Why can't we go back to a simpler time?
A time when people were actually nice to each other
A time when people didn't show cleavage in their attire; it's what's inside that's matters, not outside. Beauty is only skin deep.
A time when people actually care about each other and not make judgments about each other, whether its about their attitude or 'fashion sense.'
A time when people have more face-to-face contact or they write letters to each other or at least they talk to each other
Now anything goes...
People just fight over the simplest of thingsPeople worry way too much about their body image-they become obssessed with it, they've turned anorexic or bulimic; everything about themselves is totally and completely fake; nothing is real anymore since they do plastic surgery 10x over
Why do have people care about each other 'fashion sense' (or lack thereof)-it's so superficial; they should worry about what kind person they are: personality, talent, etc.
Now all people want to do is communicate with each other via computer gadets online (email, text, online chat rooms) and through their so-called networking sites (MySpace, Facebook
'Course that's just the plus side of things way back when.
The negative side are numerous:
Let me count the ways:
1) Thanks to suffragists, women were given the right to vote in 1920
2) Civil right movemeent began in the '60s
3) Chinese Exclusion Act of 1800s, which the Chinese to be relocated and not allowed to enter the State Japanesese were sent to concentration camps in the States during WWII; also every other race that's not black was segregated or stereotyped. (KKK wanted the African American's heads in the form of lynching)
So not everything way back then was rosy but Hollywood sure as hell made it seem rosy!
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
How America Can Be the True Ideal Land of Opportunity
Chinese come to America with the illusion that there will be gold waiting for 'em but 'cuz of their race they're kept back from either going back to China or entering America, according to Maxine Hong Kingston's book China Men, which is about the male relatives of her life.
Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese were kept at Angel Island for days, which turn into weeks which become months. Months into years. Even though they got good jobs back in China, where they speak
Chinese, here in America all they get was either work in the restaurants (my father) or the laundry (my grandfather and Maxine Hong Kingston's father). We were only allowed to do menial labor like helped built the transcontinental railroad. We lost people building that railroad. They had to change their names to an America name/ My father was given an American name, but Maxine Hong Kingston's father changed his name to an American name. The thngs we do to fit in to American culture. This is so not the 'land of opportunity.'
According to Maxine Hong Kingston, her grand-grandfather worked in the fields like a slave (although he and his fellow Chinese immigrants get paid, though they get short-changed sometimes. Yes, life as a Chinese who came here for a better life was hard here in America the land of the opportunity. Yea, right!) helped harvesting the sugar cane in Hawaii's Sandalwood Mountains. On the other hand, my great-grandfather (on my father's side) was a hardworking man (although Maxine Hong Kingston's great-grandfather was a hardworker; she goes, the ones who weren't able to survive, he won't acknowledge them as his own.) He started his own hand-washed laundry business in the Big Apple (New York) Yes he went back. To this day, we have connections there in the Big Apple. Even my dad lived there for a time.
My folks never ever told me Chinese stories. However, Maxine Hong Kingston's relatives did. Reading those old Chinse stories made me feel like I'm missing a part of my Chinese culture; I lost a part of my Chinese culture being born in America. Being born an American means I was taught American stories, not Chinese stories, which include tall tales-Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, remember those two characters? Being born in America also meant I also learned American history, not Chinese history-sure, I was taught world history but just the important parts; they didn't go into details. Through Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography, I learned some Chinese history-parts I feel missing from my education as I was growing up in America.
But boy, am I glad I didn't grow up in China! The Communist Party did unspeakable things to their civilians. All of Maxine Hong Kingston's male relatives died at the hands of the Communists/ The Communist may have taken our material possessions, but not our dignity!
Through it all, my mother worked hard in school both in high school and college majoring in chemistry. She was athletic in many sports, most especially basketball and ping pong. She was popular in school.
Meanwhile my dad was in America working hard before and after school, he delivered newspapers. He went to Lowell (back then, anybody could get in-it wasn't just the smart kids) was enlisted in the Air Force-traveled a bit, got out to finished his college education at CCSF (it wasn't as big as it was now) majored in business at first, then got his RE degree there about the same time as Mom did.
