Busy Busy Senior Year

Long time no see. For good reason anyway. I've needed to focus on my classes and applying for colleges as I come to the halfway mark of my senior year. God it's going by so fast.

I can't begin to say how much has happened. Been to Japan, grandmother passed away, assistant directing a school play, so many gaps that I just don't have the time or mental capacity to fill it. I just needed a break from fixing up my personal statement. I'm not even sure if any of my seven followers really read this anymore.

Maybe as senior year starts closing I'll update this more often. I really do miss writing about my life on my own spare time just to get away from the world and forget that I have a month to finish up a yearbook spread and over fifteen days until I need to apply for colleges.

I really do want a degree to hopefully get me a job in writing. Maybe an editor or a reporter for a newspaper. Or I could change my major into theater arts because of my growing love for theater.

Well that was a good little break for now. Supernatural time..

Hoping to get more active with this shit

So school starts again tomorrow and it's the beginning of the end of high school as I go into my senior year. Already college is on my mind and all the fun things I want to do while still in school. I would come up with some more sentimental bullshit but I think I'll worry about that when I graduate.

I'm gonna spend the last day of my vacation being lazy, watching Firefly, writing and picking up some last minute supplies for school.

Maybe I can have more to write when I'm not so busy worrying about school...

Hello Old Friend

Jesus Christ I never update this thing.

So it's been two months. Junior year's over and I'm onto start my senior year next month. I haven't really been away from my computer much to not update this. For most of my summer I've been watching TV, knitting, and doing summer homework.

Yeah I went to Florida for a couple weeks to visit my dad, hung out with friends, but other than that, not that much has been going on. Really I've been using Tumblr more often for blogging and very few people actually even read this thing but I don't feel like deleting it for whatever reason.

Maybe when Senior year comes around I'll be posting again. I dunno. It's whatever. Maybe I could post some of my short stories, poems and essays on here. Just writing stuff whenever I have time for creativity.

BLUH

I haven't touched this in a long time. Been occupied with Tumblr. Don't know how often I'll actually update this old thing.

School's been mentally draining. I only really have time for school, school and more school. It's getting really annoying and after AP exams I'm just so freaking done with it all. And I gotta go through another year of this and I gotta go to Counseling AGAIN cause I don't want a freaking science but no one seems to understand that. Ugh!

Just.. yeah.. I'm so done

On top of the world

This song is just so damn catchy and it makes me feel happy and wanna dance like a dork. It's my new favorite song.

It's stuff like this I just need a break from pure insanity that is school just for myself to relax so I don't blow a fuse. Just got a lot on my mind with a ton of school work mainly from my AP classes along with standardized testing which I've so far done no studying for even though A) I should look over stuff from forever ago and B) It's easy and the last time I'll have to take it. Not to mention AP exams which are in a month. The joys of being an intelligent student the US of A. Why can't I just take school in Finland where it's supposedly a breeze? Oh well.

At least summer is less than two months away and my birthday just a month. I'm hoping I can be able to see Star Trek Into the Darkness when it comes out exactly on my birthday cause that'd be just awesome. Need to start thinking of who I wanna invite to my birthday party. God I'm just getting old.

Just feel like typing

So I accomplished all of my homework and finishing the first season of Torchwood. At the moment I'm baking some freaking delicious cookies with lots of chocolate chips. Let's just hope I can be able to eat with my teeth problems. I got Invisilign a few weeks ago which are basically plastic braces you can remove. Thing is I gotta change them out every two and a half weeks so the new ones hurt for a few days and now I gotta wear rubber bands too. Why couldn't we have just been born with perfect teeth and not have to worry about all this orthodontist crap.

So for the rest of my spring break, I'll mainly just be sitting on my butt watching TV, knitting my soon to be 8 foot long scarf, maybe catch up on some school work not due Monday, and going out to see my sister for her 19th birthday. For now, I think I try a fresh cookie out of the oven and finish A Study in Pink.

Spring Break 2013

So I'm back after a couple weeks without a computer which was being sent to get its harddrive replaced cause it got diseased. Yeah not really one of the best things to happen to a computer. Not to mention how extremely inconvenient it is when most of your school work is on a computer especially when your teacher wants you to upload stuff to a certain website and blahblahblah. You get the picture. But luckily it's spring break and I can rest easy... cept for the homework. Not that any of it is hard, it's just really tedious. Just reading and answering questions, prepare for the AP exams in May and well yeah you get the jist of it. On the bright side though I got my scores back from the SAT I took earlier last month and I got a 1622. Not bad for a first time taking it eh? I should take it again but I gotta think of what dates won't make me rip out my hair since the next two dates are close to AP exams and semester finals. Oh the great joy of being an 11th grader.

