When I study something, I like to study it because I want to learn, appreciate and actually UNDERSTAND it. I was always eager get out off high school. Why? Because I was forced to memorize some REALLY useless things I didn't give a single care about. Most of the I time just managed to read what was assigned in a book and then vomited it out during the examination and most cases forgot what I "learned."
I think most school marks are highly subjective, and in many cases inaccurate, because they do not properly measure someone's intelligence. Just another way for society to rank people.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Ever wonder when to stop forgiving? When do you stop quickly “getting over” what angers or hurts you because most of the time, the offender doesn’t offend? How do you fairly define and create the list of "Bad Things” that will over-ride all of the previous good?
"This is the South, honey. But no one likes to reminisce about the old slave days." - Mayor Lockewood, Vampire Dairies
I’ve been watching a show call The Vampire Diaries all week on Netflix and the race politics hit me in the face. Pretty much all the vampires in this show are white, while almost all the African Americans are witches/warlocks.
I think the problem does not lie in that there aren't many minority characters on the show (and there have been a select few) but all the black people are witches. It creates a distinction, and it's not necessarily against black people in my mind (unless you count witches as bad) but reinforces racism in general.
I'm just going to quote this part from the World English Dictionary:
Racism is "the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others"
Independently of the part about superiority, since I think that witches can have the upper hand but can also be subjected to following orders on their vampire friends.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
I'm afraid of waking up in the middle of the night in a dark room.
It's not so much the dark I'm afraid of, it's the eeriness. The mystery.
It's like I'm afraid of what I might find if I turn on the lights.
I was really blown away by her dancing, obviously I've always known she's an exceptional dancer but this is the most (and best) choreography I've seen her do on a tour (via DVDs). Her voice was on point, as always, and again the energy was off the charts throughout the whole show. Why Don't You Love Me was definitely my favorite performance of the night, and I always say this but I love how she keeps her hit songs from 10 years ago in her shows but gives them new life with fresh routines (proving how timeless they are.) She's starting to do the same with Single Ladies and I can tell that performance is going to get even better over the years as well. Seeing her perform Schoolin' Life live was very surreal because EVERYONE around me knew the words. It's so bizarre because the song hasn't officially been released, no one has a clue what's going on with it, but we all went nuts over the performance haha.
The VIP experience was definitely worth it, being so close was a dream. I thought I would get tired from standing so long but I guess my adrenaline and excitement kept me from feeling it. My legs and back hurt that night when I went to bed but by the next morning I didn't feel a thing lol. I've worked my way up to better seats each time I've seen Bey and next time I will definitely be getting the pit again.
