Entry 5, Journey

  I have seen alot of movies in my life, but one of my favorite movie of all time, is a movie called Falling Down directed by Joel Schumacher. This movie is about a frustrated man that is trying to go home, and his journey on his way to see his daughter. He was stuck in L.A traffic, and he just got out of his car, and started hiking home. This is no ordinary journey, this man has anger problems. He encounters with many types of people causing the complications of his conflicts. He crossed gang territories, and took weapons, fought some people and all he doesn't get is why are people always getting in his way. He wanted everyone to get out of his way so he can go see his daughter who he is forbidden from seeing due to his psychological problems. Cops were chasing this man, but he does not get caught until the very end of the story. Technically he was never caught, he died. I think this man did not really learn anything, on the way, there were people killed, people that felt scared because of him. At last, he just gave up, he just accepted the truth of all the miserable things in life that he is facing, and just gave up. I feel as if I am going through a journey right now. I am growing up, learning new things, trying new things, experiencing life. I think this journey wouldn't end until I reach a point where I am so old I need a cane to carry myself around with.  I want this journey to be rich , successful, and fulfilling. I will be looking back 70 years later, looking back at the foolish person I am today, thinking, "wow, I was that type of person back then?" Until that point, my journey wouldn't end. This on going journey will be full of surprises.

Entry 4, Time

  Time passes by very quickly. I am the type of person that tries my best to cherish every little moment in my life. Even if I am going through a less pleasing time of my life, I still try to cherish the moment, take it as a lesson, and move on. Time passes by extra slowly when you are doing something you do not like, but on the other hand, things like spending time with your friends or playing games will pass by with a blink of an eye. Tom Beneke, with the near death experience, his time past by real slowly. He was only out the for 8 minutes, but it felt like hours to him. This is because he was doing something he was very scared of, standing on the side of the building 10 stories up the ground. Time seemed slower because there were alot of thoughts going through his brain, therefore he thought time was alot longer. I believe the slow passing time does happen in real life, times like, being in a Spanish class after lunch, or waiting for the tea pot to boil your water. The time tends to slow down when you dislike the activity you are doing, and it slows down when you are feared. I think time still should be cherished, each time a bad event happens to you, learn from it, don't eve feel like time has been wasted. A life with experiences to me, is considered well spent. I will try my best at keeping this as how I will live my life.

Entry 3 , Values

  There are many things people value in life. Different people tend to have different values in their life, some value friendship, some value love, some value wealth and success and much more. I believe I am the type of guy that values my health and family more than anything. This would definetly be on my top list of values. I believe health of an individual is crucial to everything else, without a good health, you cannot accomplish anything. Without your family supporting you, you will not accomplish anything. That is what I believe. Then I would value love and success, success is actually a very high ranked value I have, because, I really want to become successful in life and help the world do some good. In the story Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket, Tom Benecke first valued his job, and his promotion to get to the top of his company over family, but then after a near death experience, this changed him completely, putting family at the very top. My list of values, would be Health, then family second, love and friendship third, success fourth and wealth coming last. I know this list sounds corny and very general, but this is how I will be living the rest of my life. Family and health, will always be my top priority.

Entry 2, Picture

   This picture on our text book is quite interesting. In this picture, the perspective as the viewer is looking upwards, which means it was taken from bottom up. The pictures's main point is the women in the middle of the picture, she is holding the bamboo as if she was about to defeat all of the hanging ninjas popping down from the top. The mood of this picture I would use spooky, intense to describe it. As there is fog in the back of the picture showing this picture was taken somewhere with alot of bamboos, such as China, with ninjas hanging down, as if they were about to attack the women in the middle of the picture. They seem like they are about to engage in a battle with each other. This picture I believe is set in China, somewhere on top of some mountain, which is where all the fog comes from, and a bamboo forest. It was around the ancient times in China when they still had dynasties. These people are fighting with old weapons rather than the modern new weapons. This picture I think could be taken just a little bit better, showing some ninjas about to drop, and some already dropped. These people are about to engage in an intense, merciless battle with each other.

Entry 1, Common Experiences

  This quote, made famous by Willa Cather, to me is not true, or atleast it does not apply to my life. I don't believe that people only have two or three different stories to tell in their whole lifetime. They must have different types of stories, alot of varieties of stories they can tell. Not everything will be revolved back to them having a broken heart, or being very happy because he won. I believe people do tend to retell similar types of stories over and over again. Even if it has happened to them before, they still keep telling and telling it. This to me applies and makes alot more logical sense. Examples of repeated formats of stories would be like, losing a loved one, and feeling heart broken when you know every one of your relative will pass on and sooner or later you will too. Or saying I lost love, and the heartbreak was never this bad, I believe that people just forget their experiences under that moment. I believe that there are more than two or three types of stories, two or three is too little, makes me feel as if Willa Cather was exaggerating about how people don't tell new patterns of stories. To me, I would say roughly 5-10 types of stories in an average person's life. These things always gets thrown at me, and I figured this could be one of those things where people just tend to believe in because it was a popular quote, or because it made a little bit of sense to it. No, I full heartily believe that there are alot more than two or three types of stores. 

First Post!

  Wow! It has definitely been a while since I posted up here. 10th grade, things are getting harder and harder. The workload has tripled ever since I first got into this school. I guess this is normal right? This is just another stage of my life growing up, I mean you can't just expect your whole life to be care free and pressureless right? Us humans were developed to work, and all I am doing right now is adjusting from the lazy summer I had. This summer was amazing, words cannot express the fun I've had over the summer, it is absolutely incomprehensible how great it was. Last year, I spent all day everyday with my ex girlfriend, doing things couples do. It was a drama-free relaxing summer. This year however, everything was packed, it was like everyday was busy, busy with different people and different things to do. Also, one of my closest friend came back, Michael Chiu. All the way from Toronto, this boy didn't change at all! We started out the summer with some gambling issues of a friend. Then it was all the times partying at one of our houses, at one point, we even had four parties in one week! It was awesome, I had a blast, everyone did infact. Then there was the girlfriends and the drama we had. Definitely going to remember all this. Despite of all these busy events, we still always ended the day with atleast 2 hours at the pool hall. No joke, two hours atleast every day. The pool hall had became our second home. Last Thursday, Michael had to leave, to many of us, we knew summer had ended. Right now, we have all gotten over the fact that summers over, but this summer, '11 summer, will always have a place in my mind, as the best summer ever. Summer, I'll see you next year.