Monday, July 30, 2007
just in case.
If anyone wanted to know, my cable connection was messed up in the middle of the transition to a new apartment. It is unknown how long my internet will be up for the time being. Right now, I am using the old apartment's connection and it will be cut tonight.
Until then, know that I am not gone and haven't forgotten you! ;)
Thursday, July 26, 2007
my reason?
I have been going through my saved drafts in my Blogger.com, erasing them all and consolidating them into one file. Then I would follow-up on each one. Some stuff are going to be about Deaf issues, Gallaudet, hearing aids, cochlear implants, etc.
Let me start off with a draft post I wrote on October 29, 2006:
"Long before I. King Jordan slipped up and named Jane K. Fernades as the 'President' during the Fall 2005 semester, any of my Gallaudet friends in the past felt hurt and couldn't understand my reluctance and pessimism towards their university. Some even accused me of attacking them because I 'do not appreciate Gallaudet'. I couldn't express my reasons to people who are upset and getting in my face. In light of what happened in the past few weeks, I kept quiet for the most part, eagerly supporting my Gallaudet friends and watching for the news. Today came around and I got an IM from a good friend who is a Gallaudet graduate. I was thrilled out of my mind and delighted that BoT terminated Jane Fernandes! When I heard the news, I knew that Gallaudet will be FINALLY moving forward from its rut and stand-still for many years. I cannot express how big of a relief to find out Jane's out the picture! But at the same time, I am not going to celebrate yet. Why? Who will repair the damage? Who will restore Gallaudet's reputation? Who will fight and ensure Deaf students graduate with degrees worth equal or more than the degrees from other colleges and universities?
For a long time among my peers in Utah and Arizona, Gallaudet had strongly gained a reputation of being a "high school" university. It was embarrassing to me as a Deaf person knowing the fact Gallaudet is a Deaf Mecca! Thanks to I. King Jordan for not doing a damn thing to make education empowering for the Deaf, many students in his 18 years' reign were robbed of an actual college education. Gallaudet's academic reputation is damaged.
The ONLY good programs from Gallaudet that I know of are worth a lot of respect, the Linguistics, ASL, and Deaf Studies. Nowhere else can a person get a comprehensive and depth of study and education in the language of ASL. Gallaudet's the best place to be for those studies!
I'd like to emphasize a line a blogger wrote earlier. That sentence verified my point I was trying to make long before BoT did the selection process which picked Jane last Spring.
rural versus urban: The MSSD gate, the ninth in hell for JKF and IKJ?: "Instead of being creative to keep enrollment levels up, the IJK administration especially with JKF on board for pre-college programs (now known as Laurent Clerc center) and Provost, and now president-designate, they choose to face hard reality and dumb down the quality and resources to keep the federal money running. They should be accountable for their actions and decisions they made."
You read that part IKJ and JKF dumb(ed) down the quality and resources to keep the federal money running?? THAT is the reason I knew I wouldn't appreciate my education if I went to Gallaudet. I need challenges, I want to learn. If education was that easy, I wouldn't do it! It'd get boring for me really fast. I hate slow, easy classes. It insults my intelligence as a college student. If the school's administration on purposely degrade the quality of education all for the money and shit deals for their students, FK that school! I want to go to a college or university who would give a damn and appreciate each and every one of their students!"
I know this post is now outdated, but more people will have a better understanding of how I felt about Gallaudet and the protests. More events have happened since I wrote this blog post last Fall. Gallaudet is now on probation and could lose its accreditation if their standards aren't up to par. I think this is a good thing because Gallaudet have a window of opportunity to become the best university for Deaf students! Once Gallaudet complete its task in meeting the requirements and standards, I will be eager to submit my application to enroll! I have high hopes and dreams for Gallaudet and for myself as a potential attending student!
Let me start off with a draft post I wrote on October 29, 2006:
"Long before I. King Jordan slipped up and named Jane K. Fernades as the 'President' during the Fall 2005 semester, any of my Gallaudet friends in the past felt hurt and couldn't understand my reluctance and pessimism towards their university. Some even accused me of attacking them because I 'do not appreciate Gallaudet'. I couldn't express my reasons to people who are upset and getting in my face. In light of what happened in the past few weeks, I kept quiet for the most part, eagerly supporting my Gallaudet friends and watching for the news. Today came around and I got an IM from a good friend who is a Gallaudet graduate. I was thrilled out of my mind and delighted that BoT terminated Jane Fernandes! When I heard the news, I knew that Gallaudet will be FINALLY moving forward from its rut and stand-still for many years. I cannot express how big of a relief to find out Jane's out the picture! But at the same time, I am not going to celebrate yet. Why? Who will repair the damage? Who will restore Gallaudet's reputation? Who will fight and ensure Deaf students graduate with degrees worth equal or more than the degrees from other colleges and universities?
