Blog 3: Kevin Xu

This song is called “LOOK DON’T TOUCH,” by Odetari. Odetari whose real name is Taha Othman Ahmad, was born on 1999 in Texas’s Houston. His fame on TikTok has been growing since 2022, especially as a result of his electro-pop/hyper pop songs like “narcissistic personality disorder,” “GOOD LOYAL THOTS,” and “I <3 LATINAS.” He began recording music in 2021.The song “LOOK DON’T TOUCH”, beats reflect the climactic rhythms of his favorite video games, fusing pitched-up rap hooks, and catchy beats. He stated that this song that he was referring to his “high school experience, most likely directing his maturity and sexuality before the song was released to the public.” He uses metaphor like “Bitch took my heart and froze it”. He also uses sensory details by saying “surrounding by these girls I’m feeling jaded. They see my name and now they gettin’ naked. I’m way too high tonight”.

I recently discovered this song through Tik Tok. It was a cold evening night, and I was trying to find anything interesting. Then I came across this song. I listened to the song, and I fall in love with it, so I put it in my playlist in Spotify. I can see myself listening to the song when gaming, playing sports, or even working out. The song will give you a boost of energy and your adrenaline will start coming at you. The song pumps me up. It pushes me to work harder and relaxes me because of his tone, bold and comfortable. After this song, I favorite a lot more of his work because most his song have a similar theme. The catchy beats and statical like tone. His song probably does the same effect for me as an energy drink.

BLOG #2 Kevin Xu

The writer that helped me on my draft would be Cathy Park Hong’s writing. In her writing she uses craft moves like dialogues, characterization and rhetorical questions. That really spark a big idea of what I need to write on my draft. So, it really helps me out because I was confused at first. I used a lot of dialogues to spark a conversation so readers could feel that moment. I also used characterization so readers can almost see how the characters that are used in my draft looks like/act like. Their behavior and appearances.

KEVIN’S BLOG, HOW TO COOK FRIED RICE

Ingredients:

  • Leftover Rice
  • Egg
  • Msg, Salt, Soy Sauces
  • Spam ham
  • Green onion

How to cook:

Step 1) Cut up the green onion into little pieces and also dice up the Spam ham.

Step 2) Heat up your pan and then put oil.

Step 3) After putting the oil, put the diced ham into the pan. Make sure your oil is hot enough, so that your ham will be crispy.

Step 4) When your diced ham has become crispy, put in your leftover rice. We always put left over rice because my family told me to do it that way.

Step 5) Make sure to break down the rice. We don’t want a big clump of rice. Try your best to separate that clump.

Step 6) After separating the rice, put in the eggs and the chopped green onions at the same time. Make sure to stir the rice well, so that the egg is everywhere on the rice.

Step 7) Now, you can put in your seasoning. Put as much Msg, soy sauce and salt as you want. It your own preference.

Step 8) Finally, you can enjoy your fired rice.

Blog prompt: Option 2

Fired rice has always been a famous cuisine in China. It easy to make and you can throw your own style into it. In history, people made fired rice because there are leftover ingredients in the fridge. Instead of discarding these leftover items, they can make it into fired rice. To sum it up, it pretty much not to waste food. I always cooked fired rice because it is a very simple dish. When I am hungry, and if there is leftover rice, I take whatever I can find in the fridge, for example, beef, ham, bacon, etc. and make it into fired rice. So, when I am lazy or if there isn’t really anything in the fridge, I can simply make fired rice. Fired rice to me it that it a comfort food, because I never seem to get tired of it and I can experiment on it, like putting in different indigents and hope for the best that I discovered a new taste.