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
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* . . .
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Greg Burns
Golden West College
English 100
Post#7
Hello to all. Just wanted to say what a great time at the Getty. I have never been, i have never wanted to make the drive. WOW what great pices of art. The tour with the guide was great,one could understand the paintings with more detail. Fun time, lots of people went good to see everyone.
THANK YOU MR.HSIAO
can not wait for the next outing
Ariadne Gonzalez
Eng 52
Cerritos
Hey everyone
just wanted to let everyone that did not go to the getty, that you guys missed out on some beautiful sceneries...wow they were awesome..must be nice..the paintings and the sculptures were pretty unique. i dsont know if anyone saw that wine cup that had like angels and people all aeound it at the same time eveyone one of those figures had a reason and a meaning to it all. its crazy how artist put soo much attention to the little details that oh so few notice. The bed that looked like a sofa was calling me. =D i wanted to lay in it soo bad. LOL and the piece of furniture that was made for king Louie XIV was pretty crazy. everything was soo unique yet inspiring at the same time. thats too bad that we weren't able to get to see the gardens. they looked beautiful from afar. i had a really good time and met soo many new people as well as got aquainted with some of my own peers. seriously Mr. hsiao u have to teach the next class after this. im expecting more fieldtrips (and donuts LOL). i have to finish my QHQ and so much more so i'll see you guys around.
ciao
Greg Burns
Golden West College
English 100
Post#8
One more quick thought, on the bus ride home some people were talking about having kids at a young age. There was a student who was talking about if he had a child at his current age he would not leave the child. This student said he would step up and be a man a take on being a dad.He did not want the child growing up with out his dad. I did not get his name but I agree with this student 100% If this happens to you do not blame others for your mistakes, step up and take on the task ahead of you.
hey everyone, i too am a getty admirer. No offense to those art fanatics out there but i think i liked the buildings more than the art work.. i loved the old school design with the bricks mixed with the new age tile and windows. it was pretty tight. i also get to know new people and get to know others better every time i go on this outings because i go solo. it has its pros and cons going solo but whatever. everyone is friendly. and how am i a trouble maker Mr Hsiao? I am honestly on my best behavior in your class... ask Kayla and she will compare past class experiences. alright everyone gotta get going! "catch you on the flip-side!"
Luis Canizal
Eng 52
Cerritos
The Getty was a great experience. I hope we go on more trips like these. Our group got seperated then regrouped again in lunch. That is everyone but the leader, other than that it was okay. I just hope my new job doesn't get in the way of these class.
Erika Martinez
Cypress College
English 60
Post #2
Hey everyone!
The Getty today was so much fun! and interesting!!(I should know)
I especially enjoyed the guided tour! If it wasnt for that tour i would of missed out on that complete building!.. good thing i didnt!..I loved the scenery too! it was sooooo pretty! lots of pollution though!!..
I will definitely be attending future outings!:)
Danyelleyvonne,
I'm sure its very difficult to separate yourself from the limited mental capasities of that man. Thomas Jefferson once said, "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." It's great you can laugh it off. Keep it that way. It's hard, but you have amazing abilites to stay focused on the things that really matter. I realize I'm not much, if at all, support though a keyboard, but let me...let us know if there is anything we can do to ease your life. We are family here (at least thats what I see.) We are the future and we all need to start helping eachother.
Yue Hayes
English 100
Golden West College
Post #16
First of all, I would like to thank Nick/David, Jovana, and Gabriel for your great responses. It feels good to know that I don't absolutely have to know everything right now. I also appreciate you guys for sort of opening new doors for me, to maybe think about things in a different way. Maybe I'll stop chasing around my tail because the more I chase it, the more it runs away from me. I can't believe I completely missed that part from Man's Search for Meaning.
I've been awake for about 50 hours now... I know, it's very bad for my health. I couldn't help it, my friends and I got waaaay into playing uno and catchphrase. They're both extremely fun games.
The day at the Getty was AMAAAAZING. Oh my gosh. The weather could not have been more perfect!! The blue sky clear of clouds (although little smog-ish), sunny, breezy: it was amazing. The view was even better!There were tons of trees and beautiful homes/skyscrapers.
The gallery itself was incredible. I'm not too specific with art, so I can't name paintings off the top of my head or the name of the artist, but there were some very incredible works of art there! Seeing paintings in person is a very different experience. I mean, sometimes I saw a painting from across the room and they gave me goose-bumps.
I really liked the guide, too. I mean I used to be an artistic girl, so I can appreciate on a very basic level the details and techniques used in the painting; however, I knew little to nothing about any of the paintings. I'm eager to learn about anything, so when our tour guide explained pieces, I was able to appreciate them a lot better and understood it more. I'd like to go back to the Getty to get more of those experiences and perhaps get a little bit more comfortable with paintings.
By the way, my group was probably the best group. I mean, there was a little separation between the us (GWC students) and other students, but we ALWAYS came back together, respected Tom and followed directions. I think that was very mature of our group. :]
I was surprised to see that the food was amazing (which is ALWAYS a plus for me because I do looove food.)! I loved the whole experience of it, it was just a very, very happy day. And tiring. My feet hurt now.
Worth it.
I will be working tomorrow, yipee! Good night everyone!
the getty was awasome and i want to go back and see everything that i missed but the view was amazing
Yue Hayes
English 100
GWC
Post #17
Jovana:
Thank you for sharing such a personal story. You know, I knew that you were a strong, encouraging, and overall kind person from all your posts, but even at that stage of admitting, for you to think about other people and say "I don't want to make you girls feel uncomfortable" is just so selfless of you.
You know, maybe you should tell people that you're a little hurt by the comments they are making. I mean, you and I both know they're kidding and don't mean it, but the fact that it was said out loud to you is just wrong. Maybe they don't realize it. If you tell them how you feel, you might be saving a lot of people in your situation the name-calling or teasing.
I don't think you need to let girls know that you won't be hitting on them. I think it's obsurd that just because someone might like the same sex, it is automatically assumed that that person is attracted to anyone of that sex.
You definitely deserve the best in this situation and I hope you get that. We don't need anymore people to be discriminated against for their differences.
The Getty:
What an intense day....Well after waking up at 8:30AM, the approximate time the buses were scheduled to leave, I still managed to make it to the getty in time. w00t...
In the getty, creativity lurked in the atmosphere. From the thought of each buildings architecture to a sculpture thousands of years old, many hours of hardwork was apparent. Definitely something worth seeing again. To bad we missed the garden area....hmmm....another day...
Zachary Duke
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post 3 or 4
Well the trip was great, im sad i didnt get to hang out with one of my friends, but i had a blast whith the people i hang with. i loved the hole time i was there. thank you Mr. H.
Still looking for a Bassist, Guitarist, and a Drummer.
Danielle Thomas
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post 9
The Getty Museum is definitely a utopia for my mom and I. She was able to accompany me on the field trip today and I am so grateful that she could come. The atmosphere opened a new door for us. This day is a day that I will remember and cherish for the rest of my life. My mom and I were on a personalized schedule that worked out the best for us. We got to experience different expressions and outlooks portrayed by the artists. We noted trends in the type of drawings consistent with most exhibits. The lady lying on her side on the steps of the entry way caught our attention. My mom and I tried guessing where she was from. We examined all physical features on her person and noticed that you can easily place her in a Spanish origin. It was a game we played throughout each building. The tapestry room in the 2nd building was breathtaking. The giant red room consumed me with envy. To think that someone actually had/has a room like that was incredible. I would love to have a room like that. The giant mantel made me imagine that there was a notch to be touched and the inside would rotate leading to a secrete passage. That room has such a strong and bold yet, elegant and proper presence. The outside offerings were just as appreciated as the inside of the Getty. The panoramic views were majestic. It created an incredible conversation between my mom and me. The scenery was heavenly, which in a positive way brought up my mom. We talked more about her illness. There is a lot that I still don’t know about what’s going on inside of her. She admitted that she doesn’t know how to handle the variety of outcomes that can approach her in the not too distant future. I just assured her that I am here, and have no intentions on going anywhere else. She will never be alone. We cried together while gazing at each other with love and respect for one another. That was our moment, to be forever imprinted into our minds. We definitely are going to return someday soon.
Professor Hsiao, thank you for providing our classes with these memorable opportunities! I know how much time and heart goes into setting up these trips. Your thoughtfulness has not got unacknowledged. I would also like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity. My mom was touched by your interest in her and her wellbeing. You have truly touched our hearts and I would just like to express my gratitude. =]
***Nizzle, Thank you for your support! I have always been an independent and strong person, but I am learning that I can be vulnerable in a safe atmosphere here. The blogosphere is filled with an understanding, accepting, and sympathetic family. It's humbling to know that you are there to help me vent when I need to reset and clear my thoughts. Thank you!
Alex Rubio
eng 52
cerritos
i really enjoyed the gettys although i wish we had more time so we could of seen more of the getty and i didn't get to see the garden which i hear is very nice and the drawing exhibit cause i really like drawing. i also feel like i got closer to some of my fellow classmate which is cool
Jon Croft
English 100
Golden West College
Post #5
For everyone who went to the Getty and didn't see the gardens you are missing out. The gardens and the view from the top are amazing, especially on a day like the one we had.
I was lucky the last time I went to have a sunny day with no smog, and was able to see all of the gardens. If you didn't get to see them this time, I highly recommend going back.
Not only is there great scenery there, but also some totally excellent places to nap.
A nice afternoon at the Getty
A beautiful day and spending quality time with my daughter on my birthday. We both like Architecture and some Art. We started by walking around and seeing all the classical Art, sculptures and the faces of power. We later went to the beautiful outdoor gardens. The landscaping is one of a kind. The memory card in our camera was not enough for all the pictures we took from the Getty. I would like to share the following story with you guys.
It all started with the museum's namesake, J. Paul Getty, oil executive and art collector who lived from 1892 until 1976. He founded the famous Getty Oil Company which eventually became Texaco. Getty began collecting art in 1930 and, upon his death, left his entire estate to the J. Paul Getty Museum Trust. Eventually, the trust ballooned to over $4.5 billion, which has allowed the Trust to continue updating the Getty Museum art collection with some of the finest, most sought-after pieces of art in the world. One publication noted that the Getty Museum has about 25 times the budget of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Thanks,
Adolfo
We are family here (at least thats what I see.) -Nizzle
I agree, a good family, the human family.
:D
James Kang
English 52
cerritos college
post1
I enjoyed the Getty's museum.There were a lot of intresting architectural designs as well as artworks. My favorite was the view of the city, it really took my breathe away.
I missed out on the Getty trip but I must say that I've had an awesome weekend. Had a kickback at my house and I saw friends I haven't seen like in 4 years. It was a huge reunion with some of the coolest people I know. It was a laid back experience. Chill ass homies. Good times, actually great times!! See ya in class ya'll!!
:0)
hello everyone..going to the getty was AmAzInG!!!! I enjoyed looking at the furniture they used back in the day!! especially that bed..i forgot the name of it but it will definitely be made for me when i buy my house...it looked SOO comfortable!! the food was delicious..i love the fact that in the ((cafeteria)) u had various options...grilled..mexican food etc.i personally had the beef quesadilla!!! DELICIOUS!! unfortunately i was not able to go check out the garden ((upset)) i saw it from a distance though..while waiting for the rest of the group to show up!!! i wish we had a guide while looking at the paintings in the beginning..it just mmeant so much more when it is explained to you..rather than walking and just observing!!! ((oh mr. hsiao...james??((i believe)) he was cute lol!!! but i was extremely shy..i only got to ask him if he attended cerritos...anywayz..thx mr h..looking forward to future trips....
((brenda))
Greg Burns
Golden West College
English 100
Post#9
Hello to everyone.
Just got home form a volunteer project, put on by REI. We dug up plants called catails,aound a pond.
The land that we woked on today was given as a gift to the county of Orange. The owners before were Native Americans, so before they gave the property to the city the planted a native plant[a long reed type] called cat tails. Well over the years the plants have taken over the area. Today we dug up some of the cat tails to clear the shore along the pond. Very muddy but had a great time.
Mr.Hsiao can we all do a beach clean up just a idea
c
Hey everyone!
hows everyone doing?
i hope you all are doing great.
now for the people who didnt get the opportunity to go to the Getty im SO SORRY!!!
THE GETTY WAS AMAZING!!!
when you first arrive you see the tram and you begin to wonder why they would build a museum so high up, and then you answer yourself, "because if the museum is breathtkaing, the location must be too." my Fishy (Cesar) fell in love with the Getty. he had never been to such a beautiful place. the grass was so green it looked almost like a painting, the walls were like a rock material almost and when you walk by it, you put your hand out and you rub your hand on the wall as you keep walking. the smell of the air is so refreshing. almost as though you are surronded by a forest where all the air is clean.
the art felt like it was a picture, and it was unbelieveable to see that it was actually drawn by someone. it looked like a could pull out my camera, take a picture and it would look exactly the same. the tour was pretty cool as well. i couldnt hear the lady at times because some of us who are less fortunate did not get ear phones =[ but its ok.
anyway we got to the point in te museum where we went outside on a balcony almost to go into another building, and you wont believe the sight. All of Los Angeles was right under you, and it never looked more peaceful than that. My fishy and i sat down outside after and we had a cigarette in silence. it wasnt awkward silence though, it was the silence that said it all. the silence that spoke so many words. we felt relaxed and more at peace than ever. i know he felt this way by the way he held his body. we were sitting down but his arms werent tense, they were nice and loose. his face looked like all his worries vanished and there was no room for worry. and when he would look at me, his eyes would pierce through me and say that he is glad to have shared this expirience with me. and i know he said this cause he told me =] hehe
anyway the way the museum is uilt made my fishy determined to become an architech.
the way the doors opened was insane. it was like it wasnt even attached to the ceiling. there where waterfalls everywhere and you could hear the smooth sound of the water splashing. at the end of the day, i did not want to leave the museum, i wanted to hide away in the garden an live there day by day.
the getty ... man the getty was astonishing. i have never been to such a beuatiful and meaningful place before. and the fact that i got to spend it with my fishy, friends, classmates and Mr. H was even better.
another thing was that all the drama and fights against people where gone. i knew this because everyone had a satisfied look on there faces. people where talking to other people and everyone was getting along.
i wish to share that expirience with my parents one day. i know they would love it.
Thank you so much Mr. H!! i loved the Getty.
Mr H, Fishy (cesar) said that you are a very cool teacher. he said you are very funny and smart.=] he liked you, and when he goes to school in 2 years he is hoping to have you as a teacher. how sweet right? =]
once again thank you for the opportunity of accompanning you to the Getty!
YOU ROCK MR. H!!!!!!
Thomas Rios
Goldenwest (is the best)
English 100
Post #6
I just wanted to thank everyone for a fun trip to the Getty. It was great to mee the many new people that I did... I just wanted to thank my team, Team Tom Rod. My group made my job of trying to keep people together rather easy and I just wanted to say thanks for that and an awesome time. Thank you to Nick Hernandez, Brittany Corona, Sebastian Soto, Marshall Rhodes (how did the show go?), Alisa Watson, Yue (USA) Hayes, Jon Croft (did you get home alright?), Krista Lueke, Cortney (I like to get) Funk(y), Tyler Carnislia(sp?), Mikey Olson, Paul Cutler, Juana Salvedo, Carinna Martinez, Erika Martinez, Andres Soto and Tri Huynh you guys made the trip really enjoyable so thanks again. Also, Mr H. thank you for putting on an awesome event (yet again). You are so generous with your time and money and energy, I hope some of the positive energy was returned to you from the students in the form of feedback. I know that my group had an awesome time and we all have you to thank, so thank you!
Wow everyone seemed like they had a really good time at The Getty. To bad I couldn't make it, but I got to experience live art and emotion.
We the people festival. The organization of the festival was totally dysfunctional, but overall the Reggae, Rock, and Hip hop artist all performed with a message. Recyling was thriving, and the park was kept pretty clean due to the earth friendly promotion that has been going on.
It is good to know that the money I spent on the tickets, and everything at the show as going to a good cause. Ticket sales, and clothing sales all contributed to activist groups and local music institutions in the county of Los Angeles, while the food profits were contributed to Homeboy Industries in East LA which helps former gang members get jobs and remove tatoos. Les Claypool, Suicidal Tendecies, Fishbone, The B-side Players, EPMD, Tom Morello, The Rza, and LA's finest Dilated Peoples. My brains burnt, sitting at work on a sunday after noon contemplating on how to take over the world. It has been a good weekend.
For those architecture curious comrades. If you want to see more travel to cities like San Francisco, Chicago, Downtown LA, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Barbara, New York(Harleem), Seattle(Underground city), pretty much anywhere on the east coast. The southside of Chicago is by far one of the most diversed. Then frisco doesn't trail to far behind.
Carl Benons
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post 1
I had so much fun on sat with everyone who went to museum. The paintings looked live and the sculptuers were amazing. Everything just had a tramendous amount of details.
Doojin Chang
Eng 52
Cerritos College
Post 1
Hi everyone I did't go to field trip...
people who went Getty museum all said, "Getty was great or awesome"
I feel I miss good chance from field trip.
I am regretting I did't go there.
I've never say anything in class
discussion because I am not good at English(it's sometimes excuses for my stupidity)
all class meetings are hard for me. I sometimes don't understand what they are talking about, or what I need to do. Hopefully, I feel comfortable and, have confidence to say anything in our class for someday.
I want this class to be good opportunity to have great American education experience to me.
See you guys tomorrow!!
yeah, i thought the museum was pretty okay. No offense but it wasn't too exciting though. The paintings were inspirational but it was a saturday and those were the days i do not really want to use my head for anything. i manage to get a small video clip, i did have favs for some paintings but by then i was too lazy to snap it so oh well.
VIDEO LINK:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nlatpp
sonny karmokar
eng 52
cerritos college
post 4 or 5?
could not go to the getty cause i had class. but hope there r future trips so looking forward to them mr. h. if any. gotta go cause i gotta do the on e pager.
Rachel Todd
GWC
English 100
Post #5?
I'm sad I didn't get to go to the getty, it sounds like it was a great experience. I paid and was set to go, then the night before my mom called telling me terrible news. I guess she had gotten a hotel in Encinitas for two nights and wasn't able to go due to an emergency. Luckily I was able to take that off her hands, haha.
I hope there's more extra credit opportunities coming, I need to make some friends out here. Not only that, but I'm sure I could use the extra credit..
