MLK, Jr. Day Started My Status Pondering, Ended Up A Poem. Stream-of-Consciousness Writing #FTW

What started out as a pondering status ended up as a stream-of-conscious poem from my nerdy mind. Not dirty mind. Nerdy mind. So I decided to share. Enjoy!

 

It’s only 8:33PM & I feel like continuing my hermit streak.
I’ve got places to go, but I don’t really feel like losing sleep
Over things I could be doing because what I’m focused on now
Is the next thing I want to accomplish while my day still allows
I’ve already painted, planned, and danced around
Maybe now I’ll just stay up to sew but I’d need zippers that cannot be found,
So what next to do? Baking needs more fruit, too.
I could write some poetry but let this status suffice as need be
I already meditated, relaxed, and too rejuvenated
To sit around and let anything go uncalibrated
Ate too much–too full to workout
Lucky to be blessed with genetics bc in my lifestyle I should be stout
But MLK, Jr. encouraged exercising mind over matter
And it’s MLK, Jr. Day, so no matter what, I want my brain to get fatter
Thus, before I finish my night with MCAT reading in bed
I’m gonna sing a song in Italian on the piano and play around with making beats instead.

HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY! <3 ;D XOXO

Yes…that did just happen.

Tags: facebook, fb, fb status, MLK, nerd mind, poem, poetry, rap, rhyme

E-mail from #Obama ‘s Campaign Manager

I get an e-mail at 12:07AM from Jim Messina, President Obama’s Campaign Manager.

The content is pasted below. Before I continue, there is one thing I can say very confidently–that if Ron Paul wins the Republican nomination, he will have proved Messina’s pleading e-mail wrong. I just want to say what social media and Ron Paul’s grassroots supporters have been saying all along–that if Ron Paul wins the Republican nomination, he will have no trouble beating Obama. HOWEVER, I give Messina props for scurrying to retain support for Obama via immediately instigating that the “extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory” from the Iowa Caucus by creating emotional fear–as if assuming that the final Republican nominee (and in this case, Iowa as representing ALL Republicans) will hold all of the same, exact views as Romney.

EDIT: However, there is still not 1 person I am 100% satisfied with as a candidate. I am literally contemplating writing in Will Ferrell…just because I know that he is actually intelligent, untainted by politics, reaches a mass audience, interacts with and understands diverse peoples, and from Irvine, CA. I have no doubt he would be a great President.

 

E-mail titled: This is not a joke

Friend –These Republican candidates spent in some cases more than a year — in Mitt Romney’s case seven years — campaigning in Iowa to be the next president.But tonight, GOP voters there couldn’t decisively get behind anyone. Who exactly leads the Republican race going forward isn’t clear, but we do know two things: 1) The extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory. No matter who the Republicans nominate, we’ll be running against someone who has embraced that agenda in order to win — vowing to let Wall Street write its own rules, end Medicare as we know it, roll back gay rights, leave the troops in Iraq indefinitely, restrict a woman’s right to choose, and gut Social Security to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires and corporations. 2) We’ll be facing an onslaught of unprecedented spending from outside groups funded by corporations and anonymous donors. In Iowa alone, so-called “super PACs” spent $12.9 million on almost exclusively negative ads. These groups will turn their fire even more directly on us in the weeks ahead to prove that their candidate is the most anti-Obama. This race is officially on — and if we want to win, the only way is to out-organize them on the ground. Sign up to volunteer now, and an organizer will follow up in the next few weeks about how you can help. Many observers still think Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee. If he is, we will be prepared. But it’s curious that no one can really explain how, when or why the 70-plus percent of Republicans saying in polls and in Iowa that Mitt Romney’s not their candidate will suddenly come around. So the path ahead for Romney — or whichever of the Republican candidates is going to emerge from this process — is sadly and starkly very clear: to run even further to the extreme right, and make even more dangerous promises that threaten not only the progress we’ve made but the fundamental fabric of American society. We also know that candidates who take these extreme positions can, in the right circumstances, win not only a primary but also a general election in just about any state. Just ask the Tea Party senators from Pennsylvania and Kentucky, and the Tea Party governors in Florida and Wisconsin. Watching the circus on TV, it’s tempting to think it’s almost funny — but this is not a joke. We’ve got to be ready. What you decide to do next will determine which kind of politics wins this election: http://my.barackobama.com/After-Iowa More soon. Messina Jim Messina Campaign Manager Obama for America

Tags: 2012Campaign, CNNelections, Democrats, Elections, FoxNews, GOP, IowaCaucus, Messina, Obama, PresidentialElections, Republicans, Romney, RonPaul, Santorum, Tea Party

Being disappointed by others is inevitable, just don’t disappoint yourself. #selfmotto

Being disappointed by other people rests inevitable. That’s why it’s so important to not disappoint yourself.

