Start of Winter Break A.K.A Hell

Hey guys!
So Friday was the last day of school, as in winter break has begun! Yes, it is that time of the year, where we all hope it snows 2 feet (but it rarely does) so that we can snuggle up by ourselves in the corner and watch kdramas and Christmas movies all day long and do absolutely nothing else.
No? Just me? Aw ok. :c
But yes, it is that magical time in the year where even a curmudgeon like me feels a little less grumpier than usual.
Teachers tell us to "Enjoy our break to the fullest because we have worked so hard for the past half of the year."
Hah.
HAH.
NEVER BELIEVE TEACHERS WHEN THEY TELL YOU THAT. WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN IS "STUDY YOUR A*S OFF YOU F*CKS OR YOU WILL FAIL THE RIDICULOUSLY HARD MIDTERMS I WILL GIVE YOU THE MOMENT YOU COME BACK FROM SCHOOL.
I AM CRYING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO DURING THIS BREAK AND DECEMBER IS ALMOST OVER. 
DAMN YOU SCHOOL DO YOU THINK I HAVE NO LIFE?! I HAVE 22 DRAMAS TO FINISH. TWENTY. TWO. AND TAY P. SAID I HAVE TO FINISH SHERLOCK BY THE END OF WINTER BREAK AS WELL.
I dunno about the other guys, but my break is from 12/21-1/5. Our finals are at different times of the year as well I believe. My finals start on 1/19 I think. Tay P. already had her finals before break because her school "actually" wants her to relax for a bit.
A bunch of my middle school friends and I are also planning to go ice skating sometime this week or next week. Yay!
Being the pathetic person that I am, I am constantly reminding myself of how I tend to distance myself from people I don't know that well. I am an introvert and though I don't mind the company of people, sometimes I feel pressured to try and "entertain" people when I do have company - especially my "new friends." I still haven't completely fit in. I realize that I probably meet with my old friends more than people at Dalton. I mean, the only out of school time I've spent with them was to get some mocha shit from Starbucks. I still have hope though guys. Wish me luck! 
But yea. I actually didn't get TOO much regular homework. Instead I have a shitload of long term projects and midterms to study for. Unlike most schools, I only have midterms for English, Biology, and Math this year. Yay! Imma still fail all of them though. Wish me luck!

P.S. I can't use the free movie tickets I won. They legit showed the movie 2 days after I won the ticket, and there was no way I could have seen it. Ugh eff AMC whatever I was going to not use the tickets and keep it as a memory anyway. 

Friend 2 Giveaway Tickets!!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!
HEY GUYS!!
Okay so like last week I was surfing the web for like kpop concerts that I couldn't afford to just get an idea of what the prices were. I came across this website - 24/7 Kpop. I saw that there was a giveaway for a pair of tickets in Dallas and NYC to see the movie Friend 2 (aka Chingu 2, a Korean movie). And I'm just like "wth what do I have to lose" so I put like 10 entries in (It's free. I just had to do different online actions. It was a 3 day giveaway. By the second day there were 150+ entries and I'm just like "shyeeeaaaaattt I ain't winning."
BUT GUESS WHAT GUYS. I DID. (*cough* *cough* In case you couldn't tell from the title)
You know I'm one of those people who get A LOT of junk mail and never delete any of that crap. So I THOUGHT THE WINNING EMAIL WAS JUNK MAIL!!!
I didn't discover that I got an email from them for 3 days straight, saying if I didn't respond by 8pm they would give my tickets to someone else.
At that point I was panicking. This was the 2nd time I ever won something in my life! (The first time was in 7th or 8th grade. I won the school raffle for a 100 piece puzzle.) So you know what I did?
I SPAMMED THOSE MOFOS!!
Even if I actually missed my chance, I would force them to give it to me!!! MWAHAHAHAHA JE SUIS KYOUKO-CHAN!!! (wut up Skip Beat reference)
So, here is the fruit of my efforts:

I GOT THIS IN THE MAIL 2 DAYS AGO GUYS. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW HAPPY I AM!!
Now all I have to do is figure out the showtimes that correspond with my schedule and the schedules of everyone else that is accompanying me. (Obviously there is a whole group of us going lol)
Shall update you on the outing!

P.S. I saw Friend 1 (Chingu) last night. It was so sad. And graphic. ╥﹏╥ I cried at the end.
I could NOT handle English today. We were talking about how Macbeth is really distraught after killing Duncan (*Macbeth spoilers guys* oh oops too late oh well) and I'm just like "I CAN'T HANDLE THIS RIGHT NOW!!!" *CRY*

Omg It's December Guys!

