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.

mehreen rocks! hehe ... yeah, eagle eye is ... darn fun. darn, next week we start another episode of "the adventures of sketchy mrs. ford in psycholand" ...

i could have sworn i saw eric in a gray hooded sweatshirt and jeans walking with a box of pizza with another chinese kid near a&p ...

posted: Leesh ?, 11:36:57 PM [*]

i've been at my dad's office in east brunswick alll day... wonderful way to spend my last day of 2001. i had to install the software for soooo many computers because my dad just got 3 new ones... and they all require tons of tax software.... AGH... i wanna go home... richard, i didn;t know that you had a brother... is he older or younger? and what is op? mannnn i still hvae to go home and do some work before i can ring in the new year. i hope you all have a great rest of 2001, and i'll see u next year!

posted: Serena Ng, 8:19:32 PM [*]

so the giants lost. ahh there is no more point in my life until next september.
i just watched james and the giant peach with my brother. what a weird movie. i want a giant asian pear. or a giant washington apple. yum.
oh yea i noticed brad pitt eating too. maybe they figured that he looked umm...sexier with his cheeks full.
hey i was reading op-center again and they were discussing motives for this terrorist attack, and some guy in it mentioned japan or someplace wanting to keep its "favored nation" status with China, and i was like ,"hey i know what that is!" man, it was so exciting.

posted: richard li, 3:46:08 PM [*]

presidentess.  what would be a woman president called?  el presidente, la presidenta?  i wonder.  anyway, so now i really really want an electric guitar and amp, and i think i might be able to get my friend to lower her price and maybe even convince my mom to buy one.  i'll tell her, "i want just to be like hope road" and maybe she'll say okay.  mercy street.  i don't know why, but i kind of remember hearing that from somewhere .. new york, philadelphia, boston, somewhere?

posted: derek derek, 1:42:04 PM [*]

oh ellen! she DID mention you - i was just in a hurry blogging so i didn't mention all the people we talked about at south...we talked about you, dave, your bro, casie kerr, nicole lombardy, etc etc.....
she did also mention the crazy hours you guys spent slaving over newspaper - sounds pretty crazy. i had mentioned to her how our newspaper wasn't like...HUGE...and she said that she spent forever on it...and i was like....hey, my friend ellen spends lots of time on it too!! =)
so ellen - if you know about the SPC - you must be president of it ;)

posted: gracee sea-ying, 1:35:43 PM [*]

go to hope road's website.
you make me feel ____, you make me _____, you make me...pray? =) i'm mocking ellie again. hope road rocks!! i was very much in awe. you guys sounded awesome tonight. everyone should go buy their cd, because it's very good. and i'm serious! this isn't even a biased opinion or anything. i really do like the songs.

i think when i'm nervous my skin breaks easily. like, the time when i was playing guitar and i broke all 5 picks and so while strumming my thumb and fingers bled over the taylor. and, like, tonight when i was replacing the broken guitar string (haha, i was tech crew. i wore all black. um, jk), my finger started randomly bleeding. i think if i were ever in a high pressure situation, my fingers would start bleeding massively. ew, that's gross. oh, grossest possible form of bleeding EVER? nosebleeds. its gross and eerie how blood gushes out of your head. like, i think i would rather be stabbed or something. ok, this is a weird subject.

andddd...grace!!! mehreen!!! man. she's great. my friends and i name her as part of the "smart pretty clique," aka SPC. hehe. she's so intelligent, well rounded, AND pretty. hence, SPC. i'm sad though, that she didn't mention knowing me. =( its ok though, hehe. we spend massive hours together at newspaper...good times, good times. =)

anyway, i'm going to bed. its been quite a long day. every meal i have eaten today was fast food/restaurant. mmmm, yum. maybe i'll throw up on the track tomorrow! dang, this blog is so gross. i'm sorry. this is just disgusting. i'm gross. this blog's gross. haha, goodnight everyone.

go to hope road's website. i told victor i should be part of hope road's promotional street team. because, you know, there is one. =D


posted: ellen mellen, 12:41:52 AM [*]

hm.  so i was in banana republic yesterday with ellen-eric-steph and waiting for them to look through whatever they were looking through -- but hey, i found this dark grey sweater-shirt thing, i'm sorry, i thought it was black at first, for only ten dollars -- and so this song came on.  and i thought "hey, i have this cd, and no one else has heard of this song before!"  because probably no one has.  okay, anyway .. so it was a group called mandalay from britain, i think, and they're just this really cool soft electronica-type duo who make cool music.  apparently madonna's called them her favorite artist.  the song was called "beautiful" .. i really like the whole cd.  and so i thought i'd mention it.

i came back from the hope road concert a while ago.  they were good!  i want to play guitar better, and learn bass and drums.  oh, and keyboard too.  umm.  i think my favorite song was that worship song that they wrote .. the first one with the words they put up.  it was all very good.  i think i'll form a band too later .. and call it "mercy street".  bwahaha.

posted: derek derek, 11:26:51 PM [*]

ooh...the gap sounds like fun, serena!

the past two days have been a lot of fun.....yesterday night we had one of those huge asian family party things at julius's house...because crystal was back! it was really nice seeing her and everyone....we watched shrek (again!) and then the score. the blonde guy in that movie is pretty cute...sporadically. sometimes he'll look good in the movie and sometimes he won't. i accidentally fell asleep halfway through for like 20 minutes. oops....but the ending was really good! =) we left at like...quarter to 2AM.

then today, one of my friends (andrea) from connecticut came to visit in new jersey!!!! ooh i was soo soo excited. she (from a summer program at upenn) knows another girl here in NJ from middletown named mehreen - dave wei, she said she knew you - =) and we went to chili's for dinner....mmm they have this new shrimp pasta that's really really good!!! (GO EAT!!!) and we talked for forever...i think like 3 or 4 hours...and the waitress kept thinking that we were done, but we just kept...talking. =)
these girls are amazing...they're talking about wharton-upenn (where BOTH of them are going next fall.....siiiick) =) and i'm sitting there thinkin...wow i'm never going to get into school....
oh! the best part was when we (mehreen and i) lied to the waitress and told her that it was andrea's birthday, so they had the staff come out and belt 'happy birthday' to her....sweeeet =).
so i met a new girl. mehreen. she's really nice =)

have a GREAT NEW YEAR, everyone!!!

posted: gracee sea-ying, 9:47:41 PM [*]

i went to the mall today... the gap is crazy! everything is on sale sale sale! i got a belt... i havent worn one in such a long time that im not sure how to put it on anymore... i got a sweater from gap, and a shirt from express... and i got ur pants derek.. cept its 31 by 30... i hope thats ok, they only had that size and 32 by 32, so i figured u can squeeze into a size smaller. there was so much on sale at the gap but i didnt really want anything... ive been buying too much clothing lately. im sorry ur sick steph, i hope u feel better very very very soon. the American President is on tnt right now... its my absolute favorite movie! watch it watch it! its the greatest! i still have so much work to do... argggh. i think ill go continue my paper now. is everyone out at eugene's concert? someone tell me how it went, even though i probably know its gonna be awesome.

