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| First Day of Summer School |
Tuesday, June 24, 2003 |
I woke up around 6 am.. considered early for summer school, which starts at 7:30 am because I now live in Chino... not Walnut anymore, so I gotta get up early. It took around 30 minutes to get to school, so I arrived around 7:10 am. Then I quickly met up with Jack and we walked to my locker, around school to my new class to check out the classroom, and then to find his class. It was all good... he told me some about *ahem* and all.
Physics is my class that I'm taking.. I sit in the 3rd row (there's about four rows) and there's 27 people in the class. Only two people per table, so I sat with Jessica. She's so nice and sweet, and was in my euro ap class last year. Dennis Chen sits behind us.. and some other people in the class that I know: Jasmine, Priya (yuck!! how did that bitch from dbhs get into this class?? f*** her. i knew her back in south pointe, and she had... oddd.. morals), James Pahng, Pamela Chui, and the azn football dude who has a locker next to mine: Chris. It was interesting.. and we have a test tomorrow. Mr. Goossens (GOH-sihns), it the tennis coach, and I think he's really cool.. partly cuz he's very organized and knows what the hell he's doing in physics. Quite the physicist. He even has his own website with all the notes in class on it. So right now I'm copying that the notes that I wasn't able to copy down in class.
I also saw Jinfull .. or "Foo".. Jinfae's little brother there. Hehehe Jack thinks he's stalking us. HAHAHA jk. I also got Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix yesterday!! WOOHOO!! But no time to read....yet. I also gotta archive these posts... the page is geting a bit slow on loading.
Posted by Goolia at 02:20 p.m.
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| World of Chaos |
Monday, June 23, 2003 |
I love my new home.
I couldn't post the past few days because I was moving my house (never has moving been so hard) and so therefore, I didn't have any internet connection since my computer hasn't been set up yet. And still hasn't.. I'm at my mom's office right now, where she has DSL. Woohoo. The telephone guy's coming tomorrow to set up our phone, and my DSL might arrive soon, if where I live has DSL. Hopefully yes.
Everything has been so hectic.. I had to paint my room a light shade of green.. then assemble all of my new Ikea furniture, and then move some stuff out of the boxes and bags. I love my room now, with the way it's set up. It's a pity I will only have 2 more years to live here.. then I'm off and away to the east coast, hopefully. So far I've got about 1/2 of my stuff unpacked and my room is getting filled up fast. My friend, Karima, also told me today that she moved yesterday from Walnut to Chino Hills.. and looking at a map, she lives about 2 miles away from me! That is SOO KOOL!! We should carpool sometime. Hahaha... depends on our IB schedule and all, though.
Sometimes I don't know where I belong.. I was born in New York and all, but I moved here to California and I still feel I owe my allegiance to my birthplace.. I want to belong there. But I grew up here in Cali and I'm not so "sophisticated" like those in New York. So if I really belong to California.. then where? Walnut? Chino? I feel sorta detached from Walnut now, and I like Chino and especially my new home, and my neighbors are relatively nice. *SIGH* I have an identity problem.
I'm starting summer school tomorrow.. Physics.. since colleges rant about how they like it when students take Phsyics. I'll do almost anything to give me an edge in college applications. And this summer I have so many other things to do.. AHHH!!! So far I know 3 people taking Physics: Jessica, James, and Jasmine. All of their names start with a J.. and so does mine. Hahaha. I wonder about the rest of the class.
I also have driving to worry about.. my permit expires around August 20, and I'm leaving July 31-August 10 to the east coast.. my driving instructor comes back from vacation on July 15, so from the 15th to the 31st, I have to fit in 6 hours of professional instructed driving AND take the freakn test. I need to make my appointment soon. And I probably won't pass if I don't have enough instruction, so then if I don't pass, from the 10 to the 20, I must pass that one time, or else I'm screwed. If I really don't pass those two times, I have to retake my permit test, wait another freakn six months, take another 6 hours of driving, and THEN take the test. In my junior year, too.. the harshest year of IB.
My dreary life.
Posted by Goolia at 10:16 a.m.
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| Last Day of School.. memorable? |
Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
I am now officially a junior.
We had two classes today: Second Period and Fourth Period Finals.. I have euro second period so there wasn't much that happened. Instead, I quizzes Frances for her math final, talked to Alfred while watching Harry Potter, and read a trashy romance novel of Iris'. Which reminds me.. I accidently took it home today because I forgot to give it back to her.
After second period, Frances and I went to see Mr. Schultz about my overall chem grade: 89.2%.. he said what he told me yesterday, he'll see if he made any mistakes on my grade. But the thing is.. how can there possibly be any mistake left to find when he doesn't have any of my past homework assignments? There's nothing to base a mistake upon. I'm really worried about the grade.. I NEED THE FREAKIN A. In the morning, Stephanie and I had gone to see Belcher, but he hadn't post up grades yet. Pooh, he was being an asshole too.
