Grenades

To Diana: Does "grenades" count? Or are you just counting "grenade"? I would think you'd count both, right?

THANKS EVERYONE FOR READING MY BLOG! I know I've said this way too much, but I really do feel special when it happens. Except not everyone reads my blog. I really should be more clear when I write/type.

Uh... Sorry Jack. But I really don't care if it's "University of Florida" or "Florida University"or even "Gator-fil-a". I personally like "Gator-fil-a", though. There. That's my new name for the university. I'm going to use it tomorrow if the opportunity arrives. Badgers rule.

Not that Jack reads this.

Today, someone said that table tennis was retarded. I glared at him. During that very angered moment, I also wished I had a grenade to throw at him. I'm not kidding. Of course, the whole 1-second day dream was hypothetical. Right now, I can just imagine someone reading this and going, "Suuuuure."

The Beginner's Programming for Dummies book or whatever it's called has arrived at the Northeast Branch!!! I plan to get it on Saturday.
Wow... the cursor just randomly moved northeast for over five seconds, and I couldn't gain control over it! I was typing before that, and my hand wasn't touching the touchpad. La vispera de los santos causes odd things to happen.

la vispera de los santos

I have an 11% range in my grades... It's funny how bad that sounds.
Ironically, it's because I have a 108 and 1/3% in math thanks to the 10% extra credit on one of our latest tests. Unfortunately, the 100's lower it... Oh well.
Today in science, we got back our Chapter 6 tests. The teacher told us that we could correct them and get partial credit because everyone flunked it so badly(except in nicer words!) and that she normally doesn't do stuff like that. Later, I heard her (yeah, I was eavesdropping) talking to one of the girls, saying she couldn't curve our grades because someone got an 101%. Hehehe... I felt kind of bad. For once, my grade affected other people. However, if I'd gotten a 99%, no one's grades would've gone up very much. So, It would probably have been better for everyone if I'd flunked it.

Milky Way Midnight's are nice. They include two of my favorite foods- dark chocolate and marshmallows.

The cookie dough sale for MAO started and I feel bad about that, too. I can't really sell any. I mean, I CAN, but I'm too lazy. And busy. I still have to balance piano, violin, and math. Math has pretty much disappeared from the list of what I do every day outside of school.

Someone told me that a group of kids plan to drive around tonight and throw water balloons at the little kids. I hope they don't hit my brother... *makes extra grenades* I won't be there, though. *teaches brother how to throw grenades*

Pianos are awesome.

If you can't figure out what "epsieanniihsct" means from the title of this post, then I pity you.

For my make-up work for this Friday in Personal Fitness, I wrote a page on the history of table tennis. I never knew it was invented by the upper class Victorians in England.
I've felt stupid all day, though.
In MAO, I actually forgot to take my home my math textbook until I left the building. Then, I had to wait until the guy who I want to za4 to open the door because they're locked automatically at 4:00pm because he was the next person going to the door.
I did not have a very good day.

Then, as I was emailing my Wisconsin friends, they were all depressed except rzuee.

I dread the end of this week.

TSYO

I completely forgot to go on the internet all weekend. It really isn't like me.

Today was the TSYO concert, and at around 5:00pm, we all walked into Opperman Music Hall and played "Arioso" and "Tumbleweed". And I got to be the concertmaster! YAY! Except it really wasn't that great. Phil is the 2nd to worst (3rd to best) orchestra, and it's really easy to do well. Plus, at my age, I should be in Symphony. Oops.
I wore my mom's black shoes because mine are about the same size. Meaning I had gigantic shoes either way, and I used my mom's because they were nicer and more comfortable. They kept falling off as I walked... I'm still thankful it didn't happen on stage! After we played our pieces and walked out, my standpartner told me that everyone in the 1st violin section was really off during "Tumbleweed". I never notice those things at concerts. In fact, I don't really notice anything around me when I play at concerts, which isn't the greatest idea since I kind of have to look at the conductor.

This Saturday, I'm auditioning for Chamber(3rd worst/2nd best TSYO)! I'm SO excited about it, because I really want to get in!
This Friday is my gifted screening/test, and I really want to get into Gifted, too!
I'm going to develop about fifty canker sores if I keep stressing about everything. (And that's something, because I don't think I've ever gotton one.)
TWO big "tests" in one week really isn't good for me.

I imagined the explosion again :D

To Mei: Oh no, we're definitely not fighting. I barely communicate with the guy. He just gets on my nerves by being anywhere near me whether it's five feet or thousands of miles. As soon as I "knew" him for the first time, I couldn't stand him. He's just that kind of person. These people are quite rare. Unfortunately for me, I have to be in the same classroom as him twice a week because of MAO.

