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We won Regionals today in Reading Bowl! (:

I’m so happy. I was super nervous about it all and then they called our name for first place and I swear I was about to cry.

Unfortunately, that means I’ll still be having practises after school to prepare for District (on February 27). Whatever. I’m excited. I hope we make it to State and win! :D

Next week will be.. nothing. Valentine’s Day weekend, yah? No, actually I have to help prepare for the Valentine’s Day Dance on Friday.. *sighs* It’s sometimes annoying to be in so many clubs.. -.-

Oh! And of course, Chinese New Year! Yayy! Me hopes me mum buys those yummy rice thingys from Chinatown…
And Mardi Gras! I don’t know what’ll I’ll do on that day. Probably wear the beads I have in my house. I wish I could wear it to school to celebrate it more, but we have Winter Break on that day..

The week after that will be Berry College competition with Academic Bowl. Kinda interested to see what it’ll be like.. Waking up at 6:00 AM? No. Riding the bus for 1 1/2+ hours? No. Definitely not.

The weekend after that will be District for Reading Bowl.

Oh gosh, I just remembered the weekend after that will be State for Academic Bowl. WHYYY? It’s like 4 weeks in a row having to do things and waking up early! :(

Two weeks from then (March 17 – St. Patty’s Day) will be our LGPE for band. I’m freakin’ excited for that. I think out of all the competitions I go to, the thing that makes me most ecstatic and proud of myself is when we get all 1s in Band.

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I love listening to 60’s music. It makes me want to jump and start dancing.

Ya know, I don’t understand how people like Rock music. The majority of the time, I get depressed when I listen to it. Like any kind really. I like things with fast beats I guess.

Plus, all rock music sound ALL ALIKE. Like when you go to a specific genre. All indie rock sound alike. All alternative rock sound alike. It’s too repetitive for me. Like I said in one of my French posts, I hate monotony. Listening to the same style of music over and over again irritates the crap out of me. I’ll probably get bored of 60’s music soon, but I’m enjoying it in the meantime.

Has anyone noticed that a lot of 50’s music is romantic? I got so tired of listening to that.. =/ So then I switched to 60’s! ^.^

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On a more depressing note, I suppose, I just wanted to say, I absolutely hate it when people forget your birthday.

To forget a person’s name is almost like saying they’re not important to you. That’s okay though. Not everyone is meant to be your friend.

But when you find out a person’s birthday, you probably have taken an interest in this person. You’re probably friends with them or on good terms, otherwise what’s the point of trying to find out their birthday if you don’t even know their name?

A person’s birthday is so important. It’s the day they were born and the day they came into this world. To forget it.. it’s almost like pretending/wishing that person didn’t exist.. and to wish or want that.. I can’t even imagine what kind of person you are. Obviously someone I would rather not be friends with.

That’s why I try my best to remember someone’s birthday. I generally do. I’m very good at it. :)

2010
02/07
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Journal 4

Pour le petit-déjeuner, je mange un toast. Parce que je mange déjeuner à l’école, je mange quelque chose diffèrent tous les jours.

Le lundi, je mange les nuggets de poulet. Le mardi, je mange le spaghetti ou la soupe au poulet et aux nouilles dépend en la semaine. Le mercredi, je mange le steak country et la sauce. Le jeudi, je mange le taco avec les nachos. Le vendredi, je mange le sandwich de poulet épicé. Je me réveille généralement peu pris le temp de déjeuner pendant le week-end, mais je mange plutôt la céréale.

Mes repas préféré sont les nourritures industrielles, mais mes parents n’aiment pas ces mangers, alors nous n’avons ces dans ma maison. Pour les repas dan ma maison, je mange les crackers.

Pour diner, je mange toujours quelque chose avec soit le riz soit les nouilles.

Nous allons souvent aux restaurants fast food ou aux restaurants plus élégants. Mes parents aiment seulement à manger nourriture chinois si nous allons à manger. Mais quand je vais à manger avec mes amies, j’aime manger aux restaurants mexicain ou l’Olive Garden.

J’aime les nourritures épicé. À l’Olive Garden, j’aime les baguettes et la coupe servent-ils. J’aime le parmesan de poulet.

