Asians Are Whaaaaat???

So...apparently many people who are not Asian on YouTube in the comment section think all Asians are talented and therefore hate on them.

Somehow that makes me mad because I'm half Asian and...I can't play Fur Elise at all or the Flight of the Bumblebee or whatever.

Why is it that non-Asian people always think that Asians are all super talented? Those non-Asians are degrading themselves by saying that and that makes me even more angry at those people because I'm also half American.

It's always
"Oh, little genius Asian kid!"
or
"Of course he can do that; he's Asian!"

Being Asian has nothing to do with talent. I know a whole bunch of Asians that are just average normal peeps.

And then there are the Chinese (not being racist) that feed this belief by making their kids do hard school work from age 2 or something.

Non-Asian people, have you forgotten that there are plenty of non-Asians that are super talented? I mean, Michael Jackson wasn't Asian was he? Or how about all those talented people that appear on all those Got Talent shows or X Factor or The Voice?

And not all Asian people are good at math. Take it from me, I hate math! And I think the reason a lot of Asians are good at math is because of the school system. The Asian schools are different from the non-Asian ones as far as I know. Unless you really are a born math genius...all of our math comes from Western places. You know, Pythagoras' Theory and Einstein's Theory and all that?

Anyway, non-Asian people should stop degrading themselves and saying that because someone is Asian they can do genius things. And, not all Asians are super genius. I'm not. Heck, I type like this how can I be anyway?

Who Is N. J. Folettia?

Ahahahaha...aha... well, since I don't have any followers as far as I know, I thought maybe I should tell people about myself.

Okay, so basically I'm your normal girl who hates the word "normal" because the definition of "normal" depends on the person.

I wear glasses that don't have thick rims. I think thick rimmed glasses are just screaming to people, "HEY! LOOK! I'M WEARING GLASSES!!!!!" Nope, not for me.

And, no, I don't like to stand out much but then again, I don't like to be molded into the Crowd. So... anyway.

Also I'm 170cm tall. Convert it yourselves. And in Japan where girls are about 150-165cm or so, I'm freakishly tall. And I can usually see over people's heads. Boys are usually 160-175 or so. Recently there are boys that are 180 and above. Japanese are getting taller. Slowly getting taller.

It freaked me out a little bit when I went to Oregon USA for my study abroad. I was at an event in the...hall where you do sports and stuff...and there is a stage...I think. Almost every single student was there and I was around the middle and I COULDN'T see over the three, four boys that stood in front of me. I had to actually stand on tiptoe! And I could only barely see.

And to let you know, I hadn't stood on tiptoe to see over people in a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time. Maybe the last time was...elementary school? I was pretty short in elementary school...what happened? It felt so weird that I was actually SHORT-er in America. I felt so weird. There were lots of pretty girls much much taller and prettier than me and they didn't wear thick makeup like a vast majority of girls do in Japan. Natural Beauty you go girl.

Uhm...what else about me?

If you guys think I'm American you're half right. I'm half American and half Japanese. I lived only 3 toddler years in America so I'm not American at heart. I AM SO FREAKISHLY JAPANESE. I do the multiple nod-bow head thing and say sorry and be humble and don't stand out from the crowd and don't know popular American shows or tv stars.

But I do keep up with some popular culture via Yahoo! News and YouTube. I also watch America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent, Australia's Got Talent, The X Factor UK and America, The Voice UK and America, American Idol (a little bit), Dr.Phil, TLC (a little bit), BuzzFeed, Good Mythical Morning and More, Jacksfilms, sometimes PewDiePie, and lots and lots more YOUTUBE!!! Oh yeah :D

I like...to read...books, comics...uhm I like to write (obviously), I like to sing, improv sing in my room when I'm alone, I created a cover version of "Let It Go" and would film it if I knew how the video things worked and how to edit it and how to get music in and just How To YouTube.

I would like to, maybe, someday, do a YouTube channel and talk about some of the things I say in my blog. You know, kind of like reading it out but being as passionate and quirky and uhm silly...as I am here.

I
Am
Shy.
And I'm working on it.

I was bullied in Junior High and don't really care about talking about it or not. You guys are totally free to ask me to talk about it.

Uhm...I like cats and have one. She's a Ragdoll cat and acts like a queen. I call her Queen or Little Miss Hana (her name came from "Hannah". I don't really like the name "Hannah" so I changed it to a more Japanese name but also easy for American's to pronounce).

I have grandparents and Aunts and Uncles and cousins in both the USA and Japan.

My youngest cousin is about 12 years younger than me. My oldest cousin is the same age as me and is the only Japanese cousin I have. I have four cousins. And then my mother has several cousins and one of them recognizes me as her "cousin" even though we're remotely related and she is much much much older than me and super adventurous.

I am super super super passionate about SAVING TIGERS and AMUR LEOPARDS. Tigers are going extinct. Please do not ever, ever, ever purchase tiger medicine or tiger bone wine or tiger skins. EVER! Your resistance will save Stripes.

Oh, one important thing about me is, I can be blunt and controversial sometimes. I have a right to voice my opinion. I do you know. But I don't want to be mean so I tone it down most of the time.

I think the only way to be popular as an average person on the Internet is to be controversial OR do something big OR do one or both of those things and post a vid of it on YouTube.

I welcome criticism because hearing real criticism will help me grow as a person. I'm not talking about haters that hate for the sake of hating and feeling superior.

I think that's about it.

Thanks for listenin'... I mean readin'.

I thought "PRIVACY" was a THING

Emma Watson Splits With Boyfriend

Read article. Emma Watson says she does not date people who are famous. Equally I think she is sorry that her "fame" (perhaps) caused her boyfriend pain in their "private" relationship.

I agree with the things she implies: the ridiculousness of the paparazzi chasing after celebs during their private hours.

Look, I thought privacy meant something here. Celebrities are humans, too! Why should they have to have their privacy wrecked? And I don't care which celeb is dating who and married or divorced or whatnot every time it happens. Well, maybe marriage is nice to know but details! I don't want details. I mean,

"We don't care.
We aren't caught up in your love affair." ~Lorde "Royals"~

Why do we need to know if they smooched on that beach date or not? I mean, we aren't ever going to get together with them. We are lowly individuals who don't live in fame infested Hollywood in big houses that are mistaken for castles, for goodness sakes!!

Why should we care? The celebs aren't ever going to have a heart to heart talk with us and tell us all about their problems so we should know about that beach date or whatever.

It's just weird. Just weird. If I'm ever famous I'm gonna file a lawsuit against the paparazzi or just do boring things like going to a cafe and reading a book.

"TODAY NEWS
N. J. Folettia was last seen reading a book at a cafe. She ordered a mocha. She stayed there for two hours."

Uhhhhhhhh

Anyway, think about it. Do we really need to know about celebs and their dating life? Isn't that a bit nosy?

iPhone Post! Window of Opportunity?

This I couldn't even wait until I got home to talk about it with you guys.

A window of opportunity.

Not like anyone said it to me recently but while I was thinking my random thoughts (where most of my blog topics come from) I realized the inaccuracy of that phrase.