Well hope everyone had a great weekend!
Yue Hayes
English 100
GWC
Post #18
Tom:
Thanks for being an awesome team leader, even though you were very strict on us. Gave us only one bathroom break. :P
And I didn't know you liked to be ignored. I guess Mr. Hsiao knows more about you than the rest of the group. hehe.
Oh, and also thanks for the USA in my name. That was funny.
Doojin:
Hey, you speak (or type) like my mom does. That's pretty cool, it's very familiar. Anyways, from experience, you should ask tons of questions if you don't understand, so you can learn the language a lot better. The more you use it and make mistakes, the more other people are able to give you advice and fix it for you.
I've been in your place before and it's not easy, but you can do it!! It's already amazing that you are speaking this well. Keep it up :]
Mr. Hsiao, I'm sorry but I overheard you talking the little girl about your Zac Effron poster that you were going to give to her. For some reason I always ended up near you when you were talking to her, and another time you were talking about how you wanted shoes just like hers because they were so cool. haha. I enjoyed learning that you are a fan. Very good, very good.
Vivian Gao
Cerritos College
English 52
What is my meaning of life?
I believe in saving the world, even though I cannot do everything. I believe in do one thing at a time to make the surrounding a better place for others. What is my meaning of life? Ever since when I can remember, I know one thing is in my mind, that is to be kind to others, and to be able to help others. My major is nursing because I want to help people, be able to understand them and care for them. I want to make my life a meaningfull and a colorfull life, so I wouldn't regret when I grew old. I want to be able to look back and to see how many people I had help to better their life. I want to do lots in life, but I know I can do one thing at a time. I may not be a superhero, but I know with the little that I do, I can make the surrounding a better place for others to stay. I'm not only have a passion to help people, but I also have a passion to help the helpless little animal. Six years from now, I want to be able to open up a shelter to help the homeless animal, to rescue them from hunger and death, and to be able give them a better life. In order for me to provide more help to others, I know I have to finish college, and that's my main purpose for now.
Jon Alvarez
UCLA-Puentista Cerritos college
Eng. Major- World Lit. Concentration
Well it sounds like many of you had a great time at the Getty. I still remember the first time i visited it as it had a lasting impressions on me. I feel very lucky to be able to read each one of your comments and to be included in this discussion. You are all very lucky to have such a great Prof. take advantage while you can and network as much as possible; it makes all the difference trust me. Well college beckons and Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" awaits. Ill read up again later.
Joshua Greenroyd
Eng 100
GWC
I am into playing video games in my free time when I'm not at school or doing a sport. I just wanted to know what are some of everybodies favorite video games?
It is a hard question for me. There are plenty of great games. I would have to say mine would be Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4 and most of the Super Mario games.
I just wanted to know what are some of everybodies favorite video games?-Joshua
Counter Strike!
hahaha
Favorite Video Games.
Starcraft/C&C
Counterstrike(jr high, and high school)
Gran Turismo(all of them)
NBA Live 98-99 and now 08
World of Wacraft(Occupied my life for 2 years straight of this)
Now I am currently addicted to
(COD beginning of 08)
MLB the show 08(mid 08)
Fifa 08(mid 08)
Madden 08-09 on and off.
Other then video games the other 70% of my day is spent at work, school, or recording music and taking care of head.
Yue Hayes
English 100
GWC
Post #19
Vivian:
I think it's wonderful what your purpose. I mean, when asked the same question, people often say "to help others" or "to change the world," but they don't elaborate. I really like it that I got to actually hear from someone who knew exactly how to help others. Great goal, I wish you the best of luck.
Claudia:
You know, I think it is very difficult to deal with things like abortion, even if you're not the mother. What I don't understand, with your parents, is why they didn't start taking the precaution after the abortion. It just seems like it wasn't fair for the girl because Victor at least has a chance for life. You know what, though, youand your brothers are all here for a reason. I think you can learn a lot from this experience. Thank you for sharing it with us, knowing that maybe people will have a lot to say about it.
12:46am.
Rafael Correa wins the presidential election in Ecuador. There is to much to explain, but pretty much he is for the people. A bit more left then the rest, but not close to the red, and already big money, investors, business, and foreign loan companies(America) are saying he is Hugo Chavez's puppet. To much restrictions, to much government intervention, but hey look at what the rich and wealthy did with freedom. They take advantage of the weak, poor, and innocent.
What are your thoughts? We have an election coming peoples.
Speaking of elections...
The recent Obama/McCain debate was pretty disappointing. I expected more from both parties, but I guess they're getting burnt out...or I'm expecting too much.
If Obama wins, I'll be afraid for his safety. If McCain wins, I'll be afraid for our safety. You do the math.
That's all. Bye!
Wow...
Another bank bought out, Citigroup bought out Wachovia for $2.2bill... B of A, JPM and Citi are the 3 top in the nation making up for approx. a 3rd of the nations banking deposites.
At least the bail out is almost under wraps, we'll see how the scheduled vote for today goes...
Doojin,
Trips like these definitely bring our student body together. We can all relate in some form or another. At least for my experience, in Joses group we all had some great laughs to break the ice.
To Jose and the rest of the group leaders: thanks for stepping it up and overseeing everyone.
Juan Carlos Urias
Cerritos College
Eng 52
post#4
If Obama does win the presidential election how long will he last?
With all the racism in the U.S. he won't make it for too long.My opinion is that he won't finish his full term, but that is just me
Kayla Marley
English 100
GWC
Post 11
Yeah Stephen has actually been a lot worse before. I mean our junior year in high school. ohhh boy he was trouble!! haha but no he is a good kid..
getty was a lot of fun. I was pooped after that because i went to disneyland the day before. anyways class is in an hour so i better go. see ya at class
DarlaAnne Aguilar
Eng 100
Cypress
The Getty was awsome, specially Jose's group even though i kept getting lost!!!! hahaha =] I mostly enjoyed looking at the buildings and the paintings (i am not a scuplture person). Even though it was hott and i did not feel good at all i still enjoyed it. However i was very disappointed that we did not get to see the gardens that is why i went on the trip. i guess that just means a second trip for me!!!
THE TRIP TO THE GETTY WAS THE BEST THING I HAVE DONE IN TH A LONG TIME. I ENJOYED THE BUS RIDE OVER, THAN I ENJOYED TRYIN TO KEEP TRACK OF MY GROUP! THE PAINTING AND SCULPTURES WERE REALLYING THOUGHT PROVOKING! THANKS AGAIN MR. H FOR LETTING THIS HAPPEN. BUT IN ALL HONESTY I'M ACTUALLY WAITNG FOR THE FEEDING THE HOMLESS PEOPLE. I WANNA GIVE TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE LESS THAN I DO.
"I'M SICK OF GEORGE BUSH ACTING ARROGANT ABOUT HIS IGNORACNE"
Josue Franco
Cypress College
English 60
Post#2
wow so many things to comment on but it would take forever to write about all of them. So ill pick the getty. I am very sad that I was not able to go but I have been there already and I remember quite well. I actually have been to both and they are both mind blowing. I read that you guys did not go to the garden. That sucks that place is amazing. Like mr hsiao said you could spend a whole day there. You totally have to go again to see the gardens.
Josue Franco
Cypress College
English 60
Post#3
To get into the video game discussion I dont really play video games that often any more but when I did my favorite was NBA LIVE 06 and pretty much all the NBA games that where out there. I loved to play almost all sports games.
'IN THE EVENT OF MY DEMISE
In the event of my demise
when my heart can beat no more
I hope I die for a princeple
Or a belief that I had lived for
I will die before my time
Beacause I feel the shadow's depth
So much I wanted to acomplish
Before I reached my death
I have come to grips with the possibility
And wiped the last tear from my eyes
I loved all who were positive
In the event of my demise
Sometimes I Cry
Sometimes when I'm alone
I cry because I'm on my own
The tears I cry R bitter and warm
They flow with life but take no form
I cry because my heart is torn
and I find it difficult to carry on
if I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that stops that long
To help another carry on
The world moves fast and it would rather pass u by
Than 2 stop and c what makes u cry
It's painful and sad and sometimes I cry
and no one cares about why.
Untitled
Please wake me when I'm free
I cannot bear captivity
where my culture I'm told holds no significance
I'll wither and die in ignorance
But my inner eye can c a race
who reigned as kings in another place
the green of trees were rich and full
and every man spoke of beautiful
men and women together as equals
War was gone because all was peaceful
But now like a nightmare I wake 2 c
That I live like a prisoner of poverty
Please wake me when I'm free
I cannot bear captivity
4 I would rather be stricken blind
than 2 live without expression of mind
The Eternal Lament
From my mind 2 the depths of my soul
I yearn 2 achieve all of my goals
And all of my free time will be spent
On the 1's I miss I will lament
I am not a perfectionist
but still I seek perfection
I am not a great romantic
But yet I yearn 4 affection
Eternally my mind will produce
ways 2 put my talents 2 use
and when I'm done no matter where I've been
I'll yearn 2 do it all again.
When ure Heart Turns Cold
When your heart turns cold
it causes your soul 2 freeze
It spreads throughout your spirit
like a ruthless feeling disease
The walls that once were down
now stand firm and tall
Safe from hate/love, pain/joy
until u feel nothing at all
When ure heart turns cold
a baby's cry means nothing
A dead corpse is trivial
Mothers neglecting children is daily
Loneliness becomes your routine friend
Death seems like tranquility
Sleeping is never pleasant
if u even sleep at all
u forget ideals and turn off the reason
2 make sure the product gets sold
You don't understand how I behave
Just wait till your heart turns Cold!
Wife 4 Life
I hope u heard me when I asked
u that night 2 be my wife
Not for this year or next
But mine for all your life
2 accept me when I sin
and understand me when I fail
Not 2 mention standing the rain
which comes down as hard as hail
I am not the best men
My faults could scare the night
But my heart is always pure 2 my wife 4 life
The Rose That Grew From Concrete Autobiographical
Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack
in the concrete
Proving nature's law wrong it learned 2 walk
without having feet
Funny it seems but by keeping its dreams
it learned 2 breathe fresh air
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared!
Life Through My Eyes
Life through my bloodshot eyes
would scare a square 2 death
poverty, murder, violence
and never a moment 2 rest
Fun and games R few
but treasured like gold 2 me
cuz I realize that I must return
2 my spot in poverty
But mark my words when I say
my heart will not exist
unless my destiny comes through
and puts an end 2 all of this
In the Depths of Solitude Dedicated 2 Me
I exist in the depths of solitude
pondering my true goal
Trying 2 find peace of mind
and still preserve my soul
CONSTANTLY yearning 2 be accepted
and from all receive respect
Never compromising but sometimes risky
and that is my only regret
A young heart with an old soul
how can there be peace
How can I be in the depths of solitude
when there R 2 inside of me
This Duo within me causes
the perfect opportunity
2 learn and live twice as fast
as those who accept simplicity'
JUS THOUGHT I'D SHARE MY FAVORITE POEMS FROM MY FAVORITE POET...
Alicia Valdivia
Cerritos College
English 52
WOW MR.H!! The Getty was Amazing... it was crazy seeing all types of paintings from all over the place.The furniture was incredible i couldn't believe that i was actually standing in front of history. My favorite would have to be the Bed the squared bed im not sure how to pernounce the name but my god was that thing gorgeous and i cant get over it. I also seen the gospel book from Ethiopia and i thought that was pretty crazy it was from the 1400's i believe. I enjoyed every moment of it...
Ok Mr.H i confess there were four of us that did not stick with our team lol..Myself (Alicia), Micheal,Eva, and Orlando! But to tell you the truth im happy we didnt i really got to know them and we had some great laughs too!! Micheal i totally remembered your jokes and told them when i got home i could'nt stop laughing aha..Eva we had a great talk on the bus us women have to sick together ;) lol..and our Team Captain Orlando and took vey good care of the 4 of usknows exactly what hes doing we didnt get lost at all lol. Well im really happy i got to meet new and EXCITING PEOPLE!! thanks for a great expierence and a great time..
See you all!! Love Peace and Chicken Grease
The house defeats the bailout!
I insist that they shouldn't give the banks any bailout, and just let depression and impending doom fall upon us. Maybe enough lawmakers, investors, and ceo's commit suicide we don't need to worry about them anymore. Anyone under the middle class struggles everyday. We have the ability to cope, sacrifice, and adjust during a time of depression to survive because we are survivors of everything they have thrown at us to bring the people down. Now it's there turn to suffer and sacrifice.
Now onto Obama. I keep getting like almost flashbacks if it did happen of Obama getting assassinated. I get visions of multiple scenarios and it just fills me with anger. So I start thinking about what to do. First thing that came to my mind is violence. Lincoln, Kennedy, Malcom, Martin. All 4 of those men have one thing they tried to abolish. All 4 of those men took a bullet in the head. A bullet in the head from the use of violence that eliminated our community and nations leaders to prevent change. If Obama takes one, I do not think peace and hope is the solution anymore. I only believe that after that we have to resort to another cause.
BAILOUTS ARENT THE ANSWER RIGHT NOW. THE PEOPLE OF OUR NATION IS UP TO OUR NECKS IN DEBT AND WE NOW HAVE TO BAILOUT THESE JACKASS BANKS!? COME ON MAN IF THEY WASNT DIRTY DEALING WE WOULDNT HAVE TO SAVE THEY ASS. OK SPOKE ON THAT NOW LET MOVE ON. OBAMA? EVERYONE IS CHEERING FOR OBAMA AND HE AINT REALLY GIVING ANY DETAILS. LOOK IF WE VOTE McCAIN WE KNOW WHT WE GETTING(BABY BUSH) BUT IF WE VOTE IN AN UNDERCOVER MUSLIM(POSSIBLE EXTREMEST) THAT WANT TO HAVE "PEACE" TALKS WITH IRAN WHAT DO U EXPECT TO HAPPEN? LISTEN THE PRESIDENTAL ELECTS BOTH SUCKS!!!!! I FEEL WE SOULD ALL WRITE IN HILLARY ON OUR BALLOTS. OBAMA WILL NOT BE ABLE TO LEAD BECAUSE HE ISNT EVEN ABLE TO PUBLICLY EMBRACE HIS FAITH. ON TOP OF THAT HE CUTS LOOSE EVERYONE WHO ARENT ASSETS ANYMORE(REV. WRIGHT) I MEAN THIS IS THE MAN THAT SAID I CANT "CUT OFF MY REV. NO MORE THAN I CAN MY OWN GRANDMA" THAN WENT AND CUT HIM OFF LIKE A WEEK LATER. THIS DUDE IS A LAIR AND IS PUTTING UP A FRONT. AND McCAIN IS A DAMN GEORGE BUSH CLONE! AMERICA IS SCREWED NO MATTER WHICH ONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ELECTED. AND I KNO THAT EVERYONE IS GONNA ATTACK ME CUZ I SAID OBAMA ISNT ANYGOOD SO ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS HAVE A SLICE OF REALITY....
Carinna Martinez
Eng 60
Cypress college
I had fun at the Ghetty the only thing was...i wish we had more time to spend there i really wanted to see the garden...over all it was different from anything that i have ever been to...im glad i went.
The Greatest Story Never Told
Who is my hero? My hero is my brother, Jesus M. Montano. Why is my brother the greatest man I have every known? My brother is the greatest man I have ever known because he gave all he had to his family. My brother was only sixteen when he had to take a job to help my mother take care of all her kids; there were six of us, including him. My brother had to drop out of school and take up work so we could have a better life. He was a selfless man that was willing to help anyone, even people he did not know. I remember once my brother and I were driving and seen a man on the side of the road with his hood open. My brother being the man that he was stopped our car and went to assist the man, by the time my brother had finished he was covered with oil and grease. The man offered my brother about two hundred dollars in cash and my brother turned down that money. He treated people the way we should treat each other and he showed me how to act towards others. Also, he had the “ability to pull the max out of someone else, to inspire them to be all they can be” simply because they did not want to let him down. My brother was the best he could possibly be so those around him also wanted to become the best people possible. Jesus had a natural charisma which had people follow his lead (just like I have). I was taught everything I know by my brother and just because of who I am that statement should speak volumes as to the type of man my brother was. Jesus M. Montano is survived by five children and four siblings. This is the greatest story never told about the greatest man you will never know.
Albert Hernandez
Cerritos College
English 52
Post #3
The trip to the Getty Museum was awsome! I saw a lot of articles, painting, sculptures from back in the days. Some paintings looked so realistic that is true what they say "Pictures could tell a thousands word". Then we went on a tour which was cool because we got to use " Wireless Headsets" which really helped cuz you could really hear every detail of the tourist is saying...Then we got to eat at a resturant where they had a variety of food like mexican food, italian food, and other more but i got The Grilled Chicken Sandwich, which was alright. but the best part was when i got to see the garden which was really beautiful and the view of the cities from the top of the building was picturesque. This was my first time going to the Getty so Thanks Mr.H for this adventurous expirience and im looking foward for the future field trips.
Danielle Thomas
English 52
Cerritos College
Post 10
QHQ
Heart of Gold
Who is my hero? My hero is my brother, Erik. What makes Erik the best hero for me? This hero is hardy, enduring, and relentlessly optimistic. A hardy person is someone who is courageous. Erik has a strong head on his shoulders. He can separate emotion from any given situation. He is the rock that I need to stay grounded. We had a difficult upbringing but he has never allowed it to define who he is. When we were young and there was screaming between my parents in the other room, this little man was holding me. He would assure me that everything was going to work out and no matter what we would always be taken care of. We attended different high schools, and when I transferred to his school my senior year he adopted me into his group of friends until I made some of my own. When my dad started experimenting with drugs, he would distract me by inviting me over to his apartment to hang out, or go shopping, or out to eat. He helps me stay mentally healthy. Erik is also enduring by which he can survive in the face of difficulties. He has had to survive our family life. Not only with the let downs by our dad, but he is a “Momma’s Boy” and my mom being sick has hit him the hardest. Again, he is able to stay focused on the important things and stay strong for my mom and me. He has moved back home and spends a lot of time with my mom and me. He has taken an interest in her health and encourages her to practice a healthy lifestyle. He practiced his heroism when my mom needed a platelet donation for a surgery she was going to have. Erik is deathly afraid of needles and he put all fears aside and donated. I was extremely proud of him. Erik was also tested this year when he obtained his first DUI. He survived this traumatic experience and turned it into the most positive experience possible. He preaches to everyone on the importance on being a responsible driver and passenger. He now refuses to let anyone close to him to drive while intoxicated and refuses to allow anyone close to him to ride along with an intoxicated driver. It is now his mission to try and keep everyone safe. Erik is also relentlessly optimistic. No matter what curveball life throws our way, he manages to always see the positive in the situation. He sees things to always have a purpose. He is a firm believer in “everything happens for a reason”. He has taught me to see things in the same limelight. He has taught me to take a step back and look at the way we have turned out. We are emotionally strong, and sound. We have been able to share our past experiences and teach others not to dwell on things they can’t control. If it weren’t for his optimism, I don’t think I would have come out of this the person I am today. I can’t imagine life as a single child. Erik is truly my hero. As Shaquille O’Neal stated “You don’t teach that extra something someone has inside their chest. Leaders come in a variety of ways, but you always can see it when it’s really there. At the end of the day, it’s not just all about you. It’s about your ability to pull the max out of someone else, to inspire them to be all they can be because they are around you. Any true champion at some point has done it.” – Stephen A. Smith (7). This quote best relates to the type of person Erik is. His leadership and heroism wasn’t taught. It is a characteristic that has always been embedded in his DNA. He not only brings out the best personality in me, but in everyone he comes across. People such as my brother hold a special gift. I am not only lucky to be able to learn from his example, but I am lucky to be related to him as well.
