Nerd Day! and comp problems...

やった！今日はオタクの日！でもボクのシャツとパンツは普通.あとね，この日ひ楽しかった。そうか！ボクの数学物理学の先生は設立がボクの本！ボクがうれしいです。ありがとう，テッド先生！よかったね。
ボクのコンピュータは遅いと迷惑。いつも「エラ！」と「コンピュータバイルス設立する！」　これはぜんぜんだよ！このバイルスファイルは「ノアックセッス」。ボクは新しいのコンピュータが欲しいよー！明日はピアノのレッスン。それがもっと嫌い！ボクは疲れた。「もたくさん」と「止まれ！」が欲しいに生活を叫び声する。でもこれは不可能。ｗｗｗ　ボクが音のようにキョン，でしょう？

Ｄｏｎ’ｔ　ｂｏｔｈｅｒ　ｔｏ　ｔｒａｎｓｌａｔｅ　ｗｉｔｈ　Ｇｏｏｇｌｅ．Ｙｏｕ　ｐｒｏｂａｂｌｙ　ｗｏｎ’ｔ　ｕｎｄｅｒｓｔａｎｄ　ｉｔ．ｂｕｔ　ｇｏ　ａｈｅａｄ，　ｉｔ’ｓ　ｔｈｅ　ｏｎｌｙ　ｗａｙ　ｙｏｕ’ｌｌ　ｂｅ　ａｂｌｅ　ｔｏ　ｒｅａｄ　ｔｈｉｓ．Ｕｎｌｅｓｓ　ｙｏｕ　ｓｐｅａｋ　Ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ　ｏｆ　ｃｏｕｒｓｅ． （Ｉ　ｋｉｎｄａ　ｈａｄ　ａ　ｌｉｌ　ｄｉｃｔｉｏｎａｒｙ／ｔｒａｎｓｌａｔｏｒ　ｈｅｌｐ．）

（　＾．＾）／やあ！またね！

おまけ：空耳ケキ (Soramimi Keki; Fancy Hearing Cake) by Oranges & Lemons
Here's practically a song about random things. Like me!

(Mini-tribute for the series ending T_____T)

Making Fiends

Couple nights ago, I found out about Making Fiends (a web cartoon by Amy Winfrey) thorugh a commercial on Nicktoons Network. It's a cartoon about a super optimistic girl named Charlotte and a "fiend maker" named Vendetta. For more info, go to makingfiends.com. Other info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Fiends_(web_cartoon)

I love it so far. The cartoon premieres on October 4th at 11: 30 (PT) I can't wait!!!

Reading Journal: Azumanga Daioh Vol. 4

For my reading journal, I decided to read Azumanga Daioh, Vol 4, the last one for the series. I had to admit, I felt a little sad when I found out that this was going to be the last one. The series is about Mihama Chiyo, a 10 year old who becomes a freshman, and her friends. Each volume shows a year in the high school, 4th being senior. It was interesting to watch them on their trip to Okinawa, and I cracked up at the parts where Sasaki, a "cool", quiet girl ho really loves cats, just melts when she's with the Iriomote cat, the only one who hasn't bitten her throughout the series. Then they takes their university entrance exams. I laughed at the part when Tomo, the loud, obnoxious one, started asking trick questions and Osaka, the dumb, transfer student from Osaka, got them all right. Then the graduation, which I almost cried at. Chiyo gets the highest grade point average award and Osaka and Tomo start a standing ovation. I connect with the characters, even the teachers, because there's a litle piece of me in them and to find that there won't be any more of their little "adventures" makes me a little sad.

Laser Tag Friday

So yesterday after school, we had our first Advisory after school activity, which was Laser Tag. It was fun. I got there 3rd, and it was me, Marco, Andres, Tony, Max, Patrick (our advisor), Fernanda and 2 of her cousins. We were playing against a little kid's birthday party, which was a little unfair, because they had more people plus 3 adults who are actually good. The little kids kept attacking in swarms and it was annoying, but I got 8th out of 18 in my team. Yay! ^.^ But we lost by a couple thousand points. xp. I was so tired after the game because I played a quick round of DDR and it turns out it was 4 songs, and I was dead. 

