Saturday, June 6, 2015
Week: 42
Songs to Remember: Driving - A.cian, Comeback When You Hear This Song - 2PM
I was about to write about how I literally did nothing really productive today, but then I remembered that I did watch the livestream for my school's graduation in the morning. Not exactly productive, but hey, I did wake up really early on a weekend for once.
Woke up at about a little past 9:30 AM. I was like "Ah s***, hopefully I didn't miss too much". Nope, they were just getting started. Umm, let's see. The principal just did like a speech or something. Then she had a chosen student sing "Forever Young" by Alphaville. I'm guessing it's a tradition or something? Of course, what kind of performance at school wouldn't be without any technical difficulties.
They literally, just needed to play an instrumental song, just one song for someone to sing to. Took 'em a couple minutes, the girl tried to save the time by saying stuff like "Woo! We're graduating" and the principal also tried to tell some really bad jokes. "What did the acorn say when he grew up? Geoemetry". Get it? Because "Geometry" sounds like "Gee, I'm a tree"? Haha? The principal was like "Alright, they fixed it, guess they don't want to hear any more of my jokes".
The location of the stage and all were just really impractical in my opinion. First of all, the stage and where the seniors were sitting were all on the left-most side of the football field. Second, it was at such an awkward angle to the audience, like, when they switched the audience POV of the livestream for a bit, I was like "Dear lord, how can anyone see anything from here".
After the girl sang, the valedictorian did her speech and somewhere towards the end of her speech, I was kinda hoping it would steer towards the "Just Do It" thing with Shia Labouf, but nope. My hopes were too high. Maybe next year though. I mean seriously, someone could just recite the whole thing from Shia Labouf and the principal, faculty, and parents wouldn't even notice.
They finally start calling out the names and handing out diplomas as the students walked across the stage. Saw a lot of people I knew, including Yue (she later posted pictures on Facebook anyway). I was expecting it to end after about, eh, 20 minutes. Nope. Went on from about 10:20 AM to about 11:00 AM. Yeah, I didn't expect reading names to take that long. I expect to be waiting and standing for a while when I graduate.
Also surprisingly it wasn't in alphabetical order. And they kept on switching announcers and diploma-hander-outers (yes, I ust said diploma-hander-outers. Those were people fromthe student board handing out the diplomas, what a suprise). At first I thought that because it was taking so goddamn long, that the diploma-hander-outers were getting tired, and the announcer. Nope. It occured to me that the announcers were teachers, and I strictly remember last year, about how my Geometry teacher, Mr.Liao, said that if we wanted him to read our names at our graduation, to just tell him.
So, yeah, that was neat. Towards the end, when they were finally done handing all of the diplomas out (you still had to go inside the gym to grab your certificate of authenticity), the graduating class was all standing together and I thought they were gonna throw they caps up like they do in the movies. Nahhh, only a couple people did it. That s***'s expensive. They finally finished it out at around 11:00 AM.
And guess what I did today? While I saw pictures of people going on places like DISNEY CRUISES IN FLORIDA, shopping, other places, movies, dying their hair, hanging out with friends, restaurants, I was sitting at home (still sitting) Skyping and, practicing my Charlier cut. My pinky kinda hurts now. Also my buddies are away, one's at LA for the weekend, one's in Laos for the weekend. And uh, yeah.
So, there was no League today. In my opinion this is probably my least productive day so far. Of the year. Maybe. Anyways, see you tomorrow.
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