Im sitting here at the Coffee Bean on Westwood and Ohio in Los Angeles. This Coffee Bean is different from all the other Coffee Bean’s out there. What differentiates this Coffee Bean compared to others is the huge fire pit outside. On cold days your driving and you see a huge fire pit with tons of people surrounding it. It really triggers something in the brain and imprints the image of the fire pit where tons of people were working around and just having laughs while sipping on hot coffee. Later on when you want to go somewhere to study or hangout, the first place you think of is this Coffee Bean with the warm fire pit, hot coffee and friendly people. This is the reason I am at Coffee Bean right now. Another perk is the free wifi provided. Its funny how your brain can subconsciously takes a fire pit as an advertisement.

There was an advertisement billboard that recently caught my attention. The billboard had Robin Williams and John Trevolta on it. The name of the movie they were advertising was Old Dogs. This movie is being advertised everywhere! I have seen it on bench’s, on buses, on billboards, commercials on t.v and many other places. I never felt appealed by this movie when i first say this billboard I thought its gonna be another disney movie that i had no intention of seeing. I kept on seeing all sorts of different advertisements everywhere and it now really makes me curious to see why Old Dogs is everywhere. Its intrigues me how movie advertisers can get someone to watch a movie.

Our society is a very unusual, eccentric one. Its really is weird how we get some sort of twisted weird pleasure out of a famous persons death. I was reading an article about how celebrities corps provide a greater service than their actual living body ever did. This in my opinion is sick. How can people enjoy a persons death? It really gets my mind boggling.

I’m sitting here at a sports bar/restaurant called Yankee Doodle. I’ve been here since ten this morning on Sunday November 22, 2009 at now it’s currently 3:13 pm. I’ve observed many things here. One thing is drunk people shouting at the football games on TV. Another thing is people playing games such as pool, air hockey, the arcade video games, and darts. I also watched from a distance a fistfight between a Broncos fan and a Chargers fan. When I put all the things together that my eyes had to absorb, I come to the conclusion that doing unproductive things is fun. I’ve decided to make my fun a little more productive and watch football while I get some schoolwork done.

I just got back home from the Santa Monica 3^rd Street Promenade and let me tell you that this place if full of life.  Tons of people are just walking up and down shopping, watching entertainers on the street, and eating all sorts of foods. It’s a very fun area but it can be very depressing too. If you go in to a store and look at some of the prices for example footlocker, your easily paying 100-300$ for a pair of shoes which is nuts because the cost to produce that product is way, way cheaper than the actual cost of the price they’re presenting to the consumers. It upsets me that people will pay the crazy prices and encourage producers to continue raising the prices of they’re products. People need to take a step of action and stop buying from stores like this and then only will we see the prices reduce and lower to more reasonable prices.

I was at six flags a few weeks ago and I bought the ticket for 60$.  I then filled up my tank of gas which was 40$ and drove to six flags. Then I arrived at six flags and paid parking which was ONLY 15$. I then got in to the theme park, stood in line for hours to only get on three or four rides before lunch time. Lunch time I go to a burger joint and pay about 10$ for a burger, 4$ for fries and 5$ for a drink. After lunch, I went on a few more rides and stood in line for hours till the park was about to close. By this point, in the city of Valencia where six flags is located, I was freezing. I then was compelled to by a hot chocolate for 5$ to warm up my body. I drove back from six flags to Santa Monica and had used a little more than a fourth of my tank which means a i spent about 12-14$ in gas. In all i paid 127$, stood in lines for most of the time, rode maybe 7 roller coasters  each for a minute or two. Did I really have a good time?

I was at the mall the other day on a mission. I had to find a nice pair of white jeans. I browsed the Santa Anita Mall for hours in search of a ridiculously cool pair of pants. I searched all different kinds of stores. I searched all the preppy stores like holister, abercrombie, american eagle, ect.  I next searched the punk-rock type of stores and finally after going through many different stores i found a pair! These jeans were so cool and they were my size and everything. I went to the fitting room to try them on and they look phenomenal on my body. Right then and there I knew I had to get them and they couldn’t be expensive because the store was not a well branded store. Guess what? These jeans were 150$. I couldn’t afford them. It really made me upset that these jeans were so expensive because there was nothing special about them. They were a plain white pair of skinny jeans. One day I will find a cheap pair of white skinny jeans.

Halloween is just around the corner and people are going crazy buying costumes last minute at crazy prices. I was at party city the other day and it was jam-packed full of customers willing to pay 50$ or more on a costume. I find this outrageous that people will pay 50$ for a costume that they will probably only use once. It really intrigues me how this happens every year and people always will come back. I dont get how people can afford these costumes even in a recession. I would personally pay a maximum of twenty-five dollars and not pay any more than that. Hope everyone has a scary, crazy and safe Halloween!

Today, October 25, 2009 was Partnership Walk. Partnership Walk is a fundraiser to help end global poverty. I went to it today and it was a blast! There were a lot of people there and it was super fun. What real caught my attention was before Partnership Walk when i would tell people about it and how they should come through they showed a lack of interest but when I said the Laker Girls and the mayor were coming it caught people interest immediately. What gets me thinking is that many people didnt care about ending global poverty, they just came to see famous people and have a good time watching the entertainment, eat food and unlimited free snow cones. I wish that our society wasnt so self-centered and cared so much just about themselves.

So today I was driving back home from school and I decided ill make a little pit stop at CVS Pharmacy for fun and browse around. I enter the store and look at all the entertaining things that would be fun to own and I saw something that really caught my eyes. CVS was selling Ugg boots for 11 dollars. I couldn’t believe what my eyes were seeing. Was it really possible for a pair of Uggs to be sold for only 11 dollars? The truth was that these boots were a reciprocal of the actual Ugg boots but were a knock off version. It really gets me to think that society will pay so much more money for Ugg boots just because of the label. The CVS pair were just as comfortable but people wont get them. This gets my gears grinding.