New Music Video 'Heartbreak Mashup' Finally Released! Battle Scars, Just A Dream, Love The Way You Lie, & Some Nights All In One Song!

After weeks of writing, recording, filming, editing, and months of procrastination I finally got around to releasing my first mashup this past Valentine's Day just as I had planned all along. I originally got the idea for this song last summer while listening to Just A Dream by Nelly. I was singing along (as usual) when it suddenly hit me that Some Nights by Fun and Battle Scars by Lupe Fiasco both sounded pretty good with it. This, and having just watched Pitch Perfect and become obsessed with mashups, inspired me to start making mashups, many more of which you will hopefully be seeing soon.

A New Chapter...

Yesterday was the day you see in so many movies, read about in so many books, and hear about from all your friends: college move in day. For me this day came with excitement, trepidation, anticipation, sadness, happiness, and basically every other emotion out there. Since this was the biggest change thus far  in my relatively short life, you can imagine why I was feeling so many emotions. Somewhat like when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, though definitely not on the same scale, I was moving away from something that I had known my entire life and stepping into a whole new world (cue the music from Aladdin).

After all of the anticipation, packing, rushing around, the long car ride, meeting my roommate, unpacking, and settling in for my first night, I realized that the day had been completely different than I had thought it would be, yet the exactly the same at the same time. My college move in day was exactly like everyone elses', but it was also uniquely mine at the same time.
Each day is really a new day even if we don't expect to do new things. I expect for new things to happen from now into the future and they probably will, because of that. One of the simplest life facts is that: if you are looking for something new, you will surely find it, and if you are content with staying the same, the same you shall stay. I have decided to embrace my college experience, try new things, meet new people, have fun but also learn. I have for so long been someone who looks back on the past and longs for new things to have happened when in fact I should have been looking forward expecting things to happen. We perceive the world with our mind, so how we think about it in our mind is how we perceive it.

But now, I must go and leave this rambling blog post alone. Convocation is tomorrow and classes start on Wednesday and I have a whole world of new things to do between now and then.

Making Your Own Fairytale Ending

In every movie, story, or play the perfect 'happy ending' seems to be as predictable as gravity. However in real life, you have to do a lot more than just wait for the universe to serve you up a fairytale ending on a silver platter. You have to be willing to do whatever it takes to be with the one you love.

Baby I'll walk to you
So our dreams can come true,
Nothing can keep us apart because the force of hearts,
Is more than anything in this world,
Baby I'll walk to you
So our dreams can come true,
Mountain, bullet, or train,
I'll push right through the pain,
And I'll get to you; oh I'll walk to you.

Be a Superhero

   You don't need a cape. You don't need a cool superhero name. You don't even need a mask. All you need is the "power" to do something when you see injustice in the world.




   It doesn't matter what the injustice is. Whether it's as large as something as the starvation around the world or as small as holding a door for someone, doing something is better than doing nothing. Just like Rome wasn't built in a day, the world won't change overnight. We need superman to come save our world, but if he can't, everyone doing what is humanly possible to change the world will do just as well.