Good Blood Pressure

So, today was kinda boring...

I woke up late, cleaned, watched anime, played tennis, went to a prayer meeting among a few other things. My brother has a blister on a blister from playing tennis, so... xP kinda painful.....

Anyways, today, I'm not exactly sure how, me and my brother remembered this online series called "Making Fiends." It's rather funny. I think originally ND told me about it in like grade 6 (back when we were friends... >.>) when there were actually new episodes. Since then apparently it's been on Nickelodeon and there's a number of actual TV episodes which are more in depth and clearly had a higher budget, but the originals were way cooler... no random solo from Mr. Milk...

So, ya.

I recently finished watching a show that a friend had told me to watch about a year ago or something. I only started watching it because I didn't have anything else to watch. You see, when I'm bored I'll just go to animecrazy.net and watch a show, but if none of the shows I'm currently watching have a new episode I will watch an episode from another anime. I usually have one other anime that has been done for a while that I watch when there's nothing else to watch and I didn't have anything to watch, so I started watching the show he suggested. It was kinda depressing and gory, but actually a pretty cool anime...

Anyways, now I'm watching this show called "Ouran Highschool Host Club" because I've heard a number of people talk about it before and I kinda wanted to know what they were talking about. xP It's kinda funny. xP It's often a bit awkward... The show is about this poor girl who goes to this fancy rich school and stumbles upon the host club. They mistake her to be a guy and make her join the club because she broke an expensive vase and couldn't pay for it. The host club basically is a group of guys that get money from girls that will pay to talk to them / stare at them... Ummm.... so, now that they all know that she's actually a girl they have to cover up that fact so that she can stay in the club... Also the guys in the club kinda like her... Awkward...

So, ya...

Today I asked Pastor DB for another bible study book. There are 24 studies in it, so I'll have something to do now. I really want to be prepared for when we go on the missions trip to brooklyn in august. I kinda wanted to get a more begginer bible study book because it would probably be simpler and more useful, but this one will at least take up some of my spare time...

Anyways, I'm going to sleep so that I can wake up and have a fun Canada Day with the YA. xP

Ttyl.

D.Fa

"Hey AL, I hope your training is going well and that you've met a bunch of friends. It's probably amazing working for CEF for a whole summer... Probably way more amazing then having a girlfriend, but I wouldn't know... xP"

Bug Catcher's are Always the Weakest Pokemon Trainers... >.>

So. Hey.

I did not get to bed until like 1:30 yesterday... >.> but there is a good reason! I was talking through YC to a recent graduate of biochem at Carleton (which is what I'm doing) about stuff. I havn't thought about it today though...

I woke up at 10... or was it 11..? I watched anime (Bleach ftw!!), played tennis, had lunch..? then I went to work.

Work was boring, but I found a couple of caterpillers and a moth. I really like bugs... xP I always catch them expecting to keep them as pets. The caterpillers were really boring... so was the moth. They did almost nothing the whole like 4 hours I had them... They barely moved... I guess bugs are cold-blooded, eh? It's kinda cold in the back room........ Anyways, since they did nothing I decided to just let them go. I carried them outside and let them go...

I probably spent far too much time playing with those bugs while I was at work... xP

So, ya...

Since I'm planning to move out this year there are a few things I've been thinking about:
1. If I move out I have to pay rent.
2. If I have to pay rent, I have to work.
3. I have a job...
4. My timetable is kinda full... like 8-5 everyday doesn't really let me work 6:30-12, 10-4, or 3-11 shifts... (produce shifts)
4. If I stayed at my current work place I'd have to work both Saturday and Sunday every week............ (no thank you.)
5. I have to get a new job...
So... I'm going to have to get on that... I'll have to make a new resume, get some references and then go out and deliver them... Which I might do with RL if he still hasn't... >.>

So, ya...

D.Fa

"Hey AL... I don't have a girlfriend, but you have a drama-game-handicapped boyfriend... That's not much better. xP jk... but really... the trip to Montreal was really drama-kid oriented... especially the scavanger hunt and the various games we played... xP... nvm.... ... awkward pirate. ..."

Ticking Clocks

So. Today was another wasted 24 hours, or at least I wasted 20 or so...

I didn't wake up until around 10. I read a chapter and a bit of Luke as well as Phillipians, but I guess I was kinda tired and didn't really absorb it all that much... I watched some anime and played around with my schedule for next year.

I drew a bunch of timetables with pencil crayons and pens. I have to take an "approved art credit", but I don't really know what it means by "approved art credit," so I think I'm gonna go to Carleton Wednesday and talk to someone... I tried fitting Japanese or even Mandarin into my schedule, but they wouldn't fit... I suppose I can always sign up for Saturday school again if I want to keep doing that, but it's kinda annoying to have to go Saturday mornings... Especially if I have homeowrk... I'd also have to take a placement test to determine which class I should take becuase I know more then absolutely nothing about Japanese... I played around with it for at least an hour or two then I was told to eat lunch before cleaning...

I havn't told my parents that I plan on moving out next year. I don't think I really realize what's going to happen because it's kinda a big thing and my parents, or at least my mom, want me to stay as long as possible, but I kinda want to live on my own or with some church buddies to just change it up I guess. I've never moved. I've lived in this house my whole life. Even if it's just down the road, moving out would be cool. Sure it would cost a bit and with my schedule I might not get to work as much, just trying it out for a bit would be cool. I could always move back if I need to.

