Google Sites

Finally figured out how to use Google Sites today! I'm so proud! :) It took me quite a while. Actually, it took me half the class just to create the site! Mostly because it kept telling me to change the url web or something like that. I changed it over 10 times yet it kept telling me the same thing, the name you have entered is not available. I don't remember the exact thing but I believe it should be something similar to that. I finally ended up with http://sites.google.com/site/hiimconfused. If you add spaces to the last part you would get hi im confused. My website's name is actually Still Clueless. I named it after my blog's name! I also added a few games, just for fun. Well, only two of them but I am a huge fan of both. First one I added was everyone's favourite game Hangman! The second one was Pac-Man! Like I said, I love both of them! One question though, do I need to send you my Google sites website everytime? Thanks!

Confused

I'm kinda confused these few days. First question is, are we supposed to continue writing our blogs on blogger or were we supposed to switch to Google sites? If we are, do we copy all the blogs that we wrote before and put it on the site? I asked a my friends but they didn't really know either. That's all the questions I have so far. Not too many. :) Not much else really happened today. The only thing that was really significant to me today was that there is a unit test for math on October 5th. It's so sad that we get test not a quiz so early in the year. Ahh! I also have to tell my Strings teacher that I might miss one of his classes because of an orthodontist appointment. I asked my mom to see if they can get me a time on a Pro-D day. Apparently the next time I'm going it's going to take longer because they're re-wiring the whole thing. I'm not sure I what they said, it was really confusing all the terms they were using. All I remember was that they can't do all that after 4:00PM and it's going to take 40 minutes. I hope it all works out.

The Moon's Shrinking?!

I read this news article that said the moon was actually shrinking! I didn't find the article. My mom was reading the news but then she went outside to go exercise and left the CBC news page on. I just looked in the technology and science section. But too make it sound like I did more work, I sort of did find it. I know the scientist said that the moon shrinking won't effect us but it's still sad that in a few billion years the moon might disappear! Okay, the percentage of it's possible chance to disappear, to me, is 98%. It sounds so much more dramatic if you say that it might disappear. Although, the scientists did say that it would not disappear. So...it's not going to disappear. Yay! It's just going to be a bit smaller. Now the next problem is when is the Sun going to die. It is a star, just a big one. I hope it's not going to die anytime soon.

Yet Another Strange Dream

I had a really strange dream yesterday. I went to Richmond Centre and got a little hungry so naturally I went to the food court to get some food. I expected that there would be a line at KFC that day because the mall was packed! Surprisingly enough there was no one in the food court but me! I waited for someone to go to the counter and someone came. Or should I say something. A robot came out from behind the wall and took my order! I asked where all the people were and it simply replied "Humans weren't needed anymore in this food court." "As employees?" I asked. "Sure. If that's the answer you were expecting," it replied. There was something freaky about this food court now. Maybe I just haven't come here for too long. Soon I was sitting down about to eat then I was stopped by a chicken wing. It sort of just threw itself at me! I thought it was someone else that was in the food court but there still was only me in the food court. I soon realized that all of the chicken pieces were moving! The drumsticks were dancing, the wings were trying to fly. Then the chicken popcorn pieces started exploding! I soon woke up after and noticed that it was around the time that I usually wake up. I didn't bother going back to bed so I just turned off the alarm and got up. It's weird how I always dream about moving food.

Fitness Test

Had to take my fitness test on Thursday.  I didn't think that I would even be able to meet expectations for any of the activities! I still had to take the test either way though. The first station that I went to was the vertical jump. I thought this one was going to be an easier one. You know, no pain, not too much effort needed. I got an average score for that. Surprisingly, my partner got the exact same score as me! I don't really have much to say about the height measuring station except that I think I injured my partner's head with the triangle. Oops. The stretching station was one of the most painful. It was torture to me so as soon as it turned into searing pain, I stop stretching. The push-up and crunches station was ok, but I was only able to do 10 push-ups. The last station was the shuttle run. The first time, I wasn't sure when to begin running so I decided to do it again after I finally understood how it works. I took 0.4 seconds off my original time! I think I did better this time than I usually do. I was actually able to do a push-up! Now I just have to do well on running 6 laps on Wednesday.

New Jeans

Went to Aeropostale before I went to Chinese class today. I had to buy some new clothes now that the weather is getting colder and colder. It's so sad to see summer slowly drift away. I bought quite a few stuff, a new jacket, 3 shirts, and one new pair of jeans. The weird thing is that every time I entered or left a store, the alarm goes off. When I got to my Chinese class I was still wondering why the alarms keep going off. That has never happened before! After my class was over, I went to the Lansdowne centre to look for some black dress shoes. My Strings teacher we needed a pair for concerts. Sadly, none of them were really the "right" one. When I finally got home, I had to put away all the clothes. That was when I noticed that the tag that sets off the store alarm was still on the pair of jeans I bought! No wonder that all the alarms were always beeping. Now we have to go back to the store to have them take off the tag. Until then, I can't wear my new pair of jeans. Oh well...

