Not So Random Quotes

I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming. -- Mike Hedberg (1968-2005)

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Busy Week

Mmm, on Saturday, I bummed out. Which probably wasn't a good idea considering it made my Sunday and Monday so much harder.

On Sunday, I woke up, ate lunch, then went to Walmart to buy all my supplies for the poster and some for the bridge, and stuff for the Psychology project.

Then, I stayed at home and checked out designs and everything, going to Davis at 4 to do the Psych project. It was pretty funny.

Basically, we had regular colored cardstock and cut it into 4 identical squares of each primary color. Then we lined them up and got people from the library and told them that one of each color was different and that this was for an art design project to see how sensitive some people are to color according to age. Well, we had an experimental and a control group.

The experimental group was to be told that there was one different and to pick it out. So they have a 'self-fulfilling prophecy' [yes, thats actually what they call it] and expect one of them to be different. In effect, they trick themselves into seeing a tint or a shade.

The control group was to be told just to pick out the one that was different. Not that there was a different one. Just this phrase would be our independent variable.

Basically what happened was that everyone in the experimental group chose something and said that one of each was diff, most without questioning. Almost everyone in the control group questioned whether there was a difference or not.

Kinda boring, but kinda interesting.

Then, I came home and procratinated a bit more on the physics thing. After a while, a guy named Davey, my parents' college friend [the one that taught my mom english. He did a crappy job -.-] came over for dinner cause he had just flown in from like, NY or something. Apres much talking with him, we talked about the bridge and he suggested the design that everyone was doing. So, yeah. I went upstairs, procrastinated a bit more, then did it. Of course, i messed up 3-4 times and had to completely redo it. So I finished at 3 AM after much procrastination.

Today, I went to school [late cause my mom couldn't find the remote to close the garage door -.-] and regular day. Did shitty on my Pre-Cal Test that we got back today. Introduction to movie project in english. Physics was cool and the light demos were pretty interesting. Shimeng couldn't see any of the optical illusions tho. How pathetic ;p

Apush, we worked on the class project thing. our class's is like... bridge to the present or something about americanization. Mmm... french.... Devoir quiz tomorrow.

Hokay, heres where the fun part begins. I get out, find my mom, and she drives me to.... KD. Then I try to take the diagnostic ACT test that i missed on sunday [sorry ryan] and tried to take that 4 hour test in... 2 hours. Of course, that didn't work out very well and halfway through, i started filling out random answers, haha. Soo...i basically got a 28 on that... pathetic? yes.

Anyways, i was late for the french movie thing... and what a crappy movie it was. Really lame, but.... wait. There are no buts. It was just plain lame... Nvm then -.-;;

Came home at like 9:30 and has been enjoying my free time ever since

Tomorrow is gonna be hell tho.

Art project stuff in the morn. Precal homework to do. Senior Registration thingy during english. God knows whats happening during physics. Psych TEST. Apush... no idea. French QUIZ.

Then KD at night. Yay. Then i have to finish my prose and everything.... I think im losing circulation....

Dying... Dying



Dead.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I'm married to her brother.

On saturday, I didn't do too much. Just kinda had fun sleeping, then played some games (if qRO means something to you, then play with me sometime), then read a bit. A really relaxed day. Really nice and relaxed. I need a break from life sometimes.

On sunday, I woke up really late and didnt go downstairs till noon. Then mom and dad made me go to Karen Dillards of which I arrived at, did 30 minutes or so of vocabulary (KD's vocab program doesn't help at all. Its uber gay), crashed in to Ryan while wandering around (Jessica didn't pick up her cell phone when i called her), and skipped with him.

