It’s been a week and this song is still sticking. The guys can’t particularly sing all that well but the song is damn catchy. I suppose there is underlying reason why I really enjoy this song as well.
Cruise.
hi daryl. welcome back to tumblr
So I was never much of a writer. As a child in elementary school I was placed in ESOL classes and barely passed English courses. Going through high school and college supposedly helped my writing skills but I’m not quite convinced that I’m all that competent as a writer. I guess practice makes perfect.
Fall is here and I get filled with nostalgia. It happens every single year.
I’m in a new location now…just a little bit away from my hometown. It’s a good thing and it has a learning experience. Living alone is an experience all by itself, especially for an extrovert like myself.
Work life features long days that feel short…
More later… eyes too blurry to type.
Well then.
- Woman: Is this your newspaper?
- Me: Nope, go for it.
- Woman: Thanks. (Takes it and walks off to the restroom.)
- [30 mins later]
- Woman: (puts newspaper back next to me)
- Me: (pushes it further away with pen)
Beginning of another chapter…
I start my job tomorrow. Cross my fingers for a smooth yet thrilling three years.
Counting the days until it hits me.
With great power comes great responsibility. So now that you’ve finished college, go out and do something with what you learned.
Strive to make a life-changing difference. Even if you don’t get to that point though, you’ll end up doing something you’re proud of.
"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."
— E. E. Cummings (via ireadintothings)
(Source: quote-book)
Paper Tigers: What happens to all the Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? (link)
“I don’t believe anybody agrees with what I say or supports what I do because they truly want to love Asian people. They like my fucking pork buns, and I don’t get it twisted.”
^ This is my favorite quote, haha. I like parts of this, and truly disagree with other parts. Mostly I am disappointed that critiques of racial and ethnic inequality often fly in face of gender barriers. Then the pan-ethnic nature of the article obscures the diversity within Asia America. For as many degrees some Asian ethnic groups earn, there are just as many drop-outs in other Asian ethnic groups. Even within ethnic groups there are differences set about by socio-historical roots. Diversity within group must be stated clearly and explicitly.
And, per usual, reading the comment section gets me riled up. I won’t even get started on the colored-blind raging comments.
This article does get me thinking about assimilation. It clearly pits “Asian values” or a sort of “immigrant values” (work hard in a new land, meritocracy will prevail) against supposed “U.S. middle class sociability/individuality” values. Balancing both systems are difficult, often resulting in rejection of one or both value systems. The pain or loneliness that happens in that rejection, I find, is sad. Apparently without structural change, both cultural systems can’t seem to work in harmony.
(Or you conform by working hard to be different, an individual.)
[More later, grading calls me.]
“I see the appeal of getting with the program. But this is not my choice. Striving to meet others’ expectations may be a necessary cost of assimilation, but I am not going to do it.
Often I think my defiance is just delusional, self-glorifying bullshit that artists have always told themselves to compensate for their poverty and powerlessness. But sometimes I think it’s the only thing that has preserved me intact, and that what has been preserved is not just haughty caprice but in fact the meaning of my life. So this is what I told Mao: In lieu of loving the world twice as hard, I care, in the end, about expressing my obdurate singularity at any cost. I love this hard and unyielding part of myself more than any other reward the world has to offer a newly brightened and ingratiating demeanor, and I will bear any costs associated with it.”
It’s time to rise up against the norm. Upper management here I come!
