So in my English class you have to participate and speak your opinion about things in order to earn points for attendance. We're discussing a book called A Distant Shore By Caryl Phillips (Who is a man, who the fck name's their son Caryl? I mean - I'm thinking Ca-roll but maybe it's Car-aisle. But then again boys are named Stacey too.) We come to a portion of the book in which the main character Dorothy, a 55 year old single female, is sleeping around with younger men and one of the classmates commented on her as being a "Cougar (on the prowl)."
Mind you I try to participate and give my honest opinion on things.
And so forth went the class:
Teacher: It's funny that society would do that. We again see a double standard in which Dorothy who sleeps around with men who are 10, 15 years younger than her is considered a cougar, however, if a man were to do the same thing with a younger woman he would be.....hmm......what do you guys think?
(5 or so seconds of silence)
Me: Awesome.
(Males and some females in class laugh)
(The rest in class glare and raise hands)
No harm done really.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Progression people, progression!
Trying to update at least once a week is tough. I just had an exam in what I was told to be a "blow off" course for an easy A on trees. Memorizing over 100 species of trees and grass is no easy task. I can now walk around campus and identify trees and their problems and how to cultivate them. Wow, I have a future as a park ranger.
Anyway - to bigger and better things! If I learned anything in college - besides trees and their ornamental features - it would be that racism is really a prevalent issue especially for Asian people. A recent encounter with a black girl is what inspired me to post this one. I like to wear my hat tilted and I like wearing Dunkz and I got called out by a black girl sayin:
*First she looks me up n down and we make eye contact. "Oh you all you (yes, she said oh you all you) iz thinkin you a nigguh dressin' like that shit actin' all flyyyyyy (she said fly like flyyyyyyyy)n' shit I bet you thinkin' you all thuggin it mmhmm yeah I bet nigguh you trippin' china." (She did all this doing that wild crazy wave of the hands and pointing thing at me)
And honestly...my first reaction was how she said all that cause she didn't take time to breathe. Try sayin' that w/o trying to breathe. So I reply:
"I'm Korean. I like your nails." (Cause they were crazy rainbow colored with palm trees on em) And I think that took her off guard cause she just walked away - but her black guy friend who was dressed pretty much like me just sat there next to me and shook his head.
What sucks even more is that our racism is pretty much overlooked. Remember during the huge tidal waves in Asia and all the flooding and people killed and then Hot 97 in NY puts out that stupid song making fun of it. Gosh that boils my blood man. I mean I believe that I am one of the most patient people when it comes to these kinds of things. Racism will be racism, ignorance will be ignorance. Stereotypes can be funny. But it's never a big deal for people to hate on Asian people. And what gets me even more is that ANOTHER MINORITY DID IT. Hear me out. I love my fellow black minority. But for a culture that has been oppressed - they do a good job dishing it out.
Take this video:
You don't have to listen to it - I mean the song is ALRIGHT but it's nothing amazing. You have to give them props though - they're trying to break into an industry where Asian people aren't really welcome. But the comments are ridic.
"CHING CHONG CHANG you guys suck" - wtf? are you still 5?
"GO BACK TO KOREA, YALL FUCKING SUCK! GO BACK TO KOREA, YALL FUCKING SUCK!" - At least he knows they're korean.
"WTF? This ain't that crazy North Korean Kim Jong-Il AKA the successor to his father Kim Il-Sung's dictator position!" - This was just stupid. I can't believe someone said that.
"these niggaz aint on shit. keep makin them fortune cookies son" Typical.
(This makes me think about Jin the rapper. I mean yeah he was so good at freestyle battling on BET - but c'mon he knew what people were gonna say it's all the same.)
I'm not saying all these people are black - but the website IS targeted to that group - so I can assume at least one of the hundred racial comments is from that of a minority.
