I have nothing to say here. Nothing but the fact that I wish I had something to say here. (That’s not true. As I wrote that last sentence, I just came up with something to say). I just want to express, as I have said before, in “Colorful and on Facebook,” how it is a dream of mine to be able to express myself to world. It wasn’t until then that I realized how true that statement was. This is why I am less upset to say that I have nothing to say because I am able to say just that. I purposely worded that sentence that way because I simply felt like being wordy and I don’t regret doing that one bit. So thank you for listening (reading)…
It’s strange how I’ve been feeling lately. I have said it numerous times that I do not like to hate others. I like to avoid negativity. Lately, however, I have been thinking rather rude thoughts, and these thoughts weren’t even induced by negative events (well most of them weren’t). It’s almost as if everytime I would want to say a compliment, my brain would come up the insult counterpart to it. I would normally say that maybe that is just how I am feeling about those people, but that would be completely irrational. I would also normally say that maybe I’m just moody due to outside events. That would still make my thoughts irrational, but at least they would be reasonable. I guess the good part of my conscience is taking a break right now? (Yes, I ended an indicative sentence with a question mark.) Hopefully that break will end soon. (I didn’t think too many negative thoughts today 
).
The cutest thing (and probably the most surprising thing) happened to me at work the other day. A man and his two kids were checking out at my register. Oh the register: the lovely place where you get to stare at yummy snacks but don’t get to eat it until your break. In principles of marketing in high school, you learn that placing items like snacks and soft drinks by the registers is a marketing strategy to get impulse buyers to buy… impulsively. (But you probably already figured that out.) Well the younger of the two kids wanted a particular item at the register but the dad said no. The kid insisted on begging up to the point that he started changing languages. The kid tells the dad “Comprenez-vous? I want [this].” What is remarkable about this (in my opinion) was that the boy didn’t say “Comprende.”. The boy said “Comprenez-vous.” If the boy had spoken Spanish as opposed to French I would have probably ignored the fact. That wasn’t the case, however, and perhaps my enthusiasm in the kid’s choice of language encouraged the kid to continue to ask for whatever item he wanted.
Another impulsive buyer situation involved a mother and a young daughter. I don’t remember what the girl had wanted (I serve about 100 customers a day; you lose track), but the mother told her no. Although I only took the freshman level of the class, whenever I recognize a principles of marketing statement, I get all excited. The mother had trained the girl to understand exactly why companies place impulse items in front-end. It was so cute and so smart. I guess working at my job gives me the feeling that I’m the new host of “Kids Say the Darnedest Things.”
I bought a few songs from Lady Gaga on iTunes last night including songs like Alejandro, Poker Face, and Paparazzi. I don’t think I gave into the Gaga wave until Glee performed two of her songs: Bad Romance and Poker Face. I think I wouldn’t have cared for the Gaga version of Poker Face until I fell in love with its robotic and dark tones. Anyway, I knew that Mark Kanemura from Season 4 of So You Think You Can Dance has been performing with Lady Gaga for a while now. He can be found in her music video for Alejandro (and he’s surprisingly not too difficult to spot once you see a picture of him), and he can also be found in the performance of Paparazzi at the MTV Music Awards. So when I found the video (I placed it here for your entertainment ), I realized that there are a number of people who do not like Lady Gaga (as opposed to the army of fans she already has). But when I think about it, you don’t need to like Lady Gaga to realize that she can put on a spectacular performance. I didn’t watch the MTV Music Awards to know if she opened it, but the performance she did use on the show was marvelous (I promise this, promise this… haha). This might be a little bit of a stretch, but I think I could see her doing this performance or another one similar to this at the Grammys (A little bit longer than her last performance at the Grammys).
