Hey all, so this is a post I've been wanting to do for a long time now. I want to map out how I want my future house to be, room by room.
One of the main things I want my future house to have is a music room. I guess this place would probably be the place where I spend all my time trying to unwind after stressful days. One of the ways I relieve stress is to sit down and either play my own music or listen to something calm. I would also have an assortment of instruments to play in this room, and maybe even have some stuff to record music. The design of the room would be very simple, yet still have a touch of my own personal design. I'd paint the walls all white, and in each corner of the room, I'd draw a musician playing an instrument. For example, in one corner of the room I'd draw a guitarist playing a song, and having musical notes floating up and away from the guitar, but instead of just leaving it at this generic image, I'd have the notes get smaller and smaller and eventually float up into the ceiling and the upper walls of the room, which would basically be like a murky lake filled with musical notes, but instead of it all being just cluttered notes, there would actually be sheet music painted onto the ceiling and the walls, kind of as if the musical notes played by the musicians are evaporating and forming clouds of sound, which is exactly what playing music is. I know this is different than what I originally had planned to do with my music room, which was to line the walls with old and influential records, but I think this idea would fit the setting better, because its a place for new sounds to arise, not for old ones to be reminisced upon.
For my childs room, I plan on having the same design no matter what gender the child is. I'd line the walls with the pages of all the old Dr.Seuss books. I grew up on these books, and I believe that every child should read at least a few Dr.Seuss books in their lifetime. I still remember the very first book that I ever read was One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and I also remember first reading that book as a child. I don't know how I can remember this because I was very young when I first began reading (maybe around 2 or 3?), but I can remember sitting under the window of my room reading the book out loud to myself, and having my mom walk by and wonder at the fact that I was reading. Also, the mosiac of colors created by all these different pages on the walls would literally render my child in awe and shock. Children need to be occupied by something, and whats better than having the walls of their own room entertain them?
A few hallways of my house would be lined with paper. Normal butcher paper. This would be for my friends to make artwork. I've noticed that people love to draw things for their friends, such as a random doodle in their notebook or a Facebook graffitti. I just think it would be really cool to have my friends leave their own mark on my house. Looking at each personalized piece of artwork and being reminded of that friend and all the great times we had together would always be sure to brighten up any bad day. I also think that it'd just be fun to do you know. People could come over my house with the expectation to draw on the walls, almost like a coordinated effort to be a little kid with crayons and an innocent smile.
The idea I have for my kitchen is probably the most basic, yet the most useful and practical one out of them all. Why not paint recipies for your favorite dishes onto the walls of your kitchen for easy access when you want to cook? I would also mix if up a bit, and put alot of random recipies for dishes that I'd want to try up on the walls also. This sounds a bit basic and boring to be a part of my house, but I'd spice it up a bit by also dividing up sections of the walls into different types of food recipies, and then make all those recipies one color, so it would look like a bunch of colored squares and rectangles covering my kitchen walls, so I'd be able to cook in a bright and colorful place.
My living room would probably be the most generic room in the house. Its a living room, so I'd put in all the things here that make me feel alive. I'll be honest though, the only things that make me feel alive are my friends, so I'd probably put up alot of pictures of my friends. I'm still debating with myself as to whether or not to draw my friends out or put up real pictures of them, because if I draw them, it would make my hallways kinda useless, and if I put real pictures of them up, then it'd be creepy to have hundres of faces staring at you as you walk into a room. Actually I just got an idea while writing this. Instead of just filling every gap of the walls with pictures, I'd make designs out of the pictures, like make stars or musical notes and hearts out of the pictures and just line the walls of my living room with that. Of course I'd also have my own entertainment center in here also, hopefully with a nice TV and sound system to back it up. The couches in my living room would be futons, because we all know that there will be times when a friend will need a place to crash and recover.
For my master bedroom, I want to keep this room the most simple out of them all. It'd be a place for me to just relax and sleep. The only really defining part of my own bedroom would be that I'd line the celing with those glow in the dark stars. If you ever see me out at night, you might catch me staring up at the stars. I'm one of those people that can just get lost in the stars, because I can just look up at them and find my mind to be cleared. When I was younger, I used to go outside during the night and just stare into the dark night sky and use this time to think about my life. It was during one of these midnight journeys that I decided to stop being a delinquent and do something with my life. An alternative to doing this would be to have the part of the celing above my bed be made out of glass, and then I could stare up at the real night sky.
Sorry guys, but my bathroom would be like an ordinary bathroom. I don't like being distracted by anything while being in there haha.
As for the outside of my house, I'd leave it completely ordinary as well. Why? Because if you see a house that looks strange and unique, you'd expect it to be strange and unique on the inside as well. But if you see a house thats normal on the outside, and right when you walk into it, you see something that totally blows your mind, then I feel it'll have more of an impact if you see something you wouldn't expect to see.
So yeah guys thats my future house. I hope that you guys won't forget me in the future, and you'll come and visit me in my future home, and hopefully leave me behind a drawing haha.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Breaks always seem to fly so swiftly away
Hey all, time for a real blog post rather than something random. I'm not really in that great of a mood right now, and you'll probably find out the reason later on in the post, but I'll try to make this as entertaining as possible.
I don't really know where to begin with this blog. I guess I'll just start from my recent trip to Santa Cruz and then just go from there. So yeah, I went to Santa Cruz again this weekend. Its starting to turn into such a common thing for me to go there that its not anything special anymore, although whenever I go there I always seem to have some of the best times of my life. I feel really bad though cause I kinda flaked out on some of the UCSC AphiO people there, cause I contacted a few of them beforehand, but I didn't contact them at all when I got there. Sorry guys but I was a bit more busy/lazy than I thought I would be, but next time I'll hopefully see you guys for sure.
I really don't remember what I did down there in Santa Cruz. I know I slept alot at times and I slept very little at times, and I know I ate alot also. It sounds boring and just like a typical day, but the people down there just make the normal things in life that much better. It makes me wish that I had gone to that school instead of my own, but then again my current school has shaped me into who I am right now.
