Saturday, December 31, 2016

Saturday, December 31, 2016 "Dance Puffs V12."

Saturday, December 31, 2016
Week: 21
Songs to Remember: Press Your Number - Taemin

        It's technically 2017 already if we're going by Eastern Standard time, but right now it's 11:07 PM Western, so, I'ma, I'ma sleep into the new year.

        And yes, I'm home now. Car rides just don't seem as long anymore, just annoying, tiresome. What's also kinda tiresome is that I finally finished the final version of my mix. Came out pretty good. The choreo, the one I made up for the song that got replaced, kinda scrapped, which meant that the shit I did down in LA at my grandmother's house was for nothing.

        However, this new mix doesn't contain songs that I'm sick of, so hopefully that'll give me some leigh-way in making up about, 2 more minutes or choreo. This is how I'ma start my 2017, with some non-stop dancing apparently. Anyways, gonna try to give myself a good refreshing sleep in my bed so I don't waste valuable time tomorrow, because I really, really do need the time, heh. I promise I'll reflect on a lot more once I get shit under control. For now, it's 11:16 PM, see ya.

Friday, December 30, 2016

Friday, December 30, 2016 "Music Trek."

Friday, December 30, 2016
Week: 21
Songs to Remember: Hit Me - MOBB

        "Don't let life pass you by skrt skrt" Yeah, easy for you to say DrewN. I'm doing what I can right now, I'm, I'm making do with what I got.

        I took this day to reflect upon the amount of rest I've gotten over this break, and uh, as well as do my fucking, math work. Over the first week days, I got some nice-ass sleep. Talk about sloth, I got between 10 to 12 hours of sleep a day. Made up for the nights I had to stay up because godamn those nights were dreadful. Now, I can sorta sleep in a bit, until probably Monday because I gotta go to KDT practice at the library. No school on Monday by the way, just, practice. And then the rest of that day will be dedicated to going ham on my own dance.

        Not gonna lie, I'm kinda scared knowing that I do not have much time. I pretty much gotta work, work, work, constantly, on making the rest of my choreo. It's not much when you think about, I got about 2 minutes left of my mix. But when you're actually making it, once you make a move, you're mind just blanks on "Aw shit, what do I do after this, how does this fit with the lyrics" and etc. That's what I'm afraid of.

        So yeah, my dad arrived today, we're going back home tomorrow morning. The boxes of KDT shirts are sitting in my room, back home, almost forgot about those things. And uh, yeah. It's 11:44 PM, I got a long, log music filled trek thread of me. Tomorrow though, that's gonna be filled with a lot of sleep. A lot. In a car. Anyways, see ya.

Thursday, December 29, 2016 "KO-rea."

Thursday, December 29, 2016
Week: 21
Songs to Remember: Hit Me - MOBB

        To put things short, I had some cold cereal by which the people at Korea Town in LA call "Dragon's Breath" dessert, explored some K-Pop music stores by which would probably pale in comparison to ones in Korea but in the states, it's fairly nice.

        Got an album by which I'ma give away to, uhhh, online, shit. Last night I had a dream that Jb messaged me on Facebook, and whaddya know, Jb messaged me this morning, asking if, I can make arrange a mix for her dance recital. It's like, heh, it's like I'm, I'm not even here. But anyways, gonna plan on doing my math work tomorrow, then once I get home, I'll have nothing but to dance, dance, MOTHERFUKING DANCE. Alrighty, see ya.

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Wednesday, December 28, 2016 "Outlet."

Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Week: 21
Songs to Remember: Me Like Yuh - Jay Park

        So I guess instead of practicing choreo today or tomorrow, uh, I went to some outlet stores and Korea Town (tomorrow).

        Spent quite a bit on finding parking, but other than that, the Citadel outlet and Los Cerritos Center mall were, pretty high standard. Higher standard than my local mall at least, but uh, yeah.

        Tomorrow we (my cousin and I) are gonna go to Korea Town, uhhh, gonna score some nice Snapchat points, go to that Korean music shop, and uh, try some of that bootleg nitrogen balls, whatever they're called. I guess uh, I'ma have about 2 days to go ham in finishing my choreo, do math work, etc. Right now it's 10:12 PM, watching some Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Uhhhhhh, see ya.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Tuesday, December 27, 2016 "Get Money, Make Choreo."

Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Week: 21
Songs to Remember: Inspiration - Jonghyun

        Yep, you guessed it, still, still doing the same ol' routine of get money and make chore...ography.

        Tomorrow though, my cousin offered that we go to some outlet stores or whatever tomorrow, so, looks like that's where we're going. It does seem pretty daunting how I've only got about 50℅ or so of my choreography done, and that I'll only have about two dedicated days to wrap it up and practice hard on it, but uh, I can hopefully do it.

        Anyways, it's 11:39 PM, see ya

Monday, December 26, 2016 "Re-choreo."

Monday, December 26, 2016
Week: 21
Songs to Remember: Replay - SHINee

        Mhmm, back to the old grind, of, getting my surveys in for the day and then working on choreo.

        The good news is, I actually got a lot done today. I slowed down how I was making the choreo, leading it to have less moves per set of counts, rather than making like, one move per count, which is fucking exhausting, heh. Umn, and yeah, about, I'd say halfway done with the choreo. Still gotta come up with layouts, refine descriptions, etc, as well as practice.

        It's 12:22 AM right now, tired, see ya.

Monday, December 26, 2016

Sunday, December 25, 2016 "Don't Pour Over Me."

Sunday, December 25, 2016
Week: 20
Songs to Remember: View - SHINee

        Today was a lot faster than yesterday. It was comprised of us watching movies, and, food. Eating, food.

        Started off with watching Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, for some reason. Then we went out to watch Star Wars: Rogue One, of which the IMAX showing wasn't showing yet, so, we ate first. We decided on this place that specializes in Japanese stuff. I ended up with some nice-ass Takoyaki and some "Mochi Cheese Gratin" which is, pretty filling considering how small it is (and damn was it good).

        Star Wars, Rogue One, yeah that was pretty dark. Deep, very action-y. I liked it, it was very dramatic, the action flowed a lot, and uh, just had a very different tone than other Star Wars movies.

        We got home at like 8:00 PM, didn't eat dinner, so we just had some instant ramen, heh. And then uh, wrapped up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, as well as watch Gary Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Tomorrow my cousins are leaving probably, uh, today was Christmas but we ain't celebrate shit 'cause we did that yesterday, uhhh, and yeah. It's 12:44 AM right now, very tired, see ya.

Sunday, December 25, 2016

Saturday, December 24, 2016 "I Hope You Know That It's Christmas."

Saturday, December 24, 2016
Week: 20
Songs to Remember: Me Like Yuh - Jay Park, Oh NaNa - K.A.R.D

        With all the crazy Christmas shit that's happened so far, I almost forgot that I have a choreography deadline to make up. Due in about, oh I don't know, 9 days from now. Maybe 10.

        So, my cousin's finally came over, my other two. Came at around, oh I don't know, 12:00 AM -ish. We played a couple games of Smash (bros. on the Wii U) and then we went to sleep, 'cause I really was fucking tired, heh. I ran out of relevant social media to browse, no new interesting YouTube subscriptions, it was a long wait that night.

        Tonight was an even longer one, heh. This morning we woke up at (well, I officially woke up at) 10:00 AM -ish. Ate breakfast, got dressed, etc, and then we started off with going to this one street wear place in LA. It's like a uh, pawn shop or whatever, sorta, -ish, specializing in street wear, shoes, and whatnot. Essentially a men's clothing store, filled with brand names, and shoes, there, that's better. Apparently people from other places (like New York, etc) come here to sell their stuff, which I find kinda, eh, because the store's not that great.

        It's pretty small, uhhh, didn't really have much, but it was nice there nonetheless. Also there was a line, heh, and I thought I was because it was really, like, all that. In actuality, it was just because they don't want the store to be so crowded, so they limit the amount of people inside at once, which is smart. My cousins, the two that are into them brand name stuff, they both got Yeezys, the uh, 350 V2 ones if I can recall correctly. I was also complimented on my fit for the day (which was just that EXO hoodie, black bomber and joggers, along with my slightly brown-ish hair, and uh, me borrowing my older cousin's Adidas Yeezy Boosts 750s (if that's what they're even called). Apparently I looked "Korean" with all that, heh.

        One thing I noticed when I walked around today with all that was that, I did feel confident. No need to feel intimidated. I had presence, or, my clothing made a presence wherever I went. When we walked in shoe stores, I walked in there feeling like "Yep, I belong in here" or whatever. And so, yeah, I can understand how people really like this stuff.  From there, we went to this one other street wear place, not as popular (as in, there was like nobody in there really), browsed around, etc. Then it was to Fry's to get some RAM (to no avail) and apparently an amiibo. From there, it was to the Glendale Galleria, which had a ton of spots for some nice-ass, Instagram pics (of which I did get), and Snapchst points.

       And then we went back home. This was around, 5 -ish, 6 -ish. We played some bootleg Trivia Murder Party, Tee K.O, Guesspionage, and Fakin' It (never, fucking, again). We ate dinner, which wasn't pizza this time, and was just noodles and chicken wings. And root beer. It wasn't until 7:00 PM or so that things got lit. We started watching "Just Go With It" (again) upstairs, moved it down to downstairs. At around 8:00 PM we opened presents, now that, was crazy. There were so many presents this time that it basically made a fort in front of the Christmas tree. And of course we opened it tonight, Christmas Eve night, because we always do that, heh. And shit, was it lit. It was, a lot of pictures, a lot of, bootleg shit. And yes, our girl cousin did come, just had to mention that just in case I wonder "Was she here for this Christmas?"

