Eighth Entry: 10/30/09 8:12:16 PM
Once again, I find myself writing on a friday. This is most likely going to turn into a pattern. Up until about 3 hours ago, I absolutely had no idea what I was going to talk about. Let’s be honest. Most of the time I have no idea what to write about. However, I do manage to crank out around 500 words that some people enjoy to read. Yesterday afternoon I was tagged in one of those stupid facebook “tag your friends” thing. I never check those, but when I logged on three hours I had 27 notifications. Reluctantly, I checked them all, cursing under my breath as I did this. In this picture I was tagged as “the future president”, or something to that effect. Some of the comments were about how I would make a good president. Let’s be honest here. In my opinion I am not a suitable president. If I had to relate myself to a president, I would say that I would be most like Andrew Jackson. I was having this conversation with someone, and they said “I’d vote for you, if you ran. I agree with all your points and all of them are valid.” I would like to think that all the points I make are valid. If I ran for president, which will never happen, I would not even make it to the primaries. I will not change my views. Also, I think that the American people would not like for someone (me) to tell them how they must improve their life style. They would also not like to hear most of what I say. I do not think that the American people are ready for anybody to publicly censure them. Also, I do not think the American people will elect a stubborn, persistent, confident person who is perhaps flirting with the edge of arrogance.
(note: I would like to establish what confidence is. I am confident in my actions. I never second guess my actions. However, I am not arrogant in the way where I disrespect people. I always try my best to respect everyone and their opinions.)
Friday, October 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Some Poetry I wrote in 5 minutes
Oh Taryn,
I'm sure you wish you were a Baron,
However, you have a snuggie,
What could be better than a yellow buggy?
You are... watching am I alive?
the questoin is, have you ever ate a bee hive.
That is all i will write to you,
for i have more hw to do.
oh mackey,
you are being quite quackey,
you expect me to right a poem on your wall,
but i am cause I do not want to hear you bawl,
I am doing this soley because you are cool,
and you are in my gang at school,
Canadian? yes you are that too,
let's go hunker down in an igloo
Hello my Dear Meg,
Why must you beg?
My poems are not that spectacular,
They simply are written in the common vernacular,
I will write this more because we are best siblings,
Did i note that you are great at singing?
Even though this poem sucks,
I hope you ...will not tear it apart and feed it to the ducks.
Thank you for reading this,
Rhyming is tiring, and I will be going to reminisce
you know i love you
Sam
Meg,
I write back to thee,
You are quite reckless and free,
Your poem was quite sexy,
by the way, my hair right now is quite messy,
I will leave you in my will,
but if i become ill,
you will not get much
because i will not become as famous as such,
I will be ...no Broadway actress
I will stick to my temperpedic mattress
Friday, October 23, 2009
Seventh Entry
Seventh Entry: 10/23/09 3:33:50 PM
It’s friday, and I can finally relax from all the useless stress of school. However, upon immediately getting home I realized that I still have a whole host of chores to do. I also realized that people are expecting me to write another entry. So here I am writing this entry, but I cannot finish it now, because my dad is telling me to clean the whole house. Even though this is extremely annoying, I realize that my dad is tired too. I am about to reluctantly turn off the Elvis Tunes and give my room a GI cleaning.
Continued at: 5:01:50 PM
I am back from completing my required duties. I think I was talking about fridays or something like that, but we can be honest with each other. No one really cares about that. This past wednesday, I witnessed a very comical event. My Dad and I had to run into Big Y to get a couple things. We semi-jogged down the aisles, quickly collecting our items, and got in line. The lady in front us appeared to be a little frazzled, to say the least. The following conversation went something like this.
“Ma’am, how would you like to pay today?”
“Hold on please, I have a coupon in my purse somewhere.”
The cashier scanned the coupon and proceeded to tell her:
“Ma’am, I am sorry, but we do not accept this coupon.”
“Why not? It is a brand coupon.”
“I see that, but I am sure you can see that Stop and Shop is printed above the barcode.”
“What? I know, but can’t you understand that the manufacturer put out this coupon. Stop and Shop accepts Big Y coupons.”
“Yes, I see that, but at Big Y we do not accept Stop and Shop coupons.”
