Christmas and the New Year

i got to say....christmas eve was pretty good
yea i spent it at one of those asian dinner parties...although i guess considering the situation it's just an ordinary christmas party
my friend and i went up in her room and watched Harry Potter 7 part 2, then Rio, then kind of dwindled down to taking turns showing each other funny videos on Youtube

i showed her this really funny scene from Chuck

she showed me Nyan cat

I showed her a funny prank that somebody in Japan did to a mob of people

....she showed me the Santa version of Nyan cat.....

after that i just kinda took over and forced her to enjoy the wonderful world of Chuck by making her watch a series of funny scenes. Or at least that was the general plan until i realized that she actually enjoyed Chuck and while she was rolling around the floor laughing with tears streaming down her now thoroughly red face and totally carefree, i looked at this situation as a business opportunity. After years of trying to get people to watch the (INCREDIBLE) series, i took a deep breath, playing it cool with my newfound salesman skills, and sealed the deal....

i cornered her and made her promise to watch all of the Chuck episodes


DEAL SEALED ^^
yea not that suave now that i look back at it....oh well, overall a good day

as for the actually Christmas day, i did absolutely nothing
yea it was pretty much me eating a sandwich on the couch and watching TV....and i didn't even realize that it was Christmas until i recalled that last night was Christmas eve.....and that revelation didn't happen until 4 pm or something....It was all really hazy; i just remembered my friend laughing and rolling on the floor a lot

that was a strange day.....OH I REMEMBERED HOW I REMEMBERED IT WAS CHRISTMAS

so my dad took me to watch War Horse (eh it was ok) and i was thinking "wow whats the occasion eh?" i just took it as a pleasant surprise and decided to just go along with it

finally after halfway through the movie i was like "hm....a lot of people here today thank god we came a little early....a lot of people, must be opening day or something....wait it is opening day...that means...today....OH SHIT TODAY IS CHRISTMAS"

thank god it was all dark in the theater so nobody can see my facial expression
well not my....most proudest moment but hey i was pretty hammered from the night before; i drank a lot of asian chrysanthemum that came in juice boxes which resulted in A LOT of bathroom trips (hey what's a person with a retainer suppose to do?)

anyways.....today is New Year's Eve, what am i gonna do?


i'm gonna sit on the couch, eat a sandwich, and watch TV
it is one of the greatest feelings in the world; when all the miscellaneous things like Math, Chemistry, worries, and exercising all just peel away.....leaving nothing but you, a TV, and a sandwich...


Hope you all have a great new year.  

Caving in or Semi Adulthood?

well, i've made a decision...although it really is people making decisions for me...

i've decided to go back into the volunteering game
a combination of pressure from my parents and my friends have push me into it and i'll say that i've put in a mildly good fight...but in the end i lost

look...i did volunteering quite a bit last year and i stopped because i felt extreme guilt; volunteering was for being completely compassionate about...everything and i was just there for the hours and that it will look good on my college application. plus i didn't like the people who i had to work with...yep the classic case of immature high school students. finally i couldn't take it anymore and i quit.

once the 2nd semester starts, i'm gonna be planting trees and other stuff...
hey there's a silver lining to this too!
...well actually i have to find out if there actually is a silver lining to this
*sigh....it's a terrible feeling when the world just caves in on you like this

maybe i'm over-thinking this and volunteering will turn out to be fun and i'll make new friends...like the flyer says

maybe i'll be back with another post in a few weeks with how wonderful the volunteering experience
yea...i'll be sure to be drinking it all in quickly, like what you do with medicine

you know....i thought that i was suppose to do stuff that i like:

writing...art...and reading stuff

i should write stuff...i really should start on writing a novel
it's been at the back of my head for a while and still haven't gotten around to writing it
because, as always, life intervened

always been interested in java and computer science and stuff like that....never got around doing that either, never had the time
always started and always stopped halfway

anyways, there is only one way for me to bear volunteering, and this is something i promise myself once i get started:

not to think of college or high school when i'm actually volunteering

my brain feels like mush
too much thinking
maybe i'm misinterpreting all the "i feel guilty because it's all about college app bla bla bla" to be just plain sit-on-my-ass lazy

well whatever it is, all i can hear is "welcome to (semi) adulthood...we've been waiting for you"

Am I Missing the Uphill Climb?

well....it's that time of the year again: me writing after a long time
actually considering before, this isn't that much of a hiatus

now that finals are over, i've finally got time to do nothing

first day of break, i found myself super tired maybe because after a long time of not doing any work, i find it hard trying to go back to being lazy
strange, because i remember the whole time when i was studying like hell for tests, i was wishing just  5 mins of absolutely no stress whatsoever

well....after i encountered by "tired of doing nothing" phase once break began, i realized that there is still stress
except this stress although it doesn't make me wake up like a zombie everyday, it does still stress me out except on a different level...this is what happens to you when you sit down and think too much

the problem is.....my future
the question is....what the hell am i going to do for the rest of my life?

