She's a female phenomenon. She's a Glamazon.

So after weeks of competition, the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race has finally been announced. Say hello to your new queen, Sharon Needles!!

Fierce!

It was a tough decision to make and I can see why it was delayed till the reunion show. Along with Sharon there was Chad Michaels, a glamorous Cher impersonater, and Phi Phi O'Hara, a young show girl. All three were determined to win but that winner had to be Sharon Needles and I was sooo happy because she's one of my favorites. While usually going on the runway with a spooky Halloween-ish look, she can also turn in the scary into the beautiful drag queen look that she's able to pull off and look fabulous.

I'm gonna be sad I won't have my favorite show to watch on Mondays for another year, but I'm glad that this was a good season and I hope there are more to come.

What I really love about this show is that you get to see the world of what it's like to be gay, dress in women's clothes and the struggles they went through growing up and being gay. While these queens look gorgeous on the outside, a lot of them hide dark pasts of bullying and abuse. A lot of these queens were picked on terribly as teens; some more worse than others. I heard a couple say they've considered suicide as an option to escape it all. One of them even said that he was put in the hospital on his eighteenth birthday by his own father.

They have a challenge in one of the episodes where they bring in very masculine, straight men and dress them up in drag to create a "family resemblance". I think they have that challenge in specific to bring in people about the world that homosexual people live in and hear of the problems they had to deal with. I don't know if RuPaul intended it or not, but it's really just an eye-opener to people who've been closed off to that world from the conservative homes they come from and they realize that yeah, these guys like men and dress in women's clothes for performing, but they're still human nonetheless. Who's cares who they're attracted to and what they do for a living? Those types of episodes are always my favorite just for that reason.

So now that Drag Race is over, RuPaul's Drag U will be premiering with a new season this summer where they take middle aged women who never have time to make themselves feel beautiful, and the "drag professors" change them into fierce "glamazons". Think I'll check out an episode or two if  summer homework doesn't overwhelm me.

You know that moment...

When you feel overly ecstatic about finishing seeing the whole Japanese walkthrough of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance and then figure out the story via Wikipedia? It feels freaking awesome!!!

I've been watching a YouTuber called crow07211017 who's been posting an entire walkthrough for KH 3D and he just uploaded the last part yesterday. Lemme just say, it's sooooo beautiful~~!!!

Graphics: Gorgeous, as usual from the genius Tetsuya Nomura.
Gameplay: Confusing.. but amazing.
Story: Intense and cliffhanging, making me asking for the official Kingdom Hearts 3 now!!

I'd rather not spoil anything for anyone, but check out crow07211017's YouTube if you wanna check the walkthrough's with the cutscenes. Some people in the comments tell where they are so you don't always have to watch the fighting and stuff, but the gameplay's still good to look at. And don't do what I did and look at the Kingdom Hearts Wiki page for plot line or for anything for that matter. Kingdom Hearts 3D is just too good to spoil yourself with, so don't do it!!

Overall, the most epic game in the entire Kingdom Hearts series and it's gonna be a huge rage with the fans in Europe and America!

A moment of nostalgia

So this was me in the 8th grade. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it and watching it over and over again.

Shake shake, shake shake, shake it

God I'm so addicted to the song Shake It by Metro Station.




It brings back so many memories from my eighth grade year. Not lying. This was my favorite song to listen to all the time. If it came on the radio or during a school dance, I'd burst out dancing. Didn't care that it was singing about sex cause it's the catchiest song ever with a good dancing beat and people who can really sing. Speaking of, I recently found on this old computer that my photos from my entire 8th grade year are still on here and I just got swept over with a moment of pure nostalgia. Now I'm inspired to movie making with all that old stuff. I'll post it on here so you guys get to see what I looked like before high school. God I was such a ridiculous child in those days. Hahaha..

More testing this week. Luckily just today and tomorrow. Today was the math portion which gets pretty crazy with everyone taking different math classes. Most of the kids in my testing room are already in Pre-Calculus/Trigonometry but there are some still in Algebra 2 or Geometry. To my surprise it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Some stuff I didn't remember and just had to play Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo for the answer. But I have high hopes I still did really well on it. Tomorrow's the science and last portion of the STAR testing and thank god cause I'm done with dealing with it.

