Term 2 Blog #38 (Multimedia Blog #17)

heres a picture of an assassinated Marat. :D famous painting but something-something David. well, hes the guy im doing for my socials project.

Term 2 Blog #37

Friday, January 4th, 2008
It was Rochelle's birthday yesterday, I forgot. im sorry rochelle! [tho i havent talked to her for ages]....
i think i have almost finished my experiment for science fair. and the socials presentation...gotta get ready for that. i have already written everything down, but didnt write cue cards or recite it yet. well, i made sure it was around 4 minutes long.

Term 2 Blog #35

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
wow it seems so weird to write "2008" on top. soo very weird. The day I go back to school is a day 2. im actually quite happy about that. no science homework to worry about. aI also looked at January 23rd...and guess what? its the IB application test. oh no. wait...does that include pre-IB? I feel sorry for the ppl who are in Pre-IB right now, as well as us. lucky grade 8's. lucky regular ppl. or not so lucky, depending on ur view. ahh im blabbing and boring u. why not just end it off?

Term 2 Blog #34

It's New Year's Day!! Guess what i did? you guessed it - SCIENCE FAIR!

Term 2 Blog #33

New Year's Eve today!!! i wanna go eat. bye

Term 2 Blog #32

Sunday, December 30th, 2007
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FRUSTRATING A SCIENCE FAIR CAN BE!! in my science fair, i need to put staples on a piece of plastic one by one until the plastic drops. you have to balance everything, and if u blow it slightly or move it, it will drop. on average, i had to re-do everything 5 times before i got something that i didnt make an error on. aaargh!!!

Term 2 Blog #31 (Multimedia Blog #16)

Saturday, December 29th, 2007


a picture of a nice merry santa i found.

went to daniel's party today. it was FUN!!!! we skated, and i got to play on daniel's wii. now i understand why it costs 400 dollars year. or is it 300? i think the xbox 360 is the one that costs 300 dollars.
before i went to daniel's party, i went to tom lee and piano house to try to find a better piano. my piano, a sherlock manning, is OLD. extremely old. we're thinking of buying a steinmann (not steinway & sons) or a yamaha 52". my mom even said we could buy steinway if i liked it a lot. cant wait to see my piano teacher's expression when we get it!

Term 2 Blog #30

Friday, December 28th, 2007
i stayed at home and played piano and did my science fair today. this week, i actually worked on the feeling of one song im playing, and the teacher complimented on it!! :D that was great. i'll play more piano this week too. at least try to.
my science fair is taking an incredibly long time. i mean, i use tweezers and put one staple on top of that little piece of plastic one at a time. the highest number that i got up to is 300-something. i made clumps of staples and wrote down the number on it instead. still it's extremely tedious. i still havent finished 1/4th yet. ><
and i still have to study science. there may be a test when we come back.

Term 2 Blog #29

i went shopping on robson street again. guesss what i bought??? an EVENING DRESS!! its very pretty i love it. oh and i also bought a pair of paints from off the wall.
the evening dress was from sears - only $60 dollars. i think it fits me very well.

hehe...i love the dress :D:D
today, in total, ive only spent 82 dollars. compared to yesterday, this isnt a lot.

Term 2 Blog #28

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
OOOH WOW!!! GUESS WHAT WE BOUGHT FROM FUTURE SHOP [or best buy] TODAY??? a colour laser printer, 2 phones, a DVD player, and a camcorder!!! that is quite a lot of stuff, in my opinion. printer - $130, phone - $50, DVD player - $60, camcorder - $400 thats 640 dollars plus tax.
i also went to garage and got $99.64 worth of clothing. thats 5 pieces by the way, so its rather cheap. today is the best day of my life :D:D

Term 2 Blog #27

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
YAY!!! Christmas Day!! [tho the day was the most boring day of my life]
I went to this little kid's house to eat dinner, but while i waited for the dinner to cook [itself, not], i had to teach her to play the piano on a tiny tiny [so tiny u wouldnt believe it] keyboard.
i cant wait for boxing day tmw. im gonna buy a colour laser printer!! mr olson, the laser printer u bought wasnt worth it. i see one on sale for $130 dollars tmw. gonna wake up EARLY to buy it :D:D

Term 2 Blog #26

Monday, December 24th, 2007
ahhh oh no...didnt get much done today. maybe should have done more. boxing day is when i really relax.

