I saw Memoir of a Geisha yesterday, it was good but it could have been better. I think its best if you didn't read the book and go see it. They took too many liberties in the movies that I didn't like, so while it was good, I thought it could have been better. I saw the movie with a friend of mine because one I was going to fix her pc anyway and I found out the movie was coming out a lot earlier than I thought, it was more like so you want to catch tomorrow. So once she got off work we went to see it and then we had dinner at Sapporo, which was like Japanese fast food. We finally got to her apt and I finally fixed her pc, we left to go drinking with some of her friends. There is this place on Friday that from 10 to 11 they have free vodka drinks. I got nice and toasty. =)
On the way we got to talk about people we dated and what we're going to look for. She wants someone who is mature mentally and we got into how people act. I said that I think how people act depends heavily on how they are raised. I think good parents will make do with what they got and raise a child that is a product of their environment and sometimes they are stuck mentally in that environment, while great parents will make do with what they got and instill in their child a stronger sense of honor, right and wrong, and tradition. I think in my own case and for the most part my friends, we were lucky to get great parents. Regardless, that my parents were divorced when I was young, I was still taught that when I go out I represent my family and how I interact with others is how other people will see how I was raised. I think a big part of the problem in the world is its so much part to get by now we end up doing what we have to just to get by and survive that we neglect to instill into kids the idea of honor and right and wrong. In a world as jaded as this, I think we need this more than anything else.
We also got into standards and I think my biggest problem in life is I place the same standards on everyone as I do on myself. If I don't think I would do something I assume those close to me wouldn't either. If I joke all the time about sex and know that's all it is, I assume other people are the same. If you can't measure up to that standard, we probably wouldn't that close. I think partly I'm really old fashion when it comes to things like this and the problem comes in because not everyone has the same standard as I do and I get into situation where I discover that's not the way they think at all and I get hurt. I'm going to try to change that but I think then I'll be faced with two choices one is that I just don't get too close to anyone anymore or two compromise my standard….i think I'll go with the first one.
Jee Yuan
"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."
- Phillip Lopate
On the way we got to talk about people we dated and what we're going to look for. She wants someone who is mature mentally and we got into how people act. I said that I think how people act depends heavily on how they are raised. I think good parents will make do with what they got and raise a child that is a product of their environment and sometimes they are stuck mentally in that environment, while great parents will make do with what they got and instill in their child a stronger sense of honor, right and wrong, and tradition. I think in my own case and for the most part my friends, we were lucky to get great parents. Regardless, that my parents were divorced when I was young, I was still taught that when I go out I represent my family and how I interact with others is how other people will see how I was raised. I think a big part of the problem in the world is its so much part to get by now we end up doing what we have to just to get by and survive that we neglect to instill into kids the idea of honor and right and wrong. In a world as jaded as this, I think we need this more than anything else.
We also got into standards and I think my biggest problem in life is I place the same standards on everyone as I do on myself. If I don't think I would do something I assume those close to me wouldn't either. If I joke all the time about sex and know that's all it is, I assume other people are the same. If you can't measure up to that standard, we probably wouldn't that close. I think partly I'm really old fashion when it comes to things like this and the problem comes in because not everyone has the same standard as I do and I get into situation where I discover that's not the way they think at all and I get hurt. I'm going to try to change that but I think then I'll be faced with two choices one is that I just don't get too close to anyone anymore or two compromise my standard….i think I'll go with the first one.
Jee Yuan
"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."
- Phillip Lopate
