Brenda's got a baby

Through a mixture of common occurrences and law violation, Tupac's song titled "Brenda's Got a Baby" is able to strongly convey several influential messages to its listeners. The message of the song is about the issues of teen pregnancy which leads to unemployment and prostitution. Tupac wrote this song after he read a newspaper article about a 12 year old girl who got pregnant from her cousin but did not let her parents know and threw the baby down an incinerator and ended as a child prostitute. Child prostitution happens because of various reasons such as some are coerced, kidnapped, sold, deceived or otherwise trafficked into sexual slavery. Some come from educated, middle to upper-class families where they take to the streets out of rebellion or as away to escape sexual or physical abuse. Also many were born into a life on the streets with mothers and sisters also selling their bodies. It all comes down to one common denominator which is to earn quick money.I think media coverage is definitely good because after listening to that song it gives a strong message to the society to be more careful about their children and how they are treated because it could lead to many problems where you could lose your child. This is a controversial issue because when everybody found out that it was a true story, they respected the song even more and passed on the news

Cold.

why is it so darn cold !? i know.. i understand it's winter, but why does it have to be this cold :( either my house is haunted or my heating just really sucks.. and i can't even get out of bed each morning! i am currently dying as i type this and i feel as if my fingers are going to fall off (k, not really but i'm just that cold!!) .. anyways .. i hate winter, and i hate the cold. Back home, I always wished there was snow since it looked so pretty on televisions and pictures. When I first saw it in Canada, I was so shocked to see such a pretty scenery but the feeling is not so nice. I have a cold with stuffy nose, sore throat and probably going to get fever too. Don't really know what else to write...just a very cold day and feeling very gloomy.

Semi formal 2008

W00t! Semi happened ! It was my first time going to semi in East york.. too bad it got canceled last year. I just don't get why it was hard for people to buy tickets and get together with the school to have fun. So many people made excuses like "my friends aren't going so I am not going" =/ Anyways too bad they didn't go because they sure missed out a lot!! The dinner was pretty good, I didn't expect any food to be there with just $25. I saw lots of people from writer's craft class and they seemed to enjoy the night as well :) Everyone looked gorgeous and it was nice to see people without uniform for ones! I wish there was another semi but it only happens once a year I guess.. which makes me even more excited for prom! Last night was really fun but now I have PILES of homework and assignments. It's crazy how the last week is so hectic. I wish I can just relax in a swimming pool and have some lemonade on a hot summer day in Florida. Since all of my courses involve writing, I have lots of editing and researching to do tonight. The only assignment I am really interested in is the newspaper =D I am really excited since Alex and I get to put it all together so I am really looking forward to that!

Love

Love is something you feel when you like someone, right? Wrong. Love is a feeling of emotional attachment and affection towards a person. It is a feeling of strong passion and desire for a special someone, and in this case, I’m not talking about family love. If you love someone deeply enough, deeper than any ocean in the world, you won’t be able to see the daylight, or in other words, the obstacles or consequences to this relationship. Thus the saying, ‘love is blind’.If you like someone, then you have occasional thoughts about him or her. But if you love someone, then you have constant thoughts of them as well as zealous feelings for them.Love is easy to find, hard to hold on to, but impossible to forget. You could just as easily love someone, but it is so tough to overcome the forks in the road that if you get stuck and you lose your loved one, then it is literally impossible to erase them from your memory. The term “love” is overused nowadays, and it has supposedly lost its meaning to some extent. But if you use the term “love” by its true implication, then the bond between the couple is very strong. I say that love is like a piece of fabric: very hard to rip apart, but the slightest ‘cut’ can ruin the entire mosaic. In my opinion, love is very delicate and can be considered as a sixth sense. If you don’t truly love someone, then don’t tell the person that you do, because u might end up playing with their heart and separating from each other. But the fact of the truth is this: it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. That is how much more ‘alive’ you feel when sincerely in love.

Snow..

I can't believe it snowed already! I swear summer and fall went by way too fast. I guess some people were right when they said grade 12 year goes by really fast. I don't have much winter break plans though, just because I have no money saved up. I seriously need to find a job so I can save up. These days you can't go out anywhere without money involved unless it's boring like a library. So far my weekend was great, I went to Hard Rock Cafe since it was Fawziya's birthday =) It was fun to see people from school and the food was great. However, I found the waitress not so polite maybe because we were just bunch of teenagers to them. Besides that Fawziya looked amazing and hope she had a great time. I can't wait till summer 2009 since I will be finally getting out of Canada from the past four years and see my family again. It's great how you noice someone has changed if you don't see them for a long time, whereas if you live with them you don't notice much difference. For example my brother, I can't really tell the diference unless I look at his baby pictures like when he was three years old. Anyways hope this blog wasn't too boring, I really didn't know what to talk about since I didn't see any topics on Ms. Cat's blog =(