2012

Isn't it a great way to finish the year? By watching 2012? It was a great and freaky movie. But it was really just a lot of special effects and cinamatography. It has a touching, but too predictable movie. Like we all know who's going to die and who isn't, it was too obvious, it didn't have a really good story. But the effects are just fanominal. Look at me, I sound like a critic!! Yeah, like I can make a better movie or story, I'm so blind when it comes to myself, I'm a self-absorbed fool (Though I don't hope you take that seriously, I still want to think I'm good at some things).

Oh, and Happy New Year!! I have this tradition of my own, at the last twenty seconds of the year, I reflect on everything that has happened in the year and make my resolutions. Though my resolutions aren't that good. You know, just have a good year, be nice, hope everything stays the same and wonderful, all that stuff. There'll be the occasional "loose two pounds" or something, but just keeping it simple. I don't like the New Year really, I feel like life's passing before my eyes and I can do nothing to stop it. I've got to leave behind something I've gotten very used to and have to move on, and I don't like that. It's tiring to reflect the year and to make resolutions. It's like the last seconds of the year should be used to plan out your new one, and it'll be the same next year as well, and the next, and I just want it to stay the same time, I mean, I love my life and I don't really want to look back at it and not be happy. That's why I know what I want in life, and I know that I want to make my life memorable to both myself and others. I want to make a dent in history or society. And I want to look back at my life and say that I have no regrets. I know it sounds very deep and emo for a thirteen year old girl, but it's what I want, and I'm goin to get it, one year at a time.

Quote of the day:
"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it." Anthony Hopkins

Well, he darn good at it too. Happy Birthday.

Sad Song

I'm in love with a song right now. I can't get it out of my head, and I can listen to it over and over again without getting tired of it at all. It's so sad, like in the lyrics there's really sad statements. Like "I'll do anything for you", and "I did everything for you" and "I've called you children and I've called you son, but what is the difference if I'm the only one?". It's so sad, and I love it. I'll put it on the video bar over there. It was on the OC with Johnny's funeral, so it's supposed to be sad.

Quote of the day:
"Green and black go well together, don't they?" Tiger Woods

Haha, they do, don't they, but I guess they don't go well with women. Happy birthday, you old chump.

Okay, it doesn't seem like the video bar is working, and even if it's not, then it doesn't give a good search of the proper song. So here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVZcAzXWciQ
It's called For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti, but Sufjan Steven.

Similar Movies

I watched a video on Youtube today that's sort of like SNL in England, it's called Extras, I think. And there was one with Kate Winslet in it and it was hillarious. She was acting for some movie about the holocaust, and really in the video she had no care for the movie, she just wanted to get an Oscar. She complained about being nominated so many times and never winning even one. It's funny because she seems like a great person on the interviews and such, but in the SNL style thing, she was an absolute monster. Like she was weird and just a horrible person. She did say something that I find too. Any movie that involved World War II, it wins some kind of Oscar. Even her movie, the Reader, that was about WWII and that got her an Oscar. And also movies where actors are mentally disabled, an Oscar grabber as well. Like Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman, and like I Am Sam, but I'm not sure if that won an Oscar or not, I don't know. It's funny to see how certain movies are likely to attract a certain audience than others.

Quote of the day:
"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order." Jean-Luc Godard

Well, I've noticed that in movies too, it adds suspension, I guess.

SCIENCE FAIR PROJECTS

Today was supposed to be my day of getting my poster for the science fair started. But I had no idea how to do it or what it consisted of. In other words, I don't know anything about science fairs or their posters. I've looked through all the criteria sheets that Ms. Smedley gave us and I've now got somewhat of an idea of this project poster and what it's going to look like. I got the poster on Saturday, and thought it was too big, but apparantly it was just the right size. So that leads to how the heck am I going to fill that big of a poster up with data that I have no idea how to display. I guess I shouldn't be freaking out about the poster, since others have barely started to collect data. But it's just so frustrating to know that you've got this golden time in your hands and it's running out. And when school starts up again, I'll be so busy that there will not be that much time for me to work on the science fair thing, which means that it'll be lacking in quality. But really, I guess I have everything ready, and I'm just putting myself in panic mode so I can get it done better and faster.