Term 2 Blog #25

Sunday, December 23, 2007
WHOOOOOOOO i finished my tuque AND i finished 1 tenth of my science fair!! the experiment part only tho.. ooh and i played piano, and i watched the prestige a second time! actually, i was knitting my tuque while watching the prestige, but hey, multitasking rocks!
now...i still have that jean-paul marat research to do, the other 90% of my science fair to do, and the reviewing of the science we've learned so far. nice. i love my winter holidays.

Term 2 Blog #24 (Multimedia Blog #16)

yay!! a family photo!!! we havent had a family photo in such a long time.
i got my chinese school exam over with :D as well as a bit of piano. i think now, i would have to practice 2 hours a day. not gonna practice today tho. too tired.

Term 2 Blog #23

Friday, December 21st, 2007
today's the last day of school!!! whooooo!!! 2 weeks of NOTHING.
i just realized, i cant write numbers in english. take, for example, 103,492. is it a hundred and three thousand, four hundred ninty-two? or is it a hundred three thousand and four-hundred ninty two? i have no idea where to put the hyphens. maybe i should check this up..

Term 2 Blog #22

Thursday, December 20th, 2007
ONE MORE DAY TO GO!! ONE!!
you know whats sad? ive got NO HOMEWORK absolutely NO HOMEWORK from any courses in day 2, but ive got TONS of homework from day one. i think u all know what that means. MIDDLE YEARS COURSES ARE THE END ME ME!!!!
SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE FAIR.

Term 2 Blog #21

Nolan's Parablog:
Bad luck is part of life, but within that bad luck, there is always good luck.

NOO chinese exam on saturday. gotta get it done. and science fair. gotta think it through again. tho i think ive done so a MILLION times.
i actually spent half an hour writing stuff in cards for my teachers. this is my first year of doing it actually, since in previous years, ive never felt guilty about not giving out cards. this year, seeing as ms hu said "I LOVE CARDS MORE THAN PRESENTS", and witnessing countless ppl giving teachers cards, i decided i would buy some too.

Term 2 Blog #20

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
strings concert today. i really want to join choir, but when i asked the director lady, she gave me a very strange and bewildered look....hmm...
christmas shopping for me is actually a problem now. ppl started giving me gifts, which means i would have to return them. ahh well...

Term 2 Blog #19

Levels of Suspension and Disbelief on Galaxy Quest

i dont think i actually believed Galaxy Quest very much. thoughout the whole show, i kept on thinking about how stupid it was. i hate shows that dont make sense/are stupid, but is funny because of that. why cant they have sensible humour? this stupidness of the movie constant reminded me that this movie isn't real, whereas in the Prestige, my level of suspension and disbelief was actually very low, cuz i was completely mezmorized by the movie. It was so captivating, I don't notice much around me.

Vivian's, Didi's, Karen's Paraphrases

Vivian's Paraphrase:
Even people who are educated can be very poor if they dont manage their money well.
Didi's Paraphrase:
Somtimes people work better when there's rivalry with someone else to achieve the same thing.
Karen's Paraphrase:
You need to try hard many times to achieve something you're truely interested in.

Term 2 Blog #18

i spent the whole day WHOLE DAY studying. and yet, i didnt get that much done.
i think i worked out my science fair project, but i really need to study for the chinese exam this weekend. oh my gosh. so much work, even before the winter break.
it took me quite long to memorize the socials time line. i think my memory's going downhill. this sucks. everything sucks. aaargh

Term 2 Blog #17 (Multimedia Blog #15)

oooh did i mention that i got my report cards yesterday?? i dont know why im not excited about report cards anymore. its probably becuz i get the same EVERY SINGLE TERM.
now...i need to think about my science fair. what concentration of sulfur dioxide do i need??? and is there a PH scale on which i can calculate the PH of smth??
here is the second page of my mini assignment for science.

Term 2 Blog #16

Friday, December 14th, 2007
my piano teacher raised her price today. sad :(
i have a chinese recital tmw. sucks.

Term 2 Blog #15

Paraphrase:
Sometimes people work better when there's rivalry with someone else to achieve the same thing.

got one more chinese poem to memorize. >< this sucks. i hate chinese poems. they dont make sense. i understand what they're saying, but as soon as i start memorizing them, i memorize them word by word, not by meaning, cuz they dont really make sense to me. english poems would have been so much better.
its 10:16 and i havent taken a shower. better take one now.

