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Name: Ted "Neon"
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Birthday: 2/5/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: basketball, violin, tennis, golf, football, pool, going online, chilling, your mom
Expertise: poker, spelling
Occupation: Retired
Industry: Nonprofit
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AIM:  IceT852
Member Since:
9/4/2002
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| MONDAY MORNING
walking to work in nyc at 9 am on monday morning is possibly one of the saddest sights i've ever seen - crowds of hundreds of people around me, all flooding downtown into the financial district to start another difficult week of work as memories of a relaxing weekend quickly fade away...i have already become one of the masses, as if i was already a full-time employee with no summer vacation or spring breaks to look forward to...heads down, spirits downcast, the city trudges to workplaces they despise with people they dislike in order to perform jobs that seem meaningless... taxis seem to honk more on monday mornings as drivers become more impatient with ignorant jaywalkers and unloading trucks that block the road...construction work seems to be louder and dirtier as the air is filled with orange clouds of dust...the cries of homeless beggars on the side of the road fall on deaf ears and the singular goal on everyone's mind is to get to work and survive another miserable monday
a block ahead of me, the blind man reaches the end of the sidewalk...he taps his cane ahead of him, and he feels the drop-off of the curb onto the road, but he does not see it...he tentatively reaches a foot out to find the road, but he could not see the messenger boy who whizzes by on his bike, dislodging the cane from his hand...as it clatters onto the roadside, the blind man falls to his hands and knees as he tries to find his walking stick...as i approach from behind, i am struck by the indifference of the dozens of people around him, as everyone clamors to make it into the entrance of the subway station, entirely unaware of the blind man trying to find his cane...but as i reach the corner, one young man stops...he retrieves the stick and hands it to the blind man...kindly, but without any hint of a condescending tone, he offers to guide the blind man across the street...the blind man smiles, and gladly takes the good samaritan's arm and crosses the street to the other side, where the two part ways - both with smiles on their faces...
little do they realize that a third person has watched the entire interaction and is walking away with an even bigger smile on his face...i continue my commute to work as usual, but the walk doesn't seem to be as long, the weekend doesn't seem so far away, and the week ahead doesn't feel so bad anymore - even on a monday morning | | |
| i can't describe how angry i am right now...eagles, you kill me every year...
apparently, mcnabb needs to have surgery on his pubic bone to fix his
sports hernia at the end of the year...holy god, is that even
possible? i feel like somebody just operated on my pubic bone
too...WHY!
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| WOULD YOU RATHER: have a hand sticking out your face or an upside down nose?
think about it carefully...it'd be cool to have a hand growing out your
face cuz you could blow your nose without moving, and you could eat
fries with your regular hands while not having to put your burger
down...but it would suck to have to kiss someone with a hand in the way
or put on an oxygen mask...but would that outweight having an upside
down nose? i mean, you might drown if it started to rain since
your nose would point up...and how would you blow your nose?
wouldn't all the mucus just pool at the bottom of your nose? but
if you had a hand growing on your face, then wouldn't that be way
uglier than having an upside down nose?
alas, midterm week begins...
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| I HAVE BAD NEWS, AND MORE BAD NEWS
current mood: jaded, exhausted, tired, fatigued, worn-down, beaten...weary
having been back in the states for a full week now, i feel like i'm
re-entering a world of filth and depression and pain...i'm not hating
on the U.S. or anything, i'm just commenting on my state of
mind...living in korea was like living in a bubble as i didn't really
follow the news in the U.S., just news in korea, which somehow seems
more trivial at times...things like "the president just got into a
fight with the national assembly" and "the national soccer team's coach
was just fired" and "we hate japan"...but browsing the headlines of
Google News feels like getting kicked in the balls really hard cuz you
just want to cry..."New Orleans Rebuilding to Take Over Two Years",
"Hundreds of Muslims Stampeded to Death in Iraq", "U.S. Poverty Rate Up
This Year," "Eight American Soldiers Die in Iraqi Ambush" and on and on
the list goes...
i think this is why i don't watch the news anymore or even read much of
it except for the top headlines...it's just too depressing...what is
our world coming to? granted, we can't do anything about natural
disasters, but all the other stuff is just too painful to
read...israeli soldiers bulldozing israeli homes, kids shooting other
kids, people looting stores, soldiers killing civilians, civilians
killing soldiers...just look around you, when will all the madness end?
as we watch and pray and do what we can, it is clear that we live in a
fallen world...as our world falls deeper and deeper into the war,
poverty, and greed that is taking over the headlines, there is a huge
void in humanity that is becoming harder and harder to hide...we search
for a higher meaning or a spiritual answer to the troubles of this
world: meditation, fortune tellers, philosophy, alternative medicines,
astrology...and yet, the one answer to all our questions remains high
above us and all around us...as our world sinks lower and lower, our
gaze needs to rise higher and higher to the heavens...only then can our
voids be filled, our worries released, and our world redeemed...but
until that day comes, all i can say is 'damn, sometimes this place can be so
depressing'
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| ALL YOU HONG KONG PEOPLE, SROW YOUR HAND UP!
wow it's been a long time...i can't even begin to describe all the experiences in the past month here in gookland...so i won't...lol, maybe i will once i get back to the states on the 26th...just a few more days til i'm home...terrific
anyway, this is a shoutout to all you hong kong people...i'm at the airport in busan, korea right now, pretty bored...and i'm due to arrive in hong kong at 11:15 a.m. this morning...woohoo! i expect to see or hear from all of you while i'm there for the next 4 days...i'm staying at jon's house so call him or shoot me an email...there is much food to be eaten, beer to drink, and starcraft to be played =) | | |
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