2010
02/02
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Journal 3

Je devine mon style est décontracté. Je porte généralement les tee-shirts et les blue-jeans. Les coleurs des tee-shirts sont rose, blanc, bleu, noir, vert, jaune… fondamentalement beaucoup des coleurs. Mon tee-shirt préférée est noir. Je l’ai reçu quand je suis allé à Washington D.C. en quatrième. C’est très confortable. Je le porte généralement quand je dors. Occasionnellement, je le porterai à l’école, mais ça sense bizarre. C’est comme je somme allé à l’école en mon pyjama.

Je porte les blue-jeans tous les jours. Je n’aime pas porter les jupes ou les robes. J’ai deux pantalons de survêtement. C’est nécessaire quand vous prenez la gym à m’école. Ils sont très confortable.

J’achete mes vêtements du Wal-Mart ou Ross. Ma mère achete mes pantalons du magasin de seconde main.

2010
01/25
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Journal 2

J’habite dans un petit quartier avec un cul-de-sac, mais je considère ma maison être la dernière maison sur la droite. Ma boîte aux lettres est de couleur grise.

Quand vous entrez dans ma maison, la première chambre est le salon. Si vous marchez tout droit, vous voyez un couloir. Allez nord-ouest et vous entrez dans la salle à manger et la cuisine. Entre la salle à manger et la cuisine est une porte au porche dans le derrière de la maison. En arrière de la cuisine il y a une porte où le sous-sol est situé.

La première porte dans le couloir est un réduit à outil, puis une salle de bain. Ensuite est la chambre de mon frère, puis on trouve la chambre des parents. Je veux leur chambre parce qu’ils ont la chambre principale. Finalement, vous voyez ma chambre à la fin du couloir.

Je n’ai que trois tâches. Je suis supposée passer l’aspirateur, laver la vaisselle, et faire la lessive.

2010
01/23
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Journal 1

J’ai une mère, un père, et un frère. Ma mère aime une maison propre. Mon père mange toujours la nourriture dans la maison. Ils parlent chinois et anglais, mais la plupart du temps, ils parlent chinois. Mon frère a dix-huit ans. Son anniversaire est bientôt. Il est grand et maigre. Je suis jalouse. Il finira l’école secondaire en Mai. Il est un bon frère

J’ai beaucoup d’amis. Parce que je déteste monotonie, je n’aime pas être avec les gens même tout le temps. Je me prendrai la tête si je n’avais pas les gens différents autour de moi. Mais, j’aime mes amis. Ils sont très amusant.

2010
01/20
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Paris and Thailand.. all in one day! (:

The video is about this deaf and mute girl, living in Thailand. She wants to be able to play music the violin, like that one guy in the street she saw when she was little.

She tells her friend about her want to play violin, and her friend immediately blows up on her. I, personally, think that the friend knows that the deaf and mute girl will become better than her at playing the violin so the friend makes fun of her for it and tells her that thet idea of a deaf girl playing a violin is ridiculous.

Deaf and mute girl thinks her friend might be right and starts doubting herself. She goes to the musician, who is also deaf and mute, and talks to him. She tells him her frustrations.. she just wants to be accepted and be like the other kids. The musician asks her why she wants to be accepted. Music, after all, is a personal thing.

So she sets out on her journey to become a great violinist. She practices and practices everyday, but she enjoys it. She closes her eyes and goes to a different world. She starts practicing with the musician and her friend grows angry (and more insecure). She plays the piano and plays it daily. Although, the piece she’s playing now is more angry. She seems to have chosen a piece that reflects the anger she has inside of her. Not only has she chosen an angry piece, she’s also playing the piece in an angry fashion.

The day of the competition has arrived and deaf and mute girl’s friend (or nemisis) has just finished playing her piece (very beautifully). Deaf and mute girl goes up there. She remembers what the musician and her mentor has told her. She closes her eyes and thinks about all the obstactles she has overcame. She goes into a different world, one very plain and grassy, and you see this butterfly coming out of her cocoon. Obviously this symbolizes the deaf and mute girl coming out of her shell and finally being able to shine.


Sorry if you aren’t able to understand some of it. =/

2009
10/30
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Número Siete

I thought the lyre bird was pretty amazing. It’s like those people who are musically talented and can play a piece of music after hearing it for the first time.