As for my spring break I really don't have much planned. Hang out with a friend to do homework and catch up on the following TV shows:

1. Supernatural
2. Torchwood
3. Hetalia

Yeah talk about an eventful life huh?

I just need to update this thing

Yeah I haven't been on in forever, so I thought, why the hell not update? Can't say too much is going on other than academics but some overall life's been good. More tedious work is showing up especially with school ending in less than three months and AP exams in just two months. Essays, more American history, the works. Oh and our school's spring musical, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown is opening in less than two weeks. Gonna work backstage again like the little techie I am. I got to see a run through and it's going pretty well so far other than the demon set pieces on wheels, specifically Snoopy's doghouse. Last thing we need is an actor falling and breaking his/her neck.

In drama class actually we performed scenes in front of an actual student audience that we direct/act in. I thought mine went really well for the time we got even though I'm a perfectionist and wish we had another week. And of course it didn't help with the mini heart attack I got from someone's phone backstage going off. Yeah, I get really hyped up for this kind of stuff and I get all jittery like I drank twelve cups of coffee.

My mom turned 42 on the 28th last month. We went to a place in San Mateo called the Melting Pot which serves awesome fondue. Yeah, you cook your own food but it's worth it. Crazy expensive though. Oh and I was a dork and made her this card.

Yes it's cheesy but I think it's freaking adorable. And c'mon you only turn 42 once. Might as well take advantage of that.

My friend Francisco got into Doctor Who and has managed to reach the fifth season in like two months so it's really fun to obsess over how great a show it is. And also to inwardly wait for him to have his mind blown with whatever episode is next. I just like that about friends when you're able to have this one obsession you share and have great conversations about.

I finally took my SAT this morning. Been up since almost six in the morning and I regret nothing. I got up early enough to make myself a big breakfast of an omelette and cereal and was able to stop by Starbucks and get some hot chocolate and a cheesecake brownie which is freaking delicious. And for the most part, the SAT was pretty easy. It's nothing that complex: an essay, reading, grammar, algebra, and geometry. Though the math sections were really hard cause there's so much I don't remember. Luckily when in doubt, I just left them blank so I wouldn't get marked off for wrong answers. I'll be waiting a few weeks until I get my scores and hopefully I get a good score.

Big

Recently, SVCT has had a show going on for a couple weeks; a musical known as Big, which is adapted from the film of the same name made in 1988 starring Tom Hanks. I saw it because I need to see a performance for this semester for Drama class, and few friends of mine were acting in the show.

It starts with a 12-year-old boy named Josh Baskin who makes a wish at a Zoltar Speaks fortune telling machine to be "big" after being too he is too short to ride a carnival ride. This backfires as his wish comes true overnight, and little Josh has turned into a grown-up. Forced to leave his home, his friend, Billy, helps to find another Zoltar machine to wish him back into being a kid again, while Josh learns to cope and fit in the adult world by being hired by a failing toy company. As the days pass, Josh finds himself conflicted between abandoning his family and friends for success and the first woman he is falling in love with and vice versa.

I saw the 1988 movie a few months ago and as an adaptation goes, and a musical one for that matter, I liked it a lot, especially with how this production created a spectacular performance. With a cast of teenagers and preteens, with the exception of Zoltar, I really did love and appreciate to see young actors start out in their careers and show that they can pull all the stops to give one hundred percent effort into a great performance, despite that one or two voices weren't exactly great. Another problem I did have with the musical was the acoustics and technical problems with mics on those singing. The playhouse is a really small theater and a lot of times the orchestra was overpowering the singers and I couldn't hear any singing. There were even instances where the actors were trying so hard to sing loudly but the mics made static and other problems. It didn't help I could hear the technicians in the sound booth who clearly have no idea what whispering is.

Other than that I have little complaints. The actors brought their A-game, the sets were cleverly designed to just roll on and off and I really did enjoy a musical adaptation of such a good movie. I wish broken legs to the rest of the performances of Big.

I can feel my brain thinking

Happy February everyone. Okay where the hell is 2013 going? It's really only been a month? Jesus...

So I've finally found a rare moment of peace where I don't have a crap ton of homework to do and it's almost time for a week long vacation. Hey, maybe the teachers will decide to lighten the load and not try to murder us with multiple assignments. I got so stressed last week I was near the point of breaking my stepdad's crap computer and screaming at my mom. I swear, do any of these teachers really even know what us students have to go through? We have lives too outside of academics. I mean, yes, I would like to look into what colleges I want to go to in a year but I don't have time because homework can take up to two or three hours depending what I have to do. It's so obnoxious seeing my email just load up with colleges from all over kingdom come going "Hey! Come check us out! Take our online survey!"

