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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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Thursday, May 31, 2001
wow. there aren't any kids on my street like that. but there are a lot of asians in my neighborhood. like 5 houses have asian people occupying them. though i don't know any of them. i wish i had friends who lived on my street. that would be so cool. i have a lot of stuff to do this weekend too. namely, my research paper due on monday which i haven't started yet. yay me and steph! and i have bio and writing SAT2 this saturday. and i have to go to church tomoddo night and i have a group recital on saturday right after my sats. then the outreach is at night. whoopee. i'm gonna have a whopping load of fun writing this paper mostly all in one day. eric, biological clock?
so i went to a party tonight. it was...an NHS party... and amazingly, it was fun! yes! hang out with the smartest kids in the school! yeah. we went swimming. the pool was heated, and it was soooo beautiful. the backyard itself was amazing. i bet it was quite costly. i ate a lot of food too. so...fat...! i really like to sleep. in fact, i like it so much, i'm willing to sacrifice blogging for it! hahaha...shrek...many of you will die, but that's a sacrifice i'm willing to make...hahaha. go see it if you haven't already=) gnite!
dude...those white kids derek is talking...were soo....freaking...annoying. my mom was the one who drove us to orchestra tonight and when we dropped off derek they kept circling the car. dude...that is soo not cool. i woulda just drove straight into them or something...and then honked the horn. or just got out of the car and chased them down the street. i woulda caught them...cuz as derek said...they were pretty fat. anywayz...yea steph...i can kinda relate to u when it comes to taking a nap. though i usually plan to sleep for maybe an hour an a half...or 2 hours...i alwayz somehow manage to sleep through my alarm and sleep for 3 or 4 hours. it totally messes up my "body time'' or whatever they call it. *sigh*. oh well. anywayz...hi crystal! havent talked to you in awhile...didnt u say u were gonna e-mail me after u moved? u never did!=( oh well. hehe. and to answer your question, no...i dont know those people because...well...i didnt go to TAS=). i went to the bilingual school down in Hsin Chu or something like that. im no good with "spelling" chinese. but anywayz. sorry. blah...i had soo much work this week. but a lot happened...GOOD thigns happened to me for once...and im happy. happy happy joy joy. ok...what else can i blab about...hmm....nothing! ok...im gonna go do my homeowrk now...c ya later guyz! oops...i gotta end it with my regular..."im outzZ"
i hate it when stuff like that happens. when we were at keswick, we passed this playground and these little kids were swinging on the swings and they were like, "hi, chinese people!" what exactly do you say to that? "hi, white kid!"? *sigh* things like that bother me. but only sometimes. sometimes it's just plain amusing.
anyway... i have a lot of stuff to do this weekend. namely my research paper, which is due monday, which i have not started. yes! and... chem sat on saturday. that'll be fun, too. hoo boy. i love school. wow, that was really sarcastic.. hehehe.. =) i took a nap as soon as i got home from school today. it was only supposed to be for half an hour but it sort of got extended to a whole hour. it felt so good afterwards... ah. i love to sleep. but now i'll never be able to get to sleep when i go to bed. oh well..... :)
anyway, so the words "white trash" keeps repeating in my mind over and over again. it's a harsh phrase, i know. when we pulled up to my house when i was getting dropped off after orchestra, there were these two middle school -looking kids who were riding this bike around, and first they put their palms together and did a little bow to me. and then they started circling the car like they were on motorcycles or something. like a biker gang with chains and knives, except without the chains and knives or the bikes. and there were only two of them. too bad i wasn't the one driving off, because i probably would've just hit them. i saw them circling for a few moments before my ride drove away. these are the kind of stupid people that never amount to anything. it's like that family in "to kill a mockingbird", the people who lied in their testimony and made the black man kill himself. even though they're just complete idiots, they think they're still better than other people who're minority groups. i think that's how it goes -- there's a lot of racism around here against different kinds of people. and i have this idea that these "white trash" people do what they can to make fun of and hurt other people who're "better" than them, because they know that they won't ever become anything worth anything and just want to pull other people down. one of those kids rode past while i was walking in the door and said something to me like "can i take piano lessons?" in a mocking kind of voice. i didn't say anything, but what was on the tip of my tongue went something like this: "no, you're too stupid and fat and bald and short and your voice is too high and you won't ever amount to anything -- why don't you just go ride your bike around and around some more? oh, and i hear that cars on route thirty-five like to be circled.."
hello, and hello. can you feel a little love. that song's been stuck in my head for a while -- isn't depeche mode the coolest name? i wonder what it means. who's andy hui? i went to barnes and noble yesterday looking for a chem book to study -- they're eighteen dollars, ugh -- and i didn't buy one, but i found this book on hong kong movies. and i found out that i really want to know more about asian pop culture. music and movies. every time i go to taiwan, all i do is watch mtv for hours at a time. but anyway, who's andy hui? does anyone have any good chinese cds? or movies -- ? i didn't like mr. schwarz. all he did was come over with his stupid little cart with a keyboard that i don't think he ever used, and then he would just play that cd with the songs. "there's a season for everything" was really annoying. and so were those songs from the muppets movies. anyway, yes. crystal hasn't been e-mailing me, by the way. i can't wait until pratt starts. oh, and in the summer -- or even now -- if you guys go to the mall or some shopping outlet center or wherever, take me with you too. yes.
btw..eric..you went to TAS for a lil while right? did you know Grant Smith or Jenn Shuang? or...Chris chen i think his name was...
hmm..ok i think i haven't checked this blog in too long. or maybe it just seems like a long time since everyone blogged like..8 times...i see that eric's back..how you doing? this is crystal by the way..dunno if you remember me. but yeah..hmm..it kinda scares me that some ppl in this blog can actually remember all the words to certain songs from certain musicals that they learned in 5th grade? hm..ok..well, i hope everyone's feeling better after that though. i can't really comment on a lot of the stuff in these blogs lately..since i live half way across the world..and...i have no idea what the "science league " is ..coz i doubt middletown had it and if they did..the team probably couldn't even compare to Holmdel's (sorry ellen...i think if i ever move back my parents are gonna send me to ranny...or rbc...or holmdel). well, this thing with bombs..what is wrong with public schools these days? i heard South had like..5 bomb threats this year...i wonder when they're gonna start putting in metal detecters and stuff...i guess this makes me realize how lenient my school is. it's pretty cool..but i miss new jersey.
hmm...what else to talk about? uhh....for anyone who listens to cantonese music..hehe..i went to the andy hui concert on sunday!! haha..hui zi-an..the one going out with sammi chen. anywayz..he was really really good...i love dat guy. hm..what else? exams are coming up..oh joy. and i cant' get any work done coz my sister's back now and she's always using my computer and i jsut can't concentrate with her around. i'm actually writing this in school right now coz i know when i get home she'll be online doing her thing. we really needa get another computer in my house. so..we have our exams in one week right? and we're STILL learning stuff in chem. and in mandarin. and in math. and in english..god..we have a research essay that we still have to write, and then we have to give a persuasive speech on that topic for out oral exam for english. and we have one week left to do all this work. i'm kinda getting worried now..but i'll end up studying the night before each exam. on a happier note..hah..since exams are coming up..that means school[s ending..which means i'll be back in the states realy really soon!! haha..well, actually..i'll be in kali for a month..at stanford..and then..going to maryland and nj..but only for a week each..and then school starts. =( but..i really wanna see you guyz and some of you still have to bring me to jersey gardens or wherever...i'll most likely be staying with my cousins...so yeah. uhm..i think i'm gonna go now tho. do some hw. haha..check ya laterz! Wednesday, May 30, 2001
nooooooo! not 5th grade music with mr schwartz. i'd sing the grandfather clock but that was a sad song. then there was that song about the guy from the british parliament from that opera. you know what song makes me feel all warm inside?...
There's a little game that's as easy as can be, With numbers and letters and lots of chemistry. It comes from quantum theory and wave mechanics stuff, But for now just learn the game and that will be enough. Chorus: 1-s two, 2-s two, then comes 2-p six, The electron configuration game is really slick, From alkali to halogen and on to noble gas, Now you can understand the periodic law at last. Atoms have orbitals where electrons like to play, And those electrons fill the orbitals in a special way. It's a "building up" processÑyou can learn it in a second, And you can call it Aufbau if Deutsch is what you sprechen. Chorus The outermost electrons in atoms have to be, The most important ones for understanding chemistry. These valence electrons are shared, or lost, or gained, In chemical reactions when atoms rearrange. Chorus But the joy is that now . . . at this point in history, We can finally solve the periodic table mystery. Why do elements form families, what is the explanation? Their valence electrons have the same configuration! Chorus look its a personal record of 3 blogs in one day!
right on steph! happy thoughts! think of your favorite things! hit the music! everyone! follow me!
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favourite things Cream coloured ponies and crisp apple strudels Doorbells and sleighbells and schnitzel with noodles Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings These are a few of my favourite things Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Silver white winters that melt into springs These are few of my favourite things When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad I simply remember my favourite things and then I don't feel so bad alright! now wasnt that awesome! singing helps! hehe. well...yea..after reading stephs post i just thought about this song...and it made me feel all warm inside...hey...we should all get together and watch the movie sometime! alright...im wasting mroe time when i should be doing homeowrk...but its all good....im outzZ
okay, everyone, i want you all to think HAPPY THOUGHTS. like of rainbows and puppies and daisies.... happy happy happy thoughts. =)
anyways.... i was at touma's extra credit thing. it took a really really long time. and john mcgurk's mom makes the best brownies. mmmmm.... and hmm. if any of you plan on watching "the fisher king" in the future, be ready for some robin-williams-full-frontal-nudity. it was quite a shock. he is a rather hairy man. not exactly the sort of thing you imagine watching with your english teacher. but, it was a good movie..i liked it. very enriching experience, i have to say. :P okay, i wish i could stay longer, but i must depart. bye bye, everyone. and remember.. think happy thoughts! :-)
yea rich...i did ask if it was 3 o clock on purpose. he didnt get it though. maybe i was too serious when i said it. oh well. alright...uhm.. this is getting kinda weird. i havent posted in awhile and when i come back people are cursing left an right around here...well...not everyone. i dont want to mess with this topic but i really just hope everything works out. peacefully. everyone has bad days and weeks or whatnots. i know ive had my share of bad days. bad months even. i mean...things never really work the way you want it to. for me, i love my mom. i hate her sometimes though....but i still love her. her reactions to anything i say to her are just so spontaneous. and there are times when she yells at me for no reason...and i dont like it. and i yell back. which isnt too smart of me...but hey...im a teen. im a rebel. point is...i dunno. i dont even know why i rambled on about that. but yea. we've managed to not hold grudges at each other and just let it go. yea...dunno if that helped...hope it did...well..i just wasted about 30 minutes trying to get on and blog...and i havent started the flood of homework that i have to do. maybe ill be back later...im outzZ
golly. i feel the tension in this blog...maybe it's better if i just stay in my own little blog world at stimulant. after reading all of today's blogs...which...seemed like everyones all pissed off... i change my mind. i don't want to live in holmdel anymore. cuz then i wouldn't be able to be on the science league...i wouldn't be able to make one of the four spots...=) but then again, i don't take chemistry. and our school sucks at science league anyway. hmm...i think i'm trying cool down the atmosphere here. it's pretty depressing when you read 6 blogs of seriousness and anger and venting and ranting and someone blowing off his finger all in one day. so. let's see, any funny stories for me to tell? hmm. um...i wore a skirt to school today and tripped on my shoe as i was walking out of history. i felt dumb. hopefully nobody saw me.
i skipped the big basketball meeting that was after school today. it was so dramatic...as ellen put it. i couldn't decide if i should go or not, because the note said if you wanna play, then you HAVE TO ATTEND the meeting. and i didn't know whether or not i wanted to play next year. cuz it's sooooooo time consuming and i jsut don't have that kind of time to consume. so i thought about it all day yesterday and today. and i thought about it until the last minute of last period. and after school, my friend and i usually wait for each other. and if i'm done first i go to his locker and we go out the E hall door. but if he's done first he comes to my locker and we go out the D hall door. and the room is in the D hall. so today he came to my locker and we were walkign towards D hall and i spontaneously told him to turn around and we walked out the E hall door. which means i walked away from the meeting. i made a decision!! all on my own!!!!!! go me. but...the bball coach is my math teacher this year...AND next year for ap calc too. so tomoddo i know he's gonna be like...why didn't you go to the meeting? what am i supposed to say? cuz i know i suck and you'll probably bench me the whole season anyway....? yeah, and i'll bet he'll be like, oh good point. well.... anyway. the meeting was gonna be about summer leagueS (plural!) and stuff. and i just don't have time to do that in the summer. right. so now. you all know a little bit more about me. my name is andrew sheppard, and i AM the president. oops. brain fart. i hope the tension is a lil eased.... the sky is blue! the sun is yellow! (not quite...) be happy! make peace!