It also reminded me of the Hunger Games series where there are such things as jabberjays, which are creatures who can imitate voices, except lyre birds imitate sounds.

The clip indicated that wildlife is being destroyed around or near the area where the lyre birds live. It’s sad to think before all this happened, these birds probably imitated pretty sounds from nature. Now, though, they’ll just be hearing/making dreadful sounds of machinery cutting away at their home.

2009
10/16
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Numbre Cinq

The media portays people as fit, tall, and to have perfect teeth and skin. Women are expected to be skinny and to have a chest and to be tan. Men are often expected to be muscular or look like they’ll be able to take care of their women… most men aren’t viewed as “ideal” if they’re really skinny.

And it’s not just body image, it can be in jobs. In movies, or television or whatever, they have the janitor or lunch lady be this unattractive, stingy person who was a loser in high school.

The perfect house is big and well, a house… um, it’s just the media generally will not show a person living in a trailer or an apartment as “ideal”. No offense to those who live in apartments or trailers.

Speaking of trailers, my Economics teacher asked us how old we thought kids started sexual activities. Most people said 12 (that’s what I thought too) and he said at 8 years old. It’s because of the media kids are starting to get exposed to these things so early! Kids learn that sex sells, and you go around seeing girls wearing supershort, tight skirts or shirts.

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2009
08/31
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Pencil Face

The elements in this video that set the movie were the barren setting, the music, the creepy-looking pencil, and the even stick-skinny girl. Again, stereotyping, but usually when you watch movies with those kind of girls as the main character, there’s generally a story that’s told about them… something usually tragic.

The lesson I think the video is trying to convey is that there’s going to be a drawback in getting everything you want. First time I watched the video, I thought the pencil was just there *randomly* and didn’t have a clue about what was going on, especially at the end. The second time I watched it, it seemed like the pencil was deceiving the girl so that she could become one of it’s victims. I guess kinda like Hansel and Gretel, but I was thinking more on the lines of genies.

I know genies aren’t real, but in stories, they are known as tricksters. They grant you a certain amount of wishes, no matter what it is. Obviously people would be ecstatic at this, and they would wish whatever they wanted, but they’d later find out that something awful was given up because of that one wish.

The girl in the video got 2 of her wishes/wants, but the third time, she received the consequence of that wish/want.

If I could have a pencil that gave me anything I wanted, with no consequences involved, I would draw a big check with enough to last my family and me for the rest of our lives. And then I would give the pencil to someone else.

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Quote: “You only lose what you cling to.” — Siddhārtha Gautama

2009
08/14
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“Because sometimes you have to step outside the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you wanted to be. The person you are.” – Lucas Scott (One Tree Hill)

I got a 7 on the test. Honestly, it was better than I thought I would have gotten. I’m really bad at these kind of things. ):

I don’t really know what this says about my conceptions of how I view race and ethnicity. I suppose people tend to judge other people by their appearance and assume they are a certain race, but I also think that personality comes into effect. Usually when I meet someone, I notice at least a little bit of their personality, whether it’s in their clothes or their jewelry or whatever… That sounds awful, judging someone on what they wear and thinking you have them figured out already, but growing up in this kind of society where looks are everything, I don’t think you can help sometimes.

I would like to say, I don’t really judge people based on their race, but I know that’s not true. On Sunday, I went to Chinatown and it’s so nice going there sometimes because I feel like I relate more to them. I eat the same food as them and understand the kind of things they’re going through that I’m not sure other ethnic groups would understand. I remember I saw this Hispanic in there and I was thinking, “What the heck is he doing in here?” And then I saw he was married to another Asian in the store, and I realized that judging him based on his race wasn’t fair. I think everyone can get to know and understand different ethnic groups and their cultures.

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I didn’t think it was too difficult. I think if I was just judging people off the street, I might’ve gotten more right. It’s like the pressure of a test (or something) always makes you second guess yourself.. but at the same time, I might not of.

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The criteria I used to judge people is their skin color.. although for Asians, I used their eyes.

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And I think that’s all. I’m running out of time and getting a little nervous! Sorry about the hasty finish!

2009
08/04
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