If you can't take the heat...

Then get a giant bottle of ice water, and a freakin' electric fan, cuz there's no escaping it. Damn this infernal heat. I know I know...I shouldn't be complaining because some places on this Earth are just literally like...melt-your-brains hot. But heck, it really is freakin' hot. I DON'T HAVE AC. I REPEAT. I DO NOT HAVE AC. And to make matters worse, I can't even be happy about swimming Monday morning because everyday California decides to screw us over and make it freezing cold until about 10 AM. Which makes dressing appropriately a right pain in the..

But I digress. Even excluding the hellish heat, this entire week of school has been less than desirable. What with stressing about about the quality of my teachers, the people in my classes, the embarrassment of failing the swim test, balancing homework... I tried to recover from the emotional distress of returning to that same stressful environment of books and papers by doing as little as possible today...But hey! You know what? Next week we get to go BACK. And the week after THAT. And the week after THAT! That's an FML if I ever saw one.

But more-or-less, I survived, which I'm grateful for. I managed to mostly shake off the lethargy and lazy lolling of summer, and get crackin' on my homework. I don't really even have any over the weekend, except for extra study. As for teachers, most are by large an improvment over last years, particularly in French, Math, and English. My Chemistry teacher, though nice, seems to be even more random and disorganized than me.

"I don't like planning things. I procrastinate a lot. I wouldn't want to plan a whole day's hike for one hill cuz once I start walking, I might decide. HEY! THAT HILL LOOKS NICE." - Mr. L

Not quoted verbatim, but still. Please stay on one hill, Mr. L, it would do us a lot of good. And my history teacher, is...strange? Not only does she have the most bizarre grading policy everr (no homework, just two big-ass tests and projects and loads of participation points), but she tries so hard to get the students to like her that she condones going off on TWENTY MINUTE tangents about the tooth fairy. Extremely relevant to Contemporary World History, Ms. H. T___T And she claims she doesn't have favorites, though in my book, any teacher who HAS to make that claim obviously does. I mean she gives participation points for her knowing your name for goodness sake. What about us poor, demure, softspoken, nondescript Asian children? What about us? :(

Anyways, kisses for Boba, my doggy, who had a way harder week than all of us. He got neutered Thursday,and man, I will not go there, but how would YOU feel if you had your...

Btw, here's a random picture. It's a picture I edited of a waterstain that formed on my bedsheet after my hair dripped on it after my shower. IT'S A HEART, HOW COOL IS THAT?

Long post sorry if I made your eyes bleed from the abnormally high percentage of whine-age and high school angst in this one.
-Lisa

Bada-ba-da da!

If most of you (I expect all...two or three of you anyway) are staring at this post title tilting your head and wondering what the heck it's supposed to mean.... It's just my fail attempt at onomatopoeia-ing (THIS WORD IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SPELL. It's like a word made to screw people over in spelling bees) the McDonald's theme song. If you still don't know what I'm talking about, you must live under a rock, and I hope you're comfortable under there.

ANYWAYS. Wow. I am distracted. Haha first week have school has been..tough to say the least, maybe I'll write more on that later when I have more time. But basically what I wanted to do in this post was introduce the "I'm Lovin' It!" Section in the sidebar. Essentially, it's like...AwkwardFlagpole Sparknotes. It consists of certain topics addressed in recent posts, or just basically cool stuff that we've been enjoying during the week. Haha, perhaps that analogy wasn't quite adequate, but close enough.

The links themselves aren't necessarily important to click on. Heh. I only picked the LinkList option because I liked the look of the blue links versus the plain black ones in the List Option. So sue me for enjoying the aesthetic appeal of colored font. T__T. Usually the links that matter are titled with something like "video" or "fun blog" or something else that will more or less prompt you to click it. Otherwise it'll just be some weird picture of the thing in question. I mightttt link some of the I'm Lovin' It's to the posts in which they belong to, but most likely I'll be too lazy. (I've found that almost everything I don't do in life links back to this excuse)

So yeah. Hopefully that'll be something interesting to look at. Hope you're all doing well, and as always thanks for reading. :)

-Lisa

Dr. Seuss is so freakin' smart

I'll probably write a longer post later when I have more time, but I don't really so I'll just leave you with this. I've always loved Dr. Seuss, but for some reason today I got to thinking about how much meaning his books REALLY have. I think its amazing that he can be able to get across many important concepts like the environment (the Lorax) and valuing the true spirit of Christmas (Grinch!) in colorful playful formats that even little kids can enjoy! I remembered this one in particular, Oh, The Places You'll Go! I always thought it was really inspiring, and maybe it'll help pull us out of our back-to-school-slump:

