04/30/2012

Today, there's nothing really special that happened actually, which is just another usual thing. One happy thing that happened would be how I finished two tests today and I believe that I've did a good job on both. On the English test, I got really lucky and guessed many questions correctly, though there were still questions that I got wrong that I thought it's supposed to be right. I'm pretty satisfied with the history test too, since I think at most I'll only get 3 wrong, unless the teacher isn't satisfied with my other answers that I think are perfectly fine. Another thing that I'm happy about is how Annie and I bought two pairs of really super duper cute earrings that is very unique and hard to find. The annoying thing is that I have to pay the money by ATM or by the post office, which is really hard for us because we don't have any bank accounts. Also, we can't get the things we ordered in 7-11. Instead, we have to go to Family Mart, and it took us almost half an hour to find a Family Mart that we can go to together. It was actually just because we didnt' know how to find it, but later on, we got smart and found it. We hope that it'll be just as cute as the picture showed that it was. 

04/29/2012

Today was a totally awesome day, though I've spent so much time fooling around. Ms. Ruperez came to my house to cook Spanish food with me and Iris. Funnily, yet not surprisingly, Iris overslept and woke up at 2 o'clock. Our "appointment" was at 10:30, yet she slept to 2 o'clock. It's just really funny because it's entertaining to tease at her especially about things like this. The most important thing is that we had an amazing day because the food we cooked was amazing. But then, we cooked too much of it, and even around 7 grown ups couldn't finish it all. We cooked chicken legs, tapas, shrimp, potato omelet, mushroom and bacon, and we were planning on making salad, but then we were too full, so then decided not to, and just eat fruits. The food was absolutely amazing and we wouldn't care for more even though we were already completely stuffed. Afterwards, Annie had a lot of fun playing with my dogs and when Iris finished eating and Annie went home, Iris and I went to rent a movie and watched it together. I really enjoy spending time with her since she's a really humorous person and understands me a lot of the times. 

04/26/2012

Tomorrow, I'm going to watch the new movie "The Avengers" with my friends. In total, I think there are 10 people who are going, including me, Ivy, Annie, Callie, Kara, Quincy, Kyle, Jack and Tim. I'm pretty sure that I'll have fun since I've been waiting for this movie for months already since I saw the trailer of it a long time ago! And it's been a while since I've been watching movies with these friends! A while ago, I was watching movies with my family and with some other friends, but it's really been a while since I've been with them. I'm really looking forward to it, and also, we're pre-celebrating Ivy's 16th birthday! Honestly, I want to go to KTV and sing, but then since the birthday girl wants to go watch that movie, we shall follow her wish, and I will ask other people to go singing some other day. I really miss singing in the KTV too. The last time I went was a few months ago and I didn't really get to sing since I arrived late and left early. Also, the people that went that day, I didn't know them as well, so I couldn't sing the way I normally would. 

04/25/2012

Seriously, after 5 weeks of no swimming, you'd nearly die after you go back, even if you guys don't swim a lot that day and spend a lot of time taking pictures for the yearbook. Today, I went and now my arms are so sore and I've gotten a lot slower and it takes me so much more energy to swim the normal amount of swimming. This is really bad since we're going to have a competition against TAS, Taipei American School next month. Well, we're actually not sure about that yet because yesterday, when we asked our coach, Ms. Ruperez, about it, she said that the coach at TAS hasn't told her the exact date yet, so if he still didn't do so by yesterday, I think the event will most likely be canceled. Now, I kind of want it to be canceled because if we still have to go, I'm more than 100% sure that I'm not ready for it. Other than that I'm actually quite worried about the History test about World War Two. I'm actually really unprepared about that because of the incident that just happened, but fortunately, the teacher let me take it on Monday during my study hall period. 

04/24/2012

Tomorrow, there will be a History test, but then my mom just told me that my grandfather, who lives in Taipei, slipped in the bathroom and hurt himself quite badly and that he's now in the hospital. I'm actually typing this blog post in the car, using Hotspot to enable Internet connection to my computer. We're on the way to the hospital in Taipei to see if he's doing fine. We all hope that he's fine since it's really dangerous if old people hurt themselves like that. The thing that's making us worry more is that this isn't his first time, so it'll probably cause more harm, in addition to the old injuries. I'm actually quite worried about my History test, since I won't be having time to study tonight, and definitely not tomorrow. But then I won't have a lot of time to study for the test, which means that I won't do good, which also means that I'll have lower GPA. Last quarter, I had pretty good grades and I'm quite happy about it. I've calculated the GPA and it's 3.98 this year. I'm pretty impressed by my own work, but I still want to have high GPA for every quarter, though it's actually a difficult task. 

