Light Man Freak Out!!!

Hoax" triggers Boston security scare

I'm so unhappy that I missed this thing until 15 minutes ago. I miss it all, you would think that I'd at least notice this news with the fact that I'm riding the MBTA. And I didn't see a single traffic jam on the way home.

I should have go home via Sullivan Square.

Turner Broadcasting's "publicity promotion" sure works. In a big way. I don't even know how to think of this. Maybe if I was actually held up by this from coming home, I might have more of an opinion and very pissed.

Now the news say there's another one found in Fenway Park, how many is there?


Hey, it's giving me the finger! I found it funny/odd that Turner Broadcast didn't notify any of the officials, and nobody knew this until now, and all hell broke loose. In the world after September 11th, some people can't take this type of "publicity stunt".

I'm still unhappy that I missed this, especially when I take the public transportation around Boston and noticed none of this.

I'm going to Sullivan Square tomorrow morning to school(like every morning). Blah.

History Study Center - Maps & Reference Article

History Study Center - Maps & Reference Article

Children.Org

While I was walking to the bus stop to go home, someone from Children International stopped me and asked me to pledge for a child. But the only problem is, I'm not old enough (I looked old, I know, I know).

But he did told me their website, it is Children.org.

Too bad I'm too young.

What is On My Radio (Or Yours)?

I have heard it several times already, people saying "radio is going to die", maybe it is, I don't know. On a Saturaday night, I listened to the radio station WFNX , and I decided to write down their playlist, and then determine if the playlist (the music)is killing radio or not, so here we go:

January thirteenth, two thousand and seven
6:12PM
Steady As She Goes by the Raconteurs
I heard this song for 1,456 times already (I tallied them up and counted it)for the last few months. And really, I'm getting sick of it, I don't care if Jack White is awesome or not.

6:14PM
The Sweater Song by Weezer
I always wonder why the hell would someone want to destroy River Cuomos' sweater. This song always makes me imagine a bunch of guys singing drunkingly while the others smokes weed.

6:16PM
Unknown song
Appearently a 80s tune. Nostalgia.

6:20PM
Shine On by Jet
Whew, that song ended, and Jet came on!All I really noticed about this song was that this is the exact formula for their other song, Look What You Have Done. Oh my gosh, maybe this will be on Top 40 too!

6:25PM
All Apologies by Nirvana
Wonder if Courtney Love sold the right of this sont to some company yet.

6:28PM
Don't Look Back In Anger by Oasis
1. Is Oasis going to release anything this year?
2. Who is Noel Gallagher going to talk shit about next?

6:32PM
DJ talking about some show

6:33PM
Commercials (including McDonalds, skiing, 24, Donkin Donuts and more)

6:39PM
Le Disco Shinny Toy Guns
Another hispter dance/disco rock band! Yee haw.

6:42PM
Date Rape by Sublime
My favorite kind of story in a song form.

6:45PM
Holiday by Green Day
Green Day is everywhere. In fact, they're just outside my windows.

6:50PM
Never There by Cake
Cake, hmmm

6:53PM
DJ talking about Shinny Toy Guns sounding like Peaches.

So, judging from the playlist, I think the current state of radio is sdjofupksdfjek;slfijk.

Databases

Nero's life with Rome
Nero
Brief Biography of Nero
Biographies of Roman Emperors
Detailed bio
Another one
Nero's Death
Quinn's Nero Page

Global Warming is Upon Us!

Today is January sixth, and it is 68 degrees out there in Boston.
If this does not prove that global warming is in effect, I don't know what is.

The Good Never Lasts
The good never lasts,
And the bad always struck.
Time of ecstasy,
Broke by uncertainty.
How can we forget,
There’s always something there,
To block all the potentials,
All the hopes and
All the cheers?
What a fool,
What idiocy,
What a hit.
But I will be here,
Waiting.
Waiting for the outcome,
Waiting for the future.
I’ll stick around,
I’ll give a hand.
I know the good never lasts,
But I will stay put,
Even if it won’t be what it used to be.



The Mouse
Painful squeal,
Trapped in its deathbed,
Helpless.

It struggles,
In this pool of glue,
Watching the world through sad eyes.

So small and fragile,
Stealing the last bit of breath,
Just to survive, trying to survive.

It can’t escape anymore,
And I’m watching it,
Oh god I’m watching it die.

X-Mas

It doesn't even feel like X-mas here.
It's rainning,of all things.



I WANT A BLIZZARD.

Operation Conservatives

They plan to protest Wal-Mart,but dropped it. Perhaps because no one cares.

"This has been Christian families' favorite store( Wal-Mart) _ and now they're giving in, sliding down the slippery slope so many other corporations have gone down," said the Rev. Flip Benham of Operation Save America. "They're all being extorted by the radical homosexual agenda."

