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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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Tuesday, April 30, 2002
wah, i'll be able to make a website after next week! i'm so excited -- okay, a little bit. it's been a long time since i've done anything related to this .. last time, i made a little page saying that my site would be back in february. it's now may, or it will be in about forty-five minutes. no more research paper and hopefully no more sat ii writing and math equals new website. thank you.
amitrani isn't going because he is staying to teach us on friday. apparently our honors classes are about a month behind the regular classes. yea that's amitrani for you. gaahh i can't wait until next year when we can see if all our freakin hard work for the past 11 years pays off or if i am just totally screwed over. what a nice thought.
jay chow is so cool. i'm going to come home with his two cds from taiwan this summer. i don't know why i like his music when i don't like hip-hop .. i guess it's kind of soft r&b hip-hop and um. i'm feeling a little less sickening and i have to go to the middletown library soon. dave asked if i was going to great adventure on friday -- how come we don't get to go? at least amitrani won't be in school. apparently my history test has been moved. i'm afraid of this week.
freakin! all the regular physics classes are going to great adventure on friday! what the heck? are we not good enough to go?! I want to ride on all those rollercoasters with my TI-83... finding the Normal force on all those rides! ahhhhhhhhhh we're so deprived!
i'm sick again. i'm sick. i'm sick!! i'm so angry that this stupid disease has to creep up on me this week yesterday today and now i've missed a physics quiz and a math quiz and tomorrow i'll have to make those up along with a big history test when my book and notes are at school and then i have the sentence outline of my research paper to hand in too. and i have yet to look at material for saturday's writing math and chem .. hm. i feel fine.
Monday, April 29, 2002
i feel sick. i felt fine yesterday, it's the end of the world as we know it. but then i woke up today and my throat was sore and my sinuses were strange -- i think they were my sinuses, i never know where or what exactly they are and i've never bothered to find out -- and my nose is runny. and there's stuff in my throat. someone take this research paper away from me. i asked gothelf today for my averages over three marking periods and it's reassuring, but i hate this paper. my writing has been very erratic lately. this is not going to be good for saturday.
right now i'm drawing some visuals for my french oral presentation tomorrow. something that's sad? i only just realized that my art skills have not improved since second grade. my friend came over to drop history stuff off; when i showed him the picture, he says, "what, is this 'shiny time station' that you drew in first grade?" ouch man. it's a railway switchman from "le petit prince" that i drew tonight! ouchh. a few days ago i sent (for fun) a picture of three weird round cartoonish people saying "just saying hi from home!" to my brother at boston u. the picture was supposed to be of me, my dad, and my mom. i thought it would be cute and whimiscal, but he IMed me today saying that "it looks like people shaped like poop." ouch again! hooray for elementary art skills.
school was interesting, namely history class. you can read about it here. people in my class need to learn how to respect other people's opinions. ...or i might be overreacting, i don't know. oh! physics day @ great adventure is on friday!! i'm so bummed you holmdel kids don't get to go. =( but it should be cool, none the less. daaaave are you going? oh, also, i realized that all the kids at great adventure are going to look super cool, especially with our graphing calculators and g-force measuring things constructed out of fluorescent light bulb tubes. i'm glad my graphing calculator matches most of my outfits; i'm going to look so hot! haha...=D Sunday, April 28, 2002
oh ellen, you're just trying to be like me. i see how it is. even though u did that before me... but you're still trying to be like me! tsk tsk... i got pictures guys! somebody give me doubles from prom pleaseee... specifically: the picture with me and mickel in the middle. then allison and christine in blue. then jan and serena in pink. and then grace and alyssa are on the ends in green and black. you guys know that picture, i'm sure everyone has it but somehow my camera was not in the pile when that picture was taken. also, the picture where jan the man, steffy, al cow, and christine are flexing their huge muscles... and any other pictures that you feel like giving me would be greatly appreciated! i feel like a beggar... of prom pictures. wonderful.
oooo i should work i have no life~
"there were at least two hundred asians on those library steps." ah, i knew my theory of pigeon-like students was true.
i just came back from doing a history project -- we're putting new lyrics (pertaining to our decade or something..) in billy joel's "we didn't start the fire." oh my gosh our song could kick your "puff the magic dragon" song so swiftly in the butt it's not even funny. hehe..just kidding. ok i was lying; our song could really kick you song's butt. =D uh oh..the lights are flickering. is it bad to leave the computer on during a lightning/thunder storm? probably. the outreach was good -- i didn't break a string (aww yeah), i got to sing in a manly voice, and i met this girl who i used to know when we were wee little ones. and michelle brought me starbucks, so that was a super super plus. =) um..jess, why are we the same person? the other day i bought three dollars worth of gas. then i also discovered i only had two bills, so i paid the last dollar in dimes and nickels.
personally, i think that the whole abercrombie protest is hugely overblown, even if that shirt was quite stereotypical and racist and whatever adjectives i'm missing .. anyway. i don't know all the facts, so i won't say anything more. and i would wear that shirt because it's funny and i'm immature, but then i would probably get beaten by a lot of asian-americans. we went to columbia yesterday and took a three-hour test with math and science and math. i should've reviewed bio a little bit -- oh well. it was a good memory jog. and the seniors that go to columbia on saturdays are really embarrassing to be around. also, the 116th street station smells like urine. and there were at least two hundred asians on those library steps after i came back from the test. wouldn't it be cool if i were wearing one of those shirts right then. anyway, i thought i lost richard in penn station. so i got on the train, and then i got off, and then i got on, and then i got off, and then i got on and decided to stay on and feel bad about leaving richard in new york, and then he got on. i need to study for: sat two math writing chem physics and ap chem. i hear thunder.
so apparantly my last blog thing didn't work so go to this place A&F petition and sign it, it takes like 3 seconds
and so yes....extremely pissed off cuz i just did like 2 SAT tests in a row and i'm getting like 600's on the freaking verbal sections cuz i get all of the reading comp questions wrong which i really don't understand b/c when i took all the practice tests over the summer I used to get only 1 or 2 wrong in the whole test....it's just very frustrating and, well, fuck reading b/c I really can't understand what these passages are saying and i don't care so why the hell do they have to put it on the SAT - ARGH~~!!!
guess what i'm listening to? yes, that's right, "check the o.r." by organized rhyme, tom green's canadian rap group before he was on mtv. apparently they were nominated for a canadian grammy. it's quite amusing.
hm, i feel like my head is going to explode. from reading hamlet and doing chem homework. *sigh* i really need to get back into the habit of actually working. i started to slack off majorly right before prom, and i still haven't been able to .. not slack. the ap test is in approximately two weeks. and sat IIs are coming soon. oh dang.
spider-man comes out this weekend!!!! Saturday, April 27, 2002
when my mom saw your quote derek, she just laughed and was like "oh that derek... such a chem nerd..." but she was just kidding. it was quite amusing, i must say. so i went to brunswick square mall with two of my white friends, because i don't have that many... gina who goes to rbc and erin who lives in south river. anyway, walking around the mall i was sooo very tempted to buy all these clothes.. but i had no money and i was sad. i really want to go shopping. and then when i was driving home from gina's house (tinton falls) i had almost no gas left in my car and i was really really scared that i was going to be stranded on the road. so yea, i got $2 worth of gas at the first gas station i came to. and when i said that i wanted 2 dollars of regular, the gas attendant looked at me funny and was like, "two dollars?" in a kind of.. startled and "are you stupid" type of voice. but i had no money! so yes, i just got enough gas so that my car would not die in the middle of newman springs road. in case you wanted to know.
i can't believe i'm sick. my singles match yesterday took forever. forever = 1 hour? and i was half asleep through the whole columbia shp test. it had all this stuff we learned in 8th grade that i don't really remember. then there was this "block party" at columbia, which seemed like another huge asian invasion. and this little kid at this big balloon boxing thing said to us "I'm gonna be the next Ali!" then another random thing i heard in the subway was, "mom, can we cut school one day and go to a tv studio?" and i almost missed the train home because i got lost at penn station. ahh my head. i want to go to sleep. i guess i'm not going to the outreach tonight. ugh....
happy birthday honker (ellen). now it's my mom's birthday today. or if you want to get technical, it was actually yesterday because she was born in taiwan, which is 12 hours ahead of us. then that would mean that ellen h. and my mom were born on the same day. isn't that just the coolest thing?... i'm hungry.
ooooh maann, i really wanted to go and see china nite but iw as at home trying to memorize a speech that i just completely flubbed this morning... ahhh well i dont need another 'lennys trophy' trophy... but it would have been nice for my very last year... everything is ending too quickly and im having that 'im growing up too fast' feeling...so my mom read derek's quote in the newsletter and she promptly said to me... 'see if you loved chemistry that much you would be getting an A'...
