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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.
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Monday, April 30, 2001
that's not fair. i want a good copy of adobe photoshop and pagemaker and dreamweaver and fireworks and flash and everything. i really like multimedia things. you can make a lot of cool things with those programs. i want to get a macintosh that comes with that bundle of programs and things -- like the music jukebox organizer ripper cd-burner program, the optical mouse, the movie studio editor program, the internal cd burner, all those cool things. i want a mac. maybe i'll get one to bring to college, but it'll be too late by that time. i'll be old. and i wish our newspaper was something to be proud of. i'm going to borrow a camera from mr. baranowsky tomorrow and start-finish my monthly assignment for april -- there's a divisional track meet on wednesday with wall and monmouth regional. all three schools at the meet are undefeated. it should get interesting.
today was such a strange day. starting fifth period, the beginning of fifth period right after i change for gym and i'm standing in the gym waiting for the teacher to come and take attendance, the fire alarm goes off and we go outside. and then they tell us to go to the football field and sit in the bleachers, because it's not a drill and there's a gas leak and the building's going to blow up. my clothes are inside with all my stuff. anyway, so we sit outside for about an hour or so in the sun and then we go back in. they tell us that it's still fifth period and so we all go back and sit in our gym squads and the teacher tells us to wait. and then she tells us that okay, we can go change and we should come back right here and wait. i walk into the locker room, i take one step in -- and the stupid alarm goes off again. i'm not as smart as eric and alex, who change even as the siren-thing making my ears hurt is still going. we go outside and sit in the bleachers again for about maybe another hour. by the time we go in, it's what, like 1:30 and i've been in my gym clothes for half the day. we miss four periods, with maybe ten-fifteen minutes each for sixth and seventh. they should've let us go home. i have this weird feeling that all they did to "solve the problem" of the gas leak was plug up the hole with duct tape or something. or maybe someone left the gas on in one of the science labs. if anyone knows, tell me what happened.
arghhhhhhhhhhhh why am i still at school? why?? why?!?! i have about a million things i have to get done, and i'm just sitting here blogging. stupid newspaper. my advisor told me to do sports this issue -- sports?? uh huh. and the normal sports editor went to get a root canal, so me and this guy elliot are stuck wandering around hoping we're doing things right. *sigh* and then all the computers with pagemaker/photoshop on it are being used now [or, for the past hour?] so we haven't gotten a chance to do anything. i need i need i need i need to get home. argh.
oooo janet's party was soo much funnnnnn!!!! me n mich were slut dancing haha :) yes, the guys were actually on the dance floor most of the time. i was oh so proud of all of you.
school was such a joke 2day.. they shoulda just sent us home...... mr bryer was all like, "GAS ATTACK!! RUNNNN!" it was pretty amusing. Sunday, April 29, 2001
mm, so instead of being at the party last night, i was home writing a paper and doing all sorts of fun things like that. maybe i should've gone. (yes, i know i should have, everyone that keeps telling me so.) and i just finished my chem homework, and i went to the mall today and didn't really find anything i liked. i'm going to return the shorts that i got, and i want a few pairs of pants that aren't on sale at the moment. i'm all about buying stuff on sale. okay, now i have to find a science research topic really soon -- ugh.
so, janet's party was pretty nice. we had our little "antisocial latin posse" table in our own little corner and we basically stood around and talked for the whole party. there were a few minutes we actually danced and it felt a little odd. and i slow danced for a grand total of 20 seconds, which was partially the dj's fault. i was actually dancing with serena, but 5 seconds after we started he said "switch" and then i danced with steph for 15 seconds before he said "switch" and i then i ended up wandering off to talk with pete and dave. the one time in two years that i ask someone to dance and the dj screws it up. oh well.
and when we were passing around the balloon to see who got the flowers it coincidentally ended up at srikar's empty seat. then i noticed that i had sparkly confetti all over my food. and some people noticed us amusing ourselves with an intense game of balloon volleyball which turned "ugly" when dave jammed 4 of my fingers going for the balloon. so that was fun. Saturday, April 28, 2001
um -- okay, then. i haven't blogged in three-four days. i had this short blog just now that i pressed "post and publish" for, and it just disappeared, and since i don't even remember what i wrote, well. i'll make up a new one. my triceps hurt. i think i'm getting worse and worse in tennis, because i'm losing games that i shouldn't be losing. like today, this kid was horrible at groundstrokes and the only thing he did well was have this weird spin on his serve -- i guess it's because he never learned to serve right -- and so i lost a few games when he served. and then my serve is pretty horrible now too because i turn my head in a weird way whenever i toss the ball up, and so i lost a few service games too. i need to practice more, and have all my bad habits corrected. anyway, the kid almost took me into tiebreaker, and i only won because i started playing like a pusher after the sixth game or so. i'd hit short balls and make him come up to the net, and then i would aim for his face while i tried to drill through the ball. take racquet back, keep your eye on the ball, blast through it, follow through. i almost hit him a few times.
um, what else. oh yeah, i need to figure out what i sound like on keyboard. next week, i'm going to bring a tape and tape the worship session and listen to it afterwards. everyone says that i sound fine, but i have doubts. i need to hear myself and see what i need to do better. i always have all these self-improvement plan things that i never actually do. i'm lazy. okay, i'm going to go take a shower now. Thursday, April 26, 2001
belated sweet 16 pix here:
click me babyyy if any of u have nothing 2 do one day and still care... yes, well my scanner broke so it took me awhile.. a couple months.. 3 months.. so what?? haha Wednesday, April 25, 2001
it's late. i should be in bed. instead, i am here blogging, like the dedicated blogger i am. *sigh* i need to sleep.
anyway, we had a .. discouraging game today. we lost 14 - 1. ouch. i was playing so badly. the only contribution i made was the one goal that guaranteed the non-shut-out. yeah. that was a painful game. i had piano lessons today. for the first time in.. two or three months. hahaha.. i've been practicing like mad [well, "mad" for me] for the past few days. i actually did okay. my new teacher is really nice. and she has a nice house. okay, i'm tired. i am going to bed. now. okay. bye everyone..
so derek just called me a hypocrite cuz i don't blog. I'm deeply offended... it went straight to the heart. So basically I'm wasting my sleeping time to prove him wrong, cuz i like doing that. Has everyone registered for the SAT's? the site www.collegeboard.com is flooded. it's impossible to sign up. anywayif u get on, it's always a fun thing to do. You know what's a really good song? BSB More Than THat, just cuz i;m a sap for those mushy love songs they do... *sigh*. So to anyone who went, how was China night? I hope it went well. Watch, no one went. So how is everyone doing? I don't even know a quarter of the people on this blog, all I can really tell you is that I'm aware of Derek, and thats about it. Oh look Jess too, cuz her name is on one of those blogs. Anyway, I've had enough of this typing thing. Until next blog.
yeah, that guy in the green shirt -- he was kind of fake-interesting. did you see his bulging biceps? he kept crossing his arms too, and i thought his arms were going to explode. like pop, or something like that. i've been wasting so much time lately. i need to start reading things and writing things, like i said i was going to. first up on my list, kaplan's guide to mathematics iic. i've decided to take writing and math iic in october. and i need my mom's credit card number sign up for chem in june. ugh, i wish they were home. kind of.
yes derek you definitely were. you wouldn't give them to me!!! hrmph, such a selfish little kid you are... hogging all of the toys. yes the flamenco lady.. needed... to wear more stage makeup... yea.. the drummer dude was cool though. he was the only one who could speak real english. this guy in a green shirt who was trying to explain everything was really obnoxious. n the drummer guy kept interupting him cuz he was so incompetent. that was funny.
