Internet connection at Home

I hate it. Our wireless internet sucks. That is only the truth of the matter. It used to be great because we had faster and more stable connection. Now that our internet got downgraded, my computer can't connect to the internet sometimes. The feeling is hard to describe because it requires lots of adjectives not worthy of being used. My mother said it wouldn't matter, but she has had problems often too. I wonder if she will decide to change back again, even if it is a bit more expensive. C'est le merde de la vie.

Oh yeah, the reason there haven't been any Elva posts is because I haven't found anything se's doing in the past few weeks. It's really hard because there's nothing new on her blog or in the news. At least, nothing too major. I do look up interviews and stuff occasionally, but that's older material. I'm still really excited about her book, though.

1. Medical and 3. Animal Testing

1. Medical testing should be done accodring to who is going to ultimately use the product, don't you think so? It's unfair treatment to any living thing that has to be put through potentially dangerous testing who will not be using the product for their own use in the future. It is great that we have anesthetics and vaccines that have improved surgeries and disease controll, although it was at the expense of animals. I think it depends on whether there are severe side effects for medical testing. If there are, then there should be an alternative way to test medical products. Maybe like people? ALthough the moral stigmas are still there, people could volunteer to be tested on. This way, no one is being held against their will. And if no one volunteers after understanding all the risks and steps involved for the testing, then it shouldn't be tested. If it is life or death for humans, then maybe animals that are diseased should be used.

3. Animals have been used in place of the effects that humans should have experienced because they are too afraid to accept the consequences of products they think they need in daily life for too long. Oh I know, maybe it can be tested on bugs, like cockroaches. No one really likes them. If it is especially dangerous, then it's bad, if they suffer a little, then it's not that good, and if nothign is perceivable then maybe... I haven't figured out what other alternatives there are as yet. Get back to me later, I guess. I think all animals of any kind should be avoided if possible in testing cosmetics on animals.

2. Companies not mentioned on the Leaping Bunny list

MaxFactor
Revlon
L'Oreal
Aloe Vera Products
Avon
Anna Sui Beauty
Chanel
Christian Dior
Cover Girl
Crabtree & Evelyn Products
Elizabeth Arden
Estee Lauder
Guerlain
Lancome
MAC Cosmetics
Maybelline International
Neutrogena Cosmetics
Shu Uemera

At least, these are the ones I know that I didn't see. Maybe I looked at the wrong list. Are the lists for international and US different? I don't see any big differences.

Time Difference on Blog

I just realized when I went to my settings for this blog that the time zone was completely wrong. I chose Pacific Standard time, which is what they use um, I guess across the Pacific? I have no idea. Anyways, that's why all my previous posts had all these random times. So I feel really stupid and embarrassed. Good thing I changed it now or else it would be really weird if I posted things at 3 or 5 in the morning. Hahaha, that's all for now.

egg incident

Today, while preparing dinner my brother wanted me to break open an egg he said had been boiled and cooked. When I chipped open the top part, it seemed to be as he said. However, when I cracked it open with greater force, it splattered all over the front side of my sweater. Let me repeat, splattered all down the front of my WHITE sweater. Sigh, sometimes I wonder how he does things, it is always beyond me. Of course, I try to trust in him when he does things for me. He didn't mean it, but it was...interesting, to say the least. Here are pictures of the sweater as proof and me looking sad and angry.

Weekend After Midterms

The past few days, there wasn't really anything to do. I just listened to music and watched Friends. Occasionally, I'd read, too. Today, I decided to eat this huge green guava without cutting it into slices. Now, this fruit is like the size of a mini-football. I have no idea what I was thinking, I just knew that I wanted to eat the whole thing. Of course, I didn't succeed. Guavas are really sour and to eat one the size of which should have been shared with at least one other person wasn't that good of an idea, to say the least. In the end, after getting to about half, I was fed up with guava aftertaste and no one asking to help that I went and cut it up. My brother said I was insane when I told him what I was doing. Hey, I was having fun! I still have that horrible taste in my mouth, though. Talk about extreme boredom.

I want to go see Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie. It's been out for three weeks and I haven't gone to the movie theater yet. Maybe I'll go by myself on Thursday or something. No one seems particularly excited to see it in my family.

Oh my goodness, my mom just cut another guava and gave half to my brother. I think I'm going to be sick just by looking at it. Blrerrggg, doesn't she know there's a whole plate of cut up guava here? Good thing she is cooking hot pot, mmm. Yummy :)