Friday, April 26, 2002
i read it, and then i thought "uh oh, maybe someone will think i'm serious." and they probably will. i have no tiempo para bloggar ahora, entonces va a volver manana.
Thursday, April 25, 2002
ahahaha.. china night. you were fine, richard. it was cute :) but yeah. the whole night was.. a spectacle. hee hee. mulan was interesting. especially andrew and his limp. hahahahaha.. janet and i were dying. *sigh* is it usually like that? :o)
oh man. i didn't get to tell people about setting up decorations tomorrow until now. which would be.. really late the night before it's going to happen. i hope they all get it by tomorrow. doh. i am so irresponsible. i ought to read hamlet. and play piano. and study for that chem olympiad thing. speaking of which.. janet's article on the brookdale olympiad was in the newsletter today! haha.. with derek's phony quote and all. "i am so grateful to be given this opportunity; chemistry is my life, it always has been, and it always will be." what beautiful words. :o)
so i'd have to say that tonight was disappointing. ::sigh:: what a day. gahh. just you all wait and see. next year we'll blow your minds away. and i'll try my best to make sure that's not just talk. i'd curse off the yoyos Ovidian style, but we still have to use them next year.
gosh and i feel bad for justin. he was so excited to be the only white kid who is proficient at yoyo. at least he got to show his stuff to his friends beforehand. i seem to have developed a habit of dropping my drum sticks whenever i'm performing. maybe next time i'll glue them to my hands. i thought it was pretty funny, though, especially because right before we started someone told me "don't drop the sticks again."
so i scheduled driving lessons just now. week of may thirteenth, two lessons, and the third one two weeks after that. i'm going to drive! anyway, i just came back from michelle's house where we recorded a stupid song we wrote about "la dama del alba" .. the tune was based on "puff the magic dragon" and it's the song that never ends. and she messed up, but that's okay. i'm scared of sats.
Wednesday, April 24, 2002
grace, i don't think anyone could fit your head into their mouths. don't become suicidal and crazy like hamlet. he's one crazy guy.
i was reading the article in TIME on star wars episode 2, and dude that movie looks so good. i have a craving for peaches. millions of peaches. peaches for me. i'm going to asbury park tomorrow. that's just peachy.
i need a head. to bite off.
or maybe someone should bite MY head off. that should solve everything rather quickly. any volunteers? Tuesday, April 23, 2002
i am incredibly tired. i think the lack of sleep is starting to get to me. well, it gets to me every day but today was bad. i finished my homework and lay down on my bed (for what i intended to be a very short time) and woke up half and hour later, face-first in my scooby snack pillow. hm, that was interesting. and while i was doing homework, i suddenly found myself waking up from one of those unexpected nap attacks with all the blood gone from my right arm. weird. maybe i have narcolepsy, like the argentinian in moulin rouge. harhar :o)
Monday, April 22, 2002
everyone come to China Night on Thursday!! it's going to be awesome!! it'll be an asian invasion, though 1/3 of us performing are actually not asian. but it's all good.
that's the spirit derek. no practice is awesome!!! go holmdel! no practice today!! but then sometimes i think, maybe we actually do need practice. and soon we're going to start having matches almost every day with the shore conference tourny and states, which means no practice. oh well. nothing i can do about that... i'm a fobionaire.
i think people have a right to be mad about it, b/c it's really pretty racist....if they had shirts with those old caricatures of black people, like "bamboozled" kind, and jokes about black people, then it would be totally unacceptable. i guess a lot of people are just really tired of how it's perfectly fine to make fun of asian people, and i don't blame them. sometimes i get tired of it too.
what's a fobionaire? aah! i didn't realize may 1 is next wednesday, i have to decide where to go next year. i hate making important decisions. i can't wait to see "spider-man"! "if you have seen my work in wonder boys, the ice storm, or cider house rules...you will know the name tobey maguire is synonymous with high-octane thrill." =) i drew a deformed picture of spider-man today. he has really puffy ankles and arms and short stubby legs, and an abnormally large head. and his eyes are ski goggles. hooray for spider-man!
tennis is such a cool sport. if it's too rainy, we don't practice. even if it drizzles or it's cloudy, we don't practice. it's too windy, we don't practice. it's too bright and sunny, we don't practice. there's a car on fire in the parking lot, we don't practice. and our team is going to be number one this year, no thanks to me. but i'll be able to tell my grandchildren that i was part of a tennis state championship when i was in high school, whee.
ahahaha, so i just saw an actual picture of those abercrombie shirts that were pulled from the stores here and they're very amusing. i would buy one. i think people are a bit too intolerant over this .. it could be worse. and i had a point to this blog, but i've forgotten it. speaking of forgetting, i've forgotten to do my research paper and mail in my transcript to columbia and study for chem .. i was a fobionaire a long long time ago.
http://www.fobionaire.com/Fobionair.swf
btw i forgot to watch alias. actually i just did not have time. Sunday, April 21, 2002
hm, i remember when my parents wanted me to draw christmas cards every year, along with new years cards and chinese new year cards and presidents day cards and okay .. i'm exaggerating. anyway, i'd probably really hate them now if i saw them. actually, i think about some of the various things i did two years ago and wonder what was wrong with me -- but i won't go into detail about the incidents that i'm referring to. um, i have this research paper to do and i haven't done much of it. i take pride in my laziness. no i don't. but i should be proud of how much work i get done with my great ability to procrastinate. no i shouldn't. help me.
i felt very melancholy today. two of those people that were on the frontpage unemployment story on the press were my coworkers at my summer job, if coworker is what you call someone you eat lunch with and sit on the other side of a cubicle wall from and make webpages for that have now all gone to waste. ::sigh:: i hope i never get unemployed. gahh i need to do more math. i think i am approching insanity, but hopefully that will be the limit, and i will never reach it.
my dad just pulled out this old christmas card derek drew for us a long time ago. it's so cute. and he signed it "Der-lei". awwww.
wow holmdel relays was so much fun.... =) even though i didnt run anything cuz i'm still freaking INJURED.... grrrrr.... thats ok, another week and i am officially back to running! even though i'm going to suck cuz i'm so out of shape right now, but thats ok. its going to take me what, another wekk or two to get back in shape? hmmm. i missed like half the season, how stinky is that. =T guess i have 3 more years to make up for it dont i? and wow, alias is on tonite, i'm so excited!! (you're right derek, i do get overexcited over this show dont i... =P)
la la la.. people are coming over to make decorations for the outreach soon. (everybody come! it's going to be nifty :o) i don't feel like doing anything productive in the meantime so.. here i am. :) after they leave i plan to study. waaaaahhhh.. that makes me want to cry. a lot. i need to learn myself some precalc (actually, calc. haha) and fizziks. harhar. what a fun evening. i probably won't be watching any television (i.e. alias). boooooo.