And from the standpoint of a Korean-American.... I think people fail to see how similar we are to black folk! Yes, Africans and people from the Caribbean were taken and enslaved for many a year. Koreans were conquered more times than you can count throughout history. I mean - I guess we're a damn strategic peninsula cause history knows whenever someone wants to start shit in Asia..."Y'know, while we're at it might as well pick up Korea, conquer their people, suppress their culture, sex their women. Eh, well if you can't get the whole country just make sure you suppress and sex."....damn you bastards of the past.
Now I'm not saying korean people are innocent of racism or we're a totally awesome and pure culture. As a people we're jacked up too. Heinz Ward goes to Korea (cause the beautiful man identifies himself as a Korean) and he's treated like a hero! If he wasn't MVP.... highly doubt he'd get any love. And I'm not saying that it's not our fault that people see us a certain way. Take these girls for example - they really need to go on top of a building and jump.
I'm guessing these girls are educated. You wonder why people people associate asian people with just books and smarts huh. And no, I did not think this video was funny at all. Not one bit. Nope. Die in a fire.
But I feel secretly that people are starting to catch on, so I have hope. You know there's always those non-yellow people that just hang out with a crowd of Asians. The ones plagued by yellow-fever. Those are the ones that got reeled in. They're usually the ones that wear anime shirts and want to eat "Korean BBQ" (it's so funny when they say that) all the time. We get what we can and we get 'em good whether the bait be the food, the girls, and anime (Yes I believe it was created to bait people in - well now I do.
Cheers to those guys and gals - how could you ever hate on them.
*edit* I do suppose I was harsh on those girls in the video. Had they been hot I would've been more inclined to like the video but I stand by what I said before.
Anyway - to bigger and better things! If I learned anything in college - besides trees and their ornamental features - it would be that racism is really a prevalent issue especially for Asian people. A recent encounter with a black girl is what inspired me to post this one. I like to wear my hat tilted and I like wearing Dunkz and I got called out by a black girl sayin:
*First she looks me up n down and we make eye contact. "Oh you all you (yes, she said oh you all you) iz thinkin you a nigguh dressin' like that shit actin' all flyyyyyy (she said fly like flyyyyyyyy)n' shit I bet you thinkin' you all thuggin it mmhmm yeah I bet nigguh you trippin' china." (She did all this doing that wild crazy wave of the hands and pointing thing at me)
And honestly...my first reaction was how she said all that cause she didn't take time to breathe. Try sayin' that w/o trying to breathe. So I reply:
"I'm Korean. I like your nails." (Cause they were crazy rainbow colored with palm trees on em) And I think that took her off guard cause she just walked away - but her black guy friend who was dressed pretty much like me just sat there next to me and shook his head.
What sucks even more is that our racism is pretty much overlooked. Remember during the huge tidal waves in Asia and all the flooding and people killed and then Hot 97 in NY puts out that stupid song making fun of it. Gosh that boils my blood man. I mean I believe that I am one of the most patient people when it comes to these kinds of things. Racism will be racism, ignorance will be ignorance. Stereotypes can be funny. But it's never a big deal for people to hate on Asian people. And what gets me even more is that ANOTHER MINORITY DID IT. Hear me out. I love my fellow black minority. But for a culture that has been oppressed - they do a good job dishing it out.
Take this video:
You don't have to listen to it - I mean the song is ALRIGHT but it's nothing amazing. You have to give them props though - they're trying to break into an industry where Asian people aren't really welcome. But the comments are ridic.
"CHING CHONG CHANG you guys suck" - wtf? are you still 5?
"GO BACK TO KOREA, YALL FUCKING SUCK! GO BACK TO KOREA, YALL FUCKING SUCK!" - At least he knows they're korean.
"WTF? This ain't that crazy North Korean Kim Jong-Il AKA the successor to his father Kim Il-Sung's dictator position!" - This was just stupid. I can't believe someone said that.
"these niggaz aint on shit. keep makin them fortune cookies son" Typical.
(This makes me think about Jin the rapper. I mean yeah he was so good at freestyle battling on BET - but c'mon he knew what people were gonna say it's all the same.)
I'm not saying all these people are black - but the website IS targeted to that group - so I can assume at least one of the hundred racial comments is from that of a minority.
