The Thrill of a Lifetime

That merry-go-round ride at Richmond Center is one of the greatest inventions in my mind at the moment. I had the ride of a lifetime with my friends. Flashback moment. Wooooo. It all started when one of my friends saw some kids on the merry-go-round ride. She suggested that we went on as well. I sat on a little boat with who I think was Tigger. Then when all was so well, my ship got hijacked by my own friend. The agony!!! :'(  The lucky thing is that it was our turn on the merry-go-round! :) Yay!!! Since Anthea (the only name I will mention) paid, she got to choose her seat first. She chose the turtle that i had my eyes on. We're too alike. So I chose a seahorse, I named him Lightning! :) One of my other friends chose Nemo! Then the ride started. My friend on Nemo was bragging how I'll never catch up to her since Lightning was behind her. It was all fine at first, but then Anthea started complaining about how her butt was hurting so much. The turtle was for REALLY little kids like tottler little. There's no way we'll actually fit in that seat. My leg kept hitting one of Lightning's fin and my foot kept getting jammed somehwere. Anthea eventually got up from her seat because it was hurting her too much and just squated and held onto one of the bars. The only one without injury was my friend riding Nemo and my smart friends who decided not to go on. It was definately a ride to remember. :)

A Day of Pure Laziness

I feel kind of guilty at the moment for doing absolutely nothing today when I had A LOT of things to do. It's a really bad habit of mine. I always put things off to the absolute last minute. I try to correct the bad habit but no matter how hard I try, it never seems to work. I have been getting better though, at least I know I have a problem. At the very top of things to do today that didn't get finished, the brain project and science fair display. I never do extremely well with big projects. I can't exactly pace my work speed. :( My goal for tomorrow is to at the very least finish my brain project notes and start on a design idea for my science fair display. I'll give a half report tomorrow. Doing a full one will be a little difficult but I can try. AHHHH! Said the word "try". Yep, trying to correct more than one bad habit now. This might turn out to be a productive break after all... Yeah, probably not but there's always that little bit of hope. :)

Richmond Center

My little theory of prices was right! I went to Richmond Centre with my friends today and the prices were much cheaper than the ones in Metrotown! I can't believe it! Other than that, I had a lot of fun just hanging out with my friends. We were going to watch a movie but all of the show times were after 4:00PM and that was the exact time I have to start going home. How... inconvenient? One of my friends suggested going to Oakridge to watch the movie but that would leave no time for Richmond Centre then. She really wanted to watch the new Narnia movie. It was supposed to be really good. The rest of the day just sort of went by. We went into a couple of stores, didn't buy that much in the end though. It was fun going on the miniature Merry-Go-Round even if it hurt my foot. It kept getting stuck because the ride was designed for kids 8 years younger than us. :) It's still fun going on those rides. :) I think that was actually the highlight of my day. I don't lead a very exciting life. This is as thrilling as it gets.

Reunion :D

I finally got to see one of my bestest friends from elementary school again. I can't usually see her because she's going to Prince of Wales instead of great CHURCHILL!! Last year, me and some of my other friends were trying to convince her to go to Churchill instead but since her brother goes to Prince of Wales her parents think it's better if she goes there too. We just sort of hung out today. me, her, and another good friend. I prefer not to mention names here for privacy purposes. First, we went to annoy one of my other friends who eventually joined us. I actually got lost looking for her home. Turns out, it was 72nd st instead of 71st. I was so sure that it was 71st! After that, we were just at the park. We were really loud so a lot of people seemed like they were wondering what in the world we were doing. There wasn't that many people at the park though. It may be because that we went to the old park instead of the new one. We went to the new one as well but there weren't any people there either. Weird... Usually there are a lot of people. Maybe an alien from Pluto came to visit and took them as souvenirs! Yep, that's probably it! :)

Winter Break's Ending...

