
-MONSTER

I agree with you 100 percent. They are our role models, and we just want to follow in their footsteps. Which is why sometimes I can tell if a person has a positive role
model in their life or not. Maybe because I grew up with traditional Vietnamese parents that instilled in me since the day I was born that everything I do will reflect on how they raised me. And that I am very grateful that they have embedded their values and morals on to me, because they are great ones that I try and live by everyday. :]


This brings me to this week QHQ. Good job to those who shared in class today by the way. The quote I used for my QHQ was from Weighing in on the 2008 NBA Finals by Stephen Smith, “It’s about your ability to pull the max out of someone else, to inspire them to be all they can because they are around you” (7). And if don’t know already I wrote about my parent’s And I can go on for days about how much my parent’s motivate to be at the best of my ability, but I won’t for the sake of everyone’s eyes. I just wanted to share a little of my QHQ. I just also wanted to say everyone should have a positive role model in their life. It would be the cherry on top of your sundae; you can never go wrong with that. Ok my 19 hour work day as come to an end. Goodnight.

nizzle said...

WaMu did infact plummit, but, at least JPMorgan Co. bought the branches and deposites. When the economy recovers IMO, I think this $1.9billion investment is going to be a good thing for JPM.

For those with WaMu...don't freak out, transactions I'm sure will be the same, being nothing more to the customer as a seemless change.

With skepticism for americas sake, I hope both pres. candidates are prepared for possibly the biggest event of their presidency. This isn't something that over a weekend is going to fix its self...

nizzle said...

Chau,
It's very positive the way you brought up morals. This is extreamly true, we adopt these morals in some form or another, either voluntary or involuntary. Some how they stick.

dnnytrng,
What I do, before submitting a post is I copy the comment (>select all>copy). This way if my broswer should crash for whatever reason I can recover my comments. Once you submit, make sure you see "Your comment has been saved." at the top of the page. If that is not there, you might want to check to see if you post is on the board. Also NOTE: This blog moves fast, so your posting may be on another (previous) page. Hope this helps...

kayla said...

Kayla Marley
Golden West
Eng 100
post 8

I'm telling you america is greedy, looked what happened to WaMu. A huge huge bank went under... why because of greed. "Because everyone is trying to get a nickel." as my dad would say. It's so sad.


question:
What do you think is causing the banks to go under?

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solopan said...

Isaias Estrada

Professor Hsiao

Eng 52

Angel Of death

I just wanted to add a foreword to what george said in class last week. He was talking about how Josef Mengele conned little children [mostly twins] to trust him and feel safe in his presence. He achived this by being nice to the children and giving candy, gifts and such. After he achived this trust he would experiment on them, things like cutting their arms and attaching that arm to another child to see if it would heal to his body. Another experiment would be when he cuts the childs eye ball and placing it on the other childs[twin brother] eye socket, again hoping it will heal to his body. These were all horrible experiments to test on children or anyone at all. People say Josef Mendele was an animal. In fact he was an animal because he had that animal instict if you really think about it. He was an animal with an intellegent brain and strong enough to put aside his emotions for human survival. He was a misunderstood individual, because people dont like what they cant understand. This person was a pioneer, he changed medical science and put it towards a succesful path. because you see if this man never would of done these horrible expirements we would not have the medical technology to save someone that needed a liver, or a kidney, even blood. Or any other type of transplant, you Josef was a pioneer he made his future followers question why he was doing these things to the children, and these follwers found the answer and perfected it changing the medical field forever. So for some Josef was a monster but if you really think about it he was thinking about far more complex possibilities in his time that no one else could of understood, he was thinking of the survival of the human race.

solopan said...

Thanks Jovana 8am it is. You have o good friday to k. see ya.

Jovana said...

Jenny

On Wednesday Mr. H made all of us take a quiz on the story we had read. then we had a class discussion, then a freewrite and toward the end we paid for the Gettys.

Homework
QHQ
Heres an I.E.

