Tuesday, January 31, 2017 "Stretching Filaments."

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Week: 26

Songs to Remember: Press Your Number - Taemin

        Okay, okay, okay. Things are still warming up, including myself (because it's fucking cold). Nothing major major has been happening, just a long, long stretch 'till some more plot advancements.

        And yeah, I would call this filler. Good filler though (on some occasions). Like during Dance. We ran through our dance for the rally (which is next week) and uh, we had time to work on our choreos. Today however, we were to work on the ones we were practicing yesterday, so, I didn't actually have to teach today. Sc, whose (or should I say, WHOMST, which is a meme joke that I'll probably won't get ever again after I make this post) choreo I'm in, she had some trouble coming up with choreo after the moves we finished yesterday.

        Being a choreographer myself, and, in KDT and have experience teaching dances and shit, etc, I helped her come up with some solutions. I suggested she just go with whatever she likes, uhhh, include some more songs so that she won't get bored with the current tempo of the song, uhhh, incorporate moves she likes from other dances, etc. She went with the triple-song idea, so that means, we'll actually be doing Jay Park's "All I Wanna Do," which was the reason why I signed up to be in her choreo in the first place, heh.

        Math was the usual. We got our tests back to review, aaand, I figured I just messed up with stupid mistakes (and the one question of which I had no clue how to do 'cause I didn't expect it to be included on the test since we did so little of it), and I was right. So, I'm not as dumb as I thought I was, heh. Tomorrow we got like a short quiz, I figure it's supposed to be easy freelo, so, hopefully I don't mess up. Break was break, I didn't have any doughnuts today besides one, and that was during the morning. Yeah, eating multiple doughnuts over the course of a couple days really drains you from wanting to eat more.

        Especially when that sugary chocolate glaze hits your tongue, it's like, pure fucking sugar. So, I'll be taking like, one a day or something, whenever I'm feeling hungry or I feel like it. For Digital Art, I just worked on the usual, nothing too special. At this time (not during this class especially but just in general), Atr and I have been sending Snapchats back and forth. Not sure if she has ever used Snapchat this much before since I never noticed her take any pictures during performance days and such. But yeah, it's going good.

        English, another snooze fest, literally, heh, except this time I was able to keep my eyes open for a good amount of time. Lunch, that was the usual as well, nothing too out of the ordinary. Uhhh, Econ, that was another class period of stories, and, me fake-writing notes. And finally, Chinese, just reading, listening, etc. Planning, nothing much else. That's, that's what I would count as filler. Bootleg joke-making with the cast, uhhh, math, Digital Art, English, Econ, Chinese, all of those are filler. Except Dance, Dance actually got some kick to it.

        Now after school, I got another hands-on experience with Atr's friends or, the people who she hangs out with. Definitely weird, now I'm not saying that in a bad way, I'm saying, for most people, shit like this wouldn't be socially acceptable to do out-loud, and I'm talking LOUD. And yeah, I guess if she met my friends, she'd consider them weird as well, with the amount of, bootleg shit we do. But anyways, yeah, her best friend or whatever, said that her friend (Atr's friend, friend) rated me as an 8.5/10, which was surprising 'cause uh, never actually looked up my rating in the global rate scales before. I was also apparently a 8.5/10 on the "daddy" scale, which is apparently my nickname in KDT, and also what people call leading male figures nowadays. I'm waiting for the day I look back on this and say "Yeah, not sure why kids thought calling each other 'daddy' was a good idea."

        Atr's friend was also like "You guys should get together," and I'm like (thinking like) "Well wachu think" Easier said than, complied. But yeah, very different group of people than I'm used to, being close with. Close as in, proximity, okay, heh. And so, it's 11:51 PM, I really would like sleep. See ya.

Monday, January 30, 2017 "Doughnut Leader."

Monday, January 30, 2017

Week: 26

Songs to Remember: Love Affair - NIEL, Press Your Number - Taemin

        I do admit, I could be sleeping a lot earlier had I not fucked around with dance moves for like an hour or so combined. But when you gotta teach a 2-minute thirty-second dance, and you wanna keep it as original as possible, what can you do?

