It's Alex! (YAYYY I'M BACK! ^-^)

Unfair Crediting System?

Hey guys! Sorry for the delay, but I actually put a little work into my posts. After all, Paul says "A picture is worth a 1000 words". So... if I don't have pictures I need a 1000 words! (For those of you fools who say the intro+the asterisks=1000 words, I don't care, try writing a well-written 1000 word blog post in 2 hours).

I would like to introduce to you: a poorly written, mild rant, written in a cynical, sarcastic, humorous, and religious tone. I might edit it to make it a decent piece of prose (with bullet points and parenthetical comments) ; or else I'll just be lazy and keep it as it is.

See if you can find places where I put in rhymes, semi-sentence-palindromes, and other fun stuff. Like I said, I avoided using parenthetical comments this time around.

********************************************************************

It was a perfect day. I hop off the bus, and slowly make my way home, up my street where the houses are two miles apart. The backpack is weighing me down. I'm bored. No! When you get bored, you think of stuff that went wrong Alex! ...the FBLA meeting. Right. That was one thing that went wrong. And after being dragged to that meeting, I realized that the crediting system, although seemingly enticing, is incredibly broken.

Let's face it. We just love padding our resumes. But where is the line that must be drawn, between what's morally right and what's morally wrong? The fact that we can basically earn money for our 1k dollar senior trip by doing absolutely nothing is nothing to absolutely shy away from. But again, I have to emphasize that this is morally wrong. Yeah, call me a wuss; too bad. Don't you want to go to heaven?

Take a look at an FBLA meeting. You come in, sit, sign in, and leave. What a terrible mess.

I swear, the place is in absolute pandemonium from beginning to end. Sure, teacher intervention may be discouraged, but if there is absolutely none, then the club will most likely look like an orange after it was squeezed by Jerry in the cafeteria. We students simply do not have enough experience and skill combined to control a meeting the magnitude of the FBLA's. After all, not everybody is like the leader of the TCC club, who can simply conjure up an amazing program in less than one summer.

Actually... the TCC president probably got off easier since Asians are cohesive AND cooperative. At the same time!

Yeah, you can actually call it the FBLA's fault. After all, aren't they supposed to direct you? And yes, you do run the school store once in the while. So it isn't completely us to blame. However, there are two types of free creditors:

The people that actually attend the meeting. Good job. This is right.
The people that ask other people to sign them in and then don't attend. Bad boy. This is wrong.

I completely despise the latter type of free creditor simply because they are lazy and they don't deserve it. Period. There is no other argument.

Keep in mind that, even if you raise all 1000$ by free crediting, you still only raised enough to pay for, in my case, your 75$ club fee, your ~300$ MUN trip, and part of your ~900$ orchestra trip. Two of the above payments may even be annual. Throw in the cost for a graphing calculator, the outrageous costly MLA handbook, and other entities that your teachers make you purchase, and basically 1000$ is a miniscule amount.

But that's another story; sorry for the tangent. The money-sapping high school is a different problem.

There are also other logical arguments for the non-believers, a.k.a. the believers of free crediting.

You don't learn. What do you learn? How to write your name in a laptop?
You don't develop. Wait... that's the same thing!
It looks stupid. You can argue with this one.

Alas, the only thing we can do is to fix it. When? How? I dunno. Maybe never. Anyway, I'm too lazy to do anything about it.

******************************************************************

I have to admit, I struggled to get to 1000 words. So, I stopped at approximately 750. Ranting about a subject without making it redundant, and carefully shaping its tone is harder to do with such a narrow topic because there is just so much you can write.

-Alex

Dance Kirby Dance!

I said 200 characters. And since I am moderately busy today,

DANCE KIRBY DANCE

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

DANCE KIRBY DANCE

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

DANCE KIRBY DANCE

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

DANCE KIRBY DANCE

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

(>'_')>

<('_'<)

What's this!? I'm just filling up space!? Naw! I'm working on larger posts right now so I need a filler.

Cya tom.

Happy Blogger Week! (Or whatever you call it)

And look! It's already the first week of October.

According to my friends, Oct. 4-10 is blogger week, which means it is time for me to get back to my blogging =). I was bored and needed something to do anyway.

Since one of my friends was "heroic" enough to write his new blogging goals, I should blog down mine too! Here they are:

Use less ellipses! For some reason, after look back on my posts most of my sentences ended in "...". (Was I depressed or something)?
And if I'm going to use less ellipses, I better use less emoticons too and chatspeak. (After all, this isn't gtalk, this is a weblog). I'm going to use the occasional smiley face though =)
Beat that, _______! (I'm pretty sure mentioning other people's names are bad on the web?) My goal is 200 words per post, which is 50, count it, 50 more words than your posts! (With less waste-of-space words too).

Those are the goals that come to my head immediately, but obviously there are more insightful ones that might actually impact my blog. And look, another goal has just popped into my head, and that is using less parentheses... ehehehe.

Anyway, I need to get back to studying. Ciao!

To come later:

More blogging goals!
My speculation of "frisbee on ice".
Rants of course!
And more! I'm going to add a "subscribe" button soon, so you won't have to come here everyday.

Scholarship Competition

My Gerbils

I took a picture of my gerbils, photoshopped it (added lighting, it was like super dark), and here you go. They're like old men now, two years old. One has a stroke. Pip and Squeak, meet the world.

P.S. I purposely posted twice, because I'm not going to be posting anytime soon. Crazy life. Don't worry, I'll continue to comment =P.

Edit/P.P.S. Claudia's site has some new content, go check it out. The link is on the side. Paul's site has no new content, last time I checked. xD

Competition!

While I write my own version of Mrs. Friedba Con, how about let's have a competition!

Submit your own Mrs. Friedba Con story to alexge11@gmail.com, or just... post it in a comment below.

It doesn't have to be long, or great. It could be one word. But, I doubt you will win if your story is one word. Just saying. It can be about... Stacy and sprite, Andy and cheese, or anything you want, but it has to relate to Mrs. Friedba Con!

THIS IS A DEMOCRACY! After everyone submits their story, I'll post all of them and set up a poll! Whoever gets the most votes wins!

As you can see, there aren't many rules to this competition, so have fun.

P.S. This is so lame... but whatever. Paul suggested it.

Regrets

There are many things I regret.. when I look at someone's status -cough cough artichoke- that says I should wear the Montgomery T-shirt tomorrow to the science expo... I realize that I should have been not lazy and just took time to fill out the stupid form.

I also regret quitting violin... but the funny thing is... if I started taking violin private lessons again, I wouldn't practice that much anyways. (Anyways is TOO a word, Alicia.) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anyways . So, the best thing to do is just to try to forget about it and let it slide... but how can I when everyday in orchestra I get slightly worse and worse? I suppose I should just practice my orchestra pieces then.

What if I find more regrets? I might list them here:

Do you regret something? Comment below!

Subscribe To My Blog!