The Eyes Of A Spectator

I did a massive re haul on the entire site, and took a lot of advice from some people who told me to make changes. I had some of my friends help me decide what to do and how to do it, but I came up with and designed something that I really liked.

I think this design is really good, and I took a lot of peoples advices once again.

I made the labels showing, and I made 3 columns. The column to the right shows all of my artists. I might be changing that to recently played artists or albums, or something like that.

I also took all of my previous posts and labeled them all, which took a really long time. Now it's easier to navigate through all of my posts, as if you want to see movie reviews, just hit movie reviews on the left hand right.

I also got rid of a lot of those nasty widgets, and the site should be running a lot faster, because I cleared up a lot of HTML coding. There also used to be a list of stuff that I planned to review, and I got rid of that, and now I'm going to completely improvise everything, on the spot when I decide to make a post.

So here we are, me and my group of friends walking around at night. It's a good amount of people. I'll name anyone who I can remember. Jenna, Phil, Anthony, Stephen, Zach, Nick, Kyle, and I. I'm not sure if there were more people, but I'll explain the really amazing story that unfolded.

We were walking down the road, and it was very cold, so I wanted to see if the lake at the local park was frozen. So we go to the gate and the park is closed. We pretty much already knew it was going to be closed, so we ended up climbing over the fence. The park closes whenever the sun goes down, and that really sucks in winter. Anyway, so we climb over and I head over to the lake with 2 or 3 of my friends, to check to see if it were frozen. We go and it turns out it wasn't. So while we look back, we see that my friends are still going over the fence. After we meet half way, a police car goes strolling by, and we realize we're fucked.

My one friend comes up with the brilliant idea of climbing out the other way, and I simple told him, "Do you really want to walk AWAY from the cops?". And we promptly started walking towards the cop.

He shone his light on us, and that's when my other friend Zach flipped out, and started running as fast as he can. In some miraculous way, the cop did not notice which was amazing.

So we're all climbing the fence, and Anthony who usually has trouble climbing a fence, went over in like 5 seconds. His reason was that if there's a cop present, he'll do anything in order to not get arrested. That's good I guess.

So we're all over, and the cop comes out of the car and walks towards us. He asks us for ID, and by now we realize that Zach didn't have any ID on him. That's why he ran away as fast as he did. My friend Anthony also, never ever carries his ID around with him anywhere. It turns out, he lost his ID 3 months ago, and this VERY morning, Nick had given it to him. How much luck is that.

Then we turn back at the gate and we see Phil struggling to climb under the gate. Phil is a pretty big guy and I don't want to be offensive, but not that strong either. So he gets stuck under the gate, and the cop turns to him and starts chuckling and asks if he should call the paramedics.

Everyone started laughing, and me and someone else helped him through.

After that everyone gave the cop ID's and the cop went into the car. We were all pretty much freaking out. He had said that if we didn't have ID, he would have to drop us off at our houses. None of our parents would want that.

So as the story continues, he comes back out, and There arrive 4 more cops. Now we all get really scared.

So here we are surrounded by 5 cops, just staring at us. This one cop just looks at me as I make the comment "Wow, 5 cops, really? I feel so intimidated, is that really necessary?"

He just continues glaring at us. Then the initial cop turns to the other cops and starts ripping on Phil, saying "Guys check it out, this guy can't even climb up over a fence." Laughter ensues, and Phil must be humiliated. After that, the other cops join in on ripping Phil a new one. They start talking about how he should go to the gym, and do more exercise, and why he can't do it.

It was sad, but it was all very very funny. After that, the cop gives back all of our ID's and makes us swear that we won't trespass in the park again.

And that's the story, it's true, and there are witnesses to prove it.

I've been getting into music like crazy within the last couple of weeks, and exploring as much as possible. I think I may have stated this a couple posts ago but now its more different.

I've added over 100 artists into my musical library, and even more albums and songs. My goal was to hit 7500 songs, but I've past that last week, and now my new goal is 10000 songs.

I wrote about two artists, Harlem Shakes, and Mouthful Of Bees, which I could not find, and still cannot find. But here is an updated list of music that I want to find and import into my library. Here's my list anyway.

I usually research the music that I listen to, and find more people related to that initial artist. I usually find 4-6 artists that relate to the band that I am listening to.

For example, when I listen to The Beatles, and I look up related artists, I'd get John Lennon, George Harrison, The Wings, and Ringo Starr And The All Starr Band.

So the music branches out pretty quickly.

I just want to state that I hate it when people don't know anything about the music that they listen to. I'd go to school and see people with Interpol, Metallica, and Beatles shirts. Now I get frustrated every time I see someone with those shirts on, because I go up to them and ask them "Oh, so which album do you think is the greatest?" and they sit their looking at me like what am I talking about.

I actually just saw a girl with a Beatles shirt on, and she could not name 2 albums by them, or even 10 songs. It was horrible.

In other news, I've been watching Avatar, and since it's a pretty short show, I'm almost done with it. I really like it so far.

This movie is a remake of the old one of the same name, made in 1951. This movie got some pretty bad reviews everywhere and by everyone, but I didn't think it was as bad. I was supposed to go see this with a lot of my friends, but I ended up not going, and so I watched it online. Usually I don't watch movies online, but I figured if it were that bad of a movie, I wouldn't want to spend money on something that sucks.

Review of "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

Plot Summary.
This guy named Klaatu, who is basically a guardian of the universe type of thing, comes to the Earth to stop the humans from destroying, or reaching the tipping point of the Earth. The tipping point is actually a scientific term which basically means, the damage will be irreversible. So while he comes, all he wants to do is check out humans, and see if they actually care about what the hell is happening to the Earth. Apparently Earth is one of the more complex planets in the universe and it's destruction would not be allowed to happen by the guardians of the universe. Another robotic type machine named Gort, is the protector of Klaatu, and if anything happens to him, then he goes apeshit and starts wreaking havoc on everything around him.

The Good.
I really adore the CGI and graphic effects in the movie, they are just absolutely spectacular. I also like how Klaatu talks in a monotone voice throughout the entire movie. The plot line has a pretty good substance I think, and it unfolds well over the entire movie. Other than that there isn't much good.

The Bad.
Apparently, Keanu Reeves is the only person that the director saw Klaatu as, which really irritates me. It was his only choice as the main actor, and that just seems so wrong. There are plenty of actors that I could see taking Klaatu's position. Keanu, just isn't the right actor for the part. I also love Jennifer Connolly, but I don't see her in this position either. And why is the kid black? They never even showed a picture of the husband, and it's just very random. Even if they were aiming for the whole "there isn't a black person in the movie" issue, it would still make sense to have the kid as a white kid. Somewhere along the movie, I thought to myself, "I know exactly where this whole movie is going," and I did. The plot is good, but the way the movie is put together, you know what's going to happen. And I did. Gort starts destroying everything, and Klaatu stops him. That's it. The ending to the movie was absolutely horrible. It pretty much killed off the entire movie. It was basically Jennifer saying "That's it they are leaving," AND THAT'S IT. It was really really bad. If it weren't for the ending I would give a higher score.

My Overall Thought.
I just think the ending could have used a lot more work, and the casting could have been much better. The plot and everything was great, but this fails to even come close to the original story from the 40s. I haven't seen the 1951 original, so I can't say much. I also know that in the original, the 1951 movie had a very very famous line that goes something like "Klaatu Barada Nichto!" and it was never delivered. This line was used in many movies after, and is held in high esteem by many directors and fan boys.

