The day has come ( May 31, 2012)

The day has finally come. The biology final is finally tomorrow. I am happy and relieved. Now before you go ahead and think I'm crazy, allow me to summarize the chaos I've been through throughout the course of this week. Actually, I don't want to get into the details. Anway, you know that this week I've been worrying nonstop about this biology exam. Tomorrow all my worries will be worry after the morning. Such a gracious moment! So instead of focusing on all the studying I will have to do the next morning, I focus on the aftermath. I hope to write swiftly  on the paper and get the score I want.  YAY!. Even though after this I'd have to try my best to complete my MUN reading assignment, possibly our last ever, but stilll....Well anyway, as any other entries i've written this week, I want to end this one as quickly as possible. But I'm not kidding about the part about the biology exam and how I'm looking forward to it. Today generally was a pretty good day and something really unexacting happened to me that left me pretty happy for the set of the day! I won! Yay! I will fill my friends in the details tomorrow if they ask:) YAY!

La isla bonita ( May 30, 2012)

Glee did a coverage of Madonna's " La Isla Bonita" awhile ago and since then, the song has been somewhat imprinted in my mind. It was a beautiful song. Basically the song is about a girl and a guy I think on an island and such as their paradise. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, my spanish sucked and I have a major issue with lyrics. Anyway, this leads to today's topics which is " la isle bonita" for other people. Rebecca Black, internet fame, also has an isle bonita. Rebecca attracted a lot of haters after her release of her first song" Friday". People thought she was stupid and so forth, and maybe she is. Actually, never mind, this has nothing to do with la isla bonita. I was kind of hoping something incredibly deep will occur to me and send my fingers flying across the keyboard. I guess I was wrong. I have overestimated myself. ONE MORE DAY! Then on friday after Biology final, I will be free to peruse what I'd like for the weekend. Even though I'd have to stay for math. Such a bliss. To be relieved from biology! IMAGINE THAT! OMG! OMG! Oh well, tomorrow I will finish up all the english stuff. Good enough for now.

Procrastination ( may 29, 2012)

Procrastination is truly a student's worst enemy. This week I am pretty toast. In a terrible way. Well of course, I don't think this expression can be used in a positive way. Well anyway, today was quite tiring and I'm going to bed soon and getting up early tomorrow morning. On the positive side, once I survive tomorrow's exams I will be able to peruse whatever I want to study. I can finishing studying Biology and memorize it and do well on the test on Friday. Then I can go home and have a mini celebration then study math. Then I can have a fantastic math test and then SUMMER VACATIon! I am so looking forward to that! You know what's best? I finish the exam before my brother starts his. I GET TO PLAY AND HAVE FUN IN FRONT OF HIM! hahaa. Weary has left me with an idle brain. lol. Well it's a good thing that there is no basketball practice this week and the next. YAY! I wouldn't have made it anyway. Now I'm just blabbering, but I could exactly hep it, could I? Hm...what else happened today? Not much really. The classes went pretty ok and I had some fun in school as usual. OH well. Good Night everyone :)

Finals Week( May 28, 2012)

Finals Week is finally here! Imagine in just a few days we will be free and can have our wonderful summer vacation! I'm actually happy that we'll have most of our finals this week so we can have almost the entire next week to rest and have fun ourselves. I am strangely pumped about this final and was not as nervous as I should have been. Perhaps I stopped seeing finals as a single test that will determine my future, haha. Biology have nine chapters, and I am going over the most difficult ones right now. Hopefully, the teacher will give us time to study in his class tomorrow. THat would have been a bliss:) Our Romeo and Juliet test will be open book, and that strangely comforted me. I have to get up early tomorrow morning to study and I also have spanish final on wednesday. While I somehow envy my classmates for not having to endure studying spanish, I know this is inevitable. Oh well, whining won't get you anywhere would it? I guess not. This should help me in the future, you know? Working under pressure and stuff. Biology is actually a fascinating subject. It would have been more fascinating if we're not testing on it so soon :D

