DON'T PANIC

well i ended up choosing a book to read, not because i found a way to find books myself, but through other people. by which i mean book reviewing blogs. and of course, since there are blogs about everything, including blogs on badly made cakes (cakewrecks.blogspot.com) to blogs about what claudia wore (from the bsc, and also whatclaudiawore.com) there would inevitably be SEVERAL blogs on books. so i chose one at slightly random, which linked me to a hilarious review of breaking dawn, and since i prefer humor to actual reviews, i ended up on this site called booksidoneread.blogspot.com.

most of the books that i can get have to be slightly a bit older, unless they are of the "in the big general public's eye" so i tend to read the slightly more popular books of our time. and i ended up reading four books this weekend, none of which were worth mentioning, and i started the time traverler's wife yesterday at like some hilariously ungodly time and finished reading it just now.

i feel like giving it a review myself! but alas, i neither have the writing time nor talent to do that without making it a total bore so i will talk a little about the book and then resume my latin studies, which i thought were going swimmingly, unlil i realized that i don't do much memorization of conjugations and only pretend to understand what's going on.

The time Traveler's Wife
(also, i am big on spoilers. sorry. it's what i do ::gangster pose:)

This book bored me a lot at times. yes i realize henry has one of the strangest problems ever, but it all felt so formulaic. like very nice, not allowing henry to have anything on him when he time travels? just made it obvious that he was not going to have a happy life due to lack of clothing and other essentials. i'm not sure if time travel would be like that, okay, probably time travel would never be to the extent that time travel is due to genes or chromosomal anomaly, but STILL it's just obvious that you're setting this up for a sad ass ending.

so if you skip a lot of the boringier paragraphs and then just got down to the nitty gritty,then it wasn't a bad book. adults books try to force so much emotion out of you when they're being all serious and theological, you feel like they're banging your head with the book and going "I WANT YOU TO FEEL SAD. NOW FEEL HAPPY ABOUT THEM BEING TOGETHER. NOW FEEL SAD BECAUSE HE IS GONE. I CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS. MUAHAHHAHAHA."

:/ i just. am sleepy due to book.
it was very sad though. not that none of the sadness wasn't predictable -rolls eyes- but i guess it did have it's merits. otherwise people wouldn't have liked this book so much right?

::goes to bed after reading boring book::

missing you all like mad. i went to orientation met some really cool people, but i know none of them can ever replace you. i've just known you guys too long. i also found out that i am an extreme introvert because at usc i am ridiculously quiet. hehhehehehe. i can't help it. there are too many people that are loud and bubbly that i need to offset them.
but it's okay because at least the architecture section is small. there are a hundred thirty eight kids there, so it's like our old class and i hope to know each and every one of them. some random really really really really crazy news. my mom wants me to get the double eyelid surgery. ayup. this means i'm going to korea in less than a week. i kind of don't want to get it but i feel like i have no choice. at times like this i wish i could just play video games till my brain gave out. which reminds me, i am stuck trying to defeat large ursula in khs. i think i need to level up a lot more because even though i think i have a LOT of health, she some how manages to kill me. it makes me very very sad. i've had to continue from the death scene several times.
OH! on another note. marya juarez or whatever her real name is, is coming back! that means firebird is coming back. there are a lot of things i've outgrown in the past six years. i haven't actually been able to read firebird for awhile, so i don't think it really matters, but one day i hope to be able to read the entire thing. i don't like closure, but sometimes it's necessary. the end of all things.
anyways, my church is really really small and there is no one my age. there are only college kids and junior high kids and elementary children. guess who i play with. anyways, one of the kids' name is charles and i feel bad for him cause he has to go to summer school all day from like 8-6 every day. he doesn't get to stay home and watch tv and play all day which is what i did when i was his age. i promised him i would try to play with him once i could drive. the unfortunate thing is i am wondering how long it's going to take for me to get my license. with korea coming up soon, i am thinking at the earliest august, which doesn't leave much hope. i'm not going to drive at usc the first year because it's just too hard.

on another note, right before orientation, all of us left in california went to debbie's timeshare in newport beach. my aunt owns one so i've been there before and it was frickin awesome. this time didn't dissapoint either. jodie invited alex, her boyfriend, and alan ooi, andy cheng, vincent and his sister ida also went. debbie's mother is an amazing health cook and we had a really really healthy breakfast, dinner, and lunch. while the boys went swimming + debbie, jodie, her bf, and i went to fashion island. :D i think jodie's the one that had lots of fun there. i was very sleepy and alex seems to not really relish shopping for clothes. we left on the 4th of july so we saw fireworks on the freeway. disneyland's fireworks outdid everyone's.

this is the first time in a long time since i've had such a stressfree summer. i duly enjoy it.

i get to do nothing, it's great. i happen to like so much free time since i got so little of it during school. it's nice to do what you like for hours on end. it does make for a boring entry though.

i forgot how dayum good everyone is on deviant art. all the good people seem to just be friends with good people until it turns into a giant hodge-podge of talented artists. a lot of them are still learning, and you can still see mistakes and stuff but there's just no hiding their talent.

