Friday, January 31, 2003 - Addendum--Also, at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner party, I psychologically harassed Jasmine--by withholding her food subtly. You know how in Chinese restaurants, the food sits on this big turn table? Well, when the rice came, I started turning it around, waiting for each person to get their rice. However, I just rolled it right passed Jasmine who didn't complain at first, but a minute later said, "Hey! Where's my rice?" after half of the people had already been served. I say, "Oh, I'm sorry Jasmine. Did I skip you?"
I did a similar thing to this meat dish.
Finally, the crowning event, when the fortune cookies came, I grabbed them from the turning turntable, in response to which Jasmine starts complaining bitterly.
It took me roughly 3.5 hours of ignoring her and psychologically abusing her in order for me to realize that I don't hate Jasmine anymore. Now I need to apologize to her, and since I'm unable to apologize to her in person, over the phone, over AIM or whatever, I'll just post a public apology up here and hope she reads it somehow, somewhere.
To Jasmine: "I'm sorry for abusing you. I'm sorry for talking trash about your hair color. I'm sorry for calling you a termagant and a slattern. I'm sorry for talking trash about you. I'm sorry about withholding your food. I'm sorry for wanting to beat the crap out of you. I'm sorry for hating you. Jasmine, I don't hate you anymore and I apologize for everything that I've done. I want us to get to know each other on a friendlier basis, just like old times. Will you forgive me? Talk to me..."
After that, Franklin apparently had an allergic reaction to something and had a nasty rash on his upper body. Thus, my parents rushed over to Safeway, which had nothing, then Long's Drugs, which was closed, and finally PW's, where we bought some good stuff.
At home, I updated my webpage for the last time in a long, long time...
Right... Good Night!
Friday, January 31, 2003--I learned last night from Franklin that you should never, ever cheat a Rubix Cube by breaking it open and rearranging the pieces. Upon trying to fit the pieces back in place, we accidentally crushed one of the squares. Now, the whole Rubix Cube is unusable, but hey, the other 25 pieces are in their correct positions!
Also, while doing the FAFSA, we found out that our estimated EFC is roughly $35,000, and Caltech costs roughly $36,000 a year. Heh, so we'll save about $1000 a year. Makes me kind of glad, because I actually missed the FAFSA priority deadline for Caltech.
Today, Stacie finally got mad 'cause I sent her a million messages over the network messenging machine. All right, no more messenging for you, Dwayne!
Other than that, there are no memorable events for school. So, after school, Franklin and I went to a coinstar machine to convert our $18.15 in coins into cash. Unfortunately, the Coinstar charges 8.9 cents out of every dollar, so we only got $16.53 back. I'm not sure if it was such a good idea. Then, we went to Toys'R'us and bought Kingdom Hearts because our rented version needs to be returned today.
(Apparently, Steph H's boyfriend bought her Kingdom Hearts for her birthday three days ago. I didn't expect a non-gamer like her to be interested, but whatever.)
Also, Kellie told me that she got the Sims for the PS2, her second game (the first was DDR, but that Dance pads broke so long ago). However, she needs a mem card to save her Sims. So, I think to myself, maybe I could by her a mem card for her birthday, so I ask her when's her birthday. Turns out, her birthday was five days ago. Whoops! At least I know how she got the Sims.
Then, we had to go to Chinese New Year's Dinner Party at Fat Wok. There were 7 families there: (mine, Jasmine's, Jason's, Kellie's, Kevin & Jerry's, Eddie's, and one unknown guy), and each of the 7 families would give each of the 14 kids (absentee college kids included) $20, so each kid made a profit of $140. Hmm... with this money, Kellie could by herself a mem card. Still, though, I told her I'd buy her a mem card for her birthday. I dunno if she took me seriously. Hopefully, she'll forget like how Connie will forget the I promised her a GameCube controller for her birthday.
To be continued...
Thursday, January 30, 2003--I forgot to mention that 2nd period yesterday, Mr. Peterson taught us for the first time how to record stuff with EMagic MicroLogic MIDI Sequencer. So, I made a 16 track Cacophony Symphony. It actually sounded pretty good, but I didn't save it.
Today in 2nd period (I'm skipping first period Math 78 because it was uneventful), while typing in those messages that can be sent across the computers, I accidentally said to Stephanie, "Good morning, Stephie!" She replies, "Don't ever call me Stephie!" Wow! She is aggressive.
Today, I found out that Nadia gets paid $700 a month. Wow!
Today, I also got down to reading the transcript of the State of the Union address. Yes, I know it's about two days late. I realized that you can't judge an idea based on who presents it to you. You can't hate an idea just because Bush said them in his State of the Union address. Some of that stuff was actually good. To quote a friend of mine from SCG, "Even a moron can have good ideas sometimes..." You see, I'm nonpartisan. Anyways...
Bush says he's giving tax cuts and that it's helping the economy. Now, tax cuts in general are good, but those tax cuts could just be benefiting the wealthy, but hey, my family makes lots of money a year, and we pay lower income taxes, so we're happy... I think... I could be wrong.
If Bush's Medicare plan can make Medicare cheaper and more accessible like he claimes it will be, then it has my full support.
Bush is cleaning up the Environment? Good. That's something untypical of the Republicans. Still though, hydrogen power cars seems unlikely. Although Bush did correctly describe the combustion of hydrogen engines, he didn't address the fact hydrogen is friggin hard to obtain and store. Still, though, he made an effort.
I don't really have a response to the thing about mentors for disadvantaged children or treatment for druggies.
Bush wants to keep troops in Afghanistan so that he can rebuild them into a democracy. Well, at least he's cleaning up the mess he left behind.
AIDS in Africa? And Bush wants to help? Wow! This guy's doing better than I expected.
Bush also says that they've captured a bunch of Al-Qaida guys. Good job! They are legit Al-Qaidas, right?
Bush discusses bio-terrorism. "The budget I send you will propose almost six billion dollars to quickly make available effective vaccines and treatments against agents like anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola, and plague." Plague? WTF?!? That's not a specific disease. It's a descriptor for a disease that spreads very, very fast. And is botox seriously that deadly as a terrorist weapon? I'm serious here, is it?
Bush is also pushing the FBI and CIA to make a new Terrorist Threat Investigation Center. I guess it's a good idea as long it doesn't take up too many of my tax dollars.
The last half of the State of the Union was about Iraq. Well, coming from a nonpartisan point of view, I put aside my belief that Bush is a moron and look at the war against Iraq objectively. Well, it is true that Iraq broke many of the UN resolutions imposed on it. Now, the US, as the effetive leader of the UN must do its duty and enforce those resolutions. To do let Saddam slip by for the sake of peace is no different than when the Allies in 1938 let Hitler break all these rules imposed on Germany by the World War I treaty. Churchill wanted peace, but the peace was temporary and short-lived, followed by a long, bloody war. If he were to have cracked down on Hitler, then we would have a short war followed by a long peace. Appeasement is never the way to deal with ruthless tyrants.