Term 2 Blog #14

Michael Ho's Paraphrase:
It is not right to do only part of the work u're credited for and take others' work as your own work.

i slept from 4 to 6 today...it was quite refreshing. i just wish that my internet is as fast during nights as it is after school. at nights, i have to wait for something to load if i want to watch a movie. after school, it loads 4 times faster than the rate at which i watch. sucks. is all internet services like this? is shaw better than telus? cuz if it is, i want to switch to shaw.

Term 2 Blog #13

The Willing Suspension of Disbelief
I think everything we comprehend envokes emotion, not just movies. books, for example. even boring textbooks make emotion rise. even if we know the situation is not real, we are able to place our feet into a character's shoes and feel part of what the character is feeling.
The emotion gets more intense, whether its happiness or sadness, anger or hatred, when the plot becomes more dramatic. when its old and boring, without drama, it makes us fall asleep, and thus, we do not feel anything. The emotion that rises because of something we watch keeps us interested.

now, my blog...
i decided to eliminate half of my science fair. it is totally irrelevant, and i do not see what i can analyse from it. i just NEED to find my thermometer!!
oh no...i just went to find my thermometer. turns out i found it. BUT guess what? it BROKE!!!!! i need to pay for it. tell ms hu. this sucks.

Term 2 Blog #12

I AM SO HAPPY TODAY!!
JESSICA JUST MADE MY DAY!!!
tho i cant really tell this blog why, i am happy inside.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!
i wonder if jessica reads this. if you do, jessica, u have my deepest assurances that i wish you and _______ a happy time together.
im gonna ask to use the lab tmw. really. i really need to use it. ms hu will let me, im pretty sure, it just that she really doesnt need to watch over me.

Term 2 Blog #11

another super BORING day. why is everything so boring lately. oooh i just cant WAIT for the winter holidays. actually...i really got finish my science sheets tho. half my science fair..
did u know that greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for anne boleyn? i knew the fact when i was in grade 6, but was reminded of it again just yesterday while watching Elizabeth I.
do u understand how tragic that is? Henry VIII composed a song for a girl that he would eventually BEHEAD becuz she didnt bear him a son.

Term 2 Blog #10 (Multimedia Blog #14)

its multimedia blog day!! heres a picture of the first page of my mini science assignment.
i really need to get ink for my printer. really. urgh
nooow...
i feel so sleepy.
i dont noe why. i slept for 2 hours between 12 oclock and 2 oclock, i had 8 hours of sleep last night and 9 hours of sleep the night before. perhaps tonight, i'll get 12 hours. then i wont feel so sleepy.

Term 2 Blog #9

Friday, December 7th, 2007
last day of the week!! whoooooooo!!!
SCIENCE FAIR.
I TOLD MYSELF I WOULD FINISH THE FIRST PORTION OF MY SCIENCE FAIR BEFORE THE WINTER HOLIDAYS.
I NEED TO DO THAT WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
NEED TO BOTHER MS HU FOR PERMISSION!!!
have you noticed, i've been writing sentences without a subject in my most recent blogs? this is when i get frustrated at my inability to do things when i need to do them. the theme of the story i read for chinese school this week is "the biggest regret you'll ever have is not doing [or not doing a good job of] something that is crucial". in my case, it is crucial that i finish half of my science fair experiment before the winter holidays. and the preliminary theory booklet.

Term 2 Blog #8

karen found a white hair on my head.
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
im becoming yan-like.
*swaying*
actually, this doesnt shock me as much anymore cuz karen played a prank on me in grade 7 where she pretended a piece of fox hair was actually my white hair while she pulled out a black one.
that really shocked me.
now im not shocked. i actually have a REAL white hair, and im not shocked.
funny how pranks can do these things to u.
i have white hair. white hair = stress = not enough sleep.
which is why im going to go to sleep NOW.
goodbye.

Term 2 Blog #7

Arun's Paraphrase:
One has to be aware of what is going on around them instead of concentrating on one subject one is interested in, or else, there would be drastic consequences.

oh great. just great. i really am stuck. I NEED TO BUY NEW PRINTER INK. aaarggghhh.. this sucks. juuuust sucks.
Homework left to do:
type in info for Science Fair Project
Research Jean-Paul Marat
Finish Science worksheets
review science
do chinese homework
play piano
do theory

Term 2 Blog #6

ooh i was looking through the snowball fight i had on sunday. vivian emailed me the pictures she took. i'll show u two of them.

DO YOU SEE VIVIAN AND COLIN SNUGGLING TOGETHER?? so cute <3. im pretty sure they'll hook up soon.

this is just an nice-looking group picture. :D

Term 2 Blog #5

Harry's Paraphrase:
It takes a long time for people to acknowledge/accept the existance of something they don't already know.