you know, i'm a hypocrite, i'll admit it
i've written articles about "be yourself" and "don't worry about the future"
well...look at me now
i literally have to force myself to "be myself"
i've written about articles where people are doing volunteer stuff and they already have tons of hours but they are only volunteering for the hours and that they don't really care about tree planting or what not

and that was me, i didn't care about tree planting or making hot dogs at Stanford concessions during a football game, and that's why i quit doing volunteering because that's something i'm not passionate about
and i'm still that way
and that's still my answer when somebody asks me why i'm not doing volunteering

but lately my friends and my family are pressuring me to do it because if i don't then colleges won't like that and i'm not going to go to a good college

everything seems to rest on that now: going to a good college
i'm not saying it's bad but.....should i do volunteering again?
it's taken a lot of self therapy to ask myself that question let alone blog about it because i've been beating around the bush with that one....

right now i have a job as my art teacher's assistant (which i can only go on Sundays for one hour...yea i know that small) which i like...even though it's turning out to be like working at a day care center (i had to make this kid blow into a kleenex...that i was holding)
i like writing but i haven't had the time
i'm in speech and debate and i'm working on a piece right now.....but it just doesn't seem enough compared to what everybody else is doing (SAT classes, volunteering, etc.)
all i can constantly think is that time is running out
i used to be a middle school and think i still got time...and now i've got to wake up
well....i'm in my sophomore year and i feel like that i've got to do something extraordinary RIGHT NOW

and if i don't, i missed the uphill climb that seems to only come about right now

yea i know i'm being manipulated by the system, follow the formula like everyone else and then you'll get into a good college...should i follow the formula? yea any "feel-good movie of the year" would say that the answer is NO....but this is reality...and i feel that it's about to crush me

but you know when you know your doing something that you're telling yourself is not right but you do it anyway?
yea that's me now...in no man's land
everybody seems to be doing something

and i feel like i've been doing squat

Foolish Optimism

all i have is 10 mins
that's all i have right now to finish another post
and, it also perfectly summarizes my lifestyle right now in a nutshell

you see, right now, i'm in one of the toughest time in high school
and right now, i am super busy and there's no time to blog, read (for fun), and feed my digital fish
and year after year, see have to deal with the same...um...inconveniences...
along with the usual immature brats that you can't stand in high school, you also have to deal with the chem -  i mean teachers...all teachers...no specifics

i think on my last post i mentioned how i disliked my chemistry teacher.
turns out the math teacher is one of the most fairest (as in just) and nicest teachers i ever had
she actually listens to you when you try to fight for a few extra point!
ok that didn't come out right
things has been going better in chemistry as well - at least i've stopped mentally calling my teacher fat
and her face a looks less like the surface of the moon -  all good signs of MASSIVE improvement
apparently she had gives out "awards" every grading period this time, it was "participation" in other words, constantly talking about chemistry in and out of class

well i won it
yea it surprised me too
well it does make sense, i mean i have been literally slaving over chemistry (side effects including enormous amounts of swearing and cursing) and all my efforts amounted to a piece of paper with a picture of a bee on it and a lollipop - which is ok with me, it was apple flavor i'm sure you'd understand

for once, things looked like it was going back on track (and also living up to my high standards)
and then halloween is on a Monday and that ruined everything.

however, i did finish book 1 in pottermore.com so that was good.

still, my grades aren't as where i want it to be but it's getting there (i think, or i'm once again blindly following down another road of self pity and destruction)

ok my 10 mins are up
well, this looks like a much happier post than the one before....damn i think i just jinxed it
no no no, got to think positive and lift your head up high in foolish optimism (that's how i stepped into dog poo once....but at the same time also how i dodged a jet of bird poo whizzing through the sky)

TIME TO STUDY for my history test on french revolution! Bonjour my good friends, until next ti-...wait no that's hello.... 

J47

the real "art of science" is just coming up 4 syllable words for everything

First Day of School

The 10th first day of school...or 11th considering kindergarden....or 12th considering preschool...or 13th considering my birth...

anyways

well what i can say about this particular first day is that i don't feel too much like an idiot

last year when i just started at a totally new school, it was a totally new experience - to actually know what what it's like to be a real idiot

walking around now i'm totally confident when and where my classes were located

...and i get a locker (which when i say "it's a big deal", kinda makes me sound like those cup-holder loving people)

the thing was, last year, i didn't have a locker and it was a total medical disaster

and by that...i mean my back. all the books - EVERYTHING was stuffed into that backpack

making me look like i was a turtle - or one of those drama/theater geeks walking around in costumes...yet even they didn't look as ridiculous as i did

and unlike last year, i can honestly say that i don't hate my classes/teachers

however, it's not like i love them either

there was this one teacher that began her introduction speech by talking about how she'll give us less homework because she understands the pressure of school and that she wont tell us how to take notes or watever because she only care about the end product. she ended the speech how she quit her job at Cisco to follow her dream of being a teacher.