My Dad and I, sensing that this could be a hassle, found our way to another line. I thought about the scene I just witnessed and realized how ridiculous that was. It was the equivalent of walking into Dairy Queen and expecting them to accept a coupon from Ben and Jerry’s. First of all the women was obviously BSing, when she said that Stop and Shop accepts Big Y coupons. Obviously, they don’t. Also, another thing that made no sense was that Stop and Shop is two minutes away from Big Y. If the coupon was so important, she should have taken a short drive and got her 10% off for a total savings of 2 cents. From all of this evidence, I would assume that this woman just really wanted to ruin someone’s day. And that pisses me off.
It’s friday, and I can finally relax from all the useless stress of school. However, upon immediately getting home I realized that I still have a whole host of chores to do. I also realized that people are expecting me to write another entry. So here I am writing this entry, but I cannot finish it now, because my dad is telling me to clean the whole house. Even though this is extremely annoying, I realize that my dad is tired too. I am about to reluctantly turn off the Elvis Tunes and give my room a GI cleaning.
Continued at: 5:01:50 PM
I am back from completing my required duties. I think I was talking about fridays or something like that, but we can be honest with each other. No one really cares about that. This past wednesday, I witnessed a very comical event. My Dad and I had to run into Big Y to get a couple things. We semi-jogged down the aisles, quickly collecting our items, and got in line. The lady in front us appeared to be a little frazzled, to say the least. The following conversation went something like this.
“Ma’am, how would you like to pay today?”
“Hold on please, I have a coupon in my purse somewhere.”
The cashier scanned the coupon and proceeded to tell her:
“Ma’am, I am sorry, but we do not accept this coupon.”
“Why not? It is a brand coupon.”
“I see that, but I am sure you can see that Stop and Shop is printed above the barcode.”
“What? I know, but can’t you understand that the manufacturer put out this coupon. Stop and Shop accepts Big Y coupons.”
“Yes, I see that, but at Big Y we do not accept Stop and Shop coupons.”
My Dad and I, sensing that this could be a hassle, found our way to another line. I thought about the scene I just witnessed and realized how ridiculous that was. It was the equivalent of walking into Dairy Queen and expecting them to accept a coupon from Ben and Jerry’s. First of all the women was obviously BSing, when she said that Stop and Shop accepts Big Y coupons. Obviously, they don’t. Also, another thing that made no sense was that Stop and Shop is two minutes away from Big Y. If the coupon was so important, she should have taken a short drive and got her 10% off for a total savings of 2 cents. From all of this evidence, I would assume that this woman just really wanted to ruin someone’s day. And that pisses me off.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Newest post
Sixth Entry: 10/18/09 4:19:31 PM
I feel like I just woke up, but it has been 8 hours since I was called from my haven of dreams. I would like to apologize for not writing for 6 days. Life, as it usually does, seems to have gotten in my way. Nevertheless, I am writing again. Today, I am going to write on aggressiveness. Being aggressive is far better than being passive. Usually, when I say this people like to jump to the conclusion that I suck said that acting on impulse is better than thinking things out. Being tactical is also a key concept to being aggressive. Being aggressive and going straight at your objective or goal, can be very helpful or destructive. Going forward is an important component to being aggressive, but going on angles is also very important. In a fight if you run straight in, you’re asking for a beating. Working on angles does not mean retreating. No one should ever retreat or give up. It just means people have to assess situations tactically and not dive in head first. However, being coy and laid back is simply asking for failure. Failing to act fast and decisively has never done anything good for anyone. I hope I have expanded the definition of aggressiveness to not just being blatant and straight forward, but to being intense and tactical.
I feel like I just woke up, but it has been 8 hours since I was called from my haven of dreams. I would like to apologize for not writing for 6 days. Life, as it usually does, seems to have gotten in my way. Nevertheless, I am writing again. Today, I am going to write on aggressiveness. Being aggressive is far better than being passive. Usually, when I say this people like to jump to the conclusion that I suck said that acting on impulse is better than thinking things out. Being tactical is also a key concept to being aggressive. Being aggressive and going straight at your objective or goal, can be very helpful or destructive. Going forward is an important component to being aggressive, but going on angles is also very important. In a fight if you run straight in, you’re asking for a beating. Working on angles does not mean retreating. No one should ever retreat or give up. It just means people have to assess situations tactically and not dive in head first. However, being coy and laid back is simply asking for failure. Failing to act fast and decisively has never done anything good for anyone. I hope I have expanded the definition of aggressiveness to not just being blatant and straight forward, but to being intense and tactical.
