Running on a Packed Schedule

These last few months before graduation will be hectic, and I can feel it already. Too many things to get done. One minute I feel like I'm on top of my game but that quickly changes when I realize that some important deadlines are TOMORROW... Right now College CRAP is driving me insane. If you want something turned in, then why didn't you notify me in advance but had to wait till 2 days before the dealine to express the news that I am still missing stuff.. I can't wait for this college process to end because when it is finally over, I will once again be able to breath =/

Although college sucks, I am really starting to get excited about the events that are coming up soon. The Fashion Show, Talent Show, PROM, Dodge Boll Tournament, Volleyball Tournament, and most exciting of all, ASIAN NIGHT are coming up and although all the preparation will be stressful, I have faith that each and every event will be successful and fun. They have to be fun in order to make my last year of high school as memorable as possible.

Like I've said, I am extremely addicted to good dances to the point where I would skip homework and go straight to youtube everyday... It has become a hobby now and I hope that this hobby will be able to take me somewhere someday, anywhere!

Last, but not least, today is a very special today because it is my sporty best friend Michelle's Birthday. HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY MICHELLE!! Expect a surprise tomorrow! =)

I'm Addicted Too... Good Dances

I just wanted to comment on yesterday's play, NO PROBLEM. It was absolutely INCREDIBLE, something that I truly enjoyed. Sometimes I feel like there is WAYYY more talent at RHS, people just don't notice that we have it. Therefore, I can't wait to go to the talent show to find some of these hidden talents =)

Well after nearly 2 months of procrastination, I FINALLY have HALF of my research paper done. Yes, I started working on it this morning at 3:30 A.M. and finished by 5:00, but whatever, I still got it done. This weekend, my goal is to finish it and get it over with. Aww... the LAST research paper we will ever do for high school, I'm truly gonna miss it... psych!! lol just playin' who am I kidding?

Well I've been addicted to Britney Spears's CIRCUS ever since I saw Girls' Generation perform it on the 2009 STARS DANCE BATTLE. It was AWESOME, the first time that I ever considered that Girls' Generation can dance =) Yoona, Yuri, and Hyoyeon all really did an EXCELLENT job. Well, here is the uploaded video of their performance, I'm sure you can find plenty of them on youtube. Yes, it IS that great, I don't lie...

That One Missing Thing...

I have come to realize that for some reason, no matter how hard I try to get everything done, there is ALWAYS that ONE thing that does not get accomplished and that bothers me. It would have been great to come back from vacation on a fresh start, but no... there is that darn research paper that I can't bring myself to do or even start. I don't know if it's just me, but I feel so "un-guided" like there's nothing to follow by and I am allowed to do anything I want. Sometimes being able to do whatever you want can be stressful because you know that if you mess up, every fault will fall squarely on your shoulders. I just hope that once again I can fluff my way through this rough draft by Thursday and worry about the final draft later. Oh the joy of freedom, whoopyyy.. =/

I think I'm gonna plan on dying my hair at some point this week, I'm so sick of seeing black. It's so plain and dark... I actually liked the color that I used last time, 2 years ago =)

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Procrastination: The Most Lethal Disease

Oh gosh, can't believe that it's Thursday already with only 3 more days untill we go back to the darkest depths of life: school! Time just flies and I have to realize that it is not waiting for anybody finish up. Time will go on whether we are ready for it or not and it is not stopping even to save our lives. The only way to combat against time is to use it to our advantage, something that I do not do. Yes, it is something called "Procrastination," and it kills when you get it. I have been inflicted with it and it seems as if I will never be cure of it no matter what I do.

I used to the boy who would come back from school on a friday afternoon and get all his homework done before dinner is even cooked, but now that diligent little boy is no longer inside of me and I blame my luck. Why? Because luck has always worked in my favor and has always helped me get the grades that I could ever imagine of getting. Sometimes I feel like there's no point in trying so hard because I can put all that work on luck. What do I mean by that? I mean that no matter how much I procrastinate, I will always manage to get things done on a close call and that tiny effort will result in a grade that's well above what I deserve. I have tried writing a research all in one night without any rough draft to follow by and managed to get a perfect score on it and a lot of praise. I don't understand how I got what I got, but the fact that I get one good grade after another through procrastination, encourages me to keep doing it more and more.

I am beginning to hate myself because no matter how much I tell myself to stop this bad habit, I will NEVER fall through. I just can't do it. It's like an addiction in a VERY weird way and there's no quitting. This is why I have decided to create this post so that it can constantly remind me of how much more I can achieve if I don't procrastinate...