i changed into shorts because i was hot and now i am cold. grr. i can't decide what to wear. i feel like i'm experiencing movie-withdrawal. i need to see something. i wanted to rent say anything last night but i figured that i wouldn't have time to watch it. i want to see it so badly! *sigh* maybe later.
i saw frances here today! i didn't know she even applied to yale. but she said she's probably coming! that's really cool!
ok i gotta work.
i'm so bored :(
the only next thing to look forward to is getting out of school....and what day is taht by the way? at least 2 months away...and yes...probably won't get my film developed for like a week or so, so everyone bring in pics for me to look at and give me doubles of preprom - lalaala bored bored, to the point that i'm too bored to even think about food. now taht's just sad Saturday, April 20, 2002
my fat is astounding. i feel like i gained about twenty pounds just eating dinner tonight. one of my mom's clients gave her a $200 gift certificate to the Molly Pitcher Inn and we went and ate there today. my stomach has swelled to twice its normal size and i feel so full.
prom was super duper. :o) everybody looked so nice! you guys are all so beautiful :) but anyways.. it was all very very nice. (by the way, i can get you doubles, christine, although most of my pictures are probably taken of the same thing about twenty times over.. heh, you can pick and choose.) postprom was cool too. we sat around simultaneously watching centerstage and various rounds of the fatty bowl, which ended in a pseudo-tie. yeah, i know.. but it wasn't really.. official. janet decided to cancel all the betting in the end. well, at least that is what i interpreted it to be. allison and michelle refused to do our original tiebreaking round, which required them to each eat a custard style yogurt.. but we improvised. i have to say, it was quite funny to watch them stuff handfuls of teddy grahams in their mouths and then sprint to the refrigerator. we were all so hyper. i'm so sad it's all over. now all i have to look forward to is the ap chem test and the sat II's. wahoo. :)
i ended up with this camera with only 3 pictures left before the prom, so could someone maybe make triples for me? i'm not in a blogging mood either. sometimes i wish it could rain without being cloudy. it's cool when only the edge of the rain cloud is over you, so you have both rain and bright sunny sun.
wah, prom was wonderful. and kind of scary. next time i should find out some way to dance without feeling stupid -- maybe someone can show me sometime and have me practice a few times before doing it in front of other people -- and i'm going to buy a nice suit instead of renting a hundred-dollar tuxedo that i won't be able to keep. yuck, i could buy so much other things with that money. anyway, christine, i don't know if you would want my doubles .. but i could make doubles for you. and people give me nice pictures too, because i'm afraid that my camera maybe wasn't so good in taking indoor pictures with bad lighting. it always adjusts to the optimal settings and sometimes it won't even let me take pictures but then yesterday inside it was doing ultra-slow shutter speeds and my hand probably was moving slightly. mm. i'm not in a blogging mood again.
i was just preparing to get my film developed and so i go to check how many pictures are left on the roll in the camera....and then i notice that there is no number and my dad tells me that i installed the film wrong! so now i don't have any pictures from the actual prom =(.....anyone want to give me his/her doubles?
Thursday, April 18, 2002
it's a "muumuu", isn't it? anyway, i'm tired today and i don't think i want to blog. i wanted to leave school at four but then the other team didn't show up until three fifty or so and the coach said that we couldn't leave and then i went to orchestra. and played bad viola in a sectional rehearsal with this really excited fat man who was coaching us. i have a strange tan.
eh, i was going to just do a little blog like everyone else, but i feel like writing more. curse my verbosity. that is probably not even a word. *sigh* :P
i finally scored a goal in lacrosse today. sheesh.. i've been dying to make one. hehe, i think i expect too much. but yeah. we played superwell in the first half and we were up by two. then.. as always, for some odd reason.. we crashed and lost by four. durr. it was quite .. upsetting? frustrating? you know what i mean. i got yellowcarded, too. hahahaha.. i accidentally checked this girl in the head/shoulder area and i got taken out for three minutes. hahaha.. i felt so violent and rebellious. the girl was really pissed off at me too. she gave me the evil eye even after i apologized a few times. grr. i feel tough. :o) the asbury park press came to our latin grant thing today. the reporter had a mustache. she was a woman. i was like, hmm. i felt very very rude thinking that. and then whenever the photographer started taking pictures, he would flash the thing about ten times and we'd all start cracking up. as in.. "smile!... click click click click click" it was fun. i wonder when we're going to be in the paper. and whatever happened to srikar. :-/
i havent blog blogged in a bit...so prom is tomorrow. I think the only part I'm truly excited about is getting out of school. But anyway, our little group of latin-ites did more presentations today. I've thoroughly decided that i will never become a teacher, at least a teacher of classical history, or latin or something that boring. I hope there isn't a picture in the newspaper of all of us n our moo-moos. And where the heck was srikar? So those 8th graders were most likely bored out of their minds, i htink they were more fascinated by the infestation of lady bugs upon the wall than our actual presentations. Anyway i have to read hamlet... which reminds me of piglet.. and makes me think that this prince could be obese... ok... shakespeare stinks
sometimes i wish i was a white person so that i wouldn't tan so crazily like i do, even with sunblock. actually, no. i don't want skin cancer.
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
ahahahahahahahaha!! apparently, ellen, it wasn't poor jonny lee's idea. he actually had no such intentions whatsoever. so anyway. nothing to worry about.
i wish that i would just stop playing incredibly bad tennis. today seemed like a new low. everything i screw up is something mental. i have to fix my mind. i have to do math hw and feed my mind with hamlet.
and so i had another 2 and 1/2 hour piano lesson today, how amusing. and right after a really really traumatizing experience. ouch, i'm scarred for life, i really am. you WILL hear about it soon, i'm sure. and you will laugh at me. all of you. it was scary. really scary.... i thought i was going to barf. thank you for asking, i didnt really. and by the way, i said NO. just for the record. ok?
ack, i felt like i was going to evaporate today. or vaporize. or pass out.. whichever came first. i put on loads of sunblock, but i could still feel the heat seeping in and destroying my skin. and my ankle brace tan is becoming quite disgusting. okay, maybe not disgusting, but really really ugly and annoying. it looks like i've painted part of my leg white. grrrrrr. me no likey. :o)
hm, prom is in two days. everyone is getting extremely irratable, what with the heat and all our psychotic teachers assigning crazy amounts of work. no one seems to be excited anymore. i've noticed that the excitement level comes and goes in odd phases. i think people were excited yesterday.. but not today. hmm. Tuesday, April 16, 2002
for some reason everyone was falling asleep in gothelf today. i was falling asleep in bird, too. i think that when i stuff my face, i tend to fall asleep during class.
bah. today was very uneventful, except for our tennis match and the unbearably abnormally hot weather.
oh wow hi i feel so disoriented! whoo its not supposed to be this hot yet, the weather is playing games with my head. and yay lee shing, dance of the reed flutes all the wayyy!!
eh, so no breakfast food in the parking lot today. it was so unbearably hot outside, maybe it melted into the asphalt. anyway, i played some incredibly bad tennis today at third doubles -- which doesn't count, thankfully -- and i think most of it was my partner's fault, but i also contributed some errors. i need a new grip. even with the extremely low level of play that we were exhibiting, we still won eight-two in a pro set. which says something about the other team. i need to play better. i think a lighter racquet might help .. i think i might want a wilson hyperhammer, one of the 4.3 or 5.3 or 5.9 models. anyway.
i've started eating breakfast every morning. or ... attempting. yesterday i was supposed to meet someone for breakfast at 8:30 and didn't wake up. he didn't care, though ... breakfast is sort of a very ... ambiguous meal in college. as in, nobody eats it. 8:30 is INCREDIBLY early. anyway all i usually eat is a toasted bagel with butter and i drink a glass of water, but it actually makes me feel a lot better. surprising, since i've been hearing since i was about two that breakfast is the most important meal of the day ...
ok, one of my classes was cancelled for this morning and i should've been being productive with all my unexpected extra time ... but then i wouldn't be a normal person, would i? well, i did finish my music homework at least, so that's good. ... yes i'm sure you all care. there's a gorgeous tree outside my window. maybe if i get a digital camera i'll take a picture of it and put it on my website. ... that wouldn't be til next year though so don't get your hopes up. oh my high school friend who's at dartmouth told me yesterday that some *random* girl looked him up and saw that he went to school with me in high school and IMed him my website. some girl whom i don't know, and whom, i think, he didn't know either. that's ... almost scary. but he was like, "you have fans!" and that made me feel a little good. a little stalked, as well.
my head is spinning. i feel wasted on apples. sometimes i think, what am i doing with my life? and then i toast a bagel and pour myself some apple juice.
