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Journal for September 2002.
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| 9.30.02 11:08 PM (Monday) Tests |
| Whee, I got back two tests today. I got a 99% on the Calc test, and a 95% on the Physics test. That means my overall grade in Calc is right now a 99%... I'm definitely going to study a lot more for the next few tests o_O I'm just thankful I remember Chapters 2-4 so well. I can't say the same about the next few chapters, and the new material, though. |
| 9.29.02 1:58 PM (Sunday) Hmm |
Mm... last night... was my 17th b-day party. Thank you to everyone who went.. basically, we had dinner at Honey Court, and then carpooled to SBK2 in Downtown for karaoke. I had fun, but something was definitely missing.
I didn't even speak to anyone yesterday about the party, so I wasn't sure who would go and who wouldn't. I arrived a little early to Chinatown, and I decided to waste time at Kinokuniya, and I chanced upon Luk there. We proceeded to the waiting spot (outside Honey Court), and saw Gabino and Alex there. Other people started coming... Flavia, Aaron, Anna, Jennifer, Ben, Spree and Andrew, hmm I forget the order. So around 6 we entered the restaurant, and we got two tables, and we ordered food.
We got two of the $48 meal deal thingies, and two extra plates of the shrimp and walnut thing that everyone likes. So dinner was pretty good, and yeah.. we did a little name introduction thing because not everyone knew each other, and then I opened presents (which were unecessary but... thanks y'all.) From Alex I got Ayu's "For my dear..." re-released CD single, from Flavia I got a card and a little clock thingie, from Tomoki I got a gift certificate to Kinokuniya, from Andrea I got a card and money to help pay for dinner, and from Eugene I got... Gackt's CD "Moon." Thanks everyone!
After dinner we carpooled in about 4 or 5 cars to SBK2. I rode in Alex's car, along with Flavia and Eugene, and we kinda got lost, although we weren't the last ppo who got there.
Karaokeing was pretty cool even if it got really hot and sweaty inside the room, as usually happens. They need AC in there.
After our two hours were up we all headed home. Actually, I stopped by Gossip first to get some bubble tea, but yeah..
I have so much HW to do now... |
| 9.27.02 9:56 PM (Friday) Happy birthday to me... |
I'm always so depressed on my b-day. I turn 17 today, and yeah...
School was just.. blah.. I went to the library and did basically nothing 1st period, 3rd period a math test, but everyone finished early so it was really boring, Friday's Ezell's and Vietnamese Youth Leadership for the first time, then 5th was interesting because I recited my poem and it was sad and depressing and about suicide (well at least I think everyone was a little moved..)
Afterschool I quickly did Physics HW before it was due, and then I went to Todai for a b-day dinner with my family, minus my younger sister because she was ghetto.
I just hope tomorrow goes smoothly? I really haven't hung out with anyone in a long time. I distance myself so much from peopel that they think I don't really care, but it's just the opposite... that's enough worry for today. |
| 9.26.02 10:28 PM (Thursday) AP Chem Lab from Hell |
We couldn't go into AP Chem for tutorial this morning because of a senior meeting. Which means we started the AP Chem lab a little later. It was a titration lab, and Ms. Brierley spent the entire first half of class (one hour or so...) instructing us about it o_O So we ran out of time at the end and we had to come back during lunch, but only to clean.
Actually, during lunch I had a National Merit Scholar thing, so I couldn't come back and clean. Yeah... I'm just a commended scholar, actually I was kinda far from the 99 percentile semi-finalist cutoff thing, I was only 96%. But... it's all good, right.
Annual was kinda boring, I never have anything to do in that class because our spread is so vague. But we're getting there.
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| 9.25.02 11:31 PM (Wednesday) Obsessed |
Call me pathetic, but I was channel surfing, and I was like "ooh what's this" cuz it stopped on this one channel with this woman showering, turns out it was the Lifetime channel, turns out it was a really strange, almost soft-core porn flick called "Obsession" starring Jenna Elfman. It was really good in the beginning, after that it really started to suck and it was just too predictable, but the ending was just so good I was like "ooh this might be a good film."