Just stooop!

So I'm happy this weekend is a lot more relaxed so I can just calm down, do whatever I want to, and take time to spend with my family, especially with my stepdad now home from Japan after another month long visit. He bought me, my sister and my mom yukatas but now the trick is trying to figure out how to put them on. I found a video on YouTube so when I have the patience I'd like to wear it and perhaps take a few pictures to share cause I picked out a really pretty one.

Today's just a lazy day with everyone parked on the couch rewatching the first season of Homeland.

When You Wish Upon A Star

Yeah I was on Tumblr recently when I saw quite a few posts with mainly negative feedback about the redesigning of the Disney Princesses. Being the Disney fanatic I am, I thought why not give my own opinion on the new designs?

First off, I know that it's Disney marketing and they grow over the years to appeal to the people who buy the toys for their kids and they're not going Disney sequel screwing up the characters, blahblahblahblah. I'm just basing this off design and what I think. I'm not really in particular for the whole sparkles and crap. It makes me forget about the characters and sees them as marketing tools, which yeah they kinda are with the franchise for little girls and crap.

And this is all strictly based on personal opinion though I will try to keep an open mind too. None of the princesses are listed in any order of liking, just the years they were brought onto the big screen. I'll try to give the best I can but I'm positive you can look elsewhere on the internet for more thorough explanations. Enjoy my little spit ball of ranting!

With Snow White they really didn't do much of anything. Just added sparkles. She's still plain but beautiful on her own without needing much compared to some designs where she's just blinged out with a crown and jewels galore. I still like Snow White sparkles or no sparkles.

Before anyone argues "original design", let's remember that Cinderella in the original movie was strawberry blonde and her dress was white/silver. How they got blonde and blue dress out of that I have no idea. Maybe the person coloring got high and just didn't care. So let's just go with what we got.

Ugh, God this is just all wrong. I'll say what's already been said; they made her a Barbie doll. It just looks absolutely wrong just in the face and hair alone and it's really distracting. While the dress is really beautiful and sparkly and stuff, just... that's not Cinderella. That's a Barbie doll dressed up as Cinderella. All wrong.

All that's really changed here is the hair and the sparkles on the dress and a slight alteration to Aurora's dress. The hairstyle just looks a bit awkward to me cause I'm used to the bangs and curly hair she originally had. But to be fair, this is a more natural look and it does look really beautiful.

Little complaints about Ariel. Her dress is an alteration to the pink one she wears in the movie and I think it looks beautiful. Other than that and wavier hair, I got nothing. I like this design.

Holy hell where did that hair come from? That's another change with I don't have a problem with but it looks awkward compare to the original and I don't think it totally suits Belle's personality of not really flaunting her beauty all that often. Her dress is actually gold which I will admit does look more elegant than yellow. Overall, I like this design okay.

Oh hey look! A victim of white-washing! Yeah that's been a main complaint with the next few princesses was the white wash. I won't lie, it doesn't look good and they should have just left with normal skin tones for whatever they originally had with Jasmine, Pocahontas and Mulan.

Anyway, I don't really have a lot to say about Jasmine but the one strand of hair is a bit of an eye sore and they have her in a ponytail and not a big braid. That's all for her.

I think I just vomited in my mouth.. Is Pocachacha wearing make-up?? Ah, no! Just no! Take that off!

Ugh, earrings, lose them. Eye sore. And 'scuse me? What did you do to her necklace?! I thought there was no gold in Virginia! Are you trying to screw over our history entirely?! Why would you alter one of the key items of her whole appearance?! Gah!!

What was the point of doing this? This absolutely represents nothing of the Native American princess when you've dolled her up in make-up and unnecessary jewelry and ugh.. this is one of the worst ones. I'm not gonna lie.

Buuuuuut to give the designers credit, at list they didn't slap on sparkle all over her outfit and tried to keep it natural. The stones actually look really pretty and matches with the dress. Other than that, yeah this is pretty bad.

NO.

First off, I have to point out that now that I'm older, I kinda hate how Mulan is always marketed all pretty and dressed up when it clearly does not suit her at all. Did anyone really watch the movie? She is clearly awkward and clumsy and not comfortable doing any of that at all. So it makes no sense to always doll her up when her character is not like that at all. And that's my main problem with the design is that it doesn't fit her character at all. Hello? Continuity anyone? I remember her chopping off her hair with a sword! Are we seriously gonna forget that and assume she just spontaneously grew it out?! Ugh!

