Thursday, May 10, 2007

I <3 the Internet!

Today, I found "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day and "U Can't Touch This" by M. C. Hammer on the internet. I will not speak more of it because I think I did something illegal. Actually, I'm sure. The Green Day one is so sad! Back in WI when I had DSL, I saw the music video on Yahoo! At first I thought the girl was mad because he made her pregnant except then there were scenes of a war. It was too depressing.
Even Jack thinks the song is really depressing! He has feelings! =O In fact, he finds it so depressing that he refrained from putting it on his iPod Nano.
I wish I had an iPod.
I got the other song because June has this little obsession over it but, poor guy, he doesn't know how to download it free from the internet.

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

DI4 ER4 BAI3!

Wow... I can't believe it! The 200th post is here!
First of all, here's a NY Times article that is very sad and interesting.
CLICK ON THIS
I have to play the piano now so I can't write that much... Sorry... Hopefully the last post was long enough. I was going to wait and put that as the 200th post but it was so meaningful that I wanted it on my blog NOW(well, yesterday) so yeah.
Orchestra is so weird. We got new music but we didn't end up playing anything. We just sat there.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Casi el ducentesimo

This was posted on Facebook (by me, of course.)

To my piano...
Today, Brianna inspired me to rant about music. She is one of the most obsessed people I know (in a good way!) with this wonderful art. I was reminded of my childhood days. It started on the first floor of where we lived in Birmingham, England. The owner of the house rented out the 2nd floor to my parents, me, and another Chinese woman. The first time I met the (old-ish) lady who owned the house, we were in her living room. This was England, though, so the houses were connected and quite narrow and the rooms small. I remember coming up to my parents' waists and looking up at the toweringly tall adults. My mom noticed that I looked at the piano very often. This may have been the first time I saw a piano, and it is definitely my first memory of a piano. I was handed a white piano book with a red apple in the middle with a rectangular red border. I don't know if my mind made this up, but I believe it existed and was my very first piano book. We didn't have our own piano, so every evening, I would go downstairs to play on her shiny black upright. One day, I started practicing, and after what seemed like 10 minutes, I started playing through the other pieces in the book. Later, at age 5, my parents told me that I had practiced for two or three hours a day and refused to leave the piano. I remember running back down after dinner to practice more because I was so possessed. One day, an older Chinese girl came. I had no idea who she was, but my mom said that she was very good and we played a duet together. I still have a picture of that, which is why I've been able to retain that memory for so long. They really help keep you on par with the little moments of your childhood. By the time I was two months before I'd turn 6, my parents told me that the other Chinese lady was moving to Canada in June. In June, she left, and my father told me that we were moving to American in July. My mother had to get rid of almost all of my books, including a large, pink hardcover nursery rhyme book that had all the classic English nursery rhymes.
In Madison, we moved into an apartment. It was relatively nice because of its hardwood floors. The one thing that I wanted was a piano. One day, my mom as in the dining area and I looked up at her (I was still short...). I said, "wo3 yao4 yi1 ge gang1 xing2" (I want a piano.) She said that we would get one in a few weeks. A few weeks passed by, and I asked her again. This time, she and my father went to a piano store the next weekend. Later, I went, too, and looked around. One piano caught my attention because the keys were not old and yellow. I didn't walk too far past it because I was satisfied with playing a little piece on it. My parents decided that I liked it. It was a bit over a thousand dollars. I have played that piano since before 1st grade started. There are many more memories in my hippocampus, but it would take far too long to write in one Facebook note. When playing a piece, even for the first time, I have gotten completely lost within the music. Often, I "wake up" again, realizing where I am on the page. There is nothing in the world besides me, my piano, and a blur of black and off-white.
-____my name______
P.S. I tagged a few people who I know love music, but this isn't soley intended for them. I'm not sure who my audience was intended to be.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

2 hrs. 4 min.