        By bootleg I mean good. Like, I was not expecting, 3 pairs of shoes, and a Palace T-shirt. All that shit caught me off-guard. Bootleg games, bootleg, yeah, all with "Just Go With It" playing in the background. The party lasted 'till around 10:30 PM or so. It's, it's 12:53 AM right now. And as for arcs, I think there's going to be a lot of arcs that are gonna be coming out. Not gonna say much or that it's gonna include Bp, I'm just saying, it all really set off with my flashy Instagram post today and doing her a favor in making a music mix and uh, I got a choreo due in 10 days, tomorrow we gonna be stunting with all our new shit, and uh, we'll be watching that Star Wars: Rogue One. What's bad is that it's 1:06 AM now and I probably wanna sleep in. Anyways, see ya.

Friday, December 23, 2016

Friday, December 23, 2016 "No Good Things."

Friday, December 23, 2016
Week: 20
Songs to Remember: Oh Na Na - K.A.R.D

        Although I do love to dance to high BPM songs, I don't like choreographing 'em, heh.

        What frustrates me most about it is that I gotta figure out the fucking counts to them. What makes it all harder is that sometimes you barely got any lyrics, heh, to figure 'em out by, and uh, most of the time the lyrics are in a different language.

        I got about 45 seconds done today, basically all of the NCT "Good Thing!" part, minus the beginning beginning choreo so realistically, about 35 seconds, but, I can always figure that out later 'cause it doesn't involve AS MANY moves. I'm just thankful I don't have to focus on that song anymore because godamn, listening to one song over and over again really does make you hate it.

        So yeah, today was just any other ordinary day, ordinary if you count what I've been doing for the whole time I've been here, ordinary, then yeah, it's been just ordinary. It's 10:16 PM right now, my cousin and I just finished watching some South Park episodes. My other two cousins have yet to arrive, which means I still have yet to sleep on the floor, heh. My back has been killing me for the past days I've been here, probably because of the height of the pillow I've been sleeping, makes me kinda sleep like at a 20 degree angle.

        Tomorrow's gonna be pretty baller though. Not sure where we gonna go, my boy Ad recommended me to go to Korea town, but all they really have there is K-Pop albums, food, and uh, soju, of which I'm not really legally able to drink yet. And like, I don't really want albums, or, just food that I can get elsewhere. The only thing good is that I can get myself some sweet-ass Snapchat points because y'all know KDT loves K-Pop stuff.

        But I'm not sure if that's worth the hassle of going to Koreatown for. Other than that, not sure where else. Anyways, it's 10:34 PM now, uhhh, see ya.

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Thursday, December 22, 2016 "Sheep."

Thursday, December 22, 2016
Week: 20
Songs to Remember: Inspiration - Jonghyun

        Well, today there was more interaction than the other few days.

        For starters, we watched a movie (at home of course). We watched "Just Go With It" a timeless classic of ours, only for the fucking sheep-shipper scenes, heh. Umn, other than that, a Skype call, banter, uhhh, Running Man watching, and me making more of my choreo, there was nothing much else.

        Tomorrow the amount of banter and shenanigans with increase 'cause our other two cousins will be arriving (albeit very late at night). For now, gonna wrap up the first, 45 seconds of choreo (hopefully) by tomorrow, and uh, yeah, prepare for Christmas. It's 10:49 PM, see ya.

        Also, just to mention, yeah I've had dreams every night. Don't really have 'em anymore at home, but here, yeah it's a lot. A couple days ago, I dreamt something bootleg, and so I woke up, then I went back to sleep. My second dream was me trying to remember and writing down my first dream, and yeah, I did end up forgetting both. Anyways, see ya.

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Wednesday, December 21, 2016 "Step 1 of Many."

Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Week: 20
Songs to Remember:

        Counting back to all the times I ever looked on social media in one sitting, today's gotta be the longest.

        If you don't know already know it, choreography making is pretty hard. After finishing my daily survey taking in the morning, I sat in the living room, on the couch, testing out moves, writing them down, aaand, majority of the time, think of the next set of moves. I get bored, look on social media (mostly Instagram and Snapchat), and then repeat the whole cycle over again.

        And I really gotta slow down with my moves 'cause I get tired easily when running through 'em. I got about, 30 seconds of choreo done today, give or take 10 seconds. Still got a long way to go, but I think it'll get easier because the rest of the songs won't be as fast as the first one in my mix. So yeah. Not bad for the first day. Anyways, see ya.

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Tuesday, December 20, 2016 "Nothing Makes Me Tired."

Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Week: 20
Songs to Remember: Inspiration - Jonghyun

        Yeah it is kinda tiring pressing play and stop, move tracks a bit, trim tracks a bit, and then repeating.

        I haven't gotten the chance yet to work on my choreo, I've just been working on the KDT mixes. And it does get boring, listening to the same, same exact songs over and over again, especially the same parts. And the worst part is, I've only spent like 9 hours awake. I slept at 10:00 PM last night, woke up at 11:00 AM, my cousin got a call at 3:00 AM to go to work, didn't come home 'till 7:00 PM today, and uh, yeah.

        I'll start on my choreo tomorrow though, gotta, gotta stop stalling and just, work. I mean, during Christmas with my other two cousins coming over, I won't be getting shit done, heh. So yeah, that's it for now, it's 9:00 PM, see ya.

Monday, December 19, 2016

Monday, December 19, 2016 "Digital Maker."

Monday, December 19, 2016
Week: 20
Songs to Remember: Inspiration - Jonghyun

        Sleep early, wake up late. This is how I'ma be getting back my sleep.

        Last night I slept at like 10:00 PM because I was tired as fuck. Today, I woke up at 10:00 AM, meaning I got myself a nice 12-hour chunk of sleep. It was good, minus that crazy-ass nightmare and that side-dream after. Always get bootleg dreams when I sleep here.

        I spent a good majority of the day (about 85%) making the day-show and night-show mixes for Lunar Show. Only today was the date announced that all music must be sent in by the 30th. I'm like "Huh. Well, I was thinking about working on my choreography today, but I guess that'll have to wait 'till tomorrow."

        Other than that, i spent the rest of the day on miscellaneous stuff, music, checking social media, the usual. Anyways, nothing much happening besides all that. It's 9:48 PM, see ya.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Sunday, December 18, 2016 "12 Days of Choreo."

Sunday, December 18, 2016
Week: 19
Songs to Remember: U - KNK

        As a kid, bus rides, car rides, or just rides in general, seem pretty long. As an 18-year old though, they just seem long-ish.

        7:00 AM I woke up to a bus ride from my location to LA. Went by smoothly (for the most part) for most of the time I spent it sleeping. During the times where I was awake and couldn't sleep because I had already slept so much, I watched "Step Up 3D" on my phone, except I didn't check the audio the night before and found that even with the volume turned to max, the sound of the bus driving cancelled out a lot of it. Finally arrived at the usual supermarket where my uncle usually picks my mom and I up. Shopped for groceries, shopped for dinner, and then we arrived at my grandmother's house.

        Yep, still the same as I remember it, except this time my cousin's living here (in the meantime) in the room we usually stay in. I think I got a good schedule going on. I do my usual 500 points a day for surveys, then the rest of the day goes toward mix making or choreo making. Actually seems pretty good.

        And I really do have to practice (thank the lord for the spacious living room here and carpetting) because I don't think I can learn and memorize a 150-second choreo to perform on Tuesday when I go back to school. And uh, yeah. It's 8:17 PM, pretty much tired for the night. Gonna plan out my mix for tomorrow, catch up on some videos, and then hit the hay. See ya.

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Saturday, December 17, 2016 "Korean Dance Christmas."

Saturday, December 17, 2016
Week: 19
Songs to Remember: FXXK IT - Big Bang, The 7th Sense - NCT U

        Not exactly the kind of Christmas party I envisioned in my mind, based on videos and photos of last year's Christmas party, but it was definitely something alright.

        Started with ordering 63 shirts worth $1260 and counting the money. Then it was getting ready, getting some eggrolls (30 count) for the potluck part of the party. Got there at about 12:30 PM -ish. Yeah not many were there initially. It was just Rh (or Ry), Ln, Jb (of course since it was at her house), Mt, aaand this one freshman dude. Doggies and puppers were running around, not many people were there,  I was just like "I knew should've came earlier."

        But once more people started showing up it got better. It was about 20-ish people in total, quite a few (freshmen) showed up whom I didn't know were gonna show up 'cause they didn't put the "I'm Going" thing on Facebook for the event. So everybody ate and then, we played the "white elephant" game (a secret santa -ish game basically). After I saw what gifts people got each other I was like "...fuck, I knew should've brought something." I was afraid people were gonna go all out and my gift would look like kinda silly. Nope, actually would've been pretty decent.

        We then played some "Beanboozled" where, you eat jellybeans and hope you get the better flavors. The bad flavors were not as bad as you'd think, but I wouldn't suggest actually eating 'em or risk having some foul smelling breath (because that shit did not have a pleasant smell). Soon people got bored with what was discussed, or like, what was being played on the monitor (which was just K-Pop MV's and some, fucking, K-Pop "crack" videos and vines, etc, etc, recycled shit). About half of us just went around, and by that I mean go to the kitchen for some food or to get away from it all.

