Trash, Garbage, and Treasure

We've all heard that crazy overused saying that one man's trash is another man's treasure, but we've never really thought about it. Ok so i was like ligit cleaning my room today, and i found all this crazy stuff like from 8th grade and whatever. (That's about as far as it goes back). I remeber keeping all this stuff at one point. All this junk just keeps piling up, it grows more and more everyday. I found my student ID again, i thought i lost it. Ok but back to my point. There's all these papares from everywhere and they're like awsome, but there's a lot of them i dont really remember, and they're like what?! But the ones i did rember man they're awsome. Ok, one example would be my notes, from when i went to china. They provided so much insite that i never really thought about before, and it was pretty cool looking back on it, and I feel a little richer. It's nice.

But, when you clean your room, you have to determine what is garbage and what is gold. And today I threw away madd stuff, and I might be losing out in like 15 years when i want to find it again you know?? Look back on it and be like O YEA!! Nevertheless, things need to go and my room is not full of trash it's full of treasure.

P.S.
I still have my french fry that looks like florida from McDonald's in August 2007 it's cracked in half, but i still got it. IT'S AMAZING!!

Second Snow

When we're little, the one thing that we all anticipate during the fall , the one big event is the first snow. But the thing that we never realise is that, the first snow never really sticks around. It hits the ground and melts into it leaving behind only traces of what would have been a winter wonderland. The one that really matters is the Second Snow.

Snow is an awsome thing, each flake is different, each with it's own shpae and nonsuch. (I never believed that flakes had their own shpaes until I saw it a few weeks ago, so it's amazing to me). Each with it's own like personality, they're just like people you know. Floating about aimlessly each their own, but when they hit the ground, they form up together to form a snow ball or snowman.

These snowflakes, they're crazy, ok so, each of them are unique right?? Yea they are, I dont care if you dont think so, but they merge together, they sacrifice their induviduality to make something greater, and to survive. If it was just one flake then it cant do nothing, it cant turn into a snowman, snowball, it's just one flake, and it would fade away by itself...gone. But if they stayed together, the can survive, and thrive even and bring boys and girls fun and happyness. WOW!!

Alright, snowflakes stick together, they can do great things together. And people are like snowflakes, we are fragile in comparision to the big picture, but we need each other to survive and not fade away, and together we can accomplish great things. I think that's why people like to stick together, they tend to do that, because they dont want to parish (figurativley) cause nobody wants that to happen.

But when we look at our snowballs this winter, i want us to think about something. That snowball in your hand, it is made out of hundreds of thousands of little snowflakes. They all got together and made a snowball. We dont recognize each of these snowflakes, but the one snowball, but just remember that each one of those snowflakes have their own shpaes, their own personalities. As with people, don't look at a group of them and say that they are all the same, cause each person in a group has their own shape, all snowflakes do.

That about wraps it up for this time, but I wanna say I discovered a great song recently and I wanted to post the lyrics here.

Flipsyde - Happy Birthday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qj3nWy7HMs

Happy Birthday...so make a wish

Please accept my apologies, wonder what would have been
Would you've been a little angel or an angel of sin?
Tom-boy running around, hanging with all the guys.
Or a little tough boy with beautiful brown eyes?
I payed for the murder before they determined the sex
Choosing our life over your life meant your death
And you never got'a chance to even open your eyes
Sometimes I wonder as a foetus if you faught for your life?
Would you have been a little genius in love with math?
Would you have played in your school clothes and made me mad?
Would you have been a little rapper like your papa da Piper?
Would you have made me quit smokin' by finding one of my lighters?
I wonder about your skintone and shape of your nose?
And the way you would have laughed and talked fast or slow?
Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen
Happy birthday, love you whoever you woulda been
Happy birthday...

what I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)
What I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake!

I've got a millon excuses to why you died
Bet the people got their own reasons for homicide
Who's to say it woulda worked, and who's to say it wouldn't have?
I was young and strugglin' but old enough to be your dad
The fear of being my father has never disappeared
Pondering frequently while I'm sippin' on my beer
My vision of a family was artificial and fake
So when it came time to create I made a mistake
Now you've got a little brother maybe he's really you?
Maybe you really forgave us knowin' we was confused?
Maybe everytime that he smiles it's you proudly knowin' that your father's doin' the right thing now?
I never tell a woman what to do with her body
But if she don't love children then we can't party
Think about it every year, so I picked up a pen
Happy birthday, love you whoever you woulda been
Happy birthday...

What I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)
What I thought was a dream (yeah, make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake!
And from the heavens to the womb to the heavens again
From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin
Maybe one day we could meet face to face?
In a place without time and space
Happy birthday...
From the heavens to the womb to the heavens again
From the endin' to the endin', never got to begin
Maybe one day we could meet face to face?
In a place without time and space
Happy birthday...

