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.

dude, music camp was actually fun. my roommate, dave, a couple of other guys and i started a little band of squirrel hunters cause the squirrel density there is like 2 per square meter. so we ran around with sticks throwing them at squirrels. i think i got 4 hits by myself for the week. and we all had nicknames. mine was "Eye" because i was always the first to spot a squirrel. we also had to compose our own pieces, and i ended up composing a solo piece for oboe. i called it "Song for a Squirrel" and dedicated it to all the squirrels that we hit during the week. oh yea and the cafeteria food was awful. i think like half the camp got upset stomachs every single day from the food. and it wasn't any single thing like just ravioli or just the meatloaf. i think all their food was screwed up.
at the final concert today, i played this quintet and we had to stop in the middle of the performance b/c the cello's music was upside down, which was really weird. she tried to go on by memory, but she eventually had to stop. oh well. but my roommate and his string quartet really kicked ass with their Shostakovich String Quartet #8. i mean they played really really well. and there's supposed to be a cd recording made so you guys can all listen to them and get blown away. and if you're in need of a good laugh you can listen to me.

posted: richard li, 6:51:48 PM [*]

so, when are you going to pratt again? i forget. hum hum.. i need to think of something more productive to do. rather than go online all day. blah blah blah..
i watched "four weddings and a funeral" last night. it was pretty good. british people are funny. i think the first four or five words of the entire movie were: f---, f---, f---, and some other variations of it. quite interesting, indeed. and they used "bugger" a lot, too, which i suspect is british slang for f---. tsk tsk.. these people have such dirty mouths. =)
hmm, i suppose that's all for now. not much has happened yet. it's only elevensomething in the morning. perhaps i will be back later. perhaps, perhaps..

posted: stephanie, 11:24:34 AM [*]

yeah, so i went and got the mail this morning and there was a letter from pratt.  it said all these things about the first day of orientation and how we needed all these supplies .. i have no idea where i can buy them.  i don't even think i'm sure about what some of them are.  and since they listed this pad of a certain kind of paper and pencils and charcoal for the first day, i have this really bad feeling that they want to see the drawing skill level of all the people.  which is kind of really bad for me.  i have a bad feeling, a bad feeling ..

posted: derek derek, 8:46:46 AM [*]

So i am in california right now. I am staying at this old family friends' house. I love plane rides...they are so cool...right. Actually i definitely don't; but this time at least i slept a little. During the takeoff i must have dozed off because i don't remember taking off at all ;-). Oh, and i got a lot of reading done....i'm reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Marquez and it's actually quite interesting. It talks about these people's lives and these problems they have...it moves quickly so my short attention span doesn't slow down my reading. Yeah these the people in the book are WEIRD and have LOTS of PROBLEMS. Ok, i think i went a little excessive on the capitals there. Yeah so on the airplane i was asleep when they passed out the movie headphones. Save the Last Dance was playing and i amused myself by looking at the screen and imagining what they were saying...yes, and i am not weird...
Oh and i saw the Usual Suspects at these people's house. It was pretty good; i liked the nice twist at the end.
Ok now i'm sure you guys have enjoyed reading a complete summary of my day. ...Talk to you guys later!

posted: dave wei, 1:35:00 AM [*]

hmm...i have a lot of blog reading catching up to do. a lot. oh well. i'll do it later. hmm, i bough gone with the winde at a book fair the other thinking i'd read it sometime. it's so long. i'm intimidated by big books. i have seen the movie however. i saw it like 6 times. i don't even like it that much...but it was my sisters favorite for a long time so it was always on so i was always watching it. good luck on your driving lesson, steph! haha..that just reminded me of a friend who has been in three minor accidents in less than 6 months. all three involved non-moving items;) smart kid=)

posted: Connie Yung, 9:49:56 PM [*]

wow.. i just finished reading "gone with the wind." that is a really good book. i don't think i've ever cried so much reading a book before. *sigh* you should all go read it. now all i have to do is see the movie.. =)
anywho.. the library wasn't *as* boring today. i was cool and volunteered for four hours. hahahaha.. yeah. allison was there, so it was more interesting. and this guy steve from ocean. yuuup. hopefully it'll be like that more often. :P
hmm, i have another driving lesson tomorrow. wish me luck! :)

posted: stephanie, 8:54:28 PM [*]

yeah, and so it's been yet another day at home.  i haven't been doing anything.  maybe i'll go running later.  but um, this isn't turning out to be such a good summer.  i should go do some volunteer work or i should take some classes.  okay, so i'll make a list right now of what i want to do: a) read some math-english books, b) read summer reading books, c) play guitar-drums-piano, d) learn some technical computer things, e) exercise.  oh look, E for exercise.  i think that's what i'll go do now.

posted: derek derek, 5:20:01 PM [*]

okay, that was NOT cool. eeeeew. i just blogged this extremely long blog.. and i got kicked off. oh, that was nice. very nice. grrrrrrr... =P
i can't seem to find my beatles "1" CD. hmm.. i wonder where it went. i've got "help!" stuck in my head. help! i need somebody.. help! not just anybody.. help! i really need someone.. heeeeeeeeeeeeelp! [and the rest of the lyrics escape me at this point.] the beatles are one cool band. =)
i saw part of the travis video for "sing" in a commercial. it was quite funny becuase some guy gets a giant squid-type-thing thrown at his face and it kind of just smothers him. quite funny. hahahahahaha.. woo. :)
so.. writing that nice long blog [as previously mentioned] seems to have drained me of all my .. uh.. creativity? yeah. hehe.. right, i think i'll be going now. catch y'all later.. bye!

posted: stephanie, 4:11:35 PM [*]

travis! travis!! travis!!! they were at pnc yesterday opening for dido. ahhhh derek if you had told me earlier you wanted to see them, i would have gone. not like i wanted to see dido though. she kind of gets on my nerves. i think they have another show at jones beach coming up though. and then one in philly? i forget. the one in nyc is sold out i think. oh well.
oh, and this is ellen. =) hehe..you can always tell because i'm signed on as "Ellen Tsay." however, i do know that it does get confusing sometimes. hehe..jk. i'm thinking that i should change my name that shows up on blogs -- just the other day my mom gave me a semi lecture of how people will stalk me and hunt me down through the internet. yuuup. i think it was just a ploy to get me offline and to get me memorizing sat words.
hm..i wish i could go up to pratt! well, not for art..because dang, cannot paint/draw/sculpt/etc. maybe photography though. that sounds good. i want to learn how to take good pictures.
alright, i'm going to leave now -- so much unproductiveness i have to finish! maybe i'll go out and buy my summer reading books. even though..technically i finished my summer reading. i'm pretty sure i've read all of the additional and the required ones. i wonder how well i remember them..alright, i'm out.

posted: ellen mellen, 9:54:14 AM [*]

duh derek, *i* corrected the message because i realized ten seconds after i wrote it that it wasn't ellen, but sheila. sorry guys, brain fart. ouch. sheila, will you still be my friend?

posted: caitlin m, 8:49:18 AM [*]

oh my goodness.  freaking piece of crap blogger just erased my whole blog sitting here in this top half of the screen when my stupid malfunctioning mouse touched the border of the two frames and it reloaded itself.  i was going to say that "blue bear" isn't ellen, but it's sheila .. but apparently, somehow the message was corrected.  it was kind of uh, weird in a scary way.  i was going to work on my website today, but i ended up downloading a lot of songs.  i think i've been kind of getting into electronica, not like dance music, but like .. the intelligent kind, i guess.  and now i'm downloading travis's cover of "baby one more time", which apparently i heard they perform a lot at their concerts.  i kind of really want to see them with dido .. when is that?  anyway, so i didn't feel like getting offline and re-allocating all my memory resources to photoshop just so i could make a few website images and find out that i didn't like them -- i think i'll be doing a javascript tutorial tomorrow morning.  it's an object-oriented programming language (!!!) that might be useful when i make websites.  which i wanted to do today, but oh well .. tomorrow's another day.  i think i'm wasting my summer.  anyway, no one apparently wants to help me with my music troubles.  i need to know some more brit pop bands .. actually, it's more like brit "rock".  but like travis, radiohead, coldplay, oasis, ______ ??

posted: derek derek, 11:05:11 PM [*]

hey everyone! i never even thought to be intimidated by art school but now that i think about it.. yikes. i've never even really taken REAL art classes. or not recently. and i'm not very good at drawing/painting/etc. but i enjoy it, and that's what counts, right? (right). so, yeah, i'm excited more than scared.. just going to nyc everyday is going to be awesome.

my summer so far has consisted of the beach, some minimal hanging out of the traditional sort, cleaning, reading, baby-sitting.. yeah, i know, it sounds great.. it really is. like today, i got to clean all the mildew off these windows in this room we call the porch, except it's not really a porch if it has windows, right? anyway, yeah, so that took a good.. 6 hours. and then i got to wash the windows with ammonia. and i wanted to mix the ammonia and bleach from the mildew-cleaning to see what would happen... but i decided not too. and THEN (this is the best/worst part) when i was washing my hands afterwards i realized that i had forgotten to take off my silver ring (my favorite one from moab, UT, which i never ever take off) and it had developed some yucky gross residue stuff on it (this sounds like how i write my chem labs) and i was wondering what it was and i was thinking maybe a single replacement reaction took place? i'm not sure.. but could the residue be AgCl? anyways... my brain was not able to process such heavy heavy stuff, being that it's summertime and all.

so anyways, then i went shopping with my mom for all this crap for our house.. and pictures, we picked up pictures. and i drove.. on the highway, at night, yikes! but the pictures are soo funny.. i took them right before the chem final when everyone was studying like crazy and i was fooling around. and others from the last day of school - they're so cute. i have one of me with my math teacher. whatever possessed me to pose for a picture with my math teacher is beyond me. but it was cute.

and did you guys ever see that nike commercial where there're a bunch of businesspeople in some city and then all of a sudden they start playing tag? i love that so much. how cool would that be if it really happened? the people who created that ad really captured the whole spirit of the game.. like when that woman runs to her car and puts down the lock, and when the guy is reaching into the subway and everyone shrinks away.. it gives you that excited/scared/adrenaline feeling that makes you want to go run outside and play...and buy a pair of nikes.

posted: caitlin m, 10:14:30 PM [*]

hey guys. i've been reading the blog, and didn't want to suddenly blog out of no where, so i haven't been..but now i will, since derek said it was ok that i do. it's been kinda boring the past two days despite last week's WEEK OF FUN. brian sze's been tutoring me...and it's been weird. i actualyl have work now to do since he insisted on giving me a lot of homework. i've been quite moody too. (no, it's NOT pms=P) i have a lot of things bothering me, that i no longer talk about because i kno it gets on everyone's nerve. and hiding it in my room is actually a bad thing. feels like everydytime i go into my room i have to think about it. i've been spending a lot of time outside too. i basically live in the butterfly chair that ellie, brian, and will bought me. if i'm not online, then i'm on my deck reading a book, listening to the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, sittin in the chair. i did that yesterday from 10-12:30 then again from 4-6 then again from 10-12. it was quite fun. perfect day to do that. and then i did it today again. from like..i dunno. i forget. i went swimming for the first time in a long time ( i actualyl swam. not liek last week when i went to ellie's house and raced in chairs...and then spit water at each other..this was actual LAP SWIMMING..a big thing for me =P) and i think i'm so tired and i drank so much water that i can't think right anymore. yeah, so that's pretty much my...summer so far? yeah eric, i miss u man. one less person to annoy on the phone everyday. and DUDES! go watch MOULIN ROUGE. it's awesome

special note to caitlin: HI!! hehe. i feel like i should get to kno u before we go to art skewl. but we'll get to know each other better AT art skewl too so it'll be kewl. can't wait! are u getting as scared as i am? i'm intimidated!! =P

k. i'm out. tiem to watch The Skulls again. Ta Ta Booty Ma Ma.

posted: blue bear, 8:42:02 PM [*]

everyone's away. well, almost everyone. hehe.. i want to go to taiwan so i can shop a lot and eat a lot of good food. mmm.. i love chinese food. man, i'm hungry. ;)
today was kind of boring. i went to the library and volunteered for two hours. that was.. fun. and then i went home and read for a really long time. my head kind of hurts now. then i attempted to clean my room. HA! =) that went well until i got extrememly fed up with the unorganized-ness of my closet and drawers and decided to give up. maybe i'll try again tomorrow. hehehe... :P
so that was my day. how was yours?


posted: stephanie, 4:33:35 PM [*]

so im at my cousins right now. spur of the moment thing. my dad comes ohome and tell me that we're going to taipei. ohw ell. its funny everyone heere has a cell phone so when it rings on the train...everyone looks to see if its theirs. hehe. agh. ok...ill blog more tomorrow. hey jess...e-mail me..maybe we can get together sometime in taipei or somewhere. i think i might come back up another day so e-mail me at krunchyboy@aol.com..im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 8:43:02 AM [*]

yea so i'm in taiwan and i'm bored out of my mind and i can't get online, not that it would matter since now it's 1:30 in the morning for you guys, but it's pissing me off just the same. maybe i'll go shopping later, and then out to eat for like.. the 20th time. haha taiwan is always associated with going out to eat, being eaten by bugs, and HOT! so yes, i'm gonna go work out at a college gymnastics gym thingy later i think. so i don't get "fat and out of shape and look really bad in a bikini" as my coach told me. not that i would wear bikini's anyway... tankini's about the limit for me at this time. haha. yes so i will catch y'all laters! :)

posted: Jess Tai, 1:30:18 AM [*]

so seems like everybody has had a cool couple of days....i've been..uhm..attempting to pack. but not really accomplishing...coz my neighbor's nieces are here in hk and i've been entertaining them...one's 5 and the other's 14...so the 14 year old and i chill and talk and all..and the 5 year old just wants to play all the time..she came over when i was trying to clean my room and she like..messed everything up! but then tried to help put everything back..it was cute.. anywho...i think i'm gonna go eat soon..coz it's like..1:30 and i jsut got up and i'm hungry! haha..be back later!