        There was a clear division initially for this all, for a good half of it all. It was like, me, Mt, Jb, Ln, Ev, Rh, Ln, and Bp who were in the kitchen talking about, I don't know, relevant shit, and jello that looked like fetuses (or feti, inside joke, inside joke) while the rest were in the game room just, doing whatever. Yeah I'd say that was the highlight of it all, that was, that was some really good convo, even with multiple prolonged silences. It all seemed okay.

        People gradually left and soon we went back to the room to play some "Spyfall," which is this bootleg question game where you ask questions and receive vague-ass answers. And then after that we just watched some K-Pop MV's and live performances, as well as our past KDT performances, and more discussion. Of K-Pop artists and idols. Focusing more on personality drama rather than tracks produced. It was a good, hour or so, the uh, "relaxation" portion of it. It was almost 8:00 PM and I knew I had shit to do and wake up early tomorrow and etc, and I was yawning and getting bored, so I just went home. There were about, 8-ish people left.

        And it was fortunate that I did go home at that time 'cause I just finished with, basically all my packing, 'cause it's, 11:22 PM. I'll be in a bus to LA at 8:00 AM or so tomorrow, up until 2:00 PM, then 3:30 PM or so 'till I finally get to my grandmother's house and relax. Sorta. Alrighty, that's, that's it. See ya.

Friday, December 16, 2016

Friday, December 16, 2016 "Deewcember."

Friday, December 16, 2016
Week: 19
Songs to Remember: Fantasy - Alina Baraz & Galimatias

        Sometimes when I took a puff, felt just like when I was vaping. Sometimes when I took a puff, I felt like an asthmatic lung donor.

        And still no high, heh. I probably did it wrong, or have high tolerance, or I was expecting way too much. Ec, however, I'm thinking he was over-exaggerating it all and giving himself a placebo effect or, he really was high.

        So, today's finals were pretty laid-back. In Gov, the teacher explained a bit about, whatever, a lot of things, and uh, we took the assessment for those who wanted to. We actually got to look at the questions before we chose to answer 'em or not. They were pretty straightforward, so, with my 89.82%, I thought "Why not" and tried for it. If I don't get it, then, nothing happens, heh. And if I do, I'll hopefully get that A-. Umm, but yeah, we all said our goodbyes, umm, school talk, we took some pictures as a class, and yeah. Of couse I'll say my greetings whenever I see him, he was a cool teacher and, his presence made this half of this series less boring. And of course, his name's Mr. Escobar by the way, the one who always plays those bootleg videos before class.

        During break I got to meet up with half of the cast before we all do our own shit for the break. Christmas break, that is. I tried to go to my Digital Art teacher's room to turn in my missing assignment shit (which I am certain I turned in since I do remember turning it in and then it getting placed back into my folder), but the door was locked. So, I just went to 6th period, late, but it was whatever. It was two hours of basically, a movie. We watched "Ip Man," a Chinese movie, but luckily there were subtitles and it was pretty good, and based on a true story, and didn't look cheap except for the sound effects. Umm, so yeah 2 hours of that, I remember looking at the clock and I saw that it was only 11:00 AM, meaning I still had another hour. I'm like "Oh my GAWWWWD." I wanted to move around to talk to that one girl whom didn't seem to mind when she sat next to me, she just sat by herself, but before I was gonna get up and move over, she moved seats to sit next to her friend and they just watched videos on a Chromebook for the rest of the period.

        Others played League on their laptop or, played Pokemon on their 3DS, while I had nothing 'cause people ain't allowed to use their phones (but apparently other electronics are fine), but my eyes, used to watch the whole, hour and a half of "Ip Man." After that, that was it. Jk and I went our routes and uh, I was jumping a lot when I came to Atr's "usual" spot after school and seeing that she and her group's not there. Luckily she posted on Facebook that she was with her buddies for a Christmas lunch and shit, so that explains things and also proves once again I shouldn't jump, which I was going to, but, fortunately I held off. I went home, slept for a good hour, just wandered the web for a bit before Ec and Dv decide that we're gonna be smoking some weed at 6:00 PM.

        So, I ate dinner, showered, got ready and Ec picked me up at 6:00 PM. It was cold, pretty cold even though it was only 6:00 PM. Mostly my hands were cold, the rest of my body was fine. We drove to Dv's house, called him several times, rang his doorbell, knocked on the window, he was OUT. Like, asleep. We decided to just smoke it without him. We first tried with some wax paper but that didn't work, so, we tried receipt paper and that actually worked, heh. Not much, not much knowledge on rolling blunts but apparently you just roll it up, light then end, and inhale.

        Not sure if I was doing it wrong or I have high tolerance or I expected more than what it was, so I didn't really feel anything. Not sure what I should've felt either. For Ec though, he laughed a lot, umm, talked a lot differently than from last time when we all went to play billiards. We had to find places to like, inhale it, in peace, but cars drove by everywhere we went. At one point we were just driving around my neighborhood and us exchanging the blunt.

         And there was a lot of paranoia, especially when there was a car that followed us for a bit. Luckily nothing happened so that good. Uhh, since Ec was high, like, with the way he acted, I was like "Yeah, let's not drive for a bit." We parked near my house and we just walked to this milk tea place at my local plaza. Got milk tea, walked back to my house, we watched some bootleg street-wear videos and Gordan Ramsey in my room, during this time Dv finally woke up and after fixing his glasses, drove over to my house, stayed in my room for a bit after having his dinner, and then we went to play some billiards.

        This all started from 6:00 PM to, about 45 minutes ago, as it's 11:18 PM right now. We played billiards for about an hour, uh, we kept on pocketing the cue ball in Cutthroat and so it went for a shit-long time before we all just called it quits, and we all went home. I gotta say, marijuana does have a distinct smell, however, not that great as you'd think. We probably should've just ate it, and if only we had a pipe but unfortunately we forgot what place Dv told us that sold 'em, so, fuck, heh. But yeah, smoking weed is not as great as you'd think.

        Just do it like, on occasion, and I think you'll be fine. So, tomorrow there's the KDT Christmas party, I gotta work on my cousins' Christmas presents right now 'cause when I'ma wake up at like, 10:00 AM tomorrow to order the shirts and shit and get pizza to bring over, before I come on over and probably hang out at Jb's place for, the whole day basically, heh. Alrighty, let's uh, let's get to it. See ya.

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Thursday, December 15, 2016 "Destructive Manners and Venting."

Thursday, December 15, 2016
Week: 19
Songs to Remember: Bermuda Triangle - ZICO

        Apparently two missing assignments in Digital Art can bring you down 29 fucking percent. I've turned them both in by the way, but I guess not.

        I went from a 99% to an 80% because the teacher put in two 0's for me, one for the fruit face project I turned into (which I did get done within the allotted time), aaand, that one base drawing I had to make for my Keith Haring project, of which I was certain I turned in because it ended up in my folder, but uh, guess not, so that means I gotta go in early tomorrow to turn it in, or risk ending up with a fucking B for this class even though I very well deserve my freelo A.

        Also I didn't study, at all, for the final there. I'm thinking I got a 99% anyways, and it doesn't, really matter. After that all, I went to the cast table and nobody was there, so, I'm guessing everybody was just doing there own thing for today, especially after I walked to the L-building and saw that Jk was getting some intel so, I just left him be. Since I was there, I decided to go round the back of the building and whadya know, that's, that's where Atr was. She was busy talking to her buddies and so, I just went back to the cast table.

        Finding out that there was still nobody there, I went back to the L-building, where Atr was, said my greeting, felt that it was, kinda iffy rounding back there again, so, just laid it off, waited for the bell to ring, and then headed to English. I didn't study, at all, for English. I figured that we'd have our notes to use so, no need to rely on memorization. I was right, heh. The test however, was 95 questions, a bit were true/false, a bit were matching, a bit were fill-in-the-blank. Fortunately we got to use our stack of notes so that part was kinda just a given. There was also a "mini" essay, umm, spent about 20 minutes on that, aaand, fortunately I was in Honors English because this was kinda like the prompts we'd get in that class, except easier and more freelo.

        And that was it. It was raining a smidgen of the day, and uh, as I went my route to get some daily intel, Atr left with her buddies. Not gonna rocket-jump to conclusions, not gonna jump, I've hopefully learned my lesson. So after school my dad drove me to the DMV to get my ID and him a senior citizen card. To make a long and stressful story short, he missed the turn for the DMV about, a few times. Then when we finally got in, I kinda knew we were at the wrong one, I just had a feeling. I'm like "I don't remember the DMV we scheduled at was on blank street." We filled out our respective forms, as we're walking to get into the appointment line, I look at the appointment sheet I printed out a week earlier and yep, it said a different location.