Video Project and Finals Week ( May 27, 2012)

Today my friends and I got together and filmed the video project for the Vietnam War. It was a fairly interesting concert. We couldn't figure out how to shift camera angles and made a fuss over everything. First we fussed over my clothes, as I wore only a casual PAS T-Shirt with black pants. Angela or Jenny lent me a tie and I wore it over the rest of the meeting, hoping that would count as dressing up. Haha. ANyway, the video was fairly interesting. Either way, next week Wednesday will mark the beginning of finals week. We will be tested on spanish and biology. Spanish is challenging, but if I memorize the book, I should be ok. biology has 9 chapters, which is a lot, so I'm trying to start doing that right now. So yeah...I probably will have to miss basketball practice this week though...well...I'll go on Friday. Hm...well biology was fairly interesting anyway. The human anatomy...quite interesting...better then just rules and stuff. I'm gal,d however, that this finals week was divided into two weeks. That is just awesome. My burden was much relieved by that:) We won't have a history final! WHICH IS EVEN BETTER! OK !

Achilles's heel ( May 24, 2012)

Achilles, otherwise all mighty and invincible, had a heel as his mortal spot. If any harm was casted in the heel's way, Achilles would die instantly. During the siege of Troy, a spear hit achilles by his heel and he instantly deceased. Everyone has an achilles's heel, their weak spot. But that is not my point today. Today I went to PASMUN conference in my MUN attires. While I like the change in fashion, the high heels were killing me.The hard leather rubbed against my heel and created a burning pain. That was what inspired me to title today's journal. Not because I am going to talk about my fatal flaw, but because I thought it would be a good opener for my topic later. I realized today that women goes to great length for beauty. I mean, I've known this before, but never until today had I realized that beauty( or social view of beauty) comes at a great cause. Just like at my HEEL! It BURNS! No wonder some women wanted to change the way society see beauty in women. I don't think that is really possible within a short period of time, but still...Maybe in the future, someone can invent heels that don't harm my heels. So I can wear them without much of a struggle.

Seize the day ( May 23, 2012)

Tons of activities are piling up my shoulders these two or three weeks. Last week we had spring fair, and I ended up spending almost all of my Sunday for school activities. This week is PASMUN. As press, I probably wouldn't assume as much work as other delegates, but still, it could be a tiresome job. What more, it required us to go to school on SATURDAY! MY SAFE HEAVEN DAY! OMG. All right, I know that being in MUN means more work and also special privileges. In comparison to other clubs and so forth, MUN is the most prominent club that our school has ran. Many were fired up about PASMUN and were very committed. THat is always good to see. You see, our school doesn't take these extra leisures very seriously. MUN and the musical are the two rare things that I school actually took seriously and devoted a significant amount of time one. Probably because they look good on college applications, but whatsoever. IT benefits us all. Anyway, despite of the extra work, I am looking forward to PASMUN tomorrow and fruitful debates. It will be interesting. Yep, real interesting. Oh well. I'd better get going now, goodbye:)

PASMUN prep( May 22, 2012)

I ended up returning at five today when I could have gone home at three thanks to my carelessness. It never really occurred to me that I would have to write an article since I am in the press team for PASMUN until today. If it weren't for the teacher's warning, I probably still wouldn't have written it up until now. That would result in something quite devastating. Hm...Well, after that I had to hunt down the editors of the PASMUN newsletter and managed to get from them the topic that I was supposed to write. After that, I had to stay in the classroom and finish my article on the spot. IN retrospect, I Was actually extremely focused. If you were to look under my skull, you would see electricity sparkling all over my brain as my brain cells were rapidly at work. My fingers flew across the keyboard. It took me about one hour to finish the video. It shouldn't have taken me that long since I was a little distracted midway when the charis gave the admin staffs instructions. Anyway, I'm glad that I finished my article and I am looking forward to PASMUN this year. It should be quite interesting since all my friends are in it. I could finally hear how the debate :)