Joanna Valle
English 52
Cerritos College
The trip to the Getty was great I saw amazing paintings and statues. I really enjoyed talking to the people I was with they were very funny. I also really enjoyed the tour even if it was late and short, but it was great to learn about some of the great art I saw. The one thing I missed out was going to the garden I did not get to see it but i hope one day I will go back. The whole experience was great I had a good time.
Lester Amburgey
Eng 52
Cerritos
post?
It seems as though everyone has thoroughly enjoyed these past field trips. I feel misfortunate to have missed out on these amazing opportunities. Instead of broadening my horizons and opening up the gates of my mind i had to drag myself through yet another day at work, oh well i guess thats the breaks. I hope to be part of future class endeavors, especially feeding the homeless. Although i have not been a part of these experiences i still have a great sense of appreciation for Mr. Hsiao who has made it possible for all who have been fortunate enough to be a part of these and future field trips.
Andres Soto
Eng 60
Cypress
Post 5
The Getty
Man...amazing
The buildings and gardens are awesome. I had tons of fun, the atmosphere there is great it was relaxing. I cant belive i saw an original vincent van gogh painting.I thought that painting would be locked up underground somewhere.
I will defenatly be going back.
Again thank you Mr. Hsiao for taking all of us
Anthony torres
english 52
The getty, hmm i like it. The art up was really realistic and religious. Almost everything up had some sort of resebalence to religion. I took a piture of almost everything up, it was just soooo beautiful up there. I for one thought that it would be way, but WAY nicer.
but over all it changed my view in art. it all means something.
Joshua
My favorite video game is Guitar hero and rockband. what about you?
yay class is today.
whoo hoo.i hope everyone did their assginments. and i hope you all had a great weekend.
i know i did!!
whoo hoo lets dance!
p.s. i love the weather today
its so beuatiful
pss
mellisa / dollie it was awesome meeting you, you are so sweet! and i hope to see you again soon =]
daniele
that would be so sweet to get to know eachother. id love that. =] and you're welcome for the song. =] you rock
see you in class
We should all have a guitar hero contest haha
Yes?
agreed!
Haha
I hate being bored at work
Cathrina Afusia
English 52
Cerritos College
Post: Lost Count
The Happiness Factor- if it couldn't get any clearer. I believe everyone should learn to live a stress free life, as in the reading it doesn't only add years on to your life, but it gives you a purpose for the things you do. Things are much harder to achieve while under stress or even dealing with those who allow stress to overpower them.
The Getty trip was A-MAZING!!!! I have to agree with Darla....Jose's group was the BEST group!!! Props to Jose for being a great team leader despite his "lack of sleep". He was nice enough to go around telling everyone where we were headed next and he made sure no one got left behind! I am GRRRR becuase I missed seeing the garden....for the third time!
Jennifer Lopez
English 52
Cerritos College
Mr. Hsaio, this is the only way I could get ahold of you. I just wanted to let you know I will not be attending class today, because I have a memorial to go to at 5pm. I really need to be there to support my mom. It was her closest Aunt. The sadest part was when my mom found out on her vacation and she didn't get to she her. My mom said that a few weeks before she had gone on her vacation she went to see her aunt and she seemed so tired and every time she saw her she kept losing weight. Still the doctors could not find what was wrong with her. Well, not until it was too late, she had cancer. Two days after they released her from the hospital she passed. Now my mom feels a little guilty because she had gone on vacation and thinks she wasn't there for her.
So I hope I don't miss out on too much, but I will be there Wednesday to make it up.
Kayla Marley
Golden West College
English 100
Post 12
Well bad news everyone. The House rejected the 700Billion dollar bailout. Back to phase one, which is nothing. But how about we not think about getting our money back for one second and think about this...
What is going to happen to the crime rate? Will it go up, stay the same, or decrease?
I'm just wondering what everyones take is on this.
Personally I think crime rate is going to go way way up. Things are so expensive now a days. I think people will result in stealing. People may lose their jobs and then can't afford everyday essentials and result to stealing. Also I think drugs will go up in price. I think all the junkies will do anything to get a few bucks to support their habbits. We are really close to going into a depression. And the last depression we had crime went way up. But this is just my thoughts. What are yours?! I'd love to hear.
I'm writing a paper on if people think the crime will go up during this time and I want to hear what you all have to say. I thought it would be a great blog topic.
Yue Hayes
English 100
GWC
Post #20
Danielle:
I like your QHQ. We used the same quote, but that's not the only reason (although it is one of them :]) I think it's wonderful that you have an older brother who is there to support you. I mean, I've always wanted an older sibling and I think your brother would be the type of brother/sister I would have wanted. It's nice to have someone be there for you to teach you to see things in an optimistic way. I think it's super sweet that you see him as your hero, too. Let's all say it together:
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :]
Amador:
Wow, it's really nice to see that people consider their family members their heroes. It's the best that your older siblings are able to lead you into the right direction in terms of how you treat people. I think it's really cute and sweet that the younger kids are watching their older brothers and sisters and are even coming to admire them. Honestly, I'm the oldest and I have 3 younger siblings and I hope to inspire them to be the best that they could, just as your brother have for you.
Joshua:
I like a lot of games but I really like the ones I grew up with. Just to name a few:
Super Mario, Super Mario 64, Zelda Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask, Mario Kart, Smash Brothers (the FIRST ONE!)
Old games, right? Maybe it's just because I can't keep up with the new ones. The more recent consoles have wayyyy more buttons and requires coordination, which I have none of. Maybe that's why I'm afraid to drive D:
I can't believe how much I like school. I mean, I used to always be the shy kid who sat in the back and never said a word. Everyone in our class is so genuinely nice, I think. It's really nice to feel really comfortable sitting in class. I'm not as scared to talk to people, speak in class, whatever. All this has encouraged me to talk to people I don't know in other places (Like bowling!)
And I know I blog a little too much (in this page, I've blogged about 6 times?), but I have a lot of time on my hands. I don't want to miss out on anything so I keep checking. Haha. So sorry about all the blogging every 5 posts, but you're going to have to forgive me :]
(I would first like to appoligize for being absent on Saturday. There were circumstances beyond my control that made it so that I could not attend the field trip, sorry Mr Hsaio.)
Thank you god... THEY KICKED THE BAILOUT OUT OF THE BUDGET!!! The stock market, in turn, has taken a large dip. However, depending on other factors such as inflation and favoritism, this is overall a triumph. The stock market will recover... we'll just go through some backlash in stocks. BUT I'M YOUNG, I CAN WAIT FOR THE STOCKS TO GO BACK UP, NO HURRY!!!
Gerardo Rodriguez
English 52
Cerritos College
post 5
Man I guess I missed out not going to the Getty. I heard the food was good too. But for sure I'm going to the next field trip when we help out the homeless people.
Chris Machingo
Cypress College
Eng 100
Post 5/6
Oh, and on Kayla's comment. Yes, people will be losing their jobs, but that is a small percentage. Companys (even broke ones) have to have someone besides CEO's and CFO's to run the companys. And when those crooks go out of business, other business' will pick up the slack and most likely hire more people. So there will be jobs still. Crime rate increasing? Yes, I'll give you that. But only to a certain degree. There are some people that are left belly up, whether or not the bail out was approved. And this will also stay the already outrageous inflation rate.
And why would we bail them out anyway. Didn't they just royally screw our economy. Why should we be paying companys that leave us in dismay. What we should do is help get the real estate market stable through other means, and leave these higher ups that led us here in the mud. The bailout would have included the full ammount of the CEO's and the CFO's salary to be paid to them annually. What? Does that make any sence to anyone? Why are we rewarding executives that have made this country have a turn for the worse. If we end up having another bailout plan, it should cut higher up's salary's to a maximum of about 100K annually. Some would say it's harsh, I would say it's life. Sell your Bently and Mansion and buy a Prius and a Townhome, your the ones who screwed up. If I was a small business owner that screwed up his own business, the government wouldnt do a damn thing about me or my employees.
Another reason we're in this predicament is that there were people who were uninsightful enough to actually get themselves into these faulty home loans. These loans had adjustable interest rates, which is just a bad idea for any kind of credit. You could simply up your interest rate from 2 percent to 4 percent, not give a moments notice, and the homeowner would have to pay it. And most of the people who moved into these homes didn't anticipate that into their financial situation. Thus if you pay 3000 dollars a month for your house, and 600 in taxes, then you start to pay 1200 dollars in taxes, you can see where that extra 600 dollars could be a problem. I even knew some individuals that were only paying the interests on their houses, these "interest only" morgages. It's no wonder we're in this situation, people are spending money they don't have, and the moronic companys are defficient enough to go through with it anyway.
In short, we now all have to pay for this problem. House prices are going down, comodity prices are going up, and most of us are just stuck between a rock and a hard place. But I think, just like with every other hardship we've come up against, we'll push through it.
marshall rhodes
cypress
post # idk
WHERE DO I START!!!!!!
my weekend was freakin awesome. Particularly saturday....
I woke up at 7:30 and realized that I might not make it to the buses for the museum trip so I literally jumped out of bed and raced to the cerritos college parking l;ot and made it there in like 20 mins..from Los alamitos. I then enjoyed the lovely trip at the museum and saw some of the greatest pieces of art I have ever seen up close. later on in the day i returned home to rest before the big night of my punk rock garage band's first and aesomely awesome shpw that would officially launch my career. we had such an awesome show and we didn't mess up once. We had such a clean and rocking set, it was feakin awesome. so anyway there were like 5 bands that went on after us and we saw all of them, including the head lining band The Dickies. We stayed till the end like devoted fans and it finally eneded at about 1:30 in the morning. My mother went and she got drunk..unfortunately only mne and ger rode in the car on the way and I have no licsense and I barely know hopw to drive... I ened up having to drive home and let me tell you. Driving from Newm port beach to Los Alamitos at 3 in the morining is super uber easy. I dont know why I havn't tried to get my liscense sooner. So ya after wards the dudes went to u bassist's house and we partied until like 7 in the morning. We watched harald and kumar escape from guantanamo bay but buy thew time it started we were so freaking tired that we didn't finish watching it. (the unrated version is freaking grose and hilarious) if you know what I mean. So ya that was my staurday morning all the way till early sunday morning..I think I was up for almost a full 24 hours... 7:30 saturday till 6:49 sunday moirning....very very close to 24 hours. lease coment if you could beat my saturday..:) oh and it was my first time I have ever been in a mosh pit and it was freaking fun and such a good work out.
The Ghetty was awsome, although I wish we could have had more time. Also the officail tour guide was a wanker.
As far as politics, let's face it guys: We're screwed no matter who wins.
Anyways, I have to go walk my dogs, but I just wanted to stop by and say hello to everyone :)
Monster:
Yes i agree!! Guitar Hero Contest is on!! =] where do you work btw?
well im home from class and Mr. H made the Meaning in life talk come up again. i dont know why but it hit me harder than ever before this time. and what made it worse was that once i got home, i went outside to think and listen to the crickets as they were all synchronized.
i was writing and my dog jumped on my lap and then on the table that i was writing on top of. i guess he knew that there was something strange about mommy.
he began waggin his tail at me, and lowering his face and upper body to the bottom of the table as saying, "look mommy i wanna play dont be sad. lets play" i ignored him ...
the didnt stop though he began licking me hand with the pen in it. he began jumping on my paper and he started complaining. it was funny because he actually made me smile, when nobody else could.
he didnt even say anything, the way he showed he cared was enough to fill my heart. so i kissed him and he likced my face. i love my scruffles.
anyway, i walked back into the house and i saw my mom on the couch and i said, "class hit me hard today ma" she then said," Why? did Mr. H embarrasse you or something?" i giggled and said, "thats beside the point. he embarrassed me twice in 2 hours but thats not why." i walked to my room and came back. i sat next to her holding a sheet of paper.
i asked her if it was ok that i read to her my meaning in life. she said yes .... so as i began reading it, she critized me toward the end. once i was done she groaned and she was like, "well it was ok." my heart sank, my eyes burned with tears, and i had a huge knott in my throat.
i got up, wrinkled the paper and came into my room. my heart in a million pieces and i sat down.
i have tears storming down my eyes. i feel as though she des not care about my purpose in life. she doesnt see the little things i see. she doesnt care that the grass is green and sometimes smells better than roses. she doesnt see what i see, feel what i feel and she doesnt understand.
i can never talk to her about the things like the museum because she wouldnt understand. to her if i say," the museum was awesome. so beautiful" she thinks thats it. she doesnt want the details i have to share.
i cant help but cry because she is everything to me, and yet my only meaning in life doesnt satisfy her ..... my thoughts are empty and i dont want to be here.
i want to go to the beach, and i want to listen to the waves crashing into eachother with the wind being a referee and making them biger. i want to sit in the sand and dig my feet in the cold soft sand. i want to lay down and look at the sky with all the stars and the moon looking over me.
im so hurt ....
gary camara
cypress
eng 60
post 6
by the looks at all the posts, everybody sure seemed to have a good time at the ghetty. im bummed out i couldn't make it :(
i know this isnt the brain teasers that mr. h does at the beginning of class, but can somebody please tell me how david blaine does this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxJSvHibL1w
... over 670 posts...
where do you work btw?-Jovana
I work at a school for kids with different disabilities, the age group that I work with goes from 3 years old to 6 year olds. The school runs a program called reverse inclusion, meaning we include kids you would see at a public school, just so our kids with different disabilities can get the concept of a "normal" environment. The school helps children and adults, from as young as 1 year old, to as old as 21 or 23 year olds. I love my job, haha when we were given 15 mins to write what about meaning of our lives was I wrote this really well done thing, that I liked a lot, one of the sentences read " my purpose had become for me to care for these children the way no one else would" and I really felt something in my heart while writing this. I knew this had become the meaning of my life. Haha I really like my job and I can go on and on and on but I'll just bore eveyone to death,
I shall en with this though, I have learned more from 5 year olds than I have from "adults"
:D
Garcia, Orlando
English 52
Posting 2
A day at the Getty
I am not what one would call an artsy person. I could honestly say that I was not very excited to get up early on a Saturday and go to the Getty. Even after getting there, I still had a bit of a sour attitude. Never-mind that the back-drop was a beautiful view of the city, or the perfectly manicured greens that surround the museum, I wanted to watch college football.
We opened the doors and walked into the first exhibition hall. Immediately, my attitude changed. I began to look at items that were hundreds of years old. Plates painted in the 1500’s still looked as if they were on display at the store. I began to appreciate the craftsmanship that went into making these items. Still, my soul was not moved. I was still searching for that one piece of art to inspire me. If I was going to find it, this would be the place.
We went upstairs to look at paintings. First were the European inspired pieces. They were good, but did not move me. As I was walking through the labyrinths of rooms, I saw a room off to the side and decided to go in. There were only a handful of paintings on display. There could not have been more than 8 paintings in the room. Somehow, I found myself being pulled to one painting in particular. “The Arbitration” is a painting about the scene after Jesus was pulled off the crucifix. This was it. This was the piece of art that I was searching. I approached it slowly, as if I was stalking it. Mesmerized, I stood as close as I could, taking in the colors and more importantly the meaning of the piece. It was the first painting where Jesus’s skin tone was gray. His eyes were still open and had a distant stare, the faint appearance of veins in his legs added to the reality of the scene. The closer I got the more detail I noticed. Small intricacies that for some reason made this painting stand out above others. The painstakingly, and strategically placed hairs on the abdomen, and legs added to the reality. The Virgin Mary’s eyes were painted pink, and the nose had a touch of color. Both used as indicators that she had been crying for hours. There is a guy in the painting that is holding Jesus. He is wearing fur around the sleeves of his coat. I know this because the hair is almost lifelike.
Then I began to look at the content of the painting. This is a scene that is less famous, yet the artist selected it. What was his inspiration? I looked at the painting from edge to edge in search of a clue. Could it be the angels that hovered over the scene? I could not see it. But, in the search, I found so much more. He was so good at mixing paint, that there was no question in my mind that the coats were velvet. I started to wonder how much death the artist saw to get the skin tone of a dead Jesus so perfect.
Then there was the painting “The Temptation of Saint Anthony”. It was dark with little colors. However the artist used shadows and light within the painting to get across Saint Anthony’s being tempted by demons. It was also a painting that I tried to explain to my wife. Again I failed miserably. It was then, that I realized that I could look at text books, or surf the internet to see beautiful art. But there is no way to get the full impact unless you are there. Being inches from the real thing is the only true way to appreciate the art.
Once I got home, I was unable to get the trip out of my head. I talked about it to my family. It was eye opening and bought out a side of myself that I did not know was there. This was an experience that I want to share with others, so I am planning to return with my family.
monster:
what you do is amazing. thats what i wanted to do for a while. i actually became a cheerleading coach for this gymnastics place. and toward the middle i worked with disabled children, all different ages as well. they where all mentally chanllenged and they would go to gymnastics to prepare for the special olympics. and one day they needed a substitue and i was available and i never wanted to leave them. they became my best friends. we would laugh play and learn from eachother. i love those kids to death. and what you are doing is very noble.
you amaze me more and more every day. you're so profound and i admire that.
