Friday, July 14, 2006
From Playing Monopoly
These are the times I am reminded that I'm weird.
Yesterday, my family and I were playing Monopoly. (I don't even want to know how that sounded like.) And I, having seen the effect of poverty in the Philippines, kept on shouting "Equity! Equity!". I struggled to create equity among the players (even if it would defeat the whole point of the game). I sold and bought what I had to.
Kaya lang yung peste kong nanay at bunsong kapatid, ayaw ng equity. Monopoly nga daw eh. Ang nangyari tuloy, hindi nag-balance yung finances ko, and I had to declare myself bankrupt. :(
So here's what I learned: Equity is an uphill battle when some of the parties involved do not want equity.
Kaya malamang-lamang lang, ang Pilipinas habang buhay na maghihirap. Masaklap, pero totoo.It's because of no-good capitalists that the Philippines is where it is in the first place.
Sa tingin niyo ba tatalikuran nila yung prinsipyong nagpayaman sa kanila?Pero shempre, kelangan merong benefit of the doubt. Kaya... I know a lot of the bright people still in the Philippines (Meaning those who didn't desert it like I did. *gulp*) have enough will to do something about our country's multifaceted situation. Equity might be an uphill battle, but that doesn't mean it can't be won.
Equity! Equity!
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kitten posted @ 1:40 PM
Randoms things about me
I'm Kitten :)
I get a year older every 17th of August. I am a Leo, and I carry all traits associated with that zodiac.
Right now, I'm twenty years old and I'm loving it. They say we're only as young as we feel. I feel like I'm five.
I would never leave the house without my Zen and my E2. The latter connects me to the world; the former takes me away from it.
If I were to choose a word to describe my life, that word would be
crazy.
I am in love with the stars. I am in love with the rain.
I am a Rutgers University student, and I want to graduate with an English degree. An English-Psych double major would be nice. An English-TCert would be even better.
I want to be a teacher. I want to be writer. I want to be both.
I thrive on indie and emo. Mae, The Spill Canvas, Copeland and Daphne Loves Derby - these are the guys that I listen to. I listen to other bands here and there, but mostly those are the bands I follow. That being said, I'm a mainstream moron.
There's no feeling more lovely than being carried away. People don't usually think of me as somebody spontaneous, but I like being swept away as much as the next girl.
I fall in love easily, but it is really hard for me to fall out. Really hard.
I am very fragile.
I am tolerant of almost everything except one thing: intolerance.
I am an extensive reader. I thirst only for meaning, nothing else.
I love my friends <3
I am extremely spiritual but not religious.
Things I want to do in my life time
Get a job.- Save up enough money to go back home -
wherever that is if I ever had one before I'm 40.
- Write a book.
- Sing for a Disney movie.
- Buy a house on top of a hill.
- Go bunjee jumping.
Travel halfway around the world.- See Italy.
Find the one person who makes my heart beat faster and slower at the same time.Draw and paint.Learn how to play Sudoku.- Volunteer for American/Philippine Red Cross or UNHCR.
Quit smoking.
Kitten recommends:
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince
- Trina Paulus' Hope for the Flowers
- Paulo Coehlo's Eleven Minutes
- Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs
- J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
- Neil Gaiman's American Gods
- Anne Rice's Beauty's Release
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs
- Douglas F. Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Leonard Mlodinow's Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
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