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When it Rains
Drip, drop, drip drop.
“I want to write.”
It’s a rainy afternoon. A cold draft is blowing in through the half-open window, smelling of leaves and wet asphalt. The house is quiet but for the soft rustling of curtains. Days like these make everyone sleepy.
“Well do it.”
Drip, drop, drip, drop. Raindrops from the sky form puddles on the ground.
“It’s not as easy as it sounds.”
“Of course it is. Just get a pen and paper and write. That simple.”
“I can’t write in a notebook, you know that.”
“Oh, you know what I meant. There’s a perfectly good laptop on the bed and a semi-functional desktop computer right in front of you. Use those.”
“I know, I know. I just… You know, get distracted. Whenever I try to write.”
“And whose fault is that?”
“Mine. I know.”
“You keep saying that, but I’m not so sure you do.”
“No, I do. It’s just—I love writing, but I can never get myself to do it… I haven’t written anything in such a long time.”
“Yes you have. You just wrote those short stories, didn’t you?”
“That was last November.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah. Oh.”
“Seriously, that long?”
“Unfortunately… What should I do?”
“Why are you asking me? I’m just a figment of your imagination, remember?”
“That’s exactly why you should be able to help. You know me as well as I do.”
“Right. I am you and you are me. So tell me: What should we do?”
“I don’t know, I told you.”
“Yes you do. Just think.”
“Why can’t you just tell me?”
“Because I’m not here to spoon feed all the answers to you.”
“Now I remember why I avoid talking to you. Where’s my other inner voice? The one who’s actually helpful?”
“If you really wanted to speak to him you wouldn’t be talking to me.”
“You’re not helping me at all right now, you know that, right?”
“Aren’t I?”
“No. You’re really not.”
“You’re writing now, aren’t you?”
“Well, yeah, but…”
“But what? It doesn’t count?”
“No, it does. It’s just different.”
“Different how?”
“I don’t know. I guess it’s just that writing down a conversation between myself and my imagination is not exactly what comes to mind when I think of writing.”
“Well you know what they say: beggars can’t be choosers.”
“That’s debatable, but I get what you’re saying.”
“Good.”
When it rains the city lies dormant. Cars roll down the streets as if in slow motion. The birds lie huddled wherever it is that birds like to huddle, not a peep to be heard. The odd stranger or two walks by under his or her black umbrella, hurriedly, no doubt. Yet rainfall has a way of making rushed steps seem like the most leisurely of strolls.
“Hey.”
“Hm?”
Rainy weather is perfect writing weather.
“Thanks.”
Clickity-clack, clickity-clack. Fingers on a keyboard weave tales on the screen.
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Pro’s And Con’s Of GAMESHARK It’s JAWSOME
Well let’s begin with the reason of why I am writing a blog about Gameshark. Well first let me elaborate about What Gameshark is. Gameshark is a system that allows you to use cheat codes on games for the Gameboy Advance.
It's JAWSOME
Well it all started with one of my friend, named Gus, who apparently had a Gameboy Emulator and a few games downloaded into his flash-drive. I decided to transfer the emulator and the games into my I-pod which I use as my flash-drive. From there on I started playing games like Pokemon, Megaman, and The Legend of Zelda. It came to the point when I just wanted to pass the game so I decided to go Online and search for cheat codes. Thankfully Gameshark is installed into the GameBoy Emulator so I didn’t have to download that. Well once I found the codes I entered them into Gameshark and so the game became much more easier to complete. Sadly I couldn’t find all the codes so there were certain things that I had to do on my own.
Then came the biggest mission of my life. Since the school internet doesn’t allow me to go to certain websites it was a huge hassle to find the codes and even if I was able to find those codes they were only a few and they were sometimes incorrect so again I had to go on a scouting mission and find those codes. A more difficult mission was trying to find one of the games that I was trying to download but again the school internet prevent me from finding the game.
So here goes the Pros and Cons about using GameShark. The pros, of course, is that it makes the game WAY easier to pass but sadly the con is that there is no fun in even playing the game. Games were meant to be enjoyed and GameShark Codes take the fun out of that. I mean you don’t necessarily have to use GameShark codes or you can limit what cheat codes it is that you are using. This means that you can at least enjoy half of the game’s true value.