::reading straight off a paper:: "well the first thing i thought about when i heard the word flamenco were the castinets. did you know, castinets didn't even come from spain. that's crazy, right? haha. and then the second thing i thought of was..." etc. all straight off a paper in this really boring rehearsed voice. oo exciting... Tuesday, April 24, 2001
what the heck is co-blogging? you can't blog together..! unless what, you do something like each person types a sentence or a word or a letter. that's retarded. i am quite the cynical person today. where does the expression "fine" come from? i think it's a shortening of "fine with me", but i'm not sure. i'll have to watch to see if i do it today. yesterday, everyone in the school taking spanish three went on a field trip to el museo del barrio ["the museum of the neighborhood"] in new york. i passed all these places i went to two weeks ago. anyway, it was a spanish flamenco dancer lady who was about seventy years old and i was bored out of my mind. things happened that were very interesting. and then today, my spanish teacher said i was very good at playing the castanets. she was passing it around during class to show people -- i kept it for like fifteen minutes trying to figure the rhythms out. i'm a selfish person.
wowie. ellen and i are at newspaper...doing absolutely nothing. actually, we're co-blogging. semi-blogging. pseudo-blogging. we are so cool. we are such dorks. yeah.
wow ellen you're a fast typer. we're typing at neighboring computers. and maybe i'll talk to her "online" wait... i think she's done. oh well, i'll wait it out. man, i'm bored. we're waiting for dave to finish track practice so he can tell us all about pagemaker! and newspaper! so we can be editors-in-chief senior year! yeah. i feel so icky. ellen typed more than me. wah. ellen: "i'm posting" me: "fine."
ladeeda. i'm such a dork -- i'm actually co blogging. with leeshing that is. not that i'm saying he's a dork or anything, its just me. =P anyway, so we're pretty much doing a lot of nothing at newspaper. i edited some articles for the feature section, and i now i have a new found appreciation of good writing. this kid in my class...yes he is very illiterate. ok, an excerpt of his article on a foreign exchange student: "to many wandering minds, japan opens an aura of wonder to wandering wonderers to be." like, what?! that was my reaction. ok, so back to doing nothing. i think i ate too many m & m's and almonds.
violins were in the same place. no i only had 2 flute auditions, one solo n one chamber. sorry ghetto typing.. i forgot. 4 = for, not four. yea... who's going to jan's party?
Monday, April 23, 2001
i don't think she reads this. where's the violin audition one? and you had four flute auditions? what did you break your finger in? i think i'm going to go to sleep. not in a blogging mood, not in a blogging mood..
all is quiet. and hot. my dad won't turn on the air conditioning for some odd reason. unfortunately nothing good has happened to me recently. nothing exciting, that is. except i finally decided to go to yale.
hey i wuz there earlier 4 flute auditions, cept i broke my finger n couldn't play, so my teacher made me the "official page turner" for the piano accompanist. my lil bro wuz in the violin audition 2
Sunday, April 22, 2001
yuck, a hickey. i've never been to a violin audition. actually, i've never played violin in front of a crowd or anyone else besides my teacher and my mom and family friends who ask me to -- except that was a long time ago. now i have a viola, which i play even less. actually no, i remember i had a violin recital once and during my one and only recital, the accompanist person was sight-reading and i accidently repeated the same part four times and he went along with me. so that was good.
naps. i've been taking too many lately. i'll come home and eat something and do something and then fall asleep for four hours. it's not a good thing. i think something might be wrong with me -- it seems like i'm unhealthy. sick and ill. mm hm. oh, that thing about being carded. i wonder if allison actually reads this and i know she does[n't], but anyway. so what did you [she] do to get carded? and how does someone run another person over? i want to play lacrosse. except after watching that movie yesterday, i think it might be a little painful to get hit. oh, we saw "remember the titans" at ellen's house, and before that i was looking for songs with their cable modem computer and i really don't like prince. all the sixpence cds aren't being sold anywhere!
man, i was so psyched about piano yesterday, ellie! i mean, we actually played... um, we actually played! and you need to find me someone else for november! there's no one else left!
so, i had a violin audition today. and today was the wrong day to dress up. ick. and it seems like no building has a/c today. darn. i saw jon lee there. he probably got high high super high honors. he's too good. does he have a hickey thing? i'll have to check... so, steph, i was thinking, we should market a line of tattoo violin hickeys in all different colors. or have them on fruit roll-ups. thomas gave me one to put on... they are so nasty! ew! like you lick your hand and then smack it on and then eat it afterwards. yum. Saturday, April 21, 2001
i sleepy. at like 6 today i just crawled into bed and laid there, totally out of it, for two hours. when i woke up it was quite dark. i walked out of my room very dazed. but there is something to be said for those kind of naps ... they're not bad.
"you AH[re] the weakest link. goo'bye!" i hear that's how the lady says it. how british..
we won our game today!!! it was great. winning is a nice feeling. we should do it more often. i'd have to say, the highlight of the game had to be when steph ng ran me over. that was some pretty funny stuff. hahaha...hoo boy. =) uf. i've never seen it abbreviated like that before. interesting.. and those violin hickeys sound so cool. leeshing, i think you should totally go for the red permanent marker idea. you would look ever so stylish. :) alrighties, i'm out for today. i'll see YOU on the flip side. =) Friday, April 20, 2001
uf. ultimate frisbee. i wanna be a uf freak too. it's soooo much fun! but i had lab today so i couldn't play...=( so where's this survivor blog, somebody put a link here. i have chinese practice satII tomoddo too...gee, i can't even read...how well am i gonna do. what a cool day. haha, i got 36 outta 80 right on my practice AP test...maybe i should get a refund and just not take the test. ew and you know what really sucks? i just got back my sat scores and they were EXACTLY the same as my last ones. in both math and verbal. sheesh. hey, my prom's tomoddo. pretty cool, eh? no? yeah i didn't think so either.
spanish feield trip on monday!!! im excited.. this is practically the 1st field trip in 7 yrs.. wait, it is.
what's a uf freak? and i found that survivor blog. the winner was originally going to have only $75, but then some people donated it and the person got $210 in the end. we should do that. except then again, i don't want to spend money, so maybe not. someone take me to the mall. i have a chinese practice sat-ii test and i don't want to take it. why are numbers always so big? i wish numbers had uppercase and lowercase forms. it's so annoying.
Thursday, April 19, 2001
the slightly more mature definition of carded (sorry leeshing) is when they ask to see your ID to see if you're old enough to drink, gamble, whatever you were trying to do.
so do we get to kick people off the blog? actually i saw a SURVIVORblog where they did that for like ... a prize of $500. but that was a while ago and i forget where it was. okay i lied but i never went to see it ... i'll go check it out someday when i have time and link it if it's good. for now you are all in suspense. hahaha, i'm watching you all suspended ...
so.
a person who fouls can be warned/cautioned/whatever by the referee with a yellow card. the second warning is a red card, and the player is kicked off the field. two strikes and you're out. but one really bad foul can be an immediate red card. and a player who gets a red card can't be replaced. yay. hey, a guy can be a soccer AND a uf freak, right? so, we found out mrs. beach really meant definition number 2 when she said bacchanale was an orgy... clue: it's NOT a wild party (or JUST a wild party...) and mr. gordon said they dance it out on stage... how... nice. supposedly there was a bet going on which week mr. gordon would break the news to us... and i want a violin hickey thingy... the concertmistress has one, roger has one... maybe i'll color one on in red permanent marker. and go show it too mrs. beach. and laugh in her face. ha. haha. cuz i suck so bad anyways... and mr. gordon does not know what the doppler effect is, does he... ah, what a refreshing sectional.
what does it mean when you get carded? i only know kind of what it means in soccer, so it must be like a penalty thing -- yes no? this chem chapter seems pretty easy. and i started wondering today, how come the noun form of "infamous" is "infamy" while the noun form of "famous" is "fame"? like they should stick to one thing. i hate things that don't go together. famy, or infame. one of those two. orchestra was stupid today. the first chair girl of the viola section is a mad rusher, and so are like three other of us. well, i don't like to group myself with them. she's so "i'm a viola-player!"-ish and everything. she has this weird bruise thing on her neck because of the shoulder rest. you know when you're a real string player when you have one of those. i've never had one.
so.. ireland. i really can't think of anything off the top of my head. maybe if you come and ask me in person, i'll tell you some stuff... =)
we had a game today. we lost by a lot. 11 - 5, to be exact. ouch. to top it off, will and alex were there to witness our crushing defeat. not exactly our best performance yet. but, some highlights: i recieved a war wound [my pinky is currently swollen] and allison got carded [that was very amusing...]. and before the game, it was really nice out and we were all laying all over the ground and sunbathing. i love lacrosse. :) okay, so i should really go and study chem now. i'm am such a procrastinator. it's horrible. :P Wednesday, April 18, 2001
yea, ti's about 11:30 and janet just left my house after like 4 hours of studying chemistry. I hate it. We seriuosly looked drunk...we finished all of an extra large pizza cept for one slice, then took two cartons of icecream into the study and ate straight from the container. Rebels, yes i know. Then we drank about a jug of water and i choked on some and spit all over myself. Very interesting. Yea, derek, I downloaded that song too which is pretty cool, but I didn't mention it to you cuz i didn't think you would like it. oh well. anyways, so i'm gonn get some sleep now. bye!
