November 30, 2011

          Today is the last day of November, which means that tomorrow is the first day of December. Time flies so fast and before you know it, it's 2012. Nothing interesting happened today. I really don't know what to type in this journal for today since it's so boring. I feel as if my amount of homework is stacking up because each day, I practice violin and piano longer than usual so I have less time to do homework if I want to try to sleep at the same time. Well, at least I am managing to do all my homework on time. I'm always wondering what other people in our class do. What do you do, my dear classmates, if you are reading this journal? For example, like Sam, he didn't learn any instrument, he don't have after school classes as far as I know which means that he have almost all the time from 3:10 till whenever he sleeps to do his homework. We don't have that much homework but they have such a long time to work on it. *Sigh....nevermind...

November 29, 2011

          My head hurts and I am exhausted today but I think it's worth it! Well, the head hurting part isn't actually worth it because I don't deserve that.....The reason because of that is we have PE today and we had a football game as a test. I did most of the running which I don't mind. I ran most of the running plays and I pulled a pretty good amount of flags during the game while we're defensing! Alice and Lucy are also in my team and they pulled a huge amount of flags as well! However, we lost but it's a fairly awesome game and it's worth it. That's the result of why I am exhausted...Well, it doesn't explain why my head hurts. So....my head hurts because while we are defensing and I ran and was standing ground to the ground right in front of Howard, who have the ball and who was charging right at me. He came toward me and ran me over like a bulldozer. My whole body fell...my head hit the solid hard ground....Howard was lying next to me saying sorry and are you okay....and my head hurts....but guess what is in my hands? His FLAGS!!!! I was not sure whether my memory serves me right but I think I pulled his flag off....But it sucks!!!! The game was a close game and I wished we filmed it so I can rewatch everything we did...the mistakes...and what we did awesome at!!! By the way Howard, if you are reading this journal, it's not your fault....don't blame yourself....Anyways....Gooooood Joooooob....Joseph, Dylan, Clement, Lucy, Alice, and Phoebe Lee!!!!! I think I'm missing someone...there's only 6 people but there's 7 on our team....I know who I'm missing....!!! It's young Darren Boy!!!!!!!!

November 28, 2011

          Time does fly! That sucks...because it means a lot of things to me. First is, I'm getting older which I dislike because I wish I could stay like who I am now and don't have to change my personalities to fit the fact that I'm older. Second, my brother will be going off to college, leaving me alone with my parents. Third of all, the competition is coming up with less than a weeeeek!!!! That is mostly why it sucks. The violin competition is next Monday and the piano competition is next Friday. The next week will be so busy for me! First, on Saturday, I have to go to school to take the SAT test. Then, on Sunday, we have Sports Day which I really like but dislike it when it's the day before my competition because I might get hurt and my legs will sore a lot the next day which brings pain. Then, on Monday, there is the competition as well as one on Friday. I wished I could stay home for the whole day on Monday and Friday but my mom said I will only be absent for half of the day, which I'm fine with because there is only actually one serious class. On Monday, the classes after lunch is Music and Spanish and on Friday, it is PE and History. 

November 27, 2011

          Today, I was daydreaming and I thought about something that Howard said to me during the lunch line while we're getting our line. He told me that my life seems so boring and thinking about that today, I agree with that statement. My life is such a replay over of yesterday that I could sit down in class or at my mom's office practicing my violin and wondering whether this day have happened before. It did happen before. Once, I've been in school and I'm doing work of some sort and in my brain, it seems as if I've done something exactly like that before. Everyday seems so boring even on Saturdays and Sundays. Nothing changes on those two days. So this is basically my schedule for my whole week: First, wake up in the morning at 6:50 and get ready for school. We drive down to Tiffany and Amanda's house because we're carpooling at 7:25. We get to school at about 7:50 and start our daily classes. Then at 3:10, school is dismissed. I head downstairs where the school bus of my mom's office comes and picks me up and drive me to Jubei. By the time I reach Jubei, it is 3:35. I head out to some store near my mom's office to buy a few snacks. When I finish those snacks, it is 3:45. By then, I have to get ready to play either piano or violin. I always choose to play the violin first. So from 3:45 to 4:45, I will be playing violin. Then, from 4:45 to 5, I will be having a break. Then from 5 to 6, I would be playing piano. Then, my mom finishes her job and I finish practicing so she drives me home from 6. When we reach our home in Hsinchu, it is already 6:30. I turn on my computer and look at all the homework and check my email and get my books out while my mom cooks dinner and by the time I'm ready for homework, it's dinner. We eat dinner at 7. I eat dinner in front of the TV from 7 to 7:30. After dinner, I starts working on my homework from 7:30 all the way through 9:30 with few breaks in between for snacks, games, and bathroom break. Then, I get ready for bed which means showering, brushing my teeth, drying my hair, wearing my contacts, and walking up the stairs. By the time all that is done, it will be 10. 
          That is my daily routine!!! It is boring isn't it...? What's yours...?

