| So surface-leveled... |
[20 Mar 2008|07:57pm] |
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You know, after talking to a few people, I've realized how surface level my thoughts are. I never have those extremely profound epiphanies and whatnot. Ha, well..I guess I'm just too simple. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. You can choose.
It's spring break and much of it is spent rehearsing for the musical and going to robotics. But it's pretty good right now. I've been having a nice time. It's funny..the highlights of my year are the breaks. Summer, winter, spring..and I anticipate enjoying summer. I want to know my financial aid package already. Goddamn, I'm worried because I haven't applied to UH yet, and if I don't get a nice package, I'm doomed. Crap, why didn't I prepare better back up plans? Damn, so I'm banking on this college and I'm scared to death. What a horrible decision that was. Cross your fingers for me!
Senior prom is looming around the corner. Commencement isn't that far away. Goodness gracious, there is one quarter left before we graduate. INSANITY! I can imagine reading this entry a few years from now thinking, "Geez, time passed by so quickly." And it seems like that's all I've been talking about. Time, time, time. There really isn't enough time to do everything. There are so many "I could have..." "If only I..." statements, but what can we do know? March forward and hold on to what we can control.
Anyway, I went to a tournament last week and it went pretty well. All our pre-qualified students were dropped after third round. We got quite a few people qualified, so now it's time to tackle States! Crap, our last tournament of our high school career. Expect to see tears.
And someone is home but refused to let me know. SUCKER.
( I wish there was something inside me to keep you beside me... )
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| We are night ducks... |
[03 Mar 2008|09:39pm] |
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Finished the scholarship process. UGH, hated that. I feel like applying for more because I don't think I'll get enough money. A:kljsoidfjoiwllkjwewhatabitch;alskjfdoiwe. We started night rehearsals for the musical today. Night rehearsals are so much better than afternoon rehearsals. We all seem more alive and into it. It's INSANE to think that 3rd quarter ends next week Friday. Where did 3rd quarter go?! I'm excited for spring break. HOPEFULLY, I'll be a DRIVER! Yayayay. Things will be so much better with a car.
I'm pretty frustrated with everything right now. Financial aid, money issues, college, work, family arguments, UGH. I hate it all. Damn, I wish everything would just work out nicely.
On a side note, I got a high score for Tetris and beat IRENE. BUAHAHHAHA...I'm proud. Gloatgloatgloat. Good bye.
( Let the neighbors scream and shout... )
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| It's just okay... |
[23 Feb 2008|08:52pm] |
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Ugh, school is kinda EH. I mean, classes are okay. Homework is on the more stressful side but still tolerable. Everything is okay, but maybe that's just it. Everything is just "okay". There's no excitement this senior year, it seems. And it's a shame since it's our last year. I've known most of my friends for about 9 years now. The same girls I've hung out with since elementary school and middle school. And for the few that I've known only since high school, I've created an immense bond with them that I really won't forget. It's quite depressing to know that in a few months, our senior year will be over. We'll be graduating. And with one last summer before college starts...we'll be saying good-bye. It all seems so unreal, but that's life. I am completely honored to know my wonderful friends. I can almost guarantee that I will be in tears when parting comes around. I'm glad that this year, we chose to get charm bracelets. It might sound cheesy...friendship bracelets, hah! But really, it holds so much sentimental value.
So I've been accepted to two colleges so far. One I applied to just to apply. I'm not even sure why. It was quite an idiotic choice on my part. Everything was free, but I could have saved my fee waiver for a different school. Eh, but that's in the past. The other school, I actually wouldn't mind attending. It just all depends on my financial aid. And I'll be waiting to hear from other colleges as well. There's only ONE that really matters to me, and I highly doubt I'll get accepted, but I would like to know their decision. Gosh, filing all these financial aid stuff is a pain. Tax forms, yadda yadda, what the heck?
