Billionaire

If I won the lottery today I would be very happy! The first thing I would do is pay off all of my credit card debt and school loans. Then I would buy my little brother a nice car. I would also put enough money into a savings account so both my brother and sister would have enough to go to school and not have to worry about school loans. I would also finish my own education. I would also support my parents so they could retire and travel, I would pay for everything since they supported me my whole life. After my family was fully taken care of then I would give seventeen million dollars to Muslim charities which help orphans and people who are less fortunate. After all of that then I would adopted a few kids of my own. My mother always said that "a person who never had kids doesn't really know what its like to have patients or how to be completely unselfish", I would adopt because there are so many children who need home and to be loved, and besides my mom always said she wants to be a grandma. I was planning on adopting anyway but I would feel better about things knowing that I could give then everything they need in life. Hopefully, when I die there will be enough money left over that my children and my brother and sister's children to live comfortable lives. This is what I would do with all the money.

Brainstorm

I'm not sure what my topic is going to be for our argument paper. When I chose a topic, I think I will wright the essay using the problem/solution strategy. This strategy is easier for me to do that the opposition/refute strategy because I often have trouble coming up with questions that the opposing side would ask. Problem/solution strategy is easier for me get my point across and ends up being a stronger essay. Using Aristotle's three appeals towards the audience, I would use either logos or pathos. I would use logos because it give the essay a kind of format and room for lots of evidence to support my thesis using logical examples. I would also use pathos because essays with lots of emotion are often times stronger than essays with little or no emotion at all. Just from personal experience I found that I connected more to writer that write with more emotion. It give the writing more flavor. I would use ethos in my essay as well but I think that if you use Aristotle's other two appeals crediting comes on its own. Now my only problem is finding a topic.

Glue

Last night my dad was making dinner for us. He went to open a can, the can slipped and sliced his left pinkie finger. I was sitting on the computer near the kitchen. My dad walked over to me and said " I just cut myself, could you get me a band aid?" I asked him if I could see his the cut. He uncovered his finger, exposing the cut. I saw the bone of his knuckle and the tendon that wraps around. At first I saw no blood. Then my dad bent his finger and blood gushed out. I told him that he had to go to the hospital. I ran and got my mom who was up stairs finishing the laundry. We both ran down stairs to my dad. My mom examined the wound and told him he had to go to the hospital. My dad said he didn't think that the cut was to bad he wanted to put a band aid on and call it good. My mom told him that it was too deep to just put on a band aid. If we could see bone then we had to go. My mom and dad went to the hospital. My brother and I stayed at home with my little sister. She was really worried about dad and it made her more upset that she had to stay home. Two hours later we get a call from mom telling us that dad got a Tetnus shot and they were just now closing the cut. I was putting Aliah to bed when we heard the garage door open. Both of us jumped up and dashed for the door. My dad's finger was in a sling to keep him from moving it. He ended up not getting stitches because he is going on a business trip and he wont be able to get the stitches removed. So instead the doctor glued my dad's cut together. It looked so painful but my dad said it didn't hurt too bad.

Daylight Savings

Holy moly, daylight savings has messed me up. Even though in the fall, we gain an hour of sleep, it has totally made me feel off. This morning only half of my clocks changed over so I wasn't sure what time it was. I was supposes to be at my parents house at eleven in the morning, because of daylight savings I was really late. Of course, they understood but I still felt off running so late. All day today I felt hungry at the wrong times, tired at all the wrong times as well, and now it gets darker earlier. I hate daylight savings so much. I don't understand why we do it anymore. It is such an inconvenience to adjust to the different times twice a year. I understand that back in the day, when there was lots of farmers daylight savings worked but now it is a practice that no longer benefits the people. Why don't we get rid of it? The thing that I hate most of all is the fact that when I leave work it is dark and pretty soon when I go into work it will be dark as well. So I never get to see the sun. Studies show that people who rarely see the sun have higher risks of depression. I think that we should stop this nonsense and get rid of daylight savings it is so inconvenient and irrelevant to our time.

Music

I enjoy all types of music but my favorite thing to listen to is RadioHead. I love RadioHead because they have their own sound. Tom York is the lead singer and the guitarist. He wrights all of the lyrics and the music;he is a music genius.Unfortunately, RadioHead is such a popular band concerts sell out in a matter of minutes and they never go to smaller states. RadioHead has to hit up large venues like in California. This sucks because it makes it really hard to see RadioHead live. I think if I got a chance to go to one of their shows I would cry through the whole thing.
I absolutely love all of their albums. There is not a song that I hate that RadioHead did. Its really hard for me to pick my favorite song. They are all so good! Tom York defines music; he creates sounds that I have never heard before. He is also the greatest guitar player today. In my opinion he could give Hendrix a run for his money. I get lost in his guitar sounds on a daily bases. All of the sounds are so mesmerizing. RadioHead is amazing and they are my favorite band.