posted: crystal tang, 1:25:52 AM [*]

and.. i'm back. i just got back from the mall. mm.. i love malling. especially successful malling.. i got these really really really cool black sneaker-things.. and they are really cool. yay! =)
i also saw "tomb raider"... it was okay. the fact that angelina jolie's *ahem* chest was bigger than her head kind of threw me off. =P and i heard they had to stuff her bra so that she'd look like the lara croft in the game. hehe.. interesting what you read in magazines. :)
la la la.. i ate so much for dinner. i feel as if i am about to burst. uuunnnngh. :P
so, i think i have run out of interesting things to say. adios, amigos!

posted: stephanie, 7:38:13 PM [*]

right.. so i just got back from my first driving lesson. oh my... i am really bad. or maybe i'm just a very nervous and neurotic person. so.. my whole right leg is sore due to the fact that.. i am.. a very nervous and neurotic person. haha, yeah. hopefully that won't last.
okay, i'm going to go eat now. bye bye everyone..

posted: stephanie, 12:20:17 PM [*]

help, i need somebody.  not just anybody, you know i need someone.  so no one here actually wants me to help me with my music problems.  i think i'm slowly getting into the beatles, though .. i've downloaded a few of their songs.  some i like, some are a little weird, some i don't like.  "yellow submarine" was strange.  and so this week i'm determined -- i hope, i hope so -- to run and play basketball and exercise and do all that.  i'll be up hopefully at around six tomorrow running around and then playing basketball with norman.  i want eric's ball back.  and then i'm going to play some guitar and drums and read some things about math and cars and computers and then read some of my summer reading and then hm.  i'm not sure.  i have to make plans.

posted: derek derek, 10:05:20 PM [*]

ahh my knee! guess where i am. i'm in a library in drew university in madison in new jersey. music camp is ok, except for the boring music composition and review classes that i got stuck in. i have a roommate named dave. and he plays viola. like derek. only he's better than derek. :) oh yea and they have lots of squirrels on campus, so we were running around trying to peg the squirrels with sticks and pine cones. that was fun. yesterday i made the mistake of staying to help organize music after an orchestral reading. and when we finished it started to rain really hard, so i had to run back across the whole campus with my sandals. and caitlin, you'll probably say it was good training for xc. hmm.. time to go.

posted: richard li, 7:58:49 PM [*]

yeah, and then i forgot to list an oldies mix and a weird songs mix.  like with "mr. roboto" by styx and "bohemian rhapsody" by queen and "kung fu fighting" by carl douglas, things like that.  so i just came back from watching "the fast and the furious" with norman michelle michelle ellen will dave and jon lee's birthday party at his house.  i think the movie's given me a new interest in cars, like .. i kind of now have this urge to buy a car and "soup it up" into something i could take street racing.  yeah, now i think i'm going to go look up stuff about cars online ..

posted: derek derek, 9:31:53 PM [*]

derek, you are one strange [emp] kid. you may be the strangest person i know. or at least the most genuinely neurotic. do you like how i stole your "emp" thing?

posted: caitlin m, 9:23:16 PM [*]

wow derek, *you* are obsessive.  i mean, the words on the page do not do justice to just how obsessive i think you now are.

i'd write longer but i gotta go.  sorry my blogs are so cheap.

posted: ellie cheung, 7:48:33 PM [*]

woh wasssupp u guyz im rilly tryin ta typ ghettoh rite now n ish kinda funnie wen ppl r lyk "wowww dats so weird yo" n den im all lyk "yeeh i kno" .. yeah, so it's getting a little better.  i've had some practice these past few weeks.  so i'm offline and writing a blog while my md's recording a few more songs onto my "guy rock" md -- i still have to perfect my playlists for the mixes i want to make.  like i separated the guy rock bands into more punky and more traditional rock, and then i separated some to modern brit pop-rock and american rock bands, and well.  i don't know too many british bands, but i have .. coldplay, radiohead, travis, oasis, maybe i'll stick U2 in there.  and possibly even REM too because i just feel like putting them with british bands.  then i have a guy folk-rock md, with like dave matthews band and sister hazel and fastball and hootie and the blowfish, but i can't think of any more other than those.  i decided to put train and matchbox 20 with them, i guess -- and then on a whim, "breakfast at tiffany's" too.  i can't tell whether they sound more folky or more kind of britishy.  i can't place the accent.  maybe i'll just put them with some random group.  are there any british folk-rock bands?  christine told me to put peter gabriel with them.  the only song by him i know is "in your eyes", but it doesn't seem to folky.  for female folk artists, it's not as hard .. like i have some old sheryl crow, sarah mclachlan, shawn colvin, lisa loeb, kendall payne, i think there's a lot more.  i have to find out some good songs by beth orton.  and if anyone thinks i'm separating these artists into the wrong categories, tell me.  i might as well just keep going with what i'm telling you -- um, i separated boy band songs into softer and louder songs, but then some of them are on the border.  like "i want it that way" by the backstreet boys, is that soft or loud?  i think i put it with the softer ones.  the louder ones are like "it's gonna be me" and "bye bye bye" and "larger than life" and "back here" -- but then, i don't know whether to put bbmak with boy bands or with guy pop-rock groups.  like evan and jaron.  i think i put savage garden with boy bands.  and then i have all these acoustic versions of songs, but there's getting to be more and more that i can't put it on one md .. i might have to split it into guy and girl bands/artists.  see, i told you i'm obsessive-compulsive.  or maybe just neurotic.

so then what, i have these categories .. loud guy rock, softer guy rock, brit guy rock (loud and soft), punky guy rock, guy folk-rock, guy pop-rock, boy bands softer and soft ballad-type songs, boy bands louder, female folk-rock, female more traditional rock, female angry rock (haha), really soft songs by girls, more punky girl songs, and i might have electronica together or split up.  wow, i'm so sexist.  now i just have to separate artists into those categories.  anyone with suggestions or good songs, tell me.  i wonder who's the main songwriter for pop groups.  i think there was some swedish guy named max or something who churns out hit after hit.  oh wait, i forgot ghetto music -- hm.  i guess i'll just stick rap and r&b together and make two mixes, one guys and one girls.  i doubt i'll even fill either one up halfway.  get your freak on.

posted: derek derek, 12:28:53 PM [*]

right..wow..i missed alot for not blogging in a couple of days. 2 ppl are in taiwan! YAY! i'm not the only one out of us bloggers who's in this part of the world now...just think jess and eric..i'm like..an hour and a half away from you. compared to 15-16 hours away..that's pretty close! haha..well, i'll be off to stanford on thursday...so yeah..probably wont' hear from me for a while...hmm. then i'll try and keep in touch so i can see you all in august..hopefully you guys will be there. i know derek will! haha..anywayz...what did i do these past few days? i...chilled with friends..had a surprise going away party for my friend randy and shuey.. =( so sad...shuey's moving to singapore..so that's not too bad coz it's still close and i bet she'll visit coz her bro is finishing off high school here...he'll be a senior next year. and...randy is moving to palo alto =( so far away...but i get to visit him at the end of july since i'll be around there anywayz...and he'll have moved by then already. god..i'll miss those two..it's like losing two lil siblings...hehehehe..only coz i'm like..one of the oldest in my grade and they're two of the youngest (randy JUST turned 14). so..yeah...yesterday i went to see pearl harbor. it was SUCH A SAD MOVIE! i cried so much..i dont' think i've ever cried that muc at a movie theatre .... (am i spelling words the british way now? tell me i'm not..please tell me i'm not!) hmmm..well, that's all for now..gonna go watch tv...oh btw..derek..what is wrong with you? who wakes up at 6 in the summer other than ppl who have to work?????? i dont' think i've ever ever done that unless there was a reason to..like going to the airport or going on a trip that requires me to wake up super duper early. anywayz..check ya'll later!

posted: crystal tang, 9:59:09 AM [*]

hazlet multiplex cinemas:
Fast and the Furious, The PG-13 1 hr. 47 min.
(11:15 AM), (2:00), (4:35), 7:45, 10:10, 12:20  |  (parentheses indicate matinees)
i want to see that too.

oh, and my phone isn't working today for some reason so i can't even pick up the phone if i wanted to.

posted: ellie cheung, 11:25:37 AM [*]

i'm not strange.  what's wrong with wanting to see a car movie?  and anyway, so today i actually woke up at six to run, and i don't know how much i ran.  i was outside for about twenty minutes, though -- maybe a mile or more.  first i ran to uh, allocco park at laurel and middle where i found out that it was just a big field with this paved path going around it, and i didn't want to run on that, so i ran back up laurel into the shopping center and ran the length of that before going around the back and into my development.  it was a nice morning.  i think i'll keep doing this, if i have the determination and willpower.  which i might not have.

posted: derek derek, 11:21:11 AM [*]

Derek, you are getting stranger and stranger. But I think it's a good thing :)

posted: Jess Tai, 9:36:51 AM [*]

you guys, i want to see "the fast and the furious" tomorrow.  except i don't know what time it is, because it doesn't come out until tomorrow -- but i would want to see it for five bucks instead of eight.  and then i ( for some of you, "we" ) have choir tomorrow from twelve-thirty to two-thirty and so the movie would have to be afterwards or before.  and "before" means about maybe ten or so, i don't know how long it is.  i want to see it.  hehe .. whee, drag racing.

i wish i could drive, i wish i could drive.

posted: derek derek, 10:29:14 PM [*]

im in taiwan too guyz!!! hehe. i saw jess tai and connie YUNG on the plane from san fran to teipei. but i only saw them before the flight because i was sitting in the upper deck. oh well...i was gonna ask either one of them to join me up there because no one was sitting next to me...i was pretty bored the whole time....12 an a half hours!! by myself!! =(. oh well...anywayz...how are you guyz?? i miss everyone!! oh yea..just to let everyone know, i think i can only be in this lab once a day....if im lucky....so if u dont hear from me its cuz my dad has me doing other stuff...so yea..hope everything is alright!! talk to ya soon i hope!! byee!!! im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 9:21:37 PM [*]

you know what, i want all the beatles albums.  i was just listening to a few of their songs, like "hey jude" and "eleanor rigby" -- and i think i might like it.  but then i hear that liking the beatles is a kind of time-consuming thing.  well, i don't know.  i wish i did something today.  after coming home around lunchtime from being out since eight with my mom, i didn't really do anything.  i watched "clear and present danger" [courtesy of steph] and my vcr is even older than i am.  it's so bad how it keeps messing up and stopping all of a sudden and ugh.  last time, it chewed up a video of "crouching tiger" and so hm -- maybe it's risky watching other people's tapes.  well, anyway.  i'll go find something to do now.

by the way, i think it is possible to do the quoting indenting thing with html.  i think the tag's like "blockquote" or something along those lines.  i'm not very good at html.  maybe i'll go learn some right now.

posted: derek derek, 8:11:31 PM [*]

im in taiwan you guys! i misssss everyone!!!!!! yes connie's party was so sad... i was bawling hysterically :( so anyways, yes it is HOT here! so yea... AIM express is really strange, i wonder why noone's online. it's 8 pm over in the good ol' us of a right now... hm maybe people actually have a life and i have none? yes that must be it...

posted: Jess Tai, 8:07:33 PM [*]

oh man...i just lost my blog....i hit backspace and for some reason it went back....actualy i think it's cuz i tried to italicize "gone with the wind" because it was a book title, and all it did was put "/i/" or something like that around it and i got confused...
Let's see....i believe my blog went something like this:

hey i went to freehold to get my passport on tuesday. We can be passport buddies derek! "breakfast at tiffany's"...yeah my group used that as our national anthem for our "breakfast island" project a few weeks ago. We felt it articulated our breakfast island denizen's attitude: "that's [breakfast is] the one thing we've got." OK we may have taken it out of context a *tad* bit, but it's all good.

