Crowd Lu

I have been listening to Taiwanese music lately. Crowd Lu (or Vitas Lu) is so adorable with his big glasses, bowl cut hair, and big smile. His style is fun and smooth. His voice and guitar playing is addictive. His influences (Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men) match mine! :D

I'm painting again.

I wonder if anyone can give me a crash course in oil painting.

Dreams

I feel like in every aspect in my life that I'm aiming too unrealistically. I have a secret wish to be good at everything, but that isn't real. Even now, as I am concentrating on things I want to do, I'm dreaming too much and now I'm left with nothing.

I'm going to review something on retropunks, now.

News

I've been reading the news lately: the financial crises in PIGS, the floods in the South, the bomb scares in Times Square, and immigration/abortion addenda to state constitutions. There really are so many things that can cause people pain and play up politics at the same time. Honestly, it feels like people take advantage of times like these to "promise" things that even they know are stupid/impossible and to change the rules of something totally irrelevant.

As a student who commutes to NYC, there are times that I feel that the security system fails, but I also think there are many natural weather elements that come into play. That is metaphorically speaking. I mean that we can't look towards politics to save all our personal problems, but with immigration and abortion and gay marriage, how does limiting those things affect the general public? There are people who are not immigrants, not girls and not gay. Why do those people want to "fix" these things when it is generally none of their business? I'm not saying it is not important, but it doesn't have to be dealt with now. Rather I would be more satisfied leaving those things aside until the economic situation is more stable. With President Obama as president, it's easy for some kids (including non-working college students) to forget that we have a national debt that is continuing to rise. Will I have to start thinking that I will have to fill up those zeros on the national debt instead of filling up my stomach soon?

Lol, the sad thing is that I can totally just juxtapose my rant with an experience today. It's Mother's Day, a day important to me where I show my mom appreciation by letting her rest and not letting her do any heavy chores. My two brothers and my sister-in-law lives with us. My brother and his wife did not plan anything and instead spent the day with their friends. It is totally disrespectful because it's a day that they have no work and why wouldn't they just hang out on another day. To add salt to injury, my dad is not here, and hasn't called anyone since he went on vacation. I know everyone in my family is appreciative to my mother (we make her pay for our tuition, bills, food, debt, even though we are all grown up; my brother is close to 30), but we can't even give up one day of the year to make her feel special. I did everything alone even though I am unemployed; am i wasting my money on something impractical?