My Rating.
I give this movie a bad 5/10. Yeah, it's pretty bad, but not as bad as critics said it was. I'd see it again with a friend or something.

World of Goo is a game that was released for a couple of platforms, namely Wii, PC, and Mac, and a Linux version is in the works.

It's a neat little game that is truly unique in many aspects.

What It Is.
A game created by only a couple people, it's astonishing. Using a pretty basic physics engine, that is similar to real life physics, you can feel and understand why everything is happening in the game, balance wise. It's also pretty humorous and can make you laugh at times. Your basically trying to get into pipes every level, and sometimes your not, but that's only on rare occasions. The gameplay changes every chapter so it keeps the game play very unique at all times.

How It Works.
Well, every level you start with a bunch of goo's and you have to build your way to the pipe. That's pretty much all it is. Later on in the game, the game dramatically changes, and you have more and more challenging levels, with ideas you've never thought of.

My Experience.
The first time I got World of Goo, I got the crappy mac version when it was ported, which means it was done by some random guy. It ran very slow and choppy and got pretty unplayable. Then later on I got it again, and got through the first levels pretty quickly. I love reading the signs, because they are real fun to read and laugh at. The cut scenes are really simple but also really funny as well. A lot of heart was put into this game.

The Bad.
Sometimes the physics aspect of the game gets pretty ridiculous, but I guess that's part of the challenge. I also wish you could make your own levels, because the game itself is very very short. You can finish the entire game if you rush through it within 5 hours. The game doesn't have much re-playability, and therefore loses a lot of it's appeal. But, if you bring a friend over, it's great to show it to them, and it's a lot of fun.

The Good.
I'm glad they put the one World Of Goo corporation level. This level is basically 300 goo's at max, and your goal is to build up as high as you can go. While doing this, you can see your rank throughout the entire world. The most highest I've managed to get is in the 10,000 rankings. As I said before the physics engine is great, but it can be ridiculous sometimes, so it's shared. The amount of fun you have is great, especially with a friend. I think one of the biggest appeals to me is the soundtrack. I loved the soundtrack so much, that I ripped all of the songs, and put it in my iTunes, and I listen to it here and there. It's truly something you can just have fun listening to.

My Future Expectations.
I'm not sure how successful this game has been, because I heard that 90% of all copies of this game are pirated, which is a lot. I hope the company really gets what they deserve, because they put a lot of work into it, and deserve some cash. I'm also not sure if there will be a sequel, but I'd love it if there were. I'd also love it if they released a level builder. I'm sure some crazy ideas would spawn.

My Rating.
I give this incredibly unique game, a good 7.5 out of 10. It reminds me of LittleBigPlanet, just a smaller version, and you can't build your own levels.

I will admit, I did not plan on seeing this movie, at is not my type. It is my mother's type however, and it was her weekend. She hates anything that's fiction, action violent and along those lines. So were limited to practically nothing except this movie. I was surprised to see that Vince Vaughn was working with Reese Witherspoon. I guess they are working at it to get into more semi-serious movie grounds, as this movie isn't all comedy.

Review of "Four Christmases."

Plot Summary.
There's a couple who are extremely happy with how their life is going. They have fun, they have sex, and they like it the way it is. They are also against changing anything besides what they are doing already. They don't want to get married, don't want to have kids, and also don't want to spend Christmas with their family, great eh? So while they had a ticket planned to go to Fiji, all the planes were canceled at the airport, and they had to resort to going to all of their parents, because they were caught on live TV. That's the general idea. While they are at their parents houses, they all discover things about each other, and now their love is shrouded in mysterious mystery about their previous lives.

The Good.
I must state that I really like Robert Duvall a lot and he's one of my favorite actors. I think overall they did a great job with the casting, because I think everyone fit their roles. The acting was pretty good too, especially with Jon Favreau, whom I adore for his here and there short skits on random TV shows, and movies. I think the story line is pretty good too, because I haven't heard anything like it before. The comedy aspect of the movie was really good, because it didn't make you laugh through the whole movie, but kept you dramatically aware, which I think the director was aiming for.

The Bad.
One, I'd like to ask how the hell over 100 planes would get canceled, seriously that rarely happens, if anything delayed at most. Also, visiting 4 separate families on one day? Common, there's no way that's physically possible. Oh yeah, and I wouldn't ever see a couple like that in real life. I don't think that type of relationship can exist in this world. There aren't many bads that I can think off, overall I'd say it's a well off movie.

My Overall Thought.
I don't really have much to say about this movie, that's why I was very quick to review it. I think it's a good movie to see if your just around with your mother, or a woman, girlfriend etc. It's not a spectacular movie where everyone wants to see it immediately. Actually, I haven't even heard of this movie around that much. It wasn't advertised that much.

My Rating.
Yeah, this so so movie is an okay movie as a chick flick during Christmas. I give this mediocre movie a 6 out of 10. I'd give it a higher score, but it doesn't appeal to me and wouldn't feel right.

This is kind of unexpected, but I saw a movie called Four Christmases with my mother. It had Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn in it, who are really not my style of movies. My mother wanted to see a movie, so we saw that one, because she loves the movie Legally Blonde.

Anyway, my point is, I'll be doing a review of it tomorrow, hopefully anyway.

And now, I'll be listing a whole slew of artists, bands, and musicians that you may, and may not have, heard of. Alright here goes.

Justice, Bob Marley, The Editors, Cold War Kids, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Stars, Stephen Malkmus, The Ventures, Reverend Horton Heat, The Dandy Warhols, The Surfaris, Tegan and Sara, Electric Light Orchestra, and Dick Dale.

I've got a couple artists that are really good, but they can't be found anywhere. I'll list them, and if you have any idea where I can get anything please let me know.

• Mouthful of Bees

• Harlem Shakes

Can't find them anywhere.

After I review the movie tomorrow, I'll try to talk about Friday night, if I can remember.

I entitled this one "I Don't Even Know."

free writing is whatever you want it to be. i'm staring at the ceiling and typing ridiculously phrases that i don't even understand myself. i look at my light bulb and i think to myself, what kind of pizza is good pizza? is it the one that's sad all the time or the one that';s hot and red and made with love, then I think to myself, why is there such a misunderstanding of the phrase "i love you". i feel so odd at certain times like a huge ball of fear of my own life shatters my mind into little bits. and those little bits can only be put together by my very own hands. my hands are in the sky and my body is on the floor. desperation is the shadow and my body has no light. i am consumed and i cannot do anything.

how's that for free writing.

I just came from college to meet with an adviser to set up new classes. They have a new system in which you can set up your own classes however you want online, it's pretty cool, although you can get really lost if you don't know what you're doing.

You basically have to have credits in every main subject in order to graduate. Here's what my line-up will look like as soon as I'm done setting up my classes.

English 101, Psychology 203, Music 135, Math 102, History 103, and an elective class hopefully.

If any of you go to college or know anything about college, that's a lot more classes than I need. That's a total of 17 credits, which is a lot more than anyone needs for one semester, but I want it to get more ahead.

I feel that I would be fine with English, Music, Math, and hopefully a physical education class.