November 24, 2011

          Today, it is a different day at school. We had Thanksgiving Lunch and we had a Sports Day meeting. I think my team is pretty awesome. In middle school, we have me, Sean, and Dylan, Lucy, Kevin Kao, Dubby, and Ting. As for elementary, we have two of the fastest person, Evan and Tiffany. I don't know much about  the  highschool team. Our team captain is Sean Yu. Our highschool leader is Ricky, middle school leader is me, and the elemantary captain is Tiffany. At school, we had a dodge ball game which I wished I could join but I couldn't join. Nevertheless, I think our class did an awesome job!!! It looks so fun that I wished I could join. I want the freaky feeling to get smashed at or dodge the ball. It's so awesome!!!

November 23, 2011

          Out of all the things I brought home today, I didn't bring one thing home...and that is my laptop. It sucks even though I don't mind spending time without a computer or laptop. However, it still sucks because it is on a school day where I have to check out what homework is due tomorrow and do my homework. I have completely no idea that I didn't bring my laptop home until I came back home and sat down at my desk and stare at the blank white wall where my laptop should be. I am so forgetful....Anyways, today, we had art and instead of drawing a self portrait, we worked on our Christmas performance costumes. Then, Howard asked whether I would join the dodgeball game tomorrow with him and some of the other boys. I agreed but then, I came back home and asked my mom whether I could and she disagrees....so it seems like I'm not going to play dodgeball after all...Sad Face....

November 22, 2011

          Today we had PE which is so awesome. I volunteered to be Captain while Howard is the Captain for the other team. These are my players: Phoebe, Dylan, Clement, Joseph, Lucy, Alice, and Darren. Howard's team members are Howard, Sean, Samuel, Willis, Vivian, Kathy, and Eve. Which team do you think will win? I thought that their team will have better advantage because they've got all the 7th graders but in fact, the game turned out as a tie. It is such an awesome game! I wished we can have PE everyday and play football everyday. Anyways, after thinking about it, I think the teams are actually pretty fair. 

November 21, 2011

          Today after school, I went back to my mom's office like usual but I saw something unusual. I saw that in the room where I practice piano and violin, there are three cases of violin. I asked my mother about them and she told me that she borrowed those violins from her friends. We need to borrow another three fourths violin because my violin teacher thinks the one I'm using now is not really good. Well, I tried all the four violins out and I think that the violin I am using now actually sounds pretty good. In my opinion, I think there are only one violin which sounds better than the one I'm using now but to make sure, I brought it all home so that my brother can listen to the sound and test which one sounds the best. 

November 20, 2011

          Yesterday, my oldest Sam came back from College. We normally play badminton on Sundays, today, however, we played badminton yesterday because Sam was home. He drove our whole family there except for Ben because he's in Singapore. It was scary! It is my first time riding while he's driving. He just got his licence and he's 18. Do you have any siblings? If so, have you rode the car in which they drove in? It's scary and kind of interesting. Then, during the badminton lesson, the coach told me to head on over and have a match with a boy that is younger than me. I think he's about fourth or fifth grade. But nevertheless, he's really good at it because he practices it everyday and he's in his local school's badminton team. Well, I played with him and he won. The score is 16 to 21. I thought that it really is an awesome game. I tried my best and the coach never thought I would get 16 points. Haha~~
          Today, my brother came home from Singapore and the other one's heading off to college. One comes, the other leaves. I feel so tired. Yesterday night, I watched X-Men First Class with my family till some time about 11. However, I think it's worth it because the movie really is awesome. Well, after watching, I got ready for bed and today, I woke up at 6:30 because I have violin class at 7 in the morning! I woke up early, have violin class for a long time, it seems like forever, and then after class, I went back to bed. =D :D :P =3 

