i wonder if it's common practice for other blogs to randomly change their blog names once in a short while. because i did it first and then connie did it and we both do it now to a ridiculous degree. so i'll just go rename my blog now again.

hi.

I am obsessed with college applications.  I cannot get them out of my head.  not really, I guess it's kind of understandable b/c ... I'm going to find out if I got into my early decision school in ... about two weeks.  a little more.  woh, that's kinda scary.  [siiiigh] my mom was telling me tonight about why she finds the application process traumatizing.  it was reeeaaally comforting, I swear.

I hate people that IM you online and then don't say anything.  they suck.  it's like, why did you IM me in the first place?  sheesh.  and, sheila and ellen are the longest bloggers I have ever seen in my entire life.  well, derek too.  but.  er ... yeah I had a reason, but whatever.  and, apple pie goes really well with ice cream.  that's what I had for thanksgiving dessert of course.  mm .. ice cream ... I think we have like a gallon left ... maybe I'll go have some. :-)

and ... I still reign as best procrastinator in the entire world.

posted: ellie cheung, 11:03:17 PM [*]

ok, i'm really mad now. i just blogged a really long blog, and then....*poof*...it's gone. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! poopy :(
well, let's see if i can remember what it was that i was saying....oh yeah. i was talking about how i finished my homework really early today, and how i finished my part of the yearbook thing. i was so proud of myself. now i'm not so excited anymore. sigh. see, i don't even have the energy to put stars around the sigh. i was so pepped in the morning today, because i realized that it was thursday and that the weekend was coming soon. but then came the boring periods of the day..namely algII/trig..grrrr. all the classes after that are soooo boring. except lunch and latin. latin is so fun. hehe. i sound like such a dork. but that's ok. i am a dork. actually, i am a "latin loser" :P
you know, every time my family goes on vacation, we go places with historical significance. my parents are really into history. it's kind of weird. well, maybe not weird. it's just that i'm not really that interested in history, and i end up being dragged to all these museums and whatnot that are....boring. hm. well, at least they like movies and shopping :)
ooh, food is here. i must go eat now.

posted: stephanie, 6:24:29 PM [*]

wow. i dun even think i wanna blog at mah blog anymore..i read the blogs that ppl post in mah blog..and no one blogs anything..and i come to derek's..and it's just like "wow! i have so much to say to everythign!" hehe. well, anyways, in answer to derek's question, the thing that was sooo sweet that the professor said (actually it wasn't wat the professor said..it's wat pacey said that the professor repeated to joey) was that while pacey was talkin to the dean of the college dat joey wants to go to, pacey spent most of the time tellin him how joey really changed his life, and made him totally different, and without her, he doesn' tknow if he could be dat happy..i duno. i will be able to quote him on saturday when i get the tape that eric taped for me (thanks so much eric! btw..can u tape gilmore gurlz for me tonite? pweese!!! ) but it was real sweet. i wish someone woudl say dat to me. hehe. anyways, ELLEN TSAY i am not graceful. as in words of mah dad "u were not graceful. u were simply filled with the holy spirit and u had to let it out in front of the congregation, and u stood right in the middle." yes. sounds exactly like him...instead of complimenting me, he has to make an OBVIOUS reason why was thought to be good..like..for worship team tryouts..he goes "yeah..u were better than some of them, but dat's only cuz u had experience on the worship team, not because u have a good voice" oh thanks dad right? well, anyways,yes, i still have the urge for apple pie. i am not sure why..but i've been eating ice cream a lot..but i dun think it's the same as apple pie. hey, remember in the summer..around music camp time, how i had the BIGGEST urge to cut mah hair like meg ryans? IT'S BACK! (i know i know ellen. u're like "not again!!!") and this time, i'm seriosuly considering it. cuz after the urge in the summer, i had the urge to grow mah hair long..and this whole week, i wore mah hair down straight..and it's really long now..and i dun like it. so now, i wanna cut it REAL SHORT. and mah dad actualyl said it might look nice..so i'm gonna take that compliment and run with it. i dunno. i also wanna high light it..i'm not sure though.

YO ELLEN! we both have the weirdest urges!!!!!! at the same exact time...it's so weird. i really think i should join ur family..u can join mine..but mine's not as kewl as urs. i have the biggest urges to write too. as i've said before..i wrote a few poems since monday..they're really funny. but i dunno if i should show any of u..u guys would probly think i'm weird..wait..too late for dat one. and i've also been writing soo much notes to EVERYONE. i even considered writing to mah art teacher cuz she's really kewl and we're actually pretty good frends..but then i thought it might be kinda awkward since she IS mah teacher. but derek i WILL write to u...i think u were kinda referring to me when u talked about ppl not writing back..cuz all over mah room, all i found were notes from u..like..20 pages long..so i will write back next week if not this week. i'll even write u a poem! well, i have to go now..back to mah own very boring blogger. ppl post there and try to start a convo!!!

posted: blue bear, 4:12:13 PM [*]

what a week.  and it's not even over yet, ugh.  i still feel so sick and i just want to go to sleep -- but i have to do this research on japanese-american internment camps and then i have to present it tomorrow with the rest of this group of people i find really annoyingly pushy.  so, i woke up today almost expecting to see white when i looked outside the window, but well.  i went to school and completely screwed up my geometry test, fell asleep in computer programming, almost forgot that it was a lab day for chem, and hm.  i guess it wasn't all that bad of a day.  right now, i'm just tired.  why am i blogging.

and wow.. you guys bake as a family, or what?  my family [quasi-family] never does anything.  i think it's because my mom and dad have weird ideas of fun -- they never have any get-togethers with friends, they never go out to eat, they never go see movies or watch tv other than mostly educational shows, and i could go on and on but i forget what else.  oh, that's right.. they like to get in the car and go drive around looking at trees.  i don't think my mom has ever baked a cake or a pie or cookies or even cupcakes.  my family is so weird and dysfunctional.  yesterday my dad told me while i was having a bad coughing fit, "have some character.. boys don't get sick".  or something along those lines.  and he tells me time after time about his horrible childhood in taiwan and how he had to join the marines.  apparently, he wants me to go through some of that too.  i was just kind of like "mm, okay".  i'm blogging too much.

so i brought back my report card the other day and gave it to them, and then my dad goes "mm, that's nice" and my mom was just like "oh, very good" in this non-chalant-"i don't really care" kind of voice.  and then she says, "hey, how come your english teacher says you don't participate?  you should work harder.."  hello, some nice words here..?  maybe something like "i'm proud of you" would've been nice, or even something with a little enthusiasm for these grades.  but i didn't say anything.  maybe i should have.

anyway, whatever.  i'm in a complaining kind of mood -- and i'm so tired.  by the way, what's on these playlists that are supposedly so good?  hey, and what are "whole load music didies".  i get curious and confused sometimes.  and hey ellen, if you're writing letters -- write me one.  letters are.. well, i've already gone through that whole thing already.  mm, it seems though that every time i used to write letters sometimes to other people that they never responded.  i think it's always me writing the last letter -- gee, i haven't written a letter in a while.  i don't think i've written anything by hand other than schoolwork for quite a long time.  hm, everyone write me.  and i want to go to that banana republic in the grove, after hearing grace pan talk about getting clothes at impossibly unbelievably low prices.  what's a "banana republic"..?  i'm sick.

posted: derek derek, 3:50:18 PM [*]

wowie..i come to look at the blogs, and woh..all of a sudden everyone blogged! i think maybe i want to start my own blog..put some more competition in there for derek. yeah yeah..just kidding i would never want to take away derek's bloggers. hah..

oh, hey sheila..come over my house!! we baked apple pie last night!! such a coincidence. i bet my family was all subconciously saying, "sheila should come over to try apple pie." =) haha..my family absolutely loves you..when i asked my mom about how the body worship went, she goes, "well....i only watched sheila. she's so graceful!" and my dad, last time he was like, "sheila did our dishes? wooow" and eugene..i can't think of anything..but he likes you. and i of course, despise you. =P jk..you konw i love ya roomie..sheesh, join my family. =)
anyways, there was no snow!!! its so upsetting..psh and my chem teacher tells us all, "yeah, we're not going to have school on thursday. there's going to be a noreaster." yeah, whatever.
anyways, this week has been..interesting to say the least. *ahem sheila* [the navy is looking to be an option for the future, even though i know its impossible. but now the offer is out there... ah!] i've also been in weird moods..like..these little quasi phases or something. i've got the letter writing phase, i actaully WANTED to practice piano this week, i wrote massive amounts of poems, and made a whole load music didies. dangit, i want recording equipment..or software..or a roland xp 80..or..yeah [btw derek..did i ever tell you that alex chen wrote me back about the recording stuff? coool! he seems like such a cool guy]. you know, you can't just drag the piano to the computer, or vice versa. heh..so those were my phases this week. stay tuned for next week...alrights..i'm out. see most of you guys on friday! aw yeah.

i really like my play list. i bet its better than ellie's. =P well, i think we have some of the same songs..hey, go download kepano green's emmanuel!! the keys player is amazingly good..and the vocals are tight. its so good and its LIVE. wowie

posted: ellen mellen, 3:19:02 PM [*]

hey guys. u people are still at school right now. im home....sick...blech. stupid cough. oh well...let me know hw guyz!! dooo doo i might come back and write more...bye



posted: Eric Lin, 1:26:07 PM [*]

steal another one of my bloggers, will you.  and sneak back in here [i didn't even notice, wow] to blog psychotically, yuck.  okay anyway, i was reading your blog [hm, by the way -- i'm talking to sheila] and you were talking about dawson's creek, and i was just wondering: what did the professor tell joey that pacey said about her that was so cute?  oh, well.  i guess it sounds like a pretty stupid question, but it was just a thought.  by the way, about my non-breaking spaces again.  they're not line spacing, they're spaces between sentences, like how this is a space here [ ] and well.  just to clear things up, i think.  did i say that my head is hurting me very much.  i really really hope it snows.

oh, i forgot.  mm, what expectations are you trying to live up to?  this is again directed toward that author of that last blog.  hm.  and show me those poems sometime, i need a good laugh.  my head hurts.  i wish i had some ice cream.  i think i'll go to sleep now and blog more tomorrow, because i know i'm forgetting something.

i'm a big procrastinator too.  and i'm lazy.

posted: derek derek, 10:36:58 PM [*]

HEY EILEEN!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so sorrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy!!! i was typing super fast ahh!! sorry! HI!!!!! do u even remember me?? if u dun, i was da weird gurl dat was always wit christine and ellen at camp. well anyways, yeah steph and ellen, u two are both definatly right. we NEED the snow. i mean, i hate the cold. i get cold in the summer, so why would i want it to be even colder? the other day i was sittin at the computer wit a tank wit a fleece over it, mah Pj's, mah thick socks and a comforter blanket on me and i was still chittering! i will be SOOO mad if it doesn't snow..but please pray for it NOT to snow on friday so that we can go to felly and see everyone. i miss u all sooo much. it felt like months since we've all seen each other..although it was only 3 days =P
anyways, does anyone know what apple pie tastes like?? i wanna know (i want to know what turns u on....no..i don't. ...i'm singing the song..LEAVE ME ALONE! i like to sing too!! except..i dun ahve a kewl playlist like ellie...ellie's just want too kewl for me =P ) cuz i wanna go try it at mcdonalds..dun ask why, i just have these sudden urges..like when i had the urge at like..2 AM to write ellen a note, or when i had an urge to braid mah hair like princess lea's (how do u spell her name) at 8 in the morning, or the time when i had the urge to curl mah eyelashes and it turned out folded instead of curled =P...but now i have the urge to buy a peice of apple pie from mcdonalds..i asked eric on the phone what it tasted like..and he goes 'good" psch. NOW i know what it tastes like, eric explained so well (eric! i'm kiddin!! i still luv u!) well, anyways, wow, i posted a lot more than i did at mah own blog..bleh. i think i like urs better derek. no fair. u always gotta be better than me =(...i know i know. i can never live up to the people in this room's expetations...*sigh. i'll be goin now..to eat mah mint chocolate chip ice cream..in the freezing cold..dun ask. =P (hi steph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) btw, did anyone go to mah blog "bluebear's wallie"? if u did...remember how i said i wanted to become a poet..after i made that poem in mah garage abotu being blue like the sky..and being mean like the grass..and eating kelp? well..i actually made some really funny..hilarious poems..that just crack me up soo much. dun ask why. yes, i know, i need help. leave me alone..i need mah rest...and a pill to calm me down...

posted: blue bear, 10:14:26 PM [*]

i bet i am a better procrastinator than yoooo...
wishlist: mountains and mountains of bubblewrap . muzik . moneymoneymoney . camera + film . snow!
we ... get ... no ... snow ...

posted: jo +, 10:11:04 PM [*]

man, I am the BEST procrastinator in the ENTIRE world.  THE.  BEST.  don't ever try to challenge me, I will procrastinate you out of this world.

well anyway.  I should be studying european history for the two-chapter test we have tomorrow from a new teacher whose tests I can't be sure I'll do well on, but, who cares.  :-)  I am a senior.  I do get to have senioritis now and then.  [that is, now.]  and, I really like singing.  I like singing along to my songs.  my songs on my playlist right now roooock.  ok.  I'm going to study instead of procrastinate b/c I should do well tomorrow [sigh] stupid conscience!

posted: ellie cheung, 9:49:19 PM [*]

hi everyone!! i haven't blogged in a while. when you don't blog for a day, all this new stuff comes in, and you feel out of the loop. it's almost as bad as missing a day of school =)
SNOW. it better snow....i mean, the whole purpose of having cold weather is so that it can snow, right? if it's 20 below outside and it doens't snow, it defeats the entire purpose. it's like we went through all that for nothing. *sigh* sometimes things just don't happen logically :)
woah, i just noticed that it looks like this thing is double spaced...is that what derek was talking about? hrm.. i am so dense. it's not even funny how stupid i can be sometimes... der :P
i hate walking home in the dark. it's so creepy. but at least my late-bus-driver drops me off a little closer to my house than usual. but it's still really scary. luckily, i'll only have to go home in the dark for another week or so. stupid yearbook deadline. this is what i get for starting on it a week and a half before the deadline. i really need some help with time management. i don't know how winter-sports-people do it. they get home so late everyday and it's pitch black out. it's crazy i tell ya.
hi sheila!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted: stephanie, 9:35:59 PM [*]

woh, it's going to snow tomorrow?  i didn't know that.  yes, i will certainly be hoping and praying [even though it's not one of those things probably that are really prayer material, but hey -- you can pray for anything].  and mm, you stopped practicing piano to check this blog.  i'm flattered.  my blog is also flattered.  it says "i'm flattered."  my head is killing me, i'm going crazy.  i was thinking about not going to school tomorrow, but then the only reason that i can't miss is that i borrowed this girl's composition book and then if i don't go to school, then i can't return it to her and she won't be able to do her work -- and then i would feel bad, and she'd probably be annoyed.  but then if it snows.. well.