The only things that I'm somewhat worried about is History and Psychology.

See you next post.

For some reason Blogger has been acting up and I haven't been able to put up any posts this week. I've had to do it from another computer.

I put up a new video on my youtube channel, dragonmantek.

I'll try to work on this problem and find out the issue that is causing it.

See you next post.

So I went out for the day with my father, and we had some fun.

We went to Roosevelt Field Mall, and it was great. We went to a bunch of stores and looked at interesting things and ate food, and bought some stuff. 300 dollars worth of stuff!

We went to a couple sporting goods stores, because I wanted push up bars, and ankle weights. I couldn't find any ankle weights that I liked, so we decided to skip that. I did get push up bars, and I am very happy about them. They cost 20 dollars, and they are really great.

After sporting good stores, we went to Macy's and spent 3 hours there. I don't know if you guys know, but they've been having huge gigantic sales for Black Friday. Some stuff was 80% off. My father and I bought 2 coats, 2 pants, and one shirt. The total was 300 something dollars and let me tell you, it was well worth it.

The coat I bought was a double breasted old-style coat. It's original price was 400 dollars. I got it for 80. My dad's coat was 250, he got it for 70. The 2 pants I bought were priced at 60 dollars, we got them for 12 each.

All-in-all, I'm glad Black Friday lasted until December 1st.

As I sit here staring at my pizza, I listen to the words Radiohead, one of my favorite bands and think to myself, "I like freestyle writing, so why not try it while making a post on Blogger?"

A new song pops up and I immediately think of my old friends in Turkey. I'm then again reminded of the words of the song, which are so incoherent. These words to me give me a sense of loneliness because I simple do not have what I deserve. Or at least I feel that way.

A new song comes and I feel rain pouring down on my shoulders. I love so many things about the rain, and one of my goals in life is to find someone who would gladly walk with me side by side, holding hands with me in the rain. And when the time comes, we hug, and talk to each other about anything we want to.

A part of me feels that it is a myth, but the other part knows that it will happen one day. If only I could know that this would happen, I would have more warmth in my heart.

I'm growing colder as the days go by, along with the weather that is creeping in through my windows. My heart is growing into a block of ice, and my emotions are weakening.

I feel that I really must find something to occupy myself with. I feel that I cannot find anything to be happy with, and that when I do, it might just be too late.

There is nothing more better in the world than that feeling of knowing that someone you love, loves you back. Even knowing that someone exists who acknowledges you, and is willing to protect you under any circumstances, that is something we all need. That is something everyone deserves.

There will be an answer, let it be.

Thanksgiving was okay, it was basically 20 Turkish people in my house just having a lot of fun. If you aren't Turkish, then you have to meet a group of Turks, because it is absolutely amazing how they act and have fun and whatnot. If you are Turkish, then you know exactly what I'm talking about.

It was pretty good, and food was great, and I filled myself up really nice. I met some cousins that I never knew about or haven't seen for a long time. I saw my dad's friends whom I haven't seen for a while either. All-in-all it was an okay experience.

I woke up today, expecting to do things, but I haven't done anything. I read a little, and played guitar, and that's about it. I was so bored it was ridiculous. I called a lot of my friends, some didn't answer, some phones were off, and most were just busy.

My 3 relatives went out shopping, and they forgot about me, which I got really upset about. I got really sad but, I just kind of let it by, I'm trying not to get sad about anything more and look at the positive side.

I was also thinking that me and my father would go out and buy him a laptop, the MSI Wind, which is supposed to be really nice, but we didn't. He was very tired, and he had to drop off my mom anyway.

I didn't get my macbook pro, and I came to a realization that I probably won't get anything I want for a very long time. It seems things are in a down-slant in this period of my life.

At least I have parkour.

See you next post.

Blegh. Meh, tired and sick of everything that's happening to me.

I lost my iPod Touch. I'm aggravated all the time. Not many friends. Let down by people. Insults all the time. My family is being my family. I'm not getting anything I want.

It gets to you after a while, and especially when they stack one after another.

That's all.

Today, I created a new parkour video, with my friends camera. We used iMovie, a great application, and it turned out very well, I'd say.

Enter video!

I think my parkour skills are advancing pretty well. The only problem is the cold. I can do it fine when the weather is nice, but sometimes the weather kills.

See you next post.

Well, I don't know what a solace is either.

Well Quantum, is apparently an amount of something, that could be anything. A Solace is just comfort, pleasure and alleviation of something. I don't know why they would choose that title, and you'll soon find out why I think that way. Spoiler's ahead. Here's my review, of the god-awful newly released 007 movie.

Review of "Quantum Of Solace."

Plot Summary.
Hmm. Well...Uhh...Alright let's see. There's this guy who did something bad I guess? And Bond is after him, we don't exactly know why. He's apparently buying some land in Africa and we have no idea why, nor are we ever told. The word Quantum is used only once in the whole movie, so you're pretty much left out. The other sub-plot is that there's some organization that noone knows about. But that part of the story only lasts for like 10 minutes during the entire movie maybe. There's a lot of action scenes, and very little scenes describing why the hell all of this is going on. I think I got it covered, I'm not so sure. The movie was so poorly directed I couldn't understand the whole plot really. Do some research yourself, I might be off.

The Good.
Hmm. I guess the action scenes were okay...but I'm not so sure. I could also put this on the bad side, and I'll explain that later. Besides the action scenes, the technology in the actual movie were pretty mind blowing, but then again, it's a 007 movie, so that's almost sure to be there. That's honestly about all I can find.

The Bad.
Alright, here we go. The action scenes were pretty much like "What the hell is going on!?." The director must have been on something, or experimenting with a technique or something, cause it was really bad. If you watch the scenes you'll understand why. Everything is happening so ridiculously fast and the individual scenes in the actual scene [if you know what I'm talking about], last for like maybe 1-2 seconds. On top of that, the most ridiculous situations happen, that would never happen. I'd explain more, but I don't want to. Also, there was only one bond girl in this movie, and she wasn't that beautiful or impressive, as the others have been anyway. One of the biggest bads in this movie, is the plot. You know absolutely NOTHING about the plot. It's really really bad. There's no clear indication of what anyone is really after, everything just kind of happens.

My Overall Thoughts.
When I first heard about it, of course I was thrilled, all of my friends were. When I went to the movie theaters, we were all so excited. Towards the end one of my friends started sleeping because he couldn't stand it. Another one of my friends stopped talking during the movie, and he always talks during movies, so then you KNOW it's bad. I really wanted my 10 dollars back, because it was not worth it at all. It wasn't Daniel Craig who was bad, it was just the whole script itself. ALSO, I'd like to ask, why the hell it got decent reviews by everyone, I just don't understand it. I went on many review sites, and the reviews are actually towards the mediocre/good side. It really pisses me off. Everyone I ask who saw it, said it was a horrible movie, and me and my friends can't even stand looking at another Quantum Of Solace poster because we want to burn it down, it was so bad. Go see this movie if you want to be disappointed.

My Rating.
I rate this tormenting movie a horrible 4 out of 10. Yes it was really that bad, and I hated it that much. The only thing keeping this movie on it's legs are the somewhat decent action scenes, and witty movements by bond himself.

I removed some of the side notes that I've had for a long time. I wasn't really using them much, and I doubt that anyone reading the site was either.