NOOOO!!! Winter Break's going to be over soon!! NOOO!! It went by soooo quickly! It's like it was only yesterday that I was enjoying the BEGINNING of Winter Break. I only have less than a week to enjoy myself. I only have less than a week to catch up on all the work for the brain project!!! AHHHH!!! I'm going to be soo busy!! I can almost feel tears streaming down my face. Yeah, I'm that lazy. I do have a lot of work to do though. Like starting on the presentation and doing some notes. I'm so far behind... I have to get over procrastination!!! It's always been a bad habit of mine. I always put things off to the last minute kinda like what I 'm doing now. I'm going to be so stressed... Sorry if this blog's really depressing. I needed a place to vent... I should still get my sleep so that's what I'm going to do now. Tomorrow is the start of WORK!! At the moment, it's seems like a LOT of WORK!!!

Boxing Day

Boxing Day. Also known to many as happy shopping day. Or maybe save money on clothes day. Are you really saving money? According to an insider, a person part of the merchant business, you might not be actually saving money. The insider's identity will not be revealed... Wow, that sounded so much like a news report. The facts are true though. Sometimes they just stick a 50% off sign to it without actually giving you a discount. No wonder there's a similar holiday called Black Friday. There is right? I'm not so sure if I got the holiday exactly right. One of my friends told me about it. I didn't but too much stuff today. I was out for around 5 hours but i think 2 hours were already used on parking and LINES!!!! I only went to around 8 stores. All I bought were 3 T-shirts. I went to the Metrotown mall so that might explain the reason behind the crowdiness. The prices are actually MORE expensive than the stores in Richmond Center! The same stores, same items, different original price. I'm guessing it's because of the mall's reputation. I just go to metrotown because they have one of my favourite stores that isn't in Richmond Center. Oh well. :)

Yesterday's Christmas Eve PARTY!!!

Now I shall tell you the details of yesterday's party but not in extreme detail. I got there at about 4:30- ish. I'm not sure of the exact time because I didn't check the clock until it was time to eat. I'm only guessing the time. There wasn't anything that happened that was really "different". It was pretty much the same as what happens when I go there. The parents do their things and we just go to someone's room and hang out there. the reason, not as much noise so we can actually hear each other talk. The party also proved that I have the worst memory in the WORLD! They gave me a list of names and things then told me to remember as many as I can. Out of 10, I got one correct. In my defense, they were really difficult names not common ones. The only one i got right was penguin. There's no way I can forget that! :) The other ones I got, I forgot again. I really have to improve my memory somehow...

Christmas Eve PARTY!!

The party's actually today so there isn't too much to say about it right now. All i know at the moment is, i'm going in a couple of minutes. The reason that i'm writing my blog now because when I get home, it'll probably be very late. I should know from last time and last time was just a "small" gathering of friendly friends! Yep, I'm prepared!! i'm going to the same house as the one I stayed over in for a few days. The party was originally supposed to be held in my place but then a lot of people wanted to come so we're holding it at a friends instead. They have a bigger house with more room. :) I don't think I have to bring anything other than myself and my cellphone this time since I'm not staying over. Details of what happens will be revealed at a later date. Some things will remain confidential. Oooh, mysterious... I don't think something like that will come up anytime soon though. I'm quite open with these kind of things. :)

Some Wisdom From Spongebob

Yes, even Spongebob has wisdom to share with everyone. Today's in the form of the FUN song. Personally, i love this song quite a bit. :)

F is for friends who do stuff together
U is for you and me
N is for anywhere and anytime at all
Down here in the deep blue sea! :) :) :)

I kinda admire Spongebob. Being able to live through life without a bother. It's almost a skill! While everyone else has something to worry about, he has nothing! NOTHING!!! I salute you Spongebob! But you are still number two on my favourites list. PENGUINS are still number 1. Yay! And yea, I use the Canadian spelling of favourite. I try to use the Canadian version everytime, even if the spell check always tells me i spelt it wrong.