hey, eileen.  how are you?  you should blog more.

posted: derek derek, 9:25:15 PM [*]

HI EILEEN!!! =) just a quick note..everyone, please please please pray for snow!! =) ok, i'm off to practice more piano. [funny thing..i actually stopped practicing for the reason of checking the blogs. *sigh* this is getting pretty sad...]

posted: ellen mellen, 8:05:55 PM [*]

sheila didnt say hi to mee..
sniff sniff..

posted: Eileen C, 7:33:34 PM [*]

oh no.  why are you using non-breaking spaces?  now we both have two spaces between our sentences, and i know you're not as obsessive as i am about these things.. oh well, what the heck.  my head is really hurting.  i was awake for at least a few hours last night with this major headache -- and then i went to school and took two tests.  well, i'm really what.. a little tired, i think.  i'll go take a nap or something -- if i can.  ugh.

posted: derek derek, 4:33:54 PM [*]

SHEILA!!!!! hey you. =) how come i'm not invited to your blog? =)

posted: ellen mellen, 11:18:25 PM [*]

man, I totally blogged earlier today.  maybe I was incredibly stupid and forgot to post it, but I really didn't think so.  ah weeeeelll.  last mention of college apps [until I get in somewhere, anywhere], I think I finished all of my essays today.  ALL OF THEM.  whee!  yes.  and I bought three cds today [derek called me spoiled, he's mean] but I haven't listened to any of them yet.  don't think I'm weird, I bought them b/c my bus ride is long and I usually listen to cd's on the bus ride and I got bored of all of mine.  [not spoiled not spoiled not spoiled.]  anyway, I feel like I just blogged so I'm going to stop.  later!

posted: ellie cheung, 10:20:56 PM [*]

oh my goodness.  [!!!!!!!!!!!!]  i wish i could feel as hyper as that.  i'm still coughing, but no sign of my lungs yet.  and i'm turning into such a spaz here.  maybe it's just because i'm sick, but i'm worrying [and worrying] about all those stupid tests and quizzes i'll have to take tomorrow and all this other stuff i'll have to make up, and i'm wondering if i'll be well enough to do well on everything.  it would really stink if i didn't.  being known as "that smart kid" and having people ask you all the time what your grades are and just having this stupid kind of reputation in general puts this weird pressure on you to do well.  somehow, i just feel like i have to push myself sometimes.  except usually it doesn't appear until a few periods before the test, and this is weird having this anxiety feeling now.  argh.  i think i need some rest.

hey, sheila.  wow, you're in -- thanks for joining.

posted: derek derek, 5:26:22 PM [*]

hey....i'm finally in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i'm wonderin if this is workin under mah account..cuz i still dont' see this blog under mah account. phne!!!!!!!!!! well...testing testing one two three!! HEY DEREK!!!!!!!! HEY ELLEN-LUV U!!!!! HEY STEPH!!!!!!!!! HEY COON!!!!!! HEY ERIC!!!!!! HEY...JO??????????? bye!

posted: blue bear, 4:56:52 PM [*]

ah..home again early [and at 2 50 too!! wowee]. yeah..being sick stinks doesn't it? everytime i stay home for one day, and come back the next, i always have this feeling that i got left behind..like everyone else moved on except for me. then..i feel stupid. =) but speaking of sick, just a werid thing happening lately in my french class...all these kids are dropping like flies! i think it might have something to do with the amounts of carbon monoxide in the room..the alarm keeps going off. thats a bad thing, right? yeah, i thought so too. so ghetto - i mean..so quasi.

oh, well i've been in a strange letter-writing mood. watch out, one of you might get one from me sometime this week or next week..i forget how slow snail mail is..but, i've been spitting out letters like theres no tomorrow. i think i need to go find some nice stationary. either that or buy more fobby stationary..so cool. werd.

alrights, well i'm out...derek, hope you feel better. don't cough up your lungs..that could end up to be a bad thing...

posted: ellen mellen, 2:50:26 PM [*]

great, i'm home sick.  i don't know whether i could've actually gone to school today and lasted through the whole day [i might've been able to, mm] but well.  i'm home and missing a big chem test and a spanish quiz.  and who knows what else is happening that i'm going to have to make up for tomorrow.  i really hate making up things.  i really hate missing school and going back the next day and having to figure out what people did yesterday and then having to do everything that they did yesterday and having to take tests and quizzes and whatever -- and then you have to do the work of that day, too.  it's like two days of school in one.  i hate it.  when i go back tomorrow, i'm going to have a chem test [which i still haven't really studied for] and a spanish quiz waiting for me, and then there's a geometry test that was already scheduled for tomorrow.  hopefully, i'll get through it all.  oh, and i have an english research oral visual presentation project about the japanese internment camps during world war two that i have to look up stuff about and i have to find a book by a nineteenth-century author to read and i have those tests and that quiz and other work i don't know about.  and i'm sick.  so much pressure -- i feel sometimes like i'm going to crack.  what a horrible time to get sick.  i'm feeling stress here.  i wish everything wouldn't be so complicated.

funny.  i wrote a really long entry [the longest, actually] on someone else's new blog yesterday, and she didn't even bother to acknowledge me with something like "hi, thanks for joining" -- while she did to other people who wrote like a collective total of five sentences.  somehow, i was kind of pretty disappointed.  so i deleted my post.  i was never there.  but it was probably a stupid thing to do.. she probably didn't do it on purpose.  i overanalyze everything and i'm always too sensitive, ugh.  and i'm feeling kind of sick now.. time to go cough up my lungs.  and look, i can edit my entry.  isn't that so cool?

posted: derek derek, 12:52:25 PM [*]

wow, i'm actually trying to study.  usually i have this "okay, let's just wing it" mindset about tests and things like this [except really really important things, then i prepare a little bit] but i found myself worrying a little yesterday.  so hm, i'm trying to memorize all this chem stuff, at the same time watching the second part of a "roswell" double-episode and blogging online.  i know, i am so good at time management.  anyway.  i am so lucky on tests; it's so weird.  somehow my cramming method kind of works.  one day my luck is going to run out, and i'm going to do horrible on something important and fail it, and i'll be crying on the ground or something.  mm, let's hope that never happens.

posted: derek derek, 9:21:10 PM [*]

hey, winter is cool in some ways -- i guess.  november and december are fun with all the holidays, but then january.  january is horrible.  and i think i've heard of that dancing arcade game.  it's all the rage [or used to be] in japan, right?  and you just move around on these things you have to step on, and then i don't remember what the point of the game was.  christmas presents -- ugh, my parents never buy me things i actually want or use or something cool.  i got a self-improvement book last year.. what does that tell me.  well.

posted: derek derek, 9:14:07 PM [*]

hi there. remember me? [um...]
ah im excited... only 3 weeks of school left! [i dunno about you all, maybe the same]. i love this time of year. dont i mention that in everyone one of my entries? hm. im going to actually have a christmas tree this year. yippee. i havent had one in 2 years... last year i spent christmas in california... so no tree. but got some kick ass presents... hee. christmas day last year was weird... it was about 70-75 degrees... and me and my cousin andy went to a mall at about 10 in the morning to play this arcade game - dance dance revolution. have ya heard of it? I LOVE IT!!! tell me if you've played!! i think me and andy that day played until the mall closed. oh no, we stopped for dinner, yes. :) i love to dance. even if it isnt really dancing. just jumping up and down on arrows... ok nevermind.
well i hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving holiday, i know i didnt, but screw it i dont like turkey anyways, and byebye.

posted: jo +, 8:10:30 PM [*]

oh, i'm sick.  and we're out of food.  there isn't anything to really drink besides bottled gatorade, and it's this purple "ice" kind that tastes kind of weird.  i woke up a few minutes ago from a nap that started before three, and my head is pounding and my throat is sore and i keep hacking with this really dry cough.  how pretty.  and um, yeah.  i did those yoga things today and i couldn't get my other leg to get on top of my leg with the foot resting on the inside of the other leg -- i think it might've been because of my shoe getting in the way or something.  yoga is weird.  it's like a big stretching period, ugh.

and that orange quasi-shirt poncho thing, i never actually bought it.  [refer to past blog.]  um, jon and eric were saying "that's so ugly, don't buy it, you're so stupid" and i just decided not to.  stupid jon and eric.  now i think i should've.  i'm never going shopping with them ever again.. i think shopping with a girl would be so much better.  or with a mom that pays for your purchases with her credit card, but that's not going to happen ever.  i need a coat or jacket, a scarf, and gloves, hm.  i don't really like wearing that ski jacket everywhere and having a butt pocket all the time.  that thing has like a million pockets and i lose things in them.  mmpf.

and by the way, sheila made a blog.  you guys so cannot leave this blog and go to hers, because -- just because.  this thing means a lot to me.. kind of, a little, okay.  you guys just can't leave.  and if you do blog on hers, you have to blog on mine more..!  *sigh*  well.. whatever, then.

hm, "werd".  yo aiight man homie bro what up.  i need a bigger ghetto vocabulary.

posted: derek derek, 7:47:08 PM [*]

a poncho?  that's so quasi.

anyway, I'm tired and not very ... er ... not having anything interesting to say right now.  except I think I got put in the front line for cheerleading.  because I'm a senior or something.  that's ... interesting.  no, we don't ever have any games, so nobody can ever come.  how sad.

um, I swear I'm going to finish my college applications this week.  [I complain about college apps way more than stephanie complains about chemistry.]  and, ally mcbeal's on tonight!!  I love robert downey jr.'s character, he is sooo cool.  unfortunately I heard that robert himself had like ... a drug problem.  like he just got out of prison three months ago from it or something un-great like that.  [sigh] but ... ally mcbeal still rocks.

okay, my normal flow was somewhat interrupted b/c I decided to add in non-breaking spaces.  I think it's too much of a pain to do.  no more.

posted: ellie cheung, 6:57:51 PM [*]

hey eric! wow, you actually blogged. how cool. woh woh woh, indeed.
erg, i should be studying for chemistry. what am i doing??!! why am i blogging??! *sigh* i have no time management skills. this is bad. very bad.
i've noticed that i complain a lot about chemistry...sorry guys :)
we did these new stretches in yoga today. man, i am so not flexible. arg. my hamstrings were killing me and my back was too. how sad. :( it's amazing how quickly my "in shape-ness" went away after field hockey. and it's only been, like, a month. dang.
it's really cold down here. but not so cold that i feel naked ;) werd.
i still don't get the quasi shirt concept. is it a poncho? ponchos are funny. you should wear this quasi shirt sometime, derek. unless you said you returned it and i don't remember reading about it...i think i'm going insane. again. ah, well.
i need to go eat now. byebye y'all

posted: stephanie, 6:46:31 PM [*]

ah..i am actually home at 3:35! sportless seasons are fun. i get to go home and...be a bum. words cannot possibly express how freakin tired i am. i am so tired that..it hurts when i blink. ouch. anyways, thanks for clearing up what a "quasi shirt" was derek. it seems like i have been hearing the word "quasi" a lot from you lately...sooner or later you're going to start saying, "hey, thats so quasi!" or..something like that...or...just don't mind me. i'm tired.

this weekend was pretty darn good i must say, although choir took up way too much time than it should have...and i got no sleep. but there's nothing like eating a lot of food in the span of a few days..saying thanks a lot..and bonding with people. aw shucks, i love my friends! =) you guys rock. =)

well, i'm off to go rest my eyes for a while. HI ERIC! hah



posted: ellen mellen, 3:42:05 PM [*]

wow!! it actually works!!! i can write stuff!!!!! woh woh woh!!! so kewl!! hehe. anywayz...hi people. how do u find the time to write sooo much. i never write a lot. and if i do...its a rare time. starting next week..i start track and i wont have time to do a lot of stuff. aagh!!! so...yea..jsut saying hi...hehe...hi!!

posted: Eric Lin, 8:47:37 PM [*]

hehe quasi-shirt.. dats great. hmm. so ellen wuz just so disappointing the whole weekend. and then i felt so guilty cuz we were doing prayers.. and she said such a nice prayer about valuing our friendship and.. ahhh im so stupid...sniff.
so... i wuz at church until 4. ugh.. and i ate so much gross pot luck food. i am soo disugsted wit myself. there wuz like this.. yam-pie.. i cant describe it. and then the noodles were bad or something.. and this lady wuz running around yelling at ppl not to eat it.. even though all the guys had already shoved down like.. 5 plates in 2 minutes. eww.. how do ppl eat dat fast? wouldnt u get gas.. or choke.. ??
hmm.. wat else can i blog about.. oo.. in service this morning.. the little kids were singing.. hehe.. they're so funny.. one ob them smacked the other one and she collapsed.. okie, dats not so funny.. its a little sad. but.. little kids are cute.. violent.. but cute. and there's this one girl.. who's like the epitome ob the ideal azn kid.. she's like this little prodigy. she's so good at everything. she's also all snobby about it. she's like, eww, u cant spell fish? wat kind ob 5 year old ru? hmph.
so.. im done.
i've drained myself.
o yes.. and.. friday wuz reallie good.. and it wuz fun seeing everyone.. and meeting connie. except, u make me feel short. ok, now im reallie done.




posted: Eileen C, 8:07:29 PM [*]

yuck, i just got back from church.  i'm tired too.  we had to sing again for the chinese congregation and, well -- hm.  a quasi-shirt is kind of like a shirt but then not like a shirt.. it was kind of like a pancho thing made of waterproof plasticky [a little, not really] fabric and.  if it's still there next time i go, and that'll be unlikely unless all guys who see it are guys like jon and eric, then i'll buy it.  i want a pair of nice comfortable good-looking pants in that gray-blue color.  i have this craving for clothing, for some reason.  i need [or want, whichever]a nice jacket-coat-whatever, too.  my closet is full of old weird-looking clothes.

