Have you ever tried to do something that would make you 'different'? I know I have. As of now I am typing with inch long pointed nails. Decorated with black and white paint that oddly resemble the YingYang circle thing. If someone were to ask about the girl with long pointed nails I bet they would know who they were talking about. Because I have something the average person does not possess. Numerous times I have been asked 'are your nails real??????' yup genuinely and uniquely real. And thats one of my signature things...i wear a black ribbon around my neck everyday. Everyone knows the Frenchy black ribbon girl with pointed nails.
But apart from that, have you ever colored your hair to be different from everyone else and then saw that 4 other people have the same thing? Yeah. Pas cool.
I garuntee you that you will have more of a reputation if you are good moraled or have good grades or don't do drugs. If you're looking for a reputation go for one that puts you in a good light. Sure, if you're the b.a. kid that does stupid stuff i bet you you'll have a reputation but people will turn up their noses when they mention your name.
Even still i bet you by just knowing yourself and being yourself you will be 'different' because heck! There is not another you in this entire world!! You are 100% unique in every way! No matter how similar you are to another person you will never be the same. Maybe you both have the same interests but they will never be you because they will never live YOUR LIFE. the life you live is 100% genuine. No one will live exactly as you do. You see them from one view and they see you from another. They will never see themself from your view.
Besides in this world nowadays everyone is conforming to nonconformity. wierd isn't it? if you've ever seen 'The Incredibles' you'll understand. Syndrome says, "and when everyone is super...no one will be." Because what's so "super" about being 'super'? It's because the 'average Joe' isn't, right?! So if everyone is 'super' than there is nother "super" about being 'super'. if everyone is 'super' than the people who isn't 'super' is more "super" than the actual 'supers'. Ya know?
haha....yeah..i see your eyebrow going up...^^ i chuckle at you...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Systems...no not math...
When was the last time you were at a restaurant? For me it's every wednesday, saturday and now mondays. To tell you the truth i'm sick of restaurants. By working in one, one learns how gross they really are. And with no joke intended some restaurant bathrooms are more sanatized than the kitchen. Pretty sad, isn't it?
But that aside. Imagine following one plate in a restaurant. In the morning it is washed then put into a stack with its fellows. The dishwasher carries the stack to an area near the cooks. Then a cook gets and order. He takes the plate and starts to put chopped lettuce into it. Then after other topings have been added the cook places the plate onto the counter. The cook calls out either the order or the waitress to whom it will be served by. The waitress enters the kitchen area and takes the plate. She walks out to the dinning area and sets the plate infront of a customer. The customer begins to eat with some pauses between talking and chewing. He sneezes and a minimal amount of spit lands on his plate. He finally finishes and sets his plate to the side so not to be in his way. A busgirl asks if he is finished with his plate and she takes it away. She travels back to the kitchen area where it is set on a metal counter with sides. There are its fellows who have food left-overs, sauces, gravies, crumbs and such on them. A dishwasher picks the plate up and scrapes any remaining crumbs and then rinses it. He puts it on a stacker with its fellows and is pushed through to the washing machine. Then after about 7 minutes another dishwasher, standing only a foot away from the first, takes the clean dishes and puts them into a stack. The dishwasher carries the stack to the cooks' area. And.....you know the rest.
If you count how many hands have touched one plate in that whole process it is 6. 6 people have touched the plate. From dishwasher #1 to dishwasher #2 to a cook to a waitress to the customer to the busgirl back to dishwasher #1. Give or take a few depending on the order in which case at least 3 cooks might touch the plate.
Although my main purpose is not to gross you out and have you never go to a restaurant again I do want you to think of the process. A boss hired a cook, a waitress, a busgirl, a host, a cashier to keep things going at a smooth pace.
Another system that works within a restaurant is the happenings of a customer. A customer walks in and waits in a line. The hostess asks them a few questions and leads them to a seat. They take a seat and the hostess leaves them. A waitress comes up to them and asks questions on what they will be eating and drinking that night. They answer with their selection and hand the menu over. After sitting there for a several minutes the waitress comes back with the customers plate. They eat their meal in silence and after a while they finish and push their plate to the side. A busgirl, who has been eyeing the plate as the customer was close to finishing, comes up and asks politely whether or not they are done. She takes it away and the customer's waitress reappears and gives them the check. They gather their belongings and head over to the cashier to pay for the food. The cashier wishes the customer a good day and he walks away. Meanwhile the busgirl hurries to clean the table for the next customer who is to sit there. She finishes cleaning and within mere seconds the hostess leads another customer to the seat.