A Relaxing Day

AHHH! I can't ever keep track of how many blogs I write! Yesterday's was the 26th and today is the 27th, I just noticed that! It's like I have to make a tally chart just to remeber how many blogs I wrote. Everyday my memory is fading away... One day I won't even remember where home is!! AHHHHH!! Well, that just completely ruined my relaxing day. I'm quite proud to say NOTHING happened today! In my mind at least. I got up, ate breakfast, and then it became night again! I'm pretty sure i slept more than half the day away. At least i caught up on all of the sleep I lost and will lose. Yes, I know the future. Wooooo, freaky... No, it's because a lot of parties and shopping is coming up since it is CHRISTMAS!! Tis the season to be shopping. Falalalalalalalala. A new twist to and old song. I should really make more, but I'm too busy. At least to me. Then again, I'm always busy in my mind. It makes me look like I work harder than I actually do. Teehee.

Home Sweet Home

Yep, back home again. I actually asked to stay for an extra day because I was having so much FUN!!! Maybe I should've asked to stay for ANOTHER day. I'm not sure if my mom would let me though... She probably would, at least I hope so. I'm quite tired right now, today was exhausting. Either that or I had too much fun that I couldn't take it!! Today's activities were similar to yesterday's, not much of a difference except, no pizza today. :( We had homemade crepes instead! My friend's pretty good at cooking so she made me and another friend of mine a batch. They aren't relatives, their parents bought the house together. One family lives upstairs, one downstairs. We're good friends though, we just stay upstairs because there's more room. That's all for today, not much to say. Good night! :)

Pizza and Dentists

As you know, I'm staying at a friends house since my mom ditched me for a party. Okay maybe not ditched since she actually asked me if I wanted to go. But I said no. I'm gonna be like the only kid there then. I'm going to be so lonely. That is if I did go. Haha. Today is my second day at my friend's house. It's quite nice here and they love me. :) Just joking! Well, I hope they like me... because if they don't well that's just kinda awkward. The highlight of today PIZZA and DENTISTS!! Actually the dentists came before the pizza. One of my friends had to go get her teeth cleaned. Since there were a few pizza shops near by, we went for pizza after. One of us liked Panago, one like Pizza Hut. The solution, we went for...BOTH!! YAY!!! Today was fun and um in a way entertaining. I have to cut this blog short because people are coming over now. I don't think I'll be able to write a blog in all the commotion. okay, that's all for today! You'll see another blog tomorrow. HAHA!!! Just felt like saying that, there really isn't any reason. :)

Preparations for Tomorrow Night

What's so special about tomorrow night? I'm staying at a friend's house because my mom has to go a company party and I don't really want to go. I think it'll be kind of weird if I go because I think I'm the only kid going so it's kind of uncomfortable for me. :) Now I have prepared a check list for tomorrow. Just in case I don't forget to bring anything.

1. toothbrush and toothpaste
2. face cleanser and lotions
3. sleeping bag (just in case)
4. netbook
5. ipod :)
6. a good book
7. pajamas

I think that's pretty much it. Not much else to bring. Of course everything's carried in my duffel bag. :) Can't forget that. I think that's all I'll really need. I really hope I didn't forget anything. I better make another list on paper just in case. Lalalalala... :)

Last Day Before Winter Break

Today I'm both sad and happy. Why the mix of emotions? Not very complicated when you think about it. Happy because it's the holidays, no work! Yay! :) More time for rest. Sad because now a lot of my friends live far away now, I won't be able to see them over the holidays. :( One good thing is that I'll be able to see some of my friends from elementary school. I haven't seen them for so long, I wonder if they changed. I'm going to schedule some times that we can see each other. I don't know if I can fit them in but I'll find a way. My two weeks of vacation are going to be so busy. On a completely different topic, I found out a way to make a penguin using symbols! Look, <("). PENGUIN!! I love penguins. :) I'm kinda happy that they aren't going to be extinct anytime soon. At least that's all that i know. :)