Hiya y'all! As I promised, I'm going to give a little outline of what happened yesterday in the outing! But before that, let's celebrate the beginning of December! YAYYY!! 3 MORE WEEKS TILL WINTER BREAK!!
This is literally how my life is right now - counting down the days till the next weekend and large break. I still have a ton of homework to do, because as it turned out (not too surprisingly) I did pretty much nothing during this whole break. I sent emails to a teacher about a homework I had confusion about like 4 days ago, but she never answered. Not my fault if I do it wrong.
Tay P. has her finals right before the break. Let's wish her luck everyone! FIGHTING!!
So about the outing yesterday. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!!!
As it turned out (again, not very surprisingly) we did everything - even the stuff we said we wouldn't do lol. We met up at the theater to watch Catching Fire. It actually wasn't too bad. I would rate it like 7.5/10. The movie didn't feel complete, but I guess that's how an interquel is supposed to be. Is it called an interquel? Like when a work is both a sequel and a prequel to two completed works (aka the middle)? Whatever.

G-Dragon Roll (cr. Chanel)

Then we went to Food Gallery 32. That was awesome. We all ordered so much food! I had kimbap and shrimp fried rice - each came with a soup and like little side food thingies (as in radish and stuff). I didn't know each plate was so big so I ordered two things. I had so much trouble finishing it (as in I started to feel really dizzy after all that food) but I managed to finish all of it with everyone's help! We also ordered either green tea bubble tea, taro bubble tea, iced coffee, or Thai milk tea. Kevin ordered cheese ramyun (so many calories ugh), and Chanel and Jasmin both ordered the G-Dragon roll (haha yes). I forget what everyone else ordered. Maybe Tay P. or isntniallerlovely will remember.
I'm sorry we forgot to take pictures of the food before we ate! isntniallerlovely has all the pictures since she actually brought her awesometastic camera along; I'm sure she'll post some of them soon. :D
The only picture I have is of the G-Dragon roll. I stole some from Jasmin. It was really good! But for some reason, I thought they should have had something else too...I dunnno...maybe something like THIS!! >>

G-Dragon Hair Sushi - what it should have been

Hahaha lame...but yea.
Then we went to a noraebang (karaoke). We divided the money very badly for this, but ideally it would have been like $6 or $7 per person per hour. Not bad! We went for only an hour because we didn't have time. We have curfews you know. We had a lot of technical difficulties with the machinery, but it was a lot of fun! I wish we had more time though.
Guys, we are definitely having another outing - just food and noraebang perhaps? (≧∇≦)/

Ayyyyy my little k-popalicious rollz ;) So it's isntniallerlovely and I have a confession to make.....I mostly took pictures of our friends and not our food.....I took a before and after shot of the G-Dragon roll, but other than that nothing really. So I guess I will post those pictures below. I think the most memorable part of going to see "Catching Fire" was me leaving my camera in the movie theater and this really nice employee giving it back to me ^_^ As for karaoke, everyone wanted to sing these kpop songs that no one knew the lyrics to -.- It was still really fun and we all got to see each other again and I got to showcase my horrible singing skillz. No shame though, no shame.

  Before

cr: isntniallerlovely

 And then the Fire nation attacked!

cr: isntniallerlovely

Omg look! I'm the one with the white watch and black and white backpack! 

Weather

Oh look guys! I changed the theme to kind of wintery, but it's not even December yet! Why?
BECAUSE IT'S SO FREAKING COLD HERE!
I bet it is even colder in other places, but the cold came fast and hard here. It snowed some (very little, but meh) like a couple weeks ago. It's funny because the summer weather lasted till like mid-October and the next thing you know it's like 30 degrees outside ugh.
OMG I ALMOST FORGOT!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING PEOPLE! Be thankful for what you have, because remember, you probably don't deserve most of it, yet you still have it. :D
Today is my second day of break. I have to resume school on Monday. *sigh*
I have sooo much homework whenever I think about it I become depressed.
*sits in a dark corner and cries*
I did no homework yesterday, but I have to start today if I want to not stay up all night for the next 2 days.
As you guys have probably realized, this post isn't even going to be about weather anymore. Screw you weather.
I AM SO EXCITED FOR SATURDAY!!!!
instniallerlovely, Tay P., me, and a bunch of other friends from our junior high school are going to go to Koreatown! WOOHOO!!!!
MANY JOY. MUCH EXCITEMENT.
We are going to eat some food and walk around Koreatown hehe. It will be my first time in Koreatown so I am uber excited. First we were going to eat at a Korean BBQ place, but then realized we don't have enough money for that haha so we are going to eat at a food court place called Food Gallery 32. Yup, from Korean BBQ straight down to a ramen shop lol. It's good food and not as expensive. They don't JUST sell ramen - they sell many other Japanese and Korean foods, and when I looked at the menu I was LITERALLY BOUNCING UP AND DOWN because there were so many foods I had seen being eaten in anime or Korean dramas!
I need to buy chopsticks. The one gifted to me by Tay P. wore down, like a lot. lol yes that's how much I used them.
We were going to go to a noraebang (karaoke) but one kid thought we were "going to get mugged and get forced to drink booze" and said he wasn't going. =__= No one cares about his opinion anyway. But then one of our other friend's parents said she wasn't allowed to go so now we aren't going. (Yea Lisha is more important than you Kevin.)
Right now, we are trying to think of some other cheap activity we could do that day too, not that eating and walking around is boring or anything lol. The paranoid booze-drinking one wants to watch "Catching Fire", but that's out because 1) the movie costs $15 each and that's too much, 2) it's not a social activity, and 3) why would we spend $15 to watch it once when we can watch it infinite times illegally for free?! *cough* *cough*
But anyways, I am really looking forward to meeting all my old friends again. I'll write a post on Saturday and keep you updated.
안녕! 

