ProBasic Spreading Smiles Across The Globe

Throughout the course of my high school life, my group and I have realized that enjoyment has been an emotion with very little things to suffice its everlasting hunger. Without this emotion however, the people among us will become especially gloomy towards each other eventually developing into entities more like zombies than man. Fortunately, one of the only ways to appease this ferocious hunger, is through entertainment. Entertainment for a very long time has accompanied man in his timeless fight against boredom and sadness. And for this specific reason, we, the Brians and I, created Probasic. ProBasic’s one purpose is to entertain the common human population allowing them to feel relieved from their everyday disappointments and to basically brighten their day even of it’s by the smallest amount.

As a group our original problem was overpopulation, but later as we continued on in this project, we realized that the world really doesn’t need anything to fix its population, but instead a way to make its population happier and more content with life. And with this thought, we decided that this world needs more entertainment to make the people all around us smile and laugh more often. Through this process, ProBasic was innovated with the sole purpose of entertaining anyone who just wants a quick smile or laugh.

The process of this project was not easy. We, ProBasic, had to struggle towards the completion of this assignment the whole time. We had to plan everything out and most of the time it took many attempts until we would finally complete a trick shot.

Throughout the process of the creation of this video, our group stumbled upon many obstacles, but nothing was every too hard to overcome. Occasionally we attempted at a trick shot that was a little beyond our skill level, but it would be fine, because then we would just skip it and move onto the next one. This seemed to work, because the more attempts we made at different trick shots, it would then allow us to come across an even more interesting trick shot then the one before. Altogether though, I believe that in the end, our group was able to accomplish our goal of entertaining the average human and spreading even the tiniest bit of joy around the world.

Pro Basic First Video

Paul Bäumer: The Compassionate Soldier

There were many characters within the novel “All Quiet on The Western Front”, by Erich Maria Remarque, but Paul Bäumer was the most compassionate out of any of the other soldiers within the book. He created multiple friendships with numerous soldiers during the war and had a heart-breaking encounter with an enemy soldier which he had shortly killed before his sad interaction. Paul killed him, because the war had changed him from a kind person into a primitive animal which has the instinct to kill or be killed. This was in order to survive the front and to maintain his sanity. However, Paul isn’t able to maintain this state of detachment from his emotions when the people around him that cares about begin to die, due to the fact that he is still young and sensitive.

This brought me hope, because even when Paul was forced to kill others to survive, he still thought about the loved ones of the people he killed. During his encounter with the French soldier, he attempted to save his life by bandaging him up, but this only extended the French soldiers life for a couple of hours. As these hours passed by, Paul sat there, talking to the French Soldier. The French soldiers name was Gérard Duval and they talked about his family. He was a printer by trade and Paul’s resolve was to send his family money. However, as time passed by Paul’s primal war instincts told him to return back to his trench. And in the end breaks his promise with the French soldier.

Even though Paul didn’t keep his promise, it still proves that soldiers, even when fighting against each other, still feel emotions of guilt and concern for one another. This gives me hope towards a better world, because when people take care of each other it proves that all of us are connected and that we will stand together during desperate times of need.

Play… An Artifact Lost In Time

I miss the times when playing around with friends and going outside were the only things that were on my mind. Not school, not projects, not homework. Unfortunately, these are the only things I seem to care for these day. I rarely go outside now, because most of my days are spent doing homework. My friends also suffer from this same illness that has taken its course around our bodies. It has taken over our lives, and all we do is stand here defenseless. Unable to fight back the thing that is eating away at us during every second of the day.

Everything used to be fine in grade school. These were the good old times when homework wasn’t as exhausting as it is today. Kids like me spent most of our time doing just fun shenanigans, but now it feels as if these times have finally slipped away and never to be reached again. This is all because of the constant pressure and stress of school. I remember roughly about when this sudden increase in homework occurred. I feel like it all started in about the 7th grade, when honors classes were introduced to the children of my school. All the kids wanted into the class, so they could compete against their peers, not knowing about the struggles it will bring upon them later on. We as children never realized the impact of these classes and the affects that they will have on us, because once we were in the honors classes, then we were never getting out. This is due to the fact that all of our friends were in honors, and if we dropped it, then we would be separated from them. We also never dropped it, fearing that we would be left behind while our peers strove for greatness never too look back at us again.