Because, now here's the real deal, we say it but mean it in totally different proportions.

A window! Wide open for just a second and we need to hop through it before it closes!

But in reality the opportunity itself is...well, it has a very small opening. It's not a window, in most cases, let me tell you that, no, it is a sliver, a crack in the sidewalk that you have to squeeeeeeeeeze through before it closes. It's like those thrill-filled movies and the protagonist has to run through two walls that are closing in slowly and the last bit just before they exit we're biting our nails and sitting on the edge of our seats because it's such a tight fit now and we're worried the protagonist will get smashed but he or she or it is somehow able to squeeze through that opportunity and come out alive to which we sigh in relief.

That's what it's really like.

So if the opportunity is slim, don't say "Oh, you have a window of opportunity!" Be real and say "Oh, quick! You have a sliver of opportunity! Quick! Seize it! Quick!"

Anyway, Happy Random Day (because it's a day that only comes randomly and it's the first day this has happened...) and hope you have a randomly awesome life :)

Hey, let's get rid of money!

"Oooo don't need that cha ching cha ching... ba bling ba bling..." Oh, hi. Sorry I was humming "Price Tag" and... I don't know the lyrics very well.

Sooooo, I don't know if any of you guys overseas know but in Japan, it's been rumored that we're gonna go into Depression. Not physically or mentally but financially.

I wonder what Prime Minister made THAT happen. I mean, we've had over ninety. It's simply ridiculous.

Personally, I don't like this Depression idea for a very personal reason. I'm about to finish college and I'm about to start my own life (FINALLY!) and I want to have fun with my friends before we go our separate ways.

But the problem is,

everything

is

going

to

be

EXPENSIVE!!!!

Oh mah gawd...

It's not easy to have fun any more. And I even hear that next year the tax will go up EVEN MORE.

I feel like cursing and smashing the walls and hitting people. But I won't.

So I came to this question: Why the HECK is life so EXPENSIVE? I mean, wild animals don't need to pay for anything. It's all there. Essentially, we are wild, too. I mean, we don't live in cages. Our houses are our territory just like an animal has territory.

November 2014 NaNoWriMo WINNER: Me

Yeah, I'm bragging :D

I slayed the 50k-word novel dragon!!!!

Oh yeah :D

Finished with 53050 words! WOOOOO!!!!

The process is awful but the finish feels GREAT. That's why I do it :)

Some "Wut Da Heck?!" moments in my life

I hate when this happens. Like Wut Da Heck?! Really phone, do you think I sent this message JUST BECAUSE? I mean, seriously?


















These days now that I'm older and technology is a big part of life I hate hearing "When I was your age..." from my parents because I can't relate anymore. I mean, they're talking about an age where techonology barely began to exsist and it wasn't the norm at all. Maybe when I was little, when technology wasn't a big part of my life, I could relate. But now, I mean, c'mon, what the heck.



When I first got an iPhone, my father taught me how to add people in my address book. I picked it up quickly cuz, really, how hard can it be? Apparently so hard that he forgot how to do it and has to keep pleading me to add contacts in for him. He says he doesn't know how. What da heck? He's the one who taught me how to do it.

And how about those really badly timed phone calls from your mother? It's like she planned it. When my mother wants to call at times when we haven't set up a calling time and date, either I'm in the shower, the bathroom, finishing an essay due the next day, sleeping, about to go out, watching a movie and it is at the best part... seriously, wut da heck?!

If I find more, I'll add them here :) Tell me some of your Wut Da Heck?! moments.

Frozen: Questionable Reality Check SPOILER ALERT!!!!

I know you guys are thinking
WHAT?! Not FROZEN again!

But I just can't get it out of my head! Not the song, I'm talking about the story itself. Sure, disney movies have always had questionable moments that adults asked out loud and kids just accepted. But c'mon, even a kid would realize the strange storyline of Frozen.

I'm calling this post "Reality Check" because I'm going to talk about certain moments in Frozen that I found myself questioning over and over again (basically the whole plot).

First, when Elsa accidently strikes her sister with her powers and her sister freezes up a bit and they have to do the old book with the ancient map thing and ride off in the night seeking these stone trolls who can cure Anna.

Elsa is then told her powers are wonderful and nice and pretty. Quite a good image to put in her head. I was kinda shocked when the troll decided to scare A LITTLE GIRL and tell her her powers could be evil and bad and tell her that fear is her biggest enemy and stuff. FEAR is her biggest enemy and he SCARES her. He should've told her how dangerous her powers are, THEN tell her they can be controlled and be all nice and wonderful. Some help HE was. Because of that Elsa's parents decide to shut her away from her sister and make her fear her powers. And thus, the white strand in Anna's hair is a constant reminder of how AWFUL and DANGEROUS her powers are.

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I thought FEAR was her biggest enemy... oh well. Poor Elsa, without love and support, lives a life of a recluse while her sister Anna runs about the castle completely out of control with no supervision from her parents or even a governness and with no social life because she never goes out even though she can. I mean, it's not like the outside world is dangerous or anything. Not like what Mother Gothel tells Rapunzel in "Tangled". Then I would understand why Anna never goes outside.

I just realized she does go outside... FOR THE FUNERAL!!!! (that Elsa doesn't even bother to go to because she's a recluse and can't control her powers because the trolls made her FEAR them.) Then Anna decides to shut herself in the castle until her sister's coronation. Who's rulling the kingdom after Elsa and Anna's parents die?

FINALLY THE GATES OPEN!!!!

Okay, I know Anna did NOT go outside for almost as long as her sister didn't. Normally, a child cut out from the outside world, will have minimal socializing skills and be an introvert and not be outgoing at all. Yet Anna has fully developed her personality and is quite a bundle of joy and happiness... did she have a playmate while her sister was a recluse?

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So, suddenly in the castle there are a bunch of servants... where the heck were they while the two princesses hid in the castle?

And the two sisters finally meet at the coronation where lots of people join... who sent the message to the other kingdoms if Arendelle is basically cut off from the rest of the world seemingly...?

Why is Anna not completely utterly terrified of the whole amount of people that she sees if she had zero chance to learn how to socialize? And why the heck does she meet with that prince and not be terrified of falling in love and stuff? I mean, she acts like she knows what love is and had lots of experience but she had LOCKED HERSELF INSIDE A CASTLE FOR LIKE 10 YEARS for crying out loud.

Suddenly she's recklessly in love.

Suddenly disney gives Elsa a cue to show her powers.

Elsa runs away. And even though Elsa had cut Anna out of her life, Anna is not angry at her sister at all because she cares about her so much she decides to leave the castle in charge of this man she just met and go after her sister during a blizzard.

Hans takes charge. Why is there only one prince there? I thought other kingdoms were also invited? No? Did they all go home before the party ended?

Disney throws in the regular normal guy that happens to team up with Anna to talk to her sister in ending the accidental freeze she set on the kingdom when she left.

(Side note: How do they know their shared liking of chocolate when they haven't had a conversation with each other in years? Anna should be furious with Elsa. So furious she wouldn't go after her in a blizzard.)

