Oops

Sorry I realize I haven't posted anything in ages. School sucks.

This is like gossiping to the internet but it's kind of a hilarious story, in a cynical way.
The other day I was walking back from P.E. and all of a sudden this Asian girl (I mean "Asian" Asian, like she actually lived in Asia for 10 years) came up to me and was like
You know, you should visit Taiwan sometime.
And I was like
O_o Ok..
Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against Taiwan, but this was so random. This next part is so confusing. I wasn't sure if I should have been irritated or glad that someone brought this kind of idiotic joy into my life.
Taiwan has so many more interesting places than China.
And I was like
T_T Are you for real
No actually I was more like
"^^ Heh.. Lemme take a quick poll. *grabs kid nearest to me* Hey, so which country do you think has more interesting places, Taiwan or China?
And then the Asian Asian girl tried to undo what she just said.
Oh but no offense though. It's just my personal opinion.
Yeah well if it's personal, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF. Seriously, I don't mind if she's all like "Taiwan pride! Taiwan FTW! Taiwan's the best island in the world!" because it's her home. People are allowed to do that. What people shouldn't be allowed to do, however, is deem another country inferior to his/her own. Especially since it's China vs. Taiwan in terms of interesting places. I'm probably biased so let me offer you a third opinion on this.
Nearest kid to me: Uh.. well in in terms of geographical size, I would have to go to with China.
See? I don't know what comes to your mind when you think "places" but I think historical monuments, museums, malls, cafes, etc. Based on China's size alone, I would think that there are more "places" in China than in Taiwan. Notice that I, unlike that Asian Asian kid, am not saying that Taiwan is inferior to China because Taiwan is smaller, etc. It's a geographical and logical fact that Taiwan has less places than China due to its smaller size. There's nothing wrong with that.

Get this. She keeps going.
Oh I also heard that China's really dirty.
Woman. Get a grip. It's dirty in any country depending on where you go. They all have their classy places and their grungy ones. Fact of life. Also, it's not that you hear it. China is dirty. It's a huge country with 1.3 billion people for Christ's sake. You try keeping land that size spotless. So this is what I discussed with the poor kid I dragged into this.
But it's not over yet.
I heard people spit on the ground in China. *while covering mouth with hand and trying to make this seem all hush-hush. And she gasps at the end. I mean literally gasps.*
And this is what was playing in my head:
!@#$%^$%&^$%#
This is a joke right? You're from Taiwan. You can't possibly tell me that NO ONE spits on the ground in Taiwan. Also, don't try to characterize this as a Chinese thing. You know all people do it. Admit it. So you can either lie or prove yourself to be an idiot. And remember one last thing. YOU'RE NOT TAIWANESE. You're freakin Chinese whose ancestors got kicked out of China during the civil war. You said so yourself. "I'm actually Chinese." Don't identify yourself as mainland Chinese one second and turn around and bag on China the next. Please realize that Taiwan actually has native people. They can say that they're Taiwanese.
Of course I didn't really say this out loud. I just tried to pretend she didn't exist. It was hard. She had the nerve to hang around my locker to talk to me about the number of people in our class going to the college panel that night. Or something equally insignificant.

So yeah that was like the only interesting thing that happened this week. This is why I can't stand "Asian Asians." Most of them anyway. They have this crazy ego and some insane need to mock others. The one thing they don't teach in Asia: how to make casual conversation.

I'm mad

Actually, I'm kind of scared. So this year, I decided to be motivated (and by motivated I mean stupid and sleep-deprived) and take accelerated chem when I knew I was going to take accelerated calc and physics. Kids, don't try this at home. It's dangerous. It's the first week of school, right, and we have a chem test less than a week from today. Last year, no one in the accelerated chem class passed the first test. He didn't throw it out or anything, he was just like, ok everybody you get the next 50 minutes to revise your test. Annnd.. GO. I'm guessing that was about enough time to get a B (or maybe if you're lucky an A). But I'm Asian. So that's not good enough.

However, he does give out plenty of extra credit. If you're willing to write a 2-3 page essay every week. On top of all the calc hw (which I've heard is, like, 10 hours a week for the smartest guy in the class) and other stuff. Yes, I'm one of those people who will probably end up staying up until some ungodly hour just to get that EC. Because I need that A.

