i think one of my friendships is going down the drain. it feels like i'm trying to save it, but she doesnt want it anymore. it feels like she's annoyed with me or something. i can see how she oould've misunderstood some of my actions as annoying. heh.. like that time i didn't realize she could hear me calling her and so i was just shouting her name and then.. oh....
and then, now i keep asking her for my $2 because jamie says that the $2 he owes me is now transferred to albie and well, i don't know. in a way its my fault, because i didnt ask her plain black and white about the $2. sigh.
either than that life is.. tiring. well, its good. just tired.
half day today! gonna hang out with angela, rachel and ally, and maybe.. well, maybe later, margaret too! depends on what time margaret gets out because i dont think she has a half day.
i like french class. (:
cheerio!
/Hopped! 11:10 AM
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MARCHING BAND VIDEO! / Monday, October 29, 2007
i just found this on youtube!
homeshow! yeah, could have been better.
/Hopped! 6:15 AM
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FOUR STAHHS! /
yeap! that's right! WE GOT GOLD!
finals was on sat. and it started out REAL DROOPY. got to school at 7.40ish or earlier and it was raining! so yeah..
around 8 we started heading out to the gym to practice in block. then went outside at 9ish and the parents were handing out ALL WEATHER EMERGENCY PONCHOS! made from thin plastic! that lucas called FANCY!
the drizzling rain came and went every so often, mostly being around. and everyone had taken a shower by the end of practice.. except for those who felt like wearing their ALL WEATHER EMERGENCY PONCHOS!.. like a few people and colourguard.
then we went back in at 10, drying off and drinking hot cocoa. and did an ensemble music rehearsal. then off to the coach bus! yes! coach bus! with their sometimes stinky toilets!
started a few pre-cal.. which i was not very efficient at. and then dozed off... woke up! we're at mcdonald's at sanford! ordered from the dollar menu, a mcChicken with tomatoes and onions and a soda! just for $3+..
half an hour or so it was back to the bus. and off to sanford high for the marching band finals! still drizzling rain.. on and off and back on..
finally saw salem and they were indeed HUMUNGO! 300+ eh! their colourguard looked like they were in pj's though.. because they were in beige ma!
so, by the time it was our turn to get on the field, and because we were last and all, the field was TRASHED. like you really had to do roll steps or else you would slip fall and die by the wrath of skeff!.. well, maybe not die.. but feel damn guilty if we didnt get four stahs!
fortunetely no one fell. but by the end, the colourguards' dresses were all stained with mud. it was like :o!! did they slip and fall?? NOOOOOOoooooooo!.. they didnt lah.. it was the flags. phew. by the end of the show, in review.. or whatever that ending march is called, i could not stick my left foot up anymore.. all sore, couldn't feel anything.
oh man, retreat. it was one of the most anticipating moments ever. waitting and praying to god for four stars GOLD... was the longest wait of my life! and then... WE GOT GOLD
i'm sleepy. i will blog more later.
/Hopped! 5:50 AM
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the stupidest post about my feelings evah! :D / Thursday, October 25, 2007
this is about... hormones? well, i guess its hormone related.
okay. so right after 2004 ended, 2005.. i made the decision to never have a crush. never ever. because i felt that my crush on that idiot was enough. i actually quite like that decision.. its like the word crush doesn't even exist in my dictionary. and so its like.. how do i explain this?
its like, even if i were to have something for someone.. i can just saw nevermind easily because i don't have it stamped like CRUSH(es). see.. many people apparently have MANY crushes at one time.. me? hah!.. NONE!
and this way its fun.. because i just sit back and relax while some people ahem like me! :D and then see who lasts the longest. and there's one dood who i guess has given up trying to get a response from me because now he's with someone. he was sketchy man anyways.
although.. there's these two doods.. they have lasted.. well, longer? or maybe not. no the haven't actually. one went on to having a girlfriend and then breaking up (silly couple) and the other one. oh well, its been only a year. but whatever. yeah, that's my attitude. because my main focus of school is not hooking up with some person.
i kinda feel like i'm waitting for them to make a move.. especially that skiing idiot because if he doesnt he's going to end up like another idiot (who i never gave a damn about), graduating without doing anything. just make a move already!! seesh.
so why not i make the move?? here's where a stupid point comes in... I DONT GIVE A DAMN. (: but yet it sounds like i do. but then again. whatever.
but i must say, i am falling into that lovely hole again.. and its one exagerrated lovely hole. (: all in all, i have fun not having a crush and silly people have a crush on me and do NOTHING. if you're doing nothing, then stop being obvious at your stares! or i'll just be more obviously oblivious of your existence.
and that's the end of the stupidity of this post.
here's something artsy! from the boredom of physics class!:
cheerio!
