"Just picture yourself."

     Michael committed me, saying "Just picture yourself. Where would you be if you were not in the church for about eleven or twelve years? What would your life be like?" An explanation of this vision may need to be written, for many of us, including me, has been raised in a life with a great knowledge of truth that gives us great strength. We may not recognize how the spirits on the other side of the veil wish that they could live a life in the Restored Gospel in mortality. 

Many have to endure life without the Gospel, and they do not know how to progress in life. When a man receives the gospel, he is left, feeling years behind a man raised in the Gospel. He sees many things that he has never learned. Many little things are hard to add as habits. Not living the Gospel weakens us from the potential of a more full statue of Christ. As we learn to observe all the little things of the teachings of God throughout our life, we shine as a disciple of Christ. Some people are intimidated by this, and great patience is to be exercised by all to accept the progression of faith. 

      I see many fruits to the appreciation that we can obtain by exploring this idea. You will be able to relate and understand others better. This understanding has importance to work with all types of people in patience and love to have a mutually inspiring friendship. I interviewed Josh Aufderheide how it is like to live without the gospel to help me write this article. In alluding to this article at our last Fast and Testimony meeting and the first thing that Josh said to me concerning this topic. 'People feel their way in the world, doing what they think is right in hopes to find the truth.' Do you feel how it is like to be in the person that Josh described? I feel like a blind man or a man in pitch darkness.
     I see that the atonement and many doctrines therein is lost from their understanding. A key principle that is often hard to learn is the concept of grace and forgiveness. People without the gospel feel like all their sin is mounted on them, and they do not know what to do with it. Everything from the beginning of their lives weighs on their soul. There is a great burden on their shoulders, and their eternal welfare is uncertain. This feeling of no source of forgiveness gives little incentive to live righteously.
     A source of relief seems to be any source of hope. Hopelessness may abound, but people seek out truth. Josh said his goal a future happy family prevailed in his mind throughout his life. He never gave up in finding the truth, and peoples desire to do so may vary. Faith and hope comes of knowledge. Although the knowledge of truth is limited, there is a little hope that each person has.
     There is also a feeling that there is no source to find a resolution to problems. There is a lack of a real healing that comes; although, there are many sources to which people can find a partial comfort. In this condition, people may not feel abandoned, but in they are often ignorant to the blessings of God in their life. Drinking and other common sin are appealing according to carnal desires, and are often indulged in. The atonement heals and solves all problems, and nothing else in the world offers that. Josh spoke of the pain that plagues many veterans called post traumatic stress disorder. He went through counseling, but the efforts sought to resolve temporal problems. He said it was "learning how to live with the problem." Josh has powerful testimony that the atonement of Christ has healed his soul according to his great faith and effort to do God's will. He has been healed by the priesthood power, overcoming most of the afflictions that he has suffered in the world as he has received the restored Gospel.
     Since there seems to be no source of healing, there is little to trust. Trust is lacking on many fronts. There seems to be little truth. Referring to a source of world Josh said "other churches want to blanket everything." They are not personal, trying to wrap everyone into doctrines of their faith. Everyone seems to lack truth, so each person interprets the word for themselves. The Bible is confusing and contradicting. There is no need to be train at seminaries to know the truth because there is a lack of truth therein. This is how people feel as they don't understand the need for prophets or the authority of God; however, the light of Christ is is powerful offering light according to our faith.
    There is a lot more to this article's topic that I don't can't explain, but each person has faith. It is inherent in every person. We need to ignite the spirit of the person within the soul, letting the real personality express itself according to the person's free agency. We need to embrace each person. When people find God our Father and how loving he is, learning of his nature, they have a great desire to serve him and seek after a strong testimony, working from the beginnings of faith. Let us reach out to all.

Don't afraid to cultivate your lost talents again / basic drawing tips

If you feel like you lost your talent, you can develop it again. This entry though just focuses on drawing, an important foundation to art.
This past week I had a drawing competition with a girl named Suzette because she felt like she lost her talent for art. This conversation came up because I am letting myself be too busy to draw, for I forsook the career path's pursuit. Suzette did not want me to lose my talent as she did.

