I started studying Korean in September of 2006 and so far... I'm still lost in translation. Well, not completely; I could probably find myself around Seoul (the capital of Korea) without getting too lost. Everything about Asian culture fascinates me and, as a Westerner, I am intrigued by their technology. Their lifestyle is GO, GO, GO! Everything from their mini iriver mp3 players to their Hello Kitty charms (which is something you can't walk around Tokyo without seeing).
Monday, March 26, 2007
Lost In Translation
I started studying Korean in September of 2006 and so far... I'm still lost in translation. Well, not completely; I could probably find myself around Seoul (the capital of Korea) without getting too lost. Everything about Asian culture fascinates me and, as a Westerner, I am intrigued by their technology. Their lifestyle is GO, GO, GO! Everything from their mini iriver mp3 players to their Hello Kitty charms (which is something you can't walk around Tokyo without seeing).
Sunday, March 25, 2007
An Extraordinary Thought
A very famous linguist once said that out of all the possible combinations of any words in the English language, 'Cellar Door' is the most beautiful. More beautiful sounding, in fact, than the word beautiful itself. What an extraordinary thought. I wish I could say that one day I will be quoted, but I never will.
Shakespeare said 'Journeys end in lovers meeting', now there is an extraordinary thought. But Shakespeare also said that 'love is blind', and I know that is true. Most people don't know it, but they are blinded by love all day, everyday for their entire life. Some people are just fed up with love, and others, well love is just lost. For me, however, love has not yet been found. Now THERE'S and extraordinary thought. Who ever does fall in love, anyway? I mean, we have all liked someone, but how do we know we love someone? And for that, love is definitely (infamously) blind.
But none of that really matters, because right now I'm thinking about sometimes different that is branched off by the same line of thought. Most respected people would like to tell you that life has two extremes: Fear and Love. But as far as anyone's concerned, no one fits into either category -- well at least as far as I'm concerned. Nothing can fit into just two categories. Life is much, much too complicated to have only two categories to fall under. Humans are too complex to understand and over-thing the thought that there can be alternate universes and loopholes in time, but we don't over-think religion. Why is that? We can ask questions about science and math and history, but we can't ask questions about religion. Is it because religion is religion, get what you take from it? Or is it because there are no answers to questions? Don't get me wrong, I do believe there is a God above us, but why aren't we allowed to question faith? Because then it wouldn't be faith, now would it.
Being as open minded about something doesn't make a person good or bad. Being close minded about something doesn't make a person good or bad either. But being completely blind about something makes someone human. Because, 'we are all humans, and humans make mistakes'.
Shakespeare said 'Journeys end in lovers meeting', now there is an extraordinary thought. But Shakespeare also said that 'love is blind', and I know that is true. Most people don't know it, but they are blinded by love all day, everyday for their entire life. Some people are just fed up with love, and others, well love is just lost. For me, however, love has not yet been found. Now THERE'S and extraordinary thought. Who ever does fall in love, anyway? I mean, we have all liked someone, but how do we know we love someone? And for that, love is definitely (infamously) blind.
But none of that really matters, because right now I'm thinking about sometimes different that is branched off by the same line of thought. Most respected people would like to tell you that life has two extremes: Fear and Love. But as far as anyone's concerned, no one fits into either category -- well at least as far as I'm concerned. Nothing can fit into just two categories. Life is much, much too complicated to have only two categories to fall under. Humans are too complex to understand and over-thing the thought that there can be alternate universes and loopholes in time, but we don't over-think religion. Why is that? We can ask questions about science and math and history, but we can't ask questions about religion. Is it because religion is religion, get what you take from it? Or is it because there are no answers to questions? Don't get me wrong, I do believe there is a God above us, but why aren't we allowed to question faith? Because then it wouldn't be faith, now would it.
Being as open minded about something doesn't make a person good or bad. Being close minded about something doesn't make a person good or bad either. But being completely blind about something makes someone human. Because, 'we are all humans, and humans make mistakes'.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Complain, Complain, Complain
What really scares me is that I don't know how to do it. How do you become a journalist? Do you just simply go to a newspaper and ask for a job and hope you get recognized? Or do you have to be born in the right country and in the right city and in the right family? Whatever the answer is, I'm determined to become one.
For a few years now i have been planning on being a journalist for a very well-known magazine like say... The Rolling Stone or Spin or maybe even New York Times. I've decided that I want to have a fun job that makes less money over a horrid job that makes more money, and that's exactly what it seems journalism is going to be like. It may a very well-paying job or I may get stuck in a rut at a local newspaper for the rest of my life and not accomplishing any real good story -- but it'd still be a fun job. Actually, that's untrue; if I am going to be a journalist, I'm not going to waste my time with small local stories my entire life, but that would be a good start. Which brings me to my next point; how are we supposed to know what we want at such a young age?
People don't know what they actually want until it's given to them, that's why movies that are predictible that an audience "should love" fail horribly at the box office (and since when does a movie have to do great at the box office in order to be good?). ANYWAY, like I was saying, we had to do career choice presentations all the way back in grade 7 -- we were 12! How many 12-year-olds know what they want to do for the rest of their lives? The Canadian school system is failing (they even took out a year of high school and expected us to learn 5 years of work in 4), how is that teaching us anything? It's teaching us that the world revolves around money, and true... that is the sad reality of our world, but then they turn around and say "why are so many students not passing high school anymore?". I wonder (stupid shit heads).