Movie

The most recent movie I saw was My Best Friend's Girl. Ashley did not want to go but I wanted to see it because I love Kate Hudson. She is so cute! Anyway, we kind of expected the movie to be stupid. We didn't know anyone who had seen it or heard any reviews for it. So we weren't expecting anything great, but we were wrong; it was hilarious! It was probably the funniest movie I've seen in the theater in a long time. Dane Cook was surprisingly funny. Most of the time I feel like his material gets old. Kate Hudson compliments him perfectly. I would recommend this movie. However, there is some nudity and some crude language. Not a movie to see with your parents!
Its about this guy who is in love with his Co worker(Kate Hudson). They were dating when the guy played by Jason Biggs, wants to move ahead in the relationship. This scares Kate Hudson's character so she wants to cool the relationship off. Jason Biggs's character gets upset and hires Tank, played by Dane Cook , to take her out an the worst date of her life so that she would go running back to him. Unfortunately, things go wrong. Tank and Kate Hudson's character fall in love with each other.
I liked this movie a lot! It was really funny. We were not expecting to laugh as hard as we did. I think I would buy this movie when it comes to video. I was shocked but I would recommend this movie to others.

I believe

I believe that vanilla ice cream is the best flavor ever. It is the base of all the other flavors. Without vanilla we would have no other flavors. Vanilla ice cream is perfect on its own. Its good in a cone, in a bowl or straight from the container. Vanilla ice cream compliment other desserts as well. A brownie with vanilla ice cream! Tell me whats better than that? Oh man pie and vanilla ice cream is outrageously good. Not to mention the old fashion cake with vanilla ice cream. Don't get me wrong all ice cream is good but not half as good as just plain vanilla. These desserts would be OK with other flavored ice cream but not at all comparable to vanilla.
When I was young every birthday or family gathering we always had dessert. Dessert be it pie, cobbler, or cake, it came with vanilla ice cream. The best part about vanilla and large groups of people is that it doesn't take much to change vanilla into another flavor. In every family there is that one crazed chocolate lover. No problem! Just add a little chocolate syrup and presto you have chocolate ice cream. You could do this with any flavor your heart could desire. That's the beauty of vanilla, it could be all of the flavors or just one simple flavor. Just try to turn mocha ice cream to cherry or black berry. It is horrible! Maybe even a crime against ice cream. With vanilla you never have to worry about what you can or cant mix with it.

Zephyr

Zephyr is my kitty cat. I have had her for about a year and a half. I got her from a lady who's cat just gave birth to a litter kittens. She wanted to give all of the kittens away. The lady lived a few houses down from my parents. One day I went over to have a look at the kittens with no intent to keep one. While I was there she told me that the kittens were ready to leave their mother. All of them were gray with black stripes except one. This one exception was black. This black kitten crawled into my lap and started to lick me. I fell head over heals in love! The lady told me to take her home. How could I say "no" to such a sweet little kitty? So I took her. On the way home we stopped and got her food and a litter box.
Since the first day I brought her home she slept with me in my bed. She will snuggle with me every morning. I have to admit she is not the easiest cat ever. She sometimes attacks and when she does she will draw blood. She is mean to everyone but she knows me and rarely attacks me . If she does attack me its mostly because I provoked her. With strangers she is horrible. I think she is bad because she gets scared. Also one day she ate one of my hair ties and had to get emergency surgery. It was exspensive! I didn't have the heart to put her down. I loved that cat way too much to let her go. She has become part of my family.
The sweetest thing I ever saw was when Ashley brought home two hampster. Zephyr thought they were her kittens. She baths them and watches them. It's so cute. We joke about Zeph being a mother. Zephyr even knows when I'm sad. She will come and snuggle up near me. A few times she licked the tears form my eyes. That was kind of odd but it was still really sweet.
Sometime she is mean and sometimes she is really sweet but no matter what I will always love that crazy cat.

Moral Check

Due to recent event I have notice that on a large scale, people have forgotten how to display morals and empathy. We are so absorbed in our own little worlds with no regard to others what so very. We are more concerned about stupid stuff like celebrates than people in our lives that actually interact with us. I work in an office and all day long I hear nothing but back stabbing! As soon as one person walks out of the room immediately the comments start in. "Did you see what she was waring?" "He has no idea what he is doning." Ahhhhhhhh! I'm so sick of it! Every one has something bad to say about another person all the time. It is just repulsive! Espeally when a person confies to another with requesting confidentiality and it is betrayed! These people are the worst breed assholes. We as a society try to deface and single out those who cant defend themselves. We must be so proud to belong to the human race. Everyone is guilty of this!
Empathy! We no longer place ourselves in other peoples's shoes. Hypithetically if I missed a few days of work because my father was dying and two weeks later my daughter was in a horrable car crash that she may not live through. So I called in on Monday to be with my daughter. Shortly after I called in my boss fired me because I missed too many days. How considerate! That was ture story of a lady I knew. Her boss must have been a wreched person. She didnt even show a sign of empathy. I story still makes me sick! How can someone do that to another person?
I am calling for a moral check! If you hear anyone bad mouthing someone or showing no signs of empathy, PLEASE SPEAK UP! Dont let that person get away with it! We need to reform and begin to care about others again.

