Writing 9 Blogs In A Day

  I just wrote 8 blogs. I am so writing a blog everyday from now on. Christmas just makes people so busy. It was good that I got enough sleep today, my mom says I slept for 13 hours last night, which may be true. Today I finally finished my book. I have finally finished the Great Book of Amber. And I am so depressed. Apparently when I was still at Michelle's house, she told me that the author Roger Zelezny died before he could truly finish the series. I mean after reading the ending, I felt like it was really incomplete. I could feel that there were more to everything that was going on and there could be--would be so much more stories to tell. But the author is gone and I don't think anyone could replicate his unique and timeless style. That would mean that the story never really ended, and I hate to see it that way. I am okay with a bad book series that is complete. But a good book especially a series that had no sequel? That is utterly unbelievable. Yet I can't do anything about it. For example I read this book called Echo that I got from the school library. I could not find the sequel anywhere. I checked in VPL, I even checked in the second largest book store in North America, I checked on ebay and what not. The book simply does not exist. And it is sad because it was such a good story and the author didn't even come close to ending it. It felt like the first book of a series and everything is just started to pop and crackle when it all ends. With no explanation, no nothing. It is understandable if an author produces an unsatisfactory ending to a book or series, at least you know where the author would have gone with the whole story. But with no real ending from the original author, it leaves the story hanging on a thread, and most people don't want to continue writing a story that is not their's.
  I hope someone might take a shot at writing more for The Great Book of Amber. I think I will reread some of my favourite parts when I have time. It just fells so sad, because I know the ending is not the ending, and there will probably never be an real ending...
  Oh, and writing nine blogs in a day is really tiring, considering all the things you have to re encounter. I can remember most of my week except for some times during my sleep over. I think I was so tired that I couldn't think straight or remember properly... I totally want to do an all-nighter again... But now I am going to my comfy bed, in which I shall slumber into the New Year.
  Happy New Year everyone. And I wish you all the best!

NEED TO SLEEP

  So I am still at Michelle's house and we all got up around 11 after having 3 hours of sleep. We were going to do an all-nighter, but I think that was the closest we could get. So we cleared our heads and had a little breakfast of waffles. Then we played more board games, we played Clue. Michelle got an really good guess and she got the answer! I love board games, have I ever mentioned that? Then we played Scrabble. We used to have a Scrabble at home but then I couldn't find it... Apparently most people play Scrabble with a dictionary, I haven't ever tried it before. But then the game started to get really heated because everyone (except for Carmen) was looking in the dictionary. Every time we needed to move and place a word we would always look deeply in the dictionary. It took a long time to finish the game but we finally did. Then we ate a short lunch in which we ate noodles and soup which was delicious. Then Michelle's mom dropped us home and I decided that I shouldn't sleep until night time. SO I read my book, which successfully kept me awake until 9. Then I simply had to sleep. I wasn't prepare to live for 2 days on 3 hours of sleep!

Crazy Sleep Over!!!!

  OMG! I couldn't sleep well last night because I was too excited for today. Today I am going on a sleepover with my BFFs. It's not like I have never had a sleepover with them, they are the only people I have sleep over's with. I haven't had a sleep over for a while, and this time is a Christmas sleepover and we are exchanging gifts.
  So we met at Metrotown and Michelle's mom picked us up there. We went to eat Anton's pasta for lunch. Narae said that the pasta was really good there so we went and tried it out. I have eaten at restaurants that serves a lot of food, but when I eat here I just can't seem to finish my plate! I usually finish my food, and I eat three bowls of rice for dinner, but I couldn't finish the pasta. I think it is because pasta is more filling than rice?
  Then we went to Michelle's house. Michelle lives far away, somewhere beside UBC. Then the fun begins. Well,  first me and Narae played on my ipad, while Michelle and Carmen played Neo pets. Neo pets right?! And then--my favourite, monopoly!!! I LOVE monopoly! But Michelle's version was better, it was Dogopoly! And I managed to buy the Siberian Husky! Then after that... After that I can't remember what we did... I think we had dinner or something, or maybe played more computers. Any ways we then ate dinner which was pizza. Michelle's brother works at Dominos so they always eat pizza. After dinner Michelle set up the Wii, and Narae started playing Zelda Skyward sword. Right I remembered! We exchanged gifts before that and I got Zelda Skyward sword and a Wii motion plus remote. You need the remote to play the game and I got it together! YAY. Then... I just can't remember clearly sometimes, we just talked a lot and then played random stuff. Time passes so fast when you are with good friends. Soon it was already 10 and then 12. We were switching with the Zelda game. Oh! And cards! We played cards such as big 2 and go fish. Then we played Uno, which is epic, and then speed. I really like speed, but by that time I was already very sleepy. We made a pact to not sleep all day, we are going to do a all-nighter. At around 3 or 4 I think we went back to playing board games. We played risk, it was my first time playing but I got the hang of it soon. Risk is really fun, on the first round I could not complete my secret missions, but then on the second round we were playing protect the base and I did pretty well. I had my base protected and then took hold of another separate continent. The problem was I wouldn't attack my friends because they were my friends. I could have attack everyone because I had two continents but I wouldn't because I felt guilty for it... So in the end we ended the game without achieving anything because I couldn't attack anyone. It was already the next day by then I think we stopped playing at around 7 o'clock. Then we were so beat it took everything to stay awake. Then later we finally fell asleep at around 8. And then We got up at 11, but that would be the next day.

Back Home Again

  Car ride back home was the same as going to Portland. Boring as ever. We were following the other family's car because they had a GPS. The other family drove sooooo slow. My cousin was driving, and I could feel her urge to just step on the petal. I was sitting in the front seat and I actually wanted to step on the petal too.
  We got separated though because they were hidden by some other cars in front of us and they got off a random exit to get gas. We were behind them and didn't see them go off, when we saw them again it was already too late so we just kept going. However we did go off on the next exit but we never found them again. Now we were free to drive as fast as we want, and we got home much earlier. But instead of going home when we were back in Vancouver we went to Crystal Mall for dinner and some other errands my cousin needed to run. And that was my trip to Portland... I remember how I really like the trams and the brick streets of Portland. When I was there I kept remembering how Bella Swan from Twilight was almost kidnapped in Portland but was saved by Edward. That has nothing to do with Portland itself of course. Portland looked really clean and British style. I think I like it better than Seattle, I really do hope. I really do hope that I could go back to that book store again. I saw some books on sale and it was only around 5 US and there was no tax! Amazing!

Second Largest Book Store

  Today we first went to this mall beside our hotel in Portland, I got a locket there. I really like stuff that looks old, and I have always wanted a locket.
  The main event of the day for me was going to the second largest book store in the North America. It reminded me of Barron's Books and Baubles from this book I read. It was huge and had many sections. The whole book store was on both sides of the street and contained countless new and used books. It was divided in colors. For example the teen adn kids section was the Pink Room, while the science fiction section was the Gold Room. The main entrance and cashier was the Green Room. There is also the Red Room, the White Room, the Orange Room, and many more other rooms. The main book part of the book store had many levels, but I only explored the first 2. I mostly wandered around the teens section, seeing the books I have read and also looking for the Fever Series. I could not find that book series in the library, however I already read it online so I don't need to buy it. I was simply curious of how the real book looked like. It is quite different to read a real book and to read it online. I myself prefer reading real books, but sometimes reading online (especially if you have an ipad) is much more simple.
  I also went to the science fiction section where I found many more copies of The Great Book of Amber. I found it strangely comforting to see that the book was one of the books that was recommended to read. After the excitement of being around so many familiar and unfamiliar books died down I started getting a minor headache. Have you ever had the feeling when you are surrounded by something (books in my case) and it was so intimidating and endless because there was just so many of them? Just seeing so many books was socking and amazing at the same time. My dream is to have my own personal library, but it could never be as big as this book store. So many books I have never read, I feel sad because I know I will never be able to read all of them...
  We had dinner at the buffet in the Hilton hotel. If you ever go there, I suggest you not to eat the buffet at the restaurant. They really didn't have much to offer. I think it would have been better to order stuff instead of eating the buffet. After that we went to Macy to shop again. I couldn't believe it when the whole place closed at 8:00. So early!