November 17, 2011

          Today, the last class before lunch is Science and we took a 30 minute science test. Sean, Joseph, and I couldn't be able to finish it but Ms.Liu gave us more time to complete it. Sean and I finished it right on the extra time she added but Joseph did not. He have one more question to go as well as 3 bonus questions unfinished. Then, before we leave, I asked Ms.Liu about the last question on the test (not bonus). She told us the answer and why it's the answer and I realized that I got it wrong. Sean also got it wrong. Knowing that I got it wrong made me feel sad. But I "might" have bonus to make it up. 
          Then, we went to lunch at Ms.Padachie's room. Today, we are eating tacos and other food from Tacos House. The food was different and it's pretty awesome. But even though we have tacos, I still feel sad about my test. 
          But then, today, we have clubs!!! We didn't have club for last week and we won't have clubs for the next week so I am glad we have clubs even though it's a bit wet upstairs. 

November 16, 2011

          Today, after lunch, my classmates walked down the hall way and on our way paste the music room, we spotted the teams for sports day which will be on December 4, the day before my violin competition. The teams are the same teams as the Camp teams. I sort of like our team because my team have Kathy, Joseph, and Dylan. Seeing the date, made me feel bad. Two years ago, when I am in fifth grade, we had sports day on the day before my violin competition as well. I thought all would be fine but my mom had a feeling that something bad is going to happen. I ignored it. I ran a lot and won all the races but the next day, something bad happened. Since I didn't start running as fast as I could for months and on one day, I ran as fast as I could, the next day, my legs hurt. It hurts and sores really badly. It's so bad that I couldn't get off my bed nor climb the stairs downstairs. I struggled and manged with tears in my eyes to get on stage and finish playing the piece and it sucks. This year, I don't want it to happen again but I like Sports Day a lot but I also practiced so hard for the music competition. I went home and told my mom and she told me not to run at all. But then, she called me over and said that you can run but she don't want anything to happen to my legs and my entire body. So now, I will have to come up with a plan where both events will work. Wish me luck 

November 15, 2011

          Today, we had PE. Finally, after so long! It's awesome. We played flag football and the teams are Sean, Dylan, Darren, Joseph, Willis, and Alice versus me, Howard, Samuel, Clement, Lucy, and Kathy. According to the teams, which team do you think will win? I think our team will win because we have Samuel and Clement (they can block and Sam can throw and catch), Lucy (she can easily pull flags because she's smaller), Kathy (she can run), Howard (he can catch and throw), and me (I can run). But guess what? We lost. We lost because Sean got two touched downs while I scored one touch down for my team. It is pretty fun but it would be funner if the court is bigger. Football is a fine sport like all the other sports expect for basketball (I really don't like basketball) but I don't think that's why I enjoy playing football. I enjoy playing football because of the chasing and running. I think it feels awesome to be running with people chasing after you trying to pull your flag and it feels awesome where you try to slide past and in between people's gap to get to the touchdown line. It really is awesome. I hope and wish we can play a game next class (Friday) as well. 

November 14, 2011

          Today, the report cards are out. It may be out days ago but I saw it today. I consider my grade okay since I have an older brother who excels at a lot of subjects and by that, it means "a lot" of subjects. Well, since the grades are out, I could see what grades I would want and need to improved. I think that there are no grades that are like seriously in need of improvement but I would like to improve certain subjects because of my own will. I would want to improve my Public Speaking (Speech and Debate) grade and if you ever saw my report card, you might know why. I would also want to improve my PE grade even though it's not at all bad. I want to improve it because I think I can do better and I got that grade because I lost the volley ball game which is our midterm. There are more that I want to improve but for now, that's it. 
          My brother's going to Singapore tomorrow because of MUN. He's lucky. He's going to Singapore, then he's going to Japan to snowboard for winter break( my mom asked whether I would like to go but I don't want to because I don't like being on mountains...it brings back memories of what happened on the Alps this summer and not only because of that), and he's going to the graduation trip to Bali (I think). Lucky~Lucky~Lucky...Also, he will be going to America soon...I hope it's not too soon because life at home will be boring with two....I was about to type old but then, I think that calling your parents old isn't a so good idea so I will type....life at home will be boring with only two "grown ups".