Well, today... we had short periods. There weren't really any high points during the day, although 2nd period we did have a fire drill. Oh yeah and Ms. Brierley said another priceless yet wise line: "The more you know... the more you know!"
And then afterschool I went to Key Club, but only like 5 people came. The Key Club advisors (not sure what their official position is...) from the Central Kiwanis Club were there so it was kinda disappointing that we had to cancel the meeting.
At any rate, afterschool I went to band practice with Alex G.'s band, tentatively called "Ready for Action." The other people in it are Armand, Graham, and Alex's neighbor Kjell. I practiced singing, which was kinda cool. It's too bad i didn't know any of the songs they knew how to play though! The only rock band I've steadily liked was Weezer, and unfortunately they didn't know any Weezer. But it's all good.
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| 9.25.02 1:59 AM (Wednesday) I don't know, I don't know, I... don't know |
So much happened today. Hmm... the highlights:
-In AP Chem Ms. Brierley was telling us about her motorcycle, which I found just a tad odd but amusing. And then later on the period someone asked her a question while we were talking about acids and bases... "Ms. Brierley what's the strongest acid?" and then she paused to think about it for twenty or so seconds, and then she replied, "Well... it depends on the strength of the acid..." and then we were like "uhh..." and then we all started laughing. That just made my day right there... haha.
-I missed BC Calc yet again this period because of senior picture, the large group one with all the seniors. It was funny, there were some underclassmen in the picture and someone pointed them out and we were like like "ohhhhh..." and forced them to leave. After that senior polls were passed out. I HAVE THE COOLEST HAIR!
-I spent lunch with Gabino trying to take pictures for our spread, but he had black and white film in his camera, and we needed color o_O I'm sorry. It's my fault, and we ended up just wasting the entire lunch period.
-Afterschool I went to go pick up my videos at Central. It was really annoying taking the bus there, and the bus home, but at least I won't have to go there anytime soon. I do have to go there to take my final for Psych, and return my videos, but I think that's it.
And when I came home today... something just frustrated me so much. I ended up napping for like 6 hours, and I woke up at 12 AM. At least I don't have much homework tonight. I was planning to call a whole bunch of ppo to tell them where my party was but I guess that'll have to wait until tomorrow.
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| 9.23.02 2:49 AM (Monday) Fuuuckk.. |
I think I'm the most screwed I've ever been this year. I just had so much HW crap this weekend, and, even though I was going to start Friday afternoon when I got home from school, I got distracted and just put it off til Sunday night. Here's what I've already done tonight:
1) AP Chem acids WS
2) AP Chem study for Ions Quiz #2
3) AP Calc like 20 problems, I'm only halfway done for 1-89 odds.
4) Read some of Beowulf.
But I need to do so much more... I still have formal lab writeup for AP Chem, finishing the AP Calc Problems due Tuesday (they're taking FOREVER, cuz they're the annoying max/min problems where you have to graph them and find the zeros and whatnot, combined w/ the related rates problems... so freaking long. At least I'm glad I understand the related rates ones a lot better this time around), Physics problems and study for test Tuesday, finish Beowulf and doing questions, and I feel I should do some Annual work cuz my group is seriously slacking and I don't think we have any copy done o_O Plus, Central starts tomorrow. I know my Health class is already online, I gotta go check later on for Macroecon, and I gotta go pick up my videos at Central tomorrow. So much... (yeah I'm whining as usual...) Can you say, "FUCK?!?!?!"
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK! FUCK!
Seriously though, I gotta start with what's due tomorrow and prioritize. Then we'll worry about what's due Tuesday. So on the top of the list is... AP Chem writeup and Beowulf. But I'll be up all night to alleviate my workload for Tues.
On a lighter note, I did plan my b-day this weekend ^^ If anyone's interested in going, we're meeting outside of Honey Court in Chinatown @ 5:45 PM next Saturday, the 28th.
Well, back to work. |
| 9.20.02 3:42 PM (Friday) my vagina hurts |
And I don't even have one. But if i did, it would be hurting right now..