When I came back from my two year mission at Jamaica, I did not feel the great love for drawing, but I wanted it. with prayer and trying all I can. I found my love again. 

Suzette however she drew differently than me and was at a loss to how to begin cultivating her talent again because she likes to draw straight from her imagination skipping all the basics. 

I tried to figure out how to get her naturally think of a scene that she may draw, asking her if she has a favorite fantasy book. Since she did not, I offered my sci-fi book that I am summarizing. I spoke of the character that needed the most imagination. He is Jacob, a winged child. I had not imagined how he may grow his wings, but the competition was to decide that.

I encouraged her, saying I have the confidence that I can cultivate my talent again at anytime and she can too; although, it may be hard.
Suzette did not have the courage to display her drawing, and talking to her after her lack of an entry for the competition. I made a list of drawing tips to jump start her effort, to overcome her fears, and to not be afraid to try.
Here are the tips that I gave her. After noticing that she was obviously afraid to try to draw 3d objects

• The thicker the mark and the larger contrast from the light to dark brings the image closer.
• That is what I did on my image on the biggest frame I made the girl with fat marks on her hair
• Maybe you should draw 3d shapes and shade the sides to practice. That will help especially when drawing noses.
• Don't forget to put the shadow on them.
• I liked how you had the back ground in your pictures
• I forgot to put the shadow in mine, but luckily I made the drawing's setting at night.
• Shading should be on most everything
• Put the skinnier marks on the object further back to make depth in the pictures imagine
• Details should be less in the image further back, more faded, and slightly darker; however, the further back you go the lighter and less detailed the image gets especially in landscape drawing.

Here is the final piece. It was just for fun as will as this entry. I have a greater article to write, but I had to write this one. I feel like I kind of cheated because the paper I used for this drawing was 2x1.5 feet for surface area, but a material advantage should not be regret.

The Shocking Educational System that Chinese Youth endure

    Sam is the English name that he gave himself. He stayed with my family for a few days before moving on to attend High School in Oklahoma, for he is from China. China is a mysterious place, so my acquisitive mind had to learn of China from his prospective. He is from a small town near a Shanghai. His character was fun, innocent, loving, and cute, and his passion for life was impressive. He got so attached to our family that he did not want to leave, becoming like another brother of mine.
     Sam is from a small town, a pleasant quiet place, where he feels free to do his desires; however, the educational program in the smaller towns are more strict than the big city of Shanghai and other large cities. All students are expected to go to school seven days a week. Although Sam was an optimistic pure person, he felt that it was "not right."
    Describing his life, he explained that he usually rode his bicycle to school planning to be at class at 6:30 am. Sam was one of fifty students that attended his classes. In a boring setting for he said the teach yup yup yup, talking the entire time, characterizing it as "silent." As you can see from the picture, that is a normal classroom; there are piles of books everywhere. The students with Sam enjoyed a two hour lunch, but you will be shocked to read that his high school expects his to stay at school until 9:30 pm. They study late, and they are given time to do homework at school. The pressure is so great that he has stayed up studying all night many times already, and he is only seventeen years old.
    One reason that the pressure is so great is that they are intensely tested on five subject, and this is done every Saturday. These tests are 110 minutes each. The five subjects that they are taught are English, Chinese, Math, Physics, and Chemistry. They test intensely until 5 pm from 6:30 in the morning. The main reason that Sam said that the educational system is not right is because they try
to jam three years of schooling into one year or two years, trying to go through two textbooks a year. At least on Sunday they are let out early at about four o' clock.
    In a bigger cities as Shanghai, where it is more flexible, they get off of school each day at five in the evening. China just as we are in the states is easing off the focus of Music and Art. Sam said
that he would have only one class of Art or Music each week, alternating. Sam said  that the only place to do the SAT test to join our Universities are at Hong Kong.
    These students are flooding the universities of the States as there is seen "30 percent more Chinese students than the previous year, according to the Institute for International Education’s Open Doors 2010 report, published with support from the State Department."
    Sam is not the my only witness. The person that inspired his stay here agrees. His friend said "Yup I think this is a pretty real glance for most of the Chinese students. When I was reading this article, I feel everything you are telling is true, and also contains the opinions of Americans. "

http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/4266771-418/chinas-new-crop-of-------exports--students.html