Aside from the typical senior stress, nothing much has happened. I scheduled a road test on 03/11, and quite frankly, I'm a bit worried because I don't think I have enough practice. But scheduling a road test will motivate me to practice a lot more, for sure! I HAVE to pass!! Robotics build season is done. That's six weeks worth of work! Man, all those late nights spent at robotics... I hope we do well at regionals. Speech is pretty good. Alex and I placed first at the KCC tournament earlier this month. I took third in DI at NIT last month. Speech hasn't been a huge focus lately since the musical has taken up the majority of our practice time. We perform in April, so we have a lot lot LOT of rehearsing to do. I've been quite busy lately. It's nice to finally be able to sit back for a while. Though I should be working on my scholarship applications. UGH.
I've also been watching America's Best Dance Crew. Gosh, those groups are AMAZING. They make me want to learn to dance. Especially Kaba Modern and JabbaWockeeZ. As the judges say, their isolations are SICK! Hahaha. Anyway, I'm going to do something unproductive now.
( Stop and stare, I think I'm moving but I just don't care... )
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| Update? What's that?... |
[26 Jan 2008|11:14pm] |
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I'm neglecting LJ again.
Oh well. A lot has actually happened in the last month but for some reason, I've lost my interest in blogs. Maybe it's just because I'm too lazy. I don't know. Well, I just wanted a reason to post up my surveys, so here. :)
Happy Chinese New Year, all.
( Hold your head up high... )
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| It's our year, seniors... |
[29 Dec 2007|04:33pm] |
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It's 2008! It's kinda unbelievable. Man, I remember last year, I spent New Years updating LJ and watching TV. This year I played a lot of fireworks. So James, Daniel, Hae Young, Calvin, Rose, Nate, and I went down to Cartwright Park and played with fireworks. Half of us splurged on fireworks...big time. Haha, I ended up burning both thumbs. They both formed bubble blisters. Well, after spending two hours playing fireworks, we went to Jack in the Box to eat. Then went to Aloha Tower to watch the fireworks show. Golly, drunk people are funny as heck. WooOoOoooOoOOo!!! Happy New Year!! So after watching the fireworks, we split up. James, Daniel, and I ended up going to Brian's afterwards..only to find it out was closed. So apparently, I'd be a funny drunk. Haaah.
Mmm, stayed at home yesterday for most of the morning. Watched a billion episodes of Charmed, haha. Worked on apps and stuff. Ew. Then went to Brian's again at night. Which reminds me...I challenged my 4 or 5 year old cousin to Dragon Ball Z (dueling) and he beat me. That's just how much I really SUCK at games. Sigh.. Now I'm bored. I need something to do today. I'll work on my apps and watch more Charmed or whatever. My dad screwed up my computer. Ugh.
Holy cow, seniors will be graduating in about 5 months. GEEZ that's fast.
( HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! )
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| Merry Christmas, darling... |
[24 Dec 2007|10:48am] |
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Oh man, I love that song. Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling.
The lyrics seem to perfectly fit what I'm thinking.
Anyway... Hae Young is home! Last night was our 4th annual Anti-Winterball..which was changed to "Girls Night Out". It was fun. Ate dinner at Angelo Pietro. Hahah, hanging out at night is so much better than hanging out in the afternoon. We were having a conversation about how Adrian assaulted my penguin finger puppet (named Wally) by sticking a candy cane up the finger puppet slot. Out of context, our conversation was HORRIBLE. I think the people sitting at the table in front of us were giving us weird looks. I mean, the conversation was like, "He stuck a candy cane up Wally's--" "Well, if you think about it, you already stick your finger up Wally's--" Yeah..not awkward at all.
Hae Young called and I met up with her and James at Don Quijote. Then went to Brian's for a while to play a game of pool. They were Christmasfied.. it felt like "Last Christmas" was playing forever. Well, I'm going to watch Atonement today. I WANT TO WATCH SWEENEY TODD. Apparently the bloodiest movie to date. I am honestly not watching it for the gore. I'm watching it for the story and the music. Harhar. Then I'm gonna go to City Hall at night with Hae Young and Rose. The lights call to us.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
( I can dream and in my dreams I'm Christmas-ing with you... )
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| Here's to the start of a great winter break... |
[21 Dec 2007|05:17pm] |
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This winter break will not suck.