Gah this week was kinda... I mean there was a considerable amount of work; nothing too much, I guess that means I'm used to doing lots of homework? We had crazy AP Chem work due yesterday, I spent like 3 hours on it (seriously) cuz I wrote my equations all neat and cancelled them all nicely. Good practice, and it's good review.
Today we had our college essays due in LA. I spent three hours... just thinking about it, staring at a blank screen, then I would start writing and write maybe a paragraph before just deleting it and trying to start again. I can't focus on one topic when I know my peers will be reading it. There are three experiences I could talk about in my college essay (at least, there were three that I came up with last night): 1) The first time I did Camp Cedar Springs as a high school leader, 2) The time I karaoked with Khaliun in Chinatown and the bums started dancing (okay, so it's not a major topic, but I can embellish it a whole bunch... plus the image of bums dancing... can't beat that.) And 3) How I went to my cousin's debut, and how it kinda mirrored the movie of the same name--then talk about all things Filipino and try to be cultural boy. But I chose choice #1, because I already painstakingly and excruciatingly wrote my college essay on that last year, so I used snippets from last year's essay and incorporated them into a kinda new product, but crappier, because I only had an hour to write it. Yeah.
Today I also went to two college visit things: UPenn in the morning, and Yale after that. I think I'll apply to both schools... not sure of my chances of getting in. I'll probably have a better chance of getting into UPenn, but Yale... will I like it there? New Haven seems kinda... shady. But UPenn is in Philadelphia, but their academics don't seem the best out of all the Ivies. A college in a major city is high on my list for deciding. So on my tentative list I have... UW, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia, UPenn. On my list for "colleges I'm applying to to see if I'll get in" is Harvard and Yale. Well, I don't really mean it like that, maybe if I win a really big scholarship or something I'll actually go.
At lunch I saw something that I think I wasn't supposed to see. And I couldn't find anyone to give me a ride anywhere... so I didn't take pictures for Annual. Whatever.. I'm slacking off too much.
Yeah... hopefully I'll feel better soon.
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| 9.17.02 1:26 AM (Tuesday) Someone's having a case of the Mondays |
I got sick somehow, so my nose is all runny, and I keep having to blow it but I don't want to cuz it gets bloody too. Such a horrible feeling...
So I started my new TAing job. Gosh the Japanese 3 period this year is like super smart o_O But whatever, I'm smarter, haha. At any rate... all I did today was enter names into the computer.
AP Chem we finished our labs kinda, we just took the pennies and cleaned them (even though the 6 M rxns dissolved) and put them in the oven. AP Calc we got an extension for the three part series homework on derivatives. A funny thing happened in that class, someone who will remain anonymous thought Mr. Boyes spelled the word "thereom" wrong so he raised his hand and was like "Did you fail spelling or something?" But he spelled it RIGHT. We were all puzzled and then someone was like "uhh that's spelled right... did YOU fail spelling?" and it was funny. I felt so bad though. It's okay, anonymous person ^^
The Physics test was surprisingly easy. The questions worth the most points (ie, 70% of the test) was like 3 multiple choice questions. o_O O_o o_O But yeah. All good.
During lunch I turned in my community service for camp (120 hours!... hopefully) and went to the lunchroom w/ Kim. Yeah.. the rest of the day was a blur. AP LA we played this word game using our word terms, Annual we're finding out we have all these due dates.
So afterschool I went to give Eric my pic, and he finally brought my Utada Hikaru CD back! I haven't listened to it in like... two months or so. Yay.
After that I went with Amy and Shu Ming to Central to buy books, my stupid books for two classes cost $200. I think I'll try to find used ones online and return the ones I bought today. |
| 9.16.02 2:39 AM (Monday) This weekend... |
I stayed home and cleaned my room the entire weekend... and it's still not clean o_O Gah. I had so much HW too... I started just a few hours ago, and I've accomplished finishing: 1) AP Chem WS (decomposition rxns), 2) AP Calc HW (well, most of it anyway), 3) finishing Medea. I still have: Medea Q's, college essay (due Fri., but I haven't started), and... STUDYING FOR PHYSICS TEST. I'm so lost in Physics, I really should've placed priority on it, but I'll stay up all night and abuse caffeine.