=]
Golden West College
English 100
Post#10
I have made it to the double digits. wow just returned from work. want to go to sleep. Today in class steven asked, what if i deface a painting at the getty. I wish i had tape recorder. Mr Hsiao face was the best. All of his emotion hahah see you all soon
Yue:
thank you.... thank you so much. i feel so fortunate to have people like you surronding me. you're post really did cheer me up, and i hope you know that you are greatly appreciated for your words.
god. thank you yue. you are such a sweet person. and i cant even find a less cliche word for thank you, but i mean it with all my heart and strength. THANK YOU!!
you are such a wonderful person .... =] thanks a bunch
thanks again! lol
well, it's kind of a family thing, my family has alwayus been involved with special olympics, special kids, special schools and stuff, but we dont have any challenged family members, which is odd because we are so involved in this niche. I think we do it because like that day in the museum of tolerance we read that one must speak up. just like the priest that by the end he didnt have anybody to speak for him, when he was taken away. well how i see it is like this, They are not less of a person just because they have challenges. So i have always been taught to respect our fellow man, our neighbor, ourselves, each other, the world, you, me, EVERYONE. and if someone is not going to respect my kids then i will, I will set the example, even if im the only one, I will advocate for them, because i dont want another "cleansing"
hahaha
oh and i wanna end with this
"i want to go to the beach, and i want to listen to the waves crashing into eachother with the wind being a referee and making them biger. i want to sit in the sand and dig my feet in the cold soft sand."-Jovana
I totally did that on sat! since i didnt go to the Getty(bummer) i was bored all afternoon, so i decided to go to the beach wioth a friend, and when i read your quote i was like "f^&% that's what i did!" however when i went is was mad foggy, Frisco kinda foggy.
and yes its amazing! like the way the little tiny rocks form together to make sand, and the fog felt really good, and the wind blowing, idk, nature is giving us so much! and most of us dont appreciate it! :D
btw my fish from 3 years died :[ i got him at a fair, and people said he wouldnt live past a week, 3 years later, he dies after swimming in a conchshell and getting stuck, oh well, DARWINISM! lol
Since PROFESSOR HSIAO really seemed to want to embarrass me by being the one who got "lost" let me tell you just a bit so you people understand me. Armando's group which I sign up for all but me went to eat breakfast so I went to see the art. Later as you will red below I could not continue walking the museum after lunch. If you really want to know why read.
Field Trip to the Getty
Worst at its Best
My dad and I got to school in good time; we got to take out money from the bank and to see the motor cyclist. I saw the coolest motor cycle and I kept begging my dad to let me get some driving classes so I could get the stage over with but he would not budge. So my morning started out smooth until my dad left, because I felt my confidence leave with my father like if it was a being pulled away by my father’s van. As everyone started getting up on the bus I thought how long is this trip going to take because the night before I got no sleep from so many nightmares. I ended up taking a nap while we arrived. When we arrived I remember the train thing but I did not get on it the first time I went because we walked all the way to the museum. So when I rode the train up I was scare because I am scared of highs but more than that I think about how I can react if something goes wrong. But I still liked the ride because it reminded me of the Disney train even though I have not been on that since I was like six or seven years of age. It was great starting the walk with the oldest paintings it felt like they talked to me. My friend had told me about the painting of Madonna and Child but I liked the one where it shows her motherly side while baby Jesus shows how he has a playful side like any other child. The painting shows the tenderness of the bonding moment of a mother and a child, it is like a message that you can be anything important but it is more important to love and bond with those whom you love the most. I kept walking through many paintings and all had various things to show but another one that caught my attention was about a man working with medals and it looked like it was metal and I knew the moment I saw it that it was made with oil paint. It was so amazing how with a bit of white the artist can make something look shinny. Then in another room which I think it is called the sketch room were anyone with or without talent can sketch which ever sculpture they have. I tried to draw the arm and hand with the plate it did not come out like a professional or like my friend could have done better but it was fun. Just as I was finishing my professor told the students from his classes that it was time for lunch and then we would get a tour, tour. Before I got my lunch I wanted to wash my hands because I had tried putting some shadow by smearing the lead with my fingers. I asked my professor if he could help me find the rest room and he did he pointed it out for me. Then I could not find the restaurant so he told me to go to the information desk, then a lady helped me out by telling me to go right outside and find a picture with a knife and a fork then to go down stairs where it is located. I found the restaurant it had a lot of variety so I decided to eat a burrito that a nice lady who spoke Spanish attended me. I got what looked like a delicious lunch my burrito had Spanish rice, beans, pico de gallo (onions, tomatoes, and some cilantro is cut into medium pieces) and beef. I even asked for avocado and sour cream on the side, and my dessert of the month was going to be some sour patch kids. I was ready to go up stairs to the picnic chairs were the north and east building are, when I blacked out for a second got week knees missed a step and fell. When I turned to get up I felt a sharp pain on my left knee and I wish to scream so loud that people in the garden could have heard me. I wanted to cry my eyes out so much that I could make a river from where I was all the way to Mexico. If my pain could be hurt people in the area at least twenty miles range would have gone deaf. The people who were walking up the stairs asked if I was fine and I said yes. I guess someone who asked me must have said something to a worker there because the lady who worked there did not wanted me to get up she said, “No! Wait!” And I did for like a few seconds because I did not want a scene, and I hate being on the spot light, so I wanted to get up and hide under a rock or let the earth swallow me whole. Was it too much to ask for to be left alone to deal with this pain? I guess so because later another lady came to see if I was ok and if I wanted the paramedics to come and get me. Seriously my life could not have gotten worse imagine being taken away by paramedics, PARAMEDICS! While the rest of the students are eating lunch and while Professor Hsiao (my English teacher) was trying to relax a bit from running around making sure his students were not lost and trying to enjoy the field trip himself. There was no way I was going to be taken away from this field trip even if it killed me (well not literally) but I was not about to leave like that. I did want to call my dad or my friend, Lily and she dorms in Mount Saint Mary’s. I wanted to yell to them to pick me up because I was hurt, in pain, and needed their comfort. But that did not happen the lady told me that she was worried and wanted to see me take a step I did and got to leave. Finally! Then I went over to put my “lunch” on the table and told a friend/class mate named Danielle if she could do me the favor of taking care of my belongings and she was very nice to say yes. I went to the rest room and cried silently and while the burning silent tears streamed down my face. I never knew what it was to call out for a mom when one fell and hit themselves until this Saturday. I wanted my mom to be there even if she called me names and teased me while she comforted me but my mom was too far to do anything. I finally finished crying after what seemed like hours and headed towards the table that maintained my belongings. Once I got there Danielle asked how I was and I told her that I was not having a good day. She responded that she knew what it felt like and I wanted to start crying again but I hold it the best I could. Then she told me that her and her mom where going to be inside the lobby because her mom was tired and asked if I wanted to come along. I said yes and I got out of my hurtful mood even though I was still in pain but because they were being really nice that it made me forget just a little how much my knee really hurt. After I ended up getting to know Danielle a bit more and, I had a good time after words just sitting and talking to her and her mom. When it was time to return home I decided to go on Professor’s Hsiao bus because I did not trust the bus driver in the bus I had taken to The Getty earlier. When my dad picked me up I was glad he received me with a smile because it eased my pain a little more away. He ended up taking care of me, my mom called to see how I was doing and if I wanted her back. I was very close to telling her yes but I did not and summarized how my tip was.
I was not sure about posting this but some one already read it so Ill put it back
QHQ#2
Someone asked me over the weekend if I was the smallest child, I said no. That i was the middle child. And that it was good growing up like the only girl. But when I got home that question got to me I really thought about it and came to the conclusion that I always wanted a sister. The reason it didn't cross my mind then is because my best friend and her sisters are like my second family to me, and I to them we spend so much time together that when I spontaneously go over to their home their mom doesn't even get surprise any more. More over just on Friday night my friend was talking about me or something that I said and her dad over heard my name and he said, "Oh so thats her name. Claudia my adopted daughter." So I decided to write a large piece of my life.
Decisions is Our Follower
Who is my hero? I have many people I admire but the people who have done a lot for me are my parents. My father and mother have taught to be an independent and strong woman that whatever obstacle comes my way I can overcome it. They have taught me values and morals which I have been able to use though out my life so far I have been doing well. They have also taught me to stand up for what I believe in even if they are the ones that disagree with me. Many times they have taught me that beauty comes from within that what makes a person beautiful is what they have in their heart not in there physic. More over they have taught me to never judge anybody before getting to know them but that if I have a gut feeling to go by it. It has been a long road for my parents and me they did not plan on having me it just happened. It took a lot for my parents to have me because I came out expensive not because I like expensive things but because I wanted to arrive to the world earlier. They did everything they could so I could finish baking and so my lungs could be fully developed. But sadly my lungs just did not developed and when I was born the doctor told my mom I was going to have trouble breathing especially when it came to sports. My parents had me with lots of complications and obstacles, the economy they had was the biggest issue and they still decided to have me even though they had to worry of feeding two babies. My older brother, Jesus, and I are eleven months apart so they had to buy dippers for two, make bottles for two, take us showers, and most of all to nurture us with their love and comfort. Let me tell say that it was not easy for them to feed us or put us to bed because my brother liked cold formula and I liked it medium not hot but not cold so when it was late at night and both my parents were tired and if they would give us the wrong bottle my brother and I cried our eyes out and scream so loud we would probably have cracked the widows and mirrors in pieces. When it came for us to sleep we could only sleep on my dad’s chest or we would sleep at all and my dad had to work until night and work early in the morning, so my dad would have to sleep flat on his back so we could sleep the night and morning away until he went to work. But after a short time my mom got pregnant again but this time my parents had no money at all to support another stomach, so they took a drastic choice; abortion. It was going to be a girl, a daughter and most of all it was going to be my sister! I use to hold a grudge against them both but now I understand and grieve for what I could have had in my life. She would be the same age as me and we could have done a lot of things together but it is just that a, could have. I was angry I was born and not her. After thirteen months she got pregnant once more with now my younger brother name Victor, for my mom it meant a victory because he was going to die before being delivered. He was strangled by his own umbilical cord and he was a breech baby (meaning he was coming out feet first) so it was a complicated delivery once the doctor position him the third time my mom pushed so he could be born barely on time to catch a breath when he got spanked. My dad seeing how my mom suffered through her pregnancies, because we all were trouble being born he decided to get a castrated. They decided to not have any more children since they had nothing to offer them and most of all they did not want to go through any more pain. They decided that three children were more than enough and that is what they had.
“Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom…”- Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor E. Frankl paragraph 13.
This quote represents the power one has with the many decisions one can make in our daily life. In my case my parents had the power in their hands of not taking an innocent life away. Their decision cost me a chance to have a sister, a chance to not be the only girl in my family, more over to have someone to do girl things and moments together. My family is my dad, my mom, my big brother Jesus, my young brother, and me. There is no sister, and there will never be. Decisions are made daily whether one believes we have a choice or not. We always have a choice with good or bad consequences but we have the power of making them. Before one makes a decision lets think twice or maybe more before making those decisions, because those decisions will follow us around our whole life.
Monster:
you are so fortunate to have nobody in your family be mentally chanlleged. that way you can work more with the other people who need you. my cousin who is 8 is mentally challenged. thy havent found outwhat is her syndrome is yet. its very rare but she is the person who brightens my day. her smile is the sweetest little smile. i love her dearly.
and you are so lucky to have gone to the beach. its my favorite thing to do of all time.<3 great minds think alike eh lol
and im sorry about your fishy. i hope he's doing fine in fishy heaven and i hope you dont miss him too much. that really sucks. i hate when pets die. it makes me so sad because they are so beautiful as they mind their business and do their thing.
goodnight monster. ill talk to you tomorrow when im at work kk=]
sweet dreams everyone
Joshua Greenroyd
Eng 100
GWC
.monster.- Counterstrike is a great game! I never have really been completely in to it though. Mainly because I have a slow computer and never bought the original xbox. Oh yeah, a guitar hero contest sounds good.
Nam Luu- My cousin, Sean Greenroyd, worked on WOW. He worked for Blizzard. He went around in the game and made sure that everything was running around smoothly. He was being payed to play WOW.
Josue Franco- I’m not a huge fan of sport games, but some are great fun. My favorite sports games have to be Mike Tyson’s Punch Out and NFL Blitz ( the original ones).
Jovanna- both guitar hero and rock band are great games. They are very close to the top of my list. I have to say I like rock band a lot more than guitar hero, for now. We will see if this changes when Guitar Hero World Tour comes out.
Yue- I’m sorry about your horrible coordination. You should try playing a Wii. I love my Wii. It seems like a lot of buttons but it is really easy to get the hang of. In the Wii sports games you use maybe two buttons because the rest is motion sensitive. You never know, it may help your driving issues too.
The reasons that the Resident Evil Games and Mario games are my favorites is because to this day I still go back and play the games. I have to have beaten them over 300 times combined. I love them.
Hi Yue,
Thank you for reading my QHQ. My brother is actually my twin. So he is the same age. =) He means the world to me and has really been an inspiration.
Kayla,
Have you seen the movie Death Race? It sets the scene in the not too distant future where the economy is where it is headed now. It states that the crime rate has risen so high that prisons become more corrupt than ever. It made me think of how easily this could become a reality.
Jovanna,
You are the only daughter. =( I don't think your mom means to disregard your goals and ambitions. I think she doesn't know how to share the compassion. I know that with most mexican families, parents don't know how to express emotion and show their love towards their children. I also know of a secret beach that I would love to share with you someday. It's in Laguna. It's a private beach, but it is beautiful. And you can then share memories with your Fishy. =) When I need a place to escape to get things off my mind, I go to the Griffith Park Observatory. It has an amazing view that on a clear day, you can see Catalina Island. Just a thought. =) Hang in there and keep on dreaming !
sure thing gary and hey it's marshall by the way:)
"she is the person who brightens my day. her smile is the sweetest little smile. i love her dearly. " -Jovana
when you said that i got butterflies and thought about my 15 kids! hahaha
no one has lived until they get hugged by 15 kids all at once, or when they look at you and say "you're cool" haha even though im not little comments like that make my days.
haha alright,
i'll probably be here posting away while at work, climbing that corporate ladder! or just hanging out with my kids :D haha
ya for sure and hey it's marshall:)...go to my bands myspace and check it out..idk if we have our new videos yet but we do have pics...look for the album with the guy who has longish hair Myspace.com/sofarunarmed
hey nam it's marshall
I just wanted to add that the band you were talking about sounds interesting and that if you appreciate ska like I do...you should check another spanish ska band called MALDITA VECINDAD...they are really good and they are local I think....local as in OC local!!:)
hey its marshall
anybody that has Mr. h the same time as me...if anybody knows what the QHQ is that is due tomarrow can you please reply...I appreciate it emensly
dude no joke there is a QHQ due? I thought it was only reading Staus Anxiety.
That band marshal sounds pretty dope, it said their residency is in Mexico City. But none the less good stuff, check out the band I'm rolling with.
http://www.myspace.com/audiblem
and if anyone wants to add me from class go for it.
http://www.myspace.com/inertia_rec
Salvador Lopez
Cerritos College
English 52
Post #4
Wow, I've really missed out on alot of discussions in the blogosphere. Yesterday's class was cool as always. It was great to hear how everyone enjoyed the Getty Museum. I myself had a great time as well but I'm sure I'll be revisiting some time this year since I missed out on the garden the Getty's best known for, and also like 45% of the exhibits. My neighbor's a big art buff so I know we'll be hitting it up pretty soon.
Whoever brought up the video games topic, the best in my opinion are the espionage type games such as Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid. I haven't played any video games recently but as I was growing up, those were really my cup of tea. I tried playing Guitar Hero, but I couldn't get the notes down so I gave up and picked up a real guitar.
to so far unarmed/marshall:
I checked out your band and was pretty impressed. It's definitely not your typical ska band. If I would of checked Mr. Hsiao's blog sooner and found out you guys were playing with the Dickies, I would have gone. I remember seeing them play at the Vault 350 in Long Beach w/ Career Soldiers, A Global Threat and Lower Class Brats like a year ago. Great punk rock. I also like how your musical influences range from punk to country. If you blend different influences, the output is always something new and interesting. As far as ska, the only bands I know about are Rebelution (love the track "Attention Span"), Bad Brains (the reggae/ska tracks from Rock for Light and their self-titled) Streetlight Manifesto (third wave ska, I think) and my cousin's cousin's band Red Store Bums (cool dudes).
Something else has been bugging me. Remember when I said I wanted to be a P.E. teacher in class? I don't know whether to be that a**hole teacher that makes kids run 'til they vomit while I watch them as I sit in a lawn chair enjoying a jelly donut haha or to be a chill, laid back teacher that just takes roll and let the kids do whatever they want. I know it's something dumb to fret about but I can't get it off my mind. Give me your honest opinion.
Well that's all for today because I got to get up early for work tomorrow.
G'night and take care!
James Driscoll
English 52
Cerritos College
I want to see my paper. I want to see how bad I did. I do not want to hide from the truth but embrace it. The light of truth shall be much more practical then shadows and lies.
Nick
English 60
Cypress Post 1000000000000000
The Getty....
WOW...
That is all I can say.
Kayla Marley
GWC
English 100
Post 12
Danielle-
I can't say I have seen the movie. That actually sounds like it would be pretty interesting. What do you think is going to happen?
post 700!!
YUE:
THANKS 4 THE COMMENT. I FIND THAT THE BEST ROLE MODLES FOR CHILDREN ARE THE ONES THAT ARE IN THIER LIFE DAILY. I REALIZE THAT YOU DONT HAVE TO BE RICH AND POWERFUL TO BE SOMEONES HERO. AND I'M SURE U SIBLINGS LOOK UP TO U IN THE SAME WAY I LOOKED UP TO MY BROTHER...
IN GENERAL:
I HAVE TO AGREE WITH SAL ON THE ESPIONAGE GAMES. I REMEBER PLAYING GAMES LIKE MGS AND SPLINTER CELL AND OTHERS LIKE IT. IT GAVE A WHOLE NEW DIMENSION TO THE ENTIRE VIDEO GAME WORLD. JUST THOUGHT I'D SAY THAT. GUTAIR HERO IS COOL TO EVEN THO I TOTALLY SUCK AT IT LOL.
