ULBS Topic 5

Everybody has this one thing that had always been on their minds which they always wanted to learn in their life. In the end, they couldn't achieve what they wanted to do as it just wasn't within their capabilities. They either don't have the money or time to do so. Some of their wishes are so absurd it is almost impossible to make them happen. I mean, in the end, we are still humans. We have limits. There are bound to be things that we can and cannot handle unless we go through many years of tedious and tiring training, repeating over and over again to get used to the movements that are required to learn a specific skill. But if we were granted the chance to learn one skill free of charge perfectly mastered, what would that skill be? In my own personal opinion, I would want to gain the skill to perfectly do parkour.

One of the reasons why I would choose parkour as my skill of preference is because I can feel the adrenaline rush in my body when doing it. People tend to do drugs or drink alcoholic beverages or just do whatever it is that gives them a hormonal rush, but for me it's parkour. I mean, the gust of wind as you swing from a bar onto a platform is just so cool. It gives you a sensation of being free, like as if you have a pair of wings attached to your body.

Another reason why I would choose parkour as my skill of preference is because I can look cool. I mean come on, who wouldn't look cool when doing parkour? Seriously. The creative and imaginable way of moving one's own body to travel from one point to another is so cool. And it's out of the ordinary, which is why it attracts so much attention. Imagine people just walking normally, and you will be the only one doing vaults over hand rails, or doing precision jumps from one railing to another. The crowd would stare at you with awe, wishing that one day they too will be able to do the thing you were doing.

I can also use parkour as an easy fat burning sport as it is as intense as high intensive training interval workouts. It's like trying to do a 5 kilometer run in like 10 minutes. It wears down our body quite a lot, which is why people tend to not do parkour. It takes months and months of working out just to get your body the correct shape you want it, and with the daily routine most people have these days, it's almost impossible to fit in any time for gym visits or even a 1 hour jog in the nearest park. But as a student, I can always do a few exercises after school time to keep my body in check and up to par. This is another reason why this exercise is up my alley and suitable for me.

As a side point, I also love parkouring because I can pick girls up easier than most people. As stated in my second paragraph, parkouring makes me look cool, which in turn directs more attention from girls onto me. Guys need girls, so it's normal for me to do things that can attract a girl's attention. Don't judge me.

The conclusion is that I love parkouring, and that no one else can stop me from doing what I love. Haters gonna hate, parkour is my fate. 

ULBS topic - 1

Many teenagers today are stressed out because of various factors. During our adolescent stage, our body tends to add more stress by giving us more problems such as puberty and hormone rushes, which just gives us more trouble, like adding oil to the fire. Some might disagree on me, saying adults are the ones that suffer the most as they not only have to feed their selves, but also their family members and they also have to pay bills. But then again, teenagers are forced to do work involuntarily, and of course without pay. Unless you count education as a form of payment.

One of the main reasons why teenagers stress out a lot is because the presence of exams. Schools tend to be very serious when it comes to exams, as it shows status and popularity, depending on the grades of students. Basically, if most of the students did well in an exam, that school will become popular, which leads to a higher paycheck for teachers. This is the main point as to why schools emphasize a lot when it comes to a students grade. Exams can also be used as a form of punishment to torture students both mentally and physically. Students will be forced to do mandatory labor, working all day long with little rest. After exams, they become physically weak and mentally traumatized due to them over working themselves while receiving too little rest. And if they achieve very low marks, the teachers will then make a phone call to the parents of the student, telling them how their child did an absolutely wonderful job on failing his or her exam. When the kids go back, after barely alive from all that work, their parents physically and verbally abuse them. Therefore, exams are probablly the main cause of stress.

Peer pressure can also brew stress and uneasiness amongst the students hearts. Lets say that this one kid bragged to the entire school that he just laid the schools hottest boy, and that this boy also sent her a spanking brand new phone that came out like 2 days ago. By doing so, her bragging has planted seeds of jealousy within each and every other girl that studied in the school. They then tell their parents to let them hang out and do dates with boys, and some would persuade their parents to buy new phones for them since their old phones aren't the new "chic". This is another reason why teenagers face a lot of stress. They think that it is necessary for them to obtain new items even though they aren't even finished with the things they were given with in the beginning.

Another reason why teenagers face a lot of stress is because they have of things to do in general. They need to spend time and energy for their extra school sessions, they also have co curriculum activities they have to partake to improve their chances of entering a better university when they graduate. They also need more time for their extra tuitions outside since sometimes school teachers cannot be trusted, and that also puts more stress into a teenagers life. They have just have a lot of things to do. Reports to type, experiments to conduct, homework to do. The amount of work is just so massive, and they have to do all that within one day, which is almost impossible unless you break your body's limits, which in doing so causes even more stress.

In conclusion, teenagers lead a very stressful and busy life. They have so many things to do, which makes them unable to de-stress themselves by doing things that they want to do. And as I write this post, I myself am also stressed from all the typing and thinking. Therefore, I shall stop writing and rest.

Procrastination

Procrastination happens all the time, even when you aren't aware of it. When a student tells a teacher that he didn't bring his work, he probably just didn't do it because he was to lazy, with the exception of him actually forgetting about the fact that he has homework of course. But even then the teacher would probably still scold him. And just when an example of procrastination is almost over, procrastination happens again. Instead of asking the student to redo his work and writing a report about it, the teacher just gives the lazy student a beating and asks him to sit back on his place. See? Like I said, procrastination happens even at places when we don't expect it to happen.

Although most of us might think that we are just 'postponing' what we want to do, in reality it is actually just us giving ourselves an excuse to skip work. If you don't get what I mean, let's put it this way. Instead of doing a task you were given immediately, you tell yourself that you'll do it tomorrow. See? That is an example of procrastination. Delaying jobs given, not doing things that were entitled for us to do. Procrastination has to stop.