Anna and her new "friend" Kristoff meet Olaf who Elsa made during her song and never once glanced back to see what she made. I'm guessing it was happy memories of her and her sister playing together that brought life into Olaf.

Olaf is probably the most real character of all. Oh, and the reindeer. None of the other characters have a straight plot line.

Why is Kristoff an orphan? No one ever wondered in the beginning at that ice cutting scene? And WHY does Arendelle export ice? Where do they send it to? Who are these people that need ice so badly?

And another thing, Elsa can't be known as the snow queen when she'd only been one for less than four days supposedly and was in hiding the whole time.

Anna chases after Elsa the moment Elsa flees from the castle. Elsa leaves, Anna chases, supposedly while Elsa builds the ice castle. Then when Anna meets Kristoff, it still seems to be the same day because she makes Kristoff leave there and then and not wait until morning.

While Elsa sings "the light of day!" we see dawn coming around from somewhere. So a day goes by. It must've taken Anna all night to get to where she meets Kristoff then. She should've taken food or water or a blanket if she was smart.

But because she wasn't smart to prepare herself she gets to meet Kristoff, thank you plot line.

Okay, timeline, I'm getting confused.

Elsa becomes queen.

Anna "falls in love".

Anna frightens? angers? Elsa and takes her glove.

Elsa wants it back but doesn't want to hurt Anna (THE FEAR)

Fear makes Elsa use her powers. "Sorcery!" says the strange duke with the flappy wig.

Elsa flees. Anna chases.

Elsa leaves. Immediately Anna leaves Arendelle in Hans hands (hans hands haha) and goes after Elsa on a horse and brings nothing with her. Not even cash, food, water, or a blanket. And obviously since she has been hiding around inside a castle, she doesn't know that in the winter, you need a coat, a scarf, and boots, a hat, gloves, and blankets to keep you warm.

Elsa starts her song as she walks up a mountain. This mountain seems pretty far from Arendelle... how long did it take her to get there? Hmm... maybe all night.
At the same time Anna chases after Elsa on a horse through a forest which supposedly takes all night as well.

Elsa makes the ice castle. "light of day!" miraculously there is the light of day. Dawn. First morning she is officially "the queen :/ ".

(Seriously Elsa, who are you talking to???)

Supposedly Anna is still in the forest. She is STILL in the forest.

Sometime that same day, Anna's horse runs away on her and she falls into a creek and finds a cabin. It is dark now. Probably evening. Here she meets Kristoff. How does she pay the merchant if she seemingly has no money? Oh right, rich people always have jewels they can trade with instead.

Kristoff leaves with Anna and does not seem at all surprised she is the princess of Arendelle. He treats her rather rudely, too. Sven is kinda like a dog.

Kristoff and Anna meet Olaf who, ironically, likes warm things. Olaf gets a carrot nose. The funny scene is when Olaf says "Oh, look at that. I've been impaled! Hahaha." It should be frightening but well, he's made of snow!

Clumsily Anna tries rock climbing which supposedly is put there so that Kristoff can hold Anna and the plot line can hint at an eventual romantic relationship.

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The STAIRS that the two of them didn't notice even though it was right there. Right there. Yet they decide to look toward the right to the face of a large rock instead. Why oh why oh why? Ohhh, right. Romatic relationship plot.

Sven's hoofs make it impossible for him to climb and he is left behind. By this time it's like morning. I think the sun was out and the ice was sparkling.

(WHAT WAS ELSA DOING IN HER FORTRESS THE WHOLE TIME???? Singing more songs? Meeting Jack Frost and falling in love? Creating objects with her powers? Exploring her limits? Trying to find a way to keep people away from her even though she has a country to run? You know, that sounds a bit selfish...)

Deviant Art: Jack frost and Elsa snow queen OTP by TheWinterHope

deviantART Related / deviantID©2013-2014 TheWinterHope

(You know, I wouldn't be surprised if this pic was true.)

Anna meets Elsa. Anna is not angry at her sister and is not afraid. Where the heck does that trust come from if Elsa was the one who shut Anna out of her life? Anna should be mad. Any normal person would.

Out of FEAR of hurting Anna, Elsa hurts Anna. Good going trolls.

Elsa creates a scary snowman guard that she should have created long ago. Elsa's snowman guard almost hurts Anna who Elsa does not want to hurt.

Elsa and Kristoff have not met yet??? Not really. They do see each other but Elsa probably doesn't know his name. Anna leaves with Kristoff and Olaf dragging her with them. Her heart is freezing.

Trolls. Trolls sing a song and try to wed Kristoff and Anna while Anna slowly dies. Good going trolls. And the song is ridiculously long. I was so worried Anna was going to die right there. It is seemingly nighttime at this point because the trolls' lights are shining like it is night.

True love will thaw a frozen heart.

OH! Hans. Of course! Kristoff returns Anna to Arendelle. Hans is evil. THEN WHY did we have to see that smile of Hans when Hans falls into the water after he meets Anna? Surely that was a warm smile! The twisted plot line was a FAIL!

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So up until here, two days have gone by. And we know it was night by the time Kristoff goes to see the trolls with Anna. It is day again by the time they return to Arendelle and still day when Anna is betrayed by Hans.

Did anybody understand why he tried to get her to marry him? I had no idea what evilness was supposed to be going on there. It just seemed kind of reckless. And why was Hans trying to kill Elsa? Why didn't THEY fall in love? Why did Hans even bother to go after Anna if he was going to kill her eventually? Hans is weird. Maybe he had some kind of mental illness that made him do things without any reason whatsoever.

Dying Anna realizes Kristoff is her true love. Or so she thinks. It is still the same day as captured Elsa escapes and Anna tries to go see Kristoff on a frozen ocean. A FROZEN OCEAN! I know it's frozen but, are you kidding me? What were they thinking???

The movie does the loved-one-disappeared-in-the-fog-or-blizzard-or-whatever-and-sick-or-dying-so-can't-get-there-fast-enough scene. Elsa hears Anna died. Hans doesn't know Anna is alive. Hans doesn't know Olaf saved Anna. Immediately the raging storm stops as Elsa flops down to the ice lake floor and grieves. Guilt washes over her. She didn't want to hurt Anna but FEAR made her hurt her sister that she has been trying to protect for years. Good going trolls.

Anna is slowly freezing up. Supposedly Kristoff sees Anna as she rushes in front of her sister to protect her from Hans, miraculously she freezes up into an ice statue and Hans' sword shatters. THAT is REALLY hard ice. Or perhaps the sword freezes... depends on how fast Anna freezes I guess. And whether whatever Anna touches turns to ice or not.

Elsa cries over her sister. True love thaws the heart. SISTER LOVE!!! Glad of this twist because I would've disliked the cheesy-ness of the whole plot if Kristoff kissed Anna's frozen lips and she melted away.

All this time Hans is supposedly watching dumbfounded and totally defeated. Suddenly the ice melts and they are on a boat which appears out of nowhere because obviously they weren't on a boat, er, ship.

Hans gets punched by Anna. The duke with the flappy wig never wants to do business with Arendelle again. Everyone goes home. Olaf gets to stay.