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You’re off to Great Places!
You’re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
You’ll look up and down streets. Look ‘em over with care.
About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.”
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any
you’ll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you’ll head straight out of town.
It’s opener there
in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen,
don’t worry. Don’t stew.
Just go right along.
You’ll start happening too.
OH!
THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!
You’ll be on your way up!
You’ll be seeing great sights!
You’ll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.
You won’t lag behind, because you’ll have the speed.
You’ll pass the whole gang and you’ll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you’ll be the best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

The poem is a bit longer than this, so you can read the rest yourself. But I really love the idea of overcoming these hardships in our life now, and we'll all end up in big, great places someday. :)

"And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed! (98 and 3/4% guarenteed!) KID, you'll move mountains!"

Saying Goodbye to Summer and Hello to Crap

Crap = school. and I can have a long geometric proof as to why that is, but I won't get into that :)

Today, I woke up late - which is weird cuz usually im all like:

"OMG. OMG. ITS SCHOOOL YAYAYAYAY" and like wake up at the crack of dawn to leave. but this year, I woke up something like this:

"aadlkdjlakdj. crap. ughh :( " Which is.. nice. But to make matters worse, I had to put on my clothes in record time and rush out the door. Zoom zoom zoom.

I got to school, and it was the weirdest feeling! Because it felt like we hadn't had school in like 2 days or something and it was back in freshman year - like deja vu or something o.o weird weird.

And then, A period was alright, 'cept the analysis teacher mistook me as a lost freshman -_____-;; Oh and to make my life even more dandy, I got approached by a link crew member asking if I needed help getting to my next class

T_____T FML man. I should wear a shirt saying "I'M A DAMN SOPHOMORE." Oh yeah :D that sounds cool. Haha the rest of school was okay but it generally got worse as i got more and more sleeeepyy

^_________^

Damn. I forgot how good school is a place to nap. Hopefully your day was better than mine Lisa! :P

- sharooonn.

Oh yeah, and to make matters worse, in my school picture i look like a bloody idiot. D:

Rubik's Cube Cake

Maybe I'm a nerd, but I think this has to be one of the coolest things ever:

It's a CAKE. Ain't it awesome?! :D :D. If only I could actually have enough baking skizzles to pull that out. We'll see ;)

*sigh. Another summer come and gone, and nothing substantial enough to hold onto than a few memories and some pictures. Hopefully, years from now I'll be able to look back at this summer and remember all of the time I've spent with everyone. This summer was...a summer of buying a Bio SAT prep book, taking pages of notes, then losing the workbook and buying a new one. This summer was days of biking to drink PMT and eating fries. This summer was spending all my money on candy at Ralph's, swinging lanyards, stoichometry, and cross-dressing. This summer was missing CTY, mosquito bites, and bad luck in Hawaii. This was a summer of azn-photobooth pictures, eating pretzels, and standing around awkwardly. This summer was...watching my brother walk around the house in only boxers(one day he was wearing two pairs on top of each other, God knows why), trying to keep my room neat and failling, playing Nancy Drew computer games and getting signficantly scared (GOD I KNOW IM A CHICKEN, ALRIGHT?). This summer was sleeping in til 11, not practicing piano, watching George Lopez and The Nanny, hearing endless lectures about my future.. and dreading school.

But, as all other good things, it must come to an end I guess. :-/ I only wish I could've enjoyed it more, but..ah, well there you go. Thanks to everyone who made it so awesome :D

Ugh I can't even enjoy our 8:15 school start time cuz I have to pick up my schedule. Watch me walk into the wrong classroom and stand there for 10 minutes awkwardly, or sit down, before I figure it out. T___T

Wtf, I'm such a packrat.

Glad to hear you sent your brother off safely, Sharon! Best of luck to him in college. Although I really should be wishing us two luck, seeing as how scared we are for the school you

And yeah about the packrat tendencies. I mean..like..not even in my room, which, if you've SEEN my closet and bookshelf and the interior of my drawers, you know how much crap I have. But I have a huge problem with deleting files off my computer and I have no idea why. Am I going to need to re-read my lab analysis on cell surface area to volume ratio? Do I REALLY ever listen to that crappy Lady GaGa song? Better to take the safer of two roads and just keep it here somewhere. No wonder my computer's memory is dyingggg...

