Monday, June 30, 2014 "A Feeling of Disbelief and My Aching Back."

Monday, June 30, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Delicious - To Heart

        Sooo it's 8:22 AM, I woke up early because I sorta had an urge to play Terraria and make this post (and the fact that there is no humane way to sleep here at my grandmother's house. The noise outside is INSANE).

        I didn't make a post yesterday because I kinda got caught up in playing Terraria with my two cousins here. Also we didn't get to see Transformers because of one reason: no one is able to really drive us. My mom doesn't know the streets here (even with a GPS) and our uncle doesn't get off from work until 4:00 PM, and at that time he considers it late already.

        Yesterday, my mom arrived at this super market where the bus dropped us off at. My mom called my other uncle (I got many uncles) for him to pick us up. We picked up some stuff for grandma and some cookies for me (because I never had Chips Ahoy! cookies in like, forever).

        When we exited out the super market, outside was our uncle and his friend? Or brother? Or, I don't know. He spoke Viet. I think it was our uncle's friend. Or cousin even. Don't really know. Anyways, my mom, my uncle, and that dude got in a discussion about phone plans and stuff somehow. My mom brought up how she's gonna get a new phone line soon for me and how she's gonna give me HER phone.

        Both my uncle and that guy were like "Oh lord, please no, just get the kid an iPhone already". Like, even they know that my mom's phone is complete s***. My mom then had it so that when my dad comes here to pick us up in about 2 weeks, him, my mom, my uncle, and that dude would go to a phone store I guess (don't really know what they're called) and do phone stuff there.

        Anyways, last night I had a tough time going to sleep, partly because of all the stupid noises outside, from garbage trucks to trains to passing cars to people playing loud music in their cars to motorcycles to loud barking. And also because of how my mom won't get me a phone just because she'll think I'll lose it. That's her sole excuse for not getting me a phone.

        She continues to compare me to my cousin, saying "Oh, your uncle told me how his son has already lost 1,2,3 phones already!". I don't think how my mom gets that my cousin and I ARE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE. Just because he loses his doesn't mean I will.

        She also keeps on mentioning how I had lost my glasses (which happened like, 2 years ago) and so because of that, I'll lose my phone. I even explained to her how I bring my 6th Gen iPod Nano (the one that is like 1 inch in diameter) everyday to school, for my entire freshman year and even though how small it is and I could easily lose it, I never lost it.

        She didn't want to listen to it because she knew she's f***ing wrong, so she cut me off and spent like 5 minutes explaining to my cousins and I how if we don't go to bed at 12:00 midnight, she'll take away our laptops for the next day.

        I'm like, "Oooooh, she's gonna take away our laptops". I didn't care at that point because so what if she takes our computers? These 2 dudes here still got their f***ing iPhones and iPads (no kidding) so why the f*** would it matter?

        I then thought about what would happen if I were to just, run away. Like, make my mom feel guilty about what she's f***ing doing to make her son how he is today, an awkward, weird, anti-social, depressed, timid kid. I'm 5' 4" so that doesn't make it any better.

        So I guess I'm done, I'll talk to ya'll later so see you tomorrow maybe.

Saturday, June 28, 2014 "Is It the Middle of Summer Yet."

Saturday, June 28, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: I'm Sorry - Nuest

        So I forgot to uh, write something for yesterday, considering I was tutoring kids for the second time in my life.

        Very interesting yesterday. Very interesting. We started by setting up the tables and whatnot during the beginning of all of it. We kinda did the same thing by tutoring one kid at a time. Uh, everyone's supposed to be at the same table and tutor the same kids as last time, unless you know, stuff happen.

        Last time, I tutored the one girl who basically knew everything in her grade level. This time, I tutored the other girl, who was okay. Her father got her this little notebook filled with nothing but CST (California state testing) worksheets. We went off of that until like, near the end of the first session.

        She then said she was hungry and wanted to get a snack at the vending machine. I was like, sure, and went with her to the vending machine. She asked me if she could whatever, and I was like "DO you have any money?" and she was like "Nope" and I was just like, shoot.

        I then said maybe we can ask my buddy to see if he has any money. We went back and she left with her whatever parent picked her up on the way back since the first session was over. Then it was basically small amounts of tutoring (but good tutoring at the least) since the girl that we were tutoring who stayed for the 2nd session basically knew everything.

        We somehow incorporated playing cards into the whole math thing. We had her multiply numbers on the cards by flipping them over and stuff like that. We then played like, speed and 21 and stuff and other card games. Then 2nd session ended and we were all like, whatever.

        One of my buddies at the table mentioned Terraria, this one game that I used to play back in October of 2013. I was like, oh yeah, Terraria and he was like "You play?" and I was like, yeah, used to. Then all of us at the table exchanged Steam usernames and added each other on Facenovel and soon we'll be playing Terraria.

        Aaaaand yeah. Tomorrow I'm going to my grandmother's house and possibly going to see Transformers: Age of Extinction. We're going to go by bus, so that means more leg and back pain. Woohoo. That also means I'm not going to get any sleep for the next 2 weeks 'cause that's how long I'm gonna stay there.

        Oh, and I almost forgot, today I,,,,,,, did basically nothing really. Sooo see you tomorrow hopefully.

Thursday, June 26, 2014 "It's Thursday."

Thursday, June 26, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Hurricane Jane - Black Kids

        So it's Thursday, and just thinking about the upcoming school year makes the anticipation even more.. anticipational? Nope, guess it's not a word.

        And because it's Thursday which means that tomorrow I got to go tutor kids. Or kid. Depends on who shows up. I also had a really, really depressing dream last night. Like, hmm, well, it wasn't exactly depressing, the only reason it was depressing was because of how vivid it was.

        Like, I woke up (or close to waking up) and I had this really depressed feeling. Even in my dream. The dream was my friend (who's a girl) and she got pregnant (eh) at the age of 13 (she's 14 btw). She found out she was 1 month pregnant. She then asked the teacher to be excused from class, since she found out she was pregnant.

        In the dream, she also talked very monotonously and like, robotic I guess. Probably because I haven't heard her speak very much, even though she is a very talkative person. The depressing feeling, eh, up for debate. There's a lot of things I don't know.

        Anyways, my cousin is going to our grandmother's house tomorrow, and I am going to be tutoring kids. Then the day after that (Saturday), I'll be going to go to our grandmother's house and just play all the video games, cause', there's not much to do there. See you tomorrow I guess.

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 "Video Making."

Tuesday, June 25, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember:

        So I finally finished making my montage parody video to post to Reddit. I started yesterday and finally finished today. I think it turned out pretty well.

        I thought today was Tuesday. I really did. God damn it, I'm one day closer to tutoring kids for 3 hours. Not that I don't like it, it's just that I'm lazy. Aaaand, Transformers: Age of Extinction is coming out in America in 2 days, in which my cousin is very excited about.

        Anyways, I'll see you tomorrow I guess.

Monday, June 23, 2014 "Sitting In Vehicles."

Monday, June 23, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember:

        So I'm done venting out my anger from yesterday, I'm just happy that I'm home now and sitting on a bus for hours. Oh, and I always say to myself that I want to go home, even if I am at "home". That's 'cause I'm not really at home. My home is probably in my dreams.

        To continue what I do everyday, I played video games, work on my game, and look for new songs. Aaaaand I'm going to my grandmother's house on Saturday? Yeah, I think Saturday.... God damn it I'm gonna have to sit in a vehicle for hours again!!

Sunday, June 22, 2014 "Never Fucking Again, Yosemite."

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Week: Summer

Songs to Remember: Beep Beep - BTOB

        Oh my fucking god, I don't know where to start. This has been one of the most pointless, most stupid day of this Summer, and it's only about 3 weeks in.

