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Compare & Contrast

Maybe someone could help me out. I have to write an essay for my English course that I'm taking via correspondence. I've been given a few choices for topics which relate mostly to these suggested readings; or I can choose my own topic.

Any ideas?

Something with not so much research involved would be ideal. Obviously it has to be a compare & contrast essay if you haven't figured that part out yet.

I'm blank. I wanted to do 'vacationing' vs. 'backpacking' but the last essay I did was about how backpackers do laundry while on the road. I'm gonna think out loud... please jump in at any time.

power vs. authority? nah... too... intangible
mp3 players vs. stereo systems?
1970's Stevie Wonder vs. current day Stevie Wonder?
movie at home vs. movie at the theatres?
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On another note, I'm glad to say that what I just did above is the most homework I've done all weekend! Woohoo!

An odd mood.

Wednesday:

• Linguistics test on Morphology: 15%
• English group presentation comparing "O" to "Othello": 15% (Group rhymes with POOP!)
• Pyschology test on Stress, Child Development & Social Psychology: 20%

Just browsed through some of my archives... very loooong blog entries.

Just finished watching "The Sound of Music" for the first time in my life! All I can say is that the Hills are alive! The hills are alive! Not many people can believe that I, being the sentimental musical show enthusiast, have never seen this magnificent movie before. Yes, it's true, but no longer.

This is me procrastinating from doing anymore studying today. It's now 11:32pm on Sunday. 28 more minutes until Monday... yikes!

I love my Religion teacher. She stimulates my intellectual being. I crave to listen to her each morning. I feel as though I'm stocking her, I got butterflies talking to her during her office hours. She knows my name!

I wonder what Tamyra Gray has been doing?

Ok, study one more chapter, then off to bed. Goodnight.

It Don't Have to Change

Oh do you remember
When the family was everything?
Oh do you remember?
It was so long ago and so much has changed
I wanna go back
Wanna go back to those simple days
I wanna go back
But now we've grown and gone our separate ways

Times is hard
And things are a changin'
I pray to God
That we can remain the same
All I'm trying to say is our love don't have to change
No it don't have to change

Do you remember
Back at Grannie's house on Christmas Day?
Help me sing...
Do you remember
How we'd gather 'round and sing all day?
I wanna go back
To playing basketball and football games
I wanna go back
To yesterday but it's not the same

Times is hard
And things are a changin'
I pray to God
That we can remain the same
All I'm trying to say is our love don't have to change
No it don't have to change

- John Legend

Boy Behind Bars

This shot was taken at Olympic Plaza back in August during the Latino Festival.

All Saints Day

While we were all handing out candy to young kids dressed as goblins and princesses; people all throughout the Philippines were camping out at cemetaries in memorium for their loved ones who've passed on.

That's right, November 1st is offically called "All Saints Day" in the Philippines, a national holiday. Its much like our Rememberance Day, but with a unique twist. Almost everyone in the country will spend all day and all night by the grave sites of their dead relatives. People will bring chairs, sleeping bags, drinks, lots of food (Filipino's love to picnic), tents, playing cards, guitars, and almost anything else you can think of. Essentially its camping.

Some rich families will actually buy a plot of land at the cemetary and build their own little house or shelter which houses the grave. Some of the shelters are appart from the grave and meant only for the occasions when the family come to visit. They basically set up shop inside the shelter and sleep overnight, much classier than sleeping on the grass I suppose.



I've never attended this ritual, as my first time in the Philippines was just this past December-February, but I've heard stories. I guess there's praying and a lot of respect is paid. I think that the rest of the day is actually then spent celebrating their lives and socializing with the family that is still left behind.

I wish I could be there and join in. Spend the day with my Grandma (my Mom's aunt) who died in 2004 and my uncle who died in June. Not to mention my real Grandparents (my Mom's parents) AND my Great Grandparents! And of course all my living relatives who I bonded so closely with earlier this year.

Rest In Peace.