If only we had known that during our high school years, that these honors and advanced classes would have taken a tremendous toll on us. Now, we are frozen, unable to move from the limitless stress being dropped upon us from the external pressures that come closer and closer, pinning us into a corner, and forcing us to curl up into a ball. We have no way to release this immeasurable amount of stress. We try and try, but it never goes away. Playing used to be a way to relieve our source of stress back then, but nowadays it is seen as immature. Due to this, it prevents us from venting out the constant stress building up from inside. It is as if we are a volcano that is one more homework assignment or one more test grade away from finally blowing up. If only, the view for playing was changed. Play could relieve us of all the things that make us worry. It could be the final line of defense against the constant bombardment of stress that attempt to conquer us when we are weak. If only this were the case however.

A List Of Listy Things That Are Listed With Goals!!!

The things I will/wish I could do:

Reach Challenger in League of Legends
Marry my waifu (Kim Jisoo, Most likely won’t happen)
Get my driver’s license
Try to workout and get bigger
Go to a good college and get a decent job
Spend more time with my entire family on holidays
Go to Japan or South Korea
Learn how to cook actually decent food instead of instant noodles
Get a part time job over the summer
Help my community more often

There are numerous things I wish I could do, but the thing that is at the top of that list is reaching challenger in League of Legends.

The things I need to get good at, to reach this goal, is to:

Have a better gaming play style
Climb the ranked ladder from Bronze I
Become a better Dr. Mundo and Nasus main
Never miss another cannon minion
Reach a point where I can carry my whole entire bronze teammates
Not to throw my lead away when I am ahead
Have a better jungling path and predicting the enemy
Know exactly what items to build against the enemy team
Roam to other lanes to help my team
Keep a good attitude even when losing

A Close Call

As I put my first foot on the cruise, I could feel something strange was coming. The second we hit open waters, the intensity of the strange aura increased to an extreme amount. Something was about to happen, but I just didn’t know what. Suddenly, I saw something dark in the water. It was attracted to the cruise like a magnet. I didn’t think it was going to hit the cruise, but as it came closer and closer, my mindset changed. That dark thing lurking in the water was humongous. If it hit us, then we would definitely tip over. I felt an astounding amount of fear take over my body. As it was about to hit, I closed my eyes and braced for the impact. I could feel every bead of sweat rolling down my forehead. Holding on, I clenched my teeth as hard as I could. But, nothing happened. I waited and waited. I looked over the railings. Suddenly, a whale burst out of the water. It nearly took my head off. I could have been eaten by a whale. Terrified, I ran back to my room and stayed there for the rest of the week long cruise.

The House On Mango Street Stories

A New House

I haven’t always lived in a two story house that resided in Fountain Valley. Before moving here, I lived in a house not far away. This house was about two miles away from Fountain Valley in the city of Westminster. The house was nice, but wasn’t really big enough to have a party. Even though it wasn’t really spacious, I still considered it my home. This house is attached to many wonderful memories of my family. These nostalgic memories were created over a span of twelve years, all accumulated in that one house. I live in a new location now, but the memories made in that house, will stay there and forever will remain there. Nothing will ever replace those memories, but moving on with my life and creating new ones along with my family and friends makes up for the memories created in the past. Creating another chapter of adventure in my life that will continue on until my death.