Supposedly if there was a sequel we will see Anna getting ready to marry Kristoff and then breaking up with him and then falling in love again and Elsa being more queenish.

One thing I just realized... Anna has that white strand in her hair. Elsa's hair is white. Could Elsa be frozen inside? That would explain why they are sisters yet Elsa has white hair. It is because she is just so frozen inside. The "freeze" is in her bloodstream! Her blood vessels might be ice!

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Well, if there's anything I missed I'll probably end up writing another FROZEN article.

Anyway, I hope you found this interesting.

Later alligators! :D


Oh, one more thing, why doesn't Anna have any powers? Will we find that out if there is a sequel? I feel like she should have the ability to grow things. She seems like a foresty country girl. But if the sequel wants conflict with powers, Anna can have the ability to... burn things?

I'll leave that thought hanging.


Except for the pic from deviant art (the one with the captions outside the pic) all other pic words and arrows and circles and talk bubbles were added by me :)

National Novel Writing Month: It Has Begun!

I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm...

Actually really, I am pretty calm just that my MC (Main Character) isn't. Really. He's slowly going nuts and he doesn't realize it and his father is all to blame.

So, this month I decided to accept the challenge and juggle NaNo and school work and life stuff. So far, so good.

The only thing I'm really having trouble with now is... going to bed at a decent time.

These days it's become a habit to stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning, skip breakfast, eat brunch, eat a snack, and eat dinner and eat a snack before bed. It's awful! And habits are so hard to break.

Today in one of my classes a professor said, it was something like... "H. A. B. I. T spells 'habit'. You take the 'H' off and you get 'ABIT', take the 'A' off and you get 'BIT', take the 'B' off and you get 'IT'... habits are hard to break."

Clever way of putting it and he was absolutely right. And it was funny. Very interesting professor.

My mother likes to say that to break a habit all you need to do is create a new one. But you know, in reality it's more like you need to fix your bad habits. I mean, what good would it do if you get rid of a "dubbed bad" habit and create a new one that also happens to be bad?

Meh :/

Anyway, I currently have 12,278 words. Goal is 50,000. I'll try to keep you guys up to date so you can all be motivated to maybe take on the challenge as well! :D

NANOWRIMO!!!

Get those fingers on that keyboard and start typ'in!

This Recent Thing: Internet Targets Alex

Hee hee, see what I did in the title? Target the store and "target" the word. Clever, don't you think?

So...I went to Yahoo! News and found out about Alex from Target. Target sounds like a fantasy country written this way. Alex from Mars, Alex from Saturn, Alex from Middle Earth. Chew on that people.

When I looked at Alex from Target and read the Yahoo! News article I wondered what kind of person this Alex was. I mean, obviously Internet is only looking at his face. Apparently (and not particularly in my opinion), Alex is cute or hot or something. But what "kind" of person is he? Is he nice and considerate and kind or is he two-faced and about to use this new-found fame to do things he shouldn't and get things he doesn't deserve?

I think a lot of times Internet only looks at what a person looks like on the outside. Some people can, in the view of the Internet, look unappealing to the eye but be very kind, nice, considerate, and even great stand-up comedians.

Where am I going with this? Well, the Internet should definitely try to focus more on the inside than the outside. I think this also comes together with bullying. Kids are told all around them that you SHOULD judge people by how they look.

So, at an early age children have it in their minds that

Ugly people are bad and should not exist (like the monsters that a hero has to defeat)
Pretty people should be showered with love and gifts no matter what they do
And normal looking people should not be paid any attention to because they are probably boring

We, as the adults in the world, should all be held responsible for making Internet act this way and for making appearance be the only thing that matters. Appearance, appearance, appearance! If animals worried about appearance all the time they would all be extinct because only certain types (in terms of appearance) of animals would be left and there wouldn't be much genetic variety to carry on a healthy pure species.

Someone becoming famous...no, it's not their fault...Internet making someone famous just because some people thought he looked cute or hot or whatever is not acceptable. If he was a great person with a great personality and did something nice to someone who was having a bad day, then...well... he could...maaaaybe become famous but if it's just his looks...it shouldn't happen.

It
Just
Shouldn't
Happen

Stupid Internet I hate you but I have to use you for lots of stuff because that is what this world has become.

Oh, the irony.

P.S.
Since I've been living in Japan for so long I don't always find Americans or Europeans attractive. I'm more of a J-Pop girl...or rather I used to be...

These guys are called "Hey! Say! Jump". Don't ask me why. I used to like them especially the one in the front, first from the left. I know, you're gonna say he looks like a girl. But he was only 14 then. He looks totally different now. And, the middle row second from the left, also 14 then. Yep, specifically those two. I don't care for them now though. I actually don't have a celebrity guy crush anymore. They just change so much.

Yup. Most idols seem to be good looking in Japan. Too bad. There are lots of good singers out there in the world. People who actually deserve the spotlight. And, they don't get because they don't have the looks, it's insane.

There. I said it. WE ARE INSANE!

Ok, bye *runs like the wind*

BFF = Best Friends FOREVER?!

Hi guys... in this post I'll be talking about BFFs. Real or not? Is it possible to have a BEST FRIEND that lasts FOREVER?

Some rare cases say yes, most cases say well... not really and not always.

I've had some friends that I thought were well, you know, friends. I mean, I didn't confide in them all that much or told my deepest secrets or had them comfort me when I was feeling down... but I had friends that lasted a long time.

But then... we grow up and go separate paths and even though we still send each other birthday gifts, we don't really... talk all that much any more. And I never told her my deepest secrets or anything...

So, when I see this BFF thing common seemingly in the USA, I wonder, if maybe it COULD be a cultural thing? Japanese are more reserved by nature. It's our culture. Confiding in someone your biggest secrets is like having them look at you without your clothes on. Maybe.

But seriously, BFFs sound like SOOOO much fun!

You watch movies together, go shopping (I'm a girl), talk about this boy or that boy, get fashion advice... plus, you know you always have a shoulder to cry on when you're down.

I wonder if being in Japan made me miss out on that... or could it have been this way anyway? I mean, I am on the shy side and shy people tend to only have a small handful of somewhat trustworthy friends. Most of the time I spend alone soooo I don't really know how constant companionship will work for me :/ 

*whispers* I hope I can get married one day :/

So, from a shy person point of view, I've always struggled with this "friend" thing that you have to bother with when you're in society. What are some things you look for in a friend? And to those who have best buds, what makes them so special besides the BFF must haves I talked about earlier? Is there a formula for someone who could be your BFF or does the duration of the friendship matter as well?

Frozen "Let It Go"... No, "Keep It In"

So, typhoon update! The typhoon did not hit where I live so very hard but apparently it did crash down hard on some places.

Anyway, to business.