The Beginning

Hoping to conduct and learn from my first journalistic interview, I was warmly received by the former amateur sports journalist, Michael Angulo. As I was shown into his room, I felt that it was fitting that first thing that I saw on his bed was his baptismal clothing. Conducting this interview and writing this very first article of the Ocean Branch Weekly Newsletter, I am perplexed by the depth of the faith of our humble missionary, Michael Angulo.

Most of us has seen his growth in the gospel seemingly from the very beginning of learning the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In Michael's own words "We have had it has been a tremendous ride." Just hours before he was set apart as a representative of Christ, he had mixed feeling of anxious excitement. He was sad that he only knew us for a little more than a year, but he knows the sadness will go away because of your love.

"All this just feels surreal. Like back when I got my call it was sixty days, it was July second sixty days to the day until I go to the MTC, and it just feels like it was yesterday. It was sixty days, back then I felt you know I felt good. I was just relieved I got my call. I just finally came. and now its just like the past three or four weeks my mind has totally been in a different place. It has been missionary mode missionary mode. I haven’t gone out and done anything fun with the members of the branch. I have been so focus on my mission that its just something that I take very serious and I don’t think its anything... to joke around about and not work hard at just studying and working hard change peoples lives and they are going to need your knowledge need you as a person so I take it pretty serious."

As I asked concerning his preparation and faith, I was impressed by his testimony of the power of the word of God. I have a few quotes from the interview to share from different angles, showing his testimony therein. One understanding that he has is that a representative of Christ needs the word of God ingrained into his soul. Concerning the importance of reading the word, he said it is

"Because you get closer to Heavenly Father. and with our struggles in life or question in life that you have can be answered in the scriptures. and especially when you are missionary you can be answering the questions for investigators who asked you that question that you did not know. and you just pray about it and then you find your answers in the scriptures cause I know when I have found answers. It is mostly in the scriptures where I find them. and It is not out there in living."

"I feel it is important, and it changes you as a person like being away from it for all these years and seeing where I am at now. It has totally changed my look at life. It totally changed how I am, and I am so grateful for this church to be on this earth and I am so grateful for Joseph Smith restored the Gospel for us. and I know that he was the first prophet, and I know that Thomas Monson is our current prophet. He received revelation from Heavenly Father."

I asked "How have you felt your testimony and how it has grown in the past while?"

"When I first came to the church honestly speaking, I had no idea what a testimony was, so on fast and testimony Sundays I would kind of be confused for the first couple months; then, I asked I think it was Miller. It was Miller or Sione what exactly is a testimony? and They just said oh its how you know the church is true. and ever since that. Getting experience, going out with the missionaries and studying, studying Preach my Gospel and the Patriarchal blessing, continuing to pray, keeping the commandments. not sinning. I don’t know if I said but reading my patriarchal blessing and Being out with the missionary and seeing them in the field, seeing them work it makes it more realistic to how to be a good missionary and use the knowledge that I gained, when I was out there with the missionaries. it really has increased my testimony that much stronger. I mean I know the church is true. I lived with it, and I lived without it, so I know what influence it has had. It has I mean Just picture yourself. Where would you be if you were not in the church for about eleven or twelve years? What would your life be like? and then when you have that picture in your head, that is how my life was like. It was like that. You start sinning. start disobeying the commandments and then you do things that you know you regret and then you come to the church and then like I said pray, reading scriptures, taking the sacrament, elder’s quorum, sunday school It just makes everything better. Heavenly father is with you. and baptism is a big part."

