Sunday, February 28, 2016
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Drip Drop - Taemin
So KDt's got news that we've been accepted to perform in some more shows, aka, charity dinners or like, yeah, Key Club events or whatnot, Interact, you get it. Which means, even more practices.
There's practically practice afterschool every single Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and Friday essentially. This does not go well for me this week since I gotta do an essay for English and like, general work. But anyways, real tired, it's 1:44 AM, fuck me, see ya.
Monday, February 29, 2016
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Saturday, February 27, 2016 "Recognizing All On Me."
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Drip Drop - Taemin
I am really tired, heh,. It feels like there's lead weight on my body. Probably because I spent most of the day standing, which ain't always a bad thing.
Alright so I woke up at 9:00 AM. Just kidding, I woke up at 10:00 AM, went on my PC, ate breakfast, packed my stuff, all that, went to the other High school which took around, 15 minutes. Got there at around 12:00 AM, I thought I would have to do some searching to get to the theater or where we'd be meeting but uh, there were others there (we were all wearing our KDT shirts to identify eachother and allowed access in) who got there the same time as me, I just went down the hall with them and bam, there we all were.
Waited for a bit 'till our KDT coordinator got here, then others started showing up one by one. It wasn't all of us though, there were about, 5 people or so that didn't come, maybe give or take 5. These people either didn't want to come and perform with us, or were busy, which is understandable. And so, since we were missing members and the stage was believed to be going to be pretty small, we had to reorganize, we-do our formations to accommodate all that.
Took around 2 hours or so, until we got to use the stage to practice, which was only for like, 30 minutes at most. The charity dinner coordinator person told us that we were allowed the full stage, so, that was nice I guess, heh. We modified our dances to find that we can use the whole stage (instead of just like the curved arch-front of it). To be honest we barely got enough run-throughs today, I mean, we do remember the moves and timing and stuff, but formations is another thing. Spoiler alert, luckily we did pull it off. Our changing room, or like, the place we were to hang out and place our stuff at, was very cramped. Why? Because the boy's dressing room is currently not for use due to prop storage, so we all had to go into the girl's side.
Now even though there were some harsh stories about bad shit that happened at past performances at this school it was fine for the guys to stay in the girl's dressing room 'cause apparently the rest of the guys in KDT are gay. Or homosexual, whichever you prefer. Ever since that one dude that my buddies and I trolled left to pursue his own solo dancing stuff (like for VSA), I'm the only straight guy here.
I know it's not something to be like "WOAH" about, it's more of like "Oh, didn't notice that 'till now." Don't mean to make it offensive or sound douchey oranything, just something to point out. Anyways, since there were so many of us, we had to setup at a different room, which was located down this hallway and to this storage-like room. Was room-y though.
We hung out there for a bit, started doing hair and makeup, taking pictures, you know. And uh, the "guys" were sent out to get food, including me. More people came as well 'cause they wanted to, heh. There was this small place next to the school which sold milk tea (which is apparently considered bad by most of the KDT members), cajun fries, regular fries, calamari stuff, onion rings, other drinks, you get what I mean. We ordered for the people who wanted food, took around a half hour or so in terms of waiting, but we finally got it, made it back, and essentially just chilled for a couple more hours.
By this time it was around 4:00 PM or something. 4:30 PM, uhhh, I have no idea what I did for all that time. I watched people do makeup, hair, draw on their PC, play some OSU, eat, take pictures. I fortunately had enough battery in my phone to read some Reddit posts and message my buddies on Discord. At around 5:00 PM, we started changing into our outfits. For the most part, everyone the same thing as they did at Lunar Show.
We took pictures, played this really, really bootleg K-Pop version of Heads Up, where instead of people or objects, you have names of K-Pop songs instead. Didn't know a game like that existed, heh/ We then went outside to take some group pictures, it was pretty dark and there wasn't that great of lighting, so we had to use our phone lights to brighten the area up. We took pictures of all of us, and then by classes (seniors, juniors, etc). People were surprised to find out "Oh, I didn't know he was a junior," etc. I perceived this one guy in KDT to be a senior, until I found out he was junior, and only now did I really find out, that he's actually a sophomore. I know, pretty fucking crazy, heh. He hangs out with the KDT seniors a lot so I thought he was a senior himself.
It was around 6:00 PM, we were finalizing our dances and formations, all in all, thankfully we didn't have too much trouble with it all. Soon comes our turn to get ready to be on deck, we huddle up, the KDT coordinator/president motivates us, tells us to have fun, you know, you know. We go to the steps, my heart's fucking beating like crazy, even though I've done this before, I know the dances, but uh, still, fucking scary, heh.
We got up on stage, I danced, we did our thing, you all know how it goes, heh. Pretty good, pretty good. Production value of the whole thing could've been better (by that I mean, sound quality for our track mix was kinda shit, they didn't give us a full announcement before they opened the curtains so we were caught a bit off-guard, and they didn't close the curtains fully after we ended our performance. You know how awkward it was to pretend to fall on the ground and lie there for like 10 whole seconds before the curtains fully closed?).
During the performance, after i finished my part, which was the beginning 2 dances, I was staying on the left side of the curtains. I was pretty focused on performing, didn't really pay attention to anything else. This girl, whom I assumed was an MC, was like "Hey, you're Drew right?" Took me a second, like a literal second for my mind to pull the images and voice from my memory, to realize it was Jn, one of my elementary school buddies. To be honest, looking back, she was more of like, a classmate, a well-known classmate, but we didn't hang out during recess or anything like that. We were both in band though, and both of us played the flute.
I was like "Oh hey, uh, Jn!" And she's like "How you been" and all that, you know. She pulls this memory that she remembers and was like "Omg remember when you liked Sl?" and I played along and was like "Haha, oh yeah, don't mention that again." She talks to her buddy MC, "You know Sl right? No? Oh, then you don't know who we're talking about. Oh and uh, this is Drew, we went to elementary school together, we both played the flute." "Nice to meet you Drew, I'm *insert name I forgot here*." "Hey, nice to meet you too."
It was nice meeting at least one person from the past, like a uh, cameo appearance, and it was nice that someone like that recognized me, before I recognized them, heh. Anyways, after the performance, we went outside, went back to our setup room, and uh, took pictures or whatever again. The actual charity dinner didn't end 'till 9:00 AM, and we finished by 8:00 AM, We were allowed to leave if we wanted to, or we could stay and join in to dance at the charity dinner. One of us were called to ask if we wanted to join the dance but a majority of us said no, with one of the guys comparing it to a middle school dance where the guys stand on one side and the girls on the other, heh.
We waited 'till our rides arrived, some people left immediately, some people were waiting on their rides, and the people who were waiting on their rides, like me, were sitting in the room, and listening to this one girl's story about this guy (who is in my English class and got a 100% on that one test) and how he's so "dense" and she's upset after being reminded/seeing on her phone in this group chat that he removed his and her's nicknames, that it ruined the good mood she had after all this and performing.
Yeah, very hard to wrap your head around all that and what the fuck's going, heh, but she seemed genuinely upset about it and I've experienced what she's experienced before, I think, or something in the ballpark, so I know that it's not easy to explain, especially with the blend of emotions. There were some gossip stories, I was just there, sitting in the group, listening, heh, until my dad got here and I went home. The group chat was filled with over 200 notifications during my games of League with my buddies went I got home, filled with stuff like even more upcoming performances like the upcoming pep rally, a collab performance with another dance group who share similar styles, along with practices for those, aaand, squeezing in our dances for the VSA show.
There were comments about the performance we did, a lot good, but brought up some bad stories/ past experiences. When they performed last year during the VSA show at this specific High school, there were some performers who talked trash about our members, low-key saying it to think that they wouldn't be heard, and uh, even going as far as a dude trying to take pics of a member changing. He got caught, he didn't take the pics, but he tried to.
So yeah, not that great of a school to be honest, heh. But that's all in the past. Umm, so yeah. Played some League games with my buddies as I got home, started working on this post at like, 1:30 AM, it's 2:29 AM right now. Holy shit do I need sleep. Alrighty, what a day, I'll see you, tomorrow. See ya.
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Drip Drop - Taemin
I am really tired, heh,. It feels like there's lead weight on my body. Probably because I spent most of the day standing, which ain't always a bad thing.
Alright so I woke up at 9:00 AM. Just kidding, I woke up at 10:00 AM, went on my PC, ate breakfast, packed my stuff, all that, went to the other High school which took around, 15 minutes. Got there at around 12:00 AM, I thought I would have to do some searching to get to the theater or where we'd be meeting but uh, there were others there (we were all wearing our KDT shirts to identify eachother and allowed access in) who got there the same time as me, I just went down the hall with them and bam, there we all were.
Waited for a bit 'till our KDT coordinator got here, then others started showing up one by one. It wasn't all of us though, there were about, 5 people or so that didn't come, maybe give or take 5. These people either didn't want to come and perform with us, or were busy, which is understandable. And so, since we were missing members and the stage was believed to be going to be pretty small, we had to reorganize, we-do our formations to accommodate all that.
Took around 2 hours or so, until we got to use the stage to practice, which was only for like, 30 minutes at most. The charity dinner coordinator person told us that we were allowed the full stage, so, that was nice I guess, heh. We modified our dances to find that we can use the whole stage (instead of just like the curved arch-front of it). To be honest we barely got enough run-throughs today, I mean, we do remember the moves and timing and stuff, but formations is another thing. Spoiler alert, luckily we did pull it off. Our changing room, or like, the place we were to hang out and place our stuff at, was very cramped. Why? Because the boy's dressing room is currently not for use due to prop storage, so we all had to go into the girl's side.
Now even though there were some harsh stories about bad shit that happened at past performances at this school it was fine for the guys to stay in the girl's dressing room 'cause apparently the rest of the guys in KDT are gay. Or homosexual, whichever you prefer. Ever since that one dude that my buddies and I trolled left to pursue his own solo dancing stuff (like for VSA), I'm the only straight guy here.
I know it's not something to be like "WOAH" about, it's more of like "Oh, didn't notice that 'till now." Don't mean to make it offensive or sound douchey oranything, just something to point out. Anyways, since there were so many of us, we had to setup at a different room, which was located down this hallway and to this storage-like room. Was room-y though.
We hung out there for a bit, started doing hair and makeup, taking pictures, you know. And uh, the "guys" were sent out to get food, including me. More people came as well 'cause they wanted to, heh. There was this small place next to the school which sold milk tea (which is apparently considered bad by most of the KDT members), cajun fries, regular fries, calamari stuff, onion rings, other drinks, you get what I mean. We ordered for the people who wanted food, took around a half hour or so in terms of waiting, but we finally got it, made it back, and essentially just chilled for a couple more hours.
By this time it was around 4:00 PM or something. 4:30 PM, uhhh, I have no idea what I did for all that time. I watched people do makeup, hair, draw on their PC, play some OSU, eat, take pictures. I fortunately had enough battery in my phone to read some Reddit posts and message my buddies on Discord. At around 5:00 PM, we started changing into our outfits. For the most part, everyone the same thing as they did at Lunar Show.
We took pictures, played this really, really bootleg K-Pop version of Heads Up, where instead of people or objects, you have names of K-Pop songs instead. Didn't know a game like that existed, heh/ We then went outside to take some group pictures, it was pretty dark and there wasn't that great of lighting, so we had to use our phone lights to brighten the area up. We took pictures of all of us, and then by classes (seniors, juniors, etc). People were surprised to find out "Oh, I didn't know he was a junior," etc. I perceived this one guy in KDT to be a senior, until I found out he was junior, and only now did I really find out, that he's actually a sophomore. I know, pretty fucking crazy, heh. He hangs out with the KDT seniors a lot so I thought he was a senior himself.
It was around 6:00 PM, we were finalizing our dances and formations, all in all, thankfully we didn't have too much trouble with it all. Soon comes our turn to get ready to be on deck, we huddle up, the KDT coordinator/president motivates us, tells us to have fun, you know, you know. We go to the steps, my heart's fucking beating like crazy, even though I've done this before, I know the dances, but uh, still, fucking scary, heh.
We got up on stage, I danced, we did our thing, you all know how it goes, heh. Pretty good, pretty good. Production value of the whole thing could've been better (by that I mean, sound quality for our track mix was kinda shit, they didn't give us a full announcement before they opened the curtains so we were caught a bit off-guard, and they didn't close the curtains fully after we ended our performance. You know how awkward it was to pretend to fall on the ground and lie there for like 10 whole seconds before the curtains fully closed?).
During the performance, after i finished my part, which was the beginning 2 dances, I was staying on the left side of the curtains. I was pretty focused on performing, didn't really pay attention to anything else. This girl, whom I assumed was an MC, was like "Hey, you're Drew right?" Took me a second, like a literal second for my mind to pull the images and voice from my memory, to realize it was Jn, one of my elementary school buddies. To be honest, looking back, she was more of like, a classmate, a well-known classmate, but we didn't hang out during recess or anything like that. We were both in band though, and both of us played the flute.
I was like "Oh hey, uh, Jn!" And she's like "How you been" and all that, you know. She pulls this memory that she remembers and was like "Omg remember when you liked Sl?" and I played along and was like "Haha, oh yeah, don't mention that again." She talks to her buddy MC, "You know Sl right? No? Oh, then you don't know who we're talking about. Oh and uh, this is Drew, we went to elementary school together, we both played the flute." "Nice to meet you Drew, I'm *insert name I forgot here*." "Hey, nice to meet you too."
It was nice meeting at least one person from the past, like a uh, cameo appearance, and it was nice that someone like that recognized me, before I recognized them, heh. Anyways, after the performance, we went outside, went back to our setup room, and uh, took pictures or whatever again. The actual charity dinner didn't end 'till 9:00 AM, and we finished by 8:00 AM, We were allowed to leave if we wanted to, or we could stay and join in to dance at the charity dinner. One of us were called to ask if we wanted to join the dance but a majority of us said no, with one of the guys comparing it to a middle school dance where the guys stand on one side and the girls on the other, heh.
We waited 'till our rides arrived, some people left immediately, some people were waiting on their rides, and the people who were waiting on their rides, like me, were sitting in the room, and listening to this one girl's story about this guy (who is in my English class and got a 100% on that one test) and how he's so "dense" and she's upset after being reminded/seeing on her phone in this group chat that he removed his and her's nicknames, that it ruined the good mood she had after all this and performing.
Yeah, very hard to wrap your head around all that and what the fuck's going, heh, but she seemed genuinely upset about it and I've experienced what she's experienced before, I think, or something in the ballpark, so I know that it's not easy to explain, especially with the blend of emotions. There were some gossip stories, I was just there, sitting in the group, listening, heh, until my dad got here and I went home. The group chat was filled with over 200 notifications during my games of League with my buddies went I got home, filled with stuff like even more upcoming performances like the upcoming pep rally, a collab performance with another dance group who share similar styles, along with practices for those, aaand, squeezing in our dances for the VSA show.
There were comments about the performance we did, a lot good, but brought up some bad stories/ past experiences. When they performed last year during the VSA show at this specific High school, there were some performers who talked trash about our members, low-key saying it to think that they wouldn't be heard, and uh, even going as far as a dude trying to take pics of a member changing. He got caught, he didn't take the pics, but he tried to.
So yeah, not that great of a school to be honest, heh. But that's all in the past. Umm, so yeah. Played some League games with my buddies as I got home, started working on this post at like, 1:30 AM, it's 2:29 AM right now. Holy shit do I need sleep. Alrighty, what a day, I'll see you, tomorrow. See ya.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Friday, February 26, 2016 "The Beginning of the Weekend."
Friday, February 26, 2016
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Bickering - Nu'est
I'm trying to not let mistakes like, I don't know, messing up a bit for an event audition, stay and manifest in my mind.
Yeah, I messed up the beginning part during our VSA audition with KDT. It was only like, the first 2 moves, but, damn, heh. I've thought about how people are gonna see it on the audition video, how we might not make it into the show because of me, how I was basically in front (which I wanted) for the VSA cabinet to see. But I've since put that behind me, because of all the support that this club has given me.
Even if I feel like I don't belong, if I'm not that great at dancing as others, if I don't have as much experience, if I don't interact with the members as much as them, they do do their best to make me feel like I contribute. And this is like, sincere, heh. For example, whenever one of the lead/veteran dancers says just a simple "Hey Drew" or "See ya Drew," in my head I just think "Hey, he/she noticed me, they know my name."
I'll take it as one of many experiences to build upon. Anyways, gonna have to rush through this post so I can sleep before 1:00 AM since I wanna wake up at 9:00 AM tomorrow to get ready, do as much shit as possible home before I gotta stay at this one High school for 9 hours. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but, I'd rather spend all that time dancing rather than waiting, heh. Alright, let's get on with it.
Psychology, where we wrap up our filming, then basically just do work for the rest of the time. English, where we discuss, and discuss some more. In groups. Which is okay for once, heh. Next week we're starting on our essay, so uh, yeah, that'll be fun. Break isn't even something to comment anymore to be honest, I just go with DrewN and Vb to the hangout place and just, stand, or sit, and talk about random shit.
Biology, where we have free time again. I took this time to uh, work. Math, where we get to rate textbooks, voting on 1 of 2 textbooks for the new Algebra II/Trig students that'll be taking it. Or Math 3, or whatever they're implementing nowadays. After that, we got our test scores back, and guess what, woooo, 39/61. I'm so fucking inconsistent with my scores, heh. A 69/81 on the last quiz, a 39/61 on this test, which was shorter, but costed more points, Rest of the time was just work again.
Lunch, where Ek was not here due to uh, I don't know, family time or something. Our conversations actually dealt with things other than badminton for once, which was a nice refresher. After lunch was US History, where we took a "quick quiz." No really, it was easy, heh. The teacher gave us 40 minutes (you probably could've taken longer if you'd like) but I finished in like 10 minutes. I'm sure everyone finished around the same time as well. It was all a "matching" sorta quiz, with 40 terms and definitions.
And finally Chinese, where we read, and uh, talked about Chinese idioms, and whatever, all spent with my group members and those who sat around me. It was refreshing really, I liked my spot. Well, anyways, ya'll know what happened during KDT (which I stayed 'till 4:00 PM 'cause I wanted to relax and shit before I gotta spend all day tomorrow at a High school), played some League games, gonna get demoted soon, it's 12:34 AM, I'm also finished getting my essentials for tomorrow, and uh, yeah. On Sunday my dad and I will be looking for a 1950's-esuqe jacket or shirt for me to wear for my presentation on Tuesday, exactly.
So yeah, see ya, and expect me to be super tired tomorrow. Oh and just to mention, a few of my old, old elementary school buddies will be at the charity dinner tomorrow. If I find 'em, I'll say hi, but, not gonna go any further than that. Alrighty, see ya.
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Bickering - Nu'est
I'm trying to not let mistakes like, I don't know, messing up a bit for an event audition, stay and manifest in my mind.