Fourth period was entertaining: English. We took a 47-question objective test for APers.. just to see how well we could do. Then we wrote a quickwrite on Julius Caesar and Animal Farm while chatting to friends the whole time. Hahaha, mine was more of an essay-style though. Mr. Root also got these fake trees.. and one of them was behind me. It kept leaning towards me and even fell! Scary, but funny. Lol, and we watched some project videos. Afterwards, the bell rang and I got up to tell Brian and Pierce that I would miss them. *sniffle* Lol, but Brian was all like.. "YOU KNOW YOU WOULDN'T MISS ME.. YOU HATE ME!! hahaha" Lol, and then I hugged Helen. Then I saw Tommy on the way out so I told him I would miss him also. *sniffle* Then me and Helen parted ways and I met Jack. He walked with me to my locker while we kept saying that we were juniors now. Hahaha, and then Liwen gave me a ride home with Jack, Darren, Juliana, and Stephanie in her car. We were a tight squeeze. So now I'm home.. and I'm MOVING TO CHINO TOMORROW!!! WOW!!!! I gotta start packing.. I didn't do ANY OF THAT YET. But first.. lunch.
Posted by Goolia at 12:29 p.m.
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| Finals Update |
Wednesday, June 18, 2003 |
This week commences the feared finals.
To update my blog on what I got on my finals:
Tuesday: Chemisty- I got an 88%.. I'm quite proud of it because I had done well, but I'm not proud of the fact that I already had an 89.4% in the class, so with an 88%, I have a B+. POOH!!!! I'm so pissed off by that. So close to an A-.
Wednesday: Math- I didn't study at ALL.. so I got a C. I thought I got an F.. so I'm quite happy, in fact. My overall grade is a B or B-.
Spanish- I don't know what I got yet.. but I'm guessing a B. I need at least a 90% on the final, though, to get an A- in the class. Screw that thought. pooh twice.
TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!! Yay! Well, tomorrow I only have one final: English.. which I don't really need to study for. All I'll do is study my Animal Farm and Julius Caesar notes. Doodoodo..
Posted by Goolia at 03:39 p.m.
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| i lost my voice |
Monday, June 16, 2003 |
I think I have SARS.
Just a conjecture.. I lost my voice and I can't even talk. My throat hurts a lot, so I can't talk at all or else it will hurt even more.. right now I'm drinking a nice hot soup.
I can't write much today because I have my chemistry final tomorrow. Goodbye blog.
Posted by Goolia at 03:50 p.m.
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| it's a sunday and i have to much crap to do |
Sunday, June 15, 2003 |
I'm doing workshop points for English right now.. later I think I will do some studying. Then lunch.. and then I need to go work on the english project at michele's house. Hopefully we will be able to get it done early so I can come back and do some more homework. Hehehe.
Posted by Goolia at 09:51 a.m.
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| can i just say tiring? |
Saturday, June 14, 2003 |
All this morning and early afternoon I was stressing out about when my english project group could meet. I learned a lesson for the second time today.. what I should have learned awhile ago. Anyway, Michele said we couldn't meet in the morning cuz Tiffany wasn't going to be there. I said we should still meet, it was just ONE person and with 7 people, it made sense that everybody had their own things going on. But Michele said no... then later she and Grace decided upon 4 or 5 pm. I said that Helen and I couldn't make that time, but Michele didn't seem to care. In other words, it's okay to have me and helen miss the meeting, but not okay to have her best friend miss it. Really pisses me off.. but what can I do? It's at HER house. And what's more.. I specifically told Michele and Tiffany before that we three were going to write the script. well.. it ended up being that they wrote it already by themselves. And moreover, I said I wanted to be the one who gets to kill whoever dies (Julius Caesar - related tragedy in relation to LOTR). Instead, they made it so that I was the one who died and I was sooo pissed off. Then a lot of other people were pissing me off. Including both of my parents and some "friends".
I had to go to the Color Guard Banquet today.. which is why I would miss the eng project meeting. It sucked.. the only memorable moments were when I talked to Mercy and gave her her farewell gift. She looked so happy and thankful. ^_^ also .. talking to Sandra was fun, too.. including Suzanne's entertaining stories. Then I was so freakn tired afterwards.. too much shouting, screaming, smiling, and talking. I had to go to Steph's party.. and we couldn't even find it at first. And my parents were being so rude and disrespectful to ME as a PERSON. I just want to kill myself again. We finally found the Italian restaurant that her birthday was being held at.. and it was boring. I left early, and my parents were being "silent" again.