New York!

Just found out today that the music classes are going to New York during spring break! By music classes I mean Strings, Choir, and Band. I never went to New York before but I want to go. I'm not sure if I can though. My mom told me that we might go to Phoenix during spring break. The trip also costs quite a bit, $1672 to be exact. Actually, I'm still thinking about if I want to go. Two of my really good friends might also go as well, one in Strings with me and one in Choir. My friend in Strings says that she probably can't go because she's already going back to China in winter break. She said her mom probably won't let her go on another trip. I don't really want to go if none of my good friends are there, especially since the trip is 5 days long! Even if my friend in choir goes, I'll still have to think about it because we have to choose our roommates and we might not be doing the same activities. So many difficult decisions! I know it's not that hard of a decision but because of my bad decision making skills, it is much harder.

Cellphones in French Class

I was so lucky during French class on Wednesday. Someone's phone started ringing during the lesson and was quite loud too. Once it started ringing, the room just went dead silent. I think everyone was wondering who's phone it was. A few seconds later, the teacher found out who it was. The owner of the phone wasn't really a great student either. He always talks to other people during class. The teacher send him outdoors to have a little "chat" with him. Everyone in the classroom was still dead silent. People probably wanted to hear what the teacher was saying to him. After a while, they came back inside. The tension in the room didn't go down at all. After the bell rang, I noticed my phone started beeping. I took it out and saw that it was running out of battery. I was so lucky that it didn't start beeping in class otherwise I would've got in so much trouble.

Treadmill!

Yesterday, my mom bought a treadmill. Finally! Ever since the summer of 2006 when I went to California for vacation and stayed at my uncle's home for 2 days. They had a treadmill, a big fancy one. Since that day I have wanted one. I'm not quite sure why. In general, I'm quite lazy so I'm not sure why I want an exercise equipment. Maybe it was all of the buttons. I do love pressing colourful buttons, not sure why but I just love it! I have asked my mom many times to buy one but it was always the same answer. It's too expensive. On the rare occasion that there is one on sale, we always arrive too late and the product has been sold out. I was so happy that I finally have a treadmill of my very own now! The sad thing is that it does take up quite a bit of space so I had to pack up my electric keyboard and put it back under my bed. Assembling the treadmill was also quite a hassle. My mom worked so hard to put it together. I helped when I could but there's not much I could really do. I just did my homework while my mom kept reading the instructions over and over again. At 11:00PM of September 21st, the treadmill was finally put together and functioning. Now I can try it out after the silicon is applied.

The Langara Run

Ran around Langara Golf Course today. So tiring! I started running with a few of my friends in the beginning but ran ahead after about one third of the lap. We were timed during the run and the time will be included in our P.E. mark so I had to really push myself and try to run the entire lap. I got tired really quickly though so I just had to take a break. Before the run started, I thought that we would be running round Langara college or on a concrete track! Instead we were running on a dirt path. I saw quite a few people that weren't from the school that was also running, jogging, or walking. Most of them were older citizens. After I regained some of my strength, I started to run again. Soon after I started running again, I saw one of my friends up ahead. All I could really do was wave because I was too exhausted to even say hi! Finally, the run ended and I got a time of 19:22. I was quite happy with what I got especially because I ran my legs felt like they were going to fall off! On the way back to Churchill, two of my friends said that the run was torture. I agree completely.

My Search For My Independent Reading Book

For English class we were supposed to find a book from the Independent Reading list. I chose The Time Traveler's Wife as my book. All my friends keep telling me, "Read it! Read it! It's sooo good!!" I finally got to reading it and I couldn't find the book in any libraries in time for my next English class! I looked at the libraries website to put the book on hold but I didn't expect for there to be 2 copies and 24 people also waiting for the book! It would take forever for me to get the book! I looked at a lot of other websites with all similar results. I thought about just waiting for the school's library to open but I think that quite slow at reading so I wanted to get a head start. The only choice I had left was to buy the book. Really I didn't mind buying the book. If it's as good as everyone says it is, then I'll probably read it more than once. I looked at Chapter's website online and didn't find any copies. My mom still took me to the nearest Chapters book store to look for it. Surprisingly, they had so many in stock! Proves to you that you can't always trust the internet.

