RE) not sure what to think about gaming

when reading Ming's  post about how he likes to play viddeo games totally made me wonder and think if thats what my brother thinks about them all the time. he plays them like everyday, im pretty sure its just fun for him to play games that are like online and can talk and play with friends at the same time. which i admitt is pretty awesome thing to do.

"It's reasonable and understandable because none of parents would want to see their kids to play games so much and ignore other kinds of stuff that's important to them"

even though i dont really play video games at all anymore, i can totally relate to what he said becasue i see how my brother plays and how it affects his relationship with our parents especialy our mother. it kinda sucks because when ever they have little arguments about how much time he spends playing on his system i feel torn about who to back up. i isntantly want to be at my brothers side rootiing for him, but its hard to when i dont understand why he likes it so much and does it all the time. i used to think he had 'no life' becasue of it but i have now realized that the way he socializes is just different then the way i do. i can imagine though itsprobably a relife from stressful situtations, just kinda living in a different world momentarily. i think its pretty cool how hes just so good at every game he plays, he used to say he want to be a game tester and get paid to try out games for fifferent companies, let me tell you he would be awesome at that.
ive tried playing on a team with him in like some military/sharp shooter game, yeah i sucked long story short.

This is a hard issue to to try and work out because of the fact that the agriculture that is getting sprayed with the pedicel killer is very important to the way of life for many people. I feel like this is one of those things that can be easily turned into a vicious cycle because they need the food to grow. Its one way that makes sure that they can eat it and that it is worth selling, by using pesticides. I know that a lot of the produce that we buy at grocery stores have produce that are give hormones and have been sprayed with pesdices, because that’s what makes money, “good” looking food that doesn’t look like it has been touched by bugs or anything. I know here it’s hard enough to get produce that isn’t contaminated by chemicals or other things like that because that would make them organic and more expensive. Lots of people tend not to eat fruits and vegetables as much as they should and having to pay more the good actually healthy ones for you doesn’t help the decision to eat better. I’m pretty sure there are laws here in the US about pesdices, like only certain ones are allowed. I think. But it sucks that in India the chemical levels are so high and I’m sure it’s frustrating because there is little that people can do right away. Like most problems it seems, there isn’t a quick fix that can last and be beneficial.

(FR ) Blog Posts

For my free post im going to write about how I truely and honestly do  not like writing posts on blogger. Its not that I don’t like blogger its self, I just don’t like typing and writing. The first thing I thought of when mr. sutherland said that we have to write posts was, im not gona do them. It takes up way to much of my time I don’t like it I could be doing other things, like homework for other classes. I don’t like the curent events, that’s probably my least favorite out of the three types of weekly posts.
I don’t know how to why the curent events arent my favorite they just arent. Like most of the news thing dont have anything to do with something I, as a high school student in alameda, should be concerned with. like most of the time i have to froce myself to write 250 words on something i dont care about. i know that sounds horrible and ignorant, but i cant help it cause thats how i feel. I feel like writing three posts a week isnt helping my writing because its so unpersonal. It used to be teachers telling you and correcting your writing right next to you. The posts to me are uncessary and don’t help me learn. i havent noticed any changes because i dont like to write so the blog posts are more like a chore and after they are done i dont pay attention to them. why would you look back and try to analyze something you didnt even want to write in the first place.?
I also don’t think it’s a good idea for the teachers to have students post things online. It just seams like too big of a hasel to make instruction and make sure all of your students know what to do and keep tract of who is doing them and how to give grades for them. It takes for ever to read all the posts and even longer to reply to some of them. So much stress just over blog posts.

(CE) No pictures please

Al Jazeera: Us tries to block release of Bin Laden images

http://english.aljazeera.net//news/americas/2011/09/201192855011244268.html

Obama has decided that he doesn’t want to let the public see any of the pictures of Bin Laden’s death because it might cause problems with the national relations. From what I read in the article, I think that Obama really shouldn’t make any inconclusive decisions about what he thinks the public might think.

There is an Act that is called: Freedom of Information Act. This Act gives the public the right to know what’s going on in the world and has the right to see pictures about any event if willing to handle the news.

If everyone remembers on May 1, 2011, Osama Bin Laden was killed by a group of NAVY Seals in Pakistan in his compound. This event was something that really got everyone stirred up, because there are some people who were really happy, mostly the people who were really affected by the incident, and there were others who weren’t affected but they still were happy.

On the other hand, there are still some people who can’t believe he’s dead until they see pictures, which is where this article comes into play. I don’t think that Obama has any right to decide whether or not the public should or shouldn’t be allowed to see the pictures.  THERE’S AN ACT!