Monday, April 15, 2002
so i think something magical has been leaving me breakfast food in the high school parking lot. okay, you're going to say "that's disgusting" but a couple of weeks ago julius and i were walking to the courts after getting water -- like we do every day, it's fun! -- and i found a pack of pop tarts stix or whatever they're called on the ground, and they were sealed so i ate them afterwards. and then today, i found a buttered roll from seven-eleven in a sealed bag on the ground again and so i ate that too. or i ate half of it. i don't think i'll do it anymore, unless i find in the parking lot tomorrow a hot plate of scrambled eggs and bacon and potatoes and a glass of orange juice. and some fruit salad.
such a nice day for a car fire. and ellen, i like your poem .. it's very random and i want to write random poetry. what does it sound like in french? anyway, so this is the second time in my life that i've seen a car on fire. the first time was maybe two or three summers ago when i came home after the summer tennis camp thing and mrs. chu -- steve's mom, who was driving me home -- said something like "oh my, that's a lot of black smoke in the sky" and as we got closer to my house, it seemed that the smoke was coming from right where my house was or somewhere really closeby. anyway, it was this land rover parked two houses down (or units, since it's a townhouse and everyone's houses are connected) and it was completely on fire and black smoke billowing out and loud crackling noises. so i called 911 and said "hi, there's a huge fire in a car next to my house" and gave some water to the dog who lived in the house where the car was on fire. and it was kind of scary because the car was parked so close to the house and maybe my house would've burned down. i remember wondering if i should run and save all my precious belongings. then when the firemen came, i went with eric and norman to watch cars blow up and get stolen in "gone in sixty seconds". today's was just a little old white car in the parking lot that had something smoking underneath it that got bigger and bigger (we watched it the whole time) until the whole front was flaming and there was massive smoke and the tires popped and it collapsed and the firemen-women came (i think there were only men) and put it out. and an ambulance also pulled up and two fat people jumped -- or more like, what's the world, "popped" -- out and started walking really slowly and with some difficulty towards the scene. fat paramedics are funny.
i like "senial" better. if you were writing a poem that rhymes, it would look better with "denial." ok no. that was just an excuse.
last night i wrote a poem for french class -- my goodness it is so hard to find french words that rhyme. anyway, my rhyming is forced and the poem sounds really stupid in english. *ahem* "i was very tired in my french class my eyes were heavy...and, what is happening? i fell into a deep sleep i was dreaming on my work. to my surprise, i was with the little prince "my situation, it is a mystery, " i thought we watched a sunset "is it not beautiful?" he said. "it is true." after, i visited other lands and i saw a planet that had a clear sky on it was dr. and mrs. vandertramp mister resembled an apple, mrs. resembled a lamp. i rested in their house of etre because they were very polite their house had many rules, but it was very pretty "don't sleep, don't eat, don't drink," he said. in the house of etre, you can only "leave" so, i left the house and i woke up i need to sleep, drink, and eat "my dream is very mysterious," i thought yes, it is true" right. anyway. i'm off to go back to school. it's so nice outside today! =D Sunday, April 14, 2002
haha, ellen spelled "senile" wrong. please don't tell me that there's also an alternate spelling for that word. i think "alias" was very good, especially since she (spoiler here) killed her boyfriend with the strange overbite -- though it was accidentally, eh -- and there was that funny silent part with the little noise interference signal whatever canceller whatever it was called machine that seemed so out of place. blogging should be everyone's daily instinct. even bidaily if possible. sticking the word "bi" in front of a time adjective can mean either "twice a _____" or "every two _____" .. that's so ambiguous and stupid. they should do something about that, those people who control the english language. i just finished some chem problems and didn't take the ap chem test this weekend like i was planning to. oh well, dave said it was easy and i should have no problem getting a five. and i think spending five straight hours at brookdale should be enough chem for one weekend. i'll get around to doing the ap practice test sometime .. shoot, i have sat two writing and math and chem coming up in may. argh!
oooh, alias was good.
hey, i just realized that ellen has a new name. haha, i thought something looked different. i should shower. i don't even know why i'm blogging. hm. i think it's become instinctive. or habitual. whatever makes sense - i'm too lazy to decide. :o)
so i betrayed alias and watched mostly law and order criminal intent. i'm so evil, right? but vincent d'onofrio is so cool. i like how he moves his head around like mr. bird, and how he always says "one more thing..."
i'm so happy. it's finally warm outside, and inside too.
i had this chinese judge. or she looked chinese. maybe she was korean, or japanese. who knows? well, she does. she was #13 and she had this really nice big room and a real nice grand piano, compared to other pianos i've had in the past. so it was all good. we planted a tree in our front yard yesterday. i hope it doesn't lean to the side and start growing like a crooked senile tree. i'm hungry.
i started a personal blog . it's a robot. i really, really, really don't know why i chose to use it.
today derk volunteered to dress up as a robot . everyone should learn how to do the robot . wow that was a lot of plugs for my blog , considering i didn't technically blog anything yet...=D today for piano my judge was senial. not as an insult, but honestly. she was just incredibly old. to her, the first five minutes of our meeting/conversation did not occur, as she 1) asked me if i wanted to warm up when i a. already warmed up and b. already finished my prelude of my bach prelude & fugue. 2) she interupted my bach with "wait, i didn't finish writing comments for you first piece" when i had told her two (2) times before that i was playing a prelude & fugue. eh, well it's ok. i saw grace numerous times in her pretty in pink long skirt. Saturday, April 13, 2002
chem olympiad part two was horrible. okay, so first we have almost an exact almost two hour repeat of the other multiple-choice exam with sixty questions about miscellaneous chemistry topics like equilibrium or ionization energy or i forget, and then for almost another two hours, we have eight free response questions with five to ten sub-parts ... and then we try to solve two lab problems for an hour and a half. the first problem was something like "what is the relationship between the surface area of a potato and the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide" and i wanted to say "nothing, you idiots, unless you put them together". but instead i performed an incredibly poorly designed experiment and got totally useless results. so i think what i wrote was "the rate of decomposition seems to increase as the surface area increases by a factor of mol mol mol mol i'm sorry this experiment is against my religious principles and i do not want to be a chemist when i grow up". and i drew potatoes all over the paper. and then since i had only five minutes left to do the second problem, i drew two tubes and wrote "urea + water = urea water" -- the problem was to determine the equilibrium constant for the dissolving of urea, which is some co(nh)2 some weird i don't know -- and then i drew some test tubes and wrote my experimental procedure as "so you pour the urea into the water and you shake shake shake it and measure how much urea gets dissolved and then you drink it". what a complete five hour waste of my time. i'm tired and i just took a nap. i have to take an ap chem practice test (no!) and read my selections for the research paper and try to develop a thesis on the common literary themes of existentialism and absurdism. any ideas?