I want to say something about the 'bailout'
The CEO/CFOs getting major compensation from the taxpayers is a mere technicality. You see, when you are hired as a CEO you sign a contract. Many of their contracts state their salary cannot be altered and usually always includes signing bonuses and exit bonuses. the bailout was designed to keep these companies from failing. In order to do that, you have to honor the contracts of the company. Still, why didnt they just go around this technicality and be sneaky and snake the CEOS like they slither through their own business practices. SOmeone is laughing their ass off right now drinking Cognac and smoking cigars on my tax money. pisses me off. but alas. Vote me for dictator and ill hold public execution.
and i cant resist the video game topic:
Totally agree. MGS was badass when it came out, so was siphon filter. some of the first complex games that required ALL buttons on the controller to play. good times.
Isaias Estrada
Proffesor Hsiao
English 52
Yes! i have to agree with Salvador and Amador on The espionage games like MGS. They did set a new standard for the video game world. You guys really have to try the New METAL GEAR, its just simply a masterpiece of all proportions. In the game you begin as old snake, the story leaving of from MGS2, as you encounter with old friends and villans like Raiden and Vamp. You just gotta try this game out.period.
Isaias Estrada
Proffesor Hsiao
English 52
Pioneers Of Sex
Have you ever wondered how it all began. Maybe not that far into it[astronomy], but the biology of it. I want to talk about species being able to multiply by means of sexual reproduction. Which species Began the process of two organisms of different gender coming together and inneracting to produce a zygote. Well in the beginning organisms,such as fish, coral etc.[water based] reproduced by realizing their sperm into the water hopefully to find the female egg to reproduce. This was the process of sex. Until the shark came about, the shark was the first species known to man that began the different process of sex. The shark depeloved the first penis at the bottom inner fins, he actually had to penile. The female shark developed organs to concieve offspring insede of her. The male shark would mate by coming in contact with the female, by bitting her by the gills and inserting his penile-they would remain in this position until the sperm was injected. The shark was the first female to concieve its young inside of her rather than realising her eggs into the water. So think twice when you think of sharks their not only killers of the sea but sex gods as well. They made it all possible for us humans to have good times in our beds.
peace.
Cianna Calandrino
Golden West
English 100
post#1
Ok Mr. Hsiao,
I don't usually do stuff like this but I guess there is a first time for everything right.First I would like to say that I a really bummed that I missed the field trips. They sounded amazing. Now, for the "quiz". What I get out of the class is a sence of belonging. Believe it or not I feel like I fit in when I go to your class. Sounds kind of funny Beause I am just starting to learn about some of the people that share in class. I really respect people that can share so deeply and honestly. Thank you Tiara for your share in class yesterday. When you shared so openly it made me comfortable enough to share a little of my story. That is all I have for now.
=)Cc
Alicia Valdivia
English 52
Cerritos College
My mother is my hero. In 1998, the year my father decided to walk out on the family. My mom was left to raise two teenagers, and two kids under the age of ten. We had no car to get around, and no house to call home. We were left with absolutely nothing. My mom had no pay check job, due to the fact that she was a stay at home mom for many years. We had no choice but to move in with my grandma who had one room to spare. There were five who shared this small space. It was hectic, crowded, and really annoying. My brother Henry slept on the couch, Andie was on the floor, and Audrey ,my mom ,and I slept on the bed. We had nothing, no money, no car, and none of us had privacy. Andie ran away shortly after the divorce. She went to live my dad for a very short amount of time. My sister was always getting expelled from school and brought in bad grades. When she finally dropped out my dad threw her out of the house, and she came back to my grandmas. Henry was on drugs and in and out of jail. Henry is the only boy and was the one that was real angry at the world. He started hanging out with the wrong people in the neighborhood and had got affiliated with the gang life. I know my mom was real hurt over the two oldest but she over came it. No matter what happened my mom tried her best to put us first. During the divorce I never saw my mom brake down or cry, she always had this smile on her face. It was a smile of comfort, a smile that let me know everything was going to be okay. My mom could of turned to drugs or alcohol, but she didn’t she took care of us and never gave up. It wasn’t always easy, she could of easily just gave up. The amazing thing is, she didn’t. She stood right there holding our hands through everything. I am thankful for my mom, not many parents take care of their kids the way my mom has done. She gives me my faith to believe anyone can over come any obstacle that life throws at you. I am real proud to say she raised us on her own, with no help and no support from my dad. It has been exactly ten years since the divorce and since then my mom has accomplished a lot. My mom is now an employer of the Norwalk La Mirada unified School District. She has been employed there for nine years. She has worked her way up from a part time tutor to a full time Elementary School secretary at Ceasar Chavez. She now has her own car to get her around, and I am so thankful we don’t have to us the bus anymore. My mom is also a grandmother of six. I feel really like all the past ten years have really brought our family together and I am happy. She has truly over come a lot in these past years. I am proud to be her daughter and extremely thankful I have her. I thank her for everything she has ever done for me. It was hard but I know that she really tried her best and succeeded at it. Now that my siblings and I are much older we understand and try our best to take care of our mom like she took care of us. My mom is more then just a mother, but a father, and my very own Super hero.
Danielle:
thanks for your support, know that you have mine as well. and about that beach in Laguna, id love to go sometime. im sure we can have conversations that are meaninful and give one another advice.
you didnt describe the beach to me, but the way i read your post made me feel like i was there. i cant wait. and thank you for letting me be a dreamer.
Monster:
That is so sweet that you feel that way toward your kids. i remember when my kids used to hug me and pile up on me thinking it was the funniest thing in the world. the most memorable memory i have of my kids as when they all wanted to hold my hand and i was like, "guys im not an octopus, i cant hold all your hands at once but i can hug you all at the same time!" and then we all had a group hug. it was awesome! =] i miss them so much.
Amador:
dude, you're my hero. we get along so well and i wanted to thank you for being the person you are and always standing up for me. you are my best friend and i love you to death man. you inspire me to want to learn more than i already want. you make me feel like i CAN know everything in the world. and best of all you inspire me to keep being a real person and being myself. i love you dearly hun, and you're my best friend =]
i will always have your back, and i know you'll do the same for me.
Salvador:
wheres my lighter?!?!?! lol im kidding k i just had to make an announcement on it. hahaha but yeah congrats on getting your new car, you must feel very acoomplished and fortunate to have a car. but ill still give you rides home when you need them k =] just ask.
sal, you are very inspiring too. the day that you spoke and you couldnt speak anymore ... i didnt know exactly what to say at the moment, but just know that Amador and I have your back too. you are a very special person and we will always have you in our hearts.(until you decide to keep my lighter, then we got a problem) lol jk.
Georgie:
where you at man? why havent you posted? get on here and lets chat it up like we always do.
DREAMTEAM!!!
Isaias:
hahaha you're post on sex is very entertaining. lets all thank the sharks for what they have done. hahaha. Mr H was right you are VERY unique but i like it. i like how you bring up whatever comes to your mind and you speak it. i dig that. you're very brave to do what you want. unknowingly you are teaching me alot. you are a very interesting person and i'd like to read some more on all your random but awesome posts =]
Mr. H:
i wont be able to attend class tomorrow. see my mom and i take care of our neighbors whom are both old and very sick. my mom takes care of the Lady who's name is Delores and she has cancer. i on the other hand take care of her husband Jim who is paralyzed from the waiste down. i clean him, feed him, and serve him. that day my mom is taking Delores to the doctor and she wont be able to stay with Jim so i have to go after work to take care of him until they get back. im sorry.
your class is the last class i want to miss, but i cant find a replacement to take care of him.
so ill see you on monday =[.
i wanted to share with everyone what Fishy sent me while i slept last night:
Awake I lay, asleep you are.
things to you ive told,
i just want you to hold,
in my arms forever
to let go never
on my mind all the time
i am yours and you are mine
wish id never leave your side,
every second, every minute, every hour
just know that this is ours
from the way you talk
to the way you dress
every moment im without you im a mess
lost in your eyes is where i am everyday
because everytime i hear you say "HEY"
i melt inside theres no reason to hide
cause girl you and i got eachother side by side, hand in hand
our toes in the sand
lip to lip and nose to nose
and i know everything goes and when the world fades
asleep you are awake i lay ....
isnt that oh so cute?
hey well thanks...I really appreciate it that you took time out of your life to listen to my band...dont worry il keep you posted on upcoming shows....we play all the time and sorry if you dont like the singer's voice....everyone always says the same thing..(you need a knew singer) ...whatever, he's like the coolest guy on the planet and he wrote almost all those songs on our myspace. :) thanks again
to salvaxcore
from sofarunarmed/marshall
dude this guy is awesome....HEY EVERYONE THIS GUY IS FREAKING COOL AND DONT FORGET IT!!!!!!!
we need more people like salvador that actually spends time to read about others and check out their background a little more:)
everyone should do the same!!!
Joshua:
have you played the Aerosmith yet? man they got some dope ass songs. right now im waiting for friday so i can go buy the rockband 2. i researched it and the songs get better and better. im so psyched i am so excited!! =]
Ray Torres
Mr. Hiaso
English 60
"The Lehua blossom unfolds when the rains tread on it."
It's what grandma says but she didn't make it up.
Yue Hayes
English 100
GWC
Post #21
Jovana:
I'm really sorry for what happened with your mom. I mean, you're such a great, honest writer, I don't know why she wasn't able to appreciate it, especially when you put your whole heart into the things you write. I really like the part about your dog, though, he sounds reaaally cute and sweet. I hope what your mom has said doesn't discourage you to stay with your writing. It's kinda like Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros, right? Great writers like them wanted a sense of acceptance from their parent, just like you (although very differnt circumstances). Just keep doing what you do, because someday, like them, you will get that acceptance from your mom.
I mean, you've gone through so much so all I can do is sit here and type some words of encouragement, so if this can help you in any way it can, that's the greatest thing. I'm so happy to know that my words have helped you feel better, because that's what I wanted to accomplish. :]
Gary:
What the eff, David Blaine?!
I love David Blaine and the spoofs, David Blaine's Street Magic series... They're both soo entertaining to watch. David Blaine's illusions are just sooo amazing. I like how some say that he's somehow working with the devils. Some of his illusions, like the one you showed, are insane!!
Danielle:
Oh my gosh I totally forgot!! I remember reading that story you wrote about your mom and you talked about your twin brother. I don't even know why I thought you were talking about an older brother, hehe. It's so cool to have a twi brother, because that's like the only way to have a sibling that close to your age!
Josh:
Oh my gosh, I do play Wii and it's really cool. You're right, there aren't too many buttons involved because you can just move your arms. You know when people play car racing games and they start moving their body to the way it's turning, as if that's going to make it turn more? I love watching that. And I mean, I tried playing games like Call of Duty 4 and Counterstrike... Waaaay too many buttons involved. And you know how you can move sideways and face different ways with different buttons, well I can only do one, so I end up walking sideways and can't turn my head. Haha. And then I freak out and lose all control when I see the opposite team. So lame. :[
Alicia:
Wow, it's a very touching story. I mean, I have gone through that myself, not everything that you had talked about but the divorce. Like your mom, my mom has done a lot for us and I appreciate her for that very much. The reason that I am here, in the US, is because when I was 10, she had met someone over here. For the 10 years in Japan, she has taken care of me and my brother by herself. It seems, though, that you and your mom have gone through so much more. It's great to know that she didn't give up and stayed strong for you guys. It's nice to know that even though there are so many irresponsible parents in this world, a parent like yours and mine are still around to take responsibility and not give up. Thank you for sharing your story, it really touched me on a personal level because of my experience as well.
Isaias:
Wow, that post seemed to come out of nowhere, but thank you for the education. haha
James:
I want to see my paper. I want to see how bad I did. I do not want to hide from the truth but embrace it. The light of truth shall be much more practical then shadows and lies.
I realllly like how you said everything. It was an LOL moment. :P
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I'm starting to realize how people spell the Getty museum 'Ghetty'. I used to think that that's how it was spelled, too. I actually noticed this when the subject went from the Museum of Tolerance to the Getty, so I thought that maybe thinking about the 'ghetto' made people spell it 'Ghetty'.
Or I'm just crazy, which I can also accept. Hehe.
It's HOT today :[
Finally I can catch my breath. Work has been quite uphill these past few days. I haven't had much time for reading.
Everyone, your stories are excellent, saddening, amazing and very controversial. We come here to open our person to the people...its great, I can't express that enough.
Claudia,
"Since PROFESSOR HSIAO really seemed to want to embarrass me by being the one who got "lost"..." If you really think about it...we're all a little lost and misguided. Some more literal then others :). I'm glad in the end your day worked out. Its people like Daniell & her mother who "don't leave anyone behind".
I know what knee pains are like, racing motocross for many years, I finally had to give up the dream for my own well being. My patellas cartilage is none existant (in both knees), making cold days very apparent. So I now do a little less intensive sport...motoGP.
To the Gamers:
CounterStrike/DoD and Diablo II LOD...used to be an adict. I'm sober now :D
-> Fo Sho a Guitar Hero match!
solopan,
Nice write up on "...how it all began." But what is that saying about sharks? Did you know most sharks don't have a family life. They live in solitude until its time to reproduce where they meet in groups. Hmm what a jerk a male shark is...
I just want to reinnerate how much effort goes into what Prof. Hsiao does. He isn't required to enlighten us on his weekends. Thanks prof. for giving us the chance to see some very exciting pre20th-century variations of art.
Sebastian Soto
Cypress College
english 60
thanks Mr. H for taking us to MOT and the Getty. that was the first time i've ever been there and i enjoyed it more than i thought, im not an arts type of person but the last part of the trip when we got to go on that tour was cool, it crazy that they have some of the item that they do.... i must say i agree with some of the people here, i am most excited about the homeless shelter it'll be cool to do something nice for someone less fortunate. once again thanks Mr. H for taking the time to take us to this places, all the trips have been fun. OH YEAH if by any change anybody found a set of keys in the parking lot please let me know, i lost my motorcycle keys somewhere(it has the suzuki logo on it)
Yue:
Thank you for being so sweet. no to be honest what my mom did wont get me to qive up writing. it only made me stronger. now i feel like i can do so much more and have all my classmates have my back on it. i really appreciate everything you have said. and it does encourage me and i want to thank you for everything. you've said things and had my back when i was down. thank you so much Yue. know that i have your back as well. i might not know you, ever seen you or spoke with you. but you are in my "friends to back up" list =]
oh BTW my dog is very cute. i dont mean to brag or anything but he is my world. he is a min pin and he only weighs 8 pounds hehe i love him <3
and yes Guitar Hero match is def on! lets do this!!!! whoo hoo
My Hero
Q: Who is my hero?
H: My hero is my mother.
Q: Why is my mother like batman?
Super heroes are very popular and known by every adult and child across America. Most children admire Batman, Spider man, and the Hulk. They wish to one day be like them and be able to have super powers to fly to their destination, to have a laser to blow things up, and to even get so angry that they turn green and grow 10 feet tall. My favorite super hero is Batman, but my all time favorite hero is my mother. She doesn’t have a cool costume, super powers, or rich like batman, but she it is only because she is better than batman. My mother is my hero because she has dodged the bullets that life shot at her, she never changed as a person, and because she has all the characteristics I wish to have one day.
My mother came from a big family of 10 children. Unfortunately life decided to take her father when she was 5 years old. She does not remember his characteristics or his laugh but she does have a photograph that she stares at and says, “I believe my father was a very humorous guy.” With tears in her eyes she still does not shed one tear. Another obstacle that came in my mother’s life was not being able to finish school because grama did not have enough money for the 10 children to go to school, so they ended school in high school freshman year. Even then my mother looked for a job, became a supervisor and began helping my grama with the rent, and she even bought herself a little yellow Camaro. She learned that life is going can be hard, but with a little bit of responsibility and willingness anything is possible. No matter how hard life got for my mother, she never changed from the person she is today.
My mom was always observing and learning. Ever since I could remember she has been strong and courageous. She used to work full-time for pep-boys when I was 4 years old and I used to wait up with my dad waiting for mom to get home. Sometimes she did not arrive until 12am but I still waited. She would come home tired and with a little hope of rest, but she would go out to the laundry room and wash our clothes, sweep the house, organize my toys in my room, and even cook lunch for my dad. By the time she went to bed it was almost time for my dad to go to work and for me to go to school. To this day my mother does the same as she used to, only now she has me who helps her and lets her rest while I clean the house for her. Her personality is what I admire the most.
My mom does not have a bad attitude or is impatient, unlike my dad, which is why I love her personality. My dad and I argue all the time because we are so much alike, and my mom knows how to stand there listen to what he is saying but not pay attention. My mom is very smart because she knows when my dad is talking just because he is upset at something else, and as for me I get frustrated with him and we argue. She knows how to talk to people, and she knows when to say what she means and when to be polite. Her personality is that of a perfect person. She does not get mad at the little things in life; she is very understanding, and she never judges anyone. I want to have her personality more than anything in the world.
My mom is such a likeable person; she is funny, sweet, intelligent, and very insightful. She makes the right choices in life, and I can only stare at her with eyes of an admirer, a fan if you will. My wish is to be just like my hero, my mom. I want to grow up being a hard worker and giving my family the best I can, like her. “Apart from what any critic had to say about my writing, I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my mother finished reading my book and gave me her verdict: “So easy to read.” The reason as to why I choose this quote is because I am the narrator of my life, and everyone around me is the critics. They will put me down for not being like them, or say things to get me down because they do not wish to see my succeed, but I know once I am finished narrating my life, my mother will tell me that it was an easy ride and that all it needed was faith. And we will look back and feel happier than ever.
my mom is my hero. even with the things that happend last night.
ARACELI GARCIA
ENGLISH 52
CERRITOS
HEY GUYS, HOPE EVERYONE IS DOING GOOD TODAY. WELL I AM SUPER BORED AT WORK I WANT TO GET OUT NOW! WELL I DON'T REALLY TALK MUCH IN CLASS BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY HOW I FELT ABOUT THE GETTY.... WELL DESPITE THE FACT I WENT LOOKING LIKE A BALLOON (MR.H SAID THAT :( ) I REALLY LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. I WOULD OVER STARE AT THE PAINTINGS BECAUSE I WAS SO AMAZED OF ALL THE DETAIL. I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAN PAINT LIKE THAT BECAUSE I ALWAYS THOUGHT I WAS A GOOD PAINTER BUT MAN I REALIZED I REALLY SUCK LOL. I HOPE SOMEDAY I COULD PAINT THAT GREAT.