Q:Who is your hero?
H:Oprah is my hero
Q:Why is she your hero?

toward the end add a quote from daughter, mother, mans search and back it us with 3 sentences.

i hope i helped enough. =]

have fun being a grown up hehe i think its adorable. whoo hoo

Jovana said...
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Jovana said...

Isaias:

You're very welcome =] and you have a wonderful Friday as well.

well Isaias i read your post on Josef Mengele and at first i was so angry. i wanted to meet him, punch him in the face and beat him so he can feel the pain that he caused the twins!!! but as i kept reading you changed the way i saw him. sure he was a monster but he did it and it helped us out. now we can do things as surgery, only not on little kids i hope. it was interesting for me to even acknowlegde that what he did as ok, because everytime i hear things in the news about pedofiles, murders, rapist etc. i become infurriated and again i feel like beating ass. so the fact that your post took me from infuriated to understanding it was a huge big deal for me. now im wondering, did they research on Josef Mengele? is there an answer as to why people do these things?

Yue said...

Yue Hayes
English 100
Golden West College
Post #15

Recently, my mind has been going blank. I'm thinking my brain crashed after the intense thinking in this blogosphere and in the class.

Yeah, I think that's it..

I think I hate thinking about my life, or trying to figure it out. I mean I don't think I know myself enough to tell myself what I should be doing for the rest of my life. I mean, I have the urge to completely change my room, get new clothes, get new shoes, change my hair, way too often. I can't even decide how I want my room for the rest of the year, how the heck am I going to figure out what I'm doing for the rest of my life?

What is my purpose in life?

The question actually came up before the last class, in the seminar I've attended in Palm Springs about Trivani. I mean, the seminars were about the products and the compensation plan for the company, but the speaker asked this question. I didn't know the answer then, I don't know the answer now.

I hate being like this. I feel like if I don't figure this out, life is just going to pass me by and I'd live it all trying to figure it out. What if I don't find out? I'd have lived my life not being able to fulfill something I've spent my entire life on.

So, I've been thinking a lot lately and have been going in circles in my head. I can almost never come to a conclusion and satisfy myself with my thinking.

Ahhhhhh, help! Someone help me from my head :[

nizzle said...

yue,
Maybe your purpose was to just think. Seems like its what you do best...

Unknown said...

i was planning on going to the getty but i have tickets for a concert in LA that day... well it is actually a festival. i have been to the getty twice before i hope everyone has a great time it is absolutley beautifullll...

Nam Luu said...

Candance I am gonna be at WE THE PEOPLE also. Quinto sol is the shit if you love reggae/dub especially when its a all hispanic reggae band formed in East LA. Got vip tickets hopefully parking isn't so bad.

For those who are interested, www.wethepeoplefestival.com

Jovana said...

Hey Yue

Sweetie to be serious, i dont think we have to think about our purpose in life right now...yes we are all in college, some what of adults but the way i live my life is step by step. its like that story we read about not targeting success. its significant to the story because we are still young and we can only live our life out the best we can. we dont have to over think because then we get scared and start thinking about what is my life going to be.

honestly from the bottom of my heart, i been there. i used to wake up at like 3am and just think what is going to happen with my life? what is my purpose? and even now im not sure. i stated in class that my purpose is to pay my parents back, and thats true. that is my purpose but i know theres something more. i cant put my finger on it because i dont know it yet. i believe its going to happen. just live your life and take it day by day. no rush. make the right decisions and you'll be fine. plus you seem like the type of person who already makes the right decisions. you're very smart. so dont be so hard on yourself sweetie.

<3 have a great friday everyone.
im going to PARTY!!! whoo hoo.

lets dance all night??

ILY <3

.monster. said...

"...satisfy myself with my thinking." -Yue

Maybe that's how our brains are design to function. We focus so much on thinking outside the box that our level of satisfaction has reached a level in which it becomes hard to find anything satisfying anymore. The feeling of being satisfied becomes harder each time our way of thinking makes our complex brain evolve into a very hard-to-satisfy being. When this happened to me, I made a list of the things I found satisfying, and things that were not satisfying my modus vivendi. Then I analyzed each item, asked why I liked it, or why I didn't. Although hard at times, our brains are the most powerful weapons. If we use them incorrectly they will turn against us, but thanks to mr h I believe that we are maintaining the balance of insanity and sanity

Jovana said...

