American Greetings

The international greet or welcome is the word "hello," but here in America, there are so many greetings that its so common and acknowledged to say without any confusion to the person you're speaking to. You can say they're slang/urban words or some that are plain; words that are hackneyed to the point that we're thinking "Cool, he/she actually responded for once!" Here are some words that you might be familiar with:

Yo
What Up
Sup
Homie
Foo
Fool
Hi
Hello
Hey
Bae
Bro
Brah
Bruh
Bruh Bruh
Dude
(Nicknames)
(Real Names [First])

What do you call your acquaintances in response to a "Hello"?

To Be or Not To Be

Hamlet: Act III Scene I

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd? To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub
For in  that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled odd this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. --Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in the orisons
Be all my sins remember'd

What the soliloquy means from class discussion bit by bit:

• To live to die
• -Integrate soliloquy into our lives
• to act or not to act
• refrain old ways of thinking
• "whether tis noble..." suggests bad things happen to good people
• -external conflicts affecting Hamlet
• -war over opulence/wealth/luxury
• Death can be:
• metaphorical/literal
• to leave life from the productive way
• lack of enlightenment
• -"consummation":ending
• "there's the rub"-dilemma
• Something not known isn't good compared to know
• "curiosity killed the cat" - take the risk to know
• -become relieved or not but better to know them not to know
• "oppressor's wrong" - more power of us
• -more authority
• -"contumely"-rude speech
• -"insolence"-arrogance
• -"spurns"-scorn, to reject
• tragic - living a long life not doing anything that reveals who you are
• literal to metaphorical concerns of "bare bodkin:
• Murder = guilt
• Guilt = great way to treat one's behavior
• Hamlet is personally human by himself, with a company; he speaks different;y to other people
• -He tells more of his truth and hides his true character
• Struggle within himself to express himself
• "orisons" -prayers
• "mortal coil" - lost our mortal body
• "sins remembered" - being a man or not a man
• confidence in decisions

Hamlet: Act I Scene V

• Ghost Hamlet and Prince Hamlet meet in another part of the platform of the castle
• The ghost hints that it will later go to hell for the things he did in the previous life, kingly ways are wicked and subject to sins and such
• King Hamlet: " The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears the crown"
• Uncle seduced mother of Hamlet from King Hamlet, stand alone carry all those virtuous moments away from the prior relationship
• Lust has taken Queen Gertrude, her guilt will consume her, eventually leading up to her death
• She'll be sent to heaven, dealt with the main man upstairs, a judgement to determine everything
• Hamlet knew there was something already sketchy with how things happened to be
• Ghost was poisoned in the ear by quicksilver by the King Uncle
• Ghost gives advice to Hamlet that Royalty should be determined by reason not emotion (in connection to Laertes, Polonius, and Ophelia)
• That it should not be his downfall to have his feelings defeat him on his journey to the throne
• Hamlet is thinking about the stuff he can do all these things now and then
• It's easier said than done
• Marcellus and Horatio now have to swear that something is going down between Hamlet and the King Claudius
• Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
• Hamlet is going to act "nuts" so to say, knowing what's going on and has to keep a stable and diligent mindset; no lack of authority, mollify those in concern
• "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"

Hamlet: Act I Scene IV

• At the platform again where the three guards meet the ghost, fireworks and ornaments are going off as the high density of the air bites at the warmth of Hamlet, Marcellus, and Horatio
• Hamlet thinks of this "celebration" as wrongly presented and weak
• -the country shows that it can't take seriousness toward other kingdoms by celebrating a coronation over a dead king with the new king
• Hamlet's bad intentions are suspicious about the new changes around the kingdom and looks to the ghost for some last resort
• He comments about how the kingdom is not acknowledging its accomplishments, acknowledging a new era of corruption
• In this scene, the ghost comes in but speaks no word to the men
• Hamlet recognizes the Ghost, his father, the fallen king
• Basically saying "Hey dad, where have you been and what happened to you."
• Ghost asks Hamlet to come along and speak to him
• Marcellus hints at the fact that "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"
• Hamlet wants the ghost to speak about the current situation
• Horatio worries about the Prince because this ghost can be deceitful