So I've seen tons of "Let It Go" parodies and stuff and decided to make one of my own... well sorta. I made it in a way so that you COULD sing it, just about, with the original melody. I dare you to sing it and post it on YouTube :)

Opposite "Let It Go": Keep It In

The desert burns black on the plains this morning
All hand prints can be seen
A dictatorship of integration
and it looks like we're not the Kings
The dust is whispering like this straightened calmness inside
Could let it go
Earth doesn't know we've given up

Let them out,
let them overlook
Be the bad boys we don't have to be
Reveal, do feel,
let them know
Well now they don't know

Keep it in, keep it in
Can always free it
Keep it in, keep it in
Confront and open the door
We do care
what they're going to mumble
Let the calmness ebb down

The heat always bothered us anyway

It's grave how some contact
Makes one thing seem big
And the pleasures that always freed us
Can get to us any time

It's not time to overlook what we can't do
To test the extensions and keep it inside
All wrong, all right, there are rules for us,
We're bound

Keep it in, keep it in
We are many with the dust and ground
Keep it in, keep it in
You'll always see us smile
There we sit
And there we'll depart
Let the calmness ebb down

Our powers are motionless through the dust into the sky
Our souls are straightening in melted circles all around
And many thoughts fall apart like a boiling stillness
We're always staying here, the future is in the future

Keep it in, keep it in
And we'll descend like nightfall
Keep it in, keep it in
Those flawed boys are here
There we sit
In the dark of night
Let the calmness ebb down

The heat always bothered us anyway!

Completely random photo-edit thing I did quite a while ago.
Maybe even a few years ago.

Typhoon Is Coming! Is it coming???

Hi!
It's almost 1am. Expecting typhoon any moment here in Japan. Everyone's on edge about it because...
1. It could be disastrous.
2. It could cancel school.
3. It would be great if school were canceled.
4. Typhoons are dramatic and everyone knows that even though it is disastrous they still have fun while it's around. That's what's sad about it which brings us to...
5. Typhoons are dangerous.

Thank you for reading the Typhoon Reality Check... wait, that's what that was?

This post was almost pointless because...
1. There's a list.
2. People don't like list blogs...
3. or they could care less.
4. It was about typhoons and I don't even have enough information.
5. I pointed out a random fact that we, people, enjoy thrill whether we want to admit it or not.
6. Actually there's no point in writing about it.
7. I copied and pasted the list from the one I just, just, just wrote on a forum on Figment: Write Yourself In.
8. I don't have anything else to talk about...
9. so instead I made another list.
10. I didn't talk about the characteristics of a typhoon even though I wrote "Typhoon Reality Check".

We Are So Insignificant

I'm hoping I'm not the only one who, as a child, was slightly interested in the idea of black holes and the big bang and how everything got started and how it might all end some day.

There are lots of theories about our universe.

The Big Bang Theory. That, after a big bang, everything started to happen and wala, here we are.

There is also one about The Big Crush where instead of expanding and expanding, the universe is actually going to get denser and smaller and soon collapse on itself.  Maybe become a black hole or something. But this theory can be proved wrong because apparently, recently some scientist discovered that the spaces between galaxies are actually much wider apart than they were when the universe was in its infancy.

That's the expanding theory, kinda. Guys, do your own research! I dare you :)

At this point the universe sounds like a big balloon or bubble. But won't that mean it might go POP! some day?

Anyway, there are also theories and science that says the Andromeda (spelling?) Galaxy is slowly slowly coming toward us and will, in about 3 billion or so years, collide with the Milky way Galaxy and cause explosions and chaos. There is a good chance Earth will die.  There is apparently a lucky chance it will get thrown out into space to, I don't know where. (Info from YouTube BBC Death Star).

It got me thinking...

You know, the universe doesn't really care if we (humans) are alive or not. To think about that, is hard, maybe, I don't know. But since the universe doesn't care about us, it also doesn't care if we get destroyed in the process of the life cycle of the universe.

I said life cycle cuz maybe, there were universes and civilizations before us who got destroyed by the universe. Those civilizations may have been human like us, or they may have never, never, never evolved into the human beings we are today.

Hey, maybe the universe is getting upgraded.

See, here's my idea.

There is a universe with a civilization that hasn't figured out how to go as far as the middle ages. The universe makes some apocalyptic thing happen and destroys all life. But then it creates a new one and this time this new one discovered weapons and gun powder and all that "great" stuff. But it never went as far as that. It never achieved the goal of complete progression (or whatever).

So they get destroyed.

Then the universe tries again. It creates (us). We go through each stage of civilization and finally come to technology and even begin to explore our creator (Universe). Whether the universe is satisfied with this race, I have no idea but maybe we're on the right track and that's why we're not dead yet.

Unless
of course
we end up destroying ourselves.





Anyway, I'm not saying blah about religion or about science. It's just my opinion. I know some of you might say

"Well, it sounds like you think the universe has some sort of conscience.  Wouldn't that be god?"

Well, maybe it does have a conscience. Not a moral one or a god one but maybe there is something there that, since we think it is impossible, we have never really noticed it.

The universe is so very interesting.

Question for you guys: What is your universe theory? And do you think there is an "edge" in the universe? I'm not suggesting it's flat.  But hey, we don't know it's round either, right?

Celebrities: What Emily Osment, Jennifer Lawrence, and Lorde have in common

So, I rarely talk about celebrities just because I could care less what goes on in their lives. It's just the same as ours only a little bit more hectic. The pictures you will see are of wallpapers I slightly edited and added lyrics from songs that I thought represented the actresses / singers. Only Lorde has one of her own.

Anyway,


Emily Osment interview on Clixoom.de


This video, which you should watch, will make you realize how awkward the interview is...no, uhm, I mean, how down to earth Emily Osment is.  You probably remember her from the Hannah Montana series as Lily Truscot and I don't know what else she's been doing besides singing because I don't keep up with that stuff.

So, according to the interview, her star life and her private life are completely separate and she likes it that way. She doesn't like people invading her life and asking about her bfs (past, present, and possible candidates or if she's dating other celebrities).

I chose this Hilary Duff song "Wake Up" because it's about a normal person living the normal life, making mistakes on the way but being completely fine with it. Even when sometimes, life gets difficult and hard to deal with. We ALL live the best way we can.



And... most of you probably know Jennifer Lawrence to be down to earth as well. When she talks in interviews she sounds so much like any normal girl who goes to a normal school and has normal friends she goofs around with. She's probably the most REAL actress I've seen in a long time... maybe the most REAL actress ever. And I really like that she openly talks about being photoshopped and not liking it and how everything is kind of fake in magazines...well let's face it, people will do anything to make money off of celebrities.

(I like how she smiles. It's like "Aw the heck with everything! *throws arms up in the air in sarcastic gesture*" Sorry Jennifer Lawrence if you are offended by this. But your smile is very natural and open and running-around-on-an-open-field-in-autumn smile.)
Okay, for the lyrics I chose "We Are Who We Are" by Little Mix (my favorite girl group) and Bryan Adams' "Here I Am" from the movie "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron". It's a very nice movie and I've watched it sooooo many times and I'm still not tired of it. "Here I Am" really represents Jennifer Lawrence because she is so HERE and NOW and REAL, if that makes any sense to you guys.



