Hmm...

If only blogging was made available to me at all times. i.e in the form of a mobile device!

This is NOT cool...

Honestly, who the fuck cares about the White House crashers, Tiger Wood's car crash, or Chelsea Clinton's engagement. Why the fuss, CNN? Why the repeats on stories that DO NOT matter when there are news worthy stories of albinos in Africa being hunted and murdered for witchcraft? Or how human trafficking still exists in America. Apparently, the stupid news media just wants to focus on stories that idiots would rather hear about rather than time sensitive issues of human endangerment. WTF, seriously? Why are there so many repeats on Tiger Wood's car crash - he's alive and well, people! News media should be repeating the stories of human trafficking in America, which is much more of a pressing matter at this time - well, to me at least. Urgh, fuck this shit. Idiots. EDIT: I see that CNN has a whole hour of covering the human trafficking material tomorrow. At 6 in the fucken morning. I can't watch that. I have to get ready for work at that time and try to catch the light rail and make it to work on time to work on my juvenile justice facilities report to give to boards of supervisor down in LA. This is obviously stressful, I can never get what I want. MAJOR URGH.

Surprise and Turkey

How did I make it through last week, unscathed? I'm shocked myself. At least this week will be quick and short. I have an oral quiz today for my Mandarin class, then I'll be out running for 1.5 to 2 hours this evening. Tomorrow I have work then I tutor a new little girl in reading. Afterward, more running. At least there will be daylight. Wednesday, I think I work?? I'll be taking a break from running on Wednesday because Thursday will be the big day. =/ I'm finding it particularly hard these days in coordinating my outfits. I try to make each of my outfits flow from work to school to volunteering at my local elementary school to my night outfits (if I do intend to go out for cocktails that night.) I've talked to Mermaid about this before (she's a teacher) and since we both have interesting choices on how we dress, not tasteless fashion, but the way we dress do cause some eye rollings at our respective schools of work/volunteer. So how would I roll from work to school? Or work to elementary school? Or school to happy hour? Or from work to gym/jogging? Ahhh, quite a dilemma isn't it? What outfits would be most appropriate. Maybe I should talk to Mermaid about documenting our outfit ventures. On another note, Thanksgiving is this week! I can't wait! We're having the traditional turkey and honey ham with yummy stuffing. We're also making curry as an entree dish as well because I'm half South Asian and it just makes sense to have our specialty spicy dish on a cold November evening. Then we got the knick knacks of food to grub on: candy yams, honey biscuits, corn muffins, my mom's secret, my aunt Jenny's secrets, and my aunt Vanny's secret. I hear a persimmon dish will be there too. But that's only a rumor. I'll be making pumpkin pie, chocolate cupcakes (yes Leslyn, I'll drop some off at your place), and maybe tiramisu. Philliam is going to try and "woo" my mom by making cheesecake pumpkin pie. Although, he needs my helps. -___- There will be other people there as well who are bringing dishes over for our evening feast. My glutton ass can't wait!

Stressed

Busy week, every week. I haven't had a day off from life's crazy juggle ever since my car has been temporarily fixed. Sometimes I wonder if I'm taking on more load than I can actually handle. No breather this week either. I have the usual eight to five job with the ever stressful juvenile court school bill that we've been trying to get Arnold to sign for the past three years, classes in between, tutoring elementary kids, showing up to help my parents out with their messy and active household and business, more birthday parties this weekend, yell at one of my sisters, schedule time to have lunch/dinner with an old high school buddy, take my youngest sister to her appointments, the list goes on. AND I have another oral test in my Chinese language class and more obligations to my volunteering work this week?! ARGH!! This never ends.

Weekly Rant

I'm having a hard time in my Mandarin class. Listening and speaking is pretty easy, but writing and memorizing the characters is a struggle for me. My professor is pretty anal on how the characters are written. My Chinese name is Tai Fa Li (we got to choose it ourselves) and I have to write that on all my papers that is turned in. I notice that she has been marking off a quarter of a point when a stroke isn't long enough or in the right place on how I write my name.

UrghhhhH!!!!!

Since when does my name have to be correctly written anyway? I can't believe she's been marking off points for that. I guess I have to spend more time carefully writing out my Chinese name before turning in my paper from now on. I understand that she wants me to learn the different order of the strokes, but come on, it's only my name! It's not even my real birth name! She should just correct my strokes rather than take away points. What she should be paying attention to would be the assignment that she assigned. But I guess that's just how life is. She's getting paid the big bucks to be anal. -__-

Lonely Repulican

As I was heading into work this morning, I heard via NPR that a lonesome Republican in Congress voted for the major health care reform. I was a bit shocked to hear that a Republican was going against his party to vote on a much needed health care reform bill ignoring that fact that he has no colleagues in congress. As soon as I was dropped off at work, I rushed into the office and turned on my t.v. Just as I hoped, this had to be big enough news to hit CNN, MSNBC, or maybe even FOX (shudders). Sure enough, the story was big in the political arena on CNN. The lonesome Republican turned out to be no other than Louisiana Representative Anh Joseph Cao. Once I received the news, I was not surprised. Last summer, when Congressman Cao was running for the vacant seat that former Representative William Jefferson was occupying, I did a little snooping around on the internet on this devout Catholic lawyer. I became intrigued by Congressman Cao because he’s an immigrant from Vietnam. It’s extremely rare for someone who’s a descendant from the South Asian region to become involve in politics, especially reaching as high as Congress. K, I’m done explaining my reasons for researching him. What’s more shocking was how he won the election in a democratic state populated heavily with African American residents. This just goes to show that voters will give their vote to who they know will represent those best – this is exactly what happened. One of maybe some of you reading this, might not even understand what that means. So here was a devout Catholic Republican who immigrated from Vietnam at the age of 8 years old who won the Congress seat by beating out eight others who was running for the same vacant seat, including William Jefferson, who was, at the time, being investigated on bribery charges. This just goes to show that there will be citizens who will look past political parties and vote for someone who will stand to diligently represent them. Fast forward today, despite his party affiliation, he decided to vote for the health care bill because he knew that many, many of his constituents are uninsured. Now that’s standing up for the people who trusted him by voting him into office. This is a noble, selfless act, even if it may isolate him from making friends among fellow republicans in congress. As of late, many politicians are forgetting what their job entails - i.e. standing up for your district.

"Cao called his vote a matter of conscience. "Twenty percent of the people in my district are uninsured and we have tremendous health care issues in the district,'' Cao said after the vote, as reported by the Times-Picayune."

Click here for the whole article on stumbleupon if you’re interested in reading the full article. But then again, many of you are just glazing over my words and don't give a damn about what I have say unless it's about drama in my life or what I did over the weekend or what Mermaid and I are planning for this week, because this isn't in your "field of interest." Here's an advice, try becoming more friendly and understanding to issues rather than negatively bringing it down. Open your mind once in awhile. Try it, it won't kill you to try.