04/22/2012

Now, THIS is the way of enjoying life. Waking up at 11 AM in the morning, driving for one whole hour to MiaoLi, which is somewhere I actually don't know where it is, but I had fun in. We were looking at beautiful flower trees on this mountain. The whole place was around 216,000 square feet. It was humungous! And it was really beautiful inside too. We had lunch there and we chatted for a long time which we don't normally have the time to do so. And afterwards, I cam home first since I had quite a bit of homework to deal with and some tests to study for, and my parents and brother went to buy a bicycle that won't move forward and we'll put it in our living room. I don't know how to call that thing, but I know that it'll make me exercise more which will lead to me being skinnier. At night, we went to eat at a restaurant that we all like a lot but haven't been to for quite a while, and then went to watch the movie "Battleship". It's really good! And the most important thing was that the main character was smoking hot! The movie was a lot better than I thought it'd be, since only a few people suggested it to me, but then after watching it, I stayed hyper for another half hour after I got home! 

04/19/2012

In History class today, we were watching videos of World War II when the Americans dropped an atomic bomb in Japan, Germans gassing the Jews in gas chambers or putting them in working camps, and the Japanese doing biological weapons' experiments on Chinese people. The videos nearly made some girls cry since they were so violent and inhumane. In the first clip, the atomic bomb was bad because the government knew that what they were doing, bombing the city with an atomic bomb would lead to a very sad and devastating consequences, they still were doing it. For the second video, that was the most depressing since the Germans were just killing the people for no reason, just because they wanted to and wanted to benefit themselves by having free slaves that would do anything just to extend the living days of them. It was really sad since when the Germans got caught, they tried to annihilate all the evidence. The last video was almost as sad as the second one because the Chinese died in the scariest and inhumane ways. It's scary how ruthless our ancestors were back then. 

04/18/2012

I just finished a big bowl of soup and I'm so full and it's 10 o'clock at night. I know this is really random but I really don't know what to say since it's just another normal boring dull day. A good thing lately is how I've been getting a lot more sleep than I used to. I guess it's a good thing that the most important person in my life has left. When that person was still here, I barely could sleep for more than 6 hours everyday, but now, I can sleep for probably 8 hours everyday already. My physical condition, like my skin, has greatly improved. I used to have some pimples, but now, I only have one. Also, I think that sleeping more has a lot of other advantages like how i can concentrate more in class now other than focusing on keeping my eyes opened all the time. Also, when I'm exercising, I have more energy, which means that the exercising is more productive and efficient, which also means that I've been losing some more weight than I've used to which is also a good thing. And again, I'm already confused about what I'm talking about, but all I can say is that these days I've been happy though without a good reason. I guess it's still a good thing! Be happy, think positive, and enjoy life:) 

04/17/2012

Like almost every other day, today is another boring day. Nothing much happened. I guess I can talk about the spirit week. Yesterday, it was pajama day. To be honest, I didn't wear my real pajamas. I just wore some soft shorts that are comfortable to be in and wore a hoodie on top. Today, it was mismatch day, and I simply wore a skirt outside of my pants and had a scarf tied in an abnormal way. I wanted to wear different earrings, but then in the morning, I was too sleepy and got lazy to change them. Tomorrow, it's farmers day and actually I'm not sure about what to wear yet. I know that I'll have a straw hat but then the shirt is the problem i'm meeting now. And also, thursday is preppy day. But then i don't really have clothes that will make me look preppy without making me actually looking nerdy. And many people keep mixing up the definition of nerdy and preppy which is actually quite understandable, but then I wondered why the student council didn't decide on nerdy day instead in the beginning. The last day of spirit week is beach day. That's the easiest one for me, since just simply wearing shades would be good already. 

04/16/2012

Today is probably one of the earliest days that I went home since freshmen year started. I didn't know why though. Normally, I like staying at school, hanging out with friends and going out, buying food to eat. I guess it's because it was raining, so I didn't feel like going out, making myself get soaked with the rain. And since I was feeling really sleepy and I have a lot of homework to do, I decided to go home earlier and sleep so that I'll have energy to finish up the load of homework that I have. And surprisingly, I've been working a lot more efficiently than usual, other than the times of writing this blog. I keep getting distracted by music, chats, and of course, Facebook. But like the times when I'm studying for the spanish quiz tomorrow, I was really focused, though my music was still on, but I could stay focused on memorizing the vocabulary and the grammar phrases. But now, somehow, writing this blog post is something that keeps pulling my attention away from it, starting to look for new good music oh Youtube, starting to chat with random people... etc. But thankfully, I'm done with it right now!

