Just Like Music…
October 25th, 2008
“Adding music in this context may cross the thin line between a killing machine and a dancing machine.” This is what an experts had to say on music and movement at two of my favorite websites Ask the Expert and Scientific American.
On the Net:
Confess your sins on line brought by Canon Dr. Graham Kings, the vicar of Islington in jolly London. While the trend to confess our sins to everybody but a priest has been around since the dawn of time and the internet, especially in the internet, I wonder how effective this method will be. His website by the name of his book, Signs and Seasons, features a chat session but I have not been able to tap into the live chat.
Top 10 extremely cool psych experiments by Mission to Learn via long time edublogger TonNet, Milton Ramirez, at Education and Technology. You just get me is one of my favorite looking at the discrepancies between how people view themselves and the way others view them.
Remember that human learning comes in spurts and by association: I am bewildered, discombobulated, addled and befuddled, profoundly confounded and perplexed! Repetition is the ugly jeans in the closet that you never throw away, like redundancy is a teacher’s rice and butter.
Quote of the week by the National Chauvinistic Husband Association, “Three principles for not arguing with your wife: won’t win, can’t win, don’t want to win.” Go Japanese! Lol!
Teaching and Quirky Mooreeffocs
October 17th, 2008
As, I’m planning the lessons till the end of the year, I am finding a renewed love for the art of teaching and my love for the English language. A little while ago I was featured by the newspaper and website in the Chosun region for my teaching. Yes, I know I am slightly taller than my Korean fifth graders.
Want to tap into all the interactive internet projects from around the world? Check out the Internet Registry project, specially the Doors of Diplomacy, sponsored by the Department of State with a $2000 cash prize for the winning group.
A divisive issue in education and society, what is fair? What deserves merit? Via John Conell’s blog, quoting Richard Florida’s book “meritocracy… has its dark side. Qualities that confer merit, such as technical knowledge and mental discipline, are socially acquired and cultivated. Yet those who have these qualities may easily start thinking they were born with them, or acquired them all on their own, or that others “just don’t have it.” By papering over the causes of cultural and educational advantage, meritocracy may subtly perpetuate the very prejudices it claims to renounce.”
What is a Mooreeffoc you ask? Via M. Quinion’s World Wide Words, first created by Charles Dickens as one of his characters was peeking into an office and reading a reflection. It has then been a word used to mean your forehead is really going to hurt after running into the painfully obvious. (Backwards mooreeffoc is coffee room). I had the same reaction. Wish me luck in this week’s temple stay and Sunmudo practice..KIAAAA!!!
add to del.icio.usReading dusk in Chineese
October 11th, 2008
The writing once shaped by the efficiency of reading scrolls,
The serenity of living high in the mountains,
The challenge of a culture and a language I assimilate into,
Many are the songs and praises to God’s glory,
Many more there will be,
I stumbled into mountains of beauty and grace,
I walk tall and in peace now,
Forever in love with Korea,
Forever singing praise be to God.
If you want to see a budding photographer’s view of the world in over 3k images, check out my flicker account by clicking any of the pictures, or go here. Sorry but the search feature is off… not all of me is public.
Cause life is just a bowl of cherries: “You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.” - Colonial American Proverb via Quotes in Can
add to del.icio.usRandom Thoughts Inspired by Hagakure
October 3rd, 2008
It’s the fate of the oppressed to always know their oppressor’s far better than they know themselves. After all, how do you define white without black. There is a third category that can best be described as the infinite amount of detailed missed on a black and white set. I have learned to recognize these people not by their propensity to run from black and white reactions to calm informative options.
Every one serves somebody. This can be called servitude, job, or marriage. In the end, it’s just the knowledge and fact that we are all interconnected. No war is waged individually but if only one can shine, the rest should be rewarded fairly. I wish I would have understood this at a younger age.
Once I understood this great “servitude” role that society asks us to play, I started looking at potential mates with the question of are you worthy of me and will you be as loyal and unwaivering to me as I will be to you. I have found that it is difficult to cut someone off and educate at the same time. I have found that allusions of shortcomings will fall on deaf ears on those that see themselves before they see me. I keep the company of those that listen and view them with respect and benevolence. I have found that my time has become more valuable and I must remind myself to be compassionate at all times. I found that the quality of my friendships have significantly increased though I remain single by my choosing. I have found this increasing need to be the best ambassador through my actions alone of my faith, community and teachers. I found I am stronger by acknowledging how weak I am.
I see interconnection opposite of the current banking crisis. The blame falls on many. How many executives will plead like a divorced Hollywood wife that they should be allowed to keep up their lifestyle? How long do I have to see the decline of my savings and hear that? I watch a 40 year old mother help her mother in a walker into the sauna. Ten percent of me I keep to love myself, the rest belongs in service to honor those I love. I wish that this would be a requirement of those in higher power, perhaps this could have been avoided.
I use to think of money as a negative sign from a person. Too much worrying is a sure sign of greed, for what is perceived in scarcity anyone will horde. Too little worrying, meant foolishness or a rich family background. A friend pointed out that a “money-less” society is unattainable because someone will always want to take more than their share. Money is a human made instrument to limit greed like a rope is to gallows and ships. I have since changed my indicator of a person from money to compassion.
I like and show my philosophical side the older I get though I take to silence in public more often. I also like this in my writing. Liking one’s self is important.
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“Strange thoughts are much like hangovers: you feel better without them…” –C. Bukowski
“It is better not to bring up daughters. They are a blemish to the family name and a shame to the parents. The eldest daughter is special.” –Hagakure
The India, Japan, and China albums have been created and Houston has been updated. Just click on the image above and go to my flickr account. Sorry but organization of over 3k images takes time.