Things I miss about my childhood

Tamagotchi
I remember the phase when everybody had one of these.
Everyone would walk around and face the red beams at each other.
Now, apparently, they can barely fit in your palm. 

Moon Boots.
I don't know why. But these shoes were actually in style at one point.
So many young girls would wear them.
The boots were 3x their legs. 

Cardboard Robots.
This is a memory that probably only pertains to me.
Considering I'm an only child,  I had to find ways to entertain myself when I was bored.
I really liked to make creative things and so, cardboard robots, I found, were fun to make.

Mr. Sketch Scented Markers
My dad would get me these almost every month.
They smelled amazing. Each color smelled of a different fruit.
Still find them lying around my house sometimes.

Ring Pops. 
Ring pops, along with Baby Bottle Pops, were raging in the market at one point.
As kids, a lot of us would "propose" to each other with them.
Most portable/convenient candy ever. 

The Wild Thornberries.
Finally, this one is definitely the most missed.
The Wild Thornberries was on every single day on nickelodeon and it was my absolute favorite show.
After it stopped running, The Wild Thornberies movie came out and then the Rugrats crossover.
But, the show never came back, regardless of its popularity.

Mama Says

She wakes up singing
Like a bird, she whistles until the cheek skin chafes
And she rises with the palpitating sun
Falls back with the lullabies of the moon
The melodies pumping inside her head
Racing, racing, racing--
Mama says, she turns her lights out with the voices of the comets

Rock and Roll Queen - The Subways

If only this song didn't have screamo...

Like Crazy - Official Trailer [HD]

Frida blogged this.
Felt like it was worth blogging as well.

God

So I've been studying philosophy for my upcoming exams next week and reviewing philosophy of religion has really stirred old emotions towards the topic. Let me just start off by saying that it was probably one of my favorite units that I've ever studied, regardless of the subject. I've never really been one to follow religion. However, studying this in class made me realize a lot of things. Firstly, I realized what my idea of God really is. And secondly, I've realized what I fear. 

Freud described the concept of god by using children as examples. As small infants, we believed that our parents were all powerful and we felt helpless in front of them. We didn't really know what was right from wrong and thus, we relied on them to guide us. I guess, that my concept of god is somewhat the same. When I was younger, they were my version of god. I really expected them to show me all the routes to take. Now that I am older, they have not really outgrown or should I say, I--have not really outgrown the idea of them being god to me. They are still the people that I accomplish things for and who I turn to for guidance. Yet, it would be naïve of me to say that they are all I will work for in life. I'd like to believe that there is something out there or "up" there if I were to be cliché that is bigger, greater, stronger than us. Everyday I see small children wearing torn up clothes and old men and women that are laying on the streets with their eyes barely open begging for just a coin to get them through the day. There has to be something better than all of this, there has to be something better than what this world is. I'm not saying that I believe in a god, but I believe in what people define to be god--"perfection." I guess I believe in perfection. I believe that perhaps there is something grander that guides us and for me, that is the idea of perfection. Without perfection, I don't think I could actually wake up every morning and do what I do everyday, it simply gives me strength. God, in my opinion, is not some kind of giant human or a supernatural being that is standing over our shoulders granting us our wishes and watching over us. God is simply a concept. For me, God is not perfection, Perfection is God. 

Now, the second part that we studied in the religion unit was the problem of evil. The problem of evil is that it ultimately contradicts what monotheistic religions make out god to be. He is defined as some supernatural being that is all mighty, all benevolent, all well--perfect. The problem with evil is that it completely goes against that. If god created this world, then did he implant this evil too? Why would he do that? But, if there is evil in this world and god is meant to have created a purely perfect world, then does he not exist? Does he just not care enough? I, personally don't care about god and the evil in this world, whatever. I think that we just defined good and evil wrong. I think that for perfection to exist, there must be imperfection as well. Now, what I've realized that I fear is that there is nothing good out there. I want to see if there's something better than what I witness every single day. If god, or at least my definition of god, doesn't exist, then what am I striving for everyday?

Graduation of 2012

So, yesterday I went to the graduation of the 2012 class (one more year till I graduate!!). The student speaker was someone that seemed so together as a person. She had developed two sides: her humorous one and her purely mature and sensitive one. One of the things that stood out to me in her speech was about success. (I recorded it on my camera)

"But, I do hope that these are some of the most important years of your life. These past four years have helped us become more mature. They have helped us decide who we are and helped us decide who we want to be. And as a result, we leave UNIS different, older, and wiser people then we once were. And if there is one thing UNIS has taught me, it is how to measure success. Success is not measured by how much money you have or how many cars you collect, or anything like that. There are some people in this world that have all those things and still wake up in the morning wondering if their lives are worth living. Success is when you wake up every day happy."