At the age of 16, students in Canada are expected to start choosing high school courses that will change and ultimately establish their future. But if you're just as lost as I am, how are you supposed to know which courses to take? Uhhh... a journalism course? (for me, it's quite obvious) And lets see... English?(oh wait, we have to take that anyways!) I don't know where to turn, the Guidance Office doesn't do shit: "Okay, well lets have a peek at your marks. Well, nothing under 80, this is a good start" (uhm, do you think?!?! I could have established that for myself. Thanks for wasting my time, bitch).
I am fed up with the way adults treat us like babies and expect to act like adults. Wow, that was a load of shit I just fed to you. I can't believe people actually read this crap and agree with it. I mean I just wasted your time ranting on about the curriculum and futures and everything else that's wrong with our modern society. Damn, I need to read a book. I think I'll go listen to "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" from 1971.
For a few years now i have been planning on being a journalist for a very well-known magazine like say... The Rolling Stone or Spin or maybe even New York Times. I've decided that I want to have a fun job that makes less money over a horrid job that makes more money, and that's exactly what it seems journalism is going to be like. It may a very well-paying job or I may get stuck in a rut at a local newspaper for the rest of my life and not accomplishing any real good story -- but it'd still be a fun job. Actually, that's untrue; if I am going to be a journalist, I'm not going to waste my time with small local stories my entire life, but that would be a good start. Which brings me to my next point; how are we supposed to know what we want at such a young age?
People don't know what they actually want until it's given to them, that's why movies that are predictible that an audience "should love" fail horribly at the box office (and since when does a movie have to do great at the box office in order to be good?). ANYWAY, like I was saying, we had to do career choice presentations all the way back in grade 7 -- we were 12! How many 12-year-olds know what they want to do for the rest of their lives? The Canadian school system is failing (they even took out a year of high school and expected us to learn 5 years of work in 4), how is that teaching us anything? It's teaching us that the world revolves around money, and true... that is the sad reality of our world, but then they turn around and say "why are so many students not passing high school anymore?". I wonder (stupid shit heads).
At the age of 16, students in Canada are expected to start choosing high school courses that will change and ultimately establish their future. But if you're just as lost as I am, how are you supposed to know which courses to take? Uhhh... a journalism course? (for me, it's quite obvious) And lets see... English?(oh wait, we have to take that anyways!) I don't know where to turn, the Guidance Office doesn't do shit: "Okay, well lets have a peek at your marks. Well, nothing under 80, this is a good start" (uhm, do you think?!?! I could have established that for myself. Thanks for wasting my time, bitch).
I am fed up with the way adults treat us like babies and expect to act like adults. Wow, that was a load of shit I just fed to you. I can't believe people actually read this crap and agree with it. I mean I just wasted your time ranting on about the curriculum and futures and everything else that's wrong with our modern society. Damn, I need to read a book. I think I'll go listen to "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" from 1971.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
There's a Reason It's Only 99 cents
We're all eating shit. Everyday day we all eat shit sometime, even if it's a microscopic piece, it's still shit.
After sitting through one hour and forty-five minutes of "Fast Food Nation" I don't think I will ever eat another hamburger again -- and I don't suppose you will either. Go out and rent it, see it with some friends, and don't eat anything while you watch it, especially not McDonald's.
I just saw it, and I am shocked I didn't know what went on in these plants where they slaughter hundreds of thousands of cows for our enjoyment. All of that meat gets so processed on the way to our mouth it's disgusting! Everything about the fast food industry is disgusting. The marketing, the selling the buying... the EATING! That shit is just nasty.
In "Fast Food Nation" we get to see the inner workings of a plant where a man from Mexico works to pay for his new life in America. Everything that happens at that plant happens everyday in real life. People get sucked into machines and parts of their bodies get torn apart, people clean out intestines only to put shit all over the meat -- that's what we're eating. Everyday people in these factories accidentally spill ACTUAL bullshit all over that hamburger you're eating. But one guy in the film says "cook it and it kills all the germs from the shit". Is that really the solution to this carelessness? It doesn't matter anyways, with all that crap they put in hamburgers these days it'll kill you anyhow.
I don't think I'll ever work at McDonald's... or Harvey's or Burger Kind or Chucky Cheese or any other self-induced grease hole that sells food that kills people. It's nasty, and it's not healthy. I will never eat a burger EVER again. We're all told that it's alright to eat this stuff, and that it's good or whatever... but they put it best in "Fast Food Nation": Would you like lies with that?
After sitting through one hour and forty-five minutes of "Fast Food Nation" I don't think I will ever eat another hamburger again -- and I don't suppose you will either. Go out and rent it, see it with some friends, and don't eat anything while you watch it, especially not McDonald's.
I just saw it, and I am shocked I didn't know what went on in these plants where they slaughter hundreds of thousands of cows for our enjoyment. All of that meat gets so processed on the way to our mouth it's disgusting! Everything about the fast food industry is disgusting. The marketing, the selling the buying... the EATING! That shit is just nasty.
In "Fast Food Nation" we get to see the inner workings of a plant where a man from Mexico works to pay for his new life in America. Everything that happens at that plant happens everyday in real life. People get sucked into machines and parts of their bodies get torn apart, people clean out intestines only to put shit all over the meat -- that's what we're eating. Everyday people in these factories accidentally spill ACTUAL bullshit all over that hamburger you're eating. But one guy in the film says "cook it and it kills all the germs from the shit". Is that really the solution to this carelessness? It doesn't matter anyways, with all that crap they put in hamburgers these days it'll kill you anyhow.
I don't think I'll ever work at McDonald's... or Harvey's or Burger Kind or Chucky Cheese or any other self-induced grease hole that sells food that kills people. It's nasty, and it's not healthy. I will never eat a burger EVER again. We're all told that it's alright to eat this stuff, and that it's good or whatever... but they put it best in "Fast Food Nation": Would you like lies with that?
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