November 13, 2011

          Homework needs time to finish but practicing violin and piano also needs time. These past weeks are a total mess! First, there's the competition coming up so I got to practice more but then, there's homework. Normally, when an assignment is assigned and it isn't due until the next week, I would still finish it within the following day or two. But then, when you have to practice violin and piano more, you haven't got that much time. So, this weekend is also a total mess because of all the homework that is piled up in front of me. I finished most of them and I am glad of that because it takes off a huge weight on my shoulders. The homework left that is due this following week are the movie essay due tomorrow, I am going to work on it right now, the outline of The Fall of the House of Poe, study for History test on Tuesday, Spanish test on Wednesday, Science test on Thursday, Expository Writing's Communications Book pages 48 and 50 and finally Wordly Wise. I have finished a lot today since I didn't have time to do any yesterday because I first practiced piano and violin in the morning, then went to Taipei. I'm glad the loads are off my shoulders once again but then, I would be waiting for the next weeks to pile up on my shoulders for the next weekend!

November 10, 2011

          Today is a Thursday and we were suppose to have clubs but instead, we got to watch a movie. The movie was pretty interesting but I would so much rather to have clubs, where I get to play sports with my friends. Watching the movie and all that was fine but as I said, I would rather have clubs. However, one thing that was not fine while watching the movie is the essay we have to write in result to the movie. We need to write a one and a half paged long essay. Tomorrow, we are going to have PE but I wonder whether it will rain and whether we will get to play flag football or not. I really hope we can play flag football. I hate it when it keeps raining and ruining my Thursdays and Fridays where I get to go out and play...

November 9, 2011

          I feel nervous because of the competition even though it is less than a month away. Today, they choose the piece from the three pieces and for violin, we got the piece Etude No 29, composed by  Fiorillo. That song was the second hardest out of all three pieces for me. As for piano, they choose February, composed by  Tchaikovsky. Since the piano competition have 65 people, we are going to have two parts. The first part is where we play the piece they choose and they will choose 12 people that they think are the best and the 12 people can get the chance to play the song they choose by themselves. 65 people and they can only choose 12!!! That's really hard. I heard from my mom that when my oldest brother was in elemantary, he had that for violin and he didn't make it into the finals. I hope I does. As for violin, there are less people but still, there are 36 people. However, we won't have to compete for two parts. We just go on stage and play the two pieces and wait for the result. I really hope I make it well and alive. My brother, Ben Lee, won like 6th place when he was in 8th grade, competiting violin against 7, 8, 9th graders, according to my mom. That is pretty, really, awesome! I feel lucky for my brother again. This year, he is still competiting for viola, and guess how much people does he have in his group? 1 and that's himself!!! Out of our school, there are four people attending the competition. My brother attending the viola competition, I attending the piano and violin, Kevin Chien attending the violin (I think...but not for sure), and a high school person competiting in piano. 

November 8, 2011

          Today, it was raining which is what I kind of expected since yesterday was also raining. But, I was sad that it was raining because today have PE class. I was late today by a tiny bit but still, I am late. Then, later on in the day, we had PE class. However, Mr.Li is sick so we had Mr. Williamson as the substitute teacher. We went up and we voted whether we should have PE or head downstairs for free time. The majority is to have PE but then, we couldn't get through the gate because there is a lock and the key doesn't fit! That sucks! Nevermind that. We went down and the class hanged around at the auditorium. Then, Joseph, Clement, Samuel, Sean, and I head toward Dr. Porter's room where we get to play board games. Joseph played chess with Clement while I play the Chinese kind of chess with Sean. I would have won if Sean didn't quit. Then, we played another game that I don't know the name off. Later, Sean went over and played chess with Joseph while I play five in the row with Dr. Porter. I beat him two games in a row out of two games! I suppose I am not bad at it! Then, I played Chinese chess with him but we didn't get to finish because it was time for the next class. Getting to play board games are fun but I would prefer PE because it is much more fun! (That is an opinion)

November 7, 2011

          Today, nothing much happened. The weather is a bit unusual. It's now November and it's still hot hot hot!!! But today, it's a bit cooler in the afternoon and it also rained. I really hope it doesn't rain tomorrow because tomorrow have PE and I like PE since we are playing flag football. I like flag football. It's interesting. However, I think it's going to be really dangerous. Before we even start playing flag football, Eve jammed two of her fingers while trying to catch the football. I kind of jammed my right thumb but it still can type, play piano and violin just fine. Also, while trying to block Sam from getting the football during the practice, I tripped over his leg and got a bruise on my knee. So as you can see, we haven't even get to play a real game and people are hurting themselves! There is one thing to be happy about and that is we are playing "flag football". 
          Also, today, when I woke up, I heard my mother telling my father that she spotted another rat on our stick rat board. She said that after she saw a mouse yesterday, she left a sticky board outside again and today, she caught another rat. However, the rat this time is much smaller, according to her. I wish we don't have any rats at our house. 

