Mr. & Mrs. Smith

I just watched this the whole way through for the very first time. It was great. Besides all the sex and action, I got the emotional-period-response:

Never make work your priority.

You forget what you truly love.

When our egos get the best of us, it's easy to lose track of our feelings.

And our relationships.

Take time out of your day to show the ones you love that they are loved.

And play on the same team.

Sorry Jennifer :-(

The Human Experience

"When you go somewhere out of your own comfort zone, out of your own realm, that's learning."

I watched this documentary last night before I went to bed. It made me cry from half an hour in to end. There are some perspectives that can trigger every single person, especially when they involve homelessness, children, disabilities, and 'the journey'.

This film follows two young brothers and their friends travelling across the globe in search of the human experience. Through feeling powerless and humility to rising above the feeling of life, they encounter a mass array of emotions and eye-opening experiences. Human experiences. Interviews with a doctor, a rabbi, a reverend, spiritual, artistic, medical, and philosophic experts are showcased throughout the film, alongside the beautiful cinematography and montages.

Family is a big component of this movie. Struggles and trials will be handed to you throughout your lifetime, your beautiful lifetime, and it is part of this hardship that we get from beginning to end, a full plate of life experiences and knowledge. With the people, family or extended family around in your life, love is there. If the world is all about people, we must work towards helping one another, as we are all brothers and sisters. This is an easy perspective to forget in the modern world.

Things I thought about throughout watching:

Life is for other people.
We work hard to live because we know that we are valuable, to someone out there.

Objects are unnecessary.

A person committing suicide will regret it at last moment's breath.

Life is significantly precious.

Homeless people are equivalent to spiritual leaders.

A child's emotion is the most powerful in the world.
Drama is interesting to us because it is life's lessons, in anyone's point of view.

Inside is more beautiful than the out.

Warped mind-settings are scattered all around us, choose wisely.

Travel > nice car, clothes, material objects.

We will feel the need to live, no matter what the circumstances, that's how valuable the breath of life is.

Passion is the gas to our soul-cars.

With a wholesome family bond comes strength for human experiences, without them, we are set back a couple of steps, but who's to say that doesn't make the experience more worthwhile?

Watch this movie if you get the chance. Maybe it won't change your life, but it will bring some human back into your life. 

"Life is other people. It's just that simple. And if you view each of the others that you meet as being a component of yourself, it can change things."

(Happy Labor Day.)

Chitter Chatter Blibber Blabber

So I was massaging this guy today, a Brian. Around his 40-early 50's, he had come into the spa once before. That time, we talked about tattoos and religion for an hour. For today's sesh, we got chatty about a few very sex-toastable-things.

1. How beautiful people in Hawaii are.

This is so true and I notice and appreciate this beauty every time I leave the island. It could be the weather, the sun, the positive vibes, the 'HI time' but all otherwise, we have an enormous melting pot and I believe that's what brings out the beauty in people, even of one background. Hapa (mixed backgrounds) people are beautiful. It's like how I describe my friend Matt. He looks full Japanese from some angles, complete with sun-highlighted hair, squinty eyes, and the surfer boy thing going on. But from face on, I can see the white in him. Especially when he goes 'Ya the waves are looking nice Ya?'. White boy talk. I love the culture here. So does Brian.

2. How hapa people are almost idolized by every culture in this day and age.

When I think of this statement, I immediately think of ViVi, a Japanese magazine consisting of only Eurasian models (half Japanese, half some-kind-of-white). "There's pretty women in the world....then there are women so gorgeous, they almost take the air out of the room" said Brian, as I propped him on his words. I know exactly what he's talking about. Shannyn Sossamon. Drop deadly. I do believe this is not only a fad right now, but a lovely way to view people and cultures. When you see someone so beautiful, you might wonder, what ARE they? We're usually attracted to exotic or different looking features, hence, when we see mixed backgrounds, we tend to stare for a moment. 

