On goals...

A liberal arts education is very useful in that it gives you the time to beat spider solitare during lectures. My goal is to beat the most difficult level by graduation. If I don't succeed, I will at least have the rest of my life to accomplish this goal at my cubical.

On Free Speech

Hypothetical:
A man (hereafter known as 'A') walks by a homeless man, he says "Can you spare some change?" A points at him with my finger at him and reply, "YOU! Get a !@#$ing Job" and walks away. The homeless man pulled out a knife out from his pocket, walks up to A and stabbed him. The homeless man then took his wallet and stabbed him twice more times, to make a statement.

Bottomline:
Social Constraints limit free speech, and there's really no avoiding it. Because the homeless man took A's free speech and "he dead.'"

On Rainbows

While typing up my critical analysis paper, I noticed the most beautiful rainbow outside. Everyone looked outside for a second, and then returned to their tasks. I did the same. It’s a shame that we can only spend one second for a rainbow of that eminence.

On the redundant use of "good times"

anecdote: after writing a midterm, my friend says to me "good times." seeing as how my friend and I have the same schedule, I could assume that he had to write 4 midterm essays prior to the midterm. i don't know about him, but i only had couple hrs of sleep each night, (which is a substantial decrease seeing as how i sleep at least 8 hrs a day) and i was stressed out when all was finished. i said to him "how did you do?" to which he replied, "i failed, but good times."

question: how does 4 midterm assignments, a bombed midterm and lack of sleep equate to good times?

bottom line: even if he was being sarcastic, you can't help but notice the redundant use of the phrase "good times" on campus. Just like "sketchy," or "whatever" (from long ago), it's getting old.

compassion fatigue? you're kidding right??

"suicide bomber kills dozens in iraq"

how many times have we seen this and many similar phrases in the past yr? are we tired of it?

just the other day, i saw two canadians complaining about "giving too much" to charities in the "(too) many diasters in the past yr"

what (the hell) kind of society do we live in? how can people (a selective few, but still too many) complain about GIVING TOO MUCH? that there are TOO MANY diasters...

i dont know about you, but between the tsunami last year, the earthquake in Iran (which many have forgotten about in light of the Iran's threat to produce nukes), hurricane katrina, and the earthquake that happened just now that killed more than 30,000 people (sorry if i missed a few in between)...the world needs to be MORE compassion and MORE caring. As well, we should be THANKFUL that none of this happened to us.

bottom line: a "moral" society should NOT have ANY of these people/thoughts.
[then again, who am i to define "moral(ity)" ] -

cycle of life.

1) i'm always right.

2) i cant avoid it.

3) ignorance is bliss.

3a) but knowledge helps.

4) you'll always be on your own.

5) moderation is key.

6) keep your eyes open.

7) keep your thoughts to yourself.

8) don't get involved.

8a) step back and look at the bigger picture

9) the sick circle of life continues.

9a) but you can't avoid it.

10) and you'll still be right.