For a long time among my peers in Utah and Arizona, Gallaudet had strongly gained a reputation of being a "high school" university. It was embarrassing to me as a Deaf person knowing the fact Gallaudet is a Deaf Mecca! Thanks to I. King Jordan for not doing a damn thing to make education empowering for the Deaf, many students in his 18 years' reign were robbed of an actual college education. Gallaudet's academic reputation is damaged.
The ONLY good programs from Gallaudet that I know of are worth a lot of respect, the Linguistics, ASL, and Deaf Studies. Nowhere else can a person get a comprehensive and depth of study and education in the language of ASL. Gallaudet's the best place to be for those studies!
I'd like to emphasize a line a blogger wrote earlier. That sentence verified my point I was trying to make long before BoT did the selection process which picked Jane last Spring.
rural versus urban: The MSSD gate, the ninth in hell for JKF and IKJ?: "Instead of being creative to keep enrollment levels up, the IJK administration especially with JKF on board for pre-college programs (now known as Laurent Clerc center) and Provost, and now president-designate, they choose to face hard reality and dumb down the quality and resources to keep the federal money running. They should be accountable for their actions and decisions they made."
You read that part IKJ and JKF dumb(ed) down the quality and resources to keep the federal money running?? THAT is the reason I knew I wouldn't appreciate my education if I went to Gallaudet. I need challenges, I want to learn. If education was that easy, I wouldn't do it! It'd get boring for me really fast. I hate slow, easy classes. It insults my intelligence as a college student. If the school's administration on purposely degrade the quality of education all for the money and shit deals for their students, FK that school! I want to go to a college or university who would give a damn and appreciate each and every one of their students!"
I know this post is now outdated, but more people will have a better understanding of how I felt about Gallaudet and the protests. More events have happened since I wrote this blog post last Fall. Gallaudet is now on probation and could lose its accreditation if their standards aren't up to par. I think this is a good thing because Gallaudet have a window of opportunity to become the best university for Deaf students! Once Gallaudet complete its task in meeting the requirements and standards, I will be eager to submit my application to enroll! I have high hopes and dreams for Gallaudet and for myself as a potential attending student!
Monday, July 16, 2007
painting.
My roommate, Neal, and I are moving to another apartment. His daughter will also be moving in with us. The apartment have 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms and den. It is *HUGE!* The den is going to be my room.
In this video, Neal and I were painting Neal's bedroom walls yesterday. I decided to play with my Macbook, iSight and iMovie's settings. The result is this video
Fun! ;)
Thursday, July 12, 2007
heart-kun
These pictures and email was forwarded to me
by one of my best friends, Jarmilla. She has a Chihuahua at
home named Tequila, so she is a big fan of them. Jarmilla
happened to come across these 2 pictures and some info. She
wanted to share with you and everyone! ;)
Her message:
How cute! Wished its mine!
A male long-coated Chihuahua named "Heart-kun" with a heart-shaped pattern on his coat sits at Pucchin Dog's shop in Odate, northern Japan, on July 10, 2007. The one-and-a-half-month-old Chihuahua was born on May 18, 2007 as one of a litter. The shop owner Emiko Sakurada said that this is the first time a puppy with these marks has been born out of a 1,000 that she has bred. She also said that she has no plans to sell the puppy.
Soooo darn cute!
(ツ)☆jArMiLLa☆(ッ)
How cute! Wished its mine!
A male long-coated Chihuahua named "Heart-kun" with a heart-shaped pattern on his coat sits at Pucchin Dog's shop in Odate, northern Japan, on July 10, 2007. The one-and-a-half-month-old Chihuahua was born on May 18, 2007 as one of a litter. The shop owner Emiko Sakurada said that this is the first time a puppy with these marks has been born out of a 1,000 that she has bred. She also said that she has no plans to sell the puppy.
Soooo darn cute!
(ツ)☆jArMiLLa☆(ッ)
Sunday, June 17, 2007
High Heel Race - Baltimore Pride '07
Feeling like one of Cinderella's sisters.
Posin' and wavin' to the rainbow-colored
masses.
These ain't Prada, honey. I lost the race!
Originally uploaded by Deaf258.
So, the parade officials led me to near the stage to sign a waiver and put on a pair of old high heels. Much to my dismay, those pair of high heels are *gasp* tiny! For a few minutes struggling with the shoes, I felt like one of Cinderella's fat step-sisters. I managed to squeeze in all my digits and heels in them. The announcer started calling out each of the racers' names. Mine came up, strutting out and waving, I curtseyed to the crowd. Luckily for me, there was an interpreter on stage to tell me the "ready-set-go!" announcement. I positioned myself on the starting line and stared at the interpreter. When the announcer yelled, "GO!", I ran the best I could. I think I was last, but I wanted to make it in one piece alive! Holy Hell!! My calves, hips and ass were on fire! I ran back to the stage to change back to my familiar, comfy shoes.
