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-Element 118
Friday, June 6, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
I'm Not Dead Yet: Element 118 On Posers
I'm fully aware that I've been gone for the last few weeks or so, and I have no regrets. I wasn't planning on being here for the last few weeks or so because I didn't feel like it. Now then, moving on.
Let's discuss the topic of POSERS. Ah yes, POSERS, the HATED, UNDESERVING, INSECURE, LOSERS of the 21st century. You see them everywhere, but yet at the same time, you don't, because they're too busy being "non-conformist." The original (and real) spelling of "poser" is actually "poseur," but most people know the term as "poser." Therefore, I shall refer to them as "poser" to save the confusion and trouble. Posers are incredibly hard to spot, because most of the time they are insecure, 12 year old girls with low self-esteem that want to boost their self-confidence. Thus, comes the saying, "I want to be non-conformist, just like everybody else."
I stand by principle.
-Element 118
Let's discuss the topic of POSERS. Ah yes, POSERS, the HATED, UNDESERVING, INSECURE, LOSERS of the 21st century. You see them everywhere, but yet at the same time, you don't, because they're too busy being "non-conformist." The original (and real) spelling of "poser" is actually "poseur," but most people know the term as "poser." Therefore, I shall refer to them as "poser" to save the confusion and trouble. Posers are incredibly hard to spot, because most of the time they are insecure, 12 year old girls with low self-esteem that want to boost their self-confidence. Thus, comes the saying, "I want to be non-conformist, just like everybody else."
I stand by principle.
-Element 118
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Why Asians Are Smart, Antisocial, or For the Unlucky Ones, Both
You see them everywhere. At their own little table doing their homework during lunch (criminal, I know), in the library rushing to finish their All the Right Type program because their parents "will kill them" if they don't get a perfect score, and maybe for the ones who don't get daily mental abuse from their uptight parents, socializing.
Yes, the intelligent to the extreme, Asians. You can now find out why many Asians (well, at least me) are so smart, antisocial, or for the unlucky ones like me, both.
I am currently an antisocial, cynical, fatally unathletic, Asian curmudgeon, whose parents thinks that she's considered a crazily weird freak among much of the public. Here's why.
So it all starts with the parents. When I was very young, maybe in Kindergarten, I saw the pressure that my parents put on my older brother to get perfect grades, and scolding him about education or something. Therefore, I technically started my education when I was in Preschool (for you idiots out there, you don't start learning academics in Preschool; you start socializing and learning to write your own name). Yes, I was considered gifted when I hit Kindergarten. Kids stared at me in awe as I cruised through first, second, third... whatever. The problem was, though, I was antisocial. I had but only a few friends until fifth grade, when I went into an advanced class full of other antisocial, intelligent people. But that's another story.
Why was I antisocial? Maybe it was because of the mental abuse I got from my parents. "[insert annoyingly loud Chinese here] 4.0! Must get 4.0! [insert more annoyingly loud Chinese here] 4.0!" "D+?! UNACCEPTABLE!!" (Yes, at one point I completely blew a math quiz) "So stupid! You so stupid! [insert Chinese here]" And maybe it was because I started playing video games at the age of 3 because of my brother. But that's another story.
And now in middle school, my parents are telling me to go out and make some friends that do stuff other than play on Gaia Online and read Warriors/Guardians of Ga'Hoole/other generic series that kids tend to love. This is what my parents tell me the most.
"Look at [insert friend's name here]! She ish so much more athletic/flexible than you!"
"Watching so much TV? RIDICIRLOUS!!" (my mother pronounces it that way)
"Go out and make some [word in Chinese for active/outgoing] friends!"
Yeah, so a majority of my friends are Asian, just like me. Some are antisocial, some not. But they have one thing in common: they, too, get verbally abused by their parents and obsess over getting a 4.0. So that's pretty much why many Asians are "intelligent to the extreme."
How social they are... that just depends on exactly how much verbal abuse they get from their parents.
So now you know!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Element 118
Yes, the intelligent to the extreme, Asians. You can now find out why many Asians (well, at least me) are so smart, antisocial, or for the unlucky ones like me, both.
I am currently an antisocial, cynical, fatally unathletic, Asian curmudgeon, whose parents thinks that she's considered a crazily weird freak among much of the public. Here's why.
So it all starts with the parents. When I was very young, maybe in Kindergarten, I saw the pressure that my parents put on my older brother to get perfect grades, and scolding him about education or something. Therefore, I technically started my education when I was in Preschool (for you idiots out there, you don't start learning academics in Preschool; you start socializing and learning to write your own name). Yes, I was considered gifted when I hit Kindergarten. Kids stared at me in awe as I cruised through first, second, third... whatever. The problem was, though, I was antisocial. I had but only a few friends until fifth grade, when I went into an advanced class full of other antisocial, intelligent people. But that's another story.