So, I snuck out tonight and went to work to ask the slacker to switch shifts with me Friday and Saturday. He had plans with his friends Friday night, but that actually made him want to switch Saturday shifts. So, now I'm working 4-11 Friday and 8-4 Saturday... xP... but at least I don't have to find a replacement for worship team and I get to go to YF. The useless guy seems to have booked off Friday, so I may have to work that night... So much for YA this week. I hope we do something cool for Canada Day.

xP. I went to play tennis with my brother today and the other court steward wasn't there. I guess I was supposed to be working..? I showed up on time to work and left around the time I was supposed to, so I guess that counts..? I didn't have my key though, so I couldn't go into the lodge and sign off the hours. I may do that later this week.

I'm gonna try to even out my sleep schedule... Like go to sleep around 11:30-12 not 1ish and wake up 8ish not 10-11.

So, I've been playing with my timetable again. It seems I have 5 choices for which "Art" course I take. I think. Psychology, Philosophy, some English course, Film Studies, or Linguistics. If those are "Arts" then I'll get to decide...

So, ya...

D.Fa

"Hey AL, registering is hard and work is annoyingly time consuming... no time to look for girlfriends even..."

Unplanned Plans. ie Expectations

So, ya...

Today highschool ended. Today was our last dixie gig. We played 8 songs on a stage downtown for the International Jazz Fest in Ottawa and, ya... that was the end of highschool for me. Mr. CR said a lot of true things today. We have been in that dixie band for 4 years. It was like, the second thing I joined in the first couple weeks of highschool. First was Jr. Jazz, but that ended two years ago...

Anyways, I have been in that band for four years, we have played so many gigs I can't count... school concerts, bethel gigs, senior residences, fundraisers, meet the teacher nights, Santa Clause Parades, 24hr Musicathons, Musical Chairs, etc. We've had a few changes, mostly this last year, with who was in the band (a different bass/tuba player every year and having to replace 3 graduates) but the frontline has been the same for four years (aside from the tenor player).

It's kinda sad in a way that it's actually done... I mean, for the past two years Mr. CR kept saying that it was done and then in September throwing it back together because we already had a couple gigs... >.> but I suppose you can't go to Queens and drag RM back... It's not quite as easy anymore...

I wish we had played a better last song... I definately murdered the solo and missed half the notes... but it was cool that we played Hello, Dolly! though. Nostalgia.... We could have lived without St. James Infirmary though. I hate that song... >.>

So... ya... after that I had to go to work... I tried booking it off, but they just pushed it back 2 hours instead of getting someone else... >.> When I got there I discovered that the schedule for the next two weeks was up. . . I'm working like 10 of the next 14 days................ Grrrr...........

JS had been inviting me to random things like every day all week, but I was always busy doing somehting... I had been telling him that I would be free in July to do random things at night like see Toy Story or play pool or hang out or play risk at mcdonalds at 11 pm or anything.... I might not even get to go to YA this week! Grrrrrrr... or YF!!! .......... Tommorow I am going to deal with this... hopefully I can change shifts with MR and work the day shifts on Fridays and Saturdays............... We need another person in produce... there's like the boss, the right-hand man, two guys who do very few day shifts, a keener who does dayshifts, but is allergic to corn, a completely useless guy who does one thing then disappears for an hour, and the other guy who does nothing more then needed, although he does this is good time and then wastes the extra time smoking or slacking, and then me, who is a perfectionistic yet lazy person. GRrrrrrr.

I don't even want money! I just want to hangout with my friends!!!

Grrrrrrrrr.....

But I can't really be angry at my boss... He hasn't done anything wrong.. I didn't book off YA nights... I didn't actually say I needed nights off to do random things with JS... So I can only be angry at me and my selfish desire to hangout with my friends.... I should be grateful to have a paying job and a pile of friends, that although I don't get to hang out that much, they havn't given up on me, yet...

Grrrrr.....

Anyways, I should go to sleep so I can wake up and deal with all these things.... I may want to go to Carleton and deal with my timetable too...

Grrrr.....

D.Fa...

"Hey AL, I hope you're having a blast because my life just exploded... As I have told you before, having a job is not synonamous with having a life. You are having a life, I am having slave labour....... without a girlfriend no less..."

"The Dragon is Sla-i-ain!"

So, ya...

The other day (Thursday) was our graduation ceremony, you know, the one where everyone walks across the stage and gets their diploma..? The ceremony started at 10 and went until 12:20 or so. It was in our gym... ie. it was super mega way too hot... xP especially if you are wearing a suit under a cap and gown surrounded by another thousand or so hot sweaty people clapping and waiting for their children to get to the stage at which time they run to the front with cameras and take like 20 blurry pictures of their child accepting a piece of paper that says "good for one diploma with return of gown", while texting one of your friends who to your surprise wasn't there.

Then we went to the cafetorium for the reception, ie the place where all the people dying of heat stroke and exhaustion go to drink PC Sparkling Lemonade that has been pumped through a drink fountain until it no longer sparkles and eat maple leaf shaped cookies or mini cupcakes with edible diploma and cap shaped frosting while everyone takes a million pictures (especially YC) and everyone says "Are you going to prom tommorow?|" excitedly until I say "no, I'm going to Montreal" at which time they then say "Well... have a good life" or "Well... See ya." dryly... >.>

So, ya... My parents couldn't stand the heat or the person beside them, so they left pretty much immediately after I crossed the stage. Well, whatever. The funny thing was that my brother's girlfriend was there, but not my brother...

So, Ya... After that I decided to cut up the dragonfruit I had bought and the star fruit I had bought on Wednesday. The dragonfruit was kinda bland... The starfruit, although not bland, was kinda too sour... xP anyway... here are some pictures!!!








Ya, weird eh..?

Anyways, later that same day was the final playoff softball game before the championship on Saturday. Each of the other teams had a win in the playoffs, so we needed this to even have a chance, we also needed to win by quite a bit because it would come down to the number of runs determining who moves on if we win. It had rained earlier and so the game was moved to another field. Everyone was there and we played a great game. We ended up winning by about 5 runs. We didn't win by enough, but it doesn't matter that much. Winning is fun and all, but being on a team that can grow and improve together while all being friends and fighting through the challenges is way cooler. In the end our team only had two wins... our first and last games of the season, but it was cool to win our last game.

