Wednesday, April 23, 2008

my sick day

I want my life to be like this............................
Playing piano forever. If I'm not doing that, I will be drawing a masterpiece. Most of my drawing are either manga or symbols. Or just random stuff. I think they turn out to be pretty cool.

They are nothing funny happening in my life right now except I am sick. I have a stuffy nose. My eyes are like watering. I can't breath through my nose, so I have to breath through my mouth.

Life is not so easy that I still have to finish my homework, which I really hate.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

A Year in Tibet Eps 2


A Year in Tibet
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What are marriage rules in Tibet? Do they dress up like we do? Do they spend like a million dollars on a wedding? Do they get married in a church? All of these question are good to explore in this episode.

Tibetan have very different marriage rules from those in the U.S.. I know it doesn't happen only in Tibet. There are probably lots of other places that have rules like these. Here -U.S- people don't believe in arranged marriage. In Tibet, the groom's and bride's parents go to a shaman and see if the couples match. If the shaman says that they match, the couples will get married. If the marriage is arranged and the couple are getting married, the bride will not know about the wedding. Personally, I think it's disgusting to have to marry someone that you don't love. But here you have no choice but to marry them. If you disagree, PLZ COMMENT! Explain why. Also, here in America-A FREE COUNTRY!!!!- people can only have one wife or husband (unless you divorce and you marry again). In Tibet, you can have as many husbands as you want. Sometime, there are three brothers. They can all have the same wife. I know, scary.

They have a good reason why they did these though. If each brother has its own wife, they would have to divide the land in three. For example, if each family has two kids (mostly sons since the girls always marry out), the family would have to divide the one third of the land in two halves. The land will get smaller each time if this goes on generation by generation. It's better to have a big piece of land in total.

Right before the bride gets married, she will burst in to tears because she is sad that she has to leave her family. She is scared because she doesn't know what is going to happen in her life. In the video, the mom is laughing. I think her is doing that because she is in a movie and she doesn't wanna in emmbarsse the family. I think that if she wasn't doing a documentary, she would be probably saying to her daughter is " Stop crying and you are going to marry that guy no matter what!!!" The groom doesn't care at all whatsoever if you watch the video.