Just remember something important, “It’s Not Cheating If You Don’t Get Caught!”
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Senior Year
This is kind of how I feel.
Senior Year is here, but for how long? We only have about five months left in this school year and it is going by so fast.
When I was a freshman, I couldn’t wait for my senior year, I couldn’t wait for all of the activities and the dances. But now that it is here, I am counting down the days till it’s over, and it is not but, and it is because of my teachers that I actually enjoy all of my classes. And it’s not because I’m a loner, I like hanging out with my friends, it is because Roosevelt has become more like a prison.
With more and more money being taken away from school, more and more resources are being cut from school. Students do not want to go somewhere where nobody cares about you, a place where they don’t care if you receive a decent education.
Now if I was an underclassmen I don’t think I would mind so much, not saying that they don’t care about their education (most probably do). But because they have not had a good education when they were in middle school, they have only known public school at its worst. And now they are in high school where things are not getting better.
I was however in high school when things were decent, not great, but when it felt good to be a student. But to see the disintegration of Roosevelt my soon to be “Alma mater” it’s saddening it really is. And to know that those poor kids don’t stand a chance it’s upsetting, the more I realize how glad I am to be leaving before things can get worst, the more upset I am. Because I realize that the things will not get better the quit the opposite,that isn’t the way it is suppose to be we should be exciting to go to school, we should have pride in our school.
So the more my friends and I talk about solutions, the more I realize that we are only coming up with band aid solutions. We aren’t getting to the root of the problem so we will never be able to solve the problem we are only prolong the inevitable (well hopefully).
The real problem is that the government keeps cutting school funding, and honestly I don’t see anything we can do to stop it (really not trying to sound morbid here but it is kind of difficult).
Well I mean I did not mean to go on this little rant, it is just how I feel, so if you took the time to read this thank you. And if you have any comments or solutions please let me know I’d really appriecate it.
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Relationships Being A Distraction
Relationships in this generation for many students are a distraction, some students say that they cause problems.
Relationships for students are getting harder and more difficult because they separate them from their friends. Some of my friends complain that students should not be in a relationship during their high school years because their whole teenage life can end by causing a mistake. Everyone understands that being in love is the best feeling because love is hard to find and not everyone gets a chance to feel that way.
The reason why relationships are a distraction to students now is because education is getting harder. Many students are wasting too much time with their love ones and are not focusing in school, others are always with their love ones during school, after school and in the middle of the night.
It seems that the only thing these students worry about is their soul mate because they do not want to hurt them by putting them aside. Relationships are also a distraction because they separate their family by putting them aside and showing that they can manage to do good in life without their help.
Relationships force a partner to do things him/her has never done before, by taking them food at two in the morning and wasting all their saving on buying them something to make them happy. Relationships bring happiness to a person but at the same time when the relationship is broken up it brakes the heart of one in many peaces and that person can never trust anyone again.
Relationships can be bad for some people that are really focused on school because the simple mistake of pregnancy can ruin their whole future. Pregnancy rates are going up and it is very common to high school students because at this age many students are willing to try it for once.
Are they really a distraction?
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Nothing Left To Lose
This is a poem I created through past events in my life all summed into something I proudly called “Nothing Left To Lose”- because every journey has a beginning to a non endless ending of tragedy and that thing I call life. - Xavier Ceja
Hidden Monster Inside My Soul
Dizzy and dazed
lost and confused
no where to go
no one to turn to
I walk around the halls,
look all around,
see a bunch of people,
but still feel lonely inside
They tell me I shouldn’t be this way,
I tell them I know,
They tell me I should just be happy
I ask them “so, you want me to lie?”
