Digression and Regression with Oliver

First, I want to say something. Our parents have worked hard. They've toiled years to make enough money to pay the $240,000 dollars it costs to raise a kid to the age of 18 in California, probably more if they have more. Our parents have worked hard, and it pains me to see that a lot of people don't appreciate just how hard they work.                                              If you are Chinese, then you might be able to relate to this, but do you happen to know what university your parents went to? Is it Qing Hua, Bei Da, Zhe Jiang, or Jiao Tong? Those universities are basically the equivalent of MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, or Caltech. I'm saying this because although my dad told me where he attended university, Qing Hua, I never really processed how great of an accomplishment this was until the day he told me that the next time I see him drinking with his friends and coworkers, it's basically a meeting of old MIT graduates. Then I realized it. My dad wo

Ok, so there's been a new cultural phenomenon lately, and its shipping. Shipping, from the wikipedia definition, is "the desire for two people, often fictional, to be in a relationship, romantic or otherwise" Personally, I believe that this phenomenon is basically an evolution of regular gossip. We already know that regular gossip is pretty bad since it causes false rumors and such to spread easily. However, with shipping, there comes even worse consequences. The major one is that it tends to push people apart. When shipping people together, the couple often has to be: 1. Good friends or 2. "Right for each other." - Like similar qualities If two good friends are shipped together, it totally ruins the relationship since their "love" becomes the only thing that is talked about by others. Their "shipping" will be constantly on the minds of both parties when communicating. This creates awkward conversations and creates a barrier betw

One day in science class in 8th grade, A funny comment my teacher made, That stuck with me to this day, And its presentation long been delayed. "The Goldilocks Effect!" He exclaimed, "Its the theory of the universe!" He proclaimed, You see, if to the sun, Earth were only 5 miles closer, It would be black burnt toast, Yet if it were five miles farther away from the sun, The icy blizzards would leave no single one. And so, forwards my teacher pushed his theory, That throughout the world, it's seen clearly, We always strive for the happy middle, Even though a maze of riddles, Plague the journey through and through, A careful balance must be made, So that is how the world plays. And I've adopted this queer philosophy, To my own belief, opposite of dichotomy, The yin and yang, all live together in harmony, A happy medium, peaceful, charming. And that is why to this very day, I cannot decide between two s