Seedust

Am taking time off for a mental spring cleaning, creative production, and lining my little ducks in a right row. Now or never…

In the meanwhile, am delighted and proud that Obama signed his health care bill at 12:05pm this afternoon. History in the making…

On a sad note, another story that illustrates how our modern society is molding and neglecting teenagers who lack guidance and structure. Furthermore, we revere technology like a new bible. We submit to trashy realty media. Consume facebook & twitter for no importance. Instant exposure and gratification is the new motto. Modification and accountability has no meaning. All of this has been a great source in shifting the minds of youngsters to become idle, senseless and irresponsible. It’s a scary time in many ways… Sigh.

Be back in a month.

A poem sent by a friend.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

—Rumi

It’s that time of the week, month, year, decade… Insoluble melancholy.

With so much day-to-day stuff going on, trudging through the occasional blues is like getting a rotten potato as your birthday cake. What’s worse is when we keep it bottled up. Understandably, there is only so much one can console to best friends about, and you are certifiably positive that no one is experiencing your kind of struggle…. Recently I was feeling dismal and thought about calling a friend or two. But when realizing that it would be a burden to the ears, I simply acted like my life was a bliss.

An overwhelmingly amount of people out there are breathing a similar challenge of upsets and life’s crap as we speak – maintenant! (right now). So why so silent? Why do we mute ourselves to secrecy and pretend everything is swell? As a woman, we should be Kumbayaing hand-to-hand with our colony of girfriends, siblings and mothers.

Let’s be candor about this… We are ashamed with the notion that we can’t solve the unresolvable issues in our lives. We are disappointed for not being who we wish to be, with, how and where. And I think many of us feel deep inside that we somehow created the problems indirectly. So we try to mend and fix the problem quietly… If you think about it, this a common behavior of “over-accountability” by women.

Consider it a temporary exile from happiness that will reoccur more often than not. But more importantly, consider it that you are never alone in this part of the domain. Never. Alone. So rather than denying your issues by keeping it bottle up, medicating, drowning yourself with the bad. Just be good to yourself and your body. Learn to cope little by little, day by day.

All the problems we are confronted with is a part of the package and makeup of our journey. This is what allows us to evolve as individuals and prepares us for the more complicated road ahead. It also make great stories and bases to teach our kids about life’s survival skills. Because in the end, there is a message to be learned.

It’s called life and we must keep walking with a fake half-assed smile… : )

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My mom, aka The Fat Shaver, would be proud, very proud. Because like Japan, Korea is taking preventative measures on their future generation from being obese. This is a concept some parts of the western culture could learn a lot from, the philosophy of abstaining from addictive intake and ‘maintaining’ good health…

In the past decade having dinner with my side of the family means brown rice, mixed with all kinds of wheat grains and beans. If you know what birds and hamsters eat, then there you have it. It’s all wholesome goodness on your plate, and I don’t take it for granted. The only two people who get plain white rice are my two children…

With obesity on the rise and kids diagnosed with heart disease and diabetes, it’s only a matter of time before the government should cut to the chase and handle the epidemic with a firm grip. Japan is doing it by penalizing their overweight employees. South Korea has announced banning television advertising on junk food to promote healthy eating amongst children. The restrictions apply to hamburgers, pizzas, instant noodles, candies and ice cream… Isn’t this a normal daily diet to millions of folks in the States?? Did I tell you what my Fat Shaver mom did every time we ate at Pizza Hut growing up? She would use about 100 napkins to soak up the grease with, the end result was a cardboard-like rubber on top of a bread. In hindsight, she made a very valuable point, healthy eating habits equal healthy life.

I read somewhere that we should draw a pie chart on our dinner plate: 50% vegetables, 10% meat, 30% carbs, and 10% dairy. So simple and logical.

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And here are a list of nominees who really deserve the Oscar. My opinion only, and I don’t consider my judgement to be too bad.

Best Actor: Jeff Bridges

Best Actress: Helen Mirren

Best Supporting Actor: CHRISTOPH WALTZ!!!!!!

Best Supporting Actress: Vera Farmiga of “Up in the Air”

Best Animated: “Up”

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (I read a great interview of her, am sold).

Best Art Direction: James Cameron

Cinematography: Robert Richardson of “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino

Best Film: “The Hurt Locker” & “Precious” (Yes, the only two movies I haven’t seen but read enough about.)

One thing for sure, celebrities have been plaguing the platform of commoners’ trades… The profession which traditionally require 2-4 years of college training, sometimes a master degree, instilled with code of hard work ethics from the time of apprenticeship for $8 an hour, to years of polishing their craft until aged and refined.

For someone like Lauren Conrad, who made a household name as a reality tv girl, to pen a lackluster book based on her synthetic fame and chimes to a NYTimes Bestseller, thanks to the countless number of dumb citizens who buy white washed literature. This is a down-hill manifestation enough to temp the certifiably prestigious, but struggling, writers to slit their wrist. Certifiably.

They loot just about every industry that pays: fashion design, politics, prostitution (you heard me), modeling, children’s book and more books. When finding out The Asymmetrical Tory Spelling has a new children’s book at a store near you, I feared the planet must have spun in an opposite direction.. I’ve been working on a picture book title for over a year, crafting the character, reediting, soliciting second third opinions, drafting, sketches… This is what I paid my 4 years of college for, to publish my creativity. Only to be bypassed by a has-been TV gal who hijacked the commoner’s dream, my dream. Ugh.

Jerry Seinfeld has recruited his amped up celebrity friends to counsel the everyday dysfunctional couples on his new show. Heck, why not. These celebs check in and out of rehab like it’s a drive through. Therefore, their experience and credibility must be sound and plausible enough to be a therapist every Thursday night… I adore Jerry and somewhere deep in his subconscious mind he is aware that these same celebs are drowning in their personal demons so toxic and unrepairable. Their dysfunctions make our problems look like Pre-K.

They come, loot, regurgitate, repackage and the quality is contradicting and manufactured. Their new found trade is always short lived.