Monday, January 25, 2010
Don't Trust Eighth Graders With Fire
I'm not sure what to say at the moment, but I feel like blogging, so mwah! =D
I think I may copy my friend (The Silly Observer)'s last post format... Since I just read that post, and I feel inspired to type up my own thoughts on the subjects that she touched on. =)
So what am I doing in Science? Well several weeks ago, we conducted an experiment to observe physical and chemical changes. So of course we.... ROASTED MARSHMALLOWS! With hot plates! Not kidding!! We even got to eat them!! I used to think my science teacher is a completely boring and dull with zero creativity for her lessons, but as this experiment shows, she does have a somewhat interesting side. Hehe, we even got to eat the marshmallows... My friend Kristen's marshmallow caught on fire though. Oops.
And on Friday, we had another experiment in which we observed the decomposition of water. So we hooked up a beaker of water and sodium hydroxide (I think...) to a battery pack thingy, and performed electrolysis on the solution to produce hydrogen and oxygen. The said hydrogen and oxygen were contained in syringes... And you'll never guess what my teacher entrusted us to do...
She had us light matches and light a splint, and put the flame or glowing splint into the syringes containing hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen-filled syringe made a pleasant popping noise (like a popping balloon for example) when we put the flame inside and the flame went out. As for the oxygen... Well obviously we didn't put a flaming splint in THAT. (That would have been stupid, even for us lil' eighth graders.) No, we put a glowing splint (think glowing coal, like not on fire but glowing...) in the syringe with the oxygen and kept relighting the flame.
It was awesome.
But dangerous. Who trusts psychotic eighth graders with matches? Apparently my science teacher. I was slightly frightened by my classmates, but I'm sure they were scared of me whenever I lit the matches... I'm sort of a pyro, lol.
As to The Silly Observer: Do those friends that think they're in love include me? HAHAHA
Ooooh I'm totally hooked on two K-pop songs that just came out.... I will post videos at the end.
Anyway, uhmmm.... Wow Saturday I was practicing a dance with my friends, and then I tripped and fell... My whole right side of my body is completely bruised. I limp now lol. And then of course today, I walked into a wall, releasing a new wave of pain. o.e Ouch.
Change by Hyuna (from 4minute)
Tik Tok by 2PM
Friday, January 22, 2010
Snuggies and DDR
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Shout-Outs and Random Rants
TO The Silly Observer- AJ or RJ? Because Elyse and I were talking about that and if it's RJ... Every considered that RJ could equal RRJ (as in reader response journal). So this is what Elyse said: "What if you said that you were doing 'RRJ homework'..." LOL her words, not mine!
TO Saph- DUDE omg I don't even remember who "he" is. Axel right?
TO Kendara- We need to do more of those dances. After Chinese school, maybe? =)
TO Twi- If you're annoyed by my constant talking about Michael, then just tell me! I mean, I understand. You just seem like you want me to randomly burst into a rant.
TO Val- I realize that there are other countries out there that have farm land or/and are less fortunate than we are in the US, thanks. I'm not that self-absorbed, unobservant, and shallow thanks. I mean, I'm not like Sierra. I am highly globally aware.
TO people in Haiti- I hope you guys get along and get the aid that you need to survive through this tragedy. My heart goes out to you.
TO Mrs. W in Art- I don't think people are actually willing to bid on wooden painted hearts that a bunch of 8th grade art students made. Even if the money goes to Haiti. Wooden hearts are just not that desirable.
TO Mrs. B, my principal- Why did you yell at Mrs. Maio? She did nothing wrong. TYLER was the one that flipped off on her and ran out of the classroom. Mrs. Maio was not to blame. I mean, she couldn't chain Tyler down, could she?
TO Tyler- Stop being such an a**h*** to teachers. They want to be here just as much as we do. And even if they want to be at school, they went for the job to teach. Mostly for our benefit. Just stfu Tyler. You're not cool!
TO Will L.- Accept Stayla's FB friend request. Seriously, she bothers me about it every day. I don't want to talk to you because you're annoying and weird, so just accept it and move on!
TO Aqua- Are you sure you don't like Michael anymore? I still feel horrible.
TO Michael- Okay, seriously stop blowing me off by lying. I hate liars. Just frickin tell me it to my face so I can openly blow up on you. Do you like me or not? You said you did. You said you loved me even, so what the heck is your problem? Or have you just been lying all this time?
TO Dad- Stop yelling, I can hear you.
TO Mom- I want the new Reader's Digest! FINISH READING IT SO I CAN!