Our third down-to-earth girl is Lorde. A lot of people don't seem to like her when she's on stage. At first I didn't know what was the big deal until I saw a video of her performing "Royals". It looked like, as some people said, she was posessed by the music. But I KNEW that she had a good reason to be doing that. So, Wikiwikiwiki! Apparently, she becomes one with the music and feels the rhythm. 

Considering the fact that her "Royals" music video was originally not supposed to have her face in it at all, I can understand why she wanted to put herself in the back. I think to her, the singer is not as important as a person but rather more like an instrument that you listen to.

When she dances, she IS the music. Just another instrument.

Anyway, back to why I think she's down to earth. She has apparently stated many times about singers being marketed as products and well, you guys know, right? I mean, even though they ARE known, Hilary Duff doesn't seem to be a big deal anymore or even Cher Lloyd. It's like this SPARK! and then that's it.

I also like how Lorde's songs are down to earth, too. They sing about real stuff. REAL stuff I mean. Keep up the good work, Lorde :)

"And I'm only as young as the minute is full of it" is definitely about the SPARK! I talked about. Oh, and I tried to make Lorde's picture look like she was on a TV screen.

And... I put Cher Lloyd's down to earth music "Behind The Music" which talks about how singers have to be able to stand behind their music so that the public will always be on their tail otherwise their music will just fade out. Maybe Cher Lloyd is a bit down to earth, too.

I really like the lyrics "I know just who I am / And just who I'm not". Exactly the things Lorde talks about all the time in interviews and in her songs.


Finally, this is what all singers do.

SPARK! sizzle sizzle f...a...d...e...
SPARK! sizzle sizzle f...a...d...e...


Hope you guys enjoyed this celebrity talk! :)

The Something = Nothing Theory (SuperCarlinBrothers video link linked!)

So, Nothing. What is nothing? Well, it is definitely something that I have often thought about and thought I was the only one to think so deeply but then...

SuperCarlinBrothers video about NOTHING

Someone else has thought about it and posed a new theory that I didn't have! :) yay face

His theory was that, nothing is an area sort of, where it's just clear. And Clear is like a new color. It can't be something that we can imagine. Hmmm...deep...

Here's my theory and I even wrote a poem on this if I can find it...um...later.

So, imagine a box. It is empty. You are asked to say what is in it. You look inside. You will probably say,

"There's nothing in here!"

And yes, there IS nothing in there. Well, nothing that you can see, that is.

But think about it, there could be these minute pieces of dust that we can't see with the naked eye. And, not to mention air that is all around us otherwise we'd probably suffocate by just looking inside the box to see if there is anything in there. It's like outerspace where...we can't breath.

But
it isn't.

So, if we look with our naked eye and see nothing. It is just Nothing By Our Naked Eye.

Then imagine you were asked to look inside the box using a microscope. I had this...miniature microscope thing my grandmother's brother (who I just called "uncle" because he's my mother's uncle) gave me. It can zoom in on fabric and stuff until you see the threads twining together and stuff. It's pretty cool for an only child who doesn't have playmates in her house when both her parents are busy with work and household stuff.

Anyway. When you look at the box, you'd see a close up of the stuff it's made out of. Is that nothing? No. It is something. Ha! There, I proved to you that there is indeed something in that empty box.

Okay, here's where it gets tricky.

Wise-sounding stuff from N. J. Folettia

You can't do everything that you want to do in your lifetime because your life is so short! Sure it feels long but if you tried to do ALL the stuff you want to do you have to be stupid. It's impossible to do ALL the stuff (including minute stuff like going to that new pet shop that opened or drawing a picture of a very real looking bear) that you want to do in your lifetime.


When you sit down and decide to concentrate, it's not enough. You have to ACTUALLY concentrate; not sitting down and deciding to concentrate.

Sometimes your parents will talk about stuff you don't really think is so particularly interesting. Go to your happy land.

Never wear stripes with stripes or spots with spots. No one would want to look at you because you make them dizzy and sick.

When you go from being a child to being a semi-adult, your parents never really know what to do with their baby that is now all grown up! No one is perfect. When you're about over twenty, you're allowed to remind them that not even THEY are perfect but make sure you do it at a family night when all of you are sitting down comfortably. Say you need to talk about something and you want them to not say anything for a while until you say you're done. Giving them a taste of real family hood you supposedly learned about in college, being away from home for the first time, is good stuff. Let them know who this adult is by being very explosive about it.
GET THOSE EMOTIONS OUT!!!! EVEN GUYS!!!!


To writers: NEVER LET ANYONE DENY YOU OF WRITING. Even if you have to study for a test that is next week. But make sure you write during break hours or you'll regret not studying.



If I think up some more words of wisdom I'll put them here.

Title: Open the Window

Made by: N. J. Folettia

Description: Really it's just a bunch of iPhone wallpapers on top of each other and made to look like they are actually one thing.

Never pet a shedding cat when your hands are wet.

Kill off mankind and start over

You know, the way we have evolved on this one-of-a-kind earth...it's like a privilege. I mean, initially, Earth was an Animal's planet. There weren't any humans. Then something happened and humans started to roam the earth. Then something else happened and we started to get smarter and then we started to get greedy and then we got all religious and then scientific and the more we found out, the more questions we had.

And each question, we went to great lengths to find the answer, like sending rockets up to space.

But
initially
we weren't on this earth. We were added.

So, we have no right to be all conflicty with each other and destroying the planet that has PROVIDED US WITH A PLACE TO LIVE.

It's like living with a roommate and not respecting their boundaries. It's not the earth's fault we go through so many hardships. It's our own fault.

So, about the shocking title I gave this post...um, well over the course of evolution, we have created religion, science, literature, and disease. We have created reason to conflict, boundaries, and weapons. We have created wars upon wars upon wars.

Today, we have SOOOOOOO many problems.
Let me make a short (or not so short) list of all the stuff that's going on today and make you overwhelmed.

In no particular order,
Religious wars
Boundary wars
Wars dealing with resources
Wars dealing with races
Civil wars dealing with politics
Politics itself
Presidents or Prime Ministers who don't listen
Diseases with no cure
Diseases hard to deal with
Poor countries
Countries with a wide rich-poor gap
Governmental censor ships
Robbery / Theft
Illegal weapons
Illegal drug trade
Illegal wildlife trade (animals and plants)
Sexual assault
Sexual abuse
Domestic Violence
Child abuse
Abortion
Animal abuse
Freedom of speech (absent or not absent)
Bombs (of any kind)
Nuclear weapons
Nuclear power plants
Exploitation of natural resources
Deforestation
Spies (going to one country illegally to find out information)
Organized crime
Education (lack of it or not enough)
Discrimination (gender, religion, race)
Tobacco / Cigarettes
Crime against humanity
Human rights abuse
Terrorism

and...I'm pretty sure there's a ton of other stuff that's problematic in our world.
Well, what do you think? That's a pretty long list isn't it?

With all these problems though, its actually amazing that we haven't wiped ourselves off this planet yet. I mean, its a pretty dangerous place to live in, if you know what I mean. Despite all of these things, and it sure is gonna get worse with technology improving with hacking and computer viruses becoming a problem, we have managed to survive.

But for how long? Will the earth destroy itself or will we destroy the earth?