Mom and Dad got married in 1973-opened their real estate agency at about the same time; Mom still worked part-time at an adveriising agency doing accounting.. When my older brother was born almost 36 years ago, my maternal grandparents came to take care of him. 2 yearss later I was born and both my grandparents had a hand in raising us kids while the parental units worked.
They always say, work hard and you will succeed.
I admit, sometimes I tend to be lazy, but I enjoy doing something like selling stuff (ie.: cards, calendars) so that I could get a coveted prize. I hate arithmetic but love English-I love composition. As all younger sibs do, I tended to look up to my older brother, tag along after him when he was with his friends.
During my schoolyears, I tended to be shy so I made few friends. My dad once teasingly called stuck-up, but me, I never like to be teased.
One so-called friend stabbed me in the back by laughing at me. I couldn't take it anymore so I got mad; I took matters into my own hands. They then rejected me. They told everyone about what happened; I got paranoid.
Fast forward to 21st century: my paranoid took a turn for the worst. I thought people were stalking me so that they could make mincemeat out of me.It took getting out of school for awhile to get my senses back.
i digress...
Old Gold Mountain: I got a theory about OGM-there's no such thing! It's just another way to say Land of Opportunity but at a price (probably gold). It is the land of opportunity if you're a rich, white, male. If you don't fit those criteria, then there's no land of opportunity for you, whether you're Asian, black or any other ethnicity that isn't white. During WWII, if you're Jewish or Japanese, there ain't no opportunity for ya. In the here n' now, if you're Muslim, you will be ostracize, all because of your faith. Maybe it's WWII all over again... When they have they Chinese Exclusion Act, there wasn't any opportunity for Chinese except for menial labor, helping to build the transcontinental railroad. Also women didn't have much opportunity either until the suffragists did something about it! Power to the women!
The only people with opportunity in America so-called land of opportunity were male of Caucasian ancestry (ie.: Polish, Danish). This just wasn't right but it happened.
Why wasn't there ever some kind of an uprising among all minorities ? I don't mean among just blacks, I mean among all minorities to unite together to overthrow the system. Blacks may have started the civil rights movement, but we as minorities could continue the movement of overthrowing the white supremacists of the world. We shouldn't let anyone put us down cuz united we stand. I think the minority race outnumbers the majority race.
There is Asian race from every spectrum-Indian, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Polynesian to name a few. African Americns, Spanish race has a lot of different cultures-Latin Americans, Chicanos, mixed races-don't forget women and children. Women & children need rights too-sometimes they need to be heard-sometims no one listens to them.
We can form forces with the women & children, which include the Caucasian ones of the world. They, like the minorities, have been pushed around. With the minorities (& women & kids) can cause an uprising among the rich, white, male and order will be overthrown. It will be total and complete chaos! Now this is the land of opportunity! When order resumes, utopia will be in order. Ah tranquility.
Because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese were kept at Angel Island for days, which turn into weeks which become months. Months into years. Even though they got good jobs back in China, where they speak
Chinese, here in America all they get was either work in the restaurants (my father) or the laundry (my grandfather and Maxine Hong Kingston's father). We were only allowed to do menial labor like helped built the transcontinental railroad. We lost people building that railroad. They had to change their names to an America name/ My father was given an American name, but Maxine Hong Kingston's father changed his name to an American name. The thngs we do to fit in to American culture. This is so not the 'land of opportunity.'
According to Maxine Hong Kingston, her grand-grandfather worked in the fields like a slave (although he and his fellow Chinese immigrants get paid, though they get short-changed sometimes. Yes, life as a Chinese who came here for a better life was hard here in America the land of the opportunity. Yea, right!) helped harvesting the sugar cane in Hawaii's Sandalwood Mountains. On the other hand, my great-grandfather (on my father's side) was a hardworking man (although Maxine Hong Kingston's great-grandfather was a hardworker; she goes, the ones who weren't able to survive, he won't acknowledge them as his own.) He started his own hand-washed laundry business in the Big Apple (New York) Yes he went back. To this day, we have connections there in the Big Apple. Even my dad lived there for a time.