Quote of the day:
"Wit is the lowest form of humor." Alexander Pope

Haha, haha..... See? That's my nervous laugh for when I've got too much on my mind and I think I can't really give a hearty laugh to the quote.

Happy Boxing Day!!

LoL, there's no winning in a debate about whether or not Titanic is a chic flic or not, so there's not point in arguing. (note: wow, working on Christmas, are you, Mr. Olson??)

Anyway, happy Boxing Day. Today was truelly a fulfilling day and a tiresome one as well. We went to both Richmond Center and Lansdowne, and my mother even had the urge to go to Metrotown, but I was able to fight it down. Any way, got some clothing that I really like, but enough of the girly stuff about clothing that will make no difference to any of your lives and is just a waste of time to you all.

Quote of the day:
"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it." William Feather

Haha, a point well brought up. (Why do I feel like I'm talking like some business man in the early 1900s, weird)

Merry Christmas

Before I become all nice and jolly for the holidays, I would just like to point out that Titanic was not a chic flic. If you consider Terminator as a chic flic, then it is. But if you don't, the Titanic shouldn't be one either. It had so much action in it and drama, and if you even consider that scene where the valid drops the keys and Jack and Rose were trapped behind the metal gates and the water was rising up, I'd even say that's part horror. There was the dark water, blood hurtling scream, I mean, yeah, it was pretty freaky.

Well, that wasn't something nice to talk about on Christmas, any way, Merry Christmas, hope every one's enjoying their holidays. Tomorrow is actually where our family tradition rolls in. It's Boxing Day tomorrow, and our tradition is in the mall. You'll probably think it's a nice day shopping, but it isn't. It's hard work! You get there the very earliest and you go and search for what's on sale, and when you find something, you hold on to it for dear life. It's like the best buy commercial, the guy on the treadmill, it's not pretty at all. One more week until school, the News Year's finally approaching, not that I think it's been a long year, I actually thought it went by way too fast. Good wishes to all for the New Year, hopefully some funny New Year Resolutions are made so we can have some laughs when school starts up again.

Quote of the day:
"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected." Jimmy Cannon

Wow, then it's a sad holiday after all.

Jumper

First of all, LOL, Mr Olson, you watched the Nanny Diaries? Isn't that a chic flic? Well, I guess that's not fair, one of the most man-ish kind of boy I know loves the Titanic. Then again, Titanic, I don't consider a chic flic.

Anyway, I just watched Jumper, now that I have it. It's not bad, pretty good for my taste. They say in the special features that it wasn't supposed to be a special effects movie, but I think it had to be a special effects movie for it to have worked. And it was that kind of movie, and it was awesome. I loved it.

Quote of the day:
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." Orson Welles

Well, I don't like poems that much, and movies are so much more complex. Happy birthday Howard Hughes, wow, and on Christmas Eve too.

OMG

OMG, I just got three more DVDs, and all for only $10 in all!! That's awesome!! I got Jumper, The Nanny Diaries, and of course, Ocean's Thirteen. Jumper was apparently from the director that made The Bourne Identity and Mister and Mrs. Smith. That movie was good. Two assasins that got married and are living together, and finally they get bored of each other and attemped to kill each other. It's funny. And I didn't even know that The Bourne Identity first of all was made by a different director from the rest of the trilogy, like Supremacy and Ultimatum, they were made by Paul Greangrass, which is not the director of this movie. Weird. I didn't even know that Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith had the same director. Also weird. Any way, I just love today!!

Quote of the day:
"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." Jean-Luc Godard

Wow, LOL, I would beg to differ if I didn't know any better.

