Term 1 Blog #84

i just realized how much i enjoyed the disney movies. really.
i was watching aladdin after school today, and it made such a good impression on me. i mean, it was very funny!! the singing was awesome too. it want one of those recent pop/rock songs with lots of drums and rap, it was actually SINGING and required TALENT. another thing i like about it is that its peaceful and actually had a MELODY. that's wat music is all about. its not the DRUMS and FAST TALKING that celebrities do nowadays cuz they dont have the talent but want the title of singer.

Term 1 Blog #83

NOOOOO SCIENCE TEST
ITS MY DEATH.
IM SURE YOU'LL ALL BE VERY HAPPY.
:'( :'( :'(
i dont remember whether i did my blog yesterday.
gotta go sleep.

Term 1 Blog #82

I WANT SNOW.
WHO DOESN'T WANT SNOW?!?!?!?! [actually, daniel does]
IIIII WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW
YUKI YUKI YUKI YUKI YUKI YUKI
XUE XUE XUE XUE XUE XUE
NEIGE NEIGE NEIGE NEIGE NEIGE NEIGE

:( i think i do too much of these.

Term 1 Blog #81

-_-" i need to sleep...and take a shower.
sry for the short blogs recently.
i neeed to do theory. :( badly. i cant just leave it all till the end. well, technically, i left it till almost the end, so i dont have much time left. :( reaaaaly gotta start working...

100 Greatest Discoveries Notes

The Planets Move
• Mesopotamians – did lots of astronomy
o Recorded on clay tablets
o First records
o Earliest record of astronomy, Venus
o First record of planet moving
• Greeks – went to Mesopotamians
o Developed vision of solar system
o Planets move around earth
• Nicholas Copernicus – challenged Greek’s Idea
o Fixes sun in center
o Earth moves
o Published book on day of death
• Johannes Kepler – planets didn’t orbit in circles
o Ellipse
o Calculated accurate orbits
• Galileo Galilai
o Telescope
o Mountains on moon
o 4 stars around Jupiter
o Clusters of stars
o Theory supported by facts

Halley’s Comet
• Comets = fear and terror
• Halley found 3 comets following same path every 76 years
• Predicted the comet would come back in 76 years
o Came back, but Halley died

Milky Way Cluster of Stars
• Hershall from musician to telescope builder
• Found Uranus
• Divided sky in sections
• Counted stars
• Milky Way too large to count

General Relativity
Einstein – orbit of Mercury
• Mercury’s change in orbit every century
• Refined Newton’s laws of gravity
• Gravity takes time to travel
• Curved space
• Theory of General Relativity
• Eclipse tested Einstein’s Theory
• He was Right

The Universe is Expanding
• White nebulae
• 1924 Edwin Hubble study white nebulae
• Now called white nebulae galaxy
• Colour changes as galaxy moves
• Finds lots of colours
• Big Bang

Milky Way Emits Radio Waves
• 1930 Carl Jinsky
• 3 forms of radio waves – thunderstorms, earth, 3rd-mysterious?
o Looked like was from sun
o Actually found black hole
Cosmic Radio Waves Background…something
• Arnold Penseus, Robert Wilson
• Measure radiation from milky way
o Two theories at the time
 Big Bang
 Stationary Theory
o Big Bang would leave extra temperature
• They found extra temp.

Gamma Ray Bursts
• 1960’s – made Gamma Ray detectors
• Supernovae produces gamma ray bursts?
• Made new telescope
• Discovered gamma ray bursts a few trillion light years away
• Gamma ray bursts = past animal extinctions?

Planets Orbiting other Planets
• Looks at waves wobbling as it orbits around
• Universe is expanding
• Explosion of Type 1A supernova

Term 1 Blog #80 (Multimedia Blog #12)

Saturday, November 25th, 2007
Multimedia BLog today!! horray!!
heres a picture of a person :D vague right? not till uve seen the picture!! [actually, i think u looked at the picture before u read the sentence]

hehe. obvious.