I really, really need a job (and Baskin Robbins isn't hiring. Darn.) I'm looking at something that can be done afterschool and possibly a bus ride near Central, cuz I plan to take evening classes there Winter Quarter. So school ends at 2:15, I can hopefully ride a bus to my job and get there by 3, work for one or two hours, go chill somewhere and do HW, then arrive at Central by 6 for evening classes. Does that sound too ambitious? I think I'm underestimating Central way too much. Still... I'm pushing my limits this year. I slack off waaaay too much and I need to learn better time management.
It's also occurred to me that... summer is gone. I was scared of it, but just as I predicted, once school started my life would shift back to the way it was. Part of that is I'm not around the people I want to be around, whereas in the summer I was. Then there's also the HW and stuff.. uhh.. But hey, I'm adjusting.
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| 9.14.02 2:53 PM (Saturday) Second long day (1-3-5) |
Remember what I wrote about not having a first period... well that kinda changed yesterday. But more on that later.
So first period I headed to the library, I encountered Ada and Austin playing that strange Kirby's Avalanche-type game. But after tutorial I was there all by myself, for like two hours, so I just did my HW.
Third period was just work... and after that Ada and Austin and I decided to "book it" to Ezell's because we were really close (being in Boyes's and all.) It was during lunch that I came across Craig-sensei, while trying to find the yearbook line but being upset it wasn't open. She asked me if I wanted to TA, and of course I just couldn't say no, so now I'm an unofficial TA for 1st period 1st semester.
AP LA for two hours... hmm. But afterschool I went to Central to buy my books, too bad the bookstore wasn't open! I ended up getting my ID card though. The staff at Central is so friendly, the atmosphere is excellent, and I feel so comfortable talking to everyone there. Except for the RS secretary Maki. She's so rude and I just sense evil vibes emanating from her.
Even the bums outside were nice! This bum approached me and wanted $.60, and I just looked pissed off and he quickly backed off and was like "okay, God bless..." which made me feel bad so I gave him a nickel and he was really happy. He wanted to shake my hand but I didn't want to get my hands dirty, I hope he understood. Yeah. It was also really torrid yesterday as well.
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| 9.12.02 4:14 PM (Thursday) First long day (2-4-6) |
Today was eventful only in that it was our first long days of the year. But the administration decided to be screwy and have it 2-4-6 Thursdays and 1-3-5 Fridays (WTF?) And now tutorial is in the morning, instead of after the first period, so everyone was in the halls today. Which was good, I was in the halls and I chilled outside of Scharf's to write up my AP Chem pre-lab.
And in AP Chem we had our first lab today. It's like we're moving really fast, but at the same time it doesn't feel like we're moving fast at all. I have a feeling we're moving rather slow though... and later the class will get really, really tough. Basically, a penny lab, to test for the percentage of zinc by reacting the other chemicals of the penny with 3.0/6.0 M HCl and letting hydrogen gas evolve.
The rest of my day was.. blah. Physics we finished our labs, lunch I spent the first part trying to find out whether they added my UW classes yet (at least my transcript was received,) and I went to Ezell's with Luk, and then Annual we just had several workshop type things. Tomorrow will be interesting all right, I don't have a first period!
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| 9.11.02 6:50 PM (Wednesday) Key Club, like whut |
Besides the usual schoolday, today was the first day of Key Club! It was packed... let's hope it stays that way throughout the year.
During 6th period we had a 9/11 one-year Assembly. It was unexpectedly good, and it was moving. I really like how they questioned the government... they reaffirmed the questions I had in my mind, about how there could possibly be some secret cover up or the Bush Administration was possibly supporting the attacks to fuel some sort of war. Actually, a conspiracist guy came to our school last year and talked about how 9/11 was because of some monopoly on oil, which sounds believable. I really don't know what to believe, but at this point I'm kinda tired of the media. Of course, if all the above is true, we're all just a bunch of sheep (and aren't we all anyway?)
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| 9.11.02 4:44 AM (Wednesday) I'm updating kinda late... |
One year ago.... hmm.
