band camp

is HELL. AHHHHHHH. D:
my feet are so darn dead.
I'm wearing my baller shoes tmrw.
but I guess you do learn quite a bit (:

during the day I chilled with ellie/annie + emliang + tiffchen/xc people
just talking. washing cars. etch-a-sketch, skateboarding, HARMONICA! :D
oh my so fabulous.

volunteered @ math placement testing with michelle and rishi and mitchell!
them little kids are so cute (:
meghan nelson's little sister made it in! tiffany tatreau's not the only redhead anymore !
I felt kinda bad though when the kids didn't make it through the scantron.
stupid rishi >:[
he refused to tell the kids that they couldn't go on. made me do it!
the guilt wore off as we went along though lol (they were mostly mexicans.)
alice hong was thereee. but I don't really know which one she was (:
also! augustine's dad came over during testing and wanted me to tell him how augustine did.
but NO SIRREE. it's CONFIDENTIAL.
I feel so important. (:

sleepless nights

STAR TEST!

pwhaahaha yay I got 'em FINALLY.

English-Language Arts: 567
Geometry: 524
History-Social Science: 600
Science: 600

also I just finished watching this TV program about gregor mendel + genotypes and phenotypes and pea plants lol.
law of independent assortment! :D

this weekend is gonna be pretty fun. this week is gonna be tight too!
sleepover @ sylvia's
ortho on monday
bandcamp mon-fri
new kid registration tuesday
MY pick-up day wednesday
locker deco party wednesday

oh yeah oh yeah. (:

cookies + jammin'

dude I am so pro at getting up when I want to.

but I have to really really REALLY want it for it to work.

and, I won't be able to sleep the night before.

see how dedicated I am shivanti? even worked up a blister jsut for you <3

anyways, I actually woke up at 8 this morning. walked to whitney.

just chilled there until 12ish? then!

michelle came out from volleyball so we head over to JESSLIU's place.

her hair is really nice now btw. I like. (:

once we're there we just jam. chill out.

jam: (v) jess plays her guitar + jumps around + sings her heart out + me michelle charissa just sing along x]

we also bake really good chocolate chip cookies. (:

and! jess + charissa are such cuties.

they're like the best 姊妹 I've ever seen hahaha. they get along so well, not even kidding.

all in all, a good day.

however!

here's a couple of bulletin updates.

1. ingrid kuo's not coming to whitney. she's going to troy.

2. sophia lu, ingrid's friend, is coming though.

3. zoe lin teresa yoon jonathan han melvin woo kellie zhao are all leal scrubs. they are NOT freshmeat.

4. brian lee is coming? (HOPEFULLY not.)

5. jessica liu's hair is awesome. :D

that's it.

OPERATION HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNIE IS A GO.

hehe me and kels raided annie's house today.

just showed up at her door and sang her a song! :D

I made her a card too.

it said TO GRANDMA on the front and I drew a grandma on the inside.

hehe I love watching annie and kels argue.

it's really entertaining.

they could probably run a comedy show insulting each other lol x]

and today! I was talking to isabel about new kids.

she's running the yearbook shift (with emilyliu) for their registration time!

I'm going to go and pretend to be part of yearbook too. (:

me and her are gonna be so super cool/awesome

that all the kids will want to be friends with us! :D

then, we'll influence them to dislike koreans strongly hehheh.

jk about the last part.

but we still will be super cool AND awesome!

I'm also gonna go to whitney tmrw in the morning..just because.

shivanti asked me to go and keep her company.

probably stay the whole day.

sit there and read, I guess.

好小子! :D

today was a good day.

Values:
Intellectual Achievements
Logic
Competency

Joys:
Personal Achievement
Ideas
Meeting Challenges

Strengths:
Confidence
Logical
Problem-solver

Needs:
Autonomy
Truth & Facts
Accuracy

Frustrations:
Unfairness
Incompentence
Nonsense Rules

At work you are conceptual and an independent thinker. For you work is play. You are drawn to constant challenge in career, and like to develop models, explore ideas, or build systems to satisfy your need to deal wth the innovative. Once you have perfected an idea you prefer to move on leaving the project to be maintained and supported by others

In love you prefer to let your head rule tour heart. You dislike repetition, so it is difficult for you to continuously express your feelings. You beleive that once feelings are stated, they are obvious to a partner. You are uneasy when your emotions control you. You want to establish a relationship, leave it to maintain itself, and turn your energies back to your career.

In childhood you appeared to be older than your years and focused on your greatest interests, achiveing in subjects that were mentally stimulating. You were impatient with drill and routine, questioned authority, and found it necessary to respect teachers before you could learn from them.


haha this is from one of those random quizzes on facebook.
I looked at it and I was like WOW THIS IS SO TRUE.
hehe (:

FINALLY.

a person that I wanted to get into whitney got in

congratulations ingrid kuo!
who also got into oxford.
who is pauline's friend.
and if you're pauline's friend, you can't go wrong!
who raps in CHINESE YEAH LET'S REPRESENT.

wang lee hom + taiwan FTW.

HOW TO KEEP A FRIENDSHIP?