Hamlet: Act I Scene III

• Polonius Household - Laertes (Son of Polonius) and Ophelia (Daughter of Polonius), basically brother and sister
• In this scene, I thought that Ophelia just had to follow orders from both her father and brother
• -It seemed that she had no say in most of the say, when will her time come to talk to Hamlet?
• Laertes gives advice to Ophelia about Hamlet and his royal status
• -He says that she must accept Hamlet if he confesses his love to her, but beware of how his decisions might incur around the subject
• Ophelia takes on the lecture nonetheless, so calm in the text she is.
• Something is going on in her mind
• Polonius comes in telling his son that he should keep his thoughts only in his and not speak of it
• He mentions to beware of the words that come out of his mouth since judgement hath follow up
• Polonius states that men in France become opulent for doing stuff out of a stable nonchalant mind, no speech in doing so
• After Laertes leaves, Polonius asks what Ophelia and him were talking about.
• Polonius has intuitive skills with youngsters and their decisiveness at love
• He orders to not think of Prince Hamlet at a no reason to call or see to him

Literary Fiction and Empathy

How can reading fiction help you understand others? Use Hamlet as an example to explore your own thinking process and reactions to a character's innermost thoughts/struggles.

Reading fictional stories in novels or for five solemn minutes helps me understand social behavior in a more clearer way than reading in a nonfictional story. Putting more detail on the character such as dialogue, indirect/direct characterization, tone, metaphors, and all other literary elements create a staircase in learning one person as oneself progresses. Like Hamlet, we could relate him to a movie star/character, but really, we want to know how he's going to handle all the feelings inside of him. I wonder at the fact that he keeps a plain expression, a noble stance at the people he likes and the people he dislikes. Audiences know that with a switch in dialogue or a whole other scene, Hamlet struggles to find his destiny of revenge. Since revenge isn't the case his father wants, young Hamlet makes decisions based on merciful output if so. Readers like to see a character fight a conflict they know will end bad enough.

I as a reader know that empathizing a character's innermost thoughts/struggles is what makes us human. Fiction brings in human qualities that haven't been expressed in nonfiction, per se, it's deeper to connect to one who has ambitions and goals.

This is what Collaboration feels like...

Hamlet: Act I Scene II Notes

• A switch for King Hamlet's concerns turns to other matters in a happier tone
• King Cornelius is making a speech about his brother's death
• On that note, I think the reason he got in power than the young Hamlet is by marrying Old Hamlet's wife
• Cornelius mentions Fortinbras, not the one who died, but the young son
• Suspicions arise because Cornelius claims that young Fortinbras has something to do with it and also talks about how his life and riches were taken away by old Hamlet
• The King also talks to his comrades about their presence
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Hamlet: Act I Scene I Notes

• Four guards in total are taking shifts at the castle of Elisnore
• Francisco is the first guard to appear and has guarded the platform since the striking of midnight
• Bernardo enters the scene to take on the night shift, while at the same time Horatio and Marcellus march in
• The characters mention their ethnicity to be Danes, which meant that this play is based in Denmark.
• Marcellus and Bernardo talk about a certain silhouette that has been haunting their presence
• Horatio doesn't believe them at first and then realizes what they are mentioning
• The ghostly figure resembles the old King Hamlet, even though the Old King Hamlet is still alive at the time
• Bernardo and Marcellus encourage Horatio to demand the ghost to talk, but instead (thinks) the ghost leaves in offence
• The ghost appears at the most audacious moment during the night which meant something in the future, a foreshadowing
• The two other guards want to hear the story of the Old King Hamlet by Horatio
• -  At first the play was in simple conversations, transitions to fret, and then a long monologue by Horatio for explanations
• Ghost re-enters the scene and still does not say anything
• The guards demand the ghost to speak until the rooster crows to indicate that its morning
• The ghost disappears without a single word even when the guards try to strike at it
• The guardsmen worry about the ghost's presence because if it didn't speak to them, it must talk to his son Hamlet.

