Finals

Ah, it's that wonderful time again. 

It's the time of the year where I fully concentrate and engage myself in my learnings. 

It's the time when I dust off the textbooks and pour through chapters of exciting material that all seem brand new. 

It's the time I start to cry and realize that everything I "learned" I never actually learned.

It's the time I stress out so much I can't sleep with the thoughts swirling in my head.

It's a beautiful time. 

It's finals time.

snails

i just read online that a snail is able to sleep for up to 3 years. what i would give to have that ability. but i guess it's kind of like a coma...and instead of 22 i'll wake up 25. maybe not a good thing.

bacon salt?

what on earth is bacon salt? supposedly it makes everything tastes like bacon but theres no bacon in it...and it comes in bbq flavor. do we need all this bacon? after looking at www.thisiswhyyourefat.com, ive decided that yes, we do indeed need bacon salt. everything on that website was covered in bacon. and since bacon salt supposedly has no calories or fat, so its a great substitute for bacon wrapped anything. so next time you want to wrap bacon in something or eat bacon and eggs, just sprinkle on some bacon salt and it'll be exactly the same. 

New Years Resolutions

1. exercise

i always say i will and i do it for a little while and then stop. i still do it sporatically. i want to do regularly.

2. smile more

people say i always look sad or tired. i never really sad but i am really tired all the time. but i will try to smile more.

3. hang out with my friends more

sometimes i tend to just sit in my apt cuz im lazy. i want to actively call their lazy asses and then we can all laze together.

thats it. i dont want to over do it. =]

hi, my name is tammy and i lack motivation

motivation. i lack it. i dont know where it went. like right now, im unmotivated to do my paper. and tomorrow, i will be unmotivated to wake up. hahhahha. that's depressing. but on friday i will be motivated to go to sushi.

back to my unmotivating paper about labor economic policy

wow...this world...

when i first saw the headlines of the mumbai terror attacks, my heart just dropped. the death toll is now higher than 100, with gunmen killing indiscriminately. it just makes me wonder how someone can become so heartless as to be able to gun down so many people. i can't even imagine hurting one person and yet they are hurting not just their victims, but their victims' families. what drives people to that point? a lot of people immediately point their fingers to religion, specifically islam. and yeah, muslim people have gotten a lot of bad press ever since 2001, but i don't believe you can specifically blame religion. thousands of muslim people would probably never think about doing what the gunmen in india are doing right now. its depressing. i dont even really now what to say about it, its always hard for me to wrap my mind around events that cause so much pain to people. i can't think about it any more, it just makes me want to cry

Election Day 2008

wow. i honestly did not think this could happen, but it did. Barack Obama has made history and become the first black president of the united states. it floors me that our nation has come such a long way in just 40 years. im glad we realize that everyone has something to offer, im glad we put a fresh perspective into the oval office. im really happy. hopefully he does some good with it.

prop 8 also needs to not pass. we cannot ban gay marriage if we have hope for change. everyone has the same rights under the constitution and just because they have same sex partners doesn't change that fact. i had an argument with my parents about prop 8. they didn't believe it was a good thing and i asked why. here were their reasons:

1. it's unnatural.

i don't see it as unnatural. sure they can't biologically have babies together, but you are attracted to who you are attracted to, and i don't believe you can just change that. we all have something within ourselves that attract us to certain people. if youre a woman and want to be with a woman or if youre a man that wants to be with a man, go ahead. it doesn't bother me at all. 

2. their children will be confused

who's to say that straight couples can raise children better than gay couples? it's possible that gay couples can raise children who tolerate better, leading to a much brighter future where we can accept each other for our differences instead of hating what we don't like. a gay couple isn't going to make their child gay, that's ridiculous. the child will love who he/she wants to love and no amount of parenting is going to change that.

3. some sort of chinese philosophy about something

i dunno. i pretty much stopped listening at this point. how can you apply something so ancient to such a new way of thinking? and there must have been gay relationships in ancient china, there were in ancient egypt, ancient rome, ancient greece, why does it matter? then i proceeded to call them close-minded, which perhaps wasn't too nice of me. 

and to those who cite religion to say gay marriage is immoral because homosexuality is immoral, then fine, you can have your marriage back, but it should then be a purely religious thing and devoid of all things a marriage now offers, in terms of spousal rights and stuff. because this country was founded on the belief that there should be a seperation of church and state. and the state says that everyone is equal and have the same rights, which means everyone has the right to "marry." if necessary, we'll call them unions and have the legal stuff, whatever. either way, it should be seperate and we should not even be voting on an issue where the answer is clear. banning gay marriage is wrong because we are denying them the right that everyone is afforded.