So, ya...

D.Fa

P.S. "Hey AL, registering for university courses is pretty hard... probably as hard if not harder than getting a girlfriend, but I don't have a girlfriend, so I don't know how hard that can be..."

Pie-Flavoured Candies

So, JC has been asleep for a while, basically since he sat down on the train he has been out. We took random photos VB's faces were pretty much priceless.

We are playing a ridiculous drama game, or at least I assume, called "Who's Closest?" In this game there is a judge who decides on a topic. The competitors then choose a topic to guess. Everyone's choices are announced and then the competitors try to proove that their choice is closest, well, not really... They just need to get the judge to say that their guess was closest.

Choice.

D.Fa

P.S. Lololololololololol *pause to breathe* lolololololololololololololololol "the other people on the train are worried about you." lolololololololololol "The trains pretty quiet except for us, eh..? We're the 'people' at the back." lolololololololololol "We should record this!" *silence* "We are not going to stop recording until you laugh" *silence* ... Lol

Grand-Theft Quadricycle

So, we had a couple hours left in Old Moltreal. We decided to rent a Quadricycle. You have to be 18, or at least one of you, to rent one. I just happen to be the only 18 year-old at the moment, so I had to used mu messed up health card as ID... Embarassing...

We each took a turn driving. One person would be in the middle and not have to pedel. They would take pictures usually.

Anyways, we were pedaling rather fast and one of the chains got off the middle gear... We had to push it back... >.>...

We are now attempting to get back to the train station, but are progressing slowly because of photographic distractions... Or poor navigation...

so, ya...

D.Fa

Coveniently Placed Pants

So. We are just now finally done eating lunch. For takeout Pho, apparently the meat is uncooked and you're supposed to cook it using the soup broth. JC was uneasy about the beef.

So. My dryer is kinda not working at the moment, so my ability to do laundry is kinda hampered... So today we went to montreal, right..? So, I kinda needed clean clothes. It turns out that there was a pair that I had never worn. It takes pants a long time to dry....

Anyways...

D.Pho'

P.S. Lol

"Cig Arret" lol.

So, we have finished our photoscavanger hunt and now we have just ordered takeout Pho'. The only size was large for takeout... XP I hope it's tasty. Mmmmm

Vlogging in Montreal

So, hey.

We just got to Montreal and I kinda was semi-conscious during the second half of the ride.

Blogging by cellphone takes more time than vlogging... I know this because my asian friend who could be described as a kleptomaniac, or just chinese, is vlogging with his camera...

So, ya. Today should be cool.

Let's go!

D.Fa

"These things are always so cryptic."

So. Today I am going to Montreal for a fun day with some of my friends. Yesterday I was going to do a post about star fruit and graduation. If I am bored / have time today I may turn that post into two posts...

So, ya. I am currently on a train heading towards the Ottawa Train Station with three of five other people that were going to go today. One person didn't feel well and couldn't come with us today which kind of really sucks... I was looking forward to it...

Originally the trip was gonna be for a whole bunch of people, but we hadn't really decided what. Suddenly there was this sale on train tickets to Montreal and we bought 7. Then we were stuck trying to get a couple of people. A few people changed their minds and a few people ended up being unable to go, so... Only the six of us made a comittment to going.

So, I hope today is cool and I hope MR gets better soon.

So, ya...

D.Fa

"Pasani, was that you..?"

Ok, so...

I just felt my first earthquake. [We were having a dixie rehearsal, for the gig on Sunday, in the Music Basement.] Just all of a sudden the building shook from one side to the other and everyone in the band was like "Ummm. What is this..?" This was immediately followed by the principal announcing in a panic "Everybody evacuate the building. This is an earthquake." or something like that.

[lol. The vice-principals were on their blackberries trying to figure out what happened]

It was pretty interesting. I mean, I'm kinda shaking [afterwards]. XP...

So, ya....

D.Fa

[P.S. A couple minutes after I posted this, we went back inside. The principal rambled on for like 5 minutes about nearly nothing, as he usually does, and then MR guessed it was a 5 on the richter scale and Mr. CR guessed it was more of a 3. It turns out it was a 5 here. xP. Geography Champion > Music Teacher.]

The Smell of Rain

So, ya... Today was another day. I have recently been going to sleep like past midnight and not waking up until like 10... xP Although I do like that I can sleep now, it seems like wasted time and going to sleep at 1 is probably not that great of an idea... Tommorow I have rehearsal at 1, so I should probably wake up a bit earlier.

So, I kinda changed the page a bit again. I kinda want the Title centered and with something under it so you can read it, but it's okay I guess.

Today's softball game was kinda wet, a bit, I guess... It kinda was raining the whole time we were playing... I don't think it had anything to do with all the anger though. We were playing against the team that has almost no losses for the whole season. Our coach really wants to win, so he gets angry at the umpire for missing little things or calling something different;y from what he saw. This has been happening for the past couple weeks with the same umpire. Today it kinda escalated. Our catcher even walked off the field because of him. In the end we lost something like 8-1. That 1 was really skecthy... xP If the other team hadn't missed a throw it would have been 8-0.

I was prepared to pitch, but wasn't needed (we only played 4 innings, starting with a female pitcher and we didn't play the bottom of the 4th because we had less points then them...)

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is pretty fun. Games where you collect things so that you can move on are kinda funny when you are a perfectionist. There are places on the map that you can't pass until you have a certain amount of stars. That amount (so that you don't need the hidden stars or even all of the obvious stars) is less then the perfectionist amount. I mean when I get there I'll have a number more then I need. It's just funny. Believe it!