Stay true.
–J. So

Tags: self quotes

#Congress #Occupy #WHATAREOURKIDSLEARNING?! So much info in here, you can write a research paper x 10. You’re welcome.

There will be no pictures. Or videos of fancy celebs. There will be lots of links taking you to great resources. You can read and leave with your educational balls intact. Or enlarged. Whatever your fancy. 

You want your mind blown? Prepared to be blown by REAL INFO, A.K.A. EDUCATION, A.K.A. what America has lost grasp of.

So at least let me try to do my part and passionately make up for it. NOW. Via years of random knowledge about all different subjects from all different parts of the world. I did study Biology AND Political Science AND take Business classes in Undergrad, after all; a lot of people think they’re unrelated, but quite the contrary. It doesn’t make me the most knowledgeable, but I’ll proudly declare that I am passionate about learning and teaching.

::So flabbergasted that I had to blog about Congress declaring pizza a vegetable.::

I see 2 updates from my friends, Doug and Seph, quipping about Congress declaring pizza a vegetable. HUH?!

::Google::

How Pizza Became A Vegetable Through The Magic Of Influence-Peddling

Yes…I couldn’t believe it myself…but it is actually true. Just when I thought my country needed some education reformation, it gets worse.

• FIRST: They strip Pluto of its title and declare Pluto no longer a planet (still BS if you ask me)

• NEXT: They cancel music and art programs throughout the nation and raise Undergrad student fees while enforcing budget cuts (so…students are paying more for…less???).

• YESTERDAY: I read a grammatically-poor, formal letter from a reality TV fan begging for a totally unrelated industry (gaming, via ING) to NOT cancel the Kardashian series (which is on E!, not ING) from my friend, Alex. All I can say is that I just hope it was written by someone under the age of 10, but I have a feeling it isn’t. Read it for yourself here. 

• NOW: CONGRESS DECLARES PIZZA A VEGETABLE (even though tomatoes are a fruit)!

MY GOD. WHAT ARE OUR KIDS LEARNING NOWADAYS?!

I fear the upcoming Presidential elections because not only do the Republicans NOT have a clear front runner, the Democrats have their incumbent, President Obama, who allowed pizza to be declared a vegetable while in office (wonder what his wife thinks, since she’s leading the movement for healthy kids in America).

I immediately tweeted @whitehouse and @barackobama asking them if they could explain this since tomatoes are a vegetable, then I had an epiphany, which I promptly relayed back to @whitehouse and @barackobama:

JOHN KERRY = KETCHUP

Let me connect the dots.

JOHN KERRY = ran for President in 2004 vs. Bush, then endorsed Obama for the 2008 elections, and is currently the incumbent Senator from Massachusetts (Bee Gees song playing in anyone’s head right about now? No?…okay, just me then), and is mentioned as a possible Secretary of State replacement should Senator Hillary Clinton retire in 2012 (YEAH RIGHT!).

JOHN KERRY = MARRIED TO TERESA HEINZ

TERESA HEINZ = heir to the H. J. Heinz Company, AKA Heinz Ketchup [still think it's sad that people NOW don't realize that CATSUP is the original spelling and KETCHUP is the BRAND, but...typical to the way things are accepted in America, if enough people incorrectly use something commonly enough, incorrect usage will suddenly be acceptable (like "anyway" and "anyways," but that's another topic)...so kids nowadays ALSO learn to spell CATSUP as KETCHUP. LE SIGH.].

*BTW, this is also proper: bc I want to do parentheses within parentheses, it’s [(xyz)]. Yes. It applies in math and also in writing.

ERGO, JOHN KERRY = KETCHUP

Here is the explanation from that 1st article:

“‘School meals that are subsidized by the federal government must include a certain amount of vegetables,” the AP reports, “and USDA’s proposal could have pushed pizza-makers and potato growers out of the school lunch business.” It would have pushed vegetable growers into the business, but their lobbyists aren’t as powerful, it seems.‘”

AKA LOBBYISTS AND INTEREST GROUPS FOR KETCHUP = JOHN KERRY = WIFE’S COMPANY’S INDUSTRY, where the BRAND NAME OF KETCHUP IS NOW THE ACCEPTABLE SPELLING OF CATSUP.

::breath::

AMERICA. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

So you want our kids to be healthier and eat healthier, and you want to combat the increasing obesity rate and Type II diabetes…and First Lady Michelle Obama has followed Clinton and Bush with supporting the ORGANIC MOVEMENT by instructing the White House to buy ORGANIC FOODS (yeah, for themselves)…

and yet you have the tenacity to CONTRADICT the farmers’ struggles and the agricultural industry of our own nation by making it even HARDER for them to be welcomed by children and compete against readily-accessible, less-healthy alternatives (FAST FOOD)?!

