February 29, 2012

          Today is a four year a turn February 29 and I'm not celebrating it. I didn't plan to celebrate it and today turned out to be a not so good day after all. Something happened to my gmail account and I seriously dumb and I am being serious. I don't read the instructions at all or the text above that I should really really really read. I am experimenting some things would my Gmail and I changed my password. After the experiment, I tried changing it back but it doesn't allow me!!!!!!!! Then, I spotted the text above. It said "Note: you can't reuse your old password once you change it!" I didn't read that at all and now, I ended up having to choose a new password again. It sucked! That rule sucked! I suck....! I should always read instructions before I do things. I made a very bad mistake and from now on, I should always read instructions. I really wish I come up with a new password that is good and awesome like the first one that I won't end up forgetting. I often forget my passwords. 

P.S. I wonder how many times I have to tell what the homework is for each day of the week for a schoolweek. I bet it's more than 10 times! It would be interesting if I start counting. :)

February 28, 2012

          For some days during the whole month, I often think about the idea of whether this day that I'm going through now have passed before. What I mean is....for some time, I feel as if I've been through this day before because of what we are talking about, or what I am seeing, or what I am doing. It is hard to express what I mean. I just feel as if I've been through this day because of what I'm doing now, what I'm hearing now, and just my feelings. For example, today, during English class, everything seemed so familiar. During class, I'm sitting down in my chair. Then, I saw my brother walk past. He knows I have English class now and I know he have free time, meaning he's being a Teacher's Assistance, and when he walks past and I saw him, I smile and he smiles. It's pretty interesting. This event happened several times before. Also, today, we talked about the SAT stuff with Mr.Dahl which we talked about before and the day seemed to be another day from the past even though I'm positive that this day did not past before. Also, the idea of playing violin and piano everyday things to affect how I feel about this day as well. While playing piano or violin, the thoughts often come back. It is very interesting.

February 27, 2012

          We had a three day long break and it was pretty awesome. My family went back to Tainan again as usual. I enjoy going back to Tainan and this time, I broke my record. Last time, I ran for 3 minutes 12 laps. This time, I ran for 6 minutes and 40 seconds and 20 laps. I broke my record but I didn't improve...My mom and my oldest and I also went to Cavesbook in Tainan and that bookstore is huge compared to the one in Hsinchu. It have like 4 floors full of books, some English and some Chinese. My brother told me to search a book called The Temporal Void and I found it and bought it. I went around searching for books and normally, I would buy a whole lot of them but I didn't buy even one single book. I suppose that the books I'm waiting for right now is still not published. Also, on the three hour drive there and back, I tried memorizing as much elements from the periodic table as possible because I'm trying to beat both my brother's records and also, Ms.Liu is giving as bonus for the amount we memorized. I can memorize a couple and it's pretty interesting. I enjoy the ride there but I totally hated the drive back. Just 40 minutes before we reach Hsinchu, I decided to take a nice little nap but my brother wouldn't leave me in peace! He kept on bothering me! He pulled my hair, poked me, tickled me, whisper in my ear, shaking his leg which caused the seat to move, and doing all kind of weird stuff. I really want to blast his head off even now as I'm typing this journal! Well, I'm glad I'm home.

February 23, 2o12

          These days, I'm jump roping with a jump rope and it's fun. I'm trying to jump as much doubles in a row as possible. What I call a double is to jump up in the air and turn the rope around twice. So with one jump, you will have two turns done. Yesterday, I tried, I did four doubles at most and my position is very ugly. I'm going to try to change my position and try to jump as many as 10 doubles. I hope I can reach my goal. Today, I felt so tired even though I slept early these days. I hate it when I am sleeping and I slept for 1 or 2 hours in a row and no one woke me up while everyone else was working. I also hate it when I am sleeping and I get waken up right after I fell asleep because I feel even more tired. I also hate it when my brother wakes me up. He starts hitting me, tickling me, and doing all those weird stuff that is super annoying! Well, I get to wake up even though I don't want to wake up so soon. I do hate a lot of things when it comes to sleep. 