        Luckily we were able to get there in time as we only had 7 minutes from our 1:30 PM appointment. Doesn't really make sense to me how there are two DMV's within 7 minutes of each other, but whatever. I went in to check-in as my dad tries to find parking and I'm just like "Oh fuck, this place looks very different from the other DMV. Way more hostile." And ghetto. The ceiling was really low, and there was a brick back-wall when you went in. It looked like fucking, Kerning City from Maplestory, that was what the back-wall reminded me of. So I got in line, my dad finally comes in, we get to the front, the receptionist required that we had to have a bill and like, medical care proof, car registration,and shit (apparently they added more required documents since July of this year. Nice fucking timing). Luckily my dad had some in his car, he got those to prove my residence with a chain of documents (he's my dad, here's my birth certificate confirming he's my dad, here's his driver's license, the bill belongs to my dad, here's the residence that it states on it, my dad lives there, and so it's inferred that I live there as well).

        We got in, we got numbers to wait for, and I guess my dad thinks that appointments at the DMV are supposed to work on the spot so, by the time we finished all the shit with the receptionist, it was 1:46 PM. We're sitting there, waiting, and my dad's thinking "We have an appointment, why are we waiting?" And so he's like "Let me go ask this guy here" and I'm like "Dad, what are you doing." He goes to talk to this one person who seems to be working at one of the service windows (like window 19, window 10, etc). In short terms, that dude was an ass. Yeah my dad's questions were kinda nonsensical, like, "It's 1:46 PM right now, but my appointment is 1:30 PM, I'm just wondering why we're still waiting?" Like, what?

        So the dude responds with smart-ass comments and shit like "Beats me, man, I'm wondering too. You're just gonna have to wait it out I guess." And he said it all with a sarcastic-ass voice. Sure, you work at the fucking DMV, but that's my dad you're talking to, and it ain't fucking fair that you get to express the joy of working at the DMV by talking to him like that when he's old, stressed out and can die any second from the his already-high blood pressure level, and doesn't even know what sarcasm is, let alone pronounce "sarcasm." Hearing him talk to my dad like that made me just wanna fucking shove some rounds of lead in his face, that's how pissed off I was. Nobody talks to my dad like that.

        Well, our numbers were finally called, my dad rushes over to the window receptionist, but then my number gets called and so I rush over there as for them to not call another person. My dad thinks we only have one number, so he's calling me over to the window with him, when I'm already at my own window. I'm there, trying to explain to the DMV person "So my dad has my bills and shit, lemme go get 'em, sorry about that." Fucking pissed me off that he wasn't thinking clearly, making this all the more complicated. When finally gets to me I tell him "We have two numbers, they called me for my window, you go to yours, now please give me my registration papers."

        The window-workers come on over, I gotta explain shit, my dad's gotta explain shit, they gotta explain shit, the other window-person already entered in my shit, so I gotta go on over there and my dad stays at this window. I'm just like "FUCKING GOD." I'm trying to remain calm 'cause shit always goes better for everybody when you're not acting like you're gonna turn this to Columbine, even though I was contemplating it (joke). Finally get shit done, already making a scene at the DMV just running around and shit, although I didn't care for shit since I won't be seeing these fuckers ever again, I go to take my picture for my ID, my dad takes his picture, we go home.

        Tomorrow, not gonna be much going on since for Gov, I think senioritis has already has taken over a long time ago, and uh, yeah I'ma just stick with my B+. And then for Chinese, not sure what I'ma do since the teacher won't allow us to use our cell phones, and it'll be for the whole 2 hours, and uh, yeah, maybe I can... not... not sure what I'ma do actually, but I do know that I'll be smoking some weed with a couple of the Discord buddies tomorrow night, as well as cut some paper aaand paint. And then off to the KDT Christmas party on Saturday. Alrighty, it's 10:43 PM, still not getting enough sleep, see ya.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 "Take Some Naps."

Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Week: 19
Songs to Remember: FXXK IT - Big Bang

        One thing that's happening in my time right now is how girls give their boyfriends their hair-tie to tie up their hair in like this "point" in order to show that they're taken. It's really weird, I've tried searching this phenomenon or tradition or whatever, up, but I barely find anything. Not sure how this all started. Just something I thought I'd state for this current time.

        But anyways, after having experienced High school finals for like, 7 times now (once a semester), I'm kinda desensitized to it. Like, I study, I end up getting shit, I tried my best, what can you do? 'Cause that's what happened for math. For Dance, you'd think I get that 100%, but in actuality, I got a 96% or so, something around there. Out of 35 questions or so, I missed 2, of which, I thought I had in the bag, but apparently not.

        And yes, it was all just memorization. I spent about, 45 minutes or so just memorizing, and it paid off. We all finished the test in like, 20 minutes, and even with the extra hour and thirty minutes I had to use to study, I wish I could say the same for math, that it paid off, heh, 'cause it didn't. After Dance was break, and that was just like a 15 minute sitting at the cast table.

        In total, I spent about, 2 hours of studying for math. It was just me reviewing answers and how to do them from our week-long review packet we had to do. Yeah that didn't help for shit, heh. The AP Calc AB final was probably comparable to, maybe the AP Biology final, where it's like, you just feel helpless at some times, heh. It was 14 questions with no calculator for 30 minutes, 14 questions with calculator, 30 minute time limit, and then finally 3 free-response questions, with a 45-minute time limit.

        You could see it progressively get harder and harder. In the first section, everybody actually had time to go back and check their answers, including me. By the second section, I was already guessing. On the last one, I was like "This is it huh. All that review, and these questions weren't even in 'em." My answers and work just got from bad, to worse, to worst, heh. On the bright side, at least I'm saving the teacher some time in having her not have to work so hard to grade mine's, 'cause all she has to do is write a big-ass red "x" on that page, heh.

        What I'm hoping for now is for everybody to do shit on it all so that I manage to keep my B. I'm sitting at an 84%, hoping that I get, AT MOST, a C on it. Hoping. The teacher sent us off with a "Have a nice break, take some naps, guys." I'm just like "... This is why school shootings happen." After this all, I was just ready to go home, take my hard-ass L, and then, take a fucking nap. Not before going my route or spot where Atr is. I was like "How was your final?" and etc, etc. Made some progress, after a bit all her buddies left and then she left, walking, and uh, I'm guessing she walks home? Don't wanna dolphin-dive to conclusions here, but, maybe I could be like "Hey, I'll walk with ya" or some shit like that.

        To be honest I think this is only done in the movies umm, nowadays people can call this creepy and stalker-ish, so. But yeah, uh, today I didn't really get much sleep from my nap. I was tired, I wanted to sleep, couldn't sleep, it wasn't dark enough, and, there was too much noise. The next two days are practically free now. I still gotta work on my cousins' Christmas presents, aaand, pack my luggage, I gotta go to that KDT Christmas party on Saturday, aaand, go to the DMV tomorrow. Don't really have to do anything tomorrow besides, shit.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 "Arc: Something, 'Cause I Lost Count."

Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Week: 19
Songs to Remember: Omg - Double K, FXXK IT - Big Bang, Home Run - GOT7

        Something I think is hypocritical of my school is that they're promoting cramming.

        Cramming is basically you trying to memorize as much as you can in as little time you have so you can unload it all on one test and then forget it all the moment after. My school has this "cocoa and cram" event where freshmen can go and have free cocoa while studying in groups or with their friends or whatever, along with tutors.

        Schools say that you're supposed to learn stuff for it to stick in your mind for actual use in your life, and uh, yet they're promoting cramming, which goes against what they've always been saying in that, you're cramming in order to pass a test instead of the intent of actually learning.

        That was just something to think about. Anyways, I could probably tank all of my finals, however things have changed and I guess I'll be studying for a few of 'em. For example, Dance and math tomorrow, probably the two most challenging ones out of the ones I gotta take (the only ones, by the way). Within the past hour (it's 11:23 PM now), I've memorized 3 facts of like, 20 dances, as well as some more facts on Hip Hop. I'ma be spending the next hour on math, just, going over the shit I don't know and hope to clutch that hard B.

        Digital Art final, I could probably just tank it, and I should. Umm, yeah it's, it's like a common sense "true-false" quiz, along with a portion of it being the exact same one we took a few months ago too. Pretty, pretty easy stuff. English, just gotta bring my notes and rely on that, heh. Or just go with my wits and tank the shit I don't know, either ways I'll probably end up with an A regardless, not being cocky, just, being factual. As for Gov, apparently, it's optional. Our final is just an assessment on this lesson, very short lesson. Umm, however, if you want, you can take it and have it replace one of your old scores on a past assessment. The catch is, if you take it, and you do worse than the quiz you wanted to replace, it still replaces it.

        Now I'm thinking "Yeah, I don't think I wanna do any more shit." I look at my grade and I'm like "Oh shit, I got a 89.96%." By the way, the teacher doesn't round up. So, if I really do wanna go for the gold, I gotta study the shit outta this lesson and hope I get that 100% for that clutch boost to an A-. I'll probably do it, for "chips and giggles," as how my teacher always says. Also, just remembered, my English teacher said "play the slaps" earlier this year. That was puzzling me the whole day, I was like "What did he say before? Play the spanks? Play the s-?" Finally got it. Also that just means, play the music, popular music, etc.

        And uh, Chinese is just nothing, heh. As for today though, pretty much all classes have been just studying. When I said I wanted to take it easy this year, I guess I got what I wanted. It's a boring flow, but it's flowing. It's currently 11:31 PM, gonna study 'till maybe 12:20 AM or so, then it's off to bed. Alrighty, see y- almost fucking forgot, heh. I uh, sorta figured out my route and plans for the next arc. Jk was rushing to meet up with his "buddy" to get work on his arc, so me and him rushed after school through our usual route and then to our own routes. He went to the left, I went to the right, I'm walking over, I see Atr (these two-letter names are gonna have to be expanded to three so I don't start confusing shit, heh) standing with her buddies I guess, as usual, by the spot near the sidewalk and fence at the front-right of the school.