JOVANA
I FEEL SO BAD FOR HOW YOUR MOM REACTED,I MEAN SHE SHOULD APPRECIATE YOU MORE, YOU SEEM LIKE SUCH A GOOD PERSON,I DONT REALLY KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU SINCE I NEVER REALLY HAD A MOM SO I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX THINGS THAT DEAL WITH MOMS, BUT YOU SHOULD TRY TALKING TO HER AND LET HER KNOW THAT SHE HURT YOU,COMMUNICATION IS ALWAYS GOOD ;D
ISAIAS
MAN YOU CRACK ME UP. YOU ARE SO WEIRD, BUT A GOOD WEIRD.I REALLY LOVED YOUR MEANING OF LIFE, IT WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT AND VERY DEEP. I WISH I COULD WRITE LIKE THAT.... MAYBE YOU SHOULD TEACH ME.......
MR.H I REALLY LIKED CLASS YESTERDAY :b CANT WAIT FOR TOMORROWS CLASS
Wesley Lock
Eng 100
Cypress College
Post:7
Hey everyone. Going to the Getty this time around was probably the best experience for me. Even though i have gone 3 times, the first 2 visits i do not remember too much. It was nice to explore most of the exhibits, and see the many arts and scupltures since the begining of time. Different styles, or materials used to make these wonderful pieces of art, intrigued me.
Chau Vo
Cypress
English 100
Yes the Getty is great. This was my second time going, but this time I got to spend more time looking at the artwork. I appreciated the little details in each piece and tried to analyze each detail that the artist was trying to illustrate. I took some good and funny pictures(If you were in Jose's group you know exactly what art piece I am talking about. Yes I wish we got more time in the garden as well. I saw this lady napping in the shade and I was so jealous. Maybe my third time there will be my lucky charm and I will get to take a nap there :]
Joshua Greenroyd
Eng 100
GWC
YUE- On what you were saying about racing games and how people tend to turn their controllers while they hit the buttons. I think it is funny to watch =D You should play Mario Kart on the Wii. There is a control style where, in order to steer, you turn a little wireless wheel it gives to you.
Shannon Flak
Eng 100
GWC
I am looking forward to getting my paper back. Would like to see what I can improve upon.
Enjoy reading the blogs, there are some interesting blogs.
Looking forward to class tomorrow, love Mr.Hsiao and his teachings.
I nervous about my paper. I did well in my previous writting class. i left the class with an A. I probably have a tougher and better teacher.
Hahaha yeah guitar hero deathmatch! Hahaha that game is so addicting, I have the first 3, I want the aerosmith and rock of the 80's ones lol
Anywho, transitioning to another topic, this place{blogosphere} has become something unique, something we can all connect to, some may use it as a place to vent our their emotions, others as a way to promote what they like, some just blog so they can avoid a quiz. Whatever the case might be we can all agree that we ALWAYS have something to say. Our ideas aew important, no matter what.
Woo 3 more days til the week is over! Haha, I love my job, but just like any other job I can't wait til the weekend gets here:]
Yo yo Marshall hit me up on myspace. If you need help with your recordings or just mixing let me know. Where do you guys get your stuff tracked at anyways?? What software and gear you guys used. The singer sounds fine, he just needs more balls which I can fix with some good micing and eqing. Plus it sounds like hes playing the guitar while hes singing on those tracks. Probably why there is a natural inconsistency in breath control.
Plus your singer reminds me of Perry Farrel(Janes Addiciton) and Gordan Gano(Violent Femmes).
Araceli:
Thank you for being so kind. yeah i did talk to my mom and things are better now. i told her how meanit was what she had said and she apologized. thank you so much for being so caring. im sorry you dont have a mother, i really am. next time ima give you a hug k =]
how are your wisdom teeth coming along? i remember when i had mine pulled on a thursday too, and by saturday i was eating BBQ ribs. it was so good!!! =] hehe.
Monster:
I agree. i love my job, and i love the people they are awesome, but once friday is here im the most happiest person ever! i love the parties. what do you do for fun?
Nathalie Rojas
English 52
Cerritos
Unfortunately, i missed class yesterday. It was all because of stupid sleeping problems. I've had this for quite a while, though I never thought about going to the doctor to get checked out, because I think this isn't a matter that a doctor could handle or solve. Anywho, my mom suggested that I see a doctor, well she practically obligated me. So, I decided to go. Since I have no self transportation, I took the bus. Since I'm pretty much a rookie at bus-taking, I had a hard time finding my destination, being that I haven't even been to the doctor in years. It turns out that I didn't find it, but what I did find was my step grandmother's house in Paramount, so I ended up waiting at her house till my aunt came to pick me up. But by the time she came, it was pretty late(the clinic would be closed by then).It was just a big waste of time. So out of all days, the day that Mr. H said would be important because someone was to come in and observe him, the day he would hand us back our papers and embarrass us, and the day we would have a class discussion on what we were suppose to read. So, it would be really helpful if someone would give me the 411 on yesterday's(Monday)class.Homework???
Hah like you said, I love the parties, haha hmmm well I like to write! Hmm parties, I like to hang out with new people, I love going to the beach and just sit there and smoke a cigarette haha hmm idk I have fun with anything, I have to admit I am a big nerd, haha when I'm not out I'm either watching a documentary or playing counter strike or guitar hero haham it all depends on my mood. Lol
What do YOU do for fun,
And for that matter I'd like to ask the following:
WHAT DOES EVERYONE LIKE TO DO THAT'S FUN?and just so we keep it related to the class, do you have fun in class?
monster- i totally agree with you on the work thing (as i sit here in the last hour at my desk) love the people here and i love fridays!!!
i like to do a lot of different things from bowling, golfing, scrapbooking, going to the beach, or just hanging out at the bar. and i am always up for new things. oh yes almost forgot i do have fun in class this is the funniest english i have been in. Maybe this time around i can acutally pass english!! lol!!! =]]
Monster:
Thats really neat. haha you remind me of me dude. i love sitting at the beach smoking my cigarette. and when i am not out i stay in watching movies, playing with my dog, writing, or guitar hero. [ im a little nerd though lol]
and for fun on the weekends my best friend lauren and our other friends gather up and go to raves, clubs, and warehouse parties. its so much fun! i cant get enough of raves. all the different colors and the music is so loud! its my favorite place to be. and about the class, YES!!!!! i love going to class. its always something different and what my favorite thing is, is that Mr. H lets us talk about real things. we dont beat around the bush we say what we mean, and mean what we say.
lets talk about something that can go back to mr. H as sufficent.... hmmmm .... oh hey. what was everyones nicknames as kids?? if i can ask
Haha I used to go to raves, but idk I stopped, kinda feel like going to one, I don't know lol and I really like our class, I like the discussions we have and the way we look at things
Hmm to answer your question my nickname as a kid was and still is "gabucho" haha I honestly don't know how it came to be that, but in south america gabriels are called "gabucho, habuchim" and idk haha I think its hilarious, my family and others call me by it, I don't mind it haha,
i really liked the getty. it was like i was in my own world up there. it was so peaceful and everything that i was stressed out about vanished. i was in such a good mood for the rest of the day.
Hmm.
Mr. Hsiao I got a feeling you are going to throw away all of our final drafts that were not stapled together?
There is a few of us with papers not stapled. Here is my excuse. My little brother took my stadtler stapler with out telling me. He just started at UCI with pretty much financial aid covering most of his expenses. I feel so incompetent.
Hmm.
Mr. Hsiao I got a feeling you are going to throw away all of our final drafts that were not stapled together?
There is a few of us with papers not stapled. Here is my excuse. My little brother took my stadtler stapler with out telling me. He just started at UCI with pretty much financial aid covering most of his expenses. I feel so incompetent.
Paul Cutler
English 60
Cypress College
Post #3
Classes like today are the ones I enjoy most. The type of day where one gets so involved to the point where the track of time is lost.
We started off the day talking about the Getty. Man did I have some stuff to say; Hmm, where should I begin. The drive up there was pretty insane. The bus driver couldn't make up his mind on which lane he wanted to be in on the freeway, nor did he know that he actually had people following him. It was pretty funny going back and forth and watching those who drove do the same (Nick Dawg haha).
The Getty was definitely an experience to treasure; I know I won't forget it.
Moving on...
The discussion of Status Anxiety was one that got me pondering. I read it, but I am debating on reading once more. It seemed confusing, but actually makes a lot of sense. We throw our money away on luxuries, temporary happiness, in hopes of somehow reaching that ultimate "social status". I've seen much harder work in the fields, compared to that of a lawyer. Although, we all know who makes more money. Then again, who do you think is OVERALL happier?
Anyways... towards the end of class, we were doing some grammar work on Fragments and Run-on sentences. Wow, it's been so long since I've actually done something like this; it took some actual thinking to figure out what was what and how to fix it. Although it seems like a lot, it really isn't. In addition, it is great review and will definitely help improve my sentence structure.
There you go Mr. Hsiao, Quiz 5 & 6
Thanks for making class a fun, educationsl, family-like environment.
-Paul
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Mr Hsiao,
I apologize for going off track regarding this blog. I apologize if you thought I missed the point of your blog, I totally understand it, and apply it. I think this is can be compared to talking in class while you talk. It is disrespectful and kinda disturbs the momentum of the main topics. I suggest that if we want to talk about other things that do not follow under the main purpose of this blog, we instead go and create our own blogs where we can talk about things that do not dsitrub this blog :D
thanks,
The Management
dictated but not read.
haha idk
Tim Rice
English 100
Goldenwest
Post 1
Hi all - this is my first time blogging.
The Allegory of the Cave
I really liked the discussion about the cave and even brought it up with my family. We came up with some different ideas of what the cave could be. My mom thinks that we each build our own cave "brick by brick" and seal it with the "mortar of our own experiences". I feel that the cave is more of a perspective than anything else. The cave is not wrong but just a different way of seeing the world and everyone is in a cave because no one has a complete view of the world. I feel that the more you liberate yourself from your "cave" you are simply building a different cave to live in.
wow amazing!..741 comments already!...i will be the "743" hehehe. for some reason, whenever i leave a comment, i could not find mine previous comment that i left. ahhhhh confusing! ... i got to admit that staying in professor Hsiao class is pretty unique. The first class i ever have to share so much of a deep feelings. Something that we can actually share, and some people there are actually give all of their attention and feedback. I am still a little bit too shy to volunteer or participate because i feel like i am a small little-newbie guy who are sitting in there and afraid to speak up. on the other hand, i got to admit you guys are pretty nice people. i just have to get use to the environment around me. I am new to the campus and also new to the class, and of course i am new to everyone. *blushing*
suck that i did not get to go to the Getty or the MOT (musseum); therefore, i did not get any thing positively out from the trip, but i am sure get something out from mister Hsiao's class. i Get to meet new people, make conversation and greet new friends, I am grateful! Professor Hsiao sure did teach us to take control of our lives. (Gain knowledge and be successful).
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HERE IS A POEAM I PERSONALLY WROTE AND WANT TO SHARE- *SMILE*
knock on the wood with anxious and fear
closing my eyes and just drop a tear
running around like i'm lost
spending my time without a cost
looking forward too many things in life
hear all the goods thoughts but mostly lies
giving chances to be with one another
not knowing things i did, was unsure
saying a way for easy out
unreveal the attention for being loud
laughing out loud just to hide the pains
trying to find some one to be more than a friend
Leaving an empty heart without any control
dating with every one even and put myself low
not knowing the limit for being myself
easily fall in to a hole as every one can tell
knocking my head off just to think clear
hoping to find the one who is funny and mere.
Jose Martinez
Mr. H
English 100
I want to start off by saying thank you to everyone in my group at the Getty. You all cooperated with me even though ALL of you bearly knew me. I appreciate the love that was shown and I got love for all of you. Sorry that I could not conversate with everyone but I tried and I knew that you wanted to go ahead and enjoy the art and sculptures by yourself and I respected you and your space. Its cool how everyone reacted to the call that we had and we just had fun with it. The experience was great and can not wait till the next one. I don't care if its the beach clean up or Santa Ana.
Mr. Hsiao your a unique individual and professor. I enjoy having a professor who doesn't only care about people in a classroom but also outside of a classroom.
Today's lecture was interesting and funny. I got to look at the glass half full instead of empty because he talked about our papers. Im ready to get my paper because it will not be the end but only the beginning of me becoming a better writer.
To all the bloggers...Hold it down.
Today i got picked on by Mr.Hsaio, (first time being picked on, in a way). It was rather fun to get the attention i suppose, i mean as long as i wasn't like being negatively charged at, i'm rather okay with it;I should of said something back though.
So like today we also discussed on about attachment and happiness and as a strike back for being the victim of humorous class humiliation, i speak my mind on those two things:
happiness
and
attachment.
(it will probably make no sense since i really don't know how to shape my ideals at the moment, but i know it's there, so you really don't have to read this). Yes i'm contradicting myself again Mr.Hsaio. To tell you, i am half-chinese. My Dad is full but only knows viet so i'm not sure whether i'm mandarin or cantonese. My grandpa is fluent in it along with my eldest uncle.
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Ever since junior year, i always pondered what drives to the different things that we ask of ourselves. What wants us to make that certain goal? Was it for money, love, happiness, or what? The bottom line question that i ask most people is
What do you want most?
3/4 of the answers i received are "I don't know" or "To be Happy" or even "love". Now for the subject of love, i could get into it but it's a really really more complex category and involves rather weird examples.
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Okay, so for happy, i say that, we should know what we want. That is the main driven behind us. Whether it's for someone, for family, or just us, it's in the back of our heads that we want to do that. In the main sense of ourselves, WE WILL BE HAPPY with what we do as long as it makes us happy. But sometimes i do believe that's not the whole intention that the people form to say what is in their mind. Such point is that I think they will be happy and not the whole I KNOW I WILL BE HAPPY. It's a whole sense of confusion that really turns back to the dial of what we want most. Even though sometimes i think i know what i want, i end up telling myself do i really want it?
However though,in one of the free writes i did mention that i do know what i want. I want to help people. But why?
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I thought about it and it's rather obvious why; it is to make me happy. SO how can i get happiness from helping anyone?
for me personally i think it's this:
to be acknowledged
It's the feeling of having people look up to you that is a motivation behind the whole concept of my happiness. And such a reason for that i can't help but assure myself that's rather selfish is it not? How can i make it a possible definition in which i am helping someone without really thinking that it's me wanting something back. Which then leads me to my status on...
attachment.
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Yes attachment does play a rather heavy role in my life. It had laid many effects on me and shaped the way being dat i am. I am aware of the attachments that i'm committed to in life. In fact though, i chosen to let myself be this attached. How can anyone really not be attached?
This is the only possible way to disengage from all possible point beings of ever being attached to anything, "either hate it (love it till it pains you), or just destroy it".
I could actually disengage myself. Yes i say it, i could. I can leave my cellphone off and not worry about anyone calling me. I can not go to facebook/myspace and not even care about the silly comments being said about me; it is more easier of a task than making eggs in the morning. The explanation behind all that is... well i really don't wanna say it.THe things i been through and dealt with, i could disengage myself from almost anything. Man i sound conceited though. But it's funny though once performed. Can't really do anything except read a book, but then you start thinking a lot. And when that happens, things start to fly. Motivation comes flying in and you cna't but want to get COMMUNICATION going.
So perhaps that is the MAIN THEORY!
when we disengage, this begins to happen:
IDEAL/THOUGHT > AWARENESS > TRUTH.
It's search for truth, becuz when we don't attach to anything, we ask ourselves who we are. So besides the fact that our attachment keeps from being happy, it blinds us from really knowing ourselves.
IT all blends in when the clothes we buy, the things we buy, the things we begin to say, makes us forget who we are.
We're happy, so why even worry of who are? what we are? or what we are doing?
SO i think about it, half the girls that text everyday, go on myspace, go "hang out", do their little things they do, i realize that those half of the girls are the girls that don't know who they are. (No offense ladies)And reason point i aim at girls is well, most of my friends are girls anyways, all the guy friends that i was close with in high school were pretty much the guys you would see in the OC or some show like Gossip Girls, except it isn't white people, it's Asians doing it. YES asians have drama and in my opinion it's more crazier than what can be delievered by the standard. But going back to the girls, yeah. Half the girls that i do ask "what do you want to do most?" they don't know. and when i look at them, they are beyond materialistic. Bag in the arms, phone in their hands, if not self-concious, BRAND NAME everything; ears plugged by the media (which i would get into but for another day, personally i don't like my ears being plugged, i really don't admire headphones. If i listen to music, i want the other people to hear it also for some strange reason. It's like when i'm in the car and playing on ROCK, i turn it out just to hope the guy in the next car say to me "nice music" or get angry at me just for the fun of it) SO yeah, bottom line is,
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attachment blinds| happiness. |
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Well sure it's from the story but i tell you, i only skimmed keywords in that book and throughout the whole quiz today, i was using my experience to answer it.
Urgh, he's probably gonna pick on me for that one also. But honesty is good is it not?
Ok first time on the blog and i have to say im not a total fan, but i will try!
The one thing i have learned most in Mr. Hsiaos class is that you really have to look inside when your writing a paper you can just write stories or b.s. you have to really look deep inside yourself so that when teachers or classmates are reading a paper they can really get a feel for the real you.
Carl Benons
Eng 52
Cerritos
Post 1
EPISODE 1
Im blogging even though I know we don't have a quiz. Just wanted to let everyone know that my hero is.... STAY TOON FOR THE NEXT EPISODE OF WHEN CeJay BLOGS TO FIND WHO HIS HERO IS. WHO COULD IT BE..
Tyler Carniglia
English 60
Cypress
post #2
Well, I havent read these blogs in a bout a week and it just seemed to explode since then. Had to come have a look-see after Mr. H said we were over 600 posts.
QUIZ!: Well it has been about a week since we talked about what we think our purpose in life is. Just thinking upon past experiences i figured out what i wanted to do. I want to be a therapist for troubled athletes. This came to me after I remembered my freshman year in highschool. I was a huge sports/jock guy. I played football/ varsity wrestling/ trained with the varsity water polo team and ran with track. Well this all came to a screeching halt after a wrestling tourney, when i tore my groin and dislocated my shoulder. I was in pain physically and I was in pain emotionally. I was told i couldn't play sports for the rest of the year and that put me in a big depression. I hated not playing sports and being competitive, and sitting on my ass in physical therapy made my depression even worse. I didn't know what to do with myself. That experience made me come to the conclusion of what i want to do, because i dont want any athlete to go through what i went through.