Yeah, I messed up the beginning part during our VSA audition with KDT. It was only like, the first 2 moves, but, damn, heh. I've thought about how people are gonna see it on the audition video, how we might not make it into the show because of me, how I was basically in front (which I wanted) for the VSA cabinet to see. But I've since put that behind me, because of all the support that this club has given me.
Even if I feel like I don't belong, if I'm not that great at dancing as others, if I don't have as much experience, if I don't interact with the members as much as them, they do do their best to make me feel like I contribute. And this is like, sincere, heh. For example, whenever one of the lead/veteran dancers says just a simple "Hey Drew" or "See ya Drew," in my head I just think "Hey, he/she noticed me, they know my name."
I'll take it as one of many experiences to build upon. Anyways, gonna have to rush through this post so I can sleep before 1:00 AM since I wanna wake up at 9:00 AM tomorrow to get ready, do as much shit as possible home before I gotta stay at this one High school for 9 hours. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but, I'd rather spend all that time dancing rather than waiting, heh. Alright, let's get on with it.
Psychology, where we wrap up our filming, then basically just do work for the rest of the time. English, where we discuss, and discuss some more. In groups. Which is okay for once, heh. Next week we're starting on our essay, so uh, yeah, that'll be fun. Break isn't even something to comment anymore to be honest, I just go with DrewN and Vb to the hangout place and just, stand, or sit, and talk about random shit.
Biology, where we have free time again. I took this time to uh, work. Math, where we get to rate textbooks, voting on 1 of 2 textbooks for the new Algebra II/Trig students that'll be taking it. Or Math 3, or whatever they're implementing nowadays. After that, we got our test scores back, and guess what, woooo, 39/61. I'm so fucking inconsistent with my scores, heh. A 69/81 on the last quiz, a 39/61 on this test, which was shorter, but costed more points, Rest of the time was just work again.
Lunch, where Ek was not here due to uh, I don't know, family time or something. Our conversations actually dealt with things other than badminton for once, which was a nice refresher. After lunch was US History, where we took a "quick quiz." No really, it was easy, heh. The teacher gave us 40 minutes (you probably could've taken longer if you'd like) but I finished in like 10 minutes. I'm sure everyone finished around the same time as well. It was all a "matching" sorta quiz, with 40 terms and definitions.
And finally Chinese, where we read, and uh, talked about Chinese idioms, and whatever, all spent with my group members and those who sat around me. It was refreshing really, I liked my spot. Well, anyways, ya'll know what happened during KDT (which I stayed 'till 4:00 PM 'cause I wanted to relax and shit before I gotta spend all day tomorrow at a High school), played some League games, gonna get demoted soon, it's 12:34 AM, I'm also finished getting my essentials for tomorrow, and uh, yeah. On Sunday my dad and I will be looking for a 1950's-esuqe jacket or shirt for me to wear for my presentation on Tuesday, exactly.
So yeah, see ya, and expect me to be super tired tomorrow. Oh and just to mention, a few of my old, old elementary school buddies will be at the charity dinner tomorrow. If I find 'em, I'll say hi, but, not gonna go any further than that. Alrighty, see ya.
Friday, February 26, 2016
Thursday, February 25, 2016 "More For the Weekend."
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
Yesterday was Yue's birthday, so, happy birthday, heh. Ya'll remember Yue, right? Yeah, you remember.
So since it's 12:47 AM right now, I'll make this a quick one and then finish up horrid English work, then go to bed. So, Psychology was just our group filming our commercial. The teacher gave us all an extension so it's now due Monday instead of tomorrow.
English was just some discussion, then more discussion, aaand a packet on analyzing the book line by line (literally), which is also the work I gotta finish. During break, I paid for my AP exams, apparently it was just me giving the person-guy the money and he writes my name and signs this receipt. I asked my buddy Et about it and yeah, that was it. Don't know if that's really what you do, but uh, whatever.
Biology was free time again, we get an optional practice worksheet, either do it or don't. Math was this chapter test, was fairly easy, except for the word problems which were pretty bootleg, not gonna lie. Lunch was the usual again, US History was notes, on notes, on notes. And finally Chinese where we have Chromebooks to do our e-portfolio's, aaand play some Kahoot games.
Tomorrow is audition day for us KDT people, and Saturday is apparently when we're gonna be performing at this one other High school where they're hosting this UNICEF charity dinner. We're just gonna do our same Lunar Show performance we did. I didn't know it was THIS Saturday, but apparently it is. So this means I gotta stay, pretty much all day on Saturday there. I still need to get my costume for the dance presentation for History, gotta learn some extra moves for it, and I swear, if my English teacher gives us the take-home essay this weekend, hooooo man. I'ma fucking choke a bitch, heh.
Anyways, see ya.
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
Yesterday was Yue's birthday, so, happy birthday, heh. Ya'll remember Yue, right? Yeah, you remember.
So since it's 12:47 AM right now, I'll make this a quick one and then finish up horrid English work, then go to bed. So, Psychology was just our group filming our commercial. The teacher gave us all an extension so it's now due Monday instead of tomorrow.
English was just some discussion, then more discussion, aaand a packet on analyzing the book line by line (literally), which is also the work I gotta finish. During break, I paid for my AP exams, apparently it was just me giving the person-guy the money and he writes my name and signs this receipt. I asked my buddy Et about it and yeah, that was it. Don't know if that's really what you do, but uh, whatever.
Biology was free time again, we get an optional practice worksheet, either do it or don't. Math was this chapter test, was fairly easy, except for the word problems which were pretty bootleg, not gonna lie. Lunch was the usual again, US History was notes, on notes, on notes. And finally Chinese where we have Chromebooks to do our e-portfolio's, aaand play some Kahoot games.
Tomorrow is audition day for us KDT people, and Saturday is apparently when we're gonna be performing at this one other High school where they're hosting this UNICEF charity dinner. We're just gonna do our same Lunar Show performance we did. I didn't know it was THIS Saturday, but apparently it is. So this means I gotta stay, pretty much all day on Saturday there. I still need to get my costume for the dance presentation for History, gotta learn some extra moves for it, and I swear, if my English teacher gives us the take-home essay this weekend, hooooo man. I'ma fucking choke a bitch, heh.
Anyways, see ya.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 "Long Plan."
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
Things could be a lot better. I'm trying not to pile up so much worries 'cause I don't wanna stress out right now. That comes later.
So I guess to make up for not really any homework in Psychology, the teacher gives us a group project due on Friday, which she assigned today. We gotta do a commercial for a product, umm, yeah. It does relate to our current lesson, which I have yet to study for. Our group chose a drink, and tomorrow we'll have Chromebooks in class to work on it. Hopefully we'll get the filming done tomorrow in class, because I don't wanna stay after school for this. Also, the teacher's making it a competition, but like, I don't think we're gonna win, heh. Maybe if it was individual work, maybe, but group, nah.
English was one of the better days, where we just read a poem, discuss about it, discuss about part of the book, and I managed to stay awake for it, I managed to stay awake today, heh. So yeah, not bad. Biology was not bad either, mostly 'cause we got free time to work on a worksheet, which is due for once, or just whatever. Last night I tried finding this packet that was due today. Apparently it was the wrong one, like, entirely, so in 2nd period I did it all on paper. Luckily it was just pre-lab structured, so pretty easy.
Math was the usual again, we take notes, do the lesson, work on work. Tomorrow's the chapter test, umm, not too worried because reviewing, I didn't really have much trouble. So, hopefully I get that B, heh. During lunch, I messaged Yn, just saying hello, and uh, basically did the same thing as usual. Then there was US History, where we had to research and answer questions based on stuff from the 50's, ranging from celebrities to trends to clothing, etc. Pretty basic.
I get a message back from Yn, she's like "Hey, Drew, how are you?" I'm like "Ay, I'm doing alright, how about you? I haven't seen you in a while." Then there was Chinese where we just read from the book, umm, basically it. Work was online stuff so couldn't really do it in class. And again, I did enjoy the company of my group members, we are very "chill," heh. And it sucks 'cause only now do I find it comforting where I'm sitting, and we gotta change seats on Monday.
So yeah. My conversation with Yn continued at home, apparently her schedule is still the same, just that instead of P.E, she has Art now. She asked me how it's been going with Lt and I, and I had to say that we don't really talk to each other anymore. I assured her it was a mutual thing, I guess, heh, and uh, she told me that she lost interest in her guy friend too. And apparently, she was staying after school to paint Pokemon on the door for this one teacher's classroom. It's a thing at our school where a teacher can ask to have his/her door painted by the art students here. And it's also an assignment too.
It was nice talking to Yn again, hopefully it can extend to how it was back in 100% Chance of Bad. Like, damn, I remember how she went on and on about stuff, while I was tired and getting ready for my naps, heh. Anyways, see ya.
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
Things could be a lot better. I'm trying not to pile up so much worries 'cause I don't wanna stress out right now. That comes later.
So I guess to make up for not really any homework in Psychology, the teacher gives us a group project due on Friday, which she assigned today. We gotta do a commercial for a product, umm, yeah. It does relate to our current lesson, which I have yet to study for. Our group chose a drink, and tomorrow we'll have Chromebooks in class to work on it. Hopefully we'll get the filming done tomorrow in class, because I don't wanna stay after school for this. Also, the teacher's making it a competition, but like, I don't think we're gonna win, heh. Maybe if it was individual work, maybe, but group, nah.
English was one of the better days, where we just read a poem, discuss about it, discuss about part of the book, and I managed to stay awake for it, I managed to stay awake today, heh. So yeah, not bad. Biology was not bad either, mostly 'cause we got free time to work on a worksheet, which is due for once, or just whatever. Last night I tried finding this packet that was due today. Apparently it was the wrong one, like, entirely, so in 2nd period I did it all on paper. Luckily it was just pre-lab structured, so pretty easy.
Math was the usual again, we take notes, do the lesson, work on work. Tomorrow's the chapter test, umm, not too worried because reviewing, I didn't really have much trouble. So, hopefully I get that B, heh. During lunch, I messaged Yn, just saying hello, and uh, basically did the same thing as usual. Then there was US History, where we had to research and answer questions based on stuff from the 50's, ranging from celebrities to trends to clothing, etc. Pretty basic.
I get a message back from Yn, she's like "Hey, Drew, how are you?" I'm like "Ay, I'm doing alright, how about you? I haven't seen you in a while." Then there was Chinese where we just read from the book, umm, basically it. Work was online stuff so couldn't really do it in class. And again, I did enjoy the company of my group members, we are very "chill," heh. And it sucks 'cause only now do I find it comforting where I'm sitting, and we gotta change seats on Monday.
So yeah. My conversation with Yn continued at home, apparently her schedule is still the same, just that instead of P.E, she has Art now. She asked me how it's been going with Lt and I, and I had to say that we don't really talk to each other anymore. I assured her it was a mutual thing, I guess, heh, and uh, she told me that she lost interest in her guy friend too. And apparently, she was staying after school to paint Pokemon on the door for this one teacher's classroom. It's a thing at our school where a teacher can ask to have his/her door painted by the art students here. And it's also an assignment too.
It was nice talking to Yn again, hopefully it can extend to how it was back in 100% Chance of Bad. Like, damn, I remember how she went on and on about stuff, while I was tired and getting ready for my naps, heh. Anyways, see ya.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 "Boring Times."
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
There definitely needs to be change, like, now. The series has gotten pretty boring besides the specials. Other than that, episodes are really lackluster.
For instance, Psychology is either just notes, shitty group work, or a test. Just one of those three, and today was the 2nd, which wasn't really group work anyways, I kinda just drowsily wrote down shit on a worksheet.
English was a bit shittier with my group having to present our art, which I basically forgot all the significance about. I think there was another discussion, I can't remember for the life of me what else we did 'cause I was really sleepy and tired.
Biology was just us having the Chromebooks today, we were to either work on a practice POGIL (which is like, a worksheet, like the official AP Biology section practice worksheets) or work on our "mealworm lab" packet that's apparently due tomorrow. Couldn't find it for the life of me, I found one that I remember looked very similar to the one we got in class. Printed it out, did it, hopefully the teacher accepts it because right now, I have an F surprisingly. There's only about 50 points or so in the gradebook, about 10 assignments only (like really?), and I'm missing 20 points so therefore I have an F. Pretty shit, because it'll be on my progress report and shit, and I'm gonna get called out by my mom on it, heh.
Math was the usual, again, except this time it was review and we got to see our grades. 77%, not too bad, just need to do well on this next test and boom, I'm set with that clear 80%. Lunch, was probably the turning point that made me think "Yeah, it's time for change." Ek and Ag were just talking about badminton, badminton, fucking badminton. Jk was just there, talking about badminton too sometimes. DrewN and I were just, there, on our phones. Like, what the fuck else were we supposed to do? I'll make an attempt to find others that I can "hang out" with, 'cause at least that'll be new and most likely will be more interesting than listen to badminton gossip.
US History was alright, a bit too alright 'cause I kept on falling asleep every now and then. We watched a film, about, America I guess. For the whole period, and uh, lights were off, nice ambiance, perfect environment for me to sleep. Chinese made up for the times I felt bored today. Our group is more active now in conversations, we interacted a lot with each other and with the group in front of us. Even Mt thought the same thing as well, she was like "I like this group, we get along."
It's too bad we gotta change seats on Monday next week 'cause we'll be starting lesson 18 soon. So yeah, went home, got myself a nice nap, and now here I am, finishing up English work (which I despise) and Bio work (which I also kinda hate). I'll see what I can do tomorrow in finding others to interact with. Until then, I'm kinda stuck with listening to chats about the badminton coach and team members and all that. See ya.
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
There definitely needs to be change, like, now. The series has gotten pretty boring besides the specials. Other than that, episodes are really lackluster.
For instance, Psychology is either just notes, shitty group work, or a test. Just one of those three, and today was the 2nd, which wasn't really group work anyways, I kinda just drowsily wrote down shit on a worksheet.
English was a bit shittier with my group having to present our art, which I basically forgot all the significance about. I think there was another discussion, I can't remember for the life of me what else we did 'cause I was really sleepy and tired.
Biology was just us having the Chromebooks today, we were to either work on a practice POGIL (which is like, a worksheet, like the official AP Biology section practice worksheets) or work on our "mealworm lab" packet that's apparently due tomorrow. Couldn't find it for the life of me, I found one that I remember looked very similar to the one we got in class. Printed it out, did it, hopefully the teacher accepts it because right now, I have an F surprisingly. There's only about 50 points or so in the gradebook, about 10 assignments only (like really?), and I'm missing 20 points so therefore I have an F. Pretty shit, because it'll be on my progress report and shit, and I'm gonna get called out by my mom on it, heh.
Math was the usual, again, except this time it was review and we got to see our grades. 77%, not too bad, just need to do well on this next test and boom, I'm set with that clear 80%. Lunch, was probably the turning point that made me think "Yeah, it's time for change." Ek and Ag were just talking about badminton, badminton, fucking badminton. Jk was just there, talking about badminton too sometimes. DrewN and I were just, there, on our phones. Like, what the fuck else were we supposed to do? I'll make an attempt to find others that I can "hang out" with, 'cause at least that'll be new and most likely will be more interesting than listen to badminton gossip.
US History was alright, a bit too alright 'cause I kept on falling asleep every now and then. We watched a film, about, America I guess. For the whole period, and uh, lights were off, nice ambiance, perfect environment for me to sleep. Chinese made up for the times I felt bored today. Our group is more active now in conversations, we interacted a lot with each other and with the group in front of us. Even Mt thought the same thing as well, she was like "I like this group, we get along."
It's too bad we gotta change seats on Monday next week 'cause we'll be starting lesson 18 soon. So yeah, went home, got myself a nice nap, and now here I am, finishing up English work (which I despise) and Bio work (which I also kinda hate). I'll see what I can do tomorrow in finding others to interact with. Until then, I'm kinda stuck with listening to chats about the badminton coach and team members and all that. See ya.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Monday, February 22, 2016 "After-break Monday."
Monday, February 22, 2016
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: In Fact - Nu'est
Just as I expected, I was pretty sleepy today. Kinda plays a large part in how I work because being tired sorta lowers my motivations. Like, I just wanna sleep.
So Psychology was just as expected, we corrected our own tests and then took notes. I think I've said this before but I don't like peer corrections. It's like a cheap way for the teacher to do less work in my opinion, more than, you get to see your own mistakes, other's mistakes, etc. But that's just my opinion. Class time could've been spent learning material, than, literally being our own T.A's.
English was horrid, again, heh. There was a quiz to "test" if we've read what we were supposed to read. Yeah, I'm sure most of the class did pretty shit on it. It wasn't actual plot stuff, it was more of "What did this character say on page 394" kind of stuff. The plot's hard enough to understand as it is since we're reading "Beloved," and it's like, surreal sorta stream of consciousness shit, but we gotta memorize, that's literally it, we gotta memorize each specific word and sentence. It's not even about understanding, it's about memorization. Cheap memorization too.
I didn't think there would be any work for Bio over the break, but apparently there was. And I knew it, I just didn't check. And also the teacher said to chill and relax. We even asked her if there was anything due the day before break and she was like "Just chill, relax, it's almost ski break." And whadya know, there's an outline due. Luckily I did do a small legit-looking one during break, so, there's that. We just had a lecture, and fin.
Math was the usual again, nothing too crazy. Lunch was actually at the KDT meeting, where we signed up for which dances we wanted to do at the UNICEF charity dinner. We were to perform the same songs for Lunar Show, and uh, I was only in the first 2 dances, about 20 seconds, so I signed up for that. All there was too it basically. After lunch was US History, where we uh, basically did a worksheet, talked a bit about the Korean war, soviets, all that. Our project's due on March 1st, not sure that everyone's gonna go on that day so I don't know when to wear my greaser costume (which I still have to get). Chinese was plain old Chinese, but there was some more convo's along within our group. It was pretty good. I mentioned that I went to see DeadPool over break, on Sunday, and the girl sitting behind me said she might have saw me. Hmm.
After school was just some practice for our audition on Friday, to see if we actually get accepted into the VSA show. I was only in the SUBOI beginning dance now, so I didn't really have much to do. It was 20 minutes of practice, then on my phone for about an hour. Then it came to doing my part again, along with the whole runthrough. And also the guy who complimented on me for my dance praised me again when he stopped by. He was like "Ay, good work on the dance" or something, and I'm like "Oh thanks!" Reassured me that "Ay, not bad," heh.
So anyways, not quite as calm as I wanted it all to be, mostly due to English. Tomorrow my group and I are probably gonna have to present our art that we did like weeks ago. I forgot all about what we did and purpose behind it, but, I'll just wing it. Overall, nothing too bad. Also, gotta pay $184 for my 2 AP exams that I'll be taking in a few months. AP Biology, and AP Psychology. Yep, gonna rip me to shreds. Without further ado, see ya.