        Dance was just practice with our Hip Hop dance for the rally next week. Then we had time to work on our respective dances and such. I pretty much came late today but luckily the girls take forever to change so when I got to class the dudes were just finishing up changing. There was an accident this morning (I swear, every single car accident in my city so far has been occurring in the morning, when I need to get somewhere on time) and so they had to block off several streets and roads.

        Math, that was pretty fun. By that I mean we did the same exact thing as ever, and we got a quiz this Wednesday. Break, I finally got to eat my doughnuts. I was surprised that both boxes fit in my locker (the width isn't so big, but the depth of these lockers are big). I had two during break, two during lunch. Yeah, not very good for my digestive system, but I'm gaining weight hopefully. At least, some weight. My body's probably already metabolized it by now. I actually have no idea what my real weight is 'cause there's no scale in my house, or at least, I can't find it.

        My guess is like, 110 lb or something. Anyways, Digital Art was nice. We, we had time to doze off, do whatever. I just did Chinese work, got a head start on it as usual. English, was just grueling, grueling, periods of waiting. That and Econ, combined with Chinese on top of that, stretched out my day so much, even though we didn't do ANYTHING. In English, the teacher just read to us for a bit, told some stories, tried some shit to make us talk more like his other periods but nope, and so towards the end of class, he made us go outside and do a bootleg "trust" activity, where you're in partners and you steer each other around while one has their eyes closed. Yep, those kinda games.

        Very on-the-spot, and random. But anyways, after that was lunch and for my today, that was just two doughnuts and a soda. Did they help me stay awake? I don't know, maybe. For Econ, the teacher just told stories, showed some notes, uhhh, I just sat and did whatever. Chinese, basically same thing, you sit, you listen, you say, etc. We switched seats and I was hoping maybe, maybe for a mid-tier god-seat. It's, it's in the ball-park but, not really god-seat, but it's different. I'm sitting like in the middle of the room, in the back for once now, 2nd column from the right out of the 4 columns of two seats across.

        I could care less though. As I was walking from 5th to 6th period, I was like "Damn, how long have I been walking this path for." I've walked to-and-from my classes, the same paths, every single day, for the past, few years. Maybe not the same but, seeing the same path each time, it drags you back in time, the grueling periods of just sitting and listening. I think this year I've had the MOST boring classes. However, it's kind of made up for the shit I do outside of class.

        Like today, where we had to audition for KASA's KASA show. We thought we'd have more time but apparently not. There were about, 3 or 4 people auditioning, 2 consisting of KDT and KDT sub-groups. We had to watch people do Wonder Girls' "Nobody" and Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry" and pick from them, people who'd be performing in the audition. It was, yeah, mostly veterans. KDT veterans. After we and our sub-group had auditioned (which went okay I guess), KASA was like "Alright, now for the main KDT group." We were like "That was it." They were like "Oh." I'm guessing they were expecting more people to come and audition but uh, nope, most, most of the people watching were just KDT members.

        And it was a crazy sight, seeing everybody spread out like that. Just shows how many of us there are now, heh. Umm, so after that, we had break until 4:00 PM. I did what you'd expect and made some progress, a lot of progress. Uhh, and then it was time to teach some more of Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry." The other two teachers for the song, who were supposed to be like, the actual teachers, didn't really learn the dance yet, so. I, uh, I knew I should've just called in sick today, heh.

        But yeah, didn't really learn much, just, went over the dance again, etc, etc. I actually had a lot of confidence this time. I guess being a KDT veteran I basically know how shit works, I'm more comfortable with it, the leadership role of teaching is like, sort of a privilege. It works, 'cause I was very interactive, with a lot of people, Atr especially. And yes, I did make a lot of progress. A whole ton of it. Uhh, so anyways, it's, 12:13 AM, tomorrow, gonna be about the same thing as always. Gonna have to teach some more shit for Dance, etc. So, see ya. New songs will be abundant when February hits, right now it's just the same/ old stuff. Hang tight, see ya.. 

Sunday, January 29, 2017 "Press Update on Casts."