        My mom came in my room at fucking 6:30 in the morning, telling me to wake up. We're going to fucking Yosemite at 6 in the fucking morning. I had trouble going to sleep last night, I finally fell asleep at about 1:30 in the morning. Which means I got about 5 hours of sleep.

        Since it was 6 in the morning, on a Sunday, there were barely any cars out on the road, and it was fucking cold. We were going to travel to Yosemite by bus, one of those Vietnamese buses with tons of Vietnamese people. In order to get to the bus, we had to drive there, which took about 10 minutes.

        It was 7:00 AM when we got to the place where the bus was parked. My dad wanted to pack so much fucking things that weren't necessary, I mean it's not like we're going to move to another state or something. We decided to bring a backpack.

        My parents saw this one guy who was handing out red bags with like a tiny bottle of water in each out of the trunk of his car. He was near the bus and was Vietnamese, so we thought he was with the bus company and all. My mom asked for more water and he was like "only one bottle each" and my mom was like "What?". We had to get water from the trunk of our car, the ones we keep in case of emergencies.

        Turns out the dude wasn't with the bus company and was only handing out the bags and water as advertisement for an airline. He was the brother or whatever of this one girl who was a tour guide on the bus. Turns out they had water on the bus for everyone.

         We sat way in the back of the bus since there was a seating chart. I sat next to the window and my dad sat next to me while my mom sat in the front with this one lady. About a couple hours into the travel, we stopped for bathroom breaks and food. I told my mom I didn't have to go, but she still made me. I never use the restrooms at school (only about like, once per semester or if I ever really need to go) so I know how to hold and control my bladder.

        The place we stopped at was like a small shop/ convenience store selling food and knick-knacks like wind-chimes. I went to the restroom (it was a pretty small restroom, like 1 stall, 2 urinals, and a sink) and there was only a urinal not taken.

        I usually prefer the stall since it gives me more privacy, but I just decided to go for the urinal to not be weird. My underwear has like no "slot" in the front, so I pulled the front of my underwear down a bit and unzipped. I tried to take a piss, but there was no pee coming out. Like, none. I knew that people were staring at me like "Da hell is this kid doing?" so I just pulled up my underwear and zipped up my pants and went to wash my hands.

        That is when the pee decided to come out. My underwear was wet for about 5 minutes. Outside in the back of the place (also where the restrooms are), there were some animals like ostriches, horses, and a peacock. They weren't really chained up or anything, the peacock just roamed around doing whatever. We then went back to the bus.

        Sitting for another 2 hours, the bus was finally approaching Yosemite, Yoseshmitee, Yose-whatever it's name is. I don't want to hear it's name ever again. Everyone was like "Oooh" and "Aaah" -ing at the rocks and trees as we were driving through. When we finally got to the parking lot inside of the place, my mom made me go to the restrooms again.

        There was a system with the shuttles and shit that we needed to follow like shuttle 2 takes you to blah, shuttle 6 takes you to blah, etc. The first shuttle we had to get on was shuttle 8, which took us to the gift-shop and restaurant. Then everyone had about an hour to do whatever they want. At 1:30 PM, we all had to meet at the stop for shuttle 6. I only ate one hot-dog and drank some water during the whole bus ride to Yosemite, that's it. We decided to sit down and eat.

        We didn't buy any of the fast food they had at the restaurant because that shit's expensive. My mom packed some shitty granola bars and sweet rice while my dad had fruit like bananas and apples. I ate the sweet rice, I didn't like it. My mom then proceeded to buy 2 ice cream bars (only 2 'cause my dad didn't want one) and a Gatorade.

        My dad wanted to do some hiking like "Oh let's follow this trail, we'll go the side of the mountain" and some shit like that. We decided to go look around at the gift shop, emphasis on look. I don't see why, I wouldn't want to buy anything in there anyway. People spend so much money on that shit, with mugs and t-shirts that say "Yosemite" and shit like that. Or- or those key-chains- nobody is going to use those. I'm not a sucker for those stupid goods. I saw a lady's cart at the checkout line there and it looked like she went fucking grocery shopping like, what is this.

        We then went to the fucking museum and took a picture of my mom and I front of this really big tree stump. My dad kept on fucking complaining about "Oh what's this? What's this black part right there?" in the fucking photos. Can he not see that it's the fucking sunlight and shadows? Come the fuck on. What? Is every picture supposed to be studio perfect? For fuck's sake.

        When it was about 1:25 PM, we went to the shuttle stop for shuttle 6. By the way, shuttles their are just buses that take you around the park, nothing special. Our next stop was at the lower part of the so called "Yosemite Falls", also known as try not to fall off the rock you're posing on and on to the rocks below.

        We took a few pictures and every single time, my dad would take the picture kneeling. He does this every time. My mom says that it looks stupid, because the person in the picture will be looking down at the floor because how we got to look at the camera. Still, my dad does it. Then my dad was like "Turn your head this way" and grabs my face because he didn't say it clearly enough. I can never understand what he says.

        Then he's like "Oh, it's the sun. The sunlight makes that black part in the photo. FOR FUCK'S SAKE. There were so many fucking people, most of them were Caucasian. Probably the most Caucasians I've ever seen in a place.

        We then sat for the remainder of that part. We just sat there. I wanted to climb the rocks near the "waterfall", but then my parents wouldn't be able to because they're getting old I guess. After that, it was time to go back to the bus to go to one final stop to take a group picture (with everyone who's on the bus).

        Of course we didn't rush to get back the bus, we just casually walked with the group. The tour guide hadn't followed us yet, since she was still near the lower Yosemite falls to direct anyone who didn't know where to go. So then we just stayed near this one location until the tour guides were ready to come.

        My parents made some friends (with the people on the bus) and some of em' (they were mostly all ladies) asked my dad to take a picture of them, with the background being the Yosemite Falls. My dad, being the person that he is, does not know how to use an iPhone, yet having a phone similar to an iPhone (it's a Samsung whatever).

        It's just one touch on the screen, a big circle. Apparently my dad somehow touched somewhere else on the screen because as I was standing a distance behind him, I saw the screen changed to the front camera, and then my dad touched the capture button. What, the, fuck. I could see the look on his face when he's so god damn confused, somehow not knowing how to touch a simple button, but accidentally taking a mother-fucking selfie. And he doesn't even know what that means.

        The ladies then had someone else take the picture, since my dad was so mother-fucking clueless. HIS PHONE HAS A FUCKING CAMERA, BUT HE NEVER USES IT. GOD DAMN TECHNOLOGY WASTED. Why the hell does he even have a touch screen phone when he only uses it to make calls?

        Anyways, we get back onto the bus and they drove us to this one spot near the side of the road and you can see the distance and stuff. We took the group photo and then they gave us all 15 minutes to take any more pictures. After that, we got on the bus to go back to that place back in San Jose.

        Oh my god the ride was so fucking long. My legs were sore to the blood pooling in my legs from sitting down so long. My dad kept on being annoying by making unnecessary comments along the way, taking out loud to himself, and sighing so loudly I can hear it through my earphones. I didn't get any sleep at all so it was just a fucking train wreck.

        Apparently we made a stop for another bathroom break and for food if anybody was hungry. They told us to get back in about 30 minutes. We were near a gas station with In 'n' Out Burger, KFC, and Taco Bell. There were a lot of people at In 'n' Out so my parents and I decided to go to Taco Bell. And of course my mom made me use the bathroom again.

        I wasn't really hungry (even though I was, I barely ate anything) but I just wanted to go home. My mom didn't want anything either, 'cause she thought we'd be home at like, 8:00 PM. My dad ordered 3 Tacos.