February 22, 2012

          Today, I thought about the things and subjects I like in school and I realized that what I like is what I'm good at. For example, I like PE and I'm pretty good at it and I like Science as well and I think I'm okay at it. It's same with my friends. Then, I tried and tried to think of something that I like that I'm not good at it and my brain nearly exploded! It's so hard. Whenever I come up with an idea, I realized that I like it. But after thinking for a long time, I realized that I do like something that I'm not good at. I like music but I'm not really good at it compared to my family and other people who've learned as long as I had. Well, nevermind...Today, we had Public Speaking and I did okay presenting my poem. Soon after, Joseph presented his poem and everyone was laughing so hard. His poem is as simple as pie. It is something like this: Sad is lonely. Sad is unhappy. Sad is blah blah blah and so on. Mr.Joubert allowed him to do this poem because you need a lot of emotions and Joseph did put interesting emotions into it. It's very funny. Then, while lining up in lunch, Kevin Kao looked at Joseph and said "You look tired". Then, Joseph said "I'm always tired". I find that funny. Do you?

February 21, 2012

          For a lot of days these days, I feel like a homework machine who tells my classmates today's homework. Clement asked me whether it's okay if I email him the homework while he's out on vacation and I said sure. I don't mind helping. Howard often also ask me to email him homework from some subjects especially Math and English not that I mind, which I don't. Then, on Skype, Joseph knows the Spanish homework but he don't know how to do the vocab cards so I end up telling him how to do and ended up sharing screen so he can see. Oh and also, Eve. I skype her homework as well which I just copy and paste from the email I'm about to email Clement. It's interesting how skype is used as a verb. I wonder whether that's correct grammar or not. I hope it is... :P.....I wish we have more PE classes a week. I wish for so many things that I know I should stop wishing but yet, I'm still wishing. I find my brain so interesting. For tomorrow, I'm memorizing a poem that I've been memorizing for two days and still can't remember and I opened my science textbook to look at the periodic table and within some time, I memorized 14 elements in order and there initials but not the mass number just yet. I think memorizing these things are easier and by these things, I mean numbers and stuff like that. For example, I can remember Pi, 3.1415926535..... for a lot of digits but not as much as my brother and I can't even remember a simple poem! Yikes...

February 20, 2012

          Today, three people are missing from our class. Eve is sick. Clement is visiting China and I don't know where Peter is. I am glad school is starting again. I think I tend to like school days better than weekends. I don't know why. There is a homework due on Wednesday for Speech and Debate and for the homework, we have to memorize a poem we selected. I selected a poem I like from the internet and I just can't memorize it. I am not very good at memorizing things. For me, I find memorizing something from Science easier than memorizing text and vocab from English because in Science, when I understand why or how the things came to be what it is now, I remember it. But English, it's different. I hope I get to finish memorizing the poem before Wednesday. I shouldn't say I hope because I have to memorize it before Wednesday. =D Also, I found a website that can make letters into very cool looks. For example,  ˙punoᴚɐ ʇxǝʇ dıןɟ uɐɔ noʎ (You can flip text around) and make text look really cool:  

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It's pretty awesome

February 19, 2012

          A couple of days ago, I mentioned that our TV recovered with no reason and it died out with no reason and it stayed dead all this week. I really dislike that! I really hope it is going to get fixed some time this week. Next week, Saturday through Monday, my family might head back to Tainan to visit my family. Also, I went to the bookstore today that barely sold any English books but thanks to that, I found another book that the author of The Invention of Hugo Cabret wrote. It is called Wonder Strucks. I really like The Invention of Hugo Cabret because it is unlike most books I've read and not only that. When I read most novels, I read it once and I won't touch nor open it again to read it a second time. However, in The Invention of Hugo Cabret, I read it like at least 6 or 7 times and each time, I have a different feeling. I really want to get the book Wonder Strucks. Also, recently, the movie of The Invention of Hugo Cabret is made recently. I don't know whether I want to go watch that movie but even if I do, I probably won't go and watch it. I am glad that there are weekends so that I can finish the homework due next week and have a simple and quite and calm week.

