Finally, Some Photos!

I feel like my posts have been getting boring. I don't usually write any interesting insights, and I don't put pictures up, for the most part. And I don't know what to write about today, but I want to post something anyways...
I took some pictures recently (on my phone... I don't have one of those awesome cameras), and I think I'll put them up here.
Just for fun. And I think you'll learn a little bit more about me this way, too :)

One. I like Gundam, especially Destiny Gundam.
So, I built a model of one this summer...

Two. I went to the Dr. Pepper Museum this summer, and they had cute posters and advertisement art from a long time ago. I prefer Root Beer, actually, but these were really nice... The second one is for 7-Up.

Three. These are some objects in my room.

The first one: I used to "collect" Japanese dolls. I say "collect" because most of these were given to me by others... but I like them very much :]

The second one: Some origami I made out of rainbow paper. It was quite hard to put together...>.>

The third: Flowers, in glass soda bottles from Rudy's. And my compass and protractor. Hahah :]

I think that's all. I took these pictures with different effects, but I also used Photoshop CS3 to fix little things.
I hope you enjoyed that picture post :]

First Week at Westwood.

I like it okay, I guess.
It's a lot of work though, mostly math and science and WAS.
That's cause I'm taking IB, so duh.

I like IB so far though! I like Accel science a lot, really. When I say that everyone looks at me like I'm crazy >.> I don't think I'll like it for long though.

I think all my classes and teachers are at least pretty okay.
Math is growing on me, actually.
Mobley designated Ricky and I to be the "smart people of the day" today. He always chooses two people, and they have to answer other people's questions about homework and the last lesson. I was pretty freaked at first, but it was not that bad, really.

&& I found out he actually has bright lights in his room!!!
But he dims them when class starts and leaves them that way.
It looks like a cave in there x.x

And I like doing photos in Yearbook :D :D :D
There's so many more staff writers than photographers... isn't that weird?
Gaines is nice, but the editors do EVERYTHING. She didn't even introduce herself the first day.

Hmmm. And the library is pretty cool. We can borrow 5 books now, yeayy. Lucky for me that I finished lunch super early today, so I got to go in without any cranky ladies catching me. I have passes now, heheh :3 And also two library books <3

Uhmm. That's just a bunch of random thoughts I have about Westwood atm, hahah.
I will add another random post sometime later for sure :]

And thank you to all the upperclassmen that take care of me all the time <3
You guys are awesome. You made my first week SO much easier, really! :]

Oh Screw.

I'm going to get in trouble for posting this late.
I don't even think I can finish unless I make it super short >.>

I feel kinda depressed, dunno why.
It's probably just the having to go back to school, and hearing how IB is hell, and how I'm kind of somewhat in love with an impossible guy I can never have. And the trouble with tomorrow, the last day of holiday.

It's the last day of holiday AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!

I'm so bored out of my mind, it's not even funny. I have no idea what (fun) things I can do tomorrow. And I really wanted to enjoy the last day of holiday too...

I'm kind of pissed. And I'm tired as anything. I should sleep, right? Since school is starting soon and all. But I really don't want to- I'm a "night owl," as they say. Who says? I don't know. I just hate going to sleep early, but then I can't wake up in the morning...

I wish I had studied Japanese more. I'll probably log zero hours once school gets under way. And I'm not even kidding. I'm afraid of having no time to do stuff I want to do.

And Bratteng looks funny- I was browsing teacherweb just now.
I'm not used to having male teachers, least of all an old guy with a white beard... I think most all of the teachers I've had up til now (except PhysEd teachers- Mr. Peterson D:<) have been ladies. Maybe he'll be nice though? But I heard he was perverted >.> And Bray is apparently bipolar. Wow. What great teachers I get to be stuck with for a year.

Good night. I'll study Japanese all day tomorrow. And maybe I'll be in a better mood.

Freshman Schedule

So here's my schedule for '09-'10. And yes, I'm doing IB.
WAS and Alg II TAG on the same day D; Other than that, I'm okay with my schedule.