Shopping in Portland

  So I am still in Portland and this is the second day. We are going to this great big shopping mall called Woodburn outlet or something like that.
  Honestly I thought that it was the same as the outlet in 202. It was bigger and had more stores, but that was all. I didn't get anything much because I didn't need much. All I wanted for Christmas this year was another pair of boots. I have a thing for shoes. I totally love them, and right now I really like wearing boots because they are just so warm. I looked at a lot of boots but they were all really...normal. Nothing really special came up until this store called Journey. There were so many shoes there. The store seemed really trendy and I got a pair of boots that looked similar to an ug. My cousin Sammi was with me and she said the boots were really nice, and really fit me. She also said that my taste for boots are the same as a 30 year olds', which I totally didn't believe.
  Later on we also went to this place called the something Fry. It sold electronic, I got a clear screen protector for my ipad there.
  Nothing much to buy in America actually, but my auntie got a lot of stuff for herself and some for her friends. It is just because they don't have tax in America, that is why it is so cheap to buy all the expensive stuff.

Drive to Portland

  Today I got up all early and we began our trip to Portland.
  My auntie, my cousin, my mom, my brother and me were going. We drove there and had lunch in a buffet at 202. It was a long ride and I had nothing to do. I did bring my ipad but I didn't play it because I get dizzy. My brother didn't seem to have the same problems so he played it. We we got to Portland it was getting dark. We were staying at the Hilton hotel there, and they didn't have any free internet. You could only go on the Internet when you were in the lobby, and I didn't bother. The family that were going with us was my uncle's brother. My auntie knew him for a long time. They have boy who was going to grade two and a small baby. The older boy's name is William and her and my brother got along pretty well.
  That night we decided to go swimming. Me and my cousin couldn't swim because of our healing colds, but we went along any ways. Apparently there were 2 swimming pools in two separate buildings that both belonged to the Hilton hotel. The one in our own building was closed because it was Christmas, but the one in the other one was still open. We asked for robes and some of us changed into the robes with their swim suit underneath. So we went out into the street and looked for the other building. It was supposed to be across the street but we did not find it immediately. The scene before me made me laugh so hard that day. 3 ladies in robes walking across the street in Portland going into a bank and asking if it was the Hilton swimming pool. It was so FUNNY! LOL! I couldn't stop laughing because it was funny and bizarre at the same time. I wasn't the one wearing robes, but I did feel kind of embarrassed...
  There was nothing more that happened that day. I brought along The Great Book of Amber and read it before I went to bed. It was keeping me hyper and somehow being hyper helped me sleep...

Christmas Wrapping

  Wow. I didn't notice but today is the 24th of December, which is Christmas Eve! My family never really celebrated Chrastmas, but this year we just didn't do much. I have a bunch of Christmas wrapping to do... I made this creative card for my cousin Sammi. I got my mom Purdy's chocolates. I made Sissi a white rose (she has a thing for white roses!). I made a feather fan for my auntie, but I am not sure I should give it to her because I was never sure what she could possibly do with a fan... I made my brother a red stocking in textiles class. I didn't really want to sew a whole big sock together. And I also got my friends presents. We were going to Portland on the 25th (which is tomorrow), and right after we come back I have this sleep over with my friends. I got Michelle and Narae Clockwork Prince (they wanted it and I want them to read it so I can talk to them about it without spoiling it), and Carmen a cute cup and I also made a black and red rose for her too. I got them each a big gold key thing, I think it was supposed to be a Christmas ornament.
  I am having so much fun wrapping stuff and writing little cards and stuff. I wrote "the key is the key is the key is the key is the key is they key is the key." on Narae's card. I told my cousin this and she said she was really disappointed at me. I ask her why and she said "because you didn't put a ... in the end!". LOL.

The Great Book of Amber

  My friend Michelle suggested this book to me. I don't remember if I ever mentioned it on previous blogs...
  This book has officially become MY FAVOURITE BOOK!
  I think I have never read a book of true science fiction as epic as that. The Great Book of Amber is really timeless. I love how the characters talk, it was british English mixed with some American slangs. The author never really state what year or time the book was in yet it informed you of time passing. It was kind of like a royal battle in Narnia with immortals in a world bigger than our own. I love the author's style, he write sarcastically and is quite straight forward. The book is written from Corwin's point of view and he is a prince of Amber. Amber is the real center and all around it is similar places that resemble Amber in some ways called shadows. Earth is a shadow in which Corwin lived in for many years, that is why he talks american slangs. They seem to have another language, but the dialogue is always in English, the author just informs you they are speaking a different language in a very vogue way that makes you barely aware the fact that there was a change of language.
  The whole story is straight forward but hard to understand fully. The author always gave you just enough to understand and think it over, but never enough to actually know what the real intent was. I love the way the author focuses on small detail such as people's expressions and movements. Everything that is said, done, observed serves a purpose. The characters in the book are all unique in their own way and the author smoothly shows the different personalities through a long series of events. The plot is never predictable because there never seem to be a real start to the story. Amber was just there, most of the main characters were all alive for a very long time, so you could never seem to predict anything long-term. You obtain information mostly by the characters own observations and conversations with others. The way people converse are all different and unique. I don't know how the author manages but when he mentions a character you can immediately almost feel their personality. The main character also thinks about a lot of stuff and undergoes many changes.
  I haven't finished the book yet, and I can't wait!!! I have the edition in which there is the whole series in one book. I don't notice it when I read, but the author has this unique style and he always manage to  grab your attention even with the smallest things...

Sales Goal Reached!

  So today Mimi, Carina and I are going selling again around Langara Gardens. First I go out with on of my big sisters (a daughter of a family friend), her name is Sissi and she lives right next door to my aunt. She is going to university here, and she her home stay just happens to be right next door to my auntie. I don't see her often because she is so busy, but since it was Christmas break she had time and we went out for sushi. We were taking the 49th up to a sushi place on Victoria and we completely passed it. I mean I take the 49 everyday, but I don't know where Victoria place, apparently it is the street a little after or before DT, depending which way to are going. So we had to take the bus to the other direction to get back to Victoria. The sushi was awesome. My favourite sushi is the California roll, believe it or not no matter how hard I tried I couldn't find it in China. I had my first teriyaki (don't know if I spelled it right), I was never really interested in Japanese food, so I never actually ordered a real teriyaki in a Japanese restaurant.
  Later we stopped at a 99 cent store and I got a bunch of tape, glue sticks, and gift bags. I needed them for Christmas wrapping...
  I took the 49th again to Cambie and walked to Mimi's building. They were waiting for me in the lobby, and we went up to drop some of our stuff off in Mimi's house. Mimi made a whole new bunch of felt stuff and little  lucky bottles, and I brought all the hats I knitted.
  We went out to the town houses in Langara gardens. It was really cold outside, and Carina didn't bring her jacket. At first it was pretty discouraging, because a lot of people were not home. But then we started making lots and lots of money. The best was more than $10 at a time. Surprisingly I sold all of my hats. A lot of people even exclaimed on how I made the hats by myself. I wasn't expecting a lot of people to buy them honestly, I guess $7 dollars is really cheap for yarn hats...
  It just happens to be that today is winter solstice and it got dark really early. Me were kinda worried for our safety but was determined to sell everything. It got colder and darker, Carina and Mimi were both really really cold in the end, but we finally sold everything!!!
  We went back to Mimi's house and counted the money and we went on the company doc to record it. WOW! We made $374.81 in total! It was exactly past our goal which is $350.
  We have officially passed our goal. I have all the money and because there is a lot of change, I am planning to go to the bank to exchange them for whole money. I don't think I have time to go any time soon though.
  I wonder if we are the first company to reach our goal...

Downtown

  Yesterday me and my friends Narae, Michelle and Carmen went to Downtown. First we were at Metrotown, we got some lunch and took the sky train to Downtown.
  We were at the pacific centre, and doing nothing in particular. When you are with your friends, time passes too fast, and it doesn't really matter what you are doing as long as you are with them. We walking around the centre, but because we weren't familiar with the place we mostly walked back and forth on the same level. Later I decided to should go to Chapters, after all the chapters on Robson (I think it is on Robson...) is one of the biggest stores I have seen. It has three floors!!! Narae loves to read too, and so does Michelle. We drowned out selves in books. The best thing about having others who love to read too with you when you are in a environment full of books, is that there is always a book or two that you can suggest to the other. Usually when we are at book stores we ask each other if you have read this, if you like that book. Because there were so many good books that were suggested that I should read, I made a list on my cell phone so I can hunt them all down when I have the time. We spent hours in Chapters alone. Of course, we didn't just stared at books, we went to the kids section! I remember on last Thursday Mimi, Carina, Jennica and me spent an hour in the toy section of Sears. What can I say, I guess we are all still kids at heart. In the toy section we saw this raccoon puppet that come out of a garbage can, and a rabbit that came out of a hat. There were so many good puppets there, I wanted to get one for my brother, but they were super expensive, and I just didn't have that kind of money... I was hoping they had the puppets in the Chapters at Metrotown, that way I can take my mom there and get it. It is really cool, and I hope they have it.
  After Chapters we lost interest in shopping or even walking around, so we decided to go to Narae's house. Her parents weren't home, and we were all tired. The bus ride to her house, however was really strange. We took 100 from the skytrain station and got kicked off at this stop for no reason at all. Another bus came shortly but we ended up back at the station somehow... When we finally got to her house, we spent at least and hour during transportation. It only felt like a few minutes to us, because we were talking and laughing and completely unaware of time. We played a very short game of Monopoly in Narae's house, and showed each other youtube videos. Soon it was dark and we had to go home. Michelle lives pretty far away, and we didn't want to travel alone in the dark. We all said good-bye to Narae and went home. We walked up some street I forgot the name of, and the street lamps were broken so it was really really dark. Thank goodness there were three of us, or else I would be seriously concerned about our safety. We waited for the 26 and got off at Arlington. My mom was still sleeping over in Port Moody and I had no intentions of riding a bus there at night, so I just went to my auntie's house. Carmen and Michelle got off with me, but they had to stay at the bus stop to wait for the 49.
  It was one of the fastest days I have ever had. The whole day passed so fast is was a blur. Must be because I was having so much fun! But my trip didn't do a lot of good for my healing cold, I am starting to cough a little again... Sad...
  Funny thing was, yesterday was Wednesday, but when I was out with my friends I kept thinking it was Sunday. Maybe because we always go out on Sundays, and also because there was no school...
  I know today is Thursday, because I am going to go sell stuff with Mimi and Carina later! YAY!