First Time Eating From a Street Food Vendor

After I went to the Vancouver Playhouse to take a look, I didn't have time to go home and eat so my mom finally let me eat a hotdog from someone selling them on the way back to the skytrain station. Ever since I was small, my mom was quite a health fanatic. She didn't let me eat anything unhealthy. Sometimes she let me eat at McDonalds or another fast food restaurant but when I eat out, it's always at a restaurant. No matter if it's a big restaurant or a small restaurant in the food court, it just had to be an authorized restaurant. I was surprised that she actually let me buy one! What surprised me even more is that she let me choose the jumbo cheddar hotdog instead of the regular sized veggie hotdog. It tasted so good! The only bad thing is that parts of the bread keeps getting stuck in my braces.

The Vancouver Playhouse

I went to look for the Vancouver Playhouse today. Usually I don't take public transit anywhere, but my mom can't really drive in downtown because she gets confused by the streets way too easily. We planned to go at around 10:00 AM but ended up leaving at around 11:00 AM. First we drove to my art teacher's home because it was supposedly closer to the sky train station. After walking a bit, we soon realized it was actually farther away. To me it seemed to take forever to get to the sky train station on Marine Drive. Then we got onto the train going to Waterfront. We wanted to get off at the Granville Station but we couldn't find that station on the train we went on. So we got off at Waterfront then went back on the train to get off at the Vancouver City Center. At least I think that's what it is called. We soon found the playhouse after going in the opposite direction by mistake. On the way back my mom found this store which was selling clothing at a really low price. She wanted to stay but sadly I had Chinese class and we didn't even eat lunch yet. The whole point of this trip is so I have a chance of getting home without getting lost.

My Fear of Bees!

I don't know how I became so afraid of bees. I think it all started back in Grade 5 when I heard someone got stung by a bee and was sent off to the nurse's office crying. From then, I run when I see one. I'm not sure why I'm so afraid of them. My friends keep telling me, "Their so much smaller than you. You can CRUSH them!" In Grade 6, my fear became worse. When I see a bee or even hear someone shout BEE, I would run. Fast too. My friends would just watch me running, screaming, and waving my hands around screaming, "WHERE? WHERE?" They quickly took advantage of one of my biggest fears. Sometimes they would just shout, "BEE!!" and then point somewhere. Then they would watch me running around in a panic and finally realizing it was a trick. I know it's a joke, but it is still annoying. To this day, my panic meter has gone down quite a bit. Now, I don't usually scream but I still would jump up and run. Although, I don't fall for tricks as easily as I did before. So beware, I'll know it's a trick.

Sunday Night

Nothing really happened on my weekend. On Saturday I went to my Chinese class and went grocery shopping. Sunday is my relax day. I pretty much slept all day, nothing else. After dinner, I watched Pink Panther on TV. The first one not the second. During the commercials I went to do some of the homework that I had left. After I finished my homework, I sat down on my couch with my fancy chocolates I got for my birthday to continue watching. I opened it and looked at some of the chocolates. I wanted to eat a truffle but I held the box upside down so I ate a peanut butter crispy by accident. Near the end of the movie, my friend called me to ask if her agenda was at my home. I looked around for it and found it sitting on my computer table. Soon she came to pick it up. It was raining outside and her house was about a 10 minute walk to my place. I gave her the agenda and talked for a while. I felt bad for her that she had to walk in the rain. Maybe I should have told her I could just give it to her on Monday.

A Strange Dream From Before

I remember I had a really strange dream during the summer. I was at a mountain about to go skiing. I don't how to ski very well so I was having some second thoughts about going down a what looks like a dangerous slope. Just when I was about to turn back, an instructor pushed me and down the slope I went. I was wobbling down and almost falling every turn. All of a sudden, I saw a flash of white by a tree. I turned my head back and I saw a enormous mutant rabbit chasing me! It chased me down the slopes and  I almost hit a tree. The dream ended there. When I looked at the clock, the time was around 3:00 AM. I went to the washroom and quickly fell asleep again. I don't understand why I always get all these weird dreams. Maybe I ate something before going to bed that had too much sugar or something. The dreams are quite amusing. After I wake up that is.

Wierd Dream

I had a really weird dream last night. In the dream, I went to this restaurant that I have never seen before late at night, alone. I took a seat in this small wooden chair and looked at the worn out menu. The waiter soon came to take my order. He had a Australian accent and said, "What's you order, mate?" I ordered a roasted whole chicken (without the head) and the special dessert of the day. While I was waiting for my dishes, I looked at an old grandfather clock across the room and saw the time was around 11:50 PM. Soon after, my order came. The dessert was cake like but looked for like pudding. Just as soon as I was about to dig in and eat, the clock struck midnight. Cuckoo-cuckoo, cuckoo-cuckoo! I turned around to see a clock that seemed to appear out of nowhere. I was about to continue eating but then the roasted chicken started to slowly stand up. After it fully stood up, the dessert started to change into the shape of a bird's head! It sort of said something in gibberish that sounded something like, "Goolooguabalooo." Then I heard a beeping sound and woke up. My alarm clock just saved me from a standing roasted chicken and a mutant dessert.