February 16, 2012

          These days, I'm so fond of the music from a movie called Amelie. I've watched the movie when I was really young and I remember absolutely nothing from it but these days, my dad play it while I head to school. My dad downloaded but a while ago, my oldest brother brought a CD that is full of the songs from the movie and I took it away from his room and play it in my own room when I go to bed. So, I listen to the music on my way to school and when I'm sleeping and sometimes, I listen to it when I'm using my computer like now. I find the music really different and interesting and exciting. When I'm listening to the music, I feel as if I'm into some mischievous adventure. Also, this music uses unusual instruments and in some music, the beginning have sounds of a typewriter or something clicking. It's really interesting. This music just brings a different feeling to me when I'm listening to it. Maybe it is because when I'm young, I watched it once and my brain stored the music into my brain and when I listen to the music, I feel the sense of being 4 or 5 years old again, that was a guess, I do not know why it makes me feel different. I really want to rewatch the movie sometimes. The movie is called Amelie and this is a link of one of the music that I like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaBcs0NEc6w

Febraury 15, 2012

          Today, something that I find interesting happened in school. Sam and Dylan are having an argument about who is normal and who is weird and when i walked past them, Sam raised his hand and threw an imaginary ball at me and so, my first reaction is to raise my hand and pretend to catch it. And, I did the same to a lot more people. The people who raised their hand and tried to catch the invisible ball are me, Sam, Ms.Monica, Mr.Carlos, and Howard and maybe some other people that I'm not too sure about. The other people who just ignored the ball and continued working on their stuff are Dylan, Joseph, Willis, Eve, and maybe Kathy. There is one exception. When I saw Ms.Liu coming down the hallway, I said "Catch, Ms.Liu" and I made an action of throwing a ball toward her. Then guess what did she do? She turned her head around as if I really threw a ball. It's pretty funny. Then, during Spanish, I did the same to Mr.Carlos and then, he pretended to catch the ball. So, I turned to Dylan and said that we, the people who catches imaginary balls are normal and they are not. And then, Mr.Carlos started laughing and said that me and him are the not normal people :D. I wonder whether there will be more people just ignoring it or more people that will catch the imaginary ball of I pretended to throw.

February 14, 2012

          Today is Valentines Day and our whole class have to stay after school because all of us got at least 1 question wrong on the reading check. I don't like staying after school because it creates trouble for whoever is picking me up. On everyday of the school week except for Tuesday, my mom's kindergarten's school bus comes and picks me up and I normally have to be on time, between 3:10~3:15 because she needs to pick up other students later on, so if I'm about 10 to 20 minutes late, she might not be able to pick me up and things get all complicated. Well, I am very, no, super happy that I only got one wrong because I only get to stay 10 minutes. Well, after 10 minutes, I head down where I spotted my mother chatting to Howard's mother. That took quite a while. By the time, we are speeding down the Kuang-Fu Road, it's 4 o'clock already. I can be able to have 3 questions wrong and still be waiting for my mother. Well, from now on, I should just read more carefully and beware!! Also, our television just popped back to life. Another thing that happened today is that my oldest brother went back to college today since school is starting next Monday for him and unlucky, he didn't pass the motorcycle test stuff so that he can ride the motorcycle.

February 13, 2012

          My TV broke down a few days ago and it sucked totally! In my opinion, I think I rely more on the TV than on my computer, which for most people, is the opposite. My family's TV some how lost it's connection and it couldn't function anymore! Every single channel is black and white and sometimes, red, green, and blue, the three major color stuff. It's so boring during the weekend without a TV. Normally, when I eat dinner and lunch, I eat it while watching the TV. But now, there's no TV which means that I have to eat with the dinning table with my family and hear them blahing about stuff. Then, at night, we normally sit out in the living room as a family and watch movies on HBO, Star Movies, and movies from other channels but most times, we've watched the movie that is playing at 9, so we often go to the second floor and watch from the projector. But these days, I get a headache from watching from the projector so I don't go upstairs and watch these days and without a television is kind of driving my times at home boring! I hope that it get fixed soon. The other thing that sucked is when I am watching a series of cartoon or anime and then, I can't continue watching it! Let's just hope it get fixed soon.