Idea of Magic

I came across this video, when I was reading the wall of a friend on Facebook.
The video, like most TED videos, is very inspiring.
Watch before I spoil it!!!!

This video showed gave me some food for thought. Magic is deception, that is true. But art is a lie that inspire passion? How is art a lie? Because there is no "art" in general? That the definition of "art" is different for everyone? We are living to ourselves, that is true...
I can't get my hands on it, but I feel like this video is telling you so much more than just magic...

Life sucks when you are cold and not in your own bed.

This happened on Sunday night. So I woke in the middle of the night and was soooooo cold. The house suddenly had its heater turned down a purple of degrees, and I had this not so thick quit on. Plus the fact that I was sick. I was so cold, I started coughing like crazy again. Could not stop, I knew I was going to wake someone if I kept coughing like that. Also, I was at someone else's house and I didnt know where they kept their blankets... So what was I to do? I went to find my mom, because I was so cold. Eventually it got better with the help off my mom, but still. Normally I am not the homesick kind of person, my family often travels and you can't afford to e homesick when you are at Dysneyland. But stays at this aunties house in Port Mooday made me feel homesick. It is the fact that we are so close from home, 30 minute drive. Yet I have to stay here, for other reasons. Yesterday I had the time to read Fire, which is by the same author of Graceling. It is just as grant as Graceling, such a good book.
Boring. Boring borng.
So boring... But me and some friends ate finally going out on Wednesday. I hope I get better...

Sunday

Apparently I have ran out of good names to name my blog.
I write this blog for Sunday, because I am orally behind!
This weekend I have been sick, and sick, and more sick. I really hate being sick now!!! I never really disliked being sick before, but now I really do hate it. I am so annoyed it coughing and sneezing. It was pretty bad on Sunday, for a while I was coughing like crazy. Couldn't stop, felt like I was coughing my guts out. Couldn't stop...
On Sunday, and I remember because school ended for now, that it felt strange to know that I didn't have to go to any classes on Monday. I guess it only hit me on Sunday the fact that it had endless break time with no school for about two weeks.
And I had been reading. I finished the strange Angels series, abd The Gift. No fun when you are sleeping over at someone else's home and you're sick. No fun.
Plus there was really nothing to do, reading as the only thing that made me feel better. It also require igh concentration and the usage of you're eyes, which isn't very for someone who is sick. My mom says I should rest my eyes and not look at screens or read books, but I ct help it. Not reading equals to not doing anything, and since I am not at home, my list of things I could was limited anyways... Sucks to be not at home. I swear I am home sick...

Saturdays

My whole family went to sleep at this auntie's house. she is a family friend, and her houses in Port Moody.
Yesterday wasSaturday. And Ithink I brokeone of my personal record. I read 5 books in a day, or I should say 16 hours. I think the last I've I read so much books in a day, was when I was ring the series of The Vampire Academy. And, at that time my dad totally disapproved of me reading all day long so I had to hide the books and stuff...
I am still sick somehow. I still have this cold, and my throat still hurts. Except now, somethimrs I would feel like something is tickling my throat and it would made me cough and cough and cough uncountably. I am getting better after eating more Chinese medicine... This cold has lasted for almost 2 weeks by now... So I stayed home all day of course, and read books.
List of books I read:
1. Strange Angels
2. Betrayals (2nd book of Strange Angels)
3. Jealousy (3rd book)
4. Defiance (4th book)
5. Witches and Wizards by James Patterson.

Comments on Withces and Wizards.
This book is very beautiful. Even though it took place in a ad environment, he wrote the whole story in a very lighthearted way, which made me laugh all the time.
Later on there was a page of all these books that that the evil government banned. Apparently Harry Potter became Gary Blotter. Percy Jackson became Percivielle Johnson, and the Lightening Thief became the Thuder Theif. The Catcher and the Rye became The Pitcher and the Wheat. There were so many other books, and I tried to guess all of them. I got stuck at The Firegirl Saga, I don't know what it is. So funny!!!

Last Friday

Friday was the last day of school. hooray!!!
Even though it was the last day of school, our teachers still showed us no merci. Well, most of them. First block we had English, our mandala project was due. Me, Leslie, and April were a group. Our themem was femininity, so we were doing this big pink flower for our mandala. Me and Leslie got to school at around 7:20 and we worked on the final party of the mandala together.we were supposed to meet at 7:45, but the day enforce we talked on google docs and decided to come earlier. The thing was, April wasn't on the doc, so she was supposed to come of 7:45. Well, she didn't show up at 8:00 so me and Leslie were really worried. Because we needed her parts to assemble the mandala, we couldn't do a lot of stuff if she didn't get there. I went all the way to find Jessie, and she contacted April for us. Apparently she was still on her way and is was already 8:10. So soon april go there, and I was like the god. I wasn't that angry art the time, I am not the kind of person who gets angry easily, but I was that morning already. The thing was April got there, but she didn't work on her part at all! So she had to copy the parts of her parts onto the flower petals. Me and Leslie already did these stuff at home. That really made me mad. I mean coming late is one thing, but not doing your parts when you could have did it at home is another thing. So the results were we had to work on it during our short class, I hope Mr.Hauck didn't take marks off for that! I M just saying, if April had done what she was supposed to do, we would have been done but heathen!! And we wouldn't have looked as if we were doing it at last minute. And I want to thank Mimi for helping us!
Second block was science. And we had a written test on reproduction. I completely didn't know what gametes were,I am so stupid!
Third block was textiles. I love sewing, and so first I sewed a tissue holed thing. Then I sewed a stocking for my brother as his Christmas present. We only had30 minutes so I was on a tight schedulale.
Fourth block was French.we didn't do anything, so me and Leslie made more envelopes for Mimi's Christmas cards.
Finally our classes were over and e had the Christmas assembly. I have never attended a Churchill assembly before because I came late last year. It was really fun. I thought it says kinda funny how our president Darren kept getting everyone to "unrehearsed party" in the middle of the gym. The dance group was great, I got Last Friday Night stuck in my head after that. Salt we lost the can food drive "friendly competition" with Hamber. According to Leslie, we lost last year too. And as Leslie predicted, we lost it this year too. I guess these things have nothing to do with how much students there are in a school.
So after the assembly, we all swarmed out and went... Yuni, Vivian, Latvina were going to Metrotown. Since I was going to my auntie's house, I walked with them. My cousin was going to take me to go go-karting, but she changed hthe plans and I ended up in Metrotown instead. I felt bad, because Mimi and Carina went to sell stuff that day for the company, and I couldnt go, but then I could. They sold everything and made 42 dollars! YAY!
My cousin and our friend, soon came to metro too. There was something wrong with my iPad and we went to the apple store to fix it. It turned out it wasn't broken at all, it was just when my little brother and I were grabbing for it, one of us pressed something and made it weird. The guy in the apple store fixed it right away.
We went to play DDR, and we did other stuff.
Well, it was a fun last day of school!