YEAHHH!!! SCIENCE TEST NOW OVER. OFFICIALLY OVER!!!
now...i need to study for socials.

Term 2 Blog #4

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
STUDYING FOR SCIENCE.
I REALLY NEED TO STUDY.
cuz i went snowball fighting today. it was fun.
and i hurt my foot.
:'(
I LOVE THE SNOOOOW!!!

Physics 100 Greatest Discoveries Notes

Aristotle:
• Objects with greater masses fall faster than objects that are lighter
Galileo
• Objects with more air resistance fall at a slower rate
• Gravity pulls on an object with the same air resistance at same rate
Newton
• Moon is kept in orbit around the earth because of gravity
• Universal gravitation: bodies in universe attracted to each other
Thermodynamics
• Engines able to function b/c of kinetic energy: when work is created, some energy must be lost
Maxwell
• Electric charges can spread over metal surfaces b/c of magnetic fields
• Electrical current causes charges to move to outer sections
Einstein
• E=mc2
• E = energy
• M = mass
• C2 = speed of light
Quantum Theory
• Probability of outcomes
• Matter = probability waves
Light
• Newton – light particles, corpuscles
• Young – wave-like properties
• Einstein – wave + particle-like
Atoms
• Made of nucleus (protons, neutrons)
• Electrons
Electrical current
• Electrical current in metal dependent on temperature
• Low temp = constant resistance
Atoms
• Smaller than electrons – quarks
Forces
• Strong nuclear force
o Bonds protons + neutrons
• Weak nuclear force
• Gravity
• electromagnetism

Anson's Reading

By the middle of the 1800's, it was thought the the Earth was at least a couple million years old. Charles Darwin tried to calculate how old the Earth was, but eventually, it was proven wrong. In 1824, WIlliam Kelvin was born. He was an extremely smart person who began university at the age of 12 at Glasgow University. He later went to Cambridge. By 1907, he had written around 661 papers, most of the papers about mathematics. In addition to these papers, he contributed to the science of thermodynamics, refridgeration, and made the sending of telegrams possible. in 1862, Kelvin predicted that the Earth was 98 million years old by using electromagnetism. Like Darwin, his prediction was wrong.

Term 2 Blog #3 (Multimedia Blog #13)

whooooooo hooo!! TERM TWO!! its multimedia blog day today, nonetheless.

its snowing, so i decided to put a picture of a snow seal. cute isnt it? i love snoooooooooooow :D:D
it just might add my hopes up to a delayed science test. im really hoping to get over 20 cm of snow by monday. actually, i think there's a low chance of that, but im still hoping!!

Term 2 Blog #2

Friday, November 30th, 2007
nooow what?
i did a bit of science fair. actually, more like 1/20th of my science fair. but that's good enough. i did a bit.
my mom cancelled my piano lesson today cuz theres this little crack on my index finger that hurts A LOT. and i mean A LOT. even typing hurts. the keys on the keyboard are quite light and easy to press, but it still hurts when i press them. imagine a piano. let's see...the keyboard of a piano is 5 times more stiff than that of a computer keyboard. -_-"
SCIENCE TEST!!! ANOTHER GREAT BIG SCIENCE TEST TO STUDY FOR!!! >< really now, i might have spent over 10 hours studying for each science test there is. this science test is no exception. cant waste time on this.

Term 2 Blog #1

Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Joyce's reading:
Many discoveries in palontology were made in the 18th century. In 1787, the very first dinosaur bone was found in New Jersy. Since people did not know what it was, they decided to put it in a storage room, and thus, the forgot all about it. In 1788, Beaufort discovered another dinosaur bone, this time in Kentucky. Beaufort overestimated the size and strength of the dinosaur. He pronounced it to have the strength of a tiger. he also announced that the dinosaur to be extinct. SOon, many more dinosaur bones were discovered, and sent to France to be pieced together by George Cuvier. Cuvier added to the idea that catastrophies happened on earth which caused the extinction of dinosaurs. This idea opposed Thomas Jefferson's idea that the world was carefully ordered and that nothing becomes extinct.

Pre-IB, Pre-IB!! ... i think im gonna go. tho there are quite a lot of pros and cons. for example, im really looking forward to pre-IB camp, but then, there's also another year of science fair to consider. ugghhh!!! i already did 3 years of science fair (including this year, i also went to the district science fair in grade 7), two science celebrations (grade 7 and 6), and the heritage fair (grade 6). >< that is a total of 6 GREAT BIG PROJECTS that last A COUPLE MONTHS!!
geez i hate projects that take such a long time.