And from the standpoint of a Korean-American.... I think people fail to see how similar we are to black folk! Yes, Africans and people from the Caribbean were taken and enslaved for many a year. Koreans were conquered more times than you can count throughout history. I mean - I guess we're a damn strategic peninsula cause history knows whenever someone wants to start shit in Asia..."Y'know, while we're at it might as well pick up Korea, conquer their people, suppress their culture, sex their women. Eh, well if you can't get the whole country just make sure you suppress and sex."....damn you bastards of the past.
Now I'm not saying korean people are innocent of racism or we're a totally awesome and pure culture. As a people we're jacked up too. Heinz Ward goes to Korea (cause the beautiful man identifies himself as a Korean) and he's treated like a hero! If he wasn't MVP.... highly doubt he'd get any love. And I'm not saying that it's not our fault that people see us a certain way. Take these girls for example - they really need to go on top of a building and jump.
I'm guessing these girls are educated. You wonder why people people associate asian people with just books and smarts huh. And no, I did not think this video was funny at all. Not one bit. Nope. Die in a fire.
But I feel secretly that people are starting to catch on, so I have hope. You know there's always those non-yellow people that just hang out with a crowd of Asians. The ones plagued by yellow-fever. Those are the ones that got reeled in. They're usually the ones that wear anime shirts and want to eat "Korean BBQ" (it's so funny when they say that) all the time. We get what we can and we get 'em good whether the bait be the food, the girls, and anime (Yes I believe it was created to bait people in - well now I do.
Cheers to those guys and gals - how could you ever hate on them.
*edit* I do suppose I was harsh on those girls in the video. Had they been hot I would've been more inclined to like the video but I stand by what I said before.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
For Lack of Material
So I've been showing my blog to random people now and then and I've been getting some good feedback. But as I compare my blog to other people's blogs especially those with many views I realize I'm lacking a theme. This is definitely not a food blog, photo blog, art blog, etc. etc. due to the fact that 1. I lack a hobby 2. I'm too lazy to pick up a hobby 3. I don't own a digital camera and 4. I'm not great at art. Eh... I'll figure something out in the future.
However, I do predict MS Paint art coming so....yes, it'll probably be something immature hah!
This past week was interesting as it was Easter. Prior to it, Betty Brown told me that my name was too complex for her. http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/. I believe this is the link everyone is posting up so I will do so as well. I mean COME ON. I can kind of understand because many a time people say my last name as "CHOW" like PUPPY CHOW. But my last name is spelled as "Cho". Where the eff does the "OW!" sound come from? And to this I blame the Chinese. More specifically Chinese restaurants. Mr. Chow's restaurant has embedded this sound of "OW" into America. I don't know what I"m talking about but I have to blame someone.
But fine Betty, I will change my last name. As long as all the white people with Lee and Park (and Parks) and alike change their last name too. Rosa Parks should be Rosa Smith and Stan and Spike Lee should be Stan and Spike...Smith....because it's easier. So much for Asian progression.
It's kind of funny in her statement she cites "we can't all learn Chinese" or something like that. Why Chinese? Why not Korean? It's fairly simple. Why does everyone think I'm Chinese? Why call me a chink? I am no crack in the wall you asshole! But the more I think about it, I understand more. The assumption of me being Chinese is due to the rise in education. It all goes back to the SATs baby!
"If you have 10 red marbles and 3 blue marbles in a pouch, and you reach in and grab a marble, which color marble are you more likely to grab?"
"If you have to choose which racial slur to use between 2 billion Chinese slanty eyed people and 200 million (i have no how many Koreans there are) Korean awesome slanty eyed people in the world, which do you use to be correct most of the time?"
I mean, strictly following this, I should have more people calling me out on curry (Indian) things but apparently a good amount of them don't like considering themselves as Asian... I can see why but this is a huge topic in itself.
