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i wonder if it's common practice for other blogs to randomly change their blog names once in a short while. because i did it first and then connie did it and we both do it now to a ridiculous degree. so i'll just go rename my blog now again.
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Thursday, January 31, 2002
yeah weezer! yeah movie fests! i think on saturday my friends and i are having a james bond movie marathon -- aww yeah it'll take all day. i love it! i want to be a spy. my track friend's mother does government/army work, and she was telling me how when there's a conflict in the us/world, they hide her mom in a secret location. so then she always gets random phone calls from her mom that are like: "honey, i'm somewhere, but i can't tell you where. it's for my protection. so don't forget to feed the dog!" haha..awesome.
hm..i didn't even know what teams are playing this sunday until i read richard's blog. oh well. i wish i played indoor soccor for gym. dude, today our gym classes played 2 hours straight of volleyball!!! for our midterms, we always have this weird volleyball tournament every year -- i.e. there's A, B, C, D, and F courts. if you win, the team moves up, if you lose, the team moves down. ohh man i was so tired after that. i ended up on the C court. not too shabby for a team of tennis players, soccer players, and trackies who couldn't jump high enough to spike the ball without hitting the net. let's hope they don't really count it as a midterm. i had something to say..but i forgot. what's a wordmaster??? has anyone ever seen margaret cho's standup comedy (its so great)? like, "assmaster"? ok anyway.
guess what- i'm seeing weezer in february! i knew for awhile, but i just felt excited. yay! it's going to be fun, even though i hear they aren't terribly great live. and tomorrow my friends and i are having a josh hartnett- movie fest. we are watching halloween h20, the faculty, pearl harbor, the tape of snl (which i watched twice b/c i am a loser), and the tape of letterman. yay! i like having 2 choices for college- it makes me feel loved and wanted, and i actually have choices for a future! woah! and it's such a relief. i was going bloody crazy not hearing from a college for a long time. i don't know, i was just thinking about that, and i also wonder what life would be like if i were, say, caucasian. i would probably laugh at chinese people. even though i often do though i am chinese. asians have the highest average income of any ethnic group in america.
i'm definitely not antifootball. but i have no idea who to root for. i want the rams to win b/c kurt warner's a cool guy and they sure look like they're gonna win. but i want the patriots to win cause tom brady is just as amazing. maybe i can just sit back and enjoy this one, unlike last year when i wanted to eat my pillow.
I have no soccer skill and i found out today just how uncoordinated my feet can be. the ball looked like it was bouncing around like a football even though it was a sphere. and someone kicked the ball straight into my mouth and now theres this tiny cut on my lip. i hope the ball didn't have AIDS. i much prefer hitting balls with special sticks to kicking them and then falling on my arse. hmm i came home today and suddenly became very depressed. it was either b/c i had a long lonely walk home through the dark evil rain with a jacket that has a broken zipper or that i realized i don't understand math at all. i want to watch a beautiful mind again.
wow... everyone should have seen neil's reaction when gothelf said that he was the 'wordmaster'. LOL that was truly funny.. he was sorta laying on his desk... not paying attention, and sorta said huh? when gothelf said his name... and neil has no brownie preference... but yes we are getitng macaroons, coconut... i dont like coconut, but ill try it to see what a macaroon is.Yea, im also skipping hte presidential paper... i absolutely hated that thing... i wanted to erase Roosevelts name from teh book that says he was ever born... of course we wouldnt have hte panama canal... BUT 50-some of us wouldnt have to write a paper! HA! the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I hope that Johnny get your gun isnt too disturbing, i dont really enjoy disturbing books.. i actually cried during last full measure tho... of course i cry at everything. Sorry for uh going wawa over ewan! i dont mean to... its just ive watched moulin rouge every day this week, sincei dont have to returnit til tomorrow... and i really likehow this guy sings... but i think all of us kno that ewan is already claimed!
So.. the superbowl is sunday? I'm excited for the halftime show! U2 is performing! But other than that... who is everyone rooting for? or are all of u anti football? Go RAms?!
sorry, derk, but you weren't the wordmaster. neil was! haha.. so period three finally gets something nice from gothelf. i think someone is bringing in coconut macaroons. what are macaroons? i keep picturing them as nuts, but now i'm thinking they might be cookies. hmm.. curious.
i love mrs. bryer. now i only have to do *one* paper in history.. and i am NOT doing the presidential rating. i was going to burn my TR presidential rating by the time i was done with it. then i realized that i shouldn't because then i wouldn't be able to hand it in and then all that stress and annoyance would have been for nothing. so i didn't. but i kind of wanted to. =) yes, anyways. lacrosse "optional" practice starts next week. i'm kind of glad because i have become completely sad and disgusted with my ... out-of-shape-ness. we started indoor soccer with reckage today and i got dangerously winded after running around like a chicken with its head cut off for only ninety seconds. at times like these, i wish i could play soccer.. but i can't. i shall have to be content with trying to kick the ball randomly, in the wrong direction, and missing, therefore looking like a fool. yay :o) but anyway, i might be getting back into some semblance of shape soon. score. hey, amitrani gave us (the period three class) five extra points for doing nothing! it was great. he was helping some people make up a lab and just let us hang around for an entire period. he was so stunned and happy with our "mature" handling of the situation that he decided to award us all five points on our next test. nice, eh? i guess he's not too bad. not as bad as bird, anyway. ::shudder:: :P wow, this entire blog was about school. aargh. wait.. must add something unrelated to school... uh... i want to see a beautiful mind, too. hehe. and amelie and gosford park and the brotherhood of the wolf (not as much though) and spiderman (i know its not out yet) and some other stuff. there. :) congratulations to all you who have finished midterms! and good luck to all you still taking them! hehe.. :o)
boo boop be doop! ... blast that stupid katie holmes garnier commercial. (i hope someone knows what i'm talking about.)
i have this chronic problem. it's happened like three times now that i've gotten e-mails saying "meet in LC" (which is the name of a building) and i've read it "meet in WLH" (which is the name of another building which is, by the way, much much much closer to me). so i was supposed to go to LC today and i went to WLH instead. which thereupon caused me to miss class. so i should be at class right now but instead i'm blogging about it. oh, and by the time i figured it out it was too late to walk over to LC b/c it's so darn far away. and now this means that after my class in LC i'll have to walk really really fast because i have a class at WLH ten minutes later. [siiiiiigh] so anyway ... i like josh hartnett. Wednesday, January 30, 2002
hmm, duncan sheik. how odd, i burned one of his songs onto a cd last night at about 1130. no, i didn't burn just one song onto a cd. that would have been dumb of me.
i think ewan should be the topic of my blog, because, well, i'm selfish. and i'm getting jealous that all these girls are going wawa over him. not really all these girls, but the numbers are increasing! and i'm jealous! haha, jk. kind of;) i really didn't find the humor in brassed off. and i thought it was sad also. i don't think i really liked it all that much. the cover of the video is totally different from the theme of the movie. you should check it out and back me up on that. i too, have a sw poster in my room. i actually own three of them. so ewan is actually all over the place in my room. that doesn't count the black and white drawing i did of him in sophomore year art, the 1999 18 month calendar of obiwan kenobi, the action figure sitting on my desk, the magazine rip outs scattered in various places, the other black and white that will be finished within the next 24 hours, and i'm sure there's a whole lot more but i just don't know where everything is. i love ewan. i really do. i'm finished with school!! the part that counts, anyway...=) you're right ellie, i never would have guessed.
derek, you know it's going to be you. everyone in holmdel, if derek is the wordmaster, don't tell him. leave him in suspense. and... yes. or not...
acetone is the main ingredient in nail polish! i remember learning that somewhere... your poor gold nails :( i go to physical therapy every monday, wednesday, and friday. and when i do certain exercises, my knee shakes uncontrollably. and i can't control it at all... hence, uncontrollably. it's really actually very depressing. when i can feel my knee shake and i can't do anything about it. it makes me feel so weak and somehow insignificant. derek, you won't be able to blog for all of 4 days! what ever are you going to do?
sleepy sleepy banana fana fo feepy me my mo meepy sleeeeepy!
i'm tired. you'll never guess what. last night while watching real world i did my nails this gorgeous gold color. today during chem lab for like the first time ever i didn't wear gloves while i was washing off my beakers etc. but we used this reactant today with this very stubborn orange color that would only come out with acetone, so i had to use a LOT of acetone. guess what the main ingredient in nail polish remover is.
oh no, ms. gothelf was telling us today about the wordmaster challenge results and she was being secretive and says she'll tell the class that has a winner tomorrow, but i won't be there tomorrow and i won't know the results! so whoever hears about it should blog about it. and even if you don't know what i'm talking about, you should blog too. i blog, you blog, everybody blogs for blog blog. i should go pack now. i can't decide what to bring ..
last time i saw a picture of duncan sheik, i remember he was really fat. mm. and i just realized i spelled "bag" wrong in one of those last blogs -- i wrote "back" instead. i must be losing it. today i used the library computers to print about seventy pages worth of material on laos, and it's strange how the copiers require five cents per copy while printing insane amounts of um, print-outs .. that's all free. oh well, i'm not complaining. it'll be a lot of reading to do on the train tomorrow to give myself the necessary information i'll need to say anything intelligent at all.
sigh .. umm. i want to see "a beautiful mind".
yesterday was the last midterm i'll ever have to take in high school! (see connie's blog) =( oh wait, =) i watched "the score" yesterday, edward norton, robert de niro, and marlon brando are so cool- i want to be a professional thief! it was funny though, because my friend had downloaded the bootleg, so at part in the beginning you see a person get up at the bottom of the screen, you see her head, and she leaves, and then she comes back and sits down, i laughed so much, i was missing the story, and my friend told me a funny story about grand theft auto III she saw on the daily show, and i was laughing so hard i almost knocked my head on the table.
i could've swore i blogged something about my ewan experiences on monday. maybe i was hallucinating again. maybe I closed the window without publishing by accident with this newfangled windows xp thing. i think i wrote something about episode one and watching brassed off in band freshman year, and that it was really sad, even though its classified as a comedy. mr. knier told us that he had to write a paper on brassed off once, and when he said that it was a tragedy, the teacher failed him. and even when some college professor backed him up, the teacher still refused. i have this star wars poster in my room, which means i have a poster of ewan in my room. not that i stare at him every day.
we have 3 papers to write and one book to read in one month. whee. i think we saw this girl hiding behind a tree during the fire drill looking rather suspicious, but nobody else besides us seemed to notice. i'm starting to feel like john nash, only not nearly as smart. Tuesday, January 29, 2002
i <3 physics!!!!!!
lately this blog has been sounding very demanding -- i.e. "GET ME PAPER BAGS!" i don't know if i can live up to such high requirements...but i will try, maybe. my friend used to work at einstein bagels in rb. but now she works at the bon ton. ok thats the end of my story. man, derek, if you had this paper bag obsession 3 months ago i could have totally hooked you up with da goods. haha...hey, derek -- do you think duncan sheik is cute? ewan looks all grungy in "trainspotting"...nice! hehe... in other news, in about 5 minutes it will be 5 days until yet another milestone in my wonderful adolescent years. unless my computer clock is wrong. crazy.