We went to Movies 10 (During which time jessica called back and used homework and the bridge project as an excuse to not save us from KD.... non-asian) and looked around. Bought some tickets to Stranger than Fiction and found ourselves with wayyy too much time on our hands. So, by my brilliant idea, we walked to Haggard Library and crashed into Li (o.o is that how you spell his name? Li... Lee...I should know this... i sat across from him during chemistry last year for like twelve weeks.... oh shiz)

Afterwards, Li (I'm going to call him that) borrowed some books and fervently begged to go to KD to see who was there (the place we had just escaped from). Well, we got into his car (scarily crappy car) which was parked funky and he drove us there (that scared me to death). Talking to a couple people, I bumped into Rosy and glared at her for breaking our plans. With a more favorable farewell, Li, Ryan, and me went to movies 10 to just miss the beginning of Stranger than Fiction. It was a pretty good movie. Lots of very very funny moments though. The ending was kinda disappointingly cliche, but not enough to detract from the rest of the movie (I wanna watch a regular movie where the hero dies. And not in a tragedy either. Thats too boring.)

Well, went back to KD then and kinda stayed there, talked to a random girl there.

Then, went home, made pizza, and it was a pretty nice day all in all.


Yesterday, I stayed at home sick-ish... but then my mom dragged me to Academy and she bought an elliptical or whatever its called. However, the fee for getting someone to take it home and set it up... was 80 dollars. Thats ridiculous.

Instead, we took it home and I built it. In return, I got a Wave-Master, approximately the same price as the assembling fee. It took me about 3 hours to fully build it up (who knew there were that many parts to an elliptical -.-)

So yay, a wave-master and an elliptical, i was happy.... and sicker.... I felt so crappy yesterday and started reading Invisible Man at 10:30 PM, the incesty goodness. With an insane headache, a cough, rapid sneezing, and a runny nose, I settled down to a nice book... Only to find myself 2 hours and 6 chapters later with the inability to concentrate. With 3 more chapters to go, I pretty much passed out and woke up at 5:30 and finished what was due for the quiz today. Oh yeah, I watched The Covenant on Monday night after reading Delia's review on it. My personal opinion: You suck Delia. That was the most cliched movie ever. But the six packs were hot. Mostly for girls i guess, considering all they had were pretty boys... but there were a lotta pretty boys, man. Lots of eye candy, haha. For the girls i mean... erm... I'll stop there.

In the morn, I went to the orthodontist and they checked my teeth (omfg, she kept on poking me with the wire. STOP POKING ME!). Apparently I'm getting it off in March, even thought it was supposed to be off by february :[. Ah well, I'll live.

Went to school, bombed the english quiz, bombed the apush quiz, and went to physics to find myself abandoned my thucvan and amy in the project. Sadness. So I grouped up with Kyle and Sri Kanth (most likely not happening tomorrow) and did the wave pool thingy. It was cool. Lots of arguing tho. Psychology project introduced and it sounds kinda fun. We get to experiment on you guys, muhaha. Apush, did a lot of the work with melissa... still need to finish it. What else... French was kinda boring. Lubbers loves to talk.

Came home (it was kinda cold today) and my mom made me go the elliptical to see how hard it was... So 10 minutes later, i'm still on the elliptical and was like... mom... can i stop now? She finally let me get off, so i got to go beat up my wavemaster xD

That was basically it for today. Mucho funs tho.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Sleep..

And now its midnight and I can't fall asleep... This... This has never happened before! NOO! HAVE I FINALLY REACHED MY LIMIT?! HAVE I SLEPT SO MUCH I CAN SLEEP NO MORE?! HOW CAN THIS BE?!

I guess... my only way to stop this problem... is suicide. Then I can sleep forever! Or I can stare at the wall/ceiling for another hour. Yeah. That sounds good. Hokay.









I still miss Destin.





Wednesday, January 17, 2007

SNOW DAY!

The past MLK 3-day weekend was really cool, considering... it was a 3 day weekend... and I didn't have to go to KD on saturday. Much wasting time sleeping... eating... playing games... just doing crap.

Then yesterday, I didn't go to school cause I was feeling kinda crappy. I think I got a cold on Friday when i was forced to walk from the bus stop all the way home through the god damned rain... while wearing only my French Club maroon shirt and underarmor. The underarmor made things worse. It stuck to my skin and was wet and was icky. After like 5 minutes of walking through the freezing rain... I think it affected me. So anyway, yesterday, I didn't go to school and went to sleep thinking I would have to go to school today.