Katelyn and I are emailing back and forth every hour or so saying that we are NERVOUS...
Which we are.
So nervous, in fact, that our stomachs are already starting to feel cold and uncomfortable.
:(

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Thankfully Thankful

At this point in the year, many students are cramming for their insanely impossible AP exams. This is when I am very, very thankful. Hopefully, I am done with my exams for the school year. As the class of 2010, three years of agony lay ahead of us. I'm sure we're very happy to go off to play tennis, get really nervous for the TSYO audition, and other innocent, happy little things that are not quite so vital on our transcripts. I know I've complained all year, but comparing this to my next three years, I think it's relatively safe to say that I am glad it is now and not tomorrow.

This does not mean I don't hate this year with every brain cell I control.

Friday, May 04, 2007

I FINISHED!

I FINISHED WORLD HISTORY!!!!! FINALLY! NO MORE FOR ME! NOW, IT IS TIME TO PLAY THE VIOLIN FOR THE STUPID AUDITIONS... X.X BUT I FINISHED THE MOST TEDIOUS CLASS I HAVE EVER TAKEN! IT IS A WONDERFUL FEELING!

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Facebook

It seems a lot better than Myspace, but the format could be improved.
I'm just browsing around, finding very random people who I know on it.
Yeah.
Weird, I know.
Oh dear.
I just remembered that I have a science test tomorrow that I don't want to fail.
= ="

