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My little sister bought the most recent Jonas Brothers CD (at least, I think it was the most recent), and it turned out to be a pretty good buy. I am quite taken by them, lol. Well, not to the extent of a crazed girl-turned-monster-at-the-drop-of-a-hat fan, but a fan, nonetheless. Though I can hardly say that Disney has been producing what one might call stellar bands and singers, I have to say that I am pretty impressed with this trio and what they've accomplished so far. Like I think most people have observed, they can sing (they have good live performances!), they write their own songs, and, heck, they have fun! But more importantly, they seem grounded. I think that having your brothers with you on stage is a huge plus, and I hope that they don't follow any down-spiraling trends that seem to be unfolding as of late in the entertainment world (need I elaborate?). Anyways, I enjoy listening to their music, and I hope that other people feel the same way. But if not, well, I'll still like them, anyways..."cuz that's just the way we roll" *wink*

Well, few weeks left.......

Hullo all,

Well, IB exams are finished for me since Friday. I'm totally dreading getting the results back since the exams did kinda suck (well, some of them at least), namely physics, but I'm guessing that at this point, it's history. SOooooooooooo...yeah. Today's been a complete waste of my time. The only real class that I had was Creative Writing, and even then, there wasn't much to do. Afterwards, I had art, which became a flex, since I'm basically done with the AP stuff, and then I had my normal flex, and then I had physics...and we watched another movie (we saw one last class, too) :P. *sigh* These are gonna be some awfully slow weeks, but I know that at the end of it, I'm not going to want them to end, as expected. And to add on to this relatively unproductive day, I think that one of my friends is upset with me, which is kinda bad, considering that he doesn't get mad very easily, or very often for that matter. I think he's upset because I've been telling him that we have to do something together over the weekend, and I never seem to have the time to actually physically do something. Well, this is my fault, but I dunno. I don't think that it was fair for him to be mad at me. We'll see what happens, I guess. I hope to make it up to him, but I dunno whether or not I should be annoyed or feeling bad at this point...

Um, so graduation sign-ups are over and done with. I'm happy with my partner, probably cuz we've been friends for quite a while, and I thought it woulda been wrong if we didn't finish the years as graduation partners, do I didn't really give him a choice in sign-ups. I just hope he's happy.

Prom is also this weekend. I'm taking my little sister as my date (she's in 10th grade). I said might as well, since we're moving this year, and the poor kid wouldn't be able to experience any other social event, so might as well. I'm happy to take her, and I hope that she has a good time. Well, I mean, come on, that was one EXPENSIVE ticket, I must say...more expensive than my sister's dress (well, the dress was only $25, though it's quite nice)! :P

Ugh, I have nothing more to say right now. My life is kind of cruising, so this'll be a short post. L8er!

Tiger :)

Birthday, IB...um, yeah.

Hey Peeps!

Well, it's been a while, but I guess that I've got exams to pin that on, 'specially those DUMB IB exams!! UGH! Those are seriously tearing people apart right now, so at the moment, most of the upperclassmen are just going about the halls complaning about the sadistic, big-foreheaded people at the IB. Most of us have been already accepted to college, but some people's complete admission really depends on how well they do on the IB, so yeah, people are still somewhat hanging on the edge with anxiety and stress. Typical typical. Well, I took Paper 1 of my English IB HL exam. It was okay: unseen commentary, but the two choices that they gave us (I thought) were bloody annoying. Looking back, I see that the two choices were somewhat simple to understand once i completely grasped what was being said. *sigh* Pressure does amazing things to a person. Sux. Oh well, hopefully I didn't do too badly on it. I don't think I did *knock on wood*. Ahhhhhhhh...I have English Paper 2 on Monday, and then Paper 1 & 2 for Physics HL on Tuesday afternoon. Then on Wednesday, I have Paper 3 for physics! Joy........ugh. And then I finally finish my exams on Friday with my HL French Papers 1 & 2. French is one of my easier exams in my opinion. I probably can't speak the language for beans, but my comprehension is not all that bad. We'll see how it turns out I guess. After all, this is pretty much the last stretch of the year, and the GRADUATION! HAhHAHAHA!! 30 days...wow, can't believe that we graduate in a month. It's gone by so quickly, and yet, each week is incredibly tedious. Ack! It's relativity at work! Einstein really did know what he was talking about, though I'm sometimes forced to think that he was barking mad...sometimes. But most of the time, he was pretty sharp, so I'll stop complaning 'bout Einstein now :P

Well, I suppose that's school for now. I'm gonna be attending like 6 classes throughout the entire week, given that I have my stupid exams to go to, which take a long time to do. I don't really expect for my other classes to really assign any heavy homework or anything, but if they do, then I'm screwed. *sigh* Oh well, I guess this is it, so I should focus more on studying than, say, homework for creative writing. Oh holy moley! I have to finish my AP Art portfolio by Saturday (i think). I'm gonna go in tomorrow to straighten the technical things out, like the information for all the pieces, sticking pictures of all the pieces on a CD, picking my quality pieces, etc., etc., etc. Again, really tedious, but I'll be real happy when I'm over and done with it, so I suppose that's something to look forward to, so long as I do it well.