Circle the Cat

AHHH! That game is addictive. I just keep playing it over and over again even though I never win. I don't really mind. I just keep trying and trying. In the end, i think I trapped the cat for a total of 5 times. I'm quite proud of myself. :) So what if others got 24 or 30, I got 5!!! A little bit of drama there. After I got home, I kept trying.  I played for half an hour and trapped him another 1 time. I still am proud. Now my goal over the holidays, since I'm not going anywhere and the weather forecast said it's not going to snow, is to find a way to win that game everytime. A strategy, a plan! This could take me quite a while but I don't mind! I have many days alone at home to "work". Only the first week I'm going to parties, second week at home. Relaxing. It's too bad that I can't use the bathtub. Apparently it's too old and some of the paint came off. Eww. If I could use it, I would've planned a little spa day for myself and my mom when she gets back from work. Well, time for bed now. Good night! :)

Secret Santas

I'm quite happy with my secret santa gifts. Actually, very happy! :) For both the synergy and the secret santa with my friends I got a penguin. I love penguins so much!! No idea why. I think it started two years ago, I'm not sure of the reason though. For the synergy secret santa, I got a white penguin with a blue scarf. I think you might have saw that one in the theaters when I tried to open the gift and my friend had to help me. It was so cute. Not to mention soft. :) Good times. I still don't know who my synergy secret santa is though. Oh well. I'll eventually find out. I hope. :) The penguin I got from my friend was from Build-A-Bear-Workshop. It's quite big and incredibly ADORABLE!!! i wonder if there's a shop near by so I can buy him a shirt or something. By the way, I named the penguins Rosaline, the synergy penguin, and Sir Fishious S. Penguini the Great. It's a nice name and extremely long. Haha. :)

Concert and a TEST

AHHH! Today was supposed to be relaxing but instead it was quite STRESSFUL!!! Sorry that I'm kinda venting right now. Needed to do that eventually. I just got home like 10 mins ago and I still need to study for a Socials Studies test that is TOMORROW!!! I didn't really study on the weekend so I'm freaking out right now. I know I should've studied but on the weekend i had to finish my Science homework that took all day Sunday. Saturday I wasn't even home at all. Well, execpt for sleeping. :) I'm not sure why I had to stay for the entire concert, the Grade 8 Strings only played for about 10 minutes and the concert is over 2 hours long. It doesn't make much sense to me. Now I have to start cramming for the test. Sigh. I wonder what time I'll be able to get to sleep today...

Gifts

Wrapped some gifts today. Well, mainly just for the synergy secret santa and the secret santa me and my friends are doing. We decided to do that instead of buying like 15 gifts. Way out of our budget. I actually bought the gifts on Saturday but I'm wrapping it today. Maybe I shouldn't call it wrapping because I technically didn't wrap them. I just put them in a bag, put some tissue in it, added a card and did some decorating. I'm not good at using wrapping paper and actually wrapping the gift. It always looks deformed after. I stuck to gift bags ever since. So much easier to use. I'm still not sure when we're doing the secret santa tomorrow. Are we doing it at oakridge or at school? For the strings people, when are we doing secret santa? I heard that we're doing it at the flagpole after lunch but the strings people have to go to practice. Thanks for your help and sorry I asked last minute. :)

A Sunday of Art

I guess you can also call this blog "a sunday of homework". It really depends on how you look at this. The homework assignment is technically art so it is homwork. It was so tiring! I started at 10 this morning and I just finished a few minutes ago. An entire day of drawing, finelining, writing, and colouring. My head hurts quite a bit right now so I'm going to head off to bed soon. I had to take a quick shower today and I broke my record shower time. Today I only took 20min instead of 30-40 minutes. So tired. That's pretty much all that happened today. Homework and more homework. I know I shouldn't complain but sometimes it's hard not to. Especially when I get a difficult assignment. I should really get to bed now. I'll write more tomorrow. I'm setting a goal first. I'm not going to miss another blog in term 2 and the most I'll miss in term three is 1. Yep. No more forgetting for me. At least I hope so.

