Neli, maybe you just made me look stupid, so i should be mad at y

This long four day weekend that we last had was Valentines day and Chinese New Year. On Friday I dint do a dam thing, just a nice and relaxing day of nothing. Saturday I went out to a G.N.C. (general nutrition center, just for tho's of you who don't know) and got this insanely big container of protein powder, so that after my workout my muscles have access to the protein that i put into my system. So now after my morning practice, i just just mix the powder with some water or milk, than go to school. The first time when i took it, i felt really tired and unbalanced. I went to go talk to my coach and he told me that inducing that much protein into my system is like eating two steaks. So hopefully my body will adapt to it so that my body will become more strong and so i can swim better

On the same day, My mom, her boyfriend, and my brother and i went to San Fransisco. We headed to north beach and went to the restaurant, Cal-zones. I got bored while waiting for food, so i decided to play a ratio game, the ratio was obese people to people who look like hookers. While i pointed these people out, my mom was having a hard time from laughing. Afterwards we went to the theatre, i cant recall the name of the place. We got there pretty close to curtain call timing so we dint have to wait very long. While watching the performance, the actors and actresses had such amazing voices, they dint have much scene changes nor were they very big, I was surprised that they only used chairs and tables when doing a scene change. So overall the play was really good. Sunday i dint do anything, and then on Monday i made crepes for my french class, it was so hard to flip the crepe. I must've burned myself over ten times, i tried to use my fingers to flip it. An now its the begging of a new week for school, and progress reports are coming out at the end of the week, but I'm not so worried.

Is kind of strange to be thinking of ...

Is kind of strange to be thinking of summer this early in the school year? Last year was one of my favorite ones so far. Lately Ive just had some of tho's memories keep popping up in my mind. Just of my swim team in San Leandro and just laying out in the sun all day. Fun, Just being able to bask in the heat of the radiant sun. Every Saturday morning i have to be at a meet by six-thirty to seven o' clock, so everything is still all damp, wet and cold. So after my warm-up i get out and its freezing, but as soon as it gets later in the day, the sun pops up and everything starts to become nice and warm with a nice cool breeze in the air. Not to mention , there is  summer love in the air. Who doesn't like to have a crush, hook up or fall in love with someone during the summer time? Its kind of like valentines day, but only its everyday for three months.

Last year i also had an internship up in the Oakland hills at a theatre called Wood minster Theatre. There were a total of three shows during the summer, i only was able to do one of them. I thought that my muscles and body were going to fall apart by time i got home. Surprisingly it wasn't all that hard, its was surprisingly easy, just because this production only had mainly a lot of HUGE sized props. After each show, i came home and slept from twelve till seven. It was a tiring job but that's what made it so much fun. my plan this coming summer is to do all of the productions so that i can earn my self a little bit of money for a car.

Valentines day.

So its two weeks before valentines day and some of my friends are freaking out and have no idea what to do. The other day i asked my mom if shes a little excited for valentines day and she tells me that she hates valentines day and thinks it is a stupid holiday where we're forced to show our affection to that significant person in our lives.So after I heard her point of view of valentines day, i go and ask my troubled friends why they are freaking out about what to get. And i already new what they would say, they would told me its because they have to impress "their girl". And what if they don't want some insanely big gift, but instead just want to be with you? And instead of a dozen roses, why not just one, the number of roses dose not represent how much you love that person. Its more like how much money you have to try to impress that person. And I'm pretty sure that's not how the HOLIDAY OF LOVE is supposed to work, its a holiday of love, not lust.

In my mind i see valentines day as new relationships, roses and candy, when it SHOULD be about spending time with the one who you love and to cherish their existence. Even tho this holiday has been built upon bravado of jewelry, candy, teddy bears, cards, and flowers, I think that their is romanticism for those few who don't want anything else but to spend time with their loved ones. When valentines day comes around, don't freak about getting the most expensive gift in the store, but instead, get the most sentimental one. And for those twenty to fifty dollar bouquet of roses, just get her one, Its a lot more meaningful than a dozen, At least in my mind it is =)

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TIFFINAY OWES ME CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ow, im sore

In today's worlds, everyone has touch screen i-pod and internet access on their phones. But why do we need such technological advances for our daily life? When I walk down the street I see stupid teens being carefree of whats going on around them. They walk into traffic without realizing that there is a car heading straight for them and it cant stop, another teen killed by lack of attention and technology.It could also be caused by the driver. Just some random guy or girl out walking, following all the signs and traffic rules. But down the street is a buissness man, late for work, drinking his coffee, with his phone in his hand, because he dosent have a headset. He ( or she) is speeding just to barely punch there card in time, and out of nowhere the teen is walking in a cross walk, and the buissness man does not notice them. He then i sued and goes to jail. I dont think that all technology is bad, just to advanced of tecnology is. There is also good in it, i-pods are good for blocking out all external sound and leaving nothing but your internal thoughts for you to focus on. Cell phones are also a great help in and emergency.

Before cell Phones, we would have to run to the nearest house with a phone, or run down to the police station or fire departement to get assistence. SO i believe we could turn back a couple of notches on our technoligy, what harm could it do. Im pretty sure that if everyone had a basic i-pod and cell phone we would all live just fine, and if you cant live without getting e-mail on your phone then your just crossing over into the robotic phase of life, one who never goes out, does sports, complains about nature and cant live without texting someone for one period of class.