Then as I got home, Grace called about the eng project. She sent me the script.. told me to memorize it so we could film it tomorrow. Argh. At least it's not much.. but I'm not too excited about dying the "matrix style". I'm Frodo.. and Gandalf (grace) and aragorn (pierce) get to kill me. oh yay. I'm so freakn tired right now.. and so much hw, studying, and memorizing to do. Finals next week.. with my ugly borderline grades. I hate this all.
Posted by Goolia at 08:49 p.m.
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| Friday the 13th.. the cursed day |
Friday, June 13, 2003 |
Let's see what I did today.. first period we had to clean out some flag poles and we each did a short interview video for Debbie. I just smiled stupidly at the camera.. and said something like, "Have fun at USC Debbie.. and visit us sometime!" In Euro, we finished watching Lawrence of Arabia (boring as hell) and so instead, Frances and I was talking the whole period.. FUNNY. She can be so entertaining sometimes.
In Math, we had our Pie Party!! We didn't need to turn in any homework, and then later, we had somebody take a picture of us all as a class. Fun.. teeeheez. Then in English, we had around.. two more debates. I saw the gay fag go up there.. ewww. Slimy, I tell you.
Then in Spanish.. I was hoping that Katherine would call me out of class to go to Root for Live Poets' Society help.. no such luck. Mrs. Gawrich or whatever said that Belcher would never let me leave his class for no reason whatsoever. Bitch. She also didn't let me get another Renaissance Card, and now because of that, I can't get an A in Chemistry.
In Chemistry, we went to go look at Jon's yearbook. I looked at my picture there, and it didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would. Then I looked at the color guard section, and it was okay I guess. Afterwards, I looked at the Spring Flyer attachment, and I saw my pic in it.. awful. I was holding the metallic red flag and it wasn't exactly good. Hahaha. After school, Frances' mom took me home. SOMEBODY.. *cough* Jack *cough* ditched me for Eddie. Pschhh.
Posted by Goolia at 03:09 p.m.
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| all in my lame spanish |
Thursday, June 12, 2003 |
Today I shall try to fill this post all up with my very grammatically-bad spanish to practice my spanish:
En Color Guard, estiramos mucho. Sin embargo, el punto culminante del día occurió en la clase de inglés. Por ejemplo, tenemos nuestro debato y aunque mi lado perdió, recibí una buena nota, A+. Los otros en los grupos recibieron una A+, A, y A-. En la clase de quimica, tuve una mala nota en el examen.. y tuve una B+ in la clase!!! Que mal!!! Pues.. no quiero hablar en español ya. Adios!
Posted by Goolia at 03:27 p.m.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2003 |
I just failed my Chemistry Test.
I'm not gonna write much today.. color guard was kool, euro was boring, math was okay, eng was boring, spanish was ok, and chemistry was bad. Then my mom gave Jack a ride home, and then took me and Frances to my house. Then later we're going to go to the NHS banquet.
I did okay on my spanish oral.. 92% and 94% (grammar and style). But bad on chem.. argh. Bye!
Posted by Goolia at 03:36 p.m.
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| enjoy life when it's good |
Tuesday, June 10, 2003 |
I have no homework today. Yes I know, you're jealous. ^_^
In Color Guard.. another good stretch day. I'm gonna enjoy these days while I can.. because when the summer rolls along, it'll be more like torture than a good easy stretch. In Euro, I feel asleep while Ms. Puzo put up "Lawrence of Arabia" because it was SO BORING... and was awaken by a crumpled-up paperball thrown at me. I heard people laughing.. so I looked around the room. Grace, sitting behind me, told me it was Andy.. but I don't even KNOW Andy.. so it didn't really make sense. Karima told me it was Tommy.. and that DID make sense, cuz Karima and I always make fun of Tommy and do little idiotic stuff to him.
In Math, Iris was gone and so was Frances, probably Live Poet's Society stuff. It's sad.. I'm in Live Poets' ALSO.. but they don't include me in their little editing sessions where they edit the submissions for the magazine. Oh well. So today was going THAT great. English.. what a drag. We watched Julius Caesar in black and white.. I hate black and white movies.. sometimes you can't really see what's going on. But I was still entranced by it.. I love watching Shakespearean dramas. Lovely. One guy in it was sorta hot too. I won't comment on who, but I told Michelle, but all she did was laugh and say that he wasn't that good looking. Okay.. if you've watched Harry Potter movies.. then you've probably seen that guy who plays Oliver Wood. And he's hot. Well, this guy in Julius Caesar was almost as hot, except older. Lol. Then Michael called me a nerd since I said I liked watching it. Hahaha.
Afterwards.. lunch. Frances and I had a fun time laughing because of.. well, we always make fun of Iris and Mr. Root. So we were at it again.. lol and it's so stupid. But hilarious. In Spanish, we had a sub (yay!!xxx), Mr. Merritt. We watched Prince of Egypt, and Artie told us about his bitchy "friend".. so we lent him a sympathetic ear. Then Alex, Dipam, and Kavel made fun of me. Hmph. =Þ Kavel and Dipam said I looked so much nicer with the lights out in the dark (we were watching the movie) and Alex said I looked like I just walked out of a horror movie. Interesting.
