Symbols

A symbol, a name or a object that represents a specific meaning. There are lots of symbols all over the world. A logo, a flag, a brand, or a native american spirit animal. Symbols can be both natrually agreed on or maybe someone presents the idea and people sort of agree and give in to it. When you look at how the symbols of the native americans. The wolf and eagle represents diffrent spirits and people carry them as symbols. They were presented by elders can over a period of time, people agreed on and know each animal's aymbol out of the top of their head. A logo or a flag is also a form of symbol. They were created by someone and used to represent themselves. People creates some logo at will by making a company or establish something that says" Hey! this is us, look at our picture that represents us!" there are also natural symbol that occurs around. I'm a perfect example of a symbol. People in school calls me brocolli because they just thought of me when they look at the brocolli. This idea was started by one person sudden;y adn everybody agreed on it.

Welcome Back!

I had a fantastic weekend, the trip in japan, a whole week of going out, and a even week of games. My trip to Japan was epically fun and hilarious. Derek had a 6 stitches and eddy broke his arm. I advance to intermediate skill in snowboarding in a day. Snowboarding was so fun, with the soft and melty snow in Japan is something that i have never felt before. The snow i used to ski in are hard carving snow. With the soft snow in Japan, snowboarding feels like surfing as the snow flies all around you when you carve. The restaurants inside the hotel was also fantastic. Everyday we could eat something diffrent and a extreme quantity and quality. The lunch ramen and tempura was also fantastic. After te trip in Japan, i went back to taiwan for a week of games and computer. It was games and some homework to work on then nothing else. The second week, i met with some old friends from America and we went to a china spicy shabu shabu. It was pretty good meat, but expensive. At the last day of 2010, i met up with Alex and a whole bunch of other people to shopping. We split up in the end and watched a movie. After knowing they are going to 101 i decided to go back home, didn't feel like squeezing with them in the crowd. I watched 3 movie over the break, due date, the tourist, and tron. It was one of my best winter break, and wish it was longer.

Love?

For Christopher, he have a very wierd sense when it comes to love. He couldn't read emotions, doesn't allow people to touch him. I believe that his dad lvoes him with communication. He communicate with him throught talking and care for him. Despite all the wierd habits that Christopher have, his father regard all of that and follow all the rules of Christopher and what he likes.
For me, i don;t have a specifric definetion for love. I believe communication too, i like someone who can screw around with me, talk to me alot of times and be there for me. I'm diffrent from Christopher, i like to be touched. It gives me a sense of comfort and belonging when i'm touched, a pad on the shoulder, a hug or anything. Looks matter to me alot, but i would pick someone that is fun and active over someone who is quiet. Talkative women never occur to be a problem to me, my moments of silence are quite little.

A World With No People

No, i have never dreamed about leaving alone in the world, it would one hell of a fcking disaster, honestly. I have to ahve friends, i have no life if i have no friends that love me. If i were to live alone i might as well kill mysellf and die. First, you will not have electircity, no entertaiment, no fantastic food such as a well cooked meal from the best restaurant. Instead, you will be eating instant noodle for the next 2 to 5 yeaars. All the things that are inside the frig will run out of power and the food expiration days have the longest of 5 years. After that, you're screwed. Leaving alone never occur to me, i would only imagine myself being stranded with someone alone. Such as being stranded on a island with the person i love, being alone means we'll be together for long and possibly love could sprout out. That's what my dreams are ususlly about. i would also imagine myself being trapped with my enemy in a deserted palce and no one would come. I could beat him, pee on him, humiliate him, and possibly even beat him to death if i want. No consequences will be made to me when i can be with my enemy alone. I believe the kind of alone that i would like is refer as time stopping. The power when you can stop time for any amount of time you feell like and want. Do whatever you like during that time, steal some drinks, eat in a dinner without paying, and even slap your boss and he wouldn't know.

Each Other’s Business

In the passage Eboo Patell wrote, he talked about racial and religion judgements. Using the Norman painging that he gave, it talked about people from diffrent goups facing the same god. They live in peace a harmony around each other. We are all in this together, we have to work together and live together. After looking at the work, i feel a sense of harmony and united feature from the painting. From the poem, it also discuss about people standing together. From both sources the Eboo Patell provide and believes are true and i strongly supports it. The idea of stadning together over a universal belief of the same god should be in all people's heart. I don't think god would like to watch us kill each other for fighting who was worshipping the right one.

Self-Definition

If i have to define myself in one word, i would describe myself in the word curly. I used to hate that name because i wanted to look more like everyone else. However, as time pass on till now, i like the word curly as it suits my personality and look. If you would have walk around numerous school like i did, its really unusual for someone to have a afro like this nowadays and its espacially unique. Anyone can look at me once and remember me by my curly hair and name me something that is related to curly. I like the name as it also suits my personality. When having a curly hair, it really look a bit messy and hard to comb and organize it. I'm a unorganized person, but i still have the sense of responsibility. The messiness of my hair correspond to how i do things the way unorganized. With the unique look, i also dress diffrently from kids around my community when i'm around. I like to wear lots of rings and necklaces, this is quite uncommon to some students and i stand out even more. This further strenghten my word as curly, unique hairstyle, and a unique dressing. I think i am fine with both way as narrow or lots of names. When you have lots of names, it kinda symbolize you are universal, lots of people know you. When you have a narrow name like i have now, it like your symbol. It would only mean one thing when this word is called out and you will be the only one that turn back and say "what?"

Author’s Attitude

I believe that the author of Islam in America agrees and supports the Muslims living in America. Fromthe statistics and the examples that were given to the reader, it seems the author want to make clear of the religion and the people. The author seems to be me that his trying to make me feel ddiffrent about the muslims. Expressing the idea that they are also relugar people and some follow a strict code while some don't. However they are all regular kids that you could hang out with and understand them. When looking at this article, it made me remembered some of the people that i met in the summer, lot of them were friendly muslims while they follow a strict code of law. They do fastings, they wear proper clothing and say no bad words. They are really friendly, and i kind of miss them and the article made me further realize how muslims are not just wierd people or terroists. I think the author wrote this article after the 911 event probably a few month or year later. It was written to young people such as teenagers in high school to educate and open them into the world of muslins. To go and understand them and be friendly with them.