"gone with the wind"...yeah during soph year i had to read 2000 pages of outside reading of American writing. The teacher suggested "gone with the wind" and everyone chose it. Being the non-comformist i am, i ended up reading it too. Along came winter break and i hadn't read anything...and before the break my teacher was like "you will be writing a major paper on your first 1000 pages when you come back." By the last weekend of winter break i was still on page ... 0 and i ended up having to spend TONS of time trying to read 1000 pages in like 2 days. i ended up getting to page 600 and reading the cliffs to another boook "Red badge of Courage" which i stretched to like 200 pages making me "read" like 800 pages in all which turned out to be enough. Um...the lessons: procrastination is BAD and uh...you shouldn't do it....yes

i realize that you can't "tab" in a blog....i wanted to quote my deleted blog in this blog, you know....indenting both sides...Yes, i am a dork =P

posted: dave wei, 6:35:55 PM [*]

speaking of running... i need to start running. i nearly passed out at the game on wednesday. no, actually, i nearly threw up. i don't know.. i just had this very unpleasant feeling inside of my chest/stomach area. ugh, i need to get in shape. =P
i wish i could drive. then i could wish i had a car. *sigh* at least it's summer. :)
so i'm reading 'gone with the wind' right now. it's a really really really long book. the edition i have is.. ten hundred thirtysomething pages. i've read.. like.. half of it. woohoo! hahaha.. oh, it's fun. =)
okay, i think i'll go and do something else now. byee..

posted: stephanie, 5:30:04 PM [*]

doo doo doo, doo doo doo, where have all the bloggers gone.  so i haven't actually started running yet, because it seems like somehow i never wake up.  my mom is definitely going to wake me up tomorrow at five or so.  i woke up this morning around seven-thirty and then went to freehold at around eight to get a new passport.  but then my mom didn't have cash for the fifteen dollars that they required and she told me to stay in the office and fill out forms while she went out to get cash -- even though she didn't have an atm card and there wasn't a bank nearby where she could make a withdrawal from -- and then she left for almost two hours.  i was reading "the last samurai" until maybe ten-thirty or eleven, sometime around then.  it's an okay book with an interesting writing style, but it's a really really slow start.  it'll get better.  hopefully sometime within the next hundred pages.

posted: derek derek, 4:19:53 PM [*]

all the songs that have been mentioned are really good.. plus breakfast at tiffany's by deep blue something...name by the goo goo dolls...bad day by fuel.. lie low by plumb.. wishing i was there by natalie imbruglia... and a lot of other stuff. those are just songs i thought of, so it's not really my "top five." i get sick of songs very quickly, so i don't really have one. but those songs are good. =)
connie's surprise party was so sad!!! :( i cried.. at first i wasn't crying and i was mad at myself because i wasn't feeling anything. i hate feeling nothing when everyone around you is feeling something. so that got me kind of depressed.. so after that, everyone's speeches made me cry a little. *sniff* 'twas a sad, sad affair. but other than that, it was fun. i really liked how they had chinese food and sushi. yumm.. :)
i went and volunteered at the library today for four hours. wow.. i'm still amazed at my capacity for.. volunteering? haha, i don't know. it was pretty fun, i guess. at least i was doing something. but, i also practically froze to death in there. man, they crank the AC up in there like there's no tomorrow! haha.. i love that phrase. anywho.. bottome line: it was FREEZING.
i have a problem tonight... the physicals at the school are taking place at 6:30 but i have a field hockey game at 7:00. aaagh, there is no time!! should i go really really early to the physicals? or.. should i skip the game? aaagh. what to do, what to do?
anywho..i better get back to doing.. nothing. yes, that's right, nothing. it's been a while since i could say that. yay! no more school! =)

posted: stephanie, 3:22:37 PM [*]

my top five songs:
1) Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen
2) The Time Warp-Rocky Horror Picture Show
3) Tainted Love-Soft Cell
4) Hanging By A Moment-Lifehouse
5) tied: What a Good Boy, Call and Answer, Light Up My Room, It's All Been Done, If I Had a $1,000,000--Barenaked Ladies

posted: richard li, 11:29:32 AM [*]

actually, i take all those back.  i'll have to make a real list on paper sometime and think about it a few times before saying that they're my favorite songs.  anyone want to see a movie?

posted: derek derek, 9:33:06 AM [*]

well, make it top twenty songs then.  i think i have a few.  actually, now i can't really think of any.  but here're some of the songs that i heard and liked and couldn't get out of my head before i figured out what they were and listened to them over and over.  this is kind of in chronological order.  "stay" by lisa loeb.  "barely breathing" by duncan sheik.  "counting blue cars" by dishwalla.  "every day is a winding road" by sheryl crow.  "torn" by natalie imbruglia.  "black balloon" by goo goo dolls.  "semi-charmed life" by third eye blind.  "absolutely (story of a girl)" by nine days.  "crazy for this girl" by evan and jaron.  "leaving town" by dexter freebish.  "hanging by a moment" by lifehouse.  wow, this is [emp] kind of hard.  i think i'll just list my favorite artists some other time.  mm.

oh and on a little side note, i decided to put down five of my favorite boy band songs, in no real order.  whee.  "back here" by bbmak.  "swear it again" by westlife.  "i want it that way" by the backstreet boys.  "bye bye bye" by 'n sync.  and hm, it seems like i'm always missing something when i'm listing these things.  i'll think of it later.

posted: derek derek, 9:17:59 AM [*]

top five songs ever [in alphabetical order]:

artist /song
a new found glory/second to last
get up kids/my apology
less than jake/scott farcas takes it on the chin
saves the day/sell my old clothes, i'm off to heaven
weezer/surf wax america

wow, that was so hard. i could have picked about 20 other songs that i love equally as much. what are everyone else's top five? i warn you, it's very difficult to choose.

posted: caitlin m, 7:40:59 PM [*]

so yea, derek wanted me to teach him how to play basketball so i have to wake up every single morning around 7 just to teach him.....bleh....this is gonna be a fun 2 or 3 weeks. you're getting............better derek........*no comment* well i wanted to go running but its too hot so i guess i'll do it either tonight......o wait nevermind. i'll do it tomorrow morning. well anywayz, eric, u got an MD? can i have my mp3 back then? whats an emp? hmmm, well i guess thats it this morning. nothing special to blog about. i'll be back sometime soon. i'm outzzz =)

posted: Norman So, 10:26:29 AM [*]

give me your top five songs.

posted: derek derek, 8:33:11 AM [*]

mm, an electromagnetic pulse?  that's what they used in "the matrix" against those robots that were drilling holes into their vehicle.  and that's what made the setting in "dark angel" all third-worldish.  anyway, so i just went to gold's gym and swam forty laps in the pool -- which was strangely not too hard.  i switched from freestyle to breaststroke after about the second lap though, because it wasn't as tiring.  but it was weird, because i couldn't really raise my arms afterwards.  i wonder what happened.  and after i got home, i got norman to come out and show me how to play basketball.  which i'm still very very bad at.  at least i can shoot decently and kind of dribble while i'm running.  i need work.

posted: derek derek, 8:23:52 AM [*]

yeaa! i finally got an MD! 2 days before i leave for taiwan. blech. i tried to set up the digital link thingy and it wont let me because i need the windows 98 cd thingy to install some stuff or something. grrr. my mom's friend is coming tomorrow...or..should i say later today...to see what he can do....and if it works....that only gives me like...4 or 5 hours to make MDs. i also have to LEARN how to make them in that time too. ive never owned one before so im a newbie. that 4 or 5 hours is only if i decide not to sleep that tonight. i dunno if i should announce it on this but i dunno....i have a "gathering" to go to from 7-11 and so i will not be home. and i have to get ready and leave at like...5 or 6 in the morning tomorrow blah!!!. i dont wanna go!!! im gonna miss...yea. everyone!!! oh well...im tired now....i think ill go to bed....im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 1:35:38 AM [*]

isn't "emp" a wave that turns everything electrical off? Yeah i saw that in "small soldiers"...i am cool

Ok so after doing 2 history essays, 1 evaluation, reading 150 pages , and taking a physics exam, i am still alive and well. Procrastination is BAD. If i didn't procrastinate, i wouldn't have spent my last "schoolwork" night doing all these things. I could have....slacked off. Oh well, i should probably start looking over stuff for my history exam and read some cliffs for english so i'll have ammunition to BS with ;-).

posted: dave wei, 12:04:24 AM [*]

it's so weird when people are actually [emp] happy to see me.  like today, i went online and all of a sudden i get messages from one person.  "derek!  hi!" was kind of how it went.  and then yesterday at the party, sheila was happy to see me too -- mm, but i think she was happy to see everyone.  you know, i don't know what i'm talking about.  i think i'm going a little crazy from not being around people too often.

posted: derek derek, 9:43:29 PM [*]

crystal, you haven't been e-mailing.  actually, neither have all those other people that i never see who i write e-mail to -- even though it seems like they probably should [empasis on that] have the time to write something because it is [emphasis too] already over with school already.  i think it is.  i think for now on, whenever i have an emphasis on a word, like if i accent it or something, i'll write "emp" in brackets after it.  making words bold or underlined is just too annoying.  so nobody at all wants to talk about sheila's party?  mm, that's okay with me.  and today was the last day of school, which i spent not [emp] getting my final grades, even though i wanted to.  some teachers weren't there, others i missed and was too lazy to go ask, and i sat around for a long time in the commons -- it was fun.  but now i won't see all these people every day..

posted: derek derek, 2:26:24 PM [*]

i *knew* i should've brought a book or something ...

it's my first day at my new job which so far has consisted of ... basically nothing.  which at least i'm getting paid for now instead of being at home sleeping, which is pretty much what i'd be up to right now.  so this is boring.  i have no idea what i'm going to do for the rest of the summer here.  actually it's really only like two months here because i'm going to quit in the middle of august to give myself downtime before the big stressful college thing (heehee ...)  ok ... maybe i'll go on my lunch break now.

posted: ellie cheung, 11:09:49 AM [*]

hey..caitlin..i haven't heard of the long beach dub allstars..but i'll be sure to download lots of their songs..i mean..they're from sublime! i love sublime..haha..anwyays..i dunno..i heard some new weezer songs..this one with eddie vedder (from pearl jam i think?) and i didnt' like it much..it was a whole bunch of screaming and stuff...i like the oldschool weezer stuff..buddy holly and stuff liek that..that's from way back..3rd grade maybe? wow..i'm making myself feel old..that was like..7 years ago! anywayz...eric..what color is your hair? aiya..my mom finally let me streak my hair this year..after i begged and begged like..3 years ago..i didn't even really want it but my neighbor used to own a hair salon so she did it for me...argh..anyways..i fight with my mom every 10 minutes. seriously,....i duno what happened..we actuallyused to be pretty close..but i guess not anymore. 4 WEEKS WITHOUT HER!! YAY1!!! anyways..ellen! since when do you play bass? or guitar...or both? that's pretty cool...i bought a guitar last summer..and i still haven't learned how to play..seirously i was gonna learn by myself or have a friend teach me this year..but i guess that never happened. it's just sitting in my living room..been there for so long! hmm..and yeah...let's see...are you going to hawaii? everyone's going to hawaii..everyone's vacation is leaving nj..my vacation is to go to nj. oh wells! i get to visit jersey gardens then i guess! haha..and since derek says it's good *through all the complaining about waiting*..yeah..i'm kinda excited to go! well, gotta go, eating lunch now! check ya later!


posted: crystal tang, 12:51:55 AM [*]

ah, indeed you did save the day caitlin. =P weezer is good! i forgot about them for a while until this year. and sublime -- i will always like sublime. "santaria" was the first bass line i ever ever ever learned. let's see how much i'll like ska...

oddly enough, i was thinking about joining gold's gym. my friend goes there to work out -- she says its better there because its an enclosed building. no windows. so then you won't feel self conscious? *shrug* buildings with no windows kind of scare me -- like my school! haha.. ah well. 3 more days, 5 more final exams to go, and counting. after that, i'm working out like anything, start looking for a new guitar, get non freakish tan lines this year, and get better at tennis. and try surfing in hawaii. ohohoh..and i want to start a band. =) hehe. that's pretty much it...sounds good though. i too don't think i'll be mellowing out much. i've started making schedules for my summer days...sheesh, since when did i get so anal retentive (borrowing lines from Rent)?? ah well. ok, well it would be best for me to go sleep. tomorrow i'll see how good i am at bs-ing (english final) and how many verb forms/tenses i can make up in the french language. i seem to make up verbs a lot...whoops. =) alright, i'm out. goodnight you guys.

posted: ellen mellen, 12:19:15 AM [*]

here i've come to save [the day!] this poor blog from a blogless weekend.. i mean aside from derek. so yeah, it's summer... no school, more parties.. and i feel strangely guilty. why do i feel like i will only be truly happy slaving away at papers on my computer? or running five miles through torrential downpours.. no matter how much i try to mellow out...it's not me. i'm stressed out and high strung at heart i guess. and i get satisfaction from self-torture? and i constantly attempt amateur psycho-analysis on myself and my friends.. hm this is turning out to be a bad blog. and it had such a cool opening too! anyways, wasn't today weird? thunderstorms all morning, absolutely beautiful in the afternoon.. i hope you all had nice fathers days.

posted: caitlin m, 11:21:36 PM [*]

eew, no one's blogged -- that's really really stinky.  where is everyone?  anyway, i just came back from sheila's outdoor hawaiian luau sweet sixteen party, and it was a little less awkward for me than the other ones.  i was happy i didn't have to dress nicely again, and today i wore this orange old navy tee that said something about hawaiian pineapples -- finest sliced quality -- on the front.  and then it didn't seem that i sat around for quite as long watching people dancing and being a little bored.  i don't think i'll ever dance.  maybe if my personality changes, hm.  it might.

posted: derek derek, 11:06:28 PM [*]

hm, i need a crash course in the music that the people around me like.  everyone, give me your top five songs of all time -- and then i'll try to have a listen of all of them.  i heard this really poppy song in the aero store yesterday, and it turned out to be called "koocachoo" by kylie minogue.  she's australian.  it's extremely catchy, in a europop kind of way.  i have to get it out of my head.

anyway, so i was out for twelve hours yesterday.  right, so steph said to get to her house as soon as i could in the morning when i called her before nine or so, so my mom comes and picks me up when she comes back from her morning swimming thing at gold's gym -- which i might start next week at six in the mornings, isn't that cool, i doubt i'll be able to stick with it -- and i think i get to steph's house at about nine-twenty or so.  sometime around then.  and they, they being steph-michelle-janet, they're watching mtv.  which we then watch for the next forty minutes or so.  the making of the "bootylicious" video was pretty amusing.  that was the first time i'd ever heard the song, by the way.  and z100 has got to be the most worse annoying sold-out radio station ever to exist.