A letter came in yesterday from our school district telling our parents that they have a new method of notifying if your child misses school. They'll call parents at 10:30 am for any unexcused absences along with the 6 pm notification. I'm really relieved they made this change because of Sierra's disappearance but I think this change could've been made much sooner cause you never know if a child ditches and the parent doesn't know for the entire day. With Sierra, she never showed up to school or came home and her mom didn't know until she herself got home. It has to be terrifying to come home with your child not there only to get a call from the school just as you get home that your child was never even there. I mean think about it. If they altered the policy before Sierra went missing, then her mom would know much sooner, would've called the police sooner and they may have gotten more evidence to work with and could've possibly found Sierra and her kidnapper much sooner. But what happened has happened and we can't change the past. All we have to do now is hope that Sierra is found and that she'll come home.

3 down, 2 to go

Just a couple days next week for more STAR tests and I don't have to deal with it again for another year.

Still no sign of Sierra LaMar. On Wednesday, some jerk hacked her Twitter account and sent out a fake tweet that got deleted. Hearing that really ticked me off that someone would send out false hope to friends and family who care about a girl who's been missing for a month and could possibly be dead. Hope that person's proud of themselves for pulling crap like that.

Anyway, people are gonna have searches from dawn till dusk in areas in Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy. I really think that maybe Sierra probably won't be in this area and could be somewhere else in California...maybe even out of state. I don't know but I hope she's found soon.

Today was Day of Silence. What is it?

It is a silent protest against discrimination of those LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning) identified. You make a vow to be silent for the entire day or most of it if you can. You don't need to be quiet the whole day, and you can speak when deemed necessary. It's actually more of an eye-opener than a protest. I can't go the whole day without talking and it really makes you think what it feels like for kids to not talk because they're scared of people finding out their sexual orientation. It sucks to not have a voice. By this, we work to give those people back their voice in the end of this type of prejudice.

I may not have gone through the whole day without talking, but it's enough to know how much it sucks to not have a voice. It's one of the reasons I support homosexuality and want to fight for their rights.

How many days till summer?

Ugh.. wish it would come sooner than later. It's only Tuesday and I'm tired of school already. It's STAR testing this week and next week. So jealous that my sister is a senior and doesn't have to come to school until 11:30 since she doesn't have to take testing. I could so use about five more hours of sleep.

Not much this week so far though today in anime and manga club we did see an anime called Princess Jellyfish which was rather interesting and hilarious. It follows a group of roommates and each one of them is an otaku for something. I.e. Jellyfish, trains, kimonos, etc. Think I'll check out more when I get time.

Please Come Home...

I know I've been doing a lot of posts recently about Sierra LaMar. Sorry but I can't help myself knowing there's a missing girl out there somewhere. Anyway, due to the bad weather it's been hard looking for anything underwater and they just found some trees and other various items but they're working this weekend in the hopes to find possible evidence. Anyway I found this Youtube video and thought I'd share it in the hopes that she'll be found and will return home safely.

O.M.G

So Avatar: The Legend of Korra premiered this morning, and I watched it, and I'm so happy!!! It's been like what? Two years? since they announced a second Avatar series and now it's finally been released on Nickelodeon!

Avatar is by far one of my favorite cartoon series on the planet. Animation is beautiful, it has a steady story line with comedic relief in between, and of course, characters you just fall in love with! <3 How good is it with only two episodes released in a one hour premiere? Pretty. Freaking. Sweet.

For those completely slow with what The Legend of Korra is, let's summarize.

The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the Hundred Year War where Avatar Aang and his friends won over Firelord Ozai. New Firelord Zuko worked with Aang to bring all the four nations together to create a fifth nation known as the United Republic of Nations, with a capital called Republic city, where benders and non-benders coexist in peace and harmony.

Aang eventually married Katara and had three children with her, one of which would go on to become an airbending master. Sadly, Aang passed away due to spending too much time in the Avatar State when he was frozen that drained a lot of energy. Yet the Avatar cycle continues to the next Avatar who will be a young girl of the Southern Water Tribe named Korra.

Korra's a rebellious, hotheaded 17-year-old girl who loves nothing more than to be a powerful Avatar. Bending came natural to her at a young age as she could bend water, earth and fire. While she has mastered those three elements, she has yet to learn air and how to connect to the Spirit World. Neither of the two come naturally to her because of her completely opposite personality (Like when Aang struggled with earthbending).