I do remember one thing aboout going down to Santa Cruz though, and thats being dragged to the Twilight DVD midnight release party by Monica. I was actually supposed to name this blog "The worst 30 minutes of my life" because of that whole experience, but I won't be that mean. The party was a lot smaller than I thought it would be, but there were still some crazy fans that showed up. I actually got to watch the movie that night also, and I found it to be hilarious. Alot of the scenes in the movie just made me crack up. To be a bit serious though. the movie could have been alot better, because I know that if I hadn't read the book beforehand, then I would have been really lost during the movie.
Well I left Santa Cruz on Saturday, and I enjoyed the 2 hour drive back up to San Pablo. I usually hate driving, but that 2 hour drive was really nice, because it gave me time to think about who I want to be. The rest of the day was pretty nice though; I just chilled at my house and rested my old self. I remember getting home and having my parents ask me to clean the backyard, and also having them tell me that they didn't have any food cooked because they didn't think I was going to come home that early. Yay for coming back home haha.
Sunday was the day that I planned out as a little spring break get together for some of the people back here. T'was the day we were gonna head down to San Jose and go to the Asian American Film Festival down there. I picked up Monica at bart at around 3, proceeded to show her my not-so-ghetto house and neighborhood, and then we drove to Jessicas house to play some Rock Band. We gathered up the whole group at around 6 and headed over to Hayward to go eat at one of my favorite restaurants over there, Red Chili. Alex joined us for dinner which was pretty cool cause its always pretty rare to see him anywhere. Aft dinner we drove to San Jose to watch the movie, but by the time we got there, we were already 20 minutes late, so we went to another theater and watched a movie called Tokyo!, which was 3 short films all revolving around the city of Tokyo. It was a really good film and I suggest everyone to go check it out.
Today also started off as a pretty good day. I got to spend a little extra time in bed today and I'm finally starting to feel that I'm getting over this little sickness thats been bothering me for the past few days. I took Oliver on a few errands today and after that I ended up heading to Berkeley to go hang out with some AphiO peoples. We just walked around a few of the stores over on Telegraph, but then I got tired and I decided to go back home early. As I was walking back to my car, I walked by Elaines boba shop and lo and behold, she was actually there. I had a nice little conversation with her, but I had to go cause my car was parked in one of those timed spots and I didn't want to risk getting my second ticket from Berkeley. But yeah then the total shit part of today happened. As I was driving home today, this bus pulled up next to me as I was stopped at a red light. I didn't think much of it until I noticed that the bus was one of those double sized ones and it was making a turn. So the bus began to make its turn, and all I could do is just sit there in my car watching as the edge of the bus got closer and closer to my car until the inevitable happened. Now the whole side of my car is scraped up and dented because of a bus drivers incompetent driving. Its all part of life though, so I can be as pissed off about it as much as I want to be, but its not gonna change the fact that it happened so whatever.
I don't know whats been going on this past month. Its like my life is on a roller coaster; everytime I have a really good time somewhere, something always happens that brings me back down. I just hope that this roller coaster ends up on a straightaway when I'm up at the top.
I don't really know where to begin with this blog. I guess I'll just start from my recent trip to Santa Cruz and then just go from there. So yeah, I went to Santa Cruz again this weekend. Its starting to turn into such a common thing for me to go there that its not anything special anymore, although whenever I go there I always seem to have some of the best times of my life. I feel really bad though cause I kinda flaked out on some of the UCSC AphiO people there, cause I contacted a few of them beforehand, but I didn't contact them at all when I got there. Sorry guys but I was a bit more busy/lazy than I thought I would be, but next time I'll hopefully see you guys for sure.
I really don't remember what I did down there in Santa Cruz. I know I slept alot at times and I slept very little at times, and I know I ate alot also. It sounds boring and just like a typical day, but the people down there just make the normal things in life that much better. It makes me wish that I had gone to that school instead of my own, but then again my current school has shaped me into who I am right now.
I do remember one thing aboout going down to Santa Cruz though, and thats being dragged to the Twilight DVD midnight release party by Monica. I was actually supposed to name this blog "The worst 30 minutes of my life" because of that whole experience, but I won't be that mean. The party was a lot smaller than I thought it would be, but there were still some crazy fans that showed up. I actually got to watch the movie that night also, and I found it to be hilarious. Alot of the scenes in the movie just made me crack up. To be a bit serious though. the movie could have been alot better, because I know that if I hadn't read the book beforehand, then I would have been really lost during the movie.
Well I left Santa Cruz on Saturday, and I enjoyed the 2 hour drive back up to San Pablo. I usually hate driving, but that 2 hour drive was really nice, because it gave me time to think about who I want to be. The rest of the day was pretty nice though; I just chilled at my house and rested my old self. I remember getting home and having my parents ask me to clean the backyard, and also having them tell me that they didn't have any food cooked because they didn't think I was going to come home that early. Yay for coming back home haha.
Sunday was the day that I planned out as a little spring break get together for some of the people back here. T'was the day we were gonna head down to San Jose and go to the Asian American Film Festival down there. I picked up Monica at bart at around 3, proceeded to show her my not-so-ghetto house and neighborhood, and then we drove to Jessicas house to play some Rock Band. We gathered up the whole group at around 6 and headed over to Hayward to go eat at one of my favorite restaurants over there, Red Chili. Alex joined us for dinner which was pretty cool cause its always pretty rare to see him anywhere. Aft dinner we drove to San Jose to watch the movie, but by the time we got there, we were already 20 minutes late, so we went to another theater and watched a movie called Tokyo!, which was 3 short films all revolving around the city of Tokyo. It was a really good film and I suggest everyone to go check it out.