Inside a Teenage Mind
Inside a Teenage Mind
by Sam Rouleau
Inspired by Daniel Nascimento
First Entry: 10/9/09 9:47:34 PM
I sat at the kitchen table, gnawing on the blackened tip of pizza crust, going through the normal dinner conversations. The question that came up was, “Anything interesting happen today?” I quickly gave the normal answer stating that it was school, how interesting can it be. Being done with the blackened tip of my pizza crust, I walked down the hallway into my room, sitting in front of this illuminated screen. My nerve synapses quickly communicated, throwing out the stupid irrelevant stuff, and reminding me of the important things. “Vocab book, Check.” I said in my head, as I looked towards the screen, ignoring the jumping iChat icon. Minor events raced back into my head from the day. Three most significant memories simmered to the top of my conscience. The first most being, how I stood up at morning meeting and humiliated myself by dancing and singing “It’s Peanut butter Jelly Time”. The second most being how I ran around with Braden, as we yelled Parkour for Darfur and did crazy tricks in the band room hallway, all with out disturbing the band director. The third most being a quick moment from history class. As the teacher passed around certain historical objects, one being a Cardinal’s Hat, we were specifically told not to put it on, however; one girl in our class decided to be cool and put on the hat. Upon questioning her about this disrespectful and uncourteous act, she looked at me and said “It doesn’t matter, I am not Catholic.” THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH SOME AMERICANS. This girl being obnoxious and disrespectful, could not respect something that she did not believe in. This is the reason why Americans get arrested in other countries, because they must be thinking “Oh, I’m not Samoan these rules do not apply to me.”. TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE WHO THINK THIS WAY, YES THEY DO. I do not mean to pick on this girl, but the calmness with which she answered my question was quite unnerving. Having a later conversation, she called me a bitch. I thought to myself who is the bitch? The honest intellect, or the disrespectful American? It’s your choice.
(Authors note at 10/09/09 8:00:32 PM. I mean no disrespect to this individual. I am simply using her actions as an example.)
Second Entry: 10/10/09 11:10:08 AM
Going back to the previous point of the last passage. I am still trying to comprehend where Americans can simply get this sense of entitlement. Granted, we are a superpower, we have been since, debatably, World War I. Once again, this does not mean the rest of world is required to assimilate our ideas. Another thing that is quite despicable about America, is denial of issues. We are doing so much charity for Africa and other under privileged countries, which is not a bad thing. However, first we need to fix all of the problems in country. We are doing so much to help other nations, there is not much left to us. The quality of education is decreasing, as the economy continues to crash. And trust me, it will crash again. More people are losing jobs, houses, and no longer have the ability to get food. Oh wait, but everything is ok, because we are helping Africans. At the first time this is read by the average reader, I am sure I will immediately criticized for what I have just said. However, they should reread this whole entry. Then they will understand that I have no problems with charity, but our own national problems must be corrected first. I will bring to attention the failure of Rome. In the end, Rome ultimately failed, because they were in denial about their problems, and the government entertained the people with chariot races and gladiator fights. We must begin addressing our problems. We cannot sit comfortably, like how most of us our doing, and let things pass our mind. The Renaissance was so great, because the aspect of humanism became a wider and more common view. If we do not question anything, and take for granted what we have and continue to deny our problems. We will ultimately fail.
Third Entry: 10/10/09 7:24:31
In my last two entries I have said somewhat negative, but true, things about Americans and towards America. I would like to establish that America is simply the best nation in the world. We live in the best country in the world. Everyone has the best living conditions, and we have no doubt the most powerful military. We have too many accomplishments to list. Once again, I would not like anybody to draw conclusions that I am unpatriotic and I think America is a bad place to live. However, we are not perfect, and I am simply trying to give Americans the ability to think outside the box and not take everything for granted. The most recent being NASA’s rocket launch. This rocket sling shotted around the moon and the earth. The top explosive part detached from the bottom sensor. The explosive rocket hit a dark crater and exploded. The reason why NASA launched this rocket is because there was speculation of that crater containing ice. NASA has not realized the results, but I am very excited for what this could entail for the future. One achievement, that some people may view as greater than this, I have not mentioned is President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. This is amazing, considering he is the first, since President Wilson, to win the prize. However, I mentioned the NASA rocket first, because I simply do not understand why President Obama won the prize. I am not taking anything away from his actions, I would like to know why he won. I would also to restate that I am not making up calumny. I am simply stating facts and drawing conclusions. The T.V. is now calling my name, but I would like to leave all of my readers with the message that America is the best country in the world.