04/15/2012

Today is one of the tightest-scheduled days for me. In the morning, I woke up at 7, which is 5 hours earlier than normal weekend days. My whole family went to the sun moon lake, which is in nantou. We went there because we were looking for the people that knew how to plant coffee. Afterwards, we didn't know where to go, and it was only 12 o'clock. We then decided to go to Taichung, to a place that was famous for their bicycle's road. There were SO many people since the weather today was really good at that time. The whole way was 12 km, and of course, we had to go both ways, totaling up to 24 km. To my brother and father, it was really a piece of cake. Normally, my mother would "die", but today, we were smart and she got this electronic one that works kind of like a motorcycle. But then since they all could go smoothly, I was the only one that was really exhausted in the end. Now, I can barely walk since my muscles are killing me and the injury I got before on my knee, dislocating my knee cap twice, is hurting really much. I hope that nothing will really happen to it, since it's spirit week next coming week!

04/12/2012

Today, there wasn't really anything special that happened. But one thing that I was happy about was how I once already gave up on having an A in Biology class this quarter since I have several assignments or quizzes that have low grades. But today after I showered, I saw my friend's status saying that her grade was ugly, so I went to check on mine again, but surprisingly, my B+ has risen back up to an A-. Although it's in the border, I think that there aren't anymore new assignments for me to worry about that might pull my grade down. And I'm really happy how there is air conditioning now in school already since before, for example, in English class, I always can't concentrate because it's too hot, and the classroom lacks oxygen. With the air conditioning turned on, I can concentrate more and the time doesn't feel like it passes that slowly anymore. Also, I'm really looking forward to getting our swim team hoodie that we're going to wear to competitions and look more united and more like a team. Other teams have their shirts or jerseys, but swim team never did have one. I heard that the design was pretty since Patrick made it, and I'm pretty sure I'll like it a lot!

04/11/2012

YAY! We already have the air conditioning turned on today at school. When I just arrived to school, I was talking to my friend, Annie, about how I think it'll still be another month to be suffering before the school were turn on the air conditioning, but ironically, after a few minutes, we started hearing the sound of a machine rumbling. At first, we couldn't believe that it was the air conditioning, but when we found out that it really was, we cheered out loud. The best part was how the air conditioning in the cafeteria is quite strong, so we wouldn't suffer as much during lunch since the lunch food is already torturing enough. At least having a nice temperature in the cafeteria would make the whole time a lot more better. At home, I want to turn it on also in the afternoon when i just get home, but then I think about how everything is getting more and more expensive these days and how polar bears probably are going to go extinct, I decide not to turn it on and just turn on the electric fan instead. Oh wow, I feel like an environmentalist! 

04/10/2012

Today, I took the Geometry and Biology test. The geometry one was okay, but the biology one was a killer. From what I've heard, someone got only 48, and it is out of 100. I was really shocked when I heard it, especially how the smart people were telling me that the test was really hard before I took it and they kept saying how I would fail it or do horribly on it. When I was doing the test, I felt really depressed especially how I felt that the questions were too detailed. I regret how I didn't ask other people what the test mainly focused on and what questions were on it if they still remember any of it. Tonight when I went to check my grades on veracross, I found out that I got a 85, which is quite good, but then when I saw how my grades have dropped from A- to B+, it made me sad for a while, but then it's good how I saw this beautiful dress online and I bought it. In fact, I bought two, the same design, but just different colors. One was blue and the other was black, and since my friend wants it too, she said that I can choose one and she'll buy the other one from me. 

04/09/2012

Today is the first day of school after spring break. To be honest, having to wake up at 6:30 again in the morning is like hell. During the break, I could sleep till 12 everyday, or at least 11. But today, when my alarm clock rang, I felt like turning it off or ignoring it and go back to sleep without being bugged by my mom to wake up. When I finally arrived at school, I realized that nothing changed. Same people, same campus, same faculties, same facilities, and of course, same amount of homework. I haven't taken my Geometry and Biology midterm since I was sick and absent when they were tested. I don't want to take the tests even though people say that I have more time to study, but to be honest, who can really study during such a rare break. I'll be taking both tests tomorrow, but I'm not really fully prepared and I don't want my grades to drop. And after such a long time of not writing consistently on this blogger, I really don't know what I'm writing about right now, and I'm just typing out whatever comes into my mind right now. It'll take some time to get back in track, and I hope that it'll be soon, since there're only two more months left of school and I'll then be a sophomore.