This is the second blogger I know who has gotten engaged since I started blogging April 2004. I must say, that this is a beautiful couple, and Kugan is wise beyond his years… and I mean WAY beyond his years. In fact, he is one of the most wisest people I know, and he’s a fellow musician. ((waving hi to my boy up in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia)). Please take the time to visit his blog and wish him your warmest wishes.
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Long time readers might recall that I write articles for a website called Thought Mechanics. It is a website where current events and hot topics in politics are discussed in articles written by myself, several other bloggers, and of course, the creator and editor-in-chief, Theron Parlin. I rarely discuss politics on this blog, but I still want people to know what I am for and what I am against. In general, I enjoy writing about race, class, the poor, and articles written from a feminist perspective. In other words, I am basically a liberal . . . except when it comes to religion. Take a minute, if you will, to view some of the articles I have written. I warn you, that you will see me for who I really am, and if you don’t like what you read, then delete me from your blogrolling list and let me know.
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This long 170 minute movie was excellent. My favorite part of the movie, was that Hughes did not like people who thought they would monopolize the aviation industry, and that rich people cannot just simply “do what they want” because they want to. I also liked another part where he told Katherine Hepburn’s mother “When you are born rich, you never really worry about work . . .”, or something along those lines. DiCaprio’s portrayal of Hughes in the movie was simply brilliant. I loved watching him freak out; it looked so real!
Review: The Aviator
Movie
5 out of 5
The Aviator
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This long 170 minute movie was excellent. My favorite part of the movie, was that Hughes did not like people who thought they would monopolize the aviation industry, and that rich people cannot just simply “do what they want” because they want to. I also liked another part where he told Katherine Hepburn’s mother “When you are born rich, you never really worry about work . . .”, or something along those lines. DiCaprio’s portrayal of Hughes in the movie was simply brilliant. I loved watching him freak out; it looked so real! -
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(November 12, 2005) Kris and I were damn near convinced we were not going to drive down there during the Thanksgiving day holiday next week, but I told Kris I wanted to, because I intend to tell my mother off, because that was some lousy-ass crap she said about me, soooo insensitive . . .
The bottom line, is that I told my mother that what she does is her business, but when she is insensitive to me, it really hurts my feelings. I explained to her that ever since she met my ex-stepfather (i.e., Shaquille’s father), she has been insensitive to me, and just expected me to deal with it. I told her that I know how sensitive her and Shaq are, and that I make every effort not to hurt their feelings, and that, I only expected the same in return.
At first, she was pist off at me when I first began talking, and said “Don’t go there, you don’t know what the hell you are talking about”, but when I told her I felt she was insensitive, she totally shut up and felt bad for me . . . I could tell, because she only gets like that when I am right and she is wrong, and she’s feeling really bad about what she did. Thing is, is that she has been doing it for so long, that I do not think she realized how much it has hurt me until today. I said “Every time I start to cry because I am hurt, you have to tell me I’m a wimp… shit, the only person who ever had sympathy for me was grandma and now she’s dead. Yeah Shaq, I’ll admit, I am jealous of you, because you get more affection from mom than I do, more than I have ever had. I guess that’s just the way things are. Mom and you are really sensitive people (they are hypersensitive), and I try real hard to not upset you guys, but neither of you give a damn, and just hurt my feelings for the hell of it and could care less… you know what Mom? You always complain about how cold I am, but maybe you should take a look in the mirror and see that your lack of affection towards me, made me the way I am!” She totally freaked out and was silent. When we got home, she had a stomach ache, took some Pepcid AC, and went to sleep. Yeah, we shall see what tomorrow brings.
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Before I leave tomorrow back home for the Thanksgiving days holidays, I figured I’d go ahead and post a really hilarious article I read at my college newspaper. Happy Thanksgiving Day everyone!! Eat real good and spend some quality time with your families!
Volume 71, Issue 61, Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Thanksgiving a dubious celebration
Zach Lee
Opinion ColumnistGenocide has never been as fun as it is every year at the end of November.