Fourth Entry: 10/11/09 8:51:53 PM
In this entry I was going to write about an interesting scene today. How for a brief second, at a red light, I looked and saw a elder women shuffle down the street, holding a digital camera. Stopped at a tree and proceeded to take a picture. This old lady was obviously in discomfort, as the wind blew her coat and hair all over the place. However, she was having a great time and doing what she loved to, take pictures. But before I wrote my entry, someone Instant messaged me. This person talked to me intensely about how my first entry was disrespectful and etc. Now, I have taken down my blog. Not because this person was right, but because I simply do not want to deal with these people. People who are inept at reading, in which I stated about three times that I meant no disrespect to this individual. How people, even teenagers, cannot read things with impartiality astounds me. If many people, could take an un-biased view at what I was trying to say, then they would realize that my entries are not focused on the action of the girl. However, focusing on the negative is not good. As one of my close friends put it “One GIANT FLAMING STINKING A-SHOLE DOES NOT MAKE AN OPINION MAKE”. I completely agree with my friend here, however; I do not want to interact these people for one more year with this tension. Honestly, I respect the person’s opinion who spoke to me about it, but I do not care, because in my mind I know what I am conveying. I feel like I am right, I know that I have not disrespected anybody. I know I have stated the true facts, and for this reason I have no guilty conscience over my head.
Fifth Entry: 10/12/09 5:10:28
Dedicated to Meg Guzulescu
All of you who have spent at least 10 minutes with me, have heard me say “It doesn’t matter, I’m Canadian.” I am about 50% Canadian, but in my mind I am 100% Canadian. Does this mean I am better than you? Of course not. However, making myself believe that I can do things. It’s a form of self-motivation.
Began writing at 8:45:08PM
Being almost knocked out from a triangle choke about two hours ago, the rest of this entry might be a little hazy, but I will do my best. After all, I am Canadian. Part of this saying comes from my Grandma. She is a hardcore Canadian. Ever since I was a little kid, in a muttered extremely accented French English type language she would tell me that a Canadian can do anything. She also constantly reminds me how awesome being Canadian is with these words “Sam, I survived Cancer, because I’m Canadian and I’m fat.” This is what I would pinpoint my pride in being part Canadian. Getting back to the main point, it is a type of self motivation. It’s what helps keeps me going, and sometimes gives me an excuse for my somewhat arrogant nature. I firmly, and I would bet my life, believe in the concept of mind over matter. I can do this Canadian is simply just one technique for me to do this. This is all the depth that I am putting into it, because even Canadians need sleep.
Sixth Entry: 10/18/09 4:19:31 PM
I feel like I just woke up, but it has been 8 hours since I was called from my haven of dreams. I would like to apologize for not writing for 6 days. Life, as it usually does, seems to have gotten in my way. Nevertheless, I am writing again. Today, I am going to write on aggressiveness. Being aggressive is far better than being passive. Usually, when I say this people like to jump to the conclusion that I suck said that acting on impulse is better than thinking things out. Being tactical is also a key concept to being aggressive. Being aggressive and going straight at your objective or goal, can be very helpful or destructive. Going forward is an important component to being aggressive, but going on angles is also very important. In a fight if you run straight in, you’re asking for a beating. Working on angles does not mean retreating. No one should ever retreat or give up. It just means people have to assess situations tactically and not dive in head first. However, being coy and laid back is simply asking for failure. Failing to act fast and decisively has never done anything good for anyone. I hope I have expanded the definition of aggressiveness to not just being blatant and straight forward, but to being intense and tactical.
Seventh Entry: 10/23/09 3:33:50 PM
It’s friday, and I can finally relax from all the useless stress of school. However, upon immediately getting home I realized that I still have a whole host of chores to do. I also realized that people are expecting me to write another entry. So here I am writing this entry, but I cannot finish it now, because my dad is telling me to clean the whole house. Even though this is extremely annoying, I realize that my dad is tired too. I am about to reluctantly turn off the Elvis Tunes and give my room a GI cleaning.
Continued at: 5:01:50 PM
I am back from completing my required duties. I think I was talking about fridays or something like that, but we can be honest with each other. No one really cares about that. This past wednesday, I witnessed a very comical event. My Dad and I had to run into Big Y to get a couple things. We semi-jogged down the aisles, quickly collecting our items, and got in line. The lady in front us appeared to be a little frazzled, to say the least. The following conversation went something like this.
“Ma’am, how would you like to pay today?”
“Hold on please, I have a coupon in my purse somewhere.”