Afterwards, we had dinner. We were going to eat at Olive Garden, but it was an hour wait. So we ate in the mall, which was across the street. Patrick and I ate at a Chinese place, while everyone else got Mexican food. The food was icky but I still ate it anyway. Then we talked for a bit, went into Comic's N' Stuff, then went back to the laser tag place and waited for our parents to pick us up. In the end it was really fun. THANK YOU MR. PATRICK!!!!!!

Overdue...

Well it's been awhile now, but I'm back for as long as I know. I'm usually dead during the first half of the week, and the pile of homework, waiting to be let out of my black hole known as my backpack, will make a good blanket for me.

No. Not really. x]

But seriously, I'm a bit stressed, and everything's just become a big blah. And my Spanish project is overdue, with my issues to that about to boil over. And then there's Math/Physics, where I'm afraid whether or not our bridge can at least hold up the bucket, more or less hang on to the sides. Humanities isn't all that peachy too, but there are a lot of laughs in that class, and that I'm okay with. (:

Nothing else to talk about, I'll leave it at that.

In Other News...

Today, I had a piano recital. We were late, though, and my brother didn't get to play Star Spangled Banner as planned. The place was SD Piano Hall or something that sounds like it. We proformed in a smallish room, and mostly the preformers' families were in the audience. I was really nervous when I went up, I almost forgot the names of the pieces I was gonna play when I was introducing myself to the crowd, but overall I did good. Then we had "snakes" afterwards everyone finished. We even got certificates! x] (BTW, in the invitaion/info paper, it said "Snakes will be served afterwards." An obvious typo). The pieces I played were Czerny # 27, 28, Moonlight Sonata, Pink Panther, and Soshite Itsumo no Fuukei (which I mildy screwed up on).

それじゃ，またね！

Reading Journal for Breaking Thorugh FINALE

The last journal entry for this book, for I have finished it. Yay! Really good book. And it's prequel wasn't so bad either. Anyways on with my thoughts...

To me, the best part of the book was when he went to college, which was practically the end of the book. I could understand his tension between him and his father, while not really the same predicament, but me and my dad can get into disagreements sometimes. But it was cool how he got all those scholarships though. But one thing that kept me thinking was when he put place of birth, he didn't put the real one, and I thought, how would this affect him? Would they take away his money, or expell him from the school?

The part where Panchito's dad cut off his finger was a bit of a shock to me. I mean, at one second, he's happy, then out of the blue, his younger brother comes out and says that their dad cut off his finger. I was like, Woah! That was random. But it was kind of expected as good things don't last long, and were bound to end. While his happiness of him being Class President didn't exactly end, however, the finger incident really dampened that mood.

Then the Rotary Club. Two words: that sucked. Big time, especially for Panchito, because, I can imagine going in front of a whole bunch of people and just coming out with nothing. I remember when I went up in front of the class in 8th grade, most of the words that I said were "Erm", "Uh", or the most dreaded "..."

That about ends the book for me. Also the above three events mentioned are out of order. Of course the ending did not happen before the Rotary Club incident or the Finger Amputation.

Intervieww :)

You know how sometimes, I mention my friend Leila? (Like the last post) Well I decided to interview her for her view on immigration.

What personal experiences have helped you develop your perspective on immigration?
As an American citizen, it would be unfair for people who have worked hard...to become low class people, just to have someone else take this work.

How do you feel that illegal immigrants are not/impacting your community and/or the US?
They aren't impacting, like they aren't doing anything horrible, but it's hurting the economy because,

they work for cheap, and instead of spending money here, they send it back to Mexico and prices go up due to a failing economy.

Do you think immigrants should have any rights? Why or why not?
At first, not many rights, but they do have their basic human rights given by the 1st Amendment. But, they shouldn't be able to vote or have a say in our government. Work for citizenship, then have they should be able to vote.

How would you feel if there was no border?
[The US] would become more chaotic, there would be more Mexicans to take money from us without

anyone stopping them. If they immigrate legally though, that would be totally different. The border keeps everything in check.

Do you think that the government should take more or less action on illegal immigration?
They're already doing a lot of action, but they aren't doing it right. They could deport them, but also have better border control. They need to take action torwards controlling the border.