mm, chem test on tuesday.  have to start studying solubility rules..

posted: derek derek, 2:43:18 PM [*]

I am tired. do you know what I should be doing right now? writing a paper. about helen of troy. comparing and contrasting two poets' views of her. does that sound fun to you? I cannot BELIEVE my english teacher assigned an essay. I physically cannot believe that. hm, I think I have a french oral to write too, but that's no big deal because I always write them right before in study hall. anyway, back to complaining about english. you have no idea how little work I've done this year, and then on tuesday I had two tests (in a ROW I might add) and I actually got assigned homework (I haven't done homework yet I don't think). GR. and it was thanksgiving weekend too ... yeah, thanks a lot ...

anyway, it was a good weekend. I didn't go online much. firstly my brother was home so he kind of monopolized it as brothers tend to do. and then there were a bunch of other college people home too whom I figured maybe I would like hanging out with because I haven't seen them in ... oh ... two months ... or more. so that was fun. actually I watched them play football for like an hour and ... it didn't bother me. and I was cold. and I didn't get mad. I was kind of surprised at that.

and, what's a quasi-shirt? and, I actually didn't go into AE when I went to the mall because I didn't have time. but I got a purse! yay! and it was cheap of course. the thing I love most about department stores is that there's usually some extra discount that you don't know about so when you go to pay it's less than you expected. my dad paid for my purse for me from stern's and he was like, "wow, ellie! it was five dollars less than I expected! that's so cool!" and I was like, ah, the joys of shopping ... argh ... that was kind of weird. my arms hurt from typing ... I think I'm unused to it. that's odd.

posted: ellie cheung, 2:25:16 PM [*]

oh, by the way.  have you seen those cool holiday drawstring [or whatever-string] bags from AE, the clear ones with the snowflakes and the star in the middle, that has the string attached to the bottom and top?  those are so cool.  in fact, my messed-up friends went to the store and bought ninetynine cent necklaces each, just so that they could ask for a bag.  and then i [on a stupid whim] asked for another too, so now i have two of them..!  wow.  i know, we're so cool.  and there was this orange quasi-shirt thing that i wanted to get, but they kept telling me "no, you'll look retarded" -- but now i think i should've bought it.  i mean, what do they know.  i'm having shopping regrets, weird.  it must be like some kind of weird consumer disease.  i'm going insane.

posted: derek derek, 10:28:58 PM [*]

no, i bought a hat because it was only five bucks.  and i don't think i'll ever end up wearing it, unless there's some reason.  and i'm annoyed i couldn't find a cheap pair of pants that i liked and that fit me -- both pairs of pants i got at gap didn't work out.  stupid stretch khakis labeled twentyeight waist ended up being marked wrong [on the tag and on the pants, ugh] and they're like thirtyfour or something, so i gave them to my dad.  the other pair of khakis in the color i liked [it's like "stone", i think, like gray-blue color], they're too tight in the leg.  like, the opening is too small.  i guess i'll have to return it.  haha, and get six-ninetynine from my dad for the other khakis.  i can't believe i bought clothes for him, eew.  i want to go to the mall again.  oh well, i'll find a pair of pants sometime.  and i have a shortage of t-shirts and sweaters and, well.. everything.  i might return this other shirt i got, too.  hm.  and i'm wondering if i should've kept those three-quarter length pants i bought and returned.  hey, they were only four-ninetynine.  mmpf.

i still feel weird about my hair.

posted: derek derek, 10:25:43 PM [*]

hm..so yeah, i didn't see you guys at the mall derek! i'm sorry i couldn't get my mom to drive you guys..but..yeah she has issues sometimes over things like that. my family is anal about me and the opposite sex..EVEN if you guys are just friends, i don't think i would ever date you, and one of you is claiming to be my "gay friend," cause he says that every girl wants a gay friend. yeah. anyways, i'm giving thanks for being chinese and frugal..always finding those really cheap on sale things at the mall! i got new black shoes for like..70% off. and these nice gray pants on sale. oooo ahhhh. yup. i'm so asian that i was the only one at tgifridays that ordered water. heh

anyways [i think thats my only method of transitioning], derek, your hair looks fine!! stop being so girly about it, cause it looks fine. hm..is that why you keep buying hats? to cover your "bald" head?? right. and now you want my a-bien hat! don't worry, you'll get it..it doesn't look right on girls. anyways again, eileen it was cool seeing you and ellen:the crappy host. i didn't get to talk to you guys much..hope you had a good time. ellen..hm..its weird how far back we/our families go and we're even that close anymore..since what..like the elementary school days. ah..thats always a little weird. but its allll good. haha..

i liked friday. felly was cool. i discovered my inner talent of scrambling for transparencies. yeah, i got skills. =)




posted: ellen mellen, 8:25:19 PM [*]

sniff.  sniff sniff.  so i just came back from the mall.  i bought a bunch of inexpensive things that i'm not sure if i'll keep -- i got a hat for four-ninetynine and well, i don't wear hats.  and i got a few shirts that i don't know if i want.  and i saw this pink shirt at structure that was only ten dollars but then jon lee said that eugene had it, so i didn't get it.  something about eugene not liking other people having the same clothes he does.. well, i probably wouldn't want that either.  i still feel like i'm bald.  and i can't remember at all what homework i had to do over the weekend -- i think i had a project or something.  let me go check.

posted: derek derek, 5:34:53 PM [*]

okiee.. so im blogging again.. im at ellen's house. she is a crappy host. i come over and she's like, shoot, i hafta do my college apps. so i just slept the whole time. so now.. she's taking a shower.. and im blogging and complaining about her.. and im the only person online.. cuz eveyrone else has life. i should hab a life.. i mean, i planned my whole weekend.. but ellen is mean. sniff. awrite.. so ill blog again later when i think ob something interesting to say.. if i ever do.. but i never do.. so bye.

posted: Eileen C, 4:59:12 PM [*]

by the way, don't chinese people ever teach their children manners?  like etiquette [sic] such as how to eat with the mouth closed, such as how to act in social situations, such as sharing, such as how to approach people to talk to them?  every kid i said "hi" to last night just went "mmpf" or something and turned away and went to stand in a corner or something.  sometimes i hate being chinese.  on the other hand, being chinese is pretty cool sometimes.  like when you can pretend you don't speak english, that's always fun.  hm, i'm thankful for being chinese.  and weird, they didn't ask us to say what we were thankful for.  ugh.

posted: derek derek, 4:42:45 PM [*]

ok.. so derek is trying to make me blog.. not forcefully.. but he tries to sneak it into convos. like.. we'll be talking about trees.. and i'll be like, yea, trees are green, and then he'll say, speaking ob trees.. u habnt blogged lately.. so. here i am. blogging.
thanksgiving sucked.. mine wuz very asian. my parents were lecturing me on my less than perfect report card. sniff sniff. soo typical. and, we didnt even hab turkey or mashed potatoes. we had rice.. and like.. beef.. and chinese food. but well, i guess the point is to be thankful ob everything. which i wuznt, because i wuz all grumpy.
sooo im coming to mccc tonite wit ellen. so.. i guess i'll see everyone tonite.


posted: Eileen C, 4:41:30 PM [*]

oh happy day.  it certainly is a time to give thanks.  i fixed my blog..!  all the archives are up and fixed and working, thank you.  and well, that's about it.  i've gotten the hang of this thing.  except i'm still kind of frustrated because it seems as though everyone i invited has joined my blog, yet half of them don't blog.  allison just told me that she can't get in, and there's always an error message or whatever.  i have no idea what's wrong.  well, if you're having problems, deal with it.  fix it.  and if you're on my blog, you'd better blog, you'd better blog.  i fixed my blog, i fixed my blog, i fixed my blog..

posted: derek derek, 4:38:45 PM [*]

i had the worst thanksgiving meal ever last night.  yuck, it was all chinese food, with the exception of the dry and tasteless turkey.  hello, some gravy?  mashed potatoes and cranberry jelly whatever-it's-called and stuffing and pie would've been nice too. i had two tiny pieces of turkey, and that was it.  and it was a bunch of strange chinese kids i didn't know, one fat senior who made himself quite at home [he put his feet up all over their furniture and kept laying in different positions and stuck the remote control in his mouth and made this weird "huh huh huh" laugh while watching wrestling], his little brother who went into a room with a computer and never came out, and a bunch of girls who kept looking at me weird and then running around and giggling.  and this was the latest we'd ever stayed at some pot-luck thing -- we went home around twelve-thirty.  ugh.  i wish i went to boston market or something.  that sweet potato side dish is so good..

so i was looking through miscellaneous store advertisements around the house today, and it seems that every store has some kind of huge sale with the lowest prices of the holiday season.  um, okay.  hm, i want to go to the mall.  and i want to go get the tape for "mission: impossible two" too -- i just saw it again last night.  it could probably be the best movie i've really seen in a long time.  i want to go to the mall.  mmpf.

and i wish i had a karaoke machine and a room where i could be a dj.

posted: derek derek, 1:23:31 PM [*]

hey look, its the day after thanksgiving! i wake up, and what do i find? my brother left to go to menlo park mall, my parents went to go to some other mall, and...they left me at home. hmph. i want to go to the mall too. and they all wake up entirely too early for their own good.

anyways, so yeah, their house does have smoke machines and lights..and this dj room thing..and a whole lot more of stuff [i'm refraining from using the word crap]. hm..ask ellie about it. i'm sure she's been there too. it was the same really really big gathering of taiwanese people..we [the "kids"] didn't do much cept eat..watch a lot of dvds..and eat some more. so that was my thanksgiving! i still feel reaaaally disgustingly full.

posted: ellen mellen, 10:14:41 AM [*]

i wish i had the initiative to go running once in a while, you know, voluntarily. but i really don't. my mom tells me to exercise sometimes, but i don't. *sigh* i feel like i have no muscles or anything....i'm just a pile of skin, fat, bones, organs, and hair. hmm. well, isn't that a lovely picture? :P
anyways, i just ate dinner. THANKSGIVING dinner. oy. i feel full. but we didn't have turkey. we had this chinese-fondue-type-thing. huo-guo. i don't know if that's correct pin-yin.....perhaps i should ask alter derek derek.
my brother is having a jam session with himself right now. it's music to my ears. he's just too good. ;)
i want a smoke machine and lights in my house...and a dance floor. it'd be kind of like my own private disco. oh, and karaoke. no party is ever complete without karaoke. my friend has karaoke at her house. it's so cool because it rates your accuracy. ooooh, i've just been informed that there is a new pokemon called karaokemon. wow. and he's just like jigglypuff. YES!
okay. i'm done blogging.

posted: stephanie, 8:24:14 PM [*]

um, who has smoke machines and lights in their house.  since that was rhetorical, i didn't use the question mark.  and i just saw "unbreakable" -- don't go see it, don't go see it.  it was so much more worse than "the sixth sense".. ugh.  the plot built up to this point where you're wondering [a little, not all that much] what's going to happen, and then it ends really stupidly.  like mr. writer-producer-director lost his train of thought or something.  and what's up with that guy's hair.  okay, anyway.

i think my parents are dragging me to their friend's house tonight to have a turkey dinner and whatever -- i don't think we've ever stayed home for thanksgiving.  hopefully, they'll have good food.  and i have a question: what's the difference between the usage of "me" and "myself"?  but like my other question, this one'll probably go unanswered too.  mm.  and i've always wondered what they mean when they say "the revolution will not be televised" and other quotes i can't think of at the moment.  i'll have more burning questions later.

posted: derek derek, 4:56:23 PM [*]

wheeee its turkey day! so exciting..i think. i already ate too much while "cooking"..not a good sign. thanksgiving does not feel like thanksgiving. i'm not so holiday-y this year..i miss the old thanksgivings where we actually get together with relatives and crap [i still use that word too much...]. instead, we all go to this person's house for thanksgiving..it seems more like a taiwanese businessmen convention instead. and..i don't know half the people there. and..it gets really weird when the dad breaks out the smoke machines and lights..yeah...but they're cool people.

anyways...hm, connie apparently this year it is possible for 5 hour practices..our "gym" can be separated into like..5 courts or something. never seemed that big to me, but....yeah. i still want to go to the gym to get buffer. i think eugene still wants to take up ballroom dancing...

anyways again, scary things to think about: ellie is driving. dave wei is driving. dang, i feel old..i don't know why, but i do. and..ellie has such a nice car!! alrights, i'm gonna split and go run or something. i feel chunky now, and i haven't even eaten dinner yet..darn. =)

posted: ellen mellen, 4:01:00 PM [*]

barf.  i'm going to see "unbreakable" in an hour, or fiftyfour minutes to be exact.  and since i liked "sixth sense".. well, i hope i like it.  anyway, turkey day's been pretty uneventful so far.  woke up, tried to do something while listening to my mom's students banging away on the piano with their dirty fingers with all those germs and everything [yuck, i had to play it -- but i wiped it with a towel and disinfectant stuff], and tried to pick up where i left off on final fantasy seven on my computer.  stupid game won't load anymore.  and i was at least thirty hours into it.  i guess i'll have to reinstall it or something, mm.

and i'm wondering if i can go with these people to garden state plaza tomorrow.  they still don't know [after two weeks, ugh] if they're going or not or what time they're going or when they're leaving or anything.  i just wanted to go to the mall and possibly hopefully meet eileen there.  except oh well, i don't know if i'm going or if i'll have a ride home or a lot of things.  maybe i'll know by tonight.

you know, it's really annoying when [students'] parents come and try to chat with me.

posted: derek derek, 1:31:18 PM [*]

hm. HM. I don't have much time I'm supposed to go eat lunch. my brother's home, that's not very exciting. so are like ... brian and phil and all those other college people, which is kind of kill. argh I went to see unbreakable last night and I hated it. but don't let that stop you from watching it b/c you may like it. maybe I should start putting non-breaking spaces in my blogs to really confuse everybody. maybe not. it doesn't feel like thanksgiving at all. I had a piano lesson this morning which just made it feel absolutely NOT like a holiday. argh. and besides that ... er... yeah. I keep thinking it's saturday too b/c I went out last night which I don't usually do on a casual wednesday night. but I got a present. :-) it's nice too.