Okay, I'm good. Hope that was entertaining! =)
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Reuniting OMIGOSH
Crazy!! But I'm so happy because we were such good friends. So yeah we made plans, and she's coming to my school's play in March to see me. =)
YAYAYAY!!!!
Anyway nothing else to say, so bye for now! ^-^
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Grounds for Sculpture
This one is actually really tiny and was hidden among bushes on a trail through these trees next to a treehouse type building. I loved this one, because it was so perfect, and TINY!
This one we walked by, and since it is winter, the trees around it had no leaves and such. The water was also ice, and some snow that refused to melt still lay around. This one is really impressive, because it's huge, and when you walk past a dense area of trees, this one is like BAM all of a sudden there!
This one is a life-size recreation of a famous painting, but with a few tweaks. For example, if you look closely, one of the members of this party is actually a sculpture of J. Seward Johnson, who of course, was not in the original painting.
So, that concludes my enormous novel of a post! Since you have only seen 3 out of around 250 sculptures from the Grounds for Sculpture here, I really recommend that you look some up. Or even better- take a trip to the Grounds for Sculpture! Even if you live far away, the trip will be worth it. =)
I really do recommend that you go during spring or summer. Or fall. Anytime besides winter, because it's mostly outside and YOU WILL FREEZE TO DEATH! And also, there are some fountains and special sculptures that only go out in the spring/summer. I missed those. =( Hopefully, you will not! Adios for now!
Broken Hearts Suck
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Break-ups Suck
Apparently it's better being "just friends"... Ugh, and "if that doesn't work out, maybe we can just go out again". Direct quotes.
Uh huh definitely. Some people are a tiniest bit naive. Not naming names.
That's okay though... I'll make sure being "just friends" "doesn't work out". I have plenty of opportunities this week actually! ;)
I was crying all day... But I'm done crying, and time to bounce back and get to work!
OMFG HUZZAH!!!!!!
I HAD ANOTHER CONVERSATION WITH MY MOM (QUITE SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS ONE, WHICH I HAVE POSTED IN AN OLDER POST, WHICH YOU MAY WANT TO READ IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY OR YOU'LL BE REALLLLLYYYYYY CONFUSED).
I ASKED OUTRIGHT IF SHE DECIDED....
AND IT'S A YESS!!!!!
THOUGH SHE SAID TO TAKE IT SLOW FIRST AND BE FRIENDS FIRST. BUT WE'RE FRIENDS ALREADY DUH SO YEAH. I MEAN SHE DOESN'T NEED TO KNOW HOW THAT WE'VE BEEN GOING OUT...
OMIGOSH I HOPE SHE DOESN'T READ MY BLOG, I MEAN I GUESS SHE DOESN'T REALLY CARE THAT I HAVE A BLOG SO SHE DOESN'T CHECK IT SO IT'S ALL GOOD I GUESS.
OMIGOSH OMIGOSH OFF TO CELEBRATE WITH A FEAST OF MY STASHED CHOCOLATES!!!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Raising a Dragon
JAPANESE SUPERMARKET RAID!!!
Oh man, I'm drinking my ramune right now, and it's a lovely melon flavor. ^-^ Yum yum!
Friday, January 8, 2010
Mental Vomit ~SAVARDISM~
Today at school, we had an assembly during 1st period (which I hate missing because it's Art class, and I would really like to finish my painting of a hummingbird, wolf, and such.) on... THE DDR FUNDRAISER! Omigosh, I love DDR! I used to be absolutely obsessed with it, and would play it every day all day (aside from the time spent doing homework, eating, etc.). I mean I still love it, but I'm so out of practice, I'm really excited about this fundraiser because it's pretty motivational for continuing my obsession. Lol.
I honestly don't understand the fundraiser though! Basically, in order to raise money, we beg relatives and friends' parents for money so that we play DDR, but even without raising money, you're allowed to play DDR on the day that it replaces your Spanish or gym class. Hum, that is begging, isn't it?
Anyway, my boyfriend thinks that maybe we "are more like really good friends because we don't see each other outside of school these days". I mean that's true, but are "really good friends" thinking about kissing each other? Not that I know of. And anyway, he knows that we can't really go out much because of my parents' "no dating until 18 rule". (Yes, stupid I know.) But I hopefully changed it... Because yesterday I had a talk with my mom about changing the rule.
Basically it went:
Me: Hey Mom, uhmmm.... Can we uhhhh.... Talk?
Mother: Sure
Me: Uhmmm privately??
