March 2011
Fun Fact of the Day:
Sometimes I sit somewhere on campus and spend hours just watching, listening to society happen around me.
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Lilo and Stitch
“It’s little, and broken, but still good”
I’ve seen a lot of reblogs on Tumblr and as far as I can remember nothing has been quoted as many times as Lilo and Stitch. The last and first time I watched it was all the way back in 6th grade. Back then it meant nothing more than a fun animated feature with aliens and Elvis and explosions. I finally decided to watch it again and...
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Fun Fact of the Day:
So I’ve seen a lot of Tumblr quotes regarding flipping a coin, and in the time that it is flipping, one realizes what they truly hope for. Well this spring break my high school friends and I were at a House of Shabu Shabu and we had waited almost an hour. We were debating whether or not to just go somewhere else. So being the Computer Science, Mechanical Engineers, and International...
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Fun Stats
BaritonePats youtube account has 54,802 video views.
EuphoniumPats youtube account has 41,728 video views.
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WatchThese are my friends. I met them in a residence hall. They’re pretty awesome. :3
(Stumbled on this video while looking through SPOP photos and videos this past spring break. They are pretty awesome too)
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It’s so frustrating when I want to Tumbler “Like” a post because the icon is a heart. So I can’t decide if I’m “Liking” a post or “Loving” a post. Grumble grumble.
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The only reason anyone should ever feel obligated to lose weight is for legitimate health/medical concerns.
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It’s scary to think when I say a “Bye” or a “Cya” to these people, my closest friends, I really won’t be seeing them again for at least three months at the least if not longer. But because they are my closest friends I trust that we will be able to see each other again, and I always look forward to those times as they draw near.
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“The world needs to be more like MMORPG’s where the only difference between...”
– Friend on Facebook
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Meet
How cool flippin’ awesome that I have a group of friends and we just call up/email/facebook each other and be like “Let’s have a meet” during a school break. And then we have a meet, like we have had for over six years. And those six years are only counting the years since I joined. I can’t get over how amazing these friends are in every single way.
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Haircut
For as long as I can remember, my mom has been the only person to cut my hair. It’s a simple cut, but I would not have anyone else do it. There’s another reason why I love haircuts from my mom. It’s some of the best quality, heart to heart type times I ever have. It’s the only chance my mom and I get to talk for a long time and I get to ask her questions without having to...
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Respect
I always find it weird and mildly offensive when people talk trash about people older or younger than them simply for the fact that they are older or younger. Especially about younger people. Now I know I have made jokes about high schoolers and middle schoolers too, but I don’t feel like I ever put them down. I note the different experiences between college life and high school life. I note...
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Funny
It’s funny that the same American supremacists who declare the moral and military dominance of the United States are the same ones who are now crying foul over American involvement in a military operation to rid the world of a cruel dictator. I just read a Republican House Representative’s opinion article talk about how America can’t “afford” to police the world...
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Yeah
There are bigger, more important things to do in life. Yeah everyone has to move on with their lives. But holy effing cow that was the most amazing spring quarter and summer EVER. SO SURREAL right now, reminiscing.
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Mecha
A culture of violence exists. There’s always media about guns, fighting, machines, war, etc., etc. How interesting is it then that the Gundam anime series, which falls under the “mecha” genre, portrays the other side of war? For the uninformed, the Gundam and other mecha genre animes are about giant humanoid piloted robots, essentially weapons of mass destruction. Most action...
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Wealthy People Fighting to prevent Wealthier... →
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Love (Reblog)
[Concealed]:
What does it mean to be in a relationship? I find myself, time and time, coming back to this topic. It’s not like I’ve never wanted to be involved in a relationship, but it’s just that I’ve never had the opportunity to engage in one. Okay. Maybe that’s a lie, too. I’m just.. thinking about that past experience back in Sophomore year of high school—oh geez.. I sound old—I could have...
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400k
The President of the United States of America is paid an annual salary of $400,000; he has arguably the most important and most difficult job in the world. So unless the person came up with a cure for cancer, there is no one on this planet who should be earning more than $400,000 a year.
*Thoughts on the distribution of wealth in both the nation and the world.
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Thought of the Day:
I find it kinda ridiculous whenever someone says that they don’t want to have children for any reason like financial costs, emotional drain, career killers, etc. If you don’t feel it, yeah it’s your feelings to not have a child and that is your decision. But it’s ridiculous to try to rationalize not having children. Because if the parents of that person had considered...
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You know you go to UC Irvine when:
-justinrecio:
Nickname: University of Chinese Immigrants
You know what the term “swipe me in” means.
You befriend freshman to “swipe you in.”
You’ve waken up early to get in line for Shocktoberfest wristbands.
“KOREAN BBQ!! FIVE DOLLARS!!”
“BOBA!! TWO DOLLARS!!”
You try to avoid people handing out flyers, but end up taking them anyway only to throw them away as soon as you pass by the...
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Question of the Day:
The economy and jobs and things can be studied and reasonable solutions can be found. But how does a nation, a government deal with religious ideals? How can the government act on such a divisive religious issue like gay marriage?
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No Joke
Reading the 15+ CNN articles and watching the two feature length documentaries in the past four days, on a whole range of topics, has been exhausting, somewhat depressing, but so very enlightening too. It’s no doubt very difficult to stay so up to date with everything that is going on on the surface and what is going on beneath the surface. I hope many other people find some time in their...
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Are whites racially oppressed? →
Oooohlala what a relevant article to the Asian American course I just had.
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Champion
Wouldn’t it be cool if in Pokemon, after you beat the Elite Four+Champion, you could actually BE the Champion? Like, you can go to the Champion room, and the game will randomly generate a high leveled Challenger to battle you! That way you can continuously fight progressively more difficult “Challenger” Trainers instead of repetitively fighting the same old Elite Four over and...
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“If you’re tired of it, you never loved it in the first place.”
– Me
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9500 Liberty
Just watched another amazing documentary (I watched Inside Job last night, a documentary narrated by Matt Damon detailing the financial crisis of 2008, what caused it, who is responsible, and how rich they are now). This one is called “9500 Liberty”. It was released in 2009 and is a compilation of mini documentary video segments detailing the approval and repeal of an Arizona-esque...
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Thought of the Day:
I don’t really want to be a billionaire. I don’t even really want to be a millionaire. I don’t know what I would do with the money. I don’t like flying. I don’t like boats. I don’t like being lonely in a big house. I don’t like heights. I think I’d be quite happy with a nice barely six digit hard earned salary.
I am thinking about this while...
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Thought of the Day:
“Live and Help Live”
I came across this phrase when reading a speech given by journalist Bill Moyers. I didn’t quite understand it but a few hours later in the middle of dinner it hit me. Quite a phrase isn’t it? It is the simplest understanding of “goal in life”. The first and most important, part, “Live”. Be alive physically, mentally,...
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Inequality
in America is blowing my mind right now. Following a simply amazing Asian American Studies course, I’m discovering hoards of information of what truly causes economic and social inequality in this country. Yes, I used the word “hoard”, because this information is being hidden, concealed from the public and public discussion. It sounds like a joke, a script from a movie, but...
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Government
“As voters and grassroots volunteers, we understand that the federal government is not our enemy, but the expression of our collective will – and we pledge to both support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.” -The Coffee Party mission statement
This. This is what so many people fail to see.
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Thought of the Day:
Inevitably because of its nature as television show, the New Directions of the TV series Glee ultimately have to substantively achieve success by the end of the series. But thinking about the show up until the most recent episode, the show has been about something I think is easy to lose sight of. It is the idea of succeeding without acknowledgement by others. It is performing your very best and...
Fact of the Day:
I like to act in excess.
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Fact of the Day:
Finals Week means… More Stress, More Video Games, More Tumblr Posts
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Question of the Day:
Do kids from other colleges use Facebook less than kids at UCI do? Someone pointed out how he sees so few status updates from friends in colleges and I have to agree I don’t see much from my friends in other colleges. Is it just some trick that Facebook is playing, showing me less updates from people not in my immediate network? Or do Anteaters just like Facebook a lot?
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WHOOPS
Totally missed my number 500 post! It was the one with the optical illusion picture!
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http://likealittle.com/uci/ →
Got a crush? Afraid to let them know? Just broadcast it to the world here!
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My grandmother could have been hurt or worse by Japanese soldiers if the place her family was hiding in was revealed by any noise. The Japanese essentially could have prevented my very existence. I should hate and fear the Japanese from the bottom of my soul. But that would be a generalization. The reality is that a number of Japanese soldiers and their commanding officer could have caused the...
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Question of the Day:
Do people feel threatened by other races? I just saw a screenshot of a person’s facebook photo’s comments, with a lot of people from a certain city voicing their opinion that Asians are taking over “their” city. I’m trying to rationalize what is going through their minds. Obviously I can’t do this as a minority. I wonder for example how I would feel if my family...
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Quote of the Day
(On the topic of viral videos Rebecca Black and UCLA Girl)
“ they’re like the new breed of viruses…before we had the black plague and shit…now we have rebecca black on the 1s and 2s”
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Question of the Day:
How do people get wise? In particular, most of the people I follow always seem to have something wise to say. Is it something achievable? Does it come from special experiences? Is it inspired by another’s wise words? How do I reach this enlightenment? (Rhetorical, I guess.)
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“An inferiority complex, in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, is a feeling that one is inferior to others in some way. Such feelings can arise from an imagined or actual inferiority in the afflicted person. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extremeschizotypal behavior, or both....
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tttumbler:
Just saw the video of the UCLA girl.
I am not mad, furious, or getting crazy racist come-backs in my head after watching it.
But I am disappointed and embarrassed that this is how some modern American young adults can be. This is us. How did we get like this?