She travels to Republic City to learn from Aang's son, Tenzin, to learn airbending and to master it. Yet while getting sidetracked to get to the Air Temple in Republic City, she has become aware that some benders abuse their power on non-benders and as a result, an anti-bender revolution led by a mysterious man named Amon is inevitable. Now Korra has to work with new friends if she is to master becoming a full-fledged Avatar and bring the world back to balance.

So yeah, this is already a good series! And this is just the first two episodes!

Like The Last Airbender, it holds a good plot, has great characters and not to mention a beautiful animation style. This definitely looks like this is gonna be a fantastic series that I know I and other fans of Avatar will love! Check it out if you haven't yet! <3 

Sigh...

This has been a bit of an uneventful Spring Break... Not like I was motivated to do much anyway since it's been pouring rain all week.. Stupid weather always lies.. Besides, I have something else on my mind.

Tomorrow, it will be an entire four weeks since Sierra LaMar went missing from her home.

Just today, the police said they would be reviewing sonar images they took when they were looking through the local reservoirs. They reported that there were "irregularities" in the water. They could be anything: irrelevant objects to the case, more evidence, or worse... Her remains.

God... please... please don't take another sweet girl away from this town. We've gone through enough pain losing precious Tara, and we don't need to lose sweet, sweet Sierra.

It's almost been a whole month. She could be anywhere. I feel just horrible for her family. They raised the reward to $10,000. It's so insane how desperate people get just to get back the ones they love dearly.

The worst part about someone going missing that really brings pain to my heart is not knowing. Is she alive? Is she dead? Where is she? Is she still in the state of California? Is she being raped? Forced into drugs and/or prostitution? God, just look at what I'm doing to myself. Now it hurts more.

No, I never knew her. But this could have happened to anyone and it had to be a 15-year-old girl that goes to the same school I do. She's only five months younger than me! Why her? She never did anything wrong? From what I've heard, she's a sweet cheerleader and never had any issues at home or with herself so why did some heartless thug had to take her away from her friends and family? Why?!

God, please, bring her home. Just bring her back to her loved ones where she's safe and warm and away from danger.

Zombies + Bunnies = Easter...?

Finally, the day has come. The day where Jesus rose from the dead and we celebrate with rabbits breaking and entering into our homes leaving rabbit droppings or chocolate for your kids..

Again, how a Christian celebration and a German pagan tradition coincide with one another to create a huge American excuse to mass produce chocolate, I'll never know. But hell with it. We don't question these things and just go with it no matter how weird it is. We never question Jesus's birth and a fat Nordic guy going into your home and putting presents in your socks so why should we question Easter?

Well anyway, my start to my spring break has been nothing but laziness though I should be getting my homework out of the way so I don't procrastinate like an idiot. Also we're getting in hardwood floors which is gonna be fun so we don't have to do much vacuuming downstairs.

As for fun stuff, today we're going to a friend's house for dinner and game night and by this week I hope to finish Mockingjay and some stories I'm working on. Wish me luck!

It's good to be the king

It's finally Thursday and the start of Spring Break since we get Good Friday off. Ten days of laziness.. and homework.. Ugh I have insane teachers don't I? Not to mention we have STAR testing the week we get back so that's not gonna build up any stress. But I digress so I won't have to think about school anymore.

Since my family's not the regular church going type, likely chances say we'll spend Easter at home or at a friend's house with other friends. Oh and it's my sister's 18th birthday this Saturday AKA Passover. See if this year wasn't a leap year, then my sister's birthday would be on Good Friday. That reminds me that my friend Raven's birthday is exactly on Good Friday. What a small world we live in huh?

As for Spring Break, besides the homework, I don't have much to do so I may plan a movie night or some sort of get together with friends.

As for the rest of my life, not much updates on Sierra Lamar other than she's still missing. There was a report of the finding of handcuffs and used condoms found but they could have no relevance to the case seeing as how they were found in a place where teens usually hang out and do that sort of crap. Now that's not gonna freak out anyone at all. Well done reporters!