hm, trainspotting. i saw that movie when i was in .. seventh or eighth grade. 'twas a bit gratuitous for a thirteen-year-old. yeah.. i don't think i liked it at the time, but i was probably distracted by the ickiness of the movie. well, there was only one part that was really really icky. EEW. brassed off was good though. don't really remember the story, just remember that i liked it. haha.
i think i have to go to bed now. g'night. :o)
ahh, i remembered some things that i want at the moment, so i thought i'd share them with you: bags of chai tea to make at home, a good digital camera, a lomo supersampler, an electric guitar with an amp and miscellaneous distortion pedals, some get up kids cds and a few other ones, einstein bagels paper bags, sneakers and-or tennis shoes, more hard disk space, a webcam, a cd burner, a cable modem, some new furniture in my room, all these design books. hm, that seems to be the same list as from a long time ago. chai tea is really good .. i've only had a sip in my whole entire life and i already loved it.
an evil man is an evil man is an evil man. so i think the test caught me a bit unprepared, even though i'd heard about it already after third period .. i think if i had ten minutes more, i could've finished all but one problem. because i didn't know what "interval of convergence" or whatever meant. but that's okay. i've detached myself from math. i'll try hard, but i will try not to care. actually wait, if i don't care, then i probably won't try hard. ah, what a difficult situation. i think i care.
so i'm going to yale on thursday and i won't be back until sunday afternoon-evening and all my teachers said to get homework and classwork and notes from other people. ach, that's annoying. i covered my physics textbook in an einstein bagels back .. everyone go to the store and GET ME PAPER BAGS! i forgot what i was going to say from before. maybe it was important.
hahahah, derek, u crack me up! its been a horrible day... i really really dislike bird...what evil man gives a pop test on the day after we get back from break? someone evil... i think i did really bad on it... i think im gonna go crawl in a hole now...
harhar. actually, now that i'm looking at it, spelling "dunkin donuts" wrong was really stupid. maybe i was thinking of duncan sheik. or the yo-yo company. anyway, so i had something to say .. but i'll say it later.
yeah, come to yale! spell "dunkin' donuts" wrong! and acquire a new obsession with paper bags!!!
oh wait, you already did the last two. Monday, January 28, 2002
i love ewan, i love ewan. except i've never seen "trainspotting", i didn't even see star wars episode one, and i haven't seen "black hawk down". but i want to, but i want to see "a beautiful mind" first, but i have no time, but i'll be away on thursday at yale where either i will speak a lot or a little or none at all. i should go do research soon. but after i eat my clementines. actually, i don't want to see star wars. someone let me borrow a copy of "moulin rouge".
i've decided my new mission is to get lots of einstein bagels paper bags, the big ones. you probably think i'm crazy, but please please please will everyone go to einstein bagels and buy a half-dozen or a dozen bagels and have them put in the large paper bags and then ask them for three or four more extra big paper bags .. i really like their paper bags. they're so cool. sigh. so please, everyone go to the store -- there's one in red bank, at that intersection, it's next to duncan donuts -- and buy some bagels and get me lots of paper bags.
connie, you should beat anyone who dares like ewan mac. you know who's in trainspotting, that other ewen in black hawk down and pearl harbor! and then you got that whole circle with those two movies. woah, all these movies are all interconnected! it's so bizarre, ain't it.
i guess calculus terms don't make very good pick-up lines.
no no!! what is this!! EWAN IS MINE!! i claim him. =)
i love moulin rouge. i watched it on friday for like the *nth* time. where n is a variable. just cuz i've lost track. and the soundtrack spins in my cd player constantly. it's really very unfair to my other cds. yo, the remix version of Come What May is hot. it's really awesome, and the music video is cool too! ewan dances really cute in it=) haha, yes i love him. i MUST see trainspotting! i can't get it anywhere! (i actually haven't really tried) but i kind of have! i saw brassed off and a life less ordinary. and star wars, baby. gonna get my hands on a copy of eye of the beholder. yo, in the store prints plus in the freehold mall, there's this big trainspotting poster with ewan in the front. but i don't like his hair in that movie. there was this special on E! couple weeks ago and his hair was really cute! ok, i'm disgusting myself with this blog. i think i'll go now.
ooh my goooosh, moulin rouge is such a good movie!!!!!!! I just watched it again this morning when i got up, i'll probably watch it later too... i think im gonna go buy it from price club, and and go buy teh soundtrack.... *sigh* its such a romantic story about love. It makes me want to fall in love... with someone like ewan... LOL. I think if i'd paid more attention to the movie the first time i saw it, i would have sobbed like janet, but alas, i kept poking myself with the needle too! I htink i'm gonn aline my bag wiht something plaid like...and i hope that when i put substance in it, it wont fall apart. I hope everyone is enjoying their day off, I plan on doing nothing today! I htink I'll go watch moulin rouge again, and have myself a good cry. Michael Vartan is relaly really .... good looking...
i love moulin rouge. saw it for the second time yesterday. mmmm.. i love it. the music is really good.. and it's really romantic. you should all see it if you haven't already. and if you have, see it again. =)
orlando bloom is in black hawk down?!!?! wow. so many goodlooking people.. hehe. ewan, josh, orlando...(hahaha.. his name is orlando. that's so cute.) you know, ewan has a good voice. hee hee. mr. bird's first name is john. but it would be so much cooler if it was butch or james earl. butch bird. hahahahahaha.. that's some good stuff. ouch. we made purses out of old jeans yesterday while we were watching movies. i pricked myself so many times with my needle. now it hurts to wash my hands and whatnot. i cannot sew.. it's so sad. but it was fun to try it out. my bag is still not finished.. and when it is, it will probably fall apart as soon as i put things in it. oh well :) one day i'll fly away. leave this all this to yesterday. what more could your love do for me? when will love be through with me? i like the moulin rouge soundtrack. :o) lascive puer means mishievous boy. yeah ovid!
i watched "history of the world" yesterday. it was pretty dumb but not as bad as lawrence of arabia...and not as long. then we went to hang at our crib at strathmore plaza like delinquents. we went to taco bell and when we walked across the empty parking lot to strathmore lanes in our all-chinese posse i felt like we were some chinese gang going to duke it out with some other chinese gang. like in an all-chinese romeo and juliet. so we bowled for 3 hours and the Choulies (george, andie, and me) beat kevin, eric, and howard, 5 games to 2. i broke 200 for the first time in my life with a 211, and when andie left, george and i combined to get a 4-bagger for him. yea we've got skill... we were the last ones left at the bowling alley at 11:00, and when we were standing outside waiting for rides this car drives up to us and what looked like two cops inside stared at us for about 10 seconds and then drove away. that reminded me of a beautiful mind when nash thinks he's being followed by the russians. ahh we're all hallucinating! i think the smoke from cosmic bowling somehow made us high. we're such delinquents. our antidrug: bowling. what's yours?
yea after the test, i was walking out with grace and steph sun, and i turn around and ellen's right there. it was like.. she just appeared or something. i was like, it's ellen!!! :) i thought the verbal was slightly... difficult. ah oh well... i drove to edison yesterday! first time driving in over a month... my mom was slightly nervous, she kept grabbing the armrest thing. i think she thought my knee was going to give out or something and that we'd crash. she doesn't have much confidence in me, i must say. oh well, i drove good! or 'well' as mickel would say... she yells at me about grammar way too much. it's depressing. haha oh well, i don't think she reads this anymore anyway. so i'm sitting here blogging on a monday while ellen and other such people are taking midterms... i could be very cruel and laugh at you, but i'll just say "GOOD LUCK!" because i'm in a be-nice mood today. so anyway, i saw moulin rouge for the 2nd time yesterday at serena's. and i really must get the soundtrack... it's really good. and i didn't realize until the very end that the dwarf was playing the citar (spelling?). i was wondering why he was wearing a pear-shaped costume :) so on saturday, i finally saw lord of the rings. it was great... it was exactly like how i pictured it. when i read the books. like.. 4 years ago. haha. and now i need to reread them again so i can find out what happens in the 2nd and 3rd books. because i forgot. LEGOLAS IS HOT!!! i personally think orlando bloom looked better as legolas than in real life. and pointy ears are cool :) hm have to wait a whole year for the next fellowship of the rings movie though ::sigh:: oh well, i'll live. wow, i think this was one of my longest blogs ever. i feel.. very proud of myself. i'm going back to gymnastics today after physical therapy! i'm so excited. even though i can't do much more than stretch. but i just want to see all my girls again :) so, that's what i'm doing today: PT and gym. yay. and um... i think i'm going to go shower now. i feel.. grungy. yes. sooo that means... i'm done with this blog. i just don't want to end it because it's so long... i actually have to scroll up now to find the beginning of the blog in the window. i don't think i could ever do that before! this blog is my accomplishment of the day.
Sunday, January 27, 2002
haha...i just typed in "www.boogle.com". i definitely visit google and blogger way too much.
i like it when guys are dressed up -- it looks very nice. and impressive. tuxedos rock my world. =D i'm not too sure about old man pants though. haha i'm being silly. which is odd, because tomorrow is the start of my own personal (or, in this case...a shared one with my classmates) hell, aka midterms. oh, but the bittersweet feelings. tomorrow also marks the ONE WEEK point. because in 7 DAYS i will be turning 17. which means that in (approx) 168 HOURS i will be driving. ok i know its not that exciting...but hey i'm overjoyed. SATs were fun. they rock my world too. haha. sats are a funny thing. i noticed how they somehow manage to bring together the strangest mix of people and sit them together in a classroom. its like, diversity (picture different colored hand prints linked together around a globe). hehe...it was cool though, i got to talk to someone i haven't spoken to in about 6 years. since fifth grade graduation (a very momentus occasion) we haven't seen each other until, well, the SATs. i was a big dork and the first thing i said to him was, "hey, last time i talked to you your voice didn't change yet." oh well. jess was in my room! she didn't notice until we were done. =( then again its my fault i didn't say anything. however i was a little scared about saying, "HEY! JESS! IT'S ME, ELLEN!!" haha..this blog is such nonsense. i think i'll go to bed now. good luck to all the people cool enough to still be taking midterms...
i didn't blog today. neither did anyone else. sometimes i feel so all alone .. anyway, so i've been paying more and more attention to suits and dress shirts lately, the whole dressed-up look. i think my dad's suits are cut a bit too low in the front, like the v-shaped opening of the coat is lower than i would like. but i guess i can stand it .. maybe i'll go look tomorrow for other suits that i might like. but the suit pants are so strange -- they're soft and stretch and it's like i'm wearing old man pants. we'll see. i should go sleep.