Crazy, isn't it? It is important to have all of the pieces or workers doing their job. If there were no cooks it would not be a restaurant to eat food. It would merely be a gathering place full of booths, counter seats and tables. Or if there were cooks but no waitresses. Customers would be lead in to be seated and no one would take their order. Therefore no orders would be put in. The cooks would sit in the back laughing and arm wrestling eachother. The busgirls would be in hysterics trying to calm the angry customers. Because no orders are being put in the dishwashers wash nearly nothing except maybe cups. Because there is no food being served the cashiers do not have customers coming up to pay the bill. (Except maybe for costly drinks...) The restaurant makes no money and everyone crashes and dies. So now we know the importance of roles. :) everyone has a role in the world. Everyone. Although not all roles are good they are roles that keep the world spinning. Remember there are no small parts only small actors. :P
But that aside. Imagine following one plate in a restaurant. In the morning it is washed then put into a stack with its fellows. The dishwasher carries the stack to an area near the cooks. Then a cook gets and order. He takes the plate and starts to put chopped lettuce into it. Then after other topings have been added the cook places the plate onto the counter. The cook calls out either the order or the waitress to whom it will be served by. The waitress enters the kitchen area and takes the plate. She walks out to the dinning area and sets the plate infront of a customer. The customer begins to eat with some pauses between talking and chewing. He sneezes and a minimal amount of spit lands on his plate. He finally finishes and sets his plate to the side so not to be in his way. A busgirl asks if he is finished with his plate and she takes it away. She travels back to the kitchen area where it is set on a metal counter with sides. There are its fellows who have food left-overs, sauces, gravies, crumbs and such on them. A dishwasher picks the plate up and scrapes any remaining crumbs and then rinses it. He puts it on a stacker with its fellows and is pushed through to the washing machine. Then after about 7 minutes another dishwasher, standing only a foot away from the first, takes the clean dishes and puts them into a stack. The dishwasher carries the stack to the cooks' area. And.....you know the rest.
If you count how many hands have touched one plate in that whole process it is 6. 6 people have touched the plate. From dishwasher #1 to dishwasher #2 to a cook to a waitress to the customer to the busgirl back to dishwasher #1. Give or take a few depending on the order in which case at least 3 cooks might touch the plate.
Although my main purpose is not to gross you out and have you never go to a restaurant again I do want you to think of the process. A boss hired a cook, a waitress, a busgirl, a host, a cashier to keep things going at a smooth pace.
Another system that works within a restaurant is the happenings of a customer. A customer walks in and waits in a line. The hostess asks them a few questions and leads them to a seat. They take a seat and the hostess leaves them. A waitress comes up to them and asks questions on what they will be eating and drinking that night. They answer with their selection and hand the menu over. After sitting there for a several minutes the waitress comes back with the customers plate. They eat their meal in silence and after a while they finish and push their plate to the side. A busgirl, who has been eyeing the plate as the customer was close to finishing, comes up and asks politely whether or not they are done. She takes it away and the customer's waitress reappears and gives them the check. They gather their belongings and head over to the cashier to pay for the food. The cashier wishes the customer a good day and he walks away. Meanwhile the busgirl hurries to clean the table for the next customer who is to sit there. She finishes cleaning and within mere seconds the hostess leads another customer to the seat.
Crazy, isn't it? It is important to have all of the pieces or workers doing their job. If there were no cooks it would not be a restaurant to eat food. It would merely be a gathering place full of booths, counter seats and tables. Or if there were cooks but no waitresses. Customers would be lead in to be seated and no one would take their order. Therefore no orders would be put in. The cooks would sit in the back laughing and arm wrestling eachother. The busgirls would be in hysterics trying to calm the angry customers. Because no orders are being put in the dishwashers wash nearly nothing except maybe cups. Because there is no food being served the cashiers do not have customers coming up to pay the bill. (Except maybe for costly drinks...) The restaurant makes no money and everyone crashes and dies. So now we know the importance of roles. :) everyone has a role in the world. Everyone. Although not all roles are good they are roles that keep the world spinning. Remember there are no small parts only small actors. :P
Monday, September 7, 2009
Not everyone loves the rose
I know of 2 people that everybody likes. They're the kind of people that if you ask anyone about their oppinion on that person they probably have something good to say about them. Isn't that amazing!?
It's either one of two things; either they are a mirror/chameleon to everyone around them or they are REALLY nice to everyone and everyone accepts them for who they are.
Unless you are someone like this then you probably have someone who dislikes/hates you. But hey..what can you do?
So, just to tell you beforehand, it's impossible for everyone to like you. But don't you just hate how on a site such as Youtube.com you leave one tiny comment of dislike or disagreement on a video and suddenly you have three youtubers flaming you with hatemail? It makes me very irritated. Even if you politely state that it wasn't to your liking, within 2 hours you will have someone sending you hateful messages of, "F*** YOU!! YOU F***N PIECE OF S***!!!! GO DIE IN A HOLE!!!" and just in case you're wondering, yes some jerk sent that exact message to me except that there were not asteriks but actual letters.