I feel so stupid... I don't know how to add square roots and cube roots together. In fact, I don't know how to do 1/3 of the problems in the study book we got. They are all past tests. I'm going to fail every single competition I go to...
At the Chiles Invitational, Deerlake Middle School will very, very likely be there. Diana says she'll find my "cousin". I hope she does! I must know more about blowing people up and hacking into peoples' computers and other things. Then, I can get into Jack's (a guy who has blue and orange colored braces for the Gator colors) computer and change his wallpaper to the Seminoles and rename all his documents and folders "I LOVE FSU" or "SEMINOLES ARE BETTER THAN THE GATORS" or "GATOR-FIL-A". That would be fun. And, I would change anything possible to garnet or gold. I am not exactly an FSU fan myself, but for all of you Wisconsinites, FSU and FU are very big rivals. (Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL and Florida University which is in Gainsville, FL.)
When the moving men came to our house in WI, they told me to support the Gators and when we got to Tallahassee, asked me if I was going to Florida State or Florida. I hesitated because I didn't want to go to either school, so he answered for me, saying "Florida, right?"
If I had to decided between FSU and FL, I'd probably pick FSU simply because the music department at FSU is very good, particularly the piano department. I love piano.

a little bit schizo in a good way

I keep imagining blowing him up with my very own hand-made grenade. It's getting to the point where I feel like it's really happening, but the vision is far from detailed. It's just of in the distance, and BOOM. I don't know why I feel so violent. I blame it on him.

On a much lighter note, the TSYO concert is this Sunday at around 5 pm, I think. I'm the worst concertmaster ever. I should make it clear that no one in their right mind should follow me if they get lost no matter how "good" I seem to be at the easiest music ever. But I don't have to walk up after everyone else sits down, so I won't have to worry about tripping or something weird like that. UGH I hate puns!!!!! I try to ignore them, but it's not hard to notice them.

I imagined it again.
And again. I just want him to disappear.

It'll be interesting to find out the valedictorians/salutatorians of the classes of '08 and '10. Very interesting. One of the class of 2010 told me that "interesting" is "my word" because I say it a lot since I found almost everything interesting.
Things I find interesting: video games, computer programming(although I have no knowledge of it as of now), grenades, any other bombs, nuclear fission and fussion, the fact that I really don't sound like a girl as I make this list, Rubik's Cubes, piano, Chopin, Beethoven, Bach, violins(particularly Strads and other nice violins), celli, factoring, MAO in general, computers, laptops, Zhong1 Guo2, etc.
Things I don't find interesting: golf, football, US History(it was luck all the way in my opinion), etc.

Taking gifted test @ FSU on 11/3/06

Haven't you ever wanted to blow someone up? (Yeah, I ended with a sentence wiht a preposition.. Ooooh.) I'm not kidding. David was talking about my "cousin"(who I still have to meet) and his grenade obsessions, and I was just thinking... Hmmm... That wouldn't be too hard to make! Now, who do I want to blow up? Oh! I know! That one junior who goes up to me randomly and I wanna stab him SO hard and take out his pituitary gland and amygdala. If you know what those are, which you do, I don't need to explain. I said stab because it would be faster.
If I took out his frontal lobe, there wouldn't be much of a difference so I won't even bother.
Don't worry- I'm fully aware of how violent I sound. All of this is hypothetical, as far as I know. Those last five words weren't very reassuring, were they?

It seems like my former group of friends has split apart because of me... Well not completely, of course! Just... A lot. I wonder what happened to Bryna...
Suprisingly, "love pentagons" occur very often, not just in one state.

I'm going to get the "Dummy" book for beginning comp programming. It definitely made my day when I clicked "Request"! I'm so excited! The key to hacking is understanding computer languages, of course.

Awesome.

Today, I took a math quiz on boring functions and linear combination with three variables. Ugh. One of the questions was about writing a system in which a tortoise and a hare rematch (from the famous story, "The Tortoise and the Hare") and how the tortoise gets a 30 minute head start. And then, we had to find out when they are at the same place, and how far from the starting point would that be. It turned out to be some random two-digit number with something like 7/11, so it was basically like, yeah, at 42.2464646464 seconds, they were at the same place. I was very worried, because algebra problems usually have very normal numbers, such as 42. Or better yet, 50. Here I was, getting repeating decimals, and I was just thinking... well, WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?????!!! And then the teacher said, "Okay, hand your tests up." And I did. So much for that.
Then, I just checked OASIS, and I got a 110/100!!!!! I wasn't really listening when he was explaining the test before he started, but my mind usually pays attention when a teacher says "extra credit". I feel so happy right now. I guess it's little things in life like that that really makes life worth living :) Especially after moving away from all your friends right before high school... And it also helps if your calculator can solve systems of equations with 2 or 3 variables. But I didn't cheat! I did every little step and wrote it out because we had to show our work (obviously). I'm just saying, it's helpful...