A Busy Weekend

I'm probably going to have a very busy weekend this week. First I have to finish drawing my science comic. Then I have to fineline and colour. It sounds so difficult. Well, maybe not exactly difficult more like it's going to take a long time. Then i have to start on my science fair check in. This probably shouldn't take too long. It doesn't look that hard at least. One of the most important things I have to finish, notes for the Brain Project! I didn't really have any notes completely done. I should also send the sheet soon too. So many things to do this weekend! That reminds me, I also have to go present shopping. That's fun though. Yay! Me and my friends decided to also do secret santa so we won't have to buy 15 gifts just for gift exchange. One question for the Synergy Christmas party. Since the people in Strings have to stay behind for a while, when are we going to do the secret santa gift exchange? Thanks and good night! :)

The Wednesday of Rain

It was raining so much today. it was very depressing. I had to stand outside in the rain for 30 min just waiting for the bus! There wasn't a little shelter on my streetside so I literally had to stand in the rain. My violin case got so wet and the rain even went into my backpack! my report card got kind soggy because it was at the very top of my backpack so it wouldn't get wrinkled. Luckily the bus driver gave me and my friends a free ride! i don't know if it's because it's the holidays or because we had to wait for so long. It was a really nice thing to do. :) That's pretty much the highlight of my day. Yeah, not too much happened today. My friend showed me this extremely funny e-mail between to people. So one person lost their cat and told the other person to help them make a missing poster. You actually have to see the pictures to understand what's going on so I put the link in this blog too. :) It's so funny! At least to me. :)

http://www.kevmo.net/2010/07/07/missing-missy-perhaps-the-best-email-forward-of-all-time/

French Practice

Practicing for my French presentation almost for an hour now. Well, I haven't been extremely focused so I guess I got about 30 min of pure practice. The other 30 I was watching the Biggest Loser on TV. This was the first time I actually watched it for more than 5 min. I don't really know why I didn't like it before. When the people tell you why they want to lose weight, it wasn't for beauty or anything but most of them said that it was for their family. They want to be there with their family longer and I thought that was really sweet. A moment to remember the tear shed in Socials today. in wasn't because I was sad or anything like that, we watched Gladiator today and there was this one scene where it showed the main character, Maximus, family get killed. It was because that he was supposed to be killed as well, but he managed to escape. It was so sad to see his sadness after he went through so much just to see his family again and then just to see them hung and burnt. That's what really broke my heart. Some of the scenes were really violent but yet I wanted to keep watching out of curiosity and ant the same time I didn't. I hate it when that happens. Wow. Big topic change in this blog. Maybe I should change the title now...

The Grinch

i don't know why but I just love the Grinch movies. I was watching one just now. :) I don't know why I like them. It's kind of like my strange obsession of penguins. I love penguins!!! I wanted to buy this penguin pillow/cushion/plushie. You see it's a 3 in 1. You can use it as a pillow or cushion and if you use the Velcro and sort of tie it up, it becomes a little plushie! Yay, let the hugging commence. Anyways back to the Grinch. I just think it's such a sweet story! In one version it tells you why he hated Christmas so much and his story was so touching. You can really understand why he just despised this holiday. Yet in a way he taught all the Who's what Christmas is all about by trying to ruin it. It's so ironic. In the end he realized his wrongs and it was just so sweet. I loved the saying about his heart size and it grew 3 sizes larger. Really, I love all the Dr. Suess stories. To me their classics. :)

Christmas Shopping

Today was the first day of Christmas shopping! Yay! I am sure there will be more but today is the first. Of this year. Not much was bought today actually. First me and my mom went to Staples to buy some refill paper for my binders and other staionary. I tried to find those incredible Sharpie pens but I never found them. The ink doesn't go through the paper because it's a pen not a marker! I never found it though. oh well. Then the normal shopping commenced. All we bought was a scarf, a new bag, and some gifts. The scarf was a gift too, just remembered. Luckily, we got a coupon from Bath and Body Works so that when we purchase more than $35 we get $10 off! I'm probably going to go buy gifts for my friends there now. Tee hee. Not much else happened other than homework. I should really start taking more notes for the brain project, I didn't get a lot done so far. I should probably send the CCRAP sheet too. Then make the cheat sheet for science. Wow, tomorrow's going to be VERY busy.