        Outside, it was so humid and hot. Not the regular kind of hot, but the hot where you can actually feel the hot touching you. My mom and I went back in the bus while my dad just ate outside under some shade in the parking lot, for whatever reason. In the bus, there's air conditioning (a bit too much air conditioning) and outside it was humid and hot.

        On the bus, I overheard this one girl (she's like 16 or something, I don't know, the usual teen age) telling her brother about her father or something, saying "... it sounded like he's screaming...". Then this guy stormed in the car, the guy being their father (also their cousin was with them, teen age as well). He got in so fast I didn't even see him walk into the bus.

        The guy was like, beyond angry, his attitude being way different from when him and my dad were talking to each other before on the bus. He went like ape-shit on those poor kids. When an Asian father is yelling at you, you know you're going to die. You just do. You don't fight or talk back, you just accept your fate.

        He was yelling at them (is there a better word than yelling to describe this? "Exploding", that's the word) because apparently, they went to In 'n' Out, but since the line was so long, they went to KFC to eat instead. The dad was still waiting at In 'n' Out for them. I guess he waited so long his temper just shot off.

        As he was yelling at the kids, people on the bus (consisting mostly of like, old people/ middle aged women) were laughing it off a bit. At first I thought he was joking around, but then I was like "Oh shit, this dude is being serious". Everyone was like "Oh don't worry about" and all that. This was all happening right next to me, as the dad sat across the right of me, like 1 and a half feet away from where his seat was.

        He was standing up and just yelling the shit outta them. He asked them why they didn't call, and was like "Did I receive a call?! Did I?!" and showing his phone to his son. The son reached out to see the phone since the dad was like shoving it in his fucking face, and the dad pulled back and said "I'll throw this phone at your face".

        He then scolded his daughter a bit and told her to put away her phone. I- I felt their pain. I really did. I felt so fucking sorry for them, due to the fact that they were getting yelled out, but in front of everyone on a bus. Oh shit. I cried, I'm not even kidding, as the dad was scolding them and everyone was telling him to calm down, I teared up a bit, because I felt the kids' pain. I empathize with them, because I've been the same situation as them. Not even kidding.

        So we rode for another 2 hours before we finally got back to San Jose where our car was parked, the time being about 8:30 PM. I was just like "Thank god" because I did not want to spend another minute on that stupid bus and on this stupid trip.

        We got in the car and my mom ordered take-out from this restaurant for dinner. We got home at about 9:00 PM. I ate dinner and waited for my mom to finish showering. It was 10:30 PM, I took a shower at 10 fucking 30 PM. My mom then tells me to sleep early due to me being tired today. Well I wouldn't be tired if we hadn't gone on the fucking trip, wouldn't I?

        Today was such a fucking waste of time and a waste of money. I think it was about $200 for the three of us on that bus? That could have gone to, I don't know, bills, my college fund, gas, a PHONE, or any other useful thing. It was my mom's idea to go to fucking Yosemite, not for like fun or vacationing, but for me to "experience" it, as she had already been to Yosemite 2 decades ago or whatever.

        I woke up at 6 fucking AM, on the bus at 7:30 AM, got to Yosemite at 12:30 PM, left Yosemite at 4:00 PM, and got to San Jose (not home) at 8:30 PM, and finally home at 9:00 PM. We spent more time on the fucking bus than at the place we spent fucking money to go to.

        The only experience I got was to never go to Yosemite ever again. Never fucking again. What a waste of a good day. Dad pissed me off, dude screaming at his kids, parents payed $200 for 3 fucking hours of hiking, sore legs, and time wasted. Never fucking again.

         

Saturday, June 21, 2014 "Asian Teen Problems."

Saturday, June 21, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: When I'm Small - Phantogram

        I am not looking forward to waking up early tomorrow. And my parents are telling me to sleep early tonight because we're going to f***ing Yosemite.

        We could have gone to so many other places, but apparently they picked Yosemite. For no reason either, just a random "Hey, let's go to Yosemite". It's it's it's not even something that's like "Oooh" or "Aaahh", it's a park.

        My mom even wants me to bring the camera to take pictures and I'm like "There's a camera on your phone". My mom doesn't even use any features on her phone and only use it to call people. Once it's like July, I'll finally be getting my own phone, without having to "borrow" other people's phones like my mom always makes me to.

        I'm 15, turning 16 in December, and I have yet to own a phone, even a simple flip-phone to make calls, like for my mom to pick me up if she forgets or if I get lost or anything. My mom makes this excuse to prevent me from having a phone by telling me to borrow other people's phones. I can't continue to keep borrowing people's phones, mom.

        One time, my parents and I walked into this restaurant and we saw these kids with their parents. They were like 5, and even they had phones. Like, what the f***. My parents' phone contract ends in July, and my mom said she'll finally open up another phone line for me to have a phone. She said she'll be giving me her phone and she'll be getting a Samsung whatever.

        Her phone is an LG Cookie by the way, and I don't even think it even has Wi-Fi. What's the point of the phone being a touch screen when there are no downloadable apps or web browsing access. One time in Drawing class, the teacher asked us to get out our phones and research up this type of drawing technique.

        Everyone got out their phones and started searching away. I just sat there and my teacher was like "Does anyone not have a phone?" I was the only one to raise my hand, although barely raising it. My teacher then lent me her laptop in order for me to research it. One time in Geography class (and 8th grade English class, Oh so many times where I needed to have a f***ing phone), the teacher had notes written on the board and allowed us to take a picture of it with our smart-phones. I for one, don't have a phone, so I had to write it all down manually. All of it. And it was a hell of a lot of notes.

        I feel privileged for when the teacher brings in chrome-books for us to use, so that I don't get left out of having no access to wireless communication. My mom doesn't use her phone to do anything besides calling, so why would she need to get a new phone and have me take hers.

        And DON'T even tell me "Oh, at least you're going to get to have a phone while I'm sitting here starving and working as much as I can to affor-". Stop. In the society, region, and where I am located, expectations are set to a degree. My family is middle class, barely, in which we could afford phones, and like, internet. I mean, I'd even pay for the internet bills and soon-to-be phone bills. I'd pay for all of that. I'd happily work for it.

        Having already bad social skills, it's difficult being able to do things a teen like me should be able to do. Like, hanging out with friends, having a curfew, communication, wireless communication, freedom, and some independence. Don't pull the "Kids in Africa" bulls*** like my mom does. Just because there are problems, doesn't mean it has anything to do with us.

        I could go into stupid s*** like the economy, education, money, and other s*** like that, but I don't want to talk for a million years. Controversial topics are what keeps interest, because people say what they believe and not all of it is the same.

        Besides my dad being annoying by waking me up every night, asking unnecessary questions, and acting like I'm still 5, or my mom who doesn't know the social standpoint of her son, or me who continues arguing with myself in my head, I don't know what to do.

        I have contemplated about running away sometimes, but I never do it. If I'm staring at the face of death, I'd accept it. I ain't afraid to die. Dying would seem like a release from all the problems, but most of the time, it ain't the answer to them. No, I would never kill myself, I think suicide is pretty stupid. People who commit suicide are the ones arguing with themselves in their head, and often give up those arguments to themselves.

        I watched a movie online with my cousin and we played Star Wars Battlefront II. Is that good enough for ya'll? Good, see you tomorrow.

Friday, June 20, 2014 "Tutoring Experience."

Friday, June 20, 2014

Week: Summer

Songs to Remember: Rendez Vous - LA // PLAGE

        Oh my gosh, I wasn't this social since, since, I don't remember actually. I had to get out of the house.

        Well, I keep on having lots of weird and vivid dreams, mostly prominent during this week. I woke up today and I knew I had to do that community service at the library. My dad keeps waking me up every morning. See, this is why I can't get enough sleep. He was up late at night (I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of plastic) cutting up credit cards at the kitchen table with the lights blaring.