I'm so glad classes are over. I wonder how I did in my classes. Secret Santa was fun. Haha, I had Angie. Wendy had me. Wendy got me a new charm, giving me a total of 5 charms! It's the Chinese character for happiness/longevity/good wishes/etc. I got Angie some Skull Candy earphones (they are awesome) and the Red Eye DVD. We watched it a few years ago together and thought it was fantastic. Haha. So after our half day of school, I had a cast meeting. Honk! Jr. this year. Lasted until around 2. Went to Furu'z and stayed there a while with James, Adrian, Mimi, and folks. I thought I wouldn't need to eat too much lunch since I'd eat dinner, so I got myself one sushi roll. But it turned out I didn't have any dinner..and when I got home, I went to bed. So I lasted a day with no dinner and almost no lunch. Wow.
Had a Morning Bulletin crew luncheon at Pizza Hut today. That was fun. Mr. Sekiguchi gave us a few games/puzzles. Me and Lexi were partnered up and won. Har har har. Anyway..went to help Matt out with Restaurant Epic menus afterwards. Then went to CompUSA and Ala Moana.
So it seems like I haven't been home for dinner this whole week..except today. Played a bunch of board games. Goodness, I will never win Monopoly or Life. I just fail too hard. Lol..so I've learned never to be partners with James when playing partner Kemps.
This looks like the start of a good break.
Christmas is in 4 days. That's quite insane.
( What must we do to restore our innocence? )
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| Thursday is screaming... |
[17 Dec 2007|10:39pm] |
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Haha, I'm already on winter break mode and school hasn't ended yet. THURSDAY!
James came back from college. So now I get to do things...
I can't wait until Hae Young comes back too.
Went to the winter concert at school on Saturday. James came to it. Daniel, James, Bryant and I then went to Curry House for a late dinner. Went to Hawaiian Brians until 12 to play pool. Sunday, Daniel, James, and I went to watch The Golden Compass. It was okay. Then played a bunch of Monopoly at Starbucks. Haaaah, I lost all my property to Daniel. School was not bad today. I was scared of the math test, but it wasn't so bad. I think I might have done some stuff wrong, though. Lit is pretty stress free now that the project is over. Can you blame me for being on break mode?
Anyway. I need to do secret Santa shopping for the Unit. I'm really tired right now..but I have to study for my psych midterm. Ugh...11 chapters of review tonight!
( The sweet silver bells all seem to say throw cares away... )
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| We're just floating... |
[13 Dec 2007|04:34pm] |
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I don't want to float.
I'm still holding onto the hope that I'll reach shore one day.
My group presented today for AP Lit. It was funny how everyone was so nervous. You know, I think I've performed to the point where public speaking is no longer a fear of mine. I've almost completely diminished it. As long as I'm scripted and not expected to do it improvised, I'm fine. Anyway, the presentation went well. I'm extremely happy with our grade. We were so scared how the presentation would turn out. We thought it'd be too boring, but to our surprise, Mr. Newkirk loved it. Yayayay.
Now that THAT'S done..I can focus on my DI. I have two days to prepare a piece that I JUST finished cutting YESTERDAY. Holy hell, wish me luck.
I'm going to go memorize my brain out now.
( If I could then I would shrink the world tonight... )
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| I want a piano like Wurly... |
[09 Dec 2007|12:12am] |
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I hate this seminar novel final project. I liked all the mini project. The themes connection project wasn't too bad either, but THIS final creative project is a pain in the ass. So the last few days have been spent working on that. Tomorrow we're working on it again. We spent 13 hours at Rose's today working on our script. The good news is we're finished with the script. Now for the props, blocking, and discussion. EW.