OH YEAH. I almost forgot. Pharmaceutical companies own much of the farmland now. Meaning $$$ pushes these agendas = the REAL farmers are suffering.

Then let me just ask one more thing…

WHAT ARE MY TAX DOLLARS GOING TO?! I know we’re already OVER $15 TRILLION in debt, which comes out to almost $50,000 debt per citizen and more than $133,000 debt per tax payer, with the REAL unemployment rate at about 16%.

NO WONDER THE #OCCUPY movements are still going strong!

The economic eye has been on Greece, but, um hellloooooooooooo we are ALL connected, and do people not realize the large investments we have in European banks PLUS the failing U.S. Credit/Banking system?! P.I.G.S. HELLLOOOO (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain)…and THE U.S. could be next.

My sister had the right idea about moving to France. At least Carla Bruni is cool. And she just had a baby girl, which is good for Sarkozy’s image, methinks. Not to mention the French take their school system VERY seriously.

PLEASE, AMERICA, BRING EDUCATION BACK TO THE FOREFRONT. It’s pretty evident that our nation needs it now more than ever when the hard-earned money of those of us STILL employed pays handsomely for the lives of CONGRESS WHO CAN STAB THE TRUE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY IN THE BACK AND DECLARE PIZZA A VEGETABLE BECAUSE THE PASTE OF JOHN KERRY’S WIFE’S BRAND, KETCHUP, IS SMEARED ONTO THE DOUGH, WHICH IS A GRAIN AND HAS BEEN HYBRIDIZED SO MANY TIMES OVER VIA GENETIC ENGINEERING UNDER THE POWERFUL $$$ HAND OF PFIZER AND OTHER PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES THAT IT RESTS DEBATABLE WHETHER PIZZA CAN THUS BE CONSIDERED ENTIRELY A VEGETABLE, and it’s TOTALLY negligible that ketchup’s origins are tomatoes, which are a fruit and NOT a vegetable.

Or maybe it’s because all of the people in office now are the hippies who did all of the drugs in the 60′s/70′s. Meaning, the manipulative, ironically-greedy, idiocratic decisions in legislature that we are now seeing are the effects of all of the drugs they did back in the day. Or maybe it’s because they think peace, love, and equality means equalizing pizza as a vegetable.

I’ll tell you now, I don’t know exactly WHO I’m going to vote for in the next election, but the only one I REALLY can respect at the moment is RON PAUL.

So much info in here, you can write a research paper x 10. You’re welcome.

If any time deserved a true face palm, now is a better time than any.

Tags: Agriculture, Budget Cuts, Child Obesity, Congress, Economy, Education, Greece, John Kerry, Kardashian, Ketchup, Obama, Occupy, Pharmaceutical, PIGS, Pizza, Politics, presidential election, Ron Paul, US Debt

#KimKardashian files for #divorce & statements make no sense. Must be crazy on #twitter right now.

Normally, I don’t like to chime in on personal matters of stars because we are all human, BUT, I just read another article on Kim Kardashian filing for divorce and the respective statements released by Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries and couldn’t resist a “wtf” moment.

Ryan Seacrest’s Tweet from omg! Yahoo!

Here is the article I read on omg! Yahoo! earlier this morn.

Here is the one I read just now on Entertainment Weekly with an UPDATE.

Kim Kardash’s released statement:

“After careful consideration, I have decided to end my marriage. I hope everyone understands this was not an easy decision. I had hoped this marriage was forever, but sometimes things don’t work out as planned. We remain friends and wish each other the best.”

Kris Humph’s:

“I love my wife and am devastated to learn she filed for divorce. I’m committed to this marriage and everything this covenant represents. I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make it work.”

Anyone else scratching their heads?

Now it’s time for conspiracies to spread.

Anyone else think Kim’s mom has anything to do with this?

I wonder even if Kim’s just bluffing to get Kris to want to do anything to keep her…like filing for divorce as a strategic move, then they will work things out and be so happy later. Hey, it’s 2011. Ya never know!

I mean, I’m not in their marriage & I don’t really even catch the show when it’s on, but Kris seems like a genuine guy. Poor guy.

Don’t worry–if all else fails, E! or Bravo will probably be excited to give you your own show, Kris!

Apparently the wedding cost $10 million, but then again, they did make a lot of $$$ on the wedding, too!

Tags: Divorce, E!, Kim Kardashian, Kri Humphries, Ryan Seacrest, Wedding

24 years of #bullying & it’s no surprise that I keep getting “Christian” msgs to “REPENT.” So I edited their msg and posted a response to my gate.