        I did my usual routine (I guess it's my usual routine now) of waking up, washing my face, brush my teeth, and open up that computer. I proceed to call my cousin on Skype aaaand, just, start watching YouTube videos and check Facenovel and work on my game and stuff.

        I ate breakfast I guess and when it was like 12:30 PM, I changed and got in the car and vroooom, my mom drove me to the library because I don't have my driver's license yet. The tutoring thing was supposed to start at 1:10 PM. There were lots of people, and I mean a lot of people who volunteered.

        The room where this was all taking place was in the auditorium, and here in this library it's not very big. The person organizing all this was Ivy Pham, who is like, a super-duper student. When I first saw her, she looked like a doctor. It's a good thing. She's going to Harvard university in September so, yeah, she's good.

        I saw some of friends from school there, some who I talk to actually, and some who I just know but never talk to. The event started by setting up the tables and chairs which took like 10 minutes. Then tutors (us high-schoolers/ college students) were assigned a kid to teach. Or 2. There were a lot of kids.

        So I was asked to help this one dude tutor these 2 kids. I've seen the dude before, he was in my physical education period (not class) during the 1st semester. He's going to be a Junior this upcoming school year. It's always weird when you're asked what grade you're in, 'cause it's like, the grade you're currently in, was in, or will be. Very confusing.

        We were to tutor these 2 girls who were soon to be 3rd graders. We... didn't really know what to do at first because I didn't attend the orientation and the dude didn't receive this plan sheet at the orientation. I thought the kids were going to bring in their homework and stuff and we'd help them with it and it didn't occur to me until I was at the place that IT'S SUMMER. THERE'S IS NO HOMEWORK. I face-palmed myself mentally.

        The tutoring thing went by us preparing something to teach the kids, by like printing a worksheet off the website or whatever, coming up with a lesson plan. I was just like "Oh, s***". I didn't say it out loud though, 'cause there were kids. I said it mentally.

        My buddy and I decided to get a textbook that were provided (limited number of textbooks) and we just went from there. He was teaching one girl and I was teaching the other. The girl I was teaching knew, like, EVERYTHING. I flipped through, page for page in the math textbook (which is like, 3rd grade level) and the girl knew like, every single thing in there.

        I was like "Oh, you know this? What's this problem?" And then she'd be like "The answer is blank". And I'm just like okay, she knows like, a lot. After the 1st session was over (1:10 PM to 2:40 PM), one of the girls left, the one whom my buddy taught.

        I was staying for 2 sessions, so I stayed for 2 sessions. There were a less amount of kids than the 1st session, even though kids came in for the 2nd session as well. My buddy and I then were tutoring the same girl, and no matter what problems there were in the book, she'd know them, or at least got an understanding of em'.

        One of my friends and one of my buddy's friends came over to our table, I guess since they have no one else to tutor, helped out with the tutoring I guess. We got a 5th grade level textbook and the girl was having no problem with that either. For example, addition of mixed numbers. That is not something that I learned in 3rd grade, but the girl could do em'.

        My buddy and our friends and I had a fun time talking about I don't know, school stuff I guess. We also made fun of some of the guidelines in the papers that we were given, mostly the part where there's like "10 ways to say Good" with phrases like "Good job!, Now you've got it!, Beautiful!, Outstanding!", and other stuff that no other human being would say.

        The girl was even laughing too and that's like the best part. If she's laughing, we're laughing. She said it was kinda boring and I agreed, no one wants to sit at a math tutoring place for 3 hours, nor would want to tutor for 3 hours. It was like 4:10 PM and it was basically over, everyone left. There was a 3rd session which was added like a few days ago, in which not many people signed up for it due to them not knowing about it.

        The mayor even came in and presented award certificates (and not the s****y template elementary school certificates either) to people who have over 20 hours of community service already done and are here doing community service. Our high school requires everyone to do 20 hours by the end of their senior year, or they're not graduating.

        So everyone left, I left, went back home, streamed a movie with my cousin, watched videos, checked Facenovel, and here I am typing this post. All in all, it was okay. As my friend has once said to me on Facenovel, "Ehhh" is what I felt at the end of today.

        I guess I'll see you tomorrow. Then Sunday, where I am forced to go to Yosemite with my parents on a tour and hopefully I'll get to urinate there. See you tomorrow.

        

Thursday, June 19, 2014 "One of the Longest Summers Ever."

Thursday, June 19, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Get Together - DJ Zimmo

        Apparently I'm not going to my grandmother's house on Saturday. I thought my family and I were going to my grandmother's house on Saturday, but apparently that's next week. And I'm tutoring kids tomorrow.

        It's only June 19th, like, 2 weeks after school ended. Summer is going on for a bit too long, in before I say summer is too short. I was kinda hoping they would not respond to me in time for the tutoring so I wouldn't have to do it, 'cause I procrastinate like that. But you know, of course they respond to my email and of course I got to do it.

        It's from 1:00 to 4:30 PM, so uh, I'm spending 3 hours and 30 minutes tutoring kids. Holy f*** that's a long time. They said to be patient with the kids because, well, they might not understand it as quickly as us people who are like, 10 years older than em'.

        Also we're not allowed to give them the answers. And uh, yeah. I don't know how I'm gonna be able to tutor for 3 and a half hours. I don't think I've tutored anyone before really. Unless like, helping a classmate out on a problem or something. Other than that, I don't think so.

        I really hope they don't ask me difficult questions. About like, something I never learned in math class due to the teacher skipping the lesson or whatever. Like, "Hey, do you what a triangle is?" and I'm just like, "Uhh, uhhhhh... MOUNT RUSHMORE". I am not looking forward to studying U.S History this upcoming school year.

        I am still struggling to find new good music. Aaand, I'm actually leaving the house after about 2 weeks since school's out. Except on that one Saturday, where my parents and I went out to eat. Aaaaaaaaand, yeah. There is seriously not much to talk about, unless you want to hear about the arguments that are always going on in my head. Well, I'll see you tomorrow.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 "Doing Nothing."

Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember:

        So it's Tuesday, and I haven't been posting daily due to there being nothing to talk to about. Like, literally, nothing. I do nothing everyday. Literally, I'm not even kidding.

        I wake up, brush my teeth, wash my face, go on the computer, call my cousin on Skype, and either play games or work on them. I stay in this seat right now for about 8 hours each day. 8 hours not including breaks and stuff, 8 hours in total.

        Oh, and I also received the email from that math tutoring volunteering thing at the library. So I guess I am going to be tutoring kids on Fridays now, until August 2nd that is.

        Aaaand, I have yet to find any new songs. Every night I'm looking through my archives for my old songs in which I never really listen to anymore, and it doesn't suffice. I need new music. There's not enough Indie Electronica mixes on YouTube.

        Anyways, I'll see ya tomorrow maybe.

Sunday, June 15, 2014 "YouTube Video Watching Spree."

Sunday, June 15, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: That Night - Billionaire

        How many days has it since school's been out? 10 days? 10 days into summer break and I am starting to lose knowledge of what day it this. Thank goodness for my computer calendar.

        So I've been working on my game and I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos lately. For knowledge of course. And the fact that I can't maintain an attention span for real t.v shows, so I just watch Let's Plays and commentaries of people playing games and whatnot.

        I've been watching JustKiddingNews and their discussions and boy have I been cracking up. Some of the funniest s*** I've seen in a long time, almost as funny as Vash12349. Anyways, that's all I've been doing, still no email yet saying I get to volunteer this Friday. See you tomorrow I guess.

Friday, June 13, 2014 "Bad Luck Friday."