Here is the MTV Music Awards with Paparazzi:
I think I put in enough links…
Teachers, especially those in public schools, can teach from 1 to hundreds of students each year, so in my opinion, it would be alright if a teacher forgot my name. I recall seeing a teacher speaking with a former student of hers. It seemed to be a fascinating conversation. The student seemed to be catching the teacher up on her life events. The two finally ended the conversation with very enthusiastic goodbyes and as soon as the student was out of earshot, she admitted to not recognizing the student at all. I always have a small fear that a teacher won’t recognize me after a few years, but I also make myself understand that it’s not improbable that the teacher just can’t remember me. Where I work, I wear a name tag, and whenever I see someone whom which I recognize, I try to make my name tag as noticeable as possible.
Today, however, I came across an elementary school teacher of mine at work. She was talking with another employee about how she used to be my teacher and she gestured towards me, and I looked back. She smiled and I smiled back, but I wasn’t making a connection quite yet. She addressed me by my name and then asked me if I recognized her. Ironically, I paused, trying to collect my memories of this person. Luckily, I did connect her face with the right name. I just wished that the fact that I was caught off guard hadn’t hidden my enthusiasm. I absolutely loved this teacher (all of my multiplication facts songs come from her) and if my mind wasn’t worrying less about my teachers’ memories and more about mine, I would have been on my game.
Apparently the Apple iPod has been around since late 2001, and its 10-year anniversary (October 23, 2010) is just around the corner. But how did this small device stay strong and one of Apple’s best selling products for 10 years? Well other than the fact that it was created by a very powerful and trusted company, it is a device that deals with music. Music is a force incapable of obsolescence and therefore owning a company that deals especially with such a force is like owning a company that sells the air in our atmosphere; everyone needs it. That’s not a hyperbole. We need music. Music is a form of expression. If we can’t express ourselves or witness others’ expressions, we cannot communicate—we become locked up within ourselves, incapable of movement.
Then you say, “what about deaf people?” And I say: Music is not just aural, it is also visual, but most importantly it is emotional. Whether it is making you feel someone else’s feelings, or it is rising up feelings within you, it is touching you emotionally.
I used to be afraid that one day music would change so much that perhaps I wouldn’t like it anymore. Well, that is utterly impossible (I love how I started this blog with a computer company). It’s like speech and writing; it has been with us from the start and will be with us beyond the end.
I think you pretty much can get it from the title; The Infinite Vertices is on Facebook. You can follow the blog here or search for “The Infinite Vertices” on Facebook. It would be rather awesome (I don’t think I use that word in my blog posts too often) if you would let your friends know about the blog too. The more the merrier. The existence of this blog depends solely on the amount of viewers it receives. A concert with only so many people in the audience is rather warming and meaningful, but to be able to express oneself to the world can be the dream for many (it’s a dream of mine ). So, like on Facebook, Tweet on Twitter, and don’t worry a message board is coming around the corner (but that also depends on the number of viewers here as well). Hope to see more of your hits on the site in the future.
Believe it or not, it only took less than two hours to make that logo (the majority of the web designs I work on take days for me to complete). When I changed the blog name from Infinite planes to Infinite Vertices, I realized that the Infinity logo truly served no purpose in the blog. The “Infinite” in either title represents the quantity not the symbol. If the blog was called twelve apples, I would have a picture of twelve apples, not the number twelve. This is how my new idea for the logo came to be. The website is about life and how there are many different ways to view it. So why not create a logo which has an infinite (give or take) different fonts and colors? Although it may seem otherwise, no two colors nor font in the logo are the same (well except for the slogan which follows the logo). I just thought that this blog could use a little more color, and I think this is a step up from two white ovals on top of a black background.
“Hello, tell me you know
Yeah, you figured me out
Something gave it away
Well it would be such a beautiful moment
To see the look on your face
To know that I know that you know now.
Well, baby, that’s a case of my wishful thinking
You know nothing
You and I, why we go carrying it on
For hours on and
We get along much better
Than you and your boyfriend
All I really wanna do is love you
Kinda much closer than friends use
But I still can’t say it after all we’ve been through
And all I really want from you is to feel me
As this feeling inside keeps building
And I will find a way to you if it kills me.
How long can I go on like this
wishing to kiss you,
before I rightly explode?
