To be or not to be.

Log start: 1:00pm April 16th 2009

To be or not to be, one of the most overly used Shakespere quotes but also one of the most mysterious. This quote makes you choose between two choices.
If you go with A, you will not end up with B.
If you go with B, A will be lost.
Simple?

Recently i was assigned in CAR 110, to research about my future profession.
You know me, i don't like to think that far ahead, let alone where i see myself in 20 years...
Since my interests were always in active politics, i decided to just go with the flow and do some light research to go go go.

Little did i know, a little research goes a long way, or so they say.
I started researching and i kept on getting absorbed into the profession, research led to reading for hobby, feeling the need to dig up more information, and face-palming myself when i couldn't find the information.
Everything seems so clear for the first time, this is what i want to do, no, this is what i NEED to do.
The drama, the experience, the high-stakes battles; it's something that i've dreamed for since middle school.

The biggest fear i had when i was growing up was that i'd end up working in a cubicle filing papers and inputting files into the computer. It's not something that i can see myself doing and i was already afraid.

But after reading on being politicians and lobbyists, everything about it seemed to draw me in.

For my research i planned on interviewing two large figureheads of Flushing, one is Councilmember John Liu and one is Assembly Member Grace Meng.

You see; i believe that my hometown of Flushing is the breakthrough of Political activity on the east coast. No, it's not Chinatown, because Chinatown is where a lot of immigrant families end up and end up raising first-gen Asian-Americans.
Flushing is different in the sense that it has a higher first/second generation population and that people are actually more in-tune with the modern world, or so to say.

Flushing is where the first Asian-American got elected onto the City Council (need a fact check on this later LOL) and Flushing is where the first Asian-American got elected into the State Assembly (Jimmy Meng, Grace Meng's father) and where the only Asian-American is holding a seat right now.
Two figureheads of Flushing and only one responded to me :P
before i sent these e-mails out, i thought to myself, if one were to respond to me, who would respond first???
and i actually got it right xD

Assembly Member Grace Meng responded to me and my research seems to be going fine so far.

In my 3 hour quest to come up with 8 questions for Ms. Meng, the research made me realize that there was no other option for me, (or options that i would want to take right now)
i had to be in on the "one-oh-one" of politics.

And to my surprise, there's an event that is going on in my school today named
"Asian America After Obama: Where do we go from here?"
I saw some fliers floating around but wasn't really interested in going...
but my mind changed!! yeahhhhhh

why? :D

"Dear Brian,
These are excellent questions. I am working on them and will respond to you soon. Thanks for your interest.
On another note, I will actually be at your school tonight from 7-9pm at a panel. Not sure if you know about this. I'd love to meet you!
Best,Grace"

I haven't been so excited in awhile LOL
mainly because this will give me the extra edge that i need to completely demolish competition in my CAR110 class but it also gives me a chance to meet a great figurehead of Flushing xD

Looking at the list of speakers for tonight, it got me even more pumped up

Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan, Justice, Supreme Court, New York County;
Hon. Grace Meng, J.D. NYS Assemblymember, Dist. 22, Flushing

NYS Assemblymember AND NYS Supreme Court Justice, both Asian-American!? OMGWTFBBQ :DDDDD

Oops, i seem to get side-tracked while blogging, haha.
But yes!
going back to the ultimate Shakespere quote, To be or not to be, that is the question.
To me, it is no longer a question, but a path which i must follow. I have found my inner-self through research, which, in a million years, never thought would happen.
And it is time to turn my usual 70% care level onto 100% full speed ahead!

GOGOGO~

HakoneDayDreamer, there's nothing more to say! Hopefully i can meet Ms. Meng tonight after the lecture and maybe land an internship ;)