Turn and Wave to Me!

Wowzies! I'm Back From China

    So, after a three week journey in China, I'm back!  Unfortunately the Chinese government blocks blogger because they are afraid that there might be outside opinions against them.  I know that there are other websites they block such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.  They also black out anything that they find offensive or threatening on the internet.  So I couldn't post anything on the way.  Also, I went to many remote places with no internet...

    Well yeah, that comic isn't completely accurate though because I don't play games on the internet that much anymore like I used to... I loved Poptropica and I used to play whenever I had free time. As the months went by I realized that I was playing it less and less and I started noticing the faults in the online game and found myself disliking it more and more.  Within a year I had completely lost interest in it.    There are better things for me to do now than play on Poptropica.

    Anyways, back to China, I bought some interesting clothes back from my mother's hometown.  I bought them on a street called, "wu ma jie" which translates into, "Street of Five Horses".    The street consisted of a lot shops and stores.  I think that the clothes there are very influenced by Korean fashion, as many fashion related things in China are.


I went to many border countries along the Russian border... I might be writing some posts about that.  A bought a lot of souvenirs and little things along the way...

    I have a lot of story and comic ideas from this trip!  I keep you posted!

My Turtle 2012

Its been a year since I got my turtle, Tito~lay!!! see: A short about Tito

He's grown a lot! (gender unknown) more than I have!
(If you think turtles are ugly and scary please do not continue reading!)

Here's a picture of him from last year:

He looks so small and cute! Note how small his head is compared to the following photos!

Present day photos:

 

 
He has a habit of swimming towards you when he sees you... it's because he thinks that you are going to feed him...

Random Haiku:

 Turtle named Tito,

 He loves to sleep, loves to eat,

Don't all pets do that?

Simply Tito-lay:

I liked this picture the most

SO...Next year I'll write another post about Mr.Turtle for you!

Points, Meanings

What is the point?                                     

Well the guilty part,

The moral part

is the point

What is the meaning? 
The truthful part,

The humble part,

Is the meaning.

 So...what I am trying to say here is that points are facts and meanings are true truths, what really can be found behind something, like a terrible or wonderful truth.

The point is what you see on the outside and the meaning is what it symbolizes.

 

 Let's look at some examples:

A bus driver stops the bus so that some younger kids and others can cross the street

The point is that the bus driver is an extremely sweet person for stopping

 The meaning is that a highly civil society should good care of the members of its community who truly need help.

You spot a girl that you assume fell off from her bike with a cut on her leg... you give her a few bandages

The point is that you were being caring for doing a random act of kindness

The meaning is that people who do good deeds are highly valued in a highly civil society

A girl is hit by a car and nobody stops to help, not the driver that hit her, pedestrians, or her parents

 The point is that this situation is really heartbreaking

The meaning is that this society is very selfish and scared

Did you notice Anything?

I think that the point and meaning have are actually pretty much the same thing...

You could substitute them for each other:

 What is the meaning?

Well the guilty part,

The moral part,

 Is the meaning.

What is the point?

The truthful part,

The humble part,

Is the point.


And then,  If you look at it that way... every thing related with points and meanings are the same thing...

Points, meanings, explanations, understandings, theories (maybe going a little to far), etc.

 But then again, they must be different otherwise they would have created two separate words!

So I come to the conclusion that points and meanings can be substituted for each other but they cannot mean both definitions.

Problem solved!

Wait...what was the problem?

Lake at night

From My drawing I used a picture from national geographic as a reference...just a practice picture.  Water based oil paints.

Icecream

 

Bacon - I

Bacon - I

Clumpy Jo

So I'm attending this camp at Belmont Hill School.  I earned the nickname Clumpy and my friend got nicknamed Jo.  The teacher there is the kind of person who gives nicknames to everybody.  Anyways,  We were sitting together and he started calling us Clumpy Jo. 

Trek to Dreamland

One Tree, Two Moons

    When you see my drawing, the first thing you notice is that there are two girls.  People ask me, "Which one are you?"  I can't really answer that question.  I drew this tree keeping in mind that the girl on the left represent me, but I wouldn't say that she is I.  She represents a lot of others as well, as does the girl on the right.  It just happens that her story fits mine.  It might fit yours as well.  Who knows.

    Last year, a very good friend of mine that I had just known for the school year moved to Florida.   She wasn't too happy about it.  But this reminded me of another friend.  I had a good friend back in my first grade.  Her name was Sasha.  At the playground in my old school, there was a very large tree - or it just seemed big to us at the time, and we would always play near it.  Sasha was the one who got me into nature.  We would always be near the tree at recess time, talking about eating leaves, climbing trees, "making" bird nests with twigs.  I think that she was the one who really gave me creativity.  It sounds funny, but we would always try to control the wind with our hands.  I liked her very much as a friend and probably more than she liked me.   But at the end of the year, she proudly declared that she was going to move.  The whole class made her goodbye cards.  She kept talking about how excited she was to move and how she couldn't wait any longer.  I tried to be happy for her too, but honestly, I was sad.  I hope that she has found another tree where she is living now and that she will learn from it as I learned from the tree in that playground.

  This tree represents my relationship with my friend in first grade, the one I has last year, and all my other friends that have been washed away in my life.  I hope that no matter how faded they become, they will always have a place in my heart, and that this tree will always remind me of their kindness and generosity.