Snow Day!

Today was the "annual?" snow trip for the Interact Club for Verdugo Hills High School. Well all I can say to sum this whole trip us is: It started out as a drag, our non-tour bus came 45 mins. late, annoying white guy with Ukulele, and no Amy Nam because she had stuff to go to and parental shackled. About a 2 hour drive on the bus to get to Mountain High/ Wrightwood... more annoying Ukulele, why can't people not play chords? Got to last year's snow spot, but found it disappointing because it had no snow on it what so ever, so we went about 4 miles further up. Found a nice spot but the problem was the thorn berry bushes that we had to traverse and a little lake way. Pretty fun 2 hours of snow, there was lots of it and it even snowed down hard >_< ceejay almost got worried that we might have had to be stuck there for a couple of more hours. I sleighed, I tried my best to sculpt a turtle out of the snow, and a few snow ball fights here and there. One of the white girls that didn't go to verdugo, but part of interact club (i think), messed with Ryan's sexy face. That bitch. Ride back, QQ.

O yea, forgot to mention Richard Lee, that nigga.

To be or not to be...

angry at someone when there is an absolute injustice action done by that person. Or in my case, seeing that jerk oblivious to the people that are out of his peripherals. All this I mean Adrien Conrad, this guy hogs the shit out of the ball when he is at net, it irritates me and everyone on the court, I mean seriously! Other people want to hit the ball too man. So being out sick with the cold and a sore throat, nothing in my mind would piss me off anymore, I was wrong. Josie and Edward were in back of Adrien waiting for a ball to come pass Adrien and into the range of their racket, but noooo that fucker runs to the ball and blocks my shot that I was passing to the baseline... So being on the opposing side, I told Carol, literally: "uh, you can practice your lobs, haha...." and she tries. There goes Adrien... so being a little ticked off pass my already in high tensioned limit, I started hitting my best shots at him. When I mean at him, I literally mean at his body or try going towards his waist. I never knew why I didn't try to go for his forehead, maybe I was thinking that it would let me hide my anger while having fun ripping the balls at this guy at net. At that time span, I didn't even thinking of giving Josie or Edward a try. All I tried to do is to try to get Adrien off the court. Btw, did I mention the shots he DOES return is even more stupid than him standing in the middle of the net? He wacks the balls off the court. So I'll get straight to the climax. I see Edward playing with Josie so I thought, this is a good time to let it out. I yelled out "STOP HOGGING THE F@#KEN BALL!!!!" *flat shots a ball to the net in the direction of Adrien*, then it got really quiet and I left, furiously. I went to jog a mile to starve out my adrenaline. I then started to walk back towards the courts again to apologize for my outburst, but everyone that was in the courts has either left or left for VONS, except Carol, Andrew, and 2 of his friends. So seeing Carol I talked to her saying if Adrien knew it was him. Carol, being the little smart Ho she is, made up a lie for me to cover for me :) thanks Carolyn. She knew I was talking about Adrien and not Edward, and apparently so did everyone else, except on guy. Adrien. Carol told me he went around and started asking who was I yelling at... *sigh. So from today on, if Adrien hogs the ball like that every again, I will deliberately go up to him and give him a piece of my mind, and try to use my Jedi mind tricks and rip his brain on the spot. I swear on it. So if anyone having trouble with Adrien hogging the ball, give me a call over and ♫I'll be there♫(ahaha, couldn't resist)

Funny thing though, Adrien didn't come to school today, and Ben messed up on his permit acquirement for not bringing his official copy of his birthday thingy... birth certificate. There we go, so he's making an appointment for next Wednesday, good luck to him :D.

Anyone see Leslie's new hair do? She reminded me of Rhiana and her hair style, I think its a really good bold move by Leslie, ask anyone in Rienhart's second period about it. Leega wants to make a bold hair-do as well it seems like. I bet it will turn out great.

Everyone's working now-a-days, its no fair. I want to make money so that I can buy my own stuff instead of asking my parents for the money and the question they give me when they actually give me the money, its no fun.

I think I ran out of things to say after that Adrien rant, I shall stop and blog another day.

Real birthday

started on the 22nd, no surprise >_<, thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, and suk li for giving me a cake, she's the best big sister anyone can ask for :D. I also got a scratch card, one of those diamond ones, I asked Edward, Jakrin, Carol, and Jamie to scratch a slot for me and in the end I scratch the "winning number" and yes, I lost, the numbers weren't even close >_<. Awell, fun and games for a dollar.