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

A Chat with my MVC

Before reading this, please note that (for the end) Marie Antoinette is the Queen of Navarre according to her Wiki page.
7:49 PM me: THINK PINK
Jack: I REFUSE TO
me: What?
Jack: IF I THINK AT ALL
7:50 PM HWAT?
me: WHAT?
Lotion
Jack: TENNIS
LOTION
PAIN
CORNERED
MORE LOTION
me: type more
i have no idea what you're talking about
7:51 PM who?
who did it?
what kind of lotion?
Jack: JUNE AND CATHERINE
me: where? on your face?
YES!! GO JUNE AND CATHERINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack: ON MY ARM
me: Waaait... CATHERINE's in your tennis class TOO????
WOW!!!
That's awesome!
Jack: YEAH
me: Name all the people I know who are in your tennis class. This is very interesting.
7:52 PM Jack: MARSHALL AND YIGE AND JD AREN'T IN IT ANYMORE
me: Actually, name everyone.
Whyever not???
Jack: ON FRIDAYS, OR IN ADVANCED?
me: Type faster.
7:53 PM Jack: THERE ARE A LOT OF 10 YEAR-OLDS JOINING
me: So that's why?
Jack: SO PEOPLE QUIT
me: In advanced
?
Jack: SOME PEOPLE ARE IN ADVANCED (ME, JUNE, CATHERINE, LISA)
7:54 PM MARSHALL AND JD AND YIGE AND HWON HWERE IN ADVANCED
BUT THEY QUIT
me: Why did they QUIT?
I know they were in advanced.
Jack: 10 YEAR OLDS
7:55 PM JUNE HAS NO COMPETITION ANYMORE
me: GOod for him.
7:56 PM Jack: HE HWINS EVERYTHING
me: Sure.
Jack: I'M EVEN IN THE TOP HALF NOW
me: = ="
How is this ADVANCED?
7:57 PM Jack: THEY ARE REALLY GOOD FOR THEIR AGES
me: Okay.
7:58 PM Boo Cromwell.
CATHERINE (my cousin) IS AWESOME!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack: HWY?
me: LOTION
LOTION
LOTION
MORE LOTION
MOST LOTION
Jack: LOTION BOTHERS ME
NO
me: SLIMY BUNNY LOTION
Jack: NOT LOTION
8:00 PM me: Errrm
Why was Oliver Cromwell significant? I know I'm forgetting something very important.
Jack: i forgot
hwere not there in hworld history yet
8:01 PM me: I suggest you look it up or I will get someone to hug you tomorrow at lunch.
In your History textbook.
Jack: FINE I HWILL
me: Thank you.
8:02 PM Jack: YOU MAKE TOO MANY THREATS
me: I'm reviewing for the exam.
I do not.
I've only made one today.
And that was it.
8:03 PM Jack: YOUR THREATS ARE SCARY
SO THEY COUNT MORE
me: that's because I know you too well.
Jack: YEAH
STALKER
8:04 PM me: You haven't found him yet.
Jack: I'M GOING TO
8:08 PM me: OH dear.
8:09 PM I'm going to fail the exam.
x.x
Good job about your arm, by the way.
8:10 PM Jack: I CAN'T FIND HIM
me: oliver cromwell
Jack: YOU NEVER FAIL
me: Ryan and I failed the FCAT.
And NRT.
Jack: HE ISN'T IN THE INDEX
8:11 PM me: - -
Oh no. How unfortunate.
8:12 PM Jack: YEAH
FOR ME
me: Pobrecito.
8:13 PM Jack: HWAT?
me: look it up.
Jack: FCAT FAILURE
me: en el diccionario
Jack: DE ESPANOL
me: Ryan failed too...
8:14 PM the caps thing is getting really weird, by the way
Jack: i'll call him an fcat failure hwen he gets back on
hwy?
me: If he gets back on.
Jack: i altERNATE
me: It's like you're yelling nonstop.
Jack: YEAH
IT'S FUN TO YELL
me: What, so your voice will break?
8:15 PM Jack: SOMETIME SOON
THEN I'LL BE A MUTE
me: No, I mean like sound weird and high-pitched.
Jack: THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME ENOUGH LAST YEAR
8:16 PM IN MATH RESEARCH
me: I like being a girl.
HAH!
Jack: YOU DON'T HAVE TO HWORRY ABOUT YOUR VOICE BREAKING
8:17 PM LUCKY
me: Heehee.
8:18 PM No, that's just your voice going back to normal.
Jack: NO
I DON'T HAVE A GAY VOICE
8:19 PM me: I never said that.
Jack: OR HIGH PITCHED
me: I said you have a girl voice.
Girls have girl voices.
8:20 PM Jack: I HAVE A GUY VOICE
8:21 PM me: Ryan: APRIL FOOL'S?
8:22 PM Jack: HWAT?
I HAVE TO GET OFF
BYE
me: bye sis
8:23 PM Jack: IT'S BRO
me: Ryan thinks that you think it's April Fool's Day.
47 minutes
9:10 PM me: Where's Ryan?
9:11 PM Jack: I DON'T KNOW
I'M NOT REALLY YELLING
I DON'T FEEL LIKE TURNING CAPS LOCK OFF
9:12 PM me: Turn it off. It's really weird.
I don't know which book to chose for the summer reading.
9:13 PM Jack: I HAVEN'T SEEN THE SUMMER READING LIST
9:14 PM me: I'ts on the chiles website, girl.
Jack: I'M NOT A GIRL
I AM YELLING NOW
NOT REALLY
BUT THE COMPUTER SAYS SO
9:16 PM me: It's on the website.
i EVEN EMAILED IT TO YOU
RE
**SO THERE
9:17 PM Jack: I I SAW IT
I DON'T KNOW HWAT TO READ
9:18 PM me: That was why I sent you a chat.
What did you read last time?
9:19 PM I read the House of the Scorpion and Eragon (even though I already read Eragon but I read it twice more)
I hate Eragon.
House of the Scorpion was sad but REALLY boring/bad at the end.
Jack: I READ ERAGON, AND SOMETHING ELSE THAT I FORGOT
me: I read Ender's Game in 8th grade for Battle of the Books (we won in the school! yay)
Jack: I DON'T REALLY ENJOY READING
9:20 PM me: - -
Jack: GOOD FPR YOU
"FOR"
me: - -
Jack: --
- -