So, ya. I thought that if it was raining hard enough the game would be post-poned, I would get to see Toy Story 3 with a bunch of friends, and I'd have to miss the make-up game because I'm too busy, but the game was played 'rain or shine'. Our possibly last game is Thursday. If we don't win it with enough runs we will automatically be third place, out of three teams... >.>

So. ya.....

"Hey AL, there's a window in my house that, I think, has been fully open for a few days, but I still don't have a girlfriend."

D.Fa

P.S. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is almost done!! The manga finished a couple weeks ago and there are only two episodes left!! This is the fifth opening entitled "Rain" by SID. I think this artist uses autotune, especially when he's doing vibrato... >.> It's still a cool song



P.P.S. I have a couple friends that post covers of Taylor Swift songs / Music Videos for random songs on youtube. I just watched their newest video. It made me smile. =D

P.P.P.S.

Ame no Woto

Drip Drip Drop.
The rain falls down
to the ground
never ceasing
never changing

Drip Drip Drop
close your eyes
listen to the sound
the relaxing
constant
Drip Drip Drop

Drip Drip Drop

Unscheduled

So, ya.

I've been noticing for a while, during a month, if the current day is in the month, my schedule will be full. As we approach the next month, it's schedule would fill up. However, July's schedule is practically empty. The only thing that has been added is Worship team three times... I mean, August is kinda full, but July is pretty much empty... Well, we'll see what happens.

So I actually got to work at the courts today. It was a great day and the courts were always full, but it was very boring... xP I havn't listened to my ipod that much in a long time.

Right... so my blog has suddenly, minorly changed appearance. This was originally by accident, but I couldn't get it back the way it was and some things about the new template were cooler... I kinda wish there was a simpler blueish background (Plain black was too boring) but it reminded me of this anime I had watched 'Sora no Manimani'. That show was a slice of life romantic comedy about this guy in the astrology club. I enjoyed it, only 12 episodes.

Anyways. Is the sudden change random enough..?

"Hey AL, you can't control everything. Just move forward and trust that what will happen is for the best. I don't have a girlfriend yet."

D.Fa

P.S. I also watch this anime (Fairy Tail). The artist of the Opening has an interesting style.

Starfruit..?

[GRRRR! The picture won't show if I post it directly from my phone!!! >=@ So here it is... ]



Okay. So.

Yesterday I bought dragonfruit and I kinda have to wait for it to ripen... >.<

I also kinda wanted to buy a star fruit and let it ripen (they were all green... But they weren't bruised yet like they get when they ripen as people are constantly touching them...)

Anyway, ya. That is a picture of a star-shaped strawberry, not a star fruit [with some fruit salads]. XP

This week we started getting Ontario strawberries. The first batch is apparently, usually terrible. There were just boxes upon boxes of tiny strawberries. A lot were less than perfect. Some were really weirdly shaped and I didn't want to waste my time cutting them up, so I just put them to the side. By the time I was done cutting the strawberries (I cut less than normal because they were just so small that it was a waste of time cutting them...) I had a lot of weirdly shapped strawberries, but there was this one star-shaped one which I thought was cool. I took a number of pictures of it. XP...

So, ya...

D.Fa

10:16 PM

So. Another day at work has left me slightly annoyed, desiring another job, and (I can't think of something else to type, but I had already typed the word 'and' ... and now I think of like three things...) tired, with random unusual produce and ...*

So. ya... I am currently thinking "What the heck am I going to do with this dragonfruit..?" this was of course after buying it and going "what the heck?!? 5$?!?" xP I bought it because it looked ripe, I've never had one and becuase LH bought one when we went to T&T the other day.

So, ya... I am about to facebook stalk HK. She added me as a friend a day ago and I have yet to look at her profile. The main reason I am looking forward to this is because she enjoys photography and has a Digital SLR! So I'm gonna stalk her photos. xP I hope to find a lot of cool pictures.

Umm. I don't have very much to do tommorow. I think I will practice softball pitching because my parents, V?, and RT all think I should try it. That practice never happened I think. There was a 'medical emergency'. I'm not sure if it was actually called off though..?

Anyways, I may end up doing / posting something random soon because my posts have been described as predictable, so ya... Be on guard because I may surprise you.

That's all for now I think. Except, I wish it were winter! I mean at about 5 pm in winter you can look up and see ALL the stars. Yesterday I looked up at 9:30 and saw one. One. 1. >0, <2. 1. Anyways. I'm not always that hypocritical. I mean, just because I was saying "Is it summer yet...?" for like 4 weeks and now I want winter... Well, I don't want all of winter, just the 'night' sky.

So. Ya. To HK's photo page!

D.Fa

*actually only two other things apparently... xP

1000 Miles

"Hey AL, I don't have a girlfriend, but I'm now officially YA."

So, ya...

Today I didn't do much. I woke up, played computer flash games, watched the One Acts DVD, watched anime and I went to YF.

I'm kinda tired. XP.

YF was cool. We watched most of a presentation from a youth conference. Youtube Paul Washer.

ya. XP

D.Fa

I never know what to bring to potlucks...

"Hey AL, I'm way too tired to blog right now. XP... YA was cool. We had a worship potluck. XP oh. I don't have a girlfriend..."

So ya... It's like almost midnight.

Today was pretty amazing. The start was rough but the rest was pretty cool.

playing frisbee baseball and water bottle basebowling in the e-wing.

I'm done with highschool. It hasn't hit.

Ya... If I wasn't staying in Ottawa next year, I may never see a whole bunch of my friends for a long time...

But I don't like saying goodbye, so I often just walk away from conversations... The other day I had to leave and go study. I walked by NJ and she got kinda annoyed because she said she might never see me again.

so ya.. I'm really tired...