In a nutshell, we read a chapter a week ('bout 40-ish pages), do 30 or so problems (which usually include parts a, b, c, d for each problem) then take a test or do a project. Oh, right, can't forget about the extra credit. As Rebecca Black would say, fun fun fun fun :)



No, I was being sarcastic.

And the best part is, I can't even drop this class if I wanted to. I know for sure I'm going to end up in a math/science field. I am soo not a humanities person. I can't write (well) or recall significant events in history to save my life. Basically anything I want to do in the future will most likely involve chemistry to some extent. I guess I just have to learn to live with it.

P.S. No, accelerated chem is not AP chem. All the classes at our school are already supposed to be AP. So I suppose accelerated chem is like AP AP chem? O.o

The Last of the Mohicans

I can't stand this book. If it wasn't for the fact that we have a test on it the second day of school I wouldn't spend my last week of summer freedom reading this. First of all, why would you give a guy two names? And never obviously point out that they're the same guy? I mean, I can kind of see that when he's called Major Heyward he seems more military-like and when he's called Duncan he's more normal or whatever, but why complicate things? Just call him Major Duncan. Then you get both connotations. And drop the "major" when you want him to seem less harsh. Also, it annoys the crap out of me that characters just pop out of nowhere. So this group of men are canoeing down a river for a chapter, then all of a sudden the colonel appears in the boat the chapter after. There was absolutely no mention of the colonel anywhere in the previous chapter. And then the word "colonel" just shows up on the page. I mean WTF. Entonces, his name virtually disappears from the chapter. Does that make any sense? Why mention him in the scene if he only says like one line, and of little significance??

Last thing, DESCRIPTIONS. It's like all novels before the 21st century are half story, half unnecessary, unrelated descriptions. For example, one scene in Last of the Mohicans includes a third of a page describing a guy who's dozing off, hears his friend making "shushing" sounds, mistakes it for the sound of a snake, wakes up, then realizes it isn't, and falls back asleep. Then following that passage, there's a small passage describing how his nostrils flare when he's sleeping or something.

I wish the author was still alive so I can ask him why he put in all this random stuff. It's like making a perfectly good BLT sandwich, then adding peanut butter and kimchi. It doesn't make sense and it probably isn't very enjoyable.

Bubble tea

Mocha flave. Nuff said.

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Douban

Douban.fm! My latest discovery. It's this Chinese online radio thing that plays Cpop, Kpop, Jpop, Fpop (? French music, whatever it's called), American stuff, classical, etc. It pretty much has everything. And it has an iPod app, Mac app, and Android app. My life is complete. Not really. Ok.
So anyways, it's amazing. I found this song by Hou Xian that reminds me of Jay Chou. Yeah, he even mumbles. :) Or maybe that just what Chinese people sound like when they rap?

SUMMER

IS FINALLY HERE. Just 2 more things: report card and a summer research program thing. I'm interning at the vet med school on campus for a month and I have to discover a DNA primer for ringworms. I'm not even sure what that means.

And there are supposed to be like 12 more girl groups debuting this year in kpop?? Holy crap. I just hope they get better.

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Babies and beast

I saw a bunch of different baby animals out during lunch today. Ok maybe not a lot but 2. The baby goose looked like such a fail. He's not black at all. :P And then there were baby bunnies! They're probably newly born since their eyes hadn't quite opened yet. And one pooped on my hand ugh.

B2st's new song "Fiction" is one of the best title tracks I've heard so far this year. And the mv for it was awesome. The guy totally disintegrates at the end.

Finals next week! Gahh! Only 5 finals this semester instead of 6, but the chem final got replaced with 3 ridiculous projects where he gives us a substance and four possible identities and tells us to use whatever methods we can to identify it. Honestly, I think his projects took longer than the actual final would have. I spent almost no time for the chem final last year but I've spent at least 5 hours on those projects this semester. Fail. And I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up getting lower grades on the projects than I did on the final. He's picky as Hell-o Kitty.

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AsAm Heritage Month

Happy Asian American Heritage Month! Our Asian Media Club made a poster ft. some famous twinkies and Asians of influence here in the Western hemisphere. You can't really see but there's Jay Park, Amber, Jessica, Wang Leehom, Jackie Chan AKA The Chan Chan Man, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi, WongFu, Nigahiga, and of course Kevjumba. Did you know Kevjumba is Taiwanese? I always thought he was mainland. Then again I saw it on Wikipedia. But I use Wiki for most of my research papers so it's probably right hehe..