it makes me kind of sad because there are so many good people, it must be near impossible for these people to find jobs. ah well. they can be content living off near worship by their fans. :D
well i would like to go to europe, but tanya hasn't finished giving me any information, like even asking her father how much it roughly estimates to. -__- silly girl.

julia and i spent all of yesterday playing. we wandered around tall mouse, where there are many uncanny amounts of i-hate-to-say-this-but- old people art everywhere. the old people are actually very good.  hee hee we saw this thing on theh wall at tallmouse. it's called quilling, a weird skill where you make art from twirling paper. it looked pretty painful, there's this metal rod that goes with the paper to help you make tight curls.



shudders. anyways, we hadn't even heard of the term before but it got much more complicated than those pretty little animals you see up there. cerritos is pretty filled with retired senior citizens that have lots of spare time.

after that, we went to the scrapbook store right next to tall mouse that is going out of business and is having this humongous sale where everything is 20% off at least. :D julia and i found some very awesome spray glitter paint that looks really amazing on paper. it's not ostentatious or gaudy, it's like spray paint with glitter in it. i wish i had some pictures to show you the fun we had with it. i got graphite and julia got some sort of copper. it was pretty pale, but the graphite came out very nicely. then julia took out her gold spray paint and we sprayed everything sprayable in her house with it. it came out not so bad. it smelled something awful, but sure made things look very gorgeous.

then i went to best buy with my father to look for cables for my computer. we accidentally bought some dvi cables instead of vga and i was wondering if you could go from vga to hdmi! and then after that, i wondered if i could hook up s-video to vga! i also have to buy audio cables, but i'm not sure if they hook up to our plasma. well, if anyone can help me because they've done this before, please tell me. -__-

i'm going to reinstall windows on my comatose computer. i didn't want to touch it cause i had so much music on there, but i think i'm just going to hurt myself and delete it. T_____T 

hi tanya this is my summer so far. i MAAAAAAAAY be seeing you in europe soon! :D end entry 2

so tanya is stuck in china, land of the censor and may be even more bored than i am! which is unlikely considering i've finished about ten books in the last FOUR DAYS of summer. wow, i am SAD. for some reason i've been falling asleep at eight ish and then waking up at ten. i am sleeping a LOT, and it's because i'm actually tired. but what am i supposed to be tired of? lying on my bed all day? playing my ds? reading?

mmhmm. my mother and i went to california bank and trust cause i have a minor trust in there that i was going to withdraw but the guy in charge managed to convice my mother that i should just keep an account there. so now instead of being like everyone and having a bank of america debit card or credit card, i have a california bank and trust one. i like it. i would like it more if there were more banks, but considering how the closest one is actually like a minute away and has no red stoplights on the road, i'm okay with my bank for now. i'm wondering how i'm going to cope with college hahah.

i decided to dig out my bag of stuff from the women's empowerment conference and i nearly boggled at all the crap they gave us. my brother drank the energy drink and he went haywire. note to self, do not let brother drink sugar while he sits next to you. and then i threw away lots of the random extra crap. and then my brother took the book about treating girls right. yea, the one with the no glove, no love quote. and the random chinese on every page. he decided to read it, and i think he had lots more fun with it that i remember us doing at the conference.

i actually like summer vacation when it's all empty, but i fear this is the last week of peace i am going to have. starting tomorrow, i am going to be tutoring nearly every day. why did i even bother agreeing to this? i guess it makes decent money, but tutoring makes me want to sleep a lot. i have no idea how teachers do it. i guess the fact they actually can command us, having our grades on the line, as well as disciplinarian tactics are more than enough to take care of unruly children. i, however, am not a disciplinarian and i don't want to command respect. more than that, i don't think i can. so usually what happens is we end up playing with the little kiddies. oh, i do end up teaching the older ones, since school is actually somewhat difficult for them. i guess i should be happy that i'm learning algebra all over again. i had forgotten, and quite happily too, about circumcenter and incenter and median and all this blah blah blah.
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okay, so i guess i already knew i wasn't cut out to be a teacher, but i guess it doesn't really matter now.

doo doo i want an r4 just so i can play some certain games in japan. :( except i dunno if my ds can handle it, the darn thing. why does it take so long for the stupid companies to actually bring the darn things over to america? sighs. i know tanya's a lot more upset over the gyakuten kenji and the kh 358/2 lots more than i am, but i'm still very very tired of waiting.

which reminds me, i watched the e3. i only watched nintendo, since sony and microsoft do a good job of making me sleep. this year nintendo sucked too. i was primarily interested in only the ds selection, and didn't give a damn about the new wii fit plus. i suppose christine will want to buy it or something. but i won't be seeing her when it comes out. i won't be seeing tanya either, when kh comes out. :(

boo. now i'm depressed.
so ends entry one for this summer.

anyways, i did a post where i went over all my teachers and my classes for first semester. seeing as how it's already second semester, i thought i should do the same thing again. how time has flown.

anyways, let's start with 2nd period. physics.
for some reason, i understand everything when mr z explains, and then when i'm on my own, it's like i've never learned it before. it's like word problems for math. ew.