The cashier scanned the coupon and proceeded to tell her:
“Ma’am, I am sorry, but we do not accept this coupon.”
“Why not? It is a brand coupon.”
“I see that, but I am sure you can see that Stop and Shop is printed above the barcode.”
“What? I know, but can’t you understand that the manufacturer put out this coupon. Stop and Shop accepts Big Y coupons.”
“Yes, I see that, but at Big Y we do not accept Stop and Shop coupons.”
My Dad and I, sensing that this could be a hassle, found our way to another line. I thought about the scene I just witnessed and realized how ridiculous that was. It was the equivalent of walking into Dairy Queen and expecting them to accept a coupon from Ben and Jerry’s. First of all the women was obviously BSing, when she said that Stop and Shop accepts Big Y coupons. Obviously, they don’t. Also, another thing that made no sense was that Stop and Shop is two minutes away from Big Y. If the coupon was so important, she should have taken a short drive and got her 10% off for a total savings up 2 cents. From all of this evidence, I would assume that this woman just really wanted to ruin someone’s day. And that pisses me off.
Eighth Entry: 10/30/09 8:12:16 PM
Once again, I find myself writing on a friday. This is most likely going to turn into a pattern. Up until about 3 hours ago, I absolutely had no idea what I was going to talk about. Let’s be honest. Most of the time I have no idea what to write about. However, I do manage to crank out around 500 words that some people enjoy to read. Yesterday afternoon I was tagged in one of those stupid facebook “tag your friends” thing. I never check those, but when I logged on three hours I had 27 notifications. Reluctantly, I checked them all, cursing under my breath as I did this. In this picture I was tagged as “the future president”, or something to that effect. Some of the comments were about how I would make a good president. Let’s be honest here. In my opinion I am not a suitable president. If I had to relate myself to a president, I would say that I would be most like Andrew Jackson. I was having this conversation with someone, and they said “I’d vote for you, if you ran. I agree with all your points and all of them are valid.” I would like to think that all the points I make are valid. If I ran for president, which will never happen, I would not even make it to the primaries. I will not change my views. Also, I think that the American people would not like for someone (me) to tell them how they must improve their life style. They would also not like to hear most of what I say. I do not think that the American people are ready for anybody to publicly censure them. Also, I do not think the American people will elect a stubborn, persistent, confident person who is perhaps flirting with the edge of arrogance.
(note: I would like to establish what confidence is. I am confident in my actions. I never second guess my actions. However, I am not arrogant in the way where I disrespect people. I always try my best to respect everyone and their opinions.)
Ninth Entry: 11/1/09 7:29:30PM
Ok, well I just typed about 200 words, and let’s be honest here. I really didn’t like what I had to say that time. I was trying to go on about how it’s good to be random and structured, but honestly; it sounded stupid. And me boring you is the last thing that I want to accomplish. By the way, I would like to thank you all for reading my blog and commenting on it. This just started out as a short term thing, but as of now; I am going to continue writing. One thing that did get me thinking today was the movies V for Vendetta. Granted, I was supposed to be taking history notes while I watched the movies, but it was worth procrastinating. First of all, If you have not seen that movie, then please watch it. It is amazing, and it gave me something to think about. I don’t want to ruin the movie, but it’s about the government controlling the people through fear. This really jump started my brain into a hurricane of thoughts. They’re all jumbled into my head, so I’ll do my best to get the basic ideas sorted out. As more and more laws are made on a state and federal level, I get worried for our future. Before I continue, I would like to clarify that I am not a Democrat or Republican. I am simply speaking from what I think is right. I am beginning to get more worried for our future. If we keep bending to laws and policies, then eventually we all be little mice trapped in a box. Even though Socrates and Plato are very old dudes, they really knew what they were talking about. If you just do everything that you are told to do with out justifying it, than you lose all humanity. God gave us freewill, even if you do not believe in God you believe that everyone has freewill. Laws are necessary to run a nation, but some things are ridiculous. One example I would like to touch upon is abortion. For me the solution is easy. If you think it’s wrong, then don’t do it. If you think it’s legal, then it’s your right to have an abortion. A lot of things that are “huge” debates are much more complicated than they need to be. The character V in the movie was right. It’s pointless to live, if we lived in an over controlled environment. I know that I’ve jumped around a lot, but thanks for bearing with me.