oh, and i forgot one thing about that story from today. she called me a "baby" for saying that people were mean. it was like "aw derek, are people picking on you, you baby?" or something like that. okay, so what's the point here -- i'm a quitter baby. i wish cichalski was as cool as touma. someone told me in english today that we could've gone to his extra credit thing if we asked him and had some good reason, but oh well. i think i forgot about it. i wish i was on the tennis team sometimes, but not after hearing that. you guys should really complain about the coach to the school administrators until they fire him. i don't see the point of having a bad coach. hey, i'll coach the team.
ah that feels much better. hey eric, that was pretty funny when you said to coach, "Whoa it's three o'clock already?!" i mean, you did say that on purpose right? well, that was funny. poor Ilya. i bet he wasn't making a bomb, but now i'm really paranoid. i was in the commons bathroom today and i saw this black bookbag just sitting there. and there was noone around, and i was like "errrrrr..." and i was waiting for it to explode once i walked near it. but it didn't, which is good, and now i am really hungry and i am going to eat something.
auuuuughh i need to vent my rage. i really wanted to go to touma extra credit night thing, but then i find out we're supposed to have tennis practice at 3 o'clock, so i can't go to extra credit night. so half our team is waiting at the courts as usual, and our coach gets here 40 minutes late as usual, and then he's like, oh there's no one here? ok screw practice you can go home... so i go inside and i was about to go in touma's room, and i saw michelle sitting at a desk looking really bored, and then i realized that i wouldn't get any extra credit anyway, so i should go home and work on my research paper. but darnit i wanted to go, and now touma's probably gonna mock me tomorrow for being the only kid in his honors classes that didn't go.
why do i have to be so "dedicated" to my team? why can't i be like other delinquents and just skip practice to hang out and study poetry with my nerdy english teacher? why does the school always miss our coach's calls that tell us what the heck the team is supposed to do? why is our coach always late? why did it have to rain that day we were supposed to play manasquan? why doesn't mr. ferraro coach tennis anymore? why am i asking you these questions? why the heck did they have to put a love story in "Pearl Harbor"? why can't i grow? why am i not working on my paper? why do chickens lay eggs?
wow.. so i kind of already knew about that whole science league story, but since you're bringing it up again, derek (or since it was brought up inadvertently), i'll put in my thoughts.
first, holmdel raises kids to be like that. like us. competitive. i'm not making excuses, but when your school system/parents bring you up teaching you that everything is a competition, and that in order to succeed you must beat your peers, the behavior is inevitable. come to expect it. second, derek, about the "quitting" thing - you can't win. people are irrational. compassion is mistaken for cowardice, and yet ambition is seen as ruthlessness. no matter what you do, people will say/think what they want. especially when you try to be noble. people don't get noble-ness. third, as my mom told me in second grade - "springtime is when friends get in fights." over the years, i've found this to be absolutely true. every single year around this time, tensions arise. sometimes there are fights, sometimes just minor arguments. but in general, everyone has had enough of each other by may. i think we just get to know our friends too well. we really need the two months off to get away from each other as much as to get away from school. so give everyone a break, things will be better again in september. hmm, what a serious blog. i've been feeling serious lately. i hope it's not a permanent condition.
okay, today wasn't the greatest day for me. i think it was a combination of being sick and a few different things. but in chem, i was feeling some bitter resentment -- and here we go, it's time for me to vent. so i get this green piece of paper invitation to some math and science awards ceremony sometime next week, and i'm talking about it with my friend and somehow it gets brought up that i shouldn't even be invited because i "quit science league". i quit science league. as in, i'm a quitter. that is such crap. [can you feel the bitterness?] so in my attempt to correct her, i tell her that i didn't "quit" science league, but i "dropped out" because the other people were being mean. i think my words somewhere included "bitch" or the adjective form and some other phrases that amounted to probably just about what i'm about to say. um, so here's a story. about science league months ago. since so many of us nerdy people who like chem [or, the people who want something more to put on their stupid college application] wanted to do science league, they had to have an in-school test kind of thing every single time to have people qualify to go to the competition. i went the first time. but then people were incredibly mad for some reason that they didn't get to go -- mad for just this little thing. and so the next time, i didn't really study and i lost. i didn't really care. but by the third test, they were all "oh we so much want to be mean to each other and and competitive and beat you and win and do science league that we're going to be bitchy and not help each other with this chem stuff and not even tell you about the test-off or that we have one next week when you ask if anything happened during that meeting you missed" -- right. some people have this mentality that for them to win, other people have to lose. that winning means beating other people. i heard them complaining to each other about how mean the other person was being, and then they said things like "oh, i just want to beat her and show her, ugh" and well. how much better did you feel now, when i was knocked out of the whole competition. anyway, i missed a meeting once and i asked them afterwards if anything happened or i should know anything, and these people who were supposedly my friends didn't tell me to pick up a study packet or that they were doing the test-off the next week. so i didn't get to study and didn't know about the test-off until the next week, when i bumped into the teacher for some reason. i forget. but anyway, i had one or two days to study. maybe i could've done it. [i really doubt it, kind of.] but i guess i really think my reason for "dropping out" -- not quitting, please -- was because i didn't want to see those people being mean to me and each other. with me gone, there would be only four people left -- no competition needed. they didn't even have to do the test-off anymore. oh how gracious and selfless of you. yeah, and now i'm a quitter. because nice matters, right.
wow...its uh...been awhile guyz. sorry. i just havent been visiting the blog very much. just too lazy i guess. but tonight i had a vision of visiting it again. maybe i should blog more. anywayz. as some of u may know, that ilya kid...lives literally 5 seconds away. jogging. kinda scary huh? i wasnt home when it happened but my bro says that the fire department told him it was drill. what liars. i havent heard too many good things about ilya. someone told me he tries to make bombs and stuff in his garage being the "chemist" that he is. but i dont know him well enough at all to say anything about him. cept that hes the only sophmore who lives on Painted Wagon Road so i knew it was him. my bus stop is combined with their street and th rest of the peopel who live on the street are frosh. i hardly take the bus cuz i get rides. oh well. all of u who see me in school...make me blog at least a couple times a week. i feel ive been missing out=(. oh well...im outzZ
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
man, i feel bad for him too. it must have been a horrible experience.. =(
hmm.. anyway.. where were you today, derek? you missed SO much in comp sci. hahaha.. yeah. we were writing these programs about rectangles.. and the class was called rect.. and when michelle was reading it to me she said, "rect colon colon." hahahahahahahaha........... oh, you had to be there. nobody laughed at lunch either. the weather was kind of funny today. it was bEAUtiful one minute.. and then pouring the next. kind of freaky.. especially the thunder and lightning part. but it was also pretty cool.. the sky was blue while the lightning and rain were going. niftiness.
The guy who got his fingered blown off was Ilya.. u know, the russian dude in our grade (soph).. and im almost positive that he wasn't making a bomb, cause he's just not like that. i know a lot of people think he's really really weird, but he's actually a pretty nice kid. i feel really bad for him.. he was probably just tinkling about in his lab (he's a chemistry dude) and some chemicals reacted... yea u get the picture. i think he got a pinky blown off and half of his middle finger or something like that. i feel... really really horrible... i hope he's okay, that they got him to surgery in time to.. reattach? i have no idea
Monday, May 28, 2001
wow, i'm oh-so-proud of you guys of blogging while i was gone. even though there's only been like what, five or six of them. but i'm still proud -- ! anyway, i just got back from nyack and i slept for a few hours because i was up for twenty hours a day for um, three days. well, two days. if i didn't take that nap today, it would've been three days including today. it was fun, except i didn't start to meet people until yesterday. i walked around for a while during that eight-hour free time period until i bumped into my small group leader ken -- who says he knows eugene and henry -- and he told me to go play his guitar if i was bored, and then so i went to play his guitar, where there were a brother and a sister from massachusetts and this girl from rutgers, and i met them. and then through them, i met these other people from massachusetts who were with them, one was a sister of the brother and the sister, while the other one wasn't. um, yes. so i met maybe a total of five-six people, of whom i got only a few of their e-mails, screennames, whatnot. i talked to some other people, but i didn't think i knew them well enough to keep in touch or talk to them online or e-mail them -- things like that. and i think i'm going to look at my geometry stuff and decide if i should do it. i'll see you guys later.
if i had a sweet sixteen, i'd invite you, ellie! =)
so i was spazzing out about all the work i have to do again the other day.. it actually felt really really good to vent. now i'm not as worried as before, which is good. but i still have to think of a topic for my research paper. doh. :P apparently there's a sophomore from holmdel high school that got his finger blown off in an explosion.. and he had materials for building a bomb in his garage. that is so scary. man. not cool, not cool.. ::shivers:: :P ANYWAY......... i wish that i could drive. but, i actually signed up for lessons..yay! it is quite possible that i was seriously overcharged, though. hum... oh well.. i should probably go now. i've been online a bit too long. alrighty then.. buh bye!
haha..what in the world is a blog candle? hmm..and ellen..if you invited me..i'd just have to..uhh..fly 15 hours to go and then 15 hours to get back ya know..that would be pretty cool..hehe..how old are you anyways? hmm..i'm turning 16 in a couple of months..it actually scares me. see..15 is still like "young"..ya know..you hear of 15 year olds doing this and that and it sounds gross. then when you hit 16 it's all different..ya know? you're SUPPOSED to be able to drive..and all that stuff..but..it doest' really work out that way in hk. or in nj anymore as a matter of fact. what's wrong with the world today???? anywayz..ellie..you're not 17 yet? and you were a senior this year? or were you a junior and for some odd reason i kept thinking you were a senior..hmm..i'm pretty old for my grade...aiya..still a froshie. only 2 weeks left tho! i should be a grade higher..but oh wellz..i love tha ppl in my grade. anywayz...gotta go now..at school and gonna try to do some work..that's what school's for right?
check yall later
hm..well i just decided that i want to have a..sweet (??) 18th birthday party. did that sound a little random? =P but no joke, i want to now! even if it's 2 years from now! and i will invite ellie so she won't have to be smuggled. well, because she IS my friend, and if i don't, i konw she'll probably beat me up. or, smack me around. or, not share with me. ;) but yeah, i'll invite everyone on this blog, and then i'll dedicate a candle to all the people on this blog -- kinda like a blog candle. just kidding...i think. =)
Sunday, May 27, 2001
well, that was gross ... let the letters SAT never be posted on this board again. unless it's like, i was wearing my hundred dollar dress and then i SAT in ICE CREAM ... well you get the idea ... SAT's are sick. oops.
anyway, i'm about to go uninvited to another of those wonderful sweet16's ... my life would be easier and i'd feel less stupid if you people just *invited me* to your sweet16's. (woh i just typed sweet 17. that's what i would be having. i wish i'd had some motivation and put one together.) so i should really be getting ready, but i just had the urge to type "anyway" again. and i'd just typed it a few lines ago, so i was thinking, are there any other good words for "anyway"? i know, the philosophical questions i put on this blog are almost *too* deep. Saturday, May 26, 2001
haha..ok..first..elen..i'm very very truly sorry i called you helen. it was either a typo or i was talkking to my friend liz and she said helen as i was about to type ellen..coz she has a cousin helen that we talk about. anywayz...haha..chris osterheld? i do somewhat remember him..i just remember he was going out with that other girl..aiya..dont' remember now..but he was friends with ryan stryker who i kinda sorta knew through band...hmm. let's see..derek..your blogs broken? how can a blog get broken? and..aiya..you guys are worrying about college already? you don't start worrying until the begining of junior year ok? it's way too early..have fun THIS summer while you can. plus.i doubt any of you will have problems getting into college..you all gotlike..1400 on the SAT's in 8th grade...you'l have no problems. worst comes to worse you wont' get into the school you WANT to get into..but you'll still go to good colleges. for a whiel thise year i was flippin out about college stuff ast well..all the seniors im friends with were like."crystal. start doing this..and this..and never slack off..and work hard..and if you dont' do this you'll regret it.." blah blah blah..becuase the senior class of hkis got pretty screwed over this year. the college counselors over estimated their capabilities..and the seniors also did as well..so a lot of ppl dint' get into the schools they wanted...because they didnt' apply to school's they WOULD REALISTICALLY get into. somethign like that..i got a whoel speech on that as well...but..i needa go now. getting ready for dinner! haha..wel, it's only 2.45...but..yeah..gotta go to my friends house to chill before hand.so..check yall later! have a nice long weekend..whatever that weekend's for!
well then, since you're not home, we should all flood iworryaboutyouwhenyou'regone.blog with lots of blogs. so then, when you come back, it'll be like a nice surprise! or, not. ok, i'm going to go to bed now. have a nice weekend everybody!
