deadmau5 is a house dj who i have liked for many years now. I have always heard mixed reviews of his shows, some people saying that he played only an hour, and others saying he was amazing. I decided to buy a ticket from a friend and go on his first night in Manhattan. Two other djs before him, Zed’s Dead and Excision, played some incredible sets. Then deadmau5 comes on and blows my mind. He started with a breathtaking visualizer, and then the cubes emerged. By cubes, I mean four cube shaped visualizers that produce incredible effects, as it changed on beat and for each song. I have uploaded the video for you to fully understand the concept of the cubes. This concert was absolutely perfect and I encourage anyone who does not know about his music to give it a chance. I would rate the concert a perfect 10/10…Enjoy the Video

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      On a usual weekend I will go out with my friends to our favorite bar.  On the other night I work. At “our” bar we seem to always have a good time.  The bar is enjoyable because I get to see my friends who go to different schools, while meeting new people.  Unfortunately, the same thing every weekend gets boring and I am ready for a change of pace.

      This weekend my first cousin is getting married and I am so happy for her.  I am looking forward to seeing everyone in my family who I haven’t seen and for the first time being able to party with my family.  My family knows how to have a good time and my cousin and I are pumped.  Free drinks, free food, and music sounds like a good time to me.

      The next weekend is my friend Rob’s birthday.  He goes away to college at SUNY New Paltz.  This college is about an hour and a half away from Staten Island but so worth the drive.  He’s always trying to get me to come up but I usually work on either a Friday or Saturday night.  Next weekend I am off of work and I have been talking with his roomate to make sure he will be around.  I am going to suprise him on his birthday and I know we will have a great weekend.  He will be very happy to see me and his fraternity and school are a great time.  Also, I am really in the need of a little vacation, so it will be nice to be in a small town and have time to relax.  He is one of my closest friends that I have not seen since August, so hanging out with him should be an enjoyable weekend. 

       Finally the last weekend in October should be the end of a great month.  One of my favorite holidays of the year, Halloween.  So many people go out on Halloween and you’re allowed to look like an idiot, slut, clown, or whoever you may want to be.  On this weekend all of my friends already have a room in Atlantic City.  We are staying in a cheap hotel but for $50 a night I cannot complain.  There will be 6-8 of us guys and then a whole group of girls that we know are coming as well.  So when it is time for us to go out we will be a large group and ready to go crazy.

      Lately I have been doing a lot of school work and working a lot.  I have saved my money and been doing what I have to do.  Now it is time for the weekdays to pass quickly because I can’t wait for the weekend!

Friday, October 7, 2011 I attended the Black Male Initiative Conference at Hunter College. It is a date that I will never forget. I learned so much from just attending there and hearing people just talk about the achievement gap between black, Latinos and white. It all started out connecting more with my UMLA Brothers and it was interesting because this one particular brother of mine was talking to me about how much he loves fighting games such as Marvel vs. Capcom 3. My brother Christian is really quiet around all of us and never felt like we were his Brothers. It was a really nice experience talking to him bringing him in more and more into our brotherhood. I learned so much about him that day and it would be an honor to one day face him in Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Besides the bonds that were created in the BMI conference, I also learned a lot from prominent figures that attended the BMI conference Such as Dr. Julianne Malveaux and Dr. . It was such a great day because it opened my eyes to how bad the achievement rates of Black and Latinos have become. After the key note speakers people were given the option of attending a particular workshop they felt interested in. I particularly went to the workshop about pursuing an MBA. In this workshop I met people such as Tarynn Hunter who’s great, great uncle was the founder of Hunter College. Tarynn had discussed with us how she ended up having an MBA. Tarynn and the other panel speakers had shown us that people no matter your ethnicity or background could end up in schools like Harvard and Yale for their MBA programs. I took all their words to heart because it told me, that even though I didn’t end up in an Ivy League school, I can pursue my MBA programs anywhere as long as I was willing to work hard for it. When I wanted to major in Architecture, I wanted to go to MIT for Grad School and I kept thinking how impossible that would be because of how I ended up in CUNY.

After the workshop I went up to Tarryn specifically and she told me “you’re doing fine!! Keep working hard and you will end up in a good place.” After she had told me that, she gave me her phone number which was an honored because I expected no more than an email. After I had left I felt proud of going to the BMI conference because I knew from there on that if I am true to myself, I would soon make it somewhere big.

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As an old saying goes, “Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.” This semester, we are dealing with happiness in english class. When I was in China, I did write something about happiness. Nothing is in psychological term. Daniel Gilbert is definitely a great author, and he turns psychological discovery into a prose and into a beautiful article. Many of his idea resonate with me, especially after I take psychological class. It is generally accepted idea that people tend to think that they cannot handle the horrible situation. Once people is in the worse state or have gone through it, they know actually the thing is not as worse as they thought.

I thought honor psychology mid-term is extremely hard when I prepared for the mid-term last week. I do not feel happy at all because I am under great pressure and always question myself in the class and after the class. I never have two hours writing midterm in my life. I feel like that I wrote more than 10 pages in two hour mid-term. I thought two-hour writing would be terrible for me. However, I feel great release after test. Far more than that, I really enjoy the two-hours writing during the test which I didn’t know when i was in and before the test.

