100 most influential people of 2010: Amy Chua aka "Tiger mom"

Influential? I think yes. Is it a positive influence? It depends on your view on parenting.

Amy Chua is an american born Chinese woman. She was also raised by very strict parents. When she was growing up she was required to speak Chinese in the house at all times, if she, or her three sisters, spoke any English they were wacked with chopsticks. In the Time article "The Roar of the Tiger Mom" Amy talks about a time where she took her father to an awards assembly in which she received second prize. He told her to never disgrace him like that again.

Not going to lie, I think her book Battle Hymn of  the Tiger Mother and the way she parents is definitely a positive influence on western parenting. We could use some more tiger moms. They teach their children the importance of doing their best until its better. Amy's children were push to their abilities and the pushed farther. I think this is a major success story. Amy has something to be proud of, not that your child needs to be perfect to be proud of them, but the work that Amy has put into her children really shows. And I don't think this type of parenting is necessarily a bad thing.

Amy

77/365

You may be wondering about the title of this post, "77/365"
Well, I'm taking a picture of myself for 365 days. I started January 31st, 2011 and I will end January 31st, 2012. Today just so happens to be the 77th day! A very exciting day at that. If you look at the picture you'll find out why!

I got my temps yesterday! Woooohoooooo! Which also means clear the roads, hahah. Just kidding. My mommy said I'm already a pretty good driver, I've got the right idea for turns and all that jazz. Anyways, there were like 1 million people at the DMV when I went. Taking the temps test didn't take long, but waiting in line to sign all the papers and get my temps took a while because there were so many people. That kind of sucked but I got over it, not like there was anything I could do about it. 

I'm excited to start driving and stuff! 

Amy 

i love vegan cooking.

Amy Fun Fact: I love cooking.
As you may or may not know, I'm a vegan. (but not one of those vegans who makes sure everyone knows about it and squeals at hearing someone talking about dead animals.)
I became a vegan about 6 months ago because I found out that I've been cursed with lactose intolerance. I became a vegetarian on October 1st 2006. I've never really fancied the slaughtering of animals so that's why I made the choice to become a vegetarian in sixth grade.
Well, enough about myself. Lets move on to the food! Yay!

So today when I got home from school I was bored and hungry. A great combination, you get to cure your boredom with looking for food. I was searching through my freezer when I came across brown rice and some frozen corn. This gave me an idea. I pulled out carrots, sugar snap peas, teriyaki sauce, cinnamon (I often add a little dash of cinnamon on stuff) and veggie grounds which is a veggie protein meatless meat. I put all the ingredients in a pan except for the rice. After about 3 minutes of cooking the mixture on high I put the rice in the microwave (thank goodness for microwaves) for 3 minutes. After it was all cooked I put one cup of the meatless meat and veggie mixture over one cup of rice.  Needless to say, it was delicious.


Amy