Hmmmmm.....okay, enough of school, I guess. One can only stand talking about it for so long. Talk about desperation :P Jk. AH! I'm finally 18! Well, not like that's a super huge step, given that 18 doesn't feel any different from 17. And on top of that, I got people asking me if I'm sure that I turned 18 or if I turned 8. Says a lot about maturity, which is seriously overrated. Hehehehe. Well, I guess one can't be overly mature. It's always nice to have a kid somewhere inside of you, so as to avoid becoming 100% boring. College is gonna be mighty interesting I have to say... :P Gonna have to find a new definition for 'adult' for dear old Mr. Webster, 'cause 'technically' I'm an adult. Question is whether or not one really adheves (sp?) to such a role (well, if it IS a role, which I think it is because being 18, I am officially recognized as an adult in the US, I can vote, go to clubs, get arrested, get a check book and LOADS more...). Yep, college is gonna be VERY interesting....

Neways, back to the fact that I'm 18. I celebrated it this past weekend. My friends organized an early surprise party for me, which I'll admit wasn't a complete, 100% surprise, since I was expecting, or at least SOMETHING, given all the hints that were passed to me during the course of that day. I'll tell you what DID surprise me: the amount of people that DID show up, as well as the number of people who were EXPECTED to show up. I felt pretty overwhelmed, and while, again, I wasn't so so surprised, I was pretty shocked by seeing too many familiar bodies jump out at me at the same time. I really liked the party, though, mainly because it was (a) pretty well thought out given that we had just returned from spring break a few days before and they had planned it about a month before without my knowing at all and (b) the people there consisted of a wide variety of folks. I mean, in school, I kind of migrate from group to group, so I'm pretty hard to find (as people, tell me, as if I were some kind of Mexican jumping bean with no destination). Point is, the party consisted of all these different people who usually don't hang out together, and it was really nice, cause then i got to spend time with all (or at least most) of the people with whom I'd have wanted to celebrate my birthday with (okay, dunno if that grammatically made sense, but continue...). All in all, I really appreciated and give tons to credit to all the people (mainly one or two people) who did all the planning to make my 18th birthday special. It really was in the end :D Oh, and one of my friends (or more, I dunno. Supposedly people 'chipped' in, but I can't confirm that since these people are so stubborn) gave me a Genius Drawing Tablet. It's pretty kewl. Even my dad was impressed. I've tried experimenting with it, and finally got the hang of it after trying to figure out how to set it up for over an hour (the manual doesn't help me very much). It's a really sweet present, since I'm really the artsy type. I'm guessing that the present was a way to give my drawings a technology twist. LOL. Hehehe...Wonder what things will come outta this tablet in the future. Only time will tell, well, at least when the summer rolls around.

Okay, given that this post is getting excessively long and i'm getting sleepy, I think that I'll stop it here. Gotta get to school tomorrow at around 10 am to sort AP stuff anyways :( Oh well. C'est la vie. Ojala que mejora al termino de los examenes, inshallah!

Cheerios!!

Tiger :D

P.S. Oh, one last thing: My technologically inclined friend made me this E-card/wallpaper for my birthday. He says that he has no artistic flair, but I think that the fact that he has a knack for making pretty dynamic wallpapers would kinda sorta force him to eat his words, but I'd rather wait for him to admit it himself. Pretty stubborn mind, that child, but it mainly serves for good purposes, so no harm in that :P No, it was pretty thoughtful for him to do this, since he SHOULD HAVE been studying for his Math exam or SLEEPING like every average individual usually does. Yeah, I'll tell him off later, but now, I'm going to sleep. I put this piccie as my wallpaper, but then my mom was complaining that she couldn't see the icons on my desktop. My mom is not the type into loud colors on flat screens, just like she's not to into playing things like PlayStation or Nintendo 64, cuz she says that the graphics make her dizzy. But hey, she kicks but at Super Nintendo, in Zelda: A Link to the Past, Star Fox, Super Mario, and more! :P Okay, now I'm going to bed. Nite!! :D

Listening to: "Hold On" - Good Charloote (AwEsOmE sOnG!!)

First post of April.....

Lalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa........