Week: 28
Songs to Remember: In Fact - Nu'est
Just as I expected, I was pretty sleepy today. Kinda plays a large part in how I work because being tired sorta lowers my motivations. Like, I just wanna sleep.
So Psychology was just as expected, we corrected our own tests and then took notes. I think I've said this before but I don't like peer corrections. It's like a cheap way for the teacher to do less work in my opinion, more than, you get to see your own mistakes, other's mistakes, etc. But that's just my opinion. Class time could've been spent learning material, than, literally being our own T.A's.
English was horrid, again, heh. There was a quiz to "test" if we've read what we were supposed to read. Yeah, I'm sure most of the class did pretty shit on it. It wasn't actual plot stuff, it was more of "What did this character say on page 394" kind of stuff. The plot's hard enough to understand as it is since we're reading "Beloved," and it's like, surreal sorta stream of consciousness shit, but we gotta memorize, that's literally it, we gotta memorize each specific word and sentence. It's not even about understanding, it's about memorization. Cheap memorization too.
I didn't think there would be any work for Bio over the break, but apparently there was. And I knew it, I just didn't check. And also the teacher said to chill and relax. We even asked her if there was anything due the day before break and she was like "Just chill, relax, it's almost ski break." And whadya know, there's an outline due. Luckily I did do a small legit-looking one during break, so, there's that. We just had a lecture, and fin.
Math was the usual again, nothing too crazy. Lunch was actually at the KDT meeting, where we signed up for which dances we wanted to do at the UNICEF charity dinner. We were to perform the same songs for Lunar Show, and uh, I was only in the first 2 dances, about 20 seconds, so I signed up for that. All there was too it basically. After lunch was US History, where we uh, basically did a worksheet, talked a bit about the Korean war, soviets, all that. Our project's due on March 1st, not sure that everyone's gonna go on that day so I don't know when to wear my greaser costume (which I still have to get). Chinese was plain old Chinese, but there was some more convo's along within our group. It was pretty good. I mentioned that I went to see DeadPool over break, on Sunday, and the girl sitting behind me said she might have saw me. Hmm.
After school was just some practice for our audition on Friday, to see if we actually get accepted into the VSA show. I was only in the SUBOI beginning dance now, so I didn't really have much to do. It was 20 minutes of practice, then on my phone for about an hour. Then it came to doing my part again, along with the whole runthrough. And also the guy who complimented on me for my dance praised me again when he stopped by. He was like "Ay, good work on the dance" or something, and I'm like "Oh thanks!" Reassured me that "Ay, not bad," heh.
So anyways, not quite as calm as I wanted it all to be, mostly due to English. Tomorrow my group and I are probably gonna have to present our art that we did like weeks ago. I forgot all about what we did and purpose behind it, but, I'll just wing it. Overall, nothing too bad. Also, gotta pay $184 for my 2 AP exams that I'll be taking in a few months. AP Biology, and AP Psychology. Yep, gonna rip me to shreds. Without further ado, see ya.
Monday, February 22, 2016
Sunday, February 21, 2016 "Break Withdrawal."
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: Bickering - Nu'est
I got really tired today for some reason, like, why couldn't I have been tired the days before today, the day before break ends and I gotta wake up at 7:30 AM conditionally.
So I did finish that report today, probably not due tomorrow, I remember the teacher said she would give us an extension since it ain't exactly 3 weeks since she assigned us the assignment. But, it's nice that it's done. I also finished the FRQ which took about an hour as well. And now it's 12:43 AM. Well, time to clean all this shit up and get to bed. Tomorrow's gonna be a long day. Literally. There's a KDT meeting during lunch and practice afterschool. So, yeah, see ya.
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: Bickering - Nu'est
I got really tired today for some reason, like, why couldn't I have been tired the days before today, the day before break ends and I gotta wake up at 7:30 AM conditionally.
So I did finish that report today, probably not due tomorrow, I remember the teacher said she would give us an extension since it ain't exactly 3 weeks since she assigned us the assignment. But, it's nice that it's done. I also finished the FRQ which took about an hour as well. And now it's 12:43 AM. Well, time to clean all this shit up and get to bed. Tomorrow's gonna be a long day. Literally. There's a KDT meeting during lunch and practice afterschool. So, yeah, see ya.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Saturday, February 20, 2016 "Last Minute."
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: In Fact - Nu'est
If you wondering, no, I didn't start on my Psychology report paper today. That comes tomorrow, heh. I did however Skype with my cousin after a while. Nothing much has been going, still the same old, same old.
And yes, I did do "the usual" stuff today, just like I did the for the rest of the days of this week. But, it's been relaxing. And yeah I practiced more of MIN's "Get Out" dance. Now I've been thinking, if this is the same as Lunar Show auditions, does it me- wait, I think I did talk about this before in my last post. Because like damn, I signed up for 5 songs, does that mean I'm still in those 5 songs for the VSA show?
Well, anyways, tired, it's 12:14 AM, see ya.
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: In Fact - Nu'est
If you wondering, no, I didn't start on my Psychology report paper today. That comes tomorrow, heh. I did however Skype with my cousin after a while. Nothing much has been going, still the same old, same old.
And yes, I did do "the usual" stuff today, just like I did the for the rest of the days of this week. But, it's been relaxing. And yeah I practiced more of MIN's "Get Out" dance. Now I've been thinking, if this is the same as Lunar Show auditions, does it me- wait, I think I did talk about this before in my last post. Because like damn, I signed up for 5 songs, does that mean I'm still in those 5 songs for the VSA show?
Well, anyways, tired, it's 12:14 AM, see ya.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Friday, February 19, 2016 "What Everyone Needs."
Friday, February 19, 2016
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
Wake up at 8:30 AM to practice KDT dances, meet up with Ad again, practice some more 'till 12:00 PM, get home, my buddy Et comes over at like 4:30 PM, we get to the sushi place at 6:00 PM, meet up with Ec, Jp, and his friends, eat 'till 8:30 PM, head on home to find something I think everyone needs.
Overall, practice wasn't that great as I would've liked it to be. We went over
Hồ Ngọc Hà's "My Baby" dance again, which I did participate in for fun, but I'm not actually signed up for it. It went alright, a bit shaky on some parts, and to be honest, I didn't practice it at home, 'cause I'm just doing it for fun. The next dance was MIN's "Get Out," which was a new dance that we just learned today.
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
Wake up at 8:30 AM to practice KDT dances, meet up with Ad again, practice some more 'till 12:00 PM, get home, my buddy Et comes over at like 4:30 PM, we get to the sushi place at 6:00 PM, meet up with Ec, Jp, and his friends, eat 'till 8:30 PM, head on home to find something I think everyone needs.
Overall, practice wasn't that great as I would've liked it to be. We went over
Hồ Ngọc Hà's "My Baby" dance again, which I did participate in for fun, but I'm not actually signed up for it. It went alright, a bit shaky on some parts, and to be honest, I didn't practice it at home, 'cause I'm just doing it for fun. The next dance was MIN's "Get Out," which was a new dance that we just learned today.
I think it would've went better had we not have like an audition rehearsal (record, audition rehearsal). Because, I was trying to umm, focus on the moves for SUBOI's "Tro Choi," for which I signed up for, and, trying to remember the moves I just learned from today, a one hour practice. Trying to remember a old dance (not exactly old, but you get what I mean) and trying to remember a new dance that I just learned an hour ago kinda fucked with my head, and so, I nailed the SUBOI dance by a mile, but kinda flopped on the My Baby one.
And it does show in the recording, which the KDT president will use to decide to cut people from doing which auditions. Now I think, I'm not exactly sure, but I think if you get cut from doing the dance, it's only for the audition, as in, we're going to have to shoot an audition tape and send it to the club/ organization to see if they will accept us into their show. Even though it's just for that, it still is pretty major to me. So what I'm trying to say is that I'm probably going to get cut for MIN's "Get Out," but on the bright side I'm probably gonna stay in SUBOI's "Tro Choi," but the reason why comes later.
So, after practice, I get home, get some free time for a few hours, my buddy Et gets over to my house at 4:30 PM, earlier than the 5:00 PM time, we play the Hitman beta and like, he goes on the OSU subreddit, up until 5:30 PM when we leave. With the traffic, took us 40 minutes, Mc and Jl (Mc's friend whom we've met through him) were already there. Ec, Jp, and his friends were still getting over here. Apparently Jp was the one driving all of 'em, his phone directions weren't working that well, and uh, he was vaping too. A big formula for disaster technically, but luckily it wasn't, heh.
They finally arrived at around 6:40 PM, we chill outside (literally, it was pretty cold, heh) 'till we got a table for the 8 of us. We ordered 3 rounds of sushi, spent $30 each, spent about an hour inside, and of course took Snapchats of just about everything. Waited outside after we were done, each getting picked up one by one. It was nice, refreshing actually. It's like "Ay dude, haven't seen you in months, even though we talk on the Discord chat like everyday. heh."
After my dad finally arrived, Et and I left, said our farewells, and uh, went home. We dropped Et off at his house this time of course, last time we dropped him off "near" his house, but apparently he had to walk like, 3/4 of a mile, heh. This time he made sure we were "near" his house. On the car ride home however, somebody messaged the KDT group chat. It was this one dude, the guy who was moved by his last Lunar Show performance, who asked:
"omg, who is the new guy member, he is gud"
"which one??" "Who what" "the one in suboi"
"The one in the front?"
"yeah"
"Thats andreww"
"LOL"
"Who"
"awwww, he got better"
"Good job Andrew!!"
"Hard work paid off"
"See i told youll make it through andrewwww"
"YAAYYY"
"YASSSS ANDREW"
There were more uh, party horn emoji thingies and I did reply, but uh, I don't think it was all necessary to include here, heh. But yeah, that initial "who is the new guy member" part, I was like "There aren't many guys in KDT, I'm thinking he's talking about me." And whadya know, I get a compliment from not just, in my opinion, the top dancer in KDT currently, but compliments from others as well, of which I will hold dearly for a long time.
When we were shooting the SUBOI dance practice, most people didn't really want to be in the front, from what I saw, I did it because I really was confident, 'cause I did practice and analyze it at home. Thinking about the practice I did for this dance compared to others, it was alot, I paused and replayed the choreography video multiple times to review, heh. I guess that hard work really did py off, because I got noticed by the top KDT member and with his comment about me, sprang the rest of this morale boost that I did not expect.
And I'm really thankful for that. I really needed it, heh. And after just experiencing this, just one time, made me feel like 50 pounds lighter. I feel that everyone should be able to experience this feeling more often because it's like, so sincere and rare, it definitely made my day, for sure. Just something small like that can really change a person's mood.
So, that was all there was today. I did play some more League with my buddies when I got home, I also found out that the cast had a game night tonight. Didn't bother me much because of the support I got from KDT, and because I muted the cast group chat so I didn't really get a notice about the game night plan. Also I had planned to go to eat sushi with my buddies anyways, so, heh.
All is good right now, except for the fact that I gotta start on that Psychology report tomorrow, and that break's ending in 2 days. Not ready to go back to my regular schedule, especially after all this. Anyways, see ya.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016 "Card Wars."
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
Well it's another uh, relaxing day again, just League. And, Card Wars. I did practice a bit on the dances I gotta uhh audition for tomorrow, and, decided I'll just create my own moves to accompany the Hand Jive dance. Because it's pretty short and easy, I gotta add something else to it, and learning something a bit advanced is gonna take a bit too much effort, heh.
Oh, Card Wars. It's this Adventure Time card game based on the episode of the same name. It's apparently available as both a mobile game, and, an actual physical card game. Pretty cool. I actually got an email today from Amazon, saying that I got a free $25 app credit to spend. It expires in March, and most of the paid apps are pretty shit, so uh, I went and got Minecraft: Pocket Edition, Terraria for mobile, and Card Wars. I forgot all about Card Wars until I browsed through the available apps on Amazon.
It's pretty fun so far. Basically like Hearthstone, except, not exactly pay to win, heh. I had $9 leftover so I gave a copy of Card Wars to my buddy Ec. Umm, so yeah, practice tomorrow from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM, again, and, 6:30 PM is when I go to this sushi place, the same one, with my other buddies, Ec, Et, Mc, Jp, Jl (met through Mc), and Jp's friend whom is really just Jp's friend currently. Also Et's coming over to my house, again. I told him I could just pick him up at his house, but, he'll hang out for a bit here. He's coming over at 5:00 PM, so uh, yeah.
Gonna be lots of fun, one of the many more specials to come in The Days, and uh, see ya.
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
Well it's another uh, relaxing day again, just League. And, Card Wars. I did practice a bit on the dances I gotta uhh audition for tomorrow, and, decided I'll just create my own moves to accompany the Hand Jive dance. Because it's pretty short and easy, I gotta add something else to it, and learning something a bit advanced is gonna take a bit too much effort, heh.
Oh, Card Wars. It's this Adventure Time card game based on the episode of the same name. It's apparently available as both a mobile game, and, an actual physical card game. Pretty cool. I actually got an email today from Amazon, saying that I got a free $25 app credit to spend. It expires in March, and most of the paid apps are pretty shit, so uh, I went and got Minecraft: Pocket Edition, Terraria for mobile, and Card Wars. I forgot all about Card Wars until I browsed through the available apps on Amazon.
It's pretty fun so far. Basically like Hearthstone, except, not exactly pay to win, heh. I had $9 leftover so I gave a copy of Card Wars to my buddy Ec. Umm, so yeah, practice tomorrow from 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM, again, and, 6:30 PM is when I go to this sushi place, the same one, with my other buddies, Ec, Et, Mc, Jp, Jl (met through Mc), and Jp's friend whom is really just Jp's friend currently. Also Et's coming over to my house, again. I told him I could just pick him up at his house, but, he'll hang out for a bit here. He's coming over at 5:00 PM, so uh, yeah.
Gonna be lots of fun, one of the many more specials to come in The Days, and uh, see ya.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 "To Watch."
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
You know you're procrastinating a bit too much when you're holding off work and trying to look for new uploads from your subscriptions while complaining "Shit, there's nothing to watch."
I still only have a little bit left to read of Beloved, probably gonna just read the Sparknotes for the rest of it to be honest. I also need to start on the stupid project essay shit for Psychology, and start on the FRQ. Other than that, I don't think I have anything else to worry about. I mean, some people I've seen on Facebook have went to a camp for the week, Like, damn.
Other than watching videos, eating, sleeping, I've been playing League with my buddies. It's okay though, we'll meet up with eachother soon By that I mean, possibly Friday at this sushi place. I think it's the exact same place as last time. When was it? I have no idea, probably like October or something. Somewhere around there. Anyways, mostly got dances to learn (currently 2 for KDT, will be more, and 1 for US History).
I will also need a bootleg black leather jacket. Like, the ones greasers where in 50's films. You know. Think Fonzarelli. Anyways, see ya.
Week: 27
Songs to Remember: Overcome - Nu'est
You know you're procrastinating a bit too much when you're holding off work and trying to look for new uploads from your subscriptions while complaining "Shit, there's nothing to watch."
I still only have a little bit left to read of Beloved, probably gonna just read the Sparknotes for the rest of it to be honest. I also need to start on the stupid project essay shit for Psychology, and start on the FRQ. Other than that, I don't think I have anything else to worry about. I mean, some people I've seen on Facebook have went to a camp for the week, Like, damn.
Other than watching videos, eating, sleeping, I've been playing League with my buddies. It's okay though, we'll meet up with eachother soon By that I mean, possibly Friday at this sushi place. I think it's the exact same place as last time. When was it? I have no idea, probably like October or something. Somewhere around there. Anyways, mostly got dances to learn (currently 2 for KDT, will be more, and 1 for US History).
I will also need a bootleg black leather jacket. Like, the ones greasers where in 50's films. You know. Think Fonzarelli. Anyways, see ya.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 "Sick of Mornings."
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Week: 27
Songs to Remember:
I am now sick for apparent reason. I wash my hands, I don't touch anything, I wasn't cold this morning, but damn, I'm feeling like shit right now.
Anyways, I was driven to my school at 8:28 AM in the morning, to which I found was empty. So I was like "Yep, practice is at the city library." Went to the 4th floor parking lot, they had already started practice, nobody asked questions, I thought I had some caching up to do but apparently not because they were just re-teaching the moves we already learned, which I had practiced, heh.
We then were taught a new dance at 10:00 AM, the dance itself is pretty weird, so is the song, another VIetpop song, but uh, I actually got the hang of it pretty well surprisingly. At 12:00 PM practice ended and we got to go home. I played League, about a half-hour of Maplestory, and just recently finished the first mission in the Hitman Beta for the PS4. Cool game, I know the gameplay and whatnot but have never played this type before.
Fun, but frusturating when fuckers are always suspicious of me. Like, what the hell, I'm a security guard, why do you have to be suspicious of me. I was actually pretty sleepy about 2 hours ago, almost wanted to just nap right here until I got the Hitman beta to download. Played it up 'till now, 12:20 AM. Didn't get much done today, but I'll blame my sickness on this one, so, see ya.
Week: 27
Songs to Remember:
I am now sick for apparent reason. I wash my hands, I don't touch anything, I wasn't cold this morning, but damn, I'm feeling like shit right now.
Anyways, I was driven to my school at 8:28 AM in the morning, to which I found was empty. So I was like "Yep, practice is at the city library." Went to the 4th floor parking lot, they had already started practice, nobody asked questions, I thought I had some caching up to do but apparently not because they were just re-teaching the moves we already learned, which I had practiced, heh.
We then were taught a new dance at 10:00 AM, the dance itself is pretty weird, so is the song, another VIetpop song, but uh, I actually got the hang of it pretty well surprisingly. At 12:00 PM practice ended and we got to go home. I played League, about a half-hour of Maplestory, and just recently finished the first mission in the Hitman Beta for the PS4. Cool game, I know the gameplay and whatnot but have never played this type before.
Fun, but frusturating when fuckers are always suspicious of me. Like, what the hell, I'm a security guard, why do you have to be suspicious of me. I was actually pretty sleepy about 2 hours ago, almost wanted to just nap right here until I got the Hitman beta to download. Played it up 'till now, 12:20 AM. Didn't get much done today, but I'll blame my sickness on this one, so, see ya.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Monday, February 15, 2016 "The Waiting Game."
Monday, February 15, 2016
Week: 27
Songs to Remember:
So to make a long day short, or the other way around, I basically just searched everywhere on torrent sites for a free audiobook for fucking Beloved. I only found a couple torrents, both of which were kinda corrupted on the download. I signed up for the free trial for fucking audible, but their online player is horrid and kept on buffering to no end.
I finally got a working one after re-downloading one of those torrents successfully. Spent about an hour staring at my book while it was playing. Still not even done, heh, it was like 40 pages out of 70. My buddy Ec got home from his trip to the mountain temples (of which I figured out after wondering where my dad went on Sunday. Apparently he went with his brother, and like, my dad's side of the family).