“It’s one thing to start a friendship, it’s quite another to maintain it, to keep it, to stay on what Lewis called “the same secret path.” Even strong friendships require watering or they shrivel up and blow away. That’s why George Bernard Shaw touched an exposed nerve when we read the words he scribbled to his friend Archibald Henderson: “I have neglected you shockingly of late. This is because I have had to neglect everything that could be neglected without immediate ruin, and partly because you have passed into the circle of intimate friends whose feelings one never dreams of considering.”

It’s so easy to take good friends for granted. And in a sense, we should. Like a comfortable pair of gloves, old friends wear well. But friendships that suffer from busyness and overfamiliarity can’t afford to be neglected too long. They need renewal. If you want and need to keep true friendship alive and well, please, consider and think over a list of the most important qualities offered to help you. Probably it will help you to understand why you and your best friend haven’t called up for ages, why you’re getting embarrassed while being asked “Whom are you going to have fun this weekend with?” Like Shaw, you may neglect your intimate friends from time to time, but if you fail to cultivate these qualities—loyalty, forgiveness, honesty, and dedication—you can’t expect to keep true friends.

Loyalty
The quality that tops the list in survey after survey of what people appreciate most about their friends is loyalty - support that you always give to someone because of your feelings of duty and love towards them.

Harry Truman’s secretary of state, Dean Acheson, caused quite a stir when he visited his friend Alger Hiss in prison. Hiss was a convicted traitor, and it was bad politics to have any association with him. But when prudent politicians condemned Acheson publicly, Acheson simply said, “A friend does not forsake a friend just because he is in jail.” That’s loyalty.

The famous maxim that “a friend in need is a friend indeed” is not the entire story of loyalty, however. A friend in triumph may be even harder to find. Isn’t it easier to be a savior than a cheerleader for our friends? It takes twenty-four-karat loyalty for a friend to soar alongside us when we are flying high rather than to bring us down to earth. Loyal friends not only lend a hand when you’re in need; they applaud your successes and cheer you on without envy when you prosper.

Forgiveness
As important as loyalty is, our friendships don’t always have it. Enter forgiveness. Every friend you’ll ever have will eventually disappoint you. Count on it. That doesn’t mean that every offense of a friend requires forgiveness; some slights need only be overlooked and forgotten. Winston Churchill’s mother, Jennie, understood this when she said, “Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.”

Too many good relationships fade because some slight - real or imagined - cancels it out. Some people pout, brood, or blow up if their friend is not speedy enough in returning a phone call or if they are not included in a social event. They set such high standards for the relationship that they’re constantly being disappointed. They can’t let little things go, every minor lapse becomes a betrayal.

By the way, forgiveness is a two-way street. Unless you are a saint, you are bound to offend - intentionally or unintentionally - every friend deeply at least once in the course of time, and if the relationship survives it will be because your friend forgives, the friends we keep the longest are the friends who forgave us the most. And the essence of true friendship is knowing what to overlook.

Honesty
Honesty is a prerequisite to the true friends’ relationship. “Genuine friendship cannot exist where one of the parties is unwilling to hear the truth,” says Cicero, “and the other is equally indisposed to speak it.” Does this require brutal honesty? Not exactly. It requires honesty that is carefully dealt in the context of respect. In the absence of respect, you see, honesty is a lethal weapon. Perhaps that’s what caused Cicero to add, “Remove respect from friendship and you have taken away the most splendid ornament it possesses.” Honesty is not only expressed in words; it means being authentic.

True friends aren’t afraid to be honest and they aren’t afraid to be themselves. True friends follow Emerson’s advice: “Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.” Translation: If you are afraid of making enemies, you’ll never have true friends.

Dedication
When was the latest you and your best friend met? Dedication refers to the ability of two people to influence each other’s plans, thoughts, actions, and emotions, to spend time and effort on friendship, to give up something important or valuable for sake of friendship. Think about it.

Back when you are a kid, the hours spent with friends were too numerous to count. Contemporary life, with its tight schedules and crowded appointment books, however, has forced most friendships into something requiring a good deal of intentionally and pursuit just to keep them going.

Of course, dedication becomes most salient in times of crisis. When a friend’s emotional bottoming out, for example, means canceling a date to provide a shoulder of support. That’s what friends are for. So don’t complain about having fair-weather friends if you are unwilling to be inconvenienced.
Personal sacrifice. Selfless devotion. Commitment. These are the noble qualities dedication requires.”

kudos to Irving Chu.

you should read it alllll the way through, seriously.

ms universe

STUPID VENEZUELA WON

ASJFKL;ASFJ;LASKJD

I wanted australia.

or at least, puerto rico.

at least CHINA IS REPRESENTING.

and got ms. congeniality! :D

she's kinda ugly though lol.

thailand got photogenic.

I know prettier people than them man.

