I’m in class. Shhhhh.
I miss people.
I need to get more productive this summer.
Yes.
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oh lmao
I go to wordpress.com and the “Hawt Post” of the moment is from bigbangfansite…xD love it.
Spring break! Finally. Although I feel it really won’t be any different from usual, just because I have such a bad case of senioritis. It’s true. Well it’s not super bad but it is still bad.
College business! Probably going to Berkeley, even though I got wait lists on Harvard and Yale. Don’t really want to go to either of them. Nor do I want to go to Caltech. Well, I guess we’ll see after my visit to Berkeley Easter Weekend.
Motz caught me with my cell phone today. In the hallway. He followed me for like a minute before I noticed, then he was like “that should be off.” Haha awkward. Whoops.
Lollipop MV came out. Very cool.
Okay I can’t think of anything else.
Spring Break! equals AP studying and jumping time.
orange
fucking sweet
UC BERKELEY
Caltech
Cornell ILR
UCLA
UCI
NYU Stern
eeeek I’m so happy I got into Berkeley. At this point it’s 85% sure that I’m going, but I’m going to wait on the Ivys to come out on Tuesday and Stanford on Wednesday and make my choice from there.
Cal gave me the Regent and Chancellor’s Scholarship, which means I get guaranteed housing for all 8 of my semesters, priority consideration for summer interns, a faculty advisor for school and career counseling, and $1000 at least for the first year. Also if I go I’m pretty sure I can pay in-state the first year because dad pays California taxes. Awesome.
Going to visit Cal the last day of Spring Break into the Monday we get back. Also going to the new student orientation in NYC Sunday, April 5th.
Wow everything seems kind of like a dream. Makes me really want to finish these two scholarships (which I haven’t even started yet) that I need to hand in to Mr. Kowalczyk by tomorrow if I want everything submitted on time.
500 word autobiography and a 250 word scholarship essay.
Psychology.
Spanish (two nights’ worth).
Econ.
Whitten.
Italian.
Whatever homework isn’t important right now; I should concentrate on finishing those scholarships. Although I do need to study for psych because my grade is complete fail in that class right now. Spanish I could care less about but I feel like I might not get an A this MP if I slack off too much. Screw Whitten. Econ is silly. I didn’t even bring home Italian.
Ohhhhhhh my gadddddddddddddddddddd yay.
International Dinner was amazing. Mom’s chicken parm was SO good. Sat between Cathay and Horace and across from Niti (aka god with her empty lighter) and Dave. Gregg sat nearby. Greg was MIA because of the sick. =(
Cathay and co.’s telenovella was SO LOLOLOLOLOL. Connie in a dress and wig was the funniest thing since ever. Spanish was a little bit of fail but the sombreros and sunglasses were awesome. Chinese was fail. Latin was slightly lol but paled in comparison to Italian. I’m happy IHS regained some of its pride after last year’s fail. xDDDD Pinocchio. Yes. I used ‘fail’ like twenty times in this paragraph.
Okay. Now to work.
My sleep hours are dying.
Mood: Glee.
orange
done.
Wow I am DONE with painting my freaking crazy international monument whatever shit. Only took me a couple twenty hours or so, cumulatively.
Wednesday: 1 hour – Sketch
Thursday: 2 hours – Statue of Liberty
Friday: 2.5 hours – Big Ben
Saturday: 2 hours – Sydney Opera House
Sunday: 2.5 hours – Taj Mahal, Kyoto
Monday: 3 hours – Kyoto, Eiffel Tower
Tuesday: 5.5 hours – Leaning Tower of Pisa, Great Wall of China, Himalaya Mountains, landscape
Okay just kidding it only took me 18.5 hours. What a cool way to not go online. Like I still had to go online during the week to do various business like solve people’s problems with rather fail and I still went to On the Border with Niti (omg…so delicioso) and to the Jazz Band Festival to help out (and ask around for prom…), but overall a very productive week.
I don’t have school tomorrow per say, because I have a FIELD TRIP!!!!! Or Heroes and Cool Kids. Whatever. Thus I really don’t have to do any homework today and I could leave it all until tomorrow to do. Uhhh maybe I’ll do Whitten today because I’ll feel bad if I don’t do the stuff for the discussion, AND if I’m not there for the discussion. Which I’m not. I guess I’ll just give my stuff to Horace or something. ‘Kay.
On my romantic life, nothing has happened. I think old feelings of SQUEE for certain people have been resurfacing for lack of Korean boy bands to fangirl over. And lack of yaoi fanfiction to read (this D.Gray-man fanfic has fucking took me a week, and I’m still not done reading it). Hmmmmmmmmm.
Discovered that Hidato is a great way to waste away my mind. Better than Sudoku because Hidato is really really REALLY mindless fo sho.
As Bell said it, triple jump is “Mental Mind Fuck.” He says I totally have it down I just need to have more confidence and jump longer on the first hop and higher on the last. Practiced with Bell today and totally improved a bunch. Cole wasn’t here, so he was like “okay no practice but jumpers go with Bell.” Hence. It was good time, just that I was like the only girl left out of three when Giulia and Alyssa just decided to leave at 4:15, before I fell on my ass over the hurdle. Goddammit.
All right (thanks to Horace, I found out that it is NOT all right to spell “all right” as “alright”), time to do some work. Thursday is going to fucking suck because I have to make up Stat and Psych and probably a shitload of Spanish homework. Right, and Berkeley comes out that day. And the International Dinner is that night. Woot I love jam-packed Thursdays!!!
On a totally unrelated note, I realized that the last NJML test was today. Good time because I literally ran in 5 minutes late and ran out 5 minute early. Which means that I got a 3 at best. Hah fail. Good thing Horace reminded me.
Okay bye.
orange
Good
I finished my Pygmalion paper at around 12:30, which was good timing for me. Went straight to sleep after that and slept like a log for six hours.
Woke up ridiculously tired this morning. However, overall I had a very satisfying day; Horace, Dave and I (and Kathy, to some extent) made jokes in Econ the entire period by drawing in Horace’s APE. Every time Motz made a joke, Horace and I took that as our cue to burst out laughing because our sides (or at least my sides) hurt from shaking with laughter. I think we were all a litle tired from the research paper.
Best news ever today was that Whitten won’t be here for the rest of the week because her grandchild is getting born (yay!) and she’s going down to DC to wait. Oh, I am so happy. So, so happy.
I don’t understand why I don’t like her so much. Well, I do, but I’ve never felt odiousness for any teacher, let alone a teacher for English. Maybe it’s the amount of work she gives? McDonald gave a ton of work, but it was useful work, because we actually would go over it and she would write constructive comments. Whitten gives me a 42 out of 50 and tells me to change my writing style. My style is fine as it is.
It’s not that I’m just being stubborn, either; I really do like my writing style, and it’s perfectly clear, unlike what she may think. According to her, my style renders the text imprecise, and by changing it I can convey my ideas better. Well, considering I didn’t want to waste paper, I confined my answers to one page. I used enough words for me to be able to look at my responses and relay them to my discussion group, to be clear to myself. I wrote down clear quotes that I could build upon if I needed to write a full-blown essay on any one thing. I’m not going to waste time writing explanations if it’s just a homework assignment, and I’m going to build on it through discussion anyway. Which I did. And she gave me a 40 out of 50.
I did put effort into the assignment. It’s not like I BSed it. I just put down key points that required little elaboration, and she accuses me of not being clear enough.
I don’t care that I got a 42 out of 50; it’s that my style was the reason for my 8 points off that irritated me. I can write. She knows I can write.
Maybe I’m bitching about this because I’m a 3rd MP senior and I can’t take criticism like I used to, because I think I’m close to perfect and ready for college. Or maybe the whit is not as passive as she makes herself out to be. Which she doesn’t.
Regardless, idk why I was kind of pissed at the assignment in general. It’s not like she took off half credit.
…she insulted my style in an effort to improve it.
Enough about that class…I care enough to not completely BS the entire thing, but I don’t even know what she grades anymore.
I love 2PM. Like…they’re nothing compared to Big Bang, but they’re so…awesome I can’t take it. Taecyeon is by far my favorite right now; he speaks ENGLISH! Yee!!! So does Jae Beom, and he is seriously black but not really but he lived in Seattle. Woot. Woo Young is probs my favorite Korean Korean member, because he’s so LOL in the 10 points out of 10 video. Which I have watched almost as many times as Haru Haru. I can’t wait for them to release their new single…IN DECEMBER. GAHHH FUCK.
I also found Super Junior’s comeback song “Sorry Sorry” quite catchy but the rabidness of ELFs (SuJu fans) repulsed me. Besides, there are 13 freaking people. It’s a colony.
TOP’s family was rated the best looking family in the Korean celebrity world of today. Yay. His sister is really hot, though. Yes that was not a creepy statement.
I have AIME tomorrow. It’ll be good time, because idk what I’ll be doing. Hahahaha I got 3 out of 15 questions. The good thing is, I’m pretty good at the geometry questions so I guess I’ll just focus on those.
I’m kind of giddy about getting the rest of my college decisions back now, since I know I can go to perfectly good schools even if I don’t get into Harvard and Yale and the like. Although UC Berkeley would be freaking awesome. I want Horace to get into a good school, too.
Thinking about prom but still haven’t decided when’s the right time to ask. Because prom IS in three months. That is quite a while. Maybe April.
Holmdel drama is loldel drama. Especially when it doesn’t concern me and when it is Asian drama.
The hurdling juniors need to stop acting like they’re badass and ignoring the rest of the group when stretching and doing drills because they’re just looking like people who just disrespect. And that ain’t cool. Plus it makes them look like bitches and hoes.
Kev’s video was rather funny after I got the general gist of where it was going.
I’m just writing until I get enough inspiration to finish my poem for Lit Mag. Haha I am such a procrastinator.
I need to find some time to make a rough sketch of what I’m painting for Mrs. Butler. I also need to lose these five (or eight?) pounds that I still have from winter break. God fucking dammit. I know it’s all fat, too.
Wow now I feel kind of depressed. Dumb Whitten.
orange
The weekend so far
I was going to watch Watchmen on Friday night with Horace and Greg but that ended up falling through…something about fear of not getting tickets in time. So we went to Chili’s at 6:30.
Er. THEY went to Chili’s at 6:30. I got there at like 7, due to me being paranoid and calling the cops on the poor lady who came to our house to pick up her kid from dancing lessons, which we didn’t even have on Friday. Oh, awkward and lack of communication. In any case, it made for a great story to tell. =DDDDD
After Chili’s (and much bickering over the bill), went to Horace’s house to watch a movie: Oceans Eleven. OKAY I don’t know why I fell asleep within the first fifteen minutes (it was a GOOD MOVIE, damn), but I did. So I ended up sleeping for the rest of the movie…then going home. Hah. Yeah. Um.
Basically the only thing I did after I got home on Friday was sleep. Sleep until 10am Saturday. Best sleep this year. Woke up, fed Mochi, went to the bank, went to get breakfast for myself (woot Holmdel Bagel shop), decided to go route 35 all the way to Shrewsbury…why? I don’t even know. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Regardless, took ten minutes more than I should have getting to work. Still managed to get to work on time.
Spent the majority of work texting and calling to tag along with Kev to go see Watchmen that night with Kevin Li and Mike Choie. Good time. Didn’t do like half of my homework, but whatever. Got home at 6:22, fed Mochi, checked Caltech (score!), zoomed upstairs to take the quickest shower of my life, left the house at 6:38. Baller.
Watched Watchmen (looooool no pun intended). It was pretty good, I guess…I think reading the comic beforehand kinda ruined it for me but kinda improved it for me at the same time. Like, I understood the comic a lot more (until the very end, where the movie kinda completely deviates from the comic), and it was all good. I still think Janey Slater should’ve been hotter. But she wasn’t. And the Nite Owl was a doof. Veidt looked like Mr. Kinch for the first half of the movie, then he affected a crazy accent from who-knows-where. Rorschach was awesome…but that’s because he is awesome. Like awesome awesome. Yes.
Yeah, the movie was such bad end. I think that sort of bad end only works in a comic book…sigh. It was kind of amusing to step back from the scene where the Nite Owl and Janey “make love” in the friggin owl!ship and realize…wow, the guy can only get an erection from wearing his costume. Needs to get a life.
I’d give it like…8.35/10. It was good, but not like OHHHH MY GADDDDDD like The Dark Knight was. Or Transformers, or Ironman. lol.
Anyway, I need to spent the next three hours working my butt off and finishing my damn Italian project. Which I haven’t started yet. Bahhhhhhhh.
Got into Cornell, too! =D I’m feeling kinda blagh right now because I’m probably going to turn into the person who, after not getting into their early, applies to a bunch of good colleges and gets into all of them, thereby taking away spots from other potentially good Holmdel kids. Goddamn.
orange
What I have done this weekend to procrastinate and not do my Presidential Scholar application
1. sleep (Friday 9pm – Saturday 6:30am, Sunday 12:30-9:30am)
2. Harvard interview (Friday 3:30-5pm)
3. draw (Friday 5:40-6:40pm)
4. youtube DBSK videos (Friday 7-8pm)
5. read death note fanfiction (Friday 8-9pm, Saturday 8pm – Sunday 12:30am)
6. work (Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 12-4pm)
7. play tennis (Saturday 7-8am, 4-6pm)
8. do homework
9. watch Family Outing episodes (Sunday 4-6pm)
10. download, organize, burn music (Sunday 6:30-8pm)
12. write this useless blog post (Sunday 9:15-9:30pm)
The Presidential Scholar application is totally due on Thursday at 5pm (which means I have to finish it on Wednesday, given I can’t get home on Thursday before 5, and I should get all my first drafts done by tomorrow so Rose can have a look at them) and this week looks like another hell week in terms of schoolwork, homework, and afterschool activities aka tutoring.
Ack.
In other news, I got into my first college, UC Irvine!!! This means that I will NOT be going to Brookdale, contrary to my stat class’s popular belief. Thank goodness. I feel much more relieved now that I know that at least my UC app was submitted corrrectly.
While I was on my DBSK youtube spree starting on Thursday and ending on Friday, I found DBSK’s entire Korean discography on my hard drive. Yunho was really really hot until I realized that from a certain angle he looked like Keith Lin, which just made me really disturbed. It’s okay; he’s still hot, just not so much anymore. Good time.
I am dreadfully sick.
orange
la dee da. again.
Had a long talk with Greg yesterday (not one of our marathon chats, but a comfortable 2 hours) about his life and my life and a bunch of bitching and complaining along the way. Yay stress.
I mean, it’s not like I don’t have senioritis or anything, I just feel like I’m working probably as hard as I did before midterms, just with less worry about grades. Although grades still do count very much because I am a grade-grabber. …to an extent.
Okay I need to learn how to do well in Econ because seriously, a B on my econ mp2 midterm report probably kills my chances of getting into ivies. >=0 goddamnit, hate being paranoid and schools being paranoid as well. Like I bombed…one test. dslalskdjflsdfs. and I got a 98 on the final? Yeah wtf I don’t even know.
In other news, I finally watched Afro Samurai: Resurrection. It was really weird for like the first five minutes because I didn’t know the storyline and there was basically blood everywhere (think: Kill Bill) and all the characters were in gray under a blue sky, but then it got really good so I’m satisfied. It was a good movie, and the soundtrack was killer amazing. Now to watch the anime, if it’s subbed or something. Teehee. Although I still have to finish Shibatora AND Proposal Daisakusen. It’s not like I don’t like either one of the two jdramas, it’s just that I’m not in the mood to watch dramas on a computer. lawl.
Yeah I need to start watching the office. cue Niti (wow for some reason I wrote ‘queue,’ couldn’t figure out why it was wrong, then had to look it up in a dictionary).
Basketball season is almost over, although I can’t make the last two games because of (1) IHS pasta dinner (GO DAMNIT, GO) and (2) work business. The latter because Mary was like, “You have to be there at the club next Saturday because of the USTA tournament that I’m doing” so I was like okay chill I just won’t go to Mater Dei then.
I’m excited for the pasta dinner, but I have to sell my tickets (goddamnit) and other shit. er I mean pickup. ‘Cause I have to basically drive around Wednesday and Thursday with Kealy and get all this food and shit.
Favorite song right now? Soulja Boy, Kiss Me Thru the Phone. Eeek it is so good, but it’s only 3:13…damn.
Second favorite song right now? Seung Ri, Strong Baby. I have no idea why I like it so much now, considering I hated its guts when it was first released on Big Bang’s 2nd album, Remember.
Funny thing happened last week. Allen was talking about how he can’t read comic books:
Allen: Yeah so I can’t read comics of any time. I don’t know, like even reading anime is like…
Paco: *quietly* manga. You read manga.