i forgot to blog yesterday [!!!] and so anyway, i'm here now. that was kind of a pointless statement, but i'm just letting you guys know. that i forgot. i downloaded the josh rouse song, and it's like really mellow folk-country-rock and he has this weird accent that i can't really place. and i keep hearing this "eyah" sound from him. i want to learn better guitar, like the technical things. ellen, teach me. or get your brother to. or eric, if you ever read this, show me what you've learned. connie didn't blog anything of substance, and she [you] should..! but i didn't delete it, even though all that bold text looks really -- really tacky, i guess. steph, tell me more about the ireland trip. i haven't heard anything about it from anyone, except what i heard on monday in compsci, and well. that wasn't much of anything. this is turning into a huge blog with messages for everyone. i guess i'll keep going. ellie, give me free college stuff. if you don't like your dorky shirt, give it to me. and tell me how to get into good schools and what i should do. i've been starting to think too much about college. like "how will this look to colleges" and "what should i do to get into a good university" and "can i get a scholarship or how will my parents afford tuition and whatnot" and "why is it called brown university" and "wow, 'brown' backwards is 'nworb'" -- yes. michelle, go download the other song from monday's episode. it's called "undertow" by ivy. i don't know how to describe it. like mellow dance rock with a little r&b and strings in the background, the girl sounds like dido or the cranberries singer or even a little like sarah mclachlan with a british accent. i've been falling asleep too much these few days, ugh. i should go running. that whole "plan for moral perfection", as someone called it, hasn't really been working out -- i need a guitar teacher. and more willpower.
caitlin, we need to do some model UN stuff. find out what the club's doing.
i am very confused by the new name of this blog. it makes zero grammatical sense. agh. i can't even read it right .. "somebody set up us the bomb" .. agh. i can't take it anymore! [my dorkiness is getting the better of me..]
i went to the orthodontist today.. that was fun. my orthodontist is so weird. but in a good way, of course. today he started telling me all about how he had so many patients, but always seemed to remember every one of their specific cases. and then he started telling me [for the millionth time] that i have a very weird and special case. apparently i have a 'case 3 something-or-other' but that was corrected by the fact that i only have 3 incisors on the bottom. something like that. anyway, after that he stepped back and admired his handiwork some more... and that was basically it. interesting guy, i have to say. =) my mom took me to the grove after that. platypus smells really really good. it's kind of like a combination of coffee and.. something else. i can't quite lay my finger on it... it just smells really good. alrighties, i've been online entirely too long. must go study.. ungh.. okie, bye!
hm, my life is so unexciting. actually that's true, but it wasn't very appropriate for right now. so i got some free college stuff!!! i went to yale yesterday and they gave me a shirt w/a big dorky 05 on the back and i bought two $12 shirts. and wharton sent me a keychain and a mousepad for getting in or whatever today. woh, mousepad. i'm going to bring it to college even if i don't go to penn. then they will think that ... i am ... weird. and they will be correct, whoever "they" is.
i'm really tired ... and i have a lot of work ... and a lot of piano. so much piano. way too much piano. and way too much work to be missing three days of school this week. (i skipped yesterday and today to go visit yale and on friday i'm going up to penn.) what happened to this being a senior and never having anything to do? i miss it. Tuesday, April 17, 2001
HI EVERYONE!!!! i haven't been here in weeks. it feels good to be back. =)
ireland was fun.. but probably not as fun and staying home. :) well, at least you all didn't suffer from severe sleep-depravity [or however you spell that]. and you didn't get hit on by fifty-year-old a irishman driving a jaunting cart.. or get asked if you were japanese twice by a drunk irishman doing elvis impressions at the bus stop. hoo boy, that was fun. =) right. a lot seemed to happen while i was gone. i want to see josie and the pussycats. and bridget jones' diary. my mommy saw that without me. :P hehe, oh well.. so, i'm really tired right now.. i don't know what i'm doing here. well, actually, i was catching up on the 100 blogs that i missed. my brain hurts now. i'm tired. i should go to bed. *sigh* okay, bye dudes.
somebody set up us the bomb. somebody set up us the bomb. all your base are belong to us. all your base are belong to us. we get signal. somebody set up us the bomb. all your base are belong to us.
it's subliminal...linking. did i totally screw up your blog, derek? oh well, if you don't like it, you can always delete it. so, i haven't blogged on here in awhile. and i'm all out of blog for now. so...go read my blog if you actually want to read about my life. and other people's. I want to see Josie and the Pussycats. i wanted to see it before it came out. i want to see it.
Hey derek, ur not online right now so I'll write it on ur blog b4 i forget. If you (or anyone) likes kinda mellow songs, go download "Josh Rouse - Backstroke" yea. If you watched Roswell on Monday it was played on there. What were the good songs from Josie n the Pussycats besides Three Words? I have lotsa work to do...gah...and I just pigged out...i always stuff myself fat with tons of food when i get home, it's really bad.
Monday, April 16, 2001
ok i was reading Foxtrot one day and Jason Fox kept saying "All your base are belong to us." Then i told neil about it and and he set out to find out about it on the net. and he gave me this website. check it out. its pretty weird and kinda funny. i think derek knows about it already. i didn't bother to read all the 500 blogs before that i missed so i think i'll probably end up feeling stupid about it. yea ok. theraflu is nasty stuff.
oh, how did you hear about the whole "all your base are belong to us" thing? i was flipping through and old issue of wired magazine the other day and saw it in one of those "what's new and cool for geeks" sections. and yeah, i don't remember what they said about it. i don't even remember what issue it was. caitlin, you should give me catalogs and magazines -- i like catalogs and magazines. everyone here should give me all their cool old magazines that they don't want anymore. and i want to start a band too. or play in a band. or something like that. i'm going to order that MD soon. anyone have a camcorder?
now since sheila says she's going to revive her blog, i'm going to see what's there. and um, okay. there's nothing new there, except for her three-sentence entry with "please blog people". i'll blog sometime when there's stuff on it. i'm saying what i'm thinking now. i feel so lazy and useless. so today, i'm feeling sick and i came home and i looked in the newspaper classifieds for jobs that i maybe could apply for and then i ate a little something and read some stuff in my chem book that i didn't understand -- and then i fell asleep for a few hours. my head hurts and my throat kind of itches and i cough. i come back later.
no do not ever change the name of this blog. okay i won't say "ever" because ... i don't even know caitlin and it sounds a little harsh ;-) ... but ... well someone put the link of that thing up here because the only link i have is on wei's website and it's hard to find. or something. yes, well anyway, there is ... this thing online ... in which somebody set up us the bomb. although actually its novelty is wearing off, so fine, yes derek, think of something else clever. like, ... "i'm a young brilliant supergenius." okay that's not clever.
anyway whenever i don't look at either this blog or the other one for like a day, they suddenly overflow. it's pretty annoying. stop it. but i have nothing interesting to say anyway so i guess it doesn't matter. although i want to start a band as well. or i have that quasi-one but ... i want to actually ... you know ... play with them again.
soooo...today was back to school. it was surprising how quickly and easily everyone got back into the swing of things. sitting in chem, copying lessons, watching cheesy movies, it felt like i'd never left. is the holmdel library open late tonight? i need to get some more research. but i found this book after school today, and it was really perfect for my topic and so i was really really happy, and due to my excessive happiness, i was kicked out of the library. twice. but i didn't leave. i just hid by the boys' track board until it was safe to come out again. and where can i get a copy of "frank lloyd wright quarterly" ? ooh, and today we got our mail from all of last week, and i got all these letters and magazines and catalogs, and it was really nice. i love getting mail.
derek, you should change the name of this blog. it's kind of, um, weird. make it something like..oh, i don't know. i'm too much of a dork to come up with a cool name. for a blog. i can come up with cool band names and baby names and pet names and what-not. oooh that reminds me. my sailboat really needs a name. it's been two years now, and we still haven't thought of one. any suggestions???????