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Chinese restaurants..

The food? Pretty good. I mean the non-Americanized kind anyway. But the sanitation? Blechhhhh. And they always look so messy. What on earth is up with that? I went to what is supposed to be the best Chinese restaurant in our town so there was obviously going to be a lot of people. Well I didn't expect to wait an hour and a half for my food. And you know what? It wasn't even that good. I ordered a bamboo shoot and shredded pork and the bamboo smelled really bad. I think it was because it was canned, but whatever. The point is, it wasn't good. Plus, there were no straws so I had to drink water directly out of the cup. It probably isn't that big of a deal for other people, but I hate using utensils and whatnot other people have used. Yep, an hour and a half wasted. So that was pretty much my Sunday morning.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is on Sunday. O_o Had to get her something since I did like nothing for her birthday last year. Although I have no card because the only way I could get her something without her knowing is if I go the college bookstore on campus, which surprisingly, doesn't sell Mother's Day cards. Anyways I got her a coffee mug even though she already has three but hers are all solid colored and not very exciting. Sooo I got her a very up-beat (are coffee mugs up-beat?) one that's quite spring-y and perfect for the season. And she likes bright colors too. The only problem is it might be too bright for a middle-aged woman...? Idk I'm not good at buying gifts. Plus the cashier didn't give me a receipt and I forgot to ask for one so I can't even return it.

Oh and there are a bunch of marks on the outside. I'm not sure if they're stains or scratches.. Oh well gotta do some insane cleaning on that mug anyway. Can't just drink from anything you buy in stores.

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Google Global Science Fair

Ughh. It's like ExploraVision all over again. I thought it would be really simple once we collected all of our data, but I didn't realize it would this complicated to sort all of it and make it make sense to the judges. We're testing people's hearing thresholds and trying to determine a relationship between iPod volumes, daily length of iPod usage, and hearing sensitivity. Sounds easy right? Yeah, not really. There are a bunch of other factors like what types of earphones/headphones the subjects use, whether or not they're noise-canceling, whether or not the subjects participate in loud activities, whether or not they use ear protection when they're participating in these activities... I'm gonna go crazy. Oh well. Nighty night.

UCLA Girl

Oh my. After watching her video I wasn't sure if I wanted to laugh at her stupidity or scream at her racism. If you haven't seen it yet, it's basically just this girl from UCLA who rants about her hatred of Asians. On YouTube. Where some of the most popular video-makers are Asian (nigahiga, kevjumba, wongfu, peter chao, david choi just to name a few). And she also goes to UCLA which is filled with Asians. Not a good idea. Asians are piling up in the U.S. And they're obviously going to be pissed. There are tons of video responses from Asians, and other races too. She even got death threats, so she'd better be careful. 1/3 of the world is Asian, and I'm pretty sure there's nothing Asians can't or won't do. Man, we've got ninjas. So for that "Asians can't do anything" comment she made in the video, I hope she doesn't realize her false perception the painful way. Plus, what about the advanced tech gadgets? Has America come up with a 3D phone? I don't think so. And probably the Wal-Mart clothes she had on her back are "Made in China".

The most ironic part? She majors in political science. I'm starting to have my doubts about the quality of UCLA's education. Especially their political science program. Teaching students to be racist sluts? So is that the status quo these days?

I really wanna see kevjumba or nigahiga do a response to this. Peter Chao already has, and it was actually serious for once. A new guy can thank the UCLA girl for his sudden rise to YouTube stardom because I think he got over a million views in 3 days on his video response. She brought out some hidden talent. You know what they say, every cloud has a silver lining.

-Q

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Strange

These two Asian guys that make fun of JZ and I for listening to Asian music now know more about kpop than we do. Well, in some cases. One if them asked me if GD and Dara are going out, and I didn't even know there was this rumor. Maybe it's just me, idk. But he said that Miss K's "Gee" dance is hilarious. And apparently Miss K is Kyuhyun as a girl. Is that common knowledge too? I mean, I knew Kyu dresses up as a girl sometimes, I just didn't know he had a name for his counterpart and she did SNSD dances. Oh, and he can also do SHINee's "Hello" dance. And identify all the SNSD members (which I can't even do) and he's only been listening to kpop for like a week. Plus, those two keep humming "Hello". It's a great song and I love it, but I'd rather not listen to it 24/7.