**I have B LUNCH both days**

ORANGE.
1-Symphony Orchestra
2-Art I
3-Spanish II Enhanced
4-Accel Science I

WHITE.
5-TAG English I
6-Yearbook <3
7-WAS
8-TAG Algebra II >.>

Summer's Almost Out

It's hard to believe I'm going back to school on Tuesday. Woaaah. This summer has just gone by so fast!! Anyways... I guess I have a couple of things to write about today :]

Firstly, Ponyo. It was an okayy movie... kind of boring, and it went by really slowly. It's definitely a kid movie. The animation and music was lovely as usual though :3

More recently... two days ago, we got our "schedules" and textbooks, etc. It's not much of a schedule. You just get the order of your classes- no teachers, no room numbers. My mom said that was because some people don't like certain teachers, and they didn't want everyone to switch >.> How sneaky, right?

I'll post my schedule in a separate post later, for archiving purposes...

And Fishbowl was yesterday...
It was pretty boring. Other than the club fair (which was awesome, btw) , we didn't do much. We just kinda hung around and talked. The decorations were gorgeous though... I'm going to add a picture. Lucky you :3 I know I'm really bad about adding pictures xD

It's pretty, isn't it? Agree with me.

And today, I had viola first thing in the morning- had to wake up at 8:30 WHICH IS STILL EARLY FOR ME. I usually wake up at 11:30+ :__________;
I got really discouraged this time though, because my left hand won't obey me!! Hahah, it sounds funny, but it's true. You know how if you move one finger, other fingers move along with it? And it's really hard to NOT move other fingers? I was having issues like that. And my elbow. And my wrist. So yeah, I was pretty tired from trying so hard once I got out of there.

Oh well. A little bit at a time, and I'll get there eventually...

After that we went shopping at Barton Creek~ it's Tax Free weekend, you know?
I haven't been shopping in forever, hahah. I ended up getting a /really/ cute dress for $15 (used to be $50...so it was a steal), and two pairs of skinny jeans <3 Hahah. I'm totally happy with what I bought. :D

And lunch was really good too... some "zhong" that Jason's grandmother made in NY >.> So. Good. Okay so like the whole thing was filled up with the good stuff, not just green beans <3

That's all for nao, think I'll post up my schedule for you guys :] Although it's already on facebook, but whatever.

flumpool!

Hahah, "flumpool" is a funny word, isn't it?
Actually, it's the name of this really great Japanese band. Terri introduced me to them (all the cool asian stuff I know about is probably from her, lol). But yeah, they're pretty good. They sound a bit like a mixture of Ayabie and UVERworld/Aqua Timez mixed together. Hmm. Kind of. But if you like those bands, you'll probably like flumpool :]
So I updated my mp3 with some of their songs and deleted a whole lot of other junk that I don't listen to, oh, say around 40 songs xD

Hmm. Not much else to say. Well, the last tennis group lesson was today. I like tennis a lot ♥ I hope I make it into the team... I need to practice hard :]

And yeah! This is a bit of a spoiler for posts to come, but my phone is coming in a couple of days (maybe tomorrow...!!). It's the phone I wanted :D Except we got it cheap on ebay, so yes. I'm pretty excited, hahah x] The SimCard came today, but not the phone :o

Also, another future post spoiler. I'm going to watch Ponyo with some friends on Saturday. I can't wait for that!! Miyazaki makes the best animation films EVER. Don't argue with me on this. And Disney had better have made the voiceovers amazing, else I'll really get mad D': I really hate watching Japanese films with English dubs. I want to watch Ponyo in Japanese with English subtitles, but that's not possible right nao. Rawwrrr. Oh well, I still can't wait. Haha :D

Jimmy is "bothering" me about finishing anime. Not really xP But I didn't even know he watched anime before a few days ago. Uhmmm... I don't even know if I want to watch anime right now. I will if I have time, I guess.

The To-Finish Watching List
1. Fate/Stay Night
2. Code Geass
3. Prince of Tennis
4. Furuba (did I finish this one? I can't remember...lol)
5. Bloody Monday (this is a J-Drama starring Haruma Miura ♥)

Lol sorry. But Haruma Miura is pretty :]

And I'm getting a haircut tomorrow, at long last. Short hair is annoying when it gets too long D':

Ah okay, it's really late o.o 5 minutes before the compy logs me out xP So I think it's a good place to stop. G`nite.

