Sound Off

I want to talk a little about the hospital..despite the fact I really wanted to steer away from that topic on my blog, I'm going to talk about it anyway.

Recently, Starbucks came under fire because all of a sudden, everyone cared that Starbucks was letting the water run to keep the spoons clean/cold. Apparently wasting millions of something of water a day. Well last time I checked, Starbucks has been doing that since its inception and Starbucks (no matter how much I snub them as an ex-barista) is not the only coffee place that does it. Anyway, hearing it on the news made me go, "so what?". Now here's the deal: what about HOSPITALS?

If people saw how much paper and plastic was wasted at a hospital, the environmentalists would all commit suicide all at once. Just today looking over reports (that print out on a daily basis) I was apalled by how much paper is printed...I don't really know the count but it was at least 700 pages. from one printer in a huge lab full of printers. that's 700 pages of bleached paper just for blood test reports.

Also, the receiving part of the lab gets an average of 200 specimens an hour, every specimen is in a plastic bag, wrapped in bubble wrap and some rubber bands. We do not recycle the plastic bags. They go straight to the garbage.

The wrapping from the needles and containers and the trays we use on each patient also gets thrown away and a blood collector can see about 50 patients in four to five hours.

Now is it just a necessity to keep everything clean? Of course, this is healthcare...so...it's okay to waste all this? Is it really? I'm not a big environmentalist but working at a hospital and seeing how much they waste disgusts even the likes of myself.

Now my second gripe, there have been some celebrities recently in the news where they narrowly escaped death being caught on fire and jumping out of a plane. They ended up being treated because of their Second + Third Degree burns. Now of course, this is a traumatic experience and I wish them a speedy recovery but it makes me really sick to see that they're getting the best treatment and the quickest treatment.

There are a lot of people who end up in the Burn wards that lie there for months. There are people who are very severely burnt and most are paralyzed and they don't get the opportunity to walk out with just seven surgeries in two weeks. It reminds me of this song by Kanye that goes, "You know the best medicine goes to the people that's paid, if Magic Johnson got a cure for AIDS and all the broke motherfuckers passed away, you're telling me that if my grandma was in the NBA, right now she'd be okay?"

Just putting it out there.

What are women destined to be?

I had a thought today about a woman's role in life. Are we really destined to be homemakers and mothers? Is it a bad thing? Is it sexist?

Let's take a look at the Type A Personality woman, and for those of you following at home - this is the career driven woman. Type A is on the top of her game, head of her business, independent, and so forth.

So, let's think about her.

She has goals. Eventually somewhere down the line, kids could possibly in her goals? It doesn't necessarily mean she has to give up her high powered job in order to have children, but emotionally - will she be there for them if she's at the office?

The Type A always goes back and forth, wondering if she's giving up her success to pursue another high powered goal - children.

Then there are the women who are "Type A" in the working that secretly want to be housewives. They want to marry the Type A's they meet at the office so that they can become the 'weaker' sex and stay at home and make house.

There are the women who are all about marriage, all about children and none about ambition. Well maybe ...more so, none about career. Can a woman survive with no personal ambition?

Finally, we have the women who just don't give a fuck. They live life and they dont worry about the future. They're the elite few that live for the moment and personally, I believe they're the most luckiest women out there.

So are we really destined to be mothers and home makers?
Where can we draw the line between our own independance and the dependance of others? And when will there be a happy go-between these feelings?

art vs. tacky

i don't consider myself in the know and fashionable as most other girls are, but i sure do have a penchant for all things beautiful.

i'm not talking about a giant bag or shoes plastered with giant C's or G's or LV's to make my point and make it blatantly obvious who i'm wearing. i like being a mystery.

in fact, i like it when someone can compliment me on having great taste and can recognize what kind of bag/shoes i have. i think that impresses me the most. i don't have to slap my bag in your face and let it scream of COACH all over it..i want my fashion to represent me - ie, not a label wearing whore.

for example, to the untrained eye, any pair of shoes that bear the red sole could be mistaken for louboutin...but, unfortunately, my love for louboutin has made me quite the eagle eye in spotting a louboutin from far away. it's the pure craftsmanship that goes into it and the look and feel of the leather/suede/satin.

it's like knowing that hugo boss has a 'suit and sleek' kind of look as opposed to Guess or Roberto Cavalli who are all about the wild animal prints. it's also knowing the look of an italian fashion house between a british design house. it's Versace's lines and colours and Betsey Johnson's whimsical lolita style. It's D&G's over the top look and Chloe's feminine yet practical designs.

it doesn't take a genius to recognize style and it surely doesn't mean you have to break the bank to wear it. just adapt it to your own style and make it your own.

but if there's one thing i want you to take away from this post, it would be DO NOT BUY FAKE THINGS.

you're aiding child slavery, cheap labour and a giant drug/prostitution ring in asia that thrives on fake handbags, fake cell phones, pirated video games and movies and lots more.

i know everyone wants to have a Louis Vuitton bag (blah) but really, is it worth your $80 to get a knock off when the child who stitched the fake one for you is not even being paid for their labour? think about it.