English Final version 2.0

Q#8 How do you like having a blog? How has blogging changed the way you write, the way you think, or the way you think about writing?


When we were introduced to making a blog, i thought, OK this could be interesting. So how do i like having a blog? I really enjoy it. I'm not crazed and blog twenty-four seven, but i like putting my opinion there for people to listen to. It was a good idea for not just me, but I'm pretty sure most of the people in fourth period to relieve some creative thoughts as opposed to bottling it up,Who knows? We might have our next revolutionary thinker sitting right next to us. I got so into blogging because I couldn't wait to post it, I just thought that they were such good topics to blog about. My post, fat man inside , I really felt strong to this topic. The next day when walking through the hallways, people had told me that they liked it.

Now when its a Wednesday afternoon, I don't think, oh great another assignment, I think, sweet another chance for me to voice what I think is going on in the world or whats just even whats going on in my own town. Even though Ive been blogging for a short amount of time, when I think of a new topic I try to think of something that will cause others to blog about it, too. Topics that people strongly believe in, such as the the war that's currently going on , or even some celebrity news are great topics to blog about. Even though I don't have much to say to these kind of topics, other people might have a detailed conversation in their head, just ready to explode with facts and gossip.

Q#2 Choose one of your posts. (Your favorite? Your least favorite? The one that surprises you the most when you reread it? Any one you want to pick.) Analyze it in detail, with quotes etc.

Out of all my blogs so far, my favorite has probably been THE POWER OF DREAMS. I particularly like this one because, dreams to me can show more to us then we realize. I see the future, even if its nothing all that special, if its just me and my friends sitting down and talking. In a dream you have control of everything, Ive had some of the most unreal dreams where I've flown over buildings and have swam in a pool of sharks. To me dreams are more than a fabrication based on our daily activities, its more like our own personalized inner world. in each dream there is a message that has to be deciphered, if its a bad dream then generally the day before, you either did something that you knew you weren't supposed to or did something being unaware of what you did. As you can see i can keep going on with this topics for hours and hours. That's why this is my favorite post, something to talk on and on about. My least favorite post this semester would probably be o well. Its just more like a filler blog. Kind of like water or bread, its just there in your stomach, taking up space so that you get more full easier. All I did was talk about was currently happening in my world, which isn't all that great. Hopefully next year I'll refrain from doing that. The blog the most surprises me is The Illusion of night. i like this blog, but there's a quote "There's some thing that makes love just a little more romantic as opposed to day. No one knows why, it just does. And when I look up to the sky and look to the moon and stars, it feels like there's something bigger than us, more than what we as a planet know about space, something out there". When i re-read this quote i think, Oh god did i really put this in my blog? It gives me goose bumps, because i felt like a dork posting up that cheesy line.

Q#10 Where do you get your ideas for blog post topics? What inspires you to write?

Ideas don't just hit you like a bolt of lightning, at least they rarely will. But for the most part, people will look at blogs, form a question from that and then blog about that question and their views on it. Others will write their ideas down and choose one of them to write about. As for my method, I just think and try to retain them for me it tells me what ideas are good, if they stay my head then it means to me they're good ideas, if i don't retain my idea, then its not an idea worth holding onto.
I try to think of them when I get a chance to, such as when I'm at swim practice. Even though I'm surrounded by ten to fifteen people, when your swimming you have no contact with them. When I'm swimming it feels like a chilled bottomless abyss, the perfect place not to lose focus on ideas. Some of the ideas for my blogs such as "Goggles and chlorine" and "Morning meal", came to my head at practice.Goggles and chlorine, I thought while swimming because I had been swimming and thought about how much easier practice had been and thought about how i used to swim back when i was younger as opposed to how I swim now. Morning meal came to me because I had forgotten to bring something to eat for morning practice, so while I was in the pool I had thought what to do, and asked myself what do I usually eat in the morning.
Music is another big idea starter. If your listening to a song, it does not matter what emotion is triggered. I link an emotion to an issue then that to a topic and that becomes my blog. For me the artist i listen to are generally cake, the barenaked ladies, rise against,and then a whole bunch of Japanese music. My post " 10 fingered ghost " which I named for no reason, had come to me when I had been listening to music right before a game and it just hit me, what do the upperclassman of our team listen to? I thought of our biggest and toughest guy on our team listening to some girlie stuff, just to tickle my amusement.

my thoughts on writing groups

As for them writing groups we have to do, there's nothing really in particular that i would like to do, i don't believe i need to hold my group member's hand and watch over them. but if they want me to take a look at what they are writing about than I'm OK with that, but for our group i would like for us to brain storm and come to a consensus on what we are going to write about. For my contributions? I willing to help out in any way possible that i can do, such as proofreading, seeing if the overall topic makes sense, and give constructive criticism. The only thing i don't feel is necessary is the part for commenting on blogs. the person is going to be right next me during the time they are typing or i could just go find the person and tell them in person what i think of they're post. Last but not least, the organization of our groups. I think they should be with our friends, just because we'll eventually get talking and have one topic where were all going to have these stories that link together, and then possibly come up with a question for that topic. as if we were to write in a group that was all writing on the same thing, then you (Mr Sutherland) would know what those people are going to be writing about.

But if we had the choice on not writing in groups, i probally would, just cause i dont feel like writing in groups