B-Day Party 2010 (Part 2)

After lunch and cake at the hotel, we then headed to the next destination, Watermania. At first I was thinking that we watch a movie but not everyone will want to watch the same movie and we're supposed to stay together. Since my mom works at a hotel, they had some coupons left over from before and they happened to be family passes to Watermania! There were about 8 kids and 2 adults, just enough for two passes. Me and my friends first went in the wave pool because it is supposedly "warmer". Just as we got in, the waves started and knocked me over. One of friends started laughing at me because of my clumsiness. Then when I got up, she got knocked off her feet. I call that Karma. I'm not really sure what we did all that time, basically just floated around in the pool and hot tub. When it was time to go, we couldn't find one of the people that came with us was missing! The lifeguard actually had to call everyone out of the pool! Turns out he was just waiting his turn for the slide. After everyone left, I looked at the coffee table but it was covered with stuff. Paper, bags, and unopened gifts. I think the party went really well.

B-Day Party 2010 (Part 1)

I had my birthday party on Aug 29th this year. At first it started quite chaotic having 10 people in my apartment suite but after we left, it was much better. First we went to the hotel that my mom works at. We had the first part of my party was on the patio part of the restaurant. I was pretty sure that if we ate inside, there wasn't enough room for everyone to sit! After we got seated, the waiter gave us these cups with sugar on the rims. Everyone was pretty curious about what the stuff actually was. Some thought it was salt, most thought it just plain sugar. They were right. After the drinks were served, the main course came. It was more of a party platter than an actual meal. There were chicken wings, hot buffalo and BBQ, honey garlic ribs, tiger prawn, curly fries (my favorite), and edamame beans. A bit later, we also ordered some nachos. Quite a bit of food was left over but that was to be expected. After everyone finished, we moved to the next location.

Mosquitoes

There's so many mosquitoes this year! During the summer, I went to my friend's house in Stevenson and got bit 15 times! I have no idea how I got bit that many times! I saw a few of them flying around and I brushed some off my legs and arms but to get bit 15 times in a few hours is a little too much. My friend told me that there are a lot of mosquitoes around where they live. I should have believed her instead of thinking she was just exaggerating.  A few weeks later, my mom got bit on the back and on her foot. Unlike me, her skin gets swollen. She couldn't wear some of her shoes because of it! I'm pretty glad that my skin doesn't get swollen that easily. My friend also got bit quite a few times but not half as much as me. After my bites got better, they all left a scar. Oh well.

Restaurant

On Wednesday, I went to this Shanghai restaurant after I went to Staples to buy a few more binders and dividers.  When my mom saw the time, she really didn't want to go home and cook so we just looked around for a place to eat. There were several restaurants but only one was actually for dinner or something like that. Apparently the restaurant that I usually go to doesn't have many dinner selections. So sad. The restaurant was actually pretty empty when we got there, it was only us and two other people. I didn't really know what there was to eat, so we just ordered fried rice with shredded chicken, a spicy chicken dish with peanut, and a small appetizer. By the time the dishes got to our table, the restaurant already had more customers including some people celebrating someone's birthday! All the dishes were extremely tasty but the spicy chicken was really spicy to me so I had to eat it with rice. Apparently, it was a really popular dish.

Science Fair

Just found out today that I have to make a project for the science fair. I have absolutely no idea what the topic should be. I was thinking something that's not too hard and not extremely easy. At the moment I'm thinking of making my project on optical illusions or mold. I'm probably going to choose optical illusions over mold but I'm not sure how to make it. I asked a few of my friends on a few possible topics. Most of them didn't have any ideas. One of them told me about the optical illusions idea. I probably owe her something now or I can just help her with math. Luckily next class my science teacher will probably give us a few topics that people can use. For now all I can do is think of a good topic and find out how to make the project.

First Day!!!

First day of high school!! At first I was kinda nervous but after 1st period, pretty much all the nervousness was gone! I'm glad that one of my best friends from elementary is in the same homeroom as me. We meet up with each other every time we get a break. Haha... A few of my other friends from elementary were in the same classes as me but I also made some new friends from Synergy. I almost got lost quite a few times which my friend said was "sad" but luckily I had help from my map and some other students. I still have some things to get used to though, like going from class to class. One big thing that's different from elementary to me is all the people! There's so many people!! Only once I saw a sort of empty hallway when I was walking down the halls. Overall, my first day was great! Now I just have to remember my locker combination.