Friday, June 13, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Girls - The 1975

        Vt was online again, we talked, and I don't think I should bother her for another, maybe- 1 to 2 months. El's online again, talking to her soon-to-be-hopefully-will-not-end-well-so-I-can-go-in boyfriend/ lover.

        And I signed up to tutor kids at the local library on Fridays. And they still haven't written me back an email yet. And I'm going to Yosemite on Sunday next week because my parents are forcing me to go with them on this tour for no reason.

        And I am going to make it a goal for me to pee there, because how many people can say "I peed in Yosemite"? Not many people. And it's Friday the 13th. God dang it I should not even have done what I did today. See you tomorrow I guess.

Thursday, June 12, 2014 "Unexpected Likes."

Thursday, June 12, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Girls (The Knocks remix) - The 1975

        Okay, enough of this random liking of my profile pictures. Please, just don't. I cannot handle enough of this.

        And stupid Facenovel not having enough privacy options... like 30 seconds right after I change my cover photo for Facenovel, I get f***ed over by Facenovel not having a feature to remove the "Drew has updated their cover photo" and that Vt girl liked it. In the speed of light too.

        And f*** man, why do girls got to expect the dude to message them first, for f***'s sake man. Give, me, a breather. Okay, calm down. Take a few, large, insanely large, like oxygen tank large, breaths. Okay, now to explain some stuff.

        To start off, yesterday, El posted a picture of her coming back from her trip to Texas. I liked it because why not, and then soon after she liked a couple of my things, a couple of my profile pictures and a post, which dated back to like, 2012. And yeah.

        She then posted in this Facenovel group which included Em, her, me, and a bunch of other people who hang out at this one particular building at our school. I'm in the group only because Em included me in it, not because I actually make any contact with any of those people at all really.

        Her post was "There might be a father coming soon depends on if he likes me... XP <3". To make things a bit more clear (and not have it sound disturbing to those who have no idea what she's talking about), our Facenovel group has this family tree, with everyone being a father, mother, sons, etc. I don't know why, I'm just in the group.

        El is currently the "mother" of the group/ family, so father means her maybe lover or whatever. And everyone in the group is gettin' all rallied up by this, saying like "YESSSSSSSS OMG YASSSSS EL" or " EL IS THE STAR OF THE NEW SHOW. HOW I MET YOUR FATHER". Yeah, I don't know either.

        Then comes the part where I sorta freak out a bit like, "Gosh darn it, I knew I should have just messaged her when she started liking my pictures randomly." And that, would soon become a new rule for my rules on how to get by.

        I have no idea how many rules I have. And I'm too lazy to go back to look em' all up. So let's just say it's rule 6. My rules on how to get by, rule 6: If a girl randomly likes a bunch of your pictures, re-evaluate your connections to her, and then go in on it. It's that simple, just go in on it.

        Alright, well after I stupidly decided to update my profile cover on Facenovel due to it being an old picture, Vt got online, like coincidentally it shows that she's online, she sees it and likes it. Okay, I just re-evaluated my connections and I'm now thinking to myself "Why was I freaking out about this again?" Oh right, because of sh***y Facenovel privacy settings. Trying to hide your recent activity and updates? Nope, 'cause you can't!

        Now her's the part where I get paranoid and insecure. I always got to have a part where I get paranoid and insecure, because that's just how I am. So Vt's online right, my chat's open, so I just decided to "whatever" and messaged her "Heeey" because you don't want a bland "Hey", you got add that 2014 flare to it.

        So I kinda panicked and she asked the hardest question for me right now. It was "wacha doin?" And it felt like I got chosen by the teacher. "Drew, what is 2+2?" "Uhh, uhh, uhhhhh... MOUNT RUSHMORE!" F***ing Drew, man. Just kidding. I didn't want to say "Nothing" because that just makes me sound boring, even though it was true. I instead made up something and tried to come up with the most generic thing a 15 year-old boy could be doing on a Thursday afternoon at home. Yes, watching shows.

        "Just watching some shows :3" with that weird kawaii bunny face thing. Seriously, what is that? How do people make that face? She replies with "like?" And I'm just like "Uuhh, uhhhh, uhhhhh... MOUNT RUSHMORE!" Just kidding. Seriously, I'm over-complicating things way too much, beyond belief. I said, well I didn't really say anything.

        I wanted to be cool and not reply immediately, because of society, you know, never text back immediately. Anyways, I was too busy looking up "2014 mainstream television shows" on Google, which this time failed me and brang up only news report sites on Banksy.

        I guess I took a bit too long (2 minutes is apparently long) and so she said "lol" then "aye" and then "ttyl" and I'm just like "F***ing Drew, you could have just said Doctor Who or some other s*** that girls like nowadays." Seriously, what do girls like nowadays?

        I don't know if she left because she had to leave, or if I was not responding quickly enough, I don't know. It's just like that time Js randomly messaged me Hi during 1st semester or something and I didn't see that she messaged me until 16 minutes later. F***, I did it again, sorta.

        See how I over-complicate an extremely short conversation? Over the internet? Ugh. Anyways, the good news is, I did find some new good music, from listening to all of MORindie's Indie Electronic Mixes. And the song "Girls" The Knocks remix by The 1975. Damn that is a good song.

        Well, that's enough excitement for one week. Hopefully next time (and by next time I mean tomorrow), I can hopefully hold a conversation without the girl resorting to "lol" or "omg" because f*** those 3 letter acronyms. And don't even get me started on that one letter text "k". See you tomorrow I guess.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 "Gosh Darn It."

Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Overdose - EXO

        Gosh darn it.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014 "Same Thing."

Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Beep Beep - BTOB

        So just to say that I've been doing the same thing everyday, watching Let's Plays on YouTube, and working on my game of which I hope to release before July. Also, I found out why I can't sleep at night. It's because of how it's so gosh darn HOT.

        I also had an awesome dream last night. Most of it I can't recall, but I do remember that I was having the time of my life. So yeah, I probably won't be posting much until, a couple days later I guess, to show that I'm still existing. See you tomorrow if I do post.

Sunday, June 8, 2014 "No Caffeine For Me."

Sunday, June 8, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Eternity - VIXX

        I had no sleep last night, NO SLEEP. It was probably my most restless night so far. I even tried to tire myself out and that still didn't work.

        Last night it was hot, but I was comfortable in my bed, yet I still couldn't sleep. I tried reading stuff to make myself bored and sleepy, but no dice. I even searched up "boring story" and it still kept me interested.

        I decided to do sit-ups, so I can tire myself out and get fit at the same time. No abs, and still no sleep. After all that, I looked at the clock and it was 1:00 AM. Lying there on my bed, I took off my earphones (I always listen to music to go to sleep) and decided to just picture darkness, as so I've read on websites on sleep.

        I took another look at the clock and it said 2:00 AM. I was like "F***". I don't really know what happened next, I think I fell asleep for 10 minutes, woke up again, then fell asleep again, then woke up again. I woke up and went to turn off the fan and I looked outside and the sky was kinda dark blu-ish. I was like "Oh no, it's like 5:00 AM and I barely got any sleep.

        I guess I fell asleep, I don't know. I got out of bed at 11:00 PM so I got at least 8 hours of sleep, probably more. I was thinking why I didn't get any sleep and I was like "Yep, that gosh darn Pepsi". I drank a can of Pepsi like an hour before I went to bed. Pepsi has caffeine in it and I didn't think it'd keep me up.

        So yeah, no more Pepsi before bedtime. Oh and that girl I was talking to yesterday, let's just call her Vt, she actually replied today. We talked about our experience in high school/ middle school. She seemed pretty interested and not bored so I think that was good.

        Then there comes the feeling of whether I want to continue or not. She also asked me to promise that I'd show her around the school, and I was just like "F***, this is the first time I promised something to someone in like, I don't know, eternity".