/Hopped! 4:10 PM
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just keep swimming / Monday, October 22, 2007
i cant believ i forgot to blog this yesterday. so friday the school had a mystery assembly. at first, since the announcements mentioned something about the commissioner of education coming, we all thought it was something to do with the accreditation of our school our something. but then, the commissioner of education announced that one of our teachers had won educator of the year for our state! so first i was like oh!.. then as she talked more, while i was waitting for a teacher to be announced, i thought, hey! why dont i try to guess who it is..
thought for awhile.. lazy thinking.. didnt think of any. 5 minutes later.. hmm.. ms major? and then it hit me.. HIM. and then 10 seconds later, she announced.. mr brian jandreau! and i was like, i knew it!
he really deserves it. i think one of the reasons why he is a good teacher is because he's an english teacher and so when it comes to class discussions, he's really good at getting us to care about what we're talking about.
congrats mr j!
which reminds me, those people in kenya never replied us.. ):
i am.. going to eat now. yeap. cheeerio!
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i'll fly away in the morning / Sunday, October 21, 2007
OH WOW!
i am indescribably happy. so many good things have happened.. you dont even know. it all started yesterday. oh man. yesterday truly was the Sweetest Day.
1) jie has internet! you have no idea how i felt when i saw her tags on my board! exactly. indescribable. :D i was :o !! JIE! HI! it was so good!!! i dont even know what to say any more. but no longer do i feel vulnerable. we're connected again!
2) MARCHINGBAND HOMESHOW! we totally owned our field yesterday! we kicked ass! drum major got four stars! and so did visual! and colour guard go 3!! they should after all the hard work they spent hurting people.. jk. so happy that chelsea got four stars again! oh man. i'm so excited for finals! i will be so amazingly fucking happy if we get four stars because it means than we are more than fucking amazing! because more than half our band, including me, ARE NEW MEMBERS! :D
oh and we beat oob..they never had the right to say they owned our field. conner was hilarious after our show. they were announcing the 50-50 and he was like, oh no! i left my 50-50 ticket up there (in the band room i suppose). and then they announced the winning number and no one came up for a long moment and conner was like.. IT MUST BE ME!.. but no it wasnt. someone who bought a lot of tickets won. i would have laughed if conner was actually the winning number. and then this other crazy kid went bazerk when he saw his mom awarding the dood his $200+ win.
I'M SO EXCITED FOR FINALS!! i suspect that our next field rehearsal is going to be intense.. no. super intense.
oh and then today, after church, went over to the andreason's and played ddr, super smash bros and watched the count of monte cristo! and ate dominos.
from dedham, mass. its our opening set
i'm off to do my homework now!.. hopefully. cheerio!
/Hopped! 5:47 PM
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thump thump / Monday, October 15, 2007
i am EXTREMELY ECSTATIC!
why you may ask?
oh wow. because of a lot of reasons.
oh, but now that i think about it, there is something bringing me down.. PHYSICS TEST TOMORROW. but nevermind about that right now.. because WE ARE THREE STAHHHS! :D
yepp. that's the first reason why i am so joyful right now! marchingband! saturday was good.. well, we still have to do a lot better, but at least it wasnt as bad as last sunday. that was so horrible that that night i came home and even had a horrible dream of marching band..
i was at field rehearsal and well, my state of mind at that moment was i'm the worst marcher in the world. and so in my dream during the field rehearsal, craig scott comes up to me and says so when are you going to leave
me: leave? i don't want to leave! i want to stay in marchingband! please no!! i can march better! i will improve! just wait!
craig: i'm sorry.. you're bringing us all down, we'regonna have to let you go..
me: NO!! I WANT TO STAY IN MARCHINGBAND! PLEASE!!!
so i approach skeff who's sitting in his office.. please let me stay in marching band!! and his response:
i'll think about it.. -.-
and then i woke up.. still half asleep. still hasn't hit me yet that it was all a dream. and feel so sad that i've been kicked out of marchingband.. fall back to bed... wake up.. OH! IT WAS JUST A DREAM (: phew. bahaha.. i'm so silly i guess.
moving on.. the 2nd reason why i'm so extremely ecstatic and full of awe is because *drumroll*
I FINALLY SAW BU NENG SHOU DE MI MI! :D
i found the torrent!! oh and then i found it on youtube! :D
i'm so... undescribable!
its a fantastical movie.. as in its pretty fantasy.. yet not. but yes it is. like it doesnt hit you and so many people are just confused because their minds are just stuck on reality reality reality. well get out of reality! and just watch!
next reason why i'm.. well, more of relieved.. is because i'm done with that apush reconstruction test. that dbq essay is the worse. i swear, when ms major reads it, it'll feel so disconnected. but i gave up i guess.. i mean, i didnt want to spend forever on it. and its already nice enough she gave me extra time.. sigh.. i must speed up! especially with the psat's that are this wed!
time will just fly by... i should probably study for physics now, but i know i'm going to play tropico now instead.. psh.
TO EVERYONE WHO RESIDES IN SOUTH PORTLAND!:
go to our home show for marching band this saturday! it starts at around 6! and we'll be o at around 8! so just GO!
cheerio!