Synergy Christmas Party

  First of all I would like to day I am SO SORRY that I wasn't there later on!!!
  When we first started towards the centre, I was marvelling at how Synergy people got so much freedom! I was shocked. We get to plan our own field trip and go there by ourselves. When we got there it was so cold, and we were pretty hungry. At least I was. We waited a while for Mr. Olson but decided to go get something to eat. I guess one of the factors that Mimi and Jennica didn't really want to skate because there was a whole school of kids there and it was cold. I thought the ice rink was really small. Apparently Carina can't skate, and I can't say much better about myself. I have only ever skated once, and it was at someone birthday party... So we went to get stuff to eat, A&W is delicious. I love prime rib burgers, and chicken strips with honey-mustard... So good. It was just Mimi, Jennica, Carina, and me. We kinda got carried off so we started walking towards nowhere in particular. We thought about going back, but somehow never did. We ended up in the toys section of Sears, which is bizarre considering we are all grade 9s. Jennica and I looked for possible toys to get our little cousin or brother, while Mimi looked at all the rip off prices of the toys. Then we went to the Christmas ornaments section and looked at Christmas decorations and such. I bet we spent at least an hour inside Sears. By the time we got out everyone got something except for Carina. I bought this cup as a Christmas present for Carmen, and some keys for other people. Any ways, the stuff in Sears were so cheap! As in good! There was a 60 percent off. I still can't believe that the snow globes were only 9.99, after 60% off is like around only 5 dollars! Crazy!
  So yes I apologize again for not being where I should be. NO matter what my excuses may be, I feel terribly guilty. And I want to thank Cynthia for organizing such a cool party. I was hoping we could watch Mission Impossible 4 or was it 5? I have been waiting for that movie to come out, but I don't know if it is out or not...
  Have to go to sleep. Have to get to school at 7:30 tomorrow. Work on English project. Have Science test. Study tomorrow. Busy Last Day!
  1 more to go!!!

What? What?

  So much stuff to do so little time. Is still have to write blogs because I am behind. I would have done verything earlier if I hadn't had to go to a family friends' house to eat dinner. This uncle was going to go back to China tomorrow and he invited us to dinner in his house at Port Moody. If you don't know, it is quite far away from Vancouver, and it takes a long time to get there. Plus even though we are close, it isn't nice to do your homework when you are visiting someone. Have I never mentioned that they had a pool table? How cool is that? I don't know how to play pool, but my cousin taught me. It is very fun.
  The good thing about having your own pool table is the fact that you can do whatever you want for as long as you want for FREE. So usually when we go to their house we like to play pool. Of course my little brother's involvement makes it kinda impossible because he like to run around the edges of the pool table and switch the positions of the balls. Unfortunately for me, I am still not feeling very well, but I do hope I feel better by Friday. At least good enough to sing Christmas carols. I love singing, it just fills me with joy.
  Now I will go back to doing English homework and hopefully sleeping within the hour!

Adventure!!!

  I know this is due on the 15th. I just can't believe I forgot to post these. I realized I haven't been posting as regularly as I should. These days I am just so busy! I would have forgotten about the adventure it if my classmate hadn't reminded me. I was going to do it the other day, but transferring pictures is really annoying... SO much projects, tests, what not. So here.
  I went to the Vandusen Botanical Garden (such a long name...) on Oak Street. I went there quite a while ago. It was so beautiful, unlike now... With all the leaves gone, there is almost nothing colourful...

  The person in front of the tree is my cousin Sammi. And me of course!!! I got that pair of boots from my auntie...
  My camera really sucks, it has no shake control. So even if I shake a little, it comes out badly... Sad...

My book lost on the wind...

I ordered a copy of clockwork prince just the day before it came out. I really wanted to read it so I went online and was surprised to find it on a website. I read it and it broke my heart... But I have my doubts, since I am not sure if the version online is real, so I really wanted the real one to come soon. Although I do think the version I read is the real version, or else I wouldn't have read it. I thought the book was going to get here by Monday because I checked on Friday and it was already picked up by the post office. My cousin predicted that it is going to get here today. I didn't remember until dinner time, and I got really frustrated. I can't believe it still isn't here yet! I have been waiting and waiting. I don't mind if it takes long to ship or something, but since it has been already picked up by the post office then it should be getting here by now! Plus if I got it today I could have brought it to school tomorrow to reread while we wait for the winter concert to start.
Back to work...

Projects

Today is a Monday. Monday's are always busy, but today is a bomb! First block I realize our english project is due on Wednesday, our socials project is due tomorrow, and we have science test on both Wednesday and Friday. Okay fine, already knew about the science tests, but the projects set me on an edge. Lucky for us, Mr.Hauck changed the due date to Friday. YAY! So now I am working on my socials and English at the same time. Problem is my group members showed up really late. Leslie is on now, but Vivian is still not here. It is due tomorrow, and we have to make this brochure. Then for english I have to buy all these pink boards but I didn't today. Then I have this textiles project that our teacher really wanted us to finish. She wouldn't let me go for helping out the test. I rea
Lu love sewing, it is my favorite class, I was really sad to miss it. Even though I was able to get some stuff done. I work like a tornado when I want to. I think I will go to the textiles room tomorrow at lunch. Wait, I can't, I have choir practice! Tomorrow is Winter Festival and we have an assembly. I have to stay at school for a couple of hours. I need to bring a book to read then...

Flu

I have a cold, but my mom thinks it may be a flu. I didn't even know there was a flu going on. Yesterday my mom made med sleep through the whole afternoon. I slep at four and woke up at eight. I did feel better, but not much. My throat was still hurting liked hell, I couldn't talk properly. I was really mad when I woke up, I was so annoyed of being sick. It seemed like everytime there was something important going and it was around my birthday I would get sick somehow... OMG I am just typing on the iPad when my keyboard split into two! I was freaked out, didn't know what to do. I googled it, apparently all you had to do was pull them together again. I can't think of any reasons why someone would want to split their keyboard into two.
So past year when it was my birthday I had a party with my friends in china at the mall. That day I was experiencing minor cold plus stomach aches. Every year I get sick around the time of my birthday. Tink it has become a habit, must be the relief of growing up...
I am feeling better I guess, but I really hope I can get this flu over with before Monday. We Erie singing Christmas carols in choir and I would hate to miss that!!!

Cold

Their is a flu going on around here. Half the people I know are either having a cold, or have other symptoms of one. I mean my mom has a sore throat, the girl in choir has a cold. Now my cousin has a cold too. Everyone has a cold!!!!!
I have been having sore throats ever since Wednesday and I can't sing in choir, I can't talk properly. My voice is very low and scratchy. My mom thinks it sounds nice! But it doesn't, it sounds awful, and I can't sing!!!! Next week is the east week of school, and there will be choir performances, we will be singing Christmas choirs. If I can't sing by next Monday, I would be missing out on so much fun! I am really starting to feel the cold, having headaches and spinning head.
On Thursday I went to choir practice and tried to sing, but I can't. Not even if I wanted to, even if I could I still wouldn't because I sound so horrible. It was really sad, to stand on the stands and hear everyone else sing around you, yet you cannot utter a sound. Sad...
I hope this is the last time I get sick this year!

Square Dancing

Square dancing started around last week, or somewhere around there.
I don't mind square dancing, and I don't mind dancing with guys... I mean I have had a lot worse, when I was graduating in China, we had to waltz. Compared to that square dancing is much better.
The problem is there are two times the number of boys than girls. Which means girls have to dance each song twice, and continuously. While the boys switch turns and they only have to dance each song once and they get to sit down every other round.
The first few classes were okay, I didn't mind dancing for the whole time. But after a few classes, it got really tiring. I mean imagine having to dance for the whole time for one whole PE class.
I don't get why boys can't dance with boys. Last year I wasn't here for square dancing, but she said that there were too much girls and so the teacher let girls dance with the girls. I don't see why boys can't dance with boys, it isn't very different right? Instead we girls have to dance everything twice and the whole class, while the boys get to sit down and rest. Not fair!!!

Analyze

I couldn't stop thinking about Clockwork Prince. I have suddenly thought about what is the book I read online was written by some online writer? What if it was a fake? I thought the spiriting style and the amount of literature was very much like the author, but the surprising turn of events in the story might have made me have some doubts.
I was thinking about Will and Tessa and Jem. I know Tessa really loves Will, but she cannot do anything because she already chose Jem. The love between them was like a firework. But when it came to Jem, she ws more protective. As if her first priority would always be to protect Jem from owing hurt. And soon that became Wills priority too. Tessa has more passion with Will than with Jem, but she cares more for the health and happiness of Jem. Maybe because he was probably going to die if they could not find a cure for his disease. But Tessa also has more in common with Waill than with Jem. Jem grew up in a happy family that was destroyed. Will was forced to abandon his own family, wile Tessa was abandoned by her family, they have more in common. Also, Will has a love for books and so does Tessa. They both love books and poetry because it helps them escape the real world.
Of cruise this is just me, and I am sure it is a very biased opinion because I simply like Wilil more then I do Jem.
I have a bg French test tomorrow, I should really go study now...