Then... this morning... I was about to get ready for school after messing on the comp for like 10 minutes in the morning (and hoping to get a hot chocolate when i got to school... even though today wasnt that cold), when I decided to check facebook.

So... I was at the 'home' page and then reading through the feed thingy when I saw Scarlett's post.... SNOW DAY! I was like wtf, u kidding me? I thought she was just joking... then I looked outside... OMG! SNOW! *checked plano website*... All classes and activities cancelled. Then I went downstairs and had fun :]

Watched The Devil Wears Prada, was kinda interesting. Ate hot pot for lunch before that. All the snows melted now, but its all good. So basically, 2 days of school left for me in this week, pretty awesome.

I just went downstairs and slept most of the time haha, so I'm all rested now. God, i sleep so much now. Its like I'm scared I'm not gonna be able to sleep later, so might as well sleep now.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Besides the rant...

Hokay, now that i've calmed down a bit, I'll list down some other highlights of the day.

1. Kicking Jessica.
2. Kicking Jessica.
3. Kicking Jessica.

No, that was not a typo. I do like to kick Jessica. Its just funner. I guess chasing Kyle around was kinda fun too, but he gave up in the end. Thats not fun.

The sarcasm thing worked out kinda well, save the fact I almost slipped 32423 and had to remain silent for a good part of the day.... the random taunts from people who take advantage of me didn't help.

I also had much chocolate. Mmm.

We started that gay mask project in art. Damn u patterned masks [I like the one with the monkey-monk-man on top. I think it looks funny].

Queer psycho-professor came into class and started talking about majors.

Mmm......... chocolate.

Rant again.... Yes. About my mom.

As if yesterday's 'spat' wasnt enough, my mom pissed me off even more just a few minutes ago. I was saying "hmm... im gonna check my mail right now" and she was like "why" and of course i was like "to see if delia's sent me anything. We usually exchange emails everyday or so." and my mom was like "right now its gonna be a few days, but eventually its gonna be a few months or so and you're just gonna stop talking to each other all together"

I was like "wtf. You think I don't know that? way to be positive mom. You think i don't know that? why can't you encourage your kids once in a while?" And then she was like "i'm just telling the truth".

W...t ... f.... does she think we're stupid or something? I know this probably isnt gonna last, but way to put a damper on it. Way to encourage your kids. Dont real moms say something corny like "try your best"?

When in the world is it right for a mom to disagree with everything positive their kid says? I say that i want to try to run a marathon and she completely goes against me. I say I want to write some kind of thing and shes like "you'll never carry it through anyway". She constantly calls me too lazy to do anything.

God, I'm pissed off. Shes so immature I feel like I have a little sister attempting to be my mom. Not to mention the number of things she does just to piss me off cause shes in a good mood. The woman agitates me for her own amusement. Now i know why I'm so fucking sadistic.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Sarcasm Break

My goal tomorrow is to not be sarcastic the entire day through. Ines said that she would give me a choco bar if I made it through. I think I'm just gonna stay silent the entire day.

PMS-ing

Wow, that was the weirdest argument with my mom, ever. She basically took what I gave her for granted and didn't take care of the feather rose I got her so I was a bit upset. And when I talked to her about it she was like, wtf, why are u so upset? Maybe cauuuseee.. I spent a lotta thought into getting you that and I thought you would actually appreciate it? Now its lying in a corner, ruffled, torn, hidden from all view, and gathering dust?

And then, she starts yelling at me about being too sensitive. I'm like... dude... when you give someone something you expect them to take care of it relatively decently. Abusing it and making excuses is just stupid....

Then she told me that I was PMSing while yelling all the while. I was like, I'm not PMSing mom... Note that she was yelling at me and I was trying to be calm. And she tells me I'm PMSing.