It's about what I write! Not what I plan to write in the future. I just try to come up with something to write on the spot. I really want to review Quantum of Solace, because it was just so god-awful. I don't understand how it got mediocre reviews and people praised it. I just don't get it.

Aside from removing those side notes, I've added a quilt, as some of you might notice. This quilt will show recent artists that I've been listening to.

As some of you may or may not know, I'm a music freak, and it is one of my biggest passions, if not my biggest. I know too much about music, but I strive to know more!

So after a weekend at my my mother's, I was getting out of her house around 4:00. After I got out, I decided to call Mike and see what he was up to. It turns out that he was at the MoMa museum, in queens, which is a good museum to stop by if you ever get a chance.

Anyway, we decide to meet up at around 6:00 at Penn Station in the city.

My mother lives on 126th street, whereas Penn Station is on 34th street. Great right?

So I decided, eh, why not? And I walked the whole way. That is a staggering 92 city blocks, and it took me about 3 hours. If I had walked completely straight, it would have taken me maybe an hour and a half, but I had a lot of fun walking through. I parkoured through a lot of the terrain and got a very good work out.

That's pretty much a personal record for me.

The closest memory I can think of, of walking an obscene amount, was at around 1 AM, when I was around 12 years old at night, with my city friends. What a night that was. We walked for hours and hours.

I'd like to review something the next post.

Thanks for all the commentary on my previous post, those who directly talked to me about it, and those who commented. I feel cared for, and special.

You know this feeling of sympathy towards people is really hard to keep up with. I feel that everyone deserves a second chance, but when you come across those couple of people who just are so indecent and aren't even worthy of being your friend, that's when you know humankind is so flawed.

Or maybe it's just their own personalities and the way they are.

I don't know about you, but I know I was brought up right. When someone asks me to do something, I try to do it. If I'm not able to, I tell them I'm not able to do it. If I don't want to do it, it's probably because it's wrong, or it's against my methods of life.

Let me tell you a little story.

I was supposed to meet this girl, who's name I will not reveal. She contacted me initially, and I thought to myself "why not meet up." She lives relatively close and I only saw her once, and it was an alright experience.

So I'm out of the house, and working with my father. So when I come back, I was told that she just showed up at my house without telling me, while I wasn't there. I don't really like that. I don't think anybody does. You shouldn't just go to someones house without telling them your going to come, it's rude and disrespectful.

So anyway, I contact her after that, she tells me she'll meet up with me the next day. So I wait. Wait some more. She doesn't come, and doesn't notify me of anything. I think it's called ditching.

I don't give up hope though, because I thought "maybe she was doing something or got caught up in something," so I ask her again the next day. To my joy, she ends up ditching me again.

So I send her a message saying "I don't get it, what did I do to be neglected?"

After that, she responds saying "You smell really bad."

Hmm.

So now, my anger flairs up, and I immediately think to myself, the last time she saw me was around a year and a half ago, for about 30 seconds. She doesn't know anything about me, she contacts me, and then ditches me two times. Shows up to my house without letting me know, and then insults me.

Great, I know.

She isn't the only person to pull of things like this. No I didn't leave any details out, this is just about how everything went. After all of this I told her "Leave me alone. I don't want anything to do with you ever again."

I did right. I think. Comments?

This means alot to me. I've been uncovering more and more of these, and I will share this one with you. Do not be offended by what I write, PLEASE, because it is only my opinion. My views on life have changed since this entry. I will not be altering anything I wrote in this entry.

Dated 9/16/05

I'm pretty bored right now, so I am just writing to get all this stuff out of my mind. Its just my mind overlaps with other many ideas that I have and I get stuck on one thing and keep writing. I guess this is good for my writing kills though. Anyway, I was reading the stuff on the pages before this and I notice how I was writing last year. I notice that my neatness has gotten alot better. That reminds me of Robin, my best friend. He used to have really sloppy handwriting when I first met him. Ever since a couple years ago he has been writing because I told him it would make him better. Jeez, I notice I made some errors, I guess this free style writing is good for you. At least its a much better improvement. One thing I can't get off of my mind is the fact that I keep feeling that I am superior intellectually to so many people I know. I hate this paper, I can't write on it right. Anyway, It's just that I guess I have this ability to understand people so quickly and I know what they like, dislike, and how I can treat them in order to be nice to them. It's so weird but I guess I use it to an advantage. I don't know why but I get the feeling that I shouldn't be writing this down. For one thing a lot of people who would read this would laugh and probably make fun of me. Or I don't know, maybe just the fact that I picture it that way. I don't know, it really depends on a person's point of view I guess. One person who would read thi would think I'm stupid and have dumb ideas but another would say that I'm smart and should continue to prosper in this way of thinking. For all I know I could be writing future historical writing, or complex psychological stuff. I guess thats what everything really comes down to in life, just pure psychology and nothing else. I'm not anyone to judge the meaning of life, or make racial judgements or go against a religion or a way a person thinks but I have the right to and the ability to. First of all, if there is anything to blame in the whole world, it would undoubtedly no mistake, be the ability to think. I know some people might not agree, but personally I think the more wiser, intellectual, smarter people would agree with me. You have to really think about everything on Earth, and think deep about how you are right here reading this, being able to have the one instinct that no other life has. To judge everything, to get ideas, to get equations about life, the list goes on and on forever. But when you get right down to it, its true that if we didn't have minds of our own, we would probably be extinct and would have virtually no techonology at all. Its true and only a bright person would realize this. You would probably call this psychology and it is, but in my mind I look at it as a way of life. Speaking of a way of life, I also think that many of the ideas that have been followed and some still being followed are just there to distract you from life. I think that one of those things is the reason of all hatred and all that other stuff. Religion is the biggest of them all. I can't help but think that religion is just a fake scam that some guy made up in a desperate attempt to get people to follow him. I think a lot of people would like to hurt or kill me just for saying that, but its true. Think about this too. If religion weren't around people would have nothing much to complain about, because it mainly started history. It is so hard to explain I can't even write it down in words. Its just religion was only started because noone had anything to follow and they were desperate to do something in life. I can't believe at the stupidity and idiocy in so many of the religious stories and beliefs. Everyone calls a miracle an act of god. Its so stupid, but like I say, I'm not to judge anything. I'm just saying what I feel about religion. One of the smartest civilizations and most advanced of their time, the aztecs and mayans, even they believed in the most ridiculous stories of how Earth was created, or how everything is a spirit, or that they must make sacrifices. I doubt that a turtle created Earth, a spirit is right next to me, making the wind move, and that you need to make 2000 sacrifices of humans who are killed alive, to please a god, even if they exist. Another thing is god. I don't even bother to capatilize it because "he" probably doesn't exist. Another thing to think about. If he really did exist, wouldn't he help people out? Wouldn't he show himself to the public? Wouldn't he not conceal information that is the answer to world knowledge? The whole thing is stupid and I've yet to see any proof of him existing or any of these ridiculous stores to come true. To me I believe in the facts of what science has proven and it has proven all religious stories false. The more as techonology grows, the more we will reveal that religious beliefs and stories aren't true.

I had a devious mind back then. I've changed a lot since then, but I still have some of the same beliefs. Don't be insulted by any of this if you are religious, just think about it. Everyone has right to faith.

See you next time.

I've had a really bad past couple of days, so this is going to be a positive post.