Some argue that since the US can have mass destruction weapons, why can't Iraq? Isn't that a little hypocritical? Well, it isn't hypocritical. First of all, Iraq has been ordered to disarm by the UN while the US has not. Thus, by international law, it is legal for the US to have weapons of mass destruction, but not legal for Iraq. Second, Saddam Hussein is a known terrorist supporter. If he doesn't attack himself, it is likely he might sell his weapons to terrorists who will nuke the crap out of the US, and we can't afford that. Besides, it is never immoral to try to prevent someone from killing you by killing them first. Sometimes, it's kill or be killed.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want to go to war, but it seems Saddam is leaving me no choice. In the real world, people often must do things that they don't want to do. Fighting Iraq is one of them. We don't want to, but we have to.
I also watched 10 minutes of the video clip. I found it somewhat amusing that at one point, Bush was trying to start a sentence, but was interrupted when the people started applauding.
Gary Locke's reply wasn't all that good. He made a bunch of claims, but he didn't support many of his claims with any evidence. He's pretty much saying, "Bush says that he has a good plan, but I know that that plan is bad. Why? I won't tell you because I'm too Democrat to give you any real counter-arguments."
Yeah, good political discussions are wanted. Anyone who can give me a decent, logical Democrat argument, I welcome you to convince me. I sit on the fence so it should be easy, but remember, I'm nonpartisan, so "Bush is an idiot" and "Republicans are evil" will have no effect on me.
Also, according to Sarah's website, she's making a list of sperm donors. Why does she want to pay for some guy's leftovers when she can get a fresh meal straight from the source?
Apparently, I just offered to learn Tae Kwan Do from Carrie Nguyen. First, I got to learn how to spell it.
I have to go now. I might see you online later tonight, but just in case I don't, I bid you Farewell and wish you Good Night.
Walks away in his black armor and flowing cape a la Garland from FF1.
No! We have a shortage of available cute elf girls! What? They're rare!
Wednesday, January 29, 2003--I forgot to mention, yesterday, in 6th period English class, Miss Koyanagi told us we could change seats. Almost no one moved. Tiffany H, who normally sits right next to me, was absent today, so my friend Andrew M decided to steal her seat.
Andrew: I'll be taking Tiffany's seat, if you don't mind.
Me: I don't mind. There was nothing going on between me and Tiffany.
Jen: Are you sure?
Me: Hmm... Good question. I'll have to ask Tiffany.
Haha, of course there's nothing going on between me and Tiffany. Plus, she now sits in front of me, so what does it matter?
So today, in 4th period Chem AP, Mr. Roske gives each group half a cup of water and some paper clips. "So is the water half full or half empty?" he asks. I say, "It's just half a cup." He says, "Yeah, but it's half a cup that is full of water, which means your optimistic." I say, "Half-full, half-empty, what's the difference?" Does a pessimist ever say that a cup is completely not empty when its full? Or an optimist say that the cup is completely not full when it's empty?
So anyways, he wants us to float the paper clip in the water. I say, "We need someone with a delicate touch. Nadia?" I know it's kind of sexist, but she didn't seem to mind. In fact, she almost seemed to enjoy it. So, she tries time after time to float the paper clip and fails over and over again. Then, Justin puts in the paper clip and gets it to float on the first try. What irony!
Oh, and Lily's started talking to me again. Lily Lily, not Yily Lily. That's a GOOD thing. She still doesn't like cheesecake and she likes FF8 the best of all FF's. I'm gonna have to play FF8 eventually, especially since it no longer holds the title of Worst FF Game Ever. (FF11 now holds that title.)
In response to Alan Watson: Yes Alan, I have confronted Diane Ko. No Alan, I did not apologize. No Alan, she would not listen to my apology even if I tried. No Alan, I have not tried. Hmm... I see you're point. Still, though, the way Miss Basilisk Eyes stares at me is just... unnerving. I wouldn't be able to look at her, let alone talk to her and do this apologize crap you were talking about.
That's an interesting concept, a cute basilisk. You want to look at every part of it except it's eyes, 'cause if you do, you're dead.
What was I talking about again? Oh, right, Diane Ko. Right, you want me to apologize to her. I'll have to clear that with the Math Club Queen, Madame President Linda Fang.
And it's Little Rabbit. Little Rodent is Sarah.
But other (butter?) than that (wait, the butter got eaten by the gnomes), that's all, so Good Night!
Tuesday, January 28, 2003--Let me introduce you to the Theory of Conservation of Love and Hate. It basically says that for every amount of love a person has, there is an equal and opposite amount of hate. If love were positive (and it is) and hate were negative (probably is, too), then in each person, the sum of the love and the hate would equal zero.
I feel this to be true because it's happened to me. It started when I fell in love with this one girl, but circumstances caused her to screw me over (in a bad way, not sexually, you sick freak!), so that the love led to a general hate, hating life and hating society. Then, in order to fill that void in my heart, I searched for a greater love, and I thought I found it, but it turned out to be a lost cause, a treachery, and left me an empty shell of a person. Because I had reached for a greater love, there was a greater feedback, a greater hate, and so this cycle continued, and all my hate was dead-ended and locked away into the deepest corners of my heart while my hatred consumed me.
There are those of you who will ask, "So you know about the problem, can't you fix it?" You can't reason with the heart. Emotional wounds have to be healed by emotional remedies. I am in no condition to heal my own wounds. I no longer seek an answer, for my searches have only led to more pain and more hate. The answer will come to me. All I have to do is wait.
I am living proof of the Theory of Conservation of Love and Hate. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm an anomaly in humanity. Or maybe I'm the only human left in the world. Still, the only person I truly understand is me, and the only person who truly understands me is me.
I am an Undead. The turmoil within me caused by unrestrained hate and the hopelessly lost love has torn my soul from my body casting it skyward, to the Heavens while I fall downward, into the midst of Hell. My heart has been taken from me and shattered, and the one responsible feels no pity, no remorse. This is how people truly begin to live. They die. They lose their naivety and become cynical. Those who haven't simply haven't grown.
I have no soul--it was lost when I died inside. I have no heart--it was taken from me by a traitor. What is left of me? I am an empty shell of a man, an Undead. I live my life continuing to do what I am accustomed to doing, simply because I do not know otherwise. I feel no pain, for the Undead cannot be hurt. I live my life, letting the Tides of Fate take me where I need to go.
I have no control over my own life anymore. No one does, until they find the Answer? And where is this Answer? That is a good question. For some, it's religion. For others, it's finding Hope and Acceptance amidst the Chaos. Some still wait for their Answer, never knowing when it'll arrive or even if it'll come at all. I am one of those people. But you cannot find your Answer. You're Answer finds you.
Let me bring you back to the Viltris quote:
"I am your love and your hate. I am your pleasure and your pain. I am the suffering of all humanity. And in order to end all this suffering, in order to finally bring some Justice, I must destroy this sinful world."
--------Viltris Kindell, the 2nd King of Hell
Viltris and I have a lot in common. Both of us experienced tragedies early in our lives. Both of us are walking pillars of love and hate, of pleasure and pain. We are contrasts, and we suffer from the wounds inflicted upon us by society. Yet, Viltris and I are different. He has lived with his sorrow for so long that it has driven him to insanity. Aside from that, he's become a god. For the sake of "Justice", he wants to destroy the world, and he tries.
Although I'm not that crazy, sometimes I feel close. I feel as if I want to destroy everything and anything, lashing out, letting loose my inner hatred, but I stop myself. I always wonder what would happen if I were to obtain the power of a god. I fear that the power would get to my head much too fast and that everything near me would be destroyed. People that I loved when I still had the ability to love and not to destroyed would be slaughtered. It scares me, what I might become. I might become Viltris.