Saturday, January 26, 2002
mm, everytime i see those initials i keep seeing "milk" instead. so i lost to some fat kid today in tennis because i didn't try at all, and i was a little disappointed afterwards when i remembered that they would record the score in their little folder and have it forever. oh well. i need a suit for yale model un next week, and my dad happens to have a few that he can't fit into anymore. i guess that works out -- they're cut a little lower than i would prefer, though. oh well, beggars can't be choosers .. not that i'm a beggar or anything ..
hahaha, yeah i heard about that mlk thing too. that's really horrible. haha. well, you know what i mean.
anyway, black hawk down was ok. ewan didn't talk in his regular voice and accent, which was kinda weird. and josh hartnett was ok. there's a lotta famous ppl in it. tom sizemore, orlando bloom (legolas from lotr - the hot elf), and zi said some other guys from pearl harbor, and there was another guy named ewen in it. ewen wiht an E. i think ewan looks better. i meant the word, but the person too;) i liked the movie, except the guy poor zi had to sit next to smelled bad. yuck. yay for ewan=) and josh.
see "black hawk down"! connie and i saw it today, i liked it a lot. it was really good, and not as gory as everyone said it is. some parts aren't exactly pretty though. connie elbowed me when josh hartnett appeared, and i elbowed her when ewan did. =) har har. yes, so very intense but good movie. yay for josh hartnett and heroic soldiers !
yes, i heard that story about mlk jr. too. i thought it was pretty darn funny actually, i must admit.
i don't ever have a four-day weekend ... i wish we had more of those one-day holidays, but we don't because they're all consolidated into two weeks of spring break instead. i'd much rather have the one-day holidays. for a break. i'm getting tired of school already and it's just begun. Friday, January 25, 2002
four-day weekend because .. we have no more midterms. and other people do, so they don't get four-day weekend. anyway, i should've mentioned this earlier, but someone explain to me what a "lascive puer" is. i want to see "a beautiful mind" and "black hawk down" and "ocean's 11" and .. i think that's it. and the other old movies i've wanted to see since a long time ago. someone should invite us to her house to watch "the godfather", all three parts. were there three parts? i don't remember, but the book was really good. everyone read the book. it helped me get summer reading credit. my hand hurt after the english midterm, and i barely finished. i think the teachers misestimated the appropriate lengths of their exams. i think i'm going to start calling mr. bird "big bird", even though he's not that big. i wonder what his first name is. he looks kind of like a .. hm. haha, like a "butch" or a "james earl".
mm, i read in newsweek that in honor of martin luther king jr. day, some big city in florida -- i forget which one, umm -- had a plaque made that said "thank you to james earl ray for keeping the dream alive" when they really meant for it to be dedicated to james earl jones. and incredibly embarassingly, it just so happens that james earl ray is the guy who assassinated martin luther king jr. .. whoops. Thursday, January 24, 2002
ahhhhh i saw a beautiful mind today. and when we went to the theater at like 1:20 we were like the only kids there. i felt like such a delinquent. such a lascive puer. it took me a while to realize that john nash was in graduate school at the beginning of the movie, cause russell crowe looked too old. at least he wasn't too old for jennifer connelly. and he's such a nerd in this movie. i guess hollywood's finally giving us nerds some respect. I want to see I am Sam and Black Hawk Down and Jeeves and Wooster. british movies are a blast. watching musicians act is weird b/c I keep expecting them to suddenly break out into some crazy song in the middle of some random scene. ahh britney spears in a movie?!.. that's even worse than nsync in star wars. no...wait...nothings worse than nsync in star wars. must get a copy of lord of the rings. i'm hungry.
hey, why do you have a four day weekend? i only have a two day weekend. and midterms on both sides of it.
ellen's blog reminded me of this morning. why? you ask. because this mornign we had 50 minutes of chem but we didn't do anything cuz midterms were later and he figured we could use a break. and this kid brought it a simpson's trivia game boxset and a bunch of boys were playing it in the corner. and then i looked out the window and in the classrooms like 50 feet away on the other side of the school (our school's a big box and we're on the inside) and the class was watching simpson's on a huge screen! so i yelled, "hey matt! look, they're watching simpsons!" and they turned their heads ever so slightly and continued to play their trivia game. BUT, even though they practically ignored me, it wasn't a total loss because for the first time this year, i realized the other ap calc class is within viewing distance from my chem class. so i could see the kids from the other class in the classroom. which was the classroom next to the big screen simpson's classroom. isn't that exciting??? half of the chem test was quite difficult. the other half was just hard. yay! da da...da da da... that was sung to the tune of "qui-gon's noble death" -- you know, that part when the three of them are fighting in that super nifty vacuumy tunnel thing. that's exciting too!
aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!! four day weekend! i am so psyched.
hm, anyways.. a walk to remember. a lot of people i know want to see it. apparently the guy is really hot and the book is really good. well, according to a few people. another few people thought that the book was horribly-written corny cliche stuff. so i don't know who to believe. i am currently leaning toward the not wanting to see it side.. yeah. i think i have something against musicians-turned-actors. it just does not work. and crossroads looks kind of bad... i saw a clip of the video that had clips of the movie, and the guy looks about forty. okay, maybe not that old.. but compared to britney spears, he looks ancient. ewww.. i think i also have something against romantic pairings like that in movies. catherine zeta-jones and sean connery in entrapment REALLY bothered me... he's old enough to be her father! but he's cool anyway because he was james bond and he was indiana jones' dad. coolness. =) sparkly pants are way chic. hehe :o) i think we should all buy a pair and wear them on the same day. then we would be the chic-est kids in town. :)
shiny pants would look good in your closet. however, shiny pants remind me of this girl who's on the tennis team (but goes to mast), who one day says to me, "ellen, you wanna go to the hunka bunka teen night with me??? i'm going to wear my white sparkle-y pants." hehe..silly. shiny happy people! (does anyone remember that song?? so long ago.)
anyway, i used to make schedules for myself. on blue post-its. *ahem* [3/19/2001 6:59:38 PM | Ellen Tsay] ...starting yesterday, i've been making schedules on these blue post-it notes. well isn't that search tool so helpful. since then (i was also complaining about sophomore-itis), the blue post it phase has gone away. =( i have midterms next week. its crazy, though, because my physics teacher hasn't been in school for the past month. we've been having this substitute teacher from australia who has a hot boyfriend. the hot boyfriend drives a red bmw and took her to florida for a 3 day vacation over martin luther king jr. weekend. the girls were jealous. but in any case, we haven't been learning or reviewing, since the real teacher didn't leave work/plans. in fact, most of my class enjoys going into the neighboring classroom. its empty, and it has a tv. people started bringing food and watching the simpsons during the period. so, like, i'm hoping we get a massive curve on the midterm or something. ellie, you should go see "a walk to remember". and then after that, go see "crossroads," starring britney spears. obviously, it will be a great piece of cinematic work. oh, then after that you should see "on the line". wouldn't that be fun?? =P oo..its past midnight. um...11 days until i get my license!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =D Wednesday, January 23, 2002
you took 20 minutes out of calc studying to make? make...as in...pee? i want shiny pants. it would look good in my closet.
i set up a midterm study schedule for myself. it took 20 minutes out of calc studying to make! right now i'm supposed to be studying bio, i think. i kind of messed up on part 1 of calc today. i thought we were writing an essay for the english midterm, so i memorized a bunch of sophocles quotes from the oedipus plays. but the essay turned out to be an ap simulation, and my friend and i had just written a paper on the topic! but i forgot all the quotes from medea, since i didn't really memorize them, so i paraphrased. oh well. a lot of people wore shiny pants to school today. bye !
sweet, i just won an auction for a red n64 controller on ebay. and promptly paid for it. just gotta hope it's in good condition now ...
there were way too many blogs for the last week so i didn't read very many of them. that's because i don't consider you guys important. ... just kidding!!! you're important!!! every single one of you!!! i don't know what to do this friday, go to the chinese american students' association banquet or go see a walk to remember. they're both so darn tempting!
hmm, i don't take the calc midterm until tuesday. it's the last one. and our teacher showed us the whole midterm on the overhead. like, he showed us all the questions one at a time, but covered up the MC answers, just so we know what to expect. yeah, so now i change my mind about liking calc. because i do'nt think i knew a lot of the stuff on there. even though subconsciously i might, but...on the surface, i had no clue how to do any of it. so maybe i will study next week. meanwhile, chemistry is killing me softly...
ah, precalc. i love filling in random bubbles while simultaneously having spasms in my hands and trouble breathing .. it's quite fun.
argh, so i felt like i was taking the test with my brain in "off" mode or something. nothing was working and blah blah blah. i shouldn't think about it anymore. one more day! *sigh* i cannot wait. well, i have sats on saturday, too, but no matter. midterms will be over and i won't have to torture myself with worry and whatnot anymore. at least for another week or so. yesssss... ! Tuesday, January 22, 2002
i tried to do that string raving thing and i think i got down the regular move and the butterfly. but not before wacking my knuckle and face a couple times. it hurt. i tried it with belts because i don't have glow sticks. anyway, our midterm schedule is really weird this year. we have half days finally which is a plus, but we have like 20 minutes of 3 classes also. which is...really strange. oh well. man, i haven't studied yet...i really think i should. 8 questions from each of 9 chapters of chem...some stupid crap on some dead civilizations that no one cares about anymore...yadda yadda. i think the only midterm i seem to stand a chance at (or of...what's the word?) is calc. because i like calc. which is stranger than our midterm schedule! happy testing us of a.
just in case you're wondering how the title of this blog came about, i took it from a song called "step on me" by the cardigans. so after the english midterm today my hand felt like i'd been banging it on the table for the whole time, but then i went to the auditorium and kind of slept for a while. i did that just now too .. the sleeping thing. i woke up ten minutes ago. sigh, and now i have to study for precalc, but i don't know where to start, and it's all really annoying. log rules, log rules, log rules ..