Yeah, long time no been on this blog. :P Well, things are definitely changing. Senior year has finally turned into it's fourth and final quarter, and I suppose that a good thing is that I'm at least going to college. The hard part is deciding between University of Virginia and University of Notre Dame (at least, those are the two that I'm most considering). I'm supposed to fly to the US pretty soon during our spring break so that we can go check out the campuses, so I can make an 'educated' decision as my dad calls it. Well, I guess that college is not really the top worry of my list. I mean, the fact that the IB exam is coming up in a couple of weeks is pretty scary. I don't think that I've completely absorbed it yet, but when I do, it's not gonna be pretty. Seriously, I hope I don't freka out tooooooo badly. I have three IB exams, and they're all HL: English, Physics, and French (in that order). Oh, snap. That reminds me, I have to do my AP art thingymagigs, too. Turns out that we don't have any of the chemicals here to make the slides that the AP requires, and so we're allowed to send in CDs with the pics of the pieces saved in there (using digital cameras, of course), which makes life soooooooo much easier. At least SOMETHING is going right (I have to take the pictures first, though). Okay, my internet is being really screwy now, so I'ma end this blog right here.

L8er,

Tiger

P.S. Another quizzy personality thing:



You element if Fire. Like fire, you have a hot temper and you can be warm and loving as well as angry and wild. It all really comes down to what you are feeling. You have a lot of close friends who you are very protective over, and with your temper, probably some enemies too. You are not Miss/Mr Popular in school since you are your own person and don't want to be forced into behaving this or that way. You are the untamed wild horse, the kind that everyone wants to catch. But you don't want to be tied down for the moment and just keep going with your little crushes. Your will is strong and if you set your mind to do something, you will most likely succeed. But beware, your friends may not always accept your mood-swinging behavior. Even if you don't mean to be mean, they can still feel hurt. You just need to start thinking some things through before you do them, and not always jump in with so much courage. One day you may be hurt because of that, but then again, your element isn't fire if you start to analyze situations before you act. After all, your nature is to shoot first and ask the questions later.

Going through the motions....

Long time no write! :P

School has been...interesting for that past week. The entire high school just got back from being a week on trips. Mine was fun, but I'm glad that it lasted for only a week. It felt much longer than a week and by the end of it, I kind of wanted to go home, since I was getting tired of having to stay in a hotel room and keep my room clean, not to mention that I was always watching out for someone else's back. Oh well, so yeah, we got back and then all Hell broke loose. Bit of an exaggeration there, but it describes the feelings of hostility between everyone. It was/is pretty bad. A few students were caught drinking on the trips, and those who were seniors are not allowed to walk (or rather, some of them). It's a hugely controversial issue in my school right now, and while it sometimes makes each day VERY long and tiring, it makes it...interesting, since there's always something going on now. My senior class has been taking a really active role in trying to stand up for these students, including making petitions, wearing our senior class shirts and posting up signs all over the high school. They're even trying to get the Administration to change the students' punishments. I dunno how that went, but frankly, I don't think that it's going to go well. Yeah, so it's kind of like a big fight between students and admin, but there is also some division among our class, too. It's getting me quite annoyed, actually. While I think that the 'not walking' rule is pretty harsh, I think that it was stupid for those students to even run the risk of getting caught drinking in the first place. They had signed a contract saying that they would not drink, the consequence being that they would not walk. Now that the trips are over and the students caught, they should pay for their bad decisions. It's a shame that some of my fellow students can't walk, but given the conditions, I think that it's a lesson to be learned. To put it bluntly, they had it coming. I personally don't agree with changing their punishments, since it would be like giving them 'the easy way out', something that DEFINITELY won't be a luxury later in life. *sigh* Geez, high school is so dramatic..."an OC drama" as one of my friends put it.

Anyways, so that took up most of my post. I have a physics review tomorrow...I can't believe that the exams are coming up soon, then *pffttt*, the year will be over. Ugh, it's gonna be tough leaving. But I think that the rest of this year is gonna be.....fun :) Oh, I'm leaving to China this Wednesday to attend a BEIMUN conference. I'm actually kinda looking forward to it. Not the travelling part, though, since I JUST got back from a trip, and I have to PACK AGAIN and I also don't wanna fall behind in work. Luckily it's the end of the quarter. Hopefully I won't miss too much, then. Only time will tell, as they say.

ARghhhhhhhhh........okay, I'm all about blogged out. Speaking of which, I still have to write an entire journal to turn in. Man, this sux!

L8er,

Tiger

P.S. The above picture is something I did on my free time. I drew the girl and then played around with Photoshop for a while (used pictures of galaxies and stuff). In my mind, the big balls of colors look like fairies in a tree, but don't ask me to explain that. :P It's just what I think.

Oh, listening to "Will You Light My Candle?" from the Musical "RENT", which I still want to see REALLY badly :(

SIMPLE PLAN ROX MY SOX!!!!!

