Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Monkey love

Harlow was a scientist who didn't like women. He had some relationship issues; therefore he didn't trust a lot of women he's with. He dedicated his time in studying monkeys and their behavior. He found that baby monkeys prefer a soft mother figure as opposed to a metal one that provided milk.

I find that this is against the moral codes because Harlow took the monkey away from its mother without its mother's consent. This experiment could cause severe neurological damage to the baby monkey and its mother, but we know that monkeys are our ancestors. Therefore, we're causing harm to our ancestors.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Preschool years

Interview on Mom:

- "Do you remember what I did during preschool years? Any vivid/happy/sad memories?"

mom: "You were cute, everyone loved you" "We got you vaccinated at the hospital when you were born" "I took you to flower festival when you were 4 with your sister"

"You also had a cactus but it wasn't properly taken care of so it died (laugh out loud moment)"

- "Any other places I went to?"

mom: "When your uncle came over from NY, we went to Rex restaurant/hotel to eat at a buffet and went swimming....you liked the corn soup with egg there" "You didn't know how to swim yet so we kinda have to guard you all the time"

"Also Vung Tau was our favorite beach place to go to, a lot of people there"

"We also went to Buddhist temple.... we bought birds and freed them, it was fun"

- "Do you have any pictures way back then?"

mom: "No, I don't really keep track of things so they might have gotten lost, but there were a few back in Vietnam"

"when you were 7, you learned to draw from your sister and the animes you watched" "we also went to karaoke to sing"

- "Did I like any shows?"

mom: "yeah, you watched several of them when your cousin went over to babysit you" "there were a few long-runs ones and some cartoons" "they were Sinbad, Noah in 21st century, Wu Zestian, Thanh Cung 13 Hoang Trieu (13 emperors), Scheherazade"

- "What did I do for fun?"

mom: "you liked us driving you around on motorcycle to stores"