February 12, 2012

          I like having an older brother and I don't think I will mind having two or more older brothers. It's interesting to have a brother who does weird thing such as memorizing random numbers to the hundreds place and now, he's in 12th grade and he can make games through the java stuff and I get to play his game. He made a maze with three levels: easy, medium, and hard. The easy level is where you just try to go to the end without having a ghost catch you. The medium level is harder because it have two ghosts. However, the hardest level is much harder because you need to collect two keys in order to reach the end. There are also other games he made. There is one where there are square blocks and you have to memorize it. The first level have is a two times two square which you need to memorize which two squares have a picture on them. The second level have more squares and more objects you have to memorize. It's pretty fun. Then, there's also a typing game just to see how fast you can type abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. It's also fun. Then, there's tic tac toe, and a game called snake where you move around trying to eat tiny circles and the snake gets longer. Recently, he tried to make Tetris but I don't know whether that's successful or not so far.

February 9, 2012

          Today is Science Fair and it's quite interesting. I saw a lot of interesting posters as well as interesting topics. Out of the middle school topics, I like Clement's the best because I think it's very interesting. Who would ever think of a topic where you need to talk to plants!? It is interesting. I also saw an interesting High School poster about people's age and their short term memory. I find that poster also interesting. Then, there is my brother's poster. I like his topic pretty much but I don't really understand his poster since I think it's complicated. Right before school ends, the teachers announced the winners of Science Fair. Sean Hu won first place for middle school while I won second place and Howard and Dylan won third place. Also, my brother won first place. It is an interesting day and it still will be even if I didn't win second place because I learned a lot of cool stuff and also, I had a lot of fun playing my sticky tag. It also was an interesting day because while we are sitting in the cafeteria, waiting for the results, Eve and I played some fun games...

February 8, 2012

          Today is February and tomorrow is Science Fair. I'm not worried or nervous. I find Science Fair annoying because it's hard to come up with a topic that is interesting and it's annoying to make a poster...however, that's my opinion. Today, while I am practicing piano, a thought went through my head. The thought was the idea of how my family (not just my parents and my brothers) was all music related. It's quite interesting. My mom is a piano teacher and my brothers and I all play or used to play the piano and the violin. My mom's brother (my uncle) is a violin teacher and he also plays all those weird instruments that's related to the Haka culture. My mom's oldest brother plays the weird instruments as well. My mom's oldest brother's oldest daughter teaches the flute, the recorder, the piano and I've heard that she once played the cello. My mom's oldest brother's second daughter also teaches the piano and the recorder. My mom's brother's oldest son teaches the violin and piano and my mom's brother's second son plays the piano. It's all so...musical related.....

February 7, 2012

          Today is my birthday and it's not the best birthday I've had...To tell the truth, I feel as if it is the worst birthday ever. First of all, my brother is sick and yesterday at 10, he went to the doctor but they're all closed so he went to the hospital. He kept throwing up non-stop and he keeps shaking because he's cold and now matter how much he wear, he is still shaking. He can't eat much especially because of that. He stayed overnight at the hospital. The second thing of all is it rained so hard today. My father drove me to school and he dropped me off so that I need to cross the road since he is going to the hospital to pick up my mom and my brother. So, I had to cross the road in the rain...I got my socks wet and my pants and my bag wet. It sucked! Because it rained, we don't have PE. Which also sucked. I kept myself mysterious until lunch. Haha...No one knew it's my birthday but then, I told Eve and Kathy during lunch and it spread around the class. Then, there's more....However, I don't really care about birthdays now...because my definition for birthday is that you are one year older than the year before. And, I don't find it at all interesting that I'm getting older which means that people will expect me to act all grown up. Also, people are aging every second so why not celebrate every single second of your life...or why not celebrate every half a year..So, I will have a birthday when I'm 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 years old and so on...And by the way, that's my opinion.