Today also started off as a pretty good day. I got to spend a little extra time in bed today and I'm finally starting to feel that I'm getting over this little sickness thats been bothering me for the past few days. I took Oliver on a few errands today and after that I ended up heading to Berkeley to go hang out with some AphiO peoples. We just walked around a few of the stores over on Telegraph, but then I got tired and I decided to go back home early. As I was walking back to my car, I walked by Elaines boba shop and lo and behold, she was actually there. I had a nice little conversation with her, but I had to go cause my car was parked in one of those timed spots and I didn't want to risk getting my second ticket from Berkeley. But yeah then the total shit part of today happened. As I was driving home today, this bus pulled up next to me as I was stopped at a red light. I didn't think much of it until I noticed that the bus was one of those double sized ones and it was making a turn. So the bus began to make its turn, and all I could do is just sit there in my car watching as the edge of the bus got closer and closer to my car until the inevitable happened. Now the whole side of my car is scraped up and dented because of a bus drivers incompetent driving. Its all part of life though, so I can be as pissed off about it as much as I want to be, but its not gonna change the fact that it happened so whatever.
I don't know whats been going on this past month. Its like my life is on a roller coaster; everytime I have a really good time somewhere, something always happens that brings me back down. I just hope that this roller coaster ends up on a straightaway when I'm up at the top.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Mom, wheres my life?
I saw a TV commercial today, and it was another one of those commercials that I believed to be insanely stupid. Whenever a commercial inspires me to think deep thoughts about how dumb it is, you know it has to be pretty bad.
So the commercial kinda goes like this. Some children and a man all yell out asking their mom/wife where a certain item is. Then the commercial shows the boy going into the kitchen and opening up the refrigerator, and taking out some food. Then the voiceover goes and says something like, "Now, you'll never have to rely on your mom ever again when you're looking for something." First of all, I never knew that looking for a refrigerator would be something that takes time an effort. I mean, its pretty stationary in your house you know. Also, I'd hope that you wouldn't misplace the food IN your refridgerator, or else you'll be able to locate it pretty easily in a few weeks with your sense of smell.
The main thing that got me thinking about this commercial though, had to do with the first part with the children asking their mother where a certain item was. Lets face it, we've all yelled out that line "MOM wheres my blah blah blah?" And you mom will almost always yell back with a location or something like that, and then your mother just sits there and smiles contently, taking all the credit for having a great photographic memory. NO this is totally wrong. Do you want to know why your mom knows where everything is? Do you want to know why you couldn't find it in the first place? Its because you mom MOVED IT! If you ever leave anything out in the living room, then it is liable to be moved someplace where you'll never see it again unless your mother tells you. Your mother somehow sees every part of the house as her territory, so she sees fit to arrange it as she pleases, of course without telling you that shes doing so. Countless times have I come home during a 3 week absence, only to walk into my room as a stranger.
So next time you have the feeling to yell out "Mom where's my blue sweater?", you should change your wording to "Mom, where did you put my blue sweater?"
So the commercial kinda goes like this. Some children and a man all yell out asking their mom/wife where a certain item is. Then the commercial shows the boy going into the kitchen and opening up the refrigerator, and taking out some food. Then the voiceover goes and says something like, "Now, you'll never have to rely on your mom ever again when you're looking for something." First of all, I never knew that looking for a refrigerator would be something that takes time an effort. I mean, its pretty stationary in your house you know. Also, I'd hope that you wouldn't misplace the food IN your refridgerator, or else you'll be able to locate it pretty easily in a few weeks with your sense of smell.
The main thing that got me thinking about this commercial though, had to do with the first part with the children asking their mother where a certain item was. Lets face it, we've all yelled out that line "MOM wheres my blah blah blah?" And you mom will almost always yell back with a location or something like that, and then your mother just sits there and smiles contently, taking all the credit for having a great photographic memory. NO this is totally wrong. Do you want to know why your mom knows where everything is? Do you want to know why you couldn't find it in the first place? Its because you mom MOVED IT! If you ever leave anything out in the living room, then it is liable to be moved someplace where you'll never see it again unless your mother tells you. Your mother somehow sees every part of the house as her territory, so she sees fit to arrange it as she pleases, of course without telling you that shes doing so. Countless times have I come home during a 3 week absence, only to walk into my room as a stranger.
So next time you have the feeling to yell out "Mom where's my blue sweater?", you should change your wording to "Mom, where did you put my blue sweater?"
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Book Review - Twilight
Hey guys, so some of you probably know that I've been reading Twilight for the past few days. I was mainly reading it just because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about the book. A lot of my female friends had been telling me that they loved the book, and I've been saying that I hated the book for awhile now, so I decided to actually read it just to find out if I actually have a basis for my hatred of the book. I basically want to see if I'll still not like the book even after i've read it. So this is basically just my review of the book now that ive completed it.
So, I'll be honest, I picked up the book expecting it to be really bad. I know its not right to go into something so biased because its gonna affect how I feel about the book at the end, but still theres no helping that fact. I originally saw it just as a book with little storyline and just sexy main characters, which actually isn't quite true about the book now that I've read it.
There are basically two explanations that people have given me or that I've randomly heard, as to why they like the book so much. One is that people can relate to the main character Bella, and the other is that they're really in love with the other main character Edward. After reading the book, its so easy to see why.
I actually came out with a better impression of the book than I did before I read it, but thats probably because I hated it so much at first, that my opinion of it could have only improved. The first half of the book is near torture to read, yet it also explained to me why so many of the books readers can relate so much to the main character. The first half of the book takes a very close look at the life of Bella, and its very hard not to be blunt here, but shes one of the most emo characters I've ever read about. Just the way she acts completely annoys me, because shes one of those people that apparently hates everything about their life, yet does nothing at all to improve it. She wallows in her self-pity throughout the first half of this book, because she can't enjoy anything in her life. Everything for her is like "Oh theyre doing this for me. Well whatever I don't care." I lost count of how many times I wanted to slap her and make her open her eyes. The thing is, I can totally see a typical teenage girl relating to her and feeling the way she does.
The second half of the book gets alot better actually, but its probably because the first half of the book was complete bs to read. The second half of the book was pretty good, except when Bella and Edward were alone talking. I couldn't stand to read their lines to each other. It was like reading the script to a soap opera. Everything was overblown and full of cheese. Another thing I hated about Edward AND the author for doing this, is that she made everything he did seem way too dramatic, and it makes normal guys look bad. A lot of the stuff Edward did that sounds oh so beautiful in the book, is stuff that typical guys do, just we don't make it so obvious or we don't even realize that we're doing it.
