Hahaha, I never completed my 30-day Bollywood Challenge…was it even 30 days?!

AND, I also have yet to finish my South Africa blog. The problem? My pictures are on my home computer…all I have are the online Picasa albums, but that’s not very helpful.

FAIL.

I’d like to take this moment to vent about how I don’t understand one of my good friends and how this frustrates me. So there’s this girl, right? Hahaha, things never end well when a story starts like that. LOL. Anyways, we’ve been friends for a while and we’re pretty close, but for the past couple of months she’s been acting really weird. It’s fine when I’m the only one hanging out with her because it seems like she genuinely cares, but the moment she’s with other people, people with whom she is has an infatuation with, she ignores me. I really don’t like being ignored, nor do I like feeling like I am all of a sudden of no importance. You know, I genuinely cared about this girl and tried to help her out whenever she was in a tough situation, but I guess that’s just not enough. I have to be someone exciting and, in her case, infatuation worthy.

At this point I’ve realized one thing, I shouldn’t worry about this, but it irritates me; in fact, it irritates me A LOT—to the point where she will become a disposable friend. I don’t want that, but if she continues to act this way, then yes she will become disposable.

And not to mention, she remembers me when her ‘new friends’ are not there or are busy. It’s like I’m the “last option”. NO, no, no—that is not how it works.

Favorite Bollywood Movie

I have so many favorite Bollywood movies, but my all time favorite movie is Kuch Kuch Hota Hai!!

25 Day Bollywood Challenge

• Day 1: Your favorite Bollywood movie
• Day 2: Your favorite Bollywood guy
• Day 3: Your favorite Bollywood girl
• Day 4: Your favorite Bollywood song from your favorite guy
• Day 5: Your favorite Bollywood song from your favorite girl
• Day 6: A Bollywood song that makes you cry
• Day 7: A Bollywood song you know all the words to
• Day 8: Your favorite Bollywood performance
• Day 9: A Bollywood dance you would like to learn and why
• Day 10: Your favorite Bollywood music video
• Day 11: The very first Bollywood song you’ve ever heard
• Day 12: A Bollywood movie you dislike and why
• Day 13: A Bollywood song that makes you smile
• Day 14: A Bollywood song that reminds you of someone you miss
• Day 15: Your favorite Bollywood lyrics
• Day 16: A Bollywood idol you wish was your older sibling
• Day 17: A Bollywood idol you wish was your younger sibling
• Day 18: Your favorite interview of a Bollywood actor
• Day 19: Your favorite picture of your favorite Bollywood guy
• Day 20: Your favorite picture from your favorite Bollywood girl
• Day 21: A picture of your favorite Bollywood couple
• Day 22: A Bollywood idol who you think is underrated
• Day 23: A Bollywood actor you think is overrated
• Day 24: A Bollywood song you never get tired of
• Day 25: A Bollywood idol that has an amazing smile

Yeah, I just did write 15-page paper in three days :)

Below is an essay I wrote in my senior year in high school in my AP LIT/COMP class, quite possibly the best essay I had written that year. Interestingly enough, I found this essay as I was looking through old emails I had sent…Yahoo! keeps them which is pretty cool! Hahaha. :) I still have a problem with having monster paragraphs in my papers…

Electra: A Merciless Daughter Viewed Sympathetically

              As you flip enthusiastically through a work of literature, you start to identify yourself with a character from that work. You begin to put yourself in the place of the character, the protagonist, in particular, seeing yourself as the character. To your dismay, you find that the character with whom you identify committed a monstrous act. Immediately, you begin to search vigorously for reasons—or justifications—explaining why the character acted that way; a curtain of intense curiosity descends over you, while complexity falls upon the protagonist because the protagonist, not the antagonist, committed a heinous act. Although seen as evil and vengeful solely based on the merciless murder of her mother, the reader views Electra, the protagonist of Euripides’s “Electra,” more sympathetically than he/she otherwise might because Electra’s action was justified by the fact that her mother’s, Clytemnestra’s, one act—slaying King Agamemnon of Argos—forced Electra into a life of “ugly poverty” and grief devoid of her father and all the luxuries that come with being the daughter of Agamemnon.

            Even though Electra’s murder of her mother, Clytemnestra, was nothing short of merciless and gruesome, Clytemnestra’s murder of her husband and Electra’s father, Agamemnon, was no less monstrous as it deprived Electra, a daughter, of her father and forced Electra into a life of poverty. In the opening of the play, the reader is presented with Electra who is miserable as “[her] own mother…threw [her] out of the house,” marrying her off to a pitiable farmer who refused to share the bed with her as it would disgrace the house of Agamemnon thus, stripping Electra of sexual fulfillment and requiring her to compromise her past lifestyle embodied with infinite luxuries with one of “doing chores of slaves” and meager funds (Euripides 238-239). Within the first few pages of “Electra,” Euripides clearly reveals Electra’s external and internal motives for a merciless matricide, which fuel the reader’s sympathetic view of Electra. Electra hates her mother for the life her mother’s action forced upon her. Electra hates her life, “a life with nothing to console [her]” (Euripides 241). Nothing can worsen Electra’s grief for her departed father; she “beats [her] head and wail[s] in grief—like the swan’s wild sound…it’s anguished trumpet call” (Euripides 242). Furthermore, she, a girl who was “raised in a palace,” is forced to endure a life of poverty because of her mother (Euripides 241). In place of beautiful gowns, Electra wears “ragged clothes;” in place of an enormous palace, Electra lives in a farmhouse; in place of subservient servants, Electra does all the work for herself (Euripides 251). Psychological issues, prevalent in Euripides’s works, characterize Electra’s motives as well. Electra’s consciousness of jealousy towards Clytemnestra is one of the above-described internal motives fueling Electra’s eventual murder of her mother, further revealing Electra’s action as acceptable rather than evil and immoral. While Electra must live with a man who refuses to share her bed, Clytemnestra is freely sleeping with another man, Agamemnon’s cousin, Aegisthus. While Electra is forced to do excruciating work, servants fall at the feet of Clytemnestra, obediently completing the demands of their Queen. Essentially, Clytemnestra deserved to be slain at the hands of her daughter. A mother who does not care one bit about her daughter’s well-being and who intentionally creates a miserable life for her daughter must not receive any sympathy, but rather her daughter should. Not only was Electra’s vengeful murder of her murder completely justified as seen through her motives, but it was not evil and immoral. A full evaluation of Electra’s motives and her life as a result of her mother’s actions compels the reader to view Electra sympathetically.

            Often times a reader comes across a character who commits a heinous act. A simple judgment of the sole act would reveal the character as evil and immoral. However, if the reader considers the character as a whole: his or her motives, circumstances, and justifications for the act, the reader may view the character more sympathetically. Euripides’s Electra, protagonist of “Electra,” is a prime example. Electra’s merciless matricide was justified by the fact that her mother’s, Clytemnestra’s, one act—slaying King Agamemnon of Argos—forced Electra into a life of poverty and grief lacking her father and the luxuries andprivileges she was raised with.

So I blogged about some minor trust issues that I have….

There’s one more…when people, for vindictive reasons, fabricate or make up stories that do not correlate with reality.

People I trust wholeheartedly tell me things—things that could be true or false-about other people I trust…who am I supposed to believe?

Why do people do this?