um, and jersey gardens was big.  it was fun, especially waiting outside of stores that i didn't want to go in.  like stores selling womens-girls clothing, stores selling nice dresses, stores selling lingerie.  and that gap outlet was crazy -- everything was so cheap.  i think i bought a few too many things.  but it was fun, even when i was sitting on a sofa or couch waiting.  and then the graduation banquet was like -- well, like a graduation banquet.  i totally called the speaker ripping up her pseudo-diploma.  ask dave or frances.  i want a camcorder to make funny videos.  i wish i could get a dv camcorder and a new macintosh g4 with the dv editing suite and the mp3 ripper-jukebox and all those cool things.  maybe i'll get one in a few years.  but well, i think i should go back to cleaning my room.  i must've brought at least a hundred pounds of magazines and paper down to the garage.  ah, i have so much stuff to get rid of.  all the books that i never read anymore and yet my mom wants me to keep them, all the stupid computer books that aren't mine, all the clothes in my closet that aren't mine, the stupid desk in the corner with the stupid computer on it, a hideous bookshelf with books i never read -- and etc.  ...

posted: derek derek, 7:37:00 PM [*]

dude....u do not know how pissed i am right now. i dont get pissed very often...(or not this pised) but aah! what the heck. my mom is freaking making me dye my hair back tomorrow morning....or...later this morning.....the heck....she freaking thinks that when people see my hair they'll think i hate myself and thats why i wanna change it....or that i got some issues. ugh. whatever. im too mad right now. we yelled at each other for a good 30 minutes. so yea...ugh! sometimes i just hate her!! im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 12:05:19 AM [*]

yay, punk/ska! (yes derek, i know how much you love it) sublime is amazing of course (perfect beach music) but they're kind of in a category of their own - influenced by ska, punk, reggae, jazz.. and so i wouldn't exactly consider them punk/ska. ellen, there are so many excellent punk bands.. a new found glory (you might have heard their single "hit or miss").. the ataris, catch-22 (they're also ska, and from red bank), day 19, five iron frenzy (very catchy christian ska), good charlotte, less than jake (one of my favorite bands ever), midtown, greenday, and wow there are a million others. crystal, do you listen to long beach dub allstars? they're the band that formed from former sublime members after bradley died. and my absolute favorite band right now is weezer.. i love their new cd. they aren't exactly punk.. i don't know WHAT they are.. but download "island in the sun" by them.

*sigh* i love my music so very much. i went to the beach today. it was cloudy but i still got tan. man, i love summer.

posted: caitlin m, 6:17:53 PM [*]

i'm FREE OF SCHOOL!! haha..yay! anwyayz..ellen, i think..ikf you're gona listen to punk/ska..there are some ppl you just GOTTA try listening to : sublime, 311, and..hmm. supertones maybe? i think they're a christian punk band...and if you're into christian music..try : plankeye...and..that's basicaly all i know..i love them tho! hehe..wait. steph..you went to ireland with one of your teacherS? for what? aiyo..welll, it's getting late..even tho this is my last day of school.i think im about to go to bed! haha..oh yeah..you gotta hear this stupid story..so todays' the last day of school. do you know what i had to do? today was "check out " day..like..checking out of a hotel..you go to school at your grade's "assigned time" (8 oclock for me) and clean out your lockers, get it signed by a teacher who inspects your locker, go to homeroom, get your homeroom teacher to sign the same sheet..return late library books and text books, and that's it. that took me all of 10 min. except for getting my hr teach to sign..so i took a 30 min bus ride to school, and worked 10 min to get that done..then just chilled around...ended up going to the american club at like..9 oclock in the morning for breakfast..cept their breakcast starts at 10...so we just sat around..played pool..watch the seniors play pool.etc. it was actually prety fun. well,check ya later! g'luck with exams ellen!

posted: crystal tang, 12:37:05 PM [*]

i hate chili's.  and i totally have like half a website in progress.  and really don't feel like finishing it anymore.  (that's all from derek's message which just happens to be the fifth message, so it's the last one showing on the window right now, so it's the one i was commenting on.)

aaaaanyway, i got my license last monday (11th) and i've been driving myself around.  actually tonight i was feeling frustration so i was like, "i'm going driving!"  (actually then my mom started freaking out and being like "where are you going?!")  but after that, i went cruising ;-) and blasting music (don't tell my parents that) and it was very relaxing.  very therapeutic.  mmm.

driving has started me listening to trance b/c it's such good driving music.  hm... i think this is why i don't usually write on this board anymore ... all my comments are really weird ...

posted: ellie cheung, 2:36:21 AM [*]

"that lady" would be mrs. dougherty.. i went to ireland with her. she's really really nice. she's really into art and painting and taking pictures.. i think she used to paint. very cool person, i should go and visit her sometime..
yeah, i just felt like dropping in. so.. i guess that's it. good luck on your finals, ellen!! =)

posted: stephanie, 11:05:08 PM [*]

you know, a new song i really like is "alibi" by michael tait and his band, which happens to be called tait.  i think it's all capitalized.  but it's really, i guess, just a typical normal rock song with a good melody -- really catchy.  hm, if i like all the other songs i hear by him, i might even get his solo album when it comes out.  oh, and that would've been a song that would've made everyone turn around if i accidently played it on my md today.  good thing i somehow skipped it with the "shuffle" function, thank you so much.  who was that lady who was our proctor?  she was actually pretty nice about things..


posted: derek derek, 9:19:45 PM [*]

i haven't started finals yet? well, i start tomorrow. i have geometry and us history. wheeeee! (just like how destiny's child says it in the beginning of "bootylicious") john cusack is cute....and it was a good movie. probably a better book though...and i like chasing furies -- i wish they didn't break up. they'll do for now while i wait for sixpence's very very delayed album to be released. which i don't really want any more since dale (*almost* original drummer) left..to go play with over the rhine i think. they're good too. i'll probably still get it though -- gee, i listen to them too much. does anybody have a new band to introduce to me? for some reason i'm semi sorta getting into punk. weird. i like dashboard confessionals now too.

now i'm done writing random stuff, i think i'll..blog some more random stuff. tonight i have to go play piano at this person's house -- this family friend people that own the eatentown sheraton. they say it can be "practice" for the recital on saturday; i think its just a lame excuse for them to have free dinner entertainment. =P riight. i hope they have good food at least. and then i can get back home to study for finals. i am so dead for chem on tuesday. does anybody have a hawaiian dress i can borrow? bright pink does not particularly suit my features/skintone/whatever/i just look bad in it. hehe..=) you holmdel people, have fun being free of finals.

posted: ellen mellen, 7:56:36 PM [*]

i saw 'high fidelity.' and yes, that was pretty good. john cusack is really cute. =) and.. that "moment" was really funny, derek. you were done while most of us still had, like, two pages to go and.. it was pretty loud. we all looked at you for a while before you noticed anything. hahaha.. that was good.
anyway.. where was i? i always lose my train of thought when i talk to people and blog at the same time. hum.. so.. oh yeah. FINALS ARE OVER!!!! i am sooo happy right now. this feeling of free-ness and boredom is very overwhelming.. i haven't felt it in so long. haha. i watched a little MTV today.. which i haven't done in ages. the video for 'bootylicious' is SO funny! hahahaha.. they do this funny dance where they look like they're having seizures or something. and then the video for 'pop' is really cool. and jc's hair looks like a lion. hehe.. oh, there's this new show now called 'becoming' where people get made over and stuff and do the music video for the artist that they got made over to look like. [if that made any sense at all.. yeah.. :P] anywho.. i was watching the episode where these guys get to be the backstreet boys. they were all so excited, it was almost frightening. i didn't know guys liked the backstreet boys so much.. hehe
alright, i've run out of interesting things to say. bye bye all.

posted: stephanie, 6:04:00 PM [*]

wow, today was interesting.  so i took the chem final, and i even double-checked it before handing it in, and so i take out my book -- "high fidelity", a new york times bestseller, it's actually a very good book, so good that they made it into a movie -- and my md and start to read while listening to music.  and i'm listening to the beginning of one song -- and ellen, it was actually a chasing furies song -- and there's this intro segment of loud electric guitars with distortion and feedback or whatever you call it, i'm not really knowledgable about those things.  i wish i was, though.  and then i see everybody look up and turn their heads and look at me.  and then the teacher mouths the words and makes a motion meaning "turn it down a little.." and so.  i didn't think it was that loud.  but then, i don't think there was one person who didn't look at me.  it was an interesting moment.

then i went out not much later to lunch with eric and norman and alex and connie and grace.  at chilis, which i think i remember one time i swore i would never eat there again.  but i did, and the "oldtimer" burger i ordered wasn't too bad.  i think i had that last time too.  haha, it was the cheapest meal item i could find -- whee, five seventy-nine.  and it was fun.  i think i'll make a new website.

posted: derek derek, 4:33:41 PM [*]

awwww... yea i have lots of conversations like that online.. with one word, insided thingies. hey derek, are you talking bout me? :) heh. i think i'm usually a fast typer person except when i forget the box is there... somehow i have learned to block out the lil blinking blue things at the bottom of the screen. so sometimes it takes me awhile to reply... yea. and michelle's screen is blinking now so maybe i should go read what she wrote and not keep her in suspense.

posted: Jess Tai, 12:27:37 PM [*]

steph, people were just TAKING yearbooks?? that's horrible! they cost seventy-five freaking dollars.. eeeek.. anyway, yipee holmdel FH. you girls know i'm always your biggest fan. and online conversations are good.. but you just have to remember that they are not at all like real conversations. actually, i prefer to talk with some people online.. and some people on the phone.. and most people face to face. i think the people who type really slowly are phone people for me. technically that would make ME a phone person.. hmm..

you know what sucks? spending money.. you go to the mall with like $80.. and then it's just gone.. so fast. and you [well, actually i do this - you probably aren't as stupid with money as i am] sit on a bench and go through your wallet and receipts and shopping bags desperately trying to figure out how you could have possibly spent such a gross amount of money in such a short amount of time and ended up with so little to show for it.. "wow, was there really $15 in taxes?" yes, so shopping is depressing. it makes me feel materialistic and poor. not to mention bad at adding. yuck.



posted: caitlin m, 10:29:57 PM [*]

i hate online conversations like those. and then i also get kind of flabbergasted when people type really fast and stuff. hehe.. yeah. i'm not very good at online conversations.. =)
today has been a weird day. we won our first 7-aside game.. that's definitely weird. well.. they didn't exactly have a goalie.. but that's beside the point. hehe.. yeah. other weird stuff happened.. and.. it was just a weird day. :P
it really bugs me how people were just taking the yearbooks when they didn't pay for it. aaaargh. i feel so powerless. blah blah blah. oh well..

posted: stephanie, 8:52:39 PM [*]

um.  so it's not really helping what i'm feeling when this person who i used to talk with online all the time almost never -- actually, practically always never -- says anything to me anymore.  in an online sense, i mean.  but what do i mean.  mm, i'm not sure.  i guess before, we always had conversations online and i said things and she said things and we said things, and now it's more like "um, hey" and some kind of greeting things and then i wait ten minutes before i get a response like "yep".  and then i reply, and i wait another fifteen-twenty minutes until she gives another one-word answer.  i usually give up after a while -- but i've been giving up sooner and sooner, like "oh, whatever -- i'll talk to you some other time".  ten minutes later: "yep".  and then, maybe even "bye".  and you know what, i can see her online right now.  i'm thinking whether i should delete her screenname from my buddy list, whether i should keep it there and not try to talk to her online ever again and maybe she'll IM me sometime (even though i don't see the point of keeping the screenname there) or maybe i should IM her now or maybe i'll do it sometime a long time from now.  but well, this isn't helping at all.

posted: derek derek, 7:13:22 PM [*]

dudes. i went to apply for a job today at the Pharmor place in the Holmdel Shopping Center. it was prety funy. we wee joking around about applying to do dishes or laundry or omething. i wana go to jersey gardens too. never been there also, but oh well. friday im all busies. so i leaving wed for taiwan. i kinda dont wanna go. im gonna miss all u people, at least we can e-mail....but not like everyone ever e-mails me anyhow. oh well...i gotta go...im at norms right now..so...im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 3:04:20 PM [*]

hi everyone.. this is going to be short because my brother will kill me if it's not. anywho.. i just wanted to say that i don't get calls and stuff either. so don't feel bad. and i was going to invite you two [mich and derek] to jersey gardens on friday cuz you guys were complaining that you've never been there. so.. will you come? yeah, i would tell you in school, but i never see you guys. maybe i should call you both. that way, you'll both get phone calls. hum. okay, i'm going now. bye bye~


posted: stephanie, 2:44:09 PM [*]

yea i dont have friends either, dont worry. no emails... no calls.... *sigh* oh wellz, will YOU (yes YOU) be my friend?

posted: Jess Tai, 1:40:11 PM [*]

yea derek, don't worry, ur not alone! everyone's like "are you going blh blah today or tomorrow or friday" and i'm like "....uhh well i didn't exactly hear about it so i'm guessing I'm not going..." it's really quite annoying. and i don'tget emails either. or phone calls. an i'm a girl, so somehow i'm sposed tohave have more ofthat stuff than you cuz ur a guy. I dunno why but it works out that way. doodle. spanish was really realy really annoying. Did i ever mention i suck at reading comprehension? and of course half the test is on it. and this stupid keyboard doesn't punch out all the letters unless i hit it really hard....well it only happens like that on this blogger, it's fine on the other places.
btw, this isnt meant to make anyone feel depressed and go into a comatose from depression or anything. yup. doo dooo. i do that i lot. the doo doo thing. yea!