Sometimes ( May 21, 2012)

I am determined to get through this post as quick as possible, as I have a math test. I Have to go home early today, and I'm sure some people from the team wouldn't be happy about it. I apologize. Anyway, as I said, I need to get this post done fast, and I hope my candid approach will be rewarded in someways. Sometimes, I sit and wonder, how people could loose their dignity in the face of profit. There has been an enormous amount of television shows featuring dramas with this very theme. Not saying, of course, that I was watching the drama, it was just something that left a deep impression on  you and will jump out every few weeks or months. These things scare me. In one of the dramas, a friend of a girl conspired with her ex boyfriend to rope from her her inheritance from her grandfather. How they plan to do that? They plan to hide the will from the girl as the girl did not know the grandfather wrote her a will. They got their share of the inheritance, but refused to let the girl know that she also had a share. Years later when the bank account has expired, did ex boyfriend told the girl of the truth. The girl was furious, but there is nothing she could do. She thought didn't expect anything from their friendship, but it turned out, she did. In her own twisted way, she has managed to fool herself in thinking ath whatever her friends did was none of her business. She thought they couldn't touch her, but they could. What especially hurt her was that her " friends" went behind her back, and now she can no longer trust or forgive either of them.

The Piano Guys ( May 20, 2012)

The Piano Guys is a brand new youtube sensation. Two musicians- John and Sharp Nelson- the piano and the cello-collaborated to become an instant hit on youtube. Their group which is called the piano guys do covers of songs that inspired them. I've visited their website once and it gave me a brief recount of their history which I will now give to you. John I think was one day going to buy or sell a piano and the seller or buyer found out he had amazing skills. He was then later introduced to SHarp Nelson who was a even bigger sensation at times who totally rocked his cello. The two decided to collaborate and the piano guys is born. The Piano guys has high definitioned music videos from different beautiful sceneries from their beautiful Utah, and they never repeat or overlap. It is one of their defining traits. Now I will teach you about recognizing their music. Actually, I only know one trait and here it is: Nelson liked to provided the rhythm of the song by tapping on his cello and the effect was quite well. So whenever you hear taipan in the background of some real good music, high chance that it may be the Piano Guys. I think their music was pretty inspiring.

Spring Fair ( May 17, 2012)

Spring fair is just around the corner! This sunday, I will rise from bed early six in the morning and eat breakfast in silence. Then I will ride joyfully on the back of my father's car as he drives me to the site where I will be remaining until two in the afternoon. Joy. Our class has high expectations for our sell this year. We are selling mexican food, ice cream, sodas and water  this year. We will sell mexcian food food 50 NT each, ice cream for 30 NT earache, Sodas for 20 NT each I think. I personally have only a few concerns. First of all, most taiwanese people are not familiar with mexican food. When thinking of foreign foods, they think of the hot spicy Thai food, the long sphagettis of Italian, and the juicy large american beef. Most wouldn't even know what a taco. It will be a little hard to persuade these people to buy something they've never seen or tasted before. They might just move on to other booths. That is my primary concern. My secondary concern is that the price of the food may be higher then expectations. This can weight us down. Still, the smell of the roasted cheese should draw people in. I will definitely buy a serving!

Never ( May 16, 2012)

Today in this blog post I will go over the things in life that has been branded a " never " sign. This blog post probably doesn't make much sense but, what in life really does anyway? Can you perhaps explain to me how the first cell popped onto Earth? Or perhaps how and why the big bang occurs? Can you perhaps explain to me how and why we actually exist and the world we live in exists? No, I would suppose not. Not with our limited knowledge anyway( which is what makes science exciting). Robert Mknara once branded one of the lessons he learned in his life , " Never say never". The grammar police will probably now be on full alert as I was informed by one of them that this is a double negative. Justin Beiber also used this phrase in one of his hit singles titled " Never say Never" that further enhances his fame and fortune after puberty. Anyway, those are two occasions one " never" has been adopted effectively. THe message was clear. Nothing is impossible. Everything is doable as long as we do our very best. Yada, yada, yada...Not saying that this is not a good philosophy cause it is. It's just one of those things that gets slightly ridiculed after being popular for so long like those " an apple a day keeps the doctor away" idioms.