Soo... She keeps on insisting that I'm PMSing. Then after a while of denying it I got really really pissed off and was like "MOM! CONTRARY TO YOUR BELIEF, I CAN TELL WHEN BLOOD STOPS COMING OUT OF MY VAGINA!"

And Dad looked very awkward for a while. But that shut her up at least. I don't need her bullshit after I come home from a day at school.

Wow, that pissed me off. Not only is she insensitive, she assumes that I can't even tell when I'm PMSing. Thats just stupid. I actually had a really good day today. Coming home ruined it. Maybe I should turn anti-vacation/anti-family like emo-kid. Nah, the lack of pants still bugs me.

Edit: Errr.. By today I meant yesterday =.=

Monday, January 8, 2007

Dull

When I think about things I want to write about my day, I suddenly realize how boring my everyday life is... Wow...

Friday, January 5, 2007

Recipe for the Day

Mmm... Chili Cheese Tatertots and talks about oral sex and preventing abstinence. Then the dash of a cinnamon dolce latte and mix in some school work with 4 sticks of butter.

Wrap it with strips of bacon and some deep emails exchanged with Delia.

Fry thoroughly with too much French homework and top it all of with three tubs of lard in the form of a brand new cell phone.

Surround the edges of the plate with pound cake and bake in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes along with the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Let the mixture cool for the amount of time it takes for your mother to stop crying.

What do we get?



No, thats not a semi-intelligent representation for Laura's Day, you idiot. Its kitty litter.

Thursday, January 4, 2007

After The Snow

First Day back into school.

The Art teacher introduced the color wheel which was stupid.

Precal random identity stuff.

English....... pink flamingo essay

Lunch- Christina and I went outside and Christina started skipping around happily in her yellow jacket like a moron. It scared me.

Physics- Bridge project introduced. It scares me more than christina does. (she hit me in the eye before class started)

Psych AP- Wow, brooks likes to talk. Maybe even more than Lubbers.

APUSH- Melissa's in my class now! *happy*

French AP- Alina didnt show up... how weird. Kyle and I had odd convos about what he wanted to be when he grew up. He says he likes to deceive people. I told him to be a politician.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Aik's Stupidity

"Oh.. when you said 12 o'clock.. I thought you meant midnight."

"Why the fuck would we pick you up at midnight?"

"Cause... you guys are weird like that?"

Wow.... he's stupid...

Monday, January 1, 2007

New Years

I already forgot it was New Years and 3 posts in one day, haha. Too much stuff going on I guess. Anyways, my resolutions are to:

1. Run 4-5 miles a day 4-5 times a week.
2. Get better grades in pre-cal.
3. Get my braces off by the end of March.
4. Get my driver's license.
5. Get at least a 2250 on my SATs
6. Finish my prose-work and publish it.
7. Get scholarships.
8. Go outside more often.
9. Allow myself to be more spontaneous.
10. Become really good at judo.
11. Get more friends I can consider close to me.
12. Be more confident about myself.
13. And be able to wow my winter-break friends the next time I see them.

Hope you guys have resolutions and accomplish them this year.

Destin Winter 2006 Piccies

All the stuff we took is here in this album

Destin, Florida. Winter 2006 Album



But heres a shortened summary of everything in case ur too lazy to click.




Photos
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What the asians look like on the beach, haha




Dad and Mom




My lil bro.




Me and Delia

Me looking at what delia's taking a piccy of.





Sherry, Delia, and me



Huge group piccy my dad took


The Young Adult group picture. The 12 year old in the middle wearing the orange shirt has a 6 pack :]



In this piccy, from the bottom left to bottom right is: Vince, John, Mike, Delia
The top row from left to right is: Nancy, Linda, Ellen, Sherry, Diana, and Me

Raymonds just kinda.. in the middle. Everybody loves raymond.

We'll I'll have more piccies up later when i get the mass distribution of em.