The Condo

How do you say good bye to a part of you?

As a young child my family spent half the time living in the U.S. and the other part in Thailand. Almost all of my childhood memories from Thailand were structured around the Condo. The Condo was on the second story of a large building. The balcony faced the Jappiya River, in the heart of Bangkok. It had six bed rooms and in each room there was a western style bathroom, a kitchen, a huge living room, a room with a fitness center inside, and a grand hallway that separated the bedrooms. The condo was decorated with old bamboo style furniture. Because the condo was so big my brother and I had so much space to run, and places to hide. It was any child's dream house. All of the adults would be in one of the rooms and the cousins would be as far away as possible. The condo was the place be. All of my aunts and uncles would come over and bring all of their kids. Friends and distant relatives would stop by as well. On any given day there would be at least five to twenty kids and eight to sixteen adults visiting. It was always fun when the house was full of people. There was always kids spilling out of a room or racing down the great hall or climbing all over the bamboo furniture. When it came time to eat we would all pile into the great hall where the table was located. The table fit about twenty comfortably and about thirty snug. As soon as the food was gone and we helped clean, then it was back to playing. Around this time the adults would be having coffee. We would play until it was time for bed. Sometimes my cousins would even stay the night.
Sadly, it came time to go back to the U.S. In Colorado we lived in a two bed room apartment where there was no room to really run around and play. It almost seemed as if we had no family compared to Thailand. Me and my brother were lonely until school started back up. A few years back my dad's family had to sell the condo. No one was living there and it was a waste of money to have a vacant house. We have been to Thailand only once since we sold the condo. When we were there we passed by the condo on the way to go shopping. It was bizarre not to go inside. I will always miss the condo. Every time I think of Thailand I still think of the condo. It was such a major place in my life. I will never forget the condo.

Happy Holidays!

Tomorrow is Eid! Today is the last day of Ramadan! For those who don't know these days are important holidays for Muslims. Eid is the day after Ramadan in which we can eat and drink and enjoy all day! I fasted through the whole month of Ramadan. During Ramadan we did not eat or drink while the sun is up. That doesn't sound too hard but trust me it is very difficult. If you don't take my word for it, give it a try for a few days and I promise you will see that it takes a lot of self control! Every morning we stopped eating and drinking at around 4 a.m. everyday. Then we could not eat or drink again until the sun went down. The sun would set anywhere from 8p.m. to 6:48 p.m. After the first few days you stop feeling so hungry but you are extremely thirsty and tired. However at the end of each day you have a rewarding feeling and you also feel as if you are a part of something bigger! I'm sad that Ramadan is over but I'm also excited for Eid!

Freak Accident

Today I was online not really doing anything productive when Ash told me that I had to read this news article. I decided to check it out. It was horrible! The news article was about a six year old girl. Her and her mother were driving home from the girl's soccer practice. The girl was seated in the back of the car playing with a jump rope she had found. She had tied one end of the jump rope to her left hand. The other end of the rope she stuck out the window to float in the breeze. All of a sudden the rope got snagged on the axle of the car, ripping her hand off. The girl began screaming and crying. The mother who was unaware of what had happened looked back to discover her daughter covered in blood missing a hand, she panicked and pulled the car over. Luckily, driving in the car behind them was an off duty paramedic. He witnessed the whole incident and pulled over to help. Quickly he jumped out of his car and tied the girl's wrist off with his waste belt and called the police. He sat with both of them who were in shock. In fact the girl didn't even know what had happened. He explained to them what he saw. The little girl then asked if anyone was going to help her. The paramedic reassured her that people were on there way. When the ambulance showed up, the on duty paramedics retrieved her missing hand and rushed them to the hospital. Ten hours of surgery latter the girl had her hand back! The doctors are not sure if she will ever gain full use of her hand.
I think its remarkable that a doctor can attach a severed hand! I cant even imagine the pain of having your hand ripped off. I would think she would have some sort of trauma after that incident. Including the mother. I would be freaked out to turn around and see my kid without a hand screaming and blood everywhere. Talk about a bad day! Thank God that the off duty paramedic was behind them. If he wasn't, the girl could have die or her hand may not have been able to be reattached. I hope she feels better and gains all the use of her hand back. What a terrible thing for a six year old to go through.