9:21 PM I CAN DO THAT NOW
:k
.
.
.
.
.
me: Stop opying Ryan.
*copying
9:22 PM I can make that sound
without cheating
ohhhhh
Jack: HWAT SOUND?
me: never mind...
9:25 PM Jack: I OPENED MY HISTORY BOOK TO A PICTURE OF C***RM*N M*O
me: YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait
Jack: COMMUNIST
me: ESTAS HACIENDO TAREA??????
Jack: SI
9:26 PM HWY DO YOU ALHWAYS ASK THAT?
me: Ask what?
Jack: IF I DID MY HOMEHWORK
9:28 PM me: I was asking you
if you are doing homework?
because I can't imagine you doing homework.
Jack: OH
me: Or liking girls.
9:29 PM Jack: HWY?
me: Girls aren't supposed to like girls that way.
9:33 PM ...
Jack: ..........................................................................................................................................
I AM A GUY
9:38 PM YOU SOUND LIKE YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME
DON'T EVEN SAY THAT PHRASE
I HAVE IT MEMORIZED
NOW
me: I think
9:39 PM that your hormonally-imbalanced amygdala disagrees (along with your unfortunately challenged frontal lobe).
9:40 PM Jack: I KNEW YOU HWOULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT
9:41 PM me: Not exactly.
9:42 PM Jack: HOW?
DO YOU READ MINDS NOW?
:(
me: -shifty eyes-
9:43 PM Jack: :K
.....
me: :_*K*_ (bigger fangs)
shoot
:*K*
:_K_
: K
:*K*
9:44 PM : K
: K
Hehe.
9:45 PM Jack: :D
9:46 PM me: ow my teeth are sharp
Jack: IT'S GOING TO EAT YOU
me: =D
=O
Jack: YOU TRIED TO EAT YOURSELF?
me: =|
No.
Jack: :{)
9:47 PM MUSTACHE
me: =O =| =) (progression of eating)
Jack: :}(
me: =|) (hitler)
I feel like a little kid again.
Playing around with the keyboard.
9:48 PM And Legos. But they're in my little BROTHER's room.
I thought Barbies were boring.
Jack: I DON'T REMEMBER PLAYING HWITH A KEYBOARD UNTIL 7TH GRADE, HWEN I GOT EMAIL
me: I liked the piano a lot (from the age of 4.5)
9:49 PM Basically, when I was little, I played around with piano, math (borrowing, carrying numbers and stuff), library books, nursery rhymes, my chinese book, and Legoes.
**Legos
9:50 PM Jack: I DON'T REMEMBER MUCH ABOUT HWAT I DID HWEN I HWAS THAT YOUNG
me: Haahaa
You wore Abercrombie polos in your school pitures.
**pictures
9:51 PM You were a normal-looking baby
Jack: I HATED THOSE THINGS
9:52 PM me: What things?
Mooses?
9:53 PM Jack: THOSE REMIND ME OF CANADA
me: Awww
Jack: THEY ARE ANNOYING
AND UNCOMFORTABLE
I HWAS FORCED TO HWEAR THOSE
9:54 PM me: Ryan thought you played with Barbies.
9:54 PM Jack: HWAT????????????????
9:55 PM I DID NOT
9:56 PM me: O rly?
Jack: I AM SURE I DIDN'T PLAY HWITH BARBIES OR O RLY
9:58 PM me: Umm. I didn't mean that you play with O rly. I meant oh REALLY? You didn't?
But sure.
Jack: I DID NOT DO THAT
9:59 PM I DO NOT DO THAT
I HWILL NOT DO THAT
10:00 PM me: Ew.
Ryan's severely disappointed in you.
Jack: hwy?
me: Not for playing with oh really, though.
10:01 PM Jack: I DON'T PLAY HWITH O REALLY
RYAN JUST SAID I DISAPPOINTED HIM
10:02 PM me: You did.
Jack: HOW???
10:04 PM I DON'T READ AHEAD, SO HE'S DISAPPOINTED
me: HAHAHAHA
Jack: NEVERMIND
I REMEMBER HWO HE HWAS NOW
me: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
10:05 PM Are we not to WWI yet, either?
Jack: I FEEL DUMB
me: I suppose it's only 1890 right now.
*SCARCASM**
10:06 PM Jack: HWE ARE IN HWORLD HWAR 2
me: Umm... Suuuurrrrrrrrrrre...
= ="
10:07 PM Jack: I HWASN'T THINKING
me: How are we in WWII?????
Jack: I FORGET EVERYTHING AFTER TESTS
PH
"OH"
"I AM"
IN HWORLD HWAR 2
I MEAN LEARNING ABOUT IT
10:08 PM me: Oh sure.
On the news, I bet.
Jack: NO
IN A TEXTBOOK
10:09 PM HWE DIDN'T LEARN MUCH ABOUT CROMHWELL
me: Yay. Diana' going to check her email.
Jack: ??
me: Umm Jack.. Cromwell is one of the most famous people in England.
Jack: I KNOW
10:10 PM Jack: I'VE ONLY BEEN TO ENGLAND H-ONCE
YOU LIVED THERE
I KNEW HE HWAS FAMOUS AND ENGLISH
me: You've been to England? Huh?
Jack: AT LEAST
FOR 3 DAYS
ABOUT
10:11 PM me: Why?
Jack: I HWAS ON A TRIP
10:12 PM me: Why?
WHen?
Jack: HWE HWENT TO EASTERN EUROPE ON A SHIP AFTER THAT
me: How?
Jack: HWEN I HWAS 10 OR 8 OR SOMETHING AROUND THEN
10:13 PM MY FAMILY HWAS THERE ON VACATION, AND BROUGHT ME
IT HWAS FOR 2 HWEEKS
me: 10 or 8?? o.o
Jack: I GET THE 2 MIXED UP
10:14 PM me: your ex-mother is reading the chat about your barbie confession.
Ryan thinks you're on crack cocaine.
I think it's blue.
Oh wait not.
**no.
It's garnet/gold.
10:15 PM Why was Ryan typing "wow" so many times?
Jack: I HAVE TO GO
me: bye
Jack: BYE
RYAN SOLD IT TO ME
10:17 PM Jack: BYE
me: I said bye a while ago.
10:18 PM Jack: OH
me: You love King Louis XIV????
Jack: NO
me: He wore red heels
Jack: I AM SCARED OF HIM
me: and so the other guys in the French court copied him
because the king was in charge of new fashion styles.
Jack: SCARY
10:19 PM me: Ryan said it sounds like jack
Jack: NO
BYE AGAIN