I see two concepts in his words. After he was taught that a testimony is how you know that the church is true, he understood a strong testimony is built by knowledge, studying the scriptures, and exercising faith in the word therein. These are the best ways to come close to God and grow a strong testimony continually. The second thing that he taught is to learn to appreciate having the gospel and not let yourself fall away. Understand how it is like to life without the Gospel without having to experience the pain for yourself.

The next article that I write will help us understand who it is like to life without the Gospel. When Michael asked me those questions of self reflection, I could not think that deeply. I know that many of us in the Ocean Branch were raised in the church and we have not endured life too much without the Gospel.
Finally I have his words dedicated to us and I will conclude with words that I feel was dedicated to his family.

"I love you so much. Thanks for all your love and support. Its been a fun ride, and I am just taking a hiatus right now, a two year hiatus, and once I come back I will come back a new man. Hopefully I won’t look any different, but hopefully I will look more manly. I will come back for toned. and I will be able to grow a full beard because shaving so much. All the missionaries that are serving in the ocean branch. I hope you keep it growing. cause we need all the young adults to come and just keep the branch growing. We have had it has been a tremendous ride. There have been times where I secretly struggled, but you guys have secretly helped me without me saying it. I have never been around a cooler group of young single adults in my life than you guys. I am very thankful for President Burgon for all their love. I don’t know how many children that you have but I feel like one of them because I feel like Brad has been there every step of the way for me to get my mission papers done and all the love and support there and I feel like the Ocean Branch baby. and now I am going out serving. I feel like your guys little brother. and I am going to serve the Ocean Branch probably on my mission. I will tell tremendous stories about you guys."

"I am pretty nervous, but not during mission, but missing my family. I just want them not to feel sad that I am gone and just to be happy and just to live life, how they normally would everyday, and not change their schedule or anything. I just want the spirit to be here even though the priesthood is not in the house, but I just want my family to be strong while I am gone because we got a pretty tight bond in the family and it would take something very dramatic to brake us apart, so the nervous would probably be from leave my family for the first time. That is want I am kind of nervous about."

Realizing a Love for Journalism

As you may have noticed by the last entry into this blog, I am getting into journalism. In my exploration, I am more excited about doing it than learning about the career. I decided to make a Weekly Newsletter for the Ocean YSA Branch, which I attend. I interviewed Michael, the second member of the branch on a mission. He just left last Wednesday, so I had to interview him to start the Newsletter for the Branch to start it off. Michael was a journalist himself. The destiny of the occasion made sense to learn from him for he was the first of all the people that I interviewed for the record's sake.

In my love for journalism, I have interviewed a few other people. A chinese student stayed with my family for a few days this past week, and I learned a lot about their high school system there. This afternoon I already wrote that article, but I am trying to get a second witness from his friend that we hosted for a year because the system seems so radical. I will probably post the article here. 

Another friend that I am going to interview is from Japan. He loves the United States of America, and he even said that is "worships" the country. From the very first day that I met him, I say him embrace our culture, and I want to see why he may be forsaking his culture that he was raised in. 

A third article that I am working on is what I am most grateful for. In my Early Childhood Education class, a sister was introduced as someone who had a humbling experience of the summer, volunteering in Mexico at an orphanage. Working at the orphanage would be humbling enough, but the children there have a most inspiring attitude; although, their situation may be seen as terrible.

I am grateful for his opportunity because it is not given easily as the others, but it desires a higher standard of publication. This sister does not want to waste her time with a random blog that will have only a few people read the article; although many views have not claimed to view my last entry or any others, only the last article, summarizing the world events of the previous tremendous week, had only seven views. 

I am loving journalism. I hope to publish the first article of the Ocean Branch Weekly for my fellow young single adult saints. 

This Past Week was Huge in My World

This past week was impressive. See the story of the world before my eyes, I am grateful for my twitter. I want to summarize all the great events that are happening in the world. 


