When I grow up I want to be....

Vision, a word i probably heard more times in my life today, than the amount of people sleeping in class while the video was in play. I found myself quite interested in the video because I was able to relate to it. There were many times when i had a goal but along the way i would lose sight of this vision, maybe because i didn't have the devotion, maybe it was unrealistic of maybe i was just too young to fully realize what i wanted. But as i grew older some of these goals just smacked me in the face, and others found their ways through time.

Every time i see joggers and people running it always gets me jumpy. I remember back in elementary school I used to be one of the fastest runners in my class, so a selected few were given a chance to participate in some kind of competition against other schools. I fortunately enough was one of the few, but it ended in great disappointment, i won the 4th place medal, or the pity medal. I blame it on the fact that i had no idea the race starts once you hear the gun shot go, but none the less the excitement of running has still stuck with me through the years. And one of my goals is to run in many of the marathons events that take place around the city especially the ones for a good cause. Another motivating factor that keeps me running, is because I have asthma. Every time I'd tell someone that they would give me the look, but believe it or not asthma can be overcome . I learned during 6th grade that I had asthma, but when I asked if that means I wouldn't be able to participate in certain activities, my doctor told me that if i trained my lungs properly and overtime, my asthma symptoms would decrease overtime. Thanks to his encouragement I run many times a week, outdoors and on the treadmill, and now I even plan on running in marathons because I can.

While I love being active I also like to spend some time in the kitchen. I like to cook, and I occasionally cook for friends, and family. The kitchen is probably the second most often place i would be in, first being my room because I sleep there. My current kitchen is nothing to brag about, it's probably about the size of 6 chairs lined alongside another. So usually when i try to help with dinner I feel more like a bother since there is only so much space in there. This however didn't prevent me from watching and being fascinated by this magic called cooking. I honestly never had a care for the kitchen for the first 16 years of my life. However there was one time when I was asked if I wanted to bake a cheesecake, and i thought in my head, you can make this stuff!? From that point on cooking/baking was embedded into my life. It never occurred to me that so many things from simple delights to exquisite dishes could be created from scratch and in a kitchen even in a dinky one like mine. But one day I hope to own a bigger kitchen and hope to become a serious home chef. Currently I've bought culinary books from the schools I had wanted to attend and I occasionally make dinner for the family.

Asides from cooking, I have recently taken an interest in photography. I could tell you right now, I never had an interest in photography before and when I enrolled in the classes offered here in Baruch, I thought what did I just get myself into. Because Photography isn't something everyone can do, or at least do good. It takes passion, patience, and A LOT of time. I had patience, but i didn't have the passion nor the time. But as the class went by, I became more fond of it and I even started making time for it.I'm quite glad that i took this class even though in the beginning i only took this class because i thought it would help me with my major, which is marketing. I hope to create various portfolios of my works, and plan on submitting my works to various competitions or just put them on a flickr account. I will continue doing photography for as long as this interest lasts because it has helped me in many ways, from the creativity boost, to the ways I have come to appreciate art.

I remember back when it was college application season, and everyone was talking about where they want to go and how they want to really get away from home because it would be such a new expierence, even though the school they'll be attending is still in the state. But for me, I've always wanted to try living abroad, living in a whole new enviornment/country, somewhere new. It's exciting to me, the thought of adapting to this new enviroment, or the idea of seeing how my way of living is different from others. Also certain countries have different holidays from the United States, it would be nice to expierence all these different events at least once in my life. Life is so short, and it would be great to make the best out of it.

At the moment i have instrumental music playing, mostly piano as it helps me focus when i need to study or do a report, even when writing in this blog. I can't remember when or why, but ever since I was a child I had a fascination with the piano. I used to have a small wooden piano at home, and i thought it was just sheer enjoyment to smash around on the keys as it would create horrific sounds, which usually lead to me being scolded at by my mom. That may possibly be the reason she gave it away as i got older. Music is another thing i can really appreciate, and find anyone who is able to play an instrument or sing to be A-mazing. One, because I can't play any instruments besides the recorder, and Two because music feels so soulful, when a person plays an instrument or sings, you can really see the emotions they are conveying and I find that to be extremely beautiful. Not only that but music can also cheer up a person or help a person relax, almost as if music was a type of cure to certain depressions. Therefore I'd like to get my hands on some of this magic because I'd like to be able to play music anywhere i go on keyboard that is soon to be mine, in hopes of brightining anyone's bad day or simply just add some color to people's eveyday gray life.