I'm thinking victoria can beat them hands down any day!

and so can keilani. (:

here's some more scrubs that got into whitney:

alice hong

mukund iyer

florence lau

gracie gutierrez (a mexican from CERRITOS ELEMENTARY? I know, I know. she looks smart in her yearbook picture though, I guess.)

andrew kim

anirudh venguswamy

allison yoon

samuel shin

and here's one in my grade!

ailien nguyenly (and yes, that is NOT a typo. I'm expecting something along the lines of an alien vietnameseee)

kayobutt is available (11:08:09 PM)
MY BUDDY LIST IS FUCKING GROSS AND IT'S BOTHERING THE SHIT OUT OF ME. FUCKING MEEBO CAN SUCK IT. GOD DAMN I HATE LOOKING AT MY BUDDY LIST RIGHT NOW. -_______________-

SM1LEplz (11:08:13 PM): emma!

SM1LEplz (11:08:31 PM): I would like for you to remove the excess amout of profanity from your status.

SM1LEplz (11:08:36 PM): if that wouldn't be a problem.

kayobutt (11:08:43 PM): AHAHA.

kayobutt (11:08:44 PM): It's

kayobutt (11:08:46 PM): not that much.

kayobutt (11:08:52 PM): ):

kayobutt (11:08:52 PM): But

kayobutt (11:08:52 PM): okay.

kayobutt is available (11:09:06 PM)
I dislike my buddy list right now. ):

emma you are a great person. (:

more whitney-ites!

these I got from other people

and facebook stalking people on the

gretchen whitney high school group on facebook!

my grade:

amanda lee [naruto-obsessed girl from ross]

zoe lin + her "bffs"[what a COOL name. but mutual friends were like deborah and stuff so I dunno.]

mindy kim [korean.]

teresa yoon [korean. CRAZY korean.]

kellie zhao [chinese! FINALLY.]

belinda wu? [friends trying to convince parents not to let her go]

justin ho [annoying fat guy, or so I hear.]

melvin woo?

ambiguous (can't tell which grade)

sabrina gutierrez [likely a second string/accepted by phone call]

jonathan han

annnnnd there you have it!

aren't my detective skills just fabulous. (:

(btw, I've decided to open up my blog. just because.)

lights

you know for us glasses wearing people

we see the world in a different way sometimes.

like at night when there's lights and stuff

iono for me there's always lilke lines of lights shooting out of them!

like headlights and stuff.

so it's more distinct. this goes foro any sources of light.

it's really weird. hehe (:

SUSPENSION.

Suspended [Ed. Code 48900]
A pupil shall not be suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent or the principal or the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed an act as defined pursuant to any of subdivisions (a) to (r), inclusive:

yada yada yada yada...

(i) Committed an obscene act or engaged in habitual profanity or vulgarity. [this means YOU, julia chanco. and all those perverted guys]

(r) Engaged in an act of bullying, including, but not limited to, bullying commiitted by means of an electronic act, as defined in subdivisions (f) and (g) or Section 32261, directed specifically toward a pupil or school personnel. [this means YOU, ada hui.]

hehee. it's nice to know that people can get suspended for these kinds of things that so often we accept into our lives (even though they stilll do cause a degree of uncomfortableness.)

and there's another one! under Excused Absences
(b) A pupil absent from school under this section (which includes pretty much every excuse you could think of besides cutting class.) shall be allowed to complete ALL assignments and tests missed during the absence that can be reasonably provided and, upon satisfactory comopletion within a reasonable period of time, shall be given full credit. The teacher of any class from whic a pupil is absent shall determine the tests and assignments which shall be reasonably equivalent to, but not necessarily identical to, the tests and assignments that the pupil missed during the absence. [this one was for you, sylvia. cause of bojo.]

just keep these couple of rules in mind when we start school again (:

Statements.

I remember wanting to blog about something the other day,

but I can't remember what it is...

anyways, if you haven't checked out michellechang's blog yet

you really should! I love it (:

here's some statements I stole off of her post:

1. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever. [THAT'S RIGHT.]

2. Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.

3. Bad decisions make good stories.

4. Whenever I’m Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don’t mind if I do!

NEW WHITNEY-ITES

EW GROSS.
damn it!
we're supposed to get cool kids >:[
I do hope we get some nice chinese kids though.
someone who can share my classes and my geekiness (:
you guys are cool and all, but sometimes I do wish
there was someone that I could study with for my classes
without getting betrayed (or at least how I view it)
after a couple of months.

anyways!
here's who I know for now

charles woo ( D: )
aaron lai ( >:[ )

and scrubs are

augustine ng
and kaili! girl with hair down to her butt yay (:
nice, decent kids.
UNLIKE AARON LAI. SHEESH.

him and kevin tang and nelson wang and shannon wang are giving us chinese folks a bad reputation. geez.
you know wwhat! you nasty koreans! (excluding angel & alice choi, of course ;] )
I don't like you.
my piano teacher doesn't like you.
my chinese teacher doesn't like you.
my aunt don't like you!
even my DAD don't like you!
and that's enough for me (:

laser tag!

it is a sport in which I epic fail at.
but which I enjoy running around in with michelle chang (:
we are CROUCHING TIGER. HIDDEN DRAGON.
f'shooooo.

enjoyed lasertagging for paley&renz's combined party! it was fun.
but I didn't like the big white dude and all the mexicans =/

I actually like chinese school but I just wish sometimes I could kick willyluo out cause he's mean and he slacks off and doesn't care :P
I enjoy being a good nerdy student hehehhe (: