It seems like this semester I am taking a lot of eye opening courses. I guess the messages and morals are basically normally heard everywhere but sometimes you hear it so much that it comes in one ear and goes out the other.
This semester I am taking a Humanism film class that analyzes Japanese films that revolve around the theme of humanism. The film we watched today was one I have watched once during freshman and it's called Ikiru or To Live. Maybe when I was in freshman year I was already motivated to do things so my movie reaction back then was like, "that's what I've been doing all a long! Initiating change." However, watching it right now at this moment of my life, it kind of makes me want to kick myself and reevaluate what needs to get done right now. I want to say it gives me hope for myself for the future to do things but humanist way of thought doesn't believe in hope. Although the reasoning behind not holding onto hope makes sense on the humanist way of the argument (that way you will start to make things happen instead of waiting for it), what I think is that the little hopes are what makes us keep going.
The movie is old and it is in black and white and I don't know where you could have access to it but if you do have an opportunity to watch it, please do. It is quite an inspiring movie and the ending makes me want to do things and all this evening (instead of doing my homework: guilty) I have been thinking of things... What is my role and what steps in my life should I take in order to have a passion and greed for life? I guess.
Carpe diem!
Live for today. One step at a time,
Step by step.
I remember that was my campaign motto in high school. Even though I lost...
Sighs, but I hope I made a difference. When I think back to my high school times, for that time and the situation I was in, I think I did some poignant things. Scratch that. Poignant thing.
I felt proud and happy that multicultural day went well when I was in charge of planning it. I managed to gain food donations to sell. I was actually a lot more brave and courageous when I was younger. Although I was nervous, I made things happen! I was unhappy when people said that they wanted to remove multicultural day from school so I made the step to make sure it happened with an awesome success.
Usually when people get older, they gain more confidence right? Why am I the opposite? Am I by myself on this one? I hope not.
This year, maybe I should try to be more courageous in many aspects of my life and not be afraid of mistakes and failure because honestly I did that a lot in high school as well. Hmm....
Wow this movie really made me think...
Can't wait to hear more on the discussions for this movie in class soon~ in the near future.
Sighs...
Since I came back to the island for school, I have been cooking a lot of Korean food. Kimchi stew and samgyreopsal are the two main dishes I have indulged besides stir fry and fried rice. I haven't made kimchi fried rice yet. To be honest we still have kimchi soup on the stove. It really gets better on the second day. The third day is slightly pushing it though because everything really melts if you simmer it for a long time like that.
However today after my morning class I decided to make cinnamon biscuit rolls. When I realized, after I completed all the dough and filling, that I didn't have a rolling pin with me. So I improvised and sorry I couldn't take a picture of it well it is more like I didn't want to take a picture of it because the shape is all so wonky....
I also didn't have a pastry blender so I used a fork instead but for some reason the dough... Anyways in the end it still tasted delicious. They will be my breakfast tomorrow... Even though I made 12 pieces today and there is only 3 left right now... Hmmmmmm.... Lol I have a picture of what my rolls SHOULD look like. Imagine my food like that. ^^v
I really should be doing my readings for my presentation that I have to do next week! Eep! But I should take things one at a time. Especially since I have 6 courses to worry about. I really hope I survive this semester.
Wish me luck!
This semester I am taking a Humanism film class that analyzes Japanese films that revolve around the theme of humanism. The film we watched today was one I have watched once during freshman and it's called Ikiru or To Live. Maybe when I was in freshman year I was already motivated to do things so my movie reaction back then was like, "that's what I've been doing all a long! Initiating change." However, watching it right now at this moment of my life, it kind of makes me want to kick myself and reevaluate what needs to get done right now. I want to say it gives me hope for myself for the future to do things but humanist way of thought doesn't believe in hope. Although the reasoning behind not holding onto hope makes sense on the humanist way of the argument (that way you will start to make things happen instead of waiting for it), what I think is that the little hopes are what makes us keep going.
The movie is old and it is in black and white and I don't know where you could have access to it but if you do have an opportunity to watch it, please do. It is quite an inspiring movie and the ending makes me want to do things and all this evening (instead of doing my homework: guilty) I have been thinking of things... What is my role and what steps in my life should I take in order to have a passion and greed for life? I guess.
Carpe diem!
Live for today. One step at a time,
Step by step.
I remember that was my campaign motto in high school. Even though I lost...
Sighs, but I hope I made a difference. When I think back to my high school times, for that time and the situation I was in, I think I did some poignant things. Scratch that. Poignant thing.
I felt proud and happy that multicultural day went well when I was in charge of planning it. I managed to gain food donations to sell. I was actually a lot more brave and courageous when I was younger. Although I was nervous, I made things happen! I was unhappy when people said that they wanted to remove multicultural day from school so I made the step to make sure it happened with an awesome success.
Usually when people get older, they gain more confidence right? Why am I the opposite? Am I by myself on this one? I hope not.
This year, maybe I should try to be more courageous in many aspects of my life and not be afraid of mistakes and failure because honestly I did that a lot in high school as well. Hmm....
Wow this movie really made me think...
Can't wait to hear more on the discussions for this movie in class soon~ in the near future.
Sighs...
Since I came back to the island for school, I have been cooking a lot of Korean food. Kimchi stew and samgyreopsal are the two main dishes I have indulged besides stir fry and fried rice. I haven't made kimchi fried rice yet. To be honest we still have kimchi soup on the stove. It really gets better on the second day. The third day is slightly pushing it though because everything really melts if you simmer it for a long time like that. 
However today after my morning class I decided to make cinnamon biscuit rolls. When I realized, after I completed all the dough and filling, that I didn't have a rolling pin with me. So I improvised and sorry I couldn't take a picture of it well it is more like I didn't want to take a picture of it because the shape is all so wonky.... I also didn't have a pastry blender so I used a fork instead but for some reason the dough... Anyways in the end it still tasted delicious. They will be my breakfast tomorrow... Even though I made 12 pieces today and there is only 3 left right now... Hmmmmmm.... Lol I have a picture of what my rolls SHOULD look like. Imagine my food like that. ^^v
I really should be doing my readings for my presentation that I have to do next week! Eep! But I should take things one at a time. Especially since I have 6 courses to worry about. I really hope I survive this semester.
Wish me luck!
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