Well my list of "to do" things are as follow:

-Finish AP Biology Vacation Homework

-Finish or rather "START" the Research Paper (Rough Draft)

-Get all of the AB Calculus work done

-Start researching the invention of the Toilet for Spanish

-Take the Personality Test and do the Extra Credit Assignment for Psychology

-Learn all the required parts of the Boys' K-Pop Dance in preparation for Asian Night

-Learn Tell Me and Lies Dance for next Wednesday

-Read a Book

-Play a Video Game

-Finish an Asian Drama

See how many of these things I'll get done before school starts, I can't promise that I'll get the last 3 done though... lol

On a brighter note, I managed to get all my financial aid documents mailed today and successfully deposited 2 checks ($80) "YAY ME!!" -London Tipton

10,000 HITS!!

So yeah I just wanted to point out the fact that according to the blog's counter, over 10,000 people have officially visited my blog =) though I feel like the counter itself is not accurate, maybe something's wrong with it but whatever, let me have my moment por favor?

Thanks for the visits, they give me a reason to continue blogging =)

The Color of Friendship

Oh goodiness I haven't updated for 4 DAYS!! That's a record, but now I'm back with something fresh. For some reason I've been a little yellow-obessive lately so decided to use yellow for my blog's theme, after all it is the color of friendship is it not?

Yesterday was rather a LONGG dreadful day in Dorchester, and yes I hate Dorchester. Why? Because it is so crowded and definitely not a good place to take driving lessons which I had to. Fran scares me so my dad recommends this Viet dude to teach me, but he was equally scary and worse of all he repeats the same things over and over again to the point where all I heard coming out of his mouth was "khdjhfsjdhf fhsjfh fshfweuop iueir BLAH." Yeah, I didn't have a good time at all and driving around in Dorchester is like driving around with a "Please Hit Me" sign cause it's so HARD to avoid people...

Yep, you've heard my story and I hope that everybody is having a great time off. Meanwhile enjoy the new layout and a new playlist will be updated really soon =)

Life's a Busy Street

Oh darn!! Just took a nap and that took 3 hours =( why is there such thing as being "tired" and "going to sleep"? Can't humans just develope resistance to "tiredness"? I will be waiting for that day, the day when humans are able to run on energy 24/7.

So yeah, my rough draft for the research paper is due tomorrow and I... haven't even started, so my plan is to fluff my way through it and then work on it for real over vacation. Honestly, we need of these vacations cause I'm about to malfunction already. Other vacation goals are to finish all other vacation assignments like biology (argg-ness) and learning the whole boys' k-pop dance cause I've been slacking on that...

P.S. Need new layout for blog this vacation, any suggestions?

"Life Is Good," So LIVE It!

So it's been a week since midyears ended and the results are flooding out like water through a hole in a dam, but quite frankly, I like what I'm seeing, wait NO!, I LOVE what I'm seeing.

AP English: 93, MidYr: 90

Adv. Composition: 97, MidYr: 97

Spanish: 100, MidYr: 96

AB Calculus: 95, MidYr: 91

AP Statistics: 90, MidYr: 85

AP Biology: 93, MidYr: 93

Psychology: 100, MidYr: 100

Once again high honors for me his term YAY =) but by a very close call. Most of the time I feel like I do better than what I expect and at times I also feel like LUCK is just on my side. A good example would be AP Stats. I don't really think it's a hardcore "HARD" class, but I do fairly descent in that class and would have gotten a fine looking 88 for the term. BUT... somehow Mr. Mahoney decided to add 10 points to the class's test grades and therefore I ended up with exactly a 90. I feel really good about myself, because truthfully I DON'T consider myself a "GENIOUS" or incredibly smart, I just do what I do but I get grades that are way above satisfactory. Whenever we have a Math Meet, I have never earned more than 6 points on any of the rounds that I'm in and the most you can get is 18 total. I feel even dumber when sophomores from other schools like Thayer earn 15's and perfect 18's for their final score. So basically, I feel smart at RHS, but when I'm just "OUT" there I feel really stupid. Maybe I'm just being sensitive but I do feel intimiated out there.

So a word of advice, do what you do and progressively do a littler more and more each day and in the end you'll realize that what you receive may be much greater than what you put in because I do believe that "Life Is Good!" - Senora El Khoury

Productivity = Good Life

Today was a good day, no GREAT day. I actually got work done today and I normally don't because I would always procrastinate the work in school and then bring it home and finish for homework. But today was different. I feel very good at this point; it's one of those days where I KNOW I'll be able to sleep early. I will surely enjoy it =)

School Is EVIL! >.<

I'm bored, really bored! I don't understand why everything seems so boring compared to it how it was back then. When I was little, it was so much fun to go to the mall and shop. It was a lot of fun going to the arcade like Boston Bowl or the one in Foxwood. Everytime my friends and I went with our parents, we would always spend over $100 on the driving games and the ones that spit out tickets. But that has all changed because those things have all gotten boring. And who or what do I blame? I blame the most evil thing in the world... SCHOOL!