Friday, April 12, 2002
is everyone sleeping already? it's too early.
ahh my fingers hurt from stubbing them on the stupid indoor soccer ball. my right hand looks astoundingly fat, or just very swollen. maybe i shouldn't have waited until after school to get ice, but then my hand would have been freezing during the english essay. gah and it hurts to type. i got a 5 on that test. i wanted to fall asleep during orchestra today, but everyone was playing their instruments and it was too loud. i think i've been feeling incredibly disoriented at school this whole week. not disoriented as in dis-oriental. or do i just feel incredibly disoriented right now? Thursday, April 11, 2002
i am not the class clown. so during math today while bird was calling us up to check our homework folders, he calls me up and then in the middle he says "are you the class clown?" "um, no" ... "[to the class] is he the class clown?" and then gothelf made fun of me about how i fell asleep in class and how it always looks like i'm asleep and it seems like alllooksame.com is circulating after i told bryer about it -- i got four, by the way, which is a horrible score -- and then um. it seems like something strange is happening in school. i should hide a little more. i should come back and blog later.
ah haha, i did the research paper already. now i know what gothelf was talking about when she said that we'd be happy we did it first. hee hee. well, you guys'll have fun. you don't really don't do anything in class.. just sit around and "discuss ideas." i really don't want to start something new. because that means actually.. learning? haha :o)
yeah, that guy had weird teeth. they were kind of squarish and big and stuck out abnormally far. :) and when he talked, i kept expecting him to whistle or something through his teeth. i have no idea why. my brain works in strange ways. anyway, i don't think sydney should get with him. she needs to figure out that rambaldi thing and find her mother. she can't waste time messing around with a guy with weird teeth. haha :) okay fine, maybe it will be good. i just hope they don't play depeche mode loudly in the background while they're having an important emotional scene again. that was weird.
last year mike marano's senior friends brought feasts to every home match. it was so funny. they had buckets of chicken and whole watermelons and coolers full of drinks, and they would eat through the whole thing. dance aerobics is fun.
who needs sleep? we do. Wednesday, April 10, 2002
okay, so i just watched a tape of this past sunday's "alias" and that guy has really strange teeth and he talks funny. funnily. oh, i saw the word "adviser" in my lit book today and i was thinking of ellie and then i wasn't anymore because i had a research paper to think about. i have a hard time choosing topics and developing theses. so i sat for a few hours watching the tennis match today against ranney and i've decided that next time i'm going to bring food, an umbrella, and all my homework to finish. i think i'm feeling wistful.
wow, that sounds so cool...do they gather everyone and yell "go" and everyone runs to whichever room they want, and see who gets there first? they probably don't right, but that would be "fan-bloody-tastic."
yeah so rooming draw in college. basically you go and try to get a room and sometimes you don't get a room and sometimes you get a room you don't like ... we got a really really nice room, it's really big ... but it's on the fifth floor. but oh well. it's still a really nice room.
your lacrosse coach is evil. our tennis coach is just stupid. so today for team pictures, i get to wear my extra-large blue with striped collar shirt and then i probably won't play in the match and this is a really stupid blog. i should do some math work.
Tuesday, April 09, 2002
dur, i was trying to think of a sentence to write that would incorporate advisor, da, 2, 4 eva, etc. but i couldn't think of one. ah, another failed attempt at being witty. :)
anyways. i was feeling very very sad and depressed when i came home today. i stink at lacrosse. i think i formally established my position as benchwarmer today. we lost (again, like we have been doing) badly to rumson.. and coach was REALLY pissed. she even got mad when deidre started doing that corny "B-E agressive" cheer. she told her that if she wanted to cheer, she should have joined cheerleading. it was scary.. she's usually much nicer than that. but yeah. i screwed up majorly. one of the (many) goals the other team scored was because of my stupidity. and then.. she yelled at me from the sidelines and i felt extremely extrememly stupid and bad and i started to do other stupid things. so she took me out of the game, oddly enough, right after she told us that she would not play people that weren't giving onehundred percent or something like that. hm. (i really hope i'm blowing this all out of proportion.) i have gotten over it, though. i should just have fun and try my best, right? right. *sigh* i am over it. really. it's only a game, after all. :oP wow, prom is in a week and a half. which also mean that the fatty bowl (duel of the gluttons) is in a week and half!! i'm excited. i just hope that no one pukes. heehee :) wow, i just reread my paragraph on the lacrosse game, and it makes me sound so sad. i'm really not! i was just feeling sad for a moment. i get so moody sometimes. and i should really stop dwelling in my miseries. okay, off to bed. or something like that. =)
if i'm ever editor-in-chief, i'm going to make everyone spell advisor adviser, like it is now. but then i'm going to make everyone spell the da, to/too 2, forever 4 eva , and etc. i'm also going to implement a policy of only using clipart. also, no usage of lines. dave's having a heart attack now. =D
it can be both advisor or adviser. The current trend is toward adviser, though, because they don't want the job advisor to be associated with dictator, or censor. Yes, i know because i am editor-in-chief.
notice the definition for "adviser" really doesn't give you much of an idea of what an adviser does...except give advice. dictionaries can be very lazy and annoying. our doubles challenge match was so intense yesterday and today and i'm glad we won, because i don't know what i would have done if we didn't. maybe i'd get stuck in a moment, but sooner or later i'd get out of it. ahh it was so intense. but homework is getting intense too. what am i doing blogging? i don't have time to blog. our coach is making us wear the ugliest tackiest tennis uniforms tomorrow for pictures. and they're all XL too. sheesh.
so i didn't have my ninth period class today -- oh yesterday we had these chocolate eggs with surprise toys inside and i got a hockey player but then i traded it for a bear, a bear playing the accordion! -- and so i'm sitting here in the library writing this blog before i go to tennis. speaking of which, i played a really bad doubles challenge match yesterday and yet we managed to win. which was strange. ellie, i like your writing style (when you go like this) (and like this) and i bet you're sticking non-breaking space html tags all over the place like i am. but you spelled "advisor" wrong. so a while ago when i lived in texas and when we had a toaster with two slots in it, i was maybe ten or nine or possibly even eight and i stuck a bagel in the slots but they weren't wide enough and i had to squish it in and then i pushed that thing down and forgot about the toaster. until there were flames coming out which my mom discovered and started screaming and since the toaster was on the kitchen counter right under some wooden cabinets sticking out of the wall, they were turning dark colors and about to catch on fire. and my mom was mad. i don't want to play tennis. and we're going to have to sell the ugliest t-shirts in the world starting today or tomorrow. i have a new research paper to write and lines from "hamlet" to recite. yay.
derek, your blog (this one) (that link probably didn't work, did it) made me crack up. don't really know why.
aw, everybody's thinking about college. that's crazy. but good for you guys. all colleges are nice. you should go anywhere. ... that probably wasn't helpful. actually it bothers me because i'm thinking, "WHY do these juniors in high school have ideas about what they want to major in and what they want to do and what kind of lives they want (city or less city) when i have NO idea where i'd want to live when i grow up or what i want to major in or whether i should be premed or not or who my sophomore adviser should be or even where i'm going to live next year (rooming draw is tonight i'm a little stressed about that) (i'll explain rooming draw after this) or even what i'm going to do this summer and all these younger people have more ideas about what they want to do than me!" oops that was really a question, so it should've ended with a question mark and not an exclamation point, my bad. why is it a question MARK and an exclamation POINT? ... it's not an exclamation mark, is it? ... i think serena's incredibly long blog obliterated all memory of how to write from my mind. i'll explain rooming draw another time.
ooh, it's late. i'm going to hate myself in the morning for being up at this hour. *sigh* i always do this. i'm feeling my second wave of hunger. oh no..
anyways. aaah, college. definitely the hot topic around all households, social circles, and all that these days. i'm already sick of it and i'm only a junior. i will probably reach some degree of insanity either late this year or early on senior year. i can feel it already.. *shudder* but yeah. i want to go to college in a small town close to a big city. with trees and grass and sunshine and a pretty campus. i am definitely not a city girl. haha, that reminds of city guys. tnbc is a funny programming slot. funny in the not-so-good way. haha :) wow, i am really tired. i should go work on my latin thing now. :oP Monday, April 08, 2002
i want to blog but i can't blog because i don't have time to blog but i'm actually writing a blog when i shouldn't be writing this blog but since i can't blog i should blog later but blog blog blog. blog. i once set a cabinet on fire with my toaster .. i left a bagel inside and it got caught and phwoosh.