I LOVE driving!!! it is the most fun thing in the world. and I really love driving my car too, it probably sucks to ride in but it's a really nice thing to drive. ALL RIGHT! I am out. ... why do I keep saying that?

posted: ellie cheung, 1:11:13 PM [*]

and ellen....you're....not doing basketball??! *sniff* i was looking forward to seeing you again! now i'm never gonna see you again! and....i don't think they can do 5 hr practices just because...they dont' have time and boys have to practice too. and, youv'e got tryouts on sunday! mine are only on friday and saturday . i'm gonna miss you honey! honey? honey?! yeah, you're my honey. sweet....just the way i like it..... mmmmm.


posted: Connie Yung, 7:59:19 PM [*]

darius eh? i like that name. i like darian better. i like julian too. i like ian too. i think i just like -ian names... i'm weird like that. yeah, so tomoddo's turkey day. how exciting! hm...my arms are about to fall off cuz i just came home from piano lessons and my teacher made me play that "brutally monstrous" piece about 6 times in a row. and...woh. i'm tired. and...i'm gonna go see a movie now, er...soon. i think "the grinch" just because...he's cute. yeap. i'm a dark angel. and, i'm a speed demon! cuz i can drive! and you can't! well...most of you can't. =)

ok there's this really annoying girl i know and she works in the mall and she was like, i'm probably gonna work here even in college. and i was like what?! and she was like, yeah cuz i'm going to princeton. i'm like...what if you don't get into princeton, and she's like, or i'm going to stanford cuz my mom is moving to california. and i'm thinking to myself...well, these schools aren't exactly the easiest to get into....so i say...what if you don't get into stanford or princeton? and she's like.....quite snuggly....i will. in a snobbish way. so....yeah, that annoyed my slightly...i just thought you'd want to know. so now you do...and now.....make sure you never show this page to another person ever again for the slight chance she sees this. then she'll bite my head off...or whack me over the head with her almighty viola that she can't play. BUT...my cello's bigger!! AND i have that pointy endpoint that can kill someone with a simple *POKE* boom...byebye! ok so yeah. bye

posted: Connie Yung, 7:53:56 PM [*]

hm, just something i thought of.  that terrorist guy darius in "dark angel" last night looked like he was straight out of a gap ad.  he had that sky blue turtleneck and the black coat [i don't know what the styles are called, i'm so sorry] and the gray pants and well.  he reminded me of those posters all over the gap stores.  okay, that was a pointless blog.  that's a cool show, though.

posted: derek derek, 5:28:29 PM [*]

yeah.....right....choke me to death....

posted: stephanie, 5:27:01 PM [*]

i saw it and i know i have one more space than everyone else between sentences, because i manually put them in myself..!  it's this HTML thing where the browser doesn't read more than one space [it just skips over the rest], so if you want to have two spaces between anything, you have to write it out.  it's called a "non-breaking space".. i think they used it for names or something while submitting forms and whatnot.  not sure.  and hm, i'm "strangly meticulous" -- watch out.  um, i might carefully choke you to death.

posted: derek derek, 5:24:03 PM [*]

wow, i can't believe derek actually saw that there was one more space between his sentences than ellie's.....how strangly meticulous.
argh. guess what i did today, the first half a day of break? homework. man, i am such a geek. oy. this blows. why do teachers give homework over thanksgiving break???? WHY?! *sigh* i'm overreacting. and i'm starting to get into the "screw homework" mode....
we got our pictures back today. if you start from the bottom of the picture and go up, it's decent. then you get my face and it looks like my eyes are really really small and they're are rolling into the back of my head. well, yeah, i know i was just blinking, but it looks so creepy. i need to get rettakes. my chemistry teacher wanted all of our pictures, and when i said i was getting rettakes, she gave me a funny look and said that i better give her one of the rettakes. then she said that's she would never forget. kind of funny, kind of scary, all at once.
hmmm, security breeches..interesting concept.....


posted: stephanie, 5:09:51 PM [*]

oh, and if you look closely: i have one more space between sentences.

posted: derek derek, 12:28:35 PM [*]

um um, i said "breach".. not "breech".  wouldn't "security breeches" be like some weird kind of pants or something?  sounds like something from a mix of huck finn and.. well, something.  i don't know.  i want to do something today.  someone call me.  maybe i'll ride my bike to the shopping center or to the movies or something.  i want some fun.  or something.  or something.

posted: derek derek, 12:26:23 PM [*]

hey, I guess derek and I have similar blogging styles because ... okay I think it's mostly b/c I blog right after I've read his blogs so my writing style takes on his. yeaaah. I don't overanalyze ever. [but I use capitals I's and he doesn't. wow, I am a loser.]

okay, it's 12:35 so why am I here writing? someone's supposedly coming home tonight. someone is not home yet. and someone else's brother [that's eugene] is still up obsessing over his college applications and that brother is not talking to me or helping at all. [grr.] grr. oops. yeah. grr. grrrrrr. [what else is there really to say at 12:35? well stuff, but only really in the summer when other people are actually awake. oh I don't have school tomorrow. but I've had full days for the past two days if that makes anyone feel any better.]

anyway, by the time anyone reads this their thanksgiving break will have started anyway. someone else's thanksgiving break has started already. that someone is not home. hm. curious.

okay. I finished two books since saturday. [the main reason I bought and read them is so that I'll have something to write down for columbia's application, which asks what books you've read and asks you to distinguish between in and out of school reading so a bunch of in-school books would probably imply that I don't read except for school. and of course that's not true.] anyway, they were pretty good. the one I just finished [an hour ago] was called "the pilot's wife." it's an oprah's book club book. YEAH, BABY. it was good ... it was sort of detective-ish. and derek ... don't ruin books' endings. [only I can do that. with scary stories.] ... okay I am out of here.

posted: ellie cheung, 12:40:27 AM [*]

haha..just a comment. remember those like..."experimental" standarized tests we got in 8th grade? [the name and / or acronym escapes my mind at the moment] i remember the dates being delayed because the security was breeched. haha..they were apparently really upset over that and set up a group to "track down potential security breeches"

posted: ellen mellen, 10:31:31 PM [*]

hm..sports, eh? i just decided [like...5 minutes ago] that i won't do a winter sport. basketball..i thought i was going to do since i did it last year..but..tryouts are on friday (8 15) saturday (8 15) and sunday (9 00)? isn't it kind of weird that i actually have to skip church to go to basketball tryouts? thats just not right. then i discovered that practices this year would be at the minimum of 5 hours everyday. so..i would have to skip piano/every club i'm in/friday felly/worship? hm...thats just not right. so i'm not doing basketball. plus, there are some really good freshmen. they're all so..good and fast and...bigger than me. they would kick me. why didn't they go to RBC??? and why does it seem that everything i commit to this year is coinciding with everything that i commited to last year?? i dunno..whatever. i wonder how much weight i'll gain this winter from no sports.

scary thing is..that..i'm actually beginning to worry over how much crap [i say that word too much] is on my college transcript. freaky!! sheesh..all these crap decisions for the future..i don't like it.

one thing i noticed: ellie and derek have really similar blogging styles. i get confused. =)

posted: ellen mellen, 10:29:04 PM [*]

well, some random things i remember.  today was supposed to be part two of our history test, and the teacher came in and told the class that "the security of the test has been compromised."  i almost started laughing out loud, but um, i didn't.  what kind of person says things like that?  like "we have a security breach, class."  i was almost expecting him to say "red alert" or some other military thing.  he's bald.  history's an easy class.

i've been watching more tv than usual lately.  i saw "dark angel" just a few minutes ago and "roswell" yesterday -- they're pretty good.  maybe i should watch more.  i was reading "bridge to terabithia" yesterday at kumon when i didn't have any work, and i finished the book.  it's so sad.. the girl dies, and it was just really really sad.  i would probably be completely devastated if any one of my friends died.  it looks like the boy in the book got over it pretty quickly, though.  maybe that's a good thing, i don't know.  what am i talking about.

it snowed for a while yesterday.  around seventhirty or so.  i'm sick.

posted: derek derek, 10:24:01 PM [*]

so this thing is kind of fixed, for now.  yesterday the whole thing was down and i was thinking "what the heck" every single time i tried to go in and blog.  it kept saying something about two hours left, even many hours later.  at least i can blog now.  i hope.

mm, we got our report cards yesterday.  my mom and dad were just like "good job, keep it up" in a really apathetic way.  i don't think they even paid attention, really.  c'mon.. they should a little, but i guess i'm glad they don't care so much about these things.  some people are so pressured by their parents that grades are everything [or a lot of things] for them.  my parents are just like "mm, okay" whenever i tell them something about schoolwork.  oh well.  i guess that's a good thing.

i went to get a haircut yesterday at that place in shrewsbury by fort monmouth, that barber shop full of korean ladies.  i told the one cutting my hair [i think she was the owner] to not cut it too short, and she started moving her scissors really fast and i was scared whenever it came really fast and close to me, so i closed my eyes.  and when i opened them, my hair was mostly gone.  it's so short now, ugh.  i have no idea what to do with it.  maybe i should get some gel and hairspray.. not the imitation generic kind my mom has in the house.  my head feels kind of cold.  the hair had better all grow back soon.

and november is cool.  i need to improve in tennis.  mm, turkey.

posted: derek derek, 4:18:56 PM [*]

hey, I do sports. I'm a sporty girl. anyone will attest to that. just check out my cheerleading. [sigh] life is so sad.

anyway, I'm a bit mad at internettrash [the server for my site]. it's been down for like... three whole days. yeah... I think I'm the only one that it bothers b/c nobody else goes to see it, but ... yeah. maybe I should switch servers. that would be fun right? actually that would pretty much be a pain.

hm I just got a craving for mountain dew b/c of a commercial. I guess those do work once in a while... grr.

posted: ellie cheung, 10:11:08 PM [*]

ok so hey. yeah, i don't see the bold thing, but ok. nd november isn't that cool...we have 3 full days of school this week. and then i have bball tryouts for 3 hrs on friday and 3.5 hrs on saturday. kinda messes up my plans cuz i'm gonna spend my whole weekend either running around frantically gasping for air, or sprawled out on my bed waiting for the pain in my legs to go away... and i can't eat a lot on thursday either or i'll puke all over the court on friday. yeah...the joy of sports. that's why i do it! i haven't eaten piggishly on thanksgiving since 8th grade! all because winter sports have to start on the day after thanksgiving every year! so yeah. ok, it's 8:57. and xfiles is gonna start in like...3 minutes. no kidding! ciao wo(man)s...
and i wish my family was a baking family too...i haven't baked anything since...oh i dunno. like...16 years ago...

posted: Connie Yung, 8:58:50 PM [*]

this blog is so messed up.  why is half of ellen's post in bold?  and i had to manually put my first two weeks of blogs onto this stupid page.  it'll be there for now, while i go e-mail blogger and ask them what the heck happened.  and i'll complain about that boldface thing, too.

posted: derek derek, 8:32:22 PM [*]

ugh, i'm wondering how to put up the archives of all these blogs.  earlier today i thought that all the old ones were gone forever and i was thinking "okay, i'm going to cry" -- anyway, they might still be there.  i'm going to go look for them..

posted: derek derek, 7:38:46 PM [*]

you know what? they should reinstate the turkey man. we all miss the turkey man.
baking is fun...i wanna bake. my family is not a baking family. except for baking cake straight from the box. but i don't think that's technically baking. we're more of a ready made pastry product family. yumm..
i watched hercules today. what a movie. baby pegasus is sooooo cute! aw... =)
three half days this week....then two days without school!!!!!!!!! *sigh* i love november..


posted: stephanie, 6:17:19 PM [*]

so..speaking of thanksgiving..and..eating at thanksgiving..so..me and christine are baking cookies now. *ahem* a piece of our conversation:


me- "i wanna bake."
steeny - "i do too."
me - "lets bake."
me- "i don't have normal flour. but i do have wheat flour."
me - "i don't have brown sugar either."
christine - "oh. ok!"

< a lil while later >
me - "we're making 4 dozen cookies???!?!?!?"
christine- "no, just make them really mutated and fat like mine."
me - "oh...ok!"

yeah, so that's us baking. we concluded we should have a cooking show..sounds good, doesn't it? oh..well...all you church people, you'll probably be eating some of these...yeah.....right...have fun with that.

i miss the turkey man.

posted: ellen mellen, 4:20:07 PM [*]

can't believe thanksgiving's in a week. I went to the mall today too [just for like 40 minutes and all I had was $20 so I just bought a strawberry frosty, YUM!] and they had christmas displays up in macy's. I was like ... hm ... this is odd. yeah, guess thanksgiving's not really an advertised thing. I heard this kid being like "I can't wait for santa to come!" and I immediately thought to myself, "bet you're not even thinking about the ... turkey-man ... coming ..." and then I realized there was no man for thanksgiving.