Friday, May 25, 2001
that induction was rather amusing, i have to say. all you french and spanish people have too many people in your societies. if that made any sense at all.. right. :P *sigh* all those blogs about college are depressing me now. except, i was depressed about it before. well, more like spastic. it seems to be a reoccuring [or recurring?] theme in the conversations i have with people. we're always talking about all this stuff we have to do and all the people that are smart and all the people that are going places.. and yes, it is very depressing. but i think i worry too much. most of the people i know worry too much. we should all relax for two seconds... *sigh*
anywho.. i'm loving this four day weekend. it's beeeaaauuuutiful. =) sleeping is so nice. hey, is anyone here going to keswick tomorrow? i kind of forget when we're supposed to meet... hehe. is it 8:45 or 9:45? i'm a little confuzzled. :) alrighty then.. back to my history project. this is not the type of thing i'm supposed to be doing on a four day weekend. ah, well. bye bye.. Thursday, May 24, 2001
i really don't even want to think about college... it's too far away and it's too much of a hassle and it'll be too difficult... *sigh* my brain feels fried. that induction was extremely drawn out...
mmpf. my blog's broken. supposedly -- yes, supposedly -- it'll be up by tomorrow. i really hope so. so today after the language honor societies induction ceremony, my mom started talking to me in the car about college and how people applied to college and how my class supposedly -- yes, supposedly -- has the most people that are getting very good grades. so what she means is that it's going to be harder to get into college. how nice, now she's making me a little worried. it's like what, i look around and people are doing all these things, and i'm here and i can't get into the things i want to do, and i really don't want to do the things i don't want to do just so i can write it on a college application -- it's like being someone you're not, kind of. i wonder if that made sense. anyway, i don't know what i'm doing now anyway. i think i'm a little depress[ed/ing] about this whole thing. the only reason i would want to get into a good good college is only partly for the education, i guess. i think it's more of how i want to be around interesting people who'll inspire me and are intelligent and can do things. not like brookdale -- last year, i remember how we passed by on the way to gym two days a week, and i would see these people sitting outside smoking and just being like "duhh.." oh, whatever. i should make some kind of plans.
ahh, accidentally clicked "post" too soon - okay, anyways..yeah so then i had to take then chem test and i sucked on it, but that's okay i guess.. it's too bad about yearbook - you should definitely be on it. i guess yesterday was just a bad day for a lot of people. but it's okay, nothing's that important.. ugh, spanish/latin honors society inductions tonight - it's going to be so boring... oh well. four day weekend, finally. i'm just going to sleep the whole time i think. between the research paper, and elections, and tests i haven't gotten much sleep lately. i'm sure you all know what i mean. do you ever wish that you could just go to college next year (those of you who are seniors, i'm jealous) ? sometimes i get so fed up with high school. i mean, who do they think they are, making us get up early and sitting through boring state-required curriculum and assigning busy work and getting rid of all of our good administrators? i think i'm just desperately in need of summer vacation. 10 days, then finals, then last day of school!
so, yes.. thanks derek, yeah, i'm okay now. right afterward i found out that i didn't win, i was kind of not okay
aw, i'm sorry derek. that sucks.
(look, i actually addressed you.) anyway ... i got a job. um ... yeah, i think i have to start on tuesday, although i'm not sure what my hours and days and whatnot are going to be ... yeah. and i got a cable modem. just too many things for one day, i know. Wednesday, May 23, 2001
((( sigh )))
they didn't take me for yearbook. this morning in first period -- or homeroom, whatever it really was -- mrs. cichalski hands me this piece of paper and i open it up and it says my name and that "we're sorry to inform you blah blah blah you're a special person and we couldn't take everyone blah blah blah thank you for applying.." kind of statement that's always in rejection letters. i was disappointed. it seems to be kind of a recurring thing these days. and i always feel that i'm all the time being rejected from things i really should have gotten into fairly. like tennis. and now this. but i guess my problems aren't that big. it's just -- tennis and yearbook, two things i really wanted to do, but oh well. i'll deal with it. oh, something else. hey -- caitlin, if you ever read this blog, i voted for you. and i remember when you said that i laughed when you said you were running for president, but i was laughing because i was surprised that you would have the what -- the guts and courage and that kind of thing to do something like run for the position. really, that's what i meant. but um, i hope you're doing okay.. i didn't see you afterwards, even though i should've seen how you were or said something. people were talking about it, and i heard different things about the whole election. how are you -- ? and so i've been working on geometry proofs for a while. they're so incredibly annoying, in this really abrasive irritating kind of way. they're due on wednesday, and i've been putting them off since april because i had all these other things to do, and so now -- well, i have to do these. i'll be back some other time. i really don't want to go to this retreat.
mangoes are good. and, crystal, is my new name helen? ;) ouch, that hurts. ahh..after all the time i've known you... oh, and yeah, of course i still talk to mich! hehe.. and, the chris i was talking about was chris osterheld..remember him? yuup..ok, i think i answered all your questions there. =P
anyway, so..yup, i am also done with my thesis paper. ok, how much of a relief was it when it was finally handed in? ahhh...i felt like a sack of bricks got lifted off of me. ok, not quite, but yeah. i slept a lot after i handed that thing in -- to make up for some lost hours there. =) i remember going to that agape thing -- i went a few times before in the past. i think i met sheila there for the first time when we were..in second grade or something random like that. but yeah..i remember being kind of uncomfortable -- i was just some little kid around all these adults and and..yeah. i also remember the youth speaker person had a glass eyeball and it would do this weird thing. *shudder* creepy. and then i saw that same guy in washington dc..and he did the same thing again. *shudder* that was weird..glass eyeballs are weirdd..and..why am i talking about this? oh man.. ok, i think i'm going to go do my history homework now. score! hehe..alright, i'm out. =) Tuesday, May 22, 2001
you know, i have this habit of not addressing anyone by name on this blog. this is to you, by the way. okay, then -- i think i'm going to go eat something. mangoes, possibly.
oh, be quiet. i can't believe you don't have school anymore. when's your graduation? and who's helen? who's chris? where am i -- ? i think i'm lost. i really don't want to go to this retreat on friday. it's a four-day thing, called "agape" something with a lot of chinese people because it's some chinese christian association's retreat. it was really scary last time. you have no idea what fear is until you're in a fairly small dark room with about a hundred people and they're all yelling in tongues and jumping around. and the lady said to me, "you can do it too -- !" and i think i said something like "um, it's okay.." i don't even know if i thought it was real. maybe i'll go look it up more in depth sometime -- but it was pretty weird then. it was like that lady at the retreat a few years ago who was like the speaker's wife and she was at the keyboard onstage making these whispering "tss tss tss tss" noises into the microphone while all these people in the congregation were standing up and shouting prayers out or mumbling under their breaths. i guess it's a chinese thing -- when they seem possessed. and last time at the retreat, the main speaker was this guy from hong kong, and he told us that there's going to be a huge economic depression all over the world. and then everything will be chaos, and satan's going to take over the world, and then the second coming'll happen. he said it in such a nonchalant way, too, like "oh, i had this vision one day.." i really don't want to go to this retreat on friday.
yeah ... i always used to look up MLA format online. i forget where. but you can probably search on yahoo and find it. b/c i'd always lose the stupid MLA book they made us buy in the beginning of the year, and besides that, it was so hard to find anything useful in it ... and online it was all laid out perfectly. well ... maybe i'll make an MLA site and ease the pain of research students everywhere.
anyway, i've become a lazy bum. like there's no question about it. i've been sleeping at 2am and waking up at assorted late times, yesterday 1:30 and today 12 (i meant to get up at 11 and slowly get my schedule back ... on ... schedule but it hasn't been working). so, it's kind of nice though. yesterday i was really bored though, like incredibly bored from doing nothing from 3-7 until i finally went out and got entertained. yeah, i was writing my speech and this was procrastination so i should get back to it.
haha...well, seems like no one's teachers are teaching us right MLA format..hmm..well, i've been really busy..i slept at 2 on sunday...12 yesteray..and probably really late today as well. been so goddamn busy. well, i'm just glad tomz is wednesday..coz then thursday is the next day and that's when ALL da fun starts! haha..for one weekend...4 days..i get to do something every night..have the most fun i want..and yeah..it'll be totally cool. hehe...hmm..well, that's cool...i'll most definitly be here during christmas unless we actualy decide to and follow through with the plan of going somewhere...i doubt that will happen what with my parents never being able to decide where to go for vacation. hmm..well, i need go work on work..haha..yeah. anwyayz..i need sleep as well..what's more important? hmm..tough decision...helen..write back! i wanna know if i know this chris kid! btw..we needa hang out this summer..haha..do you stil talk to mich.?
Monday, May 21, 2001
hello -- i'm done with my research paper. i finally printed it out, and now i don't care anymore if there're any mistakes in it. well, i probably would if i looked through and found something, but oh well. i don't seem to be in a blogging mood today. mm, i'll do it anyway. no one else is doing it.
so my mom ordered airline tickets for taiwan and japan -- we're going to go there for three days on the way back. maybe we'll go to hong kong in the winter or sometime around then, because she says that she wants my piano teacher (and her good friend) to go with us, because she knows people in hong kong and we can stay at their houses. so crystal, maybe i'll see you then, or whenever i go. when i go to taiwan, i want to get nice wrapping paper. my MD came gift-wrapped from japan and i really liked the paper that they wrapped it in -- it was like paper bag kind of thick paper but with this red and orange print design. and it wasn't glossy, i hate glossy. well, i like glossy photographs. the matte kind seems a little weird. my english teacher's teaching us the wrong MLA format. i hate people who get things wrong and they think that they're the authority on a subject, or they think that they're completely absolutely right no chance of being wrong. and well -- i guess i'll go type up an assignment due tomorrow for her. Sunday, May 20, 2001
ungh, i was working on this research paper for a really long time, and then i went to sleep and was practially dead. my mom said that she tried to wake me up and i told her to go away -- which i don't remember at all. so now i'm kind of dazed and looking at my paper on the computer screen like i've never seen it before. it's a very strange feeling. i should probably get back to my paper, though -- so. crystal, e-mail me.
haha..ellen! which chris was this? anyone i'd remember? hehe..weirdo middletown ppl...hmmm..yeah..derek..so yu didnt' go to the party? was this grace pan;s party? hmm..it's sad you couldnt' go... =( i had..a very busy very..uh..work oriented weekend i guess? i tried doing work..andi know if i wasn't online chatting and stuff like that..i'd probaly have gotten all my work done within 5 hours..maybe alil more. but no..i was out with friends a lil..chatted on icq and aol..and..yeah..so i ended up not doing much and now i'm here blogging wheni should be eating so i can hurry up and get on with my work. so..i guess i shall go now..aiya..i'll probably write again when i need a break! haha..check ya'll later
Saturday, May 19, 2001
and so, i wasn't anywhere last night. unless you count being at home as being somewhere. i can't believe it -- i showered and changed into nice clothes and was looking for a ride at about five and couldn't find one. i probably asked about twenty people. and well, no one i asked could take me, and so in the end, i wasn't there, and so. i was kind of disappointed-annoyed. times two or three. my mom said afterwards later that she could've given me a ride, but i thought before that i could probably get a ride with someone since there were so many people going and i didn't want to make her late for fellowship. because she has her group of sixth-grade girls or something. i really tried to go too, and i was so disappointed. oh.
i had prom ... but there was no porn involved. so maybe it's unrelated for this blog. well not really, but nothing really ... noteworthy occurred. haha, well ... yeah, since everything interesting involved people that definitely none of you know, nothing happened.
wow, that was circular, nonsensical, and rather pointless. but one of my fake nails fell off when i dove into the indoor pool at the afterparty (that's right, an indoor pool, and the pool light changed color so it looked like the pool was changing colors, it was so cool). yep ...
hahaha..leesh, you heard about that??! =P ah, the kids in my grade...nono, leesh: this guy chris had to make a commerical, and he taped over his porn by mistake, but not the whole thing. *shaking head* yeah, that's the people in my school. it was funnier though, because the teacher didn't notice -- he was too busy looking at the vcr. *shrug* i heard something about a nurse being in it with needles..etc etc. then the teacher realized and started fast fowarding, hence the class saw EVERYTHING -- just in fast foward motion. oh man...
but anyway, derek!!! =( *sigh* you said you would go. and i told you to call sheila. and..and..you didn't show up! aiyo. ok, i'm forcing you to go to christina's. forcing you. by force. uh huh, yeah. alright, i think i'm a little bit out of it. tonite was a really good night! and, ellie had prom. (i have no idea where that popped out). but, uh huh. i'll go back and do my research paper. blehhh Friday, May 18, 2001
haha..porn..yeah leesh..it is almost that bad. that naked scene with hatsue and shinji during the storm? very interesting....anywho..we had to read it and it was just like..was there a point? so now we have to write a literary analysis paper on it..joy!