The storyline to this book actually got a little interesting near the end. When Bella was being tracked by the othe Vampires, I was like "hey theres actually a little action going on now. OH and hey bella might die! thats always a plus!". The book actually captured my attention at that point, but then it ended with more Bella/Edward novelties, but then again the ending did leave the story open in an interesting yet very predictable way.
In all, the book gave me a better understand of the whole craze behind it, and I'll be honest, I don't really hate it as much as I hated it back then, but I still think its a pretty bad book. The writing itself could have been alot better; it was just really awkward to read at times. Hardly any imagery or descriptions, other than physical descriptions of the vampires (which aren't even real vampires to be honest).So yeah thats my two cents about Twilight. 2/5
So, I'll be honest, I picked up the book expecting it to be really bad. I know its not right to go into something so biased because its gonna affect how I feel about the book at the end, but still theres no helping that fact. I originally saw it just as a book with little storyline and just sexy main characters, which actually isn't quite true about the book now that I've read it.
There are basically two explanations that people have given me or that I've randomly heard, as to why they like the book so much. One is that people can relate to the main character Bella, and the other is that they're really in love with the other main character Edward. After reading the book, its so easy to see why.
I actually came out with a better impression of the book than I did before I read it, but thats probably because I hated it so much at first, that my opinion of it could have only improved. The first half of the book is near torture to read, yet it also explained to me why so many of the books readers can relate so much to the main character. The first half of the book takes a very close look at the life of Bella, and its very hard not to be blunt here, but shes one of the most emo characters I've ever read about. Just the way she acts completely annoys me, because shes one of those people that apparently hates everything about their life, yet does nothing at all to improve it. She wallows in her self-pity throughout the first half of this book, because she can't enjoy anything in her life. Everything for her is like "Oh theyre doing this for me. Well whatever I don't care." I lost count of how many times I wanted to slap her and make her open her eyes. The thing is, I can totally see a typical teenage girl relating to her and feeling the way she does.
The second half of the book gets alot better actually, but its probably because the first half of the book was complete bs to read. The second half of the book was pretty good, except when Bella and Edward were alone talking. I couldn't stand to read their lines to each other. It was like reading the script to a soap opera. Everything was overblown and full of cheese. Another thing I hated about Edward AND the author for doing this, is that she made everything he did seem way too dramatic, and it makes normal guys look bad. A lot of the stuff Edward did that sounds oh so beautiful in the book, is stuff that typical guys do, just we don't make it so obvious or we don't even realize that we're doing it.
The storyline to this book actually got a little interesting near the end. When Bella was being tracked by the othe Vampires, I was like "hey theres actually a little action going on now. OH and hey bella might die! thats always a plus!". The book actually captured my attention at that point, but then it ended with more Bella/Edward novelties, but then again the ending did leave the story open in an interesting yet very predictable way.
In all, the book gave me a better understand of the whole craze behind it, and I'll be honest, I don't really hate it as much as I hated it back then, but I still think its a pretty bad book. The writing itself could have been alot better; it was just really awkward to read at times. Hardly any imagery or descriptions, other than physical descriptions of the vampires (which aren't even real vampires to be honest).So yeah thats my two cents about Twilight. 2/5
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Hi my name is Sean and I am Awesome
Alright so my friend Jess basically forced me into doing this blog. She originally wanted me to write about how sexy I am but I decided that was a bit too extreme haha. I'm just gonna turn this blog into a short little bio about myself since I don't think ive done anything like this yet for this blog. I originally wanted to be pretty secretive about my blog but I don't really care anymore about revealing who I am, since its not like ive been too secretive about it anyways right? If you've been checking my facebook status updates then its all like "YEAH new blog!" so I'm like whatever about it now. I'm only doing this cause Jess is a pretty good friend of mine; shes one of the only purely MS friends that still talks to me and shes also the one that I tell almost everything to, so yeah this ones cause of her. Expect this blog to be alot less formal than most =p
So hi guys, my name is Sean Galen Harris. Yep, thats my full name. I have no idea why or how my parents gave me my first and middle name, but to be honest I don't like either of them haha. I guess my first name is pretty cool cause its unique, but alot of people either can't spell it right or they mispronounce it when reading. Far too many teachers have said 'Is Seen here in class today? Seen?". Ughh its one of those *facepalm* moments for me. Does anyone else have any problems with people screwing up their names? I know theres some people out there with far worse names than me.
Well right now I'm currently age 20, and my birthday is October 19, 1988. So I'm almost there to 21. Once I actually get to that age, I basically have no more birthdays to look forward to. Its as if my life ends when I get to that age. I'm just gonna keep on getting older as the seconds tick by, so I might as well get as much done as possible now while I can. I think thats the reason why I fill up my life with so much. I want to be as busy as possible, because for me, being busy is a sign that I'm actually doing something with my life.
So right now I'm a Criminal Justice major at CSUEB. Yeah I don't really know what I'm doing with that major. I originally was a Biology major and I was gonna do forensics, but then I hit all of those really hard chemistry classes and I switched my major because I knew I couldn't pass them. So right now i'm looking into criminal justice because I still want to be involved in putting away criminals and/or rehabilitating them. I guess it'd just be my way of giving back to society.
So right now the main thing in my life is probably Alpha Phi Omega, my beloved fraternity. Even though it has its ups and downs, its still one of the best things to ever happen to me. Right now I'm currently 1/2 VP of Fellowships, which basically means I get to plan all of the fun stuff. Ive met so many new people and I know some of them are going to be friends for life. Another cool thing about it is that theres chapters at almost all the schools around here, so I can go to any school around here and immediately know people. I love meeting people from other chapters because they're super awesome!.I have the time of my life when I'm with people from other chapters. I realize that even though my own chapter needs some help right now, I want to focus on building the bonds between our chapter and other chapters, because to me thats a good way to help rebuild our own chapter.
Music is another one of the huge things in my life. it effects me to the point that a good song can brighten up my day. I also play a myriad of instruments, mainly guitar and bass though. I'm pretty shitty at guitar compared to some people i know, but then again I'm not the worst one out of the bunch so I don't really care. I really do love music though; I see it as a reflection of how the artists was feeling at the time. Even if i don't undersatnd the lyrics to the music, I can still udnerstand the meaning to it by understanding how the music makes me feel.