In Chemistry.. we went over homework and we played the review game. I have some serious studying to do tonight. Teeheez. After school, we IBers went to the MPR to listen to Ms. Crisci talk about CAS hours. She also had a senior (?) IB student come to talk about a relay thing which can earn by 24 fun and easy hours in one day. Get it? Twenty four hours.. in one day? Yeah, we work all day.
After school.. I met up with Jack and we walked home. It's really nice walking home with Jack cuz he's like one of my best guy-friends and I can say anything to him without getting embarassed. I'll really miss next year when he gets to drive home and when I won't be living in Walnut anymore. And since I was feeling depressed sorta all day, again it has something to do with S4 (he seems to control whether or not my day turns out good), Jack made me happy again by just talking to him. He's always so bubbly and happy. Lol, and I'm so happy for him and his semi-gf sorta situation. I wish I could find a bf someday that was .. just sweet and nice. Iono... maybe I should give up in all this... I DID GIVE UP.. in my sophomore year until S4 came along. S1, S2, and S3 were not really "crushes".. it's hard to say.
Posted by Goolia at 04:30 p.m.
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Monday, June 9, 2003 |
It's fun liking someone. I shall refer to him as S4... haha it's just a code name I use for him, in my little systematic method of naming those guys who have touched the surface of my heart.
Color Guard was pretty good today. We stretched the entire period.. and we all got a good stretch for our legs. It felt good. It wasn't TOO STRENUOUS.. cuz when Debbie leads the stretches, sometimes she goes overboard on certain stretches and leave us exhausted. But when Mrs. Schultz does it, she does it quite evenly and gives us a good stretch. Me gusta!
In Euro, we watched Lawrence of Arabia and we had a kool sub, Mr. Thompson. But... I didn't do my math homework the night before (^_^) so I did it in euro. The movie wasn't interesting, anyway. In Math, we turned in homework assignments.. corrected stuff.. took notes. The usual.
I had fun during English, though. We got back our COPS results.. basically mine said that I should be a professional in managing things.. like a leader or the person in charge. Manager material. It said that I was also more towards science and hmm.. that's about it, I guess. Then we had to get in groups for our Project for Shakespeare.. it's officially: me, helen, michele, tiffany, pierce, tina, and grace. The writers for our group are gonna be me, Michele, and Tiffany. Yay.. I wanna write! hehehe.
During lunch.. it was hilarious. I made Frances come with me to the GATE meeting.. which is pathetic with only a few members. I caught the "geometric figure" (inside joke).. so I told Frances.. the geometric figure is going your way.. she's like no.. you. I was like EWWWWW WHO WANTS THAT TO BE TRUE.. so I was like.. no you!! We had that little argument.. we were laughing the whole time. It was stupid and funny. Then Frances went with our other inside joke.. the "wink wink" to the "winkawinkaa' one.. ahahahahaha. Then we talked about Iris and Mr. Root.. their lil romance. LOL!!!!!!!! Hunkawunka.. hahahaha, and smelly feet. Lol. Then since we kept saying "you. .no you.. you!!" Alfred turned around and told us to shutup. Hahahaha. Then Pierce, next to Alfred, got the idea to turn around and stare to piss us off. So they kept turning around and staring.. and Frances and I laughed harder. It was a fun lunch.
Fifth period.. another subjunctive quiz. Then Chemistry.. nothing much. We went over homework. Tina kept pushing my chair. lol. Then I walked home with Jack until his dad gave us a ride. I told Jack today who S4 was too. It's kool.. he's Jack's old friend so it's all good. I also told Jack I used to like F3. He was shocked. HAHAHA. Well, today was a good day. I don't have much homework either. Yay.. maybe I can write today. Woohoo!
Posted by Goolia at 03:12 p.m.
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| *smile* |
Saturday, June 7, 2003 |
Today has been better than I thought.. not EXELLENT SHINING BRIGHT EXELLENT, but nevertheless not that bad.