That was probably why I created that character in the first place, because that's what I might become in the future. Fortunately, by predicting my Fate, I can avoid it. Yet, in some mythologies, those who try to escape their Fate only get caught in it even more deeply. I don't have an Answer yet, but I hope that it finds me before I lose the ability to comprehend Truth and Compassion.
Now, I come to good old Kefka:
"Life, Dreams, Hope, where did they come from and where are they headed? These things, I will destroy!"
--------Kefka, Final Fantasy 6
Like me, Kefka lived a life of suffering and pain. He, too, was driven to insanity. He too, feels the necessity to destroy everything and anything. Like Viltris, he obtained the power of god and used it to build his "monument to non-existence".
Perhaps that is how the greatest evils are born, not through their own evil character but through the mistreatment of society. They are not evil, but misunderstood, driven to do what they must simply because they don't have an Answer. Life is not Black & White. Everything is a shade of gray. No one is purely evil and no one is purely good.
I am not Evil, just Undead. I have become what I am not through my own actions but mostly by the reactions of society. I am a monster, but only because society made me that way. When love is returned by hatred, hatred replaces the love. What am I now? What is left of me? Blame me if you want, for I was too weak, but then forgive me, for I had no strength to change circumstance.
By now, you can see that I obviously need help. Are you going to help me? The world is full of Apathy and Indifference. When one is in pain, the others will ignore him. For a long time, I have received no help, and for a long time, I will receive no help. Yet, there is always hope that someday, someone with a kind-heart will come to me, and I will have found my Answer.
End philosophical tangent.
Whew! That was longer than most of my regular event-record Journal entries.
So anyways, today was the first day of Math 78, aka Differential Equations. Mr. Langlois says it's easier, so there will be no more homework packets, but there will be quizzes. Yes, now if the class flunks, it's not my fault!
The third Leland Leviathan was published today. It was mostly about war and everyone seemed to be opposed to it except Arjun Baindur, the hardcore Republican. Also, there was this one riddle, "The pope has one but doesn't use it. Your father has one, but your mother uses it. Nuns don't need it. Arnold Schwarzenneger has a big one. Michael J. Fox has a small one. What is it?" Justin thought it was a male private thing, that sick freak! The answer is "last names".
Heh, funny. There was almost nothing for events today. This entire entry is mostly my philosophical tangent. If you must know, it's a very serious piece, and only those who know me as well as Alex or Little Rodent (or possibly Stephanie (not Chen)) will understand it.
Read it. Give me feedback. Am I a psycho? Or am I just human?
Until then, I wish a Good Night!
Monday, January 27, 2003--Today began the second semester of the school year and my final semester at Leland. Because Math 78 is Tuesdays and Thursdays instead of Mondays, Wednesday, and Friday, today, I got to hang out at the library.
So there I am, sitting there, talking to Ke, Linda, and possibly some other people I do not specifically remember (forgive me), when Linda looks toward the Computer Lab and says, "Why is Sirey's class in the Computer Lab?" Now, I have my back turned to the Computer Lab, so I turn around to take a look, and as soon as I do, I see Little Rabbit. So then, I say to Linda, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Linda says, "What?" I say, "That!" and I point my hand backwards. Linda replies, "Oh, you mean Diane Ko." Then, while my back is still turned, Linda calls out, "Hey, Diane!" Then, she points at me. I didn't see it for myself, but Linda tells me that Diane's reaction was horrific. About 10 minutes later, (my back is turned toward Diane the whole time so I can't see her), Linda tells me that Diane has been glaring at me the whole time. That reminds me of a quote that I had written on Mrs. Koyanagi's magnet board with her magnet words: "She stares at me all the time." What? She does. It's incredibly unnerving. Why does she look at me like that? I don't know, but they say she really, really hates me, which I don't believe 100%. Whatever.
Third period, Bergantz' US Government Honors is over. I move to Economics Honors. Mr. Jamil is apparently one of those "Self-Directed Learning" people, although not to the extent Mr. Woytek is. I've been told that for the Stock Project, each group has to have at least one girl and one guy. Now, how can I use this to my advantage? I'm afraid rolling the dice will get me nowhere this time, but so will activism. *shrig* Whatever.
Fourth period, Roske messed up. He gave everyone on the final about 10% more than he was supposed to. Whoops! Fortunately for the class, he's too lazy to lower their grades by correcting it. Whatever. I have an A either way.
After school was the beginning of the second semester of Music Theory AP. Christine joined the class. I won't go into to details of why, but it's quite an interesting set up. We sat arranged like a Tetris piece, with me in the middle. Unfortunately, that's pretty ambiguous because there are lots of Tetris pieces.
SJYS Rehearsal at Castillero! Yay! And there will be cannons when we play 1812 at the concert, but not during rehearsal. Hey, isn't 1812 about the War of 1812? Or is it about the Napoleonic Wars?
So, that brings us to the now. I really need to get some sleep so I can wake up in time for 78 tomorrow.
Therefore, I say Good Night!
Sunday, January 26, 2003--LOL! Those retards who always post anonymously in my guestbook never fail to amuse me.
So anyways, I woke up this morning, played a few hours of Kingdom Hearts. Then, I messed with the router so that I can connect multiple computers to my SBC Yahoo! Internet connection.
Raiders lost. Too bad. *yawn*
Heh, uneventful day. Oh well, that's all. Good Night!
Saturday, January 25, 2003--Today, when I woke up, I wrote the Chinese Graduation Essay in English, then translated into Chinese using the Alta Vista Babelfish Translator. The translation was so bad, it was hella funny. That reminds me of a few classic bad double-translations (translating into a foreign language and back): "Them hatred! Them hatred all! Particularly those who hates it!" "Above the variety tightenings quite there is a Justin Kuo with the screw. It would like to tighten the [censored] with the screw." Alta Vista Babelfish is useless in every respect except for entertainment.
Chinese School happened without incident. Then, afterwards, the Hsieh's invited us to lunch to congratulate me for being accepted to Caltech. We were supposed to go to Sushi Masa (Franklin says, "I just want the Sushi." I say, "I just want the Masa."), but it was closed for some odd reason. So instead, we went to the Mongolian BBQ place, President Restaurant.
After eating a tasty lunch, Edward, Franklin, and I had a saucer spinning competition. I won at first, but as soon as I taught them the technique, they got way better than me. I fought back by refining my technique, though. Hey, spinning saucers is fun!
After lunch, I fooled around online while Franklin played Kingdom Hearts.
Justin invited me to go see Shanghai Knights because, due to Leland Bridge Night, someone couldn't go and he had spare tickets he didn't want to waste. Of course, I accepted the invitation.
My mom took me to the Leland cafeteria--where the Leland Bridge Night was held--to wait for Justin so we could watch the movie. Some of the girls wore ceremonial Chinese outfits, but like what Leifang from DOA2 wears for her primary costume. Yily was one of those girls. Here's a tidbit...
(I just finished talking to Baomai. Yily rushes by, and I stop her momentarily.)
Me: Hello Yily.
Yily: (shy) Oh, hi Dwayne.
Me: You look cute in that outfit.
Yily: Oh, thank you. (continuing with her job as a Leland Bridge helper person, she leaves)
Mom: (arriving) Who were you talking to?