posted: Serena Ng, 8:29:28 PM [*]

yeah, i wasn't exactly puking.. but i felt like my nose was going to fall off. if that's anything close to puking. :)
derek, you have too many clothes. and your new jacket makes you look like roger's twin. hahahahaha.. okay, maybe not quite. but it's the same jacket. and i think it's funny that you claimed to want it first.. and he got it first. that's such a girlie thing to do. haha.. =)
argh, screw nhs, screw chemistry, screw this teddy roosevelt paper. ARGH.
anyways. i wish skiing was an activity for gym in our school. not that i'm any good at it.. but if skiing was an activity, snowboarding might be too, and that would be cool. because snowboarding is cool. haha, that's almost a pun. pun INTENDED! *wink* ;) wow, i'm in a weird mood.

posted: stephanie, 1:39:37 PM [*]

i just saw ocean's 11 yesterday... it was relaly good! brad pitt is hot... man. except he's always eating in that movie. whenever u see him, he's eating. anyone else notice that?

posted: Jess Tai, 11:23:47 AM [*]

hmm. while you guys were skiing and ellen was running and steph was perhaps puking (i mean that in a good way!) i was...gosh. i have no clue. i totally wasted this break. i haven't done a single darned thing. though i did watch a million movies at home. such as 1. gladiator (russell crowe is buff - and that's why i want to see beautiful mind - his arms bulge out of his tight tshirt) 2. sound of music 3. the professional (natalie portman is hot) 4. shawshank redemption (for about the umpteenth time) 5. rush hour 2 6. moulin rouge (ewan is my current infatuation...since freshman year - I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM) 7. star wars ep 1 (I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM - i mean ewan) 8. the patriot - (work in progess)

however, i have NOT gone to see ANY movies in the THEATER. but before break is over, i intend to see lotr, beautiful mind and/or kate & leopold. because hugh jackman is hot. and russell crowe is buff. and three hours of lotr is worth my money.

did you know, when i used to live in canada, one of the gym activies was skiing? so i skiied all winter. for free! and we went on skiing field trips. like we'd go somewhere and then we'd trek through the woods on our skiis, and we would make maple syrup pops with the snow and learn about the trees and crap for science class or whatever it was. sigh. those were the days we could go home for lunch.

i love ewan. and i didn't really mean the natalie portman is hot thing. that would make me ... sketchy. =)

posted: Connie Yung, 11:12:56 PM [*]

i should finish my work tomorrow.  and then if i make my website on monday, then i can launch it on new year's day.  yeah, right.  i have to think about what it's going to look like.  and this homework is really annoying.  um.  i went to gap today and exchanged the coat i got two days ago .. so now i have a winter coat!  i went to the mall and the grove yesterday too, and i bought too much stuff.  a scarf for four dollars.  it's orange and dark grey.  a grey long-sleeved shirt that has wash instructions.  a t-shirt that says "turbo charged" on the front.  khakis from american eagle, but i think they're the wrong material.  agh.  i should go do some chem homework.  my parents are at someone's house for dinner .. i wonder when they're coming back.  i think i might go to sleep early today.

posted: derek derek, 10:00:30 PM [*]

derek- im sorry, i didn't go to the mall today, though my brother promised that we are going tomorrow, so i'll look for ur pants then. the aching pain is subsiding, thank goodness... if i had to go through another day where i couldn't sit on my butt i don't kno what i would have done. i did some chem hw today... we didn't learn it yet... but what hte heck. how far are we supposed to go? i haven't done any nhs stuff yet... i still don't know who i should write my teacher letter to... no one has inspired me, i think i have to make something up. school in something like 4 days... i hate when i subconsciously start counting down.... im gonna stop now.

posted: Serena Ng, 4:32:19 PM [*]

if richard's writing style in any way resembles that of mine, it's only because of the fact that richard li wants to be like me in every way and he is intensely jealous of my amazing writing.  yes.  for some reason, i have this urge to write very strangely today in this blog.  you might even call it "weird".  the horrible pains in my leg and all over my body are slowly going away, but i still felt some hurt in my left leg and right shoulder today.  we went to the salvation army nursing home today to visit many aging men and women -- actually, i think they've already aged -- and it was interesting.  i think i should come back and blog later.  good-bye.

posted: derek derek, 2:25:54 PM [*]

ellen cracks me up. in a good way. =)

posted: gracee sea-ying, 8:01:54 AM [*]

i used the word "weird" a lot in that blog. kind of like how i used "sketchy" so much the word lost all meaning to me.

posted: ellen mellen, 12:07:22 AM [*]

richard and derek seem to have very similar writing styles. its either that or...i got that impression from reading their blogs back to back. anyway.

right now i'm really regretting my decision of not going skiing this year! i'm upset i didn't get to snowboard or watch crocodile hunter marathons again or eat lots of fast food or anything like that. i still don't know why i didn't go, because i really should have. i didn't want to miss so many track practices. but that's a stupid reason...i don't know, there was something about the trip that seemed really uneasy to me. i didn't have visions of a skiing accident induced death, but...hm. it was weird. it just felt like something weird would happen. weird things happened last year. =D oooooo the ski trip all of a sudden became a very deep subject. =P i'm so weird. haha, ah well, i had fun in nj. and i got to watch harry potter. and i got to attempt stalking the hot cba high jumper. but that really didn't work out. at all. so next year i'll go skiing. unless my super enhanced all powerful senses tell me not to. haha.

um i was in barnes and noble the other day and i had a really huge urge to buy like, 15 books and read them all. weird. later that day, i told my dad i wanted to be in the cia or a spy, and he just laughed at me. although, he said it wouldn't be so far fetched if i were in the cia. i dont' think you can apply though, can you? i want to be recruited.

oh -- quick plug. hope road (aka band ellie is in...and my brother) is having a cd release show thang at mccc. this sunday night. at 7 30. so everyone here should go, or else i'll spy on you. i listened to the cd, and it's good. so, GO! NOW!!! or, actually..on sunday night. =)

posted: ellen mellen, 12:05:58 AM [*]

while you guys were skiing.. i was at home. sick. doing sat junk and whatnot. and slacking off from doing sat junk and whatnot. the usual.. :)
i saw kate & leopold. goodness. hugh jackman is ridiculously good-looking and charming and *sigh*. he's definitely worthy of a sigh. okay, now i sound obsessive. ANYWAY. if any of you are in the mood for a good romantic-comedy chick flick.. go see kate & leopold. then you'll understand what i'm talking about. =)
aaah, fotr is killing me. it's good and everything.. but every character seems to be extraordinarily long-winded. and they keep singing those songs...aargh. but it's a good story. i have to get through this one so i can start the two towers.
okay, time for bed. i hope all of you snowboarders recover from your .. injuries. bye! :o)

posted: stephanie, 11:45:39 PM [*]

i hurt sooo much still... whoever convinced me to snowboard... you stink... but i wanna try it again. i'm gonna get the hang of that turning and stopping thing darnit! And maybe even not falling when i get off the lift... yes that would be less embarrasing. no wonder the lift stops periodically when you're riding up. And no derek- you can not beat me in hearts, we played something like 2 hands. i'm goin to sleep... hopefully when i wake up this aching pain will be gone. gnight!

posted: Serena Ng, 11:27:39 PM [*]

what dark lord? are u talking about lotr-fotr? I need to find that book, but now i'm reading Op-center instead, which is actually a pretty good book. it's kinda like alias, only more people and less fighting. or maybe i should compare to The Agency or even better the west wing, neither of which i ever actually watched. gahh i wanted to go skiing with you guys and maybe snowboard and sit in the middle of the slope and sleep like all the cool snowboarders do. but my parents didn't want to go cause my dad's not all that healthy. the Mask is on. so i stayed home today and practiced piano and oboe and worked on my history essay, nhs essay, nhs letter, and some chem hw and read op-center and watched some football between boston college and georgia.