Twilight

So, after a lot of thinking, I made a decision to watch the movei Twilight. I thought it would be terrible, going in with a really bad attitude. But it was somewhat better than I had expected. Still, I don't know what all the fuss is about, it wasn't that good. I mean, it was really cheezy, and I generally like scenes that are quick, and if there's any awkward part, that people start to talk even more. I don't like the staring into the eyes kind of thing. I mean, I don't like Jacob, but he seems better for Bella, they talk a lot easier, and I think that's better. That's why all my characters that become a couple are first best friends. They have things to talk about, and things they can do together, they feel less awkward. Your life partner should be someone you're comfortable with. I mean, I appreciate the intensity of love, there's nothing wrong with that, but sooner or later, that dies out, and what is there left?

Quote of the day:
"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" Christina Aguilera

Haha, funny, I think it's at Toronto, no?

Movies

LOL, I have not watched so many movies in day before, and it's only the first day of winter break, imagine how many I'll watch in the course of these two weeks! My mom's at work, and my dad's not home, so it's just me. So I'll have to have something to occupy myself with. I've just finished the whole Bourne series, and the Ocean's Eleven, which I have already watched, plus I saw the Chorus in the morning and the second disc of Titanic. It's not even the end of the day yet. If anyone has any good movies that they don't think I've seen, please suggest!!

Quote of the day:
"I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies." Samuel L Jackson

Oh, that's not good. But happy birthday to you and to Refier Sutherland, or JACK BOWER!!

Rain rain go away

They say a little rain won't hurt me now, but I beg to differ. Clearly I shouldn't be living in Vancouver. It's raining so much, and I hate it!! It ruins your clothes and gets all your stuff wet, and either you have to carry around an umbrella, or you get all your books wet. I hate rain! I remember more than one time when we went to camp, and it rained for the whole week. We couldn't have fun in the rain, we couldn't do anything but stay in the boy's tent and watch Jurasstic Park. Every tent was damp and wet and smelled of stinky feet and mould. The only fun thing we did was swim in the evening after going for pizza, the water was so warm compared to weather.

Quote of the day:
"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." Albert Camus

Well, here in Vancouver, it's just rain.

Story time

Today, there was not much to do. So for most of the day I read my book for the Independent Reading Program, and I'm getting hooked. Though it's getting near to the end of the book, it's still very interesting. The climax is always at the end, isn't it? But I wouldn't consider it one of my favourites yet.

Yesterday I saw a video on youtube that I've viewed before, and loved it. It's a fanmade trailer for the book called the Book Thief, I've read it before, and it's a wonderful book, I would have to say one of my favourites of all time. And if you haven't seen the movies she's used for the trailer or knew that it was fan made, you would think it was the real thing. There is however a real movie for it coming out sometime this year, but I'm getting antsy just waiting for it already. I also can't wait for the Lightning Thief to come out as well. Here's the link and I'll put it at the video bar. You have to watch it.

Quote of the day:
"We are the movies and the movies are us." David Ansen

There should be a Movies R Us!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ9vS212zU4
I think you need to have read the book to really understand the greatness of the movie. There's so many parts of the book resembled by the clip.

On the video bar, it's the second one if you get it to work, because sometimes it just goes to most popular videos instead of listening to my commands.

Last day of school

Today we practically did nothing, almost just like yesterday. I love the last days of school before a break, you get to do nothing. Yesterday we had a juge party in the morning, and then played cards in Socials, and then played some more cards in Science. Today we only had fourty minute classes. We did a little bit of square dancing in PE, then we watched Mr. Bean's Christmas in Strings, and played cards in Math, and finally talked about movies in French. Yes, we played a lot of cards, with practically the same people.

Quote of the day:
"Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about." Steven Spieldberg

That's how I feel. I now have the tendency to not watch the film at all, and instead look at how the camera's set, what the background is like and all that stuff. I like to watch the behind the scenes clips because I feel like that adds on to the understanding of the film and makes it even more believable, though a lot of others disagree.

WHAT!!

What?? We'll be having a film study unit?? That's freaking awesome!!!!