But aside from all that disgusting piece of sh.. (doing homework when I'm really tired makes me curse a lot), school still sucks. Haha, Rose has as keyboard and I've been dying to learn how to play the piano. I really wish I learned when I was younger. It amazes me when people can do two different things at once with their left and right hand. But then again, that's what typing requires, huh? Nevermind. I have to study for psych and finish my DI. Gr. I auditioned for Honk! the musical. I'm worried about my schedule conflicts later in the year, though. Ugh, we'll see how that works out. But in the mean time, I feel like doing a survey.
( Debussy was in Twilight... )
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| You are abstract dark... |
[05 Dec 2007|07:23pm] |
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Okay, quick entry. Gosh, I am swamped.
I have to cut, memorize, and interpret a dramatic interpretation in a week and a half.
I have to create (with my group) and memorize a 30 minute script for the David Copperfield project.
I have to work with the Robotics stuff.
GAH. Anyway. We finished the board for the project yesterday. Woot. Now for the final presentation and final essay. Gee willickers. I can't wait for this all to be over. Winter break sounds great. Hae Young and James will be back. Woohoo. Okay, I should go now. I have to finish cutting my piece before Lexi blackmails me.
( Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true... )
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| I am thankful for... |
[22 Nov 2007|10:58pm] |
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
What am I thankful for? Lots. I recently found out a friend's mother died. Well, at this point it is all hearsay. How do you ask someone, "Did your mother pass?" But from all the public hints (Myspace bulletins, display name, etc), I know it has something to do with death. So I guess I have a lot to be thankful for. I don't know if I can say I'm thankful for homework, though. But I bet someone could argue that homework "helps" and whatnot. Whatevz...
So..Thanksgiving dinner, anyone? I had Chinese curry with chicken. That's probably the closest I'll get to having an American turkeyfied dinner. But hey, I am thankful for food. Geeee, I need to read a lot of David Copperfield. I have a sick addition to AIM. Haha..ughhhh. Going to watch Enchanted tomorrow...I'm going just to hear Carrie's song, Ever Ever After. She is great.
( They taped over your mouth, scribbled out the truth with their lies... )
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| Don't catch the bouquet, damnit... |
[17 Nov 2007|11:13am] |
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Wow, so the past two weeks have been hectic. Okay, so..hmm. My brother's wedding was on the 11th. That was interesting. I was the bridesmaid. What's the male bridesmaid called? I thought it was bridegroom, but someone said it wasn't. Anyway, I'll call him a bridegroom. My bridegroom was frustrating. He came to the house MESSY. Ugh. So at the dinner reception, I ended up catching the bouquet. I tried really hard not to. I caught it once when I was 7 at my aunty's wedding. I was the flower girl. Well, all the little girls and older women came out to catch it. I stood there. I did NOTHING. Winny threw the bouquet about two times and other girls ran towards it. But they didn't count because it was a bad throw (it it the ceiling and landed far from the group of girls)... I was like DANG. Then she threw it once more and it was aiming straight for my head. Reflexes made me catch it. Ahahahahah. I've been getting a bunch of, "You caught the bouquet??!?! Ooooh, you know what THAT means!" Sigh... My argument is that I caught it when I was 7 and nothing happened. So hah.
Then on Monday, Veterans Day, I went to Robotics Vex competition. That was really fun. McKinley wasn't supposed to compete at first because as a team, we weren't rookies. But then two schools dropped out so we had to sub in. Bryant and I were in a team together. We ended up getting ranked 2nd, but weren't allowed into elimination rounds because we weren't a rookie team. Oh well.
Then on Thursday, I pulled my first all nighter for HOMEWORK. I spent the whole night working on a seminar novel CD project. It was really fun, though. DANG, dark chocolate peppermint mocha frappucino REALLY fuels me up at night. It kept me up the whooole time. The CD came out pretty nice. Went to school and actually felt pretty awake...until 5th period. I started crashing. Mr. Newkirk was explaining Paradise Lost, and I kept drifting off. There was a point where everyone stopped to stare at me falling asleep, and when spazzed awake, Mr. Newkirk was laughing at me. This seminar novel group project is pretty fun. A LOT of work, but fuuun.