Clockwork Prince

This is the book have been reading for the past days. I have been eccentric every since it came out yesterday. I have been waiting for it for half a year, and I bought three copies online. Not all are for me of course, I am giving my two friends each one copy for Christmas present.
I love the series, and the author is simply epic. I have enjoyed her other series the mortal instruments very much, and found the clockwork series just as interesting.
At first when I first read the first book, I thought it would be a lot like the Mortal Instruments series. But after reading the psecond book, I understand that the two series could not have been more different.
I have not yet recieved the books I got online yet, they don't deliver books that fast. However to my surprise, I found a free version online yesterday. I could not resist the temptation to see if they had the book, and I could wait no longer. I read it and it broke my heart. I haven't had soo much to think about or to be sad about ever since Barrons in the fever series "died".

I admit I am a faithful Will fan,who have never had any feelings for Jem. And if you had read the first book of the series, it was simply obvious that Will had some deep dark secret from his past that was haunting him. If you read the teasers Cassie gave out, you would realize that Tessa and Jem have grown closer in this book. First Will's secret was even more surprising than I thought, and Tessa and Jem's relationship went way way beyond just being friends.
It broke my heart because Tessa chose Jem over Will without even assessing her choice, without giving Will's true character more thought. Even when he had told the truth of his actions to her, she could not show some sympathy for him, could not at least bother to comfort him. It broke my hert because of how Jem and Will were so oblivious for both their love for Tessa, and they were parabatai!!! I couldn't believe it... Will in so much pain, pain that was never meant for him, pain that would maybe never go away. The sad part was he was like a bird who had just reclaimed his freeware to e himself when, he realized the world has left him behind while he was writhing in pain.
This book reminds me of Wuthering Heights. When I thought about it, a lot of books these days resembled Wuthing Heights, such as Twilight.
I truly have given up hope for Will, and possibly the anticipation of a happy ending for this book. For some reason, I could almost guess the finale of this series would include people being forever alone. At least for Tessa, maybe Will. The thing about Jem is I am not quite sure he will even make it to the end before he is sentenced to death.
I hope the Mortal Instruments isnt deprssing as this, because I couldn't stand it if something were to happen to Jace and Clary, or any other characters for that matter (with the exception of Sebastian of corse)

December 5th, my special day

Today is my birthday, and I realize that there is really no point in celebrating a day. I mean there are 365 days in a year, and your birthday is only the day you were born(for me 14 years ago). Why would you celebrates that? But people always want to celebrate something, have an excuse to put off work ^^.
Today at school, I admit I was excited about it being my birthday but not like the other years. Today I was more of "today is my birthday and I am going to live it as any other normal day",while before I was probably "today is my birthday so I'm special"
one of the reasons I didn't want to tell my friends in school that it was my birthday because most of them had the same reaction---which is to sing happy birthday at the top of their lungs. I have nothing against the song, but it is surprisingly loud and esy to hear. No attract attention to self. But I told anyways because as much as I decided not celebrate my birthdays, it was just not the day that you spend alone keeping it to your self.
Happy birthday to me!!!!!!
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!
Tomorrow the clockwork prince is finally coming out, been waiting for it for half a year!!! I ordered three copies online. One is for me, the other two are my BFFs, they really love the book too so I am getting it for them as a Christmas present. It is really cheap online, the only problem is I don't know when I will be getting it. If it takes longer than a week, I am afraid I won't make it!!! Mental explosion!!!!
I love Cassandra Clare, she is such a good author!!!!

Christmas Party

Today my friend Michelle from elementary school invited me to one of her Koungfu class Christmas party. It was held at killarney community center and it was really fun. My friend is helping coach at her Koungfu place, and she got an award for best coach! She is so awesome. She performed a song for us. Michelle goes to Bing and she is in the choir there. First they had a lion dance performance, and then we feast. They served Chinese food, of course to attend this party I had to pay 12 dollars. Then we had other performances and then we had dessert. I would so go again next year. You could bring a ten dollar and up gift to enter the gift exchange thing, I brought a scarf and got a cd for sponge bob.
Chirstmas is near, everywhere you go there is Christmas decorations. Oh and I forgot to mention, there was an Christmas parade today in downtown. We went to see, it was really cool, I didn't see the whole thing becaus ei had to go but so far it was really fun!
School tomorrow... Square dancing...

DDR

For those who do not know, DDR stands for dance dance revolution, and it is the most in arcade game in the whole wide world.
Basically you dance with four arrows for the game. And it is so fun! I first played it with my friends at Metrotown last year. So epic, I first sucked at it, couldn't get the arrows right. But now is an getting better and better. Today when my and my cousin went to metro we stopped by the arcade and decided to play DDR once because I really like it. We ended up staying there longer than we'd thought. My and my cousin are not pros at the game, but we enjoy playing. It is a gome where all you have to do is dance, and sometimes ou don't get the chance to dance in life!
After playing the game many times I conclude that for each song you play you have to find the rythm of the song in order to get your foot work right. If you are at a wrong tempo, then you will die really easily if the game was harder.
We played other games such Asa drums and the press the button games. It was all really a fun. Before we left,we wanted to play DDR one more time. We were so tired and it was making us even more tired. Because the temperature in the room was really high, we were sweating, and it was great! I bet I will never experience something like that again...
When we got he we were all worn out, do tired. So much walking and playing and dancing. If I get the chance, I am going t get my friends to go to the arcade again sometime.
Tomorrow I am going to one of my elementary friend's Kung-fu class Christmas party.

Deep Book

Yesterday I didn't write my blog because I was like 3000 feet under. I was reading a book and I just can't stop.
I don't know what the name of the series is, but the first book is called Darkfever. I think it is the fever series. However my favorite book is the last book named Shadowfever.
I started reading this book because I was on this online reading website, www.onread.com, and I saw this most popular books list. I clicked into it and found books that are from the fever series had a really a high rating. I wasn't surprised to see that Percy Jackson and the Olympians were definitely at least one of the top 5s. Since the book seemed to be popular, I decided to read it.
Starting from the first book, I woudld say that it was very interesting. The author is very good at creating and developing her characters in a realistic yet inspiring way. By the time I got to the third book, I thought some of the parts are really 18a... The last book is my favorite, it contained so many good quotes and morals. One of them is something like "true evil is evil that believes it is good".
Another thing the author never cease to surprise you, where ever you go, when ever the story turns a corner there is something new and unknow waiting for you to piece together. And as i was comparing it to Harry potter, I realized that the plot of this book was the intensity of othe plots of Harry potter times at least 5.
When I finished the book, it didn't feel like all the puzzle pieces were finally it together, it felt like she finally gave us all of othe pieces so we can actually about it together.
The characters in this book are so interesting and complicated to the end of the series I still do not completely understand some of them. These characters, especially the main characters, changes so much and learn so much. The characters were learning and changing with the reader. When I compared the main character from the first book to the last book, so there such a huge contrast in which she had grown.
To be honest, I wish there is still another book after Shadowfever, though by the feel of it I think it is the lat book of the series. I am going to check it out. Google rocks!!!!!!

Family tree

Tomorrow there is an English project, and we barely had anytime to prepare for it.
I am making this huge family tree for our project. Our group is doing the book The Beet Queen. It is a book with so many characters, we have decided that our central metaphor will be a beet...
I am done making most of the tree. Now I just need to fill it with content! I made a little card like name for each of the characters, but I am afriad it is going to be too small. I am using an iPad my mom got for me as an early birthday present. Not good to use when you need to edit something really quickly, but at least it can't take postures which is good. Bow I have to open the actual computer, because you really cannot edit anything on a touch screen pad!!! Drives me crazy sometimes.
Tomorrow there is also a science presentation, we have to a skit on the reproductive system. Nt everyone has to do a skit though, some groups have to do interpretive dance, a love poem, dr.suess style, and others.
So busy, gotta get back to work!