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.

Term 1 Blog #55

black day tmw. lol. but still black day.
i have my socials presentation tmw, as well as my english speech and my science test. fun? really.
i feel sorry for those people who have the applied skills presentation in addition to all the things listed above. seriously, tmw is the day that all our projects are due. well, its like the MY hand-in-homework day.
ive been studying hard for science after i finished my 2-hour nap today. i feel ever so refreshed :D but i didnt play piano at all. really, i already passed 4 days without practicing piano, i dont see how im gonna make up for it by friday. maybe i should persuade my mom that it's halloween and i should get a day off from my overloading homework plus piano. after all, i DID have all those things due tmw.
arrrrgh theres so much socials homework now!! even though mr martin marks very fairly, he gives SOOO much homework!! ms hu gives a bit of HARD homework, and HARD tests, but mr martin gives a LOT of homework that we can quite easily do (i shall emphasize the A LOT part of it again). and when he gives a lot of homework, we have A LOT to memorize.
arrrgh english civil war notes due in a week. less than a week in fact. and i havent even started. how nice!!! it's my procrastination (again).
however, that is my only piece of homework other than reviewing for my chinese exam and the exercise for french school. oh and math homework and the PE sheets we have to read on the heart. that's not so bad. :D

Term 1 Blog #54

yay!!! so much homework finished!!! all i have to do now is finish that essay on "Justified Actions" and study for the science test!! oh wait..i'll still have to ask Ms. Hu about the science fair...and write a big bang article on napping. oh english civil war notes too...this sucks. here i am, thinking that devoting my whole sunday to homework would make me homework-free. it certainly doesnt.
really...there is no part of the year when im homework-free. at all. there is always one project or another. i would really like one day with no stress. no piano, no french, no chinese, no homework, no theory, no anything. that would be soo nice. actually, i had that for 2 months during the summer, but that doesn't count! it was supposed to be the "resting" month.
anyways, here is my summary for the book on everything.
Lots of people went all over the world to measure something, I don't remember what it is. This guy spent 9 years of his life in another country trying to prove something that was already proven. After he returned to England, his family had already sold all his estate because they thought he was dead.

Term 1 Blog #53

Sunday, October 28th, 2007
soooooooo much homework.
today, i went over to thanusan's house to do homework. actually, he virtually did the whole powerpoint. i just sat there, studying science.
i came back at around 4 oclock, and did my english speech. then, i tried studying science again. i also did my annotative bibliography.

Term 1 Blog #52 (Multimedia Blog #8)

Saturday, October 27th, 2007
YAY!! today, i am exactly 14 years and 3 months old. :D:D i feel oold. 27 has always been a special number to me.
it turns out that, in the chinese test, there wont be much need to study during the week, but there will be a looong essay to write as well as a looong part to read. i suck at those. if it were english, i would have been very happy it was like that. or i would be indifferent. but in chinese, nooooooo. i suck. so much.
It's multimedia blog today. I would like to compare pictures of the simplified chinese world "ai" (meaning love), with the traditional.


the one on the top is the simplified, and the one on the bottom is traditional. see the missing part? the part with three dots on top and roundish look on the bottom? it looks like this:

this little word inside the tranditional word (which they have omitted in the simplified), means HEART. What is love without a heart? do you think simplified words make sense? This is my arguement that traditional words are better (and make more sense) than simplified words. also, they're a lot prettier. don't u agree? traditional words are more pretty. and pictureistic.

Term 1 Blog #51

arrrrghhhhhhhhh fricken SCIENCE, SOCIALS, AND ENGLISH. THEY GIVE A NEVER-ENDING STREAM OF PROJECTS FOR US TO DO!! this just pisses me off soooooooo much. AHH NOOOO TWO SWEAR WORDS!!! IVE GONE OVER MY LIMIT FOR A MONTH!!! actually, i dont have a limit, but im pretty sure my maximum was 2 swear words per month (excluding darn and damn; i say those quite often, but not in an offending way. i say it sometimes instead of "oh no!" or "aarrgh"). i really dont know how im gonna find the time to finish all this. plus my chinese mid-term exam is next week too. i guess most things would be finished by the end of this week. and we'll have another large stream of projects from MY classes. theres never EVER EVER a large stream of french, math, strings, or PE homework. well, for PE, thats obvious, and as for math and french, theres only 10 minutes of homework each class. i can practice string whenever i feel like. actually, i dont practice much at all, but i should. i will. and i will do theory. theory is very important. if i pass grade 2 rudiments, i'll get my grade 8 certificate. and after i pass grade 5...analysis, harmony, and counterpoint, i'll get my grade 10 certificate. actually, i havent done the practical for grade 10 yet. But doing all these exams will earn me a total for 8 credits. thats a lot.