Freaky Yet Awesome Dream

My absolute favourite dream from this year is definately the Frozen Freezer Wars. Yes, I named the dream. It was too interesting to ingore. It all started with a popsicle. A yummy fudge-sicle. All was so nice, so peaceful. Then all of a sudden I was inside of the freezer. Trapped with no way out. I watched as the popsicles moved closer, growling and snarling. I ran. As fast as the wind coming from the vent. A popsicle jumped in front of me, blocking me. They began to close in on me, moving closer and closer. Making the circle smaller. I thought it was the end. The absolute end. Crunch! A army of penguins attacked the popsicles. So fiercely, so proudly. I slipped out of the circle and toward the penguins. One tossed me a waffle cone, the ultimate weapon. We dominated, we annialated, we drove those popsicles right out of the freezer. The celebration was fabulous. We danced and ate. Which led to the second Freezer War. The invention of the ice cream cone. The rebellion of the ice cream cones. Therefore, the Second Freezer War. I woke up right after the rebellion so I wasn't able to see the war. Oh well. Go penguins! :)

Testing Testing One Two Three

Why the strange title? I have 3 tests next week. One on Tuesday and two on Wednesday. I don't know if I can keep up with all of them. I also quite a bit of homework to do as well. It's a lot. I think my weekend would be spent on homework this week. I also want to do more notes for the brain project because I didn't get a lot done in class. Mostly because I wan't sure on how to narrow the subject down. If I chose a specific phobia, I could never find information. So I chose a type of phobia. Yeah, it's kind of confusing. I'm doing social phobias now though. There was a lot more information on this. I'm guessing that since it's the end of the term and it's almost winter break so the teachers want to get everything done. it's a lot of work for students though. Oh well. One thing I'm wondering, do I go see you after I get my report card? I'm still kind of confused. I'm very slow at processing information, I need a lot of time to get used to and understand things. Thanks for your help. :)

Bird Sanctuary

The bird sanctuary was sooo much fun! Even if all the birds were mostly ducks, it was still a ton of fun. I didn't get a chance to eat any of the snacks that I brought though. I brought a lot. Cookies and pop tart. Yeah, it's not very healthy. Me and my friend named 4 ducks! The names, Fred, Bob, Bobby, and Baxter. Bob and Fred were our original fan club. They followed us throughout almost the whole tour! Then Bobby joined. Then the evil little Baxter. We could sort of tell which one is which because of their looks and the way they eat out of our hand. Fred and Bob very gentle, doesn't bite your skin. The difference between them, Bob has this mark on his beak. Bobby is gentle and a girl. Baxter kept biting my hand and even just held onto my finger. It hurt. :( Earlier on I took several pictures or chickadees. The pictures were actually pretty clear. My strategy was to stand right beside my friend, who is holding up the sunflower seeds, focus the camera and wait until one lands. Yeah... good times. The only bad thing was that my hot chocolate spilled all over my bag and now it smells like chocolate. Luckily, the camera didn't get wet. :)

Sooooo Tired!

I am soooo completely tired right now. I just finished drawing my english poster-ish thing and I am tired. I thought that we didn't have to colour then my plan would've been perfect and I would still get to bed on time. Then I found out colouring is required. NOOOOOO!!!! That's what went through my head. How am I going to finish?!?! I was also planning on finishing my math project, doing some more brain project notes, and studying for french! Yeah, I had a lot going on. I ended up not finishing any. Execpt the drawing, that's FINALLY finished. Working on it has been torture. I'm not sure I can think of a bright side to it. sorry that this blog's all complaints, I get very cranky when I'm tired. I really need to get to bed now. Otherwise tomorrow I'll be half dead. Not a very good thing. Maybe I can get some sleep on the bus. Yeah, that could work...