Bronx Science Sexual Harassment

As some of you guys may know, all of us bloggers are freshman in high school and to tell the truth, sometimes I wish I had been born a year earlier. I've missed out on some pretty dramatic events that have occurred in the past year. I know that no matter when I enter high school, I will have always missed something, but I seriously feel left out. As many of you probably know nothing about Bronx Science here is a quick run-down. 

The Bronx High School of Science is a specialized public High School in Bronx, NY. As of 2013 it is ranked #2 in the state of New York and  #34 in the United States of America (Public High School Ranking). Those are all of the logistics, but I know that all of you guys are reading this for the gossip. 

Two major events that I missed out on are ex-Principal Reidy's resignation and the track team scandal. I'll have another blog post about principal Reidy because she was more corrupt than Somalia.  

The track team scandal was huge for Bronx Science. After the Stuyvesant cheating scandals, Bronx Science had this golden crown of virtue and morality. This scandal changed that. 

The reason why this thing is a huge controversy is because the teachers believe the  allegation full-heartedly and the students think it's bullshit. 

So what was the scandal about?

Freshman Micheal Webber of the Bronx Science track team stated that three junior boys had sexually harassed him in the locker rooms. I don't think I need to go into further detail with this. 

New York tabloids tend to exaggerate everything, look at what the Daily News writes on a slow news day. However, some students say that the tabloids were unfairly implying that the juniors were at fault, even before the trails had even started. The former editor of the school newspaper wrote about this topic here:

http://www.sciencestudentblog.com/2013/04/the-true-villains-of-bronx-science.html

Some reasons why students are ruling out the possibility of the scandal include, knowing the juniors who were accused, and locker room common sense. The locker rooms are locked three minutes after all students are changed and ready to go and only unlocked at the end of gym/sports practice. When changing for sports there's an average of 20 people in the locker rooms at all times. Now, there could have been an instance where the doors were accidentally left unlocked. However, it seems that everyone who knew these juniors are backing them up because they're all good guys and would  never do such a thing. Some students say that even though the guys track team likes to tease each other, no one would ever do what the juniors were accused of doing because that's just too gay. 

Whatever the case is I have come to two conclusions. We will never know what happened because there are no cameras in the locker rooms. Because we will never know Michael Webber will be the most hated person in Bronx Science as all the students have ganged up against him. 

Sorry for the messy writing, but I just really wanted to write this. 

Sacred Heart

For those of you who don't know (everyone) I go to an all girls basically 98% white school. And it really sucks.

1. It's an all-girls school. I mean like. You need those stupid guys who ask the stupid questions and never understand somehting. You need the guys who mess up in class. You need the guys to blurt out answers. I MISS IT.

2. It's all white. I'm asian. I'm that yellow dot on white printer paper. I fit in, but not really, and it's mad annoying once you realize that. But, away from the very bad metaphors. No one knows anything asian. People took forever to find the Korean Peninsula for our history map homework. *Disappointment here I'm Korean Im going to be doing that first* They don't know manga, anime, k-pop, any asian music or artists. Don't even know how to make an origami crane.... Showing off my origami skills was like 25% of my elementary school life. But then again, most of them have been going to this school since pre-k.

3. The classes are mad easy. I'm bored as hell but the homework load is a ton so, I've got no time for anything else, and I'm not learning much.

- Tay P.

life sucks rn let's see if it gets better

Inspiration #1

Hello my yummy resees pieces....is that even how you spell it? Well anyway school is starting on Monday for me and I decided to do away with sleep and write this blog post because I love you guys <3 *wink* *wink* So I am inspired by a lot of things and people so I think that every month or so I'll do one of these inspiration posts. I like to think that I'm pretty into photography, specifically photo-journalism, and I really like film as well; so if you guys also like photography and film I think you guys will like these blog posts.

So the first person I'm going to introduce to you guys, and some...or a lot of you guys might already know about him. His name is Sawyer Hartman and he is a full-time YouTuber.

A YouTuber is basically what it sounds like. It's people who make YouTube videos for a living.