Family Is EVERYTHING

My family originates from so many different parts of the world. Some of these people in my family are not blood related and some are blood related, but none of these things matter, because no matter what, they are still and forever will be apart of my family and my life. My mom, dad, and sister are completely vietnamese, but there are also a couple of non blood related and blood related relatives on my dad’s side that are of a different race. My aunt and cousins both are Chinese. My Aunt is 50% Chinese while my cousins are 25% Chinese. However, on my mom’s side of the family, there is a huge variety of different races, some blood related and some not blood related. On this side, there are so many different races, like Caucasian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, Cambodian, Japanese, and a couple more. Most of these people are not blood related to me, but the are still part of my family through marriage. No matter how they joined my family, as long as they are apart of it, then they will be considered as one of the family members. This is because my family has a saying, and it states “family is everything”. It reminds everyone in my family to always hold family above all else and to never forget that, because without family, we have nothing.

Ruined Weekends

Until the age of 12, weekends would mean the start if a new adventure, with something exciting happening every time. Either it be swimming, biking, or just sitting down watching a movie with my family. At least it was always fun no matter what, because I would always be around the people I love. Nowadays, every weekend is just the same as the last, with consistent weekend homework taking up half of my Saturdays, and most of Sundays. Homework isn’t the only problem. Stress is another. Stress causes us to fear Sundays, because it takes us away from our safe space and brings us into the feared day of Monday. Mondays are feared, because it leads us into a mindset of school the next day. Colleges also ruin weekends, it stacks more stress upon us, because the weekend is the only time we can worry about colleges and they things we can do to stand out among an immense amount of competitors. Before all this, weekends were good. A part of me hopes that the next weekend will be good and free for me to finally hang out with my family for the whole weekend again, but in my mind, I know that will never be.

Asian Hoarding

Living in an Asian household, hoarding has become a normal thing. Unlike other asian families however, instead of hoarding thing in our living room until it reaches the roof, we hoard clothes and other unnecessary things in our closets until it’s filled complete with things. Until last week, I still had clothes from the first grade in closet. My parents and I just never got around to cleaning our closets. We have only recently taken out the super old clothes and given it to a charity. My garage however, is full of very unnecessary things like extra rugs, toy animals, and many other things that haven’t been touched in years. Unlike the closet however, the garage will not be cleaned out, because my mom is very stubborn to get rid of anything in the garage.

Allowance

My parents never enjoyed the idea of giving me an allowance like most of the other kids in my school, but when I put myself into their shoes, I start to understand why. When I think back to it, I begin to believe that they had good reason not to give me an allowance. Back when I was at the age of 10, I was irresponsible, and very forgetful. I would constantly forget where I put things and if I had homework at that age. I remember back in fifth grade, when forgetting my jacket on the basketball fields was a consistent thing. I also would not do my homework, because I would forget if I had homework that day. However, forgetting about doing my homework was one thing. Not doing it on purpose was another. This is why my parents believed that I was irresponsible. It is because occasionally if I was having a bad day, I would be too lazy to do my homework and just not do it. Then, my parents would check online and see that I didn’t do it. And even after that, I still wouldn’t admit that I didn’t do it. I would come up with an excuse trying to make my parents believe that it was the teacher’s fault when actually, it was just me being irresponsible. Sadly, they always saw through my lies though. With all these reasons stacking upon one another, my parents came up with the conclusion of not giving me an allowance until the ninth grade.

Stupid Child

I used to be a child that believed goals were as simple as going from point A to point B. Now that I have grown older, I have found out that things aren’t as simple as I used to believe. When I was 7, I believed goals were like a one way street from one place to another, nowadays, goals seem like a swirling road with potholes, speed bumps, 90 degree turns, and caution signs. I miss the good old days. During those times, the naive child I was could relax and have fun like no there was no tomorrow. How innocent I was, not knowing how the future and life actually was. How ignorant… How naive… How… stupid I was to believe life was this easy.

