I'm back!! (and so is school....) / Summer

So yeah, the title says most of what I want to say. I know I have been quite for a few weeks... maybe months but the important thing is that I'm back. To be honest, it's a miracle already that I remembered I have this blog. So I will try to publish at least one post per week.

So far I already survived a month of school of my sophomore year. *applause* Yay!! And I already have home-works... I already had a Spanish quiz, a English assessment, and I'm having a Math quiz tomorrow. Hooray for me! (sarcasm) Enough about school... Let me tell you about my summer.

So my summer went pretty well, I guess. I went to Korea. No, not for vacation. I went to SUNY (State University of New York) in Incheon to prepare for SAT. (I'm a sophomore already!! I only have to more years!!!) I had to stay there for six weeks, six d@mn f*cking weeks. (please forgive me for my language). You know what's worse? That I'm not allowed to have electronics during the weekdays; they take your iPhone, iPod, iPad, and laptops away. Why? So that you wouldn't play during lunch and dinner. But seriously who would have time to play when you're weekday schedule starts from 8:30 in the morning to 11:00 at night? Who would have the time? Oh there's more, we have a vocabulary test everyday, around 50-100 words per day. And its cumulative, so for tomorrow's test, you need to memorize today's and tomorrows. And so on. The good thing is that the list resets every Tuesday. So after you take Monday's test, you just need to remember the words for Tuesday. Yeah, at least koreans have some kind of humanity in them... Just kidding, Koreans are super nice people! Three of my good friends are Korean, and they are the nicest, kindest, smartest (duh), funnest (is that even a word?) people I know. Back to the main topic, so that's my summer. No need to pity, this is the life for an average Asian...

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” - George R.R. Martin

(Romantic) Relationships

First of all I want to say, I'm a huge fan of romance. Any sort of romance, lame, doopy-gooey, tough, simple, you name it. And I was sort of in a relationship with this guy, but then only after a few days, I feel like the spark was gone. No more. Just disappeared. Or it might be the fact that I don't feel comfortable being with him alone in public, or even with my friends. There was always that feeling where this whole relationship is wrong. He was two grade higher than me anyways; a big huge difference. I know that for adults, age difference doesn't matter at all. I mean whats the difference between 30 and 27? Nothing, there like almost the same. But it's different for teens; a guy who's 17 dating a girl who is barely 15. Not that's serious. It's almost child sexual abuse. Not saying that there is but you get what I mean. I just don't feel it's right. And if that guy is reading this, then I want him to know that he will always be my favorite Junior/Senior. But I'm just not ready yet. And he will be an important part in my heart.

Back to the more serious business: the lesson here is that don't fall in love so quickly. You don't know if it's a real or not. Additionally teenage years is the best time for education; don't give yourself distractions from your education. I hope this is a big lesson for me in life.

"Falling in love is awfully simple, but falling out of love is simply awful." - unknown

Exam Review (Day 3)

This will be a quick post on day 3 of my Exam Review plan. Long story short: FAIL!! Probably the worst day ever. Didn't work at all. Yeah......

"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails." - Robert Half

I really need to start learning from these quotes... 

Mother Day Special / The Truth about My Personality (Part 1)

Sometimes I feel like people only think I am annoying because of my personality. However they don't know the truth behind my current personality. So I'm planning to write a series about it here. I hope people can understand me better after reading this series. Some might think I'm making an excuse but I'm really not. I'm just telling the truth. :(

Part 1 - Why am I so competitive?

To be honest, I'm not always this competitive. It's just that when I was young, probably when I was a toddler, I was always behind the other kids. I'm always late in my development stages. For example an average kid learns to speak words and phrases when they are 1 years old; I can't even speak a word until I was 3! Or an average kid can crawl when they are 7 month old but I only started crawling when I was nearly 1 year old.

My parents, mostly my mom, were worried about me. What if she has a disorder of some sort? Will she always be like this? So my mom brought me to training camps every summer to practice my balance, and brought equipment to trigger my brain to let me speak (which I didn't like, but on the hand my brother liked it and used it more often than I did therefore making him learn to speak way earlier than me. And he was the younger one). And when I start speaking, I had pronunciation issues, so she enrolled me to a school for deaf kids to help me practice my pronunciation. Which leads to the 'me' now.

What I'm trying to say is that the reason why I'm competitive is that I just want to repay my mom for all the time and sweat she sacrificed for me. I don't want her to think that even after all her hard works, I'm still not as good as the other kids. I want to tell her that I am as good as the other kids and even better than them.

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” - Willie Nelson

Last of all:

Happy Mother's Day!!