Mother: Uh huh.... OH WAIT! YOU MEAN SO THAT YOUR BROTHER CAN'T HEAR. Okay... *moves to room across from my brothers room* (not effective)
Me: I... Uhhh.... Can we change the no dating until 18 rule??
Mother: WHAT? O.O Uhmmm why?
Me: Because it's silly and it's my last year here (*** I'm moving soon***) and I'd rather live life fully and do everything I wanted to do, or I'll grow old and regret not doing some things.
Mother: Wait why are you asking this though?
Me: Uhm...
Mother: You do know that this rule is place because I don't want a boyfriend or anything distracting from schoolwork right?
Me: Uhmmm yeah but what if the guy, not saying that there is a guy, is more serious than me about schoolwork? Like seriously, what if he is a good influence?
Mother: .... Are we talking about someone in particular here?
Me: .... No.... Maybe...
Mother: Yes. Who?? Do I know him?? I'm assuming it's a him...... o.o
Me: *hides head* ... Michael...
Mother: HA I KNEW IT!!!! *jumps on bed in excitement*
Me: o.o So....
Mother: Well I'll think about it... But only group dates...
Me: But that's not fair to the people coming along. Just regular dates Mom, please? I mean, it's not like I'm going to do anything like.... O.O I WOULD NEVER OKAY.
Mother: Right well... I'll think about it.
Okay well that was basically it. I mean maybe some parts weren't exactly it, but that was essentially it. Though the conversation was much longer, and I even broke down in tears to try to convince her. (Horrible I know, but I really did cry, which somehow went toward my benefit.... Strange.)
I just really don't want to break up with my boyfriend because I'll probably become depressed, etc, etc.... THAT WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE I AM VERY EMOTIONALLY-RULED.
I'm a drama queen, thanks.
But anyway, onto a different topic, as I'm sure everyone doesn't wanna hear anymore about my boyfriend problems! (Those problems have been on my mind alot lately....)
HUZZAH!! ON MONDAY THERE IS A PARTNER MATH TEST! Apparently only TWICE in during the whole year, my math teacher lets us do a "partnered assessment". Aka we will be able to do a test with a partner, which I am excited about. Hopefully my partner won't slack off and be one of the idiots in my class that only got in because they cheated and what not. I WANNA RAISE MY MATH GRADE! =D
I. AM. MENTALLY. VOMITTING. (see: Savardism!) Lol! ;)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
WAIT THERE IS MORE
Tomorrow is a full day band trip, which I won't be able to go on because it ends after school ends (at around 9 pm or so), and my mom won't let me go because of a Chinese school essay I have to write. Grr. =(
Also, the word of the day is...
HUZZAH!
And it shall stay as huzzah for all other days until I decide on a different day. I'm good now, too much typing a posting! Peace out, girl scouts. ;) Or... if you're a guy... Boy scouts. =)
Geography Bees and STUPID Compromising
But speaking of Derek! He is the best(?) friend of my boyfriend, and funnily enough one of my friends likes him... It's really funny because Derek and UndisclosedFriend are friends, and personally I find it sooo obvious that she likes him! Anyway, my boyfriend, our friend Roma, and I are getting a little exasperated and just want UndisclosedFriend to TELL DEREK THAT SHE LIKES HIM! She's scared to though, understandably as she is aware that Derek likes this other girl... UndisclosedFriend kept asking me who he liked, since she knows I know, and I accidentily told her, which led to this sorta fight with my boyfriend... But then I cleared it up and lied to her about it.
I really hate lying. If you know anything about me, you know that I really hate lying to people, especially my friends, but if it's necessary well... I'm gonna be honest and un-modest here and say that I'm a pretty dang good liar. Lol.
Ah, I also forgot to mention that yesterday was that dreaded beginning-mark day in gym... The single most torturous thing known to middle-school-student-kind... That's right folks, you guessed it, SQUARE DANCING UNIT! How in the world do the gym teachers think that square dancing is good for "cooperation"? Basically, the students freak out over who they will be dancing with first. Packs of girls and groups of guys form, opposing each other, sizing each other up. In the girl's minds- Omigod, I wanna dance with [crush's name!], but I don't wanna pick him... Pick me! Omigod, okay I wanna pick him! NO I DON'T! I am obviously not a guy, but I imagine that in their minds, it's like this- When is this over... Holy crap, why is that girl staring at me??
That's about as accurate as I get for a guy's mind.