Funny how many priests turned out to be attracted to little boys and one not long ago “gave in to sin” (or whatever he called it) with another man.

Speaking of agendas, I though the Christian Conservatives’ agenda is way more subversive to society than “their homosexual agenda”.

First, the Conservatives impose their agenda/teaching upon you. Their tactic of fear with “if you’re a homosexual or a non-Christian you will go to hell” allows no tolerance and exception (maybe except limbo in Roman Catholic, but when have you ever hear “you’re a good atheist, you will go to limbo!?)Thus they plant a seed of fear in people’s heart. This absolute arrogance and intolerance leads to discrimination.

And more or less, American society (or maybe government even) is based strongly on religion (you may even say it’s a theocracy). The reason same-sex marriage is having so much trouble and controversies is because of the Conservatives, and they do have a hand in politics---do you think they really think that gay marriage is wrong just because the constitution said “marriage is between man and woman?”

Homosexuality is seen as a blasphemy and a crime.

Mitt Romney (Massachusetts governor) recently openly supported the voting on banning gay marriage. Why? He’s a Christian! The opponent of such is 99.9% base on religion. Religion is use not just for personal faith, but almost everything else.

The fact is that Christian Conservatives does not accept anything other than their own beliefs, Jesus is your savior and that’s it, they cannot look at other things objectively. So, this lack of objectivity became the one and only truth, and everything else is base on that. Perhaps it was…noble for them to “right the wrong” and “fight evil” because they truly believe in what they’re doing. Everything they do is for God. Basically, they’re fight for their rights, but so does the gay right supporters. Homosexuals are also people, a difference in preference (and some priest is having that preference also, mind you) does not make them a monster. And I thought Jesus taught people to love everyone.

I should go ask that guy with the cardboard that says “Save by Jesus or lost in hell” about whether he loves everyone or not.

SHUT UP

Don't say anything if you have nothing nice to say, it's very dull after you say it more than two times.

I was roaming around a forum today, and I rediscovered something that is very irritated and annoying--- people complain how much they dislike/dissatified/disppointed by something (in this case, about an album).

It's the same person over and over again---" I'm disappointed, it's a bad album" "it's not complex enough" "it sucks ass". WELL, I LIKE IT, SO FUCK YOU. STOP TRYING TO CONVICE ME OTHERWISE.

Seriously, enough already! I understand that you don't like the album, fine, BUT STOP SAYING HOW MUCH IT SUCKS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN! Tell me something that doesn't suck, something that you like for a change!

And yes, the fact that I like,(I may even say love) the album irritates me more. I like the album and that is all it matters, I don't care what you think.

How to define a "great album" or "bad album" anyway? These are obviously oppinions, you think one thing, the other thinks the opposite, so which is true? NON.
What really matter is what you think, if you think one thing, don't let others convice you that easily.

I hope I won't type something like this again, thereby making my opening statement a phrase that I cannnot follow (therefore I become a hypocrite).

Dancing Teacher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHhCVIkPCk

I hope a teacher dance to a tune that is more embrassing than this one this year.

But,this is good enough.

Mid -Term

It's near the end of the month,this means that my teachers are busy making their students take exams to write their progress report.

I'm sure I will mess up on the latin mid-term exam somehow, since I have to go through a long process of identifying which tense is which, then adding the different endings and all that...and worse yet, I have remember some damned architecutre terms.

My school tend to produce an aura that will suffocate its students, that's why so many of them drop out in the first place.

I still have a few projects pending...

It's kind of sad that everything in your academic years are based on numbers, exams, grades...and really, report cards are not a measure of intelligence, just how hard you worked and maybe luck. I seen some kid got so upset over their grades, and really, it's not the end of the world. There's way more beyond the As and Bs and whatnot.

I still got a long way to go....

Halloween Playlist

1. Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus
I guess it's classic for a day like Halloween. For one thing, the title's suit for the day, and the song's eerie soundscapes give you a creepy feeling.

2. Peek-a-Boo by Siouxie and the Banshees
I don't really need to explain.

3. Dracula by White Zombie
Do I need to explain?

4. The Wretched by Nine Inch Nails
Perhaps the creepiest NIN song, in my opinion. It's great to listen to when the sky is gloomy, it will be even better to listen to on Halloween.

5. Burn the Witch by Queens of the Stone Age
Salem's song.

Other Tracks:
Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads
Deadhead by Stereophonics
Dead Souls by Joy Division
Living Dead Girl by White Zombie
Everyday is Halloween by Ministry
Mask by Bauhaus

North Korea and Their Nuclear Weapons and Everyone is Freaking Out

This, to me, isn't the biggest problem.

