http://www.apple.com/iphone/
You have probably already heard something about the iPhone. It is Apple's version of a phone, ipod, and organizer thing all in one little hand held set. When the iPhone does come out, it will cost $500-$600.
$500 is a lot of money. And, of course, an iPhone is cutting edge. But isn't there better ways $500 could be spent? If you have the money to afford these kinds of luxuries, does that weigh above your obligation to society?
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Racism
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255300,00.html?sPage=fnc.national/education
I found this article on the Fow News website. It is about a school that seperates studentsby race before tests and gives them different pep talks. The same school also has been seperating the students by race for assemblies.
Is this right? Check out the article. Is this a form of racism or is it really in the best interest of the students?
I found this article on the Fow News website. It is about a school that seperates studentsby race before tests and gives them different pep talks. The same school also has been seperating the students by race for assemblies.
Is this right? Check out the article. Is this a form of racism or is it really in the best interest of the students?
Premonition
I saw the movie Premonition last Saturday. Here's the synopsis from the official site:
Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she recieves the devastating news that her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it was all a dream, but is shaken by how vivd it felt. She soon realizes it wasn't a dream, and her world is turned upside down as the surreal circumstances lead her to discover that her perfect life may not have been all that it appeared. Desperate to save her family, Linda begins a furious race against time and fate to try and preserve everything that she and Jim have built together.
This movie was weird because the ending was not what you would expect. You know how usually in movies like this, they try to make you think the ending is going to be what you expect but then it turns out in a good way that you weren't expecting? Well this movie started out like that then it turns out that what you were expecting would happen all along actualyl did happen so it kind of made the entire movie seem pointless. Like what you thought was going to happen the entire time actually happened...it really made the whole movie seem pointless.
Now I really liked the movie itself...the actors were great and the effects and stuff were good, and even the plot was ok; the ending was the only thing that threw me off, because it was what I was expecting.
Has anyone else seen this movie? what do you guys think about it? Is that weird that the ending is exactly what the audienceis expecting?
Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she recieves the devastating news that her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it was all a dream, but is shaken by how vivd it felt. She soon realizes it wasn't a dream, and her world is turned upside down as the surreal circumstances lead her to discover that her perfect life may not have been all that it appeared. Desperate to save her family, Linda begins a furious race against time and fate to try and preserve everything that she and Jim have built together.
This movie was weird because the ending was not what you would expect. You know how usually in movies like this, they try to make you think the ending is going to be what you expect but then it turns out in a good way that you weren't expecting? Well this movie started out like that then it turns out that what you were expecting would happen all along actualyl did happen so it kind of made the entire movie seem pointless. Like what you thought was going to happen the entire time actually happened...it really made the whole movie seem pointless.
Now I really liked the movie itself...the actors were great and the effects and stuff were good, and even the plot was ok; the ending was the only thing that threw me off, because it was what I was expecting.
Has anyone else seen this movie? what do you guys think about it? Is that weird that the ending is exactly what the audienceis expecting?
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
St. Patrick's Day
Because Saturday is St. Patrick's Day, I thought I could write a little bit on luck...because St. Patrick=Irish and Irish=Luck. This got me thinking about the difference between luck and just making the right decisions. Is there really such a thing as luck? or can you be "lucky" simply by making the right decisions and the right gambles and not being careless?
When I was younger I believed in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and luck. If I got a good score on a test or I got what I wanted for Christmas, I concidered myself lucky. Now I know, though, that those incidents are a direct effect of my hard work, not luck. But luck still exists, right? Can someone by some random chance always have what they want happen to them, even when they seem to not have earned it? what do you think about luck? Is it real?
When I was younger I believed in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and luck. If I got a good score on a test or I got what I wanted for Christmas, I concidered myself lucky. Now I know, though, that those incidents are a direct effect of my hard work, not luck. But luck still exists, right? Can someone by some random chance always have what they want happen to them, even when they seem to not have earned it? what do you think about luck? Is it real?