Sunday, April 07, 2002
well i don't really know anyone here except derek derek and ellen, but i'll add my two cents. new york is a bad place to be! go to school in washington dc! it's a great city, and not too ghetto like philadelphia or ny, just stay away from the bad parts. it's more comfortable to live in than the other cities. boston is cool too. come visit me next year, down in dc.
i thought it was funny when pastor al said "the nj department approved our dam safety contract!" it sounded like he was cursing the safety contract. i was just reading derek's blog below and what kind of school you want, and i just imagined you at a huge party school with fraternities "dominating the social scene" and stuff, and it was a funny vision. this lack of one hour of sleep sure is a doozy.
i liked columbia. i think i liked it better than upenn, where i was only a few hours ago. i'm still trying to decide whether i like living in a big city, or maybe a little city next to a big city .. definitely not some rural area. small college town next to big city sounds okay, but it would have to be really close. and then the campus would have to have trees and grass and sidewalks and be quiet and have bookstores and coffee shops and libraries with couches and cool sophisticated-looking people. that's what i want in a school. people i can meet and be really good friends with. a good church to go to. we went to this tenth street presbyterian church today which was predominantly caucasian and it was really kind of too traditional and boring. like the whole organist playing hymns and huge elevated podium with pews and passing an offering tray and a sermon series about the ten commandments and baptismal of new members and congregational responsive reading. maybe it's just me, but i have a hard time being enthusiastic with traditional services. i fell asleep maybe less than five minutes into the sermon. and chinatown was really scary last night. philadelphia just feels kind of ghetto to me, a bit crude and dirty. not that new york isn't. but i don't know, it felt less sophisticated than new york. and there were a lot of frat houses everywhere and people with cups of beer. i almost wrote "bears" just now. we ate at penang last night, what a coincidence. how many have i been to now.
faster, jess? wanna go faster?
i didn't really like columbia either. i guess it's too fast paced for me and it seemed so crowded and cramped and gray with all the gray buildings. and it sorely lacks plant growth. i like smaller college towns, like princeton. princeton is awesome. grass, trees everywhere and plenty of room to chuck frisbees and lie down and watch clouds. i almost hit another car backing out of a driveway today. i am so hungry. Saturday, April 06, 2002
hmm i was planning to blog about something, but after reading your novels about new york.. i think i'm going to make this a "cheap blog". so when i went to visit columbia i really really didn't like it. maybe i went on a day when they had really bad tour guides or meeting speaker people or.. bad karma. i don't know. after everything everyone has said about how great it is, i sort of feel like.. i got the wrong impression or something. and that i should visit again just to make sure. ahh i don't know.. i just watched top gun for the first time ever! ahhh great movie... i feel the need, the need for speed.
ellen, I'm absolutely in love wiht Columbia and the city. THe fast pace makes me feel so alive. I wanna major in business as well. A long time ago I killed my parents dreams of me becoming a doctor...they still prod at the idea every once in a while. The only thing about Columbia that they don't like is that Columbia is right next to Harlem, but then everyong we talked to there didn't seem to have a problem with that,. I love hte fact that Columbia feels like a real campus with a quad and stone pathways and lots of people walking around. It's so perfect. I think the city life was made for me, or rather I was made for the city life. Most likely it was hte latter. I didn't really see a lot of kids congregating on teh steps... maybe it was an off day, or because it was Friday and all the students were set free.
serena, i read allll of your blog. =D isn't columbia absolutely beautiful?? i love everything about it...including the dirty smelly city! hehe. but, i'm still confused why students congregate on the steps like pigeons. i told dave to investigate that when he starts going there. he said he'd study it, like john nash studied the patterns of a pigeon's movement. anyway. derk, did you do what i did?? that is...approach some of the students sitting a la pigeon on the steps and make up false lives. while i was there, i was an economics major. my friend was a political science major. we were sophomores. and roommates. anyway.
i just typed out a huge paragraph about my not so great time last night. but then i erased it. eh...=\ i went out to eat dinner at penang with my parents tonight. my mom decided to talk about colleges, because like in most households with jr/sr kids, its the current hot topic. seriously, with the amount of time spent discussing colleges, you would think it was national news. or some huge important global conflict news. or discussed on good morning america and the view. *sigh*. well she asked what i think i would study, so i told her. if i go to columbia, i might major in journalism. then my mom dropped her chopsticks and hainan chicken (now i know all of you guys order that when you go to penang...). so then i added, "or maybe economics." hehe...i was never a science loving girl anyway. i listed some more possibilities if i go to different schools, none of which were "pre med" or anything. it was interesting to see how i basically shattered my mom's dream of me becoming a doctor. or a dentist. or a pharmaceuticals major. though it would be very noble to be a doctor...and i do like biology/etc. sciences (physics is not a science. it is not.) to an extent, i don't think i could ever pull myself through so many years of schooling and residency and etc. not to mention all the politics w/ hmos nowadays that comes along if i wanted to open up a private practice, which in itself would be a very very very difficult task. i guess i just don't have the passion for that stuff. hm, i used to think i did. eh... i'm listening to pop unknown now. they're an emo (a category i thought was always so vague...) band. hm, i never usually listen to this kind of music. anyway, the drummer is gabe wiley, who used to be in mineral (apparently a legendary emo band? *shrug*). he's also the brother of tess wiley , who used to be the rhythm guitarist/backing vocals for sixpence (when they were super good). it always comes back to sixpence... dude, i bet no one cares about this, hehe...=D ah we're losing an hour of sleep!
sorry about the long blog again... i tried to make paragraphs so it would be easier to read, but I can't seem to do that... would anyone like to enlighten me? Lots of Enters and lots of SPaces dont seem to work...
so maybe ill tell our new york story... well my part in it anyway... derek richard and i took the 8:46 train out of hazlet station to penn. It turns out we got hte wrong tickets so the conductor lady had to give us these nice blue slips.. she punched the paper stuff onto my bag... the train ride there was pretty ineventful, we just read some college magazine that derek brought. So we got to penn station around 10, and decided to head out for nyu so that we could tackle something in the morning. I don't think I like NYU too much. IT just seemed like an uneventful place. There was no real campus setting, but lots of fat pigeons. THey had this little park area in teh middle with a skateboard course thing. They also had these chessboards set up. Some guy was sitting there and when Richard flinched towards the boards, he challenged Richard to a game. But Richard declined...so we decided that NYU wasn't a nice place to walk around.