Anyway, they moved the search down south to San Martin and Gilroy since they've literally scoped most if not all of Morgan Hill. God, I just can't help but to think what's happening to Sierra as I'm typing right now. Tomorrow it'll be three weeks since she went missing. Is she dead? Almost dead? Being raped? Forced into prostitution? I don't want to sound so melancholy but it's pretty rare when a kidnapper keeps their victim and anything could have happened to her with the limited evidence found.. I pray she's safe and will come home soon.. and not in a body bag.

Dog Day Sundays

Almost time for a new week at school to sta- OMG I JUST REMEMBERED! WE GET FRIDAY OFF AND THEN IT'S SPRING BREAK! YES!!!! God bless four day school weeks!

So other than boring school stuff, we have our spring homecoming where it's once again Battle of the Sexes. Which kinda doesn't make sense to me since last year there were sexual harassment problems, but I digress.

I've finished reading two books this weekend. First of them being Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I have to read it for my English class and it's a really good book about a dystopia where firemen start fires and burn books instead of putting them out. It's a good quick read for anyone interested. The other book I finished is Catching Fire from The Hunger Games trilogy!

Hunger Games has been my recent obsession since all of my friends have been saying it's a good series, even prior to the movie coming out. So now I'm on the final book, Mockingjay, and despite the mixed opinions I've received, it's been worth my time reading all of them.

Adding on to finishing the 2nd Hunger Games book, when I went to the mall yesterday and went into Hot Topic, there I saw a small section just for Hunger Games merchandise which made me super happy. So I bought myself the replica Mockingjay pin. All the employees there are Hunger Games fans which was another plus and were super nice and fun.

And one thing led to another when we decided to go see The Hunger Games movie while we were at the mall which has its own theater. And... It didn't really meet my expectations. It's not the worst piece of cinema I've seen in my life but... Yeah, it could use so much work. I'll do a review of it since I'm already here.

First off, the camera work. For the most part if the camera's not still, it's either extreme closeups or extremely shaky camera and it looks pretty bad. No offense, but it kinda looks like you gave the camera to Michael J. Fox. You could barely tell what was happening some of the time and it made me very queasy and get headaches. It doesn't help that my family was stuck in the next to the front row since we arrived just as the previews started. I felt like I was gonna throw up.

Another thing that bugged me was the lack of explanation of a lot of aspects of the movie. This is one of the few films where you actually need to read the book if you want to understand what's going on. Marina, who hasn't read the books at all, was very confused at the end about what was going on. She had no idea if they were even living on planet Earth and a whole bunch of other things. Some characters they don't even mention by name! Case in point: Effie and Seneca. Yes! They don't mention either by name even though everyone knows they're there! I mean you have this kinda middle-aged woman wearing crazy colors and is all proper in a way that looks silly and a guy with a funky beard design! And the way they were portrayed was so amazing I was sad when I never heard their names.

The other characters met my expectations though I would've like to have seen Woody Harrelson as more of a drunken mess when he was Haymitch but I think that's just based on personal opinion.

When it came to visuals, it was.. a hit and miss. When you saw the people of the capitol it was just vibrant with all sorts of colors. As my sister would describe, "A world ruled by Japanese bubblegum pop". Yet when it came to the Games, I would've liked to have seen more. This may be a PG-13 film but the books are so descriptive on violence that it's pretty scary. I didn't really find the scenarios displayed in the film true to the actual struggles for survival in the books. In the books, Katniss had a difficult time finding water and shelter, and towards the end, Peeta was practically dead he was so injured and sick. I found it very unrealistic if you left a group of 24 teens in the wilderness to fend for themselves in a battle where only one comes out alive.

Some scenes were bang on the dot just as I imagined but I kinda spoiled a bit too much already so I'll avoid going into detail. But I did like how they added what was going on outside of the arena such as the people of District 12 viewing their two tributes struggling, and Haymitch persuading sponsors to send medicine and stuff to Katniss and Peeta.

Just one more critic and that is, the people sitting behind me who never read the book. I got kinda annoyed when I heard them whisper, "So-and-so died??". Pretty obvious you guys never read the book and you would've known that most of the characters will probably die and this particular character died in a different fashion.

So to sum it up, this is a film that you definitely have to read the actual book to understand most of the plot and sitting as far away from the screen as possible so you don't vomit from the crap camera work, but again it's not the worse movie I've seen; it just meets in the middle of my standards for a good film.