Allen: I had some bad experiences reading anime books-
Paco: It’s manga. You read manga. You watch anime.
Allen: And I don’t understand, really, how people read anime books-
Paco: *explodes* You don’t READ anime, you WATCH anime. YOU READ MANGA!!!!!!
Allen: *taken aback* Whoa, okay, there, Lisa…manga books.
Paco: zzzzzz that’s redundant zzzzz
It was rather lol because all the asians in the class wanted to blurt out that you don’t read anime. Sigh, ignorant non-nerds. =|
Okay I have to go do something productive now…like READ NARNIA!!! I’m on the fifth book out of seven! Next I have to read Seeing Redd, the second book in the Looking Glass Wars series. It is so damn good.
SHIT LIT MAG’S DUE ON MARCH 13TH AND I TOTALLY HAVEN’T STARTED ANYTHING FOR SUBMISSION. GODDAMNIT.
Hm I should lose a couple of pounds before track season starts, otherwise I’m going to trip over and die on Triple Jump. Sigh.
orange
well, this sucks.
So I decided to start actually writing down journal entries…instead of blogging. Yeah that failed completely. I guess I might as well; when I’m eighty and dying, it’s probably easier to read a book than to go on the Internet, which might be obsolete by then.
Procrastinating on my essays! Because I got deferred from Penn. Nothing I can do about it, but it still pisses me off a little. I still have like 3.5 left to write and edit and finalize, then I’m done. The rest of my colleges seem pretty good; all my short answers are decent, and the caltech essays are the only ones being frickin annoying. Like, the Stanford one I just can’t bring myself to write, and the Cornell one I’m procrastinating until I finish all of my other ones (because I decided to apply to Cornell on a whimsical note…yeah idek).
I downloaded a bunch of like random crazy anime movies and jdramas and live action movies that I plan to watch over winter break. Plan to. Actually, at the rate I’m going with my college essays, I should be done with them by Friday (no lie, seriously) then I can send them out over the weekend and be DONE WITH THEM, fucking shits. Sorry; that profanity was unwarranted.
Then after that I can go hang out at Greg’s house every day, after I complete my anime/jdrama/movie sprees. I mean I obviously re-discovered FLCL so I have to watch it. Have to. I also d/l-ed ergo proxy (the manglobe effect) and samurai champloo, so I have to watch those. Well, samurai champloo not so much, because I love that series to death and I’ve watched it more than twice. All the way through.
My christmas presents sucked. Like I feel guilty now because they suck so bad. aslkdfsldkem. Like I’m working now so I have money, but I’m not even using it ’cause I’m saving it for college spending money. How is Christmas in like friggin three days and we still have this school business going on? We’re not even doing anything anymore.
Goals for break:
MON. 12/22: Finish (at least) Caltech prank essay, get 75-80% through Stanford-specific essay.
TUES. 12/23: Finish Stanford-specific essay, do Caltech engineering essay (4 hours?), research Cornell’s Human Ecology and ILR schools.
-11:50am – school ends. Go coffee with Horace and Greg? Mom probably won’t even let me T__T;
-1:00pm – get home (hopefully? most likely earlier), finish Stanford-specific essay
-3:30pm – bus for basketball game against RFH.
-7:30pm – get home, do Caltech engineering essay
WED. 12/24: Edit all essays, do Cornell-specific essays.
THURS. 12/25: Christmas woohoo, finish editing and shit, do more Cornell-specific essays.
FRI. 12/26: Finish essays, damnit.
SAT. 12/27-SUN. 12/28: Send out all college stuff.
SUN. 12/28: Watch Waterboys and Go!, read La Casa de Bernarda Alba.
MON. 12/29-TUES. 12/30: Watch Ergo Proxy. Do some homework.
WED. 12/31: Watch The Cat Returns. New Years’ Party? Yes please. Start reading Pinocchio.
If I can follow this roughly, I will win my own life. Oh please, Paco, do something for once.
orange
goal for today
Goal:
By 11:30am, finish writing the UC/Harvard Essay prompt on an experience. Write about Japan; make it story-like like the Penn autobiography. Use pen and paper.
Hm, I discovered that I can also use this essay for Yale and Stanford. Better make it between 250 and 500 words.
GO!
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