In the morning, I had to go take my SAT IIs. I took chemistry... which was pretty hard... allow me to elaborated on hard. The practice tests were nothing in comparison when considering Part I. Screw Kaplan. I'll make a mental note not to trust THAT test-prep company again. I think I might got around 600-700.. which is BAD. I need to at least get a 700+ to look a bit better on college applications. Math was.. hmmm.. FREAKN EASY. Partly because I was preparing all along to take the Math IIC, but I ended up not preparing enough and I wasn't ready. So I took the IC instead.. sooo easy. Things like: "X equals -6. Evaluate f(x)=x²+3x -7." I probably got a 750+ on that test. Next year or later this year I'll go take the Math IIc.. maybe after Calc or something.. when I'm ready. So the testing wasn't that bad, after all. The hilarious part was my testing room. Our SAT II proctor was an old man.. a Russian by his accent. "Vell, I guess that ve should start our test now vhen everybody comes." He was quite a funny old man, and tried to crack jokes all the time. Ha, ha. The girl in front of me kept sneezing and sniffling, so the first time she sneezed, I said "Bless you." Then she sneezed again, and since I had already said "bless you" the first time, I didn't want to seem impolite so I said "bless you" again. Argh.. she started sneezing like crazy after that.. so I was often interrupted by her constant sneezing. I'm glad I didn't sit in front of her.. or else I would be attacked by bouts of nasal germs on the back of my jacket. Then later, I left after I was done and while I was waiting for my mom, some semi-hot white guy came up to me and asked me where the bathroom was. Like I would know??? I just stammered.. "Umm.. maybe down there by the stairs." A partly-educated conjecture. In fact, I happened to be wrong. He walked down there and walked a huge circle before coming back to where I was. I asked him.. "no such luck?" And then he pointed that the bathroom was actually on the other side. He walked there and I followed him because I needed to go, too.
Then my parents came to pick me up and took me to see our new house. Our new neighbors came already.. some even had furniture moved in and everything! Our house didn't even close escrow yet. Hahaha, it seems like our house was the last on the block to finish some last-minute building stuff. The landscaping is up, and all the interior stuff is done. The house is a nice coffee-colored house. I like it. While my mom was trying to find a way into the house and while my dad was learning how to use the new sprinklers, I took a little stroll around the neighborhood. Across the street, a black family moved in. There were so many of them.. their cars littered the streets. They seemed like a very nice family, so I'm glad for having them there. To our right, a middle-aged couple moved in. Then in the court to our left, I saw some more people. Interesting.
Now I gotta do my debate homework.. I happen to have tons of homework this weekend. Lovely, isn't it?
Posted by Goolia at 01:36 p.m.
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| happy birthday jaynie |
Friday, June 6, 2003 |
Today I was sort of feeling down again.. a bit sad. But then I cheered up during late lunch, so it was all good. ^_^
First off, I don't know why, but my throat's been sore and hurting all week. Then my right leg hurts like a mother and sometimes at certain times of the day, if I walk, it hurts A LOT. So I have to walk slowly, then. I'm glad that today at color guard, we didn't have to do the fuckin' across-the-floors. I hate them, as I have said before in my previous posts. I hate them with a passion.. so much that it almost made me quit last year because I hated it MUCHOZ. And I also feel that I don't have a real friend in color guard. As in.. well, me and Stephanie H. always stick with each other, but I feel that our friendship can never go beyond mere polite talking. Not much FUN.. I guess I'm mostly looking for fun. I hope that next year, with 32 girls, I'll find somebody fun to talk to. Rey is kool, too... but sometimes she's moody and she talks to Sandra. Sandra is nice, but I can't talk to her all the time because she mostly talks with Iris. And Tiffany's kool, but sometimes I don't want to feel like I'm bugging her. Kristyn's nice, but extremely quiet and kept to herself. So it just ends up being that I have a lot of friends in color guard; but none as a true friend to laugh and actually get-to-know-each-other type of friend.
In Euro, we finished watching Saving Private Ryan and in math, we just took notes. Then in English, instead of working on the debate and the project like I hoped, we watched through the fiber optics the Annual Awards Ceremony (seniors only). Boring. I sorta wished that Root would turn it off so we could work on our debate. I memorized a couple of lines, though. Then in Spanish, we didn't do much.. blahhh. I have to bring some Spanish foods later next week. In Chemistry, we did a fun color-changing penny lab. We changed pennies to silver, then some from silver to bright gold. Kool! But.. now as I re-look at my pennies, some changed back to an ugly bronze and one turned partially copper and green. Eww.
Today was Jaynie's Birthday.. so Evelyn collected a lot of money from people who knew her and bought her balloons and lots of cupcakes. I gave Evelyn money yesterday, and it was all very nice. Jaynie had 6 balloons, lots of cupcakes to give out to people who gave money, roses (wow!), and a gift. So sweet. I just wish I knew her birthday beforehand so I could've bought her a gift. Makes me feel slighty guilty. The sad thing is that last year, we were really close friends, and she said that I was her best friend. But then this year, I think that we're growing more and more distant, sometimes there's just like nothing that I want to talk to her about. And it happens all the time. I just want to move and leave California. I hate California.