Columbus Day has been getting the short end of the stick when it comes to national holidays that have marked an early stage in the decimation of entire Native American populations at the hands of Europeans.
Columbus Day celebrates a handshake or another just-as-tedious people-meeting tradition. Sure, in the butchery that was the conquista, many Spanish explorers and soldiers took advantage of the kindness and naivete of natives — take the basic story of Hernan Cortes and Moctezuma, for example. Columbus Day itself is meant to focus on either the discovery of America or the first contact Europeans had with Native Americans.
Thanksgiving, on the other hand, is a ritual commemoration of the colonial European — in this case English — tradition of letting native peoples help colonizers out in times of need. That tradition has almost always been followed by another colonial European — also English — tradition of systematically exterminating, nearly to the point of extinction, native peoples and cultures.
The Thanksgiving tradition is the celebration of what could be considered the foreplay to the rape of Native Americans across the continent.
At least in the Latin American colonization massacre represented by Columbus Day, there is a long history of marriage and integration between Europeans and Native Americans. Though certain areas in Latin America remain racially segregated (the mountains of Peru, for example, are populated almost exclusively by indigenous peoples), much of the Spanish domination in the region was cultural, brought about gradually by intermarriage.
In the United States, however, intermarriage was a historical rarity. British settlers thought up the oh-so-kind-to-Native-Americans reservation system instead and methodically pushed tribes West to new and less desirable land.
But Thanksgiving protests have never been as loud as Columbus Day protests have progressively become. The reason for that might have something to do with the extra time off surrounding the day.
Columbus Day doesn’t even warrant giving students a day off at UH, but Thanksgiving gets three days all to itself and is lost in a five-day weekend.
Eat your turkey and enjoy the parades Thursday. What’s done is done, and superficial laments about the way things were carried out hundreds of years ago do not win any new rights for indigenous peoples in the United States.
If indigenous rights really concern you, remember that Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos does not take a short vacation to give thanks for what he has. He continues to fight for racial equality that indigenous people on this continent haven’t had since European colonization.
And if you protest Columbus Day annually, at least keep your superficial laments consistent and go yell at people on Thanksgiving as well.
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Normally, I restrain myself from writing political entries on my website, because as fate would have it, most people generally do not like reading politically encrusted posts. This time however, I feel I must. I do not know if many of my fellow Americans are aware of what just happened this past Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives. The republican-ruled House decided to pass a piece of legislation that would, if approved by the senate, call for the complete removal of food stamps, decrease availability for financial aid in college, and strip the benefits of medicaid. These are all part of the big plan: to save money by cutting the budget on welfare.
I encourage my fellow Americans who read this blog to take action. Visit this website, it only takes a couple of minutes. I would also encourage you to read this, as it will provide futher details about the budget cuts against welfare. In addition, if you felt that you benefited from governmental assistance in the form of financial aid, medicaid, or food stamps, then tell your story of how without it, you would not be where you are today.Here is the photo I turned in:
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I’ve never read any of the Harry Potter books, but I just knew by watching this film that something was missing. There were too many times when one thing happened and then the next minute something else happened and it just didn’t make any sense. As I went to yahoo to check out if what I suspected was true, that this movie had entirely too many parts missing from what was originally in the book, I found that my assumption was correct.
Hell, I’m not even a Harry Potter fan, but I knew something was missing. It’s not that it’s that bad of a movie, but feelings are portrayed in the movie with no direction as to where they are coming from. I’ve read online that this was JK Rowling’s longest book in the Potter series, and that it was impossible to have everything in the movie. I don’t know, I mean, I felt like the movie was just okay, but nothing spectacular. I give this movie four stars, because it’s nice to see the stars of the movie back in action, but the direction of the movie was seriously lacking. From what I understand, the fans who read the book are to be quite disappointed because there are a lot of characters that are missing, such as Dobby.
Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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4 out of 5
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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I’ve never read any of the Harry Potter books, but I just knew by watching this film that something was missing. There were too many times when one thing happened and then the next minute something else happened and it just didn’t make any sense. As I went to yahoo to check out if what I suspected was true, that this movie had entirely too many parts missing from what was originally in the book, I found that my assumption was correct.Hell, I’m not even a Harry Potter fan, but I knew something was missing. It’s not that it’s that bad of a movie, but feelings are portrayed in the movie with no direction as to where they are coming from. I’ve read online that this was JK Rowling’s longest book in the Potter series, and that it was impossible to have everything in the movie. I don’t know, I mean, I felt like the movie was just okay, but nothing spectacular. I give this movie four stars, because it’s nice to see the stars of the movie back in action, but the direction of the movie was seriously lacking. From what I understand, the fans who read the book are to be quite disappointed because there are a lot of characters that are missing, such as Dobby.
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As a graduate student of social work, I am required to decide, within the first year of schooling, what my concentration will be: gerentology, children and families, mental health, or grassroots politics. I haven’t quite made up my mind yet, and I have been attending several concentration meetings to help me make up my mind. Today, I went to the gerentology concentration meeting. What I was reminded of was interesting, such as say, how much we will need social workers in gerentology for the baby boomers.
As a future social worker, one must contend with which cause calls one the most; in other words, what problem one feels that touches one’s heart enough to be able to focus on for the rest of one’s life. I asked several questions, and at first I thought gerentology might be for me; after all, I was raised not only by my mother but mostly by my grandparents, and I have a soft spot for older folks.
What made me realize it was not the right concentration for me, is when I asked one of the gerentologists: “How often do you encounter issues dealing with cultural identity?” and she said “oh, not at all . . . they know who and what they are as soon as you meet them, and they make sure you know this . . .” and immediately this turned me off.
My passion is to work with people who are struggling with cultural identity. For example, my friend Logtar is dealing with a classic state of person-in-environment, to where he was raised under one culture, but is experiencing tension because the mainstream culture is not the same as his own. Many Americans deal with this on a daily basis, and there is a need for social workers to help those with those kinds of issues.
In addition to this type of tension, there is also a growing number of Americans who are, like myself, multiracial. There is no longer people who can easily fit into the category of only one race or one culture. Being multiracial can also be difficult, because there is a huge stressor in that, we must wrestle with the fact that we are not the one race that everyone tries to put us into. For example, I am black and white because my mother is white and my father is black; therefore, I feel both black and white, but society views me as being strickly black. See where the conflict arises?
Multiracial and multicultural people are on the rise in the U.S., and there is a growing need of social workers who are able to empower these people struggling with cultural and racial identity. I am that person, and it would appear that I might be in either the children and families or mental health concentrations. I have more investigating to do before I make my decision though.
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On Monday night, I had a chat with my little brother on the phone, and he felt really bad for all that happened. I told him, “You know that no matter what, I’m coming down there to see you and mom because I love you guys”, and I told him that in the end, I’ll eventually forgive mom for what she did. My brother said to me “I wouldn’t forgive her”, but then I said, “But Shaq, what would Jesus do?” and he was immediately silent.
No doubt, I’ll remind my mother of how much it upset me, but I’m going to end up forgiving her. I realize that some of my readers may be disappointed with my forgiving heart, but darn it, that’s just the way I am. I am a forgiving person, because that was what I was taught my whole life, and it has always been for the best. Two wrongs never make things right.
The remainder of the night, I was helping my brother with the Legend of Zelda for the N64. I was thinking to myself, “what the hell is Shaq doing with an N64?”, but then I remembered, that a friend of his has one and let him borrow it. Okay, so back to Zelda. I just did what any loving twenty-six year old sister would do if their twelve year old brother was struggling with a video game: I went online and guided him through with a walkthrough guide. I know I do it sometimes,
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Here’s lil’ ol’ me singing a little happy birthday song for Kathy. Let’s see if my undergraduate degree in vocal studies counts.
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