Okay, I've noticed that making a period film would be much harder than making other films because everything would've had to be accorate. I'm watching the Titanic with historical cometation, and the detail that you have to consider about how people acted and how sets were built and how things happened had to be as it was in that time in history. The set, I think, is the hardest part because you have to make it look like what it was back then to the absolute square inch. But it's great to see how much thought and mindfulness that had to go into the movie to make it what it is.

Quote of the day:
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." Ludwig van Beethoven

It is, not always on its own, though, somethings it's better in a movie and with a scene. Like every single time I hear a song, I imagine it in a scene of some sort in order to actually understand what kind of music it was.

Movie Right to the Red Necklace

My favourite books, the Red Necklace and the Silver Blade, according to their author's blog, have just been signed for the movie rights, which means they'll be making a movie on it. Originally, I myself wrote two screenplays for the two books, just for fun, and I dreamed of making the film, but I now notice that I'm happier letting others do it. I now just can't wait until it comes out, which will be horrible for me because it'll come out in about a year or two, which will be such a long process that would drive me crazy with anxiety.

Quote of the day:
"I make movies I want to see." Neil LaBute

Yeah, I want to make movies I want to see too, doesn't every one??

Firsts

Today is so full of firsts. Like today we got our first report card of highschool, and we have our first concert in highschool, and it's the first time I've ever gotten an Honour Roll, I'm so giddy with joy right now!! I love getting rewarded for my hard work, of course. Some of my friends got it too, and I'm so happy for them. But something happedened today that I wasn't very proud of, something about a teacher, but I won't mention it today, cause it's my happy day and she's not going to ruin it. It's just something of difference of opinion.

Quote of the day:
"I love life because what more is there?" Anthony Hopkins

I'm not sure if that's how you spell his name, but what he says is true!!

I still know everything

LOL, Mr. Olson. The Titanic actually had two sister ships, one Britannic and one Olympic. Olympic was made earlier and Britannic later. Olympic hit another ship on her maiden voyage, but didn't sink, and made many more trips after that. Britannic went down in 1916 while serving as a hospital ship and crossed over a German mine. My next NaNoWriMo is actually going to be Saving Our Ships, it's about seven sinking ships and the people on them. The Titanic, the Britannic, Poseidon, The City of Bernares and some other ships that I haven't found yet.

That was easy, and I answered it without using Google, or any thing else. I found out about Olympic in the information book for the Titanic, and I found out about Britannic in one of my friend's books about the biggest disasters on the sea of all time.

Quote of the day:
"Every true genius is bound to be naive." Friedrich Schiller

Haha, wow, but isn't it better to be a genius and naive rather than just naive?

YEAH

No matter how much the next week is full of tests, it doesn't matter. This is the best weekend ever!! I just got the Titanic DVD yesterday for an early Christmas present!! I'm so happy!! I've never liked a present this much in my life. That is the movie that got me into movies. That's the best movie in the world. I know every single thing about both the Titanic and the movie. It won 11 oscars, made $1.8 billion, and took $200 million to create, it's three hours and fifteen mintues long and was more expensive than the real Titanic. See? I know everything!! I've watched the movie for more than ten times now and numerous movies by James Cameron and others with the actors in them. And now I finally own it!!

Quote of the day:
"The Titanic will protect itself." Robert D Ballard

Clearly he has not seen the movie.

Tests Tests Tests!!

We've got three tests on Tuesday!! Plus, we've got the Right Plane due and the comic strip for science due Thursday! I'm never going to finish! Okay, again, I'm in panic mode. But if I think about it, I'm done studying social studies, and pratically done the comic strip. I've only got the fine lining to do on that. I've also got to paste the end and the wings to the plane and document it, but I've already finished the manual and just need to document it. But what if it doesn't fly, what if it fails!! Oh god!! I've still got to study science and do the science fair project. This is bad!!

Quote of the day:
" Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else." George Halas

Well, the homework are definitely work then.