But yesterday was a pretty tiring day. I went to help with the school pictures during 1st period, which was good because I got to take my ID picture early. I was so tired during the day though.
And during 5th I left early to go to RS Orientation... uhh I told Eric to go because my flier said "mandatory" and I thought everyone was supposed to go, but apparently he wasn't, because he already went. Uhh my bad.. I'm sorry. The orientation was kinda boring, a little helpful though. I'll be so stressed when RS starts. |
| 9.7.02 12:55 AM (Saturday) First week of senior year |
So hard! So stressful. In AP Chem I *finally* saw that safety video, it's so funny! Now I know what that shower scene was all about.
What else... AP Lit is kinda tough, especially with the emphasis on participation. Cuz I don't really...
Other than that, school seems fine so far. I still ride the bus, but it stops all the way past the angle parked cars, outside of the senior parking lot, which is hella annoying.
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| 9.4.02 9:33 PM (Wednesday) First day of senior year |
Oh man today was so busy/crazy. I got to school, did the routine "welcome backs", then headed to the library once first period started to finish AP Chem HW and study the ions/acids for test (I have no first period). We took the memorization test, I mean I stayed up all night last night learning them o_O It could've done me so much better had I started a day earlier, even w/ Bumbershoot and all. Still... I know I got at least 4 wrong on the test o_O I don't want to think about how many more I got wrong, cuz that's just depressing.
Well after that... AP Calc BC was pretty cool, as was Physics. They were both really packed, but it's all good. During Lunch I promised Luk I'd help show his brother around, I didn't do a lot but I just started talking to him and whatnot. Then I split a pizza with Ulisses and we went on the field to eat lunch.
AP LA--McBennet seemed really nice, I hope she stays that way! The terrible things I've heard... and Annual seemed laid back so it's all good.
Yeah... first day is over. I have a feeling it'll be downhill from here, but who am I to speculate?
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| 9.3.02 9:59 PM (Tuesday) The day before school |
I'm still sore from last night. But it's all good...
I'm so happy with the way this summer turned out. Even though I procrastinated on my AP Chem stuff until the very end, I got so much accomplished. I remember at the beginning of summer I was so doubtful, thinking about how there was no light at the end of the tunnel. I wondered why I was taking UW classes. Now it's the end, I see the light, and it's pretty neat-o.
I spent today downloading new songs. The new one by Hamasaki Ayumi is pretty good ("Voyage,") can't wait for her next album to be out.
So yeah... summer '02 = cool, awesome, the best summer I've had in a long time. I met so many cool people, made many cool friends, stressed the hell out, and managed to have tons of fun at the same time. I will remember: The DDR outings, being 10 minutes late to Psychology nearly everyday, stressing out at the AAS 210 midterm and final, Vietnamese sandwiches, the heat, that random day at the ID festival, Ketsumeishi's CD "Ketsu no police 2," The Debut, keeping traditions alive by seeing Simone, and Bumbershoot. Good times, good times.
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| 9.3.02 2:48 AM (Tuesday) Bumbershoot Day #4 (LAST DAY!) |
I am exhausted! My day was so long. Lemme think...
I woke up around 11 today. That's pretty late, but I got ready really quickly and left kinda soon for Seattle Center. I checked in before Anna, and Danielle had a task for me as soon as I got into Volunteer HQ: I had to help roll around these clown wheel thingies behind this gypsy parade. Yay.
After that I washed my hands, got a wristband, then headed back to Volunteer HQ. Anna checked in, and we both chilled until our duty time at 3.
The volunteer entrance was kinda busy from 3 to 5 I'd say, but completely dead after that. I brought Teddy Grahams as a snack but it ran out really quickly. We doodled a whole bunch again... the exciting part of the volunteering was when I got up to go to the bathroom around 6, came back, then got up again to get some funnel cake. Yup. Too bad the weather started to suck midday: it started raining, it got cold, and it was really windy.
We closed shop around 7, got food chips for free food at Domino's and the Gyros stand. Then we got in line for Jewel. Too bad we got really bad seats. I brought my camera though, and it was working, so I took some pictures. I wonder if any of them came out good... considering it was raining, and we were farther than we were for Wyclef or Lifehouse.