ANYWAY. I bought a book today. I hope it's good.

posted: ellie cheung, 10:51:07 PM [*]

so, how nice.  an insane room for an insane person.  and by the way, what catalog did you order from?  just wondering.. i went to the mall today and it seemed like all the racks had been picked through already and the only stuff left was extra-large or really small shirts and pants or ones in ugly colors or ones that were really expensive still.  maybe i went to the wrong mall.  i'll try the other one next week -- i hope i have a ride.  anyone want to go to the mall after choir practice?

blech.. just came back from an orchestra concert.  my fingers are stinging, it's really strange.  this doesn't usually happen -- i guess i don't practice enough.  and the old people were really weird.  there was this one guy with suspenders and a curly mustache who kept falling asleep and waking up.  and then there was this weird lady who seemed to be looking right at me with a blank stare every time i turned to look at the audience during the breaks in the music.  but it was an okay concert.  and everyone's invited to the one on december seventh at the red bank high school!  i think it's a thursday..

posted: derek derek, 9:27:31 PM [*]

wow! i've almost forgotten how much fun it is to catalog shop! i got my shirt-shirt-skirt-necklace in the mail... its made my day!!! and they fit!!! whoopdeedoo! hee.
and bubbelwrap. they sent bubblewrap. i am a happy person.

i doubt you all know about my trampoline room. well its my future dream room - a trampoline floor so i can jump everywhere... with padded walls. all the stuff like tvs, stereos, tables, etc, they all can go into the wall at the touch of a button [or the sound of a clap] so all potential hazardous obstacles will be removed. but im seriously starting to consider bubblewrap walls. sure you pop them and its gone. but what if they were re-inflatable? hm... betcha didnt think about THAT did ya! im going to be famous.

posted: jo +, 3:45:52 PM [*]

i haven't blogged today.  wow.

anyway, my stupid blog got erased and i have to reremember the first half of it [it's a long story].  anyway, my question wondering thought of the day is: how does a person hug a person a lot shorter than he/she is?  i mean, if you bend down, it seems kind of insulting in a condescending [literally "descending"] way.  and if you don't bend down, they either get a faceful of your shoulder, or if they don't do the head move-to-the-side thing, then they get hit in the head or the face [depending on how short they are] with your chin.  so how does a person do it?  i hugged my grandma the other day as she was leaving, and she left this lipstick mark on my shoulder.  i don't think she even noticed.  i hope it's not the indelible kind.. well, it's my high tech t-shirt.  i wonder if i really care.  but someone tell me how.

so yoga today was boring.  we learned how to breathe and do weird stretching things that make breathing a little weird.  and i'm just wondering, how can anyone push their knee to the floor with that exercise when you bend your leg and put your foot on the other thigh?  my knee was at least five inches off the floor.  maybe i'm just really really inflexible.  and guess what, i'm going to the mall on saturday.  hooray [said with a little enthusiasm, really].

little kids smell.  and pick their noses.  and then try to pick mine.  with the finger that they picked their own nose with.  and ballroom dancing -- sounds um, kind of fun.

posted: derek derek, 10:38:18 PM [*]

yawn I am tired! OH NO! I didn't watch friends! ... I could do that now I suppose [I taped it]. but I have other things that I should be doing ... hm... only tomorrow, I'm going to be out most of the day too [hopefully as long as someone agrees to give me a ride home]. hm. definitely talking to myself.

anyway, I spent a lot of today finding two adjectives to describe myself for a college application [you guys must be getting sick of hearing about my college application but they are consuming my life at the moment]. actually, only one, I got one of them the other day [that was yesterday. I picked up saying "the other day" all the time from my parents. they'll say "we got that the other day" when it was like six years ago. "you were born, you know, the other day"]. well, I got "witty" which I thought was relatively ... well-suited [can't think of the right word] and two people said "cheerful" today [one of them was my dad though] so I put witty and cheerful. GREAT ... [why do I keep interrupting myself today?] argh, I look SO WEIRD to everybody reading this! I'm getting out of here.

posted: ellie cheung, 10:37:03 PM [*]

wow.. u guys get to do yoga in gym? we play team handball. how stupid is dat? im so spazzy too. i keep passing too slowly or missing people or.. bla.. i just suck. im athletically challenged. and.. um... u still dont kno wat im supposed to write on this. so.. today.. i went to guidance cuz i wanna switch a lot ob my classes.. cuz they're all stupid classes and im bored.. and my guidance counselor's like.. wat? o, the deadline wuz like.. a week ago. so now, im stuck in stupid physical science. today we had to run up steps and time ourselves. how stupid is dat? im so upset. sniff. awrite, well, dat wuz my blog. isnt it special and pretty?



posted: Eileen C, 3:58:46 PM [*]

aww... little kids are too cute. that is, most of the time. don't worry steph, i like you because you're chinese and you're one cool girl. and you don't stand outside my window on sunday afternoons..so that's always a plus. =)

anyways, yeah so today was a pretty dull day. the usual same old thing..in and out..day after day...gets kind of monotonous i tell you. but one thing i discovered today: [ah, eureka!] my brother and i are really cheesy dorks. we want to submit a brother-sister picture to the yearbook, so we get all decked out, pose in front of the big mirrors downstairs [you know, for the perfect hardcore look..among others], and then complete the evening by taking a few snappies of us that would make all of y'all say "awww". so, yeah, we're dorks. yup. but something that was said a few days ago that would make you ponder:
me- "i think i'm going to join a gym to get buff (-er) [hah...] for basketball."
eugene- "i think i'm going to take up ballroom dancing." ....yeah..makes you go hm, right? =P

anyways [wow, i use that word a lot], i'd better be going back to homework/studying. i'm studying for myself, yes i am. you know of any recent examples mccarthyism in the news? cause i sure can't find any.


posted: ellen mellen, 10:28:19 PM [*]

my buddy list won't show up! argh! this is very disturbing...and every time i try to do something to fix it, it takes too long to load or something. i think something is very wrong with aol. grrrrr..
so i went to help out a teacher at the elementary school today. she teaches the music class, which is pretty cool. the kids are soooooo cute! ack! one of them hugged me when they were leaving! wow, i feel so loved =) but this other kid that kinda is a trouble maker said that she liked me cuz i'm chinese. i was like, er, ok. that kid got a time out today...he was being bad. and it was funny cuz he had on those zip-pants and the knee part was unzipped, so it looked like he had a hole in his pants. well, maybe it wasn't that funny. but it was cute :)
wow it's pretty late. i should go to bed...

posted: stephanie, 9:58:07 PM [*]

so today was a pretty boring-doring day.  i need to do something during the week.  maybe i should go to the shopping center on my bike sometime.  and whee, my mom says that she'll take me to the mall on saturday -- but right before i have this stupid orchestra concert in a nursing home.  last time we went, those old people were sitting less than five feet away from us.. brr.  it was kind of unnerving.  and then it was really loud because the room was so small.  hopefully, this time it won't be like that.  man, i hate orchestra concerts.

i think i'll go again and come back later, maybe.

posted: derek derek, 9:21:00 PM [*]

well, today's a wednesday.  why do i always feel so tired?  i just woke up from a one- or two-hour nap, ugh.  and you know, i'm just really wondering why ellie uses the "b/c" thing.  and she says she's studying for some girl.  um, okay -- how do you study for someone else?  i don't get it.

people are making fun of my blogs.  i'll be back later.

posted: derek derek, 8:09:33 PM [*]

today should of been a wednesday.
well i guess it doenst matter... considering i thought it was wednesday the whole time anyways.

posted: jo +, 11:00:19 PM [*]

the one reason that I dislike the internet is that it's stopped everybody that I meet during the summer from wanting my address. I mean ... er ... well b/c they can all talk to me online. and then eventually you stop talking online too, and then there's nothing. I guess eventually you stop writing as well but ... letters are cooler to get than e-mails. yeah, so I'm going to write that guy I was talking about ... I just don't know when. I should like bring stationery into school or something and write in then b/c then is probably when I do the least and have the most time. [sigh]

oh, I guess except tonight, b/c I have like ... a calc test tomorrow, which I'm studying for [first time this year! yes!]. actually it's a pain. and I really hate studying, especially for math. I am going to fail out of college.

hm ... all right, back to studying for this girl.

posted: ellie cheung, 10:27:11 PM [*]

see, that's why having a blog is cool.  you get to see into other people's lives and understand their perspective and find out what they're feeling [if they're open and everything] um, know what they do during the day.  yeah, and anyway.. why the quotes around "sean connery"?  i was thinking maybe that wasn't his real name or something when i saw that.  doh, i missed celebrity millionaire.. i thought it was at nine.  oh well, i watched "dark angel" instead.. that show is so cool.  i like all the actors -- i wanna be like that logan guy when i grow up.  he has an office and an apartment and all this cool stuff and he looks cool and yeah.  or i could be one of those whatever-they-are soldier clone or something [if anyone knows anyone who taped the first episode, tell me] people who jump like twenty feet and practically fly and know all sorts of cool martial arts and okay, nevermind.  i'm very ambitious.  and so, it seems that everyone used to write letters but they don't anymore -- well.  everyone write me.  and someone take me to the mall.

posted: derek derek, 10:25:53 PM [*]

you know what? reading other's people's blogs is pretty entertaining. other people think of the most fascinating things....and they have those weird personalized spellings and expressions. i dunno. i just noticed that when i was reading the other blogs. like hab and mmph. and tomoddo. it's all so cute ;)
i love getting letters. i used to have a pen pal from ohio, but she stopped writing :( we talk sometimes online, but it's just not the same. and one of my friends from hong kong stopped writing to me. these people. i think i was the last one to write, too. i feel so rejected. but it's ok. i'll get over it. *sniff*
so i managed to do pretty badly on my royal school exam thingy...i always amaze myself at my ability to suck ;) wait, that sounds pretty depressing. let's just say that i messed up. :P
they're showing celebrity who wants to be a millionaire right now. i love it when celebrities go on game shows...it's funny. expecially on jeopardy. well, the SNL version anyway. there was thing on time when the category was "thereapists" and "sean connery" called it "the rapist" HAHAHAHAHA...woo. had to be there :)

posted: stephanie, 8:57:19 PM [*]

wow, i'm tired.  i just went home today and had a three-hour nap, and i just woke up.  wow, i'm still tired.  anyway, so my hair's sticking up and my eyes feel like they haven't been opened in a while -- which they haven't, so.  what am i talking about here.

i have yoga too..!  except we're in different classes in the same period, doh.  i have no idea what my teacher's doing for this relaxation thing.. hopefully we'll get to do that a lot.  and the only reason that i'm in yoga is because volleyball was full and i couldn't do weight training and conditioning because i did it last marking period.  but hey, yoga might not be so bad.. it sounds okay.  the teacher said she won't give written work.  cool.

right now, i think i'll go check my e-mail..

posted: derek derek, 6:15:39 PM [*]

darnit. the font on this blogger thing is too small. i was trying to read the other entries but my eyeballs started to feel a little strange..so i stopped. fascinating, isn't it? 8)
anywho, i have one of those stupid royal school whatevers tomorrow. i think it's like the one derek had...except i'm, like, 12 grades behind him. or maybe not. i dunno. all i know is, it's a big fat pain in the b-u-t-t. BLAAAAAH. blah. blah. :P
i'm taking yoga in gym right now. every fifth lesson we do "relaxation," it's just a big word for sleeping, if you must know. they play soothing music while you lay there and sleep. gym has never been better! woah, you don't hear that everyday....


posted: stephanie, 9:08:01 PM [*]

no, I don't like all young guys who act even younger, there was *a* young guy who acted even younger, and I liked him, but he was a bit too immature. like one of those guys that runs around strangling people or whatever. er... maybe you don't know what I'm talking about, but they exist, I swear. and maybe if you ever run into one someday you'll be like, "oh, so THAT's what ellie was talking about -- she's so wise ..."

posted: ellie cheung, 8:22:38 PM [*]

you're not funny.  i don't say "blarg".. i don't say "hrm" either.  anyway, i told you i told you -- you can do whatever you want on this blog [well, you know what i mean, not everything] and i don't really really care all that much anymore.  as long as you blog long and often.  and no, i don't really really want to be a journalist, but that would be cool.  i want to design something.  and you might meet dave on this blog, but then again, you might not.  how do you meet people on this?  and i would tell you my address, but then.. well.  it's like this thing about psychotic online stalkers my dad told me and i keep hearing about.  i don't want some guy sending an explosive to my house.  and okay.

um, nice html there, by the way.  it's very i don't know, interesting in a strange way.  but then you say you just fixed it, so oh well.  everyone write me.  [by the way, did you say that you like young guys who act even younger?  i don't get it -- please explain, i'm curious.]

posted: derek derek, 8:16:01 PM [*]

P.S. GO TO MY BLOG! DEREK SUCKS! for that matter, go to my site as well.

posted: ellie cheung, 8:09:22 PM [*]

blah. mmf. urgh. blarg. mm. hrm. who am I?

anyway, ... I feel kinda old at the moment. nobody take that as offense since I'm probably one of the youngest people I know ... not in actuality but in ... er ... ok, hopefully you know what I mean. [ok, somebody's going to think I'm really weird by the end of this.] well, yeah, I feel a bit old at the moment, ... and it's funny about the letters thing b/c I just thought about writing a letter to this guy from summer camp who didn't give me his e-mail and I kinda miss him. he was pretty young too, like 15 but one of those guys that acted like they were 12 ... hi shaw!
shaw is a really cool name [that was his name] ... that was just a thought.
my school is more retarded than the person whose name is really similar to mine ..'s. [I'm not supposed to mention names right? oops I already mentioned shaw.] anyway, another teacher quit this weekend ... and you know it's pretty disturbing when teachers quit in the middle of the year. besides that, it's very upsetting b/c he was my euro teacher and I was looking forward to not doing any work in that class and getting a decent grade [he's very nice to seniors] ...

oh ... for everybody that I asked a hundred times about what to get brian, I got him something and sent it to him yesterday [doh ... hopefully he won't read this b/c we said that we weren't going to send each other our presents so that he'd have more time to buy something for me but I decided to send him it anyway b/c I know he likes getting mail and it just is so much more effective as a package]. yes, I like to run on sentence. hey, I like making nouns into verbs. like, "I like to webcam." and "I like to webpage." and "I like to application to college." ... ok the last one I don't say.

later!

posted: ellie cheung, 8:06:22 PM [*]

derek:... chronic flu.. thats bull. u...cough cough.. i hate writing letters.. but since ur maii.. cough cough.. ill send u a letter.. gimme ur adress. or.. just post it on here so everyone can write u. so.. wait.. who's this dave dats talking about an interveiw or sumthin? am i going to meet him on blogger too? hehe.. and.. the letter wuz stupid. he wrote ellen a letter, b/c apparently, im not good enough... snuffle snuffle.. and so she wuz writing back to him at church, (in the service and everything, shes such a bad christian) and i decided to write a little.. so we wrote a communal letter. anyways.. ellen did all the normal boring small talk b/c she wuz trying to appear normal, and i wrote all the weird stuff dat wuz suposed to either make him laugh or hold the paper far away from him and furrow his eyebrows. so... yea.. i drew a cartoon about maii friend's crazy muslim mom.. just ask him to show u the letter.

and.. wow.. derek.. u wanna be journalist? cuz... mee 2.. hehe. i never knew dat about u. writing is the only thing i dont suck at.. so.. yea its reallie maii only option..umm... and.. wats a bistro?


posted: Eileen C, 8:03:41 PM [*]

hey, i really do like letters..!  if people ever took the time to reply to mine, i would write a lot to them.  but it seems like i always write the last letter, and then they stop responding for some reason.. oh well.  maybe i could start writing letters to people again.  i could.