posted: Mich Yam, 1:12:39 PM [*]

you know what, i think i get that recurring lonely feeling that keeps coming back because and when i hear about what other people are doing with their friends.  like today, i heard people talking about doing something today or tomorrow or friday or whatever, and it seemed like all people i knew but -- um, i don't think i was invited.  it's like i'm always not really a friend as in someone to hang out with and do things with and invite to things, but more of just some person that they know and see sometimes.  an acquaintancey sort of thing.  someone they don't really know.  which is really kind of disappointing sometimes.  and "oh, so-and-so called me yesterday and said blah blah --" is something that always gets to me too.  mm, it seems like no one ever calls.  maybe it's because i don't answer the phone anymore.  but that's because no one calls.  it's a circular paradox kind of thing.  but well, sometimes it feels like i don't know anyone.  and i get jealous.

posted: derek derek, 12:33:00 PM [*]

argh. i have geometry tomorrow. english was actually fun..i knew what i was writing about..and the speech wasn't so bad. we ended up eating and watching a movie at the end coz we had 30 min to waste =) anwayz..eric..i think that whole time thing is just something that you can find in EVERY CHINESE MOTHER on the face of this earth. it'll be like..11 in the morning some sunday, and my mom will say "it's 12 oclock! get up and do your homework!"..then..you say you wanna sleep for 20 min more..and at 11:10, she says " it's 12 now..seirously it is! get up! you slept for half an hour more"! so really..time never really adds up for them i guess....

anyways...i did worse for the chem exam this semester than last semester..but it's all good..still got a good grade! haha..i went up to check and she ACTUALLy posted the grades already..i was surprised! so....i got like..94-ish 3rd quarter and 96-ish 4th quarter..and on my exam i actually got a 95 or something..maybe 94.5...so my final grade is like..95-ish..which is an A. so..yeah..but..i think in chinese my grade probably got pulled down a LOT. i dunno..gotta wait til friday to find that one out..and..i should get going to study for geometry now...which, btw..also has all that trig stuff....i find the actual geometry part harder though. we had a test on circle geometry..everyone did so bad...argh..got a 70 on that one.. so i should go study that more...check ya later!

posted: crystal tang, 2:42:05 AM [*]

so i'm talking to someone about yearbooks now, and i'm feeling a little disappointed that i didn't order one.  not because of the actual book, which i actually really like a lot because i'm a nostalgic person -- actually, i'll only like it if it's not something as bad as last year's -- but because of the things that people write in them.  "i think the things people sign is worth it" is what she said.  that's stinky.  and then i said "what about letters, then -- wouldn't letters be better than someone signing a quick note in your yearbook?"  and she said yes, so you guys should write me letters.  and i'll write back.  i think i brought this up before.

touma came into our room today to proctor (which i doubt is a verb) for our geometry final, and he was about ten minutes into his ranting about what to do and "the next words i hear out of anyone's mouth are going to be 'oh mr. touma, please fail me'" and "how's the huffster?" -- when another teacher comes in and says "you're so stupid, you're in the wrong room".  that was pretty funny.  but then the final took such a long time.  i don't know why, but it seems like i'm not feeling pressure.  like, as in pressure to do well.  it's just not there, i just feel this annoying feeling at the tests and how they're so long.  i think it's a sign that i'm not trying very hard, and i'll probably not do as well.  we'll see what happens.  or i mean, i'll see what happens.

math is worrying me.  i was looking at the algebra two trig stuff that everyone's doing, and it seems to be harder and more in-depth than what i learned last year.  which could be a problem next year when i'm supposed to know things that i don't.  i guess i'll read some math books this summer.  and this english summer reading thing is so stupid -- we can't have any articles on those themes that were published before june?  i can't wait until i don't have to wake up every morning to go to school, and then go to school.  that was a little redundant.

posted: derek derek, 4:49:40 PM [*]

i put 274 for that one. because since angle of depression and angle of elevation are alternate interior, they're congruent. and then i did tan (whatever that angle measure was, i forgot) = 55/x. and then x = 274. how did people get 11? that just seems kind of short to me. since the lighthouse or whatever was 55 feet high. but i probably did something wrong.

posted: caitlin m, 2:25:59 PM [*]

yea!i didn't get that question either and i decided it looked more right if i was b or d...but then i put b....i got 6 b's in a row too tho around there. so yea. and i still don't know about the angle of depression cuz ppl either got 11 or 200 something (either 74 or 68) and both groups are *absolutely positive* they'e right. so yea...oh well it's worth like 1 point. so that's all i'm eating lotsa fat and geting fat and i don't want to run.

posted: Mich Yam, 1:56:56 PM [*]

dude, i am 1/3 done with finals!! wow, they were pretty blah today - exactly like midterms. except i forgot what an inverse function is.
f^-1 - can someone please tell me what that is? it was problem number sixty on my math test. i just stared at it for about 20 minutes and finally filled in D. it was between B and D, but i had B for the answer for the next 6 problems in a row, so i figured that D was more likely. hmm. yes so that's all i remember. i should go study for history and spanish now. ugh, i don't feel like it. my head still hurts from english. it was easy, i just hate writing all that.. stuff. it gets sooo boring. i think i'm going to go take a nap. staring at the computer makes me tired.. hopefully i'll wake up in time to study... *yawn*...

posted: caitlin m, 1:33:37 PM [*]

dude....so i get home today and start studying my butt of for finals. norm an michelle tai came over right after school for a little bit to study math...but we ended up watching the catillion tape for a little bit. at least we got SOME stuff done. i studied more later. but oh well. at 8 o clock, my mom brings me to office max to buy a new calculator for tomorrow. note to every: never go out to buy a new calculator the day before the test. i get to office max and notice that they dont have the regular Ti34s. instead they have ti34 IIs, which is suppose to be some sort of upgraded version of the regualr ti34, only when i looked at the ti34 IIs, they didnt have the trig functions like...sin cos sec whatever. so then my mom brings me to staples yelling at me in the car on the way there saying blah blah blah. i wasnt really pay attention. i never really do. so i get to staples and find that they dont have it there either, but they had the ti36 one so i just got that. everythings in a different position kinda....so i hope it wont screw me over too much. according to my mom..i took like...30 minutes to decide which calculator i want and buy it...but in actuality, it was more like 10. shes got some sort of weird sense of time in her head. but it did seem like a long time cuz i was waiting for my mom to walk with me to the cashier (she walks really slow complaining ehr feet hurt) but since i waited for her, some (and i HATE to be mean but im not in too good a mood right now) fat guy gets in front of me and is returning all this stuff that he bought. he bought like 9 different things. and it takes them like...awhile to ring them up an stuff. my mom scolding me in chinese the whole time and i was just like "riight...uh huh...wutever" grr. anywayz...not to make my life any better...i havent really studied yet. and its like 10:45. oh well. anywayz....if u check my other blog, i changed it to im outzZ. and maybe ill take off my cell phone number too...im pretty stupid...so if u need my number just ask me. i think i have it memorized...so yea...im gonna go study now....im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 10:42:51 PM [*]

it's time for finals, whee.  i can definitely smell it in the air.  it smells kind of like, hm -- kind of like pineapple juice.  maybe it's just because i just ate a bunch of chopped pineapples.  mm, those were good.  they were so cold and sweet and wet.  i love pineapple juice.  and i think i'm going to open up another can soon.  anyway, so i haven't really started studying yet, even though i should probably be doing that now.  english -- blah, i didn't really study for the midterm either.  i just had to remember the gist of all the stories and then make up convincing essays during the test.  so after i have my second helping of pineapples, i'll probably make up some kind of quick study sheet that i can look over and remember a little of what each selection was about.  i wonder what the question is.  she gave us our grades today, and i can get a seventy-four on this final and still end up with an a average, so that's good.  except she told me eighty-four -- that's why she's not a math teacher.  speaking of which, the geometry final's also tomorrow for me, and if it's as hard as the last one was, which wasn't at all, then it should be really really simple.  even though geometry seemed to be really difficult for me in the beginning of the year.  and then history and spanish and chem are a little bit harder, especially chem.  ugh, i don't think i can remember everything from the beginning of the year.  and history, i don't want to write essays.  even though tomorrow's english final is all essay-writing, and well.  i hate writing.  i mean, writing things that other people tell me to write and then they grade.  i think i'm going to eat some pineapples now.

posted: derek derek, 4:45:51 PM [*]

yo the malaysian bread at that restaurant with the boat is sooooo good!!! and i remember that birFday song... hahaha so funny. what a place to have a birFday party

posted: Jess Tai, 3:27:59 PM [*]

man..ellen, cut exams? what is that? our exams are normally 20 % of our final grade, so if you get a zero on the exam for cutting (this is why ppl dont' ditch school on exam days) then..your final grade drops like..drastically. anywho..which prom did you go to and with who? how come i'm like..just finding this out? man..i must be totally behind in everythning..half the time i have no clue what you guys are talkin bout...but...6 flags does sound fun!
hmm..norman..not a lot of ppl liked crouching tiger hidden dragon over here..i guess coz you always see these movies with ppl flying and stuff liek that. the funniest is watching and understanding what they say in mandarin and also reading subtitles (they're mandarin sux coz most of them speak cantonese normally) and then..the way they translate whatever they're saying isn't that great..so it's like..i dunno. just funny coz you cant directly translate chinese into english.
wow eric..you didnt' end your blog with "i'm outz" haha..so i see a lot of ppl are getting cell phones? man..i found out lotsa ppl in middletown that i'm friends with have them too..it's so like...weird? i dunno...pretty cool tho...well, i should get to studying. english..argh..how do you study for that anyways? we have to make a persuasive speech in front of the class..and we have 45 minutes to write an essay on "how the texts (literary) [other than the text book] helped further our understanding of the two cultures we've been studying. " and we have 45 minutes. and it's the most useless question in the world..anywayz..check y'all later!


posted: crystal tang, 5:45:17 AM [*]

ellie you went to hkis?? steph didn't i dont' think..when were you here? oh dude..that's so weird...coz i know lotsa seniors from hkis...wonder if you remember them? ok./.well, i'm stupposed to be studying for exams, so..i'll read everyone else's blog later..then ..i guess reply later.
btw eric..where did that random cell phone comment come from? argh..they're not THAT cool..everyone here has them...and i WANT A NEW MD!! =( i lost mine. check ya later

posted: crystal tang, 2:35:36 AM [*]

go eric! you just posted your cell phone number on the internet. =) jk jk. although -- you did just do that. hehe...i think i got my phone at the same place you did! in edison?? haha..too weird. i eat at that malaysian place all the time too. and as in any asian restaurant, hand slapping is very common there. hehe..ok, i'm going to leave now. why am i blogging now? i was supposed to go sleep a while ago. whoops

posted: ellen mellen, 11:44:25 PM [*]

dude...today was definitely a good day. today...is the day i got my cell phone. *da da da* i think its almost the same as ellens. but i remember on ellens...u can pull out the antenna...but u cant on mine...oh well. its cool. i finally got one. yay!. and for future reference...my number is blah blah blah(ask me for it!). gimme a ring sometime! anywayz...i went to the Malaysian restaurant in edison today for dinner. it was pretty funny. almost everyone who goes there is asain....and so when ur sitting down and just watching people at their tables...its funny just watching them fight over the bill. i saw AT LEAST 5 hand slaps...=P. im not kidding! and when we were in the middle of eating...all of a sudden they turned off all the lights to the restaurant.....and blasted this weird music....it had a weird beat to it....weird people singing a different version of "Happy birthday" it was so hilarious! the people singing on the tape all had a chinese accent...and u can tell when they were singing "happy birfday" instead of BirTHday. yea...it was pretty gay sounding...but it was funny. ah well...im gona go now and go to bed...im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 11:17:34 PM [*]

hey everyone, so this blog isn't gonna be one of those one sentence blogs i usually post. anywayz....this weekend has been a blah weekend. all i did was study study study.....stupid finals. bleh.....i also watched 2 movies this weekend. men of honor and crouching tiger.....men of honor was really really good....i almost cried twice! i dunno how but u woud think this big macho buff kid would never cry....but i almost did. crouching tiger wasn't what i expected it to be. i thought it would be really realy good if it had 10 nominations. but i didn't really like it. maybe cuz i had to watch the whole thing in mandarin (considering i don't know mandarin). so i had to read ALL the subtitles. which wasn't much fun. maybe thats why it didn't have such a great affect. so here i am blabbing about movies i saw when i really should be studying. hmm....ok i guess i'll go study then....g/l to everyone taking finals.....i know i'm gonna need it also....bye!

posted: Norman So, 10:57:42 PM [*]

dude.  stop saying that.  and hello, somehow i'm not in a blogging mood right now.  it's actually quite weird -- maybe the first time i've really felt not like blogging.  i think i'm going to find my journal from my desk somewhere and write in it.