D.Fa

Studying

"Hey AL, I see you like hunting for signatures too. xP I don't have a girlfriend, but I think I have more signatures then you."

So, as I said, this week is exam week.

Usually to study I read my notes or something. This time, not exactly.

This time I've basically been reading my textbooks from cover to cover the day before the exam. xP Sounds fun, eh? No, not really. Especially once you're down to 30 minutes before the exam and you still have 150 pages left... >.>

Of course I'm exagerating a bit. I don't read every word. I just skim and once time starts running out I just read every bolded word.

It actually seems to work, despite taking a lot of time. The problem is that I end up knowing way too many unecessary stuff. xP... But as long as I get all the bold words I should be fine, although sometimes they discuss the words a bit and go into application of the concepts...

Whatever, just physics left. Time to cram!

D.Fa

I tend to like their Japanese songs. xP

Kinou

So, ya...

Yesterday was really weird.

Let me start by saying when I'm hyper, I'm hyper. People often ask me if I'm drunk or high when I'm hyper. This is mostly because when I'm hyper Idon't use as much logic or thinking. Like, I'll make really impulsive decisions and stuff. I also want to run when I'm hyper or do some physical activity.

Tuesday after the softball game I was really hyper. Actually I became hyper in the last inning and was annoyed that I wouldn't get to bat again... Our team had like 13 people there and it was the bottom of the last inning. We were down by like 6 runs, so either we get 7 runs or we get 3 outs. Maximum of like 10 batters before either of those comes true. I was like the last one to bat the inning before, so ya...

After the game we went home and I was still hyper, it was still sunny and still warm. I wanted to play tennis. My brother was asleep... >.> I kinda left the house without telling anyone and went to the courts. There were no extra people there so I went into the lodge and got the members list. I called like 4 other teenaged guys I knew. None of them were at home. So that was no help. I ended up just hitting against the wall.

The wall isn't all that tall and I often lob the ball by accident... So I had to go fetch balls every once in a while. Because I was hyper I sprinted to get the balls. There's a feild behind the wall and it was like 9 pm, so it was getting dewy, so I kinda slipped while stopping. Normal people would just get up. I lay down. xP but I couldn't see the stars... it was still too bright.

The whole time I was at the wall I was texting my brother's girlfriend about playing tennis. She had never played. Me being hyper and really wanting to play, I asked her if she wanted to play tommorow (yesterday) and she agreed. xP...

So, yesterday, I went to school to study and hunt down some people to sign my yearbook. It is exam week by the way. So, I didn't get there until 10 or so. It was cloudy. I studied Physics for like 4 hours then went to the courts.

Me and CL 'played' for a bit. xP It was a learning experience. I had kinda felt bad all day because I was going to play tennis with / teach tennis to my brother's girlfriend without telling him and I was borrowing his racket without telling him because she didn't have one. We only 'played' for like half an hour though. It started pouring...

So, CL kinda lives kinda far away, so she had to take the bus home. We went to the bus stop nearby (one with a bus shelter thing) and waited 17 minutes for the bus. The school right beside the bus stop had just finished I guess and like 4 or 5 middle school kids were also there.

xP. Have you ever heard of people texting each other while in the same room..? Ya..? Have you ever done it yourself..? No..? Well I have now. A couple of the kids were speaking french. I commented on that, but by text. I mean you don't talk about people while they are standing right beside you, right? It was kinda funny. We were like having two conversations at once. *text to AL*

Anyways, the bus came. She got on. I walked home. I didn't have work again, because it was raining... xP

I had to study for my Bio exam that was today, but I had a headache and went to sleep before I was done studying...

suzuku

Hoshi no Koe

"Hey AL. I wish I could lie in a field and look up at a starry sky every night. It really calms you down and gives you time to think about things... Like girlfriends... Which I don't have yet btw..."

So, ya. Today was my calc exam and I also had a softball game. The exam was pretty good. I didn't read one question properly, apparently, but it was pretty good otherwise. I think..? Mr. JP marked my summative and I got 100%! Yay! That should help my mark a bit.

In softball our team had a pretty amazing game. We used to lose like 20-0, but today we held them down to 6-1 and we always got people onto the bases, just not home. We are going to have a practice on Saturday to get ready for the playoffs. The only point was RT getting a homerun. XP...

So. Ya...

D.Fa

Awkward

So. I havn't updated in a while. Also. I should be studying for my Calc / Vectors Exam tommorow morning... so the following update will be short and awkward. Enjoy.

12 "Hey AL! How was your race?!? ... Oh. ... *restrained snicker*. Also, english pop music probably is a bit more interesting to 11 year-olds then overly-loud, spanish, hard rock screamo... o.0 ... I also don't have a girlfriend and didn't get to see CM or VC......"

13 "Hey AL *sounds of screaming / clapping / cheering uncontrollable teenagers* 3/13 isn't that bad... only a bit more then an asian fail... >.> at least the giant talking parcourting tiger won an award! I also don't have a girlfriend, but got to see EO and CM!"

14 "Hey AL! After the Vendetta is a very, *cough* interesting band *cough*. What? I'm sick... *cough* What a way for it to all end. 'Baby, baby, baby Oh I thought you'd always be mine...' Also, you know... no girlfriend. Yet."

D.Fa

PS. Seriously. I typed "b" into the youtube search bar thing and clicked on the topmost suggestion then the third video from the top on the following page to get this video. Maybe a bit too easy. Does that tell you anything about the fever going around..? Maybe it's contagious..? Anyways. Here you go.



PPS... omg. 200 million views...

Social Networking

"Hey AL. I still don't have a girlfriend. I have a bunch of friends though."

So, today was Friday. The last Friday of normal high school. At the end of the day RM said something like "this will be the last time a bell dictates where I should be."