What I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed (happy birthday)
What I thought was a dream (make a wish)
Was as real as it seemed
I made a mistake...

New Month, New way

December is here guys!! Yippie, i know im 11 days late, but it's still worth celbrating. Economies may still be in peril and the outlook may not bee too good, but neverthless I do enjoy new months. December is the shortest month in terms of school days and in terms of daylight hours, that means kids just don't do their schoolwork this time of year(including me) but you know. I tihnk i'll manage. It's harder now, I'm not sure why, but it should be easier. O well, HAPPY DECEMBER!! Merry Christmas, Happy Huanikah, Happy Kwanza, and have a great first night everyone. lol. Crazy holidays.

Greifen nach

Greifen nach - to reach for, to grasp at

I'm sure that greifen nach is a purely physical meaning, but I like it figuratively better. Everyone on our planet has dreams, from the little child startving in africa to the politian living on beacon hill. I know not everyone's dream or goal is the same, but there are obsticals that we have to get through, and not everyone has the same type of hurdles that they have to jump thrgouh.

I made this analogy once, yesterday, actually and i want to use it again becuase I thought it was very profound. Life is like riding a bike, a bike that has alot of gears, lets say 7. When you are on flat ground, you have no real challenges and you put yourself at cruising speed, at gear 7. But everyonce in a while, you have to change gears. You change gears when you are at a hill, something that is in your way, something that challenges you.

If you go up this hill on the same gear, gear 7, you will have a hard time making it to the top. The top of this hill is where you want to get to. If you remain on gear 7 you will need more force, and more stregth and will have to wrk harder to get to the top, and if you stop peddeling you will fall down, and will have to start all over again. (If you ever tried riding a bike up hill you will know what I'm talking about).

Everyone wants to reach the top of their hill, because they know that on the other side, there is a downhill slope that will prove to be easy riding. Whatever your hill is, I pray that you overcome it, and that you will get to the top, and be rewarded for your hard hard work. Reach for you dreams, never let them be deffered.

sich aus sehen

This is one of my deeper post, so if you are looking for Vin Diesel there's always Youtube.


Sich aus sehen- to seem, to appear (outward)

Things dont always appear as they are, a very over used phrase. A clische as they call it. Appeareances are they way we define ourselves as human beings, we buy diffrent clothing, listen to diffrent music, change our personalities in hopes that we may be pleasing for others to see, to be around. The guises that we put on every morning as we prepare ourselves for the day, prepare ourselves to confront our co-workers, our friends, are the things that we hide behind, so that other may find us fun, energetic; it makes us look like great people.

Through my career at BLS i have found that every student in our school has many different faces. For every class, every teacher, we have a different mask to show, to please them, to get a good grade. Sometimes I wonder if I too have been in the maskqueraide, changing my faces to accomodate my surroundings. Some praise us for our ability to change ourselves to mold into the circumstances we are handed, and our ablility to not only adapt but to strive. Many say it is wrong to compromise your own beliefs to climb the ladder of success, but we do it anyway.

Beethoven, the great musical composer, perhaps the greatest of all time, once placed a mask over his face as well. He did it by nessecity, he needed money, and people payed him to create, and they wanted him to create what they wanted to see, to hear. We students, however have no need to do such a thing, we should not be afraid to declare our voices! We should not mold to what the world wants! The world cannot give us anything that is worth our right to express myself freely, you can think what you want of me but i will not conform to what the world wants.
What do we lose when we act? When we would do anything to get a small reward? What do we compromise?

I feel that we are blessed to have such a great place where we have the right to express ourselves, but nontheless, I feel that many times, our freedom to express, our 1st amendment rights can get us into trouble. As you know, there are 6 billiion people living on our great planet, each with their own brains, and own opinions, not everyone is going to agree. And when people strongly disagree, they tend to have a quarrell and if the quarrell is not resolved then we have tension and bad blood.

You are bound to find someone that is going to disagree with you; on anything from polatics to how you go about your everyday life. Many times we have conflicts with people that are not in agreemnt with us, some are small and some are large. Most people I know avoid confrontations as much as possible, some fight for what they believe in. (Don't get me wrong they are not opposites) But some people would compromise what they believe in to avoid conflict, to avoid losing a friend.

I don't know which one is right, but it all comes down to appearences, how people think of you. When you have a facade on, people do not see the real you, they do not know how you feel or what you think. When people say things that i dont agree with, I disagree with them. Many times it is a friend or family member, but the key is that i have no guise on, i let them know how i feel and what I think, and if they can't accept who I am, then maybe perhaps we never really were friends. Fourtunatlly, all if not most do understand, and accept me as I am.

However, if you hide yourself behind a false image of who you are, people have accepted your disguise as their friend, it will be much harder for them to accept you when you "show you true colors".