Essay #4 Canterbury Tales: Transmedia Characters

Prompt: How do Geoffrey Chaucer's inspirations and use of literary techniques in Canterbury Tales  suggest the importance of both honoring and questioning literary and social traditions?

As humans, people of every trait and character, simplify life by putting labels on things. There are signs and symbols that represent what they are. Well, those signs and symbols remind people of certain things, for say, stereotyping. It is without a doubt a culture based on the looks of individuals and the association they are based off, mainly appearance and social trends. Political attributes to nothing of the cause of what a person might be, but the group of people that are of the same ethnicity or societal means. Characters in the long poem, The Canterbury Tales, were not only defined by their class, but how they differentiated from their stereotypical social standing. Geoffrey Chaucer enabled these characters to act different and live a lifestyle with meaning. One character in particular stood out from the rest. He abides from his culture to make amends to a new one, an evolving one indeed. He was a monk who carried his own duties and righteousness by living outside of the monastery. Chaucer greatly emphasized the narrator to meet a different perspective of the monk, which of course meant that Chaucer made a great deal of deriving the necessary literary tools to explicate labels without labeling.

Chaucer's ideas weren't his original ideas for implementing a tale of characters. He took in account for an inspiration literary piece called Boccaccio's Decameron, which was basically the same set of plotting Chaucer used to explain his characters'. 

All Chaucer did was remixed into his version, but in a simple Modern English format. Colloquial language is what Chaucer intended for, since he wanted to create something new out of something already created. Readers take in consideration that everyday talk and rabble rousing among words is what gets a conversation going, especially if its about putting a label on a certain character.

Understanding one another and each other's situations is the human right to learn new things everyday. The narrator is astounded by the presence of the monk. He's not the usual monk, but he is considered a monk by whatever the narrator thinks is worthy to be a monk-like person. Anyone can be different by whatever they carry. A burden at must, maybe, but a burden that can be changed quite quickly at the tale of a diversifying monk. This monk in Canterbury Tales just wanted to break his monastery ties and live a life where he can survive on his own and defend his property.

Assumptions only makes the person inevitable to remind oneself more than once. Chaucer was basically teaching his readers that, yes you can be these type of people, but you can also be another type of person, the one not seen in society by name calling. Questioning one's social status is best to be considered or reconsidered to the public of an ever so changing world.

Unphotographable Phiction

Not long ago...okay maybe long ago in my early days as a youngster. One boy with one family at a not-so-but-it-felt isolated beachfront. Nothing but clear waters, islands where ever I turn. It looks remote by the looks of it, but it's part of the Philippines anyhow. The sand is like a pile of hot coals. Nevertheless, I head over to the translucent water and can actually see my feet. Its warm. Is this what the Caribbean Islands feel like? No, this moment was way better. The unlimited rays of energy hits me from the top of my head. I hit the shade, running from the luminosity and decided to find my family in the cottage. Everyone's asleep and together. Maybe I should take a nap too, it was a long day indeed. Facing the ceiling and hands overlapping behind my head, I thought to myself, "I could live here forever."

Vocabulary #6

abase - verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of, to reduce or lower; degrade

abdicate - verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust

brusque - adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness

saboteur - noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

debauchery - noun a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

proliferate - verb cause to grow or increase rapidly; grow rapidly

anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

nomenclature - noun a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

expurgate - verb edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

bellicose - adj. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

gauche - adj. lacking social polish

rapacious - adj. excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities; living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

paradox - noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

conundrum - noun a difficult problem

anomaly - noun (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun); a person who is unusual; deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

rancorous - adj. showing deep-seated resentment

churlish - adj. having a bad disposition; surly; rude and boorish

precipitous - adj. characterized by precipices; extremely steep;done with very great haste and without due deliberation