ahh i can't get this song out of my head: particle man, particle man, doing the things a particle can, what's he like? it's not important. particle man. is he a dot or is he a speck? when he's under water does he get wet? or does the water get him instead? nobody knows. particle man.. triangle man, triangle man. triangle man hates particle man, there's a fight, triangle wins. triangle man....universe man, universe man, size of the entire universe man, usually kind to smaller men, universe man. he's got a watch with a minute hand, millenium hand and an eon hand. and when they meet it's a happy land. powerful man, universe man.
person man, person man, hit on the head with a frying pan. lives his life in a garbage can, person man. is he depressed or is he a mess? does he feel totally worthless? who came up with person man? degraded man, person man. triangle man, triangle man. triangle man hates person man. they have a fight, triangle wins, triangle man.
aaahhhh!!!

posted: richard li, 8:21:33 PM [*]

mm.  okay, so i spent today doing a lot of nothing -- actually, i got a haircut which i don't know if i'm happy with, i went to the mall, i got a winter coat .. whee!  but i should really do my homework sometime soon.  maybe later tonight and all of tomorrow and sunday and monday .. maybe.  i still hurt from yesterday.  i think i'm starting to like natalie imbruglia.  in decreasing order of hurt, it's my legs and my wrists and my butt and my arms and my neck and my face and my fingers and my head.  ugh.  but i'm going back next year -- or maybe even this year, if anyone goes again -- and trying snowboarding again.  dust yourself off and try again.

so i woke up around six on wednesday and got picked up at six-thirty and i slept in the car the whole two-hour ride to big boulder.  ellie sleeps a lot, even more than i do.  anyway, so we got there before everyone else and we bought the tickets and got our rental stuff and then i had a snowboard.  and eric and ellie went up on the lift and i was forced to follow them without knowing anything about how to snowboard .. at least i didn't really fall hard that first time off the lift.  some japanese people on the metro are really strange.  except going down the slope, i was really bad and fell at least seven-eight times.  the second time was even worse -- stupidly, i had a bit more courage for some reason and went a bit faster, and then i tripped on something or leaned the wrong way and then went flying face-first into ice disguised as snow.  it was very deceiving.  i could've sworn that i flew up in the air and got some height on that fall, but eric and ellie both said that i didn't .. oh well.  eat coffee cake.  anyway, so i have scars on the right side of my face.  not "scars" that are permanent, but just some scratches that'll go away soon.  hopefully.  maybe i can convince everyone that it's the new fad and it makes you look rugged and manly and all the cool kids'll be making scratch marks on their faces too.  right.

so anyway, i snowboarded the whole day, and later will and james came.  after a few hours of falling down slopes, they decided to take lessons, but then after we went back out after lunch, we were missing a snowboard and so we missed lessons.  and james and will had the same snowboard on their sheets of paper that said which snowboards they rented.  so they went and got another one, and we went to lessons.  and the instructor guy said that i was doing it wrong.  but i could turn and stop okay.  except later, i couldn't put my turns together, meaning i couldn't go back the other direction after turning one way, and so i would always turn and fall and turn and fall.  falling really hurt after the fifth time or so .. my butt was killing me.  my parents just went to price club.  and my wrists hurt from holding my arms out when i fell all the time.  i swear, the second time coming down the slope, i fell on ice -- the snow at big boulder sucks, i hate it -- and i was lying there for a while because of the intense pain coming from my behind.  i hate big boulder.

er, then we went the motel and checked in and brought our stuff to the rooms and then we went to burger king for dinner and then we went back.  i played video games for a while with people and then went to watch "crocodile hunter" for a while with other people and then went to the lobby and watched yet another group of people playing hearts.  i can beat serena at hearts.  i was winning at the ski lodge, except then they said that they were going to start a new game at the motel later, so.  then we all were watching tv and then i went to sleep.  i should go order some cds.  i slept in the same bed as dave.  he seems to have a weird habit of shaking the bed periodically .. like i woke up a few times and found that the bed was moving.  it was very strange.  i sleep a lot.

okay, so the second day, will and i went snowboarding again and this time allison and serena did too, except i think i was worse the second day and kept falling again and again.  at least the snow was better.  and then we went home in the afternoon.  i think i condensed that last part.  this was a long blog.  it doesn't even seem like a blog.  maybe i'll go back up and insert random sentences because no one is going to read this whole thing.  hahaha.  this is fun.  in place of a dark lord, you shall have richard li.

posted: derek derek, 7:53:45 PM [*]

hi.  so i never noticed the whole password thing because of how i'm always logged into blogger on this computer -- i haven't typed in my password for a while.  but i still went back and changed it to something else.  umm, i got back a few hours ago from snowboarding for two days at big boulder and jack frost mountain .. except i think i'm tired.  i don't really feel like talking about it now.  maybe tomorrow.  yes, definitely.

posted: derek derek, 10:26:39 PM [*]

that's funky. i never changed my password and now it's back to my old one, instead of "1".
whatever =)

posted: gracee sea-ying, 2:30:30 PM [*]

yeap. that's what my password was too. so, now we all have the same password until we change it. that's dumb.

city sounds fun. i rarely ever go. i'm scared of it. i think i'd get lost.

posted: Connie Yung, 12:26:45 AM [*]

hm...my password was changed too. like grace's, it was also short and ridiculous -- "1". oh well. i changed it to a new password. go into one of your blogs, click on Team, find your name. click on your name, click on edit profile, and the change password thing should be the last on the page. that should work.

i like christmas -- it was v.g. i think i might have eaten a whole pie. just kidding. although, i did eat a lot. a lot. wow, i ate a lot. ah, the beauty of the holidays. =P i'll be upset when it's (winter break) all over. maybe i'll get mad or something.

i have a huge craving to go to the city.

posted: ellen mellen, 11:52:48 PM [*]

um, they changed my password too. to something really short and ridiculous, and i want to change it. how do i change it?

today's been awesome =). merry christmas all!

posted: gracee sea-ying, 8:21:41 PM [*]

du wop.  blogger doesn't just .. change people's passwords, does it?  i don't know, it never happened to me.  maybe you changed it and just didn't know it.  but so i was just wondering too, if blogger did change your password, what did they change it to?  usually it's always something funny.  like last time i remember how i signed up for something a long time ago and my password was funny.  no, i don't remember what it was, i just remember it was funny.  haha, ha.  um, i made sort of a new web site today but i think i might get rid of what i have so far.  don't worry, it's not much.  but i'm going to draw it all and plan it all out on paper first, and then i'll start making things.  i'm going back to digitalrice, though -- it's at derked.digitalrice.com and you should go see that new ugly "coming soon" page i have up.  but this time, really, i'll have something up by january.  i mean, the end of january.

oh hey, i forgot to say "merry christmas" .. merry christmas to everyone who reads this!  but not to people who don't.  i want to redo this blog too.  i don't know, it's getting a bit boring.  i need to think of new site ideas.  and learn more html.  this style sheet thing is really kind of interesting.  i need to think.