My folks never ever told me Chinese stories. However, Maxine Hong Kingston's relatives did. Reading those old Chinse stories made me feel like I'm missing a part of my Chinese culture; I lost a part of my Chinese culture being born in America. Being born an American means I was taught American stories, not Chinese stories, which include tall tales-Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, remember those two characters? Being born in America also meant I also learned American history, not Chinese history-sure, I was taught world history but just the important parts; they didn't go into details. Through Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography, I learned some Chinese history-parts I feel missing from my education as I was growing up in America.
But boy, am I glad I didn't grow up in China! The Communist Party did unspeakable things to their civilians. All of Maxine Hong Kingston's male relatives died at the hands of the Communists/ The Communist may have taken our material possessions, but not our dignity!
Through it all, my mother worked hard in school both in high school and college majoring in chemistry. She was athletic in many sports, most especially basketball and ping pong. She was popular in school.
Meanwhile my dad was in America working hard before and after school, he delivered newspapers. He went to Lowell (back then, anybody could get in-it wasn't just the smart kids) was enlisted in the Air Force-traveled a bit, got out to finished his college education at CCSF (it wasn't as big as it was now) majored in business at first, then got his RE degree there about the same time as Mom did.
Mom and Dad got married in 1973-opened their real estate agency at about the same time; Mom still worked part-time at an adveriising agency doing accounting.. When my older brother was born almost 36 years ago, my maternal grandparents came to take care of him. 2 yearss later I was born and both my grandparents had a hand in raising us kids while the parental units worked.
They always say, work hard and you will succeed.
I admit, sometimes I tend to be lazy, but I enjoy doing something like selling stuff (ie.: cards, calendars) so that I could get a coveted prize. I hate arithmetic but love English-I love composition. As all younger sibs do, I tended to look up to my older brother, tag along after him when he was with his friends.
During my schoolyears, I tended to be shy so I made few friends. My dad once teasingly called stuck-up, but me, I never like to be teased.
One so-called friend stabbed me in the back by laughing at me. I couldn't take it anymore so I got mad; I took matters into my own hands. They then rejected me. They told everyone about what happened; I got paranoid.
Fast forward to 21st century: my paranoid took a turn for the worst. I thought people were stalking me so that they could make mincemeat out of me.It took getting out of school for awhile to get my senses back.
i digress...
Old Gold Mountain: I got a theory about OGM-there's no such thing! It's just another way to say Land of Opportunity but at a price (probably gold). It is the land of opportunity if you're a rich, white, male. If you don't fit those criteria, then there's no land of opportunity for you, whether you're Asian, black or any other ethnicity that isn't white. During WWII, if you're Jewish or Japanese, there ain't no opportunity for ya. In the here n' now, if you're Muslim, you will be ostracize, all because of your faith. Maybe it's WWII all over again... When they have they Chinese Exclusion Act, there wasn't any opportunity for Chinese except for menial labor, helping to build the transcontinental railroad. Also women didn't have much opportunity either until the suffragists did something about it! Power to the women!
The only people with opportunity in America so-called land of opportunity were male of Caucasian ancestry (ie.: Polish, Danish). This just wasn't right but it happened.
Why wasn't there ever some kind of an uprising among all minorities ? I don't mean among just blacks, I mean among all minorities to unite together to overthrow the system. Blacks may have started the civil rights movement, but we as minorities could continue the movement of overthrowing the white supremacists of the world. We shouldn't let anyone put us down cuz united we stand. I think the minority race outnumbers the majority race.
There is Asian race from every spectrum-Indian, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Polynesian to name a few. African Americns, Spanish race has a lot of different cultures-Latin Americans, Chicanos, mixed races-don't forget women and children. Women & children need rights too-sometimes they need to be heard-sometims no one listens to them.
