Revisiting My Childhood!

A friend told me she was watching Sailor Moon and we got to talking about how much we loved this show as kids and how Toonami on Cartoon Network was the best thing ever, and how today Cartoon Network shows little to nothing that we consider to be interesting. Personally i rushed home to watch it along with Dragonballz. I couldn't get enough of it..even got pissed off when anyone made me miss it and remember getting into an argument with my best friend at the time about the color of Amy's (Sailor Mercury) hair, after which we didn't speak for about a day lol. Even after all these years i am proud to say that i still remember the theme song. After this trip down memory lane, i decided to watch it from the beginning as well.

I've reached episode 34...and even though at some points i asked myself why i liked certain things about the show...i still really enjoyed it. I didn't remember Serena (Sailor Moon) being that much of a cry baby..found her to be quite annoying, but i guess as a child you don't notice those things as much. One thing that hasn't changed is who was my favorite character. I loved Lita (Sailor Jupiter), i just thought the whole lightning thing was cool and after seeing it again...it was still cool. I also like Rei's (Sailor Mars) power which was fire.

I've tried to watch certain shows i loved growing up and realized that either i'm too mature now for my own good or the shows were downright stupid and only children could enjoy them. Saved by the Bell for example was a show i loved and after watching one single episode i couldn't remember why i loved Screech and thought he was funny. Similarly..i watch Family Matters and found Steve Urkel to be annoying and less than funny. But i guess these things are all part of growing up.

“The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age". Kahlil Gibran

Avatar

Tonight my friends and I watched Avatar. Overall I thought it was a great movie, but the only problem that I had, was that its building of the storyline was too slow and I was initially bored.But once the action started, I was more than awake. James Cameron the director took forever too make this movie and it was worth the wait...its no Titanic, but it was a good movie. I honestly would not take the time to watch it again..its just one of those movies that I couldn't sit through more than once. But I didn't see it as just a movie with blue people fighting for their land, its a story that can be related to real life, which I think helped in making the movie great.

The Holidays

Christmas hasn't been a a big deal to my dad and I for quite a number of years and in a way it still wasn't this year..but I was content with how it turned out. I got a great gift from my dad which for the past 3 days I've been making GREAT use of :) Today one of my dad's good friends had a lime at her house....full of adults i didn't know, children too young to seriously talk to and two teenage boys who are too quiet for their own good and as a result..talking to them was quite difficult. After a while i got quite bored but the boys turned on the Wii and i joined in and played Naruto (which i turned out to be quite good at), Super Mario (more boring than i remembered) and Resident Evil (boring despite the zombies), and i can honestly say i had a pretty good time....and was fed quite well :D Not sure what will be going on throughout this week, but I'm happy knowing that everyday i wake up, i have no work to do,there is nothing to stress me out and i can relax and be the best bum i can be.

The Logos Hope is a ship that sails around the world promoting the word of God and international cooperation and has about 600 volunteers from 70 different countries and is often called the "Book Ship" cause it sells various types of books, whether for academic or personal purposes. I've visited the ship about twice and I'm hoping to again now that its back. Today some of the volunteers were on campus and i had the pleasure of giving a nice Japenese guy a tour and i introduced him to some of my friends and through him i met people from Canada, Finland, Korea,Israel and India, who all thought Barbados was a great place, filled with great people. Volunteering for the Logos seems like it would be a great experience and an opportunity to visit places you never even heard of and meet a lot of of interesting people. The Japanese guy i met, Yoshi, doesn't speak very good English but after talking with him for a while we both acknowledged that we were getting used to each others accents and i found that he genuinely believed in helping people and i thought it was nice how he considers himself to be a lucky person,because he knows God and enjoys having a free life. Unfortunately, they wont be back on campus but hopefully I'll get to go to the ship and see them again.

Paranormal Activity........*snores*

I just watched Paranormal Activity. I read that it was so terrifying and scary that i thought it was worth watching. I was really wrong..and anyone who can say they enjoyed this movie and was scared by it...doesn't know what it means to be scared. It was too long and all the paranormal activity consisted of mostly weird noises, a little wind and a small fire. The most action packed moment *rolls eyes*, was when the 'spirit' pulled her out the bed and in the end when it caused her to kill her husband. I just lost 90 minutes and some seconds of my life on this nonsense....yet it beat out SAW at the box office. i am no fan of SAW but at least it can make me cringe and look away from the screen, whereas with this i had to fight to pay attention. This movie's popularity is based on word-of-mouth and and i definitely wont be recommending it to anyone unless they need to be put to sleep. The poster says "Don't watch it Alone", i say don't watch it period!

You Learn Something New Everyday

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb

Today i was in the library with a friend, we were supposed to be studying, but ended up talking more than anything else. We talked about boys, friends, shared funny stories and boys some more and when we finally did look at our books...well my book...she was on her Mac Book, i taught her that Walt Disney owned the ABC network and that General Electric owns NBC. Neither of us previously knew these things but found them a little odd but interesting. I was reading all about business strategies and by these companies acquiring businesses that are unrelated to their core business processes, they have adopted the unrelated diversification strategy =].

We learned something new today...and whoever reads this will too :p

Unnecessary Frustration

Every semester since I've started university I've had at least one group that just cant get their act together and do what needs to be done. They'd rather fool around, be lazy and and as a result cause unnecessary frustrations, and they just don't seem to care. Why must I always be the one to do everything? Why must I be the one that has to tell people they are wrong and be disliked for it?
How can members of a group, all of which will share the same grade, sit back and let someone submit pages of nonsense with their names attached. No one has criticisms till I say something is wrong, then they all fall in line. That doesn't help anyone.

And when you try to help people, why must they always act as though they were attacked? People that I have come across have no idea how diplomatic I try to be when telling them what I think about their work. Sometimes it seems like if they were given a good cursing, they'd take that much better and get the point and do what they are supposed to do!