Narrative:

Essay #4 Canterbury Tales: Transmedia (Prewrite)

Humans have judged their surroundings, judged others, and even judged themselves. Its no false conception to see the value of man degrade by what they think in the definition of judgments. As history takes the toll of making excuses for people's character, it was either race goes with this or that. Books came along and somewhat changed the perceptions of most people. Nowadays, people have access to the internet, where networking contains no privacy and so individuals are truly seen behind the curtain by just a few words written in 140 characters or a Facebook status. It used to be different back then in Geoffrey Chaucer's time, when observations explained in Canterbury Tales were based on a bemused narrator. The narrator expected nothing more about the common man and his mission to find their own piece. One of the characters would experience networking with an interested face if it were introduced back in his heyday. An unusual character like the monk would change his cultural appearance based on the new things he is offered through media and isn't defined by what he is labeled

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character," is what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. enterprised for everyone to be equally satisfied with who they are and not based on malicious polemic.

Hit That Like Button

If you want your story to be more trendy and more noticeable since the world works funny in its own way, hit that like button. It's always trendy to see people with the most follows, likes, shares, pageviews, etc. become noticeable to the public eye. On your blogs, my fellow colleagues, hit recommend at the bottom of your post to gain more pageviews and attraction from interested individuals on that specific post. If you don't what it is, its most likely that [g+1].

The Tale of a Canterbury Tale

Questions found here: http://drprestonsrhsenglitcomp14.blogspot.com/2014/10/october-1.html

The squire is defined as a runner up Knight. He's young in his own square space, hoping to live up to meet his future maiden. Rise to arms is the motto he lives for, a code that he must follow. A son figure by heart and follows his father's footsteps. The squire is basically an adolescent who treads to find his place in the world while overseeing his rightful place in the social chain. Chaucer's choice in telling this tale involves a family, father and son. The squire is just a youngster that Chaucer enjoys to see because of the availability to be free with his own mindset while being taken into the hands of a guardian. Its not only for protection, but the benefits of being an upcoming knight and how one can learn about difficulties. Chaucer makes it clear that he is satirizing the society within this tale since a tale of a squire is a quest for progression. Its clear for future knights to become servants of their own cause and standardize their right to defend one's country.

Geek Squad Better Be Hirin'!

So today I came home, ensuring myself not do something productive because relaxing is vitalizing. I walk into the living room, expecting nothing much. Boy I was wrong. My parents did something to the TV, leaving me to do work. Doogie do work, since it was a hassle to fix a screen and system that automatically turns the volume to 0. This corrupt television was being relentless because I tried methods of manual turn-off, disconnecting cords, and combating the darn thing with the up volume button. Nothing worked at this point, so I headed to my deedy friend the internet.

Man's best search engine, Google, helped me find out that I didn't have to struggle with this problem. I sought out a solution, one that need panel removing and cutting wires. If you have problems with this volume problem, all you have to do is counteract the system by disconnecting the wire that is connected to the volume control board hooked up to the IR interface and TADA. My first technical work I had to do that resolved in success. Geek Squad better be hirin'!

Canterbury Outline

Just answering questions found here to help me gain guidance in writing essays. Not required but helpful if stuck.

1. The tale of the monk kept his faith, abide from what he follows by principles. He's significant in his own way (tale of the Canterbury Tales) because he doesn't meet the average standards of a typical monk who lets go of material things.

2. The monk is a above a middle aged man, heavy, and goes along his merry way. He owned his own personal servants and carried a sword clashed to the ruling of hunting. A survivalist and ambitious to find game.

3. Chaucer's diction and syntax creates the overall tone of being easily pleased and observant, with the respect that he doesn't criticize the Monk's new way of life. Chaucer is also bemused with the idea that the Monk is actually going to the Canterbury pilgrimage in search for something or a new transverse way of life.

