Slow Dance.

I got this from looking through my old Yahoo Mail! emails.

SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

Awesome job to the more talented MAO kids at Chiles, and buena suerte manana!

HECK yes.

That's actually my status right now.
Happy International Hug-an-Asian Day! I must have gotten about twenty today, not including the people who hugged more than once. It was funny to be bombarded for a while this morning, although I didn't actually hug anyone.
As someone who is really nervous about grades, today was a very good day. Five of my teacher uploaded our scores today, and they were as good as I could hope. In addition to that, we got our NHS acceptance letters today. Of course, it's not really impossible to do such a thing, but it brightened my mood... almost as much as the sun brightened the day.
Actually, I don't have anything exciting to add. It was nice to observe how lighthearted people were today; not a single person complained [to me] today because they seemed to be doing just fine. Pretty sweet.

Questionnaire

Whitney had this posted, so I decided to answer them because I really don't feel like doing biology notes right before dinner. Not that dinner has anything to do with it.
1. How old will you be in 13 months?
16 years. How old.

2. Do you think you'll be married by then?
Heck no.

3. Was yesterday better than today?
I don't think so. Got to see everyone today!

5. Who was the last person to text you?
Chanyang, but don't text me because it's very costly.

6. Do you prefer call or text?
Calling, but face-to-face is by far the best. Usually.

7. Do you have any pets?
Nope.

8. What were you doing at 12 AM last night?
Listening to music.

9. Do you like carrots?
Not really, but they're healthy so that makes them better.

10. When is the last time you saw your mom
About an hour ago.

12. How many houses have you lived in?
Two. The other ones weren't really technically houses.

13. How many city/towns have you lived in?
Four.

14. Do you prefer shoes, socks, or bare feet:
It depends. Bare feet at home.

15. Are you a social person?
I believe so. I hope so. People seem to think so.

16. What was the last thing you ate?
A cookie. My, my, how unhealthy.

17. What is your favorite color?
Red.

18. What are you doing for your next birthday?
Well, my parents forgot the last one...

19. What is your favorite TV show?
I have no idea. There's some TV shows I should probably watch at some point.

21. Do you like coffee?
Not really.

24. What are you listening to?
My typing.

25. Do you sleep on a certain side of the bed?
I used to sleep on the left side, but now that I got a bedside table, I sleep on the right side.

26. Do you know how to play poker?
Unfortunately not?

27. What are you thinking about right now?
This page.

28. Any plans for this weekend?
Chiles Regional.

33. Have you ever been in an ambulance?
Nope.

34. Do you prefer an ocean or pool?
Most definitely the ocean.

36. Do you know how to drive a stick shift?
Unfortunately not.

37. What is your favorite thing to spend money on?
I don't like to spend money, but maybe technology or gifts for people.

38. Do you wear any jewelry 24/7?
Nope.

41. Who is the funniest person you know?
No one in particular.

42. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?
Definitely not.

44. What is the main ring tone on your phone?
The Cingular ring tone, of course.

46. What is the color of your bedroom walls?
Off-white.

47. Do you shut off the water while you brush your teeth?
All of the time.

48. Do you wish someone was with you right now?
Possibly.

49. Are you mad about anything?
Yes. Maybe.

50. Do you talk to the person who posted this before you?
I have. :)

Yes, blogging!

The AntiSymantec viral software just sent a notification. Apparently another trojan is now in quarantine.
My piano teacher wants me to play Bach because it is like the Bible of music. Basically, if you make a tiny mistake with about one note, everyone can easily tell you did because of the style, as with Mozart.
Going to lessons provides about an hour or more to think about life while listening to music. This can get rather depressing after a while if all the songs seem to be remorseful or regretful. It's also a good time to stare out the window, looking at the reflections that various Summerbrooke ponds cause throughout the neighborhood, or staring at the sky. Alternatively, one can think about speeding down Meridian on a dark night (was that redundant?), completely in control but so bordering a fatal turn. Although, thoughts can't get really violent if one's mother continues to put on the CD with your favorite piano concertos and decides it wasn't loud enough already, so you have to turn off the iPod because there really is no way to listen to Rachmaninoff and The Killers at once.

hoh4britaccents: so whats you up to?
me: blogging
you?
hoh4britaccents: blogging?
me: yes, blogging!
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hoh4britaccents: ima read!

