My mom. I love her. I don't know what I love about her. But I do love her. I just can't put my finger on what qualities of hers I love. On the other hand, if you asked me what I hate about her, I could rant on for hours. She does piss me off. Pisses me off something nasty actually.

We just had a fight. It started off as a casual conversation and ended up in her pissed off and me being frustrated... She referred to one of the parents on my brother's baseball team as "chinese". He is Taiwanese actually. She does that a lot. So do many others from Eastern cultures. It pisses me off. It pisses oriental people off even more... I explained to her that she should not use that classification but should rather say "oriental" if she has no other way of pointing out people to someone else. Before I knew it.. everything went awry... She didn't even listen to the point I was trying to make... just thought I was trying to be all educated and mature by cutting her up and got pissed off..

I can't do this anymore... I have to move out in September. My youngest brother is getting on my nerves... He talks too much. My mom is just pissing me off because of her narrow minded views and obsessive compulsiveness about stupid shit... and then there is my dad. Let's not even go there. My only refuge are my sister and my brother who is the elder of the two. And, there is music.. it keeps me sane. I wish i could be out of the house all day. I wish I could clock 14 hour days at work.. I would be making a hell of a lot of money and I would be happy at tha same time....

Days like today make my will to move away to British Columbia even stronger. University of Victoria... maybe one day... If I owrk hard.. that's why school is the only beacon of hope in my life...

on other fronts... I searched for a long time last night for a template that I would like to change my site to... but could not find anything that caught my fancy right off the bat. The problem basically arises when I have to narrow down my searches because I need an imageless template. For two reasons, one being that Blogger cannot support pics.. or atleast the free version that I use, cannot. And secondly, because If I have a pic in there... I might get sick of it.

I could buy a more professional version of blogger and have the ability to host images but truthfully speaking, I cannot justify that cost to myself especially when just two days ago, I was thinking of how it is a high possibility that I might not be able to attend school in September because I am so cash strapped.
So, that ain't happenin.. and I am not regretting it either. School is more important to me right now that expressing my feelings on a webpage. Although that does come in a close second..

here are a few links that caght my eye as I perused the web last night and early into this morning..

If you wanna check out some mighty cool trailers form some lots of awesome movies... go here. You need Quicktime (Free) to play the trailers.

(DISCALIMER: the following trailers will make you want to watch these movies)

Of the ones I checked out last night.. my favourites are: Pirates of The Carribean, Owning Mawhony, Buffalo Soldiers, The Cuckoo and especially Quentin Tarantino's next flick, Kill Bill.

also. Salaam Pax's (Baghdad Blogger) latest article for the Guardian is up. It's very good.

gonna go read a bit.. see if my mom is feeling any better about our 'conversation' ... how do I get myself into these situations? ..