Picture of the Month #1

So I was at the book store BORDERS the other day, and while bored I wandered into the children's section to check out what books were now specially written for children. While walking around, I suddenly found this book (above). My first response was like "weird looking kid as cover....".... then I read the title and was like "WHOAA WTFF?!?!?!?!? IS THIS REAL??". What kind of outrageous government bull !@%^ propaganda is this!?!? So what do I do? I take my phone out and take a picture of this fecal substance. Just look at it, the title, which is considered to have a very lasting impression, reads ...."Books make me Happy". Now look at the picture of the kid himself portrayed in the picture. First of all, how high must have the artist who drew it been? He looks like a psycho-maniac ax murderer pedophile who escaped from a genetically altering asylum only to be handed books by a random author... taken a picture of ... and thrown on a book with a title of "Books make me Happy". Additionally, this book was placed on a special shelf, to draw more attention to customers. But what kind of impact would this book have on a kid innocently walking around the bookstore?

Kid: *walking around the bookstore*

Book: *sitting there on shelf*

Kid: "B-b-b books M-m-makes Me H-h-happy".....

Kid: BOOKS MAKE ME HAPPY!!!

Kid: *chants to himself*.... books make me happy.... books make me happy..... books make me happy....

*at school the next day*

Teacher: So kids, what makes you happ-

Kid: *finishing teacher's question blurts out* BOOKS MAKE ME HAPPY FOOOOOL!!!!

What makes it even more outrageous is the fact that on the shelf right above that book, theres a couple of books that ironically read "Wreck This Journal"..... Okay, so now I'm looking at a freak book that's titled "Books Make Me Happy"... only then to read the book above that reads "Wreck This Journal". Sooooo..... I'm happy enough about reading to shred what I just read into pieces? ..................

And this is what is being sold at bookstores near you! Thank You!

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"Society" Used In Context?

Ok, so I've been wondering deeply about something that's been on my mind for the past couple of days. The term "society". This term is ubiquitous in every form of paper or writing and speech to address synonyms of "this world", "our lives", etc. But like similiar terms, I find that using society in whatever context of our work seems strange and confusing. I am profoundly dazzled by the fact of how I, David Wei, am part of this "society" of what I and many people write about. Because if sombody was to write (or speak), let's say, a form of encouragement or persuasion. This somebody might use "Don't follow the ways of society! Follow your own heart!". Well unless this somebody was not of this world, the term "society" would also refer to them as well; hence concluding that this somebody is hypocritical in what they claim and say.
If not already baffling enough, another example may be if I was to boldly say "I hate how society is these days". Of course in clear conscious of what that meant, the statement is very normal and sincere. However, because I myself am part of this "society" that I speak of; I'm basically saying that : "I hate myself these days". Now I don't know about you reader, but the statements "I hate how society is these days" compared to "I hate myself these days" are completely different. Because one is speaking of a dislike toward the public, while the other is directed toward myself (or himself... whatever), all because of the literal usage of "society". In addition to this already mind blowing (personal opinion) realization, is that even if, lets say, I claim that I'm not part of this "society". Well if all of us who are writing of this "society" deny ourselves to be part of this "society", then who in freak are we referring "society" to be??? It's funny because lets says I am writing something about society, and a person I don't even know of is writing of a similar same thing. Then that means, we each are referring to each other as part of the "society" we write about, even though we ourselves deny to be part of it since we are the ones writing against it ("it" being not part of the "society" discussed). But then think about it, if I was to use the earlier statement "I hate how society is these days", then in normal terms, I'm practically trying to say that I am not satisfied with a particular thing people or "society" is doing. But then that very same statement will be twisted if say another person says or writes a similar thing, again referring you to be part of the "society" hated. It's then funny again, because in way, a person that you don't even know... hates you.....and you hate him...... even though yall (yes I used yall) are on similar terms referring to the "other people" that you both find hate to. Furthermore, the "other people" that yall now find a dislike to (even though yall are necessarily not on the same terms) may include people that to find a similar dislike to what yall are essentially disliking. But because of this perplexed usage of "society", everyone that is true and corresponding to each other in terms of opinions, are actually not. Resulting in a huge mess of people hating each other, while the initial disliked group of people that actualyl are the ones reffered to as "society" can be questioned to as if they are actually to or not to be disliked and hated.
Now that is what I go through on a normal basis..... call me a freak..... or insane. But in truth, if you actually think about it hard enough, all of that seems to make sense (at least to me), somehow. Well that's all I have for this time. Once again I'd like to thank those that read my blog. And this time, comment because I'm interested in what your opinions are. Because right now.... I feel like a complete psycho freak.