I get the "Offical SAT Question of the Day" thing sent to me and I'm really failing the English... Stupid random vocab.

Does anyone actually read this?

This morning, it was freezing outside for anyone who had on a sweater, which was everyone... Then, by the afternoon, it was back to about 80 degrees. Crazy.

I got my report card for the first "nine weeks"!
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.25 because some of my stupid classes are even stupider (general), like Art and Spanish and Personal Fitness. Basically, half my classes, which makes sense, because honors classes are 4.5, and general are 4.0, so I'm right in the middle. I hate my classes.

I really need to get my Rubik's Cube time down. It's still a pathetic two minutes. I think. I actually haven't timed myself, but it's probably even higher, since I don't really go near it now.

I complain too much.

First of all, it is back to unbearable, humid, hot weather. It's OCTOBER. It shouldn't be happening to me. I'm used to walking along the sidewalks with dried, orange leaves everywhere, feeling the cool breeze as I smell the nice, autumn air.
The day before yesterday, it was extremely muggy, and rained, and the next day, it was STILL humid! After it rains, the world is supposed to feel better. Not here.
I must find time for math, piano, violin, and homework. Unfortunately, I want to do at least an hour per day of the first three, but I'm not sure if it's possible. Plus, I procrastinate for hours each day, and I'm typing this. I sound just like any other stereotypical Asian- math, classical music, homework, parents who are never satisfied...

I took the PSAT yesterday. The first and third parts were critical reading. I did all the problems because I wanted to know how low my score would go if I answered everything. I'm obviously not a junior... The second and fourth parts were awesome. Math, of course. The fifth part was surprisingly easy, compared to how this one guy described it. I probably failed it anyways. The person next to me kept finishing amazingly quickly, but I later found out that it was because he didn't know any of the answers. He probably got a better score than me on the critical reading, though, thanks to the 1/4 point deduction for each incorrect answer, so you can't get lucky.

One more week until the strings concert! Being concertmaster gives you a nice feeling of power. It's happy, unlike a lot of the rest of my days here.

And now, I'm about to start on more past math tests in my study book. Notice how I said "start". You can infer from this that I can't actually finish any of the tests, being too stupid to understand how to add logs with different bases... *sigh*

1st Quarter Grades

Plgebra II honors: 100.14%
Personal fitness: 99%
English I honors: 98.8%
Spanish 2: 99%
Art 2D: 99.3%
Earth/space science honors: 98%

Notice how my favorite subject is the highest :) Although, it has a lot to do with the easy-ness of the class and how the teacher's really easy...

I fell in love with

The Art of Problem Solving. It is the best math series ever. If you have any idea how math will positively affect your life, buy it. If not, buy it anyways.
I hope I can get a copy of Vol. 1 soon, but it's kind of expensive...

Andi: To clarify things, I can start learning how to drive (by actually driving) when I'm 15. Yes, the driving age is 16, but that means when you can get your driver's license. However, you have to have a learner's permit for one year, and if you don't get it right on your 15th birthday, you can't get your license as soon as you turn 16.

I have straight A+'s as of today! (Notice how easy my classes are.) YES! The quarter (or "nine weeks"... stupid Floridian language) ends tomorrow. I just need to get a 98% or higher on my science test to guarantee it. I wonder why the 8 is so high up... 1234567890 Very interesting.

Mohs Hardness Scale (again)

