That’s what one of my co-workers told me at work this week.  But the sheer variance of personalities is what makes dealing with people- at work or eleswhere- such an interesting experience.

There are different ways to get through to different people.  Some people needed to be chewed out in order to get your point across.  Sometimes, you need to be more subtle.

I’m a firm believer that no matter how tough of an outer wall an individual puts up, with the right approach you can properly communicate with any person.  It takes an inner sense of what kind of an individual you are dealing with.

Because in the end, people will give you their utmost respect when you accept them for who they are.  It is the ultimate kind of empathy.

There are some people that leave footprints and then there are people that leave milestones.  Some never get it and others always do.  Why is it that some people don’t appreciate and live up to their means of friends? Why can’t some people open their eyes and really see instead of faking it? Why can’t most people really live?  Why can’t some people be straightforward and admit their flaws and not stand up to what their really all about and instead get caught?  Some people just drift away and feel the need to move from one location to another because they sense that their is no belonging of themselves to their prime society? How many people did they lie too too feel that they had to move away? Eventually, you keep moving and you’ll have no affinity, no friends and really nothing.  Its really your contribution that what makes you really you.  Everyone knows you contributes and who doesn’t and thats why some people will be loners and others will be factors.  When you live life look inside and really ask yourself what have you contributed?

So recently there have been alot of airport security related crap on the news. I read a lot of news due to my ample time, but I tend to ignore the stuff about airport and terrorist because its just a bunch of crazy people and its not interesting to me. The discussion about terrorists is meaningless and will never go anywhere, and reading about airport security measures will just depress you.

Im sure you heard, recently in Newark airport there was a security breach and Terminal C which is Continental Airline Hub was shutdown for 6+ hours causing prob billions of dollar in loss. Initially I had absolutely no interest of the news but then little details started circulate to the press and I read a blurb that the person name was Haisong Jiang and he is a resident of Piscataway. I immediately thought to myself this dumb sh&#head must be a Rutgers grad student. I quickly Google search his name and quickly confirmed, indeed, he is a Rutgers PhD student in molecular bio.

Normally I am rather calm or indifferent, but knowing that this dude was a fob grad student in Rutgers, I became unnecessarily angry and heated. For the past 2 years, I flew Continental on Terminal C back to Seattle in early January, it could of been easily me stuck in that airport for 6 hours, and knowing it was a fob grad student who did this, makes me wanna tackle him for a takedown and choke him to sleep.

If you break down the facts, its pretty frustrating and infuriating. That dumb piss head first of all came to the US in 2004, which means he has been in and out of US airport plenty of times and is fully aware of the strictness of security. Plus, he is a PhD student in Rutgers, which means he was able to enter the US because of the very fact that he precisely wasn’t a dumbass. Yet he manages to defy all odds and decides to act like the bastard child of a down syndrome donkey and a sloth that eats its own diarrhea. Speaking of a sloth, have you seen a picture of him? He looks like a sloth.

I talked to my fob friends and asked what they thought of him. My fob friends along thought he was stupid, but a common sentiment among the fob community was that he showed that fobs can be romantic since he he crossed security to give his girlfriend a final kiss goodbye. I think it was as romantic as a testicle of zebra touching the scrotum water buffalo. If the idea of a bastard child of a down syndrome donkey and feces eating sloth kissing and embracing a similar female counterpart is romantic, then Im gonna throw up in my mouth.

This abomination of Satan’s pubic hair humanoid freaking grounded all the airplanes including the one that his girlfriend was going on! What was the whole point of going to the airport in the first place! I also read he only got fined $500!!! The tri-state area has the busiest air space in the world. Its equivalent to congested highway out there. He caused billions of dollars in losses and only got fined $500!!! I paid freaking over $500 for improper left turn driving ticket!!!

Despite reading all these crazy analogies and the previous paragraphs, I was seriously ticked off in my mind when I read the news and seriously wanted to vent. Anyhow, hope you enjoyed my rant.

Inspiration is the power to see beyond what is in front of you.

Inspiration is the power to challenge yourself, and realizing that you will be surprised what your body can endure if you want something bad enough.

Inspiration is an awe-inspiring energy that will fuel us through whatever our hearts desire.  It’s also contagious.

Pass it on.

As there are twinkies within the Asian community and oreos within the black community, there are coconuts in the Indian community; brown on the outside, white on the inside.  Certain Indians classify their own as a coconut if they completely ignore their Indian heritage and act white.  In a certain way I agree, but in another sense I don’t.  Yes, if you are born Indian, that is part of your identity and who you are.  You can’t deny that, but that doesn’t mean you have to embrace every aspect of Indian culture.  Being Indian is part of who you are, but first and foremost, you are your own individual.

There are many Indians that fully embrace their culture.  They only hang out with Indian people, go to temple, partake in Indian associations, and go to Indian parties and events.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.  If you don’t do that, that is completely fine too.  In all honesty, I am not religious.  I am Hindu, but I rarely go to temple, and yes I admit, I love meat, and do eat beef occasionally.  Taking it a step further, I am not the biggest fan of Indian food.  Yes I do like certain dishes, but it is not something that I crave for.  I much rather eat Thai or Italian food.  When I was younger, my parents would always tell me that I should like Indian food because I’m Indian.  But why is that?  Aren’t I an individual?  I will like whatever I like no matter if I’m brown, green, yellow, black, white, etc.  Also, I don’t have many Indian friends.  I don’t discriminate against them, but it just happens to be the case.  I make connections with people based on who they are, not what race they are.  I do find it amazing that many Indians do not hang out with any non-Indians.  I understand that it is easier to relate to your own kind, but we don’t live in India.  There are a plethora of different people in America, yet you can only connect with your own kind.  Honestly, I don’t get it, but hey it’s a free country and people are entitled to do what they want.