Personally I feel bad for people of authority of any kind. Their main purpose is to make things organized and better for everyone and people always seem to have the courage to mock them, slap them in the face, and call them inappropriate names. Think of it as someone pulling you out of the way of a train and then you punching them in the gut. It's the same idea.
Or people are completely convinced that thier opinion is fact. Either that or they are convinced that shouting and screaming obscene things will make you change your opinion on something.
NOOOOOO.... thats the little catch in English language...that's why there is a word for 'opinion' and a DIFFERENT word for 'fact'. Notice the difference in spelling. :)
Take for example Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. (Hey wait! Where are you going?! Don't click anything yet! Just hear me out!! ohhh, come ooon!!)
So...maybe there is someone who is still reading as probably everbody else saw the word 'twilight' and instantly clicked out.
But anyway...Twilight. 3 years ago if you asked anyone in your school, I bet you, they would have no clue what you talking about. As it became more popular everyone seemed to like with a few exceptions. Then suddenly it reached uber popular and suddenly no one liked it...um wait. what? So suddenly because it became famous you suddenly change your mind and decide you don't like it? Um no...sorry thats not how it works...When you see something for the first time you make a decision right then and there whether or not you like it. if someone says they don't like it then too bad. they don't like it and you do. You shouldn't change your mind on something based on what a peer says. (Although if a wise trustworthy adult says something then you should probably reconsider...and also maybe if that 'peer' is a wise trustworthy friend that wouldn't steer you wrong than you should listen.)
Hence, 'not everyone loves the rose'. Even though you like something and everyone seems to like it too there is probably someone out there that absolutely hates it. And if you do get into an arguement, then argue your point politely. Because screaming your opinion doesn't change anything. it just makes your opponent irritated with you and less likely to listen to your point...and it hurts their ears... :P
It's either one of two things; either they are a mirror/chameleon to everyone around them or they are REALLY nice to everyone and everyone accepts them for who they are.
Unless you are someone like this then you probably have someone who dislikes/hates you. But hey..what can you do?
So, just to tell you beforehand, it's impossible for everyone to like you. But don't you just hate how on a site such as Youtube.com you leave one tiny comment of dislike or disagreement on a video and suddenly you have three youtubers flaming you with hatemail? It makes me very irritated. Even if you politely state that it wasn't to your liking, within 2 hours you will have someone sending you hateful messages of, "F*** YOU!! YOU F***N PIECE OF S***!!!! GO DIE IN A HOLE!!!" and just in case you're wondering, yes some jerk sent that exact message to me except that there were not asteriks but actual letters.
Personally I feel bad for people of authority of any kind. Their main purpose is to make things organized and better for everyone and people always seem to have the courage to mock them, slap them in the face, and call them inappropriate names. Think of it as someone pulling you out of the way of a train and then you punching them in the gut. It's the same idea.
Or people are completely convinced that thier opinion is fact. Either that or they are convinced that shouting and screaming obscene things will make you change your opinion on something.
NOOOOOO.... thats the little catch in English language...that's why there is a word for 'opinion' and a DIFFERENT word for 'fact'. Notice the difference in spelling. :)
Take for example Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. (Hey wait! Where are you going?! Don't click anything yet! Just hear me out!! ohhh, come ooon!!)
So...maybe there is someone who is still reading as probably everbody else saw the word 'twilight' and instantly clicked out.
But anyway...Twilight. 3 years ago if you asked anyone in your school, I bet you, they would have no clue what you talking about. As it became more popular everyone seemed to like with a few exceptions. Then suddenly it reached uber popular and suddenly no one liked it...um wait. what? So suddenly because it became famous you suddenly change your mind and decide you don't like it? Um no...sorry thats not how it works...When you see something for the first time you make a decision right then and there whether or not you like it. if someone says they don't like it then too bad. they don't like it and you do. You shouldn't change your mind on something based on what a peer says. (Although if a wise trustworthy adult says something then you should probably reconsider...and also maybe if that 'peer' is a wise trustworthy friend that wouldn't steer you wrong than you should listen.)
Hence, 'not everyone loves the rose'. Even though you like something and everyone seems to like it too there is probably someone out there that absolutely hates it. And if you do get into an arguement, then argue your point politely. Because screaming your opinion doesn't change anything. it just makes your opponent irritated with you and less likely to listen to your point...and it hurts their ears... :P
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Language for granted
Bonjour! Salut! Bienvenue retourné! Alors, vous ne pouvez pas lire comme ça, non? C'est parceque ta tête ne peut pas comprendre le langue! Vous êtes né(e) comprendre le langue que tes parents parlent chez vous. Bien sûr, peut-être tes parents parlent deux langues donc tu es de la chance.