Jewel's music was okay... better than Lifehouse but definitely not as good as Wyclef. Her songs all sounded the same because it was just acoustic guitar and solo vocals, which is kinda cool I guess, but I wanted more variety, and more action. She played a bunch of songs I didn't know in the beginning (I really just wanted to listen to her singles), and I recognized "Hands," "You Were Meant for Me," and that one song... dunno what it's called but it goes "Who will save your soul.."
Yeah we left even though I think she came back for an encore. Even if it was pretty late... we went back to Volunteer HQ, and John, Anna and I were going to have dinner somewhere (a celebrational dinner as the last day of Bumbershoot), but we heard about the after party and decided to volunteer some more so we could go... o_O It started at 12:30 though, and it was only around 9:30 or so when we got back.
Basically... we helped fold fence mesh material. It was tedious, and laborious, so that the dirt penetrated our every finger nail... haha. We worked at a feverish pace (okay so that was mostly John... Anna and I were slacking off kinda) and got a lot accomplished. By 12:30 we checked back in to Volunteer HQ, which closed for good, and for some reason we just left without going to the after party, which we heard was kinda quiet. Oh well.
Yeah my sister gave me a ride home, and she even dropped Anna off.
Bumbershoot was a fun experience. Can't wait to do it again next year...
One more day until school. Still haven't cleaned my room, done AP Chem HW, nor finished school shopping... |
| 9.2.02 12:29 AM (Monday) Bumbershoot Day #3 |
Hmm today was so boring in terms of volunteering.
I got to Seattle Center early today to see Lifehouse, and I met Anna at our Mercer volunteer entrance @ around 11. We checked in, quickly got wristbands for the night, and then got in line for Lifehouse, playing @ Memorial Stadium. We waited a whole lot, but we got front and center--closer than we were for Wyclef. Good seats. But Lifehouse really... sucked. Their music all sounded the same. The only song I liked was their most popular single (not even sure what it's called... it's the one that goes "I'm falling even more in love with you / letting go of all I've held on to"... is it called "Hanging by a moment?" I dunno.) and they played that last. They didn't really know how to move an audience, and I didn't like their boring style of rock. So that was kinda disappointing.
After that we chilled at Volunteer HQ: we ate some ice cream sandwiches, indulged in the free bottled water, read some of the magazines, all while sitting on the comfy sofas. I tried to do some AP Chem HW but I really didn't want to get any done. At this rate I wonder how I'm going to get that darn HW finished by Wednesday morning.
Pretty soon it was almost 3, so Anna and I took our positions as volunteer entrance people. Today was kinda boring because not that many people showed up. We came prepared: I brought my graphing calculator which we used to play games, and John came occasionally to chill with us. Oh yeah, and we doodled a whole bunch on the volunteer lists, and played a sort of pictionary that was kinda fun. ("Isle of Klezbos"... LOL) Other fun drawings included... Spice Girls, Radiohead, Alicia Keys, and Britney Spears. I also left once to get a snack of Crab Cake (nasty... esp. b/c it was imitation) and Elephant Ears.
John had to leave around 7 for dinner w/ his grandmother, and it was really slow so it was really boring. When our shift was up (we got out late today, around 8:15) Anna and I checked out at Volunteer HQ, stocked up on ice cream cones and peanut butter cookies, got our free t-shirts, then made the trek across Seattle Center to McDonald's for dinner. (I got a McChicken and a Filet-o-fish for the record). We walked back to Bumbershoot to see Everclear, but they already started; with really bad seats at the nosebleed section of the bleachers, it was kinda boring. The only song of theirs that I really liked didn't sound too great... at least from where we were sitting (it's the one that goes "You try to be everything to everyone..."). It got boring so we left.
After that I pondered riding the monorail to Downtown but I just called my mom for a ride home.
At least tomorrow's the last day. Still, I have to clean my room, do AP Chem HW, and go school supply shopping befoere school starts on Wednesday o_O I really wish we had one more day.
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