We played League, there wasn't really shit to do because I was just bored, he was tired after a long day of waiting in the car. I spent about a half hour practicing and refining the SUBOI dance for tomorrow. We're having practice starting from, you guessed it, 8:30 AM in the morning. It says the school library but maybe it's like a typo and supposed to be the city library since there was practice there before. I'm just going to the school library since it says so on the post and if there's nobody there and I'll be late, I'll just say I was going with what the post said.
So yeah, I'll see you tomorrow. See ya.
Week: 27
Songs to Remember:
So to make a long day short, or the other way around, I basically just searched everywhere on torrent sites for a free audiobook for fucking Beloved. I only found a couple torrents, both of which were kinda corrupted on the download. I signed up for the free trial for fucking audible, but their online player is horrid and kept on buffering to no end.
I finally got a working one after re-downloading one of those torrents successfully. Spent about an hour staring at my book while it was playing. Still not even done, heh, it was like 40 pages out of 70. My buddy Ec got home from his trip to the mountain temples (of which I figured out after wondering where my dad went on Sunday. Apparently he went with his brother, and like, my dad's side of the family).
We played League, there wasn't really shit to do because I was just bored, he was tired after a long day of waiting in the car. I spent about a half hour practicing and refining the SUBOI dance for tomorrow. We're having practice starting from, you guessed it, 8:30 AM in the morning. It says the school library but maybe it's like a typo and supposed to be the city library since there was practice there before. I'm just going to the school library since it says so on the post and if there's nobody there and I'll be late, I'll just say I was going with what the post said.
So yeah, I'll see you tomorrow. See ya.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Sunday, February 14, 2016 "Theatrical Pooling."
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: What's Wrong - iKon
Have you ever noticed that I'm always met with bad feelings before great events? Examples being the 2nd to last episode of 100% Chance of Bad, the Lunar Show: Day Show special, and most recently, just yesterday, heh. Those are just some examples.
Usually it's just me that causes this, with my mind taking things a bit too much than they really are. So, what made this so great anyway? Well, not the greatest, I'd just say good. a 7/10. DrewN messaged me this morning if I was still down to watch Deadpool. I was feeling a bit lazy, but got off my ass and said alright.
I was actually finishing up watching Warm Bodies in the morning. Last night I got to about halfway through the movie before it was 2:00 AM and decided I didn't wanna fuck up my sleep cycles anymore than they already are. I've been meaning to watch Warm Bodies for a while now, and by that I mean about a couple weeks, heh. I saw a horror movie blooper video and there was this "Warm Bodies" movie in it. Judging by the title, I thought it was like a bootleg Scary Movie type of shit. Fortunately, it wasn't.
It's actually a romantic comedy, but with zombies. A zombie dude falls for this human girl and with love and stuff, he starts becoming human again. Usually something like that would go very horrible, but this movie's different. It's original, for one thing, and it's well written. There's a lot of character development, plot is pretty surreal but ya gotta role with it and dig into the deeper meanings. A lot of Romeo & Juliet tropes, umm, the soundtrack was amazing. Overall, it was nice. Definitely an 8/10. Would've been higher had it not have the freaking CGI spooky scary skeletons, heh.
Anyways, met up with DrewN at the theaters, out in the plaza. And yeah, there were some pretty long lines, heh, but hey, I'm sure it would've been longer yesterday and the day before that. We waited in line, which actually didn't take very long. Our other buddy was coming too to watch so that was cool. Our other buddy actually hung out with Ec and I at our old, old spot. He switched to hanging out with other people at the L building, including Cc. But I still see him now and then, 'cause he's in our math class, heh.
Alright Drew, if you don't wanna cringe hard from this social embarrassment, don't read the next couple paragraphs. I warned ya. So, before DrewN and I waited in line, we had to look for a movie close to the time for the Deadpool showing so we can get a ticket for that movie, then sneak into theater for Deadpool, because, it's rated R, and uh, only people 17 and above are allowed in,. Now I don't go to the movies often, err, often enough, alright. He said to look for a movie showing that was close to the time, and that was basically what I payed attention to.
There were two sides, the left-side theater rooms, and the right-side theater rooms. Both are the same, I think, just that they have different showings or whatever. Guess they can't have 'em all look around and be connected. Anyways, I saw that "Zoolander 2" (motherfucking Zoolander 2) was at 1:30 PM, and our Deadpool showing was at 1:40 PM. So, I said "Alright, Zoolander 2's at 1:30 PM so let's pick that." I go to the ticket person and ask for a ticket to Deadpool, and she was like "Can I see your ID?" "I have my school ID." "I need to see a California State ID or driver's license." Shit. "Can I just get a ticket to Zoolander 2 instead for 1:30 PM." Yeah, shameful, heh. She was probably thinking "This guy's gonna fucking try to sneak in ain't he."
We go in, we look at the big showtime signs, apparently the theater sides do matter, because Zoolander 2 is on the right side, and no Deadpool, which was on the left side. We tried to hand the usher dude our tickets and hopefully he wouldn't notice, but uh, he did, and said "This movie's on the other side." The dude was an older gentleman, which did play a part in all this. So we're like "Shit, the fuck do we do" and I'm just like "Fucking Drew, you had one job, you could'a picked any movie really, but you just had to pick the one on the wrong side." We then saw the older gentleman mopping the floor, and was like 20 feet away from us. We also saw that the ticket checker person was a teen like us, so this was our chance. We went up and he was like "This movie's on the other side" and we're just like "Come on man, please" and he's like "Alright fam, I gotchu guys."
Motherfucking MVP right there, I love that dude, heh. He let us in, he understood our struggles, we're all like "Damn dude" and "I owe that guy a blowjob" or whatever, heh. The theater was packed, like, literally. The only other seats were the ones on the sides and the ones really close, up-front to the screen. The movie started, the movie ended, Deadpool was alright. A couple things that sorta confused me was that this one dude in our row had his fucking notification sound on his phone on. Like, really? And there was this father (who was most likely out on a Valentine's day date with his wife) who brought his baby here.
Sure it was whatever but, this movie ain't for kids. And I thought there'd be a PG version of it, or at least a PG-13 version that's heavily cut, but no, it's just the R version. There was blood, gore, violence, harsh language, and yes, nudity. Not just a sex scene, well, multiple sex scenes (which for the MOST part, was censored), but yeah you do see fucking titties in this movie, not gonna lie. And not just a pair either, there were multiple. I'm sure my buddies weren't expecting it, I was expecting the sex scene(s) but not the 70% body nudity, heh. Overall, cool movie, the it started off with action, which I liked, but then it felt sorta long with the origin and background stuff in-between, but other than that, funny, action-y, and uh, Deapool-y. 8/10.
Well that's one movie off my checklist for this year. DrewN, our buddy, and I walked around the mall for bit before we all went home. I noticed on the way out of the theater room was a movie poster with the words "Cloverfield on it." I was like "Wait a second." I read the title, read the catchy text, and was like "Yep, 10 Cloverfield Lane," let out a big sigh, and was like "Finally, after 8 years." I loved Cloverfield, and they're finally making a sequel. But apparently, after reading up about it, it's more of like a spin-off really, the production of the movie was for something different, and halfway through was it turned into a Cloverfield movie.
And what's even more crazy, is that it's coming out on March 11th. Like, really? All this time and I haven't even heard about it 'till now. Anyways, gonna have to watch that, including "The Boy," which I might watch tonight. I already finished Warm Bodies today, which did make for a nice Valentine's day-esque movie. Other than that, nothing really lovey-dovey today, heh. And stop fucking making yourself out like a special snowflake Drew, there's a lot more people who're experiencing the exact same shit as you. And it's fucking Valentine's day, I'm sure there's plenty of girls going "Damn, spending Valentine's day by myself again." Grow the fuck up Drew.
SO yeah. Umm, didn't really get any work done today, mostly was just relaxing. I'm planning to get at least one thing done each night, whether it be dance practice, a portion of an essay done, or whatever. Anyways, gonna go to bed now, before I succumb to my shit sleep schedule again. See ya.
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: What's Wrong - iKon
Have you ever noticed that I'm always met with bad feelings before great events? Examples being the 2nd to last episode of 100% Chance of Bad, the Lunar Show: Day Show special, and most recently, just yesterday, heh. Those are just some examples.
Usually it's just me that causes this, with my mind taking things a bit too much than they really are. So, what made this so great anyway? Well, not the greatest, I'd just say good. a 7/10. DrewN messaged me this morning if I was still down to watch Deadpool. I was feeling a bit lazy, but got off my ass and said alright.
I was actually finishing up watching Warm Bodies in the morning. Last night I got to about halfway through the movie before it was 2:00 AM and decided I didn't wanna fuck up my sleep cycles anymore than they already are. I've been meaning to watch Warm Bodies for a while now, and by that I mean about a couple weeks, heh. I saw a horror movie blooper video and there was this "Warm Bodies" movie in it. Judging by the title, I thought it was like a bootleg Scary Movie type of shit. Fortunately, it wasn't.
It's actually a romantic comedy, but with zombies. A zombie dude falls for this human girl and with love and stuff, he starts becoming human again. Usually something like that would go very horrible, but this movie's different. It's original, for one thing, and it's well written. There's a lot of character development, plot is pretty surreal but ya gotta role with it and dig into the deeper meanings. A lot of Romeo & Juliet tropes, umm, the soundtrack was amazing. Overall, it was nice. Definitely an 8/10. Would've been higher had it not have the freaking CGI spooky scary skeletons, heh.
Anyways, met up with DrewN at the theaters, out in the plaza. And yeah, there were some pretty long lines, heh, but hey, I'm sure it would've been longer yesterday and the day before that. We waited in line, which actually didn't take very long. Our other buddy was coming too to watch so that was cool. Our other buddy actually hung out with Ec and I at our old, old spot. He switched to hanging out with other people at the L building, including Cc. But I still see him now and then, 'cause he's in our math class, heh.
Alright Drew, if you don't wanna cringe hard from this social embarrassment, don't read the next couple paragraphs. I warned ya. So, before DrewN and I waited in line, we had to look for a movie close to the time for the Deadpool showing so we can get a ticket for that movie, then sneak into theater for Deadpool, because, it's rated R, and uh, only people 17 and above are allowed in,. Now I don't go to the movies often, err, often enough, alright. He said to look for a movie showing that was close to the time, and that was basically what I payed attention to.
There were two sides, the left-side theater rooms, and the right-side theater rooms. Both are the same, I think, just that they have different showings or whatever. Guess they can't have 'em all look around and be connected. Anyways, I saw that "Zoolander 2" (motherfucking Zoolander 2) was at 1:30 PM, and our Deadpool showing was at 1:40 PM. So, I said "Alright, Zoolander 2's at 1:30 PM so let's pick that." I go to the ticket person and ask for a ticket to Deadpool, and she was like "Can I see your ID?" "I have my school ID." "I need to see a California State ID or driver's license." Shit. "Can I just get a ticket to Zoolander 2 instead for 1:30 PM." Yeah, shameful, heh. She was probably thinking "This guy's gonna fucking try to sneak in ain't he."
We go in, we look at the big showtime signs, apparently the theater sides do matter, because Zoolander 2 is on the right side, and no Deadpool, which was on the left side. We tried to hand the usher dude our tickets and hopefully he wouldn't notice, but uh, he did, and said "This movie's on the other side." The dude was an older gentleman, which did play a part in all this. So we're like "Shit, the fuck do we do" and I'm just like "Fucking Drew, you had one job, you could'a picked any movie really, but you just had to pick the one on the wrong side." We then saw the older gentleman mopping the floor, and was like 20 feet away from us. We also saw that the ticket checker person was a teen like us, so this was our chance. We went up and he was like "This movie's on the other side" and we're just like "Come on man, please" and he's like "Alright fam, I gotchu guys."
Motherfucking MVP right there, I love that dude, heh. He let us in, he understood our struggles, we're all like "Damn dude" and "I owe that guy a blowjob" or whatever, heh. The theater was packed, like, literally. The only other seats were the ones on the sides and the ones really close, up-front to the screen. The movie started, the movie ended, Deadpool was alright. A couple things that sorta confused me was that this one dude in our row had his fucking notification sound on his phone on. Like, really? And there was this father (who was most likely out on a Valentine's day date with his wife) who brought his baby here.
Sure it was whatever but, this movie ain't for kids. And I thought there'd be a PG version of it, or at least a PG-13 version that's heavily cut, but no, it's just the R version. There was blood, gore, violence, harsh language, and yes, nudity. Not just a sex scene, well, multiple sex scenes (which for the MOST part, was censored), but yeah you do see fucking titties in this movie, not gonna lie. And not just a pair either, there were multiple. I'm sure my buddies weren't expecting it, I was expecting the sex scene(s) but not the 70% body nudity, heh. Overall, cool movie, the it started off with action, which I liked, but then it felt sorta long with the origin and background stuff in-between, but other than that, funny, action-y, and uh, Deapool-y. 8/10.
Well that's one movie off my checklist for this year. DrewN, our buddy, and I walked around the mall for bit before we all went home. I noticed on the way out of the theater room was a movie poster with the words "Cloverfield on it." I was like "Wait a second." I read the title, read the catchy text, and was like "Yep, 10 Cloverfield Lane," let out a big sigh, and was like "Finally, after 8 years." I loved Cloverfield, and they're finally making a sequel. But apparently, after reading up about it, it's more of like a spin-off really, the production of the movie was for something different, and halfway through was it turned into a Cloverfield movie.
And what's even more crazy, is that it's coming out on March 11th. Like, really? All this time and I haven't even heard about it 'till now. Anyways, gonna have to watch that, including "The Boy," which I might watch tonight. I already finished Warm Bodies today, which did make for a nice Valentine's day-esque movie. Other than that, nothing really lovey-dovey today, heh. And stop fucking making yourself out like a special snowflake Drew, there's a lot more people who're experiencing the exact same shit as you. And it's fucking Valentine's day, I'm sure there's plenty of girls going "Damn, spending Valentine's day by myself again." Grow the fuck up Drew.
SO yeah. Umm, didn't really get any work done today, mostly was just relaxing. I'm planning to get at least one thing done each night, whether it be dance practice, a portion of an essay done, or whatever. Anyways, gonna go to bed now, before I succumb to my shit sleep schedule again. See ya.
Saturday, February 13, 2016 "Belongings."
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Sentimental - WINNER
There have been multiple times, situations, where I feel like uh, I don't belong, or, I feel like there's a bit of a barrier between me and people. So to prevent stress, the best thing to do is to just not get involved right? Like, just not interact with them anymore or turn the notifications off on Facebook.
It definitely does help lessen stress and focus more on relaxing. To get where I do with people, I put in some effort, some more than others. Now if I feel like I don't get like, some effort back, that they put in some effort to interact with me, then I lessen/ stop the interactions (it's not always the case that I do this, but I'm starting to do this more often than I'd like). If they make an effort to interact with me more due to the fact they I'm interacting with them less, then yeah, I'll do the same. But once it gets to a point where it's like "Whatever" on either of our parts, I just give myself some space, some time, and not have to waste my efforts.
And if you're wondering why I started off with this bootleg philosophy shit on how I think, it's 'cause the cast, Ek, Jk, DrewN, and Am (Ag didn't go, but does for badminton stuff so it doesn't really matter) went to the mall today. They played in the arcade and whatnot. Probably after Badminton practice. Nothing to be moody about, I could've went if I wanted, or, if I wasn't so lazy (which most of the time is true for shit that I don't like doing. Practicing dances for KDT, doing DIY projects that I like, and etc, for those things I'd get off my ass and start on 'em).
You know how I keep on describing how lunch is just "the usual" now? Well that's 'cause it is. Usually, Ek and Ag talk about badminton stuff, ranging from "Gotta work on my back-swings" to "Omg I almost died in conditioning at practice" to "Remember how blank was like blank" to "Can't believe blank talked shit about the team." That right there was, I'd say 70% of the shit that's talked about during lunch between the cast and I. Mostly just the cast, I tell some stories or make bootleg remarks, DrewN tells some stories or make bootleg remarks, Jk just goes along with the badminton talk.
I've probably talked about how the cast has all done/are doing badminton, some are really passionate about it too. Me, not so much, heh. I've seen people and how they all have like a hobby or group, team, cult, that they're passionate about or enjoy being part of and interacting. Me? I'm trying to do that, trying to find something I like and sticking with it. I don't think I'm that great of a dance to be honest, did I say that I got cut from doing Twice's "Ooh-Ahh?" I don't think I did. But yeah, that discouraged me, umm, Mt once said in a post on KDT that she didn't make it through auditions for Lunar Show last year but didn't take it too hard and actually practiced even harder, and I thought of that after uh, being reminded that I got cut.
And so the final things I wanna talk philosophically about, is that I'm still finding myself. What the fuck, do I like, heh, besides shit like video games. And, should I stick around people that bring me down? Even though they aren't aware of it or aren't doing it on purpose? It's a hard decision and usually it's permanent. If I just hang out with other people, let's say I meet up with Yn again or somebody, and just not have lunch with the cast. They'll be like "Hey, where's Drew." Then after a few days they;ll be like "Hmm, haven't seen Drew in a while, and he doesn't go on the group chat anymore."
That's just one of the scenarios that's playing out in my mind. Finding new friends is an adventure Distancing yourself from old ones can be hard sometimes. Hey, what the fuck. I just realized it's the same feeling I felt when the cast went to Christmas in the Park when I was in LA. Huh. I turned off notifications for the group chat during that time 'cause I didn't wanna be reminded of all the fun they're having without me, and to reduce the stress of knowing that. It helped.
But yeah, that's enough of this shit, heh. Just wanted to get that out there. And this may all sound like Jayden Smith shit, but hey, it's how I'm trying to describe my thinking process at this moment. Anyways, my buddy Ec went to LA today. probably staying there 'till tomorrow. My cousin hasn't called me in a while, but that's alright. I spent the whole day on 4 things: Maplestory, watching YouTube videos, checking social media, and practicing the "Tro Choi" by SUBOI, dance. It's coming together quite nicely if I do say so myself.
That was basically it. It's 12:19 AM right now, I think I'll watch a movie tomorrow night. Gonna wanna decrease my sleep debt for now. So, see ya.
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Sentimental - WINNER
There have been multiple times, situations, where I feel like uh, I don't belong, or, I feel like there's a bit of a barrier between me and people. So to prevent stress, the best thing to do is to just not get involved right? Like, just not interact with them anymore or turn the notifications off on Facebook.
It definitely does help lessen stress and focus more on relaxing. To get where I do with people, I put in some effort, some more than others. Now if I feel like I don't get like, some effort back, that they put in some effort to interact with me, then I lessen/ stop the interactions (it's not always the case that I do this, but I'm starting to do this more often than I'd like). If they make an effort to interact with me more due to the fact they I'm interacting with them less, then yeah, I'll do the same. But once it gets to a point where it's like "Whatever" on either of our parts, I just give myself some space, some time, and not have to waste my efforts.