and btw, if you haven't noticed.... this blog is shorter than the one I claimed to be short... that turned out quite lengthy lol....

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Famous YouTuber's: SUCK

When you're at your computer and bored, what do you usually do? Maybe play some games? Or chat with some friends? Regardless, we all can admit that at one point or another, YouTube seems to be a consistent source of entertainment. With the endless amount (literally.... endless) of video comedy, drama, action, blogging, the possibilities of the preferable genre choices are substantial to satisfy any extremity of boredom. But in terms of the actual tendency to watch a certain video, it is possible to say that many of us tend to watch the one with the most stars or greatest amount of views. For example if you look up... how to grow wings and fly, and about a thousand plus videos show up, do you watch the video listed as number 3,813? Or do you prefer to glance over the top 5 videos, then select the one most appealing in terms of stars and viewers? Well the thing is, it's not our fault, the highly regarded videos are highly regarded for a reason; their simply more entertaining to watch compared to others. And as pursuers of fine entertainment, we eventually find ourselves watching them, whether we notice that trend or not. Most of the time, if a certain YouTuber made a video extremely appealing to you, then usually, his entire line of produced video will seem appealing to you. However, what I hate most is that the more famous a YouTuber gets, the more suck-ier the videos gets. And as a pursuer of fine entertainment, I loathe that fact. And that is what I will be talking about in this blog today.

I'm going to use one example that I find to be the epitome of this descending suckage of YouTubing skills: KevJumba. If you haven't watched any of his videos, it's quite funny and entertaining. He talks about facts in a way that makes you go LOL, and for that, I respect him as a YouTuber and as a human. But then, more people like me began to watch his videos and subscribe to his channel, and soon enough, he was regarded as a famous YouTuber. And from there on, his videos has been worser and worser by every click of his video editing. Earlier as a normal YouTuber and individual like you and me, his videos as a average high schooler appealed greatly to me simply because the things he talked about, and the prose in which he presented it. Now as a famous YouTuber not only has he completely lost track of the essence that originally made him famous, he's trying to conform to viewers and the YouTube society as the average "Video Blogger", which I hate. Because in sense, I watch the videos because of its austere and authentic humor, but now, he unnaturally tries to emphasis humor in a way that leaves you responding "eh" to the vast majority of his recent videos. However that is still not the major reason, as a famous YouTuber, KevJumba like many other famous YouTuber's now feel like it's their duty to appeal to the public as a humorous, nice, or witty character. But truthfully, the old rugged biasness and genuine humor is what appealed to me, far greater than what the person actually may be in character. Because once again as pursuers of fine entertainment, entertainment enacted through the performer is what we seek, not the performer itself.

Another side I have been noticing is the fact that when a YouTuber begins to become well known in the YouTube society; they either create a separate and new channel to document the more "realistic and natural" side of their lives, or a channel raising money for "charity" by the view or donation. For example a famous YouTube group Smosh has created a new channel IanH to document their more personal life. Although it may sound strange, and question "David why would they create a new channel to document their natural life when their original YouTube channel was already their natural life?" It all comes clear when you find out, that their "original" channel now has a set of directors and producers, and audio engineers, and prop artists....... WTF would a YouTuber need such high level of performing when what essentially made them famous was the unpolished, almost pristine nature of their normal and average life? Or furthermore, WTF would you need script, specially written by a screenwriter in your videos.......??? I want to hear your dialogging, your thoughts and humorous insights, not the frikin screenwriter's..... Now talking about the second choice of famous bloggers, YouTuber's like that of KevJumba have created a separate YouTube channel to raise money (JumbaFund).... simply because he knows that people would ignorantly watch a thing, because he is famous, and was funny. And sooner or later, those famous YouTuber's completely ignore their old channels, simply because now you have one with a flow of income, I mean "charity money". It peeves me, that such great YouTuber's with such limitless potential all seem to end up in the same pile of horse poop. It'll be like me if this blog was to become super-ultra famous one day (highly not likely), and soon because it was that famous.... it wasn't even me writing anymore.... just me pressing "publish post"......

