An Open Letter: Dear Blog

Dear Blog,

How are you? It's been a while since I've shared anything worthwhile with you. I'm sorry, I've been pretty busy with school, work, and basically life. I have a lot of things to say to you but I just don't have time anymore to just sit and be able to think.

I hope that you're not angry at me for neglecting you for so many months now. You've been such a good friend to me. You have listened to all of my problems and worries and shared with me my moments of great happiness and sadness. I know you don't have a choice since I sort of own you but still, having you here by my side is comforting.

But come on Blog! What happened to you? Your recent comments aren't even recent and you just look like a mess. I know that it's partly my fault that you're in this state but come on! You didn't have to resort to blog suicide. I still need you blog, so please don't die on me.

Your Best Friend,

Vincent

Intellectual Rights

If you have visited my blog earlier this week or the weeks before, you would actually notice that my two blog posts about euthanasia and a comparative essay between Shooting an Elephant and A Modest Proposal has been deleted. No, no one deleted them because only I can delete them and no one requested or asked me to delete them. Well the last statement is partly true.

It so happened that those two entries were my papers for my nursing and English subjects. My teacher found them here on my blog and she told me that I should be careful about posting my papers online since someone could actually steal my ideas. Although at first I thought that having someone plagiarize my work would be awesome since it means that my paper was good enough to be copied. It then dawned on me that I might be the one charged with plagiarism and then they could keep all the credit. That would really suck.

This is the main reason why people should place patents on their products and acquire copyrights to their works. Take a look at James Cameron who is being criticized for plagiarism.For someone who took several years to create a movie and be accused of plagiarism is very hard. I don`t know the entire story behind this so I won`t comment that much.

Writing a Memoir

When I grow old I plan on writing a memoir or an autobiography. My purpose in writing an autobiography isn't for the hope of earning millions of dollars in book sales but it is my way of sharing my life experiences with the future generations of Bautistas. I want my son or daughter, my grandchildren, and the entire future lineage to know who I am and for them to learn from the many mistakes that I have done in the past and what I will do in the future.

The only problem with this plan is that my life is pretty much dull and I don't have any clue how to start writing my life story. Perhaps I could try and take up autobiography writing lessons from LifeBio.com. The great thing about LifeBio.com is that they ask more than 250 thought provoking questions in 35 categories that you can dig up old memories which you may have forgotten with the passage of time.

If you're not vain and narcissistic like me and you do not want to make an autobiography, creating an autobiography is a great way to commemorate the life of a loved one or capture memories. Sure we have pictures as one way of preserving a moment in time but having a narrative that explains who are the people in the picture and what was happening during the picture could give us a more in depth understanding of what the picture stands for. A picture may say a thousand words but it's even better if there are actual words like an autobiography.

Well LifeBio.com doesn't just offer preserving memories in autobiographies because you can capture memories and be able to share that event to the future generations by creating a digital scrapbook also.Or you may give a love one a memory journal so that they can be helped remembering past events. The possibilities are endless so have fun!

Go Canada!

I should be doing my Nursing 170 paper right now but I guess I have to express how happy I am that CANADA WON GOLD IN HOCKEY!!!

Ok, I'm not technically a "Canadian" (I will be next year, yeay!). I was born in the Philippines but I live in Canada, I will grow old here in Canada, and I will probably die here in Canada. So basically Canada is my home and I love Canada. I share the passion and the pride that many Canadians feel right now.

I am not a huge fan of sports and I was never interested in hockey, but I support Team Canada and my country. I wasn't able to watch every event during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics as I had midterms and work but I really tried to watch the hockey game as everyone knows, hockey is Canada's game. It was very depressing the way Canada lost against the US during the pool play but in the end Canada was victorious and it just brought life in the streets.

I was driving downtown and all I could hear were people screaming in celebration and people waving the Canadian flag with pride. It was just crazy!

Anyway, that's about it. Go Canada!

By the way, I just wanted to share the Canadian olympic theme song "I Believe" which is sung by Nikki Yanofsky:

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Photo Credits to Sarah and Tim
Video credits to puddlehooper25

Overwhelmed

This is an excellent description of what I am feeling right now. I just have too much to do and there`s just no time for it. I wasn't able to study for my midterms because I was flogged with papers and I needed to work so that I could pay off my car and credit card debts.So yeah, it sucks to be me.

I've been stressing out myself a lot lately and I've done several positive and active steps to fix this:
1. I quit my other job as a home care aid as my gas expenses was too much and I didn't like travelling to other people's homes.
2. I'm actually going to make a schedule and I'm actually going to follow it... I hope.
3. I'm going to adopt a carefree attitude.

I'm going to begin practising my care free attitude right now by sharing David Archuleta's new song "Zero Gravity" which I am so loving right now.



Sorry, my brain isn't functioning well right now... it never has, LOL!