And if you're wondering why I started off with this bootleg philosophy shit on how I think, it's 'cause the cast, Ek, Jk, DrewN, and Am (Ag didn't go, but does for badminton stuff so it doesn't really matter) went to the mall today. They played in the arcade and whatnot. Probably after Badminton practice. Nothing to be moody about, I could've went if I wanted, or, if I wasn't so lazy (which most of the time is true for shit that I don't like doing. Practicing dances for KDT, doing DIY projects that I like, and etc, for those things I'd get off my ass and start on 'em).
You know how I keep on describing how lunch is just "the usual" now? Well that's 'cause it is. Usually, Ek and Ag talk about badminton stuff, ranging from "Gotta work on my back-swings" to "Omg I almost died in conditioning at practice" to "Remember how blank was like blank" to "Can't believe blank talked shit about the team." That right there was, I'd say 70% of the shit that's talked about during lunch between the cast and I. Mostly just the cast, I tell some stories or make bootleg remarks, DrewN tells some stories or make bootleg remarks, Jk just goes along with the badminton talk.
I've probably talked about how the cast has all done/are doing badminton, some are really passionate about it too. Me, not so much, heh. I've seen people and how they all have like a hobby or group, team, cult, that they're passionate about or enjoy being part of and interacting. Me? I'm trying to do that, trying to find something I like and sticking with it. I don't think I'm that great of a dance to be honest, did I say that I got cut from doing Twice's "Ooh-Ahh?" I don't think I did. But yeah, that discouraged me, umm, Mt once said in a post on KDT that she didn't make it through auditions for Lunar Show last year but didn't take it too hard and actually practiced even harder, and I thought of that after uh, being reminded that I got cut.
And so the final things I wanna talk philosophically about, is that I'm still finding myself. What the fuck, do I like, heh, besides shit like video games. And, should I stick around people that bring me down? Even though they aren't aware of it or aren't doing it on purpose? It's a hard decision and usually it's permanent. If I just hang out with other people, let's say I meet up with Yn again or somebody, and just not have lunch with the cast. They'll be like "Hey, where's Drew." Then after a few days they;ll be like "Hmm, haven't seen Drew in a while, and he doesn't go on the group chat anymore."
That's just one of the scenarios that's playing out in my mind. Finding new friends is an adventure Distancing yourself from old ones can be hard sometimes. Hey, what the fuck. I just realized it's the same feeling I felt when the cast went to Christmas in the Park when I was in LA. Huh. I turned off notifications for the group chat during that time 'cause I didn't wanna be reminded of all the fun they're having without me, and to reduce the stress of knowing that. It helped.
But yeah, that's enough of this shit, heh. Just wanted to get that out there. And this may all sound like Jayden Smith shit, but hey, it's how I'm trying to describe my thinking process at this moment. Anyways, my buddy Ec went to LA today. probably staying there 'till tomorrow. My cousin hasn't called me in a while, but that's alright. I spent the whole day on 4 things: Maplestory, watching YouTube videos, checking social media, and practicing the "Tro Choi" by SUBOI, dance. It's coming together quite nicely if I do say so myself.
That was basically it. It's 12:19 AM right now, I think I'll watch a movie tomorrow night. Gonna wanna decrease my sleep debt for now. So, see ya.
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016 "A Friday."
Friday, February 12, 2016
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Hit It - Bubble X
The long awaited break, it's finally here. I'm not even sure if this is even spring break, maybe we'll have spring break too along with this "ski break." Seriously, there's no term I can find online for "ski breaks." And it's not only our school district, a couple others nearby are also having it as well.
And yes, yes, I know it's close to Valentine's day. I actually didn't know it was close until I saw a Conan video clip from 2011. Apparently Valentine's day is on the 14th, I look at the date and it's the fucking 11th. I'm like "Holy shit." Previous Valentine's days, aw man, those were the shit. Partially because no shit happened, heh. I mean, it's more of a niche thing to be honest, it's nothing comparable to Christmas or whatever. The only thing I've done so far in celebration of Valentine's day is play Maplestory and doing Valentine's day events, along with making a bootleg Valentine's day heart in Chinese today.
Anyways, lets get on with it. Psychology was just a multiple choice portion of our Chapter test. Our FRQ is just a take-hone one. Yeah we can like, have a PC to help us with the terms, look in our textbook, etc. The real part is the practice, and it only benefits us if we do it legit so, yeah. The teacher knows what she's doing, she teaches AP Psychology. Also I gotta work on the project report paper, due in like, a week and a half. For English, we uhh, not really sure what we did for a majority of the class. Oh wait, we uhh, looked at eachother's posters, aaand then individual groups presented theirs. Luckily my group didn't volunteer, or were picked. Hopefully we don't have to go, like those who didn't have to present their Scarlet Letter Artworks. Oh and uh, a week long break ain't complete without a reading assignment, right? We gotta read book 2 of Beloved. Aka, 1/3 of the whole "book."
The teacher said not to do it all in one sitting. The girl next to me said "I'm just gonna do it all in one sitting." I could probably dedicate like, 3 fucking hours to one sitting as well. Just let the audio book play nonstop. Break, was the usual again. I'm not fully bored yet, hanging out with some old buddies at the old spot. Maybe I'll hit up Yn again on texts. Not sure what she's doing for a while, umm, she hasn't been active on Facebook or Instagram. I didn't really pay attention 'till I saw her once, or, two times within a month. I was like "Damn man, 100% Chance of Bad was a hot fucking series."
Getting off track a bit, Biology was just a free period again. We get these worksheets, which are not due, at all, just for practice if we wanna do 'em. Everyone's pretty much like "Yeah, I don't think I'ma do it." Same goes me, heh. I just got started in advance on math work, which I did finish. 4th period, if you're in a specific set of buildings, you get to go to the first rally for today. Yes, there was a rally. And yes, I did go to the 1st one (the gym can't fit every single student so the rally is repeated twice for everyone to experience) with DrewN and Vb. And we met sat down with, basically the whole cast again. Jk, Ek, Ag, Lw (or was it Ls? Can't really remember the name). The rally's theme this time was like, Willy Wonka themed. The MC's were dressed up as OG Willy Wonka, the other an Oompa Loompa. The games the teachers and students played were pretty pitiful, cringey on some parts, heh. There a couple dance performances, a sort of "rememberance" to this one studnet who passed due to cancer about a couple months ago or so. What was awkward was because it was right in the middle of the rally. They got us all hyped, then have it be really depressing, then they hyped it up again.
Rallies are generally pretty shit anyways. After it ended, we went back to class, it was math time where we did the usual lesson, got our quizzes back, I got a 69/85. Not as good as I'd like it to be, I got some stupid shit wrong, which apparently cost a lot of fucking points. After class was lunch, where it was the usual. Again, heh. The cast is pretty much busy with like, tutoring, or, Badminton practice. So, we still gotta find a time where we're all free to have one of those nice parties or "game nights" again. And it's not to say I'm not busy either, okay, heh. I got 3 dances to learn/practice, 1 of which is one I already know but need to refine still, 1 which I learned today, and I gotta self-learn 1, with it being my 1950 dance (I chose the Hand Jive as it seemed the least violent and cool one out of the options). All that, on top of some projects. And general, prep.
Also forgot to mention, all classes were like 5 minutes shorter today due to the rally, so, wooo. US History was just research day, get planned on what the project we're gonna do. During that time, I was just like "Fucking god, I'm sick of working with miniatures and fucking foamboard" so uh, I chose the dance. One, because it's a dance, and two, there's no paper work. You gotta know the history a bit, but generally you just gotta learn it and be able to teach it. Also, Js (is that the name I had for her back in So Don't Be on with Her? I think so, either that or it was Jb) is gonna recognize me as like a committed peron for KDT, that I could self-teach a dance, and be able to teach it to others.
And finally Chinese, where we just read, and, talk, and, cut hearts out of red cardstock and write a Chinese character on it. I wrote "dance party" by the way. After school was KDT practice, including "evaluations," and uh, practice. They did it in 3 groups, we get two tries. I noticed that I missed some parts of the song, because either we weren't taught it, I don't remember it, or I didn't catch it in the dance video. Which included this foot stomping thing, umm, and the beginning pivot thing for Twice's "Ooh-Ahh." I was the last group, and uh, we only had to get at least 80% of the dance. At least. I tried my best, and they haven't posted who passed and who got cut on the Facebook page yet. If I do get cut, it's whatever. If not, gotta get my ass to refine this shit, heh. The dance we learned today was the dance from SUBOI's "Tro Choi." Yea, it's a Vietpop song, yes it was apparently difficult because the lyrics and beat throw people off, even Js, the one who learned it and instructor for it. It was a lot to take, even if we only worked for an hour on it. We covered like, 75% of the dance basically, for what we're including in our full show performance anyways.
I got the first 70% down of what we were taught, the rest I kinda had to rely on Js and others, because the moves seemed too similar and so I got confused a few times. But, nothing a little practice at home can't fix. And yes, apparently I did sign up for this one. Anyways, DrewN had conflicts in his schedule so he couldn't come to practice, basically was with Kh the whole time. And uh, yeah, got home, got on League with Dv and Ec, played some Maplestory, and write this post for an hour basically. It's 1:15 AM now, I started at like 12:30 AM or something. KDT practice on Tuesday and Friday, umm, just gonna spend tomorrow relaxing, getting started on some dances, this is gonna be fairly, relaxing week, and was, what I would call the epitome of Fridays. Alright, see ya.
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Hit It - Bubble X
The long awaited break, it's finally here. I'm not even sure if this is even spring break, maybe we'll have spring break too along with this "ski break." Seriously, there's no term I can find online for "ski breaks." And it's not only our school district, a couple others nearby are also having it as well.
And yes, yes, I know it's close to Valentine's day. I actually didn't know it was close until I saw a Conan video clip from 2011. Apparently Valentine's day is on the 14th, I look at the date and it's the fucking 11th. I'm like "Holy shit." Previous Valentine's days, aw man, those were the shit. Partially because no shit happened, heh. I mean, it's more of a niche thing to be honest, it's nothing comparable to Christmas or whatever. The only thing I've done so far in celebration of Valentine's day is play Maplestory and doing Valentine's day events, along with making a bootleg Valentine's day heart in Chinese today.
Anyways, lets get on with it. Psychology was just a multiple choice portion of our Chapter test. Our FRQ is just a take-hone one. Yeah we can like, have a PC to help us with the terms, look in our textbook, etc. The real part is the practice, and it only benefits us if we do it legit so, yeah. The teacher knows what she's doing, she teaches AP Psychology. Also I gotta work on the project report paper, due in like, a week and a half. For English, we uhh, not really sure what we did for a majority of the class. Oh wait, we uhh, looked at eachother's posters, aaand then individual groups presented theirs. Luckily my group didn't volunteer, or were picked. Hopefully we don't have to go, like those who didn't have to present their Scarlet Letter Artworks. Oh and uh, a week long break ain't complete without a reading assignment, right? We gotta read book 2 of Beloved. Aka, 1/3 of the whole "book."
The teacher said not to do it all in one sitting. The girl next to me said "I'm just gonna do it all in one sitting." I could probably dedicate like, 3 fucking hours to one sitting as well. Just let the audio book play nonstop. Break, was the usual again. I'm not fully bored yet, hanging out with some old buddies at the old spot. Maybe I'll hit up Yn again on texts. Not sure what she's doing for a while, umm, she hasn't been active on Facebook or Instagram. I didn't really pay attention 'till I saw her once, or, two times within a month. I was like "Damn man, 100% Chance of Bad was a hot fucking series."
Getting off track a bit, Biology was just a free period again. We get these worksheets, which are not due, at all, just for practice if we wanna do 'em. Everyone's pretty much like "Yeah, I don't think I'ma do it." Same goes me, heh. I just got started in advance on math work, which I did finish. 4th period, if you're in a specific set of buildings, you get to go to the first rally for today. Yes, there was a rally. And yes, I did go to the 1st one (the gym can't fit every single student so the rally is repeated twice for everyone to experience) with DrewN and Vb. And we met sat down with, basically the whole cast again. Jk, Ek, Ag, Lw (or was it Ls? Can't really remember the name). The rally's theme this time was like, Willy Wonka themed. The MC's were dressed up as OG Willy Wonka, the other an Oompa Loompa. The games the teachers and students played were pretty pitiful, cringey on some parts, heh. There a couple dance performances, a sort of "rememberance" to this one studnet who passed due to cancer about a couple months ago or so. What was awkward was because it was right in the middle of the rally. They got us all hyped, then have it be really depressing, then they hyped it up again.
Rallies are generally pretty shit anyways. After it ended, we went back to class, it was math time where we did the usual lesson, got our quizzes back, I got a 69/85. Not as good as I'd like it to be, I got some stupid shit wrong, which apparently cost a lot of fucking points. After class was lunch, where it was the usual. Again, heh. The cast is pretty much busy with like, tutoring, or, Badminton practice. So, we still gotta find a time where we're all free to have one of those nice parties or "game nights" again. And it's not to say I'm not busy either, okay, heh. I got 3 dances to learn/practice, 1 of which is one I already know but need to refine still, 1 which I learned today, and I gotta self-learn 1, with it being my 1950 dance (I chose the Hand Jive as it seemed the least violent and cool one out of the options). All that, on top of some projects. And general, prep.
Also forgot to mention, all classes were like 5 minutes shorter today due to the rally, so, wooo. US History was just research day, get planned on what the project we're gonna do. During that time, I was just like "Fucking god, I'm sick of working with miniatures and fucking foamboard" so uh, I chose the dance. One, because it's a dance, and two, there's no paper work. You gotta know the history a bit, but generally you just gotta learn it and be able to teach it. Also, Js (is that the name I had for her back in So Don't Be on with Her? I think so, either that or it was Jb) is gonna recognize me as like a committed peron for KDT, that I could self-teach a dance, and be able to teach it to others.
And finally Chinese, where we just read, and, talk, and, cut hearts out of red cardstock and write a Chinese character on it. I wrote "dance party" by the way. After school was KDT practice, including "evaluations," and uh, practice. They did it in 3 groups, we get two tries. I noticed that I missed some parts of the song, because either we weren't taught it, I don't remember it, or I didn't catch it in the dance video. Which included this foot stomping thing, umm, and the beginning pivot thing for Twice's "Ooh-Ahh." I was the last group, and uh, we only had to get at least 80% of the dance. At least. I tried my best, and they haven't posted who passed and who got cut on the Facebook page yet. If I do get cut, it's whatever. If not, gotta get my ass to refine this shit, heh. The dance we learned today was the dance from SUBOI's "Tro Choi." Yea, it's a Vietpop song, yes it was apparently difficult because the lyrics and beat throw people off, even Js, the one who learned it and instructor for it. It was a lot to take, even if we only worked for an hour on it. We covered like, 75% of the dance basically, for what we're including in our full show performance anyways.
I got the first 70% down of what we were taught, the rest I kinda had to rely on Js and others, because the moves seemed too similar and so I got confused a few times. But, nothing a little practice at home can't fix. And yes, apparently I did sign up for this one. Anyways, DrewN had conflicts in his schedule so he couldn't come to practice, basically was with Kh the whole time. And uh, yeah, got home, got on League with Dv and Ec, played some Maplestory, and write this post for an hour basically. It's 1:15 AM now, I started at like 12:30 AM or something. KDT practice on Tuesday and Friday, umm, just gonna spend tomorrow relaxing, getting started on some dances, this is gonna be fairly, relaxing week, and was, what I would call the epitome of Fridays. Alright, see ya.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Thursday, February 11, 2016 "Relax Guys."
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Hit It - Bubble X
Another great example of why I don't like my English class. Most of us students don't have much signatures on our participation sheet because we didn't write down the times of when we asked questions. Because, like, couple months ago or so, the teacher said that asking questions don't count as participation. And so now he's like "Yeah, asking questions is participating." And I didn't mishear him originally, others remember him stating that. It's fucking ridiculous.
But anyhow, Psychology is just a multiple choice portion tomorrow because we're having a rally so automatically it makes all classes shorter. English, where we took some time to finish our "artworks," put 'em up on the walls, walked around and looked at 'em. Break was just the usual again,apparently Deadpool is coming out tomorrow in theaters, DrewN and I are working on a schedule to go see it.
Bio was just a free day again, nothing due tomorrow which is like, thank the lord. We're like "You serious" and the teacher's like "Yeah, you guys need to relax, it's Friday tomorrow." Also she won't be at school tomorrow, probably due to like, kids stuff. Math was "swell." It was an easy quiz in my opinion, spent Biology time to study for it. I'm not expecting a 100%, but a 99%. Lunch, which was the usual, except Am joined with us this time.
US History, where we get a love'hate project. I hate it 'cause it's a project, an excuse to have us do work over break, but I love it 'cause the projects the teacher gives us always give us some form of creative control. He gives us 9 different projects, we choose one to do. How fucking awesome is that. We can either do an essay on Jackie Robinson, a serious scripted interview about an Arkhansas incident, design a bomb shelter and make a miniature one (I'm leaning towards this one), write an essay and dress up like what a teen would wear during the 1950's, make a mock CD and mock car magazine as if they were from the 50's, write an essay on the space race and moon landing conspiracy, learn and be able to teach a dance from the 1950's (of which a fellow KDT cabinet member is in my class, I knew she'd pick this one straight away as she heard it. I'm leaning towards this one too since you don't have to do any paperwork), or do a usual presentation on the 50's.
Talk about creative control. So anyways, that's for another time, for Chinese, Mt and I finished up the script, uh, comic, recording projects. Now all we need to finish is our individual Blendspaces (which Mt was so kind enough to do most of mine for me since I was doing the video. She even showed me some neat Chromebook shortcuts I haven't seen/used before so, that was nice too). And yeah, Tomorrow's mainly gonna be a relaxing day, catch-up day, and also a KDT evaluation day. It's 12:19 AM, I gotta refine this dance to make sure I don't screw up tomorrow. Anyways, see ya.
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Hit It - Bubble X
Another great example of why I don't like my English class. Most of us students don't have much signatures on our participation sheet because we didn't write down the times of when we asked questions. Because, like, couple months ago or so, the teacher said that asking questions don't count as participation. And so now he's like "Yeah, asking questions is participating." And I didn't mishear him originally, others remember him stating that. It's fucking ridiculous.
But anyhow, Psychology is just a multiple choice portion tomorrow because we're having a rally so automatically it makes all classes shorter. English, where we took some time to finish our "artworks," put 'em up on the walls, walked around and looked at 'em. Break was just the usual again,apparently Deadpool is coming out tomorrow in theaters, DrewN and I are working on a schedule to go see it.