4. Satire/irony - Monk follows his own guidelines, another unspoken destiny

5. Religious/Spiritual - Monk is not stereotyped into a religious base character

6. Not Labeled by others, stereotyping

7. Experiences of the monk making hunts, selling his catch for prizes, whether they are for his own fortunes. Monk's choices affect his character's future.

8. The tale of the character would be the same because the Monk seems to be an everyday person, a weary traveler who finds her own path and decides to survive on his own.

9. Description of character, juxtaposition of a new monk

10. Using these techniques will properly initiate a more distinct attitude of the tale and the context of the Monk.

The Point of Canterbury Tales Is...

There is a mood of reluctance whenever people feel the need to judge on such character. One tale defines the need that he isn't what he is or what he is labeled to be. The monk is that one person who finds his own peace in immersing himself with the new evolving culture around him.

Character Study III - Lop

A night where things go down and the college life for a freshman is worth while. For the newcomer, Jayce endured the most outrageous thing he's done since his stay at UCLA. It was party wild and everyone loved his "off the sober" side. By noon the next day, Jayce never had such a great night. He looked around in his dorm, smelling the smell of booze in the morning. But it wasn't him who smelled like a bootlegger, it was his roommate, all wasted and such. Jayce looked around at his bedside. Books and books, notebooks, a battery-dead laptop, a lamplight, pens and pencils scattered around his bedside. "Huh, I was probably dreaming about the party life." He went to the bathroom mirror and glanced over his bearded face that defined his all nighter spirit. Finals is 10 days from now and one year of college is already stressing out the young, ambient man. "Man I need to take a break." All of a sudden his sister calls him up, later inviting him to stay at her house in Las Vegas for awhile. "You know what Ate (big sister in Tagalog), I'm coming over because I need your advice on a lot of college stuff and it's totally bumming me out, literally!" Jayce then began to pack all of his stuff, 3 days worth of necessities. Friends were needed for this trip and the only closest one he can find was his friend Susel. 

Susel accepted his request to come on the trip because she was also stressing out with school. The two packed their belongings and accouterments in Jayce's 2009 Yaris and ventured off under the 80 degree sun into the desert freeway. Like the Mojave wasn't a killer anyway, speeders on the drive were honking at the homies. "Man, I'm going with the flow of the traffic, you.... ugh simpletons, I have no patience for these people," Jayce said in justification. The Yaris began to speed up a little, or maybe a little more than the limit. "Haha, take that you... oh man." Looking at his blindside mirror, he sees flashing lights of blue and red and sirens going off. The car pulls off to the side of the freeway with the CHP cruiser following behind. Within the blue car, two hearts pulsify intensely. Jayce looks at Susel, who at once was cautious at going at first and is now petrified by the fact that  the officers are coming to the door. "Don't worry Susel, I saw this once on a Youtube video about Gabriel Iglesias's dealings with the police." The officer behind the Yaris begins to step out of his car. Jayce hurries to his phone, goes on Youtube and plays the COPS theme song "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle. He connects his phone into his car and bumps the stereo as loud as he can. "If only if I had speakers and subwoofers." Susel was cracking up, but he could see in her eyes that she was still worried about the situation. When the officer finally reached the window, Jayce lowered down the song. 

"What can I do for you Officeeerrrrr Buckshank?" "It's actually Officer Ozamataz Buckshank and a Stanford Grad for your information."  The officer had a slight smile on his face that he couldn't resist not giving off. "Well, do you know how fast you were going?" A smart alec as he could be and as independent as he was, Jayce responded with remark "Uhhhh not fast enough sir,"

Green Eggs and Hamlet

A) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane"?
I don't know anything about Hamlet necessarily, but I hear from my fellow colleagues that Hamlet is just like the Disney Movie: The Lion King. I've watched the Lion King and it was basically based off the story line of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Prince grows up to be Prince, but runs away from the life of nobility because of the death of his father by his uncle and the struggle of revenge.