Monday, January 21, 2002
ach, i forgot. this t-shirt thing for winter camp is really bothering me. even though it wasn't even my project to begin with, i thought i'd help create something for someone else and they could use it if they had nothing else which they did have, and but now it's turned into a mess. they're taking my ideas and warping them around and i think it's going to screw everything up. the analogy i thought up to illustrate this idea to someone who didn't understand. it's like you wrote a song that you can think of as "the song of your life" with all your feelings and emotions and thoughts expressed, and then you gave it to barney to sing. barney is a big purple dinosaur. of course, this isn't really all that severe or dramatic of a problem .. well. i didn't want my work to be a part of anything that's going to come out distorted or ugly or tacky, but i couldn't exactly say no. grr.
dun dun dun, i just typed my study sheet, i think it covers pretty much everything in a vague strange kind of way, it'll probably jog my memory tomorrow on the bus unless i lose it or fall asleep or so. no one blogged since myself. my engrish is fall apart. i downloaded these really funny songs from a group-band-something called modest mouse and you should hear them. it's really happy electronica full of blips and doo doo and everything. download "yippie". i should listen to some more of this ..
wah, so many blogs. i was thinking about visiting a bunch of colleges during spring break .. my mom said i should go visit schools in new england or on the east coast to get a feel for what it's like. right, but i haven't done any planning yet -- anyone want to go on a college tour? after hearing about "lawrence of arabia", i think maybe i'll borrow the movie from someone and take a polaroid of myself in front of the tv with the movie title on the screen .. but then again, i don't have a polaroid camera. i wanted to get an i-zone before. then i wanted to get a supersampler from lomo -- which is a really really cool company-organization -- or even their special really cool camera, i forget what it's called, it had some weird german-russian name, like automat kompakt something something. but i've decided to try taking pictures with the camera i have now, and since i haven't had much time to do anything with that either, well. sigh .. i want a digital camera. and an electric guitar and amp. i was asking ellen how they get certain sounds -- like i was listening to "three small words" from the soundtrack of oh, nothing -- and i asked her and then she told me that there are a lot of different kinds of pedals and she showed me stu g's setup. he's from delirious. i think i might go to bayshore music center sometime and play with pedals, if they let me. i should go look over engrish now.
so last night on "malcolm in the middle" malcolm was talking to this new kid in his class with a 257 IQ or something and malcolm is frustrated that he can't solve a hydraulics problem and he says "there's nothing in my life i haven't been able to master!...something something...i knew how to read before i could walk!" and the other kid replies, "i can remember my own birth." i thought that was funny. and then they talked about what it was like in their brains.
go listen to flickerstick.! good stuff. and phantom planet sounds pretty cool, the song "california" basically has 1 lyric: "califooornia." well, it might be "we're going to califooornia." ellen, want to start a "hybrid/cross-genre" band? we could call it The AP Kids. i thought that would make a cool band name when my english teacher yelled at our class for wasting time in the "media center" and expected more from ap kids. but i guess that's too band-ish. band names are abstract, with complete inversion right? like Taco Eaten or something. ok i'm wasting time.
aaaaagh, it's so cold in my house! i think my parents shut off the heat during the weekdays when we're not here... i am currently wearing about three shirts, fleece sweatpants, and the snowman slippers caitlin gave to me last year (they are so cool!). if i was/were (agh, bad grammar skills) smart and sensible, i would have checked the thermostat and adjusted it so that i wouldn't have to sit here freezing my butt off. oh well. :o)
i watched "lawrence of arabia" last night. i feel your pain richard. i think i've been brainwashed by all the modern movies that have really great editing. the first two hours of the movie basically consisted of lawrence riding his camel in the desert for about twenty minutes, then cutting to another riding-a-camel-in-the-desert-with-some-arabian-guy scene, then cutting to them at an oasis... and yeah.. it was a teensy bit boring. the second half was a little better (less desert scenes :oP). on the whole, though, i suppose it was a good movie. but it was a little too deep for me. :) wow.. boston. i love boston. i've only been there once, but i think i loved it then. i remember that it took us about fortyfive minutes to drive to this little italian restaurant becase the roads were so bad there. or maybe i was just really impatient. haha.. oh well. i can't believe you're going there by yourself, ellen! that is so cool. my parents (well, my mom) wouldn't even let me go to new york with a whole group of people. *sigh* i am overprotected. aargh... must study today. darn. :/
hey, it's almost february. 14 days until my license, actually. amazing! does anyone remember when derek said his website would be up and running in january? hehe...
i did makeup for my school play tonight; it was fun. then this one guy announced (after i had finished doing his makeup) that he had pink eye. gross. well, i'm hoping in the next 24-48 hours i won't develop pink eye or anything. that would be horrible. then again, out of all the sicknesses out there, pink eye would probably be the most pleasant. i mean, for the most part, your eyes itch. but the rest of the body would feel fine. therefore, you can miss school for 14 days (or whatever that time period is for pink eye), but be able to play because you feel oh so healthy. then again, you might miss a lot of school work and fall behind. oh well. minor loss. =P OH! i just found out today that i might be able to visit boston ON MY OWN (pretending he's beside me...). amazing. i never knew my parents had such trust in me. it should be fun. granted, i would have to visit colleges, but that'll be enlightening. also my friend is deviously planning a similar trip to boston around the same time....wow we're rebels. so mischievous. haha not really. anyway. jp was in my princeton review class. he seemed annoying but i thought he was cute. in a weird, surferish, pot head kind of way. i never knew he swims. anyway. i'm on a new music binge. whee!
derek, i really like your new cover page for your website. and i know i offended you, i'm sorry. i think it had to do with the fact that i kept making broad generalizations and then signing off before i got a chance to explain myself. but what i meant about your specific style was this: you'd never design a page that was all classic and with times new roman and non-cool/trendy. that's a bad example. i'm so tired. i've been taking a lot of pictures lately. it's kind of a new hobby i guess. i need to learn how to use photoshop really well. there are so many books at barnes and noble about it - it don't know how to choose. the new b&n can be slightly overwhelming. i wish i could stay home and read all day. and take pictures. and learn photoshop. and not take midterms. yes.
Sunday, January 20, 2002
ahh my head. hey steph, that was pretty slick with the "ahh, my foot."
we tried to watch lawrence of arabia today. bad idea. my grandma brought this chinese subtitled version of it from taiwan a while ago. they spent half of the movie just crossing deserts and marching around like homos. and they spend a quarter of it blowing up trains and massacring every turk they saw. we fastforwarded through all the desert parts and the talking and by the time we decided to give up seeing the end, we'd already been watching for almost 3 hours. at least the acting was decent. and we ordered pizza from luigi's on 34 and alicia somma took our order, and this kid jp on the swim team delivered the pizzas. ahh holmdel kids are taking over all the pizzerias! i was driving during the first few minutes of precipitation yesterday (the most dangerous time because its more slippery...) and i'm following derek's red accord on this really twisty narrow road. i think its west front street. and all of a sudden the accord slows down and turns into the middle of the road. then this lascive puer skateboarding in the middle of the road pops up about 15 feet in front of me. i wanted to run him over. and derek and i found out while waiting inside the tennis club for our ride that even if you just nudge the door a couple inches for someone they will say thank you. and some guy told us that the club should hire us to be doormen. on the car today my mom and my brother got into a conversation about colored people, and michael said, "we're not yellow. we're tan!" i think i said that myself some years ago. so someday he'll realize like me that we're all really peach. oh yea and i was watching "rudy"-this true-story movie about that notre dame football player who almost never got to play in a single game. it almost made me cry. these sports movies really get to me...
speaking of websites, i've decided to start another one back at digitalrice here, but it seems like i'm unable to think creatively. i'm going to do a lot of planning and thinking this time and actually have some content. caitlin told me that all my stuff looks the same, and even if i was slightly offended in the beginning, it's kind of something that'll push me to think differently. think different. i should draw my site and scan everything in and it'll look like a piece of paper.
hahaha, i found that really funny. the first two sentences of derek's last blog. the thought of making a website splits me in two. my creative side goes nuts and starts thinking of all these cool ideas and formats and layouts and content and whatnot, but then my lazy side tells me that i have to learn the proper html first, and then actually find time to do it. and then keep it updated. because i really don't like sites that don't get updated, which means i don't like my site. which hasn't been updated in like a year. i think i'm really abnormal, and still growing. i hope the doctors feel it necessary to inject me with some drugs. maybe shrink me a bit.
we have mexican people who come in trucks early in the morning and they shovel snow and leave before i woke up. okay, that sentence turned from a generalization into what happened this morning. i didn't go to church because my mom said she didn't get the snow off of her car, so. now i think i'm making a website. i should go do something else.
Saturday, January 19, 2002
ahh, my foot. har har. =)
sorry for ruining the history game. i was really hurt/mad when someone (ahem - derek) answered mrs. bryer's question regarding our "six-hundred point deficit" with "they started talking!" grrrr. but i'm not mad anymore. i just hurt. :( and i feel bad because emily needed the extra credit. blargh. i think i have to shovel snow tomorrow. it would have been so nice if it snowed the monday night after midterms. i just realized that i've never been in a snowball fight, ridden on a sled, or built a snowman before. hmm.
yo, you should all come to yale. my residential college has this huge rivalry with another residential college, and traditionally every year at the first snowfall we have a snowball fight. so it was like 100 people running around throwing snowballs at each other, and this is a college tradition! a college tradition is a snowball fight! how crazy is that? pretty darn crazy if you ask me. yeah, so you should come!
um, i don't get it. why is that funny?
anyway, so i got back from richard's house just now because we sent him home after tennis and my parents wanted to see his dad, and i borrowed his guitar amp and we figured out the part for this song and then i said i couldn't figure out other songs. i need to practice more. anyway, i want an electric guitar because i keep hearing the real sound of my acoustic when i plug it in and it's interfering with the whole feel. i was coughing all throughout the tennis lesson today and the instructors kept on saying "come on, concentrate, you can play better than that!" and i wanted to kick something.
no, i think you're standing on my RIGHT foot. harhar...
so i just spent a long time making a spanish review of all the grammatical verb tenses and such. it's still pretty incohert, though. i am not looking forward to the spanish midterm ::sigh::
its snowing... i love snow. did they say 6-8 inches? i hope its not like freshman year though, when it snowed during midterms and they kept getting pushed back, and i had to study geometry for completely too many days...my brother is outside shoveling now, i should go outside and help him... derek im blogging, are u happy? i still have nothing to say...
i ain't afraid of no ghost. somehow i just remembered that and how mr. ferraro was talking about it and et cetera. i have to go to tennis in about two minutes. but i was just reading jessica's semi-new blog, yes she has defected, and i think she should invite me. invite me to your blog and i'll make it boring. i mean, interesting.