Friday, March 9, 2007
alias
so I have been watching season 4 of the show Alias on dvd for the past 2 1/2 hours. I do have to confess that I have been watching this show religiously since the beginning of the first season back in...oh, 7th or 8th grade. A long, long time. Yah but anyway, watching this show (even though, yah i know its only tv and its like entertainment and everything) has got me thinking. Tied in with all the cool spy missions and gadgets are a lot of very real-life situations that kinda made me wonder about sacrifice. The characters in the show all sacrifice a lot for their job, even though it's make-believe. What is the line between sacrifice and carelessness? Is there a line? When you sacrifice everything for a purpose, how can you expect to get something back in return? and what you do get, how can you judge if it is worth it or not?
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Yesterday, I saw a story about Britney Spears on CNN. It was about that whole rehab thing, and usually I don’t really watch the news, but I had just happened to glance up at it while I was eating dinner. The article (http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20012207_20014268,00.html sorry i am using safari so i cant make it a link!) was about Britney being supported by both her family and Kevin's. I mean that's cool and all, but it was on CNN!
This kinda made me realize how much of our lives are dependent on pop culture. Like how much of our daily existence revolves around Hollywood, the movies, and the magazines. Britney Spears was on CNN. Think about it. Its just a little rediculous.
This kinda made me realize how much of our lives are dependent on pop culture. Like how much of our daily existence revolves around Hollywood, the movies, and the magazines. Britney Spears was on CNN. Think about it. Its just a little rediculous.
Elections
We had the speeches for student government elections yesterday. I don’t think it had really hit me until just then that next year is our last year in the Academy. I was sitting there and I realized…wow this is the last time I am going to sit here and listen to my classmates give speeches about why they should be president of our class.
Then I started zoning out and thinking about all the other lasts I’ve already had. We had our last first day of school as underclassmen; last Christmas break before applying to college; second-to-last exams and actually caring what we got…
I had flashbacks to junior school. Memories of playing on barwick, being thrilled to be the person in my class who got to go in the morning and carry all the juice boxes for my class’s snack time from the Winnie office back to the classroom. I had forgotten about that time me and my friends rode bikes down that huge hill on Barwick up by the maze, and in 4th grade when we went to the Big Island and I thought it was SO cool that I was on an airplane with my class!
Back then, graduation was not even thinkable. It seemed as though I’d be at this school forever. But now, its only a little more than a year away then I can no longer say proudly what school I go to when someone inquires as to where I…well, belong so to speak. No, my name will belong to a University, which one I still don’t know. I will say I go to “Insert super-expensive-prestigious-if-you-don’t-go-here-you-fail-at-life University” name here. I will be a college student, (almost) totally on my own in a big world that I don’t really understand that well, away from my parents and everyone and everything that is really familiar to me. Independence. I will gain independence, and im guesing also a deep appreciation for the opportunities I had while I was here. I have gone here since kindergarten…a purist, you could call me, but I have never had to experience a change so dramatic that I was thrown into an environment where I didn’t know where to go or what to do.
It just surprised me that our time in the Academy is slowely winding down. After 12 years of the college-prep experience, what is it gonna be like to see what that actually did for us? I want to find out.
Then I started zoning out and thinking about all the other lasts I’ve already had. We had our last first day of school as underclassmen; last Christmas break before applying to college; second-to-last exams and actually caring what we got…
I had flashbacks to junior school. Memories of playing on barwick, being thrilled to be the person in my class who got to go in the morning and carry all the juice boxes for my class’s snack time from the Winnie office back to the classroom. I had forgotten about that time me and my friends rode bikes down that huge hill on Barwick up by the maze, and in 4th grade when we went to the Big Island and I thought it was SO cool that I was on an airplane with my class!
Back then, graduation was not even thinkable. It seemed as though I’d be at this school forever. But now, its only a little more than a year away then I can no longer say proudly what school I go to when someone inquires as to where I…well, belong so to speak. No, my name will belong to a University, which one I still don’t know. I will say I go to “Insert super-expensive-prestigious-if-you-don’t-go-here-you-fail-at-life University” name here. I will be a college student, (almost) totally on my own in a big world that I don’t really understand that well, away from my parents and everyone and everything that is really familiar to me. Independence. I will gain independence, and im guesing also a deep appreciation for the opportunities I had while I was here. I have gone here since kindergarten…a purist, you could call me, but I have never had to experience a change so dramatic that I was thrown into an environment where I didn’t know where to go or what to do.
It just surprised me that our time in the Academy is slowely winding down. After 12 years of the college-prep experience, what is it gonna be like to see what that actually did for us? I want to find out.
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