        Anyways, productive day for me for working on my game. It didn't really feel like a Sunday. I actually lose track of what day it is during the summer-time. See you tomorrow if I write something.

Saturday, June 7, 2014 "Yeah, I'm Going to Be a Sophomore."

Saturday, June 7, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Last Nite - The Strokes

        Stay calm. Stay calm. It's not like I haven't talked to other people on Facenovel before. Okay, too calm. TOO CALM.

        So I was doing what I do everyday and that is going on the computer all day. I checked up online for my local library on the volunteer opportunities for "Teens" and they had orientations for it (like seriously? Orientations on stacking books all day?) on the third Wednesday for every month, exlcuding July, August, and September.

        I was like "F***", 'cause it means that I have to wait like 2 more weeks before I could actually start volunteering there. Staying at home isn't fun, some of the time. What am I supposed to do here, besides writing these posts?

        Today I decided to take up that girl's in-direct offer to talk (as how she just liked 4 of my profile pictures at the speed of light right after I liked hers) and messaged her on Facenovel. Now I know this is going against my rule of talking to girls on Facenovel, but I reminded myself not to say stupid stuff.

        I get that feeling every time I'm going to press the "enter" button (or "send" button for you people on mobile). You know? That feeling like "I shouldn't have sent that" feeling. But I just reminded myself "Aww f*** it, whatever".

        She replied with "AYYYEE", in which I was like "Wasn't expecting that". She continued on with "are you going to *insert high school name here*?" I knew what she meant by this, seeing as how she's in (or was in) middle school. I didn't want to say "Yes" because I knew she'd think I meant going to as in enrolling in, as in becoming a freshman, so I just specified my answer with "Yeah, I'm going to be a Sophomore soon :D".

        I don't use "emoticons" often. Or "emoji's" as you people on mobile call it. Then she replied with "OH! Wow you are in high school. LOL I thought you were in middle school. Sorry" And I was just like *sigh*. You see what you done, Drew? But then I was like, Naw, I made the right decision.

        You see, if I had lied (or actually, to be unspecific to be exact), she would've been like "Oh, we should hang out when the school year begins" or something, I don't know. But I made the right decision of telling her straight up that I was 1, you see, 1 grade above her.

        If I had lied, things would go really weird when we're hanging out (if we'd hang out) and then I'd be like "Yeah, I'm a Sophomore" and she'd be like "ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT YOU WERE IN THE SAME GRADE AS ME". Then I'd be like "Naww, I've been a Sophomore the whole time". Then it'd all become a train wreck at the end.

        Well, there goes another chance, Drew. Why? First (well, recently), a girl I might've had a chance with ("Oh, who are you kidding, Drew?" "Shut up conscience") is a grade above me. Now a girl who thought I looked kinda attractive is a grade lower than me. Why am I stuck in this perpetual portal or missed opportunities?

        I messaged her after how maybe I could show her around campus or whatever when she's at the school, but she hasn't even seen my message ('cause there's no "Seen by" thing appearing yet) and she's like, offline.

        Well Drew, you lose some, and you lose some. And whenever you think you'll win some, you actually lose some. Anyways, fun story to tell. I'll see you tomorrow.

Friday, June 6, 2014 "Mysterious Likes."

Friday, June 6, 2014
Week: Summer
Songs to Remember: Last Nite - The Strokes

        I didn't expect to write for today. I'm going to keep these short for the summer only, since I don't really do all that much for me to write paragraphs about. Unless I actually do something productive.

        So yesterday, a girl on Facenovel changed her profile picture and you know how Facenovel shows it like "Blank has changed his/her profile picture". So I saw this girl's profile picture and I was like "Mkay" and I clicked like because why not.

        Then right after I clicked like, like 2 seconds after, I receive 4 notifications like instantly, and it was her liking 4 of my profile pictures. I was kinda confused (and still am), like, "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? A GIRL JUST LIKED 4 OF MY PROFILE PICTURES IN A MATTER OF SECONDS RIGHT AFTER I LIKED HERS".

        This doesn't happen often okay. This girl's kinda cute, she graduated (or promoted as the middle school teachers say) like, yesterday. She is (or was) and 8th grader at the middle-school I went to. So that means she's gonna be at my high-school when the school-year starts. Cool.

        She was also on the web (as in like, PC or desktop and not on her phone) when she liked my profile pictures and I was like "Wow, props to her speed. She like literally went straight to my pictures and liked them that fast". Pretty impressive in my opinion.

        I've been working on my game, which I've kinda made as a sort of summer hobby. That and trying to "work out". By "work out", I mean do like 50 sit-ups every night or something. I'm also gonna go to the library tomorrow, or Sunday, or whenever I stop procrastinating and apply to volunteer there.

        See you tomorrow I guess.

Thursday, June 5, 2014 "My Last Day As a Freshman."

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Week 42

Songs to Remember: Reptilia - The Strokes, What You Need (Le Crayon Remix) - Priors, Don't Be On With Her - Miami Horror

        Are you feeling it? I'm feeling it. As I had heard this one random person today said, "I'm feeling it. It's in my vibe".

        Well, I had my last 2 final exams for my freshman year. I was prepared for the Geometry exam because it was so, so easy. There were some tricky parts where it took me some time to figure out what I did wrong. Those moments where you get an answer and it's not one of the 4 choices, heh. 

        There was this one question on the test where I got an answer that wasn't one of the choices. I decided to just guess the answer to which I thought would be the most logical answer. Then soon after I figured out what I was doing wrong (I was doing the whole problem in pi, and not decimals) and I figured out the answer. Coincidentally, the answer I guessed was actually the correct answer anyway. I was like "Good guessing, Drew, good guessing".

        To be honest, I probably got an A on that test, a solid A. I'd have to say, it's probably the easiest final exam I've taken so far. I signed up for Algebra II/Trigonometry for my sophomore year so I might have a bit of trouble. When everyone was done with their test, my teacher was like "Well, it's fun. I'm still gonna see you around, but it's been fun." I couldn't have said it better, Mr. Liao.

        That's it for math, the final exam that I was most worried about was Geography. Didn't I tell you how I had a C in Geography back in like, February? That's why I did the 75 question study guide review, in which the teacher let us use during the test. Thank goodness I did do it.

        On the board, the teacher wrote for us to number down on a piece of binder paper 1 to 40, then on the back, title it "Essays". I was like "40 questions only for the multiple choice? It's probably going to be pretty difficult questions then". Actually, I found out that those 40 questions were actually 40 things we had to label on the world map. I was like "Oh, well s***".

        The teacher had us move our desks to random places around the classroom to prevent people from looking at other people's tests. He passed around to half of the class the map in which we had to label, and the other half of the class the actual multiple choice test which were 100 questions on a scantron sheet. This is also to prevent people from looking at other people's answers.

        I got the multiple choice test first and I was "Yes" 'cause I always look through the questions to see if they contain answers for other questions. Not a bad strategy. Well, I started going through each question and I was like "Wait, these are just like the questions from that 75 question study guide". Apparently the questions were very similar to the questions on the study guide, but the answers to the questions were the same.

        So thank goodness for me actually doing the study guide 'cause it helped me answer like, 70% of the questions. After I was done with the multiple choice, I gave it to the teacher and he gave me the map. It was the world map, containing, you guessed it, the world. 40 things to label, ranging from tropics, to capitals, to mountain ranges, to countries.

        It took me just one look at the map for me to go "F***". It was the exact, I mean the exact, same map as the teacher had given us a week ago where he was like "Okay, test yourselves on the names of these places, and no looking in the book". At that time, I had to look in the book for like, half of the countries.

