Thursday Morning

Just decided to blog after I finished my Religion unit exam. I didn't do a bad job. Today is the day we have a conference in the afternoon. Mr.Alger suggests that we should actually think today. Were going to be finishing Othello and Blood Diamond today. I think I would have done a lot better if we watched the movie first and than read the novel after. At least I'll understand what is going on, but that is just my opinion. Today is going to be one of those days, this morning we are going to be watching movies, and in the afternoon we have the UN conference.

3 hours later

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Finally, we finished a long day, I now have the math formal due, out of all the days. Unfortunately for other people, the gala is today will last until night, and that provides little time for them to do any work, but fortunately tomorrow morning, we are in the computer lab all morning to do any sort of work we need to do. The UN conference was cool, until the students from Texas started dissing Canadian culture with sterotypical jokes, but it was just friendly. So we said "How's the death penalty over there?" and then they disconnected. Turns out we were like a couple minutes late for the continuation of the UN conference.

At the end of the long tiring day, I threw out like virtually nothing, went to the bathroom minimal times, and barely ate dinner. I guess that's what happens when you work like a college student. Save the environment today, easily, by sitting infront of the computer doing homework the whole day! So at the end of the conference we did pledges, little things, or big, to create an impact on the world. I decided to turn off all the lights in the houses, except for the lamp infront of my computer that I use everyday to work.

Hump Day

I've decided to take the initiative and blog during the week instead of cramming it all on the weekend, so I actually have some decent time to work on my I.A on Friday. We are currently wrapping things up in S.S and L.A. I can't wait for the long semester break. I feel like I'm missing on a couple hours of sleep. The conference is tomorrow afternoon, and unfortunately, I miss a religion quiz. I have to make it up by writing it early in the morning at first period where I'm still delusional. Math is still a pain, as always.

In other news, I'm going to be moving houses this or next month. My parents have been having a lot of meetings lately to discuss the mortgage. If we sell this house, we can probably pay for 80% of the mortgage for our new house. So we had a mortgage consultant, and it is none other than Mr.Tong, the husband of Ms.Tong who currently teaches my friend's science I.B. class. She actually came in to said hi for a second, but unfortunately, I was in the shower doing my business.

For my ecological footprint as of today, I've showered, used the toilet, and many other things that consume water. I drink water itself. The more you drink, the more you pee, stop drinking water, stop flushing, and we will have freshwater for the next century! Just kidding. I'm actually worried about the future of our planet. Our population has nearly doubled since the past few decades, and it will only keep increasing. With more people, our resources will be depleted significantly faster. 

Toonie Tuesday

At home, on a Tuesday. We've just recently completed the epic three hour stress and management training session in hope of relieving any past tensions. In the stress session, I closed my eyes and began to relax from the words spoken by our wise Psychology teacher, who is currently on the quest of her ph.D. I began to feel at ease at our exercises and just fell asleep altogether. Then, out of no where, horrible blank sheets of paper flew at me in every direction! None other than the horrid, and dastardly I.A research project, ! It's monstrosity consumed me whole, and I was entrenched in its horrid dimension. The papers soon bled red, stained with the ink that will sign the notorious F on my paper.  As I climbed to the gradually closing exit, pieces of paper, flew at me again with their razor-sharp edge. Before they could destroy me... I woke up, picked up my stuff at the conclusion of the session and left casually like nothing happened.

Okay, I really let my imagination let loose, plus it was a sign that I needed to get going on this research project. My parents should enroll me in a creative writing class or something. On the other note, I have started on my I.A. I've accomplished gathering my ten sources, correctly sourcing them using the Chicago style format. Then, I started skimming through the sources to see which was most ideal on my research project. I have arrived at the conclusion of a paper written by a Harvard student, and a paper written by another.

My ecological footprint on Tuesday? A crap load. It was none other than Toonie Tuesday. We seriously didn't have anything to eat at home because my dad had a meeting while my mom had to work longer due to the absence of an employee. I was already tired from eating after the second drumstick. Those things are really heart-stoppers.  In the aftermath, there was a huge pile of red boxes all piled up on top of each other. We are really destroying the planet with all the waste that needs to be disposed after a fast food meal. Again, I arrive at the conclusion that our world will collapse. We can not see what future lies ahead. Maybe we will perfect a bio-fuel that is globally used? Or maybe we destroy thermodynamics and find a cheap way to create energy? (probably never going to happen)



The second law of thermodynamics says that everything will slowly deteriorate (die).