Perpetual Thinking.

I've been thinking about the "How's" in life these past few weeks and it does not feel good people, wondering how does this work, how does that work, how will the road ahead work out for me?, how come its me. It used to be the "Why's" but lately the answers to my "Why's" has just been, "because it is, just accept it" or my mind I know the logical "why" answers.

Getting ready to turn 18 has not been fun at all. I've been through another road bump in my life thanks to Ms. Rescigno and my ability to not think thoroughly. Being sick on the half week before your birthday has been a real drag. Having your shoulder throw-out on you in the middle of a serve has been a real drag. Knowing your conscious is not letting go of the moments of forlorned past of 17 years has been a real drag. Knowing that you like someone who you probably know doesn't feel the same and don't want to experience that false butterfly feeling in your heart and not your stomach IS A REAL DRAG. I hate it all.

2/20
My dad asks me: "What do you want for your birthday?" For the for-sure'd time, I really don't know what I want. Nothing materialistic as this point in my, I mean my dad did bring up of "we should buy a car", which made me some-what ecstatic, not for the car, but what it represented. The fact that if I was to have a self-transportation, I can be free to roam the likes of Los Angeles and beyond. The feeling of not being tied down to my home anymore. I love that feeling. Anyways, today we also went out for dinner then visited my uncle and grandma. It was nice to see them smile :)


2/21
happy birthday to me.

Hsi Lai Temple

So talking to Sidney and Leega, I was shocked to read that they have not heard of the Hsi Lai Monastery Temple up in, well, Temple City. So to honor a tradition of going up there pretty much every year, here's some pictures of the place. The picture of the lady, isn't anyone i know, I just found it all on google, and I was amazed that they have pictures of the inside statues, even though there are signs all over the place of "no flash photography". During chinese new years, that empty granite middle ground is filled with people, and celebration acts like lion dancing, martial art demonstration, and performances.

Valentine's Day (official for school anyways)

Its that time of year once again, Cupid wants to have fun shooting people with its pointed heart shaped arrow head... or that is what corporations want you to think. So today starts out like any other day I suppose, til' about 2nd period. The gang of Filipinos rushes in into the Asian room with, what I can see, pinkish balloons and flowers. I was like: "O man, something is going down..." indeed my childish instincts were right. Kevin does this whole over-the-A.P. announcement to his girlfriend to be his valentines with a little party full of balloons and the flowers. Ah, young hearts... everyone wants to experience it in their life time :)

Tennis:

I would like to thank Jonathan Villalobos for the Troy's cheeseburger and fries :) such a great guy haha and that is not kissing ass, he really is a great guy. I ate Troy's for the first time today... I'm going to stop liking it for a while because their burgers + chili fries are a monstrous combo. My stomach was crying for help when I was done devouring my burger.

Nothing interesting happened today except that 4 generations of Verdugo Hills single 1's played a doubles match together, that is some fun shit I tell you what.

Congrats to the boy's varsity basketball team for hydrating their 51 years of no-league-champ drought, some good shit.

Devil Survivor!

So yea, Richard Tran and I have to get pass the next 2 days (Friday will be our final day) in Silva's class before we can walk out and never return! woot! The ONLY sad thing about leaving that class is the thought of Amy, Sidney, Anne, and Ellen suffering upon Silva's weird voice and accent. So it is probably best to apologize that we would not be staying with you girls :( good luck on the terms ahead!

I think, for prioritizing my, that I should just drop English all together, since Ms.Carbone says that Ms.Rescigno already changed my class title so that I get AP English credit for both A and B term (same with Richard). Just plan on chilling out, focus in Calculus and MAYBE Reinhart's class so that I want to get a 3+ on my AP exams other than math. So Brandon told me that Mr.McBride might have a spot open for me so yea, i'll totally take that offer and TA for animation :) I'll get to draw and create cartoons!

So yea, recap: 2 more days of hell, sympathy, senioritis.

Term - C

Are you going to be a bitch to me? Are you going to give the same shit you're going to give me last term? Please let everything work this term... its the last term where i can really have fun, D-term too, but I don't want to think about graduation just yet :) I want to feel like a kid for a few more months.

So like, we bai sun'd today and I ate lean bbq pork... not as good as I thought it would be, but it was still a good meal. I love my new rice cooker, the rice is of the best texture, YUM.

