Work Ethic

If there is one thing I’ve learned as a teenager working at KFC/Taco Bell, it’s that not screwing around and getting things done, or work ethic, really pays off. I’ve seen numerous kids my age get fired because they just didn’t want to work. Why do they even get a job? I for instance, don’t freak out, yell at the managers (they can fire you) or leave when I’m supposed to work. Here’s some helpful tips.

1. Don’t want to work? To bad, ask for it off beforehand or just don’t work, you’re getting paid!

2. If you don’t show up for work, at least call in and feign illness.

3. Managers are always right, with that attitue you can usually get them to deal with angry customers.

4. If there’s nothing to do, at least act like you’re on your way to do something.

Now do I follow these? No I just do my job, BUT some people who just aren’t going to work no matter what could at least follow these. My managers enjoy my working there (or that’s what they tell me) and I usually can just scrape by without losing it.

Saving Money the College Way

Heading over to Western Washington University, I can’t help but wonder how I’m going to pay for college. With about 17K being funneled for the year, I’ll definitely need to start saving money. What’s the easiest way to do this? Limit spending. Now as an avid video game player, I’ll need to stop buying so many new games. Thankfully I don’t have an Xbox 360 or PS3, otherwise I’d be shelling out $60 a game, unlike the Wii’s much more affordable $50. Seriously, why do console games have to be so expensive? For $10 less I bought a game and an expansion pack. Not only that, it’s new, has better graphics, and has many more hours of gameplay.

With gas, what can one do? I for one will start riding a bike, as Bellingham is very Bicycle friendly. Also, isn’t it the time to show how we Americans aren’t lazy? Why not try walking to places?

Unlike many kids my age, I’ve been saving up ever since I got a job. As a teenager, I don’t have much time to work, and am spending about half my pay checks. Still I’ve managed to save up $900, unlike my brother who doesn’t save up at all. Start early, it saves a heap of time.

Kung Fu Hustle

I have a new favorite movie, at least in my top 10, called Kung Fu Hustle. It’s a Chinese movie by Stephen Chow. It’s actually made in Hong Kong, I’m not sure but I think people from Hong kong prefer to say they’re from there than China. Anyways, it’s sort of a parody/tribute to those old Kung Fu movies from Bruce Lee’s time. 

The plot set-up is about a gang that rules the town, (unnamed) and a young scrounger who wants to be join them. His target is pig-sty alley, a tenement complex that made him look foolish. Several battles take place as the gang and residents of Pig-sty alley fight for control, each one gaining and losing fighters in the process. Finally, the movie ends a final climatic ending between the scrounger on the side of the tenement, and “The Beast,” the worlds top assassin, who helps the gang in the hopes of finding an equal.

The movies fight scenes are awesome, and plenty of fighters are introduced. This clip is between two of the heroes of the alley, and “the harpists,” top notch assassins who use the harp as their primary weapon

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Oq84WO_zubQ

The two heroes use the Iron Fist technique, specializing in using the fists and wrists, and the Hexagon Staff, specializing in the staff and spears.

The Future: Hover cars?

As I sit here, I wonder, where the heck are the hover cars?

I ask this, because as I sat at home watching the news, a story was brough up saying how gyrocopters could become more popular with the fuel crunch. This reminded me of an article I read in the fourth or fifth grade. It was a small magazine for kids, which we were supposed to read and discuss. An article I read said that a new technology would allow for the mass production of a sort of “hover car.” The article said that these cars were more like hover helicopters, not ment for inner-city transportation, but inter-city transportation (I feel clever for writing that). It also said there would be “ports” in every town and city for these to land at, which would be better because these ports would be smaller than airports.

Now I’m asking, “Where are they?” I want one, and I don’t care about noise pollution! I want to go to Bellingham without ahving to take a detour around the North Cascades Pass, which they’ve conveniantly closed when I need to go to Bellingham for college introduction! I wish I could find that article to give you better information, but it’s been so long I forgot the name. If anyone knows what I’m talking about, awesome.

Kevin James is an idiot

I don’t know how many people now this, but Kevin James, a right-wing Los Angeles Radio Host, is a complete moron. The following link is my evidence, and it seems that many people think the same thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHleE7dfp28

As a little history on this video, President Bush was in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and said this,

“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.

We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

And, as Matthews said, Obama has only said that he would talk with nations the President has so far given the cold shoulder to someone they continue to say could blow us up at any minute. Obama has not said he would give up things, such as Chamberlain gave most of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. Besides, as Fareed Zakaria said, if this is 1938, then Iran is Romania, not Germany.

I must say though, Kevin James sure knows how to take one word and use it a many different sentences. It just goes to show how volume and repitition don’t make you right.

Introductory Post

Welcome  to my blog! I am making this page for a class in my High School (Omak High School). Here I will discuss whatever is on my mind in the news. Whether it be Politics, Sports, Religion, Tech or Medical. Please not that this blog is not ment to be used as an informative site, rather a place to read up on whats on the mind of a 17 year old in Washington State. Enjoy!