3. Why we are attracted to people in the first place.

I watched a documentary on Discovery channel last week on 'Why women have orgasms', which was mostly besides the point, considering the little shenanigans in between caught my interest a whole lot more. Why we are attracted to people and what makes us attracted, attracted me. Studies were done and showed that the more proportional a person was (body type, face structure/shape, eyes, nose, mouth, etc), the more attractive they were to the person. Keep in mind, that everyone has a different 'type' (to each their own), but to the majority of the population, this is how the ball rolls. People like even-ness. They like to see good genes in a mate, thus creating healthy offspring. It's very simple when thought about in animalistic terms. We ARE all animals anyways....aren't we?

4. How those 1920's old time ads are so socially corrupt and sexist.

5. And how times have changed.

You can't not only speak to a woman like that in this day and age, but you could be arrested for it. It's illegal to discriminate and that's lovely. Men and women are in a fair game now. They have each proven to the world that they are capable of doing anything from being elected into office to roller-derbying. Men are tough, but women are tougher (theoretically).

6. This is the theory we concluded to: Men are externally strong, but women have it internally. 

I stand by this and have since the day I heard it from one of my instructors a few years ago. She explained to us how men were always viewed as the higher power, because starting from caveman days, they were the ones to hunt, fish, protect, etc. The women were there for moral support. Birthing, feeding, tidying, the 'easy stuff'. Little did anyone notice, as time went on, that the roles would eventually even out, and possibly reverse. Although majority of the world will view roles on a physicality level, that's only one side of the story. Women have internal strength that can only be measured through experience. Childbirth, labor, PERIODS!!!, cramps, hormone levels, risk of pregnancy, risk of HPV, stress from risk of things like this, and most of all, having to deal with Men's perspective of women 'not being able to open a bottle of ketchup'. Brian said it and said it well: "Women are the power source". Amen Brian, AMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEN.

In this world, there are many ways to view the opposite sex and you won't find someone to put it as easy as Brian did, or the next peace-maker available. Racism, sexism, prejudice is real and that's the sad thing about the world. As beautiful as our cultures may be, how attractive we may be, as animalistic as we may be, as times change and perspectives fluctuate, you can't have all good without some bad. It's reality. If we could just find a balance......

White and Yellow White and Yellow

If you're familiar with this term, then I don't know how you got into my mind. I've been noticing recently that a lot of White girls are going for Asian guys. Ain't that a trip?

Yellow Fever is the real term for this, in which case it's usually the White guy going for the Asian girl. How interesting that the tables have finally turned (thanks America's Best Dance Crew). The dealios is that my best friend (White) is dating this Korean guy. They share the same food and the same height. Now I have no prejudice against any type of union whatsoever, but it's funny to me how such an odd looking couple are breaking the stereotypical roles. 

I've found that most Asian girls will NOT date an Asian guy because:

1. He looks like her brother.

2. He's not Paul Walker.

3. He makes up for not being Paul Walker by being too aggressive.

4. He's making up for other things by being too aggressive.

I've also found that White guys WILL date Asian girls because:

1. They're small/easy to pick up.

2. They're book smart.

3. They're ethnic and smell like dumplings.

4. It's a fad.

Majority of couples I see are Male Whitey and Female Yellowy. But how many Male Yellowies and Female Whiteys do you usually see? 1 out of 20? Asian guys are usually less dominant when it comes to White females. The White Female (or majority of all females) are dominant creatures. Look at Wonder Woman. Look at Betty Ford. Look at Martha Stewart. Strong women. If I were an Asian man, I'd sure be intimidated. It's funny how in America, an Asian woman can have all the power (because she's ethnic and saucy), but an Asian man has no game (because he's nerdy and *supposedly* has a small ding dong). ((NO OFFENSE OK)). When we pair Asian man and Wonder Woman together, we have WonderRice and peanut butter doesn't sound too good on rice. 

I don't have a point for this, I'm just thinking out loud.

If you had the choice to date another race, ANY RACE AT ALL, would you do it just to break the stereotype?

Let freedom ring!