Term 1 Blog #79

Friday, November 24th, 2007
Paraphrase:
Isaac:
1940s- geologists could bascially guess from what time period the rocks came from. There was an archbishop who guessed when the Earth started, and this other guy proposed that u could measure the age of the earth by measuring the amount of salt in the ocean. However, this was impossible to do. The estimate by the archbiship was off by a looot.

everything sucks. i have decided that i neeed to finish rudiments 2 by june. which means, i'll have to finish the rest of preliminary rudiments and rudiements 1 and rudiments 2 in...7 months. actually, i think thats a lot. most likely, i'll finish them before my goal. still, i have a goal.
i also have a goal to memorize the new words and new chinese four-character sayings every weeks. tho i dont think that's gonna continue for many more weeks cuz i dont have much time with the science fair and all. still, im gonna try.
...math is supposed to be in my daily schedule, but somewhow, i decided to ignore it. i dont think i'll be doing very well in math next year cuz of it.

Term 1 Blog #78

thursday...over...
i went to my mom's company's Family Day today. needless to say, it was a waste of my time.
tmw is pro-d day!! yay!! i plan to finish science tmw tho (the project about bohr and newton). and i need to play A LOT of piano, seeing as i havent mastered the two songs im supposed to play yet. and ive got to revise the other songs too. originally, i was gonna do my science fair tmw cuz the school will be open and i dont have to go to class. but since im so busy, i guess i can afford to do it during lunch somewhere b/t now and winter break. one month should be sufficient for half of my experiment.

Term 1 Blog #77

oooh no...
i feel sad...
MATH TEST TMW!!!
i really have nothing to study, but i feel nervous.
theres a project due on monday (from science)...i have to work on that on friday
i think thats it
oh yeah...socials, forgot.
SOCIALS HOMEWORK. i'll do that tmw. i'll leave everything until tmw =D sound good?

Term 1 Blog #76

Mike's Paraphrase
Lyle eventually lost his sight becase he was originally shortsighted to begin with. He worked as a professor of geology at King's College from 1831 to 1832. Although he worked on many theories, he never actually read Hutton's theories.He believed: that the earth was created by a catalysmic event, that all earth's processes were very slow and that it shifted. Many scientists read about his ideas. However, he couldn't answer simple questions like how mountain ranges were formed, how glaciers worked (he forgot about ice ages). He didnt think that plants and animals suffered from instant anhihilation and that these plants and animals existed since the beginning of earth. Geologists grouped rocks together by the time period they came from. There was a lot of discussion about these two time periods. So, to solve this arguement, the geologists added yet another time period between these two.


yay!! the reach game was soo fun today!! i answered at least 10 questions :D horray for me!
i think this is due to me sleeping early and all tho.
well, speak of sleeping early! i need to sleep NOW.
bye.

Term 1 Blog #75

aww geez.
i feel lazy.,
i procrastinated a lot this week.
i do not intend to pick up the slack
gotta get some chinese done tho
really, i wish everybody could cut us teenagers some slack
we need to enjoy our lives

Term 1 Blog #74

i didnt do much today. basically, i finished doing that english handout so that i could hand it over for mr hauck to copy and read sherlock holmes. nothing else..oh theres piano that i played.
i feel awwful. i feel lazy. i wish i could take another day off. actually, i feel like that on all weekends. i dont do any work on saturdays becuz i just come back from chinese and french school feeling tired and needing a nap. sunday is spent cramming on homework (which i aparently didnt do today). i need a day off each week at least. thank god theres a pro-d day this friday. i wouldnt be able to live without it.

Term 1 Blog #73 (Multimedia Blog #11)

...i dont wanna talk about what happened today
its too depressing to be talked about.
its multimedia blog day.
here is a picture of the periodic table of elements:

im trying to memorize all of it. so far, im up to 40 elements (last one: zirconium)

Kelly's Paraphrase:
A guy called Parkinson became a geologist. He wrote books on geology and discovered Parkinson's disease. Also, he bought museum of specimen until he had no money left.
Another geologist, Lyle, was born when Hutton died to a rich family. Lyle and Bucklem met and Lyle decided to devote himself to geology.

Term 1 Blog #72

huh...piano teacher gone...
another week of piano again...
GOTTA DO SCIENCE FAIR.
...and memory book.
...and go to sleep
...and the science fair again. it never ceases to amaze me how much pressure a little science fair can put into our lives.
u like science fairs? aparently, i dont.
...gotta go paraphrase
...gotta do 7 activities for the presentaitons in AS
...gotta figure out how to teach the class about euphemism (tho its pretty easy to understand)

Term 1 Blog #71

ahhhh gotta go to sleep soon!!
i've kept up my record of 4 days of sleeping starting at 10 oclock!! i wont break the record now!!
anyways, today was a boring day. gotta start science fair project ><

Term 1 Blog #70

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
ooooh geez. had PE test today. it was easy...except i forgot the word CAPILLARY!!! how can i forgeeeeeeet it??????????? :'( I REMEMBERED IT STARTED WITH A "C" but couldn't remember the rest of the word...shame on me.
oh, in total, i memorized 40 elements in the periodic table!! gooo me!!! got..lets see, 63 to go. i'll manage that. in two weeks. prob.