Benny, you are like a brother to me now.

FormSpring Rant

I like for the fact that you can ask someone anonymously questions that you think they can answer, but when it gets too personal it is just stupid. Why can't anyone ask questions that are like Jackie's? harmless, fun, questions... and the fact that anyone would ask me question that are like mines are just a bit rude... I mean for everyone that's going to ask me question pertaining Sidney... as least ask me in person. At least I'll hate you that much less, I suppose or not hate you at all. I guess if you were to given an opportunity to be unknown and is free to do whatever one's will wants,shit will happen.

I'll be disabling me account yet again, because apparently there's only a handle full of people that will ask me publicly decent questions... and yea, now i know how jackie felt when everyone started a formspring...

formspring.me

Are you planning to go to prom, if so will you ask Sidney Vu?

I suppose only time would tell.
If she dost think homecoming as most agreeable, I suppose I cannot accept a 'no'. right?

Ask me anything

Problem solved and 8 days in counting

So about the whole English thing, I convinced Rescigno to change my B-term class title to AP English language, that way, I can drop the class in C-term. Thus not needing to mess with my UC applications that are very late in progress to change wisely. In return, I need to stay in Mr. Silva's class for a week, and if, by my own opinion without prejudice, I like it, I stay. If not I'll just drop the class fuck the AP credits that I can earn C-term and D-term (no point in earning it senior year, 2nd semester anyways) and take an elective. This elective on the other hand, is special only for Richard Tran and I. See, Ms. Carbone is nice enough to me that she'll ask a teacher if we can do T.A. for their class and instead of going and doing actual teacher assisting, we would check in and go to Riemer's class. That way, we can somewhat prepare ourselves for the AP English Exam. Win-Win. So hopefully now, everything will be back to normal.

On to lighter sides, Chinese New Years will be kicking off (haha, super bowl pun) in Feburary 14, yes, valentines day. Chocolate, Romance, Flowers, Money, Visits and New Clothes all in one day. That's a girl's dream come true right there. Just realized that. Yup, this Chinese New Years is celebrating the year of the tiger which symbolizes power, passion, and to do the unexpected. To those who were born in 1962 1974 1986 or 1998, this is your year :)

Rooney - Calling the World (i love this song)

blog out!

The Legal shit...

Verdugo's top 12% and Councilors vs. The Principles


So it started like so: Mendelsohn was overcrowded with kids term A of the new school year, so he encourages everyone to either drop the class or take a new class unless they are 100% dedicated to the AP english course. So.. after a few weeks, Jon Ross is the first to be targeted, so he leaves, then the athletes were to be targeted. The second time, our essay's became the judgment of whether we are privileged enough to stay... I honestly messed up with the essay, citing the quotes wrong and using diction in my third paragraph when it should be Syntax... so Mendelsohn gives heat to Ms.Carbone(our magnet councilor) and she just advised to just leave, so we do. Richard Tran and I then decided to see if we can join into Riemer's class to finish off B-term, so Ms.Carbone lets us with the consent of Riemer, he agrees. For the past few weeks, Richard and I had tons of fun and learned a lot from Mr.Riemer... I am terrified now that I have to leave his class, plus all my friends.

Well Ms. Rescigno then tries to kick us (richard and I) out of Riemer's class so that Mr.Silva's students can come to Riemers... which is a complete bullshit if you ask me... So now the real fight begins.

Ms Rescigno, know that this whole schedule shit will fuck up my college submissions, still tries to kick me out... the only ground I can follow her argument on is that I am not a "regular" student and that I am a magnet student and shouldn't have been in Riemer's in the first place and Rescigno claims that Carbone didn't get her consent to put me in Riemer's class. Carbone then responses that she know Riemer's class needed kids so she puts us in there. Klewitz then comes into the equation and backs up Riscigno... wow. Any more back bone you have there? So Resicgno tells me to talk to all the teachers and councilors that are involved in this... vice versa. So I'm going back n' forth demanding my stay in Riemer's class with the help of students with the same situation and the magnet office. I thank you guys for this amount of effort.