Gloom( May 15, 2012)

Those who had seen me this morning must have sense this stormy grey aura shadowing over my head as I strode down the hall. I can imagine my facial expression be a mixture of great discontent and annoyance. Nobody tried to talk to me until Geometry class almost ended when I almost forgot about my deadly gloom. So why was I so gloomy this morning? For starters, I didn't get enough sleep the other night and was indeed wearied. Second of all, I engaged in a fight with family member and had tears swelling in my eyes as I approached the doorsteps. These two factors combined was enough to throw me into a way grumpy mood. I hid out in the cafeteria for the thirty minute before the spring fair announcement. Well anyway, I forgot about my gloom after Geometry and set out to Biology with a renewed self. After that I slept for about twenty minutes and felt much more revived. Well, it is a good thing that I was lifted out of mine and everyone else's miseries so quickly. I heard that is a good quality. Some people gets angry easily and remain angry for a very long period of time. We usually try to stay clear from those people. Well, I guess I should probably try to get more sleep tonight.

Yellow and Blue ( May 14, 2012)

The title for this post is completely random. I wonder how am I going to write a entire 200 word blog post about two colors anyway. It is true that yellow is bright and energetic like the sun and is one of my favorite colors. It used to be the color I would claim whenever someone asked for my favorite color. IT still is one of my favorite up to this point. However, as time passed, I no longer say yellow is my favorite color. Instead, now I say white or blue. Weird huh? Blue is one of the most famous colors as it is used all around and people liked that color a lot. Quite interesting indeed as well. Why blue? What is so special about blue? I guess blue resembled the color of the sky and the ocean, and since those two things had been the dominant important things in human life, blue became a popular color. My friends like pink and purple, two very girly colors. I like these colors too, I guess. Once when I tried to seize the chance when they were talking about sparkles to tease them about being " girly", they rebuked in reunion , " We are girls.". I was very much defeated, I supposed. hmmm....Well, looks like I really had completed a whole journal centering around yellow and blue. Good Night :)

Mother's Day ( May 13, 2012)

This Sunday is the great Mother's Day the world was busy celebrating. In the cartoon Kick Buttowski, the supermarket was overflowed with people on the Sunday morning busy trying to make their mothers a last minute " breakfast in bed". My mother doesn't enjoy eating in bed, however. In tradition, I would make a handmade card and present it to mom the night or noon of mother's day. This year, I learned how to press flowers and make them long-lasting and wanted to give Mom something like that. I ended up doing a video instead, though. It was four minutes and composed of three separate messages. I played the song by Elton John performed by Christina Grimmie in the background. The video starts out with a little opening message that said simply and clearly - " Happy Mother's Day". Then after that, there was a short video clip of a drawing of a boat and the ocean. Then a line followed. The beginning of the video opened like that, and then the music came in midway during the second drawing. After this, there was a picture show of Mom and the family. Then after that was another brief message as the song drew to an end. I hope Mom will like that.

Confession ( May 10, 2012)

I have a confession to make: I didn't do much today. I almost forgot to type this blog post and that result would have been disastrous. I intend to finish up my work in tomorrow's study session you know, with better and more brutal energy ( that is required to battle Geometry). I am currently reading the book" Thirteen Reasons Why" and found it quite a stunning debut. The emotional journey of Hannah Baker and Clay Jenkins were incredible, and so authentic. I don't exactly know where to begin, and I don't exactly want to spoil what I have read to those who have not, but the book is about a girl - Hannah who suicided weeks ago and Clay receiving a package with tapes that explained why she decided to end her life. The book was quite gloomy, but the plot was good. I fell sorry for everyone who was involved in Hannah's death. None of them knew even the slightest of their actions can lead down to a chain reaction. The tapes will change their lives forever. I particually pitted Clay. He seemed like such a nice guy with a kind heart. HE doesn't know at which degree did he scarred HAnnah, nor does the readers. I don't see how someone like Clay could do anything to anybody that might potentially harm them.