well by the time she ended, i thought a little birdie was gonna land on my shoulder and tweet (i mean an actually tweet) hello to me.

i hadn't finished the thought before BAM. the paper that she just passed out while i was daydreaming said that TESTS/QUIZES IS 70% OF MY GRADE

then i was like "I KNEW IT!" in a accusatory way - not in a Eureka way...

definitely not in a Eureka way...

never trust a person THAT nice....you gotta get some research (stalking) first

see she's indian...i was really starting to think that an Indian Math Teacher (those are some big words...it's a lot to take in....a LOT) this nice was a little fishy...and i was right

i stepped right into the trap like a fool

and then i have a CHINESE SCIENCE TEACHER

again....so very very very....big...vast...humungous words.....and a lot to take in...

so i have a indian math teacher and a chinese science teacher....(she's super strict btw; she started the class by telling us that no matter how much we smile at her, she's gonna look at you straight in the eyeballs and tell you that she's not gonna raise your grades)

two extreme kinds of people...meet two extreme fields of study

have you ever seen bull rhinoceroses charge at eachother?

the impact is similar to this...

anywho, i get a really chill pe teacher who likes to give us nicknames....unless we don't want them....i nearly got "sushi"

and told us that all we had to do to get an A was: show up, dress out, and play

sounds like preschool

i was like "THANK GOD!!!" (and i mean get on my knees and look up at the sky...and crying of joy)

so that was my first day

some good parts

some bad parts

like when you microwave your lunch and it doesn't get heated right so some parts are hot and some parts are cold....

Writer's Block

first things first: i gotta warn you, i don't know what i'm about to write

which by the way (i wrote it out because i'm cool like that), is the best thing to do when you have writer's block

so first thing on my mind after that first thing is that this is probably the first time in which i'm not looking forward to the start of school

usually i'm a such a nerd that i just can't wait for school to start and i get all my new school stuff

now...this whole beginning of school thing is just nagging at me and i feel like i'm slowly dragged into a black whole...never to be released....until next summer

or it feels like...ok this is the only way to describe this feeling: the feeling you get when your parent wants you to get off the couch saying that you've been sitting on it all afternoon but you're wayyy to comfortable...

i've been in my own alternate universe this whole summer....traveling in china....watching movies IN theaters and not on computers...and finally school.....i hate that word now...school..ugh

i guess it's a pain for the parents cuz they have to go to work all day long...everyday and there's no summer break

right now i'm in a state of laziness that only french jazzy music can bring on...in other words, i'm listening to 30 rock soundtrack....wow that sounds lame

because that's what summer is for: a time to be lazy

i mean it's hard to be cool 24/7

being cool is work!

well, another thing on my mind: i think tony's are worth more than oscars

why? cuz i think theater actors are sober and movie actors are arrogant and can range from actually good movies to stupid bro movies AND they are NOT sober

well at least that's what it looks like to me

plus movie actors are always jacked up on botox or whatever wild stuff they come up these days

oh and...i don't think tumblr is a blog

come on, i don't need to explain, just look at a tumblr page and then look at a blogger page

then you'll know what i mean

another thing that bothers me...people ranting on about the same topics: global warming, texting is bad, studying too much is bad for you (this is the only thing my writing for publication class comes up with), cool young tech companies: twitter, facebook, google, etc., and well i'm sure there's more...

i mean, i've heard it soo many times, it's like people have really got nothing to say or they're trying to milk it for all it's worth, until they squeeze out the last drop

i think i'm starting to hate my own kind of people: teenagers

i don't think i've ever really liked them to begin with

they all seem to be a bunch of airheads - all of which are in danger of popping and revealing it's contents: ...nothing....

although recently i've come to think that thinking nothing is probably the best feeling in the world cuz i'm not so eager on all the up coming stressing

another thing, i don't think french jazzy music does much for inspiration considering what i wrote....all it does is make you wanna sleep and eat creme brulee...at the same time

my creative juices are at an all time low today

i would turn off the music if it didn't make me so lazy to do so

another thing: teenagers need to stop watching so much Pretty Little Liars and start watching 30 rock and The Office so they can get my references....which just proves once again what airheads they are

30 rock is smart comedy even though it has tracy jordan who is...not so smart

which goes to show the power of movie magic (tv magic isn't a word...)

is businesswoman a word?

am i a feminist??

anyways i better go and sleep and dream about creme brulee ( last night i dreamt about bacon and sausages, i'm seeing if i an keep up this streek (sp?) )

you see this is the kind of stupid stuff i do during the summer...but i like it ;)