Well i been thinking alot about how some of us who pour our hearts out in this blogosphere ... and i've pretty much poured it all, except for a little bit that is left over.

i have been judged and discriminated agaisnt for because of this. i even have some of my "girl" friends stop talking to me or say hurtful things to me.

ill tell you all from where it all started ...

Senior Year in High school, i was a cheerleader and my boyfriend was a football player. we where both on Varsity and i have to admit we looked really cute together. so one day during cheerleading practice, these basketball girls where watching us. my friends and i didnt pay them attention though.
so then we got our water break and my old best friend Britney and i went potty. the girls followed us and we thought for sure we where going to get our asses beat.

one of the girl's name was Danielle and her friend's name was cherish.

Danielle started telling me that cherish thought i was cute and wanted to know if i was gay.

i told them NO and i have a boyfriend. so it was left at that and they didnt bother us anymore. but then Cherish began approching me and talking to me and so i talked to her too. she became a crush to me. the way she talked to me was so smooth, and her smile was breath taking.

so i came to the conclusion that this girl makes me feel what my boyfriend didnt... so i broke it off with him and began dating her.

we had fun together, we would laugh, talk, play like best friends only we can hold hands and kiss.

my friends began saying things like, "eww dont come around me, you probably like me too!" i acted as though it didnt bother me and id respond to them with, "yeah you wish b****." but deep down it hurt to hear my friends make fun of me rather than support me.

So cherish and i dated for a month before she got back with her first girlfriend and left me heartbroken. it hurt more to be dumped by cherish than to be dumped by any other guy....i really liked her ... and even now when we hang out, i feel like telling her, "Cherish, why'd you do that? why'd you close the book on the first chapter? you didnt know what i was capable of, so why lead me on knowing you would be with her?" but instead i sit there and smile at her with nothing to say.

so i hope you all dont judge me, i just wanted to share that because it was a point in my life that i felt confused, alone, disliked, judged, and just hurt.

i am bi-sexual but i dont have any intentions to get at any girls in class, i dont want you ladies thinking ima hit on you or that i already do, because i dont i would never dissrespect you guys like that. i hope i didnt offend any one or push some of the aquaintances away. i just couldnt keep blogging about my life without including this huge piece.

so now you know more about me... im sorry once again ...

Jovana said...

Im nervous to have put my life out there, but i have put everything else out there. so why not this?
why is it harder to tell people that you are bisexual, rather than telling them that the one person you love passed away?

Jovana said...

Quote to live by:
There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it ...

.monster. said...

Jovana, what you said took guts, we are all sharing our thoughts, ideas, emotions our lives. Talking about my drug problem(my cave) was hard, because you don't know what the person reading it will think about that, will they accept the fact that I'm different? Will they become the opposition or my piers? I've read stories about mothers, sisters, brothers, cousins, friends, and everything on this blog, we feel free to express ourselves, something past generations couldn't really do? Maybe we truly are a generation of change, we can become the observers of the world. The voices that cannot be silenced.
Thanks to everyone who shares their experiences, ideas, thoughts, laments, achievments, everything.

Ps
Who is watching the debate tonight?!

Pss
I wish I could go to the Getty :/ oh well:] hope you guys have fun!

John Hsiao said...

The fact that many people open up their hearts and let their life pore out on the blogosphere for all to read does indeed take great courage.

I applaud that. I honor it. Moreover, again that one feels comfortable enough in sharing with everyone just shows how completely free one can be despite the trepidation and hurt felt from years back.

Everyone should exhibit tolerance especially for personal truths:

Acceptance, understanding, love, compassion, empathy, etc. etc.