Me: Yily.
Mom: (she already knows who Yily is) No, that other girl.
Me: Oh, you mean Baomai-- (notices Sherry rushing by, also wearing one of those Chinese dresses) Hey, is that Sherry? Hi, Sherry!
Sherry: Oh, hi. (rushes away to do her work)
Mom: Who was that?
Me: That was Sherry.
Mom: (she already knows who Sherry is) No, that other girl.
Me: Oh, that was Baomai. She's not Chinese, I don't think.
Justin: Oh my god!
Me: I get distracted too easily, don't I?
Justin: Yes, especially by pretty girls... and the ugly ones.
Dwayne: I don't know about that last part.
So anyways, we go see Shanghai Knights. That movie was funny, and there were so many references to history. That Chinese girl, played by Fann Wong, looks a lot like Claire...
So, that brings me to the now. I have work to do, no thank you, like updating the poll and Dark Fiends, so let me take flight, so I'll say Good Night, and let the ends guide my means.
Friday, January 24, 2003--Today, I kind of woke up late. Anyways, after eating an extremely quick breakfast, then I drove to Justin's house because they invited me to eat lunch with them at the Palace BBQ House, which is a Korean BBQ place. We get to cook our own meat. Anyways, Franklin couldn't come because he didn't want to be rushed for the party he was holding.
So we eat there, Alan, Justin, and I. Justin's mom, who drove us, ate somewhere else because she "didn't want to get fat." So anyways, at one point, while getting the meat, Alan gets us one pork tongue. It was a joke, but no one ate it. Justin says, "I didn't want no pork tongue." Alan replies, "Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't know." I tried to fry it several times, but they stopped me several times.
Later, Alan and I crashed Franklin's party. We played DOA2 some...
Then, I left for the the taping that Hadley recruited me to do.
We're not doing Macadamia anymore. Instead, we're doing an American Idol parody. David assigned me the job of judge, and we started making up fake names and characters for the judges. I ended up as "Justin", the perverted guy who came here to watch the ladies sing but can barely name any lady singers:
David: So, Justin, why did you want to be a judge?
Me (as Justin): I came here to see the ladies sing, and maybe the guys if they play really good music, but the ladies for sure. There will be ladies here, right? RIGHT?!? (all freaking out, afraid that there will be no ladies)
So, then, I come home and find that Franklin has rented Kingdom Hearts. I played it, and it's pretty fun. It's interesting. It's light-hearted and relaxing, like Mario RPG was for the SNES. Plus, since it's an ACTION-RPG, that makes it even funner. And a lot of the jokes were cutesy, silly, Disney jokes, which is a nice break from all those innuendos my friends keep telling.
So, I played Kingdom Hearts for a few hours. That brought me to the night time, and as it is Night, I must say that it is Good.
Thursday, January 23, 2003--Day 3 of Semester 7 Finals. Mr. Peterson said I didn't have to show up, 'cause I'm the TA. There is no TA Final. ("How to grade papers" final is ridiculous 'cause I mastered that skill before I even began TAing for Peterson.)
English AP Final was all right, I guess.
Rumor is I bombed the Chem AP final, as if that's possible. Plus, all I need is 40% or more to get an A in the class, so what does it matter? I'm sure that I got most of them right, anyway.
After school, I drove home and back to get the PS2 for the party. Lots of fun was had by us, but there was barely any pizza left. It was eaten by the... other Math Team Partyers. (What no gnomes again?)
We played lots of DOA2. Toward the beginning, we were playing Tag Battles, winning team stays and losing team switches out. Alan and Justin reigned supreme until Franklin and I decided to team up, and we knocked them off the stage. Then, we gave up our right to play to let others play. After all, our mission was to take down Alan and Justin, and we did.
While playing DOA2, Connie kept complaining how all the Japanese girls (in DOA2, that would be Kasumi and Ayane) dye their hairs strange colors, like they were "disowning their parent race." She also likes Leifang because her hair is still black, that and she's Chinese. Then, when she said that she would never dye her hair, I told her that I would remember that and if in the future she does by some chance dye her hair, I would follow up on that.
Oh, and apparently, Lei Huang says "Hello" just like Leifang when she enters the battle arena.
Mr. Yim decided we should have a tournament. All gamers were paired with non-gamers. I was paired with Stephanie Yaung. In the semi-finals, I lost to the team of Justin and Connie, who, in the finals, lost to Frankie and Joanna. Then, this guy named Brian shows up and, along with Jonathon, a non-gamer, kicks Franklin's ass. I wanted Brian and Franklin to go 1v1, but Brian had to leave. Yeah, apparently, Franklin's not the best DOA2 player I know.
Connie really got into DOA2. She's gotten pretty good compared to the rest of the beginniners there. She and I easily beat down all other pairs of challengers, with the exception of Franklin and anyone Franklin pairs with.
Later, we played lots of Bomberman. (With FIVE PLAYERS, yo!) Apparently, I was "MVP" so to speak, but only because Franklin took turns with Lei. I won like 3 times out of 4 and every time I won, Linda smacked me in the back of the head. Mr. Yim commented that we were just like a married couple--always fighting. Yeah, well, I don't like the other half of that remark.
Apparently, Linda used to wear ribbons in her hair. ???
Coming back home at 5:30pm, I finished up testing the Viral Force Test Demo. Everything works now, and my code is GOTO free! I also uploaded the updated version from my website. Unfortunately, you need special permission to obtain it from the secret location. For more info, e-mail me.
As Franklin was hogging the internet, I decided to player Warcraft III. *WC3*I beat Undead 8, the last Undead mission. These missions are getting tougher. Back in the human missions, I could win with plenty of room to spare. Now, I'm always barely beating the missions. Orc 1 and Orc 2 were ridiculously easy, though. Orc 3 was hard, but only because I was distracted with the optional quest. Apparently, the optional quest is ridiculously hard, but now I know what tactics I need to use to beat the regular quest.*WC3*
That was a new one...
And... Good Night!
Wednesday, January 22, 2003--Day 2 of Semester 7 Finals. I apparently forgot to explain that on Finals week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are half days, ie we get out at lunch instead of at 2:36pm. Each day, we only have two periods--on Tuesday, we have 1st and 2nd period, Wednesday 3rd and 4th period, and Thursday 5th and 6th period. Each period is 100 minutes long ot compensate for lack of periods, and we get a 40 minute break (aka, Tutoring time) between periods.
Third period, I went to Mrs. Bergantz, and we watched the last half of the JFK movie. I thought it was pretty cool. I wonder if the little sophomores--I'm sorry, young sophomores--got to see it.
Fourth period, everyone was begging me to get stuff wrong on purpose, but I said no, unless they paid my exorbitant prices. Christine ALMOST paid me $10 for me to purposely miss 10 multi-choice problems, but then, she took a second thought and withdrew the money. Laura calculated that I only needed 40% on that test to keep my A. Oh well. Mr. Roske kept making jokes like that since I was so good, I had to take the test left-handed (I'm right-handed, btw, sorry Lizzie and Emma) or that I had to take the test without using a pen, writing instead with my own blood.
