crash at su casa

14 minutes de chez toi
28 minutes de chez moi
#iamlazy

MUTHUR NATUREEEE

Seriously one of the most beautiful trees I've seen
See exhibit A below:

lol

Just cuz I havent posted for 8 days.
Hai, I'm still alive.
Sorry
to
MY MANY BLOG FANS
;)
(;

June 12th and 40 posts....

Analysis of 2016

Posts

Mean number of posts: 40.5

Highest number of posts: 57 (January)

Lowest number of posts: 17 (March)

My birthday is in March- why so low? 

Predictions that June will become a new high.

Skype

Mean time: 2 hours 7 minutes 

Longest time: 4 hours 10 minutes

Shortest time: 2 minutes

Total time: 66 hours 55 minutes

January                             

4th- 4hr10min

18th- 36min

24th- 2hr31min

31st- 1hr46min

[9.017]

[2.25]

February

10th- 3hr54min

15th- 3hr16min

22nd- 3hr04min

29th- 3hr43min

[13.98]

[3.495]

March

9th- 2hr18min

15th- 1hr26min

26th- 2hr00min

[5.73]

[1.91]

April 

10th- 2hr26min

11th- 31min

18th- 2hr36min

23rd- 1hr25min

[6.95]

[1.7375]

May

2nd- 1hr42min

5th- 2min

6th- 3hr5min

11th- 47min

17th- 3hr33min

20th- 52min

[10.0]

[1.67]

June

4th- 1hr07min

10th- 2hr05min

[3.2]

[1.6]

#holysh*tthistookalonga@@timetofigureout

Something like:

"You're not in the way, but right now, you're the only way"

#Spoiled

My rent-free room for the next three months, with a private bathroom, views to kill, and heavenly AC. What else could you need?  🙀#blessed#🙀

Exchange Rate

1 USD= 8127.30 Laotian Kip

Sweet and Sticky Mango Rice Pancake
$1.48

Fresh Veggies
$1.23

Fresh Fruits: Guava, Rambutan, Mango, and Mangosteen
$1.85

South East Asia, you have been dearly missed <3

Wise Words of a 15 year old Self

This was me. 

This is still me.

I love,

Love.

10th Grade Oral Report

Presented to Mr. Madsen

Love in Siddhartha

For my oral book report I chose to read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. This beautifully crafted story tells the tale of a young Brahmin seeking enlightenment. Hesse subtly mentions how the role of love changes through out the search of Nirvana. In Siddhartha, love appears in many different forms: emotional, physical, requited, lustful…

Through the different ways love appears and difficulties love poses to Siddhartha are essential to him to accomplish his search of being free from suffering. He is able to understand that one must be able to love all to achieve Nirvana.

The first time love appears is when Siddhartha “had begun to feel that the love of his father and mother, and also the love of his friend Govind, would not always make him happy, give him peace, and satisfy and suffice him.” (3)

As he came to realize this, Siddhartha decided to leave his father and reject his father’s care and love and instead join the Samanas, wandering ascetics and hope to find enlightenment through this lifestyle. At this point, Samanas who reject all feeling and empty themselves, Siddhartha perfects the Samanas ways and thus feels no emotion and has perfect self control. However, he judges seeing the other Samanas that this path cannot and will not ____ along his search of enlightenment. Gotoma, the Illustrious One, radiates peace mystery and love. Siddhartha realizes what he wants and awakens to the fact that so far he has never seen things for what they are and opens up to all, including love. 

He soon finds a lover/ teacher, Kamala, in town. Kampala teaches all aspects of physical love and the importance of love. Although Siddhartha has feelings deep within him for Kamala the he states: “‘You do not really love me—you love nobody. Is that not true? ‘ ‘Maybe’ said Siddhartha wearily. “I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can— that is their secret.” (59) At this point, Siddhartha is incapable to give and receive genuine love between anyone and prevents him from achieving spiritual realization. 

Siddhartha is finally able to feel and accept love although it proves to be quite a challenge. Siddhartha had fallen in love with his stubborn and disrespectful son, whom he had inherited when Kamala died. Siddhartha’s son’s love was unrequited but Siddhartha “love him and preferred the sorrow and trouble of his love rather than happiness and pleasure without the boy.” (96)

Alas, the boy runs away and Siddhartha’s love for his son becomes a test of his wisdom, for Siddhartha almost diverges completely from his path of enlightenment. “Siddhartha, had become completely like one of the people, through sorrow, through loving. He was madly in love, a fool because of love.” (99) However, after great sorrow Siddhartha finally learns to accept that love comes in all forms and all must be acknowledged. Through Kamala and his son, Siddhartha has learned to love the world and accept it instead of rejecting or resisting it. Siddhartha finds that he now has all the elements to achieve enlightenment and has learned his last task: to be capable to love and “his Self merged into unity.” (111) 

Baî 📱

bye bye
phone
-you have served me well-
-may you RIP or be recycled-

hello
phone
-oh bayyyyybEE-

in T-minus 1.5 hrs

Slip into your skin- PW

"It's taken you an hour."
"Is that a long time?"
"It's a long time."
-_-

"Umm... it's like June 6, and nothing's on thoughtsinabeanpod since June 1st..."
~hehe now you know how it feels

Jaime u
Sometimes
Often
Rarely
Always
Never

IDK
about anything
in life

come as it comes
go as it goes

Hope you'll enjoy the ride
And not get too scared
Of potholes
Or slow down
During the bumps
And never
Go
Through
A
Red
Light

<3
<2
<1

CRASH

Overdue and Late Relief

SCHOOL'S OUT
SCREAM AND SHOUT
~HS musical

SEMESTER'S DONE
THREE TWO ONE

BLAST OFF

40UR Y3AR5

It has been FOUR ridiculously long years since Mom, Dad, Sister, Dog, and I have been in this house together, all at the same time.

This house I speak of is our home, our island-get-away-permanent-forever-f*ckin-gorgeous home.

Some major events in the past four years in my immediate family:

1) My sister graduated from college
2) I graduated from high school
3) My dad retired
4) We all moved
           a. my sister --> TX
           b. my parents --> WA
           c. me --> Canada
     ~ forming an almost perfect isosceles triangle~
5) My sister started her new and amazing job and is extremely successful
6) I started University and am not failing thus far
7) My dad has started writing a book
8) My mom has begun intensive gardening and it is flourishing
    ~ every vegetable we eat is from her garden now~
9) The dog has learned how to deviously 'escape' outside of the house, only to come back completely satisfied and exhausted by his crazy runs, although still ceases to know commands such as come, sit, down etc.
10) We renovated our summer house for my parents to live in permanently and the renovations exceeded above expectations which was beautiful to see
11) Our love for each other continues to grow as we have such little precious times with each other and truly cherish each moment of it

I am so so so so so so so very happy to be back, but time has flown by so fast. My sister is already gone and I'm off soon as well! Until next time: Labor Day Weekend

Mother's Garden #1
04-06-16
(Please click on photo to get full effect)

Family hike to Mt. Baker and Picnic
04-06-16

A quick fix of $172.46 CAD

See above:
Missed flight --> home

(I almost cried)

It might have been my fault. I might have had 3 hours of sleep. I might have been extremely hungover.
Terrible traffic, but I *might* have left too late (aka an hour ahead)

AKA missing a flight

BUT,

Got on the next flight, 2 hours later.
Wrote a card and ate spaghetti bolognese.

Seat number: 14F -window seat, best seat-

Jam Sesh 1.0

A working progress by ~BeansofChristianity ~

Breezeblocks

 alt-J (Δ)

01/06/2016

I should really be studying...

But this was time well spent and way worth it

#tmemanque