To end blog today, I would like to thank those that manage to read all the way to this sentence. It means a lot to me when people are reading my work (perhaps commenting.... no pressure). Because then I know that I'm not insane when I know that I'm not the only person reading this blog.....Which is a good thing. I recently added a subscribe thing so that if you follow my blog and subscribe, you now get an email when something new comes out... yea! And to remind you all again.... please feed the fish at the bottom of the page!!!!!!!

Keep'N Things Short

Okay..... If you haven't noticed the title, I'm going to keep blog fairly short today, which may or many not be a good thing. Anyways (anyways = favorite word/transition), I've been noticing the practice of becoming vegetarian quite frequent among schoolmates and fellow peers. I don't understand why people would suddenly choose to stop eating delicious meat (AKA the Blood of Man, AKA the Holy Grail, AKA Man's Best Friend, AKA the AKA.....) after eating meat enjoyably for many years. I would ask them, "so do you like to eat a nice juicy, well flavored, seasoned steak?" And they would be like, "yeaaa but it's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo wrong to kill cows..........". Of course they didn't say it like that, but roughly reworded similar to that. And I thought to myself, first of all, your not a Muslim or something, so   how could you possibly be so ignorant as to miss out on the world's best choice of food? Second of all, what will you replace beautiful, glorious meat for? Beans? Tofu? Grass? Store- bought grass? Organic grass? Backyard grass? Third-ly, what do you think cows were made for!?!?!? To look at as a beautiful animal (like a unicorn) or to raise as a pet? No, cows were made for one thing, and one thing only. To be killed, smoked, roasted, grilled, baked, and barbecued into something that goes into the hole on your face that contains teeth.  And lastly, you need meat in your life whether you care to acknowledge that or not. For example, have you seen the first Twilight movie (don't judge me just because I watched the Twilight movie)? Remember that one part where that freak vampire Edward said something like "it's sorta like eating meat, you can be vegetarian, but you feel like you're missing something". Well, if you haven't seen the movie, he's human-blood-atarian, which means that he basically eats meat that doesn't contain human blood.... cuz he's a vampire.... So instead, he eats deers................ But that's not the point, the point is that can you see what it did to him to not eat what he truly needs and desires? He, or it, turns into a human figurine of sparkling diamonds when he's in the sun, and pale and skinny snowman looking when he's not. I truly believe that the people who wrote and directed the movie implemented this as symbolism directed at the foolish people out there blindly choosing to be vegan.

Meat is amazing. Period. Think of all the delicious, savoring dishes that contain meat. Yea, they all contain meat, and if they don't, then it's not food but rather "nutritious supplements". Sure people can be all like "eating meat does this or that to you", or "eating meat can help you become this or that". And for the sake of this blog, I went to Google and searched why be vegan? The third website listed quotes these as a reason;  

From the website: http://library.thinkquest.org/20922/why_vegan.htm (#3 posted on Google)

"Weight loss, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, less use of medication, avoiding surgery, and feeling and looking great are some of the many health benefits" - Ignorant Vegan Noob

First of all, becoming a vegan doesn't mean that you suddenly become super slim and healthy. No, it means that you're not eating meat, cuz your a sad lonely vegan. If you wanted to "lower cholesterol and blood pressure, less use of medication, avoiding surgery, and feeling and looking great", it may be something mind blowing, but it's a very very very special program called Eat-Less-And-Work-Out. Becoming a vegan will not help you if you're still eating a lot, instead it will further deprive you of you crave, making you more fat and unhealthy.

