March 2012
0 posts
“The greatest chef who ever lived wasn’t preparing food, but humans.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11foer-t.html
February 2012
10 posts
My Sis in Culver City's Union School District...
Lin Howe Students Take The Walking School Bus to Campus
If you live in the neighborhoods around Carlson Park or Rancho Higuera, you may have noticed an army of Hiking Vikings marching in formation on Friday mornings. The Safe Routes to School Committee at Linwood Howe Elementary School has launched a weekly Walking School Bus. The new program began on January 20, and the “buses” will...
I'm Not Okay With Chris Brown Performing At The... →
Hey, so, I am definitely far removed from pop culture and celebrity happenings. Though I’m not under a rock (amirite, Daniel Radcliffe?). I may not know ‘all the facts’ or ‘the whole situation,’ but domestic violence is still domestic violence, no matter the setting, relationship, aggressor, victim, or amount of publicity. I love this article, and am relieved to know...
Monsanto, Agent Orange Creator, Returns to Vietnam →
There’s so little I know.
Ways I Got Out of This Funk
Maybe, this haphazard list will benefit me in the future.
1. Try something new. Instant Golden Curry box dinner. 2. Listen to upbeat music. You Make My Dreams by Hall & Oates. 3. Surround myself with energetic people. Snowpants or no pants. 4. Enjoy my friendships. Whale O’Delley. 5. Relish being alive. Riding a bike. 6. Get inspired. TEDxBerkeley. 7. Bake. Baking Powder Biscuits from...
“When in charge, ponder. When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.”
– Missing Link Bicycle Co-op receipt
“On agroecology: “…the antithesis of transgenic...”
– Miguel Altieri, Professor of Agroecology at Cal
http://nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/break_feature1_fa11.php
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 2012
4 posts
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the... →
“Under the leadership of the working class, however, both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty, expanded free university education, abolished slums, provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment. Unlike the Norwegians, the Swedes didn’t find oil, but that didn’t stop them from building...
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
“Decades ago, when the Finnish school system was badly in need of reform, the goal of the program that Finland instituted, resulting in so much success today, was never excellence. It was equity. […] Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.” -Anu Partanen
December 2011
12 posts
When My Grampa Fell
We were in the shed, trying to find the box of ornaments to decorate the Christmas tree. I surveyed the back of the shed and the boxes on the shelves and deemed the ornaments missing. However, Grampa stood up from his wheelchair and stepped inside the shed. He pointed to a box on the shelf in front of him, and I said it was too heavy and not big enough to be the ornaments. With two hands, Grampa...
If I Were a Middle Aged White Man →
“If solving inequality were as simple as wanting it badly enough, I’d like to think we’d all be equal. Who in his right mind would put himself at a severe disadvantage? The economic and social disparity in this county has less to do with apathy than Marks might think.” -Louis Peitzman
Thanks Nurredina for sharing.
“There has been no more important chance in the human condition than the...”
– Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
Nerd Alert
The pad of skin on my left thumb is tender because of turning the pages in my geography readers all day. I haven’t had this feeling since the peak of my piano practicing days. Odd!
“The question of what to eat is one of the most important practical...”
– Health columnist W.R.C. Latson, Los Angeles Times, 1902
Claiming Rights
me: let's remember that this is MY IDEA.
Chi: haha
i feel like 52% of your personality is mine
in mutated form
me: ew
i'd rather not think about that
Chi: its true
Air Vibrations
I don’t want to go to sleep because I want to listen to all the classical music in the world right now.
November 2011
13 posts
“Mexico is devoting an increasing amount of its agricultural production to...”
– Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, 1993
“Much of the problem is rooted in a rigid command-and-control hierarchy based on...”
– Norm Stamper, Police Chief of Seattle Police Department
http://www.thenation.com/article/164501/paramilitary-policing-seattle-occupy-wall-street
RePost: Letter From A Liberal To A Young Marine... →
Well said.
Kim Chi Fried Rice
I love you.
I would love you even without the SPAM, which is saying a lot because I also adore SPAM.
You were the dish that started my appreciation for kim chi, this ridiculous concentration of spices and fermentation into one lucky cabbage. It is astounding how you can smother white rice in your sweet tang, and still pack a helluva punch in your own pickled leaves.
It is a painful love, to...
“Because the pickers were squatting or kneeling under the vines and twisting to...”
– The Economist, Field of Tears.
http://www.economist.com/node/17722932
i suck at chemistry.
why can’t i get a berkeley degree in baking instead, wah.
October 2011
14 posts
PERSIMMONS ARE IN SEASON.
My #1 favorite fruit. #euphoria
Miscellaneous Notes
Chi Uyen got accepted to the joint degree program at UCLA for a Masters in Public Health and Masters in Urban Planning. BAMF.
Based on test scores, I am doing the worst in my most favorite class and the best in my least favorite class.
I want to lay out to catch a disc in a game.
Classical music, come back to me.
I love my friends. They help me out without even trying, without my expectations,...
I am happy.
At least for now, anyways. Over the past few weeks I think I’ve experienced another ‘life lesson,’ I suppose. I’m learning that it’s totally okay to be not happy all the time. I mean that as in, happy to not happy to happy to not happy is cool. Not, not happy all the time is cool. Got it? Anyways. Yeah, I think I’ve so far lived with the expectation and pressure...
“Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken...”
– Karl Marx, Capital
I Should Seriously Consider
getting air freshener, potpourri, or SOMETHING to make my drawer of ultimate clothes not reek. it’s not just when i toss everything into my cleat bag…there is a larger monster here that i must conquer. especially since i’m trying to wear my clothes more repeatedly so my loads of laundry are more manageable. i think it’s when the dryer malfunctions, and my clothes never...
Took CHEM 3A Midterm
Made cookies.
Ate cookies.
Cookie tummy ache.
Fall asleep till bliss.
Think about whether or not to attend my 8AM when my alarm goes off.