Gamers: Ya.....Im a big WoW junkie, I know i play too much but im sucked into it. Other then WoW i play some Guitar Hero and Smash.
CREEPY COPYPASTA:
Well its around 12 and if you are reading this right now u are probably in your room and its dark,
When I was fourteen, my mother and father were divorced, and I went to live with my mother and a man she supposedly fell in love with several years ago. We searched for a house for all three of us to live in, and eventually found the perfect house. A few months later, after finding out that my dad had Cancer, my mom went, engaged to this man living with us, to the very hospital and stayed with my father for about a week, leaving me to tend to myself as I remained in the basement, wasting my time on the computer.
It was late, around midnight if I recall correctly, and the man living with us went off to bed, turning off every light in the house, except for the computer room in the basement. During this time we had one dog and one cat. I can't remember exactly where the dog was, but the cat was downstairs with me, doing what cats do, I guess. While typing away on the computer, it occurred to me, after several minutes had passed, my cat had been staring at the door, which was left wide open, for a long time. Her ears appeared to be pinned against the back of her head and I finally noticed her faint growling.
Thinking that it was the dog, I turned around and called for her, only then to notice something that took me completely by surprise. The door that leads up to the second floor was left wide open. In front of it, taking the size of a three or four year old, was this ominous being, made of shadow.
As chills ran down my spine and fear completely took over my body, I watched this unearthly 'thing' with what little time I had, I absorbed any features possible, noting that it had small, beady eyes that were yellow, and this 'thing' had black tendrils on top of it's head, and on the sides of it's body, which didn't exactly have a 'shape'.
Whatever this thing was, it reacted quickly and hid by leaping over to the stairs, making it partially visible to my view. Then, I noticed that it leaned over and peeked through the wall that hid it, quickly pulling away as it knew I was still watching.
To this very day I don't know how, but I managed to muster up enough courage and quickly ran to the computer room's door, slamming and locking it. An hour later, I ran through the whole house, turning on every light possible, except for my mom's bedroom, and I went to bed with the light on. I didn't bother looking for the dog, and I never told the man about this strange occurrence. I just went into my room and crawled into bed.
I don't know how I fell asleep. But I did. Whatever the Hell that thing was, it was watching me. I didn't think that I'd ever get over it. But I guess I calmed down after a while.
A week later, after staying the night at my brothers house, I was bored and decided to look this thing up. Oddly enough, what I saw that night matched the description of what most people call a 'Shadow Being'. That scared the living Hell out of me, and I knew, without a doubt, that it was not my imagination that created this thing.
Ever since, I hated that house. That perfect house was no longer my home. I'm honestly surprised that I still stayed in that house, unfortunately, I didn't have much of a choice. But I never saw the Shadow Being again. Never. Still, I was afraid.
Thankfully three months after, mom and I moved back in with my dad and the man living with us eventually moved away, and our so called dream home was up for sale. Probably still is.
I still have nightmares of the Shadow Being from time to time. Sometimes, it feels like it's watching me whenever I'm alone. I was never really afraid of the dark until then. Now, I hate looking into the darkness.
The darkness could be looking back at me.
Mikey Olson
Cypress College
English 60
Post #3
Hey Mr. Hsiao, and everyone else..
I guess I should formally introduce myself:
My name's Mikey, Mike, whichever you like. My birthday is the 20th of December, 1989. I was born with a congenital defect that resulted in me being born with no hands or feet; that is, my arms extend to just before the elbows, and legs down to the kneecaps (just above the knee, i have half knees just above the joint). I may look somewhat helpless at first glance, but with the exception of a handful of obvious tasks, I am just as able-bodied, or productive, as someone with limbs.
I'm letting this be known so there's no confusion in future references, and to anyone curious, as I'm sure applies for the people who saw me while we were waiting to drive from Cerritos College to the Getty.
Now, on to the Getty. Really good trip, as not only the stunning multi-cultural pieces of art on display, but making a few new friends along the way. And of course, Team Tomrod.
As for Status Anxiety, I agree that the majority of wealth is thrown away and not put to good use. I believe that this is inevitable, as I think it is human nature to push away from a Utopian or true Socialist society, where balance is absolute; no poverty or richest of the rich.
Tierra Miller
english 100
gwc
post 9
So i guess im gonna blog about class since i already blogged about the M.O.T.....Well things that i have taken from class....there are so many that i dont know where to start....i guess first ive taken away that its okay to voice your opinion about things even when others disagree because this is what helps to breed knowledge....also its okay to be vunerable because people will understand....and they wont judge you, as long as youre honest.
joe santoyo
english 100
GDUB
post 1
Mr.Hsiao is the best english teacher at gdub...
he trys to get his students active and interested in his classes, and that is fundamental to haveing respond to, and be succesful in learning the proper forms of english.
take advantage of him now and just pick his brain lol
Erika Martinez
Cypress College
English 60
Post #3
Hey everyone!..
wow!..gotta start studying for the mid term!
:)
Lets start with Status Anxiety, i really enjoyed that story. A lot of what is stated is sadly sometimes true. In paragraph 7 he compares the quickest way to stop noticing something is buying it, to marriage, and how that is the way to quickly lose appreciation for someone, which i dont believe is true. I actually think that when one marries you actually value the person more. (btw i am not married!! I'm not speaking from experience or something!)
Monster:
thats cool. i dont even think i could pronounce that. lol my nickname in High School was Furby!! =[ its sad i know but the reason why that was my name was because i have long eyelashes that curl and big eyes. so yeah.
man im so bummed! i want to go to class so bad. its always a good class and ima miss it. =[
Geez!!!
Josue Franco
Cypress College
English 60
Post#4
I really like the essay Status Anxiety for a couple of reasons. First I just really liked the topic that it was about and how the first to paragraphs seem to be the hardest to understand out of the whole essay. Its kind of reverse of what and essay is suppose to do, but it was because of that, that is caught my attention. I was very disappointed that in class we did not really talk about the end which I believe is the best part. Where it compares us humans to nature and God. It just lets you know that no matter what accomplishments you have or how many people will remember you after you die, and for how long. In the end you are nothing when compared to, "the great deserts, high mountains, glaciers, and oceans of the world"(17). Then it goes on to even bigger things and mentions the universe, but it does not end it there it goes on to the ultimate and mentions God. By doing this it brings every human being, every reader, Rich or Poor, educated or just plain stupid back to the same status. Finally in the final paragraph it say that we are all the same and we can get rid of our anxieties by using our imagination if we are poor or traveling around the world if we are rich.
I love it that in the end everyone is the same to matter what your status in society is.
FURBY(JOVANA)LOL:
WE ARE GOING TO MISS YOU IN CLASS TODAY. IT WONT BE THA SAME WITH OUT U THERE. :( BUT YEA JUS SO YOU KNOW THAT U ARE THE MOST AMAZING PERSON I EVER MET AND UR WILL ALWAYS HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART! UR THE BEST IN THE ENITRE WORLD!!! BUT YEA NONSENSE ASIDE UR A GREAT PERSON AND UR MISSIN CLASS FOR A GOOD REASON...
SAL:
AYO MAN WHERE IS JOVANAS LIGHTER? LOL JK. UR COOL U KNO THAT UR PART OF THE FAM BAM TOO MAN. AND REMEBER WUT I TOLD YOU HOMIE DNT TRIP ABOUT GETTING EMOTIONAL ESE! ONLY A REAL MAN CAN DO THAT! AND U MY FRIEND ARE A REAL MAN! NOW GIVE BACK THE LIGHTER B4 I HAVE TO GO INTO COLLECTION!!!! LOL JK
GEORGIE:
FURBS IS RIGHT MAN UR LAGGIN IT! WHRE U @? WE NEED UR INPUT MAN IT AINT "THE DREAM TEAM" WITHOUT YOU DUDE!!! UR MISSIN OUT ON GR8 CONVO'S MAN!!!!
DOLLIE:
IT WAS GOOD TO MEET YOU AT THE GETTTY(JUS HAD TO SAY IT) UR A SMART PERSON WHOHAS A LOT TO SAY AND I ENJY READING UR POST...
ALL:
EVERYONE SHOULD TAKE A SEC TO THANK MR. H FOR SETTING THIS UP FOR US TO JUS SAY WUT COME TO MIND. THANKS TO MR. H DOING THIS I GOT TO KNO PEOPLE THAT I WOULDNT HAVE TALKED TO IN THE FRIST PLACE BUT THIS IS JUS TOOOO DOWN! I ENJOY THIS BLOGOSPHERE AND I REALLY APPRCIATE READIN ALL THE THING PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY. SO ON BE HALF OF EVERY STUDENT HERE MR. H THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
NOT FOR THE EASILY OFFENED...(DONT READ IF U GET OFFENDED)
Why is there enough religion to incite war but not enought to instill tolerance?
Why is it that we belive in GOD/ALLAH/JESUS(or whoever you pray to) enough to we are willing to kill each other as to who is right but not enough to actually follows the teachings and just listen to another persons P.O.V. You have Islamic extremist blowing up women and children because they belive it makes ALLAH happy. You have Christain fundementalist killing abortion doctors because the belive its GOD's will. How f****d up is this? I'm going to break this down for you... ALLAH is can be understood as an acrynom A=arm L=leg L=leg A=arm H=head, now that means its arm, leg, leg, arm, head.(I will get back to this) In The Bible God states that we are made in His image, which means that our bodys are a represntation of GOD. Now ALLAH is a heavenly being and we are made to look like Him. So ALLAH and GOD made man to look like them. Now did this just happen? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Listen Muslims accept JESUS as a PROPHET just not as the SON OF GOD, does this make them EVIL? NO!!!! People are entitled to different ideas. People of the Jewish faith dont belive in JESUS... This doesn't make them EVIL! Listen all our belifes are the same except for minor BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!! I am tired of people using GOD/ALLAH/JESUS to justify genocide and acts of violence. Why dont people just admit that they are not grown up enough for adult conversations about religion? If you have faith if any kind but belive that those who dont belive what you do is going to hell then you have no idea of what true faith is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe if people put aside thier petty differences than maybe they can see the similarites. As a i write this i know some people will be offended but if i can make just one person open thier mind then I succeded in what i set out to do. So as i leave you think about the reason the Islamic extremist hate us.... Its simply because they dont understand us. ITS ALL ABOUT UNDERSTANDING, UNDERSTANDE ME?
Mikey,
Welcome to the community. Its a village of work and dedication where we all contribute to support one another.
Going off your Status Anxiety thought, we've created a market place to put dollar signs of worth over our head. In an effort to prosper we only hold ourselves back with insignificant materalistic goals.
I was thinking about how Status Anxiety reflects many relationships. Where you become so engulfed with a person you ofton over time loose the initial spark. The dedication becomes lost... like a dollar bill in a vending machine (sorry I had to add that because the STUPID vending machine at work STOLE MY DOLLAR!) Look at the divorce rates from today compared to past years. Sure, if the situation for both sides doesn't work...then it doesn't work. But is that always the case for everyone? It's very difficult to understand, maybe, those little problems could be worked out rather then just taking the most visible way out...
Monster,
In relation to what you were saying about our blogging environment, its super easy to aim off topic. Especially now since the "ice" has been broken its alot easier to make those comments. It's really an experience to have discussions in class then reflect upon them in a relaxed digial realm. We get the chance to digest new food for thought. awesome.
FYI: the stock market is still down. Though much has recovered since monday after its 777pt drop. Yesterday it recovered to about -480 now since this morning its still down but to about -40pts. We'll see what the Senate Votes tonight on the BailOut. Looks like it most likely will be passed though. It's unfortunate but we need to support our country. Taxes were/are enivtable, even if it means less money in our pockets. Maybe then we won't be so materialistic...hmm Status Anxiety once again.
I DONT BELIVE ANYONE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO GET MARRIED ANYMORE!!!!! EVERYONE IS SO FULL OF SHIT THAT HALF OF THE MARRIAGES IN DIVORCE. I BELIVE THAT IF PEOPLE WHERE TO ACTUALLY GET TO KNOW EACHOTHER BEFORE THEY RUSH INTO A MARRIAGE THEN MAYBE IT WOULD LAST A LIL LONGER THAN 6 MONTHS... I'M JUS SAYING THAT MARRIAGE USED TO MEAN SUMTHING. THE WORDS "TILL DEATH DO US PART" WERE LITERAL. NOW IT MEANS UNTIL I DNT LIKE YOU ANYMORE. Y SHOULD WE HAVE TO GET MARRIED ANYWAYS IF U LOVE SUMONE AND THEY KNO THAN Y DO U NEED A PIECE OF PAPER TO ACKNOWLEGDE THE LOVE THAT IS SHARED. LOOK MAN WE ARE F***ING UP THE HOLLINESS OF MARRIAGE JUS BY INVENTING THE CONCEPT OF DIVORCE! THERE IS NO REASON FOR DIVORCE! IF UR MAN IS AN ASSHOLE AND SPENDS ALL UR MONEY, SHOULD HAVE GOT TO KNO HIM BETTER! IF UR GIRL IS SCREWING EACH OF UR HOMEBOYS WHEN UR BACK IS TURNED, THAT UR FUALT FOR NOT NOWING HER BETTER!!! JUS WANTED TO SAY THAT MARRAIGE IS AN IDEA THAT IS OUT OF DATE BECAUSE MARRAIGE IS A THING OF FAITH AND PEOPLE JUS DONT HAVE FAITH ANYMORE....
Thank you to the Regulators: Like Monster said and he read my mind exactly, talk about the class: what all was said in the confines and spaces of our discussion--nothing else.
Let me extrapolate:
I love hearing about gaming and music because well that has/is/will be your life: but how does that help with learning the literature we have read.
Think about that.
Take a break from interests and hobbies and talk more about the subject at hand.
That is, it is what I seek, and if need be, I will regulate and erase all that does not pertain to our discussions.
Addendum--
Thank you for the kudos from all involved.
I appreciate it: your kind words and thoughts.
Addendum 2
Also, I will talk more about appropriate and inappropriateness in the netherworlds and twilight of the blogosphere.
What is considered appropriate?
What is considered definitely inappropriate?
Addendum 3
Possible points of departure for discussion here:
-->What have you learned thusfar?
-->What did you enjoy about William Carlos Williams' poems?
-->How did you read Status Anxiety? Did you agree or disagree? Why?
-->What more can you glean from Man's Search for Meaning (MSFM).
Do you have questions about the midterm?
Do not talk about Mr. Hsiao if only to say thank you or in appreciation--I may take that, but then again I am Asian, and I do not take compliments well.
Ha ha
If I have not talked about the midterm, than be patient.
It is coming
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Class is about half over. . .
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*Remember that the first one to 800 gets to be at the top of the future overwhelming web page*
Amador,
Thank you for posting what is considered not politically correct.
George,
Where are you?
Jovana,
You are still the MVP of the class, our class that is.
Thank you for applying what is being taught to your life.
That is, it actually applies to all here.
A hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Liliana Fierros
English 52
cerritos
hi,
so i still don't really understand the all of the poems by William Carlos. Iknw we are going to continue talking about them today, and i hope to understand them lol.
see you guys in class =]
Marriage is no longer a holy union of two souls as a means to express undying love for one another. It is more like a merging of two corporations. Assets are combined accounts are joined, property is shared. But in the end if none of it works out, which it most likely will not, the guy gives up half of his things and women more than not make out like bandits. I like to gamble but not that big. As much as marriage is becoming more and more obsolete it has seemed to always be a losing bet for a guy. And do not get me started on pre-nups because nowadys not even those are written in stone. The topic of marriage leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Just my .02
"we've created a market place to put dollar signs of worth over our head."-Nick
I agree with Nick's thought. while reading Status Anxiety it appeared clear to me that we live in a society where everything has a price. I'm gonna be the devil's advocate and argue that we need Status in our life. Wether we like it or not it provides order to things. Status provides things, people, and animals with a place to which they belong. Status provides respect to people. For example, our class, without the title of "professor" most of us probably wouldn't respect mr hsiao on the first day, to us he would only be a regular joe, like us. However, the title, professor, gives an instand image in our head, we know that he is the leader, because he carries a lot of knowledge, and we as his pupils are there to learn. This shows status in class, he is on top. This can be applied to anything. In our home, who makes decisions? Who does this? Who does that?
Hahaha furby, sorry I'm done I just had to say it, cute nickname.
MR. H:
YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT I'M NEVER GONNA BE P.C. JUS THOUHGT I'D SHARE WITH THE CLASSES WHAT IS SO DAMN OBVIOUS...
LESTER:
UR DAMN RIGHT MAN!!! THE MAN GETS SCREWED(NOT IN A GOOD WAY) AND THE WOMEN GETS HALF... SAD BUT TRUE...
I missed the getty. i felt like i missed out on a lot.
Yesterday I decided to go with my boyfriend before work. I wanted to feel what everyone who had gone felt.
The museum was amazing. I stayed most of the time in the garden taking pictures of flowers. I love gardens. This one was just amazing, seeing bees jumping flowers, watching ducks quack. It was such a peaceful sight. I can't believe it's free.
I asked my boyfriend, Frank, "Hey where do we pay?" He's never been there and he told me that it was free. I was shocked.
I loved the LA view it was breathtaking!
I saw the Bernini gallery exhibit. A bunch of busts everywhere of powerful men. Pretty fierce faces of emperors, kings, and popes.
I loved the experience and so did my boyfriend surprisingly.
I hope to definitely take my family there one day, that would be so much fun. They will love it.
Thanks Mr. Hsiao for opening the doors to such good things and places.
Time for class!