Right here I would usually describe my interest in skateboarding and breakdancing but to be honest, I hardly do either anymore. I skateboard like, once in a blue moon and I only do toprocks with breakdancing now so its like ughh. I really hate to label myself as stuff like that nowadays because its not really me.
Speaking of changing myself, thats one of the things I'm going to do to myself. To be honest, even though on the outside I may seem like a pretty good person, I'm not. I don't really think I have a heart haha. But I will grow one and my old self is going to fade away into the past. I'm literally going to be throwing my old self into the fire in the upcoming days so hopefully I can do this.
So hi guys, my name is Sean Galen Harris. Yep, thats my full name. I have no idea why or how my parents gave me my first and middle name, but to be honest I don't like either of them haha. I guess my first name is pretty cool cause its unique, but alot of people either can't spell it right or they mispronounce it when reading. Far too many teachers have said 'Is Seen here in class today? Seen?". Ughh its one of those *facepalm* moments for me. Does anyone else have any problems with people screwing up their names? I know theres some people out there with far worse names than me.
Well right now I'm currently age 20, and my birthday is October 19, 1988. So I'm almost there to 21. Once I actually get to that age, I basically have no more birthdays to look forward to. Its as if my life ends when I get to that age. I'm just gonna keep on getting older as the seconds tick by, so I might as well get as much done as possible now while I can. I think thats the reason why I fill up my life with so much. I want to be as busy as possible, because for me, being busy is a sign that I'm actually doing something with my life.
So right now I'm a Criminal Justice major at CSUEB. Yeah I don't really know what I'm doing with that major. I originally was a Biology major and I was gonna do forensics, but then I hit all of those really hard chemistry classes and I switched my major because I knew I couldn't pass them. So right now i'm looking into criminal justice because I still want to be involved in putting away criminals and/or rehabilitating them. I guess it'd just be my way of giving back to society.
So right now the main thing in my life is probably Alpha Phi Omega, my beloved fraternity. Even though it has its ups and downs, its still one of the best things to ever happen to me. Right now I'm currently 1/2 VP of Fellowships, which basically means I get to plan all of the fun stuff. Ive met so many new people and I know some of them are going to be friends for life. Another cool thing about it is that theres chapters at almost all the schools around here, so I can go to any school around here and immediately know people. I love meeting people from other chapters because they're super awesome!.I have the time of my life when I'm with people from other chapters. I realize that even though my own chapter needs some help right now, I want to focus on building the bonds between our chapter and other chapters, because to me thats a good way to help rebuild our own chapter.
Music is another one of the huge things in my life. it effects me to the point that a good song can brighten up my day. I also play a myriad of instruments, mainly guitar and bass though. I'm pretty shitty at guitar compared to some people i know, but then again I'm not the worst one out of the bunch so I don't really care. I really do love music though; I see it as a reflection of how the artists was feeling at the time. Even if i don't undersatnd the lyrics to the music, I can still udnerstand the meaning to it by understanding how the music makes me feel.
Right here I would usually describe my interest in skateboarding and breakdancing but to be honest, I hardly do either anymore. I skateboard like, once in a blue moon and I only do toprocks with breakdancing now so its like ughh. I really hate to label myself as stuff like that nowadays because its not really me.
Speaking of changing myself, thats one of the things I'm going to do to myself. To be honest, even though on the outside I may seem like a pretty good person, I'm not. I don't really think I have a heart haha. But I will grow one and my old self is going to fade away into the past. I'm literally going to be throwing my old self into the fire in the upcoming days so hopefully I can do this.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Yet Another Weekend in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz is steadily turning into one of the places I visit most frequently. The city will always hold a special meaning to me, yet not for the reason many would think. My cousin Jeremy, who was the very first person in my immediate family to graduate from college, graduated from UCSC. My cousin is the biggest hero in my life, basically because of how well he speaks and how well he brings people together. Whenever I visit Santa Cruz, I always think of my cousin and I wonder how he's doing all the way on the other side of the country and I get to reminisce about my family. This is what I usually think about when I'm driving to Santa Cruz, so whenever I go there I always arrive with a sense of confidence because thats the feeling that my cousin evokes from my soul.
I arrived in Santa Cruz pretty late that night, and we all ended up playing video games till pretty late that night. I wanted to get a good nights sleep because the next day was a pretty important day for me. I was to head over to the UCSC campus and meet up with the chapter of AphiO there and help them out by adopting one of them as a little sib. Their chapter is rechartering and they needed big sibs for their members, so I decided I should go out and help them since I was going to be in Santa Cruz that weekend anyways.
Their event was really fun, albeit a bit disorganized at first. I had a great time finally meeting alot of the UCSC people, because I really hadn't met any of them during other IC events so this was really a great friending experience for me. I met practially everyone in their chapter that day, as well as making new friends from other chapters as well. I made some new friends from University of Pacific which was super cool because I didn't know anyone at all there. Now I can go to both UCSC's meetings and AAXI's meetings and not have it be awkward since I'd actually know people. I'm also really happy with the little sib that I got. He seems really cool and enthusiastic about everything so yeah its all going to work out just fine!
Even though that Saturday already seemed pretty full with the whole BSR, it still wasn't done. When I got back to my friends place, we drove all the way back to San Jose to go hang out at one of the malls over there. Even though they told me the name of the mall about 3 times, I still fail to remember the name of it but it was a pretty huge and nice mall. We were supposed to go eat at the Cheesecake Factory there, but the wait for it was too long so we decided to go to CPK instead. The pizza there is insanely good, even by my standards. I used to work in a pizza shop so my standards for a good pizza are pretty high, but CPK almost always hits that good spot in my stomach.