Bio was just a free day again, nothing due tomorrow which is like, thank the lord. We're like "You serious" and the teacher's like "Yeah, you guys need to relax, it's Friday tomorrow." Also she won't be at school tomorrow, probably due to like, kids stuff. Math was "swell." It was an easy quiz in my opinion, spent Biology time to study for it. I'm not expecting a 100%, but a 99%. Lunch, which was the usual, except Am joined with us this time.
US History, where we get a love'hate project. I hate it 'cause it's a project, an excuse to have us do work over break, but I love it 'cause the projects the teacher gives us always give us some form of creative control. He gives us 9 different projects, we choose one to do. How fucking awesome is that. We can either do an essay on Jackie Robinson, a serious scripted interview about an Arkhansas incident, design a bomb shelter and make a miniature one (I'm leaning towards this one), write an essay and dress up like what a teen would wear during the 1950's, make a mock CD and mock car magazine as if they were from the 50's, write an essay on the space race and moon landing conspiracy, learn and be able to teach a dance from the 1950's (of which a fellow KDT cabinet member is in my class, I knew she'd pick this one straight away as she heard it. I'm leaning towards this one too since you don't have to do any paperwork), or do a usual presentation on the 50's.
Talk about creative control. So anyways, that's for another time, for Chinese, Mt and I finished up the script, uh, comic, recording projects. Now all we need to finish is our individual Blendspaces (which Mt was so kind enough to do most of mine for me since I was doing the video. She even showed me some neat Chromebook shortcuts I haven't seen/used before so, that was nice too). And yeah, Tomorrow's mainly gonna be a relaxing day, catch-up day, and also a KDT evaluation day. It's 12:19 AM, I gotta refine this dance to make sure I don't screw up tomorrow. Anyways, see ya.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 "High English."
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Best of 2015 K-POP Mega Mashup - SHIMMIXES
I don't think English teachers are supposed to expect their students to be artists. If our group decides on doing silhouettes of a scene consisting of just a woman being hanged by a tree, there's nothing really to "draw." I drew a tree shape as a template to cut out on black construction paper. But uh, apparently that isn't enough for him to sign off on my participation sheet, which does count for points.
Says right here on the assignment post on Schoolloop, as a group, we gotta "represent the key events of Book 1 solely through images. (The objective here is not to produce 'works of art,' but instead to review major events and the means by which Morrison organizes them." Our group is doing silhouettes, and we didn't discuss poster size due to time constraints. So, I brought black construction paper, a rough drawing of a tree after knowing what the poster size is so I don't cut multiple sizes of trees and waste fucking time.
"You can use paper and markers. (Alternatively, for the sake of time and ease, you may represent the main events of Book 1 through found images on the Web or in magazines)." He even signed off on people who just printed out fucking pictures. For fuck's sake, his participation sheets are the reason I'm at a C instead of maybe a B-. I thought it was English class, apparently it's a drawing class as well, with a side of forced participation. Some people in the class that I know do their work, get good grades on their essays, but have a lower grade than they would like all because of the fucking participation shit.
And I know some people who switched out of Honors English/ dropped to regular English, all because of this teacher. Jesus dude, thank the fucking lord it's just Honors and all we have to worry about is the final. Other than that, it's like AP English but without worrying for the AP test. Today, as the other teacher was presenting to us a short outline of AP Literature, he said that his class (this class), is a "cakewalk." The other teacher wondered why not many people are taking AP Literature (AP English is not offered at our school, and yes, there's apparently a difference). I'm like "Well wadyu think?"
Anyways, that was a small rant on why I'm not going to take AP English, my teacher's making me hate English a lot more than I'd like. And yeah, excuses, excuses, bad reasons why I'm not doing as well as I'd like in English, I only have myself to blame, the teacher's doing his best, he does his job well, etc, etc. I get it. I've had many teachers before, but this teacher, I just don't like his teaching style. Whatever it is, I prefer other methods.
Okay, enough of that. Psychology, where we do notes and watch videos of the Bobo doll experiment with kids going ham on a clown. English, we've been through this already, we were supposed to have 20 minutes to make our poster with our group, then do a bootleg "gallery walk" around the classroom. Would rather just review the events of the book, but okay. Another English teacher walks in, does a presentation on AP Literature, takes up about 20 minutes but that's okay, we barely get anything done because it was a Wednesday so, shorter period, and uh, guess we're continuing this tomorrow.
Biology was another "free" day sorta. AP Biology really has turned into self-study thing, where you just get lectures, time in class to do study shit, not much of actual, I don't know, like, "learning," I guess. Not in a bad way, though, but you get what I mean. We had mealworms,we created our own experiment, was pretty bootleg, umm, most of my group members focused more on talking about schedules and classes to take, so, it was whatever really, doesn't bother me because they're doing like 4 AP's, they're levels above me.
Math was the usual again, we do a lesson, and uh, get our quizzes back. The teacher didn't announce any 100%'s, umm, I'm guessing nobody got a 100%. I got 15/16 fortunately, better than my other score. I knew it was too good to be true, I can never get a real 100% in her class, heh. I made the stupid mistake of mislabeling a triangle. Ah well. Anyways, I had her sign my schedule sheet for AP Calculus AB, which did make her happy, knowing that I'm pursuing a high-level math. And uh, right now, even though it is MATH, I'm leaning towards it now more than science or English. Science is a starting to become a bit more similar to English with it's abstract-ness, and I don't really like that.
After class I got my AP sheet signed by one of the AP Calculus teacher, supposedly the harder of the 2 AP Calculus AB teachers. Had to input my name on a list, had to get my math teacher to write my grade and sign it, for her to sign it. I actually searched up posts on forums on people asking whether to take both AP Calculus or not. All my friends are taking like, more than one AP class next year, and it's not because I'm following their footsteps, it's because of the fact that if they can handle, 2, 3, even for AP's while doing extracurricular shit, then I can handle just 2 AP's.
So, that is why I'm going to do both AP Statistics and AP Calculus AB. I'll hopefully do okay in Calc because I'll have Slader for explanations (I only care about the explanations/ problem templates, if I wanted answers, I'd just look in the back of the book. Also the teacher actually looks at work you do on your homework, so yeah). AP Statistics is supposedly not that difficult of a class because it's slower compared to Calculus, and, it's like 2 different things so I won't get them mixed up. Also, my old Geometry teacher's gonna (hopefully) be teaching me, so I know I'll be secured just by that.
Lunch, was just whatever again. US History, where we did a small practice quiz on people during the 50's. I actually knew more than I thought. It also took up the whole class period too surprisingly. Finally, Chinese, where we had a vocabulary quiz, which I had to study quickly during the duration of US History. I got an 18/20 again, so, I'll take it. The rest of class was just Chromebook work on our "skits" which are due tomorrow night.
And can you believe there's break next week? Thank the fucking lord. That reminds me, there's apparently a summer assignment for AP Calculus AB. You get a packet, very large packet, of multiple choice problems. You gotta show all, and I mean ALL, of the work. If you gotta justify something, you better be ready to write a fucking essay on that shit. But yeah, thankfully AP Statistics doesn't have a summer assignment. I don't think.
And one more thing that I need to talk about before I end this 1-hour post (seriously, I've been writing this for close to an hour now). The life of a student vs. what the life of a student is to a teacher. Some teachers forget that their students have 5 other classes, sometimes 7, not including night classes at community colleges or test prep classes on the weekends. They measure their work like "Hmmm, the homework's only 2 hours long, they'll have plenty of time to like, relax, or, eat dinner or whatever." Piling those 2 hours onto an hour from another class, but 30 minutes from 2 more classes, plus another hour, it's fucking insane.
That's not including extracurricular activities either like sports, where some people don't come home 'till 6:00 PM, where they gotta change, shower, eat dinner, plan shit out, do extra studying for an upcoming test, all on top of work. We, as students, don't have your class as our only class. We have other things to focus on besides English, English, English. We don't want to become fucking J.K Rowling because it's near impossible. Many authors have books that are like "New York's #1 Best Seller," sharing the title with like 500 other books, and no, their books aren't being read in High school or college classrooms, because they're modern.
My Biology teacher made a great point today, in that we have to go to school 5 days a week for 8 hours straight, whereas college, you only go to class a select amount of days a week, for a select amount of time. Anyways, that's enough ranting, just wanted to get some extra steam out. This generation's education is on an incomprehensible level. That's just my perspective coming from a High school Junior in 2016. Whether I'm wrong or right, that's just how I feel. Let me know if you've kept your sanity when you come back reading this, okay Drew?
Alrighty, see ya.
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Best of 2015 K-POP Mega Mashup - SHIMMIXES
I don't think English teachers are supposed to expect their students to be artists. If our group decides on doing silhouettes of a scene consisting of just a woman being hanged by a tree, there's nothing really to "draw." I drew a tree shape as a template to cut out on black construction paper. But uh, apparently that isn't enough for him to sign off on my participation sheet, which does count for points.
Says right here on the assignment post on Schoolloop, as a group, we gotta "represent the key events of Book 1 solely through images. (The objective here is not to produce 'works of art,' but instead to review major events and the means by which Morrison organizes them." Our group is doing silhouettes, and we didn't discuss poster size due to time constraints. So, I brought black construction paper, a rough drawing of a tree after knowing what the poster size is so I don't cut multiple sizes of trees and waste fucking time.
"You can use paper and markers. (Alternatively, for the sake of time and ease, you may represent the main events of Book 1 through found images on the Web or in magazines)." He even signed off on people who just printed out fucking pictures. For fuck's sake, his participation sheets are the reason I'm at a C instead of maybe a B-. I thought it was English class, apparently it's a drawing class as well, with a side of forced participation. Some people in the class that I know do their work, get good grades on their essays, but have a lower grade than they would like all because of the fucking participation shit.
And I know some people who switched out of Honors English/ dropped to regular English, all because of this teacher. Jesus dude, thank the fucking lord it's just Honors and all we have to worry about is the final. Other than that, it's like AP English but without worrying for the AP test. Today, as the other teacher was presenting to us a short outline of AP Literature, he said that his class (this class), is a "cakewalk." The other teacher wondered why not many people are taking AP Literature (AP English is not offered at our school, and yes, there's apparently a difference). I'm like "Well wadyu think?"
Anyways, that was a small rant on why I'm not going to take AP English, my teacher's making me hate English a lot more than I'd like. And yeah, excuses, excuses, bad reasons why I'm not doing as well as I'd like in English, I only have myself to blame, the teacher's doing his best, he does his job well, etc, etc. I get it. I've had many teachers before, but this teacher, I just don't like his teaching style. Whatever it is, I prefer other methods.
Okay, enough of that. Psychology, where we do notes and watch videos of the Bobo doll experiment with kids going ham on a clown. English, we've been through this already, we were supposed to have 20 minutes to make our poster with our group, then do a bootleg "gallery walk" around the classroom. Would rather just review the events of the book, but okay. Another English teacher walks in, does a presentation on AP Literature, takes up about 20 minutes but that's okay, we barely get anything done because it was a Wednesday so, shorter period, and uh, guess we're continuing this tomorrow.
Biology was another "free" day sorta. AP Biology really has turned into self-study thing, where you just get lectures, time in class to do study shit, not much of actual, I don't know, like, "learning," I guess. Not in a bad way, though, but you get what I mean. We had mealworms,we created our own experiment, was pretty bootleg, umm, most of my group members focused more on talking about schedules and classes to take, so, it was whatever really, doesn't bother me because they're doing like 4 AP's, they're levels above me.
Math was the usual again, we do a lesson, and uh, get our quizzes back. The teacher didn't announce any 100%'s, umm, I'm guessing nobody got a 100%. I got 15/16 fortunately, better than my other score. I knew it was too good to be true, I can never get a real 100% in her class, heh. I made the stupid mistake of mislabeling a triangle. Ah well. Anyways, I had her sign my schedule sheet for AP Calculus AB, which did make her happy, knowing that I'm pursuing a high-level math. And uh, right now, even though it is MATH, I'm leaning towards it now more than science or English. Science is a starting to become a bit more similar to English with it's abstract-ness, and I don't really like that.
After class I got my AP sheet signed by one of the AP Calculus teacher, supposedly the harder of the 2 AP Calculus AB teachers. Had to input my name on a list, had to get my math teacher to write my grade and sign it, for her to sign it. I actually searched up posts on forums on people asking whether to take both AP Calculus or not. All my friends are taking like, more than one AP class next year, and it's not because I'm following their footsteps, it's because of the fact that if they can handle, 2, 3, even for AP's while doing extracurricular shit, then I can handle just 2 AP's.
So, that is why I'm going to do both AP Statistics and AP Calculus AB. I'll hopefully do okay in Calc because I'll have Slader for explanations (I only care about the explanations/ problem templates, if I wanted answers, I'd just look in the back of the book. Also the teacher actually looks at work you do on your homework, so yeah). AP Statistics is supposedly not that difficult of a class because it's slower compared to Calculus, and, it's like 2 different things so I won't get them mixed up. Also, my old Geometry teacher's gonna (hopefully) be teaching me, so I know I'll be secured just by that.
Lunch, was just whatever again. US History, where we did a small practice quiz on people during the 50's. I actually knew more than I thought. It also took up the whole class period too surprisingly. Finally, Chinese, where we had a vocabulary quiz, which I had to study quickly during the duration of US History. I got an 18/20 again, so, I'll take it. The rest of class was just Chromebook work on our "skits" which are due tomorrow night.
And can you believe there's break next week? Thank the fucking lord. That reminds me, there's apparently a summer assignment for AP Calculus AB. You get a packet, very large packet, of multiple choice problems. You gotta show all, and I mean ALL, of the work. If you gotta justify something, you better be ready to write a fucking essay on that shit. But yeah, thankfully AP Statistics doesn't have a summer assignment. I don't think.
And one more thing that I need to talk about before I end this 1-hour post (seriously, I've been writing this for close to an hour now). The life of a student vs. what the life of a student is to a teacher. Some teachers forget that their students have 5 other classes, sometimes 7, not including night classes at community colleges or test prep classes on the weekends. They measure their work like "Hmmm, the homework's only 2 hours long, they'll have plenty of time to like, relax, or, eat dinner or whatever." Piling those 2 hours onto an hour from another class, but 30 minutes from 2 more classes, plus another hour, it's fucking insane.
That's not including extracurricular activities either like sports, where some people don't come home 'till 6:00 PM, where they gotta change, shower, eat dinner, plan shit out, do extra studying for an upcoming test, all on top of work. We, as students, don't have your class as our only class. We have other things to focus on besides English, English, English. We don't want to become fucking J.K Rowling because it's near impossible. Many authors have books that are like "New York's #1 Best Seller," sharing the title with like 500 other books, and no, their books aren't being read in High school or college classrooms, because they're modern.
My Biology teacher made a great point today, in that we have to go to school 5 days a week for 8 hours straight, whereas college, you only go to class a select amount of days a week, for a select amount of time. Anyways, that's enough ranting, just wanted to get some extra steam out. This generation's education is on an incomprehensible level. That's just my perspective coming from a High school Junior in 2016. Whether I'm wrong or right, that's just how I feel. Let me know if you've kept your sanity when you come back reading this, okay Drew?
Alrighty, see ya.
Tuesday, February 9, 2016 "A Tone."
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Solo - Jay Park
You know those times when you're trying to stay awake, like, putting in effort to keeping your eyes open, only for them to close, your mind drifts off, your tilts down suddenly and it wakes you back up like "Oh shit." That's been happening to me for a bit.
We did bootleg worksheets in class. I would've preferred not having the tables setup in groups but, what can ya do. I'll probably start on the experiment project report paper over break. Yes, there's a "ski break" next week, whatever that means. I think it's like spring break, but, not really. Okay, I searched up the term "skii break in schools" and nothing relevant came up. I'm guessing it's just our school's term for spring break.
English was what hit me hard today for my lack of sleep. The teacher lectured on and on about, I can't even remember, and I was having a really hard time staying awake. I didn't get much of what he was saying, somehow, we got a small assignment tomorrow where we gotta do a freaking, small poster describing a key scene from the book. We had to get into groups of at most 3, and uh, DrewN and Vb and Pt were already in their group, so it was whatever really.
I ended up tagging along with the dude next to me and that one dude who usually sleeps in class (from what I've seen. He's known for being a drug user FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD, but is actually pretty smart so, whatever). Lt didn't actually ask me to be in her group, she went ahead and joined this other group of 2 girls. So, it kinda proves my point that I don't really care to bother with Lt anymore. If she wanted to interact, she would make the effort to, I know I did, I mean, season 6 (I think) was the fucking bomb. But yeah, if she wants to talk, I won't mind, I'll just be doing my own thing, and have been for like, a week now. Don't really know how long I've kept this up actually.
Break was the usual again, umm, Bio was just us "observing" meal worms for the lab experiment tomorrow where we gotta design our own. Not that interesting to be honest, my group members aren't that interested in this lab, umm, they're more worried about taking classes in the summer, you know, E-con and government at community colleges, freeing up their schedules, studying for other classes, doing work for other classes, etc.
After class, I went to my old Geometry teacher's room and asked him to sign my AP sheet for AP Statistics next year. Turns out, it was for nothing because when I went to my math teacher to approve my math class next year, she asked me if I planned on attending a 4-year college. I was like "Uh, yeah" and she suggested I take AP Calculus instead. She signed it, but told me I gotta change it from Stats to Calc. So, there's this decision now, the same as last year, where I gotta choose between the social aspect of it ("Hey, let's take this class together!"), the academic aspect of it ("Yay, college, wooo"), and my own efforts (my family doesn't contain many overachievers, my parents, uncles and aunts either didn't attend college, or didn't attend college here in the U.S. The closest ones in terms of academic level are my cousins, one of which did not attend college and is just doing acting work in shows, commercials, etc, one who probably took the classes I'm taking but decided to major in drawing at SJSU, and one who is planning on going to San Fran University (with a little below-average SAT score and not many AP classes taken, or at all).
But, comparing my schedules to my buddy Ec's for next year, and DrewN's, they're both gonna take 3 AP's, and if they believe in themselves, hey, fuck me, I can too, maybe. So, looks I'll be taking AP Calculus AB next year (what a mouthful). Luckily, I'll have Slader to help me out if I don't get out to do stuff, rather than relying on just pure wit. Anyways, let's wrap shit up 'cause I need sleep. Umm, US History, I finished my persuaisve essay in class, part 2 is to do a bootleg political cartoon of the bomb blast, all due uh, sometime Friday maybe. Chinese, a shit ton of work (and I mean shit ton this time) due Thursday and Saturday. Got a script to write, a skit to do, a video with graphics from this one website, and a group blendspace. Most work this year I think for Chinese.
Alrighty, that's it for today, see ya.
