Vince's Wisdom of the Week.

Hey guys, its' a brand new week, and you know what that means? I have some more wisdom to share with all of you;
If you spot a spider in your house, and lose sight of it. Screw it, burn the whole house down.
That will show that pest who's boss. Tune in next week for some more wisdom, or I may do them more often. As for now, click that follow button and get out of here.

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"Jam Out" Playlist.

You guys may not know what I mean by " Jam Out. " It means I can just let loose and sing along to the song without anybody caring what I look and sound like, something I can jam out too. I usually have a good time listening to these songs. The playlist is;

Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
Boyfriend - Justin Bieber
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
One Thing - One Direction
Glad You Came - The Wanted
Summer Paradise - Simple Plan

These songs usually get me in a good mood. The thing is, I'm usually into the hip-hip and rap genre. These are the songs that are out of that genre that I can go crazy too. Be on the lookout for more playlists, and don't forget to check in weekly for my Wisdom of the Week! Later Days!

Writing Reflection #6

Comment One:
http://patrickcreativewriting.blogspot.ca/2012/04/motivation-of-day-personal-addition-3.html?showComment=1335408049219
Comment Two:
http://creativewritinggradetwelve.blogspot.ca/2012/04/personal-addition.html?showComment=1335408356957
Comment Three:
http://nathaliejm.blogspot.ca/2012/03/personal-addition-my-feel-good-playlist.html?showComment=1335408727478

   My first comment was posted on Patrick's blog. I decided to comment on his post because it really caught my attention. His post was a picture of Kevin Durant with the words, " Sometimes to become successful, you need to give up sleep." This really gets me thinking and inspired. Durant is a very hard worker and it all paid off. Everything comes at a price. Also, I often need inspiration to get me going in basketball training or working out just like Patrick does. By commenting, I give Pat credit for showing us something that can give each of us a little bit of motivation.
   My second comment was a on Bella's blog. Her post was a picture of forearm with a temporary tattoo on it. It had a bell, followed by the letter "A," to represent her name. I commented on this post saying it was clever and creative. If I came up with something clever or creative I think it would be nice to be given credit, so I gave Bella credit. Also the idea of temporary tattoos let us expirement before getting an actual one. I have always wanted a tattoo, but have never had the courage to get it done.
   Finally, my last comment was on Nathalie's blog. I commented on her personal addition of one of her playlists. One of the songs on her playlist was What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction. I love this song. The reason I commented was because the idea of posting one of your playlists is great! I think it is a great idea, and will be shortly doing mine. Also, I wanted to mention that I was also a fan of one of her songs. What do you think this song is trying to say? Are they trying to get rid of somebody insecurities, or that everybody is beautiful and nobody is ugly? Maybe it's a neat way of trying to wheel a girl. If it was, Im pretty sure it worked. Either way, it's a splendid song.

    A good comment consists of good structure. It can't be a couple meaningless words. Take the time and give the blog owner a few sentences of good quality. A bad comment would be something useless, boring and short. Also, it usually consists of slang, bad grammar or rudeness. A bad comment is something that would put down the blog owner.

   Receiving and/or giving comments on blogs can really keep the blogger motivated and active. If you consistently receive comments, the blogger will realize that their work is being appreciated and will most likely keep their blog updated. Also, when you give out a good comment, you can expect a good one back. It is also good advertisement for your blog. Whoever visits that comment on that specific blog, will see your blog name and maybe visit you. It's a good way of getting your blog out there! Well, that's all for now! Later Days!

My Knicks!

  Alright, as you may already know, I am a big fan of basketball. I play the sport at least four or five times a week. Basketball is a huge part of my life. I really enjoy watching it too. A couple months ago, I made a bet with a fellow friend. His name was Patrick Mart. I bet that the New York Knicks would make the playoffs. The NBA playoffs start saturday, and my Knicks clinched the seventh seed in the east! I won five bucks from Patrick, but more importantly I can cheer on my favourite basketball team and player, Carmelo Anthony.

    Alright, for other basketball fans, you guys are probably thinking, " Oh, Vince is on their bandwagon." Well Carmelo Anthony has been my favourite basketball player since college when he played for Syracuse. He was always my favourite player, so when he moved to the Knicks, of course I adapted and starting cheering them on. So f"ck off haters! Later Days.