Going back to my previouse point, I feel like BLS students, and people in general do try to please other a bit too much, but I feel that we should not do so for our own benefit, but we should do so because we really want to. We must remove all our hardware and show our skin. You might be suprised by what you look like.

November 13th

14 years ago today was November 13th 1994, and i was in preschool, waiting for my mom to pick me up. However that doesnt matter at all. I just want to say that i feel like I have a great group of friends and family. I feel very blessed for all of you even those of you that i have yet to meet. Sometimes, I tihnk i would have lost it all if you guys werent there. LIke my marbles I mean. Probalbly over half of you will never read this blog and find out put nevertheless I just wanted to put that out there, and thank God for everything that He has given me.

I went to sleep at 8 30 yesterday, i'm sure all of you think i am crazy for doing that. But in fact, i was really tired, and I really wanted to get some rest because i could find nothing else to do.
I submtted my application to Quinnipiac U on tuesday, hopefully it wont be too late. I really hope i get into all my schools, so they will have ot fight over me that would be pretty awsome. But now i have to PEE so im gonna end it here with a few notes.

NOTE* Eagle eye is a scary movie because it could actually happen
Note** The Mist has to be on of the best movies i have seen

I have no rants today nor am i too excited for anything. For those of you who care Yi Jianlian got 17 points on opening night, and the nets are playing at home tonight against the warriors. In other news yesterday was halloween. Like usual i didnt really do too mcuh, except goto school and laught at people's redicoulous costumes, Paul Kriener came in with a bath robe and nothing else on. That was pretty awsome. College Application process has slowed down a bit but i'm sure it will pick up again soon.

O and incase you guys were wondering the reason why i put my name is... stnaley was because of the Eminem song, i never really listend to it before but i like singing to it. It's pretty fun. Speaking of songs that are fun to sing to here is a list i have:

1. Temperature - Sean Paul
2. Lose Yourself - Eminem
3. Cry Holy - Sonicflood
4. Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down
5. Someday - Flypside

Yesterday, at teens, we didnt break any records for attendence. The combinations of factors made it so that people just didnt show. Halloween, SAT's and other stuff. I hope that all of you who took SAT's today didnt stress out too much over studying. I know some people that fretted so much that they collapsed. Never hit that level, it's not the end of the world, comon.

My mom has been bugging me about how i dont study agian, usually i just tell her that i will, and that she should stop bugging me. She only means well, but it does get annoying sometimes, espescially when i do study. So this term (term 1) in school i know i have approbation (honor Roll) and i just could stand it when my mom told me that i wasnt studying. I was like ummhhhmmm, like in agreement, i was thinking, she's gonna be so happy when she see's my report card. It would be my forst honor roll since 3rd grade. To be honest i think AP classes are easier, i am not saying that my classes specifically are easier, but i am saying taht i feel like i have a motivation to actually do well, like "O they think i can do it, and i know i can do it, and i want to do well, because i believ in myself" When they put me in the "dumb" classes i felt dumb, and ifelt taht i couldnt be any better, but now i feel better and i think i want to do well. It's hard to explain, easier in person i think.

Alright I just wanted to end by saying i feel bad for any sixies that got rushed, i hope you didnt get too scared, or mad at the people who rushed you. They just wanted to have some fun.


Today- clean the room,basketball, do some homework
Tomorrow - Wake up, church, broomball, shep meeting, home for sleep??
Monday - Back to school

I wonder if anybody reads this blog, yo if you read it leave one cause that'd be cool

For All Juniors and Sophmores

After my week and half hiadus from church i have been doing alot of college stuff, and sitting at home nursing my ankle. And after a very frustrating college application process whcih by the way is not even close to over i have picked up some nuggets of wisdom which i would like to dispence amongst the younger generation.

A) By the end of junior year you should have your list of 4-12 colleges which you want to apply and have an actual interest in going to
B) Check for strange requirements for certain schools, (ala Quinnipiac, who requires a college visit for all incoming undergrads)
C) Start your college essays in August (Check www.commonapp.org for schools that are on the common application, if they are not you have to go directly to their site to apply)
D) If you want to visit colleges visit during your Junior year in school so you know where you want to go plus you wont be doing it in a rush during senior year
E) Make sure you know what you are doing, if you do not ask somebody who has recently applied to college, or a guidence counselor
F) Ask your teachers for recommendations early, before everyone else does.
G) Get everything done, dont procrastinate (Time is very valuable, if you send in things late, it could determine weather or not you get into a school)

If i had know mayb 2 of these things my experiences would be a lot less stresfull. And Much EASIER. But i didnt and know im stessin out, and it's really annoying AHHHHHhhHhHh.

New blog

so this is my first post, and i just want to say that blogging is a good ting, but people dont use xanga anymore so i've moved, hopefully people are interested in my life. I just like to write i guess. yep.