They say it’s easier for them
I say it’s harder for me
They say just pretend I’m fine
I surrendered and say okay
I can’t find my way,
all hope is gone,
there seems to be no reason to stay,
but I won’t go, not this way
When people see me,
I’m going to fake (again),
I’ll have a big smile on my face,
and pretend everything is great
On the inside I’ll know it’s a lie
but if it’s what my friends want,
then I dont care,
I’ll fake my happiness
Everythig is moving too fast,
so hard to comprehend,
I don’t know what’s goin on,
and I don’t want to move on
People say I’ll be fine,
that this is just a phase
Im ok,
not to worry about things
Thats a lie,
It’s all a lie,
nothing will ever be the same again,
its my fault
I ruined my life,
I did this to myself,
I shouldve known
and this wouldn’t of happened
I have to live with my mistakes
sacrifice all of my time and energy,
just so I’ll be stable,
its not that easy I have to get used to this,
learn from my mistakes,
I can’t take no for an answer,
I must fight this
Very few people know,
or understand,
or care,
Im on my own
Why does everyone like me medicated?
It’s not helping me,
I’m still depressed all of the time,
I hate the meds
Im beginning to think that there is no help for me,
that I’ll always be this way,
I dont want to be like this forever,
I dont want to be like this now…
Why am I tempted to see everyday?
Why do I give in?
Why do I want to?
why have I always wanted to?
So, now I must say,
I’m dizzy and dazed,
lost and confused,
and I have no idea what the heck I’ll do.
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World of Paradox
For the past week, I have been working on a Minecraft Server for other people to play in. Basically, a Minecraft server is a program in which a player, or players, can host a point in the internet using your IP address in which other players all over the world can go to that point in order to play in your world. A more in depth version of what is a server is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29
Many minecrafters, such as myself, have created servers so many people can join in and play. There are more than one hundred different types of servers all over the globe. This is a perfect way to meet other people and talk to them as well as play minecraft with them.
a small part of the World of paradox created my Kevin Garay (paradoxKEVIN)
Let’s go back to the point of my server. My server’s name is called the World of Paradox which is hosted by my me and is supported by three of my other friends. This server is a town and a faction server which means that players can create towns where other people can choose to live in or help them build it.
The only exception is that the price to create a town will be pricey as well as the upkeep. Those who choose not to create nor join a town can create a faction which pretty much is a club where people can find a space in the world and live there with other people. To create and join this does not require payment but at the same time does not support any protection against any invaders that may lurk around.
This may cause some difficulty yet a challenge to those who would like to create a faction.
Overall, my aim for this server is to create a universal world in which all players of different tastes in servers can come in and have fun. I have been through many servers and all of those servers are very limited when it comes to the variety of options that t gives such as free roaming and empty spacing. The world is small and compact. But in my server, it will be wide and expansive.
The World of Paradox is currently not released into the public yet but my goal is to release it before Valentine’s Day.
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Urban Legends About Hello Kitty (=’ ‘=)
Is hello Kitty really the homage of the devil?
- Or is Hello Kitty just a world wide selling cat with an absent mouth?
Have you heard the real stories about the pretty little cat with an absent mouth? Let me tell you some ignorant urban legends that have scared many fans away. Many people believe the whole stories and now gossip about Hello Kitty being the work of the devil.
Many say that Hello Kitty means Hello Devil in Japanese but really devil is pronounced Akuma which has nothing related or even sounds close to kitty. For those of you who haven’t heard the stories here is one of them;
Hello Kitty was created when a mother of a dying child made a pact with the devil. If he helped her she would in return start a toy company that would pay homage to him. Hello kitty was designed with no mouth since her daughter had mouth cancer.
Another one is a depressing urban legend that says Hello Kitty was first drawn by a child of an abusive parent. According to this legend she drew the cat without a mouth because she wanted a character who wouldn’t say her secret.
Interested? Do you believe any of the stories? Really I don’t believe either of them. I am a huge fan of Hello kitty so why would I stop liking it when there are many stories behind it. They might be real but then again they could have just been made up. So what’s there to believe when there isn’t anything to prove any of the urban legends told.
Many people have told me not to purchase any Hello Kitty product because it represents a satanic relation. I do not understand why people consider Hello Kitty satanic. I believe that those stories are not true. I need actual proof in order to believe that this is true.
I am a big buyer and fan of Hello Kitty and I will continue to like her until some one can prove to me that the whole story is actually true. Other than that, Hello Kitty for me is just a cute little cat with a big red bow, dressed in overalls, that has an absent mouth. Cute right?