Let's see... Lunch=Showgi Round Two. This time, we went early and there was lots of food. Then, a swarm of vultures came and ate it all. Fortunately, I got my fill before they came. Actually, they weren't vultures, they were people, but they sure ate a lot of the food on the buffet. (You thought I was going to say they were gnomes, didn't you?)
At home, I worked some more on my MIDI collection, then I found out that the DSL didn't work because SCB Yahoo! gave us faulty instructions. I'm so phrygian pissed!
But hey, at least it works almost flawlessly now.
I need to go buy a ribbon and tie it in some girl's hair. Someone cute who wouldn't mind wearing it, let alone wear it for me. What do you think of light blue ribbons?
Hey, I like ribbons, especially when tied in a cute girl's hair.
So other than that, that's all.
Good Night!
Tuesday, January 21, 2003--DSL still don't work today. Today is Finals Day 1 for my Semester 7. My first period final was already taken, and my first period class won't exist until next week, so I stayed at home until 9:30, working on Dark Fiends Chapter 16, which is coming along very nicely, thank you for asking. There will be some pretty nice scenes in Chapter 16.
My mom found out that the phone line was broken because she accidently did something wrong somewhere, but it's all good now. That means, had we caught it last night, I would have been able to use NetZero last night.
I went to school, where I met up with Alan and Justin and the rest of them. Then, Mr. Yim instructed me to collect donations for the Math Team Party on Thursday. Apparently, Alan is invited if he donates a premium of $5 instead of $2. Alan had asked Mr. Yim if he could be invited to the Math Team party.
Alan: Hey, Mr. Yim. Can I come to the Math Club party on Thursday?
Mr. Yim: It's the Math Team party.
Alan: Can I come to the Math Team party?
Mr. Yim: It's the Math Team party.
Me: Ask him if you can join the Math Team. Then, when he says yes, ask if you can attend the party.
That got a number of laughs. Hey, zero is a number!
Anyways, Alan paid the $5. Then, I ran into Joanna, who paid the $2. Now, I have $7 in my pocket along with $10 for lunch.
My 2nd period final was WAY too easy. I finished it within a half an hour. Then, I finished up my Sibelius project for good.
After school, I went to go meet with Franklin. On my way, I ran into cute little Connie Chu, who apparently has the same 2nd period Japanese class as Franklin. I extorted the money (well, not really extorted, 'cause it's all voluntary, except for Alan, who's not part of the Math Team) from her. Unfortunately, all she had was a $20 bill while I only have $17 in my pocket, so now, I owe Connie Chu $1.
(Wait a minute... Did I just say Connie Chu was cute?!?)
So, for lunch, Alan and I were going to eat at Showgi's buffet. Unfortunately, Justin couldn't make it and Franklin had to go to Tennis at 1pm. So, here was the plan:
- I blitz Franklin to McDonalds [joke]via my secret passage through the Netherworld[/joke].
- I blitz Franklin back to Leland [joke]via my shortcute again[/joke].
- I blitz back to Showgi to rendezvous with Alan, [joke]again, using the Netherworld as my shortcut[/joke].
So, that was a filling lunch. Then, I went home, worked some more on Dark Fiends Chapter 16 and taught my comp how to play Original Piece (ie, worked on the MIDI). Then, I found out that there was a really nasty error that prevents me from going on the internet on SBC Yahoo! DSL, so I corrected it. So, these whole two days, it was entirely MY fault that the Internet didn't work? Crap!
Upon getting back on AIM after a whole week of rarely using it, I saw Lily online--not Yily Lily, but Lily Lily. You know, Lily from the ARML. It's been so long since I've seen her or had a chance to talk to her, but for some reason, she won't talk to me anymore, and I don't really know why. Good Heavens, I miss Lily! (Hmm... calling Connie cute and saying that I miss Lily in the same entry don't mix. Apparently, this will be a volatile entree, I mean entry.) (Note #2, you realize that "Good Heavens" is a reference to the Alliatus religion of Dark Fiends as in the real world, we would say something like "Good God!")
So, that brings us to the now. Wow! Finals weeks sure brings out a lot of different things for me to say. Hmm... I think my journalability fluctuates like a sine curve. Sometimes, I have lots to say. Other times, I have little to say. Damn! That wasn't very explanatory.
Heh, for my closure, I might as well say my third famous line, one in which I have not said for a very, VERY long time.
Good Night! Don't let the succubi bite!
Monday, January 20, 2003--Guess what? The SBC Yahoo! DSL was connected today, so I installed the stuff and readied the machine. The DSL worked for 5 minutes. Then, the telephone line shorted as, making the DSL unusable as well as the phone connection, so I couldn't use NetZero either. Sucked!
So anyways, it was Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday today, so I went to his party, celebrated, met some other dead celebrities. Yeah, I have the power to transport myself to the Netherworld and back. It's a very useful ability, especially since I can use the Netherworld as a shortcut.
And if you actually believe that, I suggest you go get psychoanalyzed. (In retrospect, I probably should, too.)
Still, though, it's would be incredibly useful ability.
So anyways, I spent the good majority of today playing Final Fantasy 5.
*5*I fought my way through the Undersea Trench. Some of the paths were blocked by lava. Thank goodness I learned the Float trick back in FF4. The triplet bosses say "BWI!", which reminds me of Mary Lou... I beat them on the second try with repeated Hydra Summons.
Then, I went to the waterfall, where it was nice and easy. As I took the last lithograph, one of X-Death's monsters attacked me, but Leviathan killed him for me. Then, I challenged Leviathan to a duel. After a few tries, finally beating him using Flare and Flare Sword, I won Leviathan to my list of Summonables.
Third stop, Phoenix Tower. That place was annoying, until I realized that the hidden door on every floor was hidden in the same space. The Magic Pots were annoying as hell, as I had to feed him 11 of my 17 Elixirs before he finally left me alone. All I got was 100 ABP. NOT WORTH IT!!! Next time, I'm running away. Also, there was a monster called Sherry. Here's a pic:
She's actually very annoying, but easy to kill. Yeah, and I got that Phoenix, then walked all the way back down. You ever noticed how expensive Life magic is in FF5?
Next stop: Odin! *sings that really cool song from FF5* Sorry, I don't know the name.*5*
After playing FF5 for a few hours--with proper rest, of course--I went to SJYS rehearsal. There, I found out that I am now officially the 3rd seat. Now, I sit there legit. No more stealing Cessy's seat. In other news, Jeff, our Viola King, got dethroned by Christine, our Viola Queen. Sharon fell back a seat while the other Christine moved up to the front row. Poor Sharon! Other than that, I don't know of any upsets that occured.
Also, the strings had to stay behind for an extra 45 minutes to play an Ives song, except for us Violists, who don't have a part in Ives. However, Ali, who is apparently an incredibly skilled pianist, had to stay because he plays the piano part for Ives.
Upon coming home, I did the crap I had to do and walked the miles I had to go before I sleep.
Then, I slept. Good Night!
Sunday, January 19, 2003--7th and hopefully final day of Ridiculously Slow Internet.
FF5 was played by me today...
*5*The Fork Tower was really easy, especially the Magic Boss Omniscient. All I had to do was make sure I had my Wall (Reflect) Rings equipped and I'd be practically invincible. In fact, Omniscient ended up killing himself. Minotaurus kicked my ass once, then Frankie suggested that I give Faris !Store. As she is my Ninja and she is equipped with Sasuke and the Assassin Dagger, I could do hella damage. Minotaurus' death is funny. As his final attack, he said, "Have a taste of the Ultimate White Magic--Holy!" Unfortunately, you can't use magic in the Power Tower, so he failed miserably and died a horrible death.