Reading Reflection #6

Book: City of EmberAuthor: Jeanne DuPrau
Pages Read: 120-145

   Six weeks have gone by and this book has yet to totally capture my attention. I think the author needs to do a slight better job on building tension and suspense. The author also does not set the scence very often, so it makes it a little more difficult to picture what is going on. As I was reading, I realized that one of the main characters in the book has a somewhat similar personality as I do. This character's name is Lina Mayfleet. Lina seems to be a very curious and adventurous person. She also really cares her little sister, Poppy. It may not seem like it, but I really do care for my sister as well. On the flipside, she also has some traits that are not alike mine at all. She is constantly polite. Unfortunately, I struggle to do be polite at all times. Finally, Lina is always willing to give a helping hand. It's not I am against helping others, I just dont really like to go out of my way to help others.
   At this point, I am really starting to doubt the thought of my enjoying to read. Although there has been progress. I am going to try and start reading at home because I just passed the halfway mark in my book and its been six freaking weeks. Meanwhile, some people have already finished their first book. I am really going to try improving my reading practise. Hopefully this will give me a little more interest in reading. Until then, later days!

Vince's Wisdom of the Week

Alright guys, for those of you who had not yet noticed, I've decided to rename my personal additions to "Wisdom of the Week" instead of "Advice of the Week." It's not a big difference so hold the tears. This just give me a little bit more freedom and breathing room. Well back to business, this weeks wisdom is;

Wearing high socks with slip on sandals are the most comfortable footwear in the world.

For some reason, only basketball players will wear high socks with sandals. Is it that us basketball players have the most knowledge in the world? Because everybody should be taking advantage of this comfort. Well, I guess that's what I'm here for. To share knowledge with you. Until next time, Later days!

Writing Reflection Five.

    I finally finished colour coding my "Moment" this week. I thought it went pretty well. I think there wasn't enough "show, don't tell" in it though. That is something that I can fix before handing it in. I learned that as a writer, I try and make people laugh. Which probably should change a little. I should take my writing assignments a tad bit more serious.
    I think the idea of writing a fan fiction would be really fun! Fiction is always fun, you get to be really creative and use your imagination. I think most of the people in our class would really enjoy this. I also think that exploring Twitter from an educational stand point would be interesting. I think there would be a lot of regrets by doing this though. I think most people would read their tweets and wish it wasn't part of their digital footprint in the long run. Both ideas seem great! That was Writing Reflection #5, later days!

Reading Reflection Five

Book Title : City of Ember

Author : Jeanne DuPrau

Pages Read: 86 - 119

     My interest level in this book has slightly gone up. Even though I've already this book in the past, I still seem to get interested in this book. I think that something really interesting is going to be revealed soon. My prediction is that Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow find out what is hidden in the "secret box" that was built to not open for 200 years. I continuously wonder what is in this box. I did think it was instructions on how to leave the city, but I'm starting to second guess that. For some reason, I think that the box is going to be empty, or have nothing useful in it. My reading practice is still not going as well as I planned. I do not read at home, but I feel as if I should give this a shot. I could have been finished this book by now. My goal is to finish this book within the next two weeks. I want to finish this book as soon as possible so that I can move onto another book that is better fitting for me. I guess this book didn't do what I thought it would do, to make reading apart of my life. I think Jeanne DuPrau needs to do a slightly better job capturing the readers attention. She doesn't set the scene very often, and she doesn't have much tension and suspense. This is making it a little more difficult to picture some things in your head, and I love pictures. I'm going to get onto reading so I can be done with this book. Later Days!

Vince's Advice of the week. (Personal Addition)

Hey everybody, so I know I haven't been keeping up with personal additions lately. I've decided to give a peice of advice every week. This week's advice is:

If you don't know where to have your first date, take your partner to see the Human Centipede.

( I never said it would be good advice.)

Reading Reflection #4

Book : City of Ember
Author : Jeanne Duprau
Pages Read : 67 - 85

     This book is still not capturing my attention. I'm not at the point where I would go out of my way to read. Although I wish I was. I am still only reading once a week, and that is during the last day of the school week. I am starting to wonder if this was the right book for me. Also, what even got me to read this book in the first place? Oh right, the cover was a catchy. I think its because I already know how the book ends, so I have nothing to look forward to. I should have picked another book, or even the sequel. Since I have nothing to look forward to, I guess that means I just have to enjoy what I'm reading, as I'm actually reading it. Althought there are some parts I do not remember at all. For example, in this book there is a secret box that was built to be open up after 200 years. I have an idea of what is in it, but I don't remember exactly what is in it. What is in this box? How could it be so important? My prediction is it is a peice of paper that tells the citizens of Ember how to escape and get out in the real world. Hey, this can be something to look forward to! Maybe within the next couple of reading days I might actually start to enjoy reading! This could be it. I wonder how far I have to read until I find out. I have hope that within the next few weeks my journey to enjoy reading will finally be finished. Until then, later days!