Shots

Today all the grade nines had to take their shots. Well, not all of them because I know Mimi didn't have to take any. Apparently her mom didn't want her to take any shots.
I dont really mind taking the shots because it basically guards you agianst disease. I would rather endure some pain than get a flu or something.
Before I went back to China a fewp years ago, my mom had asked our family doctor to give me the shots required do to grade 6 or 7. I remember it clearly because one of the shots made my arms sore for pa whole week. Luckily it was my left arm instead of my right. Today I missed my pa announcement too go take shots so I went with the next wave of people. I thought I had to take 3 shots, but apparently I had already taken one of them so I didn't need to take it again. I ended up only taking two photos, yaya for me!
I wear a lot all the time, and my long sleeves were really hard too pull up. I got a shot on each arm, and I had to holds my sleeves up because it was so annoying. I think because of my sleeves it just made the shots more painful for me because the sleeves were too tight making it impossible to relax my arms. The first needle was okay, but the second needle which I remember was HPV, hurt a lot. It felt like someone was sticKing a needle up your arteries, which is exactly what they were doing but in a ore brutal and slow way. After we took the shots we had to sit around for a while, i didn't have any reactions then, so me and Jessie left after around fifteen minutes.
I had science that period and made the mistake of coping down notes too fast right after getting shots. It made my day more difficult because soon my arms started to be really really sore. I could hardly end my elbows or even use upper arm muscles. This is what I hate about getting shots, the reactions after wards...
I hope my arms won't be too sore for the rest of the week, I cat even write properly if it is too sore. I still don't get why we had to have our shots on a Wednesday in the iddle of the week...

Empathy Blog 5

Shoot I forgot to post this. Sorry!

hehehehe
  Tom, Dick and Harry went to a party. After the party they returned to the hotel. The hotel was 600 stories high.
   Unfortunately for them, the elevator was not working. They made a plan for the first 200 stories, Tom will crack jokes.
   The second 200 stories Dick will tell a happy story and lastly Harry will tell a sad story.They then started up the steps
After 2 hours it was Harry's turn. He turned to the other two and said "Ok guys, here's my sad story. I forgot the keys downstairs. 


Comments: I honestly don't get the joke...

Brother

Honestly little siblings are just plain annoying sometimes, but you love them anyways.
Sometimes mY little brother Justin can be such a pain, I would cast him out of my room, but even though he is only four, he has a strong detmination and bangs on my door. Because I have no lock, I can not stop him, so i have to stand behind the door to make sure he doesn't come in again.
Tonight he didn't want to go to bed and was in mya room trying to escape my mom. He hates brushing his teeth... When I decided to hug him. It was such a bueatiful feeling. Not that I have never hugged my brother before, it's just I never noticed how cute he was. Sometimes people forget about this kind of stuff, when they area busy with other stuff in life. When I was hugging him, I suddenly marveled at how he was another being. Another living breathing person, and I had seen him grow up. I suddenly think of the idea that he has his own soul and it is staring at me throught hose big eyes. I suddenly realized that he was

Friends

Yesterday I met my friends from elementary school, it was kinda like a pre-birthday party. Because I wasn'T having a party this year, we just decided to go to Metrotown and hang.
It was super fun like always, even though one of my friends had to leave early. Apparently her mom was angry at her for coming home after the time they agreed on one day.
We had so much fun, when you are people who really know pyoiu and are BFFs, it is fun no matter what you are doing.
Me and my friends go way back, I met them in grade 3, and we have been close friends ever since. We are still BFFs (best friends forever), even though I was in China for 2 years. We always kept in contact with each other, and somehow our friend ship survived, despite everything.
I love the three of other so much, and know that they are they only people who really now me well other than my family.
Basically I got a free shopping spree yesterday because of my birthday. I got a book called "The Great Book" of amber, I can't wait to read it because my friend said it was really good. I am really busy reading these days because I just found this really cool series and I am dying to finish it.
I was too hyper yesterday, so didn't write my blog, this is the Makeup!

Empathy #4

  A couple days ago I found out my science student teacher used to be a professional baseball  player : 0 I think he quit baseball because he broke his left arm or something. He let us watch this really good movie in science, it is called like gattaca or something 0.0 but it was really sad in the end because the second main character killed him self : (




Comment: I really enjoyed the movie Gattaca, to the point where I watched it again at home. Interesting how a lot of people used to play sports but don't anymore because of injuries. In Gattaca one of the main characters was in a wheel chair, he couldn't walk. Even though I was sad to see him kill himself, I thought the whole thing was his choice. Since he chose to die, then I respect it.

Emphathy #3

 AWW YAH today was soo awesome, I played games for like the whole day, from 8 in the morning to like... 10 o clock at night, each game took me like 30 minutes and i at least played 12 games ;3  I also made a couple youtube videos, check out the latest one XDhttp://www.youtube.com/user/SniffingDeath?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/NVKnQekVLuk I had instant noodles and a lot fo snacks for lunch and it was deeeliiiiciouus <3


Comment: Playing games all day sounds really fun, I hope I can do that. My mom is limiting my computer time!

Storm

  My memory... This happened a few days ago but I forgot to write about it.
  On Monday night this week, there was a big storm. The whole night the wind was howling. My window must have been facing the exact direction the wind was coming from, because it did not give me a moment of rest that night. At first it was the occasional whispering of the wind against my window, then it became banging, then smashing. I could hear all these stuff hitting my window, I think it was the wind. When I got up Tuesday morning, there were no electricity. The bus stop was broken, even this swing chair in the backyard was tipped over. I basically had no sleep that night because of the wind. It kept me on an edge, I would doze off, wake up and never be able to sleep again for a long period of time. I only remembered to write about this, because there was really big winds when I was coming home today and it reminded me of my sleepless night.
  Here is the video of the waving squirrel. I apologize if the language is undistinguishable, it is probably in Chinese.

 I hope the storm does not start again tonight, I am really looking forward to meeting with some of my old elementary friends tomorrow...

Basketball

  Never thought I'd say this, but basketball is really fun!
  When I was in elementary school, my mom used to make me learn basketball. She signed me up for all these after school practices. I wasn't very good. Most of the time, I looked at the others play because no one would pass me the ball. I was shorter than most at the time, and it didn't help my situation. I couldn't shoot very well, still can't. I can dribble, but chances are the ball is going to fall out of my grasp if I dribble it too much. Playing basketball again in P.E, it helped me understand what I was really good at.
  We started basketball last week, at first it was only the simple stuff, shooting hoops, dribbling. But then we started to play 2 on 2 and 3 on 3. It became more fun, and I was ultimately god at checking people. I can follow the person around and make sure that they can't get the ball, well most of the time. Today for P.E we were playing Ms.May's class and it was so fun. I sweated a lot, that means lots of exercise. I would love to do it again, but we are starting square dancing next class. Even though I am not looking forward to the square dancing, I have nothing against it. In fact, I have had worse. In china, we had to waltz for our graduation ceremony. Square dancing is nothing compared to that!

Concert Choir

  The Concert Choir was another interesting experience. It was held at Killarney High School. I roughly recall having been to Killarney on a choir concert when I was still in elementary school. My elementary school was very close to Killarney, so lots of people went there after they graduated. I was hoping to see some of my old friends or classmates, but didn't see any there tonight.
  I was at debate club and got home pretty late, I rushed through dinner and got dropped off at Killarney. My mom along with my brother, auntie, and cousin all came to see me. Because the concert festival lasted for about 4 hours, they left after our choir sang. We got there are around 6 and the whole thing ended at almost 10.
  At first it was all really exciting, the Churchill intermediate choir (which is the one I am in) and the Senior choir were combined together for out first performance. We were the second to perform, right after Hamber. After a few more songs things started to get boring. Not to say the songs were not good, but you could feel the thought of sitting there in the room for another 3 to 4 hours settle in, and you start to feel like your chair is strangely uncomfortable. By the time half the choirs performed, the room was uncomfortable because it was too warm. I was looking forward to hearing the Magee choir sing, after all it is said to be a great choir. The whole performance was very lively and creative, but I thought the song lacked more emotion and connection. I thought the senior choir from Churchill, who had to go right after Magee, did a great job! I thought the choirs that did the best job tonight was Hamber, Killarney, Churchill and of course Magee.
  Also, you would have thought that standing in front of a bunch of other fellow singers would make you feel nervous. But the truth was it wasn't bad at all. My cousin says that when I performed when I was small, my face would always twitch because I extremely nervous. Well, I was sure I didn't even twitch once today. In fact, I thought the whole process to be fun and entertaining. I think we should do this more often, but maybe in a samller time range...

Empathy #2

   dang it, my internet was sooo screwed up today! Here is the story, today I came back from school and I was going to go on the computer to play some games. When I opend the computer, everything was fine and once I opend this game called league of legends and everything started to lag, I was moving without moving my legs in game and after that my whole internet crashed for like... 5 hours !!!


Comment: Internet can really suck sometimes... Too much Technology

Central Park

  My mom thinks I stay home too much so she insisted on my coming along when she took my brother our for a walk at central park.
  We saw a lot of squirrels, and it was really cold.
  The two lakes were frozen and some ducks were walking on it. The whole time we walked around the lake I was fighting to urge to step onto the ice for no other reason than to see if it breaks.
  Later we saw THE squirrel. The one that can wave at you. My cousin went to Central Park with her friend once and they saw the squirrel. It would wave and say hi to you to get food, they even recorded it. Today I was pretty sure the squirrel that stood up and was going to wave at me before my brother attacked him with nuts was  THE squirrel. Too bad I didn't get a chance to see it actually wave.
  The cold was biting into my skin and there was no way to stop it, so my mom decided to race us back to the car. The running kept us warm, despite the running, we were all very energized when we finally got to the car.
  Parks are fun, but I think I prefer to go there during summer time. In winter there is just so much ice, snow, and frost.

