2008년 10월 20일 월요일

Today I realized life is meaningless...agree?

I do. I mean life is kinda meaningless. And I have no motivation whatsoever to do anything.
I just lie in bed all day, even when I'm fully aware my exam is on Thursday, Fri, and Saturday.
Then I start hating myself for being so lazy and procrastinatingg (dammit can't even spell now)

I keep wondering am I doing the right thing. am I doing what I like. am I doing what I wanna do for the rest of my life.
I want a decent job by the time i graduate and in 10 years i hope to be in some place where people can admire at least a little. But am I doing enough to deserve this?
Am I going to regret this? I really do want a job doing what I really want to do, and still getting some respect from others with a fair pay of course. I don't expect to be wealthy but I want a decent house and a decent car. But most of all, I want to be enjoying my life 10 years later.

Stuff to do:
1. Cultural Studies Exam Thurs
2. Polit Science Exam Fri
3. Econ Exam Sat
4. Volunteer work Mon
5. Eng. Presentation Tues
6. Presentation Wed

2008년 10월 10일 금요일

new post in 6 days!

New post in 6 days! that's a record for sure! wow i must have been really bored. I'm not supposed to be bored though, my finals are coming up next week :( My arabic's just going eemm...so-so. it's still fun. I mean the writing still fascinates me. I totally regret bailing out from Arabic classes in Choueifat and not picking it up when EVERYONE spoke Arabic making me feel like some outsider.
I reallly wanna try out other languages. If I ever get to master Arabic before my deathbed, I'd wanna try out French. I did learn French before for like 3months? But it was horrible. Ms. LeSaux really knew how to tire people out and made us pay 5 pesos for every pad paper we didn't bring to buy herself cigarettes that she tried to hide by drinking tons of iced tea but to no avail. And later on my mom made me learn French privately form MRS. LeSaux, Ms. LeSaux's mother. Like I said before, the American Sign Language is on my list. Then I wanna try maybe Spanish.
Hey come on, don't look at me like I'm some overconfident language addict. Most of the students in my Arabic classes tell me Arabic is their fourth or fifth language. EVERYONE knows how to speak Korean and English. Most can speak French and Chinese fluently. Some can speak Spanish and German and Japanese. I'm the only person who can speak just 2 languages.

1. Master Arabic
2. (American) Sign language
3. French
4. Spanish
5. Chinese

Just 5 languages. That's all i ask. Oh wait, I might wanna add in Vietnamese. I've wanted to try it out coz whenever I go to Vietnam, where my dad lives currently, I have to communicate with words rather than sentences. Anyways Vietnamese is somewhat similar to French I heard so that'l make it easier.

Ma at salama. Au revoir. Ciao. Zai jian. Bye for now!

2008년 10월 4일 토요일

Sign Language

For around 10 days I lived alone since my mom was gone away. I had nothing to do. And I had already watched all seasons of Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, and Desperate Housewives.
As I was browsing around I came across the L Word, a series about
lesbians living in WeHo, LA and their lives, love, and friendship. I really enjoyed watching it. It has A LOT of themes such as how Bette defines her identity as African-American when no one knows she has the African blood and how trust is broken between Bette and Tina....and etc.

In season 5, Jodi appears. Jodi is a deaf sculptor played by Marlee Matlin. Matlin is in reality deaf. She has complete hearing loss on one side, and 80% on the other. Yet she is very outgoing and wonderful. There are many scenes where Bette and Jodi communicate thru sign language. So I started taking some interest in sign languages. I never knew there were different sign languages in different countries. Jodi and Bette use the ASL (American Sign Language). I found some lessons on the internet and can sign words like afraid, don't know, do, mad, sister, water, dinner, party, worth, and etc.

I think the world of sign language is just be-autiful. The fact that you can communicate with just your hands is mind blowing for me. Anyways I'm thinking about learning the ASL by myself. It's fun. but still haven't decided if I should learn the KSL instead.