HEY SERENA!!!!! I never see you!!!!
i played tennis yesterday for awhile with my daddyyy. it was a lotta fun! heh. if the gymnastics and girls tennis seasons weren't both fall, i'd probably want to try out for tennis... not that i would have any chance of making it, but just for fun because tennis is fun. yea......... sheila~ try jersey gardens. they have some petite sizes Sunday, April 15, 2001
the piece sounds hard, but it's kind of easy. i mean, what do i mean. it's pretty hard to be accurate and up to tempo with the whole rubato thing where it accelerates and then comes to a halt and then slowly goes back up, and the left hand part with the arrpeggios [however you spell that] is kind of difficult too, and it really kills my arm -- but it's pretty easy. i guess i like it, kind of. show me what you play sometime. i'm always so jealous when i hear other people play, especially when my friends play. everyone's better than me, the piano teacher's son. anyway.
i haven't done any work over spring break, wow. like i said before -- i have to do studying for the stupid standardized tests put out by the stupid college board and i have to practice piano for my stupid guild audition and i have to exercise because i'm stupidly getting fat [i went to mcdonald's twice this week, ugh] and i have to get better in tennis. even though i'm not on the tennis team. it's just a nice thing that i'd like to happen. i should write in my journal too. i wonder how much stuff is coming up in terms of schoolwork -- i really don't want to do a whole english research paper thing all over again. i wrote like seven [!!!] last year and it was not fun. not. ellen's going to let me read her english writing stuff sometime. she promised.
this is going to sound really weird, but derek -- i really like the liszt that you're playing now. see, i told you it was going to sound weird.
so i think i'll blog now. =P sheila, it's so weird -- today i sat outside too! except not under a cherry tree. we have one of those trees, but they haven't started blooming yet. our tree is always a little bit late. hehe..well, by the suggestion of will, i tried working somewhere outside my house so i could get a bit more progress on my story. so i went outside. =) i do get more work done outside..i was quite amazed. so i managed to finish my story. i'm still not quite sure what anything's supposed to represent or what the moral is [it's supposed to be an allegory...like hawthorne's scarlet letter], but it sure sounds like its some deep stuff, soo....yeah. i think i could make up something if she asks. =P i am so lazy. anyway, i bet you guys ALL wanted to hear about this, because you know, it is so interesting [sarcasm] and i know that school work is just even more interesting [more sarcasm]. yess...anyway, i'm going to go now. i'm going to start a band.
oh, and hi serena!! i think i'll be the first to welcome you in this supercool blog. =)
Wow... my first blog! After 6 months, I've finally been invited to this thing. By the way this is Serena... could u tell? We just got back from Germany, and I'm a wee bit jet lagged, but thats ok. Richard did a great job of summing trip up, cept he forgot< "To the right is the spa.. we go left" Never in my life have I seen so much grass...I can't believe school starts tomorrow, I feel like I've only had a weekend off, and thats not spring break. I sitll have to copy my chem lessons too! See ya'll tomorrow! :)
i wonder if i have any homework. i think i have this whole packet of geometry proofs to do, but that's due at the end of the year. so i won't do that. and then i have to find a research topic and narrow it down and have a thesis, all for english -- but i'll do that starting tomorrow. spring break's over, ugh. i look back and i can't really think of what productive things i did. i have to start studying and practicing and doing things. snood is evil.
ok. so when i got home today, i was in a really sappy mood and decided to sit under the weeping cherry tree. the flowers just bloomed yesterday so it's all nice and pink and pretty. i sat under the tree..ontop of all these red rocks. i probly looked pathetically pathetic sittin there, in sweat pants and a tank top, looking up at a tree..in front of my house. i kinda fell asleep cuz it was so nice...until the wind woke me up and flung bits and peices of petals onto my face. i never felt mroe stoopid. but the experience was fun i guess. i think i'm goin to go sit on my porch later and write a poem and an entry in my diary..just to keep up the sappiness =P oh no. my dad just told me that my sweatpants are red near the butt. DANGIT...stoopid. u would think that if u SAT on red rocks...ur pants would be red right =P mah bad.
so anyways, last day of spring break. everyone's at home finishing their homework..while i'm sittin here..bloggin...not STARTING the MASS amount of homework i have to do. i'll get to it later..but i'll never finish. i KNOW it. so yeah. my dad's sititn next to me at the other computer..tellin me how much homework he has for theology class..and now was i look over at his computer screen..he's playin SNOOD, trying to beat my brother's 19,750 high score. i think i know where i got my procrastination and laziness genes from. i have a question. if u're tryin to get over something (like a fear...or a break up...or somethin really annoying..or..jstu something) do u IGNORE it..or do u attack it until ur used to it? i dunno. i'm so like..confused right now. hmm? i still need a prom dress too. ellen found me this realyl nice blue strapless one, except for the fact that it's not my size..and even if it was..i wouldn't have the..."stuff" to fill it. (gurls..u kno what i'm talkin about) so now, i'm really reayl frustrated about gettin a dress...and i might just go in jeans (woah. that might piss off my date even more huh? =P) but really, if ANYONE can find me a nice prom dress, please tell me!!!!!! i'm in desperate need. ok, so i'm goin to go play some snood cuz my dad just made a bet with me that he can get mroe points then me...and then i'm goin to sit outside on my deck and...get sappy =P
hmm. i'm going taiwan for about two or three weeks too. all chinese people from taiwan go to taiwan for family vacations. er...they go for at least one family vacation. well...that was just a general assumption.
i watched crouching tiger again today. apparently, it's been out for a really long time in taiwan and china and all those places so the chinese video rental places have them for rent. so my grandparents rented it cuz they rent those chinese soap all the time and we borrowed it. so yeah. i watched "wo hoo tsung long" on my tv. cool, eh? i didn't do any of my homework yet. and i have a practice ap test for history tomoddo. i should probably start studying for my ap exams because i'm gonna fail them. there's this thing on plastic surgery on E! right now. they actually show it. it's so disgusting. this guy had some liposuction done around his waist. ewwww... mm. and now they're showing a lady getting a face lift. she's knocked out...yet her eyes are open. and the doctors are poking around her face and her eyes and blechhh!
Rolf was the driver of bus #1, the bus i was on. Mumford was the bus #2 driver. There was one funny incident when Rolf kinda lost control and he bumped Mumford's bus on the side. Then there was another time Rolf tried to drive before his gears locked and the whole bus was rattling. Mumford was interesting. During this stop at a little German town Mumford started flirting with some woman (she was probably German). And we were all waiting on our buses when we noticed him "mackin' it" with her. So all the seniors and some other crazy kids on bus #1 started waving to them and taking pictures and cheering them on. It was weird.
Saturday, April 14, 2001
i'm going to taiwan for 3 weeks.. joy joy. i wish i could bring some people with me too. too many family vacations.. *sigh*
hey, i'm back too. from uh, being offline and now i'm online and blogging. those songs from the movie are really stuck in my head. i can't think of any other tunes or melodies than the ones from these three-four songs i downloaded and've been listening to for the past -- oh, a few hours here and there. i like her voice. supposedly it's the girl from letters to cleo, not rachael leigh cook, but well. it doesn't sound like the letters from cleo person. but then i doubt rachael leigh cook can sing this well. or maybe she can. it's a big mystery. someone buy the soundtrack and solve it for me.
i wish i could go on faraway trips with my friends too. anyone want to go to taiwan -- or already going to taiwan -- or hong kong or japan this summer? actually, it's ( taiwan and [ hong kong OR japan ] ) like you would do it in some programming language or some math thing. i have to start studying for the practice chinese SAT and the real one in may that i'm taking. and then i have to do this ten-piece audition in may too, probably the same week of the SAT. i should work harder. i haven't actually run yet, because my running shoes were in school over break and i keep worrying that the pounding from running on the sidewalk. and so apparently, i'm supposed to be running on asphalt -- as in, i run on the street with cars very close passing me by. um, okay.. i want a camcorder. the one we have is this huge clunky one and it's no fun. i don't want to be carrying that around. for some reason i've been thinking about how time keeps passing me by and i can't possibly remember anything and i should save some of the things that happen -- like i can have a camcorder and tape things happening around me like my friends and what they do and where we go and whatever, and well. i'm going to order that MD soon. i doubt my parents are going to let me buy a camcorder too. does anyone have one? if you do, you should be ashamed of yourself -- you should be using it as much as you can. i'm one of those nostalgic people. i miss things that happened before. who're rolf and mumford?
hola. i'm back also. from costa rica. no, it's not an island. it's the second most southern country in central america, between panama and nicaragua. i also saw a bunch of cool places met some interesting latino people [and european people] and drove on some very windy and bumpy and dirty and rocky roads. i saw a porcupine that lives in a tree. and a bunch of birds. and some brown blobs that may have been sloths. and i decided to lie out on the beach without sunscreen on my first day. at noon. that was pretty stupid of me. sleeping was therefore uncomfortable the rest of the vacation. i ran almost every morning with my dad. it was very very hot. hacia mucho mucho calor. i basically came back to the hotel every day a gasping mass of sweat. i would then jump in the pool with my running clothes on and spend the rest of the morning in a hammock. which, by the way, was extremely painful on my sunburned back.
it sounds like you guys had a blast here in nj. [sarcasm]. but trust me, it's just as lonely being in some exotic place when you're stuck with your family twenty-four/seven. not a bad lonely, just kind of blah. it's nice to be back home and see other people. who speak english. so the germany/ireland trips sound pretty good. you get to visit amazing places AND hang out with your friends. too bad my parents like hanging out with me so much that they always insist on family vacations. and that they wouldn't pay for me to go to ireland. "it's going to rain the whole time." okay, but this is sounding like complaining. nope, i'm quite happy to go places with my family. my twelve year old brother is becoming more the obnoxious teen every day. ahh, the joys of puberty. oh, and in costa rica, if you want diet coke, you have to ask for a "coca light."