Back from China

i've got to say that that trip to china was HOT

because it was really humid....and because i literally took a TOUR OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!! well only the east coast anyway

many things on my mind after coming back

first, of how much my chinese improved (which is basically from bad to ok...)

and second, just how much cousins AND nieces/nephews i have

AND third, HOW I MISSED THE OPENING DAY OF HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2!!!! (but we'll get back to that later)

so much has happened HERE since i went to china...for one thing the office building near my house changed from Sementech (sp?) to Seagate (sp?? lol)

well a lot of stuff happened in china and nearly all of them was surprising

one of which was the fashion.....i mean DAMN FIERCE! (do people still say that?)

i'd be just walking down the street with my aunt and i'd never seen so many super model like people in my life and i mean for real not just on TV

i mean it was like a fashion contest/pageant/top model runway show out there

everyone...even the non model like people were dressed like the catalogues that we get in america (and now they have the catalogues in china and they are twice as thick!!)

this little unknown fact (to me) came to me like a slap in the face

and i came to china by myself:

i mean i got off the plane with my huge red suitcase and a bulging backpack (not one of those cool laptop backpacks) that made me look like a turtle and looking totally like shit cuz i just came from a 12 hr flight in the economy plane eating crap food from air china

and then SLAP, a model looking person in stilettos walked briskly past me looking like she just came from the first class

i know a lot of people in china/japan/south korea are getting plastic surgery...but if they did, they are doing it right and people in america are doing it wrong, cuz you can't tell if they did it

there...if they call you a cat lady in the US now...it's probably for all the wrong reasons

anyways business is BOOMING in china's retail stores (name brand of course, otherwise if you just buy a plain old shirt, i sugest that you were it as much as possible cuz once you wash it, it's totally ruined)

stuff here is sold WAY cheaper than if it was sold in China

so make sure you buy all the essentials in the US or where it is you live then you can buy your street food and $5 chinese fans in china

but it's amazing to see how this place has grown, the skyscrapers are being built at an alarming rate; you can't fell any breeze during the summer and it's just sweltering hot

anywho, besides the generalization of china, let me focus on to the people i actually met on my travels: my relatives

my relatives, yes are very nice and all but god....do they know how to criticize (me). i traveled for about a month and a half from Beijing (middle) to Shanghai (south) to Changchun (north) and back to Beijing (middle) again. my relatives are scattered all over the country and i've been running up and down to meet them (by myself...that's the important thing here but i'll come back to that)

They like to tease me about my chinese (i knew it was gonna happen so i braced myself for that one) and my bad chopstick skills (...and that one) and my lifestyle (...and that one) and my hobbies (...and that one) and where i live (....and that one of course; that's the biggie)

well in short it when from fun teasing to all-out-ranting-like-they-were-drunk

for example, relatives' only reason to dislike America is because there's no hot water

let me refrase: there's not hot water in the hotel so they assume that all americans don't drink hot water - and that's an insult to one of human being fundamental....somethings....

anyways: no hot water, sucky country

but they do agree that they like everything else tho (i made them confess with my wits)

(actually i just shouted "OH REALLY?? I JUST FINISHED MY SODA, WHERE SHOULD I THROW MY CAN? THIS RIVER SEEMS SUITABLE, ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU GUYS DO??" ....in my head)

so yea....but they bought me a lot of stuff...like this really cool pair of adidas shoes.....so i let them off the hook....

yea i can be bought by a pair of shoes....i know....but they are REALLY COOL

anyways...i was gonna talk about traveling alone...yea

well this was definitely a "growing up experience"

i took a flight from the US to beijing, then took a flight to Shanghai then took a flight to Changchun then a flight to beijing and a flight from beijing back to the US

i got through all the security without a hitch and it was pretty much smooth sailing from the beginning :

the first flight from US to Beijing was pretty much way too good to be true - as far as economy class goes

i sat in the front row, but had an aisle seat so i could get up whenever i wanted to

plus because it was the front row, there was a ton of space in front of me along with the people sitting next to me so if they needed to get up and stand in line for 20 mins (people were way too nice, they kept on letting each other going in, and the other person would refuse and tell the other person to go in) nobody had to stand up to make room

but as i said, it was WAY TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

cuz on the return flight, i had to pay for my good fortune (is that good fortune then??) and sit in the middle column...not in front...and sat in one of the middle two seats of the 4 seat row

no aisle, no window, just smack in the middle

and it was worse

cuz the next two seats by mines...had 3 people trying to cram into it

a mother, a 9 year old or something like that daughter and a toddler

it was bad...real bad the baby kept on crying while everyone was sleeping and i happen to have the very good fortune of being right next to it