(note: I am taking suggestions from y’all on what you would like me to write about.)
by Sam Rouleau
Inspired by Daniel Nascimento
First Entry: 10/9/09 9:47:34 PM
I sat at the kitchen table, gnawing on the blackened tip of pizza crust, going through the normal dinner conversations. The question that came up was, “Anything interesting happen today?” I quickly gave the normal answer stating that it was school, how interesting can it be. Being done with the blackened tip of my pizza crust, I walked down the hallway into my room, sitting in front of this illuminated screen. My nerve synapses quickly communicated, throwing out the stupid irrelevant stuff, and reminding me of the important things. “Vocab book, Check.” I said in my head, as I looked towards the screen, ignoring the jumping iChat icon. Minor events raced back into my head from the day. Three most significant memories simmered to the top of my conscience. The first most being, how I stood up at morning meeting and humiliated myself by dancing and singing “It’s Peanut butter Jelly Time”. The second most being how I ran around with Braden, as we yelled Parkour for Darfur and did crazy tricks in the band room hallway, all with out disturbing the band director. The third most being a quick moment from history class. As the teacher passed around certain historical objects, one being a Cardinal’s Hat, we were specifically told not to put it on, however; one girl in our class decided to be cool and put on the hat. Upon questioning her about this disrespectful and uncourteous act, she looked at me and said “It doesn’t matter, I am not Catholic.” THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH SOME AMERICANS. This girl being obnoxious and disrespectful, could not respect something that she did not believe in. This is the reason why Americans get arrested in other countries, because they must be thinking “Oh, I’m not Samoan these rules do not apply to me.”. TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE WHO THINK THIS WAY, YES THEY DO. I do not mean to pick on this girl, but the calmness with which she answered my question was quite unnerving. Having a later conversation, she called me a bitch. I thought to myself who is the bitch? The honest intellect, or the disrespectful American? It’s your choice.
(Authors note at 10/09/09 8:00:32 PM. I mean no disrespect to this individual. I am simply using her actions as an example.)
Second Entry: 10/10/09 11:10:08 AM
Going back to the previous point of the last passage. I am still trying to comprehend where Americans can simply get this sense of entitlement. Granted, we are a superpower, we have been since, debatably, World War I. Once again, this does not mean the rest of world is required to assimilate our ideas. Another thing that is quite despicable about America, is denial of issues. We are doing so much charity for Africa and other under privileged countries, which is not a bad thing. However, first we need to fix all of the problems in country. We are doing so much to help other nations, there is not much left to us. The quality of education is decreasing, as the economy continues to crash. And trust me, it will crash again. More people are losing jobs, houses, and no longer have the ability to get food. Oh wait, but everything is ok, because we are helping Africans. At the first time this is read by the average reader, I am sure I will immediately criticized for what I have just said. However, they should reread this whole entry. Then they will understand that I have no problems with charity, but our own national problems must be corrected first. I will bring to attention the failure of Rome. In the end, Rome ultimately failed, because they were in denial about their problems, and the government entertained the people with chariot races and gladiator fights. We must begin addressing our problems. We cannot sit comfortably, like how most of us our doing, and let things pass our mind. The Renaissance was so great, because the aspect of humanism became a wider and more common view. If we do not question anything, and take for granted what we have and continue to deny our problems. We will ultimately fail.
Third Entry: 10/10/09 7:24:31
In my last two entries I have said somewhat negative, but true, things about Americans and towards America. I would like to establish that America is simply the best nation in the world. We live in the best country in the world. Everyone has the best living conditions, and we have no doubt the most powerful military. We have too many accomplishments to list. Once again, I would not like anybody to draw conclusions that I am unpatriotic and I think America is a bad place to live. However, we are not perfect, and I am simply trying to give Americans the ability to think outside the box and not take everything for granted. The most recent being NASA’s rocket launch. This rocket sling shotted around the moon and the earth. The top explosive part detached from the bottom sensor. The explosive rocket hit a dark crater and exploded. The reason why NASA launched this rocket is because there was speculation of that crater containing ice. NASA has not realized the results, but I am very excited for what this could entail for the future. One achievement, that some people may view as greater than this, I have not mentioned is President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. This is amazing, considering he is the first, since President Wilson, to win the prize. However, I mentioned the NASA rocket first, because I simply do not understand why President Obama won the prize. I am not taking anything away from his actions, I would like to know why he won. I would also to restate that I am not making up calumny. I am simply stating facts and drawing conclusions. The T.V. is now calling my name, but I would like to leave all of my readers with the message that America is the best country in the world.
