If it's Christmastime, how come I don't feel so Merry?

(I'll try and keep this short. I'm on my DSi.)

It's the night before the eve, and I'm lying lazily on the couch. As I lay here, something at the back of my head is irking me, stressing me out. My tension's doing well however.

The Yuletide Log, the festive tree, the decorated house. My house has none of it. Christmas becomes just another holiday. I was just talking to a friend about this too. About how Christmas used to be the biggest time of the year, and you couldn't care less for it. It's a bit sad really. But maybe we've just become sad people.

I guess the thing that bothers me the most is the fact that I'm obliged to get gifts for people, so they won't think bad about me. But wait, are you not supposed to care what other people think of you? The only thoughts about you that matter, are those who matter to you. Unfortunately, I run into errors of the process. 1. I can't drive anywhere, so I go on my parent's schedule, which clashes with my 'feelin' lazy' moments. I also do not want to go leave my house and go outside where it's colder-ish. And 2. I'm short on money. Many factors go into this: I have no job and/or I usually blow my cash on stuff for me, and I don't know how to budget. So I guess the main culprit is gifts. I would love to give, but I usually can't. I'm the kind of person who would just add their name to the tag. Bah-humbug.

But I want to change. New Years and my birthday are coming, so it's time for some resolutions, and I've started a list:

1. Be a better person.
2. Get fit and exercise more.
3. Save up some money.
4. Be more positive.
5. Be less lazy and don't procrastinare as much.

I'll leave it as that. I know that I might have to add more, so this is just kind of a rough draft. Guess I ran out of things to say, so Happy Christmas, and Happy Holidays.

I lied, I have a few more words to say but they can wait after Christmas. I'm just too lazy , but I'm working on it.

The last day before winter break.

The room is filled with sounds, mainly voices overlapping each other. The projector screen is down, showing Up. The tinny voice places over all the chatter. People drink their drinks and munch on their snacks. Music plays from a phone behind me.

It's the last day before winter break, and the people in my Math/Chem classroom are hanging out. In my Humanities room, people who work on their work are present. I just remembered how good a movie Up was.

It's finally time for Christmas, almost. One of my friends got me a foam sword, while my other friend got me This Is Not a Book by Kari Smith. It's awesome, and I still have to do all of them. I did the endurance test, and lasted for 10 minutes since I was fixing my jacket and forgot to hold it over my head. I bookmarked the "conundrum" page, which is always interesting to watch people read it and try and find out what's "wrong" with it.

Finals were a bit of a nervous wreck, but I managed to pull through. Perfect score in Humanities, and I think I missed a few problems in my Math II exam and the Chemistry exam. But that's good enough.

On another note, I think I'm involved in a plagiarism incident. Details when they come about. I know that I was the one copied off of, and I didn't know that person copied. Just when you know a person.

A post in Humanities

I’m in Humanities. With a computer out, I’m too lazy to get out my journal and write in it. Brooke’s talking about what she heard on the radio right now. Something about finals. Blah. Tests are so annoying.
So much pressure is put on these questions, but there is some leverage. I did all my work, or at least most of it, in Math/Chem, and the finals is only about 5% of my grade anyway. I’ll be fine. I’m not sure about the Humanities final though. In an outsider’s perspective though, I think it won’t seem as a lot. All we have to do is write 3 paragraphs about what we learned. We have all our resources, or I know I do. But, again, the pressure that’s put on us and the want for us to do well on these tests, it’s a bit nerve-racking.

My DP won’t work. Great. Apparently, it was working yesterday when Brooke was on it, and it was kind of working last night when I was editing it. Well, I was only editing the Globalization part on the Google sites part. But it was still acting a bit wonky then. Hmm… Computers are stupid. It’s a bit of a paradox if you think about it. We use and invent new technology to reach new heights. But sometimes, that is not enough, and so our creativity, or whatever else is in us, is stumped. So we have to keep inventing new things, while the old “new” things fall into the obsolete abyss. And the cycle keeps going. It just creates more and more waste and trash. Not to mention, we have global warming going on. It can’t be helped. I just hope they make something good out of Copenhagen.