Sunday, January 29, 2017
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: Press Your Number - Taemin

        Oh man, it was a pretty long day filled with doughnuts, soup, aaand bootleg movies. And, more doughnuts, which will only continue from tomorrow and, this coming week.

        Woke up at around 11:30 AM, that was because I kept going back to sleep as I wanted to continue my dreams. I haven't had dreams in a long time, and it's not because I get so little sleep either. I get about the same amount of sleep on weekends, but the past, I don't know, 20 weeks maybe or something, or weekends, I haven't been able to dream a thing.

        I remember when I used to write down my dreams, like literally, writing them down with pencil and paper. Then it came to logging them on my phone, and then it came to writing about them on here sometimes. I just haven't had them for a while. Last couple nights' dreams, they were pretty whack. Nothing really symbolic, just, action-y. Anyways, woke up pretty late into the day, I woke up to many many notifications ranging from the cast's group chat (on Messenger), uhh, Snapchats, and the like.

        It was settled that we were to watch "Split" at the 1:55 PM showing today at this one plaza where the have this hot-pot restaurant, Krispy Kreme (a doughnut place if you haven't heard of it), and several other stores and restaurants. Jh picked me up from my house, and it was just me, Lw, and Jh who watched "Split." Jk couldn't come until later, Ek couldn't come until later, err, didn't really like scary movies (even though "Split" turned out to be more funny than scary. I'm serious, people were laughing, including us, and yes it was a really nice movie in my opinion), and, Ag didn't come at all with her excuse being she has a project to work on that's due tomorrow.

        Which turned out to be false because apparently it ain't due tomorrow but some other time this week, and so she just played Badminton instead. Uhhh, so yeah we watched "Split" from 1:55 PM to about 4:00 PM. Jk was waiting for us outside the theater after it was finished, where we all went to get some doughnuts from Krispy Kreme before we walked to a Target nearby to just fuck around 'till Ek comes. It didn't occur to me initially but I haven't stepped foot into a Target for a very long time now, probably like, a year, 2 years maybe. It's been a long, long time, heh.

        We just fucked around, uhhh, until about 5:00 PM when Ek finally arrived. We then proceeded to walk to this hot-pot restaurant place for dinner (of which, I had thought we were eating at this place for lunch but it turned out to be much, much later than lunch). It's basically, well, hot-pot, or shabu shabu, even though the restaurant was Chinese. You choose a soup, you get your own heated bowl of soup, you cook vegetables, seafood, meat in it, and, yeah.

        It was pretty good. At this point it was dark, and, we all went to get another round of doughnuts before Jh drove us all back home. I managed to finish math work before 12:00 AM (it's 11:29 PM right now). DrewN couldn't make it for the Movie and Dinner special, but that's okay. And now, for the much later news, the more general, plot thicken-ing stuff. Tomorrow, instead of just KDT practice for Wonder Girls' "Nobody" and Super Junior's "Sorry Sorry" (of which I'ma have to probably be the main teacher for, again, since the others are leaving me out to dry), it's gonna be that, AND, KASA auditions. Yep, it's, it's kinda fucked with our schedule.

        The people in KASA notified us just today that auditions were gonna be held tomorrow after school, the time is, unspecified, but uh, yeah, looks like we'll be doing the audition tomorrow. It kinda sucks 'cause we have like, no formations done (we gotta temp and impromptu ones right on the spot tomorrow) and barely any practice done, we gotta choose like a select few from the crowd to perform with us, the ones we think look good enough doing the dance so that we got a better chance of getting in the show.

        They kinda fucked us over, heh. But other than that, uhhh, I'ma be starting my doughnut diet tomorrow. I'm ordering 2 boxes of doughnuts from Lw tomorrow, meaning 24 doughnuts in total, meaning I'ma be eating 'em all, just to see if I can get any fatter (because right now at 110 lb and 5'6, I'm kinda not) before my metabolism metabolizes it all. I'm trying to see if I'm either not eating enough, or, the kind of foods I'm eating. 'Cause right now there's like no soda in my house, not really any large bags of chips, just those small party ones, and not even the good ones that I like either. No candy besides gum, nothing, just, nothing but fruit. And, ingredients.

