This is a film project we did in 12th grade for English. There is actually some interesting background information. The point of the project was to make our version of Beowulf (which we had been reading in class), with a certain set of literary devices that had to be incorporated. Believe it or not, the whole project was done on a whim, filmed in our high school cafeteria (Plano Senior High) on one school day afternoon. We didn't have any ideas. Then someone picked up a spoon that was lying...
Written on January 25, 2013
I just dug these up recently. This was done by a group of us three kiddos back in my last year of high school. The reason why I'm posting these up is first, for nostalgic kicks, and second, to test out a feature I just built into my site, to allow me to upload videos without having to hack my way around. Here we go:
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Background Info
So, little known facts are as follows. Our team consisted of Mr. Fang (aka. Kenshin, Rain), Jason Tsay,...
Written on January 13, 2013
This isn't it. This is at least my third attempt at a journal.
My first journal (that I can remember) was started when I was in Kindergarten. Someone thought it was a good idea, and I somehow ended up with a small booklet with which to write things down. I was pretty enthusiastic about it for about two days, before losing interest and motivation. I know because I found the booklet a while back, and read the two gigantic, multi-page entries, which was followed by empty pages spanning the...
Written on January 12, 2013
Now, when everyone says the same thing, most likely they're not all in on a conspiracy. As much as I want to deny it, I have come to accept the apparent fact that I am weird. Because everyone says so.
I like witty comments and all sorts of irony. I enjoy Monty Python and Stephen Chow. I find lots of things to be funny, or at least ironic or interesting that the typical person glosses over, and doesn't pay attention to. On the other hand, there are times when people find something funny...
Written on January 2, 2013
I have two major things to report, which occurred to me recently, prompting this post. My life is usually uneventful, so I trust you, my dear reader, will forgive me if these notable events are not as exciting as exploring a new country or experiencing love for the first time. Now that I think about it, these two things aren't even that incredible for the average person, but this just goes on to show how mundane and routine my life usually is.
So, I ran out of gas going to work yesterday....
Written on December 19, 2012
Travelling enlarges one's perspective. This past month, I experienced China, and have come back with a deep impression. China is fundamentally different from the United States, more so than most other places I've been to. I will elaborate more on this later. First, I will go through all the places in China I visited, along with some notes and descriptions.
Shang Hai - 600 years old, a relatively new city. It lies at the mouth of the Yangtse River. Originally it was settled...
Written on November 14, 2012
Earlier this week, I received an offer from the same company as my previous internship, signaling the near end of my little break of a few months. Unemployment was not how I imagined it to be. There were many small problems which I did not anticipate while working. Simply put, I suffered initially from the shock that retirees sometimes find themselves in, suddenly not having anything to do. But, I was actually glad for this, because it afforded me some time to pursue a few things I had been putting...
Written on September 28, 2012
We are consuming more than we produce and we've done that a while and we're complaining about the fact that we have an imbalance of trade with China. But if you consume more than you produce, you have to import. It's just arithmetic. And if you spend more than you earn, you have to borrow. It's just arithmetic.
--George Shultz: Memo to Romney - Expand the Pie, Wall Street Journal
Written on September 28, 2012
For decades, he wrote, advanced economies were losing their ability to grow by making useful things. But they needed to somehow replace the jobs that had been lost to technology and foreign competition, and to pay for vote-winning entitlements. So to pump up growth, governments spent more than they could afford and promoted easy credit to get households to do the same.
Predictably, this proved unsustainable. Without politically painful supply-side reform to correct these failings, we can...
Written on September 2, 2012
http://david.chang.you.are.mighty.aninote.com
In college, there were times when I would be stressed out. I would have reached my limit in terms of concentration and brain power. At those times, I would go to this site, and get pumped up! For a while, this site was taken down. I'm very happy that it's back. It goes where no energy drink can.
This is quite an epic site. For those who can't figure it out, type your name (or anything), delimited by periods, and append "you.are.mighty.aninote.com"...