so i was sorta crammed along with them

the baby kicked me at one point...and didn't get a wink of sleep

finally after...i dunno how many hours, i got really annoyed and sat up and looked straight at the baby in the pupils....and the baby stopped crying and just stared back....this went on for 30 sec

and there was a silence.....a weird silence....no not like a "rebirthing" aura where peace would've finally settle on me...and others i'm sure.....but like a silence that was filled only by the sound the huge engines of the plane was making

i must've looked like a hungover drag queen (is that redundant??) cuz the baby was as silent as a mouse....or even quieter......5 mins later she started crying again

o well

another airplane incident was that when i was on my plane from Shanghai to Changchun ( south to north) i found that someone had taken my seat

i was just about to tell him when i realized that the guy in my seat was sitting next to a...baby

so i just took the empty seat behind him hoping that nobody would sit here

anyways that came to nothing cuz 5 mins later an asian businessman came up to me and asked me what i was doing in his seat

this made me mad altho i didn't show it...i think ( he had a sleek laptop backpack...it was not helping my mood)

so i asked the guy about my seat, and then he said another person was sitting her his, and so on..and finally some lady jumped out in surprise and apologized that she made a mistake and as she moved there was a group of people (5) grumbling and shuffling around in her wake

it was pretty impressive...if i ever end up 30 rock (or something similar) writing team...i'm going to pitch this idea...cuz that was hilarious

o yea i forgot, i would've blogged before but they don't have Blogger in China so i have to cram it all here...no i'm not gonna split it into a part 1 and 2 like the harry potter movie...altho i have considered.

another experience i had in china (this is just all coming to me as i'm typing) was that when i was dining out at some fancy restaurant....i was like "alright, i'm traveling and exploring and tasting the food of a different country...CAN'T WAIT TO GET ME SOME PEKING DUCK"

but then when i got there...it hit me...

"wait....this is the same kinda of stuff i've been eating since i was in diapers...chinese food"

of course i knew that it was chinese food...but this is different when you see it as something you eat for dinner everyday....chinese food....leftover chinese food...chinese food...leftover chinese food

and throw in an occasional restaurant chinese food

this was the same thing....

anyways...food was still good...but yea kinda a kill joy

finally HARRY POTTER 7 PART 2!!!

TOTAL AWESOMENESS

but i'm not here to review...cuz a movie this good doesn't need me to review it...or any nerd with a computer who calls him/herself a blogger

well i tried to watch it on opening day in china...but then there were very few theaters to begin with...and they didn't show it yet...

one in a million chance to go on opening day....and gone the next minute

one of my life's greatest regrets

i'm not kidding...i was rather...depressed for a few days

anyways i gotta stay up for that Quill thing for PotterMore

( i might have to stay up the whole night)

NYEAHHHHHH!!!!!!! (voldemort's epic yell...can't believe i'm leaving it like this)

The Creativity Problem

We live in a nice suburban city nestled snuggly in the cradle of Silicon Valley, where
“ingenious” start up companies are continuously sprung up in a cluster together, where nearly every family is supported by the awe-inspiring power of technology, and where we all love to “stay healthy” and “go green” by going out in our morning jogs as, many magazines which backed up by accomplished doctors say, is good for you. What could possibly be wrong?

Here in my school, we constantly have to put up with competition, not just with other schools, but also each other – which is something that has been going on for a long time, but surprisingly, we’re still not used to, and complain about.

It is common now, to have your freshmen friends go straight into some AP language class, your sophomore friends skip straight into Computer Programing class because apparently they already know programming language, your junior friends getting 2400s on their STAR tests, and your senior friends getting into Stanford.

Your choices of in this school is a combination these choices; good at math, good at computer programming, good at starting up companies, good at writing, good at science, good at violin/piano. And you must order a combo.

By the end, if you are not a doctor, then you’re a lawyer, and if not a lawyer, then you’re a computer programmer, and if you’re not a computer programmer, you’re a scientist. And you must at least be a CEO before your junior year. Because just “a good student”, “straight A’s”, and “a full score on SATs” will not look good on your college application.

The key point that we have always been taught but never truly followed is the importance of creativity. Doing what you want to do, which is not necessarily academic related. If you want to be a Silicon Valley-Renaissance Man (which should be all of you out there), then you need to look at the world in a bigger picture. Silicon Valley was built on creativity. Not by following the crowd.

Seriously, do we really need another social networking site? Not everything revolves around instant messaging.

Do what you want to do. If you like acting, then join drama. If you like singing, then join choir (although you should make sure that you can actually sing first). If you like writing, then write a novel. This isn’t that hard. The only thing that is stopping you is the knowledge that you aren’t following the safety of the crowd.

The problem is, everything at this school is like applying for college; being an officer for a club, joining ASB “so it could look good on your college application” (aren’t you sick of hearing that?), signing up for five different volunteer club (you know who you are), and calculating your “precious” points in your Activity Point Sheet like a second grader.