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Wow…Senior Year
This is how I feel right now.
Someone said to me, “Senior will fly by and it’s easy.” I thought to myself, wow I cannot wait for senior year to start. But little did I know how hard it really would turn out to be. It is hard trying to juggle so much. from college apps to internships and classes.
This blog will be use as my diary to express how stressing senior year is so far. We can start off with college apps. At first I was nervous about applying and going through the whole process. But thank to the skies, I had help from amazing, inspirational women who helped me through the process of applying to State, UC’s and Privates. In total I have applied to 6 States, 4 UC’s and 14 Privates. That was definitely stressing and it still is, now I have to wait and hear from the schools. My top school as of now is Mills College in Oakland, and Eugene Lang in New York.
Also I have to finish applying to scholarships and I have to earn about 50,000 to cover the first year’s tuition, dorm, food and the basics. My parents cannot what so ever afford to pay for my education. My dad told me if no schools are willing to pay, that he will either have to send me to a community college or pay for my education in Mexico which makes it easier for him. I wouldn’t mind going back to Mexico since I have family there but to me that seems like too much. I have worked to hard to stay in this country and try to achieve a better life for my family and my people.
Oh I forgot to mention the fact that senior year feels more stressful because I have to juggle school and all the different activities I do. I have the school newspaper, Community Rights, Boyle Heights Beat, CYR, Big Brother Big Sisters, and the aquarium. So much, right?! Yes it definitely is. I do not know how I manage to do so much. I believe that I joined too many activities that now I am stuck with so many responsibilities. This does not mean I do not enjoy doing all these activities. I love doing them, they have helped me grow as a person. But it is a lot to manage after a while. And at this point in my life, I feel like I am running without any fuel. Even though this is the case, I cannot step down from my responsibilities. I will do whatever it takes to manage everything and finish it right this year.
If I had any advice for the future seniors, I would say to be very careful. Be careful of how many things you pack in your agenda. I love doing all the things, and my mistake is the fact that I love doing so many things but sometimes that can hold you back. Also make sure to concentrate in school. Because although colleges have accepted you, they look at your senior grades, and they have to be good. As of now, I’m passing all my classes but not with the grades I should have. I should be getting straight A’s but we’ll see pretty soon what will happen.
But what is truly is important, is that this is our last year to be a child. After high school you have to be responsible for your own life. So you decide how you want to spend your senior year. Anyways I should leave, I have work to do.
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Being HUMAN
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A new series from the creators at SciFi, a brilliant one to say the least.
“Being Human” is a show that casts a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghosts as it’s main protagonists.The story revolves around their lives in and around themselves and their goal to try and be “normal”, human.
The vampire know as Aiden combats his past and his overwhelming desire to feast on human blood. His past takes form in a mafia like vampire family that resides in the city of Boston. His “family” is lead by the main antagonist of the story, Bishop. Aiden struggles to live a clean life feeding only on blood bags from work, a hospital. Bishop is Aidens creator and is absolutely disgusted with his heresy, his lifestyle is sacrilege to vampire beliefs, but bishop remains loyal to Aiden and somewhat supportive whenever Aiden slips and makes a mess.
The werewolf know as Josh, his affliction comes once a month during a full moon when he shape shifts into a werewolf. He is very frantic and anxious throughout the show, but comes to be his own man during season one. He learns how to cope properly with his condition, not without peril, and even finds love, which also stresses him. Josh is Aiden’s best friend, and although Josh is saved by Aiden on several occasions, Josh helps Aiden equally as much even saving him at some points.
Last, but most certainly not least we have the ghost, the apparition, Sally.
Sally comes into the story with no recollection what so ever of her untimely death. The viewer is presented only with a grieving husband and sad Sally herself. At first glance you feel bad for the mourning man, but the twist of it all is that he killed Sally in a violent rage. Sally copes with this sudden shock and is even offered to kill her husband, but she declines choosing to haunt him instead. This chain of events leads to a giant stand off between the two and is sure to make any viewer yearn for more.
Season one is available on Netflix for streaming and season 2, two episodes so far, is available in high definition on Youtube. Be sure to check it out for a great scifi drama and action every Monday night at 8pm.
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