Late Post: December 12th

The following post was written on my dad's laptop up in Julian, CA. Details later maybe?

I just felt the need type something. The thing I hate about coming up here during winter is that it's too cold and too much of a hassle to actually go out and walk someplace. It takes too much effort to dress up appropriately, make sure you're warm, and have the right shoes. If I'm already wearing the right clothes, then maybe I could go. I still might need to ask my parents.

Sitting up here on the second floor is really interesting, compared to the lower floor. For instance, you're closer to the ceiling and right now as I'm typing this, I can hear the pitter-patters of the raindrops above me. It actually got so severe last night, I though I heard thunder. Another reason is the height limitation. The roof is just about 5 feet up from the floor, so we all have to stoop down. A bit of a bother really, but I don't mind that much. I'm still not that tall.

Speaking of height, I noticed recently that when at school, I'm now considered as part of the shorter sophomores. It's a bit annoying, but it can't be helped. I am only 14 after all. Everyone else in my grade is way older than that. I had two classmates turn 16 this week. So they can drive now, so what? I'm pretty sure being young has it's perks too. I'd write some down, but I can't think of any. Crap.

I think I've simply run out of things to say. Anything else I'd like to spill would be very personal, and we can't have that now can we? Who knows who would read this? Secrets aren't secrets if everyone knows them. It's intriguing to have a secret about someone, though. Especially if you see that person every day, [post ends here]

Thankful

It's Thanksgiving next week. I'm sick. That's basically the basic story developments of my life thus far. I'm working on Shin Kurone's cover of "HELLO!" from 876 Productions. I plan to do a duet, so it'll be interesting to hear my voice overlapped with my voice. Speaking of which, I have to update the other blog. I said I was doing Saihate, but I got distracted.

Speaking of music pieces, our music group in my music class is working on a Kokoro cover. I'm singing. :D But I'm sick, so it'll be a bit tough. I hope I get better by the end of the month. I'll ask my dad for acupuncture and all that other stuff. D:

The most recent song that I've been hooked to is Just Be Friends by Luka Megurine. But I listen to the Halyosy version more, because his voice is sexy like that. :D I'm trying to port it into English the way I did with Kokoro, but my lack of Japanese language skills cause me to be stumped. Was that bad grammar? I dunno. :p

The Global Owl Event is also going on in Mabinogi. I get to take care of one of Nao's owls. I have to feed it four times, for something to happen. But I only get food every irl hour. So I have to be on for four consecutive hours. The only problem is my brother. He wants to play too. I really want my own computer now. All for now.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Hello people of the internetz! Because this font looks appealing to me currently, I have decided to keep it. (:

Anyways, happy Thanksgiving everyone, hope you fill yourself to the brim with turkey and stuffing ;) I am currently at my auntie's house in Escondido right now, and my ither cousins just go here. There's an annoying beep going off in the kitchen, but I'm sure it's not the turkey (: Or maybe it is? idk. XD I will be sleeping over here the night, along with my brother and one of my cousins, if not all of them. I'm still kind of sick, not as stuffy a nose and slight coughs. I sleep better at night. But it's been raining a lot lately, which equals the cold in early morning, which kind of brings me back to earth, just barely. Don't get me wrong, I love the rain, and in fact it was rainging on the way here. But then of course there was a 3-car accident that clogged up the freeway, and held us up about 15 minutes, but whatever. Sadly, my parents are working today, but I'm happy and thankful that at least I have my cousins and brother. x]

Last night, I downloaded the Super Mario Galaxy OST, and I like it. The tracks range from half a minute to about 4 minutes. I downloaded the Platinum Version, which has all 82 tracks from the game on 2 CDs. I've been listening to it all since last night, and I barely reached the half-point song, without skipping any songs. There are a couple that I listened to again, only for the pure enjoyment of the track. (LMAO< my brother sounds tone deaf, trying to sing Dirty Little Secret x], he's playing Rock Band with some of my cousins upstairs, sorry. /random tangent) I like the music which makes me want Super Mario Galaxy even more, even though I borrowed it from my friend andfinished it. x] Still haven't found out the red star's secret or finished all the Purple Comets. Maybe I'll add that to my ever growing wish list :D