Why was I antisocial? Maybe it was because of the mental abuse I got from my parents. "[insert annoyingly loud Chinese here] 4.0! Must get 4.0! [insert more annoyingly loud Chinese here] 4.0!" "D+?! UNACCEPTABLE!!" (Yes, at one point I completely blew a math quiz) "So stupid! You so stupid! [insert Chinese here]" And maybe it was because I started playing video games at the age of 3 because of my brother. But that's another story.
And now in middle school, my parents are telling me to go out and make some friends that do stuff other than play on Gaia Online and read Warriors/Guardians of Ga'Hoole/other generic series that kids tend to love. This is what my parents tell me the most.
"Look at [insert friend's name here]! She ish so much more athletic/flexible than you!"
"Watching so much TV? RIDICIRLOUS!!" (my mother pronounces it that way)
"Go out and make some [word in Chinese for active/outgoing] friends!"
Yeah, so a majority of my friends are Asian, just like me. Some are antisocial, some not. But they have one thing in common: they, too, get verbally abused by their parents and obsess over getting a 4.0. So that's pretty much why many Asians are "intelligent to the extreme."
How social they are... that just depends on exactly how much verbal abuse they get from their parents.
So now you know!
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Element 118
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Environmentalists Gone Overboard
So finally I post an entry with text in it. Not my quiz results, or a video. Wow, what an accomplishment. Anyway, onto the subject...
Okay. I had a bad morning yesterday. First of all, I ranted half-sarcastically to my friend about how the environmentalist "hippie" group at my school shouldn't be posting some many papers on the walls and that no one cared about the facts they put on there. Then it just so happens that a butthurt environmentalist was listening in on me and indignantly said, "Well, I care about the environment." Secondly, my friend who sucks at athletics claims to have ran the mile run faster than me (she was probably blatantly lying -- everyone lies).
So more into detail. I'll tell you exactly why I was ranting to my friend.
Now, I have plausibly acceptable concern for the environment. I'm no naturalist, but I recycle and care about endangered species.
Right then. In my school is a certain environmentalist group called "BLEEPO." I won't tell you what it stands for because, first, I don't know what it stands for, and second, you would be able to figure out which middle school I go to. Anyway, this BLEEPO group that it was smart to post papers with fun facts on them about how we're killing off nature in the hallways about every five to ten feet. And one of the many things that suck about them are that they show pretty much the same facts. And they used so much paper that they're being hypocritical. And the argument, "they had to work to put them up" doesn't work either. Of course they had to work to put them up. But the thing is, they're still using a crapload of paper. I say that they should've put around two to three posters in which wing, rather than six or eight.
I'm also a bit pissed right now because that BLEEPO member actually took me seriously. I was being half-sarcastic when I made my comment. Some of the phrases such as "hippie" and "no one cares" were sarcastic, but the point of my comment wasn't. These days, you can't use sarcasm in a voice that doesn't sound gay unless you want people to take you seriously.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Element 118
Okay. I had a bad morning yesterday. First of all, I ranted half-sarcastically to my friend about how the environmentalist "hippie" group at my school shouldn't be posting some many papers on the walls and that no one cared about the facts they put on there. Then it just so happens that a butthurt environmentalist was listening in on me and indignantly said, "Well, I care about the environment." Secondly, my friend who sucks at athletics claims to have ran the mile run faster than me (she was probably blatantly lying -- everyone lies).
So more into detail. I'll tell you exactly why I was ranting to my friend.
Now, I have plausibly acceptable concern for the environment. I'm no naturalist, but I recycle and care about endangered species.
Right then. In my school is a certain environmentalist group called "BLEEPO." I won't tell you what it stands for because, first, I don't know what it stands for, and second, you would be able to figure out which middle school I go to. Anyway, this BLEEPO group that it was smart to post papers with fun facts on them about how we're killing off nature in the hallways about every five to ten feet. And one of the many things that suck about them are that they show pretty much the same facts. And they used so much paper that they're being hypocritical. And the argument, "they had to work to put them up" doesn't work either. Of course they had to work to put them up. But the thing is, they're still using a crapload of paper. I say that they should've put around two to three posters in which wing, rather than six or eight.
I'm also a bit pissed right now because that BLEEPO member actually took me seriously. I was being half-sarcastic when I made my comment. Some of the phrases such as "hippie" and "no one cares" were sarcastic, but the point of my comment wasn't. These days, you can't use sarcasm in a voice that doesn't sound gay unless you want people to take you seriously.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Element 118
Thursday, May 15, 2008
I Hate Myspace THIIIIIISSS Much
I took the Myspace Hate test on JustSayHi. According to the quiz, I'm 87% filled with Myspace hate, which considered "beyond comprehension." Yay.
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