Friday, January 18, 2002
i came home today with my brain fried like a chicken would when it falls into the smoking engine of a '92 ford taurus that an archibald was driving around death valley in the summer, trying to determine the mu of kinetic friction between the rubber of the tires and sand. and remarkably tired. stupid robitussin. so i read and finished op-center for about 3 hours, and now i can get started on lotr-fotr when i get my hands on a copy after midterms. oh yea at one point in op-center one of the characters made a reference to the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand, and he was wondering whether some single event like that would also start a war between north and south korea and eventually a world war. whoa there. i want to see lawrence of arabia.
harharhar.
agh .. the short phrase "tell me why" is now stuck in my head. and i keep hearing it in a whiny voice and instead of the part that comes after it, it just kind of fades out and then comes back in again rewound to the "tell me why" part. my brain is like a messed-up tape player. and i can never find what i want when i want it. like it took me a while today during that ten-minute math question to figure out what i was doing. and my eraser's now half a centimeter shorter. sigh. i had a midterm in har today too. harhar.
anyway, i think my sick [sic] is making me feel moody. i was frustrated quite a few times today. first in history when i put our team up on the board with about a two-hundred-point lead with the help of our original current events group, and then somehow other people started cutting in and answering and they went four wrong in a row. which brought us to about a six-hundred point deficit. i put my head down after maybe the second wrong question where they answered without discussing with the group and .. urgh. gurgle. and then i spent quite a bit of time doing this t-shirt project for winter camp at fellowship and it's not even my project but then i showed it to the people and they're completely not taking any of the ideas or graphics that i did. so they're going to do something else, and it's .. i don't know. my expectations are probably too pessimistic. but it's frustrating. and so was worship today too. i have to re-evaluate my life, i think. it'll make everything a lot more relaxed. i'm not going to do anything unless i want to do it or it has a level of practicality or usefulness that exceeds its unpleasantness factor. maybe we can make a graph of it, what depends on what, yes or no, and find the intersection between unpleasantness and usefulness and shade the region above it. but you have to tell the calculator to shade above, it doesn't know that by itself. Connie 01.14.01 hi. i love the backstreet boys. i really do. and if brian and kevin weren't already married, i'd marry them. yeah. argh. my mom said if i can get tickets and a ride to a concert, i could go! but, what are the chances of that, considering the nearest concert is like, 3 hours away. uh huh...right. anyway, guess what! i love the backstreet boys. has anyone noticed how weird nick has become? i mean, in the new cd, his hair is all spiked and he's wearing like this spikey dog collar thing and he looks horrible! argh. and howie definitely needs a haircut, and so does kevin. kevin used to look so good when he had short hair! but thank goodness brian is still normal! he's my favorite after all=) and aj...well, he's just weird. but he's always been weird. i'm really annoyed that howie and kevin don't get a lot of solos in the songs, i mean, brian, nick, and aj sing practically everything! oh well, i guess i can deal with that. yeah. hey everyone! get another boyfriend! cuz he's just another player playing in the name of love. but not my brian. or my kevin. *suspiro* (that's spanish for sigh) i wanna meet the bsb. because i love them. okay bye! when i read that, i found it slightly disturbing that i could devote a whole blog post (a long one at that) to the backstreet boys. who have become strangely weirdified. i'm hesitant about using phrases when i don't really know what they mean...like "blah blah at that" so i guess that means i was hesitant about using that phrase, and i was. and i never understood the meaning of "and then some!" it seems like a british saying, or maybe because it was used in that british commercial about some kind of household cleaner.
haha, that is so ironic. or something. i mean, my quote. right. :)
i finally read bridget jones's diary this week. i was going up to my room to study but then i looked down on my desk and i was like, hey, bridget jones's diary. and then i was like, hey, i deserve a break. so then i started reading and i looked up a few hours later, and i was like, doh. but i kept on reading because i couldn't stop. i have a problem with self-control. i did manage to rip the book away from.. myself.. and finished it the next day. but still. i have a problem. durrr. (there were a lot of funny phrases and noises in the book.. i think i'm going to start using them. like, durr and aargh and chuh!. it'll be fun pretending i'm british :o) my mom gave me this book for christmas about the english language. it's called "a simile as your umbrella" or something like that.. i don't remember. but it's written by this guy who is a word/phrase/english/language junkie. it's a little boring.. but i was reminded of it by the "feeling badly" conversation. he has a whole section on the usage of "as well" versus the usage of "also".. ah, yes, it was fascinating.. okay, not quite. i felt oddly guilty about not being interested, perhaps because it was a gift. oh well. chuh! hahahahahaha.. planet janet. we call janet "janet from another planet". i thought that was amusingly coincedental. hahahahaha... :) Thursday, January 17, 2002
harhar, you're dumb. isn't it weird how the past tense of "to read" is "read" and the past tense of "to lead" is "led"? they should make the past tense "red" and then get rid of the name that already exists of the color and give it another name .. like something you always think of when you see the color formerly known as red. you can call it "smoo" -- i think that's a suitable name. and see, i still use double-dashes [and brackets too if i feel the desire] and all my english teachers and mrs. bryer said that i use too many of them. bryer said i had poor construction all over my paper .. i need people to teach me how to write well. anyway, so i'll do that same thing with looking at old blogs too. caitlin used to say things like this, as close to one year ago as i could get:
(caitlin, january tenth) apparently i had told a story about dancing with some girl a long time ago. go read it if you want to -- it's in the archives. i don't think ellie's changed very much .. i mean that in a good way: (ellie, january fifteenth) actually, i don't have time to do this now. ellen just showed me a band called planet janet and they're graduates from high tech and somehow i seem to like their music. especially the girl's voice, it sounds strangely like lisa loeb -- according to caitlin -- or the girls from letter to cleo. which is a band that broke up, according to ellen. the girl sang on the "josie and the pussycats" soundtrack .. that was cool.
hey ellie, i thought the same thing. but then i saw that the old posts were still the same, so it shouldn't just change from when derek changed it. but derek didn't change it at all so...that just made me confused. when the heck did midterms creep up so suddenly?! sigh. chemistry bites. like teeth.
wow, that thing is really really confusing. maybe that's just because i'm dumb. but for a few seconds i thought that derek had changed the format of the blog so i thought those were posts. and i was reading them backwards, you know, because i was trying to catch up. but (obviously) they're not posts (or not so obviously) so it didn't make *any* sense. then i figured it out and read it top to bottom. as it is supposed to be read. so that was a confused minute of my life.
anyway ... er ... yeah ... that's it i guess. although it doesn't seem to have been a good week for me and many of my friends. hm ... i had "or" there at first but i think "and" is more correct.
okay, so it's a new year, and i know it's a little late for this, but it thought it might be fun (interesting?) to do some comparative research.
so - one year ago, derek was in his "double dash and bracket phase" -- [yes, like this]. and that reminded me of how i want to learn how to dance. like um, i don't know. see, i don't even know what dancing's like. except slow dances -- christine told me once that you're supposed to just sway with the music or something. [i'm going to ask her how i danced with her that time a long time ago at the graduation thing.] - derek, 1-10-01 thankfully, i think derek's gotten a lot less.. obsessive? no, he's still obsessive. but you know what i mean.. considering that his past few blogs have been about assigning (signing) people nicknames, buffy the vampire slayer, and cross country skiing. and i can't see him using the word "crazy" last year. it's strange how every time i try to remember how goes the theme to "buffy the vampire slayer" and i can never recall the tune. so i downloaded it yesterday and i've played it over and over again while i'm here at the computer. and i'll try randomly tomorrow to see if i remember the melody. - derek, 1-14-02 stephanie - haha, okay, this is funny. i'm purposefully picking funny parts of blogs for amusement, but oh well. so my study isn't completely objective. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh............ today sucked. stupid chemistry test. grrr.. stupid rain. stupid school. stupid stupid stupid stupid. stupid. - stephanie, 3-21-01 (hey derek, isn't that your birthday?) and now - haha.. i too have a newfound appreciation for chemistry, ms. hoheb, and sophomore year in general. ms. hoheb gave everyone in my brother's class zeroes on their homeworks .. and some kid talked to her after class and she said it was because she was in a bad mood. because the jets lost. haha.. i find that amusing. richard's blog reminded me of it. i'm glad that's all over. although.. her class wasn't too bad. - stephanie, 1-15-02 and then, there's me - little old self-doubting, bubbling, frantic me. i think i've gotten more seroius is the past year. i mean, in a good way. so it's snowing out kind of hard. snow days are always cool, of course. but i want it to be spring. because i feel like wearing sandals to school, without socks. and winter clothes are just so blah and woolly and itchy. - caitlin, 2-22-01 since i haven't blogged in.. a month? i don't really have anything recent to choose from. but then, can one really ever study herself objectively? i think not. my mom says that i write pretentiously. well, not in those exact words, but that's what she meant. perhaps i do. and now, with midterms imminent, i leave you with these helpful words of inspiration: well then. i guess everyone's going to be studying for midterms this weekend...anyway, i may be starting to have a little doubt feeling about midterms, as in "i doubt that i'll do well" or "i doubt that i'll get what i want to get" or yeah. i actually brought a book home to study: my history book, because my history teacher doesn't teach. maybe i'll look it over a little. and ugh, i have to go to school on friday. stupid geometry. all my friends are going to be having fun.. - derek, 1-19-01 PS - i know i only did three people, but hey, this is hard work, and i need time to do real homework too..
since you plugged your blog on my blog, i will also cheaply plug my blog on your blog. but i guess you had a reason because of aardvarks. but i don't really need a reason do i? ok, how about...it's funny you should mention adverbs, because my blog has a duck motif.
Wednesday, January 16, 2002
oh ellen, if you see this, call me. i want to order cds and i can't decide which ones to get. hahaha, there's this really funny christian band called superchick. actually, quite a few of these bands write strange songs ..
actually, i am -- emphasis on "i" -- correct. because i explained how "feel" was a linking verb and can be substituted with a state of being verb and because of that in the way that the word "feel" was said it should be an adjective not an adverb. so there. and i republished my archives, which seem to disappear every so often. you could've searched in the blogger interface thing down there where it has the posts and it says "show last __ posts" or "show posts from this day:" and then the third one is "show posts containing:" and you can search for anything there. and i probably did mean "assign", but i'm sick, so bite me. i mean, yes. i don't know why i suddenly think of mean things to say. like today these jock-type guys in the stairwell were making sounds like "ho! ho! hoho!" for some unknown reason and i said "christine, they're calling you". which was mean.
according to dr. baumlin, whom i went to on monday because my mom was afraid -- be very afraid -- that i had strep throat and she heard some things about how strep throat untreated can lead very soon to kidney damage. so she made an appointment to save my kidneys. or wait, it might be liver. and oh shoot, i don't remember if it's one kidney or two, or maybe it's two livers. agh. anyway, he said that according to this special chart he has, i've only grown one or two inches in the past year and i've also lost weight since then. like five or ten pounds. how strange. i feel my body decaying already. i started playing tetris during the physics test because i couldn't concentrate. i'm addicted. Tuesday, January 15, 2002
ahh this is the site: http://encarta.msn.com/quiz/quiz.asp?quizid=51
hey look i have a streak of 3 straight blogs.
ahh we we got into an argument about the use of "bad" and "badly" during 2nd period and in 8th period mrs. gothelf said ,"....feel badly...."
so according to this quiz which i randomly found: , gothelf is wrong and sexy srik is right. anyway. they should have had this quiz out before psats. ahh SATs next week!
hey i used to take claritin. and then i took nasonex. and then the doctor told me it wasn't really helping at all and a while later my dentist told me it was probably my wisdom teeth. aahh my wisdom teeth! i don't want to get them out!
some complaining and whining about physics: today makes a streak of 3 straight tests where i did something unfathomably stupid that results in a serious loss of pointage. i always seem to lose focus randomly during random tests and then amitrani goes "well some people forgot to do this...." and i go "hey mr. FoverM! that's me!" i heard of this product on the radio that's supposed to increase your focus. i think its called "focus factor", but it sounds like one of those steroid type things and if i take it for a long time and then stop, my brain will shrivel up and die. latin class is funny. we're translating crazy catullus together and we all gradually get out of being n'sync(which btw may not be in star wars after all. score.), kinda like ,"to whom shall i give this book littlechthingarming pumiloshedwimoothcentlyfdasffehoiahfngroqyinbzcv'diafd....." and then i started to laugh. i wish i had a car for birds to poop on. and a license to drive a pooped-on car to the car wash.