and winter's an okay season.  i like the middle seasons a lot, especially fall.  the colors on the leaves are really really pretty sometimes.  except when your mom and dad drag you off into the countryside to go look at "scenery", well.. they don't seem all that attractive then.  i like summer, though.  i really don't like long pants, because they never seem to go over my shoes in exactly the right way.  oh, and i don't like socks either.  yuck, sweaty feet.  speaking of which, i want to go skiing this winter -- anyone up for a day at some ski place?  last year was fun.  hehe, christine learned how to ski.  i can't believe that there are people living in the north who haven't skied before.  i was ten when i first saw snow.  mm.

everyone send me letters..

posted: derek derek, 7:55:13 PM [*]

so how is everyone today. im fine, i guess. kind of cold. its finally getting colder here in ky... whats a fall/winter with 80 degree weather. goodness. so its finally in the 40-50's, im happy. i think a year should be - fall... winter... fall... winter... etc. you get my drift, im coldblooded.
so how long has it been since you all have had rice krispies? i recommend you try some soon... theyre still yummy. and some apple cider w/ cinnamon. ::sigh:: i love cold weather. i feel younger. i dont know why. but i feel as if i were still a 10-year-old, staring at my christmas tree and the presents... the beautiful snow outside the window... all 24 inches of it!! (it doesnt happen often in ky. we get a few measly centimeters.) and my friend's snowed in at my house, and we go to the front porch... jump off and land face first into the snow. fuuuun.
i dont want to grow up...
ok i think ive said enough for today. hope your happy derek.

posted: jo +, 5:10:45 PM [*]

"even though i really like letters because handwriting and paper is just so much more, i don't know, what's the word. sentimental, valuable, caring, thoughtful.." derek you're so sappy!! hehe..that's cute. if i have some time, i'll write you a letter! handwritten, from my heart. don't you feel loved now? heh

anyways, so i come back to school after the four day weekend (oh, how i miss it....) and why is it that only now i see how freaking messed up my school is?? i think we're the only place that actually has to switch classrooms becuase the chemical fumes are overpowering and tighting our bronchial tubes...hm thats a nice thought, right? i feel so bad for all the basketball players (oh..wait that'll be me) who have to play in a bubble that ALSO has overpowering chemical fumes. [hey connie, you're gonna have fun if you guys ever come to my school for an away game] eh..so thats my thought for the day. my school is majorly screwed up. that and..there's some really ghetto people there. haha..

mmph: a trendy bistro by derek





posted: ellen mellen, 4:42:11 PM [*]

by the way, dave seems to be going nuts [well, a little] over my not having an interview for him.  i gave him the conversation that i had with him, and it mentions me giving him an im conversation to use as an interview, but he doesn't see the ironic funniness in it.  what'd he say, something like "this isn't funny.  this isn't an interview.  i want an interview!"  okay okay, i'll get him one.  any volunteers to be an interviewee, call me.  or e-mail me.  or something -- i want to have a professional interview complete with the recording device and perfect transcript.  i'm an aspiring journalist, along with many other aspirations.. yeah.  when i grow up, i want to be a chef and own a trendy bistro or whatever.

posted: derek derek, 10:29:44 PM [*]

you are one lazy girl, ellen.  and warning to everyone: if you try to resize the frame so that you can see your whole blog on the screen, or you try reloading this page or clicking wherever, YOUR BLOG WILL DISAPPEAR AND NEVER COME BACK.  believe me, it took me two or three times before i stupidly realized that this browser was doing that.  so ellen, you'd better blog longer.  [oh wait, oops.. that wasn't directed to anyone.]

anyway, hahahahaha.  you sent a letter to eric wong?  what did you write about?  i think you should tell us all what was in the letter.  how come you didn't write me a letter?  i being your *sneeze* [i think i have this chronic flu that keeps coming back to haunt me] and everything, i think i deserve a letter.  or well.. i don't care, really.  as long as you blog.  even though i really like letters because handwriting and paper is just so much more, i don't know, what's the word.  sentimental, valuable, caring, thoughtful.. i'm not sure.  i know the word's somewhere in the back of my mind, i just need to think of it.  if i do, i'll tell you.  i have no idea who that was all directed toward, hm.. somebody take me to the mall.

posted: derek derek, 10:23:32 PM [*]

You know what really stinks? i have my blog all ready to be posted..and...i look back and its deleted!! being the lazy one, i don't think i'll retype it..so..derek..HAH! i mean..ok, i'm going to go now. maybe later, right? right. if i hab time. [oops, that slipped]

posted: ellen mellen, 7:19:17 PM [*]

derek, wat? im ur wat? say it again? louder...
hi.. hi derek.. nice to meet you.. nice to meet u (connie) too.. i heard about u too. i saw ur pic in eric's wallet.. i think sum1 said ur tall or sumthin.. yea. and.. well, im short. wat hab u heard about me? r people saying evil things about me? and.. yea, i remember everyone running off and leaving me and ellen (not that one, the other one) and going to call you. and then.. yea. and it was hot that night. and eric breakdanced. ahh... i dont kno wat to blog about... im so bad at this. how do u people end up wit such long blogs? i jealous. hmm.. ill talk about nyack camp.. i might not go back this year, snuffle snuffle. i lost a lot ob weight there. the food was reallie gross and they never give u enough.. and i felt stupid going up for seconds.. and thirds.. and then there was all the walking. man.. i lost like.. 10 pounds. hehe. hmm.. so i think this is prollie my longest blog so far. and.. if anyone sees eric wang at church, tell him i said hi, and ask if he got the letter. okie, im drained. this was a tough blog.



posted: Eileen C, 6:35:22 PM [*]

blah.  hi eileen, i'm derek.

funny, i seem to be the only guy that blogs.  dave doesn't do it, lee-shing is a psycho who writes weird things and signs up as strange names and tries to impersonate me so i kicked him off for now [i'll reinvite him tomorrow, i guess], and then eric and norman are just not the kind of person that would write on a website.  eric said, "i don't get it.  what's the point of this?  i'm not joining."  well, those weren't his exact words, but you get the gist of it.  and a hypertonic solution is one where it loses whatever it's losing or gaining, right?  tell me if i'm wrong -- ugh, i've forgotten all my bio.  and dave is on my back for haikus and an interview.  i think i'll just give him an im conversation, hm.  i wonder if he'll go nuts.  hold on a second.

posted: derek derek, 6:16:04 PM [*]

hi. i'm back to blog! hi eileen. you don't know me, but i've heard about you. you from the nyack music camp thing right? yeah. i'm the one that everyone called to say happy birthday! yeap, that's me. but ok.

so, since i've already recapped on red eye...i don't know what to say. oh guess what. i called my friend and she said we our first aid final is tomoddo. that's greeeaaat. cuz i left my notebook and stuff at school. and then i called my other friend and she said she finished her bio. that's great too, cuz i didn't even know we had to outline the whole stinking chapter. yes. i love them phospholipids and hypertonic solutions. hyper....mmmm. yeah, so i'm outlining now. and after that, i have to start my marking period project. the one that's due tomoddo. so i have to write like this 17 paragraph essay thing on a book that i read in the summer. and i didn't even read the whole book because i waited so long to actually start that i didn't have time to finish. and i wrote my summer paper basing it solely on sparknotes. ok, so i'm a bad girl. but don't tell me you've never been to sparknotes...

hmm...there are a bunch of ppl standing under me right now...some kind of fellowship or something at my house today. yea. i slept for two hours this afternoon...what a waste of time. i could've been doing school work or something. did you know that when you're sore, and you stay in the same position for a really long time...the soreness just gets worse. so maybe i'll avoid sleeping until the pain and soreness go away.........

we have school tomoddo. which sucks...incredibly. and oh no. i'm going off on the dot dot dot things again. i think i overuse them. oh well...get used to it...

well. okay then.

does this skipping lines between every thought waste too much space?

you know what? i'm dreading this college application process thing. i see people going nuts over deadlines and procrastination and whatnot. i reallllllly don't wanna go through that. and knowing me...i'll be writing essays the day before it's due. no kidding.

enough rambling for a day...i'm off to do some more work....yay!

posted: Connie Yung, 5:46:05 PM [*]

oh, you have to use html to make stuff bigger and change the color and whatever.  ask jo about it.. i'm too lazy to explain and do that on this blog.  and gee, thanks eileen.  you're quite mean to me.  you can't do that to me, i'm your.. well.  nevermind about that.

posted: derek derek, 5:25:07 PM [*]

DEREK SUCKS

ahh.. can't i make this bigger?? it doesnt hab (note, haB) the effect i wanted.

posted: Eileen C, 5:20:36 PM [*]

yea ellen.. dat wuz quite the mordant entry, ob course. oh, hi eileen.

and so i just came home from this horrible piano exam.  stupid british associated board of the royal schools of music.  well, so i played scales and arpeggios and three pieces and sang and answered questions on stuff i listened to and played back the lower part of a short passage -- ugh.  and through it all, i have no idea how i was doing [except i knew that stumbling during your piece is bad] because the british guy was just going "good, thank you" and "very nice, all right" and "mm, yes" in his little stuffy accent.  and i was thinking "um, okay" throughout the whole thing.  my sight-reading was horrible -- i got this thing with like a million accidentals, and i just blundered my way through it.  at least i didn't get something with a seven-four meter and different keys for each hand.. even though six sharps [i think that was what it was] was pretty bad already. and you know that really really important "never go back" rule for sight-reading?  i think i broke it a few dozen times.  ugh, i stink.  and i have a chem lab that i don't know if it's due tomorrow or sometime after that.. mmpf.

posted: derek derek, 5:07:47 PM [*]

hiii...
ellen.. ob course i remember u.. u kno i've talked to ur brother online before.. yea dat wuz random.. but i just had a memory flashback.. yea. and.. he thinks im insane. i also had to lie to him about my age b/c ellen is embarassed dat shes friends wit such a lil baby. sniff. anyways.. ellen.. im me.. ((swtchii))
and.. yea dats all i hafta say for now.
baii


posted: Eileen C, 4:58:17 PM [*]

hm...they did say that by Sunday we would "recover" from red eye night, right? well, i'm not feeling that. much like connie, my body is quite sore..its not supposed to hurt when you put on a shirt, right? anyways, i think i'll be the third person to recap on red eye night, as it DID take up most of my weekend. yeah..just take everything connie and derek said, and that would basically be what happened to me. like derek, i was there at 1 for body worship practice and worship practice. sheesh, after worship i was ready to go back to bed. I think that could explain my later slowness and hyperness...wow, it took me a really long time to break 29 in bowling. yeah, thats pretty sad. that and me trying to play ulitimate, flag football, breaking, and synchonized somersaults. i told you, i was pretty hyper. Oh, and who can sleep through an action movie? I CAN. ha...one thing i can keep in mind now is that the sanctuary's floor is really bad on the back. and using the keyboard case as a pillow is not good. not good at all. =)

Oh, and eileen..HI! chances are you probably don't remember me..yeah, so i'm the *other* ellen. haven't said anything to you since that music thing ended. where you've been? yeah, so now you can say that you know more than just derek.

[oops, derek, i made my "rant" message board-ish. sorry, i konw how much this blog means to you. don't worry, i'll make it up to you]
hey, was that "bitingly sarcastic"?



posted: ellen mellen, 2:04:41 PM [*]

u said hehe and its bad? wat? ru insulting the way i talk? im insulted. sorrie, im pmsing. is there an adverb for ugly? hmm.. and.. i didnt make it shorter. i just tried to make myself look less stupid. dont yell at me.. u make me feel cornered.

posted: Eileen C, 7:39:24 PM [*]

hey, you can't edit your blog so that it's shorter!  or change certain things!  that'd be like ellie editing her blog so that she never said that there isn't an adverb for "ugly".  c'mon, that's not fair -- wait, who am i talking to.  well, if you changed your blog and made it shorter and made it so that you didn't assume that all the people here were from holmdel.. i'm talking to you.  hehe.  [wait, i just said "hehe".  uh oh.]

posted: derek derek, 7:22:22 PM [*]

umm.. ok. i still dont kno wat i'm doing. ahh.. im too slow for these things derek.. help me. wats the team thingie? and.. wow.. u guys had a lasertag thingie? hmph.. i hab no life.. i habnt done lasertag since i wuz.. 7. i think. it wuz some kid named mark's b-day party.. i had a huge crush on him.. and.. he wuz bald. and thats all i remember. i feel so left out.. i dont kno anyone here sniff...

posted: Eileen C, 7:09:57 PM [*]

wow. so i'm sore. actually, i'm incredibly unbearably sore. but i'm not tired. which is odd. and somehow i don't think i'm awake enough to actually write in long, coherent sentences. but it was fun. so let's see...i'd write all about red eye night...but derek already did. so just refer to what he wrote and pretend i wrote it. except i didn't get to church at two to practice for body worship, and i didn't practice for worship team. but i did get there at 5:30 all spastic because i still hadn't figured out what i was going to say for MC stuff. but everything worked out pretty well.

yeah. laser tag is very energy draining. my legs are very sore. but i think i did pretty well score-wise. though not as good as eric or dave who broke 4 digits...dangit. oh well, it's not like laser tag skills are a necessity in life. unless i decided to become a hit woman or something like that. and bowling? i did bowl, unlike derek who had no socks. i hit my all time high-score of 91. hey, it's 30 points better than my last high-score... so like, my arm is about to fall off. and if it doesn't, i'll be very tempted to rip it off because it hurts. a lot. even though women are supposed to have 10 times more pain tolerance than men do. well...i dont' feel it.

ok, so i also played some ultimate, even though i suck terribly at that game. and i almost have that spinning-the-frisbee-on-your-finger thing down. i just need to practice a little bit more. what else? i lost my earring while i was changing. that's not very cool, but oh well. right now i'm too out of it to care. hmm. and. uh, yeah. we watched MI:2. it was good, even though i've already seen it. but who can sleep through an action film like that? unless your dave and the movie would have been the third time watching it within two days. he slept through the whole thing...who can blame him?

and so i kareoked. did i spell that right? i dunno. the karoke stuff was like...pornographic..especially Can You Feel the Love Tonight. we had to stop it in the middle... how wonderful.