Jack brightened up my day today. He and I went to talk to my sister during lunch.. he made fun of me, saying that I liked somebody. Hell no, so I made fun of him. My sister just watched and laughed. Then after school, we were going to stay at Eddie's house for awhile, then head on to walk home. But I protested.. saying that I wanted to go home NOW. So I told Jack that he could stay at Eddie's.. I would just go on home by MYSELF. And of course, Jack being such a gentleman, said he would walk me home and then go back to walk to Eddie's house. Fine with me. We talked a lot about his semi-future-girlfriend, quite hilarious. Now I'm at home.. resting a bit..then TRN time.. then study and a early sleep for tomorrow's BIG events.
Posted by Goolia at 03:25 p.m.
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| muchas problemas |
Thursday, June 5, 2003 |
My family has major problems.
I used to think we were a small and close-knit family that shared all (or most) of its secrets with each other. We thought we were happy. At least that's what I think my mom thought. I was never happy. I don't think my dad was much happier either.. neither was my mom. My mom would pretend she was happy.. and try to act all happy.. which was very fake. Personally, I think that my parents both acted very unfairly and didn't treat my with respect. However, they have also been more caring and liberal than other parents in the sense that they were genuinely (or I thought so?) concerned, for example, about my schoolwork and would do their upmost to help me.
Before we lived underneath this facade of cooperation.
Now it seems like it has broken many holes and is leaking fast. My mom feels like I never listen to her, and I DO, but sometimes when I feel strongly that my way of doing things will work better than hers, she gets MAD. And then whenever I ask for her opinion on something else.. even if it's the next day, she goes, "What? You're asking me for MY opinion? I thought my opinion didn't matter." Seriously, last time she told me that when I studied math, I should write down the examples in the book and do it as the lesson does it. I agree, but don't you think that before I DO a problem, shouldn't I READ it first so I can know the question? How am I supposed to do a problem without reading the question first? I tell my mom that I need to read the question. Then she thinks I'm not listening to her advice of writing stuff down. I repeat, telling her again that I need to read the question first. But nooo, she doesn't understand. Besides, this is MY school work and I believe that I know what my learning style is. She shouldn't impose her ideas upon mine.
Posted by Goolia at 06:06 p.m.
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| above average Wednesday |
Wednesday, June 4, 2003 |
We had ASB elections during Enrichment period today, and some of the candidates were:
President: James Phang, Jimmy Buenaventura, Sara Vogler
Vice President: Marisa Osato, ... some other girl .. forgot her name
Secretary: Caroline Park, Rebecca Law, etc...
Treasurer: Karen, Emily Lu, Andrew (?) etc..
James didn't win again.. it's pretty sad, because he is our current president. Instead, Jimmy won. I think it may have been because at the end of his speech, he did some singing. So.. it may have won him a few extra votes to beat James. Marisa Osato won again, she is our current VP as well. Andrew won again, and I forgot who won Secretary.. probably that girl, Tammy. She has WAY TOO MUCH make-up on. A bit fake.
During Euro, we watched Saving Private Ryan. The first 30 minutes were a battle scene.. some stuff in there is disturbing (which is why it's rated R), but I'm not that moved by bloodshed. As long as no body parts fall out or cosmetically deformed bodies. Ugh. In English, it was fun. We ordered pizza for lunch, and we paid about $3.50 for half a large pizza. I shared with Helen, and so I got two slices and she got three since there's 10 slices per pizza. It was fun and the pizza didn't taste as bad as the ones they sell at school.
At Chem we did a lab today, lots of mixing with chemicals so i had fun. Then I fell asleep with the chemicals that were leaking hydrogen gas next to me. People started saying that I was sniffing the chemicals.. lol! No chem homework today.. YAY!!!
Now I shall commence with my fanfic reading.
Posted by Goolia at 03:42 p.m.
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| Mediocre Day |
Tuesday, June 3, 2003 |
Color Guard depressed me a bit today.. I mean, I even had a nasty feeling that it would. Today was Block Day, so we just had plenty of time for torture. We stretched and ran a couple of laps. Then, we did across-the-floor. I hate.. absolutely LOATHE with a passion across-the-floors. In case you don't know what that is, it's basically where we do dance exercises across the floor. Everybody lines up in pairs and each pair has their turn in dancing across the floor. We did shasaes (I can't spell these names for crap, so bear with me) and leaps across the floor. First brush-up leaps, then developing leaps. I can't do leaps ... never liked it. Then the thing that really stung was when Mrs. Schultz, our coach, said that some new members next year are better than us... and if we don't start practicing to become better, then we won't have our own spots (places in the field show) for next year. That really hurt. I think she meant me when she said that some of us needed to practice our technique. *sigh*
During Enrichment.. Frances and I chatted a bit, but mostly I conversed with Henry, Tommy, and Karima. We talked about how Tommy thinks that German women are manly.. LOL, and how Russian women have beards. Hahaha. Tommy's stupid... German women are NOT ALL MANLY, and Russian women do NOT have beards. Puhleez. I also have a feeling that Karima and Grace do not get along that well. Just a conjecture, however.