It is hard to look at one honestly and see what needs to be seen and recognize it for what it truly is: neither bad nor good; there should be no judgment; it just is.

Everyone should honor one's personal truth because the difficulty to seize it and truly experience, relish and OWN it in its newfound acceptance forevermore really is what living moment to moment is really about.

Accepting all your selves as one is truly important.

Thank you all that have done so.

Air-E said...

Ariadne Gonzalez
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post?

Tomorrow is the fieltrip to the getty museum. though i've been there before, i dont remember it.i'm looking forward to meeting everyone again, since i took my mom on the last trip and i pretty much just kicked off a brand new relationship with her. you guys would understand if you knew the story but anyway cant wait till tomorrow. =D

.monster. said...

Haha bored at work :P

Exhibit A:

Empty souls, smiling hearts,sad dreams
All combine to make YOU
The universal being,
The untouched brain
The charming smile,
YOU, no one else,
Look the other way
and pretend you're not here
Smile, laugh, live
Smile as the leaves turn orange,
Men become senile and
The clouds vanish.
You are, the universal being

Jovana said...

Monster:

Thanks a bunch for not judging me or criticizing me. it mean alot to me that you understood, and even yet it meant more t me that you took the time to ready my post. i cant thank you enough. you made me feel safe like its going to be ok. =] thank you sooo much. and about your cave, i would never judge you. ill listen and im here for you if you need.

and on your Exibit A .... it was so profound. i loved it! you have so much talent.

thanks again for understanding. it really meant alot

Claudia said...

Jovana it takes alot of courage to say that specially to alot of people. And I never really thought about exposing real private part of my life until you said such personal things so I admire you for that. Don't worry for the people who judge you and say such things prove they were never truelly friends and that they are ignorant so keep your up like you seem to have been doing.

Jess said...

Jessica Aragon
Eng. 100
Cypress College

wow i have been reading through these blogs and i have missed so much in the week i havent kept up. its almost overwhelming.

its great to read about so many different people. To read about there lives, experiences, fears, happiness, just everything. Its great that you can give people an insight to your true self with out people judging you by appearance.

so many people see me and think im just some stupid girl who is stuck up because i come off quiet and uncaring. the truth is that when i am quiet i am thinking. analyzing everything. not neccesarily judging but examining. My mind runs a million miles a minute. Just being in Mr. Hsiao's class has not only taught me about more about writing but more about myself as well. i love it.

I am both excited and even scared to see what else i will learn about myself as the class progresses.

ps.
im excited for the museum tomorrow (:

I dont waste time on the bassline said...

Anthony torres
cerritos college
engl 52

I can go tomorrow! hooray!
I am hoping to meet tons of people tomorrow, so but so psyced

.monster. said...

Jovana
What can i say,oh yeah THANKS! haha and idk, i enjoy writing things like these, but when im done with them i dont like them anymore haha.

and who am i to judge or not understand?

we are all part of the same family, the human family, we all come from the same origins, and will go through the same end.

so why not live, let others live their lives and just enjoy what people have to offer, rhater than what they believe or like.

.monster. said...

now, on the debate:

As a fan of debating, I was disappointed to see this debate. the candidates kept going around the questions and did nothing but throw useless numbers and facts that did not support their ideas, instead they confused and contradicted themselves. I still cant believe that grown up men can act like children, pointing the finger and doing their best to avoid the real answer to these questions.

both candidate = FAILED


yeah, this really makes me feel better, one moron will become our president. this debate was one of the worst i have ever seen, everything about it was just an insult to the American people's intelligence.

ugh

I dont waste time on the bassline said...

anthony torres



does anyone know what time do we have to be at the c-10 parking lot tomorrow?

Claudia said...