Running! Out of things to say.

Today, runiteking1 was describing the nicknames of the people around him in Bio. He pointed out that Linda's nickname was "Lulu," and that Azn's name was "Yiggles." Someone else said that Marshall was "Marshmallow." At this point, I voiced my question and asked what I was. Azn said, "smart and beautiful." Some people really know how to suck up to their "older sisters."
The pep rally was immensely boring, and some of us ended up standing behind the teachers. It was slightly queer to see a bunch of teachers who knew me in a small area, watching high schoolers participate in questionable acts.
I finished my main homework by about 1800 today. So the entry of my assignment notebook already has ten checks.
There was a Black History Month assembly during third period. Someone extremely optimistically asked if Ms. Chan had signed up for it. Someone else realistically reminded him that this was Ms. Chan of whom he was speaking. As the bell was held back for a while, our fourth period was drastically shortened, much to the enthusiasm of people who were going to Chemistry.
I've spun my pencil backwards three times altogether. So this is getting intense.

Hi, Lacey. I'm replying to your message on your blog in addition to the comment, I guess.
I don't think many people think as highly of me as you do. Sometimes I think you overestimate me and forget how awesome you are. Did that sound superficial?

Hi, everyone.
I don't know why I haven't posted so much recently. But this blog has definitely not been abandoned. Just to throw that out there.

So smile.

At the end of lunch, many of us waited in Freed's room, ready to abandon our afternoon classes to sit on a bus for about four or five hours. We traveled to the same hotel as last year and the same mall (Universal Mall). It was nice to
::EDIT:: I forgot to finish this post. No wonder.
relax and almost forget about school. I suppose our shirts were constant reminders. We played a bit of ping pong, which translated into one-sided domination. At this point, I don't remember all the fine details of the trip because it's Thursday.
Blahblahblah, good experience, glad to have gone, passed around Erinma's cell phone so Jack ended up talking to about six people in one phone conversation and was told that he would fail his tennis tournament.
Walking around the mall... and walking... and walking... Got confronted by two women, one of whom was using sign language that I definitely could not understand, and the other explained that they were learning Chinese. She gave me a Chinese magazine about something. I really don't know what it was about because I didn't pay enough attention to what she was saying, and cannot really read my first language fluently. I slightly conversed in Chinese, and walked away with Anna. Oh, we were surprised.
The actual competition wasn't so bad. Hilary and I finally found a room that wasn't entirely occupied, and were the only two Chiles people in that room. Waved to You-jin. Team round was very relaxed. Somehow, Ryan and I answered more questions than William did. The ones we both confirmed proved to have a 100% correctness rate. Not bad. Really, if it were a regional we would have pwned to no end. But it wasn't.
A substantially large number of people were in each division, and schools like Middleton and Buchholz definitely showed us how challenged we were.
Chiles Regional is next.
Peace out.
::END EDIT 02/28/08::

Lunar Eclipse

It's really only just begun. I've never seen something like this in the past because I always managed to forget about it until too late. There seemed to be an orb of brightness around the moon. A dark mass was enveloping the southwest side of the moon. I would have stared at it for a longer period of time if I had not wanted to get cold. I'll look again in about an hour.
Gets me thinking.

Don't Cry.

Maybe my posts are going to be too depressing to upload to The Quirky Quintet.
I've been thinking about my little situation, and it's pretty much gotten worse. Getting further into it, anything that might go against what I really want is a clear indicator of a severe drop in happiness. There is one way to make that go away, but it's not worth the trouble. It's time to grit your teeth and get through it with no more regrets.
Are you ready? No, not really.
Because the whole time, there is a little question. What if?
What if you're not as pathetic as you thought?
Oh, right. You are.

By the way, someone out there is waiting for you to say...