After that we went on a sort of driving adventure around San Jose. We drove into the place called Santana Row which I immediately recognized as the place Sara, Daisy, and Gisselle dragged me along to just for their frozen yogurt. I hated going to this place at first because I felt so out of place. Everyone walking down the street looked like they were worth a couple hundred thousand dollars more than I did, and even just driving down there this time was pretty disheartening because of some of the cars I saw parked on the sidewalk. I hate seeing people with cars that are worth more than I'll ever make in my lifetime because its just discouraging. I know that I'm supposed to be confident and I'm supposed to aim for whatever I want to, but I'm also a realistic person and I know that just like the stars I always dream of when im stressed, some things will always be out of reach.
The next day turned out to be pretty eventful as well even though we didn't have much at all planned. We originally planned to go to Costco early in the day so we could get some free samples there for lunch, but I guess I woke up too late and we didnt get to go there early. We actually got there at around 3, but to my surprise there were still alot of free samples out! Too bad there wern't that many good ones. Costco's free samples are the one and only reason I love going there, because its a free meal and thats something you can't pass up. They should just give every single homeless person a Costco card. They could just go there and get the free samples when they're hungry. Solves everyones problems.
After Costco and a brief attempt at skateboarding, we headed off to the Boardwalk to go meet up with some friends and we basically just hung out there in the arcade for a little while. We then went to downtown Santa Cruz and walked around the shops there. I don't really remember much of what happened there because I was too focused on trying to stay warm since I forgot to bring a sweater. I just remember somehow ending up with Denny's with this super nice lady as our waitress and having a great meal there. Eventually the night came to a close and I ended up driving back to Hayward. The drive back was exciting because I finally decided to see the capabilities of my car. There was a long straightaway where I was the only one on the freeway, so I decided to just floor it and see what happened. I ended up hitting about 120 before I caught up to traffic. Its weird how when you're going that speed, it doesn't really seem fast but the sound of the road and the engine tell you otherwise. Also, if you slow down to 100, it seems incredibly slow, when normally its way to fast to even fathom.
In all, this weekend turned out to be everything I had hoped for. Thank you to all you Santa Cruz people for always putting a smile on my face. (and for pretty much being my 3rd home haha)
I arrived in Santa Cruz pretty late that night, and we all ended up playing video games till pretty late that night. I wanted to get a good nights sleep because the next day was a pretty important day for me. I was to head over to the UCSC campus and meet up with the chapter of AphiO there and help them out by adopting one of them as a little sib. Their chapter is rechartering and they needed big sibs for their members, so I decided I should go out and help them since I was going to be in Santa Cruz that weekend anyways.
Their event was really fun, albeit a bit disorganized at first. I had a great time finally meeting alot of the UCSC people, because I really hadn't met any of them during other IC events so this was really a great friending experience for me. I met practially everyone in their chapter that day, as well as making new friends from other chapters as well. I made some new friends from University of Pacific which was super cool because I didn't know anyone at all there. Now I can go to both UCSC's meetings and AAXI's meetings and not have it be awkward since I'd actually know people. I'm also really happy with the little sib that I got. He seems really cool and enthusiastic about everything so yeah its all going to work out just fine!
Even though that Saturday already seemed pretty full with the whole BSR, it still wasn't done. When I got back to my friends place, we drove all the way back to San Jose to go hang out at one of the malls over there. Even though they told me the name of the mall about 3 times, I still fail to remember the name of it but it was a pretty huge and nice mall. We were supposed to go eat at the Cheesecake Factory there, but the wait for it was too long so we decided to go to CPK instead. The pizza there is insanely good, even by my standards. I used to work in a pizza shop so my standards for a good pizza are pretty high, but CPK almost always hits that good spot in my stomach.
After that we went on a sort of driving adventure around San Jose. We drove into the place called Santana Row which I immediately recognized as the place Sara, Daisy, and Gisselle dragged me along to just for their frozen yogurt. I hated going to this place at first because I felt so out of place. Everyone walking down the street looked like they were worth a couple hundred thousand dollars more than I did, and even just driving down there this time was pretty disheartening because of some of the cars I saw parked on the sidewalk. I hate seeing people with cars that are worth more than I'll ever make in my lifetime because its just discouraging. I know that I'm supposed to be confident and I'm supposed to aim for whatever I want to, but I'm also a realistic person and I know that just like the stars I always dream of when im stressed, some things will always be out of reach.
The next day turned out to be pretty eventful as well even though we didn't have much at all planned. We originally planned to go to Costco early in the day so we could get some free samples there for lunch, but I guess I woke up too late and we didnt get to go there early. We actually got there at around 3, but to my surprise there were still alot of free samples out! Too bad there wern't that many good ones. Costco's free samples are the one and only reason I love going there, because its a free meal and thats something you can't pass up. They should just give every single homeless person a Costco card. They could just go there and get the free samples when they're hungry. Solves everyones problems.
After Costco and a brief attempt at skateboarding, we headed off to the Boardwalk to go meet up with some friends and we basically just hung out there in the arcade for a little while. We then went to downtown Santa Cruz and walked around the shops there. I don't really remember much of what happened there because I was too focused on trying to stay warm since I forgot to bring a sweater. I just remember somehow ending up with Denny's with this super nice lady as our waitress and having a great meal there. Eventually the night came to a close and I ended up driving back to Hayward. The drive back was exciting because I finally decided to see the capabilities of my car. There was a long straightaway where I was the only one on the freeway, so I decided to just floor it and see what happened. I ended up hitting about 120 before I caught up to traffic. Its weird how when you're going that speed, it doesn't really seem fast but the sound of the road and the engine tell you otherwise. Also, if you slow down to 100, it seems incredibly slow, when normally its way to fast to even fathom.
In all, this weekend turned out to be everything I had hoped for. Thank you to all you Santa Cruz people for always putting a smile on my face. (and for pretty much being my 3rd home haha)
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Jamba Juice's Secret Menu
So, because of my last post, a few of you guys wanted me to post up the menu that I have so that they can try out the drinks themselves, so here ya go.