While the outfit does look really beautiful, it's the worse design because it's a pure insult to the character who is displayed as a strong yet clumsy young woman who doesn't do the fancy dresses.

I got nothing here. Just sparkles and for some reason they forgot to draw in the dimples. Next one.

Overall, I hate Rapunzel's 2D design. It's just awkward and has no reason to be made into 2D. I guess they didn't want to have an awkward 3D princess among 2D princesses, but yeah, I don't like it. And why is there never a design with her hair cut? I think that'd look really pretty! Other than that, just sparkles. I got nothing else.

So yeah, the designs are very hit and miss. Maybe from here and from other observations you can make your own conclusions about how the princesses look and I hoped you enjoyed hearing my opinion/ranting.

On an end note, thank God that Merida isn't an official "Disney Princess" cause if they tried putting a crap ton of sparkle on her, I'd want to see her just rip the dress to shreds.

The Movies and My Body Being Weird

On top of being busy with school these past couple weeks, I got the stomach flu this past Thursday which is no freaking fun at all. It's been going around at my school and I had to be one of the unlucky souls to catch it. I went through a whole night of being woken up by stomach pains which led to vomiting which happened three times. I stayed home that day just writhing in pain, trying to keep down whatever food I could, puking three more times and getting a low-grade fever. At the end of the day I was only able to keep down special electrolyte water (not Gatorade cause that's pure sugar and that easily left my stomach) and four crackers. So I took another day to get some rest and be sure I could keep food in my stomach after God knows how much Pepto. And really the rest of my weekend has been trying to eat and gain back lost weight from my stomach flu, buying cute boots, catching up on homework, helping my sister make a hilarious video which I will feature below and you should watch and share with your friends, and (what else?) blogging on the Tumblr.



On a few more side notes I'm am happy to see my boys, the San Francisco 49ers, FINALLY win the NFC Championship and make it to this years SuperBowl. This will probably be the best party my mom will host on the negative side that my step dad will still be in Japan when the SuperBowl happens.

And this month I took part in viewing two awesome movies, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Les Miserables. Both: Super amazing and spectacular films. Both had great and fantastic images to be put on the big screen with great acting. The Hobbit follows the book along with the added information from Tolkein's notes. So excited for the next two movies. And Les Miserables was just a great emotional experience. I cried so much and enjoyed every moment of song which of course was the whole movie. Both are great films and if you have time now to see them on the big screen, do it. They're incredibly long movies but every minute is worth it.

New Year, New Semester, New scarf and Tshirts

Happy belated New Year folks. Well my vacation will soon be coming to a close and that means... School... Damn..

Junior year is known as the busiest and by God is it true. Gotta take a lot of tests, gotta start thinking about colleges to go to, it's a freaking mess. On top of which, the school work just piles and piles, especially with AP testing around the corner in a few months. With the grades as they are up to date right now without report cards being released, As and Bs in every class except for Physics with a 79% .... The stupid tests contribute to that but eh. Not going into a science field of work any time soon. And it's so freaking close that I really in the end don't give a crap. Well no matter on the psycho academics, there's also the spring musical I'm excited for.

This year we're putting on You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Since I can't sing, I would definitely still love to be a part of the production in any way possible. I'm actually interested in assistant director if the position is hopefully available. Only trouble is I'm not too familiar with the Peanuts (I was sadly bored by it as a kid) and better study up on the characters and the musical if I wanna know what the hell I'm doing. But hey, any way in helping with the musical is better than sitting on my butt on the sidelines doing nothing.

Today was a very happy day for me in the shopping department. I went into Hot Topic cause it was having a sale and it was buy a T-shirt and get another half off and there were new Doctor Who and Hetalia shirts and... Well this is what happened

Luckily there were new Avengers shirts that my sister wanted so she got one while I got a Hetalia T-shirt and two Doctor Who shirts; one with ALL eleven Doctors and the other with the 10th Doctor's explanation of time (AKA wibbly wobbly timey wimey). So as you can imagine, I'm super happy!!

I also finished a new scarf today. I made it an infinity scarf and it's all blue and green and oh so pretty~~ Yeah. I love knitting <3 p="p">
So do I have any resolutions for this year? Eh, kinda. Most of them on an academic level cause school is evil but here's what I got.

1. Be assistant director for musical and/or play
2. Take SAT at least once
3. Learn to drive
4. Start looking at colleges
5. Go to Fanime
6. Sell scarves and make a bit of money

Well that's it so far. Sorry I can't be uber fancy and make up some meaningful paragraph about the new year on the spot. But here's a quote I found the other day that I now love.

“Every girl is expected to have caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling.”

- Tina Fey