Eagle Point 2007

Kumon 2008

Yunan 2010

Shangri-La 2010

Taipei 2013

Surprise!! Two quotes in one blog:

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." - George Washington 

Exam Review (Day 2)

Definition of exam: the act or process of examining (testing by questioning in order to determine progress, fitness, or knowledge)

So it's day 2 of Exam Review and the energy has sufficiently decreased a huge amount. So this is a basic list of what happened today:

1. Woke up at 7 am
2. Fell asleep on the sofa 
3. Second time woke up at 11 am (4 hour gap of sleep)
4. Start reviewing for English
5. Ate lunch at 12 PM, English review progress - 5%
6. Continue English Review
7. Leave house at 5:30 PM, English review progress - 20%
8. Return home around 8 PM
9. Continue English Review
10. Give up English Review, English review progress - 23%
11. Continue on Science Review Flashcards
12. Finish Science Review Flashcards, Complete Science Review progress - 80%

So that's basically it. I finished with all my flash cards for science, and tomorrow I will be mainly focusing on that since that's my first exam for next week. And I'm gonna do my English with my teacher. Yeah bye!!

"I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would." - Mary Leakey

Exam Review (Day 1)

Definition of exam: the act or process of examining (testing by questioning in order to determine progress, fitness, or knowledge)

So it's review weekend!!! Yay? NO!! I got four subjects to review for next week's final exam: English (my worst one), Geography, Science (so-so), and Math. And so far day 1 of the weekend went pretty successful; I was able to complete two stack of flash cards (one for science and one for Geo). Well, I just hope the next three days can go as smoothly as today went; with my playlist of classical music in the background. 

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

My Two Mini Envelopes Full of Flash Cards

Procrastination

oh the irony in this pic.

First of all, I know that there´s probably a thousand blogs about procrastination, and most of them might be wrote by teen bloggers such as me. So this is my post on procrastination.

Procrastination is a bad thing for students and it is not recommended for students because it's best to finish all the work before time so later on, you can have free time for yourself (gosh, I'm becoming like my mom). There's this saying: 'Good things happen to those who wait'. Well, they DON'T!!! When did you ever get a good grade by doing everything in the last minute? Okay maybe I did. But what I'm trying to say is why stress yourself to death on the last minute when you can finish it before hand and not worrying it later.

However the truth is I am a procrastinator, and I'm ashamed of it. I'm keeping telling you to stop procrastinating when it's a problem for myself too. In fact, I'm procrastination right this moment as I type. I should be doing my homework that is due tomorrow morning instead of writing this blog. Well then I will. Bye guys!!

"You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again." - Benjamin Franklin

Love

It's something in all of us, different but still the same.

It's a way of expression; some times normal, well some times strange.

It's a feeling that you have; sometimes happy, or sometimes sad.

It's a curse, or a blessing.

It's something that makes you lose yourself, or help you find your inner-self.

It's something that will always happen, whether like it or not.

But something that can't be controlled, or be freed.But always be happy, that you can love.

This is just a poem I wrote a year ago for an assignment. And I posted on to my DeviantART, and I received a lot of comments and feed back on it. Yeah...

"Where there is love there is life" - Mahatma Gandhi

(RUDE) People

There's different types of people on this planet: sensitive, humorous, kind, mean, kind, etc. Some might be either both sensitive and kind, or humorous and mean.

So why am I talking about people? Well, there's this Korean boy in my Band class. And he is SO annoying. I mean, not only is he annoying but he is disrespectful; to his pears and our teacher. Ever since the beginning of the school year, he's been really rude to the teacher. He calls our teacher 'gay' and 'poor'. He has said "F*ck off" straight to his face, yet the teacher have been very patient all year long. However, me on the other side of the room, playing my flute and not minding my own business, can't stand him. I know that Koreans and Chinese have similar cultures, and one of them should be respecting your elders. Okay so maybe our teacher is in his late 30's, but he's still consider as an elder generation by teens, shouldn't he? Then why doesn't that boy know that? The good thing is that I've already told someone important in the school about it so I'm looking forward to seeing changes in his behavior. :)

PS. So please reconsider what type of people you are.

“Rudeness is the weak men's imitation of strength" - Eric Hoffer

Introduction

So basically every blog needs an introduction... And I'm going to write it in an organized list form:

1. About me:
• I'm a Chinese teenager.
• I live in the Philippines
• personality type: ENFP - The Inspirer (uhh... somewhat accurate)
• Blood Type: B+
• Chinese Zodiac: Tiger
• Other Zodiac: Gemini
• Dream University: Stanford
• Favorite things: technology, animals (other than bugs), sleep, food (mostly Chinese O_o), movies (non-scary/thiller), cooking
• Disliked things: long boring books, story-mode games (you can't do anything once you're done with the story), homework, essay, writing (in-general), responsibilities, annoying little brothers
2. Why a blog? I got inspired by a blog (Fictional Litost and Aleatory) by two friends of mine. And I wanna practice my 'writing' skills for future reference.
3. What is it gonna be on the blog? 

• The title says it all: 'Random Posts'
• You see, I can't really follow one theme or subject. I'm just not that type of person.
• I will only post if I got an idea... that's probably very rare... :\
• Sometimes it might be similar to other posts, but sometimes it might be completely useless.

So that's it all you need to know for now. ;P

(oh, I like to end my posts with a quote)

"It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." -Anne Frank (also an ENFP)