June 25, 2003
Phew, well, after some events, and some other events, some other unrelated events occurred. These are in some sort of order with the first occuring first.
I had to miss Asian Ball on Sunday, which sucked. But instead I was in Sac with my mum and her friends, I got to see a cool movie, and I got a nice dinner at Outback. So I guess the tradeoff was ok..., but it would have been nice to go to Asian Ball. The movie I saw at my mom's friend's house on the Digital Cable was "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing". I'm kinda sad 'cause I started watching as soon as I got there, but it was about half-way into the movie I think, I'm not sure. I'd definitely recommend it to most people. I guess I've been feeling somewhat out of sorts in terms of my mood and such, and after seeing that movie I've been feeling better. I could identify with a lot of the characters, and that along with a conversation I just had with a friend, I've been kinda reaffirmed of just what I feel is most important. More on that later.
Diana is sick with something, although she's not sure what. But she feels better after today. She apparently slept a lot, and my mum was kind enough to make her some Chinese corn soup of some sort, not really sure what it is, but yeah. It was nice.
My classes don't seem like they'll be really difficult, but I'll definitely have to work. My cumulative GPA is not very good right now, but I can deal with it. I'll have to get a lot of A's in the next few quarters to get myself to the 3.5 mark though, maybe I'll just shoot for 3.25 *_*. Math is the only class I'm really worried about. Symbolic Logic looks kinda boring to tell the truth. It's discussing, ummm.., well.., logic, and stuff. I don't think I'll have too much trouble..., logic comes sorta easily to me, so I should be ok.
I'm getting along better with my mum now. I more or less get the car whenever I want, I just need to pay gas. When it comes down to it, I can stay out as late as I want, but my mom makes requests of me, and I figure I should follow them because they're not unreasonable. She's paying my tuition, she's given me a car, she'll pay some for me to move out, and she's my mom. I guess it's my Chinese side, the whole filial piety thing. I've always kinda believed in that, and I still feel it's really important. Along with that, I feel bad about my grades, so I don't really want to piss her off -_-;, although that's only a small part of it. There's more to it I think, but I don't think it matters that much. Respect is important to me.
My brother got the latest Harry Potter book. I read about 20 pages at Diana's apartment, and it was ok. Harry spent something like 10-15 pages whining like a junior high schooler, it was rather annoying. But I suppose since Rowling is following them as they grow, it'd be weird if he didn't go through such a phase. I'm probably gonna read the whole book at some point, but I'm in no hurry. I'm re-reading the Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet. Good books, re-reading through the Tao of Pooh, I do have some problems with what he says, but all the same, I also identify a lot with other things he says. I'll have to find another book after these two go by, since they're going to go by really quickly.
Lastly, I think throughout the course of this week or so, I've reaffirmed several of my beliefs and discovered new beliefs I had.
- I find my own personal code of ethics is similar to Kant's, although in some cases I've committed acts I would consider wrong. Quite a few cases actually, so I don't know what that means really.
- I think people are inherently good. Without analyzing too much, you can understand the gist of what that means, but even I don't even know exactly what I mean when I say it. The two really confusing parts I suppose are the words, "inherently" and "good". Good, I suppose, can be replaced with "nice", "kind", or "altruistic" in this case. The former two more than the latter. And I think when I say "inherently", I mean that each individual person is born with a greater tendency towards "good" rather than "evil".
- I'm an idealist. I think I am anyway, and I don't think I'd want to be any other way. the only problem with being an idealist though, is I'm afraid of not being one. I'm afraid of being a hypocrite, calling myself an idealist, when I'm also somewhat lazy. I'm afraid I'm not helping people enough, or something... Yeah, I guess I have weird problems.
Anyway..., it's time to sleep. I have class at 12, and I have to catch the bus at 11:22, which means I should wake up around 10:00 just so I can get ready and not feel rushed. Good night all, sleep well.
I had to miss Asian Ball on Sunday, which sucked. But instead I was in Sac with my mum and her friends, I got to see a cool movie, and I got a nice dinner at Outback. So I guess the tradeoff was ok..., but it would have been nice to go to Asian Ball. The movie I saw at my mom's friend's house on the Digital Cable was "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing". I'm kinda sad 'cause I started watching as soon as I got there, but it was about half-way into the movie I think, I'm not sure. I'd definitely recommend it to most people. I guess I've been feeling somewhat out of sorts in terms of my mood and such, and after seeing that movie I've been feeling better. I could identify with a lot of the characters, and that along with a conversation I just had with a friend, I've been kinda reaffirmed of just what I feel is most important. More on that later.
Diana is sick with something, although she's not sure what. But she feels better after today. She apparently slept a lot, and my mum was kind enough to make her some Chinese corn soup of some sort, not really sure what it is, but yeah. It was nice.
My classes don't seem like they'll be really difficult, but I'll definitely have to work. My cumulative GPA is not very good right now, but I can deal with it. I'll have to get a lot of A's in the next few quarters to get myself to the 3.5 mark though, maybe I'll just shoot for 3.25 *_*. Math is the only class I'm really worried about. Symbolic Logic looks kinda boring to tell the truth. It's discussing, ummm.., well.., logic, and stuff. I don't think I'll have too much trouble..., logic comes sorta easily to me, so I should be ok.
I'm getting along better with my mum now. I more or less get the car whenever I want, I just need to pay gas. When it comes down to it, I can stay out as late as I want, but my mom makes requests of me, and I figure I should follow them because they're not unreasonable. She's paying my tuition, she's given me a car, she'll pay some for me to move out, and she's my mom. I guess it's my Chinese side, the whole filial piety thing. I've always kinda believed in that, and I still feel it's really important. Along with that, I feel bad about my grades, so I don't really want to piss her off -_-;, although that's only a small part of it. There's more to it I think, but I don't think it matters that much. Respect is important to me.
My brother got the latest Harry Potter book. I read about 20 pages at Diana's apartment, and it was ok. Harry spent something like 10-15 pages whining like a junior high schooler, it was rather annoying. But I suppose since Rowling is following them as they grow, it'd be weird if he didn't go through such a phase. I'm probably gonna read the whole book at some point, but I'm in no hurry. I'm re-reading the Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet. Good books, re-reading through the Tao of Pooh, I do have some problems with what he says, but all the same, I also identify a lot with other things he says. I'll have to find another book after these two go by, since they're going to go by really quickly.
Lastly, I think throughout the course of this week or so, I've reaffirmed several of my beliefs and discovered new beliefs I had.
- I find my own personal code of ethics is similar to Kant's, although in some cases I've committed acts I would consider wrong. Quite a few cases actually, so I don't know what that means really.
- I think people are inherently good. Without analyzing too much, you can understand the gist of what that means, but even I don't even know exactly what I mean when I say it. The two really confusing parts I suppose are the words, "inherently" and "good". Good, I suppose, can be replaced with "nice", "kind", or "altruistic" in this case. The former two more than the latter. And I think when I say "inherently", I mean that each individual person is born with a greater tendency towards "good" rather than "evil".
- I'm an idealist. I think I am anyway, and I don't think I'd want to be any other way. the only problem with being an idealist though, is I'm afraid of not being one. I'm afraid of being a hypocrite, calling myself an idealist, when I'm also somewhat lazy. I'm afraid I'm not helping people enough, or something... Yeah, I guess I have weird problems.
Anyway..., it's time to sleep. I have class at 12, and I have to catch the bus at 11:22, which means I should wake up around 10:00 just so I can get ready and not feel rushed. Good night all, sleep well.
# posted by Yann : 03:54