Writing Reflection #4

    We started to write about a moment that stood out in our lives. This assignment really made me miss my childhood. I decided to write  about something that happened to me a long time ago, in my early ages. I started my moment write-up not so well. I picked what I moment I wanted to write about, and just wrote. No matter how bad it may be, I kept in mind that the more I have written down the more I have to work with later on. I realized that it seems pretty boring, and it would not really catch anybody's attention. I need to work on keeping it a bit more interesting. There is no doubt in my mind that my final copy of this moment will be a good piece of writing.

      Let's switch gears and talking about my blog. I am starting to fall behind, but I guess by finishing this reflection it is one step closer to being caught up. I really want to learn how to put a map on my blog. You  know, those maps that mark where your blog-visitors are in the world. I mean, my visitors are probably all local, but I guess the odd one or two might possibly be elsewhere. It would be neat to be able to say something like, " Hey somebody from New Zealand visited my blog! " I'll learn how to add this feature soon, but until then... Later days!

Reading Reflection #3

Book: City of Ember

Author : Jeanne Duprau

Pages Read : 40 - 66

     My teacher, Ms. McLaughlin decided switch it up a bit and gave us the option to make an iPhone for a character in our book. I couldn't think of ten apps to create for my character, so I am stuck doing another regular post. This makes me regret picking this book. Well it has been three reading days now, and my interest level for reading is still low. I wonder if I will ever actually reading, is this really a realistic achievement ? I guess time will tell, because either way I have to read anyways. We'll see how my mind reacts to it. I had to get 66 pages in before I finally realized, their lives are a lot different than ours. In Ember, twelve year old kids get a role in keeping the city running. I can't imagine that being relevant to our lives now. Also, living in an underground city with no sun or anything would be really different. If I was born in this city, everything would be different. I guess that makes sense, since they need all the help they can keeping this city from running out of power. On the bright side(see what I did there), words cannot describe the feeling I would have after escaping this city and seeing what the real world is like. It would make the rest of life so much more enjoyable. Hey, this reflecting isn't as bad as I thought. Maybe this is one step I need in my quest to enjoy reading. If I enjoyed reading, everything would be so much easier, and more importantly, more fun! Not to burst my own bubble or anything, but this week wasn't the one. Reading is still not my slice of pie. Hopefully next week will be. But until then, later days!

Writing Reflection #2

     This week, we worked on six word memoirs. This is a neat way of writing. In a way, I kind of wish there were more six word memoirs out there. I know there are tons on the internet, but in books and such. The thing I like about six word memoirs, is they are short, and get to point right away instead of telling us useless information. Writing the six word memoirs wasn't to difficult, I am not the type that likes to write chunks anyways. It was pretty enjoyable to me. It even included pictures to help explain and enlighten the  memoir. The hardest part was thinking of the actually memory, as soon as you got that the rest was a walk in the park. I learned that as a thinker, I get distracted very easily. That being said, another hard part was staying focused. If I don't have any distractions, it is a lot easier for me to concentrate and finish my work. 

     Blogging seems really different. The hard part about blogging is actually keeping it together and updated. Once you start falling behind, the more you don't want to do your assignments, and the worst everything gets. My goal for the next week is to add 3 personal additions to my blog. I am going to achieve this goal by listening to a lot of music, that will remind me of things that could be on my blog. At least one of my personal additions is going to be a playlist of songs. I guess will see if I can stay discipline and reach those goals this week. Until then, later days!

Reading Reflection #2

Book : The City Of Ember

Author : Jeanne Duprau

Pages Read : 19 - 40

     Two reading days has gone by, and I still am not a fan of reading. I still do not know what it is, but I just cannot get myself to enjoy reading. I guess it still is early and too soon. I hope I sooner than later I gain more interest in reading. The first time I read this book, I was in grade 6. I didn't understand it the way I am starting too now. I can start picturing more things as I am reading this book. I guess in the past, I read through the book quickly just to say I was finished and not really to enjoy what the author has written for us and how great the story line may be. The first time I read this book, I didn't really know what was going on. I also do not remember much of what happened in the book, it's like I've never read it. As I mentioned, I can start picturing things that the author writes more clearly. From what I can picture, the City of Ember itself does not seem like a place I would want to stay at. I mean, if it was a real place, I would want to compare how my mind sees it and how it actually is. I think they would be pretty similar. I hope my comprehension of reading develops in the later weeks. The author is doing her job, now its just for me to start enjoying reading. If other people can, So can I. I believe in myself. Well City Of Ember, Let's see if next friday has a better connection between us. Later days!