The Sad Things In Life

Life is full of unexpected changes whether it be sad, happy, or any other emotion. However, these sad things impact one’s self more than any other emotion. Things that trigger these sad moments could be a family member passing away, some loved one moving far away from you, or anything that just isn’t pleasant. All of these things make me sad. It just feels as if everything you know and love is drifting away and nothing you do can stop the inevitable from happening. This inevitable barrier being the thing you fear the most, even if you do or don’t know what it is, from happening. The only way to overcome these sad moments are doing the things that make you happy. When you are happy, it feels as if you are collecting those drifting pieces of memories that were once far away from closer. This is the only way to prevent sadness from taking over and leading you down a huge sucky spiral of depression.

The New World

As I have begun to grow older, I continue to ask myself these same questions. I ask myself what does the future hold for me, and what are my future plans. Every time I ask myself these things, I still come up with the same answer of I don’t know. This is because I am very unsure of myself. At any given moment, my viewpoint on my future could change at the blink of an eye or snap of a finger. Honestly, I don’t think I’m prepared to do things by myself yet. I want to be independent, but I feel as if I have waits holding me down. Gradually however, the shackles that hold me back have been slowly coming off since the start of ninth grade. A little more and it will break and I will have my freedom, but like a man’s first day out of jail, this freedom could be a curse or a blessing. The man might fear what goes on in the outside world and may try to stay in prison. This same thing is occurring inside of me. I fear that once these shackles come loose that I won’t be able to survive once I leave my home. Having to fend for myself in this new world that has just only begun. However, as long as I know my family loves me, I know for sure that I will survive.

Segregation Between School Groups

Everyone knows about the different groups of kids that exist in modern day school. Some examples of these groups are the nerds, the athletes, the notorious popular kids, and many others. People inside of these squads usually only hang out with others within the same group. These separate groups are also usually out into social classes, with the popular kids on top while the nerds are looked down upon. This hierarchy is seen similarly to samurais and farmers back in the distant past. People within different social classes are not allowed to interact with each other. In today’s world, if a person of high popularity were to date another of the nerd group, that popular person would most likely be look down upon. Similarly, samurais and farmers are not allowed to date each other too. If this were to happen back during the age of samurais, the lovers would be frowned upon by their parents and society.

However, this rivalry between modern day school groups dissipates later on in life, when everyone is not viewed by how cool they are, but how happy the person feels in their life. This is because when you grow older, popularity doesn’t matter anymore. Popularity takes a person no where in life, because it doesn’t assist a person in gaining knowledge. The only thing that matters later on in life, is the amount of happiness one has achieved for them self. Although this segregation is not as strong today, it still exist. It can be seen from elementary school through high school, but after these educational obstacles, segregation between these groups ceases to exist. In college, the only thing that matters is graduating. Once they have graduated, people care only for their own well being, and have no time to care about the popularity status of others.

In conclusion, the world has no room for segregation between people of different social classes. No matter who the people are, they are still human. We as humans have evolved past the times of segregation. There is no point in reverting back into the dark ages where everyone was treated differently based on their rankings in society. Everyone deserves to be treated equally without being discriminated for what is on the outside, because the only thing that matters, is what is on the inside of one’s own soul.

Sleep Deprivation Caused By Student Procrastination or School System Gone Wrong

Students all over the United States of America are getting less and less sleep. This could be due to them staying up late at night finishing up homework or studying for an exam the next day. The problem with this, is that students are not getting the much needed 8-10 hours of sleep per night. It also doesn’t help the average high school student, that classes start at 8 o’clock in the morning. All of these inconveniences cause student all over the world to suffer from sleep deprivation. On the other hand, people could make a valid argument that the students are just not managing their time correctly. They could be spending too much time on the internet or hanging out with friends for hours when they know that the very next day is fairly busy. There are also more reasons of why students procrastinate. If students like this managed their time correctly, they most likely could attain the necessary 8-10 hour of sleep. However, no matter what the problem is, sleep is very much needed in the life of a human being. Without the proper 8-10 hours, the health of students and adults will worsen. This lack of sleep could lead on to life threatening illnesses like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and many more. This is why sleep is a necessity in the life of a human.