So after the groups are established, then it's the actual learning the dance moves part! For the scenario of a girl who managed to find a partner that does not suck and she finds acceptable, or likes: The girl guides the guy around, while flirting with him, being generally friendly, and basically sickening. For a girl that ends up with a horrible dance partner that she secretly wants to run away from puking: The girl guides the guy around through the dance steps, keeping as much distance as humanly possible while holding hands doing a promenade. There are also those extreme and unique situations, where the girl absolutely hates her partner and leads him around angrily, attempting to finish as quickly as possible so she can leave and never see her partner again. In fact, that's MY situation!
I hate my partner, and I hate my group. (Besides the girls, because they're more or less my friends.) Anyway it's a long story, so I shall type it all down!
What happened is that in my gym class, my gym teachers finally trusted us and let us pick out groups out ourselves. So of course, that lead to a problem. I have exactly 5 friends in my gym class (they're girls), and counting me that made 6 people. We had to make group of four girls, to be paired up with a group of boys by choice. Well my friend Elyse decided to make a group with her friends Kayla and Rachel, but they needed one more person. So the remaining 5 of us stared at each other, wondering who would be the first to leave or get kicked out and join Elyse's group. (We're a very close group and some of us are a little... Antisocial.) So I had the brilliant idea of playing rock-paper-scissors against each other, and whoever was the only one who won OR lost would go to the other group. Well this idea sucked, since the one who ended up winning against us all was my friend Kristen, who is the shyest of us all and absolutely refused to go to the other group. Then everyone started arguing, and I decided I had enough, and being the good person I am, went to the Elyse's group. Well how was I repayed for my generousity?
Everyone else in Elyse's group picked the group of boys that were literally THE WORST choice ever. The boys' group consisted on one kid that hated me, one that was known for picking his nose, farting, etc. in class, one that was new and clearly did not like me, and one that I barely knew but was verryyy annoying.
Oh and guess who the group that I left got? They got the group that consisted of guys that were mostly my friends, and one which USED to be who I liked (until my boyfriend came along... lol).
I hate being compromising.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Video Spazz-Out
Bad Boy by Son Dam Bi (also featuring Kahi from After School)
DON'T FORGET TO TURN OFF THE PLAYLIST AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BLOG BEFORE YOU LISTEN TO THIS!
Anyway, I've been humming this alllll day and it's driving me insane!!! Though it's a good song lol. Daaang Son Dam Bi is so skinny it's scary! *-* Even I'm not that skinny, thanks!
Soo well today I had sooo much homework, even though it was the first day back from the break! It sucks.
I'm bored and have an addiction to these little Japanese candies that melt in your mouth! Yummmy.
Oooh and another song stuck in my head; also Korean of course, because I'm having a K-Pop obsession right now. =)
DJ by Uhm Jung Hwa (feat. CL from 2NE1)
I'm also learning a few dances to some Korean songs... I actually know I few already too. =) Here are some that I learned or am currantly learning...
For this one I learned the main part... Plus the dance solo.
I am learning all the parts to this one...
And for this one, I am learning the part of the girl on the right, with the long hair. ^-^
I noticed that this post was a video spazz out, but whatever. ;) Hope that this post was... Interesting, if not entertaining... Off I go to learn more the dances. >.<
Sunday, January 3, 2010
I Take that Back... FREAK OUTS ARE STUPID!
Though one of the reasons I freaked out was definitely not my fault and completely reasonable.
He said: Oh I have you tell you something tomorrow (which was referring to yesterday), and you may not love it but try to understand it...
Which one can automatically assume that he wanted to BREAK UP WITH ME. That, or he realized he was gay, therefore had to BREAK UP WITH ME. The first assumption was the more reasonable one. Which of course, I assumed. So I spent the whole day worrying and fretting over what turned out to be nothing, because he just said that so I would text him yesterday cuz apparently I had "barely texted him all week". (Which is sorta silly, cuz I think I texted him quite a bit, but half the time he didn't respond. I mean, it wasn't his fault as he had a lot of relatives over and was pretty busy, but...)
Anyway, so my freaking out all week was definitely for no reason. I'm not exactly mad, but I wish I hadn't freaked out so much since I lost plenty of sleep and therefore daylight hours. (When I stress I tend to take a long time to fall asleep, and then I sleep in late. I HATE that! I love waking up with the sun. ^.^)
So, today is a happier, less stress filled day! HOORAY FOR STAYING IN PJS ALL DAY!! It's a lovely cleansing ritual of mine. =P
That, and singing, dancing, drawing, or painting. And blogging. Oh my.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
My Phobias
Anyway, while using StumbleUpon to "stumble upon" random sites, I came across a site listing (you guessed it) phobias!