Well, I should read David Copperfield now. 120 pages for the weekend!
( Made my mistakes, let you down... )
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| Take me to the strawberry field of dreams... |
[06 Nov 2007|09:53pm] |
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Bored. Had to teach the psychology class with Lexi last time. That was horrible.
OUR ROBOT IS STUPID. Ahahhaha...ugh. Ridiculous.
Speech is good. Oscar Loui is great.
Progress reports came in. I'm satisfied.
I slept at 3 last night working my my Macbeth final. But whatever. Peer editing in class was a horror. Not because of the work I was correcting, but because some people are so insensitive! Gosh... Okay, I'll stop rambling.
( And I'll tell you something I think you'll understand... )
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| 1..2..3..THANK YOU! |
[03 Nov 2007|07:30pm] |
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Soo, what has happened lately? Just speech and robotics. Hmm..I should finish up Harry Potter.
MTG II and Robotics had a combination car wash today. That was fun. We were able to split it up into two shifts. I went for the morning (7:30AM-11:30AM) shift. It wasn't that sunny, thank goodness. I have a slight sunglasses tan. My toes roasted in the sun, but everywhere else is okay. Last year was killer...we went for two shifts and I had a HUGE tan. Ten shades darker! There were some pretty darn nice cars. I've realized I'm attracted to Audis and BMWs (without the black strip bumpers)...Anyway, Rose and I caught the bus home from Kahala Chevron. We felt so disgusting afterwards because all the dirt/water splashed onto our legs. Whatever.
I'm bored again. I took a nice two hour nap earlier today. I guess I'll do another one of those surveys...
( You can breathe but the air is running out... )
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| Luke Starkiller, I am your father... |
[01 Nov 2007|11:31am] |
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So Luke Skywalker's original name was Luke Starkiller.
Happy belated Halloween! Went trick or treating yesterday with Alex and her little brother. I didn't have a costume so I just borrowed Alex's Darth Vader mask. Went around Ala Moana and got candy. I actually didn't want the candy, but trick or treated for fun anyway. We saw an R2D2 mailbox. That was friggin awesome. We were in a Star Wars theme, so the R2D2 mailbox matched perfectly. Alex was a jedi. Yeah...and there was a mini R2D2 in Sharper Image, too. Alex's mom drove me home.
MTG II is having a team social today. Gonna go watch Across the Universe. Almost..soon. Yeah, I should get going.
( Don't waste your time on me, my friend... )
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| 101 at last... |
[22 Oct 2007|10:39pm] |
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As lame as it sounds, I'm finally 101 years old on myspace. I had been stuck at 100 years old for a while..probably because I set it back a year ago. But anyway, it's cool seeing 101.
Seventeenth birthday was good. Hahaha, there were moments when I suspected scheming, but I didn't want to ruin their plans. They came in with some pretty great tasting cake during lunch. Then after school, Alex and I practiced. They came by and gave me the bracelet. I love it! Charm bracelet from Sarit Simayof. I'm typing in fragments. Not that I ever type in complete sentences or anything. Anyway...The charm bracelet has an iPod charm, key with lock charm (I have a thing for keys and locks. Naomi found that), and the traditional four heart clover "FRIENDS" charm. It's great. And they gave me an IOU gift part 2. I think I might know what it is. I THINK. But I don't wanna reveal what I think because if I get it wrong, it'd be kinda weird.
Went to a family dinner. I thought I finally escaped the Chinese dinner thing, but nope. It wasn't an Italian restaurant. Sorta. It was a Chinese-Italian fusion restaurant. Good enough. It wasn't the routine Chinese meal. Hahha. Mushroom, eggplant, ground beef spaghetti. YUM.