Fourth Entry: 10/11/09 8:51:53 PM
In this entry I was going to write about an interesting scene today. How for a brief second, at a red light, I looked and saw a elder women shuffle down the street, holding a digital camera. Stopped at a tree and proceeded to take a picture. This old lady was obviously in discomfort, as the wind blew her coat and hair all over the place. However, she was having a great time and doing what she loved to, take pictures. But before I wrote my entry, someone Instant messaged me. This person talked to me intensely about how my first entry was disrespectful and etc. Now, I have taken down my blog. Not because this person was right, but because I simply do not want to deal with these people. People who are inept at reading, in which I stated about three times that I meant no disrespect to this individual. How people, even teenagers, cannot read things with impartiality astounds me. If many people, could take an un-biased view at what I was trying to say, then they would realize that my entries are not focused on the action of the girl. However, focusing on the negative is not good. As one of my close friends put it “One GIANT FLAMING STINKING A-SHOLE DOES NOT MAKE AN OPINION MAKE”. I completely agree with my friend here, however; I do not want to interact these people for one more year with this tension. Honestly, I respect the person’s opinion who spoke to me about it, but I do not care, because in my mind I know what I am conveying. I feel like I am right, I know that I have not disrespected anybody. I know I have stated the true facts, and for this reason I have no guilty conscience over my head.
Fifth Entry: 10/12/09 5:10:28
Dedicated to Meg Guzulescu
All of you who have spent at least 10 minutes with me, have heard me say “It doesn’t matter, I’m Canadian.” I am about 50% Canadian, but in my mind I am 100% Canadian. Does this mean I am better than you? Of course not. However, making myself believe that I can do things. It’s a form of self-motivation.
Began writing at 8:45:08PM
Being almost knocked out from a triangle choke about two hours ago, the rest of this entry might be a little hazy, but I will do my best. After all, I am Canadian. Part of this saying comes from my Grandma. She is a hardcore Canadian. Ever since I was a little kid, in a muttered extremely accented French English type language she would tell me that a Canadian can do anything. She also constantly reminds me how awesome being Canadian is with these words “Sam, I survived Cancer, because I’m Canadian and I’m fat.” This is what I would pinpoint my pride in being part Canadian. Getting back to the main point, it is a type of self motivation. It’s what helps keeps me going, and sometimes gives me an excuse for my somewhat arrogant nature. I firmly, and I would bet my life, believe in the concept of mind over matter. I can do this Canadian is simply just one technique for me to do this. This is all the depth that I am putting into it, because even Canadians need sleep.
Sixth Entry: 10/18/09 4:19:31 PM
I feel like I just woke up, but it has been 8 hours since I was called from my haven of dreams. I would like to apologize for not writing for 6 days. Life, as it usually does, seems to have gotten in my way. Nevertheless, I am writing again. Today, I am going to write on aggressiveness. Being aggressive is far better than being passive. Usually, when I say this people like to jump to the conclusion that I suck said that acting on impulse is better than thinking things out. Being tactical is also a key concept to being aggressive. Being aggressive and going straight at your objective or goal, can be very helpful or destructive. Going forward is an important component to being aggressive, but going on angles is also very important. In a fight if you run straight in, you’re asking for a beating. Working on angles does not mean retreating. No one should ever retreat or give up. It just means people have to assess situations tactically and not dive in head first. However, being coy and laid back is simply asking for failure. Failing to act fast and decisively has never done anything good for anyone. I hope I have expanded the definition of aggressiveness to not just being blatant and straight forward, but to being intense and tactical.
Seventh Entry: 10/23/09 3:33:50 PM
It’s friday, and I can finally relax from all the useless stress of school. However, upon immediately getting home I realized that I still have a whole host of chores to do. I also realized that people are expecting me to write another entry. So here I am writing this entry, but I cannot finish it now, because my dad is telling me to clean the whole house. Even though this is extremely annoying, I realize that my dad is tired too. I am about to reluctantly turn off the Elvis Tunes and give my room a GI cleaning.
Continued at: 5:01:50 PM
I am back from completing my required duties. I think I was talking about fridays or something like that, but we can be honest with each other. No one really cares about that. This past wednesday, I witnessed a very comical event. My Dad and I had to run into Big Y to get a couple things. We semi-jogged down the aisles, quickly collecting our items, and got in line. The lady in front us appeared to be a little frazzled, to say the least. The following conversation went something like this.
“Ma’am, how would you like to pay today?”