Orchestra Camp [Day Two]

Obviously, you can tell I'm tired of thinking up titles x]

Today, if this is even slightly possible, was harder than yesterday. That's because Mrs. Williams turned up the metronome and we had to pretty much sightread at tempo ._. So hard. The All-State excerpt is evil. Everything is evil. I pretty much just followed along and jumped in whenever possible, which was anytime there weren't long 16th note runs. Not much of the time at all x]

Gahhh. So hard. Everyone around me was like, "Oh. My. God." The whole time. Except the really pro people, of course xD I'm amazed they can sightread that fast o.o 16th notes at quarter=144? Woaaaaaah. And accidentals everywhere. As Mrs. Williams said, "When I hear you play, I think Tchaikowsky is the devil."

But his music is nice :___________;

I need to practice. Ahhhh. And we have to split the part, since she only made one copy per stand xP I got the first three pages yesterday, and the last 4 today.

Hahah, kind of freaking out. Concert's on October 14... hoping that I'll be able to play decently by then :'D

Julian and Luben came today :] Julian with his Veggie Heaven shirt, camera and big smile. I remember him telling me he played violin a long time ago, maybe the first time I got to meet him. He played a bit today too, but I couldn't really hear him xP Bet he's really good though. I found out Luben was there too when somebody poked me, hard. At first I didn't know it was him xD We didn't get to talk much, since we were rehearsing xP He came by since he had to drop his sister at CVMS for band camp. Anyways, Julian's coming back on Thursday. Yay :]

I finally downloaded a couple of songs I really like to my mp3. I'm listening to "Sunset Glow" by Big Bang right nao. It's such a cute song :3

Orchestra Camp [Day One]

I guess I kind of wanted to write about this too, so you'll have to bear with TWO posts today ;3

Okay, I'll admit it was kind of awkward when I first walked in because I didn't know most of the people there. And all the people I did know were guys who were older and waaaay taller than me... Then I saw Ashley, who was the only other freshman girl, and it got better after that :] She can actually talk to unfamiliar people... so just by tagging along I got to meet some of the orchestra members. I guess I also felt intimidated because everyone is SO GOOD. Really really good!!!

Mrs. Williams told us the story of how she heard that they won State Honor Orchestra last year. I feel really lucky to be in Symphony this year x] I hope that even if I can't play as well as the other people I can do at least my share. I think I will improve a lot this year, since there are so many talented people around me...

Even after coming home today, I wanted to practice hard :]

The music we played was pretty difficult (at least for me). I'm not so good at sightreading fast passages >.> But I think I did better than normal, because even when I couldn't play the notes I didn't lose my place in the music. Maybe this is a magic orchestra (I think it is)!

We are playing Tchaikowsky's Serenade for Strings, the whole thing. I think it is 14 pages long, but it is very beautiful. There are lots of hard bits everywhere, though, so I'm going to need to practice a whole lot. That and region music. And, I don't even know if I'm going to try out for All-State >.> But thankfully, the Serenade for Strings contains the orchestral excerpt for All-State. I'm afraid I'm not good enough. Maybe I will give it a shot regardless...

Anyways, this whole week is Orchestra camp, from 10-1. It's not nearly as harsh as the band camp :___________; I admire the band members a lot. They are always working so hard...

Youth Retreat 2009

Ahh, it was amazing. Really.
Thank you to everyone who planned for this retreat, and of course, praise God!!
I learned so many things and got to know God better, especially at the prayer walk.
Edley Lee (heehee) was a great speaker too. I love the stories he told :D
I was also happy to meet new people in my family, and throughout the retreat...
I'm happy that our family won!! Go Pirates!
Hmm... I don't know what else to say.
But this being the first day back, I had a really good quiet time this morning. That made me feel happy about today. Already I can see a difference. I just hope that, with God's help, I'll be able to keep this up. I don't want get bogged down once school starts...
Also, I was kind of shy before, but I think I can talk a little better to people now. Not much though xP I still have trouble talking to unfamiliar people, but it's slightly more comfortable for me now. There's still always the awkward pauses though x]
I hope everyone had a good experience at retreat as well.