So I'm tired right now. I'm gonna go to sleep. I have great friends.
By the way, THANK YOU, JOIE!!!
I'm going to get Carrie's CD tomorrow. Or at least by the end of this week. WOOOOOO.
Kahuku tournament on Saturday. SAW IV ON SUNDAY!
( Finally, I'm letting go of all my downer thoughts... )
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I heard that this past Tuesday was called "Senior Ditch Day". I thought it was just...HSA testing for juniors and freshmen. Haha. I went to school AFTER school, though. Speech practice and robotics. That wasn't too bad. Man, duo is fun. Alex and I act like such idiotic goofs, but it's great. Hahahha.
I finished reading MacBeth a lot earlier than I thought I would...
I made an icon, but everything I save is over 40KB. I guess I'll have to resort to saving things at Quality 10 instead of 12..:(
( If you know what I know, would you try?... )
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| Oh damn, Whose Line, you funny... |
[14 Oct 2007|10:11pm] |
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You can tell I'm bored when I update LJ in two consecutive days. I really have no reason to update. I've been watching a bunch of Whose Line episodes again. After the sad removal of Whose Line on youtube, I found episodes on veoh.com.. They have better quality stuff. But anyway, I've spent my mornings chatting and watching those episodes. Oh, not to mention..I've been working on my college applications. The essays...ahaha, I find I'm going to have some pretty odd topics. I think I'll be productive and start on some psychology homework or read. We'll see.
I just needed a reason to post my surveys. Things I do when I have a writer's block...
( The broken clock is a comfort... )
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| You may say I'm a dreamer... |
[13 Oct 2007|01:26pm] |
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So after a week long break, school graciously decided, "why not another three day weekend?" I love that. Can it get any better? Aha! Yes, it can. The juniors and freshmen have HSA testing on Tuesday. Seniors and sophomores are gonna end up going to school but not going to class. We have motivational speakers instead. Motivational speaker?!?!? Okay, right, I'm not going to school. I think all my friends aren't going. It's not exactly ditching. I mean, we're skipping, but a lot of the teachers don't mind it. They're actually okay with it. We could be using that time in school doing absolutely nothing to work on our college applications. UGH, speaking of which..College applications are a horror. Man, I hate it. I'm having huge bouts of self-esteem issues. God, it's insane. This four day weekend is going to be occupied by college application drafts. Oh yes.
Anyway, senior quotes were due yesterday. I had no clue what to put at first, but then Alex and I paired up. We coordinated our quotes. You'll see what it is when the yearbook comes out at the end of the school year. =)..
I don't feel like a senior. I don't feel like a junior. I don't feel like I'm 16. I actually don't feel any particular age at all. I just feel...tired. Eh. Took the SATs last week Saturday. Gosh, I couldn't relate it to any of the books from Mr. Newkirk's class. Stupid topic. Golly.
Saw IV comes on in 13 days! Carrie's CD comes out in 10 days!
( But I'm not the only one... )
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| Those flashers are RED... |
[03 Oct 2007|09:06pm] |
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Senior Luau was this past Monday. It was surprisingly fun. I was assigned emcee a few days before. I didn't really want to, but to be honest, it wasn't half bad. I actually thought it was fun. Anyway, woke up around 8..went to my optometrist's on a very last minute spontaneous decision. I managed a walk-in appointment and got my contacts. FINALLY. I haven't worn contacts since August..It's about time. I'm getting new glasses, too. I kind of rushed with the frame choosing. I sort of regret the one I chose, but I figured no one would see it except me and my family..so whatever. Maybe I'll get new ones somewhere else. I put my old glasses in my bag and I think my keys scratched it up. It's messed up now. I have a blurry spot on the left lens. Ehh. I took the bus down to Alex's. Taryn did Alex's, Wai Yan's, and my hair. Went to school at around 2:15 to pass out the leis. Split up into our assigned trolleys. Trolleys picked us up and took us through Waikiki. I screamed my lungs out. Angie and I started getting really hungry and I ended up screaming, "I'M HUNGRY! FOOOOOD!" on the way there. We got flashed by some really white tourists with BURNT chests (they were men). Someone said she didn't want to scream because she thought it was stupid. I was like, geez, come on. It's senior luau. We're not here to analyze the stupidity or mindlessness of it all. We're here to celebrate our final year in high school. Let loose a bit. It's what you make of it. I was once pretty anti..but I thought, you know, I'm just going to try. And yeah, I had a bunch of fun.