During math, Iris and I did our partner math test (yes, unusual, isn't it?) and we created a math test, which will be graded as the chapter test. I think we both did great. In Spanish, my grade dropped .5 percent..eeek, I need every little point possible to get an A- in that freakn class. Then Joanna and I volunteered to read our script out loud in class. Belcher commented that it was well-written and formatted.. but lacked enough themes that needed to be covered. So I'll add more later and delete some lines. Then I went to the library and chatted with Karima there about *cough* that was being a *cough* sometimes. Afterwards.. as I walked to the stairs, I saw my bunny. *sigh* Then at the stairs, I met up with Jack and we walked home together. He told me about *cough cough* and it was fun talking to him again.
Now I gotta go do some Spanish crap... goodbye Blog.
Posted by Goolia at 04:31 p.m.
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| a frisky little monday |
Monday, June 2, 2003 |
I haven't posted in two days. I miss scribbling here.
Not much happened over the weekend, just basically STUDYING and doing HOMEWORK. Nothing of much significance, unless you count my mom having great success in networking her computers and fixing some a few problems here and there.
During first period, we stretched while some people stripped the flags to put away for next year. Mrs. Schultz also wrote down the names of people that could attend her wedding on June 28. Tiffany decided to go; so I was like.. what the heck, I'll go too. Then since I went, Stephanie said she wanted to go to. So a lot of people signed up in the end. During Euro, we watched the end of The Pianist. It was okay, I guess, and I'm glad a German soldier helped the pianist dude.
During math, Ms. Fred told us that the Vector Test we took would not count. So all my hours of studying was just about nothing because she's too freakin' lazy to grade the tests that we already took. Iris and I planned on what we were going to include in the math test tomorrow. In English, Helen and I planned our debate and how it would go.
In Spanish, we did some Amsco stuff, took a little quiz, and then worked a bit on our mono-dialogue. I need to edit some major parts... ack, my grammar sucks. In Chemistry, I got the Acid and Base Test back, and I didn't do well at all. I got the multiple-choice portion all right, but the calculations part... I screwed up. After school, Jack pretended to ditch me, so then I was going to kick his backpack, but I missed and kicked him in the ass. Lol, we were all cracking up at that.. Jack included.. but I felt bad and I kept apologizing. But he kept laughing, so I guess it didn't hurt that much. At least not as much when I kicked this other guy before. Tina gave us a ride home, so she, Eddie, Jack, me, and Olivia (???) stuffed ourselves in her car. She drives well and steadily, and so I got home early record time today. Hehehe. Now I gotta work on my mono-dialogue again...
Posted by Goolia at 03:13 p.m.
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| Eighth Grade Orientation |
Friday, May 30, 2003 |
I found out that each day, I especially look forward to coming home and scribbling here in my blog.
This morning, I couldn't find this one unique black hair tie that I always use to tie my hair in a bun for guard performances. I was almost panicking, because without it, I wouldn't be able to make a nice, tight bun. It put me in a slightly exasperated mood.. and it was also my mom's b-day today, so I wasn't exactly too friendly (I guess...) to my mom this morning. At least I did give her a gift. Then today in the afternoon, she told me that she had a bad day because of my "bad attitude" toward her in the morning. As I think about it, it really makes me feel guilty for her bad day.. and especially on her birthday. But the thing is.. isn't it also mean of her to blame it all on me and even tell me that it's all my fault, thus knowing that it'll make me feel guilty? It's almost as if she WANTS me to feel guilty. I really have mixed feelings about this.
I got to school, and since today the eighth graders were coming for an orientation, we had to perform. Thankfully, Katherine helped me do my bun.. and I don't think I've ever had such a tight-fitting bun and nicely done before. I was like.. wow, gee thanks. hahaha. I got to skip 2nd and third period. Yay. We performed .. mediocre? Three to four drops during the suicide partner toss.. and one drop during a left-handed single toss. Poor Kristyn. But the eighth graders were rude and immature, they yelled out things like "You suck!" and they laughed at us when a person dropped. I'd so much rather perform at pep rallies when we can perform in front of more mature audiences. The Dance Team did well, and so did Pep. I saw Jinfull.. or Foo, at the orientation as well. His head was like almost shaved with a thin layer of hair and he looked lost in the gym. The Wushu Club was great, especially that one girl with all the flips and such. They borrowed our six foot poles and she really spinned it well. Good job.
Afterwards, I saw Mr. Dunphy.. quite changed. His hair isn't as long, and I talked to him for a few seconds. I asked him if he still remembered me.. he said "Why wouldn't I remember you?" But somehow I still doubt he does. Then I commented on the eighth graders.. then I left. Nothing much to say. Quite depressing... he used to be one of my "better" teachers and funny, but now it's like I don't even have anything to say. Carolyn and I still went back to third period math, and Stephanie told me how some eighth graders had come in and they made the eighth graders sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".. HAHAHA. I should've been there!