Happy Thanksgiving, have a good turkey day, where ever you are :)

I is a sickly child

Hello readers. :) I am alive and wanting to say that I have not become a mindless zombie that only puts up school work on his originally personal blog, which it still is. I have come to inform you that I have caught something bad. C.O.L.D., otherwise known as Coughin' On Life Disease. Or the flu. Or whatever it is. I don't know what it's called right now, neither do I care. I developed this irritating sickness sometime over the weekend, and it's only taken it about 4 days to cause me to become sluggish and slumpy-state. I actually want to keep going to school so that I won't have to make anything up, but my cold is really persistent and tempting to give in to. I would love to just stay in bed for a whole day, lying in the snot and germs that create my currently aggravated state. :p

In other news, I downloaded a new album called GAME by Perfume, a J-pop, electropop girl trio. I have to say, having Yasutaka Nakata as their producer could've been the best thing that they could've ever done. At first, I only liked Perfume a litle bit because their beats were all wierd and unfamiliar to me. But then Yasutaka Nakata from the duo capsule came aling, and it just skyrocketed. I'd love to give a link, but I kind of downloaded it for free. And I used BitTorrent, which is like a multifile downloader, so yeah. But then again, who doesn't? I love the song Puppy Love. The chorus is so catchy!

In other, other news, I am going on a field trip! In about 2-3 weeks, I will be visiting "Knight & Carver wind turbine blade repair and construction facility and the downtown library! Yay for libraries. And yay for wind power! *cough* blaargh. :imd: xPP It's going to be interesting, at least that's what my gut tells me.

To close off, I will present to you a video of what sounds like Palin singing. But if you maybe surf around YouTube, you can maybe find the original clip without the background music. I found two versions: one that just has text (which is greatly edited! and highly recommended), and another one that has an intro by Katie Couric (is that her last name?) Enjoy.




Love how she just goes "Oh!" right in the middle xDDD

PHAIL PHAIL PHAIL!

I'm not gonna finish... I'm not gonna finish...

Thses are the thoughts that go through my head right now. This week has been very stressful for me, let's see why:

Monday - Final PE Project Due (which is dumb, because PE isn't supposed to have something like this.)
Tuesday - Anne Frank Final Project Due (didn't bother me much)
Wednesday - Photo Journal due - (I still have to type up captions, put in titles, tape in my memorabilia, and put the scrapbook together because the pages were taken out for easier work), Holocaust Survivor Comes and Speaks (I don't mind this one either)
Thursday - Final Math Exam (supposed to be next week, but graduation practice got in the way), Return Textbooks and Other Books (I lost one book so now I owe like $3 and the book was $10. Why does manga have to be so expensive?)
Friday - Jewish Feast in English in honor of Holocaust. (Bringing soda.)

I also have piano lessons on Tuesdays (today), so I can barely do everything on my photo journal (our scrapbook for our East Coast Trip that is like a weeks worth of grades).

To top it off, my necks been killing me ever since yesterday, cuz' I slept all funky-like. Ugh...

O BTW, he counter broke 100! 100 visitors, so far! (It counts visitors not hits, so it won't jump everytime i look at it.)

Thursday

I haven't posted anything in a while for a number of reasons: 1) I have nothing interesting to say, 2) I forget about it, 3) I'm swamped with work, or 4) I'm lazy :p

Again, not really anything to report, as I am only updating to let you peeps know that I am indeed alive, and I didn't die in my room or something :) I am sick however, and it's pissing me off that I am though.

