Sunday 24 February 2013

What is the What

What is the What is a very challenging and slow book to read. I feel the book does have some interesting stories but at the same time it can be very slow. I think that stories he shares about being a lost boy are the most interesting. I cant wait to discover more about his life in Kakuma. I did have a hard time when he was talking in the hospital I felt it was completely unnecessary. I tend to turn of at these parts. I read them but I dont try and make anything out of them. I do turn on during the stories and try and make something about it. But I think it is becoming easier probably because I think I have finally come to terms with the fact that the book has the parts. Still I think the only two things that keep me reading is the fact that we have to read it for class and that the stories about his life as a lost boy are very intriguing.   

Sunday 3 February 2013

Blogging

The internet is a free space wich we should use to express ourselves. Blogging is important in an english classroom for it helps us express and ourselves and gain perspective. One my friends once posted about his experiences in Chiang Mai and what he felt through this trip. It was completely new to me and I had a totally different experience. It made me reevaluate my experiences in relation to me and the people around me. Blogging gave him the courage to post something that went against everyones else experiences and allowed him to be different and because of that post I have learnt how one situation has multiple reactions. Blogging has also helped the quietest people in my class bring out their points and perspective which is great because it gives a better understanding of what people think and do. Overall blogging is away to express yourselves and really say whats on your mind and letting it out to the world.

I actually much enjoy reading then writing the blogs 

Sunday 27 January 2013

Australian Open

This year was a complete disappointment. There was no special surprise or anything interesting it was just plain boring. Then we have people saying that oh look Murray is a such a great player. Just because he won one grand slam. Going by that logic Hewitt is an outstanding player because he has win 2 grand slam titles. Double the amount Murray has won.    

Sunday 16 December 2012

Society

I was at home just wasting my time listening to music. When suddenly my favorite song started to play, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. And after listening to lyrics very carefully somewhere in my brain it clicked. This song finally made sense. it was about Society and how we become numb to all the bad stuff around us. Sure the shooting in connecticut was a disaster but this is not the first one. There was one in colorado movie theater and one in Dunblane, Scotland and many more. The thing comes down to is how we deal with it. SO heres the song, Hope you like it.    

Monday 5 November 2012

Skyfall review

The director has interpreted Bond in a new way- cannot shoot straight or outthink the opponent, possessing very little drive or ambition, his support staff are even more incompetent-but that is just poetic licence. 

What got my goat was the extremely thin and weak storyline that has holes big enough to drive an elephant through several times (or I dozed off at critical points)-there is no mega-conspiracy, the villain got what he wanted in terms of the data as well as the death of his target, and it beats me why the villain had to go to so much trouble to physically get into MI6 when he anyhow was already hacked into the network. Finally the anti-climax why would any idiot prepare over days to repel an armed assault and not have stocked up on weapons, and why not have an elite SWAT team on standby 5 minutes away

Wednesday 31 October 2012

Single Story

I think that the video was very powerful because it made think of times that judges people because of a single story. It made me think of ways next time I should interact with people so I can get a better understanding and clearer vision of there lives before I can say he's rich or she's poor and hopefully this will stop from robbing peoples dignity and though it seems something hard to say it like that it is the truth. I think that this video really brings out three points ; Stories give us power and without people knowing our full story we lose power, Interaction is key to understanding someone or something and  Stereotypes are not the full truth but it is a very small part if it.

I gave been thinking about theese two questions

Is it possible to know the full story?
And how so?    

Sunday 28 October 2012

Abnormal

Being abnormal is something that we all try to avoid. We all want to be apart of society and in result we hide things about ourselves that people would call abnormal. But who are these people and why do they get to decide whats abnormal and whats not? That is what we need to make sure we realize that telling yourself that being abnormal is great its what separates you from everyone else. Its like what Oscar Wilde said "be yourself. everyone else is taking" We need to stop trying to act like other people who we are afraid will judge depending on our "abnormal behavior." We must remember our "abnormal behavior" makes who we are and stops us from being just another face in the crowd. Lets take Martian luther king he changed the way people looked at black people because he believed that his skin should not make different and why is his skin less important.