I'm just going to post up some awesome pictures that Mike, Stephen, and I took at the Halloween parade in NYC.

Enter pictures.

So I've been dis-enrolled from school for the stupidest reason. I'll go through them in steps, for your disheartening pleasure.

Step 1. Apparently the high school nor the medical department have any records of any of my immunization shots, ever. I don't recall getting immunized when I was younger, but I remember getting something in order to stay in high school.

Step 2. I was sent multiple times, a paper stating that I needed to take my MMR / Meningitis shots.

Step 3. I could not receive any of those shots because our expiration on our insurance ran out. I don't think I should post which company that is, just for legality issues.

Step 4. SOLELY the Meningitis shots cost $120 dollars alone without the MMR, which we can't really afford because of our financial situation. I don't even want to know how much the MMR shots cost. If one shot costs $120, and you take four shots all-together, it's $480, which we really can't afford at all.

Step 5. After my health insurance was finally re-enrolled around the week before the deadline, [which I didn't know about] I immediately tried contacting a medical office in which I could get my shots, paid by my health insurance.

Step 6. I go to the office and wait, and have a physical check-up along with blood drawing. For some reason, with Meningitis, there is no waiting, and you can have the shot taken immediately. With MMR, however, you have to wait for 2 days, while they sample your blood, to see if your vulnerable or something like that, I'm not sure, don't quote me on that.

Step 7. I wait the 2 days and go back, by this time, it is Wednesday, which leaves me two days to finish everything, and hand everything in by Friday. Everything turns out fine, and it turns out that I am naturally immune to MMR, so the whole process was complete wasted time. I get the official sheet signed and stamped by the doctor, that is needed by my college.

Step 8. After I go home, on Friday, I wake up and realize that I lost my sheet. I immediately freak out, panic, and call the clinic in order to get another copy of the sheet.

Step 9. I go, and get the sheet, which took a staggering 2 hours, which also really annoyed me.

Step 10. Since I did not know about the deadline, and wasn't even notified about it at all, I handed the sheet in on Monday. The person I handed it to said, and I quote, "Alright everything is fine, you can attend your classes now."

Step 11. The next day I go to my class, and it turns out that I am dis-enrolled, and am no longer registered into any of my classes.

Step 12. I freak out, panic, and call the Vice President of the Health Services, and to my oh so wonderful pleasure, find out that he cannot do anything for me.

So there's my story, which is in actually bullshit. Nothing should ever happen like this, it is totally ridiculous.

Just because of the sheer amount of time it took me to get my vaccinations, I missed an entire week of school, and on top of that, I missed both Monday and Tuesday.

So in total I missed 6 days of school. So even if my father threatens a lawsuit, and gets me back into school, or by some miracle I'm re-enrolled, I still would have missed almost 2 weeks of school. This cannot do. As soon as I go back to my classes, I will have to take tests that I do not know the answers to, and study stuff that I do not know about.

So, in essence, this whole semester is a complete waste.

What crap.

Remember everyone above 18, go vote tomorrow. If you can't find a place to vote, go to google and they will help you out on that.

If you didn't register, or aren't over 18, or don't support Obama, and plan to vote for McCain, you SHOULD NOT GO VOTE.

In other related news, I'll be waking up and voting for Obama as soon as I can. I hope he wins so we can have a better nation.

It was pretty good!

I dressed up as Obama, and Mike as McCain. My friend Stephen was the Joker, and my other friend Phil, was a Monk.

It was pretty good and we had alot of fun. We went to the Halloween parade in NYC and there were alot of interesting pictures to be shot. Alot of people loved me and Mike, and it was alot of fun.

I'll post up some more pictures, and explain how the day went, once I actually get the pictures, as I'll state again, I don't own a camera.

So fast!

It's hard keeping up with this blog. This week has been extremely boring. I've had many syringes stuck in me, but for good reason. My school is withholding me from my classes because I didn't take my MMR/Meningitis shots. Which in my opinion is really stupid.

So basically I missed 3 days of class because of this stupid rule, but hopefully I'll be able to make it right by Monday.

Obama's ahead! Which is really wonderful. At this point I'd like to say that, as I do like Obama much better, McCain isn't THAT bad as everyone says he is. I like his speeches, but I realize it's all bullshit, because he lies alot.

When I challenge people about Obama, they give really stupid excuses, such as no experience, and no regard for rich people, and other such comments.

McCain has no experience in college, and is in complete disregard for the entire lower class of the US. He even wants to keep the troops in Iraq as far as 2032, and this is a direct statement from one of his interviews.

Besides politics, it's getting chilly outside, people are putting jackets on, and that means less parkour for me. Which I'm really dissatisfied about. I've really put alot of work into the past month, and now that I've built it up, I can't use it for much, especially since everything is getting wet and cold.

Oh well.

By the way, I decided not to post up my diaries, I just don't feel like it.

Life puts you down alot. This isn't an act of emoness I'm expressing this post, but it's a bit of an outrage. You can ignore this post if you want, or if you want to read or are interested be my guest. The only reason I'm writing this is to either spur the mind of others who read this, bring them up to what happens in real life, or something of that sort. I'm not really sure why I'm publicizing this myself.

As many people know, or if are not informed, life isn't very pleasant to you all the time. I feel like I'm definitely not getting what I deserve, and I know I deserve at least a little something to help me from being sad.

Recently I've started parkour, started college, and having some changes with my family. My mother is moving, which is a BIG change for her, especially since she is an artist, and our entire family isn't doing all that well financially, but I mean, we're still well off.

The thing that bothers me is that my father and mother and I, are all really good people. I mean that sincerely and I'm not saying it to make ourselves look like we are above anyone else, I believe that everyone is equal. But shouldn't good people who do good things get what they deserve?

My mother is an exceptional artist, and is moving to a smaller apartment. My father cannot have fun himself, because he's helping the entire family out by trying to support two families at once, including my mother, and they are divorced. That's something honorable and also something not many people do.

My father helps or at least tries to help everyone, and puts his family ahead in every case before himself. He's probably one of the greatest men in the world, and I don't say that because he's my father. It's because I know him, and he's a very good and noble man.

As for myself, I always find myself helping those in need, and trying to help in anyway I can. I usually do put myself in the way of others in order to help people, and I love having the feeling that I helped someone out, but what do I get in return?

The more I help people, throughout the years, I realize they don't really do much back. I don't know if it's me or if I just feel selfish, but I really want to know why people don't help other people when they are in need.

Honestly, I don't feel awkward saying this at all when I say it, but I am a good person, and I know it. I'm tired of not getting much of the things I want.

Of course on the flip side, I have alot more than other people. I have family, food, shelter, clothing, and that's all great, but I don't feel happy about alot of it. Maybe it's my mind, or maybe I have a disorder, but I just don't feel so happy all the time, and I feel that I should, because of everything I try to do.

I would type more, but I think that's enough. Don't take this as a cry for help, I just felt like getting it out there. I'm sure there are others that feel this way, you aren't alone.

I really have to name my posts better. It's hard for me to find my own posts and what I posted in them. I'll work on that I guess. At least tagging the posts are helping a little.

So I found my old diaries from 2002, and 2004, and I will post them up tomorrow morning if I get a chance.