anyways..derek..you could use that optical chord to record off your computer..i think. you just plug it into the thing that you usualy put your speaker plug into. it works..try it! and..wow..i didnt' expect it to arrive so quickly..that's why i was saying you should get it here. anyways..i have choir today..isnt' that fun? on a SATURDAY with this lady called dr. banister..she traveled here to teach us ..and she's a mean mean biatch. seriusly...anyways...i dont' really have muc to say..i think it's too early for me right now..but i gotta go get ready to leave..so..check ya later!
thank you so much for corrupting my blog. and meanwhile, i'm searching frantically -- almost frantically, a little not to that level yet -- for a ride to grace's party. am i going, am i going.
the sound of waves is porn. it really is. the author is obsessed with breasts. 30 pages out of the 150 are about breasts. like in one episode, the japanese divers (what the book is about) are naked and they are comparing their breasts. and one of the young divers says, "one of my breasts is smaller than the other!" and the grandma diver goes, "oh, my breasts were the same, but you just wait, a young man will come along and pet them into shape!" and then she goes and touches the main character's breasts and then touches her own and says "yours may be like big peaches, but mine are seasoned pickles!" it's a really sicko book for frosh to read. especially before lunch. like me. crystal, i feel your pain.
and speaking of naked people/streakers, in one of my friend's classes they were going to watch a video on history and the teacher pops in the tape, presses play, and... two people are going at it. real bad. really. and the whole class starts laughing and the teacher panics. and they are so loud that the other classes in the pod come by to see what's going on. (supposedly, the tape was the teacher's brother's, and he had accidently not recorded at the beginning, meaning the porn was still there.) what a wonderful blog. Thursday, May 17, 2001
oooh.. so you finally got your MD, eh? that's pretty nifty. i should record more MDs. mine is pretty much useless cuz i never have time to use it. yeah.. i feel so lazy now. and spoiled. eeeew.. i don't like that feeling. =P
dude, primal scream. i've never heard of it, but it sounds fun. hahaha.. streaking. that's such a funny concept. very seventies/hippie - ish. i can see how it relieves stress. running wild and free throughout the quad... aaaah. hehehe... hoo boy. and that mr. clayton seems like an interesting guy.. :) i finished my homework.. i am happy. :) i want to see shrek sometime this weekend, or even next weekend. i just want to see it. mike myers and eddie murphy and john lithgow and cameron diaz and all those other people are cool. yup. okay, i go now. bye.
i got my MD today -- ! it's silver and small and pretty cool, except it's pretty useless for the time being. they gave me a stupid optical cable when none of the things i own have digital output jacks. so i have to get a little analog cable -- maybe i'll get it tonight. and then it's going to be really cool when i record all my songs on my computer to my MD and make my own mixes of things and whatnot. but for now, it's pretty useless. and no, according to that away message, it was "primal scream". what's that?
dude ... having way too much time on my hands, i did my own nails (pun???) ... actually i put fake nails on them and ... it's a really weird feeling. especially typing. not to mention scratching. i don't know if i can deal with this whole ... being-a-girl thing.
oh goodness... running naked around campus to relieve stress... reminds me of something mr clayton said one time. hey who on this blog has mr clayton for math? hm... noone...? oh richard does. if he checks this ever. anyways... mr clayton always calls srikar "streaker" cause he doesn't know how to pronounce it. so one time he called him streaker and everyone started laughing. and then mr clayton goes, "that reminds me of the centerpage of one of my college yearbooks. there was this huge foldout page which was a picture of all these naked college students running across campus. they were all streakers! har har har..." mr clayton is really perverted and nasty. ewww...... i hope that he wasn't in that picture. anyways, yes go caitlin! i will vote for you. that might make all the difference, who knows? hehe. and everyone vote for srikar for secretary. and john mcgurk for treasurer. yes. ok im done! imesh doesn't have a lot of songs
haha..hey ppl! hmm..derek..i can relate to this whole research essay thing..got one coming up. right now we're working on a literary analysis on "the sound of waves" this book some japanese author wrote. yay. hmm...good luck to caitlin in running..even though i dont' know you! haha..hmm..oh..btw..you guys shouel try iMesh. it's not as good as napster was..definitly not..but it's ok. the searching sucks..but downloading works most of the time...hmm. what's this movie shrek about? hk movies are so out of date...that forrester movie just stopped playing..it's proably out on vcd or tape already in the states.. =( and..hmmmm....derek..the prom thing? ok..we have our junior/senior prom at nice hotels. instead of at school or wherever you guys have them..the junior class always pays for prom...which is why we have fundraisers starting from freshmen year. when we're juniors ...we'll pay for the junior/senior prom (and plan it..all that stuff). the seniors sit back and watch us scramble and sweat it ..making decisions about prom..and if it's not good enough..the seniors will always remember that the junior class sucked at plannin prom. anwyays..when WE"RE seniors..the juniors will pay for and plan ours. anyways...it's at the shangri-la this year..this really nice hotel. and..yeah...they always have an hour to an hour and a half where it's "open hour"..ppl's families and stuff show up to take pictures AT the prom..they probably do before prom as well, bud in the middle of prom a bunch of ppl show up and you can get your professional pictures with family members and other friends. my friends n i are all going to taht..coz we all have upper classmen friends or "brothers" and "sister"s who want us to go...anways..i gotta jet..it's midnight..i need sleep..and my mom is giving me this evil look....
love n peace!
AIIIIIIIIYA.
i missed shrek this evening; two of my friends went to see it but i was out when they called. i'm a little upset because i think i'd enjoy it. i have a thing for kiddy movies. that's not what the aiya was, though. i'm thinking blogger and aol are not going to mesh and i'm going to have to find a new front page for my site (i'm moving everything from digitalrice to aol ... actually i already have. http://members.aol.com/eliaphant ... alert the media). maybe i'll just take this time to create my new website. (i have several ideas.) (i'm a freak.) according to brian's away message, he's running primal streak, which is where people at college run around the quad naked a few times to relieve stress the night before finals. but i'm having a hard time believing he's actually doing it. see for yourself: xcgirlz: NO WAY YOU'RE RUNNING Auto response from xckiddz: running primal scream with lee...why am i doing this? xcgirlz: NOOOOO WAY so i'll ask him when he gets back ... i'd be ... a bit freaked out. Wednesday, May 16, 2001
i'm writing this research paper, and it's getting more and more tedious. like a "if i have to look up one more source for a stupid tidbit of information, i'm going to cut these library books into little pieces" feeling. it's just somehow not coming together, i don't know why. i'm quoting too much, and it all seems a little bit too jumbled. i hate research papers. especially if i have a bad topic. especially if i find out too late that the focus of my topic is a bunch of messed-up gay writers on drugs. even though they supposedly were very good writers. i think i'll write some more tomorrow, since it seems like i'm really -- really tired. of this.
greetings everybody. haha, that reminds me of answers i put down when i'm completely clueless as to what the real answer is. like, on one english test for Beowulf, the question was something like "why is his killing of the sea serpent like a feast" or something like that. and i wrote "because killing a sea serpent is very yummy, like a feast." yeah, i got it wrong. and another time on a test for macbeth the q was like what did the witches say to banquo when they first met. and i wrote "greetings, people of earth." i got that wrong too. so, that's my little story of how my answers are related to the first two words of this blog. i'm bored, in case you can't tell. and i played tetris on my calculator for half an hour today. at home. because i had nothing better to do. oh, which reminds me...i have to go tape charmed and ER for tomoddo night... no. i won't go into how that reminded me of that...it's not very interesting. i am a very uninteresting person. especially when i'm bored. good luck all runners of council-thing, as steph so eloquently put it=) airforce one was a good movie. get off my plane. that's a quotable quote. go connie. you are too cool.
that's a good song. very catchy.. and happy-ish. =)
i'll vote for you caitlin!! and i really hope you win. :) so many new people are running this year. i hope we end up with a good .. council-thing. yeah.... now i have that song stuck in my head.. and it kind of stinks 'cause i don't know half the words. don't you hate it when that happens? maybe i'll just substitute "la" for all the words i don't know. la la la la la la la la la... la. =P derek, you should go to those parties. i think i'm going to bed now..
so.. i'm running for president of the class of 2003. when i told derek, he laughed. thanks, derek. i should write a speech. a really really good, inspirational, motivating, vote-for-me speech. i think i shall. i'm excited. even if i don't win, this is the first time that i made a major major decision like this and actually risked something (my current position as secretary).
man, napster is so annoying. i keep trying to find "when it's over" by sugar ray and i keep not finding it. ugh, i might have to look on aimster. aimster is really annoying too because it doesn't have an mp3 player on it, and i'm sure there's some way to make it work easily. but oh well. it's a good song though... Tuesday, May 15, 2001
you know, i keep wanting to say "get off my blog" really nastily to no one in particular. kind of like harrison ford to gary oldman in "air force one" -- except you would have to replace the word "blog" with "plane". get off my blog.
i hear podiatrists make a lot of money. it was just something that somehow randomly came to mind -- i remember reading about it in some high school student college planning thing in the guidance office. anyway, my research is not coming along very nicely. the structure seems a little weird when i seperate "beliefs" and "goals" so that they go in different places. that means i have to say "they believed this" and then later say "they wanted to do this", while i should probably say "because they believed this, they wanted to do this". it's all intertwined. you don't know what i'm talking about. i can't believe that all the beat generation writers were so messed up.
"we will all be juniors next year." what the heck does that mean? it seems like i'm missing or not getting something, which i probably should be understanding. it sounds kind of sarcastic not nice for some reason, though. and okay, i don't understand that pre-prom "open hour" thing at the nice hotel. explain, explain explain. i have to do all my geometry proofs. and i think i might've messed up on the test today and yesterday. i don't think i learned as much stuff last year in algebra two as holmdel people are learning right now -- it might be a bad thing for me. i should review over the summer. ach, for some reason i don't know whether i want to go to all these parties that seem to be drawing closer and closer. poop.
oh yea, um i never lived in lincroft, but i did live in middletown and now i'm in that little town of Holmdel. so u didn't really ditch me in lincroft, but u ditched me in chinese school =P. i never used that smiley before nor do i ever use smileys, and don't feel bad b/c a bunch of others did too, not to mention any names like *cough* s t e p h, *hack* a l l i s o n, h o w a r d, f r a n k, e r i c, e r i c. ~~~~><>~~~~ <----look its my compsci fish! these stories that touma gives us are really really weird and i need to grow.
do you worry about me when i'm gone?
heh, anyways. i've always thought of "see you on the flip side" as a very seventies reference/phrase thing. i don't know why. hum. and i never really watched blossom. or full house. but i did watch growing pains and step by step. those were the best!! i really liked step by step. i used to know all the words to the theme song.. step by step, day by day, fresh start over, different every way.. something like that. i probably butchered those lyrics, but whatever. =P i'm really looking foward to the weekend already. how sad is that? ooh.. the shang-ri-la. i remember that place.. though i was never *physically* in it. i just saw all those ads and stuff. it looked very ritzy. i want to visit a ritzy hotel. :) *sigh* i must depart now to read that short story for english class. i shall see you all later. good bye.
wow it took me a long time to read all those blogs. yes. i just got my finger brace off. finally, i hate my orthopedist person. he has a really squeaky voice. anyways, my knuckle looks kinda purplish... and the finger's all fat and ugly. fat and ugly.. good combination. yes. and i can't freaking straighten it or bend it all the way. oh well. i hope my coach doesn't kill me. crystal we are all oh so excited for you. most of the colleges are done too. except for med school... i think. and something else that my cousin told me but i don't remember. hm. what else. i did bad on that spanish test. im doing bad in math. check this- to get an A this marking period... i need a 100 on this poster project thingy... a 95 on the next quiz.. and a 95 on the final. that will give me about a 89.7 average i think. what are the chances... sad huh? how did i manage to did myself into this hole? hm.... imma outtie
yes ... we will all be juniors next year. won't we now. oops, this is going to be one of those one- or two-liner blogs that derek hates. oh well.