ooo ellie and i blogged in almost the same time! =P ok. and i signed the guestbook. eugene and wei told me to do it earlier, saying that there would be a "surprise." i thought it would be like a virus or something. yeah, i have a lot of faith in you guys. ;)
hey, i blogged about pete yorn a while back. however, there seems to be no archives on derk's blog, so i can't find it. anyway. i'm still at school. we did a hellish track workout on the fields (perimeters!!!), which are conveniently covered in goose and rabbit poop. ew. it was craziness. like, since when do we do a 2.5 mile cool down?? weird. anyway, so we ran on the poop. and then we stretched in the poop..and then we did pushups and situps in the poop. this is so gross. i love how my blogs really contribute to the aardvark winter wonder land. my word choice and topics are always so elegant and thought provoking. poop.
derek ... did you mean "assign"? juuuust wondering.
i'm in the middle of choosing my second semester classes and ahhh! it's hard. i don't know what i want to take and what i want to major in. a friend and i were talking today about how we always look forward and think the future's going to be easier, but it's actually going to be harder. like he said when he graduated from high school he was like, yes! and his mom said, what, you think college is going to be *easier*? don't let that discourage any of you though :-) it's all worth it, i swear! ... although i'm not that much older than you so that sounded a little obnoxious. i rescind. i'm pretty sure "rescind" should always have a direct object but i'm too lazy to assign (sign?) it one so i won't. go to my site or hope road! actually you should sign the hope road guestbook. something cool will happen to you afterwards. (that's not even a lie, that's actually true, believe it or not ... do it and you'll see ...)
my first blog on derek's blog. so i should write something interesting. because i am very interesting. um.
a bird pooped all over my car yesterday. one of the parking lots gets a lot of bird poop, but the one i usually park in doesn't get much. so i think i'll stick to that lot. ok. i'm listening to pete yorn right now, i like him. it doesn't put me in a talking/writing mood. so. bye.
harhar. i feel the urge lately to sign everyone random nicknames .. or maybe not-so-random. but anyway, so i think i will. don't feel bad if yours is insulting, just make one for me too. monkey knows what i'm talking about.
ms. hoheb gave everyone in my brother's class zeroes on their homeworks .. and some kid talked to her after class and she said it was because she was in a bad mood. because the jets lost. haha.. i find that amusing. richard's blog reminded me of it. i'm glad that's all over. although.. her class wasn't too bad. better than physics. ARGH. i am not going to complain about that class anymore, because it is just not healthy. so, stop me if i do. and you'll probably have to, because i probably will. darn. :P
anyways. i'm looking forward (i noticed that i always spell that wrong.. as in "foward") to the weekend after midterms. aahhhh.. it'll be such a release. i hope i can go to the mall and see lots of movies and get lots of sleep. yessss. i can't wait. :) claritin never works for me. and my mom always tells me to take my dad's.. i told her once that it's bad to take medicine that's not prescribed for you, but yeah. i think i have a phobia with medicine.. i hate taking aspirin or anything unless i have to. i should lighten up. :) maybe i should go work now. :o) Monday, January 14, 2002
it's strange how every time i try to remember how goes the theme to "buffy the vampire slayer" and i can never recall the tune. so i downloaded it yesterday and i've played it over and over again while i'm here at the computer. and i'll try randomly tomorrow to see if i remember the melody. i went to the doctor today after school, and he said that i was fine and that it wasn't strep throat and that it was probably because of my "nose drip", which is probably some sophisticated medical term the meaning of which only doctors know. but he prescribed claritin. and my mom hasn't been to the pharmacy, so that's pretty much useless. she asked me if i wanted any of hers.
Sunday, January 13, 2002
sigh. i don't know how to respond to that. i don't know what i'd be like if someone who was close to me died .. um. it hasn't happened yet, and i'm not looking forward to someday when it does. okay, i'm going to sleep.
........so i just came back from jaime scott's mother's wake....agghh. i was mostly concerned with how jaime was, how she felt, if she was eating, how she was taking it....and i guess she's hanging on, i mean....is this appropriate to blog on here?....i have nowhere else besides my own update page to write on...but....she was telling me how it really hasn't sunk in yet......and obviously, by the way she was acting....it's gotta be hard.
her mother looked so....peaceful in her casket...i'm going to miss her....so anyway....i came home and hugged my mommy and daddy and told them i loved them. i feel so...yeah.
hmm, i took the personality disorder test, and when i answered it normally, i was moderately obsessive-compulsive and low for everything else. then i went back and clicked yes to every answer i previously answered no and clicked no to all my yes answers. and these are my results:
Paranoid: Very High Schizoid: High Schizotypal: High Antisocial: High Borderline: Very High Histrionic: High Narcissistic: Very High Avoidant: Moderate Dependent: High Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate i find that rather amusing. i'm not sure why. i'm tired.
so i'm home sick still, and i missed church today, and i was just watching tv with slalom and cross-country skiing -- it's crazy. and then now they have people doing aerials, which is even more crazy. i just saw a guy hit the ground on his butt from maybe two or three hundred feet in the air. i wonder how much that would hurt compared to my relatively low and slow falls while snowboarding.
Saturday, January 12, 2002
Yay! Michelle Kwan won nationals, she was AWE INSPIRING, awesomeness, completely perfect... I was just at a loss for words. if any of you avid skating fans wanna catch an encore its gonna be on tomorrow at i think 2 on abc... she skates first, and she did awesome! I took that personality disorder test or whatever... i got moderate on histrionic and one other one, i forget, but i got low for the rest... i think if you answered no to every single question you would have gotten low for every disorder. oh no all of you are sick!! please don't give it to me, i haven't been sick this year, and its been a miracle cuz every year during midterms im terribly sick and im hoping that this year is different. oh yea i made a subprofile, so clicky on it! i was bored... i should do some work now, byeee
derek, i hope you're happy. here is my blog.
ddeer eek k: i think .. the blog is calling your name graceee101: er?? ddeer eek k: it's saying "grace, come blog" graceee101: wow graceee101: i can't hear it ddeer eek k: i can hear it ddeer eek k: go blog anyway graceee101: whyy? ddeer eek k: well, do it for me then ddeer eek k: or don't do it .. i guess it doesn't really matter graceee101: aww ddeer eek k: na na nana nanana graceee101: nanna! ddeer eek k: that means "go blog" graceee101: mmhmm mhmm shicka boom boom graceee101: that means "maybe later" haha. sorry. had to do it =) michelle kwan won the short program for the u.s. national champs!! =)!!
i feel sick to.. starting friday. and full-blown as of this morning.. the annoying painful cough. and i keep feeling alternatingly hot and cold. blahhh. so derek, what was the temperature we used on our lab again? the un-fudged one... i can't remember. i've been so lazy recently.. i slept for 11 hours last night! it was crazy. good though.. i went to bed at 9 on a friday night. how pathetic. i just felt so exhausted.. steph, you provocative dresser you. tsk tsk, what would your mother think? shame on you.
ahh. i did two practice sections on verbal yesterday. i fudged the first one but i was all over the second one. i guess i was kinda rusty. i can't seem to find "the guns of august". the only relevant piece of information i can find is that there was that more people were killed in one month of august than any other month of the war. wow we're actually getting somewhere with lion dance. ahh derek, the orchestra thing sounded really weird without your gong. there was just this empty space there...literally, because we kept getting lost. the last of the mohicans is on. i remember mr. bryer told us we were going to finish that movie, but like all the other parts of movies that he showed us, we never did. go jets. annihilate the raiders.
i got moderate for histrionic and obsessive-compulsive. i don't dress provacatively, do i? hehe. it bothers me to take those tests where you know exactly what kind of quality they'll rate you as if you answer a question a certain way. like in this test. or maybe i was just seeing things.
i spent the entire day working. it was fun. i did chem homework, finished the lab, and took a practice sat. now i'm feeling extremely lazy.. perhaps indolent. (whoo, word wealth!) i did pretty well on the test, so now i can tell myself that i don't need to do any more work tonight. yay! :) hey, i want to see gosford park. it looks a lot like clue. not that old movie.. that was kind of stupid. but like the game. or maybe a fusion of clue and sherlock holmes. i really don't know, though. i'm only pretending i know. :o)
ahh my throat. so i'd been feeling a bit sick ever since last week, and it kind of went into full-blown throat pain after thursday night. i think it's hurting more than ever right now at this moment. and i'm making croaking noises because i can. but i missed fellowship last night, chinese school this morning, tennis this afternoon .. ahh, why isn't it getting better. i'm going to eat some fruit now. and drink something warm.
Friday, January 11, 2002
so i took that personality disorder test again and though i don't remember at all what i got last time so i have nothing to compare this to, it says i'm "low" or "moderate" in all types of disorders except i'm rated "high" in being obsessive-compulsive. i told you so.
i know this is a bit old, but i haven't read the blog for about a week, so... derek: "steph, invite me to your house so i can use your big tv to watch thismovie and maybe thatmovie too. oh, and i need a ride. can i play your brother's guitar? i would eat poop for money." something like that. =) i just thought i'd add that to the list of derekisms.. though these really weren't derekisms.. i think grace's list was funnier. :o)
ANYWAY. i hate mr. bird and his stupid precalc class. aaaaaaargh. he is one scary/deranged/psychotic man, who has a real big problem with helping kids understand what he's saying and really bad handwriting. grrr. stupid "let me grade it again, then. let me take off more points because you made me do more work." he was really mean to all those people. he made the part that we all did better on worth less and the part we did worse one worth more. that is evil. he is stupid. i hate his class. i don't think i've ever been this annoyed with a teacher before. *sigh* getting A's is overrated. i should be like maxine kingston and stop getting straight A's. wait, that's already happening. darn. no point in rebelling then. :P wah, it is cold down here. and i have not done any work since i've gotten home. yippee. :o)
(wo)man, we missed a day. thanks a lot, everyone. so yesterday was one of the most stressing days i've had in a while in recent memory, ever since i can remember -- which isn't a long time. and that was a contradictory phrase right there. so i had science league after school and then orchestra after science league and i finally was back home to work on my national honor society application for several hours. i'm an amazingly slow writer when i'm tired. it all came out kind of informal .. my leadership essay seemed like some kind of inspirational speech. "i've decided not to write about a one of my incredible successes at leadership but instead i've chosen to discuss one instance of a leadership position where i failed miserably but learned many lessons from the experience such as the importance of teamwork and communication and determination and cooperation and .." yeah, so i think the essay might've been a string of long run-on sentences. oh well, too late. i was writing my model un topic paper on wednesday night, and that took a while too. what a busy week -- well, to me it was. relative to other weeks. i learned that laos only has a 0.05 percentage of the population that is infected with hiv/aids. which is interesting, considering that it's neighboring countries all have at least fifty times more the percentage i'm not sure how to word this than laos .. like burma has four percent of the population infected with the disease and that's eighty times more. four divided by point oh five is eighty. i'll go watch some cartoons now .. time for some stress relief.