Now if you guys have been living under a rock with no wifi connection for the past five years you're probably ridiculing me through the computer screen. Well it used to be that YouTube was a mecca of low-quality, silly, homemade videos where people lip synced the Pokemon theme. Since then YouTube has grown tremendously and it's now home to quite a few talented filmmakers; Sawyer Hartman being one of them.

I absolutely adore his "Thru My Eyes" videos and I love the remake of the horror film "Strangers" that he did. His "Thru My Eyes" videos consists of him filming all the places he travels to and then putting it to music. I know that sounds pretty easy to do but the way he does it is just pure art. I'm quite partial to the England one because you can tell that he really amped up the saturation of the shots which is how I like to photoshop my pictures lol. He does a lot of the videos in slow motion too which justs enhances the richness of each angle and emphasizes the emotion in each shot. Not to mention he chooses fantastic songs that go perfectly with each video and the mood that they try to convey.

Sawyer Hartman is truly talented, but besides making amazing amazing films he also does a lot of typical YouTuber things such as vlogging and doing collabs. It's really nice to see videos with absolutely no technique involved; where he just sets his camera on a tripod and talks.

So I will have Sawyer's YouTube channel linked at the end of this blog post. Please check him out because I want you guys to love him as much as I love him.

So until next time *muah* (that's supposed to be a kiss)

http://m.youtube.com/user/sawyerhartman

Being Short

I know that isntniallerlovely posted something about her height a few posts ago, and I thought I should do the same - but from a different perspective.
She did a post about how she is considered tall by some people, medium by others, or sometimes even short.
However, I will always be plain short no matter where I go. I am 5'1 - the shortest among all the contributors to this blog, one of the shortest in my middle school, and though I haven't seen everyone at Dalton, I will probably be the shortest Daltonian there too. (Oops...have I disclosed my location? Nope not really. There are too many Daltons worldwide...though you guys probably have an idea of where we are located already. :P )
It's sad really. Everyone there with their Caucasian-ness are at least a foot or two taller than I am (or at least it feels like it), and there I am bending my neck all the way back just to be able to take a good look at their chin, and if I am lucky, their full face. It's sad. Especially when I try to speak to one of the taller people there, but he can't even hear me because the height difference is so big the sound waves don't even travel that far.
But it's alright. There are some people who are only a couple inches taller than I am. I guess I'll only be able to talk comfortably with them, instead of shouting up at the ceiling.
Notice how I mention their "Caucasian-ness." It's true that not all Caucasians are tall, but it is true that most of them are either average height or above average. Where my parents come from, people are short most of the time. I'm not even the shortest in my nuclear family - I'm the 2nd shortest, with my mom being only about 5'! The tallest is my dad, and he is only about 5'5! When I go back to the old country, I would be considered average height. In fact, I'm a head taller than my grandmother and my aunt! That  makes me feel happy haha. XD The tallest in my family is my brother-in-law who is 6'. I don't even know how that happened 'cuz his parents and brother are probably like 5'6 or 5'7 or something.
I know you're supposed to be happy with the way you are and all that, but it wouldn't hurt if I was a couple inches taller. Being average height of 5'3 or 5'4 would be fine. In fact, it would help a lot.
There are advantages of being short though. You can avoid human traffic by zig-zagging through the small spaces in the crowd. Where I live, that can be incredibly helpful. :D

Procrastination

As you know from my previous post earlier in the day, I have two orientations. Today from 5-9 and tomorrow from 8-4 (travel time included) and an audition for the orchestra tomorrow after orientation. However, instead of practicing the violin, I am wasting time here on the internet. LOGIC!!!
So around July I started watching K-Dramas. For those who do not know what that is, it means Korean dramas. 'Cuz you know, apparently manga, Indian dramas, and anime are not enough for me (though I don't really watch much Indian dramas or anime actually...).
So I am watching/have watched "Boys Over Flowers","Coffee Prince","Lie to Me","My Fair Lady","Secret Garden","You're Beautiful","Goong","Flower Boy Next Door","Shut Up! Flower Boy Band","Heartstrings", "Dream High", and "Phantom." I think that's all....?
Yea I watch a lot of romcoms. Don't judge. I like comedies.
I really loved Dream High! It was the latest one I completed and it was so inspiring! A bit too idealistic, but really amazing! However, it made me a bit depressed. You see, I am going to high school too, and the auditions for Kirin High School were so outstanding. They had my eyes boggling and my jaw on the floor through the whole thing. I thought, "WHAT MORE DO THEY POSSIBLY HAVE TO LEARN?!"
Yeah, yeah, I know they are professionals and all, but it still makes me depressed. I sing, play the violin, play the piano, but I am not nearly as awesome as they are, and it made me rethink my life and how I have wasted it so far. Instead of actually making use of it, here I am moping about it. LOGIC!!!
I want to watch Dream High 2, even though most people said it was pretty terrible compared to the first one...Meh.
I have been refraining from watching kdramas for the last few days as an attempt to discipline myself before school. Instead, I have been wasting time in other ways besides watching kdramas. Huh. So much for self-control.
I also have a Tumblr. Even though I rarely go on, I find myself on it today. It pretty much sucks. Check it out if you want. It has music from some of the kdramas I watched, and some other random songs. Have fun!

