So I really wanted to do soemthing like this because i do beleive that college is a growing experience and i feel like im a prime example. So i think ill make it a list kinda post, so here it goes....lets see how far i go!
1) Im an idiot. I always misinterpret things and/or assume things that are wrong. I also tend to not realize what God has put in from of me until its too late.
2)Im horrible with guys! Im a horrible flirt and act really childish and/or insult them as a way to tell them that i like them...needless to say, they all hate me now! :(
3)Trying to communicate soemthing important over text or on facebook is NO GOOD! It always lead to misinterpretations and problems
4)College courses is not a good place to make friends, especially if your in a quarter sistem! You always make friends then never see them again!!!
5)Knowing someone in a frat means you are able to get into ANY other frats party
6)Not sleeping at least 4 hours before an exam dosent help! honestly you get the same score as a person who studied those 4 hours less you were awake!
7)watching cartoons is still ok....lol
8)Supposedly all college guys think girls are sluts....but then again college girls dont try to hard to NOT BE sluts.
9)Alcohol tastes BAD, i really dont get why people drink it! if it wasent seen as the cool thing, people would do it cuz its gross! also, youcan have as much fun without alcohol as you can with, if you ACTUALLY KNOW how to have fun!
10) Everyone should take some cultural/ethnic class or gender class opposite of thiers in college to be truly knowlegeable.
now things ive learned about myself....which i kinda already did but i kinda drifted into a tangent....
11)im shallow
12)i confront problems and deal with them rather than wait until later
13)im future oriented-im always conserned with the future never the past
14)im very similar to my father....not just physically
15)i dont like havign problems with people, i hate it when people are mad at me.....i always tend to say sorry even if im not to blame just to fix problems. I even say sorry for roomates who get into fights with others.....:)
16)im a follower
17)my biggest fear is being alone
18)oftentimes when i argue i always think im right...but my roomie reetu is good at helping me see things clearly
18)i tend to see two sides of the story the majority of the times...but noone is perfect and i do get selfish
19)i judge people
20)life is full of shit.....you have to learn to live with it
21)i beleive its easier for people not religious to become religious if they have a good life
22)i still have a lot of unresolved issues
23)i have anger in me
24)i let people push me around
goodness i cant really think of any really GOOD ones at the moment....this ALWAYS happens! when im about to go to sleep is when i have my best ideas! its weird!!!lol
Monday, June 29, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Women
So i had to wrote a paper for sociology about something in popular culture that has had an impact on me. The first thing i thought of was Victorias Secret since i work there. It was all about VS's commercials and thier imapct on women self image. I was also taking a history class this quarter about american women and the family. Its funny, i feel like im a total feminist now! lol! Oh, and i also watched "mean girls" tonight...so im all about women talk right now!
On this topic, there is a lot of opinions and things to consider. Why are women so conserned with beauty and self image? Why are women so mean to each other? Can a women ever REALLY accept herself? Who created this image of beauty? Why are women the sex that has to be pretty? Is it because we are delicate and weak? Why does the media continue to portray women in the domestic role if we haev greater opportunities? Are women truly more equal? We discussed in my history class the emergance of cosmetics in the early 19th century and how marketing for makeup created an image of how women should look like. It also helped women in the 1920's express their liberation through makeup, but it was the makeup companies themselves that created the belief that makeup created female independance. So my next question: has the market created womenhood/femininity as a way to keep the economy going? Are women keeping the economy going? If women were to accept themselves and take a more masculine role would the economy calapsed? In the end it is women who shop for clothes, food, and household necessities. Just look at a mall, i want to say that the mall is like maybe 90% female retail(if you take out all the food places!). We had to read an article by Betty Friedan that discussed the marketing in the 1950's. We know that that was the most consumerist period of US history. Some interesting things is that they created products for women to stay inside the house which made them beleive that they were supposed to be housewives and that this was fulfilling. They created housewives or at least they defined housewifery(?).
All these victorias secret models are gorgeous! Commercials are filled with makeup and clothes and shit to maek women want them, to make women think that this is beauty! It seems like the media creates womenhood.
Mean girls ends with Lindsay sayin that "it dosent matter if you call someone fat, ugly, etc....thats not goign to make me win"...or something liek that! But we all know this but we still tlak about other girls! Even the nice, perfect girls!!! I dotn know if it is possible to accept each other in a big sisterhood world or ourself. I beleive it is simple human nature to gossip and talk abotu others,but is it? It seem like this issue of self esteem has come about with the turn of the century, but is it just the media again? Didnt women before concerne themselves with dresses and used corsetts which hurt like a motha! i know! i used one for my quinceanera. But where does this coem from? this need for beauty? the pain, time consumption women go through for beauty. It is because of men? In my communications class we tlaked abotu how men are more interested in womens beauty then women are. so have men created this self image and beauty for women? how did it evolve? there is always all this tlak that men and women look for a partner that is best for reproduction and that is a reason why people choose a partner. but i wonder if this is true in our society. Do people really look for the one partner who is the msot beautiful of the most reprodcutively capable? why is pain associated with beauty?......SO many questions....but im tired now, but i will surely come back to adress this issue again. I have a lot to say about this but i think i will organize it better!
next post will be on men.
keep Gabbing everyone!