February 6, 2012

          Have you ever sat in a car while waiting for the driver to finish parking? I really hate sitting in my mother's car while she parks. To be honest with you, she's not a very good parker compared to my father. However, today, my mother told me to go outside to assist my oldest brother park the car into it's place. My brother is 18 last September so he's a new driver on the road and Oh My God, by watching him park the car, I think I can do a much better job than he did. He just parks so badly! He needs to park at least 3 or 4 times to get the car into the parking space. And by standing by the side and watching the car wheels turn and stuff, I really think i can do a much better job than he did. Let's just wait until I'm 18 and see whether I'll be better than he did. I hope I does because if I suck more than he does and I'm reading this journal in the future, I will feel......

Science Fair really is closing in and tomorrow, we're going to take a fitness test. Normally, I feel horrible about fitness tests but this time, I am really going to try to break my own record. This time, I want to run 15 shuttle runs and for the 3 lap stuff, I'm going to try to make it under 3 minutes. I hope I can make it! And also because tomorrow is my birthday, it makes me want to break my own record because my breaking the record and not staying the same, this birthday will stand out. Haha...

February 5, 2012

          Today is February 5, 2012 and tomorrow is February 6, 2012 and the day after tomorrow is February 7, 2012. February 7 is my birthday...Yikes...I'm getting older...People are getting older every single second but they don't feel it and when a year passed and they are exactly one year older than the year before, they won't realize it expect for the fact of "It's my Birthday". I don't think I explained it very well. In simpler words, people celebrate their birthdays because they are exactly one year older but they get older every single second, minute, and hour..*Sigh...On February, 9, 2012, it is Science Fair. I am pretty sure that I could finish everything by then but I would need to work on it. My Science Fair project is based on gambling and the possibilities, combinations, and expectation values. It's complicated but once my brother explained everything to me, it is as clear as crystal. Even though it is very clear, it's hard to explain. I don't know how to explain it in English well because my brother explained it to me in Chinese which is the way I remembered it. Well, nevermind about Science Fair.

February 2, 2o12

          As a fan of every week's Thursday from the beginning of the year till now because of clubs, I am disappointed once again...I am no longer in sports club and I'm sad. I liked sports club a lot. I joined the High School Musical even though I'm not in High School and I didn't join the Tuesday after school orchestra. Ms. Ivy asked me to join orchestra for club and I accepted it. I want to help out so I agreed. There is one great point about joining orchestra that I've discovered from last year. Last year, the musical was Guys and Dolls and it is performed in Chin-da's auditorium. However, before the performance, the orchestra and the actors went to the auditorium for practice everyday and it was fun. When we are not practicing, me and Jo and Howard and Kevin played tag in the auditorium. But after some time, Howard and Kevin didn't want to play anymore so Jo and I decided to explore the place. It was awesome! We knew basically every staircase, every hallway, and it is fun especially when we try to hide from people's view. We don't want to get yelled at. I hope this year, it is not in Chin-da's auditorium because that place is explored completely. I hope it is in a new different auditorium where we can explore once again. However, if it is in Chin-da's auditorium, we will still be able to find something fun to do.

February 1, 2012

          Today is the first day of February. I look forward to February because my birthday's in February. However, I also don't look forward to it because Science Fair is a couple days after my birthday which sucks. Well, Happy February. I don't dislike Science Fair. But I don't look forward to it especially when I barely started anything yet. Well, I started the experiment and finished typing some stuff but that's all I've got and Science Fair's a week from now! Not only that, I don't know how I'm going to design my poster and also, tomorrow, there's new clubs!...Which kind of sucks because my club is orchestra also known as High School Musical. Yep..no more sport club to look forward to. Well, I'll see how tomorrow will turn out.