90 Degrees

  My auntie took some of her friends out for dinner and she took me along. We went to this spinning restaurant. So it is a restaurant that is on the top of this hotel called Cloud 9. It spins around while you eat. My auntie says it spins a circle in one and a half hours, but I think it is more than that.
  When I first sat down I felt really strange because I thought the walls were spinning, but then I realized that it was me. The whole platform we were sitting on was spinning.
  The restaurant was okay, but the spinning was a little distracting. I could see the city below me and it was a beautiful sight. We saw the city and the sea, the cars passing below us were little lights. I started to get dizzy if I stare outside for too long.
  One of the funny things that happened was how we couldn't find the washroom. Because the platform we were on was spinning but the washroom was at the same place, we couldn't find it. The first time we walked a long time from out table to get to the washroom, the second time the washroom was right beside our table. On the third time we were so confused we had to walk a whole circle to find it.
  The spinning restaurant was really cool, but I don't think I wanna go there again because there were a little too much spinning for one night.

Snow

  It snowed today.

  I know it snowed yesterday too, but I never got around to seeing it outside.

  This morning, there was still left over snow from yesterday. I wasn't expecting the snow so soon. I have always imagined snow as a December thing. The snow was beautiful and white as always...

  When I was small winter used to be my favourite season because of snow. I didn't even care about the cold weather and bare trees, just the snow. I used to love it, I get hyper all the time when I see that it was snowing. I think it might be because I am growing up or I finally realized how cold it was, winter is suddenly not my favourite season any more. Now my favourite season would be summer or maybe spring even, but not winter. Winter was cold, the wind was harsh and the frost is bitter. The trees are bare, the ground is mushy, and the skies are grey. I still enjoy winter, the snow and the hail, but not like before. I would now rather bath in the sunlight than roll in the snow. I would rather build a sand castle then make a snow angel. Snow will always be one of the things in life that makes me smile and excited.

  Life contains so much worries and burden, a little snow cannot lighten the weight. But I love it any way.

Shadows

  As I walk down the cold dark street, my ear are pricked up and my eyes are on high alert. I turn around to check if I have a stalker, yes, I do that. But there are none of course...
  Yesterday I was walking down the street and it was already dark. The street lamps were on and it cast a faint glow onto the side walk. I was walking when I turned around again to check behind me when it caught my eye. A black shadow was advancing on me, there were 2 shadows besides me. The one at the back was darker and gaining fast, at first I thought there was someone behind me. But when I turned around to check there was nothing. Worried at what had just happened I studied my own shadow closely. After walking a few paces there were two shadows again and I can see that they are both me. The darker one would overtake the first one which grow faint and disappears. The process is repeated many times. It was really cool to see, but every time I the second shadow appear out of no where suddenly, it still surprises me.
  When you walk under a street light, the light shines directly on you and casts a shadow. You walk forward and come to a place where another street lamp's light can also hit you (that is if the two street lamps are close enough). When you are at a place where both street lamps lights are shining on you, then you have two shadow. As you walk further away from the first street lamp the first shadow dims and disappears while the second shadow grows stronger.
  The whole process was fascinating to watch, I observed this on Willingdon or was it Central Blv(somewhere beside Crystal Mall)? I can't remember, but shadows are always interesting and mysterious.

Empathy #1

  Once again my mom and I had intense arguments again. This time it was about me playing video games, first out of all, i wasn't god damn playing video games! All I did was look at gmail for incoming emails from people. After our first argument, my mom kept on creeping into my room and popping out to check whether im playin games or not -.- now imma go sleep cause im exausted from swimming and arguing with my mom :)

Comments: My mom is really annoying too, she would always try to hug me... But she is pretty free abou tmy computer time, for now at least...

Waiting

  The drizzling rain makes the world colder, harder and sadder.
  I don't really enjoy rainy days, it makes me feel gloomy. All the black clouds, whispering winds. Not exactly cheerful.
  So today after school I went to Marpole Community Centre for a youth club meeting, and finished at around 5. Mimi didn't come with me toady and it was all dark and creepy outside. I phoned my mom to come pick me up, because I didn't want to walk 15 minutes to the bus stop, in the dark, in the rain (which seemed to get harder and harder). So I just went back to school and waited. I guess it could be much worse. I can imagine me walking with my umbrella the wind blowing it sideways, the rain pelting my head. My jacket getting wet, and water seeping into my shoes... Not nice. Honestly, if the day was still open and bright, I wouldn't mind walking through the rain at all. I am one for experiences, and even walking in the rain can be a valuable piece of memory.  I have to admit I was also scared for my own safety, because I don't really like the dark and there are strange people lurking around sometimes. Better safe than sorry, that is what my mom tells me.
  So I waited for my mom for almost an hour in the school, and read the book for English. I realized that when you are waiting for something, you always pay more attention to your surroundings. I never noticed the shields beside the statue before.
  I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow.

The Art of War

  My cousin has the book The Art of War.
  It is by Sun-tzu who is a general from a long time ago in China. It tells you about how to win wars, the strategies, everything. I heard American generals were required to read it.
  I am reading the English version, but my dad read the Chinese one.
  My dad's favourite phrase is "Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting." If this could be achieved in war, then the world would be much more peaceful.
  The book is really deep. It tells you about war itself, what war should be and the best ways to win a war. As it says in a book "War is a grave affair of state; It is a place of life and death, a road to survival and extinction, a matter to be pondered carefully."
  If I remember correctly, Sun-tzu was in the time of the Three Kingdoms. And the tale of the Three Kingdoms is one of my favourite stories (it is also a book). There are many kinds of war strategies in the tale, and it was a time of great war, so how each tactic was used was very exciting.
  The Art of War is a very inspiring book in many ways. I hope I can get my hands on a Chinese version so I can read it too. I think maybe the original version may be even better than the translated one, after all no two languages are exactly the same.

The Beet Queen

  I am reading this book for English and it is sort of boring me.
  It is called "The Beet Queen", and the only part where it really got my interest so far was the beginning of the book. It just kinda got more and more confusing and indifferent.
  I was really angry at the mother in the book because she left her own children to fend for themselves. It was completely selfish and morally wrong. I marvel at how different each of her children's points of views are. Her son still thinks she is a queen and demands her love no matter what. On the other hand, her daughter hates her and wishes to have nothing to do with her (she would rather let her mother believe she was dead). Her youngest child, whom she "abandoned" soon after he was born, has no idea who is really is and is living a normal life.
  Out of the three kids I think the little boy got the best life, what you don't know can't hurt you. The girl is very lucky because she was able to find a new life with her auntie, and her strong skills of survival has helped her a lot.
  It is funny how a family of 4 soon separate into nothing at all. The mother leaves her children, the children could not provide for the baby so he was taken away by strangers. The son leaves his sister at their auntie's. I feel like there is something really wrong here, a family should stick together yet they choose to leave, to abandon. And in the end, in the end they always find each other again. The world is a small place, whether they wish it or not, they find each other again.

Good Night

  It is so late now.
  My cousin's friends came over and we played a game called Digital. It totally killed out brain cells.
  My mom brought these games from China and they are really fun. One of them after translation is "Werewolf Night", the other one is "The Killer Game". Because it required a lot of people to play, so me and my cousin never had a chance to learn what it was really about. Today we had 5 people in all, and it was just enough to play the game.
  I am so tired right now, going to go to sleep.
  Long Weekends are so awesome!

Remembrance Day

  Today is Remembrance Day.
  We didn't do anything much...
  I stayed home all day. I think my computer is not in a very good shape. I am trying my best to clean it and check for viruses.
  I can't believe we have another 4 day long weekend ahead of us. Not that it isn't good, but I find it harder to get back into our normal schedules because of the long weekend.
  Okay my computer needs to restart to fix itself.
  Lest We Forget.