Do yourself a favor and just go out there and do what you want, whatever you want. You want to dance? Go dance like crazy in the rally court – you’re young and you still have tons of room for mistakes. Try anything. Try everything.

Vegas and Other Vacationing Advice

as in Las Vegas...in case any geography freak reads this

i dunno if there is another place called "Vegas"

there is a star called Vegas..so i thought maybe there was a town called vegas...watever

I went to Vegas (not the star...obviously) during my spring break

and that was my...4th time going?

I've always hated going to Las Vegas

I hated all the gamblers, the casinos, the second hand smoking, and the prestige hotels/shops that make you feel like crap

all in all, a very adult-ish world and it didn't agree with my childhood world of innocence like...pooh bear and sesame street

(btw they're making a new pooh bear movie!)

basically a world were i didn't feel like a belonged

god that sounds so..disney?

however, Vegas is a tiresome city that the moment you enter it, you feel immediately drained

the desert is sweltering and it seems to stretch on forever

and Vegas is a dirty little saloon in the middle of nowhere of the Old West

yet, Vegas is also a place where you have to go a couple of times to actually like it

or go to all the right places the first time

(hint: DO NOT GO TO THE CIRCUS CIRCUS HOTEL)

try all the shows

buy all the souvenirs

go shopping

eat at nice restaurants

unless if you are on a tight budget cuz of financial problems (why are you in vegas in the first place?) then you should go out for everything

seriously

in vegas, or perhaps in many vacation cities, if you go cheap, you will NOT have a good time

you will not have an O.K. time

you will (say it with me) have a BAD time

plus, you are on a VACATION

have FUN!

trying to save..all your money is just limiting you from all the awesome aspects of vacationing

you can't go into vegas planning to save money...you want to save money? don't go to Vegas

anyways, that's my vacation advice...dang i should have my own travel show

yea this is kinda random...but don't take AirChina...if you're going to Asia or something

seriously, you will suffocate...i mean...the food is worse than worse, and if you ask for juice or wine (not that i've ever done that) the flight attendant just looks all pissed at you...maybe cuz they were planning to have the wine themselves?

another bad thing about AirChina, is that there's no other airline bad enough to compare so you can feel better...well maybe AirFrance...i dunno i've only heard that it's bad

and if you already got tickets for AirChina...don't ask anyone about the service in KoreanAir...you don't wanna know...

how do i know about AirChina?

well...cuz i'm asian that's why

on road trips...don't feel bad about taking all kinds of portable entertainment

cuz you WILL be bored

don't think that "i'm gonna sleep through the whole thing" or "i'll just read"

although if reading is your idea of portable entertainment....then fine bring it

and don't think that "oh i'll just look out the window and enjoy the scenery"

you know that's a load of BS

it'll be like staring at your laptop's background for 10 hrs straight

another random advice: don't tell a Parisian how beautiful Paris is...he'll just get really annoyed

unlike Rated R movies....if a city isn't exactly age appropriate for a kid...they will not enjoy it

ok...i think that's all the traveling advice i know...

dunno why i decided to write about traveling

o yea...i went to Vegas

Many Disasters

I'M BACK BABY!!!!!

...

*cricket chirps

hey do you remember 2012 the movie?

yea well, i have er...something to say about that

first of all, i do not believe in superstitions

i mean seriously, and anything connected to that (like i'm not easily surprised or scared)

see, i think that the mayans or whoever, just ran out of space on their calendar

their calendar is a circle right? well then inevitably, their little string of illustrations are gonna spiral until there's just no more room

the whole apocalypse thing is just...first of all, unpredictable

at the turn of the millenium, people thought that the world was gonna end

the turn of the millenium came and went and nothing happened.

convinced enough?
well now let me get to the point

haven't you noticed that there has been a lot of weird disaster stuff happening

i think we're on the same page now

anyways, there's the japan tsunami/earthquake, new zealand earthquake, iceland volcano (yea i know that was last year), etc.

don't you just feel....that something bad has happened like every few weeks or so?

and snow in san francisco...well, that was a good thing

i dunno

maybe i haven't lived on this planet long enough to know that this is common

oh, and on a side note, completely unrelated to disasters, or at least...in the traditional sense

WHAT IS UP WITH THE MOVIES TODAY????

i seriously cannot find a good movie these days

how is this related to wat i was just talking about (besides being a disaster), ...cuz 2012 was a movie

yea...

anyways, back on the movies

NOT interesting

NOT funny

NOT emotional

it's just...NOT good

seriously, the oscar nominated movies....are ok

its not that good

i've seen nearly all of them

except...social network...ok i'll stop talking about that movie, i bet you're all tired of hearing it too

i mean, after a week full of homework and people who irritate you, you want to just relax and have some entertainment

not some...friggen Rango

at least it's not 3-D

and the music today....ugh

a little worse than the movies

Cee Lo Green for example

i swear

i DID TRY to like it

and i tried everything

jamming the earbuds into my ear

bobbing my head to the song

singing aloud with it

and nope...nothing worked

and trey songz.....is the "z" suppose to be cool?