And, sometimes I wish we had a restart or refresh button. We'd just press it from time to time when global problems have become too much to deal with.

Too bad we can't deal with problems one at a time. Like, we'd deal with, say, religious wars and while we're dealing with it, the other problems will naturally come to a halt.

Boy, it sure would be nice to do that.

But since we can't, maybe we should kill off mankind and start over? Surely there's a way to make evolution happen so that we never have conflicts and we can be just like animals; a part of the environment. Sure culture is important and all but how can THAT even thrive in this messed up world anyway?

Well, it's just a thought.

I'm certainly not gonna be the one to do it. And I don't want other people to get crazy ideas. But seriously, we need to buckle down and get these problems out of the way before we can enjoy our lives at all.

"All of you people out there, get your lazy butts off the chair and get cracking!"
says a rather annoyed voice that may or may not be your hallucination.

I feel separated from my family :(

So... I need get this off of my chest...

Do you guys ever feel like you're not part of your family even though you are?

When I go home, sure I'm welcomed back by my Mom and Dad and we eat dinner together and watch a movie and spend quality time together and go to bed.

The next morning, it's me living in a house where there is this couple that ignore me sometimes because they're too caught up in their own world.

If I said this to my parents, surely they'd be super upset and try to include me in things but then a day or so later, it'll be back to what it was before.

They went to this couple workshop thing a year ago in the beginning of 2013.  It was a workshop by John Gottman.  I looked him up and he doesn't seem like a bad person or a cult leader so I don't think he's to blame.  So maybe my parents interpreted it wrong or maybe they took it too seriously.

Anyway, no matter how many times I tell them how I feel about it all, they don't change!

You know what, I give up.  I don't know how to tell them what I feel; I've tried everything I could think of.

If you guys have any ideas on how to get the happy family back, let me know in the comments.

List of Often Seen Types of Protagonists in Fiction

I don't know if you guys have noticed (you probably haven't) but I read a lot.  I mean, really, A LOT.

And when you read, there are certain things you kinda notice that writers often use.

You know, like, vampires.

But anyway, I'm not talking about genre I'm talking about plots.

First, what are plots?  Well, they have a beginning, middle, end, and a building up part to a climax somewhere between the beginning and the middle, and the middle and end.  Well, the end is the climax and the, well, I guess it's kinda like the resolution of sorts.

And anyway, I'm not talking about plots I'm talking about the protagonists in the stories.

Here's a list.  Most of them are "general I've seen before" types but some of them are ones I took from the stories I've read.  Mostly fantasy, as you may notice.

1. Was a nothing average kid and suddenly has the whole world on his or her shoulders because of some heritage or destiny...  The Destiny Child.  Wait, Destiny Child sounds familiar...isn't it a celebrity name or something?

2.  Nothing average kid wakes up one morning and feels different.  Then meets people with strange powers and goes to save the world or something.

3.  Magical fantasy land with magical princess or prince going to get married soon but hates it and runs away, hides identity, finds a peasent or country girl or boy falls in love but is forbidden... well, you know, love stories that cross between ranks.

4.  The chosen one stories.  Oh, wait, I know a good chosen one story.  The Pokemon movies.  Not the TV series.  In the movies, every single one, Ash (Satoshi in Japanese) goes out to save the city, the country, the world, the pokemon species.  Good grief.   Sometimes I think he should give one of his buddies a chance at the saving the world thing.  Don't get me wrong, I like the Pokemon movies.  But I think it might be interesting if the protagonist wasn't always the protagonist like in the TV series.

And, in a way, Harry Potter is kind of like the chosen one, isn't he?  Not too much, but kinda.

5.  Speaking of Harry Potter, those protagonists who naturally have some great power with them the moment they were born.

6.  Protagonists that revolt against some authority force and are the leader of that revolutionary group.

7.  Protagonists with amnesia.

8.  Girl protagonists with a corrupt family and school life who find love with some guy that help them bring their life around.

9.  Speaking of love stories, nothing average girls getting asked out by popular boys and the struggles they go through with entering the popular girl world or not.

10.  I'm running out of ideas... uhm... Suicidal insane protagonists finding love or finding power they didn't know they had and realizing they weren't insane or end up staying insane or succeed in killing themselves.  Sorry for the frankness.  And I'm saying sorry to those of you who have lost someone because they took their own life.

There.  I don't know, maybe these are cliche but maybe someone of you writers out there can mix-mash them and create something new?  *grins* I dare you to try to mix these up good.  And show me!  However long I don't care.  I'd love to see creative creative writers :)

Facebook Makes Us Lonely

That's why I only share articles

and ignore the rest of the stuff.

Some of my friends post everyday.

Good grief, what have you got to say.

I don't think my life is so interesting that I want the world to know.


Oh, TIGERS and AMUR LEOPARDS are in danger of becoming EXTINCT.
Tell your friends and EVERYONE DONATE TO WWF or ALTA.

Sorry, I had to get that off of my chest.  I don't really know how many people actually look at my wildlife saving blog.

Well, that's it!

The Santa Claus and North Pole Theory: Part 1

This is something that I've been thinking about for a long time ever since I found out Santa wasn't real.

Let me tell you how it happened for me.

When I was in my second year of junior high, I decided that I was getting too old to write letters to Santa and ask for things.  So, I told my mother, well, actually I wrote a letter to Santa telling him I was getting too old for him and then my mother came over and told me that Santa isn't real.

In my third year of junior high, my tutor, about 8, 9 years older than me, that came to my house told me she believed in Santa Claus.  She said, "Definitely.  He's definitely out there somewhere and I will not stop believing."

So the reasoning I came to of who on earth the jolly old man was, is that he does come around at night on his sleigh visiting households with children.  He doesn't leave presents.  That's what the parents do.  But what he does do is make sure every child is happy and safe and sound and is sleeping tight.  The reason I say this is because "Santa" apparently means "Saint".  It would make sense for a Saint Claus who loves children and who is kind of a guardian angel for them to visit them on that one special night.

I think if we think of him as a saint, in Christian beliefs and other religions, it would make sense his visits might coincide with Jesus Christ's birthday.  I heard there is even specualtion on there being a fourth king that followed the star of Bethlehem but stopped to help a homeless person or something like that...  And then I don't know if he died or what but somehow he was dubbed a Saint by the angels of god...  He could be the Saint Claus...  He could.  I mean it does fit.

Okay, first we'll tackle the question, WHO IS SANTA CLAUS?

What Valentine's Day does to us

So, this is basically kind of a rant for Valentine's Day.

First, people who have no girlfriends or boyfriends are shown how much they are alone and sad on Valentine's Day.  Valentine's Day brings light to couples and darkness to people who have no partner to spend it with.

Second, Valentine's Day is great for companies to get people to buy things.  Chocolate companies get a great chance to promote that new product!  And other companies like those that make cards and happy lovey stuff and heart-shaped jewelry can get lots of cash in.  Basically they use Valentine's Day for that purpose very successfully.