Term 1 Blog #50

wow, fifty blog entries. i feel old already.
mr olson, here is my paraphrase for what you read to us today:
Neweton fought with Leibnez for the crediation of inventing calculus. He also proved that the earth was not entirely round.
One of the people who tried to find the circumference of the earth by using trigonometry. He measured a part of the earth and when he calculated the distance, he was only 600 yards off. His two daughters married off to bad husbands and that fact added to his depression.
Another guy also tried to find the circumference of the earth by pretending that the earth is completely round (which it is not, as Newton already proved).
That's all I remember about what you read today, Mr. Olson.

Term 1 Blog #49

ooooooff THANUSAN IS SUCH A GOOF!! HE HASNT EVEN FINISHED HIS SOCIALS NOTES YET, AND WE HAVE LESSS THAN A WEEK TO FINISH OUR POWERPOINT + PRESENTATION!!! thanusan!!! u better finish it, or im gonna KILL, MURDER, ASSASIN, CHOP ETC. YOU!!
this is what happens when a person in a group project doesnt cooperate. i think thanusan thinks michael, kelly, and i are people to be ignored. really, the nerve of him!!!

Term 1 Blog #48

ever heard of a guy called luigi boccherini? weird name isnt it? bet its german. oh wait...its italian.
anyways, he composed a minuet that i really like. u noe the 649 comercial with 2 rich people sitting on two of those golden old-england chairs that kings sit on? well, the song in the background is the one im talking about.
anyways, i saw this song in my suzuki violin book, and decided to play it. after playing it for a while, i looked up the piano version on the internet. honestly, violin is sooo much easier to sight-read than piano!! it took me around 2 hours to perfect the song, and even then, its not really perfected PERFECTED. if u catch my meaning.
anyways, my mom and dad are gonna be mad i havent gone to bed yet. bye!

Term 1 Blog #47

huhhhhh
its monday again....and i soon have to finish my socials project. we really need to get going. THANUSAN IS NOT DOING ANYTHING!! he just wont meet up with us, and if he cant cooperate, then we wont be able to get anything done!! aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh
THANUSAN, IF URE READING THIS, (but i dont think there is a slight possibility that u are) PLEASE CONSIDER HOW ANGRY I AM BEFORE SAYING "oh, i can't come today because my mom isn't home. and you cant come to my house either, because my dad's home." THANK YOU VERY MUCH. DOES UR EXCUSE EVEN MAKE SENSE???

Term 1 Blog #47

I did a lot of work today...im glad i finished everything :D:D ...

Term 1 Blog #46 (Mutimedia Blog #7)

chinese school, french school today. my chinese exam is in two weeks. gotta study. and i need to finish my science fair proposal. pu-ru-po-sa-ru puruposaru. does that sound like proposal? im trying to make a japanese word for proposal. u noe, announcer is a-n-na-u-n-sa-a annaunsaa in japanese. and disneyland is di-su-ni-la-n-do-u disunilandou :D i love these wonderful translations.
its a multimedia blog day! heres a picture i took on thursday, during the field trip.

Term 1 Blog #45

Friday, September 19th, 2007
YEAH!! PRO-D DAY TODAY!!! i love pro d days. they are soo relaxing!!! i didnt do any ANY work at all :D:D. i love the relaxing-ness of pro-d days. now, i shall continue my relaxing instead of writing this.

Term 1 Blog #44

yahhh i finished my socials summary!! i'll have to memorize approximately what it is and i'll be almost set for my presentation next week!! as for my applied skills...im pretty sure i know what to say. yup...

Term 1 Blog #43

yay i feel happy!!! tmw's the double field trip day!!! and friday's a pro-d day!!! whhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! u know what? i should have gotten all my homework done today. instead, i took a nap and read fanficiton. i really should have done my work...ahh well, i'll finish it ALL tomorrow. i NEED to finish them tomorrow.