        My worst enemy in terms of Geography, the maps. Good thing I had, well, "studied" in Geometry class on the world map before Geography. It took me a while to actually do some refined logical thinking for country names and such for the map. Oh, and that "studying", well I did study the locations of countries, and I also, uh, kinda wrote down the initials of some countries on my study guide.

        It's not "cheating" okay? It's not like I drew a map containing all the countries in the world. I wrote down the initials on my study guide for me to study. It's not cheating. Everyone had to turn in their study guides after they've finished the tests anyway.

        So back to the map, yeah, I finished it. I guessed on some though, making sure to think logically where countries are supposed to be. Then I flipped to the back side and it was "Essay". Why? This is Geography man, please.

        The first essay we had to write, yes, first, as in the first of many (only 2), was on a region in which we learned the most from (Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc). I was originally going to pick Asia, not because I'm Asian, but because I'm Asian. But then I decided to go with Europe 'cause I was thinking about how I did on my presentation on Switzerland, and how Europe has WAY TOO MANY COUNTRIES.

        I just wrote whatever, and on the next essay, which was to write on our culture and whatnot, I just wrote whatever for that too. My English teacher once said that people are more comfortable writing on what they want to write about, rather than a prompt like "Describe your culture". Who would want to write about that? By the way, I'd like to thank Mr. Anderson, my Geography teacher for the fun times during this semester.

        After the test was over, people were standing and ready for the bell to ring. It did kinda felt like in the movies, where everyone's looking at the clock hands ready to strike 12, or at our school, 11 since I don't know why. I'll kinda miss this class since it was more enjoyable than some of my other classes. I think the talking was what made it interesting and the enthusiasm, along with Mr. Anderson's cool attitude.

        Lots of people were hugging and taking pictures and I as like, well, this is it. I walked around the school a bit, kinda how I did back during the first semester when I had always arrived to school early. I was like "Yep, here comes the feels in 3... 2...- yep, there's the feels".

        After I felt like I absorbed enough of the atmosphere, I walked to the back of the school, past the football field, crossing the road, and to my ride home.

        This year, I did feel like it was kinda boring. But then again, there were a lot of events happening, I mean, enough events for me to write all these posts so far, heh. This year was more for me to get a taste of what it's going to be like.

        I didn't talk much in any of my classes. Nope, can't think of class where I talked a lot. That's definitely something I want to change for next year. I also felt like I didn't say enough hellos. And, I need to speak louder since having such a deep voice, people could barely hear me and I could barely hear them. To them I sound like I'm murmuring.

        Classes next year, please god, let there be some cute girls in my classes who sit next to me. Please make it a bit easier for me as it's already hard enough to even hold a small conversation. Please. That is all I wish for. Also having a couple of my buddies in my classes wouldn't hurt either.

        Also I'm going to be working a job once I turn 16 this year on December 5th, and for the summer, I'll be volunteering at my local library. Remember kids, stay in school. Or libraries, those are okay too.

        As for this blog, I'm not sure if I want to write EVERY single day of my summer. I mean, I don't do much all day. I'm not even kidding. A synopsis of each day would be "Drew is on the computer. Drew takes a few food breaks. Drew sleeps. Repeat". Not something I'd want to write paragraphs about.

        But, I may be going to places every once in a while like going to go see a movie or go to Anime Expo 2014 or something. This is going to be a really long summer. When can school start again? Oh, no. The school year cycle, I'm feeling it already. NO.

        Well, I don't really have much else to talk about here. That was my day and what I got planned. Oh, I almost forgot. I'd like to thank my English teacher, Mr. Masuda for being an awesome dude and making English, well, not boring I guess, haha. I'd also like to thank my 2nd semester Biology teacher, Mr. O'Connor, for not being too boring. Haha, I'm just kidding, he was a good dude and actually didn't give us too much work. That's awesome.

        I'd also like to thank my first semester physical education teacher, Mr.Chen, for being himself. Also, my Drawing teacher, Ms. Walker, who is new here at my school. She's pretty chill and actually cared about her students. Laid-back and helpful, she made class very relaxing, and not in a boring way actually.

        Thank you for being with me so far, Drew, myself. Thanks for being there whenever I talked to myself. And thank you little voice in my head, for whenever I needed to argue with myself ("And thank you, Drew, for being a whiny little-" "Shut up conscience").

        And my buddies, thanks to all of them for, well, being my buddies haha. And thank you to all the girls who rejected me so far. Without your help, I wouldn't have tried this far. See you all, uhh, whenever I feel it or when school starts again.

        Oh, and if a girl's interested in ya, just brush off that thought, 'cause it's not true, so don't be on with her.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 "Freshman Finals Day 2."

Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Week 42
Songs to Remember: The Chaser - Infinite, I'm Not Kidding - SUHO

        I know I heard someone said something today that just makes me go "What?", but I can't remember what.

        So I was kinda expecting 2 hours of relaxation and 2 hours of pain and suffering, and I was kinda right. My 3rd period is Drawing so there would be a final exam for Drawing right? Nope. My Drawing teacher already gave us our "final exam" which was the spray-paint project thing. I guess it'd make sense that she didn't give it to us on the day of the final exam since it'd take more than a day to complete.

        We watched a movie for the entire 2 hours, it was "The Monuments Men", which was about how these American dudes during World War II try to retrieve back stolen art from the Nazi's. Pretty cool, I was hoping it would be more of like the movie "Inglorious Bastards", but it's based on a true event so eh. I didn't really pay attention to like, 2/3 of the movie. Maybe I'll watch it if I get the time.

        That's basically what we did for 2 hours. It was break time and while I was walking to my locker, I saw El next to me talking to her friend. You see, I don't know if I should say Hi to her while she's talking 'cause I don't want to interrupt her and it'll be awkward, but it's already awkward how she's like 2 feet away from me and I'm not even looking in her general direction and I- stop. Just stop. I'm already sweating enough from this heat, I don't need to make it harder than it really isn't.

        I can't hope for someone to say the first Hi because some people aren't as friendly as others. But I've kinda experienced those awkward moments before where I said Hi and they didn't even see me, or didn't reply. Like, yesterday, I was walking to my lockers, saw Ct since, I don't know, a couple months ago? I said Hi and about 3 seconds pass, she didn't seem to notice or reply, then I walked past her and she was like "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't see you" in kind way I guess.

        So where was I? Oh right, final exams. My next exam (not an exam, just exercise really) today was physical education, playing ... b... ba... bask... basketball. I didn't know what to expect really. I just kept reminding myself "This is the last day, this is the last day, this is the last day... for now". We were still in our same teams for the first like, 3 or 4 games or so. Each game was like 10 minutes so we basically played basketball for 30 minutes straight.

        Then we took a 5 minute break because why not. Then the teacher asked us if we wanted new teams or not and of course everyone said yes. The teacher still stuck with the "at least one person of the opposite gender for each time" and I was like "F*** man, give me a break".

         It occurred to me that I wasn't going to get on any team that I actually wanted to be on, so the other people from my first team in physical education basketball were like "Wanna be a team? Unless, you're already on one" and I was like "Fine". We played "short" 6 minute games from then on and we played like 2 or 3. Then the teacher was like "Okay, ya'll could play your own games now".

        It basically meant we could just play games like "Knock-Out" or whatever or do whatever we want. The exception was that we couldn't sit down, study, or sign yearbooks. My friends and I and basically everyone else who weren't playing competitively, besides like one dude, decided to play "Knock-Out" which is like this one basketball game where you try to "knock people out". Not literally though, that'd kinda be considered "assault with a deadly weapon".

        The line formed for this one knock-out game was like huge, like 20 people. Very fun, very recreational. I talked and laughed a lot, and at that point I was like "I don't like physical education, I don't like basketball, but I do like this class". I gotta say, lots of friendly faces after today. I think it was because everyone was ready to go home, heh, but I still enjoy those moments, like back in the January or something where we did Badminton.