EDIT: I wanted to make a note that I get these msgs every now and then and don’t really mind. This time was diff. just because I left the house to a msg and came back later that night to the same, grammatically-incorrect msg., so someone is certainly trying to time my schedule w/ the ability to observe me daily (I know, creepy), and they were trying to give me some sort of hint, hint. I didn’t mind the msg, but I was disturbed by the poor grammar &  thought it was 1. ironic and 2. disrespectful to God.

So my neighbors are racist. They are racist against my family and me bc we are Asian-Americans, and they have not been shy to let that fact be known in the last 24 years that we’ve lived on this street.

If you’ve ever gone to high school with me, you might know some history about the bullying we’ve been through on my street and the verbal harassment, threats, degrading remarks, vandalism, etc. they’ve delighted us with over the years.

What’s worse is that they are adults. So they feel entitled. I suppose they are, what one might classify as, radically religious, and think that we are the devil (literally) because we are not Christian or go to church every Sunday (and for some of them, everyday).

What they don’t know is that I actually pray every day. And not for me. For everyone else.

“Someone” keeps leaving me messages to “REPENT!”

The pics of 1 of the messages, along with my response to them, are at the bottom if you don’t have the patience to read through my typically-long posts.

Anyway, they’ve painted this image of me to be this horribly, bad girl because I was never home. What they didn’t know (or refused to believe until I was published in Orange County Family Magazine‘s 2005 edition of the Top 20 Students in Orange County…and even then, they deny the possibility) was that I was never home because I was always at school.

When my sisters and I started winning elections, honors, and other academic achievements at school, they refused to believe that (and this is a quote I will never forget), “There is no way those girls can do that well in a predominantly white school in a predominantly white city.” Instead, they reasoned that the only possibility for me to win was to be a “bad, promiscuous girl” to get votes since I enjoyed dressing up and was outgoing.

I wasn’t even allowed to date until I was 18. Even then, I was never kissed until University. Really, I enjoyed spending time in the library or at community events, on stage, or planning a school event…even training for academic competitions and enjoying class so much that I took 9 periods.

Perhaps one of the reasons why I enjoy getting to know people and being open-minded about talking to someone or standing up for them is because I know what it’s like to be judged and discriminated against. I’ve had that my entire life. And that’s how I learned to do things to make me happy, not them.

The worst part is when I’m an active representative (City Youth Council) in a city that I adore, with schools and friends that I love, going to the Mayor’s birthdays and other get-togethers…and then I come home to a street that always tries to find something wrong with my family and me or make up stories about us because they can’t fathom how it’s possible for my parents to still love each other after 32 years.

They keep trying to paint us with Scarlet Letters, and no doubt, if this were back in those times, they would have gotten away with burning us at the stake.

Do you want to hear something sad?

They wanted to believe so badly that I’m a bimbo (because I love my clothes) that they tried to get this rumor going around that I never graduated from UC Irvine.

I guess it’s just sad that they refuse to use Google better, because 1 Google is all you need to see that I got my degree!

Anyway, I think they’ve been pretty disappointed because I don’t throw parties or anything, and all I do is just keep to myself and stay inside.

Now, I’m not saying the messages that keep being left on my gate, porch, door, etc. are from my neighbors, but I do have to say that they have been quite peaceful towards me ever since I posted a response on my front gate.

Left me this msg once on my side gate. I took it as I got into the car. I threw it away. I returned later. Left me this msg TWICE. On my front porch's glass table. I took it as I went into my house. After getting this msg 2X's in a row, I had to take to the red pen and correct their errors. P.S. I didn't correct their "bible" to " The Bible."

After getting this msg 2X’s in a row, I had to take to the red pen and correct their errors.

I put the edit, along with a personal message from me, on the front of my gate as I left the house the next morning. Doesn't it look pretty with the blue and yellow bows? Talk about school colors!

The edit, with a personal message from me attached, look pretty on my front gate with the blue and yellow ribbon, huh?

"Dear Mysterious Distributor..."

 My response reads:

Dear Mysterious Distributor,

    Thank you for His message twice! It’s very thoughtful of you. Bless you. I actually pray for each and every one of you everyday so that you may all find peace within yourselves.

    However, I have made some corrections to your message. If you are going to distribute this message, then please show some respect for God and Jesus and distribute a grammatically-correct message!

    I apologize in advance for posting this to my gate, but I figured that you would come by my house again eventually, and I hope that you can take these corrections so that you can better deliver His message.

           Best,

          JSo JACKY SO <3

Tags: bullying, Christian, degrading, demeaning, God, grammar, harassment, Jesus, neighbors, racism, religion, repent, suburbs

Had to share such a cute, #stylish post by @egofriendly on #HYPEED

My friend, Alex, from egofriendlyme.com, has made such a cute post at HYPEED.COM, so I just had to share!

I’ll let her pics do the talking!

http://hypeed.com/A-Star-Is-Born-v9097

Alex from egofriendlyme