Spirituality Part One

Hello, everyone!!! Sorry about the delay, I had a Calc quiz on friday, so, that delayed my post. Today, I will talk about many topics, such as, spirituality, the bailout, and some other random stuff.

People or websites (social networks) ask me what religion I belong to; how am I supposed to answer that? I mean, I am, technically, a Hindu because that's how I was brought up as. My mom is a, let's say, a religious person, who scared me if I did meat on certain days, god will punish me. I was forced to follow this religion and go to Sunday school when I was younger not knowing what I was learning. All these bhajans made no sense to me or why did we have poojas on certain days. If we do this, will something good happen or if I stop going to Sunday class or follow the poojas rules will I become a bad kid. I was confused and didn't understand why it was important to go class. To me, it was boring, pointless, and wasted a lot of my time. I didn't need to hear the stories about Ramayana or The Mahabharata over and over again. When I complained, I was told to keep going to these, pointless, classes for my own good. Finally, when I entered high school, I was put in the higher Sunday class. Again, I thought this will be pointless but I was mistaken. I, finally, am learning something that is useful, spirituality. The more I learned, the more intrigued I was. I looked forward to those classes every week. An example of what I learned was the all religions are pretty much the same; There is a supreme being, festivals to celebrate "prophet's" life, asks how you can be a better human being. I have my own beliefs that doesn't fit into any religion. In the end of the day, I am a spiritual person since I can choose to be who I am. To be continued....

In other news, another bank failed, gas prices are plummeting, sports news, and the presidential debate occurred.

I am not surprised that banks are failing after those horrible mortgage loans, again, the market will adjust itself. The bailout will, eventually, happen. It's only a matter of time, to see how much will we, the taxpayers, pay for this.

Like I said last week, the gas prices are falling will continue to do so until it hits 3.50 in the Midwest. Although, who knows with this volatile market where the price will bottom out.

In sports, the Cubs clinched a playoff spot. Now it's time to win the World Series. The Lions, finally, fired their GM, Matt Millen. Next, the Ford's need to sell the franchise to someone who cares about winning and focus on making better cars.

The debate was a draw. I don't think it changed anybody's mind. Each candidate defended their strengths and were exposed of their weaknesses. We'll see if they can improve on that performance.

I'll try to post my next entry on time. Thanks.

Good ol' plain rant

Sorry I am a day late of my weekly blog, I had homework. Anyways, I just wanted to rant about the things that irritated me this week.

First, I don't know why MTV is called MTV. They should call it RTV, since there are so many reality shows on that channel. There is barely music any music played on that channel. I missed the old days where they played music videos and had shows about music. Now, they have shows that are just plain ridiculous like "Next", "Laguna Beach", and "The Hills". Not just MTV but their sister shows VH1 and MTV2 forgot they were once music channels. I guess VH1 plays more music than those other two combined. When will the reality show era end? Don't get me wrong, there are reality shows that are good, but there are way too many that are horrible.

Second, why are so many companies failing and why is our government bailing them out? I think it's greed and short-sightedness. I feel like there are no good leaders who can run a decent company. Somehow, these CEO's get paid off handsomely even after putting that company into the ground. Then, we the taxpayers, have bail them out. Why? Let them fail, if they were so stupid to make those decisions. Why are the american people bailing them out? Now we;re in more debt. When will the American people say enough is enough?

Third, Hurricane Ike did lot of damage to the city of Houston, its suburbs, and the city of Galveston. My family was just there in May and it was a beautiful place. I was saddened to see all the destruction. There are a lot families that don't have a home, even the ones that were fortunate to keep their homes have no power. The clean up begins, but it might take a long time for them to return to normal. They need help. I hope the government, especially FEMA, learned from Katrina and make sure these people get everything they need.

Fourth, I knew the gas flow will be affected by Ike. People shouldn't be complaining, after Katrina, you knew it'll go up 50 cents a gallon. What irks me is that it went up in few parts of the country but not others. Fortunately, this time it took a week for it to come back down.

Finally, one of my pet peeves is people not caring about a decision. "What do you want to do today"? Response "I don't know" or "I don't care". God, that makes me mad. A simple answer would be nice. Then afterwards, "I don't want to do this". Well, you said "I don't care" so quit complaining.

That's it for this week. Comments are appreciated.