Well ever since I was 4 or five years old I have learned what death was. A sweet lady that I loved as a grandmother passed away. The reason she was so special to me was because she would give me raspberries from her tree and she would tell me stories. Every Morning she was sitting outside under the tree looking at the morning sun and the chirping birds. She would say good morning and wished us a great day at school. Every afternoon when we would come back home she would tell me a story and if we were in a hurry she said good bye and to have fun and do all my home work. Then one morning I remember that there was no birds around her house and the sun seemed to hide behind the clouds. My mom took us to school but I had one thought that I could not seem to get out of my head. I was sad and thoughtful that day. "Why wasn't she there did she forget to wake up early to tell me to have a good day? Well I cant wait to ask her." Afternoon came and I was anxious for my mom to pick me up and pass through that lady's home. But she wasn't there. I didn't understand why but there was no bothering my mom with my nonsense so I went on puzzled with my thoughts. It was a weekend when the funeral was held. I saw that lady color less she looked white and pale. I tried to talk to her but I couldn't manage words. I wanted to tell her to get up that I wanted her to tell me a story to go play anything but see her in a box. She didn't belong to a piece of a dead tree she belonged to the tree awaiting for her at home. But before I could master the courage to say anything my mom told me that she went to heaven and she was going to look down on me. After her death the tree was never the same it never gave another raspberry until this day it still hasn't given another fruit. I am a great believer that plant feel and know when their owners are gone and some tend to dye while others just live on because they chose to live on but keeping with them what they once had given to their owner. After that day I didn't like funerals because it meant I wouldn't be able to see that person ever again. But that's not where death ends in my life.
A year or two after my three friends died shortly after that lady's death. Their names were Adam(Adan), George(Jorge), and Philip(Felipe) they were the kids I played with every time I went over to Tecate, Mexico. At first when I was on my way to mexico with my family I kept saying I can't wait to see Eva and the boys. But no one told me anything they just gave me a strange smile. That now I see as sympathy. When we got there I ran out of the truck and called Eva out but she did come. So I decided to find the guys. And guess what?........... (It may seem unbelievable but I found them) I saw them and they told me they couldn't play with me because they had to go. I asked where and they said we have to go see our dad. And I said ok. They said bye and to go find Eva. So I did and I told her that her brothers went to go see their dad. She told me that we were going to the store so we did on our way we bought candy. It was then she told me that they had died and that they had gone to heaven. She was older than me so I knew that she meant what she said about her brothers. So when I saw three boxes of wood on the truck I had been traveling it was then it hit me I wouldn't see them come back. I felt like my world was harsh it took away the people I loved and appreciated.
But I still couln't seem to understand why those four people had passed away. Years passed and I never thought that someone dear to me would die soon too.
It was a lady named Josephine(Josefina)I had visit her when I was 7 and 18 years of age the last time I saw her any black butterfly that would get near her scared her. So I would catch them and take them outside. I thought they were magnificent and beautiful because they were so big and I only had seen those kind in a very small size so I was surprised to see such things so big. So one day I asked my mom, "Why is Mamafina scared of those butterflies if they are so beautiful?" "It is because here in this part of Mexico we have the believe that if those butterflies come to you it means you will pass away soon.",my mom said. I was sad and scared to know that she was going to pass away soon so I dedicated as much time to her as I could. She would have her eyes glazed like if she wasn't with us until I talked to her and made her laugh and her to tell me her stories. When it was time for us to go back home we said goodbye and usually we took pictures before we left but this time I didn't want to