hmm..wow derek! 3 blogs from you since i last checked! hmm..so i'm at school right now...aiya..have a free. we have like..a month left of school..exactly..which means 3 weeks before exams..which means about..1 wek and a half before all the stress and freaking out start in again. hm..i wonder what i'll do for the next week so i'lol have fun! hmm..oh wait.! haha..prom is coming up..tho i'm not going because i wasn't asekd..but they have open hour for pics and stuff with friends..and all my friends and i have to go so we're just gonna have dinner at the same place(shangri-la hotel) ..haha..nice place there. so...that weekend..in like..two weekends..i gots freshman formal dance then sleepover then the dinner/b-day part at the shangrila..and i dont' remember if i've ever told you guys all this and if i have..sorry..if not..feel excited for me..it'll be like..the one weekend that i'll have spent almost every minute outta the house..coz on sunday my sister's coming back to hk and i get to go pick her up as well! ahha..hmm
well, i feel bad for all the sophomores in british schools here..they have to take the GCSE's..hehe. exams to pass high school..and it takes a WHOLE month..aiya..my friends like..we gotta meet up before next week coz after that i won't get to see you at all..it's like..school arrest man..stay in school all day taking exams and then go home to study. at least that's what i heard. hehe...so..all of us should feel lucky to be in an american schoool system =) hmm...well, i dont' really have much to say...i used to get in trouble if i watched blossom. too much reference to boys and sex...this was when i was like 7 thogh..i DID watch growing pains and full house tho..i loved those shows! haha..richard..my tennis skillz are REALLY bad now as well, i haven't been doing any sports since track..i'm so lazy =P ellen..hehe..ditched you in lincroft eh? NO one's there anymore..i remember when everyone used to live there...now it's just you huh? i'm sorry...=( wait..what school do you go to anyways? aiya..well, i gotta go now..hehe..friend is telling me to get off the comp. to go down to the cafeteria..hehe..check ya later! crystal Monday, May 14, 2001
why is there a story behind that phrase? i always thought it had something to do with -- i don't know, something. like seeing the other perspective of something. or the opposite of a situation. like when you have a good thing, the flip side is the bad stuff that comes with it. do i know what i'm talking about -- ? no.
i don't know how i'll have time to do anything these days.
you know the dad on blossom? my dad went to college with him.. and they were like, friends. yeah, my dad is an old man. we just had a night track meet. it was sooo cool!!! we were sooo hyper. i think we scared/annoyed the hell out of my coaches. i haven't watched tv in a month. not even simpsons. i really miss it. i wish i had a tivo. i think i'll stay up late tonight and watch jay leno. anyway. catch ya on the flipside! (there's a story behind that phrase, and it involves an hourglass)
ah.. normality. FUN stuff. =P
i went to my piano teacher's house today to visit her. she just had a baby.. her name's gabrielle. i think.. i'm not too sure. but she's really cute. hehe.. she's so chubby. babies are tiny.. tiny fingers, tiny feet, tiny toes, tiny mouths. tiny. that's a funny word. heh, anyways.. yeah.. she was really cute. but then my mom and the piano teacher started talking about .. childbirth. i tried to tune it out. but i was unsuccessful.. so now i am terrified of having children. oy. :P i don't usually get sunburned. but one time, i did get burnt on my cheeks.. you know, the part right by your eyes. it kind of hurts.. i feel your pain, connie. i love not having practice. hmm.. i don't know what to wear to grace's. ah! clothing crisis! my leg is asleep. i ate too many grapes. ick. i can't think of anymore random thoughts. i guess i'll leave now. bye.
wow, so like, i haven't blogged for a while. i'm terribly sorry derek and -- i wonder how many times the title of this place has changed. =P and wow again, it took a reaallly long time to catch up with everybody. but yeah, hi everyone! and hi crystal! how's hong kong treating you? and, come back sometime and visit! you ditched me allll alone in lincroft. hehe..just kidding just kidding.
but anyways -- has anyone noticed that there are about..25 days of school left [for me..less for holmdel? none for ranney? =P]??? this is crazy stuff i tell you. then there's all the sweet 16s, sats, prom, sweet 16s, finals, lashe's lil semi sweet 16, and then i think i'm ending off june with a dave matthews concert. ...even though i don't like them *that* much. i still wish i could go to nsync -- i'm such a teenybopper!!! aw yeah. =P but still...25 days!!! and then we'll [speaking on behalf of the majority here..] all be JUNIORS. woah. *joey lawrence-like* and yeah, i totally remember "blossom." i was always more into the "full house" thing though. =P haha..the clothes. does anybody else here remember when everyone was into flannel and grudge music and long hair and black doc marten's boots?? i totally do. i can remember when the older girls would be like, "like, yeah that flower printed dress would TOTALLY rock with your boots and black tights." funny stuff. but ok...enough from ellen. i think maybe i'll go running on the treadmill [my mom says that its "too dangerous for a girl" to run outside..although, you feel like you run so fast at night!!; uh, ok. that'll be fun. =) bye you guys, i'm out.
yea um i never really get sunburned, but i did one rare occasion get my ear sunburned, and i couldn't sleep on that side for a long time. but usually i just get really tanned and i begin to look "blackinese". ahh i can't believe i suck so much at tennis now. i keep screwing up these easy shots. like today i was going to hit an overhead and i began to swing my racquet and then i was like uhoh the wind is blowing it a little to the left oh crap now its not coming down anymore ahhhhhhhhhhhh #@%!$@ stupid ball! SKLONK!! oh #@!#@$ that was the ball hitting the frame. KSCH!! $@%@!$%@ that was the ball sailing into the fence. #@!%*!%! that was me cursing. stupid normality. i have to figure that out.
whoa. does anyone remember joey lawrence from "blossom" -- except he was joey russo there -- and that was such a show with weird clothes. the whole early-early-nineties look, with tight ripped jeans and big shirts and colorful shirts and weird hats on girls. i wonder what happened to joey lawrence. my blog still exists. i need to work more and harder, my mom tells me.
whoa! this blog still exists!! hi derek!! [plug] bye derek!!
- jo psst he got it off of my [plug] site!
so you checked it twice a day, yet you wrote a grand total of -- three sentences. mm, right. anyway, i check it probably every time i come online. which is maybe, twice a day? that or more. anyway, i was going to get a haircut today (the last time i went was february, maybe) and but then my mom found out that it wasn't open on mondays and she came to pick me up anyway. apparently, the high school office doesn't take notes for students unless it's some big big emergency. which it's usually not. so i came home and skim-read two sunday editions of the new york times. someone called me a dork yesterday. i still can't find a back issue of that magazine, and i was being an irate customer today through e-mail when the help people at the newspaper e-mailed me back and told me to read the online articles when my specific question was "how can i order back issues". not "how can i read old articles". and i found this site off of someone's link: zefrank.com. it's just about the most hilarious thing in the world. i should go do something else now --
haha..don't worry jessica..i check every day. probably twice whem i'm bored..i can relate. hmm..check ya later...it's something i picked up from my friend randy..thought it was strange at first too but i guess that's why it stuck with me..so..it's like..see ya later but..check ya later. i duno..haha..hmm..crispy chicken deluxe sandwiches? dont' have them here..they always have promotional meals though..like..hot wings once..and hmm..instead of apple pie they had taro pie once..and this really nasty looking green curry burger or something..it was so nasty...well, looked nasty..i never tried it. don't think i'd ever want to. they also had this terriyaki burger once...hehe..if you ever want free food, this is what you do (my friend did this with the terriyaki burger..i duno why tho he didnt' like it much)..you eat half..then take a piece of hair..stick it in the burger..and complain..they give you new ones. it's cheap and decietful..but hey..i guess you gotta do what you gotta do when you're hungry? don't worry..i dont' do that...mcD's isn't too good if you have it all the time. =( anyways.i'm in school..so i'm gonna go now..probaly check back later!
Sunday, May 13, 2001
that was nice derlei... talking about peeling skin and chrispy chicken sandwiches right after... good combo right there. i can't believe i checked this twice in a day. i must be losing it.
um, "check ya laterz" -- that's very interesting. i don't think i've ever really been sunburned before. maybe i've gotten really really dark, like on the back of my neck, but i don't remember ever having that burnt skin-peeling-off kind of feeling. i don't think i ever want to. crispy chicken deluxe sandwiches at mcdonalds are pretty good. except i don't really like mcdonalds, because the food is so not-healthy for me. i used to eat there a lot. right before tennis every week, actually. i'm glad that stopped. i've never biked anywhere really far either, and i probably should and want to. i haven't even started that running thing i was going to do. i promise starting this week, i'm going to start running or playing tennis after school. i'm getting fat. fat fatty fat. i hate this research paper.
you know, i've actually never been sunburned in my entire life. kind of strange.. but a lucky kind of strange. so connie i can't really relate.. but from what it sounds like.. you have my sympathy. :) yes well i am bored and i have nothing to say. i wanted to see a knights tale, but it's mother's day.. and it's my dad's birthday... so yea i felt bad so i decided that i would chill with them today. and of course both of them are out somewhere right now and im sitting here blogging like an idiot. buh bye~
ouch..that sunburn sounds...not so cool. it must really really hurt..aiya...i hate it when i get burnt. toasted is ok..but burnt is an owie...hmm..derek..seirously. well, i dunno. since it's a blog and you're just supposed to say what's on your mind..i dont' erase thigns or change anything. i could..but idon't. hmm..let's see..what am i doing now? oh..i have like..7 hours to do all my hw..but obviously i'm not doing any. i'm...hmm..procrastinating..slacking off..getting side-tracked. hehe..i just spent like..an hour looking at md's..and replying to e-mails..and all that jazz. hmm..i have a chem. lab to do as well...think i should do it now or tomrorow? urgh..i have a geometry test on tuesday as well, haven't even done lots of the hw. i'm pretty much screwed...so why not just waste more time? =) hehe..hmm..seems like sweet 16's are REALLy important there..i remember my sister and all her friends making such a big deal about it..i dont' think it's actually that important here...but..i duno. i think i'll just have a bunch of ppl come wit me to the club i'm a member at and go swimming in their adorable indoor pool. it better be heated tho..my b-day's in october. even in hk that's a crazy time to go swimming. i think..i dont' remember..maybe it's still hot then. ok..well, enough of my blogging...gonna start work! haha...probably not, but i should at least go try. ttyl! check ya laterz
crystal Saturday, May 12, 2001
ok. i guess it's not just my blog. because i look at derek's blog, and the last blog i see is steph saying that her dad bought this new huge monitor. but i come to blog on derek's blog because my blog supposedly isn't working. and... there's like 5 blogs that ppl posted but don't show up on the actual website. so i'm not going crazy. anyway, i had a lot of fun today. i went to our school's nhs carwash, and i was there from 9-130. and i got bad burnt. like crispy chicken. my friend kept telling me a looked "crispy". and i do. and i've never been so badly burnt in my whole entire life. it's not an asian thing to get burnt, but apparently, i was out in the sun just a tad bit too long. so. i am like, 6 different colors. but that's ok...it just better smooth out sometime soon, which it probably won't. and then i went biking with my friend. we biked to liberty oak park...which means we hda to cross elton-adelphia...pretty big road. not that any of you know where that is. and after we went to the park and saw our friends, we rode to moors tavern, which is past barkalow middle. and i am going to tell you every park and school and landmark in freehold township. just kidding. i've never biked so...far...before... burger king is the farthest i've ever biked.
actually, maybe your blog's not broken, derek. maybe it *is* just me. i can't see any new blogs on my site or yours. and what happened to your website. digitalrice said all members urls are changed...AGAIN. ouch. my shoulders hurt.
i... hate... labs... i... hate... labs... i... hate... labs...
ughh it took me forever to write up.. sheesh not a fun afternoon. and i probably got it all wrong. and i could care less right now, so whatever. and no holmdel people are online cause they're all at a sweet sixteen that i wish i was at right now except im not really friends with the girl.. i am bored. yes my camp friend lil phil is telling me to go to sites with.. naked women on them... sheesh this kid is messed up
they should make a boys' lacrosse team. even though i most likely wouldn't join, but it would be a fun thing to watch. yeah right, i know that "ugh" you said means that you were tired of me. because you saw it and could've changed it, but you didn't. um, right. the beat generation writers had this "first thought, best thought" thing about their writing where they would write spontaneously and whatever popped into their head and then they would refuse to revise their writings. and then they would publish it. maybe that's what you do. i wonder if cichalski might let me do that for my research paper. and yeah, now i'm doing this stupid lab too. people are telling me they got different data for different parts of the experiment and then the table took almost forever to make and fill in and gah. that's my new "ugh, help me" word.
ooh, rugby. that sounds fun. hehehe.. yeah. a bit violent, but that's okay. you know what was really scary to watch? australian rules football. we watched a video of that in eight grade. good stuff, good stuff. oh! and there's this thing in ireland called hurling. it's really funky. and curling is amusing to watch, too. especially when you can't understand what the teams are saying and it sounds like they're just blabbering at each other. hehehe.. oh yeah. and by the way crystal, i play lacrosse. hehe =)
okay, i think i'll go back to doing my lab now.
haha..hw? hmm..what's hw? aiya..i'm so dead..so much work to do in so little time. i'm such a slacker. hmm..anyways..jess..yeah..or you could MAKE them all dinner..for the same night. be like..this is to celebrate for EVERYONE! hehe..i went out to dinner tongith with my family for..whatever reason..i think it was mother's day. or maybe just coz my dad wanted to go out to eat.
hmm.steph..what sport are we talkinga bout anyways? there arent' any sports going on right now in hk...rugby is over, hockey's over, swimmings over. the sports that are on now (swimming, soccer, basketball) are just like..in preparation for next year...no interschool stuff anymore. anyways..hmm..i'm talking to derek online right now. ugh..it's past midnight..but i'm not tired.. (that ugh wasn't coz i'm talking to derek..just coz it's late)..so..i guess i'll post this. not much going on.it's the weekend. hah!! yay! Friday, May 11, 2001
my dad just bought this crazy new monitor. it is HUGE. well, huge compared to our old one. that one was annoyingly puny. man. this one is so cool! =)
i am so happy that it's friday. *sigh* i love the weekend. yes, sports can be a pain. a great pain. mentally and physically. but, they're fun. and that's what it's all about. heh, anyway.. yeah. we won our game today [speaking of sports..]. that was pretty cool. the best part was playing the entire second half without subs. yeeess... i love hot weather. :P la la la.. i think i should go do something else now. i told my mom i'd do some homework tonight. so.. yeah. that'll be a riot. :) alrighty then. i guess i'll post this now..