I knew I forgot something. Today was "Stoplight" day for spirit week. You basically wear green, yellow, or red, depending on your relationship status. Green for single, yellow for complicated shit, and red for taken. I decided to wear my olive green hoodie today, forgetting that it was "Stoplight" day. I didn't notice until I was ready to cross the street and this one dude was talking to his friend and he was like "See, he's wearing green. You're single right?" and I'm like "Uh yeah." And at that moment, I knew "Why the fuck did I deicde to wear my olive green hoodie today." Towards the end of the day I didn't really give a shit. Also, for the reason of my sleepiness in the morning, it's probably because of the allergy pill I took in the morning, which causes some drowsiness. I've been having the sniffles lately, probably due to it being spring. Anyways, just wanted that little excerpt in, now, see ya.
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Solo - Jay Park
You know those times when you're trying to stay awake, like, putting in effort to keeping your eyes open, only for them to close, your mind drifts off, your tilts down suddenly and it wakes you back up like "Oh shit." That's been happening to me for a bit.
We did bootleg worksheets in class. I would've preferred not having the tables setup in groups but, what can ya do. I'll probably start on the experiment project report paper over break. Yes, there's a "ski break" next week, whatever that means. I think it's like spring break, but, not really. Okay, I searched up the term "skii break in schools" and nothing relevant came up. I'm guessing it's just our school's term for spring break.
English was what hit me hard today for my lack of sleep. The teacher lectured on and on about, I can't even remember, and I was having a really hard time staying awake. I didn't get much of what he was saying, somehow, we got a small assignment tomorrow where we gotta do a freaking, small poster describing a key scene from the book. We had to get into groups of at most 3, and uh, DrewN and Vb and Pt were already in their group, so it was whatever really.
I ended up tagging along with the dude next to me and that one dude who usually sleeps in class (from what I've seen. He's known for being a drug user FROM WHAT I'VE HEARD, but is actually pretty smart so, whatever). Lt didn't actually ask me to be in her group, she went ahead and joined this other group of 2 girls. So, it kinda proves my point that I don't really care to bother with Lt anymore. If she wanted to interact, she would make the effort to, I know I did, I mean, season 6 (I think) was the fucking bomb. But yeah, if she wants to talk, I won't mind, I'll just be doing my own thing, and have been for like, a week now. Don't really know how long I've kept this up actually.
Break was the usual again, umm, Bio was just us "observing" meal worms for the lab experiment tomorrow where we gotta design our own. Not that interesting to be honest, my group members aren't that interested in this lab, umm, they're more worried about taking classes in the summer, you know, E-con and government at community colleges, freeing up their schedules, studying for other classes, doing work for other classes, etc.
After class, I went to my old Geometry teacher's room and asked him to sign my AP sheet for AP Statistics next year. Turns out, it was for nothing because when I went to my math teacher to approve my math class next year, she asked me if I planned on attending a 4-year college. I was like "Uh, yeah" and she suggested I take AP Calculus instead. She signed it, but told me I gotta change it from Stats to Calc. So, there's this decision now, the same as last year, where I gotta choose between the social aspect of it ("Hey, let's take this class together!"), the academic aspect of it ("Yay, college, wooo"), and my own efforts (my family doesn't contain many overachievers, my parents, uncles and aunts either didn't attend college, or didn't attend college here in the U.S. The closest ones in terms of academic level are my cousins, one of which did not attend college and is just doing acting work in shows, commercials, etc, one who probably took the classes I'm taking but decided to major in drawing at SJSU, and one who is planning on going to San Fran University (with a little below-average SAT score and not many AP classes taken, or at all).
But, comparing my schedules to my buddy Ec's for next year, and DrewN's, they're both gonna take 3 AP's, and if they believe in themselves, hey, fuck me, I can too, maybe. So, looks I'll be taking AP Calculus AB next year (what a mouthful). Luckily, I'll have Slader to help me out if I don't get out to do stuff, rather than relying on just pure wit. Anyways, let's wrap shit up 'cause I need sleep. Umm, US History, I finished my persuaisve essay in class, part 2 is to do a bootleg political cartoon of the bomb blast, all due uh, sometime Friday maybe. Chinese, a shit ton of work (and I mean shit ton this time) due Thursday and Saturday. Got a script to write, a skit to do, a video with graphics from this one website, and a group blendspace. Most work this year I think for Chinese.
Alrighty, that's it for today, see ya.
I knew I forgot something. Today was "Stoplight" day for spirit week. You basically wear green, yellow, or red, depending on your relationship status. Green for single, yellow for complicated shit, and red for taken. I decided to wear my olive green hoodie today, forgetting that it was "Stoplight" day. I didn't notice until I was ready to cross the street and this one dude was talking to his friend and he was like "See, he's wearing green. You're single right?" and I'm like "Uh yeah." And at that moment, I knew "Why the fuck did I deicde to wear my olive green hoodie today." Towards the end of the day I didn't really give a shit. Also, for the reason of my sleepiness in the morning, it's probably because of the allergy pill I took in the morning, which causes some drowsiness. I've been having the sniffles lately, probably due to it being spring. Anyways, just wanted that little excerpt in, now, see ya.
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016 "Heart Attack.*
Monday, February 8, 2016
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Heart Attack - AOA
The best part out of going to the KDT practice for AOA's "Heart Attack" dance was that I found a cool part in the beginning of the song that'd be perfect for remixes. And that I was there with DrewN to help him out with some of the moves since I don't think he's ever danced before.
For Psychology, we finally got an explanation of our 3 week long project paper (now technically 2 weeks 'till it's due). Notes, and, uh, some clips from the show "The Big Bang Theory." On the presentation for our notes, the slide said "(big bang theory)" and "(the office)" underneath. I thought "(the office)" was an example of a situation shit could occur in, and "(big bang theory)" meant that it was related to the whole theory thing. Nope, the teacher searched them up, along "classical conditioning" and bam, out comes clips of The Office and The Big Bang Theory about it. I'm like "You serious."
English was just us in the theater, the counselors explain to us like the last 2 orientations of our lives. Same old, same old. Deciding on English IV (regular), required Economy and Government, regular Physics, Anatomy and Physiology (one class), AP Statistics (hopefully it'll be my old Geometry teacher who'll be teaching me), and Chinese 3. DrewN's gonna be taking 3 AP's next year, umm, I like his bravery, but uh, I'm getting worn out with just 2 AP's, 3 if you count English because it certainly fucking feels like it, heh.
Biology, we got fucking lucky, because the teacher's laptop pasword reset, and so she couldn't print out the quizzes for us for take today. As she had said, "There is a God." And, we just had a lecture, same old, same old. Math, where we took a short quiz, then the lesson. Lunch was normal again, US History, we got to watch the start of this documentary called "White Light, Black Rain," which I had recalled correctly that I did watch it in World History last year. Pretty good documentary. Also we gotta write a 3-paragraph persuasive summary about whether we needed to bomb Japan or not. We get Chromebooks tomorrow to research on stuff, but uh, it's a little too much for such a short paper. I could probably write it in like, 5 minutes, but, I do appreciate the free time.
Chinese was an earthquake drill, aaand Lunar new year uh, celebration sorta stuff, videos, and then the usual readings and recitings and shit. Afterschool, my boy DrewN and I, Kh too, were at KDT practice, practicing for fun AOA's "Heart Attack." I didn't plan on going today, but, DrewN was going so, I had to, heh. The dance was slow, I'm now used to faster songs so. It seemed easy, easier than others I've learned, but uh, it got pretty difficult towards the end. Plus they taught us like, I don't know, 30 secodns of the song, so, that was a lot. I don't think DrewN enjoyed it that much, a bit discouraged probably, but with some practice at home, he'll do fine.
Anyways, I got sick somehow, and uh, yeah. Don't know how. It's 1:28 AM, tired, time to go. See ya. Oh and uh, it's Ag's birthday today, so, happy lifeday Ag. Alright, see ya, heh.
Week: 26
Songs to Remember: Heart Attack - AOA
The best part out of going to the KDT practice for AOA's "Heart Attack" dance was that I found a cool part in the beginning of the song that'd be perfect for remixes. And that I was there with DrewN to help him out with some of the moves since I don't think he's ever danced before.
For Psychology, we finally got an explanation of our 3 week long project paper (now technically 2 weeks 'till it's due). Notes, and, uh, some clips from the show "The Big Bang Theory." On the presentation for our notes, the slide said "(big bang theory)" and "(the office)" underneath. I thought "(the office)" was an example of a situation shit could occur in, and "(big bang theory)" meant that it was related to the whole theory thing. Nope, the teacher searched them up, along "classical conditioning" and bam, out comes clips of The Office and The Big Bang Theory about it. I'm like "You serious."
English was just us in the theater, the counselors explain to us like the last 2 orientations of our lives. Same old, same old. Deciding on English IV (regular), required Economy and Government, regular Physics, Anatomy and Physiology (one class), AP Statistics (hopefully it'll be my old Geometry teacher who'll be teaching me), and Chinese 3. DrewN's gonna be taking 3 AP's next year, umm, I like his bravery, but uh, I'm getting worn out with just 2 AP's, 3 if you count English because it certainly fucking feels like it, heh.
Biology, we got fucking lucky, because the teacher's laptop pasword reset, and so she couldn't print out the quizzes for us for take today. As she had said, "There is a God." And, we just had a lecture, same old, same old. Math, where we took a short quiz, then the lesson. Lunch was normal again, US History, we got to watch the start of this documentary called "White Light, Black Rain," which I had recalled correctly that I did watch it in World History last year. Pretty good documentary. Also we gotta write a 3-paragraph persuasive summary about whether we needed to bomb Japan or not. We get Chromebooks tomorrow to research on stuff, but uh, it's a little too much for such a short paper. I could probably write it in like, 5 minutes, but, I do appreciate the free time.
Chinese was an earthquake drill, aaand Lunar new year uh, celebration sorta stuff, videos, and then the usual readings and recitings and shit. Afterschool, my boy DrewN and I, Kh too, were at KDT practice, practicing for fun AOA's "Heart Attack." I didn't plan on going today, but, DrewN was going so, I had to, heh. The dance was slow, I'm now used to faster songs so. It seemed easy, easier than others I've learned, but uh, it got pretty difficult towards the end. Plus they taught us like, I don't know, 30 secodns of the song, so, that was a lot. I don't think DrewN enjoyed it that much, a bit discouraged probably, but with some practice at home, he'll do fine.
Anyways, I got sick somehow, and uh, yeah. Don't know how. It's 1:28 AM, tired, time to go. See ya. Oh and uh, it's Ag's birthday today, so, happy lifeday Ag. Alright, see ya, heh.
Monday, February 8, 2016
Sunday, February 7, 2016 "A Super Time."
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: Dope - BTS
Yes it is 2:16 AM as I'm doing this post. I could've done (most) of my work earlier, but uh, decided not to. Also, the Super Bowl and Lunar New Year.
And no I did not watch the Super Bowl, and no I did not celebrate Lunar New Year. I was wondering where everybody was, wondering as in, why there were only a couple people online on my League friends list (which is small in comparison to others). I then realized it was both the Super Bowl, and Lunar New Year's. People are out with family, some even having the time of their lives (band members from my school performed at the Super Bowl, some even got to appear in the crowd on Television and one dude even got to shake Chris Martin's hand twice during the performance). But for me, I just started games on the game Stop and refreshed Facebook and YouTube multiple times, to find people's videos and pictures from the Super Bowl and Lunar New Year parties.
I can't really give a shit about he Super Bowl, umm, we don't have cable, my parents cancelled it after I stopped watching TV for like, 2 years or whatever. Or a year. I forgot. Also I don't care for Football, or the ads. You can always watch them after, and they're mostly just skits anyways, not like I've seen the same from YouTubers. For LunarLunar New Year's, my parents are mostly neutral. They don't go crazy over it, they don't fly to relatives places and have a big party. I just sit in front of my PC all-day. But, I was productive a bit today. The KDT president said in the group chat to message her if we're intending to be a cabinet member next year, since she's a senior and will be graduating.
I'll be joining KDT again next year for sure. Being a leader in the group would be cool, but, I think others deserve it a bit more, like Ln. Also, you gotta be able to teach and know the dances (correctly) to many songs, or, able to pick up the dance to new ones that are requested. I don't know if I'll be able to do all that, heh. But anyways, I decided to get a head-start on learning BTS' "Dope." I started with half speed and got the first chorus down. Only the first, and only the hand movements, not the legs. I put it back to full speed and was like "What the fuck." Forgot it was at a high BPM at regular, heh. After some more practice, I got the first chorus hand movements down.
On Friday we have uh, evaluations in terms of if we perfected the moves we learned for Twice's "Ooh-Ahh." Tomorrow is a quiz for Bio, quiz for Math, and scheduling orientation for us Juniors, utilizing English class time, which is a godsend, heh. Played League today with my buddy Ec, watched a ton of random videos, I wondered where my cousin was, forgot it was the Super Bowl today, so. Anyways, sss ya.
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: Dope - BTS
Yes it is 2:16 AM as I'm doing this post. I could've done (most) of my work earlier, but uh, decided not to. Also, the Super Bowl and Lunar New Year.
And no I did not watch the Super Bowl, and no I did not celebrate Lunar New Year. I was wondering where everybody was, wondering as in, why there were only a couple people online on my League friends list (which is small in comparison to others). I then realized it was both the Super Bowl, and Lunar New Year's. People are out with family, some even having the time of their lives (band members from my school performed at the Super Bowl, some even got to appear in the crowd on Television and one dude even got to shake Chris Martin's hand twice during the performance). But for me, I just started games on the game Stop and refreshed Facebook and YouTube multiple times, to find people's videos and pictures from the Super Bowl and Lunar New Year parties.
I can't really give a shit about he Super Bowl, umm, we don't have cable, my parents cancelled it after I stopped watching TV for like, 2 years or whatever. Or a year. I forgot. Also I don't care for Football, or the ads. You can always watch them after, and they're mostly just skits anyways, not like I've seen the same from YouTubers. For LunarLunar New Year's, my parents are mostly neutral. They don't go crazy over it, they don't fly to relatives places and have a big party. I just sit in front of my PC all-day. But, I was productive a bit today. The KDT president said in the group chat to message her if we're intending to be a cabinet member next year, since she's a senior and will be graduating.
I'll be joining KDT again next year for sure. Being a leader in the group would be cool, but, I think others deserve it a bit more, like Ln. Also, you gotta be able to teach and know the dances (correctly) to many songs, or, able to pick up the dance to new ones that are requested. I don't know if I'll be able to do all that, heh. But anyways, I decided to get a head-start on learning BTS' "Dope." I started with half speed and got the first chorus down. Only the first, and only the hand movements, not the legs. I put it back to full speed and was like "What the fuck." Forgot it was at a high BPM at regular, heh. After some more practice, I got the first chorus hand movements down.
On Friday we have uh, evaluations in terms of if we perfected the moves we learned for Twice's "Ooh-Ahh." Tomorrow is a quiz for Bio, quiz for Math, and scheduling orientation for us Juniors, utilizing English class time, which is a godsend, heh. Played League today with my buddy Ec, watched a ton of random videos, I wondered where my cousin was, forgot it was the Super Bowl today, so. Anyways, sss ya.
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Saturday, February 6, 2016 "Can't Stop."
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: What U - SPEED
You remember that one mobile game, "Trivia Crack?" That was a fad that lasted like, I don't know, a month or so. Then came flappy bird or something. Or was it the other way around? Anyways, there was this bootleg "Stop" game I heard about. My buddy Ec was playing it so I decided to see what it was all about. Turns out, it's even more bootleg than Trivia Crack.
If you look at my match History, it's like, 20 matches of Ec and I, heh. You basically challenge somebody to a game of uh, vocabulary. You get a random letter and 5 random categories. You have to fill in the categories with a word that starts with that letter. Let's say, one category is "cheese," and your letter is J so you put "Jack cheese." Another category could be "Things that live in the ocean" and so you would put "Jellyfish." See what I mean?
Besides being bootleg because of the shit that Ec and I type in and receive valid points for, it showed that him and I were more alike than we thought. For the letter D, we both put "dicks" for like, every category, heh. "Ass," "penis," whatever. We played a lot, heb, as well as League at the same time. For basically the whole day. My cousin was doing something or, something, so he didn't call me on Skype today.
Umm, so yeah, oh and I practiced some more for the dance to Twice's "Ooh-Ahh." I think I've got it down. I've also haven't done any work, or started on the projects for Psychology and History. It would be nice had they explained to us it yesterday so we can plan it out during the weekend, but uh, guess not. Anyways, see ya.
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: What U - SPEED
You remember that one mobile game, "Trivia Crack?" That was a fad that lasted like, I don't know, a month or so. Then came flappy bird or something. Or was it the other way around? Anyways, there was this bootleg "Stop" game I heard about. My buddy Ec was playing it so I decided to see what it was all about. Turns out, it's even more bootleg than Trivia Crack.
If you look at my match History, it's like, 20 matches of Ec and I, heh. You basically challenge somebody to a game of uh, vocabulary. You get a random letter and 5 random categories. You have to fill in the categories with a word that starts with that letter. Let's say, one category is "cheese," and your letter is J so you put "Jack cheese." Another category could be "Things that live in the ocean" and so you would put "Jellyfish." See what I mean?
Besides being bootleg because of the shit that Ec and I type in and receive valid points for, it showed that him and I were more alike than we thought. For the letter D, we both put "dicks" for like, every category, heh. "Ass," "penis," whatever. We played a lot, heb, as well as League at the same time. For basically the whole day. My cousin was doing something or, something, so he didn't call me on Skype today.
Umm, so yeah, oh and I practiced some more for the dance to Twice's "Ooh-Ahh." I think I've got it down. I've also haven't done any work, or started on the projects for Psychology and History. It would be nice had they explained to us it yesterday so we can plan it out during the weekend, but uh, guess not. Anyways, see ya.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Friday, February 5, 2016 "Like Full."
Friday, February 5, 2016
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: Headache - High4
During practice for learning the moves to Twice's "Ooh-Ahh," I was like "I do not remember learning dances being this challenging." But then I remember how much I practiced at home, trying to learn Taemin's "Danger" and EXO's "Cal Me Baby" for the Lunar Show auditions. Damn was I committed, heh. It was early on too and I didn't know what to expect after I made it.
I do know now that that hard work pays off. And yes, I did practice today, about 30 minutes ago actually. And yes, I got pretty exhausted. Anyways, let's get to it since it's 1:24 AM. Psychology, we did a bootleg conditioning experiment with eye-blinking and tapping glass. We got a project that'll be assigned on Monday, so uh, yeah, 'mother project (which I most likely will have to Photoshop again). English was on a different level, because the "quest" that we were having was more like a test. 53 multiple choice questions, half of which were on reading a passage and basically guess on the answer, becasue it's all up for interpretation. People worked through break, even, heh, and some were still not thoroughly finished (like me). Jesus.
Bio was pretty beneficial, I got math work done, and was planning on starting the next, next work. Math, considering I just did the work in previous class, went smoothly. Err, the lesson was basically review of stuff from last year so I was comfortable with it anyways. We also got our quizzes back, which I got 13/16 on. I got most right, except, I forgot to label the fucking axis and reference angles. Like, come on man.