And so being the loser I am, I read every single one and compiled a list of my very own phobias! Take a look:
- Achluophobia (fear of darkness)
- Acrophoia (fear of heights)
- Altophobia (fear of heights)
- Anuptaphobia (fear of staying single)
- Aphenphosmphobia (fear of being touched, no not "touched touched", you silly pervs!)
- Arachnephobia/Arachnophobia (fear of spiders)
- Ataxophobia (fear of disorder of untidiness)
- Atelophobia (fear of imperfection)
- Batophobia (fear of heights)
- Belonephobia (fear of pins and needles)
- Chiraptophobia (fear of being touched, again NOT "touched touched")
- Coulrophobia (fear of clowns)
- Haphephobia/Haptephobia (fear of being touched, must I emphasize again what it does NOT mean?)
- Macrophobia (fear of long waits)
- Pupaphobia (fear of puppets)
- Trypanophobia (fear of injections)
Anyhoo, yes I know many of the phobias in that list are just synnanyms of other phobias, but that just shows how acutely important it is to emphasize the point that THOSE ARE MY FEARS, goshdarnit! (Yes, I said that.)
So, now I ask whoever wasted five-ten minutes of their life reading this, what are YOUR fears/phobias? And don't lie, everyone has phobias. Indeed, those that admit to their fears are, to me, the most courageous! It takes strength to admit weakness! And anyway, the health class textbooks say that those that act high and mighty do that only to mask their insecurity. =)
Yes I am a loser and I actually listen in class. MWAHAHA!
Yet my grades never seem to get better... Hmm there is a flaw there!
Okay, I'm gonna go now since I'm getting totally off topic. =)
Friday, January 1, 2010
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
I mean they're so oblivious... I asked to go to the movies with my friend, and they're like "OH WE WANNA SEE THAT MOVIE TOO" and just tag along. -.- It is absolutely ridiculous!
But anyway, "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" was, in short, a cute and entertaining, yet slightly disappointing movie after the first movie. Don't get me wrong, the chipmunks are absolutely adorable, and the blooming romance between Alvin, Simon, Theodore, and their female counterparts (the Chippettes) was an "AWWWW" experience, yet the storyline seemed jumbled. The whole story seemed to hop from one topic to another, while barely touching each topic, leaving us wondering. Far from an excellent strategy to keep a viewer interested, the movie lost sight of the original plot.
For those that don't know what this movie is about, here is the trailer to the movie. (And don't forget to turn off the blog's music before you watch this! That is, if you already haven't done so. ;P)
And yes, me watching this movie totally proves that I am a typical girl that loves cute, fuzzy critters. xP I mean come on, they're FUZZY!!
BOYFRIENDS ARE STUPID
Or rather, I am and he's being a @$$.
Well I just need to rant and I gotta say that this relationship is kinda pointless if you think about it... But even more so with the fact that I "can't date until 18" and I'm willing to face being DISOWNED AND KICKED OUT OF THE HOUSE by being with him, yet he refuses to go out to the mall with me... I mean, he WAS the one that pointed out that we needed to see each other more often outside of school.
Which I agree to, hence my offering to meet him at the mall, which he rejected without a good reason. (If you're reading this Michael, I need a better reason than "IDK", okay??)
I mean I don't understand, did I do something wrong? I don't want to be one of those freaky clingy girlfriends that totally grovel at their boyfriend's feet (psssh, like I'd sink that low), but maybe I have unwillingly done that...
Opinion: Does it make me a clingy girlfriend just because I want to text or talk to him over the winter break?
We used to be... Really close, like we'd text 25/7 (yes 25...) and we'd talk on the phone at least once every other day but now it's like he can't even text me ONCE. We told each other EVERYTHING, even what we were doing each and every second (exaggeration, but you get my point), yet now I'm lucky if he even answers me.
I don't think I'm clingy, so maybe it's all HIS fault! Or rather, he is nervous and all since I'm his first girlfriend, but after 3 months, he should be over it by now... Shouldn't he?
Maybe he's sick of me. Maybe he doesn't like me anymore. Maybe he thinks I'm too "outgoing" towards him, aka I always initiate the conversation first, go up to him first, dang I think I was even the one who asked him out! (or was I.... DUN DUN DUN.). Maybe he thinks I'm too demanding.
Or maybe I'm freaking out over nothing. Maybe it's because I "freak out over nothing" so much that he hates me now.
I should probably break up with him, but I don't really have the heart... Or rather I'm kinda afraid to.
Gah I am pathetic! I'm gonna end this post, and if I feel like continuing my blogging today, I will start a new post!