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soul log is the writing playground of fourteen year old Brandon Wang, a student and self-crowned web designer, living in the Houston, Texas area. He has been writing soul log for over four years. This is his journey.Other blogs:
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Category Archives: True Life
Changing the World: Technology in Schools
I cannot fight a battle of which I do not understand – many problems exist out of my control, but short of donating to causes or volunteering my time and efforts, I can only watch from the sidelines. I do feel that I have the ability to change some realms however – problems I have [...]
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Trials at Marketing: The Lessons Learned
“You must remember,” my mother told me yesterday before dinner, “that all sales begin with a no. Every single person on this planet doesn’t like being solicited for money. It’s your job to turn their no into a yes.” Having experienced first-hand that day exactly what my mother was talking about, I could agree. Although [...]
Matumaini [Hope]
Note: This is a submission I made to a writing contest. I publish it here. A hundred ways to say no: I’m busy, I have someone to meet, I forgot my wallet – humankind seems to be able to create excuses on the fly. It’s easier to lie to someone when you know you’ll probably [...]
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[Archivals] Why the Mid-East Wars Never Should Have Happened
This essay was published in December of 2009. I had read multiple articles regarding the state of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and I wrote about them in this post. Unfortunately, the post wasn’t very well researched. Highly incorrect and mistaken in multiple parts, I preserve it here for historical purposes. I ask that you [...]
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A Man Dead and a Lesson Learned
A trip to Cancun, and a SCUBA diving adventure there with the locals: who would have known a happy family vacation to Mexico would turn so wrong for my mom’s friend. And even now, his family and her friends are in confusion. Some refuse to accept the truth. It all began a few weeks ago: [...]
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My Path to Self-Sufficiency
In my house, I’m required to do two things, and I get paid for one of them. I wash the laundry gratis and I mow the lawn for money. It’s not a bad arrangement, and I liked it just the way it is. But my dad, brilliant as always, decided I needed to “grow up” [...]
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My Shirt Billows [Revised]
It is fall, but Mother Nature doesn’t care. The temperature climbs higher and higher. Meteorologists wince during their broadcasts, and I know they aren’t the only one wincing. It feels like over a hundred degrees in Houston, the humid air simply adding to the deathly temperature. Everyone moans about the heat. Some comment on the [...]
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Revenge of the Chips
It was three periods after lunch, and the last period of the school day, and it was math class. Lucky for me, I had to spend my last period of “captivity” listening to math problems… and the sound of crunching chips? I turned to my side, looking for the source of the sound. It was [...]
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Caught in a War Zone
Houston has a rotten climate: it’s deathly hot in the summer, cold enough to keep me under the covers in the winter, and a completely random rainfall schedule. Sometimes we don’t get any rain for months and months. And of course, sometimes it hits so hard it feels like a category five hurricane is going [...]
Loving Love
Recently my mother left for a business trip in China. She flew away one evening and that was when I found my dad and I were alone. Suddenly, instead of coming home each day from school with my mom grinning at me through the glass, I found myself fumbling for the keys. The house was [...]
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