take a picture with her sad smile and glazed look. But my mom said half way out of her street, "We didn't take a picture before leaving lets go back and take a picture." I tried to say no but I went right behind her to go take the family and Mamafina a picture. When she saw us she got this bright smile that could light an entire hall and her eyes gave you such joy that filled you like a helium balloon wanting to sore high through the sky. My mom told her she had forgotten to take a picture and that she didn't want to leave without at least one. It made me feel a knot in my throat all the way to my chest. My skin got goosebumps and my eyes were getting watery. It was then when I realize it was the last moment I would see her alive. We took the picture and as I was walking on our way back home my mom was talking to my brother about something but I do not know about what because all I know is that I was thinking and trying to be strong. I was holding back tears and fighting with myself to feel no emotion but I couldn't. A month passed after arriving home when my mom got a call at 8:02pm while she was beginning to cook us dinner. The family of Mamafina told her she was in the hospital and the doctor only gave her weeks to live. She had been requesting and telling her children that she wanted to see my mom. By the time my mom got there she slipped in to a short coma and no one could wake her up. My mom decided to read to her and talked to her an hour didn't pass when she woke up. No one wanted to clean her because she was using dippers so her skin was irritated and her sheets dirty.(In mexico it is an insult to clean or see parents private areas)So my mom being in this country for a while found nothing wrong with cleaning her and caring for her in every possible way even if her own children wouldn't care for her. When she passed away it was a day or the day of thanks giving my mom wasn't able to call us because she was helping with the arrangements of the service because she was cremated. So after when I found out I found my black shirt that I kept hidden from my mom and wore it to sleep and for the day at school. I was quite that whole morning and my teacher told me to step out side. He said, "You are unusually quite. I always have to tell you to be quite is anything wrong?" Me being the toughest I can be said no that everything was fine. When my friends came out of class I got my stuff and I left to second period alone even though I had them for that class as well. I had become the mother to my brothers, the house hold of the house, and everything my mom did I had to become adding up to the weight I already had I was a student, a friend, a daughter, a cousin and still thinking and dealing with the morning. All in the time my mom was gone I was all that and My friends didn't know until I couldn't avoid them any longer.Which was the end of that same day. I didn't cry I have never cried for any one that has passed away. It makes me sad and hurt like having no air to breath. Now I cry for everyone I lost because they are dead. For those I have lost and are still alive and for everyone that hurts and hurts me. After when my mom arrived she hit depression and I was in charge of the house. Her friend which was my Godmother passed away shortly after I think it was a month or two when she passed away. I couldn't go to her funeral because I have painicked ever since the time I dreamed the sweet lady and my friends pulled me with them. So I mourned for her at home. After like three months that she passed away, Marco Antonio Firebaugh passes away too. So I got all these people around me dying and I cant do nothing to stop it. Now I know my grandma from my dad's side she is soon expected to pass away. Every day after our class is over I go to her house to check on her because she takes care of my cousins even though she can barely take care of her self but just like all my family she is a stubborn woman. It hurts me to think that but I am preparing my self to be the one who pushes my family through this. But at this moment I have to be that household of the house, the daughter, the student, the friend, the cousin, the niece and everything to the load because my mom is at mexico taking care of her mama. So I am afraid yet i know I will get by like I have done with the others even though I can't cry at the time but after 4 or 5 years I am able to cry and its my comfort.
This is personal so its a tough step delivering this. When I start filling comfortable I'll add another one. So thanks for the ones that read it.