The Day After

Hokay, im ready to talk about what happened during my week at destin. The first day was basically spent lounging around waiting for pplz to come and talking with "the white guy" who complained about flights. Ellen and Nancy were delayed cause of an airline problem and came the night of the 2nd day. Mike came earlier that day and everybody rushed up to the penthouse to greet him, haha.

The first few days were spent watching movies and playing mafia, without any access to the beach. The party was on christmas night cause not enough ppl were there on the eve. Oh yeah the day before that popped up Vicky, aka the 14 yr old pratically anorexic emo-kid (she was like as tall as me and weighed... 70 lbs).

Her parents and her parent's friends told me to befriend her cause they were worried about her. Apparently the girl was going through a rebellious phase. Stupidest thing I've ever heard. Didn't like her from the start but I had already promised. So I tried to talk to her the first night, but she was stuck on her phone txting people and other crap the entire first night, refusing to play with us when we were going down to my condo.

The next day, I basically didn't see her for the entire day. Then raymond and vince came up to me and told me that they had tried to get her to come out, but that had worked in vain. Since they knew where she lived, i just followed them to 704 A and knocked on the door. Her grandparents opened the door for us and called the kid out.

I was like "I'm kidnapping you. You have no say in the matter. Come with us." and she gave excuses like "I'm tired, i don't sleep at night, you don't get it." But I kinda just glared at her the entire time and she eventually gave in and came with us.

It was kinda fun the first day cause she kept on claiming she wasn't "emo" despite the way she dressed and the excessive amount of hair in front of her eyes. So anyways, we dragged the anorexic emo-kid into our 'play' (it was decided that me and nancy would pair up to do something at the christmas party), and eventually even got raymond and vince to do it.

The rest of the details, I'm a bit too embarrassed to talk about so i'll leave that out. But we had a good time praticing our play and it was fun.

The next day, we went down to emo-kid's condo and knocked on it, but she didn't answer. We later discovered that she merely ignored us (thus pissing me off majorly). We had games that night and it was pretty fun cause DELIA showed up! :]

Well, she had the worst timing ever considering she popped in during the parent kid conversation about college that was required to be attended. Yeah.. worst timing ever. I then tried to get nancy to sit down cause she had a fever earlier and she was the only one standing. But she was stubborn so both of us just stood there.

It was soo good seeing Delia again after an entire goddamned year. I really missed her.

Anyways, i sucked at the games that night cause none of them wanted to participate. And then, we did the entire christmas song charades game in which you have to figure out the name of the song then sing 4 lines from it. It was a tie :[

That was tuesday, the day after christmas. The next few days, me and delia hung around each other a lot, doing many things together.

A while after, that game night, I tried to get emo-kid to come play with us again considering she didnt show up the entire morning. We went down to her condo and kept on knocking on the door (for more than 5 minutes), then me and delia went up, got the condo keys from her mom, then went down again and invited ourselves in.

Raymond unlocked her bedroom door so me and delia just kinda sat in there eating and watching tv (the history of playboy was on... wtf) while raymond and vince sat outside talking. She finished her shower and brushing her teeth (it was 2 PM...) and came out.

We tried to get her to go play with us on the beach, but she refused. For some reason emo-kid was pmsing that day or something and she turned really hostile. Delia got bored and left for 2 hours, coming back later.

Emo-kid and I were kinda stuck in a stubborn dead lock. I stole her cellphone and ipod cause her inability to pay attention to someone talking pissed me off majorly. I called Jessica to see how to solve the problem, but none of her advice helped even remotely. Shine a flashlight in her eyes! Make a trail of cheetos! -.- thanks jessica.

Anyways, she kinda played in her sudoku book and we were just sitting there, bored. Delia came back and started glaring with her eyes at emo-kid without saying everything. I thought it was funning so i was grinning at her and we kept on glancing back and forth, cause i guess we were kinda pissed off. Well, actually, I was smiling like no other cause thats what i do when im really pissed and feeling sadistically sarcastic. Delia was just glaring.