Transparent Silhouettes

I swear I will start practicing violin after I take a shower, eat lunch, finish listening to this playlist, then replay the songs I like to sing along to, practice the piano, practice singing, buy bird food, and ummmmm...yea. That's it.
I WILL PRACTICE!!!
Who am I kidding. I have 4 hours till I leave for orientation...Fine I'll go now. .__.

It's Here. Yay.

Why are most of my posts about school? Honestly I have no idea. I'm just a boring person like that. :P
So anyways, I can't speak for the rest of the bloggers since we are all going to different top high schools, but I have orientation from 6-8:30 (why is it in the evening? ugh) and tomorrow from 9:30.
So stressful...I keep thinking about people.......*shudder*
They will all probably be smarter than me. I lost so much IQ during this summer. I probably can't do 7th grade math anymore. *sigh*
But right now, as daunting as meeting people seems, I know I can do it. I will definitely try my best to make friends. I'll have friends...eventually.
But I have my audition for the orchestra tomorrow after orientation. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! D': *cry*
I'm sorry guys for ruining your moods by reminding about the start of school.
Let's change topics...
Ummmmmm................. >.<"
Okay I'll post twice in one day. No problemo. I'm behind anyway. :D

Madonna

As some of you guys may know August 16th is Madonna's birthday. This year I went theough a bit of a madonna phrase. So as a late tribute for Madonna's 55 birthday I guess I'll share some songs with you guys and you guys can all tease me for my fascination with madonna.

Madonna is one of the most well known female singers of all time. She is the embodiment of 80s/90s pop culture. She has topped multiple Forbes lists charts for anual earnings and for being a cultural icon. She has sold over 300 million records, known as The Queen (of pop), started a lot of the major fashion trends in the 80s, and was also an infamous gay icon back in the 80s.

I personally like her 80s songs more than any of her other songs. 

So this first one is probably the most sexual out of all of them, but compared to stuff today I think your ears will be able to handle this.
"Like A Virgin" by Madonna (1984?)
Don't quote me on any of the dates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNd7pABoFGE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"Holiday" (1983)
This has to be one of the first songs I ever heard from Madonna. Even though it's probably somewhere at the bottom of my favorites lists it's pretty sentimental for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4hDrymvYw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"Who's That Girl" (1987)
I really didn't like this song at first, but then I kinda got addicted to it. I sing it to annoy my sister every chance I get.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCIk6Zs5XPU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"Like A Prayer" (1989)
Probably one of the most iconic songs by Madonna (in my opinion).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xvjnay4kS8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"Open Your Heart" (1985)
One of my favorite songs by Madonna. Nuff said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaT7gJxvfs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"Papa Don't Preach" (1986)
This is kind of like "Billy Jean" by Michael Jackson, but from the girl's perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20U0hJ9DaVU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"Material Girl" (1984)
I have fallen in love with this song ever since Walk Off The Earth did a cover of this. This ladies and gentlemen is where stuffing money in your bra came from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbJa10fzNOM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

"True Blue" (1986)
This has to be my favorite Madonna song of all time. Don't judge me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P51LunEV3Sk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

So there you, have it a complete list of all of my favorite Madonna songs. Now if you guys have like an 80s day at your schools or anywhere else I believe this will be extremely helpful.

Your welcome ;)

Height Problems

Good day pink masters ^_^ As you guys can tell it's lwang1341. Who else calls you guys all these weird things and obnoxiously uses emoticons to end her sentences instead of periods?

Today I wanted to talk about something that myself and my fellow bloggers have noticed about ourselves. We are either short or tall and we either get shorter or taller depending on the circumstances. Now as for myself I have always considered myself average/tall. In elementry school when they had us line up in size order I was always in the middle or towards the back, but, and I emphasize the "but", I was never last in line. I thought that I was at a pretty decent height seeing how I went back to middle school this summer for alumni "game night" and I basically towered over all of the girls there.

In photography camp I also considered myself average seeing as if you were to line us up in height order I would be right smack in the middle. However, the moment I step foot into family territory, whether it be a cousin's house or my house I am automatically "short". To give you guys a reference I am approximately 5ft 4.3in or about 164.14 cm tall. I swear the .3 inches make all the difference in the world. Many of you guys might think that I'm young and I can still grow, but I actually haven't even grown a centimeter from last year. Now to give you guys even more of I reference I live in the United States where the average woman is about 5 ft 4.5 in. I am however Chinese and the average Chinese woman is about 5 ft 2. So if you guys want to get super duper technical I am "shorter" than the american average by about .2 in and taller than the Chinese average by a bit more than two inches. Coolios I'm just average, done right?