Jamba Juice Secret Menu
Legend
*Name of Drink*
Base Drink Needed
Contents of Drink
*Fruity Pebbles*
Orange Dream base
NO-OJ
NO-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
Extra-Strawberries
*Skittles*
Pink Star base
NO-Frozen Yougurt
SUB-Lime Sherbet
*Sour Patch Kids*
White Gummi base
NO-Peach Juice
No-Soymilk
NO-Mangos
SUB-RTU Lemondage
SUB-Blueberries
*Red Gummi*
White Gummi base
NO-Peach Juice
NO-Mangos
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Strawberries
*Blue Gummi*
White Gummi base
NO-Peach Juice
NO-Mangos
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-Blueberries
*Green Gummi*
White Gummi base
EXTRA - Matcha Green Tea
*Chocolate Gummi*
White Gummi base
LIGHT - Peach Juice
SUB - Chocolate Base
*Sour Apple*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
LIGHT-RTU Lemonade
NO-Strawberries
NO-Peaches
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-Lime Sherbet
Extra-Matcha Green Tea
*Capri Sun*
Orchard Oasis base
LIGHT-Peach Juice
NO-Banana's
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-Strawberries
*Strawberry Daiquiri*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
NO-Peaches
LIGHT-RTU Lemonade
LIGHT-Lime Sherbet
SUB-Soymilk
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Strawberries
*Raspberry Dream*
Orange Dream base
NO-Orange Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
*Lime Dream*
Orange Dream base
NO-Orange Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-RTU Lemonade
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
*Pineapple Dream*
Orange Dream base
NO-Orange Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Pineapple Juice
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
*Neopolitan*
Chocolate Moo'd base
EXTRA-Strawberries
*Blutopia*
Strawberry Dream'n base
LIGHT-Soymilk
NO-Strawberries
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Blueberries
*Pacific Passion*
Caribbean Passion base
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
*Tropical Skittles*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
LIGHT-Lime Sherbet
NO-Strawberries
SUB-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Raspberries
SUB-Mangos
*Raspberry Mamba*
Razzmatazz base
NO-Orange Sherbet
NO-Banana's
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
EXTRA-Strawberries
*Airhead*
Peach Pleasure base
LIGHT-Peach Juice
NO-Peaches
LIGHT-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
SUB-Mangos
SUB-Strawberries
*Warhead*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
NO-Lime Sherbet
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
*Thank You, Jesus*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
NO-Peaches
LIGHT-RTU Lemonade
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Soymilk
*Summer Sweetness*
Caribbean Passion base
NO-Orange Sherbet
LIGHT-Passion Juice
LIGHT-Strawberries
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
SUB-NFC Orange Juice
SUB-Mangos
*Chocolate Scream Machine*
Chocolate Moo'd base
LIGHT-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Orange Sherbet
*PB&J*
Peanut Butter Moo'd base
NO-Bananas
SUB-Strawberries or Blueberries
*Tootsie Pop*
White Gummi base
NO-Peach Juice
NO-Mangos
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Strawberries
Extra-Chocolate Base
*Butterfinger*
Peanut Butter Moo'd base
LIGHT-Chocolate Base
NO-Bananas
SUB-Carrot Juice
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
*Peaches N' Cream*
Peach Pleasure base
LIGHT-Peach Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
NO-Bananas
SUB-Soymilk
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
*Green Jolly Rancher*
Orange Dream base
NO-Orange Juice
NO-Soymilk
NO-Orange Sherbet
LIGHT-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-RTU Lemonade
SUB-Lime Sherbet
EXTRA-Matcha Green Tea
*Sunny Delight*
Orange Dream base
NO-Soymilk
NO-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-RTU Lemonade
SUB-Lime Sherbet
*Banana Cream Pie*
Orange Dream base
NO-NFC Orange Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Soymilk
SUB-Bananas
*Spring Break*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
LIGHT-RTU Lemonade (3 Times)
NO-Peaches
NO-Lime Sherbet
SUB-Pomegrante (3 Times)
SUB-Mangos
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
*Snozzberry*
Strawberries Wild base
NO-Frozen Yogurt
LIGHT-Strawberries
NO-Bananas
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Peachers
SUB-Mangos
*Screamin' Baby*
Peach Pleasure base
NO-Bananas
NO-Peaches
LIGHT-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Lime Sherbet
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Strawberries
Jamba Juice Secret Menu
Legend
*Name of Drink*
Base Drink Needed
Contents of Drink
*Fruity Pebbles*
Orange Dream base
NO-OJ
NO-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
Extra-Strawberries
*Skittles*
Pink Star base
NO-Frozen Yougurt
SUB-Lime Sherbet
*Sour Patch Kids*
White Gummi base
NO-Peach Juice
No-Soymilk
NO-Mangos
SUB-RTU Lemondage
SUB-Blueberries
*Red Gummi*
White Gummi base
NO-Peach Juice
NO-Mangos
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Strawberries
*Blue Gummi*
White Gummi base
NO-Peach Juice
NO-Mangos
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-Blueberries
*Green Gummi*
White Gummi base
EXTRA - Matcha Green Tea
*Chocolate Gummi*
White Gummi base
LIGHT - Peach Juice
SUB - Chocolate Base
*Sour Apple*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
LIGHT-RTU Lemonade
NO-Strawberries
NO-Peaches
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-Lime Sherbet
Extra-Matcha Green Tea
*Capri Sun*
Orchard Oasis base
LIGHT-Peach Juice
NO-Banana's
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-Strawberries
*Strawberry Daiquiri*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
NO-Peaches
LIGHT-RTU Lemonade
LIGHT-Lime Sherbet
SUB-Soymilk
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Strawberries
*Raspberry Dream*
Orange Dream base
NO-Orange Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
*Lime Dream*
Orange Dream base
NO-Orange Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-RTU Lemonade
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
*Pineapple Dream*
Orange Dream base
NO-Orange Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Pineapple Juice
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
*Neopolitan*
Chocolate Moo'd base
EXTRA-Strawberries
*Blutopia*
Strawberry Dream'n base
LIGHT-Soymilk
NO-Strawberries
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Blueberries
*Pacific Passion*
Caribbean Passion base
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
*Tropical Skittles*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
LIGHT-Lime Sherbet
NO-Strawberries
SUB-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Raspberries
SUB-Mangos
*Raspberry Mamba*
Razzmatazz base
NO-Orange Sherbet
NO-Banana's
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
EXTRA-Strawberries
*Airhead*
Peach Pleasure base
LIGHT-Peach Juice
NO-Peaches
LIGHT-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
SUB-Mangos
SUB-Strawberries