On the way to fourth period, I saw something that really bothered me. A tiny eighth grader had his head tilted back because he was drinking the free punch that the school was giving out, and a big old senior came over and pushed the cup into the poor guy's face. The eighth grader had punch spilled all over his face and .. it was.. not.. nice. In fourth period, we had to translate Shakespearean text into modern English, and I forgot to bring my literature book, so Michelle shared with me. How nice.. it's really kool to work with her because she has great ideas and knows what the hell she's doing.
Lunch.. I had the last NHS meeting of the year. Some highlights included: Getting my NHS membership card because I had lost mine in my stolen wallet, Knowing that 200+ applied for NHS, and that we have to go to the banquet, because the officers are announced there. Wowwerz!
On the way to fifth period, I met Joanna and her friend. It was also her birthday too, so I gave her my gift to her.. just something simple, a cute little picture frame that I had bought at Charlotte Russe. She didn't accept it at first.. my guess is because she had forgotten my birthday a few months earlier. She had balloons with her, and we walked to Belcher's classroom together. Belcher was in a semi-nasty mood today, and since I remembered that he hates people who laugh and are happy, I tried to stop laughing and smiling as I walked into class. It worked.. today he didn't lecture me on being quiet in class and to stop laughing at what me and Jo were talking about.
In Chemistry, we had a test with the koolest answer sheet I ever saw. It had our names printed on it, all you had to do was bubble it in. I was like wow.. cuz it wasn't even a scantron or anything.
Okay.. I think I posted too much for today. It's a Friday.. sleep time? Btw, the old posts didn't disappear. it's under the Archives section.
Posted by Goolia at 03:28 p.m.
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| Troubled Feelings and NHS Interview |
Thursday, May 29, 2003 |
Today or tomorrow or sometime during the weekend, I plan to change this layout a tad bit.
Color Guard was the usual today since we just simply practiced our routine for the Eighth Grade Orientation tomorrow.. when we get to see the tweeny weeny little class of 2007. Lol. How exciting.. (sarcasm) Euro was a bit fun, we watched the beginning of The Pianist. I mean, it IS a war-ish movie, right? In math, it was boring until I let Iris read my new novel that I'm working on. I wasn't planning on showing anybody it.. but Iris is Iris, haha, so I let her read it. She read about all of Chapter 1 and about half of Chapter Two. She says that it sounds like a fanfic and that I should put it up on fanfiction. Hah, yeah right. She also commented that it sounded similar to Sherlock Holmes with the one character's "induction process" and she likes my main character's personality. Un punto para mí.
In English, we had this one kool sub, I really like her and her name's Mrs. Edwards, I hope we can have her again in the future. We went to the library to research for our debate topics, and our opposing debate group left us to sit at another topic. Hmm.. scheming against us, I see how it is. Lol, jk. I think we're prepared, though.
In Spanish, we went over the Amsco stuff.. and he kept asking what certain words meant. Hahaha, I raised my hand like four freakn times and got called on to say what the word meant. It earned me a lot of participation points. Then I also raised my hand for the Amsco questions. But I got an 86.6% on it.. *sniffle* I seriously need an A+ on all future assignments because I want an A in the class! ARgh. Then I turned in a green worksheet.. and I don't think I did too flattering on that, either. I had NO IDEA he was going to collect it. Now we have another mono-dialogue assignment to do.. it sounds HARD, and I'm not looking forward to it. This weekend is supposed to be for studying, not some stupid Spanish assignment. In Chemistry, we went over some review questions and then had the little review game. Nothing of special interest.
After school, I went over right away to go to my interview, which would start at 3:00 PM. I was more than ten minutes early, so I just sat around. Besides, it's always good to be early. Then it took about seven or so minutes in length, filled to the brim with endless questions about the club. I hope I did okay, at least I didn't totally stumble over the questions. My 6 or 7 interviewers were seated in a semi-circle and I was smack in the middle. I felt like a defender in the midst of a bunch of prosecutors. Scary, yes indeed.
Also.. today I felt like I was sorta.. separated from certain friends. Today it was like the peak of all this separation. Jaynie and I had talked about this kind of thing before.. where when you first meet a friend, they sound all kool and everything, and then as you get to know them better, everybody seems to get all distant. Well for me, maybe I'm just lacking in certain social skills. Quite depressing.. for example, I think a certain friend of mine in one of my classes is a little mad at me, but she still talks to me when I talk to her, but I can tell she isn't so "golly gee happy" to talk to me. *sigh*
Posted by Goolia at 03:58 p.m.
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