We can form forces with the women & children, which include the Caucasian ones of the world. They, like the minorities, have been pushed around. With the minorities (& women & kids) can cause an uprising among the rich, white, male and order will be overthrown. It will be total and complete chaos! Now this is the land of opportunity! When order resumes, utopia will be in order. Ah tranquility.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Crazy Love
Crazy like a fox
hunting for (playboy) bunnies
Playin' the field
In its neverending illusion of love/hate relationship
Dare to be
Vicious Lovin'
Killa Lovin'
Love me
Or
Hate me
Choose to be loved
Choose to be hated
Crazy love
What is there out there for the world at large in this crazy lovin' world?
Violence,
Mayhem,
Destruction,
Calamity,
But there is hope out there with the hate-
Harmony,
Peace.
Goodwill,
Love
Peace Out, Brothers n' Sisters!
May there be world peace in the future
hunting for (playboy) bunnies
Playin' the field
In its neverending illusion of love/hate relationship
Dare to be
Vicious Lovin'
Killa Lovin'
Love me
Or
Hate me
Choose to be loved
Choose to be hated
Crazy love
What is there out there for the world at large in this crazy lovin' world?
Violence,
Mayhem,
Destruction,
Calamity,
But there is hope out there with the hate-
Harmony,
Peace.
Goodwill,
Love
Peace Out, Brothers n' Sisters!
May there be world peace in the future
Love's in the Air
I know, I know, V-Day (aka Valentine's Day) is so commercialized, but it's a love-ly holiday. People get married on this day. Well, here goes;
Love is unbeatable
unconquerable
There's nothing like feeling the magic of love
You feel special like the world has slip away from you-
like you're the only ones belonging in this world
You fit together like goatskin gloves
Love-
there's no end in sight
it is boundless n' endless
When you feel hopeless, distraught,
suddenly love is right there
right in your face
it is the light at the end of the tunnel
your heart skips a beat
waiting
waiting
waiting
for the love of your life
These are the signs that you know you've truly fallen madly, deeply head-over-heels in love for 'the one':
your hands start to sweat,
you get delirious with happiness,
you get weak in the knees
and of course
your heart skips a beat
upon seeing him/her-
it's like love at first all over again!
love is crazy!
♥ LOVE ♥ - ISN'T IT A WONDERFUL THING?!
Love is unbeatable
unconquerable
There's nothing like feeling the magic of love
You feel special like the world has slip away from you-
like you're the only ones belonging in this world
You fit together like goatskin gloves
Love-
there's no end in sight
it is boundless n' endless
When you feel hopeless, distraught,
suddenly love is right there
right in your face
it is the light at the end of the tunnel
your heart skips a beat
waiting
waiting
waiting
for the love of your life
These are the signs that you know you've truly fallen madly, deeply head-over-heels in love for 'the one':
your hands start to sweat,
you get delirious with happiness,
you get weak in the knees
and of course
your heart skips a beat
upon seeing him/her-
it's like love at first all over again!
love is crazy!
♥ LOVE ♥ - ISN'T IT A WONDERFUL THING?!
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| Happy Valentine's Day! |
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The Upsides n' Downsides of Life
Enjoy what you have (before it's taken away from you-don't take life for granted)
Don't take life for granted-take advantage of every single moment of your wonderful life
You never know what's around the corne until you make a go at it. If you don't succeed the 1st time, try, try again (as the saying goes). You never know-you may have a hidden talent for something you don't know you have. Life's about trying new things, experiencing the world, expanding your horizons and so on and so forth.
Enjoy every single moment you have on this planet Earth-you never know if your life will be taken away from you wherever that might be, if it's the next day or next week or next month, or even next year. It's all in the hands of Fate.
So go ahead and enjoy life! Go on... What are you waiting for?
Enjoy every moment of your life-you never know what's around waiting for you around the corner (be it something good or bad!) Just go with the flow and let life take care of the rest! (Understatement of the year) Life has its unexpected adventures-you never know what to expect in the unforeseeable future (unless you're some superstitous fortune teller!) Life don't wait around for you; it comes whether you want it or not. Life is oh-so-mysterious. It reeks of mystery. Life- you never know what surprises is lying in wait for you.