B) What do you know about Shakespeare?
Shakespeare was a playwriter and actor during the England Renaissance in mid-16th century and early 17th century. He wrote plays based on his inner knowledge of things and royalty. He got to write plays for the King of England, which was one of the Henry's at the time. Shakespeare was highly criticized about his work ethic, his personal life, his sexuality, and his stay-at-home deep thinking away from playwriting. Shakespeare's work was popular then and is now recognized more broadly than ever before.

C) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?
I see a lot of students involuntarily frown at the name "Shakespeare." What I hear from them is nonsense and cynical statements that prejudge the man. They only think about how tedious a play must be to read, but I think that students don't envision a deeper connection with the plays and the universal theme that Shakespeare is trying to emphasize.

D) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?
Well the Lion King was the closest thing to Hamlet and since most kids now are 90's kids who like to watch old 90's movies based on Disney, we can relate that experience and how both pieces connect in similar ways. We could also reenact the play in order to develop a deeper meaning of the play and focus on recuperating life's concerns of betrayal and taking action.

Vocabulary #5

shenanigans - noun mischief, prankishness; deceit; trickery

ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact

schism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences

eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

plethora - noun extreme excess

ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained

garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation

harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)

capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable

loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation

ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

juxtapose - verb place side by side

perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise; mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing, nonsense rubbish

Mungo - noun a low grade wool from felted rags or waste

sesquipedalian - adj. given to using long words; (of a word) containing many syllables

wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side

diphthong - noun a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another

Narrative: Teens are usually the ones who pull off such ridicule shenanigans

Character Study II

The journey from start to finish is not an issue for many people these days. But it always seems the progression of the journey constitutes for the biggest problem. You want things to end right away, an ending finalizing happiness. Well, I couldn't find that happiness in my young roaring twenties. The glorious age to have fun, have balance, and have a life. That's what I thought my dreams were suppose to be until I got evicted from my apartment, dumped by the bae (girlfriend), and fired from my job. I only had a few savings left in the account. They still needed to be paid for loans and taxes. I lost all my inspiration in just a short period of time and still cannot find my happiness.

On a drive to the grocery store, I saw a homeless man waving a sign saying 'Spare Change?'. I didn't really have pocket money and damn was I getting poorer by the second. As I gathered the treasured supplies outside the store, I noticed that the man was still there, but with a different sign. It said 'Don't be like me, help wherever and obtain it'. I couldn't get that off my mind. 

I was able to stay at my friend's house for some time. Man, I still was jumbling that message around in my head. Could this kind of situation be me? "Bro! What we eating tonight? I hope you're the best cook in town." Gordie walks in with a wide smile. "Naw bra, I could probably get ready some macaroni or some eggs and shiz if you want." I replied. "Fine by me, I'm staaarrrrvvving." We sat there by the table, pondering our daily thoughts. "Yo, what's with that mysterious face you got going on?" "Me?" "Yeah you. Who else do you think I'm asking in this empty kitchen with only two people in it?" He had a point, I felt dumbfounded, for a second. "Man, you know I've always wanted to do a project and stuff, something that flares content and positive attitude." "Hahaha, which you don't have, but really what are you thinking about?" I've had this idea of filming a homeless man for like a week or so and learn about his past." "And where do you have time for that? Payments man, money, the dough is what you need to clear your past." Damn Gordie was right for once, but I still wanted to discover how things would happen to a single person without a home. Gordie stops munching on his dish, "You know what, I'll support you for now because your luck has ran out for awhile and I think that I could get something good out of this, a documentary maybe, I mean you're in a massive debt anyways, why not experience a homeless life." "Dude! That's a great idea! I'll pay you back in whatever I could do." "Naw man, as long as you're chill with me, our broship is tight bra, you hear me." "Yeah man I naw mean!"

Gordie bought me an average camera, video and picture intended. I got myself a mini notebook to keep track of stories. The biggest challenge for me was leaving the electronics. I kept my watch to keep time anyways but everything else that required electricity and bills were left behind. I started out walking through the crooked streets of LA.