One of the most common ways to stop procrastination is using the punishment system. This works for EVERYBODY, so don't worry. No young nor old nor healthy nor sick person would be able to find a loophole in this system because it's just so simple. Whenever they procrastinate, just give them punishments. If you work in a office and you're the boss, tell your workers to make the sales quota or else they'll get a pay cut. Or you can fire them, it's saves way much more money. Students not willing to do their work? Caning works. This system is practically the bread and butter method to stop procrastination.

Other than the method mentioned above, there is the reversed version of it, called the reward or merit system. Apparently some thought "Hey, instead of punishing the low-lives that are unwilling to work their asses off, why not just reward those that did good and actually worked?" And just like that another idea was born. Although this method works too, I personally hate this idea. It is because men have been sticking up luxurious items up their asses the entire time, they get lazy and tend to rest more instead of working more.

Anyway, like I said, people need to change and procrastination needs to stop. People should be happy that God gave us 4 limbs and a brain for us to do actual work. They exist for a reason. Now let me just finish this blog and spend the rest of my lifetime staring at my electronical devices. Sorry, but I guess procrastination is the way for me.

Free writing article - Why people should stop the production of foie gras

For those that don't know what duck pate de foie gras (or also commonly known as foie gras for short) is, it is basically just force-fed duck or goose liver. Although it's just force-fed duck/goose liver, the process of making it is just unbearable to watch. Here's why.

First off, wild ducks are catched from the forest. Why not use barn ducks? Because they have a healthier liver compared to normal farmhouse ducks. They eat nuts, berries and plants that were grown fresh instead of artificially harvested or made duck feed. Next, the wild ducks that have been caught will then be force fed with either duck feed filled with growing hormones to ensure quick production of a fatty liver, or they were just fed with fresh grown nuts and fruits to produce a higher quality pate.

Farmers would grab the duck by the throat, and then stretch the ducks neck to ease up their muscles. They would then turn on the force-feeding machine. It has a funnel attached to it on the top, and on the side or at the bottom there would be a tube as long as 13 to 15 inches attached to the machine. As much as a kilogram of food would then be placed into the funnel, where it would all drop into the machine. The mouth of the duck would then be opened, and the metal tube would be inserted into the ducks mouth. The farmer would then turn the machine on, and the machine would churn all that food into the duck. This cruel process would be repeated 4 to 5 times a day, forcing the liver to expand 5 to 6 times larger than the liver of a normal barn duck.

This is the difference in size of a normal duck liver and a piece of foie gras.

The one on the right is a normal ducks liver, whilst the left one, the foie gras. Look how much larger it is compared to the healthy one. It isn't even red or dark red in color. Normal livers that are healthy should be filled with blood vessels. Foie gras has so much unsaturated fat, it turns into white or bright pink.

Although it has a flaky and buttery texture to it when eaten, and tastes good, people should ban this. This wrong etiquette of food should be stopped no matter what. It's against nature to force animals to do things they don't want to do. And top it off, it's expensive. Why waste so much money to buy this when you can use that money to feed the poor or donate some money to cancer patients. People pay top dollar for this. Unbelievable.

For more references, click here to watch a video about foie gras and how it's made.

To be honest, the only thing I hate about Chinese New Year is the amount of time it takes to go back to my grandparents houses. I mean seriously. I hate sitting in the car for about 2 hours, doing nothing. I get cramps sometimes, and cramps never feel great, if you've every gotten one. I can't sleep in the car because I just can't. People ask me to sleep in the car to past time, but I just can't.

As for Valentines Day, the thing about it is that I'm single. Nothing more, nothing less. Nothing much I can say about this.

Well apparently a bull ton of stuff happened on my birthday, 2nd of April. On my exact birth date, 2nd April 1998, the World Mens Figure Skating Championship was held in Minnesota. In 999, the French voted for their first ever French pope, Gerbert of Aurillac. Well hats off to him then. In 1443, Mehmed II started his attack against Constantinople, also known as the current Istanbul, which ended on the 29th of May with him wining. This Mehmed II fella sure is famous, because I just saw him in my history reference book.

In 1550, the Italians in Genoa hate Jews so much, they expelled them. I can't believe to such extent people would do to get rid of other ethnicities. In 1912, the great revolutionary Sun Yat Sen formed the Guomindang party. Qatar also gained independence from the British on this same exact day in the year 1970. Now look at them posh business men and their oil.

On another note, during the 1992's 2nd of April, John Gotti, an infamous gangster, was found guilty of murdering five people, doing loan shark activity, tax evasion, bribery, obstruction of justice and bribery. He was also conspired for killing Gaestano "Corky" Vastola, a New Jersey mobster who was working for the DeCavalcante crime family in New Jersey. Well this guy must be the top dog for some family too. Who knows.

By doing this article, I have found out that a lot of stuff has happened during my birth date during other years. I sure never regret my decision to actually do this piece of work. Oh well.

Malaysian Flood

Flooding Kills 24 in Malaysia and Thailand

Nearly 160,000 have been left homeless since the flooding began


Flooding in Malaysia and Thailand has killed 24 people and left nearly 160,000 homeless since mid-December, in the deadliest regional flood season in a decade, according to recent reports.
Malaysian authorities said the rain is expected to last at least another week, Reuters reported.
The death total includes 10 in Malaysia and 14 in Southern Thailand.


The news comes as Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak visited sites of the flooding following his return from Hawaii on Friday. Razak had been criticized for playing golf with U.S. President Barack Obama during the floods.