Then, I had to rescue Cid who was stuck on a spinning wheel, but he got me my Submarine, so I'm happy. Now, I can get the Mime, which I did. Now I'm right outside the 3rd lithograph's chamber, I think...*5*
So anyways, I go to Alan's house today for the Royal Rumble. There, we played hella DOA2. Justin's getting good, but he ain't good enough to beat me. Apparently, Bayman is a souped up version of Leon, so I stopped using Bayman and started using Leon. Apparently, he's a parody of Leon the Professional from the movie Leon the Professional. Also, apparently, you unlock the hidden costumes by playing with the characters a lot. We got Kasumi's best and cutest outfit. (Did we say cutest? We meant sexiest.)
Also, for the first time ever, I saw the Royal Rumble live. Lesnar won by attacking the Undertaker from behind and knocking him out of the ring. It's kind of sad. Taker was eliminated two years in a row from behind. Last year, he got dropkicked by Maven. Speaking of Maven, about 5 minutes before it was over, Maven dropkicked Taker and thought he had eliminated him twice in a row. He was jumping around, celebrating, gesturing "Two years in a row!" However, he should have looked. The Undertaker was standing right behind him, and he chokeslamed him, then threw him out.
Also, Justin, Alan, and I seemed to have come to the conclusion that the two Leland girls we would like to see most in a bra and panties match would be Nadia and Maria. Don't ask.
Also, while discussing the Leland ladies, we came to the subject of Sarah, so I opened up Sarah's website on Alan's Mac. Justin says, "Ooh! Sarah porn." Of course, it wasn't porn, but Justin was being Justin. Then, I brought up the question, since Sarah is only 16, if she posted porn pictures of herself on her website, would she get in trouble for child pornography. Alan says no Sarah would not get in trouble, but the people who view the pictures would. Then, he quoted what the Sarah porn website might have said: "I am under 18...Look at my tits!"
Other than that, we made a lot of dirty, insulting, and funny jokes (including deaf people getting fucked in the ear), but I don't remember much about that. Look on Alan's Website. He took notes on our conversations.
So then, I come home and that, as they say, is that. I will go do my own thing now.
Good Night!
Saturday, January 18, 2003--Today began nicely as a Saturday. Chinese School was good. Christine rang the class-dismissal bell and Justin let me borrow his Magic Rulebook. Jessica Chen yelled in my ear, but only because she neglected to realize that I stood right in front of her face.
*yawn* At home, I played some more FF5.
*5*The first lithograph allowed me to take 3 of the 12 Legendary Weapons. Since I had a Dragoon, a Ninja, and Thief, and a Monk, I picked the 3 weapons I could use: the Assassin Dagger, Sasuke the Ninja Blade, and the Holy Lance. Then, I found Mirage Town, where they sell some pretty damn good stuff. Oh, and I got the second lithograph from the solitary shrine. The boss, Stoker, was really easy. I didn't know which weapons to pick next, so I picked strong sounding ones, such as Excalibur, Masamune, and Yoichi's Bow. Hope I picked my weapons well.*5*
Other than that, I finished up Dark Fiends Chapter 15 and uploaded it. It's available now for reading.
Now, I might go do something else, but whatever I do, just remember that I said "Good Night!"
Friday, January 17, 2003--Day Five of Ridiculously Slow Internet... The SBC Router came in the mail, but they won't connect the phone lines until Monday, so I'm still stuck with NetZero. To make matters worse, this slow comp crashed at least twice today while I was surfing.
Also, I found out yesterday 5th period that the computers in Mr. Peterson's room are connected in such a way that you can send messages between them. As a result, today in 2nd period, I sent so many messages to Stacie. She was like, "Oh, what's this? How interesting?" But she didn't bother to reply, probably because she didn't know how and she was too diligent a student to find out.
Today in Chemistry class, we watched the most screwed up, fucked up, messed up chemistry videos. It was phrygian hilarious in a stupid way.
Oh, and I've almost finished Sibeliusing my 30 page Mozart Concerto.
After school, I went to the taping of Macadamia. Unfortunately, a few key actors didn't show up today, so we couldn't get much taping done. As a result, I went home and played FF5.
*5*Beat the pyramid, and I let Bartz become a Thief since he mastered the Summoner class. Now, I can run hella. Mellusion was pretty easy, but I had to fight her a few times to figure out the tactics. I think in the original Japanese version, she's completely nude, but in the American version, they covered up some of the more inappropriate areas. Oh well. After all, they need to keep it a T rating or lower.*5*
That is all. Thank Goodness It's Friday! Now to get some rest.
Good Night!
Thursday, January 16, 2003--Day Four of Ridiculously Slow Internet...
"So, Linda, have any ideas for the Math Team Party next Thursday?" "There's a Math Team Party next Thursday? Why didn't you tell me, Dwayne?" "I thought I did." So, yeah. Welcome to the Math Team politics, where information is taken for granted, yet hidden.
I saw some early previews of the Econ final projects. Yesterday, the UTA had their Godfather-like video. Today, Dagan and Amit are doing their song "Earn it" which is a rip-off of Missy Elliot's slut song "Work it". It was hilarious.
In 4th period, Justin made a bet that I couldn't recognize 5 symbols. I recognized them quickly as the elemental icons from Magic the Gathering. Then, we started talking about Magic, how cheap the cards are nowadays, and that Justin has so many good cards that he could give me some crappy cards and it would be a decent deck. Haha, I actually believe that. Plus, he tells me you can get lots of good single cards for less than $10. Justin says he's the best Magic player he knows. Since I don't know any other Magic players (Alan ain't a player no more), I won't dispute that.
Ehh... that's all again. Other than that, at home, I just did homework and worked on Dark Fiends.
Oh, and Franklin challenged me to a Yugioh Duel. Thanks to his Gravity Bind (which prevents any monster above Level 4) from attacking, he kicked my ass.
So... uh... yeah... Good Night!
Wednesday, January 15, 2003--Hmm... Boring day. I have nothing to say.
Well, I did post Dark Fiends Chapter 14, but I actually finished it yesterday.
My Internet Connection is still pathetically slow.
Ehh, whatever, Good Night!
Tuesday, January 14, 2003--Day Two of Ridiculously Slow Internet...
Two nights ago, I had this dream that I was watching this movie about this poor family. In their world, there were fairies flying about, and if you caught one, it meant good fortune--good fortune as in riches and dreams coming true. These fairies, rather than having insect wings as is traditional, they had brown bird wings. Anyways, as the boy is flying breakfast, a fairy flies by. The boy reaches out his hand, but doesn't catch the fairy. Instead, the fairy--clumsy as she was--smacked into his hand, got dizzy, and fell right into it. Then, I woke up.
Today, we passed in our Senior Project Notes. I found that Lily thought Justin's last name was "Kwock." I guess that's not so bad, considering that I think her name is Lily, which it isn't.
So, today during the math team meeting...
Mr. Yim: So, have you thought of any social activities we could do together?
Ke: How about watch a movie?
Mr. Yim: But do you know any movies that are out?