November 6, 2011

         The competition is coming closer now. It is less than a month away. We have to play four pieces. The first piece is the piece that we, the competitors, get to choose. As for the other three songs, it is songs that the music judges choose and on next Tuesday, they will pick one song out of the three songs to be played during the competition. It sucks and I suck. Before the competition, I play the piano and violin, each one hours per day. Now, the competition is coming close and my violin is still pretty sucky so I play one and a half hour for my violin and half an hour for my piano. However, today, my mother told me that it's getting close so I have to bring my violin home from my mom's office and play it at home with my brother beside me correcting my mistakes. Other than that, there's not much different from today and all the other Sundays of my life. Oh, there is one difference. Before dinner, while my mom is cooking, she went out the backyard to get some stuff and she spotted another rat!!! RATS ATTACK!!! We caught one small rat. Now, there's a bigger rat outside. At least, it's not inside. That is certainly one thing out of plenty nasty things to be happy about.   =D

November 3, 2011

          Do you think parents are weird? I think they are...Today, while I am practicing violin at my mom's office, I heard her say good job to a student. Then, I thought about the last time she said good job to me. I could not remember the last time she said good job. I thought whether I could count the times she said good job to me before and I think I can be able to count the times with my fingers. *Sigh...Have you ever thought of running away? I have thought about that for a lot of times because of several reasons. One of the reasons is because in novels, running away seems so cool and interesting. *Sigh again...I wonder where I will run to if I ever run away. If I live in the rural, country side, it would be far more likely than doing it where I live. *Sigh once again...I just realized that there's so much homework due tomorrow. I got to go do...cya

November 2, 2011

          Today, I am watching Hunter X Hunter from 7 till 8 because I just can't help myself mostly because of two reasons. The first one is because I really enjoy this Japanese Anime and it is so interesting. The second reason is because today, is probably the last day of it's last episode that was filmed. This anime was from a comic but then, it became an anime and it filmed but it never got finished. I hope the director or whoever that is making the anime will continue doing it. And it sort of is. Samuel told me that people in Japan renewed this anime by refilming everything, so the characters looks a bit different and it is more bright and colorful.


This is a link of that anime and I found english subtitles for it...However, this link of this anime is really old and it's not the one i'm watching...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyNZ3znkDKM&feature=related


I found this link later on, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evaO2x5miT8 this is the link I watch on TV except that it's in chinese...this is newer than the link above...

November 1, 2011

          Today is finally November 1 in Taiwan. Guess what special day is November 1? Nothing...expect that we had two midterm tests, English and History, and we had a PE test. First off, the English test is kind of easy with some trick questions and I did study but most of what I studied did not appear on the test. I studied Rikki-Tikki, Three Skeleton Key, The Ruum, Eeking out a Life and that's basically it. The test tested some materials that I haven't read in a while, including Here Be Dragons. As for the History midterm, I thought it was really easy but then, I didn't do so well on it...Finally, there's the PE test. We have to do push ups, sit ups, digging, pull ups, run three laps, and run back and forth. Out of all those, we did sit ups first. I did improve but I forgot what's the number. Then, we did push ups. I think I went down for this. I did 33 and I thought that was a lot until I saw the others. Then, pull ups, I still manage to do the most pull ups, which is some number in the ten digits ( I forgot what it was). Then, we ran back and forth. Throughout the three PE tests, I have ran 14 times and this time, I managed to reach almost 15. I got to the other side and while I am bending down to touch the floor, Mr.Li blew on the whistle, so still, I did 14... Then, we ran three laps across the street at the part. That is the most trying one of all. All three laps took me 3 minutes and 15 seconds. Throughout the three tests, I managed between 3 minutes and 20 seconds....so I suppose, that's not that bad.