If you're a vegan and reading this, PLEASE DO NOT BE OFFENDED. I'm just trying to help you. Trying to put you on the right path of life. Essentially, trying to help your life, become happier and more fruitful. And lastly, thank you for reading this blog!...................... and be sure to feed the fish at the very bottom of the page. They to are hungry.

Don't Be a Jerk Doctor Please

To those few people that actually read this blog, I am going to be honest; I almost forgot that I had a blog until two days ago, which from there on I just got too lazy to write.

Anyways, a few days ago I went to visit my dermatologist to deal with the medical condition commonly known as pimples (I prefer to use the denotation pimples instead of acne, because acne simply just sounds gross. “Acne”, it sounds similar to a Russian name, like Youzhev Acne…….. er something). To this very day, I don’t truly know why God allowed such pestering things to develop and grow on the faces of innocent, beautiful teens all around the world. Maybe God didn’t allow this to happen? Since God is a God of love, and since a loving and caring God would not like to see disrupt and unease in his creation… maybe, just maybe… pimples are the creation of the devil, unknown to the presence of God. But what would have been the reason for the devil to create such a disastrous thing? Maybe… it was because Mr. Satan himself had it as a “minor defect from imperfection” as a child. Or maybe, pimples are a symbol to remind us of the fight against the forces of evil.... by buying cleansers and medical supplements to rid of such things, again symbolizing the need of a religion denomination. However, this blog post is not about pimples, nor the theological history of pimples in my own perspective. Instead, it is about the dermatologist himself… dun dun dun!!!

If you’ve never been to a dermatologist, it’s very similar to a normal doctor’s check-up. You drive to the hospital or clinic, sign in, wait, get called in, wait some more, keep waiting until the doctor comes, nurse comes in to tell you “the doctor will be here momentarily”, doctor does not come “momentarily”, wait some more… and as soon as you decide to lay down for a small nap on their little bed thing; the doctor comes in. But when my so called doctor came in, I noticed something on his name tag that questioned me. It read “Nurse Practitioner” instead of the usual “Md., PhD, etc.” meaning that this “doctor” I had paid money for was a nurse. Wait, not a nurse, a “Nurse Practitioner”. So I thought “It’s all cool, calm down, he’s got the skills to provide the right pills yo, no worries”. But instead of acting like a “Nurse Practitioner” should, he acted as if he was the doctor, as if he went through the 10 plus years of hell in medical school…. Since this was a dermatologist focusing on the face, you would suspect a “professional” to actually diagnose you, according to your face. But no, he didn’t even look at my face, but rather at the plastic clipboard made from China which he mistakenly took as my face. He would be like “mhm… yes. Ok. Oh?... I see. Mhm”, while I would be sitting on the chair looking at the clipboard replacing what used to be his face, before the prestigious level of “Nurse Practitioner” was heavenly bestowed upon him. In the end, I got what I needed. End of story. While the actual knowledge of the “Nurse Practitioner” may have been sufficient in diagnosing my minor pimple condition, I still would have appreciated it if his outwardly pose would have been more caring. Moral of the story; if you’re a kid or college student aspiring to become a doctor whether forced by tyrannical parents or because of the stable career it provides... Take note that when becoming a licensed doctor of any field, please care to at least seem interested in your patient’s problem. It means a lot to the patient if you don’t treat him like a toy you get from a McDonald’s happy meal.

Now if you’re actually a doctor because you TRULY want to help people regardless the influence of society… actually I will talk about this next time =]. As for this blog, thanks for reading! And if would like to comment… DON’T!!!!!! Just kidding, feel free to comment. Actually I hate having to say stuff like “feel free to comment… yea!” because it makes it feel as if I’m begging you to read this stuff and respond. Or like those people that spam “Read my blog, and be sure to comment!” on Facebook every few hours. No with me, if you feel like you just want to unleash the verbal rhetoric of emotions dwelling deep inside you about my blog, do it. I find all comments whether positive nor negative, satisfying, in a strange way...