Me: How about Lord of the Rings? I haven't seen that yet.
Joanna: Neither have I.
Me: Oh, really? So do you want to go see it sometime? Just you and me? (nervous pause, then laughs) Nah, I'm just fooling around.
Don't ask. I was just being random.
Then, at home, I slacked off because homework has never been lighter.
And now, Good Night! I will have wonderful dreams, maybe catch a fairy...
Monday, January 13, 2003--I remember why I hate websites that are graphic-heavy. Yeah, our DSL has gone out of business, so for a week, we're in between DSLs. In the meantime, I have to use NetZero on a 31.2kbps connection. Any website that has more than 1 major graphic loads way too slowly. That's why my website barely has any pictures.
In any case, in Government, we got to see Stephanie's Senior Project on Child Prostitution in Thailand. It was good, but the computer kept crashing. Maybe it doesn't like prostitutes.
Seating auditions at the SJYS rehearsal today. I did well. Then again, this was the easiest set in the last three years I've been with the San Jose Youth Symphony, so how could I not do well? I also wished Emma good luck on the audition, even though I knew she would do well. Then, afterwards I asked her how the audition went, as I did with several other people, including but not limited to Lizzie, Ali, and Ihui. It's kind of funny. Some people always say they did badly when they actually did very well. As for me, I always say I did well even when I do badly.
So, yeah, I said "Good Night!" and went home to get some sleep.
Sunday, January 12, 2003--Some anonymous person on my guestbook asked me about MIT and Caltech, so what the heck, I'll answer. I got accepted to Caltech and deferred to Regular Review for MIT, which means it's still in question. I don't know which one is "better", but I do know that Caltech is closer, so that's why I'd prefer it over MIT anyway.
As to my actual day, I did a lot of Viola practicing, worked on Dark Fiends Chapter 14, and played Final Fantasy 5.
*5*I beat X-Death at the end of World 2, so now I'm two thirds of the way done, I think. (In reference to later,) that was one huge thorn. Poor Krile. Also, the fight between X-Death and Gill was cool. Who knew that turtle had so much power?*5*
That is all for today. I shall now bid you Farewell.
I mean Good Night!
Saturday, January 11, 2003--Finally, the Dwayne has come back to Chinese School. Yeah, after Winter Break... Anyways, at the end of class, our teacher gave us an informal assignment. We had to learn everyone's Chinese name. Then, we find 5 people who drive to school, 5 people who have visited Taiwan, and 3 people who were born outside of California. Cindy Tsau just found 5 people who satisfied all 3 conditions--the most elegant answer.
Also, we apparently have to prepare our essays for our graduation book. I looked at last year's graduation book, the one with Cindy Su. (I know she's only a junior, but she graduated from Chinese School 2 years early.) There were some nice pictures in there. Now I can say I've seen Cindy without her glasses.
At home, I did some Viola practicing, and I finally uploaded Dark Fiends Chapter 13.
Also, I played a little bit of Warcraft III campaign.
*yawn* That's all. I still have a poll to update and a late Dark Fiends Chapter 14 to write.
Therefore, Good Night!
Friday, January 10, 2003--Did you know that 12 references to "Rodent" and 9 references to "Rabbit" appear on my website? Oh, wait, that should now be 13 and 10 respectively. Hehe.
Anyway, I was slow getting to school today, so I dropped Franklin off and wandered for 5 minutes looking for a parking space, which I found.
There was a sub in Mr. Peterson's class today. He didn't know how to get the door open and closed, so before 5th period, we waited 5+ minutes for him to get Mr. Setterlund to open the door for him.
In 3rd period Government class, because Stephanie's partner Shannon was gone the whole week, there's a good chance we won't be able to see Stephanie's Senior Project on Child Prostitution in Thailand. What a pity. I wanted to see that presentation, and Justin would have wanted to see it even more.
After school, I followed Alan GTA style to get to Hadley's house so we could tape for that Macadamia show thingie. If I remember correctly, Monday nights, 7pm, channel 15A...? Unfortunately, we haven't finished taping the episode, so you want see me on TV this week. Also, I don't get cable, so I won't see me on TV, either...
It was an interesting experience. I kept forgetting my lines, so we changed camera angles and spliced the different shots to make it look all right. That's a good thing. Any TV show who stays in one single shot for more than a minute is too...single-shotted, if that's a real word. Still, despite my line-forgetting, they said I did better than some of the other people. For example, #7, who was supposed to only get 1 word per episode finally got some real lines this episode. He screwed them up big time. Well, I guess that's why he normally only gets 1 word per episode.
That brings us to the now, (I've said that before...) so...
Good Night!
Thursday, January 9, 2003--Last night, I read an essay for English class where the author, Jonathon Swift, suggests that we should solve the poor problem by having the poor parents sell their infants as food, so that the poor parents will get money, so they won't be poor, we will have a decrease in poor people, and the nobles get a new delicacy. My first reaction was, "WTF?!? This guy is either joking or he's high on some 17th century drug.
I was deathly sick today, but I still went to school because it is better to do work on a sick day than to take a day off and have to do double work the next day. It's just too much hassle. Besides, I wasn't THAT sick. Just a little fevered, fatigued, and with a stuffy nose is all.
So, after school, Franklin had to go to his little Tennis meeting, so I hung out in the library. Then, Alan decided to hang out with me while trying to tutor Jon in Calculus. Then, they told us that the library was going to be closed at 2:45, so we evacuated. We went to the homework center, where I found out why Alan says those things about Jon on his website. "Good grief!" as Mrs. Foley would say...
Then, at 3:20, we found out the library was still open. WTF?!? I thought they closed down already. Franklin was found watching a game of Yugioh, where this one guy had 500 Life left and miraculously made a come back and beat a guy who had well over 4000 Life left.
Franklin's the Snow White's 8th Dwarf, Hungry. He could not stop eating today after school. He ate a whole can of Ravioli, a good piece of chicken, and almost ate a cheeseburger, but stopped himself before he started. Okay, so that's not a lot, but it's certainly a lot for Franklin.
In the meantime, I was sick, so I tried to go to sleep. Roughly 2 hours later, I wake up, eat dinner, and realized that I still needed to practice my Viola, so I did. Hardcore Viola-ing, yo!
Then, I updated my website and went to sleep.
Good... ZzZzz ...oh, sorry. Good Night!
Wednesday, January 8, 2003--Wow! Today was a boring school day.
However, Justin did remind me to add that on New Year's Eve at Jong-ling's, while she was playing Frequency (the music game for the PS2), after about a minute of making music, Justin asks, "When are you going to start killing stuff?" It was so ridiculously stupid, I had to ask "You are joking, right?" just to make sure.
After school was my Viola lessons, where I got a chance to get some coaching for those seating auditions. The material seems easy, though...
Blech! I have a cold today, I think. I feel sick, but that's not going to keep me from being the energetic mustard I am!
Oh, and here's the quote of the whatever time period I feel like:
"I exist only to kill!"
--Black Waltz No. 3, Final Fantasy 9
Yep, that Black Waltz #3 is definitely the portrait of an artificial psycho. Whatcha looking at me for?
So anyways... and yeah, that's all.
Good Night!
Tuesday, January 7, 2003--CAML this morning. I went and I missed a problem that I could have solved simply by substituting random numbers for x on my calculator, but I didn't, so I got it wrong. Oh well.