Ya. For the past week I've been spending every spare second trying to track down everyone I know so I can get them to sign my yearbook. During Calculus, instead of studying like maybe one other person in the room, I 'calculated' how many signatures I have 'collected', 'need' and 'maybe' might get. I calculated that I had 'collected' about 200 signatures and only 'needed' about 40 more, although I might get as many as 120 more.

The only problem is that there is only one half-day left. You can't be sure who will be there and no one will actually be in classes.

Also, yesterday, I think, I had been emailed the program for the assembly. 1. Safari Adventure Bikers (aka. the 'band' I'm in) wasn't on the program, and 2. My email was the contact for the Swing Kids..? Apparently no one had done anything about this and I had to locate the people in charge because AdSB didn't know what they look like and VB and AL were both busy. So, at lunch after handing my yearbook to someone I'd scour the area around it until it was done being signed and then moved to another person and repeated until I found one of the people in charge. She said everything had been worked out.

The dress rehearsal was afterschool. I had left the bass / amp in the staff room all day because I got to school before the music room was open and would be using it after it would be closed and the staff room is pretty close to the caf (where the rehearsals were), so it was a pretty good spot. I'm kinda sick now, so I can't really sing like I normally do... When I get sick I can't sing the higher octave very well, and I dislike the lower octave so.... ya...

After the dress rehearsal I had work. There wasn't much to do so I had time to think about stuff.

I ended up thinking about westfest. Then I thought about inviting NB, who I invited by Facebook, but I wanted to make sure she got the invite. Apparently some people don't check their facebook accounts much (me included).

The thing was that I didn't have NB's phone number and I was at work...

So, I wanted to text her, but I needed her number first. So I went to my contacts list and texted 15 people that I thought would have a chance of having her number.

This resulted in about half of them replying "Who are you..?" There were also "I don't even know who that is" and "No, I don't"s. Only two replies were relatively helpful.

JB replied "who are you? you should try asking SB." But I didn't have SB's number either, so I asked for the number of someone who would have SB's number. She replied with EM's number and SD's number. I texted both of them. I then recieved a text saying "Your text to landline was a sucess" or something. ie it was a home phone number... both of them actually...

BH also replied "Who is this? and no." but after I told him who I was I asked him if he had CM's number because CM and NB are in the same grade, are both singers, and BH is in CM's vocal class, so he probably had her number.

BH did have CM's number and CM did have NB's number.

Sucess.

So, I invited her. A number of texts later, she said she would have to ask her parents if she could get a ride and also it would depend if she had finished studying by then, but that's pretty good.

The whole trying to get her number thing took like an hour... I had to text stealthily because I was at work and I wasted like 3 pairs of rubber gloves because you just can't answer your cell phone while wearing rubber gloves covered in a medley of fruit juices (I was making fruit salads at the time). I ended up also inviting TS because I had to explain to him why I needed NB's number.

So, ya. That was cool. The facebook event page is kinda sad though... I know a lot of the people on the "Not Attending" list... I also invited MM and VC once I got home and VC said she'd try to go if she's not busy. I havn't seen her in like half a year.

So, ya... I'm tired now... *cough*

D.Fa

Math Error Part 2

The reason I did this is because yesterday I didn't really look at it at all because it was just so horrible and I deserved it because I didn't study for it...

All semester our Whole class had been complaining about our teacher for various reasons such as "he doesn't teach us" and "he doesn't mark tests properly" and "he's never here" and there are often questions that are from the next unit on tests...

Also, I heard during my spare that a number of people had increased their marks from like 50s to 70s by arguing because he doesn't give follow-through marks sometimes, so I might as well try.

It turns out that my teacher had missed marking an extra page I used that had a bunch of work on it including a number of correct answers...

So, I guess I didn't do too badly on the summative and I think I aced today's.

So, ya. I'm done stressing. Especially because I have no more summatives.

D.Fa

Math Error

"Hey AL, jumping to conclusions is a bad thing. Also, I don't have a girlfriend yet."

So. Ya. When I posted earlier I had been cramming practically all day so that I would get a 100 on the vectors summative so that it would counteract the almost 60 I got on the other summative.

During my spare, second period, the other class had just finished what would be a very similar summative, so JC and about 20 other people were in the library talking about it. Or should I say we were all listening to every word that was coming out of his mouth.

It turned out to be basically the exact same summative, except that we had to do every question, while the other class gets a mark depending on how difficult the question that they answered was.

Anyway, I finish the summative with like 20 or so and I had checked everything a few times, so I felt pretty good about it.

After the summative I asked to look at my calculus summative again.

suzuku...

Stressing

"Hey AL. Calculus is not important. I wish I could tell myself that... I also don't have a girlfriend but that's beside the point right now..."

Okay... It's like 4 minutes to my vector summative. We got our calculus summeatives back yesterday... I got like practically a fail, so I need a good mark on this summative.........................

I am stressing.

D.Fa

Audacity

Audacity. Word of the day..?

So, ya. Me and AL were having a conversation. In this conversation we were talking about how I show try writing a song. I was like "I'm not very good at writing songs, I assume." This is because I havn't really ever tried. I feel that if I did it would be very cliche and rhyme. lol.

Anyways, AL suggested using "Audacity" a program where you can record yourself a number of times and then layer the harmonies because I said I felt like you have to know how to play guitar to write songs. Without a guitar you wooldn't have chords or a key...

This all started a coversation like, "You should get Audacity!" "I used to have Audacity. *cry*" "My brother's computer had Audacity" It then came down to "Do you have a mic..?" "If you don't have a mic, then I guess there's no point in having Audacity..."