oh, did anyone hear about that statue going up at ground zero in new york that's based on a picture taken of three firefighters putting up an american flag, and some minority groups complained about the statue being three caucasian males, so when they unveiled the statue, instead of being historically accurate and depicting the picture as best it could, there instead were three racially diverse men .. i thought that was a bit absurd. political correctness is weird. Wednesday, January 09, 2002
so now i'm attempting to study for a latin test. man, daedalus and icarus and baucis and philemon on one test. i was just watching robotica. its a bunch of robots going around trying to break these pieces of red glass. looks kinda fun. archibald x is stupid. and so is my english average. if anyone ever yanked something out of my knee like that i think i would say something along the lines of "ahh my knee" and then hit his knee and make him feel the pain. i think i'll go download "history of the world"
i learned what sutures are from years of watching ER. that show really paid off=) ooh, the knee story reminds me of what it felt like when i got the stitches/sutures out of my eyes. they hurt. it was like they were yanking my eyelid off. i didn't think it would be bad at all because when i the stitches in my head taken out, i didn't remember feeling a thing. i guess my pain tolerance was a lot greater back in the day. and i also remember not feeling them put the stitches in my head either, even though they didn't give me any anaesthesia. but i think that was cuz the blow to my head was so hard it went numb. so i guess that's an anaesthetic in itself! so the lesson for the day is, if you ever feel you're going to get stitches after an injury, make sure your injury is bad enough that it will go numb and that will save your from experiencing the pain from the needle when they inject in the anaesthesia!
anaesthetic is really hard to type fast. but then again i probably could have spelled it anesthestic, which maybe would have been a little easier. but anaesthetic looks so much cooler! hey, i like derek too.
i like ellen.
and i suppose i like derek too. and ouch jess, that sounds really ouch-worthy, what they did to your knee. =( i hope it was okay. BYEE! Tuesday, January 08, 2002
i think it's spelled "suture". your spelling reminds me of sugar. i mean, in spanish. anyway, i can only imagine the pathetic sounds and words i would say if i ever had things ripped out of my leg -- they'd probably go something like "oh no please no don't hurt me OWWW" and then i would whimper. i already told you what "____" is in my last blog. i need to do some model un research and write my essay and letter for nhs. but monkeys are stupid.
so i had the suchres removed from my knee this morning. its basically stitches under hte skin.. and i went in all wondering how the doctor was gonna take them out since they're under the skin and all... so im lying down and hte doc comes in and he goes "you might feel a slight pull" *YANK* !!! he practically ripped the string outta my knee... oh man.. the one on the bottom of the knee only hurt a little, but the one on the top.. oh man... it like, got caught on something for a sec and it felt like my knee was coming apart. it was.. painful. so that's my story of the day. not that i have a story everyday or anything...
grace you really did sound like derek, that was hilarious :) hey serena, do you still have an obsession with purple? and did poop take the place of purple? just kidding.. don't hurt me. derek, when did i EVER EVER EVER type like that... i'll admit, i used to type ghetto-ish-ly, but never ever to that extent..... rich, invite me over so i can play ______ too! it can be a whole big ______ party. at richard's house. i love ______, don't you? ______ is so much fun. okay i think i killed that... i'm going to attempt my chem lab now, bye bye peoples.
hahaha ellie i figured it might be=)
i lost my lightsaber. and my music stand. i think i'm going to --
i am cool because i read 'the lord of the rings' trilogy in two days.
anyway, oh, i just came on blogger to tell connie that she was right about the guess she made over IM to me (she left a message while i was online for a day straight b/c i forgot i left the computer on). sorry, derek, 'twas a personal message, but if i don't put it down somewhere i'll forget. so here it is. connie: you were right!!! that's so funny!!! er... that's it. dang, i hope she remembers what i'm talking about. Monday, January 07, 2002
"invite me over so i can play _____" is a really sketchy statement. yeah, ok. and derek, you apologized, so i retract my statement. i won't cry anymore. but i like grace better than you. just kidding! or, wait, that sounds bad. ok...i like both of you equally! i've dug myself into a hole. =P hehe, oh man.
ok, back to work i go...
ellen: "i am sketchy." okay, i didn't mean to forget you, but it's your own fault because you didn't blog. or so i can keep telling myself. mm, sorry. um, grace, i don't say "quasi" or "blarg" at all anymore, and i haven't said "don't blog this" for months now. i'm very proud of myself. connie: "i lost my lightsaber. bsb is cool." oh, and caitlin: "i like emo! i like making not-funny dorky jokes!" okay, emo is pretty cool sometimes. so that's not an insult. even though the second part kind of was .. ninth period was very scary today. richard, invite me over so i can play _______.
i like seedless watermelons. i like fluffy pillows.
ellen, you won't get any work in senior year. Brennan teaches AP euro history and he doesn't assign any work that he collects. I mean, if he collects it, he'll have to correct it, and that will just be more work for him. You will get work if you take AP bio though, but that's like it.
hahaha grace! you are so good at being derek! (i didn't mean that as a bad thing) hahaha it cracked me up when i read it. it was so...derek. except it wasn't! =)
archibald's mother ate five green bananas while five yellow aliens landed in the laundry basket. er...something. ellen, if you're gonna double science, don't take ap history! well, that's my opinion. because i think you will seriously die. maybe it's just me. yep, i think it is.
derek:
"quasi...there was some weird asian underclassman girl who waved to me in the hall today....i don't even know who she is...blarg....go listen to this song!...during history today, we watched this inane video where some girl had this really weird voice....my cousin is fat. so-and-so, you're not allowed to post such-and-such on here. i don't want that on my blog! and you! why haven't you blogged as of lately? wah, i need to find something blog-worthy to write about! anyway, i think...umm...right. hahahaha. gosh darn. hm, oh well."
I LOVE YOU ELLEN!!!!!
just to mock derek, here are my birthday wishes for the month of january. happy birthday to taline alexander (17) on january 3rd. happy birthday to my mommy on january 10th. happy birthday to jen tavares on the 16th. happy birthday to helen on the 25th. happy birthday to norman so on the 28th. happy birthday to both amanda libman and emily yu on the 29th. my other monthly birthday wishes will follow. =P...
derek forgot me. i am sad. and crying. ='(
speaking of poop (???), the math wing of my school still has a faint smell of poop, thanks to the bathroom that exploded. my school is a cesspool of drool (and uh, human waste) because of a construction man who was a fool. that's not very cool. so i'm writing this essay for french class and i'm having a really tough time. i think i'm going to drop french class next year, and double up in ap physics and bio. HAHA right. but it doesn't seem that bad...i figure, french 5 and 6 are combined classes, so wouldn't i be learning similar things next year? ok, maybe i'll replace the language with something like, the "foods, fun, and fitness" course. HAHA right again.
i just ate an oompa. they're much easier on the teeth than skittles or starburst, so i guess they won't be hard to eat when we're all old and our teeth are falling out. ahh my teeth.
so in health today ms. wladich sticks a contraceptive in my face and asks me if i know how to put it on. this class is getting worse every day. derek: "my name is archibald. damn. there was this asian girl i've never seen who hit me on the head...damn. richard's little brother barfed on me. damn. i like dexter freebish. invite me over to your house so i can play ______."
derek.... you stink do you know that? you stink very much. anyway, i just spent 10 mintues reading the last 25 blogs... surprisingly my last blog was down at hte bottom of that. o well. derek,I can't believe that the only thing you can think of me saying is that i like nsync.. there is more to me than my various obsessions, and poop is not one of them. i'm never having another poop conversation with you again. I wanna see moulin rouge too. A lot of people tell me its good, and i really really wanna see it. hopefully after this whole SAT midterm ordeal is over i'll get to do that. I can't go out until Sats are over either Steph.. don't feel so bad. Gee... i guess i can only respond to derek's blogs because his are the last 10 or so. Derek ur sooo popular with the freshman, and that blog of urs proves my theory. i wonder if its too late to join the der-lei derek tsai fan club... btw, i heard that you can't even notice that NSync is in the movie until you buy the DVD and happen to pause it on the exact instant that their faces appear. thats not soo bad is it? well yes it is. even as a self proclaimed nsync fanatic, i found it disturbing that any film director would ever let them into a movie...
you left me out=(
i like moulin rouge for ewan. and for come what may. and because it's very colorful. school is becoming a major bummer wiht all these stupid projects and whatnot. and midterms are in two weeks! i had no idea they were so close. talk about being screwed. at least i have chem by itself. i'm very lucky, because all four years of high school, my midterm and final exam schedules have worked out very well. i never had two killer classes in one day. this year, it's chem by itself (whew!) then health and physics, art and western civ, then english and calc. which...isn't TOO TOO bad. i think if i had chem with math or chem with physics, i'd die. and if i had english with western, i'd die too. and if i knew that i had art and health on the same day, i would also die just because that means i have killer classes all together on another day. deductive reasoning. ok, back to work. bye!
oh wait, i forgot serena and lee-shing. i went to "show last 25 posts" .. whee. lee-shing: wait, actually, i don't know what he would say. serena: "ice skating is cool. i like n sync. and poop."
i'm on a blogging spree. no i'm not. here, i know, i'll pretend i'm someone else and i'm blogging, even though no one else is really blogging and ellie was mean and said to me "i can't blog anymore because i don't know what's going on" .. it's not like i know what's going on. so i'll pretend i'm everyone who blogs here. richard: "ahh my knee. my little brother barfed on derek once." steph: "i have a big tv. i have lots of movie posters." jessica: "ahh my knee. evry1 keepz sayin dat i typ funnie, but u kno wut, im not ghetto lyk dat" ellie: "what's going on? i'm cool because i read the 'lord of the rings' trilogy in two days." grace: "happy birthday to you and you and you and you and you .. !!" michelle: *silence* dave: "i like seedless watermelons. i like fluffy pillows." hm, i can't remember who else is a member of this blog. sigh, no one blogs ..
by the way, does anyone think it's funny whenever they say the title of the show in "alias"? like whenever anyone says "alias", i always think "hahaha, that's the title of the show." i think it's like when usher was on "moesha" and his name wasn't usher on the show and when he was getting into a fight with this other guy who was also moesha's ex-boyfriend, the other guy said "hey, why don't i usher you out right now" .. and i thought that was funny. probably no one else will, hahaha.
i've never seen "moulin rouge" .. i want to. not because of ewan mcgregor, not because of nicole kidman, not even because of "come what may" or the rest of the soundtrack, not because of the cool director guy -- what's his name, baz luhrmann or something near close to that -- not because of the story or the cinematography or acting or .. hm. there's no reason for me to watch it. i will sometime. anyway, ellie, i had to leave yesterday to watch "alias" .. so there. you should watch "once upon a time in china" with jet li as wong fei-hong, all three of the original movies, but not the fourth because he's not in it, and then the few other spin-off movies from the series. they're classics .. well, only the first three. the other ones are weird, like when he goes to the wild west or um. i only remember that one. i need to watch more chinese films. there's this recent movie with andy lau and sammi cheng that i want to watch. i think they must be the biggest stars in chinese-speaking asia at the moment. i want to be a star too.
anyway, so i was sitting with richard after school today in the commons doing part of the many homeworks that i must bringing at home so work it, this strange asian freshman girl comes over holding a bag of chips and says "i bought the wrong thing will someone give me fifty cents for this please please?" she seemed to be very touchy with jack wang. anyway, that was random. because then she asked richard "hey do i know you what's your name" -- something like that, it was extremely fast and jumbled speech, some people just don't know how to articulate their words -- and he said "my name is derek" and she looks at me and says "no, he's derek". which was very strange, considering i had never seen her before. maybe it was because of something else, i don't know. but i'm considering changing my name. how does archibald sound? or lately i've been thinking about something simple, like maybe a two-letter name. like "gu". this kid at tennis on saturday asked me what my last name was, and i told him it was "cheng-chong-chung-choong-chahng-ching-chaung-cheeng". i don't think he believed me. Sunday, January 06, 2002
1. i finally saw moulin rouge. it was great. comewhatmay and all that. mm, i'm going to copy dan's soundtrack cd.