yeah, so that was my night. and day. and last night. and now that it's over, it feels like i'm going back to mundane world. something that i really don't like. ugh. come to think of it, i have a serious load of homework to do...wow, how it definitely sucks. i don't think i've actually ever ranted so long before. it feels pretty good. get my mind off some things... well, since derek's the king of ranting, i'll be queen. even though i'm really not. ok, so i guess i'm out of words for the time being. until next time...

posted: Connie Yung, 7:03:01 PM [*]

so i didn't go to the mall.  ugh.  and this thing won't publish.. grr.

posted: derek derek, 6:26:58 PM [*]

wow, i'm not tired at all after red-eye night.  maybe that's because i didn't stay the whole time, but okay.  i left at four because my mom thought it'd be a better idea that i get some sleep so i won't be really out of it when i have my piano exam tomorrow -- oh well, it was fun.  um, what happened.  i got to church around two to do body worship practice and to print out the programs that i made, and then i had worship practice too.  um, for worship i was absolutely deaf to whatever i was playing, because somehow the monitor got unplugged before we went onstage.  so that was kind of weird, and my mom told me that because the guitar was off for a while that it was only keyboard and bass for a while.  i was thinking "um, shoot."  somehow i don't really totally believe those people who say "hey, you were good."  anyway, and then i completely didn't know the motions for body worship and just kind of blended them all together really weird when we did it onstage.

so then around eleven i think, we went to play [well, i played] lasertag, some frisbee, flag football.. that one play was pretty interesting.  and lasertag was hilarious.  i figured out how eric and dave were racking up the points only at the very end and it was too late then.  doh.  but i didn't go bowling because i didn't have socks and didn't want to wear those shoes without them, and well.. i didn't like bowling all that much in the first place.  it's such a dumb game.  so anyway, the night was fun, even with the constantly annoying girl [mm, just kidding; she's only annoying sometimes] with the pink pantyhose shirt somehow always less than five feet away and usually laughing her head off in my face or talking really loud or pretending she's a dj.  and she's also quite violent -- i think she punched me during body worship practice.  and then she was like "you're taking so much space!" on the bus when i was practically with my face in the window.  well, i hope she doesn't read this.  [actually, i don't know.  i don't think i really care who reads this.. hm.]

mmpf, i still wish that i could go to the mall today.  yesterday my mom was like "i have to get something for grandma at the revlon store" or whatever, and then she said she could take me for a couple of hours before she went to church for this worship seminar -- but then this morning [at around five am on the ride home] she told me that she didn't need to go to the mall anymore because the store didn't have what she wanted.  [i think my grandma wanted something to make her hair poofy.. um, okay.]  so ugh, i'm stuck at home alone again.  practicing more piano and studying for my stupid aural test and maybe even doing some homework.  uh, anyone want to take me to the mall?  call me.

i want to go to the mall..

posted: derek derek, 2:04:12 PM [*]

heya...it's 12:03 AM...everyone's at REN..but i just got back from a sweet 16..and it was really awesome!! heeheeheeheehee...=) no i'm not giddy..just very hyper. derek, you still didnt' change my blurb! =) i hope you guys are all having fun at REN..cya on sunday!

posted: Christine Lin, 12:04:16 AM [*]

i have no idea what my plans are for the next three days, um.  i know that today's out of the question, but i thought i'd be free on saturday.  i wanted to go to the mall..!  but i'm not sure if i have a tennis makeup lesson sometime that day -- well, that would totally screw everything up.  grr.

posted: derek derek, 11:30:23 AM [*]

i still have no idea what anyone on here is talking about. but me. but then thats alright. because blogs are ways to show others how loud you talk to yourself.
and im going to do the inevitable and actaully work on my website. after a one-month hiatus. funfunfun. actaully i really dont want to work on it at all... but i dunno. i got some photographs to show off. maybe i can just stick em on the front. ah whatever.
enough screaming outloud to myself, i think my mom can hear me.

posted: jo +, 5:08:08 PM [*]

I hate applications de colleges... some of them just have the most stupid questions ever. example: "what are the two or things in an application to which you would give the greatest weight?" grr... if you don't know... switch departments!!! you should not be in admissions!!! ... goodness I hope that nobody from that school reads this. but hey, what are the odds? [ok, just because I said that, I can practically guarantee that someone from that school is going to read this. it's just the way it works. really.]
anyway, I'm tired as heck... and off to fix some more essays.

posted: ellie cheung, 5:01:37 PM [*]

how pathetic.  i'm stuck at home on a day without school watching pokemon at four:thirty-eight and i'm online instead of at the mall.  or the movies, or something -- anything.  i really wanted to do something today, too.  what a stinkydull day.  maybe i'll see a movie with someone now or later today.  hopefully, ugh..

posted: derek derek, 4:56:25 PM [*]

why, oh why isn't this working.  please work.  please publish.

posted: derek derek, 12:45:16 PM [*]

weird.  connie posted, and it says it published, but apparently -- it didn't.  and red-eye night was kind of a problem for me too because i didn't know whether i should go that or to a sweet sixteen and then i was thinking that if everyone went to red-eye night then the person whose sweet sixteen it is would feel kind of sad if no one went.  to the sweet sixteen, i mean.  but then i was told that i'm doing worship and then i also kind of signed up for body worship too.  so i guess that means i'm going to red-eye night.  except i haven't told them i'm going yet.  something about people having to bring food and whatnot, and they need a head count.  maybe i'll count as two, since my head is so big.  [i've heard big head comments from many people the past two days, i have no idea why.  i think it's because of my grades.]

anyway, what.  so i woke up around nine:thirty today and i've practiced piano because my mom told me to.  i'm a good kid.  and i think i want to go to the mall today, or maybe saturday -- i need some stuff.  exactly what, i don't really know yet.

posted: derek derek, 12:39:04 PM [*]

hi. wow, this whole red i thing is melting my brain. i'm so confoozled over everything! and...i'm hungry. it's 12:15. and...i just got up about an hour ago. as queer as this may sound, i hate it when i sleep too much. cuz i wake up and i'm all tight and stuff from staying in the same position for so long. and then it hurts when i breathe. like...ow. ow. ow. ow. ow. ow. ow. like that. ok, i'm wasting space. and i am VERY hungry! bye.

posted: Connie Yung, 12:22:19 PM [*]

hey.  here i am yet again, at whenever it is right now.  wah, no school tomorrow!  i thought i'd just blog some more since i'm pretty bored.  apparently, i've turned into a prolific writer on this thing -- my journal still awaits in my drawer somewhere.  i haven't written in it for months.. oh well.  i'll do it sometime.  and i want to get new shoes for tennis.  all my left shoes have a hole in the toe, since i have an annoying bad habit of dragging it whenever i do a backhand or i start approaching the net.. ugh.  sometimes i don't like tennis.  i lost to this girl on sunday -- she was a pusher [or the nice word, "counterpuncher"].  i decided to push too, so we played this one point for ten minutes or so.  it was horrible.  so i guess i just gave it all up and lost to her 6-2, 6-0.  at least it wasn't a real match.  and i'm rambling.

posted: derek derek, 10:44:54 PM [*]

Blah, blah, blah, this thing wiped out my previous entry that i posted! It had a really cool logical reasoning about how you golb something on this blog....u know, golb being the opposite of blog....Ok. *sigh* well its gone...

posted: dave wei, 9:10:41 PM [*]

i think i'd probably lose a war of words with ellie.  and "duy".. that's a funny word.  i might steal it from you [ahem, i mean "someone"] and start using it in my vernacular.  i need to get working on vocab sometime soon.. gotta be word smart.  and wow, i found out that i can edit anyone's post.  maybe i'll impersonate ellie sometime.. er, i mean i would never do that.  ever.

posted: derek derek, 8:38:38 PM [*]

what the heck is a blog?! it sounds like blob. and i don't like blobs, because they're big masses of nothing. and i don't like nothingness. it's too...bare. and when i read some of derek's blogs...i can't help but think that a derek/ellie verbal fight would be quite amusing. and guess what! i don't have school tomoddo either! or friday! and i didn't have it on tuesday unlike all you holmdelians! HaHa... yes. so, i am currently blogging. and i still don't know what a blog is. therefore, does that mean i don't know what i'm doing? and are you happy derek? i blogged you! AND...i wasn't directly blogging at you either! unlike that ellie woman! duy. *burp* =)

posted: Connie Yung, 8:14:13 PM [*]

just an interesting read:
If anyone finds a spiral notebook covered with hand-scribbled lyrics about hating lots of people, composed mostly in interior rhyme, please return it promptly to eminem. The rapper remembers having his notebook - chock-full of material for a soon-to-be recorded album with side group D-12 - aboard a Delta flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New Orleans. But somewhere in transit the notebook, with perhaps yet another track featuring a clever rearrangement of the words "Slim," "Shady," "I" and "Am" was lost. Eminem is offering a cash reward or a personal meeting in exchange for the notebook's safe return. Anyone with information is invited to e-mail found@eminem.com. Oh, the book has a photo of Britney Spears on its cover.
Time Magazine
my little bit for the day.

posted: jo +, 8:03:06 PM [*]

guess what everyone? we have no school tomorrow!!! or the day after!!!! and then it's the weekend!!! WOOHOO! [ in case you couldn't tell, i am ecstatic :o) ]
after i read derek derek's post-thingy, i was reminded of this thing from saturday night live......"strategecy" hahahahahaha...boy, that was hilarious. that and the whole lock box thing. SNL rules! :P
oh and the whole thing about the friend thing. that was pretty depressing. especially since i know who it was...and i didn't do too much to help either. *sigh*
blaaaaargh....oh, i think i'm gonna see charlie's angels soon. very cool. i've been wanting to see it for the longest time. although it does look a little cheesy. however, cheese is good. i must say, it should be some good, cheesy fun. ;-)

posted: stephanie, 7:59:01 PM [*]

oh, that one just said "ellie" -- but really, it was to no one really in general.  [hehe, you're welcome.]

posted: derek derek, 7:04:12 PM [*]

firstly, what happened to blogs not being directed towards people? hm??
secondly ... thanks a lot. *jerk*. :-)

posted: ellie cheung, 7:01:44 PM [*]

you know, ellie.  i think it's because it looks kind of *stupid*.  well, i don't know -- it looks fine to me when i do it.  i think it's just that when *you* do it, it comes out weird.  or wait, now mine are looking weird.  on a side note, i think it'll really be funny if george w. bush gets the presidency.. have you ever heard him talk?  i wonder what foreign leaders will think when they have this southern hick talking about important issues with them..

by the way, i'm *kidding* about the looking stupid part.

posted: derek derek, 6:50:19 PM [*]

hm... I had a different thought before I read derek derek's post ... but ... hey ... that was kind of depressing. ok... I'll just go ahead with my original thought, b/c I thought about giving advice about the kind of situation that derek's talking about, but then I thought better of it, b/c ... it would be dumb. so *anyway*. HOW COME PEOPLE MAKE FUN OF ME WHEN I DO *THIS*????? ... this being the stars. it's a valid form of emphasizing something online! ... *IT IS*!!!!!

posted: ellie cheung, 6:36:46 PM [*]

okay, i'm back.  so i was really kind of bothered today when one of my friends was feeling really really depressed and down about something, and i just didn't know what to do.  you know when you ask someone if they're okay and they say yes every time -- what are you going to do, say "i know you're not okay" or "tell me now what's wrong"..?  to make a long story short, i felt useless and helpless and heartless.  i mean, i just turned away after a while of watching her almost crying because i didn't want to start having tears too eventually and.. well.  i don't know if i should post this.  i probably will.  but i just wish i was one of those friends who could give a hug and say "it's okay" and be a shoulder to cry on.  i guess i don't have that confident personality.  and i have absolutely no idea what i should've done while i was with her for that one class period.. *sigh*

posted: derek derek, 6:21:43 PM [*]

woh.  so bush is probably going to win florida, with all those absentee ballots.  and gore seems to be nice about it -- how polite of him.  and frankly, i'm quite tired of hearing this all day in every single class [like geometry for twenty minutes] and well.  i'm so glad that we now have a four-day weekend.  i'll be doing something fun tomorrow.  hopefully.  whatever the case, i'll be back later because i want to write an e-mail now.

posted: derek derek, 5:57:01 PM [*]

blog. what a funny word...
well im supposed to post something. hmm...
::thinks hard::

should bush to win?
should gore to win?
should nader to win?
i think ...
the u.s. has a crappy deal.

my two-cents of the day.
oh, right. hi. im joanna.

posted: jo +, 11:46:52 PM [*]

um, now bush is winning.  and it says that gore has less votes than before.  er, okay.  and florida's votes are still unknown.  that must suck if you lose the presidency and your little brother's state turns out to be the one that lost it for you.  my history teacher said "imagine what the bush thanksgiving table would be like".. hm.  and look, it's dave ___ [last name withheld for safety reasons].

posted: derek derek, 10:52:21 PM [*]

Yea I'm pretty tough.