What do you think about the border patrol?
They aren't doing a great job, like they're supposed to, as many illegal immigrants are freeloading off of us. They're either not stopping them, or failing to do so.

When you hear the phrase "jumping the border", what comes to mind?
Illegal immigrants mainly from Mexico.

Do you think illegal immigrants should be deported?
Not neccesarily. I mean, they should be given a chance to clean up and try to get citizenship, but if they don't then they should get deported.

If you were in charge of immigration in America, what would you do?
I would set up seminars near places where illegal immigrants are located to help them try to get citizenship, but if that's no use, then deport them.

How do you think the US would change if you let anyone immigrate without having to go through a process?
It would be more chaotic. There wouldn't be a fair say in the government, because the only people who can vote are citizens. Illegal immigrants are like vacationers; you can't just go to another

country and vote there. The US might actually be even run by an illegal immigrant, which would be bad, because the US is a world power.

How would you feel if you were an illegal immigrant?
I don't really know. I guess I would feel bad for having to freeload off these people, where I don't have the best life back in my country and I have to support my family. I would try to get citizenship, and I'd want my family to move to the US.

Do you feel everybody is an immigrant? Why?
Yes, everyone is an immigrant or a descendant of one, because you wouldn't be here if there was no immigration unless you're Native American

Are you related to any immigrants? Where are they from?
Not anymore, my great-grandma was from Poland, but she passed away.

Do you like immigrants who come to our country?
Yes I do, in fact, my best friend is an immigrant [from Switzerland]. I think it's cool to have immigrants here in the US, but it's bad if they come here illegally. "Don't freeload!"

Would you have the guts to immigrate illegally?
No, never, personally because I'd become a hypocrite and it'd just wrong because other people had to earn their way into society.

Why do you think people immigrate illegally?
They can't always afford to immigrate legally.

Have you immigrated from somewhere? How old were you? What were your thoughts back then?
No, but relatives have.

Unintentional Hiatus Broken!

Yay! My internet's working again! There was a trojan proxy thing that was making it bug out and I was getting pissed. But now it's okay (:

So on Saturday, I went to Torrey Pines beach with my cousins. First we went boogie boarding, then we made little sand castle cities, and we threw little sandballs at them to demolish them. It was me, Michelle, and Nate against Kevin, Julian, and Ervin. We kept losing, but it was fun. (I accidentaly trampled on one of our castles, oops ;; ) Then we buried ourselves except for Nate.

Now, school is okay, we have like 3 projects in Spanish, Math/Physics, and Humanities. Tough. Meh. Little update, enjoy (:

BTW, this post is dedicated to all of my friends I made at Kroc, especially Leila, who made me write this x]

Reading Journal 2

For this journal, I will only talk about some excerpts of the 13 chapters I have read. (Summer Skirmishes to Junior Scandals). 

Broken Heart. 

Here, Roberto goes dating. But his girlfriend has to break up with him because he's Mexican, and her parents don't like Mexicans. Load of crap right? I think so too. I mean, just because someone's a different race, doesn't mean you can't love someone. To quote someone, "I think that if we have interracial babies, racism will be no more." (-KevJumba, YouTube, slightly paraphrased)

Turning A Page

Panchito goes to college. Really he visits a college with his class. I wonder if Panchito does go to college. Will his dad let him? What about Roberto and work? Coming from a family where both of my parents went to and graduated from college, I don't really share this feeling that Panchito. So in conclusion, I don't have much thoughts on this chapter. 

Los Santitos

Panchito joins a club and helps create a canned food drive for the poor. This kind of reminds me of my elementary school, where the whole school donated food. I think it's cool of him to care and help others even though he isn't exactly rich himself. Whenever I hear "club activities, I'm always reminded of the SOS Brigade. What's ironic though is that he does it to help the poor, but when Christmas comes, the Salvation Army gives them some of the food from the drive that Panchito help set up. Nevertheless, the whole family is happy. 

Junior Scandals

Panchito participates in a talent show kind of event at his school, and he decides to sing a Spanish song. I like this chapter because, it sort of reminded me of when I sang in front of my Humanities class. I haven't actually been in a telent show before, however, but I think singing in front of a group no matter the size, can give you major butterflies in your stomach. 

That's it for now, hopefully I can write more next time.