        I'd like to thank my physical education class for helping me improve my communication. Not communication like "Pass it to me, take the shot". Nope, nope, nothing like that. Communication as in, like, talking. I felt all the talking to people in recreational activities with people who are forced to be on my team, or the other way around, really helped me be more, vocal I guess.

        Oh, I forgot to mention, the middle school I went to, the students graduated today (or promoted, as you like to say Mr.Mulcock. Yes, that's a real surname). A lot of pictures were posted to Facenovel and I was like "Oh my goodness, I'm reacting to middle graduation in third person now". Soon I'll be able to experience being a Sophomore. "Yep, still feeling the same", heh.

        I hope you're having fun. This is the 2nd to last day of school. Yeah, that night's not over. You're not trying hard enough, Drew, because our lives are changing lanes. Reptilia by The Strokes, such a nice song.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 "Freshman Finals Day 1."

Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Week 42
Songs to Remember: Stop It - B.A.P, Thinking of You - Bigstar

        Freshman year, semester 2, final exams, day 1: my sanity is somewhat intact. And can you believe it's the last week of school?

        So last night, I was determined to read the 2 books, "The Old Man and the Sea" and "Night" for which my English final exams were going to be on. I read about 4/5 of the old man book until I was just like, "F*** it" and I went to sleep.

        I swear, 2/3 of the book is just the old dude talking to himself, and half of it doesn't even help with the story. Like come on, I don't want to read on about a guy going "I wished I had the boy, I wished I had the boy, I wished I had the boy...". Now, "Night", that was nice book. I was still looking forward to read about the dude cutting his own foot off, but then I was like "Oh, wait this isn't Saw,".

        So English finals was pretty easy. It was 6 questions, 3 about "Night" and 3 about "The Old Man and the Sea". The questions were pretty easy, my teacher was really only looking for if you quoted something from the book or not so, not so difficult. Yes we were allowed to use the books.

        My English teacher is pretty cool guy, he said we could all come in to talk to him whenever we liked, and for free, as he "charged" people who are not in his "tribe" or class. Yeah, I don't know what he's talking about either and that's just what I like about him as a teacher.

        After 2 hours of the first exam, it was break time. That one girl who my best friend asked out on Valentine's day hasn't really been showing up at our usual hangout spot. I was like "She's probably at the L building" where all the okay people are at. Then her friend who hangs out with us, and us as in my best friend, myself, and the people at our hangout spot, said "Oh, let's go to the L building".

        Then my best friend was like "Naww, I'll stay here" and we were all like "What?" Then my best friend went on to say how she's "anywhere he's not" and how she hates him now. I was like "Woah, he's venting out his feelings". I feel him, I feel him. Happens to every girl I talk to, hehe.

        We went to the place anyways and I was like "Just don't make eye contact". Well we saw her and uhh, the bell rang right at the moment and my best friend was just like "Oh f***, thank the lord" and went to his next class.

        My next final exam today was Biology, possibly one of the hardest ones, including Geometry and Geography. It was 100 questions in only 1 hour, and then pick 5 out of 10 short answer questions and answer them. The first 100 questions were kinda easy but hard, the nervous system questions with the axons and neurotransmitters sh**, I was like "F***".

        I was only on like the 35th question and my teacher was all like "Okay, you have 30 minutes left" and I was just like "F***". I just decided not look at my notes unless I really needed em' and that was like, 1/3 of the questions. I actually finished and I think I got at least a B-. At least.

        My current Biology teacher only taught for this semester, the 2nd one. He's s student teacher, so my actual Biology teacher taught us during the 1st semester only. Next year, he's gonna be full-time teacher, teaching integrated science and Biology. He's a pretty chill dude, and he's pretty young too, he's on his last year in college I think.

        I kinda didn't want to say Bye to anyone, I mean it's not like I'm not gonna see them next year, it's just that I won't be saying Hi to them when I too busy doing stuff, like, like, I don't know. It's getting late so see you tomorrow.

Monday, June 2, 2014 "Study Sessions."

Monday, June 2, 2014
Week 42
Songs to Remember: Goodnight Kiss - Jung Hyosung, Our Relationship - MBLAQ

        Hey, this is the last week of school. Woo- to the hoo. What am I expecting for this week? Lots and lots of tests.

        I don't see why schools have to give out final exams on the very, very last few days of school. My grade is an A so far in like 4 of my classes, and B's in the other ones. I could just not show up at all and my grade would still be fine. Oh, and why the large amount of studying for one test when you're gonna forget it all over the summer? I don't know, just my opinion.

        I don't even think we did anything productive for English class. I think today was probably the least productive session of English class. All we did was talk a bit about the book "The Old Man and the Sea" and what the authors's "purpose" was for writing the book. "To show determination", "To not give up", "To show pride", or the author could have written it just to write it. We then discussed the sports because somehow the baseball player Joe Dimaggio is meaningful in the book.

        Probably my best study session to date was today in Biology. The teacher gave us the whole period to just plain study. I sat with my buddy in Biology, Bt, and just went through the textbook, going over each chapter and the main topics. Very, very nice study session.

        Today I actually spray painted for the first time. I was finally finished with my stencil and it came out, okay I guess. I taped it to the paper and went outside and spray painted it. I didn't really know what I was doing, I just shook the can a few times, sprayed a couple times, shook the can again, repeat. After I was done, and it dried, I peeled back the stencil, and, it came out fine I guess. The paint got under the stencil a bit but it's still okay, I GUESS. Guess how many times I've said "I guess".

        Auggh, basketball. Just the name makes me sweat. Sweat tears. Of pain. And sorrow. We still played today and actually won 1 game. But it wasn't even nice win either. We didn't even keep count. One dude on one team was trying too hard. Some dude actually said I was "try-harding" and I was just like "What? I don't even like this game". Thank goodness we only have one more day of physical education. It's on Wednesday, but here's the catch: we have only 2 periods on that day (final exams), so that means physical education period will be 2 hours long. *gulp*

        Well, my Geometry teacher came back today after being out for 2 days last week (Thursday and Friday). He scheduled to be out for like, family meetings or whatever. Instead, he came back and put up a picture on the projector screen, showing him and his new-born son. Everyone was like awing and stuff, and this girl was like "Babies are so kawaii" and all that. Our Geometry class have asked and talked about our teacher if he were to ever have kids or not, and he said he's not planning to. 6 months later, he has his first child. Everyone was pretty surprised.

        After doing all the studying in Geometry class since I was finished with all the math questions, it was time to take the Geography test *shudders* on East and Southeast Asia. Questions were pretty easy, thank goodness I studied my map right before I took the test. I flipped to the back of the test and there was this question, "List all the animals of the Chinese calendar and the 5 elements". I was like, "Sh**".

        I got about 10 out of the 12 animals, but I couldn't remember the last 2. Okay, I just looked up the animals, apparently I guessed "Bull" which hopefully my teacher will accept as "Ox". And "sheep", I did not think of sheep. Overall, pretty easy test.

        So El has been saying Hi to me when she sees me and I've been doing the same, though trying not to in order to not seem too, what's the word? Creepy? Something like that. I don't know. I've got 2 books to read and a textbook to study. See you tomorrow.

       

Sunday, June 1, 2014 "Test Tomorrow."

Sunday, June 1, 2014
Week 41
Songs to Remember: Goodnight Kiss - Jung Hyosung

        Oh shoot, it's June. Oh shoot, I have a test tomorrow. Oh shoot, I kinda forgot to write for today. Uhhh, yeah, I'll have to get back to that, uhh, see you tomorrow.