posted: derek derek, 7:57:11 PM [*]

oddly, blogger changed my password on me... how random. i was really confused for awhile, and i don't know how to change it back now. hmm

posted: Jess Tai, 4:36:33 PM [*]

i think i might finish my paper today, the theodore roosevelt one.  i think i just have a few more paragraphs to write -- but maybe i'll finish it next week instead.  i kind of cleared a space in my room and now i have to organize all these stacks of papers and things.  i have so much junk in my room.  there's old kiddie book junk and old schoolwork junk and old magazines junk and catalogs junk and trash junk and books all over.  i need to read something new.  and my mom just laughed really loudly from upstairs .. i think she's going nuts.

posted: derek derek, 12:34:20 PM [*]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!!!

posted: Jess Tai, 9:34:32 AM [*]

the reporter guy is will.. he used to look cute but then he started looking a little.. unkept. his hair was getting to me.. kind of greasy-looking but not. nevertheless, i like alias. i want to be a superspy, too. hey, maybe ellen and i can start a superspying agency and name it SE-6 (hahaha.. you get it?). except it wouldn't be evil and we would work with the cia. hopefully with someone like michael vartan. :)

hm, i want to burn this tr paper. i'm working and it's christmas eve. ahhh.. something is seriously wrong here. :-/

skating is fun. but only the first two hours. then your feet and ankles start to hurt and you realize how out of shape you are when your legs start to hurt, too. hehe. but it's really fun to skate around with other people. there was this guy at the rink that kept going up to little kids and hugging them randomly. i hope they knew him... and he was annoying because he could skate really well and he kept doing the hockey stop and spraying ice at everyone. actually, there were a lot of annoying hockey-stopping kids there. :P i don't know if i'd call them sketchy though. :o)

tomorrow's christmas! (have a merry one.)

posted: stephanie, 5:03:17 PM [*]

oh yeah, i saw "fellowship of the ring" too .. i think i kind of forgot to mention it.  ahaha, there were so many parts in the movie to make fun of -- that part with cate blanchett the elvish witch is going to give me nightmares.  "i've always desired the ring .. ROARAWARRRAROWR" .. at least that's what it seemed like.  it got a bit weird after maybe the first twenty seconds of it.  then it was kind of amusing, but still a little scary.  okay, i'm not going to give away the movie anymore.  so that means i can't make fun of it.  maybe i'll make fun of it more later.  dave and i have fun pretending we're characters in the movie.  like i'm frodo and he's aragorn and you're a ringwraith and you're on fire and running away.

posted: derek derek, 2:14:30 PM [*]

i didn't go ice skating, but i got a membership at the ymca and went swimming yesteraday. so now i've become an imitation swimmer. i guess this is frank's chance to get back at me for all the times karthik and i nailed him with tennis balls.
lotr-fotr was pretty good, but looking at the ring in frodo's hand every minute and all that fighting got a bit annoying. oh yea and it was kinda funny having Agent Smith from the matrix be the elf leader guy. i kept waiting for neo to come out and say, "frodo, i will join you, but first, you must free your mind..." but i guess it would've been to easy to have neo on their side. so i'm thinking of adjectives to describe TR and there are just too many and my brain is already frying. ahh my brain.

posted: richard li, 12:57:32 PM [*]

wow, everyone's been ice skating lately. i went on friday. but then sketchy looking guys started...talking to us, and ex-girlfriends came around, so we left. so then we went to the coffee house, which was sketchy people-free. but the absence of sketchiness came to an end when we went to the pool hall, which is usually ok, but was then a massive gathering of sketchy people. we left and then encountered more sketchy people.

derek asked me the other day what "sketchy" meant and i said "shady". lately, my choice of words has been really weird.

i finally watched alias for the first time last night -- that is such a great show. it makes me want to be a superspy even more. of course, besides the obvious inspiration from the history channel's "superspies", which was shown in my history class. that video, by the way, is very good. i want to be a superspy. or in the cia. or be a rock star. i have great goals in life!!!

posted: ellen mellen, 12:17:07 PM [*]

fajita?

oh and there's this commercial with a boy wearing a blue shirt wiht green stripes on it, and yeah. i have that shirt. i thought that was cool too. despite the fact that he's a boy and i'm not.

posted: Connie Yung, 12:21:37 AM [*]

hm, so i was just watching "alias" and during this part where all the people are in the girl's house -- i'm so bad with remembering names, what was it, sydney -- and the reporter guy, whatever his name was, he was helping her hang up clothes in the closet and that red shirt he had on with the "39" on it.  anyway, i have that shirt too.  i just thought it was interesting.  what's the guy's name ..

posted: derek derek, 10:15:41 PM [*]

dave says "chalupa" .. i don't know if that's what i was thinking of.

posted: derek derek, 8:49:07 PM [*]

so i just came back from ice skating and dinner.  well, not "just" -- it was maybe an hour or so ago, but that doesn't really matter.  it's all the same thing.  i've decided that i'm really bad at ice skating and i don't really enjoy it very much so i'm probably never going ice skating again.  ugh, everyone else was better than me.  at first grace and serena tried to teach me a bit but it seemed that they gave up after a while and went off and then i was kind of dragged along by the hand with allison and steph and grace and serena but then that didn't last very long either.  so the rest of the time i was too slow to skate with anyone and they all went off.  so i was kind of skating alone and trying to figure out what i was doing wrong.  i decided that it was because i somehow couldn't bend my knees right without losing control and i kept leaning my upper body and losing balance and i couldn't really push off right especially with my left and i couldn't skate with my legs and feet closer together.  so i was pretty bad.  everyone else was faster and kind of just left me alone.  ahh.

and then we went to chili's.  i don't like that place.  i mean, okay, it's not that bad, but i just don't like mexican food after spending five-six years living in san antonio, a metropolitan area with -- it sure seemed like it -- a mexican majority of the population and tex-mex culture all over the place.  i really don't like burritos and tacos and quesadillas and chili and guacamole and there's this one i know i'm missing.  ahh, it's right on the tip of my tongue, and i can't think of what it is .. it's another one of those things where you wrap meat in some bread stuff.  enchilada?  i'm not sure.  i really like t.g.i.fridays better.  that looks weird.  i need to clean my room tomorrow and organize all my things.

posted: derek derek, 8:46:10 PM [*]

woh steph!! i totally agree with you! hugh jackman *is* hot! i went to go see "someone like you" with sheila last year or something and he was loooooking gooood =) and then in xmen, he's got that scruffy, manly look, you know? hehehe, i wanna see kate and leopold too! ask leeshing, i've already confessed my hots for hugh to him...=)

man, i wanted to read lotr before i watched the movie, but dave says if you read it right before you see it, you'll be like "yo, they skipped this and that and this and that!" so i think i will just watch the movie first and then read the trilogy. i read the hobbit in 6th grade and i totally forget what it was about. except that he lived in a hill and he had to solve riddles. and that i read it under the covers with a flashlight at night. because i was a rebel. aw yeah...6th grade rebel, i was.

ooh, i finally finished the last harry potter last night. or was it this morning. i decided that i had been slacking on my hp reading and that i needed to catch up. plus i wanted to finish it really quickly so i could get started on lotr. and i wanted to finish lotr before the movie left the theaters. but my plans have all changed now. however, i did stay up til almost 3 in the morning finishing hp. i read like 300 pages last night. that's good stuff. now we all have to wait for who knows how long before the 5th book comes out. i have no patience for stuff like that. poo.