Gutten tag. hmm i think i missed about 3 weeks of blogs. europe was fun. it would have been even nicer if i didn't get sick. but that was later. we saw a bunch of cool places and met some interesting european people, like our bus drivers, those two kids from that little town, the guy who helped us when we got locked out of our room (he has a friend who played for the New Jersey Devils 10 years ago. cool eh?), and us chorusites even attended a German service on Good Friday, which was kind of odd. i probably learned a lot more about some people than i might have wanted to know.
i think i'll make a list like you guys did after the winter retreat thing: 1) Rolf gets the big packages and Mumford gets the small packages. 2) make sure your tour guide is really nice if you want to be able to call home. 3) try to figure out what the rules are before you break them. 4) don't eat too many potatoes 5) sit next to the seniors or Mr. Knier if you want to laugh for half the bus ride 6) hey, must be the money. 7) some people have really twisted minds. 8) you hafta pay for your drinks unless it's water. 9) make sure you say "no gas" or "nein mit gas" if you don't want carbonated water. 10) yea and um Czech pop songs are hilarious. i think now i'll go boogie, boogie woogie, all night loonnnnng and find a small package of food to eat. maybe mumford will help me.
Blah...someone get online...I am so bored......la la la la la. La la. La. Doooo. Oh yea, I went to McDonalds's for breakfast...that's liek the first breakfast i've had in a really really long time. Grease city mmmmm. But then i felt really sick to my stomach, and then I went to Dim Sum and the people gave me a cup that had a nasty brown ring around it and it was just like ewwwwww and felt sicker. Um um...I want TRL to come on so I can watch music videos cuz I actually have MTV where i am right now. So that means I'm gonna go now. I'm in the mood for greasy hasbrowns and ketchup yum yum yum. If only these foods were healthy...
Friday, April 13, 2001
so um, i've missed two days. what'd i do. if you really want to know, let's see -- wednesday, i went to new york with ellen and sheila and we did a lot of nothing. i can't believe the museum of modern art's closed on wednesdays. i can't believe student admission at the guggenheim is eight dollars. i can't believe we didn't know about the metrocard one-day pass that's only four dollars and we could've rode [ or is it "ridden" ] the buses and subway for as much as we wanted. i can't believe. we went into stores, and every single time -- or so it seemed -- i would end up ten minutes later searching for them all over the girl's section of the store, whatever store it was. lunch was an extremely greasy burger that wasn't worth what i paid for it. and on the way home, i bought a box of a dozen krispy kreme donuts. big mistake, because those made me feel so disgusting afterwards. i ate three that night, two the next morning, and then one this morning. that's six donuts, yuck. mm hm.
and then yesterday, i went to see "josie and the pussycats" with grace and ellen. that theater was filled with so many little kids, ugh. i picked the wrong movie. it was like a cartoon, and it was pretty good in a -- well, campy cartoon-like kind of way. some kid sneezed in back of me in the middle of the movie and he must've spewed something because i felt something wet on my arm. i still don't know what it was, eew. i like some of the songs in the movie, though. and in the beginning of the movie, josie's "manager"-friend brings them a box of krispy kremes and i was just -- hm. i don't know, i guess i was surprised in a bad way. i'm never eating or looking at a donut again. i need a haircut. and after the movie, we went to grace's house and looked at pictures for a minute or so before eugene came and took us to go record things at victor's house. how fun. and i think i have to go now, so. um.
u kno what? i think i really AM losin my mind. in the first paragraph of mah last blog..i mean i wrote this really long BLOG and it got deleted. geesh. yeah derek..maybe i am on drugs...DID U DRUG ME LAST NITE!?!? =P bye
i haven't blogged in the longest time. derek has been tellin me everytime we talk online to do it..but..yeah =P i wrote this really long e-mail..about goin to NYC on monday...basically sayin that our situation was horrible but it was fun altogether. does that make sense? so yeah..mah bro had a fever, a bird pooped on mah shoulder, my mom was walkin SOOOO SLOW..and yeah. it was quite..bad. but it was fun altogether.
life has been blah these days...i won't go into depth..but everything has been so ewwy. it's been awesome hangin with ellen and derek this week tho =) it's sad that most of MY world has gone to germany and ireland..but they will soon be back right?! and plus..i got to..bond more with the more ppl. WOAH. i feel like i'm writing in my diary. i was about to reveal some really personal stuff..like the fact that i'm lesbian..i mean..UHH =P jk jk. but yeah! go check out my website. it's very unfinished..but it's gettin there i think. i need suggestions. so yeah..spring break is almost over..which i'm kinda happy for..skewl keeps mah mind off thigns..i'm kinda in a really bad situation tho..being that i have to outline 37 pages of mah history book...and i haven't started..and it usualyl takes me 4 horus to outline 20....i kno i kno..and i'm still sittin here tlakin on IM =P i'm getin a haircut today! although everyone's tellin me not to..i feel like it's time for a NEW LOOK. i havne't cut mah hair since september and it's getting really boring so yeah. bye bye hair. and bye bye everyone!
hm..tell me again why i still haven't gone to bed. =P or why i wake up early [well, today] during spring break. i seem very...very...ah. i guess my body can do without sleep? *shrug* anyway, i'm rather glad that my break is beginning to look like it has some substance. yesterday was in the city -- mega walking around in the wind shopping spending looking like tourists random directions lack of change wishing i lived in the city saw manley pope. uh, i'm not sure what that random word sentence was all about. it just..yeah. stream of consciousness?
today i saw josie and the pussycats. it inspired me some more to form a band. or join one. or to clean up whatever miscellaneous music skills i have. but then i figured that i'm really very lazy. after the movie derek and i kind of got shuffled around by my brother and victor. drive to home, then to church, pick up equipment, drive to radio shack, drive to mcdonalds, drive to victor's house, stay there for many hours. they record some tracks, i get driven off for piano lessons, i get driven back, more tracks recorded [none of which i was involved..i then felt like a groupie], drive around a while, go home. and now i'm blogging. hm..this blog was very pointless. kind of like those stories that some people tell; you know, when they're like, "oh oh, i have a story!" and the story has no point at all in the end. like, "......so then i woke up and brushed my teeth. the end." [uh, first thing that came to mind?] uh huh..right. i think i'll go and think of an idea for my short story. Wednesday, April 11, 2001
i actually woke up at a reasonable time today: 9:40 b/c I had a track meet to attend and had to get to school before the bus left at 10:30. Well, the meet didn't start until 12 and I ended up just waiting around for a long time for my event. It was pretty dumb. Also, why would anyone schedule a meet for 12...that is lunch time. Anyone running anything longer than a 200m race would not be able to eat until after they run. That is especially bad for people who have to run a leg in 4 by 400 race, which didn't go off until 2 o'clock. It was cold today too. The weather is acting all sporadic and stuff...monday afternoon it was bright and sunny, and i was outside in shorts. Then monday night there was a thunderstorm...and today it's cold. Yes, i am not rambling off on random topics right now.
Derek, I'm here to save you from having to blog 4 times in a row. Yes, this has been an incredibly boring week. Look, I'm actually using puctuation, it's really scary....and napster is really starting to suck, I can't find any songs anymore, not even the really popular ones. N people are starting to spelle the artists' names wrong so that it will still show up or something...like instead of Britney Spears it would be Brittney Spear or something. I say "or something" a lot. hmm. I got my guitar last night (!) and it's all pretty and expensive. They had all these electric guitars on the walls that were like 11,000 bucks and stuff and i was just like to my dad "aren't you happy I don't wanna play an electric" - my 2nd 3rd and 4th fingers really hurt from pressing down on the strings. And I hate when one of my fingers touches a part of a string that it's not sposed to touch and then when I strum it makes a dead sound. And yea, I can't get my fingers to move fast enough. i got this book and it's like "take your fingers off all at the same time and then put them on the next chord all at the same time" and i'm just like what the...but yea, so that's what I've been doing.
