Travelling Blog

Out of the blue, I cruised through my previous blogs and to my disappointment, realized that there is not a single post about myself (well, my true-self at least). Yes, there are some posts in between that give you some peeks of my life, but they all revolve around school and academic stress. School does play a big part of my life, but it's not even close to who I am. So, I decided to make this particular blog special by adding a little Chaeri flavor in it.

I love to travel. Now by traveling, I don't necessarily mean going to exotic and breathe-taking places like Hawaii or Paris. Just simply walking over to a mysterious nearby place where I have never set my feet on before is a form of travel for me. Going to new places is also a form of escape. Away from school. Away from everything around me.

Traveling induces curiosity and curiosity takes my mind off from the psychology test which I did not do so well on. You get the idea.

Gary Arndt is a blogger who writes about his trips around the globe. He can be in Africa one day and then be in the Middle East before you even know it. His posts are very fun to read because he includes some of his own pictures and speaks out his thoughts about whatever place he is in.

His pictures are absolutely beautiful. Personally, I prefer pictures of a random street over a famous statue or building like (Mount Rushmore or CN Tower). There is so much beauty in the most simplest things that sometimes in order to find something extraordinary, all you have to do is just pause and look around you. We are so absorbed in getting through our lives that we barely take the opportunity to just STOP.

The street may appear to be a completely random, but at the same time, there is this sense of mystical power that is so captivating that you find yourself staring at that "random street" as a victim of its alluring force.

At present, he is in Calgary, Canada. He has just recently visited the Glacier National Park and has marveled at its beautiful glaciers.

Check out his blog

Everything Everywhere

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Bump

Just thought I should share with you guys that I am still awake doing homework and projects.

It's 4:30 on a Sunday morning.

I think the word weekend should be modified to "week-dead"

20 days until the SAT.

Just thought you should know :)

Is this normal?

People say staying calm is important.
Really?

Because right now, I feel as calm and tranquil as ever and I don't think this is normal. I have SAT coming up in less than a month (21 days to be exact) and 5 tests to look forward to this coming week. Not to mention, college applications and essays, waiting to be completed. Yet, why am I so indifferent?

As I walk down the hallway where all the seniors' lockers are, I hear panicky voices everywhere about SATs and all of the things mentioned above, yet I calmly walk over to my locker without any expression on my countenance and take my AP calculus textbook. Is this normal? Shouldn't I be getting worried like other people? Truthfully, I don't even feel like a senior. I feel like a regular high school kid who just cares about getting through the day.

Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me.

I am in need of some brain stimulation.

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Psychology Experiment

A couple of days ago, during psychology class, we went down to the elementary building and ran an experiment to test out some theories regarding child development. What I discovered, was very astonishing.

When a child is between 6 and 8 years of age, he or she is egocentric and has no knowledge of volume distinction. Egocentricity refers to how a child is unable to put themselves in other people's shoes and look at certain events or objects from a different perspective. In other words, their knowledge is very self-based.

To test out egocentricity, we came up with a very simple experiment that required a child to answer only one question: do you have a brother/sister?, if yes, does your brother/sister have a brother/sister?

Honestly, I thought that this was a very obvious question and was pretty certain that every second grader will answer it correctly. To my surprise, I was proven wrong when 24 kids denied that their sibling has a sibling. As I am typing this, I can't stop myself from laughing, for I imagined the kids to stare at us with a "do-you-think-I-am-stupid" kind of look.

The second experiment had to deal with volume distinction. We first showed a child two identical beakers filled with exactly the same amount water. Then, we took one beaker and poured the water in a long test tube. In our minds as full grown ups, we know that the amount of water stays the same regardless of the difference in height; however, to second graders, their minds are tricked into believing that the test tube contains more amount of water because the water touches the tube at a higher level than the beaker. The children at such stage bases their knowledge on what they see in front of their eyes. Their minds are not yet developed to understand the concept of volume.

Our brains and minds are like plants- growing day by day. Each time you look at it, it's new and different.

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Pi

So, I was watching a rather peculiar movie the other day in Philosophy Goes to Movies club and the movie was not like anything that I have ever seen. It's called ∏ (pi). Now, we just started watching the film so we are no where close to the end. Also taking into account that each club meeting is about 40 minutes long, it will probably take us a while to finish the movie. Nevertheless, after watching about the first 20 minutes of the movie, I suddenly became overwhelmed with my own imagination of our universe being invaded by mathematical concepts. I know it sounds totally absurd and ridiculous, but if you fast forward time, to about 200 years from now, new discoveries will have been made, which will have expanded the realm of mathematics. Now suppose that one person like Max Cohen, who is an expert with numbers and patterns, do find some sort of solution or formula to how everything works in the universe including you and me. Wouldn't it be creepy to know that there is a formula for everything that you do? The way you walk, talk and move can be analyzed with some fancy manipulation of pi. This would certainly be spine-chilling.

Okay, I think I should stop here.

I most definitely do not want to have nightmares tonight.

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