These journal entries aren't that entertaining to maybe you, or your friends or not many people, but it brings back my memories, and I would love to share them with you. So when I post them, I will not edit them in any way at all. I won't fix any grammatical errors or spelling errors or whatever. What you will read will be 100% what I wrote at that age and time.

See you tomorrow.

I'm kind of lovesick right now, because I really want something I can't as of the moment, and it's driving me crazy. The most I can do is write about it to get it off of my mind so that it's out there. It's a strong good memory, but it's kind of painful, for me at least. Here it is.

When I was in Turkey of the summer of 2007, I had alot of fun in this place called Didim. It was a great closed community town, and there was always alot of fun to be had. As time went on I made friends, then more friends, and friends of those friends. Soon enough I was pretty much one of the most popular kids in the whole place, due to the fact that I was American, and, well, I was an awesome kid to be with.

Pretty soon, I made some very good friends that I would always be with until like 2 AM. Towards the end of the summer, I made a couple new friends, because people were going and staying all the time. Some people would come for a week and go and not come back, which kind of saddened me, especially in this story about which I'm to unfold.

I met this girl. I won't say her name, but let's caller her a typical name that noone would recognize. I'll call her Jane. So I met Jane through a friend, and we started talking alot. We both had very good musical tastes and that is probably how we got to be decent friends. After we got to be friends, it would usually be me and her meeting every night for about 3 days. Later I found out that she was one of the individuals that would leave in about 2 days.

So I ended up having a crush on her, and then the next day, after, it turned into a like. Not a bad thing necessarily, but let's hear the rest. After telling a couple of my friends that I liked her, they looked at me all weird. I gathered my courage and I told her privately. What I heard after I told her hurt me. By the way, she speaks fluent English, and I would talk to her in English most of the time.

After I had told her, she was completely indifferent about it. She thought of me as a brother/friend rather than a person that they can get into a relationship. That really hurt me, because I was 17 at the time, and she was only 13, so it was even harder for me to build that courage.

After I told her, I went back to my friends and they immediately knew that I had been shot down. After talking for a while, they confessed that they knew that she had liked another guy. This guy wasn't a a bad person, and he was normal, and likable. I met him and he seemed okay. It turns out that my friends had helped them get closer, and I wasn't aware of it. They were very sorry because they told me that if they had known that I liked her, they wouldn't have done such a thing, and would rather have helped me.

So after that, the next day, the day she was going to leave, I see her again, and she was in a great and happy mood. I asked her "why so cheerful?" and she simply replies "I have a boyfriend now!". I was simply demolished at that point.

I felt so bad, because not only did I like her, I had to build up the courage to tell her that I liked her, and that is one of the hardest steps. Beyond that, after I told her she went and started dating that other guy. It's things like this that drive you crazy.

As of today, I still talk to her every now and then, and her relationship with that guy ended a long time ago.

Heh, this did help me feel better, by pouring it out. I might write some more about my awesome memories that I can share.

Man I got a whole list of things that I want it. Not that much of you care but this is sort of a semi-rant post, if you do bother to read it.

As I'm eating these wonderful cheese toasts I made, I'm thinking of more and more things I could want.

As many of you who know, or don't know from my previous posts, I'm not doing as well as I would have hoped to in college. My grades aren't that good in most of my classes, and I'm working on that. Right now that is my number one priority and I can't really do much about it except study and write good papers. I just suck at controlled writing.

After that, there's the whole issue of my mother moving to her new apartment, which sucks on my stress level, because as her son I'm pretty much obligated to help her out, plus it's the right thing to do. I don't mind helping her out and all, but she has been calling me non-stop for the past week and wants me to help her all the time. It's caused alot, and I'm trying to shrug it off, but it'll soon end within the week, because the transition will be done by hopefully around Tuesday.

My last complaint would have to be with money, but then again everyone has that issue every now and then, of course, except with rich people.

As many of you know, or don't know, again from my previous posts, I have started doing parkour. This is also a huge strain in life, because it requires time and dedication, along with pain every now and then. Because of parkour, I've been eating like a madman, eating around double what I used to eat before. If you ask any of my friends, prior to parkour, I would eat the most food out of anyone I knew. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but money-wise it is. I go to college without about 5 dollars a day, and I spend all of it on food, and I'm still hungry in the end.

Plus the economy isn't doing so well, as opposed to what McCain is saying, but hey, people believe in him for some reason, for what I don't know, but sure.

After this post I'm going to the park to train for parkour. I really want a camera to record my progress. Someone buy me one?

So this wasn't really close to today, but I decided to use an album from iPhoto and make a little semi-action movie.

I think it turned out well. I'm posting this on here, if your not my friend on facebook, so you could just see what I did. It's not like an amazing video, but I like it. I did it in literally 5 minutes, after it took me 5 minutes to choose the song.

Enter Video.

So I've seriously been looking into a new laptop, and I told my father about it, and he agreed that we would do something about it.

We're in a pretty tight situation with money, because my mom has been moving to Harlem, and we have helped her alot.

I do wish to get her into safety before I get anything for myself, because thats just being self-centered.

I'd rather my dad use the money than me, because he deserves it alot more than I do, but I guess I can't do much about that. I can't get a job because of my school schedule, and that sucks, because eventually I'm going to need to make money, so hopefully next semester, I'll be able to have a better more flexible schedule to work with.

My dad wants to go snow boarding with me, which I very happily obliged to. I really do want to go snowboarding because I've never done it, and it looks like alot of fun. I have been skiing but it wasn't that great. This time I really want to have fun, especially with my father, because me and him don't really do much except see each other every now and then and have a talk.

In other news, my body is in a pretty bad condition from overworking my muscles, so I'll probably take a couple days off. At the most 3 days off, because I want to jump back into it, before it gets really cold in the winter. As my friend said "Resting days are just as important as healing days".

See you at another post.

This is a how-to I just decided to start writing on the spot. I will now attempt to write down everything I can think of that will get people to like you. Keep in mind you shouldn't follow any of this stuff or do it just to get friends, it should come from within you.

1. Meet People
The greatest way to start making friends is to first meet them. If you don't have many friends, or even none at all, or if it's really that bad, and you have "friends", go out and explore. You can find people literally everywhere, they are these things called humans and they need interaction with other humans in order to live and thrive. Society feasts on gossip, socialization, and sharing stories, as well as emotions. If your shy to meet new people, don't be, because in the end, it might be just worth it.

2. Stop reading this and go talk to someone, or go outside, something!
The only way you can retain a friendship is by talking to them, at least every now and then. You can't just make a friend and not talk to anyone, thats not how it goes. Try to do things, go places, make memories, have fun. That last one is the most important. Don't stop reading yet, there's still more.

3. Start doing something and be good at it.
Most people you meet have a talent, some have nothing at all. If you want people to be interested in you, or talk about you, in a good way, then start picking a hobby. And don't let it be drugs, or anything stupid. Pick up a guitar, play the drums, go to the gym, make some movies. You can come up with tons of ideas, and everyone wants to do something. No one ever really wants to sit at home doing nothing all day.

4. Feed People.
Food is probably one of the biggest friendship forming things. When your out with someone you'll eventually get hungry, because, well, your human, it happens. You can either eat at your house or eat out, but it doesn't really matter as long as you eat with someone. Again, another great way to meet people is to eat out too. You may just end up finding someone in that place your eating that takes interest in you, or you in them.