posted: derek derek, 9:48:02 PM [*]

congrats ellie. and your speech was very well done, i must say. well done..like, steak. =P wow, so that wasn't random! i really liked your dress -- and the validictorian guy seems cool. in a funny, witty sort of way. wow, so that wasn't random either! anyway, good luck with your driving test tomorrow. soon you can drive cool underclassmen like me around. or, not? =) and happy birthday!!! ok, this whole thing was a message to ellie. =)

prom was..prom was...i'm still trying to find a word to describe it. something other than "fun" or "good" or something like that. even though, it was fun and it was good. hehe...oh well. post promming at seaside was also fun and good, but once again i'm trying to find another word to describe it. =) i'm so weird sometimes...and i also really want to take swing dancing lessons!! alex nemroski (sp?) and this girl were...so good!! i was totally jealous. and it looks like fun. anybody up for some swing dancing??

on another note, i'm "studying" for finals too -- compared to the holmdel people, i have two extra days for some nice cramming (start on thursday). i'm not too worried about finals..just about chem (my head hurt after satIIs) and english (my hand always hurts after english exams). everything else is just...easy generalized tests they have to give to everyone in middletown township. and..my friends are thinking about cutting the last period exam (for electives. me: journalism II) on the last day of school to go to great adventure. hm, should i too? i don't think i'm that rebellious to cut...um, becuase you konw..i'm such a rebel in the first place. without a cause.
on another note, i seem to be in utter confusion. about everything. and this time, i'm not even exaggerating. whoa. i'm very very confused. and i'm still trying to pinpoint what it is i'm confused about...


posted: ellen mellen, 9:26:47 PM [*]

dude stephanie i bet you're in one of my yearbooks or something.  hkis?  "orientale"?  i'm going to go look.  (i was there for a couple years, but i think we've already established that a long time ago on this blog ... unfortunately no one will remember but me.)

i am *so* tired, you have no idea, but it was really mostly from partying so i have not that much to complain about.  man ... i love being a senior.  ... doh, i graduated, so i'm not a senior anymore.  haha, that's cool too ;-)

posted: ellie cheung, 7:54:30 PM [*]

i came home from church today and studied. and ate. and studied some more. uuuugh. but after that, i slept for a bit and i started to look through my old yearbooks. the really really old ones i got from hong kong. hehe, those were the days. it was a private school, so the whole school was in one yearbook. anyway, i was getting that "aaaw, i wish i were a kid again" feeling. and i wish i could have kept in touch with my friends. my brother was writing an email to his friend from hk and i started to think about that. i used to write to my friends, but .. it just stopped. and for some reason, i'm always the last to write. bleh. it stinks to be left hanging. but it's all good. hehehe.. i feel like having some sort of big reunion or something. that'd be so cool. i had so much fun there. =)
anywho, back to reality. finals are this week. oh, it shall be fun. haha.. right.. :P i have this uncontrollable urge to do nothing right now. actually, i want to watch a movie. hmm.. maybe the matrix. haha, that was random. i saw crouching tiger, hidden dragon again last night. that's such a sad, sad movie. i cried so much.. :( hehe.. or maybe i should watch something funny.. like austin powers or wayne's world. i love those movies. i'll probably end up going back to studying though. but that's okay. =)

posted: stephanie, 4:54:56 PM [*]

dude...excuuuse me for spelling it wrong. its all the same....who really cares. whatever. so im really bored right now. im suppose to go out to dinner later to the malaysian restaurant. hopefully i can get a cell phone too...yea...i might be able to get an MD player too. my mom is like...big on listening to sermons online and stuff...and she asked me if ther was any way to record it...and i was like..."well...if we had an MD player.." hehe. so i might be getting one....oh well...im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 3:21:40 PM [*]

and ouch, my left arm is still sore from that hepatitis b shot.  what they did was they took a syringe and got some hepatitis b vaccine -- which is in reality, weakened hepatitis b germs, i forget if it's a virus or bacteria -- and then they stuck it in my arm and gave me the disease.  hopefully, i'll develop antibodies, because if i don't, i'll have full-blown hepatitis b.  i even did a paper on this last year, and it's pretty scary what happens to some people when they get vaccinated.  my mom says taiwan's not such a clean place.

posted: derek derek, 5:33:43 PM [*]

which is really spelled "cotillion" -- and here's the whole definition from merriam-webster online.  co·til·lion, pronunciation: kO-'til-y&n, k&-, variant(s): also co·til·lon /kO-'til-y&n, k&-, ko-tE-(y)On/, function: noun, etymology: French cotillon, literally, petticoat, from Old French, from "cote" coat, date: 1766; 1 : a ballroom dance for couples that resembles the quadrille, 2 : an elaborate dance with frequent changing of partners carried out under the leadership of one couple at formal balls, 3 : a formal ball.  and that was more than anyone needed to know.  so i went to the mall today looking for shorts and these specific pairs of jeans and pants, but they weren't exactly on sale and i got sidetracked by other things.  i didn't get what i was there to get -- maybe some other time, i will -- but i got maybe thirty dollars worth of other things.  i was in american eagle, and there were these three obnoxious guys in front of me with one kid buying a bunch of stuff (which incidently came out to about eighty-five dollars for two shirts and a pair of shorts, while i bought a t-shirt for seven dollars) and after they left, the guy behind the counter said something like "those boys, i feel like i want to fight them.  but you're nice."  and i think i went "um, okay" or something.  oh, and crystal?  i have freshmen in my math class because i'm stupid and got left behind.  no actually, i went to high tech last year and they had us take algebra two trig before geometry -- which is how it's supposed to go, by the way -- but holmdel does geometry first.  so this year, when i came back, i had to take geometry with freshmen.  but next year, i'll be back with people at my own uh, grade.  i almost said "maturity level" there, but then i realized that it wouldn't be true.  i would study, but i don't really have books home.  i have a bunch of chem notes and homework, a geometry book, and then nothing else.  i think my plans are to start studying monday afternoon with english and math, and then tuesday i'll be doing history and spanish and some chem, and then wednesday all i'll have left is chem.  i can't believe the only class i might get a b in is ceramics.  and okay, you guys'll probably be hating me now for just saying that --

posted: derek derek, 5:30:59 PM [*]

so, i'm supposedly studying right now. haha.. riiight. it's fun to pretend. =)
i think eric was trying to say "catillion".. which is a huge, gigantic, wedding-like sweet sixteen. eric can give the rest of the details on that. and the bowl brawl is this thing the cross country people do where they roll down this humongous hill [which is called the bowl] and then get up and wrestle each other while extremely dizzy. it's quite fascinating, really. ;)
this has been a digustingly long week. i guess you could say it's been a fat week. :P but.. after finals, school is OVER! yay! i think this is going to be a reoccurring topic in my blogs this week. sorry if i'm a bit repetitive. =)
okay, i guess i'll go back to "studying." bye!

posted: stephanie, 2:25:22 PM [*]

what's catillino? what's this bowl brawl? and derek? why do you have frosh in your math class? hmm...i'm seriously screwed over. exams started friday, but since i had frees for those two exams i stayed home. and it'ssaturday and my sister's back in hk and i can't concentrate (i'm at my friends house right now supposedly studying for chem) and so...i havne't even started studying for chinese yet and i have like..3 chapters and like..100 phrases/words to relearn...argh!!! anyways..i gotta go ...write again later. check ya later

posted: crystal tang, 4:21:02 AM [*]

dude, stop saying that.  but yes, it's been a fat week.  there've been so many tests and quizzes and things happening, and well.  it's also been quite a weird week.  my mom goes up to my room yesterday afternoon and tells me in chinese "sheila's here looking for you" -- and i go downstairs, and there she is.  for no real reason, except that she and her friends came to play basketball and she just came over.  and then touma comes into our spanish class today and interrupts kazala for about fifteen minutes -- it was so funny.  he was making fun of people, cracking all these jokes and doing imitations of people in his class.  and then he kept trying to say different things spanish, which was so incredibly funny.  ahh.  hufnagel was pretty annoyed-angry today at the freshmen, because he said that he had "never seen such a lack of effort on the part of a honors geometry class" on this last test, and he said that twenty people failed and they were overall very poor grades.  and i get my test back first, and the grade on there is something that now every single freshman probably hates me for.  haha, oh well.  it's true though, none of the freshmen really work hard.  well, maybe they do, but i don't think so.  the kid next to me is so annoying -- "what'd you get?  what'd you get?  what'd YOU get?"  anyway, i think i'm going to leave because i have to be injected with hepatitis b tomorrow morning, and then i have chinese school and a passport picture to take.  i think i'll make a funny face.

posted: derek derek, 11:38:34 PM [*]

dude, this week WAS really long, eric. really really long. and well, i'm glad it's over. guess what? i got to play silent ball in spanish because carly was telling my teacher how she played it in history and how it would be a very effective final review method. which it kind of was, or something. but even if it wasn't, it was a lot more fun than sitting at our desks going over hw that no one did. and we (carly and i) are going to try and go see alicia testa's band play on sunday in atlantic highlands, and mr. bryer said he would try and go. isn't that cool? we'll see our friendly history teacher at a ska show. cooooool. and you know what else? we don't get yearbooks until tuesday i think, which sucks. except the yearbook signing party is for everyone this year (tues. 7:30-9?), not just seniors, and so i guess i'll go to that. because otherwise i'm not going to get anyone to sign it, with finals and all. and yearbooks are the best. i love going through them on boring summer days reading what everyone wrote. so when you holmdel people sign my yearbook, make your message really interesting. and wow, i just remembered that i HAVE to go to the yearbook thing because i signed up to hand out yearbooks. and bring soda or something.


posted: caitlin m, 11:19:02 PM [*]

dude...finally....this week is over. ive been waiting for it to be over for a long time. it seems like this week was a REALLY long time. *sigh* it wasnt an all too great week...but there were some fun parts..=P woh..i alwayz write about how good/bad a day has been or something. this is like...my journal. or..."diary" if u prefer that word...but it seems a bit....feminine to me. oh well. anywayz...how come u guyz got to play silent ball? we had to freaking look up stuff in the old test that he gave us and use the text tbook to define stuff we didnt know. he talked about playing monday though....he took a kids hacky sack and just stood in front of the room throwing it at people. he only threw it at people who were looking at him....and after he got through most everyone..he stops and hes like...''and then there are the smart people who are doing their work'' that was me!! i purposely didnt look up so he couldnt throw it at me. hehe. im so smart.=) yea...today after school i decided to play basketball at the school courts with some of my friends...SOOOO tired. it was HOT outside..i would also just jump up...grab the net...and hoist myself up to the rim just so i can hang from it like i dunked or something. thast the closes ill ever get to dunking. hehe. oh well...im raelly tired...and i should be studying...so...maybe ill play some inklink or something befor ei actually start...thing is...im not gonna be home tmorrow for some of the day...because the catillino that i was in? well...the girl is having this reunion thing and we're going to be at her house watching the tape of it and chilling and stuff. i wanna go because i dont see them ever...being that they are all from oldbridge. they are cool people though...so i might go for a little bit....anywayz...im gonna go now...im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 9:57:29 PM [*]

history class was really fun today. we spent 5 minutes reviewing and then we played games for the rest of class. we played 7up and this really fun game called silent ball, where you're supposed to toss around this ball and do a bunch of clapping, and you're not allowed to speak. there was this rule that if you were out, and if you were able to get the ball while still sitting in your chair you would get back in. so mr. bryer got out, and he happened to have this chair with wheels, so he started rolling around the room in his chair trying to intercept the ball. then jason dropped the ball and bryer went all out for it. he fell off his chair, and ended up on the floor between two desks with a tennis ball clutched in his hands. it was really funny.

posted: richard li, 5:13:04 PM [*]

eric, i'm gonna kill you again!! =P

posted: Norman So, 4:46:17 PM [*]

wow, you're graduating! that's so cool. =)
i don't think i can actually start studying for finals right now. it'd just be wrong. i need to slack for at least one afternoon. and it's friday, man! our last friday! woh.. school's almost out.. yay! :)
i want to see a movie. and go shopping. hm.
someone come over. i'm all alone in my house and i have nothing to do. blah.
okay, i guess i'll go be lazy somewhere else now. bye! :)

posted: stephanie, 3:17:03 PM [*]

i'm all for the term "bowl brawl" myself.  then again, "bowl-a-rama" sounds pretty decent too.  but "bowl brawl" has the alliteration, the wl combination, ... er ... wow i'm a big dork.