We got to Tree Tops.. Started the luau. Lina and I emceed. We started off the evening with some games. We played the hula hoop game where you hold hands and try to pass a hula hoop through everyone without breaking the chain. Then we had some trivia questions. THEN we played Line Charades. It was pretty funny to watch. It was amazing what "volcano" turned into - "Koko Head Bowling Alley" HHAHA. Dinner was not bad. Then we had some trivia again. After the trivia, we randomly crowned the Senior Luau Court. Then came the dancing... Ugh, dancing. Apparently, Michael made Lexi the "enforcer" for the evening. The night before, we had a discussion about me dancing. I don't dance... it's just, yeah, hahaha. Not because I think it's "stupid".. I just can't, haha. Well, Michael said he wanted me to have fun and DANCE. I wasn't allowed to text him (otherwise he'd ignore me).. "You must dance or the consequences will be dire." I didn't realize LEXI would be the enforcer. I had a feeling, but I didn't think he'd do it. So I got my way around it by doing the electric slide. Probably the only dance I'd ever do. I also danced during the final song, but it wasn't really dancing. It was a bunch of us holding hands doing some kind of weird interpretive dance move in and outward. The other girls who didn't dance decided to study SAT vocab words. Eh, I was sort of against that because it defeated the purpose of going to the luau. I mean, yeah, I understand "what else are we gonna do?" But..I didn't really want to do it. Overall, I had a bunch of fun. The trolley ride back was tame. We sang old songs like "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain" and the Black and Gold. The trolley lady was really nice. Got a ride home from Taryn and totally crashed. I was tired.
Aside from Senior Luau, my fall break has been completely unproductive so far. I did a few things here and there, but my gosh, I'm such a lazy bum. I need to do my homework. AP Psych and AP Lit homework!!! Laaaame. Anyway, Saw IV comes out in 24 days and I'm excited. Hurrry upppp! Oh, and I've been watching so many episodes I've missed. It's insane how lazy it's made me. Ugh. That's all for now...
( She'll be riding six white horses when she comes... )
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Oops, I wrote senior luau was Sunday in my last entry. I meant to say Monday...which is tomorrow.
ANYWAY, SENIORS WON THE BANNER COMPETITION, YESS.
Theme: "Stripes of Black, Hearts of Gold"
So that's three years in a row. Yep, and I think I've earned bragging rights as chairperson of the committee, right? Haha, okay, that's the end of my boasting. 4th place: Juniors, 3rd place: Sophomores, 2nd place: Freshmen, 1st place: Seniors. I'm glad.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/saffyrer0se/IMG_1849.jpg
There's the picture when we finished it. We were hoping the judges caught the embedded metaphors. Like the football player transforming into the stripe of a tiger. And the scoreboard reading Home: 20, Guest: 08. If you think about it..20-08. Class of 2008, oooh, clever. Oh, and the heart formed inside the M. I'm glad our senior homecoming turned out well. Unfortunately, our varsity football team lost to Moanalua..owned 07-35. The game was not exciting this year, but the event overall was pretty good. I liked our freshman year's game. The miracle touchdown in the last few seconds...dang. I was so happy. I couldn't stop jumping around. Hah.