Why is school evil?

Because it literally takes your life and evergy away. It takes your spirit away from your family and friends and everything that you love. I remember that playing video games and drawing in general were things that I really love to do. But now I find them so boring. Why? Because School came and took that enthusiastic spirit away and has now implanted something else in me. I am now like School's slave, and my only purpose for right now is to get good grades. I understand that school and education is important, you hear that concept ALL the time. But what good is school if it takes your youth and everything that you used to love away from you? In general, I hate school and one thing that I wish right now is that college will be different. I don't want to be School's slave for 7-8 hours a day anymore. I want MYSELF back and hopefully college will be about to restore that...

On a side note, I have ben trying very hard to learn some korean dances lately. When I was little and even till now, I have always hoped of becoming a pro-dancer and ever since high school it has become my dream to get to go to a live show by Super Junior, DBSK, Shinhwa, and recently SHINee. Any show by any band would be fine. I just want to witness and experience a live dancing performace for myself and one day that wish WILL come dream =)

While youtubing I found this really nice perforamce by SHINee and Seo In-Young. They performed "Replay" then "Cinderella Under My Umbrella." The second song is the same one that was performed by Chris Brown and Rhianna, except they switched the order of the lyrics. Their english isn't perfect, but overall the performance was great, I really liked it =D

"We Use Numb3rs Ev3ryday!"

Today was actually a good day, I got things done and don't feel stressed out about anything besides the research paper. I honestly don't know what to do on it though and quite honestly I don't care since the teacher doesn't seem to care anyway... so WHATEVER!!

The best part of today was that our MATH TEAM scored 3rd place for the 2nd time in a row during today's math meet so YAY!! But sadly, today was the last meet and I do feel like I will miss these meets, the ridicuolus math problems, and most importantly, my reserved back seat at the end of the bus. I will miss them all. I do wish that next year's team will advance even further and kick Thayer Academy's A$$! GO RANDOLPH!! =)

The Curse of the "i-tis"

Usually the first thing that ever gets asked when I come home is "How was your day?" and quite shockingly, it was not the same reply of "It was alright..." today. Quite frankly, my day was extremely crappy to the point where I almost exploded, but it's okay cause I was able to control it. Seriously, sometimes I feel like I am surrounded by children MY OWN AGE and that is extremely sad. If you can't GROW UP, then go back to your baby crib, slap on a diaper and call it "LIFE" cause you obviously don't understand what "maturity" is...

I have gotten home since 4:20 today and for the past half hour. I have been thinking a lot about school in general. We always hear how seniors get "senioritis," but honestly EVERYBODY is affected by it in some way. You would think that those who have nothing to do will be more willing to contribute, but that is not the case...

What I thought about the most during this time is ASIAN CLUB and how I've been a part of it for the past 3-4 years. And this length of time has somehow created a bond between this club and me. It's hard to explain, but it's something that I really care about and am willing to give up everything for it. Therefore, when people disrespect the name of "ASIAN CLUB" by treating it other than what it should be, I get really pissed off. A.K.A. ASIAN CLUB IS NOT a Public Club/Bar where you come in, have a drink, chill, and then leave. WORK needs to be done and if you are not willing to contribute anything then you're better off getting your darn self out of the room and stop wasting our time and space.

If there is one thing, ONE THING, that I could ever ask of before graduation, is to be able to witness a smackingly good Asian Night and that is ALL. That is all that I truly want before I leave this school and sadly, this club.

The next Asian Club meeting will be held in Ms. Rea's Room (224) on Wednesday, February 25th at 2:30, please come and be prepared to work toward this goal of showcasing the best ASIAN NIGHT ever shown by RHS. ASIAN CLUB is a club and we (both members and officers/advisor) are a team. There is no "I" in team and every hand that is contributed will only take this goal one step further to its destination.

Thank you, I know it was a long blog but yeah, I just needed to get it out somewhere. Thanks for stopping by! =)

Let It Snow, Snow, and Snow!!

So it is blizzardy outside, yum right? Well I honestly hope that it continues to snow the night away (definitely going outside to do the snow dance tonight, who's with me?).

Besides the ugly weather, there will be an Asian Club meeting tomorrow, please come, we need to people to help us PAINT!

OH OH!!! Another funny thing happened this week... Guess who's one of RHS's students of the week is? ...(drum roll).... ME!! lol so yeah check my picture in the front lobby =)

GASP! My check just came in from the tax department thing!! =) yay more money to spend!

The Start of Something New

Okay so this is offically the day in which my blog is finally done, been working on it for almost a week. I even almost gave up studying for Midyear Exams because I was so committed to getting it done. So YAY! for two things today: my new blog and MIDYEARS are finally OVER! What a relief =)