At some point I was like "What does the word Audacity mean..?" We didn't know and RM wasn't around / RM doesn't have a cell phone / if we called his home phone it would accomplish nothing... but I felt like it had a meaning that would fit into the sentences we were saying.

Webster defines* Audacity as the following:

Main Entry: au·dac·i·ty
Pronunciation: \ȯ-ˈda-sə-tē\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural au·dac·i·ties
Etymology: Middle English audacite, from Latin audac-, audax
Date: 15th century
1 : the quality or state of being audacious: as a : intrepid boldness b : bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints
2 : an audacious act —usually used in plural

synonyms see temerity


Now that you know what it means, reread the sentences above, both with the program and with the actual meaning. lol. Pretty funny.

"Hey AL, I think you have Audacity. Maybe if I had more Audacity I would have a girlfriend. Hmm... but apparently I don't have the Audacity to write a song."

D.Fa

I like this song.




*I feel like "Webster defines ___ as..." is a ridiculous phrase and far too cliche.

Tweet

So. Ya... I'm kinda bored right now... I'm at the park, at the baseball diamond waiting to play, I mean lose against the red team in softball.

So, ya... It feels really weird leaving school at 2:30... I mean I'd always have band or rehearsal or something...

Today I didn't have anything scheduled until 6:30 so it was like... I have nothing to do...

So ya. I was going to have a comment about some computer program and a conversation I had with AL. I kinda don't remember the name of it... XP...

So, ya...

D.Fa

Hard At Work Part 3

I was mostly going to ask about EO, but I also thought about inviting her.

I decided not to because I was at work and because I would mostly be talking about EO.

As usual, whenever I feel like I should text CM, CM texts me. It's really odd how that happens.

So, I end up inviting her. She said "that sounds mighty fun, i'll go."

All day I had been feeling obligated to ask someone, but now I had and they said yes! And I get to see CM again!

Like, it felt like God was guiding me to ask CM. Although I didn't listen to that feeling at first, CM then texted me. It was like God was giving me another push. And she's actually going to come and invite some of her friends too.

So, ya. Today was cool.

D.Fa

Hard At Work Part 2

So. As I was saying. I got to talk to CM again today. We hadn't talked for a while. I think we met at musicfest this year. By that I mean I had felt like I had met her before, but i don't know for sure. Anyways, at musicfest I kinda had a crush on her, I think... Nothing happened unless you count exchanging cell numbers and becoming facebook friends... *rolls eyes*

So ya. Since then I've only texted her a couple times. It usually happens while I'm at work, but whatever.

So. 4. Prayers do come true! So, on Saturday we were preparing for the concert next week at westfest and praying for a number of things. We were praying to be guided so that we would know who to invite, praying for courage to invite them, praying that they could come, praying that a bunch of people show up and praying that the thing goes well.

On Sunday I saw EO who also volunteered for musicfest. She had been nominated for supporting actress in a musical. She didn't notice me.

Today I felt like I should text CM.

suzuku

Hard At Work

"Hey AL, today was pretty cool. Although I still don't have a girlfriend, I got to talk to CM today."

So, ya. Today was cool for a number of reasons.
1. My bio and physics summatives are done.
2. SAB will be rehearsing for the final assembly.
3. I got to talk to CM today.
4. Prayers do come true!

So. This post originates from my phone. As such it has a limit of 1000 characters. This kinda annoys me, but I guess 1000 should be enough... Except not really. However, it is far more convinient as I can post from anywhere.

So.

1. My summatives (excluding vectors) are done! This means I can stop stressing because of procrastination and instead can have free time to study, which is uncommon during the school year.

2. SAB will perform during the final assembly. It was looking like we wouldn't be, but because of connections with people in high places and a 'good reputation', we didn't have to audition. Now we just have to fit rehearsal into our schedules.

3. I got to talk to CM again.

suzuku

First Impressions

"Hey AL, do you know what it's like to be a YA..? Neither do I, but it seems like a lot of fun. I also don't have a girlfriend."

So ya... If this post ends up at my blog it will be the first to have done so from my phone.

Anyways, today after church I went to T&T with some YA. They were buying food for a hot pot at H(?)'s house. JS bought so many pakages of instant noodles...

T&T was less crowded, more chinese and a tiny bit less cool then I thought it would be. I had never gone before, but a bunch of people I know were practically taking family vacations there when it first opened. I had wanted to go for a while, but its kinda in the middle of nowhere... So, ya...

YA always seems to be having so much fun. Like Friday they went to McDonalds and played Risk at 11pm. They are always having meals together and just going out for Pho or something after church. I've been invited before but always end up having work or something...

I'm really looking forward to my first YA night.

D.Fa

P.S. So, Apparently I still have to edit it after I send it otherwise it looks funny and stuff...

Predestined Fate

"Hey AL, I don't know if you know what happened, but I'm sorry for not saying anything before leaving. I don't have a girlfriend, but don't worry, I'll have a cool scar soon."

So, ya. today was cool.

In class we made sushi and got our final marks.

Then my dad and I went to look at laptops and netbooks.

Then I procrastinated and started filling out an OSAP application.

Then I went to worship practice. I wasn't scheduled this week, I was filling in for JL. I really like singing worship songs with everyone.

So, ya. Practice ended early, so me and RL explored the church. The attic appears to be empty, but the ladder wasn't tall enough.

Then we played Settler's of Catan for a bit, until YF started. Then we talked about westfest and prayed. Then we divided up the tasks for stuff we could do today to prepare.

I volunteered to help lift heavy things.

So, we were going to move the pingpong tables from upstairs to the gym downstairs. On that funny, like, 6 step set of stairs I was helping HO move one of the pingpong tables, when like the bottom kinda fell off and one side kinda hit my eyebrow.