You may plan out your life accordingly, but life doesn't just get planned (ie.: unwanted pregnancies, STIs, etc) You may want to have a career before having a family, but then you fall in love (Aw, shucks!), so you have to put your career plans on hold. Life gets planned; you don't planned life. It keeps things from gettin' bored all the time- surprises at every turn, at every moment, at waking hour.
Don't take life for granted-take advantage of every single moment of your wonderful life
You never know what's around the corne until you make a go at it. If you don't succeed the 1st time, try, try again (as the saying goes). You never know-you may have a hidden talent for something you don't know you have. Life's about trying new things, experiencing the world, expanding your horizons and so on and so forth.
Enjoy every single moment you have on this planet Earth-you never know if your life will be taken away from you wherever that might be, if it's the next day or next week or next month, or even next year. It's all in the hands of Fate.
So go ahead and enjoy life! Go on... What are you waiting for?
Enjoy every moment of your life-you never know what's around waiting for you around the corner (be it something good or bad!) Just go with the flow and let life take care of the rest! (Understatement of the year) Life has its unexpected adventures-you never know what to expect in the unforeseeable future (unless you're some superstitous fortune teller!) Life don't wait around for you; it comes whether you want it or not. Life is oh-so-mysterious. It reeks of mystery. Life- you never know what surprises is lying in wait for you.
You may plan out your life accordingly, but life doesn't just get planned (ie.: unwanted pregnancies, STIs, etc) You may want to have a career before having a family, but then you fall in love (Aw, shucks!), so you have to put your career plans on hold. Life gets planned; you don't planned life. It keeps things from gettin' bored all the time- surprises at every turn, at every moment, at waking hour.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Dare to be Different
Be true to yourself
Go out of your comfort zone
Think outside the box (as the Taco Bell commerical goes)
Take a chance
Take a leap of faith
Try something different in life
(like me trying sound recording when I've been writing for ages)
Don't always play it safe (except when it comes to sex)-
try something you've never ever try before like bungee jumping
Don't play by the rules-
rules are meant to be broken anyways
Just know your boundaries
Set yourself free from the everyday humdrum-
life is about the mundane;
it's about living each day with exciting, experiencing new things with no limits-
remember the sky's the limit!
Exceed your boundaries before they exceed you
Go out of your comfort zone
Think outside the box (as the Taco Bell commerical goes)
Take a chance
Take a leap of faith
Try something different in life
(like me trying sound recording when I've been writing for ages)
Don't always play it safe (except when it comes to sex)-
try something you've never ever try before like bungee jumping
Don't play by the rules-
rules are meant to be broken anyways
Just know your boundaries
Set yourself free from the everyday humdrum-
life is about the mundane;
it's about living each day with exciting, experiencing new things with no limits-
remember the sky's the limit!
Exceed your boundaries before they exceed you
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Lookin' Within Yourself
I feel as though I'm missin' somethin' out of my life. Something significant. I'm trying to 'find myself,' my place in life. The billion dollar question is: What do I want out of life? I want to move forward than wasting my time repeatedly doing the same things over again n' again day in n' day out.
If something doesn't change soon, I could seriously sponteously combust, implode, freak out, whatever!
I want to move forward in life, not stuck in one spot for the rest of my days, wasting away into nothingness. I want to make something of myself, become a famous something or other, preferably in music. That's why I decided to sign up to learn how to sound record, to become a disc jockey aka dj. Maybe I could be like Samatha Ronson, deejaying at nightclubs.
First small-town SF, then I'll move on to big time LA or maybe NY, spinning tracks, mixing music. When I dream, I dream big! Hopefully, all my dreams will come true! Everlasting! Dreams are attainable if you work hard you will succeed.
But if I don't get to work in niteclubs, then I can work in a radio station. I would so love to work at a radio station-I just recently realize I love 80s music, but I feel so old listening to it, I also love Hip-Hop and R&B plus dance music. I could spin music all day n' all nite long. Maybe create my own radio station, playing underground musik?