3rd period japanese.
we started learning. and it's ridiculously hard. oh my god, after a year of not doing anything related to japanese, i'm going to fail soon. seriously. we had this listening thing in class, and i didn't understand it at all. which is why i started to rewatch yakitate japan, but then i realized it doesn't really help if there are subs. -_- so i don't know what i'm going to do now because force myself to watch new raw anime. the only problem with that is i can't watch the new stuff. there's too much cg and random sound effects and blah blah blah this is really not the point. the POINT is that i'm going to fail japanese now.

4th period delgado
i started off well in delgado last semester and after the first quarter comp i fell so much it was impossible to bring me back up. yea. anyways, i'm just going to do as best as i can in this class, which is only possible if i switch seats. calculus is..... it's so familiar yet not.

5th period dalley
let me sleep in his class man let me sleep.
at least i like brave new world. i don't have much to say on him. he seems to not like loud people. and he likes people who speak up about their opinions. unfortunately, i tend to not be very insightful. expect silence from me mr dalley unless it's not about english.

6th period z
wow i didn't noticed i changed from subjects to teachers till i wrote z. and then i realized that i didn't do z before. anyways, filming is filming. our current film is going to be sooo weird. -_-

7th period perry
i actually miss mr jeans. :(
mr perry's fun. i failed the first quiz in econ because i was thinking a little too much.

AGHHHH i'm going to cough my throat off. -_-
farewell.

MY POOR NEGLECTED LIVEJOURNAL!!! i'm sorry i ditched you for blogspot. yes, it's like the pc vs the mac. and about that. honestly, if you want to get down to the basics, i guess macs are good. i mean, they're pretty, you can make movies, do stuff on itunes, use microsoft word, make web pages or so i hear, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
dude, you know what you can't do on a mac?
apparently nothing! so okay mac users! you win! i'll just sit here and die of viruses and spyware and what not!

ah yea, but i still couldn't work on a mac.

i'm sorry. although vista might annoy the crap out of me, just the hotkeys alone endear microsoft. plus, i don't think i've actually gotten a virus for about five years. yea, they might be hidden or something, but they've never bothered me. wait couple seconds while i go find wood to knock on.

okay done.

let me knock some more. NOOO VIRUSES....................

poor tanya. i feel uninspired to write any further. but i am definetely not going to wake up earlier than eight tomorrow which is bad because i have much work to do.

i'm supposed to be finishing my teacher recs, but since i can't really answer some of the questions, i decided to give up for about ten minutes. after those ten minutes, i'm sleeping. i know, i'm such a good kid. there's been a crazy fire going on, saturday was so windy and so dry that i am not surprised the fire continued. right now, the world outside is almost as foggy as those cold mornings when the fog is thick. except it's really hot, it smells bad, and you want to keep choking. it did clear up a bit, so it was okay. i woke up late because the light was weird, and i don't know why i would wake up late. it wasn't light enough to wake me? i usually wake up at five, so i dunno how that works.
i woke up at nine from a dream then went back to sleep and had another dream and then i woke up from it at eleven. the second dream sucked, but i know the first dream was interesting. my first thought when i woke up was "write it down", but i kinda fell back asleep so that was completely useless. hahah.
i started REALLY researching boston college and realized they have no asian languages. so if i get in, i probably won't go. cough. i am actually not too sure what i will do. i guess i'll take linguistics and go study abroad.
these questions are actually hard. they're about me, but they're hard to answer. i really do not know what to write for them.
tanya and i went bra shopping today. i don't shop for bras here. in fact, i don't shop for bras at all. my mother buys them all in korea, and considering my bra size hasn't gotten bigger for three years, i think i'm going to stay the same size forever. amused.
this probably shouldn't be in a public entry, but oh well. we went bra shopping, so there was no avoiding the topic.
i miss junior year. it was supposed to be the most important year of our life at school, but i think this semester of senior year is much more stressful, mostly due to sad jeans and ap physics.
i think i talk about school too much in my entries. i feel sad. kevin is supposed to be untouchable! he's supposed to be happy and talk about comic books, but he also got swallowed by the giant college bug.
mmmm...
oh well. hopefully the fires die down soon.

so recently, our class has decided to get into blogs. it's probably paul's fault, since most people read his and decided to make one after he did. plus, if you have gmail, the site kind of automatically makes a blogspot for you.
but today, my topic of discussion is. why does there have to be two?

i personally like livejournal more, just because i have groups. if you don't know what i'm talking about, you're either not an anime fan, a drama fan, or a fan of anything actually.

god, that girl from wizards of waverly place has too much make up on.
-shudder-

what the hell where's my chill time as a senior?
arghhhhhhhhh
the college stuff is giving me incredible headaches....

bleah.
at least i actually chose my colleges because my PANEL is tomorrow!
i will come back on livejournal to talk about my experience as the fish in the fishbowl while evil sharkies stare at me.
i only have a glass bowl to protect me!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES

and i'm starting to use lol. BAD CARO. DON'T USE LOL! IT'S STUPID!!!!
okay i released some stress.