GRADUATING IN TWO DAYS BABY!

posted: ellie cheung, 11:25:46 PM [*]

dude...today was pretty cool. the "bowl roll" was a lotta fun. or..."bowl a rama" or "bowl fight" norman suggests "bowl brawl" anywayz....shame on you steph! blogging during school right before ur chem test nonetheless. dude...study man! hehe. anywayz...i wanted to get a piece of the action today but i wasnt changed. oh well. i had fun whipping people with shirts with john, alex, an norman. it was pretty fun. until norman got hit in the eye. nothing happened thuogh...we jsut kept right on going. haha. norman wants me to write that im a pimp, but we all know who the REAL pimp is...right? *cough cough*norman*cough cough* anywayz...im tired...i took a 3 hour nap today. i was only suppose to sleep 1 hour. grr. dont u people check my away message?? it says to call me if its been more than an hour an a half....or was it 2 horus.....whatever! just call me and wake me up! =) my alarm never wakes me up...i alwayz turn it off and go back to sleep. ok...im gonna go do my work..im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 10:48:07 PM [*]

i probably shouldn't have made those comments on "not caring." it seems everyone i talk to gives me something about that. well, just eric and richard. but, that's a lot of people. :P you don't really expect a response for something you stick on a blog. at least i don't.. it's always weird when i get one. yeah.
i wanted to see the bowl roll!!!! but i didn't. i was going to.. but the situation was complicated by the fact that we wandered around the park for forty five minutes trying to find the bowl. that was fun though. but i really wanted to see it! it sounded really fun. ah well..
i think i'll go now. two blogs in one day is enough for me. =)


posted: stephanie, 10:25:59 PM [*]

eric, i'm gonna kill you!

posted: Norman So, 9:54:00 PM [*]

and since i have some extra free time on my hands -- my school year is practically over, except for those pesky finals -- i think i'll blog some more about my week.  so on wednesday in english, for our modern-contemporary literature presentation, i picked alanis morrissette's [sp] "ironic".  i mean, we could pick a song or some other kind of modern-contemporary work to do, it wasn't like she wanted us to present literature and i just up and gave her a song.  anyway, so i said something like "and so this was a hit like three years ago when the trend was um, angry girl rock" and everyone laughed.  i don't understand if it was what i said or the way i said it.  hm.  but i think cichalski liked it, because it presented a view of modern life and the message was conveyed very nicely.  too bad alanis isn't around anymore with anything good.  after the first cd, the other stuff was all strange like that song from "city of angels" and the song that went "thank you baba" a few times.  my memory's kind of blurry.  what was the name of her second cd again, hm..

posted: derek derek, 8:32:44 PM [*]

okay, i'm going to have to stop doing this "dude" thing.  and so, what's a bowl fight?  it sounds kind of like -- well, i don't know what it sounds like.  like people rolling around fighting, except then i don't think real fighting would be allowed for some uh, school-sponsored thing?  i have no idea what i'm talking about.  someone explain to me what it was.  and so, my thoughts on not caring.  i really think the worst thing in life is to not care about things.  don't care too much about things you're not supposed to put so much in, like going crazy over grades and school and other not-so-important things.  you should still care a little, though.  apathy is really kind of horrible.  when people say "i just don't care anymore" about everything, they turn really lifeless and miserable and well.  when you don't care, you don't try to do anything.  maybe i don't know what i'm talking about here again.  i just don't think that "not-caring" is a good thing.  care a little.  oh, and i was on question fifteen or so on the chem test, and i looked up at the clock and saw about twenty minutes left.  that was scary.  i went right to the last question and started working backwards really fast.  i have this bad feeling in the back of my mind -- i wonder how i did this time..

posted: derek derek, 7:42:34 PM [*]

dude! caitlin, i did feel all itchy. i kept thinking that bugs were trying to eat me, and i kept slapping at myself only to find nothing dead whatsoever. and janet had to change her race to white for that one fight that the girls were in, our "racist fight" with asians vs. caucasians. and she was always yelling at dennis whenever he lost his "KP"...irony, which reminds me of english, which reminds me of absolutely nothing, except that i want to go roll down the bowl again. and then after this season we can roll down tennis court trail and maybe college hill. wouldn't that be fun?

posted: richard li, 7:33:30 PM [*]

dude, richard, did you feel all itchy after the bowl fight [roll]? because carly and janet and i were feeling all yucky and itchy afterwards and we decided it was from rolling down the grass. yes, we girls participated in one round of the boys' cross country team's bowl fights. it was fun - especially since no boys would hit us, and we just got to kick people and stuff.

yep, so anyhow - stephanie, i completely agree with you on the not caring thing. and i've been having good luck lately or something, because every time i do a half-assed job on hw or a project, or even if i don't do it at all, no one else seems to notice or care and i get the same exact grades as when i work myself to death. strange huh? unfortunately this means i will probably not study again until i get a forty on a test [which will happen next september]. then it will be back to crazy-spaz studying/working. but for now, not caring is fun. i "not-cared" my way through the chem test today and did rather poorly. and yet i feel no regret. i've kind of given up on chemistry.

hmm.. what else is happening? i'm getting my license. in three months, eight days. i don't think i can handle being seventeen though. that's completely and totally too old. my childhood will definitely be over. how sad is that? i'll never be young again. i'm basically at the prime of my life. from here, i just get fatter and wrinklier until my hair turns gray and i shrivel up and no longer understand pop culture. yuck. that's a scary thought.

posted: caitlin m, 6:45:10 PM [*]

dude, i went to the bowl roll, to take out our anger with our masculinity on our fellow cross country teammates. i was kind of looking for someone to get, and then somebody shouts "GET RICHARD!!" and dave wrigley comes charging up at me with a bunch of other guys behind him and he mashes me into the ground. and then srikar challenged jeff, who then kicked srikar's butt with a healing broken arm. after that we had a fight that was eric liou and dave grabs vs. me and neil. i remember neil almost ran over me while we were rolling and then i tried to roll even faster, which got me dizzier. when i got up i saw a mushed-up spinning image of eric charging at me, and then i fell down b/c i was so dizzy i couldn't tell where the sky was, and i was like, "oh crud he's going to jump on me..." but then i saw eric stumble and fall down. i think we all looked like drunken monkeys, but it was really fun.

posted: richard li, 5:11:49 PM [*]

well this is going to be short ... it was going to be long but then dan showed up at my door.  yeah, it's been a weird week.  i'm graduating in two days!!  I'M GETTING MY LICENSE IN LIKE FOUR!!!  i dunno it's very exciting to me at least.  maybe not you guys ...  but you can understand, these are like two things in my life that are great!  ... and i've stopped making sense.

actually graduation doesn't really matter to me very much, i finally finished writing my speech last night though, at like 12:40am.  blah, it was so difficult!  yeah ... i'm going now, later!

posted: ellie cheung, 4:29:28 PM [*]

dude, why does everyone keep using "dude"? and i can't picture derek saying "dude" in real life. only online. and on this blog. and he does use exclamation points.. i think. he does that "...!" thing a lot. and why do i know this? *sigh* it's kind of sad. but anywho... :)
i'm at school right now. i just finished taking the second half of the comp sci final. it wasn't *too* bad. [i like using those asterisks. is that how you spell asterisk? ah, well.] i took my gym final yesterday. it was soooooooo stupid.. mr. edwards is really really really bad at grammar. i feel kind of mean now, but whatever. so, he asked these two questions.. and the answer he wanted wouldn't make ANY sense in the context he asked it.. and blah. i should have been mean and assumed that he would never have thought that deeply into it. grrr.. if i get a B in gym, i will have to strangle something to death. =)
this key board types really loudly. and i'm the only person in the room who seems to be typing and it's making me feel weird.. haha. ;)
i have a chem test next period. yay, chem! hahahaha.. that was a good one. i crack myself up. but, i've decided that i simply do not care anymore about anything. i was feeling really moody the other day and i started to have a spaz attack.. and, yeah. i have decided to not care. if any of you catch me caring, tell me. i'll make sure not to care. :P
hmm.. five minutes left in the period. i guess i'll go check my mail now. bye dudes..

posted: stephanie, 10:44:59 AM [*]

unique freshmen. =P

so, i just had a revelation. an epiphany. a catharsis, if you will. (sorry ellie. it was tempting.) derek never uses exclamation points.

hey, it was the best i could do half-dead with assignments.

you guys think you're fat. ha. i REALLY need to go on a diet. by the way, i'm on the XC team. or so the holmdel freshmen think. shhhh.

man, good luck studying dudes! you especially dere. i'm going to implode in the shower now.

posted: Leesh ?, 11:40:25 PM [*]

dude, i finished my homework...and its exactly 11 o clock! yea!! ie ven took a 2 hour nap earlier! hehe. euh...dont midn me...i usualy dont finish my homework until 12:30 cuz im alwayz online chatting=P. so yea...im happy. im happy again today. dont ask me why...im just in a weird mood. la la la. do do do. hi norman! person who never blogs but alwayz reads the blogs! i know ur reading this! heeh. normans such a pimp=) hehe. he so sexy. =P. anyway...maybe i go to shower and go to bed. im outzZ.

oh yea...if u are all wondering how i did with me new "diet''. i didnt even start...=P my stomach took control of me once i entered in the lunch room and it MADE me buy something else. but uh..i guess sandwiches are good for u.....right?

posted: Eric Lin, 11:08:09 PM [*]

dude, this week just keeps getting worse and worse.  it seems like each following day has more tests in it: yesterday i had this gym quiz, today i had a computer programming final and a spanish test, tomorrow i have a vocab quiz and the second part of the computer programming final and a geometry test and a chem test, and friday, well.  friday's an exception, because i only have a history test on that day.  it should be easy, all i have to do is memorize states and territories.  what's been happening -- hm.  i've sent a lot of e-mail out lately, and no one seems to be replying.  yuck.  i'm still worrying about activities and sports and college things, and someone reminded me of science league today.  and asked me if i was going to do it next year.  i don't know.  okay, i'm going to go write in connie's book now.

posted: derek derek, 8:09:28 PM [*]

sup dudes. just finished eating...*sigh*...im so fat...maybe i should consider running cross country. haha...that was a joke. anywayz...went to the sports awards meeting today. got a letter for tennis....nYce! now i can get a varsity jacket. ill probably be one of the few who will have one for tennis...i dunno why...no one really gets one for tennis...but i want one. the slide show was pretty funny...specially dave hitting a volley while hes on his way to collapsing on the ground. the chocolate chip cookies they had there were really good....and the brownies...*sigh*...i am getting fat...i should really go on a diet...ok...from now on...only i only get like...a soft pretzel for lunch...and a milk. thats it. seee how long i can keep this up. so its almost 11 and i still havent touched my backpack ever since i got home from school. i dont have that much homework tonight....cept study for french....oh crap...i have to do my english too...i just remembered...oh well...off i go....im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 11:00:40 PM [*]

so i went to the cross country meeting today, and there was a grand total of...42 kids. at least it wasn't just an asian invasion. but considering the incoming freshman, if they all stick to the team, next season's gonna be really crazy. we're probably gonna have to either make two circles out on the grass in front of the school or we'll have to find a new stretching place. and one asian freshman in particular was making a fool out of himself during the meeting, and it was pretty funny. this year's freshman are kind of...unique... i can't wait till next year. and i went to the award thing tonight, and on the part of the slide show for softball, the title said "Girls Baseball" which was rather amusing. and for golf it said "Men's Golf". and there was this really cool picture of dave using his "cross country skills" to dig out a short ball in tennis.

posted: richard li, 10:45:53 PM [*]

ellen, can you handle this? derek,can you handle this? eric,can you handle this? i don't think you can handle this.. something something something.. cuz i'm just too bootylicious for ya babe. hahahahahahaha... that is the coolest song. and i don't know the words very well, i case you didn't notice..and i forgot the names, too. whoopsie daisies. :) but it's not cooler than sir mixalot's "i like big butts" [or whatever it's called]. you know, all the cool songs seem to deal with butts and booties. hehehe.... =)
i like the bbmak cd. they have such nice voices. and they're pretty cute. i don't know them by name, but i like the blond one. he has the nicest voice. [at least i think it's him..] :)
right, so i came home today and ran on my treadmill. don't ask me why i didn't run outside. so, anyway, i got really tired. and sweaty. you probably didn't want to know that. hmm... i need to get in shape. and i also need to start my homework. *sigh* i am also sick of school. uuuuuungh. okay then.. buh-bye.

posted: stephanie, 5:00:30 PM [*]

dude -- um, hi.  how do you do something out of defiance?  that phrase didn't really make sense to me, but anyway.  i'm picky with words and english.  so i still haven't gotten those three non-bmg cds that i wanted to get, which would be: bbmak - "sooner or later", m2m - "shades of purple", and stretch princess's self-titled album.  ugh, it's been so long.  anyone want to buy the cd and trade me for something else?  or something like that, i don't know.  if you buy me the cd, i'll get something that you want from bmg and um, we trade -- ?  anyway, chinese culture club seemed a little stupid to me as soon as i heard mrs. chu was the advisor.  she's not advising, she's dictating everything that the club does.  kuangwei actually asked me if i wanted to be vice-president after ed yang wasn't doing anything, but i didn't really feel like being a, um, what would be the word.  a crony of mrs. chu?  something like that.  that word always reminds me of "minion" or "goon".  and so, i'll be back later.

posted: derek derek, 3:18:10 PM [*]

dude! eric, wut is up wit dat yo?! sup dawg. and it really is a fat week. i broke my little running streak this weekend..oh well. i was actually running everyday for a few weeks there. maybe i should start running again...so that..i can fit into my dress for friday. hehe..i'm excited. really. really!! just read the little prom blurb on ellie's website. =) i would post the url, but it escapes my mind for now. i'll leave the shameless website plugging to you, ellie.

anyway, so...who here is sick of school? *i raise hand* who here thinks its ridiculous that teachers are still assigning projects/papers/books to read/tests/new things? *i raise hand again* who thinks bbmak is really cool? *i raise hand again* who thinks nsync's new song is weird? *i raise hand again* who thinks the destiny's child song "bootylicious" is the funniest song on earth? *i raise hand again* ok, now that you've basically just seen 3 songs that i'm listening to...i've been listening to a lot of teenybopper stuff. =) and weird punk stuff. and like, music from a swedish guy. and frank sinatra. and and...yeah, i've been in a weird mood too, eric. hehe...

derek, can you handle this? wheeeeee! hehe..that destiny's child song is too funny. =) i'm probably freaking out everyone now...alright then, i'm out.

