Maturity
My birthday has come and gone, and there have been a veritable shitload of things that have transpired since then.
Academically, I got fucked. Real good. I open up a 73 average in French and a 76 in Steege.
Granted, French sucks incredibly this year, though I don't think it's in my place to bore you with details. Suffice it to say that as last year, it is filled with constant chatter and loud bitches, Asian and white. We do no actual learning in class except review. It doesn't help that our class takes place in the chorus room, where taking notes is hampered by the fact that it is difficult to fit a notebook and your textbook on the desk at the same time. There is a plethora of extra chairs, and the echoing, ambient sound effects serve only to magnify the already unnecessary general clutter. During the entire duration of the class, the teacher stands at the front of class and speaks in an English-French hybrid, ignoring all of the English that goes on until it is actually useful. The entire class will be speaking unconcernedly in English with one another, and then when one kid asks another about the definition of a word, Arnoldy swoops down with a "Ah-ah, Zut! Pas d'anglais!"
The upside of academics is Fantasy School. It was either Anandh or Albert's idea, and I don't care to find out whose, and despite that it came from unsavory sources, the concept is actually quite entertaining. The idea is the same as that of fantasy sports: You select players to form a team that probably doesn't actually exist. You base your score off of how well each of them performs, and there are weekly updates. Check early and check often!
A few more notes about school are extracurricular. Math team, Science team, and FBLA. FBLA and Sci-team are both basically nil so far. I've answered fermi questions on and off Wednesdays, and FBLA I've been to a grand total of one meeting, where the chief thing of interest was Blake Lochrie's hair. That is sexy. Math team is better. It hurts deep inside to be owned by Robert, but there's some satisfaction in beating the crap out of Feiqi and Kazberouk. It'll probably never happen again, but while it lasts, I'm still on Math Team. =P
Other extracurricular activities are actually surprisingly great in number. I find it vaguely unsettling that walking home right after school is now a rare occasion, and 80% of the time it involves Anandh. Is this healthy?... better than fag, I guess, with whom I have associated a grand total of twice this September. A personal best since sixth grade.
I spend this time doing a weird assortment of things. Mondays are now my piano day right after school, which is somewhat awkward. My piano teacher's son, a Russian kid suspiciously named Max, is my ride. Tuesdays are on-and-off FBLA meetings. These are intertwined among days off of school (I tip my hat to the Jewish people) and random events. Wednesdays is my science team day, where Albert is my bitch for thirty minutes in BDemps and Mrs. B-ritter's rooms. Thursday is my free day. !! Friday... I catch the bus after school. o___0... the less said the better, mayhaps? Saturday I have methodically volunteered for Life Care Center volunteering, and Sundays will soon be dedicated to working at Emerson Hospital.
Eh, sorry for the unnecessary verbiage. To touch quickly on a few other things before I go into a weird rampage...
* Ouch, Red Sox!
* iPod nano is surprisingly chic. I guess I should be somewhat thankful.
* There is no point in playing Spades if no one goes Blind Nil.
On a totally different note.
This site is all about freedom. About invidiualism, you might say, even! What would be the fun in copying everyone else and having a personal profile? So WHAT if everyone else is doing it? To be an individualist and a rebel, it is my DUTY not to conform!
I was actually thinking thoughts like this, albeit not in such a sarcastic tone, when I scrolled through Albert's Xanga page and saw a survey. I chuckled and supposed that I might have some witticisms, but Xanga really isn't my thing, and this really isn't a good medium for posting surveys. Then Mike IM'ed me and told me to create a Myspace. Totally abandoning the premise of the site, I began to do that.
It took twenty minutes of Firefox and Myspace killing my bandwidth and CPU speed for me to stop and slap myself and everyone around me. What was the point in doing that? Wasn't it just another restrictive, highly commercialized advertisment? I scurried off angrily and listened to Linkin Park music for a few hours before returning to the computer with some reluctance.
And I decided, why the hell not? This was after all my site, and if I wanted to sell out by taking a survey, I wouldn't be betraying anyone, if they cared enough to read in the first place.
So, instead of a survey-type thing, I'll just write a wall of text to describe myself.
I live in New England. I am Chinese, sixteen years old, and I'm a junior in high school. You may have already figured this out. I like to play cards in school, and I like my friends. I do science team, tap dance, and math team. When I put it like that, I don't seem all that unique. I actually sorta like it. =P
I like anime/manga, specifically... Rurouni Kenshin and Bleach. Before, I was a fan of DBZ and to a much lesser extent Yugioh. Back in the day, I also watched regular TV, and Ronin Warriors was the shit.
I am somewhat of a gamer as well; I play N64, PS2, and Gamecube. I emulate older SNES and Genesis games with moderation. Konami is my favorite game company. You may see me ranting about games sometimes. Bear with me. I have limited interests.
Music is an area where I can seem pretentious a lot in, and hell, why not? The three things that I am most well-versed in are mathematics, video-gaming market and trivia, and piano music. There's no point in not playing to your strengths. Granted, I don't know an actual lot of music, but I know a bit about the music. That's almost as good - better, one might say. Because I've played piano, I've inherited a fleeting taste for classical music, and a much greater one for video gaming music. If you can combine two of your three best traits... why the hell not. Unfortunately... I can only boast a liking of selected songs among certain artists. There are very few musical artists from the 70s or later for whom I can say that I like the majority of their songs without distinction.
Personal life is really quite boring, to tell you the truth. I have sister, who is unsurprisingly annoying. At a quick glance, the stuff on the lists are basically just random trivia for people to look down and say "oh, cool". Minimal thought-provoking material, basically. The only real category in the one that I'm looking at is the last one... Basically, despite all my potential cynicisms, I am an idealist at heart. I think that people should be allowed to do what they want... unless it's clearly a harmful activity that serves no benefits to my narrowminded point of view. Smoking and doing drugs aren't doing anyone good. Abortion will save a woman a lot of pain. I prefer spring weather and general feeling at school to fall, and I love walking in the rain. Something about a light drizzle makes me feel disturbingly yet refreshingly alive.
And then the private questions. Tee hee. At this point, no I don't really "like like" anyone. I guess I decided that it's not really worth the effort and mental strain (emotional strain? what?). It'd be just another thing on a moderately full plate.
If life were a symphony, then I'd walk on all the upbeats.
SD
Oct. 9, '05
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