Under economic principle, people face trade-off everyday and need to trade to improve the life of whole soceity.My question is:” Can we trade happiness?” or ” Can we make other people happy?” 3 weeks ago in psychology class, Professor Locke played a carton in the class. It is a story about two carton charaters X and Y . Character X feel sad these days. Character Y, as X’s friend, want to do something to make him happy. Therefore, Y invents a device, which could make people smile and laugh when he feel down or happy. X tried on the device, and then start to smile and laugh most of times. After few hours, X feel tired of laughing and smiling. So he request Y to stop the device.Hoewver, Y think that the device is the only way to make X happy. In Y’s perspective, laughing and  smiling is happiness. Few days later, X shows some negative symptoms, such as eyes bleeding, fatigue. He beg Y to stop the device. He was rejected. After few months, the device goes wrong. Then X will go back to his original life without being control to laugh and smile. I could still remember the last scene: X beg Y to fix the device so that he can laugh and smile all the times because he think laughing and smiling have already been a part of his life. It is weird and funny.  

I didn’t dig in too much in psychology area. Instead, I kinda feel like that X will die soon because happiness is controlled by external device, but you inner heart.

The one thing that did not make sense to me when reading Daniel Gilbert’s Immune to Reality chapter was his one quote, “But siblings and presidents are ours, for better or for worse, and there’s not much we can do about it once they,ve been born or elected.” (201) What confused me about this is the fact that Gilbert writes just before this, “Friends come and go, and changing candidates is as easy as changing socks.”

I feel Gilbert presents a sense of bias here and at first I thought he incorrectly used the word “president” to mean “precedent”. Not only does he undermine the importance of friendship, which many would compare to the warmth of a sibling relationship, but he also acts as if our president will stay and haunt us forever. What made me go “Huh?” was his use of someone who is in power for a short amount of time and possibly criticized throughout his or her term to enforce his idea that the mind tends to cope to things inescapable. I understand our society to function in a way where we would not have to feel oppressed by our leaders, and for Gilbert to use this example poses many problems with his credibility.

Using the word “precedent” on the other hand would make more sense. George Washington set a precedent that no president should serve more than 2 terms to avoid corruption of power. A precedent is a law that is set over the course of time. When we hold these truths and they are voided, then we have an inescapable outcome. So rejecting a value that we hold dear would trigger our psychological defense more than would a politician who we know can be easily replaced.

I do however admire Gilbert’s use of survey’s and studies to make his other points. It clarifies his theories by using factual evidence to support his claims. I also appreciate his adding humor to his work in between evidence. It balances the work to include some ease to it, making it more than just a serious read.

I got a haircut today. I never realized until today how relaxing a haircut is. It may sound a little weird, but being in the warm seat and having someone cut my hair is just so serene. My barber doesnt talk that much so literally the whole time it feels like my head is getting a massage. It may not be as relaxing for everyone else but it sure is for me. If i could i would fall asleep during the haircut.

The only bad thing about my barber though is that I always have to be aware of the time. The parking around there is horrible and there’s always meter maids handing out tickets. It always gives me that rushed feeling, like “OMG what time is it?!” I can never truly feel completely relaxed at the barber just because of this. Besides the little bit of anxiety I feel towards getting a ticket, it still cant take away from the fact that being at the barber is sometimes the highlight of my day.

I pay 16 dollars for a haircut. But i feel like I’m ripping off the barber. For about an hour of my time I get a head massage, a chance to clear my head, the feeling of total relaxation, and I come out of the place with a confidence boost because my hair looks good! So for 16 dollars it is well worth it. The shop is in a little alleyway that is kind of suspicious but once you get in there you have these awesome Russian guys asking what’s up and hows life going. When you get in the hot seat, you got the buzzer going around your head while you watch whatever they put on the T.V. Today they had some movie with Chuck Norris in it but i had never seen it. It looked pretty badass though. Chuck Norris was just flinging people around like it was nothing. I just feel so good when I’m at the barbers. After the haircut I say bye to everyone and i head out the door. From that second on i start to get a little depressed cause i know i wont be in there for another month=(…

The first thing that made me happy this weekend:

I finally found out what I am going to wear for Halloween and I’m going to be a fluffy sheep wearing superman underwear and a cape. Yes this is weird but honestly I could care less. I am tired of girls dressing up like sluts for Halloween like seriously. Halloween is when CHILDREN come out and trick o’ treat , I don’t think little boys should be exposed to half naked women and what not. BUT anyways I am very happy that I am going to be a sheep because I am going to be fluffy as hell and I have an obsession with cotton balls so this will be fun.

The 2nd thing that made me happy this weekend:

I bought myself the following items:  a mini Louis Vutton wallet that I got off of Ebay, and superman bra and briefs. Yes the last one was a little bit of a TMI but I am obsessed with Superman because he is my hero and will always be my hero. I would though consider this temporary happiness because I just bought stuff that made me happy for a little bit so yeah that was fun.

The last but not least the 3rd thing that made me happy this weekend:

My girlfriend went to my softball game on Sunday at Rutgers University (Newark) and she took me out afterwards and I couldn’t be any happier because this is the first time she saw play softball and I was a bit nervous to play in front of her but after a while i didn’t mind. Afterwards we got matching shirts that say “Cool Story Babe Now make me a sandwich” and I am actually wearing as I type this long blog post of mine =D.

So that concludes my happy 4 day weekend!