So I don't know exactly what sparked her but we exchanged some really hostile remarks. She kept on asking me stuffs like "Why are you doing this? Do you think you're provoking me or something? Have you no life?" and i'd just be like "its fun. I'm sadistic." and then shes like "why the fuck are you here?" and i'd be like "cause i've got the keys". Haha, that was amusing in a really sadistic way.

So anyways, vince brought donuts and icecream down earlier so we just ate. But for some reason, emo-kid stood up and walked to her room. I wasn't even aware of what exactly happened, but she slammed her door. Delia said something like "That shows you how mature you are." or some stuff like that. Lmao. Its just funny how they're the same age when one acts like they're my 4 year old bro and the other acts my age, haha.

So then emo-kid commenced to attempt to piss us off by turning up the tv really loud and delia retaliated by turning up the tv in this room really loud too. All the meanwhile i was cracking up like no other. Fun, very fun. Very fun indeed.

Well, some time elapsed and we called mike down and started up a convo with him, joking around and watching tv while emo-kid locked herself in her room. By this time, we had spent like 4 hours down here just trying to get her to go outside. We kinda got bored and left when her grandparents came back and went up to look for food.

So basically after that, we found out that emo-kid was genuinely pissed off like no other, a fact I took great pleasure in. Her mom kept coming over to apologize to me, so i had to apologize to her mom. Emo-kid didnt come out of the condo for... the next 4 days cause she was scared of crashing into me, hahaha.

Well basically, that was the dramatic event of this week. Later the whole bunch watched mr. and mrs. smith (that we didnt finish), kung fu hustle (that we slept through. Well actually, i tried to sleep but mike kept on laughing. It bugged me. Then later i almost fell asleep on diana and then delia rested on me when i was trying to sleep on the couch. I think im a bad pillow.), and then we watched that 45 minute clip of russell peters (Yo momma so fat..... daaat, when she jump fo joyyy... she got stuck!) Lmao, fun fun despite the fact we got kicked out of Mike's room later.

Okay, many walks on the beaches later(on friday some dared to venture out into the icy waves... oh yeah, and my dad chased raymond into the waves to find out if raymond had a six pack.... AND HE DOES! The only guy on the beach with a six pack is a 12 year old! HAHAH!), it was friday night and we went to the outlet mall. Well, we had watched the cooking channels before that so we were really thirsty, thus our reason for getting smoothies.

Then we kinda bugged raymond and vince who were following us (john and mike had gone off in the group, diana and sherry were in a group, and raymond, vince, delia, and i were in a group). I kinda followed delia into a couple of stores and looked around.

In pacsun, we had found out that mike and john had separated cause for one, mike couldnt find john, and for 2, he didnt want to cause john took as much time as a girl to choose out clothes (and takes 2 hours to shower...). So mike took raymond and vince with him, and they went off. Me and delia tried out some stuff, but didnt really buy anything and walked off.

We returned to the penthouse with john's mom and vicky's mom (emo-kid still hadnt come out of her room). After we ate, there were games again and ellen and nancy made drinks (some alcoholic, some not). We played some riddle games, and it was fun at times (what is significant about the number 854917632? What travels around the world but only stays in a corner?)

The next morning, Linda and Diana had left pretty early and John left a little after them. Ellen and Nancy were to stay till 2 PM considering they lived only like.. 5 or 6 hours away.

Before we had gone to the mall, delias dad had agreed to stay till 5 PM the next day before leaving for home, so we were happy we'd have an entire day to do stuff. However, on saturday morning, he said that they were leaving immediately due to 'bad weather' -.-

Delia was really really pissed off and my mom and dad tried to convince him to change his mind, but they left before noon and that sucked. There she goes for another year.

I stayed a while after, played some short games of mafia (they kept on getting the mafia right...), ate lunch, then left afterwards. And that was basically the end of my short week at destin. I got back yesterday around 2. I bought many a stuff at Beach Access that week and got some souvenirs, so thats all good. Right now, a whole nother year is too hard to bear, but i guess i'll deal with it. Back to schoolwork.

I have photos uploaded and i'll post em later.