Reading Notes - coming together for a common goal - Patrick

The story of The hawk and the osprey was quite interesting. It reminds me of adventures back in highschool when Albert used to carry me around in his pocket. There were three really good friends that I remember being sported by, Huan, Alex, Dante, and Sam. My adventures with these guys all ranged from being miscarried to different classes to being forgotten in the boys bathroom in the urinals. The story of how the hawk, the tortoise, the osprey, and the lion all connected to this idea that in the end, all of the friends congregated together and served their purpose - to carry me around for the day. Anyways, that story just brought some nostalgia ;). It's pretty funny because I was being carried around even before i was painted.

photo taken from my phone

Learning Challenge - The importance of sleep~ thoughts by Patrick

Being as woody figure, I am blessed with the ability of actually not having to fall asleep at all. My eyes are painted wide open and Albert never developed a mechanism for closing them. Nonetheless, the article I read, why sleeping may be more important, was quite intriguing nonetheless. One thing that I always realized about humans was not only their want for some of them, but also, their actual NEED to sleep. I always knew that people needed to sleep at least a couple of hours in order for memories to be encoded into long term memory. I also knew a little bit about why certain physiological factors might affect sleeping patterns - such as lights, foods, and daily activities. One thing I did not really put much thought into prior to the article was the idea of quality of sleep vs the quantity. In college, Albert has lately been making it a goal to get at least 8 hours of sleep every night, but less than 8 of those hours are quality sleeping hours.
The possibility that arises with this new information is that Albert can adjust his schedule properly to not only get the quantity of sleep he needs but also the quality of sleep.

To conclude, I wish everyone the best in all their endeavors this week.

Goodnight
~Pat

photo taken from Albert's Phone.

Famous last words: Hitting my MCAT Studying goals!

This week was really hectic! A personal life goal that I put for myself last week then told my friends to hold me accountable to was 20 hours of MCAT studying in. This semester I will be taking the medial school admissions test known as the MCAT and I really to make sure I was excelling not only in school but also in life. My original goal starting the semester off was to get in 30 hours of MCAT prep in a week all the way up until the date of my test which will be on April 20th (4/20).. :)

I was not able to hit those goals so I lowered it down last week to 20 hours instead. The first half of the week did not go very well and I was only able to get in a like 4 hours by Thursday morning.. However, as I was walking out of class, I saw one of my friends studying for her LSAT and I asked her how she went about studying for it. She enlightened me to her schedule of putting in 30 hours a week for the past two weeks and told me how manageable it has been for her. After talking to her for about 10 minutes I had this new resolve to finish up the week strong and hit the original goal for studying that I had planned. I ended up the week on Saturday at around 5:30pm hitting my 20 hours of studying in for the week! I actually ended up passing out right after words. Anyways, hitting my goal of 20 hours this week gives me a lot of confidence going into next week that I will be able to manage both my study hours for the MCAT and for school as well! I want to emphasize how important it is to set goals and actually hit them. I just feel so good after hitting my goals and I feel like a new person!

Thanks for reading!

Image taken from business2community

Feedback Thoughts

6 bad mental habits
silencing the critical voices

The articles are spot on! My favorite one is silencing the critical voices because it emphasizes the importance of positive thoughts! For the past two years in college I have had the opportunity to run my own business during the summertime with Southwestern Advantage and develop leadership and communication skills. The primary concept that Southwestern teaches their students is the importance of positive self-talk. Everyday during the summer time whether its through the rain, heat, empty, and negative feelings of self-worth, the convictions of positive self-affirmations have served me in the program and outside of the program in my daily life.
The other article, 6 bad mental habits, is also pretty cool. It is so important to not get hung up on the negative image we can have on ourselves and I think when it comes to handling feedback it gets kind of tricky. One way that I like to look at feedback is by viewing it as 'constructive.' It is so humbling to realize that I cannot see everything and appreciating others for helping me see my blind spots. It is so important to assess situations constructively and the idea of feedback is great because there are many things I am blind to in my work and life.



Photo was taken on my phone and captions were created with group me (I started a conversation with myself so nobody would notice that I’m making Patrick memes (not that it matters but that’s how this picture was formed))

Topic Brainstorm

https://sites.google.com/site/yamastattooparlor/
I like the tattoo parlor idea alot. As I’m brainstorming ideas for projects, I’m trying to figure out the best way to incorporate Patrick into my final project. The idea of the tattoo parlor is really neat and the author has a lot of freedom to think creatively about the events that happen in that divine environment.
http://indiaepicsnewspaper.weebly.com/
What appeals to me about the Shremeeti News paper is the drawing in effect that it has of being a mystery crime scene thrill. Perhaps some type of myster blog could be thought of where Patrick is Protagonist trying to figure out a mystery. Another idea that I think could work is some type of survival horror blog with updated news where I go missing and Patrick attempts to look for me.
https://sites.google.com/view/theepicsofwaffleandtootsie/introduction
The Jataka tales of Waffle and Tootsie up to what I have checked out so far is the front runner for my project. The project will follow the Jataka stories through the literary analysis of Albert intermingled with questions that I learned from another class I’m taking this semester called Fate and the individual part II. Another idea is an anthology where Patrick is in all of the Jataka tales, but instead is a diary sketchbook survival idea like in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe where Patrick reflects upon the originally stuff that he has to do in each of the tales in first person.
https://sites.google.com/site/lovethroughtheeyesofnature/does-a-love-g
The last thing that interests me is the blog of love through the eyes of nature. The introduction to the blog is very funny as it is told through the eyes of a squirrel. The possibility that opens up from the blog idea is that Patrick reflects upon stories of love or really any emotion through his daily existence with reflections toward divine Hindu gods. The blog could be a prayer similar to Augustine’s Confessions.