Written on July 17, 2012
I should have updated earlier, but I've been busy in the past few weeks. Coincidentally, that has also been when the most things have changed in my life in a long time. So, I will make this nice, long post, to bring all my loyal readers (though you may hide, but I know you're out there... somewhere...) up to speed.
General
Over the last two weeks, I have been feeling a strong wave of nostalgia, strangely. I suppose it was because my last day at my current workplace was almost exactly...
Written on June 3, 2012
Earlier this week, one day after class, I went to the restroom. I encountered an appalling sight as I found that all the stalls had not been flushed, and contained, judging on the color, some amount of bodily fluids. A bit disheartened by what seemed to be a display of the current downward trend in behavior among college students, I chose the stall I had last inspected, and after being relieved, I proceeded to flush. To my surprise, nothing was flushed. It then all started to make sense.
In...
Written on April 14, 2012
Visiting foreign lands (Taiwan, Brazil, Korea), I have been interested by the way of life in all these places. I have come to see that all cultures have both their good points as well as bad; those points which are constructive with regard to producing wealth, as well as points which play a notable role in destroying wealth. For example, Taiwan is extremely flexible and informal in everything it does. Brazil is extremely warm towards people, and helpful in general, building up good connections...
Written on March 24, 2012
I almost forgot. It has been two years since I first brought this site online. In these two years, I've re-written the site once and refined it countless times, adding one feature at a time. I suppose, it has become sort of my playground for testing out whatever the web has to offer, as well as for me to spill whatever I was thinking at the time. Through it all, I've learned a lot, so I suppose this site has been a good thing. Lately, though, I haven't been messing with it with the fervor as...
Written on February 8, 2012
If there was a common theme between my education and those of almost all my peers, it was that we were taught to do what we enjoy doing. The rest would solve itself. What mattered was that we loved what we did. As noble as this approach is, in the blazing heat of reality, it simply has no place to live.
Throughout my time in school, we were encouraged to take on admirable professions, like being an astronaut, the President, a writer, a musician, an artist, an actor, a policeman, a firefighter,...
Written on February 8, 2012
The past two weeks have been the most dynamic time of my life, if not ever, then in a very long time. I experienced many things, some good, and others not so good. But, it was all very interesting, very educational, and thought-provoking. I will now recount these things, because in the future, when I look back, this may have been one of the few times when I did so many different things in such a short period of time.
Magandan Gapi (Good Night)
Having arrived in LAX, on Saturday, December...
Updated on January 28, 2012
My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. To me, this holiday makes the most sense in terms of worthiness of being celebrated. It is the healthiest holiday, both psychologically and physically. On thanksgiving, we're not talking about love when we don't yet know what love really is. We're not stuffing ourselves full of cheap candy or throwing our hands out expecting gifts from a mythical figure. On thanksgiving, families get together and have a wonderful meal together. In addition, our thoughts...
Written on November 26, 2011
In America right now, we find ourselves in the middle of an enormous mess. This may be the end of an era of prosperity. The economy is constantly on the brink of recession and the government is in no position to push it into recovery. The news is full of criticism for our leaders, their action, their inaction, or both at the same time. It doesn't take long before we wonder how we went from being at the top of the world to being at the bottom of a well.
Some have blamed the banks. Yet,...
Updated on November 18, 2011
In my random musings of mysterious origins, whether from a thoughtful mind, or due to the nice weather, or even because of my lack of sleep this weekend, I started thinking about what makes someone open-minded, and what characterizes closed-mindedness. How risky, daring, conservative, flexible, or stubborn someone is may all be linked. The link is how open-minded a person is. Being open-minded itself is something that is not easily defined. Now, if this were a scholarly research paper, at this...
Written on September 6, 2011
Recently, while reading about how Ruby allows the values of constants to be changed, I came across this post:
Remember that Ruby is designed for giving maximum power to professional programmers. It is not designed to give armies of morons an opportunity to create some kind of reliable code (what Java is for). So, well, if sometimes you really need to do something dangerous (kinds of goto, one line commands, redefine methods/constants, rough fixes and workarounds) you have a total ability to...
Written on July 13, 2011