A BRIEF HISTORY ON THE STONE AGE

You are bored

and you are doodling...on the walls

and the hunt (dinner) isn't ready till and hour later....

this is the stone age

DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!!!!

actually it's just your home....except you are forbidden to use any electronic media

except now of course

no no i didn't get in trouble or anything like that

it was a school assignment:

go through a 24 hr period without any contact to facebook...

oh that's easy, i hate facebook

...or any other electronic media

damn...

...then write a column on it

*sigh...

so now that's over, i shall document my experience

and it was HORRIBLE

well that's actually because i was sick...and it was really hot

but i was extremely bored

and there was a lot more doodling than usual

you know i thought that i can get through it easily

and i sort of did cuz i did know that it was going to be full of nothingness

but i looked around and there was a TV....and a Lenovo laptop....and my cheap cellphone.....

(did i tell you about my cheap cellphone? o well. so i lost my cell phone one day and when my parents found out they punished me by giving me a literally my-palm-sized-1hr-battery-life-2003-something-grey cellphone. and the brand was...siemens....i have never heard of it before)

anways my cellphone had a few games on it

and i just sat there on my couch....pondering on how our generation was so dependent on those things.....

and fell asleep

well before that, it seemed to me how ridiculous this current situation was

how i was just sitting there with the TV in front of me and unable to turn it on

everything was just barely out of reach

you can imagine me just sitting there, trying to avoid the heat

well sitting on a non leather sofa didn't help

so i just sat on the floor

which sort of helped

later on that didn't help much

so i laid on the floor

which was uncomfortable

so i was laying on the floor and surrounded by Post-it-Notes that said Harry Potter 7 Harry Potter 7 Harry Potter 7 Harry P....

this is wat happens when a teenager is disconnected from the internet

there could've been a Target store explosion conducted by Costco and i wouldn't know

people could've been talking about how there was a stampede of elephants at Stanford and i would be the ignorant little school boy who didn't know wat was going on

all in all

it wasn't a great day for me

with homework

my illness

no TV

no Computer

temperatures in the 90s

and boredom

now if you will excuse me

i'm going to watch some Simpsons....i think they're on

A tiny earth

This was for a school project. I think this pretty much sums up the gravity of the situation.

(the picture was bigger...but my scanner was not) This is also on google buzz

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All the things i learned in high school

Writing for Publications has taught me something

that i might at some point hate writing

ok besides the obvious

that you have to have a good interview to have good info

that a good interview isn't good enough

that you need a full investigation

that includes good interviews of other reliable sources (family, friends, acquaintances, etc.)

that in order you have to have a good story, you must run around to find those interviewees

that in other words, that "run around" will be so mentally tiring that it would make track and field a light morning jog

in other words, you can't be successful without hard work

i know it's a worn out cliche but the meaning itself was like a being awoken by being hit in the face

an ear splitting slap that made me wake up from a hazy dream called "middle school"

even though in middle school i thought i had already gotten that slap from "elementary school"

not that the hard stuff has started yet

but it is to come....eventually.......

writing for publications also made me fall in love with blogging all over again

because in blogging i can complain, i can write better since there is no teacher breathing down the back of my neck to tell me to hurry up

and i can write anything that i want

thank god...to whoever made the internet

math is always the same

i nearly fall asleep during every period and only getting up to take notes

except i cant do that more often now...cuz now the teacher calls on people...even if they are sitting in the back...and in the corner

my biology teacher's last name rhymes with her first name...so nobody calls her by Mrs... not to her face of course

i wonder if she realizes that....

i bet she does

the schools reputation of high standards for academics are settling in now that we had our first batch tests.

at least that was for me

i think it settled in a long time ago now that i realized a lot of people had taken principles of business.

it's amazing to see people focusing so much of their energy to academics....only to refuel then accelerate during summer

i say "accelerate" because at that time, nobody knows how far the others went ahead in the textbooks to get in front of everyone else. so they try really hard...just in case

many people i met actually came from private schools to go to public schools to get out of the same group of nerdy people to an environment with a variety of people - like the real world

after that speech

i dared not tell them that they have gotten out of a batch of nerds - only to jump in another batch of nerds

o well, they'll see....i'll let them have the full learning experience

which is an euphemism for a cut that will only turn into a permanent scar, a lesson learned

which is an euphemism for a complete shocker

sorry if i used to many metaphors

i was up all night doing writing for pub homework

what the most useful thing about my second week of high school was my planner

what the stressful thing was that i kept on losing my Target bag with all my swimming material

what the most interesting thing i found out as i am writing this

is that my life is like any other person

that i found out during high school too

full of stupid mistakes, to be forgotten mishaps and bland morning cereal that tastes like boredom

if life is going to be like this

i might as well make it as interesting as possible

by writing

although something does happen once in a while

i wonder if this is a typical writer's life

so bored that you have to make up interesting things inside your head

that applies to fiction at least

these are all the things i learned in high school...and it's only the 2nd week