people should stop making excuse to be weak.

being vulnerable is one thing; hurting others because of your weakness, is another thing.

Lately I have been more intrigued by those older films, done in the 30s to 60s, black and white or colour. Most of them are simply beautiful fine works. Often their stories were simple, but held great deal of complexities; whereas a lot of movie at our time have complicated plots but hold nothing to inspire the audience. 

Tonight I was deeply moved by To Kill A Mockingbird. It was such a simply but elegant film, a bit sad, but a fine fine film. The screenplay, the acting, the score and the directing—everything was just seamless. The theme is timeless. When you look at our world right now, you still see a lot of discrimination and hatred against minority groups in our society and too many people have taken them lightly. “Loosen up”, they said, but what they don’t realize is by not taking these issues seriously, they help to reinforce this “tyranny of majority”, the hegemony of the majority group. It is sad sometimes to listen to all those talks that project a person’s ignorance but they claim “the freedom of speech” entitles them to do so. Having lived in a free society here seem to make them take this “freedom” for granted when they should treat it delicately. Abusing this freedom only shows what kind of person they are and this freedom definitely not entitle them you to disrespect and trash other people who are different from them. 

Sometimes I do feel hopeless and don’t think it’s gonna do anything to argue with them. However, this film reinforces my belief in this matter and does shed a light of hope for having a better future.

I just HAD to take photos of this gigantic object when I saw it at Bellagio in Las Vegas…especially when there is an American flag behind it. I couldn’t help but thinking…America’s expanding ego with phallicism, feeling ironic especially in this city that  everything seems so luxurious and perfectly fine.

The photo withouht the American flag… It looks like a glowing dick (excuse me), and yes, everyone is looking up, worshiping.

the following statements didn’t apply any research methods or stats, so basically they’re BS. don’t preach me with anything about methodology.

if we take out the third level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: belongingness and love needs, we could make another hierarchy of needs for love. Say the first level is “having a target” and the second one is “being together”(physically). After achieving these two levels, “being together” (physically) no longer satisfies lover’s psychological needs and THEY WANT MORE! Together to DO something MEANINGFUL, which brings up their love level. (huh, The Sims is basically designed under these rules! just see those bars above those sims’ heads turn from yellow to platinum)

huh, my situation certainly don’t meet the second level, even the first one is never stable. (just like you don’t always have food) To me, reaching the second level is like a luxury. That’s why when I heared my friend saying that he and his lover spent most time together but he still felt bored(not satisfied) because they didn’t do something together, I felt like….well, now we have a class issue here, if using rich and poor as analogy. He’s the rich and I am the poor in the world of love, and certainly in our view of basic needs is never the same. oh well, when will there be a class mobility? I want a upward mobility!!!

As for the rest levels of the hierarchy, I don’t know, yet. I mean, I haven’t really spent time thinking it through and didn’t really have some experience to apply from. I’ve been “the poor” for a while and never had a chance to go all the way (either not mature enough or didn’t know what I want) Maybe I could read other people’s experience, but sometimes, for certain things, I prefer my “personal experience” to build up the database in my mind.

lalala.
people just never satisfy, eh?