.monster. said...

The reason she was so special to me was because she would give me raspberries from her tree and she would tell me stories.-Claudia
wow, this one hit home. your story is so well written and structured, very detailed. well done!
the reason why this bit home is the fact that as a hispanic we are taught that elders are to be honored, respected and loved no matter what. and this specific quote of your paper was simply great. As a young child growing in the Andean cities of South America, elders were the loved respected and loved. My grandmother had worked her entire life as a nurse. when she retired she decided to work her land. she had a long and spacious back yard, with lots of nature fertile soil. she wanted to work the pacha mama(mother earth) she grew all kinds of medicinal plants, and a big variety of vegetables and fruits. she had plant knowledge worthy of a buddhist monk. one afternoon i was curious and kept looking through her old medical books. adn saw a plant with bubbles all over, i didnt know what it was until i remembered them from seeing them in a label for jelly. I asked my grandmother "do we have moras?(raspberries)" to what she said "sure" so we walked slowly through her backyard until we reached this small plant. we took a couple and ate them, haha i remember they were first too sour. well throughout the years what raspeberries had to do with my culture. Incas ate raspberries and made them an important food in their delicate balance. from that sole experienced ive learned a lot about my culture and my background.

:D

Danyelleyvonne said...

Danielle Thomas
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post 8


It’s been a while since I have blogged, but I have had a rough week. Although I have been keeping up on everyone’s stories offered on the blogosphere every day.
Jovanna, I want to thank you for the post from Jimmy Eats World. I have that album and had forgotten about that song. You are very kind to include my mom in your prayers! She needs all of the help she can get. You have my support as well. It takes a courageous person to share their lives with strangers, classmates and friends. You are unique but no different from any one of us. I hope to get to know you better as our semester flows on.
Claudia, your personal email really touched my heart. Thank you for your support with my mom and for also including her in your prayers. It is great to see you on board this blogosphere and your story brought back some memories as well.
My Week:
I am struggling to find out who I am. I don’t know where I come from. I am more eager now than ever to attempt to find out due to the number of remaining family that is dying. I visited my grandpa’s mother’s grave. I never got the chance to meet her. I am barely starting to hear stories about her. But, the wave of emotion that took over me as I sat with her was a lot to take in. She was alone, no spouse beside her and no place for other family to be laid beside her. I felt sorry for her. From what I have been told, she wasn’t the nicest person to be in company with. She was mean to her grandchildren. She would call them names or criticize their character every time she came in contact with them. It hurt them even worse when she could only insult them in Spanish [not knowing English] and they [only knowing English] could not understand her. But there she lies, alone and no trace of there have been any recent visitors. It made me think about my mom. How one day I will be visiting her. The difference will be that her resting place with always be filled flowers and cards and letters. I will make sure she is constantly reminded on how much she will be missed.

With that visit taking place, my mom tried to talk to her husband about his funeral. Since his secrets became exposed to MY SIDE of the family, he expresses a grudge towards them. I seriously can NOT stand this guy. My family has had to bite their tongue so many times with all of the stuff he’s pulled. But yet, being raised the right way, they always come out the bigger people. He has the nerve to talk poorly about them and yet on Thanksgiving and Christmas he shows up like clockwork. Always just in time for dinner. He eats their food and drinks their drinks and accepts their presents. Chewing away as he looks at them with disrespect, hate, and prejudice. It takes a special kind of character to pull that off, and to think he had accepted the job of raising children. Anyway, he made this comment and it makes me sick to my stomach to replay the words in my head but I cannot help it. “There is going to be a sign at my funeral reading: NO MEXICANS ALLOWED”. A man like that should seriously be taken out to the pastures and dealt with. And I am sorry to announce that there is more where that came from. He had to learn that talk from someone. His mom and sisters and brothers are all on that same page. I don’t claim to know them and I most certainly don’t claim to be related. This is also the reason I am so eager to find out about my family.

I also keep thinking about my mom. I am a little worried about her. She keeps renting these movies that all deal with death. I think she is taking mental notes on how to deal with it herself. I keep trying to act like I don’t notice her pattern, but today I couldn’t help but ask if she was aware of it. She starting crying and just said that she was attracted to them. She is also losing confidence in her doctors. One [her liver specialist] is kind of hard to get a hold of. She has filed for state disability retirement and the CALPERS office needs some information that for some reason, had been hard to retrieve from him. The CALPERS [co. in charge of the claim] tries to reach him and can’t get connect, we try and get the same result. He also spreads her appointments out months apart, and she doesn’t feel he is taking her seriously. I am not too worried though. I think that if he was really allowing patient’s needs to fall through the cracks, he wouldn’t have a practice to maintain. It’s becoming more of a challenge for me to be strong for her. I want to hug her and cry with both tears of sadness and joy. I want to tell her how much I appreciate her spending so much time with me. I want her to know that I don’t take one second of her time for granted. I get frustrated with her disease sometimes for butting in on our time with its fatigue, and I want her to understand that the frustration is nowhere near being close to being with her. I want her to feel how proud I am of her to trying to protect my brother and me with her bravery. I want her to know that her efforts are not unnoticed and most importantly not unappreciated.