War/No More Trouble

Wow, this song is awesome. It's got a great melody, it's just great. I love how so many people sings and there's one great voice in alone singing at a different pace or rhythm. It's the guy from U2!! I think this song is a little more haunting than the other ones. Like One Love was about being one and a whole. Stand By Me was about sticking together at the hard times and standing by each other when we need help. Both songs are about something positive. But this song is talking about stopping something horrible, war.

Quote of the day:
"I came, I saw, I concurred," Julius Ceasar

Wow, going right against what the song was.

Homework at last minute

Today my group for the English project on the radio thing. It's due tomorrow and there was no possibility of doing it at lunch, because we didn't have any time and there was so much sounds too. So we decided to go to Angel's house, which pretty much saved us all. I've never handed in an assignment late, ever! And I was so scared that this was going to be my first time!! But now finally we are done, but it's still a little short. Since we have four people, Ms. Greskiw wanted five to six minutes, but we only have four minutes and 40 odd seconds.

Quote of the day:
"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." H Jackson Brown Jr

Haha, is that better or worse then?

Stand By Me

I love this song!! I love the old version, the one that was used in a movie that's name always escapes me. I just checked it out on Google and what do you know, it's called Stand By Me, directed by Rob Reiner. I think it's the right movie. This song, my dad says, talks about family and unity. Like if you have some problem or you need some help, there's always some one there for you. They changed it from a blues kind of song to an exotic kind of song, which is quite nice, actually. And I love how in the music video it tells you where all the people are, it gives you an idea of the whole world just playing one song, and that's great. When it says, If the sky that we look uponShould tumble and fallAnd the mountains should crumble to the sea, I think that means that no matter how much disaster comes our way, we'll stick together. I think it sounds great then and it sounds great now, I love it.

Quote of the day:
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Martin Luther King Jr.

Well, either way, we do it together. Hey, just like the part in Gladiators we saw today in Socials, where Maximus was in the Colosseum fighting the men with chariots. He said we stick together, or we all die, or something like that. Such a good movie, Russel Crowe is officially on my great list!!

Cold days

Today was a really cold day. I noticed because strings, a lot of people's strings on their violins began to go out of tune and break. A lot of them say that their strings were really expensive and high quality, and yet they kept breaking and going out of tune. My strings are cheap Chinese ones, and yet they keep in tune very well. In fact, the only time that I had to replace a string was in the summer, and it was I who kept cranking the knobs and it stretched too far and broke. I love my violin, I named it Cookie Monster. Why, I don't know, but I sure love cookies!! (Random, I know :P)

Quote of the day:
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative." HG Wells

Well, it looks like our violins aren't going to make it.

Lesson 13

Lesson	WorkBook	Quiz	Extensions	Family Reflections	Get Go
13	Done	Done	Done	Done	Done

Extensions and Reflections

Reflections Lesson 13
As a family, look back at the previous lessons. Which topics had the most impact on your family?

The Point of View lesson I think made the most impact on our family because usually we didn't care about how others felt in our household, but now that we all gotten more aware of other's feelings as well, we've been able to get along a lot nicer and a lot smoother. There's no blaming anymore, or much of disagreements, and I think it also has impacted the way we treat people outside our family as well, so that's good.

My usual blog:
I would have to first say that I have officially gotten this song on my iPod and it is really addicting. Every single time I really like a song, it was sort of call out to me as if it's saying "download me, download me" and I can never help but get the song all for myself so I can listen to it over and over again. (I've also heard this song for the commercial for Jamaica, weird)

Anyway, I think this song is really ethnic, yet it has a modern and old feeling to it, and that just gets a lot of people's attention because not a lot of songs can do that any more. It also gives you just a very united feeling, and that's great because so many things are happening in our world these days that we just don't have time for gatherings, and this song replaces it, sort of. It's could be a commercial song, or a song you sing around the camp fire, or a song where you have your arms around each other and everyone's in a circle and they are all swaying a little, enjoying themselves. This is great, I love it.