But back to my point: The rise in education is just raising the level of racism! I kid you not my friends and I ran into some grumpy drunk white people one night after the Olympics had occurred and as expected he said "GO BACK TO BEIJING YOU CHINKS!" But wait a second! Beijing?! I mean, it was insulting cause I don't live there but...I was honestly impressed. Instead of "GO BACK TO CHINA" he said BEIJING. This man has taken his racism to the next level. I congratulate you drunken white hick guy - you have impressed me. SATs (or that ACT garbage) and TV at their best.
And on a side note of Asian progression, especially Korean male progression - I really wish this kid would just shuttup and go away:
I mean... TALK ABOUT SETTING US BACK 50 YEARS. UGH. He posts MULTIPLE MULTIPLE videos. Hate him. Demasculinizing (is that a word) what little we have...
Oh and the reason for my lack of material - I was waiting to blog because my friend had recently found a little bunny in an apartment he does maintenance in much like this one:
So cute! And he put it in a little shoe box with lettuce and milk and he was gonna bring it over and we were going to take pictures. Pictures with a little baby bunny in a shoebox!! So cute!!
And then his fat daschund (which are innately rabbit hunters) found it when he took it home and ate it.
However, I do predict MS Paint art coming so....yes, it'll probably be something immature hah!
This past week was interesting as it was Easter. Prior to it, Betty Brown told me that my name was too complex for her. http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/. I believe this is the link everyone is posting up so I will do so as well. I mean COME ON. I can kind of understand because many a time people say my last name as "CHOW" like PUPPY CHOW. But my last name is spelled as "Cho". Where the eff does the "OW!" sound come from? And to this I blame the Chinese. More specifically Chinese restaurants. Mr. Chow's restaurant has embedded this sound of "OW" into America. I don't know what I"m talking about but I have to blame someone.
But fine Betty, I will change my last name. As long as all the white people with Lee and Park (and Parks) and alike change their last name too. Rosa Parks should be Rosa Smith and Stan and Spike Lee should be Stan and Spike...Smith....because it's easier. So much for Asian progression.
It's kind of funny in her statement she cites "we can't all learn Chinese" or something like that. Why Chinese? Why not Korean? It's fairly simple. Why does everyone think I'm Chinese? Why call me a chink? I am no crack in the wall you asshole! But the more I think about it, I understand more. The assumption of me being Chinese is due to the rise in education. It all goes back to the SATs baby!
"If you have 10 red marbles and 3 blue marbles in a pouch, and you reach in and grab a marble, which color marble are you more likely to grab?"
"If you have to choose which racial slur to use between 2 billion Chinese slanty eyed people and 200 million (i have no how many Koreans there are) Korean awesome slanty eyed people in the world, which do you use to be correct most of the time?"
I mean, strictly following this, I should have more people calling me out on curry (Indian) things but apparently a good amount of them don't like considering themselves as Asian... I can see why but this is a huge topic in itself.
But back to my point: The rise in education is just raising the level of racism! I kid you not my friends and I ran into some grumpy drunk white people one night after the Olympics had occurred and as expected he said "GO BACK TO BEIJING YOU CHINKS!" But wait a second! Beijing?! I mean, it was insulting cause I don't live there but...I was honestly impressed. Instead of "GO BACK TO CHINA" he said BEIJING. This man has taken his racism to the next level. I congratulate you drunken white hick guy - you have impressed me. SATs (or that ACT garbage) and TV at their best.
And on a side note of Asian progression, especially Korean male progression - I really wish this kid would just shuttup and go away:
I mean... TALK ABOUT SETTING US BACK 50 YEARS. UGH. He posts MULTIPLE MULTIPLE videos. Hate him. Demasculinizing (is that a word) what little we have...
Oh and the reason for my lack of material - I was waiting to blog because my friend had recently found a little bunny in an apartment he does maintenance in much like this one:
So cute! And he put it in a little shoe box with lettuce and milk and he was gonna bring it over and we were going to take pictures. Pictures with a little baby bunny in a shoebox!! So cute!!