Well, I had to go shopping for dresses this morning. Two dresses for my brother's wedding in November. Quite a while from now, but my mom doesn't want me to procrastinate. I got an off white/really light yellow, strapless dress from Macy's. My aunt gave me another strapless, red with black somethingwhatever over it dress. I hate dresses. The fact that I have more than two dresses disgusts me. Blech, but at least I'll have dresses for future uses, I guess. Whatevz. Okay, I'm going to go now, I'm lazy and I need to procrastinate on homework now. I have to emcee for something I don't really wanna emcee for but am willing to do it out of my "kindness" haha..Bye. Run on.
( I wanna go on that trolley ride... )
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Yay, fall break! I'm glad..though this fall break I'll be pretty busy with homework and SAT prep. Homecoming game is tonight. I'm excited and nervous to find out the banner results. We worked darn hard on that, I hope it paid off. SENIOR YEAR, man! Anyway, I am really bored. I watched the premiere of Heroes. Haha, it's interesting. I was surprised they continued to a second season, but the storyline seems to be okay so far. I'd like to see what they make of a second season. I have a bunch of shows I have to catch up on since I missed in last week due to HOMEWORK and AR. Deathly Hallows came out for AR so I guess I'll finish the book up. Yeah, I still haven't finished it. I stopped at chapter 15 or something. Hmm, so I guess I'll look for Grey's Anatomy and House M.D. I downloaded Resident Evil 3 but I need to download Daemon. So yeah..okay, this was a pretty pointless post. I just felt bored and needed to kill time.
Senior Luau is on Sunday. I somehow became the second emcee without signing up. Gah.
( And we started at zero and went different ways... )
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September 23rd officially marked the start of FALL! Autumn is possibly my favorite season...but I really enjoyed summer this summer. I have to say, next to nationals in Philly and Texas, this was the best summer spent on the island, by far. I didn't get to spend as much time with the Unit, but some of them were on trips. I'm bittersweet about seeing summer coming to an end. Actually, I take that back. I'm glad it came to an end. It ended great. I think the hype of summer died down after all the seniors that I actually hung out with left. First quarter ends this week Friday. Mighty amazing how time pasts by so quickly. I will be working on my college apps and stuff. Goodness, where has all the time gone? I want it to be summer again, but knowing that it means college acceptance/rejection letters were received, I reconsider the though. So after reminiscing on the joys of summer, I decided to compile a list of things I did this summer.
( This summer I... )
I can honestly say I owe my summer to the class of '07. I still call them the seniors..and people get confused because they think I'm talking about the class of '08. Without them, my summer probably would have been dull... I did a bunch of new things with them, and it was a summer to remember. Friendships forged. Feelings strengthened. I'll miss it. Can't wait for Summer '08 to come around...minus all the college frenzy.
Yesterday was also Lexi's birthday. Sadly, we had to spend it at a banner meeting. BUT we made the best of it. We met up in Mr. Tui's room at about 10 and Wendy had to dodge Lexi. I had her wait downstairs until we could get everything set up and waited for Alex to arrive. We all went up and surprised her with strawberry shortcake. Hahhaa, she was probably half expecting it. Well, expecting SOMETHING since she knows we would never forget her birthday. Anyway, we ate cake and gave her her present. Now I can tell what the present was. We wanted to get her something sentimental since it was her last birthday with ALL of us together. I mean, yeah, college..:( We got her a really nice charm bracelet from Sarit Simiyof and an Angry Asian Girl bag. We were proud of the charm bracelet. That thing had immense sentimental value... She cried. It was nice... She said it was by far the best birthday ever. Surprising, really, since this was probably the least celebrated of all her previous birthdays. Usually she'd have a party at the beach, but not this year. I'm glad it was the best. That's how our last birthday together should be... Wow, so my birthday is next. I haven't even begun to think it's my last together with the Unit. Geez, no way, it's so unreal. I've been with these kids half my life, it's going to be so..STRANGE without them. Sigh, let time take it's course. Let the leaves fall where they may. I'm hoping for the best.
HEROES IS ON TONIGHT! Damn, I need to read for AR. To miss or not to miss?...That is the question.
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