Or rather, roxx0rz my soxx0rz, as my friend tells me. :P Whatever floats your boat, I imagine. LOL. Neways, I just discovered Simple Plan's music video for "Untitled (How Can This Happen to Me)". Wow. It was so very moving and by far their most powerful video. The song itself is great. Hopefully they can belt out more successes like that. That'd be nice :)

Ugh, people are celebrating on the streets now, honking their car horns like crazy at 11:30 pm. It's insane. Apparently, Egypt was successful in its match against DR Congo in the African Nations Cup. I think the score was...3-1? 4-1? Something close to that. I'm not following to closely in this tournament, but I can't wait for the World Cup in Germany. I think that it's this summer, but being me, I could be wrong. Oh well, I'm looking forward to it likewise. Soccer is possibly the best sport around (though my mom thinks that American Football is the best sport :P).

Not to eager to discuss school, since basically there's gonna be another week from Hell coming around in a couple of days. There are so many things to do and not enough time to do it. And, not to mention, they are all tests and projects of the sort. Ugh, I can't wait until I'm done with my IB exams. I'd never figured that Senior year would be so tedious. But oh well. What can you say? That's life. Speaking of school, I'm actually going to participate in our school's talent show, which is a very rare thing. :P Yeah, I'm not the type that willingly goes out onto a stage and sings in front of a lot of pple (more than a crowd of just 20, I can assure you...Our theatre fits 500 pple). It's gonna be a rare sight for all, or those lucky few, to behold. I'm hoping that I don't lose my nerve, because I'm looking forward to singing this with my friend. I want it to turn out really well, but for that to happen, I can't screw up. Oh, yeah. Small technicalities here and there that I have to look out for. Piece of cake, eh? Okay, now I'm talking nonsense.

Blah.................It's getting late no, so I think that I'm gonna *bounce* (as ANOTHER friend would say) :P

L8er,

Tiger :D

P.S. Check out the Anime Character that I would be :P

Description:

You are the warrior anime girl. You are the type that can start a fight and win. You are very strong and can beat anyone up (but just don't ^_~) and some people can be afraid of you but alot of people admire your strength and want to be just like you...well, the people that want to fight. You can defend yourself very easily and can probably handle some kind of weapon. You have a short temper and get angry easily but you can be really nice at times ^_^and once a fighter, always a fighter.

Nonsensical Rambling......

Hello!

Haven't posted in quite a while. Well, kinda for good reason...We just came back from out winter break. I spent about three weeks in the Philippines visiting my mom's family (my mom is Chinese, though. Reason as to why they are there traces back all the way to the start of Communist China :P It's quite interesting). It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I mean, spent a lot of time eating and hanging out with my relatives, who would mainly consists of my aunts, uncles and little cousins who are seriously no higher than my waist (I'm about 5'4"). I think that the lack of college applications would've made the trip so much better, though. Oh well, what can you do? Gotta go to college someday. Got to see loads of movies that I've been wanting to watch, such as: Chicken Little (hilarious), Chronicles of Narnia (nice), Final Fantasy: Advent Children (coolio), and lots lots more. Oh, and I got to change my hair color, though it was seriously not my fault. My mom thinks that I'm a redhead now. See, I have jet black hair (tends to happen when your mom is 100% chinese and your dad is hispanic/peruvian) and I went into this salon owned by this guy from Hong Kong. He's supposed to be really famous and good at things such as highlights and streaks. All I wanted was to get some streaks in my hair and the guy said that he was going to "take care of everything, so there is nothing to worry about". So he goes ahead and changes my base color to a lighter brown and puts in some reddish highlights. Mind you, it doesn't exactly look bad, but it was quite a shocker at first. :P He knew what he was doing, though: he said that he wanted to "soften my look because the jetblack hair made me look too hispanic" (oh, gee, i wonder....)

Neways, this was bout three weeks ago, so now I've gotten used to my hair :P Now I'm stuck with IB classes and other things. Not too much fun. Actually, it's not so bad right not, but it's gonna really suck when the exams come up. Oh well. It's my last year, and I might as well make the most of it. Everyone has guaranteed that college will be a lot better, so I guess I have something to look forward to...Maybe I'll take a year off. I dunno, I guess I'd better get accepted into college first. I can't believe that they're sending me my rejection/acceptance letters on April 1st. Figure they wanna play with my poor little mind a little before they break the news to me: "Dear Applicant, we regret to inform you...April Fool's Day!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yeah, I can see it all....oh, joy. Life is just peachy.

Okay, I'm off to do my Anthropology homework. Yep, studying Sex, Marriage and Family :P Gosh, high school...

L8er,

Tiger :D