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
all your base are belong to us. this is such a boring week. but it gets better tomorrow, i really hope so. i'm all alone on this blog. i was going to start writing down things on paper today, but then i realized my desk was really messy and started cleaning my desk, but then there was a lot of change everywhere and all over and i started to collect it and so i put it all in a piggy bank and never finished clearing off desk space. maybe i'll do some writing some other time. what i want to write is -- well, i don't know. random thoughts, words, songs, poetic things. but i'm not a poet. mm, maybe i am. i'm not.
i was trying to play guitar today and i've noticed that i don't seem to be improving. i still can't change chords as fast, but maybe i'm a little faster and more accurate than before, and my fingers are a little more flexible and stronger, but well. it's mostly the same. and my strumming seems a little weird. and so, i don't really know. i want a guitar teacher. or someone to help me improve. i think i'm doing something wrong. three-paragraph blog. i started making kind of a new website today. i've decided that instead of frames, this time i want it to be based on tables. or maybe both. anyway, i need to get some image programs and learn how to use them. like photoshop, i have no idea of what it can do or how to do it. and i want macromedia dreamweaver, except it's like -- i don't know, $400. i'm going to order those CDs and that MD player soon. and i'm going to make a really really cool website someday. i'm already thinking of titles and things to put in it. well, not really.
um, hey. i feel like i'm talking to myself here. today was yet again a lot of nothing. i'm wasting so much time -- ugh, i hate this. i went to barnes and noble again and read two books and half a magazine, bought a book with interviews of miscellaneous people from the nineteenth century to the present, or at least 1992 when it was published, and then i was bored. then i came home and took a nap. at least i'm getting some rest. my piano lesson was today, too. it hasn't been, oh -- entirely unproductive. tomorrow looks to be better. and thursday too.
and so -- today looks to be like yesterday, as in how i'm going to be stuck at home the whole day and the only place i can go to is the shopping center where i was for a few hours yesterday and not really doing anything, and i'll probably be home wasting a lot of time. this is so stupid. i could go read some study materials for the SAT, but i already went over most of it. i think i just have to look it over again a little bit a week or so before the test. i wanted to go to the mall, but apparently my mom is teaching students from 8:30 in the morning to 7:00 at night -- so i really don't think that she could give me a ride. okay, well. i might as well go take a shower now and then do something.
Monday, April 09, 2001
i'm not in new york. ugh, this is annoying. someone never called me back. anyway, i woke up today around 11:00 and i've been doing a bit of nothing since then -- i think in a few minutes i'll go out and do something. i read in time about mary-kate and ashley olsen's new magazine about mary-kate and ashley olsen, and i think i want to buy a copy. it should be amusing. seven stories about themselves, twenty-nine pictures of themselves, fifteen ads for their products, hahaha. i think i'm going crazy from boredom. and somehow people online have stopped saying things -- um. i guess i'll go now and find something productive to do.
dang so much has happened in the past two days! and i thought it was silent as ... a quiet ... thing ... yeah anyway. i'm leaving tomorrow morning (this morning?) at like five am or something for my cruise around some florida areas (i don't know but it had BETTER be warm, i am so unprepared for if it's cold). and ... it better be warm. that's all i can say quietly and threateningly. yes. well ... anyway so i'm leaving and there are (hopefully for imperative derek's sake) going to be millions of blogs by the time i get home and i will be very confused. oh, and yes my brother goes to cornell. bye all!
Sunday, April 08, 2001
i meant to say something here, but it just took me like 10 minutes to log in and during that time, i forgot what i was going to say. darn. so. once at an OMTA when i was like, in second grade, i was sitting there and then right after the kid in front of me left, i walked up to the piano, sat down, and started playing my piece. and the judges were like, "no, we're not ready yet. wait for us to tell you when to start." so i had to go back to my seat and wait. yeah. to a 7 year old kid. scarred for life. not really, scarred until i won second place that year. that was cool. i used to always get high honors. i guess it gets harder when you get older. i remember i got an honorable mention once for something and i was devastated. a blow to my ego. oh and once there was this concerto competition and everyone who played sat in that big room as they listed off who got what place. third place...still didn't hear my name. second place...*inhale*....this is my chance...i can win this thing....Connie Yung. oh phoo. yeah. i didn't even win first. so i walked out and called my piano teacher over the phone and she was so sad. i don't like disappointing people. oh and once... haha nevermind, i'll shutup. or i can go into every piano competition, audition, concert, and recital i've ever played in since i first learned how to play. but...you don't wanna hear it. it's not all that interesting. yeah. i won stuff until i was like 9. then i started to suck. which brings me to now.
whoo. so remind me never to talk about piano ever again. next rant and rave...chinese school awards...=P by the way, i never did say what i originally planned to say.
spring break. whoopee.
hey, was that the time when the piano was really really dusty and you told the lady and she took out a roll of paper towels out of nowhere and wiped it off? that was the judge whose lights flickered off on me and i screwed up really badly when the lights went out and the lady's like "oh, don't worry. the lights flicker off all the time." yeah. i got honors though. so that was cool. and jess, by your senior year, wouldn't you have gotten a 14-year trophy or something? man, talent! i am so bored. maybe i'll go partake of der's website. one sec. wowee. dave's b-day's november...something. eric's b-day is may 3. which is also justine shih's b-day. yeah. i have this obsession for knowing people's b-days... it makes me feel like a stalker. doesn't everyone wanna be a stalker? yeah. so, der and i are having identity crises. am i a tenor? or a bass? or a baritone? or a soprano? like steve and eric wong? man, before all you guys ditched eric and me at music camp... tenors rocked. speaking of which, who is actually going? i wanna go so badly... but it won't be fun w/o you guys! and has anyone else noticed that tim looks and sounds a lot like george bush? hahaha
well, i think i'm going to change the blog name on a daily basis now. or at least regular basis. basis, bases, basses, i'm not a real bass. not the fish, the voice part. i remember i was at william paterson college one time for that audition -- it was a long time ago, since i haven't done the audition in like three years -- and it was in this room with no windows and it was a rainy thunderstorm ick day and i was playing this really really fast classical mozart probably or some other composer piece in like allegro or allegretto or presto, and ahem. so the lights go out in the middle of the piece and i just keep playing in the dark and i didn't stop because every teacher i've had has always told me to not stop while performing and then they came on and i finished the piece. and i got high honors that year. that was the highlight of my NJMTA audition career. my mom said that this year, every judge had about thirty people and they had a quota of high honor and honor awards they could give out -- like five each or something. or was it fifteen and five. having a piano teacher for a mom is pretty funny sometimes. she's like "so i was talking to _______'s piano teacher the other day and she told me that she blah blah blah.." and oh, jessica -- why are you proud of me?
derk -- you have been so assertive lately. =P *ahem* ddeere e k k: I'LL DO WHATEVER I WANT and now this blog is "i can call it whatever i want to call it." assertiveness is a good thing; supposedly you would be a good businessman. uh huh.
hm, piano was..ok. you know how you're supposed to put down the music rack stand thingy when you play? i tried to put mine down and my judge lady was like, "i've taught in this room everyday for the past __ years. don't put that down." my reaction? "oh." but i did ok i guess...i zoned out in my second piece because the window was open and there was rain/wind coming in. distracting i tell you. and just now i came back from tennis..derek was there too with a makeup lesson. he had on quite an intimidating veggie tales t-shirt. hehe..=) ok, i'm going to go shower..because that is the right thing to do, right?
man i didn't do too great at piano this morning... hey dave you think you're early??? me and ellen had 9:30 in the FREAKING MORNING! ugh... i'm going to blame my bad playing on the fact that i was half asleep... or.. i'll try to blame it on that.... yea. not fun not fun. but after piano.. i spent about...5 hours shopping. YAY! i guess that makes up for it... mich i got 2 dresses from XOXO. they're pretty nifty. i'll have to show you some time... yea. ok bye. look it's been 4 people (including me) since derek blogged. i am oh so proud of you derlei :)
wow, i'm back! for the fourth time! that make 20?
so. der and i had (supposedly) a singing contest today. (dunno who won.) man, i feel like such a minority at choir. mrs. tsai's always like "tenors louder! louder! LOUDER!" and i'm like "um..." and the louder i sing the more itchy and scratchy [show] my voice sounds. ick. it makes you feel all icky inside. and now i feel like jon lee talking. eww... mid'town is so weird. no friday off. man, i'm bored. anyone wanna see a movie or do something tomorrow. or tuesday. or whatever. yeah. uh huh. right. Saturday, April 07, 2001
It's saturday, and spring break has been going on for...a day...yes. Actually it kind of started yesterday for me, except for the going to school part. I had to take this DUMB hspa test yesterday. Our class was fortunate to have been told that it doesn't count, and as a result, i could see people around me race to see who could fill in the bubbles the fastest. I actually did the multiple choice problems but i had some fun with the free response. Like in the math one they gave us an equation and for my written explanation i was like: "you have an equation, just plug & chug."