5. Listen
Listening is key, because in return you'll learn more about them, and on top of that you'll let them know. Remembering the things that they talk about is just as important. Birthdays, events, things they are doing, likes and dislikes are all great to know.

6. Smile!
Smile, hug, shake hands, dance, boogie, get down, have fun! The greatest thing you can do in a friendship is have fun. This sounds simple cause it is. This should be a given in any mutual relationship.

7. Be Honest
The worst thing that people can do when they first meet or ever talk at all is lie. That will stick with you forever, and it's not a good thing. There's no such thing as being too honest, and it's great when you are. Don't make up fake experiences to let people think your all high and mighty, that's just not smart, and makes you a fool, especially when you can't back it up.

8. Be Modest
Modesty is something everyone should have. You don't want to end up being the guy who keeps saying "oh look what I can do!", more around the lines of "yeah, I'm okay at it". This really attracts people, because they realize that you'll never boast yourself higher up in the today's classes of society.

9. Your the same as everyone else
Sure everyone is unique, but everyone is all equal. We all have morals, different points of views and different standards of anything. You should never treat someone lower than you, or even higher than you. You can't let anyone do the same to you too. If you find that someone who thinks they are better than you, they aren't, they are just the same.

10. Be clean
Have some manners, for gods sakes. I know people who have no respect in public, and I strongly dislike it, as does the general public. Clean yourself up, spend 5 minutes looking in the mirror to shape yourself up so that the public can actually stand you. Smell good for a bonus, and people will come flocking with a great smile on their face.

Bonus: A Trick
If you really like someone, and your not sure if you like them back, or even as friends, bare with me here, touch them when talking. This takes alot of guts to do to a complete stranger, but when you touch someone while they are talking, such as a short streak against the chest or whatever, it really attracts them. They did a psychological study on this, and the results were phenomenal. I don't know the exact numbers, but over 80% of the people who received the touching were more excited and wanted to be more social with the person that they were talking with.

Of course there's more to making friends and getting people to like you, but this is just a start.

They ended the TV series [Well, not ended as there will be a season 5] with a really big ending. There's so many more questions that I have in my head, and I'm pretty sure that everyone has also. It was a really great show, and I enjoyed watching almost all of it. I can't wait until next year when the new episodes are churned out from J.J. Abrams mind.

As I'm eating these two delicious sandwiches I'm writing this, as well as watching Carnivale. It was a short-lived TV series that landed a spot on HBO, but prematurely ended due to funding, just like so many other good TV shows. This show is very unique, and has really good qualities.

In other news, I've been going to the park every day, and my left arm has been really dying out on me. My friends tell me I've been overworking my arm too much, and I guess it makes sense, but I hate when I'm put under restriction, especially by my own body.

Hopefully it'll get better, if anyone has any advice, please tell.

Pretty cool huh? So I plan to train for as much as I can really. I think I might be a little obsessive about it, but thats a semi-good thing in my eyes. It'll keep me in shape and I'll have alot of fun, break my neck or something.

Man Windows is spending more and more money for these advertisements and they aren't even doing much.

Apple is doing extremely well, and just released new macbooks earlier today. I have yet to watch the keynote event but I will as soon as I finish this post.

I've always really wanted a macbook, but now I want it even more. While I was in school Mike called me and told me about it and I got so excited because I already knew the event was today, but when he called, I got even more excited.

Yeah, I didn't have time to post up a review because I've been doing alot lately, including taking a test that I just took, and I hope I did well.

I think I'm doing to start labeling posts from now on to make it easier for people to navigate through posts.

My whole body is so sore.

After I was done that night with Parkour, I woke up the next day and I could barely move out of bed. So for the past 2 days I've been constantly sore, but it isn't that bad. The only bad thing is my legs have pretty much died out. It's easier for me to go up stairs than down stairs.

Well, now I need gloves and some better shoes, so I gotta go out to Modell's or something to get some good apparel.

Everytime I'm around in the city walking around or on the train looking at buildings going by I keep thinking of ways to climb it. So this Sport is pretty much taking over mind, because I don't really have much else to do. The Weather is perfect too, because it's nice, warm, and sunny outside.

So I've decided on a training schedule, as soon as my whole body feels or gets better. Since I go to school at 1-2, I'll wake up and go to the park nearby before, and start doing some Parkour exercises and work out my legs.

Tomorrow, I'll post up a review of a random movie from my list.

So I had alot of fun with parkour, and I did some crazy stuff with my friend Aledort. He's been training in parkour for around 6 months from what he told me. While I'm more into scaling buildings and jumping off random things and objects and climbing everything, he is into precision and detail and smooth transition. He's alot better than me when it comes to being able to do stuff, but I have more courage and faith in myself I guess, and I just take leaps and bounds and jump gaps and stuff.

We went to North Woodmere Park and when we went there we saw him at the kids playground. He spends time there working out, and when I think about it, it's a really great place to work out. There's monkey bars, rails, and lots of room to get a full exercise, and it's free.

So we train balance for a little bit, and then we go to another place where there are two main buildings. We just start climbing the walls and jumping off and practicing and it was amazing. There's around a 15 foot wall that I could not scale but I rolled off of it and I'm starting to get better already I think. Then we got kicked out because parkour is originally meant to do in places that you shouldn't be.

Overall I put alot of strain on my body the whole day, and I came out with 3 big bruises overall. Yes, all of them bled, and they will all scab, but that doesn't worry me, it's part of training, and it's part of extreme sports, like parkour. I have one on my elbow, my knee, and on my leg.

When I woke up this morning, my whole body was sore, and I actually like that it's sore, because it means that my body has slightly adapted and gotten stronger, and next time I do anything, my body will be better than ever.

I got some really nice pictures out of it, and I'll hopefully be able to post them up sometime next week, as they are on my friend's camera.

Won't be posting till around Sunday night, or Monday.

So today I'll be going to this park, and at this park I will be attempting to parkour and free run. If you don't know what parkour or free running is, either go to youtube and type it in, or play the game Assassins Creed. That's basically what it is.

It takes alot of skill to parkour. Actually not so much skill as much as hard work. Anyone can do anything if they are determined, and that's what I am. I have alot of skill when it comes to balance and climbing, and for the past couple of years I've always wanted to climb and do crazy stuff, and I have, but not as much as I want to. I usually climb stuff when I'm outside with my friends, but they can't keep up, so I might have found someone I can train with.

I want to get really good and eventually learn how to wall-climb, rooftop to rooftop, roll and other stuff like that.

I'm keeping posted. Are you following? If not SUBSCRIBE!

Here's a list of applications that I use, every day on a regular basis. This might be handy in case you want to find any application here that you haven't heard of.

1. Adium
I use Adium every day almost all the time whenever I'm on the computer. In case you don't know what this is, it's an all-in-one free messenger client that has alot of features, and by alot, I mean alot. It's also a duck, and it comes in alot of colors. It updates quite often, at least once every two to four weeks, and fixes major/simple problems immediately.





2. Transmission
I'm sure there are alot of people out there, who seed, leech and torrent almost every day. If your one of those people, this is a must have. I've experiment alot of torrenting clients for the mac, and this has to be the best one. There's alot of features in it to, including speed limitation at certain times.