"A Short History of Nearly Everything" summary & Term 1 Blog #42

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Mr Olson, you need us to summarize what u read to us during applied skills today right? here it is.
There's a guy called Bouguer in the lease pleasant science school called the Royal French Academy of Sciences. in 1735, ppl tried to figure out how old, how big the earth was, and how it hung in space. A person measured 200 miles around the earth, and everyone became hectic.
A guy called Edmung Halley, sea captain, astronomer invented a map. He also wrote about opium and was a devoted alchemist. Halley and Rein talked about celetial objects circling in an elipse. 40 shillings were given to anyone who can explain why. Cook said he knew but won't tell anyone. Halley went to Cambridge to talk to Newton. Newton built his own lab. _________ (dont remember name) stared at sun for longest time possible. He got away with it, but had to stay in a dark room for a few days. He also stuck a needle through his eye to ssee what happens. He studied calculas in highschool and didnt tell anyone for 3 years, and devoted most of his life on alchemy.

Term 1 Blog #41

too tired to write. i'll write more tmw morning.

Term 1 Blog #40

yayay!! my parents bought more stuff!! they bought a hundred dollars' worth of shoes for me!! (thats two shoes by the way) yay!!!! oh and we went out to a restaurant to eat breakfast by the way. i havent done that since the end of summer. it felt goood. having a car = spending more money. its true. my parents got 10,000 dollars when they crashed their car in february. and they also got a year's worth of monthly bus cards. they didnt have to pay for insurance and gas anymore. thats a lot of money. but the price of that is the time wasted to get between places. take me for example. it takes me an hour to get to chinese school and back. it also takes 30 minutes to get to french school and back.
anyhooo (haha, im copying anne now) my mom gave me her two-zone monthly bus card and told me that i could take the bus to school for the rest of the month. i told her i wanted to sell it and take the money instead. she said ok. note - that bus card is worth 52 dollars today, 49 dollars tmw, 46 dollars on tuesday, etc.. somebody better buy it soon or its gonna loose its worth altogether.

Term 1 Blog #39 (Multimedia Blog #6)

Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Horray!!! MY PARENTS FINALLY BOUGHT A CAR!! after 7 months of not having a car, here i am, with a CAR!! ok that sounds stupid. but the idea is, we have a car again!!! its a blue corolla. yup..i wont say anything else.
i had french school today...then i had to go see my doctor at 12:30. since my doctor's office is in china town, and i had chinese school nearby at 3:15, i decided to stay there for a while. actually, i stayed in tinseltown. i spent 4 dollars on bubbletea, 2 dollars and a bit more on apple tarts, another 2 dollars and a bit more on mcdonald's, and another 4 dollars on a pencilcase and a file case. thats 13 dollars in total. i was bored out of my mind, believe me. although i brought my social studies to look at, it was soooo boring.
then i went to chinese school. it was boring too. and i got a load of homework. 7 pages of exercise, a re-write of my essay without mistakes, memorization of around 20 words, the copying of definitions, and the copying of the words that i have to memorize.
i had no idea before chinese school that my parents were going to look at a car. but after chinese school, they phoned me, and just said "dont take the bus today. wait for ur dad outside. hes driving a blue corolla."
and thats how they broke it to me. that they bought a car.
its multimedia blog today...here is a picture of newton.

Term 1 Blog #38

i finished soooooo much work today!! AND i watched a whole movie!! yay!! it was called the convenant. ever heard of it? it was pretty scary...lucky i watched it in the afternoon, with the sun beating on me.
well, in total, i have got a good understanding of the civil war in ivory coast today by reading a wikipedia artical CAREFULLY. and i mean carefully. i read it slowly to make sure i got every sentence. it took at least an hour to read 7 pages. oh and i highlited some things.
i also read half of the assigned socials homework. remember the timeline we were supposed to work on? i finished about half of it. well, it didnt take that long, but i finished a bit!
i also finished my chinese essay, which didnt take long, considering the amount of time i took to do my chinese essays in grade 6. now it takes 2 hours long...which is still long, but not as long as before...
my science homework is almost finished except for one question.
my isaac newton powerpoint is done, as is half of the script im reading from.
i finished memorizing my french school oral presentation.
i didnt play piano. that's the only thing i DIDNT do.

Term 1 Blog #37

YAY!! I FINISHED SIX LAPS TODAY!!! i feel so happy!!!! i mean, i only did 8 seconds worse than the beginning of grade 8. at the end of grade 8, i was doing around 1 minute worse. i have no idea why whatsoever. but i hope i'll improve.
today, i slammed the door of my locker into my thumb. now it's bruised. there's a thick black line under my fingernail that blobs up. my mom called the piano teacher and told her not to come. YAY!! no piano this week!!! now...as for my chinese essay...