today has been quite a piano oriented day. I woke up at like 10:30 and went to play some piano. Then i watched batman beyond. That was pretty cool because batman beyond is a cool show and there was a crossover today with characters from another show...yes. Then i played some more piano, and went to piano lessons...and you get the message. Piano sucks, and I'm dead tomorrow. my pieces are REALLY inconsistent. Plus, i have to wake up early tomorrow because my thing is at 10:05, and i'm going to need time to practice. it'll all be over tomorrow though...and then i only have one more year of piano competitions and the such left!
blogging twice = bad, huh? i'll have to keep that in mind. it took me quite a while to read all the blogs on here and on connie's blog; it's intersting how both blogs have these raging discussions on grammer and spelling. *sigh*
well the start of spring break has been...dull. i stayed home on thursday and friday [no, i didn't cut. i was sick] just...lying in bed all day. i kept derek company late friday night over AIM [see, not so lonely, huh?] and i did a lot of piano cramming. i will die tomorrow for piano. buttttt...i got my dress!!!! =) i feel like a princess. my mom told me today in the car that i shouldn't take the prom picture because back in her "culture and time," pictures like that were supposed to be reserved for marriage. riiiight. pre-marital picture taking. =P michelle i will teach you guitar. i have the weird ability to teach guitar over instant messaging -- i am proud to say i taught eric his first song over IM. hehe..hey, did you konw ellie's brother goes to cornell? he's a stud. =P
oh. kids in constant pain. blogging twice. going to have to make a note of that. but those two blogs were right after another -- i just didn't feel like editing and adding to the first blog. i like the word "homophone" better, by the way.
derek, you're way too depressing when you have to blog ... twice ... and when nobody blogs for more than ... half an hour. i think your kids are going to be in constant pain. hate to tell you.
although i don't totally know why i'm blogging here since, according to you, it's just you (and me) and i'm IMing you right now anyway so this could basically be our IM conversation, so ... oops that had no ... relative clause or whatever it might be called. that sentence had no second half. it was incomplete. i have this grammar problem. it's like ... i hate incorrect grammar. well i'm not as bad as derek with ghetto typing (by far!) but i will always make fun of it and i will always notice it. mostly just homonyms. and spelling. and only usually during IM conversations, i won't hold it against anyone who types incorrectly here. and ghetto typing doesn't bother me because i guess that's just their style. and ... now i sound like derek. i'd better leave here before i start ... sounding ... more like derek.
oh, i didn't even notice other people blogging. i like gummy worms better, especially with that sour crystal sprinkley stuff on it. i don't know if i should've added that "e" in the middle of the "ly". and hey michelle, you never said you were going to cornell. i bet it's um, a whole lot of fun. keep looking for cute guys --
yeah, there was once a time where i could blog a whole week by myself, and i don't think i really minded. except now everyone's gone and it feels kind of empty -- mmpf. i was looking at my "team" list and i have one short of twenty people. (that's nineteen bloggers, by the way.) and yet no one really blogs. hm. i wonder how long it'll be before i start wanting to delete the blog. they make it too easy -- all you do is go to settings and press this bottom at the bottom that says "delete this blog". and then the whole thing just goes away, i think. i wonder if they ask you if you really want to do it. like a little pop-up window with "do you really want to delete 'derked.blog'?" and with buttons like 'cancel' or 'OK'. i think they should spell it 'okay', instead of with the two capital letters. and they don't even have periods after each letter. it should.
so what's happening. i updated my website except my real domain doesn't work, so you'll have to use that one in the link there. or that link over to the left that says my domain -- actually, pseudo-domain -- isn't working. and today was a bad tennis day for me. the head pro instructor coach guy actually wants me to make up next week after my normal lesson, which means i would play four hours of tennis. and the four-to-six class is the best non-invitational group lesson thing, which means i would probably be killed even playing my best -- which i don't usually do. it's so hard to concentrate. so next week i'll be in that class after two hours of playing. you guys are welcome to visit me at the hospital afterwards. i kept telling george -- the instructor tennis man -- that i didn't think i could do it in my passive way "i don't um, think i can" and he just kept saying "c'mon, man" and "don't be a wuss" over and over and we just went back and forth until i said "okay, fine". and then he said, "okay, good" -- and then ran back upstairs to write it down. i don't want to play four hours of tennis. sheila told me to call her, and she's not home. i can't remember the last time i left a message on an answering machine -- i really don't like them. i am very very good at making a fool of myself on other people's machines. "um, hi. this is derek, and this is a message for _______ -- no wait, wrong person. i mean uh, _______, if you get this message, call me back when you get home from wherever you are or as soon as possible like when you get this message, if you get this message, and um.." anyway, norman wanted to go somewhere do something get out of his house, so i told him to figure out what and with who and when and that i would call him back in half-an-hour after i took a shower because i just came back from tennis, and then i called him back and it just kept ringing. so i'm writing this really long blog here. everyone's somewhere else. i wish i was there too.
personally i like the white and green ones. but whatever floats your boat and tickles your pickle i guess...
I guess I'l blog here because derek just blogged twice in a row with no one else in between and it looks so sad. I'm at Cornell right now...no cute guys. I actually saw one decent looking guy. Smart and cute guys are really cool. yea. I'm sure you wanted to know that. I stepped on my jacket as I was getting out of the car and now it has mud stuff all over it. no one is online besides jess. I can't seem to get this eyboard to type out "k" or capital letters unless i push really hard. And i'm pigging out on gummy bears. The red and white ones are my favorites. Humm hum....i brought up starting up guitar to my parents and they just like grunted or something. So i guess thats not happenin anything soon....ok I'm not gonna blog anymore cuz whenever I see a really long blog i'm lie what the.... and then skip it.
Friday, April 06, 2001
i'm feeling lonely. i'm the only one in the house right now and i've been looking over this book called "mathematics III" while watching some television -- "the lone gunmen" was pretty funny with this genius chimp -- while downloading tracks from the soundtrack from "the legend of 1900", which is this sad touching movie about a prodigy pianist who lives on a boat his whole life. i was going to buy the video for my mom for her birthday, but i just can't seem to find it. yeah, i think i already mentioned the whole thing about the movie. and my mom just walked in the door. "have you been working hard?" i need to go to school and get my gym shorts and running shoes. i only have one pair of shorts with pockets, which is kind of stupid. i need them to play tennis, or else i'll have to hold two tennis balls in my hand when i serve and throw away the one left in my hand if my first serve goes in -- which is a really distracting thing. and sometimes you think your serve was in and you throw the ball behind you, and it's really out and you have to go back and get another ball for your second serve, and mm. no one's online. this piano music is so sad. i think it just adds to this loneliness feeling. phhhbbt.
and um, okay. so today's been pretty boring so far. it's raining. and i'm disappointed and sad how everyone's going somewhere -- people going to ireland, people going to germany, people going somewhere else. last year, i was alone in paris while everyone else was back home. and then this year i'm home while most of everyone is gone someplace far away. it's raining. i was going to go to blockbuster and look for this video of a movie by some italian famous director-guy about a genius pianist who lives on a ship, and then i was going to go to barnes and noble and read whatever i found that seemed good -- but it's raining. and IM wasn't letting me sign on for almost half an hour. people aren't online. i have nowhere to go. i helped my mom do some housework, i played some guitar, and i think i'll go look for music now.
i don't do it to spite you (as i started about three hours ago and never finished). i suppose ... it feels weird talking about some of the stuff that i'm really thinking deeply about nowadays (ok today and yesterday), like ... college choices and what i want to study and what i want to do with the rest of my life. all stuff that i don't think should really weigh upon anyone until this year anyway ... stay carefree :-) it's so much cooler i swear.
anyway, nothing that exciting has happened today, but today i went to the beach with a friend and we sat on the roof of the car, which was like, really really cool. and we just talked and ate and lay there. it was awesome. very relaxing. oh, the other thing i figured out was that my school has someone accepted to every ivy school this year, which is really cool in a class of forty-two. don't know if someone will *go* to every one, but technically, we could :-) yeah ranney! (wow was that school spirit? how weird.) all right it's ... kinda late. perhaps i should sleep. Thursday, April 05, 2001
man, you do that to spite me. write more, write more. which college did you get into, or not, and where are you going, what are you doing, blah blah blah? and spring break has arrived. i'm going to be here the whole time, and so right now i'm quasi-planning what i'm going to do starting tomorrow. i'm thinking that i'll go to the mall, watch a few movies, work on my website, do some SAT stuff, order music, go to new york, study a bit for chinese, and hm. get some exercise. i wish i was going to europe, though -- ugh. i'm going to miss everyone.