And then his fat daschund (which are innately rabbit hunters) found it when he took it home and ate it.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Garbage
The title of my entry is garbage because rightfully so it's about garbage and yes when I look back at my previous post I think it's stupid but there's no point in keeping a blog if I'm going to delete every previous entry cause I think ti's stupid so w/e.
Another reason for the title is cause I feel like garbage. I know I'm a skinny guy but, UGH i feel fcking FAT inside. More self loathing probably. I'm going through that stage where the parts you want big are getting smaller (no not my penis HAHA - ugh..."Douglas, that's gross.") and my sotmach is getting bigger and bigger. My good friend David is still fatter than me so w/e HAH. But this leads me to what I wanted to discuss which is truly garbage is this new trend of diets.
Lately I've been seeing a bunch of people that I know going on "cleanses" or "detoxes". I don't know much about this stuff but basically:
"Lemonade Cleanse": You drink a lotta lemonade with cayenne pepper (up above) and you eat next to nothing and then yout ake a laxative and crap it all out. Um, ok. If you jsut take a laxative everyday, I'm sure you'll lose just as much weight. SEriously wtf? This is just a fancied up bulimia of the ass. I don't know what it's called for someone who takes laxatives a lot to lose weight so I'm going to call it bulimia of the ass.
"Detox": You eat a lotta fruits and stay away from meat and dirnk a lot of water. It will flush out "bad" things form your system and you will lose weight. Uh. Yeah, it's called anorexia.
There's even one called "Fasting diet". Right. I mean yeah it's probably over simplified but that's the nitty gritty. "Body cleansing or detoxification is a treatment in alternative medicine which proponents claim rid the body of accumulated harmful substances that exert a negative effect on individual health.[1] Critics argue that such cleansings are often unnecessary, and are based on questionable or disproved scientific claims" so basically... this is stupid go hit the gym lazy.
I mean c'mon, people use any whacked out "scientific" explanation to make a couple bucks, cut a few corners, do whatever. If you're on one of these things, you're anorexic or bulimic of the butt.
Proof: My friend who went to Honduras for the Peace Corps posted some pics and he looks realy skinny... and word for word I asked him if it was from crapping so much that he got skinnier.
"of course its from the shitting. ive already lost 10 pounds of diarrehia weight "
Right. Right? Right. Just cause Oprah does it, doesn't mean it's a good thing. In actuality, it's probably bad. And no I know nothing about Oprah besides the fact that she has mind control lvl 99 magic.Here's the song my roommate loves to listen to right now. If you ever wondered what an acoustic version of a straight up dance song sounded like here you go, Lady Gaga's Poker face in acoustic. And if you don't think the song is ridiculous than plz go to 3:14 when she goes "I'M MARVELOUS I'M MARVELOUS!" (yes my roommate prances about doing that both sober and drunk and it's kinda cute) and if you don't think that's ridiculous then look at her wig? (yeah i'm pretty sure it's a wig) and tell me w t f is up with her hair?
Oh yeah and my test... after I blogged last night I took another nap and woke up this morning to finish studying for it and then I skipped my english class after I took my test cause I didn't read Mrs. Dalloway....garbage book.
It's 2:40am and I'm starting a blog.... again.
So this blog was meant to be for something else a couple years ago, and the idea was retarded (i won't even mention it). I've been feeling the need to express myself or vent or something I don't even know what it is but I need to do it. One of my best friends is in the Peace Corps now and he inspired me so here's to him.
I have a test about how babies grow up and develop into little children and how those little children think and act and grow up and all that good stuff. This class is stupid and I think I'm going to get caught for plagiarizing in it because I was too lazy to go observe little kids play so I just ripped off my friend's paper. No biggy (biggie?) w/e. The reason I don't care is cause my stupid ugly TA ignores my emails. I'm going to spam her inbox. I'm pretty sure she's racist. I have no idea what's going on in finance class. The kid i sit next to saw I didn't know wtf I was doing so he leaned over and said "How ya doin bud?" like he was my dad. LIKE MY DAD. Well a white version of my dad cause my real life dad would say "UGH HOW COME YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS!" and try give me a speech about how i fail. He's a realy cool guy but.... as;odghifa;sodifh. Who the fck says that? That was....humbling. [Note to self: study more....but I won't.] Someone in my church small group noted reminded me of my academic rep. My reputation up until the end of high schol has always been "yeah he doesn't try hard in school but he's smart" and now it's "yeah he doesn't study." [Note to self: study MORE in public places... right.]