THe Wanderer ( May 9, 2012 )

While humanity has a tendency of settling in one place in order to prosper, there are a selected few who decided not to follow the consent rule of humanity. Back in the olden days, these people would be called travelers, and wanderers. Today, these people will simply be called " someone who enjoys traveling". It is true that traveling is no longer a career for many people except for those venturing into the unknown depths of the Amazon. And even those jobs are scarce. It seemed like humanity has explored all the possible profitable places ever existed on Earth. Being an explorer became something more similar to a bizarre dream. It is no longer easy to become one. Today, I read Homer's writing of " The Wanderer" - the versatile Odyccoius. I admired his wits and cleverness. Yet I dislike the one he became vain and boasts. I don't suppose it had occurred to him that he was the reason that his shipmates never made it home. This warn us against huge egos. We really shouldn't have them. His pride made him a wanderer, while he himself may rather not be one, his name remained on our textbooks. And it will stay there until eternity.

May 7, 2012 ( Making things right)

I decided that today I should write a journal entry about how I should and would make things right for myself in the future. I will wave goodbye to my past mistakes and restart fresh and new. That is always good, isn't it? So here we go. Actually, I want to talk about something else first. Today, I would like to talk about PASMUN. This year PASMUN I will be a reporter for the press. I am actually quite excited for that. I remembered having a pretty good experience with pass work in TAIMUN. PASMUN shouldn't be any worse, or would it be? OH well, it isn't exactly up to myself to decide, is it? I forgot to post this journal entry yesterday and will have to post it today. Which means I'm late but actually I typed it yesterday...Okay, I guess no one would like to hear me blabber. In fact, I bet tons of people had already chose to click on something else for the time being. For those of you who stayed strong and supportive and read up to this line, I congratulate you on your courage. It will certainly get you very far in life. I know this is not the first time I Stated this, as I had typed something with similar contents before, but anyway. I hope you still enjoyed it :)

heros ( May 8, 2012)

Our quick write assignment today inspired me to name today's entry titel- Heros as it lead me to ponder over what a hero really is. After some consideration, I decided that the qualities I named in my previous entry ( Mortal and self-sacrifice) are not wrong. How can someone be great when they have everything already? We see heroes all around us, committing to different things. A person who donated money to charity when he himself was not super rich can also be considered a hero. Now that I think of it, being a hero doesn't always have to come through self-sacrifice. Being a hero simply means one represents a value that is valuable to all. Determination can make someone a hero  as well. For example, there was a taiwanese painter who lost his hands and legs in an accident but with determination, succeeded in becoming a renowned painter. His story inspired millions. although he didn't commit a huge act that would rock the world to its feet, can you say that he is not a hero? Can you say the things he represented and the very values he stood for were not heroic or important? I guess you cannot. Everyone can be a hero, it really is entirely up to you.

Shake it out ( May 6, 2012)

Glee released their brand new cover single- Shake it out on the episode Choke. IN this episode, the prodigy talent Rachel choked on the song she  "knew backwards and forewords"- Don't Rain on my parade. She failed and didn't get into NYADA, or dream school. THe other aspect that glee focused on was domestic violence. Coach Beaste in this episode was suffering from domestic violence from her husband. SHe therefore showed up at school one day with a huge bruise across the school. Santana, Tina, and the others girls made fun of the coach and indirectly revealed their lack of knowledge on domestic violence. They were therefore obliged to sing a song about " no one can lay a hand on me". They finally settled with the song-Shake it out. I found it a beautiful song. It is one of those few songs we have these days where they lyrics are actually quite beautiful. Every demon wants his pound of flesh, but I''d like to keep somethings to my self. It's always darkest before the dawn. And I've been a fool and I've been blind, I can never leave the past behind. I can see no way I'm always dragging that horse around...( How beautiful) Shake it out shake it out! It is so beautiful! MY favorite line is: It's hard to dance with a devil on your back. That is SOOO beautiful. From this song, I can see how songs are the aftermath of ballads. This is such a beautiful song with meaningful, poetic lyrics and grate melody.

