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Name: zilkha
Interests: Studying, getting a good future, music, reading, art, meditation, current events, global warming crisis, anime, manga shopping, internet, blogging, making friends, laughing, sleeping, soul-searching, cute stuff, games, piano, clarinet
Expertise: Studying?
Occupation: Townsend Harris HS Student
Industry: the Educational Industry
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AIM:  somethinginmybox
Member Since:
2/6/2005
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| Response to NY Times ArticleNow, history is my least favorite subject. But there are just some things that I simply cannot stand. In AP World History, I learned one meaningful lesson. And that was never to render any judgment on a group of people until all sides of the story are considered, and even then, to hold out on one's opinion. Mankind only sees things at first in one dimension, so it is up to us to mentally grasp the rest of the sides in the best way as possible. I was reading today's article called 'China Locks Down Restive Region After Deadly Clashes'. And NO DOUBT, the journalist is playing on the chinese. RIDICULOUS! How they have no proof at all that EITHER side was to blame for the many who died. The citizens pleas of innocence are ridiculous. Of course they are 'normal' people. But normal people can react. I just had to read the comments, because I know people would subconsciously (or worse, actively) pursue the chinese and defame them. They call it a breachment of civil rights. Well let me tell you, if you stand so haughty and proud over the so called accomplishments of the United States, you are standing on brittle and crumbling grounds. Look upon all around you. What about guantanimo bay? I need say nothing further. My favorite comment:
"A closed society such as China's can always present a happy face to the world. Beyond appearances, there are stories like this."
This is by a Matt in New York City.
Well let me tell you something, CHINA is no longer a closed society. The fact that you can get this knowledge right here and now, is because of the marvels of interlocking nations. China is not pulling up a face or doing anything of the sort. What has it to hide? If there is an outbreak in the US (and we have not seen anything like this magnititude, so another note, I bet US response would be no lighter a hand) the government would most likely do the same. There are stories HERE, okay? If China is a closed society, you should be surprised (when I am not): THE UNITED STATES IS A CLOSED SOCIETY AS WELL.
Stylistically, my credibility is going to be broken, but I can't stand it. Read this one:
I think one favorite policy people like to point fingers at is the fact that China strictly impliments a one child policy.
Fuck you. FUCK YOU. You think you understand? You think you even have the right to pity them? LOL! Ridiculous. It should be elementary to you that China has the largest national population in the world. There are SO many mouths to feed, and, although China is growing rapidly economically, how can the government allow every parent to produce two children or more, thereby exponentailly increasing the food supply. Is that any personal freedom when you are one in the many who are limiting others' chances of the same primitive necessity: food.
You may call me communist. And, quite frankly, perhaps I do not care. You may call me biased, and perhaps I am (given that my nationality is of mainland china). But the point is, hear me out.
So shut up and listen. And before you want to say anything, look around you, shut up and listen twice. | | |
| First Day of Work (Ever)!
Note that when I say 'chinese' I am referring to the Chinese government. [Edit.]
I'm made history today. Well, personal history. Today at the age of sixteen (and a half?) I have taken a step towards adulthood (although the actual displacement is left to debate). At 8:00 PM I ventured out into the Urban wilderness of Flushing, New York City and shuffled my way (for I was on heels) to work. I was breathless by the time I reached there because I underestimated the amount of time I'd need to reach my working place. The first two hours was a dizzying whir of activities, but after a few hours and odd jobs, I feel like I'm getting the hang of it. I like this job. After work is completed I don't feel completely depleted. In fact, I feel like I had a mental workout. One that I needed. For if I did not have a job this month, I would have wasted all that time away like last year, playing video games and letting my brain rot. So being a teacher's assistant is a pretty good thing. I get paid well apparently (but as I am new to this manifestation of independence, I can only rely on other experiences for judgment) for my job. And the children that I look after are the good handful, a bit restless maybe, but completely tolerable. I like working there. And I am happy. Good for me! I wonder if I will last the month. But I do believe I can. And I believe I will acquire great experience from taking this class. =) I am happy that my friend referred me to the job, although I am sad that she is on vacation and am not there to help me.
Maybe you can learn from me (y'all who are younger, or those who as of now have no jobs). It doesn't need to be paid, but when you have time, DO something. Do something that'll have a lasting effect on the future. Try to have a new experience. You may not think you are wasting time, but time always wastes you. So, do something! I was stuck watching youtube videos, and leveling my level 97 DK on Maplestory (all gaming jibberish, you need not understand) for HOURS. Now I work and get paid, study for the ACT, getting ready to apply for college and preparing for the writing examination to get my learning driver permit.
Do something.
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| Sometimes I Don't Need Myself to Talk ToThere have been many a night in my life where I just sit and think about thinking. I kind of get these out of world experiences, thinking about thinking. It's a gigantic look hole, really. It gives me a headache. I feel stupid now for what I just said, but sometimes the mere fact of the sheer freedom of my consciousness scares me. I mean what happens when I'm dead? The gift that Nature has given us is the gift of death. If all else fails in life, we will always receive relief. Mmhm.
So I go surfing on youtube and I find out that many people believe that makeup is used in order to hide who you are. I think that's only true for some people. But in fact, makeup makes you closer to who you REALLY are: it's intention is to make you look more beautiful. Now, the standards of beauty and self respect vary from person to person. So what one person feels good in another person would vomit to look at. Makeup conceals blemishes. It wasn't made to accentuate them. It accentuates the appealling parts of your face, the most animate and personal part of your body (unless you count, ehem, other things). It even creates beauty when there is none. So please, makeup doesn't hide who you are. It doesn't on the physical level and it doesn't on the spiritual level either.
I ran about a mile today and worked out. It felt good. ^^
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| What do you think your purpose in life is?
I was born to suffer. I'm not being depressed when I say this. Life is all about getting one's own share of tears and blood and wounds and scars. Even when we haven't gotten so much as a bruise in our life, our skin will sag and our backs will bend with some onerous force: time. So I say I was born to suffer, but mankind was also born to endure. Either I crash and tumbled into the abysmal state of mortality, or I resist my deterioration and create a legacy for all that might do in the world. But with all things taken into consideration, no matter what we do, no matter how hard we try, we will always be forgotten. So life is what we make of it. We should not stray away from making our own marks...time corrodes it away anyways. After all that's said and done, what's my purpose in life? Make a difference in myself, in my family, in my world. No matter what the cost, make a difference.
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