New Viola & Other Happy Things

Oh, yes.
I got a new viola yesterday xDD It's a 16" dark brown Scott Cao... 11 years old and kind of dented everywhere ;____________: Oh well, it sounded the best and was the cheapest of all :]
I couldn't stop playing it today. It was so much fun, and so much louder than my 15" one. When I play in the bathroom it sounds like I'm in a concert hall :]

I came back from Corpus a couple days ago... it was all sand and beach and sun and... hotel. The hotel was awesome. Free breakfast, cooked to order o.o And free drinks and snacks in the afternoon. And they had good TV channels too xD

The beach was awesomer than the hotel. The sand was like flour, really fine and white. We caught hermit crabs and sea snails and cool beach critters and dug holes and channels and soaked in the water :] I have the worst swimsuit tan now, but at least my shirt tan is gone xD

And then retreat tomorrow. Then Orchestra camp. I feel more prepared with my new viola... and region music is coming along pretty well :]

Yay.

Undisciplined

So, I've been thinking lately.
Is it true that people, specifically artists, are undisciplined in everything except their areas of interest? It sure feels like that for me.

This point was first brought up, actually, in one of the handouts at Friday night fellowship. It's been nagging at me ever since.

Seems like when there's something I like to do, like draw, I spend tons and tons of time on it. And when there's stuff I hate doing, like math for instance, I do enough just to get by.

Most of the summer's gone already but it feels like I haven't accomplished much in anything but art.

I feel kind of guilty about that.

But the reason this really jumped out at me is because of the following.

Darren: hey
Ryou: hi
Darren: you know if u just spent time u spent studying instead of drawing u would be insanely smart :D

And I was like, "Really, that is SO TOTALLY TRUE."

And now I feel pretty, uhh, fail?

I don't know, like what should I do?
Obviously, I ought to study more starting now.

But I also learned so many things about art this summer...

I think it's a balance.

Here and There

Oh, hello again :]
It's been awhile since I've seen you all last~
What have you been up to lately?

As for me, today was more eventful than most.
We went to visit my mother's friend, who lives about an hour's drive away. She's tall, is from Singapore (YAY.), is super pretty, and has a cute dog. But no. Not a small lap dog kind of cute. Her dog looks like a bear/horse thing o.o It's huuuuuge, and it's a Bouvier~ go look it up.

We had a good time. She even gave us Yakult and Crackerjack.

After that we went to the outlet:
They were having a huge book sale, like 70-80% off of everything, so we bought some books :] My sis got "Airman," by Eoin Colfer. Please, if anyone can tell me how to pronounce "Eoin"? I've awlays wondered about that... I read it on the way back, and it was really good, as expected- it was Eoin Colfer, after all.

I bought two Japanese books. In Japanese o.o
One was a kid's book, and the other, a random manga, the sixth installment of a series I've never heard of before ;x, that looked somewhat interesting.

The how-to-draw manga books were terrid (horrid+terrible, a word I keep saying on accident). I hate it when people make how-to-draw books when they can't even draw themselves.
Not that I'm great or anything. But yeah >.>

Thatsall.

Happy Independence Day~

Oh wow, it's already July. And it's already July 4th :]
Happy July 4th, everybody.

I think US History is much more interesting than the history of other countries. No offense o.o Anyways, my cousins say that's true~ Apparently they just learn the same things in history every year xP

I feel patriotic, sort of. We had a picnic at church today, and we played "Broken Telephone charades" and water balloon fight :D I didn't get too wet~

VBS is Da Bomb

I'm trying to convince myself of said.
It's really something... interesting, and inspiring :]

My kids are adorable, but a couple are really clingy~
It's tough to handle 11 kids at once by yourself o.o

I have a helper, though~ Sir Richard xD

Anyways, please pray for me... I hope I can make it through this week alive and well.

Wahhh.

Mmkay. I've gotta be fast, `cause my mom is getting mad D;

Anywaaaaays. Sorry I haven't posted in a billion years- yes, Justine, you beat me- but I've been doing lots of, well, stuff.

I had a sleepover with Natalie, and stayed at her house the whole next day xD Uhhh, we played tons of Maplestory and practiced for our little music group in which I am playing the piano... I had to make it up as we went, `cause it was all chords xD

Ahh. I haven't played MS in yearssss.

Although as KKu so eloquently put it, "WHAT?! What are you doing?! You're going to be a freshman next year!"