/Hopped! 5:16 PM
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bring it on back to you / Tuesday, October 09, 2007
so sunday's show, down at mass, for me, was HORRIBLE. well, it was somewhat okay, oh but nevermind, it was awful. the opener and for good went alright for the most part, except for those stupid squeaks. then the closer, during the drum solo, we now dance and i'm a glenda and i missed the first pose! first i was like ahh!!.. how to do it now? then i was like alright, nevermind, 8th count jump! *tink once *tink twice *tink! and down. hunch over, and become a monkey! monkey slides left, then right, then grow wings!.. i must must get the rest of the show right. first four bars after the solo ended, it was alright. then i think the part where the altos played the melody i might have played loud.. oh and i dont think i dressed the line.. dammit.
okay, you know what? i'm making a list of all the things to keep in mind when marching:
1) the notes DUH. 2) watch the drum major 3) roll steps! 4) DRESS to people 5) DRESS to yardlines 6) shoulders, flat to the front. 7) breathe in the right spots! 8) stand tall and confident of course 9) aim horn at judges box
and you know what? everytime i march, i only have probably 3 of these things in my mind at once. and then another 3 later on. for example, during the beginning fanfare the things going on in my mind: notes, breathe and trying to see the drum major through the corner of my eyes.
moving to our 2nd set: roll step, notes, dressing to the yardline 3rd: dressing to the front, notes, stepping on time and then oh yeah, i can chelsea! 4th: big roll steps back, dressing to people, notes 5: steps, notes, circle
i could go on, but there's no need.
i know its possible somehow as matt says, but its very hard! and i cant breathe!! gah.
cheerio!
/Hopped! 11:56 AM
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marching band pictures / Saturday, October 06, 2007
from the ben's camera!
this is from our show last sat at wells.
can you spot me? i'm the third in the second column from the left
i'm a tenor sax player in case you forgot.. haha.. we're still not very in set, but it is better than our first show, which was just a mass chaos..
hope we do extremely well this tomorrow!
/Hopped! 5:28 PM
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and through these crazy times, its you, its you / Friday, October 05, 2007
it has taken me this long to finally decide to blog about BOSTON! woot! it was great! first thing upon reaching boston, i was like, ah... skyscrapers.. singapore.. (: hahaha
wicked.. oh wow! i want to see it again! okay, so now the entire story of that day..
tuesday, spirit week, wacky hat and hair day.. wore my french hat. the whole day, all of us marchingband people were awaiting excitedly for 3.30 when we'd all get on the coach bus for BOSTON! yeah!
i pretty much slept on the bus. changed into my skirt on the bus too. and then we all lined up at the boston opera house. the operahouse is so grand. gold everywhere and mirrors and chandeliers. all the things i like in a room all at once! jamie kept bugging me to exchange tickets with him because of the seatings, so he could sit with janaye, shoobeedoo and ben and some other people. after some time i was like, fine. and i'm glad i finally swapped because i sat with hana! and i got an end seat! meaning i could stretch my feet out to the aisles!
dood! those seats were cramping! like the leg room is so small that you're forced to sit straight up! so annoying.. grr.
then the ushers kept telling us all that we weren't allowed to take pictures of the stage and the performance and blah and if they found anything from the show on the internet, they would sue and more blah. like, yeah, whatever. you know, i found a video of defying gravity performance on youtube, why dont you sue!? its not like you're going to lose much money anyway if people post up pictures/videos on the internet. i mean, its understandable if the camera flashes would totally ruin the audience attention, but the copyrights... just stupid.. i mean, you dont have to tell us so many times. we heard you already.
i really wanna see the musical again!! glenda's character is so... perky! and well, yeah, that kind of friend is irritating. but she's like a hamster or something who keeps bouncing up and down.. like the scene where she's like pohhhopuuulerr.. lar! oh wow.
okay, you wanna how deep in my head the wicked music is stuck in my head? i have been listening to all sorts of music and i have played all sorts of songs in band, AND I'M STILL HUMMING TO WICKED! hahaha :D
yesterday was a tiring day. i stayed in school for about 13 hours continuously all together. 7am-2pm school, 2-5 hall decorations, 5-8 marchingband!
so the seniors won hall decorations and the whole spirit week as usual, because they are seniors. to all those people who are still complaining that us, juniors should've won hall decorations, please get over it. there's more important things in life to worry about. like maybe your grades and your future? we're going to be the seniors next year anyway.
we were almost going to perform wicked after doing the anthem and the silly school song, that unlike in singapore we dont sing every week. but then skeff decided that we were missing too many parts from like the drumline and stuff. sigh. it would've been great if we could though. i'm obsessed with wicked now! oh wow! i really love marching band! we definetely rule out those skanky cheerleaders.
going to watch monk, then psych, then HOUSE! :D ...now. cheerio!
/Hopped! 8:39 PM
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have a drink of this green elixer / Wednesday, October 03, 2007
okay. so Wicked was pretty much just WICKED! :D
i'm tired. and just returned from boston. right now i just want to sleep. so screw my motivative life's too short for sleep.
I'M SLEEPING DAMMIT.
so that i can wake up in about an hour and really finish my english essay, and maybe that physics lab.
will blog more about yesterday, later today, after foliage jumping!
cheerio!