“Hold on please, I have a coupon in my purse somewhere.”
The cashier scanned the coupon and proceeded to tell her:
“Ma’am, I am sorry, but we do not accept this coupon.”
“Why not? It is a brand coupon.”
“I see that, but I am sure you can see that Stop and Shop is printed above the barcode.”
“What? I know, but can’t you understand that the manufacturer put out this coupon. Stop and Shop accepts Big Y coupons.”
“Yes, I see that, but at Big Y we do not accept Stop and Shop coupons.”
My Dad and I, sensing that this could be a hassle, found our way to another line. I thought about the scene I just witnessed and realized how ridiculous that was. It was the equivalent of walking into Dairy Queen and expecting them to accept a coupon from Ben and Jerry’s. First of all the women was obviously BSing, when she said that Stop and Shop accepts Big Y coupons. Obviously, they don’t. Also, another thing that made no sense was that Stop and Shop is two minutes away from Big Y. If the coupon was so important, she should have taken a short drive and got her 10% off for a total savings up 2 cents. From all of this evidence, I would assume that this woman just really wanted to ruin someone’s day. And that pisses me off.
Eighth Entry: 10/30/09 8:12:16 PM
Once again, I find myself writing on a friday. This is most likely going to turn into a pattern. Up until about 3 hours ago, I absolutely had no idea what I was going to talk about. Let’s be honest. Most of the time I have no idea what to write about. However, I do manage to crank out around 500 words that some people enjoy to read. Yesterday afternoon I was tagged in one of those stupid facebook “tag your friends” thing. I never check those, but when I logged on three hours I had 27 notifications. Reluctantly, I checked them all, cursing under my breath as I did this. In this picture I was tagged as “the future president”, or something to that effect. Some of the comments were about how I would make a good president. Let’s be honest here. In my opinion I am not a suitable president. If I had to relate myself to a president, I would say that I would be most like Andrew Jackson. I was having this conversation with someone, and they said “I’d vote for you, if you ran. I agree with all your points and all of them are valid.” I would like to think that all the points I make are valid. If I ran for president, which will never happen, I would not even make it to the primaries. I will not change my views. Also, I think that the American people would not like for someone (me) to tell them how they must improve their life style. They would also not like to hear most of what I say. I do not think that the American people are ready for anybody to publicly censure them. Also, I do not think the American people will elect a stubborn, persistent, confident person who is perhaps flirting with the edge of arrogance.
(note: I would like to establish what confidence is. I am confident in my actions. I never second guess my actions. However, I am not arrogant in the way where I disrespect people. I always try my best to respect everyone and their opinions.)
Ninth Entry: 11/1/09 7:29:30PM
Ok, well I just typed about 200 words, and let’s be honest here. I really didn’t like what I had to say that time. I was trying to go on about how it’s good to be random and structured, but honestly; it sounded stupid. And me boring you is the last thing that I want to accomplish. By the way, I would like to thank you all for reading my blog and commenting on it. This just started out as a short term thing, but as of now; I am going to continue writing. One thing that did get me thinking today was the movies V for Vendetta. Granted, I was supposed to be taking history notes while I watched the movies, but it was worth procrastinating. First of all, If you have not seen that movie, then please watch it. It is amazing, and it gave me something to think about. I don’t want to ruin the movie, but it’s about the government controlling the people through fear. This really jump started my brain into a hurricane of thoughts. They’re all jumbled into my head, so I’ll do my best to get the basic ideas sorted out. As more and more laws are made on a state and federal level, I get worried for our future. Before I continue, I would like to clarify that I am not a Democrat or Republican. I am simply speaking from what I think is right. I am beginning to get more worried for our future. If we keep bending to laws and policies, then eventually we all be little mice trapped in a box. Even though Socrates and Plato are very old dudes, they really knew what they were talking about. If you just do everything that you are told to do with out justifying it, than you lose all humanity. God gave us freewill, even if you do not believe in God you believe that everyone has freewill. Laws are necessary to run a nation, but some things are ridiculous. One example I would like to touch upon is abortion. For me the solution is easy. If you think it’s wrong, then don’t do it. If you think it’s legal, then it’s your right to have an abortion. A lot of things that are “huge” debates are much more complicated than they need to be. The character V in the movie was right. It’s pointless to live, if we lived in an over controlled environment. I know that I’ve jumped around a lot, but thanks for bearing with me.
(note: I am taking suggestions from y’all on what you would like me to write about.)
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