On one hand, Obama is trying to protect the security of his country and make sure that the national relationships they have will stay intact. On the other hand, there are many people all over the country who still feel that the only way they will really know he’s dead is when they finally see some proof (i.e. the pictures).

RIGHT?!

RE) i miss A's games

i got this from Lauren Gross's blog http://laurennrenee.blogspot.com/2011/09/free-as-game.html :

The game that night was Star Wars themed. I have no clue why. But, the mascot, Stomper was dressed up as Yoda, and there were Storm Troopers walking around the aisles. It was pretty funny.

I’m sad that I didn’t go to this game, my dad and brother went, and when I got home and found out I was jealous. It sounded really fun and I wish I could have gone. I think I’ve been to about 5 games this year I think and the first one was opening day and the second was for my birthday where we got a suit and watched the game from one of those rooms with those big windows. I love going to the A’s games even if they don’t win because it fun just being at the coliseum. In past years I would go to the games with just my dad because he would get off work early just in time for a 6 o’clock game. It was fun when we did that I would like to do that more because it was nice to hang out with my dad and just talk about things and pay hella money for diner lol. Its al apart of the experience of going to a baseball game.  I’ve never gone to the spring training for the A’s and I would really want to because I think they are in Arizona most of the time I’m not sure thought. I think it would just be a good excuse to go to Arizona and hangout with family. I would really like to go to an A’s game with my whole family here and have a bbq in the parking lo cause I haven’t done that with them in soo long.

free post) enrique!

His name was Enrique, he had a lively personality and much appreciated by all. He had very important duties in the summer and the spring, basically when it was nice out and people want to play, that’s when his job would start. During the night is when he would relax and have conversation with his coworkers about the day and gossip about who was cool or who was painfully obnoxious.

As the years went by he became more and more tired, worn out and dull. His coworkers were being replaced and new ones were hired and didn’t have the same things in common with Enrique as his older coworkers had. He began to get worked more and was taking more hours as normal. He started to get up there in years of age when he was transferred to a different facility.  By this point he was tired beyond belief. He began to get brittle and he knew that his time for being replaced was coming soon. Others were whispering when he would walk by, wondering why he hadn’t been replaced yet, maybe it was because it was too much time and paper work,?

Finally that day came and Enrique was let go, in his mind he thought the retirement home he was sent to was so bad it was basically a box. After awhile of being in there he pasted away but with an interesting twist, he had spent most of his time in the sun he acquired a rare disease that caused him to crack all over and turn a rusted color and turned a reddish dust.

biweekly post: essay rought draft #2

Over the summer I visited the island of Hawaii with my family. We were with some friends and, friends of friends that lived in a less touristy part of the island. This experience was important to me because it opened a whole new door to the way other people live. When you got to the house, first of all you couldn’t tell it was a house because it was small and hidden by the forest like agriculture and almost none existent mail box, there was a short dirty wet drive way that practically went through a tree. There was no cable, let alone t.v. with basic channels, no cell phone service, no safe tap water, thousands of bugs trying to eat you any time you were outside. I think it was important because it made me realize how good I have it where I live, and I take that for granted too much of the time. I got used to my surroundings later rather than sooner, I was just starting like this more simple way of living and then we had to leave, Hawaii definitely taught me how to appreciate nature, the style I live, and that with less isn’t necessarily a horrible thing.

I have more pride in myself after coming back from Hawaii, because I don’t feel as materialist as I used to be. While in Hawaii I learned to use my time for much more entertaining and enjoyable things that benefited me, such as swimming all day instead of sitting watching TV or face booking. I feel more rounded as a person since I got to go to Hawaii and meet people that have been living just as well as me but in a different life style, it was very inspirational.  It made me think that if everyone lived with less than it would be easier for people to feel better and be more proud about themselves and the way they live in an environmentally challenged world. It also makes me proud because not many people get to learn about different cultures by directly going and seeing what it’s like to be in the middle of it. It was amazing being around people that were so nice to everyone and polite, because I feel I honestly learned more ways to be patient and politeness from them.

This relates to the kind of person I am because I try to be polite to people I don’t know or haven’t known for that long. I like being thought of as ‘that nice girl’, because everyone is friends with her and I feel that being in Hawaii reassured me that being nice is definitely something I would be proud of. The other way this experience relates to me is that I can be pretty cautious about the earth I try not to use anything that can’t be recycled or composted, if everyone did more of those two things the world would be in a better shape, and I hope that in the future I can help speed up that process.