-Thalia Lopez
Shannon Flak
Eng 100
GWC
My Heroes, My Children
Who is my hero? My heroes are all four of my children. They are the best heroes ever, because of their strength, determination and resilience. First there’s Trinity, a beautiful sixteen year old. Trinity has seen domestic violence perpetrated upon her mother, heard the violence and listened to the arguments. She has had the misfortune of having her biological father not being a part of her life and having her step-father, whom she considered her “Daddy”, disown her because she spoke of the abuse. Trinity has had to endure thirteen moves in the last sixteen years. Despite all this Trinity is a straight “A” student and a strong well adjusted young woman. Second there’s Capra, a beautiful thirteen year old. Like Trinity, Capra has also seen the abuse done to her mother, heard the violence and listened to the arguments. Capra also has endured violence perpetrated from her father. One day because he didn’t like something she said he choked her so hard, he left marks around her neck, he then threw her on the bed and then took her over his knee and spanked her hard, eight times. Capra was twelve when this happened, even after the incident, she went to school. Despite all that Capra has endured she too is a straight “A” student, an honors student and a very well adjusted young girl. “For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater then oneself.” I picked this quote because despite what these children have endured they have survived without pursuing it and have dedicated themselves to a cause greater than themselves. Shane, the only boy is ten years old and was too young to have remembered all that Trinity and Capra witnessed. He does have some recollection of events and anger that has ensued his father. Despite all Shane has endured, he too is a straight “A” student and treats females with respect, despite the fact he has witnessed his father disrespect his mother and sister. Last is Savannah, age six, the youngest of the four. While Savannah was still in my womb, her father left us. Something even more traumatic than that was her father all most killed her mother, when her mother was five months pregnant, with Savannah. Inside the womb Savannah experienced a lot of emotions going on with her mother and throughout the rest of the pregnancy. Like her brother and sisters, Savannah to has witnessed the domestic violence. Just as her brother and sisters, Savannah too has done well in school and is a sweet, loving and caring little girl. These children are my hero’s and should be commended for their strength and determination to keep on moving forward despite what they have been handed in life.
out of all the thing s that we had to read so far my favorite is man's search for meaning. there is so much that i like about. how that the things that kept him going threw the prison was the memories of his wife and love ones. He said that he didn't know if she was alive that it didn't matter he still had the memories of her are still with him.i like how he said the we shouldn't aim for success cuz the more you aim for it the farther away from it you will get. i think that is so true you need to take things easy and just let it happen naturally. also i found it weird that not brushing there teeth didn't give them any kind of disease.i get that your body adapts to environments but still that is gross and still cant believe that. i don't that if i were put threw that same situation and i would be able to survive i think that it takes a strong person who knows themself very well.
anthony torres
cerritos college
english 52
So i found out my real hero. and it is my fater, why is my father my hero,well because he has been there for me, and telling me the truth.
(i wuold right more but my time is short)
My father is not afraid to tell me the truth, he tels me first hand because, 1.) he know what he is talking about and 2.) he has been on this earth longer than anyone i know personally. Every time i may do something that seems fun, like play halo 3 or waste my time making music, he tells me straight up, i wont make it anywhere doing that in life and yes that is true. aLSO he goes into detail n why i will not make it anywere doing things that may seem fun. i dont know how to quite explain it but yeah...
my father is my hero because he loves me, and also because he want me not to end up like him and work his entire life. Like in ony daughter, my fatehr wants me to use my brain instead of my hands. he want me to live a happy life and he is doing everything he can so i wont end up like him, that is why he is my hero.
once again i would write moer but i have not enough time on my hands at the moment.
Alysa Parra
English 60
Cypress College
Post #2
Blogging for Quizes 5 & 6
What I have learned thus far in English 60:
One major area that I have learned is about writing structure.I recall some terminology from high school such as run-ons and fragments. However, writing has become very structured from what I remember 11 years ago. There are so many basic principles that I am now learning such as Independent and Dependent Sentences, Topic Outlines. I feel so out of the loop that I am self conscious typing this blog and essays.
Man's Search for Meaning: The essay was beautiful and melancholy. I would never be that brave to elaborate on such horrific events.
Status Anxiety: I have to agree with Alain de Botton although my agreeing will not stop the desire for a better car, bigger house, and admired family. The need is unstoppable, it will never cease and someone will always end with first place and me in last .
Kevin Liou
Engl 60
Cypress College
Post #2
Well lets see...blog about something related to the class for the quiz...well I guess I would like to post my hero paper. I did not get to share mine in class, but that would be my fault because I guess I was to timid to read it aloud. So I am sharing with everybody in this blogosphere =]
Who is my hero? Let’s define what a hero is first. Some people define a hero as someone who saves hundreds of lives, destroys hundreds of lives, saves the world from a catastrophe or gives everyone in the audience an automobile.
How do I define a hero? My definition of a hero is someone who does is not prejudice. One who does not distinguish between individuals based on the color of their skin or wealth class. My hero accepts someone who is different and does not try to change that person’s way of life or thought. My hero is a subject in life, not an object. For my hero, there is only one race and one class where justice and equality is in all.
So who is my hero you ask? I guess my hero would be myself and anyone who fits under that definition of a hero.
Why is that person my hero? Well I am my own hero because I do not judge anyone based on their skin color or how they ponder about subjects from their perspective. I believe in diversity amongst individuals and that everyone should treat each other equality as we all one race.
I have not ever acted nor spoke differently towards another person or crowd. Whether they are emo, og’s, jocks, goth’s, cheerleaders, overachiever’s or nerd’s, I treated them all the same, which is with respect and dignity. The majority of my colleagues come from diverse ethnic backgrounds and we do not treat each other differently based on where we are from.
Though there are still some people in this world that still do not believe in equality or diversity. For those people, they do not fit under the definition of a hero, but for those individuals that are, those are my true heroes.
Chau Vo
Cypress
English 100
In regards to the Status Anxiety discussion, it is apparent we all can agree that the society we live in is based on status. It is the social norm starting from the day we were born. We always want the best things in life because well it will fulfill some type of satisfaction for time being. I love how Alain de Botton ends his piece by giving up the solution to help with all the social anxiety over low status is by traveling. I agree with him one-hundred percent. Reason why I agree is because I was blessed with the opportunity to travel throughout Asia with my Uncle. It is a very humbling experience to go back to my native country and made realize the opportunities we all have in America. Just like Monster said how status keeps things orderly in our society, but we just have to make sure that is not our main focus in life. All the material things we have will not define who we are. It is our character and the experiences we go through defines us. All the great material things that we all want are the icing on the cake, but in the end it is our integrity that will give you the most statisfaction. Blah blah blah.
Also I thought I should lighten up all this testosterone with this whole marriage topic. I agree the thought of marriage is taken very lightly in our society. But we cannot sit and point fingers about who got the better end of the deal when a divorce occurs. There are cases where women too also come with nothing. Every case is different so we should not generalize it that men come out short. That being said, what they are splitting are just all the material possessions. So if we are mad about splitting all the material possessions maybe that was the root cause of a failed marriage. And if you end up with more money than the other, you act like it is going to compensate for having a failed marriage under your belt. I would rather leave with nothing and still have my integrity. Like I said material things are the icing on the cake but in the end it will amount to nothing if that is all you care about. So I thought I would end my blog with humor...
Ever notice how all women’s problems start with MEN?
MENtal Illness
MENstrual cramps
MENtal breakdown
MENopause
AND
When we have REAL trouble, it’s a
HISterectomy.
But we all know its not ALL men, they are some decent ones out there. You just got to look long and hard before you settled down with one for the REST of your life. :]
CiaoChau
Marshall Rhodes
English 60
cypress
QUIZ 5 & 6
So to be honest I really enjoy talking about the specific issue in the story of status anxiety.
It has to be one of my favorite discussions so far. I really like the way that Alain describes the thought that is put into it by totally confusing people with big words…It’s just freaking amazing isn’t it?…jk…So anywho I would like to say that there is so much to be said about this kind of topic. There can be more than just two sides of this particular discussion. It is so relevant to everything and anything that is happening in the world as I write. I really can not put into words how powerful this idea is. If you try to explain why such a magnificent incline exists your head will explode. I mean literally, it will physically explode and spill your brain and other head fluids all over the place…Aren’t I descriptive. It’s not suppose to be a good thing by the way. I feel that I am not sure if I support Alain’s argument but I do understand that you shouldn’t judge someone by their wealth but then again…isn’t true as stated in the story in paragraph 3 it states that “The very act of earning money frequently calls upon virtues of character.”
This can physically be exemplified by for instance: looking at J. Paul Getty. A great man that is or was extremely rich and yet was a wonderful man that gave back to his community so much as to create a free museum to the people and yet it cost him a fortune to make. Specifically the entire thing including the art within cost almost 6 billion dollars…I think(roughly around 5 to 6 bill). This is a great example of someone who isn’t just a snobby rich man and that people can recognize him to be a good person for his acts and fortunately the objects and wealth he owns. For instance in spider man uncle ben says e ”with great power comes great responsibility”. This can also read as with lots of wealth you must have manners to show that you are of high status and respect your wealth. So by the end of this post I would now have to say that I do agree with Alain because humans put a higher status of a human’s life with tangible objects because they like to relate to things they recognize and can above all…SEEEEE!!!!!. They love to believe and know about things they can see…Ya that’s all I got right for right now
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin luther king jr.
Throughout the weeks in class many new things are arising.A new ability is the ability to voice my opinion. our class is open minded and it feels easy speak the mind. I also learned what cc meant(coordinating conjunction). Sorry for looking like a copycat monster(gabriel).Ive learned that ideas and thoughts can be viewed from more than just one side. there is always a second side to a story.a deeper meaning.
GO ANGELS!!!
Carinna Martinez
Eng 60
Cypress College
post 3
wow im really worried about the midterm...i can agree with erika WE NEED TO START STUDYING!
We went over status anxiety in class....i thought it was a great article...to think people really do buy stuff they dont need. I guess i could admitt that I am sometimes like that...what a shame. I wonder what makes people like this, to always want something that they dont have. It could be a variety of things not only materialistic, it happens in relationships also. When people cheat, its mainly because they wanted something that they couldnt have, but once they got it...most of the time is wasnt worth it. In the story it states, "life seems to be a processs of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another.."(line 8). Its hard to believe but we humans will never be happy or satisfied!
In class i am learning more about myself...the articles that we read and the discussions we have. They all really make me think, and I am glad to bring out these thoughts.
thats all.....
Talia Chase
English 52
Cerritos College
Hey everyone .....
so i finally got on the blog :D
In Mr. Hsiao's class I learned how to write a real introduction to a paper. First you have to have a hook. Then you need 2-3+ background sentences. After that comes your thesis, which is your whole paper summed up in ome sentence. Last but not least, you need a map sentence entailing your body paragraph's ideas.
Brandon
Golden West
English 100
Post: 13-15?
Pigheaded Poet:
Man this really hit home. This Poem really highlights an ultimatum a lot of people face: Do you betray yourself, and waht you want, in order to gain the approval of your family, Or do you forsake your family/friends' opinions to live your life? My best friend has been going through the same thing for a few years now. So funny that it is about poetry as well. he comes on WAY TOO STRONG with love poems and all that jazz but thats who he is and how he lives. Its a difficult choice to make, and who is to say which is wrong? its difficult to live against yourself, but just as such to live without those you love. hmm...
Lisa Nguyen
Cypress College
English 60
Post:?
Hi everyone :]
There is so many things we discuss in Mr. Hsiao's class but there is one discussion that caught my attention. "Being Materialistic" I disagree when people are judge by how rich/poor and how they dress. Also how people are portrayed because what class they are in. I love shopping and i love having the new LV bags or the latest cloting line. Having the things that i have doesn't mean i am a bad person. Many say that having such things like that is a waste of money and i can spend it on something useful. Just because someone is "rich" does not mean that they materialistic.We go to school to earn our way up to get a good degree. After we recieve our digree we go out and make the money and get the things we dream of. That is not being materialistic. If people have the money they do what they want with it because that makes them happy. think about how cruel our world can be and it can be useful if we give to the needs. There is nothing wrong with helping others.
I believe having the things that i have i work hard for. So overall being materialistic is seen in different ways.
Lisa Nguyen
Cypress College
English 60
Post:?
Hi everyone :]
There is so many things we discuss in Mr. Hsiao's class but there is one discussion that caught my attention. "Being Materialistic" I disagree when people are judge by how rich/poor and how they dress. Also how people are portrayed because what class they are in. I love shopping and i love having the new LV bags or the latest cloting line. Having the things that i have doesn't mean i am a bad person. Many say that having such things like that is a waste of money and i can spend it on something useful. Just because someone is "rich" does not mean that they materialistic.We go to school to earn our way up to get a good degree. After we recieve our digree we go out and make the money and get the things we dream of. That is not being materialistic. If people have the money they do what they want with it because that makes them happy. think about how cruel our world can be and it can be useful if we give to the needs. There is nothing wrong with helping others.
I believe having the things that i have i work hard for. So overall being materialistic is seen in different ways.
Hmmmm well talk about something in class for the quiz number 5 and 6 well, lets see the discussion about the mass punishment situation is something im very familiar with, but do not approach to well. Im not one to tell a teacher how to run his or her class but in my case, all mass punishment got some one was a A** kicking or a "blanket party" now not knowing what any one is actually like in this class i do not know how any one will react to the sheer retardedness yes i actually said that word. But i dont want to have a lynching on our hands if some one doesn't care about there grade, i know for one thing i will probably be the first in the crazy torch mob for the verbal lynching that will be to come. I will be contradicting myself now and say will i actually support such a thing? probably not cause like i said Ive seen it before, and its not pretty. If it happens with out any disrespect to the "teacher" i will not comply with mass punishment, i would rather accept a lower grade. Im sorry Mr. Hsiao again i mean no disrespect and i hope this doesn't start something.
Jessica Aragon
Eng 100
Cypress College
So i just read Immaculate thought's rant about religion.I must admit that i almost completely agree. I believe that people who are intolerant to the point of violence are not religiuos at all. They fear things they do not understand and use religion to justify thier actions. Any religion that preaches violence against others is just a bunch of cowards hiding behind their God/Gods. They dont want to own the actions that they make because they make them in anothers name. Why? Because deep down in their souls they know its wrong, but for some twisted reason they like it.
In Mr. Hsiao's class i have learned more than i ever thought i could. Yes ive learned more about writing and grammar. However, the lessons i hold dearest are the ones i learned about myself and others. I have learned to look beyond the surface of things. To jump in and search inside words and meanings. Even the trips Mr. Hsaio has planned have taught me to look at things in a different way. To appreciate life and the beautiful things within it. The deeper things. In a world full of confusion and anger its nice to be able to see and appreciate the pure good. Like Art, the human spirit and its capabilities to survive great obstacles.
Sam T.
English 60
Cypress College.
Quiz 5&6
I went to Disneyland about two weeks ago and I came across this one..well I guess you could say "ride". It was near Autopia and it grabbed my attention because it was a building that was rotating. As my boyfriend and I walk onto the rotating platform there is a tour guide or "attraction opertator" that we are about to be amazed.....I wasnt really sure what to expect when we got in there. But I wanted the doors to open already so I could finally know. When the doors finally did open people started going directions. We werent sure on which way to go so we followed an older couple. Now my first impression of the whole area was a game room. I thought to myself " This is it??" We continued to walk around we start to touch the tables that everyone else is touching. We soon find out that the tables are touch screen tables that you are able to play music and games on. I thought that it was pretty neat but realistically...useless.
We move onto another room where there is an "actor"who is standing in front of a mirror playing the role of a daughter. There are other ppl in the room while she is saying how her "Father" locked up all of her clothes in the closet. But she says its okay because she can access it all through her remote or some small device. While she picks out an outfit it shows up on the mirror and it conforming to her body. The technology was interesting.
The whole rotating building was suppose to be the future. I wasnt too happy about it. I felt like Disney was brainwashing me in a way saying "we are the future"
there were advertisements for brands and disney logos everywhere.
It reminded me of a CAVE! And I wasnt gonna buy there B-S! I tried to look past it. I got out of there quick status mostly because it wasnt a ride and i was upset. But im glad i came to realize that. <=
that is all.
Jessica Aragon
Eng. 100
Cypress College
Beauty from Pain-Superchick
The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know i'm alive but i feel like i've died
And all that's left is to accept that it's over
My dreams ran like sand through the fists that i made
I try to keep warm but i just grow colder
I feel like i'm slipping away
After all this has passed, i still will remain
After i've cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today,
Someday i'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain
My whole world is the pain inside me
The best i can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I'll wonder why God lets me walk through this place
And though i can't understand why this happened
I know that i will when i look back someday
And see how you've brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames
After all this has passed, i still will remain
After i've cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today,
Someday i'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain
Here i am, at the end of me
Tryin to hold to what i can't see
I forgot how to hope
This night's been so long
I cling to Your promise
There will be a dawn
After all this has passed, i still will remain
After i've cried my last, there'll be beauty from pain
Though it won't be today,
Someday i'll hope again
And there'll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain
Quiz 5 & 6
What have I learned in class?
This question has become a really easy question to answer. Throughout the semester I have learned so many valuable things. I have learned to respect others and their ideas. I have also learned the many different ways used to fix a run-on sentence. To do so I had to pay close attention, because I found this a bit confusing at first. Now, it is a piece of cake, all I have to remember is FANBOYS. This class is very interesting and the way we learn new thing each class is great.
Wesley Lock
Eng 100
Cypress College
Post: ???
Hi everyone.
Something that i have learned in Mr. Hsiao English 100 class is that everything we say or do has two points of view that are usually different. It does not matter if one person is right about something because someone else could point out that this something is wrong. Two people could have different point of views on something like an apple, and they would both be right. This has taught me to not be one-sided on many thing because theres always another person that might have different views then me. This is one of many things i have learned in this class.
Cortney Funk
Cypress College
English 60
Post #3
After reading post after post about how great "Status Anxiety" is, I'm started to disagree more and more. I can honestly say that i really didn't like it. The reason why I didn't like it was because it's the truth. Let's face it, sometimes the truth does indeed hurt.
Yes, it does make a good point, but i just don't like the fact that every word applies to me so well. I love shopping and spending cash like it's going out of style. Now I'm starting to realize how much money I actually spend! I don't make enough money to support my habits! I can barely afford to fill up my gas guzzling car, yet i always find money to buy that new pair or shoes.
"Reading Status" anxiety really struck a nerve. It made me realize that I'm becoming a selfish, materialistic person. I'm becoming the same person that I told myself I would never become. Yes, it did open my eye, but let's be realistic. No one wants to admit that they are wrong.
I guess this is kind of a step in the right direction. I really need to stand back and realize what is more important than a new pair of shoes.
(quiz 5&6)
All,
Thank you for all your contributions, all of them.
We have a couple more to go until 800.
Who wants it? Who will get it? What will you say? Let it not be a one-liner please.
You are right: We will get to 1,000. I still do not know about 10,000, but we will see.
well another thing really about the Getty i still got to see the garden HAHAH suckers just kidding i bet it was a better experience with a guide but hey, its amazing really the amount people are posting and not the usually one liner craps and what nots its getting better i think well im off to bed and do the home work fragments stuff
Crap i thought i seriously gonna be the 800 man!!! DANMIT!! well i hope every one has a great night and to all a farewell
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