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Name: Stephen
Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 7/21/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: web-designing, cooking, listening to music, reading, bowling, roller-blading,
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Occupation: Student
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| Dream what you
want to dream;
go where you want to go;
be what you want to be,
because you have only one life
and one chance to do all the things
you want to do.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human and
enough hope to make you happy.
The happiest of people don't
necessarily
have the best of everything;
they just make the most of
everything that comes along their way.
The brightest future will always
be based on a forgotten past;
you can't go forward in life until
you
let go of your past failures and heartaches.
When you were born, you were
crying
and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so at the
end,
you're the one who is smiling and everyone
around you is crying.
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| So there's this question that's been hanging over my head for the past several days. I got to thinking about languages and how complicated they can be. Well I was just thinking about dialects and how different accents can be depending where one goes in a country. Correct me if I'm but, what is consider standard French can be found spoken in the streets in Paris, standard italian models closely of the Italian that is spoken in Rome and standard Mandarin is that of the Beijing accent. Which comes to my question, in what region, perhaps even state, can one consider Standard American English to be found. What I mean byt that is, which standards are met(these are the only ones that come to my mind). 1. Accent. 2.Vocabulary. 3. Grammar. I wonder can one pinpoint a region or state or maybe even area(I'm going even more micro here) that all of these standards(if you can think of more, by all means please comment ahaha) are met.
Personally I really have no idea or opinion. I haven't travelled across much of America, so I have no idea as to all the different accents out there. Perhaps there already exists an entry in Wikipedia on this subject, in which case everything I said can be answered (although I suppose Wikipedia is not the most reliable source all the time.) But anyhoo I just wanted to get that out in the open and want to see if any of the faithful readers(which I'm sure there are plenty, right? :P) have to say about this topic.
P.S. I am very tired as I type this entry so please any grammar or spelling errors. :) | | |
| The ShiftIt was dark. Bright lights. Fast moving cars. Radio blurring. A hand touched his. Guilt. Bittersweet thoughts crowded a relatively happy space. A song in the backgound. Poignant lyrics with a hauting melody. His thoughts were in a certain cadence right now. Eyes that were forced shut - now are squinting. An all too familiar feeling was consuming his face now. Slowly, but surely, little tears dropped down his face.
I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
Thats why i need you to hear | | |
| For those of you who do not know there is a new bubble tea place now in Saint Marks Place called Tkettle. It's a big departure from those places in chinatown because they use real tea and they replace their tapioca every hour or so. So the result is a beverage that one can actually taste the tea and have chewy, not hard tapioca. I highly recommend you all to check it out. It's right across the street from Kenka. :)
Speaking of TKettle, they actually share the store with another establishment. A BBQ Chicken was supposed to open along with TKettle two months ago in September. But alas, they still need to acquire some licenses and what not. For those of you who don't know, BBQ Chicken is actually a fried chicken giant from Korea. They advertise themselves as having 3,500 locations in 37 countries worldwide. :O. They also plan to have 35,0000 establishments by the year 2020. Pretty ambitious of them I would say. :)
Needless to say I have been waiting for a while now to taste their famous fried chicken. I've already sampled 4 different Korean Fried chicken places and was wanting to try this one as well! So I thought that I would have to endure perhaps another month before this place would set up shop.
On Monday as I was walking downtown on 7th ave from Penn Station (I had dropped Anna off at NJ Transit so that she could see Jon) I stumbled across a BBQ Chicken between 23rd and 24th st on 7th ave. I peered inside and indeed they were in service. I was pretty pysched but alas I was on my way to meet a friend and couldn't stop in to sample some of their chicken. My chance would come Thursday evening. :)
What I find funny about BBQ Chicken is that although they were founded in Korea, they don't serve the korean fried chicken that one would find at Bon Chon, Kyechon or Kyodong. It's not the thin, crispy skin with a spicy or sweet garlic sauce that is found on either drumsticks or chicken wings. Instead it's chicken is more like that of KFC or popeyes. It has a thick, crispy skin. The biggest difference between KFC/Popeyes and BBQ Chicken is that the latter fries its chicken in olive oil. It's perhaps healthier this way(given the recent scare of trans fats.)
It should also be noted that in the aforementioned korean fried chicken places as well as the BBQ Chicken in South Korea, moo(pickled white radish) and usually a salad with thousand island dressing is served as accomponiants to the fried chicken. Here at the BBQ chicken chain in America, they serve sides that are catered to American tastebuds (i.e mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, fries, creamed spinach, etc.)
I stopped in last night and placed an order for take out. I had ordered a combo which included a thigh and drumstick (original olive recipe) and it included a biscuit and one med size (I got the waffle fries). The order came out about 5mins after I had ordered. I found this a bit strange as I had read the reviews on some websites and peopel claiming to have had waited 30 mins and over. I assumed that I was getting chicken that was perhaps sitting there under some heating lamps. But alas korean fried chicken was that of a different breed, no? It had to be delicious nonetheless. :)
When I got to school I eargerly opened my bag and began to take out the contents. As I suspected, the chicken was not cooked to order and it was sitting out for a while. It was lukewarm and the skin not the crispy skin I was accustomed to. I took a bite and was relatively satisfied. It advertised it's chicken containing 30 ingredients, while KFC claims to have 11 spices. I definitely thought that this chicken's flavor was a lot more subtle, in a good way. I also thought that since it was fried in olive oil, it wasn't as greasy or had that artery clogging feeling you get from eating american style fried chicken. The waffle fries were soggy, again definitely not cooked to order. The biscuit was average.
The box which held the chicken. I liked the box, thought it was quite cute. :)
The waffle fries. I think that it I were to dine in, it would not be soggy and instead fresh, hot and crispy. :P
And finally the main even: the chicken!
Overall I thought that the chicken wasn't so bad. Next time though I'm definitely going to stick with the "drumsticks of fire". It's depicted with three chili peppers, meaning it's quite hot! I definitely can't wait for the BBQ Chicken to be opened in Saint Marks Place. Then I'll have fried chicken and bubble tea. Mmm, what a yummy combination.
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| You put yourself in stupid places
Yes I think you know its true
Situations where its easy to look down on you
I think you like to be the victim
I think you like to be in pain
I think you make yourself a victim
Almost every single day
You do what you do
You say what you say
You try to be everything to everyone
You know all the right people
You play all the right games
You always try to be
Everything to everyone
Yeah you do it again
You always do it again
You say they taught you how to read and write
Yeah, they taught you how to count
I say they taught you how to buy and sell
Your own body by the pound
I think you like to be their simple toy
I think you love to play the clown
I think you are blind to the fact
That the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down
You do what you do
You say what you say
You always try to be everything to everyone
You know all the right people
You play all the right games
You always try to be everything to everyone
Spin around and fall down, do it again
You stumble and you fall
Yeah why dont you ever learn
Spin around and fall down, do it again
Yeah, you stumble and you fall
I wonder if you will ever learn
Why wont you ever learn
Come on now, do that stupid dance for me
You do what they tell you to do
You say what you say
You try to be everything to everyone
You jump through the big hoop
You play all the right games
You try to be everything to everyone
Spin around and fall down, do it again
You stumble and you fall
Yeah you do it again
Spin around and fall down, do it again
You stumble and you fall | | |
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My birthday is coming!
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My birthday is almost here! So you all better get me a gift, right?
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