Bush is fucking up the US. As if providing further encouragement for people to hate the US wasn't enough, he also has to violate one the most important principles that the American government was founded on; the seperation of Church and State.

Banning stem cell research? What the hell? Here's an opportunity to save millions of lives from incurable diseases such as Parkinsons and he's refusing to even LEGALISE research in this field. His reason? Because embryos are human beings. He actually thinks that a clump of cells cultured in lab should be given full human rights. Please. I wish God would get out of the courthouse.

And what's this? Bush insists, in an international AIDS conference, that abstinence is the best method for AIDS prevention and that he will prioritize funding for nations who also put advocation of abstinence on the top of their list of measures to fight AIDS. What kind of puritanical bullshit is this? By that logic, the Bush should ban McDonalds as an effort to combat obesity.

I love the US, often times I feel more at home there than here in Indonesia, but this bullshit has to stop. Bush, leave your beliefs on the altar where they belong, the US has no place for Christianity in it's legislation.

Had one of my more embarassing moments today.

Went to a birthday party and was dancing with this girl, it was just starting to get pretty hot and all when suddenly she pushes me away and says "My Dad's watching us".

Oops.

Sorry Dad.

Torpid. The current word to describe how I feel right now.

Nothing is bothering me. Nothing is that happy either.

I think it's because school is over yet I realize I still have so many responsibilities. I still have to study for SATs. I still have to worry over my grades. I still have to take my Mandarin lessons. Then, once summer break actually starts, I'm gonna go around the States and look at a bunch of colleges. I mean, I love the states and all that but going there to look at colleges makes it seem like a burden. Then once I get back from the States, I have a week and a half in Indo and then I'm off to Australia with my mom. God. I don't like Australia and to be honest, I'm not looking forward to hanging around my mom for 3 straight weeks in a foreign country. She's not gonna let me do anything whatsoever without her around. She treats me like such an incompetent, immature adolescent. I'm gonna be in college in a year for god's sake, and she still thinks I need constant parental guidance. She needs to realize that all my beliefs and values are pretty much set in stone at this point and most of what she tells me to think and believe in won't change my take on anhything. Fuck. I love my mom but she can be a real overbearing conservative nazi at times.

Damn. I can't believe i just wrote a whole paragraph of bitching.

Oh well. That's what this whole blog thing is for, right?

Went to Citos today, had some food and beer. And what kind of trip to the mall for junk food and beer would be complete without some insightful contemplation?

What is contentment? Nowadays, everyone is talking about how the secret of happiness is contentment and being happy with how you are in the present. Is contentment something you reach for or just is it just the act of making peace with what you have? If it's something you reach for, where do you draw the line? If it's simply being happy with what you have, then why desire anything? Why try? Why even bother with self-improvement?

Ah yes, the things you think about when you're at a mall.

I really need to stop procrastinating.

I think that the worst thing someone could possibly do is doing nothing at all. What makes procrastination worse is the fact that you COULD be doing something more productive but you choose to do nothing in an attempt to delay doing that something productive.

Sad, really.

What an uneventful day.

Woke up, ate some leftover pizza for lunch with my dad and sat in front of the computer for the rest of the day.

Good thing we're going to a nice restaurant for dinner =)

No, this blog didn't come to be with the help of Zhiyun. It was all my work. I had the idea to make one and I looked for a skin myself. Yep. No help from Zhiyun here.

None at all. Zilch.

Saturday afternoon at home

Tired. Went to a Habitat build today, my wrist and back hurts like a bitch. The back soreness makes sense, what with all the lifting and digging involved, but wrist? I think I have carpal tunnel syndrome from using the comp too much. Oh well. Not like it's gonna stop me.

Went to the mall with Naqib, Joe, Cory, Bender, David and Marco after the build. We were wearing dirty t-shirts and shorts, looking all ghetto and easily were the worst dressed people in the whole building. Kind of an eyesore I'm sure, what with the two white boys walking around with cement on their legs. Had craploads to eat in Bakmi GM, we were sprinkling a whole bucketfull of stuff we thought was MSG on our food and it tasted great. We're all gonna die of cancer in 5 years, but who cares?

Thinking of going to a rave tonight.

Bored. Guess I'll make a blog.

Ok.

A few people have convinced me that this blog stuff is fun. So here it is. Fun.