Term 1 Blog #69

Jesse's Paraphrase
In the 19th century, geology became extremely common. Hutton wrote a really loong and lengthy book and geology that no one could understand, and his friend Playfair summarized his book and his theory on the Earth. This time, people finally understood what Hutton meant, and voila! geology became more popular!!

ookk my blog
i tried sleeping early yesterday, due to a sudden urge to be as healthy as i can. it didn't go very well. i laid there awake for 1.5 hours, unable to sleep. it was a shame, to lie there doing nothing and finally falling sleeping at the time i usually sleep... maybe i'll try again today, see if i can change my sleeping pattern. god noes i need to change it.
theres a french and PE test tmw...its quite easy actually. i'll just study until my parents come home, play piano, read sherlock holmes, and go to sleep at 10 again :D

Term 1 Blog #68

AWWW GOD...THREE WEEKS LEFT. gotta get my math mark up by 3 percent. one percent per week. can i do that, YES I CAN. I CAN AND I WILL. theres a difference between can and will. I WILL GET THAT THREE PERCENT AND GET THE A I WANT SO MUCH.
reading sherlock holmes isnt a bad way to end this rememberence day long weekend. its really good actually. ive read 3 of his stories this week, and i read a lot more when i was younger, but it still interests me. ive also read a book called looking for alaska. this book describes the life of a boy "looking for a Great Perhaps" when he stumbles upon and falls in love with a girl called Alaska. the first half of the book describes all the pranks he does with his group of friends (including alaska), and the second half of the book is dedicated to his thoughts and feelings after alaska's death. it was quite a good book...even with all that smoking involved.
this morning, while my parents were out, i watched sweet home alabama. the only reason i watched it was because patrick dempsey (mcdreamy in grey's anatomy) was in it. unfortunately, he only played the supporting actor. and his hair was weird in the movie.
ooh have i ever mentioned that reese witherspoons is pretty? i dont think i have. well, ive mentioned jessica alba and mariah carey. but not really reese witherspoon. geez, if all i do is mention pretty girls, ppl will start thinking in lesbian. WHICH I AM NOT.

Term 1 Blog #67

rememberence day today...gotta think about dead soldiers. lol.
actually, i did think about them...for around 2 minutes or so. but what was really great about today was that my parents spent about a hundred dollars on food. dinner was goooood. it should've been thanksgiving dinner instead.
anyways, i finished most of my homework today. i didnt actually finish much, but theres not that much leftover. at all. theres no chinese and french school homework cuz i finished it last week...i finished my 3rd part of my memory book (1 part left to go), i redesigned my science fair project, and i finished math homework.
oh nooooo darn...french test on wednesday. forgot. ah well, i'll study a bit tmw. theres a whole day off tmw~!!! i'll play a bit of piano and do a bit of theory. and READ!!! i love reading, now that ive got the time for it :D

Term 1 Blog #66 (Multimedia Blog #10)

isnt this picture pretty? its called moonlight memories. :D

YAYA!!! I DIDNT REALIZE THAT THERE WAS NO CHINESE SCHOOL TODAY!!!!!!! WHOO-HOOO!!
NOOWWW, I WILL HAVE SOME FUN!! (meaning reading...:P)
theres not much homework this week, surprisingly. i will finish all there is left to do, do some thoery, play some piano, and REAAD!!! i havent read much since the beginning of term. at all. now i shall try to make up for all that lost time :D

Term 1 Blog #65

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Joy's Paraphrase
The size, mass, and all other properties of the earth have been discovered. There was a mention of a guy called Huttson who was the leader of the Oyster Club amongst specialists from many different areas. Huttson was extremely interested in geology. There was also a mention about Neptunians and Plutonians who believed different things in the field of geology.

ahhhh i cant breathe!! im getting an...83% in math. ahhhhhhhhhh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo is it possible for me to get my mark up by 3 percent by the end of november? i reaaally reaaally hope so. OOH ALMIGHTY GOD!! MAKE MR STUART GIVE US MORE EASY TESTS SO THAT I CAN GET AT LEAST 3 PERCENT MORE. PLEAAAAASEEE!!!! IM BEGGING YOU1!! i will NOT break my record of A's in math since grade 5. noooooo way jose. >< plz

Term 1 Blog #64

Thursday, November 8th, 2007
i remember, a while ago, my uncle's doctor told him he had all the symptoms of having this type of cancer. a week later, after he did a scan of some kind, he was told that he didnt have cancer. how do u think he would've coped that week? i would have been terrified, horrified...and all other words that describe fear of dying.

