“It’s times like these you learn to love again”

            - “Times Like These” | Foo Fighters

     It’s about time I’ve had some lyrics on this blog. 

     It’s suicide season among university students – and no, I’m not speaking literally about suicide, (although I’m sure rates are high at this time of year), but it’s nearing the end of the semester and professors go crazy with evaluation.  Assignments and exams are hitting students in the face from all directions.  Studying takes up about 98% of your life and the other two per cent is shared between sleeping and eating. 

     Sleepy and malnourished, anyone?           Right here.

 

     As I was studying for a mid-term that is nowhere near the middle of the term *raises eyebrow*, I was just cruising along, enjoying a little Foo Fighters and Times Like These played and it made me realize that it is definitely study time when you think all of your interests, hobbies and loves in life, hence “It’s times like these you learn to love again”.  It’s when you have ZERO time for it all, it seems so appealing.  I am well aware that my interpretation is not the intended meaning of the lyric, this is what crossed my mind as I heard it.

            What would I like to be doing instead of studying? 

-       Writing a decent blog post that is not about school

-       Reading a book purely for leisure (although some I have read this were really good)

-       Being creative – doing a craft – making a friendship bracelet!

-       Watching television/movies

-       CLEANING MY APARTMENT

     Those are the first few things that came to mind, but trust me – there are MANY more.  So, I should get back to studying and you can all get back to your lives!

PEACE

“Mistaking celery for broccoli is just as bad as mistaking raisins for chocolate chips.”

It’s like the biggest let-down ever:  So you’re sitting in the food court of the mall, got some nice sweet&sour chicken, chicken fried rice and guy ding in front of you, all ready to take a bite into a lovely piece of broccoli and HOOOOOOOLLD UP!  What is this?  It’s not broccoli, IT’S CELERY! 

The world comes to an end. 

Celery has to be the most disgusting tasting food-from-the-earth.  It literally tastes like dirt.  Watery dirt... mud?  Although celery only has about 19 calories per serving, and the average human burns more calories chewing and swallowing the celery, so it makes for a great healthy snack, it tastes so horrible that I probably wouldn’t accept money to willingly eat the stuff.  Even if you disguised it with cheesewhiz or peanut butter or something – no dice.

So when the tragic event of mistaking broccoli for celery happened, my best friend, Emily, was there providing me with perhaps the best simile I’ve ever heard:  “Mistaking celery for broccoli is just as bad as mistaking raisins for chocolate chips”.  Same concept, right?  About to bite into what you think is a delicious oatmeal-chocolate chip cookie, but wait!  Why are these chocolate chips squishy?  Surprise, you've got raisins.  Have a nice life.

Thank you, Emily, for being an inspiration!  (:

"Long time, no see!"

Hello, peeps.  So it has certainly been a while since I’ve written a blog.  It seems as though my academic career and social life have forbidden what was going to be a weekly post on my part.  It’s not that I have completely avoided my blog; I have been working on a few posts... I just haven’t completed anything other than school work in a while.  Anyhow, I’m going to try to get things back on track. 

          To get things rolling again, I decided to start with the previously hated, yet commonly used phrase: “long time, no see”.  Despite hearing and using this phrase all of my life, (What does that say about my social life?), I still cringed every time I said it.  For the most part, I like to abide by grammatical rules as much as I can, and the ungrammaticality of the phrase caused me to look upon myself with disgust.  Dramatic, I know.  But really, I want to speak as properly as I can.  (Goody-goody)  I continue borrow phrases that are common to my culture, some of which are terribly ungrammatical, but still enjoyable!  I just found this particular phrase as fierce as a smack in the face.

          All in all I’d like to say that I’ve gained a new appreciation for the phrase “long time, no see”.  It’s not that I really like it now, I just hate it less.  Knowing the origin definitely clears up the weird grammatical issue I have had with it: “long time, no see” is actually a direct word-for-character translation of Chinese characters.  Okay, that’s cool.  I am well aware of language translations having word order issues, so now I can live with the ungrammaticality of the phrase. 

          Conscience cleared.  Mind is at ease.  I can now sleep at night.