Picture from Wattpad Patrick as a detective

Week 2 Story: Patrick's spin - The Dionysian Hero Faust in Goblin City

As Albert types on his computer, I am currently somewhere in Florida milling away in Scottie's room. The adaption of this story will be taken from Goethe's Faust Part 1 character - Faust in a story that puts this hero in the Goblin City of the Jatakas.

When Faust awoke from his slumber, his good friend Mephistopholes awoke him to come explore what true pain and pleasure is. Agreeing to this and being already disenchanted with life, Faust signs his name in blood with Mephistopholes in exchange for this experience. Faust is awoken with a new sense of power beyond measure. With his newly acquired powers, Faust created a city of She-Goblins known as Patrickville where he would lure young sailors to their demise. The village has the same appeal as Sirens did on the Greek Odysseus that sailors would inevitable jump off and swim to their doom in order to experience such pleasure. Faust built a city of lies - dressing the She-Goblins up as 21st famous century actresses - Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Nicole Kidman - and surrounding the city with the lie of industrious livings. Once the young lads were finally on the island, the disguised goblins seduced the men into marrying them for life.
After marriage, the sailors had a jolly time with their new wives and did not think much of it. Nights went by of pure bliss until Faust – once again growing disenchanted with his condition and experiences chose to turn the disguised goblins into man-eating monsters. As the goblins awoke to their fate, they congregated together as one big unit and ransacked different houses and continued to eat each other’s new husbands. Luckily, the grand master of the sailors awoke before his wife could eat him and kicked her in the face. As she was lying there on the ground, crying, the sailor frolicked away into the woods and awaited his next plan. He soon saw other sailors running away into the woods as well. Soon almost all of the sailors agreed that they needed to get off the village.. but how?
Luckily, at this moment in time, Patrick Startrick, the superhero in this story, shows up on the back of his friend’s elephant. Prashant, the owner of the elephant, advised the sailors to get away from the island as it is cursed by the angry warlock Faust. The sailors got away thanks to Patrick while the other sailors, who did not get the memo, were eaten alive.

The moral of the story is to not be too excited about marrying famous people because they could be man-eating goblins controlled by a bored warlock named Faust.
 

This image was created and texted to my phone by my friend, whom I have known since I was four years old, Scottie. 

Author's notes: 

The original story is about a group of sailors who got stuck on the island of Ceylon and were forced to marry these disguised goblins that ate them. At night the Goblins ate some of the sailors while the captain of the sailors awoke and ran away getting part of his crew to fly away on a horse while the rest of them were eaten.

I changed the story a little bit because I had a conversation with one of my friend's who drove me home last night because my car had a flat tire and I did not have a way to get home (long story what happened was that I had a flat tire before the school day but I was in a hurry to get breakfast with my southwestern mentor and she ended up picking me up from my house while I left my car there. She ended up taking me to campus as well and so I did not have a ride home, so my friend Emily took me home.) about what a Dionysian Hero was and I did not know how to explain it. I knew that Goethe's Faust was a Dionysian hero because Dr. Anderson said so in class and figured I could just explain what that type of hero is through Faust.

My adaption of the story portrays Faust as somebody who disregarded all considerations - those of morals, ethics, pleasures, and pains, in order to experience what he feels like he is missing out on. I also replaced the fairy in the story with Patrick riding on the back of an elephant with his friend 'Prashant' because I wanted to show off some cool pictures that my friend created.

Bibliography: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse. Goblin City

Reading Notes: Jatakas Anthology - Two Turtle Jatakas

My favorite Jatakas Anthology is about the two turtles. The turtle stories are really two separate story that involves one where the turtle is tricky and avoids death, while the other one the turtle was foolish and died. The things that really stood out to me was how stark the stories are and how close they correlate with real stories of people. For example, the story of the turtle and the geese was kind of like an Aesop's fable about keeping one's mouth shut. The story portrayed an instance where a turtle became such good friends with a pair of geese that he was going to fly away with them. The only postulate for flying away with the geese was that the turtle must keep his mouth shut. The mentioning of the keeping the mouth shut is important as it seems to be commentating on a real life instance where keeping one's mouth shut is necessary to preserve life and stay healthy. The idea of keeping the mouth shut juxtaposes with the first story of the turtle who because he opened his mouth was able to preserve his life.

https://sites.google.com/view/jatakas/turtle

Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt


The image was taken from Mainlesson

Patrick views ideas - Reading Options

Today as Albert was in class, I was resting somewhere in someone’s pocket. I thought about what type of Indian reading options I would do for class.

I am most excited for the Ramayana and the Mhabarata. Other cool stories I want to explore is the story of how “Angada slays a demon” http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/image-angada-slays-demon.html another cool story I want to explore is the Khumbarkana about how the giant was able to even defeat Indra, another Hindu God. http://ackguide.blogspot.com/2015/04/guide-kumbhakarna-vol-528.html The last thing I really liked was the Indian epics short stories. http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2017/11/overview-komarraju-lesser-known-tales.html

All in all I am very excited for this project. Here is a photo of me the last time I got really excited

Photo was taken on my phone