After being in this race, I learned a newfound respect for the women and trannies who religiously wear high heels. I also learned something new about me, I wasn't nervous being in the attention of a large crowd like I was before in the past. Interesting, huh??
Anyway, I posted the pictures to my Flickr account the next day. One of my good friends and my former interpreter, Daniel, posted a comment on my Flickr account, "You go girl! Now you just need to learn to bevel." LOL! ;)
Even though I was pretty tired and bummed out about my Macbook dying on me the night before, I had a fabulous time that day! I hope Neal will be in the High Heel Race next year, and his daughters might help me sign him up!
Muahahahahahah!
vlog 0007: label me this. label me that. and macbook woes.
A vlog about trouble with using Sorenson IPRelay service to call AppleCare. The call resulted in damaging my Macbook and was without a computer for 3 days. Thanks, Sorenson and AppleCare!
UPDATED! An added note about an earlier post a few weeks ago, I am proud to be Deaf and DUMB! So I added the logo on my blog/vlog.
POSTED 5/3/07: With the past hot issue about being pre- or post-lingually Deaf, badges have sprouted across the Deaf blogosphere. I hesitiated putting one up because I like to be unique. So, I got the template from Banjo and made myself a new one:
What do you think of that? I am proud to be Deaf & DUMB!
Of course, some of you are gonna get pissed off. But, wait!! There's more. An explanation via vlog tomorrow EVENTUALLY! ;)
UPDATED! An added note about an earlier post a few weeks ago, I am proud to be Deaf and DUMB! So I added the logo on my blog/vlog.
POSTED 5/3/07: With the past hot issue about being pre- or post-lingually Deaf, badges have sprouted across the Deaf blogosphere. I hesitiated putting one up because I like to be unique. So, I got the template from Banjo and made myself a new one:
What do you think of that? I am proud to be Deaf & DUMB!
Of course, some of you are gonna get pissed off. But, wait!! There's more. An explanation via vlog tomorrow EVENTUALLY! ;)
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
vlog 0006: introducing markie lee.
6 minutes and 33 seconds
I know I went over the suggested standard limit in vlogging minutes, but I felt this is an important person to recognize and appreciate his sweet spirit. I feel so honored and privileged to know this young man, Markie Lee, from Phoenix, Arizona. His life story is very inspiring!! He is also a budding artist with a lot of experience in various mediums. I would like to present you his latest work in 3D (and it's in ASL!).
It is WORTH checking out! Here's Markie and his "Deaf Angel's Way" video!
9 minutes and 26 seconds
Saturday, June 09, 2007
vlog 0005: congrats in order.
Congrats to several bloggers and vloggers for their mention in this weekend's issue of The Wall Street Journal!
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
flowers for someone.
Hilary is graduating tonight from high school! I'm proud of her! :)
It's too bad her high school had limited tickets, so I wasn't able to go
see her graduation ceremony. I told her father not to forget the camera
because I wanna see what she look like in cap, gown, diploma and
flowers!
Congrats, Hilary! Xoxo!
It's too bad her high school had limited tickets, so I wasn't able to go
see her graduation ceremony. I told her father not to forget the camera
because I wanna see what she look like in cap, gown, diploma and
flowers!
Congrats, Hilary! Xoxo!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
at a baby shower.
at a baby shower. Originally uploaded by Deaf258. Are the games different, the topics discussed, timing of the party varies, just for women or could men come?
I noticed men are also invited to Deaf baby showers, but never heard of men going to hearing baby showers. This is something that has been on my mind all week. I wonder if there are any ladies, Deaf or hearing, who could elaborate more on their baby shower experiences.
On a side note, DAMN YOU RIDOR! I was counting on having a good time with you today at your sister's baby shower! :-P Next time, beeotch.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
a doggy quilt
I made a small, dog-sized quilt for Pepper. It took me about a couple of days to make. I also made a small pillow out of blue velvet and black duvatyn.
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Saturday, April 07, 2007
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
quiz plug - jackass?
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Friday, March 30, 2007
a funny im.
It was a couple of months ago when out of the blue, Ridor sent me an IM
at 2:05 am. Hoping that Ridor doesn't mind, I've decided to share this
with you:
at 2:05 am. Hoping that Ridor doesn't mind, I've decided to share this
with you:
ridor9th: asdf
deafie258: Ghjkl
ridor9th: 46fth
deafie258: 75hyf
ridor9th: see?
deafie258: See what?
ridor9th: YOUR attitude! :-D
deafie258: Lol
deafie258: Too sassy for you?
ridor9th: yuppie
deafie258: Heh
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
a response to Mary Ruth's disclaimers vlog.
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