The radio stations all have a specific type of music (ex. KMEL plays Hip Hop and R&B and Movin 99.7 plays dance musik. while Kiss 98.1 plays Old School music mostly 80s sometimes disco Well, those are my fave radio stations.)
I rather prefer working at a nightclub, but you gotta be loud. For a quiet person, I can't attain that goal.
And on radios, they don't have to see your face, which won't make me nervous, so the radio station's the best bet.
Also I want to someday get my short stories published. Be recognized for my creative writing, win writing awards. and becomea world-renown authoress so that I could buy my own mansion in Miami or Pac Heights. Miami because it's so so very incredibly beautiful. Words cannot describe how beautiful it is although I just did, huh? and maybe Pac Heights cause the richie rich lives there. Me mingling with the rich n' famous would be ultracool. Rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous (and sometimes infamous). My neighbors would be the rich folks. So stellar.
I am weighing my options here. Maybe I csn live in both Miami n' Pac Heights.Miami's South Beach is so totally awesome! The sand is so pristine and white Pac Heights factoid: Dianne Feinstein lives there.We got the world's greatest baseball team, but the world's suckiest football team-not to be disloyal toward the Niners, but the I might just root for the Miami Dolphins come next season! Like the Niners have a chance of prayer even though they'vee a new coach! Lame.
I know my dreams are lofty at best, but if you try hard you can succeed at anything, so my parents said often to me and my brother as children. (Yep, I do have a good memory; more often than not I remember the bad than the good, but that's a whole other topic...)
If something doesn't change soon, I could seriously sponteously combust, implode, freak out, whatever!
I want to move forward in life, not stuck in one spot for the rest of my days, wasting away into nothingness. I want to make something of myself, become a famous something or other, preferably in music. That's why I decided to sign up to learn how to sound record, to become a disc jockey aka dj. Maybe I could be like Samatha Ronson, deejaying at nightclubs.
First small-town SF, then I'll move on to big time LA or maybe NY, spinning tracks, mixing music. When I dream, I dream big! Hopefully, all my dreams will come true! Everlasting! Dreams are attainable if you work hard you will succeed.
But if I don't get to work in niteclubs, then I can work in a radio station. I would so love to work at a radio station-I just recently realize I love 80s music, but I feel so old listening to it, I also love Hip-Hop and R&B plus dance music. I could spin music all day n' all nite long. Maybe create my own radio station, playing underground musik?
The radio stations all have a specific type of music (ex. KMEL plays Hip Hop and R&B and Movin 99.7 plays dance musik. while Kiss 98.1 plays Old School music mostly 80s sometimes disco Well, those are my fave radio stations.)
I rather prefer working at a nightclub, but you gotta be loud. For a quiet person, I can't attain that goal.
And on radios, they don't have to see your face, which won't make me nervous, so the radio station's the best bet.
Also I want to someday get my short stories published. Be recognized for my creative writing, win writing awards. and becomea world-renown authoress so that I could buy my own mansion in Miami or Pac Heights. Miami because it's so so very incredibly beautiful. Words cannot describe how beautiful it is although I just did, huh? and maybe Pac Heights cause the richie rich lives there. Me mingling with the rich n' famous would be ultracool. Rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous (and sometimes infamous). My neighbors would be the rich folks. So stellar.
I am weighing my options here. Maybe I csn live in both Miami n' Pac Heights.Miami's South Beach is so totally awesome! The sand is so pristine and white Pac Heights factoid: Dianne Feinstein lives there.We got the world's greatest baseball team, but the world's suckiest football team-not to be disloyal toward the Niners, but the I might just root for the Miami Dolphins come next season! Like the Niners have a chance of prayer even though they'vee a new coach! Lame.
I know my dreams are lofty at best, but if you try hard you can succeed at anything, so my parents said often to me and my brother as children. (Yep, I do have a good memory; more often than not I remember the bad than the good, but that's a whole other topic...)
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