Nope, not done. My own cousin who is around 4 ft 7 in deems me as "short" -_- I have no problem with people taller than me calling me short but seriously? At least be over 5ft if you want to call me short=_= I can see where she is coming from though. My family is pretty damn tall for a group of asians. My mom and all of my aunts are about 5ft 7(170 cm). I have a female cousin who is almost 6 ft (roughly 180cm) tall. All the males in my family above the age of 14 are over 5ft 9. My grandfather is about 6ft 1. My parents are 5ft 7 and 5ft 10-11 respectively. My uncle is the shorty in the family just barely brushing 5'9 lol

My mom constantly tells me that I'm short and that my sister and my 4'7" cousin will surpass me in height....are you serious? I can she how my YOUNGER sister who is only .05 inches shorter than me will surpass me but seriously? Last time I checked purberty does wonders but I doubt it will shoot a person up a whole foot. I myself only grew 4 inches. My mom could be an Asian model, yes our species is that short don't hate, and she doesn't get that she's motherfrikin tall as herrrrr. I tell her that I am taller than pratically every Asian female outside of our family and she responds with "Well what about Caucasians?". I have to admit I am shorter than a lot of Caucasians that I have met, but I have also met a decent amount of Caucasians who are SHORTER than me *snap*.

Outside of my family I'm basically considered tall by my school mates and my fellow Asians. I'm basically at least half a head taller than most of my girl and some of my guy friends. It is pretty awkward at times, but being my height I guess I can do without heels at special occasions for the next few years yay! So while my mom prays to the heavens above for a late growth spurt I shall bask in the glory of my tall, er um, short, er um ..........I just like my height okay.....

I'm pretty sure another blogger will do a blog post about being short too so until then ; )

LOVE

Hello, okay to start I am not trying to write a hate letter to anyone in a romantic relationship. As long as you are not snogging in my face I couldn't give an eff who you date. However, I have noticed how people change once they are in a relationship.

We are going to high school and many of our friends are dating now (some have been for a while). And I get it, you are a young teen and you are head over heels "in love" with this person and the concept of love is new to you, so naturally you want to spend all of your time with them. The couple then starts doing mushy movie couple stuff, and it goes downhill for friends from there. They are there making you feel like shit because you want to tell them to stop this, but you don't wanna hurt their feelings. The worst thing is that they have no idea they are doing that. The saying is "Love is Blind" but I think "Love is Blinding."

When we are teens we have so many hormones where everything runs at 100%. If we fall in love, we fall pretty hard at 100%. We let it consume us because it is a new feeling and what not. However, we can talk like this to a friend forever and they are like "OMG Yes, IKR, I hate it when that happens." Then comes the crushing feeling when they are doing those things you pointed out earlier. Let's face it though, most of these relationships are going to go downhill because this is not real love. You are hormonal, and as soon as you are attracted to someone (which is normal), you will start thinking deep into it. Your mind has been affected by media and you believe in love at first sight and all that. You will like this person for a while, and then you will grow older and find other people you like.

Before the relationship your friends are fine and cool with you. You two talk all the time, call each other names, and plan things together. You two wreak havoc when you go places and can sit together for long periods of time in silence. When they are in a relationship, their significant other(s.o) goes everywhere with them, if you talk to one, you talk to the other. This is uncomfortable for me. Here are some annoying things that tend to happen: They are always doing lovey dovey stuff, and its irritating to you because you remember that same friend telling you how they disliked that. And they refer to them and their s.o. as "we." Like NO you are not one person, you are two individuals. Oh Lord I have not begun to talk about the language involved, the "babe", "sweet", "dear", GOD DAMMIT YOU ARE 14 NOT 18+. And not only do they feel the need to express their love in real life, they also do it over social media. The worst part is the PDA(Public Displays of Affection). You know that painful feeling you get when you see that friend, who was ranting about those two people on the train kissing, and they are one of the people kissing on the train. Your reaction is "WELL FUDGE, I THOUGHT I SAID THIS EVENT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE PG"

One time some friends and I went to the movies. And two of our friends are dating each other, so they obviously sit together and no one had a problem with it. At first it was fine, but then I guess they got bored because they started kissing. I was extremely awkward and uncomfortable for one of my friends because he/she was sitting right next to them and was sharing popcorn. Imagine reaching over to get popcorn because the person who was supposed to pass it to you was busy kissing.

I'm the end all I want to say is that I am happy you found you one you love :D, keep being happy. I have some friend who date other who are fine, I love them and I love their s.o. However, I hate that awful feeling I get when you treat me like the third wheel. That was probably Harry's reaction to Hermoine and Ron dating. Its not a good feeling at all, its sometimes painful to watch a friend drift away because they want to spend more time with their s.o.  and you don't want to seem like a jerk by bringing up the awkwardness. When I date, I want a friend to hit me in the head with a log anytime I act like an asshole. You know I don't hate on love, I totally believe it is possible, but don't shut people out.