        I walk over there, go on my phone to look like I'm busy, I see that she sees me, I'm like "Oh! Hey Atr." And uh, her buddy, she's like "Is that your brother?" and Atr's like "He's, not my brother, my brother's over there" and her buddy was like "Oh, I thought he was your brother. You both look alike, you both have the same pointy teeth, same glasses, same skin-tone," and I'm just like "Gee-fucking-ZUS HOW FAR SHE GONNA GO." This was good third-person intel but GODAMN IT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES. And so I went on gathering my own intel, I asked Atr if she was going to the KDT party on Saturday and she was like "Nah." And then I asked her about Chinese class and flowed in my guess with "Aww man, I feel sorry that you have the other teacher. You have Chinese... third period right?" "Mhmm." I was like "Godamn, 1 in 6 chance, that was a close one." I used current events and asked her "What finals do you have tomorrow?" and she was like "World History and English."

        So with that, her routes include somewhere in the F building and then, somewhere in the E building afterwards. And since her 3rd period is Chinese, that's like, half of the route right there. And so, seeing as how I spent a lot of time already, I acted like I got a call and was like "Oh, well gotta go. See ya Atr." Boom, got it good. Hopefully her classes stay the same for next semester, because that's gonna be explosive. Just, special after special probably, heh. I was also thinking umm, that I can spend like 20 minutes after school each day, just, repeating what I just did. Gotta, gotta try am I right? Build it up.

        And if you didn't decipher, Atr's a sophomore in KDT, part of that sophomore group (was the freshman group last year). Also I still don't know where she is during break, like, Jk and I did some reconnaissance this morning and like, I don't know where the fuck she could be. But anyways, I've talked enough, shit's hype, I'ma be tired though, aaand, yeah, see ya. 

Monday, December 12, 2016

Monday, December 12, 2016 "Widening Feeling."

Monday, December 12, 2016
Week: 19
Songs to Remember: FXXK IT - Big Bang, Firetruck - NCT 127, 

        I think a class only goes fast when you're trying to get shit done, like if shit's due the next period or you're actually given free time to work. Otherwise, if shit's interesting or boring, it just, goes very, very slow.

        For example, we had a doughnut party today for Dance because we got our goal of like, 200 cans in our class. We hold this can-drive each year where the school brings in cans (like, food cans, perishable food and or money to go to our local food pantry. This year, if the school reaches over 13,000 cans, we get a one-hour lunch during one day in January (people are gonna forget) and uh, a minimum (or early-release if you wanna call it that) day on the day before spring break. For classes that raise over 200 cans, they get a doughnut party, aka, one box of doughnuts and a jug of apple/ orange juice.

        And we just did work, so, went by pretty quick. Math, probably not gonna be the last time I'll be able to say that it's basically the usual, the exact same as what we've been doing for the past, two weeks now, heh. Godamn. Whenever my dad asks me how school was and I tell him "the usual," it literally is the usual. Digital Art, yeah, same, same exact thing, and I don't even feel bad for working on other stuff in his class, I got a 99% right now, will probably be 100% once he enters in my extra credit, and uh, yeah, I could just not do the final and I'll still have an A, for sure (which is gonna be a quiz along with the fruit project, and both will not even come close to bringing my grade down).

        English, it's, it's probably  the most boring class in my opinion, of the day, of the year, of, probably out of all 4 years here. It's easy, definitely, probably one of the easiest classes I've ever taken, only because we don't really do anything in there, but uh, yeah, the teacher tries to make shit more exciting and that's good, but, people just don't really care, me included, heh. Maybe I can ask my counselor if I can switch my 4th period English and 6th period Chinese. That would make things A LOT spicier for next semester. And I know, I know, most fun shit comes from outside of class, but still, sitting at a desk to myself, with the only connection to others being my cell phone, not that great. I would sacrifice the freelo for, a bit more work but a bit more excitement.

        Lunch, yeah it's always been the same as before. Sometimes DrewN's there, sometimes he's not, sometimes Jh is there, sometimes he's not, sometimes Ek and Lw are there, sometimes they're not, and sometimes Ag's there and sometimes she's not. I remember when we had game nights many weeks in a row, we'd look forward to it, it was, it was great introduction to, uhhh, or was that last year? Huh, well it was more prominent last year. This year, I think people are just caught up with stuff and that's understandable. Didn't think "refining" would come to these measures.

        Gov, we got a lecture, I, kinda thought about other stuff to be honest, but I was awake, so that's all that mattered. And finally, Chinese, where, we didn't really do shit but work. I think now there's a good reason to be focusing on shit like making Dance mixes because that's the only class so far that I'm actually passionate about. That applied to Digital Art during the beginning of the year but now, ehhhh, it's just "home-room" class now now that I learned that, shit's sorta basic in that class, heh. Not saying I'm a master at graphic design and photo manipulation, I'm saying, the projects we do in that class require little-to-no "thinking" -err, "planning." There's no real "challenge" if that makes sense.

        So tomorrow, I'ma have to do some studying, uhh, maybe start on my cousins' presents, uhhh, not much else. Definitely a lot of shit happening outside of school this half of the series, which was good. It was lot, DEFINITELY, a lot. As for sleep, that's not going so well. I've been starting to take my afternoon naps now, which is not good.  I'm guessing how I can feel my classes being stretched is the reason for me being so tired. Guessing. Anyways, its 10:42 PM, see ya.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Sunday, December 11, 2016 "Could or Should Do Work."

Sunday, December 11, 2016
Week: 18
Songs to Remember: Destiny - Infinite, U - KNK,

        Well, didn't really get much done this weekend. A lot of people are stressing over finals and yeah, I guess I should be too. But uh, you see, about, more than half of my classes' finals are kinda shitshows.

        Like, for English, we're just identifying characters of Canterbury Tales, so, just gonna be like a 45-minute study session for me and I'll be done. Dance, probably, 45-minute study session and I'm gucci. Digital Art, just gonna work on a bootleg fruit-face (moving this shit to the day of the final now) that'll take me 'bout, at most 30 minutes to do, if I work dilligently, also no studying required. And fucking, Chinese, we've already done our "final," and since that's my 6th period, there's nothing after that, so I'ma be doing nothing.

        That leaves just math and Gov, of which for Gov shit ain't really that much, it's just one last asessment, not a cumulative test, so. Unexpectedly things are going smoother than I thought they'd be. Besides, like, extracurricular or family stuff. Umm, so yeah, could've gotten a lot of stuff done this weekend. At the very least, I sorta got my song selection, my new song selection for my Dance mix, of which, should be the very least of my worries right now but, I just, just can't stop focusing on it. Probably due to the creative freedom I got with it and so I spend way more time on it than I should, only 'cause, I can.

        In other news, I'm not sick anymore! My cold went down about a couple days ago. I know it's gone 'cause my nose doesn't run like a faucet anymore, or at least, until the summer-time, and uh, hopefully that'll be the last I'll ever catch a cold for the time being, probably not though. Tomorrow, nothing really much happening. Gonna be work, studying, uhh, nothing much else.

        Tuesday, basically same shit as tomorrow, Wednesday, probably the hardest of all my final days, Thursday's gonna be a long day 'cause I'ma be going to the DMV and getting an California ID card, aaand, Friday will be just, whatever. I'll be smoking some weed with Ec and or Dv. ONLY, because Ec got me some weed for my birthday, as a late gift, and 'cause I'm 18 so, guessing it's legal now. And because I only wanna try a tiny-ass bit, I know the consequences, etc, etc, I don't plan on smoking it any more than like, once or twice a year. In no way will I, or can I, get addicted to it.

        Saturday, that'll be the holiday special featuring the KDT fam, and then off to LA. I'm hoping to get things done over as there will be a lot of distractions, such as, but not limited to: watching a marathon of Harry Potter, Holes, Star Wars, discussing streetwear, shenanigans, traveling (within the city), uhhh, and of course Christmas. I got mixes to make, uhhh, a dance to choreograph, yeah. Alrighty, it's 10:53 PM, I've gotten some nice sleep, some, okay work, still, still need to work on my cousins' Christmas presents. And that'll be it. As for the new "arc" I've talked about once, that'll be, the inner workings of it will hopefully be revealed soon, still trying to get things to start meshing. Anyways, see ya.

Saturday, December 10, 2016

Saturday, December 10, 2016 "Sleepy Day."

Saturday, December 10, 2016
Week: 18
Songs to Remember: Good Thing! - NCT127XWXESTEEM

        Well alrighty, it was a nice, calm, rainy Saturday in my house. I got lot, little done, but what I did get do, was get a whole ton of relaxtion.

        And sleep. Anyways, I managed to finish Chinese work, uhhh, got some choreo down for my, well, choreo, but uh, I might be changing the songs. Again. I think it's 'cause I listen to the song over and over again and it just gets tiring and loses its catchy-ness. I also entered about 60 custom names, numbers, and shirt sizes onto this custom clothing site to prepare to order it by, maybe tomorrow or next week. Probably next week because it's got guaranteed 2-week shipping and so, my dad will be the only one at home to answer the door for the package, and if he ain't home to get it and it gets stolen, then uh, we're shit outta $1200, heh.