I know I play "babyish" games, but they're fun, so don't laugh. And on Neo, I mostly hang out with my guild....

Excuses.

Bahahaha!

What a weird title, but I hope it made you laugh too :)

I feel strangely elated today. I'm playing Neopets as usual >.> I don't feel like doing anything today, not even making graphics. I'm soooooo lazy. That's why I need school to make me work ;x

I'll add more later, maybe.

Sorry. Revamping & Moving Pitch.

I've been bad, not posting for like 4 days >.>
That's because Vic was at soccer camp, so I took it as my holiday and decided to revamp & move my old graphics site, Pitch, to a new location :3 Looks like I still haven't come back from holiday yet...

And I've been playing a ton of Neopets, since my beloved guild disbanded. We've been together for at least 1.5 years, serious. We all kinda joined another guild together though. And Jade is trying to steal my Shou D;

I had a VBS workday today after double services and another top secret meeting that involved rapping. Yeah. We painted props for hours and hours at the workday, but it was still fun.

You probably have no idea what I'm talking about, but I don't particularly care ;x I'm kind of annoyed with myself for wasting so much time.

Anyways, please go check out my new site, Voire. It's pretty spiffy, if I might say so myself. Yes, I coded & made everything personally. I realize I have too much time on my hands-- no need to tell me, thankyouverymuch x3 If you have any requests, please let me know (but they do have to be asian, anime, manga, game, or neopets related). I'm not hiring staff, unless you can make really good graphics-- then please contact me with xamps :3 I will consider. Please leave comments here until I set up some kind of commenting system over there.

Note: you do have to click the sign to get into the site T-T;

Good night.

Happy Birthday, Brother

It's my adorable little brother's 9th birthday today :]

He invited a bunch of church friends over for lunch and epic gaming time. Yes, well. We always play lots of DS/computer games whenever people come over >.> Everyone has a good time though- it's not like people get bored/antisocial or whatever.

Bleahhhh. I know that sounds boring.

Anyways... I had tennis today, group lessons from 8-9. They switched off the power for the court lights, since the new courts will be done soon. Which meant that we started playing in the almost-dark towards the end.

No offense to anyone, but it was pretty easy. I pretty much didn't do anything the whole time. I guess when I have lessons, Coach makes me run the whole time, but since there are so many people in group, we just kinda stood around a lot. Everyone said I was like super hyper, bouncing off the walls and everything. I feel kinda jittery, not being able to get in a really good practice. Thankfully I'll be practicing with Jas tomorrow during the hottest part of the day. Heheh.

I'm bouncing up and down in my seat now :]

Oh Yes.

Sorry. I haven't been blogging, because I've been too tired or too lazy or a combination of both.

I went to watch Up on Saturday. It's a really good movie :D You'd think it'd be really childish with a boring storyline, but it actually turns out quite differently then you'd expect. Yeah. It made me cry once or twice.

The food bank was cool... we sorted through people's random donations. I think the most interesting thing I found was a packet of fake nails. Out of 12, there were only 3 left, and they all had Disney princesses on them. Who has 3 fingers....?!

The piano exam was okay. I think I did kind of badly, but whatever. The judge was British and pretty serious (you couldn't tell what she was thinking at all, so it was a little intimidating). I totally messed up the sightreading, but everything else was decent.

I got to use my tablet!!! I drew some interesting pics. It's pretty amazing :] You can go to my deviantArt to see one of the pics I drew. It's not too good, but I'm still getting used to the tablet. Please go there often and see my updates :)

Summer: Day Three

I woke up at 10 today. I think there's a pattern... but tomorrow I have to wake up at around 7 so I can warm up for the exam, since all three of us will be wanting to use the piano.

My sister's sick today... but she got blogspot yesterday, and her blog's called kangerine :D It's under "Clicks" on the sidebar, so go check it out. She draws really cute things... like cute kangerines.

I'm going to go to the food bank in around 10 minutes for volunteer work with our church. I have no idea what we're going to be doing. More about that later, maybe.

I'm so nervous about the piano exam. I'm probably going first, `cause I want to get it over with as quickly as possible. That's me. At meals, I eat all the yucky things first and then take my time to enjoy the tasty things.