Actually, I did go to a cousin's birthday party the day after I came back from DC. I was tired, but it was fun. It was a pool party at Welk Resort Center. It was supposed to be at the beach, but the parentals worried about sharks and whatnot. I could've sleptover, cuz they had a suite, but my parents were all like, "Ehh....I'm tired" (Dad) or "It wasn't in the plans" (Mom). My dad was out playing airsoft with some of his peeps. So yeah, that's maybe it for now. Ja ne.

Nerdiness vs. Otakuness Pt. 1

I just thought about this post just now, and I thought I'd share with you people/person(s) who actually read this blog.

So first off, nerdiness. Ooooh, where to begin.

1. Well, I am a seminerd.

2. I actually try to get good grades even though I never study and I procrastinate and do it all last minute.

3. I hang out with preps.

4. I spend most of my time infront of a screen: TV, computer, etc.

5. I freak about video games.

6. I freak about anything that I like (eg Just earlier, I called my mom so she could borrow Juno...

*Newsbraek: I am not going to watch Juno, 'cuz my lil bro wants Alvin and the Chipmunks. To be honest, I'm a little pissed. My bro always gets treated better than I am but w/e. I mean I've already seen Juno, and since the Chipmunks are like PG, I guess it be okay. I did try to sound a disappointed as possible, though*

...and while the phone was ringing, I was hopping around in a circle, going "kya, kya, kya, kya, kya..."

7. I obsess a little too much.

8. I'm also friends with other nerds.

Uhm, that's all I can think about right now, so wait for "Otakuness" soon.

TGIF!!!!

Today is finally Friday, thank GOD!!!!! I'm so tired. I'm still sick, I spent most of my time on that English project, and soccer during PE is exhausting, especially since i got hit in the jaw and neck with the ball XP. The after-school dance was tiring too. Y'know being in a moshpit...isn't all that great.

But, I'm getting better, the English project went along swimmingly (but we decided not to show the ending credits for personal reasons). Ugh...I want to get better!!! Oh, I finally got all of the characters in Brawl, awesome! Now to complete the achievements and try to get 90% on SSE. Woo. So, I guess that all I have for today, so long.

"Let Go" by Frou Frou

For English, I have a project where we pair up with someone and choose a song. We then dissect the song, identifying the literary terms. Icky sounding, I know. But for our presentation, we have to have some form of performance. Me and my friend chose to do "Let Go" - Frou Frou. It was either between Miley Cyrus (my friends suggestion) or this (my suggestion). So we started.

It took us 2 days to shoot and 2 nights to edit. more info on the vid info. I have the video with me right now, but I'm trying to upload the vid to Youtube. It's frustrating, cuz I'm using a proxy on a school server to get to YouTube, and it's taking forever to upload....FXCK!Stupid computer with the stupid server with the stupid blocking making me stupid use a proxy to get on stupid youtube and not stupid failing the stupid upload for the stupid video!!! GRRAAAAAAAH!!!!

...

I finally got to upload the video, course now I'm at home. Anyways, here is the video:



STUPID!!!! (Yes, I'm still stupid sick)

Hot Days and Icky Sickness

Ugh...I'm not really feeling good today. And it goes like this:

The weekend of April 12-13 was a hot one and I already had a sore throat to add to it. :p Tempuratures quickly rose and so did everything else. Highest was 102 degrees Farenheit. XP. With the days being hot, you'd expect the nights to be hot too, huh? Well, the nights were okay but my mom insisted on leaving the windows slightly open. So I said ok and left them open. And I couldn't sleep. It was too cold, I was always tossing and turning, the light from the sun (or the grayness of the cloudiness) was seeping through the blinds and curtain, and the birds were being loud. This went on for Saturday night and Sunday night. And I think washing those cars in the late afternoon on BOTH days didn't help either.

So now, here I am in computer class, sucking on a small cough drop, typing this post, struggling to hold out till lunch and till I get home. This is my second drop today.

And I confirmed that I have a cold, not the flu thanks to this web page: http://www.drgreene.org/body.cfm?id=21&action=detail&ref=577

The wall of text is rather long and tedious but all you need for the big picture is the purple text. And now, I bid you achoo! (Sorry couldn't resist)