I felt something dripping from my eyebrow, so I put my hand on it. *shiver* It was blood. So, I put the table down. By now I felt like I do when I start fainting... When this happens, lying down always keeps me conscious, so I lied down with my feet up. This helped. Also, I kept my hand on the "wound" like they do in anime to keep bleeding minimal. I mean it was dripping *shiver* and it dripped on my glasses once.

H(?) and JS were attempting to give me first aid, ie with a pretty useless first aid kit and very little experience doing it. They were icing my eyebrow with a lime crush freezie. lol.

Pastor DB called my parents and my dad was on the way.

I hadn't had anything to eat since "lunch" at like 11:30, when we made sushi.

Once before I had gone for a flu shot in the morning without having breakfast. I kinda started fainting I think. They were like giving me juice to get my blood sugar up or something. So, after I told JS and H(?) that I hadn't had lunch, they went to the kitchen to get me some food. JS found "crackers" which were actually cookies. I then remembered that stuff and asked if there was any juice.

I ended up being apparently force fed freezies by JS. He was like stuffing them in my mouth. lol.

The alcohol wipes weren't that bad. I didn't really feel that much from my eyebrow to begin with...

So, ya. Paster DB was making jokes about scars.

So, ya. Thanks JS and H(?) for taking care of me. You guys are awesome! I hope I'm that cool when I'm a YA.

When I got home I ate spaghetti and watched Reborn.

My bio essay is due on Monday... but I have more time tommorow then I normally would, so it should be possible to finish it.

So, ya.

D.Fa

Okay, during the summer I watched this anime "Moyashimon" because of a recomendation by W(?) who was also taking reach ahead gr. 12 advanced functions. The anime is about, like, this guy who can see microbes and goes to Tokyo Agricultural University or something. At the end of every real episode is a small "Microbe Theatre" which is a short episode with oryzae as the main character. It's a really cool show!!! Enjoy Episode 1 of Microbe Theatre! It's a really cool show!!!

There's Only One Act

"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG! Why did I want to yell so badly..? It's not like I normally yell much / ever... AL, I don't have a girlfriend. I was thinking about it though."

So, ya.

Today I found a math error in my physics project and reduced the percent error from an average of 300% to about 40%, I was quite happy when I saw I was so close. SZ had a percent error "too big to fit on the screen" during his presentation, lol, and AP had like 240% error. Now I just have to figure out how I'm presenting it. The percent error isnt even important as long as you did things properly and explain why there was such a large error.

In bio we had a period in the lab to work on our essays. I was listening to Big Bang on aimini.net and AP saw. She then plugged her earbuds in and did the same, but mostly 2pm. She made me listen to like three songs. 2pm isn't bad, but I realized I'm listening to nothing but Korean and Japanese, and only watching anime. lol.

Mr. Cheeseman was our sub for calc again. Apparently he actually is Dr. Cheeseman and discovered the shape of a protein. He's a poker player, but doesn't gamble. Poker isn't gambling, it's math. Anyways. Dr. Cheeseman is the coolest name ever.

One Acts went well. There were a couple differences in our performance from the script, but it worked out. I didn't get to yell like I normally do because someone said a line far too early and I had to improvise back to the real lines.

EG has the freakiest role in this whole festival. He is the Wicked Witch from "The Lizard of Oz" and his costume is ridiculous, his voice for the character and body movements, his death, his "flying monkeys", everything is soooooo awesome.

So, ya, tommorow is closing night.

D.Fa

Photo Finish

"So, AL. I start a lot of the paragraphs on my blog with so. This is now one of them, however, I still don't have a girlfriend."

Today, I spent a long time in the darkroom. And if I wasn't there for a minute or two, I was still counting to myself until I got back. One of the prints took five minutes. I went to my locker to get lunch in that time...

So, I'm done printing pictures for my project. Now I just need to analyze them. I will explain my project later. Everyone I've explained it to has thought it was cool. This is probably because it is quite simple to understand, whereas some projects are not... What is a zenith..?

So, ya. I got to see "The Lizard of Oz" today. It is definately written by TS and GSf. JC has fake abs drawn on. lol.

Oh, ya... I got a darth vader mask today... It's kinda hot. Also, it kinda is hard to project while wearing a mask...

So, today I had work at the tennis courts scheduled. It was cloudy and it appeared to have rained a little while ago when I got there at 4:50. Also, I kinda forgot the code for the alarm... Alarms are loud.....

Ya, I dried off two courts then it started pouring. I had only been there for an hour. I have now worked two and a half hours at the courts this year.

Lucky me.

I ended up watching shows on Family or YTV with my brother and having one duel with Duelmasters cards. Procrastinating is hard to avoid sometimes.

I will try to get something done now. Try.

D.Fa

I like this anime. The opening is annoying, but catchy and the ending is pretty cool. Mio plays bass. Her songs are way cooler then Yui's. XP

Disconnected

"Hey AL, fouls are boring, but balls are worse. I also don't have a girlfriend."

So, ya. I'm procrastinating. I got home like two hours ago. I said "no, I can't play tennis now, I have homeowrk." And yet, I havn't started my homework...

Today, if I didn't have some mandatory event scheduled I'd be in the darkroom. Spare, lunch, afterschool, between periods (not really, just once to take out a print that was washing.) I made two contact sheets aswell as 5 of a probably 8 however possible 11 prints, so I'm making progress.

Tommorow should be enough hopefully. The problem is that the exposure under the enlarger is now at, like, 70 seconds for a print, so the whole process takes like 4 minutes to develop and then 5 for wash, but I can make another during tha time.

So, ya. Today's run-through was pretty good actually, way better then yesterday. You should go to One Acts! That is if you live in Ottawa... Thursday and Friday nights. About 7-8:30ish. Pay What You Can to charity!

Ya.

Jaa.

D.Fa