Since I have two terminally ill parents whose disease involves a great amount of fatigue, and a brother holding a DUI title, I am the only one in this house with the ability to drive. I hate driving and it’s taking a toll on my person. I can feel myself aging with the stress and frustrations with the road. It also has taken over my life schedules. I no longer have my own personal free time. I can’t just go anywhere at any time anymore, it has to revolve around appointments and work schedules and school schedules. I am just ranting and raving a little right now, in the morning I will be back as the go getting taxi driver. I really don’t mind taking my mom and brother places, because I know that they would do it for me.

To sum up the week, it has ended with yet another night of my “father” messing up. He was supposed to visit his mom in Riverside from Thursday until Sunday, but as usual, he’ll go tomorrow and tomorrow and forget it. My mom, brother and I arrived home tonight with him and his friend engaging in a YOUTUBE party. I curse the day my brother showed him that website, it’s all he ever does. Sit his good for nothing lard ass in the computer seat playing every hippie music video he can find. And he found a friend who enjoys them as much as he. There they sat, with their beer cans in hand, drinking the night away. They sat there for hours and then somehow arrived out in the backyard. They were talking so loud and yes it is a Friday night but he made himself look stupid. Last night he yelled at our neighbor because his dog is ALWAYS barking. And there he sat at midnight talking in concert voices. I went out to ask him to lower it down a notch, the boozie couldn’t even connect eyes with me and his friend was too busy smoking weed to notice I was in the doorway. I rolled my eyes and went to bed. It was at 2:30 am that he stumbled in my room looking for his puppy. I had mine, and in a pissed off no mood for his b.s tone, I told him that I didn’t have his dog. He turned to exit my room and under his breath said “well F*** you”. I laughed to myself. He isn’t even man enough to say it to my face. He is a coward. He is an idiot. Once again he can’t locate where he is in the wrong. His son just got a DUI and he displays himself in a drunken state. He refuses to be a responsible role model.

It is 3:45am and I am wide awake. It is amazing to me how someone can be so ignorant. I am sad for my mom who when tried to seek a divorce lawyer, was advised not attempt that road due to her illness. She should be able to live worry free and not ashamed. Due to that man, no one visits anymore. Family and friends don’t want to be around him so we are lonely. However, we manage to get out once in a while for the sake of our sanity. Like the Getty, it’s on her bucket list. We can’t wait to go.

See you all soon and thanks for listening.

JonBruin said...

Jon Alvarez
English Major- World Lit Concentration
UCLA
Product of Cerritos College 08
Response to all

Well i have taken the time to read each and every single blog posted on the site by all you brilliant minds and my contention of John and blogging remains the same: (1)John you somehow always bring out the qualities on your students which have been dormant for to long. (2) Blogging is truly a great medium which provides students with a medium for voicing opinions that would otherwise never be spoken and also allows for the development and nurturing of ideas amongst peers.

I love the amount of unique individual voices i have read throughout the blogs and am encouraged for the future of society. I sense a great mixture of enthusiasm, intelligence, curiosity, desire and compassion in the voices i have heard while reading the blogs.

I wish all my peers the very best in your endeavors. Dream big, but work hard and remember the only obstacle to your own success is yourself. I will leave you all with one of my favorite quotes on education: "Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students" -Paulo Freire

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John Hsiao said...

_/)~~~~/)~~~_/)~~~_/)~~~The Getty Experience_/)~~~~/)~~~_/)~~~_/)~~~

Thank you again for all the students that were able to spend their Saturday with us up at the Getty. I really enjoyed the camaraderie, atmosphere, and for lack of a better word positivity that we all experienced.

The art was really out of this world? Nothing will come close to it today because the past has so much to learn from: details, negative and positive space, coloring, shades, and the list goes on and on.

I will post more later. . .

John Hsiao said...

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For all the students that have gone today:

Please if you can blog about your experience, do so, so the lesser students, who did not get a chance to go, can appreciate all that was missed. You are therefore greater for sharing your experience.

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John Hsiao said...

Also any students that want to post their QHQs can and probably should: You never know who you may touch with your experience.

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