Quote of the day:
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." Leo Buscaglia

Wow, that's just, that's just great, it's true too, wow.

Current Events Fever

Instead of talking and presenting none up-to-date news with sweaty hands and like half the class listening, Mr. Sale made a website. How wonderful? And it's also like the most fun website I've visited. It's great, not only do you get marked for it, but you also get to talk with your friends. The people on the websites are supposed to be anonymous, but I think a lot of people know who each other is. Like everyone knows me because of my email address. I just hate having to remember so many names and passwords, and I know it's not safe, but it's better than having different names and passwords. So I guess if you know my password and name to one thing, you'll know it to everything else as well.

Quote of the day:
"Common sense is not so common." Voltaire

Haha, so true, so true.

Christmas Shopping

I haven't been in a mall since October, and today I finally went back to it once more. I've never really liked going shopping. Like, with my friends, it's okay because I make them spend half the time in HMV, looking at all the movies, and manga stores and stuff. But just going like clothes shopping drives me crazy. My mom and I used to go every weekend, but now that I'm busy, I go less and less often, which is truely a joy. No malls for the win!!

Quote of the day:
"A man should never neglect his family for business." Walt Disney

Ah, the olden days, where principles actually weighed something to men. Happy birthday, Disney!!

A weekend

For the two previous weekends, I've felt overwelmed with work. But this weekend, I have very little work and a lot of time to relax. Before, with the NaNoWriMo project still going on, it's like even if I had time to relax, I couldn't because I was trying to reach 50 000 words. But now, when I can relax, I can actually relax. I'm so happy.

Quote of the day:
"A smart model is a good model." Tyra Banks

Happy birthday, America's Already Model.

Peir Evaluations

Remember that time I said that others know you better than yourself? Well, it's still true, but I just wish sometimes people will see yourself as a wonderful person. I thought I did a really good job on my presentation on the first ever sea plane today, but some people didn't think so. Like I got three papers saying like 2s and things like that. But, now I'm just trying to get into people's heads and control what they think. I think I do that a lot. And it's good that I know, so I can work on it. I've also been very winy these couple of days because of our Wright planes and how we seem to like have done five planes already. But I guess I just need to be mindful and stop being so winy. So if I sound winy in a post, please remind me!!

Quote of the day:
"Everything in life is luck." Donald Trump

Hey, isn't that what I said before??!!

Glee

There's this new show called Glee, and all my friends think that I'll love it, but I don't get why. I watched on episode on Youtube, but I don't why they would think I would love it so much. And there's a lot of them that says that. It's weird when people think they know you better than yourself. Then again I think people around you knows you better than yourself any way. It's just weird.

Quote of the day:
"All music is beautiful." Billy Strayhorn

Not all of them.

Extensions and Reflection

Extensions Lesson 12

1) My well being and all the people around me's well being
2) My family and friends, love
3) To make a goal in life and work to the best of my abilities
4) Happiness, enjoyment
5) Creativity
6) Integrety

My #1 priority in life:
Do what's best for yourself as well as the people around you.

How would anyone know that ______________ is my #1 priority in life?
I always get things done, and I won't do any thing other people doesn't like. I'll always have others in mind, and I hate having people mad at me. I hate doing the wrong thing that causes either myself or others to be in pain.

Reflections
Think about it: What is the essence of your family? In one phrase or in a few words, describe what you are about.

We want to be doing the right thing. That's our essence in my family, and that's doing the right thing.

Usual blog: We got a new project in English that I feel is a lot like the one in Science we have too. We work in a group and we make a radio broadcast. Except in Science we have a news broadcast about certain flus, and in English we do a radio commercial or things like that in the 1940s. I'd probably enjoy this new project because I just love that time period. And I know fairly more about the entertainment back then than my friends.

Quote of the day:
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." Woody Allen

Well, then, I guess that's my answer for what I got in gym, haha, just kidding, how can I miss square dancin'?? Happy Birthday to Woody Allen!!