I hope you didn't understand any of that, in which case, i made my point.
So, translation.
'Hi! Welcome back! So, you can't read this, can you? It's because you can't understand the language! You were born understanding the language your parents spoke at home. Of course, with the chance that your parents speak two languages you are then very lucky.'
Think about it. How are you reading this? These symbols etched across your computer screen. and yet, you can comprehend them and make sense out of it. How is that you know that the period at the end of this sentence means that this is the end of my thought? Your brain! It's crazy isn't it?! And yet, I typed my ideas with the same symbols but in a different pattern and you suddenly couldn't make sense of any of it. They are the same letters, aren't they? well, maybe if you've taken or speak French that was nothing to you and now you're scoffing at my elementary French skills. :) (Yeash...very elementary, i know)
And how is it that a Chinese person can understand crazy symbols with scratches and boxes and dashes and yet they don't understand the simplicity of our letters?
Now I'm not pretending that I am all- knowing or whatever, but i want to share with you my theories on how this crazy but taken for granted little thing in life called language is learned.
My theory is this; when we are babies our mind is a blank canvas. At that point in time we can learn anything, anything at all. In fact we are so open to anything in the world we could be taught that a fork is called a book and computer is called a wind chime. When you read that sentence you probably just imagined a fork, a book, a computer, and a wind chime. It's because our brain works by imagery. When a person talks to you you imagine every noun and verb they say. (technically you don't think with articles) You put it together in your brain to form a sentence. Your brain reads the newly formed sentence and translates it for you to understand. When we get older we don't have to think about every word so robotically.
Isn't that crazy!?
I hope you didn't understand any of that, in which case, i made my point.
So, translation.
'Hi! Welcome back! So, you can't read this, can you? It's because you can't understand the language! You were born understanding the language your parents spoke at home. Of course, with the chance that your parents speak two languages you are then very lucky.'
Think about it. How are you reading this? These symbols etched across your computer screen. and yet, you can comprehend them and make sense out of it. How is that you know that the period at the end of this sentence means that this is the end of my thought? Your brain! It's crazy isn't it?! And yet, I typed my ideas with the same symbols but in a different pattern and you suddenly couldn't make sense of any of it. They are the same letters, aren't they? well, maybe if you've taken or speak French that was nothing to you and now you're scoffing at my elementary French skills. :) (Yeash...very elementary, i know)
And how is it that a Chinese person can understand crazy symbols with scratches and boxes and dashes and yet they don't understand the simplicity of our letters?
Now I'm not pretending that I am all- knowing or whatever, but i want to share with you my theories on how this crazy but taken for granted little thing in life called language is learned.
My theory is this; when we are babies our mind is a blank canvas. At that point in time we can learn anything, anything at all. In fact we are so open to anything in the world we could be taught that a fork is called a book and computer is called a wind chime. When you read that sentence you probably just imagined a fork, a book, a computer, and a wind chime. It's because our brain works by imagery. When a person talks to you you imagine every noun and verb they say. (technically you don't think with articles) You put it together in your brain to form a sentence. Your brain reads the newly formed sentence and translates it for you to understand. When we get older we don't have to think about every word so robotically.
Isn't that crazy!?
Why not think about the little things in life that make the world go 'round?
Um...so..I suppose this should be an introduction to my blog...
So, I just want you all to know that I'm definately a 'noob' at blogging...sorry for the akward-ness of the whole thing.
So....just to start things off....Hi! I'm Fangedprincess (also my Youtube channel)! Some things you ought to know (sorry, this is the boring part) before you start reading, getting annoyed, and clicking the little 'X' button at the top of your screen....yes...i can see that on your screen...BWHAHAHAHA!!! O.o -_- (but seriously...)
I started blogging because I thought people would maybe/perhaps/not really find it interesting to question the little things in life that everyone takes for granted.
so...i'm gonna go now cuz my cereal is getting soggy....
So, I just want you all to know that I'm definately a 'noob' at blogging...sorry for the akward-ness of the whole thing.
So....just to start things off....Hi! I'm Fangedprincess (also my Youtube channel)! Some things you ought to know (sorry, this is the boring part) before you start reading, getting annoyed, and clicking the little 'X' button at the top of your screen....yes...i can see that on your screen...BWHAHAHAHA!!! O.o -_- (but seriously...)
I started blogging because I thought people would maybe/perhaps/not really find it interesting to question the little things in life that everyone takes for granted.
so...i'm gonna go now cuz my cereal is getting soggy....
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