Choir

  Today choirs were singing at the assemblies for Resemblances Day. I felt pretty neutral to all the "singing in front of the whole school" thing, until we got to the grade 9s, which included people I know. I was really nervous for that performance, and I definitely learned my lesson. Someone can NOT sing when they are nervous (which involves tense muscles, tight jaws, and occasionally clenching fists, or maybe shaky knees...). Ms. Dionne would always ask us to relax our muscles before every practice, I realized how important it was to feel comfortable. If your muscles were tense, you basically couldn't sing right. Your notes come out strained and you aren't singing everything in the right tone. I had a first hand experience and it was bad.
  I was also surprised at how much we had to sing. Singing 3 same songs for 4 times in a row is not exactly what I would call interesting. I thought we only had to do the assemblies 2 times, but instead it was doubled.
  Nevertheless, I had a great time singing, and getting to know people in the choirs better. It was also really fun noticing how every assembly is, NO matter what you do (unless you put the whole entire school in for one assembly), noticeably different. Different people, different moods, different times, it changes everything.
  "In Flanders Fields" was my favourite song, and I love the poem too. A good song+ a good poem is simply stunning. I remember when I first sang it, it sent shivers down my spine. I think we did a great performance, and I can't wait till our next one.

Typos

  I can't find my tool bar!!! It just disappeared! I can't find it unless I go to my desktop.
  I am more than happy to say that I can now type blind. I think this was the topic I wanted to write about the day before yesterday. I have a lot of typos when I type. I find that typing is so much more different than writing. When you write you use your own style and handwriting and you can see the words sprawled onto the paper one by one. Your hands move from left to right, left to right. The sensation is very memorable, I really think the world would suck if people never wrote stuff down with their hands any more.
  I love to write cursive, I think it is a beautiful style. The problem with my writing is that I have never found a style that is most like me. When I was small, when I wrote English, I either wrote in cursive to make it look pretty, or wrote in my normal boring handwriting that looks messy. I see my mom or my cousin's handwriting, and I feel like what they were writing was always a bit of both. I have been trying to write like that, but it just doesn't work out well. I always ended up writing in cursive or normal towards the end, it is like my handwriting is a rubber band and no matter how hard I tried to shape it into something else, it always snapped back into place.
  Back to typos, see when you write something down on a piece of paper, it lessens the possibly of you have a typo (or writing something wrong), because you are reading the things you write and writing new stuff at the same time, which really helps you catch the small mistakes people normally make you are not careful. When I type, sometimes I still have the habit of looking at my keyboard. And when you look at your keyboard, you wouldn't be able to see or read what you just wrote. Hence all the typos I make.
  Also I realize that typing stuff all the time does no help you your vocabulary learning and spelling skills. When I type stuff on Microsoft, google docs, or blog, it will always correct me if I spell something wrong. To some point, I am relying on the spelling corrector way more than I should. Sometimes I use this word, I know what it is and briefly how to spell it, but I just can't remember clearly, so I write down what I think, if it is wrong the spelling checkers thing will point it out. If not, then it is right. But unlike Microsoft which comes with everything, when you write blogs it doesn't correct your grammatical mistakes...
  I don't see why this website does not recognize the word "blog", "mom", or "google"

Can't remember

  Yesterday I promised my self that I would write about something one my blog today. I had this really interesting idea, but now I can't remember anything!!!

  Tomorrow is a collaborative day, so I am using this opportunity to read some more stuff online. There are a lot of good books coming out around this time. November, December, and January are popular months to publish books. I can't wait till the release of Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare. Other books I have been waiting for a long time has came out too. It is time to pay Chapters another visit.

  I was in a really bad mood today, I am getting a really bad mark in Science...

  Okay, not talk about that.

  I  have been reading quite a few books lately and everyone of them seems to have something to do with memory lose or amnesia. Usually it wasn't just normal amnesia so it was all different. Maybe the Vampire and Werewolves era is coming to an end. I think the Witches, shape shifters, and angels are coming into popularity. Characters in the books I read just keep losing their memories, almost all at the same time!

   -Damon from the Vampire Diaries died and lost his memory

   -Percy from The Son of Neptune got his memory erased by Hera

   -Nora from Silence got her memory erased by a Nephilm

   -Ren from The Tiger's Curse series "blocked" his own memory

If 4 books are not enough to prove that getting amnesia is starting to be a trend in books (and there are definitely more), then I can only say that I am only following books with memory problems. Maybe it reflects my bad memory??? I hope not.

  Even though I read and knit hats all day, doesn't necessarily mean I am turning into an old lady. Not that there is anything wrong with that...

  Goooing tooo gooo
   (-Cassel from Cursed Worker series had chunks of his memory missing
    -Clary from City of Bones had pieces of memories missing too
    -Eric from Sookie Stackhouse series couldn't remember who he was)

Silence

Silence

Becca Fitzpatrick

(Third book of the Hush Hush saga)

My rating: 4 Stars

Source: Web (see below)

Release Date: October 25, 2011

Genre: Fiction/romance?

  COMMENTS:

  I saw this book in Chapters the other day, I read the first 2 books so I was really excited to read it.

  I couldn't wait for the library, so I searched it up online. Usually I go to this free online web called www.onread.com, but I think they are making you charge for books these days. So like every other person who has a problem on their hands, I Google it!

  It came up with this web site www.scribd.com, and it amazed me! It had even more books than the other website, it was all free and you can also download stuff. Honestly I think the fonts you can read it in is bigger too so it is better for your eyes.

  I haven't finished reading the book yet, but have to go to bed. So far, it has kept me interested, no doubt I will be thinking about it all day tomorrow. The main character in the story lost her memory and it was an interesting experience when you know that the character knows some body but the character herself doesn't know it. It is also kind of annoying because I read the first 2 books a long time ago and I am forgetting who some of the characters are. Since the girl doesn't know her, I have to be in the dark for a long time.

  OH yeah I almost forgot, I might be doing our English debate tomorrow...

  I have officially learned how to type without looking at the key board. I still make some mistakes, but I guess all these days of typing has finally paid off!

  Going to sleep now, such a long day, Mondays....

Local standard time

  Today my uncle was like "change your clocks, change your clocks! It's local standard time now!"
  I was thinking, by turning the clock back one hour, we had one more hour today.
  I piano classes and I wasn't sure if I should use the old time or the new time. I was hoping my piano teacher changed her time too.
  It was kind of funny, because I was writing notes on the computer, and every time I checked the clock, I would subtract an hour. Soon when said 12:30 on my clock, I thought it was still 11:30. My mom was making me eat lunch, and I was like "why are we eating so early?" I didn't question the whole time thing, because I was busy thinking about the socials essay test tomorrow.
  After I had my lunch I decided to switch the time on my computer. But when I was trying, I realized that the computer already changed the time by itself. Wow! It is so smart, even smarter than me, I should have given it more credit.
  One more hour, which means, we all get to get up later "one hour later" tomorrow.

Homeless...

  Yesterday night I tried the "sleep on your bed with your normal clothe and no quit thing". I was in my clothe that I wear at home (which is equivalent to the amount of clothe I wear normally). I thought that wearing your normal clothe onto your bed was too dirty.
  I opened my windows of course, and you could feel the cold November air rushing in your room. I didn't even need to cover the heater vents because the air flowed so freely. At first it was okay, I didn't feel really cold, maybe just a little uncomfortable. Soon I started sneezing, and that was when everything went bad. After I sneezed, I continued sneezing. I was rolling around on my twin size bed trying to find a position where the wind didn't get to me. I soon found it impossible, so I just settled for moving once in a while so that I won't have to be cold at one place for the whole time. That was when I realized how uncomfortable my bed was with all the bed sheets on, and it made me want to crawl under and sleep nice and warmly. In the end I ended up hugging my self and curled into a ball at the same time. After around an hour of no sleep, I finally decided to just go and sleep like normal.
  I thought it was an interesting experience, I probably won't be able to sleep for even one night if I was homeless...
  I told my mom about the project, she started laughing after I told her about the sleeping on card board part. And then she waved me away and dismissed the subject, saying that it was too cold to be sleeping on the floor... But I might try it anyway, there just happens to be a lot of people in the house today, so I might be able to find a spot on the floor.

Football and Hail

  This is something that happened yesterday. I completely forgot about it until my French teacher mentioned it when we were talking about the weather after class.
  Yesterday it hailed!!! And I was lucky enough to have P.E. right when it happened. When our class first started there was only some signs of rain. So our whole class went out to the field. During the time we were running laps it started to rain, when we started playing football it rained harder. It kept raining more and more, the sky turned grey and the wind picked up. The rain was hitting us so hard, at first you can still tell it was only water, but after a while the water became solid and the hailing began.
  Our teacher called us and said we could go in and get under cover. But the boys in our class was just like 'its okay, lets keep playing'. So instead of taking cover, we continued playing football. I was really glad I had a jacket, but even with it on I still got soaked. (I finally get why we have to change for P.E. class)
  Towards the end of class, the sun started to show again, and the hail finally stopped, and a small drizzling settled.
  It was surprisingly very fun, I don't think I have ever been outside in that kind of weather before. We were playing football!!!