I saw all these GAP bags so we decided to head towards somewhere with shopping available. So we walked around towards...was it 34th street derek? i don't really remmeber. THey had this really nice Urban Outfitters that was too expensive. THey had some interesting books though. I was tempted to buy a book entitled something like 'The Easiest Cookbook for guys who only own one saucepan'. I know some guys who want to learn how to cook. I found the book amusing especially when they define spatula as 'the thing you scoop things with'. So after that we went into H&M. They've got these great clothes for good prices. I rode the escalator back up to the streeet level as I heard Richard and Derek say 'lets go downstairs'. So I was standing on teh escalator screaming their names... they still didnt hear me. I was tempted to follow them back down, but I realized it might end up in a game of tag going up and down the escalators. I think I did this in Urban Outfittesr too. SO after that we went to Starbucks and RIchard and I got Caramel Apple Ciders. Then we walked up to CHinatown. We saw these live frogs in a basket thing... I think Derek wanted to eat one, or at least buy one. So we walked around trying to find some place to eat because it was around noon now. Unfortunately everything was too expensive so D & R wanted to walk around more...we walked around for a long time before we settled on a chinese restuarant called 'Grand Restuarnt'. So it was pretty typical chinese fast food. After that we walked around these cantonese people who spoke loudly so I translated for Derek... a mother was scolding her son... and then I this random person passing said something like 'my fat cat'. So after that we were gonna take the subway up to 116th street to go to columbia, but we took the express and got off at 125th... I think at this point Richard really really had to go to the bathroom.. so we walked around in HArlem trying to find a place... no bathrooms exist there..until a lady came back and screamed at us that there was a bathroom in McDonalds...unfortunately there was a line and no matter how politely Richard asked to cut in front of hte two ladies they wouldn't budge. They were pretty quick... but gooosh.. anyhow skip that part. I heard Richards cell phone ring twice in the bathroom. AFter that it was around 1:50 and we had to meet everyone else at 2 at Columbia... but we were still 9 blocks away. So we took the subway back down to 116th. THen we walked a few blocks. WE came to this park like place... with lots of steps. In fact the whole park was steps. So to avoid being late even mroe we ran up these steps... lots of steps, maybe a 100. I thought i was gonna die... so as im almost at the top the cellphone in my pocket is ringing. I pick it up and im huffing and puffing and ERic says, so where are u guys? 'I'm running up steps almost there... running up steps' though I doubt it sounded like that more like... exasperated words. I think I said OK a lot so ERic would hang up and I wouldnt have to run and talk. So we walked about a block and got to Columbia, unfortunately we were meeting them on teh other side..so we walked...and as soon as we saw them we turned around to walk back to the middle. It was around 2:15 now... and we were late for hte information session...consequently there were no more seats. We had to stand against he wall where I felt like passing out, but thankfully seats became available slowly. The lady was a very good speaker. After that we went on a campus tour which was pretty cool. Columbia is awesome, I really really wanna go there...We saw these groups of Azns bigger than our group. BTW, our group consisted of Derek, Richard, Eric, Norman, Allison, Janet, Michelle, Steph, and me. We met up with JAmes and he brought us up to his dorm. He had to bring his friend down to beable to sign us all in. The elevator took a long time and apparently on our way up there was a security guard who had an emergency... So James' dorm is pretty nice, 2 rooms for 2 people, and 1 fish. James told us about his couch and how it got there. pretty amusing. It was around 5 so we decided to head down and get free food at the mini concert there. But most of us didn't want to take the food because we werent going to stay. But then ERic and Norman did... At that point we left Columbia which was pretty sad because I think its an awesome place. We took the subway and headed towards 54th street where we went into this relaly huge EXpress and this nice GAP... there was a fire about one block away from the EXpress so lots of action around there. Then we walked up to 5th avenue and saw all these pretty stores and the sparkly paved sidewalks. So by this time lots of people were complaining about hunger so we took lots of trains and ended up in Times Square trying to find some place to eat... There were so many lights... I couldnt decide where I should look, I've never seen times square until last night... back to the food... of course there are no places to eat so we ended up taking a very long walk underground back to the A C E line... and we headed to Penn Station where we consumed fast food in 2 groups. We took the 8:29 train home. My mom told me there was a riot outside of Penn Station or somewhere near... I guess we really didn't see that... The train ride was ok... Allison dazzled us with her birthday/phone number/address memory... That girl is insane... she knows... everyone! We got back around 9:35 and by that time I think we were all ready to pass out. So I apologize for the extra long blog... and I also apologize to those who never wanted to read this in the first place... I hope its sort of entertaining and not too boring... I had lots of fun...
bah, what a let down. i was just so excited to recieve my scores today... well, maybe more like anxious and frightened. hm.
new york was fun. i don't think i could go to school in the city. bleh. the columbia campus was really great and the school seemed cool but i can't take the city for more than a day at a time. it's just so.. dirty and smelly and icky. and there are so many people all over the place and they're all hurrying everywhere and so much is going on all the time and it's just overwhelming. i felt like the country mouse. hahaha.. that was corny. anyway, maybe i should go somewhere close to a city but not actually in one. i don't want to talk about college anymore. :o/ well, i'm off. to do all the stuff that i told myself to do within the first two days of break. ah, phoo. i'm such a procrastinator.
eh. someone told me that sat scores would be available online today, or i would get them in the mail today, or something else -- it says that scores will be available monday online and that's also when they'll be mailed out. grr, and i was so eager to find out what i got this morning just now. um, i have to go pack for my trip now.
Friday, April 05, 2002
mm, those shoes sold in the end for fifty-eight dollars. my blogs are always very inexpensive, and who would like to buy them. i just came back from new york and took a shower and now i feel cleaner than before. i think i'm a germaphobe, mildly. er .. it was fun. i think i'd like to go to columbia. i should visit princeton and see whether i like a cozy small town setting or a big city one. i have no idea what i want to do and i'm really indecisive about every little thing. visiting upenn tomorrow with roger chao. hm. someone else tell our new york story. i'm too tired to blog. maybe i'll write it in my journal sometime tomorrow.
Thursday, April 04, 2002
hmm so now i'm going to spend a whole tomorrow in new york. fun fun fun. really.
the match against monmouth regional was interesting. one of the kids chris and I were playing was a loudmouth, but every time chris hit the ball straight at him, that kid would duck and stick his racquet over the net. it was kinda funny. bisonboy was on fire at singles! then we played on the swings next to the courts, and i realized that i hadn't been on swings in years. i had almost forgotten how to swing!
hm, i think i just ate one of the greasiest meals imaginable. approximately eight chicken fingers and one mozzarella stick. uuunngh. i think i'm going to be sick.
anyway, practice wasn't quite as horrible and frightening as i had pictured it, although i did get quite winded when we scrimmaged. i wasn't even running that much, either. our coach was in her playful mood. i was glad. aah, i just hope she doesn't decide to suddenly snap into her let's-torture-these-kids mood.. that would be bad. so i painted for almost four hours today. we put cool borders on our display panels for our little latin grant thing.. and it looks so good! i love it when things you work hard on turn out well. i just need to get cracking on my section. i was supposed to take this brown paper stuff home but i forgot! i was so mad. and i left three pencils and ruler there, too. *sigh* i'm losing my marbles. haha. i'm going to try to recreate the effect with brown paper bags tonight. yess. hopefully i'll be able to think of something super-creative and stun all the eighth graders with my map-drawing skills. hahahahahaha.. oh boy. we went to shop rite at one point to buy junk food... we got nestle flipz, wheat thins, pretzels, gummi bears, and wow. we pigged out for a while and it was nice. haha. painting is really fun. i felt so productive. blarg, i think i should do that math extra credit. blarg blarg blarg. i don't wanna go back to school!!!!!!!! :(
peter gabriel is good too. but you have to admit, duran duran and u2 is where it's at in the eighties. aw yeah. zi, i know you share my love of u2.
has anyone ever seen the snl "weekend update" skit with colin quinn and will ferrell as a frat guy? the one where will is like, "Colin! Colinial foot soldier!" and he sings peter gabriel's song "in your eyes"? ok this would definitely be funny if it wasn't written on a blog. *sigh*
john mayer is eh, ok. peter gabriel is where it's at.
hi ellen! i feel like i haven't seen you in ages. let's start a group called off the hook! get it?! hm. i'll be a conformist and make this a "cheap" blog too. wait, what's a cheap blog? is this a cheap blog?
who's "we" thats going to ny? ahh i haven't been there is such a long time (excluding the time i went for journalism) for playing purposes. i seriously picked the wrong day to skip school (mon). it was so beautiful yesterday -- i wanted to be outside so badly. eh, now it's cold again. what's up with that?!