First of all the progress that is in Libya is astonishing. The past week the rebels took over Tripoli. Earlier this week I felt like I was reading the current events happen as it is. They invaded by sea. Its was overwhelming the step by step updates that I got, but Qadhafi is in hiding. The rebels overran his headquarter. Khamia Qadhafi, his son, was killed last Sunday. on.cnn.com/oKxL27 and, his other son, Saif is surrendering. Muammar Qadhafi, the father, had his family deep into his tyrant government. In the past couple days his family fled to Algeria. The Rebel's progress is great. Today they are setting an Ultimatum for the 42 year long dictator's loyalty. The weak rebels have great leadership; although, in the past weeks the original leader was killed by a rebel. In my tweets, I saw the names of the great success of the Rebels, but they could not have been successful without NATO and aid. Even though their help was controversial.


There is protests all over the world from Bolivia to Chile, from South Africa to Syria.
The Syrian Government has been under great pressure as well. Iran was warning them to listen to the protesters. I have been impressed by how the leadership of Iran has been depicted by the news organization. They have been seeking after their national security violently irrespective of Ramadan's ending for the month. nyti.ms/qUvxk8 Ramadan is the Islamic tradition to fast for the day's of a month.


Russia has also been under pressure too, but in a different sense.  Since Russia failed to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, it has been under pressure to preserve the manning thereof. NASA are considering evacuating the ISS in November.


Ai Weiwei this past week did this past week did his first article since his release from detention, calling the state of China 'a constant nightmare.' They sentenced a Tibetan Buddhist eleven years in jail. gu.com/p/3xgt4/tf The twitter of Tibet sent me a tweet saying 

@alexnhicken China has No legitimacy & Rights to charge Tibetan Monks in occupied Tibet. Thats why they need millions of troops to control.

Speaking of fasting, the anti corruption protest lead by Anna Hazare was successful. The government adhered to his demands. He fasted for twelve days ending this past Sunday.

In India as well as much of Thailand is flooded as well.

There has been a super typhoon ripping through the Philippines and Taiwan as Hurricane Irene left a 1100 mile long stretch of destruction. Now a Typhoon heads for China. Transitioning to summarize very very briefly the war in Afghanistan, I want to talk of the honor of our military personal. At the Arlington Cemetery they never stopped, standing to guard the Unknown Soldier since April 6, 1948 even during hurricane Irene.

This past month has been bad in Afghanistan for the war, suffering the most causalities since the war began. Sixty six of the great US serviceman have died. A royal marine died in the past few days in a roadside bomb as well. 

Israel has been aggressive to preserve its state. Today I received texts saying that they sent two warships to"Egypt on warning of another attack." apne.ws/ohDRQs As "Palestinian attacker wounds seven in Tel Aviv," Israel huff.to/qdQJ6W "Israeli military arms settlers in preparation for Palestinian protests." gu.com/p/3xgn5/tf

Iraq is still greatly violent 35 were "killed in series of attacks across Iraq, officials say" on.cnn.com/rpPjMg "There was a suicide bombing Baghdad killing 29 at a Sunni mosque." gu.com/p/3xg8m/tf

These are the signs of the times. I barely scratched the surface of what is happening in my world, yet there is many without a voice in the world. Some of the signs for example is the earthquake at Virginia. In the past few days, two volcanoes erupted one in Popocatepetl, Mexico wapo.st/rkm7Wb and the other at Italy's Mount Etna huff.to/o8JdW0

I have not spoken much of my personal world, but the depth thereof will take too long to write; although, this past week was a little slow. School has started!

Final weeks before school starts (part 1)

This past week has been great for me. Since I may have a global audience, I will be careful of the things that I say.
One reason that it has been great other-than the fun things that I have been able to do. I know that it is kind of lame, but I have expanded more into twitter. I have learned some things from running the twitter for my work at Fun Fine Art. Since I applied the things that I learned I doubled my followers for my  personal twitter. I am competing against myself with both twitters today. My companies twitter has passed my personal twitter, but I was ahead. I feel part of two communities with both of the twitters. I am in the community of artists, and I am in the community with the news reports. I have received great response. A twitter representing the spouses' of military personal expressed great excitement to get to know me and see the world events that I cover. Another guy asked me to give a report of the Turkish victims casualties and targets.
I wrote a short story, which was inspired by a conversation that I had with a grandmother named Joanna on the way back home from my second temple trip last week. She has a grandson that is named Trevor or Erik or something, but he was seemingly on track to a great journalist. As he lived in San Francisco, he was a victim of circumstance. Returning to his apartment, he found that his roommate was stabbed several times, and before long he was stabbed in the head by the attacker. I published the story on a website that began following me on twitter. The website is interesting, for it is named ymidoingthis.com. I put the link on the website. The story helps you see what the grandmother was telling me about. She was trying to record a voice record of the proceedings of his life; however, now he remembers very little of his life. Neither of the victims of the attacker in San Francisco died. The story reveals more about my habits and personality as a person too.

