Endless Thoughts

This is a red light.

A Germany source said Tom believes in alien.

You know what? I don't give a whack about what Tom said or believe in. I just think he's gotten too far now in the media world and that the media world is too stupid to focus on him alone.

Don't know if it's Tom overusing his opportunity, the media overrepresenting him of scientology or both.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8343367/

Thanks, Clare for sharing this link of the script with me. Have read and through this script, I found Tom to be more better person than I think he is.

Besides, I think Lauer didn't do a good job interviewing.

"I told you so" about this article on CNN. Lauer and Cruise having an argument on 'Today'.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/24/people.cruise.ap/index.html

I haven't seen anything new yet.

Had this conversation with some people about setting a role model, about Tom Cruise abusing his role as an actor. (I'm not limiting this conversation to Lore's comment alone, but conversations with others as well).

I'm starting to broaden this up now to how should we maintain our role as a teacher, as a Deaf person, as an artist, or as an actor?

Having had this small discussion with Clare about our role as a teacher and doing a blog thing... (she was supposed to post something about that and I am anxious to read her input about xanga thing) Back to the point, should we be more cautious what we have to say in our blogs because we have a role as a teacher?

Once we become someone with a career, are we trapped in that role completely in and out of the workplace? Since there are workplaces we have to be professionals about, that would mean some concealings have to be done to maintain professional. But can we not always conceal ourselves? Can we reveal our own lives outside workplace?

As sticky as this issue can get to be, I do believe in being professional, but I believe in being myself and speaking how I feel or perceive whenever I want to -outside the workplace. I think that if people in the workplace can handle what they know about others from outside workplace, they are more professional this way. A good test of how professional one is! (and a good role model to students or to people how we can separate business from real life)

Tom was punished by Media, said Steven Spielberg (Source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/20/people.spielberg.reut/index.html)

I surely sound obsessed by bringing it up again but then, media is everywhere about it and I shall spare some thought into this one.

However people said about what Tom did, however different Speilberg said about Tom in one source last week and in a different source today -- Media is already twisting enough and believe it or not, we are influenced into forming opinions about others because of the twisted media. How do we decide the media (the third-party source) is quite accurate to make sound and fair judgments of others?

For all I know, I saw a direct action about Tom who jumped on the sofa and exclaimed with excitement about his new-found love. It's coming from him. That's all I care.

As a matter of fact, I should be aware of the potential photo/video manipulation as well. Will live shows be any more trusting in the future with newer technology advancements?

Tom Cruise jumping on sofa... saying whatever he feels... is awesome. He's feeling alive.

Why criticize? Why be a sour-grape?

He's in love!

I root for him and his philosophy!

Chose them out of 50 useless facts online...

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
((Beetles and wasps -- would be a good trail mix))

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
((Why?))

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
((thats creepy...))

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
((Ow.. having this thought about my nephew's broken femur))

There is a city called Rome on every continent.
((What is it with Rome??))

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
((I can imagine if it's about number of parts, but a quarter of the whole body's bones... ))

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
((Great...I'm losing my big toenail anytime.))

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
((That explains the females' constant blinkings in the cartoons))

Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
((An oddball, isn't he? Veggie and killing human... quite a mix))

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
((that gives me the goosebumps!))

Slugs have 4 noses. ((eeeww... Clare, be grateful you have one!))

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue ((Is it one of the reason why Phi Kappa Zeta Sorority is Blue?))

Earth is the only planet not named after a god. ((I see an irony in it))

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! ((I'm not amused if it means an eye for two legs on one side but if it means one eye for all four legs.. I'm impressed))

Since I've submited about dandelions previously... I'll post now a picture I really like of Clare and the dandelion seeds.

Who Put The Butter in Butterfly by David Feldman (p.196)

"Yes. The English had long called the dandelion a lion's tooth, but in the sixteenth century, for some reason, they adopted the French namme for the flower, dent de lion, which, appropriately enough means "lion's tooth." Why the English would choose to borrow a literal French translation of a perfectly fine English expression and then proceed to mangle both the spelling and pronunciation of dent de lion I leave to an Anglophile prepared to explain the glories of English cuisine and the popularity of Rick Astley.

Why would France and England call this flower, which is yellow but looks nothing like a lion's tooth, a dandelion? The name refers not to the flower itself but to the surrounding leaves which are deeply indented and resemble teeth."