How many coutries have nuclear weapons? I'm sure the United States have it, Russia have it, other countries have it, so North Korea wants one. Do they have the right to have one, sure. Like the United States have the rights to crash Iraq and free the Iraqis (maybe not the best analogy)

The thing is, because Kim Joon II is perceived as a fucking nutcase by the media and otherwise, so people automatically assume that he's going to shoot it towards everyone in sight. Maybe he is a nutcase, by the way that he doesn't care what the other countries are yelling about and don't care about the consequences. But, is he going to use it? I don't know.

Like my history teacher said: " People don't trust Kim Joon II with the nuclear weapons, well, I don't trust Dick Cheney either. " puts it best.

But I wouldn't be that surprised if North Korea goes off.

Latin

Prepositions

Preposition with ablative nouns
• Ab: from, away
• Cum: with
• De: from, down from; concerning, about
• Ex: from, out of
• In: in, on
• Sine: without
• Sub: under, at the foot of

Preposition with accusative nouns
• Ad: to, toward, near
• Ante: before (time), in front of (space)
• Post: after (time), behind (space)
• Ob: because
• Per: through
• Trans: across
• In: into, onto
• Sub: up to, under (motion)

More vocabulary
Via, viae f: road, street, way
Servus, -I m: slave (not servant)
Filia-ae-f : daughter
Donum, -I n: gift
Nuntius, -I m: messenger
Porta,-ae, f : gate
Silva, -ae f: forest
Amicus, -I m: friend

it: he/she/it goes
eunt: they go
navigant: they sail
navigas: your are sailing
pungnas: you are fighting
portent: they are carrying
preparant: they are preparing
ubi: where
laudat: he/she praises
vocat: calls

Am I Annoying?

Here's something interesting:
Am I Annoying?

Now I can find out how annoying I am! Fortunately after I took the quiz, they said:
"Quiz Results
Points: 29
Our experts are please to report that you are a tolerable, if not pleasant. You should be proud of your annoyance rating (unless you lied on your quiz, then you're a complete bastard!)
Time Spent: 12:54"

Sometimes I am pleasant to the point of weak.

Retrospective: September 11

For older people, maybe they have been asked the following question: “where were you when you heard Kennedy got shot?”, or, “where were you when you heard Lennon got shot?”. For people my generation, the question of equivalence is certainly “where were you when you heard the Twin Towers got hit by terrorists?”.

I remember clearly where I was when that happened. I was quiet young at the time, and was on the other side of the ocean. And I t seems not so long ago.

Typical fall day, and like everyday, I walked with my friends from school back to my grandmother’s house. It was about 4:30 in the afternoon, and the television was on in the living room.

Expecting the usual programming of cartoons, I was surprised when all I saw was a ruin of some building, with the news reporter reporting something. I sat down, and there, they showed the footage of the plane struck the Twin Towers over and over again. I soon realized that the terrorist attacked New York City, and the US was under attack.

That was the first time I heard of the word “terrorist.”

During these five years, I had moved to America, and hear the word “terrorists” at least few times a month. “The war on terrorism” is heard every time Bush speaks.

America’s not safe, I don’t even know if it will ever be safe from terrorists. It’s pretty lucky that the British uncovered the terror plot in London last month, but just how many more can we bust? How long can we continue this?

Terrorists aren’t idiots. Their selfless will to do revenge is something that is almost indestructible. As long there’s conflicts between the US and the Middle East, there will be grudge and vengeance. But it seems like the government had made no effort to resolve this. Instead, there’s wars and yapping when a country wants to develop “weapon of mass destruction” (nuclear weapons).

It all seems distant away, yet it is all so near.

Back to School

School started on Thursday, and it's been...okay.

I'm in a new school this year, though there's people I know from my previous school, but of course, the other 2000 plus faces are strangers to me. Also, the school is very big, and there's only 4 minutes for you to run to your next class and put away the 5 pound books in your locker, it provides a considerably stress both physically and mentally.

I know it's going to get worse when the piles of homework comes.

You know, students are really slaves to the education. With today's demanding environment, four years of college isn't enough (and I'm not in college), we spent a good part of our youth in education without knowing what it really promise. "Education is mighty weapon," even if you graduated from Harvard, that doesn't mean you will become a CEO or the president. But for sake of education, (or your parents or whatever)you have to take it.

Or else you will be homeless.

I can't even remember what I was going to say.

Rest In Peace, Steve

Stingray killed the Crocodile Hunter.

I was shocked that the seemingly indestructable Steve Irwin died. I just know about it a few hours ago.

I first came across Irwin when watching Animal Planet, and I have always liked the guy. And now this... I was bummed.

He died while doing something he loves, maybe that can give people some comfort. Well, rest in peace.

I Wish I have the Programmer's Job

I just heard G-Unit's "Stun 101" on a segment in a PBS kids program, I don't know if it's more funny, or it's more of a proof that there is no God.

I hope next time they will use Tool's "Die Eier Von Satan" or Nine Inch Nails' "Closer".