I decided to be original and say my name is "dave dave." I am cool...yea. But of course, now random people on the internet....can't....get....my name, so that means i am more safe. The flowing of my logic is astounding.

posted: dave wei, 9:59:00 PM [*]

oh, and just something for posterity.

d d eer eek k (5:18:45 PM): there is an adverb for "ugly"
Eliaphant (5:18:49 PM): what is it
d d eer eek k (5:18:53 PM): it's called "uglily", isn't it?
Eliaphant (5:18:54 PM): bring it on
Eliaphant (5:18:56 PM): it is not
Eliaphant (5:18:58 PM): that's not a word!!
d d eer eek k (5:19:01 PM): it isn't
d d eer eek k (5:19:02 PM): ??
d d eer eek k (5:19:06 PM): ugily.. hm
d d eer eek k (5:19:08 PM): uglily
d d eer eek k (5:19:17 PM): i thought that was a word
Eliaphant (5:19:21 PM): no no, there's no uglily!!!
Eliaphant (5:19:26 PM): wait...
Eliaphant (5:19:27 PM): oh my gosh...
Eliaphant (5:19:30 PM): yes there is...
Eliaphant (5:19:37 PM): WOW!
Eliaphant (5:19:39 PM): uglily!
Eliaphant (5:19:41 PM): that sounds SOOO gay!!!!
d d eer eek k (5:19:43 PM): er, bring it on
d d eer eek k (5:20:01 PM): this conversation has just achieved "save" status
Eliaphant (5:20:27 PM): haha, that's what I was thinking...
d d eer eek k (5:20:55 PM): i like french chocolate.. except it tastes a little nutty

and that last little piece of randomness was, well.. an example of how my mind works.  i don't know.

posted: derek derek, 9:29:36 PM [*]

what a funny race.  now gore's ahead, one-eighty-two to one-seventy-four.  why i decided to type that out in words, i have no idea.  and i'm tired.  sometimes i really don't like my piano.  my fingers just didn't seem to work today.. mmpf.  what an absolutely drab day.

posted: derek derek, 9:19:11 PM [*]

oh [sorry], i wasn't scolding.  and if it seemed like i was, well -- um.  we'll just agree that i wasn't.  if i appear to be scolding anymore, you should tell me.  and yes, that alter derek's pinyin writing was mostly all wrong.  and i'm not psychotic.  and look, bush is winning by one electoral vote.  wow.  but anyway, my parting words: "can't we all just get along..?"

wow, it really does seem that i want this to work.  seems like a relationship thing.

posted: derek derek, 8:29:07 PM [*]

hm...Ellie's blog spot thing seems to be more unhostile compared to derked.blog. The people over there don't get scolded by the owner. What a nice enviorment.

posted: ellen mellen, 5:57:26 PM [*]

yeah, so this alter derek derek is really weird...i tried to read the blog and it didn't quite work out. either i'm losing my pin yin skill or this guy (or girl) is a total psycho....well, maybe not. psycho might be too strong of a word. i don't know. whatever. i'm so tired. :P
you know that feeling you get when you stare really hard at the computer screen for a long time? well, i have that right now. it kinda hurts. owie. :(
i don't really have much more to say at the moment. byebye =)


posted: stephanie, 5:52:38 PM [*]

I second the fact that Ellie isn't mordant. And as for me...well i meant to be sarcastic. but not in a mean way. try to take my post as..a creative way to tell you that you are absolutely way too uptight about this blogging business. No offense, of course. Oh, and my opinion on this "alter-derek derek" character...wow, he has a lot of time on his hands. either that or he's just unusually talented in that pronounciation thing. weird.

posted: ellen mellen, 5:47:20 PM [*]

oh goodness ... there is such a word as "uglily" ... I am shamed forever.

posted: ellie cheung, 5:20:44 PM [*]

so who do we have ... a psycho who owns this blog and is ... psychotic about it? ... and ... I AM NOT incredibly mordant. grr. well if you want to see an example of ... I don't know ... another blogger ... that was actually started before this one, but I didn't go ask everybody I know to join it ... here, it's not very impressive but whatever, I'm just letting my stupid friends type for now. [oops. they're not stupid.] anyway. hey I found a site where you can fill out applications online, it's embark but hey, I don't think that matters to any of you b/c I don't think any senior besides myself would bother typing on this thing. but it's a handy thing. it just makes me mad that they don't have princeton and mit ... they do however have yale, whose application I filled out really ugly-ly, so ... and it bothers me that there's really no adverb for ugly. but not as much as the fact that someone would take the time to type out a lot of stuff in mandarin. hey, this is all one paragraph!

posted: ellie cheung, 5:14:15 PM [*]

oh, and by the way.  "alter-derek derek".. please please change your name.  somehow, i don't know why, but well -- i'm just bothered by it.  it's just a funny feeling that i'm getting.

posted: derek derek, 3:38:15 PM [*]

mm, okay.  so now who do we have: someone who really really wants this to work, someone who's incredibly mordant and said that someone else [but we don't know who] was "anal", someone who i don't know quite how to describe yet, and someone who seems really really bitingly sarcastic when she talks about her "questions".. and then we have a psycho who's impersonating me.  wow, what a group.  and weird, i'm still hoping that this thing works out.  hopefully it will.  very hopefully.

so today, i took my wonderful geometry test and missed the major "a step up" proof because i just didn't see it while i was staring at it -- but it wasn't fair.  we've never done any proofs where we have to draw auxiliary lines in, and then he puts this one on the test.  well, whatever.. i just hope i get the A.  oh, and then i think i missed a few other questions, maybe.  maybe not.. who knows.  at least all my tests are done and over with, thank you.  thank you so much, whoever i'm thanking.

oh hey, today's election day.  i really wished that i didn't have school today, like some people.  i wonder who's going to win.  i don't think i like gore, but then i don't think i like any politicians at all.  they all seem, i don't know.  they're all kind of messed up in some way.  i turned on the tv once and saw bush with a microphone in front of a big crowd, and he was saying about "dubbya".. i turned the tv off.  hey ellen, you didn't tell me you were going to come to school today.

i think i'll go take a quick nap now.

posted: derek derek, 3:34:41 PM [*]

guh wai lao sze
guh wai shao tzan
da ja hao.

ai yuh, tzai guh dong she sze hao chi gwai ohhhh... no, no, tzai guh tsai der lei sze hung chi gwai... woh mung doh sze hao chi gwai ohhhhhhhh... ai yuh, tzai guh "ellie" boo tze dao, kuh sze woh yo haooooooooooooooooo dwo gohn kuh, bai twoh, bai twoh... woh nao jing boo shian le...
woh HAI boo tze dao tzai guh "blog" sih suh muh... woh ee ting le, shan "ai yuh, nay guh tsai der lei mayo flush nay guh mah tong ma..." hah sze woh duh go pao tzo le... hah sze woh duh shieh tze tzong netherland-hwai boo jian le... hah sze woh tzoo yeah pao tzo le... ai yuh... dahn yehrn sze hung chi gwai...

ai yuh, woh yao byebye le ing wai woh yao tzru tzo woh de gong kuh, wah.... tzay guh lao sze, doh boo ting hwa, tah mung jo "HUHHHHWAAAAHH!!!!" woh mung le... do mayo nao jing, ai yuh...

posted: Alter-Derek Derek, 8:23:44 AM [*]

ah...ranting. love to rant. i love to rant. rant like this?? or rant like this? and so, i was lying in bed, thinking all those deep thoughts that people think and then post on derked.blog. and i wonder to myself, "what is a blog? is it really 'weblogger'? am i blogging right? and is blog really a term?" many many questions i have been asking...and so i wonder to myself again, "what is a rant? am i ranting correctly? am i telling people 'all sorts of interesting things?'" yes..still so many questions that have no answers.

posted: ellen mellen, 11:23:55 PM [*]

hello, I am back. hey some people who read this might think that we're all disturbed, like we have nothing better to do than write on the internet. ha! just imagine how wrong they'd be ... maybe not. [I still don't totally understand why derek wants this thing to work out so bad but hey ... if it makes him happy ... I can type for a bit longer than I normally would.]

ok, there is one thing I don't understand. why does everybody have so much work????? everybody I know. juniors, sophomores, freshmen in college, everybody's working so much more than I ever remembered before. it's really scary. meanwhile me and all of my friends at school that are seniors [yes that was bad grammar and I don't really care] have like nothing to do. I have so little to do that I'm considering cleaning my room. which is not something that happens every day. [or ... any day.]

okay, well that was my goal for the day -- to clean my room -- so ... perhaps ... I should go try ... or maybe I should just pick up the wizard of oz and read it or something.

posted: ellie cheung, 8:07:48 PM [*]

"wah sai!"  so wow.  someone absolutely new posted a blog [we have four people, woh], but then it still seemed that it was a little directed to me.  i think the "happy derek?" part at the end kind of gave it away.  doh.  maybe this thing won't work after all.

whatever the case, i did NOT have free time today, as i went home on the bus at 2:30 and then got home around 3:00 and then slept until 3:15 [um, fifteen-minute nap] and then my mom yelled me awake so then i went to kumon to work for four hours.  how entertaining.  i went into the back office quite often to have vanilla wafers and chocolate and an asian pear, though.. so it wasn't all that bad.  not as bad as it sometimes is.  but so i just got home, and i have no homework [!!!].  wow.

well, actually.. i have to study.  let's see, tomorrow i have a english quiz on something i haven't read, a geometry chapter test that's going to answer the question "will derek for the first time in his life not get an A in a math class?", and hm.  oh, a spanish test too -- i think that i have a really really low ninety-something average in that class.  mm.. oh darn.  today's chem test was actually quite not the brutal examination i was expecting.  i think i overstudy sometimes.. no, actually make that "overcram the day of the test a little in each and every class before".  i'm lazy.

and so i've noticed that i have some interesting writing habits.  it seems that a: i don't write with capital letters at all unless i really really have to, b: i like to use weird interjections, c: there're a lot of very very short fragmented sentences, d: sometimes i run on and on with my sentences if i don't watch really carefully what i'm doing and i get carried away with my random thoughts that always seem to be on a spin cycle inside my mind, and hm.  e: i rant a lot.  oh, and i add this "non-breaking space" HTML thing before the first word of each sentence.  [what does that do, it adds an extra space to the space between the period and the word -- with HTML, it won't show if you just try to hit the spacebar twice.. it'll just show up as one space.  gee.]  and i use brackets a lot, instead of parentheses.  anyway.  i think i'll just stop right here and post this really long blog.

[this is one of those times when i'm thinking "please work, please don't get erased, please computer don't lose all my thoughts before i can post them onto the internet, please don't all of a sudden go "blrrmmpp" with my music and freeze and make weird "beep" noises whenever i press a key on the keyboard.."]

posted: derek derek, 8:00:29 PM [*]

hello, hello....so i'm hoping that this will actually work today. i tried to post a "blog" yesterday but my computer was getting all screwy. long story short, it didn't work. but anyway..hm. what to write, what to write. i actually finished all my homework before 5 today. i've found that there are some perks to having 3 tests in a day. it's really amazing, all this free time. i didn't know what to do with myself. anywho, speaking of tests, i failed my chemistry test today. well, metaphorically speaking. is that a metaphor? i don't know. anyway, it was bad. REALLY bad. ugh. oh well.
okay, so that was my "rant"...happy derek? ;)

posted: stephanie, 5:13:45 PM [*]

eew no, you're anal.. and this wasn't to anyone specific.  yeah.

posted: derek derek, 11:04:24 PM [*]

well, I won't address this to anybody, but I think somebody that owns this blog is ... way too anal ... definitely! yes. that's all I have to say ...

posted: ellie cheung, 11:03:04 PM [*]

oh, please.  this thing is turning into a message board!  it's becoming like a personalized messages guestbook entry sort of deal -- don't do that.  you should rant like i do.  babble on about nothing.  tell people all sorts of interesting things.  i noticed the last two posts started with "hey derek" and "hi derek".. that's not how it's supposed to work!  i guess maybe this blogger won't work out after all, then.  hopefully, it will.  i'll have to think about this, grr.  (oh, ellen.. by the way.  it's not called "blogging" someone -- the action of posting these "blogs" is just, i don't know.. "blogging" in general?  i think it's short for "weblogging".. so, yeah.)

posted: derek derek, 10:54:49 PM [*]

hey derek...see, i told you i would blog you (that still sounds really weird)! there's not much i have to say to you..and i'm still wondering how many people actually see these posts. let's see...well i haven't talked to you in a while, i still have your cd, and you still have my cds.. which i'm wondering if i told you that you could keep em. but, you can take them anyway...i checked up on your site, and much to my surprise, *gasp* there's pictures in the ppl section! i'm still on the search for a good pic of me for you to put up. that reminds me..it looks like my site is (or has been..) on temporary delay. i want to find a good format..maybe get rid of all that table use that i stole from you. and get some help with color coordination, cause i'm pretty much retarded when it comes to that. oh..and it looks like i'll have to rename it..again..why can't ellie just stick to pink?? My site is blue. the blue room. hmph. oh wells.. i'll see you later derk. going to red eye?

posted: ellen mellen, 10:24:03 PM [*]

hi derek... hey I have one of these. maybe I'll ask you to join it. maybe not since nobody's really writing on mine. except me. of course nobody's writing on yours except you either, but I haven't even linked mine from my site yet. speaking of which ... go to my site. it's not pink anymore. ... of course some people wouldn't know it was pink in the first place.

ANYWAY, I'm off now...

posted: ellie cheung, 9:36:56 PM [*]

okay, i had absolutely no idea that would happen.  so i was i'm writing my third-ever blog entry, and then i'm at the bottom of the little text box and i notice that the frame divider's covering the bottom up, so i can never see what i write at the bottom of the box.  okay, so i decide to move the divider a little more towards the bottom -- and the whole page reloads itself, and my about five-hundred-word blog entry, it's totally gone.  disappeared forever.  oh well.

anyway.  i'm supposed to be at grace's house right now [or fifty-seven minutes ago] for some party get-together whatever-it-actually-is.  except i don't have a ride and norman or eric isn't home, and so i'm online looking for a ride, right.  i don't exactly see anyone, either.  and then it's kind of weird when you ask a person for a ride to someone else's party and they're not invited, and then you have to say "um, nevermind then".. well, that doesn't really happen.  okay, i'll keep looking.

and i should probably be at the dinner table right now, because my mom and dad are periodically calling over "lai tse fan le!" and i keep saying "waitasecond".. but i'll probably go eat later.  i really don't like the way chinese people eat sometimes.  and chinese parents never tell their kids how to eat politely -- i don't think i've ever heard my mom or dad tell me to "chew with your mouth closed" or "don't put your elbows on the table" or "stop making weird noises" or "don't play with your food".  i guess manners while eating are an american thing.  mm, well.  i'm glad i don't always have to eat with chopsticks.

posted: derek derek, 7:11:11 PM [*]

mm.. this is so cool!  super-super-cool, i think i'm excited.  it's so [woh] easy to write anything and just post it and let everyone read it and then i can get all my thoughts and ideas out and -- oh wow, it's just kind of making me dizzy.  well.  i think i've spent too much time tonight [about seven minutes] making this thing and setting it up and posting these two little blogs.  i think i'll go to sleep.  yuck, school tomorrow.

posted: derek derek, 11:11:49 PM [*]

hey.  i wonder if this blogger thing really works.  oh wow, it does.. i just previewed it.  anyway, it seems kind of ugly on this little interface kabobber -- i wonder how it really looks.  maybe i'll change templates later or whatever, but anyway.. so here's my new blogger.  come again and visit soon.

posted: derek derek, 10:57:16 PM [*]