[RE] Personal Therapy

I did a response on Lina’s post titled as Personal Therapy. I agree to her quote:

It is so easy to feel overwhelmed at this age, and think the best solution to the hectic world around them is a night of stuffing your body with smoke, drugs, and alcohol.

Overwhelmed by school work, college applications, relationships, or perhaps family problems, anyone of ages 16 and up will most likely drawn to smoke, drugs, and alcohol.  For most adults, including my father, I personally think it’s due to our economic situations. Most of the men in my family are either drinking or smoking their problems away temporarily, both in the United States and in Vietnam to relieve stress. Although it is temporary, this meant they will be even more serious and depress when they are somber with work to support the family. 

As for us adolescents, we may either school, relationship or family problems to deal with. Some people refer to slitting their wrists or commit suicide, but others will resort to temporary relief in smoking, drugs, and alcohol. Once adapted to this addition to their lifestyle, depriving them of any will result to violence or even suicide. But other than to relief temporary depression, we are at the age of experimenting different things and this usually diverts you from your goal or even your lifestyle. Like kids, we like to try something new, even if the means of risking or damaging our lives. 

Even though we receive education on the dangers of smoking, drinking, or even using drugs, it’s really our decision whether we want to lead a life surrounding them or not.  We can’t blame anyone but ourselves when facing our current situation. You only live once; therefore it’s your decision whether you want to live a full life or not.

[RE] EatReal

       I decided to do a response post to Nathan’s post since I’m recently doing something similar to his account of the event.

To add some community service hours to my resume and to help out people, i decided to participate in the EatReal fest in Jack London. It is always likes these little activities that leads to fun memorable times...Us four worked a greuling 7 hours with minimal break but it was a fun experience. In addition to having a nice time, the staff gave us a schwag bag with random coupons and miscellaneous things, drinks, and chipotle burritos. I guess this is one of example of good intention leads to good things.

This activity reminds me of the Day of the Dead event at Oakland Museum last year. I and 3 other members got to help out set up arts and crafts activities for kids. Although it was a grueling 9 hours of working and I minimal break, I did get to explore the other events, talked to some of my old friends who were also helping out, and managed to sneak in the PIXAR exhibit. I didn’t get as much miscellaneous things as Nathan had, but I did received a bright pink shirt. Although it seems like people thought I was an employee or something and was mistaken as one of the people in charge of the buses. Actually, I do have quite a number or volunteer shirts and it seems like I’m starting a collection, but it’s the memories that matters and the fun I got to experience instead of staying at home.  

Like other people who are aiming for the same idea as Nathan, I’m also doing a community service event. There’s another community service I’m doing is called Reading Partners program, which is a program where you get to do a one on one session with one or two students and helping them improve their reading skills. Not only does this offer you community service hours, but this is great on resumes and it does help the community by helping to improve kids of the future generation.

[RE] Random Stuff That Happened to me This Week

Well since I also experienced what you read, I might as well do a response on Alex’s post. Honestly, I regretted reading that webtoon but at l didn’t read it at night like you did.

Have you ever had your online friends that send you a link that mentally disturbed you? Well, it happened to me yesterday. I was playing this game Tora no Tsubasa( TnT for short).
This game is a casual game that has no animation but you can dress up your avatar. Of course all the characters are anime girls. I mostly play this game to shave off my free time and talk to random people around the world. Most people would have some negative views since its all anime girls.

Well I have tried numerous games but not something like this. I kind of expected you would be involved with these kinds of games, Alex. Never have I been sent such a disturbing webtoon. For most people, it doesn’t seem so creepy. However, it’s a short moment horror if you scroll down fast enough to keep up with the short dialogue.

Back to my story, during a mission, my friend told me to check out a link in the forums. So I followed his instructions that led to the link. When I first saw the information, I hesitated. It quoted
Some scary stuff =D
I stared at the smiley face with distraught. I hate people that add stuff like smiley face that contradicts the statement.

Well I would definitely be thinking the same thing. That’s why I don’t trust titles with something added that contradicts the title. Although I never really encountered such titles nowadays, I do understand how Alex thinks about the title. Although it’s something that we wouldn’t take any interest, we just continue because of our curiosity. Unfortunately, “curiosity kills a cat”. Seems like most of our actions will ended up as mistakes and we take them for granted. Although taking a risk is better than not knowing what will happen and you could learn a good lesson from this situation and prepare yourself the next time.

Then I tried to be busy with other task such as homework (well I should get started on my typing my post more... but I hate writing...) but some reason that link keeps popping in my head.

Multitasking isn’t such a good thing when you’re doing something that is completely unrelated to something else. For example, watching television while working on your history homework will definitely mixed up the current news from the television to answer questions about historical events. Other than that, I think I might really regret this if I start having nightmares due to those webtoons. If that’s so, I might as well blame you for any related nightmares.

[RE] The plague of school . dun dun dun.