But the only reason they're so interested in kpop is because they talk to this pretty, but supposedly evil since I've never met her, girl who loves kpop. The SNSD guy does anyway. And so he likes anything the girl does and doesn't appreciate cpop or mandopop at all. If you're going to listen to Asian music, you can't miss Jay Chou. Seriously. Fortunately, I converted the other guy so yay another azn media lover :) Technically two but the first ones a suck-up. I guess I'll count him though; anything to spread the power of Asian media of course.

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Happy late new year and everything

Had a nice holiday everyone? Good for you because I didn't. Well I kind of did. I got to sleep ten hours a day, but now that I'm back in school I feel like I'm half-awake. During the art slideshow today in history, I fell asleep and almost fell out of my chair. I mean, falling asleep during the slideshow really isn't anything new since I have never made it through any of them so far this year, but I've never gotten into trouble with gravity before. :P And now that school's started again I have to worry about my computer programming grade because I am almost positive that I failed the final. I didn't even have time to figure out a working program for any of the prompts he gave us, so I kind of just wrote down the first program that popped into my head. Which was apparently testing an integer between 2 and 1000 to see if it is prime or not. Wtf. Yeah so I'm kinda worried about that class.

Anyways, onto happier thoughts. Or more interesting ones, whatever. I was going through some of my favorite YouTube beatboxers the other day and found that Hikakin did a remix of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. A lot of people have said it might be better than the Gaga herself. See and judge for yourself.



Dang this guy is good.

Oh and Hit-5 came out with two new music videos over the holiday. One is Running, which they performed at the Twelfth Annual China-Korea Music Festival, and the other is Afraid of You (Pa Le Ni) feat. Girl's Day Minah. They've improved a lot since their debut. If Allkpop had them as a choice on their end of the year polling for most improved band, I totally would've chosen them. Some people have been criticizing the Afraid of You MV, saying it's copying kpop and whatnot, but I think it's fine the way it is, sweet and simple. Plus, people should that they have been trained in Korea and have/have had Korean composers and stylists. Very kpop influenced. All analyzations aside, check them out:

Running


Afraid of You (Pa Le Ni)

YO PEOPLE

Hey. I don't really have anything to say. I'm just bored. Actually, that's not true. I have six finals I could be studying for. Well five, really. One is computer programming and it's open notes, open internet. At least it has been for past quizzes, so I hope it stays the same. I don't feel like studying for finals right now. Or practicing for my piano recital, which is in two days. Gosh I'm whiny. Too bad I go to a nerd school. Now I know why they say ignorance is bliss.

Mini break

Yay I'm so excited we have a three-day weekend this week! Except that extra day is for parent-teacher conferences. Uh-oh. Those always make me nervous. And right after that mini break we have a test, a quiz, a paper due, and a presentation. See, I thought we would have like no homework this weekend because we just had about five tests and three quizzes. For one day there was a tiny ray of hope, and then the teachers killed it. This is why hope is dangerous. I have a feeling this isn't even the beginning of the hill. Our homework usually come in waves, meaning there are short periods of time where there's pretty much no homework, then the teachers pile it up and we sleep three hours a day. Last thing on my mind, Spanish test and chemistry quiz. I totally screwed up one part of the Spanish test because as usual, I didn't read the directions carefully enough. The verbs were already conjugated and all I had to do was put them in the right blank, but then I had to go and re-conjugate them and put them in blanks where they don't fit well. Then on the chem quiz, our teacher's paranoid about differentiating between "no reaction" and "no precipitation" so if I messed that up [I really can't remember what I wrote] then he's probably going to take off a bunch of points. Plus, I can't remember how many bases there were because we had to identify them. I only marked the ones with hydroxides since they were the most obvious, but there might have been an ammonia, which we didn't really discuss. If he marks off for that, that's just plain unfair. He always takes off for stuff he doesn't even talk about in class. Way to go teach, that's the way to get your students to learn. :P

Oh shoot I have the practice PLAN tomorrow. Nighty night then.

