March 2011
2 posts
January 2011
8 posts
Screen Writing Major (My personal statement essay)
Before I begin, I’d like to acknowledge to my readers (and to myself, as I believe it sounds as humbling as it is true) how much I would love to focus this essay on the amount of time I’ve spent paving sidewalks, restoring a stranger’s peeling picket fences, or BBQ’ing dinner for the inhabitants of a homeless shelter downtown. Believe me, I would love to say,...
“In the end, you’re going to realize that being a scholar gave you more...”
December 2010
1 post
Aspiration?
By pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Journalism Communications, I aim to gain the skills and background knowledge required for me to [hopefully] be able to become part of the American news media industry. As an avid writer for as long as I’ve been alive, and a high school news reporter of two years and an Editor of one year, I have come to recognize the obligations of honesty that a...
July 2010
4 posts
I’ve once again fallen victim to a rather large, rather stubborn writer’s block again, and am on the verge of tears; past week I’ve been at the mercy of this vast nothingness that’s swallowed my previously teeming creativity, dedicated to pens and paper. I refuse to succumb, and will willingly fight off, claw and tooth, the cliche-ridden American Media, the many vampire...
“People make judgments all the time, based on race and previous associations....”
– Mom
I’m already considering Halloween. My last Halloween in Hawaii will be spent at the block party downtown. I’d like a derby hat and little black dress from the 30’s, along with a feather boa, red lipstick, fake lashes, Monroe curls, and heels that DON’T say “hooker” in that sing-songy tenor pretty high heels usually have.
Eat your heart out, Gene Kelly.
June 2010
28 posts
Racism doesn’t make any sense. People aren’t born into ways of thinking, bad habits and beliefs are not merely dropped into one’s gene pool. Pride and hate will consume one’s heart and eyes, and the bridge on which we stand until there is nothing left. Take care to never let that happen to yourself and the people you love. Love is blind, and I’m sorry for those who...
Tennyson.
“Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.”
From my Facebook Status:
It’s SO funny when people take pictures with ciggies or alcohol. Do you see people snapping that many photos with pixie sticks? How ‘bout Cola? Or water bottles, or sandwiches? You guys post this ‘cause you think it’s cool, but take a look at this through a mature person’s eyes for a second. You’re ruining yourself and your future academic/ professional...
"For some, love doesn't exist unless acknowledged...
I can be self conscious about my physical assets, academic endeavors and accomplishments, fashion sense, even some of the individuals I associate myself with — etc. But the reality of my love for him is just about the only aspect of my life that will not be scathed, not falter by the erosion of society’s many, very dull, “glass half-empty” people.
Last night, I was an Owl.
And so the tawny owl precariously wrapped her feet — for they seemed too tiny to be called “claws”, and not sinister enough to be called “talons” — around the tree branch. It was delicate, and perhaps the least sturdy. Nonetheless, she nuzzled her beak fondly against it, noting that this branch, and all those surrounding her, belonged to the most consistently...
The Purpose of Life (in Religious and...
Any religous person (assuming that they are studious) would undoubtedly reply that the purpose of life is to live faithfully by God’s commandments (and if I remember correctly, the most widespread religions are Roman Catholicism/ Christianity - 1.6 billion - so let’s just go with those two similar religions), so as to avoid being condemned by Jesus Christ on Judgement Day. As stated in...
Being presumptuous tends to get one nowhere.
And being presumptuous and overly proud is a double offense.
Society’s definition of appropriateness is starting to become ever-changing. How are we supposed to perceive ourselves and the situations adround us based on media, then? Until we learn, our lives are indeed, based on or guided along by the media.
THINK FOR YOURSELF to avoid looking stupid. I’d rather be intuitive than...
An untitled (and thus far, incomplete) short story...
(The result of a prompt instructed by Ty Hollett, a brilliant former english teacher of mine:
“Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon.”)
Deborah Depratter had never lived much of what one could consider an “extraordinary” life....
The Strange Dream of Debra's, by Kristy (I'm...
There once was a girl named Debra who flew in a hot air balloon with a zebra.
She made it with her mommy whose name was Tommy, but her dad couldn’t help because a cat was sitting was sitting on his tummy. It made him dress up on Halloween as a mummy.
She tries to fly the hot air ballon to New York, but she couldn’t because the zebra made a fart. Then they landed on Wal Mart and sold...
He’s like the warm breaths, shop window easels, and visible whispers in the Winter; like the morning dew, leaving millions of tiny rainbows dancing intricate patterns across young leaves and the large eyes of tiny critters in Spring; the thrill of car rides along the length of our Hawaiian shores, and the spray of the breaking waves that cake my hair with salt, messy and alive with Summer;...
If you don't like the way I write, just remember...
That will be all :)
May 2010
27 posts
One Leaf on "Bad hair days", as prompted by my...
Fifteen minutes to write this? Gotcha :)
No matter what anyone says, it is infinitely impossible to be completely oblivious of the possibilities of what others think about your appearance throughout the day. Run-on sentence or not, you know this statement is true.
Just as eyebrows, facial (and perhaps pubic) hair affects your own visual aspect, it only makes sense for the largest collection of...
I love my baby<3