Photography Camp ^_^

Hello my smexy mushrooms okay so I'm I'm currently suffering from post camp depression I'm going to write a post about it to try to lessen my pain.

I did a photography camp at New York University and it was called iD Visual Arts and let me just start by saying that camp was so much fun!

I'm pretty sure that there's an ID visual Arts at Yale and Princeton and some other universities, but I'm really glad that I chose to do I do it at New York University because after all I am a New Yorker and New York is one of the most iconic cities in the world so it was no surprise that international students came to New York. There were actually three international students in my camp at iD Visual Arts and  there was a girl from Massachusetts and from Alaska and the three international students were from Australia France and Poland it was really cool. It was great getting to know different cultures and you learn about how Australians say lolly for candy and how thongs are slippers and then you  subconsciously use mate every now and then. It was a very very eye opening and it was a great experience it was nice learning about how the Polish start drinking very young and it was great learning about the dirty minds of Europeans, it was absolutely fantastic. We also had a lot of inside jokes. When you walk into New York University there is a row of clocks telling you the times from different cities around the world and there was a New York clock and a Brooklyn clock. If you guys don't know Brooklyn is a part of New York but for some reason the Brooklyn clock was 4 hours ahead of the New York clock so that kinda came a joke. Like, hmmm I wonder what time it is in Brooklyn and, you know you need a passport to get to Brooklyn and since I came in from Queens, hmmm i womder what time it is in Queens, its only like three hours ahead right. It was awesome and if you guys notice there's an arch in Washington Square Park and the Ark is basically copied from Paris so that was a joke too and it was just a lot of fun and for the first couple days we stayed around Washington Square Park around the East Village area around the Soho area and we just took pictures of everything and then I believe up by the end of the first week we went to UVPhactory and if you guys don't know what you UVPhactory is, it's an animation company and they do a lot of animation did the Power video Kanye West and they also did some animation for the Smurfs and they did a commercial for Nike Air.
They just a lot of great stuff I recommend that you guys check them out so yeah that was great and then um we went to the High line and we went to Chinatown we want to we went to Central Park to and it was just a lot of fun we formed a strong bond because there's only about six kids in my photography class there was two students in film and there was about three students in special effects. Actually there's actually one more international student. I forgot about her she was from Turkey and she actually have to leave halfway through to go back to Turkey for a family thing.
I just feel really grateful that we had such a great group because not all groups got along well, but we got along really well and we still keep in touch. You just know that groups going to be a good group when there's a bromance. So overall I really enjoyed my experience and I made some great memories <3

OMG High School

Hakusenkan Academy ~Special A! :3

Hey guys! Recently, I have been getting more randomly excited than usual. And it's not because of the
random flashbacks I get to the kdramas I watch or the mangas I read.
It's because of HIGH SCHOOOLLL!!
There is sooo much media on high school, yet I don't know what to expect.
Being a very shy person (well actually I'm like a banana. The peel is very sour and ugh, but once you actually peel it open, it's very sweet and yummy), I don't really know how to start off high school. I definitely do not want to be slow in making friends like I was in 6th grade (when I entered intermediate school). I wanna be able to open up to others early on.
I want to be FREE!!!
Also my sister mentioned something about how the lockers are up for grabs. Or at least that is how it was at Brooklyn Technical High School (11 years ago *cough* *cough*)  O.O I don't like the sound of that.
Despite my self-awareness about my taciturn nature, I still have fantasies about my awesomeness.

For example:
1. I will be the president of the Student Council and DOMINATE THE ENTIRE SCHOOL!! MWAHAHAHA!!! (like in Kaichou Wa Maid-Sama ohohohohoho~!)
          A. To be president, I hear you have to be very talkative in order to gain votes. You need to be able to talk to the teachers as well as students. (Pshhttt forget teachers, it takes me so long to break out of my comfort zone and talk to other students!)
2. I will be the best at EVERYTHING! People will come up to me and ask for help in all areas, and due to my vast knowledge, skills, and generous nature I will help them.
          B. Everything? Hmph ok I can try to be the best at classwork. Even if I am not the best when I enter, I know I will try everything in my ability to reach the top. However, I am not athletic at all. I really suck at sports. I have no coordination at all. And what do I do about it? Nothing. I sit on my lazy bum all day on the computer, laptop, on my phone, and mayyybee practice. Also, I am having doubts on my violin skills. I will have an audition for violin to join orchestra, and I keep thinking about how I will be put into 3rd violin, or kicked out altogether. You know why? Because I haven't practiced Western music in 3 years. When I finally practiced today, I sucked so bad, I lost a lot of faith in my self. (A lot, but not all! If I practice everyday, I think I will be able to brush up a little bit! The visual novel "a2 a due" gave me hope :3 )
And did I say generous? Me? Generous? HA HA! At least I am more generous than cookieluvah here. *cough* *cough*
3. I will be sooo awesome at French that I will skip maybe a year or two or French and have at least French honors by senior year.
          C. HAH! SKIP A FEW YEARS?! After one year of French in 8th grade, I was put back to French I at my high school because even though I wrote well, I spoke terribly! And now I fantasize about skipping a few years!
4. I will open a Japanese club. And somehow I will acquire so much money (from the student council hehe) that club members will be able to go to Japan.
          D. Mmmhmm now I want to be President of the student council AND President of my so called Japanese club. HAH! What club? What if no one joins? My dream will be crushed. :'(

