Touching Poem by E.E. Cummings- i carry your heart with me

Here's a touching poem by ee cummings (real name Edward Estlin Cummings, but often signed as shown before), titled i carry your heart with me. (NOTE: All spaces and spellings are of Cummings, not mine.)

Unfortuantly, Blogger's being a little weird right now and so I had to take a screen shot of the poem. Click on the picture below to maximize the poem.



I like the last stanza the best..."the root of the root and the bud of the bud."
Isn't that so touching?

Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda is, overall, a hilarious movie to watch. While it's not the funniest comedy around, it does have an overall good plot and some funny jokes in it. Here's the breakdown:

(SPOILER ALERT)

So, there's these 5 animal guys called the Furious Five, which are kung fu-y type people- Tigress, Crane, Snake (or Viper), Crane, and Mantis (who's teeny-weeny). So these guys, trained by a turtle (or tortise?) Oogway and the turtle's assistant, a little koala type looking thing named Shifu, need to protect their village from the snow leopard Tai Lung, who is going to escape from his prison. (Oogway has a vision that it's going to happen.) So Oogway has this bright idea to hold a tournament to choose the Dragon Warrior, who is worthy enough to read the never-before-read dragon scroll, which is supposed to give secrets leading to super powers (or something).

Meanwhile, Po, a giant panda, son of a noodle maker (who happens to be a duck?) and food-aholic, wants to go see the tournament. He pushes his noodle cart to the Palace, but he can't get into the tournament to watch. He's desparate for a way in so he uses a rocket (firecracker/ fireworks) to fling himself in...and apparently Oogway points right where panda-man landed, which means that Po is the new Dragon Warrior.

So now Shifu has to teach Po, and he thinks Po is pretty useless...but Po's really nice to everyone (good noodle cooker) and everyone likes him except for Tigress.

So anyhow, Tai Lung escapes from his prison, and goes straight for the valley where the Dragon Scroll is held (he wants to read it and get super powerful). All the while, Shifu finally realizes the way to get Po to trian is to not let him eat until he is trained. Po finally gets kung fu and is now a kung fu master ninja.

The Five go and fight Tai Lung on a bridge. It's a really good fight scene, actually; if I could, I'd watch it again and again. Very dramatic. But either way, Tai Lung gets the better of all 5 of them with his Nerve Strike (or something like that) which paralyzes the enemy.

But Shifu is still excited because he goes ahead and makes Po the Dragon Warrior. Po takes and reads the Dragon Scroll...which is blank- and Po gets no super power. So Po and Shifu and all the other 5 are like, "Okay, now what?" so Shifu decides that he will stay and fight Tai Lung while Po and the other 5 go and get all the villagers out.

While escorting the villagers out, Po meets his dad (who happens to be a crane--a crane gives birth to a panda?) and from his dad, he realizes that "there is no secret ingredient" and that the Dragon Warrior is just himself, nothing added. So Po rushes back to the temple to help Shifu.

Meanwhile Shifu is getting pounded, killed, annihilated by Tai Lung. It's a massacre. Then Po takes over and then Po and Tai Lung fight each other...long story short, Po wins because he is so fat that the Nerve Strike doesn't affect him, and he masters a Finger Hold, which pretty much obliterates Tai Lung.

And they live happily ever after. (Yeah, pretty much.)

So now that we have that, let's break it down into...

The Good:

• Very funny. Very dramatic, very logical. No weird jumps, no weird characters. Perfect for the family or just when you're bored.

The Bad:

• It's actually not that bad. There are, unfortuantly, significantly less jokes than I thought there would be, but it's still funny.

The Ugly:

• None. Very clean- no adult themes, no bad language, just un-dry (wet?) humor.

Well, yeah. The GBU wasn't as long as it usually is, but there's not much to say. Again, Kung Fu Panda is a video perfect for the family, filled with fun, action, and laughs.

Awful Tasting Asian Drink

So the other day (Sunday?) I was at the Asian supermarket, and, of course, they had those free samples. Needless to say, I took one. Now before we go further, I'd like to point out three things: first, it was free; second, it was a drink- they usually don't give out drinks; third, I got the very last one. So seeing my luck, I figured that this would be good. And so I drank it.

It is the absolutely worst tasting drink in the world.

The moral of this story is to never drink an Asian drink that's a diluted peach color unless if you want your mouth to pucker up, your throat to gag, and that taste in your mouth to stay there for an hour.

April Fool’s Day Prank- Switch Mouse Keys- A How To

HOW TO: Switch the mouse click so that left click will be right click and vice versa for a good, safe, harmless, non-messy, clean, sound April Fool’s Day Prank.

All you need the computer of the victim and about 3 minutes.

First, go to Start->Control Panel->Printers and Other Hardware->Mouse-> (Tab “Buttons”) Check “Switch Primary….” (Near the top)

Now the left click will become the right click (show that menu that usually pops up) while the right click will become the left click. Yeah, the victim does get the hang of it after a while, but it gets really annoying. Which is why it’s so awesome. To fix it, just uncheck the little box.

Oh, and happy first day of April.