        Besides Skype, that was pretty much it, other than usual. It's 11:26 PM, tomorrow, I basically just gotta wrap shit up and prepare to study on Monday, and Tuesday; So yeah, see ya.

Friday, December 9, 2016 "What Flavor is It Now."

Friday, December 9, 2016
Week: 18
Songs to Remember: What Time is It Now? - VICTON

        Time to cross "vape" off my list of things to do while I'm still young. And no I don't plan on doing it any more frequently than I do now.

        By "than I do now" I mean, like once a year, heh. It's not that great, maybe it was just the flavor but godamn, not as uh, not as "thrilling" as people would think. So the day was pretty much the usual. Umm, Dance, we actually had the last few presentations go today. Next week will probably be just free time to study, with some run-throughs.

        Math, you know it, don't have to explain it. Digital Art, you, you already know. As for English, I uh, managed to stay awake for a bit for it. Better than most days for it, believe it or not. Lunch, yeah, you already know. Gov, my group finally presented our bill. To be honest it was kinda flawed, our bill, there's like a major hole in it, I still tried to fight for it anyways even though realistically I would not vote for it, heh.

         Chinese, hey guess what? I think I'm done with it for the rest of the year. No really, there's uh, I'm guessing there's no test for it and this god-awful project was the final itself. Today we literally just made snowflakes in class, like, you fold a paper circularly 6 times and then cut out a pattern. The rest of next week will be just free study time.

        As for after school, it was just "Chained Up" KDT practice. I really do think I am getting better at learning dances. Besides practicing dances, I got about $1200 worth of KDT shirts to order this Sunday, some work, some studying. I'm just tired to be honest, I, there was in impromptu hangout with the Discord people today. Me, Dv, Mc, and Ec went to go play some pool at like, 9:00 PM, then we headed back to my house to watch some random shit. We talked random shit, gossip, social media, all that shit.

        Word spreads around a lot more than you'd think. As for the vaping thing, my boy Dv had a vaporizer and so, we all tried it. I actually got it right on my first try, Mc, not so much, heh. It was this "fresh ocean" flavor or some shit, pretty pungent, reminds me too much of air-fresheners. And no, didn't really get addicted, probably because of the "flavor." Not really gonna consider doing it (although there's not much wrong with it, just, it's seen in a weird/bad light), so no worries there. And yeah, it's 1:29 AM, luckily I'll be getting in that sweet-ass sleep tonight. Alrighty, see ya.

Friday, December 9, 2016

Thursday, December 8, 2016 "Losing Night Thoughts."

Thursday, December 8, 2016
Week: 18
Songs to Remember: Good Thing! - NCT 127, Circus Freaks - Wolfgang Gartner

        On nights where I'm tired from work, I don't think as clearly as the usual way I do, like how I forgot that we changed seats in Chinese.

        Although stuff like that has kinda lost it's usual fan excitement. I mean, remember when switching seats was exciting? I remember it as if it were, like, several seasons ago, heh. It just doesn't have the same effect as the previous series though. Those were the days. However to compensate, a shit ton of extra specials and whatever, especially character development with them KDT performances, they uh, I'd say they make up for the lackluster seat switching.

        Anyways, Dance was just a couple presentations. One on Hula dancing, aaand, one on Jive dancing. I think that's all the presentations, tomorrow we're probably gonna run through the dances we've learned, and uh, and then be given time to study. As for math, ya'll, ya'll already know what the fuck happens in here: shit, heh. I guess to compensate for all the extra special shit that happens outside of school, they gotta throw in some boring filler, like math.

        Break's the usual stuff, Digital Art, umm, still, still just using it for math. I think I made a good choice with Digital Art: it lets me recuperate myself, get my mind relaxed and focus, and just, chill for a good 50 minutes, in a real nice comfy spinny chair. English, godamn, heh, we got our stories back, those epic poem stories, as well as being read to us "The Wife of Bath's" tale from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." Again, it's not like it's a boring story, it's just that, with the white noise created with the ambient room, the commentary by the teacher reading it to us, it's noon basically, people got their heads down and snoozing, I just, all I do is day-dream for a second and I find myself with my eyes shut like a garage door. Not for long though, it's like several seconds of eyes open, drowsily closing, closed, then open, over the course of seconds, and repeating.

        Lunch, pretty, pretty deserted, heh. After I had gotten lunch (Ag wasn't at school today), I went on over to our table and find that it was just Jk by himself (Lw and Ek came soon afterwards though). And uh, yeah, DrewN was probably in Vietnam or something, probably. I'm like "Godamn, it's pretty much filtered, the cast." I gotta find something new 'cause I'm running out of shit to talk about with the cast besides asking Jk "How was Chinese class? How was math? Any new intel?" or maybe some uh, some new memes I've saved on my phone or, some philosophical questions like "What if two school shooters end up shooting up the school on the same day, what would they do if they saw each other?" Shit like that.

        Gov, yep, just another couple of bills. It was both, thoughtful, and boring. You listen to people explain, then you ask questions, or listen to people ask questions, and then listen to answers. Uhhh, luckily that'll be ending after this week though as next week will be a bit more lecture on our last lesson, then it's finals. Also, this was the last week of Gov, like, the last "normal" week for Gov. And uh, ya know, it's been pretty good. I like the twists the teacher adds on to the material. It's definitely interactive and encourages questions, even hypothetical ones. Has there been times when it was boring? Yeah. Has there been times where it's like, not bad? Yeah. Definitely interesting.

        Finally, Chinese, where we work on a Google form and have people answer our questions, on the form. I sent my buddy, probably one of the only ones I have in the class, I asked him to send me his. I sent him mine's when I got home, I received his like, at 9:30 PM (it's 11:55 PM right now). I'm like "Godamn it, I'm lucky it's due Saturday and not tomorrow." The teacher gave us both bad and good news. Bad news, WE GOTTA WORK ON THIS FUCKING PROJECT. Good news, after today (or tomorrow), then uh, we got some free time to study and relax, for once.

        Oh and the seat change, yeah the teacher did it by tables instead of seat numbers. So like, you had some selection over the 4 seats in a group. I ended up sitting next to this one girl who I'm guessing is more comfortable sitting next to me and these other two girls in our group (we're sitting like, in the front-middle of the room). Behind us were that one girl who lied about being a Koreaboo (Kh right?) and this one girl whom I sat next to once, who ended up being aight.

        Alrighty, tomorrow, I got that KDT practice, gonna have to make a fucking, 900$ shirt order, umm, do some bulk work, and yeah. Still figuring things out, like, shit I probably wanted to say but forgot. See ya.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 "Heads Down."

Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Week: 18
Songs to Remember: Omg - Double K, Circus Freaks - Wolfgang Gartner

        These are seriously the longest class periods ever. I was very drowzy for a majority of English, and I do blame it on having had only 5 hours of sleep last night.

        Yeah it was cold, hauling the bootleg supplies to the table, setting stuff up, having others members finally show up (there were two who were here before me, so, that was nice). We just, yeah, sold hot cocoa for 30 minutes, then hauled the supplies back and that was it.

        Dance, we had Bollywood as the style for today. Pretty, pretty cool. Math, the usual work in bulk. Digital Art, the usual, working on math for now. English, that was where it hit me hard. I was falling asleep to the teacher's reading, I felt really bad about not focusing on what we're fucking read but then I look to my right and see that about 1/5 of the class had their heads down and were literally sleeping right there, so, makes me feel, not so bad.

        Lunch, yeah that was the usual. I'm not kidding when I say that it's the usual, it seriously feels the and is, the same thing I do every single day, or most days. Gov, listened to some more bootleg bills, and let me tell ya, they had major holes in them. Major. And finally Chinese, where we do more shit for our final, which doesn't even include the test yet, just the project, involving lots of writing, typing, and poorly-designed app usage.

        And yeah I still am sick. It'll probably go away this weekend though. No Maplestory for today, I thought about what I could accomplish in it and I was like "Man, I ain't even gonna play this for long." So instead of time spent grinding, I spent it on coming up with a few more moves for my choreo. Umm, yeah, that's about it for now, I really, really need to get some hard sleep in soon, aka this weekend. It's 12:41 AM, see ya.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 "All Year Long."

Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Week: 18
Songs to Remember: Good Thing - NCTXWXESTEEM

        Technically it's not 4 years, but it's close. So, this'll mark the 3rd anniversary, of, this all. All of this.

        The outcome of this ain't gonna be all that great, I mean it's just gonna be one little site with like a shit-ton of posts. All I'm gonna do is just read it a bit when I get bored or something. I don't think I've ever mentioned on this but when sometimes I have difficulties, I usually search up what I'm feeling to see if others feel or have felt the same as what I felt.

        For example, let's say I uh, I got into a fight with my friend. If it was really bad, or I was just really curious on how others handled the situation, or I'm seeking advice on what to do, etc, I'd search up "I got into a fight with my friend" and take it from there. And yeah, over the course of High school so far, I have searched up others' High school experiences, and they were good reads 'cause it made me feel not alone, like, "Hey, somebody out there has been through what you been through, it's all normal."

        And so one of the goals for this whole thing is to contribute. To, to help others who were or are like me, who also do what I do and search up their problems for examples, advice, and maybe stumble upon this thing and they get read my whole experience from start to finish (mostly start to finish), and hopefully they can relate, and, not feel alone. Which is probably the WORST feeling in the world, heh. But yeah, there's a little interesting detail I thought I'd share for this anniversary.