I will put what I wrote on this entry because I see that I can someday purchase my own blog as a book someday, and I would like the short story to be part of it. I also write a entry just before blog entry explaining how to run correctly. I will publish each document separately, so this entry will not be too long.

Final weeks before school starts (part 2)

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I am inspired to write this short story by a real life story told to me a few days ago, for  a grandson of a friend, who was a journalist, was stabbed in the head, and now remembers nothing.

Final weeks before school starts (part 3)

The Correct Way to Run

People do not often think of running correctly because it should be like walking, but most people have learned an odd philosophy about running. Running should be painlessly natural as walking, and it is. In middle school I remember writing an essay about how running is bad, and swimming is better. although, I am a big advocate of running for exercise now after running all throughout high school. I have learned how to explain the correct way to run simply, but the understanding only came from my experience on my running teams and a dear friend, researching it. He found a book explaining the pose method of running. I do not have any crazy name for the method because it is natural. The United States at least is getting this messed up.
There is a phase in the history of running that we are departing from. Over the past several years, 'more natural' running shoes has been coming out of the running shoe market. There is a philosophy with a few parts to it, which is not logistical. One of which is that our bodies are too weak to run without external support such as the following: ankle braces, stable shoes, and knee braces. The world often underestimates the human body. The human body can strong enough to handle running on any surface without these supports. Running shoes have little to do with running bad; however, it shows another part of the philosophy of running that is we are to land on the heel of our foot.
The simple explanation to how to show how to run correctly is comparing it to doing jump rope. I would encourage you to get up and 'jump rope-less.' I use to do that when I could not run outside. Jump as if you would do jump rope without the rope. You see and feel how you land on your feet. It is definitely not on your heel. It is springing. There is a spring all throughout our beautiful legs that absorbs the forces from the calf, to the quads and the hamstring, the largest combinations of muscles. It is natural and there is a natural momentum; however, if you purposely land on your heel.
Everything natural about the 'jump rope-less' is gone. You hit the ground and the momentum hit straight into the feet and is absorbed unnaturally. The forces cause pain. This is how shin splints are formed. Do 'jump rope-less' on your heels for a hour for a couple weeks or so and your shins will feel like it is being ripped of the bone because it is. This is the same thing with running. When you run and land on your heels, your momentum is not natural.
Another thing that one needs to learn is that, when the earth is to go backward, so the main thrust of your legs should be pushing us forward and the earth backward. Many people have an odd idea that we need to lengthen our stride by putting our feet further ahead of us. The way we are to push ourselves forward and the earth backward is by using our butt muscles. This make more sense as a mean to lengthen our stride. The hip flexor, the muscle that pulls up our leg for the top, is not that big compared to the butt. The thrust should be backward from the butt and not forward from the hip flexor.
One may wonder how this makes sense how can my feet push me forward from my butt, if my foot is landing in front of me. Well you need to realize that is not natural. The feet will soon naturally land beneath you or behind you. Do you see how that momentum will be better? Running is a controlled fall. Can you imagine how your momentum will be pushed if your feet pushes your forward from behind you? The momentum is much more efficient. The habit of having your feet land behind you is really difficult to obtain, but having your feet land closely below your torso. It allows looks funny to me when someone is running, and the butt is not pulling the leg back very far. The further back the leg and the more force behind you the longer the stride.
This is the way to run naturally and more easily. You don't need fancy supportive shoes with a big thing on your heel. I recommend running for twenty minutes a day until you strengthened your leg muscles sufficiently. Be warn. If you run this way, the correct way, your muscles will be extremely sore for the first week or so. It may be painful walking down stairs. You may feel like your grandparents walking down the stairs. That is why I recommend only twenty minutes a day at first week until you feel comfortable running longer. Consistency is important. I had a roommate that would workout a different part of his body each day of the week, and he was sore like the very beginning each week. Consistency will get the body to get over being sore, and build stronger muscles. You may be extremely sore because the average person at least in the United States has extremely weak legs. After my first season of cross country my legs like doubled the size. My calves, my thighs, and my butt were bigger. Don't be afraid of being sore. Think of it as a feeling of growing, becoming stronger, progressing. I promise you that it will only last for a week or so; then, you can run pain free. No shin splints.
Don't get frustrated if you get injuries. Just relax if you get a injury. Take a week or two off of running. Do something different. Often times the reason that we get injured is because of the shoes that we have. You may need new shoes.
I will review the simple steps that will lead you to run more naturally. Run by pushing yourself forward from your leg with the thrust going backward from your butt, landing of the part of the foot that you feel when you do the 'jump rope-less'. You can practice this by standing on one foot and see how it is to pull your leg back with your butt, seeing the form of running come naturally.