posted: Connie Yung, 1:45:05 PM [*]

lord of the rings was.. wow. i loved it. i have to go and read all three books now. i'm about a hundred pages into the first one. they will all be done by the end of winter break. hopefully. :)

aah, i can't control myself with christmas presents this year. i've already opened every one i've gotten and it's not good.. i'll have nothing to open by the time the twentyfifth rolls around. oh well. the presents have all been very nice so far. :) and derek, i'm sorry, you don't have to make me a pillow. unless, of course, you already started it. but i was just kidding. :o)

caitlin, it's okay that you didn't come to the yearbook office. (yeah.. this message is a little late..) and thanks for the mug/hot chocolote/candy! i drank the hot chocolate already and it was really really good. yum. =)

now i want to see kate & leopold. this is probably the millionth time some of you have heard this, but hugh jackman is hot. *sigh* ..i just had to get that out of my system. :o)

posted: stephanie, 10:39:12 PM [*]

hahaha -- i wasn't referring to you.

posted: derek derek, 6:11:02 PM [*]

ahh my liver. i need a haircut. and no i won't sell you my guitar and amp. i'm actually trying to learn it, now that we have no school. wheee!

posted: richard li, 2:41:28 PM [*]

so, i was looking at the liner notes for a few cds the other day and it was really strange.  first was david mead's cd called "mine and yours" and i noticed how the producer was this guy named adam schlesinger and he sounded familiar.  and then i remembered that that was the bassist -- or guitarist, i don't remember -- for the band ivy.  maybe he's the drummer, even.  anyway, so then i saw the lead singer's name in the david mead cd as having background vocal credits for a few songs.  so when i got the ivy cd to check the names of the bandmembers, i noticed that james iha sang and played guitar for a few songs.  which was really strange.  it seems like all these cds that i've bought recently are by artists who have this collaboration thing going on.  hm.

i want an electric guitar and a good amp.  someone won't sell theirs to me for cheap.

posted: derek derek, 11:50:34 PM [*]

hm, so i was thinking about things i think i need.  i want to go shopping sometime soon for khakis and a winter coat, but i doubt my mom will let me buy anything.  wah.  and i haven't been able to start making the christmas gifts that was planning to make because i don't have my materials yet and .. augh.  okay, maybe i'll go to the shopping center soon and find materials.  i still have to think of what i'm making ..

posted: derek derek, 3:52:34 PM [*]

so i'm blogging.  after working on my stupid roosevelt essay for forever and then taking a look at math, which i need to look at again tomorrow along with english.  a really long look.  anyway, so i want to see "lord of the rings" too .. but i think i should read the trilogy first.  i remember how i skimmed through them in like fourth grade or so.  they were big books.  so i think i want a copy of the trilogy and "the hobbit".  hm, i've decided faintly on what i'm doing for christmas gifts this year, and it all depends on whether i get this special camera that's essential to the project.  presents might be late again this year.  maybe i'll have to get cards.  we'll see.  ugh, those pillows will be done by the end of this year ..

posted: derek derek, 10:57:37 PM [*]

quick, go see lord of the rings. it's huge

posted: dave wei, 10:36:07 PM [*]

so when i heard there was no school, first i called a bunch of people to make sure. and then when i talked to one of my friends, we decided that today was kind of like a friday, and tomorrow a saturday/sunday-ish thing. and since today (tuesday) is a friday in spirit, that means that we have to go do something fun. so at like nine o'clock, we both told our parents that we were going to study for english or something and went to subha's house since she's home from college now.

and now that i'm energized, i'm going to work on this TR essay.. or am i? ooooh well. i don't know. tomorrow i'm going to TCNJ really early in the morning to get a left behind computer connector cord thingee. and then studying for real. and then going running. and then hw. and then shopping. and then hw. and then sleep. and then schooooool. for only two.. two more days.

OH STEPHANIE - i'm sooooooo sorry i didn't come for yearbook. i got out of nerd club super late today and i had hardly enough time to make it to the park in time for practice. so what do we have to do? finish those captions? and i'm getting the names of the people from that chem/goggle pic. and i just have to check my section.. and we should be fine. phew. i love the excitement of the yearbook office... so invigorating. and we hear all the college gossip FIRST out of everyone.

anyway, sorry for writing personal messages, derek.. i have a feeling that will annoy you. oh well. i'm off to analyze the pants off of TR. or something like that; that sounded odd. whatever.

posted: caitlin m, 12:11:36 AM [*]

dude, no school. DUDE. i am still in shock. =)
yeah, the deriving the normal force thing.. i think he said something about "not using the shortcuts from the lab." and apparently that meant saying the normal is equal to the y component of w, and then you have to derive that from the equation for cosine or whatever. i don't know.. physics is stupid. :P
you owe me a pillow.
hmm, second blog for the day. i should be using this time to study more for all my tests. HAHAHAHAHA.. right. :o)

posted: stephanie, 10:19:50 PM [*]

derive the normal force, what?  i don't remember that .. explain what you mean.  maybe i missed something too.  i should study tonight for math tomorrow because i need mid-ninety grades on the next few tests in order to get an A for the marking period.  even though this material doesn't seem that hard, somehow it seems to be that way on the test.  like last time, when i got an 89 on the test on exponents .. grr.  okay, i have to get a lot of rest tonight.  and english, that too.  i haven't really taken an english essay test since last year's final.  so it should be fun to do that again, yes.  hey, i have to go buy/make christmas presents ..

posted: derek derek, 6:53:04 PM [*]

yay, four tests tomorrow. latin, history, precalc and english.. what a lovely combination. ugh, and i messed up on the physics test today. i zoned out when he was telling us we had to derive the normal force or whatever and i didn't do it. bah. that sucks. i really want to quit school. or maybe just fastfoward to friday. break is coming soon..

okay, time to work. bye!

posted: stephanie, 5:03:18 PM [*]

this week has been bad.  for those of you whom i haven't complained to (which is i think all of you) i have/had four finals in three days ... which, granted, is the normal high school schedule, but apparently college finals are different.  my brother was shocked that i was actually *sleeping* the night before i had two finals in one day ... weird, huh.  it's like the generation gap.  wow, that sounded obnoxious ... it wasn't!  the high school thing about studying before the night before is much more intelligent!

dang, my keyboard is *really* messed up.  i typed so many mistakes in that paragraph.

posted: ellie cheung, 8:20:16 PM [*]

wow, ellie, you saved my blog!  see, that's why it's named after you.  okay, so this week looks to be pretty bad.  i have a history presidential outline due wednesday, but i've stopped working on it because i've done my part.  the essay on the same president is due on friday, and that's a little scary.  but what's more frightening is the fact that i have: a physics test tomorrow, a math test wednesday and thursday, an english test wednesday, i just had a chem test today, and so.  actually, hm -- written down, it doesn't seem like that much.  strange.  i got my psat score back today .. it's embarrassing how i did better last year.  it must mean that my brain is melting or somehow slowly deteriorating.  hopefully i'll still have it next year.