posted: ellen mellen, 11:52:34 PM [*]

hey dudez. chinese culture club is dope yo. mrs. chu be screwing peeps over just cuz she gotz da powa to do so. it aint cool yo. ok...im in a weird mood. but yea...mrs. chu is weird too. what the heck is the point of holding stupif elections when she is going to pick who she wants to be an officer? its like even if they lost...they are "co vice presidents" or something. whats the point of the elections? why not just have the pizza....and have he select who she wants to be officers. really....who does she think she is....according to kwangwei, we made a lot of money from the china night last year. we started out with no money that year. tickets for china night last year was 5 dollars. this part march or april or whenever china night was...we had more then 800 dollars in our account and the tickets were freaking 7 bucks. people who are in it had to pay too. of course i didnt...but dont tell anyone that. oh well...next year if she asks me to do yo-yo i say no. and if she makes me ill do it out of defiance. i dont mind making a fool out of myself on stage. ill make it something its not suppose to be. maybe ill just drop the yo yo in the middle of my act and start breakdancing. haha. that would be good. considering she canceled the breakdancing portion of the show for china night this past marh or april. grr. and during one of the rehearsals after school....she didnt get enough pizza for everyone....and i didnt get any cuz i had tennis and came late. grr...anywayz...i should be studying....so off i go....im outzZ.

posted: Eric Lin, 11:11:41 PM [*]

i want to be a raging fire.  so i just calculated that i spent almost thirteen hours in school today, but it was fun.  yes, especially when janet was pretending to flirt with me, that was the highlight of my day.  but i'm tired, ugh.  we played "who wants to be a millionaire" with real prizes for winners, and we had cake and pizza, and we watched touma on "jeopardy" -- it was hilarious.  this armand guy on the second game was so funny.  the way he was spazzing with the clicker buzzer thing and moving in weird directions, he seemed a little off.  and then touma was giving the seniors personally-picked-out books as presents.  i want to be on quiz bowl when i'm a senior.  and so the rest of this week might be a little busy, with tests and studying and final assignments, i can't wait until school is over.  but um, would anyone happen to want to see a movie this week on maybe wednesday or thursday?

posted: derek derek, 9:25:05 PM [*]

i have some more rage. i have a lot of rage. i tried to think happy thoughts, but then i started on the stupid chem hw which makes no sense, which made all the rage come back. i never thought that i would be really truly mad at a person, but today kind of changed all that. so we had these chinese culture club elections today, and it all kind of fell apart. our advisor had all the ballots just kind of sitting on a desk in the front of the room. then there were a few candidates that had a group of friends who decided they would each take a couple more than one ballot. so we ended up with 50 votes when only 32 kids were in the room. and ann should have won vice president, but she didn't because of the fact that people voted for the eventual winner more than once, and some of those people admitted that they did do that. ann only lost by one vote. and then our advisor blindly thought that the excess votes were b/c of absentee ballots when there were no absentee ballots cast, and then she refused to have a re-election when it was clear that the results would be very different. i love this world.

posted: richard li, 5:37:41 PM [*]

you know what i really like?  being in possession of a cable modem.  it's tasty.  and helpful, and lovely, and all of these fast things.

i don't think i'd usually say anything like "all of these fast things," but i'm acting a bit hyper today, which probably explains it.  oh, i think i got a tutoring job, although it's only for like a couple weeks.  but, hey, it's better than nothing, right?

in other exciting news (wow this is like the most boring humdrum blog *ever*), i'm getting my license in a week and one day!  the suspense is killing me!

posted: ellie cheung, 7:48:55 PM [*]

steph, bring me! :)

posted: Jess Tai, 6:52:17 PM [*]

it's finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in case you couldn't tell, "it" would be referring to my research paper, which is currently sitting neatly stapled on this desk. OH YEAH. *sigh* i feel like an enormous rock has just been lifted off my chest. yay! i can breathe again. hehehe.. =)

anyways.. my parents saw "moulin rouge" without me. blah blah blah. but, that's okay. they really liked it, too.. who wants to see it with me? any takers? ... :)

okay, off to do the rest of my work. woohoo! bye all =)

posted: stephanie, 5:22:30 PM [*]

btw. i just saw miss saigon this saturday..and i cried 4 times...=( it was so sad..but i recommend all you ppl who haven't seen it to go see it.

posted: crystal tang, 4:25:45 AM [*]

aiyo derek..my sister's in hong kong. do you know HOW much time i have to spend out of the house..not that it's a bad thing..but since she's here, we've been eating out alot, and then when i DO have time i'm at home doing hw and studying so i don't flunk exams. so yeah..taht's why i haven't been e-mailing! i'm sorry. truly sorry. btw..who is depeche mode? i think since i've been here i've been like..a lil behind with all that good music in the states. but i get the benefits of chinese/canto/korean/japanese music here..so it's all good. andy hui..do you know who andy lau is? liu de hua? well, andy hui is just as famous now..canto pop singer...all the new singers in asia act as well as sing..so he does a lil acting. his girlfriend is sammi chen...a lot of ppl think she's like..the prettiest celebrity in asia..but anywho..she sings also, and acts...she was in this movie called "needing you" with andy lau..like.."gu nan guai nu" or something like that...ok..enough about chinese movies and singers...hmm..this whole racism thing...it all depends on where you live. i lived in lincroft. there are almost NO chinese ppl there. and before..when ppl at school made racial jokes or whatever..it didn't relaly bother me that much. i just realized how white washed i was my whole entire life until i came to hong kong. i was never like..ashamed of being chinese..iwas just never proud of it. it was just like..it didint' determine anything..if that makes any sense. but..since i came here..i realized how it feels to be part of the majority...and sometimes my friends here are pretty judgemental towards the white kids..only coz there's this group of white girlz that are obnoxiously loud and rude sometimes and blah blah blah..but still...one of my friends doesn't give any of the new white kids who come into this school a chance until they've proven themself not to be ignorant or whatever..i think that MY friend's ignorant..but oh wellz. and ellie...YAY for what your friend did, what is up with ppl who think all chinese ppl look or are alike anywayz?
..ok..onto a new topic. eric! hmm..i dont' remember saying that..but..maybe i did? i would have had a problem writing to you though since i dont' have your e-mail address..so..i guess i'll have to resort to e-mailing you and everybody else this summer instead..hmm. btw..what IS your e-mail addy? uhh..right..i always thought you went to TAS...but i guess not. yeah..i know which school you're talking about..a couple of my family friends went there...heard it's a really competative school...like..20 kids per grade and everyone's smart as hell..
hmm..ok..i'm just like..replying to each blog after i read them..so leesh is next....school pride? aiyo..seriuosly..it's cool we're good at science league and stuff..but..i dunno. still been hearing bad stories about our school..or..your school would be my school...how is everyone at school btw? i haven't talked to any of those ppl in such a long time..except jenna and christina..but that's different coz they ARe my best friends...and..i dont' think you can cram for SAT's can you? i was supposed to take the chem sat 2's..but forgot to sign up. oh well. i'll take it as a junior or whenever i take ap chem if i'm going to. my schedule next year...oh my god..usually..kids in my school take 6 1/2 credits a year..i dunno if you guyz go by the "credi" system..but we have 8 class slots, but oinly 6 classes a day..we dont' have every class a day..there's a block schedule so there's A-day through to E day..and so you have different classes in a different order. it's hard to explain. but the point is..the most credits you can take is 8 because you only have 8 class slots. so when ppl take 6 1/2, that means they have 6 frees the whole year..if you go by quarters. ok..i know this is getting really really confusing..so i'll just get to the point. i took 7 3/4 credits this year and still had 5 frees the whole year because one class (choir) was after school 2 times a week. next year..choir will be IN school, and i'm still taking 7 3/4 credits, and so..i'll only have 1 free in third quarter...and i just happen to have the hardest and b*tchiest chinese teacher next year..so i'm gonna fail that class...and i also have the hardest strictest math teacher in the school, and the best but hardest english teacher as well. i think i'm taking too many classes. ill probably drop design or something..but i actually want to tak that class..argh.....
ok..i'll end my blog now. it's probbably like..4000 words long, but taht's ok. i should go start on my research essay. =( and..all the review packets i've been getting for exams. do you KNOW how many that is? like..a LOt. my chem teacher gave me a packet..iwas like..ok. then she handed out another, and another..one on each section of the book that we're going to be tested on. so i have a BIG packet that's like..3/4 and inch thick for chem. and for math. and i should go review those 300 some phrases/words of chinese that i forgot...i hate school. can't wait for summer =) check y'all later.

posted: crystal tang, 4:23:13 AM [*]

my brain hurts. first, the chem sats. hahahaha...i hope i break 600. and now, my research paper. oh boy..
what am i doing here? i need to work . . ungh. *sigh* okay then... bye all.


posted: stephanie, 5:35:56 PM [*]

hey hey - so i made it through the chem sat II. not to mention the writing one. yuck. so i guess chem was hard.. i don't even remember.. that's a bad sign - i don't think i was really paying attention that closely when i took it. that's okay, i'll be happy with anything over 700. wow, now that i think about it, there's a good chance i didn't even get that. oh well. it's just chem. and writing - ugh, my essay was such BS - i wrote about holden from catcher in the rye, because that was the only character/book i could think of and i heard that you're supposed to make a literary reference if you want a good score. perhaps they'll be so impressed with my reference that they'll overlook my essays lack of substance/clarity? i'm crossing my fingers. but again, it's just..a standardized test that hardly means anything in the LONG run. i need to go on a long run. i haven't run in a week, eww. this is really a "stream of consciousness" blog (which is a form of writing from the modern period according to cichaski..). speaking of cichalski - yesterday, when i was making up some essays for her about whitman, carved into the carroll thing that i was sitting at/in was the phrase "all your base are belong to us." and i knew what it meant (yay!) because of this blog! i am overcoming my cultural illiteracy, one grain of knowledge at a time. grains..that reminds me of sand..which reminds me of the beach! i want to go the beach. the weather is terrible though. wait, i think i'm going to cape may next weekend. oh yes, i am. family tradition, always go away to cape may the weekend before finals. but my studying-the-night-before method usually works fine so i'll be okay. if anyone is still reading this, i am very impressed that you managed to keep your eyes on the screen through this whole thing. maybe you were thinking that something coherent was included somewhere in this jumbled bunch of sentences? sorry, nope.. but if you're STILL reading, then you're really cool. now i have to write another sentence to make this longer and try and keep people from reading it. okay, that should be good. adios!

posted: caitlin m, 4:08:54 PM [*]

dude...dont make fun of the way i write my blogs....dude...=P. anywayz...just got back from serenas. it was pretty good. toko awhile for the DJ to get her equipment working properly but she made it. its all good. it was fun. broke out a lil bit...coulda done a LOT better on my headspins though...oh well...and argh! that girl was soo annoying..."didnt i hear u were gay?" me: (what i really wanted to say) for the freaking 100th time! no!" grr. anywayz...oh well. she can think what she wants. i dunno...im feeling a lil down tonight too. i really dont nkow why. i had lots of fun at the party....but its like somethings missing. its like.....ah nevermind. maybe its just one of those nights. anywayz...derek....u left kinda early....do u have my watch? vinney still has my keys...maybe i shouldnt leave them with people...and should keep them myself...somewhere...and oh yea...derek...u missed the candles...i had one with u...but u wernt there so i had to go up with u in spirit. yea...u missed out...at least i got to light the candle!=) ok...grr..all the ranting and raving about stuff didnt really help. maybe some sleep and saturday morning cartoons will help...while everyone is taking the sats...hehe...good luck y'all. im outzZ

posted: Eric Lin, 12:13:06 AM [*]

oh, i only said "dude" because i was mocking how eric wrote his blog.  dude, i never say that.  anyway, so i came home early from serena's party just to start studying this chem stuff, and i actually raised my score a little bit.  in the past hour or so, since i started looking over lessons and i finished that practice test that also happens to be homework.  whee.  somehow though, i have this strange slightly sad depressing empty disappointment kind of feeling.  i don't know what it is.  it kind of started at the party, and i felt like pangs of it when i was walking alone through the hall and opened the door to the rain outside -- it was dark and wet outside.  anyway, i don't know.  i just opened my e-mail box and it seems like all the people are starting to not reply to e-mail.  maybe they're busy.  everyone's e-mails always start to taper off and then they stop completely.  * sigh *  i'm going to go to sleep in a bit.

posted: derek derek, 10:55:07 PM [*]

wow. i feel so out of the blog circle.

crystal, mhss has science league! and we're actually good! like our chem teams got 19th and 9th in the state, earth science got 18th... which is really good! and our bio team (yay) got 12! south rules! yeah! school pride! (right...)

so i hope la and i didn't miss much at orchestra... especially with the orgies with the ISO... i'm starting to hate orchestra. immensely. mr. gordon has manboobs. just thought you'd like to know that. cuz he wears skintight shirts most of the time. i actually wish i had mrs. beach again for conductor. ew. i can't believe i just said that.

ok, this was a really gay blog. i need to cram for sats. double ew. whoa. and derek said dude. randomness.

posted: Leesh ?, 7:28:58 PM [*]

dude, what is that supposed to mean.  oh shoot, i have to go --

posted: derek derek, 3:41:26 PM [*]

when it rains it pours, eh?

don't mind me, i've been getting a lot of use out of italics recently.  and my life's been odd this past week too, although not as rant-causing and anger-management-practicing as your guys' ...  btw, two of my friends (some ppl have probably heard this story) were standing in a mall looking at a picture of ppl, and both the friends and the picture ppl were chinese.  so this guy walks up and points to one of the friends and he's like, "hey, that's you!"  and the other friend was kinda pissed off so he said, "hey, see that random white guy?  that's you!"

posted: ellie cheung, 1:26:59 AM [*]