JETS/TEAMS

It was too good not to write about it.
At about 7:00am, my mother decided that she wanted me to slowly eat the sandwich that she had made. This would sound normal, but this is a Chinese mother who almost never makes breakfast because there is no need. It was two slightly toasted pieces of white bread with honey ham and cheese inside. Very plain, but I wouldn't get picky over it. In addition, she actually made hot chocolate. I was pleasantly surprised, and late to get into the car at about 7:41am, but first following my father out of the garage.
Driving downtown was slightly nerve racking because it was blatantly obvious that we were not going to arrive at the Challenger Learning Center by 8:00am. My father accidentally missed a street, and since it was one-way and at one point he was going the wrong way until I said "You're going to the wrong way," and he say a car coming the correct way, so he had to back into a driveway to a parking lot (the wrong way) and assumed the correct way eventually.
I pretty much ran into the building, where I found an assortment of Chiles upperclassmen, including Clara and Carolyn. All of us stood around the lobby sort of area, and someone I didn't know took pictures of Chiles Team A (Clara, Carolyn, Kavita, Won, Gaku, Ann, Roland, Patrick) and Chiles Team B (Brandon, Jerrod, Jinoo, Tom, Peter, Calvin, Nelson, Epsieanniishct).
Each team was given four rectangular tables, which were placed in squares. Nelson and Calvin removed the plastic covering for Part I, and distributed the eight scenarios. Each scenario began with a few paragraphs, and gave a multiple choice question that we calculated for the answers. A couple paragraphs were added, and another question was given. This was basically the format for each scenario, which included things like baseballs, soccer, the Beijing Olympics, architecture, and multi-channel communication. Brandon stole my scenario after a while because his was pretty much impossible. I felt really special for solving a problem or two on Jerrod's, and before we knew it, we had guessed "C" for all the problems we hadn't finished, and submitted our answers.
Most of us had hot dogs for lunch, a bag of chips, and some soda. We ate in the planetarium, where I accidentally spilled my soda... The water bottle in my bag really helped. The show was about the possibility of discovering an earth-like planet in space, and the simplified explanation about how they would do this.
We sat back down to do Part II, in which four of the eight scenarios had "extensions." This provided more paragraphs to read, and a few free response questions. I received the extension for Scenario 8, the multi-channel communication one. Brandon tried reading it too, and we basically realized how screwed we were about it. He left early for something band and tuba-related. Jinoo and Jerrod took turns in futile attempts to understand the concept better than me. Nelson and Calvin finished their scenario early, so they tried to make some sense of the concept too. Peter ended up "fluffing it up" by using our words to gather some English into a short paragraph. Nelson sketched an extremely rough graph of a cosine wave, which I quickly reminded him was a sine wave, so he had to draw another one. And another one. I really have a headache from reading about analog systems and bandwidth.
Later, Gaku said he also had to read about Scenario 8, and he didn't have a clue what was going on.
After standing near the entrance to the planetarium for a short time frame, we walked to the awards ceremony, which was basically the lobby with a table and t-shirts and trophies on it a few feet away. Soon, it was announced that 2nd place varsity went to Chiles Team B ("Chile's", according to the labeling of our tables). Oh we were happy. After that, it was announced that Chiles Team A got 1st place, so you can imagine the relief of those seniors. The t-shirts were all large, some of our certificates said things like "Jarrod" and "Jang," but it was all good. We were all surprised, and "Coach Johnson" was proud of us.
And we lived happily ever after.

Woke up with some nagging feelings.

Well actually, as soon as I woke up, a chill ran down my neck reminding me that I'm going to die one day. It wasn't very nice. I told myself to think of something else, and the first thing or person who popped into my mind wasn't exactly anything I wanted to ponder. I pushed the morbid feeling out of my mind.
Tomorrow will hopefully be mildly exciting because of JETS. Logan is going to be scoring for Cobb, though. And getting ridiculously paid.
Today is actually International That's What She Said Day.
And nothing else. Nothing has really changed, improved, or been altered dramatically.