Term 1 Blog #63

today was fun. i went on tours all over my mom's company (it was only one floor), and i got to go to the site of a water sewage plant. they gave me a loooong presentation about using radio waves to detect the type of rock underground that was immensely boring, but with content interesting enough, as well as paying food for me in a restaurant!! (actually, the company paid for it cuz the daughter of the boss came today)
i got to finish most of my socials notes after all the touring, as well as math, though that didn't take long. now, i'll just have to find a different science fair project (or change the one i have now), memorize french, do chinese homework, do french school homework, and finish those applied skills activities. :D that is significantly less than this morning.

Term 1 Blog #62

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
yay!! tmw is take ur kid to work day!!! imm happy!!!
well, today was a boring day. there was homework for each and every class, and ... yeahhhh...
there was a substitute for science, so i couldnt ask ms hu about my science fair proposal. gotta ask her soon. very soon.

Term 1 Blog #61

its quite late. i should be sleeping. arrghhh still doing socials notes.
i just realized i have to finish my memory book and big bang article. dont noe when its due..i think its sometime soon.
oh michael just answered my question. its due on friday.

Term 1 Blog #60

ahhhhh socials notes!!! theres a lot of socials homework now that we've switched teachers, but this teacher marks fairly.
gonna do more

Term 1 Blog #59 (Multimedia Blog #9)

its multimedia blog today!! the picture above is of mariah carey. i honestly find her pretty. reminds me of michelle, for some reason.
anyways, i did HORRIBLE on my chinese exam. sucks. i suppose, if i get a really good mark in science, the horrible mark on my chinese exam would make up for the extra happiness i got yesterday.

Term 1 Blog #58

Friday, October 2nd, 2007
Paraphrase:
This time, Mr Olson read about the accomplishments of john cavendish. He found Ohm's law and the law of the conservation of energy and a whole bunch of things a century before they were found, but since no one looked at his work, all these discoveries were already named after the people who discovered it afterwards. Then there were a lot of stuff afterwards which were not as interesting, and thus, I do not remember them.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! IN YOUR FACE, BOYS WHO THINK THAT THEY'RE BETTER AT SCIENCE. WHO'S THE ONE THAT GOT THE HIGHEST MARK THIS TIME? MMEEEEEEE! ME ME ME ME ME ME. MOI MOI MOI MOI MOI MOI. WATASHI WATASHI WATASHI WATASHI WATASHI 我我我我我我我我我我我我我我我我我. alll me. i got 5% higher than the next person in line. :D HA!
sry if im bragging right now >< its just that i get a rare chance to brag about science. usually, i end up 3rd or 4th. sometimes 2nd. but first is always dominated by NOLAN.

Term 1 Blog #57

yay!! day two today!!! i felt sooo happy that i wouldnt be getting much homework. yaya!!! but at the same time, i really want to know the outcome of my science test. i worked so hard on it...i feel so eager to see my outcome.

Term 1 Blog #56

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
we went trick-or-treating today!!!! horray!!!
we walked all the way from 71st and fremlin to 54th and cambie. actually, we didnt walk in a straight line. we walked sideways a bit, and halfway through trick-or-treating (we were at around 65th street), we had to take karen's sister back home cuz she complained that she was getting tired. that means we walked a total of at least 30 blocks. by the time we got to 54th and cambie, it was already 9:30. my parents happened to phone at the time, and my dad came and drove us home.
i finally got a crush!!! horray!!! it feels awful to be without a crush. :( i mean, when i had a small crush last year, i thought no having to stare at the person was bliss, so i became crushless for 9 months. lol...i think the only thing it does for me is to give me a topic to think about before i fall asleep. if im crushless, i think about homework (especially science fair) and i am going to do them. then THAT keeps me awake for quite a long time.

Paraphrase:
There was a part about contour drawing when it was invented by people measuring the elevations of mountains then connecting the dots on a scaterplot. This was used to measure moons, planets, and the sun.