2. the guy on alias is the hot guy from "never been kissed." i shall now begin to watch that show. (derek told me to a while ago.) 3. the mummy is on right now, though, at the same time as my first episode of alias. i've never seen the mummy. oh the dilemma. 4. every time i IM this certain guy, he tells me he's busy and shortly after puts up an away message. that hurts. sniff. sniff sniff. sniff sniff sniff. actually i think he's just scared of me. and it's not derek, surprisingly enough, ... *he* just signs off shortly after i IM him.
haha. so i was watching "buffy" yesterday and it happened to be a pretty cool episode where spike and a bunch of vampires attack the high school on parent-teacher night and go hunting for the slayer, and it was amusing. it's funny how the vampires have their nice faces and then morph to their scary faces and buffy's mom said something like "dear, i think there's something on their faces" .. anyway. the principal on the show is quark from star trek deep space nine, the ferengi guy with the big ears! cool, not really.
ahh. so mr. van horn said on friday after school that i should come back to him on monday and get that form from him on which i have to get my activities and hours documented and signed -- except um, how am i supposed to do that during the week when i don't see church like lisa or the counselors other than on fridays and sundays? it's incredibly stupid. either he extends the deadline, or he gives us everything up front instead of making an announcement that people have to go to his classroom to pick up things. and then telling them after school they should come back on the monday the week that the application's due. okay, i just though that the situation was really dumb. i'll go write that letter and the essay sometime this week .. i wonder if my second grade teacher will be surprised. or remember me at all. anyway, so when i was asking mr. wang about how many hours that i should write down for worship team, he was calculating out loud and saying things like "the last year and a half .. seventy weeks .. ten hours a week? .. four hours a week .. seventy weeks .." i was afraid he was going to say "okay, so five hundred hours", which was a little bit higher than my estimate. in the end, i told him to write down fifty. i hope i don't have to document community service hours again in the future .. but if i do, i'll make sure to figure it out before asking people do figure out the times. i think i have more than fifty for worship team, though .. maybe even a hundred, hm. oh well.
hm, i just finished writing my NHS stuff. i hope i didn't sound too dorky. in my nomination letter, i sound like i'm in love with mr. touma.. and in my leadership essay, i sound like i can't speak english. *sigh* maybe i'll be able to revise them later.
nooooo.. nsync can't be in star wars! ack! i thought it was just a rumor!!! that's so sad. i mean, even if they get blown up by battle droids, it's still messed up that they're in the movie. man. (woh, i'm such a star wars dork. but i didn't even like episode 1.. the old-school ones are better. and spaceballs. that was a funny movie. hahahaha..) uh oh. i have to do homework.
hahaha, i remember reading this article a while ago and they called joey fatone "fat one". it was amusing. anyway, um, i don't really remember having anything to say. actually, i know i had something that i did really want to say, but i can't remember it at all. gosh darn.
Saturday, January 05, 2002
hi, christina chen and stephie are here! don't you love english projects? hehe oh man... kill us now :)
Friday, January 04, 2002
so serena told me today that nsync was going to be in the next star wars. then i began to writhe in agony. but apparently according to entertainment's website, nsync will end up getting blown up by some battle droids. booyea! i'm so evil.
umm eric if you get this blog. lion dance. tomorrow. 10:30 am. in front of the satz library. maybe i'll call you later if i don't fall asleep.
haha, my pleasure, jess. it was fun to get your homework. it made me feel important. :o)
man. i can't go anywhere until my sats are over. can't go to fellowship, can't see movies, can't go to the mal, blah blah blah.. i guess it's all for the best, though. i better not bomb those stupid things. it will all be over in three weeks. which also happens to be when our midterms will be over... which is really really bad. i feel a horribly stressed week coming on.. :-/ woohoo! we finally got the movie posters we ordered online. i got the serendipity poster for my mom for christmas.. and we got kate & leopold and back to the future, too. coolness. i can't wait to put them up. we colored snowmen in history today. that was fun. it was our (long overdue) "therapy session." period eight has gotten TWO of those already. well, we're cooler than they are because snowmen are better than turkeys and snowflakes. mwahahahaha.. :) mine was really boring.. derek named it goomba. almost everyone in this little corner of the room drew an asian snowman.. it was weird. i think it was because mrs. bryer told us that john coyle said not to color our snowmen yellow (because it looks like pee? i really don't know.), and we were all like, hey, what if we want chinese snowmen? so they all made chinese snowmen. and half of them named their's (theirs? ah, it doesn't sound right.) variations of "tsai der-lei" (like, tsai der-lei.. der-lei.. derek.. stuff like that). it was kind of weird.. haha. and stephanie sun drew a snow-mrs. bryer.. it was so cute. :)
so derek told me that my knee surgery is "blog-worthy" and that i should blog about it. so here i am. hm i had right knee ACL reconstruction on monday.. new years eve! ACL stands for anterior cruciate ligament i think.. its the ligiment in the middle of your knee that keeps it... together i guess. well, so it's not too loose in there. and i tore it last month right in half.. doing gymnastics of course.
so i just got back from physical therapy a few hours ago. cars make me feel sick.. eergh. i almost fell down the stairs today. i hate crutches. im such a damn klutz.. oh well. going back to school on monday, i get to use the elevators! haha best part of this whole crappy deal.. :) so anyways, my whole leg is like.. stained yellow. its so gross, its from the chemicals they used to sanitize it before surgery or whatever.. and i have this huge "NO" written on my other knee.. i guess so the doc wouldn't cut the wrong knee cause that'd be... bad. yes. so anyways, before surgery they had to put an IV in my arm right. and they couldnt find my vein.. they were like "WHERE IS YOUR VEIN ITS TOO TINY I CANT SEE IT!!!" so the 1st 2 times they missed my vein. i was like, OMG! felt like they were randomly stabbing needles in my arm.. not fun. so now i'm in this big leg cast, and i've been living on my living room couch. took my first trip upstairs today... it's was oh so exciting. haha so yes, that's my surgery knee story. are you happy, derek? he says my friends are weird.. and all his "non-friends" are weird. oh well. i'm not much of a blog writer, this will have to do.. oh yes, thanks sooo much steph! you're the best!!!! :) Thursday, January 03, 2002
is phil your oboe friend? he goes to high tech. he has a moustache. apparently, on the news just now, some mother mistook some kind of super glue for eye drops and glued her daughter's eyes closed. umm.
yes you should have been at orchestra. phil wasn't here today and it was really fun...
crud, i'm getting all my bowls confused. ahh where's the salad bowl? and the rice bowl for teams with at least one asian on their team? i think they shoulda called the "tostitos fiesta bowl" the "tostitos salsa dip bowl" instead. so now theres this rose bowl, but they should call it the rose vase. hahaha! that was corny. oh man. i think i'll go deny myself of denying myself of reading Night. and then i'll watch the rose bowl and then eat the chocolate covered rose. or is it the chocolate rose?
hi. i should be at orchestra right now, but instead i'm at home sitting here and blogging. i feel sick all of a sudden. hm. anyway, so i went to a different orthodontist today -- who incidentally is another chinese woman just like my normal one -- and she took two x-rays and said she would confer with my normal dentist. and my head x-ray looks really cool. i wish i could have a copy. but i rushed all the way back to school to take the science league test-off for physics and i made seven mistakes. out of twenty-five questions. oh well, at least it wasn't a real test .. wahaha, like my math test. why did he make it out of seventy-five points instead of a hundred?! he knew that people did well, so that's why he lowered the value of the test, which means he is evil. i don't remember mr. krieg ever calling me anything. i wasn't worthy of a nickname. he probably thought i was "that stupid chinese kid who can't play sports and okay, i don't think i'll talk to him at all" .. yes. fifth grade was the worst year of my life. i think.
wah, i'm really hungry. my mommy's cooking dinner right now and i can't wait to eat. :) you know, it really sucks when you don't have a lunch. you end up eating an incredible amount of snack-food throughout the day, and then eating some more because you tell yourself that you can since you didn't have lunch. at least that's how it is with me. i've gotten a lot tubbier this year. yeah. you all needed to know that. :o)
hmmm.. anywho. i never had mr. krieg. the only gym teacher i remember from village is mr. sabatini.. he was cool. and then i had these gym teachers in hong kong.. there was the crazy scottish lady ms. campbell who ditched us to get married.. oh, wait. she was the one that replaced the one that ditched us to get married. i forget that one's name.. dang. well, it was some british lady. or maybe she was australian. i dunno. :P ooh, dinner's ready.. off to stuff my face. =) Wednesday, January 02, 2002
i think mr. krieg called me richard the lion hearted. and then all the teachers my tennis club called me that. maybe they all knew each other. it's a strange world out there. and then mr. bryer comes along and calls me richard henry li(lee). at least he didn't give me any of his other nicknames, like "stupid" and "dolt" and um "rich-meister." ahh. i think i'll go watch the orange bowl for a bit, and then i'll eat the orange.
mr. krieg called me "minnesota" for some odd reason. and "south pole" because i was a lefty. he used "minnesota" more though. okay this computer is giving me such a headache... it might be partly because of the NHS application though. for the community service, does it mean that we can use our sophomore year and the adjoining summer? and if you played a sport both sophomore and junior year, can you count it twice? i think that's cheap, but i need all the help i can get... okay, i really feel kind of woozy now, time for me to go back to bed.
Tuesday, January 01, 2002
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