I discovered all this in an effort to...SORT of do some cleaning/clearing out/organizing before school starts. Although, really I dragged it out a BIT too much, who knows how long it'll take to truly organize it rather than my usual method (i.e. shove everything out of sight). But really, this year I want to make an effort to be a lot more organized and keep my room neat. I'll still excuse myself for that one drawer in my dresser stuffed to the brim all willy-nilly, and that layer of debris under my bed. Hey, you can't expect me to change that much can you? ;)

Anyways, the only real good thing about starting school again is school supply shopping. I'm not sure what it is exactly about those rows and rows of different colored pens, pencils and highlighters that just makes me go a little crazy. xP. Speaking of which, R.I.P. old fugly brown backpack with Hawaiian flowers, and hello new, slightly less ugly plain black backpack. It's a good change, and it was only $14.99 at Costco! I love me some Costco, especially on freebie days.
The bad part is, is basically EVERYONE goes to Costco on Saturdays, and you're bound to see someone you know. I did, but I felt too awkward to say hi at first, and just kind of averted my eyes. But then we ended up in the lines next to each other, and at that point it really was too late so I had to wander away to avoid the situation..Yeah. Smooth.

Yup well. One more day of summer. Probably gonna spend it doing the work I should have been doing this whole time. :D
Currently Listening to on freakin' Repeat: "You and I Both" by Jason Mraz

Hey Loser

HAHA alright, after getting just getting back from my trip to Missouri to send off my brother, and being internet-less the whole time, I finally got to check it out "The Awkward Flagpole" and I nearly LOL'ed because I'm pretty sure that Lisa and I are like one mind or are constantly sending telepathic waves with one another. one of those. I would comment on her posts about my reaction to them, but this is just too EPIC. because..

1)I love David Choi too! Well, I've been pretty much hooked to music after his song "Won't Even Start" was played at the ending credits of Wongfu's Video "In Da Club" [If you haven't seen it, be sure to check it out because its HILARIOUS. Part 1 can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXOxOB-xjpA ] Ahaha I also love Wongfu's various spins of "Won't Even Start" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPAT1nwnq9o specially the Jonas Montana version LOL

2)I watch "The Nanny" pretty darn obsessively too! And I find it kinda cute that although Fran has a voice that would make you want to run into a wall, Maxwell Sheffield still fancies her. I like that dude because in more ways than one, he kinda reminds of my very own good ol' asian daddy in that he's kinda focused on business and a little socially awkward. That's probably where I got it from ._.

3) on the boy thing.. LOLOLOLROFLMAO XD man, I wish I could've been there. I probably would've pissed in my pants from laughing.

Aha well all that set aside, these couple of days were a pretty big stage in my life. Oh man, that sounds corny. Basically, my brother left for college for Washington University in St. Louis and it affected me way more than I thought it would.I kinda thought up of a sorta letter? if you can even call it that on the plane ride back home. Mm.. well get ready from some pretty damn cheesy sentimental shit.


Hey loser,

So we're officially leaving you today. Well, actually more like you're leaving us. It kind of surprises me how hard it is for me to let go, although I thought having my daily life without you there would be absolutely wonderful :) haha no, but now I'm kinda scared of what like my life is going to be like now that you're going to be gone most of the time. Like, I'm actually really, really scared.
It probably hasn't hit me yet that like you're not going to be there when I get home. That you won't be in your room doing the retarded things that you do, or take eons in the bathroom, or even take such long showers that all the warm water is gone so that the rest of the family have to freeze our butts off trying to get clean in cold water. We're definitely going to save money on rice, well food in general, now that you're not going to be here to eat the scary huge amounts that you do. And now, on Saturday and Sunday mornings, I'm going to run into your room to jump on your "happy spot" to wake you up and then realize that I can't hear you scream in pain. schadenfreude :D or when i walk past your room, I'm not gonna see you concentrating on your homework and the way your tongue pokes out the corner of your mouth. No more of your hilarious hair routines that you perform every morning that officially make you a japanese/korean wannabe, or how we would watch cartoon movies when we were little. And now I realize that even though we saw Aladdin and Kiki's Delivery Service a billion times (I'm pretty sure that's an understatement), you still sat with me and watched it until all the lines were permanently etched in that tiny pea-brain of yours. I'm going to miss you getting all silly about dirty specks on your precious shoes that make me wanna slap you upside your stupid head.
But yeah, I'm going to miss you - in more ways that I can imagine. In ways that I guess I'm really scared to have to face really soon. And it seems kinda silly for me to be so scared even though you're pretty much a phone call or text away, but I can't believe you are going to college. Honestly, I can't believe you got in. Aha just playing. Rihanna and Neyo are right. "I hate how much I love you." Honest.

Bye weirdo,
Your Awesome (:D) Sister