Shinee glog

I was procrastinating the other day and decided to dedicate a glog to SHINee (because they are absolutely awesome, wouldn't you agree?) Again, I'm procrastinating so I'm posting the link for the glog here:

SHINee Glog

Yep, I have a current SHINee obsession if you haven't noticed. I go through a different band every few weeks. I wonder which one's next. Now time for some Fugitive Plan B before I go to sleep. Urghh two tests and two quizzes today, another test and presentation-type thing tomorrow, then another test next Tuesday and choral reading Wednesday. The choral reading is turning out to be quite difficult. It's only because half the people in my group have a tendency to constantly over-complicate things. Then the other third either have a tendency to not talk, or not do anything in general. So that leaves us with a sixth of a group who can actually get this thing done. Oh, and there are only six people in the group so that means all of the work is going to be done by one person. And guess who that is, as usual? ME. I'm so tired and ready to give up, except I can't because my Asian side is telling me to keep working until my brain fries.

And it hurts

You know how when people get injured in sports it's usually because of some spectacular save or something along those lines? Well I sprained my wrist a few days ago and it's the lamest thing ever. It's technically because of volleyball, but really not. My arm/wrist is already crooked and it's been chronically inflaming for over a year now. Reason? Violin. Apparently, my arm conformed to the shape of my violin and twists unnaturally, so when the ball hit it, it completely turned the other way and now it's sprained. *Sigh* This is so sad. Plus, I have all-state orchestra auditions in less than a week and I've been averaging barely four hours of sleep everyday because of that. If I don't make it, I'm gonna be so pissed. It's like three thirty in the morning and I have a chem quiz tomorrow that I still haven't studied for.

New Album Soon?

I saw a couple of days ago on Kenny's blog that they're back from the US so does that mean they have a new album coming out soon? Btw, I don't stalk their blogs. I was just showing my friends some selcas of pretty boys and I came across it ^^ Yeah, that's not much better. Whatever.

Anyone seen Wang Leehom's new movie, Love In Disguise? It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I don't have very high expectations for movies directed by singers. They're new so I cut them some slack. Parts of his movie were kind of ridiculous, but in a funny way. Go watch it, judge for yourself.

Rant Time! Ok, so-- I have some real issues with my volleyball coach. She thinks she knows everything and it's hilarious when she tries to demonstrate the "correct" way and she screws up three times before finally getting it right. Way to go Coach. Her constructive criticism is not constructive at all. The words "coach" and "constructive" don't even belong in the same sentence without the word "not" in between. She always makes really demeaning and sometimes even straightout rude remarks about our passing or whatever it is we're working on. She just doesn't understand that we need time, especially since we have people who have never played on our team. Now that I've gotten that out, I'm gonna go focus on something that actually matters in life: homework.

Headless chickens

I'm pissed. It's midnight and I can't sleep. I moved over a month ago and I still have no bed frame. Actually, my room consists of a mattress and a lamp. Yeah that's sad. This past month, I've learned that I should just make my own furniture. Furniture stores are so unreliable. I wonder if I can sue them. And I know this isn't really Asian related but I just need to rant. Plus, it just hit me that school starts in like a week and something and I've been so much of a couch potato that I've had nightmares of my P.E. teacher chasing after me screaming at me for being such a lazy bum. I'm so going to fail fitness testing.

Ok this is Asian related. 1) Guo Jingming is gay? He's so pretty! I've always thought it was kind of a waste that he's not an actor or singer. I guess it wouldn't surprise me if it was revealed that he is gay [has it been confirmed by any chance?]. His books are written in a chao romantic Asian drama way, something only romance-obsessed girls would watch. Or people getting in touch with their inner Asian, like me. If you've seen or read Summer's Desire, it's like that, but personally I think it's 5 times more dramatic. Not to say they're bad or anything. His books quite-well written, and it means a lot coming from me, a person who only understands every other word. --I think I lost my point.. Moving on. 2) That completely fake Chinese travel show that SJM is on that I mentioned earlier? Called Korean Impression btw. Turns out it's hosted by Zhou Mi. I saw like 5 min of it and it's aiight. Zhou Mi's a good host. Figures, since it was his major. I think they should cut out the girl though. She's more like a crazed fangirl than a host. They should get Xie Na. She has a way of making everything interesting.