We're identifying minerals in science, and one of the properties we're using is hardness. I have much to complain about Mohs Hardness Scale.
The easiest test is using fingernails. If you can scratch it, it's a 1-2. However, some people have really, really sharp fingernails! In fact, someone's very sharp fingernail cut me today, and I started bleeding a lot more than I had expected...
Next, there is the copper penny. What if the school you went to was so poor that they couldn't afford copper pennies for everyone? Or, what if you didn't go to school in the US? How could you get your hands on a COPPER PENNY? A lot of smart countries don't even HAVE pennies. Like China. They also don't have more than one time zone, which is even smarter.
The next test would be the steel file. However, we used a nail in our experiments. The point of a nail is very sharp. But it wasn't a file. It was a nail. Nails aren't files, and files aren't nails.
Now comes the glass. MHS mentions "glass" and "hard glass". Again, different countries probably might not know how the US judges "standard glass". In China, the paper bags are incredibly thin, and so is the paper. I'm glad we don't use bags and paper to measure hardness...
And, finally, quartz , topaz, corundum, and diamond. They probably couldn't find any extremely hard "common items", so they had to just use minerals. I don't know about you, but I certainly don't have any quartz, topaz, corundum, or diamond lying around at home.
This is probably why we're doing the mineral lab at school, but it's still incredibly difficult to measure the hardness, and hard to tell if it has cleavage/fracture for some of them. Even the color is inconsistent, and most of the streaks are white. Luster hasn't helped me at all.
If my lab partner hadn't licked the halite, I don't know what I'd do for mineral #5.

Goldbach's Conjecture

Every integer greater than 5 can be expressed as the sum of three primes.

IKEA

I got one of those red-fish-children's IKEA-baskets from my mom(who was somewhere else for a few weeks), and I don't know what to put in it.
It might be a laundry basket, but it's too nice to hold dirty clothing. I am at lost for ideas. Right now, it's in the corner of my room, just sitting there...empty...

Yesterday was the Chinese Moon Festival! I went outside to see the moon, but I couldn't really find it, seeing as how the roof of our house was too high, and I was too lazy to walk farther from the front door. I could've gotten extra credit in science class for taking a picture of it, but the digital camera was with my mom, and I couldn't draw it because I couldn't find it, which brings me back to my original problem.

Sometimes I feel like I have no life. I go to school like everyone else, and when I'm bored, I either play the piano or solve my Rubik's Cube. All these other people GO places and DO things. I'm just sitting at home, typing this, realizing just how bored I am. I really need a ping-pong table. ^^ And a car. Because I need a car to drive to Sears and get a ping-pong table.

Well, if you have any idea what I can do with the basket, please post a comment! Thanks!

Mohs Hardness Scale

1. Talc- easily scratched by fingernail
2. Gypsum- can be scratched by fingernail
3. Calcite- barely can be scratched by a copper penny
4. Fluorite- easily scratched with steel file or glass
5. Apatite- can be scratched by steel file or glass
6. Feldspar- scratches glass, but does not scratch steel
7. Quartz- scratches both glass and steel
8. Topaz- scratches quartz
9. Corundum- scratches topaz
10. Diamond- scratches everything
11. I wonder if I'm going to be able to memorize this in an hour...

Buy candy now!

To everyone who can: Buy MAO candy now!!! They're $1 each, and we really need the money!!! THANKS!!!!!
To everyone in Mad City: If you want to buy candy, you'll have to come and visit me. Sorry.

I have actual homework today! YES!

short term memory loss

I completely forgot what I was going to put here.. I had decided about 3 hours ago... Oh well...
I'm kind of mad because the McDougal Littel web is down, so I can't really take the Spanish quiz for homework.
*long pause*
Right. I remember now.
I just realized how slow I am about the current events that are going on around this world. I was talking to my intellectual friend, Diana, when she suddenly told me about the three shootings that have been going on. Just then, I realized how little I seem to be watching TV these days, and it might actually turn out to be a bad thing. In fact, I now find almost no joy in watching TV at all. Maybe this depression thing has really gotten to me. I have no idea what people are talking about these days when they mention random topics that were probably on "NBC Nightly News". I guess I'm trying to say that a little TV never hurt anyone, and watching the news is a good idea, because it really does inform you of what's happening (unless there's something that the government is hiding from us, and I bet there's lots) and keeps you up to date!
My bro is currently singing in the shower. It's pretty weird. He's recently starting singing odd songs like that... O_o

interesting website

I know, I know. This is probably the 5th post today! But I remembered something! (again...)
Have you guys heard about www.savetoby.com?
It's pretty weird/hilarious at the same time O.O
In fact, at one point, it was on NBC.
If you have time, read the letters that people sent to the website.
It's not like I have no life! The only reason I knew about this was because my math team for the iTest met at the library and we had some time to spare, and the junior told me to go to the site because I happened to be sitting at the computer at that moment, and we all kind of looked at it and read some of the hate mail. Except for one girl who left to go home early because she thought we'd all left. :P

ET

Oops. I forgot.
I set the time on this blog to Eastern Time, just so you know.
And, if you don't remember, Mad City is in Central Time. There's a difference.
So, 2:00AM in Mad City is 3:00AM in the city where I *cough* unhappily *cough cough* live!