i mean, can i just have something that's not the same as everything i hear 24/7 ?

and it doesn't even sound good...

you know what, sometimes, i wish i was in the 80's and jammin' to Bee Gees or something

ok enough ranting

but, i am not the only one who thinks this way

hey this post is just to let you know how things are going

and things aren't going so well

right now it's the winter break

so i'm chillin'....it's hella cold

(wow i'm talking about the weather, i am bored and this is a bad omen for the rest of my week)

not kidding,

i was visiting a friend in Fremont and there was SNOW, YES, SNOW, in the nearby foothills!!!!

that is unusual

this whole weather pattern is unusual

like it was cold...and then suddenly hot...and then cold again....then warm...then WINDY

well maybe not that weird (so i don't sound like a 2012 superstitious believer)

i mean it is February

i know....if any of you have lived in Chicago or something think that i'm a California Wimp, then i'm sorry, but i can't help but enjoy a good thing.

anyways, but that's kinda the point....why do i feel that this is unusual for California?

as for my break...besides being cold, there's another reason why it's not so going so well (and i'm only 1 day into the break)

somehow, my teachers managed to cram a bunch of essay assignments into the next week.

and my biology and geometry teacher also give us a test at the end of the break, the moment we come back

like when we come back, they don't pamper us anymore with "why hello boys and girls, how was your break?"

now it's like "OK, INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BOARD, NO CHEATING, AND DON'T START ON THE TEST UNTIL I TELL YOU TO."

this whole week is going to be like waiting for a time bomb to go off

and when i say "managed" i don't mean it

i know that my teachers have like 20 years of this kind of experience...the fun side of being

the Man

fine, i may be exaggerating things a little

i know that some people don't even have breaks

but sometimes i think that break is just giving us more time to do the extra mounds of homework that the teachers give us

yet my goody-two-shoes, reasonable side is always nagging at me almost as badly as the homework sitting on my desk waiting for me to finish it

lately, i think that with my laziness, i think my brain has turned into a semi solid mush

don't get me wrong, i said i "think"

i still have A's and stuff

but i think my brain is in the early stages of deterioration

so maybe this busy homework/study (not) break, will help fix that

still, every time i think about my homework, i remember something else that i have to do

like filling out like 4 forms for the badminton try outs

and i probably wouldn't even get into the team...

o wait, i just remembered, i'm supposed to fill in another form for the Red Cross Volunteer thing...i'm serious, i just remembered

o wait, again, i just remembered that there's something wrong with my printer...maybe it's deteriorating due to lack of use like my brain

this is ironic, i was just saying about remembering stuff whenever i think about homework...and it's happening right now, live

it's like watching something go wrong on live television *cough *cough..christina aguilera...*cough

or witness a real car crash

cuz that would be coo - i mean, that would be terrible

anyways, i'll just deal with this week, this lovely, lovely week

i hate ironies when they are about me

like right now, i'm listening to this song that keeps on repeating in a jazzy beat, "life is good....life is good...life is good"

i should stop listening to it now

well hope you all you an awesome, (not really, cuz then you'll just make me feel even worse), next week

CHUCK CHUCK CHUCK!!!!

no it's not a person

it's a SHOW

and perhaps the best show i have EVER seen on TV so far in my 14 years of existence!!!

you know there are just one of those unique shows that are SOO good that you kind of don't want people to watch...because you are greedy and you wanna keep it to yourself

yet because you are a fan, you want the show to do well, and so you do your best to spread the word

well NBC's Chuck is one of these rare shows

right now it's not as popular is it deserves to be

i even think it's better than "30 Rock" and "The Office" AND "Lost" AANND "Community"

or any other shows that you think is good

and before you say that I have no sense of humor or I should go to hell for hating on your favorite shows, please.

Here me out

Chuck started out in 2007

for those of you who don't know what it's about, i'll tell you

it's about an (nerd) electronic store clerk, named Chuck Bartowski (who makes $12 an hour) who gets an email from his old buddy (Bryce Larkin) in Stanford (in which he got kicked out because Larkin framed him for cheating....and he stole his girl). When Chuck opens the attachment, the contents of the CIA-NSA supercomputer gets downloaded into his head. So basically, his head is a computer. It holds all the secrets of these two government agencies.

Whenever Chuck sees/hears something that has to do with any of the secrets, he suddenly have these "flashes" (which means that he looks at the secrets in his head) and suddenly understand everything that has to do with what he saw or heard.