Lately

"No matter if you're Muslim, no matter if you're Christian, no matter the religion, we all are human," intones DK. War continues in the middle east, Iraq is having a hard time restructuring its economy. Giving the label of "3rd world country" to Iraq is even too generous. Their country is the center of war, a false crusade for peace. It's the stereotype that all Muslim's are from terrorist countries. What's next? Are they to be blamed for the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill?

Iraqi rappers voice reality, pain: 'We livin' in hell'

One of CNN's top headline news for today on December 5th. Lately in Iraq, rappers are expressing their thoughts and feelings through music, embracing western culture if you consider "North America" a culture. They speak not in their natural language of Arabic, but in English. The Members of Smashing Hits, models Eminem and Tupac Shakur.


The entourage wants to express the true culture of Iraq. Not the terrorists, and not the violence. Life is hard, even more than we ever could imagine. Be a Muslim, and your wanted for terrorism, become a Christian, and your wanted by your own people.

Rapped one member, "We livin' in hell and nobody hears our calls; everyday in Baghdad, our tears do fall."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/05/iraq.rappers/index.html?hpt=C2

Fast Food

Holy crap, I've never felt so fat in my life. All I had was fast food the entire day, and I can feel my arteries clogging up. Time to hit the gym or something. Now awhile ago, I embarked on a mission to track my ecological footprint. All the trash and garbage that comes from packaging is the result of the destruction of the environment. McDonald's used to pack their Big Macs in plastic made containers which doesn't decompose for a couple of centuries.

First world countries, the center of power, and corruption. We've come a long way from the early times of Christopher Columbus and colonization. Now we live in a world of prosperity and innovation, but at the cost of the exploitation of natural resources and developing countries. By our current resource depletion rate, were going to be in a crap load of trouble if our fresh water supplies run out. Oil sands are known to pollute water to an extent where you can not filter it at all.

Thankfully, we live in Canada and own 30% of natural water reserves. It's not bad that Canada is a cold place at all because all our fresh water comes from glaciers. Back in the past, water has been sold to us for like 3 bucks a bottle. Not only does it cost more than a bottle of coke, it creates a lot of pollution. None of it actually comes from mountains or wild life where Bambi came. It's just really filtered tap water. That's why 1st world countries is the center of power and corruption. We have a whack load of money, but we deceive, and ruin the lives of others to get it.

Wednesday

Before Mr.Alger departed on his trip to Florida, to unfortunately, go on a daily 10 hour conference, he left us with a challenge. During the course of that lesson, we learned more about sustainability and how resources are being depleted rapidly by the second. We probably have 40 years oil left in our life, until it is completely depleted. Fresh water is also depleting. The thought of future wars would be scary because, instead of fighting for oil, we will be fighting each other for water, because water is needed to sustain life on Earth. I remember in Grade 3 my teacher telling us that we'd probably have oil until we turn 40 or 50 years old. Now I know she wasn't kidding.

We did a test online for our ecological footprint. We went with the majority vote for each category and went with the average Canadian income. Turns out that if everyone lived our lifestyle today, we'd need at least 5.2 earths to fit the needs of all the resources required. In the end, before Mr.Alger left, he challenged us to blog about our daily ecological footprint, and I accept that challenge mainly because it gives me something to blog about!

Alright before I head off to bed, I will reflect on what I did today. For my dinner, I ate fish. Fish is like the main component of my diet, I eat it at least once every week. We learn last year in biodiversity that Earth's resource of fish has been exponentially decreasing by the introduction of new corporations arising. A company in Japan is actually buying all the Blue fish tuna they could afford, so that when they become extinct, they can have a monopoly on the fish that everyone craves. Its sad to see them doing this, because instead of trying to save them, they are thinking the extincting of the Blue fish tuna is inevitable.

Baby Vanga

Supposedly, WW3 is suppose to happen in the month of November as prophecized by Baby Vanga. I don't believe any of this is true, but the tensions between North Korea and South Korea are heating up. Maybe because of the fact that Kim Jong Il is about to choke any second now and he wants his son to lead the country like his father and himself did in the time of war.

Baby Vanga has been notorious for predicting the fall of the twin towers in 9/11 and she also correctly predicted the fall of the nuclear Russian submarine, the Kursk. Some of her other predictions is that China will become a world power, which has been clearly evident since their economic reforms in 1978 which led them to be successful as they are today. Look at Shanghai, the financial capital of China, all their skyscrapers are the result of China's economic success.

Apparently in the next thousands of years, we develop time travel, cloning, and get new diseases. Eventually we colonize Mars and search for more extraterrestrial life. A new prophet will come and a new religion will arise. All of these crazy things are the predictions of Baby Vanga. It is up to the person to believe these outrageous predictions or not.