Just before third period, Andrew, Justin, Ryan, and I were having a discussion regarding elf girls being cute and cute girls being elves. Andrew and I agreed that that was generally true, but apparently, Justin doesn't like elves.
During lunch, Alan joked that Justin "has a Ph.D in AP homo sex 101". Justin says, "No, I have Bachelor's." It was phrygian hilarious! ...I think.
Math Team meeting today. It was good to see the Team again. Too bad I ditched the ice-skating thing, but nobody minded, although Joanna thought Linda minded, but she didn't. *shrig*
So, anyways, at home, I do some HARDCORE VIOLA PRACTICING!!! Very tedious. *yawn*
Ah, I'm getting tired. Good Night!
Wait! You forgot about me, the voice on the backside of your head! You need to tell ~~~~ that you ~~~~ ~~~! Stop ignoring me! Listen to me! Fine, if you don't want to be happy, go ahead, ignore me. See if I care...
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You still there?
Monday, January 6, 2003--It's good to be back in school again... but not for learning. I just wanted to get back to see all them familiar faces that I haven't seen since before break. Math 73 is forever over for me, and Math 78 won't start until next semester, (according to everyone except for Little Rodent, but she's Little Rodent, so what does she know? Did you know that "Sarah" backwards is "harass"... kind of) so, I'll have a month off from first period.
Ahh, it feels good to get back to Sibeliusing, if that's even a word.
There was a quiz on Watching God today. It was on really obscure details, so even though I "read" (most of it, anyhow), I still got as really bad score. Oh, well. I'm not alone. Even the most careful readers got no more than 30/35.
SJYS rehearsals begin again today. I found out that seating auditions are next week. I'd better start doing some hardcore practicing.
Oh, and it was good to see my fellow musicians again, especially Emma. Don't ask...
Between then and now, Franklin challenged me to a Yugioh duel. He had a new card called Solemn Wishes. It's a permanent Trap card that heals you for 500 Life every time you draw a card. This, combined with his Appropriate card, which allows him to draw 2 cards for every 1 card I draw, lets him heal up very fast. In fact, once he used Card Destruction, so he discarded his 5 cards and had to draw 5 new ones, while I had to discard all 6 of my cards and draw 6 new ones. Then, because I drew 6 cards, Franklin had to draw 12 more, so he had 17 cards in his hands. At that point in the game, there were more cards in his hand then there were left in his deck. Franklin had accumulated a lot of Life using that maneuver, but he was running out of cards. Knowing I couldn't beat away all his Life, I decided to stall until he ran out of cards, and then I would win. However, Franklin managed to beat me, still. He had 5 cards left and had over 20,000 Life (up from the 8000 he started with). Very interesting game, I though.
The wind begins to blow once more. The wanderer sets out, searching for his soul, for he knows he once had a soul, and he knows it's out there somewhere, waiting for him. There will be those which seek to aid him, but lack the power, and those who seek to hinder him. Then, there are those who think they're aiding him, but are actually hurting him, for one of them has his soul and refuses to give it up because she doesn't realize how strong her grasp on it is. It is a lonely and desolate journey, but the wanderer has nothing to lose and his soul to gain.
Don't ask...
Oh, and I forgot to say "Good Night!"
Sunday, January 5, 2003--Augh! This entry is a day overdue, and I can't remember what I did today?
Oh, wait, I didn't do anything today, except that I did "finish" Their Eyes Were Watching God. It wasn't all that great, but I've read worse books. *cough* Billy Budd *cough* The Awakening *cough* Why do people do that cough thing when they make those kinds of comments, anyway?
Also, Hadley invited me to be on TV for this little show their doing. Apparently, my character's name was a typo and they kept it to make fun of the scriptwriter... I got the script just today. There's lesbian action, or so I hear.
Oh, and I went to bed early so I could get some sleep for school tomorrow...
Good Night!
Saturday, January 4, 2003--Today, I spent much time trying to finish my Nuclear Chemistry homework, and I finished it. Also, my mother, my brother, nad I went to GameStop to sell our old games. They were only worth $2 a piece. That's the problem with selling used games. The games you want to sell don't get you a good price. The games you can sell for good money you want to keep because they're good games. However, we did buy a multi-tap for the PS2. Now, we have all the hardware for all the PSX/PS2 gaming we need. Mwahahaha! Sorry...
So, we went to Bernard's place because Kellie wanted me to be there and we played 4-player DOA2. Bernard got into the game a lot faster than we thought, and he got really good with Ayane considering he's only played for, like, 3 hours. I found out that I'm especially good with Bayman (secret character, btw), especially when I knock someone into the air and use my fast punching combo to pummel them, preferably in the wall. Franklin's still hella good at this game, though. I recently learned how to give a quick kick as I climb to my feet after falling. Franklin then learned quickly to block or counter that maneuver. "You're way too predictable, Dwayne," he says as he knocks me down. "How's this for predictable?" I reply as I hop to my feet and grab him and throw him... in the game, of course. We don't beat the crap out of each other in real life.
So, that was the end of today's story. Would you like to hear tomorrow's? You will, but only after a Good Night!
Friday, January 3, 2003--Yeah, I have to apologize to Linda because I wasn't at the ice-skating place yesterday. At about 4pm yesterday, I just decided not to go, but I'm sure nobody minded...
Anyways, 'twas a homework day today. I'm almost finished with the Nuclear Chemistry stuff. It's easy, but time-consuming. Also, I managed to solve the remaining USAMTS problem. It all comes down to switching around a few numbers to make them fit the pattern, that's all.
Also, Franklin and I manipulated our computers so that we could play Diablo II on two computers with just one CD, so we could play 2-player. We both started at Level 1, because you know how I utterly HATE power-levelling. Plus, I started my spear barbarian.
Also, my brother made a deal with me in FFX: I get him a No Encounters armor and he gets me Tidus' Celestial Weapon unlocked. I was like "I don't play FFX anymore, but okay."
Hmm... That's all for today. Anything else you want? No? Okay, Good Night!
Thursday, January 2, 2003--Today, this morning, I decided I needed to stop stalling and begin my mad homework rush. I have Nuclear Chemistry to study and Their Eyes Were Watching God to read. Fortunately, I've already finished the Government reading. In addition, I solved 4 of the 5 USAMTS Round 3 problems. I don't have time to solve the last one, though. 4 out of 5 ain't bad though. I'm already doing better than I did last year.
Also, Franklin tried to sell used games to GameStop, but apparently, you need to be 18 years old to do that, so he made no money. However, he did buy a used Dead or Alive 2: HARDCORE for $20. Don't know if that's a good deal or not, though...
We played a bunch of DOA2. Mostly, Franklin and I played Tag Battles against the comps. We built up our skill. Still, I'm sure Franklin is better than me. He usually is, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to try.
Other than this, I'm just going to log off and say "Good Night!"
Wednesday, January 1, 2003--
Happy New Year!!!
So, anyways, in the morning, I went online and said "Happy New Year" to practically everyone, even people I don't normally talk to.
Also, while testing the RPG I was making, I caught a few bugs involving the Auto-Regen Ring, (it ain't called Auto-Regen in my game, by the way...) and I can easily fix them.
Other than that... yeah that's all. After this, I'm gonna play Warcraft III, then it's Good Night!