Well it seems like someone’s still not adjusting to school. Well according to Nathan Wong’s post:

School has many affects on you mentally and physically except for those that make you a less ignorant person. First I will talk about the physical illnesses that we as students acquire. After 3 days of school, i realized that my weight started decreasing at a unexpected rate.

That is a little terrifying; three weeks in school and your weight started decreasing. Personally, I’m a bit jealous because I definitely to lose weight but I’m not the only one who’s thinking about that. Also, I think you’re exaggerating this ‘illness’ you claim that’s spreading throughout the school. Although I’m not adjusting with school after summer prep classes, at least I still look lively, now right?

This can be because of the lack of food or lack of sleep. We no longer have the freedom to eat whenever we want in any class, we might not even have time to eat breakfast. Lack of sleep ends up giving us panda eyes, which makes us look like sleep walking zombies. 

Ok I actually laughed at this statement. You say that now, but once it’s AP prep week, you’ll see tons of zombies. And it’s not like we no longer have the freedom to do whatever we want like the summer, it’s a choice that’s given to us for a better future. It’s something that everyone in school had to accept, ever since we took out first step into school. Honestly, we’re pretty lucky; schools in other countries (try China) are stricter and people go to cram schools or extra prep classes afterschool. Some students from other school in order to attain a better education, such as an international school, where you learn everything from a public school, but in English to improve both your English skills and learning the curriculum.  

Our ability of pursuit of happiness is somewhat taken away because of homework. 

Might I add projects and tests? Unfortunately, our pursuit for happiness lies in our education, which are based on our grades.

We no longer have the time to do stuff we enjoyed during the summer. Since the summer gave us a surge of happiness and now we have very little happiness, this is a fast transition.

I agree; however people usually take advantage of the summer by taking extracurricular activities, summer jobs, or prep classes for upcoming AP class in community colleges. So whether we like or not, some people don’t have the time to do something they enjoy. Although I also can’t bear the long hours of school and prep classes, I got no choice. I’m guessing to most other students, summer is a time where you can actually have some fun in between more work.  

I made this post for fun and it is also expressing how much I miss the summer of 2011. Time sure flies.

I definitely agree on this. This summer sucked for me because of the prep classes, but hopefully, I’ll make it up on the next summer. Just going to look forward for Summer of 2012!

[RE] Being Happy With Love

        Well, it’s not much of a response, but it did brought some interest for me.  This was from Taylor Clark's blog.

 i LOVE the way i can be having the WORST day of my LIFE and simply talking to YOU completely CHANGES my mood 

I think quote was in this post was focusing on love; I can understand this as more of a friend’s view. I can definitely relate to the worst day of my life (or perhaps of the year) so it’s understandable that if you’re talking to someone, it’ll help you feel a lot better.  Sometimes, I do rant too much about my day but if my friend is nice enough, it’ll be acceptable (maybe?).  

        Although people tend to talk to their friends to hopefully a lot better than before, other people also talk to their family. Most of the time, after a bad day, I would talk to my mother (if she isn’t busy) and afterwards, we would talk about our embarrassing moments and laugh at each other. 

   

        There is also the original purpose of the original blog: lover. I’m sure a lot of couples talk to each other about both their good and bad days and will definitely feel better about it at the end. 

  

        The quote can go different ways, whether it’s your friends, family, or lover. Either way,  expressing your feelings about that day will definitely be much better than bottling up all those negative feelings and “blow up”.

Actually, there’s also the case where some people express their bad days in writing, such as in journals or diaries and just talk about to no one. Sometimes expressing your emotions in writing from, such as what I am doing now (not really) is another way to may yourself better. Just hopefully, you’ll keep in appropriate when it comes to blogging.    

[RE] Hmm...Hello again.

Since I can relate with Damien's post (not completely), I’ll start my responsive post about his post. For the most part, I do agree I will be more active in blogging now that I have the same teacher again (which means I can express my love for food again) and that there are a lot of things to worry about now that we’re seniors.

Not only do we have the SATs/ ACTs, but on top of that we need to work on getting our statements for college written and completed soon. Luckily Sutherland will be including the UC personal statements in our assignments

I definitely agree all the above statements. Honestly, I was a bit nervous to be having Sutherland since I need to get serious about UC personal statements for college applications (no offense, Mr. Sutherland) However, I am also grateful for having his class again. Two years ago, I was pretty much of a wreck when it comes to expressing my opinions to others, much less on a blog; however I am (somewhat) more confident whenever I blog. To those who are starting out blogging, it’s a great way to express whatever you like, just be appropriate for the public and your fellow classmates please. (:

I'm just hoping that writing about my problems will help to sort of relieve my stress, like the feeling when it feels like weight has been lifted off your shoulders

I agree with Damien that blogging does in some people’s way, relieve them of stress from our daily lives in school. With rules and school regulations, we cannot regularly express our opinions out in general public due to possible inappropriate language, but posting blogs is a great way to deal with what’s going on with our lives. Writing is basically our everyday freedom use!