Outside

Today I took a walk around Kendric's lake with my mother and sister. It was beautiful outside. The leaves are beginning to change suit. I love it. All of the colors, reds, yellows, oranges, and a few green patches still trying to hang on. The air is chilly giving hints that winter is near. The birds rest in the trees for a few minutes before departing with their flocks, further North for warmer weather. The lake is desolate. We were the only people there. In the background the sound of cars rush road was proof that life still exists which I hardly notice because we were deep in conversation. The lake with its lazy waves looked colder than ice. I even felt concerned for the fish! Soon winter will be here. The trees will no longer have leaves and the colors will become just a memory until next fall. The lake will be frozen and the ground will be blanketed with snow. The who inhabited the trees birds will be gone without even a trace that they too once lived here. Then it will become too cold even for us to come. Kendric's lake will become barren and forgotten by all until the spring. But for now the lake is ours, peaceful and still full of color. I cant wait for the spring when outside becomes alive again.

Cafeteria

My mouth began to flood as soon as the smell hit my olfactory bulbs. I sat a a empty table near the entrance of the cafeteria. The seat that I sat on had crumbs which I bushed to the floor. The display of chips took all the power in the world to remove my eyes. All of the different colored bags with labels of different flavors. The worst had to be the grill. The aroma filled sizzle that echoed in your ear repeatedly with no Merci. The steady beat of foot steps that marched through the lines was enough to make anyone crack. Wallets were out and ready! Flapping open and closed mocking me. Receipts printed, pens scribbled, change clinked together and the whole time I prayed for relief. My stomach grumbled, and turned over and over like a pendulum ticking away life! Those who made it out carried plates of warm beauty took seats near mine! What a crule act! Who would do such a thing? The comical crunching of all the jaws in the room through me into a sadistic shudder. I muffled my stomach and staggered into the hall.

Nose Metal

I have a few piercings which I love. I got all of the piercings as a since of fashion not so much as a depiction on my life. My favorite piercing is my nose. I found that depending on the metal I put in my nose, I get different reactions. When I put in a ring, more people seem to give me dirty looks. Where as if I were a stud. I receive complements and nobody has a problem with it. I have one tattoo but I don't think that I would ever get another one. It is too permanent for me. My thoughts evolve and change so much that I don't think that I could have something tattooed on my body forever. I find that piercings are not forever if you don't want them to be.

Beauty

Media has changed the face of beauty world wide. In order to be considered beautiful females must follow the strict code mandated by the media. In the essay, The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies by Susan Bordo, demonstrates that the image of beauty has been tarnished. Bordo gives many examples from her own life. When reflecting on my life, I realized that media has affected me more than I had thought.
When I was young my parents would take me and my little brother to the toy stores. Boy and girl toys were very different. All of the girl toys were domestic related such as a fake kitchen, dress up, barbies, and babies. I was far more interested in the boys toys which were balls, fake guns that shoot, spy gear, cars,ant farms, and toys that took more thinking than a barbie. I am outraged that toys that required knowledge were only marketed to boys. I always wanted the bug observatory over potty training tott.
TV and Magazines are terrible about portaying beauty. Only the skiniest, and flawless women are displayed. I know many girls who strived to become just like a magazine model. The girls who wanted to become like these models diets, and eating disorders surfaced. In Bordo's essay she touches breifly on the tradigy that took place in Fiji. When media was introduced eatting disorders were too.
I think that media should start showing what real women look like!

Obama 08

On Thursday August 28, 2008 Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech at Invesco Field for the democratic party. 80,000 people attended and millions viewed in. Obama addressed the American people. The focal point of the speech was reform. Obama calls upon America to make reforms in: the government, rid the addiction of non renewable fuels, create jobs, better the economy, education, foreign affairs, health care,and equality for all Americans be that gender, orientation, or economic stance. As the next president, Obama promises change and revision in all of these areas and more.
In the speech Obama added stories about his mother, grandmother and grandfather. The audience connected emotionally with these stories. Some even cried. The crowd was energetic through their cheers and applause. Obama's audience gave his speech power and inspiration.They were extremely supportive and ready to vote for change. Obama delivered an amazing speech giving hope to all Americans; including me.

OBAMA 08!

Educational vs. Non Educational Text

A text can be anything that makes us think, makes us feel or sends a message. A text can be anything from: clothing, logos, books, anything on the internet, movies, radio, art, music, tv, commercials, and everything we see. In order to function in society or perhaps in general, we must be able to think, feel, and send messages to others. To feel, think, and or to send a message we have to process information.
I believe everything is educational text. There is no such thing as a non educational text. Everthing makes us think, feel or sends a message. Even if the message is small or may seem insignificant, it still makes us react in some way