So Elin Ghaz. brings in her mother and, with the help of Ms.Deboer, goes explains and tries to resolve this whole mess with the stubborn "higher" authorities... the "man" didn't budge on their decision to deny the ones who want in and forces those who does not want out... Deboer takes a big hit, Elin, Samantha, Richard, Magnet office, Riemer, and everyone involved wants this over with. So I wanted to settle this... I went to Rescigno and Klewitz and purpose that they are wrecking my future acceptance to UC's and they should allow me to stay... denied. They played the "you didn't work hard enough" card... (yea, it IS a card game to them... using us like this.) So I purpose that since I've already taken AP english language in Term -A that they would just change my current class name to AP english language Term-B so that I can keep my submitted UC apps without calling them up to change it, I get the AP credits that I didn't care about in the first place, drop out, get my 12grade english done with and move on. (By moving on I mean take TA for Riemer/Carbone and still stay in Riemer's for the class, all I care about right now is my education... fuck the grades, I can keep the "C" average easily...)

I then go talk to mendelsohn, and I mentioned that yea, I'm going to taking tennis and leaving his class for the last 15min of class every Monday and Wednesday. He then realizes that taking me back into his class, which I would be gladly to go back to, is not an option anymore... Mendelsohn is a good teacher and a good guy, he's litterally just doing his job as an AP english teacher with conservative values of hard work and focusing on one goal. I know what he is like, I don't blame him.

So now, I will be going into Silva's for the first week of term-C and if I don't like it, report back to Rescigno and she'll change my class name so that I can just take it and go. From my colleague's information Silva can teach 9th and 10th graders but now a high level thinker nor a proficient Advance Placement teacher...

I have not cried since I was 7 years old... it takes a decade and the abuse of my ability to be able to get educated the way I want it to make me cry... yea. I cried to see that I'll be leaving Riemer's, leaving me friends, letting myself down because I am in no position to make any dramatic changes, to see all the faces that are being burdened by this situation... FUCK YOU KLEWITZ AND RESCIGNO... I do NOT want to drag anyone else into this, there is already too much shit and too many people involved because one guy wanted to do what was right for his class and for the kids he is teaching... I can't take this anymore!

(logical rant)

IF! Silva was so good, people would not be wanting to leave, thus prevented us from having this mess. I say, close Silva's AP English class, divide the students (the more dedicated ones go to Mendelsohn, the more relaxed-minded ones be in Riemer's). So that the school can sacrifice one mediocre AP teacher for the wellness of the rest. School can pay Silva less, due to him not teaching AP, school gets more money so Rescigno and Klewtiz can get their new foot massagers.

Why are you two fucking with the student's education for the sake of you having your titles upgraded or are you doing this because you two can? If I fuck up on the AP exam (for english) I will blame you old hags... I seriously think all of this shit could have been avoided if the school wasn't so cheap to hired these kinds of teachers... and they say Verdugo wants to go charter... you can't even handle class change while public, the fuck you want to go charter for? If you wanted money so bad, why didn't you just not build the new multi-media room under the fucking, hammer banging, saw wielding, wood shop! Charter? you are NOT smart enough to do that. Access ramps now? pathetic. All that money into football? PA-THE-TIC. Repave the tennis courts, or even buy new net for the girl's tennis champs for god sake... it's bad enough we have to tread across the school to play. Yea,a little off topic, but still school admins HAD their share of education, why fuck it up for the people that are going to run the damn world?

This shit has gone too damn far.

On the scale of 1-10 on my disgust toward the head honchos of this plot, as Kemple has taught me: the limit as my anger reaches infinity of my fist in you face. dx.


They're more details in this thing, but I want to keep you guys informed but not mention names that would not like to be mentioned.


right before you close this, please tell me what you guys think? what would you do if you were in my situation? should I try to publish this whole thing (not this blog) on the LA Yuca?

Fun Fact and The Sichuan Button

So I realized that stressing yourself out isn't the smartest thing to do, because I realized today that for very test/quiz/final that had a very heavy weight to your grade, I get sick on every one of them (if you guys didn't noticed) yesterday, my flu/cold started, no sore throat yet(maybe after I eat this Tapatio covered cup noodles, but yea today, I was running through tissue faster than Usain Bolt running the meter dash. I was really sad...

Legal drama between the english department vs"regular"school office vs. magnet office and somehow, mendelsohn started it all... and a hand full of people are caught in it... blogging about it when it's resolved.


http://www.salon.com/food/feature/2010/02/02/faddy_foods_sichuan_buttons/index.html?source=yahoo

look it up! sounds like a super fun food haha!