The Red Ribbon

Thank you guys for reading my article on SOPA. I know it’s not the best explanation but it’s sort of a brief intro on it. :) I really want people to become aware of THIS HUGE ISSUE that’s going to affect the whole INTERNET. Call it communism or socialism but they are trying to hold a monopolistic power over your Internet freedom. Please read as much as you can about it even though it has been TEMPORARILY SHELVED at the moment because the FBI isn’t waiting for some bill to pass. They’ve already killed Megaupload and Megvideo and what’s stopping them from taking Dropbox (aww sh*t I have some files in there! I better back it up…). If you haven’t read it yet, I hope that you do read it if you have time!


I loved the recent issue of TIME Magazine which featured the Person of the Year (how appropriate, THE PROTESTERS). It featured articles and interesting statistics that happened in 2011 and actually compared news that should have been placed in the headlines but scandals and trivial stories covered the headlines last year and what BOGGLES my mind is how the discovery or lead-to-the-discovery of the CURE FOR HIV was SUPPRESSED under news of SO AND SO got divorced, OH THE HORROR (oh but really the horror though, Heidi Klum and Seal? I thought that they were the few ones who were going to last but… as what the discussions in my Theology class say…. CAN YOU REALLY SAY FOREVER? Okay another topic…)! Or it probably was overshadowed by the success of Rebecca Black’s Friday. I really don’t know how I could have missed this in the news. Maybe I was too busy or missed it because it wasn’t in the front page of the newspaper. I do read the newspaper but it’s hard to really read it from cover to cover so I just try to get everything out from the front page which… is filled with political crap. It just goes to show how buried the REAL IMPORTANT NEWS is and how people focus on the wrong things. I think that this story should have been give more credit and generate MORE discussion for people, whether they believe it or not, whether they want to support or not.

Imagine that, Timothy Brown after 4 years of an innovative procedure… suddenly has no more trace of AIDS in his system… this is groundbreaking news! I hope that this year, I’d be able to blog more responsibly and spread news such as this more. I do like sharing information with people, information that I care about too. Maybe this is one reason why I’ve thought of being a journalist… but it isn’t one of my top career goals. I just really like sharing information with people… is there a name for such person?

If you were able to read about my very depressing post (the one about hamsters), I dreamt a very weird dream that night and I have been dreaming and have recalled EVERY DREAM THE PAST TWO WEEKS. Is this normal? Do you dream and then remember your dream every night? I was able to do some research online and every article says that EVERYBODY dreams except you probably don’t remember it since you woke up too far from R.E.M. stage or you didn’t have an R.E.M. stage. It’s so strange that ever since I internalized and thought about death and was frightened and shocked at the possibilities because of my sickness, I’ve been dreaming EVERY night constantly and sometimes I dream more than one dream. Sometimes I feel like the dream has been going on for a LONG TIME and once I even dreamt of the dream TWICE in a row but in a different manner. And just the other night, my dream felt SO REAL, I thought I was having a lucid dream. I somehow knew in my dream that I was dreaming…. and swimming in the ocean under the bright blue sky and I thought to myself, “Wow this is so realistic” inside my dream. Usually though I have weird dark and morbid dreams (i just had my Zombie Apocalypse dream, also me getting sliced by a meat cleaver at my back, don’t worry I wasn’t frightened of these dreams since they’re so common and I probably got used to it :/) so the wonderful dream about swimming in the ocean was such a respite from the past days.

Maybe it’s my subconscious telling me that graduation is nearing…

In one month I’m about to enter the real world…

and my subconscious is saying…

Not yet.

 

Questions

1. Did you hear about the medical breakthrough?

2. Have you every dreamt and recalled your dreams EVERYDAY for more than 2 weeks? Just hope that I’m not alone…

4 Comments

  1. I’m kind of ashamed that I hadn’t heard of that guy being cured of HIV! I don’t tend to pay attention to the news at all, though, so it’s not like it was hidden behind divorce stories and stuff, for me. Although I suppose I DID know about Kim Kardashian getting divorced, when I didn’t know about that guy, and that guy should have been breaking news.

    I always love it when I can remember my dreams. I’m pretty jealous that you’ve remembered them every day for two weeks! I find I tend to dream more when I’ve been getting enough sleep–have you been sleeping more lately?

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  2. I actually DID hear/read about the medical breakthrough! (do I get brownie points???) I saw it on Yahoo (where they also post those “who cares” posts on celebs and whatnots) and thought, “WOW. That’s really amazing.” I think they said the scientists/doctors will be keeping an eye on him. I really do hope a universal cure will be made in the future.

    Typically, when I wake up from a dream, I only remember bits and parts of it. Sometimes, I remember it better when I replay it in my head/think about it/or write it down (which is usually a good idea if you don’t already do it). I’ve never dreamt the same dream before, though. Every dream of mines are never the same; they’re always different because if they were the same, I would know.

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  3. 1. Did you hear about the medical breakthrough?
    actually no until now that i’ve read your post..
    2. Have you every dreamt and recalled your dreams EVERYDAY for more than 2 weeks? Just hope that I’m not alone…

    Hmm.. mine’s kind of different. I think (that’s right “i think”. it’s weird) that i’ve dreamt about a waterfall where me and my sister would go inside it to a cave.. that scene keeps on coming back to me in dreams or even when i’m just awake thinking. For how many years in my life (until 4th year HS) i believed that it was real, that i actually know and have seen that place. But the weirdest part is even now, i’m having doubts if the place is real or not. lol..

    Regarding the first part of your post. I haven’t been watching the news recently. But when i do, i usually complain about how they would report about useless things like Kim Chui and Xian Lim, Kris Aquino, Sarah Geronimo etc… even the most simple things that they do would end up on the news which i find really stupid. People do tend to focus on the things that are not really that important. Which sucks really.

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  4. So good to hear of the guy fully being cured! I knew there was hope when I first heard of it. It’s a revolution. :)
    I don’t think it’s that surprising that you remember your dreams, but sometimes there are days when I remember them better. I know that sometimes I dream and in the morning I wake up knowing I had a dream that was weird… but I cannot remember what it is.

    I have had a couple of lucid dreams before, and it’s been rather strange, more so than freaky.

    I find that a lot of magazines put the pointless stuff towards the front. I don’t really care about celebrity gossip. Knowing about who dated who never helped anyone. Though I have to admit I thought Seal and Heidi Klum were going to last. My mum always wondered what she saw in him. :P

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