Lunch was the usual, US History, was too relaxing. Again. We finished the movie, was a pretty good movie (a nice social commentary and slices of lives of individuals in the situations of the Manhattan Project), except, I kept on taking those 1-second naps. But I did try to stay awake for most of it, which I did. Movie was 2 hours long apparently, and made in 1989. I'd give it like an 8/10. One thing that bothered me (and this is going back to my uh, So Don't Be on with Her roots) was that this one girl did not know what the fuck was going on. During the part where they're testing the atom bomb (or about to), she was like "Wait is this the part where uh, they're going to launch the bomb?" First of all, the bomb was hanging by a crane, so, kinda obvious that it's not going to be "launched." And it's not a fucking rocket, it's literally, a bomb, on the shale of a bomb. Not a rocket, not a missile. And like, why would they be in Japan? They'd travel across to Nagasaki, setup a huge base, and drop the bomb in the middle of Nagasaki with them being 40 miles away and in view of it. Yeah, nice. I don't think you have to be a bomb expert to know some common sense or logic.
But anyways, that was just something to comment about, I ain't gonna hold it for so long, probably gonna forget about it the next day. Umm, oh yeah and proejct assigned on Monday for US History too. And Junior scheduling orientation. Chinese, where we did the usual vocabulary review, hand gestures, and arts and crafts time, where we make uh, the 3D Chinese character for "spring." KDT practice afterschool where a lot of people showed up. I'm pretty sure about 10 of them arent going to be attending the next one, because the dance we were learning today was fairly difficult due to the speed, and so people would get discouraged by it, and the rest is history.
But yeah, a lot of people, and seeing everybody since Lunar Show was like a mini reunion. Also DrewH was there as well. And Ad, who showed up at the end of practice, heh. Umm, so yeah, played Maplestory and League, not much work this weekend, gonna get my much needed sleep, and uh, see ya.
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: Headache - High4
During practice for learning the moves to Twice's "Ooh-Ahh," I was like "I do not remember learning dances being this challenging." But then I remember how much I practiced at home, trying to learn Taemin's "Danger" and EXO's "Cal Me Baby" for the Lunar Show auditions. Damn was I committed, heh. It was early on too and I didn't know what to expect after I made it.
I do know now that that hard work pays off. And yes, I did practice today, about 30 minutes ago actually. And yes, I got pretty exhausted. Anyways, let's get to it since it's 1:24 AM. Psychology, we did a bootleg conditioning experiment with eye-blinking and tapping glass. We got a project that'll be assigned on Monday, so uh, yeah, 'mother project (which I most likely will have to Photoshop again). English was on a different level, because the "quest" that we were having was more like a test. 53 multiple choice questions, half of which were on reading a passage and basically guess on the answer, becasue it's all up for interpretation. People worked through break, even, heh, and some were still not thoroughly finished (like me). Jesus.
Bio was pretty beneficial, I got math work done, and was planning on starting the next, next work. Math, considering I just did the work in previous class, went smoothly. Err, the lesson was basically review of stuff from last year so I was comfortable with it anyways. We also got our quizzes back, which I got 13/16 on. I got most right, except, I forgot to label the fucking axis and reference angles. Like, come on man.
Lunch was the usual, US History, was too relaxing. Again. We finished the movie, was a pretty good movie (a nice social commentary and slices of lives of individuals in the situations of the Manhattan Project), except, I kept on taking those 1-second naps. But I did try to stay awake for most of it, which I did. Movie was 2 hours long apparently, and made in 1989. I'd give it like an 8/10. One thing that bothered me (and this is going back to my uh, So Don't Be on with Her roots) was that this one girl did not know what the fuck was going on. During the part where they're testing the atom bomb (or about to), she was like "Wait is this the part where uh, they're going to launch the bomb?" First of all, the bomb was hanging by a crane, so, kinda obvious that it's not going to be "launched." And it's not a fucking rocket, it's literally, a bomb, on the shale of a bomb. Not a rocket, not a missile. And like, why would they be in Japan? They'd travel across to Nagasaki, setup a huge base, and drop the bomb in the middle of Nagasaki with them being 40 miles away and in view of it. Yeah, nice. I don't think you have to be a bomb expert to know some common sense or logic.
But anyways, that was just something to comment about, I ain't gonna hold it for so long, probably gonna forget about it the next day. Umm, oh yeah and proejct assigned on Monday for US History too. And Junior scheduling orientation. Chinese, where we did the usual vocabulary review, hand gestures, and arts and crafts time, where we make uh, the 3D Chinese character for "spring." KDT practice afterschool where a lot of people showed up. I'm pretty sure about 10 of them arent going to be attending the next one, because the dance we were learning today was fairly difficult due to the speed, and so people would get discouraged by it, and the rest is history.
But yeah, a lot of people, and seeing everybody since Lunar Show was like a mini reunion. Also DrewH was there as well. And Ad, who showed up at the end of practice, heh. Umm, so yeah, played Maplestory and League, not much work this weekend, gonna get my much needed sleep, and uh, see ya.
Friday, February 5, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016 "Komfort."
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: XOX - Z.Hera
I still remember when I said that I would be committed to staying in KDT for the whole thing as if it was yesterday. And now look where I am, heh. Good shit, Drew, good shit.
On a side note, my neck's back to normal. I've been meaning to say that for the past couple days but forgot to. Anyways, when thinking towards light things, it feels pretty relaxing. Well, until Monday next week where I gotta know start compiling my schedule for next year. Don't really know what I wanna take yet. I'll leave those thoughts for over the weekend.
Psychology was fairly calming, we just took notes while we each had a cup filled with some cherry Kool-Aid. We had to taste some every time the teacher said "Pavlov" or "test trial," to demonstrate conditioning. I just really liked the Kool-Aid, heh. English was as bad as usual, I really do not like the way the teacher's teaching it. And I know, how do I come to this conclusion after the 1st semester. Well, if I remember correctly, the 1st semester was sorta a warmup according to him, now that it's the 2nd semester, he wants to really prepare us for AP English. I'm just like "C'mon fam, with the way you're pushing us, I don't think people wanna take AP English anymore, heh." But that's just me.
This time, I went with DrewN and Vb during break. Apparently DrewN still hangs out at the OG place for break. I did that, 'till I tried spending time with Lt. And after like, I'd say, 15 weeks of the same thing over and over again, I sorta got tired of it (hanging out with Lt I mean). I just need some break time, literally. For Biology, it was another free day essentially, where we gotta self-study by doing online work and writing it down on a worksheet (which is not due at all, just practice). Tomorrow, the teacher's gotta chaperon her kid's field trip, so we get another free day. WOOOOO. Now that's what I like to see.
Math was horrible. By horrible, I mean my score. I got a 34/70 I think, on that test we took Monday. NOT even an F, it's worse than an F, heh. Yes, I didn't study, but after looking back at the answers, I was off on some by like, a tiny bit. Like, instead of a -1, I put 0. If I had gotten those little things right, I would've bumped up my score to like a C-. And not only is it my worst score in math (according to tests and quizzes), it's probably my worst score on a test or quiz. Ever. Well, there's a first time for everything.
Lunch was normal as usual, except this time it was with Am as well. This week I've started getting school lunches instead of bringing a lunch. Umm, I thought lines would take forever, they really don't. That was during the first day of High school, so uh, of course it would look long. Over time, it goes by real quick. So, yeah. For US History, I was limbo basically. We watched more of "Fat Man and Little Boy". It seemed like hours, not even kidding. It didn't get exciting 'till the end of the period, where I was basically ready to go to 6th. I know it's a good film, but like, the setting to watch it was just sleep-inducing. The volume wasn't that loud, it was silent except for the movie, ambiance, very dim lighting, all contributed to me taking 1-second naps along the way.
Chinese was a productive day. We worked on Chromebooks to finish work. And uh, I'm comfortable with where I'm sitting for once, heh. It honestly, is, calm. Or relaxing. Or both. I'm just comfortable. Anyways, KDT practice tomorrow, hell fucking yeah, gotta get my dance group fix from this "Lunar Show withdrawal." Get that sense of doing the same thing, sharing a common interest as a group, no matter how different we all may be.
And also a "quest" for English. Not very excited for that, heh. Well alright, it's 12:08 AM, see ya.
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: XOX - Z.Hera
I still remember when I said that I would be committed to staying in KDT for the whole thing as if it was yesterday. And now look where I am, heh. Good shit, Drew, good shit.
On a side note, my neck's back to normal. I've been meaning to say that for the past couple days but forgot to. Anyways, when thinking towards light things, it feels pretty relaxing. Well, until Monday next week where I gotta know start compiling my schedule for next year. Don't really know what I wanna take yet. I'll leave those thoughts for over the weekend.
Psychology was fairly calming, we just took notes while we each had a cup filled with some cherry Kool-Aid. We had to taste some every time the teacher said "Pavlov" or "test trial," to demonstrate conditioning. I just really liked the Kool-Aid, heh. English was as bad as usual, I really do not like the way the teacher's teaching it. And I know, how do I come to this conclusion after the 1st semester. Well, if I remember correctly, the 1st semester was sorta a warmup according to him, now that it's the 2nd semester, he wants to really prepare us for AP English. I'm just like "C'mon fam, with the way you're pushing us, I don't think people wanna take AP English anymore, heh." But that's just me.
This time, I went with DrewN and Vb during break. Apparently DrewN still hangs out at the OG place for break. I did that, 'till I tried spending time with Lt. And after like, I'd say, 15 weeks of the same thing over and over again, I sorta got tired of it (hanging out with Lt I mean). I just need some break time, literally. For Biology, it was another free day essentially, where we gotta self-study by doing online work and writing it down on a worksheet (which is not due at all, just practice). Tomorrow, the teacher's gotta chaperon her kid's field trip, so we get another free day. WOOOOO. Now that's what I like to see.
Math was horrible. By horrible, I mean my score. I got a 34/70 I think, on that test we took Monday. NOT even an F, it's worse than an F, heh. Yes, I didn't study, but after looking back at the answers, I was off on some by like, a tiny bit. Like, instead of a -1, I put 0. If I had gotten those little things right, I would've bumped up my score to like a C-. And not only is it my worst score in math (according to tests and quizzes), it's probably my worst score on a test or quiz. Ever. Well, there's a first time for everything.
Lunch was normal as usual, except this time it was with Am as well. This week I've started getting school lunches instead of bringing a lunch. Umm, I thought lines would take forever, they really don't. That was during the first day of High school, so uh, of course it would look long. Over time, it goes by real quick. So, yeah. For US History, I was limbo basically. We watched more of "Fat Man and Little Boy". It seemed like hours, not even kidding. It didn't get exciting 'till the end of the period, where I was basically ready to go to 6th. I know it's a good film, but like, the setting to watch it was just sleep-inducing. The volume wasn't that loud, it was silent except for the movie, ambiance, very dim lighting, all contributed to me taking 1-second naps along the way.
Chinese was a productive day. We worked on Chromebooks to finish work. And uh, I'm comfortable with where I'm sitting for once, heh. It honestly, is, calm. Or relaxing. Or both. I'm just comfortable. Anyways, KDT practice tomorrow, hell fucking yeah, gotta get my dance group fix from this "Lunar Show withdrawal." Get that sense of doing the same thing, sharing a common interest as a group, no matter how different we all may be.
And also a "quest" for English. Not very excited for that, heh. Well alright, it's 12:08 AM, see ya.
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 "Creative Color."
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: The Less I Know the Better - Tame Impala
Right now I don't know what to think. I'm mostly neutral on most things. Most things. Other than that, it's just whatever, or, I don't know.
That right there was my thought process for an opening for this post. I can't write if I'm forced to write. Take for example the research summaries we always gotta do for Chinese. We do one for each lesson and there has been 17 lessons so far (including this one). I would get tired by now if it was just for English, talking about fucking, fiction that correlates to nonfiction. Like, what the fuck. But it's not. The topics are always different, and you get the creativity to pick your specific topic. Like just today, for work that's due, we're supposed to write a summary on a city, listing it's temperature, attractions, etc.
Sounds boring, but hey, we get to choose the city, and I chose Nagasaki, because I wanted to. The word count for it is only 200 words, but I always go over it (which is good) because I get the freedom on what to write for my own topic. It's prevalent in my personality that I like creativity. Customization in video games, I like making my own stuff, I like graphic design, Lego is my #1 favorite toy of all time.
Anyways, let's get on with it (see? I was talking about something I like, creativity, and look how much I wrote afterwards instead of writing "I don't know, I feel whatever right now."). Psychology was just us correcting our own FRQ's from yesterday's test. Essentially took up the whole period, I was hoping we wouldn't do it, but, I guess we're gonna keep doing it from now on. And no surprise, I got 13/16 on it. 'Course, I did grade my own, but I was reasonable.
English is the worst right now, even more than Bio. At least for Bio, facts and stuff remain the same for the most part, English is too free-form. Now I know what I said about creativity, but what the teacher is looking for in terms of writing is so restricted. You gotta put on this fake voice to write your work, but the worst part, is the importance imposed on quotations. Every single test, quiz, essay, he expects us to memorize quotations. We gotta remember who said it, when and where in the book, and the significance behind, even if we gotta make it up. For example, this character said "Hi, how are you?" The significance of this character asking someone how they are is representative of their curiosity which feeds from their disruptive childhood. See what I mean? I might as well pull the most bootleg-est interpretations I can, just so I can sound clever.
That's enough hate on English for now. We did another fucking "quickwrite," which is shit in my opinion. I had to think about what to write, the goal is to fill half a page. I look at someone else's after we were done and see that they had triple of what I had. I took a closer look and there were literally only 6 words on one line. Their handwriting is bigger than mine, so it looks like they wrote more, which they didn't. So, fuck.
Also thought it was a regular day so I went with DrewN for a bit until I realized people were walking everywhere and it was Wednesday. Bio was just another free day basically. We went outside to catch "rolliepollies" aka "pill bugs." Yeah, there none. 1st period probably got every last one, it was like a pill bug holocaust. We're expected to get 10 by after this weekend, but uh, don't think that'll be possible, heh.
Math was just a regular lesson, but uh, the teacher was sorta disappointed in the scores so far for our test from yesterday. I agree, heh. Probably gonna get the SHITtiest score I will ever get, on a test. Lunch was another ordinary lunch, US History was relaxing. Literally. We started watching "Fat Man and Little Boy," this movie based on real events. Looks good, and stars Paul Newman. Shit part is that it starts off slow and so, I kept on closing my eyes during the whole thing.
Chinese was relaxing as well. Just practicing writing the vocabulary words, umm, yeah, that was the whole period. Oh, almost forgot. The teacher said she's gonna be teaching Chinese 3 next year, so uh, WOOOOO (this was yesterday by the way). The whole class cheered, literally. Just goes to show that nobody really wants to have the new Chinese 3 teacher (who has her class speak only in Chinese for the whole period. Like, what a fucking disadvantage it is for non-heritage speakers). So yeah, looks like I'll be taking a 3rd year of Chinese after all.
Well, "quest" for English on Friday, KDT practice on Friday, and a well deserved break, after Friday. I'll see you tomorro- I mean, see ya.
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: The Less I Know the Better - Tame Impala
Right now I don't know what to think. I'm mostly neutral on most things. Most things. Other than that, it's just whatever, or, I don't know.
That right there was my thought process for an opening for this post. I can't write if I'm forced to write. Take for example the research summaries we always gotta do for Chinese. We do one for each lesson and there has been 17 lessons so far (including this one). I would get tired by now if it was just for English, talking about fucking, fiction that correlates to nonfiction. Like, what the fuck. But it's not. The topics are always different, and you get the creativity to pick your specific topic. Like just today, for work that's due, we're supposed to write a summary on a city, listing it's temperature, attractions, etc.
Sounds boring, but hey, we get to choose the city, and I chose Nagasaki, because I wanted to. The word count for it is only 200 words, but I always go over it (which is good) because I get the freedom on what to write for my own topic. It's prevalent in my personality that I like creativity. Customization in video games, I like making my own stuff, I like graphic design, Lego is my #1 favorite toy of all time.
Anyways, let's get on with it (see? I was talking about something I like, creativity, and look how much I wrote afterwards instead of writing "I don't know, I feel whatever right now."). Psychology was just us correcting our own FRQ's from yesterday's test. Essentially took up the whole period, I was hoping we wouldn't do it, but, I guess we're gonna keep doing it from now on. And no surprise, I got 13/16 on it. 'Course, I did grade my own, but I was reasonable.
English is the worst right now, even more than Bio. At least for Bio, facts and stuff remain the same for the most part, English is too free-form. Now I know what I said about creativity, but what the teacher is looking for in terms of writing is so restricted. You gotta put on this fake voice to write your work, but the worst part, is the importance imposed on quotations. Every single test, quiz, essay, he expects us to memorize quotations. We gotta remember who said it, when and where in the book, and the significance behind, even if we gotta make it up. For example, this character said "Hi, how are you?" The significance of this character asking someone how they are is representative of their curiosity which feeds from their disruptive childhood. See what I mean? I might as well pull the most bootleg-est interpretations I can, just so I can sound clever.
That's enough hate on English for now. We did another fucking "quickwrite," which is shit in my opinion. I had to think about what to write, the goal is to fill half a page. I look at someone else's after we were done and see that they had triple of what I had. I took a closer look and there were literally only 6 words on one line. Their handwriting is bigger than mine, so it looks like they wrote more, which they didn't. So, fuck.
Also thought it was a regular day so I went with DrewN for a bit until I realized people were walking everywhere and it was Wednesday. Bio was just another free day basically. We went outside to catch "rolliepollies" aka "pill bugs." Yeah, there none. 1st period probably got every last one, it was like a pill bug holocaust. We're expected to get 10 by after this weekend, but uh, don't think that'll be possible, heh.
Math was just a regular lesson, but uh, the teacher was sorta disappointed in the scores so far for our test from yesterday. I agree, heh. Probably gonna get the SHITtiest score I will ever get, on a test. Lunch was another ordinary lunch, US History was relaxing. Literally. We started watching "Fat Man and Little Boy," this movie based on real events. Looks good, and stars Paul Newman. Shit part is that it starts off slow and so, I kept on closing my eyes during the whole thing.
Chinese was relaxing as well. Just practicing writing the vocabulary words, umm, yeah, that was the whole period. Oh, almost forgot. The teacher said she's gonna be teaching Chinese 3 next year, so uh, WOOOOO (this was yesterday by the way). The whole class cheered, literally. Just goes to show that nobody really wants to have the new Chinese 3 teacher (who has her class speak only in Chinese for the whole period. Like, what a fucking disadvantage it is for non-heritage speakers). So yeah, looks like I'll be taking a 3rd year of Chinese after all.
Well, "quest" for English on Friday, KDT practice on Friday, and a well deserved break, after Friday. I'll see you tomorro- I mean, see ya.
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