Well, this double life I lead isn’t healthy for me
In fact, it makes me nervous
If I get caught, I could be risking it all.
Maybe there’s a lot that I missed.
In case I’m wrong…
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If I should be so bold,
I’d ask you to hold my heart in your hand.
I’d tell you from the start how I long to be your man.
But I never missed a word I guess I’m gonna miss my chance again.
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All I really want from you is to feel me
yeah, this feeling inside, it keeps building
And I will find a way to you if it kills me, if it kills me
It might kill me.”
~If It Kills Me by Jason Mraz
I absolutely enjoy listening to this song over and over. I own Mraz’s CD recording of this song as well as his Casa Nova acoustic version of it. I love both of them equally. The CD recording is more upbeat than the latter of the two and it features a string quartet. As a violist, I am always compelled to pick up my viola and play along, which makes the song even more enjoyable. The acoustic version of the song is much warmer. I heard it for the first time on So You Think You Can Dance Season 5 with Jason Glover and Jeanine Mason (America’s Favorite Dancer of Season 5) performing a beautiful contemporary piece by wonderful Travis Wall. I particularly loved the harmony that appeared more evident in the acoustic version, and this drew me to sing along (I have actually recorded myself harmonizing over Jason. But I won’t be exposing that to the world anytime soon 
).
Anyway, I have been listening and performing along with the recordings of this song for years now, and I realized that I haven’t really been paying attention to the lyrics. So I took the time to write them down up above so I could interpret them.
My Interpretation: The speaker is looking at his or her crush from a distance. The speaker probably sees the crush with his or her boyfriend. The speaker is talking using apostrophe. If I am using my AP English terms correctly, apostrophe is when someone speaks to someone or something inanimate or not present; in this case, the crush, as if it, he, or she is really there. It’s almost as if the speaker is preparing what he or she is going to say to the crush. Unfortunately the speaker “never said a word” and therefore he or she loses the crush for the time being. This is that song that someone’s secret admirer writes but never sends to the crush. It does seem, however, that the speaker is adamant on telling the crush his or her true feelings even if “it might kill [him].” It’s a rather beautiful piece, musically and lyrically, as should be expected with Jason Mraz.
You can purchase the studio and the acoustic version of “If It Kills Me” by Jason Mraz on iTunes
Perhaps I’ll make a Sims 3 Music video of this. I haven’t done that in a while….
At a few times, I can come off as superstitious, but I try not be as such. Years ago I wished I had some sort of allergy and ever since I have had horrible outdoor allergies. I wished that I had some sort of disease and then I ended up with an annoying condition that involves me and walking. Now I’ve taken notice of this and watched for what I wished, but why did I make these wishes in the first place? I think it was because I wanted to experience what these conditions felt like for myself. I always thought that the phrase “be careful what you wish for” was just a way to punish those who let greed cloud their judgment and therefore overlook the consequences. In my opinion, wanted to feel and understand other peoples pains and discomforts is not greed. I do realize that one could make an argument that perhaps the want to feel someone else’s pain is selfish because, in the end, the person who felt the pain is glad he or she got what she wanted. The person may have regretted doing so, but at least up until the point he or she felt the pain, he or she was elated to know it was about to happen. My argument is that, with this expression “be careful what you wish for” having been spoken for several of years now, wouldn’t the wishers understand that what they may get might have some consequences? One might argue with the same statement as before, that the person, even though he or she knew there were consequences, still wanted to go through with the wish and therefore it is selfish. My argument to that would be that, yes, the person, regardless of any repercussions selfishly wished his or her wish, but he or she, in the about case, did it to empathize with the other person, which is, in my dictionary, selfless. Curiosity killed the cat, but not because the cat wanted to understand the struggles of others. Did I deserve these conditions I supposedly received due to my wishing? Were these conditions caused by my wishes? Does telling you, the reader, about the wishes I made in the past invalidate the wishes, therefore invalidating the “punishments” presumably caused by the wishes? Is it true, that I just wrote an entire post on my blog without using parentheses? (I think not haha!)
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