On this topic, there is a lot of opinions and things to consider. Why are women so conserned with beauty and self image? Why are women so mean to each other? Can a women ever REALLY accept herself? Who created this image of beauty? Why are women the sex that has to be pretty? Is it because we are delicate and weak? Why does the media continue to portray women in the domestic role if we haev greater opportunities? Are women truly more equal? We discussed in my history class the emergance of cosmetics in the early 19th century and how marketing for makeup created an image of how women should look like. It also helped women in the 1920's express their liberation through makeup, but it was the makeup companies themselves that created the belief that makeup created female independance. So my next question: has the market created womenhood/femininity as a way to keep the economy going? Are women keeping the economy going? If women were to accept themselves and take a more masculine role would the economy calapsed? In the end it is women who shop for clothes, food, and household necessities. Just look at a mall, i want to say that the mall is like maybe 90% female retail(if you take out all the food places!). We had to read an article by Betty Friedan that discussed the marketing in the 1950's. We know that that was the most consumerist period of US history. Some interesting things is that they created products for women to stay inside the house which made them beleive that they were supposed to be housewives and that this was fulfilling. They created housewives or at least they defined housewifery(?).
All these victorias secret models are gorgeous! Commercials are filled with makeup and clothes and shit to maek women want them, to make women think that this is beauty! It seems like the media creates womenhood.
Mean girls ends with Lindsay sayin that "it dosent matter if you call someone fat, ugly, etc....thats not goign to make me win"...or something liek that! But we all know this but we still tlak about other girls! Even the nice, perfect girls!!! I dotn know if it is possible to accept each other in a big sisterhood world or ourself. I beleive it is simple human nature to gossip and talk abotu others,but is it? It seem like this issue of self esteem has come about with the turn of the century, but is it just the media again? Didnt women before concerne themselves with dresses and used corsetts which hurt like a motha! i know! i used one for my quinceanera. But where does this coem from? this need for beauty? the pain, time consumption women go through for beauty. It is because of men? In my communications class we tlaked abotu how men are more interested in womens beauty then women are. so have men created this self image and beauty for women? how did it evolve? there is always all this tlak that men and women look for a partner that is best for reproduction and that is a reason why people choose a partner. but i wonder if this is true in our society. Do people really look for the one partner who is the msot beautiful of the most reprodcutively capable? why is pain associated with beauty?......SO many questions....but im tired now, but i will surely come back to adress this issue again. I have a lot to say about this but i think i will organize it better!
next post will be on men.
keep Gabbing everyone!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Happiness
I just saw "The pursuit of happyness" tonight and it made me think a little bit. Because im a major history geek, i thought the reaccuring mention of benjamin franklin was awesome! The declaration of independence has the following "....and the pursuit of happiness". Will Smith goes on to say something like "maybe thats why its a pursuit because we never actually reach happiness"...or at least something like that! lol. I also saw a documentary on Eva Longoria and she said that her character "Gaby Solis" in Desperate Housewifes got into trouble because "she had everything in the world, she was supposed to be completely happy". Happiness......we all search for it but do we ever reach it? When can we say "im completely happy"? I think its different for different people, but why is it that the people living in the wealthies countries have the greatest depression and sadness? Is this belief just a belief spread by the mass media? because when you really think about it, those people in countries below poverty level are never portrayed as happy but they do not suffer from depression. I was thinking about my own life. How im always complaining and depressed and unhappy with my life but in reality I AM SO INCREDIBLE BLESSED AND LUCKY! I HAVE EVERYTHING TO BE HAPPY!!! I have food, clean water, clothes, a home, a college education.....and so much more! How can i not be happy, but still i am.
To be complete honest i feel like i need a guy to be completely happy, but i shouldnt need them. Why cant i take what blessing i have and be happy? Why cant people take what they have and be happy? if we could all acknowledge this could the world be a happier place? Its so easy to look at the think you lack in your life and forget all the good things, but we should be looking more at the good things in life! Hard times seem to last forever, and good times are always short and scheduled. Why is this so? I just realized...looking back at winter quarter...i had a major fight with a friend and lost her kinda completely. I was so upset because i saw her as my best friend, kinda like the only great friend i had in davis....except two others. But funny thing, at the same time i started to get to know a co-worker who is the best. i can share anything with her and she listens and helps me out. Just comparing these two people i realize that God took away a person that i beleived was "a good friend" and actually gave me a GOOD FRIEND!
Im kinda in a writers block.....mayeb im just tired....sorry this couldnt be much more better analized and everything! Hopefully next blog will be better and the topic is going to be...........
L<3VE
keep Gabbing everone!
To be complete honest i feel like i need a guy to be completely happy, but i shouldnt need them. Why cant i take what blessing i have and be happy? Why cant people take what they have and be happy? if we could all acknowledge this could the world be a happier place? Its so easy to look at the think you lack in your life and forget all the good things, but we should be looking more at the good things in life! Hard times seem to last forever, and good times are always short and scheduled. Why is this so? I just realized...looking back at winter quarter...i had a major fight with a friend and lost her kinda completely. I was so upset because i saw her as my best friend, kinda like the only great friend i had in davis....except two others. But funny thing, at the same time i started to get to know a co-worker who is the best. i can share anything with her and she listens and helps me out. Just comparing these two people i realize that God took away a person that i beleived was "a good friend" and actually gave me a GOOD FRIEND!
Im kinda in a writers block.....mayeb im just tired....sorry this couldnt be much more better analized and everything! Hopefully next blog will be better and the topic is going to be...........
L<3VE
keep Gabbing everone!
'Ello,
So the reason I created this blog is not only to entertain me this summer but to express some ideas that have been swimming in my head for a while. Its me trying to be a philosopher, Sociologist, and/or psychologist! So keep in touch to what crazy things I have to say and Im open to debates!!! lol
Keep Gabbing everyone!
So the reason I created this blog is not only to entertain me this summer but to express some ideas that have been swimming in my head for a while. Its me trying to be a philosopher, Sociologist, and/or psychologist! So keep in touch to what crazy things I have to say and Im open to debates!!! lol
Keep Gabbing everyone!
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