*Warhead*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
NO-Lime Sherbet
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
*Thank You, Jesus*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
NO-Peaches
LIGHT-RTU Lemonade
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Soymilk
*Summer Sweetness*
Caribbean Passion base
NO-Orange Sherbet
LIGHT-Passion Juice
LIGHT-Strawberries
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
SUB-NFC Orange Juice
SUB-Mangos
*Chocolate Scream Machine*
Chocolate Moo'd base
LIGHT-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Orange Sherbet
*PB&J*
Peanut Butter Moo'd base
NO-Bananas
SUB-Strawberries or Blueberries
*Tootsie Pop*
White Gummi base
NO-Peach Juice
NO-Mangos
SUB-Raspberry Juice
SUB-Strawberries
Extra-Chocolate Base
*Butterfinger*
Peanut Butter Moo'd base
LIGHT-Chocolate Base
NO-Bananas
SUB-Carrot Juice
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
*Peaches N' Cream*
Peach Pleasure base
LIGHT-Peach Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
NO-Bananas
SUB-Soymilk
SUB-Frozen Yogurt
*Green Jolly Rancher*
Orange Dream base
NO-Orange Juice
NO-Soymilk
NO-Orange Sherbet
LIGHT-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-Apple Juice
SUB-RTU Lemonade
SUB-Lime Sherbet
EXTRA-Matcha Green Tea
*Sunny Delight*
Orange Dream base
NO-Soymilk
NO-Frozen Yogurt
SUB-RTU Lemonade
SUB-Lime Sherbet
*Banana Cream Pie*
Orange Dream base
NO-NFC Orange Juice
NO-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Soymilk
SUB-Bananas
*Spring Break*
Strawberry Surf Rider base
LIGHT-RTU Lemonade (3 Times)
NO-Peaches
NO-Lime Sherbet
SUB-Pomegrante (3 Times)
SUB-Mangos
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
*Snozzberry*
Strawberries Wild base
NO-Frozen Yogurt
LIGHT-Strawberries
NO-Bananas
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Peachers
SUB-Mangos
*Screamin' Baby*
Peach Pleasure base
NO-Bananas
NO-Peaches
LIGHT-Orange Sherbet
SUB-Lime Sherbet
SUB-Pineapple Sherbet
SUB-Raspberry Sherbet
SUB-Strawberries
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Can you watch my stuff?
Have you ever been just sitting down, minding your own business, when all of a sudden a complete stranger walks up to you and asks you to watch your stuff while they go off and do a quick errand? This practice has always bothered me for many reasons, and now I have a sudden urge to turn this seemingly normal practice into a project.
First of all, I really can't stand it when complete strangers ask me to do this. There are so many problems that can arise! My main fear about this is that if I agree to watch someones stuff, they could take forever to get back and get their stuff. What if you want to leave and they still haven't come back yet? It just means that you're stuck there until they come back, so you gotta force yourself to look busy when in reality you just want to leave! And you gotta act really nice about it also when the person comes back because its just common courtesy. You can't be a super villian and ruin that persons day just because they ruined a small part of yours.
This really isn't the main thing that bothers me about looking after a persons stuff though. I get super bothered if someone other than the person gets their stuff. For example, lets say a young male asks you to watch their backpack. He goes away, and a little while later, a old female comes up and starts searching the backpack. I seriously don't like any of the next steps in this situation. Asking the person is very awkward to do, especially if the person seems as if they know what they're looking for! you can't assume that they're a friend, but you also can't assume that the person is an enemy! Its a lose lose situation!
Also, what if it really is someone trying to steal the person backpack? What are you going to do about it? I'm sure as hell not going to risk my well-being over some random persons belongings. You can only hope that the person taking the backpack is someone that knows the original owner, and if not, then you're in deep shit with the person that set you in charge of their belongings.
This all makes me wonder, to what extent will people go to protect another persons belongings? One of these days, I'm going to perform a experiment. I'm going to have a friend ask a stranger to watch their stuff, and after a little while I'm going to come up and start searching through their stuff. The goal of this is to see how certain people would react in this situation. What would you do? Would you ask me what I was doing or who I am, or would you completely ignore me and assume that I'm just a friend of the original owner? Would you get into a fight with me over the belongings of another person?
First of all, I really can't stand it when complete strangers ask me to do this. There are so many problems that can arise! My main fear about this is that if I agree to watch someones stuff, they could take forever to get back and get their stuff. What if you want to leave and they still haven't come back yet? It just means that you're stuck there until they come back, so you gotta force yourself to look busy when in reality you just want to leave! And you gotta act really nice about it also when the person comes back because its just common courtesy. You can't be a super villian and ruin that persons day just because they ruined a small part of yours.
This really isn't the main thing that bothers me about looking after a persons stuff though. I get super bothered if someone other than the person gets their stuff. For example, lets say a young male asks you to watch their backpack. He goes away, and a little while later, a old female comes up and starts searching the backpack. I seriously don't like any of the next steps in this situation. Asking the person is very awkward to do, especially if the person seems as if they know what they're looking for! you can't assume that they're a friend, but you also can't assume that the person is an enemy! Its a lose lose situation!
Also, what if it really is someone trying to steal the person backpack? What are you going to do about it? I'm sure as hell not going to risk my well-being over some random persons belongings. You can only hope that the person taking the backpack is someone that knows the original owner, and if not, then you're in deep shit with the person that set you in charge of their belongings.
This all makes me wonder, to what extent will people go to protect another persons belongings? One of these days, I'm going to perform a experiment. I'm going to have a friend ask a stranger to watch their stuff, and after a little while I'm going to come up and start searching through their stuff. The goal of this is to see how certain people would react in this situation. What would you do? Would you ask me what I was doing or who I am, or would you completely ignore me and assume that I'm just a friend of the original owner? Would you get into a fight with me over the belongings of another person?
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