3. Office 2008/Adobe CS3
This is probably a must-have for most people, especially college/high school students. I used to use 2003, but 2008 has alot more stuff which is great. CS3 is really advanced too, and CS4 was unveiled not a while ago. As these are pretty expensive, open office might be your choice for writing, or creating presentations.



4. Firefox
Firefox is really nice, and everyone knows it. It's pretty much the most speediest for mac right now. I say that because Chrome isn't yet available for mac, and that aggravated alot of people. With all these new features, including smart bookmarks, smart address bar, and improved speed, along with add-ons, it's really hard to have any competition.



5. Warcraft 3
I doubted putting this into my list, but I really couldn't not put it in. As a true multi-tasker, whenever I'm using the above mentioned applications, I love to play Warcraft 3 at the same time. I've gotten so used to it, whenever I sit down, I'll start it up. It's relatively cheap right now, and you can get a bundle pack for like 20 dollars. You don't have to worry about it taking up a DVD slot, because the latest patch makes it work without a CD. And it's official too.



That basically sums it up, there are more applications that I use obviously, and maybe I'll post them up later.

Not really. I've been watching Lost, after I finished Malcolm In The Middle, and I decided I'll review it later on.

I just saw Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist on release day and it was a good movie, but it made me feel weak at heart. I've been thinking lately why is it that some people, or most people rather, can't find the love that they deserve?

See this is why I'm not into romantic's, because every time I watch one, I get all queasy and think, why doesn't that type of stuff happen in real life?

I think I can speak for everyone when I say, we all really want love, and happiness. I'm sounding pretty emotional, and I am. Not in the crying sense of way, but more rather, why not? Why not me? Why do the bad people in life get more of what they want than the good?

I see myself as a good person, and I hope I am, but I usually don't get what I want, and it really angers me, but in the end, I realize it's not for me to feel happy about myself, it's for me to feel happy that I myself am helping others. This is one of the reasons I want to become a Psychologist.

I'm Single :D

Now, there are many movies out there, and alot of bad movies. I've taken pretty popular movies, and ranked the top 20 movie scenes that I could think of, or find. This was pretty hard and I spent a good 2 weeks on it, so go easy on me, it's not that easy to do.

1. Forrest Gump



2. Fight Club



3. Monty Python And The Holy Grail



4. The Big Lebowski



5. Crash

Embedded isn't allowed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr-vqKH56w8

6. Little Miss Sunshine



7. Shaun Of The Dead



8. Spider-man 3



9. Bruce Almighty



10. Wanted



11. Superbad

Embedded isn't allowed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUlJl0chv4

12. Spaceballs



13. The 40 Year Old Virgin



14. Pulp Fiction



15. Step Brothers



16. You Don't Mess With The Zohan



17. Borat



18. Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle



19. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay



20. Clerks 2





Yeah, those are the best scenes I could come up with, because I didn't really want to spend alot of time on it.

Before I get into this, this is a special post. Me and my friend Phil were walking down a road after he saw some people, and they ran up to him and yelled his name, but they barely even know him. He was basically used as a meat puppet, like alot of people are. I'd just like to talk about that a little. I also want to say that I'm going to start integrating a digg button into all of my posts from here on in.

What Makes A Friend?

1. Mutual Understanding - There should always be a mutual understand that you two are friends, and will continue to be. Usually in these type of things there isn't really a "so are we friends" type of question, it just happens. If you two are really meant to be friends, you might end up being best friends in the first couple of hours.

2. Giving Yourself Up - By this I mean, if you two were to get into trouble, both of you would be willing to give yourself up and take the heat away. This isn't a really big factor, but it can occur at all ages. This is more of an honorable and noble kind of thing to do.

3. Talking - When I say talking, I don't mean talking when your with each other. I mean when you two aren't with each other. A good friendship means that not only one person is giving each other calls, but you call and talk to each other.

4. Talking about things - Sharing secrets is something everyone does, but sharing your own personal life with someone with detail, makes a friend. This is especially true for shy people who don't really talk much about their own lives. For some people they only tell the best of friends their own personal life.

5. Reliability - To me this is probably one, if not the most important factor of a friend. An example of this is something like, if you call a friend and ask him or her for a favor, they will do it. That is a true friend. A true friend wouldn't give you excuses on why they can't do it, and if they really cannot do it, then they would say it straight out, or say they don't want to.

6. Favors - Favors are done all the time, but with a friendship, favors can be done without feeling you need something in return.

7. Honesty - This is big. Honesty is something everyone should have, friendship or not. If you have an honest friend, you should keep them, honest people are alot harder to find than you think.

8. Laughter - Too much seriousness? Drama is something the mind craves, but some people just don't care for it. Laughter is one of the greatest things that someone can do to another. Tears of laughter are always preferred over tears of sadness.

9. Support - You can go to them for support when you need it. Be some tears, or a hug, or to get rid of some anxiety, they are there for you when you need it. It's not hard to find this in most people, because when you see someone who is sad, your first response is to usually try to help them out. Friends can be made like that.

10. Best Friends - Best Friends are one of the hardest things to find in the world. Best friend's are basically your soul-mates and are one in a million. You may think you have a best friend, but chances are they aren't. I'm not saying this to put anyone down, but it really is alot harder than you think. Best friends are composed of everything on this list and more.

That's basically all I can think of when it comes to having a true friend. If there are more ways, feel free to comment on it.

I think I'm done compiling the list of funny movie scenes, so that's going well. I haven't done much since my last post.

I have an economics test tomorrow, and thats about it really. I might go to the city either today or on Friday, with friends for some fun.

Right now, I'm watching Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, and it's good, but you know, it's not the true Bruce Lee. If you don't know much about Bruce Lee, he pretty much changed martial arts, and is considered one of the greatest martial artists ever. He invented Jeen Kun Do, and pretty much trained vigorously every day.

Alright, next post I'll put up the scenes, and some videos along with them if I can find it.

So I went to the national Anime Festival Expo, and Diabetes Expo at the Javits Center, and stuff was crazy.

I didn't really pay much attention to the Anime Festival, but I did explore and I saw some crazy stuff. I didn't take any pictures, well, because I don't have a camera, but rest assured and take my word for it, it was crazy and very colorful and Japanese. Go to google.com and just type in anime festival 2008, and you'll probably see some crazy stuff.

I saw some crazy dresses from many anime's in all types of genre's. There were some very awesome costumes, and there were some who just didn't wear practically anything. There was actually a couple of girls who just came in with only a bra and panties on, with make-up all over their body. There was some people with literally full body armor on, for anybody who are some Full Metal Alchemist fans.

In the Diabetes Expo, there was alot of free stuff for diabetics, but it was a good experience. My mom went so she can get a sponsorship for a diabetic company, and help people see that anything is possible and give insight and stuff like that. So she talked with alot of representatives, and she got some numbers. Hopefully something will come out of it.

My mom got the keys to the apartment, and we moved a couple of things, and it's starting to come together. My mother has many many things in her apartment that simple will not fit into the smaller, more compact apartment, and they have to be rid of. So I told my mother to just take pictures of things she wants to sell, and I'd put them up on eBay.

Tomorrow I've got a music test, and I'm off on Tuesday and Wednesday, and I HOPE, to see a friend of mine. If your reading this you know you who are. I haven't seen her in a long time. I called her, because the anime expo reminded me of her, and I gave her a call. Anyway I hope to see her, hope she calls.