So yea, these are a few of my fantasies, along with my self doubts. This post is kinda long...
But anywayz, even with my self-doubts, I WILL STAY STRONG! FIGHTING! I will work to the end till my fantasies come true! After all, isn't that what high school is all about? :D

Learn Japanese

Hey guys!!! Long time no see!! >.> ...
Anyways, do you know about my fetish with Japan? Manga, anime, people, EVERYTHING!!
JAPAN IS AWESOME!!!! I'm sure my friends here would agree, on some level.
So yes, I have decided to finally do something with my fetish!
I AM GOING TO LEARN JAPANESE!! YEAH!!!!
My sister made a schedule for me this summer (more about that later) and I have set aside one hour each day to learn Japanese! Yay! Here is the site I am using. I am using a lot, but here is a really cool one.


You can have pen pals and everything! They have lessons on grammar, conversations, and everything! To learn the alphabet, they have some worksheets, but I'm probably going to use another site for the alphabet. Make an account and add me guys! I am "zeldatakishima," and my penpal mail is zeldatakishima@japanese-online.com. Yay! So happy. :3

High School Stuff

Hey guys! Long time no write! lol that was lame...But ok. High school stuff.
To tell you the truth, we haven't been able to post too much on here not because we forgot about this blog *cough* *cough* but because all of us were very busy with high school application.
Oh no! You now know our ages! Oh well....not like you know anything else about us. :P
We are not just applying to public schools or just catholic schools, yea just take the SHSAT (or the TACHS for catholic schools) and get it over with (oh now you know where we live too...). We are applying to private day and boarding schools, and to tell you the truth, it has been very difficult.
I guess it would not be as bad if it was just sending applications to all the school then we are done. Each of the schools (I applied to 8 day schools) require not only applications, but some sort of separate essay or something. Isntniallerlovely touched on the essay thing below.
And not only that - we also had to keep up with all our school work, since the teachers were as unforgiving as ever. But I guess it isn't all their fault, we cannot just stop learning just to get the high school stuff in on time. Besides, our school basically took care of sending all the teacher recommendations and student files and all that stuff so it was less to worry about.
Also, for people like me and kaykay, we had to do all our financial aid stuff by ourselves as well. Yes, that means filling out a bunch of other stuff and sending and scanning a lot of documents to the schools so we can make private school affordable. All. By. Ourselves. Yes, this makes us a lot more independent and prepared for college, but while we are in the process, it does not seem all that glorified and appealing.
But yes. The process is over! Most of the day school folk already know what schools they are going to. Currently, I am still waiting for one school to see whether I got in or not, but I pretty much know what high school I am going to next year.
The people who applied to boarding school (isntniallerlovely applied to one) will be finding out in March I believe. We already got our results from the catholic schools but I do not think anyone in our grade is actually going there. We are finding out our results from the specialized public and regular public schools in March 15.
Despite all our obstacles and troubles, I do daresay that this year has gone by relatively quickly! :)

School.....

Sup!
It's been like so long.
So yea I'm like the only imperfect one in this group of bloggers so imma complain bout my life.
I am like getting Fs in like so many classes its not even funny and I still haven't finished some of my high school applications...
It's not cool cuz all these these ppls r like oh u need motivation......
fo real n$%#@ u think tht I be needin "inspiration?"
lolz I'm like some kind of a black asian
but anyway yea I need to finish so many essays.......
oh well I can name like one class tht i'm not failing so cool
my lil sis is on my phone right now -_-
I would  right mean stuff about my parents, but I really don't want this to end up like facebook parenting
yea but anyway its like not cool cuz now all these ppl r like we can help u with ur essays....
b$%^& please did I ask fo ur help?
no $%^& I didnt
For the record, I am a pretty badass essay writer so don't even try
so in conclusion, tyler oakley is the sexiest, most perfect homosexual man that I have ever laid eyes on. I am so obsessed. Go subscribe to him on youtube, he's just so perfect and he's gotten me so interested in so many things like the  book I am not myself these days. He and his roommate Kory have like 9 copies of the book around their apartment :)