        So there's that. Another major thing happening tomorrow is that, uhhh, well I forgot now- oh yeah. Not tomorrow exactly but, just today (and yesterday), I was on Snapchat and wondered why I only had like, 4 filters. I was like "Oh, I probably haven't updated in a while." Updated, went back on, see that I'm part of several group chats. First things first, I never knew there were group chats on Snapchat. Never knew they implemented that until now. Secondly, never knew I was added to some until, now. For, for how long that's been going on. I see that I'm part of one with the cast, like, Jk, Lw, Ek, Jh, DrewN, etc. I also see that I'm one for the KDT cabinet, like, Jb, Mt, Ln, etc. I also see one titled "Memes."

        And yeah, in it was Ec, Dv, Mc, and the rest of the old Discord group. I realized "I was notified the whole time. They probably sent 'Ay, wanna go for some pool tonight' and I never responded or saw it, just because I never updated a stupid app." And yeah, they were still active, talking about shit, meme-ing, etc. Made me feel kinda stupid, made me, made me laugh at the absurdity of how I thought things were (to be honest, looking at it now, doesn't seem too absurd), all because I didn't update an app.

        Social media's evolving pretty quick and if you get left behind, you get left behind. But anyways, heh, it's 11:43 PM now, my fingers are cold, next week my cousin's gonna be proxying me a $250 order of clothes, see ya.

       

Saturday, January 28, 2017 "If You're Reading This I Forgot to Press Post."

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Week: 25

Songs to Remember: Lean On Me - KASPER

        Alright so I did remember what I was gonna talk about in this post (because otherwise it would just be the usual one where I just say I slept good and didn't really do much) and it's about Chinese New Year's.

        In the past (like, when I was really, really young), my parents and I would celebrate the Lunar New Year. It would either just be my mom, my dad, and me, other times it would be us and uh, my cousin's family (from my dad's side) since they live, not too too too far away, and, because they're of the Buddhist religion and so, temples are, are required.

        But over the years, we just haven't really celebrated it anymore. My dad, he goes to the temple I guess, my mom doesn't since she's Catholic, and for me, I don't really, really participate religiously in anything. Like, I believe, yeah, I just don't do all these things because I don't think they're necessary. But besides religious talk because that's just, a whole post on it's own, ummm, yeah, Lunar New Year's not all that special for me.

        For the people at my school, which is about, 50% Asian, 30% hispanic, 10% white, and 10% other, Lunar New Year's should be pretty great for them. As for visiting family members, my family doesn't really do that all that often (family in this context as my mom and dad who are currently living with me). For the most part, it's because of location. My cousins live either, like, an hour or two away, aaand, a majority of my uncles and aunts (like 90%) of 'em, live in the LA region so, yeah, I don't think my dad would be willing to drive 6-hours often.

        If you're wondering about red envelopes, food, that shit doesn't happen for me, heh. Food's still just, regular food. Red envelopes, yeah forget it. Oh man, anyways, tomorrow we got some impromptu uh, filming with the cast. It's 11:01 PM, I finished, I finished the mix for the uh, KDT sub-group, as well as the audition mix, aaaaand oh man, see ya.

Friday, January 27, 2017 "Dinner 3 or 4."

Friday, January 27, 2017
Week: 25
Songs to Remember: Boom Boom - Seventeen

        Yeah, I got some good sleep from last night. Today's been pretty cold, nice, slow, but cold. Still got a lot of work but ain't due yet so, it can wait.

        Woke up at 11:30 AM, went ahead and did the mixes for KDT's audition for the KASA show. Our live audition performance is gonna be next week, and uh, I also did the first version of the mix for Bp, Rh, Ln, and Mt's "KDT sub-group" for the KASA show.

        Other than that, I had dinner with Jk, Jh, and myself. We had dinner at this Thai food place, just three of us, and then we arrived at Golfland, waited for DrewN to come on over, played some mini-gld in extreme cold temperatures (in California that is). And then, we got milk tea, and then headed home.

        Still pretty cold even in my house. It's 11:57 PM, I'm just tired. Tomorrow I'll maybe work on dancing or something, maybe some work, I don't know, we'll see. Anyways, without further ado, see ya.