        Back to the episode.  Dance, we got two presentations, one on uhh, I don't remember, and one on lyrical dance, which is literally just, Hip Hop and Jazz and ballet, made to dance according the beat of music and shit. Didn't think that was a thing, I mean, like, there's a name for that kinda thing. The more you know. Math, you guessed it: bulk work. I'm predicting the rest of the week will be, oh, I don't know, more bulk work. Break was break, oh actually, break wasn't just break. A table about 30 feet away from our table, two girls were about to fight. There was a crowd of people, the girls looked like they were talking shit, they stood up, ready to duke it out, aaand they took too long to start it and so a security guard came and broke it up right as the bell rang. Damn, would've been, would've been two in a row.

        Digital Art, I gotta start on making that stupid fruit face design soon. Maybe Monday or something. I can probably whip it up in two days max, so, yeah, Monday and Tuesday. But for now, it's just for finishing work for math or Chinese, or which I feel is kinda disrespectful to the teacher since this is his class and I'm just using it to finish work in other classes, but hey, he allows it, so it's whatever. English, we did some reading, a vocab quiz in which I'm sure I got 100% on, thank you short-term memory skills. I was also a bit drowzy due to the Tylenol I take in the morning to compensate for this cold. Not really sure if it WORKS works, but it's a nice placebo nonetheless. And on the bottle it does say, relief for common cold and shit, so.

        Alright so apparently it doesn't really help, but it's a nice placebo, while it lasted, heh. Uhhh, during lunch was nothing special. Gov, we got started on two groups who presented their bills. One was on organ donation, like, you're opted in unless you sign a waver to opt-out, so like it's a reverse thing. And uhh, the other was "abolishing cyberbullying." You could already tell they got destroyed and bombarded with questions.

        Finally, Chinese, we just got the period to work on shit. Not bad, not bad. Uhhh, and yeah, it's going, it's going bulky so far. Maplestory, it's, it's falling off a bit. Like, on one character I don't do enough damage and so I get bored. On my other, my Xenon, he attacks too fast and so I get booted out because the system thinks I'm hacking.

        Anyways, tomorrow I gotta wake up early to stand in the cold with KDT. Umm, Friday there's KDT practice, aaand, next week, hopefully on the 17th, there's gonna be the KDT Christmas party. I'm hoping it'll be the 17th 'cause I'll be leaving the day right after that. For LA. And uh, yeah. There' might be an arc coming up, maybe, who knows, we'll see, just wanted to put that out there. For now, it's 11:38 PM, see ya.

Monday, December 5, 2016 "18."

Monday, December 5, 2016
Week: 18
Songs to Remember: Bermuda Triangle - ZICO, Love Paint - Nu'est, Press Your Number - Taemin

        It's a crazy coincidence that I'm turning 18 (now 18) for the 18th season of the series. I think it'd really help if ain't 12:59 AM right now.

        Dance class was pretty nice. We had three presentations today, consisting of ballet, break-dancing, and this one dance from Asia. Umm, math, yeah that was pretty bad, heh. We went over the test that everybody got fucked over by. The teacher was like "Well, I can't really give you guys a re-take, but I definitely can tell ya'll to not give up and that this is all part of the learning process."

        The one thing that kinda triggered was how she was like "Oh my 3 years of teaching here, I've never ran into this problem before, not sure why everybody didn't do that great on the Chapter 4 test." I'm like "Hmmm, maybe it's because you gave us work to do over the break, more work on top of the days we get back from Thanksgiving break, a quiz the day after we get back from break, and then a day away from the quiz. Maybe that's why." Gee-fucking-zus.

        Oh and uh, we got some more bulk work. She also curved the test from out of 100 to an 88, even though somebody did get a 97 (seriously bruh). I think it brought my grade down because I went from an 85% to an 84% when I checked it today. Weird. Anyways, after that was break, in which I was greeted with some "Happy birthdays" from the cast. Digital Art, that was just the usual. English, we read, umm, lots of reading, yeah. Quiz, uhhh, sometime this week maybe, not sure when anymore, heh. Lunch, there was a KDT meeting. Just the usual, ya know, reminders and whatnot.

        I was also "Happy birthday'd" by several members there, especially after they sang "Happy birthday" to me. Gov, Yeah that was just uh, the usual, for when we start a new unit or whatever. Tomorrow, however, we'll be starting the presentations for our bills, and uh, debate and what not. And finally Chinese, the bane of my work, the purveyor of bulk work for me, we had to correct each-other's bootleg stories, and I'm just like "Boi, I can't even tell if my grammar is correct or not, let alone correct somebody else's." That, as well as translate, so. And no pinyin either, just straight-up characters.

        But yeah, I was met with a lot of Facebook birthday posts, about 27 of them to be exact. I'd like to thank everybody who did wish me a happy birthday, as well as Facebook for reminding everybody that it is my birthday today, heh. Other than that, I just did bulk work, trained a bit on Maplestory. Also I was pretty much on my phone 24/7 answering questions, discussion, birthday replies (some sent me direct messages instead of wall-posts, so, make that 27 a 29 or 30 of something). This was probably the hardest time I've been bombarded with messages, ranging from KDT mixes to KDT plans, to birthday messages, to fucking, whatever, also Discord chat and Instagram messages as well (mostly memes exchanges for Instagram though), as well some Snapchats.

        Godamn, fucking, social-media -ing it up in here. I feel pretty, digital after all this. That and tired. And yes, there was cake, not really celebratory, but, just, cake. Alrighty, see ya tomorrow. That reminds me, tomorrow IS the anniversary of this whole thing, so I got that to write about. See ya.

Monday, December 5, 2016

Sunday, December 4, 2016 "Clumped."

Sunday, December 4, 2016
Week: 17
Songs to Remember: Bermuda Triangle - ZICO

        I could think of so much shit that I gotta handle right now and the crazy part is, even though my classes are pretty, generally pretty easier than last year's, it stills feels like, a lot.

        Maybe on the projects side I guess, or maybe bulk work side, even though I do have like, 2 free periods where we don't do shit. Like, I got plenty of dances to remember, I asked for it, I received, heh. Umm, Christmas shit, that's sorta given. Plans, never in my life would I think "Aww man, gotta plan out what I'ma do with my Discord buddies this week, then KDT buddies and practice next week, got the cast fam for our specials and mall shit," etc. A lot of planning.

        Also I am now sick. I'm coughing, I uh, my nose is running and congested, ear's congested, tomorrow's my birthday, it's 12:05 AM, I just, I just got shit to do. KDT meeting tomorrow, gotta wake up early on Wednesday to stand in the cold and sell fucking hot chocolate for ASB. And uh, go to practice on Friday. And maybe host a KDT party on Saturday, if my parents will allow it. And, oh fuck. Okay so apparently the K-Pop showcase event got moved to February... of next year. So uh, that kinda fucks around with our plans. I mean, we get more prep time, but like, fuck, heh, people remembered songs for it, we gotta, we gotta do re-evalutations to see if they still remember, come up with new shit, it's all just, a cluster-fuck, really.

        That's probably the best summary of it all right now, just one big, cluster-fuck. On the bright side, I got to level 100 today in Maplestory with a fresh new character, although it was burned so, about 3 times faster than your average character progression. And yes, it is a Wild Hunter class. I had one in Scania, but not in Reboot, so, might as well. Anyways, like I said, it's 12:09 AM, uhhh, see ya.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Saturday, December 3, 2016 "Usual and Unusual Excitement."

Saturday, December 3, 2016
Week: 17
Songs to Remember: Call Me Baby (YUHE Remix) - EXO

        I've possibly caught a cold with this new cough and a bit of a sore throat but uh, we'll see next week.

        For now, I'ma be spending 11 hours out of the house. Yep, that's a pretty long fucking time for me, heh. Not so long now, but, compared to like, maybe sophomore year and back, yeah, it'd be pretty long. So it all started with me waking up, 11:00 AM as usual. Saw that my Discord buddies were playing Maplestory with the "new" "V" fifth job update (new as of this time, probably gonna be old as shit in the future). Started the download for it (the patch), it's gonna take a fucking long time. I was planning to play it once got home, but considering it's 1:32 AM right now, yeah, maybe tomorrow.

        So as I was saying, just fucked around 'till 2:00 PM, from then it was time to get to that college place (head out at 2:00 PM, make it there by 3:00 PM). Finding it was pretty easy, map, was pretty easy to follow. However, the entrance we were supposed to take (for driving into the parking lot or whatever), was closed. And so, my dad and I headed to the other student parking lot, it was open, I walked from there to the place near the theater where we were supposed to meet at. Felt pretty weird walking around in an empty college, felt like I was trespassing and shit, heh.

        And fortunately I did make it to the place where we were supposed to meet at. The college was pretty small, a lot smaller than I thought it was gonna be. Umm, so yeah we got there, it was just Cc, some other people, mostly freshmen. Others like Mt and Jb came afterwards or a bit later, and uh, some weren't able to make it, including some whom I think either don't have enough time for KDT this year (I don't blame 'em, junior and senior year's pretty shitty. Err, yeah, shitty and or a lot of shit going on), or they just don't really feel the KDT vibe anymore unless it's for Lunar Show, which is understandable if the people whom you've always hung out with, graduate, and, aren't there to hang out with you on the daily anymore.