*laughs at my weird, ironic post*

Esp. for Maia: Hey y'all! How's Acc. Bio going? Are you doing Honors? Did y'all know that our principal uses it too? And that it's in Summer of My German Soldier?

LOL!

(If you don't understand why I posted this, read the comment from Maia under the post, "wOrDs".)

complaining

I had less than two minutes worth of homework today. It was pretty sad. I mean, by now, shouldn't I at least have to STUDY for something!
I'm starting to worry a lot about this, because if I expect to take AP classes eventually, I can't go on like I'm still in 7th grade. Actually, I feel like my current classes should BE 7th grade classes.
We were going to have a quiz on y=mx+b (in math, obviously) today, but the teacher postponed it to tomorrow because he wanted to make sure we understood it -.- There are way too many stupid freshmen/sophomores/juniors. Fortunately, there aren't any seniors in our class. That would lower the average IQ by way too much to comprehend.
In art, we're learning about the color wheel. I have a strong memory of doing complementary, supplementary, and analogous colors, tints, and shades in 6th grade... And with paint, too, so it was harder.
I can't really complain about history since I don't actually have it...
In P.E., we're doing cardiovascular fitness. I think I messed up my side from dehydration somehow. I have no idea what's wrong, but it hurts x_x
Spanish is just reviewing for the first test so far this year that isn't review from 7th grade.
In science, we're starting a chapter on rocks. Which is what I remember to be 3rd grade stuff.
English homework: read the chapters 5-6 of Summer of My German Soldier. Which I did last week... I think... Oh well, it doesn't matter.
I know, some of you must be thinking, "Why the ****(you can choose which word to put there- it's you who's talking) would epsieanniihsct be complaining about not having homework??!! I have to do SO MUCH!" Well, I'm really worried, paranoid, and grew up in a very traditional asian family. I'm suprised I'm not yelling at someone right now for giving me "honors" classes which aren't good enough, in my opinion...
Wow, I sound really crazy. I personally find this blog very boring. Feel free to email me about ideas for what to write!
Note: Please forgive me for the terrible conventions on this site, because I don't (usually) read over what I type. In addition that, I'm probably not going to put a non-generic layout here, because I'm really bad at HTML, and don't have the time, and it looks okay right now. Sorry!

Surprise!

To Alice: Oops. Well, THAT was surprising. ;) (That was correct, wasn't it?)

Sorry everyone, but I'm not giving away the answer to my new, awesome username! You can talk to each other about it, though. I'm sure one of you is good at codes! Hopefully... Seriously, the thing about the piano is a BIG hint!

-clues-

I didn't expect to post something yet AGAIN today, but I was talking to Mei, and decided, fine, I will. So thanks to her, you now have some very unhelpful hints. (Was tthat an oxymoron? I guess it was!)

Here are clues to figuring out the meaning of"epsieanniihsct":
1. It has to do with piano. Ooooh. *sarcasm* Suprise suprise.
2. Anyone who can read this blog can figure it out.
3. When/If you figure it out, all will make sense, and you will be... enlightened.

wOrDs

After living in the portion of the country that I'm currently living, I have found that the different dialects here have some very odd words. I personally don't agree with ANY of these differences, and really do miss the wonderful English that Mad City uses...
Here are some differences:
binder-> notebook
skiing-> snow skiing
ustedes/vosotros forms -> yall
vosotros-> as real as "i" in Spanish II
(you all-> yall)
assignment notebook-> agenda book
snow-> bad

RW was right. They do use "yall" all the time. I hope to build up an immunity to it, or I'm going to go even crazier than I already am.

~*~sympathy*~*

To Rzuee: I feel extremely sympathetic for you, and could not send any sympathetic emails to you during your lonely times, because no one actually told me about those lonely times, so PLEASE forgive me! I never intended to make you feel bad! I am hoping that sending sympathy to you by announcing it on the world wide web will help you feel better!
And yes, that's how you spell the school's name. It's not too hard. Well, yeah, it's longer than YOUR school's name, but only by.. let's see... two letters?

Well, I guess Bio is torture on opposite sides of the country! And I seem to be the only one without it... Well, I can't say "I know how you feel", but on the bright side for you guys, at least you can get it over with by the end of next spring unless you're one of the genii taking AP Bio next!

Science... fun..

Yeah, I gotta write a summary on how TAMLs work with hydrogen peroxide to break down chlorophenols(certain pollutants)... I never did like current events...

To Andi: I am very sorry if I offended you or any other non-asians. There are... a few... smart non-asians at my school. I just can't think of any right now... But there are plenty of smart non-asians in Mad City! ;)