I could write more, but this is probably enough. Good Night. :)

After I write about my experience with integrity, I feel like being a movie critic.

The integrity of a person is his respect for life. It is seen shining from the presence of the person. When people face the real world, they have their integrity called into question during each moment. Integrity is extremely trick because it is on an individual and personal level to live the most correct way; however, there is one true way. It stands out from the world, and it is very private. A characteristic of integrity is that one is responsible for everything that he does, and one is responsible to do his best to fix his errors, enduring the consequences. It stands up for truth and what is right. There is more to it, but I can't think of more to write.

I don't watch much movies, but when I do I try to watch the best films. In the past few months I have only watch a few movies listed as followed: Arriety the Borrower, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Cirque De Soleil: Quidam.

I may be particularly tough on movies.

The Arriety movies was good, but I don't think that it was original enough for Studio Ghibli. The film is based on a book that is mostly unknown. I don't know. The Borrower's series was named one of the top ten most important children's novels of the last seventy years in 2007. I feel that it may be too old to make an animated film on, but the age may appeal to a wider audience. The animation standard was according to the normal Ghibli standard. The story though was weak, and the story is innocent. It lacks in just about everything as a story; action, romance, climax, purpose. There was a little suspense, but the story was too simple.
Out of 100 I give it a 77

I am surprised that Captain America beat Harry Potter. It shouldn't have; even though, I have not seen the final movie of the series of Harry Potter. I don't know, but don't ask me about what I think of the first half of the last book of the series' movie. The Captain America movie is a little random at the beginning and at the end; although, I did understand that is alluding to the assembly of the Avengers. The story is good, but it at times has a feel that one is watching someone playing a video game fast forwarded until the final boss.
Out of 100 I give it a 84

Now the show that I said that I was share how I enjoyed it. Quidam of the Cirque Du Soleil was exceptional. It puts America's Got Talent to shame. I would give America's Got Talent out of 100 a score in the sixties. The acts are fun, inspiring, and leading edge creative; always pushing the limit. I love how they make it seem the performer's act was ending, but they would continue and show even a greater depth to their skill. It also pushed the limit of morality. The performers look like the lust of the world but not at the same time. I definitely did not lust after the insanely ripped girls. The artistry is great. I recognized that Josh Groban sung one of the songs of the show on one of his CD's, and I recalled learning a song for the show as a concert band at Soquel High School. The story was simple yet profound.
Out of 100 I give it a 92

This weekend's entry is committing itself to a week day next week, for weekends are not for writing a blog

Yeah I am too busy to write on the weekends. Yesterday I did update the story summary of DNA turn on though, if you want to read that.

If you are curious about what I plan to write about. The topic will be about integrity.