Words on the back of my hands ( May 3, 2012)

Those who had occasionally seem me marching down the hall way may have seen huge, angry letters scrawled across the back of my hands. Some times the letters are bright red screaming " English Homework!" and other times, they are a deep shade of blue bellowing its message with equal intensity - " Do English Journal!". I have a tendency of scribbling down things I most often forget on the back of my hands. I start out with my left hand as I am right handed and is more accustomed to writing with my right hand. Then if matters get out of hand, I will have to use my shaky left hand and doodle mishappened  letters on the back of my right hand. As you can probably tell already, I am quite careless when it comes to these little things in life. I had tried to fight this when I was a kid, but I gradually grew accustomed to this bad habit. Now, instead of combating carelessness, I tried methods to cope with it. To coexist with it. I write reminders on sticky notes and leave them on my desk reminding me to bring basketball journeys, or to write Expository Writing Homework. I scribble on my hands to remind myself to bring certain items to school. I also get members of my family to remind me to bring or do certain things.

Basketball (May 2, 2012)

I had the leisure of sitting by for basketball practice today and found the experience quite rewarding. Of course ,missing out the chance of competing in the regular schedule could potentially harm myself in the future, but I will not dwell on that thought. INstead, I will focus on what is good about this practice. I got to practice shooting baskets this class and found the process quite rewarding( As I said previously). I found out that I am a much better shooter than I give myself credit for . It turned out that with practice, I could get a lot further than I ever imagined. Lesson of the day : Practice and Get Better! In basketball team the girls were always divided into teams in accordance to their basketball skills. Now that the year was quickly coming to an end, the system was rearranged. At the beginning of the year when many competitions were alined for us, the strongest and the ones with the most experience gets lined together in one team regardless of your grade. A twelve grader could be in the same team as a ninth grader, if the ninth grader is great enough to make the pact. You would and should be honored to be invited into the team of the best and experienced. The rest of the girls which consisted of those who were not as good and those who were less experienced will be grouped into another team. There, they will learn the taste of defeat the hard way and eventually grow accustomed to that. Now the end of the year is approaching, the system changed. The least experienced people were grouped with the most experienced people that will either be leaving the team  next year or graduating. The remaining girls, which are the second strongest from this year, will begin working together at all times as they will become the forte for next year's competition. I never made the first string:P and had plenty of time to observe this. It seemed like I panic and don't know what to do whenever I was officially playing. Anyway, I wish good luck to the rest of the basketball team :)

Jesse ( May 1, 2012)

It is a pity that the sky does not one day rain virtual cats and dogs. Maybe if I looked hard enough, Jesse would be one of them. 

The rain dropped from the grey sky like a thousand fallen angels stripped of their wings that had once kept them adrift. Their color went from flawless crystal to irish black, until finally exploding like powder smoke beneath our feet. There they lay, refusing to move, as they awaited our trampling feet tear them into shreds. Their blood was colorless, and therefore, the world does not understand, or comprehend the slightest of their tragedies.The tragedies of dropping clean from the sky, and ending up into explosive smokes of dark hazard. Nobody would know who they were except for their distinguished selves, and it wouldn’t matter. 

Jesse used to detest rain. The rain gave him chills and he would circle the house whenever the back of his brain sent in a storm alert to make sure that his loved ones were safe and sound. If one of us were to duck out of his sight, he would go frantic. His little legs would carry him around the room, half floating, as he knocked over vases and break windows. He would only stop until he sees the person standing in front of him in one peice, then he would quiet down and whimper an embarrased whimper as if apologizing for the mess he’s created.