Term 1 Blog #36

Thursday, October 10th, 2007
oooooh i really gotta get working on ivory coast. its due in two weeks. im gonna go over to kelly's this weekend, probably. i havent cleared it up with her, but we all should meet somewhere.
i really should start my etude. i havent played it during the weekend, and ive got to pack it all down before friday. >< gonna play right now

Term 1 Blog #35

i went to a jounior reach for the top game in david thompson today. i suck. BADLY. i think i suck the most. in the WHOLE GAME, i answered a total of...GUESS WHAT...5 questions!
i think im gonna study for reach for teh top. so far, i memorizied the capital cities and countries in central america. im fine with north america. duh. US and canada...oh actually, i still need to look up US and Canadian presidents. and flowers...oooooooooh gosh theres so much to do. i'll just do a bit everyday. i actually enjoy doing it.

Term 1 Blog #34

hmm
i finished studying for socials. i just hope i dont have to run langara tmw. i'd die if i did.

Term 1 Blog #33

ooooooooooooooooh bored.........
soooooo very bored.....
im gonna finish reading "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" today. its quite interesting actually, but i would prefer science fiction.

Term 1 Blog #32 (Multimedia Blog #5)

aaaaawwwwwwww today was exhausting.
when i got back from chinese school, i took the wrong bus. instead of taking the 17 OAK, i took the 17 UBC. i ended up in the middle of UBC before i realized, right across from the "University Chapel".. i went inside, borrowed a cellphone, and called my parents. my dad told me to take the 41st to joyce then turn 17 oak. i decided to keep on taking the 17 UBC till i reached the main stop.
aaaaaaaarghhh its gonna take too long to explain. and ppl will get bored. basically, chinese school stopped at 5:45, i took the wrong buses (but made it back in the end), my parents worried themselves to death, i came back 3 hours later, and they decided that mexico would be too dangerous for me. the end.
its a multimedia blog today. here is a picture of my teeth right after my braces were taken off. arent they straight??

Term 1 Blog #31

my mom and dad said i could go to mexico, but only if i could prove that its safe. they said mexico is a very dangerous place, and i could be abducted at any time. they also added in the fact that mexico is significantly poorer than canada, with people who speak spanish. so...all in all, they want mr olson to switch the place we're going. can you please consider going to somewhere else? i dont think my parents will let me go anywhere but europe and the US. or australia and new zealand. frankly, i agree with my parents. its quite dangerous for me to go into another country without either my mom or dad.

Term 1 Blog #30

karen and anne forced me to watch a walk to remember today. well, they didnt have to foce me past the trailer. it was soooo good. still watching it now. im watching it for the second time now.

Term 1 Blog #29

im still coughing like crazy. i donno if this flue is ever going away. I hope it does, for my throat's sake. and for my body's sake, for my lungs' sake, for my health's sake, for my life's sake...etc.
i finally ofund a science fair project!!! i think its a bit too easy tho, but ms hu gave the okay sign. im gonna look for another one nonetheless. I won't begin my writeup until im sure i want to do this, and that i can analyse it properly enough to get me a decent mark.
our socials test was quite hard today, actually. for once, i wasnt sure about some of the questions on the test. i hope i can get an A this term.

Term 1 Blog #28

aaargh still coughing. you were right, mr olson, i should enjoy my youth while it lasts. i should not worry about the distant future, and take one day at a time. and what my mind is on right now is my flu. my horribly frightening flu. my absolutely wonderful flu. my phrases condradict each other, but you understand me nonetheless.
mrs blake made us play football in the POURING RAIN today!! its was not a drizzle, not a shower, but a ... you guessed it ... THUNDERSTORM. we could have been struck by lightning, if there had been lightning. well, maybe not. but the kids under the trees who were hiding from the rain while their classmates did 6 laps would have been. we were out in the open - on the oval soccer field. hoooow nice. we love you mrs blake! we got to feel the pleasure of playing football in the wonderfully wet and non-muddy grass while the not-so-heavy rain floated past us!

Term 1 Blog #27

oooh 27th blog, my favourite number.
Looking back at my old pictures, i realize how cute i was, and how old i am now. i mean, why do i have to grow old??? cant i just stay cute forever?? ive been complaining about gettin old a lot lately. im only 14, and im complaining about getting old. oh well, gotta study for socials test on wednesday.