posted: derek derek, 7:12:34 PM [*]

if i make it in five minutes, this'll be a sunday blog and the blog won't have missed a day!  so this'll be short.
1. too many finals in too few days
2. coming home wednesday
3. secret santa was fun
4. have forgotten about the holiday spirit because of finals
5. math+chem = bad combination of finals (that's what i have tomorrow)

posted: ellie cheung, 11:55:45 PM [*]

hm, i just wrote an e-mail for twenty minutes.  anyway, it's been a long day, i've been out for most of it, i just played in my mom's studio recital with all the students' parents watching how the piano teacher's son plays, and then okay.  oh, both my calves cramped at the same time while playing tennis .. and it was when i was up 5-4 in a tiebreaker.  which should never have happened, i mean the tiebreaker, because i was playing a girl and i was winning 5-1 at one point but then somehow i lost my concentration and lost about five games in a row.  but then somehow luckily i won one.  i think i was thinking too much about my piano piece.  okay, so.  er, this girl gave me a christmas card today except i don't really know her at all except i talk to her sometimes and she says hi to me all the time but someone else tells me to stay away from her .. but she gave me a christmas card, so maybe i won't.  stay away from her.  it was interesting.

posted: derek derek, 8:32:39 PM [*]

life is YUM!

posted: gracee sea-ying, 6:47:07 PM [*]

so steph and i went to work on yearbook this morning, except the 400s were locked and there was no one in the school to open them, besides some guys doing tai chi and i don't think that they had the key.. now i have track practice, and then i'm having lunch, and then i'm going christmas shopping..

last night, i went out to dinner, rented a movie, and watched it at my friend's house all for only two dollars.. AND i gained four dollars in gas money that people owe me. so i guess all in all it was a plus two dollar night.

mr. bird's class was fun yesterday. for two things. first, when we kept messing up the graph of "y equals f of the absolute value of x" or whatever it was, and didn't know it either. second, when he couldn't figure out that inverse log graph. oooh, okay there were three things. when the woman came in and he suddenly started smiling and acting really easy-going and friendly. oh, and one more.. when janet asked how to do a problem and he told her to ask one of her friends.

i miss freshman and sophomore years. and i wish i were already accepted into some college early decision.

posted: caitlin m, 10:56:42 AM [*]

aw, derek. don't get angry.. although you probably aren't that much.. but anyway, she's probably just really .. busy or something. i don't know.. you know her better than i do. :)

my english class is so strange. our teacher was absent on.. wednesday?.. and we had to write a paragraph about fate and free will. yeah, so paul carcich writes a paragraph on how "free willy" was one of the best movies ever.. and how it was willy's fate to be come free.. something like that. yeah, so our teacher was back today and he raised his hand and made that point and it was kind of amusing. hehe.. it was funnier when he first wrote it. i guess you had to be there. :o)

tv is evil because it is addicting. agh. have you ever gotten into one of those weird "watching tv even though there is nothing good on but you can't stop yourself from channel surfing until your brain feels like mush" trances? it's very disturbing after you get yourself out of it... before you know it, two hours have gone by. tv is only good when there is good tv on. haha.. it's like a circular theory. or not. anyway. "the simpsons" and "malcom in the middle" are good. oh, and "alias." but i only watch that for the hot guy. ;)

hm. i want to see "the royal tenenbaums."

posted: stephanie, 11:00:23 PM [*]

apes are cool.  and this may seem like a dumb question, but who's debbie?  okay, i'm really tired today.  more so than yesterday.  this morning i woke up and asked my mom if she could drive me to school late around 8:30, and she said "no, i'm going swimming" .. hm.  i was a little bit angry that a lot of other moms always have time for their kids and this or that and can drive them to school or pick them up, while i don't think my mom has ever picked me up from school.  i tried calling home yesterday around 6:30 when i was still stuck at school to ask her if she could come pick me up or somehow find a ride, and i called six times and left six messages on the answering machine that all went something like "um, hello, pick up, mom, hello" and when i came home finally around 9:30, there were no messages on the machine.  stupid machine.  i stayed after and went to the volleyball tournament -- i get five assignment points for reckage (who, by the way, is a crazy volleyball player whose spikes were like missiles) and i also took some pictures for newspaper to finish my november assignment.  whee.  i think watching television is always a crime.  last week i turned on my television for about seven minutes and then i heard sirens outside.  so i quickly turned it off, just in case.

posted: derek derek, 9:19:00 PM [*]

....i'm currently in eighth period A.P.E.S. class. [yes, we all call it 'apes' class] we're in the upper library researching demographic stages and et cetera for a take home exam due on monday...except there's so much gas up here and i'm basically finished, anyway...so here i am, blogging...let's see...if i peer over this banister over here, i see christine and allison and janet working on their history project....and let's see...nothing is going on....at alllllll...i drank tons of water today again...i had to pee all the time, too. i'm beginning to think that my teachers think i'm doing it on purpose...going to the bathroom every single day. sigh.

our first scrimmage was at red bank last night! niice =)
school's almost over! happy birthday to debbie today!
[SIX more school days till BREAK!]

posted: gracee sea-ying, 1:52:25 PM [*]

it's 6:20 ... i should scour the room for my wallet (i lost it today) but i just want to sit and watch tv.  is that a crime?

posted: ellie cheung, 6:20:24 PM [*]

so i finished my gov school application. and now i'm studying for the latin quiz tomorrow. i am so feliciter, and no i don't watch the show. next i guess i'll study some health. arg arg arg. my brain is deteriorating. i hate day 2 lab days. vale.

posted: richard li, 12:35:41 AM [*]

ahh my back. this is my quality blog for the day. ahh my head.

posted: richard li, 10:42:36 PM [*]

hm, you "got" directly spoken to?  i doesn't think that's proper grammar.  anyway, i missed the bus for the second day in a row today, and i actually very luckily found a ride home with someone i don't really know at all.  but that's okay, because my mom knows her-them.  now i think i'll go take a nap.

posted: derek derek, 4:02:58 PM [*]

moving right along, i think i actually didn't have too much homework today, yet i slept for about three hours.  yech .. have to stop this habit.  it's like my powdered milk sniffing habit i'm trying to br -- i mean, this other thing.  anyway, so i want to go to sleep again.  i haven't had a quality blog in hm, actually, just two days.  so i deserve a break.  and some extra effort in these blogs from everyone.  step it up.  kick it up a notch.  why is up always considered the good direction, while down is bad?  i'm going to use the opposite from now on.  low five!  keep down the good work.  okay, i think my blog is going uphill.

posted: derek derek, 10:24:34 PM [*]

ok I got directly spoken to, I feel as if I should blog.

if I haven't mentioned this yet, my keyboard is a little messed up and it's really annoying!  especially b/c I hate typos more than anything else in the world (well ... probably not *that* much ... but a great deal) so I always try to go backspace .... and the backspace is messed up, too!  argh, well, I can still type, it just takes a lot more effort.  see how much effort I'm putting into this blog???

finals are next week ... they start sunday.  i have a week off of school (except one devilish class that meets during this week) to study and it's kind of freaky ... i mean i'm not that wonderful at budgeting my time wisely so ... ah wish me luck and pray for me!!!

posted: ellie cheung, 10:58:48 PM [*]

hey ellie, ahh my knee.  i'm tired, and i didn't blog today, so i thought i'd come here and say a little something unlike sheila or connie who never blog on theirs, and this is it.  okay, now it's time for me to sleep -- tomorrow's a big day.  or it could be a tiny day.

posted: derek derek, 10:28:15 PM [*]

hey you guys, i hurt my knee on thursday so i'm not supposed to walk around too much... so um i can't go xmas shopping! :( so anyone who was planning to get me anything, please don't 'cause i'll feel guilty not having anything for you!! okay? hehe yea... i'm stuck at home when i should be walking around the mall... *sigh*

so yes derek, i like your voice too. hahaha that's so random.