Mother's Day is Sunday... My dad's birthday is also Sunday.. My brother's 12th birthday is on Monday... sheesh maybe i should just take them all out to eat and get it over with.
hmm..so it seems to me everyone had a bad day? my day was....normal. actually..it wasn't...went to school, then left to come back around central to go to this "meet the authors" thing..skipped like..3 classes for this thing...hah...it was aight tho. then..went back..had my lunch/free period..then my friend's friend simon came to school (going to college in b.c.) and then i had chinese and chem..how fun? anyways..schools almost over i think. YAY! that means..stanford...that means..summer with no hw and school and sports anxietys (steph..i think everyone has those..it sux so much to do sports andbe in so many classes at school) and then what? hmm..summer is also..visit new jersey go on a shopping spree time! haha..actually i do think we should all go on a jersey gardens field trip. who's availabe? hehe...seirously tho..last year i went back to nj for like..a week and a half and saw almost no one..it was so sad..so this year..i'm planning early...ahead of time so when i actually get there ppl will know and i'll have ppl to hang out with. well, my cousins will be there this time so i actually wont' be livingin theyr huge empty house all by myself...with my parents. ughhh..ok..well, enough blogging for today. i have 4 projects i have to attempt to finish or start this weekend..and mother's day is sunday so i gotta go out and buy a present tomrorow..yuck. ttyl!
this day was so long ... so ... bothersome. i think it was a very bad day, but in subtle ways. like i didn't trip and fall and break something or get a shirt dirty or anything major (getting a shirt dirty is major? dumb examples) but it was just ... overall kind of nasty. [siiiigh] i should shorten it and go to sleep but ... that's just not how i am.
Thursday, May 10, 2001
wow, no one blogged today. i just finished writing the first section of my research paper, and i think i might be overquoting. it's just like quotation after quotation. none of my own ideas. but my sources are good, so that's a good thing. i should get more into shape. i'm gradually turning into a huge piece of fat. it's already happened to my left arm, i think. and you know what, i'm going to write a thesis paper someday about how ghetto culture is slowly spreading itself all throughout the world, and someday everyone's going to be ghetto. like with the way people talk and dress and write and listen to music and everything. it bothers me sometimes.
i finished my homework!!!!!!!!! i was going to do my lab, but.. yeah. it's due monday anyway... i'm going to regret this sunday night. bleh. but, i am soooooooo happy she changed it to monday. she made my day. of course that was after she ruined it with originally assigning the lab to be due friday. but, it's all good, because my day has been made. and that is that.
ANYWHO. i haven't been online in the longest time. the whole thing with sports and school taking up the whole day is just so frustrating to me. i do not get enough sleep. i think i complain about that every time i blog. sorry. i should stop saying that. we should all take a field trip to jersy gardens. i love that place. hmm.. i don't really remember who specifically switched to HKIS. i think my friend karen chan did.. but i really don't remember. i used to write her a lot, but that kind of stopped. i don't remember if i was the last to write or what... but it still stinks that we stopped writing. i like getting letters. so i've been trying to plan out my summer lately. a feeling of anxiety comes over me every time i try to decide what to do. i do not deal well with stress. and i am extremely indecisive. not a good combination. man. i am writing very tersely. that's a cool word. terse. am i using it right? i'm probably not.. knowing my excellent knowledge of vocabulary. yeeeeeah. =P wow, this blog is taking me a really long time to write. and it's pretty late. if i were a sensible girl [which i really am not] i would go to bed right now. hum. well....i guess i should go. i'm kind of tired. okay then. bye bye..
haha..wow..lotsa ppl responded ! haha..hmm..well, lets' see..where to begin? leeshing..of course i remember you! haha..we used to be in at least like..3 classes together..hmm...so i missed out on a lot eh? heard high school south aint' doin too well these days....hmm..do you go there? i dunno..man..see, the "one year promise" was basically because i thought i was going to HATE it here..but it's really a nice place, and after hearing these bad bad stories about south from some people, i think i'd be scared to go back. haha...hmm..i would NOT win all the awards because i bet you YOU won them all..haha, who could ever beat you? so smart, hardworking..haha..i'm a slacker. maybe a little smart..but defintily a slacker. see..i can't even spell!
and..btw..leeshing..you're from hk? well, you speak cantonese? wait..i'm confused now....ehh..derek. i have absolutely no idea what you guys are talking about for piano. i think my 9 years of piano playing was a waste of time, since i had to quit this year because i had NO time what with basketball, track, volunteer work, and all that jazz...oh..and choir. that took up WAY too much time...and...caitlin..i dont' know you..but i agree...who would want their kids to ask a question like that? i would have pretty much lost all patience in trying to answer that question if i were you...that's probably why i dont' babysit. plus..the lack of customers because everyone here has a filipino maid these days...uhh..norman...that' s cool that you speak cantonese! haha.i'm trying to learn..it's just really hard to becuase it has like..8 tones whereas mandarin has 4... hmm..dawson's creek..boy do i miss that show. there's no good tv in hk. that's why you have to go out. it's a MUST! like right now..i needa go out..haha..but not for fun =( going to see the doctor..yay! talk to you ppl later. oh..btw jess..are you going to be in nj in august? haha..i'll be back for like..1 week in august..i realy really wanna see you all again! haha..hmm..we'l have to figure something out now wont' we? =P Wednesday, May 09, 2001
i have things to do tonight. study euro and teach my friend calc and watch dawson's creek and ... er ... yes. ok each of those things should take up at least an hour of my time (i should probably spend like two hours with my friend on calc) and that definitely does not add up to enough time. maybe i'll have to tape dawson's creek ... well i guess it shouldn't matter that much because dawson's creek kind of stinks anyway. i just started watching it last week for the prom episode and i'm a little curious as to the rest of what's going to happen.
yeah, so i've been looking forward to the prom! it's in like ... nine days. oh yeah, i took the french AP today. my speaking tape should be quite humorous. at the beginning, during the directions and stuff (they still record everything you say during those, so ... if anyone ever takes one, be careful) i started laughing really hard (and doing that trying-to-keep it-silent-and-failing thing) because i was thinking about a story that my french teacher told me. there's a little beep when you're supposed to start responding, and one of her students once wasn't ready for the beep, and then when he heard it, he screamed out an expletive. ... that made me laugh.
hello. i cannot speak cantonese. i cannot speak any kind of chinese. or any kind of language, besides english. well, puedo "defenderme" en espanol, but that's not quite..comparable. hmm..maybe if i went to "irish school" when i was little - no wait, they speak english. okay, "german school." i would be all cool and speaking german. being german is kind of weird. a few months ago, i was baby-sitting these jewish kids and they asked me if my grandparents were nazis. they weren't, by the way. but geez, what's a person supposed to say to that? i was like, "um, no, and most germans WEREN'T nazis, only a few." i'm not their parents, so i can't really impose my morals on them..still, i don't think ANY parent would want their kids asking something like that. or maybe they wouldn't care. some parents are pretty strange.
anyway, i'm done with my homework! so early! i think i'll do my lab. good thing i left my lab book and all my notes in school. maybe i'll go get that stuff now. yes, that sounds like a plan.
hello. i wish i could speak cantonese. it would be really useful. ask me about the passage from the sat last saturday and i'll tell you why i'm going to try harder in chinese school now. or at least try a little. i have piano to practice now too. seven pieces to memorize that are an average of six pages each, which means about forty-two pages of music to memorize, and then i have to play all major minor -- harmonic melodic natural -- scales and major minor diminished augmented chords in three inversions and then I-IV-I-V-V7 cadences in three inversions and then dominant and diminished seventh chords in four inversions and ugh. it's so annoying sometimes. and the british thing is coming back soon for another pass at me. i lost the "highest score in the state" award last time to hannah wong. that was annoying too. somebody break both my hands. i mean, no, don't do that. how can you be taking ap courses already? that's so not fair. ellie, i still don't know how to do that math stuff. i think i'm really really behind everyone else, and it's annoying. i'm annoying. i mean, annoyed. well, i guess i'm both. i need to start working harder. hard.
i play piano one handedly hahhahah for some odd reason i find that amusing. (broken finger blergh) leeshing, what recital are you in? for njmta? and.. what else.. i screwed up on the chem test, i got weird negative numbers that i shouldn't have gotten. oh wells. and i think i failed spanish. and i could care less right now. which i guess is not a good thing. and i have 2 go practice piano so my teacher doesn't kill me at my lesson tonight.. my one handed lesson! it's so funny, she tells me just to play the right hand and she plays the left hand on her other piano.. and it throws me off so i'm not on the beat. and then she goes, "you played this for your audition, how do you still not know the rhythms???" i'm like, er.... well... it's easier when both hands are playing.... anyways yea. she gave me 3 one handed pieces woohoo. and i better go practice now. as i said 5 minutes ago. yes. a lot of people lived in hong kong. crystal you should come back and visit! and we'll all take a trip to jersey gardens ;)
"crystal light!" -mr. d.!
man, i wonder if crystal still remembers me. leesh? lee-shing? hey! what's up? what happened to the "i'll be back in a year" promise? which turned to two years. and now forever...? brian still misses you (of course!) we need you so bad! asian minority! aw man, you missed so many prime thompson moments... like you woulda won half the awards... and ellie, you know cantonese... nigganohochikabolumgumyeh... and guess what crazy judge i got at drew? the co-director wife lady carol ferri! icky! i get her every year for this competition and she never lets me win! she sucked me into her little room with the two-pedal-only piano with the small bench... apparently, we got extremely lucky to get into that other room, because all the other duets supposedly sat on two benches and one was really high and the other really low... whatever... my blogs always get sucked into a piano mode... i feel so un-hong-kongese....
hey to all,
yeah derek..im going to have to agree with ellie, this is a pretty crappy title! ahha..jus playin..hmm..AP's eh? that sounds fun..hmm..i better get used to the sound of that though..next year i'm taking AP comparative gov...as a sophomore..wit a bunch of scary seniors and juniors... actually..theyr'e not scary at all. upperclassmen in my school are nice...not scary, you just gotta know the right ppl =) anywayz..ellie, if you came back here..it'd be aight. you dont' needa know cantonese! hehe..i don't speak cantonese..i get around with english..and maybe a lil mandarin but people here dont understand that as much as cantonese. but..i guess it does help if you had a cantonese speacking friend to take you around hk.btw..where did you live when you were here? hmm...and...i dunno..feel like i've been away from jersey too long. what is island beach state park? hehe...i seriously didt' travel nj much for the 13 years i lived there.... well, i'm off to sleep. i'm so tired...hehe..talk to you all soon. btw..ellie, i think i met you once. you have a brother right? my sister karen is best friends with esther yue ...you might remember her...and i went to church once...i think i met you then. Tuesday, May 08, 2001
derek ... this title sucks. OH MY GOODNESS MY SITE IS BACK UP! ... i mean ... my site is working again. check it out. anyway i really have nothing to say but after being personally called back to this blog ... well ... what can i say, i'm just so honored. argh, i have a french AP tomorrow and i'm going to fail and i really want a 4 and i really should study or something, but hey, that's not my style, is it. you know, the studying thing.
actually, i do read this blog pretty regularly most of the time but i just don't always have something to say on it :-) but hi crystal, i'm ellie. i lived in hong kong once upon a time as well. but now i'm back in america. when i was in hong kong i was too young and scared and naive to go out at all, so i missed all of the fun stuff, which kind of sucks. and now i don't know any cantonese either so i can't really go out even if i go back, which sucks more. there are lots of summer blockbusters i want to see. like knight's tale and moulin rouge and the mummy returns and pearl harbor and ... maybe some more that i forget. let's see some movies together this summer! ... random people!
school is okay at the moment. all the hard stuff is over. i...don't take chem. but i will next year. it should be fun. oh, guess what. i'm going to island beach state park on the...24? i dunno. something like that. for a field trip. for bio. nice eh? yeah. i've had a really good day, as i did yesterday too. i've never been to hong kong. but i am going to taiwan when school's out. and, i'm very hungry. my thoughts are very scattered today. my brain has been in the frying pan the past couple weeks...can't think properly. last big project was due today. well...that doesn't include the *other* research paper i have. but that's ok. i still have like, a couple weeks for that one. so. yes, hello to everybody. and, you AH the weakest link. Good bye!