Wednesday, April 04, 2001
last blog for a LONG time...well, a week or so. yep, i'm leaving for costa rica tomorrow afternoon. i'm trying to pack now, and i can't think of what to bring in my carry-on bag. do i really feel like doing chem on the plane? hmm...
so today we had our first two track meets, and we won both! and so many people got PRs and did really well. it was definitely a great day. a lot of nonrunners came to the meet to cheer on/make fun of the runners, which was nice too. [i mean seriously, not sarcastically]. gee, for once, i can't think of anything to say. so i'll see all of you, or most of you, back in school. hopefully i'll be rested and tan, and not totally out of shape either [i think i'm going to train in costa rica w/ my dad - he's training for a marathon]. bye! buen viaje for all you traveling!
you know what's really strange and annoying? i can't get onto IM with my normal screenname. i click the "sign on" button, and then it says "connecting" and "verifying name and password" and then it just stops. sometimes it gives me this "signon timeout" message, and then other times it just says that the service cannot be reached or something. except i can get online with my other screennames. it's very, very annoying. and something else that's annoying too -- my computer has this weird problem-habit of restarting itself at random times. i have no idea why. maybe it's that new system monitor program my dad installed, but i'll have to look into it. i was in the middle of complaining in a blog about not being able to get onto IM before and the screen just went black and i was sitting with my fingers on the keyboard staring into a turned-off monitor. i think thoughts going through my head were the equivalent of "uh". and now i'm downloading the new version of IM to see if it'll be any better. so annoying, so annoying.
and so. wow, it got a little chilly today. i was about to go to the shopping center and look around for cool stuff, but then i opened the door and it was cold. and a little windy. maybe tomorrow. i ordered this mousepad today from a cool graphic design magazine font other products company that's red and says "design is a good thing". yeah, and a few other books and this bag of stuff they said was cool. oh, and i read part of an article from some culture magazine about "the death of cool". apparently, some people have jobs where all they do is find out what's cool among kids and teens and adults -- and then report it to their company. i would want to do that. maybe. i want to be cool. kind of. mm, this is turning out to be long. i guess i'm trying to make up for the shortness -- i was about to say "brevity" or "conciseness" or something like that, i have to start studying vocab, ugh -- of everyone else's blogs. all those one-sentence blogs, eew. ewe. so spring break starts tomorrow, and i'm probably not going anywhere, even though i would like to go to new york one or two days and do something and i don't know what, and well. i might work on my website, which i haven't touched in weeks. i'm going to add a conversation section, probably -- i can find at least one or two interesting ones in that huge folder. sorted by name and date, isn't that cool? yes, okay. i think i should go do something productive now.
hmm. there's a target opening by us. and a wiz too. how cool is that? yeah anyway, i feel really bad cuz derek keeps telling me how his blog isn't getting anything. i still don't think it's my fault...i am *not* a blogger theif. so anyway, i have a lot of work to do. A LOT. geez it's almost 10 and i still have 2.5 tests to study for. hmm, yes. that almost made sense. we're watching selena in spanish in my spanish class. the teacher's really annoying, she translates every single word...you can't even hear the movie. argh. yeah. i have three tests in the first four periods of the day tomoddo...not including gym. walleyball is so much fun!! aw man, that is the ultimate sport. but its' not fun when you get spiked in the face. and that happens. all to often. but not to me=) ok, back to studying, bye!
i never got my AE catalog. mmpf, it makes me so annoyed. annoyed to the point of almost angry, but not quite -- almost. i think i'll go to the wiz soon and look for something to buy. i really like those 99-cent singles. and it seems like i can't write anything today.
Tuesday, April 03, 2001
mich bring me with you! i need a dress. we should both get maybe.. 2 dresses and then switch for parties haha.
yea, you guys do realize we're talking about work stuff here, right? like that yucky stuff that goes on in the classroom. Ew. Stop it. I saw a dress online from AE that's marked down from like 55 bucks to 15 i want it but i dunno what size to get and ...i guess i'll have to go to th emall...someone give me a ride.
i guess so, except you never really ended your run-on sentence with all those period things, whatever they're called. there should've been a period after "jeez". and i thought an ellipse was a set of points where the sum of the distance from any point to each of two foci -- or focuses, hm -- is the same. ellipsis? uh, okay. i use them, but a lot less than i used to. like now my blogs don't even have them anymore. mmhm, so i think in a few minutes after i check my e-mail and reply to one or two or one, i'm going to go ride my bike. and wear flip-flops.
oh boy... this all reminds me of mr gettis's class last year.. when he went over punctuation for like.. a whole 3 days... jeez
look derek, i wasn't THAT bad this time was i? Monday, April 02, 2001
question regarding ghetto typing:
i know that excessive periods qualify as "ghetto" [i.e. wazup grl...........], but is it ghetto to randomly stick two or three period in, signifying a pause? [i forget the technical term for it, but i'm sure you all know it] because i do that quite a lot. not like i'm ghetto or anything. man, i'm not even urban.
derek, you are so evil. and anal. she can type however she wants.. it's self-expression.. or whatever you call it. hehe. =)
i don't like being at the bottom of the food chain. it's very.. irksome. [ hahaha..=) ] we get the L, XL, and XXL uniforms and all the varsity people take all the salad dressing. yes, so it's one step up from the freshman level. but, still.. yeah. actually, i don't mind that much.. i'm just tired of looking like i'm buried in my uniform. happens every time.. =P okaaaay...i guess that's it. i should go do homework. and i should learn how to play guitar so i can be cool like all you people. hehe. k, bye!
lyk lyk lyk. i think i'm always going 2 make fun of wut and how jessica types every tym she blogs. ( i hate it, i hate it. ) someone told me a few days ago to kick you off, but um. anyway, so you're still here because of my overwhelming niceness. how are sour skittles? i saw them at one of those little newspaper-magazine-candy stands in new york, but i was in a hurry and didn't buy anything after trying to make a decision for about a minute or two on what to buy. yeah, more of my indecisiveness. i went upstairs after i got home from school and played -- or tried to play -- a little guitar today, and i've found that the neck of my guitar is definitely really really wide. and the strings are raised higher than a normal guitar. it's so annoying. and so hey, jessica: give me your guitar, and i'll let you stay on my blog.
haha.. speed is a really good movie! i have a guitar sitting in the corner of my room at home... cuz i decided i wanted 2 learn how 2 play lyk.. 2 yrs ago.. n my mom taught me a lil... but yea well.. we gave up :) so it's just sitting there collecting dust. tsk tsk ellen, wut did u do this time?
Sunday, April 01, 2001
i don't want to stop blogging on derek's blog just because i made a blog too.
i like guitar. i like to play it. if only i can somehow get my hands on a chord book. that would be helpful. then i wouldn't have to look for them online. anyway...i...really don't have much to blog about. i'm watching speed. keanu reeves...woh=) i didn't buy a guitar, but i did buy some sour skittles yesterday.
wow, so guitar center was a pretty cool place. i've never actually really been to a guitar store, but it was just kind of -- um, i can't think of a suitable word -- how all the guitars were just on the wall waiting for people to take and play. except holding a $1000 guitar in my hands puts me in sort of a tense situation, because if i dropped it, well. but it was pretty cool. i got a taylor guitars catalog, and it's a really nice catalog. ( it was free, too. ) and then i went over to the keyboard section and watched this big black guy spin some records, even though i didn't hear anything different -- these two punk-looking guys were playing with this machine which added little pops and sounds to the mix when they waved their hands over the top, where there was some sensor thing. then i went to this big sound system room where some guy was watching movie trailers, and i saw the one for "final fantasy" a few times -- i want a sound system like that one. oh, and while i was reading some sign about their return policy and how it said that harmonicas are not returnable for health reasons, i decided i wanted to get one, and so later i went to the counter and asked the guy some stuff about harmonicas and then i bought a harmonica book and a little $3.99 one. and it's the most annoying thing in the world, the sounds i make. you have to put your tongue all over it too, and your lips have to make this airtight seal, and you have to blow accurately and in the right holes, one to four holes at a time, and so. i'll be practicing.
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