There are those Indians on the opposite end of the spectrum that completely deny their identity.  They often deliberately change their names to American names and are completely ignorant about their own culture.  They wouldn’t know if they were Sindhi, Gujurati, Punjabi, etc. and don’t care to.  These are Indians with an identity-crisis.  You are Indian and you can’t change that.  That is part of your identity whether you like it or not.

Though I use the Indian community as an example, this happens within every minority community, whether you are Asian, Black, Hispanic, etc.  Many people will expect you to act a certain way because of your race.  That is often why inter-racial marriage is so controversial within many communities.  Many look it at as selling out your race, but in reality you are being an individual that found love without looking at race.  We are all individuals, and we should live our life the way we want, but we should still acknowledge we have been given a certain identity and we can’t ignore that.

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Westerns teens and twenty somethings have a grand time of it for the most part. Going to school is not the hardest job in the world and as long as we keep our grades decent nobody really expects us to do much of anything else as in work and earn a living.

Finally we graduate and the party scene lights up big time. We can go to all of the hottest clubs and dance the night away with the beautiful people we imagine ourselves to be in sync with. Our entry level first job pays enough to afford the high priced drinks and the glitter of it all. We live for the weekend and the company of the in crowd and one year turns into another so fast it amazes us as 26-27-28-29 years on the planet earth mark our birthdays.

Then one day it happens…30th birthday approaches and we are far from our goals of a career, big salary, bigger house,bigger car….success seems elusive. So now the time has come to focus our energy and ability on our future. Living for today is no longer enough for today has turned into tomorrow and that Masters Degree didn’t come in the mail because we didn’t go to graduate school,we didn’t apply for that higher paying job because we were more concerned about next weekend,we didn’t get married because we were having too much fun…Too much fun has turned into a hangover and the only cure is to get back to the
Basics …hard work,determination and brevity become our new mantra and if we do right success will follow.

I want to be in a world where I’m with people that live for what they really want. Too many people want things that other people and end up striving so hard and fail.  If anything, it becomes obvious and its too late and everybody then knows the character of the person.  I want to be in a world where people go out and do things that really do make them happy.  I see some people doing it all the time and other pausing and waiting for essentially nothing.  I want to be in a world where I see spontaneity rules and people will help others because they want and without any real cause. I want to be in a world where no one is jealous of each other.  I want to be in a world where people if they want to go somewhere they will and not because everyone else has been there. I want to be in a world where people can stand up for their beliefs and not get caught by someone else as misrepresting themselves all the time throug their beliefs and values. I want to be in a world where people are real.

As I have gotten older, I have seen my taste in music gradually change.  The first album I ever bought was Rage Against the Machine.  I loved edgy rock music, including Tool and the Deftones.

Later, I got into more ’softer’ rock bands, like the Goo Goo Dolls.  I still like that stuff now, but I have even gotten into some adult contemporary tracks.

Does our taste in music speak to who we are or where we are in our lives?  I definitely think so.  I am certainly more reflective and thoughtful than I have been in the past.  More mature if you will.  I like hearing what the singer has to say as much or more than listening to the the accompanying sounds.   After all, the beauty is in the message.

There are people that yuou travel with that make trips worth going to.  There are some people that make trips nuts. There are some people that you should never go on trips with.  There are people that you should be cautious about going on trips with.  Fortunately, I’ve been on trips with people from all of the above.  I’ve learned something. Anywhere I want to go, I want to have a super time.  I want “the experience.” I want to feel like I’m walking into a baseball game when the anthem is playing and walking out when the last hitting ended in a home run with the game.  The people you go with make the experience. The spontaniety you find in few people create the whole transformation.  The people make the experience so great that you’ll realize eventually that its not where you go but who your with thats around you to create the momentum.

Anabolic is when your muscles are growing bigger and stronger as opposed to catabolic when your muscles are getting smaller and weaker. A bodybuilder or fitness aspirant obviously would prefer to be anabolic and avoid being catabolic.

To maintain the anabolic state one must eat a balanced diet with adequate calories coming from protein, fat and carbohydrates. Eggs(fried in olive oil)100% ,whole wheat toast and orange juice for breakfast. A protein bar (NOT an energy bar) for a mid morning snack. Tuna salad on 100% whole wheat for lunch withan apple or banana for the afternoon snack. Then off to the gym ,workout ,come home and either have a protein shake (one with carbs and fat) or meat ,veggies and salad. If you are going hard and heavy at the gym you need a minimum of 2500-3000 calories to stay anabolic.

You will become catabolic when your body has used up the energy you stored by eating during the day.  When this energy supply is gone your body will begin eating your muscles to get the nutrients it needs.  Sounds counter productive doesn’t it? Most guys or gals working out strenuously will exhaust their natural supply of energy within 30-45 minutes so make that workout intense,get it done hard and fast.You need to put carbs and protein into your stomach ASAP. If you wait you will  be in  a catabolic state.

Keep anabolic by making sure you have adequate calories during the day, keep your workout under one hour,keep yourself out of the gym three days out of the week. If you don’t get adequate rest you will end up in over training which is every bodybuilders nightmare.