        Practiced from 3:00 PM to about 4:30 PM, went inside the theater place after we clutched our formations (due to people not being able to come to the thing last minute). The theater was pretty bomb, a bit smaller and more tight or stacked, which made it feel pretty comfy. Felt just like a movie theater really, except they had the air-conditioning on and that kinda sucked 'cause it was FUCKING COLD, heh. We went backstage to put our stuff and whatever, and uh, we ran into a dilema. Just a bit. There were girls' and guys' changing rooms, and uh, yeah, all the girls (which were about 99% of KDT members there) went into their respective rooms. And that just left us, me and Rh, by ourselves in the guys' changing room.

        Not really much of changing room for the girls though, they mostly just use it for makeup, and uh, those who needed or wanted to change would probably do so in the restroom stalls, which were not part of the changing rooms, they were separate rooms, separated by a door. Their theater's changing rooms were actually very well structured, much better than the chaotic tiny one for our school's theater (as it is usually just used for band equipment). It was pretty awkward with just me and Rh in there, with just silence. Audible, silence. I don't use the word "awkward" too often, but this was one time where the feeling was mutual, and uh, yeah, we just headed to the girl's room with the rest of the KDT members.

        And yeah, it worked out. Nobody really changed in the room, either it was because there were two dudes in there, or people just changed in the restrooms outside the door. Aaand so, that was pretty much where most shenanigans happened before we went and performed (we did do like, a couple run-throughs, and that was it). I shared a lot of memes, watched a lot of memes, witness a lot of games being played (digital by the way), conversed a lot, you know, the stuff I do NOW, heh. Also I didn't think I'd ever ask for this or do this but I did get my makeup done, including eyeliner and stuff too. I did ask for it, only because, to be honest, I saw how ACE from MASC looked with his eye makeup and shit, and I thought "Fuck it," ya know.

        A quick explanation, yeah, that was pretty much why I wanted my makeup done. No, I'm not gay, there's nothing wrong about that, no, I'm not bisexual, so far I've only been turned on by girls, so, I think that's good enough evidence that I'm not bisexual. I'm also not bi-curious either, uhhh, like I'd try out girl stuff, JUST to try it. Like, in what other situation can you think, at this point in time, would a dude be able to get his makeup done? Hmm? Yeah, not very many times. And it goes with what I've always said: I like excitement, trying new things is daunting and that brings me excitement. So, give me all the NEW SHIT, heh.

        Anyways, there you have it. One last thing, it wasn't so I could look girly, fucking, K-Pop dudes do it too and they get a shit-ton of chicks, so. Another, another point in trying out makeup. Back to the, stuff. So there was that, makeup, memes, etc. I wore a green Nike shirt, black cotton twill joggers, only because, I found and remembered that I do have a green shirt, so that was nice. I also hung out with different people than usual, or, with more, different KDT members than usual. Cc, Rh, Bp (not sure if I used her name yet), Jd (her too, also the sophomore for future reference, just in case I forget), Mn (probably used those letters for somebody else's name but oh well), Ln, and At (not fucking me, but this one sophomore girl whom is really friendly. And suprisingly watches Markiplier and Jacksepticeye, of which I consider, just a tad bit childish, but it's okay, it's, whatever. I'm being pretty judgmental 'cause I forgot how not everybody or even most people, watch fucking, Maxmoefoe or FilthyFrank or iDubbbzTV). Uhhh, so we performed at around 7:30 PM or so. I was in 4Minute's "Hate" and EXO's "Call Me Baby." I didn't do better than I expected, I did, around par of what I wanted, which was good. I always managed to look straight and, in the center of the audience, so that was nice. I think it was because, there weren't that many who showed up, or, at least compared to our school's Lunar Show. THAT, would be a lot more pressure, heh.

        Yeah the performance went pretty well, I did not mess up except at one formation change in EXO's "Call Me Baby" in which I forgot about. I was like "Oh fuck, where the fuck do I go" in my mind, until about 2 seconds after it finally clicked and I hastily moved on over. I was still dancing though, so that was good, and I didn't freeze up, which is the number one thing you do not want, heh. Oh and there were other K-Pop groups too, and other acts such as a flute playing dude, uhhh, a band, other dance groups, etc. The people here were pretty fucking nice, a lot of them were like "Good job" or "Good performance" to us and I was like "Damn, how come the people at our school don't do this shit to us unless we know 'em," heh. Like they didn't even know us, and yet they were still very, very friendly. Hard to find nowadays unless you look in the right places.

        Did random shit and stayed back 'till 8:00 PM when the show was done. We took some pictures, uhhh, headed outside into the cold afterwards 'till 'bout 9:00 PM. We were just dancing to whatever, Snapchatting, etc. Only a few of us decided to eat something afterwards. That included Bp, Mn, Rh, and Ln. An unlikely group of people, uhh, our weirdness just meshed together, pretty nicely, heh, way more than I expected. We were going to eat at this Korean barbecue place, but since it was packed (even though it was 9:30 PM), we went ahead and ate at this place right next to it. And oh man, did our weirdness and uh "kinkyness" meshed well. It was a good time, good time. Even better times were had, when after we finished and went to this milk tea place right next to that, heh. It was all in a plaza so, we literally just walked.

        Played some bootleg card games, waiting for our ride or whatever I don't fucking know. And umm, I received some texts from Dv and some missed calls from Ec (of which I thought were from my dad since his surname is the same as my dad's first name). Uhhh, so Dv texted me saying if they could come to my house afterwards. They went to get milk tea, played pool, all before going to Dv's place. I was like "Bruh, I'ma be going home after all this" and he's like "Just come to my place then." Considering that his house is like, a one-minute drive from mine's, I thought "Fuck it." Also because, I haven't hung out with them in a while, so might as well. My dad drove me there, we watched "The Curse of Chucky" uhh, from like 12:00 AM to 1:00 AM. Pretty shitty movie, heh, although if I were to watch this when I was younger, I'd fucking dip.

        We also talked about, gossip and girls and shit, the usual. And uh yeah, here I am now, at my PC, at 2:18 AM. Spent a whole fucking hour on this jam-packed special, hope you're happy. Still got some work to do tomorrow, not a lot, but some, and it's now manageable. Overall, I'm like "Damn, my social circle is fucking HUGE." Not as big as some, but, considering the past 3 years and how it was pretty limited, it grew. A lot. All I can say is, "A shit ton of specials still gonna happen, I still got another performance to go to in the next two weeks, then it's Christmas, the series ain't even half over yet, and still, it's topping higher than the other 3 series so far combined." Godamn. Anyways, see ya.

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Friday, December 2, 2016 "Hold Up the Bulk Work."

Friday, December 2, 2016
Week: 17
Songs to Remember: HOLUP - BOBBY

        Godamn am I so tired. Moving on from tests, to bulk work, the bulk work is now what's killing me.

        Today was pretty much the same as usual. Dance, we got only one presentation today, and that was on contemporary dance (dances that tell stories). Umm, yeah, basically 20 minutes of free time to do whatever. Math, just, bulk work, bulk work, BULK FUCKING WORK. Digital Art, yeah it was pretty much me finishing up that bulk work from math. Still not finished yet.

        English, I presented my Canterbury Tales character, got it over with, sat back down, and just, waited for class to be over, heh. No quiz really, until Monday maybe. Lunch. same old same old. Gov, we had time to work on our group bill. We actually got a lot done, uhhh, we finished our PowerPoint presentation, which was surprising. The teacher also showed us how there's this program that he can use to see what tabs we have open, what sites we're on, etc.

        He kept on opening up fucking Spiderman GIF's on my Chromebook. I'm guessing that's what he's gonna remember me by, heh. Godamn it. And finally Chinese where we did a lot of bulk work. A lot. I had to finish all that bulk work today (or tonight rather) 'cause tomorrow I won't have much time since I'll be out for several hours. Aaand, yeah. I never thought about it but I haven't performed in a while, like on stage, and uh, guess what? I'm performing tomorrow, heh.

        Oh yeah, KDT practice. It was pretty good, we did formations for BTS' "Fire," and then started learning basically all of VIXX's "Chained Up." Actually went pretty well. I think partially of how I'm able to learn so well is because I've heard the songs before or like, practiced them at home a little bit beforehand. Or, it's just that I'm getting more body-kinesthetic. Either or. Anyways, it's 12:34 AM, tired, gonna super-tired tomorrow, see ya.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Thursday, December 1, 2016 "Explorer."

Thursday, December 1, 2016
Week: 17
Songs to Remember: HOLUP - BOBBY

        Alright, alright, the whole day was pretty much me just doing unfinished work while just, getting through the day.

        Classes seem to feel like they're a lot longer. It's just been a long, long week. On the bright side, I got a 71 on my Chinese test, probably one of my only passing test scores so far for Chinese III, heh. Umm, tomorrow's there's KDT practice, I got Chinese work to finish over the weekend, performance, birthday, gifts to paint, mixes to mix, and reconsidering my May Dance mix. Anyways, it's 12:09 AM, see ya.

        Also it does look like the Cy "arc" is done and done. I decided to go the other way from 5th period, turns out that's the route she goes now to her 5th period. Not sure why, but uh, definitely ain't worth my time, yeah. Good effort, that's all that mattered. Alrighty, see ya.