so i have this strange clairvoyant feeling that all the asian juniors are going to be doing governor school essays today. or maybe that's just me. clairvoyant! word wealth word! wow i was at richard's house last night and his mom or dad or someone said "clairvoyant" and we were both like, "word wealth!!!" and everyone else was confused. it was... slightly amusing haha. in a sad way.

posted: Jess Tai, 10:55:18 AM [*]

pooey.  that's my new greeting, and i have to remember to use it instead of "hey" or whatever i usually say.  and i missed blogging yesterday.  not really anything happened, except i had the first non-calculator part of a math test and i screwed up on a problem that i should've been able to do really easily had i not forgotten my exponent rules, which i did, and so i messed up.  and i was thinking about it again and again for a long time.  anyway, i haven't done chem homework yet.  and i'm feeling tired.  so i might go to sleep early and wake up early tomorrow and do some homework in the morning before church.  ahh, the smell of freshly done homework.  um, yes .. i probably should've done more during the week -- i have probably thirty-forty problems to finish for monday.  hm, what else.  my new rubik's cube record is two minutes, ten seconds, from this morning at chinese school while i was waiting to play the gong for culture class, for the chinese new year celebration, for everyone to laugh at me while i look like an idiot onstage who can't play anything but a gong.  but i cut off about forty seconds from my time by figuring out a new strategy to solve the bottom layer .. whee.  i should practice more.

oh, this girl said to me online today, "oh, you know, i just realized i like your voice today".  and i said "um, thank you" .. i didn't know what else to say.  it was strange.  actually, first i said "you what?" and she said "i like your talking voice" and i said "oh" .. and then "um, thank you".  so.  girls are scary.

woh, christmas is coming .. i have to go shopping too.  and finish pillows.

posted: derek derek, 9:50:27 PM [*]

is the day almost over already? when it's dark out i get that kind of feeling. but at least it's been an....accomplishing day =). if there's such thing.

taught at chinese school this morning...gosh i love those little kids. four and five year olds are the best when you get them in a crazy group, but only have to be with them for two hours. mindie was supposed to come running with me after school, but she wound up not coming. phooey. so i ran by myself at the track....and then my mommy picked me up...and her and me and my dad (bad grammar) went out to lunch...and then a tiny, tiny bit of christmas shopping...but i feel so good! i have half of my gifts wrapped already! =) it's all under the christmas tree that my mom and i just put up and....yeah. =) it feels good. i'm going shopping for nearly the whole day with christina tomorrow....ahhhh we have so many things to get for the cross country banquet and for our coaches...=) i bought for coach loughran's new baby girl (becky grace! becky grace!) a bib that said "daddy loves me" and little newborn socks...yeah, we're all getting him that stuff. anyway...i should be going. little josephine is coming for her flute lesson any minute now =)

SMILE!!! ten school days till vacaaaaation!!! =)

posted: gracee sea-ying, 5:31:48 PM [*]

i need to go christmas shopping.

so i'm going to a christmas party with my family tomorrow night. it's one of those parties where the parents sit around and talk for hours while the kids sit around and attempt to amuse each other. we usually end up playing foosball.. or watching tv. last year wasn't as bad as usual.. i don't really remember what happened, but i do remember not feeling as bored as i did the year before. :o) i am looking foward to the food, however. aw yeah. :)

apparently, the mother of one of the girls i play field hockey with teaches at middletown and got arrested yesterday. this whole.. fiasco .. is so bizarre. you guys should go back to school.

hey, my mom got us a new computer. it's going to be REALLY nice. the printer/scanner/copier just came last night... i think the whole thing should get here by december 21 or something. just before christmas! hehe.. it'll be fun. i forget how much memory or whatever it has.. but it's four times what we have now.. and the burner is 40x, whatever that means. haha, i'm so good with computers. :oP

it might snow soon!

posted: stephanie, 5:00:05 PM [*]

i'm a sick person.  actually, i was feeling a bit better today and i got through spanish without completely falling asleep.  but i think she might've noticed this time when i dozed off for a few two-minute periods -- or maybe it was longer.  i have no idea.  every time i looked at the clock, it was two minutes later than the last time.  i hate that feeling of when you can't stop yourself from falling asleep.  i have no self-control, yes.  or willpower.

posted: derek derek, 10:52:37 PM [*]

derek that was definitely my sister. She.....somehow signed up for AIM and got a screen name. She seems to have been getting screen names from...yeah i have no idea where, and started IMing people. Heh, so that solves that mystery.

I want to go to school...

posted: dave wei, 8:36:49 PM [*]

ahh what the heck is wrong with our school? we get a few gas leaks and now a bomb threat? or so i heard. who really knows what was going on anyway? maybe some crazy dude with a gun was hiding in the school. anyway, there are too many sick people around here.

surprisingly the 4:00 bus was less than half full today, but i was unfortunate enough to be on the same bus as that sophomore deanna's (sp?) sister. and she started asking me questions like, "do you think my sister's pretty?" now, what are you supposed to answer to that? "NO!!"? so i said, "ummm errr i guess....so......" and her sister's like, "do you know anyone that likes her?" obviously not, but i answer, "i err don't...think...so...." and she goes, "except for you. i know. i see you blushing." i say, "right." and start walking faster. i accelerate at a constant rate, and then i am far enough away so that she doesn't have a chance to ask which house i live in and what my name is.

posted: richard li, 5:27:44 PM [*]

having not gone to governor's school myself, i don't feel that i can advise anyone correctly on whether they should go or not.  but i've heard it can be fun.

my keyboard is definitely not being nice to me at *all*.  in fact it's being really mean.  like, really mean.  it'll work sometimes and then spontaneously just not work for one letter, and it's so mean!  and i don't think it's anything i did ... i don't remember eating anything near it or anything ... although i'm sure i have ... maybe I got coffee powder in it .. (what is that really called?  oh, and decaf coffee, i don't like caffeinated stuff :-).

anyway ... i'm sorry you almost got killed ... and i'm glad you're all right.  i hate the feeling of waking up in the middle of something you were definitely not supposed to be sleeping during and wondering how long you really were sleeping and how many people saw you.  it happens to me all the time.  (especially during class.  it's the worst during like 20-person classes.  i'm always wondering if my professor saw me or not ... yeah he probably did.)

the finals and the end of my first semester as a freshman in college are coming up.  i'm coming home the 19th!

posted: ellie cheung, 12:43:18 AM [*]

wow, i think i almost got killed today.  so i was riding back from officemax -- i went to buy a 79-cent protractor, whee -- around almost seven and it was really dark and since i was riding on the left sidewalk, all the cars were coming towards me really close and shining their lights into my eyes .. so all i saw were the bright lights and i couldn't see anything on the ground.  and i almost rode my bike right off the curb into the road, except i overcorrected towards the left and barely missed a telephone pole, and then i fell over on the grass.  i felt really stupid .. the people in the cars were probably laughing at me.  mm, it was kind of amusing, i guess.  after the fact.  but so that's what happened.  and i finished my physics adding the force vectors thing.