ellie and connie, come back and blog. there is nothing at all here to relate to, and so you can't say "i can't relate to anything on this blog" and that means that you have to blog. i think my reasoning's a little faulty there, but you should blog. and if you don't understand what's going on here -- even though there's nothing that i can see that's happening -- you can ask me and i will explain thoroughly. like for example, psyduck is a blinking pokemon keychain that flashes with a red light and i bring it for no reason to school to put on my desk during chem tests, where hopefully someday it'll induce with its red flashes some kind of epileptic seizure in me and i'll get out of taking the test. hm, maybe that was a little hard to understand.
oh, according to people i talked to today, apparently more people than i think or know are reading this. hi, everybody. press that "say something" link underneath this post to write a comment -- it would make my day. except that it's night right now. i haven't studied at all for chem yet. i think that tomorrow for my test, psyduck had better give me a whole lot of help while he's blinking on my desk. my life is not at equilibrium.
hmmm..i'm in school right now. supposed to be researching on a MATH PROJECT! fun..haha..hmm..it's extemely hot these days around here. hot and humid..yucky yucky combo. but..ok..well, if you wanna WASTE your monye ordering and shipping your md...it's ok. becuse..once you get here...if you like another one..you'll regret and be like "i shoulda listened to crystal"..but dont' let me stop you =) haha..jus playin. but seirously...give me the model number and let me check it out..i'll see if i've seen it around here before. anywayz..better get back to work now. urgh...we have an E-day today..long periods. every class is like..an hour and a half long. lucky i got a free at teh end of the day...i can go to sleep! ta-ta..check ya laterz
ps-...ppl don't really read these often eh? seems like me and derek are the only ones that check this up every night/day.
well, i'm ORDERING an md because i've WANTED one for the past six or seven or twenty months and the one i SAW online was the best one i've seen so far and it's only available in JAPAN i think and it's really good and has all these functions and recording-playback modes and i really LIKE it and the sooner i have it -- the better. i want to move all my songs on my computer to md, and i want to bring it around places and record things using a microphone. my site's down again. digitalrice is so stupid, and i really want to switch hosting services, except i can't find another good banner-free service. maybe they'll be better again sometime soon.
hmm...so..intresting bloggs i just read! haha...jessica...damn! got a girlfriend now...jus playiin...hmm...10 months is quite a long time! there are like..no ppl in my grade going out now..maybe likie..2 couples out of...200 kids. so sad.dunno what's wrong with my sad-ass grade. hmmm...what else? yeah..wait..i thought kasen was in college alreayd. anywayz...you got your sweet 16 dress? when's your birthday? hmm..i wanna have a big big party..but it'll cost too much..soo..probably jsut invite a bunch of ppl to the club i'm a member at..(dynasty club..sweet place) and like..go swimming in their cute lil indoor pool. hmmm...i'll be 16 in october...so soon! well, almost. anywayz...hmm..jersey gardens..i really wanna go! haha...
so..derek..why are you ORDERING an md when you can get one for so much cheaper and a NEWER model in a couple of months? and..yeah...hmm..STILL haven't found mine..seirously..i think some dork at my school stole it. probably sold it on the street and got some money too =( anywayz..who's all coming to taiwan? or..going to taiwan? haha...i wanna see you guys so much! haha..havne't seen or talked to any of you for so long...is anyone gonna be in jersey from..uhh..for the first week of august? i think i'll be there by then..oh..and if any of you know ppl who are going to ASA camp at stanford...(ASA= academic study associates) tell me..coz i'll be there! haha..check y'all later..gotta go do some hw! Monday, May 07, 2001
hey, "blog lover" who's been posting to my blog using the comments -- i'm not a blog boy. and oh, i'm just wondering if you want to tell me your e-mail address, and then you can join my blog. since you've been saying so many insulting things to me already.
H&M is this swedish (i think, or some other european) clothing store that has really inexpensive clothes that imitate the "newest fashions", so they say. i don't know about the quality of their clothes, but they have all these different brands or lines in the store -- like the upscale brand, the urban-ghetto brand, the plaid brand, things like that. i didn't find anything i liked last time i went to the one in new york. oh, and steph has promised to take me to jersey gardens the next time she goes. maybe even hopefully, they'll put in an urban outfitters there. probably not, i doubt it. and i think i'm still relatively short compared to a lot of guys. well, maybe i'm in the middle somewhere. i'm already at least four inches taller than my dad -- he's a dwarf.
so, i'll probably order my MD today, if my dad'll let me. it's going to be so cool. i'm going to be jealous of myself. well, something like that. i've been so tired lately for some reason -- i think there's something wrong with my sleep cycle. the quality of my sleep is too low. i should stop taking naps.
yoooo!!! that zhen zhu nai cha is the best!!! i used to think that it meant "spider milk tea" haha. yes kasen is pretty hot... he's going out with my friend allison ryan for like, 10 or 11 months now.. she tells me that he's REALLY horny! haha. cause he always gives her hickies and stuff.. it's pretty nasty. i got my sweet 16 dress from jersey gardens. yup yup. it's a good place.. shopping is funnn!! my mom tells me i have too much clothes too. blah
hey yo! haha..i just realize i type really ghetto sometimes..anywayz..hmm...jersey gardens sounds interesting...no american eagle though? that sux!! i love that store! hehe..hmm..richard..of course i remember you! i was in your class for about..let's see..since we were 4? haha..your dad taught chinese yo yo right? hmmm...so i guess everyone took the SAT's last weekend? from your school at least..hehe. hmm..how tall are you guys anywayz? last summer i went bak home and ALL my friends were gigantic..like..before i left i was the 2nd tallest..i got back i was the 2nd shortest. so sad =( not enough nutritious food in hk i guess...and steph..omg..i LOVE that stuff. the drink..it's called zhen zhu nai cha (my pinyin is horrible..dont' laugh). hm...CIS eh? it's changed to america int'l school i think...that's pretty far away from me! haha..in kowloon right? you have to come back and visit sometime...the new airport is so much cooler! and..derek..shopping is ...still great! i didnt' lkike japan much when i went last summer..we went during the rainy season..smart eh? hmm..but..whatever you decide..it's all cool. you could get an md in hong kong as well....i lost mine =( dunno if i said that already..but i'm mad! want a new one....
so...hm..steph! who are your friends that switched schools? haha..i might know some of them..that would be awesome! do you guyz from holmdel ..wait..you're all from there..but do you guys remember a girl named angela ho? she's cantonese...a year older then you guyz i think..but yah..she comes to hkis as well...so weird. dindn't know she moved from holmdel until a couple months ago..her mom started talking to my mom coz back before they moved my mom still did a lot of stuff for chinese school. anyways..i've babbled enough..hehe..gonna go do hw now! study chinese (yuck..i have a test tomorrow). and..btw..what's H& M? bye bye y'all =) Sunday, May 06, 2001
new outlet mall thing? take me there when you go next time. where is it? actually, it doesn't matter where it is, because if it's more than half an hour away -- my mom probably won't take me. i want one of those black structure over-the-shoulder bags. my mom bought me one when she went to florida because it was only ten dollars, except it was an orange bag. and apparently, when we asked the structure salesperson lady the other day at the mall, orange is the only color they have right now. why would you make a bright orange bag -- that's stupid. and what else am i saying. there're pants and shorts at gap that i want, except they're not on sale. i'll go back next week and see, i guess. why am i talking about clothes. i need warm-weather clothes.
so you guys, tell me if you're going to taiwan this summer around the end of august, because my mom says that we're going and we can go to japan or hong kong too and she says if any of my friends happen to be planning to go to taiwan during that time, we can invite them to come with us. i still don't know whether to go to hong kong or japan -- i heard hong kong is a lot not as nice after the whole china thing. like, the shopping isn't as good anymore and so and so and so. i forget what they said exactly. and then there's supposedly this street in tokyo that is like a gold mine of cool cheap electronics. i mean cheap as in "inexpensive". that's what my mom's friend told her. i'm getting an MD. okay, i'm going to get back to work --
yeah, you are taller than me, richard. *sniff* but that doesn't make you cooler! hee hee.. =)
i went to chinatown today. it reminded me a LOT of hong kong. it was kind of cool in a smelly, disgusting, and amusing sort of way. i bought this bright, taxicab yellow bag.. it's so cool. hehe. and the food is really good thre, too. mmmm.. chinese food. i love chinese food. oh! and i had that milk tea stuff with the tapioca balls!! eugene calls it bubble tea. that stuff is goood. they charge so much for it, though. but it's still good. mmm.. :) i went to CIS [california internationg school] when i lived in hk. it was really close to the old airport. every five minutes you could hear this big whooshing noise overhead. it got a bit annoying. after i left, i heard that almost everyone in my old class went to either HKIS or KG5. yup. they all left cuz i wasn't there, you know. i AM the life of the party. [hahaha.. oh, i crack myself up..] i only vaguely remember all those places [in hk]. i was too young to really care about that type of thing. i remember lam tin.. and tian somethingorother.. and i do remember causeway bay. but i only remember the subway stop. see, i told you i have a bad memory. bleh. i wish i could remember. jersey gardens is this new outlet mall thing. it's so cool!! i love it. it's gigantic. you should go there when you come back to visit! they have gap, but they don't have american eagle... lots of other stores, though. very very cool. [oh, and derek, they have H&M there. it's so cheap! i was amazed. but i didn't buy anything..oh well.] alrighties.. i should go now. i've been online too long. and i need to eat something. okay, bye dudes.
stupid SAT. I wanted to go to the Newark Academy Tournament, but no i had to take the SAT, and the math was suprisingly easy, and then watch i get a 300. and they say, whoops wrong score...you really got a 200. and guess who came to our match against Marlboro on friday? yes our beloved compsci teacher Mr. Lewis and his dog Cody. it was really weird. I was walking around and suddenly i hear him say "Hi richard" and i was like umm....and then he tells us that he's a big tennis fan. and i'm not going to Taiwan this summer. i wonder if you remember me, crystal, the short fat kid from your chinese school class. i don't think i'm that fat anymore though, but i'm still just as short. i'm taller than steph and michelle, though. oh yea.
haha..sorry..just figured out there were more blogs before the "last 5" i just read..hm..of course i remember you jess! wassup? hmm....haven't talked to you in such a long time...hmm..havne't talked to anyone in such a long time..and of course..i remember chinese yo yo..with kasen. din't you transfer out of our class in the end though? hmm..kasen was a hotty..well, he probably still is. haha..anyways..talk to you later! buhbye
hmm..seems like everyone's going to taiwan this summer! haha..i'm not! only coz...i went chinese new year..and i can go whenever i want coz it's about an hour away. by plane that is...hmm. well, derek..i still think you should come to hk if i'm gonna be here =P and i know..i owe you an e-mail..but this is like e-mailing. kinda. message boarding..lotsa quicker and to the point. hmmm....so..steph! what is jersey gardens? never heard of it...and it's a mall with carpets!!?? i gotta go there sometime..haha...i need to do some major shopping. only coz you can't get gap, amerian eagle, or any cool jeans here. but..yeah..everything else is cheaper here i guess....hmm
i'm bored with hk coz...all i do every weekend is go to causeway bay. same places..same days..see the same ppl. what school did you go to when you lived here steph? coz..my school..all da guyz are immature..last year they were better actually..it's kinda weird. we used to hang out a lot as a big group..but this year..it's like..the guyz are going to the arcades or going to aztec (this computer place...fast connections for games, free food, 30 hk an hour)...and the girls all go shopping...which i'm forbiddne to do coz my mom says i have too much clothes. so now..i go to underground (this arcade) and hang out with my friend alex who goes to SIS (south island school)..argh. ok..enough complaining. i'm gonna go make myself breakfast...or..lunch. it's 12:20..so..lunch i guess! check ya later...me hungry me eat Saturday, May 05, 2001
i'm going to taiwan too. why oh why derek are you going to kick me off? don't you love me anymore? *sniff sniff*
oh, and you know what. i've never been to a mall with carpeted floors. i don't think i've been to any other malls other than monmouth and freehold (like twice) for the past what -- four years. someone take me somewhere else. my mom says that we can go to either hong kong or japan in the summer when we go to taiwan. does anyone want to come?
ladeeda. i'm back at the dentist's house after she fixed my braces -- the back two on the left side came off and it was poking a hole into my cheek and my mom told me to wait, which i did for two or three weeks, and my dentist was horrified. and some teeth reverted back to their original position, which means that i have to have them on for some more time. months and months. before, she told me that i could have them off today. that's stinky. hi crystal. you owe me an e-mail. i have minimal muscle mass too, i think. jessica, i think i'm going to kick you off and erase all trace of you from this blog. and if you find a tape of the talent show (michelle), let me borrow it too. i really have to start this research paper notecard and outline thing -- i'm stuck here. gah.
hi crystal!!! of course i remember you! and, yeah, hong kong did seem boring at times. but it was an "experience." hehe.. yeeeeah. :P
anywho.. i went to jersey gardens today. i love that place! it's so cool, cuz it has carpet all over the place and really cool sofas, too. and it has about a gajillion stores. that's always a plus. oh, and i got presents for all the sweet sixteens. ah, i feel a feeling of immense accomplishment. it's good. =) i have bug bites all over me. poopy. i think it must have been from that practice where i was lying sprawled out on the grass after doing those crunches and push-ups. i have very little muscle mass. it is quite sad. ;) mm.. i'm hungry. i hope dinner's soon..
hmm no one online and i'm bored out of my mind...am i like the only one here without a life? Me n my family tried to go out and do this....boat thing....family thing...but then we like died from allergy attacks and had to go home early. So now i'm like locked up in the house cuz if i take one step outside i'll sneeze myself into a hernia.
talent show. hm. I somehow feel like I was cheated into sitting through 4 hours of painful stuff. Apparantly, I missed all the acts that were actually good. I wonder if I can see one of the tapes that those people in the back were taping.....for what, i have no idea. So yea....someone please get online, I feel pathetically bored...