hm, i'm home really early today from school. good thing though, because then i can continue my way through hell week. i have lots of things to do that are tres important for me. i'm really hoping that i can sleep tonight. i didn't sleep last night. crazy crazy crazy. i'll get over it. mm..i really want to eat pizza now. y'all should download upenn off the beat. they're terribly good a capella group. i like "beautiful people" (rusted root), "anything but down" (sheryl crow), "don't stand so close to me" (the police!) and "wild horses." everything is good, really. john mayer's cover of radiohead's "kid a" is cool too. this is really for derek, since he'll ask about it sooner or later. hey, its a bbmak song. haha.. this is a cheap blog, sorry. what have you guys been doing over break?
okay, so i just kind of finished my history work. now it's on to my stupid math extra credit assignment and i have to think of how to fit pictures in trig graphs. sine squared plus cosine squared equals one. you'd think that people would've had enough of silly love songs. i was watching "greg the bunny" yesterday and it's such a strange show. but it's funny when the puppets say really inane things. like things i can't remember at the moment. i think we're most likely definitely going to new york tomorrow. who wants to come?
black hawk down was good! i happen to have a barnes and noble application...hm, i guess they knew you didn't like that movie so you can't get a job! =P i saw death to smoochy yesterday- so hilarious! "oh, i don't like guns! when we were kids and played cowboys and indians, i was always the chinese railroad worker!" "i'm sorry i got caught up in the frenzy of anti-smoochyism." "smoochy is fuschia! moochy is burgundy!" funny funny movie.
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i saw beautiful mind tonight. actually, i only saw the first 40 minutes of it. then it broke. the beginning was pretty boring actually. so anyway, we got free movie tickets for another show anytime plus any show that we wanted to watch tonight that was already running. so i watched 20 minutes of ice age which was really funny, then we went to the 900 show of panic room, which was quite suspenseful. it was good. better than black hawk down (blech!) anyway. hmm, i was going to go beaching tomoddo. but that changed to friday. which was pretty useless cuz i forgot to ask my mom, and when i asked her today, she said no. so poo. instead, i'm going to get a million job apps tomoddo and friday and get them all out so i can have a job this summer. i got a starbucks app today and i went for a bn one but they didn't have any or they couldn't find any or something. so. i'm gonna get a job. go connie. or i could get a job at the beach with my friend and live at her beach house all week in the summer and just come home on the weekends. that would also be cool. i will be very crisp. like burnt toast. aww look at that. connie is all grown up. haha NOT. =)
Wednesday, April 03, 2002
ahh, the shoes are now forty-one dollars. should i bid, should i not bid. they were originally like a hundred, so maybe i'll bid tomorrow morning. nineteen hours left for this auction. grr, i wish it was still ten dollars. how wonderful life is now that you're in the world. i need to work on my history project tomorrow. and i'm finally probably most likely going to see "a beautiful mind"! wow, what a movie week. we might go to new york on friday. i want to walk around midtown and downtown and go see columbia.
so i finally saw "moulin rouge". with serena and steph, even though they didn't want to. so thanks. it was really good, but i think i would've liked it better if all the funny parts near the end were taken out .. i don't know, i think it would've been better with a really really sad ending. i want to find a movie that will make me cry, like a really sad romantic drama or .. something. come what may. my history project section is horrible. it's so confusing and none of my sources say the same thing about this one item and it's grr. stupid roosevelt.
i was really mad yesterday because i blogged (twice) and both times, the stupid server wasn't working or something. and i was very mad. by the way, serena says hi. we're all at jessica's house right now. slacking off when we're supposedly working on our history outline. hahahahahaha. :o) i don't really feel like going home yet because that would mean that i'd have to start working on other homework. PHOOOOOOOoooooooo. phoo.
anyways. i can't think of anything interesting to say. oh, actually, i watched training day last night with my mom. it was kind of.. pointless. if you see it you'll know what i mean. and there were so many rapper/singer cameos.. like, macy gray and dr. dre and snoop doggy dog. hahaha.. it was so weird. macy gray had these really nasty looking nails that were about.. five inches long and she kept smoking this cigarette in a very unbecoming way. eew. and then snoop doggy dog was in a wheelchair. hahaha. it was all right, i guess. denzel washington was good.. but it seemed like the same performance he gives in every movie. maybe the oscar was more of a consolation thing. for all the times he should have gotten one, but didn't. ethan hawke looked kind of scruffy for the whole movie. he had this weird.. goatee thing. hm. :) my dad was in the military, too. he never tells me shower stories, though. hahahahahahahahahaha... :o) you're parents are hilarious, derek. hahaha.. maybe i'll do something else now. Tuesday, April 02, 2002
so my dad was just telling me for some reason about how when he was in the military, he had to shower with other guys. and my mom asks him how many other men, and he said "well let's see, maybe a hundred". i don't know why he was telling me this. oh wait, that's right, today he opened the door to my room while i was changing and i said "get out". and i told him to knock before he enters a room, i mean, have some respect common sense manners. anyway, so he tells me about how he didn't know anything about homosexuals when he used to be in the military, and now he feels a bit uncomfortable about how he used to shower with a hundred other guys around a big pool thing. and he's telling me about how he accidentally dropped his soap once and it disappeared. so he thinks that it would've been really useful if he had the kind of soap that floats, he says. right.
sorry derek, but i got home at 11:00 after swimming, and i was later told that you had called and needed me to call you back last night. so, that's why i ask when the person i'm looking for is going to be home, before i ask him/her to call back. i mean, have some common sense.
the match against asbury park went really well. it went so fast, you couldn't even see it. or maybe it just didn't happen at all because they never came. i bet on thursday, coach tells us that it was actually an away game for us and we were supposed to go to asbury park.
that marcus chong guy has a funny nose. richard called me last night at eleven thirty. twice. i mean, come on, have some respect common sense manners, it's eleven thirty! anyway, so i was a bit surprised when my mom comes to me twice consecutively with the phone and tells me that it's for me. and okay, it wasn't that annoying, but it was weird. i'm sleepy and i miss my bed.
so we've started playing tnet/tfast again. it's too addictive. i have to stop. who wants to go to new york on thursday? we want to visit columbia and nyu. and i want to walk around midtown around fiftieth sixtieth street or so and then go into soho and chinatown. maybe. ahh, my shoes are now twenty three dollars! Monday, April 01, 2002
i watched law and order: criminal intent last night. marcus chong from the matrix was in it. man, that show is good. now i'm in a dilemma. alias or law and order? we'll just have to wait and see.
so i went to see princeton today and i saw jess, caroline and chrisitine there, but i wasn't surprised because i figured they were already enrolled. princetonians seem really nice, or just bored. i was in the burger king and i couldn't find a cap for a medium cup, and all of a sudden 5 people rush over and embark on the great search for the medium cap. our tour guide thought he saw a "modern day john nash" because some guy seemed to be talking to a sculpture, only he was actually talking to this girl who was sitting inside the sculpture. tricky tricky. i'm going swimming tonight. wheee.
so i played my first match today even though i didn't want to and i didn't think i would be put in, except the coach decides to put me in second doubles with steve chu. and so we played these middletown south kids and it was horrible. my extra-large polo shirt kept bothering me. it felt like a dress, not that i've ever worn one, but my elbows were catching on the super long sleeves and i couldn't move well and grr. i need another shirt. so anyway, we lost the first set six-three, won the second six-two, and then we played a tiebreaker and won seven-four. it was terrible. that and i ran into steve going back for a lob. but it was funny when the huge fat kid served right into his partner at the net. harharhar.
you know, this weekend is going to be stinky because 1. school starts on monday 2. we lose an hour on sunday 3. sat scores are coming on saturday. i'm sorry. i probably should have mentioned it. i guess we're just going to have to make the best of this week. :o) hehe
i ended up watching sickening amounts of television even though alias and malcom weren't on and i missed the simpsons. they had this special on E! about snl.. and i watched the whole thing. two hours. i don't even know why. i guess it was kind of interesting. *sigh* what a waste of an evening. :P i'm hoping today will be somewhat productive. right after i finish fooling around online. yes.. that should be soon. :) |