so i was in spanish today and suddenly woke up and discovered that i'd been sleeping, who knows for how long.  i wonder if the teacher even noticed.  and then i kept dozing off for the rest of the period .. i hate it when that happens.  it always happens when we watch boring videos in class.  i remember how in second grade we had this health video for a few days in a row and every time the video started and the teacher turned off the light, my head would just drop onto my desk and i would be out cold.  or like in church, i don't know why, but lately i've been falling asleep way too much.  not a good thing.  i wonder how many people in the congregation on sunday saw me sleeping -- i was in the front right in a corner and my seat was sideways and so everyone could see my face if they wanted to.  ahh, well.  i need to bring up my math grade.

someone just messaged me and said "hi im wendy" and "wassup" and then "start typin talk to me" .. i was amused.  i remember there used to be a time where i would get some new random unknown person every day iming me and i wouldn't talk to them at all unless they were interesting and unstupid.  so far, i've only talked to two people -- and neither of them for a really long time now.  maybe they thought i was uninteresting and stupid.  haha, they would be right.  i was just looking at the governor's school application and wondering if i wanted to do it.  maybe i'll go to taiwan instead.  hmm.  i guess i'll write it up this weekend if i have time and i really decide i want to try it.  but i want to be a fob, too ..

posted: derek derek, 8:56:45 PM [*]

blah blah blah. i should have stayed at school a little longer to work on yearbook. i'm feeling the pressure now. it's not good to look at calendars when you have a deadline swiftly approaching..*sigh* i think i have to skip social action tomorrow. to work on my section. and to decorate balls. :)

that sounded odd. i'm talking about the field hockey balls that we're decorating for the seniors on the team. i hope they turn out nice.

i started the fellowship of the ring. and then i had to return it to the library.. or reborrow it. and my mom returned it because she said i have no time to read. bah. i was on page.. onehundredsoemthing. maybe i'll buy myself a copy.

yes, governor's school. i'm feeling lazy. to apply or not to apply. i don't even know if i want to go. it just "looks nice." you shouldn't do things because they look nice. oh well. we shall see.

aah.. i guess i'll study sats now. :oP

posted: stephanie, 8:05:36 PM [*]

wah.  anyway, so instead of "eleanor rigby", i switched beatles songs and now it's called "hey ellie" .. in the tune of "hey jude".  and wasn't it a weird coincidence that i for no reason decided to name the blog after a beatles song .. a week or so before george harrison died?  it's strange.  anyway, i have to go to orchestra soon, and i have all this annoying homework to do, and i think i'll go do it.  i wonder if i want to apply for governor's school.

posted: derek derek, 4:47:46 PM [*]

does anyone else find it slightly insulting that this blog is now titled "all the lonely people"?  perhaps i'm just sensitive.

anyway ... i have no motivation to work anymore.  finals are in a little under two weeks, and while they're scary, i just don't want to work.  blaaaaah.  all of my last homework assignments are due this week but i don't want to do them!  they're boring!  :-(  i miss high school ...

but ... don't worry ... college is fun!  (except for the work.)  you'll like it ... after all the applications are done, at least.  which they almost are!  be of good cheer!  ... right.

posted: ellie cheung, 11:59:37 AM [*]

gee, derek, thanks. so yes. i'm dumb and didn't realize he changed the address. but i did know something was wrong cuz there's no way in his right mind that derek would let his blog go un-updated for a several weeks. if no one else blogged...he definitely would. but i guess i got used to seeing an un-updated blog. like mine. yeah derek, you figured me out. what a smart man.

college sucks. join me and dave in our "we hate college even though we haven't even gone yet" club. except i don't have that "oops, my teacher's in jail" dilemna=) lucky me.

posted: Connie Yung, 12:18:15 AM [*]

So i didn't go to school today....i won't be going to school tomorrow. Our teachers are on strike, and oddly, i need to go to school. My apps kind of need to get mailed; teachers kind of need to write me letters of recommendations (and it will probably be difficult doing that while they are in jail); and i kind of need guidance to send transcripts. Yeah...heh if it doesn't get resolved i may have to write to colleges and be like "um...if you don't get any teachers' recommendations, secondary school reports, or transcripts, that's because my teachers and guidance counselors are in jail." Hehe, oh well.

If all goes well, though, i may not need to send any out...i guess i'll find out next week!

posted: dave wei, 12:11:09 AM [*]

haha, she thought that my blog hadn't been updated for a month.  because she didn't bother to check the blogger page to see that the blog address was changed and um .. anyway.  i didn't go to school today.  i was feeling a bit sick, just like all of last week, and i thought maybe if i stayed home today i would feel better and not feel a bit sick anymore.  so i stayed home and i slept until noon or so, and then i woke up and did stupid homework.  i'm going to have a lot of work during my free period tomorrow, ugh.  like getting the notes i missed, doing the homework i missed, studying for the physics test tomorrow .. or maybe i can study a bit now.  except there's not much to study.  so i can't do anything right now at home.  oh well.  umm.

what a pointless blog.  i'm sick.

posted: derek derek, 10:11:25 PM [*]

i'm in gryffindor! whoo=)

posted: Connie Yung, 7:58:39 PM [*]

guess what. i'm a dork. i didn't realize... ok nevermind. i won't say it, it's too embarrassing.

anyway, hi i haven't been here in awhile. my blog dies way too often so i'll just stick to blogging with the winner. man, i have 4 tests today!! 5 periods of testing out of 7 total! that's nuts! yeah, 5 cuz i had a chem lab so the test was a whopping 90 minutes long. and then RIGHT after i took physics and i couldn't gear my head towards physics mode so i stared blankly at my test for several minutes before i realized i wasn't takign a chem test anymore. then i did western hw in art, english hw in lunch, and took a western quiz, then a POP english quiz. fun fun. loving school. and harry potter! i love harry potter. i'm on the fourth book, which is like... incredible, cuz i haven't done any spare reading since summer of frosh year. seriously. and that's kinda sad... but i'm gonna start on fellowship of the ring right after i finish goblet of fire. ellie, i thought that was the cutest preview ever! it was soooo cute. haha i loved it. you gotta see it. sigh yeah. hrm, i gotta change the link on my blog.

posted: Connie Yung, 7:54:06 PM [*]

i do intensely dislike harry potter, and i am afraid of it. like yoda said (i can't believe i remember this i 'm such a dork), "fear leads anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side..." or something like that. anyway, i heard u all going crazy over that harry potter website, so i figured i'd try it out anyway. ahh i feel myself being sucked into harry-potter mania. ahh time to do the history project, get a haircut, and watch maybe monsters inc or the fast and the furious on my computer and jack and the beanstalk and maybe alias.

posted: richard li, 8:43:45 PM [*]

ahhhhh, i'm feeling good and lazy.  i finally started fellowship of the ring yesterday, and finished a brilliant one and a half chapters.  which is really, well, nothing, especially since the version i have has all three books in one, so it really looks like i haven't read anything.  oh well ... it's pretty ... and according to weatherbug, it is 71 degrees outside here.  71.  i thought it was december!  it's so gorgeous out.

hm ... oh, i'm gryffindor ... according to a friend of mine here, in the harry potter movie, the very first preview was something about monsters, inc. and they were playing charades and the charade was "harry potter" ... i was like, um, i have *never* heard of that.  and she said, well, were you late to harry potter!?!?!??!  and i said, ah, probably.  ... doh!  maybe i'll go watch harry potter again just so i can be on time ...

posted: ellie cheung, 1:56:58 PM [*]

harry potter is my hero.

posted: derek derek, 1:06:29 PM [*]