Third, the aftermath of Valentine's Day is worse than during.  When people look around they see couples holding hands, hugging, maybe even kissing depending on how much PDA is acceptable in public.  Those who have "nothing" feel lonelier because those who do have the spotlight on themselves and basically show the world they are happy.  I'm not saying I'm not happy for them.  Of course I'm happy for them.

Forth, Valentine's Day creates this opportunity for even fake relationships to seem real for just a day and maybe another day after.  But once that heat of love is over, things can take a terrible turn.  I've never had a Valentine's Day sweetheart so I can't say anything from real experience but we are only human so I can guess that some people might take advantage of Valentine's Day and ask that girl on a date or take a day with that boy.  Valentine's Day makes people sweet and happy and good and peaceful... most of the time anyway.  So, that boy you hated might be worth spending the day with even if that means you might never be permanent.

People HATE being alone on Valentine's Day.  Most people anyway.  It's supposed to be special and romantic.  So even if you have to hurt your heart afterwards, at least that day can be happy, right?  Wrong.  (I've always wanted to do that "right?  Wrong." thing, haha, point off)

It's just not worth it to hurt yourself in order to be happy on Valentine's Day.  Heck, I don't even celebrate the day anymore because its just sad and lonely and pointless and I'd have to spend money to get a boy to look at me.  Love shouldn't cost anything in the first place.  If any of you reading this long blog, and you are without a partner, make sure when you find someone that you don't have to buy his love.  Chocolate being the start of a relationship is pretty shallow in my opinion.

There now.  I think I've lost track of thought for a moment.  Back on the point.  A relationship for just one day, just one day called Valentine's Day which wasn't even meant to be a special day (Wikipedia Valentine's Day and you can find interesting information), IS NOT WORTH IT.

So, any of you who are lonely, don't be.  Valentine's Day wasn't even meant to be a day anyway.  What a funny story, huh?  You're sadness has been a waste.  Only those who are really truly lucky will even find their honey-bunch on Valentine's Day.  And I mean lucky.

Did my point even get across?  I don't even know if this whole thing had a point.  Oh well, it was more like a rant anyway.  A rant to people who say they are lonely on Valentine's Day and to the fraud of Valentine's Day.

The "new" Miley Cyrus, say what?

This will be a short post.

Surely we've seen how Hannah Montana changed into the twerking, tongue lolling, half-naked like Miley Cyrus.

But as I was watching interviews of her on the Ellen Degeneres Show 2013 on Youtube, I realized one thing that had been bugging me for a long time.

Is the Miley Cyrus--the one that we are so used to seeing since Hannah Montana--still in there somewhere?

The answer is yes.  Sure, she has some...pretty... interesting views on some things... but the bubbly Miley Cyrus is still under there once you give her a chance and see past all that surface stuff.

Miley Cyrus, hope you continue to be yourself and never forget who you are.  It's the most important thing.

The End.

J.K. Rowling regrets character match-up: SPOILER ALERT (sort of)

Today I saw an article about J. K. Rowling coming out that she regretted matching up Ron with Hermione.  This is a case of character match-up regrets.  I can feel her.  Totally.  I mean, when you start writing, working on a plot, planning all the way through, its different when you actually start writing the story.  And, finally, when you leave it alone for a couple months and go back to it.

Am I making any sense here?

When I did my first NaNoWriMo, I outlined a plot.  Since I don't normally outline a plot it was kinda tricky at first.  My main character, Chelly, was initially supposed to go to a young police officer to help her find the island that appeared in her memories and go with him to that island and find connections to her past she couldn't remember because of amnesia.  She was initially supposed to fall in love with him, forget her past, never remember, and finally settle down and have a family.

But it turns out when I was writing the story, following the plot, her remembering was becoming a big part in the story so, I changed it.  She did go to a detective and they kind of find each other's past in their eyes and well... love, see?  I'm the kind of writer who changes plot as I go along.  I tweak it here and there, but making sure I never lose track of my initial goal for the story; Chelly needed to find love again and live happily ever after on the island she washed up on from the ocean.  It had to happen one way or another.

This is my way.

J. K. Rowling seems to be one of those people who come up with dense plots and follow it completely.  I'm not saying she definitely does this because I've never met her and I'll have to look up interviews and stuff I don't feel like doing right now.  You can do it if you want.

But,
as a fellow writer, I can see where she comes from.  I understand that in the beginning, the very first plot is like your baby, your child, your pet that you don't want to let go.  Her pet was that Ron and Hermione would get together and in the movie it was obvious that they may soon become an item.  It was clear Harry and Hermione were just friends.  Friends to the end, that is.  Such special friendship *tears up a bit and smiles*

My point is that I understand why she went on not changing the original plot.  And another thing, once she made it seem like it was going to happen, then brought girlfriend possibilities for Harry, it was like, "No going back now, J. K. Rowling."

Personally, I think it would be interesting if someone, maybe even J. K. Rowing herself, had the guts to rewrite the whole series with the aim that Harry and Hermione would get together and Ron would... idk... who else was there... Luna Lovegood or someone else... maybe there can actually be someone NICE from Slytherin that can be with him.  I did like though, how Malfoy (I'm not spelling his name right) had a heart in the end.  You know, his parents did take him away but, he did waver for a second.  I kind of would be interested to see his side of the story through the whole series and afterwards.

Though it always takes me off guard when the main character suddenly switches and I have to change perspective completely, for the writer its fun to think "What was happening to the secondary character when the main character was doing that?  What was the secondary character thinking?  (If he is a bad character) What were the real intentions behind his doings?  Could he possibly have re-thinked his actions?"

Sorry to J. K. Rowling that I have not read any of the books.  Just the movies.  But I really like the fact that she involved herself completely in the movies because it is true some great books like the Hunger Games, can be totally ruined by the movies (my opinion).  I should not have read the book beforehand.  Or maybe I should not have watched the movie.

Same reason why I'm never going to watch "The Host" because the book was my first ever page-turner and really, really, really good.  I'm really, really, really afraid it'll be ruined forever by the movie.  It was SUCH a good book.

If J. K. Rowling ever comes across this post and miraculously reads to the very end, I would like to tell her that she is an amazing writer.  Persistent, imaginative, and someone I can never be on equal ground with no matter how much my friends tell me I could be.  NO.  NEVER.  Not even in a million years.


P.S.
Did someone just say, "Hey, N. J. Folettia looks a lot like J. K. Rowling!  Yo stealing the idea for a pen name buddy?"  Well... not really.  But I had no other idea for a pen name but...I really wanted to use my middle name for SOMETHING.  In Japan, people don't have any middle names so I never use mine.  EVER.  And... on a writing site, Figment, I use this pen name that is half my real name and half my fake name.  And I kind of like it.  So I thought, well, I don't really want people that I know to find this blog by my real name and see what the heck goes on in my crazy mind.  And my mother doesn't really know about this World Problems blog.  Only the Saving Wildlife one.  And she doesn't read it soooooo...

No, I'm not copying anyone.  It just happened to be that way.  Well, maybe I did use her pen name idea as base.  But at least its not J. K. Folettia or N. J. Rowling, right?  It's my own pen name.  So, yeah, that be 'bout it, buddy.