So because the original Intersect computer was destroyed by Bryce Larkin, Chuck is the only copy of the Intersect. He basically holds all of the nation's secrets in his head. So the CIA and NSA sent their top spies to protect him: Sarah Walker (who's pretty) and John Casey (who's not so pretty). and then they go on various missions and Chuck (the nerd) is put in extreme situation. comedy ensues.

What makes this show so great is because it has multiple genres: Romance, Action, Comedy, and Mystery. So that means that they get to get away with a lot of stuff.

And another reason is that, the show makes a perfect balance between romance, and action/comedy. This balance keeps the show from slipping into the sappy soap opera stuff.

and yes...the romance is between Chuck and Sarah as you probably have guessed.

And the comedy...oh the comedy....

OK so the electronic store from where Chuck works is called the "Buy More"

which is just like a "Best Buy"

and Chuck works in the "Nerd Herd" division

which is just like the "Geek Squad"

and a lot of his co-workers are a bunch of idiots...or "Buy Morons" as NSA Special Agent John Casey thinks of them

so you can imagine how hilarious things can get in the "Buy More"

Plus Chuck lives with his sister Ellie Bartowski (who is a doctor), and her boyfriend Devon Woodcoomb AKA "Captain Awesome" (who also is a doctor). A doctor who's married to a doctor. Living in LA. Yup, their life is set. so there's comedy in there too.

so right now, chuck is kinda low on his mojo. After getting kicked out of Stanford (by his buddy) and his girlfriend dating the same guy who kicked him out, Chuck got depressed and went to work in a electronics store....and living with his sister.

oh and another thing

the music in "Chuck" is incredible! seriously, the Tim Jones, the music guy there has amazingly good taste in music.

now "Chuck" just recently got off the bubble. i remember when "Chuck" was really up for cancellation, the ENTIRE fan base rose up and campaigned for it's return....by buying tons of subway sandwiches...which is why they are one of the main sponsors. Now they are no longer in danger of cancellation...i think

it's not that they are bad, WHICH I HAVE PROVEN TIRELESSLY THAT THEY ARE NOT

it's just that they have a really bad time slot

MONDAYS at 9:00 PM

but their rating has been good...especially for that time slot!

and the critics love this show

and Zachary Levi (who was Flynn Rider in "Tangled" for those of you who don't understand "Chuck" terms) who plays Chuck is great

and Yvonne Strahovski who plays Sarah deserves an Emmy Nomination!!!

no kidding...you should see this Aussie act

you know, usually i like to stick to my Mark Twain advise on not using exclamation marks...but this time i'll make an exception...

i wish i could tell you all the stuff that makes Chuck soo good but it would take forever

so now i leave you with this video...

ok so "Pineapple" is the word that the Buy More employees use to initiate a full on evacuation of the store whenever there is a disaster. Chuck is held at gunpoint by a bad guy and he needs to save his friends. so he says...you guessed it, PINEAPPLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZA29AhiP6Y&feature=related

J46

women have plastic surgery to look like me

I'm tired of being lazy

i'm tired of being lazy

in the beginning, i was just tired of doing stuff

so i started slacking

like procrastinating

and zoning out

..and watching "Chuck" at 2 am.... (but i'm out of the rehab so it's all good now)

yes, i'm starting a revolution, a reformation, ...a rehab

on all kinds of things

my iPod Touch...6th month into rehab right now

don't think that my will power is that strong

NBC "CHUCK"...well i'm setting a limit...no watching Chuck after 11 pm

there is no rehab on "Chuck"

there will NEVER be a rehab on "Chuck"

so yes

i'm tired of sleeping til 1 pm on weekends

i'm tired of sleeping at 1 am on weekdays

and i'm tired of waking up a 6 am afterwards

and listening to music...no matter if i'm sleeping or not

i was even to lazy to drink water

and staying in my room alll dayyy loooonng

i think that the reason why i'm tired of being lazy was because since i haven't been doing nothing...productive, all this energy has been building up

the evidence: i have been going hyper a lot recently - without sugar (or drugs if any of you were wondering)

maybe it was the weather that made me so lazy

wait no, i like cloudy

so...does that mean i like lazy?

watever

so now, i'm going to do a bunch of stuff

and no, i'm not going to take a dandy little walk

and no, i'm not going to pedal boating

and no, i'm not going to write an essay...i'm have a blog, that's all the writing i need

if you think i'm going to take a walk, i'm actually running the mile

if you think i'm going to pedal boating, i'm going white water rafting

if you think i'm going to write an essay, i'm going to write a blog

1 out of the 3 are true

i think that's why i'm so lazy all the time

people always tell me what to do

that just occurred to me

cuz i'm the captain of my little ship...tug boat...row boat....kayak...

anyways i think i might learn the C++, play basketball, and do 50 jumping jacks (to make up for the mile)

well, wish me luck