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

To my loyal reader: Susan

Hi Susan! As you can see, at your request, I am yet again dedicating a post to you because you are awesome.
I really miss you!!! *sob*
Maybe, one day, I will learn to drive, and obtain enough of my parents' trusts so they'll let me drive over to the best state in the country and I will definitely visit you. I still remember how to get to your house!
HELLO WISCONSIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lol- When I moved here and introduced myself (everyone had to) in science class, this girl was immediately reminded of "That 70s Show" so she deemed Wisconsin awesome. On every other occasion and that one too, I guess, people have been like, isn't that where they make cheese? = ="
I still feel very special that you continue to read my blog!
-Your co-writer of The Legend of Zelda: The Toilet Princess

Monday, April 30, 2007

Anchor Club

Today was the informational meeting for prospective members. It took less than 20 minutes for the club sponsor (also my science teacher) to show us the PowerPoint on her club. I have a couple (literally two) friends who are interested in joining, so it should be fun. The catch is that we have to fill out an application form, do a few things, and hope that we have enough points in the end to make it into the club because they accept the highest scores. It shouldn't be impossibly difficult since there aren't that many people who are applying. This is because CHS offers a variety of "service clubs" and you can't be in more than one at a time. In addition to that, this is one of the smaller clubs.
I even have dark blue shoes with tiny yellow stars and actual yellow ANCHORS on them Too bad the Anchor colors are green and yellow. (Packers! =)
I finally finished the preparation essay for my final exam for World History! It's almost the end! But not quite... I have to make approximately a 50% on my final exam if I want an A in the class or something along those lines. Maybe more. I don't know. I better not make a 50% or anything near that, though.
This year's MAO banquet theme is superheroes. My friends and I have no idea how to dress up as superheroes. Ryan was thinking about dressing up as Ronald Reagan, and knowing his political enthusiasm, he probably would. He wanted the theme to be pirates, though. The whole idea was so spontaneous. At the end of the elections, Mr. F just asked the entire room, and someone yelled "superheroes" more loudly than Ryan said "pirates!", so the theme became superheroes. Last year it was "emo".