HEY CRYSTAL!!! it's jess tai... do u remember me? i used to do the chinese yoyo thingy with u n cassen
it's cinco de mayo. i've waited a very long time to be able to say that. haha, derek, you are such a nerd - "i read this really cool passage while i was taking the SATs, and i wish i knew what book it was from..."
the talent show was last night. we made big money. it was a LONG show. but that's okay, everyone was amazing. you know what sucks? we (holmdel) have to go to school that last monday in june, and they're giving us an extra day off for memorial day weekend. duh, just make us go to school that friday before memorial day, and then the last day of school would be a friday. but even so, there's only like 30 or 29 days left.
hmm..hey everyone. uhh..i don't think i know all you..but wadup anyways? this is crystal btw..moved from nj to hk two years ago..haha..just catchin up with everyone..talked to derek today. so..hmm..not much going on here..lotsa my friends took the SATs as well today derek..cept..theyre all juniors. and..it really counts for them....
i decided not to take mine AGAIN this year..coz i'll probalby get the same like..1100 something that i got the last two times..and then my mom would talk about how my score degressed instead of improved..and im not in the mood for dat right now =P hmm..hk is fun..well, kinda. it's getting boring lately..steph..dunno if you remember me..but did hk ever seem boring to you the year that you were here? well..let's see..no sports going on right now...i could go play soccer but i really suck at that. and..fashion show stuff is over...haven't done anything for habitat for humanity for a long time...and..i have like..2 free periods in school, so usually don't have much hw if i actually work at school..so, i got lotsa free time on my hands. just tryin to meet new ppl now adays..outside of HKIS that is...stupid school....anywayz..it's late here..2 am! gonna go sleep now..ttylz
i just took the SAT. hooray. my stomach started to hurt in the middle of section three and then it started to really hurt and i had to endure the pain throughout the whole rest of the test. i think that might've interfered with my thinking. the math was surprisingly easy, and the verbal was easier than i remembered it. someone told me that the may test was the easiest, but i think that's just one of those stupid rumors. like ooh, you get two hundred points for writing your name. yesterday in the gym locker room, some kid next to me was like "yeah, so i'm taking the SAT tomorrow, i think i'm aiming for a fourteen hundred" and i told him that i was too except i don't know what i'm really aiming for, and then eric next to me says something like "duh, a sixteen hundred" and then the other kid asks me what my name is and well. eric tells him, and then he's really surprised that i'm derek tsai -- "you're derek tsai?!" and then he called me a supergenius. i have all this hype surrounding me, somehow. oh, and the passage on section seven (for my test) was about chinese immigrants from taiwan and how second-generation chinese people aren't able to speak or read chinese well. i want to find that book where they took the passage from --
Friday, May 04, 2001
mmpf. so i'm home right now online for a few minutes and still trying to download that music video that i've been trying to get for the last four days and i've decided that i'm going to go to sleep early at about 9:30 tonight so i won't be really tired tomorrow and so that i'll actually have time to eat breakfast because eating breakfast is something i really should start doing even on weekdays but i always seem to wake up too late because i'm always waiting until the last minute to do it. i think maybe i should've could've gone to the talent show or fellowship or both but it's too late now and i keep thinking that doh i wish i could've seen my friends performing because they were all talking about it kind of well not really and i guess i'll just go to sleep early tonight and see if it helps me tomorrow and if it doesn't next time i won't go to sleep early. i should really start some studying.
so, for orchestra last night, we had a substitute conductor who was really insane. like funny-insane, the way he talked and was all hyper and everything. he told people to count off measures, and then he started counting really really fast and when he got to the measure, he was like "cha-CHING!" and then he kept saying "fudgebuns" for some reason, and when he was about to start us playing a section, he would say "and-one-and-two, letter-a-here-we-go" or something like that. he had this funny falsetto voice that he kept switching into. oh, i don't really know how to describe it, but he was hilarious. i wish he was our conductor instead of mr. gordon. but then again, we would probably never get anything done. i think i'm going to eat some grapefruit now.
no practice!!!!! i love it, i love it, i love it. i finished all my homework already too. well, except for reading "the fall of the house of usher." i can do that later. anyway, that's beside the point. the point is, i loooove having free time. and i love fridays. Yay! :)
i think i'm going to the great adventure outlets tomorrow. yes! shopping is cool. especially outlet shopping. =) i think that thing about not remembering anything before the age of four is true.. except for me, it's more like the age of .. twelve. hehe..i have such a bad memory. i wish i had a better memory. and it seems like i don't dream cuz i never remember dreams. it's weird. but sometimes i wake up and i remember things happening that didn't happen. if that makes ANY sense at all.. yeah... :P wow, this feeling of having time is exhilarating. anyways..i guess i'll go and waste time somewhere else now. this blog is starting to lose its.. conherency? is that a word? ah, i'm losing my mind. okie dokie... bye bye. Thursday, May 03, 2001
woh, someone else likes sixpence! well, i think maybe besides derek. but then again i don't think he really likes them. oh well, michelle you are too cool. too too cool.
gosh darnit, i accidently wrote my response to Al's IM on the blog and then pressed enter and then it got posted...so I guess i'll fill this space with songs i like. "Fisher - Human" (or breakable, it has two names), and a bunch of songs by Sixpence None the Richer: "I can't catch you" "anything" "thought menagerie" and "circle of error" and "melting alone" that's about all the new songs i've downloaded lately. ok bye gotta eat dinner.
woah now
I lived in cincinnati too!!!!!!!!! i don't think i even spelled that right. darnit. U know, this really sux, i gotta sing tomorrow and of course, I come in from practice and when I open my mouth everything comes out all raspy-and cold-like. Murphy's Law, right? blah
i lived in canada. which isn't as nearly as cool hong kong or texas. actually, living in canada sucked. a lot . i'd much have rather stayed in cinci, ohio. but then again...if i didn't move to canada...i wouldn't have moved here. and then my life would be TOTALLY different.
not having real memories before age of 4 isn't true i don't think. i remember when i used to live in an apartment in cleveland, and i went skating down in the laundry place. and my sister and i played outside in the "backyard" in the winter. yeah. i know that happened. hmm, it's kinda too hot to be typing coherently. oh and guess what! my research paper deadline is extended! i have the weekend now!! YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! Wednesday, May 02, 2001
yeehaw, texas! when i went to texas for my cousin's wedding two summers ago, i was very freaked out. i never expected to see whatever texas is usually stereotyped as -- but i did. there was a spur outlet store!! in houston! and my cousin had a texas longhorn shaped cake at her wedding! [next to her wedding cake of course] *shiver* it was weird. my uncle had a little accent. weiiird.
the other day my brother told me that its been proven that the "memories" we have before the age of 4 are nonexistant..at least according to his psyc class. supposedly we're not able to remember that stage of our lives; we just piece together a memory from pictures/stories/what you wanted to happen. like, wha? i have plenty of memories before the age of 4 that i've never seen pictures of or heard stories about. psh. uh huh. the other day michelle [tai] told me that eric chang remembers me from preschool. my ex-bff..haha, not really. but the only thing he remembers is that he had to say something about me he liked, and he said he liked my blue shirt. the only thing i remember about him is that i saw his family in roy rogers. see, that's a memory. hah! er..alright. i'm going to go back to my thesis paper stuff. =)
i lived in texas. and florida before that. i have vague memories of when i was like two or three years old and there was this lady who lived in the apartment complex or graduate student housing thing across the street and i wasn't allowed to cross the street by myself, except she always gave me ice cream and so i think one day, i took my tricycle and rode it across the street to her house and she gave me ice cream. it might be a false memory, but it's the only one that sticks out in my mind. memories are so weird. it's like trying to remember a dream, and trying to remember how it all felt. i remember when one day when i was six, my best friend in texas moved away to connecticut -- it was just out of the blue, i see his whole family pass me on their big rv (recreational vehicle) and i waved to them. that was it. with my other friend, who happened to move into the other kid's house, it was just like he was there one day and gone the next. i think he went to atlanta. i had a bad habit of losing friends suddenly.
i was at school today until five-thirty because i had to take pictures of the track meet for newspaper. i'm so glad i made that decision to be a reporting photographer instead of a reporter (who writes things) because it's a given that photos sometimes don't come out the way you want them to and there's not revising or rewriting or any time-consuming thing about it. it's just, press the button, a "click whirr"-sound and that's it. times twenty-four. he likes my work. but i don't like the newspaper, it's so -- stupid. i want to do yearbook.
hey! i lived in hong kong too! how cool. =)
anyways..it was REALLY REALLY REALLY hot today. i think about ninety. ugh. that was not cool. [hahaha.. no pun intended. honest.] and i think it's going to be hot tomorrow, too. blaargh. i want spring. then we can come back to summer when i'm done with spring. yes, all the weather must cater to my wants and needs. :) i still have half an english paper to write. yay!.. i better go do that. *sigh* okay then. yeah. i'm leaving... bye.. :P
you lived in texas? i never knew that. well i lived in hong kong for two years. i bet you didn't know *that*. and you don't have to make fun of me for my graduation dress ... i can see that you, being a boy, wouldn't be able to understand that it is fun to buy dresses.
come to graduation! everybody come! (i just want to show off my dress, really. i don't care about the actual graduating ... thing. :-) Tuesday, May 01, 2001
it was eighty degrees today? wow, i didn't even really notice. and i was wearing a navy blue long-sleeved tee the whole day, too. maybe i should've felt something. i think it comes from living in texas for five years and going through hundred-plus degrees every day in the summer. that was miserable. it was always so humid and ugh, it was horrible. suffering builds perseverance. i think i'll wear short sleeves tomorrow, just in case i can't take it anymore.
i want to do yearbook. i've been wanting to do it since a long long time ago, except in satz i think they picked people randomly and you couldn't join it, and then in high tech they were stupid and couldn't see that they were making an extremely ugly yearbook with bad layouts and bad backgrounds with like bubbles and that sort of thing, and then this year -- i found out in the beginning of the year that you had to sign up the previous year. when i wasn't here. i mean, there. so now i get a chance to apply, and i'm going to say that i'm a perfectionist control freak who's really picky about things and i'm annoyingly meticulous and i like fonts. something along those lines. hey, i got a graduation dress too. i love mine too -- what a coincidence.
it is a little too warm to work ... springtime weather is pretty good. actually i love summer weather too, but usually that's with spring to warm me up a little bit, and it was like, snow one day, 80degrees the next. which was a little bit odd.
i'm sitting with the physics book on my lap studying for my ap (i've actually skimmed two chapters in ten minutes, which is fairly decent) so i should really get back to it ... it's just i feel like ... i should blog. i got a graduation dress ... it rocks! i love it! and ... that's ... about it. all right, later.
happy may day, everyone. =)
i forgot to bring home my math book today. i am a genius. OH yeah. anywho.. it was really nice out today. well, it was until i started to move around. the whole concept of moving around in 80 degree weather should be banned. banned i tell you! i was about to faint from the heat and my throat-mouth-area was extremely parched. ick. and i managed to acquire very, very distinct and uneven tan lines on my legs. ankle brace tan lines are the best. :) yeah, that fire drill thing was interesting. i especially liked the part about the lunch ladies closing down the cafeteria right before seventh period, which happens to be my lunch period. oh, that was fun. but seriously, guys, don't eat poptarts on an empty stomach. it gets really nasty. blegh. =P it's going to be hot tomorrow. what is up with this weather, man? it feels like we skipped over spring or something. the summery [is that a word?] weather we've been having has made me feel lazy. it's too warm to work. i want summer. hey, did you know that there are only thirtysomething days left of school? PRETty nifty, if i might say so myself. :) okay, i'm going to go and read evangeline now. toodloo. |