Lol i'm kinda hesitant to write school stuff cause I know my sister's going to read this and she's goign to yell at me for sucking in school along the lines of "Douglas, you really can't do that. You know that you - blah blah blah blah." Cause when she talks to me it's in correct grammar/spelling and she calls me by my full name. I love you patty.
My roommate was drunk at 3pm today and came back into my room and peed in my toilet. Well when he was peeing it looked like he was trying to do a hula hoop so he peed around my toilet. Yes, i cleaned it and no it's not realy a big deal. When he's drunk he asks me for advice, I can't not love him. I eat jimmy john's about 4 -5 times a week cause it's the only thing that I eat that has vegetables. Thank you Jimmy....john?
I napped today before studying cause I always think that it's a good idea and I woke up to take a shower and while in the shower I dropped a big ass shampoo bottle on my toe. THe ring? toe. Now it's swollen up and ugly. [Picture of ring toe here]. I realize now in order to have a blog you need a camera. Like msot things, people only realy like and read entries w/ pictures. Lame.
I think I'm on the verge of an overdue nervous breakdown. "Douglas, you're just overreacting." (is what my sister would say if you didn't get it.) Ok, I guess i'm not. But serously, I realy am.
This was fun, I'll do it again. Probably later tonight cause little kids' minds are boring.
I have a test about how babies grow up and develop into little children and how those little children think and act and grow up and all that good stuff. This class is stupid and I think I'm going to get caught for plagiarizing in it because I was too lazy to go observe little kids play so I just ripped off my friend's paper. No biggy (biggie?) w/e. The reason I don't care is cause my stupid ugly TA ignores my emails. I'm going to spam her inbox. I'm pretty sure she's racist. I have no idea what's going on in finance class. The kid i sit next to saw I didn't know wtf I was doing so he leaned over and said "How ya doin bud?" like he was my dad. LIKE MY DAD. Well a white version of my dad cause my real life dad would say "UGH HOW COME YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS!" and try give me a speech about how i fail. He's a realy cool guy but.... as;odghifa;sodifh. Who the fck says that? That was....humbling. [Note to self: study more....but I won't.] Someone in my church small group noted reminded me of my academic rep. My reputation up until the end of high schol has always been "yeah he doesn't try hard in school but he's smart" and now it's "yeah he doesn't study." [Note to self: study MORE in public places... right.]
Lol i'm kinda hesitant to write school stuff cause I know my sister's going to read this and she's goign to yell at me for sucking in school along the lines of "Douglas, you really can't do that. You know that you - blah blah blah blah." Cause when she talks to me it's in correct grammar/spelling and she calls me by my full name. I love you patty.
My roommate was drunk at 3pm today and came back into my room and peed in my toilet. Well when he was peeing it looked like he was trying to do a hula hoop so he peed around my toilet. Yes, i cleaned it and no it's not realy a big deal. When he's drunk he asks me for advice, I can't not love him. I eat jimmy john's about 4 -5 times a week cause it's the only thing that I eat that has vegetables. Thank you Jimmy....john?
I napped today before studying cause I always think that it's a good idea and I woke up to take a shower and while in the shower I dropped a big ass shampoo bottle on my toe. THe ring? toe. Now it's swollen up and ugly. [Picture of ring toe here]. I realize now in order to have a blog you need a camera. Like msot things, people only realy like and read entries w/ pictures. Lame.
I think I'm on the verge of an overdue nervous breakdown. "Douglas, you're just overreacting." (is what my sister would say if you didn't get it.) Ok, I guess i'm not. But serously, I realy am.
This was fun, I'll do it again. Probably later tonight cause little kids' minds are boring.
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